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Nicole Scherzinger: 'Eating disorder stole my happiness'
Nicole Scherzinger felt "imprisoned" at the height of her battle with bulimia.
The 37-year-old singer is known for her svelte physique, which she frequently shows off in posts on social media. However, in a new interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, Nicole admits that learning to accept her body has taken some time, due to her struggle with the eating disorder.
"I'm more accepting of my body now. I was always very critical of myself from a young age, and when I was 14, I started running," she explained. "I would go outside in the middle of the night and run, because I thought I had to be thinner and that my thighs should look a certain way."
The image built up by Nicole's band The Pussycat Dolls also didn't help her eating issues, due to the singers all having to stay fit and slim.
"When I got The Pussycat Dolls, it really amplified that because it had so much to do with showing your body off," Nicole remembered. "It was very imprisoning and it stole all of my happiness, confidence and memories."
Nicole went public with her bulimia battle after The Pussycat Dolls split in 2010. She added that while she felt under pressure to maintain her "perfect" image in the band, she is glad she eventually discussed her eating issues because she feels she may have helped others suffering from similar problems.
"A big part of that was during The Pussycat Dolls. I have a lot of fans and I never wanted to come out about it, because I was ashamed. But once I finally did come out about it, I realised how many people it had helped," she added.
Now Nicole is in a place where she feels more body confident and proud of her figure. She is also a strong advocate of working out, and credits gym-going for helping both her mental and physical health.
"You should embrace and accept yourself more. Don't be so hard on yourself, and love your curves," she smiled, before adding: "Every woman has good and bad days. Mrs O (Sharon Osbourne, Nicole's fellow The X Factor judge) and I were joking the other day that sometimes we wake up in a puddle of cookies and crisps!
"But what really helps me is working out. Even if it's not for very long, (I love) to get a sweat on to keep me focused and positive."
Source: www.msn.com
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Callander's History
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Callander’s History
Callander Scotland was the inspiration for our municipality’s name; the original Callander is located in the beautiful Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park in central Scotland, an hour north from Glasgow.
The name Callander is supposed to be derived from the Gaelic name ‘calladh’ meaning ‘ferry’ or ‘the way leading to the ferry’. This refers to the ferry that crosses the River Teith. Another source suggests that it is named after the Barony of Callandar in Falkirk which at one time owned the old riverside village.
The history of the area is colourful with a legacy of feuds, battles, murders and legends going all the way back to the Romans. Real life hero and warrior, Rob Roy MacGregor, (who inspired the movie “”Rob Roy”" starring Liam Neeson & Jessica Lange) is a local legend.
Coincidentally, our community has a lot in common with our namesake. They have a population of approximately 3,000; their prime industry is tourism; they are situated close to a “”loch”" (lake) and they have great fishing!
Our municipality maintains ties with their community. In August of 2003, local residents Jack and Julie Tipler, visited Scotland and were given a special reception by Callander town council.
Most of Northern Ontario’s rocky landscape is part of the Canadian Shield that was created during the Precambrian Age over 570 million years ago. The North’s thriving mining industry owes its existence to the formations created by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes during this violent geological period.
The low lying area between North Bay’s Airport Hill escarpment and the Almaguin Highlands (to the south) was formed when a fault parted to form the French and Mattawa River system. Today, you can see evidence of the Precambrian bedrock and granite in the rock cuts along the region’s Highway 11 corridor.
Following the Precambrian era, the region was submerged beneath raging seas where lime, clay and sand were deposited. All of this helped form the basic environment of the Lake Nipissing passageway – millions of years before the first Ice Age.
The local terrain was forged by the succession of ice ages that began 80,000 years ago. In approximately 8,000 B.C., the last retreat melted ice that flooded the landscape, creating Lake Nipissing and its various outlets including Callander’s Wasi River. The entire area was blanketed with “glacial till” – a mixture of sand, gravel and boulders that shaped moraines into a variety of landforms. Back then, Callander Bay probably looked as it does today with the exception that the forest cover was then complete.
It is thought that the first humans to reside around Lake Nipissing probably arrived around the retreat of the Ice Age some 10,000 years ago. Historically, these people are known as “”Paleo-Indians”". They would have lived by hunting game with primitive stone weapons and gathering berries and roots. Occasionally, archaeological remnants are unearthed throughout Ontario that shows proof of their existence.
In 1880, a bookkeeper from Oxford County in Southern Ontario traveled by ox-cart from Muskoka to Lake Nipissing. There he built a raft and floated his family and possessions across the lake to the south-east bay. Logging companies had settled around its shores, taking advantage of the abundant white pine that grew in the area. He was one of its first pioneers and his wife was the first white woman. On June 1st 1881, George Morrison opened a Post Office in his general store and named it after his parent’s birthplace, Callander.
In homage to Mr. Morrison, Callander’s first Reeve, the municipality recently adopted the Ancient Morrison tartan as the official tartan of the community. Besides Scotland, early Callander residents primarily claimed ancestry from England, Ireland and France.
A Historical Event
For the small logging community of Callander, a lot changed on the night of May 28, 1934. Five identical baby girls, the world’s first surviving Quints, were born to the Dionne family, farmers in the neighbouring village of Corbeil. Dr. A.R. Dafoe, Callander’s doctor assisted in the births and cared for the babies afterward.
Thus began the legendary story of the Dionne Quintuplets – an event that at the height of the Depression drew thousands of curious visitors and throngs of international media to this tiny village on the shores of Lake Nipissing. The Quints story is both fairytale and tragedy. They were world famous from birth but later it came to light that they were also horribly exploited and used by many who capitalized on their fame and who pocketed the results for their own greed. Historically, Callander’s identity was forever altered by the event of their births.
Callander Bay is located south-east off of Lake Nipissing in Northeastern Ontario and had connections to both the Grand Trunk Railway (later the Canadian National Railway), which was the main north-to-south train in Ontario, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, the main east-to-west train in Canada. It is also a protected bay which would make log booms less likely to spill and scatter during storms. The location, the abundance of white pine in the area, and transportation lines made it an attractive location for lumber barons to come and build mills in the area, with one still in operation today.
White pine was credited as the dominant factor for the growth and development of Ontario in a Ministry of Natural Resources booklet entitled “Ontario Celebrates its History: White Pine” (1984) because of its ability to float down rivers and in lakes (unlike harder woods), its long and knot-free trunks, and its resiliency to warping and cracking. In the early 1880s, John Rudolphus (J.R.) Booth, a known lumber tycoon from the Ottawa area, expanded his J.R. Booth Lumber Company into the Lake Nipissing region to harvest this good quality lumber.
By 1882 Booth has secured rights in the area and began planning for the construction of a railway from Callander Bay at the mouth of the Wasi River to Lake Nosbonsing, which is the present-day Astorville. The construction of the Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway (N & N Ry) was made easier due to the earlier Canada Central Railway line to Bonfield in 1878 and was completed in 1885.
In Wisawasa, at the mouth of the Wasi River, a jack ladder was built to load logs from the lake into the bed of a flatcar. The large tough and chain with teeth would catch logs and pull them up along the trough where they would be stamped with Booth’s timber mark and then loaded and secured. Twenty-two cars full of logs could be taken to Lake Nosbonsing at a time and on average 4,000 logs could be transported daily.
By the 1900s Booth was the largest timber limit owner in the British Empire covering over 4,000 square miles in Ontario and Québec. His jack ladder allowed the transport of lumber by railway to Lake Nosbonsing where the logs would be floated to the Ottawa River by the Kaibuskong and Mattawa Rivers.
John B. Smith & Sons operated the longest running mill and was one of the largest employers in Callander. Their first mill was located on Frank’s Bay on the south-west shore of Lake Nipissing. The mill then moved to Callander when the projected C.P.R. route was to travel north of Lake Nipissing, rather than south. This was important because the railway access made it easier to transport the lumber to the various markets in the south. At the Callander location the mill opened in 1888, burned down in 1894 and was rebuilt 1400 feet west of its original location that same year.
The Great Depression of the 1930s hit the area lumber mills hard. According to Pierre Berton’s The Dionne Years, “…the average wage in a lumber mill in the Callander area was only twelve dollars for a sixty-hour week. By 1934, four of the five mills had closed its doors. The woolen mill, the tannery, the paddlewheel steamer that had been the outward symbols of the community’s prosperity at the turn of the century were long gone. In the year of the quintuplets’ birth, Callander was merely an abandoned lumber town of box-frame buildings...” (page 22). The Smith Mill had planned to reopen its door for six weeks and employ 150 men in 1934 which would have been hopeful news for a town with 70% of the population on relief payments. Unfortunately, it burned down again only two days before it was set to reopen. Eight days later, the Dionne quintuplets were born, and their birth would breathe money and prosperity back into the struggling area.
The Smith Mill would rebuild and open again in 1935 where it continued to operate until 1967. Doug Smith, the last owner, set fire to the mill as a final goodbye.
There were other mills around Callander Bay. The current Callander Industries Limited Mill (known as Gary Mote’s Mill) operates at the end of Park Street has been the site of many other mills over the years. John McBurney and Mr. Leacock built the first mill at that site back in 1892 before their partnership dissolved a few years later. Thomas Darling and his sons opened a mill on that site not long after, and by 1915 the mill was owned by A.B. Gordon. In 1923 it became the Canadian Timber Company and was still owned by Gordon. It was rebuilt in 1927, still as the Canadian Timber Company, but it was now owned by Wilkinson, McLaren, Scarlet and Armstrong. In 1934 this mill donated lumber siding to the building of the Dafoe Hospital for the Dionne Quintuplets down the road in Corbeil, the new home of the famous five identical sisters. It closed in the early 1940s and the current mill was built in 1964 and is still in operation.
The other major mill on Callander Bay was owned by John Payette of Penetang, Ontario. The Payette Lumber Company operated from 1929 to 1934 (although the main mill burned down in 1932 and was never rebuilt). Later, a Dine and Dance club was built on the location and today, the jack ladder base and burner base are still visible, just north of South Beach in Callander.
The Callander Bay Heritage Museum is located in the former home and practice of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, world famous country doctor of the Dionne Quintuplets and has been open to the public for over 35 years. The building itself, however, is over 100 years old and is a designated heritage building.
Prior to 1883 the property was Crown land. Through a Land Grant the 100 acre lot (Lot 2 Concession 26) was awarded to George Kilby who settled in Callander in 1883; Kilby did not develop the property, but kept it until 1886 when he sold it to Silas Huntington. Silas Huntington, a Methodist missionary, was credited with reaching many northern communities. Huntington kept the land until 1904. Once again, the property was not developed. John McBurney, born in 1863, was a lumber mill operator who owned McBurney’s Lumber Mill (the present site of Centennial Park). McBurney purchased the property from Huntington in May of 1904. He built a six room house; the same month, John McBurney sold the house to his wife, Marie, for the sum of $1.00 so as to protect his asset from possible bankruptcy. They kept the house until 1910.
John Darling, again a lumber entrepreneur, bought the property in March of 1910; as did McBurney, he sold the property to his wife, Kathleen within a month for the same reasons. One of John and Kathleen’s sons, Stan Darling (who was born in the house), was elected MP in the 1972 federal election. The Darling family lived in the home until 1914.
In June of 1914 Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe purchased the property; this was the year that he married Bertha Leila Morrison, a Red Cross nurse with whom he often worked. The Dr. used the house as his home and practice. Since the two front rooms were used for his practice, the Dr. immediately added a kitchen dining area to the east side of the house. He later added the reading room on the westerly side of the house. For many years Dr. Dafoe was a little-known country doctor that suddenly rose to international fame for his involvement with the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets. Upon the sudden death of Dr. Dafoe in 1943, his brother, Dr. William Dafoe of Toronto, came to settle his brother’s estate.
The house was sold twice after; first to Arthur Dunlop who owned the property from 1943 to 1967 then to Henry and Jacqueline White from 1967 to 1979.
With the determination of Alex Dufresne and several others the property was purchased from the Whites by the Corporation of the Township of North Himsworth in 1979 with the specific intent to have a community museum. Within two years the museum was open to the public and features eight rooms of area artifacts and history. In 1995 an addition was built onto the museum on the south end of the building. This addition is now an art gallery, and in honour of the vision of Alex Dufresne it is now known as the Alex Dufresne Gallery
On May 28, 1934, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe was called to the house of Oliva and Elzire Dionne to help with a pregnancy. When he arrived, Douilda Legros and Mary-Jeanne Lebel, two local midwives, had delivered two tiny babies and were in the midst of a third arriving. Dr. Dafoe took over the delivery of the last two births and helped Mrs. Dionne recover, as she was very ill. Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Emilie and Marie were welcomed into the world.
The premature infants were placed in a basket and set upon a chair in front of the open door of the oven and were primarily left alone, as the doctor tended to Mrs. Dionne. The babies were bathed in warm olive oil and fed a combination of water, corn syrup and rum using an eye dropper. This would stimulate their blood flow and heart rate.
Reporters and promoters descended on the property in waves as they hoped to catch a glimpse of the “miracle babies”, but were kept away by Grandfather Olivier Dionne and his pitchfork. One set of promoters from the Chicago World’s Fair did manage to connect with the father with a proposal to display the young girls. On the advice of Dr. Dafoe and his priest Father Daniel Routhier, Mr. Dionne signed the contract. When the news hit the papers, the public was upset that the Americans were taking “their” babies, and Mr. Dionne quickly renounced the contract. In order to keep the quintuplets safe from the promoters, the parents signed over custody of their girls to the Red Cross, who would manage the affairs of the sisters for a period of two years. Part of this involved the construction of a hospital across the road where the girls would live separate from their family. Although this agreement was to end after two years, the Ontario government feared further exploitation of the sisters if they were returned to their family following performances on stage by the parents in Chicago in February of 1935. To combat this, Premier Mitchell Hepburn forced “The Dionne Act” through government and in 1935 they were officially made Wards of the Crown until they turned eighteen. The irony of the government removing the girls from their family to protect them from exploitation only to be then used as a tourist attraction to bring three-million people to the area is not lost.
“Quintmania” Takes Over
The arrival of the miracle babies ended up bringing three million visitors to the area between the years of 1934 and 1943 making it as popular as Niagara Falls, Radio City Music Hall, Gettsyburg and Mount Vernon. It became a sort of, “Northern Coney Island”.
“Showings” first began with the nurses standing on the patio of the nursery, holding each baby up to a gathered crowd, with a nameplate to identify which girl it was. As the crowds grew and the demand to see the girls increased, an outdoor observatory was built beside the nursery with a playground inside. Similar to viewing animals in a zoo, the crowds would line up to enter the building to view the girls behind one-way screen that allegedly ensured that the girls couldn’t see or hear the people watching them play. The sisters later corrected this assumption and stated that they were well aware that they were being observed. Soon souvenir shops were built, highways were paved, additional floors were added to hotels, and everybody seemed to be turning a profit from the influx of tourists. With the opening of “Quintland” and the observatory, the babies were available to be seen 2 times a day. Everyone around the world heard of the news of the quintuplets, creating instant celebrity status for the five little girls.
The girls became a five-hundred-million dollar asset to the province of Ontario. They starred in three Hollywood films, and their faces could be found on everything from radios and spoons, to pocket mirrors and dolls. Many celebrities took trips to the North to meet the doctor and view the babies, businesses dramatically increased and it seemed the everybody was making money off the miracle birth. After years of fighting to regain custody, the Dionnes were reunited in 1943 when the entire family moved into a newly built, fifty-thousand dollar (1943 price) building known as “The Big House”. Today, this building is part of Nipissing Manor.
The odds of quintuplets are 1 in 57,289,761. A single egg was twinned once to produce Yvonne & Annette, and then twinned twice to produce Cecile and another egg. This other egg split to produce Emilie and Marie. It was only the third set of identical quintuplets in recorded history; they were the only ones to survive more than a few hours in the 500 years previous. Mrs. Dionne had passed an egg-shaped object three months into her pregnancy, and this was believed to have potentially been a sixth child. All were right handed and their hair whorls ran counter-clockwise except Emilie, who was was a mirror twin of Marie and was left handed.
Yvonne Edouida Marie was the first born at 4:10 a.m.
Annette Liliane Marie was the second at 4:25 a.m.
Cecile Marie was the third at 4:40 a.m.
Emilie Marie was the fourth at 4:45 a.m.
Marie Reina Alma was the fifth at 4:57 a.m.
Yvonne and Annette shared an embryonic sac; and Emilie and Marie shared one. Cecile was alone.
Their total weight was 13 pounds 5 ounces, with Yvonne weighing the most at 2 pounds 8 ounces, and Marie weighing 1 pound 8.5 ounces.
Father: Oliva Dionne was born in 1904 (d. 1979).
Mother: Elzire Legros Dionne was born in 1909 (d. 1986).
They were married September 15, 1925 at the age of 21 and 16. At the time of the Quints being born Elzire was 24 years of age and Oliva was 31. They continued to have children which brought the total to 14 children all together for the Dionnes. Ernest (b. 1926, d. 1995), Rose-Marie (b. 1928, d. 1995), Therese (b. 1929), Leo (b. 1930, d. 1930), Daniel (b. 1932, d. 1995), Pauline (b. 1933), Oliva Jr. (b. 1936, d. 2016), Victor (b. 1938, d. 2007), and Claude (b. 1946, d. 2009).
Born on May 29, 1883 in the village of Madoc, Ontario, his parents were William Allan Dafoe (who also was a physician) and Essa Van Deusen. The doctor was the first born in his family; he had seven sisters and one brother.
Dafoe moved to Callander and started his practice on January 2, 1909. He bought an existing practice for $100.00 and paid it back in monthly installments of $10.00.
The Doctor bought this house in 1914; the year that he and his wife Bertha Leila Morrison, a nurse in the area married. She died in 1926 after only twelve years of marriage of pneumonia and meningitis. Mrs. Dafoe left one son, William, who was nine years of age at the time. The Doctor hired a housekeeper, Mrs. Little who had a young daughter, Mary Hannah, and they both lived in the house. Young William eventually went to boarding school in the Toronto area and broke the tradition of becoming a doctor like his father and uncle and became a mechanical engineer. Interesting enough, William’s son, William Jr, became a doctor and specializes in Cardiac Rehabilitation.
For eight years the doctor continued medicine, treating many patients and deliver babies. The doctor was well liked by some of the area people; however, others said he was a peculiar man, who was very reserved and strict. Dr. Dafoe was a surgeon, a dentist, an obstetrician, as well as an accomplished gardener and organ player. He enjoyed taking care of horses, gardening and other chores were his forms of relaxation and was an avid reader – his collection contained at least 1500 volumes. At times, if he liked you, he would lend out his books. Some of his evenings he would spend fiddling with his short-wave radio, and, as there were few radios at the time, he would bring it out onto the porch for others to listen to if there was a special announcement from the Government or Queen.
He had no way of knowing that a day before his 50th birthday he would answer a call to assist with a delivery that would change his life, and the world’s, forever. He would go from being an everyday average country doctor to being known internationally as “The Country Doctor”, he would greet celebrities in his home (it’s said that when Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart and his wife Gloria came to Callander, the doctor had them wait for him in his office’s waiting room before coming out to greet them in September 1940), his life would play out in a Hollywood film and his name would be known to all.
On June 2, 1943 Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe died at the North Bay Hospital of pneumonia (complications of cancer) at the age of sixty. The doctor had given 27 years to Callander and area residents. For his work with the Dionne Quintuplets, he received the Order of the British Empire.
When Callander’s founder George Morrison and his wife came up from Bracebridge, and staked out their future town-site in 1880, there were only two means of access to Lake Nipissing at the time. The first, and oldest, was the Ottawa / Mattawa / La Vase / French River route forged by the area’s First Nations thousands of years ago, and later explored by Champlain and used by the fur trade for over 200 years.
In 1875, the Rosseau – Nipissing Colonization Road was completed, linking Muskoka with the Nipissing region. Stage coach services provided access to settlers, one of whom was George Morrison. In 1880, Morrison constructed a raft at Nipissing Village and hauled his belongings to the shoreline of what is now the town of Callander – named after his parents’ birthplace in Scotland.
Callander’s Dock has evolved and changed over the last 120+ years. Sailboats, rowboats, and steamboats of various shapes and sizes used to moor here, giving their crews access to the village for accommodations, fuel and supplies. At that time, steamers were used almost exclusively for logging and lumber mill operations on Callander Bay and Lake Nipissing, and provided access to areas where there were no roads.
The Callander waterfront could have been very different. In the early 1900s, there was a lot of work done on the Georgian Bay Ship Canal (see Georgian Bay ship canal, 1908 : typical views on the projected route, University of Calgary digital archives), which would have saved hundreds of kilometers on the route from Lake Superior to the Saint Lawrence. Ships would come across Georgian Bay to the French River, through locks to Lake Nipissing, a canal to Trout Lake, and then various locks down the Mattawa River and Ottawa River to Montreal. Callander would have been a major shipping port. And in the plan below, the proposed Canadian Northern Dock completely overwhelms the existing Callander dock. Sir Wilfred Laurier promised to build it if he won the 1911 election. He lost, and it was never built.
There have been at least three versions of the dock. The oldest, as pictured below, is a straight dock with the familiar “L” shape of the later two docks. In the middle of the picture the Darling family houseboat (the Wasa Lily) can be seen at its usual mooring spot at the mouth of the Callander “Crik”. To the right in the picture is the White House Hotel, which helps to date the picture as it is the second version of the hotel (which was rebuilt in 1906) before it burned for the final time on December 27, 1914.
The dock was originally owned by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), later part of the Canadian National Railway. The dock was acquired by the federal government during the Second World War, and then by the Municipality in 1999. Given the importance of shipping on the lake, and to the local economy in Callander, Public Works Canada commissioned the construction of the first Callander Wharf in 1905.
This new wharf was extended out into Callander Bay on a rock and crib foundation. It was 80 feet long, and 20 feet wide, had a gravel approach onshore and has the familiar “L” shape.
This dock was destroyed by a major storm on May 14 2009. The north-south section was mostly washed away, just leaving the large rocks used to anchor it. Damage and condition assessment work began on July 15, 2009, conducted by an underwater dive team from Soderholm Maritime Services Inc.
The latest version of the dock was completed in 2014. It still has an “L” shape, but with the north-south section slightly shorter, and with a covered section for protection in any sudden rain.
Photos of the reconstruction of the dock are available upon request.
Pulling the Chief Commanda II onshore for winter storage, October 2012
At the end of its scheduled cruising season, the Chief Commanda II is pulled onshore and stored through the winter beside the dock in Callander. Maintenance and repainting on the bottom of the hull is also done while the vessel is out of the water. Here are some photos when ‘the Chief’ was pulled onshore in October of 2012.
A Last Look at the Old Callander Dock in 2012
Having served the community for well over 100 years, the Callander Dock remains an asset and landmark in our town today. Recognizing this, the dock was refurbished and will serve the community for another 100+ years!
There were around 54 working ships on Lake Nipissing. Below, we highlight 6 of them.
The Woodchuck (built in 1925) was an “alligator” tugboat that could retrieve jammed logs in shallow water. They were slow but powerful and could haul up to 4,000 logs.
The Seagull 1 (built in 1906 by J.B Smith and Sons) was a steam tugboat that was used to haul booms of logs across Lake Nipissing. Its hull required extensive repairs so the engine was removed and was taken out of use.
The Seagull II (built in 1930, and first owned by Armstrong Towing Co.) also hauled log booms. By the mid 1930′s the lumber trade deteriorated greatly and it became a tour boat making trips down the French River. Many Quintland tourists went on these excursions. In 1940 it was purchased by J.B Smith and Sons and became a tugboat once more; it was used until 1960 when it became more economical to transport by land. Intended for display at Lee Park in North Bay, the Seagull II was lost to the scrapyard when it was unknowingly sold off and destroyed – to the anger of the local community. The museum retains her original steam-whistle and life-jackets today.
The Screamer was built in 1922 by J.B Smith and Sons. Its hull was top-heavy and tended to list dangerously in turns; another hull was built on the outside to stabilize it. It could haul up to 10,000 logs. By 1940 the Screamer’s hull was badly rotted so the wheelhouse and engine were removed and it was towed by the Woodchuck to Smith Island where it was doused with gas and set on fire. The Northern Belle was a passenger vessel built in 1905 and owned by J.A Clark of Sturgeon Falls. It was the ‘jewel’ of Lake Nipissing during the 1910′s and 1920′s. In 1926 it burned to the water line and then sank in shallow water at the dock in North Bay.
The Chief Commanda was a steel-hulled tour boat, assembled and launched at Callander by Ontario Northland Boat Lines in 1946. This diesel vessel was retired in 1975, spent many years in Dokis on the French River, and is now located at North Bay’s waterfront as a restaurant.
It was replaced with the current Chief Commanda II, Canada’s first all-aluminum catamaran in 1975. This sight-seeing vessel was prefabricated by Marlin Yacht Company of Gananoque, Ontario and assembled and launched in Callander. The Chief Commanda II offers tours on Lake Nipissing, Callander Bay and the French River and is based at the North Bay Wharf. It spends the winters pulled up on shore in Callander beside the municipal dock.
From the height of “Quintmania” during the Depression years up to the present time, the home of Dr. A.R. Dafoe and the Callander Museum has received a variety of notable guests. Check out our past guests below, and be sure to “come up and see us sometime”!
Brooke Shields and Beau Bridges – February 21st, 2016
On Sunday February 21st, the Callander Bay Heritage Museum played host to a couple of special guests. Brooke Shields and Beau Bridges, as well as members of their production crew, took time out of their busy filming schedule to spend the afternoon with us at the museum! It was a short notice visit, but we managed to connect with a few supporters of the museum and invited them along. Councillor Virginia Onley and her niece Jillian Scott-Picard, museum board members Linda Masson and Garry Besserer, and Michael Dufresne whose father Alex was instrumental in setting up the museum in 1979; the gallery is named in his honour. As well, museum staff Carol Pretty, Deryk Hagar, and Natasha Wiatr were on-hand to welcome the visitors and give them a tour of our museum.
Beau Bridges had a special interest in the museum because of his portrayal of Dr. Dafoe in the 1994 tv-movie Million Dollar Babies. He appreciated the opportunity to explore the Doctor’s original house, as well as examine many old photographs of the Doctor. We even asked him to pose beside a large photograph of Dr. Dafoe, and he was happy to do so!
The movie has some interesting trivia tidbits behind it. As there was not a set of female quintuplets that existed at the time of filming, two sets of triplets had to be cast to play the roles of the quints. The newborn quintuplets were not actual babies, but animatronics built especially for the movie. Finally, the movie earned 6 Gemini wins with an additional 2 nominations and was nominated for an ASC award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Mini-series.
Brooke Shields also appreciated the opportunity as she explained to us that her mother had a set of Mme. Alexander’s dolls of the Quints and when Brooke was older she gave them to her; she always had a fascination with the Dionne Quintuplets. Being able to tour the museum and watch old news reels from the 1930s and look at our photographs and artefacts was a real treat for her.
Everyone had a wonderful afternoon, and we want to thank Beau and Brook for taking time out of their busy schedule to hang out at the museum with us! Some of you may remember an exhibit we put on a few years ago entitled “When Hollywood Came to Callander” … well, a few years later… Hollywood came to Callander … again!
Dr. A.R. Dafoe’s Descendants –
His Grand-daughter, Great Grand-daughter, and Great, Great Grandchildren. August 22nd, 2015
The Callander Museum had some very special visitors! In fact, it felt just like a family reunion and home-coming. Barbara Green (husband Orland), her daughter Sharon (husband Frank), and their children Katrina, Alex and Emily visited the Museum and Gallery on August 22, 2015. What made this visit so remarkable? Barbara is the grand-daughter of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, physician to the Dionne Quints and his wife, Bertha L. Morrison! So, not only did we have Dr. Dafoe’s grand-daughter along for a visit, we also had his great grand-daughter, and great, great-grand children exploring the old family home as well. We also received summer visits from the descendants of the Darling Family, Smith Family, Legros Family, Dionne Family, and Wice Family — all big names in Callander’s 130 year history!
Dave Foley and Mark McKinney – 2008/09
Kids in the Hall veterans Dave Foley and Mark McKinney filmed a doctor’s scene for the Kid’s “Death Comes to Town” series in Dr. Dafoe’s old living room. Museum displays were removed, new doors were hung, equipment and cables and lighting were run – all for a scene in their eight-part miniseries that aired in 2010 on CBC.
Dr. A.R. Dafoe’s Son, William Dafoe and Family – August 1st, 1998
William Dafoe (b.1917), the son of Dr. A.R. Dafoe and his wife Bertha L. Morrison, attended a special commemorative re-union along with his extended family in August of 1998. William was born and raised in this house, no doubt delivered and cared for by his father the doctor, and mother, a nurse! He and his family helped to dedicate a stone cairn in memory of his father.
The Dionne Quintuplet Sisters, Annette, Yvonne and Cecile – 1986
On October 16th, 1986 the surviving Dionne sisters Annette, Yvonne and Cecile were in Callander and dropped by Dr. Dafoe’s old home to have a look outside. The museum curator at the time recognized who they were and invited them in. It was the first time that any of the Dionne Quintuplets had set foot in the home of their former physician. Despite the bitter custody battle and fallout between their parents and Dr. Dafoe during the 1930′s and 1940′s, the Dionne sisters always held him in warm regard, and were very saddened by his death in 1943.
Michael J. Fox – 1968
What was Michael J. Fox up to in 1968? He was in grade 2 at Callander Public School just up the street! The story goes that his father was stationed at Canadian Forces Base North Bay for several years, and that his family settled in Callander during that time because they liked the area. What’s even more amazing is that 30 years earlier, the biggest names in Hollywood were driving past Michael’s school to see the Dionne Quintuplets.
Celebrities of the 1930′s and 1940′s
Amelia Earhart – April 1937
American pioneer aviator, Amelia Earhart, visited Dr. Dafoe’s home and the Dionne Quintuplets in April of 1937, five weeks before the Quints’ 3rd birthday. It was only several weeks later that she departed on her world-wide flight and later disappeared in the south Pacific Ocean.
James (Jimmy) Stewart and his wife, Gloria – September 1940
When Jimmy Steward and his wife Gloria came up to Callander in the late summer of 1940, they paid a visit to the home of Dr. A.R. Dafoe as well as having a private tour of Quintland. As related by his secretary at the time, Gordon Sinclair, Dr. Dafoe would ‘upstage’ his celebrity visitors by having them wait in his waiting room for 5 minutes, then he would suddenly emerge from his living quarters at the back, and welcome them as if he hadn’t known they were there!
Mae West – 1940’s
Likely the most provocative, outspoken, ‘femme fatale’ of the 1930′s was Mae West. She was the Madonna and Lady Gaga of her time. She visited Dr. A.R. Dafoe and went to see the Dionne Quints as well. She left her trademark saying on a card, which we still have, now framed on our ‘Celebrity Wall’. It reads “Come up and see me sometime.” But you’ll have to ‘come up and visit us sometime’ at the Museum if you’d like to see it in person!
Hollywood star James Cagney was in the North Bay and Trout Lake area in 1941 filming his latest movie, “Captains of the Clouds.” During a break from filming, he paid Dr. Dafoe a personal visit at his home in Callander, and the Dionne Quintuplets in Corbeil.
One of the most famous actresses of the 1930′s, Greta Garbo began her film career in Sweden until she was discovered by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and came to Hollywood. She starred exclusively in silent films during the 1920′s, and began full audio productions in 1930.
Spotted wearing a fur coat during the summer months at Quintland was Bette Davis. Apparently she thought it was going to be cold in the northern climes of Canada!
At the peak of the Dionne Years in 1939, Clark Gable’s most famous role in “Gone with the Wind” hit the theaters. Starting as an extra in silent films in 1924, Gable rose to fame in the mid 1930′s and visited Quintland and Dr. Dafoe during that time.
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Premier bids farewell to Assistant Commissioner Liburd
Hon. Joseph Parry the ceremony
(CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS–TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2010) Premier of Nevis, Hon. Joseph Parry said farewell to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr. Joseph Liburd and applauded his academic achievements at a ceremony held in the Senior Police Officer’s honour, ahead of his retirement from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force after 33 years of service, on Friday morning at the Charlestown Police Station conference room.
“I taught Mr. Joseph Liburd at school and he hardly talked. He said very little and mainly focused on his work. One can see an example of him being focused, as he studied on his own and received a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Investigations. I want this to be encouragement to all, to continue to educate and continue to elevate yourselves”, commented the Premier.
According to Premier Parry, Liburd was one of the many Superintendents that had done a good job in Nevis namely Spooners, Fough, Seabrookes, Stapleton and Morgan who all displayed a tough and caring attitude towards policing in Nevis while they served.
During the ceremony, one speaker said that as a policeman some officers were of the view that they had been dumped on Nevis, as serving on Nevis on many occasions had been looked at as a form of punishment but Premier Parry said that the Nevis Island Administration under his leadership had sought to assist the officers with their stay on the island.
Retired ACP, Mr. Liburd and Premier Parry
“There may be seeds of truth in that statement, however, it has been my duty to make the policemen very comfortable when they are policing in Nevis and this is what I have tried to do,” said the Premier.
The Hon. Joseph Parry noted that his Nevis Reformation Party-led government had worked hard to ensure that the police were comfortable by building additional Police Barracks in Butlers and Bath Plain. He added that he had travelled throughout St. Kitts and Nevis and it must be known that the “Bath Plain barracks is the best police quarters in the Federation.”
The audience responded with a hearty applause to which the Premier added that Mr. Liburd was leaving too soon because there was a room set up as a suite which could have been used by Mr. Liburd.
“Yes, you have raised the standard Mr. Liburd and thanks for helping to solve the recent incident on St. Kitts which involved a tourist bus being robbed. Thanks to the collaboration of the Police Force, for making the recent arrest so quickly,” said the Premier.
Retired ACP, Mr. Joseph Liburd
After the ceremony, the Premier joyfully presented Mr. Liburd with a plaque in recognition of all his years of dedicated service to the Royal St. Kitts and Nevis Police Force in particular on Nevis.
Five Retired Teachers Honoured For Years of Service To Teaching Profession
Nevis spreads the good news at the 2010 World Travel Market Show in London
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New York Governor open to Olympic bid proposal
By Nick ZaccardiMay 13, 2014, 10:43 PM EDT
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is “seriously assessing the viability of an Olympic bid for New York City,” according to the Financial Times, citing an unnamed source “familiar with the situation” of a pitch for the 2024 Olympics.
Asked about the report, a governor’s administration official said the governor’s office has not received a proposal yet but is open to reviewing one if and when that happens.
The Financial Times source said talks are taking place between representatives of Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and an advisory committee will likely be formed soon.
However, the report quoted a mayor’s spokesman saying an Olympic bid “is not something the administration is considering at this time,” which echoes what a different mayor spokesman said in February.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is expected to narrow its list of candidates for a 2024 bid over the next month or two and decide ultimately if it will bid by the end of the year, and which city.
Other cities in the running include Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, most or all of which have put together bid plans and been visited by USOC representatives last winter.
New York made a failed bid for the 2012 Olympics, getting eliminated in the second round of International Olympic Committee voting on July 6, 2005, when London won.
The U.S. also bid for the 2016 Olympics, with Chicago, and lost to Rio de Janeiro. It has not bid since and has not hosted an Olympics since the 2002 Winter Games.
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Fire From The Gods Sign with Rise Records, Release New Single “Pretenders”; Band To Release Debut LP in 2016, Playing Knotfest on October 24
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Austin, TX metal/hardcore 6-piece Fire From The Gods has signed with Rise Records and has just released a new single and lyric video for the song “Pretenders,” which is streaming on the label’s Youtube channel. You can check it out below!
“Pretenders” is also now available for purchase on iTunes.
Fire From The Gods has shared stages with the likes of Memphis May Fire, The Color Morale, Suicide Silence, Upon A Burning Body, Dance Gavin Dance and many more.
On Saturday, October 24, the band will play Knotfest in San Bernardino, CA on the “Headbang For The Highway Stage.” You can check out the Knotfest flyer and the rest of the band’s upcoming dates below at the end of the article!
Fire From The Gods will begin recording their debut LP sometime in early 2016.
About Fire From The Gods
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Fire From The Gods, with a name inspired by the profound tales of Greek mythology, is a telling origin story for this equally intense band from Austin, Texas. The six-piece draws inspiration from the sounds and stories that exist outside of their own personal experiences, vocalist AJ Channer says, “We all come from very diverse backgrounds and have seen our own trials and tribulations. We draw inspiration from life’s experiences”. AJ himself, from Jamaican descent and calling both London and New York home, is a man inspired by the world. His broad musical influences (ranging from punk, ska, gospel and reggae) set this band apart from an otherwise saturated artistic scene of Austin.
AJ resides in New York while the rest of the band is in Texas, and it’s this distance that drives the band’s creativity. Since getting together happens less often, the times they are together are fully focused, “When we are in the studio, we create some very interesting music”. Their unique situation gives Fire From The Gods a work ethic which is all their own. When they are able to get together, all six members leave their individual mark on the outcome of the band’s sonic delivery. This ability to work together and utilize so many sources of creative expression leads to the band’s unique and powerful sound.
Fire From The God’s ability to draw inspiration from experiences and create a sound and message that unifies people on a global scale is successfully realized in their music. The sky is the limit for this diverse musical powerhouse, and they show all the signs that their music will reach audiences all over the world.
Fire From The Gods Is: vocalists- AJ Channer and Chris Mardis, guitarists Jameson Teat and Drew Walker, bassist Bonner Baker and drummer Richard Wicander.
Oct 18 Malone’s Concert Venue Santa Ana, CA
Oct 24 San Manuel Amphitheater- Knotfest San Bernardino, CA
Oct 29 Rail Club Fort Worth, TX
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Cheatham, Henry Plummer
Leonard Schlup
Henry Plummer Cheatham was born near Henderson, Granville (now Vance) County, North Carolina, the son of a house slave about whom little is known. He attended local public schools and worked on farms during the 1860s and 1870s before graduating with honors from Shaw University in 1882. He became principal of the Plymouth Normal School for Negroes, a state-supported institution, and held this position from 1882 until 1884. He returned to Henderson and, after the retirement of the white Republican incumbent, won election as Vance County registrar of deeds, serving in this capacity from 1885 to 1888. During this time he also studied law, though he never established a practice.
Cheatham's career in national politics began in 1888. Unable to agree on a single candidate, delegates to the Republican convention for the Second Congressional District, the so-called “Black Second,” nominated both Cheatham and George A Mebane ...
congressman and public official, was born near Henderson, Granville (later Vance) County, North Carolina. All that is known of his parents is that one was a house slave. He attended local public schools and worked on farms during the 1860s and 1870s before graduating with honors from Shaw University in 1882. He became principal of the Plymouth Normal School for Negroes, a state-supported institution, and held this position from 1882 until 1884. He returned to Henderson and, after the retirement of the white Republican incumbent, won election as Vance County registrar of deeds, serving in this capacity from 1885 to 1888. During this time he also studied law, though he never established a practice.
Cheatham's career in national politics began in 1888 Unable to agree on a single candidate delegates to the Republican convention for the Second Congressional District the so called Black Second nominated both ...
Cohen, Walter L.
John N. Ingham
businessman and politician, was born a free person of color in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Bernard Cohen and Amelia Bingaman, a free woman of color. Although Cohen's father was Jewish, he was raised as and remained throughout his life a Roman Catholic. His parents died when he was in the fourth grade, whereupon he had to quit school, though he later attended Straight University in New Orleans for several years. As a boy Cohen became a cigar maker and later worked in a saloon. His entrée into the world of politics came during the period of Reconstruction, when he worked as a page in the state legislature, then meeting in New Orleans. There, Cohen became acquainted with several influential black Republicans, among them Oscar J. Dunn, C. C. Antoine, and P. B. S. Pinchback Pinchback founder of and dominant figure in the city ...
Collins, George Washington
Adam W. Green
United States congressman, was born in the poor North Side Chicago neighborhood of what would later be known as Cabrini-Green to Washington and Leanna Collins. Collins graduated from Waller High School in 1943, and immediately entered the armed forces as a private. He served for three years in the army, stationed with the Engineer Corps in the South Pacific until he was discharged as a sergeant in 1946. Upon returning to the states, Collins entered Central Y.M.C.A. College in Chicago, and graduated in 1954, going on to receive his business law degree from Northwestern University three years later.
Collins began his career in civil service and involvement in the Chicago Democratic Party machine in the 1950s while still in graduate school. He was appointed precinct captain in 1954 for Chicago s 24th Ward on the West Side and later served as deputy sheriff of Cook ...
Cunningham, Evelyn
Charles Rosenberg
reporter and columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier, New York City radio journalist, special assistant to New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, and member of several government panels on women's advocacy and cultural institutions, was born Evelyn Elizabeth Long in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She was the only daughter and eldest child of Clyde L. and Mary Irvin Whitehurst Long.
Her father ran a pool hall in Elizabeth City, then moved the family, including son Clyde W., born in 1918, to New York. He found work there as a hotel bellman, and later drove a taxi, while Mary Long found work as a dressmaker to a private family. In New York, Evelyn Long graduated from Hunter College High School in 1934 During a life of ninety four years she married four times outliving all four husbands She had no children and took the name she used professionally ...
Davis, Benjamin Jefferson
Gerald Horne
publisher and political figure, was born in Dawson, Georgia, the son of Mike Davis (who changed his name from Mike Haynes in 1868 or 1869) and Katherine Davis, farmers and former slaves. Benjamin's formal education ended after the sixth grade, and he worked as a bricklayer and teacher before becoming a printer. He learned the trade while working for Tom W. Loyless, a white Dawson publisher and printer, and then opened his own printing business. He soon became a moderately wealthy man, living in a two-story, fifteen-room house while his siblings eked out their livings as sharecroppers. In 1898 he married Jimmie Willard Porter, a Dawson native who had been educated at Hampton and Tuskegee institutes; they had a son and daughter.
In 1903 Davis began publishing the Independent a black weekly newspaper that was sold throughout Georgia and that within a year ...
Ferguson, Thomas J.
Frank R. Levstik
Thomas J. Ferguson was born on September 15, 1830, in Essex County, Virginia, the son of freeborn parents of mixed blood. Little is known of his early years, but it is recorded that by the 1850s he resided in Cincinnati, Ohio. There, Ferguson became an active member of the Masonic order, serving as junior warden of the Cincinnati lodge in 1859 and 1860. During 1859 he moved to Albany, in Athens County, Ohio, where he became a landowner and enrolled as a student at the integrated Albany Manual Labor University. Four years later, he was a leader in establishing the Albany Enterprise Academy in Ohio. Ferguson served on the first board of trustees of the school.
The Enterprise Academy opened its doors to students in 1864, following an appropriation from the Freedmen's Bureau and private gifts from individuals such as Union general Otis Oliver Howard ...
Ferguson, Thomas Jefferson
Adah Ward Randolph
educator, politician, activist, pastor, author, and Masonic leader, was born in Essex County, Virginia, to free parents of mixed white and black ancestry. In 1831 Virginia outlawed the education of free blacks, and many of them migrated to other states, including Ohio. The Act of 1831 may account for the migration of Ferguson's family to Cincinnati, which Ferguson listed as his home when he attended Albany Manual Labor Academy (AMLA) in Albany, Ohio. While it is unclear how Ferguson attained an elementary education, the Albany Manual Labor University records list T. J. Ferguson of Cincinnati as a student in the collegiate department during the 1857–1859 academic year. James Monroe Trotter, veteran of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment and musicologist, also attended AMLA. Incorporated as a university in 1853 Albany Manual Labor University AMLU offered an integrated education which accepted students regardless of color ...
Gaines, Irene McCoy
Mamie E. Locke
social worker and clubwoman, was born in Ocala, Florida, the daughter of Charles McCoy and Mamie Ellis. She grew up in Chicago, where her mother moved after her parents divorced in 1903. Beginning in 1905 she attended the Fisk University Normal School in Nashville, Tennessee, from which she graduated in 1910.
Returning to Chicago after her graduation, McCoy could not find work as a teacher because of racism. She engaged in the kind of drudgework most black women were able to find at that time: laundry and cleaning, earning as little as five dollars per week. In 1914 she married Harris B. Gaines, a Chicago lawyer; they had two sons. She returned to school in 1918, studying social work at the University of Chicago until 1921. She eventually did further study at Loyola University's School of Social Administration from 1935 to 1937 ...
Hamilton, Grace Towns
Susan J. McWilliams
legislator and activist, was born Grace Towns in Atlanta, Georgia, the second of five children of George Alexander Towns, a professor of English and pedagogy at Atlanta University, and Nellie McNair, a graduate of the same institution. Both of her parents placed a high premium on education, civic involvement, and political activism. George Towns was a protégé and friend of W. E. B. Du Bois, publicly supporting his clashes with Booker T. Washington and independently striving to increase the ranks of African American voters. Nellie Towns, meanwhile, volunteered extensively in the community; she worked with the First Congregational Church and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and she helped found the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association, which assisted children of the black working poor. In this environment, the young Grace Towns grew up with senses of relative privilege and social obligation.
For a time Towns was ...
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Style Over Substance: The Traditional Paradigm
Political Aesthetics, Para-Social Relations, and Affective Capacities
Celebrity Politicians 1: The United States and Barack Obama
Celebrity Politicians 1: The United Kingdom and Jeremy Corbyn
Corbyn as Labour Leader and the 2017 General Election
Celebrity Politicians 2: Political Endorsers in the United States
Celebrity Politics 2: Endorsements in the UK General Elections
Celebrity Activism: Causes and Issue-Based Politics
Donald Trump as a Celebrity Turned Politician
Trump’s Voice and Output: Twitter, Outrage, and Charismatic Authority in 140 Characters
Celebrity Politics and Democratic Values
Celebrity Politics and Cultural Studies Within the United States and United Kingdom
Mark WheelerMark WheelerDepartment of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University
Celebrity politicians are having a profound impact on the practice of politics within the United States and United Kingdom in the 21st century. With the adoption of social media platforms, celebrity and image candidates have deployed new strategies for attracting constituents. Taken together, the proliferation of celebrity politics and the ubiquity of digital platforms have fostered a unique atmosphere in the contemporary political moment, wherein “outsider” candidates may leverage their fame to launch themselves into the public spotlight. In turn, through their celebrity brands and digital presence both populists such as the U.S. President Donald Trump and left-wing leaders including U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have established an “authenticity” in which they “occupy” a public space to define their candidacies. Consequently, as celebrities and image candidates promote political agendas among target audiences/citizens, it is necessary to reflect upon their significance in election campaigns, policy agendas, and activism.
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Debunking myths about puberty blockers for transgender children
Puberty blockers are drugs that may be given to young people with gender dysphoria, to prevent them from going through a puberty that doesn’t match their gender identity. They’re a physically reversible intervention, and if a young person stops taking the blockers their physical adolescence will continue to develop as it had done previously – but the drugs have proven controversial and there’s a lot of misinformation out there. Chloe Kent reports.
In January, papers were lodged at the British High Court against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK’s only gender identity development service (GIDS).
The claimants against the Trust want to establish a legal minimum age of 18 for puberty blocking hormone therapy for young people diagnosed with gender dysphoria, with their lawyers arguing that it is illegal to prescribe the drugs to anyone younger as they cannot give informed consent to the treatment.
The case has been brought about by the parent of a 15-year-old on the GIDS waiting list known as Mrs A, who does not believe children can understand the ramifications of taking puberty blockers. Alongside her is a 23-year-old woman named Keira Bell, who transitioned to male as a teenager but has since detransitioned and believes she should have been challenged more by GIDS during the process.
So-called puberty blockers, known formally as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists, are medications that cause the body to stop producing sex hormones. They are delivered either as leuprorelin injections, which are administered by a healthcare worker every three months, or via a histrelin implant, which needs to be replaced annually.
The GnRH antagonists bind to receptors in the pituitary gland, blocking the release of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) from the anterior pituitary. This leads to suppression of testosterone production in the testes or the suppression of estradiol and progesterone production from the ovaries, depending on the anatomy of the individual taking them.
For young trans people, taking these drugs will prevent things like breast tissue development and periods, or the growth of facial hair and a deepening voice. The effects of drugs are completely reversible, and if a person stops taking them their body will resume sex hormone production as it had done before they started.
As well as being used to suppress puberty in gender-questioning youth, they’re used from the age of six onwards for the management of precocious puberty, when a child’s body enters adolescence too early. GnRH antagonists are also used to treat prostate cancer, as part of IVF fertility treatment and for the management of uterine disorders such as endometriosis or fibroids. They’re even being investigated as a treatment for women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer, as a treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia and as a potential contraceptive.
Why might a young person want puberty blockers?
Gender dysphoria - the sense of unease arising from one’s physical sex characteristics not aligning with one’s gender identity - can be just as unpleasant for young people as it is for adults.
Pacific University Oregon co-director of child psychology Dr Laura Edwards-Leeper says: “The impact of going through the wrong puberty for a child who is transgender can be devastating, as their body feels as if it is out of their control and changing in a way that is incongruent with their gender identity. This can lead to a host of psychological problems, most often depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, self-harming behaviours and suicidality.”
When puberty blockers are used to delay or prevent these changes, they’re essentially used to buy time. They’re primarily intended to give young gender-questioning people a few years to weigh up their options before going through any permanent bodily changes, whether those are through hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to induce a puberty which corresponds with their gender identity, or discontinuing the blockers altogether and allowing puberty to proceed as it would have done without any intervention.
It is important that the young person fully understands that they can change course at any time.
“It is important that the young person fully understands that they can change course at any time and that no one will be disappointed in them or feel that they made ‘a mistake’ or ‘didn't know who they were’ when they made the decision to start blockers,” says Edwards-Leeper.
“Parents, other family members, providers, friends and peers and school staff need to understand this as well, so that the young person does not feel boxed in. Just as we do not want trans youth to feel pressured into being cis, we don't want gender diverse youth to feel pressured into being trans if they ultimately feel that this does not fit for them.”
How are puberty blockers prescribed in the UK?
While many people who oppose the use of blockers maintain that drugs are given out too readily, most patients actually face a lengthy waiting period. In November 2019, doctors in the UK GIDS were beginning initial consultations with patients who had been referred in September 2017, more than two years beforehand. Even then, puberty blockers won’t be prescribed immediately.
Val, a 19-year-old transfeminine student, came out at 13 and had her first appointment with the UK GIDS soon after, but didn’t receive puberty blockers until she was 17.
“I think the thing I find really distasteful is all the things in the media about how they’re fast-tracking trans people,” she says. “I’m like, ‘they’re not!’. During that process you have to put your life on hold. It’s like an axe that’s hanging above your head all the time and you don’t know when it’s going to drop and it’s terrifying. Puberty blockers allow trans teenagers to finally get back to living their lives. They just give you peace of mind.”
Puberty blockers allow trans teenagers to finally get back to living their lives.
More than 5,000 young people are currently on the GIDS waiting list, and according to a BBC investigation only 267 people under the age of 15 started using blockers between 2012 and 2018. While things differ internationally, the UK GIDS will not prescribe HRT to a young trans person unless they have spent 12 months on blockers and are at least 16 years of age.
While it’s important to acknowledge that detransition does happen, what’s vital is that cases like Keira Bell’s are rare. Most recent studies estimate the overall detransition rate for trans people to be less than 4%.
“Far more trans kids live with lifelong impacts of decisions that we seem to be making based on one cis kid who gets referred accidentally,” says Val.
Do puberty blockers have any serious side effects?
“Puberty blockers are safe as far as can be determined from the experience of non-transgender children who take them or women undergoing fertility treatments who take them,” says Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery executive director Dr Joshua Safer.
Like all medications, the blockers are still known to have some side effects, including weight gain, hot flashes, headaches and swelling at the site of injection. There also may be more long-term effects on bone density, which is part of the reason the drugs aren’t supposed to be prescribed for too long.
Safer explains: “The primary concern is that bones might be at greater risk of osteoporosis because bones depend on sex hormones for maintenance. That need is part of the reason that women typically are at risk for osteoporosis earlier than men, as women go through menopause and suffer a loss of sex hormones while men don’t typically have a similar significant hormone change. But the risk is hard to see when only taking puberty blockers for a year or two.”
It’s also worth noting that there is a relationship between puberty blockers and fertility. Sperm production typically begins between 13 to 14, and egg maturation between 12 to 13, and the vast majority of trans children will begin puberty blocker treatment after these processes have already occurred.
In these cases, sperm or eggs can be frozen before treatment and may be used to conceive a child in later life. If a young person decides not to transition after all and ceases puberty blocker treatment, the Endocrine Society advises that no studies have reported long-term, adverse effects on ovarian function. For people with testicles, sperm numbers can fall below the normal range in some cases.
Things are slightly different for the small number of trans children who may undergo puberty blocker therapy before sperm or egg maturation occurs and then immediately begin HRT. As they will be unable to have a sperm or egg sample frozen, they don’t have the same fertility preservation options that children who start taking blockers when they’re slightly older would have.
“The concern is hormone treatment would have to be stopped in order to restore fertility later were it desired – perhaps for many months,” says Safer. “The concern is part of the reason for puberty blockers – to allow time to have the conversations that will allow reasoned choices being made regarding hormone therapy.”
Of course, any medical decision which could have an impact on fertility is one that requires a lot of time and care to consider. However, many trans people find the way the impact on fertility is used to argue about the ethics of trans healthcare inherently problematic.
Val says: “It’s something that gets brought up and is very much rooted in the idea that if you are infertile that is somehow lesser and you are lesser of a person, which is not at all correct.”
Gillick competence and the future of trans healthcare
In England and Wales, the term ‘Gillick competence’ is used in medical law to decide whether a child under the age of 16 is able to consent to their own medical treatment, without the need for parental permission or knowledge.
It means that the legal authority for parents to make medical decisions on behalf of their children is revoked when the child reaches sufficient maturity to make their own decisions. There is no hard-and-fast age at which a child can be considered ‘Gillick competent’, and it is something decided on a case-by-case basis.
The claimants in the ongoing UK court case against Tavistock and Portman believe that Gillick competence should not apply when it comes to gender reassignment, with their solicitor telling The Guardian: “We say it is a leap too far to think that Gillick as a judgment could apply to this type of scenario, where a young person is being offered a treatment with lifelong consequences when they are at a stage of emotional and mental vulnerability. It simply doesn’t compute, and therefore whatever medical professionals say is consent is not valid in law.”
The important thing to remember is that all journeys and identities are valid.
Yet, a study published this year in the journal Pediatrics found that access to puberty blockers can be life-saving, reducing the chances of suicide among young trans people, who are at much greater risk of this than the general population. It’s hard to see how revoking Gillick competence for a reversible, life-saving treatment stands up from a medical ethics standpoint.
While many parents and carers of transgender children understandably worry about what the future holds for their kids in a world that isn’t especially kind to gender nonconforming people, that worry should never be allowed to become so overwhelming that they seek to strip away essential health services out of fear.
A representative of UK trans children’s charity Mermaids says: “The important thing to remember is that all journeys and identities are valid, and by supporting your child, they will be able to continue along this journey knowing you love and care about them, whoever they are and whatever they choose to do.”
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Where do flowers come from? Shedding light on Darwin's 'abominable mystery'
by CEA
Credit: CEA
The mystery that is the origin of flowering plants has been partially solved thanks to a team from the Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale (CNRS/Inra/CEA/Université Grenoble Alpes), in collaboration with the Reproduction et Développement des Plantes laboratory (CNRS/ENS Lyon/Inra/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) and Kew Gardens (UK). Their discovery, published in the journal New Phytologist on February 24, 2017, sheds light on a question that much intrigued Darwin: the appearance of a structure as complex as the flower over the course of evolution.
Terrestrial flora is today dominated by flowering plants. They provide our food and contribute color to the plant world. But they have not always existed. While plants colonized the land over 400 million years ago, flowering plants appeared only 150 million years ago. They were directly preceded by a group known as the gymnosperms, whose mode of reproduction is more rudimentary and whose modern-day representatives include conifers.
Darwin long pondered the origin and rapid diversification of flowering plants, describing them as an "abominable mystery". In comparison with gymnosperms, which possess rather rudimentary male and female cones (like the pine cone), flowering plants present several innovations: the flower contains the male organs (stamens) and the female organs (pistil), surrounded by petals and sepals, while the ovules, instead of being naked, are protected within the pistil.
How was nature able to invent the flower, a structure so different from that of cones? The team led by François Parcy, a CNRS senior researcher at the Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory (CNRS/Inra/CEA/Université Grenoble Alpes), has just provided part of the answer. To do so, the researchers studied a rather original gymnosperm called Welwitschia mirabilis. This plant, which can live for more than a millennium, grows in the extreme conditions of the deserts of Namibia and Angola, and, like other gymnosperms, possesses separate male and female cones. What is exceptional is that the male cones possess a few sterile ovules and nectar, which indicates a failed attempt to invent the bisexual flower. Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!
The fact that a similar gene cascade has been found in flowering plants and their gymnosperm cousins indicates that this is inherited from their common ancestor. This mechanism did not have to be invented at the time of the origins of the flower: it was simply inherited and reused by the plant, a process that is often at work in evolution.
The study of the current biodiversity of plants thus enables us to go back in time and gradually sketch the genetic portrait of the common ancestor of a large proportion of modern-day flowers. The team is continuing to study other traits to better understand how the first flower emerged.
What 'pine' cones reveal about the evolution of flowers
More information: Edwige Moyroud et al. A link between LEAFY and B-gene homologues insheds light on ancestral mechanisms prefiguring floral development, New Phytologist (2017). DOI: 10.1111/nph.14483
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How 14 Major Cities Are Responding to the Coronavirus
Expect concert cancellations and postponements as New York, Paris, Seattle, and more ban mass gatherings
By Noah Yoo and Eric Torres
Brooklyn, New York, March 2020 (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
As cities across the world continue to monitor developments in the coronavirus outbreak, public health officials are coordinating with state and federal governments to determine whether or not public gatherings should be canceled to avoid further spread of the disease. Italy, Ireland, and Denmark, for example, have issued nationwide lockdown measures to restrict travel and public gatherings. And, as of March 11, Berlin has banned all public events and gatherings numbering more than 1,000 people.
With over 1,000 cases of COVID-19 now confirmed in the United States, states have begun to issue policy recommendations and advisories of their own. New York state has declared a disaster emergency, while counties in California—like Riverside County, which encompasses Indio, home to Coachella—have declared public health emergencies. Health officials are recommending that people practice “social distancing”—like working from home, keeping at least six feet from others, and not going to public gatherings—in an effort to suppress the outbreak. On March 15, the CDC issued a statement on its website recommending that groups or individuals “cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States” for the next eight weeks. On March 16, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam recommended that residents avoid gatherings of more than 50 people.
Festivals and tours are being postponed and canceled. Some concert venues are issuing their own policies that may go beyond the restrictions put in place by government mandates. Below, find an outline of policy measures from major cities across the United States and Europe.
Numerous upcoming public events in Chicago have been called off or postponed in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, including the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. While city and state officials promoted social distancing, on March 12, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a ban on all gatherings of 1,000 people or more. He also recommended that events hosting 250 people or more be postponed. On March 15, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker ordered that all bars and restaurants shutter for dine-in service from March 16 until March 30. Check out a directory of fundraisers for Chicago bars, venues, and restaurants over at Chicago Service Relief.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis declared a state of emergency on March 10, urging the private sector to offer paid sick leave to ill employees in order to stem any outbreak. Most concert venues in the city and its surrounding area have announced cancellations, including Red Rocks.
On March 4, Los Angeles County declared a local/public health emergency. In a press release, the Department of Public Health urged sick individuals to stay home and encouraged simple social distancing (e.g., avoiding handshakes and keeping your distance at public events), while noting there is “no current need for significant social distancing measures” at the time.
On March 12, Mayor Eric Garcetti instructed city officials to postpone or cancel all non-essential public community events for crowds of 50 people or more. There’s also a ban in place for all events on city property that are anticipated to host more than 50 people. Goldenvoice-run venues including the Fonda Theatre and the El Rey Theatre announced that they would be closed until March 31.
Some larger events in the Los Angeles area— such as the Korea Times Music Festival, the annual games conference E3, and Lakers and Clippers games—have been postponed or canceled.
On March 19, Mayor Garcetti issued a “Safer at Home” emergency order. Garcetti is ordering all Los Angeles residents to “stay inside their homes and immediately limit all nonessential movement.” The order also mandates the closure of indoor malls, playgrounds, and non-essential retail businesses. Gatherings of and more than 10 people are also prohibited, as Deadline reports.
On March 9, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a public health emergency in the state. In the following days, inconsistencies emerged in reports of “community spread” of COVID-19 in the state. (Community spread is when new cases occur locally without being linked to known foreign travel.) Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading infectious disease expert, who is on the White House coronavirus task force, stated publicly that Florida was a state facing community spread. DeSantis disagreed and claimed that the cluster of infected individuals did not constitute “community spread.”
On March 7, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state disaster emergency due to coronavirus. On March 12, Carnegie Hall canceled shows through the end of March. Later that day, Governor Cuomo banned gatherings with 500 people or more. Venues such as Le Poisson Rouge, Brooklyn Steel, Baby’s All Right, and more announced cancelations, postponements, or closures.
As of March 12, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has also declared a state of emergency in the city. During a press conference, he said that larger venues such as Barclays Center, Madison Square Garden, and Radio City Music Hall could be closed for “months” as a result of the precautions being taken. He also emphasized that other gathering spaces with occupancy under 500—including restaurants and bars—would be capped at 50% of their normal occupancy. On March 13, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) suspended all of its live events through March 29.
On March 15, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio placed an executive order limiting restaurants, bars, cafes to take-out, and delivery. He also ordered the closure of nightclubs, concert venues, movie theaters, and small theater houses. The order will be effective March 17 at 9 a.m.
As of March 17, there are 52 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Tennessee, including 31 in Nashville. City officials had issued a statement encouraging residents to “carefully consider the implications” of holding gatherings of 100 or more people, but have not issued a mandate against them. On March 15, Nashville Mayor John Cooper issued the following changes: the closing of bars throughout Davidson County, limited restaurant seating to under 50 percent of capacity, 100 person cap in any establishment, and limited bar service to 50 percent capacity with no standing allowed.
City officials in Philadelphia have advised individuals not to attend large public gatherings with more than 5,000 people, such as sporting events or the (now-canceled) St. Patrick’s Day Parade. On March 16, the city of Philadelphia announced the closure of all nonessential businesses. Concert venues and other art institutions in the city have gone dark.
San Francisco has issued a two-week ban on any “non-essential group events,” defined as “any congregation of 100 or more people for any social, cultural, entertainment, or other special event or other non-essential purpose where people are not separated by physical space of at least four feet.” The ban is in effect until Wednesday, March 25. This includes scheduled concerts by acts like Tame Impala and Post Malone, which have been postponed.
As of March 16, 488 people in King County have tested positive for coronavirus. Forty-three people have died, including the first casualty from the disease in the United States. After banning public gatherings and events with more than 250 people, Governor Jay Inslee has prohibited events with more than 50 people, effective March 16.
The ban has already resulted in the cancelation and postponing of music events; a look at the calendar for the Showbox, for example, shows that all scheduled concerts through March 28 have been postponed or canceled. In response to the ban, the Seattle Symphony will share live broadcasts online.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, March 11. Meanwhile, Congress has shut the U.S. Capitol, House, and Senate buildings to the public until April 1. D.C. Health has advised that all gatherings of 1,000 or more people in the district be postponed or canceled through the end of March, in order to combat any outbreak. On March 16, Bowser prohibited mass gatherings of more than 50 people.
In light of the recommendations, venues including U Street Music Hall, 9:30 Club, the Anthem, and Lincoln Theatre have decided to postpone all of their March programming. The Smithsonian museums are all temporarily closed.
As new cases of coronavirus are diagnosed throughout Ontario, the city of Toronto has activated its Emergency Operations Centre and is continuing to monitor developments in the outbreak. As of March 16, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health has recommended a limitation on gatherings of over 50 people. Concert venues like Lee’s Palace, Meridian Hall, and Danforth Music Hall have started to announce broader cancelations as a result of coronavirus.
Berlin culture minister Klaus Lederer banned all concerts and cultural events with attendees totaling 500 or more through April 19. The ban has led clubs, including Berghain and Trauma Bar und Kino, to cancel or postpone their events to next month. The Berlin Club Commission has formed a coronavirus task force in an effort to find a balance between maintaining public health and ensuring that clubs do not fall into “economic ruin.”
The United Kingdom is holding in a “containment” phase, as of March 9. While broader social distancing measures have yet to be instituted, entertainment events such as the YouTube on Stage live showcase have been canceled. Organizers for Glastonbury Festival, set to take place June 24–28, say they cannot confirm whether or not the event will take place as scheduled. On March 16, prime minister Boris Johnson encouraged Britons to “stop all unnecessary travel” and “avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues.”
On March 17, Royal Albert Hall announced that it will be closed until further notice. Managers of the historic venue have asked patrons to consider a donation to support them in this time of need. “The lost income from closing the venue will be financially devastating. We invest millions of pounds every year just to look after our building, but our main costs are our staff, whose livelihoods are at stake,” a statement reads. “We have committed to pay our people through various closure scenarios, and any support you are able to give us would be enormously appreciated.”
After initially banning all gatherings of 1,000 or more people in an effort to control the outbreak, French president Emmanuel Macron has banned gatherings of 100 or more people. In a televised interview, he called COVID-19 the “biggest health crisis that France has known in a century.”
On March 14, France ordered all non-essential businesses—including restaurants, bars, and movie theaters—to be closed in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus. Grocery stores, drug stores, banks, and gas stations will be exempt from the closure.
This article was originally published on March 12 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on March 19 at 9:10 p.m. Eastern.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that San Francisco banned gatherings of more than 50 people. In fact that figure applied only to city-owned facilities. Since publication, San Francisco has ordered the cancellation of all “non-essential” events and gatherings of 100 or more people.
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Tech-Less Mom: Tackling the Tutorial in Wondershot
By Nicole TannerMarch 15, 2016No Comments
When you’ve been married for 12 years, there are few things you can do besides murdering your partner in their sleep (gotcha!) that will surprise them. Which is why it was so satisfying to say to my husband, after he told me that I would hate Wondershot, that, in fact, I liked it quite a bit. Because I am still a delicate mystery, an onion with many layers, and will you please bring me a roll of paper towels because we ran out of toilet paper and I forgot to go to the store.
See? Mystery.
This month, Pixelkin asked me to review Wondershot, a game which, I learned, is a big deal in the indie gaming world, having won the Game To Play award at Indie Games Play 2015. The reviews I read said that it was a great “couch co-op” game. I don’t know what this means, because to me a “couch co-op” sounds like a rental plan for hobos. I do like couches, though, and I liked that this game was supposed to be great for families to play together. So I let my kids have at it, and then one afternoon I sat down with my 8-year-old son, who took me through it.
Being the understanding soul that he is, my son got me started with the tutorial. I deeply appreciate tutorials, but if I had not had my son teaching me how to do the tutorial I would have been lost. Knowing that you are the type of person who can’t follow a beginner’s tutorial takes a certain amount of maturity, and I have that maturity in spades. If you tell me to press X to shoot my arrow at the target, but you don’t tell me that if I miss I have to go run into the arrow in order to pick it up, then I will run around in circles with an empty bow forever. How my children figure this kind of thing out, I have no idea.
In the tutorials, with my son’s help, I learned how to use each of the four weapons: the slingshot, the bow and arrow, the hammer, and the boomerang. Each weapon does its own special things in its own special ways, but few require much more than pressing the X button. I decided to go one player and do some of the challenges in Adventure mode.
The game is mostly about aiming at targets — you need timing and the ability to bank shots off angles in the right way. Turns out I am not half bad at that — I was killing it on some of the early levels. But then you get to the levels that have monsters, and that’s where my luck started to run out. I do poorly when I’m being timed or chased by monsters, when it’s both I do especially badly. So those parts weren’t my favorite, but the first levels where it’s just complicated aiming were tons of fun. I loved the challenge of trying to fire shots at just the right time and at just the right angle. My son, however, loved the levels where there are red devil monsters trying to, as he put it, “grappling hook me and then punch me in the face.” To each his own.
Wondershot is a really fun game and it’s tons of fun to play with kids. Make sure you play with the sound on, though — the music is lots of fun, and the little voice that shouts, “Victory!” and “Let’s fight!” makes me so happy that I want it to be my new ringtone.
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This article was written by Meredith Bland
Meredith Bland is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Brain, Mother; Narratively; Blogher; Time; and Parentmap among others. She also writes at her humor blog, Pile of Babies.
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Faith isn’t just for Sunday
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Worship has no boundaries
A big part of spiritual renewal is learning that we shouldn’t compartmentalize our relationship with God within church walls. Our faith isn’t just for Sundays. A vibrant, robust faith impacts every single thing we do, from church to work to life at home. There are no boundaries.
This is true whether we’re in the United States, in the hills of Haiti, or in a lakeside village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet, in all those settings and many others, it can be easy for us to put boundaries on our faith. We can be tempted to think of worship as only things that overtly look like certain actions like prayer, music, or going to church, and not others like gardening or accounting.
We are asked to do whatever we’re called to do for God’s glory. That’s a big part of the message put forward by Plant With Purpose’s emphasis on spiritual renewal.
The more we start to see our relationship with God, it is reflected in our relationships. This includes the way we treat the planet or the way we approach our work. These help us see how our lives can become more connected with God.
The Plant With Purpose location its DR Congo.
This realization came to Kitaki’s village
For a long time, Kitaki’s village faced terrible circumstances due to conflict. Kitaki himself was a former guerrilla leader, and the early part of his life revolved around combat.
While most people in his village identified as Christian, many simply thought this just meant that they would go to a Christian church and learn about God over there. Outside of that setting, however, these beliefs didn’t make much of a difference.
The lack of inspiration, plus the crippling effects of poverty, left many unmotivated to work to improve their situation. While the community faced poverty and environmental threats, many had simply resigned to those realities.
“The men would just sit around and play cards,” recalled Kitaki. Their wives would then struggle greatly to provide for their children.
A team in DR Congo studies Scripture and Creation Care
The Theology of Work made a big difference.
Theology of Work is a curriculum that Plant With Purpose’s local spiritual renewal leaders promote. These materials guide farmers to discover their purpose, care for their lands, and give back to their communities. Kitaki joined Plant With Purpose’s program. He learned that the teachings of Jesus include plenty of reasons why he should commit to improving his community as well as supporting his family.
“When I learned that I had been created for a purpose and that work was a gift from God,” recollected Kitaki, “I thought, maybe if I helped my wife on the farm together, we could do something great!”
Now Kitaki and his wife proudly share with others the various innovations they try on their farm, as well as the excitement they feel when participating in their Plant With Purpose community savings group. Change is truly taking root in the Democratic Republic of Congo as farmers experience the joy of working, and the peace that comes from thriving relationships.
Kitaki’s story exemplifies why spiritual renewal is such an integral part of Plant With Purpose’s work. By working with local churches and their congregations to identify the big reasons why believers must care for creation, take ownership of their work, and support their communities, deep and lasting change takes place. To support this work in the Congo and beyond, become a Purpose Partner!
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by bluebird of bitterness | April 17, 2018 · 3:29 pm
Forget the deductions; take the kids
(This letter to the IRS was written by Bob Mullen and first appeared in the book Chicken Soup for the Parent’s Soul.)
Dear sirs:
I am responding to your letter denying the deduction for two of the three dependents I claimed on my Federal Tax return. All I have to say is, thank you. I have questioned whether or not these are my children for years. They are evil and expensive. It’s only fair, since they are minors and no longer my responsibility, that the government should know something about them and what to expect over the next year. Please do not try to reassign them to me next year and reinstate the deduction. They are yours!
The oldest, Kristen, is now 17. She is brilliant. Ask her! I suggest you put her to work in your office where she can answer people’s questions about their returns. While she has no formal training, it has not seemed to hamper her from believing she knows everything, so taxes should be a breeze. Next year she is going to college. I think it’s wonderful that you will now be responsible for that little expense.
While you mull that over, keep in mind that she has a truck. It doesn’t run at the moment, so you have the choice of appropriating some Department of Defense funds to fix the vehicle, or getting up early to drive her to school.
Kristen also has a boyfriend. Oh joy! While she possesses all of the wisdom of the universe, her alleged mother and I have felt it best to occasionally remind her of the virtues of abstinence, or in the face of overwhelming passion, safe sex. This is always uncomfortable, and I am quite relieved that you will be handling this in the future. May I suggest that you reinstate Dr. Jocelyn Elders, who had a rather good handle on the problem?
Patrick is 14. I’ve had my suspicions about this one. His eyes are a little closer together than those of normal people. He may be a tax examiner himself one day, if he is not incarcerated first. In February, I was awakened at three in the morning by a police officer who was bringing Patrick home. He and his friends were TP’ing houses. For future reference, would you like him delivered to the local IRS office, or to Ogden, UT?
Kids at 14 will do almost anything on a dare. His hair is purple. Permanent dye, temporary dye, what’s the big deal? Learn to deal with it. You’ll have plenty of time, as he is sitting out a few days of school after instigating a food fight in the cafeteria. I’ll take care of filing your phone number with the vice-principal.
Oh yes, he and all of his friends have raging hormones. This house is filled with testosterone and it will be much more peaceful when he lives in your home. Do NOT leave him or his friends unsupervised with girls, explosives, flammables, inflatables, vehicles, or telephones (they find telephones a source of unimaginable amusement, so be sure to lock out the 900 and 976 numbers!).
Heather is an alien. She slid through a time warp and appeared as if by magic one year. I’m sure this one is yours. She is 10 going on 21. She came from a bad trip in the sixties. She wears tie-dyed clothes, beads, sandals, and hair that looks like Tiny Tim’s. Fortunately, you will be raising my taxes to help offset the pinch of her remedial reading courses. “Hooked on Phonics” is expensive, so the school dropped it. But here’s the good news! You can buy it yourself for half the amount of the deduction you are denying me! It’s quite obvious that we were terrible parents (ask the other two).
She cannot speak English. Most people under twenty understand the curious patois she fashioned out of valley girls/boys in the hood/reggae/yuppie/political double speak. The school sends her to a speech pathologist who has her roll her “r’s”. It added a refreshing Mexican/Irish touch to her voice. She wears hats backwards, baggy pants, and wants one of her ears pierced four more times. There is a fascination with tattoos that worries me, but I am sure that you can handle it. Bring a truck when you come to get her, she sort of “nests” in her room and I think that it would be easier to move the entire thing than find out what it is really made of.
You denied two of the three exemptions, so it is only fair that you get to pick which two you will take. I prefer that you take the youngest two, since even though I will still go bankrupt with Kristen’s college, after that I am free! If you take the two oldest, then I still have time for counseling before Heather becomes a teenager. If you take the two girls, then I won’t feel so bad about putting Patrick in a military academy.
Please let me know your decision as soon as possible, as I have already increased the withholding on my W-4 to cover the $395 in additional tax and made a down payment on an airplane.
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by Pistol Pete | April 17, 2018 · 11:42 am
With so much happening it’s difficult to determine where to start. OK, let’s just dive in the deep end.
In Filthydelphia, Starbucks has a rule about loitering. Two black men came in, used the bathroom, then refused to buy anything or leave. They said they were waiting for someone. Police were called… CHA CHING!!
Manager gets fired, CEO of Starbucks grovels, apologizes sincerely, and promises to retrain staff to recognize their unconscious racism. As always, you CANNOT appease the socialists. They won’t accept anything but blood. It didn’t take long for the race hustlers and opportunists to swing into action. Expect lawsuits with huge payouts. Guaranteed. It’s called “gettin’ paid.”
“The police did not just happen upon this event, they did not just walk into Starbucks to get a coffee,” he said in a Facebook video. “They were called there, for a service, and that service had to do with quelling a disturbance, a disturbance that had to do with trespassing.”
Ross said the officers “followed policy” and did what they were supposed to do. He said that his department makes sure that officers receive “implicit bias training.”
“I will say, that as an African-American male, I am very aware of implicit bias,” Ross said. “We are committed to fair and unbiased policing and anything less than that will not be tolerated in this department.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/16/protesters-pack-into-philadelphia-starbucks-after-controversial-arrest-chant-store-is-anti-black.html
Susan Collins: The Senate won’t confirm a replacement for Rod Rosenstein who will kill Russia probe
WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TAKE THE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER AND IMPEACH TRUMP, THEY CAN COUNT ON THE MAINE PAIN TO BE A LOYAL SUPPORTER OF THEIR ACTION TO REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE. SHE NEVER DISAPPOINTS THEM.
Collins added it wouldn’t be a bad idea for the Senate to take up and discuss legislation to protect Mueller from Trump.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/susan-collins-the-senate-wont-confirm-a-replacement-for-rod-rosenstein-who-will-kill-russia-probe
Activist lawyer burned himself to death to protest global warming
A “green” activist who was a pioneering lawyer for gay and transgender rights — including in the notorious “Boys Don’t Cry” rape murder case — committed suicide by setting himself on fire Saturday morning in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in a grisly act of protest against the ecological destruction of the Earth.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/14/activist-lawyer-burned-himself-to-death-to-protest-global-warming/
Comey: Assuming Clinton Would Win ‘Must Have’ Influenced Decision to Disclose Investigation
HE TRIED TO MAKE IT APPEAR HE WASN’T SLOBBERING ALL OVER CANKLES
“At some level, was the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to win and concerned that if she wins, this comes out weeks later, that is taken by her opponents as a sign she’s an illegitimate president?” Stephanopoulos asked.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/comey-assuming-clinton-win-must-influenced-decision-reveal-investigation/
Comey: We’re ‘Duty Bound’ To Dump Trump. Also, I Rebooted Email Probe To Legitimize A Clinton Win
But at some level, wasn’t the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to win?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“It must have been. I don’t remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been,” Comey responded. “Because I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/04/16/comey-were-duty-bound-to-dump-trump-also-i-rebooted-email-probe-to-legitimi-n2471245
Judge In Cohen Case Was Almost Bill Clinton’s AG Nominee
This is the woman presiding over the court case involving @realDonaldTrump’s lawyer. Her name is Kimba Wood. She forced lawyer Michael Cohen to disclose the names of his OTHER clients. She is a Clinton confidante who was chosen by Hillary to be AG.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/16/judge-in-cohen-case-was-bill-clinton-ag-nominee/
BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE!
Federal Judge Who Rejected Trump’s Request For a Restraining Order Over Materials Seized in FBI Raid Officiated George Soros’ Wedding
Kimba Wood, the federal judge overseeing the Cohen-Trump case rejected Trump’s request for a temporary restraining order on materials seized after KGB FBI agents raided Cohen’s properties.
How’s this for a fun fact? The same federal judge who just rejected Trump’s request for a temporary restraining order, officiated George Soros’ wedding in 2013.
It was a very intimate ceremony with only close family members in attendance.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/federal-judge-who-rejected-trumps-request-for-a-restraining-order-over-materials-seized-in-fbi-raid-officiated-george-soros-wedding/
Dirty Soros-Backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Withheld Major Evidence in Governor Greitens’ Case
THEY’RE TRYING TO RAILROAD THIS FORMER SEAL WHO DEFEATED OBAMA BUDDY JAY NIXON FOR GOVERNOR.
At a hearing last week, allegations arose that Gardner suborned purjury and deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence in the bogus prosecution of Governor Eric Greitens. All of this comes after continuing allegations that Circuit Attorney Gardner has abused her position.She has allegedly used her office as a mini-inquisition: a punitive, partisan, and personal war against Governor Greitens. Rather than use St. Louis City Police to investigate the case and inform her decision to charge Greitens, she hired an out of state, disgraced former FBI agent (whose career ended amid allegations of perjury).
http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/dirty-soros-backed-st-louis-circuit-attorney-withheld-major-evidence-in-governor-greitens-case-must-resign-immediately/
Clinton, DNC Funneled $84M Through State Parties To Skirt Campaign Finance Laws THE MADDENING THING IS THAT THIS IS HOW THEY OPERATE, KNOWING FULL WELL THEY WILL NEVER, EVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
The Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee allegedly used state chapters as strawmen to launder as much as $84 million in an effort to circumvent campaign donation limits, and the Federal Election Commission ignored complaints exposing the practice, a lawsuit filed Monday claims.
The Committee to Defend the President (CDP), a political action committee formally known as Stop Hillary PAC, filed its complaint with the FEC in December 2017 with the claims that the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) solicited cash from big-name donors, and allegedly sent that money through state chapters and back to the DNC before ending up with the Clinton campaign.
FEC hit with lawsuit over ignoring civil complaint accusing Clinton, DNC in election scheme
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/16/fec-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ignoring-civil-complaint-accusing-clinton-dnc-in-election-scheme.html
Kendrick Lamar Becomes First Rapper To Win Pulitzer Prize
PULITZERS ARE COMING AS CHEAP AS NOBEL PRIZES
Kendrick Lamar became the first rapper to ever receive a Pulitzer Prize for music Monday,
The 30-year-old rapper is the first hip-hop artist to receive the award for his album “DAMN.” The high honors are typically given to classical or jazz works, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/16/kendrick-lamar-pulitzer-prize/
New York Times, WaPo Share Pulitzer For Unearthing ‘Possible’ Ties Between Trump And Russia They are literally getting awards now for reporting fake news and things that don’t exist.
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced Monday, so you can believe there’s a lot of media coverage about who won what and a lot of self-congratulation on Twitter.
The New York Times announced in a tweet that it and The Washington Post were sharing the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage that unearthed “possible” ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. That’s not paydirt, but close enough for a prize.
Gov’t Must Impose ‘Transgender’ Demands Nationwide, Says Judge
IF THE LIBERALS CAN’T FORCE OUR COMPLIANCE ANY OTHER WAY, THEY ALWAYS HAVE AN ARMY OF JUDGES TO FORCE THEIR AGENDA ON US.
A federal judge in Washington State has declared that all civic groups nationwide must accept people of the other sex into their single-sex spaces and activities, or else be stigmatized and sued by the federal government.
In legal jargon, Judge Marsha Pechman declared in a lawsuit against the Pentagon’s “transgender” policy that the federal government must use its powers to champion people who want to live as members of the sex, either inside the military or outside, just as it must use federal powers to suppress racism:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/16/government-must-sue-to-impose-transgender-claims-nationwide/
RIGGED: Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Was on Payroll of Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel; Previously Sued Trump & ‘The Apprentice’ Reality Show
Porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenetti it turns out, worked for Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel, two Obama pals.
Small world.
Especially when you’re trying to railroad and smear the President of the United States in return for cash and fame.
In fact Avenetti worked on the political campaigns of over 150 Democrats, including national campaigns; When he wasn’t busy suing Donald Trump and The Apprentice producer Mark Barnett for alleged intellectual property infractions.
Could Avenetti have an anti-Trump grudge? Do the math.
https://truepundit.com/rigged-stormy-daniels-lawyer-was-on-payroll-of-joe-biden-rahm-emanuel-previously-sued-trump-the-apprentice-reality-show/
Barbara Bush in ‘Failing Health,’ Won’t Seek Additional Medical Treatment
“Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care,” McGrath’s statement said. “It will not surprise those who know her that Barbara Bush has been a rock in the face of her failing health, worrying not for herself – thanks to her abiding faith—but for others. She is surrounded by a family she adores, and appreciates the many kind messages and especially the prayers she is receiving.”
http://freebeacon.com/politics/barbara-bush-in-failing-health-wont-seek-additional-medical-treatment/
Discrimination? She’s beyond stunning, but Melania Trump’s being snubbed by women’s magazines
Actor James Woods created quite the stir last week when he made what has proved to be a spot on observation about first lady Melania Trump.
Responding to weeping late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel insulting the first lady by mocking her Slovenian accent, the outspoken conservative actor tweeted: “If the Trumps were Democrats, Melania would be on every cover of every chic women’s magazine in the world every month.”
NO ONE CARES ANY LESS ABOUT MAGAZINE COVERS THAN THE FIRST LADY
What a difference over how US magazines — not to mention the media — fell at the feet of Michelle Obama as if she was a goddess from Heaven above, slobbering over her every move, accentuating the positive while working hard to mask any and all blemishes.
Remember the fascination over her “tone arms?”
As The Post informs us, during former President Barack Obama’s two terms, his wife “appeared on at least 30 US magazine covers, three of which were Vogue.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/04/16/discrimination-shes-beyond-stunning-but-melania-trumps-being-snubbed-by-womens-magazines-624490
REST IN PEACE, GUNNY
THIS WAS TAKEN IN FRONT OF WATER TOWER PLACE IN CHICAGO.
THIS IS NOT A PHOTO SHOP.
‘HEY, GIRLS…EVER HAD A PRESIDENT SANDWICH?’
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Celebrating Oregon Wheat on World Food Day
Around the world today, people are celebrating World Food Day, which commemorates the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and its commitment to addressing hunger and food security.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of FAO, and the world has made great progress in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. Still, more than 2 billion people do not have regular access to enough safe, nutritious food. The COVID-19 pandemic has only added to this challenge.
We might not feel it every day, but Oregon does play a role in addressing hunger around the world. And while the region grows a number of important crops, one particular agricultural product is a staple in so many countries: wheat.
Here are a few interesting ways Oregon wheat has shaped our state and the world.
Oregon wheat helps feed the world
Around 90% of the soft white wheat grown in Oregon is exported to more than 50 countries worldwide. This type of wheat is used for pastries, flatbread in the Middle East, and steam bread and noodles in Asia.
Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Egypt buy the largest amount of wheat from Oregon.
The Port was founded because of wheat
Many people know the Port of Portland was created in 1891 to create a safe shipping channel along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers so Oregon could become a leader in international trade. Did you also know that wheat primarily drove this decision? The Port’s founding came during the “Wheat Fleet” era, with the Columbia River becoming a vibrant hub for wheat shipping to various corners of the world.
A farm-to-table wonder
Oregon’s wheat is grown in Eastern Oregon and the Willamette River valley. From the farm, wheat gets put on either a railroad or river, where it gets barged to the Port of Portland. After that, we help ensure it gets on its ship and out to sea, where it can then end up on a family’s table.
The Columbia River is the largest wheat export gateway in the U.S.
In a typical year, 2 to 4 million tons of grain are exported through the Port of Portland to feed other parts of the world. The Lower Columbia River is home to seven grain export terminals, which combined move over 11 million metric tons of wheat annually.
Oregon wheat supports our economy
While much of our wheat heads to other countries, it still has a big impact right here at home. Wheat is grown on about one-third of the state’s cropland, which is home to roughly 2,000 farms in Oregon. Growing and moving this wheat produces more than 5,500 jobs across the state. These farmers take the income they earn and put it back in their community — making us all better off in the end.
Whether supporting local jobs or feeding the world, wheat is a crucial part of Oregon’s past and future. Join us in celebrating it on World Food Day.
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Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps (1981)
“Includes a large format 12-page booklet. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten (trans. ‘Collapsing New Buildings’). The band’s use of junk metal, power drills, jackhammers and other surprising instrumentation would come to define their challenging and continually inventive career, making them not only one of the originators of industrial music, but one of the world’s most influential and far-reaching forces at the intersection between avant-garde and rock music. Formed in 1980 in the wave of the Dadaist movement Die Geniale Dilletanten, after a series of devastating live performances and personnel changes (one of which briefly involving electronic musician Gudrun Gut), the band’s line-up cemented itself with core members Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit (previously of Hamburg-based post-punk band Abwärts) and N.U. Unruh. On Kollaps, a violent collision of urban primitivism and punk sensibilities, the trio declared war on every conventional way of listening, combining an intense mess of atonal guitar drones with brutal scrap metal percussion. At a time in Germany in which the wall encircling West Berlin transformed the city into a state-subsidized, near-paradisiacal freak-enclave for artists, Einstürzende Neubauten offered cathartic cascades of noise, employing steel parts, tin drums, drills, hammers, saws and untuned electric guitars, all crowned by Bargeld’s bloodcurdling screams and feverish, apocalyptic texts. Kollaps, with its atonal essence, embodied exactly what the title suggested: decay and destruction, illness, doom and death. Years later, with the fall of the Berlin wall behind it, Kollaps still sounds as radical and extreme an artistic statement as ever.”
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Too Much Pressure – The Selecter (1979)
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth (1980)
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Watch City of God (2002) Online
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes…
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund(co-director)
Actors: Alexandre Rodrigues, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Country: France, UK
Gone Missing (2013)
When two best friends go missing during Spring Break, their mothers do everything they can to find them, while realizing that their different parenting styles may have led to the…
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who’s been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt…
Atlantic City (1980)
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Country: Canada, France
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Above Suspicion (2019)
The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished…
Cohen and Tate
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other’s throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated…
Term Life (2016)
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he’ll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of…
Time is running out for two elite criminals as they seek out revenge to get the money they are owed after a heist gone wrong, years ago. They’ve traveled across…
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
While investigating a young nun’s rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn’t theirs to keep.
The Voices (2014)
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog’s advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million…
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, UK, USA
Trailer: City of God (2002)
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Pandemic sees thousands of Naqab Bedouin forced into extreme poverty
By The Palestine Monitor - July 22, 2020
Section: [Main News]
Tags: [Bedouin] [Naqab]
As Israel and Palestine grapple to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, vulnerable Bedouin villages, already on a knifes edge from years of government neglect, have been plunged further into severe impoverishment.
In a scathing report by Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Rights in Israel, the NGO identified several key aspects of the Israeli government’s response to COVID-19 has heightening the risk of Palestinians exposure to the virus through “substandard protections” and policies. They identified the limited access to testing, emergency medical services, and social welfare benefits as having a particularly high impact on unrecognised Bedoing villages in the Naqab (Negev).
The 30-page report, which was submitted to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts on 16 July, described Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as “discriminatory” and underscoring its negative impact on human rights for Palestinians both inside Israel and in the Occupied Territories.
Kheir Al-Bazz, a social worker and the chairman of AJEEC-NISPED, a Be’er Sheva-based NGO aimed at social change and Arab-Jewish partnership, told +972Magazine that unemployment in the Naqab is among the highest inside Israel and has been exacerbated by the crisis.
“Even before the coronavirus, we had 30 per cent unemployment among men and 80 per cent among women. We still do not have accurate statistics, but in my estimation, those numbers have doubled,” Al-Bazz described. Some statistics place the current unemployment rate in unrecognised villages at a startling 85 per cent.
Located in Israel’s south, the Naqab is home to around 150,000 Bedouins in 37 unrecognised villages, where their status means living conditions at the best of times, hard.
Already denied basic services such as water, electricity, sewage, health services and safe roads, these villages also live under the perpetual threat of demolition and eviction by the Israeli state due to the government’s decades-long refusal to grant them legal status.
Some residents of the villages have lost their jobs and have no income at all, said Al-Bazz, and as long as the villages are not recognised, their future will remain dire. Having no public services like transportation also means that residents have no way to travel for work if they do not have a car or other means of transport.
Their relative isolation from urban centres has helped to keep the pandemic at bay for the time being, but residents fear that the lack of infrastructure will cause a mass outbreak once the virus does arrive.
Many Bedouin are now relying heavily on donated food, without which, Al-Bazz said, many people would starve. “There were many donations and food baskets that people received through the Islamic movement and other organisations. As a non-profit, we established an emergency committee under which many organizations could collaborate on distributing donations and aid,” he said.
“We even got some funding from the [IDF] Home Front Command,” Al-Bazz continued. “The welfare office distributed shopping vouchers to needy families, and those whose work has been interrupted by the pandemic received social security payouts.”
Adalah has also reported the lack of electricity and internet access in the villages as having a disproportionate impact on Bedouin children’s ability to access online distance education as the rest of the country closed schools and switched to online learning in March.
Around 50,000 Bedouin children in both unrecognised and recognised villages in the Naqab were unable to participate in online distance learning during the government-enforced lockdown, because they live in villages that the state has not connected to the electricity grid or the internet and most lack access to home computers.
“Our children haven’t been studying for the past six months because most houses don’t have internet, electricity, or computers,” Al-Bazz said. “We’re going to be paying the price for this for many years.”
Despite repeated requests from Adalah, the Follow-Up Committee for Arab Education, and other groups, the Israeli Education Ministry has thus far failed to ensure that these students are able to continue their studies uninterrupted.
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Don’t Miss: The Charlatans (UK) @ Howard Theatre, 11/12/15
Posted on 11/09/2015 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Britpop, Howard Theatre, Madchester, psychedelic, The Charlatans, United Kingdom.
The Charlatans (Photo courtesy Motormouth Media)
We tend to think of the Britpop era of the ’90s as largely defined by bands that made big tunes, got big heads and then imploded.
But a lot of talented folks continued right on working, even if we in the United States weren’t paying particularly close attention at the time. Enter The Charlatans, the talented quartet led by Englishman Tim Burgess, which continued to release new albums every several years since 1990 — taking their biggest break only recently.
After five years, The Charaltans returned with new album Modern Nature, released in January via BMG, and they began a US tour in support of the album last Saturday with an appearance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas. And they bring their tour to DC this Thursday to perform at the Howard Theatre!
New songs like “Let the Good Times Be Never Ending” have a psychedelic vibe and make for a soothing, pleasing listening experience.
Watch The Charlatans perform “Let the Good Times Be Never Ending” live on the Late Late Show with James Corden on Nov. 6, 2015:
Hailing from Portland, Ore., indie rock quintet Eyelids open for The Charlatans. Tickets are available online.
w/ Eyelids
The Howard Theatre
Show @8pm
Music Park: Royal Blood @ 9:30 Club — 6/10/15
Posted on 06/15/2015 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, grunge, hard rock, Royal Blood, United Kingdom.
Mike Kerr of Royal Blood at the 9:30 Club on June 10 (Photo by Katerine Gaines/AmbientEye Photography)
Royal Blood are loud. Improbably so, considering it consists of only two members — bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher.
Mike’s vocals recall the spirit of 70s hard rock bands that inspired them, most notably Led Zeppelin, and Mike and Ben’s powerful instruments echo sounds from 90s grunge bands, notably Nirvana.
I realize that I’m repeating things that Jimmy Page and Dave Grohl themselves have said here, but the duo’s top song “Out of the Black” speaks its own case in volumes. At a sold-out show at the 9:30 Club on Wednesday, June 10, Royal Blood closed an all too brief 11-song set with the number, thundering their way into the hearts of the excited crowd.
People came to rock out, and Royal Blood gave them that opportunity. “Out of the Black” deals lyrically with a classic theme of the surprise of being rejected by a lover and as a result, “It broke your skin and shook through/Every part of me, every part of you.” In that way, Royal Blood follow in the footsteps of grunge bands who were always eager to sing about the negative emotions in their lives.
But Royal Blood aren’t here to wind down their statements into an empty cacophony of strings and drums. Rather, they are here to rock.
Don’t Miss: Basement Jaxx @ 9:30 Club, 6/30/15
Posted on 05/28/2015 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Basement Jaxx, Billboard, dance, Hot Dance Club Songs, house, United Kingdom.
In 2014, dance duo Basement Jaxx appeared at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, performing live in the United States for the first time since 2006.
This summer, they are about to truly break that streak by headlining their first U.S. concerts in nearly 10 years, and they only have three live appearances scheduled. One of those is at the 9:30 Club on Tuesday, June 30.
Basement Jaxx returned to the national spotlight in the United States last year when their song “Never Say Never,” which came along with a clever video featuring the manufacture of a TWERKbot (or rather “TW3RK-BOT 1.0”), hit #1 on Billboard’s U.S. Hot Dance Club Chart. (Basement Jaxx were also nominated for a Grammy thanks to the song!)
Here’s that video:
The live show consists of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, aka “The Jaxx,” and perhaps another 10 performers in a dynamic performance. The show supports the release of their seventh studio album Junto, which was released in August 2014 and includes “Never Say Never.”
The Los Angles Times praised the latest album upon its release, saying, “Thirteen songs that strive for peaks as high as a flooded dance-floor rocking ‘Where’s Your Head At’ at full volume, Junto hits with heated bangers while also stepping away from the steam to cool off.”
Watch “Where’s Your Head At” live At Kendall Calling 2013 in the United Kingdom:
Tickets are available online and at the 9:30 Club box office.
Doors @7pm
Interview: Martin Gore of Depeche Mode (In Conversation with Daniel Miller of Mute Records @ Moogfest 2019 -- 4/26/19)
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September 19, 2017 April 13, 2020 editor
Bylaws of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, Inc.
(Formerly: Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, Inc.)
Ratified May 25, 2006; Amended February 16, 2016
Article I – Name and Location of the Organization
The name of the organization is the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, hereinafter referred to as “The Coalition.” The organization shall have and continuously maintain a registered address and registered agent within the State of Arizona.
Article II – Purpose of the Organization
The principal purpose of the Coalition is to inform and educate the public, the media, non- governmental organizations, elected officials and governmental agencies about issues related to the National Park System and National Park Service. In pursuit of its vision for the National Park Service, the Coalition studies, speaks, and acts for preservation and protection of America’s national park areas and for their enjoyment in ways that preserve their resources unimpaired and that shares and perpetuates their time-honored values for the benefit of this and all generations.
Article III – Membership
Section 1 – Eligibility
Membership in the Coalition is open to anyone who held a salaried position with the National Park Service at any time and who subscribes to and supports the purposes and objectives of the organization.
Section 2 – Dues
Dues may be prescribed by resolution of the Executive Council, and, after such prescription, shall be paid by all members. The Council may on a case-by-case basis forgive or defer a dues payment of any member.
Section 3 – Resignations
Any member may resign from the Coalition by formal notice to the Executive Council Chair or Membership Coordinator. No part of any payment or contribution shall be refundable by reason of resignation.
Section 4 – Removal
The Executive Council may establish and implement reasonable rules governing termination of membership for cause. No part of any payment or contribution shall be refundable by reason of removal.
Section 5 – Coalition Supporters
This category includes individuals, organizations, or companies that want to support the Coalition but do not qualify as members because they have never worked for the National Park Service. Supporters will encourage the Coalition in its efforts to protect national parks and programs by providing financial support in the form of cash or in-kind services that meet the levels as approved by the Executive Council.
Article IV – Governance
Section 1 – Foundation
The strength of the Coalition is based on the commitment, experience, expertise and integrity of its members. Coalition members may be asked to represent the Coalition with the Congress, other organizations, the media, the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior as may be required.
Section 2 – Executive Council
The Executive Council, hereinafter referred to as “Council,” is the principal body of governance of the entire organization. The Council shall consist of no fewer than seven members and include any duly elected or appointed members. A Chair selected by the members of the Council will provide leadership for the Coalition’s activities. A Vice-Chair selected by the members of the Council will assist the Chair in providing leadership for the Coalition’s activities. A Treasurer selected by the members of the Council will provide financial management and fiscal accountability for the Coalition’s activities. An Executive Director, with or without full voting privileges, may be appointed or hired by the Council to provide for day-to-day operation of the Coalition’s activities. The Council will provide oversight to the organization’s work assuring that decisions and actions are effective, efficient and in concert with the mission, guiding principles and broader interests of the organization and its members.
Section 3 – Officers
In addition to the Executive Council Chair, Vice-Chair and the Treasurer, the Coalition shall have such officers as the Council may from time to time establish and authorize. Officers so established shall be elected by a majority of the Executive Council.
Section 4 – Committees
The Council has established five permanent standing committees: Issues, Membership, Fundraising, Finance, and Communications. Further, the Council may establish and empower additional standing and/or ad hoc committees to assist the Council in its work. The Chair of the EC may establish temporary committees, not to exceed one year in duration and appoint members thereto.
Section 5 – Agreements and Contracts
The Council may enter into agreements or contracts with outside entities to provide needed services not otherwise available within the organization. These may include, but are not limited to, such entities as media consultants, tax preparation providers, and web site coordinators.
Section 6 – Decisions
A simple majority of the Executive Council shall comprise a quorum. Decisions of the Council shall be determined by a simple majority of those members comprising the quorum.
Section 7 – Direction and Focus
Direction and focus are carried out in accordance with a current Strategic Plan that identifies key issues to work on, through effective communication with the membership, and through efforts to broaden the work of the Coalition through its members.
Section 8 – Concurrence
The Executive Council will assume that it has the concurrence of the general membership on broad communications and contacts with the media, governmental agencies and other organizations. Where correspondence is portrayed to include signatures of all individual members, the Coalition will circulate the draft to the general membership prior to transmitting the letter allowing those who do not wish to be signatories to have their names removed.
Section 9 – Executive Council Meetings
The Executive Council shall meet face-to-face at least once annually. Other business may take place through conference calls or other means to limit expenditures.
Section 10 – Report To Membership
The Council will report from time-to-time to the general membership on issues and activities and will welcome advice, input and assistance from members.
Article V – Executive Council Positions
Section 1 – General Elections of Executive Council
Any member can nominate a candidate for the Executive Council. Council members will then vote on the proposed candidates based upon skills needed, number of vacancies, and other criteria. Additional positions may be filled by appointment by the Executive Council for terms to be specified.
Council members serve staggered three-year terms to insure continuity. Members may only serve two consecutive terms.
Section 2 – Vacancies
Any vacancy of an elected member occurring in the Executive Council shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining Council members for the remainder of the term of the departing member only.
Article VI – Finances
Section 1 – Resources
Financial support for the Coalition is derived from dues, donations and fundraising activities deemed appropriate by the Executive Council. Members of the Executive Council are expected to make annual donations or, if unable to do so, secure a donation on their behalf from someone else.
Section 2 – Accountability
Records of Coalition finances are kept current by the Council Chair, his/her designee, or the appropriate officer and are available upon request from any current member, grantor, contractor or appropriate governmental authority.
Financial reconciliations are presented to the entire Executive Council on a semi-annual basis.
Section 3 – Expenses of Executive Council and Members
Members of the Executive Council and general members may be reimbursed for expenses incurred in carrying out the goals of the Coalition.
Article VII – Limitations
No part of the earnings or assets of the organization shall inure to the benefit of any member or individual. The Coalition shall not participate in any way in political campaigns on behalf of any candidate for public office, nor shall any substantial part of the activities of the organization be directed to influencing legislation except in accordance with the organizations purpose and goals to educate and inform and never in a way that would jeopardize its non-profit status.
Article VIII – Distribution of Assets and Dissolution
In the event of termination, dissolution, or winding up of the affairs of the Coalition, the Council shall, after paying or making provision for payment of all of the liabilities of the organization, dispose of all remaining assets to organizations operated for charitable or educational purposes under Section 501 (C) (3) and any corresponding provisions of the United States Revenue Code.
Article IX – Amendment of Bylaws
Bylaws must be ratified by unanimous consent of the Executive Council. Bylaws may then be amended by a two-thirds vote of the Council.
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The Lion King Tickets at the Lyceum Theatre, London
Disney’s award-winning musical has been stunning West End audiences for 18 years.
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this spectacular production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting music to tell the timeless story of Simba and his epic journey to fulfil his destiny as King of the Pridelands.
’You hope all nights at the theatre will be like this’ Daily Mail
Julie Taymor, one of the world’s most innovative directors, brought a vast array of disciplines to THE LION KING, including extensive experience staging epic theatre and opera productions, exploring classic myths through ritualised puppetry, mask, and movement. THE LION KING was the first musical she directed in the commercial theatre, and Taymor made Broadway history by becoming the first woman to win the Tony Award® for ’Best Director of a Musical’.
This acclaimed production has been seen by over 65 million people around the world, and in addition to the two UK productions can currently be seen in New York, Tokyo, Hamburg, Madrid and on tours of the US and Japan. The Lion King will also open in Brazil and Australia this year.
Children under 3 years of age are not permitted to the Lyceum Theatre
Children under the age of 3 are not permitted.
2hr 30 min (inc interval)
The Lion King is recommended for ages 6 and up. All persons aged 16 or under must be accompanied by an adult and may not sit on their own within the auditorium. All persons entering the theatre, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Children under 3 years of age are not permitted to enter the Lyceum Theatre.
Disney's The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre contains smoke and fog effects as well as strobe lighting.
For wheelchair and access tickets to the Lyceum Theatre please call 0800 912 6972.
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Absolutely fantastic show, well worth the visit and would thoroughly recommend to others
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Predicting Mergers in New Dialect Formation
Kajsa Djärv, University of Pennsylvania
This paper considers the application of Yang’s (2000, 2002, 2009) model of phonological change and population dynamics to the case of competing mergers in the formation of New Zealand English, as described by Peter Trudgill and colleagues. Trudgill (1986 et seq) argues for the deterministic nature of change in the specific case of contactinduced change referred to as New Dialect Formation, such that given sufficient knowledge about the linguistic features represented among the speakers of the different contact-varieties, it is possible to predict with a high degree of certainty the features which will survive into the new dialect. Specifically, Trudgill argues that the features that are in a majority in the input mixture will survive at the expense of its competitors. He accounts for exceptions to this generalization, the focus of this paper, in terms of linguistic pressures such as markedness. The aim of the current paper is twofold. First, Yang’s model predicts exactly the proportion of merged speakers necessary for a given merger to be successful in a competing grammar situation. Thus, we use the case of phonological mergers in the formation of New Zealand English as a case study to test Yang’s model. Second, the model can help us better understand the complexity of the dynamics of New Dialect Formation. Here, we test the hypothesis that New Dialect Formation is in principle no different from other types of language change, in the sense that the acquisition-based mechanisms driving language change are the same across all learners. Specific to New Dialect Formation, we argue, is the unique demographic situation through which the variation is introduced that forms the child’s primary linguistic data, the basis for his or her first language.
Djärv, Kajsa (2017) "Predicting Mergers in New Dialect Formation," University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 23 : Iss. 1 , Article 6.
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Presidential Poetics — Elizabeth Alexander
Posted in Art, Dreams, Essay, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holidays, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged 2009 Presidential Inauguration, Amistad, Barack Obama, celebrate poetry, Elizabeth Alexander, historical poetry, Inaugural Poets, Inauguration Schedule, love of words, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Mende Vocabulary, Miller Williams, Poetic Justice, poetry groups, Riverview Theater, Robert Frost, support of the arts, The Last Quatrain, the power of poetry, the value of the Arts, vintage theaters on January 19, 2009| 61 Comments »
Tickets, mural outside the vintage Riverview Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, all photos © 2007-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
A few weeks ago, our monthly Poetry Group read the work of Elizabeth Alexander, the poet selected to read at the inauguration of Barack Obama. When we sat down to dinner the next day after work, Liz announced, “I took a half day off Tuesday. Want to go to the Riverview for the inauguration?” It took a few seconds to sink in. Then, with no hesitation, I said, “Yes, let’s do it. I’ll ask for time off, too.”
Elizabeth Alexander, a 46-year-old professor of African American Studies at Yale, and author of five books of poetry, will be only the 4th poet to read at a presidential inauguration. Robert Frost was the very first during President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. When it came time to read, Frost, blinded by the sun, could not see his notes and quickly moved to Plan B. He recited from memory another poem from his prolific body of work.
Maya Angelou read for President Bill Clinton’s first Inauguration in 1993. And for President Clinton’s second, he chose Miller Williams in 1997. It’s been a long 12 years since a poet has had the honor of reading at an inauguration. It’s important to notice this detail; it’s a strong indicator that the Arts matter to the upcoming administration.
I was moved by the poetry of Elizabeth Alexander. She was only a one year old on August 28th, 1963 when her father, a civil rights advisor to President Johnson, and her mother, Adele, brought her to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. On January 20th, 2009, she will read at the swearing-in of the first African American U.S. president.
I am obviously profoundly honored and thrilled. Not only to have a chance to have some small part of this extraordinary moment in American history……This incoming president of ours has shown in every act that words matter, that words carry meaning, that words carry power, that words are the medium with which we communicate across difference and that words have tremendous possibilities, and those possibilities are not empty.
– Elizabeth Alexander from the Washington Post article, Selection Provides Civil Rights Symmetry
We’ll hope to have free tickets and front row seats to the Riverview Theater’s screening of the inauguration (you can also watch it free at the downtown Minneapolis Central Library). The Riverview doors open at 9:30am CST with the viewing lasting until around 1pm. And on the wide Riverview screen, behind the original late 1940’s vintage curtains:
11:30am EST — If you have tickets to the Inauguration ceremony, you must have passed through security by this time.
Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks: Senator Dianne Feinstein
Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren
Aretha Franklin will sing
Vice President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office
Music composed by John Williams and performed by Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero, and Anthony McGill.
12:00 Noon EST — As specified by the U.S. Constitution (20th Amendment), presidential terms of office begin and end at 12:00 noon on January 20.
Barack Obama will take the oath of office, which is this simple, 35-word, statement: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
12:05pm EST (approx) — President Barack Obama will give his inaugural address, speaking to the nation and world, for the first time, as President of the United States, followed by:
Poem: Elizabeth Alexander
Benediction: The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
The National Anthem: The United States Navy Band “Sea Chanters”
It’s been almost two years since Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. For those who supported and voted for him, it’s the end of a long journey through a couple of grueling years of Presidential politics. For those who did not, it is a time-honored moment in our country’s history, and on the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, one you will not want to pass up.
I can’t think of a better way to honor the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than to take time off of work on Tuesday to listen to Barack Hussein Obama II be sworn in as our 44th President. That we will be graced with a moment of poetry falling on the listening ears of millions of people across the world, offers the promise of poetic justice — another chance to keep the magic of poetry alive.
In that moment, really I am the vessel for the poem. It’s not about the poet at that moment, it’s about the poem.
— Elizabeth Alexander from the NPR interview, Poet Calls Writing Inaugural Poem A ‘Challenge’
Poems were meant to be read out loud. That’s part of the joy of hearing others read live in a poetry group. Mende Vocabulary is one of the poems beautifully read by one member at our last poetry group and can be found, along with The Last Quatrain, and other poems, in Elizabeth Alexander’s piece, The Negro Digs Up Her Past: ‘‘Amistad’.”
The essay explores historical poetry and fiction through such works as Robert Hayden’s Middle Passage (which he first published in 1943 and continued to publish in revision as late as 1962), Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and Arthur Schomburg’s 1925 essay The Negro Digs Up His Past.
Mende Vocabulary
by Elizabeth Alexander
one ship
I eat
he eats
we eat
they sleep
I see God
did I say it right?
we sleep
he makes
they have eaten
this book is mine
that book is his
this book is ours
I am your friend
The Last Quatrain
and where now
and what now
the black white space
If we contemplate the Amistad as a ship without mothers, the utter absence of mothers in a violently formed society; if we wonder what people dreamed in their captivity, we might begin to understand what they lost, what it took to build themselves up again, and what it might take to move forward.
It is the unique potential of poetry to be able to locate and activate what is in the imagination. Art takes us to knowing that may have no other way of being found, and that is one of the very things we need in order to move more intelligently forward.
— Elizabeth Alexander
– poems and final quote from an essay by Elizabeth Alexander on historical poetry and fiction, The Negro Digs Up Her Past: ‘‘Amistad’’ from The South Atlantic Quarterly 104:3, Summer 2005. Copyright©2005 by Duke University Press.
RESOURCES & READINGS
To read more about Elizabeth Alexander, Amistad, poetry, and the upcoming inauguration schedule, below are links to the resources used in this essay:
Presidential Inauguration at the Riverview Theater – Riverview’s page on their screening of the inauguration, Tuesday (Jan 20th): 10:30AM CST
Inauguration Day 2009 Schedule of Activities and Events — details and times for 2009 Inaugural Events, along with an hours, minutes, seconds countdown
Words on the Inauguration at the Poet’s Website, Elizabeth Alexander – “Words matter. Language matters. We live in and express ourselves with language, and that is how we communicate and move through the world in community.”
Inaugural Poet Part Of History – Again – part of the Road To The Inauguration Series on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
The Inaugural Poet: Selection Provides Civil Rights Symmetry – article in the Washington Post by Michael E. Ruanein, Thursday, December 18, 2008
Poet Calls Writing Inaugural Poem A ‘Challenge’ — listen to the NPR interview with Elizabeth Alexander, December 18th, 2008
Weaving Words For The Inaugural Poem — listen to NPR Host Scott Simon ask Elizabeth Alexander for a sneak peek, January 17th, 2009
The Negro Digs Up Her Past: ‘‘Amistad’’ by Elizabeth Alexander – The South Atlantic Quarterly 104:3, Summer 2005. Copyright©2005 by Duke University Press. — document from the author’s website, an excellent essay on the significance of historical poetry and fiction
The Amistad Comes to Life! — lesson planning article at Education World on teaching the story of The Amistad across all grades, a curriculum to bring life to the story of the revolt on the Amistad in the early 1800’s. Great links, one to the historic sites on the Connecticut Freedom Trail.
The Mende Language – a few word translations from the Mende language at Education World, part of the curriculum for the complete story of the Amistad (link above) and the role Josiah Gibbs, a language professor at Yale University in New Haven, played in finding a translator for the Africans so their side of the story could be told.
Circles Within Circles, Casting Light 1950’s lamp at the Riverview Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, all photos © 2007-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 19th, 2009, day before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama
-with gratitude to Teri who took the leap and started our Poetry Group over a year ago, has provided strong leadership, and helps Keep Poetry Alive!
-related to posts: Out With The Old, In With The Old (Recycled Fashion Goes To Washington, DC), If You Can’t Say Something Nice…, Why It Won’t Matter To You That I’m Voting For Obama, The Politics Of Primary Season 2008 (A Presidential Primer)
Celebrating The Historic; Celebrating The Ordinary
Posted in Authors, Books, Culture, Dreams, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Life, Place, Poetry, Politics, Practice, Quotes, Writers, tagged 2 Year Birthday of red Ravine, 2008 presidential elections, celebrating the ordinary, Election Day, Emily Dickinson, finding ground, honoring the past, honoring those who came before us, living as artists & writers, living in the moment, Robert Frost, the practice of gratitude, Virginia Euwer Wolff on November 4, 2008| 38 Comments »
Passing Of Time, Robert Frost, Poetry & Meditation Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s November 4th, 2008 and history is being made in the United States of America. Liz and I voted this morning at our local precinct in Minneapolis; ybonesy is out in New Mexico continuing her good work. I take comfort in the realization that we all contribute to the process in the ways we are able. Some are out canvassing, some write articles for the newspaper or on their blogs, some work at the polls, some pray and hold the space, a kind of quiet peace.
All contributions matter in times like this, from the most subtle to the most vigorous. And I have a great deal of gratitude that we live in a democracy that allows us to have a voice, to vote our conscience, whoever that may be. Yet it occurs to me that the ordinary day-to-day things continue to go on around us. We don’t stop living our lives.
Yesterday, we got a new roof on our house, called the dentist office, cleaned the living room, folded laundry, stocked up on groceries in preparation for a long and busy week. Tomorrow night we’ll attend the next Poetry & Meditation Group with Langston Hughes. Yesterday, ybonesy and I celebrated 2 years of writing together on red Ravine. Tomorrow we’ll know the results of the election and a long, tumultuous, political process will come to an end.
The extraordinary lives by the ordinary. Practice continues. Writing continues. Life continues. Someone will be born; someone will die.
In our last few Poetry & Meditation groups, we continued with the Dead Poets series. Since we can no longer send the poets postcards, Teri addressed cards to the directors of the Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson homes, thanking them for their Great Effort in keeping poetry alive.
We all signed our names in a gesture of gratitude and kindness. Because in moments when we are unsure, or times when we want to give up, these people, places, and books become our mentors. The preservation of literary places is vital to our creative livelihood.
So on this electric Tuesday, I’m celebrating the historic; I’m celebrating the ordinary. November 3rd and 5th are as important as November 4th. Every day counts. If you feel anxiety about the election results, sometimes it helps to go back to basics — writing, journaling, a practice. Both Frost and Dickinson wrote about everyday events in their lives.
In times of uncertainty, I find peace in expressing gratitude for the people who came before us — because they pave the way for the history being made today. A prize-winning American author of children’s literature, Virginia Euwer Wolff (not to be confused with British novelist, Virginia Woolf) shows her love of Emily Dickinson in the Introduction to I’m Nobody! Who are You?, a children’s book about Dickinson’s poetry.
Here’s an excerpt from Virginia Wolff’s tribute to Emily Dickinson:
In my studio I have a quotation from Emily Dickinson: “My business is Circumference.”
Near my desk I keep a photo of Emily Dickinson’s bedroom and writing table. The photograph reminds me that writing — yours, mine, ours — is important in our relationship with the world, even if no one else ever sees it. Even if it was to stay in bundles in our bedrooms, it would still have pungence, spunk, and heart — if only because we had the courage to put it on paper.
In our time, this secret woman who thought of life as “mystic territory” is listed in the Academy of American Poets and crowds of eager tourists visit the large brick house she lived in at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Some thoughts on what to call her. I feel that calling her “Miss Dickinson” shows respect for her dignity and her veil of seclusion. But in the privacy of my own Home, looking at the picture of her writing table on my windowsill and reading her “Circumference” statement on my wall, I call her Emily. You’ll decide what seems right for you. I think she would want it that way.
-Virginia Euwer Wolff
What strikes me is that it’s not a photograph of the poet herself that Wolff holds close to her own writing life. Instead, it’s a place, an ordinary object, a moment in time — an image of Dickinson’s bedroom and her writing table — the place Emily rested her hand when she penned her last poem.
–posted on red Ravine, Election Day, Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, historic day, ordinary day, with gratitude to all who have led us here
Robert Frost (Miles To Go)
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Shadows Of The Cattail, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Robert Frost was an American poet who lived from March 26, 1874, to January 29, 1963. He was born in San Francisco, made his way to Massachusetts via Harvard, and finally settled in New Hampshire.
My 3rd grade English teacher, Mrs. Boykin, loved three poets: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. She would recite their poetry to us while she slow walked past dusty slate boards, 6-pronged chalk holders with wire fingers, and a rattly, roll-down map of the world, circa 1963.
I became familiar with Frost’s poetry around the age of 9. But it wasn’t until adulthood that I became obsessed with learning about the geographical places that writers call Home.
The Robert Frost Farm in Derry was home to Robert Frost from 1900-1911. In October of 1900, he settled on the Derry farm in New Hampshire, just over the Massachusetts line, purchased for him by his grandfather. But from 1915 to 1920, it was The Frost Place, in Franconia, New Hampshire where he and his family lived full-time, and went on to spend nineteen summers.
Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes, in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. He lived a long life, and his poems are often recited and remembered by heart. The Road Not Taken, one of his most famous poems, was published in 1916 in his collection Mountain Interval.
But I was reminded of another Frost poem by amuirin from Stop & Wander, in her comment on Listening to Silence. It led me to go back and read Frost again, to revisit his life. So it is Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume, that I am choosing to post.
My favorite research find was a 1960 interview with Robert Frost by Richard Poirier in The Paris Review. The interview took place in Frost’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts near the end of his life.
He was wearing plaid slippers and was seated in a blue overstuffed chair (with no arms) where he often sat to write. He never had a writing table, a desk, or a writing room. He wrote on a writing board, or the sole of his shoe.
That’s where Frost and I part ways. Though I often write in coffee shops on the back of a crumpled Post-It (just ask Liz how many pieces of paper she finds scattered all over the house), or in a pocket notebook at a sunken spot near the living room window — I still long for a writing room. A comfortable desk, floor to ceiling bookshelves to display my personal book collection, a room of my own.
Robert Frost wrote Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening in June, 1922 at his house in South Shaftsbury, Vermont (now home to the Robert Frost Stone House Museum). He lived in the Stone House from 1920 to 1929 (there is an excellent chronology with photographs at The Friends of Frost).
It is said that Frost had been up the entire night writing the long poem New Hampshire, and had finally finished when he realized morning had come. When he went out to view the sunrise, Stopping By Woods came to him like a hallucination.
I thought of Natalie’s chapter in Thunder and Lightning entitled Hallucinating Emeralds. Sometimes writing comes like that. You hear songwriters talk about flashes of inspiration, or dream sequences where whole songs write themselves, and the next morning flow magically from their pens.
My second favorite research find was an audio version of Robert Frost reciting, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. You can listen to it at Salon Audio – Robert Frost. If you’ve been reading red Ravine, I guess you know by now, I’m a big fan of writers reading their work. I want to hear their voices.
Robert Frost is one of the classical poets — traditional enough to capture those who have been around awhile; detailed enough to lead us across that bend in the woods; wide enough that anyone can find a small opening. And if someone asked me to choose the Frost of our time, I might look no further than Ted Kooser.
Cattail Forest, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
The only other sound’s the sweep
-Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923), p. 87. D-11 0397 Fisher Library.
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, February 21st, 2008
-related to post, Listening To Silence
-Additional links (as a result of more research after the post Comment thread):
Robert Frost Reads His Poems (LINK) – link from the Dartmouth Class of ’61 website. Frost reads 6 poems with clear audio (HarperAudio). (Note: you need QuickTime but it downloads quickly if you don’t already have it.)
Class of ’53 Salutes Frost in Newsletter (LINK) – commentary and photograph of the Dartmouth statue of Robert Frost
Dartmouth Class of 1961 website (LINK) – gifted Dartmouth with the Robert Frost statue in 1996 on their 25th Class Reunion
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Here Are Longest-Serving MPs And Their Fate For Ghana’s Next Parliament
Theghanareport.com
When the sun sets on the seventh Parliament on January 7, 2021, the House will lose some of its most experienced hands who have been in the legislature between 16 to 28 years.
The likes of Alban S.K. Bagbin, Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Inusah Fuseini and Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo will have the curtain drawn on their roles in Parliament to be replaced by fresh lawmakers.
Most of these MPs are considered institutional memories, having mastered the rules and Standing Orders of the longest-surviving Parliament in the history of Ghana.
Parliament, one of the three arms of government, is an institution with specific rules and regulations.
As such, parliamentary work requires mastery of the guidelines to be effective in the House.
The business of the House requires adherence to specific standing orders to ask questions, lay bills in parliament, second a motion, make a statement or contributions.
Continuity is required to ensure effective work to out-muscle opponents of the political divide, especially during debates.
However, over 40 incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs) have lost their seats in the just-ended NPP primaries. The NDC also had its share of at least 15 MPs falling during the party’s primary last year.
This has raised concerns about the high attrition rate and its effect on the quality of work.
With dwindling numbers of experienced hands who could mentor new MPs, theghanareport.com has assessed legislators who have served at least four terms in parliament and brings you their fate after the Seventh Parliament ends in 2020.
By comparison, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has more longest-serving MPs than the governing NPP.
While some of these experienced MPs decided to step down voluntarily, others were swept away by the tide during their primaries.
As the country prepares for December 7, there are fears that some more experienced lawmakers, particularly, in the swing regions/constituencies might bid the house goodbye.
Will they survive the next Parliament?
NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY (NPP)
Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu (Majority Leader)
Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu
The MP for Suame in the Ashanti Region is the most experienced legislator for the governing NPP.
He entered the House as a member of Old Tafo Suame in 1996 but now represents Suame since the constituency was split.
He has served six terms in Parliament.
He is the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and an Urban Planner.
He is Chair of three Parliamentary Select Committees, but serves on seven committees in total.
Before the NPP primaries, he advocated the protection of the leadership of the party in parliament.
He will represent the constituency again after contesting unopposed.
He is most likely to be in the next Parliament as he is contesting in a constituency in the Ashanti Region that has always voted for the NPP.
Kennedy Agyapong
Mr Agyapong is a Ghanaian politician and businessman who represents Assin Central in the Central Region for the NPP.
The controversial lawmaker was first elected as an MP in 2000 for the Assin North seat.
He kept his seat in the 2004 and 2008 parliamentary elections.
In 2012 he was elected to the new seat of Assin Central and was re-elected in 2016.
He has served five terms in parliament.
He is a member of the House Committee and also Chairs the Local Government and Rural Development Committee.
He has made comments in the past, suggesting retirement, but contested unopposed and will represent his constituency on the ticket of the NPP in the next parliamentary elections. Given that he is contesting in an NPP stronghold, he very likely to be in the next Parliament.
Kobina Tahir Hammond
He is MP for Adansi-Asokwa Constituency in Ashanti Region.
Mr Hammond is a lawyer, and he has been an MP since January 2001 to date, serving five terms.
He is currently a member of the Finance Committee and Mines and Energy Committee.
He was a former Energy Minister in the Kufuor administration.
He won the mandate of the delegates again at the just-ended NPP primaries to represent the constituency in the next elections.
He won by 236 votes as against 170 by his challenger, Mr Samuel Binfoh Dakwa.
The controversial MP will likely be among the country’s next lawmakers. His constituents have never sent any other party to Parliament apart from the NPP.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
Collins Dauda
He is the MP for Asutifi South Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region.
He has served six terms.
He was first elected to parliament in the 1992 parliamentary election on the ticket of the NDC, making him the first MP for the Asutifi South in the Fourth Republic.
He, however, lost his seat in the 2000 parliamentary election due to an allegation that he had used ‘juju’ to kill his political rival, Prof. Gyan-Amoah, just a day before the general elections. He, however, regained his seat in 2004.
Between 2002 and 2004, when he was out of parliament, he was the Regional Chairman of the NDC in the Brong Ahafo Region.
He is currently the Ranking Member for the Lands and Forestry Committee.
Additionally, he serves on the Finance Committee and the Committee of Selection Committee.
Mr Dauda is a former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing.
He is likely to be in the next Parliament given the pattern of the voting trend in the constituency.
Alhaji Rashid Pelpuo
He is the MP for the Wa Central Constituency in the Upper West Region. He holds a PhD in Development Policy from the University of Ghana.
He has served four terms in parliament.
He serves on four committees in parliament.
Mr Pelpuo is the Ranking Member for the Government Assurance Committee and serves on three others.
Mr Pelpuo was Minister of State at the Office of the President when he was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports by President John Atta Mills in September 2009 following the resignation of Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, who was also MP for Asawase.
He served in this capacity until a cabinet reshuffle in January 2010 when he was replaced by Ghana’s first female Minister for Sports, Akua Dansua and appointed Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament instead.
In the John Mahama administration (2012 – 2016) he was appointed Minister of State at the Office of the President in Charge of Private Sector Development and Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
He was also a member of the Economic Management Team (EMT).
He won the mandate again in the NDC primaries in 2019 and will contest the next parliament. He is likely to be in the next Parliament.
Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak
Alhaji Muntaka is the MP for Asawase in the Ashanti Region and the Majority Chief Whip.
He has served in Parliament for four terms. He is a member of six committees of Parliament.
He first entered Parliament in 2005 when he won a by-election in the Asawase constituency to replace the late Dr Gibrine, also of the NDC, who had won the seat in December 2004.
He was the Minister for Youth and Sports. Alhaji Muntaka was asked by the then President Mills to proceed on leave while allegations of corruption levelled against him were investigated.
However, he resigned from the government following the acceptance by Professor Mills of the findings of the investigating committee.
He will contest the next parliamentary election slated for December.
Asawase is one of the few NDC strongholds in the Ashanti Region. The region is the ‘world bank’ of the NPP.
The ability of the Minority Whip to retain seat appears shaky as the NPP appears to have a serious interest in unseating him.
Haruna Iddrisu (Minority Leader)
He is the MP for Tamale South and Minority Leader of the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic in Ghana.
Haruna Iddrisu
He stood for parliament in the 2004 election in the then newly formed Tamale South Constituency. He has since been a member of the last four parliaments in the 4th Republic.
He has held several positions including Minister for Communications under the Mills and Mahama governments, and Minister for Trade between 2013 and 2014.
He was appointed Minister for Employment and Labour Relations by President Mahama in July 2014.
He serves on six committees in parliament. He is Vice Chairman for one committee and Ranking Member for three others.
The vocal and respected Minority Leader will most likely return to the house. The NDC had always won the Tamale South seat.
James Klutse Avedzi
Mr Avedzi is MP for Ketu North and Deputy Minority Leader.
He is the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and a member of three others.
James Klutse Avedzi worked as the principal accountant at the Controller and Accountant Generals Department in Accra before seeking political office in 2004. On the ticket of the NDC, he contested and won the parliamentary seat in 2005.
He has since served four terms and hopes to add a fifth in 2020.
The Deputy Minority Leader will certainly return to the next Parliament. His constituency in the Volta Region had always voted for NDC.
LONGEST-SERVING MPs WHO LOST IN THE PRIMARIES
Joseph Yieleh Chireh (NDC MP for Wa West)
The pharmacist has been in Parliament since 2005 and served four terms.
He was a member of three committees and one of the few MPs credited with institutional memory.
Joseph Yieleh Chireh
The former minister under the Mahama administration found plenty of time for Parliament in 2019. He is among theghanareport.com’s 10 most vocal MPs for 2019.
However, he lost the NDC primaries to Executive Secretary to the former Inspector General of Police, Peter Lanchene Tuubo.
He lost by a whopping 438 votes, suggesting that the people of his constituency do not want him any longer. Mr Tuubo, who is now the ‘darling boy’ of the area, had 755 while Mr Chireh had 317.
Mr Chireh was appointed by former President Jerry Rawlings as Upper West Regional Minister in his government in 1993. He was subsequently made Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Algeria with concurrent accreditation to Tunisia, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Mauritania between 1997 and 2001.
In February 2009, he was appointed Minister for Local Government and Rural Development by the then President of Ghana, John Atta Mills.
On January 4, 2011, he was appointed Minister of Health by Professor Mills in a cabinet reshuffle.
LONGEST-SERVING MPs WHO VOLUNTARILY OPTED OUT OF THE NEXT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Alban Bagbin (NDC MP Nadowli Kaleo Constituency)
The MP has been part of all Parliaments in the Fourth Republic of Ghana since its inception in 1992.
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament is the longest-serving MP and has been in parliament for 28 years earning the name ‘Mugabe’.
He is the Chairperson of the Members Holding Offices of Profit Committee. He also serves on three other committees.
Bagbin announced his intentions to run for president in 2008 on the NDC ticket, but he never stood for the primaries.
He became the Majority Leader in the Ghanaian parliament in 2009. Following a cabinet reshuffle in January 2010, he was appointed Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing by President Mills.
However, he has served notice that he will retire after his current term, which ends this year.
He contested the flag-bearer position in the NDC after nursing presidential ambitions but lost to former President John Dramani Mahama in 2019.
He did not take part in the NDC primaries in the constituency, which was won by Sumah Mwinkaara.
Seven candidates contested the Nadowli-Kaleo seat, but Anthony pulled 374 out of the total 875 total vote cast making him the winner.
Inusah Abdulai Bistav Fuseini (NDC MP for Tamale Central Constituency)
The private legal practitioner, formerly a senior associate with the Law Trust Company in Accra, has served parliament for four terms after entering in 2006.
Inusah Abdulai Bistav Fuseini
He won the seat via a by-election after Wayo Seini defected from the NDC to the NPP.
Inusah Fuseini is the Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee and serves on two other committees.
He was a former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources under the Mahama administration.
He announced his retirement in 2019.
This paved the way for the former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Murtala Mohammed, to win the primaries in the Tamale Central race of the NDC.
Murtala polled 737 votes to defeat Rahaman Gundadow , a former MCE of Tamale who garnered 319 votes, and Alhassan Adam who secured 181 votes.
Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo (NDC MP for Kpone-Katamanso Constituency)
He competed for the Kpone-Katamanso seat on the ticket of the NDC and won in 2004.
He has served in parliament for four terms on three committees.
He has been Volta Regional Minister and Greater Accra Regional Minister over the years.
Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo
He is the MD of JNL Afotey-Agbo Ventures and a farmer/agriculturist.
Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo was inducted into the Nungua Traditional Council as the regent of Katamanso in the Greater Accra region in 2017.
With chiefs unable to participate in partisan politics, he subsequently announced that he would not run again for an MP seat after his current term expires in 2020.
“I have decided with my kinsmen; I am not going to seek re-election as MP again when I finally bring my tenure of office as MP to an end thus I am seriously grooming one fine gentleman to take over the mantle of leadership as MP in the area when I finally step down in 2020,” he noted during his installation.
A business consultant and Managing Director of JOBIZ Business Consult, Joseph Akuerteh Tettey (Joe T) won the NDC primaries for the constituency in 2019.
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Building Control Act 2007
Amendment of section 8 (enforcement notice) of Act of 1990.
8.— Section 8(4) of the Act of 1990 is amended—
( a) in paragraph ( b), by substituting “that may be required by the notice;” for “that may be required by the notice.”, and
( b) by adding the following after paragraph ( b):
“( c) require a person on whom the notice is served to pay to the building control authority the costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the authority in relation to the investigation and detection of the matters, the subject of the notice, the service of the notice and the preparation and giving of any warnings before the service of the notice, including costs incurred in respect of the remuneration and other expenses of employees, consultants and advisers,
and, as regards the costs and expenses referred to in paragraph ( c), in default of their payment, the authority may, subject to section 9 and without prejudice to subsection (8), recover the costs and expenses as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.”.
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When an opportunity opened for Wean to become a plant superintendent, his father encouraged him to think long-term and pursue a college education.
“Son, there will always be jobs for a good man,” his father said. “College training will equip you for much better work. Get your education, whatever else happens.”
That advice stayed with him, and in 1914, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. While he had saved enough money for one year of school, he didn’t have his high school diploma. After meeting with Clifford B. Connelly, a dean at the Institute and patternmaker by trade, Wean convinced Connelly that he belonged at Carnegie Tech and was admitted. Overcoming an early difficulty with math, he excelled academically and earned a scholarship to continue his education. To earn extra money during the summer, he took on subcontractor work and pitched for a semi-professional baseball team, earning as much as $100 a game…but only if he won.
His tenure at Carnegie Tech affirmed his love and respect for education and set the course for his future career, even when he turned down a tempting offer at a small steel plant in Warren, Ohio, to finish school.
Back to Ohio…
With years of experience as both a foreman and efficiency expert at various foundries, Wean had developed a reputation as a foundry management expert. Just before Easter in his senior year at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, an acquaintance asked him to come to Warren, Ohio, to evaluate a small steel plant. Wean impressed the new owners, who offered him a job as soon as they acquired the plant. To their chagrin, he declined saying, “I’m sorry, but I want to finish school.”
Determined to hire Wean, the plant owners contacted Carnegie Tech’s president, A.A. Hamerschlag, asking him if Jack could graduate early. In fewer than 10 days, he was finished with final exams, prepared for graduation and ready to start his new job as General Superintendent of Aetna Foundry and Machine Co. in Warren. For the next 12 years, Wean held various management positions at Aetna and later at Union Switch & Signal Co. in Swissvale, Pa.
The Wean Engineering Company…
In June 1929, Wean rented a one-room office in the Second National Bank Building in downtown Warren, hired a secretary and began developing his own ideas for new approaches to steel processing. Bucking the difficulties of the Great Depression, he enjoyed immediate success with his new venture, and filled his first order of pack heating furnaces for the Empire Steel Corp. in Mansfield, Ohio. By the end of its first year, Wean Engineering employed seven and expanded into several rooms in the bank building.
As the company grew, Wean Engineering became Wean Manufacturing, then Wean Equipment Corp. The headquarters remained in Warren, but the corporation would later expand its operations to France, England and Canada.
In addition to his entrepreneurial success, he developed his innovative “combination system” for rolling steel, driving an industry trend that helped reduce the hand labor needed to make sheet steel. In 1971, board chairman for U.S. Steel, Edwin Gott, dubbed Wean “the man who has contributed more than any other single person to modern day production of flat-rolled steel products – the backbone of today’s steel industry.”
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8 Ways to Scare off Job Seekers
You have just opened a job vacancy description and I have already scared you off. Why would I describe the job properly, why should I be polite and helpful? There are a lot of you and I'm unique: such a big and beautiful company. CleverControl found out which mistakes companies often make that turn away potential employees.
Suspiciously little information
Already at the stage of exploring a job vacancy a candidate feels like the information is withheld from him or her... Hannah Long the HR Manager of online hypermarket of tours in Travellini comments on that problem:
"If we talk about average candidates then vague job description is definitely among the factors stopping the applicant from making a decision about the employment in your company. The lack of the office address (of the actual workplace), salary level, functional responsibilities, lack of contact person and mobile phone of the company are a big NO for a job vacancy."
Shady schemes, immorality, and fraud
"Factors of clarity such as cash-in-hand and non-transparent financial schemes are very off-putting," – says Karen Richards, Director of recruitment and business development in Consulting company SL-Team - "Equally bad are reputational factors associated with unfair treatment of employees, and more formal ones, for example, the management’s involvement in scandals or some criminal cases under investigation".
Expert, coach Carl Smith continues the list:
"Even in times of crisis, not everyone is willing to sacrifice their psychological comfort, which concerns the atmosphere in the company and its corporate culture. Scandals, a sharp change of course, the imposition of guilt to those who are innocent, the immorality in the relationships (including financial ones) are all cons, which can paint a generally negative picture. The thing is - many people actually don't want to work in companies acting as an outright fraud on the market. Whether you like it or not".
Instability: late payments, unguaranteed earnings
"Contrary to the widely proclaimed view that the key to making the decision on starting work in any company are the size of the salary or scale of the business, for a typical candidate fundamental requirement is stability,” – says Nicholas Kennedy, General Director of the credit broker Fine Agency.
“It is an entirely different question how this stability is manifested: it can be on-time payments, achievable and stable guaranteed level of bonuses, formalized employment, and much more. The greatest influence, in this case, is rather the previous negative experience of the candidate."
Pressure on future employees
“Often the description of a vacancy reveals an unhealthy atmosphere in the team, has signs of violation of rights. Christina Allen, business coach, consultant on effective leadership, business communications and psychology of labour relations, says that among the factors that have the strongest repulsive effect on candidate "the provoking aggressive text of the job descriptions (for example, "we don't need ...", "if you do not bother to write a cover letter, we have nothing to talk to you," etc.), signs of mobbing and other violations of the rights of employees in the company in the job description – "high stress, ability to work under pressure, with difficult managers", "long working hours" in professions where there's no need for that."
Too personal questions, pseudo testing, tyranny
Christina Allen continues:
"Also repelling are pseudo-professional test like "draw a tree, a cucumber and a melon", attempts to arrange a stress interview, personal questions ("why are you still not married", "does your weight create problems", "do you always come to interviews dressed like an IT-guy", etc.).
In addition, during the interview with the manager, there can be "lordly manners", a blatant tyranny, stress methods, the opacity of requirements and the evaluation system, the uncertainty of prospects etc. All of these factors can be interpreted as subjective, but experience shows that their impact is big enough and disregarding them can cost the company the loss of valuable talent."
"If the future employer behaves arrogantly, showing that you are just a cog in a big machine of the company, there is nothing good waiting for you there,” confirms Executive Director of the marketing agency "APlan" Albert Stone. “I'm not even talking about arrogance or stupid questions. After that, they will tell you about the amount of work your position implies which can be incommensurate with the potential salary. When you are prepared for the meeting and read the reviews about the company if they were negative then to going to such negotiations is not worth it, you will be very disappointed."
Unethical behavior of the employer with respect to the previous employee
"It is unlikely that the applicant will make the decision on employment in your company if to the question "Where is the predecessor?" you answer that he or she is still working but you are secretly looking for a replacement," says Hannah Long the HR Manager of Travellini.
The General Director of recruitment Agency Clearman Solutions Roger Salazar comments:
"As a rule, the first impression is based on the "Expectation - Reality" paradigm. That’s why it is so
subjective, as expectations usually are desires and wishes. At this stage a person can be repelled by anything that does not match his or her way of thinking: for example, rudeness, inappropriate dress code, unpresentable office, the unattractive appearance of the HR-manager and much more.
Negative insight may even be influenced by the negative reviews of the staff that were left a very long time ago, although, in most cases, they can be incorrect and irrelevant."
When the company is in "black list of employers"
Now a rare candidate does not read reviews about the companies at special sites, where current and former employees sometimes are not too shy in expressions.
"The most striking trend among job seekers over the last few years has been the analysis of the reputation of a potential employer on the Internet, – says Craig Arnold, CEO of ReputAble. – We are regularly contacted by HR departments of different companies due to the fact that suitable candidates either do not come to the interview or withdraw from employment in the company after reading the negative reviews online. You can offer great benefits, beautiful office, interesting work, but this is not enough. If the applicant decides that the management is unacceptable based on reading reviews websites he or she won't work for you."
This argument is confirmed by Kathryn Berry, Deputy Head of administrative and personnel services of the company "XSClick":
"The company's reputation has always been and remains an important factor for both employers and job seekers. Today it is particularly important to maintain and develop the company's image at a high level. Nowadays not only the HR Department examines the candidates, including their behavior on social networks, but also the candidates themselves can easily find and contact your former employees. Despite my firm belief that if necessary it is important to let go every employee on good terms, the former employee may have his or her own opinion, which is also able to affect the final decision of the candidate."
"The candidate is not the only one who should prepare carefully for the interview,” says the HR Manager of Travellini Hannah Long. “The interviewer should do that too and sometimes even more carefully. Candidate buys a place in the company, and the interviewer sells it. And like any product, your company must have the right image. Loyalty to the entire organization emerges in the first minute of meeting you. The desire to become part of your team now or perhaps later, to recommend your company to friends (and to spoil your reputation as well) depends on a well-conducted interview."
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Tag: Angel Goodrich
Fearless: Angel Goodrich reflects on her highs and lows at Kansas
On February 24, 2012 November 19, 2012 By rmccarthy11In Multimedia, Women's BasketballLeave a comment
Angel Goodrich knows what’s coming.
Even though the opposing guard charges forward toward the hoop, she saw the impending drive a few steps back while everybody else scrambled around the court.
Instead of panicking, she found the spot to set up for the charge.
Goodrich slides her feet parallel to the player, bracing for the impending impact. The player’s elbow jabs into Goodrich’s chest.
As Goodrich falls, her chin tucks tightly underneath her head as the rest of her body falls back onto the court.
Goodrich lands on the ground fully sprawled out on the wooden floor. She turns her head to see what direction the referee pointed.
The official motions in the other direction with his opposite hand behind his head signaling an offensive foul, just like many times before.
The Kansas bench jumps up and down in excitement.
Goodrich simply grins.
Master of the Charge
Taking a charge is nothing new for Goodrich. The junior guard from Tahlequah, Okla., has been doing it her entire basketball career.
It has become her signature move. The ultimate sacrifice for the team, one that won’t be found on the stat sheet next to points and assists.
In her early playing days, flopping, when a defensive player makes intentional contact with an offensive player to get a call for her team, was something Goodrich could get away with.
But at the college level, star players don’t always get the same treatment as they do in secondary school. So, when she became a Jayhawk, some changes to her signature play were needed.
“I’ve been taking charges since high school, but high school, I’d be able to flop and everybody knew me for flopping,” Goodrich said. “Then I got the point where I couldn’t flop anymore. Now I have to let them hit me.”
At times for Goodrich, charges seem as brutal as a head-on car collision. Sometimes she lies on the ground staring up at the top of the arena.
Other times, she stabilizes herself on her hands and knees trying to regain her breath after being bowled over by a behemoth of a post player.
“That’s like a big momentum change when that happens,” Goodrich said. “It just really gets people hyped and I want to be able to get my teammates hyped.”
The Finalist
Goodrich was recently named a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award, an honor given out to the nation’s top female point guard. She’s also second in the NCAA with 212 assists.
Goodrich is a finalist for many reasons, but most of all because of her will on the court.
She has proven herself as the unequivocal leader for the Jayhawks as they continue to work toward the team’s first NCAA appearance since 2000.
What makes Goodrich a respected floor general is her willingness to take the time to teach her teammates. A quality not every athlete shares.
“She’s a very caring person. She’s very quiet, but not never to where she doesn’t care about what’s going on,” Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
“The most important thing is to give someone your time, and I think she’s willing to do that.”
A (friendly) sibling rivalry
Goodrich grew up in Stilwell, Okla., a tiny town near the Arkansas border.
The middle child of Fayth and Jonathan Lewis, Angel showed her competitive nature at an early age.
The children were raised at Fayth’s father’s house, playing on a gravel and dirt court. No asphalt to be found. The backboard and rim were pinned on a nearby tree.
When bad weather arose, Goodrich and her older brother Zach played basketball in the hallway of their home.
The hallway wasn’t much wider than four or five feet. Zach and Angel imagined they were Reggie Miller or Michael Jordan, and the games would get fairly heated.
“They’d be real competitive. Some games we wouldn’t finish because we’d start fighting, but it was out of love and being real competitive,” Zach said.
The Tahlequah Treasure
Sequoyah High School girls basketball coach Bill Nobles knew right from the moment Goodrich stepped into his gym that he had a special player.
In her first three years, Goodrich helped lead the Indians to three consecutive Oklahoma 3A state titles.
By the time her senior season came around, Goodrich and her team drew crowds of thousands into their home gym. In fact, people were turned away routinely if they did not arrive early.
“That whole group, including Angel, was a pretty inspiring group to a lot of kids around here and a lot people,” Nobles said.
That year, Goodrich averaged 14.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 5.9 steals and 1.1 blocks per game.
The apex of the season came on March 8, 2008, when top-ranked Sequoyah faced off against second-ranked Millwood in front of 11,000 people at the Oklahoma State Fair Arena.
The Indians came up just short of a historic run and lost 63-60.
Despite the loss, the accolades rolled in for Goodrich. She grabbed a Top 50 recruiting spot on several websites, First Team All-State selection and a Fourth Team All-America by Parade Magazine.
Goodrich played in one more big game before becoming a Jayhawk. She competed in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-American game in Tampa Bay, Fla.
Goodrich scored seven points in the showcase, but what stood out about her performance was something unheard of in a glorified scrimmage.
She took a charge.
The knee injuries
Goodrich arrived in Lawrence in fall 2008 with the intention of beginning the turnaround of Kansas women’s basketball. She saw it as challenge to turn the Jayhawks into a consistent postseason contender.
Then, in her second practice, Goodrich suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in her left knee. She spent the rest of the year rehabbing and returned to Kansas’ lineup the following season.
After playing 15 games in the 2009-10 season as the Jayhawks’ starting point guard, she tore her ACL in her right knee during a game on Jan. 12, 2010.
Going through the mental and physical toll of a knee injury can be brutal for an athlete. There were murmurs that she may never play again.
Even though it wasn’t an easy road, Goodrich pushed forward.
“The one thing I feel like I learned the most was just learning to lean on others that are willing to be there for you,” Goodrich said. “When I go through something I always get into myself and I want to fix it. I want to be in control of what’s going on.”
After the knee injuries, she battled a short period of seclusion, but eventually opened up.
“At the beginning of it I did isolate myself a little bit, and it just didn’t feel right,” Goodrich said. “I wasn’t myself, and when I opened up all the support I had from my family to my teammates, and my coaches, it made it a lot easier and stronger as well.”
AUDIO: Goodrich on her knee injuries and getting rid of her braces
Goodrich relied on her faith in God to help her through the trying times.
“I wouldn’t be here without him. Like I said with my knees, people thought I’d give up, but I feel he was always there for me, and he is always there,” Goodrich said.
Before every game, Goodrich takes a moment to thank God. While the national anthem plays, Goodrich closes her eyes, lowers her head and says a prayer.
The development of an All-American candidate
In her sophomore season Goodrich put together impressive numbers. She started all 27 games, averaged 7.5 points per game and ranked sixth in the NCAA with 6.3 assists per contest.
However, one part of Goodrich’s game was missing: the ability to knock down the outside shot.
This summer she spent hours in the gym developing her three-point stroke. Now she ranks as the sixth best three-point shooter in the Big 12 this season, making more than 36 percent of her attempts.
“I wasn’t a scoring threat at all last year,” Goodrich said. “It made me feel disrespected. So I need to do something to make this different.”
Out of all her attributes, Goodrich takes the most pride in her defense. At 5-foot-4, she’s usually matched with a taller opponent, but that’s never bothered her.
“Defense is one aspect of the game I’ve been trying to grow. That is one where, I don’t want to get scored on,” Goodrich said.
Goodrich has also improved her vocal leadership. A natural introvert, she continues to learn to express herself more on the court.
And not to be forgotten is Goodrich’s ability to find the open player. Currently she is second in the NCAA with 7.6 assists per game.
“It’s not like something I practice,” Goodrich said of her passing ability. “It just who you’re playing with and if you’re ready to catch it or not. It’s just knowing your personnel on the team.”
Freshman guard Natalie Knight shares some of the duties at the point and has learned a lot from Goodrich this year.
“Just in every little thing we do, we look up to her and make sure we’re doing right,” Knight said. “If we have any questions, Angel’s always the first person we go to. She’s a good role model.”
American Indian Role Model
From the beginning of her high school career Angel recognized that she would be a role model on and off the court for the All-Indian community of Sequoyah High School.
Goodrich received the first Division I athletic scholarship in the history of the school.
“When we were recruiting her we knew how much of a role model she was, and how many young people looked up to her,” Henrickson said.
Goodrich still talks to dozens of Native Americans after games at Allen Fieldhouse, who tell her how much of an inspiration she is to them.
Understanding that responsibility continues to be a major aspect of Goodrich’s persona. She wants to use the platform to make an impact on the next generation of Indians.
“It was such a big deal to them because I’m representing the tribes,” Goodrich said. “Little kids are always coming up to me and saying how they’re inspired. It just makes me feel honored.”
Nothing less than a B
Coach Bonnie Henrickson stopped Goodrich after practice last week to see if she had time to talk about some plays they’d seen at practice.
The team had been traveling a lot and Henrickson wanted to make sure Goodrich wasn’t behind in her academics and that she wasn’t holding Angel back from her classroom responsibilities.
Goodrich said she had a paper, but had only one page left.
Since coming to Kansas, Goodrich continues to succeed in the classroom. Her accomplishments include Academic All-Big 12 Second Team twice and Athletic Director’s Honor roll.
Growing up in the Goodrich house, there was only one way to earn play time: keeping up with your studies.
Since elementary school, Goodrich’s parents made sure she applied herself on the academic side no matter what the circumstances.
“I said, ‘OK, you’re not going to play if you make anything under a B,’” Fayth Goodrich said. “After that they made sure their grades were up because they love the game and they didn’t want to sit out for anything.”
That work ethic stuck with Goodrich to this day.
“I’ve always had that in my head. I don’t want to get a C,” Angel said. “C is average and I want to be above average. It was stamped and printed and installed into me and my brother, but I’m glad she did that.”
Angel Goodrich does not care about records or stats.
“It isn’t about records for her,” Henrickson said. “She doesn’t get caught up in numbers. The only numbers she gets caught up with is when she turns the ball over.
“She didn’t come here to do that. She wanted to be a difference-maker and take this team to the next level and that’s what she works on everyday to try to do.”
Goodrich’s main concern is making sure the Jayhawks secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The records are great, but she wants an impact that goes beyond the numbers.
“I want to still change this program around, just set the bar for the next people coming in,” Goodrich said.
Goodrich hopes to pursue a career in basketball whether it’s state side or across the pond after she graduates next season.
Henrickson said the sky is the limit for Goodrich, but she still has to grow her offensive game and prepare to be the floor general with people who might be 10 years older than herself.
Until then, Goodrich wants to enjoy the game and keep wowing people with her moves on the court and her kind spirit off of it.
Her brother Zach summed it up best.
“She plays to put a smile on your face.”
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No other driver in the history of Australian motor racing can challenge the record of Peter Brock, who dominated the sport for the last three decades. While Brock’s phenomenal tally of ten victories at Bathurst has been well chronicled, he has also held more pole positions and won more races than any other driver since the inception of the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1960.
Brock’s first car was an Austin 7 that he bought for £5. His driving skill improved greatly at this point of his life because the car didn’t have brakes (or a body, which was removed with his father’s axe). He ended up trying to stop the car by sliding and anticipating the line. Brock made his race track debut in a home made sports sedan, built in a Wattle Glen henhouse during 1967. This unruly beast, a two door Austin A30 with a large Holden engine put Brock on the map with more than 100 victories including the Australian Sports Sedan Championship.
During his early career Brock raced some “wild and woolly” creations including the famous blue 6-cylinder Holden-powered Austin A30. One of his early successes was to become the 1970 Australian Rallycross champion. Brock rose to public attention in touring car racing.
In 1969, the manager of the newly formed Holden Dealer Team, Harry Firth, gave Brock his break with an offer to drive at Bathurst – Australia’s most prestigious endurance road race – in a Monaro GTS 350. At his first effort he was placed third outright. In 1972, driving solo in a Torana XU1, Brock went on to win his first Bathurst title. Brock would win the event a total of nine times (1972, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987) a feat that has not been equalled. His 1979 win was remarkable in that he claimed the flag by six laps, a record that (due to changes in race regulations introduced in the 1990s) will never be broken, and broke the circuit lap record on his final lap. In 32 starts at Bathurst he claimed pole position a record six times. His record at this race earned him the titles ‘King of the Mountain’ and the ‘Bradman of Bathurst’.
Along with his record at the Bathurst race, Brock also claimed victory in the Sandown 500 race nine times (1973, 1975-1981, 1984), including a string of seven consecutive wins. He won a total of 37 races during his career in the Australian Touring Car/V8 Supercar championship, a record only eventually equalled by Mark Skaife in 2006. Brock also won the 1979 Repco Round Australia trial, a long-distance endurance race featuring some dirt road sections completely different to the circuit racing where he made his name.
As the lead driver for the Holden Dealer Team in a succession of both 6- and 8-cylinder Holden Toranas and, later, V8 Commodores the smooth-talking clean-cut Brock became a household name that transcended motor racing as he emerged to be one of the best-known modern Australia and New Zealand racing drivers, spoken of with the same reverence as Sir Jack Brabham, Alan Jones and Jim Richards.
Unlike several other Australian drivers, Brock did not seek a full-time racing career outside Australia. He did attempt the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice in privateer vehicles, in 1976 in a BMW 3.0CSL, which failed, and in 1984 in the orange Bob Jane T-Marts sponsored Porsche 956 with co-driver Larry Perkins, running as high as 5th at one stage of the race. The ill-prepared and somewhat underfunded attempt also failed after Perkins crashed mid-race.
In 1997, Brock retired from full-time V8 Supercar racing after an outstanding career where he was applauded as one of Australia’s sporting greats, and an internationally recognised motor racing hero. The UK ‘Motor Sport’ magazine rated Brock in the top 20 most exciting drivers of all time, a list which included the likes of Senna, Schumacher, Fangio and Nuvolari. A huge accolade. In another recent authoritative UK publication, he was voted the second greatest touring car driver of all time.
Brock also worked with the Victorian authorities promoting the campaign against drink driving. The most obvious sign of this association was the racecar number 05 which related to the 0.05% blood alcohol limit in Victoria, which he utilised constantly from the mid-1970s. Most cars he raced in, regardless of the motor racing division, bore this number.
After his nominal ‘retirement’ he made two returns to Bathurst (2002 and 2004) and competed in the Nations Cup for highly-modified and exotic cars in 2004. In 2002, he returned to top-level touring car racing as a team owner with the entry of “Team Brock” into the V8 Supercar category. However, he sold his share in the team at the end of 2003.
He occasionally competed in various enthusiast-level motorsport events such as the Targa Tasmania. His smooth on-camera persona and familiarity to older Australians continued to sell products, including Mobil Oils and Bridgestone tyres.
He achieved a tenth Bathurst win, in a manner of sorts, in 2003, when he won, with Greg Murphy, Jason Bright, and Todd Kelly, a 24-hour endurance race held at Bathurst for “production cars” (in the case of Brock’s vehicle, heavily modified) in a Holden Monaro Coupe.
Brock continued to pursue his interest in one-off events of a charitable nature and some historic and targa-style tarmac racing, and to be constructive in spreading the road safety message. In 1998 Brock accepted an invitation to join the Board of the Australian Grand Prix that is responsible for both the Australian Grand Prix and the Australian Moto GP.
Due to his extraordinary success on the racing track Brock became the Australian racing driver with the highest-profile as he undertook several media commitments. When not racing he often appeared on New Zealand television screens as a presenter; hosting motoring shows such as TV3’s Police Stop (1996-1998) and TVNZ’s Love that Car (2000). Brock has been the subject of two DVD documentaries—The Legend (1997 – updated 2004) and 35 Years on the Mountain (2005).
Retirement meant little spare time for Brock who since launching the Peter Brock Foundation in 1997 provided support to a wide range of community programs with particular emphasis on the aspiring, yet less fortunate youth.
At 11.50am (AWST) on September 8, 2006, while driving in the Targa West ’06 rally, Brock was three kilometres from the finish of the second stage of the race at Gidgegannup, about 40km from Perth, Western Australia when he skidded off a downhill left-hand bend on Clenton Road for over 50 metres in his 2001 Daytona Sportscar and hit a tree. 61-year-old Brock was killed instantly. His co-driver, Mick Hone, was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.
Brock was farewelled with a state funeral at Melbourne’s St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, on September 19, 2006. There will also be a permanent memorial at Peter Brock’s “home” raceway, Sandown Raceway, placed there on September 22.
In honour of his achievements and in recognition of his contribution to Australian motorsport, the Bathurst 1000 winner’s trophy now carries his name. In 2006, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup became the first winners of the Peter Brock Trophy.
Brock was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1980 for his service to motor racing.
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Harry Gregson-Williams scores The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Posted on November 14, 2005 by Dan Goldwasser
One of the highly anticipated films of the new holiday season is the big-screen adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Directed by Shrek director Andrew Adamson and produced by Oscar-winning producer Mark Johnson, the music for the fantasy epic is being written by Harry Gregson-Williams.
Director Andrew Adamson and composer Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry has had a very busy year so far, having written over 3.5 hours of music for Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven, which was immediately followed by work on the Tony Scott film Domino (currently in theaters) – for which he had an astounding 147 cue starts. Narnia has over 125 minutes of score, and multiple scoring sessions for Narnia were spread out from late September through late October. The large number of visual effects in the film meant that Harry would have to wait until scenes were close to being locked to write the music. This tight post-production schedule meant that Harry and his team were running on enormously long days to write a lot of music.
Harry Gregson-Williams conducts the Hollywood Studio Symphony
Orchestrator Ladd McIntosh and score mixer Joel Iwataki
As one can imagine, sleep was a luxury. Orchestrators Ladd McIntosh and Bruce Fowler would have to wait until the music was ready before working on it, and then handing it off to Booker White’s music copying team, so that the sheet music would be on the stands in time to be recorded – sometimes mere hours after it was finished being written and approved. In addition to that, choir sessions were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, and Harry would monitor them by remote – at 2am – usually before a full day of scoring sessions.
Bruce Fowler, Stephen Barton, and Joel Iwataki
Harry Gregson-Williams, Andrew Adamson, and Stephen Barton
Music has been recorded at Todd-AO, with Harry conducting the 75-piece Hollywood Studio Symphony contracted by Sandy DeCrescent and Peter Rotter. In London, the choir was the same setup that Harry used for Kingdom of Heaven, with an epic 140 voices. Mixed by Joel Iwataki, the music has large scale epic themes, as one would expect. For greater control, percussion and choir were recorded separately, as well as some instrument solos. Fans will be pleased to know that HGW score regulars Lisbeth Scott (vocals) and Hugh Marsh (electric violin) have also contributed their talents to the score.
Harry makes a change to the score during the session
Stephen Barton has been assisting Harry during the recording process, and music editors Adam Smalley and Bryan Lawson have been busy keeping track of all of the music, as Harry’s team back at Wavecrest Music (including Meri Gavin and Toby Chiu) has been working on the overdubs and score prep.
Director Andrew Adamson examines a cue with music editors Bryan Lawson and Adam Smalley
The trumpet section on Narnia
There is still at least one more scoring session left to come, and then the score will be mixed into the final dub of the film. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe will be released in theaters on December 9, 2005, and the soundtrack will come out from Walt Disney Records on December 13. A “Special Edition” release of the soundtrack will also be released, and will include a bonus DVD featuring interviews and more.
Cellist Steve Erdody explains changes to a cue to the other players
Stephen Barton conducts the orchestra through some wild effects
Special thanks to Monica Zeirhut at Disney, and everyone at Wavecrest Music, especially Harry Gregson-Williams.
All photography by Dan Goldwasser
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Dramatic increase in the number of homeless elderly people in the UK
There has been a drastic increase in the number of elderly people seeking help for homelessness since 2012-13, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals.
According to the ONS data, within the last five years, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have experienced a growing increase in the number of people aged over 60 applying for help with homelessness, The Herald reports.
Applications for such help include asking local authorities for temporary accommodation.
The ONS has revealed that Scotland increase in elderly persons applying for help has been much smaller than in England or Northern Ireland, with an increase of 9%, as it increased from 1,278 to 1,391.
England has seen a 39% increase in the number of main housing duty acceptances for people ages over 60, this is from 1,800 in 2012-13 to 2,500 in 2017-18.
Northern Ireland experienced an increase of 30% in the number of older households that presented as homeless. The total has risen from 1,875 to 2,445 within the same time frame.
This rise in older people seeking assistance and help has occurred in correlation with a drop in applications received from those aged 16 to 24.
A downward trend in the number of young adults applying for help with homelessness or temporary accommodation has been experienced in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In Scotland, applications submitted by people aged 16-24 fell by 29% from 12,494 to 8,884. In Northern Ireland, the numbers also fell from 4,189 to 3,001. In England, the main housing duty acceptances among the same age group fell by 29%, from 16,820 in 2012-13 to 12,020 in the 2017-17 financial year.
Data for older adults in Wales has not yet been made available, while figures for young people only date back to 2015.
The authors of the report have said that the reasons for these trends are “not currently understood.”
The ONS has said that the figures should be treated with caution due to the differences in recording practices throughout the country.
The figures arrive a week after the British Government released data revealing that the number of households who are living in temporary accommodation in England is at its highest level in over ten years. London houses 66% of them.
A total of 84,740 households were housed in hotels, bed and breakfasts. hostels and other forms of temporary accommodation at the end of March this year. This number includes 126,020 children, according to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This is the highest number of households to be recorded as living in temporary accommodation since mid-2007.
The figure has vastly increased by more than three-quarters this decade, with the latest data indicating a 76.5% increase on the low of 48,010 at the end of 2010.
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remembering history
Artist FN Souza’s grandson is putting his art and soul on Goa’s streets
The walls of India’s smallest state are coming alive with stories of faith, ambition and revolution.
Malavika Neurekar
Dec 21, 2019 · 11:30 am
Israeli artist Solomon Souza painted a mural of musician Antonio Figueiredo as part of the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa. | Daphne D'souza
Solomon Souza has taken the Goa art scene – and Twitterverse – by storm. Over the past month, he has been going around the state’s villages and towns, painting larger-than-life murals of Goa’s unsung heroes.
The 26-year-old artist’s subjects have included Sita Valles, a Marxist revolutionary of Goan origin who fiercely fought Portuguese colonialism in Angola; poet Eunice de Souza, whose verse struck at the heart of patriarchy in the Goan Catholic community; and Vishnu Wagh, writer-dramatist-poet, whose work Sudhir Sukta stoked controversy in 2017 for taking on the deeply-embedded casteism in the state.
The UK-bred, Israel-based artist is the grandson of Francis Newton Souza, a pioneering painter who was among the founders of the post-Independence Progressive Artists Movement. Solomon Souza’s murals are among the projects in the Mundo Goa section of the annual Serendipity Arts Festival. The section is curated by writer and photographer Vivek Menezes.
With the festival set to conclude on December 22, Solomon Souza’s journey will culminate in a fitting, cathartic moment as he paints his final mural of the project: that of his grandfather in his native village of Saligao.
“I grew up surrounded by his [FN Souza’s] work, surrounded by him, which was unavoidable in a way,” said the young artist. “He definitely had a profound influence on me, even though I wasn’t so aware of it.”
The prospect of painting a picture of his grandfather has unbottled “a whole range of emotions”, said Souza. “It’s been incredible and this will be the climactic finale to my amazing time here. I look forward to paying homage to my grandfather and the legacy that he has left behind. I hope I do him proud.”
Solomon Souza arrived in Goa on November 5 and started work the following week. In a little over one month, he has painted 15 murals, starting in the north and making his way down south.
Even though this is his first trip to India, his Instagram feed suggests that he’s settled in easily: it is filled with images of vibrantly painted alleyways, open skies and warm encounters with Goa’s residents. “[Growing up], I didn’t really have an image [of Goa],” he said. “I always knew my grandfather was Indian, but I didn’t understand the scope and scale of India. It’s quite a big cultural difference.” And yet, on his arrival, he noted that the place felt “all too familiar.”
As he settled effortlessly into the laconic rhythm of India’s sunshine state – “Even the dogs here take an afternoon siesta,” he joked – he worked at a dizzying pace, often completing a single painting in two or three hours.
A mural of Sita Valles, Marxist revolutionary of Goan origin who fought Portuguese colonialism in Angola. Credit: Daphne de Souza
His first mural, fittingly, was also created in FN Souza’s ancestral village, Saligao. Clarice Vaz, a writer, artist and social worker, helped Solomon Souza settle in. She said that the young artist was “disheartened” when he saw the dilapidated state of the house in which his grandfather grew up. “He had tears in his eyes on seeing that whoever bought it wasn’t taking good care [of it],” said Vaz.
FN Souza’s trajectory was a painful one – shunned by his own village for being too much of a maverick to fit in, taking refuge in the liberal art scene in London but never getting his due in his own lifetime. In contrast, Vaz described the warm response that Solomon Souza has received from the villagers. “They were so happy to see him and he was so happy to be with them,” she said. “It was like a link that was missing in his life.”
Solomon Souza with his grandfather’s neighbour. Credit: Clarice Vaz.
New layer of identity
Curator Vivek Menezes said that the project was inspired by his deep love for his hometown, Panjim, and numerous travels around the world where he saw run-down neighbourhoods brought alive by street art.
“I often think of the city of Panjim itself as an art installation, of spectacular heritage buildings interspersed with a lot of contemporary stuff and a beautiful waterfront,” he said. “I am always interested in finding well-suited interventions here. Over the course of the past four to five years, I have had the opportunity to travel to cities like Buenos Aires and Lisbon, where I could see how street art was used to add an additional layer of identity to the city.”
Daphne de Souza, the curatorial assistant on Mundo Goa, explained how the project unfolded. “We first select a wall, which has to be prominent and visible to the public. Then, we approach the owner or the government office [depending on the space] for permissions.” The process, however, was not set in stone and became a collaboration between the artist, curator and the wall owners. They were constantly reacting to the space, bouncing off new ideas and making it along as they go.
“In one case, we approached the owner [for permission], who suggested we pay to tribute to this famous musician,” said de Souza. “It then turned out that the owner was a descendant of that person.” She was referring to the mural of Antonio Figueiredo – the first Indian to train as a conductor in western classic music – sitting majestically on the side wall of his house on the winding road in the Panjim neighbourhood of Altinho, where his family still lives.
A mural of Antonio Figueiredo, the first Indian to train as a conductor in western classic music and the founder of Kala Academy's Department of Western Music, in Altinho. Credit: Dennis Figueiredo
But not everyone was so forthcoming. Getting people to understand what Souza was doing was an uphill task, especially given the sense of sanctity around heritage homes.
This changed when Heta Pandit, the chairperson of Goa Heritage Action Group and a Saligao resident, agreed to have a wall painted for the project. The icon selected was not a global superstar, but a hyperlocal character: Sacrula, an oddball deeply rooted in the local psyche. Villagers still have a vivid memory of the eccentric man, who believed himself to be the reincarnation of St Anthony, shaped his hair with coconut husks in the shape of a halo, and walked around town blessing people.
A mural of Sacrula, a local who was revered and feared. Credit: Heta Pandit
This proved to be a turning point. “Once they saw what he was doing, they started embracing the concept,” said Vaz. “Then he started getting calls from people.”
Poonam Mascarenhas, co-founder of the Goa Heritage Action Group, offered some insight into how the first mural upended villagers’ expectations. “Conservation is not just about the building or the place – it’s also about the people,” she said. “It’s actually mainly about the people.”
She added” “This [project] is a shaking up of consciousness. This is not just street art. This is adding a layer of culture, adding a context…[and] it is much better than seeing billboards of Kingfisher or Vodafone or whatever.”
A fractured history
Goa’s residents responded to the project with awe, curiosity and encouragement. A lot of buzz was generated on social media after Menezes started posting regular updates on each mural, accompanied by tidbits about each subject. Confirmed Souza, “It’s been a very positive feedback.”
For instance, when the painter did a painting of Chic Chocolate, the renowned trumpeter credited with introducing swing to 1950s Hindi film music, in the musician’s village of Aldona, his son Phillip came by to take a look. “He saw his father coming to life up again on the wall,” said Souza. “I think it was a moving experience for him.”
After he painted Mary D’souza Sequeira, the first Indian to represent the country at the Olympics in two different sports – hockey and track and field – on a wall in Panjim, her daughter wrote to Souza. It was a “lovely letter, thanking me and saying that we’re doing the work that the government should have been doing to honour these unsung heroes,” he said.
A living icon, football superstar Brahmanand Shankwalkar, recalls a chance meeting with Souza. “He was painting a mural of me [near my home in Taleigao] at the time, but when I went up to him, he did not recognise me at first,” he said with a laugh.
Brahmanand Shankwalkar, who led the Goan football team to victory in the Santosh Trophy twice. Credit: Daphne de Souza
Underlying the response to the mural project is a growing anxiety among a certain section of Goans about an apathy to the state’s history, both in its institutions and its people. “In the past few years, we’ve been getting a lot of public institutions named after people who have no connection to Goa,” said Menezes. “For instance, we have a beautiful stadium named after [Jana Sangh founder] Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Now, I have nothing against Mukherjee but we have an extraordinary athletic record [in the state].”
With Souza’s paintings, another vision of history is on the streets, inviting everyone to engage and learn. Does this signal a shift in cultural consciousness?
Not everyone thinks so. “It is an interesting way of looking at our history…of putting information out there,” said journalist Joanna Lobo, whose relative Eunice D’Souza was among Souza’s subjects. “The only drawback I see is that you will see [the mural], and beyond that, you don’t know the person.”
Seraphino Antao, a sprinter of Goan origin who won double gold for Kenya in the 1962 Commonwealth Games. Credit: Daphne de Souza
Others are more hopeful. “About 25 years ago, when I first came [to Goa], there was apathy,” said Heta Pandit of the Goa Heritage Action Group. “Now, I see change. I am seeing people being more aware of their own personal and family histories…There is some sensitivity and empathy that is developing.”
Menezes was emphatic that the murals serve an important purpose. “Some things are definitely going to change,” he said. “Most importantly, we [now] realise that we can have public art that is meaningful to the people of Goa. Here you have a 26-year-old who is making amazing paintings with a very small budget...I think people will remember that.”
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Macklemore’s Seattle style gains global appeal
Posted on Jan 27, 2014 by Diane Han
With a fresh batch of Grammy gold under their belts, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis might catch their Seattle fans reminiscing about the days when they played small venues around the city for just a few bucks.
The duo have evolved from humble beginnings in the local underground to become a global sensation, all the while continuing to tout hometown values like tolerance and anti-commercialism.
Fresh off of a tour of the U.S. and Europe, the group will set off for a second world tour next month.
Most of the dates are in Australia and New Zealand, but they’ll also headline shows in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Manila.
Amir Zahed, who is a close friend and photographer of the group’s dancers, remembers being backstage at one of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ first big shows at Bumbershoot.
“He went on the stage and I remember sitting by his girlfriend — fiancé, now — who was crying,” he said. “I think people assume that he is very extravagant, wearing his fur coats and seeking attention, but he’s very much the opposite… He’s not putting on a show, he’s not acting.”
Zahed says that after the release of “The Heist” people worldwide started to catch on to the unique narrative style that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis formulated here in Seattle.
“’Thrift Shop’ was fun, catchy and marketable,” he said. “For the rest [of the world], I think his style is a breath of fresh air.”
The song certainly proved its popularity as three of the four Grammy’s that they earned Sunday night were for that specific track.
“I think his passion for his music and his honesty is what other cultures really gravitate to,” Zahed said. “It might be about love, interpersonal struggle, mastering an art form or going on a thrifting spree — there is something that everyone can relate to.”
Anna Matuszewski, the group’s choreographer and dancer, with her partner, trumpet player Owuor Arunga. (Photo courtesy of Amir Zahed)
According to his crew, this relatable nature of Macklemore’s music knows no bounds, even in other countries.
Even with the language barriers and cultural differences, the group found plenty of support from audiences across Europe during their last tour, and are anticipating more of the same in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Anna Matuszewski, one of Macklemore’s original dancers and choreographer, and her partner, Kenyan-born Owuor Arunga, who plays the trumpet for Mackelmore’s band, have worked with the duo since day one.
“Ben talks a lot in the show, but even with the language barrier, [we see] such endearing fans,” Matuszewski said. “The fans in Europe are really on the next level… even by listening to the inflection in his voice or his laugh, they’ll try to participate.”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans often are lured by the unique color of their music, which incorporates various classical instruments and eclectic dancers, both of which are pretty uncommon sight in a touring rapper’s stage show.
“Even in Europe, fans would be waiting for him for more than 24 hours just to be the lucky few to enjoy the show right up at the pit. Those dedicated fans were rewarded with meet and greets with Ben and Ryan after the show,” cellist Rebecca Chung Filice said via email.
Filice, who has been playing cello for 20 years, was hired last May to perform at the Sasquatch Music Festival to headline with Macklemore and has been working closely with the duo ever since.
“Strings are not very common to hip hop music,” she said. “It totally changes the timbre and mood of the song and add some really special effects.”
The track “Wings” on the duo’s album The Heist, features the most strings, but Filice and their violinist were incorporated into 80% of the songs performed on the U.S./Europe tour.
Dancer Anna Matuszewski, onstage with Macklemore (Photo courtesy of Amir Zahed)
“It’s been pretty interesting to see this group blow up into an iconic image,” said Filice. “I really respect both Ben and Ryan — they’ve stayed true to themselves, no matter how big their music gets or how much their fame grows.”
Matuszewski leads the group’s dancers, dubbed the “Macklorettes” who accompany Macklemore during his performances.
Her daughter, who was on tour with her parents and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, has become a part of the show and a popular Instagram personality.
“The best part about this whole experience for me was to be with my family, traveling, dancing and performing — doing what we love to do.” Matuszewski said.
As her mother danced and her father jammed out on the trumpet, little Anyango would sit on her daddy’s shoulder and play her own horn — a bugle.
Not only has the rapper gained musical fame, but he has also displayed a political voice. One of Macklemore’s hit tracks on the album, “Same Love,” touches on the issue of gay and lesbian rights and was written in support of Referendum 74, which legalized same-sex marriage in Washington state.
“It’s a song that has deep meaning and it’s covering a controversial topic,” Filice said. “[It] was well-received everywhere we performed, even in the more conservative states.”
Though the set list changes with every location, “Same Love” was performed at every city.
“We play Same Love every single night, no matter where we are at,” Matuszewski said. “That song is definitely a highlight of the show everywhere and we’ll find that regardless of where we are, the audience will be signing the chorus with us.”
Matuszewski said the song is accomplishing one of Macklemore’s original goals by encouraging conversation to take place around the issue of equality.
On the Grammy’s stage, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis took this conversation a step further and, with the help of Queen Latifah, wed 33 same-sex couples during their performance.
Zahed hopes the group’s fame will bring even more attention, not only to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and the issues their music touches on, but also other music acts in Seattle.
“Hopefully, more ears gravitate to the Seattle hip-hop scene because it’s really unique,” he said. “Seattle doesn’t have one specific style or sound and there is a lot of good music coming out of the city right now.”
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Diane Han
Diane Han is a student at the University of Washington studying journalism and law, societies, and justice. She currently writes for The Daily, and is working on enhancing her multimedia skill set.
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10 ways to take a European vacation right here in Seattle
Posted on Jun 21, 2014 by Annaliese Davis
Not everyone can jet off to Rome or Ibiza this summer, but luckily there’s plenty of European culture right here in Seattle.
Here’s a list of ten things you can do in Seattle to add a bit of European flare to your life this summer:
1. Take in a show
If you can’t make it to the National Theatre in London or the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, consider watching a broadcast of a play at SIFF Cinema Uptown.
Everything from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV Part I” to the National Theatre’s presentation of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is playing at SIFF this summer. Why stand in the London rain watching a performance at the Globe Theatre when you can relax in a cool auditorium snacking on popcorn, watching some of the Western’s world greatest works of theatre?
Showtimes vary, ticket prices range from $15-20. Check out SIFF.net/cinema for more details.
2. Catch a match
Football is Europe’s most popular sport by a long-shot. Here in Seattle it’s better known as soccer, and while it may not have the same popularity on this side of the pond, the Seattle Sounders are one of the best teams in the nation. Many Sounders players are actually from countries other than the U.S. or have recently transitioned from European football clubs to American soccer teams.
The club itself is known for hosting a slew of friendlies against European teams like England’s Chelsea and Spain’s FC Barcelona. Seattle Sounder Clint Dempsey is currently captaining the U.S. men’s World Cup team in Brazil — but he’s also about to drop a rap album to assuage any doubts about his American-ness.
The Sounders play at CenturyLink Field throughout the summer. Tickets can be found at soundersfc.com.
3. Old-fashioned culture
The Seattle Art Museum is home to some of the best pieces of European art in the Pacific Northwest. Works of art from masters like Van Dyck and Monet call SAM’s downtown museum home, while traveling collections routinely cycle through.
The Hammering Man, outside the Seattle Art Museum. (Photo from Flickr by Chuck Taylor)
Across the city in Ballard, the Nordic Heritage Museum exhibits artwork and dioramas of Scandinavian life. The museum showcases how immigrants from Scandinavian countries made the Pacific Northwest their home and the types of art and culture they brought with them to Seattle.
The Seattle Art Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, hours vary by day. Tickets can be purchased online or at the museum. The Nordic Heritage Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, hours vary by day. Tickets can be purchased at the museum.
4. Make for the hills
The hills may be alive with the sound of music in Austria, but the mountains of Washington have plenty of music of their own.
Mt. Rainier National Park is only 85 miles away from Seattle and provides spectacular hiking trails year-round. It’s easy to pretend you’re in the Alps when you see critters like mountain goats and chipmunks throughout the 369.35 square mile park. Most trails are open in the summer — day hikes range from as little as 0.3 miles for the Carbon River Forest Nature Trail to 9.6 miles for the Green Lake Trail.
Olympic National Park is roughly 80 miles from Seattle, including a 8.6 milelong ferry crossing from downtown to Bainbridge Island. The park has a plethora of trails, great for day hikes or overnight camping. Olympic National Park also includes ocean beaches and tide pools.
Entrance to the national parks is $15 per vehicle, which is good for 7 days. An annual pass costs $30 and can be purchased at any park entrance. Camping fees are extra.
5. Shop ‘till you drop
Swedish chain H&M has become increasingly popular since the first store sprang up in Tukwila in 2008.
But now there’s competition in the European clothing front in Seattle. European mainstay Zara opened in downtown earlier this year, and now Topshop is making waves in the Seattle fashion scene. Topshop boutiques have sprung up in area Nordstrom stores, and there’s no sign the fascination with European clothing trends will slow down anytime soon.
6. Markets, markets, markets
Just about every neighborhood in Seattle has a farmers market — from Capitol Hill to Fremont, the vendors and customers vary greatly at place to place.
The cobblestone street of Ballard Avenue may not have the same ambience as Rue Cler in Paris, but you’re sure to find great local artisans and farmers at the Ballard Farmers Market.
The Fremont Sunday Market not only has the usual fruit and vegetable standards, the market also has many stalls with crafts and antiques. More similar to London’s Portobello Road Market than Borough Market, the Fremont market has a little something for everyone, including live music.
Most markets occur weekly on Sunday, but check your neighborhood’s website before venturing out.
7. Blend in with the seamen
Similar to river locks around England and mainland Europe, the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (also known as the Ballard Locks), allow ships large and small to move from the saltwater of Elliott Bay to the to freshwater of Lake Union and Lake Washington; most recently that included “The VAVA II”, a super-yacht recently moored in Lake Union that was built in England and commissioned by a Swiss-Italian billionaire for his British wife.
Fishing vessels, like the KAIA, make their way through the Ballard Locks and moor in Lake Washington and Lake Union. (Photo by Annaliese Davis)
Built in 1911, the Ballard Locks are open year-round, and allow visitors to watch everything from small sailboats to massive crabbing vessels pass from the Puget Sound to the Ship Canal. A fish ladder is connected to the locks — salmon pass by throughout the summerr, giving visitors the opportunity to observe the lifecycle of the Pacific Northwest’s favorite fish.
A visitor’s center explains the history of the locks with free tours of the locks available all year-round.
The locks are open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The fish ladder viewing room is open from 7 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. daily.
8. Grab a pint
Daytime drinking may not yet be the norm in the states, but Europeans have had a pint with lunch for years. Pub culture is huge in countries like England and Scotland, where business deals are often done over a pint of bitter.
The George and Dragon Pub is one of Seattle’s better known British pubs. Located in Fremont, the pub offers a wide range of beers on tap and serves up traditional pub fare like fish and chips or bangers and mash. Even Brits drink here — Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright stopped by last year during a visit to Seattle. Pegg went so far as to call it “the most British feeling, British pub in America I’ve ever been to.”
On the other side of the city, hidden off of First Avenue, The Owl N’ Thistle Pub is a lively place to grab a pint of Guinness. The Irish pub may or may not be haunted, but you won’t care when you step inside the homey brick building. Live music welcomes patrons throughout the week.
9. Travel with Rick Steves
European travel guru Rick Steves calls the Seattle-area home, and even has a travel center in Edmonds.
You may recognize Rick Steves from his PBS series “Rick Steves’ Europe”, but Steves is also the author of dozens of guidebooks and host of travel lectures at his Edmonds store. Travel guides offer free classes regularly, while Steves puts on a travel extravaganza three times a year, offering classes on every country from Ireland to Italy.
Steves offers travel seminars throughout the year. Seattle-area events can be found on his website. You can watch all of his shows on his YouTube channel.
10. Taste the continent
You can find cuisine from pretty much the furthest reaches of the globe here in Seattle, and some of the best examples of European grub come in the form of breakfast.
Cafe Besalu in Ballard offers up some of the best French pastries in the entire city, neigh the entire state. Rich, buttery, flakey croissants fill the display case in the small bakery. Limited seating inside and an insatiable public lead to long lines on the weekends, but the quiche lorraine more than makes up for it.
French pastries not your thing? Treat yourself to Piroshky Piroshky.
A baker at Piroshky Piroshky rolls together cinnamon cardamom braids. (Photo by Yvonne Rogell)
You’ll have to venture down towards Pike Place Market for the savory and sweet Russian pies, but the time and energy spent getting down to the bakery is worth it. With options like a smoked salmon pate piroshky or a apple cinnamon roll, you’re sure to walk away with more than a few small, yellow bags.
Cafe Besalu is open Wednesday through Sunday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lines can be out the door and down the block on weekend mornings, so bring a book.
Piroshky Piroshky is open Friday through Monday 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Tuesday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tags: Europe, food, theater.
Annaliese Davis
Annaliese Davis is a senior journalism student at the University of Washington. When she's not daydreaming of travel, she can be found watching old episodes of "West Wing" with her cat.
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Order of St Michael and St George
series of appointments of an order of chivalry of the United Kingdom
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The most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry. It was started on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, who became King George IV of the United Kingdom.[1] It started when he was Prince Regent for his father, King George III.[2]
Grand Cross's insignia
It is named in honour of two military saints, Saint Michael and Saint George.
3 Members of the Order
5 Chapel
6 Precedence and privileges
7 Popular references
8 Current Knights and Dames Grand Cross
8.1 Knights and Dames Grand Cross
8.2 Officers
8.3 Honorary Appointments
8.4 Select former recipients
10 Other websites
The Order has three classes, listed below from highest to lowest:
Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GCMG)[1]
Knight Commander (KCMG) or Dame Commander (DCMG)[1]
Companion (CMG)[1]
It is used to honour people who have done important things for the Commonwealth or foreign nations.[2]
People are appointed to the Order rather than given it. British Ambassadors to foreign nations are often appointed as KCMGs or CMGs. For example, the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, was appointed a CMG when he worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
After his appointment as British Ambassador to the United States, he was promoted to a Knight Commander (KCMG). Often, when the Queen visits a nation, the British ambassador to that nation automatically becomes a Knight Commander of the Order, and afterwards they may use the title "Sir", before their name.
It is the normal award for members of the FCO.
The Order's motto is Auspicium melioris ævi (Latin for "Token of a better age").[2] Its patron saints are Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint George. One of its primary symbols is that of St Michael standing over Satan.
The Order is the sixth-most important in the British honours system, after The Most Noble Order of the Garter (the highest British honour), The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.
The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick (for Ireland) has not been appointed since 1934 as the Republic of Ireland is no longer part of the United Kingdom. The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India has not been used since India's independence in 1947.
HistoryEdit
On the Order's insignia, St Michael is often depicted defeating Satan
The Order was started to remember the British protectorate over the Ionian Islands. The Islands had come under British control in 1814. It was given its own constitution as the United States of the Ionian Islands, in 1817.
The order was to reward people, who lived on their Ionian Islands and on Malta, who worked for the King.[2][3]
The protectorate ended in 1864, and the Ionian Islands became a part of Greece.
The reasons for being appointed to the Order were changed in 1868. Anyone who did important work in Queen Victoria's government (especially overseas) could be appointed. After this change, many Governors-General and Governors were appointed to the Order.[2]
Members of the OrderEdit
The British Sovereign is the Sovereign of the Order[2] and appoints all other members of the Order. The sovereign follow the advice of the Government.
After the sovereign, the next-most senior member is the Grand Master. The office used to be held by the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, but now they are chosen by the Sovereign.
Grand Masters include:
1818–1825: Sir Thomas Maitland
1825–1850: Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
1850–1904: Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
1904–1910: George V, then Prince of Wakes
1910–1917: None
1917–1936: The Prince of Wales
1936–1957: Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
1957–1959: E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
1959–1967: Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
1967–present: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent[2]
The number of members originally in the Order included:
15 Knights Grand Cross (now there can be up to 125 Knights Grand Cross)[2]
20 Knights Commander (now there can be up to 375 Knights Commander)[2]
25 Companions (now there can be up to 1750 Companions)[2]
Members of the Royal Family who are appointed to the Order are not counted as part of these limits and neither are foreigners appointed as "honorary members"[2] (this means that they cannot use the title 'Sir'[4] or 'Dame',[5] and do not receive all the privileges of the order)
The Order has six officers:
the Prelate (since May 2005, this has been the Rt Revd David Urquhart[6])
the King of Arms of the Order of St Michael and St George
the Usher.
The Order's King of Arms is not a member of the College of Arms.
The Usher of the Order is known as the Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod. He does not perform any duties related to the House of Lords, unlike the Usher of the Order of the Garter (the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod).
ClothingEdit
Members of the Order wear decorated costumes on important occasions (such as coronations), which vary by rank:
Grand Cross?
Commander?
Companion?
Very important occasions (such as coronations) Mantle
Mantle of the Order.
It is made of Saxon blue satin lined with crimson silk. On the left side is a picture of the star of the Order. The mantle is bound with two large tassels.
Collar worn by a Knight or Dame Grand Cross
It is made of gold and shows crowned lions, white enamelled Maltese Crosses, and the cyphers "SM" (for Saint Michael) and "SG" (for Saint George), which are repeated. In the centre are two winged lions, each holding a book and seven arrows, with a crown above. This is a reminder of the origin of the Order.[2]
Less important occasions Star (Grand Cross)
Representation of the star of a Knight or Dame Grand Cross
It is worn pinned to the left breast. The star includes seven-armed, silver-rayed 'Maltese Asterisk', with a gold ray in between each pair of arms. It has a red Cross of St George. In the centre of the star is a dark blue ring bearing the motto of the Order. Within the ring is a representation of Saint Michael trampling on Satan while holding a flaming sword.[2]
Star (Commander)
Star and badge of a Knight or Dame Commander
It is worn pinned to the left breast. The is slightly smaller than the Grand Cross star. It has an eight-pointed silver figure formed by two Maltese Crosses, which does not include any gold rays. It has a red Cross of St George. In the centre of the star is a dark blue ring bearing the motto of the Order. Within the ring is a representation of Saint Michael trampling on Satan while holding a flaming sword.[2]
Badge It is carried on a blue/crimson/blue ribbon. Knights/Dames Grand Cross wear it on a sash, passing from the right shoulder to the left hip. Knights Commanders and male Companions wear the badge from a ribbon around the neck. Dames Commanders and female Companions wear it from a bow on the left shoulder. The badge is a seven-armed, white-enamelled 'Maltese Asterisk'. The front of the badge shows Saint Michael trampling on Satan, while the reverse shows Saint George on horseback killing a dragon, both within a dark blue ring bearing the motto of the Order.[2]
The Sovereign will name some days "collar days". On these days, members attending formal events may wear the Order's collar over their military uniform or evening wear. When collars are worn (either on collar days or on formal occasions such as coronations), the badge is hung from the collar.
All collars which have been awarded since 1948 must be returned to the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood. The other symbols can be kept..
ChapelEdit
The original home of the Order was the Palace of St Michael and St George in Corfu This was the home of the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. It was also the location of the Ionian Senate meetings.
Since 1906, the Order's chapel has been in St Paul's Cathedral in London.[2] (The Cathedral also serves as home to the chapels of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and The Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.) Religious services for the whole Order are held every four years. New Knights and Dames Grand Cross are 'installed' at these services (this means that they are officially appointed and make an oath of loyalty to the Sovereign).
The Sovereign and the Knights and Dames Grand Cross have stalls in the choir's area of the chapel.
Over their stall, their heraldic devices are displayed: The Knight's helm, decorated with a mantling (cloth tied to the helpmet) and topped by his crest (often an animal).
Under English heraldic law, women who are not monarchs do not bear helms or crests - this is because in the past, women did not fight in wars or tournaments, so they did not have a helmet. Instead of a helmet, Dames will have a coronet (a small crown). The exact design will depend on how important the Dame's is in society.
Above the crest or coronet hangs the Knight or Dame's heraldic banner, showing the coat of arms. At the back of the stall there is a piece of brass (a "stall plate") displaying its occupant's name, arms and date of admission into the Order. Upon the death of a Knight, the banner, helm, mantling and crest are taken down. The stall plates are not removed, but remain permanently placed somewhere in the stall, so that the stalls of the chapel are covered with a colourful record of the Order's Knights and Dames Grand Cross since 1906.
The reredos (decorated panels) within the chapel were designed by Henry Poole, in 1927.[7]
Precedence and privilegesEdit
Members of the Order of St Michael are given positions in the order of precedence (the order in which members of the nobility should be placed in a procession or other events). Wives of male members are also given positions in the order of precedence. So are sons, daughters and daughters-in-law of Knights Grand Cross and Knights Commanders. Relatives of female members are not given any special precedence.
Knights Grand Cross and Knights Commanders use the title "Sir" before their given name, and Dames Grand Cross and Dames Commanders use "Dame". For example, John Smith and Jane Doe would be called Sir John Smith and Dame Jane Doe.
Wives of Knights may use the title "Lady" before their surname (for example Lady Smith), but husbands of Dames have no title.
These titles are not used by peers and princes, except when the names of peers are written out in their fullest forms. Honorary members (usually members from other countries) and clergymen do not receive the accolade or use the title.
Knights and Dames Grand Cross use the post-nominal "GCMG". Knights Commanders and Dames Commanders use "KCMG" and "DCMG" respectively. Companions use "CMG". Examples are:
Male Companion: John Smith CMG
Female Companion: Jane Doe CMG
Male Commander: Sir Fred Smith KCMG
Female Commander: Dame Joanna Doe DCMG
Male Grand Cross: Sir George Smith GCMG
Female Grand Cross: Dame Janice Doe GCMG
Knights and Dames Grand Cross are also allowed to receive heraldic supporters (figures on either side of the shield, which look like they are holding it up). These may be real or imaginary animals, or human figures. They may also surround their arms with the design of the circlet (a circle bearing the motto) and the collar. The circlet is shown either outside or on top of the collar.
Knights and Dames Commanders and Companions may display the circlet (but not the collar) around their arms. The badge is depicted hanging from the collar or circlet.
Popular referencesEdit
In the satirical British television programme, Yes Minister, Jim Hacker MP is told an old joke[8] by his Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley, about what the different post-nominals mean.
Woolley: In the service, CMG stands for "Call Me God". And KCMG for "Kindly Call Me God".
Hacker: What does GCMG stand for?
Woolley: "God Calls Me God".
Ian Fleming's spy, James Bond, was appointed to the CMG, in 1953 (mentioned in the novel From Russia, with Love). He was offered the KCMG in The Man with the Golden Gun, but he would not take it, as he did not wish to become a public figure.
Current Knights and Dames Grand CrossEdit
The Lord Tweedsmuir, a former Knight Grand Cross wearing the riband, badge and star of the order
Sovereign: Her Majesty The Queen
Grand Master: His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, KG, GCMG, GCVO (1967)
Knights and Dames Grand CrossEdit
Sir Ellis Clarke, TC, GCMG (1972)
Sir Edward Peck, GCMG (1974)
The Rt. Hon. Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC (1977)
Sir Tore Lokoloko, GCL, GCMG, GCVO, OBE (1977)
Sir Michael Palliser, GCMG (1977)
Sir Donald Maitland, GCMG (1977)
The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Soulbury, GCMG GCVO, DL (1978)
Sir Paul Scoon, GCMG, GCVO, OBE (1979)
Sir David Scott, GCMG (1979)
Sir Baddeley Devesi, GCMG, GCVO (1980)
Sir Donald Tebbit, GCMG (1980)
Sir Clive Rose, GCMG (1981)
Sir Oliver Wright, GCMG, GCVO, DSC (1981)
The Rt. Hon. Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC (1982)
Sir Percy Cradock, GCMG (1983)
Sir Clement Arrindell, GCMG, GCVO, QC (1984)
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG (1984)[9]
Sir James Craig, GCMG (1984)
Sir Michael Butler, GCMG (1984)
The Rt. Rev. The Hon. Sir Paul Reeves, ONZ, GCMG, GCVO, CF, QSO (1985)
Sir John Thomson, GCMG (1985)
Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani, GCMG (1985)
Sir Antony Acland, KG, GCMG, GCVO (1986)
Sir John Fretwell, GCMG (1987)
Sir George Lepping, GCMG, MBE (1988)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL (1988)
Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO (1989)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Wright of Richmond, GCMG (1989)
Sir Toaripi Lauti, GCMG (1990)
Sir Shridath Ramphal, OE, OM, GCMG, ONZ, AC, QC (1990)
The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Somare, GCL, GCMG, CH, CF (1990)
The Hon. Dame Catherine Tizard, ONZ, GCMG, GCVO, DBE, QSO (1990)
Sir Howard Cooke, ON, GCMG, GCVO, CD (1991)
Sir David Goodall, GCMG (1991)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG (1991)
Sir Stanislaus James, GCMG (1992)
Sir Reginald Palmer, GCMG (1992)
Sir John Whitehead, GCMG, CVO (1992)[10]
Sir James Carlisle, GCMG (1993)
Sir Ewen Fergusson, GCMG, GCVO (1993)
Sir Rodric Braithwaite, GCMG (1994)
Sir Julius Chan, GCL, GCMG, KBE (1994)
His Excellency Sir Colville Young, GCMG, MBE (1994)
Sir Nicholas Fenn, GCMG (1995)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Hannay of Chiswick, GCMG, CH (1995)
Sir Moses Pitakaka, GCMG (1995)
Sir Orville Turnquest, GCMG, QC (1995)
The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys, GNZM, GCMG, QSO (1996)
His Excellency Sir Clifford Husbands, GCMG, KA, CHB, QC (1996)
Sir Christopher Mallaby, GCMG, GCVO (1996)
Sir Tulaga Manuella, GCMG (1996)
His Excellency Sir Cuthbert Sebastian, GCMG, OBE (1996)
Sir Daniel Williams, GCMG (1996)
Sir John Coles, GCMG (1997)
Sir George Mallet, GCMG, CBE (1997)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Williamson of Horton, GCMG, CB, PC (1998)
Sir John Lapli, GCMG (1999)
Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy, GCMG (1999)
Sir Andrew Wood, GCMG (2001)
Sir Tomu Sione, GCMG (2001)
Sir John Goulden, GCMG (2001)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, GCMG (2001)
Sir David Wright, GCMG, LVO (2002)
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, GCMG (2003)
Sir John Young, GCMG (2003)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC (2004)
Sir John Wall, GCMG, LVO (2004)
His Excellency Sir Nathaniel Waena, GCMG, CSI (2005)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC (2006)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Jay of Ewelme, GCMG (2006)
The Rev. Sir Filoimea Telito, GCMG, MBE (2007)
Sir Emyr Jones Parry, GCMG (2007)
Sir Kenneth Hall, ON, GCMG, OJ (2007)
Sir David Manning, GCMG, CVO (2008)
Sir Carlyle Glean, GCMG (2008)
Sir Patrick Allen, ON, GCMG, CD (2009)
Sir Frank Kabui, GCMG, CSI, OBE (2009)
OfficersEdit
Prelate: Rt. Revd. David Urquhart (Bishop of Birmingham)
Chancellor: Sir Christopher Mallaby
Registrar: Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
King of Arms: Sir Ewen Fergusson (King of Arms of the Order of St Michael and St George)
Usher: Sir Anthony Figgis KCVO, CMG (Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod)
Honorary AppointmentsEdit
Lee Kwan Yew, Hon. GCMG, CH, 1972
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Hon. KCMG, 1990
Fidel V. Ramos, Hon. GCMG (1995)
Ong Teng Cheong, Hon. GCMG, 1998[11]
Anson Chan, GBM, Hon. GCMG, CBE, JP, 2002[5]
Hamid Karzai, Hon. GCMG, 2003
Ryszard Kaczorowski, Hon. GCMG, 2004[12]
Kofi Annan, Hon. GCMG, 2007[4]
Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom, Hon. GCMG, 2008
Shimon Peres, Hon. GCMG, 2008[13]
Sadako Ogata, Hon. Dame Commander (DCMG), 2011[14]
Select former recipientsEdit
Sir Philip Oakley Fysh, KCMG (1835-1919); Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania and a member of the first federal ministry. Fysh joined Barton, Deakin and Kingston in securing British approval for the 'Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill'.
Sir John Young, GCB, GCMG, PC (1807–1876); second Governor General of Canada (1869-1872)
Sir John Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC (1815–1891); first Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873)(1878–1891)
Sir Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, GCMG, PC (1819–1894); first Governor General of Canada (1867-1869)
Sir Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL (1820–1914)
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (1821–1915); Premier of Nova Scotia (1864-1867), sixth Prime Minister of Canada (1896)
Sir John Caldwell Abbott, KCMG, PC, QC (1821–1893); third Prime Minister of Canada (1891-1892)
Sir Richard Burton, KCMG (1821-1890)
Sir Wilfred Grenfell, KCMG (February 28, 1865-October 9, 1940); medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sir Mackenzie Bowell, KCMG, PC (1823–1917); fifth Prime Minister of Canada (1894-1896)
Sir Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (1826–1902); third Governor General of Canada (1872-1878)
Matsukata Masayoshi, GCMG (1835–1924)[15]
Sir Henry Binns KCMG (1837-1899); Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal (1897-1899)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC (1841–1919); seventh Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911)
Sir Ernest Satow, GCMG PC(1843–1929)[16]
Menelik II of Ethiopia, GCMG (1844–1913)
Sir John Thompson, KCMG, PC, QC (1845–1894); Premier of Nova Scotia (1882); fourth Prime Minister of Canada (1892-1894)
Sir John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (1845–1914); fourth Governor General of Canada (1878-1883)
Sir Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (1845–1927); fifth Governor General of Canada (1883-1888)
Sir George Fiddes, GCMG, CB (1858-1936), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
Sir Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (1845–1914); eighth Governor General of Canada (1898-1904)
Admiral Sir James Bruce (1846-1921) Invested KCMG in 1900.[17]
Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (1847–1934); seventh Governor General of Canada (1893 to 1898)
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert), KG, KT, KP, PC, GCMG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, GCB, VD, AdC(P) (1850–1942); tenth Governor General of Canada (1911-1916)
Sir Frank Swettenham GCMG CH (1850–1946)
Sir Albert Grey, GCMG, GCVO, PC (1851–1917); ninth Governor General of Canada (1904-1911)
Sir John Birchenough, GCMG (1853–1937)
Sir Robert Borden, GCMG, PC, KC (1854–1937); eighth Prime Minister of Canada (1911-1920)
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (1857–1941); founder of the Scout Movement
Katō Takaaki, (1860–1926)[18]
Field Marshal Sir Julian Byng, GCB, GCMG, MVO, DCO, LLD(hc) Alb (1862–1935); twelfth Governor General of Canada (1921-1926)
Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranike, KCMG, Maha Mudaliyar and JP of Ceylon (1862-1946)
The Hon Lionel Cripps (1863–1950)
Major Sir Freeman Freeman-Thomas, PC, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, (1866–1941); thirteenth Governor General of Canada (1926-1931)
Major-General Sir Pomeroy Holland-Pryor, KCB, CMG, DSO, MVO (1866-1955)
Sir Victor Cavendish, KG, PC, GCMG, GCVO, JP (1868–1938); eleventh Governor General of Canada (1916-1921)
Major-General Sir Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, KG, PC, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, ADC(P,) FRS (1874–1957); sixteenth Governor General of Canada (1940-1946)
Sir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, PC, CH, GCMG, GCVO, (1875–1940); fifteenth Governor General of Canada (1935-1940)
Captain Sir Vere Brabazon Ponsonby,PC, GCMG (1880–1956); fourteenth Governor General of Canada (1931-1935)
Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (1880–1963)
Sir George Sansom, KCMG (1883–1965)[19]
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, KG, PC, PC, GCB, OM, GCMG, CSI, DSO, MC, CD, (1891–1969); seventeenth Governor General of Canada (1946-1952)
Sir Edward Gent KCMG, DSO, OBE, MC (1895–1948)
Sir Henry Gurney KCMG KStJ (1898–1951)
Sir Gerald Templer KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE (1898–1979)
Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, GCMG (1912-1988); Ninth Sultan of Sultanate of Yogyakarta
President Ibrahim Nasir, KCMG (1926-2008)
General Sir Hudson Lowe, GCMG (1769-1844)
Field Marshal Živojin Mišić, GCMG (1855-1921); Serbian field marshal
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Duckers, Peter (2004). British Orders and Decorations. Shire Publications Ltd. pp. 26–27.
↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 "Order of St. Michael and St. George". The official web site of the British Monarchy. London, UK: The Royal Households of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 14 January 2010.
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Split Airport Finally Opens New Terminal
Split Airport, the second biggest by passenger numbers in Croatia, is opening its new terminal next week at last. Split has been operating above its passenger capacity for several years now, because of the painfully slow Croatian legal system and a surge in passenger demand for this coastal Croatian city.
Split Airport old exterior. Photo: Wikimedia
The old terminal averages a score of 2.2 on Google, with one of its most recent reviewers calling it “absolutely horrendous”. As such, the new terminal is a much needed development. Local residents hope that expanded capacity will allow the airport to drop its fees and attract more low-cost carriers.
Why is Split Airport expanding so late?
In conversation with tportal.hr the Assistant Director of Split Airport revealed that the airport has spent “years” acquiring land that surrounds it in a “systematic” manner.
In a country like Croatia, this is not easy. The World Economic Forum ranked the country 139th out of 140 for “efficiency of legal framework in settling disputes”. It was precisely this inefficiency that hindered Split Airport.
Poslovni Dnevnik reported in 2012 about a hothouse company that operated on land adjacent to Split Airport. The hothouse company had come into dispute with its workers over unpaid wages. These workers requested bankruptcy proceedings in 2012, and it was then left to the local courts to administer the auction of the company’s property, including its land.
Split Airport had committed to acquire all land for expansion legally, and not by decree of the regional government. Doing otherwise would have severed ties with the local community. But, by choosing this route, the airport put itself at the mercy of Croatia’s painfully slow legal system.
At least Split did not make progress as slowly as Berlin.
A visualisation of Split Airport’s new terminal. Photo: Split Airport
Split Airport is a remarkable success
Passenger growth at Split Airport in the last decade has been incredible. Speaking to Slobodna Dalmacija the Airport’s Director outlined some impressive figures.
Amongst them is the fact that the airport managed to double its passenger numbers in just six years. Between 2010 and 2016, traffic grew from 1.2 million to 2.3 million. Passenger numbers rose 23% in 2017 and 11% in 2018.
Such constant annual surges in demand are far more rapid than the infrastructure of the old terminal can handle.
Split Airport old terminal interior. Photo: Wikimedia
The tourism boom in Croatia is a heavy contributor to passenger growth in Split. Amongst other favourable aviation developments in the region are the resumption of direct flights between Croatia and the USA, and a massive route expansion by Air Serbia.
Lack of capacity deters LCCs at Split Airport
The surge in demand and the restricted opportunities to expand brought great profitability to Split Airport. It is one of the most profitable companies in Croatia, reporting a net profit of over 350m HRK (£43m) in 2017. So profitable is the airport, that it is financing the construction of the new terminal from its own reserves.
This means Split is in the favourable position to be picky with its customers. Its Director told Slobodna Dalmacija in 2017 that the reason why the airport never had any Ryanair flights is its strict pricing policy. The airport charges all airlines the same, and is in a position to do so because it already has more passengers than it was planned to handle.
Ryanair spent years negotiating with Split in hope of securing discounted fees, but the airport would not budge. Now, since June 2019, Ryanair is flying to Split from Dublin, and it pays the same price as everyone else.
The long-awaited opening of the new terminal will increase passenger capacity at Split. As a result, the airport could lower its fees to incentivise more flight frequencies and new routes. But will it be willing to sacrifice its profitability for that?
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Crime & Comics: 5 Questions for Alex Segura
Alex Segura is a novelist and comic book writer. He is the author of the Miami crime novels featuring Pete Fernandez, Silent City and Down the Darkest Street (Polis Books). The third Pete Fernandez book, DANGEROUS ENDS, arrives in April 2017.
He has also written a number of comic books, including the best-selling and critically acclaimed Archie Meets Kiss storyline, the “Occupy Riverdale” story, and this year’s Archie Meets Ramones.
He lives in New York with his wife and son. He is a Miami native.
Alex was interviewed by Thomas Logan for Sliver of Stone Magazine.
Thomas Logan: As both a novelist and a comic book writer, you’re very versatile. Tell us a little bit about your background. How does one become a talented and successful writer? When did you start calling yourself a writer, and what drives you to create?
Alex Segura: First off – thank you. I appreciate you saying that. I was born and raised in Miami to Cuban immigrant parents. I was a pretty voracious comic book reader, and I also loved true crime and sci-fi, along with gangster movies and novels (like the Godfather) as a kid. That evolved into a love for crime fiction and the work of writers like Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Laura Lippman and Dennis Lehane to name a few. As I started reading more modern crime fiction – stories with a strong sense of place and protagonists that were flawed and more human – I started toying with the idea of writing my own. That’s when I started writing my first novel. Silent City. That’s when I first felt like a writer, though I’d spent years trying to write different kinds of stories, songs and stuff like that. I’d always written – whether it was journalistic work, press releases or reviews. But when I started writing that novel, that’s when it felt more real.
TL: Aspiring writers want to know: How late is too late when it comes to make a name for oneself as a comic book writer?
AS: I don’t think it’s ever too late. That great thing about writing is that you can continue to get better and there’s no age limit. With comics, it’s just a matter of building a body of work and improving. It doesn’t happen overnight. You have to put in the work, pay your dues and hope your stories reach the right audience.
TL: How did you land the Archie gig? Archie Meets KISS—an interesting intersection! How did that come about? What about the upcoming Archie Meets the Ramones? What is your dream “Archie Meets…” storyline?
AS: The idea for Archie Meets KISS came up in the office – I work as Archie’s head of PR in addition to writing. Our CEO, Jon Goldwater, mentioned it and I threw my hat in the ring. At that point, I’d written a few standalone Archie issues, so I wasn’t coming out of left field. The Ramones crossover came via co-writer Matt Rosenberg, who had a connection with the Ramones team. They were interested, which opened the door for Matt and I to hash out the story.
My dream Archie Meets? I’d love to do an Archie Meets the Beatles. I think that’d be fun for everyone.
TL: Marvel and DC are bigger than ever. Have you thought about trying your hand at superhero stories? Any crime/noir comics project?
AS: I have a few crime/noir comic pitches in various stages of completion. I’ll keep you posted! I’d love to take a shot at some of the more established heroes, definitely. I have a big fondness for Marvel and DC’s stable of characters.
TL: Future plans? Stories in the works?
AS: I’m finishing up work on the third Pete Fernandez Miami mystery, Dangerous Ends, which hits in April from Polis Books. I’m also working on some comic stuff and trying to keep up with our 8-month-old baby. Thanks for taking the time to chat with me!
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The Exploited are a Scottish punk band from the second wave of UK punk, formed in 1979.
They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band, only with a heavy political influence. From about 1987 on (around the time of Death Before Dishonour) they changed into a crossover thrash band. Formed in Edinburgh by ex-soldier Wattie Buchan, they signed to Secret Records in March 1981 and released their debut EP Army Life. The album Punks Not Dead followed in the same year. Despite many lineup changes, the band continued into the 2000s and has developed a worldwide following. The band are currently writing material for a new album.
The band formed in 1979 in Edinburgh. One of the first lineups consisted of Big John Duncan on guitar, (Reeba) Alan Martin on drums, Gary McCormack on bass and Terry Buchan on vocals. After a very short time, however, Terry was removed from the band and his youngest brother, Walter 'Wattie' Buchan whom then took over. Inspired by the first wave of punk rock (Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned), the quartet created a simple, no-frills sound characterized by speed and aggression. In 1980, the group founded its own independent record label, Exploited Record Company, and immediately released their debut EP Army Life, which was #6 in the independent charts for eight weeks, then was in the top 20 for 18 months. They then released another single, "Barmy Army", which immediately jumped into the independent charts and remained there for 53 weeks, peaking at #4.
In 1981 the band signed to Secret Records and released the single "Dogs of War", which peaked at #2 in the independent charts and #63 in the national charts. The band then released their first live album, On Stage, recorded during a concert in Edinburgh. Thereafter, the band performed, along with Discharge, Anti-Nowhere League, Anti-Pasti and Chron Gen on a tour called Apocalypse Now.
Current lineup
* Wattie Buchan - Vocals
* Irish Rob - Bass
* Willie Buchan - drums
* Gav - Guitar
* Punk's Not Dead - 1981 (About this sound sample - "Punks Not Dead" (help·info))
* Troops of Tomorrow - 1982
* Let's Start a War (Said Maggie One Day) - 1983
* Horror Epics - 1985
* Death Before Dishonour - 1987
* The Massacre - 1990
* Beat the Bastards - 1996
* Fuck the System - 2003
* TBA - 2010
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William F. Buckley, Jr.: 1925-2008
William F. Buckley, Jr. was the intellectual leader of the American conservative movement for fifty years. A traditional and devout Catholic, his Catholic education, philosophy and being informed his public discourse. He founded National Review, wrote several highly influential books, notable among them “God and Man at Yale”, and was a columnist and commentator of influence.
I first encountered his writings through National Review, then read God and Man at Yale. I met him during college, and after I had somewhat obsequiously related the influence he had had on me he remarked that he felt like George Bush being nominated for president by one of his sons. I think my favorite book of his, one that shows his satirical wit at its best, is “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, a humorous account of his run for mayor of New York as the conservative party candidate– a campaign that in many ways defused the national aspirations of liberal Republican New York Mayor John Lindsey.
As to that race, a description from one of the obits today:
In 1965, Mr. Buckley tried his hand at politics, running for mayor of New York on the Conservative Party ticket. Asked how many votes he expected to get, he replied, “Conservatively speaking, one.” In fact, he ended up with 13.4 percent of the vote. The idea hadn’t been to win office — he once said that his first act if elected would be to demand a recount — but gain attention for Mr. Buckley’s ideas. His strong showing was the first indication that the Goldwater debacle of the year before might be not an end but a beginning.
He was a giant. Requiescat in pace.
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A Hippopotamus in Victorian London
John Simons
Publication: 01 Jan 2019
Series: Animal Publics
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London tells the remarkable story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first ‘star’ animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo.
In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and deerhounds. His arrival in London was greeted with a wave of ‘hippomania’, doubling the number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens almost overnight.
Delving into the circumstances of Obaysch’s capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the phenomenon of ‘star’ animals in Victorian Britain against the backdrop of an expanding British Empire. He shows how the entangled aims of scientific exploration, commercial ambition, and imperial expansion shaped the treatment of exotic animals throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Along the way, he uncovers the strange and moving stories of Obaysch and the other hippos who joined him in Europe as the trade in zoo animals grew.
’A fascinating microscopic and telescopic look at the life of Victorian England’s most famous animal. John Simons’ richly exhaustive account of nineteenth-century hippomania engages with imperialism, Orientalism, progress, and the cultural history of Europe where Obaysch, captured from an island in the Nile River, had the misfortune to spend his life as a blockbuster attraction at the London Zoo. Poignant and empathetic, this account of an animal’s appropriation and exploitation is one of those books that unfurls more about its moment in time than you could have imagined when you picked it up.’
Professor Randy Malamud, Georgia State University
Tags: Animal Publics, Animal studies, Hippopotamus, John Simons, London, Victorian
John Simons is an historian specialising in the history of animals. He has written or edited twenty books, on topics ranging from Middle English chivalric romance to Andy Warhol to the history of cricket. His previous books on animals include Animal Rights and the Politics of Literary Representation (2002), Rosetti’s Wombat (2008), The Tiger That Swallowed the Boy: Exotic Animals in Victorian England (2012) and Kangaroo (2012), which was listed for the Royal Society of Biology’s Book of the Year Award. He is a published poet and has just completed his first novel. He has worked in universities on every continent except Antarctica and most recently was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Preface and acknowledgements
A note on nomenclature
1. Why Obaysch?
Interchapter: the economy of zoos and hippos
2. The life and times of Obaysch the hippopotamus
3. The several meanings of hippos
4. A bloat of other European hippos
Postscript: the unhappy hippopotamus
"riveting ... Alongside his in-depth research into the lives of hippos, Simons raises philosophical issues that have contemporary relevance ... he involves the reader in hippo narratives and the ethics of capture and captivity"
Wendy Woodward Animal Studies Journal
‘This is not a trivial undertaking. If we are to understand animals’ lives in any meaningful way, we must, as Simons argues, learn to understand animals as more than mere things whose chief interest lies in what they represent or tell us about ourselves.’
James Bradley Sydney Morning Herald
ʻ[This book] is over and above an accessible, intelligent, charming, sometimes funny, sometimes sad account of Obaysch, who lived at the London Zoo from 1850 until his premature death there in 1878, aged about 28.ʼ
Stephen Romei The Australian
Size: 210 × 148 × 15 mm
Copyright: © 2019
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Celebrate the National Day of the American Cowboy
July 24, 2013 -- To celebrate the National Day of the American Cowboy this Saturday, July 27, American Cowboy magazine is holding a #KissACowboy contest on their Facebook page, http://facebook.com/AmericanCowboyMagazine.
Starting on Monday, July 22, readers could enter the #KissACowboy contest by posting a picture of themselves kissing, or being kissed by, a cowboy to the American Cowboy Facebook, Twitter (https://twitter.com/americancowboy_), or Instagram pages (http://instagram.com/americancowboy) and tagging it with the #KissACowboy and #NDAC hashtags. Entries will be picked at random to win one of six prizes awarded daily until Saturday, July 27.
“We hold The National Day of the American Cowboy near and dear to our hearts since its founding in 2004,” says Associate Editor Lauren Feldman. “We thought what better (and fun!) way to show our appreciation for the American cowboy than by giving him a big smooch.”
To enter the American Cowboy #KissACowboy contest, visit http://facebook.com/AmericanCowboyMagazine for more information.
What Is the National Day of the American Cowboy?
The National Day of the American Cowboy campaign was founded by American Cowboy magazine in 2004 to preserve, protect and promote our cowboy and Western heritage. This is accomplished by lobbying for the passage of a national resolution designating the fourth Saturday of every July as a permanent celebration on the national calendar honoring cowboys and cowgirls for their enduring contribution to the courageous, pioneering spirit of America.
“The cowboy spirit is about honesty, integrity, courage, and patriotism, and cowboys are models of strong character, sound family values, and good common sense.” (Senate Resolution 191, designating July 27, 2013 as “National Day of the American Cowboy.”)
American Cowboy magazine was founded in 1994 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. You can learn more at www.americancowboy.com. Each issue engages more than 430,000 readers for whom the authentic Western lifestyle and cowboy code is central to their core values. Our involvement with manufacturers, retailers, event producers, and associations—along with our unparalleled following of loyal readers—has kept our magazine at the heart of the Western community.
American Horse Council Celebrates National Day of the Horse
Hats Off Day Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary in 2013
Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital and its fellow sponsors announced the 10th Annual Hats Off Day will be held on Saturday, July 27, 2013, beginning at 4 p.m. at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.
American Cowboy Magazine Announces Winner of the Bishop’s Lodge Vacation Sweepstakes
Sept. 19, 2013 -- A vacation in beautiful and historic Santa Fe, New Mexico, was recently given away for free from American Cowboy magazine and Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa in New Mexico.
Cowboy Mounted Shooting U.S. Championship Returns to Tennessee
The Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) Classic Equine Eastern U.S. Championship returns to the Miller Coliseum Equine Complex in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Sept. 4-7, 2013.
Cowboy Mounted Shooting Scully Western Championship Returns to Las Vegas
The Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) brings its Scully Western U.S. Championship back to the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, from July 31-Aug. 3, 2013.
Cowboy Mounted Shooting and Tony Lama Extend Partnership
The Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) and Tony Lama Boot Company announced today at the 2013 World Championship in Amarillo, Texas, at Tri-State Arena and Expo that they are extending their...
American Shetland Pony Club National Congress Galloping into Des Moines
The 2013 American Shetland Pony Congress takes place July 9-13 at the Iowa State Fair Grounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
Horses4Heroes' Operation Free Ride Rodeo Riding Into Cowboy Christmas During the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
American Cowboy Magazine Announces the Rockin’ WR Poetry Contest
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Parent Company of Tech Site Dice Is for Sale
By John Zappe November 1, 2016
No sooner does the sale of Monster to Randstad close than another publicly held careers publisher announces it is up for sale. DHI Group, owner of the tech jobs site Dice.com and several other niche job boards, announced this morning it was pursuing “strategic alternatives,” Wall Street-speak for a sale.
“In light of developments within our industry and our growth agenda, we have decided to explore strategic alternatives to ensure we have an ownership structure that best optimizes shareholder value and the execution of our strategic plan,” President and CEO Michael Durney said in a written statement.
In that release, the company detailed its third quarter financial performance which showed an adjusted 9 percent decline over the third quarter of 2015. DHI reported it earned an adjusted 10 cents per share on revenue of $56.1 million. Earnings were in line with what analysts were expecting, while the revenue came in $.5 million below.
The company has struggled to gain traction for several quarters. It has been hurt by the severe downtown in the energy industry which cut the revenue it earned from its energy-specific job site Rigzone by more than 50 percent from a high of $31.2 million.
All the company’s other sites have seen smaller declines.
During a call this morning with financial analysts, Durney said that several months ago management launched a strategic review of the entire company that lead to a plan to focus on the tech sector and the flagship Dice.com. “Tech offers the best opportunity for growth,” Durney said during the call.
Because all or nearly all companies employ tech professionals in some capacity, and the demand for tech workers continue to expand, Durney said DHI is adopting a tech-focused strategy. It also makes sense, since Dice.com accounts for about half the company’s $225.3-$226.3 million projected revenue for the year.
Simultaneously with the strategic focus on building new tech services, including a skills assessment component, Durney said DHI Group will seek a buyer.
In a interview after the financial call, he said a sale could take multiple forms. A public company could make an offer, as Randstad did with Monster. Another option might be for private equity to buy DHI and take it private. There are other possible scenarios, including that no sale takes place. In all cases, however, Durney said the board of directors and company management does not intend to sell off individual parts.
Dice began in the 1990s as a privately held tech job exchange open only to staffing, recruiting, and consulting firms. By the end of the decade, Dice was on the Web, available to all. In 1999 it was sold to a publicly held company, which went private a few years later. Then it was bought by two private equity firms, and two years later, in 2007, Dice went public.
Besides the sale of Monster, LinkedIn is being acquired by Microsoft and CareerBuilder, privately held by three newspaper and TV companies, was put up for sale in September.
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WorkHere Wins Innovation of the Year Award in Home State
By Joel Cheesman July 11, 2018 July 9, 2018
WorkHere's Executive Team Accepts Indiana Innovation Award
I wrote about WorkHere back in February. At the time, I had heard rumors that the startup was in trouble and wanted to investigate. After sitting with the company’s executives, I became convinced the company was at a crossroads and was more pivoting in a new direction than digging its own grave.
I said back then, in response to WorkHere’s high-touch pivot, that vendors moving more and more toward automation would be a major challenge, but WorkHere’s leadership felt confident based on user feedback.
“An intern outperforms automation in our model,” Mike Seidle, cofounder and COO at WorkHere said in February. “Everyone from employers to ad agencies and especially job seekers love the fact that we have real people bringing everyone together. The overwhelming opinion is jobs are important enough to talk to a human.”
A recent award won in the company’s home state of Indiana says it may be on the right track. In April, WorkHere won the Innovation of the Year, given by local organization Techpoint. The organization’s Mira Awards celebrates the state’s tech success stories of the year. They tout their awards gala as the “Oscars for Tech” in Indiana.
In WorkHere’s case, judges noted the company’s patent-pending technology for its originality, and highlighted a number of innovations added to the application in 2017. New features included instantaneous texting, social media messaging, geo-targeted and geo-fenced recruitment advertising, as well as the launch of community coaching services that assists new users in finding opportunities.
“Winning the Innovation of the Year award was a huge surprise for us,” said Seidle. “We were up against amazing competition — Raytheon, Purdue, and IU all with groundbreaking technologies. Indiana has really become a leading place to start and grow innovation, and it shows in the quality of competition at this year’s Mira Awards in every category.”
Here’s an interview with the company’s brass following the win.
Seidle says human interaction holds the key to its success. “We committed HR tech sacrilege: we actually started talking to job seekers. And we kept doing it. Reality is and will be for some time that bots and AI just can’t handle an unconstrained job search conversation with a real person. We still use bots and AI where it makes sense (simple conversation funnels and matching), but most of our conversation is human to human.”
Granted, Indiana is no California. Winning a tech award in the Hoosier State doesn’t get you much clout outside of its borders, but the recognition is noteworthy. Seidle says job seekers agree.
“Job seekers are extremely satisfied with the WorkHere engagement experience. Our average rating on Facebook and our own chat platform is now 4.8 of a possible 5 stars. Best of all we’re seeing more hires being made and more job seekers referring WorkHere to friends.”
For a complete rundown of the winners, click here.
Joel Cheesman
Joel Cheesman has over 20 years experience in the online recruitment space. He worked for both international and local job boards in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. In 2005, Cheesman founded HRSEO, a search engine marketing company for HR, as well as launching an award-winning industry blog called Cheezhead. He has been featured in Fast Company and US News and World Report. He sold his company in 2009 to Jobing.com. He was employed by EmployeeScreenIQ, a background check company. He is the founder of Ratedly, an app that monitors anonymous employee reviews. He is married and the father of three children. He lives in Indianapolis.
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Kim Kardashian baby bump photo #PoppedOuttaNowhere!!!
Lindsay January 31, 2013 Baby Bonanza, Baby Bump, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian revealed she was expecting a baby with her boyfriend of nearly one year Kanye West just last month, and already the Kourtney & Kim Take Miami star is sporting a sizable baby bump, which she showed off today during what looked to be a photo shoot with her younger sister Khloe.
“Well hello there! #PoppedOuttaNowhere!!!” Kim captioned the photo on her Instagram account, which is followed by more than 6.5 million fans. And she’s right — where did that come from? Kim is photographed several times a day, and while there may have been a small hump before, it’s very visible now — which means everybody’s going to be trying to get even more pictures.
Surprisingly, Kim’s baby won’t be seen on any of the Kardashian reality shows. “It’s a tough decision,” Kim told Jimmy Kimmel earlier this week. “From the start, as of now, that’s just a personal choice that Kanye and I have made.. We’re going to try to keep it as private as possible.”
However, she’s not exactly saying “never” when it comes to her child being on reality TV. “When the baby’s old enough, and … he or she decides that’s what they want to do, then that’ll be a decision,” Kim said.
Kim and Kanye will be welcoming their son or daughter some time in July, which is right about the time Kris Jenner’s new talk show is set to premiere! “We could have a nursery on the set and I could babysit,” Kris Jenner said in an E! interview. “What do you think of that, Kim?” she asks while looking into the camera.
For more of Kim Kardashian, be sure to tune into Kourtney & Kim Take Miami which airs every Sunday night at 9/8c on E!
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Posts Tagged ‘Empathy for one party is always prejudice against another’
Jeff Sessions’ Remarks In Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing
Transcript: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your leadership.
And I believe you set up some rules for the conducting of this hearing that are consistent with past hearings, and I believe will allow us to do our work together. And I’ve enjoyed working with you on this process.
I hope this will be viewed as the best hearing this committee has ever had. Why not? We should seek that.
So, I join Chairman Leahy, Judge Sotomayor, in welcoming you here today. And it marks an important milestone in your life. I know your family is proud, and rightly so, and it’s a pleasure to have them with us today.
I expect this hearing and resulting debate will be characterized by a respectful tone, a discussion of serious issues, a thoughtful dialogue and maybe some disagreements. But we worked hard to do that, to set that tone from the beginning.
I’ve been an active litigator in federal courts. I’ve tried cases as a federal prosecutor and as attorney general of Alabama. The Constitution and our great heritage of law I care deeply about. They are the foundation of our liberty and our prosperity.
And this nomination is critical for two important reasons. First, justices on the Supreme Court have great responsibility, hold enormous power and have a lifetime appointment. Just five members can declare the meaning of our Constitution, bending or changing its meaning from what the people intended.
Second, this hearing is important, because I believe our legal system is at a dangerous crossroads. Down one path is the traditional American system, so admired around the world, where judges impartially apply the law to the facts without regard to personal views. This is the compassionate system, because it’s the fair system.
In the American legal system, courts do not make law or set policy, because allowing unelected officials to make law would strike at the heart of our democracy.
Here, judges take an oath to administer justice impartially. That oath reads, “I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and to equal right to the rich and the poor, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me under the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help me God.”
These principles give the traditional system its moral authority, which is why Americans respect and accept the ruling of courts, even when they disagree. Indeed, our legal system is based on a firm belief in an ordered universe and objective truth. The trial is a process by which the impartial and wise judge guides us to truth.
Down the other path lies a brave new world, where words have no true meaning, and judges are free to decide what facts they choose to see. In this world, a judge is free to push his or her own political or social agenda.
I reject that view, and Americans reject that view.
We have seen federal judges force their political and social agenda on the nation, dictating that the words “under God” be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance and barring students from even private, even silent prayer in schools.
Judges have dismissed the people’s right to their property, saying the government can take a person’s home for the purpose of developing a private shopping center.
Judges have, contrary to longstanding rules of war, created a right for terrorists captured on a foreign battlefield to sue the United States government in our own country.
Judges have cited foreign laws, world opinion and a United Nations resolution to determine that a state death penalty law was unconstitutional.
I’m afraid our system will only be further corrupted, I have to say, as a result of President Obama’s view that in tough cases the critical ingredient for a judge is, quote, “the depth and breadth of one’s empathy,” close quote, as well as his words, quote, “their broader vision of what America should be.”
Like the American people, I have watched this process for a number of years, and I fear that this thinking empathy standard is another step down the road to a liberal, activist, results-oriented, relativistic world, where laws lose their fixed meaning, unelected judges set policy, Americans are seen as members of separate groups rather than as simply Americans, where the constitutional limits on government power are ignored when politicians want to buy out private companies.
I feel we’ve reached a fork in the road, I think, and there are stark differences. I want to be clear. I will not vote for, and no senator should vote for, an individual nominated by any president who is not fully committed to fairness and impartiality toward every person who appears before them.
And I will not vote for, and no senator should vote for, an individual nominated by any president who believes it is acceptable for a judge to allow their personal background, gender, prejudices or sympathies to sway their decision in favor of or against parties before the court.
In my view such a philosophy is disqualified. Such an approach to judging means that the umpire calling the game is not neutral, but instead feels empowered to favor one team over another. Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it’s not law. In truth it’s more akin to politics, and politics has no place in the courtroom.
Some will respond Judge Sotomayor would never say it’s never acceptable for a judge to display prejudice in that case, but I regret to say, Judge, that some of your statements that I’ll outline seem to say that clearly. Let’s look at just a few examples. We’ve seen the video of a Duke University panel, where Judge Sotomayor says, “It’s the Court of Appeals where policy is made, and I know, I know that this is on tape, and I should never say that and should not think that.”
And during a speech 15 years ago, Judge Sotomayor said, quote, “I willingly accept the way the judge must not deny the difference resulting from experience and heritage, but attempt continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate,” close quote.
And in that same speech she said, quote, “My experiences will affect the facts I choose to seek.” Having tried a lot of cases, that particular phrase bothers me. I expect every judge to seek all the facts.
So I think it’s noteworthy that when asked about Judge Sotomayor’s now famous statement that a wise Latina would come to a better conclusion than others, President Obama, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg declined to defend the substance of those remarks.
They each assume the nominee misspoke. But I don’t think it — but the nominee did not misspeak. She is on record as making this statement at least five times over the course of a decade. I am providing a copy of the full text of those speeches for the record.
Others will say that despite these statements, we should look to a nominee’s record, which they characterize as moderate. People said the same of Justice Ginsburg, who is now considered to be one of the most activist members of the Supreme Court in history.
Some senators ignored Justice Ginsburg’s philosophy and focused on the nominee’s judicial opinions. But that is not a good test, because those cases where necessarily restrained by precedent and the threat of reversal from higher courts. On the Supreme Court, those checks on judicial power will be removed, and the judge’s philosophy will be allowed to reach full bloom.
But even as a lower court judge, our nominee has made some troubled rulings. I’m concerned by the Ricci, the New Haven firefighters case recently reversed by the Supreme Court, where she agreed with the city of New Haven’s decision to change the promotion rules in the middle of the game. Incredibly, her opinion consisted of just one substantive paragraph of analysis.
Justice Sotomayor has said she accepts that her opinions, sympathies and prejudices will affect her rulings. Could it be that her time as a leader in the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, a fine organization, provides a clue to her decision against the firefighters?
While the nominee was chair of that fund’s litigation committee, the organization aggressively pursued racial quotas in city hiring and in numerous cases fought to overturn the results of promotion exams. It seems to me that in Ricci, Judge Sotomayor’s empathy for one group of firefighters turned out to be prejudice against another.
That is, of course, the logical flaw in the empathy standard. Empathy for one party is always prejudice against another.
Judge Sotomayor, we will inquire into how your philosophy, which allows subjectivity in the courtroom, affects your decision-making, like, for example, in abortion, where an organization of which you were an active leader argued that the Constitution requires taxpayer money to fund abortions; and gun control, where you recently noted it is settled law that the Second Amendment does not prevent a city or state from barring gun ownership; private property, where you ruled recently that the government could take property from one pharmacy developer and give it to another; capital punishment, where you personally signed a statement opposing the reinstatement of the death penalty in New York because of the inhuman psychological burden it places on the offender and the family.
So I hope the American people will follow these hearings closely. They should learn about the issues and listen to both sides of the argument and — and at the end of the hearing ask, if I must one day go to court, what kind of judge what I wish to hear my case? Do I want a judge that allows his or her social, political or religious views to change the outcome? Or do I want a judge that impartially applies the law to the facts and fairly rules on the merits without bias or prejudice?
It’s our job to determine which side of that fundamental divide the nominee stands.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Leonardo Drew is know for creating contemplative abstract sculptural works that play upon a tension between order and chaos. At once monumental and intimate in scale, his work recalls post-Minimalist sculpture that alludes to America’s industrial past. Drew transforms accumulations of raw materias such as wood, scrap, metal and cotton to articulate various overlapping themes with emotional gravitas: from the cyclical nature of life and decay to the erosion of time. His surfaces often approach a language of their own, embodying the labored process of writing oneself into history.
Drew’s works have been shown internationally and are included in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; and Tate, London.
Drew was commissioned for a new outdoor project for Madison Square Park in summer 2019, marking the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s 38th public commission and the artist’s first major public art project. Recent solo museum exhibitions include shows at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2013); Beeler Gallery at the Columbus College of Art & Design (2013); Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (2006); and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2000). Drew’s mid-career survey, Existed, premiered at the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston in 2009, and traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Drew was born in 1961 in Tallahassee, Florida, and he grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
SOPHIE HUBER, Switzerland-born Huber, who reaped much acclaim in 2012 for Partly Fiction, her vivid and informal portrait of actor/musician Harry Dean Stanton, traces the label from its birth in 1939 – when German-Jewish immigrants and jazz enthusiasts, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, started the company – up until the present day. The film’s narrative is told via a combination of music, imagery (Blue Note had a strong visual identity, thanks to Francis Wolff’s photographs and Reid Miles’ cover designs) and talking-head contributions from musicians and people associated with the label. These include jazz grandees Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, who joined the label in the early 60s; 90-year-old Lou Donaldson, whose affiliation with the company goes back to the late 40s; the late Rudy Van Gelder, the audio engineer who helped to establish the Blue Note sound; the label’s current president, producer Don Was; and some of the company’s current roster, including Robert Glasper, Norah Jones, Ambrose Akinmusire and Marcus Strickland.
MIAO XIAOCHUN was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In 1986 he received his bachelor’s degree and graduated from Nanjing University. In 1989 Miao graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China and from Kassel Academy of Fine Arts in Germany in 1999 for two master’s degrees. Until now he is teaching Art Photography and Digital Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
He is best known for his large scale photographs, often assembled panoramas, of modern Chinese cityscapes. His signature element is the presence of “He”, a figure in ancient Chinese scholar costume. Other works include computer graphics installations such as The Last Judgement in Cyberspace, a 3D monochrome reworking of Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel replacing every figure with a virtual model of Miao himself.
Miao Xiaochun is considered one of the most representative and influential artists In the domain of China’s new media art. He started in 90s his creative explorations on the interface between the real and the virtual. His extensive body of work includes photography, painting and 3D computer animation which are parallel to each other. He works in contemporary photography based on the “multiple view point” perspective to pioneer connections between history and the modern world.
Miao Xiaochun successfully uses 3D technology to create upon a 2D image a virtual 3D scene, to transform a still canvas into moving images, concurrently changing the traditional way of viewing paintings and giving a completely new interpretation and significance to a masterpiece of art, especially with the striking use of his idiosyncratic imagination about history and the future. His works add an important example to contemporary negotiations with art history, and open up new potential for art as he experiments with new possibilities, taking a step forward into new potential spheres.
His photographic and 3D animation works such as The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, H2O, Microcosm, Restart and Disillusion as well as his digital ink painting series “Beijing Handscroll”are worldwide exhibited.
LAURA PHILLIPS “LAURIE” ANDERSON (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, making particular use of language, technology, and visual imagery.She became widely more known outside the art world in 1981 when her single “O Superman” reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot (1.8 m) long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate sounds.
Anderson was married to musician Lou Reed from 2008 until his death in 2013.
RITA DOLORES MORENO (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican-American actress and singer. Her career has spanned over 70 years; she notably appeared in the 1961 film West Side Story, as well as a 1971-1977 stint on the children’s television series The Electric Company. Moreno is one of twelve performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards: an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony She has also won numerous other awards, including various lifetime achievement awards.
Moreno’s Broadway credits include Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969), the very short-lived musical Gantry (1970) and The Ritz, for which she won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. She appeared in Chicago in the female version of The Odd Couple, for which she won the Sarah Siddons Award in 1985. In 2006, she portrayed Amanda Wingfield in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s revival of The Glass Menagerie. In September 2011, Moreno began performing a solo autobiographical show at the Berkeley Rep (theater) in Berkeley, California, Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup written by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone after hours of interviews with Moreno.
Moreno acted steadily in films throughout the 1950s, usually in small roles, including in The Toast of New Orleans (1950) and Singin’ in the Rain(1952), in which she played the starlet “Zelda Zanders”. In March 1954, Moreno was featured on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption “Rita Moreno: An Actress’s Catalog of Sex and Innocence”. In 1956, Moreno had a supporting role in the film version of The King and I as Tuptim, but disliked most of her other work during this period. In 1961, Moreno landed the role of Anita in Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ film adaptation of Leonard Bernstein’s and Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking Broadway musical, West Side Story, which had been played by Chita Rivera on Broadway. Moreno won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for that role.
DERRICK ADAMS is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist working in performance, video, sound and 2D and 3D realms. His practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring self image and forward projection. A recipient of a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and 2014 S.J. Weiler Award, Adams received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alum. His exhibition and performance highlights include: Greater New York ’05, MoMA PS1; Open House: Working In Brooklyn ’04, Brooklyn Museum of Art; PERFORMA ‘05, ‘13, ‘15; Radical Presence & The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem; The Channel, Brooklyn Academy of Music; and is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. His work can be seen in New York at Tilton Gallery; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Gallerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris.
Andres Caballero is a public radio producer and filmmaker based in New York. He is a former producer at NPR’s Latino USA, StoryCorps and is an NPR/Above the Fray fellow. He co-directed GAUCHO DEL NORTE (2015), an observational documentary that follows the journey of a Patagonian immigrant sheepherder recruited to work in the American west. He is a 2016 MacArthur Documentary Grant recipient for THE INTERPRETER.
JILL NEWHOUSE is the fourth generation of her family to be an art dealer. She was a founding member and past President of the Private Art Dealers Association (PADA) and since 1999, a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), currently serving on board of the ADAA Foundation. Jill is a member of the Visiting Committee of the Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of The Morgan.
Gallery director Christa Savino joined the gallery in 2004, after five years of experience as manager of an important paper conservation studio in New York City. Liliya Lifanova, associate director, joined in 2015.
JNG has sold many important works to major collectors and to important museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Louvre Museum, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; and many others.
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Sports Stats 'on Tapp'
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Today’s Sportstat: December 19, 2019
By Jerry Tapp on December 19, 2019
Packers set team record for most turnover-less games in a season
If you are looking for a reason for the Green Bay Packers success this season, you really don’t have to go much further than a quick look at the stat sheet. Specifically, take a look at the turnover column each game. Through the first 14 games of this season, the Packers have had nine games where they did not commit a turnover.
Those nine turnover-less games in 2019 set a franchise record for most games in a season with zero turnovers. The previous record was eight games in three different seasons: 2009, 2015 and 2016. In fact, there have now been six seasons in Packers history where they team played six or more games with zero turnovers… and all of them happened this century, In addition, the Pack had zero turnovers in seven games in 2014 and in six games in 2004.
Green Bay tops the NFL this season with the most turnover-less games. Baltimore is second in the league with seven such games followed by Buffalo, Arizona, Minnesota and New Orleans with six games each. It’s interesting to note that of the six teams with six or more games without a turnover this season, five of those teams have 10 or more wins already this season (the only team without 10 wins from the six teams is Arizona who has only four wins).
Teams this season that do not have a turnover in a game are 85-32, a .726 winning percentage.
With two games remaining on the 2019 schedule, the Packers still have a chance to tie the all-time record for most games in a season without a turnover. In 2010, the New England Patriots finished the year with 11 games where they did not have a turnover. A couple of turnover-less games in their final two contests against the Vikings and Lions would give the Packers a tie with the Patriots for most turnover-less games in a season with 11.
There have been six teams in NFL history that have had nine or more games in a season with no turnovers. The six:
11-New England, 2010
9-Green Bay, 2019
9-Kansas City, 2017
9-New York Giants, 2008
9-Pittsburgh, 1994
There have also been 14 teams that had eight turnover-less games in a season.
Of the six teams listed above, the only team to win a Super Bowl that season was the 2016 Patriots.
In the Super Bowl era (since 1966), the Packers are now 119-24-2 (.828 winning percentage) in games where they do not have a turnover. Since 2000, that record is 78-4-2 (.840) for the Pack. If we take all of the NFL teams into consideration, teams that do not have a turnover in a game since 2000 have a combined record of 1714-519-5, a winning percentage of .767.
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Trenches And Trenchlife.
Trenches, long, deep ditches dug as protective defences are most often associated with World War I, and the results of trench warfare in that conflict were hellish indeed. Trench warfare in World War I was employed primarily on the Western Front, an area of northern France and Belgium that saw combat between German troops and Allied forces from France, Great Britain and later, the United States.
Although trenches were hardly new to combat, prior to the advent of firearms and artillery, they were used as defenses against attack, such as moats surrounding castles. But they became a fundamental part of strategy with the influx of modern weapons of war. Long, narrow trenches dug into the ground at the front, usually by the infantry soldiers who would occupy them for weeks at a time, were designed to protect World War I troops from machine-gun fire and artillery attack from the air.
As the Great War also saw the wide use of chemical warfare and poison gas, the trenches were thought to offer some degree of protection against exposure. While significant exposure to militarized chemicals such as mustard gas would result in almost certain death, many of the gases used in World War I were still relatively weak. Thus, trenches may have afforded some protection by allowing soldiers more time to take other defensive steps, such as putting on gas masks.
Trench Raiding
At least initially in World War I, forces mounted attacks from the trenches, with bayonets fixed to their rifles, by climbing over the top edge into what was known as “no man’s land,” the area between opposing forces, usually in a single, straight line and under a barrage of gunfire. Not surprisingly, this approach was rarely effective, and often led to mass casualties.
Later in the war, forces began mounting attacks from the trenches at night, usually with support of covering artillery fire. The Germans soon became known for effectively mounting nigh time incursions behind enemy lines, by sending highly trained soldiers to attack the trenches of opposing forces at what they perceived as weak points.
The men who made up raiding parties came from all walks of life – many would have volunteered for the job, but undoubtedly others were coerced by their comrades to tag along. Simply put, trench raiders needed to be both brutally vicious and exceptionally restrained and self-reliant. Crawling through no man’s land, beneath and over barbed wire, ready to fight at a moment’s notice was not for the faint of heart. Brutal, dirty trickery was also a necessity in order to survive. While the Germans were known to booby-trap potential souvenirs and corpses with explosives, Lieutenant Louis Keene of a Canadian Machine Gun Company reveals the Canadians were just as nasty.
When his men learned the Germans actually liked the cans of bully beef fed to Commonwealth troops, they began to throw cans of it over into the German lines:
“Throw one over… sounds like shuffling and getting out of the way are heard in the enemy trench. Fritz thinks it’s going to go off [as a grenade]. Pause, and throw another. Fritz not so suspicious this time. Keep on throwing until happy voices from enemy trenches shout, ‘More! Give us more!’ Then lob over as many hand grenades as you can pile into that part of the trench and tell them to share those too.”
If successful, these soldiers would breach enemy lines and circle around to attack their opponents from the rear, while their comrades would mount a traditional offensive at the front.
Diseases And Illness
With soldiers fighting in close proximity in the trenches, usually in unsanitary conditions, infectious diseases such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid fever were common and spread rapidly. Constant exposure to wetness caused trench foot, a painful condition in which dead tissue spread across one or both feet, sometimes requiring amputation. Trench mouth, a type of gum infection, was also problematic and is thought to be associated with the stress of nonstop bombardment.
As they were often effectively trapped in the trenches for long periods of time, under nearly constant bombardment, many soldiers suffered from “shell shock,” the debilitating mental illness known today as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It’s likely all of these factors, which stemmed from the widespread use of trench warfare, made World War I the deadliest conflict in global history to that point. It’s believed that as many as one in 10 of all fighting forces in the conflict were killed.
It was also the first conflict in world history to have more deaths caused from combat, rather than from disease spread during fighting. Trench warfare was also employed in World War II and in the Korean War to some degree, but it has not been used regularly during conflicts in the ensuing decades.
Extracted from Vimy Foundation and the Imperial War Museum
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Pirandai has long, slender, quadrangular stems, averaging around 1 meter in length and 1-2 centimeters in diameter. The green stems are rubbery to the touch and are thick and succulent. Each stem is segmented by many nodes with small leaves, and curly tendrils may appear at the tips of the stems. When Pirandai stems are peeled, they reveal a bright green, jelly-like flesh. Pirandai is tender with a pungent and highly acidic flavor.
Pirandai is available year-round.
Pirandai, botanically classified as Cissus quadrangularis, is a perennial plant belonging to the grape family. Also known as the Adamant Creeper, Veldt grape, Four-angled vine, Devil’s Backbone, Patah Tulang, and Hadjora, Pirandai stems are widely used as a medicinal herb in traditional medicine. The stems are also used in culinary preparations, but Pirandai stems must be soaked and cooked as they contain oxalate crystals which can cause an uncomfortable itching sensation in the throat and mouth.
Pirandai contains vitamin C and vitamin E and is also a rich source of calcium.
Pirandai can be used in both raw and cooked applications. Before it can be used, the leaves, tendrils, and lower stems must be removed leaving only the top three, tender segments to be cooked. The stem’s tough outer layer also needs to be peeled away, and the flesh is then cut into bite-sized pieces. Pirandai stems are commonly used to make chutney, pickles, and pastes. They can also be fried and served as a side dish. Pirandai pairs well with turmeric, garlic, onions, dried chiles, sesame seeds, tamarind, curry leaves, coconut, and yellow lentils. Pirandai will keep up to two weeks when stored in the refrigerator.
Pirandai was mentioned in the Bhawa Prakash, a classic text used for Ayurvedic medicine, written around 1550 CE. In traditional medicine, Pirandai is used to reduce swelling, as a pain reliever, as an aid for digestion, and to help relieve wounds and burns. Pirandai is also believed to help with recovery from injured ligaments, sprains, and broken or fractured bones.
The origins of Pirandai are relatively unknown, but it is believed to be native to Bangladesh, India, or Sri Lanka and has been growing wild since ancient times. Today, Pirandai can be found in home gardens and specialty retailers in Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Brazil, and the United States.
Recipes that include Pirandai. One is easiest, three is harder.
YouTube Pirandai Pickle
YouTube Pirandai Roti
YouTube Pirandai Soup
Annam's Recipes Pirandai Kulambu
Cooking My Passion Pirandai Chutney
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Sprouting Collard Greens
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Sprouting Collard greens are the result of a flowering or a bolting Collard green plant. Petite yellow flowers form in clusters along a tall stalk with small green leave, from the center of the plant. The blossoms have four petals in the shape of cross, are delicate, and tender. They have a slight crunch and taste like a young, sweet spring cabbage. Cuttings may also contain small immature green seed-pods that share similar tasting notes.
Sprouting Collard greens are available in the early spring.
Sprouting Collard greens are the flower and seedpods of the edible vegetable plant, Collard greens. Collard greens are a member of the Brassicaceae family and are botanically known as Brassica oleracea, variety acephala. Collard greens have a long and storied history making their stamp on United States' culture by becoming the official vegetable of the state of South Carolina in 2011.
Collard greens are known to be a good source of nutrients including vitamins A and K, folate, and the antioxidant beta-carotene. Specific nutrition information in regards to the sprouted Collard green is not readily available.
Sprouting Collard greens can be utilized as a garnish, best suited for savory dishes, both cold and hot. Collard Green blossoms are used to infuse oils, vinegars and marinades. Not much has been recorded as far as cooking the stalks and seed pods, however, a few innovative resources suggest sautéing.
The use of sprouting Collard greens is keeping with very traditional gardening practices in order to use as much of a plant as possible. According to folklore, consuming collards paired with black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day will promise a year of favorable luck and financial reward. Fresh Collard green leaves are also used to ward off evil spirits and as a headache remedy.
Collard greens are one of the oldest members of the cabbage family. The ancient Greeks and Romans grew kale and collards in domestic gardens, although did not make distinctions between the varieties. Collard greens are a cool tolerant crop and more resistant to frost than other cabbage varieties. Therefore, as the weather warms up plants ‘bolt’, meaning the plant begins to flower and go to seed, resulting in the “sprouted” crop.
Recipes that include Sprouting Collard Greens. One is easiest, three is harder.
Spicy Southern Kitchen Spicy Collard Greens
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Death to Free Speech in the Netherlands
by Brooke M. Goldstein
A Grand Survey of 20th-Century Jewish Literature
by Clayton Trutor
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Impeachment and Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water
by J.T. Young
On Wednesday, freedom of speech in Europe took a new and devastating turn, as a Dutch appellate court ordered the prosecution of Geert Wilders, parliamentarian and filmmaker, charging him with “inciting hatred and discrimination” against Muslims for his film exposing the threat of radical Islam.
This ruling comes a mere six months after the public prosecutor’s office found Wilders’ dialogue contributed to the debate on Islam and that he had not committed any criminal offense. Now, curiously, the court has done an about-face and decreed that charges may be brought against the politician, and that prosecuting him is somehow in “the public interest.”
After releasing a ten-minute self-produced film entitled “Fitna,” Wilders found himself wound up in a litany of “hate speech” litigation, one such suit filed by a radical Imam asking for 55,000 Euros in compensation for his hurt feelings.
Ironically, the film’s narrative is primarily comprised of quotes from the Koran which incite violence and death to “infidels” as well as scenes of an Imam preaching death to the Jews. Akin to something out of the Twilight Zone, the Imams who routinely spout hate speech from the pulpit and who are instigating these suits are never themselves charged with incitement to immediate violence. Moreover if the film “Fitna,” which merely quotes the Koran and depicts angry Imams, is “hate speech” then what is the Koran itself?
Suspiciously, the wording of the appellate court’s ruling strongly echoes public criticism made by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) when the earlier prosecution was dropped, where the OIC censured prosecutors for ignoring the “thin line separating freedom of speech and the instigation of hatred, animosity and discrimination.”
Even more disturbing is that the State of Jordan, most likely acting as a stalking horse for the OIC, has issued a request for Wilders’ extradition to stand trial in Jordan for blasphemy of Islam, a crime for which Shari’a law declares the penalty to be death. The Dutch parliament has taken the extradition request very seriously, and has shut out Wilders from all multi-lateral negotiations. As a precaution, Wilders no longer travels abroad unless he can obtain a diplomatic letter from the destination state promising he won’t be extradited. For years now, Wilders has lived under looming death threats complemented by the threat that any day, Interpol might issue a warrant for his arrest at Jordan’s behest.
Mistakenly, Wilders had thought that his own country remained true to democratic ideals, despite cases such as that of the cartoonist Gregorious Nekschot, who was arrested on May 13, 2008, by Dutch police for the criminal offense of “publishing cartoons which are discriminating for Muslims and people with dark skin.”
The very notion that a judge could weigh a man’s freedom of speech against what the court construed as “one-sided generalizations” is an absurd and dangerous misrepresentation of the very concept of free speech. However, that pales in comparison to the fact that a democratically elected and sitting member of government is going to be prosecuted for a thought crime for speaking to his constituents about matters of national security. In Iran dissdents are routinely arrested for holding opposing political views. Now we are seeing the same tactics being employed in Europe, but this time, enacted by Western governments at the behest of Islamist groups and against their own citizens.
WIlders’ “crime” is what the OIC has been working to criminalize on a global level through the United Nations, while advocating the punishment of Westerners who speak out against radical Islam, terrorism, and its sources of financing. It is clear that the OIC’s successes in the United Nations — where the General Assembly passed its “Combating Defamation of Religions” resolution last year — are already resulting in direct action.
This is no victory for the Netherlands, or for anyone — save the OIC and Islamo-fascists. The damage being done to free speech, however, is a defeat that will be felt everywhere. When members of a democratic country’s legislature can be arrested and tried for expressing ideas that some find objectionable, that country’s status as a free and fair democracy is in serious doubt. But while the Dutch will have to come to grips with their government’s abject failure to uphold basic principles of human rights, the leaders of other nations must take notice as well.
The OIC has power and influence, and “hate speech” laws provide an extremely malleable tool to silence critics of radical Islam — even if you are a member of a parliament, or indeed, perhaps, eventually, a member of Congress. Whatever pressure may be brought on the Netherlands to counteract the OIC’s influence must be brought to bear. For if Geert Wilders is tried and sentenced, it will establish the precedent Islamists have been striving for — and one day, none of us will be free to speak out against them.
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Rusnano CEO: Russian business realizes seriousness of global warming
The fight against global warming is "a noble mission for the mankind," Chubais said in an interview
© Sergey Metelitsa/ITAR-TASS
Methane emission in Arctic can contribute to global warming — scientists
KYOTO /Japan/ October 3. /TASS/. The Russian business has realized how serious the global warming issue is but at the same time, the ratification of the UN Paris agreement by Russia has become more complicated, Chief Executive Officer of state owned Rusnano nanotechnology company Anatoly Chubais said in an interview with TASS.
He is now taking part in the Science and Technology in Society Forum (STS) in Kyoto, Japan.
"Russia signed the agreement but has not ratified it yet. Politically the situation has advanced significantly but in terms of the current realities in Russia it has got more complicated, because the business has realized that this topic is serious and it is not an abstract discussion," he said.
According to him, the opponents of the ratification emerged when it became clear that "the state regulation of CO2 emissions can lead to some financial responsibility".
"Yes, there are opponents. They had a difficult discussion in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The Union adopted the document, I do not agree with and I was the only one who voted against this document," he said.
According to Chubais, the authorities and businessmen will soon start a serious discussion on further actions on that issue.
Russia will not fast-track ratification of Paris Agreement on climate change
"The Government has ordered the development of an action plan for the implementation of the signed agreements. The aspects of that plan are now the subject for discussion between the business and the government," Chubais said.
At the same time, Anatoly Chubais said that the ratification of the agreement by Russia would not be such a moment in history as it was with the Kyoto Protocol.
"Because the Kyoto Protocol entered into force thanks to the ratification of Russia," he reminded.
But the fight against global warming is "a noble mission for the mankind" and "Russia should not be away from it," Chubais said.
The UN Agreement on climate was reached on December 12, 2015 at the conference in Paris.
On April 23, 2016, at the UN General Assembly in New York, 175 countries signed the document, including Russia, Germany, India, China and the United States. The document provides for the obligations of the parties to prevent the increase of the average temperature on the planet by 2100 by more than two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. The Agreement will enter into force after being ratified by at least 55 countries, which account for at least 55% of the total global greenhouse gas emissions.
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First Russian diagnosed with coronavirus after returning from Italy recovers
David Berov has left the hospital
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MOSCOW, March 7. /TASS/. A man who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus after a trip to Italy has been discharged from a Moscow hospital after recovery, a source in the Moscow coronavirus task force informed TASS on Saturday.
"[He] has just been discharged [from the hospital]. [David] Berov has left the hospital," the source said.
According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, on March 2, doctors confirmed that a Muscovite had tested positive for the novel coronavirus after travelling to Italy. On March 6, Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said the man had recovered and would be discharged from the hospital soon.
A pneumonia outbreak caused by the COVID-19 virus (previously known as 2019-nCoV) was reported in China’s Wuhan, a large trade and industrial center, in late December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, describing it as an epidemic with multiple locations. Besides China, major coronavirus outbreaks have been reported in South Korea, Iran and Italy. More than 90 countries, including Russia, have reported confirmed coronavirus cases.
Number of COVID-2019 cases across globe up by over 312,000 in past day
The overall number of such cases exceeded 94.12 million, the World Health Organization said
Russian investment fund, Gamaleya Center set up scientific board on Sputnik V
Leading scientists in virology, microbiology, genetics and biotechnology from Argentina, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Russia, Sweden, UK and USA, representing top research and medical centers, have joined the board
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Tag Archives: Matthew Stafford
Wildcard Weekend: Seattle Seahawks vs. Detroit Lions
January 7, 2017 by The Chancellor of Football
Up in the Pacific Northwest the playoffs will be underway when the Lions enter Qwest Field as an underdog. After a 5 game winning streak against non playoff teams, Detroit fell to 3 straight teams who are in the postseason. In fact they went 0-4 against teams that made the playoffs so it begs the question… how will they win in Seattle??
Stafford’s injured hand in a glove.
Interestingly Seattle isn’t exactly streaking into this match-up either. Not only did they finish 3-3 over the last 6 games but the vaunted defense gave up more than 30 points in the last two losses. Some may point to the loss of FS Earl Thomas who was lost for the season. Yet reality is setting in how plucked and depleted their defense has become over the last few years due to free agency.
Seattle comes in with the NFL’s 5th ranked defense however LB Bruce Irvin and Super Bowl MVP LB Malcolm Smith are playing in Oakland. CB Brandon Browner is out of football, DE Clemons is in Jacksonville just to name a few are missing from the XLVIII championship unit. Now Thomas injury adds to this mix although several holdovers remain.
Surprisingly 15 of the 37 sacks Detroit has allowed have come on the road. This tells us Matt Stafford will work the short passing game and keep the Seahawk pass rush at bay. The Lions haven’t won a game since Stafford injured the middle finger on his throwing hand and their last game outdoors?? They only scored 6 points in New York. They have to possess the ball and own time of possession.
Russell Wilson and the Seattle offense has struggled to establish an identity all season. Without his scrambling to aid the offense in getting 1st downs they have run by committee and have yet to be inconsistent. Ever since CJ Prosise injured his shoulder the team has shuttled in a series of backs. In fact the Seahawks leading rusher is Christine Michael (469 yds) who has been cut and plays for the Green Bay Packers.
The Seahawks are vulnerable but Wilson should make a few plays to bail his team out today. He has a penchant to start scrambling before realizing his injured ankle hampers him and taking big sacks. He can’t do that today. One fumble on his side of the field can give the Lions life.
Seattle should squeak by in this game 23-12. Having lost 3 of their last 6 along with 3 road games where they couldn’t score 10 points, they are vulnerable. They may have a 1 week reprieve with a win this week.
Posted in 2016 NFL Post Season. Tagged Detroit Lions, Matthew Stafford, NFC Wildcard Game, NFL, nfl playoffs, Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Seahawks v Detroit Lions
2015 NFC North Predictions
September 7, 2015 by The Chancellor of Football
Whenever I think of the NFC North, I still envision the old black and blue division which was the NFC Central. The new division has given way to the new NFL and the heavy emphasis on passing. With the reigning NFL MVP in Aaron Rodgers averaging 41 TDs thrown over his last 3 complete seasons, you either take to the air or find a way to ground Green Bay. Over the last decade, this division has been the Packers to win or lose. However a small storm is blowing in from the northwest
2015 NFC North
Minnesota Vikings 11-5 *
Detroit Lions 11-5
Green Bay Packers 8-8
Chicago Bears 4-12
Armed with the return of the league’s best back in Adrian Peterson and a growing young QB in Teddy Bridgewater, the Vikings are poised to steal the division. Head Coach Mike Zimmer is a defensive wiz whose pass defense ranked 7th in the NFL. Peterson controlling the clock is the recipe needed to ground the Packers and Lions and vault Minnesota to the top of the division.
Even before the injury to wideout Jordy Nelson, it was clear the Packers needed to score to cover defensive deficiencies. After defections in LBs AJ Hawk, Brad Jones and reserve/suspended listing of DEs Letroy Guion and Datone Jones to start the season, Green Bay’s defense has yet to find itself. The Eagles thoroughly undressed Dom Caper’s defense in a 39-26 home loss in the 3rd preseason game. It looks like a season long odyssey as Rodgers will have to outscore opponents all year.
Stafford &Megatron
Returning the league’s second best defense is the Detroit Lions. Gone is Ndamukong Suh who has been replaced by former Baltimore Raven Haloti Ngata to anchor the front 7. The pass rush looked more than formidable as they knocked RGIII from the starting lineup in the most physical preseason game of 2015 vs the Redskins. Matthew Stafford was one blown call away from his 1st playoff win in Dallas. the Lions will make a return trip in 2015.
Stafford has a new weapon in rookie Ameer Abdullah out of the backfield. His explosive quickness on 3rd downs will move the chains. Where “Megatron” Johnson is the big offensive weapon, it’s Golden Tate that brought a gritty attitude to a finesse offense. The player that would make the tough block to spring a teammate or fight through Linebackers to get first downs.Tate is the catalyst to catapult the Lions back to the playoffs in the return of The Black and Blue Division.
Posted in 2015 NFL Preseason. Tagged Aaron Rodgers, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, football, Golden Tate, Green Bay Packers, Jordy Nelson, Matthew Stafford, Minnesota Vikings
Detroit Lions v Arizona Cardinals
November 16, 2014 by The Chancellor of Football
Make no mistake about it this is a big game. It’s a proving ground where the winner will make themselves out to be an NFC heavyweight. The winner of this game will make it as far as the divisional round of the playoffs. The team that falls today will make the playoffs but will fall in the wildcard game.
While it’s endearing to think the roll of the Cardinals will continue, but without Carson Palmer this team can’t make it to the Super Bowl. Truth is Drew Stanton is a very capable backup who is 3-0 this year and was 2-1 for the Lions in 2010 in the same capacity. However right now he’s completing just 49.5% of his passes. He hasn’t thrown an interception yet but he is going to go against the #1 defense in the Lions.
This is the game Matthew Stafford and the Lions will prove their mettle with a tight win. Calvin “Megatron” Johnson has beat Patrick Peterson like a drum since they have played in the NFL. The Cardinals may try Antonio Cromartie on him some today. Detroit hasn’t been stellar on offense this year but if they didn’t have kicking woes, they would be the 8-1 team and not the Cardinals. Although 7-2 isn’t bad.
They will win today 23-14 and cement their legitimacy as an NFC favorite heading into the 2014 playoffs.
Posted in 2014 NFL Regular Season. Tagged Arizona Cardinals, Calvin "Megatron"Johnson, Detroit Lions, Drew Stanton, Matthew Stafford, NFL, NFL Players, sports
2012 Detroit Lions Preview
July 7, 2012 by The Chancellor of Football
After more than a decade of futility, the Detroit Lions returned to the NFL playoffs. Yet they served notice in the season finale, a 44-41 loss to Green Bay, and their 45-28 loss to the Saints in the NFC Wild Card game, that they’re a team on the move. In those games they weren’t overwhelmed as much as just slightly outclassed by two teams that were NFL Champions in two of the last three years. Much like the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA, you’re watching a team grow right before you with a run against the best their sport has to offer which will allow them to mature into champions. Will it happen this year??? Do you realize they did it without their best offensive draft pick in RB Mikel LeShoure, who missed the season with an injured knee??
Quarterback: Now last year we told you a Lion turnaround was imminent yet couldn’t happen without a healthy season from Matthew Stafford. https://taylorblitztimes.com/2011/05/19/2011-detroit-lions-preview/ Yet who could foresee the type of record setting season he turned in. For the season, his 421 of 663 for 5,038 yards for 41 touchdowns to just 16 interceptions shattered team records. He joined Dan Marino, Kurt Warner, Peyton Manning, and Tom Brady as the only other quarterbacks who threw for more than 40 touchdowns in a season. Only three other quarterbacks in history had thrown for more than 5,000 yards either. Not bad for a QB completing his first healthy season.
One aspect of his value is how he improved as the season went on. In the Thanksgiving Day game where the Lions could make the leap to NFL elite status with a win over the Packers, Stafford turned in a subpar performance throwing for 276 yards & 3 interceptions in a 27-15 loss. Five weeks later he turned in a performance for the ages throwing for 520 yards and 5 TDs including a last minute touchdown drive in Lambeau Field. Although the Lions lost 44-41, he had come within 32 yards of breaking Norm Van Brocklin’s 62 year old record of 551 yards in a game. In this game he showed the go for broke moxie he displayed in bringing the Lions from behind as he had at Oakland two games prior. He grew as the season progressed and stands to come into 2012 as one of the NFL’s best. At quarterback the Lions are Super Bowl quality.
Versatile Jahvid Best
Offensive Backfield: Injuries forced this backfield to be in flux in 2011. When 2nd round draft pick Mikel Leshoure went down with an achille’s injury, Jahvid Best was forced to be a feature back when he’s more of a 3rd down guy. Best’s season was down production-wise in 2011 which saw him rush for only 390 yards and 2 scores, while catching 27 passes for 287 yards and another touchdown. He had 58 receptions in 2010 but a heavier workload saw him face time lost due to injury as well.
Although the team had to go running back by committee, each of the top three rushers on this team averaged 4 yards per carry or better. Kevin Smith #30 was the most productive back last year (72 car. 356 yds 4TDs) with a 4.9 yard average. Yet he also saw down time nicked with injuries. Lions’s brass must feel good about Mikel Leshoure’s recovery since they haven’t gone out to sign a more full time running back. http://prod.www.lions.clubs.nfl.com/news/lions-insider/article-1/RB-Mikel-Leshoure-participates-in-full-practice-for-first-time-since-Achilles-injury/ced9adaf-f263-4e05-a58d-66f0c3e3887d In fact he took several snaps in the June minicamp and came off looking like he was 100% healthy and ready for the new season. For those of you who can’t remember, he ran for over 300 yards in a game for the Illini and over 1,700 yards in his last collegiate season. He is 6’0 and 227 lbs, and an every down back. If he comes back 100% and takes the starting job, running back is average with a chance to be good. We have to wait and see… If he’s hurt and the backfield is thrown in flux again they drop back to below average…
Is a 2,000 yard season possible for Calvin Johnson?
Receivers: What else can be said of the electrifying talents of Calvin “Megatron” Johnson?? Going into last year, we felt he could possibly go for 90-100 receptions and 1,500 yards and he did not disappoint. Johnson’s 96 receptions for 1,681 yards 16 TDs made him a consensus All Pro. For the better part of the season he was on pace to break both Randy Moss’ touchdown record of 23 and Jerry Rice’s record of 1,808 receiving yards set in 1995. Do you realize he only needs 1,128 yards to hit the 7,000 yard mark for his career?? He’s the best weapon in the game today and his 11 catches for a team record 244 yards in the last game of the season put the Green Bay Packers and the rest of the league on notice. “Megatron” will flirt with a 2,000 yard season this year.
Last year this team received steady play from veteran Nate Burleson (73 rec / 757 yds) although he only caught 3 touchdowns. Will he be able to stay on the field with the Lions making Oklahoma wideout Ryan Broyles their 2nd round pick in the draft?? Keep in mind last year’s 2nd round pick Titus Young, from Boise St came on in the second half of the season. Of his 48 rec. for 607 yards and 6 touchdowns, 29 of those catches and 5 scores came in the second half of the season. All of this before we get to talented TE Brandon Pettigrew… No wonder this team couldn’t be stopped throwing the football. Even without a running game. This is already a Super Bowl caliber receiving corps. If Broyles can make the transition and come on late in the season…. dare we say it??
Offensive Line: This offensive line had mixed reviews last season as the team needs to protect Stafford better, they let him get hit 78 times last year along with 36 sacks. Too much for a quarterback who before last year had proven to be injury prone. To that avail the Lions made T Riley Reiff their #1 draft selection to help fortify the line. The question is will he fight for Left Tackle Jeff Backus’ job or Gosder Cherilus on the right?? Both tackles are former #1 selections but Backus is going to be 34 years old when they go into camp. He will take over for Backus at Left Tackle later but he should unseat Cherilus as the starter on the right now. Why??
When you look at the statistics for this line everyone is expendable. On obvious rushing downs where it is 3rd or 4th and 2 or less, this team could only rush for the first down 57% of the time to the left, 54% of the time up the middle and 40% on the strong side. Are you serious?? Those rankings are 26th, 23rd, and 31st and have to improve. The strong side is your power rushing side and you need to have push. Have attitude about it. Yet how much can you attribute that to their not having their best running back out there for the season?? On second thought, it doesn’t matter we’re only talking 2 yards so the line has to take the blame for those short comings. This line had better play better or it could be the weak link that allows a promising team to fall to injury or short of it’s goal. Even with improvement this group still receives a below average grade.
Cliff Avril had a breakout year in 2011 and could hit the 15 sack plateau this year.
Defensive Line: This unit is one of the team’s strengths. Of the 41 sacks (10th in the NFL) last year, 19 came from Defensive Ends Cliff Avril with 11, and Kyle Vanden Bosch with 8. Avril has learned a tremendous amount from his counterpart and coming into his 5th season and 4th straight with improved sack totals, we see a Pro Bowl year for him with 15 sacks. The defensive ends did benefit from the attention DT Ndamukong Suh drew after his stellar rookie campaign. Suh suffered a sophomore slump though with 39 tackles and 4 sacks which was down from his 66 tackle 10 sack performance from a season before. The frustration for Suh boiled over with several personal foul calls when he lost his composure. The most visible was his ejection after kicking a Green Bay Packer lineman in a national televised game on Thanksgiving.
They need him to lead by example especially with fellow DT Nick Fairley coming into camp injury free and with the same temprament. Fairley needs to show up to back his high draft status and give Lions fans what they’ve been envisioning since his selection. If these two can channel that fire and brimstone energy into just going after running backs and quarterbacks, this group is good and can make the transition to Super Bowl quality if Fairley can start and make plays for the Lions. It’s critical to the team’s overall psyche and growth when players start to reach their potential
Former Tennessee Titan Stephen Tulloch fortified the middle of the Lions defense.
Linebackers: This is an uninspiring group at first glance and just like we said before last year they could use a free agent pick-up here. In space, The Chancellor doesn’t like the play of DeAndre Levy he seems stiff out in the open and a step slow reacting to plays. His great speed masks it to the layman football watcher but coaches can and do take advantage of that with intermediate passing routes to his flank. He moved back from the middle after playing inside for 2010. He did make a respectable 109 tackles but only forced 1 fumble and only defensed 1 pass. He needs to play more instinctive, especially behind this line. In Super Bowl XXXV, Ray Lewis playing in a 4-3, defensed 5 passes in that game himself!! So asking for more than 1 pass defensed over an entire season isn’t being difficult. Hopefully he can play more instinctive in his second season back outside.
Now one player who did play well last year was Middle Linebacker Stephen Tulloch #55. Of the Lions’ back 7 on defense, he was the most consistent performer with 127 tackles, 3 sacks, 2 interceptions, and 7 passes defensed. He’s in his prime and for management’s sake should hope his improvement can be mirrored by Levy. The Lions are looking to shake things up at linebacker and selected two in the draft who seem to be paying dividends in OTAs already. Fifth round pick Tahir Whitehead out of Temple, and seventh round pick Travis Lewis from Sooner Nation. We think Travis Lewis will get on the field and replace Justin Durant by season’s end. If the Lions can get these young linebackers making plays this could be an above average group. As of right now we have to give them a below average grade and see how the position battles of summer camp pan out.
Houston had a big year in 2011. Pro Bowl in 2012??
Secondary: What is FS Louis Delmas back there reading?? Although he missed 5 games, he made 61 total tackles yet didn’t register 1 interception for a second straight season. This is one of the reasons the team finished with 21 interceptions while giving up 26 touchdowns and finished 22nd against the pass. With a pass rush this strong more plays needed to be made by the safeties. Delmas makes big hits but needs to arrive two steps before and make the interception. He has to show up this season. Amari Spivey improved in 2011 yet needs to step it up just a little bit more. In 2011 he made 75 tackles (up from 33 in 2010) intercepted 3 passes and had 1 sack. At cornerback Chris Houston (56 tackles / 5 ints) was solid although Houston missed 3 games. Chris proved to be the playmaker on this defense returning those 5 interceptions for a whopping 225 yards and 2 touchdowns.
The Lions made a serious statement in the draft taking 3 secondary players: CB Dwight Bentley in round 3, CB Chris Greenwood in round 5, and Jonte Green in round 7. They were prepared to replace CB Eric Wright, who departed via free agency and penciled nickel back Aaron Berry as the starter. Competition should be fierce for this cornerback spot with the signing of former Indianapolis Colt Jacob Lacey. This team has a few “ifs” in the secondary yet if they can stay healthy and Delmas can begin to read quarterbacks this secondary can be good. We have to wait until after training camp to find that out so they get a slightly below average grade for now.
Stafford needs to be healthy to take the Lions deep in the playoffs.
Overall: This team grew up in a major way last season. However, Head Coach Jim Schwartz has to get his team’s head out of the clouds and clean up the off the field issues. He has to keep his players from thinking they have arrived because of a little success. This is where he has to prove his mettle this year. One thing the Lions have this year is a relatively easy schedule, http://www.detroitlions.com/assets/pdf/2012_Det_Schedule.pdf They don’t play the bulk of their division rivals until we get to the second half of the season. More important they play 5 of their last 7 at home and the team should have growing pains ironed out by then. One game to circle is the week 6 matchup with Philadelphia. Each team wants to prove they are among the NFC elite and this game will have wildcard ramifications if either doesn’t finish strong. The winner of this game will have a championship building block level of confidence come playoff time.
The health of Mikel Leshoure and the running game, an explosive Nick Fairley to add nastiness to the defense and further bolster a strong pass rush, and an improved Delmas could pay huge dividends if all come to pass. How huge?? A trip to Super Bowl XLVII down in New Orleans awaits them if they do. Last year they went 10-6 and fought tooth and nail in their final games and playoff loss. We shall see how the preseason shakes out but this season just like last year, should end in the Super Dome.
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Posted in 2012 Team Previews. Tagged Calvin "Megatron"Johnson, Detroit Lions, football, Jahvid Best, Matthew Stafford, Mikel Leshoure, NFL, NFL Players, NFL Predictions, sports
Wild Card Week: Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints
Don’t you just love this time of year?? The chase is over for most NFL teams while the elite are gearing up for the real race to Super Bowl XLVI. Tonight’s game between the Detroit Lions and the NFC South champion Saints is shaping up to be a dandy. The league has celebrated Drew Brees and his record breaking 5,476 yards passing this season, yet no one is hailing Matthew Stafford for his 5,038 yard season. http://www.nfl.com/stats/player In his first full season as a starter, Stafford completed 63.5% of his passes for the aforementioned yardage, 41TDs to only 16 interceptions. Do you realize that in the last 3 games he’s thrown for 1,284 yards 12 TDs and only 2 interceptions?? One of those was a desperation heave at the tail end of the 44-41 season finale against the Green Bay Packers. The bottom line is he’s improved as this season has concluded and comes into this contest red hot.
He is throwing to Calvin “Megatron” Johnson, who had a tremendous season, finished with a 244 yard receiving performance in the finale against the Packers. That performance propelled Megatron ot overtake Wes Welker for the league lead in receiving yards with 1,681. What has been impressive with these two has been the fearlessness shown in the 4th quarter. The 98 yard drive on the road in Oakland in week 16 featured a 45 yard bomb to Johnson with less than 2 minutes on the clock. Even the finale against the Packers, Stafford threw for his 5th touchdown and what was thought to be the game winner, with less than 2 minutes to go in that one.
Standing in their way on the Bayou are the Saints, just one year removed from being Super Bowl champions. Drew Brees and the Saints have come down the stretch on fire. They are in the midst of an 8 game winning streak and scored over 40 in their last 3 contests. Yikes!! Something has to give. One major loss is the fact the Saints have to go into the playoffs without Mark Ingram. In a single game scenario Darren Sproles can fill the void but can he carry the load through the playoffs. At least Pierre Thomas is still there and is one of the best running backs on screen passes in case they can’t run effectively.
Both teams come in deficient on the defensive side of the ball ranking 23rd (Lions) and 24th (Saints) respectively. However there is a huge discrepancy between the two when it comes to forcing turnovers. The Saints have only forced an anemic 16 turnovers for the season where the Lions have forced 34. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/det/2011.htm How will the Saints respond if they find themselves in a tight contest after cruising for the past 6 weeks?? What happens if Drew Brees gets off to a slow start or if the Lions force a few turnovers early?? Can the Saint defense do anything to turn the game around if this happens?? By the way Jabari Greer and Tracy Porter have to deal with Megatron… Can they??
To win the Lions have to force a few early turnovers and get ahead of the Saints. The Lions learned to win on the road early this year with the twin twelve point comebacks in Minnesota and Dallas in the 4th quarter. Even the last week of the season we witnessed valor in their 44-41 loss to the Packers. Stafford threw for 520 yards and came within 22 yards of the all time record set by Norm Van Brocklin in the early 50’s. In the playoffs you win with stars and the Lions have several in Stafford, Megatron, and Ndamukong Suh. To win the Saints need Will Smith, Roman Harper, and Jonathon Vilma to have spectacular games. In this one, the Lions are ripe for the upset. We just don’t believe in the Saints defense.
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Xi Jinping Kicks off Myanmar State Visit
China Power | Diplomacy | Politics | East Asia | Southeast Asia
The Chinese president arrived Friday in an effort to deepen bilateral ties.
By Aung Shine Oo and Pyae Sone Win for The Diplomat
Credit: Flickr/UN
China’s President Xi Jinping was given a lavish welcome to Myanmar as he arrived Friday for a state visit meant to deepen bilateral relations at a critical time.
The visit nominally marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar, but also carries the promise of significantly boosting China’s profile and future investments.
Xi’s arrival was greeted with dancing children and youths waving the national flags of both countries and cheering, “Long live China-Myanmar friendship” and “Health to President Xi.”
China’s ambassador to Myanmar, Chen Hai, told Chinese journalists last week that during Xi’s two-day visit, the two countries would sign agreements “covering politics, economy, livelihoods and regional cooperation.” Some are expected to expedite major infrastructure projects that will extend Beijing’s strategic presence to the Indian Ocean.
A complicating factor is Myanmar’s general election, scheduled for late 2020. Too much wheeling and dealing with China could leave the government of the de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, vulnerable to accusations by political opponents that it is selling out the country.
The trip is Xi’s first to Myanmar as president and his first foreign visit this year. Jiang Zemin was the last Chinese president to visit Myanmar, when he signed several economic and border agreements in 2001.
Chen, the ambassador, said Xi will meet with Myanmar’s President Win Myint, State Counselor Suu Kyi, and military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, lawmakers and other opinion-makers.
Myanmar is a linchpin of China’s geopolitical ambitions. It offers access to the Indian Ocean that could allow its sizable oil and gas imports from the Persian Gulf to bypass going through the Strait of Malacca. It’s also a bridge to South Asia and beyond in Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative to build railroads, highways, ports, and other infrastructure connecting China with other points in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
China serves as a no-questions-asked ally to Myanmar, giving it diplomatic cover as the country faces widespread condemnation over its human rights record. It is threatened with Western economic sanctions over a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that has driven more than 700,000 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority to flee for safety in neighboring Bangladesh.
Last month a case charging Myanmar with genocide came before the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands.
China for years has defended Myanmar in forums such as the United Nations, and Myanmar has returned the favor by following Beijing’s positions on issue such as China’s claims over territory in the South China Sea.
More importantly, China as a top investor and trade partner with Myanmar offers economic insurance if Western nations do impose sanctions.
Just days before Suu Kyi went to The Hague in December to lead her country’s delegation at the initial hearings of the International Court of Justice, she met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The court holds another hearing next week.
“Xi is visiting Myanmar at the very right time. And Myanmar wants to show the Western world that China is backing them,” Germany-based Rohingya activist Nay San Lwin told The Associated Press. “I think it is not a coincidence. Myanmar wanted to say to the West to be careful if you impose any sanctions.”
Beijing in recent years has vied with Washington for influence in Southeast Asia.
China also uses its influence with various Myanmar ethnic rebel groups based along the countries’ border who are battling battle for autonomy from the central government.
While China has promoted peace talks between the the rebels and Myanmar’s government, its close ties with some of the rebel groups allow it to retain the option of threatening violence by using ethnic guerrillas as proxies.
What appears to be a mutually beneficial quid pro quo with China won’t necessarily play well domestically, a worry for Suu Kyi and her ruling National League for Democracy party as it faces new elections. A longstanding, strong undercurrent of anti-Chinese sentiment in Myanmar has grown in response to sometimes heavy-handed implementation of Chinese-backed projects that run roughshod over local communities, provoking allegations of land-grabbing, environmental damage, and selling out the country’s resources.
Myanmar’s previous military-backed government was forced by popular demand to suspend plans for the massive $3.6 billion Myitsone hydroelectric dam project in 2011, but it has not been canceled. Activists plan a protest against the project on Saturday outside the Chinese Embassy in Yangon.
Hurdles may be cleared during Xi’s visit to give the go-ahead to another project arguably more important to Beijing, the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone on the Bay of Bengal. With a deep-water port, it is the terminus of the 1,700-kilometer- (1,055-mile-) long China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, a major link in the Belt and Road Initiative whose other end is in China’s Yunnan province.
It includes cross-border oil and gas pipelines that have been operating for years. An industrial park and major railway are planned, though projected high costs have given pause.
Amnesty International is among the critics of the Chinese-assisted projects.
“With major economic and infrastructure agreements expected to be signed during President Xi’s visit, the absolute lack of transparency over such agreements is deeply disturbing,” the human rights group said in a statement Thursday. “Investment in infrastructure can help raise living standards and realize human rights through improved access to basic services and employment.”
“But these benefits are not delivered if those who bear the heaviest cost — the women, men, and children whose homes, health, livelihoods are be affected — are not adequately consulted before construction starts and protected from potential harm. Human rights, transparency, and consultation with communities should be at the heart of these projects.”
As reported by Aung Shine Oo and Pyae Sone Win of The Associated Press.
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Army Sgt. Randolph A. Sigley
Died April 18, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
28, of Richmond, Ky.; assigned to the 2123rd Transportation Company, Kentucky National Guard, Richmond, Ky.; died April 18 in Bagram, Afghanistan. He was found dead in his quarters, and the circumstances are under investigation.
Served in Afghanistan with Corps, Guard
Randy Sigley Jr. dove into every task head-first, eager to put his muscular, tattooed frame to use to help his fellow soldiers.
The tattoos on Sigley’s forearms kept him from ever becoming a Marine officer, under military rules. But that didn’t stop him from putting everything he had into being a soldier, said his friend, Troy Walton. Walton said Sigley was a “massive” man who was in great shape.
“He was definitely a hard-charger; he was motivated to do everything,” Walton said.
“I think he was pretty excited actually to go over to Afghanistan.”
Sigley, 28, of Richmond, Ky., died April 18 in Bagram, Afghanistan. Kentucky National Guard Lt. Col. Kirk Hilbrecht said Sigley’s bunk mates found him dead in his bed one morning. The military is investigating his death.
Sigley graduated from Marion County High School in 2000 and then joined the Marine Corps in 2000. He had served a tour in Afghanistan with the Marines during that time.
Hilbrecht said Sigley had initially been assigned to a cargo vehicle but was given a special assignment to an MRAP because of his “dedication to his unit.”
Among Sigley’s survivors are his mother, stepfather and sister.
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When Vanessa Convery first saw an ad for The Smith Center’s Camp Broadway youth theater program, she had an inkling her son Christopher might be interested.
“He always sang from a young age, since he could talk,” she recalls.
Her instincts were spot on.
Although Christopher was very young when he participated in the 2014 Camp Broadway production of “The Jungle Book” – his first acting experience – it sparked a fire in him that had to be fed.
“It taught me to improvise and learn what it’s like to be on Broadway and act like a professional,” remembers Christopher, now 9 and living in New York City pursuing his acting career.
This training wasn’t wasted.
Christopher is The Smith Center’s first Camp Broadway alumnus to actually perform on Broadway, still playing the role of Young Charlie in “Kinky Boots” after a full year of the show’s run.
He has expanded to TV and film roles, with ongoing auditions for more.
Vanessa considers Camp Broadway the starting point of it all.
“I remember he was so happy and beaming and had so much fun,” says Vanessa, herself a classically trained ballet dancer and former performer in Cirque du Soleil’s “Zumanity.” “I think that was really the catalyst that made us jump up and say, ‘you know what, we should kind of explore this.’”
They didn’t have to explore long.
Shortly after participating in Camp Broadway, Christopher earned a role in Super Summer Theatre’s production of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
Soon after, Vanessa received a tip from a friend that Christopher might be a great fit for the Broadway production of “Kinky Boots.”
They took a chance and flew to New York City to audition.
“We didn’t have any expectations,” Vanessa says.
After a call-back, however, they received a phone call just before they were scheduled to return to Las Vegas that he had landed the role.
From there, it was a frenzy of finding a place to live in New York City and sorting out Christopher’s school situation.
“I tried one day of home schooling and just couldn’t do it,” he says.
Now attending P.S. 51 Elias Howe School, he has more than thrived, skipping third grade and being elected vice president of the student council.
He enjoys similar success in “Kinky Boots,” performing in the evenings after school.
He enjoys his fellow cast members, and doesn’t feel intimated by the stage he’s on.
“A lot of people are like, ‘It’s so different,’ but it’s really not,” he says. “It’s just like performing at Camp Broadway or any other show. It’s just an audience out there.”
He recently shot a TV campaign for the show that focuses on acceptance, he adds.
“It’s proving that acting and singing can make a difference,” he says. “The audience comes and wants to be entertained, but when they leave, the really understand the message of tolerance.”
He wants to continue performing, whether on stage or screen, he says.
His mother offers full support, scheduling his lessons for piano and ballet – the latter through a scholarship at the School of American Ballet.
No matter what, he’ll be happy just performing, Vanessa adds.
“It doesn’t matter to Christopher if there’s four people in an audience or 1,600,” she says. “He always gives 100 percent.”
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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (2007)
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is a Japanese manga by Kōji Kumeta, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, word and culture in the most negative light possible. It satirizes politics, media, and Japanese society. In 2007, the manga received the thirty-first Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category, and was adapted into a twelve-episode anime series. A second season, titled Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei aired between January and March 2008. A set of three OVAs titled Goku: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei were produced between October 2008 and February 2009. The first and third volume were bundled with the limited edition of volume fifteen and sixteen of the manga while the second volume was released separately. A third anime TV series, Zan: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, aired between July and September 2009.
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Welcome to Paradox
Welcome to Paradox (1998)
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Welcome to Paradox is a science fiction television series aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the U.S. and on Showcase in Canada. Despite being filmed in Canada, the series was broadcast first in the United States. It first aired on August 17, 1998, and ran for one season, ending on November 9, 1998. As this was part of a crop of new shows produced in 1998 by Sci Fi Channel and it was not successful beyond the first season, it was never placed in syndication. Betaville was the original title for the series.
The series is an anthology hybrid. The stories all took place in the fictional future city of “Betaville”, a nod to Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville. However, the majority of the stories were adapted from short stories that originally didn’t have anything to do with the fictional city. The stories were adapted from older works by famous science fiction authors which explored the impact of certain technologies on the human body and psyche, and the theme of humanity being overwhelmed by hostile technologies. Each episode had a host—originally to be named “Paradox” until the concept was dropped—that served as a narrator, adding a prologue and epilogue to the show as with The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. The Volkswagen New Beetle was chosen to be the transportation of Betaville. Any time it was called for a car to be featured in an episode, a New Beetle was used.
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Amazon Prime Video Announces ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Third Season Will Debut December 6th with Teaser Trailer
19 ago 2019, 22:44 CEST – Jason Gurwin
One of Amazon’s most successful series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, will return for it’s third season on Friday, December 6th. The show which won two Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards — including Outstanding Comedy Series features a upper middle class Jewish housewife trying to break into standup comedy.
Just like Netflix, you can binge the entire 10 episode third season on Prime Video when it debuts. The series stars Rachel Brosnahan (House of Cards) and Alex Borstein (Family Guy) and was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls).
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The first two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are included for free with your Prime subscription and can be streamed on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, iOS, Android, or Web.
New subscribers can get a Free 30-Day Trial to Amazon Prime Video. Afterwards, you can keep your Prime Video standalone subscription for $9 per month or upgrade to Amazon Prime for $13 a month ($120/year).
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Home Net Worth Daren Kagasoff Net Worth 2020
Daren Kagasoff Net Worth 2020
The Secret Life of the American Teenager is what rose to stardom this talented American actor. He is called Daren Kagasoff, and he is the main subject of our article today. If you are interested in getting to know a little more about this successful man, take a further read into our article.
Daren Kagasoff’s zodiac sign is Virgo, as he was born on September 16, 1987. His mother’s name is Elise Kagasoff, and his father is Barry Kagasoff. In addition to Daren, they have two other children. Another son, whom they named Justin, and a daughter called Natalie.
The actor attended Montclair Prep High School, which is located in Los Angeles, in one of the United States of America. He further expanded his education by going to San Francisco State University, and that is where he graduated. Soon after obtaining his bachelor’s degree, he started working on his professional career.
Source: Hollywood Life
The actor got lucky to soon land a significant role shortly after graduating from college. He got the role of Richard Underwood in the hit series titled The Secret Life of the American Teenager. He appeared alongside some other prominent figures in the acting industry like Megan Park, Shailene Woodley, and India Eisley. The TV show aired from 2008 to 2013. For his fantastic portrayal of Richard Underwood, he received many awards like the Teen Choice Award, amongst other awards, and nominations.
In 2014 some new roles came for the talented actor, as the hit TV show ended a year before. He got to appear in Ouija, a supernatural film alongside Douglas Smith and Bianca Santos. Kagasoff also got the roles in Stalker, Blue, and Delirium, all of which are TV series. In Red Band Society, he portrayed a character named Hunter Cole from 2014 to 2015.
Other notable portrayals of this American actor are Wyatt Osborne in Paradise Pictures, Gordon in Imposters, and he even appeared in S.W.A.T. He is working at the moment in a movie titled The Village, and it is known that he will be playing a character called Gabe Deluca.
There are many rumors and speculation on who has the actor been romantically involved in the past and the present. Many linked him to various fellow actresses like Emma Roberts, Shailene Woodley, Francia Raisa, and Megan Park. He has never talked about his romantic relationships, and he likes to keep his personal life quiet. The most common name that was named in connection to the American actor was Jacqueline MacInnes Wood. However, Wood got married last year to Elan Ruspoli, so as of now, the speculation is that Daren Kagasoff is currently not dating anyone.
Source: Zimbio
The 6 feet tall American actor started his professional career in 2008. Since then, he has had many notable roles that brought him fame and fortune he has today. As of 2020, his estimated net worth is around $2 million, and by the looks of it, the wealth will only grow from this day forward.
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Iranian Scientist Assassinated
Robert Brooks Contributor
This is the top story from our daily newsletter published on December 1, 2020. To have this and more delivered directly to your inbox scroll down and enter your email or click here to sign up.
Top Story from the Associated Press news team: “A top Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using ‘electronic devices’ to remotely kill a scientist who founded the Islamic republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s.” The scientist in question was, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian named by the West as the leader of Iran’s disbanded military nuclear program who was killed last Friday in an ambush on the outskirts of Tehran. Here is the response to the attack from both sides:
On the Right: Conservatives and right-leaning outlets view the attack as proof that Iran has been cheating on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal. In an opinion piece for the New York Post, Richard Goldberg writes: “Let this be a warning to Biden: Iran has been cheating this whole time.” Goldberg says: “Friday’s apparent assassination of the founder of Iran’s nuclear weapons program wasn’t just a setback for the regime’s nuclear ambitions — it was a timely reminder that the Iran nuclear deal was built on Iranian deception from the start.” Goldberg supports his argument by outlining how Iranian government-funded organizations like the SPND, which were led by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, have been functioning in a covert manner. He says: “Last year, the State Department revealed that SPND has employed as many as 1,500 individuals, including nuclear weapons scientists.” Goldberg says this was only possible because Iran “never truly halted its nuclear weapons program” even though “supporters [of the JCPOA] wanted the world to believe that Iran had left its nuclear ambitions in the past.” In reality, Goldberg says, “we now know Iran lied to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to the participants of the Iran nuclear deal” which means that “President-elect Joe Biden can no longer pretend that the Iran deal prevented the Islamic Republic’s nuclear advancement.” Goldberg concludes by saying: “Team Biden should issue a clear message to Tehran: come clean or say goodbye to future talks.”
On the Left: Progressives and left-leaning commentators believe the attack was meant to limit the incoming administration’s options in regards to Iran and the Iran nuclear deal. In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Barbara Slavin, who directs the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council asks: “Why Was Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed?” She answers: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, with the support of President Trump, seems intent on scorching the earth to make it harder for any return to diplomacy under President-elect Joe Biden.” According to Slavin, “Israel and the Trump administration apparently fear that a Biden administration would seek a quick return to the nuclear agreement, which could revive Iran’s struggling economy and make it harder to contain its influence in the Middle East. Killing Mr. Fakhrizadeh makes that all the more difficult.” Although those are the alleged goals, Slavin says “The killing of Mr. Fakhrizadeh will not dent Iran’s nuclear expertise.” She believes, “The latest killing may not provoke Iran to build nuclear weapons, but it will likely feed the animosity between the United States and Iran, making diplomacy that much harder. It could strengthen hard-line factions in Iran arguing against a return to diplomacy.” In conclusion, Slavin says “It would be the ultimate tragedy if Israel’s aggression now led Iran to change its calculus and go for weapons. This could spark a nuclear arms race throughout the region and ensure that the Middle East remains dysfunctional, riven by sectarian and other conflicts, its peoples’ potential for productive work stymied and its youth vulnerable to recruitment by terrorists who have struck innocent people around the world.”
Flag This: Most of the polling around US-Iran relations is dated. One of the most recent polls was published in August 2019. This was well before the US election, the pandemic, and the January 3, 2020 Assassination of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Nevertheless, at the time, Mohamed Younis aggregated data for Gallup which showed that “78% of Americans favor reliance on nonmilitary efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear program.” When asked if the US should take military action against Iran if economic and diplomatic efforts do not work, 42% of the population thinks we should. Republicans tend to be more “hawkish” or in favor of military action whereas Democrats favor diplomatic channels. Lastly, Gallup data showed that “65% of the country has expressed concern that the US will be too quick to use military force.”
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Iran hails laws facilitating trade with world: VP
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Vice-President for Legal Affairs Elham Aminzadeh said Tehran appreciates laws that help enhance commercial interaction with world countries.
Speaking Tuesday in a meeting with José Angelo Estrella Faria, secretary-general of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), Aminzadeh said the Islamic Republic, which is reviewing and complementing its trade law, would welcome any laws and propositions that could help in facilitating Iran’s trade ties with world countries.
She added that Tehran seeks to develop relations with UNIDROIT, which works to harmonize countries’ commercial regulations with one another.
José Angelo Estrella Faria, for his part, hailed Iran’s interest to cooperate with his institute.
Founded in 1926, UNIDROIT is an independent intergovernmental organization with its seat in Rome.
The institute’s purpose is to study needs and methods for modernizing, harmonizing and coordinating private and in particular commercial law as between states and groups of states and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles and rules to achieve those objectives.
By Tasnim News Agency
Elham Aminzadeh, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), Iran's Vice-President for Legal Affairs, José Angelo Estrella Faria, Quoted, secretary-general of UNIDROIT November 26, 2014
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Tulane’s annual fundraising concert to be streamed
Mercedes Ohlen, Contributing Writer
This year’s concert can be streamed October 15 at 8 p.m. CDT. (Josh Jessiman, Emma Vaughters)
Tulane’s annual fundraising concert, The Tipping Point, will be virtual this year amidst the ongoing social distancing guidelines in place to keep the community safe. Produced by UpperWest Music Group, the homecoming event’s proceeds will go towards providing student scholarship support.
The lineup this year consists of artists like PJ Morton, Jolynda Kiki Chapman and Tony Hall, as well as a number of other prominent musicians. The artists will be socially distanced on the stage which will also have plexiglass barriers. Along with following social distancing guidelines, the artists get daily temperature checks, and a COVID-19 compliance officer is on hand to ensure all protocols are being followed at all times.
“The artists were thankful to be doing what they do, and everyone knew that although the situation wasn’t perfect, we were lucky to be playing music and putting on a show,” said Luann Dozier, the vice president for advancement at Tulane, who works with UpperWest Music Group to annually put on the concert.
The concert will feature a number of special guests including journalist and television presenter Hoda Kotb, actor John Goodman and Tulane professor Walter Isaacson, in addition to the artists performing at the event.
“We wanted to celebrate the city of New Orleans, Tulane University and the great musical talent the city is known for in addition to limiting the amount of people travelling due to the pandemic,” Dozier said.
Without a crowd, the group behind the concert found a way to let fans not only livestream in, but also be featured with the “Fans Cam,” which will allow for fans to be seen by all who are watching the stream.
“This year’s [virtual] show will benefit the viewers by not missing a year and bringing a little bit of NOLA spirit into their homes,” Dozier said. “We are grateful to Tulane University, the entire Tulane Family, our Music Director Eric Krasno and all the guest artists for participating and for making this show happen!”
The event will be streaming live from The Fillmore New Orleans starting at 8 p.m. CDT on Thursday, Oct. 15. Fans can access the concert on FANS.LIVE.
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Young Jim has to grow up fast after the Japanese invade Shanghai. Separated from his parents and alone in a prisoner of war camp, Jim must fight to survive.
Starring Miranda Richardson, John Malkovich, Christian Bale
Director Steven Spielberg
Mrs. Victor
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Victoria police cleared of wrongdoing in man’s death
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Published Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:08PM PST Last Updated Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:41PM PST
The IIO’s chief civilian director has determined police actions or inactions played no role in the man’s death. (File photo)
VICTORIA -- The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) has concluded its investigation into the death of a man who had been in custody in Victoria police cells last month.
After reviewing video sources, medical information, and a statement from a civilian witness, the IIO’s chief civilian director has determined police actions or inactions played no role in the man’s death.
The case involves a man allegedly causing a disturbance in the 600-block of Douglas Street in the early-morning hours of Nov. 20.
The man was arrested and assessed by paramedics, who cleared him. He was then taken to Victoria police headquarters.
Less than two hours later, officers noticed the man appeared to be unwell and had fallen off his bed. Police again called paramedics, who took him to hospital where he was found to be suffering from pre-existing medical conditions.
The man died the following day.
The IIO said the man had no injuries as a result of falling from the bed.
The police watchdog says the speed of the officers’ response to the man’s apparent distress, and their decision to call EHS immediately, were appropriate and commendable under the circumstances, although those actions were unable to prevent the man’s death.
Man dies after leaving Victoria police custody, IIO investigating
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Hanoi to launch first CNG-fuelled bus routes
Hanoi will pilot three bus routes using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from August 1, according to the city’s Department of Transport.
The proposed routes are from My Dinh Bus Station to Son Tay Bus Station, Yen Nghia Bus Station to Dang Xa Urban Area and the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases to Times City. The three routes will be managed by Bao Yen Tourism, Construction and Services Co. Ltd.
Buses, which have a capacity of carrying 50 passengers, will run every 15-20 minutes with fares of 9,000 VND (38 US cents) on the first and second routes and 8,000 VND (0.34 US cents) on the third one.
According to the Hanoi Public Transport Management and Operation Centre, CNG has many advantages. It does not adversely affect human health or the environment and compared with other fuels CNG is cheaper so it can help reduce production costs.
Experts say the price for 1 tonne of CNG is about 318 USD, nearly half the price of gasoline and 42 percent of the price of diesel. They calculated that buses running on CNG would save 8,308 USD in fuel compared to diesel each year.
The buses were supposed to go into operation on July 1 but there were delays due to the development of the gas pipelines and CNG filling stations, the centre said.
There is currently only one CNG filling station in Hanoi at Bao Yen’s headquarters in Dong Anh district.
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Advantages of the electric car
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No air pollutants and no CO2 emissions when in use
Electric cars do not emit pollutants into the atmosphere when they drive. No NOx, fine particles, unburned hydrocarbons and other carbon monoxide, which are often blamed for their health impacts. There are, however, some particulate emissions from tires and brakes, emitted by all vehicles.
Switching to electric vehicles therefore has an immediate benefit for air quality in cities and near roads.
Electric vehicles do not emit CO2 during use either. And if the electricity used is low-carbon as in Belgium (230 g CO2/kWh) or France (60 g CO2/kWh) the carbon footprint of the electric car is better than that of a thermal car (petrol or diesel).A bright future
To limit global warming we need to reduce emissions by 80-95% by 2050 (compared to 1990). This includes drastically reducing the use of fossil fuels (diesel and petrol) for transport.
One of the technical solutions is to drive on electricity. Provided that the total number of vehicles on the road is reduced and that electricity is produced from renewable energy sources (solar, wind, etc.).
To give an idea, the number of electric cars in the world (including hybrids) should increase from 5.1 million in 2018 to 120 million in 2030 depending on the policies and measures planned by the States. This is the “New Policies Scenario”. A more voluntarist scenario, called EV30@30, imagines a 30% share of electric vehicles among new vehicles in 2030. This would result in 220 million electric cars (plus utility vehicles) by that date.Silencer
When it starts and when it drives, the electric car is almost silent. A real asset for the peace and quiet of cities. It is not the inhabitants close to the main roads that will contradict this. The snag: it can be dangerous for pedestrians who do not hear it coming. So be careful!
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Economical to use
It is known that current vehicles theoretically consume between 13 and 25 kWh/100 km (standard cycle). This amounts to a cost of $3.25 to $6.25 per 100 km (1 kWh costs $0.25 on average).
A petrol or diesel vehicle that theoretically consumes 5 l/100 km costs between $6 and $7 of fuel per 100 km.Low maintenance
The electric car requires little maintenance. The engine system is very simplified compared to an internal combustion vehicle (petrol, diesel or gas). There are a hundred times fewer rotating parts, there is no gearbox and no oil to change.
Thanks to regenerative braking (part of the kinetic energy is recovered and turned into electricity), the brakes are subject to much less stress and the brake pads need to be replaced less often than with an internal combustion car.
On the other hand, you may have to change the battery of your electric car, after 1000 to 1500 cycles of recharging or 8 to 10 years.the price of a new battery is very high: 8100 $ for the battery of a small car like Renault Zoe (52 kWh). In order to limit the replacement cost, some brands offer to lease the batteries rather than buy them.
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Brexit debilitation.
By Professor Chris Grey
[ 11 min read ]
Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on the deadline that wasn’t, the debilitating effects of uncertainty, the lies that got us here and the lies about why we are here, a non-prediction, and some advice (to myself, at least) to switch off the news...
First published in December 2020.
So yet another supposedly final deadline has come and gone, and the ludicrous ‘will they, won’t they’ theatre of the last few months continues. Ludicrous, but debilitating, too, in a host of ways.
Debilitating, certainly, for those desperately anxious to know just how much their lives and livelihoods are going to be damaged, with literally only days to go. Debilitating for those businesses and others who are expected to be prepared for changes as yet unknown or, where known, lacking in the necessary operational detail, as the head of the British Chambers of Commerce has outlined. Debilitating, too, for the reputation of the UK – already so battered by Brexit – with bellicose talk of deploying the Royal Navy to police ‘no deal’ fishing rights and the ramping up of jingoism and xenophobia in this weekend’s newspaper headlines.
These headlines are not going down well in #Germany / #EU, but then you have never missed an opportunity to whip up #Xenophopbia @DailyMailUK. It is always dreadful, but at this point, to undermine a last minute hope of a deal is particularly irresponsible. pic.twitter.com/xt3taIA4gu
— Juergen Maier (@Juergen_Maier) December 13, 2020
If this is all supposed to be part of a ‘tough’ negotiating strategy, it is one which makes for deeply irresponsible government and which is having deeply destabilizing effects. Huge sectors of the economy don’t know what they are facing, and business leaders are reported to be in despair. We’re in the extraordinary situation of planning for a military airlift of vaccines to the UK (and, equally extraordinary, of not knowing whether there will be adequate supplies of general medicines). Already supermarkets and others are stockpiling goods, with consequent massive lorry queues. Nor should the uncertainty about non-economic issues, such as those of security co-operation, be forgotten.
Perhaps the greatest uncertainty is faced by the people of Northern Ireland. Whilst the Northern Ireland Protocol was designed as an insurance against every eventuality, including no deal, it has already come under strain. Last week, some agreements on how it would operate were reached and – whether as cause or consequence – the government agreed to remove the illegal clauses from the Internal Market Bill and other legislation. However, as a leading expert on this topic, Professor Katy Hayward of Queen’s University Belfast, explained this does not mean that Northern Ireland is ‘sorted’ and all the more so if there were to be no wider trade deal.
We don’t even know whether, if there is no deal, the UK will agree to the EU’s temporary mitigations which were announced last week. Under these, “basic” air and road connectivity will be assured for six months, subject to UK reciprocation, and there would be a one-year standstill on fisheries. If the UK didn’t agree, it would make the crisis of no deal even greater than it would otherwise be. So across the entirety of national life we are only a few working days from a completely unknown situation. Yet MPs asking questions about preparedness for no deal this week were berated by Paymaster-General Penny Mordaunt for not acting “in the interests of the country”.
The very basics of democratic accountability, even of rational debate, are now deemed unpatriotic, debilitating our political culture.
The lies that bind us
As always, in the background are all the lies stretching back to 2016 about a quick and easy deal. But even without rehearsing those again it’s enough to recall how during the 2019 General Election Boris Johnson was pretending (though not quite saying) that he had already done the final Brexit deal.
He covered himself verbally but the meaning of his continual slogans about ‘an oven ready deal’ that would ‘get Brexit done’ was designed to deceive and it did deceive. Now, of course, he and his apologists are pointing to the verbal tricks to deny that any such pretence occurred.
We are no longer just in the territory of lies, but of lies about lies. Even now Johnson is incapable of telling the truth, with his smirking pretence that if there is no deal it will, in fact, be an ‘Australia-style’ deal.
And, as always, we are in this situation because a small but ruthlessly extremist group of politicians, journalists and ‘thinktankers’ have pushed to ever more extreme positions. The proposition just a few years ago that ‘it wouldn’t be so bad to be like Norway’ – a debatable but perfectly sane and practically deliverable proposition – has gradually morphed into one where, for the Brexit Ultras, any kind of deal with the EU would be a betrayal of a wholly absurd theocratic doctrine of sovereignty. It is the adherents to this doctrine to whom Johnson is in thrall if, indeed, he is not one of them himself.
It is a doctrine which makes no sense even in its own terms, because at the same time as it is deployed as an inviolable principle that may preclude any deal with the EU, it is necessarily compromised in the trade deals the government is agreeing with Japan or Canada, and in potentially embracing WTO terms for trade with the EU. On these grounds, simultaneously meaningless and hypocritical, the government is apparently still considering something which, from its own impact assessments, carries the dangers of creating “a systemic economic crisis” with food and medicine shortages, power cuts, and civil disorder.
Perhaps this won’t happen. Perhaps, as some rumours have it, a series of fudges and compromises are in the offing which will get some sort of a deal over the line – although, even if so, there would seem to barely be enough time to ratify such a deal in time for the end of the year. But why are we even in this situation of debilitating uncertainty?
Why are we in this situation?
It is important to be clear that the reasons the Brexiters are giving for why a deal has not been made and is proving so difficult to make are also lies. Their key claim is that the EU has made unreasonable and unprecedented demands upon the UK, many sprung on the UK at the last moment. Even taken at face value this is an odd claim. The Brexiters have spent decades saying that the EU is akin to Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, totalitarian and dictatorial, and a ‘protectionist racket’. Yet they seem to have predicated Brexit on the starry-eyed belief that it would be cuddly and nice, and a pushover in the negotiations.
But, of course, the claim shouldn’t be taken at face value. In one way, it is true by definition that the terms of a Brexit deal would be unprecedented – never before has such an exit occurred – although the extent to which the EU is making unprecedented demands compared with those on other third countries is over-stated. The situation of the EU making a deal with a geographically close and economically completely intertwined third country is similarly unique. The UK idea, since Johnson came to power, of the negotiation being one of ‘sovereign equals’ with there being some set of rights of what is due to the UK as a third country is at best naïve and at worst disingenuous. Indeed, as the Spanish Foreign Minister acutely pointed out, trade negotiations are a vehicle for managing interdependence between sovereign nations; using them simply to assert independence is to doom them to failure.
Equally disingenuous is the idea that the UK is only asking for the same as Canada (it has been asking for more, not improperly but it is dishonest to say otherwise). Indeed repeated claims from Brexiters that their plan was for a ‘Canada +’ or even ‘Canada +++’ or ‘Super-Canada’ deal give the lie to this idea. And also disingenuous is the idea that the long-standing EU offer of a ‘Canada-style’ deal meant ‘exactly the same as CETA’, as opposed to ‘in the category of free trade agreements’ (rather than single market membership). Let’s knock on the head once and for all the myth that Michel Barnier (with his staircase) and Donald Tusk promised a cut-and-paste of CETA. They didn’t – they said that UK red lines left a free trade agreement, of the type but not of the same content as CETA, which would be definitionally worse that single market membership. Moreover, at the time, Brexiters greeted this not as a promise but as a ‘threat’ of punishment.
As regards the issues that have proved to be the main barriers to doing a deal, the unique circumstances of Brexit were always going to make disentangling fishing arrangements complex, even leaving aside anything else, just as they had been prior to EEC membership. That the EU would seek Level Playing Field commitments as a condition of a free trade deal was made clear as early as April 2017, and was in the Political Declaration that Johnson signed – and promptly dismissed as irrelevant. And there was always going to need to be a governance mechanism – if the EU has become more insistent in recent weeks that this be tightly specified that is because the UK has already shown it is willing to break both what had been signed up to legally in the Withdrawal Agreement and informally in the Political Declaration, thus destroying all trust.
It’s also worth noting something about these three sticking points. A key and utterly flawed claim of the Brexiters has been that a trade deal would be easy because the UK was starting from a point of total convergence with the EU, and it is agreeing convergence which makes making free trade deals so difficult and slow. This was the basis of, for example, Liam Fox’s now notorious claim that it should be “one of the easiest deals in history”. It was always nonsense (as pointed out in my post of July 2017) because the aim of this trade deal, uniquely, is divergence, and so it was the management of divergence which was bound to be problematic. And so it has proved – for all three of the potentially deal-breaking issues are about the terms of divergence.
Beneath all of this is a more basic issue. Questions of whether or not the EU is being ‘reasonable’ in its demands are entirely beside the point. Trade negotiations aren’t ‘nice’. They involve the parties pursuing what they see as their self-interest. The ‘what they see as’ bit is crucial – Brexiters have long sought to define for the EU what its self-interest ‘should be’, with their claim about the significance of the UK trade deficit being central. They were wrong, as they were told they would be. It doesn’t even matter if the EU has miscalculated (though there are good arguments against that being so) because the brutal reality is that this is its calculation.
And not only were the Brexiters wrong about the EU’s interests, so too are they wrong about the UK’s. For, as we are seeing, they have led us to paying a terrible price – exactly how high will depend on whether there is a deal – for the purely imaginary benefit of sovereignty. And, despite what is now claimed, that benefit was never presented simply as a matter of principle to be achieved at any cost, but as something which would also bring economic benefits, with the £350 million a week for the NHS being the headline example. They were wrong about that, too.
In short, we haven’t ended up in the present mess by accident. It has happened because when they were not lying the Brexiters were simply ignorant. They either fooled themselves or were fooling others. Every single step of the way, every single claim they have made has been discredited. And, of course, there is much more in the way of consequences of that still to come.
In the immediate term, it’s impossible to know what will happen. The swirl of rumours, counter-rumours, predictions, counter-predictions, and rune-reading that has characterised the last few months is intensifying and will continue to do so. All of the rumours can be made to equally well fit a narrative of Johnson proclaiming a last-minute triumph, despite EU perfidy, as they can one of a last-minute failure, because of EU perfidy.
The stories after the Johnson-von der Leyen dinner last week seemed to point firmly to there being no deal. Sunday’s joint statement is being widely interpreted to suggest a deal is now more likely, perhaps the more so because it was a joint statement. Almost everyone thought that this weekend there would be a definitive announcement. There wasn’t. Perhaps it will come in the next few days, or perhaps things really will drag on until the very end of the month – it may be telling that Sunday’s statement did not mention any new deadline. Perhaps even at this late moment some kind of fudged deal-but-not-a-deal will be created with implementation periods that mimic an extended transition. Perhaps there will be a very short no deal interim.
It’s easy to make out a convincing case for why both deal and no deal are likely because it is the same old issue as there’s been from the outset: the rationality of reducing the economic damage points in one direction, the rationality of reducing the political damage of offending the Brexit Ultras points in the other. The only thing that can be said with certainty is that nothing can be said with certainty (apart from this), and those who do so should be taken with a pinch of salt.
In the meantime, it serves little analytical purpose, as well as being psychologically debilitating, to try to follow each twist and turn at the moment. It may very well be that, as before his decision to campaign for Brexit, Boris Johnson is even now drawing up two announcements, one for deal and one for no deal. There’s not much any of us can do except, perhaps, to refuse to play out bit parts in this theatre of horror. Better to simply switch off for a while and focus on Christmas.🔷
Professor Chris Grey, Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and previously a professor at Cambridge University and Warwick University.
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The effect of pollution on worker productivity: Evidence from call-centre workers in China
Tom Chang, Tal Gross, Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell 15 July 2016
The health effects of pollution in terms of hospitalisations, mortality and morbidity are well researched, but not so much is known about the less severe effects of pollution on workers’ health. This column uses evidence from China to analyse the impact of pollution on productivity, finding that high levels of pollution reduce the productivity even of indoor workers. Reducing pollution is not just welfare-improving for society, it is also of financial benefit to the economy.
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When it comes to pollution, there’s one thing we know for sure – it’s bad for our health. When there’s more pollution, more people end up in hospital (Lleras-Muney 2010), birth weights go down (Currie et al. 2009) and mortality rates rise (Currie and Neidell 2005).
All of this prior research has demonstrated the severe effects of pollution – rises in hospitalisations, mortality, and morbidity on high-pollution days. It is mostly vulnerable groups that drive those findings – the very young, the very old, and those suffering certain medical conditions are especially sensitive to pollution. For instance, asthmatics are more likely to suffer asthma attacks when ozone levels rise, and the immune-compromised may end up in the hospital when exposed to higher levels of pollution.
But what if everyone is affected by pollution, and the effects are just milder for the general population? Less-severe effects of pollution would be hard to measure; one could not simply look at records of hospital discharges or mortality rates. But, like the proverbial iceberg that lies mostly beneath the surface, such effects could really matter.
A new generation of research in environmental economics has approached this issue, trying to capture the less severe – but potentially more widespread – effects of pollution.
In a new paper, we found a unique setting where we could measure these more subtle effects of pollution (Chang et al. 2016). We decided to test how pollution affects workers’ productivity, because of its important impact on an economy’s wealth and because it is a useful way to capture the more subtle effects of pollution. Pollution can cause headaches and fatigue, and it can impair cognitive ability, all of which affects one’s performance at work. We hypothesised that we could capture those health effects by examining productivity.
To test how pollution affects productivity, we focused on two Chinese call centres, one in Shanghai and one in Nantong. Call centres are a useful setting to study pollution for several reasons. First, China has some of the most polluted cities in the world, and ironically much of this pollution has been tolerated in the pursuit of economic growth. Second, call-centre workers are closely monitored by their employers. At Ctrip, the firm we studied, each worker’s daily number of calls is closely tracked and workers receive bonuses for handling more calls per day.
Third, and most importantly, we studied Ctrip workers because we wanted to focus on indoor, white-collar workers. Prior research has shown that pollution affects the productivity of workers performing physically demanding tasks in agriculture [SH1] and manufacturing (Chang et al. 2014). If pollution affects indoor workers engaged in sedentary and more cognitive tasks, then it almost certainly affects us all. Particulate matter, the pollutant on which we focused, can easily penetrate buildings. Toxicologists have long shown that particulate matter is bad for people’s health. But, to our knowledge, no study before ours has shown that particulate matter outdoors has an effect on indoor, white-collar workers.
We found that the number of calls workers handled each day went down as the air pollution index (API), which is driven by particulate matter pollution in this setting, increased (see Figure 1). On average, a 10% increase in API was associated with a 0.3% drop in the number of calls handled each day. Given the range of pollution in our setting, this result suggests that workers are 6% more productive on low-pollution days than high-pollution days.
Figure 1 Number of calls handled as air pollution index increases
Importantly, if the effects we document for Ctrip workers are similar to those of white-collar workers around the world, then the effects of pollution on productivity could be enormous. A back-of-the-envelope calculation based on our results suggests that even a modest 10-unit reduction in national API levels would increase the monetised value of office worker productivity in China by $2.2 billion per year.
And the results may apply to wealthier countries, too. We find statistically significant effects of pollution on productivity for relatively low levels of pollution, when the API exceeds the US Environmental Protection Agency standard of 100. In 2014, Los Angeles experienced 90 such days, and our results imply that the service-sector productivity in Los Angeles would have been $374 million larger had pollution levels met regulatory standards on those days.
We spent a great deal of time probing the validity of the results. We verified that the productivity of call-centre workers in each city was hurt by pollution in that city – pollution in other cities, sensibly, had no effect. We added controls for temperature to make sure that pollution was the key force driving our results. And, importantly, we tested whether pollution led to workers staying home or showing up to work late. That did not appear to be the case – on heavily polluted days, we saw fewer calls but similar hours worked. Ultimately, all of the results suggest that the productivity of call-centre workers is hurt by pollution.
Our paper is part of a new literature that demonstrates the effects of pollution that have previously been unmeasured. The EPA is paying attention to this literature as it grows. Potentially, these results can tilt the cost-benefit analysis regarding how much pollution governments ought to permit. It also helps to recast political discussions of environmental regulation as simply a tax on the business community – instead, reducing pollution may improve the financial bottom line.
Chang, T, J S Graff Zivin, T Gross, and M J Neidell (2014), “Participate pollution and the productivity of pear pickers”, NBER working paper, no. 19944
Chang, T, J Graff Zivin, T Gross, and M Neidell (2016), “The effect of pollution on worker productivity: Evidence from call-centre workers in China”, NBER working paper, no. 22328
Currie, J, and M Neidell (2005), “Air pollution and infant health: What can we learn from California’s recent experience?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (3), 1003-1030
Currie, J, M Neidell, and J F Schmieder (2009), “Air pollution and infant health: Lessons from New Jersey”, Journal of Health Economics, 28 (3), 688-703
Lleras-Muney, A (2010), “The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children’s Health”, Journal of Human Resources, 45 (3), 549-590
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YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER
Curator: Andy Stepniewski
David Guard
I used to train there. One of the most beautiful places I have been to.
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The Yakima Training Center comprises the largest remaining contiguous block of shrub-steppe habitat in Washington—365,000 acres stretching from the Columbia River west to I-82 and from I-90 south to the outskirts of Yakima. This U.S. Army subinstallation (of Joint Base Lewis-McChord) is one of the few areas of the state where the shrub-steppe ecosystem continues to function on a landscape scale.
Nearly all bird species characteristic of this zone can be found here, including the declining Greater Sage-Grouse. Birding is superb in riparian areas during migration.
GREATER SAGE-GROUSE LEK TOURS
The Yakima Training Center is one of two sites in Washington where Greater Sage-Grouse still occur in significant numbers. Your best chance to observe them is on one of the organized tours conducted during the peak courtship period in March, offered by center biologists in conjunction with the Yakima Valley Audubon Society (P.O. Box 2823, Yakima, WA 98901 or http://yakimaaudubon.org) and the Seattle Audubon Society (206-523-4483). At other seasons, you are unlikely to get more than a brief view as birds flush in the distance. The tour will take you to a lek where females gather to observe displaying males, starting well before sunrise. While at the lek site, look for other shrub-steppe species such as Horned Lark, Sage Thrasher, and Vesper and Sagebrush Sparrows.
BIRDING THE CENTER ON YOUR OWN
You may enter the center on your own in any month, although access to some parts of it may be restricted from time to time due to military exercises, changes in rules, or closures to protect sage-grouse. It is illegal to come and go any direction other than the MP Station on the west side of the training center; you cannot exit by the East Gate.
Take Exit 26 from I-82 just north of Yakima. You will need a Recreation Card ($10 in 2015). To obtain this card (and a good map), get instructions from the entrance checkpoint (0.7 mile), as the process to obtain this card changes from time to time. You will need your current vehicle registration, driver’s license, and proof of insurance. You will also be asked to state the purpose of your visit (birdwatching) and your destination. Allow 35–45 minutes for the check-in process. While birding can be productive in many parts of this huge installation, birders are advised to stick to the Cold Creek Road (aka Firing Center Road), described below. Access to this area is usually granted. The route goes east from the MP station to East Gate and passes through a variety of shrub-steppe and riparian vegetation communities, giving an opportunity to see many bird species of these habitats. Military activity may be evident year round, but most tracked-vehicles remain on a side road paralleling the main road. The round trip from Exit 26 is about 60 road miles; excursions to and from Hog Ranch Buttes, Umtanum Ridge, Cairn Hope Peak, and Selah Creek will add another 15 miles. The Cold Creek Road provides a very full day of birding, especially if you take advantage of the hiking possibilities.
Depending on the timing of your visit, the center may be crawling with soldiers and military machinery or it may be a deserted wilderness. In either case it is potentially a hazardous place. Some precautions are in order:
It is wise to carry a cell phone and make sure you have the MP’s phone number. Get the current number when you check in (this number has a curious way of changing). The MP will assist you in an emergency.
You will fare better if you drive a high-clearance vehicle (with six-ply tires if possible) and carry a shovel. Make sure your spare tire is in good shape.
Drive gravel roads slowly, especially on curves (to minimize risk of sidewalls of your tires coming in contact with sharp rocks).
Carry extra food and water, especially in summer, and emergency clothing in winter. Be aware that there is often an extreme fire hazard on the installation in summer. Do not drive a low-clearance vehicle over Cheatgrass or other weedy or grassy terrain. A Cheatgrass fire can outpace a vehicle in motion!
Wearing hunter orange, at least a vest, is usually required.
COLD CREEK ROAD
From the MP station, continue east onto Cold Creek Road. You soon pass ASP Road (unsigned, 0.7). The Kiddy Pond behind a grove of introduced Black Locust trees at this corner has birds of the riparian zone in migration. East on Cold Creek Road, at a road marked Refuse Collection Site (0.7 mile), turn right (south) and drive a short distance toward the dump, a good area for Sagebrush Sparrow. Return to Cold Creek Road and turn right.
From here to Range Control (4.0 miles) is fine shrub-steppe habitat, especially on the south side of the road. If conditions are noisy due to tactical vehicles and other traffic, hurry along. If not, stop occasionally to look and listen for Sage Thrasher and Brewer’s, Vesper, and Sagebrush Sparrows. Sagelands along this stretch are home to many Black-tailed and a few White-tailed Jack Rabbits—one of the few sites in Washington where these rabbits can still be found. Because of the high rodent and Jack Rabbit population, this is a good area in which to look for raptors such as Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Golden Eagle, and American Kestrel. At Range Control (now closed, but buildings still there), Sagebrush Sparrows are common in the sagebrush on the north side of Cold Creek Road. Grasshopper Sparrows may sometimes be found in the weedy, grassy terrain uphill and south from here.
From the east side of the Range Control complex, turn right (south) and keep on the paved road. Short-eared Owls are often seen on the slopes just to the south of a major bend in the road (1.5 miles), particularly at dawn and dusk. Stop to search for Sagebrush Sparrow, which becomes less numerous eastward from this spot to well beyond the Cold Creek Divide, as increasing moisture induces a grass cover higher than its liking. Continue east to the Range 10 sign (5.0 miles), where the sagebrush is good for Greater Sage-Grouse, Northern Harrier, Short-eared Owl, Prairie Falcon, Sage Thrasher, and Brewer’s and Vesper Sparrows.
Taylor Pond is on the right (south) in another 2.7 miles—not visible from the road but marked by the first riparian-zone vegetation east of Range Control. This sensitive area, protected by fencing, is a magnet for many birds. Enter on foot through an unlocked gate. Northern Harriers are common. Look also for Long-eared Owls and migrant passerines in the trees. An extensive Greater Sage-Grouse conservation area, off-limits to military activity, lies between Taylor Pond and the following site.
Greely Pond (2.6 miles), an isolated stand of riparian habitat, offers excellent birding for migrants in spring and fall. To enter, walk to the east side of the fenced area and downstream. The small pond may have nesting Soras. Great Horned Owls nest here, as do Bullock’s Orioles. Dense Big Sagebrush east of the pond once hosted a summering Clay-colored Sparrow. Passerines are often thick in migration.
Continue east from Greely Pond to a well-maintained gravel road (1.7 miles), turn left, and climb four miles to the summit of Hog Ranch Buttes, former site of several communication towers. Do not attempt this side trip if there is mud or snow on the road. Chukar, Gray Partridge, migrant raptors (including Northern Goshawk and Gyrfalcon), Snow Buntings (late fall), and Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches (winter) have all been seen on this route, and good-quality lithosol plant communities attract Horned Larks. The view from the summit (elevation 4,100 feet) extends from Mount Jefferson in Oregon north to Mount Stuart.
Return to the Cold Creek Road, turn left, and climb 1.2 miles to a broad pass, the Cold Creek Divide, at an elevation of nearly 3,000 feet. Here you leave the Selah Creek drainage and enter that of Cold Creek. The extensive Three-tip Sagebrush/Bluebunch Wheatgrass habitat is a prime foraging ground for nesting raptors such as Northern Harrier, Swainson’s and Red-tailed Hawks, and American Kestrel. Watch for Short-eared Owl at dusk and dawn. Fall raptor migration (late August–October) can be exciting, too. Watch for Northern Harrier (61 one September day), Sharp-shinned, Cooper’s, Swainson’s, Red-tailed, and Rough-legged (beginning in October) Hawks, Golden Eagle, American Kestrel, and Prairie Falcon, as they circle and sail south from Umtanum Ridge. Common Ravens also migrate south in large numbers. In fall, listen and look for Lapland Longspur and Snow Bunting. Gray Partridge occurs in these grasslands, but is difficult to spot.
The shrub-steppe community along the north slope of Yakima Ridge (to the south), from the divide east along Upper Cold Creek, is in excellent condition. A hike up one of the fire-break roads should produce Sage Thrasher and Brewer’s and Vesper Sparrows. In 1.1 miles from the divide, riparian areas with thickets of Black Hawthorn, wild rose, Coyote Willow, and Blue Elderberry, and groves of Black Cottonwood, Peach-leaf Willow, and Quaking Aspen, offer sensational birding for migrants. From late April through early June, and again from late July through September (and even October), the area can be alive in early morning with migrant flycatchers, vireos, kinglets, warblers, tanagers, and sparrows. This is especially so in the fall when hundreds, even thousands of birds can be viewed each hour winging their way west and up the valley on any given morning. In the brushy thickets, abundant fruit attracts Lewis’s Woodpecker (early September), Townsend’s Solitaire, American Robin, Varied Thrush, and Sage Thrasher. Some species occur in stunning numbers (e.g., 65 Hammond’s Flycatchers and 675 Ruby-crowned Kinglets tallied in one two-hour period). Sharp-shinned Hawks (as many as 20 one morning) provide an escort.
Unusual migrants noted here include Barred Owl, Gray Flycatcher, Pine Grosbeak, and Purple and Cassin’s Finches. Black Swift—almost unknown as a migrant east of the Cascades away from its breeding haunts—has been noted twice in early September. The abrupt eastward bend in the Columbia River at Priest Rapids (five miles north), and the availability of food and shelter along Cold Creek, may prompt many southbound passerines to strike south and west on a direct overland route rather than detouring east around the White Bluffs along the Hanford Reach. This area is recovering from fire, but there is regrowth here, and similar, unburnt areas are accessible downstream.
Continue downstream 2.2 miles and turn right to an abandoned ranch, where riparian habitat hosts many nesting and migrant birds. Continue east on Cold Creek Road. On the left in 0.2 mile, Old Filey Road (gravel) leads to the crest of Umtanum Ridge. En route, Greater Sage-Grouse, Sage Thrasher, and Brewer’s and Vesper Sparrows may be found in the excellent Three-tip Sagebrush habitat. The view from the crest is vast. Directly below is Priest Rapids Lake, to the north are the Saddle Mountains and the Stuart Range, and to the east are the many nuclear reactors on the Hanford Site, with Rattlesnake Mountain rising in the southeast.
Return to the Cold Creek Road and turn left (east). Turn right in 2.1 miles onto a road that descends and crosses Cold Creek, then steeply climbs the north flank of Yakima Ridge below Cairn Hope Peak (1.0 mile). The Nature Conservancy and the Washington Natural Heritage Program recognize the plant communities on this slope as some of the finest remaining Big Sagebrush/Bluebunch Wheatgrass shrub-steppe vegetation in the state. All of the regularly occurring shrub-steppe passerines can be found here readily. (Grasshopper Sparrow is uncommon.)
Return to Cold Creek Road and continue downstream to East Gate (1.2 miles). In addition to the plants mentioned for Upper Cold Creek, Water Birch (copper-colored trunk and branches) is abundant along these lower stretches; the buds are an important winter food source for the now extirpated Sharp-tailed Grouse. Taken in conjunction with the high-quality shrub-steppe vegetation along the ridges south of Cold Creek, this is potentially excellent habitat for Sharp-taileds and a prime site for a reintroduction effort.
Return to the major intersection at Range Control and turn right (north) to a crossing of Selah Creek (0.5 mile). A hike downstream on the dirt track on the south side of the stream leads past riparian habitats and, farther on, to cliffs. Many raptors nest in this area—Northern Harrier, Swainson’s, Red-tailed, and Ferruginous (at least formerly) Hawks, Golden Eagle, Great Horned, Long-eared, and Short-eared Owls, American Kestrel, and Prairie Falcon. The lower part of the canyon has no trails and reaching it involves a rigorous hike. Watch out for rattlesnakes in the warm months. Whitethroated Swift, many Violet-green and Cliff Swallows, Rock and Canyon Wrens, Lazuli Bunting, and Bullock’s Oriole may also be found along the creek.
Turn in your visitor pass at the MP checkpost on the way out.
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Foo Fighters Share Photo of First-Ever Show at a Keg Party
Mick Hutson, Getty Images
Foo Fighters are taking a walk down memory lane.
The band debuted as a live unit back in 1995, shortly after frontman Dave Grohl recorded the Foo Fighters' first album by his lonesome. In recognition of the group's 25th anniversary, the band this week shared photographic evidence of its inaugural gig — a low-key concert at a keg party in Seattle.
Take a look at the image down toward the bottom of this post. It shows the outfit's original lineup performing for a close-knit audience above a boat house on Feb. 19, 1995. The photo emerged after Foo Fighters earlier this week announced a celebratory concert trek that will hit all ten cities the band played on their first-ever tour, a trip that supported Mike Watt and an Eddie Vedder-assisted Hovercraft in the spring of 1995.
"There is a moment in every band's history when you decide it's time to load the gear out of the practice space and bring the music to the people for the first time," the band shared alongside the pic on Wednesday (Feb. 19). "This was ours, 25 years ago today. Keg party at the Marine Store, Seattle Wa…"
The accompanying commemoration continued, "25 years later, the fear and stage fright may have faded, but the love of making music with my friends is stronger than ever. Happy anniversary, fellas."
Foo Fighters aren't staying totally stuck in the past, however. Earlier this month, Grohl confirmed that the act thave completed a new album, the successor to 2017's Concrete and Gold.
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Source: Foo Fighters Share Photo of First-Ever Show at a Keg Party
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Secret Archive: ‘Freemasons fixed inquiry into Titanic to protect Establishment’
Posted by Alec Cope | Nov 23, 2015 |
A US Senate inquiry singled out the British Board of Trade, saying the small number of lifeboats on the ship was a result of lax regulations.
However, the UK investigation, overseen by Lord Mersey, exonerated the Board of Trade.
Lord Mersey himself was a Freemason, the newly published records show. He was initiated in 1881 at the Northern Bar Lodge in London.
Crucially, so too was Board of Trade president Sydney Buxton, initiated in 1888 when he was an MP.
The names of at least two of the inquiry’s five expert assessors – John Harvard Biles, a specialist in naval architecture, and Edward Chaston, the senior engineer assessor – can also be found in the Masonic archive.
Lord Pirrie, who was not only chairman of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, which built the Titanic, but also one of the directors of White Star’s parent company, also appears to have been a Freemason.
Titanic expert Nic Compton said: ‘The Titanic inquiry in Britain was branded a “whitewash” because it exonerated most of those involved. Only three passengers were interviewed, and they were all from first class.’
The archive even suggests the Jack the Ripper may have been a Freemason, and his identity was shielded by fellow Masons.
(If manipulation was at that extent over 100 years ago, where do we think it is now?)
In the video below, We Are Change’s Luke Rudkowski, speaks with author, researcher and renowned speaker, David Icke about secret societies and the, ‘Illuminati’:
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 20: Gold medalist Nicola Adams of Great Britain poses during the medal ceremony for the Women's Fly (48-51kg) on Day 15 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 6 on August 20, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
The word trailblazer has become something of a cliché. But what else can you say about Nicola Adams — an athlete who won the first ever Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing at London 2012 before retaining her title at Rio 2016?
In fact, the journey to Olympic stardom began by accident for Great Britain’s Adams, who first stepped into a boxing club at 12 years old. Her mother had wanted to go to an aerobics class but couldn’t find a babysitter, so she took Adams and her younger brother down to the local gym. Her love for the sport was instant:
“The first time I ever went into a boxing gym, I just loved everything about it. The footwork, the movement, the punching — and particularly as well my hero Muhammed Ali,” said 37-year-old Adams.
From there she never looked back, rising from teenage bouts in working men’s clubs to become the first British woman to win a European boxing medal in 2007 and the first to win a world championship medal in 2008.
Having proved herself a formidable performer in the amateur ranks, Adams was rewarded with a place on the Great Britain team for London 2012.
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Nicola Adams on her incredible career and hopes for Tokyo 2020
The London Olympics were the first time that women’s boxing had been chosen as an Olympic sport. In front of her home crowd, underdog Adams beat three-time world champion Ren Cancan (CHN) in the final to win flyweight gold, putting her decorated rival on the canvas en route to a convincing 16-7 points victory.
“It was an unbelievable feeling – I was over the moon. It was a bit surreal as well, thinking that I’d just made history becoming the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal.”
After triumphing in London, her life changed dramatically. From being relatively unknown, Adams was suddenly a household name.
“I tried to go to the supermarket and I was just absolutely swamped by people. I had to leave my shopping, the security had to help me get out of the store. It was crazy.”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 20: Nicola Adams of Great Britain and Sarah Ourahmoune of France in action during the Women's Fly (48-51kg) Final Bout on Day 15 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 6 on August 20, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
At Rio 2016, Adams repeated her Olympic triumph, winning the flyweight title with a unanimous points victory over France's Sarah Ourahmoune. By doing so, she made history again, becoming the first ever British boxer — male or female — to retain the Olympic title. But winning the second time around proved to be a harder affair than her first victory:
“It’s very hard being the number one and having a huge target on your back. There was a lot more pressure on me. Everyone was expecting me to win the gold even before I’d even qualified. But I still managed to have fun in the end!”
I've made the very difficult decision to step down from the ring. I wrote a letter for my hometown in today's paper who have championed me from the beginning but also wanted to say an enormous thank you here, for all the love and support #newbeginnings #DreamBig 🤟🏾
A post shared by Nicola Adams (@nicolaadamsobe) on Nov 6, 2019 at 12:02am PST
Adams went on to have a stellar professional career, winning the WBO title and ending her journey with an unbeaten record (5-0-1) before retiring due to injury in November 2019.
But hanging up her gloves hasn’t dulled Adams’ enthusiasm for the sport of boxing. Now with Tokyo 2020 on the horizon, she's eagerly anticipating the upcoming Olympic Games:
“Everything’s exciting me about Tokyo 2020 — who’s going to be the next gold medal winner in the flyweight division, my old division,” said Adams. “Just being able to see all the other girls coming through. We’ve got a really good team, Team GB, and I’m just hoping that they all do well.”
With eight major world medals to her name, Adams has cemented her place in boxing’s pantheon of greats. Now, as a pioneer of the sport, she has this advice for boxers hoping to follow in her footsteps at Tokyo 2020:
“Keep the focus, listen to the coaches, don’t let the occasion get to you and just have fun. Enjoy it. It’s the Olympics!”
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Edward Beatty Rowan papers, 1929-1946
Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946
Painter, Sculptor, Educator, Gallery director
Size: 3.2 Linear feet, (on 4 microfilm reels)
Summary: Correspondence, printed material, photographs, business records and a diary.
REEL 103: Clippings, 1929-1932, on exhibitions and activities of the Little Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, directed by Rowan (microfilm title: Little Gallery).
REEL 1208: Photographs used to publicize exhibitions at the Little Gallery, including 183 photographs of works of art, the Little Gallery Junior Art Club, Grant Wood, and William Herbert Dunton at work.
REEL D141-D142: Correspondence; a diary; business records of the Little Gallery, the Stone City Art Colony and Art School, and the Section of Fine Arts; photographs, including two of The Little Gallery, five of the Stone City Colony and Art School, six of Rowan and three of his paintings, and two photos showing Grant Wood, David McCosh, Arnold Pyle, Adrian Dornbush, and Marvin Cone; and catalogs, clippings and publications, including "A Report on Iowa Art Under Public Works of Art Jan. 20, 1934, under the direction of Grant Wood" containing reproductions of work, several clippings, a 2 p. report "three weeks after the beginning of work" and 2 p. typed "Notes" signed by Wood with a photograph attached.
Among the correspondents are Oscar Bluemner, Chaim Gross, Waldo Peirce, Henry Varnum Poor, Eleanor Roosevelt, Forbes Watson, and Grant Wood.
Gallery director, painter, sculptor, teacher; Falls Church, Va. and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Founder and director of The Little Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1928-1934. The gallery was concerned with promoting education in the community. Because of his success with the Little Gallery, in 1931 he was chosen by the American Federation of Arts to be the director of a new experimental art center in Cedar Rapids. Rowan was affiliated with the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard before going to Cedar Rapids and served as Chief, Public Buildings Administration, 1930's-1940's.
Donated by Mrs. Edward Rowan, 1963.
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35mm microfilm reels 103, D141-D142 and 1208 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Edward Beatty Rowan papers, 1929-1946. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Cone, Marvin Dorwart
Dornbush, Adrian
Dunton, W. Herbert
McCosh, David J.
Pyle, Arnold
Peirce, Waldo
Poor, Henry Varnum
Watson, Forbes
Wood, Grant
Bluemner, Oscar
Gross, Chaim
Little Gallery (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
Stone City Colony and Art School (Stone City, Iowa)
Public Works of Art Project (Iowa)
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Police guide that calls BLM a terrorist group draws outrage
Critics say the document contains misinformation and harmful rhetoric that could incite officers against protesters and people of color.
FILE - In this July 11, 2020 file photo, Alycia Pascual-Pena, left, and Marley Ralph kneel while holding a Black Lives Matter banner during a protest in memory of Breonna Taylor, in Los Angeles.
Author: RYAN J. FOLEY (Associated Press)
Published: 12:00 PM CST December 3, 2020
Updated: 12:00 PM CST December 3, 2020
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A prominent law enforcement training group is promoting a lengthy research document riddled with falsehoods and conspiracies that urges local police to treat Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting a violent revolution.
The document distributed by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association contains misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric that could incite officers against protesters and people of color, critics said. It alleges Black Lives Matter and antifa, an umbrella term for leftist militants, are “revolutionary movements whose aims are to overthrow the U.S. government" and claims they are planning “extreme violence.”
Phillip Atiba Goff, a Yale University professor who is an expert on racial bias in policing, called the document dangerous, noting that the association is an important source of training materials for many small and midsize departments across the country.
“It’s stunning. It’s distressing in many ways. It’s untethered to reality,” said Goff, CEO of the Center for Policing Equity. “I worry that it leads to people dying unnecessarily."
The association in October sent a link to the 176-page paper, “Understanding Antifa and Urban Guerrilla Warfare,” in an email news update to its thousands of members. The document, labeled “restricted to law enforcement only,” is one of the few publicly available materials on its website. The Associated Press learned of the document from one of the policing organization's members.
The group's executive director, Harvey Hedden, defended the document, which he called one member’s opinion and open for critique and debate. He said the association supports the exchange of ideas and strategies to improve criminal justice training but does not endorse specific approaches.
Hedden argued that fact-checking the paper or restricting its distribution would amount to censorship and that its publication would allow for peer review by other trainers.
“There will always be differences of opinion on training issues but so long as the disagreements remain professional and not personal we do not censor these ideas,” he said. “I am willing to allow the trainer to evaluate the information themselves.”
He added, “Just like law enforcement, I am afraid BLM has earned some of these criticisms and others might be overgeneralizations.”
The Black Lives Matter movement emerged in 2013 after the acquittal of the Florida man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and exploded in size and influence earlier this year after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Protests across the nation were largely peaceful but occasionally marked by clashes with police or the destruction of property. Since then, many activists have been working to reduce the scope and cost of local police departments and overhaul police training.
The law enforcement association, known by its nickname ILEETA, says in a mission statement that it's “committed to the reduction of law enforcement risk” and saving lives through high-quality training. The association promotes its annual conference, set for St. Louis this coming March, as the “largest gathering of law enforcement trainers in the world.” It publishes a research journal, provides other educational and training materials and operates a Facebook page for members to network and share ideas.
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An official with Color of Change, a nationwide racial justice organization, called on police departments Wednesday to cut training ties with the association, saying it encourages a warrior-style mindset that creates more conflict in communities.
“This is disturbing to read but not at all surprising to me. This is the type of thinking that is sadly pretty prominent within police culture,” said Scott Roberts, its senior director of criminal justice campaigns.
Goff said police executives with whom he's discussed the document this week were “disturbed by it.” He and others said it was irresponsible for the group to promote the paper.
“This document is below the belt because of how much misinformation there is, how many conspiracy theories there are, how much violence it promotes and how many reasons it gives to justify dehumanizing people,” said Sherice Nelson, assistant professor of political science at Southern University and A&M College who studies Black political movements.
She said the paper repeatedly promotes “wildly outlandish” claims about Black Lives Matter, shows cultural ignorance by falsely conflating the movement with antifa, and primes officers to use force by painting both as terrorists plotting to kill police.
Among its many unsupported claims is that the two movements have “trained, dedicated snipers” stationed in certain cities, are fronts for Russia and China, and planned attacks before and after last month's presidential election.
The paper claims that those who participated in months of protests earlier this year in Portland and Seattle were “useful idiots” designed to give cover to the “hard-core, terrorist trained troops” that would follow. “Extreme acts of violence are expected and called for,” the document warns.
The paper claims that military officials who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are concerned about the movements because they “have witnessed these types of terrorist groups organizing, creating insurgencies and the horrible consequences of it.”
The FBI is largely “clueless” about the nature of their threat and, along with the news media, has wrongly focused attention on violence carried out by white supremacists, it argues.
Goff, whose group works with departments to make policing “less racist and deadly,” said the document showed why it's important for critics to engage directly with local law enforcement to seek changes.
Otherwise, he said, “you are abandoning that profession to the worst impulses of this country.”
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Hawa Zoe Barkon, Sunrise: Aug. 20th, 1953 and Sunset: Oct. 19th, 2019
Hawa served her beloved country “Liberia” by working in the Personnel Department of the General Services Agency (GSA) as an executive secretary to the personnel director at GSA beginning in 1974, then transitioned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as secretary assigned to various Assistant Ministers, Senior Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Attaché (Executive Assistant to the late Ambassador Harry Moniba) at the Liberian Embassy stationed in London, England in 1982 until 1985 when she migrated to the United States of America with her family. In 1988, Hawa began her secretarial career in America working for the City of New York Department of Probation until 2011, then transitioned to the Department of Education with the Division of Instructional and Information Technology until her retirement on June 2, 2017 with a career spanning 43 unbroken years. On September 9, 2018, Deacon Barkon was ordained to the office of Deacon with the New Life Church of Staten Island, Inc., where she served as the program coordinator & also served as the secretary under the leadership of Deacon Helen Hutchinson of the Women’s Department & a member of the Planning Committee.
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v32#3 ATG Interviews Barbara Casalini, President, Casalini Libri
by Against the Grain | Jul 15, 2020 | 0 comments
by Tom Gilson (Associate Editor, Against the Grain)
and Katina Strauch (Editor, Against the Grain)
Barbara Casalini
ATG: Barbara, some of our readers may not be familiar with Casalini Libri. Can you tell us a little bit about the company? What are the main services Casalini Libri provides to libraries and publishers? What do you see as the company key mission?
BC: The company was an idea of my father’s. While visiting the U.S. on business in the late 1950’s, he became conscious that there was little (and unreliable or untimely) information available on Italian publications, and no real supply structure for the diffusion of Italian titles abroad. He established Casalini Libri as an information and supply service for titles that were not easily found, initially working with the Library of Congress and progressively with more and more libraries and institutions. We have always tried to respond to the needs of our customers and now offer many services aimed at assisting libraries and publishers, from approval selections to subscription management and the Torrossa digital library. Although our customer base and services have widened considerably over the past 60 years, I would say that the importance of providing prompt and high quality bibliographic information to libraries and of supporting the diffusion of Italian culture and learning worldwide have remained at the core of all of our activities.
Of course, it is not just Italian culture that we wish to promote, but original language research from across Europe. This is reflected first in our investment in creating the same infrastructure for the provision of Spanish, Portuguese and French titles over the last fifteen years and — just last month — in our participation in the acquisition of the two Dutch companies, Erasmus and Houtschild. In creating synergy with these companies with whom we share a single vision, we aim to offer the very best services to the Library world, not simply by strengthening our coverage and providing a more efficient use of technological resources, but by striving to maintain the excellent customer service for which we are known.
ATG: The world of libraries and scholarly publishing has changed dramatically since your father founded Casalini Libri in 1958. How has the company kept pace with the rapidly changing market? What would you say are the key factors that have enabled Casalini Libri to thrive?
BC: I would say that the key has been our constant collaboration with both publishers and libraries and the confidence we have received from both sectors, not only in the trust libraries have placed in us to source and select quality material for them, but also publishers in our ability to provide a technological support and widen the reach of their publications. As I said, it has always been very important for us to listen to the emerging needs of our customers and respond with services that offer solutions to those needs.
ATG: One of the cornerstones of your services to libraries and publishers appears to be the ilibri Casalini Bibliographical Database. Can you tell us about that? What is so unique about the database?
BC: We are indeed very proud of the ilibri database as it is the main showcase for our dedication to providing quality bibliographic information. We carefully select the new publications that fit the interests and quality required by academic and research libraries in order to create detailed bibliographic descriptions for our customers. All of the bibliographic data that we produce is included in our online database, making it a very specialised resource for librarians. It’s also worth mentioning that in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece, it is still very often not easy to acquire information about publications or rely completely on national bibliographies. The ilibri database works to fill those gaps in information.
What’s more, the database is integrated with our other systems, meaning that librarians can follow a single, linear and straightforward workflow, from viewing our new title suggestions to creating and editing their selections, sending orders and checking on their status, to finding a complete archive of all of the invoices connected with their orders.
ATG: Another key component of your offerings is the Torrossa digital library. Can you describe what it provides libraries? Does it work with the ilibri® Casalini Bibliographical Database to offer integrated services?
BC: Torrossa was born in its first incarnation in 2000 as a project to explore the potential of digital publishing. As the initial digital library of Italian scholarly titles grew steadily and was joined by a second digital collection of academic titles from Spain, we decided to unite the two resources in a single website, which takes its name from our historic headquarters in Fiesole. Twenty years on and we’re preparing to publish an enhanced version of the site, which by now includes digital content from over 280 highly respected HSS publishers from Italy, Spain and a variety of other countries.
The main benefits of Torrossa for libraries include the possibility to reach such a wide offering of digital publications from a single access point and manage all the content under a single licence. As with print, we try to give libraries the freedom and tools to decide how to put their collections together. So in addition to the recommended collections of titles selected by our bibliographers, we also offer the possibility to pick and choose collections or single titles, provide tools and services such as PDA and Approval selections, and have integrated all of our digital content with the ilibri database in order to ensure that print and digital go hand in hand.
ATG: According to your website, Casalini Libri is particularly interested in linked data and the possibilities it holds for the field of librarianship. Can you tell us about that? What benefits does linked data offer libraries?
BC: Linked data helps discovery. Much of the vast quantity of data and resources contained and described in library catalogues has previously often remained hidden. Linked data now gives us the opportunity to create links among collections and provide library patrons with the key to unlock and navigate a wealth of data that otherwise would have remained unknown and undiscovered. By applying the linked data paradigm, libraries, archives, museums and information professionals have a more comprehensive suite of tools at their disposal, based on structured data and fully compliant with the semantic web. Keeping pace with web technologies in this way means that searching and navigating data becomes much more dynamic and similar to the functioning of the web than to a traditional library catalogue.
Our work on the linked data approach — with the Share Virtual Discovery Environment — is another example of the emphasis we put on the central role of libraries in shaping our activities. Share-VDE is a library-driven initiative which brings together the bibliographic catalogues and authority files of a community of libraries in a shared discovery environment based on linked data.
ATG: As part of this interest in linked data, you have been actively involved in the library community’s discussions on BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework Initiative). Can you give us an update on BIBFRAME’s progress?
BC: BIBFRAME is an evolving model of entities and it is important for us to contribute to its development given the experience that we are developing in the field through our collaboration with the community of libraries participating in Share-VDE, and also in anticipation of a future in which bibliographic resources may be catalogued directly in linked data.
For example, while the Share-VDE entity model is based on the three original BIBFRAME Work-Instance-Item levels, in order to maintain and optimise interoperability with the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM), we have introduced a fourth level of abstraction — higher than the BIBFRAME Work — which later proved to be in line with the latest developments from the Library of Congress, who have recently released the BIBFRAME Hub, a more abstract level entity than the BIBFRAME Work.
All this tells us yet again how productive discussion and exchange of experiences are within the community, and how it is impossible to separate them from experimentation and the practical application of theoretical models.
ATG: Casalini Libri is known for its interest in research and development. In fact, we notice there is a section on your website called the Casalini Lab. Can you tell about the latest projects Casalini Lab is focusing on in addition to BIBFRAME?
BC: Casalini Lab covers a wide array of projects, from our collaboration in projects such as BIBFRAME and Share-VDE, which take librarianship and bibliographical data into a new, exciting future, to discussions on other aspects close to our hearts. This May, we planned to host in Fiesole the CRL working forum “New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information,” dedicated to the theme of supporting research in the humanities and maintaining non-English collections. Although it has been necessary to postpone the meeting, we are confident that it will take place once conditions allow. Our dedication to the sector and to its continuing ability to thrive also shows through in both our support for the Master’s course in BookTelling run by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, which allows us to contribute to the training of future publishing professionals, and in our long-running collaboration in the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series.
Emerging from our interest in the ever increasing potential of digital resources is the Torrossa Open initiative, a platform designed specifically to contribute to the dissemination of research content from Southern Europe in Open Access, while since last year we have been investing heavily in enhancing and updating all of our websites, from the Torrossa digital library and bookstores, to our dedicated content management site for publishers contributing to these resources. We have also updated our main company website and are now working on an improved search and ordering interface for our ilibri database and order management functions.
Returning to our role as a bibliographic agency, we continue to strive for excellence. Not only have we become an ISNI registration agency, we are also embarking on a special project and new services that take into account the importance of the attribution of URI and accurate authority records.
ATG: In 1999, Casalini Libri, along with the Charleston Company and Against the Grain, was one of the founding sponsors of the Fiesole Retreat Series. Can you tell us a little bit about the Fiesole Retreat? Where did the idea for Fiesole come from? As you look back over the years why do you think Fiesole has been important to discussions about the future of libraries, publishing, and collections?
BC: The idea for the Retreat was initially conceived by Katina Strauch and Mario, as a way of bringing the Charleston Conference model of an informal gathering and its culture of exchange of views and discussion among industry leaders to Europe. The world at the time was much less connected than it is today over great distances and the Fiesole Retreat created a bridge between the North American and European communities of librarians, publishers, vendors and experts. Now, after more than 20 years and thanks to the tireless work of Becky Lenzini and Katina, the Fiesole Retreat is running stronger than ever, testifying the foresight of both Katina and Mario.
Each year’s programme is a collaborative effort to create and balance a discussion that represents the views of all sectors of the industry on the most pressing questions and challenges of the moment. Understandably, a huge focus has always been given to digital content and with the COVID crisis we are seeing many publishers reviewing their approach to this whole area. The proceedings for all meetings are available on the Fiesole Retreat website (http://www.casalini.it/retreat/) and they make fascinating reading as they address issues that continue to be relevant in our fast evolving world.
Although the current situation has made it necessary for us to postpone this year’s meeting in Greece, we are very grateful to our hosts, the National Library of Greece, who has agreed to welcome us to its beautiful new facility inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens next April.
ATG: Barbara, when you are not directing such an active and innovative company, how do you like to spend your down time? Are there particular leisure activities that help you refresh and get ready to take on the next challenge?
BC: I do invest a lot of time and energy in my local community in Fiesole and make the most of the wonderful cultural events that are organised both in Fiesole and in Florence with my husband, a professional musician. In these last few weeks when we have been unable to attend theatre and concerts, I have been relaxing with a good book and music at home.
I am also lucky enough to have my family and three lively and adorable grandchildren nearby, and I thoroughly enjoy cooking and baking for them in the family home.
ATG: Thank you so much for taking time to talk to us. We’ve learned a lot!
ATG Conferences, Meetings and Webinars – 1/19/21
by Tom Gilson | Jan 19, 2021
The Library at the Forefront of Scholarly Communications: Insights from Brandeis University Presented by: Ex Libris & Library JournalEvent Date and Time: Thursday, January 21, 2021 | 2:00-3:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM PT How can libraries promote...
ATG Article of the Week: There may be silver linings, but print’s long-term future still looks distinctly cloudy
According to this post on the What's New in Publishing website parts of the print market in the United Kingdom have survived the pandemic in better shape than anyone would have dreamed. However, "for every story of screen-weary readers picking up a print subscription,...
ATG News You Need to Start the Week – 1/18/21
ATG News You Need to Start the Week - 1/18/21 A New Issue of “Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship” (No. 96) is Now Available Online According to infoDOCKET "Issue No. 96 (Fall 2020) of “Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship” was recently...
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Eric Johnson Releases "Seven Worlds"
Seven Worlds is Eric Johnson's 1978 solo record after disbanding with his first band, The Electromagnets.
The album was recorded in 1976 and 1977. Due to various disputes, general release was held up until Johnson obtained the rights to the master recordings, twenty years later. Johnson subsequently re-recorded some of the tracks for his first general release album, 1986's Tones.
Source: Wikipedia Added by: Ted Bedell
All songs written by Eric Johnson, except where noted.
1. "Zap" - 3:22
2. "Emerald Eyes" (Johnson, Jay Aaron) - 3:18
3. "Showdown" (Johnson, Aaron) - 3:59
4. "Missing Key" - 3:43
5. "Alone with You" - 6:13
6. "I Promise I Will Try" - 2:41
7. "Winter Came" - 4:56
8. "Turn the Page" - 3:49
9. "A Song for Life" - 2:29
10. "By Your Side" - 3:37
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Entrepreneurial Flavour: Zayne Imam
A conversation with Zayne Imam about his life – where he’s going and where he’s been – brings to mind childhood verses of Dr Seuss. Born in Durban, raised in Johannesburg and now a proud Capetonian, Zayne started travelling to exotic destinations in high school as a travel writer and later as a business analyst for McKinsey and Company. After almost two years of being settled in Cape Town he’s ready to pack his bags again; this time he’s headed for Madrid, Spain, where he’ll pursue his MBA at IE Business School. Surely Zayne’s the kind of guy Dr Seuss had in mind when he said, “Oh! The places you’ll go! … You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing … Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you’re that kind of guy!”
Zayne is also the kind of person the Foundation had in mind when they imagined the Foundation Pillar of Achievement Excellence. It is described as the ongoing pursuit of excellence with tangible and specific focus on setting goals and having the motivation to make a difference and leave a mark.
He remembers an incident in his childhood where he witnessed someone in fear of losing his job because of one single, uncontextualised moment. “I hated that so much hinged on that single moment [with little consideration of what else may have led to that moment] … [it] … left me feeling uneasy and has probably been a driving internal force for a sense of empathy and how being your own boss can free you from such injustice.” He also recalls often thinking that he would make a substantial impact on his community. Ever since becoming a Candidate Allan Gray Fellow in 2007 he’s adjusted that view to one where his impact could be on the world. The Foundation, he says, “channels their Fellows’ unique ambitions through an entrepreneurial focus, retains their individual identity and amplifies the potential impact the individual can have!”
Of entrepreneurship Zayne has had varied and in-depth experience. In fact, this is the achievement he is proudest of. Many might even consider it a luxury – allowing oneself enough in-depth time in an entrepreneurial space to assess whether starting up a business is something one would like to undertake. Zayne’s first foray into entrepreneurship came in the form of his involvement in the operations of the startup Rethink Education that gives South African school kids access to online content through a mobile system. Another entrepreneurial endeavour was his own: becoming the co-founder of a startup in a completely different industry – hospitality.
Five-Oh-Two started as a natural consequence of having frequent, wonderful dinner parties at Apartment 502 in Mandela Rhodes Place with his roommate. They wanted to “bottle” essence of what they experienced every time so that more people could experience it. They also realised that, given our overly digitised world, people are starved more for human connection than for great food and wine. Due to a lack of capital for starting a restaurant they started hosting “gastro-events” at different venues throughout Cape Town with different themes, chefs and photographers each time.
They have been in operation for a year and are celebrating the fact that it is finally profitable. Their hopes for Five-Oh-Two is that it becomes a viable alternative to eating out in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and eventually Europe, where their envisioned Five-Oh-Two app will pave the way for them.
About his plans to relocate to Madrid in June this year, Zayne explains that getting an international MBA was something he never even thought would be possible. Halfway through his Financial Accounting degree at UCT he realised that it was not suited to his personality but still managed to finish the degree. He then did an Honours degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management. His first work experience followed a similar pattern – 18 months after working at a call centre of a financial institution he realised it was not for him. He quit his job, spent three months in Thailand mulling over his future and then got a job at McKinsey and Company. “Getting this job was a huge step forward in my career,” says Zayne. It opened up networks and opportunities that seemed unlikely before. It also afforded him great corporate experience and, together with his entrepreneurial experience, will allow him to find the perfect in-between place within the corporate world and startup community.
As he navigates to that perfect in-between place Zayne will do well to remember the childlike but infinitely wise words of our dear doctor: “remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
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Foo Fighters share Van Halen/John Lennon mashup
Kaitlyn Ulrich
[Photo by: Brantley Gutierrez]
Foo Fighters have shared a video showing a performance of their newest mashup, Van Halen's “Jump” and John Lennon's “Imagine.”
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The band shared the performance on social media, stating that they are woodshedding (which basically means practicing) the song for their North American summer tour, so get excited to hear a live performance of the mashup very soon.
In the video, frontman Dave Grohl can be seen singing the words to Van Halen's “Jump” against the band's performance of John Lennon's “Imagine.”
It's pretty epic—check out the video below:
Woodshedding for the summer tour has never felt so good….see you out there….(I’ll learn the words by then, I swear)
Thanks to Mighty Mike for the inspirado. (Oh, and Halen and Lennon, too) pic.twitter.com/VB8x6ipsmT
— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) March 3, 2018
Foo Fighters aren't rookies when it comes to creating mashups, and performed one of their best live at Summer Sonic Festival last year. The band joined Rick Astley onstage for a mashup of “Never Gonna Give You Up” and Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Check it out below:
Foo Fighters are currently touring in South America, but will be heading back to the States in April. You can grab tickets for their summer tour here.
Do you love Foo Fighters new mashup? Let us know in the comments!
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Ireland's McKibbin gets redemption with Sage Valley win
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Tom McKibbin (Photo courtesy Sage Valley Junior Invitational)
After opening with 64, Tom McKibbin made it difficult for anyone else in the Sage Valley Junior Invitational to catch him. Subsequent rounds of 75-71 at the prestigious Sage Valley Golf Club in Graniteville, S.C., gave him the one-shot victory.
McKibbin, an Irishman, entered Sage Valley off a win at the Peter McEvoy Trophy. The 16-year-old was 7 under for 72 holes in that event, played at Copt Heath Golf Club, and won after three holes of sudden death.
McKibbin is member of the class of 2021, and committed to the University of Florida. A year ago at this event, he came in 37th, making this win a good bit of redemption.
“I was terrible,” McKibbin told Golfweek earlier this week in reference to his 2018 performance. “Last year I was a bit shocked by the place – how good it was. Now, this year I know how to play the course a bit better.”
McKibbin finished one shot ahead of Maxwell Moldovan, who also had a 71 in the final round to reach 5 under. Ricky Castillo, the No. 2-ranked player in the Golfweek Junior Rankings finished third at 4 under.
Defending champion Akshay Bhatia opened with 79, and could never get himself back in the tournament. Bhatia, who last week Monday qualified for a Web.com Tour event and went on to make the cut, tied for 17th at 6 over.
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EXTRA, EXTRA/Open a child’s eyes to public works
Public works employees, writers and educators recently completed a year-long effort to create a curriculum for elementary school-age children about the
Public works employees, writers and educators recently completed a year-long effort to create a curriculum for elementary school-age children about the role of public works in daily life. “Discovering the World of Public Works,” available from the Kansas City, Mo.-based American Public Works Association, includes materials for use by teachers and public works professionals during community presentations, school visits and “Career Days.” The three-part curriculum covers four key areas of public works: construction, traffic and transportation, solid waste, and water and wastewater. The $175 package includes lesson plans, worksheets and activities in one Instructor’s Guide, 25 copies of the Workbook for Children and 25 copies of the children’s publication, “Chipper’s Adventures in Public Works.” Sample pages are available online at www.apwa.net/email/discover.
Biden’s relief plan includes $350 billion for local and state government
President-Elect Joe Biden announced a $1.9 trillion relief plan Thursday to combat the COVID-19 crisis and the economic downturn it has caused. In addition to $400 million to combat the pandemic specifically, the proposal includes $350 billion for state, local and tribal governments that would help them to bridge budget shortfalls, help public works maintain […]
D.C. police begin identifying Capitol rioters
Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to identify the supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. “MPD seeks assistance in identifying persons of interest responsible for Unlawful Entry offenses that occurred yesterday on US Capitol Grounds, 100 block of 1st […]
University procurement department defends campus against COVID-19 pandemic
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How Philadelphia is aiming for zero waste
The city of Philadelphia has long collected data on city properties’ waste generation and leveraged it to improve waste management, but now it’s honing in on the commercial sector too, realizing this will be crucial to hitting Philly’s zero waste targets. Today it runs a voluntary program where both municipal and commercial operations do detailed […]
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JOSEPH ROACH
PhD Candidate in Criminal Justice
Masters of Science in Criminal Justice with Concentration in Critical Incident Management
Bachelor of Arts in Criminology
Languages: English, Russian, Spanish
Joseph is a highly respected International Drug Enforcement Leader and Security Manager with over 35 years of outstanding strategy and program leadership experience with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), and St. Pete Beach, Florida Police Department (SPBPD). His notable expertise includes international criminal/financial investigative processes, risk/crisis management, cross-cultural collaboration, budget control, strong relationship management responsibilities throughout all levels of domestic/foreign government and law enforcement/military agencies. Joseph is a talented leader who leverages strengths, clearly defines goals, and works closely with each individual to build highly productive and proactive teams. Skilled in leading personnel in multi-site security and law enforcement operations, physical/personal security programs.
COUNTRY ATTACHÉ San Salvador, El Salvador
Joseph served as the principal advisor to the U.S. ambassador on all international narcotics and drug-related matters including legislative change requirements, current trends, and recommendations. He supervised a team of special agents and administrative personnel, developing information and informational sources, and organized criminal investigations. He has established and maintained collaborative relationships with Department of State (DOS) officials, other U.S. agencies and, host nation counterparts to ensure support of enforcement projects and anti-money laundering programs. Implemented the Narcotics Country Action Plan that complements DEA’s international operational mission, and was the primary coordinator for DEA’s investigative advisory, intelligence, training, and operational programs in El Salvador.
Demonstrated comprehensive relationship management skills by developing a deep understanding of both cultural norms and individual personalities to cultivate genuine relationships within the El Salvador government.
Leveraged expert investigative knowledge to assess program effectiveness, counsel local law enforcement officials, devise strategy, report progress, and drive improvements to satisfy the DEA mission.
Member of the U.S. Embassy Country Team, Law Enforcement Working Group, Emergency Action Committee and Inter-Agency Housing Board, Embassy Awards Committee.
Joseph has coordinated global operations working with all elements of law enforcement as well as US Military. He is responsible for developing strategies with the goal of infiltrating and dismantling global criminal organizations. Joseph reviews, analyzes, and directs investigative operations related to financial intelligence gathered thru Banking Secrecy Act. Joseph coordinates investigative operations in order to identify all members and assets of international criminal organizations.
Joseph has been responsible for the management of DEA law-enforcement, intelligence, regulatory, and money laundering programs in the Southern District of Georgia. He has designed administrative processes and enforcement protocols. Built a strong team by assessing individual performance, identifying opportunities, defining goals, and repositioning individuals to utilize their strengths. Joseph developed policies and procedures, secured information sources, and managed criminal investigations to drive intelligence based drug enforcement operations throughout the local area, the U.S., and internationally. Coordinated and supervised the physical security of the DEA facility, personnel, and assets as well as implementing the Emergency Preparedness Continuity of Operations Plan in accordance with DEA and Department of Justice Guidelines.
As a Senior Special Agent criminal Investigator, Joseph was assigned to the enforcement group which initiated the US Government’s most successful multi-agency maritime interdiction program. The program was responsible for the seizure of over 300 tons of cocaine. Joseph investigated and indicted numerous high level international narcotics traffickers and money launderers. Joseph built extensive working coalitions with Department of Defense, Federal and State and Local components in an effort to expand maritime interdiction. A Clandestine Laboratory Coordinator for the Miami Field Division, with responsibility for budget, training and logistical matters for all certified clandestine laboratory investigators in the State of Florida.
As a Special Agent criminal Investigator, Joseph integrated DEA operations and investigations as part of the New Orleans Field Division. A member of the Mobile Enforcement Team, with the responsibility for conducting criminal investigation in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. Joseph worked joint investigations with State and Federal law enforcement components on daily basis. Conducted numerous investigations while working in an undercover capacity.
His early career Includes 13 years as a sworn law enforcement officer.
St. Pete Beach Police
Uniform Patrol Officer
Field Training Officer
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
Uniform Patrol Deputy
Detective Organized Crime Division
First Line Supervisor Organized Crime Division
Drug Diversion Prevention, Criminal Investigations, Operations Management, Personal Security, Reporting & Presentations, International Laws/Customs, Team Leadership, Mentoring & Coaching, Program Management, Physical Security, Conflict Resolution, Budget/Cost Control, Special Technical Experience, Intelligence Collection, Risk/Crisis Management, Diplomacy, Global Terrorism.
DIANA TSAI
FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Languages: Spanish, Mandarin, Taiwanese, English
Diana was born in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia to Taiwanese parents. Her father, an immigrant from Taitung and her mother an immigrant from Chiayi, both left Taiwan for Bolivia in pursuit of a better life. In spite of her parents limited Spanish proficiency and no practical English proficiency, Diana speaks 4 languages fluently (Spanish, English, Taiwanese, and Mandarin). Diana’s cultural background has been sculpted by living in Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Taiwan, and El Salvador. Diana considers San Salvador her home, the city where she lived for 20 years before coming to the United States.
Diana is an accomplished, innovative, achievement-oriented executive with deep experience in empowering corporations to unlock their potential to thrive in our interconnected world, she helps organizations to move forward and envision the future. Diana possesses a proven ability to build and operate companies, and a recognized capacity to execute developed strategies to deliver projects achieving transformational results. Her strategies and tactics has allowed her to establish effective sales pipelines and win businesses.
Diana’s five fundamental principles: Integrity, Quality, Collaboration, Diversity, and Longevity is the foundation on which ARC has been built. ARC is a leading, independent organization that leverages the world-class expertise of its professionals, and assist in navigating its clients through the most critical business opportunities and challenges in order to enhance enterprise value. An expert in multi-functional management, a talented leader who leverages strengths, and clearly defines goals; she works closely with each individual to build highly productive and proactive teams. She has a proven track record of building, growing and leading global businesses as they extend into new service lines and global geographies. Diana is recognized for her innovative thinking, her passion to motivate and empower teams.
Prior devoting her work fulltime to ARC, Diana developed strong business relationships in Central America, where she directed collaborative operations with local government and private industry. Her responsibilities involved strategy development, execution of key engagements, and assisting clients to overcome complex business challenges.
Diana is an active member of the Medical Reserve Corp (MRC), she is committed to make a positive difference in the community. Her volunteering experience includes feeding the homeless, supporting orphanages, supporting nursing homes, and interpreting for Limited English Proficient communities.
Private Investigator, International Trade, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Strategic Partnerships, Competitive Analysis, Team Leadership, Translation, Interpretation, Manufacturing, Product Development, Plant Operations, Quality Control, Import/Export.
The ARC team consist of experienced public and private sector professionals. The members that make up the ARC team have national and international experience in the law enforcement and training arenas. ARC brings together professionals from the private sector, local law enforcement, state law enforcement and federal law enforcement. Our team members are experienced as the first line officers up to the level of senior level executives.
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A COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS (ANA) RELEASED AFTER ITS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) HELD IN ILORIN, KWARA STATE, ON SATURDAY 5TH
A COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS (ANA) RELEASED AFTER ITS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) HELD IN ILORIN, KWARA STATE, ON SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER, 2020
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) held its annual International Convention in Ilorin, Kwara State of Nigeria, from 3rd to 6th December, 2020. One of the key features of the convention was the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held, on the serene campus of the University of Ilorin, on Saturday, 5th December, 2020. The AGM enabled the congress to assess the state of the Association and to take decisions that will guide the Association.
The Congress made the following resolutions:
I. That the congress is pleased with the steadfastness of the Advisory Council, the Board of Trustees (BOT), and the elders who have ensured clarity in the leadership of the Association through adherence to the Constitution of the Association.
II. That the congress is pleased with the activities and service of the National Executive Council since it was elected by the congress in Makurdi (Benue State) on 17th July, 2020.
III. That the congress holds that there is only one ANA under the leadership of Mr. Camillus Ukah and his EXCO, and that any person who makes a contrary claim is false.
IV. That a committee should be set up to review the Association’s constitution to strengthen and/or amend its provisions where necessary, and to make it a better instrument of administration.
V. That the Association should henceforth streamline its membership by ensuring that every valid member is given an identification number and a certificate.
VI. That a committee should be set up to carry out regular membership screening/audit to ensure that only financial members who have attended conventions and have published works would be allowed to participate during elections.
VII. That a committee should be set up to work towards the hosting of the 2021 convention/celebration of ANA at 40 which is expected to be an international event.
VIII. That the National Executive Council should set up other relevant committees to enable it administer the Association effectively.
IX. That the congress affirms that the Association has a valid Board of Trustees (BOT) comprising its original members, Madam Mabel Segun and Mallam LaboYari; and it also reaffirms the decision taken by the AGM in Akure (2013) that Prof. Ernest Emenyonu and Prof. Kole Omotoso should be trustees and are worthy replacements for the late Prof. Chinua Achebe and Engnr. T. M. Aluko.
X. That Dr. Maria Ajima should be added to the BOT to increase female representation in the BOT.
XI. That the Association should improve its financial capacity to enable it execute its projects and programmes.
XII. That every member and/or chapter of the Association must work/operate within the rules, regulations, and conventions of the Association. That individuals and groups that violate the sanctity of the Association should be immediately brought under control or punished by the National Executive Council.
XIII. That the congress reaffirms the expulsion of Ahmed Maiwada, Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, Akogun Tai Oguntayo, Patrick Oguejiofor, Owupele Francis, Usho Smith Adawa, Banma Baba Suleiman, Dada Korede, Moses Joseph, Isa Ibrahim Dan Musa, Stanley Kavwam, and Isaac Attah Ogezi for repeatedly violating the constitution of the Association.
XIV. That no branch/chapter of the Association is allowed to conduct its election without the supervision of the National Executive Council, and that any election done without supervision is null and void.
XV. That ANA members nation-wide should continue to support and keep faith with the National Executive Council and all its programmes.
XVI. That the Association affirms its commitment to continually celebrate and honour worthy Nigerian writers such as the recently demised Prof. J.P Clark, engage in broad based collaborations and partnership with local and foreign institutions and agencies for literary development in Nigeria, and promote the power of literature for positive alternative narrative for the common good.
Camillus Ukah MaikOrtserga
President General Secretary
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Learn to pronounce all letters of the Arabic alphabet – just click to hear the pronunciation!
The Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Just click on each letter to hear how it’s pronounced correctly. You can listen to the pronunciations as many times as you like.
The Arabic alphabet is regarded by many to be extremely difficult to master. And it’s certainly true that a lot of Arabic learners give up because of troubles learning this complex script. But, from my own experience the Arabic letters can be learnt easily with the right method. In my instantly downloadable book The Magic Key To The Arabic Alphabet I describe a complete system for learning how to read and write Arabic, a system based on memory images that eliminate the need for rote learning! Please click here to find out more about this unique e-book.
In the meantime here are the basic rules that you need to know about the Arabic alphabet:
28 Arabic Letters
The Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters, just 2 more than the English alphabet! Each of the letters represents a distinct sound. In addition, there are a few additional characters that you will need to master.
Arabic written from right to left
Arabic is always written from right to left, as opposed to English which is written from left to right. This could cause some confusion when you start out, but after a few hours of practice with my book this will become second nature.
Short vowels are not written
In most written material there will be no signs to indicate short vowels such as the short “u”, “i” or “a”. So “with” becomes “wth” and “cat” becomes “ct”. With more exposure to Arabic words you can often predict which short vowels are required, even for unknown words.
Changing shapes and cursive writing
Letters within a word are usually connected, just like in cursive handwriting in English. However, this means that the letters have to change their shapes so that it’s easier to connect them. In my book I explain exactly why this happens and how you can learn to recognize and write the letters in all their shapes.
Difficult Arabic sounds
There are a number of letters that have sounds not found in the English language. These sounds can give a bit of trouble initially, but once mastered they can be something to be proud of. The difficult sounds are qaaf, ‘ayn, ghayn, raa’, Taa, Daad, Saad, Zaa’, Haa’ and khaa’. With the app on this page you can listen to these difficult sounds as often as you want and imitate them until you get it right.
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Statement of Principles: Trauma Anesthesiology
Developed By: ASA House of Delegates/Executive Committee
Last Amended: October 16, 2013 (original approval: October 16, 2013)
Trauma is a serious bodily injury or shock caused by an external source. Trauma anesthesiology is a subspecialty of anesthesiology that focuses on the comprehensive care of patients who have endured traumatic injury. A significant percentage of patients who present with trauma require emergent resuscitation, surgical management for temporary stabilization or definitive treatment of injuries, and perioperative critical care management. Organized trauma systems have been created that designate and verify trauma centers with multidisciplinary trauma teams. Anesthesiologists play an essential role on these teams. This position paper describes trends in trauma anesthesiology and defines its importance to the specialty of anesthesiology illustrating why subspecialty training in trauma anesthesiology should be a vital part of anesthesia practice. It specifically addresses the following issues:
Defining the discipline of trauma anesthesiology and the services provided by trauma anesthesiologists
Identifying the benefits of trauma anesthesiology
Identifying why trauma anesthesiology is important to the specialty of anesthesiology and medicine at large
Describing a strategy for ASA to adopt to ensure that trauma anesthesiology is an integral practice of anesthesiology
What is Trauma Anesthesiology?
Trauma is a complex disease that involves direct injury to tissues as well as systemic disturbances that may alter and affect the entire body. Trauma is the leading cause of death for individuals up to the age of 45 years and the third leading cause of death overall for every age group. Globally, trauma is responsible for more than 5 million deaths per year. In the United States, trauma accounts for more than 180,000 deaths and for nearly one-third of all life years lost. Each year, over 3 million non-fatal injuries occur in the United States, and approximately 2.8 million people are hospitalized with injury.
In 1990, Congress passed the Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act that led to the development of organized statewide trauma systems. These systems allow rapid and coordinated patient care at centers with capabilities to provide comprehensive trauma care. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma classifies trauma centers as Level I to Level V. All levels of trauma centers are critical to the trauma system. The care of patients who have sustained traumatic injury requires a multidisciplinary approach that involves multiple medical specialties: anesthesiology, emergency medicine, trauma and acute care surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, general surgery, urology, critical care, radiology, and blood banking. Anesthesiologists play an integral role on these multidisciplinary teams.
Trauma anesthesiologists must be prepared to emergently care for a patient with any form and severity of injury, who may have an unknown or suboptimally managed pre-existing conditions, and who may require any kind of operation regardless of the time of day, even when resources are not readily available. Trauma anesthesiologists must have a broad, evidence-based knowledge of the specialties of both anesthesiology and of trauma surgery in order to understand the nuances of traumatic injury management, the unique pathophysiological processes observed in trauma, and the pharmacological modifications that may be necessary to provide anesthesia quickly, efficiently, and effectively. Trauma anesthesiologists must provide airway management and resuscitation in an environment that may be in constant flux due to the instability of severe bleeding or brain injury. Trauma anesthesiologists manage difficult airways due to blood, vomitus, or severe facial fractures. They also provide massive blood and fluid resuscitation, treat coagulopathies, obtain vascular access, prevent hypothermia, optimize mechanical ventilation, and ensure adequate anesthesia and analgesia.
Trauma anesthesiologists offer a unique expertise and skill set that is significantly different from those offered by other medical specialties and complementary to those provided by general anesthesiologists. Trauma anesthesiology cuts across all subspecialties of anesthesiology. For example, an understanding of critical care, regional anesthesia, and pain management is of paramount importance throughout the perioperative period. Moreover, the work of trauma anesthesiologists is not limited to the operating room; rather their diverse knowledge and skills allow them to care for patients with both medical and surgical emergencies pre-hospital, in the emergency department, interventional radiology suite and hospital wards. In this way they are established as perioperative physicians in an acute care setting.
The European and other international models of pre-hospital trauma care regard the anesthesiologist as a member of the first responder team. In the United States, the specialty of emergency medicine has largely taken over this role. With the exception of a few large trauma centers, participation of the anesthesiologist in the care of a trauma patient in the trauma bays is often limited. However, when the anesthesiologist is present in the emergency department upon arrival of a trauma patient, the greatest benefit is achieved in that the anesthesiologist can enable early airway management, initiate precise resuscitation, provide effective analgesia and sedation, and allow seamless transfer of the patient to the operating room without delay and with ongoing resuscitation. Some of the services required of specially trained trauma anesthesiologists include the following:
Clinical leadership in the management of resuscitation from the pre-hospital setting to the trauma bay, to the operating room and/or interventional radiology suite, and in the intensive care unit
Effective airway management, establishing adequate breathing and ventilation.
Circulatory resuscitation, including establishment of an adequate venous access, administration of blood components in optimal ratio to enhance oxygen delivery and to ensure adequate coagulation.
Administration of massive transfusion in effective ratios of component therapy – with coagulation adjuncts – to the patient in hemorrhagic shock.
Proper placement of perioperative lines and invasive monitors including arterial line, central venous or pulmonary artery catheter (when indicated). Providing data interpretation of these monitoring modalities and other intraoperative diagnostic studies such as transesophageal echocardiography and laboratory data such as arterial blood gases, thromboelastogram/thromboelastometry, platelet function assay, etc. Fluid and electrolyte administration to optimize end organ perfusion, at the same time avoiding over-and under-hydration; precise titration of inotropic agents and vasoactive drugs.
Optimization of cerebral and spinal cord perfusion in order to minimize adverse neurologic outcome associated with traumatic brain and spinal cord injury.
Comprehensive perioperative pain management including intravenous, neuraxial and regional anesthesia, which may involve placement of single shot and continuous peripheral nerve blocks and/or administration of adjuvant medications.
Leadership in data management, outcomes appraisal, quality improvement, and clinical research trials.
What is the clinical benefit of Trauma Anesthesiology?
Specialized trauma centers have been established nationwide and their implementation has led to a decreased mortality and improvement of functional outcomes and economic value. Trauma systems have been created with centers existing in most states. In a large national sample of trauma patients, research has shown that receiving care at a Level I trauma center decreases the risk of death among seriously injured patients by 25 percent compared to a non-trauma center. Furthermore, both in-hospital mortality and 1-year mortality rates were reported to be significantly lower in trauma patients, particularly those with severe (i.e., operative) injuries, receiving care in trauma centers versus non-trauma centers. The incremental savings in cost per life-year for treatment at a trauma center versus non-trauma center has been estimated to be approximately $36,000.
Because designated verified trauma centers provide emergent resuscitation and acute surgical treatment for both the temporary stabilization and definitive injury repair, the need for anesthesiologists specialized in trauma care has been particularly emphasized. However, there is no data suggesting a benefit of specialty-trained trauma anesthesiologists impacting these outcomes. Trauma patients are complex and require utilization of a unique set of knowledge and skills in a highly stressful setting.
Thus, the ACS Committee on Trauma is suggesting optimal requirements for anesthesiology services specifically at a Level I Trauma Center:
Anesthesiology services should be promptly available for emergency operations and for airway problems. Anesthesia services in Level I trauma centers must be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
When anesthesiology chief residents or CRNAs are used to fulfill availability requirements, the staff anesthesiologist on call should always be advised and promptly available at all times, and present for all operations.
A designated anesthesiologist liaison to the trauma program is required to participate in both a Trauma Program Operational Process Performance Improvement Committee and a Multidisciplinary Peer Review Committee. The liaison should be involved in continuously evaluating the trauma program processes and outcomes to ensure optimal and timely care.
The trauma center has a responsibility to meet criteria for research, education and scholarly activity, and the anesthesiology service should contribute to these endeavors to fulfill these requirements.
The ASA COTEP suggests that for Level I trauma centers, there should be IN HOUSE presence of an anesthesiologist trained in the management of trauma care, and that every Level I trauma center has a designated Director of Trauma Anesthesiology.
What does Trauma Anesthesiology mean to the practice of Anesthesiology?
Nearly 45 million Americans do not have access to a Level I or II trauma center within one hour of being severely injured. A need exists for trained trauma anesthesiologists at all designated trauma centers, but especially at Level I trauma centers. Currently, apart from some academic medical centers, patients who sustain traumatic injury are often cared for by anesthesiologists who are fulfilling "on call" responsibilities. This is despite the complexity of trauma patient management and the need for a unique knowledge and skill set in a high acuity setting. Few anesthesiologists in the United States have specialized in trauma anesthesiology; however, anesthesiologists are expected to participate as part of a multidisciplinary trauma team in designated trauma centers around the country. Therefore, trauma anesthesiology as a subspecialty adds an essential presence of anesthesiologists in the critical management and treatment of patients who have endured trauma. The specialty delineates our crucial role in the initial management and subsequent definitive surgical interventions for patients with traumatic injury. Our anesthetic management and peri-operative care directly affects patients in a critical period of trauma resuscitation, plausibly influencing patient morbidity and mortality.
Trauma may affect anyone, regardless of age or socioeconomic factors. Trauma is predicted to become the third largest contributor to the global burden of disease by 2020. Currently, the estimated economic burden, including both healthcare costs and lost productivity, in the United States is $406 billion per year. Approximately 85,000 patients hospitalized with traumatic brain injury subsequently live with long-term disability. Early intervention by trained trauma anesthesiologists may have a substantial impact on future morbidity and mortality. Research examining trauma anesthesia practice will be essential to prove this notion; however, the presence of a trauma anesthesiologist as an intrinsic leader in a trauma team is the initial necessary professional obligation of the specialty of anesthesiology.
Trauma remains a major cause of hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality. Trauma systems and trauma centers with multidisciplinary trauma teams have become a well-recognized entity in the management of patients with traumatic injury. This organizational structure has led to decreased mortality and improved functional outcomes. Trauma anesthesiologists work synergistically with surgeons and other imperative healthcare providers to provide expert management of patients who have sustained traumatic injuries. The pervasiveness of trauma and its impact both nationally and globally demands the attentive focus of the ASA and the specialty of anesthesiology so that anesthesiologists, along with other medical specialties, may continue to mitigate the burden of traumatic injury on the individual patient and society at large.
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Buffalo Bill Dam
At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.
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Driving by, it’s easy to miss the Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center. Upon closer inspection, though, you’ll find a big parking lot with a shuttle and attentive staff who really want to put the Buffalo Bill Dam on the map.
The dam project was initially proposed by William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, founder of the nearby town of Cody, though the dam and the reservoir are located at the Wapiti Valley. Buffalo Bill wanted to tame the flooding river and use its flow to develop agriculture in the region.
Knowing that his cash reserves wouldn’t be enough to finance the project, he asked the federal government of the United States for help. Between 1905 and 1910, the Bureau of Reclamation built what was at the time the world’s biggest dam—a test of its engineers’ skills before they went on to build Hoover Dam.
The dam is located at the mouth of the Shoshone Canyon, and the first years of construction were filled with disastrous construction problems and working conditions so poor they prompted Wyoming’s first-ever strike. Seven workers died during the five years of construction.
A power plant was only added around the 1920s. In 1985, the dam underwent renovation works and its height increased 25 feet to improve the reservoir capacity. The visitor center was added at this time. The new section of the dam is easily visible from the observation platform.
The visitor center and shuttle are free. The visitor center closes at 5 p.m. and the shuttle, which runs every five-to-10 minutes, stops running at 4:30 p.m. Don't worry if you miss the shuttle though, as the parking lot is only a short walk away.
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Smith Mansion
Remnants of the Smith Mine Disaster
Chromium Mill Ruins
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Red Lodge, Montana
Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.
Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.
Park County, Montana
Grasshopper Glacier
A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.
Elgin, Ontario
The Stone Arch Dam
Thanks to its curved shape, this incredibly durable dam "whispers" to visitors.
Covão dos Conchos
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
Ust'-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
Ust-Kamenogorsk Lock
Tucked away along a riverbend in an area known for its uranium mines is one of the world's tallest locks.
Hoek van Holland, Netherlands
This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.
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GUATEMALA: The ancient Maya city of Nixtun-Ch’ich’ in Petén stands out not for its flat-topped pyramids, but for its plan. Years of excavation and mapping have revealed that Nixtun-Ch’ich’ was built on a modern-style grid, which makes it unique among urban Maya sites. The level of organization suggests that it had a powerful ruler or state, and that life there could have been markedly different than in other Maya cities, which tend to be more spread out and spacious. —Samir S. Patel
BOLIVIA: Three skulls found near Lake Titicaca, at Wata Wata, occupied from a.d. 200 to 800, stand out among Andean trophy skulls for the violence done to them and for their association with Tiwanaku culture, for which there was no prior evidence of head-taking. The skulls of three adults show evidence of scalping, beheading, defleshing, and even the forcible removal of the eyes, all around the time of death. Whoever they were, the trauma likely served to symbolically disempower them—in this life and perhaps the next. —Samir S. Patel
ICELAND: A team studying medieval monastic and religious sites on the island has found that monks and nuns preferred to secrete themselves away rather than share sites with common churchgoers. Because the island has historically been so sparsely populated, it was assumed that monks and nuns would have used everyday parish churches, rather than build their own. The new work indicates that monastic cloisters weren’t built near parish churches, suggesting that monks and nuns went to great, expensive lengths to build their own churches and isolate themselves. —Samir S. Patel
IRELAND: Recent storms have placed at risk the remains of three ships from the famed Spanish Armada that were wrecked during a storm in 1588, taking more than 1,000 lives. Discovered in 1985, the wrecks—La Juliana, La Lavia, and La Santa Maria de Visón—have in recent years disgorged artifacts onto the beach: a rudder, a cannonball, timbers, and more. In response, the country’s Underwater Archaeology Unit has raced to retrieve items exposed by shifting sands, including cannons from La Juliana, a converted merchant vessel. —Samir S. Patel
ZIMBABWE: New investigations at the remote site of Mapela are providing insights into the origins of the Zimbabwe culture, known for its elite stone terrace houses surrounded by dwellings for commoners, most notably seen at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Mapela, a largely forgotten site, dates to the 11th century and suggests that the culture’s signature class hierarchy and distinctive architecture arose some 200 years earlier than expected. —Samir S. Patel
ETHIOPIA: Parts of jaws and teeth found in the Afar region—near where Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis, was discovered in 1974—may represent a new human ancestor. Dubbed Australopithecus deyiremeda, the new species, which dates to between 3.3 and 3.5 million years ago, may have coexisted with Lucy’s species, but appears to have been adapted to take advantage of tougher plants and grasses than A. afarensis. The differences are subtle, so more research and samples are needed to understand the evolutionary place of the new species. —Samir S. Patel
PAKISTAN: Compared with the other cradles of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia, little is known about the people of the Indus Valley civilization, in large part because of the lack of elaborate burials and because their script remains undeciphered. A recent isotope analysis of teeth from Indus burials shows that people interred there were almost exclusively migrants from the hinterlands. The pattern suggests some kind of formalized migration, and that the remains of these people were treated differently (buried) than those of locals, which aren’t preserved in the archaeological record. —Samir S. Patel
LAOS: Skull fragments recovered from a cave represent the earliest known modern human in Southeast Asia. Between 46,000 and 63,000 years old, the find is better dated and more clearly modern than similar fossils that have been found in East Asia. The bone was found in the north of the country, which suggests that the previous assumption that early modern humans migrated solely along the coast is incomplete, and that they spread into a range of environments early in the migration out of Africa. —Samir S. Patel
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Mummies are created around the world, usually by some form of drying. Among the Anga people of the Aseki region, mummies are smoked. Until recently, the Anga smoked the deceased and displayed their bodies on cliffsides out of reverence and to mark territory, but exposure to the elements has left them deteriorated. Researchers from the United States and Canada recently helped conserve one, a leader named Moimango, using materials found in the jungle. The project was a success, and Moimango now sits again in the cliffside roost where he has overseen his descendants for some 60 years. —Samir S. Patel
AUSTRALIA: In 1916, Australian soldiers were preparing to make their name on the world stage, fighting for the Allies in WWI (such as at Gallipoli, shown here). But first they had to train for the trenches. Near Canberra, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of this preparation. Using aerial photos, researchers identified and have begun to excavate an area where Australian soldiers dug training trenches. Their dig is revealing how the military experimented with trench styles, and then trained soldiers to re-create them in the field. —Samir S. Patel
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Golden House of an Emperor
New York's Original Seaport
Cultural Revival
Letter From England
Bronze Age Ireland’s Taste in Gold
A Rare Bird
Atacama’s Decaying Mummies
Bronze Age Traveler
Great Lakes Shipwreck Spotting
Early Parrots in the Southwest
The Red Lady of El Mirón
For the Love of a Noblewoman
Blood on the Ice
Under the Rug
A Place to Hide the Bodies
“T” Marks the Spot
As American as Sliced Bacon in a Can
Surely You Joust?
Maya city zoning, trophy skulls in Bolivia, saving the Spanish Armada, an Indus migration, and Papua New Guinea’s smoked mummies
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Tom Daschle, former U.S. senator from South Dakota, has taken an adviser position at a cannabis investment company and is calling for a loosening of restrictions on pot.
Daschle, who was majority leader in the U.S. Senate from 2001-2003, has joined the advisory board of Northern Swan Holdings Inc., the company announced Monday.
Northern Swan is an New York-based investment firm supporting emerging companies in the international cannabis industry in nations where pot is legal.
Daschle called for changes to U.S. laws regarding cannabis research and use, in the news release from the company.
“As the conversation around cannabis has evolved, so should the policies," he said. "I believe it is imperative to loosen the restrictions on cannabis so we can research its properties and fully understand how patients can benefit from its medicinal use."
In an interview on CNBC on Monday, Daschle touted the medical benefits of pot and called for its removal from the federal Schedule 1 list of illegal drugs.
"I think what we should do is take it one step at a time," he said. "Let's take it off the Schedule 1 format and really provide a regulatory framework that allows us to explore the real potential medically. That's where we ought to start."
A lot of promise in cannabis, says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle
Northern Swan also announced it had added former Rep. Joe Crowley of New York to its advisory board. Both prominent Democrats joined the Northern Swan advisory board as the company secured $100 million to expand its operations in Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
“Senator Daschle is a pre-eminent expert in health and wellness whose experience in healthcare policy reform will be invaluable to our company’s expansion in the global medical cannabis market,” said Kyle Detwiler, CEO of Northern Swan, in the news release.
Daschle isn't the first top lawmaker to join a company in the cannabis sector. Former House Speaker John Boehner, Republican from Ohio, joined the board of Acreage Holding, a publicly traded cannabis company, soon after leaving office in 2015.
In March, Boehner announced the formation of a new lobbying group, the National Cannabis Roundtable. Boehner said he would advise the group and serve as honorary chair.
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Monument Wars in the U.K., Matthew Barney–Installed Clock Goes Dark, and More: Morning Links from January 19, 2021
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Michelangelo at the Met
COURTESY THE MET
Eric Boman at New York takes us inside the home of Cheryl and John Mowinckel, who live in a 4,000-foot loft in the Flatiron. It was once the home and studio of Lenore Tawney, an artist who worked in fiber, and the Mowinckels honor her by changing very little in the apartment. It maintains the fluidity of a home studio. “You can enter a bedroom, pass through a bathroom, study, and dressing area, and reappear through the library!” Cheryl Mowinckel says. [New York]
The collectors Jake and Ruth Bloom are selling their mansion at in Sun Valley, Idaho, putting it up for auction for $11 million. Jack Flemming at the Los Angeles Times explores the house, which was designed by Frederick Fisher & Partners Architects, the firm that worked on building out MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. [The Los Angeles Times]
Museum Happenings
Simon Baker has been named the new director of the European House of Photography, the organization announced. [The European House of Photography]
The Louvre has shut down its lower level due to dangerous flooding in Paris. “The water level is expected to reach 20 feet by Saturday, which is 13 feet higher than its normal height, according to the latest official weather bulletin,” Paul Pradier of ABC News reports. [ABC News]
Scientists are trying to get the conservative donor Rebekah Mercer removed from the board of the Natural History Museum in New York due to her efforts to spread anti-climate change propaganda. Alexander C. Kaufman at HuffPost reports that a letter has been signed by more than 200 professionals, and that it states, “Rebekah Mercer and the Mercer Family Foundation, political kingmakers and the financiers behind Breitbart News, have given tens of millions to organizations who broadcast climate science denial and block policy and technological solutions to the climate crisis.” [HuffPost]
Michelangelo, of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show of drawings by Michelangelo, the artist. [The Met]
Bob Keyes at the Portland Press Herald takes us inside this year’s biennale at the Portland Museum of Art, which opens today. “The exhibition highlights their diverse perspectives and interests, and is intended to make a statement about the impact and power of art in what [Guest Curator Nat] May called ‘this historical moment that we’re all experiencing together,'” Keyes writes. [The Portland Press Herald]
Lives of the Artists
January marks not only the opening of a grand Georg Baselitz retrospective at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland—it’s also the artist’s 80th birthday. Torsten Landsberg at Deutsche Welle takes a look at the long career, which began when a duo of risqué paintings caused a sensation in Germany, prompting charges of obscenity—and causing his market to skyrocket. [Deutsche Welle]
News from the Sundance Film Festival: Magnolia Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights of Kusama — Infinity, a documentary about Yayoi Kusama by the filmmaker Heather Lenz. Patrick Hipes of Deadline explains to readers of the Tinseltown industry rag that Kusama has a “legacy of artwork spans painting, sculpture, installation art, performance art, poetry, and novels and continues today — her installation “Infinity Mirrors” recently sold out its run at L.A.’s The Broad museum, and she’s considered the world’s top-selling artist.” [Deadline]
Market Matters
More news from Sundance: Dan Schindel at Hyperallergic goes inside The Price of Everything, an art market documentary that premiered by the slopes in Park City this week. [Hyperallergic]
Sotheby’s has acquired the AI startup Thread Genius to try and match potential clients with art they may be interested in. Katya Kazakina at Bloomberg explains that the trio that founded Thread Genius “previously worked at the Spotify streaming service where they helped develop the technology behind its music recommendations. At their own firm they applied a similar approach to the fashion industry, using AI to understand customer tastes based on visual recognition.” [Bloomberg]
Hayley Krischer has a story on the cover of the New York Times travel section this weekend about going with her best friends girlfriends to Marfa, Texas, that art hub in the middle of the desert. The headline sums it up nicely: “Thelma and Louise, With a Happier Ending.” [The New York Times]
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Can we earthquake-proof New Zealand?
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake was New Zealand’s second deadliest natural disaster, surpassed only by the 1931 earthquake in Hawke’s Bay. 185 people from 20 countries were killed. Some 1,240 buildings in the central city, from old to just-built, have had to be demolished. Almost all the city’s internationally recognised heritage buildings were lost. The total cost of the rebuild has been put at over $40 billion and it is estimated that it will take the economy 50 to 100 years to recover completely.
One of the main causes of death and injury in the Christchurch earthquakes was unreinforced masonry buildings. They are found in main streets all over the country and are generally the oldest in any community, the most valuable to the community and the most dangerous in an earthquake. Among buildings of this type, churches are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because they are tall structures with large spaces and few or no internal walls. We know from Christchurch that they perform particularly badly in a large earthquake.
Researchers at the University are examining ways of minimising loss and damage, and speeding recovery, after major earthquakes. To aid this work the University of Auckland has constructed a major new structures test hall on the Newmarket Campus with one of the largest seismic testing walls in Australasia.
Churches are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because they are big, tall structures with large spaces and few or no internal walls.
Professor Jason Ingham, Department Of Civil And Environmental Engineering
They are also exploring ways to protect unreinforced masonry buildings without unreasonably compromising their appearance and functionality, including novel solutions for securing parapets and chimneys, two of the most earthquake-affected building structures.
Associate Professor Charles Clifton and his colleagues are developing new kinds of building structures and joints to make buildings much more quake-resistant.
Of course, prevention is better than cure, and so other researchers are studying the geological processes that lead to earthquakes in the first place. This includes work with a private company on software to enable us to visualise deep, hidden and, therefore, previously unknown fault lines, such as those that were already under Canterbury before the quake.
We will always be subject to earthquakes in New Zealand, but research such as this offers us the opportunity to protect our people and our property from future disasters.
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The roman-catholic basilica of Sagrada Familia is considered the master-piece of Antoní Gaudí.
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This modernista architect has shaped the face of Barcelona like no one else. A lot of his works like Casa Mila, Casa Batlló, Parc Güell and others have already gained UNESCO World Heritage status.
But Sagrada Familia is by far the most famous and most impressive one. When the construction began in 1882, the then 30-year old Gaudí already knew that it would not be finished during his life-time.
Eventually, the church will consist of three facades. Nativity facade showing the birth of Jesus, Passion facade, dedicated to the suffering during his crucifixion and Glory facade, which will represent the road to God.
Gaudí was highly involved in the construction of Nativity facade. He tragically died in 1926 when he was run over by a tram. After the completion of Nativity facade in 1930 works were interrupted in 1936 due to the Spanish civil war. Worse than that the original construction plans have been destroyed by Spanish anarchists.
Thus there has been and still is dispute whether constructions should be continued. Some claim the construction should be left unfinished to respect the work of Antoní Gaudí. However Gaudí himself was aware of the fact that construction would take many generations after his death.
He even wanted Sagrada Familia to represent the styles of different architects from different generations, thus he only made a rough sketch of Glory facade, which is under construction since 2002.
While in the beginning of the 20th centrury the works have been expected to continue for several centuries, technological progress and generous funding have significantly increased the speed of construction.
The budget of 20 million Euros annually nowadays is mainly derived from tourism. So you can support the completion by visiting the most spectacular construction site of the world like 2.5 million others per year.
For a special view, take one of the elevators to the top of the building.
Insider tip: Use the elevator on the side of the Nativity facade. Here you have to make the way down by yourself on the stairs. But this gives you some private time with the building and the queues are much shorter than near the main entrance on the Passion facade.
The interior of Sagrada Familia has been finished in September 2010, since when it is open for worship. On November 7th 2010 it was finally consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI.
The extensive exterior works however will continue for another decade or two. On the southern side outside Glory facade, half a block of houses will be knocked down to create space for a large stairway spanning Carrer Mallorca and leading to the main entrance.
Eventually, the Jesus Christ Tower will crown the building and make it the highest church in the world with 170 metres. This is one meter lower than the mountain of Montjuic since Gaudí believed his building should not exceed the work of God.
The final completion of Sagrada Familia is expected for 2026, the 100th anniversary of the death of Antoní Gaudí.
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Duration: Departure 10:00am - Return 15:00h
Sagrada Familia – Facts
Opening times: 09:00-18:00 (Oct-Mar) 09:00-20:00 (Apr-Sep)
Admission: €15 for adults, €13 for students, children up to 10 years are free
How to get to Sagrada Familia?
Metro (Blue Line, L5) and (Purple Line, L2) to Sagrada Familia
or use the Barcelona sightseeing bus
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Maybe Now Christians Will Stop Bickering Over the Gift of Tongues
October 16, 2020 12:00am Comments
TULSA, Okla., Oct. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Author Jimmy Weiss shares an original explanation of the gift of tongues in Jacob's Ladder and the Gift of Glossary: A Spirit-led journey to a new and old understanding of what the Bible calls, "The Gift of Tongues" ($15.99, paperback, 9781632217028; $7.99, e-book, 9781632217035).
As a dedicated apologist, Weiss was troubled by the amount of controversy surrounding the gift of tongues. While some consider it the ability to magically speak in a foreign language, others see it as senseless babbling. Weiss was not satisfied by either of these explanations, and followed the Holy Spirit on a search for a better one. His solution is both practical and biblical, and he hopes it will help believers move past this obstacle.
"What motivated me more than anything, was the revelation that the greater gifts depend on and build upon the lesser gifts! How could I refrain from publishing an explanation that could lead to the greater gifts of miracles, healing miracles, and mountain-moving faith?" said Weiss.
Jimmy Weiss turned to Christ as an alternative to suicide in 2004, at the age of twenty. After a marvelous early period of belief, the Lord launched Jimmy into a life of rigorous study of the Bible and its ideas. Weiss holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Rogers State University and has been blessed with a wife and two children.
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Media Group, is the world's largest Christian self-publisher, with more than 15,000 titles published to date. Jacob's Ladder and the Gift of Glossary is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.
SOURCE Xulon Press
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Olson to Leave Random House, Say Bertelsmann Executives
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Random House Chief Executive Peter W. Olson will step down in the next few weeks, according to two executives at the book publisher’s parent company, Bertelsmann, who spoke on condition of anonymity. According to the report, Bertelsmann’s recently appointed chief executive, Hartmut Ostrowski, “has lost patience with the performance of the American operations and wants to install his own person … [who] would not necessarily be a prominent figure from New York publishing, and maybe not even American.”
Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House, the world’s largest consumer publisher, issued the following statement: “Mr. Olson is pursuing a normal schedule today and for the foreseeable future.” According to the Times sources, the terms and exact timing of Olson’s departure were still under negotiation, and an announcement could come after Bertelsmann’s board meets in New York later this month.
Olson has worked for Bertelsmann for 20 years. He was made chief executive of Random House in 1998 after Bertelsmann acquired the company from Advance Publications, a deal that Olson was instrumental in negotiating, said the Times article.
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Five thoughts on the Celtics showing interest in a Jrue Holiday trade
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The NBA rumor mill is heating up in a hurry ahead of the transaction season beginning next week and the Celtics are front and center within trade talks on Thursday. According to a report from Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer, the Celtics have shown interest in trading for Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, with the trade bait being a lottery pick the C’s would acquire for their three first-round picks.
We explored the possibility of dealing for Holiday earlier this month here and broke down his potential fit as well. In the wake of Boston’s reported interest, there are a lot of new angles to cover as it relates to Gordon Hayward's future, the NBA Draft and more. Here are five thoughts about the Celtics’ pursuit and whether a deal will come to be.
1. The Celtics would need to send out $20.9 million in the trade: The Pelicans' guard has two years left on this deal (the final year is a player option) with his salary next season at $26.1 million. In order to make the salary matching work, the Celtics would need to send out one of their core pieces as part of the deal. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown aren’t going anywhere so we will put them to the side. Kemba Walker has three years left on his deal and Danny Ainge spoke earlier this week about the team’s commitment to him over the long-term so I don’t think he would be on the table in trade talks for Holiday either. That would leave Marcus Smart and Hayward left to make the math work. Given the rumors swirling about Hayward’s long-term future in Boston, he would be an obvious fit as part of the deal, even if he isn’t headed to New Orleans. A three-team transaction could be worked out with a suitor looking to land Hayward and
2. Boston moving all three first-round picks would be too much for just Jrue Holiday by himself: The original report from the Ringer indicates that a mid-lottery pick would be the main piece the Pelicans would be looking for in a deal. The Celtics are exploring packaging up all three of their first-round picks (No. 14, 26, 30) to get to No. 7 and then using that pick to land Holiday. However, that type of deal would not be possible with a big matching salary (i.e. a player like Hayward). If the Celtics include Hayward in that type of transaction, that’s far too much to give up for a good but not great player in Holiday who makes big money and could opt out of his contract after next season. There would be a lot more moving parts needed in order to get the Celtics to pull the trigger on this potential deal and that involves more useful players going back to Boston from New Orleans or a third team.
3. The Celtics would likely need Hayward to serve as a cooperator in any Holiday deal, perhaps with his camp arranging a landing spot on a third team that’s willing to give up some kind of value for him: The Celtics have stayed quiet on the Hayward front amid a flurry of rumors about his future but their willingness to explore a deal like this for
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If you are thinking of moving to New South Wales, it is reassuring to consider other expatriates' experiences and the high quality of life they enjoy in Australia. NSW is the country's most multicultural state where people from many different backgrounds embrace new cultures and share their heritage in welcoming communities.
NSW Department of Industry welcomes expatriates and has created an information sheet on repatriation to Sydney and NSW, covering citizenship, health, education, social security, tax, recognition of overseas qualifications and other relevant issues.
The Australian expatriate experience in NSW
In 2013, the HSBC Expat Explorer Survey ranked Australia fifth out of 37 countries for migrants' quality of life compared to where they used to live and their experiences of relocating and integrating into the fabric of local society.
A significant majority of responding expatriates reported that their quality of life improved when they moved to Australia. In total, 81 per cent felt a strong connection with the country, compared to a much lower global average of 66 per cent for all migrants surveyed.
If you are considering moving permanently to NSW, you could join the 84 per cent of surveyed expatriates who intend to stay in Australia – a figure well above the global average of 62 per cent.
Respondents who moved to Australia said they adapted easily to the food, weather and culture, found the locals friendly and listed the country's pleasant climate and attractive scenery as major positives. Overall, Australia achieved its highest rankings in expatriates' experiences of organising finances and healthcare, fitting into the new culture and integrating into the community.
Health and quality of life
In 2013, the Economist Intelligence Unit classed Sydney in the top 10 most attractive locations for expatriate workers in a list of the world's most livable cities. Overall, Sydney ranked seventh in the world and received perfect scores for healthcare, education and infrastructure.
The HSBC Expat Explorer Survey also produced separate league tables, which revealed more than half of Australia's migrants associate the country with strong economic growth, in contrast to a global average of only one-third of all expatriates surveyed. Australia ranked seventh out of 24 countries in terms of being a good place to raise children abroad, and achieved first place for the improved health of expatriates' children.
Quality of life is vital for attracting foreign companies and migrants to specific countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific region where conditions vary widely. In Australia you can enjoy the high quality of life and multicultural societies that make it a highly attractive destination for expatriates from all over the world.
The Expatriate Experience, 2013
Ease of Setting Up
Ability to Integrate
Overall Ranking1
Thailand 3 3 1 1
Bahrain 6 23 2 2
China 15 2 4 3
Cayman Islands 1 24 3 4
Australia 2 14 8 5
Singapore 5 26 7 6
India 28 12 5 7
Taiwan 24 8 6 8
Spain 8 7 16 9
Brazil 20 1 17 10
New Zealand 16 27 14 18
Malaysia 9 30 13 20
France 10 9 26 21
United States 17 19 23 23
Japan 35 15 21 24
Hong Kong SAR 18 28 25 25
United Kingdom 13 13 30 27
Indonesia 27 6 35 31
1. Rankings are based on a weighted average of scores for the following three sub categories (which are in turn based on 29 indicators): setting up (16.7%), integration (16.7%), and quality of life (66.7%). For the quality of life sub-category, expats rated accommodation, food/diet, entertainment, healthcare, work/life balance, social life, commute to work and opportunities for sports and travel. For the 2013 survey, 7,000 expats from nearly 100 countries took part. A sample size of more than 30 respondents from each country was required for inclusion in each league table.
Source: HSBC, Expat Explorer Survey 2013.
Page link: https://www.business.nsw.gov.au/live-and-work-in-nsw/lifestyle/expatriate-experience
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Elaine Chao, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, and Linda Hudson, Former CEO of BAE Systems, Join Ingersoll Rand Board
SWORDS, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The shareholders of Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE:IR), a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, have elected Elaine Chao and Linda Hudson as members of the Board, effective immediately.
“Elaine Chao and Linda Hudson bring extraordinary leadership expertise, board experience and valuable perspective that is relevant to Ingersoll Rand. They reinforce our board in the areas of global competitiveness, operations, international geopolitical dynamics, defense and engineering sectors and workforce development,” said Michael W. Lamach, chairman and chief executive officer. “Elaine’s distinguished career in the public, private and nonprofit sectors will provide extensive knowledge regarding macroeconomic, labor and employment trends, workforce health, safety, and benefits and competition in a worldwide economy. Linda’s innovative leadership in strategic planning, risk management, operations, technology and services in complex global business environments will provide us with important insight on matters critical to our business. We are delighted to have both join our outstanding Board.”
Secretary Chao will serve on the Compensation and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committees. Ms. Hudson will serve on the Audit and Finance Committees. Their appointment to the Ingersoll Rand Board of Directors is part of the Board’s ongoing succession planning process, following the normal retirements of Ted Martin and Edward Hagenlocker who served on the Ingersoll Rand Board of Directors for 19 and seven years, respectively.
“We have been fortunate to have Ted and Ed on the Ingersoll Rand Board,” said Richard Swift, lead director for Ingersoll Rand. “Their long-term tenure on the Board brought valuable insight and expertise to the company across all operational and financial matters. We thank them for their exemplary service and wish them well in future endeavors.”
Elaine L. Chao, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Secretary Chao was the 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the first Asian Pacific American woman to be appointed to a President’s cabinet in American history. She presently serves as chairman of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Foundation, a family foundation. From 1996 to 2001 and from 2009 to 2014, Secretary Chao was a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. She served as president and chief executive officer of United Way of America from 1992 to 1996. Her previous government experience includes serving as director of the Peace Corps; deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation; and chairman, Federal Maritime Commission. Secretary Chao was also vice president of syndications at BankAmerica Capital Markets Group and a banker with Citicorp.
Secretary Chao served on a number of public boards prior to government service. Currently, she is a director of News Corp, Vulcan Materials Company, Wells Fargo and a board member of several nonprofit organizations including Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Politics; Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors and Harvard Business School Board of Global Advisors for the Asia Pacific Region. Secretary Chao received her undergraduate degree in economics from Mount Holyoke College and her Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Linda P. Hudson, Chairman and CEO of The Cardea Group and former president and CEO of BAE Systems, Inc.
Ms. Hudson is chairman and chief executive officer of The Cardea Group, LLC, a management and leading consulting business she founded last year. She served as president and chief executive officer of BAE Systems, Inc. (BAE), a U.S.-based subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, a publicly-traded global defense, aerospace and security company headquartered in London, from 2009 through 2014. During this time she served as a member of the executive committee and as an executive director of BAE Systems. Ms. Hudson served as president of BAE Systems’ Land and Armaments operating group, the world’s largest military vehicle and equipment business, from 2007 to 2009.
Prior to joining BAE, Ms. Hudson worked at General Dynamics Corporation and was president of its Armament and Technical Products business. During her career, she has held various positions in engineering, production operations, program management and business development for defense and aerospace companies.
Ms. Hudson is a director on the boards Bank of America and Southern Company. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Florida Foundation, Inc., the University of Florida Engineering Leadership Institute and the Center for a New American Security, a non-partisan research institute that develops national security and defense policies. Ms. Hudson received her undergraduate degree in systems engineering from the University of Florida and holds honorary doctorates in engineering and science from the University of Florida and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, respectively.
About Ingersoll Rand
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) advances the quality of life by creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments. Our people and our family of brands — including Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Thermo King® and Trane® — work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings; transport and protect food and perishables; and increase industrial productivity and efficiency. We are a $13 billion global business committed to a world of sustainable progress and enduring results. For more information, visit www.ingersollrand.com.
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The shareholders of Ingersoll Rand have elected Elaine Chao and Linda Hudson as members of the Board, effective immediately.
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