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Fontainebleau, Revolver Banks Trade Allegations
LAS VEGAS-Fontainebleau, which denies breaching the credit agreement, says it sought the final $656 million in revolver funds early because they had a feeling the lenders were looking for a way out.
By Brian K. Miller | July 08, 2009 at 08:07 PM
LAS VEGAS-The final-stage lenders for the stalled Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort here refused to fund their commitment for the project because their interest in the money would instantly fall below 100%, attorneys for the developer alleged this week in Miami bankruptcy court. The developers sued Bank of America and other final-stage lenders in April, one month after the lenders alleged default and declined to hand over the previously committed financing, stalling completion of the 63-story, 3,800-room resort.
Two months later, with no resolution in sight, the developers filed for protection from creditors under Ch. 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code and filed a motion for an expedited, partial summary judgment in its lawsuit that would force the lenders to immediately $656 million in previously committed financing. The developers’ argument is that the money should be turned over because the language in the loan agreement requires the final-stage lenders to fund its commitment regardless of any default, which the developers claim never occurred. The judge presiding over both the lawsuit and the bankruptcy in June directed the parties to try mediation, which is set for this Thursday and Friday in New York.
Fontainebleau’s $1.85 billion in construction financing for the project was through three senior secured credit facilities: a $700 million seven-year maturity term loan, a $350 million six-year maturity delay draw term loan and an $800 million revolving loan. Bank of America, in addition to being one of the revolving (final-stage) lenders, is also the administrative agent for the credit agreement.
In explaining their newest allegation, Fontainebleau attorneys state in court filings this week that both the term lenders (who fund first) and the revolver banks (the final-stage lenders who fund after the term lenders) share a pro rata security interest in the account where all funds were to have been deposited. “Thus, instead of having a 100% interest in their (financing) commitment, the Revolver Banks would have been diluted by the term lenders’ interests. It is thus unsurprising that the term lenders are (also suing) the Revolver Banks,” Fontainebleau attorneys state in the filing.
Fontainebleau’s $1.85 billion in construction financing for the project was through three senior secured credit facilities: a $700 million seven-year maturity term loan, a $350 million six-year maturity delay draw term loan and an $800 million revolving loan. Fontainebleau says it was informed on April 20 that the revolver lenders, citing an unspecified default, had terminated their financing agreement and would not be funding the final $656 million of the revolver.
The termination came three days after the banks allege that Fontainebleau acknowledged facing a substantial construction deficit. Fontainebleau reportedly said it would not be able to complete the project using the funds currently available, and that it would likely seek bankruptcy protection to restructure its financial obligations, according to the banks court filing.
Fontainebleau says none of that matters because the “plain language” of the agreement requires the revolver lenders to hand over the money regardless of a default, which it does not agree occurred. The banks claim otherwise.
“Even if Fontainebleau’s tortured reading of the credit agreement were correct (which it is not), the motion (for summary judgment) should still be denied because there are compelling reasons to believe that, long before it issued the March notice of borrowing that is the subject of this motion, Fontainebleau had materially and repeatedly breached the credit agreement that it now asks this court to `enforce’ against the lenders,” the banks’ attorneys state in a filing last week.
Fontainebleau, which denies breaching the credit agreement at any time, says it sought the full funding before it was actually necessary because they had a feeling the revolver lenders, which included banks that were failing or in danger of failing, were looking for a way out.
“With close to $2 billion in equity, retail financing, second-lien financing and term-loan financing already committed, Fontainebleau was concerned that its last set of lenders — the revolver banks — would attempt to evade their commitments and pull the plug or simply go out of business,” Fontainebleau attorneys state in a court filing. “Fontainebleau was prepared to incur the extra interest expense by drawing the maximum possible revolver loan in order to protect itself against the risk that the banks would breach. In retrospect, not only is Fontainebleau’s reasoning obvious — it was prescient.”
In addition to BofA, the revolver lenders named in the lawsuit are JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch Capital Corp., Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation New York, Bank of Scotland, HSH Nordbank AG, Camulos Master Fund LP and MB Financial Bank NA. The list does not include one revolver lender with a $10 million commitment that is in FDIC receivership and is therefore not part of the suit.
Fontainebleau LV’s three development entities– Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Fontainebleau Holdings LLC and Fontainebleau Las Vegas Capital Corp.–filed for protection from creditors under Ch. 11 of the US Bankruptcy code on June 9. The filing, made in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, lists between 1,000 and 5,000 creditors, and assets and liabilities each in excess of $1 billion.
Along with the 3,800 hotel rooms in the 737-foot-tall tower, Fontainebleau Las Vegas is slated to include 27 restaurants, nightclubs and bars; a 100,000-square-foot casino; a 60,000-square-foot spa; a 3,200-seat performing arts center; 300,000 square feet of retail space; and 390,000 square feet of conference area and meeting rooms.
7700 Parmer Calls for Transformation to a Mixed-Use Destination
Lisa Brown | December 23, 2020
Situated adjacent to Apple’s future $1 billion campus, which will initially house 5,000 employees, the 129-acre 7700 Parmer site is currently home to a wide range of tech companies.
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T.B. Penick & Sons Completes New Care Facility Construction
POWAY, CA-T.B. Penick & Sons Inc., a general contractor, has announced completion of Sunshine Care's $3.3-million care facility for Alzheimer disease.
By GlobeSt News Hub | December 13, 2010 at 01:01 AM
POWAY, CA-T.B. Penick & Sons Inc., a general contractor, has announced completion of Sunshine Care’s $3.3-million care facility for Alzheimer disease. The new facility measuring 10,800 square feet is one of the seven care facilities located in the center close to Monte Vista Road in Poway.
The two-level facility consists of an underground parking lot spanning 5,300 square feet and a living area of 5,500 square feet. The 12-room facility also features 24 beds and 14-foot ceilings. For the full story, go to San Diego Business Journal.
GlobeSt.com News Hub is your link to relevant real estate and business stories from other local, regional and national publications.
MedCraft Launches $500M Medical Office Acquisition Platform
MedCraft and Cadence will be acquiring these assets over the next 18 to 24 months.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 12:00AM
Northern Ireland and the British-Irish relationship: The Gladstonian Settlement revisited
Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
Why has it proved so difficult to resolve the problems of Northern Ireland? Will the current arrangements, an outcome of the Belfast or Good Friday agreement of 1998, provide a solution? This agreement seeks to revive old ideas first put forward by W.E.Gladstone, the 19th century Liberal Prime Minister. But, has the time for such ideas passed?
Vernon Bogdanor CBE is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Law, current Visiting Gresham Professor of Political History, Research Professor at King's College London, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Prior to 2010, Professor Bogdanor was a Fellow of Brasenose College and Professor of Government at Oxford University.
He has been an adviser to a number of governments, including those of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Israel and Slovakia. His books include The People and the Party System, Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution, Power and the People, and Devolution in the United Kingdom. He is a frequent contributor to TV, radio and the press and is a sometimes special advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities (1982-83), and the House of Commons Public Service Committee. Most recently he was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the Political Studies Association.
Professor Bogdanor's previous lecture series are as follows:
2017/18 British Political Parties
2016/17 The Monarchy
2014/15 Six General Elections
2013/14 Britain and Europe
2012/13 Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Shaped Our Age
2010/12 Britain in the 20th Century
2007/09 From Roosevelt to Bush: The American Presidency: Transformation and Change
All of Professor Bogdanor's past Gresham lectures can be accessed here.
Constitution British politics European history Politics
NORTHERN IRELANDAND THE BRITISH-IRISH RELATIONSHIP:
THE GLADSTONIAN SETTLEMENT REVISITED
Professor Vernon Bogdanor
One tries to make these lectures topical, so I would like to begin by thanking Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams for settling yesterday and making the lecture even more topical than it otherwise would be.
Northern Ireland is an exception to all the generalisations we tend to make about Britain. The first generalisation is that Britain is an island, but in fact the United Kingdom is an island with part of another island, that is part of the island of Ireland. The official name of our state is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so it is an island and part of another island. It is also often said that our borders have existed from time immemorial and that we have evolved through the centuries. However, the borders of the United Kingdom date from 1921, when a treaty was signed with Irish Nationalist representatives, by which the whole of Ireland except for Northern Ireland ceased to be ruled by Westminster. Before then the United Kingdom consisted of the whole of two islands – Great Britain and Ireland. So our grandparents lived under a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, whereas we live under United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This treaty – it is called a treaty even though it was not signed with an independent state – was signed with the leaders of a nationalist guerrilla movement in Ireland, and it masks the fact that one part of the United Kingdom – the 26 counties which today form the Irish Republic – seceded after a violent struggle with the British authorities. We fought a guerrilla war with them, which we lost in effect, and we ceded most of the island of Ireland, and that makes us quite unique amongst the countries of Western Europe. This is often forgotten, when we often talk about our evolutionary and stable constitutional progress. Thus Ireland is an exception to every generalisation.
Northern Irelandis also often forgotten when we make generalisations about the stability of our institutions and our general tolerance. On the whole, the rest of the British do not think much about Northern Ireland, and when they do, they tend not to be very enthusiastic about it. Since 1983 opinion polls in England have shown a steady majority for Northern Ireland not to be part of the United Kingdom but to be ceded to the Irish Republic. The difficulty is that the people of Northern Ireland do want to remain part of the United Kingdom.
So Northern Ireland seems unloved, unwanted, and forgotten. But, how did it come to remain part of the United Kingdom? Why were those six counties left out of the settlement with the rest of Ireland?
In order to answer these questions, we have to go back to the history of Northern Ireland, and indeed, I believe that Northern Ireland is more drenched in history than any other part of the United Kingdom. In 1921, when the Prime Minister, Lloyd George, was trying to get a settlement with the Irish, he met with the Irish Nationalist leader, de Valera, to try and get a discussion of Irish grievances. Here he began by saying, “Let us put things on the table. What precisely are the grievances of the Irish?” and de Valera replied, “Well, if you look at the time of Cromwell…” and it took a long time to get to the present. So it is all very much drenched in history.
In Northern Ireland, of course, it still matters whether someone is a Protestant or a Catholic, in a way it does not matter anywhere else in the United Kingdom. It ceased to matter in Britain at least before the First World War. Religion matters in Northern Ireland because it is associated with national claims. Almost all of the Protestants want to remain within the United Kingdom. They are Unionists, in a way which makes ‘Unionist’ and ‘Protestant’ effectively synonymous. They want to preserve the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. But perhaps the majority of the Catholics, by contrast, would prefer to unite with the Republic of Ireland, and so are Nationalists. Religion combined with nationalism makes for an intractable combination. In Northern Ireland, religion and nationalism are really different ways of saying the same thing. The same is true in another intractable area in the world, in the Middle East, where, to be an Israeli (or at least a first class citizen of the Israeli) is to be Jewish, and to be an Arab is to be a Muslim citizen. So we see that religion and nationalism combined there is highly intractable. The reason being that it is very difficult to get a bargain or agreement amongst people who believe in absolutes.
In the rest of the United Kingdom, we might disagree quite strongly about issues such as the National Health Service or education, but we can usually arrive at some sort of compromise or bargain which gives each side a little of what it wants, but you cannot bargain in the case of religion or nationalism. You cannot be half a Catholic or half a British citizen. You either or you are not; there is seemingly no middle position.
In Ireland, as opposed to the rest of Britain at the time, the Protestant Reformation never really took root, and the majority on that island of Ireland remained Catholic. But nevertheless, for a long period of time there has been a significant Protestant presence in Ireland. Historians disagree as to the precise time at which this Protestant presence began. Protestant historians will tell you there has always been a Protestant presence in Ireland; Catholic historians will say that the Protestants were planted there by the British to keep the Catholics down, that there has not always been a Protestant presence. However, there is at least agreement that there has been a strong Protestant presence since the 17th Century, and that that Protestant presence was particularly strong in the North-East, where people from Scotland had settled in what is now Northern Ireland. The Protestants in Ireland always called themselves “the British”, and they regarded the Catholics as disloyal citizens, as many people in this part of the water did in the 17th Century. We still have the Act of Settlement by which no Catholic can become Queen or King, Head of State, and any member of the royal family who marries a Catholic loses their position in their succession. So the Protestants regarded the Catholics as disloyal, but the Catholics thought the Protestants were colonisers from the British, planted in Ireland to hold the Catholic population down as second class citizens.
From the 18th Century, there was a growing sense of Irish identity and nationalism, and that exacerbated the differences and increased the conflict between the two groups. In 1886 a Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone, introduced a policy of home rule for Ireland to an Irish Parliament situated in Dublin. This was what we would now call a very wide level of devolution I think. This was strongly resisted by the Protestants, and from that time, the terms “Protestant” and “Unionist” have become interchangeable. The Protestants were strongly supported by the Conservative Party, which for a long time called themselves the Unionist Party, though they ceased to do that in 1922 when the union with Ireland had broken.
I was speaking some while ago to a friend of mine, who had stood as a young man as a Liberal candidate in Northern Ireland in the constituency of North Antrim. It had been represented for many years by the Reverend Paisley, so needless to say he lost his deposit there. He was sitting in a hotel one morning, having coffee, and a very young boy of about twelve came up to him and said, “Are you the Liberal candidate for North Antrim?” He said, “Yes, I am.” The boy said, “Now, tell me, wasn’t Gladstone a Liberal?” “Yes, he was.” He said, “Now look, if Gladstone’s home rule had been passed, wouldn’t the situation in Northern Ireland perhaps be better now than it actually is?” My friend naturally said, “Yes, I think it would be.” This just shows that history is something very deep in Ireland and understood even by very young people. I do not think you would get many twelve year olds on this side of the water asking candidates about Mr Gladstone!
The Protestants resisted home rule in Ireland. Some said this showed there was not just one – Catholic – nation in Ireland but two nations – a Catholic nation and a Protestant nation. But that is not quite right because the Protestants did not, and do not, see themselves as a separate nation, but they seem themselves as a part of the British nation. They said they were not part of the Irish nation, and if there is an Irish nation, it is subordinate to the British nation, and that they themselves are fundamentally British and do not want to be anything else. They are Unionists and called themselves British. Indeed, they are amongst the few in the United Kingdom who still call themselves British. The Scots now call themselves Scots, the Welsh Welsh, and the English increasingly call themselves English to mark themselves off from the Scots and Welsh who have devolution. But the Northern Irish Protestants call themselves British – not Irish or Northern Irish, but British. They certainly do not seek independence for Northern Ireland; they seek to maintain the union with the rest of Britain, and that is a position of equal citizenship. That is what they want: a position of equal citizenship with everyone else in the country.
This I think has made it very difficult for any government to resist their claims, because they were not asking, as the Irish Nationalists were, for a special privilege for home rule or independence. They were only asking that their position in the United Kingdom be left undisturbed. They did not themselves want home rule or devolution or anything like that. They wanted to be treated in exactly the same way as someone living in Liverpool, Manchester or London, to accept the same obligations, the same rights as everyone else. Thus they said, ‘if you pass home rule or independence against our wishes, you are expelling us from the United Kingdom against our wishes. You are saying that the Irish should have the right of self-determination, but surely we do, as Unionist people; we should have our own right of self-determination. We are not asking for special privileges or advantages; all we are asking is that we can remain what we have always been – British citizens.’ So it is very difficult to resist.
I hope this shows that the saying about devolution – that it was four nations and a funeral, that the United Kingdom was four nations and a funeral – is wrong; there are not four nations; there are three nations, the British, Welsh, and the Scots, and a fourth part, the majority of whom claim to be part of the British nation, and many of the minority say they are part of the Irish nation. There is no Northern Irish nation, but there are different and conflicting allegiances.
The Protestant Unionists in the South of Ireland were a scattered minority and quite powerless to resist home rule or independence. But in the North East of Ireland, where the Scots had mainly settled, they were a very compact majority and so they could resist home rule for Ireland, with physical force if necessary, and they threatened to do that. They said they would not respect the law, that if an act was passed establishing a Parliament in Dublin, they would declare a UDI, a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, and they would fight the law because they had a higher loyalty to the British nation. They were, as they put it, the King’s rebels; they were rebelling in the name of their allegiance to the King. They said they would not accept home rule, even if passed by Parliament.
That created a crisis which tended to paralyse the government in the first two decades of the century. Eventually, this was settled by Lloyd George, with great political skill, in the coalition government which ruled Britain from 1918 to 1922. I think it is significant it was a coalition because it would have been very difficult for a party government of the left or right to settle it, but since Lloyd George was a Liberal, he was the head of a coalition in which the majority were Conservative, and so he could bind the Conservatives into the settlement. His Government made three crucial decisions which made Northern Ireland what it is today.
First, he decided that you could not force the Unionists into a united Ireland. You might want to do so, you might think that was a sensible thing for them, but they simply said no, never, the way Ian Paisley says never, and you could not force them into a united Ireland. That meant, therefore, you had to partition Ireland and divide it into two parts, one of which would be independent, the other of which would remain British.
The second question was what should the size of the area that was going to remain British be? In the end, this excluded area was to comprise, as it still does, six counties of Northern Ireland. Four of them had large Protestant majorities: they were Antrim, Armagh, Down and Londonderry. The nationalists call Londonderry, Derry, for obvious reasons, but it is the same place. You call it either Londonderry or Derry, which shows the difficulties of the Northern Ireland problem: the very way you name things shows whether you are a Unionist or a Nationalist. I will use both names so as not to cause difficulties. So Antrim, Armagh, Down, Londonderry/Derry, but there were also two counties with a very narrow Catholic majority – Fermanagh and Tyrone, the border counties. These six excluded counties are sometimes called Ulster, but in fact the province of Ulster is nine counties, and there are three counties of Ulster which are in the Republic – Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan. So the settlement partitions Ulster as well as the island of Ireland; it is not the whole of Ulster but a part of it; six counties.
You may say, “Why those six counties and why not the whole nine counties?” The answer is that the nine counties had a very narrow Protestant majority, and the Protestant Unionists were worried that that majority would not last. Catholics at that time still had a higher birth rate so the majority turning to Catholic was a real possibility, and then it would vote to join the Republic and the Unionists would lose out. So they said, “We do not want all the nine counties. We want the six counties.” The six counties was the largest unit that they could really hold, they thought. The Nationalists said they did not accept partition at all, but they said that if you have it at all, you should only have the four counties with Protestant majorities.
In the end, the British Government said the six counties were right, and they said this for a reason which now looks rather odd. They said in the six counties there will be a solid Protestant majority. It was about two to one then, but now it is about three to two. They said, if there is a solid Protestant majority, there will not be the same temptation to treat the Catholics badly as if you have a small Protestant majority. If you have a small Protestant majority, the Protestants will always be fearful of any concessions to the Catholics that will lead them into the Irish Republic. If you have a large majority, both sides will know they have to work it, and therefore, the British Government said, they will be more tolerant. That did not prove to be the case, but that is what they thought at the time. What you can see is that Northern Ireland is, in one sense, an artificial unit. It is simply the largest area which the Unionists thought they could control. It has no other sort of logic, as the province of Ulster would have a certain logic.
So those are the first two decisions: you partition Ireland; and secondly, you say that it is partitioned along the line of the six counties which remain British. The third decision was that these six counties should not be governed from Westminster, as the Unionists then wanted, but they should have their own devolved Parliament; a home rule Parliament. It is a paradox, that Northern Ireland, which strongly resisted home rules, had a home rule Parliament forced on it which its people did not want. The reason the British Government did that was that they too hoped that eventually Northern Ireland would join the Republic, and they said if we give Northern Ireland devolution it will realise its future really lies in Ireland and not with Britain, and then we will be rid of the whole problem. It is a paradox, that the one part of Ireland which so strongly resisted home rule had a home rule Parliament imposed on it.
In the 1920’s, once the Unionists had their Parliament they saw this could be rather useful as a veto upon any Westminster politicians trying to settle with the Republic over the heads of the Unionist politicians. They said you cannot make any decision about Northern Ireland without the consent of our Parliament here; a majority at Westminster is not enough, you also need our consent, and we will never give it because we have a permanent Unionist majority, so it is a veto. In a famous phrase, they accepted the Parliament as “a supreme sacrifice and a final settlement of the Irish problem.”
There is a sense in which the Lloyd George’s three points – the partition, the six counties excluded area, the Northern Ireland Parliament – can be seen as a settlement of sorts, but it was not a total solution to the Irish problem. It might possibly have been a solution if the Unionists in Northern Ireland had adopted a kind of tolerant approach to the Nationalist population that the British Government hoped would be adopted, but in fact they didn’t. Their reason for this was that, they claimed, wherever the Nationalists get control, they will try and push Northern Ireland into the Republic. Indeed, when Nationalists got control of the border councils, they raised the Irish flag and tried to avoid recognising the jurisdiction of the British Government. So they said the Nationalists are not a loyal opposition in the way that, say, the Conservatives are in Britain today; they are a disloyal opposition and a threat to the state. They used that as a justification to treat them, in effect, as second class citizens.
The problem worsened when, in 1937, de Valera’s Ireland drew up a new constitution which explicitly laid claim to the island of Ireland. The Unionists claimed that it justified what they were doing in seeing the Catholics as a disloyal minority which could not be trusted. There was widespread discrimination against Catholics in Northern Ireland, especially in housing allocation, and there was also widespread gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure that the Catholics were a minority in the voting even when they were a majority of the citizens. This went on for about 45 years, on the whole unchallenged.
In the late 1960s, you had a new generation of Catholics who were professionals, better educated, less deferential, less willing to accept the restrictions that their parents had perhaps accepted. With the civil rights movement being of importance in many parts of the world, it erupted in Northern Ireland. The Unionist majority reacted fairly brutally to it, and this was when Ian Paisley first came to public notice and when he gained his reputation, by inciting the Unionists to remove Catholics from mixed areas of housing and push them into ghettos in Northern Ireland. He incited Protestant religious fervour when it was perhaps beginning to die down.
These problems meant the British Government, which wanted to turn its back on Northern Ireland, had to face up to what was going on, and in 1972 under Edward Heath, the Conservative Prime Minister, the British Government abolished the Northern Ireland Parliament and ruled Northern Ireland directly from Westminster, under a Northern Ireland Secretary as Scotland and Wales were ruled by a Scottish and Welsh Secretary at that time. This seemed to many a desirable solution to integrate Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom, and many people said that this was a good thing because the Northern Irish would be treated just as the Scots and Welsh and everyone else was, as part of the United Kingdom.
However, it was not a solution, for the reason that the party system in Northern Ireland is quite different from that in Scotland and Wales. In Scotland and Wales, as well as the Nationalist parties, you have Labour, Conservative and Liberal parties, so the party system is integrated with the rest of the United Kingdom. But in Northern Ireland you do not really have much of a Labour, Conservative or Liberal party.
The Labour Party tried to found a Labour Party of Northern Ireland many years ago, but it proved impossible, because the first question people asked was, “Where do you stand on the border?” If you said you were in favour of the border, you were a Unionist; if you were against the border, you were a Nationalist. There was no chance of getting united trade union or working class support for a Labour Party in Northern Ireland in the way you could in Britain. For instance, if you were in the Labour Party in Liverpool, Glasgow or anywhere else, no one cared whether you were a Protestant or a Catholic. You had a united Labour Party representing the trade unions and the organised working class. You could not do that in Northern Ireland, because the working class was split between the Protestant working class and the Catholic working class, and that division was more important to them than, if you like, the class conflict with their employers. So Northern Ireland remains the one part of the United Kingdom where you cannot join the Labour Party. You are not allowed to join the Labour Party if you are resident in Northern Ireland, and the Labour Party does not contest elections in Northern Ireland.
Until 1989 the Conservatives had no constituency associations in Northern Ireland either, and they did not accept membership from anyone residing there. They do now, and there are some constituency associations, but Conservatives receive only a derisory vote. The majority of the Protestant vote that would go to the Conservatives goes to Unionists, and similarly, the Catholic vote would go to the Nationalists.
The Liberals also got nowhere in Northern Ireland. They could not win Unionist votes because of their Gladstonian tradition of support for home rule, and they could not win Nationalist votes because Nationalists preferred to vote for Republican parties. The Liberal Democrats do have a sister party in Northern Ireland, which is called the Alliance Party, and the Alliance Party is a bi-confessional party that is neither Unionist nor Nationalist. It says that the border should remain as long as there is consent for it, so to that extent one could say that it is a Unionist party. They do seek to get support from both sides of what you might call the tribal divide, but you will not be surprised to hear that they do not get much support and that they are very much a minority party, even more than the Liberal Democrats on this part of the water. The Liberal Democrats themselves do not contest elections in Northern Ireland so they do not split the vote with the Alliance. So none of the three main British parties, in effect, contest elections in Northern Ireland.
What this means is that the voters in Northern Ireland have no say on who forms a British Government. They cannot decide to vote for Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Menzies Campbell or whoever it is. They are voting for Unionist and Nationalist parties, which clearly are not going to form the Government in the United Kingdom. They play no part, except when there is a hung Parliament, and if there is a hung Parliament they do have a lot of influence. But elections in Northern Ireland are not about who forms the Government; they are about the balance of representation between the Unionists and the Nationalists. In that sense then, Northern Ireland is very different from Scotland and Wales, which do play a part in helping to elect a Government.
It follows from this that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who is at present Peter Hain, can never be representative of the area of which he is responsible. Peter Hain belongs to the Labour Party, but there are no Labour MPs in Northern Ireland. It is true when the Conservatives are in office, they tend to be in a minority in Scotland and Wales, but at least there are some Conservative MPs from Scotland and Wales, but there are simply no Labour or Conservative MPs from Northern Ireland. One previous Northern Ireland Secretary in the 1980s, James Prior, said he felt “as though I was a foreigner in another land” because he had no political support there. So this left a political vacuum which the extremists could exploit, such as the Republican movement, Sinn Fein. One could say it was a form of colonial rule by the British, such that Northern Ireland took on the character of a dependency incapable of self-government. Furthermore, integration would make the Nationalist minority feel they could not express their claims at all, and it made it difficult, if not impossible, to get the cooperation of the Irish Republic in solving the problems of Northern Ireland. Therefore, in the view of most British Governments, it would make it impossible to defeat terrorism.
It is for these reasons that every British Government since direct rule was imposed in the early 1970s, whether Labour or Conservative, has sought to restore devolution to Northern Ireland. But they do not look for the form of devolution had before, when the Protestants were in the majority and ran things, because that was not acceptable. There must be a different form of devolution, namely, a power-sharing or partnership form of devolution, in which both the Nationalist minority and the Unionist majority share power in Government. It is as if you said you could not form a Government at Westminster unless you have Tony Blair and David Cameron together in the Government; a grand coalition if you like, covering all the main groups. The alternative, the British Governments have said, Catholics will again be treated as second class citizens and we will have terrorism all over again. Thus the minority has to be part of the Executive rather than in permanent opposition, again, because political circumstances in Northern Ireland differ from those in the rest of the country, because in the rest of the country there is a swing of the pendulum. We can all console ourselves if our party is defeated by the hope that it may win next time. Even when you had 18 years of Conservative Government, in 1979 to 1997, there was always the feeling that you might get a change of government, and this was a constraint upon what Government was doing. But of course, that is not the case in Northern Ireland, where voting is determined by fundamental religious and nationalist allegiance, and the parties which represent the Protestant majority will always be in power in Northern Ireland, and the Catholic parties will always be a minority. Therefore, the Westminster type of system will not work there. You have a permanent majority based on a kind of tribal division, and you simply will not get a swing of the pendulum.
This has fundamental consequences in Britain because there is generally speaking a tendency of parties to try and win over the centre ground – the floating voter – in order to try and win elections. This is why people such as Peter Hitchens are now speaking of how David Cameron is abandoning fundamental Conservative principles and trying to win over the middle ground. That seems sensible to me if you have just lost three elections – there is something wrong somewhere, and you do not go on offering the same. I think David Frome, who was George Bush’s speech writer, once characterised the psychology of losing parties in saying, “You offer the voters ham and eggs, and they say ‘No thank you,’ so you say, ‘What about double ham and double eggs then?’.” It will not work. Similarly, the Labour Party in opposition, it took them quite a while to learn that you had to appeal to the centre ground if you were going to win elections, hence Blair and New Labour. Cameron is trying to do the same for the Conservatives.
Of course, in Northern Ireland, there is no centre floating vote. A Protestant Unionist party will not win votes from Catholic Nationalists, and the Catholics will not win votes from the Protestants. The only floating vote is on the extremes, because you can always be outflanked, in the way that Paisley has outflanked the other Unionist parties, or Gerry Adams has outflanked the other Nationalist parties, by saying “They are selling out your community. They are not defending you as toughly as I would.” This explains why it is that the moderate parties have been pushed out and you have got to Paisley and Gerry Adams. The moderate parties no longer really have the same weight, which is why the bi-confessional Alliance Party in the centre gets absolutely nowhere.
Thus we see again that the political conditions in Northern Ireland are fundamentally different from those in the rest of the United Kingdom. This leads to different political arrangements to accommodate these differences.
The settlement which was endorsed, we hope, yesterday, is based on the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of 1998. This agreement has two fundamental features in it, which are great departures from the Westminster model of government. The first, is a form of partnership government, in recognition of the fact that you cannot govern a divided society through the Westminster model of alternating majorities, but only through partnership. So the two parts of the community – the Unionists and Nationalists – must share power so that neither feels left out in the cold. The second great departure is the recognition that the solution cannot be purely internal, because many Catholics in Northern Ireland feel Irish rather than British, and therefore there must be some recognition of the Irish dimension and some form of connection with the Republic. On the other hand, that must not involve the cession of sovereignty because that would not be acceptable to the Protestants, so it is a very difficult balancing act.
This, in a sense, differs from the other constitutional reforms which I have mentioned, which are solely internal within the United Kingdom. Scottish and Welsh devolution, whatever you may think of them, are internal matters for the United Kingdom. This is not just internal to the United Kingdom. It is both internal but also external in relation to the Irish Republic. You can only do it if you accept the proposition that the sovereign national state may have to be superseded. If you think the sovereign national state is the only thing and you cannot go beyond it, you cannot deal with the problems of Ireland. In one sense we have superseded it, through joining the European Union, a multinational organisation of superior legal order. We are also doing it in Ireland: we are superseding the idea that the national sovereign state is the ultimate entity.
Let me describe these two fundamental principles of the agreement in some more details.
The proposal in the Belfast Good Friday Agreement is that there should be an Assembly of 108 Members in Northern Ireland, elected by the single transferable vote method of proportional representation for four years, and that this should have legislative powers to make laws, as the Scottish Parliament does. But, as I have already indicated, the crucial difference with the Scottish Parliament is that the Executive, the Government, can only be formed in Northern Ireland with the consent of both communities – the Unionists and the Nationalists – and all legislation requires the consent of both communities. The majority cannot pass any legislation or form a Government on its own. There is a very complicated mechanism to secure this which I won’t go into, but let me just say that the First Minister, the head of the Government, and the Deputy, require to be elected a majority in each community, the representatives of each community, as well as the majority of the whole. So in other words, Ian Paisley, if he is going to be the First Minister, he needs the majority of the whole Assembly, which is the majority of the Unionists which he will get, but also a majority of the Nationalists. That is linked together with the election of a Deputy First Minister, which will be Gerry Adams, who also requires support of the majority of the Assembly as a whole; support of the majority of the Nationalists, which of course he will get, and support of the majority of the Unionists. Without both of those you cannot have an Executive.
So it is that they hold office jointly, and if one of them goes, the other goes. It is like a pantomime horse, if you like – they are together, they cannot be separated. Unlike the British Cabinet, they do not then appoint the other Ministers. For instance, once Blair is elected he appoints who he wants to his Cabinet, but in Northern Ireland they will not appoint the other Ministers. The other Ministers are appointed in proportion to their strengths in the Assembly. Thus, the Unionist Party, the Democratic Unionists, have four seats; the Sinn Fein have three seats; and the other Unionist and Nationalist parties similarly, in an Executive of eleven. You can imagine what it would be like at Westminster if we had a Government led by Tony Blair, with David Cameron as Deputy Prime Minister, and the rest of the Cabinet in proportion to party strengths: you would have so many Labour, so many Conservatives, a few Liberals, perhaps one or two Nationalists, and so on. It is an odd form of government, and as I said, it requires Ian Paisley to work with his bitter enemies.
I now want to come on to the external part of the solution, which has two aspects to it: one, to reconcile the Catholic Nationalists; and the other to reconcile the Unionist Protestants.
The first, to reconcile the Catholics, is the so-called Irish Dimension. This involves a North-South Ministerial Council, which is a council representative of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Government of the Republic. This is purely advisory and so has no decision-making powers, but it brings together these representatives of both parts of the island to work together on matters of mutual interest. They can make decisions only if there is unanimity, if both sides agree, but cannot otherwise. Therefore those in Northern Ireland have a veto over what is done and it recognises the Irish identity of the minority. Furthermore, those living in Northern Ireland can, if they wish, hold Irish citizenship as well as British citizenship, if they choose – they can hold dual-citizenship. It is a recognition of the Irish identity of some of the Catholic population. It is a cross-border body.
However, to mollify the Unionists, another body was created, and it is called the British Irish Council. Now, the North South Council is North of Ireland and the South, the British Irish Council is an east-west body. That comprises the Ministers of the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic, the two Governments on these islands, together with leaders of the various devolved bodies in the United Kingdom – Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland – plus, for some reason, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, to discuss matters of mutual interest. It is entirely consultative and so cannot make any decisions. This was established to reassure the Unionists that their British identity would be respected, because they are part of Britain with the other devolved bodies of Scotland and Wales, so they are not going to lose their British citizenship. The argument here is that Northern Ireland is simply one devolved body in a multinational United Kingdom with devolution to Scotland and Wales. From this point of view, it is fortunate we have had devolution for Scotland and Wales, otherwise Northern Ireland would stand out like a sore thumb as the only part which had devolution. So the fact you have got Scottish and Welsh devolution makes the Unionists perhaps feel a bit better. Thus they can say the Belfast Agreement is not the first step on the road to a united Ireland – it is not a slippery slope – but that it will reconcile them to membership of the United Kingdom, and they are more likely to agree to links with the rest of Ireland if undertaken through an organisation which includes the rest of the United Kingdom. It is a balancing act to reassure both sides.
When I spoke about devolution before, I said that this created what I thought was a quasi-federal system of government within the United Kingdom; a system bearing some resemblances with, though not wholly similar to, a federal system, as for example in Canada or Germany. The British Irish Council extends this to create a loose confederal arrangement with the Irish Republic. Therefore, the settlement in Northern Ireland, unlike Scotland and Wales, is far more than simply devolution; it is more complex and constitutionally challenging, because it is not only internal power sharing, but external power sharing between the British and Irish Governments. It is something quite new in British experience, and we do not yet know how it will work out.
For the Belfast Agreement to come into effect, it needed to be approved in both Northern Ireland and in the Republic in referendums which were held on the same day. As part of the agreement, the Irish Republic agreed to remove the provision laying claim to the whole of the island of Ireland in its constitution. It is remarkable: the referendum was approved on a 54% turnout in the Irish Republic by 96% of the people, which show that they had in effect accepted the division of Ireland. In Northern Ireland, it was again approved by the large majority of 71%, on a fairly large turnout of 81%. That was a great contrast to the other devolution referendums in Scotland and Wales, which had rather low turnouts. It showed there was more enthusiasm in Northern Ireland for that settlement than there was in Scotland and Wales. In Wales, it was just over 50% voting. The large majority shows the agreement must have been approved by both communities – the majority Unionists and the minority Nationalists.
Now, as a result of all this, elections were held to a new Assembly in Northern Ireland in 1998. However, as you know, this has not been the end of it and it is taken nine years to get the Assembly working. Various problems arose and it has in fact been suspended four times before yesterday because of the difficulties of getting bitter opponents to work together. It now seems as if it may work, and a lot has been said in the press about the bribes, to use a crude word, that have been offered to Ian Paisley to get him to agree – extra monies in Northern Ireland etc. But I think there is another important factor: the British Government said that if devolution does not work this time then it would be permanently suspended and Northern Ireland would revert not to direct rule but what they called joint stewardship by the British and Irish Governments, because it will have been shown that Northern Ireland cannot govern itself and will have to be governed from outside. A joint stewardship is not exactly joint sovereignty, but nevertheless the Unionists would be much more frightened of that than they would of agreeing to an internal settlement with Gerry Adams. I think that was actually a much more important factor than the money: they were told this is your last chance, and if you do not agree, we will bring the Irish Government in and you will not have a return to direct rule.
However, even if devolution is restored, that is not the end of the problem, and I think the press are mistaken in giving the impression that it is, because the coalition government that is going to be formed is one that unites two very diverse extremes. The question then is whether they actually be able to get together on the day-to-day business of legislation to put together a serious political programme, or whether stagnation is not more likely.
An even more serious problem is this: suppose at the end of the four years people say, “Well, alright, we are in favour of peace but we are a bit tired of this Government. We would like another one.” There is no other Government. There is no alternative Government in Northern Ireland. It is, in a way, a suspension of the normal democratic framework, because you cannot get it in Northern Ireland since you have no alternating or alternative majority. Therefore people have to be governed, as it were, by Paisley and Gerry Adams forever and ever, roughly. There can be no alternation. There might be a slight alteration in the balance in the Assembly, but not very much. This does not make it easy to see how you could get good Government going if there is really no alternative. The important question here is whether a democracy can operate without an alternative Government.
Therefore, from that point of view, I think it is a mistake to believe that the conflict has ended. Perhaps it can never end but at least it is now carried out in a non-violent form, and what seemed impossible a decade ago is actually happening. Perhaps even a few years ago you would not have believed that Paisley would be sitting down with Gerry Adams, and that the IRA would renounce violence and accept the rule of democracy to accept a place in what they used to call a “Six County Assembly” because they never recognised Northern Ireland. It is fair to say, in the midst of the euphoria, that all this could have been achieved over 30 years ago when the Heath Government set up a very similar power sharing arrangement in Northern Ireland in 1973/4. But that was defeated by direct action by the Unionist Protestant workers which Ian Paisley supported, the only case since the War of a strike altering something major like this where the Government was brought down. Thus Ian Paisley, I believe, bears responsibility for the defeat of all the power sharing arrangements over a period of 30 years, and for igniting religious hatreds; whereas the IRA, or Sinn Fein, could have got places in the Six County Assembly at any time if they had been prepared to renounce violence over the past 30 years. They said they were fighting for something different, not to recognise the Six Counties body, but to get a united Ireland, perhaps to bond people into a united Ireland, to create a united Ireland by force.
Perhaps the best comment about it all has been made to me by someone from Northern Ireland. He said, “The Unionists are too foolish to realise that they have won, and the Nationalists are too clever to admit that they have lost.” That might be the best comment on this whole saga.
©Professor Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College, 27 March 2007
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Aaron Winstanley sadly dies after battling rare cancer - but his legacy will live on to help others
Aaron's broken-hearted family have announced the 30 year old died peacefully in his sleep
Aaron Winstanley has sadly passed away, aged 30
Aaron Winstanley has sadly passed away after bravely battling a rare form of terminal cancer.
The 30-year-old’s family announced his death this afternoon saying he “drifted off peacefully in his sleep” in the early hours of Friday morning.
Aaron, from Barton-upon-Humber, had been diagnosed with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma in 2016, a rare soft tissue cancer that had initially been mistaken as hayfever.
For the past 18 months, he has been fighting the disease with his wife, Saraya, by his side.
He had started attending private treatment in Germany but it came with a price tag of around £300,000 leading to valiant fundraising efforts from supporters far and wide.
A post on the Aaron’s Battle Facebook page said: “It’s with a broken heart that I have to say that Aaron passed away in the early hours of Friday morning. He was at home where he wanted to be and drifted off peacefully in his sleep.
“He had spoken about it and was ready to go, it seemed as though he chose the exact moment for himself. Aaron was the most special man that any of us will ever have the pleasure of knowing. His massive smile and energy never failed to win people’s hearts and brighten their lives along with his kind, caring nature and of course his wicked sense of humour. I’m sure you all know that it’s impossible to describe just how special he was.
“I know we were lucky in some ways that we knew the chance of death was there and we got the chance to speak about lots of things before it came. But on the other hand the closeness and just absolutely pure love we developed over the last two years after everything we’ve been through together is one I can’t even begin to describe and the loss feels unbearable for me right now as I know it will to so many of you that loved him so much.
“I never knew you could be so close to one person and love them so intensely and selflessly as he did to me and I to him. He has changed the lives of so many of us in such a positive way and will continue to do so I’m sure.
Aaron Winstanley had been battling a rare form of cancer since 2016 (Image: Aaron Winstanley)
“Aaron fought so hard for so long, and I know you’ll all be as disappointed as we are that the treatment didn’t work, but we can take comfort in knowing that we all tried our hardest and gave him the best possible chance. Unfortunately the cancer was just too aggressive. As always I can’t thank you all enough for letting him have that chance.”
In recent months, supporters of Aaron’s Battle raised more than £200,000 towards his treatment with numerous events held to help him from a 24-hour ‘hair-a-thon’ to epic fundraising walks.
He also attracted the backing of Hollywood film star Dwayne Johnson who sent Aaron a message on Twitter telling him to “stay strong”, and revealed his own mother had also had her cancer misdiagnosed.
Though the treatment Aaron received sadly wasn’t enough to save him, Aaron left a wish for the weight of fundraising efforts behind him to continue in aid of other people.
The Facebook post continued: “Aaron gave me strict instructions on lots of things and one of those things was that he wants Aaron’s Battle to become a charity to help other people, so if you’d like to help us carry on pushing for that target and building Aaron’s legacy then I’d be honoured.
“Keep your banners up with pride and carry on with your fundraising events if you feel able to. Most of the money we raised was spent on his treatment but I’ll figure out how much is left over the next few days or so and in time we will use that to start the charity that will be Aaron’s legacy. He has changed the whole of Barton for the better and I hope he can continue to change the world through his charity.
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Aaron Winstanley sadly dies
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“I am trying to remind myself all the time that more than anything Aaron wanted us all to be happy, and made me promise I’d be okay if he was gone. Right now that feels like the only reason I’ll be able to put one foot in front of the other. I will try my hardest to remember the good times and laugh at all the memories, and I hope you’ll all do the same.
“We haven’t made any funeral plans yet, we are taking our time to grieve and will think about that next week when we’re ready. I know everyone is eager to know so they can make plans and I promise I’ll let you all know as soon as we’ve got anything sorted. Thanks for all the kind messages we’ve had, we really do appreciate them even if replying is too hard right now.
“I will love you forever Aaron.”
The Aaron’s Battle fundraising page can be found at gofundme.com/aaronsbattle
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Monuments of Seville
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The Guadalquivir river deviated by the Visigoths
10 May, 2017 By heartof
The river Guadalquivir has had a capital importance in the history of Seville, mainly by everything related to the discovery of America. Some centuries before, it had shown itself as a decisive element in any military operation of defense or conquest of Seville. We are telling now one of these:
Originally, the river had two channels, and one of them was running through the current Alameda, Trajano, Plaza Nueva, to deviate in Garcia de Vinuesa and flowed into the current channel close to where the Tower of Gold is now located. In the year 583, there was a Civil War in the Visigothic Kingdom between Leovigildo, of Arian religion, and his son Hermenegildo, converted to Christianity. Hermenegildo was in Seville, and his father Leovigildo came with his troops to besiege the city. Hermenegildo had asked the Byzantines for help to lift the siege, but the news reached Leovigildo’s ears who, in order to prevent the Byzantine fleet from reaching the city, and to ensure that Seville did not have access to the river water, used ashlars brought from Itálica to dry the course of the river, in a gigantic military maneuver.
The route of this old channel by the current city center explains, on the other hand, that remains of old ships have been found in the center of Seville.
In our Free Tour La Macarena: from Seville to Heaven, we visit the place where Hermenegildo was tortured after he was defeated in the war against his father.
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Okill Massey Learmonth, VC
Okill Massey Learmonth was born in Quebec City, Quebec on 20 February 1894. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a private soldier in November 1914, and was commissioned as an officer in June 1916. For his bravery and leadership during the attack on Hill 70 on 18 August, 1917, Major Learmonth was awarded the Victoria Cross. Major Learmonth died of his wounds the following day.
“For most conspicuous bravery and exceptional devotion to duty. During a determined counter-attack on our new positions, this officer, when his company was momentarily surprised, instantly charged and personally disposed of the attackers. Later, he carried on a tremendous fight with the advancing enemy. Although under intense barrage fire and mortally wounded, he stood on the parapet of the trench, bombed the enemy continuously and directed the defence in such a manner as to infuse a spirit of utmost resistance into his men.
On several occasions this very brave officer actually caught bombs thrown at him by the enemy and threw them back. When he was unable by reason of his wounds to carry on the fight he still refused to be carried out of the line, and continued to give instructions and invaluable advice to his junior officers, finally handing over all his duties before he was evacuated from the front line to the hospital where he died.”
(London Gazette, no.30372, 8 November 1917)
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The Hill 70 Memorial Park, dedicated to the Canadian Corps that achieved victory at the Battle of Hill 70 in August, 1917, was completed on October 2nd, 2019. The centerpiece of the Memorial is an obelisk signifying the victory of the Canadian Corps at the Battle of Hill 70. In addition to the obelisk, there is a series of walkways dedicated to the six Victoria Cross awards, as well as plazas dedicated to Regiments and soldiers who figured prominently in the battle. To enhance your site tour, you may download an audio-visual history of the Battle of Hill 70 from the AppStore or Google Play.
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Adding Physician Leaders to our Board of Trustees
I joined the Swedish team a decade ago as a physician. I have seen this organization from the caregiver’s perspective, and I understand the enormous value and insights our physicians provide to Swedish and our patients every day.
I have learned that hospitals and health systems can be significantly strengthened when physicians serve as leaders in the organization and play active roles in management and governance.
Therefore, I am very proud to share that the Swedish Board of Trustees recently voted to add five new physician members to the Board. Beginning Jan. 1, 2018, Dr. Tanya Sorensen and Dr. Joel Wasserman will serve three-year terms as members of the Board of Trustees; Dr. Peggy Hutchison, the elected chief of the Unified Medical Staff, will serve as an ex officio member of the Board during her term of office; and Dr. Adam Corson and Dr. Janice Lew will join the Board’s Finance and Capital Projects Committee.
I applaud the Board of Trustees for taking this important step to strengthen physician representation in our governance. I am confident that adding new physician members in these roles will enable all of us to continue delivering on Swedish’s core promise: to provide everyone in our community the best possible care.
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Two additional container gantry cranes arrive at CTB
At 11 p.m. on the evening of Monday 4 May, two new container gantry cranes arrived at the HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB). With its total of five new container gantry cranes – the first three of the same type were delivered at the beginning of November 2019 – HHLA provides an additional mega-ship berth for the Port of Hamburg at Burchardkai.
The two state-of-the-art container gantry cranes arrived at their temporary berth at Athabaskakai on board the “Zhen Hua 26”. Preparations for the complex discharging process will take place there before the special ship shifts to their final location at berth 6 in the Waltershofer Hafen.
The new container gantry cranes will provide HHLA with additional capacities for handling ultra large container vessels with a transport capacity of 24,000 standard containers (TEU) and more. In the last few years, the number of calls by ultra large container vessels in Hamburg has considerably increased.
“With the new container gantry cranes, we will ensure that our customers continue to receive the high quality of handling they're accustomed to in the future. We are thus making an important contribution to the supply of both the population and the companies with goods and commodities. At the same time, the competitiveness and attractiveness of the Port of Hamburg will be strengthened in conjunction with the fairway adjustment of the river Elbe,” says HHLA Executive Board member Jens Hansen.
The currently largest container gantry cranes at the Port of Hamburg can accommodate ships with a width of 24 containers side by side. The jibs of the new cranes are nearly 80 metres long and can reach across 26 rows of containers. The new gantry cranes manufactured by ZPMC will replace smaller units at CTB. Including the new arrivals, more than 30 container gantry cranes are in use at HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai. 18 of these are mega-ship cranes.
Burchardkai is both the oldest and the largest container handling facility at the Port of Hamburg. The first container ship in Hamburg was handled here in 1968. It had a capacity of just 1,200 TEU. Today, the biggest container ships in the world are handled at Burchardkai. After the five new container gantry cranes have started operation, the number of mega-ship berths at CTB will increase from two to three. HHLA also has another mega-ship berth in the Port of Hamburg at Container Terminal Tollerort.
Further information and technical details at www.hhla.de/gantry-crane
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Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is one of Europe’s leading logistics companies. With a tight network of container terminals in Hamburg, Odessa and Tallinn, excellent hinterland connections and well-connected intermodal hubs in Central and Eastern Europe, HHLA represents a logistical and digital hub for the transport flows of the future. Its business model is based on innovative technologies and is committed to sustainability. www.hhla.de
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INTERVIEW: Artist Alice Hope Brings Her Unique Talents To Jobs Lane
Alice Hope's Priceless. (Courtesy Photo)
Artist Alice Hope is the first to be featured in Southampton Arts Center's (SAC) Storefront Art Project - phase two of SAC's Public Art Project, which was launched this past summer. Presented with the support of the Long Island Community Foundation and assistance of Morley Property Management, Hope's new project Priceless is now on view at 8 Jobs Lane in Southampton.
"Alice is someone whose work I have always admired and I knew she was the perfect person to start with," Amy Kirwin, SAC Artistic Director, told us.
Talking with Alice Hope only accentuates the reality that gifted artists exist in a creative world all on their own. In measured words, she spoke directly into the corners of one's mind to explain her vision, her mission, and her talent. She plans on updating her exhibit as her vision evolves over time. Although the exhibition is titled Priceless, in our 45-minute discussion she never mentioned money, a price or anything pecuniary. That alone should draw you to her and her exhibit.
Hope explained, "Southampton Village is requiring artwork to be put in the windows of unrented storefronts in the Village. Amy Kirwin approached me, we met with the manager of the space [on Jobs Lane] and I came up with a proposal. After the proposal was approved, I hunkered down and got to work. I focused on the preparations for about a month before installing, but I was working on the pieces beforehand."
It premiered in early November. She noted, "People pass by the storefront, they do not enter into the space and what I found is that the night view is particularly good because of the lighting and it really being dark outside, it really pops - but you can see it 24 hours a day. I hope to keep it really dynamic and I am planning to go in and evolve the installation within the next month. As long as I am staying there, I will keep it growing."
When asked what were her goals for the viewer, the artist answered, "I really do hope for a varied experience with everybody bringing their own perspective to the work."
When asked for the biggest thrill in her long, distinguished career, she revealed, "It's actually a current project, doing the lobby of the embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. The project has been a couple of years in the works. I was supposed to go over last March to install it, and at this point, because of the quarantine I need to reschedule. It's been postponed to next March. It was thrilling to meet the local artist in Maputo and also the cross-cultural assignment of making work that's in conversation to the art that's made in Mozambique."
Hope was born in Hong Kong, lived there for ten years and then was raised in Oakridge, Tennessee. She went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon for undergrad and finished off her studies at Yale.
About the storefront window, Hope said, "Priceless is a multimedia art installation made with accordioned chromed coat hangers, paper price tags, and strung can tabs." Of the project, Hope elaborated, "While assembling this installation, my query has been: What's priceless? I hope for this unanswered question to be the subject of this installation, my first in a storefront. In our commodified world and in this commodified discipline, where value equates success, I'm aspiring to transform tens of thousands of blank price tags, a vast population of ephemera, into evanescence."
Priceless will remain on view for up to six months or when the shop is once again occupied.
Kirwin hopes that this is just the start. "We are hoping other landlords and property managers will now work with us and other cultural organizations to do the work for them, and at the same time create beautiful window displays that will drive visitors to the Village and help boost business for others," she added.
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The city’s cultural gem: connecting people and hearts
‘Ding dings’ are so tightly woven into Hong Kong’s landscape and our everyday fabric, having been trundling across the Island’s northern fringe for the past 116 years — and counting. One of the city’s earliest forms of public transportation, and currently its most environmentally friendly, our tram fleet comprises one of the world’s few remaining double-decker trams, says Cyril Aubin, managing director of Hong Kong Tramways. Since its inception in 1904, ‘ding dings’ have become an iconic symbol of Hong Kong’s heritage, featured prominently in travel guides and frequented by tourists eager to experience the cityscape while on the move. For Hongkongers, however, the tram is as much an affordable, convenient way to get around the Island as it is a cultural gem.
At the helm of a piece of Hong Kong’s heritage
Passionate about trams, Luk Man Wai counts himself lucky to have been working for Hong Kong Tramways for more than 15 years.
Luk first joined as one of the company’s many motormen and women, who drive the ‘ding dings’ along Hong Kong Island’s different passenger routes.
“I enjoy being outdoors and cannot stand [work that requires me] to stay in the office all the time, so this job is ideal for me,” Luk says.
He and his colleagues have first-hand experience of the massive changes that have occurred following redevelopment of large areas of the city. “In Sai Wan, for example, there used to be many factories and warehouses, but most of them have been torn down and replaced by residential buildings and hotels,” he says.
Luk, who now works as an instructor training novice tram drivers, says he enjoys the satisfaction of helping thousands of passengers reach their tram-stop destinations safely each day. He also enjoys interacting with them, too.
“Once, on a party tram, a man proposed to his girlfriend with a bouquet of 999 red roses,” Luk says. “I was delighted to be the motorman for the couple’s unforgettable journey.”
Echoing the sentiment, Cyril Aubin, Hong Kong Tramways’ managing director, says ‘ding dings’ embody the true Hong Kong spirit, and serve as collective memories for its people.
The tram system is built locally and maintenance is mostly done in-house at its Whitty Street depot factory — the only remaining industrial activity still being carried out on Hong Kong Island.
“This unique transport system offers a sense of simplicity and authenticity — a slower pace of connectivity that we could all use in our crazy urban lives,” says Aubin, who takes the tram daily from his home in Wan Chai to his office at Whitty Street Tram Depot in Sai Wan. “To be in charge of maintaining and sustaining something that Hongkongers prize and love, not only for transportation but for what it represents in terms of memories and heritage, has just been amazing,” he says.
‘Ding dings’ iconic image has continued despite the fleet regularly evolving and facing routine upgrades over the years. The latest model to go into service is the company’s seventh-generation tram.
“The [old] wooden body has been replaced by aluminium, making it lighter, stronger and more robust,” Aubin says. “We’ve also redesigned the seats and interiors, adding handrails and handles, so rides are more ergonomic and comfortable for our passengers. We’ve also improved the motors so they consume less energy than before.”
In the near future, these trams will become smarter, says Aubin who moved to Hong Kong with his family to take up his job in 2016. Using big data and artificial intelligence, Aubin and his team are working to improve the operational efficiency and reliability of ‘ding dings’. He says: “We are currently working with scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to develop special algorithms, so the tram system becomes even more robust to better serve Hongkongers.”
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An update on the London healthtech scene
Jack Hershman
Life expectancy in the early 1800’s was just 36. Now it's 82 and tech continues to evolve healthcare. Touch Surgery’s COO explains what’s next for London.
The transformative effect that technology has had on health over the course of history has been unprecedented.
If you consider that anesthesia only became widely available from the mid 1800’s, we’ve come a long way in an incredibly short space of time.
To give a little insight into the scale of change, the average life expectancy in the early 1800’s was around 36.
Now it’s 82.
Much of that increase is due to new technologies improving the way healthcare is delivered.
And you can be sure that the next few years we will see the health technology (healthtech) industry grow exponentially for the benefit of all.
But there’s one city in particular that’s seeing an inflated amount of interest.
Firmly establishing itself on the world stage is the London healthtech scene.
This follows a spate of government backed schemes such as Boris Johnson’s Medcity- which aligns London’s finest academic institutions towards the progression and improvement of digital healthcare.
And in a paper by Healthcare UK, the government confidently presents itself as “the leading nation in digital health”.
Andre Chow, the COO and Co-Founder of one of London’s hottest healthtech startups – Touch Surgery explains:
“Even in the past two years I’ve seen a huge amount of growth in this area over here in London.”
Investors are becoming increasingly interested in the area too:
“Two years ago it was hard to get any sort of meeting with any kind of investor or any group, when we had our initial product. Nowadays, there are far more open doors. And a much bigger sense of a building community.”
Validation from The Royal Society Of Medicine has contributed to the sense of a growing community within the London healthtech scene, which has held a number of healthtech workshops.
Although the community is yet to be fully established says Chow, we are certainly on the right path.
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Delma Dale Haralson
BBA 1959, HSU Trustee
Delma Dale Haralson was born August 7, 1937, to Delmar and Adah (Barber) Haralson in Colorado City, Texas. He grew up on a farm 10 miles north of Loraine, Texas, with older brother, Hal, and younger brother, Kenneth. Family life was built around the First Baptist Church, and the boys worked the 400-acre family farm with their father.
After graduating from Loraine High School in 1955, Haralson enrolled at Hardin-Simmons University where his mother had been a 1928 graduate. Active at HSU, he served on Student Council, was president of the Colt Club and the Rifle Team, vice president and president Pi Kappa Delta, was on the Men’s Debate Team and the New Men’s Dorm Council. He played trombone in the Cowboy Band, traveling with the band on the 1958 USO tour.
Haralson received an ROTC commission as a U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenant when he graduated in 1959 from HSU with a B.B.A. degree in business and a minor in economics.
Following graduation, he reported for active duty, completed the basic officer’s course, and then went into the Active Reserve. Completing seven years of service with the Arizona National Guard, he rose to the rank of captain, and in 1966 as a company commander was named Outstanding Officer in the Arizona National Guard.
Haralson enrolled at the University of Texas Law School after completing active duty in 1959, then later transferred to the University of Arizona, where he completed his juris doctorate in 1963. He worked a variety of jobs to put himself through law school, which included working cattle for his uncle, Bob Barber, who was an Arizona attorney and rancher. He also worked in a car wash, a clothing store, and a gas station. Upon being admitted to the Arizona State Bar in 1963, he went into practice in his uncle’s law office.
In 1965, he married Betty Hackney, a native Arizonan. They welcomed daughters Kristi in 1970 and Wendy in 1972. A licensed pilot, he and his family have enjoyed flying, scuba diving, and skiing. In 1995, he and Betty were baptized in the Jordan River during a trip to the Holy Land.
Haralson made the choice to become a plaintiff’s trial attorney based on a calling he felt as a sophomore in high school. He knew God wanted him to be a Christian lawyer who represented people who needed help.
In 1970, the case that jump-started Haralson’s career was against GE Corporation for the defective design of an in-home water heater that had caused electrical burns over 35% of the plaintiff’s body while she was taking a shower. The jury returned the highest award that had ever been given for any kind of injury or death in the state of Arizona.
Later cases included the largest death award in the country at the time, in a 1973 case against Southern Pacific Railroad for the family of a man who was killed at a railroad crossing in a rural community. Then in 1984, he took on the U. S. government, and won. A $2.6 million award was set in federal court in a landmark case that rules the U. S. government was responsible for the cancer deaths of 10 people who lived near open-air nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
Haralson has served numerous associations and boards, including as president of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association and as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Board of Governors, and the Civil Justice Foundation Board of Trustees. He has been on the Board of Governors of the Western Trial Lawyers Association since 1976, serving as president, vice president, secretary, and parliamentarian.
He served on the University of Arizona Arthritis Advisory Board, was a member of the Tucson General Hospital Trustees, and continues to be active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as trustee emeritus of their national board.
Active in the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Haralson was a seminar speaker for the group and was vice president in 1981. While serving as vice president and unopposed for the position of president elect, Haralson was diagnosed with throat cancer. After chemotherapy, two surgeries, and radiation treatment, he chose not to run for further office in the association. His doctors had given him a less than five percent chance of survival. He attributes his recovery to the loving care from Betty, the prayers of many friends from HSU and their local churches, and the healing power of God.
Haralson’s determination and hard work brought him through the personal devastation of cancer, while he continued to fight for the rights of those injured by big corporations. He has received numerous awards and honors, and in 2010, was recognized by the Arizona Association for Justice with the Lifetime Advocate of Civil Justice Award for his 47 years of outstanding advocacy of the civil justice system.
He is on the board of elders of Canyon del Oro Baptist Church where he and Betty are members. His daughters have blessed him with five granddaughters (one of whom is a current student at HSU), and Dale admits he is happily ruled by the women in his life.
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UK faces £18.2bn hit to the economy and loss of 5G leadership position
A 3 year delay to the roll-out of 5G could cost the UK economy £18.2bn
UK set to lose its current 5G competitive advantage and global leadership position through 2022 and 2023
The removal of Huawei equipment sooner than 2027 would lead to a further delay to 5G roll-out and subsequent higher cost to operators and the UK economy.
London, UK – 9 September 2020 – Banning and removing Huawei from the UK’s 5G networks by 2027 risks severely delaying operators’ 5G roll-out plans, adversely affecting the UK economy by £18.2bn, and losing the UK’s current competitive advantage in 5G leadership, according to an independent report from Assembly.
The new report, commissioned by Huawei, builds upon the Government’s own expectation of a 3-year delay to 5G roll-out. The removal of Huawei equipment sooner than 2027 would lead to a further delay to roll-out and higher cost to the UK economy.
In the last 12 months, the UK mobile operators have made significant progress in deploying 5G infrastructure, putting the country in a strong position to reap the future economic benefits. However, as a result of continued US pressure and latest sanctions, this deployment will slow in future, impacting industrial efficiency, global competitiveness as well as, the associated economic benefits of being a global leader in 5G.
The report also highlights the DCMS’ conclusion that should the UK not maintain global leadership in 5G, it will miss the opportunity to fully realise £173bn of incremental GDP over 10 years between 2020 and 2030. Global leadership is important so that UK can take early advantage of the potential for 5G to create new opportunities for UK businesses at home and encourage inward investment – both of which contribute to the creation of a world-leading digital economy.
Of the £18.2bn economic impact, a result of the 3-year delay, about £10bn of productivity benefits would be lost entirely. Under a scenario where the UK is a global 5G leader, the mobile sector would miss out on the opportunity to generate about £4.7bn and related industries would lose about £2bn. The economy at large would miss benefits estimated around £1.5bn.
Matthew Howett, Principal Analyst & Founder of Assembly, said:
“As a result of further restrictions on Huawei in the US, the UK mobile operators are set to incur billions of pounds worth of cost stripping out equipment form their networks. This report reaffirms there is also an untold cost in terms of the economy and impact on productivity a delayed 5G roll out will have, the scale of which the UK can ill afford given the current economic circumstances.”
Victor Zhang, Vice President of Huawei, said:
“This new research shows how the US administration has directly impacted Britain’s economy, ending the UK’s leadership in 5G, holding the country back from realising its full potential for years to come.
Our priority at Huawei remains to support our customers in delivering and helping to build a better connected UK. This independent research, shows why we would urge the government to reconsider its decision. “
A copy of the full report ‘Macroeconomic impact of a delayed 5G roll-out in the UK’ can be downloaded here.
press@assemblyresearch.co.uk
Assembly is an independent analyst firm providing subscription-based information, analysis and commentary on regulatory, policy and legislative developments that affect communications markets and the wider digital economy.
For more information visit assemblyresearch.co.uk
Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes. At Huawei, innovation puts the customer first. We invest heavily in fundamental research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have nearly 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.
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destination focus… nashville
July 24, 2015 June 2, 2020
In Destination.
New home of ibtm america, Nashville, is certainly, perhaps now more than ever, on the meetings industry radar. Named “Where to Go in 2015” by AFAR and Budget Travel and listed as one of the “15 Hottest American Cities for 2015” by MSN, Nashville offers everything from an electrifying multi-genre music scene, award-winning cuisine, world-class art, a myriad of attractions, unique shopping, college and professional sports, and more.
Of course, music remains Nashville’s calling card to the world and is the very heart of the city. Long recognized as the world’s capital of country music, Music City also boasts sounds of pop, rock, gospel, Americana, bluegrass, jazz, classical, contemporary Christian, blues, and soul. With more than 120 live music venues across the city, there is something for everyone. You’ll catch guitar pickers and songwriters all over town, in places like bluegrass venue Station Inn, the rock venue Exit/In, the honky tonks on Broadway, the song-centered Bluebird Cafe, or the legendary Ryman Auditorium.
There are hosts of attractions that have made Music City famous including the ultimate country music venue the Grand Ole Opry, the historic Ryman Auditorium, and the world renowned Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. New to Nashville, the Johnny Cash Museum houses the most comprehensive collection of Johnny Cash artifacts in the world at the Johnny Cash Museum downtown, while the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum honors musicians from stars to studio players that represent all genres of music.
History buffs will enjoy the city’s pristine collection of antebellum estate mansions, such as Belmont Mansion, Belle Meade Plantation, and The Hermitage, presidential home of Andrew Jackson. Dubbed the Athens of the South for its elegance, style and many academic institutions, Nashville claims the world’s only full-sized reproduction of the Greek Parthenon in Centennial Park. The Parthenon houses Athena, the tallest indoor structure in the Western world, as well as a rotating gallery featuring the museum’s collection of American art.
Nashville’s visual and fine arts scene is also making waves. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is housed in an exquisitely converted Art Deco post office, which hosts roving exhibitions changing every couple of months. Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art houses an extensive art gallery, while the city offers art crawls, studios and art galleries all around town. Falling on the first Saturday of every month, the First Saturday Art Crawl is when art galleries throughout downtown host receptions and art openings.
While Nashville will always be Music City, it’s clear that the creative energy and talent in the city extends far beyond music and into a burgeoning culinary scene that is worth a visit all on its own. Food & Wine highlighted the “booming Music City food scene,” Food Arts Magazine noted the “emerging culinary scene putting Nashville on the gastronomic radar,” and The Daily Meal named Nashville one of 2014’s “Top Ten Hottest Travel Destinations for Food.”
Two popular Nashville traditions are Meat & Three restaurants and hot chicken. Meat & Three restaurants are a Southern staple in which you pick one meat and three vegetable side dishes. Some of the more famous meat & threes are Puckett’s, Arnold’s and Swett’s. Nashville’s most notable contribution to Southern culinary culture, hot chicken “shacks” let you choose the level of spiciness of your chicken. Hattie B’s, Prince’s, Boltons, and 400º are some of Nashville’s favorite hot chicken hot spots.
Recently, Nashville’s barbecue scene has also become nationally recognized. Travel + Leisure named Nashville No. 1 for “America’s Best Cities for Barbecue” and Huffington Post, Yahoo! Travel, and U.S. News Travel named Nashville “Top 10 Best BBQ Cities in America”. Whatever part of town you find yourself in, you will find a BBQ joint such as Peg Leg Porker, Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, Edley’s Bar-B-Que, Jack’s Bar-B-Que, Bar-B-Cutie, Puckett’s, Rippy’s, and The Vinegarroon.
To really get a feel of the ‘local’ side of Nashville, make sure you explore its neighborhoods as they are teeming with new restaurants, coffee shops, independent boutiques, craft cocktail joints, and live music venues. The Gulch, 12South, East Nashville, Marathon Village, Hillsboro Village, and Germantown are popular neighborhoods that have their own personality that suits its surrounding and welcomes all walks of life.
Located in Nashville’s SoBro (South of Broadway) district, the much anticipated Music City Center had its grand-opening in 2013 on a 16-acre site in the heart of downtown Nashville. Born out of success and branded to music, the center was built to offer a bigger stage for larger conventions and meetings. The 1.2 million-square-foot building features a 350,000-square-foot exhibit hall and a 57,000-square-foot grand ballroom.
The Music City Center was designed to be Nashville’s front porch for visitors. Offering stunning views of the Nashville skyline, it is located just steps from the Ryman Auditorium, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, and the Broadway honky tonks – the musical venues that have launched thousands of careers and help generate the city’s nickname.
Next door to the Music City Center is the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum that recently unveiled a $100-million expansion in 2014, doubling its size to 350,000 square feet of dynamic state-of-the-art galleries, archival storage, educational classrooms, retail stores, and special event space. The expansion connects to the Omni Nashville Hotel on three levels, although the expansion itself is six floors. The ambitious expansion includes the 800-seat CMA Theater, the Taylor Swift Education Center, and an interactive, hands-on immersion into contemporary country music with the ACM Gallery and the Fred and Dinah Gretsch Family Gallery.
For alternative attractions, you could visit the wide array of exotic animals at the Nashville Zoo, view the unique European car collection at the Lane Motor Museum, explore the Adventure Science Center’s Sudekum Planetarium and Space Chase, or get some fresh air at Bicentennial Mall State Park. Also, be sure to catch a Nashville Predators professional ice hockey game that takes place inside of Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville.
With its charming mix of musical, historical and cultural flavours, Nashville is truly a city for all seasons and events. For more information, visit www.visitmusiccity.com
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LONDON CALLING | IBTM Meets: Tracy Halliwell, MBE
June 15, 2020 October 29, 2020
In Destination, IBTM Connect, People In Industry.
How has the UK’s capital city become the home of technology events?
Shane Hannam, Portfolio Director of IBTM Events, sat down with Tracy Halliwell, MBE, the Director of Tourism, Conventions and Major Events for London & Partners, to discuss her life, her work and the events industry.
Discover everything from where London’s tech focus began to Tracy’s favourite restaurant in the capital in the first interview of our brand new IBTM Meets series.
Also, if you would prefer to read the interview instead of watch it, you can do so here:
Hello everyone and welcome to IBTM Meets: a series of interviews with people from across our industry sector.
My name is Shane Hannam, Portfolio Director for IBTM Events, and I’m joined here today with Tracy Halliwell MBE who is the Director of Tourism, Conventions and Major Events at London and & Partners.
Shane: Tracy, welcome and hello. It’s great to have you here. so much for joining us today albeit virtually.
Obviously, the aim of today is that we’re looking to catch up with you and just have an informal chat around things like your career to date, how you arrived at London & Partners, maybe some thoughts around the industry – how we emerge from the crisis we’re currently in – and potentially looking forward to what the future may hold.
So, we have a series of questions we’ve prepared and, if it’s okay with you, we’ll kick off. So, firstly, tell us about your career journey and how you arrived where you are.
Tracy: I decided to do a degree in hotel and catering management because I thought it sounded like a really fun thing to do. I got rejected for a number of psychology courses so I couldn’t do those, so ended up in the hotel world and it’s been 20 years in hotels. I had a fabulous time traveling the world, or with sales and marketing, but always touching on hospitality and meetings and events.
It was only when I had my first child that I thought, actually, I don’t want to go back and do ridiculous hours in the hotel world anymore, I’d like to do something different. This opportunity came along to go into destination sales and who wouldn’t want to do that? So, I joined London & Partners back in 2006 and haven’t looked back since.
I’ve loved it and I don’t think I ever want to go back to anything else in terms of hotels or hospitality. I love the industry but working on a destination side is just so much fun because you get to see all sides of the business, particularly on the MICE side. It’s been good fun journey to get here but always in hospitality, always hotels, always meetings and events and latterly, as I said, a destination.
Shane: Great, that sounds fantastic and I think, like most of us, we stumble across this industry – the business events or MICE industry, and indeed travel and tourism – and I think we kind of fall into it and we love it so much. It’s almost a bit of an addiction and people end up spending so much time in the industry so it’s glad to see you’re in that boat as well. I know I certainly am!
Okay, now maybe a bit more about the destination itself. How did London carve its niche to be known as what really is the home of technology events?
Tracy: That’s quite a long but interesting story. I suppose, if I think about it, we really started back in 2008-9 when you had a bunch of really smart, really clever people who were coming out of the corporate world and starting to set up their own digital companies or tech companies.
They’d all started to find this cheap office space around the Old Truman Brewery in London, which later became known as the Silicon Roundabout, and all of that startup community really got going kind of 2008-2009.
That was followed up by David Cameron actually; when he was a prime minister, he came along and said “I love this whole burgeoning sector we’ve got here” and he created an umbrella around it which was really Tech City. He created a lot of areas of policy and taxation issues just to push that whole innovation economy.
Some amazing companies came out of that – Skype and Mind Candy and Unruly – some big names of companies. That tech sector has continued to grow and grow and grow in London and I think at the last count we had somewhere in the region of 240,000 people employed in tech. So, suddenly you’ve got this huge sectoral expertise.
Back in 2012 probably, we just had the Olympics and we were starting to understand how events can really underpin economic growth in a city and the leverage of events and the fact that everything they leave behind can be quite amazing.
So, we took a look at that the tech sector and this is just an amazing story. Events tell stories and they create reasons for people to come to study, to invest, to grow, and to hold meetings. We figured that, actually, tech and digital is a really great space to be and where better to do it with all of the expertise we had: we had the delegates, we had everything else.
So, we had this idea to create our own festival of tech events. I think, at the time, it was also quite difficult for a destination to keep continuously winning bids and London has never been a city that has subvention funding. It’s not the cheapest destination in the world so, rather than keep bidding for things, we thought we would create our own.
In 2014, the first London Tech Week was born. We worked with UBM initially. We’re not event producers but we could facilitate and we could bring the right people to the table. So, with UBM we created London Tech Week 2014 and I think, in that first year, we had something like 200 events. We attracted about 20-30,000 people and over the years it’s gradually grown.
Last year was amazing. We had 58,000 delegates coming to one event or another. There were over 300 events across the city and they were everything from fireside chats to big investor conferences. Then throughout the year on an average year, London, outside of London Tech Week, we will do probably somewhere the reason of 150 odd other tech or digital meetings because people are coming because of their expertise and knowledge. They’re coming to learn from their peers, they’re coming because they’ve got a delegate base already here. Also, there is a huge population of students that are studying relevant courses so there’s this whole ecosystem that really works.
People come to London and they have a tech event or they attend a tech event and they always take something away with them, which then helps to grow. So, on the back of an event, we’ve also been able to grow London’s expertise and reputation as well as the tech centre of the world which is phenomenal.
Shane: Well, that’s a great story indeed. for sharing that and, continuing that theme with the destination, what makes London an ideal host city to bring in major events and conventions?
Tracy: I think it comes down to connectivity. It’s so easy to get to London from anywhere in the world with direct flights coming from so many different worldwide destinations. It’s always been seen as the springboard to Europe so, for the long-haul destinations who want to come and experience the European side of it.
Language: I think the fact that English is the language of business. If we speak English here, any delegate doesn’t have to worry about two or three different languages when they’re coming in.
We’ve also got the ecosystem in terms of 140,000 hotel bedrooms in London, which is probably one of the biggest hotel offerings outside of Las Vegas. We’ve also got venues; we’ve got 3,500 venue spaces in London from small to big – we’ve got the Excel Centre which has got the big ICC there – we’ve got everything of all sizes.
I think the fact that we’ve got 8 million people that live in and around London or in Greater London, that means you’ve got a pull of people who are going to attend exhibitions. They’re going to attend conferences and, because London is a global business city, it’s one of those places that people will come to an event because they can do other business when they’re in town as well.
We find that any big global meeting that happens in London, we always get a delegate uplift on the previous year and we always tend to have a higher proportion of Asian attendees, I think because they feel comfortable in London and it’s a place where they’re doing other business. So, companies do find that the draw of people from all over the world is very high when you bring an event to London.
A combination of all of those things makes it a good global city for meetings and events.
Shane: I have to say, having called London home for over 20 years, I couldn’t agree more. It’s a wonderful place to work and live, that’s for sure. I hear those some potentially exciting news regarding even further innovation in London with a new event concept which is coming soon. What can you tell us about this?
Tracy: I can’t tell you too much otherwise have to shoot you! What I can say is: we always thought after the success of London Tech Week – and there are some amazing things that are showcased at Tech Week – how could you bring that into the consumer world? How could you share some of that great content with a consumer audience?
We’d always had that at the back of our mind. Then that little thing called Brexit starts to happen and we started to think about how we could make sure that London was still relevant in the world.
One of the big expertises that London and the rest of the UK has is this amazing innovative event sector. We are home to some of the most innovative companies in terms of AI and VR and data technology and security and health tech. There’s so much happening in that data and digital world. All of the things that humans worry about or get excited about, a lot of that stuff is being thought about and created and envisioned in London.
So, we then put those two together and thought ‘wouldn’t it be amazing to do a big consumer festival that starts to think about what it is to be a human?’ and how could London play in that? So, using London as a playground to showcase some amazing stuff. So, think about a kind of an urban Burning Man, I suppose, is a vision!
We’ve been working on this for a while now but our hope is that we could launch that next year. So, fingers crossed, depending on what’s happening in the world and whether people are willing to travel to events and festivals, that will be coming so keep your eyes open for that one.
Shane: Great, I can’t wait to hear that. Keep us posted for sure and maybe that’s another conversation for IBTM meets further down the road! Sounds very very exciting. Okay, we’re going to change tack slightly now and we would like to know a little bit about your thoughts around London so what’s special to you. What’s your favourite restaurant in London?
Tracy: Well I did have an answer for that one but, sadly, it’s not there anymore. My favourite restaurant in London always was a fabulous restaurant called Les Trois Garcons which was over in East London. It was just the most amazing… it was more the ambience and it was run by three men who were interior designers and fashionistas and the whole restaurant was full of curiosities and you just couldn’t get through there without being amazed by all the stuff that was around you and the food was also very good.
Sadly, that one’s no longer there so I’m gonna plump for a different avenue altogether. So, one of the other things that London is really quite cool at is things like Secret Cinema and immersive experiences and all that stuff and we’ve got an amazing one called the Chamber of Flavours.
Every year, they come out with a new series of the Chamber of Flavours and it’s a secret dining experience so you don’t know until the day before where you’re gonna go. But, you book your experience in advance and you get given instructions the day before about when you’re supposed to be there and you get told what to wear and where to turn up and you go through this… All I can say is that it’s like theatrical dining. They do lunch and dinner and you go through this experience having your different courses in a different environment, let’s put it that way, so I’ve done that two or three times now and that is quite amazing.
Shane: Sounds fantastic! One I need to add to my list quite clearly. Just another question: if we were arriving in London for the first time, never visited the city before, what’s one activity would you encourage us to undertake?
Tracy: I always answer this one by telling people to get on the river. If you take just a trip on a clipper, or if you do a bateau dining experience, or you can do paddle boarding, you can do a rib tour but you see so much more of London from the river in a fairly short space of time. I think it’s only then that you really get to experience the vastness that is London and the different elements of London. I think it’s a great way of doing it so I will say, whatever it is, just go on the river and experience it from there. You can even tour ships on the river – you can do all sorts of things!
Shane: Absolutely, I’ve done that many times myself while living very near the river. I think the other thing is that it’s probably the quickest way to get around sometimes within the city so that’s another advantage of using the boats for sure.
Now let’s talk maybe a little bit about the MBE. What was it like when you heard about the MBE and how did you find out?
Tracy: I just literally got home one day and there was a letter with a big ER written on the front and my first thought was ‘oh my god I’ve been summoned to court for something’ and I open this letter and it just said that ‘you can’t tell anybody but would you like to accept the Member of the British Empire’. I was so taken aback I couldn’t speak for a few minutes, not that I was allowed to tell anybody anyway!
It was in 2014. You have to sit on it for a good three or four months and you can’t tell anybody. So, of course, I said yes, I’d like to have it. My investiture was at Windsor Castle and it was actually with Prince William, so that was amazing and I was able to take my whole family. My daughters at the time were quite young, they were probably 10 and 12 or maybe a bit younger, so it was a great time for them to be there as well.
As I got to Prince William, he did – and there were around 60-70 people at this investiture – and he speaks to each and every one of them; he has a conversation with you. And he said: ‘oh I understand that you’re responsible for bringing thirty thousand heart specialists’ and he was talking about the European Society of Cardiology meeting, and my mouth just dropped open and I went: ‘how did you know that?’ and he said: ‘oh, I mean, I’ve done my homework’. So it was amazing for each and every one of us; he knew a little bit about who we were and what we done.
Then we just had a conversation about tourism in London and I apologized for clogging up Kensington Palace and all the rest of it and that was it. Then we did a tour of the castle and my daughter at the time – she was the little one and I think she was about eight – we were in the throne room and she took one look at it and said ‘can I?’ and I said “no, no, no, you can’t do that’ and one of the guards in the palace just said ‘go on then, quick’. She ran down to the front to sit on the Queen’s throne and we weren’t allowed to take pictures anything else but that was amazing. She’ll remember it forevermore, the day she was able to sit on the Queen’s throne at Windsor Castle. I think that was better than the badge I got, actually!
Shane: Sounds like a very unforgettable experience for not just you but the family as well, that’s great. Just finally, one more question I think we have time for. What do you think potentially the future holds for both your perspective and that of the destination and London & Partners?
Tracy: We’ve obviously changed our business planning quite dramatically. One of the first things we did was we London Virtually. We created a Virtually London website, which is actually a lot of fun because you can visit London and spend time with us without actually leaving your front room.
You can feed some animals at the zoo, you can go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum, and you can take in a concert at the Opera House, all of those great things. We’ve now morphed that into a Virtually on the Convention Bureau website so any of our partners who have got virtual footage we’re showcasing on there. I think that’s something we should have had anyway. This fast-tracked a lot of the digital expertise that we need to use so I think we’ll be a lot more digital in the future.
We’ve all learned to cope so well with videoconferencing and zooming and all the rest of it that, again, it was going to come anyway so what we’ve done is we’ve just fast-tracked a lot of stuff that would have come.
I think a lot of companies were starting to think about their carbon footprints and everything so it’s just made us rethink who we are and what we do. A lot of our venues are starting to make sure they’ve got video conferencing facilities, that they’ve got all that stuff, and they’re also upping all of the hygiene and the safety and thermal imaging scanning machines. All of this stuff is all now being looked at.
I think I think the future is going to be brighter than we perhaps think it is going to be now.
I think hybrid meetings will definitely be a thing of the future but I think, for London, my hope is that we’re still a global event city. We’ll be one of the hybrid meeting venues, even if you now do something in London, Paris and in New York, instead of all in London or all in Paris. I think you’ll find a lot more of that where we link up different audiences around the world.
I think we’re a resilient bunch in the meetings industry, and particularly in London, it’s such a huge part of who we are and what we do. I can’t see it ever going away. I think we’ll just have to get cleverer and more innovative and more creative about how we do things.
There are now things like drive-in cinemas and Pub-in-a-Box – all sorts of really fun things that are coming out of it. I think a lot of that will stay and we’ll use it and morph it into the future.
For London & Partners, we’ll have much more of a focus on the domestic local market for a little bit. We haven’t really done much of that; we’ve been very internationally focused. I think now the time is right to concentrate on London and Londoners first, so we’re working on programs about how we can get Londoners to get out and back spending money in the economy which is then going to help to show the world that London is back up and running.
We’re still not taking our eye off the ball of international business and we are taking inquiries. There are inquiries coming through both for the back end of this year and into next year and beyond so I think the future is fine.
I think it’s just this short term: how do we change our business models and react to things? We have some great partners and some great innovative event companies in London who are working on exactly that.
Shane: Okay, thank you very much for sharing that Tracy, great insight indeed.
Well, that concludes the interview today. So, again, Tracy, a massive thank you for joining us. That was really good fun and some really great insightful answers into both your journey and also that of the destination.
I look forward to meeting you again very soon, hopefully face to face. So, thank you and good bye.
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A Modern Storyteller: Selected Songs For Soprano By Jake Heggie From The Perspective Of Literature And Style
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Note:This scholarly essay is part of a research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in the School of Music. The project also involved the preparation and performance of two lecture recitals related to the essay topic.
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Title: A Modern Storyteller: Selected Songs For Soprano By Jake Heggie From The Perspective Of Literature And Style
Author(s): Marsch, Debra Lynn
Advisor(s): Gunn, Julie Jordan
Contributor(s): Professor Sylvia Stone; Helmrich, Dennis; Mitchell, Thomas Owen
Department / Program: School of Music
Discipline: Music
Degree: A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Subject(s): Jake
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Abstract: Having established his reputation as a modern American opera composer, Jake Heggie has made an impact in the realm of vocal music. Currently he is composing his eighth opera, two of which have been critically acclaimed. This acclaim has afforded him numerous commissions for song cycles from famous singers whose recordings have had far-reaching effects upon the classically trained voice community. He is booked five years in advance to compose these song cycles. In between and during the writing of his larger works, he continually returns to his first love of composing art songs. IN fact, the largest portion of his compositional output s art songs. He has written over 250 art songs, and the majority of them are grouped into song cycles.
Issue Date: 2015-05
Publisher: University of Illinois
Citation Info: Marsch, Debra Lynn. A MODERN STORYTELLER: SELECTED SONGS FOR SOPRANO BY JAKE HEGGIE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LITERATURE AND STYLE. Scholarly essay submitted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Music, 2015.
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Balibo shares top honour at first International Political Film Festival
by The IF Team April 1, 2011
Press release from Pop Culture
In Buenos Aires, Robert Connolly’s political thriller – BALIBO – has taken out the top honour at the first International Festival of Political Change. BALIBO shared the prize with Mexican film PRESUNTO CULPABLE.
The first International Festival of Political Cinema was held in Buenos Aires with the patronage of filmmaker Leonardo Favio. It showcased international films from Australia, Poland, Palestine, Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina on a wide range of political issues. http://ficip.com.ar/en/
BALIBO is a political thriller that tells the true story of crimes that have been covered up for over thirty years. It follows veteran foreign correspondent Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia, pictured) who is investigating the fate of five missing Australian based journalists, who went missing in East Timor in 1975 during the Indonesian invasion.
BALIBO was released in Australian cinemas in 2009 and received multiple AFI awards in that year, including Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert Connolly and David Williamson), Best Actor (Anthony LaPaglia) and Best Supporting Actor (Oscar Isaac).
Robert Connolly was honoured to receive the award and was thrilled that the film continues to reach audiences throughout the world.
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By Haley Weiss
Photographed by Victoria Stevens
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON IN NEW YORK, JANUARY 2017. PHOTOS: VICTORIA STEVENS.
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s career involves a lot of firsts. To name but a few, there’s Lorna (1979–1984), the first interactive LaserDisc, in which the viewer manipulates the fate of an agoraphobic woman through a remote control; Deep Contact (1984), the first hypercard touch screen, which beckons you to stroke its display and set a narrative in motion; and Synthia Stock Ticker (2000–2002), an “emotional engine” that syncs with current stocks and alters its female protagonist’s behavior according to market fluctuations. Hershman Leeson is also often framed as a “predictor,” an artist who sees our forthcoming faults, but beyond her role as a technical pioneer in digital art, it’s perhaps more accurate to describe her as an astute reflector. She looks to science, technology, and how it’s affecting us now. She’s also keen to emphasize that it’s not all 1984 and Blade Runner—that is to say, a downhill dystopia—from here.
“The technology itself, it’s neutral, there’s no utopian or dystopian—it’s really up to what we, as a public, do with it,” says Hershman Leeson. “It’s about having faith in the next generation being able to use the media that was created during their lifetime, to speak it—because they speak it better than anybody—to alter the systems that their parents or grandparents caused them to inherit, and reshape them into one of sustenance.”
Interview recently spoke to Hershman Leeson, who splits her time between New York and San Francisco, at Bridget Donahue gallery in New York, where a collection of her works from the ’70s through today is on display in “Lynn Hershman Leeson: Remote Controls.” This Friday, a second career-spanning exhibition on Hershman Leeson will open at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
HALEY WEISS: I’d like to talk about your most recent work, Venus of the Anthropocene, and how genetics is playing into your practice now. What are you most interested in in terms of genetics?
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: Well, I did this film called Strange Culture [2007] that helped to get the charges dropped against an artist, [Steve Kurtz, who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of bioterrorism,] and then I did Woman Art Revolution [2010], which inserted a history [of women in art] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to add. And I thought, “What’s going on now that are the issues to deal with?” And I realized that the genome had been programmed for the first time in 1995, and the things that people were doing with genetics were changing our species, changing the whole identity of who we are, of all living things, and to me it seemed like the most crucial thing—that and planetary pollution were the most critical things that we have to deal with, even though neither one was in the presidential issues that were discussed.
So that’s how I started looking, and I went to these various labs since that time, in 2011, documenting what they’re doing, doing interviews, and finding out about it. It will result in the entire Infinity Engine lab of eight rooms being opened in Santa Fe in October, which will deal with ethics, with bioprinting, with the CRISPR, which I’m going to shoot in late March at Harvard—the CRISPR lab.
WEISS: Gene editing is what the CRISPR is used for, right?
HERSHMAN LEESON: Gene editing, exactly, that anybody could do on a flash drive.
WEISS: That’s surreal. A lot of your work is seen as predicting the future, but it feels like you’re just looking at the present.
HERSHMAN LEESON: That’s absolutely true. I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily. Whatever I make are things that have been current to that time, so it’s really not looking at the future, it’s looking at what’s happening in your lifetime around you. I think it’s more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.
WEISS: In terms of looking at the past, a lot of your older works are on display here. Is there anything within your body of work that looking back, you are surprised by the way you formulated it or by something that you made?
HERSHMAN LEESON: I’m surprised by all of it. [laughs] I’m surprised it exists. I look at it and say, “How did we ever do that?” But they all take a long time, between three and five years to do generally. I find people in the Bay Area who are programmers mainly, people I’ve worked with before, and just figure things out. We use the technology not in a commercial-based way, to see how you can make a profit from it, but rather what it can be, which the programmers like because it’s really creative to do that, and not just gearing it towards a product.
WEISS: When you’re working with a programmer, what do you look for in a collaborator? Is it just the technical acumen?
HERSHMAN LEESON: It depends on what I need—whether I need an AI person, whether I need a sound person—but people who are willing to look at the creative potential of what a technology can do. And a sense of humor.
WEISS: You’ve talked about the potential for biological censorship in gene editing, which made me think of this story from 2014, when a Danish zoo put down a giraffe because it didn’t add any more to their gene pool, even though it was perfectly healthy. That seemed emblematic of shifting attitudes toward genetics and what’s of worth. And “biological censorship” implies a danger.
HERSHMAN LEESON: Yes, because generally, at this point, it’s people who can afford to choose, like people who can alter babies they don’t have, so that they have blue eyes and blonde hair—it seems to be more popular than to create black babies, so you shift the natural balance of [racism], or you have different kinds of prejudices that show up through what people want. So yes, I do think it’s really dangerous as to who has access, and what people want and why they want it, and what the aesthetics of choice.
WEISS: You’ve talked about how interactive art allows you to operate differently than other more traditional modes of media. Is that part of your artistic goal, to implicate the participant through interaction?
HERSHMAN LEESON: Yes, and I think they are implicated, but the difference is what [Marcel] Duchamp called “retinal art,” where you just looked at it as opposed to really having a dialogue. So the early interactive works, you thought you were having a dialogue and making a choice, but you didn’t because they were all pre-programmed. But with what’s happening now, with AI and machine learning, and you add social media, is that the viewer can really participate and change the direction of content and context in a way that they never were before. That’s really what interested me in the ’80s, to see what kind of political shift individuals, and particularly individuals who previously had no voices, could manifest in the world. I have great faith in the millennials and in what they understand about social media, and how they’re going to be able to counter fascist forces as they come.
WEISS: It’s great to hear that you’re positive about how people are able to use social media and these technologies. I think it’s easy to view everything as dystopian, because things are changing so fast and the capabilities do seem a little terrifying when it comes to matters like gene editing.
HERSHMAN LEESON: But, you know, there’s no limit as to who can do it, and the ethics haven’t [caught up]—and there’s no FDA, anybody can get a CRISPR and can start editing life forms in their kitchen. That’s what’s really dangerous, is people doing it without knowing what’s going to happen, or not having a structure that oversees what gets done.
WEISS: Do you think there’s a greater capacity for empathy in the kind of works you create, when one perceives that they have control, for example on Lorna where you can go through these different interactions with the piece?
HERSHMAN LEESON: I think that there is, that there will be, for sure, an empathic voice that’s broader than ourselves.
WEISS: Back in the ’80s, were you influenced by science fiction writing? I think of Neuromancer by William Gibson—I wonder if that was something that interested you.
HERSHMAN LEESON: Yeah, the writing did, but science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction. My family are all scientists except for me—my mother was a biologist, my daughter is a doctor—so they’re all embedded in the sciences; that became my point of magic.
WEISS: Did you ever consider going into science yourself?
HERSHMAN LEESON: My undergraduate degree is in biology.
WEISS: So when did you incorporate that into your art? I saw an interview where you said that you basically hadn’t done anything other than art-making.
HERSHMAN LEESON: Yes, that’s all I ever did, but I was always interested in the sciences, so then it affected the art, but a lot of people couldn’t understand that I would do that or why I would do that. But it just seems that they were interrelated.
WEISS: What’s something you learned recently from a scientist or programmer that you think people would be surprised to know?
HERSHMAN LEESON: There’s something called epigenetics, which are the patterns above genetics, and it’s a year ago now that I interviewed somebody at Oxford and he was telling me about trauma and how trauma transfers through generations, and how they’re able to correct trauma in unborn babies and embryos prior to their birth. They can see it and correct it before they’re born so they don’t have a lifetime of chemicals to shift it. I thought that was really interesting.
WEISS: Trauma—especially in your dollhouse and video installation Home Front, in the form of domestic violence—reappears throughout your work. So is that capability, of editing out or correcting trauma, appealing?
HERSHMAN LEESON: I think we have to learn how to do it, and not accept trauma that has been given to us for some reason, that we either inherited or is in our genes or is in an accident that happened in our lifetime, and use that in a way that it can be reconverted through creative restructuring—to not accept trauma as the end. We all experience trauma, and that’s only halfway to what we can do with it before prevailing in a creative way.
WEISS: And that relates to the film you worked on most recently, Tania Bruguera: A State of Vulnerability, and psycho-traumatology. She’s someone who was detained by a doctor?
HERSHMAN LEESON: She was imprisoned for eight months, and she thought she had PTSD. So we found the man who identified PTSD, [Dr. Frank Ochberg,] who named it, and he was in his eighties living in Michigan and still practicing. That’s how we found him and went to him.
WEISS: So is this a documentary? Is it fictionalized?
HERSHMAN LEESON: It’s not fictionalized at all. The switch is, is a documentary or is it a performance? And where does performance begin and where does anything else begin? And is all of life a performance?
WEISS: I suppose it is; everything is situational. That relates back to when you created the Roberta Breitmore series, where you had an alter ego. When is it fiction and when is it reality?
HERSHMAN LEESON: And the diaries—things that are real—people think I fictionalized.
WEISS: One of the potential end points for Lorna is that she might commit suicide, right?
HERSHMAN LEESON: There are three choices: she could stay where she was, she could move to Los Angeles, or she could commit suicide. You can switch [the result] at any time, you can listen to different soundtracks—you could look at a screen with one soundtrack and [it would] make you think one thing is happening as opposed to the other soundtrack, or you see that it’s misinterpreted based on what you heard. … I think you just get lost in it, and then all of a sudden these things happen.
WEISS: What’s the process like to create a work like that? Do you have to flowchart everything out?
HERSHMAN LEESON: We had a flowchart of where we were going to put everything, and what we were going to shoot, and we shot these 30-second to one minute clips that were put together. And, you know, in the beginning when we did it, there hadn’t been any precedent, so the term “user,” that little arrow at the bottom of how you instruct people to use it—nobody understood what interactivity was or how you navigate this.
WEISS: People are so tech savvy now. How they react must be different.
HERSHMAN LEESON: Yes, it’s like an antique. [laughs]
WEISS: Has writing been a part of your practice? Obviously it is in your films, but what about writing narratives in relation to these works?
HERSHMAN LEESON: I have to write, I had to, because nobody understood anything I was doing. I had to put these little pamphlets together to explain what [the works] were, and why I did them, and what the references were, and how they related for instance to cubism. I saw these [interactive works] as extensions of cubism, because you’re looking at something from all sides.
“LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: REMOTE CONTROLS” IS ON VIEW AT BRIDGET DONAHUE IN NEW YORK THROUGH MARCH 12, 2017. “LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: CIVIC RADAR” OPENS AT YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017. FOR MORE ON LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON, VISIT HER WEBSITE.
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First settled by French at Vincennes, early 1700s.
Haskel and Smith, Gazetteer of the United States of America, 295; “Development of Community Life,” in Encyclopedia of Indiana, 49.
Comprehensive Works Cited
Haskel, Daniel, and J. Calvin Smith. A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America. . . . New York: Sherman and Smith, 1843.
Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset Publishers, 1993.
Acquired by England in French and Indian War, 1763.
Haskel and Smith, Gazetteer of the United States of America, 295.
U.S. took possession of area following American Revolution, 1783.
“Treaty of Paris (1783),” Our Documents, http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=6 (accessed 16 Oct. 2013).
Our Documents.gov. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/.
Area became part of Northwest Territory, 1787.
Carter and Bloom, Territorial Papers of the United States, 2:39–40, 48–49.
Carter, Clarence Edward, and John Porter Bloom, comps. Territorial Papers of the United States. 28 vols. Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934–1975.
Partitioned off of Northwest Territory and established as Indiana Territory, 1800.
Carter and Bloom, Territorial Papers of the United States, 3:86–88.
Admitted to U.S. as nineteenth state, 11 Dec. 1816.
Haskel and Smith, Gazetteer of the United States of America, 296; “Territory Settlement Expands,” in Encyclopedia of Indiana, 63.
Indianapolis established as seat of government, by Jan. 1825.
Sulgrove, History of Indianapolis, 19, 54.
Sulgrove, B. R. History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884.
Population in 1820 about 150,000; in 1830 about 340,000; in 1840 about 690,000.
Indiana Gazetteer, 67–68.
The Indiana Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary of the State of Indiana. 3rd ed. Indianapolis, IN: E. Chamberlain, 1850.
First Latter-day Saint missionaries preached in area, summer 1831.
Cahoon, Diary, 1 and 31 July 1831.
Cahoon, Reynolds. Diaries, 1831–1832. CHL. MS 1115.
JS and other church members, including Camp of Israel, traveled through state numerous times en route to and from Missouri.
JS History, vol. A-1, 214; Cahoon, Diary, 1 and 31 July 1831; Letter to Emma Smith, 18 May 1834.
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
Settled 1806. Surveyed 1816. Incorporated as town and post office established, 1818. Incorporated as city, 1840. Population in 1833 about 1,700. Population in 1840 about 2,100. Stopping point on National Road, by 1834. Camp of Israel, including JS, camped...
and Winchester.
Letter from Thomas Burdick, 28 August 1840
Elders’ Journal, November 1837
Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 December 1840
Appendix: Report of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 4 March 1840
Blessing to Lorenzo Barnes, 3 January 1836
Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
Letter from Benjamin Benson, 12 November 1837
Letter from Elias Higbee, 20 February 1840–A
Letter from Elias Higbee, 21 February 1840
Letter from Elias Higbee, 24 March 1840
Letter from Harvey Whitlock, 28 September 1835
Letter from Isaac Galland, 24 July 1839
Letter from Lyman Wight and Heber C. Kimball, 19–24 June 1844
Letter from Orson Hyde and John E. Page, 1 May 1840
Letter from Richard Hewitt, 24 May 1840
Letter from Samuel Bent and George W. Harris, 23 September 1840
Letter to Emma Smith, 18 May 1834
Letter to Emma Smith, 4 June 1834
Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 December 1839
Letter to Stephen Post, 17 September 1838
Letters to John Burk, Sally Waterman Phelps, and Almira Mack Scobey, 1–2 June 1835
License for Frederick G. Williams, 27 April 1835
Minutes and Discourses, 6–9 April 1844, as Reported by Thomas Bullock
Minutes, 14 July 1835
Minutes, 28 December 1834
Minutes, 28–29 August 1834
Minutes, 30 March 1836
Minutes, 6 November 1837
Pay Order from Robert Snodgrass, 18 September 1838
Promissory Note from Lorenzo Young, 9 April 1838
Questions and Answers, 8 May 1838
Recommendation for Edward Partridge and Isaac Morley, 1 June 1835
Revelation, 7 November 1835
Travel Account and Questions, November 1837
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Charley Pride Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Upcoming 2016 Tour
By Timothy Yap Apr 29, 2016 04:14 AM EDT
Country trailblazer Charley Pride is celebrating 50 years in the recording industry as he announces upcoming North American tour dates throughout 2016. At tour stops, the 36-time chart-topper will perform many of his biggest hits, including those that helped him win the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award in 1971. With timeless classics like "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" and "All I Have to Offer You is Me," fans will enjoy a journey through time as they relive some of the country crooner's most memorable anthems.
The Country Music Hall of Fame member will hit the stage at music venues both nationwide, and into Canada. Pride will make his return to the legendary Grand Ole Opry stage on June 10 and 11, where he has been a member since 1993. The show also broadcasts on 650AM / WSM The Legend, or country enthusiasts can listen in live atOpry.com.
"I feel blessed that I'm still going strong after 50 years" says Pride. "I've always loved to sing for audiences and that's never going to change. It's been a joy to visit so many different places in the US over the years. And, of course, I always enjoy travelling Canada. The people of Canada have been wonderful to me going back to the very start of my career."
Fans can keep up with the latest Charley Pride news stories, tour date additions, music and more by visiting the Grammy award winner's website, charleypride.com. And more information can be found on the singer's official Facebook page.
Charley Pride on Tour:
Apr 30 - Albuquerque, N.M. - Isleta Casino
May 27 - Gulfport, Miss. - Beau Rivage
Jun 09 - Nashville, Tenn. - Charley Pride Fan Club Breakfast
June 10-11 - Nashville, Tenn. - Grand Ole Opry
July 09 - Arlington, Texas - Arlington Music Hall
Jul 23 - Tunica, Miss. - Gold Strike Casino Resort
Aug 12 - Mahnomen, Minn. - Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
Sep 24 - Wisconsin Dells, Wis. - Crystal Grand Music Theatre
Oct 12 - Edmonton, AB, Canada - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Oct 13 - Winnipeg, MB, Canada - Club Regent Casino & Event Centre
Oct 15 - Orillia, ON, Canada - Casino Rama
Nov 18 - Wendover, Nev. - Peppermill Concert Hall
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Brown urges voters to adopt 'temporary' tax on wealthy
'Each of us need to do what we can,' Brown says
Updated: 10:12 AM PDT Oct 17, 2016
When Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies urged voters to adopt a temporary income tax on the wealthiest Californians and a statewide sales tax on everyone four years ago, the deal was billed as a short-term salve for a state mired in debt and on the verge of insolvency. The taxes were needed to stave off $6 billion in so-called "trigger cuts" to schools and social programs baked into the state budget by Democrats as a threat to voters. Lawmakers also threatened to cut three weeks off the school year if Proposition 30 didn't pass. "Each of us need to do what we can, and for those who've been most blessed, we're going to ask you for seven years. The biblical seven years," Brown told an audience at the Commonwealth Club in November 2012. Voters bought the pitch. Now, with the sales tax set to expire at the end of this year, and income taxes on earnings above $250,000 a year set to end in January 2019, the California Teachers Association and other labor unions want to keep the income tax, which they say is again needed to prevent $4 billion in cuts to schools. Proposition 55, they say, does not raise taxes on anyone; it simply maintains the current income tax rates. The measure would extend the income tax for another 12 years, raising from $4 billion to $9 billion a year, according to the independent state Legislative Analyst's Office. The sales tax would expire as planned in January. In 2012, ballot arguments for the initial measure promised that "the money raised for schools is directed into a special fund the Legislature can't touch and can't be used for state bureaucracy." Brown also vowed in campaign ads that money from the initiative "must go to the classroom and can't be touched by Sacramento politicians." The wording wasn't exactly true. Although money raised for schools has gone to school districts, which are required to post annual audits, only about half the funds from Proposition 30 have gone toward school funding, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office. The state budget mandates that about half of general revenues are dedicated to education. "Our estimate is that Prop. 30 has increased that pot of money by roughly 50 cents on the dollar," said Ken Kapphahn, an LAO analyst. For instance, Brown's finance department estimates Proposition 30 taxes will raise about $7.7 billion in the 2016-17 budget approved by the Legislature. "School funding didn't increase $7.7 billion, it increased $3.8 billion" in the current budget, Kapphahn notes. The rest of the money has gone into the state's general fund that pays for a host of other state programs, from child care to parks and prisons. Overall state spending has increased each year since voters approved Proposition 30, precisely as the LAO predicted it would. David Kersten, a tax analyst and former lobbyist, is the lone registered opponent of Proposition 55, raising $3,000 against it. He argues that the education system should first be forced to demonstrate it can spend more efficiently before the tax is extended. Meanwhile, Brown has remained neutral on the campaign to extend the income taxes, telling reporters in May when he released a state budget revision: "I said it was temporary when I started. I got Prop. 30 passed, I helped pass it, and I think I'll leave it there." Still, his messaging was anything but neutral. He displayed charts that depicted future state revenues that showed worrisome red lines if the taxes don't continue. He used the release of his spending plan to warn of a $4 billion budget shortfall by 2019, when the tax increases fully expire, warning that without the revenue, "we will have cuts, no question about that." Those numbers have become the centerpiece of the Proposition 55 campaign. "Education is now just back at pre-recession levels. Our schools are just now making progress," said Jennifer Wonnacott, a spokeswoman for the tax extension campaign who defended the extension as necessary, despite the initial promise the tax would last just seven years. "If we don't extend these revenues, we know from revenue projections that cuts will have to be made," she said. "We know that means teachers laid off, larger class sizes. Voters know the progress that's been made and they get the opportunity to decide."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
When Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies urged voters to adopt a temporary income tax on the wealthiest Californians and a statewide sales tax on everyone four years ago, the deal was billed as a short-term salve for a state mired in debt and on the verge of insolvency.
The taxes were needed to stave off $6 billion in so-called "trigger cuts" to schools and social programs baked into the state budget by Democrats as a threat to voters. Lawmakers also threatened to cut three weeks off the school year if Proposition 30 didn't pass.
"Each of us need to do what we can, and for those who've been most blessed, we're going to ask you for seven years. The biblical seven years," Brown told an audience at the Commonwealth Club in November 2012.
Voters bought the pitch.
Now, with the sales tax set to expire at the end of this year, and income taxes on earnings above $250,000 a year set to end in January 2019, the California Teachers Association and other labor unions want to keep the income tax, which they say is again needed to prevent $4 billion in cuts to schools.
Proposition 55, they say, does not raise taxes on anyone; it simply maintains the current income tax rates. The measure would extend the income tax for another 12 years, raising from $4 billion to $9 billion a year, according to the independent state Legislative Analyst's Office. The sales tax would expire as planned in January.
In 2012, ballot arguments for the initial measure promised that "the money raised for schools is directed into a special fund the Legislature can't touch and can't be used for state bureaucracy."
Brown also vowed in campaign ads that money from the initiative "must go to the classroom and can't be touched by Sacramento politicians."
The wording wasn't exactly true. Although money raised for schools has gone to school districts, which are required to post annual audits, only about half the funds from Proposition 30 have gone toward school funding, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office. The state budget mandates that about half of general revenues are dedicated to education.
"Our estimate is that Prop. 30 has increased that pot of money by roughly 50 cents on the dollar," said Ken Kapphahn, an LAO analyst.
For instance, Brown's finance department estimates Proposition 30 taxes will raise about $7.7 billion in the 2016-17 budget approved by the Legislature.
"School funding didn't increase $7.7 billion, it increased $3.8 billion" in the current budget, Kapphahn notes.
The rest of the money has gone into the state's general fund that pays for a host of other state programs, from child care to parks and prisons. Overall state spending has increased each year since voters approved Proposition 30, precisely as the LAO predicted it would.
David Kersten, a tax analyst and former lobbyist, is the lone registered opponent of Proposition 55, raising $3,000 against it. He argues that the education system should first be forced to demonstrate it can spend more efficiently before the tax is extended.
Meanwhile, Brown has remained neutral on the campaign to extend the income taxes, telling reporters in May when he released a state budget revision: "I said it was temporary when I started. I got Prop. 30 passed, I helped pass it, and I think I'll leave it there."
Still, his messaging was anything but neutral. He displayed charts that depicted future state revenues that showed worrisome red lines if the taxes don't continue.
He used the release of his spending plan to warn of a $4 billion budget shortfall by 2019, when the tax increases fully expire, warning that without the revenue, "we will have cuts, no question about that."
Those numbers have become the centerpiece of the Proposition 55 campaign.
"Education is now just back at pre-recession levels. Our schools are just now making progress," said Jennifer Wonnacott, a spokeswoman for the tax extension campaign who defended the extension as necessary, despite the initial promise the tax would last just seven years.
"If we don't extend these revenues, we know from revenue projections that cuts will have to be made," she said. "We know that means teachers laid off, larger class sizes. Voters know the progress that's been made and they get the opportunity to decide."
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University of Northern Iowa receives $2 million toward outdoor artificial turf practice facility
The campanile on the University of Northern Iowa campus on August 26, 2019. (Mary Green/KCRG)(KCRG)
By KCRG Staff
Published: Dec. 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM CST
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) - The University of Northern Iowa announced on Monday it has received a gift of $2 million to put towards an outdoor artificial turf practice facility for the UNI football program.
The gift comes from Doug and Ann Goschke, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, to UNI Athletics through the UNI Foundation.
The university said the facility will be named in honor of the Goschkes, who made their donation in memory of Doug’s late sister, Juneau Goschke, a 1966 alumna of the State College of Iowa, now the University of Iowa.
“This past summer Ann and I visited with UNI Head Football Coach Mark Farley,” Doug Goschke said. “I asked Mark what he needed to make his strong football program better. Without hesitating he said, ‘an artificial turf outdoor practice field.’ Ann and I are pleased to make this gift that will provide that facility for Panther football. As a former collegiate football player, I know that you play like you practice. Having a practice field with turf similar to your competition is a plus.”
UNI head football coach Mark Farley said the new field will allow the team to prepare through all weather conditions on a safe surface late into the fall and into early spring.
The University is still finalizing the plans for the outdoor practice facility with construction set to begin in the spring of 2021.
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Arrow 4x01 "Green Arrow" (We Could Be Heroes)
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"Green Arrow"
Original Airdate: October 7, 2015
Just because I, and I will always love you
- “Elephant Love Medley,” Moulin Rouge
It’s extremely cliché to say that love changes you –– that love turns you into something you weren’t before. I also think it’s inaccurate.
John Green once said that grief doesn’t change you; it reveals you. I think that the same assessment could be made about love. Love isn’t something that changes you; love is something that reveals you –– the real you. Being in love is scary because it means that you have to be vulnerable and open with the people around you. It means consciously taking down your walls, brick by brick, and stripping yourself of your armor until you are laid bare. And when you’re standing there, your heart hammering in your chest and all of your feelings in front of you, you hope that your beloved is doing the same. Love is the thing that allows us to become who we really are. That is why it is so scary. We busy ourselves constantly, doing anything we can to dwell too much on our pain or our circumstances. If we were really alone –– truly and completely alone –– with ourselves with ample time to let our brains wander, we might not like what we hear.
Mindy Lahiri, in The Mindy Project, so aptly put it this way when she was on a flight with a broken TV monitor: “My TV is broken and I cannot be alone with my thoughts.”
Oliver Queen hasn’t inherently changed because of his love for Felicity Smoak. In fact, I would venture to say that he is –– right now –– his truest self. He’s the person he’s always wanted to be when he’s with her, BECAUSE he is with her. Love didn’t change him. It revealed him. It revealed all of the wants and desires in his mind and heart that he had been too scared to think about for too long. Oliver did what Mindy did: he tried to distract himself for so long so he didn’t have to think about who he truly was. All of that changed last season, though.
In spite of how rocky and occasionally unbearable season three of Arrow was, it was important in laying the groundwork of Oliver’s character. After the identity of The Arrow was stripped from him and the idea of embracing only Oliver Queen seemed not just impossible but impossible AND terrifying, Oliver was at a loss: who was he? Who had he become? How could he ever know who he was supposed to be? (Enter, of course, Felicity Smoak: Goddess of the Motivational Speech and Protector of Oliver Queen’s Heart.) Felicity didn’t change Oliver, though. She didn’t reform him or revive him. She simply revealed to him –– through her love –– what he wanted to believe to be true about himself but never felt like he could.
With all of the uncertainties that happened in season three, I’m glad that Arrow’s fourth season opened with “Green Arrow”: an episode that steered us (slightly) away from an endless spiral of questions of identity and toward answers, instead. Let’s talk about this more, shall we?
(Reviews will be a little different in terms of structure this year –– I may break them back down by characters and pairings at some point, but creating subheadings is so much more fun for now!)
OLIVER QUEEN’S GUIDE TO THE SUBURBAN ROM-COM
I don’t think it’s weird that Oliver wants to remain in his suburban lifestyle while Felicity is itching to get back into action in Star City. (It’s weird typing that instead of Starling.) As I thought about this, I thought about what Oliver and Felicity have been through independently over the last five or so years. Oliver has gone through hell and back –– he nearly died multiple times, watched close friends turn into mortal enemies, and witnessed the deaths of his father, mother, best friend, Sara, and the almost-death of his sister. He’s been tortured and tortured others; he’s faced identity crises. In short, Oliver has been through more darkness than anyone else. He’s had adventures. He’s lived that life.
And he doesn’t want it anymore.
He finds fulfillment in domesticity. It’s the thing that he’s never had, but always ached for. And you can tell that in the joy that is evident when we see Oliver and Felicity’s life in the suburbs. What Oliver was doing before, with The Arrow? That was surviving. This? This is LIVING. (I can’t take credit for this because my other half, Jen, said it. There’s a reason why she’s my soul twin, you guys.) Oliver has been through so much instability in his life that when he finds stability with Felicity, he’s never been more certain. This, to him, is home. The field is a season –– with Felicity, what he has is a lifetime.
And so it might seem weird to us that Felicity is the one who is ready to return to Star City, to a life of crime-solving and imminent danger and that she is the one who slightly panics at the mention of children by her friendly suburban neighbors. It’s not that I believe she’s bored with domesticity or with Oliver. I just don’t think that she finds it as fulfilling or rewarding as he does quite yet. Remember what Felicity came from, though, and this will make sense. She had a normal, average life before Oliver. She was extremely brilliant but she was leading a life in the basement of Queen Consolidated as a part of the IT team. She had a rocky childhood, but most of it –– I would venture to say –– was normal for her. She’s never been the kind of girl who got to live out action stories and tales of adventure.
Until she met Oliver Queen.
Life didn’t just change for Oliver with that fateful first meeting; it changed for Felicity, too. She was soon pulled into a life that was fast-paced, filled with adventure and challenges. But Felicity embraced them because she was finally getting the chance to live a life that wasn’t normal. She wasn’t overlooked anymore or brushed aside. She was important and she mattered. People depended on her. And I think Felicity still needs that because she’s still trying to figure out, in some ways, who she is. She loves Oliver, obviously, but she also loves the thrill that a life of adventure can provide her (that domesticity cannot yet).
While Oliver’s had his fill of adventure in a lot of ways, Felicity is still just getting used to the taste of hers. It’s not that either of them love each other less because of what they would choose –– it simply means that they’re still growing together and they’re still growing as individuals. That’s all you can ask for of a pairing, really. So when Oliver's proposal gets interrupted by Laurel and Thea, it seems like a blessing in disguise for one party and a dream dashed for another. Nevertheless, Oliver and Felicity are together now which means that they make decisions TOGETHER. Oliver, thankfully, has learned to loosen control in the few months that he's been in the suburbs. When Felicity remains quiet after Laurel and Thea appear and beg them to return to Star City, Oliver looks to her and asks for her input. He notices how quiet she is and asks for her thoughts.
Last year, Oliver would have made a definitive decision first and asked for thoughts later (or never). This year, though, there's a quieter and calmer demeanor to Oliver –– he's trying to let other people in instead of pushing them away. Upon arrival at Star City though, Oliver –– ever perceptive –– notices that something is amiss with Felicity. Namely, that she seems to know a lot more about the new baddies (nicknamed "Ghosts") than she should for being away for five months. And this is when Oliver figures out that Felicity has been helping the team remotely for the last few months. Strangely enough, he doesn't care that she's lied to him. He doesn't even care that she's been helping the team.
What he cares about is the fact that he believed they were blissfully happy –– just the two of them –– and that they needed no one else. Oliver believed they were in their own little world, completely wrapped up in one another. And he thought they were happy. One of the most important lines that Felicity delivers in this episode, however, reassures Oliver:
I love every moment I am with you, no matter where we are.
Oliver doesn't need the thrill of the chase anymore. He loves putting on a suit, sure. And he feels a sense of purpose when he saves his city, just like Felicity. The difference is in their pasts. In "Green Arrow," Oliver gets jabbed with reminders that he is the one who brought darkness to Starling –– he is the one who got friends and enemies and innocent civilians killed. If not for him, the city would be okay. That's not the case, as we know, but Oliver is still tortured. And I think he's as much trying to build a life as he is separate himself from his old one.
Here's what I love about the Oliver/Felicity relationship in this premiere: they're exactly where they need to be –– standing beside each other, allowing each other the chance to hope and the chance to lead and the chance to become better people. Oliver spends most of the episode trying to hide from the darkness. Felicity is the light he speaks of when he makes that televised speech. She's part of the reason he continues to believe in things like happy endings. She is the reason he can even fathom a better life. When the world tells him that he is full of darkness –– when his supposed friends tell him that he's incapable of love –– there is Felicity, his constant and his partner, telling him that he did not bring darkness into Starling. He didn't bring darkness into their lives.
She is the one who tells him a truth that no one has truly told him yet –– if you don't like who you are, change who you are. Oliver didn't like what The Arrow had become, in the end. He didn't like that the suit he wore was used to hurt people, that it was used to hurt the people he loved and push them away. So Felicity's guidance? Change that. Become someone else –– become something else, some other kind of hero. Because that is what Oliver realizes he is, in the end.
He realizes that he, Felicity, Laurel, Dig, and Thea are all heroes. They're heroes because they love –– love each other and love their city.
The episode ends with Oliver postponing his engagement to Felicity. He has the ring, hidden in a decorative little bowl of glass beads. (Which is see-through so, really, how long do you think you can keep it there, dude?) But it's not the right time. It is, however, still a great time in their relationship. Their arguing is endearing and adorable. Oliver can barely fight back smiles when they are bickering in the not-foundry-foundry. They love each other, deeply. He knows that this woman –– this person who brings so much happiness and joy into his life and the lives of others –– is his partner. She is his equal, in all things.
The love that Oliver and Felicity have for one another? They are better heroes because of it.
WON'T THE NEW TEAM ARROW PLEASE STAND UP?
I have already talked extensively about my love of Thea Queen, but within the first few minutes of the episode, she solidified my respect and adoration yet again. Speedy –– who hates to be called that, by the way –– is positively giddy to be in the field with Diggle and Laurel. And she's doing a pretty kick-butt job of helping protect the city alongside them. The team battles the Ghosts throughout the episode and it isn't until Damien Darhk begins to kill off pretty much everyone in city leadership that Laurel and Thea take a trip to Ivy Town to visit La Casa De Olicity and convince Oliver to return to the city.
Diggle, you'll notice, is absent from this. And honestly, I often find it hard to dislike Diggle but I did a little bit about three-quarters of the way through the episode. I said in my review of "My Name Is Oliver Queen" that I was looking forward to the fractured relationship between Oliver and Diggle. And I still stand by that. It would be far too easy for the show to have five months pass and return to these two being best friends and brothers again. What Oliver did to Diggle and to Lyla and to baby Sara was unthinkable –– it was horrible and Dig holds every right to not trust Oliver. He has every right to keep his distance. But that anger and resentment clouds his better judgement in "Green Arrow." He refuses to seek after Oliver for help, so Thea and Laurel make the executive decision to approach Oliver anyway.
The funny thing is, Lyla already forgave Oliver. She may have been mad –– again, with every right in the world –– for what happened, but as Lyla explains to Dig in the episode, Oliver was doing what he thought needed to be done to protect people. Was it right? No. But did he make a choice rooted in helping and not hurting? Yes. Lyla has forgiven Oliver, but the soldier can't do the same. While at the Star City train station, Dig has some harsh words for Oliver, in fact.
You don't trust. You don't love.
That's one of the cruelest things Oliver has ever been told on this show. It's one thing for Lance to say, a few minutes later, that Oliver brought darkness and was a monster. It's another thing entirely for Dig –– someone Oliver loves and trusts –– to tell Oliver that he is incapable of pure, honest, emotional things in life. I'll admit it, freely: that made me angry. Because Dig knows better than anyone that Oliver loves Felicity, that he trusts her and wants to honor her and probably make adorable children with her. But right now, Diggle is letting his personal darkness color his perception of Oliver. I once heard it said that bitterness is like a poison that you swallow, hoping the other person dies.
Dig's anger is affecting him the most –– and if he isn't careful, it's going to be the very thing that puts his life and the lives of people he loves at risk. Diggle doesn't tell Oliver about H.I.V.E. And that's dangerous because this is valuable information that the team needs to know. Hey, irony called, Dig: YOU ARE DOING TO OLIVER NOW THE VERY SAME THING YOU ARE MAD AT HIM FOR DOING.
Sheesh. Boys.
The bromance between Dig and Oliver is restored lightly when the former saves the latter (from death at the hand of Damien) on a train. For as mad as Diggle is at Oliver now and for as many horrible things as Dig is saying, he doesn't want Oliver dead. He doesn't want Oliver to suffer. He just wants distance.
Speaking of distance, Quentin wants Laurel to take a step back away from Team Arrow. It's not really clear why (until the end), but I'm glad Quentin and Laurel are back on speaking terms. I'm glad too that Laurel has seemed to step up her training a little bit. And the scene in which she rescues a little boy from being trampled by the train station crowd was nice. But while Laurel's thirst for danger and vengeance has tempered to a cool "let me just buckle up and ride a motorcycle," Oliver returns to Star City and is concerned by someone whose vengeance has been amped up: Thea's.
Ever since being revived by the Lazarus Pit last season, we haven't really seen much of Thea's dark side, but "Green Arrow" gave us a little bit of a taste of that. Thea was poised to kill a member of Darhk's squad before Oliver stopped her. And when prompted about this activity, both Thea and Diggle brush off her attitude. Thea insists that she's fine, while Dig notes that when Oliver first started out in the field, he was a little blood-thirsty and gung-ho too. Both parties, of course, are trivializing the problem and I'm really looking forward to Thea's character evolving as the darkness within her begins to seep through, little by little.
Team Arrow has changed –– a fact alluded to pretty strongly when Oliver, used to calling the shots, verbally does that in the not-foundry-foundry. Hilariously, the team looks at him with the judgiest of faces and Oliver apologizes. That is exactly what I wanted from this team and what I look forward to seeing more of, moving forward. I look forward to the fact that Oliver acknowledged in an address to Star City that he is now working WITH heroes. This isn't his mission. This isn't his quest. He isn't their leader anymore.
He is a part of the team.
(I feel like they need a handshake to solidify the camaraderie.)
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARHK?
Neal McDonough played a character on Suits who was grating and smug in his evildoing. (Which is fairly customary for a Suits villain.) He was the kind of evil that you wanted to smack in the face –– to permanently wipe the smirk off. Neal's version of Damien Darhk is nothing like his character on Suits. In fact, Damien is pretty much everything I had hoped Ra's would be. (Ra's turned out to be a rather bland villain, can everyone else agree? TOO MUCH POINTLESS MONOLOGUING AND MISOGYNY.)
Damien is calculated. He is calm. He values order and structure and he's absolutely terrifying because of it. Neal is already –– within the course of one episode –– doing amazing things with this character: extremely subtle things that leave the audience feeling chilled. It's clear that Neal is having a blast with this character, as he should. This baddie is the worst yet. Most Arrow villains are ruled or dominated by some sort of chaos or upheaval. They don't carefully poison and kill off city leadership in order to take control of a city (Slade proved that to be true –– he wanted to take over the Glades so he literally just stormed them with his minions).
They also don't manipulate and entice usually morally good characters to do their bidding. But Neal McDonough is so utterly captivating as Damien, already. The character has this sort of flair and aura –– an appearance of cool detachment and confidence that makes him appealing (unlike, again, Ra's). Plus, any time a baddie can utter the word "puppies" in a sentence, I'm game. Also, Damien SHUSHES PEOPLE like he's some sort of high school librarian.
I know nothing about Green Arrow, really, but I love the fact that Damien has some sort of mystical powers. While The Flash has superheroes (and that's cool), I've always appreciated the fact that Arrow is more about mythology and mysticism than super speed or telepathy. So I'm really interested to see how the show develops Damien and the League powers that he has.
SAME PLACES, SAME FACES
It appears that we are back on the island –– again. WHY? Well, as it turns out, here is a brief summary of the flashbacks this week: Amanda Waller sees the darkness within Oliver, wants to harness that, drugs him, and sends him back to Lian-Yu.
At least we aren't in Hong Kong.
A TRAITOR IN THE MIDST, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END
FREAKING QUENTIN LANCE IS WORKING WITH FREAKING DAMIEN DARHK. My exact expression was something along the lines of this:
Literally, as the scene aired, I yelled out possibilities ("Wait, who is he working with? UH, MALCOLM! UH, AMANDA WALLER!"), but did not suspect Quentin in the slightest. But it makes sense now that he's been warning Laurel to stay away from the field and from the Ghosts –– he's trying to protect her. Still, it seems pretty uncharacteristic of Lance, for however much crap he went through last year, to turn on his city and hand it over to someone like Damien. I'm worried for Papa Lance's safety. You don't make deals with the devil, dude. That's how you end up dead.
Speaking of death, we not only have flashbacks this season but flash forwards as well (I called this a few months ago, so I feel like I deserve some sort of prize). In our flash forward, we see Oliver standing by a tombstone as Barry Allen comes up beside him. Both are visibly upset, but not distraught as they stare at the fresh grave. All that is left is to make a vow, then –– Oliver promises to kill an unnamed "him" (presumably for whatever this person did that landed our unmentioned deceased person deceased). And Barry? Well, Barry promises to do whatever Oliver needs. After Barry leaves in a flash (ha, ha, I can't resist at this point), Oliver kneels beside the grave and lets a single tear slip out.
For the record, I don't believe this is Felicity's grave. I feel like Oliver would be inconsolable, first of all, and Barry would be too. I also don't believe it's Thea. We saw Oliver's reaction already to losing Thea. He is far too composed and calm for it to be either of the two women he loves most in the world. My money is on a member of the Lance clan. I suppose it could also be someone like Lyla, too, though I truly hope it isn't.
"Green Arrow" was a great way for Arrow to open a new chapter –– they're telling us a different story, now. What happens when a hero finds a happy ending? Can darkness ever really be overcome?
Or once you have been dark, are you destined to return to that life at some point? I'm not sure that any of our characters know the answers to these questions yet. And I'm excited to watch them grapple with the answers for the remainder of the season.
Observations & favorite moments:
DID YOU GUYS MISS ME? I missed me. Even though we celebrated for the entire month (#CountdownToArrow) before Arrow’s premiere, it still just doesn’t feel like a Wednesday night until I’ve typed so much that I give myself carpal tunnel. It’s good to be back.
MVP for this episode is bestowed upon the Green Arrow himself, Stephen Amell. I've always appreciated the way that Stephen portrays Oliver, but never more so than in this premiere. We got to see a completely different Oliver –– a happy one! And the lightness with which he delivered his lines was completely palpable. You could feel him (and see him) smile more. And this time, he is fighting for that happiness every step of the way instead of being afraid of it. I loved the calmer, more rational side of Oliver. I loved that he was more soft-spoken and lighthearted. I love that Stephen –– who has been with this character since day one –– got the chance to actually play around and have FUN with Oliver in the episode. That shone through, and the final scene drove home the point that Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen this year is totally a force to be reckoned with.
"Felicity Smoak... you have failed this omelette."
Oliver and Felicity's domesticity was too cute to handle, you guys.
I love the in-show acknowledgement of the removal of Shado's tattoo. It was simple and yet a powerful reminder of how much Oliver has grown and how deeply in love he is.
Did I mention that we got to see Oliver Queen in his boxers? Because we did. That's important for you all to know in this professional review.
"THIS IS SO COOL." "We're really gonna have to work on your definition of cool."
There was a mention of Walter by Quentin. SORRY, DUDE. WALTER IS OVER AT LIMITLESS NOW, WORKING FOR BRADLEY COOPER. (Which is true –– Colin Salmon is playing a baddie who works for Eddir Morra, which is fun.)
I kind of hated the suburban married couple who were friends with Oliver and Felicity? They seemed annoying. What I don't hate is how couple-y Oliver and Felicity are. I also don't hate the giant, beautiful ring that Oliver was going to propose with.
"Are we celebrating something?" "Depends on how dessert goes."
Stephen Amell did an amazing job portraying Oliver's complete and total nervousness while carrying the souffles. You can tell he was reciting the proposal in his head and it was adorable.
Thea refers to Oliver and Felicity's new life as a "domestic life of tranquility and souffles." Where is the lie, though?
"You can't change who you are in your bones." It concerns me that Amanda Waller AND Laurel both said this to Oliver this episode.
"Oh, sorry. Old habits."
Felicity was SO adorable when Oliver found out she'd been helping the team. I wish I could bottle up the cute that is Emily Bett Rickards and sell it.
"If Oliver Queen always made the right choice, he wouldn't need you." #preach
Stephen Amell's delivery of "because I've seen things" is the same way one might deliver, oh, I don't know, accidentally watching a birthing video.
The show reused the jet from the season finale in the season premiere. I don't know if that was intentional or not, but hey –– if you can reuse sets, go for it.
"WAIT –– IS THAT?" #gpoy
"I ran into Lance." "And he... gave you a hug because he missed you?"
There is a flip that Oliver does to get into the train car and I think it's the coolest thing in the world. So kudos to James Bamford and whoever did that stunt. Also, the stunt choreography continues to be great. Way to go, show.
In spite of the fact that I believe it to be a misdirect, the acting between Stephen Amell and Grant Gustin was so great in that graveside scene that I actually didn't realize I had been holding my breath the entire time.
Well, friends, I'm back! WHEW. Let me know what you thought of "Green Arrow" in the comments below. Until then. :)
Becca October 8, 2015 at 10:06 AM
Well, I certainly missed you and your reflections on Arrow (among other things). So happy to read another of your reviews and so happy to have another season of Arrow where the writers and cast take us for another adventure.
Like you it did not surprise me to see Oliver really blossoming in his domestic life. The way he spoke in the past about how he felt when they brought Thea home as a baby and the way he looked at baby Sara last year made it clear to me that he has always been about family and he has a very nurturing nature. This makes it doubly sad to see how his protective and caring nature has been twisted over the course of the flashbacks and makes his previous self-loathing more understandable. At the base of it he is totally and completely running away, from pain, from darkness or anything like it and everything about their life at the beginning of the episode couldn't be further from what he hates about his past.
Felicity has less to run from. She jumped into Team Arrow partly because she was looking for that sense of heroism and purpose. Oliver enjoys working with his hands and takes to cooking like a duck to water etc. She is not talented at that and what she is talented at hasn't been getting used to its full potential. She is feeling restless and being part of Team Arrow wasn't super painful for her. It never really involved an identity crisis. It made her feel empowered. I feel like getting to grips with all the stuff at Palmer Tech will also be good for her and I can't wait for her to meet up with Mr Fantastic. None of this is to say that domestic life (whatever form that takes) is inherently boring or that Felicity and Oliver will always feel differently about it. Oliver has gone to an extreme to get away from his past and I think he would have eventually felt a need for a bigger purpose again. It just would have taken him longer. Let's not forget that Felicity is a few years younger than Oliver. He's starting his 30s and she's still in her early 20s right? Finding a balance that is good for both of them will be part of this season I hope.
What gives me real hope was watching their “argument” in bare bones Lair. They didn't blame each other or try to shift responsibility or anything nasty like that. They sought to understand each other's point of view while stating what concerned them. I wasn't surprised Oliver wasn't bothered by her little “fibs”. He's pretty familiar with lying to the people he loves in order to protect them or keep them happy. It's not a good tactic and hopefully they are both done with it but he understands it and gets to the root of the issue. He thought they were in the same place about everything (long term committed couples often are not.) Felicity has seen how happy he is in their new life; she isn't and she hasn't been sure how to deal with that. And then later she sees how freaked out he is by the thought of returning to the team and she suggests they go back to their new home. Oliver says “But you hate it.” They are both concerned with what the other needs and they know how to talk things through and compromise. It is sad that I found that more charming and wonderful than the blissful domestic and bed scenes at the beginning? The ease we see from Oliver, even in the midst of researching enemies and fighting crime, was a beautiful thing to behold. I really like this new Oliver Queen, wanting to make a difference and thinking about how to do it in an uplifting and hopeful way. Bring it on!
Jennifer Marie October 9, 2015 at 9:17 AM
BECCA, I SO MISSED YOU. *hugs*
She is not talented at that and what she is talented at hasn't been getting used to its full potential.
You know, this is something that I hadn't even thought of -- what a great point! Felicity is unsettled not just because she found her purpose in Team Arrow but because she doesn't FIT in domesticity. She's bad at cooking and I think that hinders her, definitely, from wanting to stay in the suburbs with Oliver (who takes to domesticity like a fish to water; seriously he's going to be an awesome stay-at-home daddy).
You also make a good point about the age difference (which I actually don't know how big of a gap it is but from what I've heard on Twitter, it's a 5-year gap). Finding a balance for them is doing to be a part of their journey this season and I think they'll grow more together.
What gives me real hope was watching their “argument” in bare bones Lair. They didn't blame each other or try to shift responsibility or anything nasty like that. They sought to understand each other's point of view while stating what concerned them. I wasn't surprised Oliver wasn't bothered by her little “fibs”.
Re-watching that scene, it was so FLIRTY and FUN. The exasperation when he asks about Bali is adorable. Like, adorable. He's just so amused that she went to great lengths to be a part of the team. And he's not mad at her -- he's not even mad she lied. He's just mad because he wants to feel like he's enough for her and I think part of him was just sad he wasn't.
They are both concerned with what the other needs and they know how to talk things through and compromise. It is sad that I found that more charming and wonderful than the blissful domestic and bed scenes at the beginning?
Not at all! I think that's totally understandable and though I loved the domesticity, I really and truly think those scenes in the not-foundry-foundry were some of the best because it is an example of how far they have really come since last season's angst and pining and darkness (ugh, does not want again.)
Diggle, Diggle, Diggle. There have been some hints in interviews that this is going to be a much darker season for him where he is not going to be the rock solid moral center. I think we saw the beginning of that this episode. I agree that what he said to Oliver at the train station was hurtful and uncalled for. We've seen him be blunt before (and with great accuracy and insight) but in those statements he was just factually wrong. I think that in the light of how angry he is at Oliver he is rewriting their past in his head. It's something people often do after major conflict. He couldn't figure out why Oliver wouldn't trust him so he's explained it to himself by saying that he never really knew Oliver at all cause the Oliver he loved and thought he knew wouldn't do that. So he's cutting him off. It's much more difficult to integrate things that our loved ones do to deeply hurt us into the whole of who they are and continue to love them even while we really hate their actions. I think Diggle will get there but I also think we are going to see him committing many of the sins he is angry at Oliver for as Diggle is consumed by the HIVE storyline and does some shady things himself. I'd like to see Oliver understanding those things about Diggle and that understanding bringing them back together, even stronger than before as they both make peace with the shadow side of themselves and each other.
I can also see how both Thea and Diggle are not taking her behaviour as seriously as Oliver is. He has the benefit of coming back after an absence and noticing a change whereas the team might miss it because it has been happening so gradually. Thea is naturally going to bristle at big brother lectures and Diggle really doesn't want to acknowledge that Oliver might be right about anything. Oliver also has more experience with mystical stuff like the Lazarus Pit and he saw how freaked out Malcolm “I'm totally comfortable with horrible things” Merlyn was at the thought of using it. Diggle has always been more pragmatic and less willing to accept things like metahumans and mystical powers and Oliver takes those things more in stride. If Thea were just reacting to “normal” trauma in her past through violence like both Oliver and Laurel have done Thea and Diggle might have a point in comparing her to Season 1 Oliver (which Diggle worked hard to check at every turn, something he is not doing now) but they are forgetting one important element: Lazarus Pit!
There have been some hints in interviews that this is going to be a much darker season for him where he is not going to be the rock solid moral center. I think we saw the beginning of that this episode.
It's really interesting to see Dig hold a grudge because we really haven't seen him this mad at anyone in the show. Oh, sure, he loathed Deadshot and wanted him dead. But that was a clear-cut enemy. Now we are watching him push away the people he loves and lie to Oliver because he's holding onto anger. That's not gonna be good for him and I wish he would listen to Lyla (YOUR WIFE IS SMART, DIGGLE.)
It's much more difficult to integrate things that our loved ones do to deeply hurt us into the whole of who they are and continue to love them even while we really hate their actions. I think Diggle will get there but I also think we are going to see him committing many of the sins he is angry at Oliver for...
AMEN. AND THIS A THOUSAND TIMES.
I can also see how both Thea and Diggle are not taking her behaviour as seriously as Oliver is. He has the benefit of coming back after an absence and noticing a change whereas the team might miss it because it has been happening so gradually.
I really liked that aspect of the episode -- that whole thing that happens when you've been removed from a situation, you can see clearer than the people who have been in it. But of course, Dig and Thea (and even Felicity) are resistant a bit to the idea that something is wrong. Dig is still mad and Thea is still a sibling (I don't like it when my siblings tell me things about myself that are true either, girl!) so it's understandable that they wouldn't take this Oliver-comes-back-and-starts-pointing-things-out very well.
Other little things:
- Capt Lance working for Darkh is horrifying and completely takes the power out of any lecturing or blaming he wants to throw Oliver's way. He has totally lost any moral high ground by getting into the HIVE. I really want to see how that came about explored in the flashbacks this year. How the heck did that happen? How did the despair really settle in?
- Oliver might be more light-hearted this year but as soon as he realises he is facing Damian Dhark he doesn't hesitate to shoot him in the chest and keep shooting until it is clear that it won't work.
- Laurel holds a great deal of tension in her body when interacting with her father or the team. (The are in tense times but she tends to toughness and tension I think.) The only time we see her warm up was when interacting briefly with the child she saved. It was nice to see that aspect of her character make a quick appearance since we haven't seen it much since season 1.
- I'm glad Laurel and Thea have been living together. It is a logical move and I really want to see that interaction.
- Even if we can't have any appearances by Walter Steele I'm glad they are still mentioning him. Keep the hope alive!
- Interesting that Diggle says Lyla is a better person than he is when she has always been presented as the one more willing to deal in moral ambiguity. Maybe that very flexibility is what has helped her see Oliver's point of view and let her anger go. Diggle's very rock-ness and stability could very well break him this season by becoming rigidity and bullheadedness. I love to see character traits shown as both strengths and weaknesses.
- We get to see the big bad right away and what a villain he is. Ra's seemed to be wrapped up in old archaic mindsets and ways of doing things (he is from another century and it felt like it.) But Damian is very creepy and seems to move with the times easily. Snazzy suits, lots of tech, political thinker, quiet threats followed through will very little ceremony. I think we still have yet to see what his real goals are. Why the heck does he care whether Star City lives or dies? I look forward to seeing what he's about.
- Once again I wonder why the heck Amanda Waller is wasting her time with Oliver Queen when she presumably has a very well-trained and outfitted secret organisation at her disposal. I don't hold high hopes for flashbacks really gripping me but I was glad to hear the producers say they won't all deal with Oliver this season.
- Yes, their brunch friends seemed really irritating. I mean, I love my slow cooker but seriously annoying conversation. Maybe what was most irritating was how shallow they seemed. The moment of asking to see the ring seemed like the only really friendly moment.
- The whole “change in your bones” seems ominous to me to. Anyone who argues one can't truly and deeply change is automatically more than a little scary to me. It's an evil thought in my opinion.
- Felicity seems to be a little lighter too or maybe just more at peace like Oliver. I can't wait to see her kicking butt and taking names as CEO. AMAZING DRESSES as usual.
It definitely feels like a new show this season. Oliver seems much more at ease and at peace with himself and finally seems to be making decisions out of something other than pain, Diggle looks to be making some questionable choices, we met the big bad right off the bat in ep 1. We still got a big death this episode but we didn't see it like we did with Sara and we are left wondering what is going to happen in 6 months. Clever way to gently torture your audience, writers. I know that writers get a kick out of that. I'm sure of it.
Well, I guess you now also have my ridiculously long comments again too. Hope you don't mind :)
I was legit shocked at Lance's involvement and now I want to know HOW he got involved with Darhk. This isn't going to end well for him and he has to know that, in his heart. Ugh.
Oliver might be more light-hearted this year but as soon as he realises he is facing Damian Dhark he doesn't hesitate to shoot him in the chest and keep shooting until it is clear that it won't work.
The ONLY element of the episode I didn't like. Okay, Oliver. If you shoot one arrow and it doesn't work and then two... WHY ARE YOU GOING TO TRY ALL OF THE ARROWS?
I'm glad Laurel and Thea have been living together. It is a logical move and I really want to see that interaction.
Seriously I want to see more of this. I'm glad they've been living together because it totally does make sense -- they were practically going to be in-laws at one point and even though we haven't seen much by way of their relationship on screen, this makes me happy.
Once again I wonder why the heck Amanda Waller is wasting her time with Oliver Queen when she presumably has a very well-trained and outfitted secret organisation at her disposal.
Amanda Waller is just so blegh to me these days. They're probably going to bring her back IRL at some point (like they made Hong Kong suddenly "relevant" at the end of the season) and mehhhhh. Far more interesting characters than her on this show.
I'm so glad it feels like a new show. I was getting a bit bogged down with the angst and drama of the old Arrow.
We still got a big death this episode but we didn't see it like we did with Sara and we are left wondering what is going to happen in 6 months. Clever way to gently torture your audience, writers. I know that writers get a kick out of that. I'm sure of it.
Agreed 100000%.
WELCOME BACK, BB!!!! I love your ridiculously long comments and I'm so glad to have them to read the rest of the season. ;)
Becca October 9, 2015 at 12:56 PM
About shooting more arrows at Damian, I just figured that Oliver knows a little bit about Damian's powers (he certainly hints at it later in the lair). Also, we know that Damian is not impervious to harm. Diggle managed to knock him out briefly when saving Oliver. I think Oliver was seeing that Damian could stop one arrow but wanted to push it to see if he could stop multiple arrows moving quickly and then maybe Damian would miss one and it would get through.
The hand to hand combat between Oliver and Damian was wonderful I wanted to add.
Slade stormed the Glades with his minions hahahahahaha. Yes, I missed you!!!
*curtsies* *brushes shoulders off*
THANK YOU! It's good to be back. ;)
Yay! Arrow is back, and it's great to have you back too!
What a start to the season! One of my favourite things this episode was Oliver and Felicity, every time they were on screen together it was cuteness overload and I was squeeing at the screen in excitement. The way they were so in sync with each other was a joy to see and what I had hoped for with them going forward as a couple. I agree that the MVP was Stephen Amell, I loooved this lighter Oliver and it's great to see how much he has progressed. Just the way he talked wasn't filled with the weight of the world on his shoulders, it was so refreshing to watch and made S3 feel like a distant memory.
Darhk is a very interesting and terrifying villain, he is not messing about! I have no idea how Team Arrow are going to go about defeating him and I am really surprised about Captain Lance working with him - so many questions!
Diggle was absolutely excellent this episode too, I love his dynamic in the Team and the contrast with his home life and then his relationship with Oliver, they have definitely started S4 off with a good base for Diggle and I'm interested to see the developments with HIVE.
I'm still not concentrating so much when the flashbacks come up, breaking up the flow of nice present day scenes however my attention was certainly fixed when the flashforward came up - the graveyard scene certainly threw me, I'm dreading that it's Felicity!
Meeta x
Welcome back, Meeta! I'm so glad Arrow has returned to my life.
The way they were so in sync with each other was a joy to see and what I had hoped for with them going forward as a couple.
It was so adorable to see her working at her computer and then him just walking around with his hand on her and kissing the top of her head. They're still the exact same team they were before -- better together and totally in sync -- with an added layer of cuteness and the removal of angst. I'm so happy.
they have definitely started S4 off with a good base for Diggle and I'm interested to see the developments with HIVE.
I'm really excited for Diggle's arc this year! It's really going to be one that challenges him on a different level than last year. :)
the graveyard scene certainly threw me, I'm dreading that it's Felicity!
Ehhhhhh I'm not worried, which either makes me naive or far too optimistic. ;) From a writing standpoint (which is the only standpoint I can speak to) it would make less than zero sense to kill Felicity. The writers know she's the fan favorite. That would be like killing Hook on Once Upon A Time or killing off Schmidt on New Girl.
Amell has talked about Game of Thrones in relation to character deaths and surprises, but Arrow is no Game of Thrones. GOT has like, fifty characters. No one is safe on that show because everyone is pretty much expendable. That's not the case on Arrow. With a small cast to begin with (having gotten smaller in the absence of Colton now), they don't really have the space to do something like GOT. Also, GOT kills off people for shock value a lot (from what I know, having never seen it) and shock -- in their case -- draws people closer to the show.
I'm not saying Arrow would never kill off Felicity (or Dig or Thea), but what I can say is that from a business standpoint, I don't think the network executives would see that as anything other than a suicide mission for the show. (And don't forget, the producers have to pitch things directly to the heads of networks before they get the green light to make any decisions anyway.)
ANYWAY all of that to say that at the end of the day, this show is still a business. And I think that it would be the worst business decision in human history to throw away money, time, talent, and fans by killing Felicity.
Agreed, always look forward to your reviews.
I like my Arrow dark and twisty so I'm really glad that Star City is going to really go down the tubes this season, if episode 1 is any indication, and take Lance and Diggle (and Thea?) with it. I guess everyone's going to have to give up being holier-than-thou to Oliver, aren't they? Wonder if the darkness will suck in Felicity as well?
I can understand Oliver wanting a normal life but I'm glad they got out of the suburbs. Felicity has the right idea on that one, and I like that she's been working with the team all along.
I absolutely hated Oliver's sappy Green Arrow speech, why on earth would he take over the emergency broadcast network like that. Horrible horrible sappy crap.
I hope dark Oliver and Amanda Waller have some kind of awful affair in the flashbacks.
I am bad.
--Elizabeth
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you for your comment! :D
if episode 1 is any indication, and take Lance and Diggle (and Thea?) with it. I guess everyone's going to have to give up being holier-than-thou to Oliver, aren't they?
SUCH a good point. They're going to have to stop being hypocrites and projecting their own guilt and problems onto Oliver and making him a scapegoat.
I agree -- Arrow is more fun when there are bad guys to chase and crimes to stop and occasional things to blow up. While I loved the contrast of Starling vs. their suburb (and the darkness vs. the light, which I could write an entire paragraph about), I'm quite glad that we are back. :)
And -- thanks for your response -- I definitely like to check back in! I guess I just like that the team is *so* good in a crunch situation. Real life, probably not so much. I bet Olicity could stay together forever in the Arrowcave, and would last a year or two in the suburbs...
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Market Statistics for Sonoma
Sonoma Viera, Florida
Sonoma is an exceptional, gated community that boasts an array of beautiful homes constructed by premier homebuilders like Lennar Homes and Burgoon and Berger. Of the 384 home sites in the subdivision, set on lots that are 75' to 130' in size, many boast alluring views of the glittering water. Constructed around expertly manicured vistas, Sonoma houses boast 1,500 to 3,600 square feet of living space and are appointed with attractive details like brick paver driveways, Corian countertops, upgraded cabinetry, hurricane shutters and outsized garages. Pricing begins at $200,000 to $600,000.
Sonoma has its own recreational park fraught with basketball and tennis courts, a dock to fish off of and a great pavilion. Golf enthusiasts are always happy to discover that this area is punctuated with some of the most challenging grounds around. The region is known as one of best places to tee off due to its reasonable cost --many traverse the globe to play these beautiful, championship courses. There are over 25 private and public courses for varied skill levels. Everything is close by --including entertainment and shopping.
Several sandy beaches, major attractions and theme parks that include Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, and Tampa's Busch Gardens, are a few miles away for the whole family to enjoy. The Space Coast Stadium, Brevard Zoo, and the charming, open-air mall, The Avenue Viera --which houses a multiplex movie theater, and over 100 restaurants and major retailers--, are among other popular spots. Exceptional health care facilities are found in the area as well. The cutting-edge Viera Health Park features Health First's 100-bed Viera Hospital, Health First's Pro Health & Fitness Center and a 76,000 square foot Medical Plaza. Situated on 50 acres, it's the only healthcare campus that combines health, wellness and disease prevention in Brevard County.
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During the day, locals enjoy the area's breathtaking wildlife preserves or participate in one of the many outdoor sports offered surfing, jet skiing, fishing-- beneath the warm rays of the Florida sunshine. To have every luxury under the sun, for an affordable price, is what Viera presents to potential homebuyers. Reside where the views are as spectacular as the climate and the community feels like a family. Viera offers an irresistible lifestyle within grasp.
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Hospitals celebrate Armed Forces
Hospital staff came together to celebrate members of the Armed Forces within their ranks at an event held by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to mark Armed Forces Week.
The event saw staff members who are also part of the armed forces community come together with other hospital staff to share their experiences, reflect on the shared values of the armed forces and the NHS, and recognise the contribution of the armed forces community.
Reservists, veterans and those with a close family military connection from clinical and non-clinical teams across the Trust, including emergency departments and theatres, were welcomed to the event.
Nichola Jones, associate director of pharmacy for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was one of the many who attended and swapped pharmacy green for Royal Air Force blue.
Outside of helping to deliver pharmacy services for patients in Basingstoke, Andover and Winchester, Nichola spends two evenings a week as a training officer for the 1105 City of Winchester RAF Air Cadet squadron, where she helps to run a programme to support young cadets complete a BTEC qualification.
Nichola said: “It’s been fantastic to see staff come together from all over the Trust to celebrate the week. When I was young, being a cadet helped to shape who I am, so I wanted to give back and support other young people to have the same valuable experiences, and I’m still doing it 16 years later! I get a lot of support from the Trust to accommodate my connection to the Armed Forces, which I am very grateful for.
“There is a huge overlap between the work of the NHS and the Armed Forces, particularly as both rely so heavily on teamwork. There is a great resource through the shared workforce and knowledge between the different organisations, and I’m always encouraged to see Hampshire Hospitals actively recruiting in the Armed Forces community.”
Hampshire Hospitals is committed to supporting the armed forces as an employer and was presented with the Ministry of Defence’s Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Gold Award by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, in 2017.
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#MANarama Campaign raises £150,000 for Prostate Cancer UK
The ground-breaking #MANarama campaign, which saw the fifth and sixth tiers of English Football make football history through a mid-season re-brand, came to an end on Non-League Day and raised a total of £150,000 for Prostate Cancer UK.
The #MANarama campaign made history as the first time an English Football League rebranded mid-season and raised £150,000 for Prostate Cancer UK.
In support of the campaign, Vanarama and sister brand Motorama donated £50 to the charity for every van, pickup truck and car it leased. This ‘lease a van, save a man’ initiative is running throughout September and October.
Vanarama’s cheque for £150,000 was presented to Prostate Cancer UK at the flagship game for Non-League Day between FC Halifax and Chesterfield on October 13th. The presentation party included ultra-marathon hero Kevin Webber, who had just completed seven walking marathons in seven days.
Vanarama, the UK’s leading commercial vehicle leasing company, powered the fundraising drive by sacrificing its naming rights for the National League, together with a vehicle leasing initiative, ‘lease a van save a man’, which ran throughout September and October. A cheque for £150,000 was presented at the flagship BT Sport televised game for Non-League day between FC Halifax and Chesterfield. The presentation took place ahead of the game when ultra-marathon hero Kevin Webber, who had just completed seven walking marathons in seven days, was given a guard of honour by both sets of fans.
£150,000 was raised by Vanarama in just 43 days by donating £50 for every vehicle it leased from the start of September until Non-League day on October 13th. Within that time a staggering 688 men would have died from prostate cancer, highlighting just how important it is that more men are made aware of the most common cancer in men. Prostate Cancer UK became the National League’s first official sponsor for the 2018/19 season and this year’s Non-League Day was given added significance by the presence of Webber.
Diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer in November 2014 and told he could have as little as two years left to live, the remarkable Webber has raised thousands for the charity in a series of epic endurance events and in the build-up to Non-League Day he walked more than 180 miles from Blyth Spartans to FC Halifax Town. In total, he visited 10 National League clubs, hand-delivering unique captains’ armbands to be worn by all MANarama teams on Non-League Day. The bright orange band, which includes the iconic Prostate Cancer UK logo, illustrated the clubs’ united stand against the most common cancer in men.
Also joining the fight was Sky Sports television pundit and Prostate Cancer UK ambassador Jeff Stelling, who posed with one of the armbands alongside Hartlepool United skipper Andrew Davies ahead of their away clash at Leyton Orient.
Andy Alderson, Vanarama CEO and Founder said:
“At Vanarama we’re thrilled with the amount of money we’ve been able to raise for Prostate Cancer UK. The MANarama campaign brought together three great organisations with one main goal - to raise awareness and funds in the fight against the most common cancer in men.
“We’ve managed to get to this total because of our wonderful Vanarama customers, and if you’ve leased a van from us in the last 45 days, you have helped save a man. Hopefully the money donated to Prostate Cancer UK can play a small part in one day beating this truly terrible disease.”
Angela Culhane, Chief Executive of Prostate Cancer UK, said:
“We’re thrilled with the continued success of Non-League Day, and to pick up a cheque from Vanarama for £150,000 is a wonderful end to this campaign.
“In many ways, there was no better person to collect it on our behalf than the extraordinary Kevin Webber. He’s no stranger to extreme activities, and by embarking on an epic 10-club excursion in the north of the country he’s selflessly spread a powerful and personal message about this deadly disease, utilising the power of football and the communities that bring those clubs to life.
“Kevin is an inspiration and we also thank the National League for making us their first ever charity partners and everyone who has embraced the brilliant MANarama campaign that has caught the imagination so much.
“There is real momentum building now in the fight against this disease, and the vital next step is to work towards a screening programme to catch more prostate cancers early and save more lives. Thanks to this exciting campaign we can move a step closer to making this a reality.”
National League Chief Executive Michael Tattersall, who walked alongside Webber in the final day of his challenge, said:
“We’re delighted at the response of our temporary – and historic - rebranding to the MANarama National League over the past six weeks and it’s wonderful to see so much money and awareness raised to aid the fight against prostate cancer.
“We are proud to have Prostate Cancer UK as our first ever charity partner and look forward to working with them more going forward.
“This deadly disease has no boundaries, so it’s been incredibly inspiring to see Kevin Webber raise so much awareness within many of our membership. He’s a remarkable man doing remarkable things and we will continue to stand alongside him and everyone affected by prostate cancer.”
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KRISTINA JOHNSEN
“Immersing in darkness to create light”
Kristina Johnsen's recent Garibaldi EP has already been garnering great praise from fans and critics alike. Featured as the unsigned artist of the week as well as the top-scoring new music critique in Music Connection magazine's May issue, she has been described by critics as "a unique talent" and "among the most beautiful voices we have heard" (Keep Walking Music) and an artist "with probing lyrics that make it clear the singer is an alert, intelligent and confident individual" (Music Connection). Her songs have been featured on the Women of Substance Podcast as well as on Future House Cloud's Future of Pop Spotify playlist.
She declared her love for music at a young age. Raised in a family of musicians, she began singing as soon as she could talk. Her insatiable curiosity in music led her to play the violin as soon as she could hold one without dropping it. Over the years, she has continued performing in choirs, musicals, bands, and as a soloist. Kristina’s early experience in orchestras helped her bridge the nuances between influences as vast as Tchaikovsky and We Are Scientists.
Graduating with a BFA from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, visual elements form the core of her approach to musical aesthetics. She draws sonic and conceptual inspiration from the mystery of mountains and snowboard culture. Lyrically, her songs serve as windows into her world. The world can be a dark place, and music can be the bright light that helps everything from the difficult to the mundane make more sense. No matter where she goes, she aims to bring the joy of music along with her, already performing across three continents. Recently, her passion for music led her to pack up her guitars and make the move from her hometown of Lansing, Michigan, to the wild west in Los Angeles, California. Kristina Johnsen’s debut EP, Garibaldi, is already moving mountains in 2018. Look for her on tour this fall.
For all booking inquiries, please contact kristinajohnsenmusic@gmail.com.
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Veteran groups push to make mental health a top priority
Posted: Feb 26, 2020 / 03:49 PM PST / Updated: Feb 26, 2020 / 03:50 PM PST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — Veterans groups say they are pushing Congress to make veterans’ issues, such as mental health, a top priority.
Army veteran Sergio Alfaro said he has dealt with PTSD for more than 15 years since serving in Iraq. He shared his story with lawmakers in Washington.
“These are things that hamper your life and prevent you from living the life you would want to live and finding the happiness that I believe all Americans are entitled,” said Alfaro.
Indiana Representative Jim Banks, a former servicemember, sits on the House Veterans Affairs Committee and wants to get veterans more individual help.
“There’s so much more that we can do at the federal level, the state level, the local level,” said Banks.
Veterans groups including the Wounded Warrior project laid out their legislative priorities to congress this week.
Experts say the rate of veteran suicides continues to climb presenting a challenge to congress as the best way to tackle the problem.
Alfaro says his own story is his most effective and will help other veterans.
“I’m able to get the message across to these people that there are still so many veterans that are still suffering,” said Alfaro.
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Red chalk Nude study by Othon Friesz
A framed red chalk nude study of a woman by C19th French artist Othon Friesz. Signed.
Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school in his native city. It was while he was at the Lycée that he met his lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. He and Dufy studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts in 1895-96 and then went to Paris together for further study. In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the academic teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz returned to Normandy and to a much more traditional style of painting, since he had discovered that his personal goals in painting were firmly rooted in the past. He opened his own studio in 1912 and taught until 1914 at which time he joined the army for the duration of the war. He resumed living in Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death in 1949.
During the last thirty years of his life, he painted in a style completely removed from that of his earlier colleagues and his contemporaries. Having abandoned the lively arabesques and brilliant colors of his Fauve years, Friesz returned to the more sober palette he had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier and to an early admiration for Poussin, Chardin, and Corot. He painted in a manner that respected Cézanne's ideas of logical composition, simple tonality, solidity of volume, and distinct separation of planes. A faint baroque flavor adds vigor to his (most well-known) landscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings.
Othon Friesz died in Paris. He is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. His pupils included the painter Marthe Rakine
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Aaron Sorkin’s film on Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to star Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem
January 13, 2021 Staff Entertainment Daypop
Aaron Sorkin’s movie about the relationship between I Love Lucy stars and real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will have a new star to play Ball. Nicole Kidman has been cast as the television icon, with fellow Oscar-winner Javier Bardem cast as Arnaz. The project has been in the works for several years, with Cate Blanchett set to play Ball at one point.
Being the Ricardos will be written and directed by Sorkin, with Amazon Studios and Escape Artists producing the film, reports Deadline. The film takes place during the one-week production of an I Love Lucy episode, filmed while Ball and Arnaz are faced with a crisis that could end their marriage and careers. The couple’s children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., are among the executive producers.
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem to Play Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in New Movie
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What School Doesn’t Teach Us About the Workforce
This article was written by Alex Sixt, a member of the Entrepreneur NEXT powered by Assemble content team. Entrepreneur NEXT is our Expert solutions division leading the future of work and skills-based economy. If you’re struggling to find, vet, and hire the right Experts for your business, Entrepreneur NEXT is a platform to help you hire the experts you need, exactly when you need them. From business to marketing, sales, design, finance, and technology, we have the top 3 percent of Experts ready to work for you.
The average American college graduate spends approximately 29 percent of his or her life in an educational environment. From kindergarten to senior year of high school, we are trained in multiple important subjects such as mathematics, history, and science. Yet, after 17 years of schooling, institutions have failed to teach students the most important subject: how to navigate the workforce.
The world of work is not what it was even one year ago. Unfortunately, the general skills we are taught in classes do not typically translate to the working world, or they are so broad that students are unable to hone in on any specialized, marketable skill. The workforce is always changing, and although it’s difficult for the education system to catch up, the shift toward a more skills-based, fractional workforce must be taught to set up the students of today for success in the workforce tomorrow.
As COVID-19 continues to shape the workforce into a fractional model that allows workers more flexibility and choice in their careers, we must recognize that the “old ways” of beginning a career (i.e. standard application processes and stuffy offices) are no longer relevant. To prepare students for success, institutions and educators will need to re-evaluate how to teach their students to adapt to a consistently shifting landscape. There’s no doubt that it will take time for our educational system to learn how to prepare students for an entirely new way of working.
However, it is vital that we begin to address the changes that current curriculums fail to include. Here are some of the most important lessons about the workforce that institutions should include to prepare the leaders of tomorrow:
Although the impact of COVID-19 may not be a subject we currently teach in school, the pandemic is a crucial driver behind the most recent changes in the workforce. There’s no way schools could have prepared for this change any more than we could have prepared for a pandemic to consume the modern world. Nonetheless, there is an opportunity in the midst of it all to prepare students for how these changes will affect the workforce they’ll enter in a few years.
Almost 40 million Americans lost their jobs due to the pandemic, and many of these jobs are likely to change in terms of skill level, demand and location (remote vs in office). Many jobs that were deemed necessary before the pandemic are now considered non-essential or the demand for that particular role may lessen over time as companies determine cheaper ways to work around them.
As the workforce begins to enter a critical phase of adapting to a new world, educational institutions will need to study these trends if they are going to help students succeed in a post-COVID job market.
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As much as every student loves spending a quarter of their tuition on textbooks (not), the materials used in current classrooms aren’t able to be produced quickly enough to stay up to date with the shifts in the workforce. As we’ve seen with COVID-19, the market changes by the day, and mass-produced textbooks that are typically referred to for at least a few years by instructors leave our students decades behind present trends.
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. jobs are in occupations that are likely to shrink or be cut by 2030. Millions of jobs that exist today will be automated, as the digital transformation will rapidly change how companies choose to source the expertise for their roles. The issue with the current education system is that it focuses on a general overview of domains, many of which will be replaced by automated processes, potentially leaving millions of future job graduates out to dry with unusable skills.
The changing workforce doesn’t wait for the newest textbook version to publish; trends fade fast, and even the most up-to-date practices taught to students quickly become too slow and outdated for the working world. With every technological and global advancement, companies expect more from their candidates. From the knowledge of the latest project management software to a particular, industry-specific skill, students must be taught how current information to compete with other job seekers.
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The number one problem shared among entrepreneurs today is finding, vetting, hiring, and retaining expertise.
Shift toward fractional workforce
Even before the pandemic, the workforce had begun to shift toward a fractional model, where workers flex their skills between multiple companies, enabling them to build a more flexible schedule and work-life balance. In response to the pandemic, companies have increasingly begun to hire fractional workers, as it allows for easier scaling of their workforce and creates more opportunities for quickly hiring in-demand skills. However, this model of hiring has yet to be taught in most schools, leaving students to prepare for traditional hiring processes that have already become outdated.
More than one-third of global executives say their organizations don’t have the expertise they need to fill anticipated skill gaps, which foreshadows an even more skill-based, fractional workforce that is molded to fit the business’ needs and the worker’s freedom to flex their skills for multiple employers. Job descriptions that demand candidates master multiple skills areas for one job have become scarcer as executives recognize the value of hiring employees based on specific skills. Students who have only been taught the traditional, general domains are at an instant disadvantage without the specific expertise that companies are searching for.
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Shaping us into the leaders of the future
Cliche but true: the students in our classrooms today are the leaders of tomorrow’s workforce. If we don’t want our leadership to be stuck in the old, traditional ways of working, then our educational curriculums cannot be, either.
The world has entirely changed before this generation’s eyes; they’ve witnessed firsthand the disruption that the pandemic has created for society and the need for quickly adapting to evolving situations. The lessons from the pandemic cannot suffice for those taught in the classroom to our future workforce. Trends act as suggested- they change and shift constantly. To build successful leaders, the educational system will need to make room in their curriculum to teach students the most up-to-date information and give them the necessary resources to prepare themselves for the future of their domain.
Even if we’ve missed the mark on preparing students in the past, there are plenty of opportunities to begin implementing these lessons today. Educators can rework their lessons to include discussions surrounding the workforce and the adjustments students may need to make to their career paths. If possible, institutions should develop educational paths that focus on specializing students with a particular skill, rather than a general understanding of an area of study.
Related: How to Sculpt Yourself Into A Future-Ready Leader
If this sounds like an incredibly large issue to fix, that’s because it is; but this doesn’t mean this gap in education is too large to fix. Although it will take a lot of time, research and effort to reframe the way we prepare our students to prepare for the future of the workforce, the investment in building successful future leaders is well worth the sacrifice.
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Shelter in place lifted in Pittsburg after hazardous materials incident
By Michelle Toy, KTVU
PITTSBURG, Calif. - A shelter in place was lifted around 3:07 p.m. after the Contra Costa County Fire Department responded to a hazardous chemicals emergency in Pittsburg.
According to the Contra Costa County Fire Department, someone reported an odor coming from two tank cars in a rail yard. The incident was reported at 12:30 p.m.
The fire department said it alerted residents of the shelter in place through community warning sirens. The affected area included North Parkside Drive south to West 17th Street and from Jimno Avenue west to Andrew Avenue.
Residents in the area were advised to stay inside and close all windows and doors, turn off all heaters, air conditioners, and fans and close fireplace dampers and vents.
Updated information from the Contra Costa County Community Warning System can be found here.
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Honorary Consul of Bangladesh meets Legal Associates team
Legal Associates hosted the Honorary Consul of Bangladesh in New Zealand, Mr Shafiqur Rahman for a morning tea with the partners and other employees of the firm, in July 2018.
Mr Rahman was accompanied by two officials from the Bangladesh High Commission in Australia who were in Auckland to provide consular services on behalf of the High Commission.
Mr Raj Singh welcomed the guests who were then given a tour of the firm by Mr Taufiq Choudhury. All members of the firm then met at the boardroom where Mr Raj Singh again thanked the Honorary Consul for his visit. He informed the consul about the firm’s work with different communities in Auckland and expressed his interest in working with the Bangladesh community here.
The Consul was advised about the free Saturday Legal Clinics held at Legal Associates and requested to share this information with his community.
Mr Rahman thanked Legal Associates for the warm welcome he received at Legal Associates. He described the activities of his office and shared some ideas about cooperating with his office in providing legal services to the Bangladeshi community in New Zealand. He then spent some time in informal discussions with members of the firm.
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What is the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
In short this act was put together to encourage states to simplify their tax laws. Too often it gets too complex for the everyday person to understand and follow and they end up ignoring it and getting prosecuted down the line.
Option 1: A state can join the twenty-four states that have already voluntarily adopted the simplification measures of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), which has been developed over the last eleven years by forty-four states and more than eighty-five businesses with the goal of making sales tax collection easy. Any state which is in compliance with the SSUTA and has achieved Full Member status as a SSUTA implementing state will have collection authority on the first day of the calendar quarter that is at least 180 days after enactment.
Option 2: Alternatively, states can meet essentially five simplification mandates listed in the bill. States that choose this option must agree to:
Notify retailers in advance of any rate changes within the state
Designate a single state organization to handle sales tax registrations, filings, and audits
Establish a uniform sales tax base for use throughout the state
Use destination sourcing to determine sales tax rates for out-of-state purchases (a purchase made by a consumer in California from a retailer in Ohio is taxed at the California rate, and the sales tax collected is remitted to California to fund projects and services there)
Provide free software for managing sales tax compliance, and hold retailers harmless for any errors that result from relying on state-provided systems and data
With states adhering to these provisions or the similar measures in SSUTA, retailers across the country will find collecting sales tax for multiple states much easier than it has ever been in the past.
The 1967 Supreme Court case National Bellas Hess v. Illinois Department of Revenue set the stage for the debate on taxing internet sales when, in its majority (5 to 4) opinion, the court ruled that:
“the many variations in rates of tax, in allowable exemptions, and in administrative and record-keeping requirements could entangle [the company]'s interstate business in a virtual welter of complicated obligations to local jurisdictions” (emphasis added).
This quote demonstrates the ruling’s basis in complexity and burden, which has rippled forward to create today a tidal wave of unanticipated consequences. Since Bellas Hess, out-of-state retailers have been shielded from the obligation to collect sales tax, based purely on the notion that it would place too much of a burden on their businesses. To provide a sense of perspective, keep in mind that the year this ruling was issued was the same year the floppy disk was invented at IBM. It was also one year before the first plans were developed at MIT to create ARPANET, which laid the foundation for the internet we know today.
In 1992, the matter of sales tax on remote sales came before the high court again in Quill v. North Dakota. This time, the court reaffirmed the earlier Bellas Hess decision (8 to 1), primarily on the basis of stare decisis (“to stand by decision,” a doctrine that requires the court to respect the precedent set by prior rulings). The ruling went on to state,
“[O]ur decision is made easier by the fact that the underlying issue is not only one that Congress may be better qualified to resolve, but also one that Congress has the ultimate power to resolve. No matter how we evaluate the burdens that use taxes impose on interstate commerce, Congress remains free to disagree with our conclusions” (emphasis added).
The retail world is a very different place today, fifty-one years after Bellas Hess, and twenty-six years after Quill. Today, keeping track of a few thousand local tax rates is no longer an insurmountable technical, administrative, or financial burden - certainly no more difficult than calculating real-time-shipping, a common feature on most web sites and online sales marketplaces. Thus, the basis for the Bellas Hess ruling no longer applies and the Marketplace Fairness Act will help the many states now facing significant budget shortfalls. Although some suggest these States have a "spending problem" rather than a "revenue problem," it is important to recognize that these States have already been reducing their spending levels year-over-year and increasing collection and enforcement efforts based upon their existing sales and use tax laws. However, a State can only enforce these laws within its own borders unless (or until) Congress recognizes the significant advances made by "man and his ingenuity with machines" over the last 51 years. Simply put, without the Marketplace Fairness Act, our States are unable to require remote retailers to collect the existing sales or use tax already approved by that state's residents.
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One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism
by Rob Spillman
From now until at least the midterm elections in November, we’ll be featuring essays from powerful cultural voices alongside one simple thing, chosen by the author, that you can do to take action against the paralyzing apoplexy of the daily news. Maybe it’ll be an organization that deserves your donation; maybe it’ll be an issue that deserves greater awareness. Whatever it is, our aim is to remind you, and ourselves, of the big and small things we can do to work toward justice and change.
I commit to engage and have meaningful interactions with people who are different from myself, and to do so every day leading up to the November election.
Authoritarians like Trump thrive on fear. They demonize everyone who is not a privileged white male, and attempt to turn you and me into us and them. I believe that actively engaging with people across and through the artificial walls authoritarians constantly erect—between classes, genders, sexual orientations, races, educational levels, ages, geographies, and languages—is the single greatest weapon against fascism.
Recently the novelist Rachel Kushner was asked why she volunteers in a women’s prison and why she chooses to write these women into her fiction. “It’s not about me being a do-gooder,” she said. “Nor is it about usurping the lives of people for my own gain. It’s about caring about people whose life trajectories are totally different from my own and stepping out there so that our lives intersect.”
In other words, it’s about empathy. The ability to feel what others feel. Studies have shown that people who read fiction are more empathetic than non-readers, as they are able to inhabit the lives of others, can relate to the universal struggles of people in Middle Earth or Middlemarch or Motherless Brooklyn.
I work closely with the story exchange organization Narrative 4, whose core mission is to put together people who would not normally get a chance to listen to each other. By actively listening and sharing stories, we are able to “expand the lungs of the world,” as founder Colum McCann puts it. We work mainly with teenagers, and at the heart of the mission is a simple but powerful exercise where people in a group of around sixteen pair off and tell each other a personal story, then come back to the bigger group and tell the other person’s story in the first person. The teller is entrusted to hold the other’s story as if it was their own. We have done these exchanges all over the world, from the Bronx to Bethlehem, from Limerick to Chicago’s South Side, and in each instance barriers were obliterated by the radical yet simple act of empathy.
Neuroscience backs the positive effects of empathy. Wellesley’s Dr. Amy Banks, among others, has shown how deep listening activates the brain’s mirror neurons, tapping into the smart vagus while also increasing the release of dopamine, which promotes active engagement and understanding. Compare this to what happens to the brain when we perceive a stranger as “other”: the sympathetic nervous system (the “fight-or-flight” response) is triggered, causing a continuous feedback loop of stress and feelings of exclusion, which usually combines with hierarchical judgment and hostility.
Which also serves as a handy definition of the Trump doctrine.
Yes, I am committed to voting and doing everything I can to register voters and to get people to the polls. But I am also committed to undermining the hostile environment in which Trump and his enablers have so cynically thrived. I am committed to making meaningful contact and listening to others, to reading stories by others, to passing the mic whenever I have the opportunity so that the stories of others can reach more people. I refuse to be an us or a them.
Take action today:
Learn more about Narrative 4 and how to bring their work to your community here.
Rob Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House and the author of All Tomorrow’s Parties.
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Zubeida Goolam appointed to IAB Transformation Council
17 Dec 2020 12:00 Marketing 503
The IAB South Africa has recently announced its newly elected members of the Transformation Council. Zubeida Goolam, Valiant's chief creative officer, was selected to join the council as one of its new members.
As a founder of a 51% black female-owned agency, Goolam says that she feels passionate about her role in helping the industry accelerate its transformation.
"I've always wanted to make an impactful change in the industry that I operate in. There is so much misrepresentation and I'm pleased to have the opportunity to change so many already predefined narratives," says Goolam.
"The black creative is still a highly untapped phenomenon that the market is yet to experience fully. There is so much still to do to encourage and help and grow the next generation of talent in our industry. So I'm very encouraged by platforms such as the IAB that make an impact in this space and actively try to bridge the gaps in our industry," adds Goolam.
Goolam is one of three long-time friends who founded Valiant five years ago to help brands digitally stand out from the crowd. She previously worked at agencies including Ogilvy and M&C Saatchi Abel before starting Valiant with her partners.
With the aim of the council to facilitate lasting change that empowers black digital media and marketing professionals, Goolam says that her industry experience and knowledge as a female entrepreneur and co-owner of an independent agency will bring a fresh perspective to supporting the IAB Transformation Council in achieving its aim.
Sbosh Mbuzwana, Valiant's COO, concludes, "We're all so proud of Zubeida's appointment to the IAB Transformation Council. Not only is this a step for Zubeida towards sharing her story of how we can change our industry, but it's also an inspiration to see more black female entrepreneurs rising up to making an impact on our industry."
For more information, visit www.valiantagency.com. You can also follow Valiant on Facebook, Twitter or on Instagram.
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Georgia joins 21 state lawsuit challenging federal overtime rule
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens this week announced that Georgia joined a coalition of 21 states challenging the new U.S. Department of Labor overtime rule. In March, the Obama Administration instructed the USDOL to revise the Fair Labor Standards Act. The rule, set to take effect December 1, requires employers to pay overtime to salaried workers earning less than $47,500 a year, double the current threshold of $23,660. The suit filed by the attorneys general in federal court contents the new rule circumvents congressional authority and violates states' rights.
"The United States Department of Labor’s new overtime rule is yet another example of the President’s unconstitutional overreach...Our nation’s laws, the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches must be followed.” - Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups filed a separate legal challenge in the same federal court. Their lawsuit contends that the USDOL exceeded its statutory authority and violated the administrative Procedure Act.
“The DOL went too far in the new overtime regulation. We have heard from our members, small businesses, nonprofits, and other employers that the salary threshold is going to result in significant new labor costs and cause many disruptions in how work gets done. Furthermore, the automatic escalator provision means that employers will have to go through their reclassification analysis every three years. In combination, the new overtime rule will result in salaried professional employees being converted to hourly wages, and it will reduce workplace flexibility, remote electronic access to work, and opportunities for career advancement." said Randy Johnson, senior vice president of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits for the U.S. Chamber.
States that joined the lawsuit include Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.
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Panel: Whodunit: Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Oline Cogdill, mystery fiction book reviewer for the Sun Sentinel and Publishers Weekly. Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ new mystery novel follows Avery, whose fortunes change […]
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Moderated by Oline Cogdill, mystery fiction book reviewer for the Sun Sentinel and Publishers Weekly.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ new mystery novel follows Avery, whose fortunes change when a billionaire dies and leaves her his entire fortune. To receive her inheritance Avery must survive and solve The Inheritance Games. In the Study with the Wrench is Diana Peterfreund’s thrilling sequel in the Clue Mystery series, in which identities come under question, motives come to light, and nobody gets off the hook.
Diana Peterfreund
Diana Peterfreund is the author of 13 books for adults, teens, and children, including the Secret Society Girl series, the Killer Unicorn series, For Darkness Shows the Stars, and Omega City. She also contributed to the non-fiction anthologies, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O’Connell, The World of the Golden Compass, edited by Scott Westerfeld, and Through the Wardrobe, edited by Herbie Brennan. She has been a costume designer, a cover model, and a food critic. Her travels have taken her from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the underground caverns of New Zealand — and as far as she’s concerned, she’s just getting started. In the Study with the Wrench (Harry N. Abrams) is the third book in the Clue Mystery Series inspired by the classic board game CLUE. In the aftermath of Headmaster Boddy’s murder, Blackbrook Academy has been thrown into complete disarray. Half the student body hasn’t bothered to return to campus—but those who have include Orchid, Vaughn, Scarlett, Peacock, Plum, and Mustard, now referred to by the other students as the Murder Crew. When another staff member is found dead and an anonymous threat begins to target the group. Now each of the teen’s opportunistic reasons for sticking around come to light and all comes to a head at Tudor House.
Oline H. Cogdill
Oline H. Cogdill reviews mystery fiction for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Tribune Publishing Wire, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, Associated Press, and Mystery Scene magazine. Her mystery fiction reviews appear in more than 300 publications worldwide. She has received the 2013 Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the 1997 Sun Sentinel’s Pettijohn Award and the 1999 Ellen Nehr Award by the American Crime Writers League. Oline is a judge for the 2020 and 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the mystery/thriller category.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty young adult novels, including Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series: The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood, and the e-novella, Twelve. In The Inheritance Games (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) follow the strange story of Avery Grambs. She has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But then, billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why, or even who, Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into the sprawling Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes his four grandsons, brilliant and dangerous boys who grew up with every expectation of inheriting billions. Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he’s determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of American Royals, called it “A thrilling blend of family secrets, illicit romance and high-stakes treasure hunt, set in the mysterious world of Texas billionaires. The nonstop twists kept me guessing until the very last page!”
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Hamels, Rangers shut down Yankees
June 28, 2016 Updated: Aug. 12, 2017 3:26 a.m.
New York Yankees third baseman Chase Headley crouches as shortstop Didi Gregorius throws to first trying to put out Texas Rangers’ Jurickson Profar during the eighth inning of a baseball game in New York, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Proffer reached on an infield single. The Rangers won 7-1.KATHY WILLENS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK >> Cole Hamels and the rollin’ Texas Rangers are making winning look easy.
Hamels breezed through seven shutout innings to win his fourth consecutive start, Adrian Beltre homered and drove in three runs, and Texas trounced the New York Yankees 7-1 on Tuesday night.
“Just a masterful job by Cole,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. “We know that if we can get him a lead, he pitches very well from in front. He controls the game.”
One night after Texas rallied to win at 2:44 a.m. following a 3 1/2-hour rain delay in the ninth inning, the Rangers again played with plenty of spunk and energy. They’ve won four in a row, 12 of 14 and 20 of 25, improving the American League’s top record to 51-27 with their eighth straight victory away from home.
“We don’t need the superstardom,” Hamels said. “We’re very goal-oriented, we’re very focused and we’re very balanced.”
Yankees slugger Carlos Beltran left in the first with a tight right hamstring. He had an MRI that was “clean” and is day to day, manager Joe Girardi said.
“This homestand has not went the way we wanted it so far and we need to turn it around,” Girardi said following his team’s third straight defeat.
Hamels (9-1) yielded six harmless singles and struck out seven, winning his ninth consecutive decision on the road dating to last August. He is 16-2 since getting traded from Philadelphia to Texas last summer and has already compiled excellent credentials for this year’s All-Star Game, to be played two weeks from Tuesday in his San Diego hometown.
“It’s always been a goal from the first moment that I heard that San Diego was going to have it,” he said.
Hamels threw only 86 pitches and beat the Yankees for the first time in five career tries including the 2009 World Series. He has a 0.65 ERA in his last four outings, and his recent dominance has been particularly important for the Rangers with rotation mates Colby Lewis, Derek Holland and Yu Darvish on the disabled list.
In a matchup of accomplished left-handers, CC Sabathia (5-5) pitched into the eighth inning for the first time in a year but that’s where it all fell apart for him. Trailing 2-0, he nicked leadoff man Shin-Soo Choo on the hand with a pitch and was unable to corral Ian Desmond’s comebacker, which went for an infield single.
Beltre’s bad-hop RBI single got past third baseman Chase Headley, and Prince Fielder chased Sabathia with a run-scoring double that made it 4-0.
“Just a frustrating night,” Sabathia said. “If I can either make the play or get out of the way, I have a double play right there.”
Pinch hitter Nomar Mazara, Rougned Odor and Jurickson Profar each added an RBI single against Anthony Swarzak to cap a five-run outburst that broke the game open. Texas has scored 39 runs in its last five games.
“We should have been out of that inning with no runs,” Girardi said.
Sabathia, who twice rolled his right ankle during his previous start, was charged with six runs and eight hits in seven-plus innings.
Beltre, who got the go-ahead hit around 2:30 a.m. in the series opener, lofted a two-run homer in the first to the short porch in right field. Desmond and Beltre both finished with three hits.
“Amazing amount of energy,” Hamels said. “He really shows you why he loves this game and why you should love the game of baseball. He’s a tremendous talent and one of the best leaders I’ve ever been around.”
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Turan Rush is the founding Deputy Director of the Midian Leadership Project, and works to develop and implement Midian's strategies for building and supporting the next generation of leaders. He is a senior and a captain of the football team at Eastern Michigan University, where he majors in Special Education. Turan is passionate about education equity and criminal justice reform, and has brough his message of conviction and hope regarding faith, sports, education, and the school-to-prison pipleline to various venues.
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Calvin is a college basketball player (Potomac State) who has presented to national audiences on the subject of sports, justice, and community development. Calvin’s work of restoration and reconciliation revolves around building the tools and circumstances to promote holistically restorative outcomes for at-risk young people and for those involved with the criminal justice system.
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Claremorris life sciences company rebrands to Lynoslife
Published: Monday, 23 November 2020 14:38
Cosmetic Creations, the Irish life sciences company headquartered in Claremorris has today announced it is rebranding to Lynoslife. The announcement comes after three years of sustained growth for the company, focusing on its service offering of developing and delivering products in the health, wellbeing and cosmetics sectors.
CEO Aiden Corcoran said says that he took over the helm of the company in 2017, the business has continued to evolve. The workforce has expanded from 30 to 120 in the last three years, product and service offerings have increased and a second facility in in Cork opened and launched the brand, Airmedica.
By mid-2021, a total of €1.5million over 18 months will have been invested across the Mayo and Cork sites.
In March of this year, the company launched Airmedica hand sanitiser in response to increased demand due to the pandemic. Made in Cork and Mayo, used by the HSE and available in most national retail outlets, Lynoslife increased production of the hand sanitiser to at a maximum 350,000 units a week.
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MINISTER DISMISSED
THE NATIONAL Security Minister, Francis Poku has been removed from office with immediate effect, on the orders of President John Agyekum Kufuor.
A terse statement issued from the Office of the President at the Castle on Saturday stated without further explanation, “His Excellency the President has relieved the Hon Minister of National Security, Mr. Francis Poku of his duties with effect from today, January 12, 2008”.
The statement was signed by Ambassador D.K. Osei, Secretary to the President.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that the President has fully assumed responsibility for national security.
No reason was assigned for the sudden removal of the security capo, who is known to be very quiet, unassuming and soft-spoken.
Further comments could not be extracted from either the Blue Gate office of the minister or the Osu Castle.
The President expressed his gratitude to Mr Poku for his immense contribution to the stability and development of the country within the last seven years in the two capacities he had served the government.
The President further wished the ex-security chief well in all his future endeavours.
The Saturday mid-morning announcement caught political commentators off guard as nobody had a hint of the development.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that there would be more surprises in the last lap of the Kufuor Administration.
President Kufuor, who will be answering a barrage of questions at the annual People's Assembly tomorrow is said to be determined to tighten his government and take absolute control of all areas.
Dr. Kwesi Anin of the Kofi Annan Peace Centre in Accra, in a comment, said although the removal of the minister was shocking, he believed the security system was well placed to withstand the shock.
Mr Poku was appointed Minister to head the newly created Ministry of National Security in April 2006 after serving as National Security Coordinator from 2002.
He is a proud recipient of the Order of the Star of Volta.
Poku sought refuge in exile following J.J. Rawlings' coup of December 31, 1981.
He was touted as one of the officers of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) who tried to ward off the potential danger that Rawlings posed.
Born on October 24, 1941 in Kumasi, Francis Kwaku Poku had both his 'O' and 'A' levels at the Opoku Ware Secondary School from 1957 to 1963.
Between 1963 and 1967, Mr Poku studied French at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree.
The dismissal of the security chief, sources said, may be the prelude to an impending ministerial reshuffle, which would see the possible return of former Transportation Minister, Dr Richard Anane to the same ministry.
Since Dr Anane stepped down over a year ago, no substantive minister had been appointed for the Transportation Ministry.
The Energy Ministry, which has not been with a substantive minister since Joseph Kofi Adda was asked to proceed on leave three months ago, is also crying for a replacement. The Ministry is being run by the deputy Minister, Kwame Amporfo-Twumasi, MP for Nkoranza South.
More DCEs have also been penciled down for dismissal, DAILY GUIDE has gathered.
By Fortune Alimi
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Education Bill before Parliament soon
LISTEN FEB 15, 2010
Vice-president John Mahama
The Vice-President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has said that the Colleges of Education Bill will be presented to Parliament soon.
The bill, when passed, is expected to give colleges of education the necessary legal framework to enable them to operate as full tertiary institutions.
At the first congregation of the St. John Bosco's College of Education at Navrongo in the Upper East Region, the Vice-President said the government was leaving no stone unturned to restructure and revamp the educational sector in order to meet the manpower requirements of the nation.
He said the main focus of the government was to implement the education strategic plan, which, among the other things, sought to address the challenges in the management structure and content of education.
According to him, a lot of interventions had been put in the 2010 Budget Statement to address most of these challenges.
He said, for example, that the government was seriously pursuing the full conversion of the 38 Colleges of Education into tertiary institutions.
Vice-President Mahama said, as a first step, interim councils would be appointed to oversee the transition of these colleges into tertiary institutions, adding that the GETFund would also step up support for these tertiary institutions to complete their projects and start new ones to ensure that they were fully ready in terms of infrastructure to assume the responsibility that would be placed on them.
In 2004, teacher training colleges in Ghana were given the mandate to run the Diploma in Basic Education Programme. This was followed by the institutional accreditation of 38 public and one private teacher training colleges in August2007.
The colleges were thus designated Colleges of Education and regarded as tertiary institutions. Since then, the colleges had been waiting for a bill to be passed in Parliament to give them the necessary legal framework to operate as full tertiary institutions.
The Vice-President said teachers in rural areas who were pursuing distance education programmes would benefit from GH¢100 government assistance annually, while Science and Mathematics teachers would also continue to enjoy three incremental credits on their respective ranks.
He indicated that the government was also reviewing the vexed issue of study leave to see how it could be made transparent, fair and equitable.
He also disclosed that the legislation for the establishment of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), a policy initiative designed to put more resources into the north and open up opportunity to help close the development gap between the north and the south, was ready and would be presented to the current session of Parliament, in the hope that it would be passed.
He said even before the SADA legislation was passed, the government had received pledges from international organisations and donors in excess of $100 million.
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Mark Woyongo, commended the past and present leadership of the college and all other stakeholders who had worked to bring the college this far.
He disclosed that as part of efforts to address the infrastructural needs of the college, work would soon begin on a three-storey flat for tutors, while the contract for the principal's bungalow had been awarded.
The Principal of the College, Mr Alfred Abugre Ndago, called for the resourcing of colleges of education in the north now, to prevent them from collapsing in the future.
He, however, bemoaned the situation where the northern colleges were usually lumped together and treated the same way as their southern counterparts who were more endowed by virtue of their geographical location and years of support.
"Any development agenda for Colleges of Education in the north, must be well informed by the educational and poverty gaps between the north and the south," he said.
He also challenged the government to pay close attention to teacher education, since of late, the northern colleges were registering a dip in academic performance compared to their counterparts in the south.
"It is clear that the three northern regions are the poorest in Ghana with about nine out of 10 people earning less than $1 a day. Parents under such poor condition can hardly make any significant contributions to the education process by paying fees promptly and providing teaching and learning materials to their children."
Hon. Farouk Aliu Mahama donates uniforms, PPEs to schools
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Collateralisation is good if it is not used for subsidies – AFRO executive
Leaders of AFRO at the press conference
The Deputy Chairman of the Alliance For Responsible Opposition (AFRO), Jake Addo, has backed the government's decision to collateralise Ghana's oil as long as the government does not channel the funds into subsidising the social programmes in place.
At a press conference by AFRO on Wednesday, Mr Addo stated that the revenue to accrue from the oil operations should be invested in the country's infrastructure rather than social programmes such as the National Health Insurance Scheme, which he feels should be funded from other income-generating sources.
“[Concerning] oil revenue, if it's used for infrastructure; whether it's houses, [or] whether it's roads, [or] whether it's bridges, it is in order. What may not be very good is when we use the oil money on social amenities like free education, free health, free school uniforms [and] free feeding,” Jake Addo stated.
In a statement read on behalf of AFRO, the National Coordinator, Lord Koranteng Hamah, said the group was pleased with the 2011 budget, adding that, "the 2011 budget represents a bold initiative of the Mills regime to reduce poverty and create conditions for mass livelihood and prosperity."
He also said the 2011 budget will serve its purpose of stimulating growth and creating employment. He also expressed the backing of the group of the collateralisation of the nation's oil.
"AFRO is in favour of the collateralisation of oil revenue as a means of addressing Ghana's infrastructural challenges. It provides the most pragmatic and effective solution to the country's lagging housing and transportation infrastructure," he said.
Lord Hamah said AFRO was however not pleased with some provisions in the budget, particularly issues concerning the provision of schools and health facilities, insisting that such social amenities should be more rural oriented at the expense of developed communities.
He added that the group was displeased about some tax exemptions, highlighting the mining sector in particular.
Lord Hamah also criticized the 2008 presidential candidate of the Convention People's Party, CPP, Dr Paa Kwesi Ndoum. Dr. Nduom has been critiquing the budget and performance of the ruling NDC government.
Lord Hamah, said, “Dr Ndoum is an ideological misfit, both in record and personality. For eight years he defended the most spiritually bankrupt regime in Ghana's history; supported the most scandalous tax regimes on popular consumption; defended anti-inflationary policies and the kind of micro economic stability that he now condemns.
“His condemnation of the $13 billion loan and the STX Korea reflects a lack of recognition of the relation between oil revenue and long term public investments particularly, infrastructural development in the developing world.”
Story by Fidel Amoah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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Comet Launches IPO
Estate House
Comet Properties Limited, a wholly owned Ghanaian real estate company, yesterday launched its Initial Public Offer (IPO), in Accra to raise fund for long-term expansion projects.
The company is offering to the investing public 61,823,968 shares of no par value for subscription at a price of GH¢1.00 per share. The share is made up of 54,095,972 new shares to be issued from authorised shares, and 7,727,996 ordinary shares being offered by existing shareholders.
The 54,095,972 new shares are anticipated to increase the issued shares outstanding from 154,559,920 to 208,655,892. The new shareholders would hold 30 per cent of the company's post flotation shares.
The company expects to raise GH¢61,823,968 from the proceeds of this offer which began yesterday December 30, 2010 and ends on January 31, 2011.
Of this amount, the prospectus said, GH¢7,727,996, representing 12.5 per cent would go to its current shareholder being 7,727,996 shares offered for sale in the IPO.
The remaining GH¢54,095,972 being proceeds from new shares to be issued under the offer would be used for the expansion of the company's operations.
'It will be used to establish downstream operations for the production of plastic T&G for ceiling and paneling, aggregate stone, expansion of the company's wood processing facility and its aluminium fabrication plant,' the prospectus stated, projecting a dividend payout of 30 per cent per annum.
It further noted that part of the GH¢54,095,972 would be used to construct 1,000 residential houses during the plan period as well as low cost high-rise buildings for workers.
Comet Properties is a real estate development company that was established in 2002 with the primary objective of constructing and delivering property market, functional and comfortable houses in the country.
The company has since developed and delivered to customers, several houses on its maiden 2,000 acre Hillside Housing Estate Project at Brekuso near the Ashongman Housing Estates in Accra.
It is a member of the Ghana Real Estates Developers Association (GREDA). In its maiden entry into the prestigious Ghana Club 100, the company placed 47 in the over all rankings and first in the Real Estates Industry category.
Over the years, Comet has registered impressive growth with its gross profit averaging 107 percent per annum from 2005 to 2007.
In 2008, which was a challenging year, the company's turnover was GH¢19.34 million, representing an increase of six percent over the previous year of GH¢18.27 million. Additionally, profit after tax increased from GH¢661,109 in 2005 to GH¢758,311 in 2006.
The company's profit increased to GH¢1.83 million in 2007 and subsequently to GH¢2.66 million in 2008.
In September 2006, Comet, by a special resolution, converted from a private company to a public limited liability company, adopting amended regulations of a public company in its quest to open up shareholding to the larger investing public.
Comet would thus become the first real estate company to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange.
Nana Odeneho Kyeremanten, the Executive Chairman of Comet Properties, was full of excitement for the new direction of his outfit.
'We want to take on the discipline of the market place to earn greater reputation and to be able to access greater capital to improve our housing delivery.'
Kofi Yamoah, Managing Director of the GSE, commenting on the provisional listing of the company said: 'We at the GSE are delighted to have Comet Properties Limited, which is a wholly owned Ghanaian real estate company.'
It would add to the diversity of companies that are represented on the market, he added.
By Felix Dela Klutse
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Databank Develops Welfare Index
By Paa Kwesi Agyefi - Daily Graphic
The Research Department of Databank Group, has developed a welfare index for Ghana to track the living standards of the people.
The Economic Reality Index (ERI) is to track improvement or otherwise in the living standards of the Ghanaian based on the basic necessities of life.
The index broadens the statistical measure of welfare to include cost of living (inflation), employment and quantitative variables in health, education, among other variables.
With the introduction of qualitative variables and the calculation of the cost of living based on the concept of the basic necessities of life, the Databank welfare index is more comprehensive than the earlier approaches used.
The index will be calculated on quarterly basis and will be announced by Databank research unit through its publications.
In 2004, Databank Research began the process of developing a welfare index in line with the concept of the misery index developed by Arthur Okun (An American Economist).
The original misery index sums up inflation and unemployment which deterioration creates social and economic cost. Other economists in subsequent years extended the misery index to include economic indicators such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and interest rates.
The ERI is made up of low and middle income sub-indices, with the overall index being the weighted average of the two. The sub-indices are the Agbobloshie Index (Low Income) and the Oxford Street Index (high income).
It is expected that the index will help in the evaluation of the public policy in the provision of the basic necessities of life.
The sampling for the index was done in selected areas in the Greater Accra Region. This is premised on the fact that the broad social characteristics of Greater Accra (i.e. Ga rural, urban poor and urban populations) typify the socio economic population groupings of the entire country.
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House Approves $9m Controversial Loan
Parliament has approved the $9 million loan contracted by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) a day after it was described by some members of the legislature as a 'stinking' credit facility.
The credit facility was approved Friday morning following the assurance by Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister for Finance and Economic Planning that the concerns of the lawmakers on the deal would be taken on board during the implementation of the project.
The Mills administration sought parliamentary approval for the financing agreement between the Government of Ghana and the International Fund for Agricultural Development on an amount of SDR 5,590,000, an equivalent of $9,000,000, for the Rural and Agricultural Finance Programme (RAFiP).
However, the House initially stopped the approval of the loan after some MPs argued that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, headed by Kwesi Ahwoi, was going to use the credit facility to build the capacity of 'suit and tie-wearing bank officials' at the expense of poor farmers.
The MP for Okere, Dan Botwe had urged the House to reject the loan facility, noting that it was an insult to the integrity of Parliament to approve such a loan to build the capacity of financial institutions when farmers were facing challenges in accessing finances for their agricultural production.
He suggested that the loan should only be approved if the House was given the assurance that Agric Extension Officers, who engaged directly with farmers, would benefit from the capacity building programme.
Supporting the loan facility, Deputy Minority leader, Ambrose Dery who is also the MP for Lawra/Nandom, indicated the agric extension officers were going to be part of the programme.
The loan, he suggested, should be used for the benefit of poor farmers and build the capacity of rural banks' officials who sometimes find it difficult in disbursing credit facilities to farmers when such facilities are available.
According to Ambrose Dery, if adequately trained and motivated, Rural Bank officials would be able to reach out to poor farmers and give credit facilities directly to them for their agricultural production.
Backing the loan agreement, MP for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh, said the few rural banks in the country do not have the capacity to effectively disburse loans to farmers.
Yieleh Chireh, a former Minister of state in charge of Local Government and Rural Development as well as Health, stressed the need to strengthen the capacity of rural banks to enable them disburse credit facilities to farmers.
By Awudu Mahama
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Public Servants Challenged To Help Achieve SDGs
The Ghana Association for Public Administration and Management (GAPAM) has held a day's workshop in Accra to discuss the role of public servants in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The 17 goals, which seek to end poverty, protect the earth, and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030 charges countries to come up with clear approaches in achieving it.
The SDGs inspires countries to think creatively by leveraging innovative approaches and critically rethinking the way to approach the development challenges of today.
The workshop was, however, aimed at building team spirit among the public servants to engage each other through strong and sustained alliances with unions and associations such as the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSAG).
It was on the theme: 'Role of the Public Sector in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).'
Dr Gifty Oforiwaa Gyamera, the President GAPAM, speaking at the event noted that the public service remained one of the key institutions for achieving the goals as they coordinated and directly provided the needed public goods and the implementation of the sector policy.
She said it was therefore important as the mandate of the SDGs required to revamp the capacity of the public service in scope and urgency for success.
Ms Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, in her address lauded Ghana's efforts at enacting various policies and strategies aimed at achieving the SDGs.
She, however, called for the translation of such policies into clear cut strategies as government invested more resources to see to its implementation.
Ms Evans-Klock noted that three years had already passed since the SDGs was adopted and it was important that serious work go into the implementations in the 12 years left, assuring that the UN was committed to partner Ghana in that regard.
She acknowledged the role of the public servants as key partners in realising the SDGs and urged the workers to be innovative and ensure accurate data was obtained and policies well-coordinated to compliment government efforts to achieve the goals.
Mr Kodjo Mensah-Abrampa, the Senior Technical Adviser, Ministry of Planning, said public servants needed a substantive knowledge to realising the SDGs as they were important and allowed for shares framework that fostered collaboration within and across countries, stakeholders and inspired action.
Mr Mensah-Abrampa urged public servants to mobilise support, collect data for analysis, analyse the sector problem, have a policy leadership and interpretation planning, and prioritise programmes.
Implementation, financing and administering, accountability and reporting, adding that advocacy and facilitations were also key in creating a long lasting change.
Mr Issac Paul Bampoe-Addo, the Executive Secretary CLOSAG in a speech read on his behalf expressed gratitude to GAPAM for the opportunity and pledged their support towards achieving the SGDs.
He called on the Government not to relinquish its responsibility for training and providing requisite tools and congenial working environment to the staff within the CLOSAG for efficient and effective service delivery to the good people of Ghana.
He noted that, the supplementary capacity building workshops were measures to motivate the staff to give of their best, adding that, the development of human capital towards higher productivity at the least cost was in the interest of both employer and employee.
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Revocation Of Local Banks' Licences Is In Public Interest
Accra, Aug. 03, GNA — The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says the revocation of the licences of seven indigenous banks within a year was done in the overall best interest of the Ghanaian economy to redirect and re-shape the sector to deliver on its mandate.
The Central Bank on Tuesday, August 1, revoked the licences of five indigenous banks including the Unibank Ghana, Construction Bank, Sovereign Bank, Royal Bank and Beige Bank to form the Consolidated Bank of Ghana.
Additionally, in August last year, the BoG also liquidated the UT Bank and Capital Bank for various financial infractions.
Dr Ernest Kwamina Addison, the Governor of the BoG, speaking at the 18th Annual Working Luncheon of the Ghana Association of Bankers in Accra on Friday, said although it was an unpleasant and difficult decision, it was aimed at ensuring financial stability in the banking industry.
The move, he said, followed series of financial infractions including licensing acquisition, inadequate capital, high levels of liquidity and credit management controls and weak corporate governance structures.
To support government's objective of financial stability and strengthen indigenous banks, Dr Addison said the government had recapitalised the newly formed banks to take the assets and liabilities of the defunct banks.
The government had also issued a bond of GH¢5.76 billion to cover the gap of the liabilities and good assets of the consolidated banks, he added.
The Governor said the Central Bank's mandate was to promote sound economic management and stability of the financial system and would, therefore, continue to strengthen the regulatory mechanisms in the sector to propel economic growth.
'The decision was taken to provide safety-net for vulnerable depositors' funds and imbue confidence in the banking industry,' he added.
Dr Addison said government, through the Central Bank, would only extend financial support to local banks that were solvent, well governed and managed, and in full compliance of the Central Bank's regulatory requirements.as well as able to demonstrate that they had accessed private-sector solutions for re-capitalisation.
The Governor underlined the need for indigenous banks facing financial difficulty to meet the Central Bank's minimum capital requirement of GH¢400 million to merge, in order to raise the required amount to avoid suffering the fate of the liquidated banks.
Dr Addison said the current financial challenge facing the banking industry was surmountable, noting that, there were some indigenous banks that were performing very well and encouraged the public to be confident in depositing their funds with them.
He noted that the Central Bank had been focusing attention on two issues including; implementing sound policies to stabilise the macro-economy and price stability as well as financial stability.
Dr Addison said: 'We have seen significant improvements in the macro-economy, and we've seen the rate of inflation and that the country is on the path to full recovery, given the data we have seen over the first quarter of this year'.
However, he said, the country had witnessed some volatility in the currency market across most of the emerging markets and frontier economies including; Ghana, which had been largely attributed to the normalisation of the United States Monetary Policy, resulting in rising US dollar Assets leading to tight global financing conditions, reverse capital flows and exchange rate reversions.
Despite those external development, Dr Addison said the Cedi had gradually stabilised against the US dollar, saying; 'Although we need to remain vigilant as the external environment remains porous'.
He noted that those improvements in the macroeconomic indicators would result in the reduction of the lending rate, which would support private sector credit allocations and propel the economy to the desired growth.
Dr Addison, therefore, underlined the need for the country to pursue robust policies aimed at ensuring economic stability and growth.
At the end of June 2018, he said, the total asset of the banking industry stood at GH¢103 billion, growing by 15.7 per cent over corresponding period last year.
He said although the financial soundness of the banking sector had improved, the financial quality remained a concern transmitting into capital deficiency and some profitability pressures on banks.
Dr Addison believed the implementation of the national property and addressing system would go a long way to reduce loan default.
Mr Frank Adu Junior, the Vice President of the Ghana Association of Bankers, in an earlier remarks, said the association fully supported the Central Bank's resolve to address the shortfalls in the banking industry.
However, he said, if caution was not exercised, it would adversely affect the image of the banking sector and confidence of depositors, which would lead to panic withdrawals.
By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA
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26.09.2018 Opinion
Opinion: Xenophobic Nationals Murder Zambian In Love...Chinese Are No Gods!
By Ghanaian Chronicle
The story is as chilling as it is disgusting. “A Zambian student in China has been killed by Chinese nationals for dating a Chinese woman,” according to an official report by #AllH News agency doing the rounds on the world-wide web.
“Christopher Mwale, 25, a student studying Civil Engineering in that country, was beaten to death on Monday mid-morning, after he was found in a woman's apartment.”
“It is said that Mr. Mwale spent the night at her girl friend's place after clubbing on Sunday night. Four Chinese nationals approached the apartment and dragged Mr. Mwale out and started beating him with iron bars and stones until his final breath.”
The report quotes an eye-witness and close friend of Mr. Mwale, who informed Zambian Watch about the murder, that despite his pleading, the Chinese murderers rather insulted him. “We went out drinking on Sunday night as a group. After our drinks, we got on a taxi heading to our apartment. On the way, Mr. Mwali's girlfriend said she wanted to spend a night with him.
“That's how they left, and I was only called by the girl-friend in the morning to come and save my friend,” he said.
“I rushed to the scene and found four Chinese men beating and insulting him that there is no black man allowed to date their women. They insulted him that Africa was too poor and they would not allow black beings to be raised in their country. Despite pleading, they hit him with iron bars and stones until his final breath,” the deceased's friend said.
To think that there are no reports of arrests of these miscreants tells a lot about how the Chinese authorities view the quality of life of the African. Let us view this barbaric tendency against what Chinese construction workers left behind in Ghana, after they had worked on the Essipong Stadium in Sekondi. Many Chinese babies were born, but still remain unclaimed.
In a number of cases, the mothers could not even identify their husbands. In spite of this situation, no one raised a finger against any of these Chinese workers. The employment of murder as a protective weapon in the maintenance of the purity of the Chinese nationality in the face of a few African students obeying the dictates of nature in their backyard, is appalling, to state the least.
I do not believe ordinarily that the deceased Zambian student, or any other African, would willingly want to mate with any 'Yellow Sisi' in his natural environment. It is the exigencies of the moment that might have compelled Mr. Mwali to seek a partner in his Chinese girl-friend.
Let us face it. The Chinese have no regard for us, and that is why our leaders should be careful with their newfound friends. What saddens me is that, so far, African leaders have remained mute over the murder. I bet my bottom cedi that if a Chinese had been murdered in cold blood, as what has been visited on this Zambian student, the issue would have hit the floor of the United Nations and its Security Council.
As you read this piece, most African leaders are in the United Nations Headquarters in New York. African leaders are expected to take their turns to dazzle the world with their hard work and industry that have combined to translate into equality and tranquility in their backyards.
I am told that my President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will take his turn at the podium to address the world today or tomorrow. I am not abreast with his brief. I hope someone at the Foreign Affairs Ministry would prompt the President on this murder so foul. It will make my day if my President brings this issue to the world forum, and unequivocally inform Chinese officials and their nationals that this nation, formerly called the Gold Coast, does not, and will not, countenance this kind of xenophobic attack from Chinese nationals who expect to be treated with decency in Ghana.
Let it be trumpeted loud and clear, we are poor and proud. In any case, since when did China become the land of honey? Yes, they have done well for themselves. But it is not long ago when the long drawn out faces of Chinese refusniks virtually rotting away at Mao Tse Tung's concentration camps was beamed across the world.
China may be rich and famous today, but it is certainly not the land of honey. Otherwise, millions of their nationals would not be globe-trotting, seeking resources to improve their qualities of life. I am a very angry African today. I am annoyed because Africa has so disastrously managed the resources nature endowed the continent with, to such an extent that we are beggars in the midst of plenty.
We are so poor and unable to control our resources in Ghana that we have allowed the Chinese to ease themselves into our rivers and water bodies, as they take away our gold and other rich ornaments, in the process of which they continue to rape our women. They have also turned their guns on locals who resist their illegal presence.
Even when they are arrested, the prosecution process is so slow and cumbersome that many of them return to rape our land with very little resistance from the local law and order professionals.
Traditionally, small-scale mining has always been carried out by indigenous Ghanaians, but of late, Chinese nationals have invaded the artisanal business in their numbers. Within the last few years, an estimated 50,000 Chinese have invaded the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, causing serious damage to the ecology. The pollution of water bodies and large scale destruction of the lands have seriously undermined this nation's extractive mining base.
What is proving to be even more serious to national reconstruction efforts are large scale reports of wanton hostilities of these migrant workers to local communities. Even when these Chinese miscreants are arrested, their prosecution has so far failed to nail them.
I am particularly irked by the story of Aisha Huang, also known as Yaa Asantewaa. When she was arrested, many of us hailed the move as contributing towards the elimination of the Chinese from the illegal mining activities. To the chagrin of many Ghanaian nationals, Aisha was said to have been bailed out. Unofficial reports indicate that her excavators seized by National Security personnel have been released following an order by the Ashanti Regional Security Council.
We are told that Aisha holds Ghanaian nationality on account of marriage. Elsewhere, her nationality would have been withdrawn. She would have been put on the next available flight back to China. Not in this country though!
The Ghana Immigration Service named Aisha as the kingpin of the Chinese invasion of the galamsey (illegal mining) business. Why she remains in Ghana, in spite of the overwhelming evidence against her presence, tells everything about why Africa is wooing the Chinese.
As you read this story, Ghana is toying with the idea of contracting a whopping US$50 billion Chinese bond to last a century. What this means is that if the bond is successful, this country would take 100 years to pay back.
I must be honest here. I am an admirer of President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his administration. Some of us fought hard to bring this administration into being, after the 'dead goat' syndrome of the Mahama regime. I am committed body and soul to the success of the President.
I am one of the greatest advocates for the President's vision of a 'Ghana Beyond Aid.' I have always held the view that development must be based on each country's comparable advantage. That is why I believe that the President's notion of One District, One Factory, is the key to unlocking our development potential.
What we must guard against is the kind of political patronage that contributed to the collapse of virtually all state industries set up in the Nkrumah regime, since the overthrow of the first President of this nation in 1966.
I am aware of challenges with financing, but I believe if we cut our cloth according to our sizes and the size of materials available, we would succeed. I am not in favour of the so-called US$50 billion bond idea being tossed about. In the first place, I do not believe China has US$50 billion to be doled out to Ghana alone.
Secondly, it is never in the interest of this nation and its future to mortgage our resources for 100 years. The deal looks good on paper. With US$50 billion, we could do a lot. This country could revive its rail network for instance, and revive the airline industry with a national carrier. We will be able to build more schools and improve on the water and energy supply situation.
There is more that the US50 billion bond can do, but I am uncomfortable with opening our country up to unnecessary Chinese influence. I am very uncomfortable with the mode of payment as well.
I believe we have enough resources to harness for Ghana's development. Our development module is in our hands, not in the hands of Chinese or any other foreign nationals.
I am not an economist, but I think we can minimise the black market dealings in the national currency. We can also restrict the operation of forex bureaux and eliminate the influence of foreign nationals in the currency trade.
Above all, we could minimise government budget and avoid expensive air travels by government officials. The other day, when President Akufo-Addo placed a restriction order on foreign travels by his ministers, I applauded the scheme. I am not sure whether the ban is still in place. I still hear of this or that minister out of the country. I must confess I have not benefitted from any briefing on what our ministers do while outside the country.
Whatever it is, restricting the way state resources are applied would buy confidence for this administration. I hope and pray that the President and all his men and women are monitoring their own performances. When the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took over power after the overwhelming endorsement at the polls, it looked like the President and his administration could do no wrong. Ghanaians were solid in their support.
I have not conducted any public research since then, but from the utterances of ordinary Ghanaians, there is the likelihood that the honeymoon period is over. It is time for delivery. I know for a fact that Chinese money is necessary to meet the demands of the moment.
There is one thing too I know. These Chinese are no gods. They cannot and will not provide all answers to our problems. That is why we must look within for solutions to our problems.
I shall return!
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Burkina Faso holds Ivory Coast to a 0-0 draw
By Ghana FA
Tournament favorite Ivory Coast was held to a 0-0 draw by Burkina Faso in the first Group B game of the African Cup of Nations on Monday.
Ivory Coast, which hasn't won the biennial competition since 1992, wasted more than a dozen of chances at the Chiazi stadium.
Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso lead the three-team group with one point each.
Ghana, which was originally scheduled to play Togo later Monday, will enter the competition on Friday against Ivory Coast.
Togo left the competition following the death of two members of its delegation in an ambush last week before the tournament started.
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Rally calls on SCOTUS to end gerrymandering practices
Posted: Mar 26, 2019 / 11:15 PM CDT / Updated: Mar 26, 2019 / 11:15 PM CDT
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — As the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on congressional redistricting, a crowd of demonstrators rallied outside in hopes of convincing the panel to put an end to partisan gerrymandering.
It’s a case that could have lasting effects since all 50 states will be adjusting congressional districts after next year’s U.S. census.
Long lines wrapped around the building as protesters gathered on the steps, urging the high court to act on creating fair congressional maps. Attendees included Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, both Republicans.
“It’s a crime,” Schwarzenegger said. “It is a national scandal of what’s going on with gerrymandering and the way our politicians draw the district lines.”
Justices heard arguments on whether states violate the First Amendment when they redraw congressional districts.
“We heard two cases here today,” Hogan said. “One case in North Carolina where Republicans were gerrymandering and in our case in Maryland, where the Democrats were gerrymandering, and in both cases it’s wrong.”
The Maryland case involves a district that was drawn by Democrats in 2011. It’s long and skinny and runs from the Conservative Republican northwest corner of the state to the reliably Democratic Washington suburbs.
A group of Republican voters claims it was designed in an effort to flip the district from longtime Republican to Democrat.
The district is now represented by Democrat David Trone.
Hogan said he supports the Republican voters in this case. He argues that redistricting should be taken out of politicians’ hands.
“The voters overwhelmingly – some 80 percent of the people in our state – want to take this decision away from the politicians and give it to a non-partisan redistricting commission,” he said. “It’s really what people want.”
Meanwhile, inside the court, justices wrestled with how best to handle the problem.
Justice Neil Gorsuch asked why the Supreme Court should decide the case instead of leaving it to the states.
The court is expected to make a decision on the case in June.
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Close vote for Monroe school bond
Susan Loyer
MONROE - Voters on Tuesday narrowly rejected a $68.8 million school bond that called for the construction of a second middle school in the township.
According to the unofficial results from the Middlesex County Clerk's Office, the bond was defeated by a vote of 3,244 to 3,101.
"I'm extremely disappointed," Superintendent of Schools Michael G. Kozak said. "We missed it by 143 votes. This just delays the solution to our overcrowding at schools."
Kozak said he appreciates all the efforts that so many people put forth in getting the word out.
"This was a real team effort," he said, adding that the district was striving for total transparency in disseminating information on the issue.
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"We're going to have to reconvene the Board of Ed and really decide what the next steps are," Kozak said.
"We're going to have to take some time and analyze the results and try to understand why this was rejected."
The bond called for the construction of a 152,315-square-foot, 1,000-student middle school that would have been built at a 35-acre site on Applegarth and Cranbury Station roads.
In an earlier interview, Kozak said, "student enrollment has grown by more than 1,781 students in the past eight years, which has caused our aggregate school enrollment to exceed the functional capacity of our schools by 1,500 students."
The current middle school is about 500 students over capacity, Kozak said, adding that in September, 10 temporary classroom units will be put at the middle school to accommodate the students coming in.
But Kozak said that was not a permanent solution.
"We want to provide the best learning environment for students," he said. "Right now it's crowded in the hallways and the lunch room. The library has been cut in half to make room for additional classrooms.
"Just about every nook and cranny in the current middle school is used for instruction in some capacity or another. With so many students, the students also don't have as great an opportunity to participate in such events as our middle school activities, whether it be middle school athletics or the plays."
While the high school is in need of an addition and the township is in need of a new elementary school, the bond was only for construction of a second middle school.
For additional information about the school district, visit www.monroe.k12.nj.us.
Staff Writer Susan Loyer: 732-565-7243; sloyer@gannettnj.com
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Appiah At Home In Serbia
Ex-Ghana skipper Stephen Appiah says he’s enjoying his time with Serbian top-flight side FK Vojvodina.
The 31-year-old has been at his breathtaking best since he joined the Eastern European side in February.
The former Juventus and Fernabache man has shown tremendous fitness level and leadership qualities which has helped the side to maintain their third position on the league table and he’s thrilled to regain his confidence.
“Everything is going on well and I’m happy with my output for the club so far. Sometimes I wished fans back home got the chance to see some of the matches,” Appiah told Accra-based Happy FM
“Many things have happened to me in my career and it’s by the Grace of God that has seen me through to this time and I will forever be grateful to him.
“Even though the competitive nature of the Serbian league cannot be equated to the likes of the Premiership, La Liga and Seria A, the level of competition can also be counted among some of the European leagues.
“It’s all about you and how serious you take your career.
“I am enjoying my time. I have more years to play and with the way I’m back to full fitness and playing, I believe the sky will be the limit for me,”
The ambitious side trail giant Partizan Belgrade by eleven points and will next tackle Hajduk Kula on Saturday in the Serbian Super Liga. — Ghanasoccernet
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Williams calls for support for Lions
Kpando, Oct. 14, GNA-Mr Joe Williams, an Accra based Businessman, has called on football enthusiasts in the Volta Region to form a supporters club for the Kpando Heart of Lions Football Club, the only soccer club playing the Kinapharma Premier League. He urged citizens of the region to make financial contributions towards the running of the club, adding that with financial and moral support the team would be one of the best in the country.
Speaking to the GNA Sports at Kpando last Sunday, Mr Williams said Heart of Lions, the only one from the region in the Premier Division must be supported to remain in the elite division. He, therefore, appealed the Chiefs and Members of Parliament in the region to pool their resources in support of the Club. "Let us forget about our political and tribal differences when offering our support to sustain the Club", he implored. Mr Williams further appealed to the Ministry of Youth, Education and Sports (YES) to rehabilitate the Kpando Stadium, which is in a deplorable state.
He expressed his gratitude to Miss Akua Sena Dansua, MP for North-Dayi, for using part of her MPs common fund to provide plastic chairs for use at the stadium. "We need shelter at the stadium, our Paramount Chiefs and other dignitaries who patronise league matches at the stadium are at the mercy of the weather, we need to help", Mr Williams said. Mr Williams urged the players to train hard in order to remain in top form always.
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Getting Out There Cruising Chapter 10 of 15
Phyllis Published Feb 1, 2012 40 comments Updated March 6, 2020
Lane Finley’s comment on John’s post, A Model T Offshore Voyaging Boat, got me thinking. I agree that some of the reasons women are reluctant to go cruising are those that Lane posits: seasickness, loneliness, inconvenience, discomfort…not to mention separation from children/grandchildren…But I’m wondering if there isn’t more to the issue than that. And, as I really don’t feel I can speak for anyone other than myself, I’m going to talk about my own struggles and hope that they will speak to those of other women too.
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George Washington enjoyed a wide variety of the types of public entertainment available to eighteenth century Americans. While Washington's popular image is often one of sternness and formality, he often patronized the travelling players and performers who made their living moving from one community to the next, showing off their acrobatic skills or exotic animals.
As a Burgess, George Washington himself helped an immigrant named Peter Stover get permission from the Virginia legislature to found a new town in Frederick County, to be named Strasburg, after Stover's hometown in Alsace. In correspondence concerning the upcoming submission of the bill establishing the town, Washington asked Stover "if you wanted Fairs appointed," so that both pieces of legislation could be handled at the same time; as signed by the governor, the bill included permission to hold fairs twice each year in the new community.1
In February of 1752, the Virginia legislature passed "An Act for allowing Fairs to be kept in the Town of Alexandria." Agreeing that fairs would be "very commodious to the inhabitants of those parts of Virginia, and greatly increase the trade of that town," the burgesses decreed that two fairs be held in Alexandria each year, in May and October. A difficult-to-decipher notation in one of Washington's financial ledgers indicates that he may have attended or even sold something at the Alexandria fair in the early 1760s. The reference to the fair is grouped together with payments to a man for driving nine head of cattle for Washington. The entry also notes that Washington saw a lioness, bought a subscription to the Alexandria purse (a horse race), and purchased a ticket for a ball, all activities which might be expected to occur in conjunction with a fair.2
Many years later, during George Washington's presidency, Martha Washington traveled from Philadelphia to Trenton with her two youngest grandchildren and several other household members. On their return trip, the group stopped at a fair in Bristol, Pennsylvania, where the first lady spent 7 shillings and 6 pence on "things for the children."3
Over the years, George Washington and various members of his household were able to learn something about the world outside Virginia from the itinerant entertainers who traveled along the eastern seaboard. Many of these individuals worked with exotic or specially-trained animals. For example, Washington recorded paying ten shillings to see a "Lyoness" in June of 1766, and three years later spent three shillings and one and a half pence to see a "Tyger," which could have been either the now-familiar striped Asian tiger or a North American cougar or puma, referred to by the colonists as "red tigers."4 Washington saw a "Cugar" in Philadelphia during his presidency, as well as a "Sea Leopard," a type of sea lion.5 At least twice in his life, Washington paid to see an elk, and during the presidency, he paid "for to see Elephant."6
One of the most intriguing references is a notation in a financial ledger that notes that four days after Christmas in 1787, the Washingtons paid eighteen shillings to "the man who brot a Camel from Alex[andri]a for a show."'7 The Washington family was also interested in animals exhibiting special qualities or training. During the presidency, the Washingtons paid $3.00 to a "man who had a very sagacious Dog," so that they could see "his performance."8
Interesting human performances also attracted the attention of the Washington household. In May of 1767, George Washington paid one pound, seven shillings, and six pence for "seeing Slight of hand performd."9 In addition to rare animals and human performers, the Washingtons also enjoyed other entertainments. During the early part of the presidency, when the executive mansion was in New York, the Washington family made several visits to a waxworks, where one of the exhibits featured "a representation of The President of the United States, sitting under a Canopy, in his Military Dress-Over the Head of his Excellency a Fame [probably an allegorical figure of a woman] is suspended (also in Wax) crowning him with a Wreath of Laurels."10
Mary V. Thompson
Research Historian
Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
1. "George Washington to Peter Stover, 9 November 1761" The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, Vol. 7 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Pres, 1990), 98-99, 99n.
2. George Washington, "Sundrys. . ." Ledger A (photostat, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association), 143a.
3. Stephen Decatur, Jr. Private Affairs of George Washington, From the Records and Accounts of Tobias Lear, Esquire, his Secretary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933), 235-36.
4. George Washington, "Sundrys. . ." Ledger A (photostat, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association), 143a; The Diaries of George Washington, Vol. 2 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1976), 193n.
5. Decatur, 203, 265.
6. George Washington, "Sundrys. . ." Ledger A (photostat, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association), 232 a; Ledger B, 6 July 1788 (photostat, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association), 269a; Philadelphia Household Account Book, (Mount Vernon Ladies' Association), 25 August 1796 and 16 November 1796.
7. Ledger B, 29 December 1787, 257a.
8. Philadelphia Household Account Book, 17 November 1795.
9. Ledger A, 20 May 1767, 249a.
10. Decatur, 62.
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Home » News » Be Careful With How You Celebrate Christmas Amid The Pandemic – NCDC
Be Careful With How You Celebrate Christmas Amid The Pandemic – NCDC
Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Dec 22, 2020
Coronavirus Nigeria
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has come out to beg Nigerians to adhere to recommended measures put in place by the public health authorities during the Christmas period.
The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu recently revealed this recently, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, the recent campaign themed “Celebrate Responsibly and Save Lives” is focused on all citizens taking all necessary precautions for a safe and healthy Christmas celebration for all.
He added that COVID-19 has continued to threaten lives and livelihoods, therefore everyone must do everything possible to stay safe.
His words, “Critically, Nigerians are being urged to adhere to recommended measures by NCDC and other public health authorities, as they celebrate Christmas and New Year. Please avoid all non-essential travel within and outside Nigeria to reduce the risk of transmission.
“The virus that causes COVID-19 is more likely to spread in mass gatherings especially when held indoors. We advise that people avoid mass gatherings during this time, or hold them outdoors with physical distancing, compulsory use of facemasks and provision of handwashing facilities or hand sanitizer,”
“The campaign is specifically focused on the next four weeks, which includes the Christmas, New Year holiday and start of the new year, as there is a need to reinforce to Nigerians that now is not the time to let down our guard.
“COVID-19 has continued to threaten lives and livelihoods and we must take all precautions necessary. It will include the production of audio and visual materials which have been translated to local languages, for wide dissemination. The NCDC urges all individuals, traditional and religious leaders, business owners, the media, and other institutions to join the campaign.”
“On the 17th of December, a record daily number of 1,145 new confirmed cases were recorded. This increase is as a result of the convergence of circumstances which includes increased local and international travels, business, and religious activities with minimal compliance with COVID-19 safety measures by the members of the public.
“As of 21st December 2020, a total of 78,790 cases and 1,227 deaths have been recorded in Nigeria across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, with over 70 million cases reported globally.”
“Individuals and institutions have a responsibility too and need to play their part in ensuring adherence to the preventive measures. The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the PTF-COVID-19, the Federal Ministry of Information and Health, as well as NCDC and its partners, are therefore intensifying risk and crisis communication efforts to remind all of us about our collective responsibility.”
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Home » Celebrity News » Fans Have No Idea How Serious The War Between Davido/Wizkid Is – Kemi Olunloyo
Fans Have No Idea How Serious The War Between Davido/Wizkid Is – Kemi Olunloyo
Kemi Olunloyo
Popular investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has come out to say that the cold war between Davido and Wizkid can destroy our music industry.
She recently revealed that Davido’s crew once went as far as sending death threats to Wizkid’s associates amid their beef.
According to her, she still cannot believe that it was allowed to get to that stage, and fans have no idea how serious their war is.
She added that Davido has to do more to control his crew during the rivalry, especially when they are outside the country.
Her words, “The cold war going on between Davido and WizKid could destroy the Nigerian music business. The seath threats metted upon WizKid associates by 30BG crew is unbelievable. Fans have no idea! Davido should control his crew ASAP. Most of this is happening abroad.”
David Adedeji Adeleke (born November 21, 1992), who is better known as Davido, is an American-born Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Davido was born in Atlanta, US, and raised in Lagos; he made his music debut as a member of the music group KB International.
He studied business administration at Oakwood University before dropping out to make beats and record vocal references. Davido rose to fame after releasing “Dami Duro”, the second single from his debut studio album Omo Baba Olowo (2012), from which six additional singles—”Back When”, “Ekuro”, “Overseas”, “All of You”, “Gbon Gbon”, and “Feel Alright”—were taken. In 2012, Davido won the Next Rated award at The Headies. Between 2013 and 2015, he released the hit singles “Gobe”, “One of a Kind”, “Skelewu”, “Aye”, “Tchelete (Goodlife)”, “Naughty”, “Owo Ni Koko”, “The Sound” and “The Money”.
In May 2014, Davido criticized the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) after missing his flight to London, and accused them of pestering him for money. On May 11, 2014, the PR officer for the NIS denied Davido’s allegations and said they did not issue him an exit permit because he did not have the correct travel documents with him.
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Creative Lead
Chris is our award-winning Creative Lead. He graduated from Newcastle College in 2004 with both an ND and HND in Graphic Design. Chris spent time working in small design agencies in Newcastle, gaining valuable experience, before crossing paths with our very own Kieron Goldsborough. Chris worked closely with Kieron at ncjMedia for 5 years, working on the company’s key design accounts. In this time Chris also developed a real passion for print, which he is still obsessed with today!
Chris moved to Narrative in 2011 as the company’s first designer and has honed and developed his considerable creative skills on accounts including Berghaus, Mattel, Newcastle University, Sage Gateshead, Erwin Hymer and Venator. Chris is a master at working across a variety of media; producing print and digital campaigns that get outstanding results for clients.
His role has developed over the years and he now focuses on the delivery management side of the team, whilst still working as a senior design creative. With over a decade of experience now, Chris is responsible for keeping the Creative Delivery Team ticking with an incredible eye for detail and a real creative flair. Having worked on some major award-winning projects during his time with us, Chris is a key member of the Narrative tale.
His ‘must watch’ TV series is the lesser known, but still amazing, Justified. Main character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, is something of a 19th-century-style, Old West lawman living in modern times. His unconventional enforcement of justice makes him a target of criminals and a problem child to his superiors. It’s got everything…a dark comedy element, a few different storylines and a brilliant southern blues soundtrack.
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March 18, 2016 // Professionalism Up, Distractions Down
Cellphone charging stations are becoming more common at air traffic facilities across the country, to help keep distractions out of the operational environment.
These hubs serve as a place for controllers to safely store their personal electronic devices while they are on position, so they can stay focused on working flights in-and-out of their facility’s airspace. That’s why Potomac TRACON (PCT) recently installed one.
“We want to hold our heads high and show that we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing,” said Brandon Miller, NATCA PCT Facility Representative. “We have a responsibility to the flying public, and we want to present ourselves as professionals, 24/7.”
The station is located in a common area right outside the office of Traffic Management Officer Jim Estes, who decorated it with a Turn Off Tune In sticker. “I see a lot of activity; it’s getting a lot of use,” Estes said. “It’s been an education piece for folks, and people take it very seriously.”
Smith (left) and Miller (right) show off the new charging station.
Turn Off Tune In, one of five programs in the FAA-NATCA Foundations of Professionalism initiative, is targeted at raising awareness of the safety impact of workplace distractions, and has helped the controller workforce in this effort on a national scale. Last September, the workforce at Denver Center installed a similar charging station.
Peer-to-peer support among controllers while on position has been key to maintaining a high level of professionalism at PCT. And the collaboration between controllers and managers has also been robust.
“We have honest, open dialogue,” Air Traffic Manager Steve Smith said. “Turn Off Tune In and the other programs help us enhance safety and create a positive place to work. It’s definitely a morale booster. That’s how we keep professionalism up and distractions down.”
Smith and Miller agree that all of the Foundations of Professionalism programs – Turn Off Tune In, Professional Standards, the Air Traffic Safety Action Program, Fully Charged and Respect – are working effectively and in combination. And they also bring consistency to the messaging that controllers receive.
“It all works so seamlessly for every controller and frontline manager,” Miller said. “Everything we do is structured by these foundations and the way we present ourselves professionally.”
This article has been published jointly by NATCA and the FAA. For more information on distractions and safety, visit the Turn Off Tune In website.
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Malaysian MoD Receives Additional Allocation for Scorpene Submarines
3 August 2011 (Last Updated August 3rd, 2011 18:30)
The Malaysian Defence Ministry (Mindef) has received RM493.3m ($167m) as additional allocation to maintain two of its Scorpene Class submarines, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has said. The additional amount raises the total defence budget to RM11bn ($3.7bn) this year,
The Malaysian Defence Ministry (Mindef) has received RM493.3m ($167m) as additional allocation to maintain two of its Scorpene Class submarines, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has said.
The additional amount raises the total defence budget to RM11bn ($3.7bn) this year, Hamidi added.
“In the original budget, there was no allocation to maintain two of our Scorpene submarines, nor for administrative purposes,” he said.
The two diesel-electric Scorpene submarines, KD Tunku Abdul Rahman and KD Tun Abdul Razak, were purchased from French defence company DCNS in 2002, according to the Malaysian Star.
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by Nazar Ul Islam November 26, 2018
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Women in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly hope for parity with their male colleagues on legislative issues
Despite electing the Muslim world’s first woman prime minister—and appointing women to various senior positions including the foreign ministry, the information ministry and the newly formed human rights ministry—Pakistan’s record of women legislators remains abysmally low.
In 2002, then-president Pervez Musharraf sought to rectify this by reintroducing the concept of reserved seats for women in Parliament to encourage participation from women in lawmaking. A clause in the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan had also required the same, but its expiry in 1990 resulted in less than 10 women being elected to Parliament in the general elections of 1993 and 1997.
The worst hit was Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which had no elected women legislators in either 1993 or 1997. The 2008 general elections—which were the first polls conducted under the Elections Act 2017 requiring the Election Commission of Pakistan to cancel any results where women were found to have a turnout less than 10% of registered voters—fared little better. Despite a higher turnout in several constituencies, no women were elected on general seats in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. There are however 22 reserved seats for women; 16 of which belong to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
It has been 16 years since reserved seats for women became requirements under law but the concept remains contentious with detractors claiming it merely props up party stalwarts who do not represent the average woman or her problems. Supporters, meanwhile, believe the mere presence of more women in Parliament serves to temper legislation and encourages greater rights for all. Adding to the controversy is the patriarchal inertia of Parliament wherein women appointed on reserved seats are rarely granted cabinet positions or access to development funds—making their presence in the assemblies largely ceremonial.
One of the women on the PTI’s reserved seats in Khyber-Pahktunkhwa, Ayesha Bano, dismisses detractors who claim she was appointed to Parliament through ‘favoritism’. “I was already part of local government, which is grassroots politics,” she tells Newsweek. A law graduate, she says she will not waste her time in Parliament and already has a legislative agenda she wants to pursue. “My focus is on improving the literacy rate of the province. It’s unfortunate that despite all our resources, we are far behind in this field,” she says, adding education is key to improving living standards.
In addition, says Bano, she wants to work for the uplift of street children—a cause that has already attracted support from Prime Minister Imran Khan. When asked whether her plans would be hampered by lack of funding, Bano says she believes elected representatives should take precedence over parliamentarians appointed against reserved seats. “Elected member struggle more—canvassing for votes—so I believe they should have access to more resources,” she says.
But not everyone agrees. “If anything, reserved seats should get access to more resources since each party is allocated one reserved seat for every four they win through voting. That means our constituencies are actually bigger,” says Shagufta Malik, a member of the Awami National Party who has been appointed to the provincial assembly for the second time.
“All women face some basic issues that we have to work to resolve,” she tells Newsweek. “There are still many sectors and offices where women don’t have separate washrooms,” she says, adding women’s issues in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are unfortunately taken lightly despite it being very difficult to enter politics for a woman in Pashtun society.
Pointing to the ruling PTI government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Malik said it was tragic that no woman had been inducted in the cabinet. However, she said, no one should underestimate the impact women legislators in Parliament have on young men and women. “Seeing women in Parliament gives youth confidence. It encourages women in other sectors as well and even the most conservative regions are accepting more women in employment positions,” she says.
Another woman parliamentarian, the Jamaat-e-Islami’s Humaira Khatoon, said the war on terror had crippled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s economy and severely impacted the people of the region more than any other part of Pakistan. “Women have an exalted position in our society yet despite this they lack ministries or discretionary funds for their constituents,” she told Newsweek, lamenting that most people believed women parliamentarian’s sole function in government was to fulfill quorum of the Assembly and back their male colleagues.
Khatoon says she believes there should be merit-based criteria for the selection of women granted reserved seats. “Women who lack a political background are unlikely to perform their duties per requirements.”
Despite these problems, most women believe that, with time, they will be able to achieve parity with their male colleagues in Parliament. Unfortunately, the road appears long and full of twists and turns. In 2015, during the PTI’s first tenure in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the provincial commission on status of women launched a women empowerment policy, pledging “generous” funding for new women empowerment schemes. The draft text of that policy was not finalized until September 2017. Over a year later, its suggestions still await implementation.
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Reveal For Museum of Natural History’s Six-Story Expansion, Upper West Side
Museum of Natural History expansion, rendering by Studio Gang Architects
By: Reid Wilson 6:30 am on November 6, 2015
Board members have approved and revealed renderings for the 218,000 square-foot expansion and overhaul of the American Museum of Natural History, located on the Upper West Side between West 77th and 81st Streets, the New York Times reports. The expansion includes the planned six-story-tall Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, which will be designed by Jeanne Gang, of Studio Gang Architects. The overhaul includes significant reconfigurations of 10 existing buildings and upgrades to the park surrounding the museum. The plan, which must be approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, is expected to take roughly 18 months, with opening planned by early 2020.
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Single-Story, 6,000-Square-Foot Retail Building Filed at 401 East 34th Street, Kips Bay
6:30 am on July 13, 2016 By Reid Wilson
Property owner UDR has filed applications for a single-story, 6,179-square-foot retail building at 401 East 34th Street, located on the corner of East 35th Street and First Avenue in Kips Bay. The new structure will host a restaurant on the ground floor and retail space in the cellar. It will be located on the grounds of Joseph Slifka Park, where a playground currently exists. The new retail space won’t have to be approved through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) even though it’s being built on public park space. In October of 2015, Community Board 6 voted to allow retail project to proceed without a rezoning/city approval. Brooklyn-based Much Architecture is the architect of record. The park – which was built as part of the 35-story, 706-rental-unit residential building View 34 (previously known as Rivergate) – will also see an overhaul, with upgrades including a new dog run and an artificial turf area.
Landmarks Approves LinkNYC Wi-Fi Kiosks for Historic Districts and Other Designated Sites
7:30 am on June 30, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass
For a long time, with the proliferation of cell phones, the payphone has been mostly just a historical curiosity. For years now, they have actually been disappearing from New York City streets. Since January, some of them have been replaced by new public communication structures. Now, with a vote Tuesday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, those structures will be headed to historic districts and other designated sites.
World Trade Center’s Liberty Park Opens Today in the Financial District
6:30 am on June 29, 2016 By Reid Wilson
The World Trade Center’s Liberty Park is now receiving its finishing touches for its grand opening today. The Financial District’s new, one-acre public park is 25 feet above street level and measures 336 feet along Liberty Street between West and Greenwich streets. It will feature 19 planters, a half-dozen species of plants, seating made out of recycled teak, and a 300-foot-long “Living Wall” of greenery along its northern base. Pictures of it ahead of its opening can be seen in a New York Times report. It will be open to all from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day. Aecom’s Joseph E. Brown is the landscape architect, and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is behind the project. The Santiago Calatrava-designed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church can also be seen taking shape on the site’s eastern end. That portion of the project is expected to be complete in 2017. YIMBY last brought you an update on Liberty Park when construction was in its final phases in May.
17.5-Acre Berry Lane Park Opens to the Public in Jersey City
Mayor Steven Fulop, with the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) and other officials, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday for the 17.5-acre Berry Lane Park, located in the Bergen-Lafayette section of Jersey City. It is the both the city’s largest municipal park and the first new one in decades. The public park is the site of a former brownfield property bound by Garfield Avenue to the west, NJ Transit’s rail tracks to the south, and Woodward Street to the east. It features two basketball courts, two tennis courts, a baseball diamond, a soccer field, bike paths, and two plazas (one with a splash pad). Over 600 new trees have also been planted. The Department of Recreation is in charge of hosting community events and games in the park. The site once consisted of abandoned and underutilized industrial properties, although the city demolished many of the structures, then remediated and graded the land by 2014. Multiple concrete silos were preserved and utilized for the splash pond. Berry Lane Park is right across the street from NJ Transit’s Garfield Avenue Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station.
City Council Approves Rezoning Proposal Allowing Pedestrian Arcade-to-Retail Conversions Along Water Street, Financial District
1:00 pm on June 23, 2016 By Reid Wilson
Earlier this week, the City Council voted to approve a rezoning proposal that would allow landlords of the commercial properties with public pedestrian arcades along Water Street, between Fulton and Whitehall streets in the Financial District, to convert the arcades into retail space in exchange for renovating adjacent public plazas. The total amount of space that could be converted spans 110,000 square feet across 20 buildings, DNAinfo reported. The rezoning requires retail conversions of greater than 7,500 square feet to be approved through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). It also limits the amount of street frontage chain banks and drugstores can take up, and requires the entire height of the arcade to be built out. Future renovations to the existing public plazas in the area could include new seating and planters, among other upgrades.
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Mechanisms & Guidelines Mechanisms & Guidelines
There are numerous grant mechanisms available to each institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research related to their mission. Each mechanism has a specific purpose and each institute uses a mix of mechanisms to structure its research portfolio. This webpage provides a description of mechanisms used by NIEHS along with application guidelines for selected mechanisms.
Individual Predoctoral NRSA for M.D./Ph.D. Fellowships (ADAMHA)
Individual fellowships for predoctoral training which leads to the combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees.
Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
To provide predoctoral individuals with supervised research training in specified health and health-related areas leading toward the research degree (e.g., Ph.D.).
Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
To provide postdoctoral research training to individuals to broaden their scientific background and extend their potential for research in specified health-related areas.
National Research Service Awards for Senior Fellows
To provide opportunities for experienced scientists to make major changes in the direction of research careers, to broaden scientific background, to acquire new research capabilities, to enlarge command of an allied research field, or to take time from regular professional responsibilities for the purpose of increasing capabilities to engage in health-related research.
Research Scientist Development Award - Research & Training
For support of a scientist, committed to research, in need of both advanced research training and additional experience.
Research Scientist Development Award - Research
Clinical Investigator Award (CIA)
To provide the opportunity for promising medical scientists with demonstrated aptitude to develop into independent investigators, or for faculty members to pursue research aspects of categorical areas applicable to the awarding unit, and aid in filling the academic faculty gap in these shortage areas within health profession's institutions of the country.
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award
To provide support for the career development of investigators who have made a commitment of focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. This mechanism provides support for a 3 year minimum up to 5 year period of supervised study and research for clinically trained professionals who have the potential to develop into productive, clinical investigators.
Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research
To provide support for the clinicians to allow them protected time to devote to patient-oriented research and to act as mentors for beginning clinical investigators.
Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award
To engender and foster such activities by supporting the career development of investigators with quantitative scientific and engineering backgrounds outside of biology or medicine who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on behavioral and biomedical research (basic or clinical). This mechanism is aimed at research-oriented scientists with experience at the level of junior faculty (e.g., early to mid-levels of assistant professor or research assistant professor ranks). This award provides support for a period of mentored study and research for professionals with such backgrounds who have the potential to integrate their expertise with biomedicine and develop into productive investigators.
Examples of quantitative scientific and technical backgrounds outside of biology or medicine considered appropriate for this award include, but are not limited to: mathematics, statistics, computer science, informatics, physics, chemistry, and engineering.
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award
To increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers from mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions, and to provide independent NIH research support during the transition that will help these individuals launch competitive, independent research careers.
Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers
To provide for the repayment of the educational loan debt of qualified health professionals involved in clinical research and interacting with human patients in an inpatient or outpatient setting. Qualified health professionals who contractually agree to conduct qualified clinical research are eligible to apply for this program.
Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research
To provide for the repayment of the educational loan debt of qualified health professionals involved in research directly related to diseases, disorders, and other conditions in children. Qualified health professionals who contractually agree to conduct qualified pediatric research are eligible to apply for this program.
Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities
To provide for the repayment of the educational loan debt of qualified health professionals involved in research that focuses on that focuses on minority health disparities or other health disparities. Qualified health professionals who contractually agree to conduct qualified health disparities research are eligible to apply for this program.
Program Project Grants
For the support of a broadly based, multidisciplinary, often long-term research program which has a specific major objective or a basic theme. A program project generally involves the organized efforts of relatively large groups, members of which are conducting research projects designed to elucidate the various aspects or components of this objective. Each research project is usually under the leadership of an established investigator. The grant can provide support for certain basic resources used by these groups in the program, including clinical components, the sharing of which facilitates the total research effort. A program project is directed toward a range of problems having a central research focus, in contrast to the usually narrower thrust of the traditional research project. Each project supported through this mechanism should contribute or be directly related to the common theme of the total research effort. These scientifically meritorious projects should demonstrate an essential element of unity and interdependence, i.e., a system of research activities and projects directed toward a well-defined research program goal.
Planning Grants
To support planning for new programs, expansion or modification of existing resources, and feasibility studies to explore various approaches to the development of interdisciplinary programs that offer potential solutions to problems of special significance to the mission of the NIH. These exploratory studies may lead to specialized or comprehensive centers.
The NIEHS uses this mechanism for its EHS Core Centers Program. Its purpose is to support shared resources and facilities for categorical research by a number of investigators from different disciplines who provide a multidisciplinary approach to a joint research effort or from the same discipline who focus on a common research problem. The core grant is integrated with the center's component projects or program projects, though funded independently from them. This support, by providing more accessible resources, is expected to assure a greater productivity than from the separate projects and program projects.
Hazardous Substances Research Grants Program (NIEHS)
The NIEHS uses this mechanism for its Superfund Research Program. This mechanism is used to support basic research directed towards understanding and attenuating the public health effects resulting from exposure to hazardous substances, including 1) advanced techniques for detection, assessment and evaluation of the effects on human health of hazardous substances; 2) methods to assess risks to human health presented by hazardous substances; 3) methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment and 4) basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances. This special program, authorized under Superfund legislation, is for a broadly based, multi-disciplinary research effort which must include biomedical research components and which may include research components related to engineering, hydrogeology, ecology and epidemiology so long as they are linked to basic biomedical science. Each research project is generally under the leadership of an established investigator. The grant can provide support for certain basic resources used by the groups in the program (cores), including an administrative structure for effective coordination.
Centers of Research Translation
To support any part of the full range of research and development from very basic to clinical; may involve ancillary supportive activities such as protracted patient care necessary to the primary research or R&D effort. The spectrum of activities comprises a multidisciplinary attack on a specific disease entity or biomedical problem area. These grants differ from program project grants in that they are usually developed in response to an announcement of the programmatic needs of an institute or division and subsequently receive continuous attention from its staff. Centers may also serve as regional or national resources for special research purposes.
Research Project Grants
To support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing his specific interest and competencies.
Small Grant Programs
To provide research support specifically limited in time and amount for studies in categorical program areas. Small grants provide flexibility for initiating studies which are generally for preliminary short-term projects and are non-renewable.
Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings
To support recipient sponsored and directed international, national or regional meetings, conferences and workshops.
Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA)
To support small scale research projects conducted by faculty at primarily undergraduate degree-granting domestic institutions. Awards are for up to $300,000 in direct costs (plus applicable indirect costs) for periods not to exceed 36 months.
Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP)
To support small scale research projects conducted by faculty at health professional schools and graduate schools of institutions that do not receive a lot of NIH funding. Awards are for up to $300,000 in direct costs (plus applicable indirect costs) for periods not to exceed 36 months.
More information on AREA and REAP awards is available.
Exploratory/Developmental Research Grants
To encourage the development of new research activities in categorical program areas. (Support generally is restricted in level of support and in time.)
For support to develop and/or implement a program as it relates to a category in one or more of the areas of education, information, training, technical assistance, coordination, or evaluation.
Exploratory/Developmental Grants Phase II
The R33 award is to provide a second phase for the support for innovative exploratory and development research activities initiated under the R21 mechanism. Although only R21 awardees are generally eligible to apply for R33 support, specific program initiatives may establish eligibility criteria under which applications could be accepted from applicants demonstrating progress equivalent to that expected under R33.
Outstanding Investigator Award
To provide long term support to an experienced investigator with an outstanding record of research productivity. This support is intended to encourage investigators to embark on long-term projects of unusual potential.
More information on the implementation of the R35 mechanism at NIEHS is available.
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grants - Phase I
To support cooperative R&D projects between small business concerns and research institutions, limited in time and amount, to establish the technical merit and feasibility of ideas that have potential for commercialization. Awards are made to small business concerns only.
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grants - Phase II
To support in-depth development of cooperative R&D projects between small business concerns and research institutions, limited in time and amount, whose feasibility has been established in Phase I and that have potential for commercialization. Awards are made to small business concerns only. NIEHS also allows Fast-track mechanism which incorporates a submission and review process of both Phase I and Phase II grant applications together as one application.
Small Business Innovation Research Grants (SBIR) - Phase I
To support projects, limited in time and amount, to establish the technical merit and feasibility of R&D ideas which may ultimately lead to a commercial product(s) or service(s).
Small Business Innovation Research Grants (SBIR) - Phase II
To support in-depth development of R&D ideas whose feasibility has been established in Phase I and which are likely to result in commercial products or services. NIEHS also allows Fast-track mechanism which incorporates a submission and review process of both Phase I and Phase II grant applications together as one application.
High Priority, Short Term Project Award
To provide limited interim research support based on the merit of a pending R01 application while applicant gathers additional data to revise a new or competing renewal application. This grant will underwrite highly meritorious applications that if given the opportunity to revise their application could meet IC recommended standards and would be missed opportunities if not funded. Interim funded ends when the applicant succeeds in obtaining an R01 or other competing award built on the R56 grant. These awards are not renewable.
Advanced Research Cooperation in Environmental Health (ARCH)
To promote increased faculty and interdepartmental collaboration through programs that focus on specific research themes or scientific disciplines at developing minority institutions. These grants are intended to strengthen the biomedical research capability in defined areas and to attract other competent biomedical scientists through an improved research environment.
To enable institutions to make National Research Service Awards to individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas.
NRSA Short-Term Research Training
To provide individuals with research training during off-quarters or summer periods to encourage research careers and/or research in areas of national need.
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements
Conference-Cooperative Agreement
To support international, national or regional meetings, conferences and workshops where substantial programmatic involvement is planned to assist the recipient.
Research Program--Cooperative Agreements
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Oilers Plus-Minus Problem
The Edmonton Oilers have a problem despite having two players sit atop the leader board for scoring. It is their horrible defense that has the team with one of the worse plus-minus ratings in the NHL.
Connor McDavid sits with 63 points at the top, with 22 goals and 41 assists. Leon Draisaitl has 61 points, with 22 goals and 39 assists. McDavid is -7 on the season thus far, with Draisaitl sitting at a whopping -18. This however, is good when compared to Jame Neal and Oscar Klefbom who both sit at -24 so far on the season.
When looking through the lineup, there are a total of 20 players with a minus rating this season, with six players in double digits. The Oilers as a whole have scored 116 goals but have given up 128.
McDavid & Draisaitl have been playing more than 20+ minutes a game, logging more than a minute a game more than the NHL average for a top line. Their shooting percentages are above 17%.
The Edmonton Oilers have a huge problem. Sure, they can score but it is apparent they are unable to keep their opponents off the score sheet as well. If McDavid & Draisaitl are held off the score sheet, the Edmonton Oilers have a dismal 3-39-8 record.
With just 2 wins in their last 10 games (2-7-1), the Oilers find themselves in a battle for a playoff spot with 44 points but luckily, sit just 4 points behind Pacific leading Vegas Golden Knights who sit with +6 goals for. The Vancouver Canucks and Arizona Coyotes have better plus minus ranking than the Oilers (+13 and +8 respectively). The Coyotes have one of the lowest scoring offensive lines in the league and they sit just 3 goals behind the Oilers, demonstrating once again how the Edmonton team relies on their top 2 players.
The Oilers were great to watch out of the gate as they racked up win after win but as the season stretches out, the wear and tear on players, especially McDavid and Draisaitl begins to take its toll. Draisaitl has gone on to describe his play as shit. In a recent interview he said “I can’t speak for them, I can only talk for myself, and obviously I know I’ve been pretty shit lately. It happens, those stretches, they happen. Maybe it’s a little too long for myself, but you know tomorrow’s a new day.”
The Oilers will face the New York Rangers on New Year’s Eve and hope to finish 2019 on a positive note as they head into the final half of the season in 2020.
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Glorious Days
Glorious Days: Music and films
Music in 1913 was one of the most popular entertainments. Australian performing artists and musicians were drawn to Europe.
Many, including Percy Grainger, Nellie Melba and Florrie Forde, were hugely successful there. In Australia’s cities, receptive audiences flocked to concerts, the opera and the ballet, where many of the performances were by touring artists and companies.
Australians sang around the piano or pianola at home, or flocked to concerts. Newspapers keenly followed the visits of artists from abroad, as well as the performances of Australians achieving success internationally.
The quality of recorded music was rapidly improving, and many households could boast a phonograph or gramophone. Opera, popular song and vaudeville performances are all represented in this selection.
Hear popular artists from 1913
Borneo Gardiner
Florence Austral
Dame Clara Butt
John McCormack
Silent films were still a novel form of entertainment in 1913. They were screened in venues across Australia, from rural town halls – perhaps to the accompaniment of a lone pianist – to purpose-built cinemas with small orchestras in the larger cities. Outdoor screenings were popular during the warmer months.
The first, full-length feature film, Quo Vadis?, was released internationally in 1913. A love story with a religious theme set during the reign of Roman emperor Nero, the film enthralled large audiences with its spectacular special effects.
Although 1913 was a buoyant year for the Australian film industry, only one complete Australian feature film, The Sick Stockrider, survives from this time. Some screenings of the film were advertised as having ‘elocutionary accompaniment’ to make ‘the heart of every Australian … throb to the music of [Adam Lindsay] Gordon’s poem’.
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KD believes he was playing his best before Achilles injury
/ by Dalton Johnson
In just under 12 minutes, Kevin Durant scored 11 points against the Toronto Raptors in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals. But in the blink of an eye and the snap of an Achilles, Durant's season and his Warriors career came to an end.
This was Durant's first game back from a strained right calf, the same leg he eventually ruptured his Achilles. He injured his calf in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Houston Rockets. Before his calf injury, however, Durant was dominating in the playoffs.
The former NBA MVP was averaging 34.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game in 11 playoffs games against the Los Angeles Clippers and Rockets. He was shooting 51.3 percent from the field and 41.6 percent from 3-point range. When Durant went down against the Raptors, he felt he was at his peak as a basketball player.
"I was playing the best basketball in my life, and I felt like I was just in a great place mentally and physically," Durant said to WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Kelsey Plum on the latest episode of "Stewie's World."
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All at different stages of their Achilles recovery, @breannastewart is joined by @KDTrey5 and @KelseyPlum10 to discuss the physical & mental challenges on the road back to basketball
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The next few days brought Durant a myriad of emotions, and taught him a ton about his own body.
"When it happened, it's just like a bunch of emotions came through my mind at once," Durant explained. "The one thing that stood out to me over the next few days, it was just like, I put so much time and effort into the game and maybe this right here is meant for me to slow down or relax. We go hard every single day as professional athletes. Our whole days, whole years are centered around the game. Sometimes we may go too hard.
"I felt like I did, from working out to playing games to not wanting to come out of games. I felt like all of that kind of just added up."
Durant averaged 34.6 minutes per game in the regular season for the Warriors in 2018-19. In the playoffs, that ramped up to 39.1 before his injury against the Rockets.
RELATED: Wiseman workout vid shows what he could bring to Warriors
In the end, Durant believes he learned a key lesson from his devastating injury.
"There's always a lesson out of everything, I feel like," Durant said. "As a professional, you start to understand what your body is saying. It's good to gain that knowledge, but it was tough to go through that grueling process of trying to get back."
Durant now is with the Brooklyn Nets, but his time as a Warriors never will be forgotten, especially his brilliance in the playoffs.
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5 promising Wizards stats ahead of the 2020-21 season
/ by Mike DePrisco
NBA basketball is back, as the Wizards prepare to open their 2020-21 regular-season schedule against the Sixers Wednesday night.
After a two-year absence from the postseason, Washington is focused on getting back to the playoffs, and with Russell Westbrook now part of the team, optimism is in there. So in the spirit of optimism, let's look at five stats that bode well for the Wizards heading into this season.
Defensive improvement
Perhaps the Wizards' biggest problem last year besides health was their defensive shortcomings. They finished with the worst defensive rating in the NBA last season, giving up about 116 points per 100 possessions. Most of that had to do with the first half of the season, though.
Before the trade deadline, the Wizards gave up 117.8 points per 100 possessions (30th in NBA), but over the next month and taking games inside the bubble into account, they improved substantially. The Wizards gave up 112.3 points per 100 possessions post-February 7, which was good for 13th in the NBA.
The Wizards don't have issues scoring the ball and project to be an explosive offense with Westbrook and Bradley Beal running the show. If they can play league-average defense as they did in the second half of last season, they're going to be a hard team to beat.
Bradley Beal's last 18 games
After he was snubbed from the All-Star team on January 30, Beal went berserk until the season shut-down in March due to COVID-19.
He averaged 34.8 points, 5.6 assists and 3.9 rebounds over his final 18 games of the year and shot 45.9% from the field and 41.5% from three.
This was all before he was snubbed from the All-NBA teams, too. If his response is anything similar to what he did in February and March, the NBA is in trouble.
Thomas Bryant finding the range
Bryant's development from three was a major bright spot for the Wizards last season. He shot over 40% from deep on two attempts per game and certainly wasn't afraid to let it fly in the bubble. Bryant went 14-33 (42.4%) from three in Orlando, which helped him average nearly 20 points per game over seven games.
His defensive limitations are well documented, but if Bryant can couple his strength as a strong roller with a consistent three-point stroke, it'll be difficult for Scott Brooks to take him out of the game. Playing next to Westbrook should open up plenty of opportunities to score in both areas as well.
Russell Westbrook's defensive history
As noted before, the Wizards need to play at least league-average defense to be a serious contender in the East. The good news there is that newly acquired point guard Russell Westbrook has never been a member of a below-average defensive unit.
Over the last 10 years, Westbrook's teams have finished with a defensive rating no worse than 14th.
2019-20 Rockets: 14th
2018-19 Thunder: 3rd
2017-18 Thunder: 10th
2013-14 Thunder: 5th
Westbrook isn't one of the league's elite defenders, especially now that he's in his 30s. But Westbrook-led teams play hard, and that's typically where defensive success begins. It'll be interesting to see how much the Wizards improve on that end this year.
Strong shooting from the corners
Other than a layup/dunk, the corner three is the most efficient shot in basketball. It's the closest of the three-point shots and if a team shoots it well from the corner, there's usually plenty of spacing for creators to pick apart opposing defenses.
The Wizards had the best corner-three-point shooter last season in Davis Bertans, who shot 55% on corner threes, per Cleaning the Glass. Isaac Bonga and Troy Brown Jr. also proved to be well-above-average corner three-point shooters despite limited volume. Bonga shot 44% on corner threes, while Brown hit 41% of his attempts, which puts both in about the 80th percentile of all NBA players.
The only downside to this last season was the Wizards didn't take many corner threes. They ranked 24th in corner three-point frequency and 22nd in three-point percentage on those looks.
With Bertans back, Bonga and Brown a year older and Russell Westbrook as the lead ball-handler breaking down defenses off the dribble, the Wizards could find another source of efficient offense in the corners that wasn't tapped into last season.
Tune in at 6 PM to NBC Sports Washington on Wednesday for complete coverage of the Wizards season opener against the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Retention Election Lawsuit Heads to Court
January 27, 2016 by Elliot Engstrom Leave a Comment
Suit challenges new law saying NC justices will face retention referendum, not an opponent, in an election.
Key question: Does new law violate state constitution’s mandate that justices “shall be elected”?
Plaintiffs say retention elections violate the NC Constitution.
North Carolina Supreme Court justices are elected, not appointed, to their post. This is in contrast to states like Arizona where appellate judges are appointed by the governor, rather than elected by voters. Whether or not either method is a good or bad idea is not at issue in a new lawsuit heading to court this February. What is at issue is whether there has been a violation of the North Carolina Constitution, which provides:
“Justices of the Supreme Court … shall be elected by the qualified voters and shall hold office for terms of eight years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Justices of the Supreme Court … shall be elected by the qualified voters of the state.”
During the most recent legislative session, the General Assembly enacted legislation purporting to “allow voters to elect, and then retain” Supreme Court Justices:
A justice of the Supreme Court who was elected to that office by vote of the voters who desires to continue in office shall be subject to approval by the qualified voters of the whole State in a retention election at the general election immediately proceeding the expiration of the elected term. Approval shall be by a majority of votes cast on the issue of the justice’s retention in accordance with this Article.
Sabra Faires of Cary is challenging the law based on the idea that the “retention election” provided for by the General Assembly does not meet the requirement of the North Carolina Constitution that Supreme Court Justices be “elected.” The complaint, filed on November 30 of last year, alleges that “[a] referendum on retention of an incumbent justice of the Supreme Court, as provided in S.L. 2015-66, is not an election for the office as required by [the North Carolina Constitution],” and that “[t]he Constitution requires an election in which opposing candidates may run for the office.”
Faires is represented by attorney Michael Crowell of Tharrington Smith, LLP. Their challenge alleges that the new law is “facially unconstitutional.” This means that they believe it could not be applied in a constitutional manner in any situation and is therefore as a matter of law unconstitutional on its face. This is different than an “as-applied” constitutional challenge, which alleges that a given law is applied in an unconstitutional manner. For example, the Center for Law and Freedom’s latest civil lawsuit against the NC Department of Environmental Quality alleges that DEQ is implementing the law in an unconstitutional manner – not that the law DEQ is implementing is “on its face” unconstitutional.
Such “facial” constitutional challenges are subject to N.C.G.S. § 1-81.1, which provides that such actions must be heard in Wake County Superior Court by a three-judge panel. Pursuant to this statute, the case will be heard by such a panel in the Court of Appeals courtroom at 10 a.m. on February 16. On the panel will be judge Anna Mills Wagoner, Judge Lisa Bell, and Judge Ben Alford. The case is before the panel on the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment – meaning that the plaintiffs contend no issues of fact are in dispute, and the court should rule in their favor as a matter of law.
The plaintiffs filed their brief on January 25. They have two main arguments:
The retention referendum does not satisfy the state Constitution’s requirement that justices “shall be elected by the qualified voters,” and,
If a retention referendum is considered an election, the legislature has violated the constitution by adding an additional qualification for office – i.e., being a sitting justice.
The plaintiffs point largely to the intent of the framers of the state Constitution:
When the drafters of the 1868 constitution first provided for election of justices they could not have contemplated a retention referendum because the concept was not conceived until nearly half a century later and was not actually adopted by any other state until 1934.
The state has until Feb. 8 to respond. After hearing the case on Feb. 16, the trial court will issue a ruling, which will most likely be appealed. Thus, it may be several more months before we find out whether the plaintiffs have prevailed.
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Review of International Conference on Future Energy
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As public concern grows over the environmental impact of our energy sources, scientists and policy makers are racing to develop newer, cleaner energy sources. Currently, our dependence on petroleum-based energy is hurting both the economy and our ecosystem. In most developed, first-world countries it has been recognized that a change must be made in order to save the planet from further destruction. Governments and private corporations are joining together to come up with new ideas on energy production that will be clean enough to preserve life as we know it, and yet cheap enough that we can actually afford to utilize it. In fact, the true goal is not only affordable energy, but energy which is without limits, renewable, and possibly even free.
Technology has certainly made great gains in clean energy sources. We already have nuclear-powered batteries, and emissions-free cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells are in currently in development. However, mankind’s reliance on fossil fuels remains an enormous problem for the entire planet. In response to the pressing need for research and development of new technologies in the alternative energy field, The Integrity Research Institute held the First International Conference on Future Energy (COFE) on April 29 through May 1, 1999. Held in Bethesda, Maryland, the conference aimed to spread public awareness and gather more support for alternative energy research.
The Integrity Research Institute (IRI) is a nonprofit corporation aimed toward research, technology development, and public education with regard to the development of better energy sources. The IRI conducts research projects on bioenergy, energy generation and propulsion, and communications. Their core belief is that we must reduce, and eventually eliminate altogether, our dependence on energy sources which produce carbon dioxide. The hope is that this can be done by replacing current energy production technology with newer methods which match, or even exceed, current production standards. This goal is so well-regarded in the scientific community, that researchers from all over the world were eager to attend COFE and collaborate on ideas that will hopefully lead to a healthier planet for future generations to enjoy. Many investors also attended the conference, hoping to use their wealth and business sense for the greater good of mankind. Thomas Valone, COFE’s organizer and first speaker, expressed his views that the development of clean energy is not inhibited by a lack of technologies, but rather by social consciousness which needs to become more aware of the problems we face together. That desired change in public opinion and education was the precise reason he organized COFE, and was able to persuade so many forward-thinking minds to attend the conference.
Although there was some controversy over the U.S. Government’s withdrawal of support for the conference, the Department of Energy did send a spokesman to address the topic of hydrogen fuel cell technology, which aims to replace gas-powered cars and reduce dependence upon petroleum. David Hamilton shared information on the program Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. This program was created by the DOE in order to address growing concern over petroleum dependence, and to encourage research and development of alternative power sources for cars. Hamilton shared with his audience the good news that the three major American car manufacturers have fuel cell vehicles currently in development. In fact, Daimler Benz also estimated that 100,000 fuel cell cars would be produced over the next five years. This speech nicely complimented a Saturday workshop offered by Bob Rose, entitled “Breakthrough Tech: Fuel Cells”, which detailed the expectations for fuel cells in the automotive market.
Nuclear power was also a big topic of discussion at the conference, with Dr. Paul Brown detailing his work with betavoltaic batteries. These nuclear batteries carry an expected life of ten years, making them a much better energy source for devices like relay towers, satellites, and even portable computers. Brown also shared his work on dealing with nuclear waste by utilizing photofission to transform it into harmless isotopes. At the time of the conference Brown had pending patents on this process. Dr Edmund Storms also presented at the conference, and shared details on his innovative CANR research. CANR, which stands for chemically assisted nuclear reactions, is a method for nuclear energy production which does not result in dangerous radioactive waste.
Les Adams, the president of AZ Industries, gave an exciting presentation on magnetic power. Adams also happens to be one of the sponsors behind Ener-run, a contest which seeks to discover alternative power sources by challenging participants to create vehicles which can travel 4,000 miles without refueling. His talk on magnets explained a wide range of applications for the energy source, such as water filtration systems, electric vehicles, and an exciting non-combustive helicopter.
David Wallman gave a presentation on Carbon-Arc Gasification of Biomass Solutions. The innovative engineer explained how this process can be utilized to generate a hydrogen-based gas from waste products. This type of gas burns clean, and produces energy without emissions or other harmful effects. The hope is that this technology can be used to convert organic by-products such as animal waste, crop residues, and municipal waste into a renewable fuel source. The abundance of such waste products makes this innovation a solid hope for future clean energy production.
Another clean energy technology presented at the conference was wind energy, with a speech on the topic given by Kent Robertson. Wind is, of course, a renewable resource that can never be depleted. Harnessing the energy produced by wind is the fastest-growing field of research in clean energy, and for good reason. The technology is timeless and produces no harmful by-products, and if developed correctly would have no expiration date and could therefore be used for centuries to come.
Nu Energy Horizons, a leading research firm on the topic of clean energy, was represented at the conference by inventor Bruce Perreault. Perreault gave a presentation on his work in the field of radiant energy. Research into radiant energy actually began all the way back in 1911, when T Henry Moray first detailed his discoveries on the subject. Basing his work on Moray’s original discoveries, Perreault created a device he calls the Perreault Radiant Energy Valve, which he demonstrated at the conference.
The Radiant Energy Valve actually works as a set of valves which each perform separate functions. The first valve gathers and stores electrons in high voltage capacitors, while the second valve converts the resulting high voltage charge into energy. Normally, nuclear reactions are associated in the public consciousness with harmful by-products, promoting fears about the safety of such energy generation. While Perreault’s invention does indeed utilize nuclear reactions via radioactive ores, this particular process actually does not produce the by-products commonly thought to co-exist with nuclear power generation. The excitement over Perreault’s invention stems from this lack of toxic waste, which means that nuclear energy can also be clean energy. The Radiant Energy Valve garnered more than its share of attention at the conference, due to the fact that it is a closed system, does not produce noise, and of course creates no harmful emissions. Despite this great advance, Perreault announced that he was still investigating other methods of power generation that do not require radioactive materials at all.
Perreault also discussed his ideas on alternative energy sources that may yet remain untapped. He shared his belief with the audience that the earth contains many forms of energy which we have yet to discover and utilize, and that advancing technology will require a recognition of all this hidden potential. Perreault pointed out that the element Polonium, which rarely exists in pure form, has been recognized as the most powerful element to date. His point is illustrated when one considers that Polonium is 5,000 times more powerful than Radium, and in fact the decay of half a gram of Polonium can produce up to 932 degrees of heat. The generally recognized problem with Polonium, of course, is its rarity and the fact that it does not exist alone in nature. It must be extracted from Polonium ore, a process which Perreault was able to achieve with his Radiant Energy Valve. This achievement underscores his point that new innovations will allow us to harness new and increasing forms of power, which will help to meet the goal of sustainable and renewable energy sources.
COFE also managed to touch on some topics which have been controversial in the scientific community, such as cold fusion and zero point energy. Speakers Frank Znidarsic and Thomas Valone, in particular, gave presentations on zero point energy. The discussion of some controversial topics may be what led Bob Park, of the American Physical Society, to withdraw support and declare that the conference lacked discussion of conventional science. Nevertheless, the presentations on these subjects certainly added a unique layer to the conference and were enjoyed by many participants.
The information shared at COFE in 1999 remains relevant to this day, as gas prices soar due to public dependence upon petroleum-based energy. It is fully recognized that better and cleaner energy sources must be found, in order to end dependence upon fossil fuels. Public consciousness has embraced the need for environmental protections, so that a clean and sustainable planet will be left for future generations to enjoy. Now more than ever, it is recognized that new forms of energy must be discovered and utilized, before it is too late to save Earth and its inhabitants. In that respect, it could be said that COFE was highly successful, as public education and a call to action were two of the primary goals of the conference. While the world still has a long road to travel in terms of government policy and political roadblocks, the message COFE sought to convey has been successful in motivating scientists, inventors, and policy makers to create a better future for our planet.
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IN STATE Act of 2014
Published: Wed, Feb 5th 2014 @ 3:58 pm EST
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO2] in the 113th congress
H.R. 3921, the IN-STATE for Dreamers Act, would provide $750 million in grants over a 10-year period for States that provide in-State tuition and financial assistance to “Dreamer students.” Though the fundamental requirements are that the alien student initially entered prior to age 16 and can provide a list of secondary schools attended in the U.S., those two requirements shall be waived for those who demonstrate compelling circumstances for an inability to comply.
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IN-STATE for Dreamers Act of 2014
Sponsored by: Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA] in the 113th congress
S. 1943, the IN-STATE for Dreamers Act, would provide $750 million in grants over a 10-year period for States that provide in-State tuition and financial assistance to “Dreamer students.” Though the fundamental requirements are that the alien student initially entered prior to age 16 and can provide a list of secondary schools attended in the U.S., those two requirements shall be waived for those who demonstrate compelling circumstances for an inability to comply.
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H.R. 15:
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
Published: Thu, Jan 23rd 2014 @ 11:59 am EST
Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Garcia [D-FL26] in the 113th congress
H.R. 15, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, was a massive immigration reform bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) and was the House companion to the Gang of 8's S. 744. H.R. 15 would result in approximately 30 million new permanent work permits issued in the first 10 years if passed. The bill would grant legal status and worker permits to an estimated 11 million illegal aliens with an opportunity for green cards after 10 years and replace some family-based immigration categories with a merit-based points system.
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Published: Mon, Feb 24th 2014 @ 3:30 pm EST
H.R. 2745, the No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2013, would amend the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income wages earned for services by aliens illegally performed in the United States and self-employment income derived from a trade or business illegally conducted in the United States.
Sponsored by: Rep. Trey Gowdy [R-SC4] in the 113th congress
H.R. 2278, the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act of 2013 would empower local law enforcement agents to enforce federal immigration laws. The SAFE Act would also require DHS to create a national immigration violators database, prevent cities from providing sanctuary to illegal aliens and would provide funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) that reimburses states for incarcerating illegal aliens.
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Keeping the Promise of IRCA Act
Published: Tue, Dec 31st 2013 @ 9:07 am EST
Sponsored by: Rep. John Barrow [D-GA12] in the 113th congress
H.R. 2124, the Keeping the Promise of IRCA Act, does everything possible to keep the promises of internal enforcement made in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). First and foremost, it establishes mandatory E-Verify for all future hires, effectively eliminating the jobs magnet. Penalties are increased for fraud and smuggling, and so-called "sanctuary cities" lose all State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) funding.
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Published: Thu, Jan 23rd 2014 @ 12:54 pm EST
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY] in the 113th congress
S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, was a massive immigration reform bill, introduced by the 'Gang of 8' that would result in approximately 30 million new permanent work permits issued in the first 10 years if passed. The bill would grant legal status and worker permits to an estimated 11 million illegal aliens with an opportunity for green cards after 10 years and replace some family-based immigration categories with a merit-based points system.
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No big waves from the Fed to close an unprecedented year
Brian Nick
Chief Investment Strategist
The Federal Reserve sees near-term risks to the outlook due to the worsening coronavirus crisis heading into the winter, even as the outlook for next year has brightened somewhat. Open-market purchases will continue until the economy is substantially back to normal.
Watch Brian Nick, Chief Investment Strategist, discuss the latest update from the December 16 FOMC meeting.
At its last meeting of 2020, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) upgraded its economic outlook for the coming years while warning that COVID-19 still represents a significant near-term risk. The most notable change was to tie its asset purchase program more explicitly to its policy mandate. It’s clear the Fed intends to keep monetary policy accommodative well beyond the end of the pandemic.
The Fed made few changes to its assessment of the outlook in its statement. It also declined to make adjustments to its bond-buying program, also known as quantitative easing (QE), despite many observers expecting an increase in purchases of longer-dated securities. The Fed did, however, adjust its primary rationale for these purchases from fostering functioning financial conditions to promoting accommodative monetary policy. This subtle change likely indicates that QE will go on well beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis, at least until the U.S. is on track to achieving full employment or inflation seems primed to accelerate beyond 2%.
The Fed’s new summary of economic projections raised its GDP growth forecasts for 2020 (to -2.4% from -3.7% in September) and 2021 (to 4.2% from 4.0%). It also sees the unemployment rate falling to 5% by the end of next year and to 4.2% by the end of 2022. Inflation is not expected to average 2% until 2023, which is consistent with 12 of the 17 committee members expecting rates to be on hold at least until 2024.
What is the Fed's goal?
The Fed has made clear that its goal is not merely to provide emergency relief during the coronavirus crisis, but to also ensure that the U.S. economy returns to its former strength as quickly as possible after the crisis subsides. To that end, its new forward guidance promises the purchases will continue “until substantial further progress has been made toward the Committee's maximum employment and price stability goals.” This echoes the Fed’s September pledge to not raise its policy rate until inflation seems likely to overshoot the 2% target.
It seems the bond market has gotten the message. Despite the influx of good vaccine news last month, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has risen only modestly to 0.94% from 0.87% as of 31 October. Low interest rates and a relatively flat yield curve have helped foster just about the loosest financial conditions we’ve ever seen in the United States. Things may get even looser with the breaking news that Congress appears close to a long-overdue fiscal relief deal, which is said to include enhanced aid for unemployed workers, help for small businesses and another round of direct checks to individual households.
A combination of loose fiscal and monetary policies should eventually help the economy run hot, lowering unemployment, supporting labor force participation and raising wages for a broader cross-section of the work force. This represents an important difference in policy approach compared to the one adopted in the prior cycle, when fiscal policy tightened quickly and the Fed raised interest rates in the absence of inflationary pressures. This change holds significance for investors of all stripes.
Investing in a low(er) rate world
Investors are well aware that interest rates are currently low. But the Fed’s promises to continue with its asset purchases until the economy is close to fully recovered should serve as a reminder that they aren’t going up anytime soon. Portfolios that are designed to produce income require rethinking and reworking in light of the semi-permanent change to monetary policy in the U.S. and around the world. A core fixed income holding still plays a crucial part in an asset allocation for the diversification it provides. But, increasingly, supplemental sources of income are required from higher-yielding bonds, income-focused equity strategies and alternative investments like private credit, real estate and real assets like farmland.
The 2021 Outlook from Nuveen’s Global Investment Committee is titled, “Dark Tunnel. Bright Light.,” because we see things evolving in line with the Fed’s new forecasts. The world continues to grapple with the coronavirus and its economic effects, even as the first vaccines are administered. The vaccines provide hope for a return to normal life – and normal economic activity – by the second half of next year. In the meantime, however, investors can take steps to ensure they are protected against a worse-than-expected economic and market outcome this winter while still positioned for brighter days ahead.
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Nyrstar Balen doubled capacity of zinc dust plant
Nyrstar is in the midst of a tangible evolution and that is also noticeable at its site in Balen. A unique process has been developed and with a multimillion Euro investment, the Nyrstar Balen site has doubled its zinc dust production capacity. Nyrstar thereby created 7 new jobs and once again proves that it is investing in sustainable, safe and stable production.
"The zinc dust plant is a new strong link as part of our zinc smelter in Balen, of which we
are particularly proud. It is a conscious choice to produce zinc dust locally and in-house. We work with talented and passionate people who put their backs into Nyrstar's turnaround. With the new zinc dust plant, we are also maintaining our competitive position abroad. And then there's the point of sustainability: the zinc powder plant makes partial use of residual heat from Nyrstar's roasting furnaces and eliminates road transport." said Inge Schildermans, General Manager of Nyrstar in Belgium.
The plant is currently producing at design capacity, so that the Nyrstar site in Balen and Auby, in France, can be supplied.
Nyrstar Belgium is one of the world's largest zinc smelters and now incorporates zinc
dust to its production process to produce high quality zinc.
About Nyrstar
Nyrstar is a global multi-metals business, with a market leading position in zinc and lead, and growing positions in other base and precious metals. Nyrstar has mining, smelting and other operations located in Europe, the Americas and Australia and employs over 4,000 people. The company’s global operations are located close to key customers and major transport hubs to facilitate delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products. In July 2019, Nyrstar’s operating business became majority owned by Trafigura, one of the world’s leading independent commodity trading companies. Visit www.nyrstar.com.
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More details from the federal review into sexual abuse at Lowell women's prison
Austin L. Miller
Ocala Star-Banner
LOWELL — Earlier this week, the Department of Justice issued a press release and 36-page report detailing allegations of sexual misconduct at Lowell Correctional Institution, the women's prison in northwest Marion County.
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which conducted the investigation, highlighted what it said were failures within the state Department of Corrections to protect inmates and to act on problems that had been brought to its attention.
In its summary, DOJ officials said the state DOC "has documented and been aware of a pattern or practice of staff sexual abuse of Lowell prisoners since at least 2006." The report goes on to say that "despite being on notice of this sexual abuse, FDOC and Lowell failed to take timely action to remedy the systemic problems that have enabled corrections officers and other staff to continue to sexually abuse Lowell prisoners."
Within the past several years, the Ocala Star-Banner has reported on multiple sexual abuse arrests at the prison.
Laurette Philipsen, who spent 8 1/2 years at Lowell, said in an interview with the Star-Banner that drastic changes must be made. "The cancer is so deep, it goes up the food chain. Someone needs to go in and clean house," she said.
In April 2018, DOJ notified Florida officials about the investigation into Lowell, the oldest and largest women's prison in the United States. Lowell opened its doors in 1956 and has an operating budget of $2.4 billion.
The DOJ said it visited the facility twice, in August 2018 and November 2019, to interview staff and inmates. DOJ officials said their primary mission was to see if women were sexually abused at the prison.
From more than 108,000 documents received by DOJ officials, they were able to chronicle a pattern of sexual abuse of inmates.
The reports viewed by DOJ officials were seen as "varied and disturbing." The women were subjected to demeaning sex acts, and forced into sexual liaisons by male corrections officers in exchange for basic necessities like toilet paper.
"Lowell has a long history of tolerance for sexual abuse and harassment, which continues to the present," according to the DOJ report.
The report lists more than a half dozen instances of male corrections officers sexually molesting female inmates. In some instances, those male officers were allowed to remain with the department, even though their actions against the women were known by Lowell authorities.
"A Lowell lieutenant was accused repeatedly of sexually abusing multiple prisoners at Lowell over several years, but remained in his position until 2019, when he was arrested for sexually molesting two minor girls in the community," the DOJ report states.
Staffing issues at Lowell was seen as one of the many problems the institution faced. Those issues "place Lowell prisoners at substantial risk of harm," the report says.
Philipsen took issue with that, adding that while staffing is an issue, she said it's only a problem because one guard is "getting busy" with an inmate, leaving the other guard to be on the lookout.
The former inmate said while she wasn't a victim of sexual harassment and was not sexually assaulted, she knew of sexual incidents that occurred.
More:Fact Check: Federal law makes it illegal for officers to have sex with inmates
The DOJ was critical of the DOC's Office of the Inspector General, which is tasked with investigating inmate complaints. Philipsen said when a complaint is made, the women are placed in confinement. And, during that time, the inmate is investigated by DOC. That, she said, could take up to six months, though it usually doesn't.
While the investigation is ongoing, Philipsen said, certain privileges like phone calls and visits are taken away from the person making the complaint. It leaves the inmate vulnerable, and therefore complaints are dropped or determined to be unfounded, she said.
Philipsen offers a solution. She said corrections officers should be removed from duty and sent home without pay during investigations.
She said a majority of the complaints made to the OIG are sent back to the DOC for it to investigate. Those complaints, she said, are buried.
"That's a big problem. They don't answer to anyone. They govern themselves," said Philipsen, making reference to the DOC.
When DOJ officials went to Lowell, she said, inmates told her that corrections officers said they were not afraid because they felt government officials would not do anything to them.
FAMM is a criminal justice reform organization and one of two groups that sponsored a clear-the-air-talk with former Lowell inmates and their families with Florida state representatives in Ocala a little more than a year after the DOJ launched its investigation. FAMM's Florida director, Greg Newburn, said he doesn't think anyone should wait on the federal government to fix the ills at Lowell.
Rather, Newburn said, the state Legislature can do something now by creating an independent oversight committee to watch the DOC. He said the abuse could've been avoided if the state legislative body had listened to the people.
“While we’re grateful for it, this finding, like many that have come before it around the country, further underscores the need for independent oversight of our nation's prisons and jails," Newburn said. Anyone who bothered paying attention knew this was happening, and nobody did anything about it. How many women have to be sexually assaulted in prison before our leaders act?”
If there were an oversight committee, Philipsen said, those members should be able to go to Lowell unannounced and interview inmates. She said the oversight committee should be able to bring inmate grievances to the powers that be for them to fix.
Another former inmate, Cheryl Budesa, who spent a little more than four years at Lowell, said the problem is also mental and emotional. She said the prison needs to close.
"The answer is not to fix it. Lowell can't be fixed," she said.
DOJ officials offered 14 remedial measures to protect inmates at Lowell. One of them states if women who report sexual abuse must be held in confinement or segregated housing, then they should have access to telephones, visits and other privileges.
Also, the state should make sure inmates reporting abuse have internal and external confidential options to report the allegations, and an option that's independent from FDOC.
Third, there should be a system that monitors retaliation. And fourth, the warden should have access to investigative files and have regular briefings with investigators.
Government officials said they could file a lawsuit to correct the problems outlined after 49 days of putting the state on notice.
At the time of the DOJ report, FDOC Secretary Mark Inch said in a statement: “FDC has cooperated fully with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division during their investigation initiated in 2017 and will continue to do so. We appreciate the work of the U.S. Department of Justice and will be sharing the actions our Department has taken to address the serious concerns outlined in their review.”
FDOC officials told the Star-Banner they have no further comment on the issue.
Contact Austin L. Miller at 867-4118, austin.miller@starbanner.com or @almillerosb
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Stephen Otto is the Principal of the Ottosphere Group. Stephen has worked in the medical device industry for over 40 years. For 25 years he lived and worked directly in the Japanese, Far Eastern/Asia Pacific countries where he started and ran four medical device companies for parent companies headquartered in the United States and Europe. In addition to intimate knowledge of the Japanese, Far Eastern/Asia Pacific countries, he is also well versed with the U.S. and Canadian markets.
“I teach my clients to understand and negotiate cultural differences – a key to successful entry into any new global market. I have experience with high tech, expensive diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices. Guiding smaller companies into profitable new niches for their devices is my overriding goal.”
He began his career in the medical device industry in 1973 with Coulter Electronics.
Stephen has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Kyle E. Murphy
Kyle E. Murphy is the Managing Director and Founder of KMG Japan. Kyle has lived and worked in the Japanese healthcare market for over 25 years. He speaks Japanese fluently and has built a strong network of contacts in both the healthcare industry and government administration. He has represented more than 100 clients and successfully structured numerous alliances between Japanese and foreign healthcare companies. Prior to founding KMG Japan, Kyle served as the First Commercial Secretary in the US Embassy in Tokyo where he managed all trade negotiations and activities related to bringing US companies into the Japanese healthcare market.
Kyle began his career in the healthcare industry with business development and marketing positions at Schering-Plough in Osaka, Japan and SmithKline in the US. Kyle has a B.A. from Sophia University, Tokyo and a Masters in Management from Purdue University, Indiana.
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/A-closer-look-Getting-the-facts-on-the-flu-15542487.php\nA closer look: Getting the facts on the flu vaccination\nBy Victoria Ritter, Midland Daily News\nPublished 5:00 am EDT, Saturday, September 5, 2020\nCourtney Pearson\nWhile COVID-19 has caused significant illness and concern for millions of Americans and residents across the globe, experts at MidMichigan Health remind us not to lose sight of another potentially lethal virus — influenza.\nInfluenza is a seasonal virus that impacts the U.S. population each year between late fall and early spring. Since 2015, influenza has caused between 280,000 to 810,000 hospitalizations each year in the U.S., and 23,000 to 61,000 Americans have died from the virus. Fortunately, influenza is a preventable illness because of the annual flu vaccine. However, only about half of the U.S. population receives the flu vaccine each year.\nPaul Berg M.D., president, MidMichigan Physicians Group; Courtney Pearson, M.D., infectious disease specialist, MidMichigan Physicians Group, and Lydia Watson, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer, MidMichigan Health, answer some of the common questions about the flu vaccine.\nHow does the flu vaccine work?\nThe flu vaccine works by causing antibodies to form in the human body. These antibodies provide protection against infection if that individual is later exposed to the actual virus. Vaccines in the U.S. protect against three (“trivalent”) or four (“quadrivalent”) different strains of the flu virus. Once the flu vaccine is administered, it takes about two weeks for the body to generate the protective antibodies. These antibodies then provide protection for several months following the vaccination. The best time to receive the flu vaccination is in the fall, prior to the arrival of the seasonal virus. Most medical providers begin administering the vaccine in September but will continue to administer for the duration of the flu season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that people get a flu vaccine by the end of October.\nWho should be vaccinated?\nWith rare exception, every human older than 6 months of age should receive the flu vaccine each year. Some people may not be candidates for certain vaccine types, dependent on factors such as age, allergy history, or underlying medical conditions, so these individuals should check with their medical provider to discuss which vaccine may be best for them. However, the most important fact to remember is to receive the vaccine each year.\nDoes the flu vaccine really work?\nYes. The vaccine is effective, though the effectiveness can vary based on certain factors. The protection from the vaccine varies from season to season dependent on the “match” between the vaccine and the actual viruses circulating in the community. An individual’s health status can also play a role in the effectiveness of the vaccine. In general, the vaccine is most effective in young, healthy adults and older children. Older adults may not mount as robust an antibody response to the vaccine. Even though it is not perfect, the flu vaccine remains a very helpful tool in preventing serious illness from influenza. Here are some statistics to highlight the benefits of the flu vaccine:\n• In the 2018-19 flu season, the vaccine prevented an estimated 4.4 million illnesses, 2.3 million flu-related medical visits, 58,000 flu-related hospitalizations, and 3,500 flu-related deaths.\n• It is estimated that receiving the flu vaccine reduces a person’s risk of having to go to the doctor with flu by 40-60%\n• A 2018 study showed that, from 2012 to 2015, the flu vaccine among adults reduced the risk of being admitted to an ICU with flu by 82%.\n• A 2017 study showed that flu vaccination significantly reduces a child’s risk of dying from influenza.\n• Flu vaccination is very beneficial for those with underlying medical conditions, as it has been shown to reduce rates of cardiac events in those with heart disease, and reduce hospitalization rates for those with COPD, chronic lung disease, or diabetes.\n• Flu vaccination is beneficial for those that are pregnant, as it reduces the risk of serious flu-related lung infections by 50 percent. It is also beneficial for the infant, who will have circulating antibodies protecting them from illness for several months after birth.\nWhy do some people get sick with the seasonal influenza virus even though they received the vaccine?\nIt’s possible that some people get sick with the seasonal virus because they were exposed to the virus within two weeks of receiving the vaccine. It takes up to two weeks to develop the antibodies once vaccinated, so an exposure to the real virus during this window could still result in illness. Another reason may be that the person was exposed to a virus that was not in the seasonal vaccine. There are many different strains of the influenza virus that circulate each year. The flu vaccine is designed to protect against three or four of the most common strains that the research suggests will be circulating in the given year.\nIn addition, it’s possible that the person simply did not develop a good immune response to the vaccine. Some individuals, such as older adults or those with underlying health conditions, don’t develop a strong response to the vaccine. For this reason it is important that all individuals get vaccinated. The more young, healthy people that are vaccinated, the less likelihood that they will spread the virus to more vulnerable individuals.\nCan the flu vaccine give me the flu?\nNo. The flu vaccine cannot cause flu illness. Flu vaccines that are administered with a needle (flu shots) are currently made two ways. The vaccine is either flu viruses that have been killed (inactivated) and are therefore not infectious, or they are made with proteins from a flu virus (recombinant vaccines) and cannot cause illness. Nasal spray influenza vaccines are made with attenuated (weakened) live flu viruses, and also cannot cause flu illness. The weakened viruses used in the nasal spray vaccines are cold-adapted, which means that they are designed to only cause mild infection at the cooler temperatures found within the nose. The viruses cannot infect the lungs or other areas where warmer temperatures exist.\nWhat about side effects?\nThe flu vaccines can have some side effects. Possible minor side effects include soreness or redness at the injection site, headaches, fever, muscle aches, nausea, or fatigue. Most individuals do not have these side effects. For those that do, the side effects are usually mild and short-lived. As with any medicine, there is the remote chance that people could have a serious allergic reaction or complication. This is very rare.\nShouldn’t we be more focused on COVID-19 than influenza?\nWe certainly need to keep our focus on COVID-19, but one way to protect our valuable health care resources is to reduce the chances of other serious infections like influenza. Ensuring that all health care workers and community members receive the flu vaccine is a great strategy to reduce the influenza disease burden in our communities. Let’s all get vaccinated for the flu, protect ourselves and our resources from that lethal virus, so we can focus on the risks that COVID will present this coming fall and winter.\nHow can you tell the difference between the flu and COVID-19 symptoms?\nIt’s going to be difficult to tell the difference between the flu and COVID-19 symptoms since both illnesses produce respiratory symptoms. In addition, it’s possible to have both infections at the same time. Testing needs to be done to determine if symptoms are due to flu or COVID-19.\nThose interested in more information on the flu vaccine may visit www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm.\n– Processed by Victoria Ritter, vritter@mdn.net"
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Reduce, reuse, recycle: Midland sees increase in participation with new recycling program
Published 3:00 am EDT, Monday, March 14, 2011
Photo: THOMAS SIMONETTI | Tsimonetti@mdn.net
Eighteen months ago, only one-half of Midland residents participated in the city recycling program.
Once curbside recycling decreased from every other week to once a month in the fall of 2009, the amount city residents recycled decreased from 139 tons to 109 tons, said Janet Yuergens, assistant director of Public Services, causing concern.
"We just didn't feel like it was an effective recycling program," she said.
So when the recycling collection contract with Republic Waste Services expired at the end of July, the city signed a contract for up-graded recycling services, which started Aug. 1, Yuergens said.
The $366,300 five-year contract caused an immediate increase in participation rates; they climbed to 65 percent in August and then 85 percent in September. Rates have held steady since then, Yuergens said.
The new program replaced 14-gallon bins with 95-gallon carts as part of the single stream system, said Stephanie Glysson, Republic Waste Services senior manager of government affairs and municipal services for Michigan. The single stream system eliminates the need for truck drivers to sort at the curb by sorting through the many more items accepted at a specific facility.
"Recycling used to be by drop-off, by volunteers... as more and more communities and their residents were demanding the ability to recycle the industry responded," Glysson said. "Back in the '80s we used to have a truck that would have one stream for glass and one stream for plastic ... products were divided into fibers and rigid containers."
As more products could be recycled, trucks were spending longer in the neighborhood sorting items, she said. The new system allows trucks to get in and out of neighborhoods. The carts also prevent items from blowing away, unlike the smaller bins.
"People love the carts, they love the ease of the carts and the single stream system," Yuergens said. "There's no sorting, you just drop it in the bin. Residents find that they have more than enough to fill that cart in a month's time."
Jean Cronin, who has lived in the historic neighborhood downtown for eight years, said she has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of her neighbors who recycle since the program was implemented.
She said her family recycled before the program, even when they had to take items to the recycling center because the old program didn't pick them up, but she said the new system makes recycling much easier. She said a system like this is important, especially in a city like Midland that prides itself on being green and future-oriented.
"The key to getting more people to recycle is you have to make it easy for them," Cronin said. "I know that it's very hard to prove that they're getting their money back... but it's got to pay off in the long term."
The previous program cost $283,500, Yuergens said. The rate increase was for the upgraded service and because the city's contract expired.
The additional 84 tons a month that is being recycled is not making its way to the landfill, which could add to the life of the site, but it is difficult to tell how much with just six months of change, said Scott O'Laughlin, landfill superintendent.
"(There could be) 1,250 yards approximately per year of savings, which results in just under 1 percent reduction in approximate volume over the course of a year," O'Laughlin said.
The recycling that used to go to the landfill is now shipped to Republic Waste Services Pinconning division, Glysson said.
There the materials are transferred to compactors and are shipped to locations in Huron Township or Ann Arbor to be sorted, she said.
"It's a combination of mechanical and hand sorting, Glysson said. "After it's sorted it is bailed, then it goes to various end markets."
End markets are buyers who are interested in the raw recyclables, she said. Who buys the materials varies week by week, depending on who offers to pay the most.
The plastics recycled could be coming back to users as re-usable grocery bags or laundry detergent bottles, Glysson said. It all depends on who buys them next.
"We have devoted our financial resources to single stream recycling," she said. "We believe that is the future of recycling."
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Close the windows? Amsterdam mulls red light district change
Posted: Jul 3, 2019 / 07:19 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 3, 2019 / 10:11 AM CDT
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The windows where scantily clad sex workers stand to attract customers in Amsterdam could be closing for good.
The city’s mayor proposed fundamental changes Wednesday to the network of narrow alleys and canal side streets that make up Amsterdam’s famed red light district.
The proposals range from closing the window curtains so sex workers no longer are on public display and shutting down brothels with display windows altogether to adding more windows and moving prostitution somewhere else in the city.
Mayor Femke Halsema said the ideas are intended to protect sex workers’ rights, prevent crime and reduce nuisances for local residents and businesses.
Halsema plans to discuss the four proposals for the red light district’s future at two meetings later this month with those affected. In September, the city council will also debate them before narrowing down the options and checking their financial and legal viability.
The announcement of a public consultation on the future of the neighborhood and its 330 prostitution windows marks the latest attempt by Amsterdam officials to clean up a part of the city’s historic center that has in recent years become a noisy, overcrowded tourist magnet.
A red light district has existed for centuries close to the city’s main waterway. In recent years, the local government has sought to reduce the number of windows and to gentrify the area, but with limited success.
On most evenings, large groups of tourists wander through the area, which also is home to peep shows, bars and marijuana-selling cafes.
Amsterdam says the proposed reforms follow changes in the sex industry in recent years and in the rise in the number of tourists.
In a statement, the city said that for some visitors, “a sex worker is nothing more than an attraction to look at.”
Increasingly, sex workers also are offering services online, away from the regulated industry in the red light district.
“In this part of the market, abuses happen more often,” the city said.
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Dutch trial opens for 4 suspects in downing of flight MH17
by: MIKE CORDER, Associated Press
Posted: Mar 9, 2020 / 02:19 AM CDT / Updated: Mar 9, 2020 / 06:51 AM CDT
FILE – This Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 file photo, shows the reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, put on display during a press conference in Gilze-Rijen, central Netherlands. United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver them something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — As the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder for their alleged involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 got underway Monday, a Dutch prosecutor solemnly read out the names of all 298 people killed in the attack.
As expected, the suspects didn’t appear for trial and weren’t in the courtroom as prosecutor Dedy Woei-a-Tsoi read out the victims’ names.
It took 18 minutes.
Some of the relatives of the dead who were in the courtroom bowed their heads and closed their eyes as they listened to the names.
“The silence in this room when the names were being read out of all those people who lost their lives makes abundantly clear that everybody is sitting here lost in their thoughts,” Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said before adjourning the hearing for a lunch break.
The trial began with Steenhuis explaining the intricacies of Dutch criminal proceedings to families monitoring the trial in the Netherlands and around the world and outlining efforts to summon the four suspects to attend.
None of them did and only one appointed lawyers to represent him in the case. Steenhuis ruled that the trial would continue in their absence.
It’s a day that has been a long time coming for family and friends of those killed on July 17, 2014, when a Buk missile blew MH17 out of the sky above conflict-torn eastern Ukraine.
Five black-robed judges — three who will hear the case and two alternates — filed silently into a packed courtroom on the edge of Schiphol, the airport from which the doomed flight took off, heading for Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. A small number of family members of victims were in court, others watched proceedings via a video link from a conference center in the central Netherlands.
Among those in court was Piet Ploeg, who lost his brother, Alex, his sister-in-law and his nephew. Ploeg sat in court, his hands folded in front of him, listening attentively as the case started.
“Next of kin want justice, simple as that,” he said. “We want justice for the fact that 298 people are murdered, and this court and the hearings (that) will start today will give us more clarity about what happened, why it happened and who was responsible for it.”
Steenhuis said the criminal file in the case contains some 36,000 pages and “an enormous amount of multimedia files.” Examining it at trial “will be a very painful and emotional period. There are many victims and of course because of that there are many next of kin,” he said.
Jon and Meryn O’Brien flew all the way from Sydney to witness the start of the unprecedented Dutch trial, hoping for justice for their son Jack.
“The trial is important because the truth still matters,” Jon said on the eve of the trial. “You shouldn’t be able to murder 298 people and for there to be no consequences, regardless of who you are. So it’s important the truth about that is told.”
The O’Briens were among families who arranged 298 white chairs in rows resembling aircraft seating outside the Russian Embassy in The Hague on Sunday to protest what they see as Moscow’s deliberate attempts to obscure the truth about what happened.
After a painstaking investigation spanning years, an international team of investigators and prosecutors last year named four suspects: Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. More suspects could face charges as the investigations continue.
Pulatov hired a firm of Dutch lawyers to represent him. He also had a Russian lawyer in court, Steenhuis said. The lawyers will be allowed to raise preliminary objections such as challenging the court’s jurisdiction at later hearings, if they want to.
Russia has consistently denied involvement in the downing, even after prosecutors alleged that the Buk missile system which destroyed the passenger plane was transported into Ukraine from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade’s base in Kursk and the launching system was then returned to Russia.
In Moscow last week, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused investigators of presuming Russia’s guilt.
In a statement, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the trial “an important milestone towards accountability for the shooting down of MH17” and the deaths of 298 people, including 10 Britons.
The case is a regular Dutch criminal trial with an unprecedented number of victims.
Legal expert Marieke de Hoon of Amsterdam’s Vrije University characterized the case as “both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time.”
Under Dutch law, family members are allowed to make victim impact statements and seek compensation. That will likely happen some time later this year.
“For me, the most important thing (is) will there be enough evidence that the judge can make a conclusion: Guilty,” said Anton Kotte, who lost three family members. “If that’s the case, then I will be satisfied, because I know at that moment another level will be attacked — a political level will be attacked worldwide in the direction of Russia.”
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More than 30 colleges await Connecticut basketball ‘bubble’
by: PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — A resort casino on tribal land in Connecticut is completing plans to host more than 30 college basketball teams as it becomes a modified bubble for several early season tournaments, including two moved from New York.
The Mohegan Sun has teamed with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which holds its men’s Tip-Off Tournament and Women’s Challenge there every year, and the Gazelle Group, which runs the Empire Classic and the Legends Classic in New York.
The organizers plan to hold those tournaments and several other “pods” of games, which will get names in the next few weeks, at at the Mohegan Sun, which is owned by the Mohegan Tribe and includes a 10,000-seat arena that is home to the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun.
“It’s a single site, secluded location, with enormous square footage for social distancing,” said Greg Procino, vice president of basketball operations for the Hall of Fame. “There are a lot of things that will work in our favor, ”
Rick Giles, the president of the Gazelle Group, expects about 35 teams from more than a dozen conferences will participate at what they are dubbing “Bubbleville” between Nov. 25 and Dec. 5, with up to seven games a day.
There will be at least nine “pods” of games, beginning with the Empire Classic on Nov. 25-26, which will include Villanova, Baylor, Arizona State and Boston College.
UConn, USC, Virginia, Florida, St. John’s, UMass, Vanderbilt, BYU, Louisville, North Carolina State and other men’s and women’s programs also have agreed to play, organizers said.
Southern California coach Andy Enfield said the Trojans are expected to be in a pod with BYU, UConn and Vanderbilt.
“It’ll be a great event once we get there,” Enfield said. “We’re not concerned as long as we know we’ll get tested and the opposing teams are too.”
The Hall of Fame on Friday announced a revised field of teams and schedule for the Tip-Off Tournament. The event will be split into two brackets called Naismith and Springfield.
The Naismith bracket comprised of Rhode Island, South Florida, Temple and Virginia Tech will play Nov. 28-29. The Springfield bracket of Albany, Drexel, Long Island and Quinnipiac will play Dec. 3-4.
“We’ve been able to combine and leverage both our organizations and strengths to create something bigger than what we originally had,” Giles said. “I don’t know if either organization individually could have pulled off what we’re about to do next month.”
The Mohegan Sun has already developed protocols for coronavirus testing, cleaning and managing sports during the pandemic. It also has its own medical staff and facilities to treat and isolate anyone who may be infected.
The resort teamed with Viacom over the summer to produce televised events for boxing and mixed martial arts.
Tom Cantone, the senior vice president for sports and entertainment at Mohegan Sun, said this is not a full bubble, like the NBA and WNBA in Florida, but a highly controlled environment.
“We’re just following the playbook we’ve already established and has been working brilliantly,” Cantone said. “We will just continue to do what we’ve been doing with our doctors and protocols. So far, it’s worked flawlessly.”
Each team will be tested upon arrival. Each school will have its own secured floor in the resort’s 34-story tower hotels along with meeting and catered dining areas.
The resort’s 125,000-square-foot exposition center will be converted into a practice facility, with courts on which some games also will be played. The teams will move around through designated “back of the house” corridors so they don’t interact with the public.
The organizers plan to use a pool of about 25 officials, who also will be housed at the resort for those two weeks.
The casino had already installed safety devices as part of its reopening in June, including ultraviolet lighting and special filters in its HVAC system.
The organizers are not planning to allow fans at the games, but that could change if metrics suggest it would be safe to allow a limited number of people, Procino said.
It has not yet been determined how often and what kind of coronavirus testing will be done because each conference has its own requirements.
“That’s been a real challenge,” Giles said. “I would love to see a unified set of consistent protocols that all conferences can sign onto. That would make interconference play much easier.”
AP Sports Writer Beth Harris in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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West Virginia Black Bears Praise Congressional Effort to Save Minor League Baseball
December 4, 2019 - New York-Penn League (NYPL) - West Virginia Black Bears News Release
GRANVILLE, W.Va. - Dec. 4, 2019 - The West Virginia Black Bears today praised the newly created Save Minor League Baseball Task Force that has been organized by members of Congress to prevent Major League Baseball (MLB) from eliminating 42 minor league franchises, nearly one quarter of all minor league teams around the country.
"We appreciate the support of Rep. Lori Trahan (D.-Massachusetts), David McKinley (R-W.Va.) and the members of the task force in standing up for Minor League Baseball and speaking out against MLB's effort cast off thousands of jobs, reduce affordable, family-friendly entertainment and undermine grassroots support for our great game," said President of Rich Baseball Operations, Mike Buczkowski. Rich Baseball Operations owns two other affiliated minor league teams along with the Black Bears-the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (KC Royals AA) and the Buffalo Bisons (Toronto Blue Jays AAA).
While the West Virginia Black Bears were not on the list of teams facing the possibility of elimination under the MLB proposal, the Black Bears will remain vigilant and united with all Minor League Baseball teams in opposition to the MLB plan.
Minor league teams are vital to the social and economic lives of millions of Americans; they support scores of local businesses and jobs, provide accessible entertainment, help promote tourism spending and donate tens of millions of dollars in charitable contributions.
"With this proposal, MLB is willing to break the hearts of dozens of communities across the country," said Buczkowski. "We are going to resist this plan and are gratified that so many in Congress are willing to join with us."
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How Ballet Books changed my life
I’ve been thinking a lot lately, for family reasons, about how and why someone makes the decision to follow a creative life, rather than one more sensible and profitable.
I’ve been thinking about my own decision, at age 12, that I wanted to be a writer.
(I didn’t do anything about this decision, at the time. I had a lovely, stable childhood, broken only by bouts of ill health. I lived in an unremarkable suburb, and my generation was the first in my family to have tertiary education available to them. The height of my family’s ambition was to see us graduate from university. I decided, at around 12-15, that my life was too boring for me to be a writer – yet. I would live a bit first, and then I’d have something to write about. I was wrong, of course, but we all make mistakes.)
But with the family I had, and the school I went to, and the friends I made there, how did I ever come up with the idea that a creative life might be available to me?
I blame it on Lorna Hill.
I read all of Lorna Hill’s ballet books I could get my hands on. In particular, I read and reread A Dream of Sadler’s Wells and Veronica at the Wells.
These books tell the story of Veronica Weston, who – through talent, hard work and determination – makes it to the coveted position of prima ballerina for Sadler’s Wells ballet.
Note the hard work and determination. Hill, while making it quite clear that dancing – or music, or writing – was the most satisfying thing one could do, also made it clear that it didn’t just happen. You had to work for it, to be dedicated, even obsessed, if you wanted to succeed at the creative life.
She made it seem possible. Not something that magically appeared out of the blue, but something you planned for, enrolled for, sweated for. Yes, you needed talent, and a certain refinement of spirit, but that wasn’t enough.
And while I was thinking about all this (last night when I couldn’t get to sleep), I realised that Veronica at the Wells had also influenced me profoundly as a feminist.
To explain why, I shall have to sketch out part of the plot for you. Veronica, in the second book, is a student at Sadler’s Wells (the climax of the first book is her acceptance there). While on Christmas holidays, she is offered a part in a production, but she must return to London immediately.
The other strand of the book is her relationship with Sebastian Scott, a young man her own age who is at the beginning of his career as a composer. He has written a symphony in her honour, and if she goes back to London she will miss its premiere (and, it is strongly implied, the proposal of marriage with which Sebastian had planned to follow it).
Now, remember that Veronica at the Wells was published in 1951. Does Veronica hesitate? Does she weigh up the risk of losing Sebastian against her own career? Does she look forward to a life of sweet domesticity and being a helpmeet to Sebastian in his career?
No, she does not. They have a blazing row and she goes off to London, a bit miserable, but not doubting for a moment that she a) is doing the right thing and b) has the right to put her own career over his.
It’s a subversive little book, really.
The creative life as one to be desired. The right for a young woman to put her own needs and ambitions above those of the man she’s involved with. The tremendous satisfaction of success based on hard work.
And, of course, Sebastian comes around in due course and they get married, which is as it should be. But she keeps her own name. (In 1951!)
When I’m asked for a list of ‘six books which have influenced you as a writer’, I don’t include Lorna Hill’s. Her influence is both too big and too small to explain in a magazine paragraph. But I am in her debt, even though it’s taken me this long to realise just how much.
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5 thoughts on “How Ballet Books changed my life”
Craig on January 7, 2015 at 10:37 pm said:
Of course I know of these books, and also the Drina Dances series of ballet stories from my time as a bookseller. Still very popular and loved and collected, though I have never read any of them. Your experience with them makes me wish I had. Everything I read seemed to put my head further in the clouds.
I think there was a strong, independent spirit in many of the books for girls in the post war years. Enid Blyton’s school stories being a case in point. She’s often accused of being a racist, sexist, middle class snob. Which mostly seems to result from an over-enthusiastic approach to Noddy or The Famous Five. Her school stories, Malory Towers, St Clare’s and especially Whyteleafe, (The Naughtiest Girl series) were all very progressive, and stressed academic achievement and career over ‘homemaking’. So one should perhaps avoid assuming and concluding. One might assume ballet books are about an elitist and exploitative art form, rather than individualism and seeking one’s own path.
Pamela on January 12, 2015 at 11:23 am said:
You’re so right about Blyton, Craig. And she wasn’t the only one. The Abbey Books, for example, were another of the same type. I think the women who had lived through the war had realised just how much women could do when put to the test!
Deborah on January 11, 2015 at 2:22 am said:
How wonderful! I bought secondhand copies of the first two Veronica books recently, but haven’t read them yet, so my memories of them are from 40 or so years ago. I imagine that at the age of nine I would have approved of Veronica’s choices, as my mother was a feminist and had a career. Now I’m struck by how similar and how different the story is to that of The Red Shoes, and wonder if Lorna Hill was partly making Veronica’s choices a response to the Powell & Pressburger film (which was released in 1948).
That’s a really interesting idea, Deborah! I know nothing of Hill’s life and it would be interesting to find out more.
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Problem solving a pandemic: a B.C. man on working for Doctors Without Borders in Pakistan
Tyler Harper
May. 6, 2020 12:07 p.m.
People receive food boxes and a traditional sweet drink distributed by volunteers for breaking their fast, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on May 3. Photo: AP Photo/Anjum Naveed
Nelson’s Paul Caney is currently working for Doctors Without Borders in Pakistan, an Islamic republic torn over how to safely mark Ramadan during the pandemic. Photo submitted
The second of a two-part series on how COVID-19 has affected Ramadan. Read the first part here.
Paul Caney has made a career helping others by knowing a lot about everything, but not so much about any one thing.
In 1994, he was recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières, known in North America as Doctors Without Borders. His cousin, who was visiting Calgary seeking staff for the humanitarian organization, asked Caney what his expertise was.
At the time Caney was working in the film industry, which required some of the same skills his cousin was looking for. He could operate a radio. He could set up a generator. He knew how to drive in the mountains.
“Anyway, they asked me if I was interested,” he says now. “I sort of thought they were a little flaky and said yeah, sure.”
Three weeks later he flew to The Netherlands for training. Then it was on to Sarajevo — in the middle of the Bosnian War.
“It doesn’t work like that any more. It’s much more professional, you have many more mentors and work up to that kind of role nowadays.”
Caney, 56, works as an international logistics co-ordinator, which is better described as an extreme jack of all trades.
His daily duties include: overseeing construction and renovation of medical facilities, offices and living spaces; managing security guards, drivers and a fleet of vehicles; communications; and supply chain management.
He’s also the tech guy.
“It’s by far the most interesting job I’ve ever had, bar none,” he says.
Caney, who lives in Nelson when he’s in Canada, is currently stationed in Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad. He arrived in the country just as the pandemic was spreading. The World Health Organization says there have been 22,533 cases of COVID-19 in Pakistan along with 526 deaths.
The Islamic republic of 207 million people has been criticized by its own medical association for allowing mosques to remain open during the holy month of Ramadan, which began April 23. For 30 days, Muslims fast during the day before celebrating with family and friends in the evening while also attending evening prayers.
But Caney says he’s observed empty streets, closed tourism areas and clerics telling people to stay home.
“We have a tendency in Western cultures and Western media to group Islam as a single theological idea, which is of course not the case,” says Caney.
“There are moderates and there are fundamentalists just as there are in Christianity. So I think it’s very much a freedom to choose. I don’t think anybody is being incentivized or pushed toward gathering at risk to their faith. I think every single person in Pakistan is aware of what is going on.”
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Caney works for the Amsterdam arm of Doctors Without Borders, which also has centres in Geneva, Barcelona, Paris and Brussels. Three of those centres have teams working across Pakistan, where the organization typically focuses on mother-child health.
One in 11 children dies before the age of five in the country, according to the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey. Last year, Doctors Without Borders said it provided treatment to 11,000 malnourished children in the province of Balochistan, where Caney and the rest of the Dutch team focus their efforts.
But COVID-19 has forced the organization to change its priorities.
Caney said his colleagues have had to suspend some of its programs as staff assist Pakistan’s health ministry in COVID-19 screenings.
“I really hope, I think we all do, that we’re not overwhelmed in our medical facilities by coronavirus, so we can keep supporting the women who are having complicated pregnancies and really need our facilities,” says Caney.
“We’re the only game in town in some of these places in terms of access to obstetric health care. I think we all have a back-of-our-mind concern that coronavirus might just overtake our normal lifesaving programs.”
Acquiring supplies for front-line staff has become Caney’s biggest challenge during the pandemic.
Personal protective equipment is difficult to come by in Pakistan, where domestic flights are grounded and the European supply chains once relied on by Doctors Without Borders are closed.
“That puts you in a position where you have to purchase things locally that normally you would never do on the basis of quality, availability and price,” says Caney.
“There are some things manufactured here in Pakistan, and that’s why I say I’m much luckier than some of my colleagues in less-developed countries. You’re at the mercy of opportunistic businessmen at times and that’s the same for everybody.”
Caney’s concerns also extend to the humanitarian sector at large.
Most organizations rely on donations or government assistance to operate, which he expects will dry up. He worries too that the pandemic will impact just how many people want to take less money to work for NGOs.
“We’ll see how it all plays out. I don’t know, but I think already within the health care industry, many [current or future] health care workers are seeing very real consequences of the job, especially when we are working in a highly infectious viral emergency.”
But for now, he isn’t seeing anyone on the front lines himself. Caney has stayed put in a house in Islamabad, where he’s visited by staff and struggles to find supplies for Doctors Without Borders’ medical personnel.
Like everyone he works with, Caney worries about his own health. When he’s stressed, he tries to make use of the home’s gym equipment. He’s been using it a lot.
“If anything,” he says, “I’m healthier than when I arrived.”
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about "the washington post." "the washington post" seems to have a bone to pick with the rnc. they wrote their second editorial in a few days that think think the leaders need to stand up to trump. history will not look kindly on gop leadered who failed to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard bearer. >> i think "the washington post" completely misunderstands that's going on in america. the rnc's job is to...
Wolf : CNNW : February 26, 2016 10:00am-11:01am PST
anymore of these washington acts. the acts to get rid of are washington, d.c. acts and as a governor of a state capital i said we don't need somebody from washington, d.c. what i said in that campaign was the problem is washington, d.c. and we don't need washington politicians to fix it. and so when you look at who's remaining on the stage, no question this is the person who will go to washington, d.c. and be able to absolutely turn the place around. we don't need anymore washington politicians, especially some who have only been there for a term and never shown up for work to tell us how to run the united states government. and so, i absolutely believe that donald trump is the best person on that stage to be president of the united states. by the way, there was a period of time i was running against him. he knew i wanted to beat him. he wanted to beat me. we had open conversations about that. but that part of this is over. and then you have to say to yourself as a good, loyal, american who is the best person to stop hillary clinton from ever getting inside the white house again. this i
anymore of these washington acts. the acts to get rid of are washington, d.c. acts and as a governor of a state capital i said we don't need somebody from washington, d.c. what i said in that campaign was the problem is washington, d.c. and we don't need washington politicians to fix it. and so when you look at who's remaining on the stage, no question this is the person who will go to washington, d.c. and be able to absolutely turn the place around. we don't need anymore washington...
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon : CNNW : February 10, 2016 11:00pm-12:01am PST
at this. >> ted cruz, the worst kind of washington insider who just can't be trusted. >> that's a lousy house. i'm going to take your house with eminent domain and park my limos there. >> eminent domain! >> wow. joining me is matt moore, the chairman of the south carolina republican party. that is a harsh ad. south carolina politics not for the faint of heart. attack ads on the air. there have been some dirty tricks in past campaigns. what do you expect over the next ten days? >> south carolina is a fascinating place, a long history of creative campaign tactics, don, to say the least. i expect a sprint to the finish here in south carolina. as hugh was just saying, a lot of candidates have a real shot here in south carolina. it they get a bit of luck and they perform well in the debate here on saturday night. >> so outsiders, matt, have shaken up the party to the core. it's shaking up the left as well. the electorate is angry at the establishment. are you hearing the same thing in south carolina? >> there's a lot of frustration all around. i hear it across the state. people are fru
at this. >> ted cruz, the worst kind of washington insider who just can't be trusted. >> that's a lousy house. i'm going to take your house with eminent domain and park my limos there. >> eminent domain! >> wow. joining me is matt moore, the chairman of the south carolina republican party. that is a harsh ad. south carolina politics not for the faint of heart. attack ads on the air. there have been some dirty tricks in past campaigns. what do you expect over the next...
CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin : CNNW : February 25, 2016 11:00am-1:01pm PST
with us, todd gillman, the washington burreau chief for th dallas morning news. this back and forth over donald trump's taxes, where the main aggressor is one willard mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee. i suppose there are two questions. you've been on the record with us saying you think at some point donald trump will be vetted more than he has in the past and this may be one of those areas that will take place in. be that as it may, is willard mitt romney the right messenger for this attack? >> it certainly does show he is the embodiment of the establishment. for him to compae out, i think it's unprecedented to come out like this. but where's his evidence? what does he know that we don't know? interesting to hear. >> impressive for the man who was the republican nominee. i should note that donald trump announced mitt romney four years ago and in case anyone forgets, mitt romney went hat in hand to trump towers to essentially beg for that endorsement. >> we will eventually see his tax return but we will not see him in march. >> all right, amanda carpenter, ted cruz had some g
with us, todd gillman, the washington burreau chief for th dallas morning news. this back and forth over donald trump's taxes, where the main aggressor is one willard mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee. i suppose there are two questions. you've been on the record with us saying you think at some point donald trump will be vetted more than he has in the past and this may be one of those areas that will take place in. be that as it may, is willard mitt romney the right messenger for this...
Reliable Sources : CNNW : February 14, 2016 8:00am-9:01am PST
this battle is a combination of seven or eight years of battles in washington between president obama and republicans. i think about mitch o colonel and others saying we must oppose this president in order to regain power and the presidency. there was a choice to be an abinstructionist position and this all comes to a head now, pin cal of some sort with the supreme court. all republicans are saying the opposite. >> the presidents are elected for four years. he's got about a quarter of his term left. that's a big chunk of time. >> i've heard people say he only has a few months. >> keep in mind this is not a retirement. this is a vacancy. the supreme court is not designed to function with an even number of justices. this is a time where in most of american history there would be a consensus that you can't leave the supreme court vacant for a year or two. >> should cable news be creating their constitutional graphics and getting music ready? >> i'm always for breaking news. sure. it's not going to bring the country or supreme court to a halt. it's going to be another constitution t
this battle is a combination of seven or eight years of battles in washington between president obama and republicans. i think about mitch o colonel and others saying we must oppose this president in order to regain power and the presidency. there was a choice to be an abinstructionist position and this all comes to a head now, pin cal of some sort with the supreme court. all republicans are saying the opposite. >> the presidents are elected for four years. he's got about a quarter of...
Fareed Zakaria GPS : CNNW : February 14, 2016 10:00am-11:01am PST
not barack obama. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. ♪ >>> a series of hearings on capitol hill this week were frightening, not for their partisanship, but for their substance about the threats the united states is confronted with today. the director of national intelligence told congress there's currently more terrorist safe havens in the world than any time in history. he called isis the number one terror threat. vincent stewart, the head of the defense agency went further saying in 2016 isis will probably attempt direct attacks on the united states and more attacks in europe. what should we take from this and what is to be done? joining me now in washington is michael chertoff, former secretary of homeland security and now the chairman of security firm. he is also an adviser to jeb bush. here with me in new york is peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "united states jihad," which was my book of the week last week. michael, tell us what you made of those hearings. one of the things i worr
not barack obama. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. ♪ >>> a series of hearings on capitol hill this week were frightening, not for their partisanship, but for their substance about the threats the united states is confronted with today. the director of national intelligence told congress there's currently more terrorist safe havens in the world than any time in history. he called isis the number one terror...
Early Start With John Berman and Christine Romans : CNNW : February 17, 2016 1:00am-2:01am PST
pamela brown has the very latest for us from washington. >> well, good morning, christine and miguel. this is the first time president obama took questions following justice scalia's death and he took a tough stance saying the constitution is clear, both he and the senate have the responsibility of filling the supreme court vacancy. he says he expects republicans to consider any nominee he puts forward no matter what, that they have a job to do until they're voted out and he made the point that whoever he chooses will be so indisputably qualified that the republicans will look bad if they refuse to even consider that person. >> somebody who has an outstanding legal mind, somebody who cares deeply about our democracy and rule of law. there's not going to be any particular position on a particular issue that determines whether or not i nominate them, but i'm going to present somebody who indisputably is qualified for the seat, and any fair minded person, even somebody who disagreed with my politics would say would serve with honor and integrity on the court. >> he would not give any hi
pamela brown has the very latest for us from washington. >> well, good morning, christine and miguel. this is the first time president obama took questions following justice scalia's death and he took a tough stance saying the constitution is clear, both he and the senate have the responsibility of filling the supreme court vacancy. he says he expects republicans to consider any nominee he puts forward no matter what, that they have a job to do until they're voted out and he made the...
America's Choice 2016 : CNNW : February 27, 2016 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
. ryan, former senior communicationings to mike huckabee is hogan gidley and in washington commentator van jones. thank you all for being here. hogan, let me begin with you. i want to read you something from a "new york times" piece. talks about mitch mcconnell. it said while he's begun preparing senators for the possibility of a trump nomination if it threatened to harm them in the general election they could run negative ads about mr. trump. let's step back and think about that. that is you know, the highest ranking mitch mcconnell saying that his fellow senators can run negative ads against the party's nominee. >> right. also make the comment that we drop him like a hot rock, i think is what he said. i want to know who the we is. the establishment? they have already gut punched the american worker time and time again. they hurt the republican party time and time again, so i'm not exactly sure where he's going. i understand he is trying to protect the senate but that's what makes donald trump so popular is that he's going against what they stand for. >> hurts them more. >> absolutely
. ryan, former senior communicationings to mike huckabee is hogan gidley and in washington commentator van jones. thank you all for being here. hogan, let me begin with you. i want to read you something from a "new york times" piece. talks about mitch mcconnell. it said while he's begun preparing senators for the possibility of a trump nomination if it threatened to harm them in the general election they could run negative ads about mr. trump. let's step back and think about that....
America's Choice 2016: Nevada Republican Caucuses : CNNW : February 23, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
are desperate for somebody who will go in and shake up washington and it's like they didn't listen to the signs. they didn't change their course. and now they're being struck with donald trump, even if you look at what jeb bush was doing to marco rubio we had the scenario where so many times the party elders were trying to eat and defeat the party's young and now we have donald trump. >> it's no tt the end of the republican party, it's the broadening of it. he stands for policies that are not conservative policies saying i don't want to see people dying on the streets because they have health care, americans have paid into social security and ya emnot goie emi'm not going to take that away from them. he's american first and the republican party has needed to bro broaden their base and donald trump is doing that. >> the reason why she should be taken seriously is i hear this from democrats and you have democrats trying to decide to vote for sanders or trump. that makes zero sense. the other thing i think liberals need to wake up about with donald trump is this guy can win. he can go
are desperate for somebody who will go in and shake up washington and it's like they didn't listen to the signs. they didn't change their course. and now they're being struck with donald trump, even if you look at what jeb bush was doing to marco rubio we had the scenario where so many times the party elders were trying to eat and defeat the party's young and now we have donald trump. >> it's no tt the end of the republican party, it's the broadening of it. he stands for policies that...
New Day Sunday : CNNW : February 14, 2016 3:00am-5:01am PST
washington, good morning. >> good morning victor and christi. justice scalia dead at the age of 79 while on a hunting trip in texas he was said to have gone to bed not feeling well. found unresponsive in the afternoon. and appointed in 1986 by president reagan. first italian american on the high court. a strong vocal conservative voice. a critic of row v. wade and a dissenting voice in last term's same-sex marriage case. criticized recently for his comments regarding affirmative action. and who will succeed him now? and who will appoint that person. president obama said he intends to make the nomination in due time. but republicans made it clear in the senate they did it almost immediately they want the next president to fill the vacancy. and just scalia's death and the battle for his replacement on the bench loomed large at last night's republican presidential debate in south carolina. cnn's ryan nobles joins me now with a reaction from the gop hopefuls. they disagreed over a lot last light but on one thing this next pick should go to the next president. ryan good morning. >> jim good m
washington, good morning. >> good morning victor and christi. justice scalia dead at the age of 79 while on a hunting trip in texas he was said to have gone to bed not feeling well. found unresponsive in the afternoon. and appointed in 1986 by president reagan. first italian american on the high court. a strong vocal conservative voice. a critic of row v. wade and a dissenting voice in last term's same-sex marriage case. criticized recently for his comments regarding affirmative action....
The Lead With Jake Tapper : CNNW : February 10, 2016 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
. i'll see you tomorrow. in the meantime we send it to washington. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >> thanks, brooke. i'm back from new hampshire. as donald trump might say, there was so much winning going on. "the lead" starts right now. there will be blood. donald trump moves on to south carolina with ted cruz in his cross-hairs. if you thought the race was chaotic and ugly before, wait until you see the tv ads running today. >>> going national. bernie sanders getting a huge fund-raising bump after his blowout win in new hampshire. can he break through in friendly territory for hillary clinton? >>> determined to attack. the top u.s. security official warning isis could strike inside the u.s. this year. and we may not see the terrorists coming. hello, everyone, welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. our politics lead today, new hampshire narrowing the republican field. carly fiorina announcing she is suspending her campaign today. governor chris christie expected to do the same. while tuesday spelled the end for some, it was a momentous night for senator bernie sanders
. i'll see you tomorrow. in the meantime we send it to washington. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >> thanks, brooke. i'm back from new hampshire. as donald trump might say, there was so much winning going on. "the lead" starts right now. there will be blood. donald trump moves on to south carolina with ted cruz in his cross-hairs. if you thought the race was chaotic and ugly before, wait until you see the tv ads running today. >>> going...
This Is Life With Lisa Ling : CNNW : February 27, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
cut deals in washington. and he's right, he's given hundreds of thousands to democrats. anyone who really cared about illegal immigration, wouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants. they wouldn't be funding harry reed and nancy pelosi and the gang of 8. when you honor the promise you made to the men and women who elected you q say enough with the krupscorruption, let's stan the working men and washington, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a good attribute for president. >> here's a man, robin hood over here. he talks about corruption. on his financial disclosure form, he didn't even put that he borrowed money from goldman sacks and he didn't talk about that he pays no interest and now he's goeing to protect people from the big bad banks. give me a break. >> governor kasich. the idea -- i want to quote you now. . the idea that we're going to deport all these people is ludicrous and everybody knows it. should people be allowed to break the law just because it's not feasible to stop them? >> look, we have a great president here, georg
cut deals in washington. and he's right, he's given hundreds of thousands to democrats. anyone who really cared about illegal immigration, wouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants. they wouldn't be funding harry reed and nancy pelosi and the gang of 8. when you honor the promise you made to the men and women who elected you q say enough with the krupscorruption, let's stan the working men and washington, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a...
CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield : CNNW : February 7, 2016 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
he is doing. >> i want the people at home to think about this. that's what washington, d.c. does. the drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors -- >> the bottom line, this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he is doing -- >> there it is. there it is. memorized 25-second speech. there is is t is, everybody. >> here's the response. i think anyone who believes that barack obama isn't doing what he is doing on purpose doesn't understand what we are dealing with here. this is a president, this is a president who is trying to change this country. >> oh, boy. hard to come back from this. and the boston herald ran with it. choke. it takes you back to the drinking of the water moment. >> yeah. i mean, we're chattering a lot about this. but when you look at the google search trends, 538 did an article about this. actual viewers spike -- the interest spiked when he talked about his pro life position. that was two, three times as many hits as when this exchange was going on. so ma
he is doing. >> i want the people at home to think about this. that's what washington, d.c. does. the drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors -- >> the bottom line, this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he is doing -- >> there it is. there it is. memorized 25-second speech. there is is t is, everybody. >> here's the response. i think anyone who believes...
America's Choice 2016: Nevada Republican Caucuses : CNNW : February 23, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
because the republicans are so determined here in washington to not even -- never mind give whoever the nominee is hearings, but even have meetings. >> the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell announcing no hearings and they doesn't wan't have a nominee come up for a meeting. >> i think it's a huge risk. i'm well aware of the old statement by then senator biden in his capacity of senate judiciary chairman, that was june. there was no a vacancy then on the supreme court of the united states. i think it shows a level of confidence. it's the fourth straight contest where passion seems to be on the side of the gop. it a very big risk for republicans, while thumping their chests and saying we are the constitutionalists, we're are not going to give an audience to your nominee to fill justice scalia's -- >> i think that is on both sides of the aisle. we always say in elections be, you hear candidates say the supreme court is at stake, we have to vote -- it never happens. i think the supreme court because of what the senate has done, because of the nature of this particular pick being the s
because the republicans are so determined here in washington to not even -- never mind give whoever the nominee is hearings, but even have meetings. >> the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell announcing no hearings and they doesn't wan't have a nominee come up for a meeting. >> i think it's a huge risk. i'm well aware of the old statement by then senator biden in his capacity of senate judiciary chairman, that was june. there was no a vacancy then on the supreme court of the...
The Sixties : CNNW : February 14, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
of washington that your advisers are now telling you to run against president johnson this year. >> i have no plans. i have no plans to change the statement i've already made. >> senator? >> the assumption among the kennedy intimates was that lbj was totally unbeatable in 1968. and bobby would run in 1972. >> the anti-war movement needed a leader and it fell to eugene mccarthy. >> very nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> senator, president johnson supporters say you don't have a chance in new hampshire and you'll be lucky to get 10% of the vote. what do you say about that? >> well, i don't know. the people supporting me said we'll do better than that. >> one democrat, senator eugene mccarthy -- >> eugene mccarthy does something that's taboo. he comes out against a sitting president from the same party. >> mccarthy came in from left field. he was not thought of in the front rank of presidential contenders. but there was a great deal of frustration and even despair among the young. eugene mccarthy gave them hope. >> how many volunteers for senate mccarthy? >> i'm ready to vo
of washington that your advisers are now telling you to run against president johnson this year. >> i have no plans. i have no plans to change the statement i've already made. >> senator? >> the assumption among the kennedy intimates was that lbj was totally unbeatable in 1968. and bobby would run in 1972. >> the anti-war movement needed a leader and it fell to eugene mccarthy. >> very nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> senator, president...
The Hunt With John Walsh : CNNW : February 7, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
have any information. then we went to the metropolitan police in washington, d.c., and they were familiar with a store in potomac, maryland, and the name of the store was poch, p-o-c-h hardware. >> investigators speak to the hardware store owner. they post a flyer at the hardware store of the victims. they only put four of the victims on the flyer because one was so badly injured. >> at that point we didn't know how to proceed in that area, and myself and the agent returned back to north carolina. >> one thing that i've learned firsthand unequivocally, it only takes one small tip to break open a case. the public is the biggest resource that law enforcement has. and in this case, a good citizen did the right thing and really drew attention to that little house in bethesda, maryland. >> the neighbors said they hadn't seen the family in a week, and the papers and mail were backing up. normally the family would actually tell the neighbors that they were going out of town, they were going somewhere. >> i received a call on the police radio, i was working that beat, and they told me to
have any information. then we went to the metropolitan police in washington, d.c., and they were familiar with a store in potomac, maryland, and the name of the store was poch, p-o-c-h hardware. >> investigators speak to the hardware store owner. they post a flyer at the hardware store of the victims. they only put four of the victims on the flyer because one was so badly injured. >> at that point we didn't know how to proceed in that area, and myself and the agent returned back to...
Anderson Cooper 360 : CNNW : February 24, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
experience to help you with congress and help you once you're in washington if you get there? >> yes. the answer is yes. i would not do -- i'm very political and i've been political and you've known me for a long time. but i would absolutely not need another business person. i'll have many business people, i mean, some of the greats. carl icahn endorsed me. many of them endorsed me, the best ones. >> you'd want someone with congressional experience -- >> i'd want someone with political skill because that's where i would really want that. dealing with congress, et cetera. i also think in terms of vice president, the key is, who would be a great president. if something should happen, who would be a great president? that has to be the first. but i'd really want somebody that would be in the world of politics in that case. i will keep it going really beautifully, but i like the concept of politics. not 100%, but i think i like the concept of having somebody that's in the world of politics for that position. >> donald trump, again, congratulations on last night. >> thank you, anderson. >>
experience to help you with congress and help you once you're in washington if you get there? >> yes. the answer is yes. i would not do -- i'm very political and i've been political and you've known me for a long time. but i would absolutely not need another business person. i'll have many business people, i mean, some of the greats. carl icahn endorsed me. many of them endorsed me, the best ones. >> you'd want someone with congressional experience -- >> i'd want someone with...
Reliable Sources : CNNW : February 7, 2016 8:00am-9:01am PST
. he's not going to go to new hampshire. he's going to come to washington, d.c., and he's going to do that because the national prayer breakfast is on thursday. >> very unusual. >> very unusual. >> to be announcing that you're going home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site. >> very unusual, they said. it certainly was. but they didn't say he was dropping out of the race. now the story gets a little murky at this point. cruz campaign aides spread word to their supporters in iowa that carson might be or actually was dropping out. maybe planning a big announcement even though cnn never said that. carson accused cruz of dirting campaigning. cruz -- dirty campaigning. cruz apologized but blamed cnn causing brooke baldwin to call b.s. >> when senator cruz tries to throw my network and journalists under the bed, let me stand up for them. i'm going to call out b.s. if i hear b.s., and that's b. s. >> under pressure, cruz admit that "cnn got it correct." last night at the debate, he reverted to his previous position. he said this -- >> my political team saw cnn's report break
. he's not going to go to new hampshire. he's going to come to washington, d.c., and he's going to do that because the national prayer breakfast is on thursday. >> very unusual. >> very unusual. >> to be announcing that you're going home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site. >> very unusual, they said. it certainly was. but they didn't say he was dropping out of the race. now the story gets a little murky at this point. cruz campaign aides spread word to...
CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield : CNNW : February 14, 2016 1:00pm-1:31pm PST
in washington. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was quick to say he didn't think the president should nominate a replacement for scalia. president obama vowed he will nominate someone quickly. how long could the process drag out? >> quite sometime if you look at histor historical, typically they take 67 days on average. the longest when robert -- nomination was rejected three decades ago. that took 108 days. this is poised to smash that record. we are looking at right now mcconnell saying the president should not nominate anyone. if he sticks to his demand and decides not to allow a confirmation vote on the senate floor and if they deny a confirmation hearing in the senate, judiciary committee it is certainly likely there will be no nominee confirmed this year. that means it will drag on to the next presidency. it could take two or three
in washington. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was quick to say he didn't think the president should nominate a replacement for scalia. president obama vowed he will nominate someone quickly. how long could the process drag out? >> quite sometime if you look at histor historical, typically they take 67 days on average. the longest when robert -- nomination was rejected three decades ago. that took 108 days. this is poised to smash that record. we are looking at right now mcconnell...
Anderson Cooper 360 : CNNW : February 16, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
move by the white house to help donald trump to some degree because democrats in washington at least fear marco rubio more than they do donald trump. at the same time, who would have thought that donald trump would be atop the republican polls? certainly not barack obama when he mocked him at the 2011 white house correspondents' dinner. it's been an unpredictable year. democrats are nervous trump is going to advance to the final two and never know what's going to happen in a general election. >> bob, do you think the president president is surprise ed donald trump's standings in the poll? >> yes. let's keep in mind here, nobody else has been very effective at taking him on. particularly on the substance, the gravitas you need to be president of the united states. who better than the president to say that? at this point when it gets down to three people running, obama is not going to be as harmful to the third person in the race. somebody has to point this out. he has the bully pulpit. he should do it. he's not an unpopular president, about 50/50. it's not going to help the pr r
move by the white house to help donald trump to some degree because democrats in washington at least fear marco rubio more than they do donald trump. at the same time, who would have thought that donald trump would be atop the republican polls? certainly not barack obama when he mocked him at the 2011 white house correspondents' dinner. it's been an unpredictable year. democrats are nervous trump is going to advance to the final two and never know what's going to happen in a general election....
New Day Saturday : CNNW : February 27, 2016 3:00am-6:01am PST
old-fashioned texas demolition derby. at a washington press dinner lynn city graham said this about republicans. >> my party is going [ bleep ] crazy. >> the president insists -- >> i'm going to do my job. >> reporter: -- in a political climate that's explosive and battle-scar. sometimes these fights are like entertainment. but don't forget, we're dealing with the biggest issues affecting this country. it would be a first if the senate refuses to hold hearings for president obama's supreme court nominee and could affect decisions for decades and on gitmo, if the president decides to take executive action which the white house is still not ruling out, that could just spark a bigger firestorm with legal action already being threatened. christi? >> hey, michelle. thank you very much. >>> even though president obama obviously had a bit of a industriesful week, he did manage to take time to relax. belting out a tune, channeling his inner ray charles. ♪ hey ho ♪ hey ♪ ♪ hey ♪ ho ♪ now jake gets purina cat chow naturals indoor a nutritious formula for indoor cats with no artifi
old-fashioned texas demolition derby. at a washington press dinner lynn city graham said this about republicans. >> my party is going [ bleep ] crazy. >> the president insists -- >> i'm going to do my job. >> reporter: -- in a political climate that's explosive and battle-scar. sometimes these fights are like entertainment. but don't forget, we're dealing with the biggest issues affecting this country. it would be a first if the senate refuses to hold hearings for...
Erin Burnett OutFront : CNNW : February 25, 2016 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
to washington, d.c. to destruct or turn the capital on its ear. who knows how to make it work? who knows the underpinnings of washington, d.c. well enough? senator cruz is it. if you want to see power devo e devolved out of washington, d.c., these governors empowered to do the things they know they can do and respecting the tenth amendment, then ted cruz without a doubt is the individual on the stage that can do that. has the commitment, has the intellect, and has the know-how to make it happen. >> when you were governor, you welcomed then president vicente fox to the governor's mansion. the former president said something today that some people think is going to be mana for trump. here's how he said it. >> i'm not going to pay for that [ bleep ] wall. he should pay for it. >> the thing that makes me chuckle about that is he accepted the premise, as if it is going to be there, who is going to pay for it. >> i sethe border can be secure. it doesn't take a physical wall. it takes a virtual wall. that's with technology and boots on the ground. the issue is not whether there's going to
to washington, d.c. to destruct or turn the capital on its ear. who knows how to make it work? who knows the underpinnings of washington, d.c. well enough? senator cruz is it. if you want to see power devo e devolved out of washington, d.c., these governors empowered to do the things they know they can do and respecting the tenth amendment, then ted cruz without a doubt is the individual on the stage that can do that. has the commitment, has the intellect, and has the know-how to make it...
CNN America's Choice 2016: The Iowa Caucuses : CNNW : February 1, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
trump at 27%. 57% voting and for people to be established with the republican party in washington, d.c. the voters so far saying the republican party in washington, we don't care what you think. >> the numbers come in. you have 25% on the republican side. you have 54% of the vote here. 51%. >> it's extraordinary to see. bernie sanders, 48%. bill bradley 35%. that was considered a receiveful showing. he may not win tonight, but the idea that you have gotten the people powered model, remember. no big donor and no super pac. the model going all the way to the finish line. with no big thing. this is of the model. the bill bradley model lost every single thing. that's not what they did. god bless martin o'malley. he gets close to that. this will go on and it will be for new hampshire. if hillary can't survive, there is no rebel yon. >> 56% of democrats in the entrance polls say they want to continue the policies. >> two different parties. >> they have gotten in at this point. you were talking about that. that being clear, there is a huge discontent within the party and the establishment doe
trump at 27%. 57% voting and for people to be established with the republican party in washington, d.c. the voters so far saying the republican party in washington, we don't care what you think. >> the numbers come in. you have 25% on the republican side. you have 54% of the vote here. 51%. >> it's extraordinary to see. bernie sanders, 48%. bill bradley 35%. that was considered a receiveful showing. he may not win tonight, but the idea that you have gotten the people powered model,...
The Sixties : CNNW : February 13, 2016 11:00pm-12:01am PST
some fuel to the fire of what's rising between moscow and washington. >> to see that the soviets were building nuclear weapons, missiles. we were flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u2. >> i'm bill fox, in new york. a single-engine u.s. air force plane was missing not far from the soviet border in the rugged mountains of southeastern turkey. >> to a stunned and startled audience, kruschev announced that an american u2 spy plane had been shot down in the soviet union. >> kruschev made the wreckage a public exhibition. to the soviet union, this wreckage was a national cause. national outrage over the violation of soviet boundaries. >> and so, out comes the cover story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa a u2 research plane, piloted by a civilian, has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower said, no, that didn't happen. et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap by kruschev. >> the soviet leader said not only did they shoot down the plane, they had the pilot. >> francis gary powers, an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances. and in a way
some fuel to the fire of what's rising between moscow and washington. >> to see that the soviets were building nuclear weapons, missiles. we were flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u2. >> i'm bill fox, in new york. a single-engine u.s. air force plane was missing not far from the soviet border in the rugged mountains of southeastern turkey. >> to a stunned and startled audience, kruschev announced that an american u2 spy plane had been shot down in the soviet...
CNN Newsroom With Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul : CNNW : February 6, 2016 7:00am-8:01am PST
vast bureaucracy that has become our government in washington, d.c., all of these things aren't working for us any more. they are working for themselves. and if you ever doubted the game was rigged, look at what is going on on that debate stage tonight. sorry, i thought votes counted in elections. sorry. i thought delegates counted in elections. sorry, i thought the people in new hampshire had a responsibility to vote and pick presidents, but apparently, the media establishment, the political establishment have decided they know better than you. i will not falter. i will never stop fighting and neither can you. i will never stop fighting because what we are fighting for is incredible kri important. we are fighting for our politics now. we are fighting for our government to take it back. we are fighting for our future and our country and that is why i'm running for president. that is why you have to stand with me and fight with me and vote for me. i will never stop fighting and neither can you. you know, we used to think about this as a nation of limitless possibility. we used to be cert
vast bureaucracy that has become our government in washington, d.c., all of these things aren't working for us any more. they are working for themselves. and if you ever doubted the game was rigged, look at what is going on on that debate stage tonight. sorry, i thought votes counted in elections. sorry. i thought delegates counted in elections. sorry, i thought the people in new hampshire had a responsibility to vote and pick presidents, but apparently, the media establishment, the political...
. he starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london, 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, so-called political outsiders turning the presidential race upside down. a brash billionaire businessman and reality tv star is, a 74-year-old self-declared democratic socialist both winning very big in the first primary election of the 2016 campaign. senator bernie sanders trouncing hillary clinton 60% to 38% in new hampshire primary. on the republican side donald trump took 35% of the vote, ohio governor john kasich finished second with 16%. followed by senator ted cruz, former florida governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio. trump told cheering supporters he'll fix the country's problems, including the economy and creating jobs. >> if we had 5% unemployment, do you really think we'd have these gatherings? forgetting about security, forgetting about isis which, by the way, we're going to knock the hell out of isis, we're going to knock the hell out of them and it's g
. he starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london, 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, so-called political outsiders turning the presidential race upside down. a brash billionaire businessman and reality tv star is, a 74-year-old self-declared democratic socialist both winning very big in the first primary election of the 2016 campaign. senator bernie...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : February 15, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
of heavy snow, but it will snow across washington, philadelphia and new york. just a couple of inches, not going to hurt as much at 20 below zero they saw in spots of this region. >> 20 below zero. i think i'll pass on that. thank you so much. >>> sunday marked valentine's day around the world in many places, and many people took that opportunity to celebrate their love. take a look at this massive light rose garden in hong kong. it served as the picturesque backdrop for couples taking selfies. it is made up of 25,000 l.e.d.
of heavy snow, but it will snow across washington, philadelphia and new york. just a couple of inches, not going to hurt as much at 20 below zero they saw in spots of this region. >> 20 below zero. i think i'll pass on that. thank you so much. >>> sunday marked valentine's day around the world in many places, and many people took that opportunity to celebrate their love. take a look at this massive light rose garden in hong kong. it served as the picturesque backdrop for couples...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : February 21, 2016 11:00pm-1:01am PST
now from washington to talk more about the race for the white house is cnn political analyst josh roggin. he's also a columnist for bloomberg view. thank you so much for being with us. so pretty incredible win for donald trump. he seems unstoppable at this point. is there any way he wouldn't be the republican nominee given his wins in new hampshire and south carolina? >> well, if history is any guide, he definitely has the inside track. in modern history there hasn't been a republican candidate who has won new hampshire and south carolina and not gone on to be the nominee. that being said, this is a year unlike any other. now there's a resettling of the republican field with the exit of jeb bush. there's a consolidation of the establishment support and money around marco rubio. as we head into the next contest, which is nevada in a couple of days, and then the mar 1 super tuesday primaries, there will be a changing of all of the strategies of these campaigns in accordance with those new realities. but still you won't see all the candidates go after trump. there's still a battle to
now from washington to talk more about the race for the white house is cnn political analyst josh roggin. he's also a columnist for bloomberg view. thank you so much for being with us. so pretty incredible win for donald trump. he seems unstoppable at this point. is there any way he wouldn't be the republican nominee given his wins in new hampshire and south carolina? >> well, if history is any guide, he definitely has the inside track. in modern history there hasn't been a republican...
Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer : CNNW : February 11, 2016 2:00pm-4:01pm PST
civil rights movement in the spotlight. sanders has talked about attending the 1963 march on washington. >> i was way, way back there, one of the several hundred thousand people who was here. >> reporter: but congressman john lewis, a civil rights leader and a clinton supporter downplayed sanders' history with the movement in comparison to the clintons. >> i never saw him. i never met him. was involved in the sit-ins, the freedom ride, the march on washington, the march from selma to montgomery and directed the voter education project for six years. but i met hillary clinton. a met president clinton. >> reporter: i spoke with the clinton campaign source today who says she's going to try to draw compelling contrasts on issues that she sees being of import to african-american and hispanic voters, namely that would be crime, immigration and guns. guns perhaps the area where there's the most clear contrast between sanders and clinton, wolf. >> very powerful statement from congressman john lewis there. thanks very much. let's go to jeff zeleny. jeff, you've been on the campaign trail with th
civil rights movement in the spotlight. sanders has talked about attending the 1963 march on washington. >> i was way, way back there, one of the several hundred thousand people who was here. >> reporter: but congressman john lewis, a civil rights leader and a clinton supporter downplayed sanders' history with the movement in comparison to the clintons. >> i never saw him. i never met him. was involved in the sit-ins, the freedom ride, the march on washington, the march from...
daily caller and has predicted correctly in iowa and new hampshire. also washington political columnist dana milbank. thank you for being here. some fascinating pieces you've had recently, especially one you wrote in the past week or so about jeb bush. you talked about his strong showing in new hampshire. the title of your piece, jeb bush is still not dead. do you feel like that today? >> well, popy, but the question is, when you try to make a forecast in a race as crazy as this. think of this, the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination is in a fight with the pope right now so it is completely perilous to make any prediction. jeb bush came out of new hampshire with a pulse. it looked like marco rubio had weakened and this was going to be a chance for bush to get back in the game. if we believe the polls, he hasn't quite pulled that off and rubio has rebounded to some exte extent. it's hard to tell, kasich, rubio, bush, but it is clear there's not going to be more than three tickets out of south carolina right now. there's no way to spin a fourth place finish i
daily caller and has predicted correctly in iowa and new hampshire. also washington political columnist dana milbank. thank you for being here. some fascinating pieces you've had recently, especially one you wrote in the past week or so about jeb bush. you talked about his strong showing in new hampshire. the title of your piece, jeb bush is still not dead. do you feel like that today? >> well, popy, but the question is, when you try to make a forecast in a race as crazy as this. think...
washington establishment. will not be chosen by the lobbyists. but will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people. the american people. tonight, thanks to the incredible hard work of everyone gathered here, of courageous conservatives across the state. to put in perspective, your incredible victory that you have won tonight. that is the most votes ever cast for any republican primary winner. [ crowd chanting ] >> tonight is a victory for millions of americans, who have shouldered the burden of seven years of washington deals run amok. tonight is a victory for every american who's watched in display as career politicians in washington in both parties refuse to listen and too often fail to keep their commitments to the people. tonight is a victory for every american who understands that after we survive eight long years of the obama presidency, that no one personality can right the wrongs done by washington. the millions who understand that it is a commitment to the constitution to our shared insistence that we
washington establishment. will not be chosen by the lobbyists. but will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people. the american people. tonight, thanks to the incredible hard work of everyone gathered here, of courageous conservatives across the state. to put in perspective, your incredible victory that you have won tonight. that is the most votes ever cast for any republican primary winner. [ crowd chanting ] >> tonight...
State of the Union With Jake Tapper : CNNW : February 14, 2016 9:00am-10:01am PST
. >>> hello. i'm dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is steeling for a fight. the sudden death of supreme court justice antonin scalia sent an already tense presidential race into overdrive. and the political drama played out live on television last night just moments before the start of a republican debate, president obama vowed to fill justice scalia's seat. >> i plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. >> but within minutes, the gop candidates on the debate stage demanded that the senate block any potential nominee. >> i think it's up to mitch mcconnell and everybody else to stop it. it's called delay, delay, delay. >> a partisan showdown that will certainly play out on the campaign trail. we are going to look at this from every angle this morning. but first, two of the candidates on that debate stage are here. we'll get to jeb bush in a moment. but first, marco rubio who had a
. >>> hello. i'm dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is steeling for a fight. the sudden death of supreme court justice antonin scalia sent an already tense presidential race into overdrive. and the political drama played out live on television last night just moments before the start of a republican debate, president obama vowed to fill justice scalia's seat. >> i plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. there will...
washington telling them how to educate their children. we spend as a nation more for education per pupil than any other nation in the world. not even close. more per pupil, second place doesn't even exist, it's so different. and yet out of 30 countries, we're ranked number 30. you have china, you have norway, sweden, denmark. and then you have number 30, the united states. so we spend the most, and we're at the bottom of the heap. it's not going to happen any more, folks. not going to happen any more. we are going to build our military, which i thank, because a number of the people came down, and a number of the pundits watching tonight, we love our military. we love our military. and by the way, we love our police. our police are terrific. we love our police. they are not being treated properly. we're going to build our military so big, so good, so strong, so powerful, that nobody is ever going to mess with us, folks. and we're going to buy -- we're going to buy the equipment that our generals, our soldiers, that everybody that's in the know want. we're not buying equipment that sells b
washington telling them how to educate their children. we spend as a nation more for education per pupil than any other nation in the world. not even close. more per pupil, second place doesn't even exist, it's so different. and yet out of 30 countries, we're ranked number 30. you have china, you have norway, sweden, denmark. and then you have number 30, the united states. so we spend the most, and we're at the bottom of the heap. it's not going to happen any more, folks. not going to happen...
sanders. >> together, we can transform america. >> two washington veterans. >> if that's the kind of revolution he's talking about, i'm worried, folks. >> who will prevail in a state that dashed clinton's presidential hopes before? >> guess what. that inevitable candidate ain't so inevitable today. >> now it's time for voters to finally have their say. >> you get the first chance to decide who should be the next president of the united states. >> in one of the most unpredictable campaigns of our time. >> this is a strange election, isn't it? >> iowa is choosing. the world is watching. and this night will change the course of the 2016 campaign. >> right now, iowans are gathering across the street for the lead-off contest in a presidential race that's breaking all the rules. we want to welcome in our viewers from the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. 11 republicans and 3 democrats in two very dramatic battles tonight to the score the first wins of the 2016 campaign. we're less than an hour away from the start of the caucuses and the first clues about the outcome
sanders. >> together, we can transform america. >> two washington veterans. >> if that's the kind of revolution he's talking about, i'm worried, folks. >> who will prevail in a state that dashed clinton's presidential hopes before? >> guess what. that inevitable candidate ain't so inevitable today. >> now it's time for voters to finally have their say. >> you get the first chance to decide who should be the next president of the united states. >>...
Wolf : CNNW : February 1, 2016 10:00am-11:01am PST
washington d.c. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wrer are you watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >> we start in iowa where voters are just hours away from casting the fist votes in the presidential election. the candidates are making a final push across the state right now with each one trying to get in the last word in their own way. >> hello, iowa. it's great to be here. he will be unbelievable. >> i will always seek to make you proud, that you will always be proud of the fact that you caucused for me. >> i hope you will go. i hope you will stand up for me. i hope you will fight for me. >> together we will win the iowa caucuses. we will win the nomination, and we will win the general election. we will defeat hillary clinton. >> this is a campaign of the people by the people and for the people. >> voter turnout will be the telling statistic today with gatherings in more than 1,600 locations for each party across the state. there's democrats and republicans making the choice. the first choice but not the last word. on the republican side, the leader of the polls headi
washington d.c. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wrer are you watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >> we start in iowa where voters are just hours away from casting the fist votes in the presidential election. the candidates are making a final push across the state right now with each one trying to get in the last word in their own way. >> hello, iowa. it's great to be here. he will be unbelievable. >> i will always seek to make you proud, that you will...
CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow : CNNW : February 14, 2016 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
. this weekend with one tragic event, the landscape of washington politics has changed. the balance of influence in the american judicial branch changed. and the men and women elbowing to be the next u.s. president got a huge issue. the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia. condolences to his family turned to ice-cold politics when arguments began flying from all directions about who will replace him and whether president obama stands a chance of getting a replacement through senate confirmation. the republicans currently in control of the senate saying no way. urging the president not to even try to get a nominee through. they want to take their chances in the election in the fall and the possibility that a republican president could then name a new justice. president obama on the other hand, promising to honor his constitutional responsibility, and put forward a nominee. his words -- in due time. cnn supreme court reporter arian devogue is with me now, a litigator with a lot of experience inside the supreme court and a lawyer with experience with the supreme court bar. when
. this weekend with one tragic event, the landscape of washington politics has changed. the balance of influence in the american judicial branch changed. and the men and women elbowing to be the next u.s. president got a huge issue. the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia. condolences to his family turned to ice-cold politics when arguments began flying from all directions about who will replace him and whether president obama stands a chance of getting a replacement through senate...
State of the Union With Jake Tapper : CNNW : February 28, 2016 6:00am-7:01am PST
. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is stealing for super tuesday in just two days. 11 more states are going to vote, creating the largest delegate prize yet. will donald trump win big again? that's a scenario giving establishment republicans nightmares. but even in their most fevered dreams, they probably never envisioned this. >> we need to have a leader who once again stands up for the american people first, not the rest of the world first, america first. donald trump is that man! >> will new jersey governor chris christie prove to be an outlier offer a trail blazer as the stakes get higher, the race is getting uglier. and senator marco rubio seems to be taking a page from the trump handbook. >> donald trump likes to sue people. he should sue whoever did that to his face. >>> and joining us now is the republican front-runner, donald trump. mr. trump, thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> so big endorsement for you from new jersey governor chris christie. during the campaign, he had some tough words for you. do you think he was just playing poli
. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is stealing for super tuesday in just two days. 11 more states are going to vote, creating the largest delegate prize yet. will donald trump win big again? that's a scenario giving establishment republicans nightmares. but even in their most fevered dreams, they probably never envisioned this. >> we need to have a leader who once again stands up for the american people first, not the rest of the world first,...
for someone who's tough, strong on the economy and someone who will change washington. when you look at the issues portfolio hend heading into the final days, trump looks like he's headed for back to back wins. >> i want to bring gloria borger back in. trump, can he maintain that through saturday? ted cruz and jeb bush are not letting up on their criticism. >> reporter: well, i have to say it looks good, anderson. there are two fwhunumbers i pay attention to in shk zk from the voters. one is trump has the best chance to win in a general election and also 60% believe he can bring change to washington. what are elections about? they're about winning and bringibring i change. sunlen was talking earlier about cruz talking about abortion. this is trump's achilles' heel. this question of values. and cruz and trump are pretty tied in that. but even if cruz were to go ahead of truch mp on that score i'm not sure it could be enough to sort of win the primary down here. i think -- i think if trump kind of sits on his lead, doesn't make any huge mistakes, i think he's looking at a verdiictory h
for someone who's tough, strong on the economy and someone who will change washington. when you look at the issues portfolio hend heading into the final days, trump looks like he's headed for back to back wins. >> i want to bring gloria borger back in. trump, can he maintain that through saturday? ted cruz and jeb bush are not letting up on their criticism. >> reporter: well, i have to say it looks good, anderson. there are two fwhunumbers i pay attention to in shk zk from the...
America's Choice 2016: The New Hampshire Primary : CNNW : February 9, 2016 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
terms of politicians. let's go back to washington, d.c. the election center and wolf blitzer. wolf? >> guys, thanks very much. look at these long lines, both in hudson, new hampshire, as well as merrimack, new hampshire. people have less than an hour to go ahead and vote. we're awaiting the first real votes coming in right now. i want to go quickly to brian todd in hudson, new hampshire. brian, this is right near nashua. set the scene for us. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. dynamic turnout here in hudson. bob and i are going to move along the line. let's go, bob. this line extends about 60 feet out the door. it's been doing that for a couple of hours. it could break its record. about 9,000 voters came here in 2012. about the same in 2008. they think they've got a good shot to eclipse that. as of an hour ago, more than 7,000 had been here. these lines are out the door. here's an update from the moderator of this precinct. he said if you're in the line here, even way out the door by 8:00 when the polls close, you're going to get in and vote. look at this line of cars over here. it e
terms of politicians. let's go back to washington, d.c. the election center and wolf blitzer. wolf? >> guys, thanks very much. look at these long lines, both in hudson, new hampshire, as well as merrimack, new hampshire. people have less than an hour to go ahead and vote. we're awaiting the first real votes coming in right now. i want to go quickly to brian todd in hudson, new hampshire. brian, this is right near nashua. set the scene for us. >> reporter: that's right, wolf....
New Day : CNNW : February 10, 2016 2:30am-6:01am PST
obama, it is anger at republicans. those republicans long that gop leaders in washington caved to obama and didn't get it done. he represents all that, you've got to give him his due on getting this done. >> sara, let's talk about another person who considers himself a big winner from last night. that's john kasich. he had been predicting he was going to do well in new hampshire, he was second to donald trump and what he said that was different than everybody else is he remained positive and didn't engage in the name calling. listen to what he said. >> we never went negative because we have more good to sell than to send our time being critical of somebody else. maybe just maybe we are turning the page on a dark part of american politics because tonight the light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning. and you made it happen. you made it happen. >> so, sara, what is the plan for him in south carolina? do we know what his ground game is like there? >> well, i think that it's going to be -- you know, it's going to be a tough path for john kasich here in south carolina. he wan
obama, it is anger at republicans. those republicans long that gop leaders in washington caved to obama and didn't get it done. he represents all that, you've got to give him his due on getting this done. >> sara, let's talk about another person who considers himself a big winner from last night. that's john kasich. he had been predicting he was going to do well in new hampshire, he was second to donald trump and what he said that was different than everybody else is he remained positive...
CNN Republican Presidential Debate : CNNW : February 25, 2016 10:00pm-12:31am PST
for the washington bosses. and i'll tell you, as i travel the state, democrats tell me, i didn't vote for you, but you're doing what you said you would do, and as president, i will do the same. >> mr. trump? >> thank you. my whole theme is make america great again. we don't win anymore as a country. we don't win with trade. we don't win with the military, isis, we can't even knock out isis, and we will, believe me. we will. we don't win in any capacity with health care. we have terrible health care. obamacare is going to be repealed and replaced. we just don't win. you look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese. everybody pours in. we're going to make a great country again. we're going to start winning again. we're going to win a lot. it's going to be a big difference, believe me. it's going to be a big, big difference. >> thank you very much. it's now time to begin questions. voters in the first four states have spoken, and mr. trump has emerged as the front-runner, but in five days, the candidates will face their biggest test yet, super tuesday, when nearly half of the dele
for the washington bosses. and i'll tell you, as i travel the state, democrats tell me, i didn't vote for you, but you're doing what you said you would do, and as president, i will do the same. >> mr. trump? >> thank you. my whole theme is make america great again. we don't win anymore as a country. we don't win with trade. we don't win with the military, isis, we can't even knock out isis, and we will, believe me. we will. we don't win in any capacity with health care. we have...
At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan : CNNW : February 3, 2016 8:00am-9:01am PST
from near death. >>> i want to go to senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny following the hillary campaign. what is in store for today? >> reporter: there's no question that the democratic rivals are looking towards the town hall in derry. hillary is trying to come back a little bit in new hampshire, trying to persuade these voters to look at her record and that moment with gabby giffords is just like it was in iowa. i'm talking soft here because you can see that on stage behind me she's on stage behind me. as we go forward, there's a back and forth going on between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. she's trying to say that she has a progressive record for years. bernie sanders questioned that last night. he said some days she's a progressive. so right now this exchange is going on back and forth on twitter and that will definitely be a central part of their conversation tonight at the town hall meeting in derry. >> all right. jeff zeleny, we appreciate that. thanks. >> thanks, jeff. >>> coming up for us, the polls in new hampshire show that bernie sanders right now has
from near death. >>> i want to go to senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny following the hillary campaign. what is in store for today? >> reporter: there's no question that the democratic rivals are looking towards the town hall in derry. hillary is trying to come back a little bit in new hampshire, trying to persuade these voters to look at her record and that moment with gabby giffords is just like it was in iowa. i'm talking soft here because you can see that on stage...
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be a fair playing field for everybody. i intend to remove the barriers from washington which will allow the american energy market to expand, to create high paying jobs and to jump-start the american economy. [ applause ] >> this is julie hershey, she is president of a local nonprofit and is committed to voting for you. so don't blow it. >> i don't think he can. >> okay. >> senator cruz, thank you for taking my question. in order to prevent future controversy and possible litigation, will you please justify constitutionally your legal right to be president of the united states as it relates to your natural born status. >> sure, i'm happy to do that, julie, thank you for the question. the law under the constitution and federal law has been clear from the very first days of the republic. the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. for anyone to be president, they have to be a natural born president. if you or i travel abroad and we have a child overseas that child is a u.s. citizen by virtue of birth. that is true, if you have service members who travel abroad
be a fair playing field for everybody. i intend to remove the barriers from washington which will allow the american energy market to expand, to create high paying jobs and to jump-start the american economy. [ applause ] >> this is julie hershey, she is president of a local nonprofit and is committed to voting for you. so don't blow it. >> i don't think he can. >> okay. >> senator cruz, thank you for taking my question. in order to prevent future controversy and...
get help breaking down the campaign warfare with managing editor zach wolf. he is in the washington bureau. >> good morning. >> we saw george w. on the campaign trail helping out his brother. let's go to what he said and i'll come back to you for reaction. >> strength is not empty rhetoric. it is not bluster. strength of purpose comes from integrity and character. in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room. >> okay. if we are going to read those tea leaves, we can assume he is talking about trump, the loudest one in the room. do you think he will give enough momentum to jeb not just for south carolina, but south carolina and beyond? >> i think that is a safe assumption he is talking about donald trump. it's really interesting to see him back out on the campaign trail for the first time since leaving office. his voice, just hearing it, for a lot of americans, it was so important for so long. it's been absent in a lot of ways. i don't know if this will turn the tide for jeb bush, but jeb bush has been making the point for about donald trump for a
get help breaking down the campaign warfare with managing editor zach wolf. he is in the washington bureau. >> good morning. >> we saw george w. on the campaign trail helping out his brother. let's go to what he said and i'll come back to you for reaction. >> strength is not empty rhetoric. it is not bluster. strength of purpose comes from integrity and character. in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room. >> okay. if we are going...
there's this canyon between their community and washington. and there's a lot of frustration about the idea that washington's not listening to people and their every day concerns. so, donald trump's candidacy for many of these voters has become a vehicle for those frust rashzs and he has talked about it, whether it's been about the economy, immigration, national security, he has not offered real substantive positions u but instead clarity. he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by washington and then he's offered what he believes is a rather simple remedies. that is something that's really resonating right now. >> but a lot of people in the beginning didn't believe that he could do it. >> that all of these people misjudged the pundits pm they misjudged the anger of the american people. >> they really shouldn't have because the three people who are the frontrunners right now, marco rubio in 2010, ted cruz in 2012 and donald trump in 2015. what do they have in common? they're the outsiders. and they have close to 60 and 70% in some places. and marco rubio now wears the estab
there's this canyon between their community and washington. and there's a lot of frustration about the idea that washington's not listening to people and their every day concerns. so, donald trump's candidacy for many of these voters has become a vehicle for those frust rashzs and he has talked about it, whether it's been about the economy, immigration, national security, he has not offered real substantive positions u but instead clarity. he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by...
The Seventies : CNNW : February 14, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
represented in washington and didn't really have a voice. >> president nixon proudly displayed 52,000 telegrams from persons who supported him. >> it is time for the great silent majority just to stand up and be counted. >> at that point he went to 68% approval. >> it gave him the room he needed to maneuver. >> good evening, my fellow americans. tonight american and south vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in south vietnam. this is not an invasion of cambodia. >> nixon's conviction is that what you've got to do is cut off the supplies that the north vietnamese are funneling into the south to the viet cong, and the way to do it is to take out the ho chi minh trail, the route they're using through cambodia. >> you don't quite realize that cambodia is its own country, in fact, a country that always had tenuous relationships with vietnam. and once they destabilize cambodia, you really just have all hell breaking out. >> the cambodian operation will continue during the coming days. american units searching for north vietnamese troops a
represented in washington and didn't really have a voice. >> president nixon proudly displayed 52,000 telegrams from persons who supported him. >> it is time for the great silent majority just to stand up and be counted. >> at that point he went to 68% approval. >> it gave him the room he needed to maneuver. >> good evening, my fellow americans. tonight american and south vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : February 16, 2016 9:00pm-10:01pm PST
, washington. >>> joining us now for more on the united states supreme court somehow down, the assistant managing editor at the l.a. times and political analyst. welcome to you both. mike, i want to make up on what the president said earlier on tuesday that he found it somewhat amusing that many republicans consider themselves to be strict in the constitution until it comes to this point and they're now saying he doesn't have the right, the legal right to go forward and appoint a success or to justice scalia. how do you respond to that charge of double speak? >> i think everyone is saying the president absolutely has the right to nominate someone, but by the same token the senate has the right to not confirm that person. the senate has the right to advise and consent, not advise and rubber stamp. if you go back to reagan's last year in 1987, it was his third nominee, kennedy, who actually got appointed by the democratic senate. the first person was shot down and the second person didn't make it to a vote. that's the point of checks and balances, especially when you have a split
, washington. >>> joining us now for more on the united states supreme court somehow down, the assistant managing editor at the l.a. times and political analyst. welcome to you both. mike, i want to make up on what the president said earlier on tuesday that he found it somewhat amusing that many republicans consider themselves to be strict in the constitution until it comes to this point and they're now saying he doesn't have the right, the legal right to go forward and appoint a...
America's Choice 2016 : CNNW : February 20, 2016 10:00am-11:01am PST
the immaculate conception here in washington, d.c. a powerful two hour mass of christian burial for antonin scalia, associate justice of the united states supreme court. jake, these were powerful two hours, i must say, especially because father paul scalia, the son, one of nine children of justice scalia delivered such a powerful homily. >> the ability of father paul scalia to conduct that service as the celebrant, offering the homily, with such dignity, i know he would say his faith got him through it, but how difficult to conduct a service like that for one's own father, especially a father who was such a larger than life figure, not only to the nation but according to the sons and family members of justice scalia, to the family as well. such a tribute to him that father scalia was able to do it in such a way, wolf. >> and he did combine personal reflections of his dad, his father, with such powerful meaning and even brought in a little joke here and there. >> he did. there were some moments here and there about the one time his father accidently got in line for confession with hi
the immaculate conception here in washington, d.c. a powerful two hour mass of christian burial for antonin scalia, associate justice of the united states supreme court. jake, these were powerful two hours, i must say, especially because father paul scalia, the son, one of nine children of justice scalia delivered such a powerful homily. >> the ability of father paul scalia to conduct that service as the celebrant, offering the homily, with such dignity, i know he would say his faith got...
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A chat with Alex Albrecht
Following the duo’s contribution to the Patterns of Perception mix series last year, Alex Albrecht brings the pair’s sound to Berlin for a solo live set at our June 29 party. Here, Alex fills us in about their work as a duo, the direction of their label Analogue Attic Recordings, and producing music that’s rooted in a specific time and place.
How would you describe the concept behind Albrecht La’Brooy?
The concept is, at least with a live show, that we wanted to create something improvised and on the fly. Something that is a snapshot in time and won’t be heard again. We really like this idea because we have taken that influence from jazz and that follows through into the music we make together.
On top of that, I guess there’s a lot of things like field recordings that we feel feed into that sense of place that’s rooted in a moment in time. Our live stuff is very similar but for our releases we will add an extra layer of richness to it after the recording session. A lot of the time we just go off however we feel. At the end of the day, we’re often just communicating when we play, and saying ‘oh do you want to do a nice pad here or do you want to put in a little melody line’. That’s the way we operate.
What are your backgrounds as musicians? How did you two start collaborating?
Sean studied jazz at Monash University so he has his bachelor of music. Myself, I’ve just been producing music since I was very young and also DJing. I have been playing mostly piano my whole life, it was only five or six years ago now that I wanted to have some more formal jazz training and met up with Sean to do that. I called the Monash jazz school and asked if I could get teaching from the head of jazz. He ended up recommending Sean.
Much of your influence comes from nature with field recordings and conceptual inspiration drawn from a particular place. Is this a natural byproduct of being from a country like Australia? Or does it come from somewhere else?
I’m not sure actually. We really like exploring more natural places and taking field recordings in them. The idea of the field recordings was a result of trying to forge a sound that is not rooted in other cultures or countries. As much as we love all these other genres and things like that, we also really love and respect what they’re trying to do. For example, you might listen to a Moodymann record and think ‘I might never have been to Detroit itself but I feel like that’s the encapsulation of what it would be like to be there’. We wanted to do the same for Australian sounds.
Are there other artists in the local electronic music scene who are also trying to forge this specifically Australian sound?
I think that inadvertently a lot of artists in Australia are doing that. We always come back to people like Sleep D (Corey and Maryos) who are very good friends of ours and we’ve played with them a lot. They definitely have ‘a sound’ that is recognisable as soon as you put on one of their tracks. For that reason, they’re definitely forging their own path in Australian music.
I’ve heard your label Analogue Attic described as ‘championing the gentler side of electronic music in Australia’. Is that how you see yourselves?
Yeah I think so. It’s definitely part of the label ethos and definitely something we want to champion. There are a few pillars that the label is built on. One is that it’s all Australian artists and all Australian music. Another is that it follows a narrative and we want to release even EPs as something that you listen to from start to finish, something that can be enjoyed both in the home and also potentially in a club or another environment. We wanted to fit somewhere in that realm, just because those are the kinds of records we listen to ourselves. We really love putting a record on and seeing how someone has come up with the entire story or concept behind it.
Are there artists you can name as having inspired you in this same way, in terms of developing a narrative structure over the course of an album?
Some records that we often go back to are things like Pat Metheny’s As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls. Also something like The Future Sounds of London and Biosphere. That was one of the biggest inspirations for my music as well because it features so heavily on the field recordings. It builds and changes throughout this structure. We also really like the idea of having tracks that morph into one another, like records that The KLF put out. Or Moodymann again with albums like Black Mahogany. You feel like you’re listening to one piece of music, rather than individual tracks. We really connect with that idea.
Apart from field recordings, how do you make sure the actual music reflects the place or the feeling you get from a place? Do you have an example of how you do this?
I think that’s just more about the feeling and inspiration, and the improvisational aspect comes into it too. I actually remember the first record we ever did which was Good Morning Passengers, the record based on the train journey from Richmond Station to the Dandenong Ranges. We knocked out the last three tracks extremely easily and we managed to nail the feeling of those places. But when we got to Richmond Station, which was more urbanised, we took so many takes to try and figure out a sound that represents what that is and how musically we could articulate that. Maybe that’s also a testament to how we find working with remote or rural areas easier than working with more urban ones. The hustle and bustle of Richmond station and the trains and people working everywhere were hard to capture without being too blatant with industrial sound or syncopation or that sort of thing. We didn’t want to be obvious with what we were doing. We wanted to complement the sounds in the same way.
What would say is the ideal setting to listen to your music?
Just in the outdoors, I think. Wherever it is. Some of the best gigs we have played have been in picturesque outdoor environments. Probably one of the first shows we played outdoors was the Fairfield Amphitheatre, which is really beautiful. We played with Sleep D and then we made the record Live at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, which was recorded there. Since then we’ve been able to do some really amazing shows. One was at the Mornington Peninsula at this old abandoned fort that we were able to play inside of and look out on the ocean. Those are the shows that we like the most, where we can respond to the environment that we’re in without having to play our own field recordings. We’ll just use the ones that are around us.
So you take inspiration from the natural environment that you’re in at the time while you’re improvising? How do you train yourselves to do that?
It’s actually easier than a lot of the pre-recorded stuff that we have tried in the past. Sometimes we feel that we should go down the pre-recorded route to make it less risky but those are the ones that we’ve probably found more stressful and more difficult.
We’ve had a few shows that we used to play extremely regularly, as well as playing in the studio, but there were a few bars we used to play at every week or every second week for a long time, like three hour sets. It was nice to have that environment for rehearsal that was a little bit more higher stakes than just being in a studio. I think that did a lot for our craft.
How open do you find the Melbourne scene to your sound?
Very open. I think that we’re extremely lucky to have one of the most inclusive and tight knit music scenes, especially within our own little electronic music world. Most people within our little world know each other and very much respect each other, probably because there is so much talent. Pretty much every gig that you go to you will be seeing friends doing something really amazing and playing really good music.
It sounds like there’s a lot of great stuff coming out of Australia at the moment, but maybe we just don’t hear about it enough over here in Europe.
Yeah, there’s some really good stuff but I think you might not hear about it due to the touring aspect. That’s a really big issue. It’s hard for people to really recognise artists purely from releases that may go unnoticed. It is so far to get over here and hard to organise tours. You need to have people who have enough faith in your DJing or live availability to want to bring you out, and then you need to do enough shows to make it worthwhile. So it can be difficult to get a lot of our music over here but there are amazing artists over here now – people like Lewis Day, Mic Newman and Andy Hart. It’s really inspiring to see that happen and want to do it yourself.
What’s coming up next for Analogue Attic?
We have a couple of releases on the horizon. One of them is a debut record from Adam McCoy or Citizen Maze, which I’m really excited about. That’s probably going to be out mid-August. Following that, we are working towards doing a record with Thomas Gray and Liam Ebbs who are from Sydney, they release on a label called Black Wattle. Then we want to do a record ourselves on Analogue Attic, it feels like it’s been ages the two of us. So it would be really nice to sit down and potentially do an album.
How does your solo work compare to the Albrecht La’Brooy sound?
It’s quite similar but this particular project I’ve been working on (Melquiades) is probably more geared towards club shows. Sean and I often feel most comfortable playing in those outdoor, ambient or relaxed settings. For me personally, coming from a DJ background, I probably feel also comfortable in a club environment and I guess the sound reflects that.
Albrecht La’Brooy has also been strictly Australian and is a response to an Australian environment. For mine, I have been taking field recordings from around the world. For example, my latest release on Scissor & Thread was based on a trip to Greece. You will hear a lot of sounds from Greece and the music is based around that, rather than an Australian environment, which is a nice change. I’ve been talking to Francis Harris for a while and had sent him those tracks, so when he said he was going to put it out, it was really amazing. I’m now working towards releasing an album for them and will be touring the States in August.
Lastly, what can we expect from your set at Patterns of Perception?
I have been working quite a bit on the sounds that I want to incorporate. The really fun thing about the Patterns of Perception mix that we did was that we had this idea of Berlin and techno and those deep sounds in mind when we were making it. That was a really good inspiration and I want to explore that in the live set now and bring those sounds into it.
Catch Alex Albrecht at Patterns of Perception at OHM Berlin on Friday, June 29
A chat with Ario
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Luton BID renewed for a further five years.
Businesses in Luton town centre have voted in favour of plans to renew the Business Improvement District (BID), securing a significant £2 million to be spent on further improving the area.
The positive result follows 18 months of planning, in-depth interviews, surveys and workshops to review the current initiatives of the BID and collate new ideas for the next five years. The suggestions were all considered to form a new Business Plan which led to a month-long ballot in which businesses in the area were asked to vote on the proposals.
68% of businesses by number and 73% by aggregate rateable value voted in favour of the BID. As a result of the yes vote the renewed Business Improvement District plan will come into effect on 1st January 2020.
Businesses with a rateable value of £12,001 or above will pay a levy based upon their rateable value, creating a collective fund of more than £2 million to spend over the next five years.
The plans were spearheaded and driven by a steering group of business representatives from across the area, supported by pfbbUK, who develop and deliver Business Improvement Districts across the country.
Gavin O’Brien, CEO of Clearhead Media and Chair of Luton BID, said “This is excellent news for Luton and huge congratulations must go to all the businesses that joined forces to ensure we secured today’s yes vote. Our BID will continue to be led and driven by the businesses themselves and this funding and commitment of collaboration will enable us to build on the area’s already established strengths and assets.
“Our thanks must also go to all those who engaged in the process by sharing their ideas and opinions on how we can continue to deliver and improve on the first five years of the BID and who, ultimately, voted in favour of the plans.”
The first objective in the new business plan is to continue and build on the ongoing promotion of Luton Town Centre. Currently established projects include celebrating customer service excellence with the Mystery Shopping Business Award scheme and these will continue to promote the vast offering available in the area. There will be emphasis put on working together with others to showcase the businesses in the town centre and build on marketing and promotion across a range of platforms and channels to establish events as a key part of the attraction of Luton.
The second objective is to ensure the town centre is accessible, distinctive and appealing. Projects already established such as window vinyl’s on vacant units to maintain a smart presence, beautiful floral displays throughout the summer months and targeted street cleaning to improve the cleanliness of the area will continue. The BID will also be working with Luton’s Cultural Trust, Luton Borough Council, the University and others to develop the different areas of the town centre such as the Hat District and the University Quarter so that they look and feel great.
The third objective will see the BID working to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for visitors and workers in Luton town centre to enjoy. Already established projects such as the uniformed Ambassadors and the digital radio subsidy scheme in the area will continue. The BID will also be working with the Police, local authority and other partnership organisations to tackle antisocial behaviour, street drinking and begging alongside developing business crime intelligence sharing opportunities.
The final objective is to continue to build on the strengths of the business community to support and promote growth, development and investment. Projects which already form regular activities of the BID will continue such as the monitoring of footfall and sales in the town centre and the encouragement of bringing new businesses into the area which complement the existing mix. The next five years will see the development of links with the local authority, the University and other organisations develop a commercial, retail, leisure, arts and cultural framework for the town centre.
The BID will deliver the new objectives of the business plan over the next five years as a result of the yes vote. For more information please visit www.lutonbid.org.
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The Philly POPS Brings Its Beloved Holiday Traditions Home for the Holidays
A PHILLY POPS CHRISTMAS: SPECTACULAR SOUNDS OF THE SEASON AND I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS: A SALUTE TO THE MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS WILL BE RECORDED ON DECEMBER 4 AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
Philadelphia, PA (November 24, 2020) — The Philly POPS brings Christmas home this year with a special holiday gift: the POPS’ two annual Christmas performances, A Philly POPS Christmas: Spectacular Sounds of the Season and Comcast NBCUniversal I’ll Be Home for Christmas: A Salute to the Military and First Responders, will be provided free, through a number of innovative distribution methods all during the month of December.
Both performances feature Music Director and Principal Conductor David Charles Abell leading the POPS with Hamilton star and POPS Christmas favorite Mandy Gonzalez and dazzling performer and improviser Charlie Albright on piano, as well as Artistic Director for Jazz Terell Stafford on trumpet.
The Seventh Annual Comcast NBCUniversal I’ll Be Home For Christmas: A Salute to the Military and First Responders, the free Salute Series favorite designed to honor those who choose a life of service, expands its reach with a planned transmission by the American Forces Network. The AFN’s transmission will reach approximately 500,000 servicemembers domestically and 500,000 internationally at both military bases and seafaring vessels. This Philadelphia tradition will be made available privately to members of the military, veteran communities, and the Police and Fire Departments. This year’s Christmas Salute performance is dedicated to frontline healthcare workers who have helped protect the citizens of Philadelphia through the events of the past year.
“The POPS felt it was so very important to carry on our two Christmas traditions,” said Frank Giordano, President and CEO, The Philly POPS. “We wanted the first responders to have their usual free annual holiday program dedicated to honoring the commitments they make each and every year. That’s Christmas Salute. And this year, we hope to make it available through the American Forces Network to our overseas service community as well.”
As with POPS on Independence on July 3, A Philly POPS Christmas: Spectacular Sounds of the Season will be available as a digital stream from the POPS’ website from December 18, 2020 to January 1, 2021. Continuing the tradition, A Philly POPS Christmas will include virtual choir performances from The Philly POPS Festival Chorus, The Philadelphia Boys Choir, and The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Gospel Choir. And no performance would be complete without a visit from Santa Claus!
“A Philly POPS Christmas is a Philly tradition to so many families—they return year after year, after year,” said Frank Giordano. “This free stream of our Christmas performance is our thanks to them for their ongoing support … and our way of wishing them the happiest of holiday seasons.”
The Seventh Annual Comcast NBCUniversal I’ll Be Home for Christmas: A Salute to the Military and First Responders will be made available privately to Philadelphia police, firefighters, military, veterans, and first responders as well as globally through the AFN. Details on this performance are available at phillypops.org/xmassalute.
A Philly POPS Christmas: Spectacular Sounds of the Season will be available as a digital stream from December 18, 2020 to January 1, 2021 at phillypops.org. More details about A Philly POPS Christmas are available at phillypops.org/christmas.
This program has been made possible by generous support from Comcast NBCUniversal, IBX, Bank of America, and The Presser Foundation. The Philly POPS partners for the Salute Series include America 250, Visit Philadelphia, Welcome America, The City of Philadelphia, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
About Music Director and Principal Conductor David Charles Abell
David Charles Abell is the newly appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor of The Philly POPS.
Born in North Carolina, David grew up in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. At the age of fourteen, he turned his attention to conducting and went on to study with Leonard Bernstein and Nadia Boulanger. He earned degrees from Yale University and the Juilliard School after intensive study of viola, piano, and composition. He has worked with such distinguished artists as Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Idina Menzel, Heather Headley, Bryn Terfel, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison and Michael Feinstein. Previously, as Guest Conductor and Principal Guest Conductor of The Philly POPS, he conducted Cole Porter’s Broadway: Too Darn Hot, Lenny’s Revolution, Blockbuster Broadway, and A Philly POPS Christmas in 2013, 2014, 2015, and again for the record-setting run of A Philly POPS Christmas in 2019.
David has appeared regularly on television, most notably conducting the 10th and 25th Anniversary concerts of Les Misérables. He has conducted five times at London’s BBC Proms, including a live telecast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. Recordings include the musicals Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and Man of La Mancha, Something’s Gotta Give with baritone Simon Keenleyside, Forever with soprano Diana Damrau, and highlights from La Bohème and Madama Butterfly with the Royal Philharmonic.
In the UK, David recently conducted his own critical edition of Kiss Me, Kate for Opera North. He has conducted many of the premier British orchestras, including the London Symphony, City of Birmingham, Bournemouth, and Royal Philharmonic. His work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra includes a centenary concert honoring his mentor Leonard Bernstein in 2018. A much-respected artist in London’s West End, David conducted the Olivier Awards ceremony for four years and was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s personal choice to lead the world premiere of Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre.
David’s recent projects have included a series of Gershwin concerts at Kyiv National Theatre of Operetta in Ukraine, Carousel at the Vienna Volksoper and Sweeney Todd at the Zurich Opera House. David also conducted Barrie Kosky’s production of The Magic Flute at Opera Philadelphia, West Side Story at the Glimmerglass Festival, and Silent Night, Kevin Puts’ acclaimed opera about the World War I Christmas Truce, in Kansas City, Cincinnati and Detroit.
About Mandy Gonzalez
Called by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical sensation Hamilton, “one of the greatest singers on earth,” Mandy Gonzalez has thrilled audiences on Broadway, lit up the screen and started a social movement.
Mandy currently stars as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton and on the CBS hit, Madam Secretary. Onstage, the dynamic range of Mandy’s voice sets a new standard—one moment, she can be soft and sultry, the next moment, she can shake the rafters. Mandy is a Warner Music artist and recently released her debut album, FEARLESS, which debuted at #13 on the iTunes pop charts.
Mandy is known for originating the role of Nina Rosario in the Tony award-winning show, In the Heights. She also starred as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked—blowing the roof off of the Gershwin Theatre every night.
Mandy is the proud founder of #FearlessSquad—a social media movement for inclusiveness and belonging. #FearlessSquad connects millions of people around the world, encourages them to be their best selves and helps them empower each other.
Mandy is also an author—she recently published a widely-cited article in the Harvard Business Review on how to overcome one’s fear of public speaking and be more confident in one’s communication and leadership.
Mandy appeared with The Philly POPS for 2017’s July 4 “Party on The Parkway,” where her version of “This Land is Your Land” shook the crowd. Mandy also appeared in A Philly POPS Christmas: Spectacular Sounds of the Season 2018 and 2019.
About Charlie Albright
Hailed as “among the most gifted musicians of his generation” with a “dazzling natural keyboard affinity” who “made quite an impression” by the Washington Post, American pianist/composer/improviser Charlie Albright has been praised for his “jaw-dropping technique and virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality” by The New York Times, and his “extravagance that had showmanship but never felt cheap” with his “ease and smoothness that refuses to airbrush the music, but animates it from within” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and Gilmore Young Artist Award, Albright won the Ruhr Klavier Festival Young Artist Award presented by Marc-André Hamelin (Germany) and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In addition to performing, Albright is sought after as a speaker, masterclass instructor, teacher, and competition judge. His debut commercial recording, Vivace, has sold thousands of copies worldwide and the first of a 3-part Schubert Series of live, all-Schubert recordings was released in 2017. Charlie Albright breaks the "classical" rules of music by connecting with audiences like no other. Through his music, speaking, and unique improvisations that bring music to life, he crosses all genres...and makes it fun.
He is a frequently returning guest artist with such orchestras as the BBC Concert Orchestra (14-concert tour with Maestro Keith Lockhart, chosen as one of the “Best of the BBC 2015”); the Alabama, Baltimore, Boston Pops, Buffalo, California, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Edmonton (Canada), Des Moines, Fort Smith, Houston, Kymi Sinfonietta (Finland), Lansing, Mobile, National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing, China), Omaha, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, Victoria (Canada), and West Michigan Symphony Orchestras. He has performed worldwide, including at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.); Symphony Hall (Boston); the Salle Cortot (Paris, France); the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (Miami); the Kumho Art Hall (Seoul, South Korea); the NCPA (Beijing); and Alice Tully Hall (Mostly Mozart Festival, New York).
Born in Centralia, Washington, Albright began piano lessons at the age of 3. He studied with Nancy Adsit and earned an Associate of Science degree at Centralia College while still in high school. He was the first classical pianist in the Harvard College/New England Conservatory 5-Year AB/MM Joint Program, completing a Bachelor’s Degree as an Economics major and Pre-Med student at Harvard, and a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance at NEC, having studied with Wha-Kyung Byun. He graduated with the prestigious Artist Diploma (A.D.) from The Juilliard School, having studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. Albright is an official Steinway Artist. For the latest information, please visit CharlieAlbright.com and Facebook.com/CharlieAlbrightPianist.
About Artistic Director for Jazz Terell Stafford
Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player, combining a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. Stafford’s exceptionally expressive and well-defined musical talent allows him to dance in and around the rich trumpet tradition of his predecessors while making his own inroads.
Since the mid-1990s, Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson’s Sextet, McCoy Tyner’s Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Frank Wess Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford, with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, performed on Diana Krall’s Grammy-nominated From this Moment On (2006). John Clayton invited Stafford to perform with the Clayton Brothers Quintet and Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Stafford is a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, which was awarded a Grammy in 2009 for Best Large Ensemble, “Live at the Village Vanguard.”
Stafford can be heard on over 130 albums. His latest recording This Side of Strayhorn has been hailed as “the first must-have album of 2011” and “genius.” Stafford is the Director of Jazz Studies and Chair of Instrumental Studies at Temple University, founder and band leader of the Terell Stafford Quintet, and Managing and Artistic Director of the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia. Stafford is renowned in the jazz world as an educator, performer and leader and has received countless award nominations and accolades.
Stafford was born in Miami and raised in Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Maryland in 1988 and a Masters of Music from Rutgers University in 1993.
About The Philadelphia Boys Choir
Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale develops a varied repertoire every year. This repertoire is the basis for all performances of the Choir in a season, including the annual tour. It is a combination of classical, traditional, popular, and patriotic songs, focusing on American composers.
Established in the 1960s, Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale has toured the world, recorded with internationally renowned orchestras and soloists such as Luciano Pavarotti, appeared on national and international television, and received praise from critics and audiences worldwide.
About The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Gospel Choir
The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Gospel Choir (STGC) is from the Historic African Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, where the Reverend Canon Martini Shaw is the Rector. The STGC currently consists of 60 spirit-filled, energetic, singers, ministers, and musicians of all ages and backgrounds. The choir’s membership represents more than 10 different area churches.
The STGC shares their music ministry at over 100 services, programs, concerts, and celebrations of all kinds every year. In 2013, STGC was named “The Best Regional Choir” in Verizon’s Music Competition, How Sweet The Sound, and the choir performed to a sold-out audience at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In 2015, the STGC won “Traditional CD of the Year” and Walt Blocker won “Producer of the Year” at the The Rhythm of Gospel Music Awards held in Memphis. Locally and nationally, the STGC has received numerous awards and recognition, including the PHL LIVE Center Stage competition for “Best in Gospel Music” for which the choir was recognized by the Philadelphia City Council.
STGC has more than five musical recordings that showcases their various styles and love of all music from original service mass music to soul stirring gospel music. The most recent is Part 1 of their first Holiday Music EP now available.
The STGC regularly performs several genres of music including gospel, classical, Motown, pop favorites, and classics such as Stevie Wonder, U2, Gladys Knight, and Elton John, and will join the POPS in 2020 for its tribute to Aretha Franklin. STGC has appeared in the Lee Daniels movie soundtrack of The Woodsman and the English version of the international cartoon Kikoriki, as well as several plays and other musicals.
The St. Thomas Gospel Choir has performed in San Jose and Limon in Costa Rica and completed an 11-day tour in Rome, Venice, and Florence, Italy in June 2018. The STGC will be singing for the Inauguration Ceremony for the Mayor and City Council this January at The Met Philadelphia and also will be the featured Artist at the May Festival in Cincinnati in 2020 with the Cincinnati Orchestra.
About The Philly POPS Festival Chorus
The Philly POPS Festival Chorus is a 170-voice ensemble that performs with The Philly POPS under the direction of Jeff Kern, Head of the Vocal Division for University of the Arts. The Philly POPS Festival Chorus began performing in 2002 and performs with the POPS orchestra during the annual Christmas concert series and Broadway series. The chorus has performed with many professional artists including Faith Prince, Capathia Jenkins, Ashley Brown, Lisa Howard, Lauren Kennedy, Rachel York, Alice Ripley, Ann Hampton Callaway, and The von Trapp Family Children. The Festival Chorus is an auditioned, volunteer organization composed of singers ranging from high school students to retired professionals. Auditions are held in mid-June.
About The Philly POPS
The Philly POPS, the largest standalone pops orchestra in the United States, delights audiences with the inspired performance of American popular music. The POPS celebrates this distinctive musical heritage through an expanding repertoire of innovative concert performances and a robust set of educational and engagement initiatives.
As the official POPS orchestra of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia’s partner in civic celebration, The Philly POPS serves a consistently growing audience of over 250,000 annually. Music Director and Principal Conductor David Charles Abell and the 65-piece Philly POPS orchestra keep listeners tapping their toes to an impressive repertoire of songs—from American traditional music up through to today’s chart-toppers.
In addition to Subscription Series performances at The Kimmel Center, The Philly POPS presents innovative programming with contemporary artists at the Met Philadelphia in The Philly POPS at the Met Philadelphia series. Other ensembles that make up The Philly POPS are: The Philly POPS BIG Band, which plays a rock and rhythm and blues repertoire, and The Philly POPS Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, under the direction of Artistic Director for Jazz, Terell Stafford.
Outside the concert hall, free Salute Series performances – including Memorial Salute, July 3 POPS on Independence, July 4 POPS at the Celebration of Freedom Ceremony and POPS on the Parkway, Veterans Day activities and the I’ll Be Home for Christmas: A Salute to the Military and First Responders concert – celebrate the American tradition of service around important national holidays. POPS Outside brings POPS music to local communities. The Philly POPS performs as a founding resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, as the Principal Orchestra of the Met Philadelphia, and at venues throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
Ella, Billie, Dinah & All That Jazz
2021 All-City Jazz Festival
POPS Rocks Paul Simon, James Taylor & Billy Joel with Michael Cavanaugh
Mar 19-21, 2021
Modern Broadway: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kander & Ebb and More!
Apr 16-18, 2021
Postponed: Showstoppers! Hello, Dolly!, La Cage & Mame
POSTPONED: Eighth Annual POPS Ball
POPS ROCKS The Music of The Moody Blues: GO NOW!
Apr 30-May 2, 2021
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The Renaissance period of the Medieval era of philosophy covers, very roughly, the 15th and 16th Centuries. It can be seen as a bridge between Medieval philosophy and the start of Modern philosophy during the Age of Reason.
It includes the following major philosophers:
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466 - 1536) Dutch
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469 - 1527) Italian
More, Sir Thomas (1478 - 1535) English
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561 - 1626) English
The Renaissance is named for the rebirth or revival of classical civilization and learning. In general terms, it is usually considered to have begun in Italy in the mid-14th Century and rolled across Europe over the succeeding two centuries.
In philosophical terms, the renaissance represents a movement away from Christianity and medieval Scholasticism and towards Humanism, with an increasing focus on the temporal and personal over merely seeing this world as a gateway to the Christian afterlife. A new sense of critical inquiry arose that looked back to the ancient Greeks but also set the stage for the birth of modern philosophy in the Age of Reason.
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The 5 Most Photographed Landmarks in India
India is a place that has attracted photographers ever since this medium was invented. It has an unequaled beauty that appeals to amateurs and professionals interested in landscapes, nature photography, wildlife, portraits, documentary photography and the list could go on. Some of the world's most legendary photographs were taken in India and that's one of the reasons countless photographers visit this wonderful country each year. But with so much to photograph and so little time, it can be a tough challenge to pick your destinations in India. We're here to help with a list of five of the most photographed landmarks located in this amazing country.
1. Varanasi
This ancient city is one of the oldest in the world and it's one of them most difficult places to be a photographer because there's something awesome to photograph everywhere you look. Narrow streets full of life, morning rituals on the ghats and incredible colors everywhere you look. Varanasi is an amazing destination for portrait and street photographers.
Success Tip: Learn from the pro’s on the hot spots in India HERE.
2. Taj Mahal
This is one of the most recognizable Indian landmarks. It is a white marble mausoleum commissioned in 1632 by Emperor Shah Jahan for one of his wives. Despite being one of the most photographed buildings on the planet, it remains one India's most attractive sites. We recommend photographing it in the early hours of the morning.
3. The Beaches of Goa
It is said that 12% of the country's tourist revenue comes from Goa. It has some of the best beaches in the world, including Anjuna, Baga, Calungute and Varca, which host world class resorts.
4. National Parks
If wildlife photography is your game, India has several amazing national parks that will let you capture incredible wild animals. Jaldapara and Gorumara are said to be the some of the richest national parks in the world, for wildlife and landscape photography.
Photo by Ravindraboopathi
5.Kerala Blackwaters
Sitting parallel to the Arabian Sea Coast, Kerala is a chain of lagoons and lakes, home to many species of aquatic life, including crabs, mudskippers, frogs, as well as other animals like water birds, sea otters and turtles. Traditional rice boats converted to house boats sail the waterways, offering a lot of photo opportunities.
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