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Welsh History Podcast Episode 04 Turning up the Heat
This week it is all about turning stone into bronze as we enter the Bronze Age.
Please be sure to give us a rating and review on iTunes and Google Play.
You can talk to us at welshhistorypodcast@gmail.com
Resources this week:
Alex Gibson, "The timber circle at Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled, Welshpool, Powys: ritual and sacrifice in Bronze Age mid-Wales." Antiquity 66.250 (1992): 84+. World History in Context. Web. 28 May 2016.
S.P. Beedham et al., Developments in the Early Bronze Age Metallurgy of Southern Britain, World Archeaology, Vol. 20, No. 3, (Feb 1989, pp. 383-402.
Stephen V. Grancsay, Irish Bronze Age Weapons, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 7 (Mar. 1949), pp. 181-185.
Joan J. Taylor, The Oliver Davis Lecture: The First Golden Age of Europe Was in Ireland and Britain (Circa 2400-1400 BC), Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Third Series, Vol. 57(1994), pp. 37-60.
The Geography of Strabo, published in Vol. II of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1923, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/4E*.html
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Diversity And Oscar
There has been a lot of conversations about this years Academy Awards nominations and the lack of black actors and films such as Straight Outta Compton, Creed, and Concussion getting few or no nominations.
Can Straight Outta Compton Go For The Gold?
I had an interesting conversation at work today. We have been working on Straight Outta Compton for Universal and I said that the film has a strong chance for a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
2014 Animated Best Picture Submissions
While we are still a ways off from the Oscars Jerry Beck’s Animation Scoop has reported that 20 feature-length animated films have been submitted to the Academy for the 2014 Best Animated feature category.
The Silence of the Lambs Blu-Ray Review
Hannibal week continues with the film that started it all, The Silence of the Lambs. Yes I know that this was not the first adaptation of the Thomas Harris books that would be Manhunter directed by Michael Mann and starring William Peterson as Will Graham and Brian Cox as Dr.
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Lutz Meschke becomes Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) Porsche CFO strengthens his commitment to young managers of the future
Stuttgart . Lutz Meschke will take up the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) on 1 January 2021. In his new role, the Deputy Chairman and Member of the Executive Board responsible for Finance and IT at Porsche AG wants to actively promote the advancement of young management talent. “The HHL is training our entrepreneurs and leaders of the future. The world needs capable and responsible young people who can take on the challenges of the future and the present effectively and sustainably,” says Meschke. “What sets the HHL apart, like Porsche, is its dedication and excellence. The HHL is also a pioneer in the field of digitalisation, as we are. Therefore it is a tremendous honour for me to be able to help shape the future of this long-standing institution as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and to continue the successful work of my predecessor Dr. von Heydebreck.”
Dean of HHL Prof. Stephan Stubner is delighted to be working with Lutz Meschke: “With his professional background and orientation towards the issues of the future, Lutz Meschke will be able to give fresh impetus to the HHL as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. I have come to know him as an ambitious business partner who has a very precise understanding of the direction in which universities have to develop in order to create long-term value and remain relevant in research and teaching.”
Meschke has sat on the Supervisory Board of HHL since 2013. Since that time, Porsche AG has supported the Chair of Strategic Management and Digital Entrepreneurship at Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Porsche Leipzig has also been a Premium Partner of SpinLab, the HHL accelerator, since 2016. Through this collaboration, the sports car manufacturer is enabling young people to work on their own ideas and develop them to business maturity. The aim is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in Central Germany and beyond by providing practical support to start-ups and spin-offs.
The HHL supports business start-ups – and has received four awards from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Founder’s Association for German Science) as the best university in Germany for entrepreneurship. The HHL has already produced 300 new companies with over 34,300 employees in total. Five of these start-ups are what are known as unicorns, companies valued at more than a billion US dollars.
Further information and pictures for journalists and media representatives can be found on the Porsche press database at http://presse.porsche.de/.
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Prevalent Appoints 20-Year Security and Risk Veteran as Vice President of EMEA Sales to Usher in Next Phase of Growth
Dan Buckley Brings Proven Sales and Business Development Leadership to Third-Party Risk Management Leader
PHOENIX, AZ — May 5, 2020 – Prevalent, Inc., the company that transforms how you manage third-party risk, today announced the appointment of Dan Buckley to the position of vice president of EMEA sales. Buckley brings over 20 years of cybersecurity enterprise sales and business development leadership to Prevalent, where he will be responsible for driving revenue and expanding the company’s global footprint in Europe and beyond.
"As Prevalent expands its global footprint, we were looking for someone with not only a deep understanding of how to sell effectively, but someone who has significant experience developing, growing and leading teams in the UK and throughout EMEA,” stated Kevin Hickey, CEO of Prevalent “When we met Dan, it was immediately clear that he was that person. He is a strong leader and will be an important contributor to our future success.”
Previously, Buckley was the vice president of EMEA for Recorded Future where he was hired to expand the company’s EMEA presence. During his three years at Recorded Future, he was instrumental in building an international team from 4 to over 40 employees, acquired over 100 customers and was responsible for increasing EMEA revenue by 5500%. Prior to Recorded Future, Buckley was the EMEA sales director of Core Security, where he defined and implemented a successful partner program, encompassing VAD, VAR, SI and strategic partners/vendors alliances. Additionally, Buckley has held EMEA sales positions at Veracode, A10 Networks and SPI Dynamics.
“In today’s dynamic economic environment, it is more important than ever to ensure the resilience of your supply chain and the vendors that keep you in business,” stated Buckley. “Taking control of your third-party risk management program is an important step to not only minimize risk, but to keep companies and customers safe from today’s most sophisticated threats. Prevalent’s automated TPRM platform is the most comprehensive I’ve seen and I’m excited to join Kevin and his top-notch team to accelerate growth across Europe.”
About Prevalent
Prevalent helps enterprises manage risk in third-party business relationships. The company delivers the industry’s only purpose-built, unified platform that integrates a powerful combination of automated assessments, continuous monitoring, and evidence sharing for collaboration between enterprises and vendors. No other product on the market combines all three components, providing the best solution for a highly functioning, effective third-party risk program. To learn more, please visit www.prevalent.net.
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Mohamed Siddiqui, Psychiatrist, arrested in identity theft
Indian-origin psychiatrist arrested in NZ over identity theft
Mohamed Shakeel Siddiqui appears via audio visual link from prison to Hamilton District Court.
MELBOURNE: An Indian-origin psychiatrist from the US and practicing in New Zealand has been arrested by authorities over an alleged identity theft to work in the country though he says he is a victim of “clerical error”.
Mohamed Shakeel Siddiqui has been charged with obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception, with the police alleging he stole the credentials of a doctor in Illinois with a similar name — Mohammed Shafi Siddiqui, New Zealand Herald reported on Thursday.
Siddiqui, originally from India, holds a degree of Philosophy from University of Arizona besides a degree in Psychiatry and Neurology from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
He had sent his CV from his Lafayette, Indiana, through a recruitment agency responsible for vetting his credentials. His information was then passed on to the New Zealand Medical Council that carried out a more rigorous check, before giving him a year’s contract to work as a practising psychiatrist with the Waikato district health board (DHB).
The DHB claims his colleagues became suspicious about his professional behaviour and reported it to their manager. They carried out their own inquiries before being alerted by Siddiqui that he was returning home to India to be with his terminally sick mother.
Siddiqui’s lawyer Kerry Burroughs said an integral part of his client’s contract was that he had to have a supervisor and that in his case, he was given senior Waikato DHB psychiatrist Dr Andrew Darby.
Burroughs cited a report penned by Darby in May in which he said that Siddiqui had been performing well, receiving “exceeds expected standard” in most areas, including clinical knowledge, diagnostic skills, recognising limits, professional knowledge, reliability and professional manner.
He said that things began to go downhill for his client in July, after Siddiqui sent “all his managers” an email outlining his safety concerns about the admission of an acute patient, with Dr Darby withdrawing his supervisory role the very next day and meaning Siddiqui can no longer work.
By then, Siddiqui had heard that his mother’s illness had worsened and that she was now terminal. He wanted to get back urgently and emailed his managers that he wanted to end his contract and return to India to his sick mother.
He, however, was arrested two days later.
Burroughs said his client is who he says he is and it was simply a clerical error.
He did not comment why or how his client came to be in possession of the practising certificate — or physician and surgeon’s licence — issued by the state of Illinois’s department of financial and professional regulation on September 13, 2012, or if it was his client’s.
Ken Kramer2015-08-07T06:17:27-04:00
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The Seine: The River That Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino. Norton, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-60935-6
In this entertaining and informative travel memoir, former New York Times Paris bureau chief Sciolino (The Only Street in Paris) explores France’s celebrated river, the Seine. “In the spring of 1978 I was seduced by a river,” writes Sciolino, who then describes the Seine as “the most romantic river in the world” and explains how it has served as a strategic waterway in times of war (it slowed Hitler’s retreat after D-Day) and peace (it was an important shipping route for the Romans). She ventures to its inauspicious source in Burgundy—a “little hole in a man-made limestone grotto in the middle of nowhere”—and is inspired by the fable of the Gallo-Roman “healing goddess” Sequana for whom the river was named. Following its course, she meets a fourth-generation grape grower in Champagne; rowers who preserve historic boats; the River Brigade, who are “just like Miami Vice, no?”; and an elderly barge-woman mourning her landlocked retirement. Anecdotes abound of the bridges that cross the Seine in Paris, seasonal sand-and-palm-tree “beaches,” and “bouqinistes... the literary gatekeepers” who sell books beside the river. In a timely afterword following the 2019 fire at Notre Dame, she writes, “On the night of the great fire, the river was the cathedral’s salvation,” providing half the water used to douse the blaze. Sciolino’s enthusiasm buoys readers in this fluid literary work. (Nov.)
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Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (French: ; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and creator of musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (French: ; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and creator of musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world. Born in Montbrison in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz
After music experienced a fundamental shift in the 1940’s forcing musicians to find new aesthetic direction, Pierre Boulez embodied a steadfast clarity and personal purpose of communication. This was reflected in his artistic beliefs and professional attitude. It is no coincidence that a "salle modulable" offering countless combinations for making music, is his namesake.
A documentary on Pierre Boulez and his work Éclat. clat is a real study of resonance written for fifteen instruments and created in 1965
A documentary on Pierre Boulez and his work Éclat. clat is a real study of resonance written for fifteen instruments and created in 1965. The film is based on the principle that director Frank Scheffer transforms the structure and character of the composition into the structure and style of the film. Pierre Boulez Composer. Pierre Boulez, Éclat.
The score was published only in 1983, and even then only in the first of two slightly different versions Ravel had made. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic he was criticized, even by members of the orchestra, for his concentration on modern repertoire at the expense of works by earlier composers.
Pierre Boulez: Juxta Positions. This DVD, one of the latest in Juxtapositions' excellent series on contemporary music, collects two documentaries about French composer Pierre Boulez. It has so much to recommend itself in its coverage of a perpetually underappreciated composer, its helpfulness in understanding the works better, and its 142 minutes of video when classical labels all too often charge full-price for less than an hour. First up is ECLAT, a 1994 documentary by Frank Scheffer that has conductor Ed Spanjaard and the Amsterdam-based Nieuwe Ensemble preparing to perform Boulez's 1965 piece "Eclat".
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MGM Resorts disputes Las Vegas police timeline of mass shooting
By Rachel Crosby / RJ
October 10, 2017 - 7:29 pm October 10, 2017 - 10:39 pm
In a statement released late Tuesday, MGM Resorts International disputed Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s revised timeline of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Windows broken by Las Vegas Strip gunman now covered
By Eli Segall / RJ
The windows used by the Las Vegas Strip gunman in Sunday night’s massacre have been covered.
Las Vegas casinos focus on protecting profits, not spotting threats, experts say
By Arthur Kane and Brian Joseph / RJ
October 4, 2017 - 8:48 pm October 4, 2017 - 11:42 pm
In the shadow of the worst mass shooting in modern history, Las Vegas is hosting the world’s largest gaming convention with nearly 150 panels. But of the handful of speakers slated to address security concerns at the Global Gaming Expo this week, nearly all are focused on protecting casinos from dangers such as cyber threats, frivolous lawsuits and scams.
Station Casinos donates $1M to support Las Vegas shooting victims
Station Casinos LLC said Monday that it committed $1 million to support those affected by the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
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Route91Strong helping Las Vegas shooting victims, families
By Nicole Raz / RJ
The way Jennifer Holub sees it, there are three sources of funds for victims of the Oct. 1 shooting, and “everyone’s basically screwing everyone.”
Las Vegas shooting victim’s recovery ‘nothing short of miraculous’
By Jessie Bekker / RJ
Doctors in Las Vegas told Frank Calzadillas to say his goodbyes to 30-year-old wife, Jovanna. Against all odds, she lived and will be discharged from a Phoenix hospital on Thursday.
Student traumatized by Las Vegas shooting loses scholarship
By Natalie Bruzda / RJ
January 22, 2018 - 6:45 pm January 26, 2018 - 12:37 pm
But regaining a sense of normalcy has been made even more difficult recently after the College of Southern Nevada student learned that she lost her Millennium Scholarship.
Vegas Strong Fund says it won’t be cutting any more checks
January 8, 2018 - 3:18 pm January 8, 2018 - 3:18 pm
The Vegas Strong Fund said Monday that it will not be issuing any more checks to victims of the Oct. 1 shooting, but will donate half of all money raised to a separate 501(c)(3), the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund.
Woman wounded in mass shooting makes healing return to Las Vegas
Katrina Hannah, 23, shot in the back in the Strip mass shooting, returns to the city from her home in California and is reunited with the Las Vegas man who carried her to safety.
Victims of Las Vegas shooting can apply for aid from fund
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Assistance is available to families of people killed in the shooting and those who were either hospitalized or required medical treatment as a result of injuries suffered in the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
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The J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions taking place in New York's Grand Central Terminal
2021 J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions Cancelled Due to COVID-19
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) can confirm that the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, a PSA World Tour Platinum event, will not take place in 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The Tournament of Champions first took place in the Vanderbilt Hall at New York City’s iconic Grand Central Terminal in 1995 and has been staged there annually since 1999, with hundreds of thousands of commuters watching world-class squash up close and for free.
The health and safety challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic mean that it is not viable to host a professional sporting event in Grand Central Terminal at this time, resulting in the difficult decision being made to cancel the 2021 edition of the tournament.
PSA, J.P. Morgan and tournament promoter Squash Engine Inc. remain fully committed to staging the Tournament of Champions in 2022, when J.P. Morgan’s renewed three-year title sponsorship of the prestigious tournament will commence.
“The Tournament of Champions is the oldest professional squash championship in the world and has only been interrupted by World War II and the few years that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis led the movement to preserve and renovate Grand Central Terminal. We are quite disappointed for the global squash community and all of the top professional players that 2021 will mark another forced interruption,” said Tournament Promoter and Squash Engine Inc. President John Nimick.
“Grand Central Terminal is one of the most unique venues in squash as it is a major transit hub and completely public and, as such, there were a range of factors we had to consider when making this decision, with the health and safety of everyone involved at the forefront of our thinking.
“I’d like to thank J.P. Morgan for their support and commitment to the Tournament of Champions and we all look forward to working with them closely as we look to bring the Tournament of Champions back onto the PSA World Tour calendar in 2022.”
For further updates from the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, visit the tournament website or follow the ToC on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
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Holiday of a lifetime for brave Millie
CANCER battler Millie O'Shea is looking forward to the holiday of a lifetime, thanks to the generosity of a kind-hearted businessman.
MILLIE with her brother Jack as she started at St John with St Michael School last month.
The Shawforth four-year-old was diagnosed with a Wilms' tumour and secondary cancers last year but after a gruelling round of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and operations her parents, Susan and Garry, of Valley View, are hoping she will soon be in remission.
Now, Millie's positive attitude and happy character in the face of adversity has captured the heart of John Swinden, owner of J and D Alexander jewellers in The Walk, Rochdale.
He was so moved by her plight that when he was awarded £500 at the Rochdale Town Centre Business Awards, he could think of no-one better to benefit than Millie and her family, including her brother, seven-year-old Jack and her sister, Laura, five.
The generous businessman said: 'I read about Millie's story and I was very moved by it.
'She's a real fighter with a great spirit and her family deserves some happiness.'
Mum Susan said: 'I was totally gobsmacked when I heard the news, I couldn't believe it.
'I was very emotional and started crying. I know there are some nice people in the world, but you don't usually get to meet them.'
The family are now busy planning how to spend the cash - and Mrs O'Shea said they were even considering a trip of a lifetime to Disneyland, Florida.
She added: 'Millie hasn't stopped talking about it and she can't wait to go away, but we're going to put the money away until next summer, because we can't take any risks at the moment with Millie's health.
'If she picked up the slightest infection it could cause problems. I'd like to say a big thank-you to Mr Swinden; it means the world to us.'
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Yue Hou Named Bers Assistant Professor
Yue Hou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has been named the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences. Hou is an accomplished scholar of authoritarian politics and the politics of China. Her book, The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China, addresses how China's private sector manages to grow without secure property rights and proposes a new theory of selective property rights. Her work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, and has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Review, and South China Morning Post. At Penn, she has served as an active faculty member of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Penn Identity and Conflict Lab. She is also part of the new Penn Development Research Initiative.
The late Janice Bers graduated from Penn with an education degree in 1939. Her husband, the late Julian Bers, graduated from Wharton in 1931. He received Penn’s Alumni Award of Merit in 1968 and served as a trustee of the University, while Janice Bers served as president of her class and on the 50th reunion gift committee. They established this chair in 1972 to recognize assistant professors who demonstrate outstanding promise as teachers and scholars in the social sciences.
Arts & Sciences News
Statement from Steven J. Fluharty, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Update on Robert Schuyler
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Roger Allen Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature received the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding.
Anthea Butler Project Receives a $1 Million Grant From the Henry Luce Foundation
Butler co-directs the project with scholars from Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Melissa Sanchez Receives MLA Recognition
Her book received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.
Two From Penn Arts & Sciences Named 2020 Schwarzman Scholars
Yixi (Cecilia) Wang, C’20, W’20, and Annie Sun, C’19, have received the Schwarzman Scholarship, which funds a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Simone White Named Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor
Simone White has been named the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English.
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Another airline charging for better coach seats
Back in the old days, the savvy traveler got to the airport early for his AirTran flight, knowing that there were no reserved seats and those first in line would enjoy more legroom, a view, or at least not wind up stuck by the lavatory. Today, AirTran allows passengers to pick their seats at the time of booking. Unfortunately, the airline is also charging for the privilege.
AirTran charges $5 each way to make a normal coach seat reservation, or $15 for an exit-row seat. According to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AirTran’s frequent flyers were notified of the new charges, though the airline did not put out a press release on the subject.
This makes AirTran the first low-cost airline I know of that’s charging for seat reservations. But last year, Northwest began its own Coach Choice program, then wisely modified it so that at least its elite members wouldn’t be hit with $15 fees for booking a more coveted seat. Apparently, Southwest is also considering such a fee.
To be fair, AirTran has at least added the possibility of reserving a seat, which is a convenience that was previously lacking. On the other hand, it’s another instance of industry nickel-and-diming, since I’d predict most of us won’t be willing to risk getting stuck with one of the few remaining (likely middle) seats after all the best ones have been snapped up. The list of people who might want to choose their seat is long, from those who are tall to anyone traveling with a companion.
We can only hope passenger displeasure with the extra charges forces AirTran to rethink this new “feature.”
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In support of the SMSU Mission, the Center for Civic Engagement connects academic programs with community needs to use scholarship and action for the mutual benefit of the University, its communities, and its diverse peoples. The Center serves as the intersection between student learning, faculty research, and community engagement. It is committed to illuminating the variety of ways in which SMSU strives to make civic and community engagement integral to learning experiences campus-wide.
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“Southwest Minnesota State University prepares students to meet the complex challenges of this century as engaged citizens in their local and global communities….”
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“Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes”. - Preface, page vi
A morally and civically responsible individual recognizes himself or herself as a member of a larger social fabric and therefore considers social problems to be at least partly his or her own; such an individual is willing to see the moral and civic dimensions of issues, to make and justify informed moral and civic judgments, and to take action when appropriate. - Introduction, page xxvi
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Morton: It Helps Me Make The Yards!
14 Jun 5, 2013 - 01:30 pm
Maritzburg United's Michael Morton is one of the 'Engine' players to have donned the much talked about adidas nitrocharge boot recently. Soccer-Laduma caught up with the player and asked him what he looks for when deciding on what boot to play in. "I cover a lot of distance in a game, so comfort plays a big role when I choose a boot. It also can’t be too heavy, because you have to be able to carry them around for the full 90 minutes. I just need something that helps me do my job best."
So what sets the nitrocharge apart from the adiPure, the boot he previously played in? "The nitrocharge is definitely lighter than the adiPure. It also looks a little nicer as well. The adiPure was more of an old-school leather boot which was made for comfort, but this one is just another step above everything else out there. It’s something the flashier players will enjoy, but at the same time I feel comfortable enough to wear it even though I’m not into bright colours on boots. That’s how well-rounded it is.
"My role as a holding midfielder is to break up the opposition attacks. Basically, I protect the back four from any and every attack. The kind of protection which allows the attacking players more freedom to be creative when we get to attack. The nitrocharge helps me to make those yards and put in some hard challenges. That is my kind of thing, so I enjoy the protection it offers me in those hard tackles. There certainly is a great balance between comfort and weight, which makes it ideal for someone like me."
nitrocharge Product manager Michael Meinhold explains some of the new technical innovations featured on the boot. "There are various different innovations that feature on the new boot. The ‘energypulse’ that features on the sole plate, for example. This is inspired by the geometry of a spring and helps the player by providing maximum energy in the ‘toe off’ phase when accelerating. This is one of a number of features on the boot which also provides fantastic protection to the foot as well as a soft touch to the ball."
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Small World Music
The show took place in the Small World Music Centre Small World Music's mission is: To celebrate cultural diversity through music. To showcase the wealth of Toronto’s multi-cultural talent. To educate and promote understanding between cultures. Small World is a celebration of cultural diversity expressed by one of the most potent tools available – music. A charitable organization, its vision is based on sharing cultural experience and ultimately, building bridges between cultures. It is about discovery and ‘opening ears’. In this role, the company has presented close to 400 events since 1997. It has hosted many Canadian debuts by international performers; has given a platform to dozens of developing Canadian artists of diverse backgrounds; and has established an international reputation for presenting innovative, risk-taking programming that uniquely represents Canada and Toronto, providing a space for cross-cultural bridge-building, education and understanding. Small World opened The Small World Music Centre in February 2014 as a new community hub for global music and the people who play it and enjoy it.
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Low Cost Forklifts in Beaufort, SC
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ShoutWire is the best place to find and save on all types of forklifts in Beaufort, South Carolina. Whether you are looking to purchase a used forklift in Beaufort, or you are trying to compare prices on a forklift rental in Beaufort, ShoutWire can help. When you use ShoutWire's quote comparison tool it's easier than it's ever been to compare prices and save time and money on all types of forklifts in Beaufort, SC. Using ShoutWire to find a Beaufort forklift dealer ensures that you will not only get great deals, but also the highest quality forklifts and customer service as well.
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Forklift For Sale in Beaufort - $14,417 - $25,818
You should budget between $14,417 and $25,818 for forklifts for sale in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a forklift for sale in Beaufort was $11,478 and the highest price paid was $80,091. The average price for forklifts for sale in Beaufort is $24,520, which is $480 less expensive than the national average.
Used Forklifts in Beaufort - $9,611 - $17,212
You should budget between $9,611 and $17,212 for used forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a used forklift in Beaufort was $2,296 and the highest price paid was $44,495. The average price for used forklifts in Beaufort is $14,712, which is $288 less expensive than the national average.
Forklift Rental in Beaufort - $481 - $1,291 Per Month
You should budget between $481 and $1,291 per month for forklift rentals in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a forklift rental in Beaufort was $367 per month and the highest price paid was $2,670 per month. The average price for forklift rentals in Beaufort is $785 per month, which is $15 less expensive than the national average.
Electric Forklift in Beaufort - $19,222 - $31,842
You should budget between $19,222 and $31,842 for electric forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for an electric forklift in Beaufort was $12,855 and the highest price paid was $40,046. The average price for electric forklifts in Beaufort is $29,424, which is $576 less expensive than the national average.
Order Pickers in Beaufort - $12,014 - $19,364
You should budget between $12,014 and $19,364 for order pickers in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for an order picker in Beaufort was $7,805 and the highest price paid was $31,147. The average price for order pickers in Beaufort is $16,674, which is $326 less expensive than the national average.
Pallet Jack in Beaufort - $2,403 - $6,455
You should budget between $2,403 and $6,455 for pallet jacks in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a pallet jack in Beaufort was $918 and the highest price paid was $13,349. The average price for pallet jacks in Beaufort is $4,904, which is $96 less expensive than the national average.
Telehandlers in Beaufort - $62,472 - $81,757
You should budget between $62,472 and $81,757 for telehandlers in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a telehandler in Beaufort was $50,501 and the highest price paid was $120,137. The average price for telehandlers in Beaufort is $78,464, which is $1,536 less expensive than the national average.
Rough Terrain Forklifts in Beaufort - $28,833 - $51,636
You should budget between $28,833 and $51,636 for rough terrain forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a rough terrain forklift in Beaufort was $22,955 and the highest price paid was $71,192. The average price for rough terrain forklifts in Beaufort is $44,136, which is $864 less expensive than the national average.
Toyota Forklifts in Beaufort - $16,819 - $32,273
You should budget between $16,819 and $32,273 for Toyota forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Toyota forklift in Beaufort was $13,773 and the highest price paid was $70,302. The average price for Toyota forklifts in Beaufort is $22,068, which is $432 less expensive than the national average.
Hyster Forklifts in Beaufort - $12,494 - $25,818
You should budget between $12,494 and $25,818 for Hyster forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Hyster forklift in Beaufort was $9,182 and the highest price paid was $43,605. The average price for Hyster forklift in Beaufort is $19,616, which is $384 less expensive than the national average.
Clark Forklifts in Beaufort - $16,339 - $34,424
You should budget between $16,339 and $34,424 for Clark forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Clark forklift in Beaufort was $12,855 and the highest price paid was $53,394. The average price for Clark forklifts in Beaufort is $23,539, which is $461 less expensive than the national average.
Yale Forklifts in Beaufort - $17,300 - $30,121
You should budget between $17,300 and $30,121 for Yale forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Yale forklift in Beaufort was $14,691 and the highest price paid was $66,743. The average price for Yale forklifts in Beaufort is $24,520, which is $480 less expensive than the national average.
Nissan Forklifts in Beaufort - $12,494 - $28,400
You should budget between $12,494 and $28,400 for Nissan forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Nissan forklift in Beaufort was $8,264 and the highest price paid was $75,642. The average price for Nissan forklifts in Beaufort is $18,635, which is $365 less expensive than the national average.
Komatsu Forklift in Beaufort - $13,455 - $33,563
You should budget between $13,455 and $33,563 for Komatsu forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Komatsu forklift in Beaufort was $9,181 and the highest price paid was $80,091. The average price for a Komatsu forklift in Beaufort is $17,654, which is $346 less expensive than the national average.
Raymond Forklift in Beaufort - $14,417 - $28,400
You should budget between $14,417 and $28,400 for Raymond forklifts in Beaufort. The lowest price paid for a Raymond forklift in Beaufort was $11,018 and the highest price paid was $71,192. The average price for Raymond forklifts in Beaufort is $19,616, which is $384 less expensive than the national average.
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BASS PRO SHOPS assisting TEXAS RESCUE EFFORTS
Posted on August 31, 2017 August 31, 2017 by Forrest Fisher
Bass Pro Shops assisting in Texas rescue and relief efforts in wake of Hurricane Harvey
More than 80 boats deployed for rescue efforts, donations for immediate relief
H OUSTON – Aug. 28, 2017: Bass Pro Shops is coordinating with local, state and federal agencies – including police, fire and rescue teams on the ground – to support ongoing rescue and relief efforts related to Hurricane Harvey. The outdoor company is providing more than 80 Tracker boats to government agencies and rescue organizations in Houston and other impacted communities in Texas.
In the immediate wake of the storm, Bass Pro Shops is also supporting disaster response organizations by donating truckloads of relief supplies totaling $40,000. The contributions support Convoy of Hope, a Springfield, Missouri-based humanitarian organization, and the American Red Cross. Donated supplies include protein-rich foods like Uncle Buck’s Premium Jerky and peanuts for those in the field.
Bass Pro Shops has seven retail locations and seven boating center locations in Texas, including three in the greater Houston area. The company is supporting impacted associates through its Bass Pro Cares Fund, which provides support for critical living expenses in times of devastating need.
The company remains in close contact with the governor’s office, first responders and associates on the ground to monitor response efforts and assess ongoing needs. Bass Pro Shops encourages all customers and community members who want to support relief efforts to donate directly to the American Red Cross.
About Bass Pro Shops®: Bass Pro Shops is a leading destination retailer offering outdoor gear and apparel in an immersive setting. Founded in 1972 when avid young angler Johnny Morris began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri, today more than 100 retail and marine centers host 120 million people annually. Bass Pro Shops also operates White River Marine Group, offering an unsurpassed collection of industry-leading boat brands, and Big Cedar Lodge, America’s Premier Wilderness Resort. Under the visionary conservation leadership of Johnny Morris, Bass Pro Shops is known as a national leader in protecting habitat and introducing families to the outdoors and has been named by Forbes as “one of America’s Best Employers.”
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The Suzuki GSX-R600 is a 600 cc class, or supersport, sport bike in Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles.
Launched with a water-cooled 599 cc (36.6 cu in) inline-4 engine. The first model had the same body specifications as the 1992 GSX-R750, with the smaller engine and carried over through to the 1993 model year with no changes. It was not imported to UK.
Not produced.
Redesigned with the introduction of Suzuki Ram Air Direct (SRAD) and carried over through to the 2000 model year.
Redesigned with the introduction of fuel injection and carried over through to the 2003 model year with very few changes.
Redesigned which carried over through to the 2005 model year. Total redesign of the fairings and fuel tank. Inverted forks with radial-mounted brakes. Titanium valves, 32-bit ECU were some of the changes on the engine side.
Suzuki introduced an all-new GSX-R600. Underslung exhaust and slipper clutch introduced. Motor is a completely new, but with the same bore and stroke as before.
New subframe, bodywork, and fuel tank. Introduction of new Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS).
9 kg Lighter overall, Showa Big Piston Fork (BPF), Brembo monobloc front brake calipers. New gauge cluster similar to those used on the GSX-R1000.
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Yamaha TRX850 - £2495.00 - 1996 Yamaha TRX850 - J B Motorcycles, pre-owned ...
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More Information on the Yamaha TRX850
The Yamaha TRX850 is a sports motorcycle with a 10-valve DOHC 849 cc 270° parallel-twin engine. First released in Japan in 1995, a version for the European market was available from 1996 to 2000.
The TRX has a half fairing, clip-on handlebars and mildly rear-set footrests. The front forks are conventional telescopics, and the rear suspension is a rising-rate monoshock unit. There is meagre provision to carry a passenger, and MCN declared: "comfort’s not brilliant for the pillion".
The TRX engine was derived from that in the Yamaha TDM850, but the TRX is lighter, lower and sportier than its TDM stablemate. The parallel twin engine has five valves per cylinder, three inlet and two exhaust. The engine produces some 85 Nm of torque and 79 bhp. Unusually for a dry sump design, the oil tank is not remote, but is integral to the engine, sitting atop the gearbox. This feature simplifies manufacture, eradicates external oil lines, and gives faster oil warm-up. The shallow sump allows the engine to be sited lower, for an optimal CG position. The 360° crank of the original TDM was changed to a 270° crank in 1996, after which time the TRX and the TDM shared the same engine and transmission. The engine has a balance shaft to smooth out residual vibrations.
In 2000 Yamaha stopped making the TRX, while the TDM series, enlarged to 900 cc, remained in production until 2011.
The TRX was designed to compete in the market with the Ducati 900SS V-twin, whose tubular trellis frame it mimicked. Although developed cheaply from Yamaha's "parts bin", using a TDM850 engine, the TRX performs well and has "a coherent identity of its own".
In Motorcycle News (MCN) the TRX was later described as "the best-kept secret in motorcycling" and a "forgotten gem" which bore comparison with the 270° Norton Commando 961. The MCN review states: "The TRX produces less power than sports 600s of the same era, but it’s much gruntier and more satisfying to use thanks to that twin cylinder character". The review added: "The TRX is a cracking bike, a sporty motorcycle with tons of character. It's stable, handles neutrally and feels like a proper sports bike". In 2014, Steve Cooper wrote of the TRX: "Very much the thinking man's sports bike, this slightly oddball twin is beginning to reach cult status and for good reason; with a little work it's possible to see a genuine 100bhp...".
Although considerably cheaper than the Ducati, TRX sales were disappointing, and production ceased in 2000 with no obvious successor. MCN stated many years later in a review of the MZ 1000S, the most powerful production 180° crank parallel-twin: "As the Yamaha TRX850 demonstrated, many bikers aren't especially keen on parallel twins..." That is now changing as costs are more important. In recent years, being cheap we are seeing a rebirth of parallel twins, being so versatile and economical. But as stated in a top 10 modern parallel twin review "They’re never going to be as popular as inline-fours, they’ll never be as iconic as a v-twin, and they’ll never have the exotic feel of a triple...".
The 270° crankshaft
Although the 270° crank concept has been attributed to Australian Phil Irving (of Vincent renown), the TRX was the first production motorcycle to feature this innovation. The 270° crank has an ignition sequence and an engine balance that yields something of the feel of a V-twin. Unlike 180° & 360° parallel-twins, a 270° engine in motion never has both pistons stationary, so its flywheel momentum is continuous. With less vibration than a 360° crank, and a more regular firing pattern than a 180° crank, a 270° crank results in a smoother engine. Any remaining unevenness of the 270° firing interval has been claimed to deliver power to the rear tyre more effectively.
Stuart Wood, Triumph’s chief engineer, declared that a 270° crank was ideal for large-capacity parallel twins, as it "generates fewer of those irritating high frequency secondary vibrations". Since the TRX's demise, the 270° concept has emerged as a successful compromise for standard and cruiser motorcycles. Although the parallel-twin layout is having something of a revival (the latest Honda Africa Twin is a 270° parallel-twin rather than the earlier V-twin incarnation), manufacturers have to date ignored the parallel-twin format for high-performance sportbikes.
The Indian-made 270° Royal Enfield Interceptor 650, introduced in 2017 and on sale in 2019, is expected to become one of the biggest selling large-capacity twin in the world.
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Weak equivalence principle violated in gravitational waves
Calculations reveal that a key principle of classical physics is broken by quantum particles as they pass through ripples in spacetime.
New York | Heidelberg, 28 October 2020
The Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) is a key aspect of classical physics. It states that when particles are in freefall, the trajectories they follow are entirely independent of their masses. However, it is not yet clear whether this property also applies within the more complex field of quantum mechanics. In new research published in EPJ C, James Quach at the University of Adelaide, Australia, proves theoretically that the WEP can be violated by quantum particles in gravitational waves – the ripples in spacetime caused by colossal events such as merging black holes.
As well as resolving a long-standing debate in quantum theory, Quach’s findings could lead to the development of advanced new materials, including fluids with infinite conductivity and zero viscosity. These could be used as advanced gravitational wave detectors and may even lead to devices which can mirror gravitational waves and harvest their energy. Quach based his approach around a principle named ‘Fisher information’ – a way of measuring how much information an observable random variable carries about a particular unknown parameter. Here, the random variable describes the position of a quantum particle in a gravitational field, while the unknown parameter is its mass. If the WEP were obeyed, the Fisher information should be zero in this case.
Through his calculations, Quach rewrote an equation describing the WEP for freely falling quantum particles, to incorporate their Fisher information. He showed that while these particles obey the WEP in static gravitational fields, their trajectories can indeed give away information about their mass when they pass through gravitational waves. For the first time, the calculation precisely characterises how the WEP can be violated by quantum particles, and provides key insights for future studies searching for the violation through real experiments.
References: J Q Quach (2020), Fisher information and the weak equivalence principle of a quantum particle in a gravitational wave, European Physical Journal C 80:987, DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08530-6
The full-text article is available open access here
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Macy's has announced a plan to replace its CEO of more than a decade
Longtime executive Jeff Gennette will take over as CEO in the first quarter of 2017, replacing Terry Lundgren. Lundgren, who has been CEO for more than a decade, will stay on as chairman of the board, according to a statement.
Gennette has been president of Macy's since 2014. He joined the company more than 30 years ago.
The company included details about Gennette's experience in a release:
"Jeff Gennette, 55, was named President of Macy's, Inc. in March 2014 after serving as Macy's Chief Merchandising Officer since February 2009. From February 2008 to February 2009, Gennette served as chairman and CEO of Macy's West in San Francisco. He began his retail career in 1983 as an executive trainee at Macy's West. He held positions of increasing responsibilities, including vice president and division merchandise manager for men's collection and senior vice president and general merchandise manager for men's and children's. In 2004, Gennette was appointed executive vice president and director of stores at Macy's Central in Atlanta. From February 2006 to February 2008, Gennette was chairman and chief executive officer of Seattle-based Macy's Northwest. During his career, Gennette also served as a store manager for FAO Schwarz and director of stores for Broadway Stores, Inc. Gennette, a native of San Diego, is a graduate of Stanford University."
The transition comes at a difficult time for Macy's.
The department store's sales fell 7.4% in the first quarter - marking five straight quarters of declines - as customers cut back on buying apparel.
The issues plaguing Macy's are the same ones that have brought Sears close to extinction: falling traffic, underinvestment in stores, and a reliance on excessive discounting to attract customers.
"The blunt truth is that Macy's does not give consumers a reason to visit its stores," Neil Saunders, CEO of the retail consulting firm Conlumino, wrote in a note to clients Wednesday. "In many locations shops are simply not up to par: they are poorly merchandised, hard to shop, lack any inspiration, and have fairly mediocre customer service. Some of this is about a lack of capital investment, but some is about a lack of basic shop-keeping standards."
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The Biggest Lesson From 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home' Isn't Talked About Enough
George and Gracie have a lot to say about what it means to be a good ally.
Lauren Thoman
When a giant space log comes to Earth and demands to speak to only whales, Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise (who are temporarily the crew of the H.M.S. Bounty) must travel back in time to before humpback whales went extinct, in order to bring two of them back to the future to talk to the alien log and tell it to please stop sucking up all our oceans.
This is the bonkers premise of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (or as I like to call it, The One With the Whales), a film which was intended to be a lighthearted departure from the serious nature of the previous Star Trek films, and has aged remarkably well considering the time in which it was made. Yes, the technology is dated, and there are a few cringe-worthy lines that would never make it into a Star Trek script today, but for the most part, The One With the Whales still holds up as an entertaining romp through time with an earnest conservationist message. “Save the whales,” The One With the Whales urges, “so that one day, the whales may save us.”
This is often where analysis of Star Trek IV begins and ends, and it’s not wrong to conclude that the intended takeaway from this film is that we need to be better stewards of our planet. Even the year in which the film is set — 1986, the same year in which it was released — drives home the idea that Kirk and his crew aren’t merely addressing some symbolic future versions of humanity, but us, the very people watching the movie. "Save the whales" isn’t the subtext of The Voyage Home. It’s just… the text. Sitting right there on the surface, like a humpback whale coming up for a breath.
However, watching Star Trek IV over three decades later, I can’t help but notice another, subtler thread running through this whaletastic adventure; one which I don’t think was intended, but which resonates particularly strongly in the times we find ourselves in today. You see, in a world of seemingly limitless technology, Kirk and Spock quickly decide that it is easier to attempt time travel than to try to speak for a group they don't understand.
As soon as Spock identifies that the probe is attempting to communicate in whalesong, Kirk’s first question is whether they can artificially create similar sounds to answer back. Spock immediately shuts that idea down, saying that while he might be able to replicate the noises, he can’t even begin to understand the language. “We’d be responding in gibberish,” he tells Kirk.
While it’s understandable that the film doesn’t want to spend a lot of time attempting to decipher the linguistic intricacies of whalesong — this is Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales, after all, not Arrival — it’s still worth noting just how quickly Spock shoots down the possibility of faking their way through an important conversation in a language they don’t speak. Surely, with the technology available to them, Spock and Uhura could’ve eventually figured out a way to crack the whale code. Maybe they wouldn’t have had a perfect grasp of whale syntax and grammar, but c’mon, they’re whales, how hard can it be?
But Spock refuses to even try, leaving Kirk no other choice than to risk his entire ship and crew, slingshot around the sun, and time warp back to 1986 to liberate two humpback whales named George and Gracie from the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California. The rest of the movie is spent building massive water tanks in the cargo bay, plotting a whale heist, and stealing nuclear reactors. You know, normal stuff.
But let’s get back to the idea that this convoluted plot to steal whales from 300 years in the past is somehow a simpler solution than trying to communicate with a space probe. At first glance, it seems like it should require some massive suspension of disbelief to buy into this premise, but I don’t think it does, if you’re willing to embrace some deeper social themes (and really, this is Star Trek; deeper social themes are its bread and butter). Unlike, say, Armageddon, the plot of Star Trek IV really isn’t trying to pull a fast one on us by trying to convince us that an incredibly complex task is easier than the simpler option. Instead, it’s suggesting that communication is the complex task, and that to oversimplify it only contributes to — quite literally — our own destruction.
Think about it. What would’ve happened if Kirk had ordered Spock to try to program the computer to mimic whalesong? If they’d been so confident in their own humanoid superiority to assume that their voices, simulating a language and culture they didn’t understand, were the ones that most needed to be heard? Maybe they would’ve lucked into accidentally saying the right thing, but more likely, despite their good intentions, their ignorant fumbling of the microphone would have resulted in irreparable harm.
Still, it would’ve been understandable for Kirk and his crew to have taken this approach, devastating as it might have been. After all, it’s not uncommon among humans — both in 1986, and in 2019 — for the privileged to assume they know what’s best for the marginalized. We see it today all over the news cycles, as the wealthy make decisions for the working class, men speak with presumed authority on issues affecting women, and white people attempt to explain away the racism experienced by people of color. Many times, no harm is intended, but that doesn’t prevent it from occurring anyway.
A lot has been written in recent years about what it means to be a good ally. At the top of every list of tips, no matter which group it’s aimed at supporting, is a plea to listen. Listen to the voices of the marginalized, give them a platform to speak, and consider their perspective above your own when considering what sorts of actions need to be taken.
Of course, “listening” in the context of Star Trek IV doesn’t necessarily mean understanding, since the crew of the Enterprise has no way to know what either the whales or the space probe are saying. Interestingly, in an earlier version of the film, the mournful wailing of the space probe was actually subtitled, allowing audiences to see what it was asking: “Where are you? Can you hear us?” The subtitles were eventually deemed unnecessary and cut from the finished film, which was fortunate, since allowing the audience to understand something the characters never could, would have probably only undermined the film’s message.
Still, underneath all its Vulcan neck pinches, nuclear "wessels," and transparent aluminum, The One With the Whales isn’t so much about whales at all, but about the crew of the Enterprise being the best allies they can possibly be when faced with a problem that is significantly outside their lane. They may not be able to understand the words that are being said, but that doesn’t mean they can’t still amplify them. Star Trek IV is a film about an advanced group of people using every last ounce of their privilege to ensure that the mic gets passed to those whose lived experience and knowledge uniquely qualifies them to speak to a specific situation, and trusting that they’ll know what’s best going forward.
Yes, the marginalized group in Star Trek IV is whales, and they’re not so much marginalized as they are completely extinct. Yes, I get that that’s a very weird parallel to draw, and that no one really wants to be compared to a whale (although, in all fairness, George and Gracie are Very Good Whales). But the focus of The Voyage Home isn’t actually George and Gracie themselves, but rather, what they represent: hope for the future. And while I can only speak for myself, lifting up the marginalized as a path toward hope is a parallel I can get behind.
The end of Star Trek IV sees the H.M.S. Bounty return to the year 2286, now heavier with two whales and one rogue marine biologist. They land the ship in the ocean, release George and Gracie, and hope for the best. They have no way of telling the two whales what to say; they can only trust that they’ve done everything in their power to present the right voices with a chance to speak. They’ve provided the platform, they’ve handed over the mic, and now there’s nothing left to do other than take a seat and let their cetacean passengers do their thing.
George and Gracie speak. And the world changes for the better. The Enterprise crew’s decision proves to be the right call. And it still is today.
Lauren Thoman is a freelance writer and pop culture enthusiast who lives in Nashville, TN, with her husband, two daughters, and a perpetually confused dog. Her writing has appeared on Vulture, Collider, Looper, and Mic, among other places. Would happily eat tacos for every meal.
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Stella Waitzkin
J.M. Kohler Center
Waitzkin Trust
Stella Waitzkin at the Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel environment east wall October 2004
Chelsea Hotel west wall 2003
Top row right: Chelsea Hotel south wall 1993
Discovering Stella Waitzkin
Not long ago I was invited to look at the work of Stella Waitzkin - an artist I had never heard of, who lived and had recently died in the Chelsea Hotel. Such invitations, typically accompanied by a sheet or two of slides, arrive not infrequently in the normal course of things for most art critics, and it is fairly rare that they elicit much interest. There is always more to look at than one has time to see, and in any case there is little one can do for most of the unknown, or little known artists on whose behalf the invitations are sent. But Waitzkin’s work was sufficiently out of the ordinary to arouse my curiosity, and the Chelsea Hotel itself is on the route I take to the Chelsea galleries two or three times a month. So I accepted the invitation, thinking quite well of myself for doing so, and feeling that at the very least a peek into that legendary hotel’s inner precincts was certain to be interesting, whatever the work should finally look like. What I was entirely unprepared for was that the art would be more than interesting – it proved to be astonishing, and unlike anything I had experienced in several decades of studio visits. My visit to Stella’s apartment was the kind of adventure that is the promise of an art world like ours, in which unimagined wonders are an abiding possibility at every turn.
I was led into a room lined floor to ceiling with bookshelves. There were a few pieces of worn furniture and a number of paintings hung on the walls, or placed here or there on the bookshelves, along with some curios, a clock or two, and some mounted fish. The space had a musty smell of old rooms everywhere, and everything looked like it could use at least a dusting. Beyond a low bookshelf that partitioned the room into two sections, I saw, through tall unwashed windows, an ironwork balcony over 23rd Street, the overall impression was of Miss Haversham’s room in a movie version of Great Expectations. The books themselves had the somewhat ghostly look of Edgar Allen Poe’s “many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.” They had the heft and hue of antique tomes – old dictionaries, bibles, albums of recipes or annuals of yellowed journals bound together. One might have expected a stuffed raven on one of the upper shelves! What first dawned on me was the thought that the whole room was a piece of installation art, as if Stella Waitzkin had created a work that served the secondary purpose of giving her a place to live. I imagined that it had been assembled book by book, object by object, acquiring, over time, the patina of age and use. One could imagine a recluse surrounded by singly acquired treasures, sitting alone under a dim lamp, poring over faded snapshots.
Charles Russell, who had charge of Stella’s artistic estate, pointed out something that went well beyond this provisional interpretation. The books were almost literally the ghosts of books, which had been cast in translucent resin. Even if one attempted to break into them, there was nothing to read. According to Fred Waitzkin, Stella’s son, the artist called her room “Details of a Lost Library,” a poetic title, which alludes, I believe, to the “lost wax” technique of casting statues. It was, so to speak, a library of lost words and images, since casts had been made of the books themselves, that left behind only their shapes and colors. The mummified books are in fact Stella’s most singular works. In his remarkable memoir of his parents’ lives, Fred Waitzkin recalls that his mother had said to the poet Allen Ginsberg that “Words are lies,” and it was as if these books, emptied of their words, could no longer impart the toxin of their falsehood. One did not have the sense that the artist was a crank – one felt that in some way she found some symbolic way of securing the possibility of a higher truth, through art, than words could communicate. I thought of a technical term in the metaphysical lexicon of the philosopher Hegel that fit her achievement to perfection: aufheben. It means, all at the same time, to preserve, to negate, and to transcend. The books were embalmed, but rendered unusable, and turned into art. And instead of having herself been a quaint relic of past times, Stella was a rough-house and independent character who worked till the end, surrounded by perhaps the best paintings she had ever made.
Stella Waitzkin was not an outsider artist. She had been part of the world of the Cedar Bar, an intimate of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and above all, Willem de Kooning. She found meaning in an aesthetic of squalor, and it in some way built into her Lost Library a monument to the artistic mission of the bohemian ethic of the Chelsea Hotel where she ended her long life, amid the spirits of edgy existence that found shelter in its strangely hospitable spaces. The works will of course find places for themselves elsewhere, in museums and private collections. In a sense, her vision is captured in each of the eviscerated books she has replaced with resin, but my own wish is that the atmosphere of that room on the fourth floor of Chelsea Hotel could be kept as an integral whole, kept for the ages, as a monument to its time and its occupant, a testament and, a gift, as great art always is, to the world.
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Molson Coors Brewing Company brews, markets, sells, and distributes beer brands. The company sells its products in Canada, under the brand names of Coors Light, Canadian, Export, Molson Canadian 67, Molson Dry, Molson M, Creemore, Rickard's Red, Carling, and Pilsner. It also brews or distributes products under license from third parties, which include Amstel Light, Heineken, Murphy's, Asahi, Asahi Select, Miller Lite, Miller Genuine Draft, Miller Chill, Milwaukee's Best, Milwaukee's Best Dry, and Foster's. In addition, the company imports, distributes, and markets the Corona, Coronita, Negra Modelo, and Pacifico brands, through a joint venture agreement with Grupo Modelo. Further, it sells various brands in the United States, which include Coors Light, Miller Lite, Coors Banquet, Miller Genuine Draft, MGD 64, Miller Chill, Sparks, Miller High Life, Miller High Life Light, Keystone Light, Icehouse, Mickey's, Milwaukee's Best, Milwaukee's Best Light, Old English 800, Henry Weinhard's, George Killian's Irish Red, Leinenkugel's, Molson, Foster's, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch, Coors Non-Alcoholic, Sharp's, and Blue Moon. Additionally, the company sells various brands in the United Kingdom, which comprise Carling, C2, Coors Light, Worthington's, White Shield, Caffrey's, Kasteel Cru, and Blue Moon. It also distributes the Sol, Dos Equis, Zatec, Singha, and Magners Draught Cider brands. In addition, the company has joint venture agreements with Royal Grolsch N.V. for the provision of the Grolsch brands; and Cobra Beer Partnership Ltd. for the provision of Cobra brands in the United Kingdom. It markets and sells Zima, Coors Gold, and Coors Extra brands in the international markets. The company was formerly known as Adolph Coors Company and changed its name to Molson Coors Brewing Company as a result of its merger with Molson Inc. in February 2005. Molson Coors Brewing Company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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SIS Productions was created because of the lack of representation of Asian Americans on television, in film and in pop culture in general, and something was needed to help fill that void locally. SIS Productions strives to provide more opportunities for local Asian American artists to work, and more importantly to provide the chance for those who were interested in taking on positions of leadership by giving them a chance to produce. By giving Asian Americans the opportunity to produce, to write, to direct, to design, and to act, SIS hopes to help develop more APA's with viable skills in this field, and therefore create greater visibility for them.
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Independent preparatory headteacher jobs in Leicestershire
Head of Leicester Grammar Junior School
Expiring tomorrow
Leicester Grammar Junior SchoolLeicestershire
Start dateSeptember 2021
Situated in Great Glen, Leicestershire, on a stunning rural 75-acre site, Leicester Grammar Junior School (LGJS) is a highly regarded co-educational independent IAPS day school, founded in 1992 for pupils aged 3 to 11. Our 400 pupils, drawn from a wide catchment area, benefit from a caring and supportive ethos, excellent academic education and an extensive co-curricular programme.
The post of Head (from September 2021) represents an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a thriving school. The current head is leaving after eight years’ outstanding leadership, and we welcome applications from serving headteachers or deputies with successful and innovative teaching and leadership experience in the primary or preparatory school sectors. Above all, the new head will have an infectious enthusiasm for working with children and colleagues, nurturing each individual’s talents and potential in the life of a mutually-supportive and ambitious school community.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Principal of Leicester Grammar School Trust (Headmaster of the Grammar School), as a key member of the Trust’s Executive Team. The Head of LGJS reports to the Principal, but is responsible for the day-to-day running and happy progress of the Junior School and afforded considerable latitude in determining the direction of the school.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please visit https://www.leicestergrammar.org.uk/job-vacancies for an information pack and application form.
A completed application form and curriculum vitae, accompanied by a covering letter addressed to Mr John Watson (Principal of Leicester Grammar School Trust), should reach the school as soon as possible, and no later than 9.00am on Wednesday 20 January 2021. It is anticipated that first-round interviews will take place the following week, with final round interviews shortly thereafter. It is hoped that both stages will occur at the school, but this will depend on COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time. Those who have previously applied for this post need not re-apply.
Applications should be emailed to Mrs Erica Parsons, HR Administrator, at parsonse@leicestergrammar.org.uk
There is no need to send a hard copy at this stage.
Leicester Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with previous employers and DBS.
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Must-Surf TV
NBC will be the first major network to offer its nightly newscast online as well as on TV.
Eric Hellweg archive page
Starting Monday, November 7, the executives behind the NBC Nightly News want you to feel free to change the channel. Not to a competing newscast, mind you, but to their own newscast online at MSNBC.com.
This offering will make NBC the first network to provide an entire newscast online. It will available 10 p.m. EST on the day of the broadcast.
To long-time Web viewers, this news might sound, well, not particularly newsworthy. But in the tradition-bound world of major television network executives, it’s a bold step.
“All the news organizations are facing the fact that their audiences are on the older side, and online video viewers are much younger crowd,” says Mike Shields, senior reporter for MediaWeek. “This year, the major media companies are experimenting with broadband plays.”
The NBC move is the latest – and biggest – in a series of efforts in the media to test the notion of putting television content online.
Last month, Apple began offering select ABC shows for paid download through its iTunes Music Store. Before that, CNN opened up what had previously been for-pay video snippets of its programming.
Other networks, notably, Comedy Central and MTV (both owned by Viacom), have been forthcoming with their shows, offering almost the entire content of popular programs for online viewing, such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as music videos.
Behind these various moves are two key realizations by media executives. The first one is that, with technological advances such as TiVo and the always-on Internet, consumers’ interest in and need to adhere to a predetermined content schedule is waning.
“The shock to the system was TiVo,” says Charlie Tillinghast, president of MSNBC.com. “Once that was digested, then the idea of time-shifting content wasn’t that radical a notion. Part of the thinking is that programs aren’t just TV programs; they can go on any digital medium.”
Secondly, the rates that networks can charge for the ads wrapped around videos (usually appearing before a video clip) are high. Tillinghast says MSNBC charges a CPM (cost per thousand views, the standard measurement of non-keyword online advertising) of around $35-40 for the ads it serves around its videos.
This rate is “in line with other video ads,” according to an analyst at Jupiter Research; but it is quite a bit higher than, say, banner ads, which may command only $3-5 per thousand viewers. (Keyword-based advertisements, such as those served up by Google alongside its search results, operate on a “click-through” model and aren’t really comparable.)
So repurposing network content and selling lucrative new ads around it should be a no-brainer business decision for the networks – free video drives traffic, traffic drives advertising revenue, and video ad rates are among the highest online.
From the other side of the screen, the increasing adoption by consumers of broadband connections makes this explosion in Internet video content possible. It was only a year ago that broadband penetration in the United States crossed the 50-percent threshold, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
These faster connections, coupled with the increased sales of digital cameras that capture video and companies’ willingness to provide video content, has made video one of the fastest-growing media online. Research firm IDC predicts that by 2009, 591 million gigabytes of video content will be available online.
Most free video available from television networks online is in streaming format, using Windows Media Player or Real Networks’ RealPlayer. This makes sense because of the short shelf-life for most episodic, time-sensitive fare, such as nightly newscasts and topical humor programs.
As evidenced by the Apple/ABC video announcement, though, companies are also experimenting with making some of their less time-dependent content available for permanent downloading at a cost.
Of course, any time customers migrate from one medium to another, there’s the risk that businesses will cannibalize their own time-tested revenue streams. Online ad rates at $40 per thousand views may be good on the Web – but they pale compared with the six-figure sums commanded by networks for 30-second ads.
Many TV executives see the shift as inevitable, though, and also don’t view the change as a zero-sum game. Says MSNBC’s Tillinghast: “Offering the newscasts online is accretive, not cannibalistic.”
Eric Hellweg
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IFoA announces 2015 president-elect
Open-access content 1st June 2015
We are pleased to announce that Colin Wilson, deputy government actuary, has been elected as the next president-elect of the IFoA. He will take up his position in June 2015, when Fiona Morrison becomes president.
Current president Nick Salter said: "I am delighted to announce that Colin Wilson has been elected to serve as president. Colin has been an active volunteer since qualifying 19 years ago, and brings an unparalleled diversity of experience across different practice areas."
Derek Cribb, IFoA chief executive, said: "I look forward to working with Colin to promote his theme of collaboration, as the IFoA continues to rise to the challenges and opportunities facing the profession both in the UK and internationally."
Colin Wilson said: "I am truly honoured that my fellow Council members have elected me to the presidential team. I am committed to building on the foundations laid by my predecessors and to expanding the range of actuarial work.
"I believe that a profession such as ours must ensure that it has a voice that others want to hear and must continue to develop its expertise to avoid being left behind in a changing world. We will achieve this by embracing the value of collaboration - within the profession between different practice areas, with other actuarial bodies for the benefit of the global profession, and with other professions to address problems that require a variety of skills."
Fiona Morrison, current president-elect said: "Colin brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will be invaluable.
I look forward to working with Colin to promote actuaries as we lead the IFoA into the next stage of the profession's development."
This article appeared in our June 2015 issue of The Actuary.
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Review: Motherland
September 4, 2014 Reviews
Book by MARIA HUMMEL
Reviewed by SUE REPKO
The epigraph to Maria Hummel’s latest novel Motherland is a short poem of the same title by the German poet Rose Ausländer (in German “Mutterland”).
My Fatherland is dead
They buried it
In fire
in my Motherland—
—translation by Eavan Boland
The poem encapsulates the novel, set in Germany in the last year of World War II, in which a young German wife and stepmother repeatedly risks her own life to keep her new family intact. Motherhood—stepmotherhood in this case—becomes her reason for being.
Liesl is just 25 years old when Dr. Frank Kappus, a reconstructive surgeon at a medical spa in a remote German village called Hannesburg, initiates a brief courtship following the death of his wife in childbirth, which has left him with three young boys, including the newborn. Liesl works at the spa’s Kinderhaus or daycare. Their paths have crossed a few times, and when Frank needs a woman to take care of his sons while he serves at a military hospital in Weimar, her gentle way with children draws him to her.
Along the way the novel tackles essential questions about what it means to be a mother; gender roles, especially during wartime; the petty cruelties of small-town life; and the psychological trauma of war on one’s own soil, where “the front” is essentially everywhere. The novel toggles back and forth between Liesl at home in Hannesburg and Frank in Weimar, beginning in December of 1944 and continuing through January, February, and March of 1945.
When the novel opens, Liesl is fixated on the aroma and taste of a small cup of coffee, brewed with the surprising find of coffee grounds, “surely the last real coffee in all of Hannesburg,” tucked away by Frank’s first wife. This happens throughout the novel: in brief flashes, Liesl is reminded that she has taken another woman’s place. She wears the wedding ring of the first wife and, occasionally, the empty dresses, which hang in her closet. Sounds from the basement startle her, and some of the precious coffee ends up on the counter. In the basement, she finds the two oldest boys, Hans and Ani, watching a hand come through the wall. It belongs to Herr Geiss, their neighbor, who is constructing a tunnel between their two basements, which serve as their air raid shelters. Liesl is afraid to ask him to stop because he has connections in the Nazi party and extra ration cards and because he has known Liesl’s husband since Frank was a boy. In her own home, she has no standing. The most she can do to assert herself is to ask Herr Geiss to stop until she can write to Frank and ask him if the tunnel is okay. Underscoring her helplessness, the boys refuse to come upstairs for dinner, and the tunnel will continue to be built.
The oldest son, Hans, is the most rebellious. He is 10 years old, freshly motherless. He spends a lot of time in the basement and roughhousing with other children in the village near an abandoned brewery. Jürgen, the infant, grows fat and strong. The middle brother, Ani, deteriorates physically, mentally, and emotionally under all these stresses, and his perplexing condition is a major part of the novel.
Liesl, who has long since grown tired of Nazi propaganda, must quickly build alliances. Pressured by the widowed Herr Geiss, Liesl takes on the job of cleaning his house. Ani comes to help her, and there they see a portrait of Ani and his mother, painted by Herr Geiss’s late wife, a painter. The image takes Liesl’s breath away: the mother in white in a white-walled garden, holding her infant. She notices the resemblance between them and also the wedding ring she now wears. Ani visits with the portrait while she cleans, and this form of communion with his mother proves to be the source of his unraveling.
Shortly thereafter, Ani begins to stumble, say odd things, and have nightmares that he is being buried in a large pit with other bodies and body parts. He becomes obsessed with a green bird, a parrot, that he insists he sees at the abandoned brewery, although no one else ever sees it. Liesl takes him to a specialist who diagnoses his condition as lead poisoning. Liesl frantically combs every area of their home and outside environment and pleads with Ani to tell her what he’s been eating, but he will not tell and continues to deteriorate. The judgments of the doctor and of the neighbors, who notice the boy’s delusional and erratic behavior, make her feel inadequate, responsible, and guilty. And what will Frank think of her as a mother? Yet, Ani is also the first one to call Liesl “Mutti” and curl up with her and the baby in bed.
Frank’s portions of the novel are dominated by his relationship with Lieutenant Heinrich Hartmann, a patient who was also a childhood friend and the favorite student of his father, who had been Latin teacher. But Hartmann doesn’t remember Frank or his father, at least not at first. Although his jaw bone is intact, he has lost much of his mouth and is deaf; a shell had gone into one side of his mouth and out the other. Hartmann’s damaged face and loss of memory parallel the identity crisis about to beset Germany after the war. Hartmann will need multiple surgeries; reconstructive surgery is in its infancy then, and the doctor in Frank awakens to the challenge. How can he graft Hartmann’s skin in one procedure to make him look human again, to make his mouth functional, and to make him whole? Hummel seems to be asking the same questions about the German people. How does a nation look human again after committing heinous atrocities on a scale unseen in the history of humankind?
There are passages where Hummel’s experience as a poet—she is a former Stegner Fellow in poetry—results in prose that sings:
On the way from his barracks to the hospital’s main building, Frank passed into the freezing night. A cloudy night, safe from raids. Into the bluing air he walked, feeling its color and sharpness grip him. His lashes hardened and stuck. He passed in sight of the guard station and the hospital’s incinerator, both in the distance, on opposite sides of the field outside Weimar where the military encampment rose. He passed the humps of summer grass, buried under trampled snow, and the ribbons of moonlight that showed the wheel ruts. He passed the old Frank, who would not have noticed such things, the man before Susi’s death, who had not felt beaten by time.
When Frank learns that he’ll be transferred to Berlin, a target of the Allied bombing campaign, he struggles not only with how he will be able to fix Hartmann’s mouth before he goes, but also with whether to desert before the transfer. An urgent telegram from Liesl about Ani’s condition spurs him to that crucial crossroads. The specialist back home may recommend that Ani be removed from the home and sent to Hadamar, a facility from which the handicapped and mentally ill were killed. Early on, Liesl had mailed a stollen to Frank, into which she had baked a film canister with reichsmarks and a map.
In every step of the stollen’s production, Liesl was conscious of her inevitable failure. It would never taste like Susi’s. It would never get past the censors. Nevertheless she’d wrapped the loaf carefully in butcher paper so it wouldn’t grow stale and wrote a note warning Frank about the “fig” she’d baked whole inside. She wondered if he’d understand. She could tell by the soft way Frank looked at her that he didn’t think she was capable of deceit. He’d ironed her old life flat with his desire, then molded her into what he needed. The young wife. She leaned her cheek into Jürgen’s warm skull. The new mother.
The stollen makes it through the censors, and when the hospital in Weimar is bombed, Frank makes his escape amidst the chaos. From that point, the reader does not know the details of his journey or if he will reappear at home.
Back in Hannesburg, Liesl must also contend with a rapidly expanding household, as her home is assigned a couple of refugee families—Frau Dillman and her daughters and Frau Winter and her sons. To add to the chaos, Uta, a friend of Liesl’s from childhood and their days working at the spa, shows up pregnant by a Nazi officer, from whom she is hiding. When she can’t get an abortion, she consigns herself to having the child alone, but the officer is looking for her. In addition to the air raid sirens and ever-present threat of bombs and annihilation, everyone has some other specific terror hanging over him/her. As the Russians and Americans draw nearer, Uta, sacrificing herself on behalf of Liesl and her family, goes back to her S.S. lover and certain arrest or worse, but arranges for Ani to not be taken to Hadamar.
During the bombing of Hannesburg, vagabond Hans is alone at the brewery, too far from home to get back there and too late to be admitted to the shelter in the brewery. He endures the bombing in absolute terror. Back home, everyone else rushes to the basement; some of the refugees scramble to Herr Geiss’s side. While explosions rattle the cellar, Ani, who has taken to acting like the bird that only he can see, begins to squat, flap his arms, and scream. As he repeatedly launches himself into the ceiling and the walls, the remaining refugees crawl through the tunnel to get away from him. Then Ani pulls down a piece of green fabric and drags it over a candle, setting himself on fire. Liesl extinguishes it, saving him. When the raid ends, she heads out for the brewery in the dark, risking stepping on unexploded ordnance along the way to find Hans and bring him home.
Frank, too, returns home, but there is no happy ending here. Ani dies when he steps on unexploded ordnance. Hans discovers too late the cause of Ani’s poisoning—paint tubes taken from Herr Geiss’s home and hidden in his mattress. The reader has already learned in a brief passage that ingesting the paint was, for Ani, “like breathing in. It was breathing, and Mother would fill him and make him brave.” Hans shows the tubes to his father, who decides not to tell Liesl because it will only contribute to her guilt. In the end, Frank’s thoughts sum up the major theme of the novel: mothers and women unavoidably intimate, keeping their families alive, while men remain cut off from each other and themselves.
Thank God she had made some friends among the women—Frau Winter, Berte Geiss, Marta, and even that prissy peacock, Frau Hefter. They held each other up. They had cleared most of the streets themselves. They bartered—one woman’s handful of eggs for another’s supply of yarn—so that every family had almost enough. There was something between them that the men could not touch.
The Kappus family and their neighbors are also not immune to the post-war judgment and sentences imposed on them by the outside world for their choices, both the conscious and unconscious ones. Frank is arrested for treating a patient at Buchenwald and sent to a POW camp, though his hospital records indicate he was elsewhere. And when Liesl is questioned by an American officer, she can only claim that she knew nothing:
“Or perhaps he didn’t tell you about it? Like everyone else in your life—your neighbor, your old friend—they didn’t tell you anything at all?”
She shrugged.
“What did you talk about, then?”
“The children,” she said.
“Food. Coal,” she said.
Motherland was inspired by the real-life story of Hummel’s father, whose mother died in childbirth in the spring of 1942 in Germany. His father remarried then went off to war. Hummel’s paternal grandparents wrote letters to each other, plotting his desertion, and those letters were found in the 1980s in the wall of a home in which he’d hidden. The acknowledgments at the end of the book clarify Hummel’s impetus to explore these challenging and complicated themes, along with her struggle to remain true to her characters and their narratives. In her case, this meant making the Holocaust a peripheral part of the story. Liesl is not concerned about the fate of the Jews or Nazi policy, but survival, for herself and her stepchildren. Indeed, she is barely aware of the Holocaust.
On the one hand, Hummel’s authorial choice to make Liesl oblivious to the Holocaust had me shifting uncomfortably in my chair, even with Hummel’s confession at the end of the book:
It was painful to write from this perspective. It was painful to keep the Holocaust offscreen, to mention Jews only a few times in the book, and then go to dinner with my Jewish friends and family… Many times, I tried to change the story to allow my main characters to think or do something that showed their heroism in the face of the cruel Reich, and every time I had to cut the scenes to be faithful to their lives at the time.
On the other hand, good literature lets us see another person’s world, and the choices circumscribed by that time and place, as difficult as that may be. Terrifying, too, because it begs the question: What might I have done?
Maria Hummel is the author of the novel Wilderness Run and the poetry collection House and Fire. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry and now teaches at Stanford University.
2014 Book Reviews Maria Hummel review reviews Sue Repko
Review: Motherland 09.04.2014
Friday Reads: December 2020
Curated by ISABEL MEYERS
In the final Friday Reads of 2020, we’re hearing again from our volunteer readers on what books have been keeping them engrossed and entertained as the weather gets colder. For this second batch, our readers highlight books set everywhere from an Anishinaabe reserve in Ontario to Sofia, Bulgaria and a city in 1950s Italy.
Review: The Life Assignment
ALICIA MIRELES CHRISTOFF
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado calls his poems incantatory: they are meant to be sung or recited, to gather sense through their sounds. I felt this reading The Life Assignment: the enormous power of words--flat on the page and threatening permanent inertness--rising up animated and alive when given mouth and breath and ear, like fallen leaves swirled up by the wind.
Review: The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart
JASMINE V. BAILEY
In Argentina, the short story is not what you write until you manage to write a novel; it is a lofty form made central by twentieth-century titans like Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and Silvina Ocampo.
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Hamilton, in Bahrain, urges F1 to make human rights push
27 November 2020 - 08:50 By Reuters
Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP walks in the paddock before the F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain at Bahrain International Circuit on November 26, 2020.
Image: Mark Thompson/Getty Images
Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton on Thursday urged Formula One to do more to push for human rights, saying the issue was a “massive problem” in some of the sport's host countries.
The Mercedes driver was speaking ahead of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, a race that regularly draws criticism from rights campaigners.
“Naturally, the human rights issue in so many of the places that we go to is a consistent and a massive problem,” the Briton told reporters, arguing that all sports should use their platforms to seek change.
“We are probably one of the only ones that goes to so many different countries and I do think as a sport we need to do more,” he said.
Hamilton, who has used his global standing and celebrity to campaign for diversity and racial equality, said he had received letters forwarded by Sayed Alwadaei, director of the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Bird).
“I've not had a lot of time to digest them, so that's something I definitely need to take some time to do over the coming days,” he added.
In one letter, Bird and 15 other organisations expressed concern about racing in Bahrain “despite continuing abuses against protesters who oppose the event”.
They accused the government of using positive publicity surrounding the race, Bahrain's biggest sporting event, to “sportswash” the situation.
Other letters from “current and former political prisoners” urged Hamilton to meet activists, wear a T-shirt with a message of support and discuss matters with the Crown Prince.
Bahrain's 2011 race was called off due to civil unrest in the island kingdom.
Formula One is also set to race in neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time next year, a move criticised by Amnesty International.
Hamilton said the sport had begun to lay down some conditions that countries have to fulfil before they can host a race.
“It's important to make sure they're implemented in the right way,” he added. “It’s not just saying that we're going to do something and actually see some action taken.”
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During the Spanish Regime there was no written history of this town. However some elders can recall that their forefathers told them that long before the Spaniards came
to Christianize the inhabitants of the Philippines, Tuba was believed to have already existed. According to stories gathered, the place was generally called “Kafagway” meaning stem or grassy clearing because of the thickness of trees and shrubs. This comment can be supplemented with the report of Quirante in his expedition to the mines of Antamok in 1624, as contained in the Spanish Archives report. The Spaniards did not stay long because they failed in their many attempts to Christianize the inhabitants.
In fact, during the revolution against Spain, Don Mateo Cariño with a party of
natives and some insurrectos attacked the “Spanish Headquarters in La Trinidad and succeeded in driving them away. These inhabitants who belong to the Ibaloi tribe were the first inhabitants of this place bravely fought the Spaniards.
Upon establishment of the erstwhile Philippine Republic under General Emilio
Aguinaldo, Don Mateo Cariño was designated as President of the Town of Baguio and made a Captain of the Igorot Forces. He also became a “Cabesilla” and Headman of the community under the Spanish Government.
It was only during the American Regime however, that Tuba started to have a
written history. In the early part of the American Regime, Tuba was then a part of the Baguio Township. In fact when the Americans started their administration, Baguio was made Capital of Benguet when the first civil government was established in 1900, when Don Mateo Cariño was offered the position to become the Township President but declined in favor of his eldest son Sioco Cariño, who then became the First President under the New Administration.
It was during the American Regime that the famous Kennon Road was
constructed to make easier for the Americans to reach Baguio, since they have to walk. Later on they constructed trails and used horses to come up. They have to improve the trails and constructed roads and bridges.
In the latter part when the American established their seat of government in
Baguio, they started building roads and the relay station at Mount Sto. Tomas inTuba.
Legal Basis of creation
With the declaration of Baguio into a chartered city, the incumbent township
President then Caburon Sungduan, the last Township President of Baguio, continued his term in Tuba as the First Township President and established a new administration under the Township of Twin Peaks.
On June 25, 1963, President Diosdado Macapagal issued Executive Order No. 42 and by operation of section 2 of Republic Act No. 1515, the Municipal District of Tuba was converted into a regular municipality.
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COMPANY NEWS Design partnership for UK High-Speed 2 Aug 2011
Capita Symonds News Release
Spanish and UK firms team up to bid for High-Speed 2 project design
UK consulting engineer Capita Symonds has formed a partnership with Spanish engineer Ineco to bid for design and consultancy contracts on the UK’s proposed High-Speed 2 (HS2) rail project.
The move follows the recent announcement by Philip Hammond, the UK Secretary of State for Transport, signalling the start of the procurement process for a development partner and for external contractors to assist in the engineering and environmental work for a £32 billion scheme comprising a high speed rail line between London, Birmingham and the north of England.
Ineco has been responsible for the development of 6,000km of high-speed rail line in Spain including the Madrid-Seville and the Madrid-Barcelona lines. The company is also developing high-speed rail lines across other parts of Europe as well as in Asia and South America.
Capita Symonds designed the Royal Oak and Woolwich and Plumstead portals on London's Crossrail scheme. The company has also worked on a number of other major transport infrastructure projects including the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system in Delhi and the Øresund Tunnel between Denmark and Sweden.
Tim Healey, Director of Civil Engineering at Capita Symonds, said: "I am delighted that we are able to build on our 30 years of experience in the rail industry and most recently our successful design delivery for London's Crossrail schemes. Our links with Ineco will further develop our offer to provide High-Speed 2 with a team that has successfully delivered the most extensive high-speed rail network in Europe at the lowest cost per route kilometre anywhere in the world."
Jose Anguita, International Director of Ineco, said: "I am very pleased to have reached this agreement with Capita Symonds. We look forward to sharing with the UK our experience of delivering high performing high-speed rail projects throughout Spain."
High-Speed 2 commitment
In 2009, the former Labour Government of the UK announced the proposal for a second high-speed rail line linking London, north to Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh. In a series of cuts to public spending in October 2010, the current Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition Government of David Cameron stayed committed to rail projects at the expense of road developments, and confirmed a spend of £750 million on high-speed rail up to 2014.
Following the announcement, three contracts were awarded to begin the planning and design process. A consortium of Mott MacDonald, Scott Wilson and Grimshaw was awarded design of the section from Birmingham to Manchester, while Arup will work on the Birmingham to Leeds leg. Arup had already been appointed for feasibility studies for the London to Birmingham line and environmental consultant Temple Group is awarded the contract for environmental assessment of the Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds legs. Early estimates envisage more than 55km of underground alignment on the routes.
High-speed rail pitch for the UK - TunnelTalk, Aug 2009
UK rail from the Channel Tunnel and beyond - TunnelTalk, Dec 2010
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Información de lugares de interés de la zona.
Pamplona is a university city. It has three universities and two campuses, and although they are located near each other - both are located on the south side of the city along the river Sadar-, they are clearly different in aesthetic terms.
In the south of the city along the river Sadar, the Universidad de Navarra (founded in 1952) retains a classical and solemn style in combination with new, more innovative buildings. The Universidad Pública de Navarra (created in 1987) is the 'younger sister', occupying less ground but designed in a clearly modernist style that reflects the architectural style of its time.
The Campus of the Universidad de Navarra, covering over 400,000 square meters in a design that recalls Anglo-Saxon universities, is the "large green lung" of the south-western side of the city.
The campus of the Universidad Pública de Navarra, the work of the eminent Navarrese architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, is an innovative concept of space covering over 240,000 square metres.
One of its most interesting features is its gardens, where there are more than 100 tree species from five continents.
Awarded the Gold Medal of Navarra in 1997, the Universidad de Navarra attracts an average of around 15,000 students each academic year for its approximately 30 degree courses, and of these about 65% are from outside Navarre.
It is located to the south of the busy neighbourhood of Iturrama and its campus runs down to the course of the river Sadar. Thanks to its size and variety of trees, it is one of the biggest green zones in the city, where about 37 permanent and migratory species of birds nest. It has more than 43,000 trees and shrubs with species such as sequoia, maple, rosaceae, lime trees, Lombard poplars, fabaceae, spruce, white cedar, ordinary cedar, willow, Pampas grass or Gingko biloba.
The complex has some thirty buildings spread over the campus, of which we would highlight the Central Building as being the oldest and most emblematic; it is home to the Vice-chancellor's Office, the Great Hall and the general services. Of a classic and sober line, its glass-paned inner courtyard and its 'noble' floor stand out. Every fifteen minutes the clock on the front of the building reproduces the chimes of "Big Ben".
In the gardens it's placed the Museum Universidad de Navarra, designed by Rafael Moneo, it houses two collections, one of contemporary art and the other of photography .
Very close to this building is another of the 'veterans': the Humanities Library. It has more than 700,000 volumes and is one of the biggest university collections in Spain.
The campus combines classical buildings with others of a more innovative nature, such as the Social Sciences Building or CIMA (Centre of Applied Medical Research). The latter was built recently and is considered to be one of the most advanced centres in Europe in research into illnesses that are difficult to cure.
The buildings of the Universidad Pública de Navarra have a modern departmental distribution in the Anglo-Saxon style instead of the traditional faculties. The structure of the campus even imitates the popular and central Paseo de Sarasate in Pamplona in terms of size. The Library, the most imposing and emblematic building, corresponds to the Palacio de Navarra (the regional government and administration building) and the Rectory (at the southern end of the campus) imitates the old Palace of Justice, now the seat of the Parliament of Navarre.
The seven departmental buildings are located on each side of the main "avenue", each one having the name of a tree species, together with the workshops and laboratories. The Aulario (Lecture Building) and the Administration and Management offices are at the northern end of the campus. All the buildings reflect an innovative and modernist style, characterised by the concrete used in its structures and the circular design of the large ground-floor windows.
The campus is also an authentic museum of open-air sculptures. It is home to around twenty works by Navarrese artists, amongst which we would highlight "Homage to Saenz de Oiza", the work of the architect's great friend Jorge Oteiza (the house-museum of Jorge Oteiza can be visited 8 kilometres from Pamplona, in Alzuza).
The gardens contain around one hundred tree species from the five continents. Leaving the Lecture Building, we first come to America (with sequoias, acacias and magnolias...), and then Africa (palm trees, firs, Atlas cedars...) and the eucalyptus of Oceania. Ahead, Asian trees (pagodas, Turkish hazelnut...) and European varieties. There is also a representation of the flora of the various climatic zones of Navarre.
The University has an open-door policy that offers the possibility of guided visits to its installations. (Contact: 948·16 60 73, oficina.promocion@unavarra.es)
The Universidad de Navarra has an Open Doors program that offers the possibility of making guided visits to its facilities. (Contact: 948?16 60 73, oficina.promocion@unavarra.es)
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Global litigation funding options hit Canadian market
By TheJudge
Publication: Advocate Daily
Independent brokers are perfectly placed to help lawyers and their clients navigate Canada’s fast-changing litigation funding landscape, says Katie Armstrong, director of international development at TheJudge Global.
The firm, founded in 2000, is the largest international litigation funding and insurance broker, and recently entered the Canadian market via its merger with Toronto-based JusticeRisk Solutions.
Armstrong tells AdvocateDaily.com that the move has opened up a whole new pool of European funding options to Canadians, in addition to the growing number of local providers.
“Litigation funding is a young, unregulated market in Canada,” she says. “We’re still in the early days, so it’s vital for clients to have someone on board who works in the area day in and day out, and who understands the wide variations in funding agreements that you see. Brokers can perform that role.”
According to Armstrong, the use of third-party funding has become increasingly mainstream in the Canadian class-action field, where providers typically offer adverse costs insurance and disbursement funding to plaintiffs in exchange for a cut of any damages ultimately awarded.
“Litigation funders usually require an opportunity to have a one-to-10 ratio of cost to damages, so the claims tend to be high-value — usually multi-million dollars,” Armstrong explains. “Due to the level of commitment, the due diligence on any deal can take some time.”
However, she says Canada will soon benefit from the recent growth in the field taking place in the U.K. and other jurisdictions that offer additional funding markets and models.
“It has taken some time for these options to be tried and tested globally, but the good news for Canada is that they can be fast-tracked here because of the experience in the U.K. and elsewhere,” Armstrong says.
Here are some of the trends she sees hitting Canadian shores in the coming years.
Portfolio funding
“This concept has only emerged in the last three years, and even in the U.K., the model is still changing,” Armstrong says.
But she says the product has gone down well with law firms, who are the target market for portfolio funding. Armstrong says that it’s attractive to firms that operate in international arbitration or other fields where contingency agreements are less common.
“The funder provides stable financing to underpin the law firm, allowing them to pursue their own objectives, whether it’s providing alternative fee arrangements or freeing up capital in order to take risks on future cases,” Armstrong says. “It can be very flexible.”
Lower-value claims
Armstrong says plaintiffs with claims of less than $1 million have few options due to the focus of existing Canadian funders on high-value claims. But she expects that to change in the near future.
“There are a number of funding models now available that have been built to hedge the gap in the market for funding lower-value cases, which is important because it was previously seen as a product for multimillion-dollar claims that wouldn’t work for anything else. But that’s not the case,” Armstrong says.
“It’s a different, cheaper model that can work for claims needing as little as $50,000 of funding. One of the models we have seen in the Canadian market, similarly offered in the U.K., is where the funders capital is secured by an insurance policy, meaning the funder is looking at a different level of commitment and risk, because if the litigation is unsuccessful, then the funder is reimbursed by the insurer, which is why the cost can be kept lower.”
Claim monetization
This type of funding has emerged for plaintiffs with a judgment in hand, but they are struggling to collect on it from defendants. Armstrong says the enforcement process can be a long and costly one.
“After years investing time and money to secure a judgment, the appetite of a plaintiff to undergo another phase of legal proceedings that might involve litigation in a variety of different jurisdictions may well have diminished,” she says.
“Enforcement funders add value beyond the cash they invest, often they will have specialist in-house teams capable of formulating strategies to enforce in multiple jurisdictions,” Armstrong says. “We’ve received a few applications, but it’s largely unknown to Canada. Even in the U.K., this is a developing market.”
She says funders use different models but will typically purchase the judgment for a nominal amount upfront, and then split the proceeds of any recovery according to an agreement signed between the parties.
Funding insurance
Armstrong says the Canadian litigation funding market stands out compared with others around the world for its limited use of litigation insurance.
“In most funding transactions, litigation funding and litigation insurance go hand in hand, but in Canada litigation insurance is a new concept and has not been utilized ,” she says. “Whether it’s insurance covering some of the capital or adverse costs, it can help to maximize the efficiency of these arrangements.”
For plaintiffs who struggle to meet the 10-to-one claim-to-cost ratio demanded by most traditional funders, Armstrong says that litigation insurance can help bridge the gap, and increase their attractiveness to litigation funders.
“Clients can ask for partial funding from the litigation funder, and then find other means to cover the rest of the cost. Maybe a law firm takes on the risk or the client pays, or they take out a bank loan. Then we can provide an insurance policy that covers the risk taken by the client or the law firm,” she says. “It’s an underestimated product that can make the difference between getting a funding deal or not.
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a ploughshare tortoise, photographed by Tim Flach
Stuffed in suitcases or strapped to passengers’ bodies, more and more rare species are finding their way on to the black market. But a radical new wave of wildlife detectives is on the case.
In February 2016, Richard Lewis, a wildlife conservationist working in Madagascar, was contacted by a veterinary clinic with an unusual request. “Someone went to a vet and said: ‘Can you take a microchip out of a ploughshare?’” Lewis recalled. “So they called us.”
The ploughshare tortoise is one of the rarest tortoises on the planet: with fewer than 50 adults thought to be left in the wild, each one is worth as much as $50,000 on the global exotic pet market. Like gold or ivory, their very rarity is part of what drives smugglers’ interest. Lewis runs the Madagascar programme of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, which operates a captive breeding site where ploughshares are reared for more than a decade before being released into the wild. Both buying and selling ploughshares, or keeping them as pets, is illegal, and the breeding site is heavily defended, with barbed wire and round-the-clock armed security. As a further measure against smuggling, the organisation implants every ploughshare it encounters with a microchip. Anyone hoping to remove the microchip is likely to be involved with tortoise trafficking.
The Durrell Trust’s staff vet met with the man a few days later. It turned out that he had five ploughshares in total. As soon as the vet told him that what he was doing was illegal, he disappeared. But the very next day, alerted by staff at Durrell, an off-duty police officer was on hand at another clinic when the man tried once again to have the microchip removed.
For Lewis, what happened next was deeply dispiriting. “The person was arrested, went to court, was found guilty, and given a fine of 15,000 ariary ($5)” said Lewis. “I remember the minister [of the environment] saying ‘This is ridiculous’,” Lewis said. “This is somebody en flagrant délit – caught in the act – and gets a couple of dollars’ fine. Something’s wrong somewhere.”
Tortoise populations in Madagascar have plummeted in recent years. Another species, the radiated tortoise, was once one of the most common animals in the spiny forests of southern Madagascar. “When you talk to people about visiting the south 20 years ago,” said Lewis, you hear them say “‘You couldn’t drive down the road without stopping to avoid squashing tortoises – they were everywhere.’”
Yet in the past five years, according to the herpetologist Ryan Walker, the number of radiated tortoises in Madagascar has dropped by more than half, from roughly 6.5m to 3m. “We worked out that about a half a million tortoises are being taken every year,” Walker said. “That gives you an idea of the scale of the problem.”
Behind this population crash lies a mixture of political and environmental factors. In 2009, a military-backed coup and protracted political crisis followed a deep drought. Another drought followed from 2013 and 2016, pushing hundreds of thousands of people to the edge of famine. As farming failed, people turned to the bushmeat trade in large numbers. In the poorest corner of one of the poorest countries on the planet, it didn’t take much for poachers to find men willing to climb on board an open truck and pick an area clean of radiated tortoises in the space of a few hours.
As poaching of radiated tortoises reached an industrial scale across southern Madagascar, smugglers in the north-west zoomed in on Baie de Baly National Park, the only place in the world to find ploughshares. “What we witnessed, starting at the end of 2015, and into 2016, was an exponential increase in tortoise poaching,” Lewis said. “It just went off the scale. We’d never seen anything like it. It was almost as if everybody was trying it on,” Lewis said. In one case, a family on their way to China gave a bag of ploughshares to a police officer to spirit through airport security for them, whereupon the bag split and the tortoises spilled out on to the floor in front of the other passengers at the gate. At the end of 2015, the Durrell Trust was forced to stop releasing captive-bred tortoises into the wild out of fear that they would be poached.
Smuggling of rare frogs is also a problem in Madagascar. Photograph: Miguel Vences/TU Brunswick Handout/EPA
The problem goes well beyond tortoises. Some four of every five animal species in Madagascar are unique to the island, and many are critically endangered – which only makes them more valuable to criminals looking to sell them abroad. At Ivato international airport, the country’s main port of entry, customs agents have discovered trunks full of chameleons packed in takeaway food containers, and little plastic souvenir boxes containing solitary frogs. (The chief customs collector at Ivato airport, Haja Rakotoarimalala, has led recent efforts to crack down on customs officers who abet trafficking. “There are lots of public servants involved,” he said. “Otherwise, it couldn’t work.”)
In a country where corruption is rife, laws protecting wildlife can be little more than theoretical. All exports of Malagasy rosewood, for instance, have been prohibited since early 2010 – but some of Madagascar’s loggers and exporters also hold seats in parliament. Enforcing the ban is a different matter.
Madagascar is consistently near the bottom of Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index, a global survey of public corruption. If you ask the locals, they will tell you it’s a place where everything has a price, from passports to university admissions to jobs in the civil service – and, of course, the favour of powerful officials. Over the course of 2016, the agency that investigates public corruption in Madagascar demanded the arrest of more than 150 people on corruption charges; as a result of political pressure, fewer than 20% were actually detained.
“The example comes from on high,” said Ndranto Razakamanarina, who chairs a coalition of environmental advocacy groups known as AVG, based in Madagascar’s capital city, Antananarivo. “If people see that they’re doing it at the top,” he said, “everybody else will follow suit.”
As the underground trade in tortoises exploded, Lewis and his colleagues at Durrell resolved to find a way to fight back. Their first target was a person who appeared to be selling ploughshare tortoises on Facebook. The day before Christmas 2015, someone with the username “Atsila Ratsila” had posted a photo of six adult ploughshares huddled together on a parquet floor. Several of the animals, Lewis observed, bore engravings on their shells that confirmed that they were, in his words, “our animals” – reared in captivity and stolen from the wild.
Lewis and his team hired a former police officer, who had spent a decade working on counter-terrorism, corruption and organised crime, to investigate. Within a few weeks, through his connections in law enforcement and by piecing together the user’s social media activity, he had identified the suspect. Andriamanalintseheno Tsilavina Ranaivoarivelo, alias Atsila Ratsila, was an unemployed 27-year-old from a small market town south of the capital, with a business degree that he had earned online. Ratsila also appeared to have extensive contacts in south-east Asia. Banking records showed that he had received money transfers from Thailand, where many of Madagascar’s smuggled tortoises end up as pets.
But Durrell is a wildlife conservation organisation with no powers of enforcement: there was only so much they could do on their own. It was around this time that Razakamanarina, the environmental campaigner with AVG, suggested joining forces with a group called Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement, or Eagle.
Eagle specialises in building cases against poachers and traffickers in places where wildlife laws otherwise go largely unenforced. The group aims to develop cases so airtight that there is no room for corruption to undermine the process. The strategy, first developed in Cameroon in 2003, involves supporting the entire chain of people needed to bring a successful prosecution – from potential informants who see something suspicious, all the way to the wardens responsible for making sure prisoners actually serve out their sentences.
A ploughshare tortoise being marked to deter smugglers. Photograph: Tim Flach
Eagle’s approach was developed by Ofir Drori, an Israeli army veteran and former freelance journalist with a keen appreciation of military discipline and the importance of media exposure. Whether the target is the ivory trade, or the trafficking of great apes or amphibians, Eagle trains up local NGOs who agree to follow the group’s operations manual, and to meet its benchmarks: one trafficking arrest a week, and a news story on wildlife crime every single day.
Rather than relying on testimony or circumstantial evidence – which could be disputed or thrown out on a pretext – Eagle’s standard is to conduct video-recorded stings that produce incontrovertible evidence of wrongdoing. Cameroon passed its most important wildlife law in 1994. Ten years later, a top forestry official observed, the baseline was still “almost no prosecutions” of wildlife crime. Eagle’s approach resulted in the successful convictions of 500 wildlife traffickers between 2006 and 2013. Funding from the US Fish and Wildlife Service gradually allowed Eagle to expand into eight more countries in Africa. In Madagascar, Eagle’s partnership with AVG was given the name Project Alarm.
Ratsila’s Facebook page – with photos taken in a Bangkok airport and friends whose avatars were tortoises, chameleons and snakes – hinted that he might be part of a wider wildlife smuggling network.
Razakamanarina first met a representative from Eagle in February 2016, and asked for their help in tracking the people connected to the Facebook account. The task of setting up a deal with Ratsila in person was given to a Dutch volunteer based in Madagascar, who had connected with Eagle while backpacking through Africa. The volunteer (who agreed to speak to me on condition of anonymity) told me that, as a rule, foreigners have an easier time putting on a convincing act as would-be buyers: smugglers have less cultural context to judge their behaviour undercover, and they fit the profile of someone with the resources to engage in international smuggling.
Ratsila proved an easy mark. He was unguarded: back in early 2016, being caught and punished for smuggling tortoises was unheard of. The most noteworthy prison sentences related to Madagascar’s flora and fauna in recent years had gone not to rosewood traffickers, who had exported hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of illegally harvested timber, but to the environmental activists who had denounced them. Just a few months earlier, Razakamanarina had been summoned to police headquarters in Antananarivo and accused of defamation for giving a press conference in which he suggested that politicians were involved in rosewood trafficking. (Charges against him were never filed.)
In September 2016, the undercover buyer arranged to meet Ratsila at a swanky bistro in a renovated colonial train terminal in Antananarivo. He and a silent companion joined the buyer at a table outside, far from other diners. Ratsila, who was slight, with a paunch and a pockmarked face, seemed uncomfortable at first, sitting down without ordering anything to drink. He spoke limited English and avoided eye contact, but he agreed to meet again the following week to show his merchandise.
A few days later, the buyer went to an address near Ivato airport. Ratsila opened the door to a villa that was empty except for seven large suitcases, each overflowing with radiated tortoises. The buyer took photos to send to his supposed boss. They agreed on a price of $250 a head for 200 tortoises – a total of $50,000 – and set a rendezvous location for the next morning.
Vague arrangements for the sting had been worked out ahead of time, but, following Eagle’s protocol, the specifics were withheld from law enforcement until the last possible moment. That way, they could minimise the risk that sensitive information would leak to anyone who might sabotage the group’s efforts. The police only learned of the timing and location of the operation at 8am on the appointed day, over a cup of coffee at a nearby hotel.
A trio of representatives from AVG and Eagle showed the police officers how the raid was going to unfold and what their roles would be, using a hand-drawn floorplan for the hotel where the arrest would take place. The vagaries of public funding being what they are in Madagascar, it was up to AVG to make sure the officers had petrol in their vehicles, and enough phone credit to communicate with one another leading up to the sting.
At 8am, the man posing as a buyer left AVG’s offices. He had an hour to get to his meeting with Ratsila, but traffic was at a standstill. Antananarivo is a warren of steep hills and narrow streets that are constantly clogged with tiny pale yellow Renault taxis and, as you move further from the centre, the occasional herd of oxen. That morning it quickly became clear that crawling along in a taxi would mean missing the appointment. The buyer would have to go on foot.
A pair of AVG’s investigators trailed Ratsila’s car to the rendezvous point, updating the rest of the team on his progress via WhatsApp. At the Hotel Radama, where the buyer claimed to be staying, Ratsila unloaded three large suitcases and followed the buyer to a room on the second floor. A few minutes later, five plainclothes officers burst through the door with guns drawn, while a lawyer working with AVG followed behind, filming the raid on a mobile phone. In the footage, you can make out muffled cries of “What the fuck!” from the fake buyer, as three officers struggle to pin him behind the door. Ratsila submitted far more quietly, face down on the bed with a knee on his back.
A suitcase full of smuggled tortoises seized in a raid in Madagascar. Photograph: Courtesy of Alliance Voahary Gasy (AVG)
Ratsila’s suitcases, full of radiated tortoises, were unzipped on the floor. A few tortoises, piled high on top of one another, poked their heads out of their shells to look around, or waved their limbs, trying for a foothold. The whole thing was over within minutes. Ratsila was taken into custody, and AVG had video footage of 198 radiated tortoises (two short of the agreed amount) crammed into suitcases.
The tortoises were quickly delivered to the Turtle Survival Alliance, a group that maintains a safehouse of sorts in the capital, where captured animals are checked by vets and quarantined before being flown to the southern end of the island to be released into the wild.
Ratsila and the undercover buyer were taken in handcuffs to the nearest police station. On the way, Ratsila offered the police officers $6,000 in exchange for his freedom. “Not to worry,” Ratsila told the undercover buyer. “I have friends at the presidency.” If the buyer could put up the cash, he said, he could call someone at the presidential palace – just a block away, as it happened – to help secure their release.
For Lewis, the arrest was bittersweet. It looked as though the six ploughshares from the Facebook photo that sparked the investigation had long since been sold overseas. Still, they had their man.
A week after Ratsila’s arrest, halfway across the country, a forestry official riding in a crowded jitney near the port city of Vohémar noticed an odd smell that seemed to be coming from a fellow passenger’s baggage and got in touch with the police. When the vehicle was stopped on arrival in the city, officers discovered a bag of 56 grilled lemurs destined to become secret off-menu delicacies at exclusive hotels along the coast.
The lemurs were believed to come from Loky Manambato, a protected area farther north, famous as home to the world’s last remaining population golden-crowned sifakas, an extremely rare species of lemur. Malagasy law prohibits all lemur trapping and hunting, and even keeping them as pets. The law calls for a penalty of up to five years in prison, but another lemur poaching case two months earlier had ended with a fine. In this case, prosecutors requested a sentence of eight months. More than a year later, the suspect is languishing in jail, but the case hasn’t been decided. If the usual problem is a verdict that yields no punishment, punishment without a verdict is hardly a solution.
Tombotsoa Raharijaona, a lawyer for AVG, explained why judges often use their discretion to let smugglers off easy. “When you read the law, people don’t understand why you should punish someone just for a little tortoise,” he said. The courts seldom seem to see wildlife crime for what it is – a robbery from Madagascar, a crime against future generations. “It’s a matter of fostering a different culture in the justice system,” he said hopefully.
Soft-spoken and earnest, Raharijaona works out of a small home office a few blocks from Madagascar’s supreme court. Before working on environmental issues, he spent five years as a legal advisor to an organisation that combats child slavery and human trafficking. “There’s no equity,” he said. “You see, there are cases here in Madagascar where a man steals a chicken and gets sentenced to four months.” In other cases, meanwhile, people who are caught red-handed with endangered species are released on bail and disappear. Once they have vanished, the cases against them wither away. “How can it be that we give them temporary freedom when their guilt was never in doubt?” asked Raharijaona.
The case against Ratsila was as solid as a prosecutor could hope for. After his arrest, which had been filmed, Ratsila had given a signed confession to officers specially trained in wildlife crime, working with the environment ministry. Photographs on his mobile phone appeared to show how Ratsila had hidden small tortoises inside big boxes of cookies before sending them to Asia via DHL. Within the previous year he had made trips to Hong Kong, China and Thailand. There were even Facebook messages in which he explained to a customer that he sometimes hid the tortoises inside pairs of socks in his luggage. Finally, there was the trail of money: nearly $5,000 in advance payments via Western Union, all coming from Thailand, and all within a few weeks.
A ploughshare tortoise. Photograph: DEA/ C. Dani/ I. Jeske/De Agostini/Getty Images
As we left Raharijaona’s apartment and walked downstairs, I glanced towards a small patio outside his neighbour’s front door. There on the ground were the unmistakable, sunburst-like shells of two radiated tortoises being kept as pets, nibbling on shards of wilted lettuce. Raharijaona made a grimace and shrugged. “You see,” he said, “that’s not allowed either.”
The trial of Ratsila and five accomplices was held in November 2016, and the verdict came just six weeks after the sting. Five men were each sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, along with fines totalling $60,000. The sixth, the caretaker of the villa where Ratsila had shown off his wares, was sentenced to 10 months.
But it was not long before the backsliding began. A few days before Christmas, barely a month into Ratsila’s 30-month sentence, an appeals court granted him bail. It proved impossible to get an answer from the justice ministry as to why, but to the lawyers at AVG it seemed likely Ratsila had finally secured an intervention from well-placed friends, just as he had promised the undercover buyer after their arrest. AVG held a press conference to try and stir up some unfavourable headlines. Razakamanarina called the justice minister himself, to no avail. The team had no choice but to move on to their next case.
There is perhaps no better sign of the difficulties facing wildlife protection in Madagascar than the fact that even a successful project can quickly fall apart. Although AVG’s partnership with Eagle was highly effective – putting more than a dozen convicted tortoise traffickers in prison, sometimes over the objections of high-ranking politicians who intervened on their behalf – it lasted only nine months.
From the start, there had been tension between law enforcement on the one hand, and AVG and Eagle on the other. During one sting, a police officer with the environment ministry refused to allow AVG and Eagle staff to attend a search of a suspect’s house after the arrest. AVG investigators deferred to the policeman’s role as an agent of the government. But Eagle’s representative insisted that they be allowed to follow along on the search, and they were. Afterwards, the police officer complained to a prosecutor, who summoned AVG lawyers to her office to tell them “what we can and cannot do”.
But the conflict that ultimately led to the end of Project Alarm was between AVG and Eagle. Over time, staff at AVG began to chafe at Eagle’s requirement that one of its representatives be present at every stage of an investigation. “Eagle accused me of lying, said I encouraged the team not to follow Eagle’s guidance,” said Joély Razakarivony, AVG’s coordinator for the programme at the time, who soon left in frustration. “To work with someone who doesn’t trust you? It doesn’t make sense.”
Luc Mathot, an activist with Eagle who helped set up the program, told me via email: “We were not satisfied by [AVG’s] respect of our methodology.” Mathot took issue with AVG’s accounting, alleging that money from Project Alarm had been diverted to pay other salary costs. Razakamanarina admitted making changes without Eagle’s approval, but insisted it was justified, and offered to repay the difference. Still, the damage had been done. Eagle suspended the project in May.
It didn’t take long for the positive results of AVG and Eagle’s collaboration to unravel. Two months later, Annie Rajeriarison, a lawyer who had worked for Project Alarm, took me to Antanimora prison, a hilltop penitentiary where conditions are so bad that prisoners suffer from malnutrition and even periodic outbreaks of bubonic plague. Rajeriarison had got to know the place well on recent visits, occasionally gleaning useful tidbits for ongoing investigations when she brought inmates blankets and medicine. But when I visited on 2 August, only two of the 20-odd smugglers caught under Project Alarm were still there. Even the pair that remained – young men who had been found with tortoises taped to their bodies as they boarded a plane to China – were protesting their innocence. Their lawyer, they assured me, had told them they would be out soon.
Western donors have spent almost $1bn on conservation projects in Madagascar since 1990. Project Alarm was a relative bargain: less than $100,000 all told, to compile a string of convictions unmatched in the history of fighting poaching in Madagascar. Over the autumn, AVG aimed to show to potential donors that they were capable of replicating Project Alarm’s successes without support from a foreign NGO like Eagle. In October, the group broke up a trafficking ring in Mahajanga, a city near the national park where ploughshares make their home.
Now, Mamy Rastefano, the investigator coordinating AVG’s ongoing detective work, has his sights set on bigger quarry: a “kingpin”, he said, rather than footsoldiers. Through Project Alarm, AVG had gleaned evidence that seemed to tie the traffickers to far more powerful people: generals, judges, and leaders of Madagascar’s national assembly. “For the time being, we haven’t been able to unmask the people who call the shots,” Rastefano said. “If we can manage to catch just one high-ranking trafficker – like a minister or a deputy [in parliament] – I can tell you, it will make the others think twice.”
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General Motors said it has restarted production of the electrically powered Chevy Volt after an extended Christmas break.
Technology // 8 years ago
Electric car owner in dispute with condo
A Canadian man in a dispute with his condominium board over charging his electric car says he offered to pay any added electricity charges.
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle manufactured by the Chevrolet division of General Motors. The Volt has been on sale in the U.S. market since mid-December 2010, and displaced the Toyota Prius as the most fuel-efficient car sold in the United States.
According to General Motors the Volt can travel 25 to 50 miles (40 to 80 km) solely on electrical power supplied by a 16 kW·h (10.4 kW·h usable) lithium-ion battery; The EPA found in tests using varying driving conditions and climate controls, the all-electric range averaged 35 miles (56 km), with an energy consumption of 36 kWh per 100 miles (810 kJ/km), and the total range (using battery power first then electricity generated by the on-board gasoline-power generator) is 379 miles (610 km). EPA rated the Volt's combined city/highway fuel economy at 93 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent in all-electric mode, and at 37 mpg-US (6.4 L/100 km; 44 mpg-imp) in gasoline-only mode, for an overall fuel economy rating of 60 mpg-US (3.9 L/100 km; 72 mpg-imp) combined.
The Volt's lithium-ion battery pack can be charged by plugging the car into a 120-240VAC residential electrical outlet. No external charging station is required. After the Volt battery is depleted, it switches to extended range mode, when a small 4-cylinder internal combustion engine burns premium gasoline to power a 55 kW (74 hp) generator supplying the electrical power to extend the Volt's range. In addition, while in extended range mode and travelling at highway speeds, the engine can engage mechanically via a clutch to combine with the electric motors for propulsion. The electrical power from the generator is sent primarily to the electric motor, with the excess going to the batteries, depending on the state of charge (SoC) of the battery pack and the power demanded at the wheels.
FULL ARTICLE AT WIKIPEDIA.ORG
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chevy Volt."
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Erectile dysfunction medication, antidepressant recalled after being packaged together in 'product mix-up'
Joshua Bote
A pharmaceutical company has recalled hundreds of bottles of medication following an inadvertent “product mix-up” of an erectile dysfunction drug and an antidepressant.
AvKARE, a healthcare firm based out of Pulaski, Tennessee, on Tuesday announced a recall of its generic sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, and trazodone, an antidepressant and sleep aid.
Though the recall itself is relatively small — a single lot of each medication, affecting only 100 bottles of sildenafil and 1,000 bottles of trazodone — patients who wrongly take either medication could face severe health risks.
In particular, sildenafil may contraindicate with nitrates found in some medications intended to treat high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, posing the risk of extremely low blood pressure. Trazodone may cause sedation, constipation, blurry vision and dizziness.
Per an announcement shared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the two products were “inadvertently packaged together” during the bottling process at a third-party facility. They were then distributed nationwide.
Customers with sildenafil in the lot numbered 36884 and an expiration date of March 2022 or trazodone in the lot numbered 36783 and an expiration date of June 2022 should call or e-mail AvKARE to return the recalled product.
Follow USA TODAY reporter Joshua Bote on Twitter: @joshua_bote.
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Deliveroo dishes up junk food deals to the obese
Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Ellie McDonald
Sunday May 12 2019, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
Deliveroo’s suggestions result from an algorithm that takes local factors into account
The food delivery giant Deliveroo is promoting party buckets of fried chicken to some of the fattest postcodes in the country, while sushi and edamame beans are suggested for healthier areas.
On Friday, KFC was the first featured restaurant in the choice of home-delivered food in Doncaster, where more than seven out of 10 people are overweight or obese. The first menu item was a £31.99 “party bucket” with 14 pieces of “original” fried chicken pieces, eight fillets, eight wings and a popcorn chicken.
KFC also came first in Rotherham, which has been working to improve residents’ fitness after being identified as one of the UK’s obesity hotspots, and Durham where 67% of people are overweight or obese.
In contrast, in the affluent Clifton area
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Website provides travelers simple access to international visa requirements
Thanks to a couple of tense moments during a few international trips - when airline personnel asked for visas I knew I didn’t need - I have become much more conscious about how misunderstood visa requirements can be. Now, a new online tool makes it a snap (or a click or a tap) to track down whether a visa is required for your upcoming sojourn.
The tool is called Passport Index and is about as user-friendly as possible. Visitors to the site at www.passportindex.org are greeted by a page with pictures of all the world’s passports. Web surfers can put in the name of a country to see that jurisdiction’s passport up close.
Screen shot of landing page
But the site’s greatest value is showing which countries will require a visitor to have a visa in advance, which issue them upon arrival, and which do not require visas. To find that information, visitors click the button in the upper right corner that says “Compare.” On the page that pops up, visitors will input the name of the country that issued their passport. Based on that information, a graphic will be generated that will show the visa requirements for every potential destination country.
Travelers who have an itinerary that includes several different countries can tick a box next to the name of those countries and then select "filter" to generate a list of requirements for the countries they plan to visit.
The site is particularly helpful when two or more people traveling together are from different countries. The site allows visitors to enter several countries of origin, then generates color-coded results for each country that are displayed side by side.
Another option allows visitors to see only those countries where the visa requirements are different for the various travelers in their party. Americans, for example can travel to the Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea visa-free while Canadian citizens are required to have visas. By contrast, Americans traveling to Venezuela are required to have visas while Canadians are not.
PassportIndex's comparison of visa requirements
The site also contains some interesting tidbits of information, including ranking the world’s passports by their total visa-free scores.
The world’s most powerful passports
The United Arab Emirates has the world's most powerful passport, according to the Global Passport Power Ranking. UAE passport holders can visit 167 countries without needing a visa, giving Emirati citizens access to over 84 percent of the world.
Germany is No. 2, with visa-free access to 166 countries. Twelve countries have visa-free access to 165 countries, nine countries have visa-free access to 164 countries, two countries have such access to 163 and 162 countries, seven countries have access to 161 and one to 160.
When TheTravelPro first began using this website in 2016, Germany and Sweden had the most powerful passports, but offered visa-free access to only 158 countries. Now, 35 countries offer visa-free access to 160 or more countries, so the world is indeed opening up with regard to travel.
Finally, the site also contains some fun features by clicking the “Discover” tab, including a link to an article about the world’s seven “coolest passports.” While such lists are, by nature, subjective and depend in huge measure on what the writer thinks constitutes “cool,” I have to agree that the Finnish passport has a feature that is just plain fun, with a flip-book depiction of a moose walking.
Be sure to visit PassportIndex.org before your next international trip for some useful information presented in a very user-friendly format.
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Comedians Join Forces to Parody Gal Gadot’s Star-Studded ‘Imagine’ Video: ‘Imagine There’s No Keto…’
Gadot’s version of “Imagine” will be pilloried for a while…
Lindsey Ellefson | March 21, 2020 @ 4:00 PM
Josh Wolf and a host of other comedians used their coronavirus quarantining downtime to create a parody video of Gal Gadot’s instantly-viral “Imagine” video.
The clip — featuring Jeffrey Ross, Sarah Colonna, Jon Ryan, Joey Fatone, Sinbad and Brittany Furlan, among others — starts out, “Imagine there’s no keto / you have to eat mostly carbs / I bought up all of the Purell / just to wash my car.”
The rest of the lyrics make references to other hobbies and escapes enjoyed primarily by the wealthy, like dodging urban quarantines by heading to vacation homes or “only” having three cars. When Gadot posted her star-studded version of John Lennon’s “Imagine” Wednesday, one of the immediate criticisms was that it was tone-deaf for featuring rich celebrities who are quarantining in their large homes, recording themselves singing instead of making donations to relief efforts.
Also Read: Let Gal Gadot, Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig and More Sing 'Imagine' to Help You Forget Coronavirus (Video)
“Hey guys, day 6 in self-quarantine, and I gotta say the past few days got me feeling a bit philosophical,” Gadot said when she posted the video earlier in the week. “You know this virus has affected the entire world, everyone. Doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, we’re all in this together.”
Avery Pearson, one of the comedians in Saturday’s parody, mirrored that language when he posted the latest video: “We are all in this together,” he quipped.
IMAGINE PARODY- we’re all in this together. @realjeffreyross @chelcielynnn @KingBach @MaryLynnRajskub @AveryFunny @sarahcolonna @JonRyan9 @ryansickler @JoshAdamMeyers @jeremiahstandup @realjoeyfatone @JadeCattaPreta @JessimaePeluso @sinbadbad @BrittanyFurlan @adamraycomedy pic.twitter.com/KZROo7b8ay
— Josh Wolf (@joshwolfcomedy) March 21, 2020
20 Movies With Extremely Happy Endings to Make You Forget All About the Pandemic (Photos)
Hey, uh, are you all OK? Because we know it's not a relaxing time, what with the ever-worsening coronavirus pandemic and everything being locked down. But if we're gonna make it through... however long of isolating at home with our sanity intact, we need to stay positive. And we have just the thing for that! Just watch one of these movies with extremely happy endings, every single one guaranteed to leave you feeling so upbeat and genuinely awesome that you'll forget all about covid-19. Coronavirus, schmoronavirus, we say!
"Babe" (1995): Ugly cry-smiling when James Cromwell says "that'll do, pig" doesn't boost antibodies, but if does make you feel damn good.
"Back to the Future" (1985): Marty fixes his life and his parents' lives with time travel. Then we get a SUPER DOPE sequel hook. And then comes Huey Lewis and the News at their artistic and commercial peak to make you feel so good you won't care about a statewide lockdown.
"Bridesmaids" (2012): New friendships made, old friendships saved, a romantic comedy romance for our heroine, then the cast lip syncs to "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips and it rules so much you don't mind sheltering at home for a month.
"Bring It On" (2000): The Compton Clovers win the tournament, Isis (Gabrielle Union) and Torrence (Kirsten Dunst) become friends, The Toros' second-place finish still feels like a win because they did it without cheating, and then the cast mimes a cover of "Hey Mickey" that's so much fun who cares if society is crumbling.
"Chef" (2014): This is a great movie if you want to remember the Before Times, when we could still leave our houses and eat street food. You also get a dance party in the closing credits. Take that, end times anxiety.
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" (2009): Tim FINALLY shows real affection for his son and then Flint and Sam kiss. No, I'm not coughing I'm crying.
"Dora and the Lost City of Gold" (2019): Nothing makes the pandemic blues fade like a great movie that also does an affectionate parody of "Dora the Explorer" tropes, then ends with an amazing musical number that basically recaps everything we learned.
"Fast Five" (a.k.a. "Fast & Furious 5") (2011): "Come on, baby. Don't be mean." Cue millions of dollars and a montage of our heroes living THAT life set to Don Omar's "Danza Kuduro." THEN Dom and Brian do a street race set to Omar's "How We Roll." Hell yeah, we roll like this!
"Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey" (1993): Wait, the two dogs and their kitty friend make it home alive and Chance learns to love his family? Shut up! I'm not crying; you're crying. I SAID SHUT UP! I AM NOT CRYING!
"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!" (2018): It's already one of the greatest movie musicals of all time before the ending turns into a totally insane sing along to Abba's "Super Trouper" featuring the older characters dancing with their younger selves, the ghost of Meryl Streep, and CHER!!!!
"Pitch Perfect" series (2012-2017): All three of these perfect movies are perfect but the third in the series ends with a staggering performance of George Michael's "Freedom '90," and then the romantic loose ends are tied up in the credits. Pandemic depression cured!
"Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" (2016): The criminally underappreciated masterpiece from The Lonely Island is nonstop hilarious, and then Michael Bolton shows up at the end to sing "Incredible Thoughts." Also, the picture here is the world's cutest kitten just hugging a dog, which you'd know if your brain was a genius.
"The Princess Bride" (1987): That really was the best kiss of all time.
"Ratatouille" (2007): You know this movie is great and you know the end is great. Seems like now would be a great time to watch it again, doesn't it?
"School of Rock" (2003): "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock n' Roll)" by AC/DC is indisputably the best rock song ever recorded. And Jack Black and the kids play it at the end of this great movie.
"Shazam!" (2019): By far the best movie not called "Superman: The Movie" to be based on a DC Comic. If you didn't yell "Hell Yes" and embarrass yourself in the theater when the thing depicted in the image above happened, you need a hug.
"Sing Street" (2016): Awesome songs, a great coming-of-age story, then we end with a truly cathartic bittersweet moment of hope for the future and the successful pursuit of one's dreams. For instance, I dream of being able to leave the house again.
"To All the Boys I've Loved Before" (2018): This is a pretty good kiss, too.
"Trolls" (2016): When Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick sing "Can't Stop the Feeling" to turn the Bergens into happy dancing party people your mood will be dramatically improved, and I know because in November 2016 I saw this three times in the theater because, for some reason, I needed cheering up.
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (1971): "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." "What's that?" "He lived happily ever after." Just like we will once this whole thing is over.
Self-quarantine more like self-quarantastic
Disney+ to Reduce European Bandwidth 25% Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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Did Ben Carson Fall Asleep During Trump’s Coronavirus Briefing? Twitter Users Sure Thought So
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Longtime NBC News Employee Dies After Testing Positive for Coronavirus
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Art and Culture,
Historic Yucatan,
New book offers chance to “take a ride” with conquistadors
By Yucatan Times on January 28, 2016
If all you know about the conquistadors is what you learned in school, or if you’re the type who finds an excursion into their times irresistible, then a new book entitled Conquistador Voices (Spruce Tree Press, Oct. 2015) may be for you.
In this two-volume set written for the general reader, author Kevin H. Siepel takes you on the expeditions of five European explorers or conquistadors, using—to a greater extent than usual in historical works—the writings of the expedition participants themselves, allowing them to tell their own version of events, and supplying connecting narrative in the manner of a film documentary. The book therefore reads not as a dry, standard history book, but rather as a series of cohesive, lively stories told by the men who were there.
The book recounts expeditions of Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Pánfilo de Narváez, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Hernando de Soto. The book, which claims to be a “one-stop Conquest summary for the general reader,” is notable not only for its nonstandard approach, but for the breadth of its coverage.
Author Kevin H. Siepel.
The author, a Spanish teacher who translated many of the original accounts himself, has resisted moralizing on these events, stating in his introduction that “value judgments have been left to the reader.”
Foreword Reviews has said of Conquistador Voices, “A nuanced view . . . . Clear and engaging with minimal biased commentary. Perfect for anyone looking for a more in-depth look at the Spanish conquistadors, and interested in them as three-dimensional and not just distant figures. . . . An interesting and wide-ranging look at a critical period in history.” Publishers Weekly has commented, “Clearly a labor of love.”
Conquistador Voices is available in paperback or e-book format through Amazon and many other online sources. It may also be ordered through any bookstore worldwide.
Siepel is also the author of Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby (University of Nebraska Press), the first complete biography of the Confederacy’s celebrated guerrilla commander.
The author may be contacted through the Spruce Tree Press website, www.spruce-tree-press.com, or directly at sprucetreepress@yahoo.com.
Content provided by Spruce Tree Press.
Doctor in charge of Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Mexico resigns
El Universal (January 18, 2021).- Dr. Miriam.
One of the Twin Houses of Paseo Montejo opens to the public as a museum
The place preserves 1911 intact the.
Trump’s return to the business world looks ‘very dark’.
New York City’s recent decision to.
Strange Bedfellows: Climate Disaster and the Financial Sector
Following decades of activism, shifts in.
COVID-19 the most lethal assassin in Mexico.
Covid killed 10,000 Mexicans in 10.
State capitols and D.C. brace for potentially violent protests.
UNITED STATES (The Washington Post/AP) –.
New discoveries on the Amazonas Electric Eel behavior
In August 2012, Douglas Bastos, then.
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Peninsula,
Q, Roo
Playa del Carmen restricts the movement of people and vehicles
By Yucatan Times on May 7, 2020
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Quintana Roo.- Laura Beristaín Navarrete, municipal president of Solidaridad, announced that as of Thursday the restrictions on social mobility will be increased, to avoid the increase in SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections, causing Covid-19 disease.
From 7:00 p.m. on this day and until 5:00 a.m. on the following day, all persons must remain at home.
The mayor explained that these actions will reinforce measures to restrict social mobility in order to reduce the number of infections by Covid-19 and save lives, since the municipality is the second with the most positive cases in the state of Quintana Roo, according to data from the state Secretariat of Health.
Through the account of the social network Facebook of the Secretariat of Public Security of Solidarity, it is indicated that the measures were agreed by the three levels of government through the Security Table to discourage social mobility and prevent infections, clarifying that it is not a matter of of a curfew.
It is not curfew
In the publication, the agency added, “Quintana Roo and Solidaridad are going through the most difficult weeks of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, it is time to redouble the collective effort to curb the contagion curve and save lives.”
coronaviruscovid 19playa del carmenQuintana Roo
Covid rebound in Mérida and the rest of Yucatan
This Sunday, January 17, there was.
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Saudi tycoon buys into HSBC
By Karl West
Updated: 03:56 EST, 17 April 2007
Billionaire Saudi investor Maan Al-Sanea has splashed out around £3.3bn to buy a 3.1% stake in HSBC, Europe's biggest bank.
The self-made tycoon, who was recently ranked number 97 by Forbes magazine in its list of world billionaires, views the stake in the 'world's local bank' as a long-term investment.
Al-Sanea began accumulating HSBC shares in mid-February through Cayman Islands-based investment company Singularis Holdings after the bank was hit by problems in its US mortgage business unit.
Regulatory filings show Al-Sanea owns 360m HSBC shares, or 3.1%. A spokesman for Singularis declined to reveal whether Al-Sanea would continue buying shares, but said he wanted to expand the firm's interests in financial services.
The Saudi businessman also has long-term holdings in other financial giants, including Citigroup, Bank of China, 3i's infrastructure fund, and Saudi Investment Bank.
He also owns a 29% stake in Saudi tycoon puts billions into the world's local bank CV of a desert raider the British builder Berkeley Homes.
Al-Senea's team at Singularis reckon HSBC's shares are trading at a discount to the banking sector because of its US troubles, and saw this as an opportunity to buy. 'They believe in the market fundamentals and they believe HSBC has a strong management team,' a spokesman added.
HSBC, up 8½p at 927½p, has been hit hard by the downturn in the US housing market. Last month it took a £5.5bn provision to cover bad debt charges, with £1.1bn coming from its American mortgage services arm, which sells to people with patchy credit histories.
Al-Sanea made his fortune securing construction deals for residential and industrial facilities in the Al-Khobar region of Saudi's Eastern province.
The 52-year- old Saudi tycoon set up his main business - Saad Investments, also based in the Cayman Islands tax haven - in the mid-1980s. Since then he has turned it into one of the biggest groups in the oil-rich kingdom, with control over 37 companies.
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The Lone Bellow In Lineup for Eaux Claires Festival
The lineup for the inaugural Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival was announced today, and it is impressive, especially since it includes The Lone Bellow! The festival takes place July 17 and 18, and is hosted by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Bon Iver will be headlining along with The National and Sufjan Stevens.
Tickets are on sale tomorrow! Check out the whole lineup below.
Tonight! The Lone Bellow at Union Square Barnes &Noble
I lived in NY for a while in the late 90s, and the Union Square Barnes & Noble was a regular hang out for me, usually after hitting the nearby Strand. I even applied for a job there, having worked at B&N in Houston, but was offered a job elsewhere before I could interview. So that store holds a special place in my heart.
I'm feeling especially nostalgic about that location today, since The Lone Bellow will be performing and signing CDs there tonight at 7pm. If you go, please share your favorite moments from the show with us, either here or on our Facebook page!
Heaven Don't Call Me Home: An Interview with The Lone Bellow in PopMatters
"For example, “Fake Roses” takes the form of a letter from Williams’s mother-in-law to her sister. Williams explains, “They have pretty similar lives. And the letter basically says, ‘Your heart is breaking, I hear what it’s saying. You don’t have to tell me anything.’ And I was like, ‘Well where can we go with that?’ "
This interview with The Lone Bellow, by Annie Galvin, was published today on PopMatters. It delves more into the creation of Then Came The Morning, including working with Aaron Dessner, recording at Dreamland, and the inspiration for some of the songs. It includes some details we haven't heard before, such as the impetus for "Fake Roses:"
One night at South by Southwest, the Lone Bellow played to a packed backyard crowd at the Newport Folk Festival showcase, a crowd that obliviously sipped cans of Lone Star in Blackheart’s beer garden while the relatively unknown Lone Bellow set up and tuned. When the band’s first three-part harmony soared over its sturdy wall of acoustic sound, heads instantly rotated toward the rundown lean-to that had been converted into a stage.
The band captivated the crowd for the duration of its set, even cultivating a group sing-along to the anthem “Carried Away”. The experience of being in that crowd felt akin to attending an evangelist revival meeting: everyone was a convert by the end.
Galvin also writes about the time the band performed at South by Southwest in 2013.
We can certainly relate the that experience.
Message to Fans from The Lone Bellow
The past 12 months have been a beautiful collision of writing, touring, and collaborating. We've had the great honor of making our new record with producer Aaron Dessner, engineer Jon Low, and mixer Peter Katis.
After several months of work, we finally released our new record titled "Then Came The Morning" just a couple days ago. The response has been absolutely overwhelming. Thank you for all of your encouragement and help with spreading the word! We don't want this time of celebration to slip by without acknowledging everything that has gone into the present. You all have been an incredible support for us. Because of listeners like you, we truly felt the freedom to make the album we wanted to make: an album that might be hard to put into a genre, an album whose songs and sonics came from pure imagination and freedom. You are a major part of that being able to happen.
"Then Came The Morning" is available on iTunes and Amazon, as well as at Target, Barnes and Noble, and local record shops all over. The MP3 version is nice, but we would like to encourage you to get the physical copy.
We collaborated with our good friend and photographer Mackenzie Rollins to help us capture the vibe of the physical copy.
Mackenzie flew down to the Deep South with one thing in mind--to help capture the visual aesthetic of what we've been referring to as "Southern Gothic" in our record. This term floated around quite a bit during the recording process. Many of the songs from the album come from stories of our own family members and heroes from our roots. Mackenzie went to the homes of the actual people that some of the songs were written about. She has a specific way of documenting moments and a strong discipline of listening. She rented a car and drove all around the physical places where the distant memories of our roots still live: Lafayette and White, Georgia; Dixie Speedway, Old Car USA, and Louise's Diner in Marietta. She would spend hours just sitting and waiting for a conversation to come to her. For instance, the front cover of our album is the product of spending several mornings in a row at Louise's Diner. The beautiful soul in the picture is a woman she met who spends each morning eating breakfast there.
We intentionally sought Mackenzie out because we wanted to pay our respects to the quiet, beautiful, soul-stirring, mundane stories of our roots. Those pictures only live inside the physical copies of our album.
Thank you for telling your friends and family about our new record. We are honored that you listen to our music and can't wait to see how you make these songs your own.
Zach, Kanene, and Brian
The Lone Bellow
One of the things we especially appreciate about The Lone Bellow has been how incredibly gracious they are with their fans. It comes out in their interactions with the audiences during their shows, they've spoken favorably of their fans in interviews, and we can't think of any show we've attended that they haven't given so much of their time meeting fans after. So it was much appreciated, though not surprising, to find a note from the band, sent out to their mailing list, thanking fans for their support. They also talk about the album's photographer, Mackenzie Rollins, and her process.
Here is the full note, in case you haven't seen it:
At the end, they share a link to the gallery from their photo shoot during the album's recording session at Dreamland. Be sure to check it out because the photos are stunning.
What a busy week!
With the new album officially out (even though the blizzard stopped a certain someone from receiving her copy on time), The Lone Bellow has been super busy. We feel ridiculously proud of these guys, even though we've had nothing to do with their success. There's just something that makes us feel so happy to know of this band, and we just want to share the joy. We are going to try our best to keep up with all of the interviews, appearances, and anything else that comes up in the next few weeks. As for now, here's a little bit of a roundup.
Over the weekend, we were pleasantly surprised to hear their interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. We are huge NPR nerds, so much so that it's a wonder we ever find time to listen to music! If you did not hear the interview, check it out here.
There's also this little promo, appealing to the Target shopper in all of us:
And, let's not forget that the band recently disembarked from their Cayamo cruise, which we wrote about here. Our friend and fellow The Lone Bellow fan, Holly, was kind enough to give us permission to share some of her photos from the fabulous trip. (We hope to have more to share from Cayamo, so stay tuned!)
The Lone Bellow is on The Late Show with David Letterman!
Don't forget to catch The Lone Bellow on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight at 11:35pm ET! Let us know what you think!
NPR Music First Listen - Then Came The Morning!
We can listen to Then Came the Morning in its entirety, a week before it's release, thanks to NPR Music's First Listen!
Stephen Thompson writes, "The Lone Bellow's songs lean toward the gigantic — at heart, Williams is a belter of the vein-bulging variety — but they're also impeccably played and nicely balanced by softer, subtler touches. Kanene Doheney Pipkin's contributions are crucial, whether she's bringing lilting touches to the sound on mandolin or singing lead in the sweetly languid 'Call To War.'"
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Catfish Species
Corydoras caudimaculatus
Discussion Starter • #1 • Jun 1, 2013 (Edited)
Family: Callichthyidae, Subfamily Corydoradinae
Origin and Habitat: Upper Rio Guapore in Rondonia state, Brazil. Found in the main channel of the river.
Compatibility/Temperament: Peaceful, typical cory species that should be kept in a group of at least five of its own species, though three or four will suffice if there are other cory species in the same tank. Perfect for a community aquarium of non-aggressive fish with similar water requirements.
Cory Diet
Feeds on insect larvae, small crustaceans and worms in its habit; accepts most prepared sinking food like pellets and tablets, with frozen bloodworms and live worms for variety.
Around 2 inches.
24 inches in length.
Water parameters for Cory
Soft (hardness below 12 dGH) acidic to very slightly basic (pH below 7.2) water, temperature 22-26C/72-79F.
This fish is very similar to Corydoras guapore but the subject species has a rounder profile and the spotting is slightly darker; it is said to be more robust. C. guapore tends to swim mid-water much more than C. caudimaculatus. Both species occur in the main channel of the Rio Guapore, and although the Guapore basin is an area frequented by collectors, neither species is common in the hobby.
The aquarium should be well-planted with pieces of bogwood, a dark substrate (small gravel or sand, provided it is smooth-edged) with some open areas, and subdued lighting which can be partly achieved by floating plants; corys do not like bright lighting. While this species will swim mid-water to browse wood and plant leaves, it tends to spend most of its time foraging the substrate for food; it is not a very active swimmer, preferring to remain still but within the group. As with all corys, mature females are rounder when viewed from above.
When available, this fish will almost certainly be wild-caught, and attention must therefore be given to ensuring the aquarium's water parameters are within the given range and the conditions are stable.
The Corydoras are quite sensitive to water parameters and quality, and highly intolerant of salt, chemicals and medications. Signs of stress usually begin with rapid respiration, then lethargy (often just "sitting" on plant leaves, wood or the substrate respirating heavily, sometimes near the surface) and sometimes rolling onto one side. At such signs, a partial water change of at least 50% with a good water conditioner should immediately be made, and appropriate steps taken to remove the cause. Any sudden fluctuation in water chemistry or temperature often induces shock, causing the fish to "faint" and fall over on its side. Corydoras introduced to new aquaria will settle in better if the tank is established; corys do not adjust well to a new aquarium with still-unstable water conditions and fluctuations.
The dorsal, pectoral and adipose fins are each preceded by a spine which is actually a hardened and modified ray; the pectoral fin spine can be "locked" into position by the fish; care must be taken when netting corys not to entangle these spines, which can also give the aquarist a nasty jab. They are believed to be a defense adaptation, to lodge the fish in the throat of a predator.
All species in the genus will periodically and fairly regularly swim quickly to the surface for a gulp of air. The fish swallows the air and blood vessels in the hind gut extract oxygen from the air; it is then expelled through the vent the next time the fish breaks the surface for another gulp of air. This adaptation is believed to have evolved so that the fish can survive in poorly-oxygenated water such as drying pools during the dry season. It is however essential to the fish's well-being that it regularly swallows air.
The name of the genus, which was erected by B.G.E. Lacepede in 1803, is derived from the Greek cory [= helmet] and doras [= skin, incorrectly used here for "armour"]; it refers to the dual row of overlapping plates (instead of scales) along the body, comparable to a suit of armour. This species was described by F. Rossel in 1961; the species epithet is a reference to the tail fin, derived from the Latin caudus [= tail] and maculatus [= stained or spotted].
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Calgary - Alberta - Canada
3rd 23rd
Calgary Golf & Country Club,
Calgary,
Alberta,
T2H 1Y3,
5 miles S of downtown Calgary
Members and their guests only
Tom Bendelow, Willie Park Jr.
Championships hosted: Canadian Amateur, Canadian PGA, Canadian Women's Amateur
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Golf is an extremely popular sport in Alberta and around 75 courses lie within a one-hour drive of Calgary, giving golfers a wide range of places to play.
Exceptions to that selection process, of course, are the few private clubs in and around Stampede City and the toughest place by far to get a game lies very close to downtown at the Calgary Golf and Country Club.
It’s said that gaining membership here is one of the toughest things to achieve in Canadian golf. Indeed, money might buy fancy offices in the business district of Calgary but, for rich oil executives and the like who hanker after a hit on the nearby golf course, it takes not only a lot of cash; it takes a great deal of patience – between 5 and 20 years – to progress from the waiting list to the locker room.
What’s the great attraction for those prepared to go to such lengths to join a golf club?
Well, apart from the social cache that comes with being a member of such an exclusive golfing institution, there’s the reflected glory of association with a club of antiquity because Calgary Golf & Country Club was formed way back in 1897, moving to its present location in 1908 when it enlisted Tom Bendelow to lay out the original course.
There’s also the fact that members get to walk fairways laid out by one of the early golfing greats, Willie Park Jr. – architect of other Canadian courses at Weston and Mount Bruno – who the club entrusted in 1922 with redesigning a layout that has endured for the best part of a century since.
Holes are laid out on a tight, 126-acre site with the back nine holes enclosing the front nine as they fan out in an anti-clockwise direction from the clubhouse. The Calgary course is also noted as the first in Canada to have irrigation installed on its fairways.
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Description: Calgary Golf & Country Club was formed way back in 1897, moving to its present location in 1908 when it enlisted Tom Bendelow to lay out the original course. Written by: Top100 Aggregated Rating Rating: 8 out of 10 Reviews: 1
Beautiful course, some amazing views being right inside Calgary. Conditions were near perfect, very fortunate to play this course.
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Six Months, Three Days
Illustrated by: Sam Weber
Edited by: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Wed Jun 8, 2011 9:30am 71 comments 22 Favorites [+]
Enjoy “Six Months, Three Days” a story by Charlie Jane Anders and winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
Judy is nervous but excited, keeps looking at things she’s spotted out of the corner of her eye. She’s wearing a floral Laura Ashley style dress with an Ankh necklace and her legs are rambunctious, her calves moving under the table. It’s distracting because Doug knows that in two and a half weeks, those cucumber-smooth ankles will be hooked on his shoulders, and that curly reddish-brown hair will spill everywhere onto her lemon-floral pillows; this image of their future coitus has been in Doug’s head for years, with varying degrees of clarity, and now it’s almost here. The knowledge makes Doug almost giggle at the wrong moment, but then it hits him: she’s seen this future too — or she may have, anyway.
Doug has his sandy hair cut in a neat fringe that was almost fashionable a couple years ago. You might think he cuts his own hair, but Judy knows he doesn’t, because he’ll tell her otherwise in a few weeks. He’s much, much better looking than she thought he would be, and this comes as a huge relief. He has rude, pouty lips and an upper lip that darkens no matter how often he shaves it, with Elvis Costello glasses. And he’s almost a foot taller than her, six foot four. Now that Judy’s seen Doug for real, she’s re-imagining all the conversations they might be having in the coming weeks and months, all of the drama and all of the sweetness. The fact that Judy can be attracted to him, knowing everything that could lay ahead, consoles her tremendously.
Judy is nattering about some Chinese novelist she’s been reading in translation, one of those cruel satirists from the days after the May Fourth Movement, from back when writers were so conflicted they had to rename themselves things like “Contra Diction.” Doug is just staring at her, not saying anything, until it creeps her out a little.
“What?” Doug says at last, because Judy has stopped talking and they’re both just staring at each other.
“You were staring at me,” Judy says.
“I was…” Doug hesitates, then just comes out and says it. “I was savoring the moment. You know, you can know something’s coming from a long way off, you know for years ahead of time the exact day and the very hour when it’ll arrive. And then it arrives, and when it arrives, all you can think about is how soon it’ll be gone.”
“Well, I didn’t know the hour and the day when you and I would meet,” Judy puts a hand on his. “I saw many different hours and days. In one timeline, we would have met two years ago. In another, we’d meet a few months from now. There are plenty of timelines where we never meet at all.”
Doug laughs, then waves a hand to show that he’s not laughing at her, although the gesture doesn’t really clarify whom or what he’s actually laughing at.
Judy is drinking a cocktail called the Coalminer’s Daughter, made out of ten kinds of darkness. It overwhelms her senses with sugary pungency, and leaves her lips black for a moment. Doug is drinking a wheaty Pilsner from a tapered glass, in gulps. After one of them, Doug cuts to the chase. “So this is the part where I ask. I mean, I know what happens next between you and me. But here’s where I ask what you think happens next.”
“Well,” Judy says. “There are a million tracks, you know. It’s like raindrops falling into a cistern, they’re separate until they hit the surface, and then they become the past: all undifferentiated. But there are an awful lot of futures where you and I date for about six months.”
“Six months and three days,” Doug says. “Not that I’ve counted or anything.”
“And it ends badly.”
“I break my leg.”
“You break your leg ruining my bicycle. I like that bike. It’s a noble five-speed in a sea of fixies.”
“So you agree with me.” Doug has been leaning forward, staring at Judy like a psycho again. He leans back so that the amber light spilling out of the Radish Saloon’s tiny lampshades turn him the same color as his beer. “You see the same future I do.” Like she’s passed some kind of test.
“You didn’t know what I was going to say in advance?” Judy says.
“It doesn’t work like that — not for me, anyway. Remembering the future is just like remembering the past. I don’t have perfect recall, I don’t hang on to every detail, the transition from short-term memory to long-term memory is not always graceful.”
“I guess it’s like memory for me too,” Judy says.
Doug feels an unfamiliar sensation, and he realizes after a while it’s comfort. He’s never felt this at home with another human being, especially after such a short time. Doug is accustomed to meeting people and knowing bits and pieces of their futures, from stuff he’ll learn later. Or if Doug meets you and doesn’t know anything about your future, that means he’ll never give a crap about you, at any point down the line. This makes for awkward social interactions, either way.
They get another round of drinks. Doug gets the same beer again, Judy gets a red concoction called a Bloody Mutiny.
“So there’s one thing I don’t get,” Doug says. “You believe you have a choice among futures — and I think you’re wrong, you’re seeing one true future and a bunch of false ones.”
“You’re probably going to spend the next six months trying to convince yourself of that,” Judy says.
“So why are you dating me at all, if you get to choose? You know how it’ll turn out. For that matter, why aren’t you rich and famous? Why not pick a future where you win the lottery, or become a star?”
Doug works in tech support, in a poorly ventilated sub-basement of a tech company in Providence, RI, that he knows will go out of business in a couple years. He will work there until the company fails, choking on the fumes from old computers, and then be unemployed a few months.
“Well,” Judy says. “It’s not really that simple. I mean, the next six months, assuming I don’t change my mind, they contain some of the happiest moments of my life, and I see it leading to some good things, later on. And you know, I’ve seen some tracks where I get rich, I become a public figure, and they never end well. I’ve got my eye on this one future, this one node way off in the distance, where I die aged 97, surrounded by lovers and grandchildren and cats. Whenever I have a big decision to make, I try to see the straightest path to that moment.”
“So I’m a stepping stone,” Doug says, not at all bitterly. He’s somehow finished his second beer already, even though Judy’s barely made a dent in her Bloody Mutiny.
“You’re maybe going to take this journey with me for a spell,” Judy says. “People aren’t stones.”
And then Doug has to catch the last train back to Providence, and Judy has to bike home to Somerville. Marva, her roommate, has made popcorn and hot chocolate, and wants to know the whole story.
“It was nice,” Judy says. “He was a lot cuter in person than I’d remembered, which is really nice. He’s tall.”
“That’s it?” Marva said. “Oh come on, details. You finally meet the only other freaking clairvoyant on Earth, your future boyfriend, and all you have to say is, ’He’s tall.’ Uh uh. You are going to spill like a fucking oil tanker, I will ply you with hot chocolate, I may resort to Jim Beam, even.”
Marva’s “real” name is Martha, but she changed it years ago. She’s a grad student studying 18th century lit, and even Judy can’t help her decide whether to finish her PhD. She’s slightly chubby, with perfect crimson hair and clothing by Sanrio, Torrid, and Hot Topic. She is fond of calling herself “mallternative.”
“I’m drunk enough already. I nearly fell off my bicycle a couple times,” Judy says.
The living room is a pigsty, so they sit in Judy’s room, which isn’t much better. Judy hoards items she might need in one of the futures she’s witnessed, and they cover every surface. There’s a plastic replica of a Filipino fast food mascot, Jollibee, which she might give to this one girl Sukey in a couple of years, completing Sukey’s collection and making her a friend for life — or Judy and Sukey may never meet at all. A phalanx of stuffed animals crowds Judy and Marva on the big fluffy bed. The room smells like a sachet of whoop-ass (cardamom, cinnamon, lavender) that Judy opened up earlier.
“He’s a really sweet guy.” Judy cannot stop talking in platitudes, which bothers her. “I mean, he’s really lost, but he manages to be brave. I can’t imagine what it would be like, to feel like you have no free will at all.”
Marva doesn’t point out the obvious thing — that Judy only sees choices for herself, not anybody else. Suppose a guy named Rocky asks Marva out on a date, and Judy sees a future in which Marva complains, afterwards, that their date was the worst evening of her life. In that case, there are two futures: One in which Judy tells Marva what she sees, and one in which she doesn’t. Marva will go on the miserable date with Rocky, unless Judy tells her what she knows. (On the plus side, in fifteen months, Judy will drag Marva out to a party where she meets the love of her life. So there’s that.)
“Doug’s right,” Marva says. “I mean, if you really have a choice about this, you shouldn’t go through with it. You know it’s going to be a disaster, in the end. You’re the one person on Earth who can avoid the pain, and you still go sticking fingers in the socket.”
“Yeah, but…” Judy decides this will go a lot easier if there are marshmallows in the cocoa, and runs back to the kitchen alcove. “But going out with this guy leads to good things later on. And there’s a realization that I come to as a result of getting my heart broken. I come to understand something.”
“And what’s that?”
Judy finds the bag of marshmallows. They are stale. She decides cocoa will revitalize them, drags them back to her bedroom, along with a glass of water.
“I have no idea, honestly. That’s the way with epiphanies: You can’t know in advance what they’ll be. Even me. I can see them coming, but I can’t understand something until I understand it.”
“So you’re saying that the future that Doug believes is the only possible future just happens to be the best of all worlds. Is this some Leibniz shit? Does Dougie always automatically see the nicest future or something?”
“I don’t think so.” Judy gets gummed up by popcorn, marshmallows and sticky cocoa, and coughs her lungs out. She swigs the glass of water she brought for just this moment. “I mean —” She coughs again, and downs the rest of the water. “I mean, in Doug’s version, he’s only 43 when he dies, and he’s pretty broken by then. His last few years are dreadful. He tells me all about it in a few weeks.”
“Wow,” Marva says. “Damn. So are you going to try and save him? Is that what’s going on here?”
“I honestly do not know. I’ll keep you posted.”
Doug, meanwhile, is sitting on his militarily neat bed, with its single hospital-cornered blanket and pillow. His apartment is almost pathologically tidy. Doug stares at his one shelf of books and his handful of carefully chosen items that play a role in his future. He chews his thumb. For the first time in years, Doug desperately wishes he had options.
He almost grabs his phone, to call Judy and tell her to get the hell away from him, because he will collapse all of her branching pathways into a dark tunnel, once and for all. But he knows he won’t tell her that, and even if he did, she wouldn’t listen. He doesn’t love her, but he knows he will in a couple weeks, and it already hurts.
“God damnit! Fucking god fucking damn it fuck!” Doug throws his favorite porcelain bust of Wonder Woman on the floor and it shatters. Wonder Woman’s head breaks into two jagged pieces, cleaving her magic tiara in half. This image, of the Amazon’s raggedly bisected head, has always been in Doug’s mind, whenever he’s looked at the intact bust.
Doug sits a minute, dry-sobbing. Then he goes and gets his dustpan and brush.
He phones Judy a few days later. “Hey, so do you want to hang out again on Friday?”
“Sure,” Judy says. “I can come down to Providence this time. Where do you want to meet up?”
“Surprise me,” says Doug.
“You’re a funny man.”
Judy will be the second long-term relationship of Doug’s life. His first was with Pamela, an artist he met in college, who made headless figurines of people who were recognizable from the neck down. (Headless Superman. Headless Captain Kirk. And yes, headless Wonder Woman, which Doug always found bitterly amusing for reasons he couldn’t explain.) They were together nearly five years, and Doug never told her his secret. Which meant a lot of pretending to be surprised at stuff. Doug is used to people thinking he’s kind of a weirdo.
Doug and Judy meet for dinner at one of those mom-and-pop Portuguese places in East Providence, sharing grilled squid and seared cod, with fragrant rice, with a bottle of heady vinho verde. Then they walk Judy’s bike back across the river towards the kinda-sorta gay bar on Wickenden Street. “The thing I like about Providence,” says Doug, “is it’s one of the American cities that knows its best days are behind it. So it’s automatically decadent, and sort of European.”
“Well,” says Judy, “It’s always a choice between urban decay or gentrification, right? I mean, cities aren’t capable of homeostasis.”
“Do you know what I’m thinking?” Doug is thinking he wants to kiss Judy. She leans up and kisses him first, on the bridge in the middle of the East Bay Bicycle Path. They stand and watch the freeway lights reflected on the water, holding hands. Everything is cold and lovely and the air smells rich.
Doug turns and looks into Judy’s face, which the bridge lights have turned yellow. “I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life.” Doug realizes he’s inadvertently quoted Phil Collins. First he’s mortified, then he starts laughing like a maniac. For the next half hour, Doug and Judy speak only in Phil Collins quotes.
“You can’t hurry love,” Judy says, which is only technically a Collins line.
Over microbrews on Wickenden, they swap origin stories, even though they already know most of it. Judy’s is pretty simple: She was a little kid who overthought choices like which summer camp to go to, until she realized she could see how either decision would turn out. She still flinches when she remembers how she almost gave a valentine in third grade to Dick Petersen, who would have destroyed her. Doug’s story is a lot worse: he started seeing the steps ahead, a little at a time, and then he realized his dad would die in about a year. He tried everything he could think of, for a whole year, to save his dad’s life. He even buried the car keys two feet deep, on the day of his dad’s accident. No fucking use.
“Turns out getting to mourn in advance doesn’t make the mourning afterwards any less hard,” Doug says through a beer glass snout.
“Oh man,” Judy says. She knew this stuff, but hearing it is different. “I’m so sorry.”
“It’s okay,” Doug says. “It was a long time ago.”
Soon it’s almost time for Judy to bike back to the train station, near that godawful giant mall and the canal where they light the water on fire sometimes.
“I want you to try and do something for me,” Judy takes Doug’s hands. “Can you try to break out of the script? Not the big stuff that you think is going to happen, but just little things that you couldn’t be sure about in advance if you tried. Try to surprise yourself. And maybe all those little deviations will add up to something bigger.”
“I don’t think it would make any difference,” Doug says.
“You never know,” Judy says. “There are things that I remember differently every time I think about them. Things from the past, I mean. When I was in college, I went through a phase of hating my parents, and I remembered all this stuff they did, from my childhood, as borderline abusive. And then a few years ago, I found myself recalling those same incidents again, only now they seemed totally different. Barely the same events.”
“The brain is weird,” Doug says.
“So you never know,” Judy says. “Change the details, you may change the big picture.” But she already knows nothing will come of this.
A week later, Doug and Judy lay together in her bed, after having sex for the first time. It was even better than the image Doug’s carried in his head since puberty. For the first time, Doug understands why people talk about sex as this transcendent thing, chains of selfhood melting away, endless abundance. They looked into each other’s eyes the whole time. As for Judy, she’s having that oxytocin thing she’s always thought was a myth, her forehead resting on Doug’s smooth chest — if she moved her head an inch she’d hear his heart beating, but she doesn’t need to.
Judy gets up to pee an hour later, and when she comes back and hangs up her robe, Doug is lying there with a look of horror on his face. “What’s wrong?” She doesn’t want to ask, but she does anyway.
“I’m sorry.” He sits up. “I’m just so happy, and… I can count the awesome moments in my life on a hand and a half. And I’m burning through them too fast. This is just so perfect right now. And, you know. I’m trying not to think. About.”
Judy knows that if she brings up the topic they’ve been avoiding, they will have an unpleasant conversation. But she has to. “You have to stop this. It’s obvious you can do what I do, you can see more than one branch. All you have to do is try. I know you were hurt when you were little, your dad died, and you convinced yourself that you were helpless. I’m sorry about that. But now, I feel like you’re actually comfortable being trapped. You don’t even try any more.”
“I do,” Doug is shaking. “I do try. I try every day. How dare you say I don’t try.”
“You don’t really. I don’t believe you. I’m sorry, but I don’t.”
“You know it’s true.” Doug calms down and looks Judy square in the face. Without his glasses, his eyes look as gray as the sea on a cloudy day. “The thing you told me about Marva — you always know what she’s going to do. Yeah? That’s how your power works. The only reason you can predict how your own choices will turn out, is because other people’s actions are fixed. If you go up to some random guy on the street and slap him, you can know in advance exactly how he’ll react. Right?”
“Well sure,” Judy says. “I mean, that doesn’t mean Marva doesn’t have free will. Or this person I’ve hypothetically slapped.” This is too weird a conversation to be having naked. She goes and puts on a Mountain Goats T-shirt and PJ bottoms. “Their choices are just factored in, in advance.”
“Right.” Doug’s point is already made, but he goes ahead and lunges for the kill. “So how do you know that I can’t predict your choices, exactly the same way you can predict Marva’s?”
Judy sits down on the edge of the bed. She kneads the edge of her T-shirt and doesn’t look at Doug. Now she knows why Doug looked so sick when she came back from the bathroom. He saw more of this conversation than she did. “You could be right,” she says after a moment. “If you’re right, that makes you the one person I should never be in the same room with. I should stay the hell away from you.”
“Yeah. You should,” Doug says. He knows it will take forty-seven seconds before she cradles his head and kisses his forehead, and it feels like forever. He holds his breath and counts down.
A couple days later, Judy calls in sick at the arts nonprofit where she works, and wanders Davis Square until she winds up in the back of the Diesel Café, in one of the plush leather booths near the pool tables. She eats one of those mint brownies that’s like chocolate-covered toothpaste and drinks a lime rickey, until she feels pleasantly ill. She pulls a battered, scotch-taped World Atlas out of her satchel.
She’s still leafing through it a couple hours later when Marva comes and sits down opposite her.
“How did you know I was here?” Judy asks.
“Because you’re utterly predictable. You said you were ditching work, and this is where you come to brood.”
Judy’s been single-handedly keeping the Blaze Foundation afloat for years, thanks to an uncanny knack for knowing exactly which grants to apply for and when, and what language to use on the grant proposal. She has a nearly 100 percent success rate in proposal-writing, leavened only by the fact that she occasionally applies for grants she knows she won’t get. So maybe she’s entitled to a sick day every now and then.
Marva sees that Judy’s playing the Travel Game and joins in. She points to a spot near Madrid. “Spain,” she says.
Judy’s face gets all tight for a moment, like she’s trying to remember where she left something. Then she smiles. “Okay, if I get on a plane to Madrid tomorrow, there are a few ways it plays out. That I can see right now. In one, I get drunk and fall off a tower and break both legs. In another, I meet this cute guy named Pedro and we have a torrid three-day affair. Then there’s the one where I go to art school and study sculpture. They all end with me running out of money and coming back home.”
“Malawi,” Marva says. Judy thinks for a moment, then remembers what happens if she goes to Malawi tomorrow.
“This isn’t as much fun as usual,” Marva says after they’ve gone to Vancouver and Paris and Sao Paolo. “Your heart isn’t in it.”
“It’s not,” Judy says. “I just can’t see a happy future where I don’t date Doug. I mean, I like Doug, I may even be in love with him already, but… we’re going to break each other’s hearts, and more than that: We’re maybe going to break each other’s spirits. There’s got to be a detour, a way to avoid this, but I just can’t see it right now.”
Marva dumps a glass of water on Judy’s head.
“Wha? You — Wha?” She splutters like a cartoon duck.
“Didn’t see that coming, did you?”
“No, but that doesn’t mean… I mean, I’m not freaking omniscient, I sometimes miss bits and pieces, you know that.”
“I am going to give you the Samuel Johnson/Bishop Berkeley lecture, for like the tenth time,” Marva says. “Because sometimes, a girl just needs a little Johnson.”
Bishop George Berkeley, of course, was the “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound” guy, who argued that objects only exist in our perceptions. One day, Boswell asked Samuel Johnson what he thought of Berkeley’s idea. According to Boswell, Johnson’s response to this was to kick a big rock “with mighty force,” saying, “I refute it thus.”
“The point,” says Marva, “is that nobody can see everything. Not you, not Doug, not Bishop Berkeley. Stuff exists that your senses can’t perceive and your mind can’t comprehend. Even if you do have an extra sense the rest of us don’t have. Okay? So don’t get all doom and gloom on me. Just remember: Would Samuel Johnson have let himself feel trapped in a dead-end relationship?”
“Well, considering he apparently dated a guy named Boswell who went around writing down everything he said… I really don’t know.” Judy runs to the bathroom to put her head under the hot-air dryer.
The next few weeks, Judy and Doug hang out at least every other day and grow accustomed to kissing and holding hands all the time, trading novelty for the delight of positive reinforcement. They’re at the point where their cardiovascular systems crank into top gear if one of them sees someone on the street who even looks, for a second, like the other. Doug notices little things about Judy that catch him off guard, like the way she rolls her eyes slightly before she’s about to say something solemn. Judy realizes that Doug’s joking on some level, most of the time, even when he seems tragic. Maybe especially then.
They fly a big dragon kite on Cambridge Common, with a crimson tail. They go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner, and sip tea in the courtyard. Once or twice, Doug is about to turn left, but Judy stops him, because something way cooler will happen if they go right instead. They discuss which kind of skylight Batman prefers to burst through when he breaks into criminals’ lairs, and whether Batman ever uses the chimney like Santa Claus. They break down the taxonomy of novels where Emily Dickinson solves murder mysteries.
Marva gets used to eating Doug’s spicy omelettes, which automatically make him Judy’s best-ever boyfriend in Marva’s book. Marva walks out of her bedroom in the mornings, to see Doug wearing the bathrobe Judy got for him, flipping a perfect yellow slug over and over, and she’s like, What are you? To Marva, the main advantage of making an omelette is that when it falls apart halfway through, you can always claim you planned to make a scramble all along.
Judy and Doug enjoy a couple months of relative bliss, based on not ever discussing the future. In the back of her mind, Judy never stops looking for the break point, the moment where a timeline splits off from the one Doug believes in. It could be just a split-second.
They reach their three-month anniversary, roughly the midpoint of their relationship. To celebrate, they take a weekend trip to New York together, and they wander down Broadway and all around the Village and Soho. Doug is all excited, showing off for once — he points out the fancy restaurant where the President will be assassinated in 2027, and the courthouse where Lady Gaga gets arrested for civil disobedience right after she wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Judy has to keep shushing him. Then she gives in, and the two of them loudly debate whether the election of 2024 will be rigged, not caring if people stare.
Once they’ve broken the taboo on talking about the future in general, Doug suddenly feels free to talk about their future, specifically. They’re having a romantic dinner at one of those restaurant/bars, with high-end American food and weird pseudo-Soviet iconography everywhere. Doug is on his second beer when he says, “So, I guess in a couple of weeks, you and I have that ginormous fight about whether I should meet your parents. And about a week after that, I manage to offend Marva. Honestly, without meaning to. But then again, in a month and a half’s time, we have that really nice day together on the boat.”
“Please don’t,” Judy says, but she already knows it’s too late to stop it.
“And then after that, there’s the Conversation. I am not looking forward to the Conversation.”
“We both know about this stuff,” Judy says. “It’ll happen if and when it happens, why worry about it until then?”
“Sorry, it’s just part of how I deal with things. It helps me to brace myself.”
Judy barely eats her entrée. Doug keeps oversharing about their next few months, like a floodgate has broken. Some of it’s stuff Judy either didn’t remember, or has blotted out of her mind because it’s so dismal. She can tell Doug’s been obsessing about every moment of the coming drama, visualizing every incident until it snaps into perfect focus.
By the time Judy gets up and walks away from the table, she sees it all just as clearly as he does. She can’t even imagine any future, other than the one he’s described. Doug’s won.
Judy roams Bleecker and St. Mark’s Place, until she claims a small victory: She realizes that if she goes into this one little subterranean bar, she’ll run into a cute guy she hasn’t seen since high school, and they’ll have a conversation in which he confesses that he always had a crush on her back then. Because Doug’s not there, he’s not able to tell her whether she goes into that bar or not. She does, and she’s late getting back to their hotel, even though she and cute high-school guy don’t do anything but talk.
Doug makes an effort to be nice the rest of the weekend, even though he knows it won’t do him any good, except that Judy holds hands with him on the train back to Providence and Boston.
And then Doug mentions, in passing, that he’ll see Judy around, after they break up — including two meetings a decade from now, and one time a full 15 years hence, and he knows some stuff. He starts to say more, but Judy runs to the dining car, covering her ears.
When the train reaches Doug’s stop and he’s gathering up his stuff, Judy touches his shoulder. “Listen, I don’t know if you and I actually do meet up in a decade, it’s a blur to me right now. But I don’t want to hear whatever you think you know. Okay?” Doug nods.
When the fight over whether Doug should meet Judy’s parents arrives, it’s sort of a meta-fight. Judy doesn’t see why Doug should do the big parental visit, since Judy and Doug are scheduled to break up in ten weeks. Doug just wants to meet them because he wants to meet them — maybe because his own parents are dead. And he’s curious about these people who are aware that their daughter can see the future(s). They compromise, as expected: Doug meets Judy’s parents over lunch when they visit, and he’s on his best behavior.
They take a ferry out to sea, toward Block Island. The air is too cold and they feel seasick and the sun blinds them, and it’s one of the greatest days of their lives. They huddle together on deck and when they can see past the glare and the sea spray and they’re not almost hurling, they see the glimmer of the ocean, streaks of white and blue and yellow in different places, as the light and wind affect it. The ocean feels utterly forgiving, like you can dump almost anything into the ocean’s body and it will still love us, and Judy and Doug cling to each other like children in a storm cellar and watch the waves. Then they go to Newport and eat amazing lobster. For a few days before and a few days after this trip, they are all aglow and neither of them can do any wrong.
A week or so after the boat thing, they hold hands in bed, nestling like they could almost start having sex at any moment. Judy looks in Doug’s naked eyes (his glasses are on the nightstand) and says, “Let’s just jump off the train now, okay? Let’s not do any of the rest of it, let’s just be good to each other forever. Why not? We could.”
“Why would you want that?” Doug drawls like he’s half asleep. “You’re the one who’s going to get the life she wants. I’m the one who’ll be left like wreckage.” Judy rolls over and pretends to sleep.
The Conversation achieves mythical status long before it arrives. Certain aspects of The Conversation are hazy in advance, for both Doug and Judy, because of that thing where you can’t understand something until you understand it.
The day of the Conversation, Judy wakes from a nightmare, shivering with the covers cast aside, and Doug’s already out of bed. “It’s today,” he says, and then he leaves without saying anything else to Judy, or anything at all to Marva, who’s still pissed at him. Judy keeps almost going back to bed, but somehow she winds up dressed, with a toaster pop in her hand, marching towards the door. Marva starts to say something, then shrugs.
Doug and Judy meet up for dinner at Punjabi Dhaba in Inman Square, scooping red-hot eggplant and bright chutney off of metal prison trays while Bollywood movies blare overhead and just outside of their line of vision.
The Conversation starts with them talking past each other. Judy says, “Lately I can’t remember anything past the next month.” Doug says, “I keep trying to see what happens after I die.” Judy says, “Normally I can remember years in advance, even decades. But I’m blocked.” She shudders. Doug says, “If I could just have an impression, an afterimage, of what happens when I’m gone. It would help a lot.”
Judy finally hears what Doug’s been saying. “Oh Jesus, not this. Nobody can see past death. It’s impossible.”
“So’s seeing the future.” Doug cracks his somosa in half with a fork, and offers the chunky side to Judy.
“You can’t remember anything past when your brain ceases to exist. Because there are no physical memories to access. Your brain is a storage medium.”
“But who knows what we’re accessing? It could be something outside our own brains.”
Judy tries to clear her head and think of something nice twenty years from now, but she can’t. She looks at Doug’s chunky sideburns, which he didn’t have when they’d started dating. Whenever she’s imagined those sideburns, she always associated them with the horror of these days. It’s sweltering inside the restaurant. “Why are you scared of me?” she says.
“I’m not,” Doug says. “I only want you to be happy. When I see you ten years from now, I —”
Judy covers her ears and jumps out of her seat, to turn the Bollywood music all the way up. Standing, she can see the screen, where a triangle of dancing women shake their fingers in unison at an unshaven man. The man smiles.
Eventually, someone comes and turns the music back down. “I think part of you is scared that I really am more powerful than you are,” Judy says. “And you’ve done everything you can to take away my power.”
“I don’t think you’re any more or less powerful than me. Our powers are just different,” Doug says. “But I think you’re a selfish person. I think you’re used to the idea that you can cheat on everything, and it’s made your soul a little bit rotten. I think you’re going to hate me for the next few weeks until you figure out how to cast me out. I think I love you more than my own arms and legs and I would shorten my already short life by a decade to have you stick around one more year. I think you’re brave as hell for keeping your head up on our journey together into the mouth of hell. I think you’re the most beautiful human being I’ve ever met, and you have a good heart despite how much you’re going to tear me to shreds.”
“I don’t want to see you any more,” Judy says. Her hair is all in her face, wet and ragged from the restaurant’s blast-furnace heat.
A few days later, Judy and Doug are playing foozball at a swanky bar in what used to be the Combat Zone. Judy makes a mean remark about something sexually humiliating that will happen to Doug five years from now, which he told her about in a moment of weakness. A couple days later, she needles him about an incident at work that almost got him fired a while back. She’s never been a sadist before now — although it’s also masochism, because when she torments him, she already knows how terrible she’ll feel in a few minutes.
Another time, Doug and Judy are drunk on the second floor of a Thayer Street frat bar, and Doug keeps getting Judy one more weird cocktail, even though she’s had more than enough. The retro pinball machine gossips at them. Judy staggers to the bathroom, leaving her purse with Doug — and when she gets back, the purse is gone. They both knew Doug was going to lose Judy’s purse, which only makes her madder. She bitches him out in front of a table of beer-pong champions. And then it’s too late to get back to Judy’s place, so they have to share Doug’s cramped, sagging hospital cot. Judy throws up on Doug’s favorite outfit: anise and stomach acid, it’ll never come out.
Judy loses track of which unbearable things have already happened, and which lay ahead. Has Doug insulted her parents yet, on their second meeting? Yes, that was yesterday. Has he made Marva cry? No, that’s tomorrow. Has she screamed at him that he’s a weak mean bastard yet? It’s all one moment to her. Judy has finally achieved timelessness.
Doug has already arranged — a year ago — to take two weeks off work, because he knows he won’t be able to answer people’s dumb tech problems and lose a piece of himself at the same time. He could do his job in his sleep, even if he didn’t know what all the callers were going to say before they said it, but his ability to sleepwalk through unpleasantness will shortly be maxed out. He tells his coworker Geoffrey, the closest he has to a friend, that he’ll be doing some Spring cleaning, even though it’s October.
A few days before the breakup, Judy stands in the middle of Central Square, and a homeless guy comes up to her and asks for money. She stares at his face, which is unevenly sunburned in the shape of a wheel. She concentrates on this man, who stands there, his hand out. For a moment, she just forgets to worry about Doug for once — and just like that, she’s seeing futures again.
The threads are there: if she buys this homeless man some scones from 1369, they’ll talk, and become friends, and maybe she’ll run into him once every few weeks and buy him dinner, for the next several years. And in five years, she’ll help the man, Franklin, find a place to live, and she’ll chip in for the deposit. But a couple years later, it’ll all have fallen apart, and he’ll be back here. And she flashes on something Franklin tells her eight years from now, if this whole chain of events comes to pass, about a lost opportunity. And then she knows what to do.
“Franklin,” she says to wheel-faced guy, who blinks at the sound of his name. “Listen. Angie’s pregnant, with your kid. She’s at the yellow house with the broken wheelbarrow, in Sturbridge. If you go to her right now, I think she’ll take you back. Here’s a hundred bucks.” She reaches in her new purse, for the entire wad of cash she took out of the bank to hold her until she gets her new ATM card. “Go find Angie.” Franklin just looks at her, takes the cash, and disappears.
Judy never knows if Franklin took her advice. But she does know for sure she’ll never see him again.
And then she wanders into the bakery where she would have bought Franklin scones, and she sees this guy working there. And she concentrates on him, too, even though it gives her a headache, and she “remembers” a future in which they become friendly and he tells her about the time he wrecked his best friends car, which hasn’t happened yet. She buys a scone and tells the guy, Scott, that he shouldn’t borrow Reggie’s T-Bird for that regatta thing, or he’ll regret it forever. She doesn’t even care that Scott is staring as she walks out.
“I’m going to be a vigilante soothsayer,” she tells Marva. She’s never used her power so recklessly before, but the more she does it, the easier it gets. She goes ahead and mails that Jollibee statue to Sukey.
The day of the big breakup, Marva’s like, “Why can’t you just dump him via text message? That’s what all the kids are doing, it’s the new sexting.” Judy’s best answer is, “Because then my bike would still be in one piece.” Which isn’t a very good argument. Judy dresses warm, because she knows she’ll be frozen later.
Doug takes deep breaths, tries to feel acceptance, but he’s all wrung out inside. He wants this to be over, but he dreads it being over. If there was any other way… Doug takes the train from Providence a couple hours early, so he can get lost for a while. But he doesn’t get lost enough, and he’s still early for their meeting. They’re supposed to get dinner at the fancy place, but Doug forgot to make the reservation, so they wind up at John Harvard’s Brew Pub, in the mall, and they each put away three pints of the microbrews that made John Harvard famous. They make small talk.
Afterwards, they’re wandering aimlessly, towards Mass Ave., and getting closer to the place where it happens. Judy blurts out, “It didn’t have to be this way. None of it. You made everything fall into place, but it didn’t have to.”
“I know you don’t believe that any more,” Doug says. “There’s a lot of stuff you have the right to blame me for, but you can’t believe I chose any of this. We’re both cursed to see stuff that nobody should be allowed to see, but we’re still responsible for our own mistakes. I still don’t regret anything. Even if I didn’t know today was the last day for you and me, I would want it to be.”
They are both going to say some vicious things to each other in the next hour or so. They’ve already heard it all, in their heads.
On Mass Ave., Judy sees the ice cream place opposite the locked side gates of Harvard, and she stops her bike. During their final blow-out fight, she’s not eating ice cream, any of the hundred times she’s seen it. “Watch my bike,” she tells Doug. She goes in and gets a triple scoop for herself and one for Doug, random flavors — Cambridge is one of the few places you can ask for random flavors and people will just nod — and then she and Doug resume their exit interview.
“It’s that you have this myth that you’re totally innocent and harmless, even though you also believe you control everything in the universe,” Doug is saying.
Judy doesn’t taste her ice cream, but she is aware of its texture, the voluptuousness of it, and the way it chills the roof of her mouth. There are lumps of something chewy in one of her random flavors. Her cone smells like candy, with a hint of wet dog.
They wind up down by the banks of the river, near the bridge surrounded by a million geese and their innumerable droppings, and Judy is crying and shouting that Doug is a passive aggressive asshole.
Doug’s weeping into the remains of his cone, and then he goes nuclear. He starts babbling about when he sees Judy ten years hence, and the future he describes is one of the ones that Judy’s always considered somewhat unlikely.
Judy tries to flee, but Doug has her wrist and he’s babbling at her, describing a scene where a broken-down Doug meets Judy with her two kids — Raina and Jeremy, one of dozens of combinations of kids Judy might have — and Raina, the toddler, has a black eye and a giant stuffed tiger. The future Judy looks tired, makes an effort to be nice to the future Doug, who’s a wreck, gripping her cashmere lapel.
Both the future Judy and the present Judy are trying to get away from Doug as fast as possible. Neither Doug will let go.
“And then 15 years from now, you only have one child,” Doug says.
“Let me go!” Judy screams.
But when Judy finally breaks free of Doug’s hand, and turns to flee, she’s hit with a blinding headrush, like a one-minute migraine. Three scoops of ice cream on top of three beers, or maybe just stress, but it paralyzes her, even as she’s trying to run. Doug tries to throw himself in her path, but he overbalances and falls down the river bank, landing almost in the water.
“Gah!” Doug wails. “Help me up. I’m hurt.” He lifts one arm, and Judy puts down her bike, helps him climb back up. Doug’s a mess, covered with mud, and he’s clutching one arm, heaving with pain.
“Are you okay?” Judy can’t help asking.
“Breaking my arm hurt a lot more…” Doug winces. “…than I thought it would.”
“Your arm.” Judy can’t believe what she’s seeing. “You broke… your arm.”
“You can see for yourself. At least this means it’s over.”
“But you were supposed to break your leg.”
Doug almost tosses both hands in the air, until he remembers he can’t. “This is exactly why I can’t deal with you any more. We both agreed, on our very first date, I break my arm. You’re just remembering it wrong, or being difficult on purpose.”
Doug wants to go to the hospital by himself, but Judy insists on going with. He curses at the pain, stumbling over every knot and root.
“You broke your arm.” Judy’s half-sobbing, half-laughing, it’s almost too much to take in. “You broke your arm, and maybe that means that all of this… that maybe we could try again. Not right away, I’m feeling pretty raw right now, but in a while. I’d be willing to try.”
But she already knows what Doug’s going to say: “You don’t get to hurt me any more.”
She doesn’t leave Doug until he’s safely staring at the hospital linoleum, waiting to go into X-ray. Then she pedals home, feeling the cold air smash into her face. She’s forgotten her helmet, but it’ll be okay. When she gets home, she’s going to grab Marva and they’re going straight to Logan, where a bored check-in counter person will give them dirt-cheap tickets on the last flight to Miami. They’ll have the wildest three days of their lives, with no lasting ill effects. It’ll be epic, she’s already living every instant of it in her head. She’s crying buckets but it’s okay, her bike’s headwind wipes the slate clean.
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Art copyright © 2011 Sam Weber
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Why Harry Styles Decided to Launch His Acting Career with Dunkirk
The onetime One Direction singer opens up about his big transition on the Dunkirk premiere red carpet.
By Paul Chi
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Harry Styles attends the Dunkirk premiere on July 18th in NYC.By Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images.
Christopher Nolan’s epic World War II drama Dunkirk celebrated its U.S. premiere on Tuesday night, with hundreds of adoring fans lined up on the street near the AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater in New York to catch a glimpse of the cast—and especially, of Harry Styles. The former One Direction singer makes his acting debut in the film, which is based on the real-life 1940 mission to rescue hundreds of thousands of British soldiers and Allied troops, who had been trapped by Nazi Germany on the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
“I started acting when I was younger in school. I’ve always liked it, and have always been a massive fan of movies,” Styles said to reporters prior to the screening. “When I heard about this, I just wanted to be involved. It’s an honor to be a part of this important story.”
Also making his big-screen debut in the film is 20-year-old Fionn Whitehead. The British newcomer was cast in the lead role as Tommy, an inexperienced but resourceful solider determined to do whatever it takes to survive.
“There were many days during filming where I was beaten down. It was cold, it was raining, and we were soaked through. We had our uniforms on, which were made of wool, so they soaked up water and it was miserable,” Whitehead told Vanity Fair. “Then you understand the realness of the situation when you go out onto the beach”—i.e. Dunkirk itself, where the film shot on location. “It was no longer a movie. It made me realize how terrible it was for them, and the real struggle they went through. My struggles were nothing compared to them.”
Oscar winner Mark Rylance portrays one of the hundreds of English civilians who used fishing boats or their recreational boats to sail across the English Channel to Dunkirk in order to rescue the soldiers. The Bridge of Spies actor was proud to appear in a picture that illustrates the power of the human spirit.
“The message of the film is that anyone can make a difference. Your actions as a civilian are so important and not inconsequential,” said Rylance. “Anyone can make a difference. In the case of Dunkirk, thousands of civilians with their pleasure boats saved 340,000 men. I think it’s a big lie that the tyrants in society say that civilian actions don’t make any difference. It makes a difference in how you vote, in what you buy, or what you do with your life. We all can make a difference and I hope the film will encourage people to do so.”
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Commercial space race: How close are Virgin Galactic, SpaceX and Blue Origin to taking tourists to space?
Luke Christou 10th October 2018 (Last Updated January 4th, 2019 10:22)
Sir Richard Branson is favourite to reach the stars first in the commercial space race, ahead of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, on-board Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two.
The commercial space race is a three-way battle between Branson’s Virgin, Amazon founder Bezos, and Tesla’s Musk, who own space startups Blue Origin and SpaceX respectively.
Branson revealed yesterday that Virgin Galactic would begin testing its spacecraft in space “within weeks, not months”. Likewise, he also said that he will travel outside of the atmosphere “in months and not years”, with commercial flights to begin “not too long after”.
Bookmaker Paddy Power responded by making Virgin Galactic 1/3 favourites to send a commercial passenger to space ahead of SpaceX (4/1) and Blue Origin (6/1). Likewise, Branson is now 1/5 favourite to beat Musk (6/1) and Bezos (12/1) to space.
A Paddy Power spokesperson said:
“It’s ramping up – and some famous jockeys are battling to be first past the post. Sir Richard Branson is the starting price favourite, in what would be another high-profile defeat for Elon Musk.”
But where is each company at in its attempts to send tourists off-planet?
Testing start: October 2010 (Enterprise), September 2016 (Unity)
Expected commercial start: 2019
Unveiling the first Virgin Galactic spacecraft in July 2008, Branson set the original departure date for January 2010. That has since been pushed back numerous times. The company has since set launch dates in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2018. Branson’s latest comments suggest that commercial flights will now begin in 2019.
Virgin Galactic spacecrafts have undergone stringent testing and numerous redesigns since that first unveiling. However, a 2014 accident almost put the brakes on Virgin’s attempts to reach space. A test SpaceShip Enterprise crashed down in the Mojave Desert, killing one crew member and injuring the other after an air-braking descent device deployed at the wrong time.
Despite the setback, Virgin redeveloped the SpaceShip, eventually unveiling the SpaceShip Two Unity in February 2016.
Test flights began in September 2016 and 13 more have since been carried out. The latest test flight saw a Virgin Galactic craft reach the mesosphere, the layer beyond the earth’s stratosphere, for the first time.
Branson has now stated that Unity will go one step further within a matter of weeks, reaching the thermosphere and passing beyond the 100km mark that is required for a spaceflight to be considered sub-orbital.
Testing start: 2019
SpaceX has had many successes in recent years, becoming the first private company to reach the International Space Station, the first company to return a spacecraft from low Earth orbit, and the first company to reuse a rocket. However, Musk’s aerospace company has yet to crack the commercial space race.
While it leaves them trailing the pack in the commercial space race, SpaceX has set its sights a little further than its rivals. Rather than just orbiting earth, the company wants to send space tourists around the moon.
The company hopes to begin commercial flights by 2023, as revealed last month with the unveiling of Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first space tourist set to fly on-board a SpaceX craft.
Maezawa’s trip will be powered by SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which is being developed to one day carry humans to Mars in the hopes of starting an off-planet colony.
Initially unveiled in 2016, the BFR has since undergone numerous redesigns as SpaceX works to create a system that is “capable of getting from Earth to anywhere in the Solar System”.
Musk revealed in March that a prototype spacecraft is currently in development, with test flights scheduled to begin in 2019.
Testing start: April 2015
Expected commercial start: N/A (tickets set to go on sale in 2019)
Bezos has been working towards space flight since 2005 and originally intended to have Blue Origin spacecrafts in the air by 2012. The company missed that deadline, but testing of its New Shepard spacecraft has been underway since April 2015. The craft has since undergone eight more flights, reaching heights of up to 120km.
Blue Origin announced that it could begin flying passengers as early as 2018. While that has yet to happen, the company has signed deals with a number of business customers to launch satellites into orbit.
While time is running out, the company insisted in June that passenger tests would begin in 2018. The company has yet to set an official commercial launch date. However, it has announced that tickets will go on sale in 2019.
Similar to Virgin Galactic, New Shepard will launch passengers into earth’s orbit at a height of around 100km.
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Okanagan Regional Library’s Oyama branch experienced circulation growth of 17.06 per cent in 2014.
Books flying off the shelf at Oyama library
Circulation of items from the Oyama branch went from 6,341 in 2013 to 7,423 in 2014, a 17.06 per cent increase.
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It’s the little library that could.
While it’s been on the chopping block over the years, Okanagan Regional Library’s Oyama branch has experienced significant growth.
“It’s great to see the facility being used so much,” said Owen Dickie, an ORL director and Lake Country councillor.
“No other branch came anywhere close to that large of an increase. In fact many decreased,” said Dickie.
For the same time period, circulation at the Lake Country (Winfield) branch inched up by 0.77 per cent, while it was down 7.67 per cent in Vernon and 5.07 per cent at the main Kelowna branch.
Dickie believes a couple of factors have kept the Oyama branch bustling.
“There is a change in the population in Oyama, with younger families living here,” he said.
“The programs are also attracting children and families to the branch. Oyama has also always been a library town.”
In previous years, some ORL staff and politicians have suggested closing the Oyama branch because of its small size and proximity to branches in Winfield, Vernon and Kelowna.
However, Dickie says the recent circulation figures put him in a strong position to lobby for ongoing service in Oyama.
“It’s had a library going back a number of years and it’s part of the social fabric of the community. I hope people will sit back and realize there is a demand,” he said.
“Way to go Oyama. We need to use it or we will lose it so let’s see another increase this year.”
Circulation figures have been released for all of ORL’s 29 branches.
“We changed the integrated library system program in October 2014 and this created some hiccups with tracking, so we recognize comparing the 2013 and 2014 year is not necessarily a case of apples to apples when extrapolating numbers from the catalogue,” said Marla O’Brien, public relations manager.
“That said, we know there has been a slight decrease in circulation of physical materials during the two-year comparison.”
Overall ORL circulation went from 3,202, 963 in 2013 to 3,090,479 in 2014, or down 3.51 per cent.
“We believe Vernon’s decrease in circulation is more pronounced than it should be due to the flood that occurred there in early 2014,” said O’Brien.
Elsewhere in the North Okanagan, 2014 circulation decreased 0.02 per cent in Armstrong, 7.56 per cent in Enderby, 21.94 per cent in Falkland, 12.73 per cent in Lumby. Circulation climbed 4.5 per cent in Cherryville in 2014.
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Home PRESS RELEASES Madison School Board President Reyes: Will not seek re-election
Madison School Board President Reyes: Will not seek re-election
Statement by Gloria Reyes
I am announcing today that I will not seek re-election to the Madison School Board. This has been a difficult decision. I’ve made it after much consideration, consultation with my family, and as always with the future of our Madison Schools and our students uppermost in my mind.
As a Board member, I have always felt that our MMSD community deserved every ounce of energy I have. I’ve given that. Now, I have taken on a big, important, new job. While my new employer is fully supportive of my public service, I believe my focus must turn completely to serving our Briarpatch youth and families.
It has been an honor to serve alongside my fellow board members, who have supported my leadership and who are steadfast and thoughtful public servants. We have accomplished a great deal together. Although there are challenges ahead, the District is in a strong place: a respected, effective leader as Superintendent and continued investment from our community thanks to two successful referenda this fall. This Board will lead us into a bright future.
During my three years on the Board, we have gone through significant changes, leaving us open for opportunities to make even more change happen. We have begun to build a new normal, where black excellence is not just words we say but is incorporated into all we do; where inclusion and equity brings justice to those most vulnerable in our communities; a new normal where we close achievement gaps. We must continue on this path.
I would like to thank all those who have supported me on this journey and who came together to elect the first Latina to the Madison School Board. It was your support and your commitment that kept me resilient and resolute in making decisions based on what was best for our students and school community. Thank you for standing alongside me, holding me accountable, and pushing me as an elected leader to grow, to learn, and to have the courage to make tough decisions.
It is my firm belief that public schools are the foundation of a city’s success. Throughout this journey, I have learned that our Madison Public Schools are at the center of our City, an engine that drives excellence, that creates promise, and that highlights who we want to be as a community. I will continue to support youth and our community in my new position, I will continue to work with the MMSD, and I will always be a champion for Madison Public Schools.
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Carol Barr, wife of Kentucky Congressman, dies unexpectedly at age 39
Updated: 5:10 PM EDT Jun 17, 2020
Timothy D. Easley
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., right, with his wife Carol and daughters Eleanor and Mary Clay look out over his supporters at his victory celebration in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
SOURCE: Timothy D. Easley
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr expressed “profound grief” Wednesday over the unexpected death of his 39-year-old wife at their home in Kentucky the night before.Eleanor Carol Leavell Barr died of natural causes from a heart condition known as mitral valve prolapse, the Fayette County coroner's office said in a preliminary autopsy report.Barr died in Lexington, the Republican congressman's chief of staff, Mary Rosado, said in a statement.“In this moment of profound grief and heartbreak, we are so grateful for the gift and blessing of Carol’s life, for her strong faith in her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for the comfort of fond memories and her victory in heaven and for all those who have surrounded Carol’s family, the girls and I with beautiful expressions of love, compassion and sympathy,” Barr's statement said. He also asked for prayers for their two daughters.U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement he and his wife are “stunned and heartbroken” by the news, and send their “sincere condolences to Andy, their family and his staff at this terribly painful time."Condolences for her passing flowed in through the night from other Kentucky politicians, including Gov. Andy Beshear and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul.Barr, who went by Carol, grew up in the state, attended the University of Kentucky, and married Andy Barr in 2008. The couple went on to have two children. She had worked for Pfizer, and as the executive director of Lexington’s Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship.Barr represents Kentucky's 6th District, which includes the cities of Lexington, Richmond and Frankfort.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) —
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr expressed “profound grief” Wednesday over the unexpected death of his 39-year-old wife at their home in Kentucky the night before.
Eleanor Carol Leavell Barr died of natural causes from a heart condition known as mitral valve prolapse, the Fayette County coroner's office said in a preliminary autopsy report.
Barr died in Lexington, the Republican congressman's chief of staff, Mary Rosado, said in a statement.
“In this moment of profound grief and heartbreak, we are so grateful for the gift and blessing of Carol’s life, for her strong faith in her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for the comfort of fond memories and her victory in heaven and for all those who have surrounded Carol’s family, the girls and I with beautiful expressions of love, compassion and sympathy,” Barr's statement said. He also asked for prayers for their two daughters.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement he and his wife are “stunned and heartbroken” by the news, and send their “sincere condolences to Andy, their family and his staff at this terribly painful time."
Condolences for her passing flowed in through the night from other Kentucky politicians, including Gov. Andy Beshear and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul.
Barr, who went by Carol, grew up in the state, attended the University of Kentucky, and married Andy Barr in 2008. The couple went on to have two children. She had worked for Pfizer, and as the executive director of Lexington’s Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship.
Barr represents Kentucky's 6th District, which includes the cities of Lexington, Richmond and Frankfort.
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Pentagon to cut troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press
As you know, I was in Afghanistan on Saturday with President Ghani and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to Afghanistan, which reaffirms the United States partnership with the government of Afghanistan. This was an important first step towards a political solution to end the war in Afghanistan. What we'll do is we'll go to 8600 and we're gonna stop and we'll assess the situation, not just tactically on the ground, but also are all the parties living up to their obligations, their commitments. Are they acting in good faith and showing good effort. And I don't want to get too far ahead of us at this point. But we're just gonna go to that point and we'll assess the situation. One is the Taliban is not a monolithic group. There's multiple terrorist organizations operating over there, so we don't know. I know the attack you're talking about. Got some initial reports on it. Uh, we don't know exactly who did that yet. Uh, that's the first point. Secondly, I would caution everybody Thio think that there's going to be an absolute cessation of violence in Afghanistan. That is probably not gonna have. It's really not gonna go to zero. Uh, so this this is a significant step forward. Uh, this agreement and it's gonna lead to inter Afghan dialogue, and it ultimately leads to a peace agreement. But to think that it's gonna go to zero immediately, that probably is not going to be the case. This is gonna be a long wind e bumpy road. There will be ups and downs and we'll stop and start. That's gonna be the nature of this over the next, uh, days, weeks and months. And so I'm not gonna get too excited about what happens at the moment. We're just gonna deal with each situation as it arises and make sure we stay focused on the mission. The mission here again, Number one, is to make sure Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorists to attack this country. We've been very successful for the past 18 years for doing that and then number to support our Afghan partners in the process and then number three again as we can bring our troops home, withdraw our presence in the country. But that's that's our commitment. That's what we intend to dio and we're gonna stay focused on that because at the end of the day, the best path, if not the only path forward, is through a political agreement between the warring parties.
Video above from March: US to start troop pullback in AfghanistanActing Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Tuesday announced plans to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying the decision fulfills President Donald Trump’s pledge to bring forces home even as Republicans and U.S. allies warn against a rash withdrawal.The new plan will accelerate troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan in Trump's final days in office, despite arguments from senior military officials in favor of a slower, more methodical pullout. Trump has refused to concede his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office Jan. 20, just five days after the troop withdrawals are slated to finish.Miller, who refused to take questions from reporters, said the plan will cut the number of troops in Afghanistan from more than 4,500 to 2,500, and in Iraq from about 3,000 to 2,500. Miller added that the U.S. remains ready to respond if conditions deteriorate.“If the forces of terror, instability, division and hate begin a deliberate campaign to disrupt our efforts, we stand ready to apply the capabilities required to thwart them,” he said in a roughly eight-minute statement to reporters in the Pentagon briefing room.The withdrawal plan falls short of Trump’s oft-repeated vow to end America’s long wars. It also runs counter to his guidance that troop withdrawals be based on the conditions on the ground, not a date on the calendar.In Afghanistan, in particular, military and defense leaders have consistently said the Taliban has not yet met requirements to reduce violent attacks against Afghan government forces. U.S. forces have remained in Afghanistan since they invaded in October 2001.The decision has already received a cool reception from some Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, and a somewhat uncharacteristically blunt critique from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien said the president is keeping his promise to the American people to get U.S. troops out of war zones. “By May, it is President Trump’s hope that they will all come home safely and in their entirety,” O’Brien told reporters at the White House shortly after Miller made the announcement at the Pentagon.“I want to reiterate that this policy is not new,” O’Brien said. “This has been the president’s policy since he took office.”Shortly after the announcement was made, four rockets struck inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, wounding at least two people and signaling an end to an informal truce announced by Iran-backed militias in October.The rockets were fired from the al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighborhood of Baghdad, according to the military's statement.Two Iraqi security officials said the rockets struck just 2,000 feet from the U.S. Embassy and were intercepted by the C-RAM air defense system installed by the U.S. earlier this year.There was no immediate claim of responsibility.Two Iraqi security forces personnel were wounded, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Video above from March: US to start troop pullback in Afghanistan
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Tuesday announced plans to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying the decision fulfills President Donald Trump’s pledge to bring forces home even as Republicans and U.S. allies warn against a rash withdrawal.
The new plan will accelerate troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan in Trump's final days in office, despite arguments from senior military officials in favor of a slower, more methodical pullout. Trump has refused to concede his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office Jan. 20, just five days after the troop withdrawals are slated to finish.
Miller, who refused to take questions from reporters, said the plan will cut the number of troops in Afghanistan from more than 4,500 to 2,500, and in Iraq from about 3,000 to 2,500. Miller added that the U.S. remains ready to respond if conditions deteriorate.
“If the forces of terror, instability, division and hate begin a deliberate campaign to disrupt our efforts, we stand ready to apply the capabilities required to thwart them,” he said in a roughly eight-minute statement to reporters in the Pentagon briefing room.
The withdrawal plan falls short of Trump’s oft-repeated vow to end America’s long wars. It also runs counter to his guidance that troop withdrawals be based on the conditions on the ground, not a date on the calendar.
In Afghanistan, in particular, military and defense leaders have consistently said the Taliban has not yet met requirements to reduce violent attacks against Afghan government forces. U.S. forces have remained in Afghanistan since they invaded in October 2001.
The decision has already received a cool reception from some Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, and a somewhat uncharacteristically blunt critique from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien said the president is keeping his promise to the American people to get U.S. troops out of war zones. “By May, it is President Trump’s hope that they will all come home safely and in their entirety,” O’Brien told reporters at the White House shortly after Miller made the announcement at the Pentagon.
“I want to reiterate that this policy is not new,” O’Brien said. “This has been the president’s policy since he took office.”
Shortly after the announcement was made, four rockets struck inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, wounding at least two people and signaling an end to an informal truce announced by Iran-backed militias in October.
The rockets were fired from the al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighborhood of Baghdad, according to the military's statement.
Two Iraqi security officials said the rockets struck just 2,000 feet from the U.S. Embassy and were intercepted by the C-RAM air defense system installed by the U.S. earlier this year.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Two Iraqi security forces personnel were wounded, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
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President Trump named most admired, ends Obama's tenure at top of poll
Others cited include Pope Francis, Elon Musk, LeBron James, Dalai Lama
By Bob Unruh
Published December 29, 2020 at 11:34am
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend the 2020 Salute to America event Saturday, July 4, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Andrea Hanks)
President Trump has been named 2020's "Most Admired Man" in a poll by Gallup, ousting Barack Obama from the position he held for more than a decade.
Eighteen percent of the respondents overall named President Trump, while Obama placed second.
Others named include Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates, LeBron James and the Dalai Lama.
Michelle Obama was named most admired among women with Hillary Clinton far down the list with only 2% citing her.
"The incumbent president is usually top of mind when Gallup asks Americans to name, without prompting, which man living anywhere in the world they admire most. In the 74 times Gallup has asked the open-ended most admired man question since 1946, the incumbent president has topped the list 60 times. Harry Truman (1946-1947 and 1950-1952), Lyndon Johnson (1967-1968), Richard Nixon (1973), Gerald Ford (1974-1975), Jimmy Carter (1980), George W. Bush (2008) and Trump (2017-2018) are the incumbent presidents who did not finish first in past years," the polling report said.
"When the sitting president is not the top choice, it is usually because he is unpopular politically. That was the case in 2017 and 2018 when Trump had 36% and 40% approval ratings, respectively, and finished second to Obama as most admired man," the report continued. "Even though Trump is similarly unpopular now – 39% approve of his performance – his dominant performance among Republicans, contrasted with Democrats splitting their choices among multiple public figures, pushes him to the top of the 2020 most admired man list."
The report said 48% of Republicans named Trump this year, and while Obama was named top choice among Democrats, with 32%, a figure that plunged from the 41% just a year ago.
"Independents are evenly split between Trump (11%) and Obama (11%), with another 3% naming Biden and 2% Fauci," it said.
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Overall, 18% of Americans name Trump, 15% name Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci. The remaining top 10 men include Pope Francis, businessman Elon Musk, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, basketball player LeBron James, and the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.
Twenty-one percent did not offer an opinion, while 11% named a relative or friend.
"This year marks the 10th time Trump has finished among the top 10 men, including four times before he entered party politics -- 1988 through 1990 and 2011," the report said.
"The Rev. Billy Graham, who passed away in 2018, finished among the top 10 a record 61 times during his life," the report said.
This year, 10% of Americans name Michelle Obama as most admired woman, 6% name Kamala Harris, and 4% name current first lady Melania Trump. She has been in the top 10 each of the past four years.
Other women cited include Oprah Winfrey, Angela Merkel, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Queen Elizabeth II, Amy Coney Barrett and Greta Thunberg.
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The Patriot Act, Encore
Cover page to sheet music for the American patriotic World War I song 'When Yankee Doodle Learns to Parlez Vous Francais'.
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BOB: The defensive posture expressed in the Patriot Act is not unique to the US. Last January’s deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo was met with an outpouring of international support, and reflexive calls from French politicians for legal measures to prevent future attacks. Within days, critics were warning that a “French Patriot Act” was near at hand. But this idea, plausible as it seemed, was roundly dismissed. A New York Times article published a week after the attack quoted French politicians and civil libertarians all citing the many failings of the US Patriot Act and demonstrating why France would never respond in such a manner. With 82% of French citizens rejecting the United States’s version of domestic surveillance...C’est impossible, they said. Well, turns out...Au contraire.
NEWS MONTAGE:
“Today, France’s parliament has passed its own intelligence act...”
“It’s been dubbed the French Patriot Act, that’s what critics are calling it at least..."
“France is moving ahead with a plan to tighten security by expanding surveillance. The French parliament passed a bill to increase the government’s ability spy on civilians without a court order...”
"It is a law that would enable a massive uptick of data, allowing the surveillance of many individuals, some of which have nothing to do with terrorism, organized crime, or spying."
BOB: Clémence Bectarte is a lawyer for the International Federation for Human Rights and a French citizen. She has been astonished by the speedy shift from “ridiculous” to “reality.”
Clémence Bectarte: We were very disappointed when we learned that this law was presented by the french government to the parliament because in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the official reactions were more confident in saying we need time to understand how this was possible. How 3 young men born on French soil, French citizens, were able in their 20s and 30s to perpetrate horrible terrorist acts in France. This is the true question that we have to answer now. And this was a positive signal from the French government in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, but then, things changed and they decided to use fear that new terrorist attacks could happen, to pass this law. This is very disappointing.
BOB: It's one thing in a period of panic for politicians and those in the security apparatus to overreact, to overreach, with security measures. But you have suggested that this law merely makes official security programs that have either been underway or have been in preparation long before Charlie Hebdo.
Clémence Bectarte: Yeah we're convinced of this. Two years ago there were media revelations from two important French newspapers that the French intelligence services already had a program which enabled them to implement surveillance measures including massive interception of data from French citizens. The French government strongly denied the existence of this program, but then when they came out with this law two months ago, they admitted that in fact this program already existed and that the purpose of this law was to legalize what is already being used but without any legal basis or any legal framework. So we think that the French government used the fear of the post-Charlie Hebdo attacks to take out a piece of legislation from the desk drawers and to present it to the French parliament, saying this is the most reasonable way to prevent any terrorist attacks from taking place in the future.
BOB: Now there's one thing I want to clarify. It is not as though, before January, France was a -- here's another one -- laissez-faire society that just allowed terrorists to run around willy-nilly. There was a pretty significant existing body of law giving the government fairly broad powers before the terrorist attack.
Clémence Bectarte: Yeah. France was one of the first democratic states to enact specific legislation at the end of the 80s, when France was under the pressure of attacks coming from terrorist groups in Algeria. France was very proud of its legislation. The Wikileaks, for example, cables have shown that a very famous anti-terrorist judge in France regularly came to the U.S. embassy in Paris to boast about the merits of legislation that he could use in his everyday work as anti-terrorist judge.
BOB: Lets talk about the political context for all of this that makes it perhaps more surprising. And that is, you don't have a right wing president. Your president isn't Marine Le Pen and it isn't even George W. Bush, it's Francois Hollande who is a socialist! How did that happen?
Clémence Bectarte: It's true that we would have more expected such piece of legislation coming out from the Sarkozy administration than from the Hollande administration. But on these considerations, there seems to be a political unanimity in France saying that security is more important the the respect of individual liberties and freedoms.
BOB: Is this an unstoppable course of action?
Clémence Bectarte: Well, the fact that there are a lot of critics in France to this text will contribute to a true debate. We know that there have already been amendments but it remains largely insufficient for us. Given the opposition to this text by civil society groups and others in France, the president, Francois Hollande, has announced recently that he would submit this piece of legislation to the control of the constitutional court to see whether this text is in conformity with the constitution, and in particular, the provisions concerning freedom of expression, right to privacy, and individual liberties as a whole.
BOB: Clémence, thank you so much.
Clémence Bectarte: You're welcome, thank you.
BOB: Clémence Bectarte is a lawyer for the International Federation for Human Rights.
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Stock Markets Take A Dive After Months Of Growth
Published August 2, 2014 at 5:05 PM EDT
ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST:
From the studios of NPR West in Culver City, California, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Eric Westervelt.
Heavy fighting continued in Gaza today. Israel's prime minister said, his country will continue its military operation as long as needed to stop Hamas attacks. In spite of that conflict, and those raging elsewhere around the globe for much of this year, the stock markets have been steadily rising. But they may now be showing a few signs of weakness. Yesterday, the major markets in the U.S., Europe and Asia all ended down. It was the Dow's worst week since January and the worst week in two years for the S and P 500.
Erin McCarthy is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. I asked her if dip in the markets had anything to do with those global conflicts.
ERIN MCCARTHY: It might. There was actually a lot of confusion about the drop on Thursday and Friday. People were sort of scratching their heads about it. Some analysts attributed the drop to some of these geopolitical conflicts. Others pointed to disappointing earning results out of Europe and out of companies in the U.S. And some of the other thoughts were longer-term; people are looking at the Federal Reserve and when they might be raising interest rates, which is still pretty far down the road, but given some positive U.S. economic data this week people are wondering, when is that going to happen? And that will obviously have a big impact on markets.
WESTERVELT: Right. So the stimulus programs from central banks around the world have been pumping money into the market, and the U.S. Federal Reserve is part of that punch bowl. But that's going to slowly go away. The taper, as they call it. You know, what happens when our economy is strong enough that the Fed ends its assistance?
MCCARTHY: Well it's - people are still pretty confident that markets will have a good level of support, even when the bond-buying program ends - which people are saying will probably happen in October - but even when that finishes up, interest rates in the U.S. are really, really, really low. And that's been another pillar of support for markets since the financial crisis. So even when the tapering wraps up there's still going to be a pretty good amount of support for the markets.
WESTERVELT: So what's your take? The dip Thursday and Friday in the market was a bit of an anomaly. I mean, the markets have been doing pretty well since January in spite of all of this global conflict, correct?
MCCARTHY: Yeah. They've been doing really great. You know, for the past five months it's been just on an upward trajectory. But one of the things a lot of analysts have been saying is, you know, given that it's been rising so steadily it's due - or it has been due a little bit - for a pullback. People might be taking a step back, taking profits, looking at the market, looking at the geopolitical situations, corporate earnings and taking the opportunity to close out some of their positions.
WESTERVELT: So what's your take? What would it take to really rattle global markets? I mean, there's no oil in Gaza. And it was surprising to some that even the Ukraine fighting hadn't rattled markets that much either.
MCCARTHY: It has been surprising. I think one of the things, like you mentioned, is the oil market. So far, there haven't really been any disruptions to oil production globally. So for now that's not a huge impact. If in some way oil production was disrupted, I think that could have a spillover effect into other markets. Other factors could be if the U.S. got more involved in some of these geopolitical conflicts. So far, you know, they've had largely a diplomatic role. If that changed, I think that could get markets a little more worried.
WESTERVELT: Always seems to come back to oil and whether the U.S. is going to put boots on the ground.
MCCARTHY: Yeah, absolutely. That's a big factor. And people are also looking at the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Central Bank, and how they're gauging the situation. And so far, the Fed hasn't really signaled a lot of concern about these geopolitical issues and their economic impact. So while the Fed seems not super concerned, markets will also take that as a cue that maybe they shouldn't be.
WESTERVELT: That's Erin McCarthy. She's a reporter with the Wall Street Journal.
Erin, thank you.
MCCARTHY: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Agency Pushes Back On Claim Trump Would Breach Hotel Lease Once He Takes Office
By Jessica Taylor
Published December 14, 2016 at 2:50 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump officially opened up his latest hotel in the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., in October.
The General Services Administration is pushing back against House Democrats' contention that President-elect Donald Trump would be breaching his lease on his latest hotel in the Old Post Office Building once he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20.
"GSA does not have a position that the lease provision requires the President-elect to divest of his financial interests. We can make no definitive statement at this time about what would constitute a breach of the agreement, and to do so now would be premature," the government agency said in a statement.
"In fact, no determination regarding the Old Post Office can be completed until the full circumstances surrounding the President-elect's business arrangements have been finalized and he has assumed office," the statement continued. "GSA is committed to responsibly administering all of the leases to which it is a party."
Four House Democrats on the Oversight Committee said in a letter Wednesday that the deputy commissioner of the GSA had told them that Trump would be in breach of his lease with the government for the new Trump International Hotel in D.C. That contract has a clause that specifies that no elected government official can be party to the lease.
"The Deputy Commissioner made clear that Mr. Trump must divest himself not only of managerial control, but of all ownership as well," Reps. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.; Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.; Gerry Connolly, D-Va.; and Andre Carson, D-Ind., wrote in the letter.
The GSA, however, says it cannot determine whether occupying the Oval Office and being a part of the lease would constitute a breach until Trump officially takes office.
But Cummings, the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, says, "We understand GSA's position that this breach has not yet occurred, will not occur until Donald Trump is sworn in as president, and is officially viewed as a 'hypothetical' issue until that time. We also share GSA's hope that the agency will not have to address this issue if President-elect Trump divests his ownership in the lease before then. But the simple fact is that GSA informed our staffs that they interpret this lease provision as prohibiting any elected official from having any ownership interest in the lease, and we stand 100% behind our letter."
The president-elect has yet to outline how he plans to deal with his business interests and the many conflicts of interests arising as he prepares to enter the White House. Trump was slated to hold a news conference on Thursday to address that, but instead on Monday he postponed it until a yet-to-be specified date in January.
Trump suggested Sunday in an interview with Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that he will not sell off his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest during his term, instead letting his adult children run them. But given the closeness of some of his children to his transition and eventual administration, there are still questions about conflicts from their involvement as well.
In a letter on Tuesday, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics urged Trump to fully divest from his businesses, arguing that letting his children run the companies wasn't enough.
Trump opened the luxury hotel to great fanfare just days before the election. His ties to the venture have already drawn scrutiny as foreign diplomats have said they might stay there to try to curry favor with the incoming president.
Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politicsand is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.
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Many Nurses Lack Knowledge Of Health Risks To Mothers After Childbirth
By Renee Montagne
Nina Martin, ProPublica
The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is the highest among affluent nations. Researchers believe that with better education, postpartum nurses could help mothers identify life-threatening complications.
In recent months, mothers who nearly died in the hours and days after giving birth have repeatedly told ProPublica and NPR that their doctors and nurses were often slow to recognize the warning signs that their bodies weren't healing properly.
A study published Tuesday in MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing substantiates some of those concerns. Researchers surveyed 372 postpartum nurses nationwide and found that many of them were ill-informed about the dangers mothers face after giving birth.
Needing more education themselves, they were unable to fulfill their critical role of educating moms about symptoms like painful swelling, headaches, heavy bleeding and breathing problems that could indicate potentially life-threatening complications.
By failing to alert mothers to such risks, the study found, nurses may be missing an opportunity to help reduce the maternal mortality rate in the U.S., the highest among affluent nations. An estimated 700 to 900 women die in the U.S. every year from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes. Another 65,000 nearly die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rates are highest among black mothers and women in rural areas. A recent CDC Foundation analysis of data from four states found that close to 60 percent of maternal deaths were preventable.
Nearly half of the nurses who responded to the survey were unaware that maternal mortality has risen in the U.S. in recent years, and 19 percent thought maternal deaths had actually declined. "If [nurses] aren't aware that there's been a rise in maternal mortality, then it makes it less urgent to explain to women what the warning signs are," says study co-author Debra Bingham, who heads the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement and teaches at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
Only 12 percent of the respondents knew that the majority of maternal deaths occur in the days and weeks after delivery. Only 24 percent correctly identified heart-related problems as the leading cause of maternal death in the U.S.
In fact, cardiovascular disease and heart failure — which, according to recent data, account for more than a quarter of maternal deaths in this country — were "the area that the nurses felt the least confident in teaching about," says Patricia Suplee, an associate professor at the Rutgers University School of Nursing in Camden, N.J., and the lead researcher on the study.
Nurses also said they spent very little time — usually 10 minutes or less — instructing new moms about warning signs of potential complications. Many of the nurses said they were only likely to discuss such life-threatening conditions as pre-eclampsia (pregnancy-related high blood pressure), blood clots in the lungs or heart problems "if relevant," though it was unclear what that meant. As the study noted, "it is impossible to accurately predict which women will suffer from a post-birth complication."
The post-delivery education provided by nurses is particularly important because once a mother leaves the hospital, she typically doesn't see her own doctor for four to six weeks. Up to 40 percent of new moms, overwhelmed with caring for an infant and often lacking in maternity leave, child care, transportation and other kinds of support, never go back for their follow-up appointments.
Figuring out the best way to instruct new mothers is all the more crucial, the survey noted, because the first days after giving birth are "exhausting, emotionally charged and physiologically draining" — hardly an ideal learning environment. But like so many other important aspects of maternal health care, postpartum education has been poorly studied, Bingham says.
The respondents, of whom nearly one-third had master's or doctoral degrees, were members of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, the leading professional organization for nurses specializing in maternal and infant care. The association began looking at the education issue in 2014, when Bingham was the association's vice president of nursing research and education. "We had to start really from the ground up, because we didn't know exactly what women were being taught," she says.
In focus groups conducted in New Jersey and Georgia, two states with especially high rates of maternal mortality, researchers discovered that postpartum nurses spent most of their time educating moms about how to care for their new babies, not themselves. The information mothers did receive about their own health risks was wildly inconsistent and sometimes incorrect, Bingham says. The written materials women took home often weren't much better.
Some nurses were uncomfortable discussing the possibility that complications could be life-threatening. "We had some nurses come out and say, 'Well you know what, I don't want to scare the woman. This is supposed to be a happy time. I don't want to seem like all I want to talk about is death,' " Bingham says.
But the researchers also found that nurses could be quickly educated with short, targeted information. Using insights from the focus groups, an expert panel developed two standardized tools: a checklist and script that nurses could follow when instructing new mothers and a one-page handout of post-birth warning signs that mothers could refer to after they returned home, with clear-cut instructions for when to see a doctor or call 911.
Those tools were tested in four hospitals in 2015. "Very quickly, we started hearing from the nurses that women were coming back to the hospital with the handout, saying, 'I have this symptom,' " Bingham says.
One of them was a Georgia mom named Sarah Duckett, who had just given birth to her second child. A week later, she recognized the warning signs of what turned out to be a blood clot in her lung, a postpartum complication that can be fatal. "Those were anecdotes, but they were very powerful anecdotes," Bingham says. "I've led multiple projects over the years, and rarely do I get such immediate feedback that something is working."
The shortcomings documented by the national survey could foster wider use of these tools, suggests Mary-Ann Etiebet, executive director of Merck for Mothers, which funded the study as part of a 10-year, $500 million initiative to improve maternal health around the world. "Something as simple as creating educational and training programs for nurses ... can have a real impact," she says.
Renee Montagne
Renee Montagne, one of the best-known names in public radio, is a special correspondent and host for NPR News.
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Director Bendjelloul Searched For Mysterious 'Sugar Man'
This week, Malik Bendejelloul, who won the 2013 Oscar for his film "Searching for Sugar Man," was found dead in Stockholm. The cause of death is unknown, though his brother told the Guardian newspaper that Malik Bendejelloul took his own life after a struggle with depression.
"Searching for Sugar Man" was a documentary about Sixto Rodriguez, a folk rock singer who seemed poised to break through the charts in the early 1970s but never quite did. He stayed in Detroit. He rehabbed houses, hard physical work. He had a family. And all the while, this man who'd given up hope of musical stardom was becoming a household name in South Africa.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUGAR MAN")
SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sugar man, won't you hurry 'cause I'm tired of these scenes. For a blue coin, won't you bring back.
SIMON: That's the music of Sixto Rodriguez, a song called "Sugar Man" from his 1970 debut album "Cold Fact." In 2012, we spoke with Malik Bendejelloul about his hunt to find Rodriguez which became the story of his film.
He'd first heard about an American singer named Rodriguez on a trip to Cape Town, where people told him that his music had become a kind of anthem for young South Africans who wanted change during the apartheid era when that country was cut off from the rest of the world, which may explain why so many of his fans in South Africa were all able to believe that Rodriguez was dead.
MALIK BENDEJELLOUL: And no one knows exactly how the album came, but when it came, it just spread. And he became as famous and as dead as Jimi Hendrix. Everyone knew his songs. Everyone knew his albums. And everyone knew that Rodriguez was completely dead. There is one story that he shot himself dead on the stage. Then there's another story that he OD'd and that's how he died. And after 30 years, a detective - or actually, two detectives in South Africa, like, music generalists - who said there are different stories.
Which story is the true one? And after years of search, they found the producer of the album. They call him and they are like full of questions. They ask, how was the album made? And the most important thing, how did he die? And he says, no, I saw Rodriguez this morning. He's living down the street. And they called Rodriguez and they tell him, you're bigger than Elvis.
And he, you know, hangs up the phone. He thinks it's a crank call, it's a practical joke. So they call them again and say, listen, listen, this is true. Did you make an album called "Cold Fact"? Yeah, yeah, that's my album. In South Africa, it's more famous than "Abbey Road."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WONDER")
RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) I wonder about the love you can't find, and I wonder about the loneliness that's mine. I wonder how much going have you got, and I wonder about your friends that are not. I wonder. I wonder.
SIMON: Malik Bendejelloul followed the quest of two South African filmmakers who found Sixto Rodriguez alive and happy in Detroit but completely unaware of his stardom in a country on the other side of the world. It wasn't until the apartheid regime ended that his fans discovered that the man whose music had inspired them was still alive. The story captured Malik Bendejelloul's imagination.
SIMON: Mr. Bendejelloul, why do you think it was that Rodriguez became so important to the people of South Africa?
BENDEJELLOUL: In those years in South Africa, it was the apartheid. For decades, they had this almost Nazi regime in a modern state, which was outrageous. And for years, it was this situation where you couldn't express any criticism. If you did, you could be thrown into jail.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE ESTABLISHMENT BLUES")
RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) The mayor hides the crimes rates. Councilwoman hesitates. The public gets irate. But forgets the vote date. Weatherman complaining, predicting sun, it's raining. Everyone's protesting. Boyfriend keeps suggesting. You're not like all of the rest.
BENDEJELLOUL: Rodriguez was the first artist that actually had political content that was antiestablishment that got heard.
RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Smoking causes cancer. This system's going to fall soon to an angry young tune. And that's a concrete cold fact.
BENDEJELLOUL: The first white anti-apartheid movement - the riot from a few rock bands. And they said those lines, system is going to fall soon to an angry young tune, were the inspiration. I mean, they kind of thought, maybe we are going to make those tunes. And that's what they did.
RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sons and monies drafted. Living by a timepiece, new war in the far east. Can you pass the Rorschach test? It's a hassle, it's an educated guess. Well, frankly, I couldn't care less.
SIMON: The success of his film helped reignite Rodriguez's career. He toured South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand to clamoring crowds. He started touring the U.S. again for the first time since the 1970s. And on Wednesday at a performance in Chicago, Rodriguez said that Malik Bendejelloul will be sorely missed. Malik Bendejelloul ran out of money before he finished making "Searching for Sugar Man," so he shot the rest of it on his smartphone.
Rodriguez didn't go to the Oscars in 2013. He said he wanted the filmmakers to receive all the attention. Malik Bendejelloul died Tuesday in Stockholm. He was 36 years old. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Mark Twain's Famous Outcasts Float Through Three Centuries
Huck Finn sails on in Norman Lock's new novel "The Boy in His Winter." He follows Huck and Jim, a pair of literature's most famous outcasts, as they sail through time for three centuries, from the U.S. Civil War through Reconstruction, rural electrification, the virtual extinction of Indian Territory and its inhabitants, through to Hurricane Katrina and into Santa Monica 2077. Norman Lock, who's written novels, poetry, radio plays and won the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, joins us from the studios of WBGO in Newark. Thanks very much for being with us.
NORMAN LOCK: Good morning and thank you very much for inviting me.
SIMON: So how is it Huck and Jim are still around and slipped through time on their raft?
LOCK: Well, my wife and I were caught by Hurricane Sandy. We live just two miles from the bay and near the ravaged coastline. And while lying in bed thinking about the two for nine days, it came to me that they might have an adventure leading out of Hannibal, Miss. in 1835 and passing through key events of the middle 19th century, only to be blown back into time in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.
SIMON: Let's get a flavor of it, if we could. If you could read a section where Huck and Jim enter the 20th century.
LOCK: (Reading) "At Baton Rouge, we entered the 20th century. We did so by night. Like thieves stealing into a house, we would ransack for unimaginable treasures and horrors. We knew nothing of what lay ahead on that river in space and in time. Not even Jim's prophetic gifts could enlighten us about the future somber recesses other than we would die in it. But we were entranced as anyone would be who sees for the first time a town made incandescent by Mr. Edison's light bulb.
SIMON: You make no effort to write in that distinctive parlance of Mark Twain. I mean, you have your own distinctive style. But Huck has become a very distinct narrator of the story. Help us understand the judgment you made to proceed in your own literary style.
LOCK: Well, I did not set out to write a parody of Twain's great book. It would be presumptuous of me to parody or satire Twain, the better man. And I wanted to establish immediately that this was something different, that this was something mine.
SIMON: When you first read the book?
LOCK: In 1968.
SIMON: So you were in high school in 1968?
LOCK: Yes.
SIMON: What did the book mean to you then?
LOCK: I might have just been affected by its picaresque quality, its naughtiness. I don't know if I thought deeply when I was 18 of the deeper moral aspects of the book, which is what occupies - preoccupies me now. And maybe because I'm in my middle 60's, maybe now I want to write with a more of a moral purpose.
And I have to be careful when I say that because I don't want to be taken as a self-righteous prick, which I'm not. And I think one of the strategies in "The Boy in His Winter" that I employed was to implicate my Huckleberry in the evils of his time.
SIMON: I must say, you make Huck and Jim so real. You expected to get messages from them on your iPhone.
LOCK: (Laughter) That's quite a complement to one who does not text and does not have an iPhone and does not practice social media.
SIMON: Norman Lock. His new novel, "The Boy in His Winter." Thanks so much for being with us.
LOCK: Thank you. It's been a great pleasure. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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The new CMS board: A political shift?
WFAE | By Simone Orendain
Published November 4, 2009 at 12:00 PM EST
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School board is in for a major change with some new blood coming in to fill the shoes of two-term and three-term veterans. WFAE's Simone Orendian has more: The school board is technically a non-partisan body. Still, party affiliations can color board decisions especially when it comes to student assignment and the budget. And these two are high on the list of issues the new board will tackle once they take office. For years, Democrats have held a majority on the nine-member board. Now, the majority could swing depending on the issue. The five newly elected members help form a total of two independents, three Republicans and four Democrats. Board Chair Molly Griffin didn't run for reelection. She says her replacement will need to build consensus from the start. "I would advise them to reach out pretty quickly to every board member and to keep the lines of communication as open as possible. I do think this is going to be a particularly challenging year," says Griffin. Challenging, she says, because there will be so many new board members to work with. Plus, Griffin says the newbies have their work cut out for them. She says for an experienced board member 15 hours a week is about the average time to put into serving and for newcomers, it's really more like a fulltime job. On top of the work, the new members have to contend with a board that's often been called divisive and dysfunctional. Member-elect Eric Davis says now it's time to change that. "I think what our community really wants is a group of citizens that can bring their differences to the table and recognize those differences are strengths but not let them inhibit us from finding the solutions that we need to make CMS even better," he says. It's a lofty goal for any school board, where deep division and passionately sticking to your views are the norm. CMS Board election reporter Q and A
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EU Leaders Debate Program To Address Migrant Crisis
By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Published September 23, 2015 at 5:14 PM EDT
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:
European leaders are deeply divided over what to do about migrants and refugees who're pouring over their borders, and they're meeting in Brussels tonight to talk about it. Some are unhappy about yesterday's vote to relocate 120,000 refugees who are already in Greece and Italy to other EU states, including some countries that don't want any asylum-seekers at all. EU president Donald Tusk said he's fed up with their bickering.
DONALD TUSK: We have now reached the critical point where we need to end this cycle of mutual retributions and misunderstandings.
MCEVERS: NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is in Brussels, and she joins me now. Hi, Soraya.
SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE: Hi, Kelly.
MCEVERS: OK. So there was a vote last night, right? Interior and justice ministers already voted on this. Doesn't that resolve the issue. I mean, why are leaders still debating it at their summit there in Brussels?
NELSON: Well, the whole reason has to do with the fact that it was a vote. I mean, in the past, decision have been reached by consensus here at the EU, even during contentious debates like the one over the Greek debt relief. But then last night, the block's newer members felt like they were being ordered around by Brussels. And the fact that the European Commission and other advocates of the plan pointed out that quotas were no longer going to be mandatory. That this language was being removed didn't seem to appease anyone. And Slovakia, which was 1 of 4 countries that voted no has vowed to not follow these measures that are laid out and may go to court over it.
MCEVERS: OK. So you said the plan originally had mandatory quotas. But many member states had problem with that, so the quotas were removed. So how would the relocation program be enforced, then, without them?
NELSON: Well, this is sort of the doublespeak that goes on sometimes. But EU officials have said that they will launch infringement proceedings that could involve hefty penalties against countries that refuse to take refugees in. But because the distribution is voluntary, there's likely to be a lot of rejiggering as to what numbers countries will take in, you know, how many. And all of this back-and-forth will of course delay implementation. And keep in mind that the EU hasn't even started relocating the 40,000 that it first agreed to in - to do in May and then voted on September 14.
So also, for any of this to work, Greece, Hungary and Italy and other places that are taking in lots of refugees sort of as the first stop - they need to register these migrants because if - they need to determine if they're eligible for refugee status, which is not happening now.
MCEVERS: And we know that the number that they're debating, you know, doesn't even address a quarter of the people who are coming, who are making their way across Europe's borders. I mean, so what else are the leaders proposing to do?
NELSON: Well, a lot of that geared toward convincing refugees not to make the dangerous journey to Europe in the first place - or I should say migrants 'cause it's a larger group here that we're talking about. So they're planning to pour money into countries and agencies dealing with Syrian refugees who are still in the Middle East. Provide money to the World Food Program is another thing that's been talked about and to better coordinate with countries like Turkey, which borders Syria and is dealing with millions of refugees as well as the Balkans, which are, of course, on the transit route.
But as EU president Donald Tusk says, his recent trips to those countries showed that the leaders aren't thinking at all about what they can do to help the EU but what is the EU going to do to help them out of their own crisis?
MCEVERS: And what about some of these border controls we've been hearing out - fences and razor wire going up not just on Europe's borders but even between EU countries?
NELSON: Well, those don't appear to be going away anytime soon. Although, the EU emphasis is going to be more on fortifying borders to non-EU states - in other words, let's say between Hungary and Serbia. And Tusk says without control of those borders, no plan they come up with is going to work. And it terms of the internal borders, the feeling is that citizens will start crying out about having to wait at those borders, so those may go away on their own because of political pressure at home.
MCEVERS: That's NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Brussels. Soraya, thanks so much.
NELSON: You're welcome, Kelly. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Special correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is based in Berlin. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and read at NPR.org. From 2012 until 2018 Nelson was NPR's bureau chief in Berlin. She won the ICFJ 2017 Excellence in International Reporting Award for her work in Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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Experts Testify on Success of Foreclosure Mediation Programs at Whitehouse Hearing
Bankruptcy Court Mediations Help Cut Through Bureaucratic Red Tape
Washington, DC – Bankruptcy Court foreclosure mediation programs can help struggling homeowners cut through the red tape as they seek a mortgage modification to stay in their homes, according to testimony heard today in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). Starting in 2009, the Bankruptcy Courts for the Districts of Rhode Island and New York began offering pre-trial foreclosure mediations. While no settlement is required, the program brings together the homeowner and their mortgage company for a good faith negotiation.
In Whitehouse’s opening statement, he pointed out that while these programs will not save every home, “they can help countless frustrated homeowners cut through the bureaucratic nightmare and get answers to their modification requests.” He continued, “Because foreclosures can trash the value of a house, loss mitigation programs can save investors money too.”
Larry Britt, a Rhode Island homeowner, testified about his struggle to obtain a mortgage modification through the existing Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) – illustrating the need for a less burdensome alternative. “When I started the process in March of 2009, I had never been late paying any bills to any creditors and my credit score was near perfect,” said Britt. “Since entering into a modification process…the bank has ruined my credit rating and has been the major contributor of uncertainty about my future.”
The Honorable Robert Drain, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, testified about the success of the foreclosure mediation program in his district. “About one half of the Loss Mitigations that have concluded have resulted in some form of an agreement – usually a loan modification reducing the interest rate and stretching out payments – that has meant that the home remains occupied or that it is turned over in a way beneficial to both sides.”
Unfortunately, a loan servicer for Deutsche Bank recently challenged the legal authority of the Rhode Island Bankruptcy Court to run their mediation program. The Court ruled last week against Deutsche Bank, but with the threat of future appeals and ongoing litigation, Senator Whitehouse has introduced the Limiting Investor and Homeowner Loss in Foreclosure Act (S. 222) to support these successful programs. The bill would clarify the authority of bankruptcy courts to run modification programs.
Other witnesses today included John Rao, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, Dr. Anthony B. Sanders, a Professor and Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, and Andrew M. Grossman, a Visiting Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
At a field hearing in October 2010, Whitehouse heard from homeowners who found our current mortgage modification process to be overly burdensome and ineffective, and learned about the benefits of the Rhode Island Bankruptcy Court’s foreclosure mediation program.
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French mosque shooter tested for mental health problems
A police officer stands next to the entrance a mosque after an incident in Bayonne, southwestern France, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. French authorities say a suspect has been arrested for allegedly shooting and seriously injuring two elderly men who caught him trying to set fire to a mosque’s door. (AP Photo/Str)
PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor says the suspected gunman at Monday’s mosque shooting is being sent to a psychiatric doctor to assess his mental health, and the incident is not being handled as terrorism.
Marc Mariee said Tuesday the suspect, who had far-right links in the past, told police he carried out a gun attack at a mosque to “avenge the destruction at Notre Dame (cathedral),” which he blamed on Muslims. The suspect didn’t provide evidence.
The cause of April’s Notre Dame fire remains unknown. French officials have ruled criminal and terror-related motives, but conspiracy theorists are spreading misinformation about the origins.
Two elderly men, aged 74 and 78, were injured in this week’s non-fatal gun attack in the southwestern French city of Bayonne. Mariee said both men not in life-threatening condition.
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NY Lawmakers Push Voting By Mail Amid Coronavirus
By Karen Dewitt • Mar 29, 2020
Several New York State lawmakers and a co-chair of the state Board of Elections are pressing for New York to expand its absentee voting laws to allow for more mail-in balloting, and to postpone the April 28 presidential primary until late June.
New York has strict rules outlined in the state’s constitution about who can request an absentee ballot. The person either must be ill or out of the county they live in on Election Day.
A bill, sponsored in the Senate by Alessandra Biaggi, a Bronx Democrat, would expand the reasons to vote by mail to include a concern over fearing the spread of an illness during a state of emergency, as is now the case with COVID-19.
Biaggi, speaking during an online news conference, says New Yorkers are willingly agreeing to orders to stay home, but they should not have to sacrifice their right to vote.
“Any at risk individuals should be rightfully wary of voting in person at crowded polling places,” Biaggi said. “They should not have to choose between safeguarding their health and fulfilling their civic duty.”
The bill also applies to people under quarantine.
The measure is backed by the Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections Commission, Douglas Kellner. He believes there is precedence for bending the rules for absentee balloting. He says it occurred after 9/11 and no one challenged the changes in court. But he says having a new law in place to deal with concerns over the coronavirus would help.
“It would certainly help to immunize those rulings against any challenges in court later on,” Kellner said.
There is currently an effort underway in the legislature to amend the state’s constitution to essentially allow mail-in voting for any reason. But it’s a lengthy process, requiring the approval of two consecutively elected state legislatures, and a vote by the public. It could not be completed before November 2021.
A bill in the Assembly sponsored by Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn, would go further than Biaggi’s bill, and mandate mail-in voting for the April 28 presidential primary.
Dustin Czarny, Onondaga County Elections Commissioner and chair of the New York State Elections Commissioner Association’s Democratic caucus, says it’s not feasible right now to switch exclusively to mail-in voting.
“Hundreds of thousands of people are inactive on the voter rolls right now, that means we don’t have proper addresses for them,” said Czarny.
The lawmakers and elections officials, along with the good government groups Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters, among others, are also seeking to postpone the April 28 presidential primary, and hold it on June 23 instead. That date is already set for state and congressional primary elections.
Under the rules of the Democratic National Committee, states must hold their presidential primaries by June 2, or risk losing some of their delegates at the national convention.
Senator Biaggi says he believes the DNC will change the rules. She says it would be a “very bad PR move” for the DNC to punish New York for postponing a primary at a time when the virus is expected to peak in the state.
Biaggi and the others say they hope the legislature can expand absentee voting when lawmakers convene next week, either remotely or in person at the capitol. They say they may also need the rules for the November elections if the coronavirus is still a threat.
Cuomo: NY Schools Closed Until At Least April 15
By Jim Levulis • Mar 27, 2020
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Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday that New York state’s K through 12 schools will remain closed until at least April 15 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Famous meteorologist Kate Bilo is famous for her news and weather on the Eyewitness News team since she joined them as the Chief Meteorologists on CBS3 and The CW Philly (the Philadelphia CW channel) back in October of 2010. After ten years, she has dominated the big screen when it comes to weather, and is almost as famous as the Weather Channel itself. However, that’s not where she got her big start. As a matter of fact, she has worked with a numerous amount of clients, from radio stations, and even some online weather channel website teams as well. If you like watching the news and weather, then you’ll want to know about the weather personalities that you love to watch.
Who is Kate Bilo?
Bilo herself, was born in Phoenixville, and while she came home to the Delaware area from AccuWeather’s college in Pennsylvania, where she was a meteorologist from 2004 until she moved, she wanted to have a good change of pace. For the numerous AccuWeather clients she worked for, her voice on both television and radio reached FOX News, CNBC, and even ABC News as well as hundreds of local area smaller news stations.
Kate Bilo graduated from Penn State University in 2003, the same college that one of Denzel Washington’s sons attended. She received honors by getting a Bachelor’s of Science degree in both Spanish as well as International Business. She also ended up going to Mississippi State University and getting her Bachelor’s in Geosciences as well, which helped her not only with broadcasting, but also her meteorology credit. Over the years, she ended up hosting “The Talk”, an Emmy nominated show as well on top of performing her regular weather forecasting.
She Loves to Read
One thing that may people don’t realize is that Kate Bilo is an avid book connoisseur. She enjoys reading, and she reads a lot. She has a goal that he sticks to in which she plans to read at least one hundred books every year. She also helps children learn to enjoy reading and she is a Champion of Reading at Philadelphia’s Library summer program to go around to libraries and read books. She also loves traveling as any weather personality does, and of course, she wants to chase some serious tornadoes someday, although that hasn’t happened as of yet.
Aside from the facts above, not much is known about Kate Bilo’s personal life. She doesn’t boast a lot of her personal life and private life on social media and other platforms, and almost always maintains what people consider to be a professional demeanor. As one of America’s top weathercasters, she has made her priority her work, her colleagues, and more. We don’t have any information on her marital status, and whether or not she has children that she can spend time with.
Further Endeavors
Not much is known about Kate Bilo’s future endeavors aside from what we mentioned. After being on her current show for the last ten years, it is unsure of whether she’s going to go outside of her network more than she has, or if she’s going to switch positions. It takes a lot of work to be a meteorologist, and many of them endure all types of psychological problems because of their jobs. For one to stick around for a decade requires a special kind of growth mentality that only she has. However, she is working hard to achieve her goals compared to many others out there. In retrospect, it’s not a surprise that after working ten years for the same company as a news and weather broadcaster, she has definitely proved herself as a prominent figure. Many people don’t like weather forecasters and judge them because things don’t always go as planned. However, the nation has learned to admire some of those select few that have stuck around as long as she has to grow into a national news celebrity (especially one that’s not just the average reporter).
Kate Bilo is a book enthusiast who has a very detailed college education in the field of meteorology and Geosciences. She has been on television and radio all over the United States as a voice for weather and news in many different news outlets as well as radio stations. Though she is one of the primary weather forecasters in the Philadelphia, PA area, she has been around the country and her work is spread out throughout the states to make her something of a national celebrity when it comes to finding out the weather.
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Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. This book examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. ...
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats ...
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 : Reversals of Fortune
World Bank (2020-10-07)
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in over twenty years. With COVID-19 predicted to push up to 100 million additional people into extreme poverty in 2020, trends in global poverty rates will be set back at least three years over the next decade. Today, 40 percent of the global poor live in fragile or conflict-affected situations, a share that could reach two-thirds by 2030. Multiple effects of climate change could drive an estimated 65 to 129 million people into poverty in the same period. “Reversing the reversal” will require responding effectively to COVID-19, conflict, and climate change while not losing focus on the challenges that most poor people continue to face most of the time. Though these are distinctive types of challenges, there is much to be learned ...
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in over twenty years. With COVID-19 predicted to push up to 100 million additional people into extreme poverty in 2020, trends in global poverty rates will be set back at least three years ...
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in over twenty years. With COVID-19 predicted to ...
World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2020 : From Containment to Recovery
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession. Without action on multiple fronts, the pandemic could reduce regional growth over the next decade by 1 percentage point per year, with the greatest impacts being felt by poor households, because of lower levels of access to healthcare, education, jobs, and finance. Why were many economies in the region able to contain the disease while some others still struggle? How have these shocks affected economic activity and poverty in different countries? What are the prospects for recovery and how will longer term growth be affected across the region? Is there a tension between containing the disease and providing relief today and promoting recovery and growth tomorrow? These key questions are addressed in the World Bank’s October 2020 EAP Economic Update.
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession. Without action on multiple fronts, the pandemic could reduce regional growth over the next decade by 1 percentage point per year, with the greatest impacts being felt by poor households, because of lower levels of access to healthcare, education, jobs, and finance. Why were many economies in the region able to contain the disease while some others ...
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession. Without action on multiple fronts, the pandemic could reduce regional growth over the next decade by 1 percentage point per year, with the greatest impacts being felt by poor households, because of lower ...
Niger : Investing for Prosperity - A Poverty Assessment
World Bank (2012-10)
This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and vulnerability, as well as the profile and distribution of the poor and vulnerable across the country. Second it looks at the most common shocks, and their scale and influence on the welfare of the population. Third, it highlights the progress the country has made in improving opportunities for acquiring human capital and increasing incomes in rural areas. In this respect the report examines changes in access to education and health and improvements in productivity and income in small holder agriculture. It also explores the potential impact of public investments in ...
This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and vulnerability, as well as the profile and distribution of the poor and vulnerable across the country. Second it ...
This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and ...
Poor Households' Productive Investments of Cash Transfers : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Niger
Stoeffler, Quentin; Mills, Bradford; Premand, Patrick (2016-09)
Cash transfer programs have spread rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, on whether cash transfers can foster productive investments in addition to raising immediate consumption among the very poor. This paper presents evidence that a cash transfer project in rural Niger induced investments in assets and productive activities that were sustained among the very poor 18 months after project completion. Results show lasting increases in livestock assets and participation in saving groups (tontines). Cash transfers also contributed to improved agricultural productivity, but no effects in terms of diversification of other household enterprises are found. Productive asset gains are, notably, largest among the poorest ...
Cash transfer programs have spread rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, on whether cash transfers can foster productive investments in addition to raising immediate consumption among the very poor. This paper presents evidence that a cash transfer project in rural Niger ...
Cash transfer programs have spread rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, on whether cash transfers can foster productive investments in addition to raising ...
Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment in Niger : Moving from Crisis Response to Long-Term Risk Management
Niger, owing to its climatic, institutional, livelihood, economic, and environmental context, is one of the most vulnerable countries of the world. Poverty is pervasive in Niger and it ranks low on almost all the human development indicators. Agriculture is the most important sector of Niger's economy and accounts for over 40 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) and is the principle source of livelihood for over 80 percent of the country's population. The performance of the agricultural sector, however, due to its high exposure to risks, is very volatile. Niger has experienced multiple shocks, largely induced by agricultural risks over the past 30 years, which impose high welfare cost in terms of food availability, food affordability, and malnutrition. It also adversely affects household incomes, performance of the agricultural sector, the government's fiscal balance, ...
Niger, owing to its climatic, institutional, livelihood, economic, and environmental context, is one of the most vulnerable countries of the world. Poverty is pervasive in Niger and it ranks low on almost all the human development indicators. Agriculture is the most important sector of Niger's economy and accounts for over 40 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) and is the principle source of livelihood for over 80 percent of the ...
Niger, owing to its climatic, institutional, livelihood, economic, and environmental context, is one of the most vulnerable countries of the world. Poverty is pervasive in Niger and it ranks low on almost all the human development indicators. Agriculture is the most important sector of Niger's economy and accounts for over 40 percent ...
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When Russ turned sixteen, his parents fostered an agreement with him. If he saved up half of the money for a car, they would give him the other half he lacked. He was very involved in 4H in high school and as a result, he had a couple of cows and decided to sell them. With that Jack and the Beanstalk inspired maneuver, he had the rest of the money he needed! He purchased a 1964 Chevrolet Impala for $700 from a young college student. He drove the Impala until the end of high school.
He then parked the Impala in the family barn and there it rested until the summer of 2018. The Impala had a tarp placed over it, but it did little to protect it from the harshness of time, and ...rats. The car accumulated dents and dings from rocks, antlers and a riding lawnmower and was occupied at various times by rats and cats. (Some of those long-gone rats would be found during the restoration.)
The Impala remained unused in the barn, but its restoration was always in the back of Russ's mind. Though he had multiple offers from people to purchase it, Russ remained steadfast in his dream. The beat-up, half-forgotten Impala was his very first car, and he would see it rise again. After 35 years, it was time. The car would be restored to its former glory. Russ found Crossroads through a mutual friend. After visiting with Mike and the crew, he felt the shop was the perfect place to take this special project.
Russ was thrilled that he was able to involve his two sons in the process. He talked with them whenever the Crossroads crew asked for opinions and decisions on the direction of the restoration. Having his family involved in the Impala restoration was a fantastic experience. "My sons seeing the difference between what the Impala looked like when it was removed from the barn, to how it looked after the restoration, was just amazing.” Russ was beyond impressed with the work Crossroads did. "I can’t believe it, but it’s better than when I purchased it as a sixteen-year-old kid!”, said Russ. Recently, he took the Impala to his first ever car show. He won 1st place! He gets many compliments on the car and loves the way folks enjoy it as a beautiful piece of workmanship and history.
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Agent K (also known as Kay, or simply K) is a fictional MIB agent in the film Men in Black, its sequels Men in Black II and Men in Black 3, and Men in Black: The Series. Agent K is portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the three films, by Josh Brolin in 1969 sequences in Men in Black 3, and voiced by Ed O'Ross and later Gregg Berger in the animated series. Although formally known as Kevin Brown, the film's trading card series and Men in Black: The Game note Agent K's name to be Kevin Cunningham, a nod to Lowell Cunningham, creator of the comic.
In the first film, he is the agent who recruits Agent J after his first partner, Agent D, retires. He and Zed realize James Edwards' potential and they recruit him into the Men in Black. K noted that he admires Edwards' refusal to strictly follow authority as well as the physical effort he exerted to catch an alien suspect. K exhibits a very serious demeanor, rarely joking or smiling and giving very matter-of-fact responses. His mission in the first film is to stop an alien cockroach (a "Bug" of an alien race known for their arrogant dismissal of other life-forms and who feed on carnage caused by wars) from stealing a tiny galaxy before the Bug's enemies destroy Earth to prevent the bugs gaining access to the sub-atomic energy of the galaxy. During the final confrontation with the Bug, it swallows the agents' guns. K decides to let the Bug swallow him so he can get his gun back, while J distracts him from leaving Earth on a ship. Just as the Bug is about to eat J, K shoots it from the inside. After Dr. Laurel Weaver (a morgue worker who has runs in with the MIB and who the Bug kidnapped) finishes it off, K requests that Agent J erase K's memories of his time with the MIB so that he can retire and reunite with a woman he had loved before joining the MIB. J does so, after K reveals he has not been training J as his new partner, but rather his replacement.
In the second film, now working at a post office in Truro, Massachusetts, Kevin Brown believes that he spent 35 years in a coma and displays no immediate recognition when J shows up to bring him back in. Surprised at J's revelation that nearly every one of his coworkers is an alien, he agrees to go along. It was revealed Brown would look at the stars and wonders if he really knew something more, an attitude that caused his wife to leave him. J tries to bring Brown to MIB headquarters, where a de-neuralyzer can restore his memories, but the area is locked down after the hostile alien Serleena invades it. Instead, they stop at a pawn shop run by alien Jack Jeebs, who has a home-built de-neuralyzer in the basement. The machine apparently fails to work and Brown walks out, moments before several aliens break into the shop and attack J. However, K's memories return a few minutes later, and he returns to defeat the aliens with ease. K has information related to the "Light of Zartha," which Serleena is trying to find, dating back to an alien visit to Earth 25 years earlier. He and J follow a series of clues that he left for himself, eventually locating the Light, who happens to be a woman named Laura Vasquez, daughter of the deceased Zarthan Queen Laurana. It is also suggested that Laura's father is K himself though he politely refuses to confirm that. After rescuing Laura, they fend off Serleena so they can get Laura safely off the Earth and back to her home planet. During the fight, the two agents save each other from Serleena's attacks before destroying her, allowing Laura to return to her planet.
This is a list of Division 6 Cover Ups he uses to protect the secret of MIB.
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13.1: NCDs and Health Care Systems (G Galea)
全球卫生导论
哥本哈根大学
This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have changed over time, we will discuss the likely determinants of such changes and examine future projections. Successful international strategies and programs promoting human health will be highlighted and global health governance structures will be mapped and the role of the key actors explored.
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Maternal Child Health, Reproductive Health, Public Health, Community Health
The best online course ever. Very interesting, engaging and insightful if you have no previous knowledge on Global Health. It allows you to learn about very different topics.
Very interesting course. The classes discuss broad topics with excellent specialists in different fields. I do recommend this course to anyone interested in Public Health.
Health Systems and Global Health Governance
In this final module of the course we will go full circle, with lessons about the role of health systems and the impact of policy. The last lesson of the course will focus on global health governance and the health aspects of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
13.1: NCDs and Health Care Systems (G Galea)11:33
13.2: Financing Universal Health Coverage (A Bjerrum)15:13
13.3: Health Care Facilities in Burkina Faso (H Samuelsen)8:49
13.4: Health Systems in Fragile States (TA Dræbel)22:02
13.5 Medical Tourism16:57
Flemming Konradsen
Professor, Director
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So, Dr. Gauden Galea, thank you very much for joining us today, for this quick discussion. I want to start by asking you, what exactly is the role of the World Health Organization in shaping global health and how is the role of WHO relates or compare to the role of government, non-government, and other sectors? I'd like to answer that from the point of view of our role in non-communicable diseases, which is where I've been working most of my career. WHO has three levels: the global, regional- where we are located in Copenhagen covering 53 European countries. There are five other regional offices and then, numerous country offices that have direct national response. Within the non-communicable disease arena, WHO has been empowered to take the leadership in a number of areas. This over the past two years, since the UN General Assembly adopted the declaration, has translated into setting a global agenda with a global action plan, setting a monitoring framework, identifying what are the targets and what are the indicators that country should be working to, and then delivering that in collaboration with other UN agencies and other sectors. And current discussions are about how to bring the UN agencies together such that UNDP and UNICEF, UNFPA and other arms of the UN family are coordinated with WHO. So, that's what happens at the global level. Regionally, we translate those global policies into actionable programs that are targeted. What we can do in Europe is different than what can be done in Southeast Asia, for example. And indeed in Europe, what one would do with the European Union, it may be different than what one would do in the Commonwealth of Independent States. So, there is a lot of nuancing that has to be done at the regional level. At country level, then much more focused work where integrated programs and technical support is given to countries in planning, in monitoring, in evaluating their public health programs. So, we've heard a lot about a health in all policies approach. What exactly is this and why is it important for NCDs in particular? So, what's health in all policies? There are many terms around that are used to some extent interchangeably. Health in all policies, whole of government approach, whole of society, intersectoral action has been around for the last 30 years. Health in all policies, in particular, was introduced as a term in public health by the Finnish presidency of the European Union, which promoted it as the theme of its own presidency. Since then, it has gained global adoption and interest. A slogan way of saying it is to say every minister is a health minister. The trade decisions that are taken, agreements between countries on what they buy and sell to each other, foreign direct investment, levels of employment, types of employment, the access to safe and decent jobs, levels of education, income redistribution or otherwise. Each of these are decided and defined by sectors other than health. And within non-communicable disease where, for example, the price of tobacco is a major determinant of how much cigarettes are bought and smoked, or the price of alcohol does the same, or where how food is marketed to children is a determinant of their own risk of becoming overweight or obese, where the types of food that are produced by the agriculture system determine the reach of local produce and how much people can afford fresh vegetables and fruit versus processed foods. These are just a few of the large range of policy contexts within which people have to take their choices for everyday life. So, to some extent, the claim is made that people are responsible for their own choices and, at the final level, this must be true. No one can force me to put a cigarette in my mouth. But fundamentally, the policy context in which I live makes healthy choices easier or more difficult. And thence comes the importance of health in all policies. Every time a road is built, every time a trade agreement is signed, every time some consideration is given to a labor policy, these are known to have an impact on health and they should be regarded and valued as such. And that is the main thrust behind the advocacy for health in all policies. Second, many NGOs and policy groups are calling for an integrated response to NC days with an overarching goal of health for all. What does this meant for you? Can you explain this to us? What's the role of an integrated approach? In public health in general and the non-communicable diseases in particular, it's interesting as one looks at the history of global health policy making. One sees this constant struggle between the horizontal and the vertical, the thematic, the single disease versus the more integrated health systems based approaches. It is very clear that they both have a space, they both are needed. It is quite clear within the area of chronic disease that there are group especially in the four main diseases what we are talking about: cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases. There are a group of risk factors that are held in common: tobacco, alcohol, diet, and physical activity. It is very clear that there is a lot of common prevention that one can do. And indeed, with the chronicity of these conditions, there is a lot that can be done by the health system to provide integrated care. The benefits of diabetes: glucose control. And persons with diabetes, the public health benefits are not accrued unless one is also controlling the blood pressure. To give a very trivial example, but telling, you cant have a hypertension clinic at one end and a diabetes clinic at the other. So, there are many levels of possible coordination or integration: coordination of prevention, coordination of health services, that is very important. It is also equally important that at certain points in time, it is very relevant to have focused action on specific conditions. For example, we are having this interview just a day after a decision has been taken to approve the tobacco products directive in Europe. In the European Union, this decision would not have been possible given the amount of opposition lobbying and even heckling by the tobacco industry. This would not have been possible unless there had been a very concerted effort by public health agencies, civil society, in order to address and advocate for public health. And this sort of mix of occasional vertical and general horizontal approaches are what I prefer in a public health approach. What about integration of NC days with the so-called unfinished agenda, that is maternal child health communicable diseases, do you see that there's a role for an integrated approach? Absolutely. Absolutely. I think one of my favorite sayings is that 'pathogens don't know the boundaries of organizations.' If one looks at, for example, tuberculosis, a major issue even in many countries in Europe. Tuberculosis, in the high burden countries, is to a great extent attributable to the amount of tobacco, poor nutrition, and alcohol. Quite alongside, other more well-known associations with HIV, for example. Mycobacterium was never told that non-communicable diseases are handled by one part of an organization and, HIV and TB are handled by another. These conditions of vulnerability and complex risk play together in society, and they need to be addressed together. Another reason for moving forward together is in health systems approaches. Today, take the HIV example. AIDS, for people who are getting the treatment has been converted into a chronic disease. The principles of chronic disease management are the same. And so, there are many issues about access to care, affordability, the way people with disease are treated as partners or otherwise, whether they are empowered, whether they are given the possibility of self-management. It doesn't matter which disease you have. A third reason why a certain level of integration is important, is that if you go at the global level, and you want to set for example, goals post 2015, once the millennium goals have run their course and they're evaluated and replaced in 2015 by some new agenda that unifies the development world, you can't go and have a list of goals that as long as your medicine textbook table of contents and you need to have some unifying factors such as universal health coverage, which is one of the areas being proposed. And, these are unifying approaches that one needs to consider in taking forward the global health agenda.
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Elizabeth Longford
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE (née Harman; 30 August 1906 – 23 October 2002), better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th-century luminaries such as Queen Victoria (1964), Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (1969).
The daughter of eye specialist Nathaniel Bishop Harman, she was educated at the Francis Holland School, and was an undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. "Able, articulate and beautiful", in the words of The New York Times, she was "the Zuleika Dobson of her day, with undergraduates and even dons tumbling over one another to fall in love with her".[1] A few years after her graduation, on 3 November 1931, she married Frank Pakenham, later 7th Earl of Longford, who died in August 2001. Her obituary by the BBC said the marriage was "famously harmonious." The New York Times, in its review of The Pebbled Shore, called Lady Longford "easily the best writer in what is predominantly a literary family".[1]
She and her husband were both devout Roman Catholic converts, Lady Longford having been raised a Unitarian, and avid social reformers. The Longfords had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, Judith Kazantzis, and Thomas Pakenham.
She lived to the age of 96, dying in October 2002, 14 months after her husband. Lord Longford and his wife Elizabeth would have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on 3 November after a marriage that produced four sons and four daughters, followed by 26 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.[2]
She made several unsuccessful attempts to win election to the House of Commons as a Labour MP. In 1935 she contested Cheltenham, which was a safely Conservative seat, and in 1950 she was defeated by Quintin Hogg at Oxford. Through the war she had sought selection at Birmingham King's Norton until she felt compelled to cease her candidacy upon her sixth pregnancy in 1944; the seat was a Labour gain in 1945 by 12,000 votes.[3]
Her brother, John B. Harman, was a physician; his daughter is Labour politician Harriet Harman. Lady Longford was a great-niece of the politician Joseph Chamberlain and a first cousin once removed of the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain.[1]
Victoria R.I. (1964) Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Wellington: The Years of the Sword (1969) and Wellington: Pillar Of The State (1972), a two-volume biography of the first Duke of Wellington, who numbered among her husband's relatives.
The Royal House of Windsor (1974)
Winston Churchill (1974)
Byron's Greece (1975)
A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1979) (I.B. Tauris, re-issued 2007)
Eminent Victorian Women (1981)
Jameson's Raid (1982)
Elizabeth R: A Biography (1983)
The Pebbled Shore (1986) Autobiography
Royal Throne: The Future of the Monarchy (1993)
Howard, Anthony (26 October 1986). "A Life Of Her Own". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
Bradford, Sarah (24 October 2002). "The Countess of Longford". The Independent. London: Independent News & Media. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
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Ten Amazing & Interesting Facts – New and Old – about The Grateful Dead
March 31, 2019 Michelle Reynoso Where Are They Now 0
The fiftieth anniversary of Aoxomoxoa will be released June 7, 2019 and will include some previously unreleased music.
The Grateful Dead never won a Grammy except for a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Original members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir now play with Dead and Company along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti. Dead and Company will be performing at Woodstock50.
The 1980’s revival of The Twilight Zone featured music by The Grateful Dead in the opening and closing credits.
The Cherry Garcia flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was named after The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia.
The band cared deeply about the rainforests around the world and even purchased a jungle in Costa Rica.
The Grateful Dead played 184 original tunes and 317 cover songs in their career.
The band formed in 1965 and disbanded in 1995.
The original name of the band was The Warlocks.
The band got its name from the dictionary, when Jerry Garcia saw an entry about a folk tale about TheGrateful Dead or Grateful Ghost.
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CWA travels to: Andorra
Issue 52, Andorra, Travel
Current World Archaeology
Andorra is best known as an inexpensive ski-resort, but the tiny landlocked principality is chock-full of archaeology, its rich cultural heritage waiting to be explored. Just 450km² in area, Andorra nestles in the heart of the Pyrenees, bordered by the Languedoc region of France and Spanish Catalunya. So why, given this prime location, has it slipped under most people’s archaeological radar?
Excavations have revealed a wealth of prehistoric artefacts: the rock shelter La Balma de la Margineda, excavated 1979-1991, revealed evidence of multi-period occupation from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods right through to the historic era. Bronze Age brooches, arrow heads, bracelets, Iron Age Iberian type coins, and early burials are found throughout Andorra. The Neolithic cists of La Feixa del Moro at Juberri, near the southern border, have produced a series of finely polished axeheads, ceramics, bracelets carved from varascite mined at Gava (Catalunya), and a host of lithics – all equal in quality to any in the Pyrenean region and soon, hopefully, to be displayed as part of a national collection in a new museum setting.
Then there are the rock carvings. Most are found along Andorra’s two principal valleys, and date to the Medieval period – though many are earlier, including Neolithic. Visitors to the little village of Sornas, near Ordino, for example, are rewarded with a series of anthropomorphised crosses, while perhaps the most curious carvings are cryptographic graffiti at St Cerni de Nagol, near Sant Julia in the south of Andorra. For my money, the most interesting carving is near Canillo at El Roc de les Bruixes (The Rock of the Witches): among the inscribed crosses and human figures are pentagrams and the vestiges of carved script.
And there is more: the attractive Romanesque churches serving communities across the mountains and valleys of Andorra form one of the densest surviving clusters of Romanesque ecclesiastical architecture. As the Gothic style failed to take root in Andorra, the Romanesque tradition enjoyed greater longevity here, and today about 40 churches span several centuries of stylistic evolution.
Possibly the most cherished is Our Lady of Meritxell, dedicated to the patron saint of Andorra. According to local legend, a wild rose, in bloom out of season, was found growing out from under a statue of the Virgin and Child at this spot in the late 12th century. Each time the statue was moved, it found its way back to the wild rose. So a chapel was built on the spot to accommodate the miraculous statue, which became the focus of a pilgrimage each September. Regrettably, in 1972, the original Romanesque chapel burned to the ground and the statue was destroyed; today a distinctly modern, yet still attractive, church stands on its footprint.
Also worth visiting are the 11th-century Sant Joan de Caselles in Canillo, with its Lombard-style belltower and murals, and the 12th-century Sant Miquel d’Engolasters, with its 17m belltower sporting, unusually, a carved human face on one of the uppermost sides. A personal favourite is tiny Sant Rom‡ de les Bons in Encamp, a 12th-century church with stunning interior wall paintings that depict the apocalyptic visions of St John; beside it lie the remains of a 13th-century defence tower, the only one in the principality.
Before you leave, for an insight into Andorra’s everyday past, visit three 17th-century houses that are now museums: Casa d’Areny-Plandolit, Casa Rull, and the Casa Cristo ethnographic museum.
Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley
The Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley is described by UNESCO as a ‘microcosmic perspective of the way people have harvested the resources of the high Pyrenees over millennia. Archaeological evidence of Medieval summer settlement, field terracing, and iron smelting have been uncovered. The remains of shepherd’s huts, sheep pens, dry-stone walls and charcoal-making sites are still visible in the valley floor and woodland.’
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Lucy Deslauriers and Hester capture 2015 USEF U25 National Championship at CP National Horse Show
USEF U25 National Championship 2015
Lucy Deslauriers and Hester. Photo (c) Rebecca Walton/Phelps Media Group.
Lucy Deslauriers and Hester have formed an unmatched partnership during the 2015 season. After winning the North American Young Rider Show Jumping individual gold medal in July, they went on to win the USEF Junior Jumper Championship just a few weeks ago. Now they have capped off their incredible year with a dominating performance to win the USEF U25 National Championship at the CP National Horse Show.
"We have a really strong partnership that I think has only gotten stronger as we've gone on to work together," smiled Deslauriers after her victory. "Through each championship I try to focus on one goal at a time and not let the results get to me. I think it's really important to keep my mind on track, jump one round at a time and go one day at a time. I think that's what helps us work as a team so well."
After two rounds of competition held Wednesday and Thursday, 26 riders returned to the Kentucky Horse Park to compete in the $30,000 Championship, presented by The Porter Family, The Jacobs Family, The Jobs Family and The Keenan Family. They completed one show jumping round before the top 12 advanced to the final round.
Deslauriers had already captured one leg of the event on Thursday, and that put her in the lead with no faults going into Sunday's competition. Hester was once again faultless over the first round track, putting on the pressure as the last to go at the end of the night. The duo proved why they have had such a successful partnership during the year, making light work of the second track that many riders struggled with. They crossed the finish line without error, completing the entire competition without fault and earning the $35,000 USEF U25 National Championship.
"It was a really great week," expressed Deslauriers. "My horse jumped incredible in all the rounds. In the first round, I didn't ride my best, so I really tried to put in strong efforts the rest of the week. He really helped me out there. I think that this division is a great way to step up from the junior ranks before stepping into the grand prix. I think it's a great thing that the National Horse Show has supported and the sponsors have supported. I'm really honored to pull out this win."
Katherine Strauss and All In.
"Hester was already in the family when I started riding him," continued Deslauriers. "As soon as we gathered our partnership together and got going, we started to focus on goals and came to the realization that he would be great at this championship format. We got very lucky with him."
Deslauriers trains with her father, Olympian Mario Deslauriers, as well as her mother, Lisa Deslauriers. "As a father and a mother, we're very proud of Lucy," remarked Mario. "She's come a very long way. Last year we were close at a few championships. This year we thought we'd regroup a little and maybe not try to win the first day but climb our way back in the championship and keep Hester a little more under control. She did a great job. We're very proud of her, and hopefully we'll win lots more!"
Lucy will be back at the Kentucky Horse Park early tomorrow as one of the finalists in the 2015 ASPCA Alfred B. Maclay Horsemanship Championship. She believes that equitation finals and show jumping championships are both key parts of young riders' development.
"They're all very important," stated Lucy. "I think equitation is definitely the foundation for the jumpers, so without it I don't think I would have been able to come up with these results with Hester. Balancing both is very important, and both are very important to me and where I go with my riding career."
The only other clear trip in the very final round of competition belonged to Katherine Strauss and All In, winners of Wednesday's speed competition. The pair had one rail in the first round Saturday night, which was combined with the two faults they had coming into the night. They were prepared to fight for a top spot in the final round though, and a clear round had them finish on just six faults to take home the silver medal.
Catherine Tyree and Enjoy Louis.
"I had a really great first day," said Strauss. "My horse jumped amazingly. In the second round I had a little bit of an error, so coming into today I was a little bit behind and just knew I'd have to ride my best and keep working to climb back up the ranks. My horse jumped incredibly all week."
Catherine Tyree entered the final two rounds of competition with just one fault. An uncharacteristic stop by Enjoy Louis in Sunday's first round was costly, adding five more faults to their total. Tyree was not ready to give up though, and despite incurring four faults at a plank fence as well as a time fault, her total would be just 11 faults for the week and earn her the bronze medal.
"My horse also jumped incredibly all week," commented Tyree. "He never put a foot wrong. Everything that happened was a little bit rider error, and today I made a mistake that was not his fault at all. I just thought in the first round I'd try to be as fast as possible because I knew at the end the time fault would be what would come down to it. I was lucky to have a horse that was so game and with me throughout the entire competition."
U.S. Show Jumping Young Rider Chef d'Equipe DiAnn Langer concluded, "These are three outstanding athletes here with us tonight, and they are our future. I think that we can all be proud of the talent that is rising up in the United States. We just have to make sure we keep providing them with the right opportunities to further their careers and then be successful in representing the United States in the future. I have no doubt that we are going to be very successful."
Source: Press release by Phelps Media Group
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Belichick will not accept Trump’s Medal of Freedom
by JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer / Jan 12, 2021
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said on Monday night that he will not receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying “remaining true to the people, team and country I love outweigh the benefits of any individual award.”
In a one-paragraph statement, the six-time Super Bowl winning coach did not say explicitly that he had turned down the offer from President Donald Trump, instead explaining “the decision has been made not to move forward with the award” in the wake of last week's deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol.
Report: Trump to present Medal of Freedom to Patriots coach Bill Belichick
by Jacqui Gomersall / Jan 11, 2021
FOXBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — The New England Patriots' season may be over, but head coach Bill Belichick may be in line for a big honor.
Politico reports that President Donald Trump is planning to award Belichick with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on Thursday.
Bailey and Olszewski make 2020 NFL first-team All-Pro Team Roster
by Rosie Langello / Jan 8, 2021
(WPRI) -- On Friday, the Associated Press released the 2020 NFL first and second-team All-Pro team roster.
New England Patriots' punter Jake Bailey and punt returner Gunner Olszewski both made first-team for special teams. On the second-team, Matthew Slater represented the Patriots for special teams.
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Hungarian Media Law Draws Fire
Hungarian students protest a law that allows the state to impose fines for 'unbalanced' reporting.
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By Gordon Fairclough
Updated Dec. 24, 2010 12:01 am ET
European officials stepped up criticism of Hungary's restrictive new media law, saying it runs counter to the European Union's democratic values, as frustration with Budapest escalated into a public political fight on the eve of Hungary's takeover of the EU's rotating presidency.
On Thursday, Germany's deputy foreign minister, Werner Hoyer, said the media legislation "does not represent the idea of a union that is built on unity in diversity."
He added that "even if there's the slightest suspicion that press freedom in a member state of the EU is being controlled, it's a cause for great concern. As incoming EU president, Hungary bears a special responsibility to represent Europe's values."
Hungary's government has largely dismissed the criticism. "There's been a lot of talk about the interests of journalists, but we should also pay attention to the interest of the viewers and the public," Anna Nagy, a government spokeswoman, said Thursday.
Under the law, which Parliament approved Tuesday, a regulatory panel appointed by Parliament is empowered to monitor newspapers, television broadcasts and other media and to impose fines on journalists and news outlets for "unbalanced" or "offensive" reporting. The law will also tighten government regulation of the Internet, requiring all bloggers to register with state authorities.
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The US lurches toward military dictatorship
The militarist diatribe by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a retired Marine general, at a White House press briefing last week laid bare an open secret of American politics: behind the façade of democratic rule, the United States increasingly resembles a military dictatorship.
Firing back at criticisms of President Donald Trump’s handling of the October 4 deaths of four US soldiers in Niger, Kelly called members of the US military “the best one percent this country produces.” He then announced that he would take questions only from journalists who were family, friends or acquaintances of soldiers killed in action.
In an expression of undisguised contempt for the civilian government, Kelly denounced Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who had publicly exposed Trump’s callousness in his condolence call to the widow of one of the soldiers killed in the October 4 incident. Kelly falsely accused Wilson of bragging about securing funding for a government building in Miami named after slain FBI agents, saying of her: “Empty barrels [make] the most noise.”
The next day, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders implied at a press briefing that any questioning of the pronouncements of the military was out of bounds. “If you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general,” she said, “I think that that’s something highly inappropriate.”
Concerned over the White House’s undisguised contempt for the constitutional principle of civilian control over the military, some military figures sought to verbally distance themselves from Kelly’s statements. ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday led with an interview with retired four-star army general and former CIA director David Petraeus, who declared, “We in uniform…are fiercely protective of the rights of our fellow Americans to express themselves, even if that includes criticizing us.”
Kelly’s remarks evoked such defensive statements not because they challenge nearly 250 years of civilian rule in the United States, but because sections of the US political establishment see it as necessary, at least for the time being, to cloak the massive power exercised by the military over political life with the formal trappings of civilian rule.
This task, however, is increasingly difficult. Shortly after Petraeus’s appearance, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he had an extraordinary exchange with moderator Chuck Todd. Asked whether as Senate Democratic leader he had been briefed on the situation in Niger, Schumer nonchalantly replied, “Not yet.”
When Todd asked whether Schumer knew the US had a thousand troops stationed in Niger, Schumer replied, “Uh, No, I did not.”
Todd pressed him further: “How do you describe it any other way than never-ending war?” Schumer gave a meandering reply that ended with the words, “We have to keep at it.”
In other words, the country’s civilian leadership neither knows where the US military operates, nor dares to inquire. Wars are not declared. Those who lead them are not accountable to Congress or the people. The military is deployed at the discretion of the president and his generals, as in the over one dozen African countries where US troops are engaged in combat operations. The ranking member of the nominal opposition party has no problem with this state of affairs.
Should anybody be surprised, then, when Kelly, one of three generals occupying the most sensitive positions in Trump’s cabinet, denounces a member of Congress for daring to question the commander-in-chief?
One need only consider the rest of Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week” interview program. With only the slightest modifications, the entire program could have been produced in a country run by a military junta. In the midst of host Martha Raddatz’s interview with Petraeus, the program cut to a prerecorded segment showing Raddatz on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan as it carried out a war exercise off the Coast of North Korea, with Raddatz declaring enthusiastically, “The Sea of Japan is bristling with warships.”
The segment featured statements by the captain, the commander, a signal officer and a pilot aboard the ship. Raddatz concluded, “With the region remaining on the brink, they have to be ready to fight tonight.” The program then went on to preview an upcoming eight-part miniseries by the National Geographic Channel glorifying the Iraq war.
By this point, three quarters of the program had elapsed and not a single nonmilitary figure had made an appearance on one of the premier political talk shows of the world’s leading “democracy.”
Kelly’s comments triggered statements of concern among some segments of the US press. “A military dictatorship: that appears what the White House thinks the United States is,” declared CNN anchor Erin Burnett. Masha Gessen wrote in the New Yorker, “Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like.”
But this raises the question: Would the United States really need to have a coup to transition to military rule? Would it really look much different from today’s “democracy”? There would be the same parade of generals serving as talking heads on the news, the same “embedded” reporters interviewing commanders on the front lines, the same members of Congress (most dictatorships do not dissolve parliament) declaring they had “not yet” been briefed on what the military has decided to do.
One could object that a military dictatorship would censor the press. But this has already in large measure been accomplished. The search engine giant Google has announced that it is promoting “authoritative” news content, while it buries links to left-wing sites in search results, almost entirely removing results on Google News for the World Socialist Web Site.
The ever-growing power of the military in the United States is not some accident or fluke stemming from the personality of Donald Trump. Despite being at war for his entire two terms in office, Trump’s Democratic Party predecessor Barack Obama never once went to Congress for authorization to use military force, and he defended his orders for drone assassinations of US citizens as part of the prerogatives of the commander-in-chief.
In the current political furor over the deaths of the soldiers in Niger, the Democrats have not questioned the legality of the deployment of thousands of US troops to Africa, carried out without any public discussion and behind the backs of the population, but instead sought to attack Trump from the right for being insufficiently deferential to the military.
After all, it is the Democrats and newspapers generally aligned with them, particularly the New York Times and the Washington Post, which praised General Kelly, together with fellow generals H. R. McMaster (national security adviser) and James Mattis (secretary of defense) as the “grown-ups” in the White House, with Times columnist Thomas Friedman calling on the generals to “reverse the moral rot that has infected the Trump administration” in the person of the president.
The increasingly dictatorial forms of rule emerging in the United States are the outcome of protracted and deep-rooted processes. Amid levels of social inequality that eclipse even those of the Gilded Age, bourgeois democracy in the US is collapsing, replaced by direct rule by the oligarchy and its partners in the military.
This process has been accelerated through a quarter century of aggressive wars, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which have reached such a pitch that “never-ending war,” in the words of NBC’s Chuck Todd, is the new American reality, presently reaching a higher stage with the looming threat of nuclear war over North Korea.
The move toward dictatorship in the United States, accompanied by the drive to world war, is proceeding at breakneck speed. There is not much time. Workers and young people must mobilize now to oppose it on the basis of a socialist and internationalist program aimed at overthrowing the root cause of war, social inequality and dictatorship—the capitalist system.
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Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, January 15-18, 2004
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Road Race preview
Jeremy Hunt in pursuit of fourth crown
O'Grady atop past year's podium
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English Olympian Jeremy Hunt, a prolific winner of national titles, looms as a major obstacle to a home grown victory in the BMC Software Australian open men's road cycling championship at Buninyong on Sunday. Hunt, 29, whose road championship collection includes two British and the Australian open, believes another major victory is within his grasp.
"The field is incredibly strong and the course is tough, but I have some degree of confidence," the laconic Hunt said. "If I can stay in touch with the class riders on the numerous climbs up Mt. Buninyong, I may be hard to beat in a sprint to the line at the end of the race."
Hunt, who upset Australia's best in the 2000 Australian championship at Portarlington, is the only overseas rider to snare the national open crown since it was introduced in 1999. The other four winners were Henk Vogels (WA), Steve Williams (NSW), Robbie McEwen (Qld) and Stuart O'Grady (SA), who narrowly defeated young Queenslander Allan Davis last year.
Hunt, who represented Great Britain in the road race at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, is one of 17 overseas riders who will take part in the four day championships. But the 150 strong field in the men's road race, the feature event of the championships, reads like a Who's Who of Australian cycling.
Wood, Gollan and Shirley
Tour de France stars Bradley McGee (NSW), Baden Cooke (Vic), Robbie McEwen (Qld), Matt Wilson (Vic), Nick Gates (NSW), and Patrick Jonker (SA) will ensure that Hunt's passage to a second Australian title will be as rocky as possible.
McGee, 27, is riding the Australian open for the first time and has undertaken a strenuous preparation in a bid to claim the title. "I'm ready, I'm willing, I'm fit, and I'm going to Buninyong to try to win," he said.
In the women's 100 km event, the pre-race favourite will be the ACT's Oneone Wood, who is in sparkling form after winning the Jayco Bay Classic series last week. Wood will be up against defending champion Olivia Gollan (NSW), time trial specialist Sara Carrigan (Qld), Katie Mactier (Vic), Emma James (NSW) and Hayley Rutherford (WA), most of whom have posted some good results of late.
Time Trial Preview
Carrigan and Day face tough opposition in defence of jerseys
Defending champ Sara Carrigan
Queensland pair Sara Carrigan and Ben Day will face tough opposition when they line up to defend their respective Australian Time Trial crowns. Carrigan, 23, is trying for a hat trick of wins after her success in securing the Australian Time Trial champion's jersey in both 2002 and 2003.
Ranked tenth in the women's world road rankings Carrigan, who rides for the Dutch professional team BIK Powerplate, believes having experienced victory on the Buninyong circuit has given her a solid focus in her training.
"It gives me a mental edge as I can picture myself back on the course and relive the feeling of winning," said Carrigan from the Gold Coast where she is putting the final touches to her Championships preparation. "I have been feeding on the confidence I gained from my 2003 season."
In 2003 she won the opening round of the UCI Women's Road World Cup and wore the series leader's jersey for five rounds. She finished the Series ranked fourth overall. "I learned a lot last year and I'm determined to use that knowledge to improve in 2004," she explained. "The fact that it's an Olympic year has given me even more drive to succeed."
Carrigan, then only 19 years old, was a reserve rider for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney but is committed to making the starting line up in Athens.
"I have already ridden the course in Athens and I'm using that experience for both my mental and physical preparation," she said. But the 2002 and 2003 Australian Women's Road Cyclist of the Year admits it won't be easy to defend her crown against her rivals. "I expect Oenone Wood and Olivia Gollan to be going really well and you can never count out Katie Mactier."
The women will race over a 28 kilometre course on Thursday January 15th with the first rider due to start at 11.00am.
Ben Day in 2002
Meantime in the men's 39 kilometre event Ben Day (26) who was 11th at the World Championships in 2003, has a month of solid training behind him in his quest to defend his title. 2003 World Championships silver medallist, Michael Rogers, won't be in the race because he has been called back to Europe by his Quick.Step-Davitamon professional team, but Day, who pipped Rogers in 2003 for the victory, knows there are others with their sights set on gold.
Four time Australian time trial champion Nathan O'Neill (1994, 1996, 1998 & 2002) is making his comeback from horrific injuries he suffered in a crash during a race in the USA in July last year. O'Neill, the bronze medallist in the 2002 Commonwealth Games time trial, spent more than two months in a medical 'halo' fixed to his skull by fours screws and designed to immobilise his head and neck to allow the two broken vertebrae in his neck to heal.
"Nathan is a true fighter and I'm sure he'll be out to prove he is as strong as ever," said Day who will have the advantage of being the last rider out of the gate so will know how his rivals have performed.
Another of those rivals will be reigning British time trial champion, Stuart Dangerfield. "I've never raced against him before in a time trial so it will be interesting to see what sort of form he has," said Day. "But in the end it comes down to how well I can do on the day and I probably won't know that until half way through when I'm suffering like a dog and realise I'm either going well or not."
After two years with a Portuguese professional team Day has this year signed a contract with the Belgian based Mr Bookmaker.com-Palmans. "I've managed to get off the fortress (Portugal) and now I want to put in a good year of racing on mainland Europe."
The men's time trial will be raced on Friday January 16th starting from 11.00am.
The women's (100km) and men's (180km) road races will be staged on Saturday and Sunday respectively with both races beginning at 11.00am.
Men's Road Race
2003 Stuart O'Grady (SA)
2002 Robbie McEwen (Qld)
2001 Steve Williams (NSW)
2000 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) (Australian champion: Jamie Drew)
Women's Road Race
2003 Olivia Gollan (NSW)
2002 Margaret Hemsley (NSW)
2001 Katie Mactier (Vic)
2000 Anna Wilson (Vic) Saturn
Men's Time Trial
2003 Ben Day (Qld)
2002 Nathan O'Neill (Qld)
Women's Time Trial
2003 Sara Carrigan (Qld)
2001 Anna Millward (Vic)
2000 Tracey Gaudry (ACT)
1999 Kristy Scrymgeour (NSW)
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Beast from the East fears as forecasters warn of 'sudden stratospheric warming' in next two weeks
Britain could be hit by a new ‘Beast from the East’ in the next fortnight as forecasters warn of ‘sudden stratospheric warming’ above the Arctic.
Temperatures could hit -10 degrees celsius, roads will become treacherously icy and snow is expected to fall across the country, as police warn against all but essential travel.
Meteorologists say that a ‘sudden stratospheric warming’ is taking place high up in the stratosphere, which means that winds in the polar vortex could change direction and bring cold air to Britain from Siberia.
In 2018, when the last ‘Beast from the East’ came in, the UK was gripped by travel chaos, with drivers stranded overnight on motorways and heavy snow forcing schools to shut.
Grahame Madge from the Met Office said: “Many weather agencies are united in the view that this SSW will take place next week.
“When that happens - around 30km up in the stratosphere - our traditional wind pattern can be reversed.
“What is less clear is the long-term outlook for the impact of this event. Two out of three SSW events result in very cold episodes but one in three has little impact at all.”
Snow has covered Cheshire and temperatures are set to continue to fall below freezing Credit : Martin Rickett/PA
In recent years extreme cold, winter snow events have all been connected to the surface effects of sudden stratospheric warmings, such as those in 2009-10, 2013, and ‘the beast from the east’ in 2018, the Met Office said.
Every winter, strong westerly winds circle around the pole high up in the stratosphere, but sometimes the winds temporarily weaken, or even reverse to flow from east to west, as is predicted this year.
The cold air, which is around -80 degrees then descends very rapidly in the polar vortex - a large area of low pressure air above the North Pole.
The compression causes the temperature in the stratosphere to rise as much as 50°C over only a few days, hence the term sudden stratospheric warming.
As the cold air from high up in the stratosphere disperses, it can affect the shape of the jet stream, which causes our weather to change.
The stratospheric sudden warming can sometimes cause the jet stream to ‘snake’ more, and this tends to create a large area of high pressure, usually forming over the North Atlantic and Scandinavia.
This means that northern Europe, including the UK, is likely to get a long spell of dry, cold weather.
Ollie King, 22, and his sister Laura, 19, take a dip into the sea at King Edward's Bay in Tynemouth on New Year's Day Credit : Owen Humphreys/PA
What made the 2018 ‘Beast from the East’ so fearsome, was the addition of Storm Emma, which added blizzards, strong winds and snow dumps of up to 50cms in one day.
Already, temperatures across the UK are dropping, and meteorologists are expecting ice and snow warnings to be issued next week.
New Year’s Eve saw temperatures hit minus 7.3C in Wiltshire, and frost and ice are expected to last into next week, the Met Office said.
Police forces in areas hit by ice and snow urged motorists to travel only if necessary as emergency crews attended several collisions on New Year's Eve.
Derbyshire Police reported a five-car collision just before 7.30am on New Year's Day.
The warnings are echoed by RAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams who told the Telegraph: “The best advice is always - if you don’t have to drive, don’t drive.
“The last thing that we need at the moment is more accidents and more people needing hospital treatment at a time when the NHS is under extreme pressure.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/01/beast-east-fears-forecasters-warn-sudden-stratospheric-warming/
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TransFIORmers Gather Speed with Renishaw Additive Manufacturing Sponsorship
Posted on March 20, 2018 by AM
March 2018 – Global engineering technologies company Renishaw has renewed its sponsorship of French Moto2™ team, TransFIORmers. In partnership with I3D Concept and Renishaw, the team has used additive manufacturing to improve the performance of its Moto2™ bike. Renishaw first sponsored TransFIORmers in 2016 and for 2018, the team’s new rider, Corentin Perolari, will take to the track to race for a podium position, starting at Estoril in Portugal on March 25th.
The TransFIORmers team, led by former rider Christian Boudinot, is based in Perigueux, France and won its first race at the CEV Repsol European Championship in June 2016. The design of its custom bike is inspired by legendary motorbike designer Claude Fior. In recent races, the team has regularly finished in the top five. In 2018, the team will attend the CEV European Championships, building up to the French Grand Prix on May 20th.
Renishaw sponsored TransFIORmers Moto2 motorcycle on track (Photo courtesy of Renishaw)
TransFIORmers considers itself to be the only Moto2 team to use additive manufacturing to produce a structural component for the bike – a titanium wishbone formed part of its revolutionary front suspension system. By working with Renishaw and I3D Concept the team achieved a 600g weight saving on the part.
“Additive manufacturing is becoming a more popular technique in racing events,” explained Chris Pockett, Head of Communications at Renishaw. “In high-speed, high-performance applications like Moto2, the America’s cup and even the supersonic car, BLOODHOUND SSC, Renishaw’s additive manufacturing expertise has allowed teams to maximise performance and gain a competitive edge.”
“Following the success of the wishbone, we are now designing more and more parts to be additively manufactured,” said Jérôme Aldeguer, Mechanical Engineer, TransFIORmers. “Not all parts can be made in titanium, so we are looking to alternative materials to manufacture brackets, footrests, a chain tensioner and other essential parts of the bike.
“Additive manufacturing increases flexibility for improving the bike,” continued Aldeguer. “We can change our designs easily, without tooling, and are also able to optimise the topology of each part. In 2019, we plan to use additive manufacturing on a larger scale – including a total redesign of the bike as part of the move from a Honda to a Triumph engine.”
For more information on Renishaw visit www.renishaw.com.
About Renishaw
UK-based Renishaw is a world leading engineering technologies company, supplying products used for applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It has over 4,000 employees located in the 35 countries where it has wholly owned subsidiary operations.
For the year ended June 2017 Renishaw recorded sales of £536.8 million of which 95% was due to exports. The company’s largest markets are China, the USA, Japan and Germany.
Throughout its history Renishaw has made a significant commitment to research and development, with historically between 14 and 18% of annual sales invested in R&D and engineering. The majority of this R&D and manufacturing of the company’s products is carried out in the UK.
The Company’s success has been recognised with numerous international awards, including eighteen Queen’s Awards recognising achievements in technology, export and innovation.
Further information at www.renishaw.com
Source: Renishaw
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Location: All oceans except in the North Atlantic.. Conservation status: Vulnerable.. It should be noted that for most species, a comprehensive understanding of diet is only known for the breeding season, when the albatrosses regularly return to land and study is possible. Waved albatrosses (Phoebastria irrorata) ... Their beautiful blue feet actually come from carotenoid pigments they consume through their fish-based diet and are thus an indicator of their current nourishment and health. The black-footed albatross feeds on fish, while the Laysan albatross catches squid. The diet of other species, like the black-browed albatross or the grey-headed albatross, is rich with smaller species of squid that tend to sink after death, and scavenging is not assumed to play a large role in their diet. Waved Albatross was the most frequent bycatch, caught in demersal and surface longlines and shark driftnets (Mangel 2012). half of his samples. albatross habitat. Diet The waved albatross mainly feeds at the ocean surface on fish, squid and crustaceans. Waved albatrosses typically fly 25 million miles (40 million km) during their lifetime. The Galapagos Albatross is endemic to the island of Isla de la Plata, off the coast of Ecuador. Galapagos albatross live in only one location – on the Galapagos Islands of Espanola where they have formed two major colonies. The waved albatross is the largest bird in Galapagos with a wingspan of up to two and a half metres. On land, they scavenge on food that has been discarded by other creatures. The timing and method of prey capture by waved albatrosses is not well-documented. Diet: Cephalopods, small fish, crustaceans.. ... On the other end of the spectrum, the critically endangered waved albatross and the Tristan albatross have only a few thousand members each. Habitat: Oceans, coasts, coastal islands Diet: Carnivore: fish, squid Reproduction: Waved albatrosses mate for life and only in the Galapagos Islands. The bird glides gracefully while up in the skies. But in some cases they have been seen feeding on food that has been regurgitated by other birds. Galapagos Mockingbird. Specific Description: The Waved Albatross is a localized resident of Galapagos, breeding only on Española Island and seen on all our Galapagos cruise. The Waved Albatross is an undoubtedly impressive animal. As you might expect, the waved albatross enjoys a fishy diet. They will also scavenge on and steal prey of other birds and consume garbage. Unlock thousands of full-length species accounts and hundreds of bird family overviews when you subscribe to Birds of the World. Both sexes incubate their single egg for two months. The diet of other species, like the Black-browed Albatross or the Grey-headed Albatross, is rich with smaller species of squid that tend to sink after death, and scavenging is not assumed to play a large role in their diet. This tendency is so strong that a study of Laysan albatrosses showed that the average distance between hatching site and the site where a bird established its own territory was 22 m (72 ft). When they return, they can feed a single chick up to 2 … They are marine birds, using the land only to breed and raise their young. When they graze, they follow the straight path of a single site off the coast of Peru, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east. The Waved Albatross breeds solely on Espanola Island, while colonies of Blue-footed, Red-footed, and Masked Boobies are found alongside Frigate birds. Basically their diet is pretty much all seafood. Their diet consists mainly of fish, squid and crustaceans. Waved albatrosses feed on squid, fish, crustaceans, and occasionally small birds and other birds regurgitated food.Waved albatrosses fish for squid at night when the squid swim near the surface of the water and the waved albatross can just swoop down and scoop them up. Waved albatrosses drink saltwater Most albatross feed consists of cephalopods, fish and crustaceans, but they can also be scavengers and feed on meat or other chicks. They have a fishy diet . This paper reviews the methods used to date to investigate albatross diet and summarises the spatial, taxonomic and temporal coverage of existing studies, with the aim of … The diet of the albatross consists of squid, krill, schools of fish, and much less commonly, zooplankton (microscopic marine animals). However, scav-enging behavior and a tendency to feed in large, fre-netic aggregations was observed by Merlen (1996). During the non-breeding season, these birds are mainly in Ecuador and the Peruvian coast. Appearance: White with grey-black wings, hooked bill.. How do Wandering Albatrosses feed? Weight: 6 to 12kg.. Learn More. Diet. This species is classified as critically endangered since it has an extremely small breeding range, essentially confined to one island. The Waved Albatross. The bulk of the waved albatross diet was reported to consist of … The diet of other species, like the black-browed albatross or the grey-headed albatross, is rich with smaller species of squid that tend to sink after death, and scavenging is not assumed to play a large role in their diet. Name: Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross, White-winged Albatross (Diomedea exulans). 4. The breeding range has changed in the past few decades. They have been listed as critically endangered since 2007 due to their restricted breeding range. Sometimes eggs are abandoned in great numbers, and it is unclear why this phenomenon occurs. Two inland breeding colonies on Isla Espanola disappeared between 1971 and 1994. The diet of other species, like the Black-browed Albatross or the Grey-headed Albatross, is rich with smaller species of squid that tend to sink after death, and scavenging is not assumed to play a large role in their diet. In this post, you’ll learn 25 facts about the waved albatross, including diet, wingspan, mating habits (including a … The wandering albatrosses are also known for widespread variations in their sounds; at times they produce grunts, screams or sounds of bill clapping. While chicks are being raised, adults will forage at sea for one to two weeks. Each species account is written by leading ornithologists and provides detailed information on bird distribution, migration, habitat, The waved albatross (Phoebostria erorota), also known as the Galapagos albatross, is the only member of the family Diomedeidae in the tropical region. More Wildlife in the Galapagos. The Waved Albatross, however, does not make a nest but instead moves its egg around the pair’s territory, as much as 50 m (160 ft). The albatross diet is predominantly cephalopods, fish and crustaceans, although they will also scavenge carrion and feed on other zooplankton. This may sometimes make it lose the egg. Subscribe Now For Access. The estimated bycatch rate of 0.11 birds per 1,000 hooks is sufficient to drive significant declines. In all albatross species, both parents incubate the egg from between one day and three weeks. However, there is some difference between the feeding of one species and another. The bulk of the waved albatross diet was r eported to. Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata Mean breeding success in a subpopulation on Española was 22.9% during 2000-2004 (ranging from 7.9% during a mild El Niño-Southern Oscillation event in 2003 to 36.9%) [22] (Table 5). pelagic crustaceans (euphasiids, krill and isopods) in. Both sexes incubate their single egg for two months. Galapagos albatross feed on squid, surface fish and crustaceans, usually on the ocean’s surface, far out to sea. Espanola is the most southerly of the archipelago and somewhat outlaying having a high portion of endemic fauna. consist of squid and fishes by Harris (1973), who found. The albatross bodies are 1.35 meters in length and they weigh 11 kilograms or more Their diet is pretty much the same as any other seabird SEAFOOD,SEAFOOD and more SEAFOOD! Albatross feed on fish, cephalopods, and, in some species, crustaceans and carrion (Cherel and Klages, 1998). The main diet of the waved albatross consists of squid, fish, and crustaceans. Habitat: Oceans, coasts, coastal islands Diet: Carnivore: fish, squid Reproduction: Waved albatrosses mate for life and only in the Galapagos Islands. The feet are blue in color. Albatross Diet. Length: Up to 135 cm. Weight: 3-5 kg Identification: The waved albatross has black wings and saddle, white plumage, and an orange hooked bill. Albatross have the largest wingspan in the world, their extra ordinary wings measure more than 3 meters long or more! They breed only on one island in Galapagos, Espanola, with an additional tiny population of about 20 pairs found off the coast of Ecuador. Total population is estimated at c. 50,000 - 70,000 birds, including 12,000 breeding pairs. Darwin’s Finches. Weight: 3-5 kg Identification: The waved albatross has black wings and saddle, white plumage, and an orange hooked bill. Waved Albatross … 3. Learn More. When it comes to feeding, they follow straight routes to … The feet are blue in color. by on October 25, 2020 with No Comments. They supplement their diet with zooplankton. Watch on YouTube. The waved albatross has been spotted in Panama and Columbia, however they are rarely seen north of the equator.
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Family building and social governance start with child-friendliness
Release time： 2017-05-17 13:32:41 Publisher：China Child Friendly Community Working Committee
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In the Spring Festival of 2017, a photo made people cry. A 3-year-old child greeted his father who was on his way home for 24 hours at the village entrance. This is Hunan Xiangxi.
Just a few days ago, it was still a photo of a 6-year-old girl crying with tears of heart and preventing her working mother from leaving. This is a matter in Majiagou, Miba Township, Kangxian County, Longnan City, Gansu Province.
This is a common routine for every left-behind child in the countryside.
The situation of the children in the city is not much better.
The 2016 "National Visual Health" white paper shows that the average myopia rate of children aged 6-15 in China has reached 46.64%
Data from the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2016 show that the number of obese people under the age of 18 in China has reached 120 million.
The relevant data from the “Physique Survey” of the Ministry of Education in 2017 shows that in the past 30 years, the physical fitness of Chinese teenagers has declined continuously, and their physical fitness such as strength, speed, explosive power and endurance has declined.
Children are the hope of the family and the future of the country, but this status quo really makes people worry.
Whether it is the construction of family civilization advocated by President Xi Jinping or the governance of grass-roots society, whether it is shared and co-construction or harmonious development, the root cause is closely related to the physical and mental health of children and the overall development of children. At the beginning, building a benign ecological environment for the harmonious development of families, schools, and communities is the foundation for the nation's prosperity and prosperity.
Child-friendly, the starting point of family civilization
On December 12, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when meeting with the first representatives of national civilized families that party committees and governments at all levels must fully understand the importance of family civilization construction, assume leadership responsibilities, and effectively put family civilization construction on the table. schedule. This means that the construction of a family civilization is not a matter of one household, but a matter that the whole society, even the state and the government must pay attention to. During the years of economic and social development, the structure and function of the family have changed and the family consciousness has gradually diminished. However, the family is still the basic unit and cell of our country's social life, and its unique historical and social status , Formed a unique and strong family culture unique to China. However, most Chinese people have a "family and family feelings" in their blood, "the country is the largest family, and the family is the smallest country." The family and the country are inseparable from the nation and society.
Therefore, the construction of family civilization is an indispensable part of the construction of social civilization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping also pointed out that "family is the first classroom in life, and parents are the children's first teachers." The development of family civilization is inseparable from the education of children, and it is closely related to children's education.
For children, the family is also the first environment in which he grows up. The quality of survival and development during childhood directly affects his adult life and his perception of society. Therefore, the healthy development of childhood is not a family matter, but Major issues that the whole society should care about.
In the "Five-year Plan for Guiding the Promotion of Family Education (2016-2020)" issued in 2016, it was explicitly mentioned that the legalization, professionalization, networking, and socialization of family education will be accelerated, and it will basically be built to adapt to urban and rural areas by 2020 Develop a family education guidance service system that meets the needs of parents and children.
The five-year plan calls for highlighting the core and fundamentals of family education, expanding the family education guidance service front, and improving the professional level of family education guidance.
Obviously, family education and the construction of family civilization are already important tasks on the agenda of the party committee and the government, as well as national plans that concern national quality and national development.
The construction of a child-friendly community, with children as the center and friendship as the goal, will create "a most vibrant and habitable community that is conducive to the healthy growth of children and also more interesting for adults." Its service targets are children aged 0-18, children's parents, relatives and other community members. It provides children with games, entertainment, education, health and psychosocial support as an integrated service system.
Child-friendly communities are an important part of family education and the starting point for family civilization.
Child-friendly and supportive of school education
When it comes to education, of course, the main subject is of course school. It is a systematic, planned, long-term education of knowledge and values. It is the main way for children to acquire knowledge. It is also an important place for children to form their outlook on life, values and world.
The Chinese have always attached great importance to children's education and have never invested heavily in sending their children to school. However, after all, children stay in school for a limited time. They live more in families and communities, especially young children. They are also the main body of the community, and the community becomes the first environment for children to contact the society.
In addition, with the development of the times, children's development needs have become increasingly diversified and specialized, and family and children's subjective consciousness, personality consciousness, and rights consciousness have gradually increased. A single school education is difficult to support multiple educational needs.
Furthermore, the knowledge learned in the school stays on the books. It is difficult to apply the knowledge in the school alone, and it must be consolidated in social practice. Another situation is that the moral education and social rules awareness education that schools receive are contrary to reality. To give a simple example, schools teach children to cross the street to see the signal lights, but children who regularly wait for the signal lights often see The scene is that the adult flickers left and right through the traffic, ignoring the signal lights at all.
All this shows that creating a friendly educational environment cannot be done by the school alone.
The construction of child-friendly communities has always been committed to connecting and extending school education, giving children a comprehensive and coordinated environment for growth.
In the process of building a child-friendly community, Binhu Century Community, Baohe District, Hefei City, Anhui Province has strengthened the interaction between the school and the community. The community library has opened a lively and elegant children's reading area, and has carried out thematic activities such as little librarians, little moderators, and little speakers to create a stage for children to display their talents such as reading, management, and talent. Actively explored the protection of children's right to participate, launched "Tianshan Park micro-renewal", "Community Spring Festival Gala ticket invitation letter creative design collection", "Love and charity to help empty nest elderly New Year" and other activities.
Such activities have well supported and extended the school's education system, allowing children to improve their overall quality.
Child-friendly, innovative approaches to social governance
On March 5, 2016, when Xi Jinping participated in the Shanghai delegation's review during the two sessions, he emphasized that the focus of social governance must be implemented in urban and rural areas and communities.
In the community, children are the most cohesive.
Families with children all have the same feelings. Children have expanded their parents' social circle, and adults have more interactions in places with more children. Children can act as a catalyst for social interaction in the community. It can be seen that children are the center of community vitality. Child-friendly communities with more child services and more child spaces are more likely to form strong neighborhood relationships, and more likely to form co-construction, sharing, and society. Participation platforms are easier for community affairs.
In the crowded city of Beijing, there is such a small courtyard with blue walls and gray tiles, with big red lanterns hanging high, and the children run freely in the courtyard, while the elderly people buy food customized to them by the community at the entrance of the courtyard. . The children's activity venues cooperating with Emirate are full of laughter and laughter of children.
This is Fusi Xiaoyuan, located on Tiancun Road Street, Haidian District, Beijing. Qi Lin, a social worker at Ruixiang Social Work Office in Haidian District, Beijing, who is responsible for the planning of the Fusi Academy, introduced that there are not only billion children's activities venues in the courtyard, but most of the books in the library are also related to children. Professional opera artists come to guide children's hobbies, and there are courses to teach children calligraphy practice.
Just as lively as the children ’s venues, there are the Yueshu Hall, the Chinese Academy Hall, the Chess Hall, the Council Hall, the Rehabilitation Hall, the Friendship Hall, and the Exhibition Hall. It is a comprehensive and multi-functional public welfare cultural space that integrates community learning and reading, sports and fitness, leisure and entertainment, communication and exchanges, and mutual assistance in the neighborhood. The community solved the "last mile" problem of community cultural needs through the government's purchase of social organization services.
The Fusi Primary School has greatly improved the natural and human environment of this community through the methods of self-management by the committee, maintenance of social work offices, and supervision by government experts.
Tiancun Mountain in Tiancunlu Street is a barren mountain contracted by the company and responsible for fire protection and maintenance. The community and the enterprise jointly developed, co-constructed and shared-in 2014, the street invested in "opening up wasteland and building green", and built a 40,000 square meter "air steppe" "; Also" remove the wall and green ", add a 30,000 square meters of national fitness park, and in 2015 built an international standard football field to benefit the surrounding people.
Fusi Primary School promotes children's participation in activities through cultural construction, integrates multiple resources of society to participate in community governance, revitalizes the community stock space to provide services for community residents, and provides a good example for grassroots social governance.
Child-Friendly Community as the Axis Building a Micro System for the Harmonious Development of Society
Nine principles have been implemented in the construction of child-friendly communities: child safety (protection against loss, protection against accidents, protection against accidental injuries); child-friendly space and environmental design (public spaces for free play, venues for outdoor collective activities); communities and schools Linkages between communities and families; linkages between communities and social organizations that provide children's public services; resident units are friendly to children in the community; resident companies are friendly to employees and their children; the embodiment of children's right to participate in community governance (the right to know, Right to speak, suggestion); professional staff standards related to child welfare services (such as mom community attendants).
Such a child-friendly community connects families, schools, and communities to participate, with children as the axis, and the purpose of creating a safe, healthy, participating, and developing environment for it. In fact, it has formed a harmonious development of families, schools, and communities. Microsystem, a harmonious and healthy social microsystem, is the basis for innovative social governance and the realization of China's dream.
The basis of social governance is vitality and order, both of which are reflected in the concept of child-friendliness. The construction of child-friendly communities inspires human vitality through the interaction between man and nature.
We often say that former children did not shout from the outside, and today children cannot rush out from home. In addition to the insecurity of the social environment of the community, the lack of natural attraction is probably a major reason.
The alienation between people and nature has blocked children's sense of well-being, but also brought about physical and mental problems such as myopia, obesity, depression, paranoia. A 2010 NetEase survey showed that rural children are generally happier than urban children. The isolation of children from nature is the contradiction cracked by child-friendly communities.
In foreign communities, each community has a unique activity space for children. Even artificial nature can bring endless happiness to children. This kind of happiness is healthy, simple, durable, and simple. It is not comparable to the happiness brought by computer and mobile games. of.
Compared to our domestic Disneyland, Happy Valley-like, man-made, fast-food children's playground, child-friendly places more emphasis on building children's playgrounds close to nature, such as Danyang Dayaluojia Children's Park in Jiangsu It's just a community water park, a faucet, and a battleship made of an old ship that makes children have fun. The beauty of nature and outdoor activities are the source of vitality for children.
Child-friendly communities build social order through human-social interaction.
Child-friendly communities provide endless possibilities for children's social interaction. For example, Binhu Century Community, Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui, has done a lot of work in child community practice, child community cultivation, and protection of children's rights. A total of 37 children's associations were formed within 4 years, and 144 child service projects were implemented, serving 39,000 children. In these activities, they have improved children's social participation and social interaction, not only the moral and intellectual education of children, and the quality of parents, but more importantly, these interactions and activities help children establish social order.
Shakespeare said: "Wisdom is part of destiny, and the external environment a person encounters will affect his mind." The construction of child-friendly communities has nurtured a group of energetic and orderly children, and has led to energetic and orderly adults. This will definitely form a more friendly environment-friendly family nurture, friendly School education, friendly community life, and friendly social care are the dreams of the motherland and the well-being of the people.
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The Gravity of Honey
Dear Liar
Here is Shaw in all his contradictions; he adores the actress, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (born Beatrice Stella Tanner), most ascetically, and persuades her to play in Pygmalion. He frets with her when she leaves for America, and yet he refuses permission to publish the letters that would save her from bankruptcy. Mrs. Campbell is his match; she published them anyway. Here is a strange and intriguing romance fought around the world.
Grace is a tragicomedy that explores human assumptions about how God, goodness, faith and causality operate in the cosmic machinery. Steve and Sara have relocated to Sunrise, Florida to pursue an unbelievably wonderful business deal, but as the deal slowly unravels and Steve finds himself afflicted with an itch that just won’t stop, Sara finds herself increasingly drawn to their next-door neighbor, Sam, a badly-scarred victim of a recent car accident who wants nothing to do with her or her Bible-quoting husband. In the end, with a little help from an old German exterminator who’s still angry about the Allied bombing of Hamburg in World War II, all three characters are confronted by a world that’s both better and worse than any religion can justify.
Mercy of a Storm
Bracha Weissman has transformed herself into an emotional recluse – her identity defined by the loss of her family in the Nazi death camps she miraculously survived. Her attachment to the past has estranged her daughter Rifka, who wants to get on with the life of a modern day mom in California. Bracha’s armor begins to crack when Ann Meshenberg appears one day to take her oral testimony for a video archive. Ann, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, has her own agenda: the need to ask a stranger what she could not ask her parents. What begins as a simple history project becomes a story of mothers and daughters forgiving and being forgiven. THE INTERVIEW won three national new play contests, and Ohio Arts Council grant and has had more than 30 readings and productions around the U.S.
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Home » Carlo D'Este » Armchair General and the Colby Symposium in 2012
Posted on Apr 2, 2012 in Carlo D'Este, Stuff We Like
Armchair General and the Colby Symposium in 2012
By Carlo D'Este
As the Executive Director, I’m very pleased to announce that Armchair General will again support the 17th annual William E. Colby Military Writers’ Symposium, to be held at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont on 11-12 April 2012. As a part of the symposium the sixth annual Armchair General Award will be presented at a dinner at Norwich the evening of April 12.
Since 2007 Armchair General has been a dedicated supporter of the only program of its kind held at an American university. A more complete description of the Colby Symposium is in the program, of which a Pdf. is attached.
Afghanistan and America’s Endless War on Terrorism
After nearly 11 years of military involvement in Afghanistan, growing and often violent opposition to the U.S. and NATO presence there has cast the future of the war and its possible solutions in grave doubt. America’s role in Afghanistan, our troubled relations with Pakistan, and possible outcomes to the hostilities will be the main subjects of discussion at the 2012 Colby Symposium.
Ralph Peters is a writer, strategist, media commentator and retired military officer. He is the author of 28 books and approximately 1,000 columns, articles, essays and reviews. Uniformed service, personal interests and research have taken him to 70 countries and six continents. He served in the U.S. Army for 22 years, first as an enlisted man, then as an officer, retiring shortly after his promotion to lieutenant-colonel to write. Ralph has published seven books on strategy and military affairs: Endless War, Wars of Blood and Faith, Never Quit the Fight, Beyond Baghdad, Beyond Terror, Fighting for the Future, and New Glory. Lines of Fire, a collection of his most-enduring writings of the past two decades was published in September 2011. His latest book published this year and the subject of great reviews is a novel of the Civil War, Cain at Gettysburg.
Nathaniel Fick is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, a national security research organization in Washington DC, and an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. He served as a Marine Corps infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, and his book, One Bullet Away, won the Colby Award in 2006. Nate earned a Classics degree from Dartmouth, and an MBA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Barrie Dunsmore covered foreign affairs for ABC News for thirty years, reporting from Washington and abroad on the policies of seven U.S. presidents from Johnson to Clinton. He traveled with them all overseas and was a regular on the planes of their secretaries of state. From 1965–95 he reported from more than 100 countries on virtually every major international event from wars to summits to diplomatic shuttles. Following retirement from ABC, Dunsmore became a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard where he conducted a study of the potential consequences of live television of war. The Next War-Live was published by Harvard in 1996.
James Hornfischer is the author of three outstanding works of naval history. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (2004) won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and was recently named by Naval History magazine as one of a dozen all-time naval classics. His second book, Ship of Ghosts, about the cruiser USS Houston, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club and was chosen by Proceedings magazine as a Notable Book of 2006. His latest book is Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Bantam, 2011) is an acclaimed new account of the Guadalcanal naval campaign. A former editor at HarperCollins, and now president of the literary agency, Hornfischer Literary Management, he has handled a number of nonfiction bestsellers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller and Colby Award winner Flags of Our Fathers.
THE COLBY AWARD
Established in 1999, the Colby Award recognizes a first work of fiction or nonfiction that has made a major contribution to the under-standing of intelligence operations, military history, or international affairs. Through the generous support of James N. Pritzker (Col. Illinois National Guard, Ret.) and the Tawani Foundation in Chicago, the winner of the Colby Award receives $5,000.
20 DISTINGUISHED WORKS IN 13 SEASONS
2011 Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
2010 If Not Now, When? by Jack Jacobs
2009 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
2009 The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2008 Twice Armed: An American Soldier’s Battle for the Hearts and Minds in Iraq by R. Alan King
2007 Six Frigates: The Epic history of the Founding of the American Navy by Ian W. Toll
2007 Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors: Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John A. Glusman
2006 One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
2006 Lincoln’s Tragic Admiral by Kevin J. Weddle
2005 Hope and Honor by MG Sid Shachnow USA (Ret.) & Jann Robbins
2005 Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
2004 The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West & MG Ray L. Smith, USMC (Ret.)
2004 No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident by Robert L. Bateman
2003 Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg
2002 The Last Battle by Ralph Wetterhahn
2002 Beyond Valor by Patrick K. O’Donnell
2001 Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers
2000 Stolen Valor by B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley
1999 A Road We Do Not Know: A Novel of Custer at the Little Big Horn by Fred Chiaventone
1999 Circle William by Bill Harlow
2012 COLBY AWARD WINNER
A Nightmare’s Prayer by Michael Franzak
Armchair General Award
In 2007, Armchair General founder and publisher, Eric Weider, and Editor-in-Chief, Jerry D. Morelock, began an association with the Colby and Norwich University. Armchair General donates $500 annually (a figure matched by Norwich) to an outstanding student in military history who enrolls in the Norwich Master of Arts in Military History online graduate program. The award will be presented at the Colby “Meet the Authors” dinner at Norwich on April 12, 2012. My sincere thanks to both Eric and Jerry for their generous support. It is yet another example of AG’s growing contributions to the field of military history.
YOUR PARICIPATION WELCOME
The Colby Symposium is also open to the public and anyone interested in attending is cordially invited to do so. Further information can be found at the Colby website: colbysymposium.org Or contact Cara L. Butterly, 158 Harmon Drive, Northfield VT 05663 ; Office: (802) 485-2811; Fax: (802) 485-2802 or cbutterl@norwich.edu.
After the event, a limited number of autographed 2012 full color Colby posters will be available for sale, each signed by the authors attending this year’s event. Posters from previous years are also available at a nominal fee. Contact is Cara Butterly.
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Early 1997, Nancy Engeman and Mickey O'Connell, both in recovery, were introduced by a mutual friend who knew each woman had a dream: to help other women find their way to a healthy, successful life of recovery. With Nancy's experience in the alcohol and drug treatment field as well as the nonprofit world and Mickey's business experience, a 501(c)3 tax exempt status was approved for Come Rest Awhile in April of 1997.
Come Rest Awhile opened its doors on July 1, 2001 in a little house in Lake Oswego. Nancy moved in as Executive Director and within weeks six residents began their journey of recovery. Mickey now resides in Molokai, HI and continues to be an integral and supportive part of Come Rest Awhile.
Come Rest Awhile now operates in a large, beautiful home in Lake Oswego. The facility houses 10 residents and is well known in the treatment community, receiving referrals from all over the United States.
In 2015, Ildi Klein was hired as live-in House Manager. She has been in recovery since January 7, 2010 and is a graduate of Marylhurst University. Her professional qualifications as well as her life experiences and supportive empathy make her the perfect mentor for our residents. Ildi is now Director of Come Rest Awhile
Nancy, now retired as of 12/31/2017 has been in recovery since December 24,1975 and shares her experience, strength and hope with audiences around the country. In February 2011, the Red Dress Society honored her with the Women's Advocacy Angel Award. In July of the same year she received the Freedom Award from DePaul Treatment Centers for her contributions to advancing the cause of recovery from addiction. .
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We are very grateful for the following [Donors, Foundations, Individuals, etc.] to be listed soon.
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Brazilian Minister requests Wheat Imports from Outside Mercosul
Brazilian farmers are once again disappointed with their winter wheat production. This marks four out of the last five years that the wheat crop in southern Brazil has failed to meet expectations. As a result, Reuters is reporting that the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, is requesting that 750,000 tons of wheat be imported from outside of Mercosul countries and that it be exempt of the 10% import duty imposed on imports from outside the block.
Brazil cannot produce enough wheat to meet its domestic demand and as a result, it is one of the world's largest importers of high quality wheat. Even though the request does not specify the origin of the imports, they would most likely come from the United States or Canada with the possibility that some might come from Russia.
In its most recent monthly report, Conab estimated that Brazil's 2017 wheat production would be 4.88 million tons, which would be down 27% from the 6.7 million tons produced in 2016. Brazilian farmers reduced their wheat acreage in 2017 by 10% due to low prices and now adverse weather is reducing the Brazilian production even more.
In their latest monthly report, Conab estimated that Brazil would import 7 million tons of wheat in 2017, but that estimate may now be too low given the deteriorating condition of the Brazilian wheat crop. The domestic demand for wheat in Brazil is estimated at 11 million tons.
The entire wheat growing season in Brazil has been one problem after another. The weather in June and July was very dry which negatively impacted the germination and plant populations. A series of frosts resulted in additional damage to the crop especially in the state of Parana. Currently, heavy rains, high winds, and hail have resulted in additional damage especially in the state of Rio Grande do Sul where the wheat harvest is just getting underway. The wheat harvest in Parana is approaching three-quarters complete.
In both states, farmers have been very disappointed with the yields and the quality of the grain. Much of the wheat in Rio Grande do Sul may be of such poor quality that it would only be suitable for animal feed. Normally, Brazil is able to import enough wheat from Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay to meet its domestic need, but the wheat crops in the neighboring countries has also been disappointing for many of the same reasons.
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Essays on the Social Art of Architecture from the Website
Collected Articles on Social Art of Architecture
Architecture for the Public Good: A Photo Essay of Built Projects from Around the World
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Barbara Knecht: Community Structures and Homeless People
COMMUNITY STRUCTURES AMONG HOMELESS PEOPLE
By Barbara Knecht
Nostalgic representations of community intrude into virtually any discussion on the topic of homelessness. Attempts to explain its existence, to fight against solutions, and to condemn its victims invariably incorporate perceptions of community. In this context, community is used to evoke sentimental images of home and neighborhood, and provokes emotional responses and prejudices. It is appropriated for many purposes. Messages tell us homelessness has resulted from the breakdown of family and “community” in America. A vague and unidentified "homeless community" is, in turn, blamed for the destruction of neighborhoods. People embrace these ideas and claim them as reason why formerly homeless people should not be housed in their “community.” On the other hand, when groups of homeless people band together to form makeshift villages – “communities” - in front of City Halls or in public parks, their structures are broken down and the occupants scattered. And yet, when housing is built for homeless people, the design is expected to foster and create a "sense of community" for a potentially disparate group of people who come to be housed there.
What exactly are we talking about when we refer to loss of "community," "homeless community" or "sense of community?" Such powerful propaganda exceeds the intention of the definitions of the word community. The literal meanings are bland terms related to location, groups of people with common interests, and simply, similarity or identity.
The first meaning, "a group of people living in a specific location or the actual physical place in which those people live" describes an association based on geographic location. Almost always, one may replace the general word community with a specific word such as neighborhood, district, city, state, etc. in this usage. This meaning encompasses ideas about representative processes. We have community planning, community based services, community review process. As anyone who has experienced a community planning process can verify, geographic proximity does not guarantee an a priori common voice. All that is definitely shared is location, people tied to a particular neighborhood or district.
In contrast, the second meaning "a group of people with common interests" such as the design community, the scientific community, or the business community does describe an a priori connection. We identify the scientific community as a union of numerous specific disciplines. Business or religious or academic community all refer to groups with mutual sets of interests and goals. Although there may be divisions and factions within those communities, they exist because individuals and subgroups have chosen to identify themselves with others and come together for a shared common purpose. Affinity, kinship, and most important - power - come from association with a particular community. Sometimes we call these kinds of communities the "special interests."
As with the first, the last meaning "similarity or identity," cannot absolutely carry an expectation of commonality besides sharing certain identifiable external, and potentially superficial, characteristics. Although it is often assumed that external characteristics carry with them common interests, it is not guaranteed. If we talk about the homeless community, all we can really mean is a group of men, women and children who have no place of their own to live. There can be no assumption about any common interests. The same can be said of the people who make up the "poor community" or the "minority community." Certainly there will be some overlapping geographies, and some overlapping interests, but these are not communities that have self-identified and united with a common purpose. These are names applied to groups of people who share a characteristic, and it is usually used in a way that neither enriches their lives nor increases cohesiveness. More often it acts to reduce diverse and heterogeneous collections of individuals and families to a singular profile.
A community has the potential to be powerful if it comes together out of choice and works consistently toward shared goals developed in the common interest. A community will almost never be powerful if it is externally defined and is characterized by apparent similarities unrelated to shared goals. A critical contributor to a healthy community is what Lawrence Telles calls “functional interdependence.”1 It is by way of human interaction and activity that isolation breaks down and communities form around common interests. Joining communities - that is, identifying with, and trusting networks of people and institutions - is what each of us does when we form relationships, go to work, participate in religious and cultural activities, live in neighborhoods, and call on friends during crises. We are “functionally interdependent” on a diverse society for emotional and physical support and we are, in turn, responsible to that society. Geographic proximity may exist, similarity may exist, but spiritual or material interest that promotes interdependence must exist.
There is a perception that people who live on the streets are completely without community, that is, they have made no voluntary ties and are not functionally interdependent on other people or institutions. The perception arises from evaluating individual lives according to some mythical social norm because people who are homeless are automatically assumed to live outside those structures. In fact, some people who live on the street have very strong community ties. They become known to the residents and local businesses. People give them clothes or a blanket, restaurants give them leftover food, there may be a church basement or a business office cellar where they can occasionally sleep. Odd jobs, sweeping, watching a car, etc., may bring in a little cash. These actions allow an individual the dignity of self-sufficiency, and human connection, and the independent choice to live in a manner where resources, meager as they are, are familiar and supportive.
Homeless people, referred to as the “homeless community,” do not fit a definition which relies on geographic proximity, nor a set of common interests. External similarity in the characteristic of homelessness is the single definition of community within which they fit. The diversity that exists among homeless people mirrors the diversity that exists in American households - single adults, families with two parents, chronically mentally ill people, mothers with small children, grandmothers caring for small children, substance abusers, and so on. And within each one of those groups, there will many other ways of defining subgroups according to some objective characteristics but they still don't necessarily share common interests.
Our policies have failed to see homeless people as a complex collection of individuals who will not necessarily identify themselves according to their (temporary) state of homelessness. Our financial and governmental institutions, in a well-meaning attempt to address this problem, have tried to group people by external characteristics as a way of funding and giving priority in housing. Thus, we have emergency, transitional and permanent housing for homeless people, homeless people who are mentally ill, people who are former substance abusers, etc. The assumption exists that people with superficial similarities housed under one roof have shared goals, and that the housing will be a setting where a sense of community will develop by virtue of proximity, common characteristics, and as a result of certain architectural design elements. Because homeless people are perceived as lacking any community ties, housing solutions assume that they must be created, and that by imposing structure it will be constructed. The critical missing ingredient is self-identification with a community and self-determination within the community.
Geography plays a curious role here. While it cannot be assumed that proximity leads to shared interests, ties to a location can be the critical thread in a perception of community for a homeless person living on the streets. Programs designed to deal with a variety of the underlying causes of homelessness rarely acknowledge the significance of that fragile connection to a chosen network of contacts. Functional interdependence exists. City wide programs require that an individual relocate once or twice for residential treatment services and again to permanent housing in yet another neighborhood. For some people, trading a fragile connection to community for the presumed benefit of treatment programs which may lead to permanent housing in a community in which the person has no ties is simply not conceivable. The failure of some people to leave the streets may not be the manifestation of some intractable personal issue, but rather a product of the design and geography of available alternatives. They fail to recognize and build on existing capacities.
Significant exceptions to this norm exist in Los Angeles and New York where two not-for-profit agencies have supported the development and expansion of structures that recognize and strengthen existing capacity rather than attempt to impose community. Working within specific neighborhoods - communities - they have attempted to draw out and amplify the community by supplying work and other activities by which people identify themselves and identify with others. The result has been to build social and physical structures that promote interaction and interdependence. Founded originally on distinct missions, both recognize and draw on the knowledge that homeless people do have networks of functional interdependence. They have developed neighborhood based networks which provide the structure for "community" to develop around and through them.
Founded in June 1985 by Mollie Lowery, Los Angeles Men's Place (LAMP) operates in Los Angeles' Skid Row, a distinct area of 50 blocks south of Chinatown and downtown. LAMP opened with a drop in center to provide food, clothing, showers and toilets, health screening, an address, financial and legal services to homeless mentally ill people living on the streets of Skid Row.
The day time drop in center operated under the guiding principles that all participation would be voluntary, that agency growth and administration would be driven by the needs of the people served, and it would "grow into a community working toward constructive, individual, collective and systemic change." Ms. Lowery believed that these principles and programs would help people move up and, presumably, out of Skid Row.
By 1987, in response to a consistent overnight population on the doorstep, LAMP opened a crisis shelter for 18 people on the second floor of the drop-in center. It soon became clear that there was a need for a transitional residence, and for income-generating business to employ more "guests." Many were already employed by LAMP, but it was clearly a limited resource. In 1988, construction began on LAMP village which opened in stages and currently contains 48 transitional beds, life skills workshops; performance, visual art and writing classes; drug recovery, case management, and advocacy services. The building, which faces onto two streets, also houses four businesses: linen laundering service for Skid Row hotels, a coin operated laundromat, a mini market, and public showers and toilets.
During the development of the village, LAMP experimented with permanent housing out of Skid Row. Through the organization individuals rented apartments in Santa Monica. It was always assumed that as people stabilized, they would want to move out of Skid Row. For 18 months they experimented with this housing; but in the end the residents said they felt isolated and lonely away from their friends and family at LAMP. This was a turning point in LAMP's development. According to Mollie Lowery: "Rather than relate to Skid Row as an undesirable, temporary situation to escape from, we would turn our energies to investing in and improving the area in an effort to make it a better, more decent, livable residential neighborhood." Since that time LAMP has developed a 50 unit apartment building, and, because of its location members of the LAMP community have access to SRO housing throughout Skid Row. The resulting community is a collection of individuals congregated in a specific neighborhood who have a variety of living, working and social needs met by their participation in the LAMP community.
Community Access, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was founded in 1974 to find housing for mentally ill people who were being discharged from psychiatric hospitals. Their philosophy was based on the belief "that the mentally ill, if given a decent place to live and minimum of support services, can live happy and productive lives in the community" (1991-2 Annual Report). In 1977, they rented two apartments, and slowly over the years in response to neighborhood commitment and to community building they have developed an array of housing options and employment and service activities. In 1988, Club Access opened. It provides job training, educational classes, social events and meals, to 130 members living in the neighborhood in supervised residences, scatter site apartments and mixed and low income apartment buildings. Most of the housing was developed by Community Access for its community. The most recent venture is the purchase of a small business which will be able to directly employ local residents.
These networks of physical and social structures, invisible to the outsider, are created and sustained by choice of their members. Personal and the collective power for self-determination combine to make decisions for the common good. With such examples, the announcement of the demise of community is premature. Perhaps we believe it has vanished because we no longer recognize the form. The nostalgic images of greeting cards and advertisements have given way to intangible connections and complex networks, but communities are present because they are essential to human existence.
Isolation occurs is the absence of community. Independence exists in the presence of community. The freedom to risk and to trust results from knowledge that you are secure. Nostalgic hysteria clouds the public ability to see and believe that the essential conditions which create community are available for cultivation.
1. Innovative Community Mental Health Programs, Stein, Leonard I., editor.
Jossey-Bass Inc., 1992, Page 54.
This article was originally written for the ICIS (International Center for Integrative Studies) Forum, and adapted into a lecture for Archeworks, the design lab Stanley Tigerman founded to "use design as an agent of change in the public interest.”
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US drone strike kills 12 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan
by The Long War Journal | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor |
The US launched a drone strike in the Shawal Valley in Pakistan’s tribal agency of Pakistan today, killing 12 “militants,” including a local Taliban commander. The strike is the first in Pakistan in more than two weeks.
The remotely piloted Predators or the more advanced Reapers fired eight missiles at a compound in the village of Dre Nishtar in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan, according to Dawn. Pakistani officials said 12 “militants” were killed in the strike, according to Reuters. A Taliban commander loyal to Hafiz Gul Bahadar is reported to be among the dead.
No senior al Qaeda or allied jihadist commanders from foreign terrorist groups are reported to have been killed in the strike.
Recent strikes target the Shawal Valley
So far this year, five of the 27 drone strikes in Pakistan have hit targets in the Shawal Valley. Three of the last four strikes have taken place in the Shawal Valley. The last strike in Shawal, on July 1, is said to have killed several members of the Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda-affiliated group that operates in Pakistan, China, and Central Asia.
Al Qaeda, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, and Taliban fighters under the command of Hafiz Gul Bahadar, the leader of the Taliban in North Waziristan, are all known to operate in the Shawal Valley, which is near the Afghan border. The area is used to launch attacks across the border in Afghanistan.
Bahadar administers the Shawal Valley. In 2009, after the Pakistani military launched an offensive in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan, Bahadar sheltered the families of Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, and Waliur Rehman Mehsud, the group’s leader in South Waziristan [see LWJ report, Taliban escape South Waziristan operation].
Bahadar, Hakeemullah, South Waziristan Taliban commander Mullah Nazir, and Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Haqqani Network, are members of the Shura-e-Murakeba, an alliance formed in late 2011. The four commanders agreed to cease attacks against Pakistani security forces, refocus efforts against the US and NATO in Afghanistan, and end kidnappings and other criminal activities in the tribal areas.
The deal was brokered by senior al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi as well as by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the operational leader of the Haqqani Network, and Mullah Mansour, a senior Taliban leader who operates in eastern Afghanistan. An al Qaeda leader known as Abdur Rehman Al Saudi was also involved in the negotiations. Mullah Omar, the overall leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is said to have dispatched Siraj and Mansour to help negotiate the agreement [see LWJ report, Al Qaeda brokers new anti-US Taliban alliance in Pakistan and Afghanistan].
Background on the US strikes in Pakistan
The US has struck targets inside Pakistan’s tribal areas three times this month. All three strikes took place in North Waziristan. Today’s strike ends a 16-day hiatus; the last attack took place on July 6, when the drones hit a compound in the al Qaeda haven of Datta Khel.
Today’s strike is the sixth in Pakistan since June 4, when the US killed Abu Yahya al Libi, one of al Qaeda’s top leaders, propagandists, and religious figures. Abu Yahya was killed in a strike on a compound in the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali, another al Qaeda haven. Uzbek, Tajik, and Turkmen fighters belonging to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan were reportedly among the 14 terrorists killed along with Abu Yahya.
Al Qaeda has since released two videos of Abu Yahya; both appear to have been produced sometime after November 2011. The first video, which appears to have been taped long ago, addressed the Syrian revolution. Abu Yahya spoke about US ethics in the second video. Abu Yahya did not address reports of his death in either video. [See Threat Matrix reports, As Sahab releases video of Abu Yahya al Libi; Al Qaeda suggests Abu Yahya al Libi is alive, promises video; and Al Qaeda releases another tape from Abu Yahya al Libi.]
The US has carried out 27 strikes in Pakistan so far this year. Nine of the strikes have taken place since the beginning of June; seven occurred in North Waziristan and two were in South Waziristan. [For data on the strikes, see LWJ reports, Charting the data for US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 – 2012; and Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 – 2012.]
The drone program was scaled back dramatically from the end of March to the beginning of the fourth week in May. Between March 30 and May 22, the US conducted only three drones strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas as US officials attempted to renegotiate the reopening of NATO’s supply lines, which were closed from the end of November 2011 until July 3. Pakistan closed the supply lines following the Mohmand incident in November 2011, in which US troops killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The Pakistani soldiers were killed after they opened fire on US troops operating across the border in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
In addition to Abu Yahya, two other high-value targets have been killed in the strikes this year. A Jan. 11 strike in Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan, killed Aslam Awan, a deputy to the leader of al Qaeda’s external operations network.
And on Feb. 8, the US killed Badr Mansoor, a senior Taliban and al Qaeda leader, in a strike in Miramshah’s bazaar. Mansoor ran training camps in the area and sent fighters to battle NATO and Afghan forces across the border, and linked up members of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen with al Qaeda to fight in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden described Mansoor as one of several commanders of al Qaeda’s “companies” operating in the tribal areas. He was later promoted to lead al Qaeda’s forces in the tribal areas.
The program has been scaled down from its peak in 2010, when the US conducted 117 strikes, according to data collected by The Long War Journal. In 2011, the US carried out just 64 strikes in Pakistan’s border regions.
So far this year, the US has launched two more strikes in Pakistan (27) against al Qaeda and allied terror groups than it has in Yemen (25) against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In 2011, however, the US launched only 10 airstrikes in Yemen, versus 64 in Pakistan.
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Thailand: Practitioners Hold a Press Conference to Condemn the CCP's Violation of Human Rights (Photos)
December 21, 2005 | By Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand
Thailand practitioners hold press conference, condemning the CCP's violation of Falun Gong practitioners' human rights
(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of December 18, 2005, Thailand Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference at the Pinnacle Hotel in Bangkok regarding the incident of the Thai police beating and arresting Falun Gong practitioners under the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. The practitioners also condemned the CCP for violating Falun Gong practitioners' human rights in Thailand and demanded that Thai police immediately release the detained practitioners.
At the press conference, a Thai Falun Gong practitioner first gave an account of recent events: Eight Falun Gong practitioners, who had peacefully gathered in front of the Chinese embassy in Thailand on December 15 to protest the rape of Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese police, were arrested by the Thai police at the behest of the Chinese embassy. Currently, five practitioners are on their fourth day of hunger strike at the immigration bureau detention center. One woman practitioner has become very weak. The spokesperson said, "We are extremely worried about their situation. They have done nothing wrong. We hope the Thai government will learn the truth about Falun Gong. Thailand is a democratic country, and it is not good for Thailand to have such a thing occur."
Fourteen-year-old Wang Anqi said, "My parents and I were arrested and taken to the immigration bureau by the Thai police on December 15. Now my parents are being detained and are on a hunger strike. As a child, I feel lonely and sad. As a human being, I feel worried that the Thai government has made such a choice that violates basic human rights."
Chen Hua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Guangzhou City who escaped mainland China, recounted her personal experience of being brutally persecuted by the CCP regime. She said, "The CCP is nothing but a gang of criminals. Why would you [Thai government] choose to make friends with it?
Thailand Falun Gong practitioners released the following statement, "On December 15, opposite the Chinese embassy, eight Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by the police. They are all persons of concern (PoC) and under the UNHCR's protection. Currently, five detained Falun Gong practitioners have entered the fourth day of their hunger strike. In the past week, Falun Gong practitioners and human rights protectors around the world have been making phone calls and writing letters to Thailand consulates and related departments in different countries around the world to call on them to stop this violation of human rights by the CCP. If they bow to the CCP's pressure, it would mean conspiring with it to continue its crimes against humanity. We hope the government will reconsider the decision, and immediately release the detained Falun Gong practitioners."
Thailand practitioners protest the CCP's human rights violation in front of the Chinese embassy
At 10:00 a.m. the same day (Dec. 18), Thailand practitioners gathered outside the Chinese embassy to protest. They unfurled banners reading, "The CCP is a criminal regime!" "Thailand should immediately release Falun Gong practitioners!" and "[We] strongly condemn the rape of Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese police." Shortly afterward, uniformed and plainclothes police arrived. With practitioners' righteous thoughts and truth clarification efforts to the police, the whole event concluded smoothly.
Protesting the violation of human rights in front of the Chinese embassy
Practitioners clarify the truth to the police
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Anna Maria Lynch
Author: Christine Gambles
© Christine Gambles
Anna Maria (birth registered as Hannah Maria) was born in Newbury she was the daughter of William and Sarah Ann Lynch (nee Winter) who were married in Newbury in 1841. William was born c1822 in Newbury and Sarah was born c1823 in Reading.
William and Sarah also had the following children:
James 1842 (died 1862 buried in the NRC on the 31st March)
Joseph c1846
George Henry 1848
Sarah Ann 1854
Robert 1856 (died aged 44 in 1901 buried in the NRC on the 7th June)
Henry Edward 1862
Frederick 1865 (died aged 41 in 1907 buried in the NRC on the 14th February)
Emily 1869
William was a Shoemaker (1851, 1871 and 1891) a Master Cordwainer (1861) and Bricklayer’s Labourer (1881)
The family lived in Old Newtown Road Newbury (1851, 1871, 1881 and 1891) and Bartholomew Street (1861)
Anna died aged 2 in 1862 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25th August.
Her mother died aged 73 on the 22nd June 1898 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25th June.
Her father died aged 74 on the 20th December 1899 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 23rd December.
Sources: as above
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UN says almost 6500 dead in eastern Ukraine since mid-April; life for civilians stark
· June 1, 2015
Tatiana Dimitrevna tells observers the village is tired of the ongoing conflict. An OSCE observer translates while a second OSCE colleague writes notes for evening report. (Photo Credit: Filip Warwick)
The United Nations released a report on the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine Monday, saying almost 6,500 people have died since mid-April and nearly 16,000 have been injured. The UN report documents serious human rights abuses by both pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces including arbitrary and illegal detentions, torture and human trafficking.
Separatists currently control parts of the region also known as the Donetsk People’s Republic; a self-proclaimed state not recognized by the international community. But despite a ceasefire accord known as the Minsk protocol signed in February, fighting continues between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists in various front line hot spots. Five million people live in the conflict zone, and FSRN’s Filip Warwick traveled through the region to see how civilians there are faring.
View the accompanying slideshow
In the village of Sakhanka, on the shores of the Azov sea and about 16 miles from the Russian border, people are out in the streets – some are crying, others are visibly shaken.
Overnight incoming mortar fire damaged a number of buildings in the village. The situation is tense as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, accompanied by Russian military officers, talk to locals.
“God be with you when you leave … but we would want, for at least one night, you to stay over and see for yourself what it means (to be under fire),” says Tatiana Dimitrevna, who lives here in Sakhanka as she confronts the Deputy Commander of the Russian Ground Forces.
There is a ceasefire in effect here under the Minsk II agreement reached last February, but so far it has failed to take hold. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense set up the Joint Center for Control and Coordination, or JCCC, including Ukrainian and Russian military officers who monitor the implementation – or lack thereof – of the peace deal. A JCCC official says clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists have recently become more intense.
The director of Sahanka’s school confirms the uptick in shelling.
“The firing has become worse over the past three days,” school director Oksana Victorovna says. “We don’t know what types of weapons are being used but they are heavy. The noise has become more and more loud. When the shells fall buildings vibrate from the shock-wave. We hide in basements and everything shakes.”
Before the hostilities Sakhanka was home to about 1200 people, now only about half of them remain in the village.
“The school was open until it got hit by a shell,” Victoranova recounts, going on to explain why she stays in the battle torn village. “We can’t simply leave the children who have remained behind with their parents. There are still around 20 children left in the village. Before the conflict we taught 120 children.”
Birds tweet as heavy street weapon fire is heard on the outskirts of Donetsk. The Ukrainian government claims to have lost control of 28 towns and villages since February, 2015. Sakhanka is just one of many hot spots along the front line; 60 miles to the north in Donetsk intense clashes continues around the airport area.
Luda Krashevskaya is a pensioner living in Donetsk. She shares her temporary accommodation with two other displaced locals. Standing outside a Soviet built block building used formally as a residence hall for local students, Krashevskaya explains that she used to live in the northern part of Donetsk. It was there where heavy clashes between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists were the fiercest.
“On the 24th of January the doors and windows were blow out,” she remembers. “We fixed that up, I thanked God for that. But on the 1st of February two shells landed and everything burnt down. My son’s personal items, documents, clothing, everything got burnt.”
At the temporary accommodation the damp and cramped living conditions aggravate her health. A few months ago Kiev stopped making pension payments to retirees in separatist controlled areas like Donetsk – and local retirement benefits are only paid intermittently.
“From September until April, I did not receive my pension,” Krashevskaya says. “In December the DNR gave us 1000 hryvnia as financial assistance. But for drugs I need around 700-800 (per month) because the drugs are expensive.”
To make matters worse, the amount of the pensions paid in April were tied to Ukrainian prices. But in the Donetsk People’s Republic, or DNR, costs are 50 to 75% higher than those in Ukraine, and when medications are even available, pensioners simply cannot afford them.
There is some small humanitarian aid provided by Donetsk authorities to be found, but Krashevskaya says it’s difficult to sign-up. Ukrainian billionaire oligarch Rinat Akhmetov also provides some help, but recent deliveries have been smaller.
“Recently they’ve reduced the package size by half but thank God that buckwheat is still included,” the elderly woman says.
Pensioners are aware they cannot afford the range of food and medicine they used to. When it’s not the availability of stock, then it’s the issue of affordability.
Dr. Natalie Roberts, emergency coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres, has been in eastern Ukraine for the past 3 months and explains current health issues affecting the population.
“We really find that the main crisis in health care is chronic diseases,” Dr.Roberts explains. “The common diseases you see in elderly, particularly in this region, it’s hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and all these cases would normally receive treatment but during long period of fighting would not access the treatment they would normally have, they start to have complications. So they are less and less mobile and less and less well.”
With the younger population having decreased in size and clashes continuing along front line hot spots, the elderly who have stayed behind either feel less able or less willing to leave the area.
Luda Krashevskaya says that there are many empty houses and flats in Donetsk. If an opportunity presented itself she would gladly leave her temporary accommodation. She doesn’t believe she’ll see her house rebuilt again but cannot image living in cramped conditions till the end of her years.
“Soon I’ll need a cane,” she fears. “I don’t want to die in this room, I want to, at least, to live my final years in decent conditions as human being.”
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Water pollution control at the Rohm and Haas Houston plant
Water Pollution Control at the Rohm and
Haas Houston Plant
JOHN W. PARROT, Head, Design and Development Group
W. M. SMITH, Pollution Control Engineer
Rohm and Haas Company
Deer Park, Texas
The Houston plant of the Rohm and Haas Company, which is located on the
Houston Ship Channel in Deer Park, Texas, began operations in 1948. The plant has
been expanded numerous times since its initial operation. At the present time it
employs approximately 850 persons and ships about 50 mil of pounds per month of
various organic chemicals. Principal raw materials for the plant operation are natural
gas and air. Intermediates and products manufactured at the plant include ammonia,
methanol, acetylene, alkyl amines, acrylic monomers, and nonionic surfactants.
Like the manufacturing plant, the waste water treatment facilities have been
expanded several times to keep pace with the quantity of wastes to be treated. The
first biological treatment unit, a trickling filter, was installed in 1959. A facility for
collecting and burning waste oils was added in 1967, and a major expansion of the
treatment plant was completed and put on stream near the end of 1968. The expansion included a thirty mil gal aerated lagoon with 1,500 hp of floating aerators.
Figure 1 is a photograph of the lagoon.
Figure 1- Aerial view of aerated lagoon.
CHARACTERISTICS OF WASTE WATER
The waste water processed in the treatment plant is a complex solution of salts
and organic compounds. A typical chromatogram of a sample of the waste is shown
in Figure 2. The identities of 14 different peaks have been determined; these correspond to raw materials, intermediates, and products from the plant operation. About
60 per cent of the COD in the waste water can be attributed to known peaks; the
remaining 40 per cent is from unidentified peaks and from low molecular weight
polymers that do not elute on the chromatographic column. A summary of properties of the waste water is shown in Table I. About 85 per cent of the COD is
biodegradable, as determined by laboratory tests.
Title Water pollution control at the Rohm and Haas Houston plant
Author Parrott, J. W. (John W.)
Smith, W. M.
Conference Front Matter (copy and paste) http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/u?/engext,18196
Series Engineering extension series no. 137
Title page617
Transcript Water Pollution Control at the Rohm and Haas Houston Plant JOHN W. PARROT, Head, Design and Development Group W. M. SMITH, Pollution Control Engineer Rohm and Haas Company Deer Park, Texas INTRODUCTION The Houston plant of the Rohm and Haas Company, which is located on the Houston Ship Channel in Deer Park, Texas, began operations in 1948. The plant has been expanded numerous times since its initial operation. At the present time it employs approximately 850 persons and ships about 50 mil of pounds per month of various organic chemicals. Principal raw materials for the plant operation are natural gas and air. Intermediates and products manufactured at the plant include ammonia, methanol, acetylene, alkyl amines, acrylic monomers, and nonionic surfactants. Like the manufacturing plant, the waste water treatment facilities have been expanded several times to keep pace with the quantity of wastes to be treated. The first biological treatment unit, a trickling filter, was installed in 1959. A facility for collecting and burning waste oils was added in 1967, and a major expansion of the treatment plant was completed and put on stream near the end of 1968. The expansion included a thirty mil gal aerated lagoon with 1,500 hp of floating aerators. Figure 1 is a photograph of the lagoon. Figure 1- Aerial view of aerated lagoon. CHARACTERISTICS OF WASTE WATER The waste water processed in the treatment plant is a complex solution of salts and organic compounds. A typical chromatogram of a sample of the waste is shown in Figure 2. The identities of 14 different peaks have been determined; these correspond to raw materials, intermediates, and products from the plant operation. About 60 per cent of the COD in the waste water can be attributed to known peaks; the remaining 40 per cent is from unidentified peaks and from low molecular weight polymers that do not elute on the chromatographic column. A summary of properties of the waste water is shown in Table I. About 85 per cent of the COD is biodegradable, as determined by laboratory tests. -617-
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5 August 2020 : ABSENCE
ABSENCE is the sixth in a series of solo exhibitions inspired by Rawlinson's hometown of Cambridge and focuses on places that no longer exist or have significantly changed since he lived in the city. Prints, collages and drawings depict fragments of a vanishing landscape. His personal history is an influence on the work, and his search to find images that highlight all the change form part of his ongoing investigation into ideas of place and memory. In this series of work Rawlinson uses adjusted and abstracted photographs together with encroaching black forms, words and textures, suggesting ideas of transition and loss.
The work is presented at the Edge Café, situated on the Brookfields Hospital site on Mill Road. The Edge Café is a community café and social enterprise working as a hub for recovery and positive change in Cambridge. The exhibition space acts as a counterpoint and a container for another of Rawlinson’s odysseys into his own history.
Born in Cambridge, Ian Rawlinson grew up in the city during the 1960s and 1970s. He studied art at Cambridge College of Art & Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) and left Cambridge in 1982 to further his studies at Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since 1985 he has lived and worked in London. To date his work has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions both in the UK and internationally and is held in public and private collections. His practise includes aspects of printmaking, drawing, writing, construction, installation and filmmaking.
1 September - 2 October 2020
THE EDGE CAFÉ
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Open Mon - Fri 10.00 - 15.00
Opening times may be subject to change.
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C.J.L.G. v. Sessions
C.J.L.G., a Juvenile Male, Petitioner,
JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
Argued and Submitted August 8, 2017 Pasadena, California
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Agency No. A206-838-888
Ahilan Thevanesan Arulanantham (argued), ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Stephen Kang, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Matt Adams and Glenda M. Aldana Madrid, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, Washington; Theodore J. Angelis and Aaron E. Millstein, K&L Gates LLP, Seattle, Washington; Kristen Jackson and Talia Inlender, Public Counsel Law Center, Los Angeles, California; Kristin Macleod-Ball, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, Massachusetts; Melissa Crow and Karolina Walters, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.; Emily Chiang, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, Washington; for Petitioner.
Kiley L. Kane (argued), Senior Litigation Counsel; Stephen J. Flynn, Assistant Director; Chad A. Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.
John E. Schreiber and Nareeneh Sohbatian, Winston & Strawn LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
Blaine Bookey, Karen Musalo, and Eunice Lee, San Francisco, California, as and for Amicus Curiae Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.
Robert A. Brundage and Lucy Wang, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, California; Daniel Grunfeld, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Dr. Jennifer Woolard and Dr. Laurence Steinberg.
Before: Consuelo M. Callahan and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges, and David A. Faber, [*] District Judge.
SUMMARY[**]
The panel denied C.J.L.G.'s petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision, holding that neither the Due Process Clause nor the Immigration & Nationality Act creates a categorical right to court-appointed counsel at government expense for alien minors, and concluding that the Board's denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention against Torture was supported by substantial evidence.
The panel held that it is not established law that alien minors are categorically entitled to government-funded, court-appointed counsel and, applying the three-part test set forth in Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 (1976), held that C.J. had not shown a necessity for such counsel to safeguard his due process right to a full and fair hearing.
The panel incorporated its analysis of C.J.'s asylum claim into its Mathews analysis in determining that C.J. was not prejudiced by any procedural deficiencies in his proceeding. The panel concluded that the record compelled a finding that C.J. had a well-founded fear of persecution based on threats he received from the Mara gang when he resisted their recruitment efforts, but rejected C.J.'s asylum claim because he had not established that the threats had a nexus to a protected ground, or that the government was unable or unwilling to control the Maras. The panel deemed waived any argument that he was denied due process on his withholding and CAT claims, but noted that his withholding claim would also fail.
The panel also rejected C.J.'s argument that the INA's fair hearing provision, § 1229a(b)(4)(B), implicitly requires court-appointed counsel at government expense for all alien minors.
The panel further held that the IJ was not required to inform C.J. that he might be eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile status, concluding that the IJ's duty to inform aliens of "apparent eligibility" for relief was not triggered because, at the time of his removal proceeding, C.J. did not have a state court order that could have made him apparently eligible for SIJ status.
Finally, the panel concluded that the agency's denial of CAT relief was supported by substantial evidence. The panel concluded that 1) the Board did not err in concluding that C.J.'s experience of having a member of the Maras put a gun to his head did not amount to "severe pain or suffering;" 2) there was no showing that the Honduran government acquiesced in the act; and 3) the record did not compel the conclusion that the government either turned a blind eye to the Maras' threats or that it would be unable or unwilling to control the Maras in the future.
Concurring, Judge Owens wrote that the majority's opinion does not hold, or even discuss, whether the Due Process Clause mandates counsel for unaccompanied minors, and observed that that is a different question that could lead to a different answer.
CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge
"The right to counsel in immigration proceedings is rooted in the Due Process Clause [of the Fifth Amendment] and codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1362 and 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(4)(A) [of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101, et seq.]."[1] Biwot v. Gonzales, 403 F.3d 1094, 1098 (9th Cir. 2005). Sections 1362 and 1229a(b)(4)(A) set forth the scope and contours of this right, providing that the alien "shall have the privilege of being represented (at no expense to the Government) by such counsel . . . as [the alien] shall choose." 8 U.S.C. § 1362; see also 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(4)(A) (substantially the same); 8 C.F.R. § 1240.10(a)(1)-(2).
We have held that a corollary of this privilege is an immigration judge's ("IJ") duty to inform an alien of his right to counsel, and to ensure that any decision to waive that right be knowing and voluntary. See, e.g., Montes-Lopez v. Holder, 694 F.3d 1085, 1088 (9th Cir. 2012); Baltazar-Alcazar v. INS, 386 F.3d 940, 945 (9th Cir. 2004); Jie Lin v. Ashcroft, 377 F.3d 1014, 1027 (9th Cir. 2004); United States v. Ahumada-Aguilar, 295 F.3d 943, 947 (9th Cir. 2002). But we have been careful to limit that right to Congress' express prescription.[2] Ever vigilant of the judiciary's restricted role in reviewing matters of immigration policy, we have heeded the Supreme Court's admonition that the "'power to expel or exclude aliens [is] a fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government's political departments largely immune from judicial control.'" Fiallo v. Bell, 430 U.S. 787, 792 (1977) (emphasis added) (quoting Shaughnessy v. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 210 (1953)). Consistent with this recognition, "courts have uniformly held in this circuit and elsewhere that . . . [aliens] are not entitled to have counsel appointed at government expense." United States v. Gasca-Kraft, 522 F.2d 149, 152 (9th Cir. 1975), overruled on other grounds by United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828, 834 n.9 (1987) (collecting cases).
Petitioner C.J.L.G. ("C.J.") asks us to upend Congress' statutory scheme by reading into the Due Process Clause and the INA itself a categorical right to court-appointed counsel at government expense for alien minors. C.J. also argues that, in his removal proceeding before the IJ, the IJ erred by failing to inform him of his possible eligibility for Special Immigrant Juvenile ("SIJ") status. Finally, C.J. insists that, on the merits, the IJ and the Board of Immigration Appeals ("Board") erred in denying his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT").
C.J. petitions for review of the Board's determination affirming the IJ's decision, and requests a remedy in the form of court-appointed counsel at government expense for himself and all similarly situated alien minors. He seeks court-appointed counsel both for a new removal proceeding before the IJ, and for purposes of pursuing his application for SIJ status, a related but separate legal journey that begins in California state court.
Because we hold that neither the Due Process Clause nor the INA creates a categorical right to court-appointed counsel at government expense for alien minors, and because we conclude that the Board's determination on the merits is supported by substantial evidence, we deny C.J.'s petition.[3]
C.J. is a sympathetic petitioner. A native and citizen of Honduras, he repeatedly spurned the Mara gang's entreaties to join its ranks despite death threats made against him and his family. After the Maras threatened C.J. at gunpoint, C.J. and his mother, Maria, fled Honduras.
On June 21, 2014, C.J. and Maria arrived in the United States without inspection.[4] C.J. was 13 years old at the time. The Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") apprehended C.J. and Maria four days later, and served Maria with a notice to appear ("NTA") for C.J. Maria signed the NTA on behalf of her son. DHS provided Maria with a list of organizations that provide pro bono legal services.
In September 2014, DHS placed C.J. in removal proceedings in Los Angeles based on his illegal entry into the United States. C.J. appeared for his November 25, 2014 hearing with Maria but without legal representation, as he would for each of his hearings before the IJ. The government was represented by counsel at all of the hearings. Because neither Maria nor C.J. speaks English, an interpreter was provided.
At the November 2014 hearing, the IJ informed Maria that her son had "the right to have an attorney" at private expense. When Maria told the IJ that she did not have money for an attorney, the IJ told her that she had "two options": "Either we can go forward and you can speak and represent your son here today, " or "I can continue your case to another day" to give Maria time to secure counsel. Maria accepted the IJ's offer to continue the case.
At the next hearing, held on January 25, 2015, Maria told the IJ that she had "looked for an attorney and they are charging me $6, 500 for each one, so I could not afford that amount." The IJ then ordered a three-month continuance, but told Maria that it would be the last one, and that, if she returned without an attorney, C.J.'s case would go forward.
The third hearing was held on April 24, 2015. Because Maria had still not retained counsel, the IJ told her that she would proceed with the case and that Maria could "represent your son here today." Maria said that she understood. The IJ then told Maria and C.J. that they had the right to present documents and other evidence, and could review and object to the government's evidence. The IJ also told them that they could call witnesses and question the government's witnesses.
The IJ then went over the NTA with Maria. Maria conceded the allegation that C.J. had unlawfully entered the United States because he was not admitted or paroled. The IJ therefore found C.J. removable. The IJ then proceeded to ask Maria several questions about C.J., in the course of which Maria stated that C.J.'s father had left them "a long time ago." The IJ then asked Maria if C.J. had a "fear of returning back to Honduras because of his race or religion or nationality or political opinion or membership in a social group." Maria answered: "Yes, because of the gangs." The IJ responded: "Ma'am, I will tell you right now that most likely that is not going to be a reason for [C.J.] to remain in the United States."
The IJ then gave Maria an asylum form to complete. The IJ again told Maria that she could continue looking for an attorney to represent C.J. in his removal proceedings. When the IJ asked Maria if she had any questions, Maria said:
"[T]ell me about the asylum." The IJ responded: "Well, we don't need-you mean about why the fear or what happened?" Maria replied: "Well, yes, I am fearful to have my child return to Honduras." To which the IJ said: "Okay. Well, that's what you can put in all the applications and bring that back."
Maria filed the asylum application at the next hearing, held on June 29, 2015. The application contains threadbare statements in support of C.J.'s asylum claim and much of what is written is borderline inscrutable and non-responsive.[5]Nevertheless, after reviewing the application, the IJ stated: "Everything looks to be okay at this point, so I'm going to go ahead and accept the application." The IJ then set the case for one more hearing, and reiterated to Maria that she could still try to hire an attorney. The IJ also provided Maria with a 2014 State Department country conditions report for Honduras, which was in English.
The proceeding reconvened on February 29, 2016. C.J. was still unrepresented. The IJ asked Maria if she would be "assisting [C.J.] as you've been doing in the past, " and she said that she would. The IJ then asked C.J. questions under oath regarding his background and asylum application. The IJ asked C.J. if he had had any contact with his father, and C.J. confirmed that he had not for many years. After admitting into the record C.J.'s asylum application, his birth certificate, and the country report, the IJ asked C.J. about his fear of returning to Honduras. C.J. testified that the Mara gang had approached him three times in an effort to recruit him. Each time he refused, and the Maras threatened to kill him if he did not join. C.J. was not physically harmed, but during the third confrontation a gang member put a gun to C.J.'s head and gave him one day to decide whether to join. This escalation was apparently prompted by the gang's discovery that C.J. had told his mother about its recruitment efforts. The Maras also threatened to kill C.J.'s mother, aunt, and uncles. C.J. and his mother fled Honduras that same day. C.J. testified that he was afraid to return to Honduras "[b]ecause if I arrive there [the Mara gang] will kill me."
The IJ then asked C.J.-who was 13 years old when he left Honduras-whether he had "tr[ied] to live anywhere else in Honduras, " to which C.J. responded: "No." The IJ also asked C.J. if he had asked the police for help, to which he replied: "No, they couldn't do anything." When pressed, C.J. stated that he was "very afraid."
The DHS attorney did not ask C.J. any questions or call any witnesses. The IJ then asked Maria if there was "anything that you want to tell me regarding your son and why you're fearful if he returns back to Honduras or anything else you believe he didn't tell me." Maria replied: "No, that's all. I-I'm very afraid to go back. I don't-I'm afraid that something will happen to my child." The IJ then said: "And is that why you came to the United States, because [C.J.] was being threatened by the gangs?" Maria replied: "Yes."
The IJ issued a written denial of C.J.'s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief. The IJ found C.J. to be credible, and determined that his fear of returning to Honduras was subjectively reasonable. But she held that C.J. lacked an objectively reasonable basis for asylum relief. First, C.J. failed to show that he had suffered harm tantamount to persecution. Second, C.J. did not show "credible, direct and specific evidence . . . that would support an objectionably [sic] reasonable fear of [future] persecution should he return to Honduras." Third, C.J. had not established membership on the basis of a protected ground. And fourth, C.J. failed to show that the government was unable or unwilling to control the Maras. Because C.J. could not establish eligibility for asylum, the IJ concluded that his withholding of removal claim-which sets a higher standard for showing persecution than asylum-necessarily failed. The IJ also rejected C.J.'s CAT claim on the ground that "[C.J.] has failed to meet his burden in showing that there is anyone in Honduras that would seek to torture him, but [sic] certainly no one with the acquiescence of the Honduran government."
C.J. filed an appeal with the Board and retained counsel. He argued that the IJ erred in denying relief. He also argued that the IJ conducted a procedurally defective hearing that violated his due process rights. Specifically, he asserted that the IJ (i) failed to advise him of available forms of relief, in particular SIJ status; (ii) failed to develop the record; and (iii) erred in not appointing counsel for him.
On November 1, 2016, the Board dismissed the appeal in a decision that affirmed the IJ's analysis and conclusion. The Board held that the Maras' threats did not rise to the level of persecution, that C.J. lacked a well-founded fear of future persecution, and that C.J. was not a member of a cognizable social group that could confer protected status for purposes of asylum and withholding relief. The Board denied C.J.'s CAT claim as unsupported.
The Board also rejected C.J.'s due process arguments. It held that the IJ had conducted a "fair" hearing and "objectively considered [C.J.'s] testimony and the documentary evidence in the record." It further found that the IJ did not err in failing to advise C.J. of possible SIJ status because C.J. had not-by the time of the appeal-"established . . . that he is eligible for other forms of relief." Finally, the Board rejected C.J.'s appointed counsel claim, holding that the INA and relevant regulations "do not require that counsel ever be appointed at government expense in removal proceedings." C.J. timely filed a petition for review in this court.
We have jurisdiction to review the Board's final order of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1). We review de novo C.J.'s legal claims that he was denied a right to court-appointed counsel at government expense, that the IJ failed to conduct a full and fair hearing, and that the IJ erred in not informing C.J. of possible SIJ status. Jie Lin, 377 F.3d at 1023; see also Alvarez-Garcia v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 1094, 1096 (9th Cir. 2004) (applying de novo review to both "purely legal questions" and "due process challenges"). We review factual findings for substantial evidence. Budiono v. Lynch, 837 F.3d 1042, 1046 (9th Cir. 2016). Factual findings "should be upheld unless the evidence compels a contrary result." Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). Where, as here, the "Board issues its own decision but relies in part on the [IJ's] reasoning, we review both decisions." Id. (internal quotation marks and adjustment omitted).
"[A]lien minors in [removal] proceedings are 'entitled to the [F]ifth [A]mendment guaranty of due process.'" Flores-Chavez v. Ashcroft, 362 F.3d 1150, 1160 (9th Cir. 2004) (quoting Larita-Martinez v. INS, 220 F.3d 1092, 1095 (9th Cir. 2000)) (internal quotation marks omitted). That is because "'the private liberty interests involved in [removal] proceedings are indisputably substantial.'" Id. (internal adjustment omitted) (quoting Dillingham v. INS, 267 F.3d 996, 1010 (9th Cir. 2001)). The due process protections afforded aliens present in the United States-including alien minors-are the same regardless of whether the alien is here lawfully or unlawfully.[6] Mathews v. Diaz, 426 U.S. 67, 77 (1976).
Alien minors' due process rights include (i) the right to counsel "at no expense to the Government, " Montes-Lopez, 694 F.3d at 1088-89; 8 U.S.C. § 1362; 8 C.F.R. § 1240.10(a)(1); (ii) the right to competent representation by such counsel, Baltazar-Alcazar, 386 F.3d at 944; Jie Lin, 377 F.3d at 1027; (iii) the right to a hearing before an IJ on the merits of an application for relief from deportation, 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a); (iv) the right to a translator, 8 C.F.R. § 1240.44; (v) the right that an adult who takes custody of an alien minor be served notice of a removal hearing, Flores-Chavez, 362 F.3d at 1157; see also 8 C.F.R. §§ 236.2(a), 1236.3; and, more generally, (vi) the right to a "full and fair hearing, " which includes the "opportunity to present evidence and testimony on one's behalf, " cross-examine witnesses, and examine and object to adverse evidence, Oshodi v. Holder, 729 F.3d 883, 889 (9th Cir. 2013) (en banc); Jacinto v. INS, 208 F.3d 725, 727 (9th Cir. 2000); see also 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b); 8 C.F.R. § 1240.10(a). All of these rights are reflected in the INA and the INA's implementing regulations.
Violation of an alien minor's due process rights does not automatically require reversal. In most cases, the petitioner must also show prejudice. See Jacinto, 208 F.3d at 728. "Prejudice occurs when the rights of the alien have been transgressed in such a way as is likely to impact the results of the proceedings." Id. We have recognized one exception to this general rule. A petitioner need not show prejudice where he was denied his statutory right to privately-retained counsel. Montes-Lopez, 694 F.3d at 1092. In Montes-Lopez, we reasoned that the wholesale denial of counsel differs from other due process violations due to the combination of two factors. First, such a claim is anchored in an express statutory guarantee to a right to counsel. Id. Second, denial of counsel differs from other statutory violations because it "fundamentally affects the whole of a proceeding, " meaning it is "impractical for courts to determine whether prejudice accompanied a particular denial of counsel." Id.
C.J. seeks a determination that he is entitled to court-appointed counsel at government expense-a privilege that Congress has not conferred. Thus, consistent with the prevailing rule that a litigant must show prejudice to vindicate a due process violation, C.J. must show both that his constitutional rights were violated for lack of court-appointed counsel and that this prejudiced the outcome of his removal proceeding.
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