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In Memoriam – An Interview With Cathedral
Posted on May 5, 2013 by News Team
The Final Spire marks the swansong of doom metal institute Cathedral. Ghost Cult looks back with guitarist Garry Jennings on the remarkable career of his band, recording an album whilst knowing it would the last one and the Cathedral musical legacy.
The Final Spire is very much a doom metal record, akin to band’s first three records. Would it be a fair statement to say you guys came full circle with the new album?
I think from an outside point of view people will perceive that we’ve come full circle but to me it’s just the natural cycle where the band has come to. Obviously knowing it was the last record we were gonna make there was an emphasis to keep the material on the slower side but bear in mind a lot of this material was written back in 2008.
What I really like about The Final Spire is the whole “Once More Unto The Breach” attitude giving the material a really vibrant and passionate feel. What’s the secret?
Honesty. Being into what you’re doing is obviously a major plus point. Also having a ton of good riffs helps as well, haha!
At which point became it clear for you that Cathedral had run its course? How did this influence the writing and recording process of The Final Spire?
It’s weird because I don’t think the band has run its course as such it’s just that we decided we wanted to lay the band to rest. I don’t think the material has dried up as such because I’ve still got a stack of riffs kicking about but we felt that 20 years was a long time for a band and we didn’t have 100% commitment to put into it anymore and if you can’t do that then things are going to suffer. Even though I still have riffs available some of them aren’t suitable for Cathedral. We also didn’t wanna make albums where maybe the material was not up to the standard we felt we needed to achieve.
Lee Dorrian said in the album’s biography that this is the second album he always wanted to make. How so and how do you see things?
Yeah, I see where Lee’s coming from in that the material I suppose you could say it is almost a follow up to the forest album but in saying that if we hadn’t made all the albums in between then we wouldn’t have ended up with this record. I’m just really pleased that the last album is pretty much an out and out doom record with a few different elements thrown in.
A lot of the material written for The Final Spire didn’t make the cut. Will that material see the light of day in any form or shape?
I’m not sure what will happen with the material. We actually recorded around 5 extra tracks when we were in the studio. One of the songs was actually around 30 mins long and had all kinds of styles integrated into it. It would be nice if it saw the light of day in the future. The only reason it’s sitting around doing nothing at the moment is that Lee didn’t have enough time to finish writing lyrics for it. One good thing is that Rise Above (Lee’s own record label.red) owns the recordings so if Lee ever feels like it he can go and finish off the track in his own time. As for the other songs I have no idea. Two of them date back to 1994 when they were written.
What are your personal highs and lows in your years with Cathedral?
The high’s far out way the lows. touring with Sabbath, having Tony Iommi play on one of our albums, touring with Motorhead, Trouble, Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, meeting Kevin from Angel Witch, meeting Phil and speaking to Zeeb from Witchfinder General, having Mike from Dream Death play on our first album. All these bands that I grew up worshiping. To meet them and play gigs with them was just incredible.
Will the band hit the road in some massive farewell tour or is The Final Spiral the final chapter in the long and illustrious history of Cathedral?
I’m afraid no more gigs. This record is the final statement of new material. As I said there is stuff recorded but not finished so that may see the light of day in the future but I’m not sure.
Nowadays retro is all the rage within the doom, prog and stoner rock/metal genres, in retrospect taking a lot of queues from the things you did with Cathedral. Do you think Cathedral paved the way for a lot of those bands?
Without doubt. Who in 1989/90 wanted to form a band and play as slow as we did? Not many people. Death metal was all the rage. For example and this isn’t us being big-headed or anything but you look at our thanks list on the first two albums and see all the 70’s prog / rock bands we mention. That stuff is rife now with people mentioning obscure bands these days and getting into a lot of those bands. Back in 1990 nobody in metal was into those bands. Nobody had heard of them that’s why. It wasn’t till people saw our thanks list and went out and tried to find the stuff. That’s why we put them lists on there. There are bands now that sound and look like they’re from 71 / 72. I’d like to think that by us being into those bands and mentioning them we played some part. In fact I’m pretty convinced we did. Again remember now with the internet finding out info about obscure bands and records from the early 70’s is easy. Back when I was discovering all that stuff it was much more difficult. The records cost an absolute fortune and were usually in the hands of private collectors who wanted to keep all that stuff to themselves.
With the chapter closed on the band what are you guys going to do in your post Cathedral life?
Well obviously Lee will be spending a lot of time running his label and he also now has a company which promotes gigs. Scott lives in LA and works for a film company streaming on line films. I’m sure he will continue playing gigs with Repulsion as well. I’m not sure what Brian will do. He has a side project with some friends so I think he will continue with that. As for myself. No idea. I have enough material written for a solo album. More N.W.O.B.H.M than Cathedral. I’ve been rehearsing with my son on drums. Just need to find a singer and then maybe get round to recording it later in the year.
Finally, given The Final Spiral is Cathedral’s swansong, how would you like the band to be remembered?
That we took an unpopular and neglected style of metal, doom metal, and brought it to people’s attention. And I think we did as now doom is now considered a more accepted form of metal. Also that on our day we were a pretty rocking band when we were on form.
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Crime Scenes Aug. 15, 2013
Fruitcake-Bakery Accountant Charged With $16 Million Theft
By Alan Sytsma
A non-“deluxe” fruitcake. Photo: iStockphoto
Sandy Jenkins, the top accountant for the Texas-based Collins Street Bakery, which specializes in “deluxe fruitcakes,” was arrested this week for allegedly embezzling more than $16 million from the company. According to Dallas-based WFAA, Jenkins spent the stolen money on, among other things, 43 luxury cars and a $3 million jewelry collection. Authorities were no doubt tipped off when they realized a guy who worked for a fruitcake company had 43 cars and a $3 million jewelry collection. [WFAA]
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What Has Happened to Fadhel Abbas?
Brian Dooley, Contributor
Senior Advisor, Human Rights First
12/31/2016 09:03 am ET
Fadhel Abbas, taken by masked men on 29 September 2016
More than three months ago, on 29 September 2016, a large number of men in masks raided Fadhel Abbas’s home at Hamad Town in Bahrain at 3am and took him away in Ministry of the Interior (MOI) vehicles. Family members who were there say no arrest warrant was shown and that Abbas called around seven hours later saying he was being held at the feared Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID).
He called a few days later and asked for some clothes, but it’s unclear if he ever received them. Neither a lawyer nor his family have been allowed access to him since and there was no further contact for two months, when he made another brief call on December 10, confirming he was still in the CID building.
The CID building has an ominous reputation in Bahrain, known as a place where confessions are coerced from detainees, a place to fear, a rights-free zone. Those interrogated there tell credible, consistent accounts of ill-treatment, abuse and torture.
Last year human rights defender Hussain Jawad was detained there, also after an early morning raid on his home by masked men. He told me how he was tortured at the CID and kept incommunicado for long periods, denied access to family or a lawyer. When he finally appeared at the public prosecution office his lawyer told me he had been ordered by the CID not to mention the torture or they would “take him to hell and back”.
Bahrain’s security forces deny these charges of course, much as the Bahraini official who told me in May 2011 that no-one in the country had been arrested by masked men or without a warrant. It was happening then and it’s still happening now.
We don't know exactly what’s happening to Abbas, but we know it’s happening in secret and that his family are worried. So worried they went to the country’s Ombudsman’s Office on December 6 to file a complaint and to ask that they and his lawyer be allowed to see him. They say the office told them they can’t get involved because the case is being handled by the public prosecution, which raises the question of how effective the Ombudman’s office - often touted by the government as evidence of reform - is really being.
In June 2016 the U.S. State Department finally produced its assessment of how far Bahrain had reformed since 2011, an assessment requested by Congress. The report said “We [the State Department] assess that the Ombudsman’s Office is able to operate independently from the MOI hierarchy and control its own operating budget”. But it doesn’t seem to be able to help in cases where detainees are held incommunicado for long periods.
Abbas’s sister Fadila told me she’s made repeated visits to the public prosecutor’s office for information and to the CID building to ask about Fadhel but has never been allowed to see him, just told that the investigation against him is still ongoing. She says one CID officer met her requests with a dismissive “No-one can do anything to us,” and that a CID official confirmed to her on December 14 that her brother was still there.
It’s three weeks since the family last heard from him, and they’re understandably imagining the worst. Three weeks from now Washington gets a new administration and Congress. They’ll have to take a fresh look at the U.S. government’s relationship with Bahrain, how its military ally has failed to address grievances likely to fuel instability, how its ruling family is getting close to President Putin, and how masked men still raid homes in the middle of the night, abduct and swallow men into incommunicado detention.
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Roy Retallick
July 24, 1936 ~ January 6, 2021 (age 84)
George LeRoy “Roy” Retallick, age 84, of Altamont, passed away peacefully January 6, 2021 in Washington, Utah.
He was born July 24, 1936, in Salt Lake City, to George and Yoma Mitchell Retallick. He graduated Granite High School and worked for the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office for over 25 years.
Roy married Valerie Casper on September 19, 1969, in Salt Lake City, Utah. When he retired from the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office, he and Valerie moved to Altamont in 1985. She died May 10, 2013.
Roy enjoyed hunting, especially duck hunting and fishing with friends and family. He enjoyed his hunting dogs. He was an active Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He enjoyed feeding the missionaries of the Church. He was a wonderful husband to Valerie and cared for her up to passing in the home. He was a great husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Roy is survived by his children, Cydnee (Doug) Shapiro of Bluffdale, UT; Layne (Brenda) Retallick, Gilbert, AZ; Jeffrey Berger, Magna, UT; Brett (Laura) Berger, Snowflake, AZ; Connie (Kay) Atwood, La Verkin, UT; 9 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 41 years, Valerie Retallick, and his brother, Jack Retallick.
The family wishes to thank the Beehive Home in Washington, Utah, for taking such good care of our dad during his last days.
Graveside services will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. at the Altamont Cemetery.
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What Should I Eat While I Watch That Movie: G.I. Jane
Posted on March 20, 2015 by Stefanie Gunning
When it comes to Ridley Scott’s G.I. Jane, we are a nation divided. Ask someone about this 1997 film and you are likely to get one of two responses: a dismissive eye-roll accompanied by a jerk-off gesture, or a fist-pumping “Fuck yeah!” Rotten Tomatoes supports this observation, where the movie earns 55% on the Tomatometer and an audience score of 53%.
G.I. Jane tells the story of Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil — played by Demi Moore and her supernatural lats, quads, and glutes — the first woman to be accepted for U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team training (a fictional stand-in for U.S. Navy SEAL BUD/S). There is a plot here, something to do with Anne Bancroft’s Senator Lillian DeHaven making a deal to keep military bases open in Texas. But honestly, who cares? The power of G.I. Jane, its ridiculously strong heart, has nothing to do with plot and everything to do with action.
O’Neil is taunted and ostracized by her fellow trainees. Her military higher ups are a bunch of Sexist Evil White Men™, all of whom are conspiring to get her to ring out of the program. In one pivotal scene, her master chief (Viggo Mortensen and his lush mustache) beats the crap out of her and then threatens to rape her during a simulated POW training. In an environment known for pushing trainees to the absolute limit physically, mentally and emotionally, she is on her own, a pawn in a game she doesn’t even know she’s playing, and staring down institutional sexism that’s locked and loaded. But does O’Neil waver? She does not. She rejects any accommodation to her training (fuck that helper step on the obstacle course), does her push-ups like a man (no knees), and shaves off her hair while The Pretenders sing The Homecoming. As for the master chief’s attack, she breaks his nose with her head while her hands are tied behind her back and then tells him to suck her dick.
It will come as no surprise that, in the matter of G.I Jane, I am firmly in camp “Fuck yeah!” I love this movie, despite its predictable plot, stereotypically drawn characters, and unambiguous politics. I love it for its warrior heart and brutal training sequences, for Viggo Mortensen’s tiny shorts, Anne Bancroft’s silver-bobbed badassery, and Demi Moore’s buzzed head.
Among the eye-rolling set, a common complaint about G.I. Jane is that it’s an impossible scenario; that there is simply no way any woman could ever complete SEAL training.
This has always seemed a ridiculous argument to me.
This is an action movie. Last I checked, there are few complaints about a lack of it-could-happen-just-like-this-in-actual-life-as-defined-by-my-own-experience-and-abilities realism in action movies. Instead, we eat it up when a millionaire playboy is a secret superhero, humanity is enslaved to robot overlords, a regular cop defeats all the terrorism, a college professor takes on Nazism with a whip and a hat, and a lady in a yellow tracksuit is a sword-wielding assassin who can punch her way out of a buried coffin and kill you by tapping on your chest.
It may very well be true that no woman will ever have the physical ability and mental toughness to complete SEAL training. None have been allowed to try, although with the U.S. military lifting the ban on women in combat that is changing as I write this. We do know that most men who attempt it ring out, because it is hell. That anyone gets through elite Special Forces training is utterly remarkable.
For my money, I think there will be a woman SEAL one day. Women have a history of doing the “impossible.” But for those of us who cheer, “Fuck yeah!” at the mention of Jordan O’Neil, that’s not quite the point. Even if no woman ever makes it all the way through BUD/S, G.I. Jane will always be a clarion call, will always matter, because there is something deeper here, a truth we know in our bones and muscles.
G.I. Jane is a goddess myth in fatigues.
Jordan seems so much larger than life because she’s nothing less than Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and courage, law and justice, and war. She is the stuff of myth, and like all myth, she rides in the place where awe crosses mystery. You may not know her name, but you do know her. She is the grit that stiffens your backbone when it would be easier to quit. She is the fire in your belly that burns hotter than fear. And when the world tells you what you cannot do, what you must not do, what has never been done before and will never be done, not ever, it is she who speaks when you say, “Watch me.”
Hooyah.
What should you eat while you watch G.I Jane? I think you should go ahead and have whatever it is you’re truly hungry for. Whatever the hell you want. Tear it up.
Read What Should I Eat While I Watch That Movie: The Silence of the Lambs and What Should I Eat While I Watch That Movie: Blue Valentine.
Want to know what to eat with that movie? Leave a comment here or tweet me at @stefgunning and I’ll suggest a pairing for you!
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Sandra Schoppers on April 23, 2015 at 1:12 am said:
“may very well be true that no woman will ever have the physical ability and mental toughness to complete SEAL training.”
Says who? Still no women allowed? Time for some action, don’t you think? Obama’s got an e-mail account, Twitter’s got democratical power. Go get them.
When “we” don’t like what’s going on or don’t approve of the way things are going, we use our constitutionele right to vent our opinion and make a difference. This is a battle we fight everyday, because neoliberalism (thank you Chicago Boys) is right around the corner, and destroys everything that says “human” or “compassion” or “empathy”. It’s tough, I almost got locked up in the middle of a battle but we get stuff done.
It seems like all the goverments are “running out of money”. Not running out of bullshit. Fifty shades of them. Everyday effin’ day. Wanna join in and stand up for human rights? Now might be a good moment to start. And the topic is a hot one: equality between men and women. We have a long way to go here because the sexism just doesn’t go away, it even gets worse when things in society are shifting. Blame the women for the collateral damage of uneven economical scales. I’m through with that.
Sally on April 21, 2015 at 7:40 pm said:
I loved G.I. Jane- mostly because Demi Moore rocks it! I have been trying to work up to that one-handed legs-on-the-chair push-up ever since!
I was in the ‘Fuck Yeah’ camp for sure about seeing this movie the first time! And I still appreciate the rawness, the determination and the inner strength of Jordan’s character. But… I do question whether or not tapping into our (as in the female gender’s) masculinity and suppressing our feminity is a healthy way of achieving equality… I question that kind of behaviour more often these last few years… I don’t want equality for me or my son achieved at the expense of our feminine qualities… His, mine, or anyone else’s… And yes, I say his, because all humans have these two qualities; just in varying degress. So, if we suppress one of them in favour of the other… is that really equality then? Isn’t that just as suppresive? Aren’t we really just saying that femininity isn’t okay; isn’t equal, but females – or others – who are willing to suppress that side of themselves can be equal to those who consider masculinity ‘top dog’? I really don’t know what I think about it all yet… but I am questioning it. It was the LGBTQ groups providing some different perspectives in their pursuit to combat the ignorance and prejudice in our society that inspired my questions. With trans-gender and gender-disphoria issues becoming a more common topic of conversation… I can’t help but wonder if perhaps the old way of thinking had its time; it got us some forward movement but now we need to re-evaluate what we actually want for all of the people in our society. And as I’ve questioned these things I’ve become much more aware of the suppression that has happened to men in our history as well; a kind of more subtle sexism – mostly by their own gender, but still just as damaging I think… And that awareness just inspires more questions on how we should go forward now…
Alice on March 25, 2015 at 2:27 am said:
I’m torn between agreement — yes! of course! whatever you hunger for! — and feeling like “raw steak with whiskey” really IS the necessary accompaniment to this flick.
Eddie Casson (@Farm_Stories) on March 23, 2015 at 9:06 am said:
Goddess myth in fatigues!!! Love it!!! I need to revisit this movie, it’s been a long time…
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CAR minister warns of 'severe' food shortage
"There are only a few farmers who have continued to produce food crops during the conflict, and it's not enough to cater to the entire nation," Koyara told Anadolu Agency in an interview at her office in capital Bangui.
Marie Heleine Koyara, the Central African Republic (CAR)'s minister of state for rural development and agriculture, has warned of a possible "severe" food shortage if the spate of sectarian bloodletting in her country didn't end soon.
"If the violence continues, we might face a severe food shortage because many farmers will flee," she said.
The landlocked African country descended into anarchy in March 2013 when Seleka rebels – said to be mostly Muslim – ousted Francois Bozize, a Christian, who had come to power in a 2003 coup.
Michel Djotodia, a Muslim, was then installed as interim president.
In the months since, the country has been plagued by tit-for-tat sectarian violence between the anti-balaka, a Christian militia, and former seleka fighters.
Thousands of people have been killed since the conflict began.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), over 900,000 Central Africans now live in 115 makeshift sites and host communities across the country.
Almost 250,000 Central Africans have sought refuge in neighboring countries, meanwhile, mainly Cameroon and Chad.
Aid-reliant
Prior to the crisis, said Minister Koyara, CAR had produced much food.
"Most people in the country now depend on food aid given to them by relief organizations, such as the World Food Program," she lamented.
OCHA estimates that nearly 2.5 million people – over half the country's 4.6 million-strong population – are now in need of humanitarian assistance, some 90 percent of whom eat only meal a day.
The minister admitted that the country was facing a meat shortage because the Muslim traders who used to control the cattle trade from Chad had fled the country due to the sectarian violence.
"Many traders have fled the country fearing for their lives. But we're currently addressing the issue so as to avoid a crisis," Koyara said.
In a report issued this month, UK-based charity Oxfam said that most of Bangui's food trade relied on about 40 large-scale wholesalers who import food from neighboring countries for resale on the local market.
But the report noted that fewer than ten of these wholesalers were still operating, but might also flee if the violence continued.
Prices for most goods had skyrocketed in Bangui, according to AA reporters on the ground.
Koyara, for her part, stressed that her government would seek to modernize the country's agricultural sector.
"We can't accept to see our population going hungry and children becoming malnourished," she said. "We have a lot of resources to develop agriculture."
The minister noted that the government had recently donated nine tractors to help women and young farmers in nine different provinces.
The tractors, she explained, would be used alternately between the local communities of each province with a view to bolstering agricultural output.
"With a well-planned program, agriculture could employee up to a million people," the minister said.
#Central African Republic,
#CAR,
#bangui
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Home Chinese History Chinese Philosophy: An Idiom of Hard Work and Patience
Chinese Philosophy: An Idiom of Hard Work and Patience
A Yin & Yang symbol surrounded by the 'ba gua' in a park outside of Nanning, Guangxi province.
In the century of Confucius, Lao Tzu and Sun Tzu, some of the states in Zhou Dynasty (about 1,000B.C.–221B.C.) became strong and tried to conquer their neighboring states. This was the beginning of a flourishing but brutal era that nourished ancient Chinese civilization and produced great thinkers and monumental classics such as the Art of War, the Analects of Confucius and Tao Te Ching.
In Eastern China, there were a series of wars between two states, Wu and Yue, in the late Spring and Autumn Period (770BC–476BC). This war came down with many legendary stories and a famous Chinese idiom: Sleeping on Brushwood and Tasting Gall (Wo Xin Chang Dan).
Chinese Idiom: Philosophies of Hard Work, Endurance and Patience
In 496BC, the State of Yue defeated the State of Wu and killed He Lu, the king of Wu. Two years later Fu Chai, He Lu’s son and the new king of Wu, defeated Yue and took the king of Yue, Guo Jian, and his wife prisoner. Guo Jian worked as a slave in Wu for more than three years. When he was released, Gou Jian prepared to take revenge. To remember what he suffered as a slave, Gou Jian slept on brushwood every night and tasted bitter gall before every meal for several years. Later Gou Jian launched a war and finally conquered Wu and killed Fu Chai.
Today this story of great revival has become the idiom Wo Xin Chang Dan. It is used to describe working hard to accomplish an ambition. For more than two thousand years, Chinese people have used it in their daily lives to advocate a philosophy of hard work, endurance and patience.
Chinese Philosophy: Hard Work Philosophy Gives Way to Enjoyment
Today the public attitudes towards hard work have been changed significantly. China’s reform and open after 1978 have provided an alternative to the traditional notion of working hard and saving that had characterized the nation for over two thousand years of tough time. The explosion of consumer finance (credit cards, home and house mortgages and automobile loans) also weighs on the philosophy of Epicureanism.
Today we can see that many Chinese people complain that their children have lost the notion of hard work. But in an era when many people reap where they have not sown, it’s hard to blame one who has lost faith in working hard.
Confucius, the Analects of Confucius (about 450 B.C.–250 B.C.)
Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian (104 B.C.–91 B.C.)
Zhao Ye, the Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue (about 10A.D.)
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The Opium War and the Opening of China
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The current incarnation of former Ohio University associate professor AEthelred Eldridge’s Siegfried Arch mural. (WOUB Public Media/Bryan Gibson)
Æthelred Eldridge, 88, Acclaimed Avant-Garde Artist, Passes Away
Artist, painter and writer James Edward Leonard Eldridge, 88, also known as Æthelred Eldridge, passed away this week.
Eldridge was an associate professor of painting at Ohio from 1957 to 2014.
Eldridge was an acclaimed avant garde painter perhaps known best for his black and white works made up of stylized, blocky shapes accompanied by esoteric phrases in the style of 18th Century English poet William Blake. His most recognizable work in Athens might be the Siegfred Arch that is a part of Siegfred Hall on Ohio University’s Athens campus, which serves as the principal home of the Ohio University School of Art + Design.
The mural was initially commissioned in 1965 by then University President Vernon Alden, and completed, all figures and no text, and possibly in color, by Eldridge in 1966. A second iteration of the mural was crafted some years later by the artist, made up entirely of six columns of text. The mural was brought to it’s most recognizable form during a redesign by Eldridge in 1987, and most recently restored in 2015 by graduate students Berry O’Keefe and Amanda Morris.
The first version of former professor emeritus of painting, Æthelred Eldridge’s, famous mural on the Siegfred Hall arch, completed in 1966. (Photo courtesy of Ohio University School of Art + Design)
Eldridge is remembered for his unconventional instructional style, which has been described by more than one student as being a sort of “performance art.” On the artist’s website, albionawake.org, (the website taking its name from Eldridge’s currently out-of-print 1982 book of poetry and prose,) he listed his final courses as Ohio University as being “Art in Your Life” and “Autopsical Art,” the latter of which was described in the 2012-2013 Ohio University class catalog as “a unique experience in understanding and developing aesthetic alternatives.”
He is listed in the Dictionary of the Avant Gardes by American art critic and avant-garde art expert Richard Kostelantz.
WOUB will publish a longer obituary next week. If interested in contributing to the feature, contact Emily Votaw at votaw@ohio.edu,
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Miley Cyrus Responds to YouTuber’s Cultural Appropriation Criticism
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Miley Cyrus left a heartfelt comment under a YouTube video after a fan criticized her music, classifying it as cultural appropriation and claiming she stereotyped the hip-hop genre.
YouTube user "As Told By Kenya" posted an almost 30-minute video diving into Cyrus' time in hip-hop music, exploring how the singer borrowed elements from the genre and inserted them into her own brand of pop music. Kenya argued that Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift wouldn't be making the music they are now without Cyrus' initial foray into hip-hop and how she translated the genre into pop music.
However, the YouTuber also said that Cyrus "did some very racially insensitive things as far as cultural appropriation," adding that Cyrus took the heat so others could do it freely, citing Grande's "7 rings" song and video.
Kenya also referenced Cyrus' "problematic" interview with Billboard where the pop star claimed she left the hip-hop genre due to the negative stereotypes surrounding the genre. As Cyrus told Billboard, "That's what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little. It was too much 'Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my c---' — I am so not that."
Cyrus left a comment on Kenya's video, responding to her criticism.
"Just watched your video. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak up. Being silent is not like me at all. I am aware of my platform and have always used it the best way I know how and to shine a light on injustice," she wrote.
"I want to start with saying I am sorry," Cyrus continued. "I own the fact that saying 'this pushed me out of the hip hop scene a little' was insensitive as it is a privilege to have the ability to dip in and out of 'the scene.' There are decades of inequality that I am aware of, but still have a lot learn about."
The singer added that she refuses "to be quiet anymore" as "silence is apart [sic] of the problem."
"My words became a divider in a time where togetherness and unity is crucial. I can not change what I said at that time, but I can say I am deeply sorry for the disconnect my words caused. Simply said; I f---ed up and I sincerely apologize. I’m committed to using my voice for healing, change, and standing up for what’s right."
Watch Kenya's full video, below:
Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus Through the Years
Source: Miley Cyrus Responds to YouTuber’s Cultural Appropriation Criticism
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Blog Posts > Energy Projections Show Decline in Southern WV Coal
Energy Projections Show Decline in Southern WV Coal
Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its annual energy outlook that Includes projections for regional coal production from 2009 to 2035. EIA is expecting a very steep decline in central Appalachian coal production and a slight increase in production in northern Appalachia. According to EIA, West Virginia is included in both central and northern Appalachian regions. In 2010, approximately 51.5 percent of central and 32 percent of northern Appalachian coal production was in West Virginia. Assuming West Virginia’s share remains the same, coal production in West Virginia is expected to decline by 35 percent or 50 million tons from 2009 to 2020. The chart below compares estimates from the 2011 and 2012 EIA Energy Outlook.
In 2008, West Virginia produced 157.8 million tons of coal according to EIA. By 2020 this could drop to 90.1 million tons, a decrease of over 42 percent. As shown below, our 2011 estimates are pretty in line with the estimates from this year’s energy outlook.
As the graph above shows, northern West Virginia coal production (green) is expected to increase slightly over the next two decades. On the other hand, production in the southern coal fields is expected to dramatically decline. In 2009, southern West Virginia produced an estimated 99 million tons of coal. By 2020, this is expected to decline to just about 38 million tons. This is a projected decline of about 63 percent. That means in 10 years southern West Virginia could be producing almost one-third the coal they produced in 2009.
The decline in central Appalachian production coal (and southern West Virginia coal production) is mostly due to the decline in steam coal. As the chart below shows, steam coal (bituminous) that is used primarily in electricity generation is expected to drop from 158 million tons in 2009 to just 28 million tons by 2020 – a decline of over 82 percent. Meanwhile, premium coal (metallurgical) coal production is expected to more or less be the same over this time period.
According to EIA’s report, “Appalachian coal production declines substantially from current levels, as coal produced from the extensively mined, higher cost reserves of Central Appalachia is supplanted by lower cost coal from other supply regions. An expected increase in production from the northern part of the Appalachia basin, however, moderates the overall production decline in Appalachia.” Coal production from the West (mainly the Powder River Basin in Wyoming) increases from 625 million tons in 2009 to 780 million tons in 2035. The report also says higher prices of Appalachian coal is the result of lower productivity (thinner seams):
In the Appalachian region, the average minemouth coal price increases by 1.7 percent per year from 2010 to 2035. In addi- tion to continued declines in coal mining productivity, the higher price outlook for the Appalachian region reflects a shift to higher-value coking coal, resulting from the combination of growing exports of coking coal and declining shipments of steam/thermal coal to domestic markets. Recent increases in the average price of Appalachian coal, from $1.28 per million Btu in 2000 to $2.77 per million Btu in 2010, in part a result of significant declines in mining productivity over the past decade, have substantially reduced the competitiveness of Appalachian coal with coal from other regions.
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Blog Posts > Income Inequality Between Top 1% and Rest of Working West Virginians Among Nation’s Highest
Income Inequality Between Top 1% and Rest of Working West Virginians Among Nation’s Highest
Contact: Ted Boettner, 304-720-8682, tboettner@wvpolicy.org
While the West Virginia legislature considers whether or not to increase the state’s minimum wage, a new report shows that the state’s top 1% of income earners captured over half of all the state’s income growth between 1979 and 2007.
According to “The Increasingly Unequal States of America: Income Inequality by State“, released today by the Economic Policy Institute, West Virginia has a lopsided economy where the top 1% average income is 17.7 times greater than the average income of the bottom 99%.
“West Virginians are working harder and producing more, but are receiving a smaller piece of the pie,” stated Sean O’Leary, fiscal policy analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. “Raising the state’s minimum wage is one step we can take to not only help workers but boost the state’s economy.” A bill recently passed by the West Virginia House of Delegates would raise the state’s minimum wage to $8.75 an hour by January 1, 2016, affecting 127,000 West Virginia workers. The bill is awaiting action by the West Virginia Senate.
“West Virginia cannot have a strong economy without a strong middle class,” said Ted Boettner, executive director with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. “Instead of making harmful budget cuts that hurt our state’s economy, the state needs to reform our lopsided revenue system and recommit to investments that will build a state where all future generations benefit. This can happen with a rock-solid education system, the opportunity to go to college, and an economy where everyone can prosper.”
“The levels of inequality we are seeing across the country provide more proof that the economy is not working for the vast majority of Americans and has not for decades,” said Mark Price, an economist at the Keystone Research Center, and one of the report’s authors. “It is unconscionable that most of America’s families have shared in so little of the country’s prosperity over the last several decades.”
West Virginia joins 14 other states where the top 1 percent captured between half and 84 percent of all income growth between 1979 and 2007. They are: Arizona (where 84.2 percent of all income growth was captured by the top 1 percent), Oregon (81.8 percent), New Mexico (72.6 percent), Hawaii (70.9 percent), Florida (68.9 percent), New York (67.6 percent), Illinois (64.9 percent), Connecticut (63.9 percent), California (62.4 percent), Washington (59.1 percent), Texas (55.3 percent), Montana (55.2 percent), Utah (54.1 percent), South Carolina (54.0 percent), and West Virginia (53.3 percent). See West Virginia fact sheet.
“It’s clear that policies were set to favor the one percent and those policies can, and should, be changed,” Doug Hall, director of the EARN program said. “In order to have widespread income growth, bold policies need to be enacted to increase the minimum wage, create low levels of unemployment, and strengthen the rights of workers to organize.”
The full report is available at http://www.epi.org/publication/unequal-states. The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy (www.wvpolicy.org) is a public policy research organization that is nonpartisan, nonprofit, and statewide. The Center focuses on how policy decisions affect all West Virginians, especially low- and moderate-income families.
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Jagran Prakashan Share Price
Jagran Prakashan
Jagran Prakashan Limited (JPL), a publisher company was born in 18th July of the year 1975 as a private limited under the name of Jagran Prakashan Private Limited. JPLs birth was the pet project of the Indian freedom fighter Late Shri Puran Chandra Gupta. The Company is engaging in printing and publishing of newspapers, magazines, journals and media related businesses. The other activities of the Company comprises outdoor advertising business, event management and activation services and digital business.The Company had acquired the publication rights of Dainik Jagran, Kanpur, Dainik Jagran, Gorakhpur, Daily Action, Kanpur and a monthly magazine Kanchan Prabha, Kanpur. The plant and machinery required for publication of newspapers and magazines were also acquired by the way of a lease agreement in the year 1975. During the year 1979, JPL had launched the Lucknow Edition of Dainik Jagran and in the year 1986, launched the Agra edition of the same. The name of the company was changed for the first time from Jagran Prakashan Private Limited to Jagran Prakashan Limited with effect from 1st April of the year 1989. For the various purpose, the company had launched its website under the name of www.jagran.com in the year 1997. During March of the year 2000, the company had executed the separate business purchase agreements with Jagran Prakashan (Delhi) Private Limited (JPDPL), Jagran Prakashan (Varanasi) Private Limited (JPVPL), Rohilkhand Publications Private Limited (RPPL) and also in the same year acquired the entire undertakings (including all the assets and liabilities) on a lock, stock and barrel basis for publication of Dainik Jagran at various centres. In the year 2001, JPL had launched the Aligarh Edition of Dainik Jagran. During the year 2002, by a scheme of amalgamation between JPDPL, JPVPL, RPPL and company, sanctioned by the High Court of Allahabad, vide its order dated 1st June of the year 2002, the whole of the undertakings of each of JPDPL, JPVPL and RPPL were transferred to and vested in company since JPDPL, JPVPL and RPPL became wholly owned subsidiaries of the company. In the same year of 2002, Dainik Jagran was declared as Indias largest read daily newspaper. JPL had launched the Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Panipat and Bhagalpur editions of Dainik Jagran in the year 2003. Followed by, in the year 2004, again the company had made its foot print in the Ludhiana and Haldwani by the way of new editions of Dainik Jagran launched in the same places. Also in the same year the company had started Jagran Solutions, division offering outdoor advertising and event management services. The name of the company was changed from Jagran Prakashan Limited to Jagran Prakashan Private Limited with effect from 5th October of the year 2004. In fiscal 2005, JPL had acquired the research business of Jagran Research Centre, a partnership firm for consideration of Rs 1.53 million. For the purpose of printing and publishing our newspaper Dainik Jagran in Indore and, subsequently, from other places in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, the company had incorporated Jagran Prakashan (MPC) in September of the year 2005. Also the Jagran Prakashan (MPC) Pvt Ltd had launched short code services (SMS and IVR/ASR). The Company tested its e-paper. The Companys name was again reconverted from Jagran Prakashan Private Limited to Jagran Prakashan Limited with effect from 23rd November of the year 2005. Launched the Muzaffarpur, Jammu and Dharamshala editions of Dainik Jagran in the identical year of 2005. The Company had launched a new infotainment newspaper, called City Plus in September of the year 2006 and in December, launched I-next, its compact daily. During the year 2007, the company jointly with Yahoo India, launched the new co-branded Hindi news and current affairs Internet property. In December of the same year 2007, JPL made a 50:50 joint venture with Network18 for the business of print space. During 2009-2010, the company announced the merger of newspaper business of Mid-Day Multimedia Limited WITH ITSELF. In 2011, the company launched a Urdu News paper by the name Inquilab and also a punjabi Newspaper by the name Punjabi Jagran.During 2012, the company acquired Suvi Info Management (Indore) Private Limited.During 2014, the company proposed to acquire Music Broadcast Private Limited Indias Leading Radio Network.Morn Media Limited (formerly known as Jagran Limited), which has not had any activity since long has ceased to be Associate Company of the Company with effect from September 29, 2014.The Board of Directors of the Company approved the entry of the Company into the radio business through acquisition of Music Broadcast Private Limited (now known as Music Broadcast Limited MBL) on December 16, 2014. After receiving the requisite approvals, the Company in June 2015 acquired 100% stake of Spectrum Holdings Private Limited, holding company of MBL. MBL shareholding is held by Spectrum 71.34%, Crystal Sound and Music Private Limited 21.48% and Music Broadcast Employees Welfare Trust 7.18%. The Board of Directors of the Company in their meeting held on 27 July 2015 have approved a Scheme of Arrangement for the amalgamation of SUVI, a 100% subsidiary of the Company with the Company. Appointed Date of Scheme is 1st January 2016 or such other date as may be agreed by the Transferor and Transferee Companies and approved by High Court.The Board of Directors of the Company in their meeting held on October 9, 2015 has approved the composite Scheme of Arrangement between Jagran Prakashan Limited (the Amalgamated Company or JPL) and Crystal Sound & Music Private Limited (Transferor Company 1) and Spectrum Broadcast Holdings Private Limited (Transferor Company 2) and Shri Puran Multimedia Limited (Demerged Company) and Music Broadcast Limited (Resulting Company) and their respective shareholders and creditors for the Transferor Companies to be amalgamated with the Amalgamated Company and Demerged Company to be demerged with Resulting Company. Appointed Date of the Scheme is 1st January 2016 or such other date as may be agreed by the Transferor Companies, Amalgamated Company, Resulting Company and the Demerged Company and as approved by High Courts.The Scheme of Arrangement for Amalgamation of Suvi-Info Management (Indore) Private Limited (Suvi) with Jagran Prakashan Limited (JPL) was sanctioned by the Honble High Court of Allahabad by its order dated March 16, 2016 and the Honble High Court of Bombay by its order dated December 2, 2016. The Scheme came into effect on December 27, 2016, which was the date on which a Certified Copy of the Order of the High Court of Bombay and High Court of Allahabad sanctioning the Scheme was filed with the Registrar of Companies, Mumbai and the Registrar of Companies, Uttar Pradesh with appointed dated of January 1, 2016. SUVI was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and therefore there was no issue of shares by the Company to the shareholders of SUVI. The composite scheme of arrangement for amalgamation of Crystal Sound & Music Private Limited (Crystal) and Spectrum Broadcast Holdings Private Limited (Spectrum) with Jagran Prakashan Limited (JPL) and the demerger of radio business undertaking of Shri Puran Multimedia Limited (SPML) into Music Broadcast Limited (MBL) was sanctioned by the Honble High Court of Allahabad by its order dated September 22, 2016 and the Honble High Court of Bombay by its order dated October 27, 2016. The Scheme became effective upon filing of the court orders with the respective Registrar of Companies of Uttar Pradesh on November 18, 2016 and Mumbai on November 17, 2016 with appointed dated of January 1, 2016. In terms of the Scheme, business and undertaking of Spectrum and Crystal were transferred to and vested in favour of JPL. As Crystal was a wholly owned subsidiary of Spectrum, which in turn was a wholly owned subsidiary of JPL, therefore there was no issue of shares by JPL to the shareholders of Crystal and Spectrum. Also, in terms of the Scheme, radio business undertaking of SPML, was transferred to and vested in favour of MBL and the shareholders of SPML were allotted 10 fully paid up equity shares of face value of Rs10/- each of MBL for every 112 equity shares of SPML held by them. As result of the above schemes, Suvi-Info Management (Indore) Private Limited, Crystal Sound & Music Private Limited and Spectrum Broadcast Holdings Private Limited subsidiaries of the Company ceased to be in existence.During the year under review, Music Broadcast Limited, subsidiary of the Company has completed its highly successful Initial Public Offer (IPO) and received an overwhelming response for the same, with an over subscription of about 40 times. It clearly demonstrate leadership position of MBL in the space that has been attended and sustained over period of years, as a result of tireless efforts and systematic approach to the business of the management. The equity shares of MBL were listed on both BSE Limited (BSE) and National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) on March 17, 2017. IPO of MBL comprised of a fresh issue of 12,012,012 equity shares and an offer for sale of 2,658,518 equity shares by selling shareholders for Rs 333/- per equity share (inclusive of premium of Rs 323/- per share).In April 2017, the Company had completed a buyback of 1,55,00,000 fully paid up equity shares of face value of Rs2 each representing 4.74% of the total number of outstanding equity shares of the Company at a price 195 per equity share for an aggregate amount of Rs3,02,25,00,000, on proportionate basis through the tender offer route. Accordingly, the share capital of the Company was reduced from Rs 65,38,23,658 (32,69,11,829 shares) to Rs 62,28,23,658 (31,14,11,829 shares).On April 27, 2018, the Board approved an yet another proposal for buyback of up to 1,50,00,000 fully paid up equity shares of face value of Rs2 each representing 4.82% of the total number of outstanding equity shares of the Company, at a price of Rs195 per equity share, for maximum amount of Rs 2,92,50,00,000 on proportionate basis through the tender offer route, subject to approval of the members of the Company by postal ballot/e-voting and also such other approvals, permissions and sanctions as may be required under law. The postal ballot/e-voting for obtaining approval of shareholder by way of special resolution is under progress as on the date of this Report.On November 9, 2017, Board of Directors of the Company approved to dispose off Companys full shareholding in NML, wholly owned subsidiary of the Company at a consideration of Rs5 Lakh to its erstwhile promoter, Mr. Vinay Chhajlani (a non-related party) from whom the shares were acquired in the year 2012. Thereafter, on January 16, 2018 shares of Naidunia Media Limited (NML) held by the Company were transferred and NML ceased to be the subsidiary of the Company w.e.f January 16, 2018.During the year 2019, the Company made an additional strategic investment on September 04, 2018 in the equity shares of MMI Online Limited (MMI) through acquisition by way of purchase of 1,828,300 equity shares of Rs 10/- each, at a price of Rs 25.98/- per equity share, aggregating to Rs 475 Lakhs. This constitutes 37.41% of MMIs share capital. The shareholding of Company in MMI post acquisition increased to to 44.92% from 7.51%. Accordingly, MMI became an Associate of the Company in terms of Section 2(6) of the Act.In December 2018, MBL completed a buy-back of 1,745,079 equity shares at an average price of Rs 326.61/- per equity share from the open market through stock exchange mechanism, and accordingly utilized Rs 5,699.63 Lakhs (excluding transaction costs) towards the buy-back of shares. Pursuant to the buy-back, the shareholding of the Company in MBL increased from 70.58% to 72.81%.The Board of Directors of its subsidiary, Music Broadcast Ltd. (MBL), at its meeting held on May 27, 2019, subject to entering into definitive binding agreements, approved:-a. Proposed investment, the terms of which are being finalised, in Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL) by way of a preferential allotment for a 24% equity stake for a consideration of Rs 202 Crores; and b. On receipt of all regulatory approvals, proposed acquisition of the entire stake held by the promoters of RBNL basis an enterprise value of Rs 1,050 Crores after making adjustment for variation, if any, for the year ended March 31,2019.
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Dhirendra Mohan Gupta
Devendra Mohan Gupta
Shailendra Mohan Gupta
Shashidhar Narain Sinha
Vijay Tandon
Amit Jaiswal
Satish Chandra Mishra
Jayant Davar
Ravi Sardana
Mahendra Mohan Gupta
Dilip Cherian
Vikram Sakhuja
Shailendra Swarup
Divya Karanl
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RDB Rasayans Ltd Directors Report.
TO THE MEMBERS OF RDB RASAYANS LIMITED
Report on the Audit of the Ind AS Financial Statements
1. We have audited the accompanying Ind AS financial statements of RDB RASAYANS LIMITED ("the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2019, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Cash Flows and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended on that date, including a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information (herein after referred to as "Ind AS Financial Statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid Ind AS financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2019, its profit (including Other Comprehensive Income), Changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
2. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditors Responsibilities for the Audit of the Ind AS Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Ind AS financial statements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Key Audit Matters
3. Key Audit Matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
Key Audit Matter Auditors Response
1. Accuracy of recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosures of revenues and other related balances in view of adoption of Ind AS 115 "Revenue from Contracts with Customers" (new revenue accounting standard) Principal Audit Procedures
We assessed the Companys process to identify the impact of adoption of the new revenue accounting standard.
Our audit approach consisted testing of the design and operating effectiveness of the internal controls and substantive testing as follows:
The application of the new revenue accounting standard involves certain key judgements relating to identification of distinct performance obligations, determination of transaction price of the identified performance obligations, the appropriateness of the basis used to measure revenue recognised over a period. Additionally, new revenue accounting standard contains disclosures which involves collection of information in respect of disaggregated revenue and periods over which the remaining performance obligations will be satisfied subsequent to the balance sheet date. • Evaluated the design of internal controls relating to implementation of the new revenue accounting standard.
• Selected a sample of continuing and new contracts and performed the following procedures:
1. Read, analysed and identified the distinct performance obligations in these contracts.
2. Compared these performance obligations with that identified and recorded by the Company.
3. Considered the terms of the contracts to determine the transaction price including any variable consideration to verify the transaction price used to compute revenue and to test the basis of estimation of the variable consideration.
4. Samples in respect of revenue recorded for material contracts were tested using a combination of customer acceptances, subsequent invoicing and historical trend of collections and disputes.
• In respect of samples relating to fixed price contracts, progress towards satisfaction of performance obligation used to compute recorded revenue was verified with actual and estimated efforts.
• Performed analytical procedures for reasonableness of revenues disclosed.
2. Recoverability of Indirect tax receivables Principal Audit Procedures
As at March 31, 2019, other assets includes input credits and indirect taxes recoverable which are pending adjudication/ adjustment. With the assistance of internal tax specialists who have knowledge of relevant tax regulations, we assessed managements processes and tested internal controls implemented for the identification, recognition and measurement of tax positions. As part of our audit procedures for uncertain tax positions, we evaluated whether managements assessment of the tax effect of significant business transactions and events in current fiscal year, which could result in uncertain tax provisions or impact the measurement of existing uncertain tax positions comply with the applicable tax laws.
1. The Companys Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Management Discussion and Analysis; Boards Report including Annexures to Board Report, Corporate Governance and Shareholders Information but does not include the financial statements and our auditors report thereon. These other information is expected to be made available to us after the date of this auditors report.
2. Our opinion on the Ind AS financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
3. In connection with our audit of the Ind AS financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the Ind AS financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
4. When we read the other information consisting of the information included in the Management Discussion and Analysis; Boards Report including Annexures to Board Report, Corporate Governance and shareholder information, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matters to those charged with governance.
Managements Responsibility for the Ind AS Financial Statements
5. The Companys Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these Ind AS financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the Ind AS financial statement that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
6. In preparing the Ind AS financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Companys ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
7. The Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the companys financial reporting process.
Auditors Responsibility for the Audit of the Ind AS Financial Statements
8. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Ind AS financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these Ind AS financial statements.
9. As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the Ind AS financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtained an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3) (i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of managements use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Companys ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditors report to the related disclosures in the Ind AS financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditors report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the Ind AS financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the Ind AS financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
10. We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
11. We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
12. From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matters or when we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
13. Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the financial statements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements in the financial statements.
14. The Comparative financial information of the Company for the year ended 31st March, 2018 included in these Ind AS financial Statements, is based on the Ind AS financial statement for the year ended 31st March, 2018 which were audited by the Predecessor auditor who expressed an unmodified opinion on those statements.
Our Opinion on the Ind AS financial statements and our report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements below is not modified in respect of above matters.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
15. As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2016 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub -section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the Annexure-A, a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
16. As required by Section 143 (3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including other comprehensive income) and the Cash Flow Statement, Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account .
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Ind AS financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2019 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2019 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act;
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B".
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with the requirements of section 197(16) of the Act, as amended: In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.
(h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the
Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
a. The Company does not have any pending litigations that could affect its financial position in its financial statements as at 31 March 2019
b. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
c. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
Place: Kolkata For L. B. Jha & Co.
Date: 30th day of May, 2019 Firm Registration No : 301088E
(B.N.Jha)
Membership No. 051508
ANNEXURE-A: TO THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT
[Referred to in paragraph 18 of the Auditors Report of even date]
1. (a) The Company is maintaining proper records showing full particulars including quantitative details and situation of Property, plant and equipments.
(b) As explained to us, the company has a system of verifying all its major Property, Plant & Equipments according to the phased programme designed to cover all the items which considering the size and nature of operations of the company appears to be reasonable. The Property, Plant & Equipments so scheduled for verification during this year have been physically verified. The discrepancies noticed on such verification were not material and have been properly dealt with in the books of accounts.
(c) The title deeds of immovable properties are held in the name of the company.
2. The inventory (excluding stock lying with third parties) has been physically verified by the management at regular intervals. The discrepancies noticed on physical verification of inventory as compared to book records were not material and have been properly dealt with in the books of account. In respect of the inventory lying with the third parties, these have been substantially confirmed by them.
3. The company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured to companies, firms or other parties covered in the register maintained under section 189 of the Companies Act 2013. Hence clause is not applicable.
4. According to the records of the company examined by us and according to the information and explanations given to us, in our opinion the company has not granted any loan to any parties covered u/s 185 of the Companies Act, 2013. Further loan granted u/s 186 of the Companies Act, 2013 are in compliance with the relevant section. The company have not given any guarantees or security nor has made any investments covered under the provisions of section 185 and 186 of the Companies Act, 2013.
5. The Company has not accepted any deposits and directives issued by the Reserve Bank of India and the provisions of sections 73 to 76 or any other relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the rules framed there under are not applicable.
6. We have broadly reviewed the books of accounts maintained by the Company pursuant to the order made by the Central Government for the maintenance of cost records under section 148(1) of the Act and are of the opinion that prima facie, the prescribed accounts and records have been made and maintained. We have not, however, carried out any detailed examination of such records and accounts.
7. (a) According to the information and explanations given to us and the records of the Company examined by us, in our opinion, the Company is generally regular in depositing the undisputed statutory dues including provident fund, employees state insurance, income-tax, duty of customs, goods and services tax, cess and any other statutory dues, as applicable, with the appropriate authorities. (b) According to the information and explanations given to us and the records of the Company examined by us, there were no undisputed statutory dues that remain unpaid on account of income tax, service tax, custom duty, Goods and Services Tax, cess, etc as on 31st March, 2019.
8. According to the information and explanation given to us and the records of the Company examined by us, the Company has not defaulted in repayment of dues of any of loans or borrowings to any banks.
The Company has neither taken any loan from financial institutions or Government nor issued any debentures.
9. In our opinion, and according to the information and explanation given to us, on an overall basis, the money raised by Company during the year by way of term loan have been applied for the purpose for which they were obtained.
The Company has not raised any money by way of initial public offer or further public offer (including debt instruments).
10. During the course of our examination of the books and records of the Company, carried out in accordance with the generally accepted auditing practices in India, and according to the information and explanations given to us, we have neither come across any instance of fraud on or by the Company nor on the company by its officers/employees has been noticed or reported during the year, nor have we been informed of such case by the management.
11. According to the information and explanations given to us and the records of the company examined by us, total managerial remuneration paid as reflected in the financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2019 are in accordance with the requisite approvals mandated by the provisions of section 197 read with Schedule V of the Act.
12. The related statutes are not applicable as the Company is not a Nidhi Company.
13. According to the information and explanations given to us and the records of the Company examined by us, the company has complied with the requirements of sections 177 and 188 of the Act with respect to its transactions with the related parties. Pursuant to the requirement of the applicable Accounting Standard, details of the related party transactions have been disclosed in Note 36 of the Ind AS financial statements for the year under audit.
14. The Company has neither made any preferential allotment of shares nor fully or partly convertible debentures during the year under audit.
15. According to the information and explanations given to us and the records of the Company examined by us, the Company has not entered into any non-cash transactions, with any director of the Company and the holding company or persons connected with them, involving acquisition of assets by or from them for consideration other than cash.
16. In our opinion, and according to the information and explanations given to us, not being a non-banking financial company, the Company is not required to be registered under section 45-IA of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
ANNEXURE- B TO THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT
[Referred to in paragraph 19 (f) of the Independent Auditors Report of even date]
Report on the Internal Financial Control under Clause (i) of Sub -sections 3 of Section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013("the Act")
1. We have audited the internal financial controls over financial reporting of RDB RASAYANS LIMITED ("the Company") as of 31st March, 2019 in conjunction with our audit of the Ind AS financial statements of the Company for the year ended on that date.
Managements Responsibility for Internal Financial Control
2. The Companys management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal financial control based on the internal control over financial reporting criteria established by the Company considering the essential components of internal control stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting (the "Guidance Note") issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). These responsibilities include the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls that were operating effectively for ensuring the orderly and efficient conduct of its business, including adherence to companys policies, the safeguarding of its assets, the prevention and detection of frauds and errors, the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, and the timely preparation of reliable financial information, as required under the Companies Act, 2013.
Auditors Responsibility
3. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Companys internal financial controls over financial reporting based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the "Guidance Note" and the Standard on Auditing, issued by ICAI and deemed to be prescribed under section 143(10) of the Act, to the extent applicable. Those Standards and the Guidance Note require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether adequate internal financial controls over financial reporting was established and maintained and if such controls operated effectively in all material respects.
4. Our audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the adequacy of the internal financial controls system over financial reporting and their operating effectiveness. Our audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting includes obtaining an understanding of internal financial control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material Weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls based on the assessed risk. The procedure selected depends on the auditors judgment, including the assessment of the risk of material misstatement of the financial statement, whether due to fraud or error.
5. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Companys internal financial controls system over financial reporting.
Meaning of Internal Financial Control over Financial Reporting
6. A Companys internal financial control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A Companys internal financial control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that
1. Pertains to the maintenance of the records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
2. Provide reasonable assurance that the transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditure of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorization of management and directors of company; and
3. Provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the Companys assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Inherent Limitations of Internal Financial Control over
7. Because of inherent limitation of internal financial control over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper management override of controls, material misstatements due to errors or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also, projections of any evaluations of the internal financial control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the internal financial control over financial reporting may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
8. In our opinion and based on audit tests performed in our audit of the financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2019, the Company has, in all material respect, an adequate internal financial controls system over financial reporting and such internal financial controls over financial reporting were operating effectively as at 31st March 2019. The Company had established informal practices which are effective in having a proper internal control over financial reporting. A formal system of internal control over financial reporting criteria needs to be established by the Company considering the essential components of internal control as stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Control over Financial Reporting, issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
9. We have considered the material weakness identified and reported above in determining the nature, timing, and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the 31st March, 2019 financial statements of the Company and these material weakness does not affect our opinion on the financial statements of the Company
For L.B. Jha & Co.,
(Registration number: 301088E)
Place: Kolkata (B. N. Jha)
Date: 30th day of May, 2019
(Membership Number 051508)
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Self-driving range extender trailer
This trailer’s design would be a typical genset trailer, in which the trailer provides the electric car's continuous power requirements with its own conventional internal combustion engine and an electric generator. But this trailer would actually be a full value four-wheeled self-driving vehicle, which is capable of tracking the electric car automatically in front of it with vehicle platooning technology.
Despite rapid technological progress, due to low-reliability artificial intelligence, the unattended self-driving will not be possible for a long time for the vehicles, but in this case trailer the driver of the electric car can provide the supervision.
Charging the car could be done by using a conventional cable, but the trailer would also be able to do this by magnetic induction. The coils would be installed into the rear bumper of the car and at the front of the trailer. Whereas the electric car and the self-driving trailer do not have to be physically connected, the use of the trailer can be extremely simplified.
Induction charging with low efficiency can be done while on the move, in this case the trailer at each stop, for example at crossroads and in traffic jams, would stand close to the electric car, charging the electric car's batteries for a few moments or minutes. And the charging could be highly efficient in the parking lots, where the trailer can approach the electric car even to millimeters.
The biggest problem with a self-driving trailer is that there may be a lot of situations when the trailer needs to be driven directly. Although the steering wheel and the pedals of the electric car can be suitable for this purpose, switching them to trailer control when the electric car is stationary, showing to the trailer environment can only be very limited in the electric car displays.
Because of this the remote controlling of the trailer could be very hazardous, therefore, a navigation aid device should be needed.
Simplified structural diagram about the navigation aid device:
1. The navigation aid device would be embedded in the top of the electric car's dashboard.
2. Polymer dispersed liquid crystal layers. Each such layer would lie between two conductive layers.
3. Conductive layers. Like the SONTE Film (http://sonte.com), these layers provide the creation of the electric field, but in this case the conductive layers would not be continuous film layers, these would have matrix structure.
The polymer dispersed liquid crystal layers and the conductive layers would be horizontally stacked, and completely fill the interior of the device.
Two sides of the device would serve as the lighting and energy supply for the layers. The lighting of the layers is necessary because of their imperfect light transmittance, and the energy supply is needed to change the light transmittance of the pixels. The curved front of the navigation aid device would be transparent.
The matrix structure of the conductive layers:
1. Conductive fibers. These fibers would be connected to the two side walls of the device, enabling the use of pixels for display.
2. Pixels. Virtually each pixel would be a tiny polymer dispersed liquid crystal cube with a maximum length of 1mm.
Benefits of the navigation aid device:
Like a miniature land, the navigation aid device could show the trailer and its direct environment in scale by using the trailer sensor data. Although visualization is merely based on the light transmittance of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal pixels, it would be perfectly suited to avoid obstacles.
In addition, the navigation aid device can also help driving the electric car in countless ways. The device can continuously show the exact location of the surrounding vehicles, making it easier to change lanes in large traffic, or even it can possible the perfect parking.
Since the navigation aid device would be part of the dashboard, and it would not be transparent when it's off, the device can be embedded in large sizes without breaking the design of the interior.
(The first version of this concept was written in February 2018.)
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Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) – Sponsored by Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID) in November 2017, this bill rolls back some of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The original bill was designed to tighten regulations on financial institutions following the Great Recession of 2008-2009. This bill contains several provisions, including the following:
Exempts banks with between $50 billion and $250 billion in assets from some of the restrictions regulated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
Exempts banks with less than $10 billion in assets from some rules entirely, such as the Volcker Rule that bans banks from making certain speculative trades.
Requires the Federal Reserve to take the size of banks into account when crafting regulations, rather than issuing one-size-fits-all regulations.
The bill was signed into law by the President on May 23.
SECRET Act of 2018 (H.R. 3210) – Introduced by Rep. Steve Knight (R-CA) in July 2017, this bill requires the Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau to submit a report on the backlog of personnel security clearance investigations. The report must detail how many investigations are backlogged and the average length of time it would take to conduct initial and periodic investigations. This report also must state what the process is for conducting investigations and making security clearance judgements for personnel of the Executive Office of the President. In addition, the report should estimate how much it would cost to provide duplicate resources to carry out investigations. The bill was signed into law by the President on May 22.
Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act of 2017 (S. 447) – Sponsored by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), this bill authorizes the State Department to report on the progress of European nations returning or paying restitution for stolen property or assets from Holocaust victims in the 1930s and 1940s. The purpose of the bill is to encourage the return of lost money, assets and property taken by Hitler and the Nazis through public accountability. The bill was introduced in February 2017 and signed into law by the President on May 9.
Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017 (S. 204) – This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to allow a terminally ill patient – who has exhausted approved treatment options and is unable to participate in a clinical trial – to use unapproved, experimental drugs and medical products. The manufacturers or sponsors of such products that have been issued as a result of this legislation must submit an annual report detailing this type of usage to the Food and Drug Administration. In turn, the FDA will post a summary report on its website. This legislation was introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in January 2017. It has passed in both houses of Congress and is awaiting signature by the President.
Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access and Research (STAR) Act of 2017 (S. 292) – This new legislation amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the National Institutes of Health to provide support for compiling medical specimens and information on children, adolescents and young adults with specific cancers that have the least effective treatments. Grants will be awarded to state cancer registries to improve tracking of childhood cancers and support pilot programs to develop or study models for monitoring and caring for childhood cancer survivors, among other provisions. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) in February 2017, passed in Congress on May 22 and is currently with the President.
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PIC: First look poster for Jennifer Lawrence's new film 'Mother!'
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The first look poster for Jennifer Lawrence's new film, Mother!, was revealed Sunday, 14 May and writer/director Darren Aranofsky took advantage of the Mother's Day holiday in the U.S to release the image.
Mother! is centered around a couple whose relationship is tested when some uninvited guests arrive at their home and disturb their peaceful and tranquil lives.
Lawrence, of The Hunger Games fame, stars in the horror/mystery movie alongside stars Domhnall Gleeson, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeifer.
Here's the first look poster for the film...
The poster is actually an oil painting by artist James Jean. He is a Taiwanese-American visual artist, known for both his commercial work and fine art gallery work. He has also had his works published by DC comics, ESPN and Prada.
The image was released via the twitter account of Aronofsky which depicts Lawrence ripping out her own bloody heart from her chest.
The image takes the phrase 'wearing your heart on your sleeve' to a completely new level.
Sadly, the first look painting doesn't give any more away about the already secretive film.
Darren Aronofsky finally gives a definitive answer on what 'mother!' was all about
Aronofsky, who was heavily involved in writing the script, has also found success in the psychological horror genre with movies such as, Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, which earned Natalie Portman a Best Actress Oscar.
Mother! will be released by Paramount Pictures on October 13.
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Yahoo! Inc (YHOO), AOL Inc (AOL): Not Even A Spark Of Love Between The Two
Published on October 20, 2014 at 11:49 am by Nate White in News
We’ve heard lots of rumors about a potential merger between Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL). So, Bloomberg decided to see how the later feels about it, since the former is not such an inspirational story. Tim Armstrong has been striving to bring the company back to life after its $165 billion megamerger failure. AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) is still down almost 14% year to date to a price of near $40, but this is just a sign that there’s no time to fretter away, not one to grief.
“When you hear those type of rumors floating around is because we’re doing very well as a company. We took a company that was the worst merger in history. We’ve gotten it back to growth, we’ve roamed six quarters in a row now and we’re doing a very good job in where the future is around: video programmatic and big content brands,” said Tim Armstrong.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s like a fading memory of internet success as the business hasn’t done much for quite a while. Consequently, Starboard Value’s suggestion to Marissa Mayer had a one-sided view on the potential relationship and it involved the search engine company to free-ride on AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL)’s success the same way the it did with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA). This is why Tim Armstrong didn’t even bother dedicating a thought to merge with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). He is flying to New York in a short while to present AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL)’s agenda for the year to come.
“That agenda is transformation, how do we take the next steps operationally as a company and that given the board the presentation there is not one mention of Yahoo! or anyone else in that deck. It’s how do we operate our company in 2015 to be really successful,” added Tim Armstrong.
This doesn’t mean that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is completely useless, it’s just that AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) would rather focus on core company activities.
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Feminism and Intellectual Property Law
December 8, 2009 in IP1by Editor
Munyonzwe Hamalengwa is a Ph.D candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course.
Feminism along with marxist, critical legal studies and critical race theories have mounted serious challenges to the inherited western legal tradition that has claimed that law is neutral and objective even though law, from time immemorial has neither been class, gender and race neutral nor objective. There was a time when slaves, poor people, aboriginals, women and blacks could not vote; when women, aboriginals and blacks could not serve on juries or go to school; when women, aboriginals and blacks could not own property; indeed when blacks were property of others themselves; when women could not enter into contracts; when women, aboriginals and blacks could not be lawyers; when blacks could not enter a room or drink water through the door or fountain used by white people; when blacks and aboriginals were enslaved or colonized; when women and black people’s evidence in courtrooms was only accorded half the value of evidence given by a white man etc etc. Yet law managed to claim and still claims that it is neutral and objective.
The assault of feminism, marxism, critical legal studies and critical race theorists on the supposed neutrality and objectivism of the western legal system has to some great extent engendered palpable paradigm shifts and intellectual understandings of the actual designs of the law and along the way, major reforms have occurred: women and black peoples’ evidence is accorded on the surface the same weight as that of the white men; anyone can serve on the jury and can vote and go to school and slavery is prohibited; women can enter into contracts and own property. But there are still major problems experienced by women, aboriginals and the developing world in gain fully equal recognition and status in the dispensation of intellectual property law. Feminism is perhaps the most potent intellectual current that is deconstructing this area of legal impairment.
Feminism, marxism, critical legal studies and critical race theories while aimed at deconstructing the actual design of the law and the purposes served by law and in whose interests and to whose disadvantage, approach the analysis of law from different situational and experiential perspectives: feminism examines the law from the point of view of the interests of women; marxism from a class point of view; critical legal studies from power relations point of view and critical race theorists from the point of view of race dynamics. These systems however are not totally exclusive or totally dismissive of other perspectives (though marxism comes close). Further, within some of these perspectives are contained various strands of thought: in feminism for example, there are: marxist, socialist, radical, conservative and liberal feminisms and other strands that I have just recently encountered eg “difference feminism”. All these strands emphasize different aspects of concerns within the feminist framework.
While aware of the different strands within feminism, several feminist intellectual property scholars emphasize the need for a clear- cut broad dichotomy between female perspectives as a group and the male oriented and designed legal constructs. Only by looking at it in this polar opposite way can the phenomena being examined be brought out in clear and sharper perspective. Women and men have broadly experienced law differentially. This includes intellectual property. While feminism has examined many other areas of the law and exposed their chicanery- family law, criminal law (rape, prostitution, evidence), property law, immigration law, contract law employment law, business law and others, feminism has not looked at the impact of intellectual property law until recently. But like the other areas of law, intellectual property was male designed and male oriented to the total exclusion of the interests of women. Intellectual property law as designed by men was totally inimical to the interests and nature of women, qua women. Like many areas of law, intellectual property therefore has gendered aspects. Each of the articles described below gives examples of this gendered nature of intellectual property law.
Burk in “Copyright and Feminism” states that the neglect of intellectual propoerty in feminist analysis is surprising given its increasing prominence and potential impact on the quality of life for millions of men and women across the world. In another article, Burk, in “Feminism and Dualism” that intellectual property law constitutes perhaps the primary policy tool by which society influences the development and design of new technologies. Others have stated that intellectual property is the most potent form of modern imperialism. Intellectual property as it is designed expropriates the inventions and cultural artifacts of not only women but developing countries and aboriginal communities as well. So studying and denconstructing intellectual property is of the utmost importance.
Why is the feminist framework important in analysing intellectual property? Burk answers that “a feminist approach encourages us to ask not so much where such intellectual property doctrines require us to draw the line between creativity that is rewarded and creativity that is not, as it requires us to ask why such criteria was selected in the first instance” (p.5). Why is intellectual property designed the way it is: gendered if you look at it from a feminist perspective; class oriented if it is examined from a marxist perspective; race and culturally and national specific (or developed and developing world-divide) if you examine it from the critical race perspective–a perspective that is inclusive of aboriginal perspective and power-driven if you examine it from the critical legal studies framework.
Bartow in “Fair Use”seems to answer this question perfectly: “Many substantive bodies of law have fairly obvious gendered apects” (p. 4) as already mentioned. Not only that but “copyright laws were written by men to embody a male vision of the ways in which creativity and commence should intersect” (p.8). On top of this “men dominate congress {law making body} and the federal judiciary {Law interpreting body}. “Men have defined key copyright concepts such as “authorship” “protectability” “infringment” and related terms”. Men defined that copyrightable items must constitute saleable “property”–a masculine construct according to Burk, best suited for “industrialized commoditization” (p. 9) and this realm excluded arts and crafts which were consigned to the domestic realm. Commercial exploitation is the subject of copyright.
Intellectual property has had the effect of the marginalization of women’s work and creativity. Pollack in “Towards a Feminist Theory” covers this well in her article. Intellectual property ignored to cover areas of practice engaged in by women: food and the clothing processing industry. Intellectual property rewarded the so-called individualist and solitary productions of single actors (men) exemplified by copyright grants to authors-mainly men and patent grants to sole inventors-mainly men to the exclusion of communal, collective and group endeavours engaged in by women.
Shelly Wright in “A Feminist Exploration” examines at length how “intellectual property law may be implicated in the exclusion of women and the denigration of an artistic tradition where women have contributed: the English novel and needlework” (p.60). From the beginning of copyright law regime in England, “female painters, sculptures, engravers, printers and craftsmen were largely ignored by the artistic establishment” (p.71) and this tradition continues to some extent in the present times. Another clear example of gendered relationships in intellectual property that is commonly discussed is that of food and clothing processing. The exclusion of food and clothing processing from the copyright regime is gendered.
Pollack argues that since 1976, genderization of intellectual property has increased because of Congress’s enlargement of private ownership rights at the expense of the public domain, which Pollack claims to be inherently feminist, i.e the public domain. The reasons for characterizing the public domain as feminine are the following: it is not commodified; it recognises the communal roots of creation, rather than the atomized solitary and romanticized individual “author” or “inventor”; the public domain is concerned with “nurturing” and it provides essential nourishment by the “birthing and lactating mother”.
As these articles reveal, feminism has much to tell us about intellectual property law.
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Britain’s recently published Digital Economy Bill has sparked some controversy over its “three strikes” provisions and increased penalties for certain kinds of copyright infringements. Another relevant element of the proposed legislation, as discussed by John Enser in a recent blog post ( http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2009/11/digital-economy-bill-initial-copyright.html ), is Clause 17 of the bill which would permit the Secretary of State to amend the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act “for the purpose of preventing or reducing the infringement of copyright by means of the internet”. As noted by Enser, it is difficult to predict how this power would be applied. Theoretically, it could be used to limit fair dealing provisions or, conversely, to actually introduce fair use rules which would effectively reduce infringement by authorizing a wider array of activities with respect to copyrighted works. While it seems unlikely that Clause 17 would be used to such drastic effect in practice, it is interesting that the power to modify the Act in order to respond to technological developments is specifically provided as a means of limiting infringement. This can be seen as an owner-focused approach to new technology that may overlook the broader purposes of copyright law.
When considering the aims of copyright in the digital context, feminist theory on authorship provides valuable insight. While new communication technology may create new avenues for infringement, one of its important strengths is the capacity to facilitate dialogic interaction between numerous parties. In this context, feminist copyright scholars might argue that “the societal function of copyright is to encourage participation in cultural dialogue”[1]. An understanding by legislators that authors in the digital context are necessarily dependant on works that already exist in the public and cultural domain might lead to a broadening of the range of interests that copyright law seek to preserve through its “adaptive” provisions. If the power to amend copyright legislation in light of technological developments is seen as necessary, an aim of such amendments should be to foster the collaborative and dialogic nature of digital communication and authorship. Focusing solely on preventing infringement, while not necessarily detrimental to the broader purposes of copyright law, tends to place an exaggerated emphasis on the enforcement of the rights of copyright owners.
[1] Carys Craig, “Reconstructing the Author-Self: Some Feminist Lessons for Copyright Law” (2007) 15 Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 207 at 233.
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U16 Boys’ Indoor Hockey Team take Joint Third in National Finals
Published Tuesday 16th of January 2018 09:24:16 AM
Bishop’s Stortford College U16 Boys’ Indoor Hockey team secured joint third place following the U16 Indoor National Finals at Whitgift School on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th January. This is the third time in three years the team have reached the National Finals. In the group stage the College played four highly competitive matches; the South regional runners-up, Lingfield School (1-1); Midlands regional winners, Repton School (1-4); West regional winners Millfield School (4-1) and North regional runners-up, Egglescliffe School (4-3) which put them through to the semi-finals. The College boys next faced their hardest challenge, playing the tournament favourites - and eventual winners – Whitgift School, who had not conceded a single goal throughout the competition. The team played well and after 7 minutes the result was still 0-0, but eventually they were outplayed by Whitgift, who deservedly won 4-0. Whitgift were overall winners of the tournament, with Dean Close in second place and Bishop’s Stortford College and Repton School in joint third. Graham Brooks, U16 Indoor Hockey Coach said, “The boys should be proud of their achievements, coming joint third in the country in a challenging competition. They held their own against very strong sides containing national and regional players, and it was a pleasure to see how all the hard work they have put in since the summer really paid off. We now look forward to the rest of the hockey season, including the Outdoor Nationals”. This tournament follows the East Regional Finals on 7th January, where the U16 College team were runners up. In December, the team also played a number of matches against high level German sides on their tour to Hamburg. This is the second time the team have been ranked third nationally in a national finals competition, reaching the same position in the 2014 Outdoor National Hockey Finals.
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Mayfield girls clebrate GCSE success and look forward to return to school.
Published Monday 24th of August 2020 10:16:41 AM
Mayfield girls have continued the tradition of academic excellence this year with impressive GCSE results. Headmistress, Miss Antonia Beary, was full of admiration for the girls and the way in which they have met the challenges of this unprecedented year: “This has been a difficult time for all pupils preparing for GCSEs and my heart goes out to them as they, and their parents, have had to cope with the prolonged uncertainty regarding public examinations this year. We are, therefore, immensely proud of all our girls, who have coped so well with the challenges of continued learning under lockdown, and who worked hard to achieve grades which reflect their ability and application. Most importantly, and independently of grades, we are confident that they are well-prepared for the academic and practical challenges of A Level study, and will continue to thrive in the supportive and aspirational Mayfield community. "While our return to School in September will not be as conventional as usual, I am looking forward to the girls throwing themselves into the Sixth Form, and taking advantage of the many and varied opportunities available to them. As senior pupils, I know that they will prove strong role models to the younger girls, and continue to contribute generously to our wider community, both at home and overseas. I am also immensely grateful to all of our staff, who have provided exceptional support and encouragement to the girls throughout this period. Teachers’ expertise and dedication ensured the girls continued to apply themselves to their studies during lockdown, as the School community embraced a new way of learning with enthusiasm and positivity.” Amongst the results, there are a number of wonderful personal accomplishments including for Arkwright Scholars, identical twins Victoria and Valeria, who are stalwarts of STEM Club. Each received the highest grade (9) in all 12 subjects. Victoria, who will be studying Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics at A Level, is delighted with her results and said: “I am grateful to all of my teachers for preparing me so well for GCSEs, even though we didn’t end up taking the exams. Looking to the future, I am very excited to be returning to School to study for my A Levels!” Valeria, who will also be studying Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics added: “I am delighted to have received these grades and very thankful for all the guidance from my teachers. I look forward to focussing on my chosen A Level subjects, where I hope to continue to work hard and enjoy my time at Mayfield.” Jemima, who also achieved 12 grade 9s and who will be taking A Levels in Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Ceramics, said: “It has not been an easy year and I am glad that we received our results in the end today. I want to say ‘thank you’ to all of my teachers for their support, both in the classroom and during lockdown. I am really pleased with my grades and am hoping to go on to study Veterinary Medicine after my A Levels.” Tatum, who received all 8s and 9s in her ten GCSE subjects, having joined Mayfield from South Africa in Year 10, is very much looking forward to studying Maths, Physics, Classical Civilisation and History next term: “Mayfield has provided me with an incredible opportunity and has been an amazing personal experience. I am reminded of a quote by Nelson Mandela – ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ A huge ‘thank you’ to Mayfield!” Tabitha, who will be studying Latin, Classical Civilisation, History and Art for A Level, said: “I am so relieved that the results are finally through and I am over the moon with my 9s and 8s. I can’t wait to start my Sixth Form Studies at Mayfield and to seeing my teachers and friends in September. I am so happy!” Mayfield offers an extensive Sixth Form curriculum, spanning the range of traditional academic subjects and a wide selection of creative and performing arts disciplines. Girls follow a tailored programme of study and, reflecting the rounded nature of a Mayfield education, many will balance a combination of arts and sciences. Mayfield has a tradition of cultivating academic excellence due, not least, to the equal value placed on every subject and the breadth of curriculum offered. Class sizes are small and inspirational teaching, from highly-qualified and dedicated staff, enables girls to flourish and excel. This commitment to the value of a broad education was highlighted during the lockdown period. Sixth Form students also benefit from a specialist Enrichment Programme, which promotes critical and independent thought, and intellectual enquiry beyond the curriculum, as well as a Life Skills course, which prepares girls for the future through the development of key employment and practical skills. Personalised higher education and careers advice and guidance is provided by specialist advisors to support girls in making excellent informed choices. We are particularly proud of the progress and achievements of girls joining us in the Sixth Form. If you are interested in your daughter joining us to be part of this outstanding community, Mayfield has a limited number of places available for September 2020. Please contact our Registrar, Mrs Shirley Coppard, for further details on registrar@mayfieldgirls.org.
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IU women's swimming and diving inks seven recruits on National Signing Day
Matt Begala
By Matt Cohen
Published Nov 15, 2018 8:55 pm Last updated Nov 15, 2018 10:58 pm
Swimming Coach Ray Looze and diving Coach Drew Johansen added six new Hoosiers at the beginning of the first signing period of the year, each hailing from a different state.
The six signees are Katrina Sommer, Carmen Hernandez, Cora Dupre, Ryley Ober, Carla Gildersleeve and Ashley Turak.
Weiss is the headliner of the 2019 class. Rated as the number four overall swimmer in the nation by SwimSwam, the breaststroker will fill the hole left by Lilly King’s graduation. Weiss has already broken King’s national high school record in the 100 breaststroke, and she has already competed in the same races as King at the Phillips 66 Nationals. Weiss also won two golds at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, breaking the event record in the 100-meter breaststroke and 4x100-meter medley relay.
Sommer comes to IU from Villa Park, California. Sommer is a backstroke swimmer, swimming for the Irvine Novaquatics swim club. She won the 200-meter backstroke at the California Junior Olympics over the summer of 2018. Sommer is ranked by College Swimming as the number 61 overall swimmer in California.
Hernandez is a diver from Holly Springs, North Carolina. Hernandez won the 4A Eastern Regional title in 2018. She was second in the 1-meter diving competition at the Wilmington Dive Club by the Beach Invitational, 10th in the platform dive at the USA Diving Zone A championships and fourth at the 2018 Orlando All-Star Invitational.
Dupre is the highest-rated athlete to sign with the team on National Signing Day. She is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and originally was committed to the University of Texas, before flipping to IU. Dupre has dominated the pool in Ohio, excelling in sprint freestyle events. She is the defending state champion in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle. Dupre was fourth in the 50-yard freestyle at the Speedo Winter Junior Championships. She is the top-ranked overall swimmer in Ohio and the 39th overall in the nation. Dupre will be a big addition to a sprint freestyle group which is relatively weak for IU.
Ober committed to IU back in April, and now makes it official with her National Letter of Intent. Ober is a freestyle swimmer from Bradenton, Florida, ranked as the 10th overall swimmer in Florida and the 76th overall swimmer in the nation. Ober is the defending state champion in the 100 and 200-yard freestyle. She has won four state titles in her high school career thus far. Ober was fifth in the 200-yard freestyle at the Speedo Winter Junior Championships.
Gildersleeve is the one in-state signee the Hoosiers have inked thus far. From Franklin, Indiana, she is ranked as the number three swimmer in Indiana and the 93rd overall swimmer in the nation. Gildersleeve is a versatile swimmer, excelling in the individual medley, butterfly and freestyle events. At the 2018 Indiana Senior State Long Course Championships, Gildersleeve won the 100- and 200-yard butterfly. At the 2018 Indiana Senior Short Course Championships, Gildersleeve was first in the 100-yard butterfly.
Turak comes to IU from Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is another spring freestyle swimmer. Turak is ranked as the number one swimmer in Michigan and the number 56 overall swimmer in the nation. She won the 50-yard freestyle at the Speedo Championship Series in Akron, Ohio in March 2018, and was the Oakland Activities Association League champion in the 50 and 100-yard free style in November 2017.
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Worship with us. We will glorify God.
“We will glorify God in our worship and service, ‘equipping the saints’ to show the good news of Jesus Christ by the story we tell, by the values we live, by the choices we make.”
~from the Mission Statement of Immanuel Presbyterian Church
We gather for worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings.
The public worship of God is the central act of the church. It gathers the greatest number of members in one place at one time to remember who God is, who we are, and what we are to do as God’s people.
A worship service is a drama built around four recurring themes:
Where the accent is on God's powerful love and grace.
Where the accent is on us, who we are in our self-centeredness.
Where the accent is on the actions God has taken to forgive us, call us.
Where the accent is on us, on what we may do in response to what God has done for us.
This drama is played out in hymns and anthems, the reading and interpretation of the Scriptures, prayers, and sermons. The act of worship is intended to involve our physical, emotional, cultural, and intellectual sensitivities and abilities. It addresses our individual needs, draws us together into a community, and offers a public witness to the meanings and values of Christian faith. Our worship is enhanced and supported by our music ministry.
Immanuel's pipe organ is presided over by organist Steven Jensen. His selections for worship services range across the wide spectrum of the organ repertoire, offering us a powerful stimulus to “lift up our hearts” as we listen and as we sing.
The Hook and Hastings organ dates to 1881 and has undergone three major renovations. A new console was installed in 2005 and new leather valves were installed on the pipes in 2009. A major restoration of the chancel in 2012, as part of the Building on Our Foundations project a new pipe facade was added to be more reminiscent of the original architecture of the building. The organ is 77 Ranks and considered an “American Classic” instrument. The Chapel houses a two rank Kilgen organ.
The church also has four Steinway grand pianos.
At Immanuel the work of the choir is vitally important to our worship. The breadth and depth of emotion conveyed by music is a critical part of praise and thanksgiving. Great words set to great music have their impact multiplied tenfold.
The choir rehearses every week, September through mid-June, on Monday evenings from 6:00 until 7:30 p.m..
Our choir director, John Komasa, is a skilled conductor and professional voice teacher. He and the pastor plan the choral music of the church to make use of the many periods and styles in the sacred music repertoire, so that, in the course of the year, the congregation is exposed to the richness and variety of the faith in music.
The church employs bass, tenor, alto, and soprano section leaders for the choir. Otherwise the choir is made up of volunteers who love to sing and who make the commitment of time and energy to serve the church in this way. New members are always welcome in the choir.
The Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated in a public worship service for the children of members.
Adults may also receive baptism when joining the church and professing faith for the first time.
Dates for the service of Baptism are:
Christian Education Sunday in September
The Season of Advent (December)
First Sunday after Christmas
Transfiguration of the Lord
The Easter Vigil
The Day of Pentecost
Sundays when new members are received
The Sacrament of Communion is celebrated eighteen times a year, corresponding with the major seasons or occasions of the church year:
First Sunday in December (Advent)
First Sunday in January (Epiphany)
First Sunday in Lent
Wednesday evenings during Lent
Maundy Thursday evening (Holy Week)
Easter Vigil (Saturday before Easter)
Second Sunday of Easter
Celebration of Pentecost
First Sunday in October (World Communion)
First Sunday in November (All Saints' Sunday)
Christ the King Sunday (November)
Presbyterians understand the sacraments to be an outward or visible sign of an inward or invisible grace.
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Evolving peacekeeping landscape requires stronger global-regional partnership
BY: Quintina Naime
11:41, August 20, 2015
Since the United Nations increasingly shares responsibility for peace and security with regional organizations, everything possible should be bone to help them resolve regional problems.
Also to include the States concerned in solutions, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
“At the same time, regional organizations should continue contributing to United Nations peace and security efforts. We count on them for political leverage as well as civilian and military capacities,” Ban told the Security Council, during an open debate on the subject of regional organizations and contemporary global security challenges.
Noting that cooperation with regional and sub-regional organizations have gained “greater influence” in recent years, partly because of the changing nature of conflicts, Ban explained that a number of aggravating factors prompted him to request a fresh review of UN peace operations.
“Urbanization, unemployment and population movements, including massive displacement, are increasing dramatically. Technological advances in warfare, including cyber threats, pose grave dangers to civilians. And against this shifting security landscape, the United Nations is deploying into fragile and remote environments with little peace to keep.”
The Secretary-General said that he is now analyzing the report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations to identify the recommendations the Organization can carry out “immediately” – and those that will require action by legislative bodies, Member States and partners.
One of these recommendations is a “stronger global-regional partnership” to ensure that the Security Council can draw on a “more resilient and capable network of actors,” he underlined.
“In recent years, we have seen how practical cooperation among the United Nations, the African Union and the European Union has enhanced progress in Africa. Now we need to build on this trilateral cooperation and boost our collective ability to manage, plan and execute peace operations,” Ban reminded.
Different forms of engagement with other organizations proved equally successful, he said, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the
League of Arab States (LSA), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“The Panel recommends that we deepen the strategic UN-AU partnership. I fully agree. Almost two thirds of our peace operations and nearly 90 per cent of our uniformed peacekeepers are deployed in Africa,” insisted the Secretary-General.
The report also calls for greater support to Security Council-authorized African Union peace operations, the experts recommending that the UN enable regional organizations to share the burden in accordance with the UN Charter.
“Toward that end, I draw attention to the Panel’s call for more predictable financing, including through the use of UN-assessed contributions,” Ban observed, while emphasizing other important forms of support, like planning processes, logistical packages, UN-managed trust funds and access to all UN expertise, systems, materiel and services.
“The UN’s broad support for the AU and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also includes political cooperation – which is difficult to quantify but still highly valuable.”
Joint efforts have made a meaningful difference, he continued, in defusing tensions and supporting the transition in Burkina Faso, encouraging political dialogue ahead of elections in Guinea, resolving the electoral crisis in Kenya and ending a political deadlock in Madagascar through a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Roadmap, among other engagements.
“We have succeeded in dramatically enhancing our partnerships. We have come to rely on each other in critical times. We will continue to advance progress,” assured the UN chief.
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by Neil Gaiman
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Headline celebrates the 10-year publication anniversary of this extraordinary novel from a storytelling genius.
After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the storm is about to break...
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Neil Gaiman is the acclaimed and award-winning author of the novels American Gods, Stardust, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards, his work has been adapted for film, television, and radio, including Stardust (2007) and the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated animated feature film Coraline (2009). He has written scripts for 'Doctor Who' and collaborated with Terry Pratchett, and The Sandman is already established as one of the classic graphic novels. As George R. R. Martin says, 'There's no one quite like Neil Gaiman'.Author photo © Kimberley Butler
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In recent years, Lance Hunter received over twenty-seven awards in national or international watercolor exhibitions. Articles and a cover of the top American watercolor magazine,Watercolor Artist, have featured his work. International Artist, Southwest Art and American Art Collector magazines also featured paintings of his in oil and watercolor. To date, Hunter’s art has been published in eight books including the last five editions of the Splash: Best of Watercolor series published annually by North Light Books.
Lance’s work is often layered with a juxtaposition of images that invite interpretation on a per- sonal or universal level. The passage of time, facades and duality are persistent themes in paintings that often explore culturally manufactured myths and the fragility of relationships. Water is an ancient symbol for life that frequently surfaces in his art. The attraction and influ- ence of water flows from his youth on the Texas Gulf Coast and time living with his family on an island in the Mediterranean.
Hunter is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Water- color Society. He has exhibited multiple times in international exhibitions of both prestigious societies in New York City and Southern California. In 2017, he had two paintings selected for Portraits and Figures, a National Watercolor Society Exhibition held at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in California. During his career, he has exhibited in museums and galleries in many cities in the United States including New York, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, Santa Fe and Scottsdale. His work can also be found in public and pri- vate collections in Europe and across the States.
Lance Hunter received an MFA in painting and he is currently a Professor of Art at North- eastern State University in Oklahoma. His two grown children, Brooke and Chase, continue to inspire the artist while his dog keeps him company.
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Arrivals to UK face 14-day quarantine under government plan
by: JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press
Posted: May 22, 2020 / 04:09 AM PDT / Updated: May 22, 2020 / 06:03 AM PDT
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson stands outside 10 Downing Street to join in the nationwide Clap for Carers to recognise and support National Health Service (NHS) workers and carers fighting the coronavirus pandemic, in London, Thursday, May 21, 2020. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has prompted a public display of appreciation for care workers. The applause takes place across Britain every Thursday at 8pm local time to show appreciation for healthcare workers, emergency services, armed services, delivery drivers, shop workers, teachers, waste collectors, manufacturers, postal workers, cleaners, vets, engineers and all those helping people with coronavirus and keeping the country functioning while most people stayed at home in the lockdown. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
LONDON (AP) — People arriving in the U.K. will have to quarantine themselves for 14 days and could be fined 1,000 pounds ($1,220) if they fail to comply under a plan being announced Friday by the British government.
Home Secretary Priti Patel will set out details of the measures, which have already sparked confusion and criticism from airlines, airports and lockdown-weary Britons wondering whether they will get to take a vacation abroad this summer.
Britain did not close its borders during the worst of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, which has been linked to more than 36,000 deaths in the U.K. It is introducing its quarantine just as many other European countries are starting to open up again.
The British government has previously said the quarantine will start in early June and will apply to arrivals from everywhere except Ireland, which has a longstanding free-movement agreement with the U.K. Ireland is expected to announce similar measures.
There are likely to be exemptions for some travelers, including truckers and medics.
Britons returning from overseas will also have to self-isolate for 14 days under the measures, which will be reviewed every three weeks.
There has been confusion about the U.K. policy, after the government initially said it would not apply to people arriving from France. That prompted a rebuke from the European Union, which wants a coordinated policy across the 27-nation bloc.
Britain later said France would not be exempt.
Airlines have warned that the British move could hobble their efforts to rebuild a business devastated by pandemic-related travel restrictions.
Karen Dee, chief executive of Britain’s Airport Operators Association, said the government had not told airports how the quarantine would be enforced.
“I believe that passengers will be asked to give an address in the U.K. and there will be spot checks and fines for those people, but I don’t know the detail of how that will be implemented,” she told Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee.
Many European nations shut their borders in March as the pandemic took hold, and are now easing those restrictions. But the plans to reopen to foreign visitors are spurring national and regional tensions as the summer tourist season approaches.
Italy, the onetime epicenter of Europe’s pandemic, is opening to European travel on June 3, the same date that it is allowing Italians to move outside their regions for pleasure. But some regions are taking precautions to ensure that the sudden reopening doesn’t create new infection clusters. Sardinia’s governor has suggested he might require visitors to the island to certify they had tested negative for the virus within the past week, or submit to a test on arrival.
The Tuscany regional government says on its website that any visitor from abroad or another Italian region must undergo quarantine for 14 days. It’s unknown if Tuscany, which fills with British and German tourists in summer, will revise that rule as June 3 approaches.
France says it may quarantine people arriving from an area “where the virus is circulating,” but it has not published a list of targeted areas. The French presidency said those coming from EU countries, from Britain and from the passport-free Schengen area will be exempted.
Some European regions and tour operators have called for “tourism corridors” between areas with low rates of the coronavirus. Britain has said it may consider the idea, but Italy has condemned it, fearing it will exclude the country, which has seen more than 32,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Associated Press Writer Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed to this story.
Follow AP pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak.
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What are hours of service as related to truck accidents?
On behalf of Konicek & Dillon, P.C. | Oct 28, 2016 | Truck Accidents
If you get anxious when driving near semi-trucks, then you are in good company. Many Illinois motorists find themselves speeding up to pass big rigs and slowing down to avoid being boxed in by them. These defensive driving techniques have their advantages, but even the safest driver may be unable to protect himself from a negligent trucker. One of the most common ways that truckers are negligent is overworking themselves and thus driving while fatigued.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued regulations in an attempt to curtail sleep and fatigued trucking. Under these regulations, known as hours of service regulations, a trucker can only operate his truck for 11 hours after taking 10 consecutive hours off. Additionally, a trucker cannot operate his truck after the 14th hour after he takes his 10 consecutive-hour break. There are also limits on the number of hours per week a trucker can drive. Under the regulations, a trucker can only drive for 60 hours in a seven day week, or 70 hours in an eight day period.
These hours of service are tracked by trucking logs. When an individual is injured in a truck accident, gaining access to a trucking log can be crucial to proving the cause of the accident. This often requires legal know-how, as many truckers and truck companies will try to block access.
Because of the aggressive push back from negligent truckers and the companies for which they work, pursuing a personal injury lawsuit can be challenging. However, by surrounding oneself with an experienced team of legal professionals, a truck accident victim may give himself a better chance of succeeding on his claim and recovering the compensation he needs to recoup medical expenses, lost wages and other damages.
Source: FMCSA, “Summary of Hours of Service Regulations,” accessed on Oct. 22, 2016
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Global Funding Across U.S. COVID-19 Supplemental Funding Bills
Stephanie Oum, Adam Wexler, and Jennifer Kates Follow @jenkatesdc on Twitter
The U.S. thus far has enacted five emergency supplemental funding bills, all of which were enacted in 2020, to address the COVID-19 pandemic:
the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (L. 116-123) enacted on March 6;
the Families First Supplemental Appropriations Act (L. 116-127) enacted on March 18;
the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (L. 116-136) enacted on March 27;
the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (L.116-139) enacted on April 24; and
the FY2021 Omnibus and COVID Relief and Response Act (L. 116-68) enacted on December 27.
While most of the funding in these bills has been for the domestic response, approximately $7.5 billion has been appropriated for global efforts, provided in three of the five bills – the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental, the CARES Act, and the FY2021 Omnibus and COVID Relief and Response Act. This includes funding to support the operations of U.S. agencies in other countries, including for repatriation of U.S. personnel, and funding provided directly to affected countries and international efforts. This data note tracks appropriations designated for international efforts in the emergency bills. It will be updated as needed.
Table 1 provides a list of the agencies and funding amounts specified for international efforts across each bill. Table 2 provides more details on this funding, including the expenditure period and a description of specific activities.
Table 1: Global Funding In Coronavirus Supplemental Bills – Summary Table
Agency/Department/Account
Supplemental #1: Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act
(P.L. 116-123)
Supplemental #2:
Families First Supplemental Appropriations Act
Supplemental #3: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act
(P.L.116-139)
FY2021 Omnibus and COVID Relief and Response Act
(P.L. 116-68)
Total Funding Across All Bills
Total Funding Total Funding Total Funding Total Funding Total Funding
USAID $986,000,000 – $363,000,000 – $4,000,000,000 $5,349,000,000
Office of Inspector General $1,000,000 – – – – $1,000,000
Operating Expenses – – $95,000,000 – – $95,000,000
Global Health Programs $435,000,000 – – – $4,000,000,000 $4,435,000,000
of which Emergency Reserve Fund $200,000,000 – – – – $200,000,000
of which Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – – – – $4,000,000,000 $4,000,000,000
International Disaster Assistance $300,000,000 – $258,000,000 – – $558,000,000
Economic Support Fund $250,000,000 – – – – $250,000,000
Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia – – $10,000,000 – – $10,000,000
Department of State $264,000,000 – $678,000,000 – $300,000,000 $1,242,000,000
Consular and Border Security Programs – – – – $300,000,000 $300,000,000
Diplomatic Programs $264,000,000 – $324,000,000 – – $588,000,000
Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Services – – $4,000,000 – – $4,000,000
Migration and Refugee Assistance – – $350,000,000 – – $350,000,000
Peace Corps – – $88,000,000 – – $88,000,000
Millennium Challenge Corporation – – $2,000,000 – – $2,000,000
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $300,000,000 – $500,000,000 – – $800,000,000
Total Coronavirus Funding for the International Response $1,550,000,000 – $1,631,000,000 – $4,300,000,000 $7,481,000,000
NOTES: The second and fourth supplemental bills do not include funding for international COVID-19 efforts.
SOURCES: KFF analysis of the “Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020” (P.L. 116-123); House Appropriations H.R. 6074: Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 Title-By-Title Summary; Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136) and Senate Appropriations Committee summary materials; FY2021 COVID Relief and Response Act (P.L. 116-68).
Table 2: Global Funding In Coronavirus Supplemental Bills – Detailed Table
Agency/Department/Account Supplemental #1: Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (P.L. 116-123) Supplemental #2: Families First Supplemental Appropriations Act (P.L. 116-127) Supplemental #3: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136) Supplemental #4: Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (P.L.116-139) Supplemental #5: FY2021 Omnibus and COVID Relief and Response Act (P.L.116-68) Total Funding Across All Bills
Total Funding Expenditure Period Description
No global
Total Funding Expenditure Period Description No global funding provided Total Funding Expenditure Period Description
USAID $986,000,000 – – – $363,000,000 – – – $4,000,000,000 – – $5,349,000,000
Office of Inspector General $1,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 Oversight activities – – – – – – – – $1,000,000
Operating Expenses – – – – $95,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 For an additional amount for “Operating Expenses” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus for operational needs of USAID, including support for evacuations and ordered departures of overseas staff, surge support, increased technical support for remote functions, and other needs. – – – – $95,000,000
Global Health Programs $435,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 “To prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus” – – – – – $4,000,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2022 – $4,435,000,000
of which Emergency Reserve Fund $200,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 – – – – – – – – – $200,000,000
of which Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – – – – – – – – $4,000,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2022 For an additional amount for “Global Health Programs” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for vaccine procurement and delivery: Provided, That such funds shall be administered by the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and shall be made available as a contribution to The GAVI Alliance” $4,000,000,000
International Disaster Assistance $300,000,000 To remain available until expended “To prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus” – $258,000,000 To remain available until expended For an additional amount for “International Disaster Assistance” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus for USAID to respond to the extraordinary needs in other countries that are underequipped to respond to the pandemic. The funding will prioritize populations affected by ongoing humanitarian crises, particularly displaced people, because of their heightened vulnerability, the elevated risk of severe outbreaks in camps and informal settlements, and anticipated disproportionate mortality in these populations. – – – – $558,000,000
Economic Support Fund $250,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 “To prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including to address related economic, security, and stabilization requirements” – – – – – – – – $250,000,000
Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia – – – – $10,000,000 FY 2020-FY 2021 Section 21004. For an additional amount for the FY 2020 appropriations amount to hire and employ individuals in the United States and overseas on a limited appointment basis from $100,000,000 to $110,000,000 under the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020. – – – – $10,000,000
Department of State $264,000,000 – – – $678,000,000 – – – $300,000,000 – – $1,242,000,000
Consular and Border Security Programs – – – – – – – – $300,000,000 to remain available until expended For an additional amount for “Consular and Border Security Programs” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, which shall be for offsetting losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic of fees and surcharges collected and deposited into the account. $300,000,000
Diplomatic Programs $264,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 “To prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for maintaining consular operations, reimbursement of evacuation expenses, and emergency preparedness” – $324,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 For an additional amount for “Diplomatic Programs” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for necessary expenses to maintain consular operations and to provide for evacuation expenses and emergency preparedness. – – – – $588,000,000
Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Services – – – – $4,000,000 To remain available until expended Section 21005. For an additional amount for the FY 2020 appropriations amount for “Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Services from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 under the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020. – – – – $4,000,000
Migration and Refugee Assistance – – – – $350,000,000 To remain available until expended For an additional amount for “Migration and Refugee Assistance” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus for the Department of State to contribute to pending appeals from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, International Committee of the Red Cross, and other partners to prepare for, and respond to, coronavirus among vulnerable refugee populations abroad. – – – – $350,000,000
Peace Corps – – – – $88,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 For an additional amount for “Peace Corps” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus to support evacuations of all overseas volunteers, relocation of U.S. direct hires on authorized or ordered departure, and certain benefits for returned volunteers, including health care. – – – – $88,000,000
Millennium Challenge Corporation – – – – $2,000,000 To remain available until expended Section 21006. For an additional amount for “Millennium Challenge Corporation: increasing from $105,000,000 to $107,000,000 under the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020, to increase the amount it can spend to cover additional costs due to staff evacuations. – – – – $2,000,000
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $300,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2022 “Global disease detection and emergency response” – $500,000,000 To remain available until September 30, 2024 For global disease detection and emergency response – – – – $800,000,000
Total Coronavirus Funding for the International Response $1,550,000,000 – – – $1,631,000,000 – – – $4,300,000,000 – – $7,481,000,000
SOURCES: KFF analysis of the “Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020” (P.L. 116-123); House Appropriations H.R. 6074: Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 Title-By-Title Summary; Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136) and Senate Appropriations Committee summary materials; FY2021 Omnibus and COVID Relief and Response Act (P.L. 116-68).
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KFF Health Tracking Poll – July 2020
KFF Health Tracking Poll - July 2020
Liz Hamel Follow @lizhamel on Twitter , Audrey Kearney Follow @audrey__kearney on Twitter , Ashley Kirzinger Follow @AshleyKirzinger on Twitter , Lunna Lopes, Cailey Muñana, and Mollyann Brodie Follow @Mollybrodie on Twitter
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Coronavirus: Reopening, Schools, And The Government Response
Amid a surging coronavirus pandemic and record numbers of new cases in many states, the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll finds most U.S. adults feel the worst effects of the pandemic are yet to come, and seven in ten (including four in ten Republicans) rate the federal government response to the pandemic as fair or poor. The survey also indicates that the pandemic is increasingly taking an emotional toll, with a majority of U.S. adults (53%) saying that worry and stress related to coronavirus has had a negative impact on their mental health, up from 39% in May.
With Congress set to consider its next coronavirus relief package, a clear majority of the public across political party affiliation says that top priority should be given to increasing federal funding for efforts to limit the spread of the virus such as testing, contact tracing, and personal protective equipment for essential workers. Most Democrats, and about half of independents and Republicans, also say Congress should prioritize increasing federal support for state and local governments to help schools reopen safely. Large shares of the public also see various measures to bolster individuals’ financial health and increase access to health insurance amid the economic downturn as important things for Congress to tackle, though partisans divide on the priority that should be placed on these measures.
With the new school year quickly approaching, the issue of whether and how to reopen schools looms large for both parents and policymakers. On balance, most parents with kids in school (60%) say it is better to open schools later to minimize infection risk, even if students miss out on academics and social services and some parents will not be able to work, while about half as many (34%) say it’s better to open schools sooner so parents can work and kids can get services, even if there’s some risk of infection. A majority (71%) of the public overall say that public schools in their area need more resources to reopen safely, and 66% of parents say the same about their own child’s school. Parents of color are more likely than White parents to say it is better for schools to open later to minimize infection risk, and to say that their own child’s school lacks the resources it needs to reopen safely.1
Parents – particularly parents of color and those with lower incomes – have a variety of worries related to both a school reopening scenario, and one in which schools remain closed. When it comes to reopening, majorities are worried that their child, family members, or teachers may get sick from the virus, and most also worry about schools’ and students’ ability to comply with physical distancing and other public health guidance. If schools don’t reopen, about two-thirds of parents are worried about their children falling behind socially and emotionally (67%) and academically (65%), and about half worry about losing income if they can’t go to work (51%) or not being able to pay enough attention to their kids if they’re working at home (47%). The inability to access other services schools provide is a concern for some parents: 40% worry about their child not getting needed social services if schools remain closed, 31% worry they won’t have access to technology needed for online learning, and 24% worry about their children having enough food to eat at home. Many of these worries – both about the risks of school reopening and the loss of learning and social services – are much higher among parents of color and those with lower incomes than they are among White and higher-income parents.
The latest KFF Health Tracking Poll also finds that more than four months in, the coronavirus pandemic continues to take an economic toll on Americans. Four in ten report trouble affording basic necessities or falling behind on household or medical bills in the past 3 months, including 22% who say they experienced this directly because of coronavirus and its impact on their financial situation, and 17% who say they were experiencing these problems before coronavirus.
View On The State Of The Pandemic And Government Response
With a mounting death toll and coronavirus cases surging throughout much of the U.S., a majority of the public (60%) think that the worst is yet to come, up from 50% in May, though not as high as the 74% of adults in early April who thought things were likely to get worse. One in five adults (20%) currently think that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak is behind us. The overall numbers mask a deep partisan divide, with a slight majority of Republicans saying either “the worst is behind us” (31%) or that they don’t think the coronavirus is or will be a major problem (23%), while about eight in ten Democrats (79%) and a majority of independents (57%) say “the worst is yet to come.”
Figure 1: Increasing Share Say Worst Of Coronavirus Is Yet To Come
Amid what many see as a botched federal response to the virus, about half of U.S. adults (48%) rate the federal government response to the pandemic as “poor” while another 23% call it “fair.” Just 28% rate the federal response as “good” or “excellent.” Even among Republicans, who are generally supportive of President Trump and his Administration, 42% rate the federal government response to the pandemic as “fair” or “poor.” The public is more divided when it comes to assessing state and local governments, with about half of adults giving their state (46%) and local (48%) governments positive marks.
Figure 2: About Seven In Ten Give The Federal Government Fair Or Poor Marks In Coronavirus Outbreak Response
Table 1: Views of federal, state, and local response to coronavirus by party identification
How would you rate…to the current coronavirus outbreak? Party identification
Democrats Independents Republicans
…the federal government’s response…
Excellent/good 8% 26% 57%
Fair/poor 91 73 42
…your state government’s response…
Excellent/good 55 42 44
…your local government’s response…
Majorities Across Parties Say Congress Should Prioritize Funding For Testing And Contact Tracing
As Congress discusses its next coronavirus relief package, there are reports that the Trump Administration is resisting allocating additional federal funds for coronavirus testing, contact tracing, and other prevention measures. This is at clear odds with the public’s priorities; when asked about a number of potential actions Congress could take, the highest-ranked priority among the public is increasing federal funding for efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus, such as testing, contact tracing, and personal protective equipment for essential workers. Seven in ten adults overall (72%) say this should be a top priority for Congress, including majorities of Democrats, independents, and Republicans. Schools are another popular priority: a majority (55%) say increasing federal funding to state and local governments to help schools reopen safely should be a top priority, including about two-thirds of Democrats (68%) and about half of independents (53%) and Republicans (48%).
Figure 3: Increasing Federal Funding For Coronavirus Testing, Contact Tracing, And PPE Seen As Top Priority For Congress
Other measures to provide economic relief or extend insurance benefits are seen as important by large shares of the public overall, but have less broad appeal across partisans. For example, about half the public overall say increasing government financial assistance to help Americans who do not get health insurance from their jobs pay for coverage (52%) and providing financial assistance for people who have lost their jobs to purchase COBRA insurance through their former employers (49%) should be top priorities. However, there are large partisan gaps, with Democrats 42 percentage points more likely than Republicans to say Congress should place a top priority on increasing government financial assistance for individual health insurance, and 26 percentage points more likely to say Congress should place a top priority on providing assistance for people to purchase COBRA coverage.
About four in ten overall say other actions should be top priorities for Congress, including increasing funding to states to help pay for Medicaid (44%), sending a second round of stimulus checks to individuals (43%), guaranteeing every American a basic income until the pandemic passes (42%), creating a public option health insurance plan (41%), and extending the additional unemployment benefits set to expire at the end of July (39%). Views on each of these measures are marked by large partisan differences, with about six in ten Democrats saying each should be a top priority, compared with about a quarter of Republicans.
Table 2: Views of potential Congressional actions on coronavirus by party identification
Percent saying each of the following should be a “top priority” for Congress: Party identification
Increasing federal funding for efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus 90% 65% 57%
Increasing federal funding to state and local governments to help schools safely open 68 53 48
Increasing government financial assistance to help more Americans who don’t get health insurance through their jobs purchase coverage 73 49 31
Providing government financial assistance for people who have lost their jobs to purchase COBRA health insurance 63 47 37
Increasing federal funding to state governments to help pay for their Medicaid programs 63 43 25
Sending a second round of stimulus checks directly to individuals 58 40 27
Guaranteeing every American a basic minimum income until the pandemic passes 56 42 27
Creating a public option health plan 57 39 26
Extending the increased unemployment benefits of $600 per week which are set to expire on July 31st 59 36 25
Views On The Pace Of Reopening, Including Schools
With coronavirus cases surging in many states that took an early approach to reopening, a plurality (45%) of adults overall say their state is moving at about the right pace in easing social distancing restrictions and opening businesses, while three in ten (31%) say their state is moving “too quickly” and about one in five (22%) say their state is opening “too slowly.” Views on reopening vary by both partisanship and location. Democrats are about three times as likely as Republicans to feel their state is moving too quickly, while Republicans are about three times as likely as Democrats to feel their state is moving too slowly. Notably, about four in ten adults (39%) in states that are current coronavirus hotspots (based on case data as of July 18) say their state is moving too quickly to reopen, compared to about one in four (24%) in non-hotspot states.2
Figure 4: Nearly Half Of Adults Say Their State Is Moving At About The Right Pace In Easing Social Distancing Restrictions
Public And Parents Prefer To Delay School Openings To Mitigate Risk
With the new school year quickly approaching, the issue of whether and how to reopen schools for in-person instruction has been at the forefront of discussions for both parents and policymakers. President Trump has stated that he wants schools to reopen for in-person instruction in the fall, and has even suggested that the federal government may withhold money from schools that don’t reopen. When asked to weigh the risks vs. benefits, a majority of the public (63%) thinks it is better to open schools later to ensure the risk of getting coronavirus is as low as possible, even if it means some students will fall behind academically or miss out on services and some parents will be unable to return to work. About a third (32%) think it is better to open schools sooner so that parents can work and students won’t miss out on learning and other services, even if there is some risk to teachers, students and staff. There is a large partisan gap on this issue among the public overall, with 87% of Democrats and 59% of independents preferring schools open later while six in ten Republicans (60%) prefer that schools open sooner.
Among parents with a child age 5-17 that normally attends school, six in ten (60%) think it is better to reopen schools later in order to ensure the risk of coronavirus is as low as possible, while about half as many (34%) think it is better to reopen sooner. Parents of color (76%) are even more likely to prefer a later reopening compared to their White counterparts (51%).
Figure 5: Public Overall, And Parents, Prefer For Schools To Open Later To Minimize Coronavirus Risk
The public’s caution towards reopening schools may be reinforced by a sense that schools do not have the necessary resources to safely reopen in a manner that complies with public health recommendations on how to minimize the risk of spreading coronavirus. Seven in ten adults overall say that public schools in their area need more resources in order to safely reopen, while just 22% say schools have enough resources. This sentiment is echoed by parents of school-aged children when they are asked about their own child’s school. Two-thirds of parents (66%) say their child’s school needs more resources in order to safely reopen. Notably, parents of color are more likely than their White counterparts to say their child’s school lacks the resources necessary to safely reopen (82% vs. 54%).
Figure 6: Seven In Ten, Including Majorities Of Parents, Say Public Schools Need More Resources To Reopen Safely
Parents – Particularly parents of color and those with Lower Incomes – Worry about both school reopening And remaining closed
With many schools’ academic year commencing in August and early September, about half of parents with children who typically attend school (52%) said their child’s school had not yet announced whether they would be having in-person classes this fall at the time they took the survey. This month’s poll asked parents about worries related to both a school reopening scenario and one in which schools remain closed to in-person instruction. When it comes to reopening, large shares of parents with a child enrolled in school are worried about teachers and staff getting sick from coronavirus (79% very or somewhat worried) and children being unable or unwilling to comply with physical distancing practices (73% very or somewhat worried). About seven in ten are also worried about their child (70%) or themselves or a family member (69%) getting sick from coronavirus, while two-thirds (66%) worry about their child’s school being unable to comply with public health recommendations.
Figure 7: Large Shares Of Parents Worry About Teachers, Children, Family Members Getting Sick If Schools Reopen
Reflecting the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on those with lower incomes and on communities of color, there are some notable differences in worry levels between parents of color and White parents, and between those with lower and those with higher household incomes. Nine in ten parents of color (91%) say they are either “very worried” or “somewhat worried” about their child getting sick with coronavirus if they return to school in the fall, compared to 55% of White parents who say the same. Similarly, about nine in ten of parents of color say they are worried about teachers and other staff getting sick with coronavirus (92%), children being unable or unwilling to physically distance (91%), and that they or a family member will get sick with coronavirus (90%). Far fewer White parents say they are worried about each of these concerns.
In addition, parents who have a household income under $90,000 are more likely than their higher-income counterparts to say they are worried about children being unable or unwilling to physically distance (82% vs. 62%) or teachers and staff getting sick from the coronavirus (84% vs. 73%).
Table 3: Worries about school reopening among parents by race/ethnicity and household income
Percent who say they are “very worried” or “somewhat worried” about each of the following if their child DOES return to school in-person: All parents with a child who normally attends school Race/ethnicity Household Income
Parents of color White Parents Parents with HH income under $90,000 Parents with HH income $90,000+
Teachers and other staff at school getting sick from coronavirus 79% 92% 69% 84% 73%
Children at the school being unable or unwilling to comply with physical distancing practices 73 91 60 82 62
Their child getting sick with coronavirus 70 91 55 75 65
They or someone else in their family getting sick from coronavirus 69 90 53 72 66
Their child’s school being unable to comply with public health recommendations 66 88 49 68 66
Parents also express a number of worries related to schools remaining closed for in-person instruction in the fall. If schools don’t reopen, about two-thirds of parents say they would worry about their children falling behind socially and emotionally (67%) and academically (65%), and about half say they would worry about losing income if they can’t go to work (51%) or not being able to pay enough attention to their kids if they’re working at home (47%). Other services schools provide are also a concern for some parents: 40% worry about their child not getting needed social services if schools remain closed, 31% worry they won’t have access to technology needed for online learning, and 24% worry about their children having enough food to eat at home.
Figure 8: About Two In Three Parents Worry About Their Child Falling Behind Socially, Academically If They Do Not Return To In-Person Classes
Similar to the findings on parental worries about their child returning to school in-person in the fall, parents of color and those with lower household incomes are also more likely than their counterparts to say they worry about possible outcomes if their children do not return to in-person classes.
Parents of color are more likely than White parents to say they are “very worried” or “somewhat worried” about their child not getting social services they usually get at school (52% vs. 32%), are almost three times as likely to worry their child won’t have access to the technology needed for online learning (49% vs. 17%), and about five times as likely to worry their child will not have enough to eat at home (44% vs. 9%). Parents of color are also more likely than White parents to worry about losing income if they are unable to work outside the home (65% vs. 41%).
Similarly, parents with household incomes under $90,000 more likely than their higher income counterparts to be worried that their child will not have access to social services they usually get at school (47% vs. 26%), will not have enough to eat at home (34% vs. 6%), or won’t have access to the technology needed for online learning (43% vs. 10%). Moreover, lower-income parents are more likely than those with higher incomes to worry about losing income if they are unable to work outside the home (61% vs. 35%).
Table 4: Worries about schools remaining closed among parents by race/ethnicity and household income
Percent saying they are “very worried” or “somewhat worried” about each of the following if their child DOES NOT return to school in-person: All parents with a child who normally attends school Race/ethnicity Household Income
Parents of color White
Parents Parents with HH income under $90,000 Parents with HH income $90,000+
Their child falling behind on their emotional and social development 67% 76% 62% 68% 65%
Their child falling behind academically 65 73 60 66 63
Losing income if they are unable to work outside the home 51 65 41 61 35
Not being able to pay enough attention to their child if they are working from home 47 56 41 49 48
Their child not getting needed social services they usually get at school 40 52 32 47 26
Their child not having enough to eat at home 24 44 9 34 6
Their child not having access to the technology needed for online learning 31 49 17 43 10
The Continuing Impact Of The Coronavirus Pandemic On Mental Health, Wellbeing, And Financial Health
over half report a negative impact on mental health
As life with the coronavirus pandemic wears on, Americans increasingly say it is taking a negative toll on their mental health. For the first time since KFF began tracking this question in March, a majority of adults (53%) now say that stress and worry related to the pandemic has had a negative impact on their mental health. This is up 14 percentage points since May, and up 8 percentage points since the previous high of 45% in early April. About one in four (26%) say worry and stress related to coronavirus has had a “major impact” on their mental health, while a similar share (28%) say it has had a “minor impact.”
Figure 9: Adults Increasingly Report That Worry And Stress Related To Coronavirus Has Had A Negative Impact On Their Mental Health
Notably, younger adults are more likely older adults, and women are more likely than men, to say stress and worry related to coronavirus has had a negative impact on their mental health. About seven in ten Blacks adults (68%) and those who have had difficulty paying household bills in the past three months due to the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak (71%) say that stress and worry related to the pandemic has had a negative impact on their mental health.
Figure 10: Women, Younger Adults, Black Adults, And Those Who Have Had Financial Impact More Likely To Report Mental Health Impact
In addition to reporting a general negative impact on their mental health, about half (52%) of adults report that worry and stress related to the coronavirus outbreak has had adverse effects on their mental health and wellbeing in specific ways. About a third say coronavirus-related worry or stress has led to problems with their sleep (36%) or has led to a poor appetite or overeating (32%). About one in five say worry or stress related to the pandemic has caused them to experience frequent headaches or stomachaches (18%) or difficulty controlling their temper (18%), while 12% each say it has led to increased alcohol or drug use or worsening chronic health conditions.
Figure 11: Just Over Half Have Experienced Adverse Effects Due To Worry And Stress Related To The Coronavirus Outbreak
Mirroring the findings on overall negative impact on mental health, younger adults and women are more likely than their counterparts to say coronavirus-related stress has caused adverse effects on their mental health or wellbeing. Notably, three in four adults who have had difficulty paying household bills in the past three months due to the financial impact of coronavirus say they have also experienced adverse effects their mental health and wellbeing, as do about six in ten Hispanic adults and Black adults.
Figure 12: Certain Groups, Including Hispanic And Black Adults And Those Financially Impacted, More Likely To Report Adverse Health Effects
four in ten have problems affording household expenses or health care
With the country facing a double-digit unemployment rate, four in ten adults say they or an adult in their household has had problems paying bills or difficulty affording medical care or basic expenses in the past three months. This includes about one in five who say they have fallen behind on their credit card bills (22%), 18% who have had trouble affording health insurance, and similar shares who say they have had trouble paying medical bills (17%), paying for food (17%), paying utility bills (17%) or have fallen behind on their rent or mortgage (17%). Additionally, 12% say they have had problems affording their prescription medications. Notably, among the 40% of adults who have experienced difficulty paying household or medical bills in the last three months, most (54%, or 22% of all adults) say it was due to the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on their financial situation, while 42% (17% of all adults) say this something they were already experiencing before the pandemic.
Figure 13: Four In Ten Households Report Difficulty Paying For Necessities In The Last 3 Months, Most Say Due To Coronavirus
Tracking Poll
TOPLINE & METHODOLOGY
By Nearly a 2-1 Margin, Parents Prefer to Wait to Open Schools to Minimize COVID Risk, with Parents of Color Especially Worried Either Way
It’s Back-to-School amid COVID-19, and Mothers Especially Are Feeling the Strain
KFF Health Tracking Poll – June 2020
KFF Health Tracking Poll – May 2020
KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public’s Views on the ACA
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King’s College Honors 2020 Alumni Award Winners
August 10, 2020 – On Thursday, August 13, 2020, King’s College President Rev. John Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D. will confer Alumni Awards upon six distinguished alumni who have demonstrated remarkable contributions to their professional fields, to the communities in which they live, and to King’s College. Members of the faculty, staff, administration, and alumni assisted the president in the selection process from among nominees submitted by alumni and friends of the College. Alumni Awards are typically presented annually during the College’s Commencement Weekend. Due to the global pandemic, both the King’s 2020 Commencement Ceremony and the 2020 Alumni Awards ceremony will be held in a virtual environment.
Valerie Kepner Named Director of Women’s Studies at King’s College
June 23, 2020 - Valerie Kepner, Ph.D., has been appointed Director of Women’s Studies at King’s College. The Women’s Studies Program provides students an opportunity to earn a minor through courses in several fields and also to apply classroom learning through participation in co-curricular activities and programs.
Diane M. DellaValle Appointed as Associate Professor of Nutrition Science at King’s College
June 18, 2020 - Diane DellaValle, Ph. D., RDN, LDN, has been appointed as an associate professor of nutrition science at King’s College. The College recently announced an on-line master’s degree in nutrition science will begin in August.
King’s College’s Health Science Programs Salute Health Care Field Workers; Area Nurses Offered Two-for-One for Newly Accredited RN to BS to Nursing
June 17, 2020 - The King’s College Health Science Programs unveiled a banner honoring workers in the healthcare fields for their tireless dedication during the Covid-19 pandemic. The banner, located in front of the Richard Abbas Alley Center for Health Sciences, is designed to draw a connection between the education King’s students receive in the Health Sciences and the professionals that serve and will serve in the critically important fields.
A Message From Father Ryan
Dear Members of the King’s College Community,
As president of King’s College, it is both my duty and joy to constantly hold before the King’s College community the words and sentiments that officially bind us together – The King’s College Mission Statement. That statement in part reads:
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Elizabeth Zinn
Elizabeth Zinn grew up in Michigan and attended the University of Michigan and the University of Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. After a career in music she spent eight years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Arizona before retiring to write fiction full time. After a lifetime of authoring various nonfiction and academic works, she now has completed four novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of poems. Two of her works were finalists in Glimmertrain and Leapfrog Press competitions, 2010 and 2011. Her novel 'Heart’s Blood' was a Finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards, won an Honorable Mention in the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival, and received a Kirkus star. Kirkus Reviews named 'Heart’s Blood' as one of the Best Indie Books of 2012.
Ms. Zinn lives and writes in a small town in the mountains of southern Arizona.
“An eloquent, refreshing perspective of the struggles faced by those living along the Mexican border.”
HEART'S BLOOD
BY Elizabeth Zinn • POSTED ON March 20, 2012
Zinn (The Happiness Lottery, 2011, etc.) returns with a novel that chronicles the trials of a wandering cowboy who learns to take life by the horns.
Tyler “Ty” McNeil makes his living running rodeo shows, just like his father, now deceased, did. Ty spends several years traveling far from home to do so, which strains his marriage. He eventually chooses the rodeo over his wife, finding himself alone and unfulfilled. As a result, Ty makes a radical decision to take control of his life and live it on his own terms. Rather than blindly following the direction of others, Ty now desires to direct his own path, regardless of his obligations. The peace he makes and his thoughts on life as he grows older are magnificently captured through intermittent reflections. Ty abandons the rodeo and sets his sights on a ranch back home in southwestern Arizona. Zinn’s characterization is purposeful, deep and rich; each character is well-developed and instrumental to the story. An intriguing mix of cultures populates the novel: Anglos, Mexicans, Native Americans and mixed-blood families. Although the story chronicles the changes in Ty’s life over the course of two generations, the setting takes almost equal precedence, brought to life by vivid descriptions of the landscape. Among several entwined themes, family and its different permutations are at the heart of the novel: The rejection of Ty’s biological son contrasts Ty’s relationship with his adopted daughter. The author’s love for Arizona is immersed in her lyrical writing, as the impact of environment on family is threaded wonderfully into various plotlines.
An eloquent, refreshing perspective on the struggles faced by those living along the Mexican border.
Pub Date: March 20, 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: April 30, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2012
Two Years Before the Mast, RH Dana
HEART'S BLOOD: Kirkus Star
HEART'S BLOOD: Finalist, International Book Award, 2012
HEART'S BLOOD: Honorable Mention, Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, 2011
Dancer: A Memory: Honorable Mention, Glimmertrain Fiction, New Writers, 2010
Romance - Heart's Blood, 2012 Author Interviews, 2012
Dancer: A Memory
'Dancer' is a young woman’s bildungsroman, a story of place and time, betrayal and love, kindness and cruelty, and the complexities of human feelings. Though the story unfolds in the beautiful high grasslands of southern Arizona it could take place anywhere. Mikey, the narrator, loses her father as an infant, and her life follows a rocky path through childhood. She is molested by a trusted friend, Uncle Clint, at age five, then basically shunned by her mother, who is tormented by guilt because of having murdered the molester. Mikey finds comfort in school and her friends, among whom are an eccentric family living in a nearby valley, and her childhood love, Remi, who awakens her budding sexuality. After a period of relative peace, Mikey's life is once again upended by a sinister character, Uncle Mitch, who moves in with her mother and systematically takes over their household. He covets their property and when Mikey’s mother is sent to prison for murder, she becomes Mitch's captive and is abused sexually and emotionally for months. During this time she is isolated, cut off from her friends, and sinks into depression. After Mitch murders her beloved horse Dancer and steals all their property, Mikey is sent to a foster home and begins a long path toward retribution. Along the way she finishes college, secures a job in journalism and meets the love of her life, Peter. The novel builds to a final confrontation between Mikey and Mitch, and then comes to a gentle landing, justice served and true love found. Over the course of the story, it traces the arc of Mikey's understanding of life from the simple impressions of a young child to the complex perceptions of a young woman who has been tested and strengthened by adversity. There are a number of colorful secondary characters, and the breathtaking landscape of the Arizona border region forms a dramatic backdrop for the story to play against.
The End of the Music
Kate Swan, a well-known Professor of Saxophone in Tucson, agrees to hear a young boy, Mikal Artina. She is utterly amazed by Mikal’s talent: “He’s one of a kind, one in a generation,” she tells her husband, Noel. Mikal studies with Kate throughout middle and high school and the novel picks up during Mikal’s last years at the university where Kate teaches. Kate is now divorced from Noel and her two daughters, Lee and Amy are grown and attending university. Kate plans to wind her own career down as Mikal graduates, a passing of the torch from old to young. But Mikal’s life and the story abruptly change when Mikal is stabbed to death outside a Tucson night club, in an apparent act of random violence. Kate’s life is shattered and she leaves Tucson to accompany Mikal’s parents back to Greece with his body, which will be laid to rest there. While on the small island where Mikal is buried, she becomes aware of ongoing intrigue involving Mikal’s relatives, and finds herself unwillingly drawn into conflict with his half-brother, Janec, who is Mikal’s double – which unhinges Kate. Unsettled by all the drama, Kate leaves the island for a while, but stays in the vicinity and meets an English travel writer, Martin Wallis, who unwittingly draws her farther into the political and family intrigue surrounding Mikal’s family. As Kate and Martin become closer they are able to share each other’s painful stories and near the end of the book Kate realizes that Martin has played an unknowing but real part in Mikal’s murder, and that the act was not random at all. Although she realizes that Martin had no idea of what he was involved in, and although her feelings for him are real, she cannot accept the connection: “You’re so mixed up in it that I can’t separate you out. Just go away, please.” Kate sends Martin away and decides to leave Greece for France, unable to return to the U.S. yet. But frantic messages from her daughters summon her home. Her former husband and their father, Noel, has received an ominous diagnosis of cancer and she must go back to care for him. As the novel winds down, Kate has taken Noel back into her house and is nursing him during his final months of life. Her relationship with Martin is on hold, undecided, though in her heart she has committed to joining him in England and leaving this life, her career and her teaching position, behind. But while Noel lingers she will stay with him and do what she can to keep his spirits up, and give him hope. Though it is clear that he is dying, Noel clings to the hope they will travel again. “Were you there?” he asks, indicating a large poster of Santorini on the wall. “Yes, I was.” “Were you in that very spot?” he asks. “Almost,” she replies. “My hotel was near that very place.” “The water looks so blue,” he says softly. “Can it really be that shade of blue?” “It really is, Noel. You’ll see, I promise.”
The Happiness Lottery
It is Christmas Eve in an affluent suburb of Detroit, located on a lake looking across to the Canadian shore. A horrific accident launches a series of events that generate the story in The Happiness Lottery. Anna Thiers' parents are killed instantly, and she will spend months recovering from her grave injuries – both to her body and her spirit. A compassionate psychologist, Peter Wheaton, guides her through the first weeks after she awakens from a coma, and becomes a steadfast friend throughout the book. He also takes on the job of counseling her troubled grandmother, Elizabeth Brady, who is appointed guardian of both Anna and her little brother, Toby. As Anna struggles to regain her health she is caught up in Elizabeth's neurotic behavior and her own fragile emotions. And Peter Wheaton becomes increasingly pessimistic about Elizabeth's ability to cope with her grandchildren as he uncovers more and more of her past. We also now learn of Peter's bouts of extreme depression, his own demons and the anguish he endures from extraordinary hallucinations. After an outburst of rage Anna banishes Elizabeth from the house for good -- an act that can't be undone and will determine the future for both of them. The Happiness Lottery is a collection of intertwined personal journeys: Anna's difficult path back to health after a devastating accident and her metamorphosis from a surly adolescent into a mature young woman; Elizabeth's passage from a horribly damaged early life to existence as a bitter older woman and beyond, to hope and peace; finally, Peter's brave struggle to overcome his own personal demons and a final confrontation with his destiny. Written with compassion and a deep perception of human relationships, The Happiness Lottery lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned.
Published: Dec. 21, 2011
ISBN: 13-9781468117271
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Kellogg Company on Track to Create Better Days for 3 billion People by End of 2030
Feeding hungry children. Protecting our planet. Promoting wellbeing. Driving equity. On their own, each of these actions can make someone’s day better. Put them together, and they can create real change. That’s why Kellogg is committed to helping 3 billion people have better days by the end of 2030.
“Kellogg knows we can make a difference for our employees, our communities and the world,” said Chairman and CEO, Steve Cahillane. “At the same time, we are battling the health and economic impact of COVID-19 and fighting the devastating daily effects of chronic hunger. As a company with heart and soul, we are committed to making a meaningful impact.”
To date, Kellogg and its charitable funds have now donated $18 million in food and funds to support ongoing global COVID-19 hunger relief efforts. In total, our contributions are aiding the following organizations around the world: The Global FoodBanking Network, supporting food banks across Asia, Europe and Latin America; European Food Banks Federation, supporting food banks across Europe; Feeding America, supporting 200 food bank locations across the United States and Food Banks Canada, supporting 500 food banks across Canada.
Fighting Racism
Kellogg stands in support of the black community and continues to take action to fight racism. The company does not tolerate discrimination, believes all individuals should be treated with respect, and urges employees to speak up when they see behaviors that don’t match the company’s values. Kellogg Company and the Kellogg Company Fund donated $1 million to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to aid the important work they are doing for racial justice. Kellogg is a long-standing partner and funder of NAACP. In addition to other contributions Kellogg has made to the organization, the company has sponsored and funded the NAACP Law Fellow Program since its inception in 2003.
Supporting the Environment
Throughout its business, Kellogg is supporting a more sustainable food system for the future. In 2019, the company reduced greenhouse gas emissions in its manufacturing sites by more than 20% - exceeding their 15% reduction goal one year ahead of schedule. In addition, the company progressed towards its commitment to responsibly source ingredients and have reached over 430,000 farmers and workers through sustainable agriculture programs. Maintaining one of the smallest plastic packaging footprints among peer food companies, Kellogg has achieved 76% packaging recyclability in 2019, continuing to create sustainable packaging for its foods globally.
Supporting Wellbeing
Kellogg views wellbeing holistically, recognizing the important role the company, its brands and its foods play in positively impacting wellbeing across physical, emotional and societal needs of people, communities and the planet. To support physical wellbeing, Kellogg makes foods that address nutrients of need and support a healthy gut microbiome. All Kellogg cereals now include at least one nutrient of need, whether that be fiber, protein or micronutrients. To drive emotional wellbeing, Kellogg’s foods delight the senses and bring people together to create positive connections, and Kellogg addresses the needs of society by supporting biodiversity and a more sustainable food supply that encourages a diverse plant-based diet.
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Back to "Survey of Rhode Island Law"
There are a variety of state and federal laws that protect some aspect of a citizen's right to privacy. Below are only a sampling of privacy laws.
Fourth Amendment:
The best-known right to privacy may be a person's Fourth Amendment right against "unreasonable search and seizure" guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (and Rhode Island Constitution).
The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect a person's "expectation" of privacy. Therefore, since we have a much greater expectation of privacy in our homes than in our vehicles, the courts have granted law enforcement officials greater latitude to search a vehicle.
Digital Data:
Rhode Island criminal law prohibits the "unauthorized" access or theft of a person's digital data, including data stored on a PC, email, or recorded data. Violations may be deemed a felony punishable by imprisonment of up to 5 years and a fine.
Disorderly Conduct:
The definition of this criminal offense includes a "peeping tom" provision for a person who, without consent, "looks for a lascivious purpose through a window, or any other opening into an area in which another would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, including, but not limited to, a restroom, locker room, shower, changing room, dressing room, bedroom, or any other such private area..."
Stalking:
It is a criminal offense in Rhode Island to engage in a "course of conduct" that "serves no legitimate purpose" and is designed to "seriously alarm, annoy, or bother" another person and place them in fear of serious bodily injury or cause "substantial emotional distress".
Identity Theft:
The Rhode Island "Impersonation and Identity Fraud Act" makes it a felony punishable by up to three years in prison to steal or impersonate the identity of another, by use of a false identity card or otherwise, for financial gain or other unlawful purpose.
However, specifically exempt from the Act are persons under the age of 21 who possess a false identity in order to purchase alcoholic beverages.
State & City Maintained Personal Information:
As of June 26, 2016, the Rhode Island Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015 requires the State of Rhode Island and every city, town or governmental agency to destroy or delete any personal information of residents that it no longer needs and to safeguard any such data by maintaining "reasonable security procedures".
"Personal Information" includes Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, health care information, account numbers, email addresses and passwords.
However, in spite of the strong wording of the Act, the fine for violations is limited to $100 per record for "reckless" violations and a maximum of $200 per record for "intentional" violations.
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Another volume of the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition is out!
Another volume of the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition (BMCE) with four cantatas on texts of Miloslav Bureš has been released. BMCE is a project realized in collaboration with the publishing house Bärenreiter, Bohuslav Martinů Institute and with the financial support of Bohuslav Martinů Foundation, The Czech Science Foundation and the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic. The new volume is edited by Vít Zouhar.
Bohuslav Martinů:
OPENING OF THE SPRINGS, H 354
THE LEGEND OF THE SMOKE FROM POTATO TIPS, H 360
A DANDELION ROMANCE, H 364
MIKESH FROM THE MOUNTAINS, H 375
The Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition VI/2, Vol. 3
Editor Vít Zouhar
BA 10575-01 cloth band score (25,5 x 32,5cm)
· First ever scholarly-critical edition
· Detailed preface and critical commentary by the editor (Eng/Cz)
· Facsimiles section presenting important sources
The four chamber cantatas on the texts of Miloslav Bureš originated in a period of intense creative activity in the years 1955–9. Bohuslav Martinů completed a number of important works at that time, including The Epic of Gilgamesh, H 351, and The Greek Passion, H 372 I and II. Although the four cantatas contained in this volume are thematically and linguistically connected to Czech culture, they greatly surpass the narrow boundaries of their regional context. The motives of homecoming and searching for one’s identity appear in the operas, cantatas, choral works and song cycles of Bohuslav Martinů from the outset of the 1930s. The methods of composition used in the cantatas also build on the folkloric bases mentioned by the composer from that time onward. The dramaturgy, subject matter, themes, and treatment correspond to his concept of modern musical theatre. Bureš’s loosely interwoven borrowings from Czech folklore and his stylisation with the archetypes of rituals and legends was undoubtedly one of the main reasons why Martinů was so strongly affected by the poet’s verses, why he kept coming back to them, and why he set them to music.
The critical edition eliminates numerous minor errors, inconsistencies, and solutions contained in previous editions (the addition of missing texts, vocals, dynamics, tempo changes, etc.) that were not based on the intentions of the composer. It reflects a number of documents that were considered lost or missing (textual sources, unknown correspondence of Bureš, etc.), and these newest discoveries help illuminate the creation, performances and contemporary context of the cantatas.
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James GesnerM.A.R.L.A Director
James became an Estate Agent in 1997 and has built a strong reputation within the industry. Having previously worked for corporate agents in High Wycombe, Reading and Didcot, James took over Lesters Estate Agents in Wallingford in 2001 and then opened an office in Didcot in 2007. With an excellent reputation and vast experience of selling and letting all types of properties across South Oxfordshire, James made the move to set up his own estate agency in 2015. James Gesner Estate Agents was born. James grew up in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, attending the village primary school and then Wallingford Secondary School. He bought his first house in Didcot back in 2000 and now lives in Wallingford with his wife and four children.
James loves a challenge and in 2019 he plans to raise further money for charity. In April he will be running his 4th London Marathon supporting Children with Cancer and in September he hosts the annual Footsteps Charity golf day at Hadden Hill Golf Club for the fifth year running. Since 2015 he has raised over £50,000 for various charities and he is now an Ambassador for the Footsteps Foundation. He continues to support them in as many ways as he can. In his spare time James enjoys a game of golf and is a long-standing member at Hadden Hill Golf Club in Didcot.
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Holly has worked with James as Property Manager for the last ten years. During this time she has undertaken extensive training to become fully qualified via A.R.L.A. On a day to day basis, Holly deals with everything landlord and tenant related. This includes drawing up Tenancy Agreements, organising maintenance, making sure our Landlords get paid on time and registering Tenants' deposits with the TDS scheme. Holly lives in Wallingford, having previously lived in Abingdon and North Oxford. When she’s not at work, Holly can be found walking her dog Cooper, and enjoying the odd glass of wine with her friends.
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Carl was born and raised in the village of Upton and now lives in Didcot on Great Western Park with his wife and step-daughter. He is a familiar face around the town, renowned for representing England over the last 18 years at Taekwon-Do and becoming European Champion in 2017 & 2019. He also runs a very successful Taekwon-Do & Kickboxing school in Wantage. Carl is extremely passionate about this martial art which has taught him determination, respect, courtesy and honesty. It is these traits which have made Carl an instant success during his five years in the industry. Carl’s favorite part of Estate Agency is meeting people, forming solid relationships and pushing a sale through to the very end.
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Gemma has worked in our lettings department since it began in 2005 and has an extensive knowledge of the legal aspects as well as an excellent rapport with our landlords and tenants. Like the rest of our staff, Gemma has lived in the local area all her life having grown up in Cholsey. Gemma and James now live in Wallingford and have four children, a cat and a dog. In her spare time, Gemma likes to cook, read, socialise with friends and spend time with her family.
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Charlotte, who has been with us for over 2 years now, has lived in Oxfordshire all her life and currently lives on the Ladygrove in Didcot. Charlotte is a valued member of staff and really loves her job and no two days are the same! Being the first port of call for many of our buyers and tenants, Charlotte is able to advise them on what properties are and match them to their requirements . When Charlotte is not in the office, she loves to walk her dog, Arthur, and socialise with friends.
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Land-dwelling friends of speared fish bemoan loss of giant bass
A poster on the wall of a La Jolla Shores dive shop shows pictures of many species a scuba diver is likely to encounter in the waters off La Jolla. In the middle, dwarfing the others, is a giant sea bass or black sea bass.
Swimmers, divers and other water recreationists are less likely to view this animal in La Jolla’s waters, however, after a 171-pound giant sea bass was speared in La Jolla’s marine park April 24.
Three men were stopped by San Diego lifeguards as they dragged the fish into their boat. One of the three, Omid Adhami, was arrested and was later released on bail. The City Attorney’s office said if found guilty, Adhami faces a possible sentence of six months in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Shooting a black sea bass anywhere off the coast of California is illegal. Adding to the severity of this crime, the fish was shot inside the borders of the marine park, a protected area in which no fishing of any kind is allowed.
Lifeguard Lt. Rick Wurtz said all boaters should be aware of the ecological reserve’s boundaries.
“The area is clearly marked with those very large, yellow ecological reserve buoys,” said Wurtz. “These guys came out via boat. ... People who operate and work on boats use navigation charts and that area, for any navigation chart that exists anywhere that deals directly with La Jolla, the game reserve is clearly posted.”
This particular bass was apparently well-known by the community’s divers and swimmers, many of whom are disgusted and angry at the shooting of a rare and docile fish.
“I was sick,” said Mary Lynne Price, a La Jolla diver and underwater videographer, “just sick and outraged.”
Price’s sentiments were echoed throughout the community’s population of scuba divers, free divers and swimmers. Mixed in with the anger, however, there was also frustration and disappointment.
“You shake your head,” said Eddie Kisfaludy, a research technician at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who dives in La Jolla every day. “You look down and you think, ‘How can someone go into a protected area and spear a protected fish with what is considered a fair amount of information?’ We have signs and buoys saying that this is a protected area, and we want to preserve the resources so that everybody can enjoy them.”
Warden Eric Fleet of the California Department of Fish and Game speculated that Adhami and his friends were poachers out to bag themselves a trophy catch. He said that any spear-fisherman with even basic knowledge should know is is an endangered species. Fleet dismissed Adhami’s excuse at the time that he panicked and shot the fish in self-defense.
“Anybody who has dove any length of time, has any experience in diving, there are certain types of fish that are just not threatening. ...” said Fleet. “It’s not a threatening fish, in any way, shape or form.”
Kisfaludy used an analogy to put the shooting in context.
“If I’m walking along on a prairie somewhere,” he said, “and all I have around me are little squirrels and little gophers and things like that, and all of a sudden I stumble upon a cow. You know, it’s something big. It’s a large animal, but it’s a very slow mover. It doesn’t have horns. It’s not a bull, it’s a cow.”
Kathryn Lange, a prosecutor with the City Attorney’s office, said Adhami could possibly face incarceration if convicted. She said many factors will be taken into account in the case, such as the diver’s experience and criminal history. In addition to fines and a possible six months in prison, a judge could levy other crime-specific punishments.
“Maybe we will ask that he forfeit his dive gear,” she said. “Maybe we will ask that he not be permitted back into the ecological reserve. There are all kinds of things.”
According to Kisfaludy, black sea bass have declined in numbers seriously since the turn of the century. He said commercial landings of the fish peaked in 1932 and the fish became protected in 1981. Since then, he said their numbers have seen a slight upturn, but they remain a rare and endangered species. Kisfaludy said that judging by the size and weight of the fish, it was probably about 15 years old.
Fleet said if Adhami is found guilty, he hopes they make an example of him. He had a message for would-be poachers thinking of coming to La Jolla.
“You’re going to get caught,” said Fleet. “We’re watching you. ... There’s always going to be somebody looking. And if you think you’re set being three miles off the coastline, you’re not set there either, because you don’t know when or where we’re going to be.”
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Stephen Reynolds Loose Leaf for Exploring Physical Geography https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/126015193X.jpeg 2 February 3, 2017 9781260151930 Stephen Reynolds, author of the highly successful Exploring Geology, brings his ground-breaking, visually spectacular approach to Exploring Physical Geography. Intended for an introductory geography course, such as Physical Geography, Reynolds Exploring Physical Geography promotes inquiry and science as an active process. It encourages student curiosity and aims to activate existing student knowledge by posing the title of every two-page spread and every subsection as a question. In addition, questions are dispersed throughout the book. Integrated into the book are opportunities for students to observe patterns, features, and examples before the underlying concepts are explained. That is, we employ a learning-cycle approach where student exploration precedes the introduction of geographic terms and the application of knowledge to a new situation. Exploring Physical Geography introduces terms after students have an opportunity to observe the feature or concept that is being named. This approach is consistent with several educational philosophies, including a learning cycle and just-in-time teaching. Research on learning cycles shows that students are more likely to retain a term if they already have a mental image of the thing being named (Lawson, 2003). Also, the figure-based approach in this book allows terms to be introduced in their context rather than as a definition that is detached from a visual representation of the term. We introduce new terms in italics rather than in boldface, because boldfaced terms on a textbook page cause students to immediately focus mostly on the terms, rather than build an understanding of the concepts. Featuring more than 2,500 photographs and illustration, Exploring Physical Geography engages students with strong visuals, unique two-page spreads, and Before You Leave This Page objectives.
Loose Leaf for Exploring Physical Geography
By Stephen Reynolds
ISBN10: 126015193X
Stephen Reynolds
Stephen J. Reynolds received a B.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in geosciences from the University of Arizona. Dr. Reynolds is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, where he has taught regional geology, earth resources, evolution of landscapes, field studies, and teaching methods. He has directed the geologic framework and mapping program of the Arizona Geological Survey, completing a new Geologic Map of Arizona. As a National Association of Geoscience Teachers distinguished speaker, he has traveled across the country presenting talks and workshops on how to infuse active learning and inquiry into large introductory geology classes. He is a commonly invited speaker to national workshops and symposia on active learning, visualization, and teaching. Dr. Reynolds is the author of the highly successful Exploring Geology.
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Having worked on both amateur and professional theatres from a young age, Jeanette trained at the Huddersfield University, gaining her drama degree.
Jeanette has gained a wealth of knowledge over the years working on the stage and in front of the camera. She has developed her varied skills, including character development, stagecraft, improvisation, mime, Shakespeare, and much more, so Jeanette is excited to be sharing her love and passion for everything drama and theatrical with the students.
Before studying at Huddersfield, Jeanette trained at Merseyside Dance & Drama in Liverpool and eventually taught there after graduating (where one of her pupils was a young man by the name of Ray Quinn.)
And if that isn’t enough, Jeanette is also Lumieres’ Paediatric First Aider and Lamda Exam Co-ordinator, putting students through their LAMDA examinations, with 100% success.
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Eleanor has a degree in Musical Theatre from Buckinghamshire New University and has been a vocal coach for the last five years. She has successfully coached choirs and ensembles for a variety of ages and abilities and still finds time to perform herself, appearing in productions at the Salford Arts Theatre All.
Eleanor has arranged and led vocal workshops across numerous venues and is skilled in teaching/coaching CCM and musical theatre styles.
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For three years, Catherine was Dance Captain at the University of York and was also the Leader of the Advanced Jazz Team, choreographing the team and preparing them to take part in competitions in which they came first in every event.
In 2012, she was one of the few selected dancers from the northern heats to attend the Janet Cram Awards as a finalist and in which she was awarded the class prize.
In 2015, Catherine was selected to represent England in the Dance World Cup Championships in Romania for both solo and team events. In the solo section, she was ranked 7th internationally and in the team section she was ranked 4th.
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NSW Supreme Court orders sub-group representatives to be appointed in floods class action
King & Wood Mallesons
In November 2015, the Queensland floods class action was listed for an interlocutory hearing to settle the common questions and the proposed opt out notice. Justice Beech-Jones directed the plaintiff to identify sample group members representing the various categories of loss identified in the definition of the class. His Honour also accepted that separate opt out notices were required for insured and uninsured group members.
The decision continues the trend in natural disaster class action litigation towards determining claims of multiple group members at the first substantive hearing of the proceedings,[1] and indicates the complexities that can be involved in considering questions of duty, breach and causation in large scale negligence class actions. As a result of these decisions, representative plaintiffs in analogous proceedings may need to undertake a more detailed interrogation of the group members’ claims at an early stage, and will need to carefully consider whether there is a need for sub-groups prior to initiating proceedings.
Categories of loss sought to be recovered in the proceedings
The definition of the group includes claimants that suffered four types of loss:
damage to real property,[2] (including economic loss consequential upon damage to property);[3]
interference with the use or enjoyment of an interest in land as a result of flooding;[4]
damage to personal property;[5] and
pure economic loss.[6]
Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd (Rodriguez), the representative plaintiff, claims to have suffered “damage to fixtures and fittings, loss of sales and profits, repair and restoration costs as well as hiring and storage costs”.[7] That is, it alleges that it has suffered property damage and economic loss consequential on such damage.[8] Therefore, the resolution of Rodriguez’s claim will not resolve group members’ claims for pure economic loss.
The necessity of evidence addressing all the forms of harm allegedly suffered
The defendants argued that in addressing the forms of harm, other than those in fact suffered or claimed to be suffered by Rodriguez, then the court will be addressing questions that are purely hypothetical.[9]
Seqwater submitted that it was appropriate to identify sub-group members to represent the different categories of loss and different geographical locations.[10] This issue was also addressed in Matthews v SPI Electricity Pty Ltd & Ors (Ruling No 5) [2012] VSC 66 where Forrest J held:
‘… a trial focusing solely on the representative plaintiff’s claim may not cover the claims of all group members…. a practice has developed to permit other group members to give evidence at trial as to relevant facts concerning his or her claim. This evidence then enables the court to make findings and give judgment in relation to those other claims, which enables binding determinations to be made in respect of most, if not all, group members.[11]
Matthews recognised that different considerations in relation to questions of duty, breach and causation can arise depending on the group member’s location and type of loss allegedly suffered.[12] Justice Beech-Jones accepted that the same considerations may apply in this case[13] and ordered that the plaintiff nominate sample group members who had only suffered:
damage to personal property; and
pure economic loss.
Justice Beech-Jones accepted that the area downstream of Wivenhoe Dam could be divided into four geographic areas whose characteristics were likely to be relevant in any determination of the existence of a duty of care. As a result, group members were required to be nominated from the following areas:
the Brisbane River:
downstream of Moggill, which is the first point at which the Brisbane River and all of its main tributaries converge (to be represented by Rodriguez); and
north of Moggill.[14]
the Lockyer Creek and Bremer River upstream of where they each meet the Brisbane River. These locations were considered to be separate as whereas water releases from Wivenhoe Dam could physically contribute to the flooding which occurred in the locations specified in (a) above, the Wivenhoe Dam releases could only contribute to the Lockyer Creek or Bremer River backing up.[15] Justice Beech-Jones accepted that the foreseeability of harm may be different in relation to group members likely to be flooded by the Brisbane River, versus the two main tributaries that flow into the Brisbane River.[16]
Justice Beech-Jones indicated that he would determine whether there should be sub-groups or sample group members (the process adopted in Matthews) after the group members had been identified and the nature of their claims was known.[17] Sample group members, unlike sub-group members appointed under section 168 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), are not liable for costs. It will be interesting to see how the plaintiff approaches the issue of incorporating other group members’ claims into the proceedings (for example, by way of an amendment to the pleading or separate points of claim).
Remedying Rodriguez No 3: all group members must have a claim against a defendant
As discussed in our previous article, in July 2015 Justice Beech-Jones rejected Seqwater’s objection to leave to amend the statement of claim being granted on the basis that the group included a large number of persons who were potentially not affected by the defendants’ alleged negligence. This decision was premised on his Honour’s finding that such an approach would require potential group members to ‘conduct their own causal inquiry into the flooding on their land before making a decision to opt in or out.’[18]
Seqwater submitted that there are a number of decisions which confirm that it “must be apparent from the pleading that every member of the group has, or at least properly asserts, a “claim”” against a defendant.[19]
The plaintiff was granted leave to amend the pleading to clarify that it is alleged that the defendants’ conduct caused loss or damage to the plaintiff, and Group Members, from the flooding, or greater flooding alleged to have resulted from the operation of Somerset Dam and Wivenhoe Dam.[20] This amendment cures the discrepancy between the definition of the group members and the causation case.
Opt out notices
As a result of the decision in Johnston v Endeavour Energy,[21] Justice Beech-Jones held that there should be different opt out notices issued to insured group members and uninsured group members.[22] As indicated in our previous article, Endeavour Energy highlights the potential for conflicts or issues to arise between insurers who sign up to participate in class actions and their insureds, who may have no knowledge of their involvement in the proceedings or their ability (if any) to pursue their uninsured losses outside of the proceedings. The recognition of the potentially different positions of individuals who directly sign up to participate in the proceedings, and individuals who are only group members due to the acts of their insurer, is welcomed.
The matter is next listed for directions on 12 February 2016. The hearing of the plaintiff’s claim is likely to be some time in 2017.
Note: Kione Johnson and Justin McDonnell are acting for Seqwater in relation to the class action.
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Documents 1620-1799
Mayflower Compact: Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth, 1620. An agreement drawn up by the Plymouth colonists in which the signers agreed to pledge allegiance to the King of England, govern the settlement by majority rule, allow every freeman the equal right of participation in the colony's government, and elect a governor annually.
Charter of New England, 1620.
Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates, 1629.
Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629.
Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1692.
Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty, 1635.
Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freeman, 1640.
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641. "Perhaps no other writing from the Puritan Era had so far-reaching an effect as this document, which laid the foundations of Massachusetts liberties, for which New Englishmen fought against the Empire in the 1680's and during the American Revolution, and which became a pattern of the United States Constitution. It is remarkable as a code of law, in that it lays out a structure of jurisprudence in terms of liberties rather than restrictions. In this it echoes the Magna Charta, and foreshadows our Bill of Rights. Drawing upon the Magna Charta and English Common Law, it was largely the work of one man, the remarkable Puritan thinker and writer, Nathaniel Ward."
The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusets (Selections), 1648. This is not the whole book, but does contain most topics of general interest, such as capital crimes, laws concerning strangers, Anabaptists and Jesuits and more.
Penalty for Keeping Christmas, 1659. Law that banned the celebration of Christmas.
Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England, 1688.
Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1691. This charter expanded the original colony of Massachusetts Bay and provided for the Governor's appointment by the Crown rather than election, and at the same time broadened the Governor's powers.
Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1725.
Historical Codes 1836-1932
Revised Statutes (1836)
General Statutes (1860)
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Revised Laws (1902)
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General Laws (1921) Index
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To insure the right team and the right approach for every client’s project, MBA Team searches the globe for the best talent in our field. In addition to our regular staff, we also keep on hand a supplemental stable of freelancers who are brought in when their unique skill sets are called for.
James P. Kennedy
Founder and President of MBA Team, Inc.
James Kennedy is founder and president of MBA Team, Inc., where he has served as the visionary behind the company’s marketing strategy and value building methodology.
Actively involved with clients, Kennedy has planned and executed successful marketing campaigns for numerous corporate and institutional clients. Before founding MBA Team, Inc., Kennedy established his reputation as a marketing and sales expert in both high tech and management consulting environments. James is also the Founder of My Town Sports, Inc. a local sporting goods retail store in Littleton, Massachusetts.
Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of the Bentley College Graduate School of Business and U-Mass Lowell. Early in his career James served as a public official as a member of the Lowell School Committee. Lowell is the fourth largest city in Massachusetts and one of the most culturally diverse communities with a large and rapidly growing Asian population. James’ is an educator at heart and while on the Lowell School Committee supported cultural diversity and bilingual education.
Today James is a volunteer coach and Director of a Youth program in Littleton Massachusetts and he also serves on the Littleton Health and Wellness Committee. He continues his work with educators and non-profits though MBA Team, Inc.
Joseph studied art at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He began his career as a print designer in 1988 and in 2005 founded Leonardo Design, LLC. Joseph is known for his ability to translate business objectives into compelling design and creative executions. His clean aesthetic has attracted a dedicated following of Healthcare-oriented clients, as well as those in Financial and Food-related industries. Repeat clients include St. Joseph Healthcare Services of Rhode Island, Cape Cod Healthcare, JSA Medical Group, Sheldon May Law, Alexander Alternative Capital, Fonterra Brands of New Zealand, and Frozen Specialties.
Lead Programmer and Director of Development
Devon Irish is the Lead Programmer and Director responsible for Website development and programming. His most recent web development projects include development for Spotlight Korea, Buffalo Lodging and Clear Point Consultants.
He has made a name for himself at MBA Team demonstrating his expertise in HTML5, CSS and industry standard coding. His commitment to writing clean code and attention to detail allows him to create high quality web designs that are scalable and fully accessible based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and federal government standards.
Prior to MBA Team, Inc., Mr. Irish designed magazine advertisements and CD covers for a Boston based music management company. His experience also includes employment for one of the world’s largest copying and printing corporations.
Mr. Irish attended the University of Maine where he studied graphic design and HTML programming.
Mr. Fenner, is focused on the technical aspects of projects at MBA Team, including software, hardware, and security.
Mr. Fenner’s background as an entrepreneur in the technical field ranges from successful startups, such as HotChalk and ProductFactory, to charitable organizations such as MySafeKids.org. He has a broad skill set, spanning from high-level architectural design down to low-level coding, across a wide variety of hardware platforms and software technologies.
Mr. Fenner has a long history of technical consulting, with previous clients including Sabre Technologies, Agile Corporation, American Airlines, Motel 6, and Bank of America. He graduated from University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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Last evening, the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee (MCRCC) elected Joel Keralis and Matthew Johnson to serve as party central committee members representing Maryland’s Legislative District 20 (Silver Spring).
Following their unanimous election, MCRCC Chairman Alexander Bush welcomed them, “I am excited to have two talented and enthusiastic new members to add to the Committee. District 20 now has by far our youngest contingent, and I look forward to the innovation and energy that Joel and Matthew bring.” Joel Keralis is a Legislative Assistant in the US House of Representatives working for a senior Republican member of the powerful tax writing House Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Keralis previously interned for the House Small Business Committee as well as in the US Senate and at the US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Mr. Keralis is a graduate of Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs with a Master of Global Policy Studies as well as a Master of Arts in Asian Studies from the College of Liberal Arts, both from the University of Texas in Austin, and has a BS in Entomology from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Matthew Johnson will be starting as freshman at the University of Maryland in the fall studying Finance. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Gonzaga College High School. He served as a page in the United State Senate, has been active in Republican campaigns as well as served as an intern for Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan.
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Controversial $1-billion Hollywood high-rise project relaunched by developer
Developer Millennium Partners has proposed a $1-billion residential and retail complex near the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood called Hollywood Center. The proposal replaces an earlier proposed project called Millennium Hollywood that was rejected by a judge in 2015.
(Handel Architects)
By Roger VincentStaff Writer
The developer of a stalled $1-billion real estate project near the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood will try again with a new proposal that prioritizes housing over commercial uses.
Millennium Partners said it will file plans with the city Thursday for what it is now calling Hollywood Center, a high-rise complex with double the number of apartments and condominiums above shops, restaurants and courtyards.
The Hollywood Center proposal replaces an earlier proposal dubbed Millennium Hollywood that was halted in 2015 by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, who ruled that the environmental impact report failed to fully assess the project’s impact on surrounding neighborhoods.
The proposal also came under fire when state geologists in 2014 identified an earthquake fault running under part of the 4.5-acre property that spreads across both sides of Vine Street between Hollywood Boulevard and Yucca Street on what are now mostly parking lots.
City safety officials, however, agreed with the developer that there was no active fault under the site and the new proposal does not change the footprint of the project.
“We feel that the site has been exhaustively studied,” said Mario Palumbo, managing partner of project developer MP Los Angeles, the local operations of Millennium Partners, a prominent New York builder of urban luxury housing.
The latest proposal, which must undergo its own environmental review, calls for two mid-rise buildings of 11 stories each and skyscrapers of 35 and 46 stories.
Dropped from the previous proposal were a gym and 100,000 square feet of offices for rent. Such commercial uses tend to generate more car traffic than housing does, and concerns that traffic studies were inadequate helped doom the earlier proposal.
At street level, Hollywood Center would have 30,000 square feet of shops and restaurants — about the size of a small neighborhood shopping center.
An evening view of the proposed $1-billion residential and retail complex called Hollywood Center.
(Handel Architects )
The new plan raises the proposed number of residential units to 1,005 from 492 and includes 133 units subsidized for extremely-low and very-low-income seniors in the 11-story towers.
“More people are coming to Hollywood than there is housing for them. Our goal is a mixed-income community,” Palumbo said.
An alternate plan for Hollywood Center includes a 220-room hotel. If Millennium Partners pursues that option, he said, it would reduce the number of housing units, largely at market rate, by 121.
The design calls for a subterranean parking garage with room for 1,511 vehicles instead of putting parking above ground at the base of the towers as previously envisioned. That will help lower the maximum height of both towers from 585 feet in the earlier proposal to 545 feet and 429 feet.
The new design by Handel Architects also calls for stations to serve ride-hailing services such as Uber and self-driving cars expected to ferry passengers there in the future.
“This project will generate significantly less traffic,” said Palumbo, who estimated that daily car trips would drop more than a third to 6,455 from 9,992 in the old proposal.
The amount of traffic caused by the original project generated community opposition in part because the neighborhood has already experienced billions of dollars’ worth of commercial and residential development since the Hollywood & Highland shopping and entertainment center was completed in 2001.
Among the recent major projects are the Columbia Square office, residential and retail complex at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street and a 14-story office tower occupied by Netflix at Sunset Bronson Studios.
An 18-story luxury apartment tower just east of the Capitol Records Tower being built by another developer is nearly complete.
Seismic concerns also were an issue with opponents.
The developers and city officials have disagreed with the California Geological Survey over whether an active fault exists under the site.
The Times reported in 2015 that Millennium’s geotechnical consultant concluded an earthquake fault was probably located deep beneath the property, roughly following the path shown on the state’s earthquake fault map. But Millennium’s consultant said the fault was estimated to be at least 150,000 years old — too old to be considered active under state law.
City officials agreed with Millennium’s conclusion, but state officials have disagreed. And state geologist John Parrish said in a statement Wednesday that the state’s Seismic Hazards team has not changed its conclusion.
According to the California Geological Survey, there have been a number of cases in recorded history in which faults that hadn’t moved in 20,000 or 30,000 years suddenly woke up and triggered a new earthquake.
Palumbo said safety is a “top concern” with the developer, and he disagreed that the property was a seismic risk.
“The city is the final arbiter,” Palumbo said, noting that the Department of Building and Safety “has concurred with us there are no active faults on this site.”
It remains to be seen how the revised project with its additional and low-income housing will go over with nearby residents and those who were dead set against the original proposal.
In 2016, city voters passed Measure JJJ, which requires developers of certain projects needing zone changes to include affordable housing and pay construction workers prevailing wages. And last year, the city enacted a related Transit Oriented Communities incentive program that encourages developers to build taller, denser projects near transit stops — if the developer includes affordable housing.
Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, said that although some Angelenos object to residential skyscrapers that could block their views or add to car traffic, dense housing represents good planning if it is near transit stops such as the Metro rail station at Hollywood & Vine close to Hollywood Center.
“People in L.A. still hate high-rises because they still view the character of L.A. as made up of single-family homes,” Green said. “But it’s pointless to build all this transit unless you also allow density around it. We should be doing this sort of thing.”
A bicyclist rides in Hollywood with the Capitol Records building in the background near where the Hollywood Center project is proposed.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times )
Hollywood Center takes steps to project a less urban feel. It includes an acre of public open space that will be designed by the landscape architect responsible for New York’s popular High Line park and Tongva Park in Santa Monica.
The firm, James Corner Field Operations, would create two landscaped plazas and walkways intended to serve as a gathering place for residents, neighbors and visitors to Hollywood.
Palumbo envisions “a series of gardens that flow one into another,” adding that it would also serve as a “proper terminus at the end of the Walk of Fame that is active and desirable.”
Millennium would put on public programs such as concerts, art shows and community events.
The developer hopes to secure approvals to build Hollywood Center by the end of next year, Palumbo said. After environmental review, the construction could begin by 2021 and be complete about six years later.
The project would generate 4,670 construction jobs on the site and support an additional 1,230 full-time and part-time jobs in operation, Millennium said.
Times staff writer Ron Lin contributed to this report.
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Zohar Goshen
Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law
Director, Center for Israeli Legal Studies
S.J.D., Yale Law School, 1991
LL.M., Yale Law School, 1990
LL.B., Hebrew University, 1987
Zohar Goshen teaches and writes about corporate law and governance, securities regulation, and corporate finance.
His articles on corporate law and securities regulation are frequently named among the Top Ten Best Articles of the year by Corporate Practice Commentator, most recently in 2019 for “The Death of Corporate Law” (NYU Law review), Co-authored with Sharon Hannes; in 2017 for “Principal Costs: A New Theory for Corporate Law and Governance” (Columbia Law Review), co-authored with Richard Squire; and in 2016 for “Corporate Control and Idiosyncratic Vision” (Yale Law Journal), co-authored with Assaf Hamdani.
Goshen was awarded the Willis L.M. Reese Teaching Prize in 2019 and 2006. He is only the third repeat winner of the award, which is given annually by the graduating class.
Goshen brings his practical experience in securities regulation to his scholarship and teaching. From 2008 to 2011 he served as the chairman of the Israel Securities Authority (Israel’s Security and Exchange Commission). In this role, and alongside managing the response to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, he implemented major corporate governance reforms in the Israeli Corporate Law, established a specialized court for corporate law and securities regulations, and added administrative authority to the agency.
Goshen serves on the steering committee for the New Special Study of the Securities Markets, and he is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Meir Shamgar of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Goshen is the director of the Center for Israeli Legal Studies, which hosts visiting Israeli faculty and scholars throughout the year, and has extensive connections in the Israeli legal academy, business community, and bar. The center sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences.
“The Death of Corporate Law” (with Sharon Hannes), NYU Law Review
“Principal Costs: A New Theory For Corporate Law And Governance” (with Richard Squire), Columbia Law Review
“Corporate Control and Idiosyncratic Vision” (with Assaf Hamdani), Yale Law Journal
“Shareholder Dividend Options” Yale Law Journal
“The Essential Role of Securities Regulation” (with Gideon Parchomovsky), Duke Law Journal
“The Efficiency of Controlling Corporate Self-Dealing: Theory Meets Reality” California Law Review
“On Insider Trading, Markets, and 'Negative' Property Rights in Information” (with Gideon Parchomovsky), Virginia Law Review
“Controlling Strategic Voting: Property Rule or Liability Rule?” Southern California Law Review
Willis L.M. Reese Teaching Prize
“I love taking a complex topic and explaining it in a simple way. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing the ‘Aha!’ moment in the students’ eyes.”
Class of 2019 Awards Zohar Goshen the Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Fox, Goshen, and Talley Honored for the Year’s Best Corporate and Securities Law Articles
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Fred Morrison
Popham, Haik, Schnobrich/Lindquist & Vennum Professor of Law
University of Kansas, A.B.
Oxford University, B.A., M.A.
Princeton University, M.A., Ph.D.
University of Chicago, J.D.
E: morrison@umn.edu
Professor Fred L. Morrison is a recognized scholar of international law and comparative public law. He teaches constitutional law, international law, local government, and comparative public law. Professor Morrison was the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law from 1990 to 1998 and was named the Popham Haik Schnobrich/Lindquist & Vennum Professor of Law in 1998. He served as Interim Dean in 1994-1995 and as Interim Co-Dean in 2006-2008.
He has been both a Rhodes Scholar and a Fulbright Professor. He taught at the University of Iowa College of Law before joining the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 1969.
Professor Morrison also has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn and at the University of Kiel in Germany and at Tsinghua University in China. He has served as the Counselor on International Law for the U.S. Department of State and as counsel for the United States before the International Court of Justice and in the Iran United States Claims Tribunal. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of International Law of the U.S. Department of State and is a member of the Board of Curators of the Max Planck Institute on Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, the International Advisory Board of the Walther Schücking Institute of International Law at the Christian Albrechts Universitat, Kiel, Germany. and is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Ritsumeikan Law Faculty in Kyoto, Japan and of the International Advisory Committee of Frontiers of Law in China. He is a Director of the American Society for the Comparative Study of Law. Professor Morrison is also a member of the American Law Institute and the American Society of International Law. In May of 1997, Professor Morrison was honored with the University President’s Award for Outstanding Service.
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Fiscal Rules: Limits on Governmental Deficits and Debt (Springer, 2016) (editor)
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International, Regional, and National Environmental Law (Kluwer Law International, 2000) (co-editor) Rüdiger Wolfrum
Courts and the Political Process in England (Sage Publications, 1973)
Recognition, the Advisory Opinion, and the Future of Kosovo, 74 University Of Pittsburgh Law Review 598 (2013)
HeinOnline: UMN, Others | Westlaw
The Protection of Foreign Investment in The United States of America, 58 (Supplement) American Journal of Comparative Law 437 (2010), revised version published in The Legal Protection of Foreign Investment: A Comparative Study 699 (Wenhua Shan, ed., Hart Publishing, 2012)
German Scholars in the Invisible College of International Lawyers, 50 German Yearbook of International Law 445 (2007)
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Characteristics of International Administration in Crisis Areas: A View from the United States of America, 54 (Supp) American Journal of Comparative Law 443 (2006)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sovereignty and International Protection, 80 Chicago-Kent Law Review 31 (2005)
HeinOnline: UMN, Others | Open Access | Westlaw
Public International Law: An Anchor in Shifting Sands, 22 Law and Inequality 337 (2004)
The Insolvency of Public Entities in the United States, 50 (Supp) American Journal of Comparative Law 567 (2002)
Sex, Lies, and Taxes: The American Law of the Internet, 41 German Yearbook of International Law 84 (1999)
The Liability of Governments for Legislative Acts in the United States of America, 46 (Supp) American Journal of Comparative Law 531 (1998)
Tenure Wars: An Account of the Controversy at Minnesota, 47 Journal of Legal Education 369 (1997)
The Constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 13 Constitutional Commentary 145 (1996)
The Significance of Nuremberg for Modern International Law, 149 Military Law Review 207 (1995)
An Introduction to the Minnesota Constitution, 20 William Mitchell Law Review 287 (1994)
Constitutional Mergers and Acquisitions: The Federal Republic of Germany, 8 Constitutional Commentary 65 (1991)
HeinOnline: UMN, Others | Open Access
The Future of International Adjudication, 75 Minnesota Law Review 827 (1991)
Legal Issues in the Nicaragua Opinion, 81 American Journal of International Law 160 (1987)
Conflicts of Jurisdiction, 29 German Yearbook of International Law 417 (1986)
Reconsidering United States Acceptance of the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, 148 World Affairs 63 (1985)
General Competence of the Municipality, 30 (Supp) American Journal of Comparative Law 459 (1982)
Right to Fish for Seacoast Products: Gibbons v. Ogden Resurrected, 1977 Supreme Court Review 239 (1977)
Limitations on Alien Investment in American Real Estate, 60 Minnesota Law Review 621 (1976)
State Corporate Farm Legislation, 7 University of Toledo Law Review 961 (1976)
Recognition in International Law: A Functional Reappraisal, 34 University of Chicago Law Review 857 (1967) (note)
The Importance of Generality in Law-Making International Agreements, in Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity: Liber Amicorum Rudiger Wolfrum 1497 (Holger Hestermeyer et al., eds., Martinus Nijhoff, 2012)
The Reluctance of the United States to Ratify Treaties, in Law of the Sea in Dialogue 73 (Holger Hestermeyer et al., eds., Springer, 2011)
Gustav III and The Masked Ball: Different Approaches to Freedom of Expression, in Uppsala-Minnesota Colloquium: Law, Culture and Values 129 (Mattias Dahlberg, ed., Iustus, 2009)
The World’s Most Complex Constitution: The Interim Constitutional Framework of the Sudan, in The Law of International Relations: Liber Amicorum Hanspeter Neuhold 229 (August Reinisch & Ursula Kriebaum, eds., Eleven International Pub., 2007)
No Left Turn: Two Approaches to International Law, in Weltinnenrecht: Liber Amicorum Jost Delbrück 461 (Klaus Dicke, ed., Duncker & Humblot, 2005)
Aliens and Citizens in the United States, in Die allgemeinen Regeln des völkerrechtlichen Fremdentechts: Bilanz und Ausblick an der Jahrtausendwende; Beiträge anläßlich des Kolloquiums zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Karl Doehring aus Anlaß seines 80. Geburtstages am 17. März 1999 in Konstanz 77 (Kay Hailbronner, ed., C.F. Müller, 2000)
The Role of Regional Organizations, in Allocation of Law Enforcement Authority in the International System: Proceedings of an International Symposium of the Kiel Institute of International Law, March 23 to 25, 1994 (Jost Delbrück & Urlsala E. Heinz, eds., Duncker & Humblot, 1995)
The Impact of Federalism on the Implementation of International Trade Obligations, in National Constitutions and International Economic Law (Meinhard Hilf & Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, eds., Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1993) Rüdiger Wolfrum
The Role of Judicial Review in Preserving Liberal Foreign Trade Policies, in National Constitutions and International Economic Law (Meinhard Hilf & Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, eds., Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1993) Robert Hudec
The Evolution of Civil Rights Legislation into Practice, in German and American Constitutional Thought: Contexts, Interaction, and Historical Realities (Herman Wellenreuther, ed., St. Martin’s Press, 1990)
The Choice of Civil or Criminal Sanctions, in Des Menschen Recht zwischen Freiheit und Verantwortung: Festschrift für Karl Josef Partsch zum 75. Geburtstag (Jürgen Jekewitz et al., eds., Duncker & Humblot, 1989)
Treaties as a Source of Jurisdiction, Especially in U.S. Practice, in The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads (Lori F. Damrosch, ed., Transnational Pub., 1987)
Potential Revisions to the Acceptance of the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice by the United States of America, in The United States and the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (Anthony C. Arend, ed., University Press of America, 1986)
Restriction on Corporate and Alien Ownership and Operation of Farms, in Agricultural Law (John H. Davidson, ed., Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill, 1981)
The Swiss Federal Court: Judicial Decision Making and Recruitment, in Frontiers of Judicial Research (Joel B. Grossman, Edward N. Muller & Joseph Tanenhaus, eds., Wiley, 1969)
Sudan: Draft Constitutional Framework for the Interim Period (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, 2005) Rüdiger Wolfrum & Thomas A. Mensah
Legal Regulation of Alien Land Ownership in the United States, in Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Report of the Secretary of Commerce to the Congress in Compliance with the Foreign Investment Study Act of 1974, Public Law 93-479, Appendix M (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1976)
State and Federal Legal Regulation of Alien and Corporate Land Ownership and Farm Operations (Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1976) (Agricultural Economic Report no. 284) Kenneth Krause
Book Review, American Oxonian (1999) (reviewing Dennis J. Hutchinson, The Man Who Was Whizzer White: A Portrait of Justice Byron R. White (Free Press, 1998))
Book Review, 91 American Journal of International Law 396 (1997) (reviewing Michla Pomerance, The United States and the World Court as a “Supreme Court of the Nations”: Dreams, Illusions and Disillusion (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996))
Book Review, 31 German Yearbook of International Law 695 (1988) (reviewing Winfried Brugger, Grundrechte und Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (J.C.B. Mohr, 1987) and Francis Howard Heller, USA, Verfassung und Politik (Böhlau, 1987))
Book Review, 4 Constitutional Commentary 479 (1987) (reviewing Walter F. Murphy, James E. Fleming & William F. Harris, II, American Constitutional Interpretation (Foundation Press, 1986))
Book Review 9 Hofstra Law Review 725 (1981) (reviewing Myres Smith McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell & Lung-chu Chen, Human Rights and World Public Order: The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity (Yale University Press, 1980))
In Search of a Villain, 35 University of Chicago Law Review 577 (1968) (reviewing W. Barton Leach, Property Law Indicted (University of Kansas Press, 1967))
Entries in Reference Works
Condominium and Coimperium, in 2 Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law 598 (Rudiger Wolfrum, ed., Oxford University Press, 2012)
Confederations of States, in 2 Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law 601 (Rudiger Wolfrum, ed., Oxford University Press, 2012)
Executive Agreements, in 3 Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law 1052 (Rudiger Wolfrum, ed., Oxford University Press, 2012)
Great Lakes, North America, in 4 Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law 579 (Rudiger Wolfrum, ed., Oxford University Press, 2012)
Editorials, Commentary & Letters
Mr. President: Two Years Is Too Little for Law School, Minnesota Lawyer, Sept. 16, 2013 David Wippman
CLE Materials
War Crimes (University of Minnesota Law School, 2005)
Minnesota Constitutional Law (University of Minnesota Law School, 1992)
Introduction to International Law (University of Minnesota Law School, 1991)
Marshaling Evidence in Foreign Countries, in Global Merchandising (Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 1991)
Protection of Foreign Investment under International Law, in Global Markets (Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 1991)
Suing the City: Liability of the State and City Under Federal and State Law (University of Minnesota Law School, 1990)
International Litigation (University of Minnesota Law School, 1989)
Constitutional Law (Law School, University of Minnesota, 1981)
Liability of Municipalities and Other Public Agencies in Minnesota (Law School, University of Minnesota, 1980)
50 Years of Minnesota Law, Hennepin Lawyer 10 (Nov./Dec. 2019)
Robert Hudec: Scholar, Internationalist, Mentor, Teacher, and Friend, 13 Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 193 (2004)
A Tribute to Dean Robert A. Stein: Former Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, 80 Minnesota Law Review 1 (1995)
Current Developments Concerning the Settlement of Disputes Involving States by Arbitration and the World Court, 83 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 32 (1989) (remarks)
The Jurisprudence of the Court in the Nicaragua Decision, 81 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 258 (1987) (remarks)
Adjudication of Foreign Expropriations in U.S. Courts, 77 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 335 (1983) (remarks)
Professor Fred Morrison Marks 50 Years of Teaching at Minnesota Law
Prof. Morrison Interviewed by KMSP News About Future of Dakota Access Pipeline & Trump Administration's Influence
Prof. Morrison's Views on Federal Grants to States Featured on WalletHub
Prof. Morrison Speaks on KSTP on 'Thailand to Try Minnesota Journalist Who Had Flak Jacket'
Prof. Morrison Answers WCCO’s ‘Good Question’: What is Diplomatic Immunity?
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Distinction between Section 34 and Section 149
Authored By- Amit Patel
Keywords-
Joint liability, common intention, common objective, accomplice
Both Section 149 and Section 34 of the IPC deal with a person’s association that an individual is responsible for the action of another person. The elements of both sections are different and are applied in different circumstances and acts. Section 34 deals with the common intention whereas Section 149 deals with a common objective which seems to be the same but is different which is discussed in detail.
Section 34 and Section 149 of IPC speak about the rule of constructive liability which in a broader sense means that an individual is responsible for the action of another person’s, but Section 34 and Section 149 are mutually exclusive. For a crime to be accomplished two things are seen the act and the intention (mens rea). Section 34 defines the joint intention and deals with joint liability. It states that when a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it were done by him alone.[1] Whereas, Section 149 talks about an act committed by any person among the unlawful assembly, then all the persons present in the unlawful assembly is liable.
Introduction to Section 34 under IPC, 1860
As discussed above it can be said that the states that if two or more then two persons have the common intent to commit the unlawful act, then no matter if the act is committed by any one or more person every person having the common intent to commit the act will be held liable as if it were done by him alone.
In the case of Barendra Kumar Ghosh v. King Emperor’s[2] the tribunal held an individual liable for the acts committed by another person in furtherance of the common intention.
Involvement of a person in the wrongful act
The objective behind Section 34 of IPC is to differentiate between the criminal act, that whether it is done by an individual on his own or whether someone acted as an accomplice to that criminal act. An accomplice is a person who helps the criminal or provides him with the material to do such act or on knowing about the act supports him, which is the reason, everyone is found guilty under this section. If the accomplice would not have been involved in the act might not be able to accomplish this they all are held liable for their involvement in the illegal act.
Elements of Section 34
· Common intention: The basic and the most important element to commit an offense under joint liability reside in the presence of a common intention, although it should be in support of the common goal of all the members present in the group. The term ‘common intention’ means the meeting of the mind in the same sense. Their acts to commit the offense must vary but the intention should remain common.
Although, for the acts committed by one person without prior consulting with the group members in which they do not share intent all the members, in this case, cannot be held liable. It was also held in the case of Ram Bilas Singh v. State of Bihar case[3] where it was stated that the term of the punishment for each person who has committed that act with a common intent depends on the nature and gravity of the crime committed.
· Participation in The Criminal Act: Participation of the person in an illegal act by the group is an important element for proving joint liability and there must be some act that indicates the intention to commit that very particular act. According to the established law, the person accused of the act should be found at the crime spot or anywhere nearby crime spot.
In the case Barendra Kumar Ghosh v. King Emperor,[4] the trial court, held the accused guilty though he had not even fired the shot, as he was caught in his hand with a pistol which was handed over to the police.
Introduction to Section 149 under IPC, 1860
Section 149 of IPC, states that every member of an unlawful assembly is guilty of offence committed in prosecution of the common object.[5]
The section simply says that wherein a group of peoples assembles for a ‘common object’ and at the time of the gathering if any person commits any illegal act then and there, then every member of that assembly will be held liable for the commission of the illegal act.
In the case of Bhudeo Mandal v. the State of Bihar[6], it was held by the apex court that the proof must obviously establish not only the common object but also demonstrate that the common object was illegitimate.
Elements of Section 149
There should be a common objective among every member of the unlawful assembly.
Members should aware of the likely events to be followed by the assembly members.
There should be five members or more than five members then only according to section 149 the gathering is constituted as unlawful assembly.
The act done by the assembly should be illegitimate.
Difference between common intention and common object
The common intention is confused with the common objective, whereas there are differences in the operations of both sections. Both the sections impose vicarious liability but are different in scope and nature of the operation.
Under section 34 there should be two or more persons, whereas under section 149 there should be at least five persons to constitute an offense.
Section 149 deals with a particular offense i.e. unlawful assembly, whereas section, do not deal with any offense rather states the principle of joint liability.
‘Common intent’ used in S.34 has not been defined anywhere in the IPC, whereas’ common object’ must be one of the five ingredients defined in Section 149 of the IPC.
Common intention needs a prior meeting of the mind whereas common objective does not.
Section 34 requires active involvement in act whereas it is not necessary for section 149
Section 34 and Section 149 are mutually exclusive; elements of both the sections are different and are applied in different circumstances and acts. One should understand the elements of the provision to interpret the law and which tells us in that section 34 do not deal with any offense rather states the principle of joint liability, whereas Section 149 deals with a particular offense i.e. unlawful assembly.
[1]Indian Penal Code, No. 45, § 34. [2]Barendra Kumar Ghosh v. King Emperor’s,(1925) 27 BOMLR 148. [3]Ram Bilas Singh v. State of Bihar case, AIR 1989 SC 1593. [4]Barendra Kumar Ghosh v. King Emperor,(1925) 27 BOMLR 148. [5]Indian Penal Code, No. 45, § 149. [6]Bhudeo Mandal v. the State of Bihar, (1981) AIR 1219.
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· https://blog.ipleaders.in/comparative-analysis-of-sec-34-and-149-ipc-1860-with-judicial-interpretations/#:~:text=An%20offense%20committed%20by%20members,the%20conviction%20to%20be%20held.
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Leicester Music Festival supporter ticket offer
Leicester Tigers welcome Tinie Tempah, Labrinth and Professor Green to Welford Road this summer and supporters can enjoy a special end of season price to be there.
The home of the Tigers hosts the Leicester Music Festival on Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26.
Katy B, Union J and the Saturdays are among the acts performing as well as Soul II Soul, Billy Ocean and UB40, Kool and the Gang, Aswad and Leicester’s X Factor winner Sam Bailey.
Tigers and festival organisers have agreed a special end of season offer for the club's supporters of £30 for standing tickets and £35 for seating tickets for each day, with a £1.50 delivery charge. The offer runs until Sunday, May 25 and is available from the Welford Road ticket office in person, on 0844 856 1880 (option 2) or online by clicking here.
More information on the Leicester Music Festival, including the full line-up, is available by clicking here.
Watch the promotional video for Leicester’s biggest music festival on the official Tigers YouTube channel by clicking here.
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Charlie signs up with ELMS
MINI CHALLENGE star Charlie Butler-Henderson has teamed up with Elms MINI Cambridge for the 2017 season.
Former CHALLENGE champion Butler-Henderson, who is also a Brand Ambassador for MINI UK, will feature Elms Cambridge logos on his car and race suit throughout the year, and will also be a key part of the dealership’s promotional activity this year.
As part of the new deal, Butler-Henderson will be attending the launch of the new MINI Countryman at the Cambourne dealership on February 11, complete with his F56 JCW CHALLENGE racing car.
Elms MINI staff will also attend selected MINI CHALLENGE races this year as VIP guests.
Butler-Henderson said: “It’s great to have this partnership with a mainstream dealership like Elms MINI Cambridge, and I’m really excited to have them on-board for this season.
“I’ve been talking with Daniel Lynas and Stephanie Campin from Elms for a few months now and I see this as a really exciting partnership that has the potential to be a long-term arrangement.
“The launch of the new MINI Countryman will be a great thing to be involved with. It will allow customers and MINI fans the chance to do a meet and greet with me and get up close and personal with the awesome F56 JCW CHALLENGE race car, as well as the new road-going Countryman, which looks a superb piece of kit.”
Charlie Butler-Henderson will partner with Cambourne MINI specialist Elms Cambridge
Charlie Butler-Henderson is a MINI UK Brand Ambassador
CB-H will help to launch the new MINI Countryman
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New Director Sustainable Development appointed
Justine Linley has been appointed Director Sustainable Development at Corangamite Shire.
Ms Linley has a long career of working in local and state government.
She was the CEO of Northern Grampians Shire and more recently, City of Ballarat CEO. She will lead a team of 57 staff across three departments at Corangamite – planning and building; environment and emergency; and growth and engagement.
Ms Linley said she had a career-long interest in sustainable industry and community development.
“I feel very privileged to be working here,” she said.
“My first impressions of Corangamite are that it is truly a land of milk and honey: golden grain, plump cows, woolly sheep, a wild stunning coast, jewel-like lakes and picture postcard towns.
Ms Linley said the Director Sustainable Development role encompassed areas that she had long-held experience, including economic development, planning, building, emergency management, tourism, communications and engagement, local laws and waste.
“Over the next few years I hope to be able to work with Council, officers, residents and businesses to deliver on community priorities and aspirations, and to celebrate the best that Corangamite has and is.
“I strongly believe it is possible to encourage a thriving, prosperous local economy while still preserving and maintaining those things in the built and natural environment that make a community unique,” she said.
“While the environment is idyllic, it is the people who are the real gems.” Corangamite Shire Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mason said Ms Linley started in early November and had been settling into the role alongside the newly elected Council.
“It is an exciting and challenging time with major projects such as the Shipwreck Coast Master Plan and Port Campbell town centre improvements,” Mr Mason said.
“We are looking forward to capitalising on Justine’s expertise in economic and community development, as well as managing our sustainable development area,” he said.
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You are here: Home / Crime / Courts / Southern Missouri man admits to killing, dismembering girlfriend
Southern Missouri man admits to killing, dismembering girlfriend
August 16, 2016 By Missourinet Contributor
By Ed Button, Ozark Radio Network
A West Plains man has been charged with 1st degree murder after authorities say he admitted to dismembering a 35-year woman and, eventually, leading detectives to her body.
Walter Stewart, 63, was arrested Monday afternoon and has been charged with 1st degree murder, 2 counts of armed criminal action, and abandonment of a corpse.
Walter Stewart
Photo courtesy of Ozark Radio Network.
Court documents allege that West Plains Police Department was contacted August 9 about a missing woman who hadn’t been in contact with her family since July 20. A report was made, and the woman, who was not identified in the probable cause statement, was entered as a missing person into a national database.
Police say they then spoke with Stewart, who told officers that he and the victim were living together and had been fighting, and that he believed she was talking to another man from the Memphis area. Stewart reportedly told police that around July 20, he had left their home to go to the store, and returned home to find her gone, and he hadn’t seen her since then.
Stewart was interviewed again August 15 at his home. Officers say when they visited Stewart, they noticed an odor consistent with decomposition, and found a blood stain on the floor of the home. Stewart was brought in and questioned at the police department, according to court documents.
During an interview at the police department, Stewart allegedly admitted to stabbing the victim several times one night, and after killing her, he reportedly moved her to a bathroom in the home, where he allowed her to bleed out in a bathtub, which he filled and drained several times over the course of two days. Court documents say Stewart then admitted to dismembering the body and hiding portions of the woman’s remains in a nearby wooded area and in a nearby pond.
Stewart then led police to the locations where the victim’s body was found, according to the probable cause statement.
Stewart is being held without bond at the Howell County Jail.
West Plains Police Department Public Information Officer Ron Redfield says that an autopsy has been scheduled for August 17.
Under Missouri law, if convicted of 1st degree murder, the sentence would be the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
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You are here: Home / Business / State audit raises red flags about Missouri hospital’s billing practices
State audit raises red flags about Missouri hospital’s billing practices
August 10, 2017 By Alisa Nelson
Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway says an audit of Putnam County Memorial Hospital in northeast Missouri’s Unionville has uncovered $90 million in inappropriate lab billings by hospital leadership and associates.
In September 2016, the Putnam County Hospital Board hired David Byrns and his company, Hospital Partners, Inc., to take over day-to-day management of the facility. Byrns hired a partner organization, Hospital Lab Partners, LLC, to provide lab services.
The audit has uncovered a billing scheme involving the lab company and its affiliates that conduct lab work nationwide. Putnam County Memorial Hospital bills the insurance companies using the hospital account. In exchange, the hospital gets a cut of the insurance payouts.
“The decisions made by hospital management and the board are astounding in their irresponsibility and have the potential to negatively impact the hospital and the residents of Putnam County for years to come,” says Galloway.
She says since November 2016, the hospital has passed most of $90 million in insurance payments along to the lab company and its affiliates. Most of the billings were for patients who had never been to or received services from Putnam County Memorial Hospital. The practice funnels millions of dollars through the hospital and reduces it to what Galloway says is essentially a shell organization for labs across the country.
The audit also shows that the hospital pays for the salaries of 33 employees from around the country who conduct the lab work. Galloway says the “employees” do not report to work at the hospital and most live out of state, some as far away as California, Georgia and Texas.
The employees ship blood specimens to various labs for testing, while Putnam County Memorial Hospital submits the insurance claims for payment. The hospital also paid out more than $10 million in lab management fees, with little explanation of the charges.
“It’s deeply disappointing that the Putnam County Memorial Hospital was in such a dire situation that, in order to stay operational, the hospital’s board accepted these income sources without question,” says Galloway. “The citizens that live and work in this area and the patients that depend on the hospital are ultimately going to be the ones who pay for those mistakes.”
The audit also reveals that Byrns has paid more than $700,000 to his management company and paid himself an additional $200,000 annual salary out of county hospital funds without board approval. He also received reimbursement from the hospital for at least $5,000 in questionable expenses, including alcohol, cigarettes, car washes and golf outings.
Galloway has turned audit records and information over to state and federal law enforcement authorities.
The complete audit report for Putnam County Hospital is available here.
Filed Under: Business, Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
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Definition: An architecture is "the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution [1, 2]."
Keywords: architecture
MITRE SE Roles & Expectations: MITRE systems engineers are expected to understand the role that an architecture plays in system development (e.g., conceptualization, development, and certification), the various purposes for architecture, and the different types of architectures. They are also expected to understand various architecture frameworks, models and modeling, views and viewpoints, as well as when and why each would apply. MITRE systems engineers are expected to understand different architectural approaches and their applications, including the use of architectural patterns.
At this point in the systems engineering life cycle, an operational need has been expressed and turned into a concept and set of operational requirements (refer to "Concept Development" topic). They are then analyzed and transformed into a set of system requirements (refer to "Requirements Engineering" topic). The next step is to develop an architecture (or update an existing architecture for fielded systems) as a basis or foundation to guide design and development.
This topic contains articles on Architectural Frameworks, Models, and Views, Approaches to Architecture Development, and Architectural Patterns.
The article Architectural Frameworks, Models, and Views discusses the ways in which an architecture can be described. Various frameworks are used in different domains. Two well-known examples are the Zachman framework and the Department of Defense Architecture Framework. Whatever their specific form, all frameworks focus on defining a set of models, views, and viewpoints to support a range of systems engineering and program management activities and decisions across the system life cycle.
The article Approaches to Architecture Development provides an overview of ways to tailor and apply architecture approaches, process, and methodologies to support decision making.
Architectural patterns are a method of arranging blocks of functionality. They can be used at the subsystem (component), system, or enterprise level. The article Architectural Patterns describes patterns and discusses how they can simplify and expedite the development process.
Architecture Best Practices
Ensure purpose before architecting.
Ensure that stakeholders have an opportunity to vet architectural trade-offs as they occur.
Evaluate the architecture throughout system development. Although an architecture is intended to be a persistent framework during the life cycle (and life) of a system, unforeseen changes (e.g., new missions) can influence the best of "first version" architectures.
Construct the architecture to help understand technology readiness and evolution, and avoid getting locked in to proprietary or potentially obsolete technologies or captured by a specific vendor.
ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000, "Recommended Practice for Architecture Description of Software-Intensive Systems."
ISO/IEC 42010:2007, "Systems and Software Engineering—Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems."
Additional References & Resources
Bass, L., P. Clements, and R. Kazman, December 30, 1997, Software Architecture in Practice, 1st edition, Addison-Wesley Professional.
"System Architecture," MITRE Project Leadership Handbook, accessed February 23, 2010.
"Architecture," MITRE Systems Engineering Competency Model, v 1.13, section 2.3, accessed February 23, 2010.
"Concept Development," MITRE Systems Engineering Guidebook, accessed February 23, 2010.
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David Hanscom, MD, was just completing his training as a spine surgeon at Twin Cities Scoliosis Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1985, when his own horrible spine pain overtook him. "I was spiraling down," he says. "Back pain, neck pain—I didn't know how it hit me."
Dr Hanscom had surgery for a ruptured disc, but it took him until 2002 to figure out that he could only escape the pain by controlling his stress and reprogramming his thoughts. Now working at Swedish Neuroscience Specialists in Seattle, Washington, Dr Hanscom offers a range of such therapies to his patients with chronic spine pain and prides himself on helping them avoid surgery altogether.
Nonspecific low back pain—that is, back pain without a specific diagnosis—has become a major public health problem worldwide, with a lifetime prevalence as high as 84%. And the prevalence of chronic low back pain is about 23%.[1]
Evidence is mounting for the efficacy of treating nonspecific chronic pain not with surgery or narcotic medications, but with therapies drawn from psychology and meditation. The research supporting cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is particularly robust.[2]
But these approaches, particularly CBT, remain out of reach for many of the people who need them, says epidemiologist Dan Cherkin, PhD, MS, senior scientific investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle.
For one thing, not many psychologists are trained to offer CBT for pain management, Dr Cherkin notes.
For another, "a lot of the things that have been found effective for nonsurgical pain are not covered by insurance and not widely available," he says. "It's a wide social problem, and a training and reimbursement issue, that prevents patients from trying things that are shown to be effective."
Reducing Pain by Changing Thoughts
Progress may depend on a more widespread understanding that the division between mind and body is artificial, says Dr Cherkin. Although its roots go back at least as far as the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus (55-135 AD), who stressed the importance of self-knowledge, CBT was developed by psychologists and psychiatrists in the mid-20th century as a treatment for mental health disorders.[2] Unlike many psychotherapies, CBT is guided by empirical research and focuses on solving problems in the present rather than uncovering trauma in the past.[2]
The researchers who developed CBT began with the premise that people can change unwelcome feelings and behavior by countering distorted thoughts behind them.
This process has a biochemical dimension. The emotional stress of pain may cause the release of adrenalin and cortisol, which increases conductivity of nerves, increasing the pain, Dr Hanscom explains. Over time, the nervous system may also adapt in such a way that the pain persists even after any physical trauma is healed.
"Anxiety is simply a chemical response to sensory inputs," Dr Hanscom says. "The problem with thoughts, compared with the other stimuli, is that you can't escape your thoughts. The harder you try to fight them, the worse it gets."
With CBT, people can learn strategies for putting their fears into perspective. The therapy takes multiple forms, including one-on-one conversations with trained therapists, group treatments, reading, and writing.[3] Multiple studies have shown CBT to be effective in reducing back pain.[2]
In contrast, the origins of MBSR lie in Buddhist meditation and yoga. Molecular biologist Jon Kabbat-Zin, PhD, developed the first class in MBSR at the Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1979. In MBSR, the practitioner seeks to increase awareness and acceptance of such experiences as discomfort and negative emotions.[4] Although MBSR is less well-studied for back pain than is CBT, the research so far suggests that it may also be effective.[2]
Studies using MRI suggest that CBT and MBSR cause some brain remodeling.[5,6]
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From Classics to Graphics: 6 Literary Masterpieces Turned Into Graphic Novels
BY Amanda Green
Abridging classic novels for younger readers is nothing new. But in recent years, classic literature has been graphic novel-ized, making it more accessible for readers young and old while preserving the plot, themes, and sometimes even the author's voice. English class will never be the same, thanks to these classics gone graphic.
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's only novel, about a man who sells his soul to maintain his beauty, was just begging for a more visual makeover. The 2009 graphic novel written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard abridges the text, but still keeps much of Wilde's original prose. Marvel's 2008 version has better graphics, but it reads more like a copy of SparkNotes. Both books are recommended as a supplement to—not a substitute for—the original work. In the words of Dorian Gray himself, "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. If it were only the other way!"
2. The Metamorphosis
The Incredible Hulk. Wolverine. Gregor Samsa. All of these characters undergo major transformations, but only one of them might appear on an AP English exam. Franz Kafka's 1915 novella about a traveling salesman who wakes up to find he's turned into a huge insect makes for a compelling graphic novel. Peter Kuper's 2004 adaptation looks like an enjoyable read, but it goes against Kafka's wishes. When the cover of the first edition was being designed nearly a century ago, the author asked that Gregor not be drawn as an insect. Instead, he hoped readers would conjure their own image of "horrible vermin" when picturing the creepy-crawly protagonist.
The Trial, Kafka's dystopian novel about the perils of bureaucracy, has also been adapted into a graphic novel. And if you want to learn more about the man behind the stories, check out Kafka's graphic biography by R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz.
3. Ulysses
Ulysses is one of those works that comes with a few barriers to entry. For starters, the Penguin Classics version is 1040 pages long. Then there are the 18 unstructured chapters that James Joyce boasted "[have] so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant." (Thanks, dude.) But Robert Berry's "Ulysses 'seen'" makes the modernist masterpiece more modern—and accessible—than ever. The graphic novel is available for free online or $7.99 on the iPad. Like the original, Berry's adaptation is serialized and raised a few questions of obscenity—Apple required nude images to be removed. Unlike the original, each chapter comes with a handy reader's guide.
Plenty of readers all over the world have no trouble reading Jane Austen's most popular novel. But what do you do after you've devoured the text and the six-part BBC series with Colin Firth as, omg, Mr. Darcy? Here's an idea: Get another fix with this 2009 graphic novel version from Marvel. The story's abridged, but reviewers on Amazon say it's more true to the novel than some film adaptations. The women's-magazine-style cover with headlines like "Bingleys Bring Bling to Britain" is fun, too.
And if you like this Marvel graphic novel, there are many others adapted by author Janet Lee, including Sense and Sensibility and Emma.
5. The Diary of Anne Frank
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Anne Frank couldn't have imagined that the diary she started two days after her thirteenth birthday in 1942 would ever become a best-selling memoir, a Pulitzer-Prize winning play, and an Academy Award-winning film. The diary's latest incarnation: a 2010 graphic biography written by Sid Jacobson and illustrated by Ernie Colón. Commissioned by the Anne Frank House Museum, the biography depicts many years before and after Anne's time in the Secret Annex, from her parents' early lives to the publication of her diary to her father's life as the family's sole survivor.
6. A Wrinkle in Time
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It may not be part of the canon, but Madeline L'Engle's 1962 science fiction fantasy novel is a young-adult classic. While the original work contains a few illustrations, the graphic novel by Hope Larson published October 2 is the first to fully depict Meg, Calvin, Charles Wallace, and the rest of the characters as they journey through space and time. And c'mon, you know you want to see how Larson draws the tessering process.
Which classic would you like to see adapted next?
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Watch Liquid Boiling and Freezing at the Same Time
BY Erin McCarthy
In this video, you can watch an unknown liquid freeze and boil simultaneously. No, it's not magic. It's science!
What you're seeing here is a liquid reaching its "triple point"—the temperature and pressure at which the three phases of a substance (gas, liquid, and solid) co-exist in equilibrium. In this experiment, the scientists are changing the pressure in the beaker. When the liquid is at a certain temperature, it will do what you're seeing here.
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Two clinics closed, appointments rescheduled on…
Two clinics closed, appointments rescheduled on second day of Santa Clara County strike
The strike shut down two county clinics and other health services for regular appointments
Employees of the Santa Clara County health system picket at the Valley Medical Center campus on Enborg Lane, part of a rolling strike on Oct. 3, 2019.
By Thy Vo | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: October 3, 2019 at 11:21 a.m. | UPDATED: October 4, 2019 at 5:48 a.m.
SAN JOSE — Day two of a rolling strike by Santa Clara County union employees forced the closure of two health clinics and pharmacies and rescheduling of appointments in some health departments.
As clinicians and administrative support staff walked off the job Thursday at county health facilities, the impact on public services appeared more pronounced than during the first day of the employee strike.
Even County CEO Jeff Smith acknowledged as much. “The [disruptions] are larger than yesterday, but we’re still recommending clients come for services, except those with primary care needs,” he said. “This level [of disruption] we can tolerate…but it does damage to the public and the county.” .
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521, which represents 12,000 county employees, estimated that 1,200 health system workers went on strike Thursday. The strike is being rolled out day-by-day, so employees are being notified about job actions in their department the evening before.
Smith said outpatient health clinics in Milpitas and Sunnyvale were closed because of the strike, as well as an employee assistance center. People needing immediate care or pharmacy were sent to clinics in downtown San Jose and on Moorpark Ave., he added.
Also closed was a health clinic within the HomeFirst homeless shelter. Meanwhile, the Office of Vital Records and Registration on Lenzen Avenue operated at minimal capacity, according to a county website for strike updates. The county’s Better Health and Lenzen pharmacies also closed, according to the website.
But inpatient and acute care services at the county’s three hospitals — Valley Medical Center, O’Connor Hospital and St. Louise Hospital — continued to operate as normal, according to the county, which estimated about 850 employees picketed across 20 locations by late morning.
SEIU has agreed to allow people whose jobs are considered essential to public safety to cross the picket line and continue working.
At the Valley Health Center in Sunnyvale, roughly 65 union employees picketed outside, prompting the facility’s closure. A notice on the door stated that “all routine primary and specialty care appointments have been temporarily cancelled due to a labor action” and urged those experiencing an emergency to call 911.
“I’m surprised – maybe they could have called and let me know, and I wouldn’t have come,” said Devin, a patient with an afternoon appointment, who did not want to give his last name. He comes to the clinic regularly for therapy, to pick up medication and for primary care appointments.
Devin said the clinic had called to remind him of the appointment a few days earlier. Devin said said he does not have a car and his bus pass recently expired, so the strike stretches on he’s not sure where to go to refill his medication.
At the Valley Medical Center campus on Enborg Lane, hundreds of workers, including behavioral health providers, financial and administrative support staff, crisis counselors and physical therapists, picketed throughout the day.
Renee Cortese, a physical therapist and strike captain for California Children’s Services, which provides physical and occupational therapy for children with disabilities, said all 40 of the department’s therapists participated and the clinic is rescheduling appointments.
Nicole Gilliam takes her 6-year-old son to California Children’s Services several times a week for physical therapy. On Thursday, she stopped by to pick up leg braces for her son and didn’t face any problems doing so.
The facility had told her there might be a strike, Gilliam said, but she didn’t know what it is about.
“I’m assuming, if they’re out here, we won’t be coming in [for therapy], so I hope it ends soon,” Gilliam said. “But I’m in full support, we love our therapists and they go above and beyond.”
Cortese and employees across several health departments said they were striking in solidarity with those in social services and over the relocation of the San Jose Family Resource Center to another site across town, which she said occurred without bargaining with the center’s employees or input from clients. The union called the strike over 15 complaints of unfair labor practices, including changes in the social services department.
Several employees on the picket line also pointed to the county’s latest wage offer — a 3 percent raise each year over a 5-year contract — as insufficient. The contract includes extra raises for certain workers and asks employees to pay an additional 2 percent share of the medical premium and $1.50 per paycheck toward retirement health costs. The county says its proposal is worth $625 million.
“They want to give us a measly 3 percent raise, but they end up taking more for taxes and [health care], and we’re not left with much,” said Laura Lopez, a public health assistant at California Children’s Services.
Smith has said the union is requesting “unsustainable” raises. SEIU’s most recent proposal seeks a three-year contract with a 6 percent raise the first year and a 5 percent increase each of the following years, he said. Including other compensation changes requested by SEIU, Smith said the union’s proposal would cost $761 million over three years.
SEIU still isn’t divulging what it’s asking or addressing the cost estimates provided by Smith, who it said was “union busting through the media.”
“Regardless of the numbers and percentages that Mr. Smith is throwing out to validate his efforts to silence workers of our concerns, right now there are children who lack protection and families in need of critical service because we lack resources and staff,” said Valerie Pickering, a social worker supervisor and member of the bargaining committee.
The union has also asked the county to create a division dedicated to creating affordable housing for county workers, and another initiative to provide child care for employees — issues the county says it won’t address as part of bargaining.
Smith said the county is studying both initiatives, but would have to bring them before all of its unions rather than negotiate with just one.
Chuck Serface, who works as a counselor for suicide and crisis services, joined other paid counselors in striking Thursday morning.
He questioned Smith’s comments suggesting the county doesn’t have money, pointing to recent spending initiatives such as the $235 million purchase of O’Connor Hospital in San Jose and Saint Louise Hospital in Gilroy.
“We don’t understand how a county that’s expanding buildings and buying hospitals are not investing in their workers,” Serface said. “They always say, ‘the money has already been allocated,’ but I see them buying….a portrait of Muhammad Ali, wanting to build new buildings and pay for new services.”
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Thy Vo | Santa Clara County reporter
Thy Vo covers government in Santa Clara County and the city of Santa Clara for The Mercury News. She's a Southern California native and started her journalism career watchdogging local government in Orange County, California for the nonprofit news website Voice of OC.
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Is the Government Low-Balling the Spill Size?
Kate Sheppard
Last week, experts assembled by the federal government announced the preliminary findings of efforts to analyze the amount of oil gushing out of the Gulf well. The head of the effort announced at a press briefing that the scientists’ best estimate is that 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil are spewing into the ocean each day—two to four times more than the government’s initial assessment. But the group’s own preliminary report on the spill size, which was provided to Mother Jones by congressional investigators, indicates that the range announced to the press may still be significantly understating the scale of the spill.
The head of the spill rate team, US Geological Survey Director Dr. Marcia McNutt, explained in a call with reporters last week that the 12,000 to 19,000 barrel figure was based on the “area of overlap” between estimates from several teams who had separately assessed satellite images of the spill area and video footage of the spill site.
But a close reading of the preliminary report (which was posted online, but is more detailed than what was sent to reporters last week) indicates that the figures were drawn from just one team—which was only analyzing oil on the surface of the water, via satellite images and remote sensing equipment. We already know that the unprecedented volume of chemical dispersants used by BP has pushed massive quantities of oil under water. Other oil has been burned off, skimmed from the top, and evaporated. McNutt said the group attempted to correct for dispersed oil, but the report indicates that the process for doing so was far from precise; the team just doubled the total from the amount that sensors and satellites show. Using video footage—which can capture oil both on and below the surface of the ocean—would be far more accurate. And indeed, the team using video footage to analyze the spill estimated that 12,000 to 25,000 barrels of oil were leaking from the site each day.
Even worse, that analysis could still be under-reporting the real size of the spill. Some of the experts on that team said their analysis had been compromised by the poor quality of the video footage provided by BP, which was little better than a You-Tube clip. Higher quality video, as one team member testified to Congress, is essential to producing an accurate calculation.
The preliminary report also suggests that the government has not come up with a precise way to account for oil that could be hard to measure due to BP’s heavy dispersant use (993,000 gallons as of yesterday). Here’s a description of the methodology from the team that came up with the 12,000 to 19,000 figure (which includes a Rumsfeldian reference to “unknown unknowns”):
Corrections are then made for the amount of oil that was evaporated, skimmed, burned, and dispersed either subsea or on the sea surface. These corrections nearly double the total amount of oil as of May 17th. The total oil is then divided by the number of days to get an average rate. This method is not without its biases that might not be captured by formal uncertainty bounds as well. For example, all of the corrections made to the surface oil were to add in losses of oil to the system. To the extent that there are other unknown processes that remove oil naturally from the system that are unaccounted for, there may be “unknown unknowns” in this analysis as well.
“I have no clue what it means mathematically to say ‘unknown unknowns,'” the congressional investigator tells Mother Jones—adding that the 12,000-19,000 range is likely “low-balling” the size of the spill.
Like the 5,000-barrel-per-day estimate that came before it, the media has now latched onto the 12,000 to 19,000 figure. But if this report is any indication, the real size of the spill remains the biggest known unknown of all.
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Wiesmann bought by British suitors, will resume production
Nov 16, 2015 at 4:35pm ET
By: Michael Gauthier
Wiesmann closed up shop in 2014 but the company's co-found has announced their rights have been bought by British suitors.
We haven't heard much from Wiesmann since the company was declared insolvent and shut their doors in 2014. However, that changes today as the German sports car maker has been bought by British suitors.
Little is known about the transaction but Wiesmann co-founder Friedhelm Wiesmann told Autovisie the company was bought by Berry and Anita Tatalovic. Wiesmann went on to say the contracts have already been signed and the couple intends to resume sports car production.
There's no word on which models will go back into production but the company's most recent product was the GT MF4-CS which was introduced at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. It was a limited edition that was designed to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary.
While the celebrations were short-lived, the GT MF4-CS was a high-performance coupe that featured an aluminum monocoque chassis, a fiberglass body and a 4.0-liter V8 engine that developed 420 PS (309 kW) and 400 Nm (295 lb-ft) of torque. The engine was connected to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission which enabled the 1,350 kg (2,976 lbs) sports car to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 4.4 seconds before hitting a top speed of 293 km/h (182 mph).
Production was limited to 25 units but it remains unclear how many were actually built.
Source: Autovisie
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Sarah Billmeier
Dr. Sarah E. Billmeier brought beauty, grace and skill to the world of skiing at a young age. Her hard work and determination earned her a place on the US Disabled Ski Team (alpine) in 1991. During her time as a ski team member Sarah earned 13 Paralympic medals, 8 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze. She competed in Paralympic Games in Albertsville, France 1992, Lillehammer, Norway 1994, Nagano, Japan 1998 and Salt Lake City, USA 2002. Sarah was also a 6 time World Champion, competing in Lech, Austria 1996 and Anzere, Switzerland 2000.
Sarah’s commitment to her fellow athletes is evident in her willingness to serve as a USA athlete representative, a Paralympic athlete representative, an athlete service coordinator and on a wide variety of additional committees from 1991-2006.
She was named to the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and The National Disabled Ski Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2000 she was named the US Olympic Committee Skier of the Year.
Sarah’s perseverance and commitment extended far beyond her athletic career. In 1995 Sarah entered Dartmouth College earning a BA in biology. In 2002 she continued her studies at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sarah Billmeier is presently a resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Construction falls prevention campaign re-launched
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training has announced the re-launch of a national campaign to reduce falls at construction sites. The announcement was made on Workers’ Memorial Day 2013, an observance held annually on April 28 to honor those who have lost their lives on the job and renew the nation’s dedication to creating safer workplaces.
"The re-launch of this campaign demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that contractors and workers stay safe on the job by providing the knowledge and tools they need," said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D. During the first year of the campaign NIOSH, OSHA, and CPWR created resources to promote safety while working on ladders, scaffolds, roofs, and other high places.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that falls are the leading cause of occupational death and injuries in construction, an industry that experiences an average of two workplace fatalities per day. According to NIOSH, OSHA, and CPWR, these accidents can be avoided.
"Falls can be prevented and lives can be saved by planning ahead to get the job done safely, providing the right equipment and training workers to use the equipment safely," said Dr. David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
Protect workers from falls with the appropriate safety supplies such as fall protection and slip-resistant work boots.
"Hundreds of fall-related deaths and thousands of injuries can be prevented," said Pete Stafford, executive director of CPWR. "We're eager to re-launch the campaign and see fall protection used when workers are at heights."
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Student Awards — Celebrating your achievements and dedication
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4Our Corps has helped Norwich shine for more than two centuries. These four students have earned distinction for soldierly performance, Corps leadership, academic and athletic achievement and contributions to campus life.
Lewis E. Perry Memorial Award is awarded to the senior cadet who has made the greatest contribution to all aspects of life at Norwich University.
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Charles Grunert (2020)
MacArthur Award is awarded to the senior cadet who demonstrates the most soldierly performance in accordance with the high standards of academics, athletics, and leadership as exemplified by General Douglas MacArthur as a Cadet.
Cadet Captain Jack Anzalone (2020)
AMCSUS Leadership Medal (Association of Military Colleges & Schools of the U.S.)
Cadet Captain Makenna Wade
Garrity Award is awarded to a senior cadet who demonstrates outstanding academic and athletic achievements and has displayed leadership in the Corps of Cadets.
Cadet Brandon Milburn (2020)
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The Norwich University Tri-Service Awards honors the service, resilience and displays of moral character that are trademarks of our students and our university. The spring 2020 ceremony was rescheduled to fall 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Tri-Service Awards honor students for leadership in our four military branches — the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force. They also honor academic and athletic achievements of cadets in our Corps of Cadets.
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Rescued hunter airlifted to Montana hospital
Meeteetse – On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 2:30 p.m., the Park County Dispatch Center received a 9-1-1 call from a 61-year-old hunter in the Rose Creek area on the Meeteetse side of Carter Mountain. Walter Bruce Zimbelman, age 61 from Fullerton, North Dakota said that he was field dressing an elk with two other individuals when he rolled over on to a knife which penetrated his leg just below the knee. He was conscious and alert but had lost all feeling in his leg.
Park County Search and Rescue was immediately activated and at 3:00 p.m. deployed a ground team to the area with their rescue side-by-side. They were accompanied by a wilderness medical team from Cody Regional Health and an officer from the Wyoming Game and Fish who just happened to be in the area. At the same time, a medical helicopter from Guardian Flight in Cody was summoned to the scene.
At 3:34 p.m., Guardian Flight located Zimbelman and landed within 200 feet of his location. At 4:20 p.m., rescue personnel arrived at the scene to assist and at 4:30 p.m., Guardian lifted off, transporting Zimbelman to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, Montana. His condition is unknown at this time.
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Algerian Army Uses Live Ammunition in Exercise Near Border With Morocco
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Catholic Church to Buy Famous Mosque of Cordoba for 30 Euros
Taroudant, Morocco- According to Al Quds Al Arabi, the Catholic Church’s attempt to take the famous Mosque of Cordoba out of public hands has sparked a heated debate and the disapproval of associations and academics, who are calling for restoring it and making it a world heritage site.
Larbi Arbaoui
Larbi is a freelance writer and assistant editor at Morocco World News.
The church of Cordoba has taken advantage of the existence of a law permitting the registration of ownership of houses of worship at a nominal price. In 2006, the church registered the famous mosque under its ownership for 30 euros in accordance with the law. As a result, the famous mosque is expected to become fully owned by the church by 2016 absent objection.
The Mosque of Cordoba, also called the Mezquita and the Great Mosque of Córdoba, which is a public property, is now in the process of registering under the private ownership of the local archbishopric. However, some of the local people in the city have expressed concern, stating that this move is “an effort by the Córdoba Catholic authorities to suppress the monument’s Islamic identity.”
“It’s a historical heritage belonging to all Spaniards,” said Isabel Romero, director of the Islamic Junta, which represents Muslims in Spain, according to Irishtimes. “It’s very strange that it should pass into private hands,” he added.
The director of the Islamic Junta added, “This was the latest of many efforts by the church, which manages the Mezquita, to eliminate the building’s Muslim identity.”
In an attempt to erase the Islamic identity of the Mosque, the official website of the Mosque presents the Islamic ancient historical site under the name “La Catedral de Córdoba,” which in Spanish means Cathedral of Cordoba.
“The Mezquita is a global symbol of the meeting of cultures and today more than ever the world needs symbols like this,” said Antonio Manuel Rodríguez, a professor of civil law at the University of Córdoba, according to Irishtimes.
Muslims of Spain, especially Spaniards who have converted to Islam and who consider themselves eligible for the restoration of the Islamic monuments of Andalusia, are demanding the right to pray in this mosque, just as Christians do.
The Great Mosque of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a medieval Islamic mosque founded by the Umayyad prince Abd al-Rahman I in Andalusia, that was converted into a Catholic Christian cathedral in 1236.
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Making of Modern Hebrew
The Lithuania-born visionary turned an ancient language into a spoken one.
By David Saiger
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When Eliezer Ben-Yehuda arrived in Palestine in 1881, Hebrew had not been the spoken language of the Jewish people since the time of the Bible. Yet, thanks to Ben-Yehuda, by 1922 enough Jewish pioneers were speaking Hebrew that the British Mandate authorities recognized it as the official language of Jews in Palestine.
Ben-Yehuda conceived of Jewish nationalism as both the return to the historical homeland in the Land of Israel, as well as the revival of the Hebrew language. To accomplish the latter, Ben-Yehuda needed to inspire a near impossible feat: transform Hebrew, which for centuries had been used only in study, into a modern spoken language.
A Youthful Yearning
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was born Eliezer Perelman in Luzhky, Lithuania, in 1858. The son of a Chabad Hasid, Ben-Yehuda was given a traditional religious education at a local yeshiva. The rosh yeshiva, or head of the school, was secretly a maskil, or enlightened thinker. He introduced Ben-Yehuda to secular literature and piqued the boy’s interest in non-religious study.
Eventually Ben-Yehuda transferred to a Russian school, but he remained obsessed with modern Hebrew literature, eagerly consuming Hebrew periodicals, especially those concerned with Jewish nationalism. For Ben-Yehuda, nationalism became a way to embrace Hebrew without religion.
Ben-Yehuda found further inspiration in European nationalist movements. In the 19th century, Italy and Greece — both countries with ties to ancient lands and languages — became independent nations. In 1877, the year of Ben-Yehuda’s graduation from high school, the Russo-Turkish war began and brought prominence to the Bulgarian national movement that sought independence from the Ottomans.
Envisioning the Jews as a nation akin to the Bulgarians, Greeks, and Italians, Ben-Yehuda became determined to help create a nation where the Jews could adopt Hebrew as their national language.
Soon after, Ben-Yehuda learned that Jewish communities were using Hebrew to communicate when other languages wouldn’t suffice. (Historians now know that this phenomenon had existed since the Middle Ages in Europe and the Near East.) In Jerusalem, for example, Jews spoke Yiddish, French, or Arabic colloquially.
However, in the rare occurrences when inter-communal affairs required verbal communication, a modified form of medieval Hebrew was the common language. The Hebrew spoken in these contexts was far from what would be required for a national, modern language, but the news nevertheless inspired Ben-Yehuda to move to Palestine.
Arriving in Jerusalem in 1881, Ben-Yehuda immediately put his plan of Hebrew revival into action. He left behind his birth name and with his wife, Deborah Jonas, he created the first Modern Hebrew-speaking household. He also raised the first modern Hebrew-speaking child, Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda.
In Jerusalem, the secular Ben-Yehuda tried to use Hebrew to attract religious Jews to the nationalist cause. He and his wife wore religious garb — he grew out his beard and payot (sidelocks), and his wife wore a wig — trying to pass as observant. But the ultra-Orthodox Jews living in Jerusalem, for whom Hebrew was used only for holy purposes such as studying Torah, saw through Ben-Yehuda’s guise. Sensing his secular-nationalist intentions, they rejected him and his language. They went so far as to declare a herem, excommunicating Ben-Yehuda.
This setback did little to deter Ben-Yehuda from concentrating on his project. He continued to speak Hebrew at home and convinced other families — who were part of the growing community of secular Jewish nationalists in Palestine — to do the same.
At home, Ben-Yehuda used his son to test the viability of the Hebrew language project; if a child can be brought up speaking entirely Hebrew, then an entire nation should be able to adopt the language as well. This required extreme measures on the part of Ben-Yehuda, who tried to prevent his son from playing with other children and from hearing other languages spoken — so afraid was the father of failing in his endeavor.
On Paper, Out of Mouths
The First Committee of the Hebrew Language, Jerusalem 1912. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is seated at the far right.(Wikimedia Commons)
The other elements of Ben-Yehuda’s revival project were the use of Hebrew as a language of instruction and study in schools, and the creation of a vocabulary that would make Hebrew a tenable language for national use. Ben-Yehuda gained the support of educators who were enthusiastic Jewish nationalists and identified with his project. Teaching Hebrew in schools was also a practical solution to the problem of immigrants from different countries speaking a variety of languages.
Ben-Yehuda began collecting material for the creation of a Modern Hebrew dictionary when he arrived in Israel, and never ceased expanding the language, frequently spending 18-hour workdays developing new words and writing articles.
Lists of words were published in Hebrew language periodicals, particularly Hatzevi, which Ben-Yehuda founded. In 1910 Ben-Yehuda began publication of his dictionary, but the full 17-volume set of the Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew wasn’t completed until well after his death, in 1922.
A Legacy of Language
Ben-Yehuda’s life was exemplary because, despite the small successes and failures of his various projects, his dedication to speaking Hebrew and cultivating the language inspired others to do the same. In his later years, he co-founded and established the ruling principles for the Va’ad Halashon, the Language Council. The Council gave way to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, which adopted Ben-Yehuda’s rules and took upon itself his life’s work. The Academy, still housed at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, approves new Hebrew words to meet the ever-evolving needs of contemporary Israeli society. The Academy is also in the process of writing the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda never saw the creation of the State of Israel. He passed away only one month after the British authorities declared Hebrew to be the official language of the Jews of Palestine. Yet his dream of yisrael be’artzo uvilshono, the rebirth of the nation of Israel in its own land, speaking its own language, came to fruition. His efforts are counted among the great language revivals of human history.
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Elizabeth Ellis is an honorary senior fellow with the School of Law at the University of Wollongong where she taught for many years. She introduced animal law into the LLB degree in 2008, making UOW one of the earliest Australian universities to teach the subject.
Elizabeth’s publications in the field of animal law are diverse and reflect her interest in public law and governance issues, as well as legal education. They include articles in the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal and chapter contributions to the two editions of Animal Law in Australasia (Federation Press). Her first-year text Principles and Practice of Australian Law (Thomson Reuters) incorporates animal protection matters to illustrate broader legal issues.
Elizabeth has also written for the public more generally, with an Animal Law edition of Hot Topics for the NSW Legal Information Access Centre and pieces for The Conversation. She is on the editorial advisory boards of the Animal Studies Journal and the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal and is a member of several animal protection bodies.
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What Parents Need to Know About Kawasaki Disease and Its Link to COVID-19
Some young COVID-19 patients are experiencing a mysterious illness dubbed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which has symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease. Here's what to know about the rare condition.
By Nicole Harris
During the pandemic, kids in at least 44 states have developed a mysterious illness now dubbed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). An estimated 23 deaths have been associated with the illness, and most patients seem to be under 21 years old. Symptoms include fever, rash, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
Although experts don't understand the full spectrum of MIS-C, it has some similarities to Kawasaki disease. Here's what parents should know about it.
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What Is Kawasaki Disease?
Kawasaki disease is a rare condition that mainly affects infants and young children. "It causes inflammation (swelling and redness) in the blood vessels throughout the body," says Lolita McDavid, M.D., professor of general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
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Doctors don't exactly know what causes Kawasaki disease, but they believe it happens when your immune system overreacts to an unknown trigger. The overreaction causes an uncontrolled inflammation of blood vessels, says Michael Chang, M.D., an infectious disease pediatrician at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston.
Dr. Chang adds that the majority of cases occur in children younger than 5. Males and people of Asian descent report a higher incidence of Kawasaki cases, and it's possible that genetics play a role too.
Kawasaki Disease Symptoms
Dr. Chang says that Kawasaki disease symptoms appear in phases. But to be diagnosed, you need to have a fever for at least five days, plus four of the symptoms outlined below. Note that the symptoms don't need to occur at the same time.
Swelling of the hands and feet. This can be accompanied by redness of the palms and soles, as well as puffy fingers and toes. There aren't many illnesses that combine fever with swollen extremities, says Dr. Chang, so this can be considered a telltale sign.
Symptoms involving the lips, tongue, and mouth. Some patients have red, angry-looking lips that get cracked and bleed. The tongue, mouth, and throat may also look irritated. Children might also experience strawberry tongue—"a red tongue with white bumps on surface," says Dr. Chang.
Redness of both eyes. Unlike other eye infections, this redness doesn't come with drainage.
Rash and peeling of skin. This usually occurs on the back, belly, arms, legs, and genital area.
Swollen lymph nodes, usually on the neck.
In extreme cases, Kawasaki disease can negatively affect the heart. "One particularly important complication is that it can result in damage to arteries, including the coronary arteries, which supply the heart muscle itself," says Daniel J. Penny, M.D., chief of cardiology at Texas Children's Hospital. "This results in weakening of the arterial wall so that it can balloon out a so-called aneurysm. Sometimes clots can form in these aneurysms and can block the artery," leading to a heart attack. Kawasaki disease can also inflame in the heart muscle directly and impair its function.
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Kawasaki Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
To diagnose Kawasaki disease, physicians will perform several blood tests and an echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart), says Dr. Penny. "Even if the echocardiogram results are initially normal, it should be repeated at intervals during subsequent weeks," he adds.
Note that patients may be diagnosed with "incomplete Kawasaki disease" if they experience only some of the symptoms outlined above. Doctors may also consider "atypical Kawasaki disease" if patients have some of the signs plus other unusual symptoms, adds Dr. Chang.
No matter the severity of Kawasaki disease, treatment remains the same: Patients are hospitalized and receive an intravenous infusion of immunoglobulin, or IVIG, and aspirin.
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Is There a Link Between Kawasaki Disease and COVID-19?
So is the coronavirus causing Kawasaki disease in some children? Most experts don't think so. Indeed, Dr. Chang predicts that kids are actually experiencing a unique syndrome caused by an overwhelming inflammatory response to COVID-19.
Dr. Chang supports his theory with the fact that some adults also have severe immune responses to the coronavirus. What's more, he says that although many symptoms of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome overlap with Kawasaki disease, there are also some large differences. "As we learn more about it and we're able to measure the immune response, I think what we'll see is that this is a separate syndrome from Kawasaki disease," Dr. Chang says.
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Laura A. Ahearn is a New York State Licensed Attorney and Social Worker. Ms. Ahearn has stood up for the rights of thousands of child and adult victims of sexual abuse and rape, domestic violence victims, hate crime victims, others who have been victims of violent crime, and elderly, minor and disabled victims of property crime. She has over two decades of experience developing, implementing, and managing crime prevention programs including child sexual abuse and rape prevention programs, hate crime prevention programs, crime victims’ rights and advocacy programs, and programs aimed at ensuring up-to-date sex offender registries, comprehensive community education and notification programs.As a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow, Ms. Ahearn received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the SUNY Stony Brook and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Touro Law where she graduated at the top of her class.
She is the founder and executive director of the Crime Victim’s Center (dba Parents for Megan's Law), a not-for-profit national community and victim's rights organization. The organization is a New York State Certified Rape Crisis Center, staffs the Suffolk County Crime Victims Center and the National Megan’s Law Helpline. In addition, the organization provides support services to law enforcement locally and across the nation in their efforts to maintain an up-to-date and accurate sex offender registry and e the community about prevention.
In addition to her role as Executive Director, Ms. Ahearn holds leadership roles such as the Chairwoman of the Suffolk County Task Force to Prevent Family Violence Legal Systems Subcommittee and the Victims Services Representative of the Suffolk County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. She was also the Victims Services Representative of the Suffolk County Hate Crimes Task Force.
Recognizing a need for timely proactive violent crime victim follow-up services, Ms. Ahearn expanded the mission of the organization to provide services to all victims of violent crime and established the National Association of Counties award winning Crime Victim Center (CVC) Program. The CVC transformed the delivery of crime victim services. The program provides advocacy support services and educates violent crime victims and elderly minor and disabled victims of all crime, about their rights, entitlements for crime victim expense reimbursement, and links victims to a myriad of support services. The CVC serves the survivors of homicide, victims of; sexual assault, domestic violence, assault, hate crimes, child abuse, robbery, stalking, DWI, arson, kidnapping, human trafficking and other property and violent crime victims.
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Judge to Rule on Release of Video Showing Chicago Officer Shooting Teen 16 Times
By Carol Marin and Don Moseley • Published October 28, 2015 • Updated on October 28, 2015 at 5:45 pm
A Cook County judge will rule Nov. 18 on a motion to release police dash-cam video showing the fatal shooting of a Chicago teen last year.
LaQuan McDonald, who was 17 at the time of the incident, was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer on Oct. 20, 2014, prompting investigations by the FBI, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA).
Chancery Court Judge Franklin Valderrama heard arguments by Patrick Rocks, representing the Chicago Police Department, who argued the release of the video would harm the ongoing investigation by IPRA and plaintiff's attorney Matt Topic, who said the release "is an issue of significant public interest."
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On the night that McDonald was killed, police responded to a call of a man with a knife. Attorneys for the McDonald family said the 17-year-old was not posing a danger at the time of the shooting and was walking away when the officer, who has not been publicly named, opened fire.
The City of Chicago quickly moved to settle even before a lawsuit was filed. The $5 million settlement was announced in April.
Both sides in court acknowledged the existence of a federal grand jury and FBI probe, though there was no motion from the U.S. Attorney's office or the FBI relating to whether to release the video.
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Maryland-Michigan State football canceled due to coronavirus
/ by Ethan Cadeaux
For the second time this season, Maryland football's matchup against Michigan State has been canceled due to coronavirus issues in the Terrapins program. The Terrapins 2020 season is now over.
Since Dec. 10, 15 players in Maryland's program have tested positive for COVID-19 along with six staff members.
"This has been a season of promise and of adversity," head coach Michael Locksley said in a team statement.
"Our team has demonstrated a tremendous work ethic, resolve and displayed Maryland pride throughout this unique season. We have battled two opponents each week, the team we matched up with on the field and COVID. Together, we experienced tremendous highs and we are deeply disappointed that we will not be able to test ourselves on the field against Michigan State."
Saturday's game marks the second time this season the Terps have had to cancel a game due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Maryland's original matchup against Michigan State, along with a clash against Ohio State, were both canceled in November.
Maryland finishes the 2020 season with a 2-3 record, but there were plenty of signs that Locksley's program is trending in the right direction for years to come including a blowout win of Penn State.
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Prophet Pearls #44 – Devarim (Isaiah 1:1-27)
Posted on July 21, 2020 by Nehemia Gordon
In this episode of Prophet Pearls, Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson discuss the Prophets portion for Devarim, covering Isaiah 1:2-27. Devarim kicks off the “Isaiah series” of haftarah readings—the preacher-prophet with a flair for the poetic. Word studies include the pun surrounding “stranger/zareem”; Isaiah’s frequent use of “hoy,” and the word-of-the-week, “HaAdon/the owner-lord-master” (hei,aleph, dalet, vav, nun). Gordon provides three witnesses that the prayers and sacrifices of the wicked are abominable to the Lord—confirming Isaiah’s message that it’s all about obedience.
God’s promise to cleanse the stains of sin lead Gordon to examine the Talmudic teaching that a red string in the second Temple turned white each Yom Kippur—until 40 years before the Temple was destroyed. While some Christians and Messianics receive this teaching as gospel, Gordon and Johnson reason together about the Isaiah passage and the Talmudic passage—and weigh the words of man versus the words of the living God. Gordon closes by thanking Yehovah for his righteousness and justice that make our scarlet sins like snow.
Artwork for this week's episode is a painting by Mara Hofmann, artist.
"though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." Isaiah 1:18
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Prophet Pearls #44 - Devarim (Isaiah 1:1-27)
Keith: Welcome to Prophet Pearls, I’m here with Nehemia Gordon in the safehouse, in the sub-basement. Not just the basement, the sub-basement, and we’re about ready to start something that’s going to change the game for Prophet Pearls. I’m not going to call this…
Nehemia: This is a game changer?
Keith: This is a game changer. I’m calling this the Isaiah Series of Prophet Pearls. Because, Nehemia, we’ve got Isaiah, Isaiah, Isaiah, Isaiah, Isaiah. Now let me just tell you something. I’ve got the chills right now. I’ve got goosebumps, because on Shabbat I went out for my walk. You weren’t with me, you let me have my own Shabbat. So I went for my walk, and where did I walk, Nehemia? Just, if there’s anywhere I would walk, where would I walk?
Nehemia: To the Old City of Jerusalem.
Keith: No, not to the Old City of Jerusalem!
Nehemia: The Temple Mount.
Keith: No, not to the Temple Mount! As it pertains to the Isaiah Series, where did I walk, Nehemia?
Nehemia: To the Tomb of Isaiah.
Keith: No, I didn’t walk to the Tomb of Isaiah! I walked up the hill, over by the Knesset, next to this huge white building, it looks really weird. There’s this building with what looks like… it looks like a clay jar. Like the top of a clay jar!
Nehemia: The Shrine of the Book… The Israel Museum.
Keith: I walked to the Israel Museum, I didn’t actually go in, I walked there, and inside that place, Nehemia - I need you to stick your chest out now. Folks, let me tell you something. It’s not just Nehemia Gordon from the Hebrew University. Nehemia, you actually worked on some aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but what would you say is the crowning… the most important scroll that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls collection? What would you say it would be?
Nehemia: Hm, that’s a really good question. I think most people would say it was the first Isaiah Scroll, which is “1Q Isaiah A”. That’s because it’s the only book of the Tanakh that’s complete. In other words, you have other scrolls that are parts of Isaiah, parts of Nehemia, parts of whatever, Leviticus…
Keith: I shouldn’t have said “the most important”. I should’ve said, “What’s the most magnificent-looking scroll that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls? I walked to the Israel Museum…
Nehemia: I might call that the Copper scroll. Copper scroll because it’s unique, it’s made of copper. Why don’t you tell me what you’re looking for?
Keith: In the museum, what’s under...? They’ve got this thing that looks like the…
Nehemia: That’s 1Q Isaiah A, the first Isaiah Scroll. The Great Isaiah Scroll.
Keith: And why is it so magnificent? Why is it so amazing? When the President of the United States came to visit Netanyahu, where did he take him?
Nehemia: Netanyahu took Obama to the Shrine of the Book.
Keith: And what did he take him there for?
Nehemia: To show him the Isaiah Scroll.
Keith: Why would he show him the Isaiah Scroll?
Nehemia: We’ve talked about this.
Keith: It doesn’t matter, we’re talking about it now, it’s the series, it’s the Prophet Pearls series!
Nehemia: One of the things that Obama had said after a previous visit - you know, they take every dignitary to Yad Vashem, which is Israel’s Holocaust Museum, as you know, and Obama came back from America and gave some speech in which he said that, “You Jews rely too much on the Holocaust to justify your existence in Israel.”
And so Netanyahu decided to school him, as we say in Hebrew “la’asot lo beit sefer”, so he said, “Okay. You think we rely too much on the Holocaust? Let me show you. And he took him to the Shrine of the Book, Netanyahu walked up to the Isaiah Scroll. Now, I don’t know if people know this but Netanyahu’s father was a great Jewish historian, a very famous Jewish historian. Netanyahu knows the Bible very well; he walked up and he started to read from Isaiah chapter 2, about beating the swords into plowshares…
Keith: And what a great picture this is – Obama’s sitting there, he’s there under this place that I walked on Shabbat, we’re about to do this series and I’m like, “Nehemia, I’m not letting you off the hook.” We’re going to talk about this, we’re going to talk about this throughout the entire series.
Nehemia: Beseder. So he starts to read from the Isaiah Scroll and he says, “See Mr. President? It’s the same people in the same land speaking the same language. This scroll was found in 1947, it was written 200 BC, so it’s not that we’re some foreign people who have been planted in this land from some foreign place, it’s the same people in the same land speaking the same language that wrote this scroll.” As if we need to prove it, but for someone like Obama, you know - you need to see archaeological proof? Here it is.
And then he also showed him the Aleppo Codex, which is on the lower level there of the Shrine of the Book, it has its own section there. And he also pointed to that, and that’s the most important manuscript of the Bible, the most accurate copy of the Bible in Hebrew with vowels, and that was written in Tiberias in the year 924. So you’ve got the Isaiah Scroll in 200 BC, the Aleppo Codex in 924 CE, and that’s a span of 1,200 years, and the Jews are still in their land speaking Hebrew. So this myth of, “Oh, they left, they were there at one time, they’re not really there anymore, they’ve gone to some other place in somebody else’s land.” That’s not true. We were there, we are there, we will be there.
Keith: Well, I’ll tell you something. We’re about to go on this series, this Isaiah series. Now, you know, the normal thing has been, look, we’ve done 40-some of these things and now we’ve got this special series, and I really want us to do something. I want us to challenge people, really, to open up this book and to dig in it with us, and to really, if you haven’t made any comments up to this point, use this series to make comments, because I’m telling you - there are going to be sometimes where we’re going to be on a verse, and I’m not going to let us leave that verse. It’s going to be too powerful, and we might spend the entire time…
But here’s what’s exciting - when we’re in this Isaiah series, Nehemia, we’re down the street from Netanyahu’s apartment, we can see the Knesset, I walk over to the Israel Museum, Isaiah… I mean, you talk about Isaiah. We were at your mother’s house yesterday, and folks, I’m sorry, I have the right to do this. It’s half my show. We’re at your mother’s house and you casually come to the house and you say, “I had a little problem getting through traffic, they’re having a…” what did you call it?
Nehemia: Hakhnasat sefer Torah.
Keith: Okay, so he’s talking code language to his mother, but I heard the word “sefer”, and I heard “Torah”, and I thought, “Wait, wait, what is this?” So you start telling me something’s about to happen at the synagogue across the street. So your mom and I go down there, and I go around and I look up and I say, “Bubby Dina, what does that say?” And she looks at it… you know, there was a canopy there, and I said, “What does that say?” And she says, “I can’t tell what it says.” But I looked at it, Nehemia, and I get the chills again because I saw the name of the synagogue that’s about to have this thing which you’re going to explain… we’re not going to get into Isaiah yet - you’re going to explain - and I see the words, and they look just like, almost just like the words on the front of my Torah scroll. Now, can you tell the people the name of the yeshiva/synagogue, and what it was that they were going to have there?
Nehemia: So hakhnasat sefer Torah literally means the bringing in of the Torah scroll. It’s when someone dedicates a Torah scroll and there is this ceremony of dancing and singing and celebration and eating when the Torah scroll is actually brought into the synagogue.
Keith: Now, wait, here is the thing that’s confusing to me. Now, churches get new bibles and people get new things. You guys made it like, “Oh yeah, they’re going to have that and we better go out and order our food now, because of what they have that the police will shut the streets down and…” I’m like, “Wait a minute. You mean to tell me it’s a regular occurrence that when someone brings a new Torah scroll they shut the traffic down?”
Nehemia: Yeah, well, I mean, they’ll be dancing in the street and they’ll be singing and celebrating and they’ve got music blasting over loudspeakers, yeah. It’s a big deal. A Torah scroll is a very expensive thing, and a synagogue doesn’t get a new Torah scroll every day. You know, most synagogues… many will just have one, but most synagogues will have probably 2 or 3 Torah scrolls, some might have more if it’s a really big synagogue, if they can afford it. But when they bring in the Torah scroll, that’s a really big deal, it’s this huge ceremony. The Torah is given this great place of honor…
Keith: So what’s the name of the place?
Nehemia: So the name of this particular synagogue/yeshiva is called “Torah Betsiyon” - Torah in Zion, and I guess what you’re getting at is in Isaiah 2…
Keith: [laughing] Yes…
Nehemia: There is the verse on the front cover of your Torah scroll, “Ki mitziyon tetzeh Torah udvar Yehovah mi’yerushalayim”, the Torah shall go forth, mitziyon tetzeh Torah, that’s mitziyon Torah, and this is Torah betziyon, Torah in Zion.
Keith: So here’s the deal. Now we’re going to open up in Isaiah, and we’re going to be talking about Isaiah the prophet, and we’re going to be talking about the prophecy… Well, not actually in this one, we’re in chapter 1… But when I think of this, Nehemia, I just think about the fact that we’re actually in here, we’re here, and it’s going around the world, and this has been… you know, so my point is it’s a series. This is a series, would you just tell the folks what you… I count, based on my understanding, I see Isaiah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8… at least 8 sections…
Nehemia: 9.
Keith: At least 9 sections in a row in the Book of Isaiah.
Nehemia: Right. And the reason for that is something we’ll get to two weeks from now, because there’s actually… there’s a reason... Actually, this section corresponds to something in the Torah portion. There’s a series of seven haftarot, or Prophet portions, that have nothing to do with the Torah portion; it has to do with the time of year that they’re read.
Keith: Wow. [laughing]
Nehemia: And we’ll talk about that in two weeks when we get to that series of seven.
Keith: Okay. Now, so we’re in Isaiah 1:1. Now, look, we’re here, Nehemia, you’ve got your computer, I’ve got my Hebrew Bible, my English Bible, I got my stuff over here, and by the way I have to say our Prophet Pearl Partners, our friends, Michael and Irene from California, these are wonderful folks.
Nehemia: Shalom Michael and Irene.
Keith: Michael and Irene, they were very excited to be able to do this…
Nehemia: That’s wonderful.
Keith: …and they selected… You know, it’s really interesting. We were getting people to be Prophet Pearl Partners, that people would look through the list and kind of pick what they thought was significant to them. And it was a blessing to see that they selected this, because this really does kick off… We’re in the Prophet Pearls, I’m not saying this, I’m not trying to take away the fact that we’re in Prophet Pearls, but this is like a series, and this series… We get to refer back and forth, we don’t have to say, “Now, wasn’t it like 3 weeks ago we were in this section…?” No. We’re going to be in Isaiah this entire time, I mean… this… Wow.
Nehemia: Almost to the end. Two weeks before the end, or two episodes before the end.
Keith: We can read back and forth, I mean, let’s read back and forth. You want to start, or you want me to start?
Nehemia: Go ahead, I’ll let you read and I’m going to comment on what it says.
Keith: Okay, okay, okay.
Nehemia: I’ll read the first verse, because it gets butchered in English. “Khazon Yesha’yahu ben Amotz”, the vision of Yesha’yahu, the son of Amotz “asher khaza al Yehuda veyrushalayim”, which he saw, which he visioned concerning Judah and Jerusalem, “biymey Uziyahu, Yotam, Akhaz, Yekhizkiyahu, malkhey Yehudah”, in the days of Uziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah the kings of Judah.
Keith: Man, he’s got several that…
Nehemia: He’s got four.
Keith: He’s got four.
Keith: Jeremiah had, what is it, three kings, wasn’t it?
Nehemia: It mentioned three, but he actually had four.
Keith: He had four.
Nehemia: Didn’t mention the middle one, for some reason.
Keith: Yeah, the third one.
Nehemia: I guess because he was cursed, but anyway… Yeah, so I love Isaiah, because you know, Jeremiah he’s from Anatot, he’s a suburbanite and he comes to Jerusalem, and Ezekiel, maybe he’s from Jerusalem, but he gets exiled to Babylon. Here we’ve got a true-blue Jerusalemite.
Keith: Oh, he’s really from…
Nehemia: He’s a Jerusalemite, he’s in Jerusalem, he’s prophesying about Jerusalem, he’s not… Remember, we had Hosea, who was a southerner who went to the north. This guy is a Jerusalemite. You know, he’s native to here as far as we know. He’s definitely is prophesying about this place, the place where we’re sitting right now. That’s incredible, I get chills. [laughing] Take it away.
Keith: Yeah, okay. You’re not commenting.
Nehemia: I commented.
Keith: That’s it?
Nehemia: Well, I mean, so we’ve already said that Isaiah should begin in chapter 6. Meaning, we should’ve had Isaiah 1:1 and Isaiah 1:2 should have been chapter 6 with the whole vision, we talked about that.
Keith: Exactly, okay. That’s all you want to say?
Nehemia: But instead, and here’s this principle that Scripture is not always in chronological order. We’ve talked about in the Original Torah Pearls we talked about Numbers 9 actually being chronologically before Numbers 1 given the dates, and here is an example of that. You know, chapter 1 verse 2 should have been what is now chapter 6 verse 1, where he actually gets his calling.
Nehemia: Where he sees the vision and God calls him as a prophet.
Keith: Well, you know what? When I read Isaiah 1:1 I immediately go to 1 Samuel, I think it’s 1 Samuel chapter 3, only because it says “the vision of Isaiah”, and in Samuel it says there were not many breaking out visions in… it says, at the time of Samuel, so we get to this time of Isaiah, and this vision of Isaiah - boy oh boy, you talk about significant, the khazon, is that it?
Nehemia: That’s the word, khazon.
Keith: The khazon of Isaiah, and like I said, the reason it caught me, folks, you can take a look at 1 Samuel please, tap tap, chapter 3, I think it is, 1 Samuel 3 verse 1 I think, where…
Nehemia: 1 Samuel 3:1 it says, “And the boy Samuel was ministering,” in a ministry, “mesharet et Yehovah lifney Eli”, he was ministering Yehovah before Eli, “and the word of Yehovah was precious in those days, en khazon nifratz” - vision was not widespread, or as you said, bursting forth, it wasn’t all over the place.
Keith: It wasn’t all over the place, and so again, when we get to Isaiah, and the reason I think… Again, I probably got a little more dramatic about it than I should have. But when I thought about the fact that we’re going to talk about Isaiah for these next 9 weeks or whatever it is, and that we’re placed here… You know, you selected this place. Did you look at a map, Nehemia, and say, “Now, let’s see, where could we be that would be the most significant for Prophet Pearls?” Because I think you…
Nehemia: You want to know what I really did?
Keith: I want to know what you did.
Nehemia: I went on Airbnb and found the cheapest place. [laughing] We have no money! We’ve got a bedsheet here, we’ve got some bath towels. But we were on a budget, so I literally found the cheapest place we could get in Jerusalem. Where we could record…
Keith: I think you found a great one, because, really…
Nehemia: It turned out to be an amazing place…
Keith: An amazing place, you know… the Knesset, like I said, and the Israel Museum…
Nehemia: But I didn’t know any of that, I just knew that… you know, I did “sort by price”, this was like number 2, number 1 was taken… [laughing]
Keith: So anyway, so here it is, now instead of 6:1 we are in 1:2.
Keith: “Listen O heavens…” And you know what I like about Isaiah? He is like a great preacher, because…
Nehemia: He is a great preacher.
Keith: As he’s preaching, but he’s also a great… this kind of sounds… but he’s also a great writer, because he does these things where he moves in and out, you get… here’s the information and then boom! All of a sudden he starts getting poetic. “Hear, O heavens, and hear O earth for Yehovah speaks, ‘Sons I have reared and brought up, but they have revolted against Me. An ox knows its owner, and a donkey its master’s manger. But Israel does not know, my people do not understand.’”
Nehemia: So first of all, verse 2 is reminiscent of language in the song of Moses, in the portion of Ha’azinu, Deuteronomy 32, where he says, “Ha’azinu hashamayim va’adabera vetishma ha’aretz imrey pi”.
Nehemia: We’ve got a similar phraseology there. But I love this verse 3, and we have this phrase, the donkey knows the manger of his master, and it’s not exactly clear what this word is. Meaning, the word is “evus”, but “evus” according to some people means a manger, which, what does that mean in plain English? It’s the animal bed, meaning it’s where the animal sleeps. And according to other people it’s the feeding trough, and it’s not so clear which it means.
But I have this great story. I was in Nepal, and I was trekking through the foothills of the Himalayas, the Annapurna mountains there, and it was during plow season. And there were people were out in their fields, and they were plowing with their water buffalo. And I asked my guide, who was a Nepalese guy, “Do you think they would let me ride the water buffalo? I’m willing to do some work, could I do it?” And he said, “You don’t understand, a water buffalo is not a cow, it’s a wild animal, and it’s raised up with its owner and it will be tame around its owner, but if someone who’s not its owner gets near it, it could attack you and kill you.”
Keith: Woah.
Nehemia: Isn’t that interesting? I didn’t know about water buffalo. And for the Nepalese it’s a big deal because they’re Hindus, and they worship the cows, but they don’t worship water buffalos, it’s considered a different species. And it really behaves like a different species, it’s this wild animal. But I thought that was so interesting, you know, this animal, when it comes to its owner it’s nice and friendly, and it’ll let them plow with it, but you get near it and it’ll attack you. Pretty cool. It reminded me of this verse. So there I am in Nepal and thinking about Isaiah 1:3. [laughing]
Keith: Amazing. So “Israel does not know, people do not understand.” Can we just do something really interesting? I don’t know if you’ve ever run into this, I’ve run into this sometimes, where people will be reading a verse, we talk about language, history and context, and sometimes when you’re reading, say, the narrative versus a poetic section, sometimes people will take a phrase and then make that phrase their deal, and they won’t have it in context. But when I read this, correct me if I’m wrong here, but when I read this and He says, “But Israel does not know, My people do not understand,” I connect the two. In other words, He’s like saying... I could just pull the one out and say Israel does not know and just stay there, but He goes further. He says they don’t know and they don’t understand. So He’s kind of doing this… what would be similar to us in the English language, where we, you know… I was really, really hungry, I knew I had to eat.
Nehemia: It’s like the same thing, so you have this biblical style which we call biblical parallelism, and actually you find it outside the Tanakh, in other ancient Hebrew writings, like for example the metzad khashavyahu inscription, go Google that, good homework. And basically, the idea is that the ancient Hebrew speaker kind of felt like he wasn’t heard unless he was saying everything twice. That’s the impression I get reading it. And so really they’ll say just about everything twice, but that’s actually the style of Hebrew. In the Hebrew accent system, every verse in the entire Bible is broken into two. And that two, if it’s a long enough verse it’s broken into two. And those two are broken into two, to the point where you’ll get quarters and eighths and sixteenths… I think the longest verse is a one sixty fourth part.
So there’s this element of saying everything twice, and I think you’d find this in English poetry, which I’m not an expert in. But no, it’s not like you would talk in daily speech, because it’s not just that it’s poetry, it’s what we call in Hebrew the poetic style. And that’s a very distinct style, you could be reading a passage even in the Torah, which will be narrative, which is one style, and all of a sudden it will break into the poetic style for a couple of verses, or go back to poetry. This whole section is poetic style. It also uses different words than it would normally use.
Keith: Yeah, and so what I was going to say though, for the readers, for those that are listening right now and again, I’m kind of taking this group… these folks have been tracking with us since last October, so they’ve been going along, they’ve been hearing about the Hebrew, they’ve been hearing about different things, and so I want them to be able to look at this and say, “Okay, there’s a shift here.” Even in the way that it’s laid out in most Bibles, in most English Bibles, you can kind of see that there is a difference. It’s not like a paragraph style, literally the indents are further in and you go through it… of course the words let us know that, but also just the style of the writing and what you see in writing, it really is a different look than it is, say for…
Nehemia: For Samuel or Kings, or Joshua…
Nehemia: Almost the entire Book of Isaiah is written in this style, there are a couple of chapters where we have the Assyrian invasion that bursts out into the narrative style, the prose style, but most of it is poetic.
Keith: Yeah, and it’s funny because when you get into it, I’ll tell you, I get a little overwhelmed when I think about Isaiah, because it seems like every word, every phrase, is potentially…
Nehemia: Oh, absolutely. We can spend the entire time just on one phrase.
Nehemia: And, in fact, I don’t know… are we going to read every single one here…?
Keith: No, no! Now, here’s why I started this out. Let me confess. So we’ve got these people that have been tracking with us, we’re in the land of Jerusalem, we’re in Jerusalem, we’re not far from this place where the Isaiah Scroll is, there’s all these things, and I want people to experience this with us. I want them to be able to do some study themselves. And again, we’ve got the video on, we’ve got the audio on, where people could actually take a verse and you could say, “Hey guys, we’re not going to deal with this verse, but here are a couple of keys that you need to look at.”
Nehemia: And here’s some actual homework for people.
Keith: Okay.
Nehemia: I’m speaking to you, I want everybody who has never posted something on nehemiaswall.com or BFAInternational.com to go to the website and make one comment. When I was over in China, I did this online course through one of these online distance learning things, just to kind of pass the time.
Keith: What was the course on?
Nehemia: It doesn’t matter. Anyway, one of the things that you had to do in the course, in addition to read the material and listen to the lectures, is you had to post something, and it had to be something of substance. So I want everybody to post a question, give a comment, give a thought, a prayer. Something needs to go up on BFAInternational.com or nehemiaswall.com, or points will be deducted.
Keith: Nice. Points will be deducted. [laughing]
Nehemia: Okay, but I want to start in verses 4 and 6, we’ve got this word, there’s a play on words, I’ll read it real quick. This is the JPS. “Ah sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children, they have forsaken Yehovah, spurned the Holy One of Israel, turned their backs to Him,” and then verse 6, “From head to foot no spot is sound, all bruises and welts and festering sores. Not pressed out, not bound up, not softened with oil”. And you know, in English there’s nothing, no connection whatsoever, but in Hebrew we have this word nazoru, in verse 4, which means they were estranged, from the word zar, stranger. NRSV, for example, has, “they are utterly estranged,” that’s a decent translation.
And then we have zoru, in verse 6, which means to squeeze out a wound, you know, I don’t know how it’s translated in the JPS. Oh, “pressed out”. So “pressed out” is zoru, and the word before is nazoru. There is a play on words there, and then verse 7 takes up that same theme again. It says in verse 7, JPS, “Your land is waste, your cities burn down before your eyes, the yield of your soil is consumed by strangers. A wasteland as overthrown by strangers,” and there the word for “strangers” twice is zarim. So we have nazoru, zoru, zarim, zarim. And the message is very clear in Hebrew - you want to be strangers to Yehovah? You want to be nazoru? You’re going to get a wound that’s not zoru and you’re going to get the zarim, the foreigners, the strangers who are going to come, and they’re going to attack your land. So it’s nazoru, zoru, zarim, zarim, that’s a part of this poetic style. You have to hear it. And you know, when we do this beautiful thing where we read the actual portion, we post it on the website, I guess I do, and it’s so important, because these types of prophecies with this poetic style – you’ve got to hear it, you can’t just read it.
Keith: It’s really funny, you know, Nehemia, folks, I have to tell you. He’s throwing me a curve ball, we’ve been doing this audio thing, we’ve done it across the world, we’ve done it now face to face, now we’re in Jerusalem, we were in Charlotte, now he wants to add this whole video aspect, you know, and like, this guy is…
Nehemia: We’ll give it a shot.
Keith: We’re going to give it a shot, but I’m going to let you guys in on what we do sometimes. So, for example, I’m looking here in Isaiah 1:4 and I know you went further…
Nehemia: Oh, are you back in 4?
Keith: No, not really, because I want you to “tap tap”. He tap taps on his computer. So anyway, I see this word that I absolutely love that Isaiah does it, and I think he does it - from my own personal studies, Nehemia: I’d say he probably does it 18, 19 times - where he says “Hoy!”, and the first time he does it he says “Hoy goy”. 1:4 it says “Alas sinful nation”, it says, “Hoy goy”, so Isaiah uses “hoy” more than anywhere else, I’m convinced of it.
Nehemia: More than anybody in the Tanakh.
Keith: Anyone in the Tanakh.
Nehemia: You’re sticking with that.
Keith: And I’m sticking with that.
Nehemia: We’ve got hoy times in the Tanakh 51…
Keith: Di di di di di di di…
Nehemia: I like that music. So we have it in the Tanakh 51 times, 21 are which are in Isaiah. I don’t know the statistics of where the other ones are.
Keith: Survey says…
Nehemia: Survey says… I actually have a little program here, and it does say in the program that…
Keith: Trust me, folks, Isaiah is the king of “hoy”. [laughing]
Nehemia: Actually, there’s a bunch of “hoy’s” in 2 Kings…
Keith: Not 20.
Nehemia: Okay, we’ll give it to him.
Keith: No, Isaiah wins. But anyways, when he says, that does it not… like, when he goes out and he says “hoy!”
Nehemia: 11 times in Jeremiah.
Keith: Like he’s in the shuk and he says “hoy!”, you know, we had this whole thing about you saying “aha!”
Nehemia: Alas! But what does “hoy” mean? Translate it into English.
Keith: I would say “attention”. You know, it’s kind of like him saying...
Nehemia: “Aye, shiver me timbers.” Is that what it’s like? What’s the word?
Keith: It says “alas”.
Nehemia: Can I tell you what the dictionary says here?
Keith: What does it say?
Nehemia: So “ah”, “alas” in a kinah - kinah is a lamentation. And really, do you know what this word is? This is “oy”, it really is “oy”. The “hoy” of biblical Hebrew became “oy”. “Oy vey!” You could also use the word “woe”.
Keith: You know, it’s funny....
Nehemia: Grievous threatening cry of the prophets.
Keith: Yeah, like “woe!”
Nehemia: In English it also has an encouraging meaning. They give the example of Isaiah 18:1 and 55:1 here in the biblical Hebrew dictionary. So there’s “hoy”, but even in English we say “woe is me” but then there is “woah” where you’re like warning somebody. So “woah” is a good translation. And then you say “woah horsey!”
Nehemia: “Oy horsey, slow down!” Oy o-yoy.
Keith: You know, it’s funny because… the reason I brought that up is just because I liked the fact that it connected it to “hoy goy”. [laughing]
Nehemia: So there’s definitely a rhyme there. “Hoy goy khoteh, am keved avon, zera mereh’eem…”
Keith: You did 1 and 6…
Nehemia: I did 4 and 6.
Keith: When I get to 9, if that’s okay…
Keith: It says, “Unless Yehovah tzeva’ot”, “Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a few survivors.” And I think, I don’t remember, I’m almost sure that we… maybe we didn’t do this particular…
Nehemia: I don’t remember doing this. “Sarid kim’at” - a remnant almost.
Keith: Yeah. Is that what it’s saying?
Nehemia: Yeah, literally.
Keith: “We would be like Sodom, we would be like Gomorrah.” Unless he intervenes and says okay, I’m going to protect… you know, we saw the story which we did just a couple of weeks ago, and I don’t remember where it says, “and I’ve kept 7,000 that are…”
Nehemia: “Kept” from Kings 19…
Keith: So the idea that He gets involved and He says, “Look, I’m going to take my people over here and I’m going to protect and keep some…” Unless He had done that… and you know what, the reason I brought this up is because, again, we could get in a car - if we had one… by the way, we don’t have a car, folks.
Nehemia: The bus.
Keith: And so if we had a car, we could drive down actually to the area of Sodom and Gomorrah. And what do you see when you go there? There’s no more Sodom, there’s no more Gomorrah. [laughing]
Nehemia: Right, we wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for God’s great mercy.
Keith: Exactly. So, you can pick the next one.
Nehemia: And I love verse 10, then he addresses Israel as the officers or leaders of Sodom and the people of Gomorrah. I love it. “Shim’u devar Yehovah ketziney Sedom”. I love it.
Keith: Just a second, let me back up. So you’re telling me, is he taunting them?
Nehemia: Absolutely, he’s taunting them.
Keith: It’s like He’s saying, “Unless Yehovah of hosts has left us a few survivors, we’d be like Sodom, we’d be like Gomorrah. Now, hear the word of the LORD you rulers of Sodom.”
Nehemia: Right. Now, verse 10 in the Hebrew does begin a new prophecy.
Nehemia: We know that because there is what we call the samakh, the parasha stuma. There’s a space in the manuscript…
Keith: And if you’re a Prophet Pearls regular, you know about the samakh, because we talked about it.
Nehemia: You know about the samakh.
Keith: No, people are learning, this is huge.
Nehemia: Yofi. So we have these spaces - there’s a closed space, the open space, in the Hebrew manuscript to tell you there’s a new section, or a new thought or a new sub-thought. And probably this was a separate prophecy spoken in a separate time, but it’s connected because they both talk about Sodom. Often they’re connected by association. But also he’s definitely taunting them. And we have shma Yisrael - Hear O Israel, and this is shim’u, it’s the plural of shma, “hear ketziney Sedom” or leaders of Sodom, instead of “shma Yisrael” it’s “shma Sodom”, Sedom. That’s awesome.
And we’ve got some wording that’s referencing here Deuteronomy 32. What do you want to talk about next? Can we talk about, without maybe reading the entire thing, verses 11-15?
Keith: I was going to say 14 was the one that I was really kind of excited about, but…
Nehemia: Oh, okay, but in 11-14 the theme is this idea of, “Look, I’m sick of your prayers and your sacrifices; I want obedience.” We’ve talked about this before. And of course, it’s not a categorical rejection…
Keith: Controversy button - beep beep beep. Ready for the controversy?
Nehemia: I don’t know what that is.
Keith: No, this is brand new, I’m excited. So I come to you and I say, “Look, God doesn’t like the new moon, and God doesn’t like the mo’adim.” You talk about the mo’adim, you talk about the new moon, so I come to you and I say to you, “Look, here is the verse to prove that He doesn’t like it,” and now this is why context is important.
Nehemia: Or we could say God has abolished the Sabbath.
Keith: I want to talk about what’s in the verse. In 14 it says, “I hate your new moons and your appointed times.” And that’s my phrase, and that’s what I want to say. So He hates them. So if someone comes and brings that verse to you, what do you want to do? If someone came to you and you say, “You know, I just want to say I put up the new moon, and we’re excited we are counting the time.” And someone says, “Nehemia, Isaiah says, ‘Yehovah says, I hate your new moon and your appointed feast.’” Now, as ridiculous as that sounds…
Nehemia: People say that?
Keith: People…
Nehemia: Really, seriously… people take this verse out of context…
Keith: You could take the verse and bring it to you and say…
Nehemia: First, can’t we do the same thing in verse 15, that’s what I was trying to get to. “Ubefariskhem kapekhem a’alim eynay”, when you stretch out your hands I will hide my eyes from you, it literally says. So He’s saying here He hates prayer, so God is against prayer, we shouldn’t pray. We’re not going to end in prayer today.
Keith: No, and so… isn’t this interesting though? I want to find a way… and you’ve actually talked about this before, where there will be a phrase that’s taken out of context, and that phrase actually being used as sort of a commandment…
Nehemia: Look, I can speak for my own tradition, that the rabbis are masters of this. They’ll take a phrase out of context and they’ll develop an entire doctrine around that phrase.
Keith: And so you mean you think your people are better than our people? We have 30,000 denominations based on that.
Nehemia: At least.
Keith: No, no, where they take a phrase or take a concept and say…
Nehemia: And you can legitimately speak about that.
Nehemia: But yeah, you’re absolutely right, there are definitely people who will take these phrases out of context, and what’s the context? His context here is… it’s not a categorical…
Keith: Beep beep beep.
Nehemia: It’s not a categorical rejection of sacrifices, but it’s vain sacrifices and vain prayers from sinners who don’t repent. And I’ve got some verses here, I want to bring Proverbs 15:8, it says, “Zevakh resha’im to’avat Yehovah utfilat yesharim retzono” - the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Yehovah, and the prayer of the righteous (or literally- those of integrity, yesharim, the straight) are His desire, or are acceptable to Him.
So we’ve got on the one hand the sacrifices of the wicked, and we’ve got the prayers of the righteous. God wants prayer, He wants sacrifice but only if it’s in righteousness. And then Proverbs 21:27, again says “Zevakh resha’im to’eva” - the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination “af ki bezima yevi’enu”, how much more so when he brings it with depravity. That reminds me of this passage here, talking about depravity.
And then one more, Proverbs - I love Proverbs. Could we do a section called “Proverbs Pearls”? [laughing] We’ve got to do that.
Keith: I’m not saying a thing.
Nehemia: That’s awesome, we should do that. Proverbs 28:9. It says, “He who turns his ear from hearing Torah, also his prayer is an abomination”. So we’ve got 3 witnesses - abomination, abomination abomination, three times. You know, I love that, talking about prayer and sacrifice. And “abomination” is a really strong word. Here’s the homework for people - go look up in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20 and see what the Creator of the universe calls abomination. Then come back to these verses and say, “Woah.” So when we’re talking abomination that’s something God hates, that’s a really serious thing. And here He’s saying, “If you’re doing this in wickedness and sinfulness, prayer isn’t going to help you. You can’t sacrifice yourself out of sin. You can’t pray yourself out of sin. It’s of no value, in fact it’s a detriment to you - prayer and sacrifice - unless it’s done in righteousness. And that’s a theme we’ve talked about before. I think in a previous episode we gave homework of all the passages that talk about sacrifice specifically, you know, which is brought without righteousness, and I’m not going to give that again. But I read here in verse 12, and it’s talking about the “trampling My courtyards”. Yeah, verse 12. Who asked this of you? I don’t want this, what I want is obedience. This is the theme we’ve had repeatedly.
Keith: So, you know, the images that Isaiah uses make things pretty clear to me. So in the end of verse 15 it says, “Your hands are covered with blood”, and then the next phrase is “wash yourselves, make yourselves clean…”
Nehemia: What does it mean “your hands are covered with blood”? So they’re slaughtering these sacrifices, and literally maybe there’s blood on their hands, and they think they’re being washed in the blood, cleaned in the blood, the blood is covering their sin, and actually it’s a sign of their sin. It’s evidence of their sin.
Keith: Exactly. I guess what I like about the verse is he says, “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your deeds from My sight, cease to do evil.” In other words, the physical idea of washing and then saying…
Nehemia: That their hands are covered with blood.
Nehemia: Can you read verse 17? I love verse 17.
Keith: Yeah. “Learn to do good, seek justice, reprove the ruthless”.
Nehemia: The ruthless?
Keith: Yes, that’s what it says.
Nehemia: I have “make happy the sour” in Hebrew, “asheru khamotz”.
Keith: That’s the word? Khamotz?
Nehemia: Yes khamotz, like khametz, leaven, which is soured bread.
Keith: Yeah. “Defend the orphan, plead for the widow.” Boy, the orphans and the widows… it continues to come up.
Nehemia: Yeah. And I love this. What’s the basic message here? It’s not about prayers, it’s not about sacrifice, it’s about repentance and doing righteousness. That’s the message of Isaiah.
Keith: Here’s the deal, now, Nehemia, listen, I just want to say this. It was your idea for us to come here for two weeks, we prepared all this stuff, but I’m just feeling like… you know what I’m feeling like?
Nehemia: No, I don’t know what you’re feeling.
Keith: I’m feeling like I’m on that… in China they have what’s called the high-speed train.
Nehemia: Yeah. No, actually it’s the bullet train. Gaotiye. Gaotiye. If the high-speed train goes between 40-60 kilometers per hour, the gaotiye, the bullet train goes 300 kilometers per hour.
Keith: 300 kilometers per hour, and you know what, I want to be sensitive to people, and if you do this study you can take your time, but I’m waiting to get to verse 18.
Nehemia: Verse 18, that’s… What do you mean?
Keith: That’s my verse.
Nehemia: I’ve got pages on this. [laughing]
Keith: [laughing] You know, it’s really interesting because, I just want to say to you, this is a verse that well before I ever came to Israel in 2002, well before I ever had the encounter of God’s time, God’s Torah and God’s tetragrammaton. Well before I ever realized even the many powerful things that were in the Torah, this verse was something that I memorized.
Nehemia: Really? In Hebrew?
Keith: No, no, in English first.
Nehemia: Oh. Can you read it in English? Come on, let’s hear it.
Keith: Just a minute, I’m going to let you do your thing, don’t worry. But what I loved about it was, I went beyond in thinking of God’s thoughts with His people, and just this idea that He’s like… Okay, whatever it is that He says, He says, “Let’s talk about it, let’s have a conversation.”
Nehemia: Let’s reason together.
Keith: Let’s reason together. And I’ve got to tell you something. I was young in my faith, as you say, I was young in my walk, and I didn’t have all the information, I hadn’t gone to school, but I just thought about the fact that He would say, “Now, look, let’s have a conversation, let’s talk about it.” And then He goes on to say what the talking about is, and we can get into this with the Hebrew.
Nehemia: Yeah, let’s talk.
Keith: But, again, I basically looked at it from an English standpoint back then, I said, “‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says Yehovah. ‘Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.’” Here comes a softball folks, I’m about to pitch it to him, you can watch it right on video. Ready? You got the bat? Here it comes, Nehemia… whoosh. [laughing]
Nehemia: What?
Nehemia: Okay, so there’s a lot here to unpack.
Nehemia: So first of all, it’s pretty clear - the basic message here before we get into the details is, basically they would dye stuff red, linen and cotton and wool, and once it was dyed there was no way to get it white again. They didn’t have powerful bleach. And so if something was red, it was permanently red, the red was a really powerful dye. And he’s saying, “Even if your sins are as shanim,” which is the word, you know, they translate it as “scarlet”, “it should be made white like snow.” Now, this is not the snow in Chicago on the highway, which is black. [laughing]
Keith: I was going to say, boy, that’s bad snow.
Nehemia: This is fresh snow…
Keith: Like what falls in Jerusalem.
Nehemia: Like what falls in Jerusalem, it’s white…
Keith: Were you here when that fell just a couple of weeks ago?
Nehemia: I wasn’t, no, unfortunately. But it’s white, it doesn’t actually last that long on the ground, and so when you see it it’s white. It’s like this bright white. “And if they are red like tola,” I love that word, which is literally “worm”, but they translate here as “crimson red”, which is a good translation based on some things in Exodus, “it should be made like wool.” And what they would do is they would take the wool from the animal and they would bleach that. So He saying, “Even if it’s red and there’s no way in nature it could possibly be made white, I’m going to make it white again.” And there’s a little bit of an association here with their hands covered in blood, so red here is blood, we’re going to get rid of that blood and we’re going to make it white. I feel like you’ve got something more you want to say. I have something more, but I want to give you an opportunity to do your Methodist thing.
Keith: No, no, I was going to ask you… No, this is not my Methodist thing, Nehemia. What are you talking about?
Nehemia: What’s the Methodist teaching? That’s what we want to know.
Keith: No, no, no. We don’t want to know that. What I want to know is what does the Bible say, and what I love about the Bible is that it has a message in language, history and context. And I want to throw this out, we’re already in verse 18, I want to know if we could make… if you would be willing to do something, because this is complicated.
Nehemia: We’re not done with 18…
Keith: No, that’s the point. No, we’re starting at 18, I want to know if this word that’s in… “come now, let us reason together,” if you could unpack that word.
Nehemia: I want to get back to that. I want to talk about the scarlet and the red, could we do that?
Keith: Okay. More on the scarlet and the red.
Nehemia: Yeah, absolutely. This is a verse that I’ve heard… thousands of times this verse has been quoted to me by Christians and Messianics, and Hebrew Roots people, and they’ve come to me and they said, “Nehemia, don’t you know the tradition based on this verse that proves that Jesus is the one?” Haven’t you heard this? I’m sure you’ve heard this, no?
Keith: No.
Nehemia: So they come to you with the four spiritual laws, this is what they come to me with. You really haven’t heard this?
Nehemia: And what they’re referring to is a tradition in the Talmud, about how there was a string in the Temple. You haven’t heard about the special magical string?
Keith: Oh yeah, I’ve heard about the magical string.
Nehemia: There was a string in the Temple that was red, and every year on Yom Kippur it would turn white, based on this verse. In other words, this is a metaphor in Isaiah, but there was a literal string in the Second Temple, according to the Jewish tradition, and the last 40 years of the Temple it stayed red and didn’t turn white.
Keith: I have heard that.
Nehemia: You’ve heard that, okay. So I want to look at the Rabbinical source behind this. Can we do that?
Keith: So before you look at the Rabbinical source behind this, tell me this, honestly…
Keith: Why does it matter? And I think you’re probably going to tell me why it matters. So tell me about… in other words, people are…
Nehemia: I think it matters because this is out there. This is something that is common knowledge in the Hebrew Roots, in the Messianic world. I don’t know how well Christians know about this, if they talk about this in churches… And also one of the things it is, they’ll go to this Rabbinical source without… they actually wouldn’t even go to the Rabbinical source, they’ll say, “The rabbis say, the Jews say, the encyclopedia Judaica says…” And I say let’s look at the sources and see what they actually say.
Keith: Okay. And so in simplicity, for those of us who don’t know about what they say, tell us what it is that they say they say.
Nehemia: Okay. So here’s the point that they’re making. So the Jews were not forgiven the last 40 years that the Temple stood, because they rejected Yeshua. This is the argument of the Messianics, the Hebrew Roots people.
Keith: And it was based on the fact that…
Nehemia: The string was red, and here is the phrase – “Even the rabbis,” that’s always the phrase, “even the rabbis know that they weren’t forgiven those last 40 years, and do you want to know the reason why they weren’t forgiven? Because they rejected Jesus Christ.” This is what I had evangelized to me.
And so, look, I say, “Alright, let’s look at that. That’s really interesting to me, I want to hear about that, I want to check the sources. If there’s supernatural evidence that the Jews were not forgiven the last 40 years before the Temple was destroyed, and then it was destroyed, this is something that I need to look into. I need to check this out.”
Keith: Last thing before you check this out - so before those 40 years they would say it did change colors?
Nehemia: Oh, absolutely. That’s the argument, yeah. So now let’s look at this. Go look this up for yourselves, people, and read it in context, read the whole section. It’s Yoma page 39b of the Babylonian Talmud. And Yoma, or Yuma more accurately, is specifically the section that talks about the Yom Kippur sacrifice. That’s what the whole tractate in the Talmud is about. It says, “Our rabbis taught during the last 40 years before the destruction of the Temple, the lot for the Lord did not come up in the right hand (meaning it came up in the left hand), nor did the crimson colored strap become white, nor did the western most light shine, and the doors of the heykhal (that’s the middle section of the Temple) would open by themselves.”
So they’re listing 4 supernatural things that happened the last 40 years that the Temple stood, here in Yoma 39b. Okay, that’s interesting. Now look, as a Jew I don’t need this… in other words, the first thing that comes to mind for me is, “Oh, okay. First of all, I don’t know if this is a true story.” You know, the Talmud says all kinds of things that, you know, I don’t know, there are stories about demons showing up, and exploding and you know, parchment falling from heaven, and saying things about rabbis, all kinds of things like that in the Talmud. I don’t know that this is actually a true event. Josephus doesn’t mention this, and he’s a historian who was in the Temple in the 1st century.
But let’s say this is all true; what does it really mean? What are the rabbis trying to say by this? And what they’re trying to say is that last generation - because 40 years in Hebrew thought is a generation, read it in the Bible, it’ll say 40 years, 40 years, 40 years - they’re saying that last generation was a generation of sinners. And I don’t think anyone disputes that. Why else was the Temple destroyed if they weren’t sinners? What was the sin, that’s the question. Now this is me being the Jewish accountant. You know, I’m going to look at the numbers. And here is what I come up with. So historians say the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE or 70 AD. I say historians, because the rabbis have a different date. If it was destroyed in 70 CE, the last Yom Kippur is in the year 69, right?
Nehemia: That means the last time the crimson thread turned white was in what year? In 29, okay? Well, that means in the autumn of 30 AD it didn’t turn white, it stayed red. And let me ask you this, who went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, when was Yeshua or Jesus crucified?
Keith: There’s debate about when it was.
Keith: There is debate about the years. I don’t know if anyone can say definitively, “This is the exact year,” I mean, based on the source… in other words, there are some people that would argue it’s 30 AD, some people would say it’s 33, some people would say it’s 20...
Nehemia: But most people would say sometime between 30 and… Now, you’re aware of this, I don’t know if some people are aware of this - there’s this whole blood moon mania going on right now.
Keith: No, I’ve never heard of it.
Nehemia: You haven’t heard about the blood moon doctrine?
Nehemia: So according to the blood moon doctrine, there’s a very specific date on which Jesus had to be crucified, it’s central to their concept of tetrads and the middle and things like that, and eclipses and things.
Keith: Okay, so I’ve heard of it. [laughing]
Nehemia: So it’s very specifically April 3rd, 33 AD.
Keith: Yup.
Nehemia: So that means the red string failed to turn white three times before the crucifixion, based on the blood moon doctrine. In 30 it stayed red, in 31 it stayed red, in 32 it stayed red. What were the sins in those years according to the people who say that it didn’t turn white, it stayed red because of Jesus?
Wait a minute, that was before the crucifixion - by their own doctrine. I say that’s three witnesses. Now, I don’t know if it turned red... by the way, according to the rabbis, the Temple was destroyed in the year 68, which means 27 would have been the last time the miracle turn of the string took place according to these same… in other words, the rabbis are the ones who are telling us this, we’ve got to look at their chronology, and according to them the Temple was destroyed in 68, so 27 AD was the last time the red string turned white, according to the Talmud.
So we’ve got 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 - five years it didn’t turn white, way before Jesus was crucified, and maybe this entire discussion is ridiculous…
Keith: It’s nonsense.
Nehemia: Because what are we talking about? We’re talking about an alleged miracle that we don’t even know happened, it’s not in Scripture, it’s not even in the New Testament. It’s not in Josephus, it’s only in the Talmud, I don’t know if it happened or didn’t happen. You’re going to base your faith on that? Really? And you’re going to tell me I’ve got to change my faith based on some miracle in the Talmud? I mean, I don’t understand who’s falling for this kind of thing. I don’t know. You know, I hear this and I say, “Well, if that’s what your faith is based on, that doesn’t impress me. I’m not impressed with that.”
Keith: I have a confession to make about it.
Keith: The reason when you brought it up I was like, “Okay, how long is this going to move on?”
Nehemia: “Let’s move on this real quick.”
Keith: No, no, the reason I say that isn’t because it’s not important to me, you have people that talk to you about it, but the thing that I just always ask myself is, “Okay, so there are all these things that could be, and all these things that are possible, and there are all these things that maybe had happened, and whether the rabbi said it or is it the Talmud or not,” and I’m looking at the Scripture and I’m like, “Wow. This is amazing.” I look at what it says, and then I’m dealing with if the story is correct or not, and it’s like… you know, okay, alright…
Nehemia: I’m not done, I want to go back to Yoma 39b, and here we have the same passage that they’re quoting to me about the red string and the doors opening, I can’t see anybody really believe that the doors open by themselves, seriously. [laughing] Maybe they did, but I don’t know, maybe it was a trick of the priest, you know, there are these ancient greek documents where… I don't know if you know this, there is an ancient Greek book that talks about how to trick the believers into believing in the pagan God by making the doors open by themselves. And that’s actually what’s being described here as a miracle. Look that up guys, this’s this great documentary you can even see on YouTube, it’s called “Machines of the Gods”. Interesting stuff.
Alright. “Our rabbis taught that in the year in which Simon the Righteous died, he foretold them that he would die.” This is the same passage talking about the red string, that’s why this is relevant. This is talking about an event sometime around 200 BC. They said, “How do you know this?” He replied, “On every day of atonement and old man wrapped in white would join me, entering the Holy of Holies and leaving it with me. But today I was joined by an old man wrapped in black, who entered but did not leave with me. After the Festival of Sukkot he was sick for seven days, and then died.” This is interesting. “His brethren that year, the priests, forebade to mention the ineffable name in pronouncing the priestly blessing.” Isn’t that interesting?
So this was the first time in history that we hear that the name of Yehovah was not spoken in the priestly blessing, actually that it was forbidden at all, it’s the first time ever, and this is the year around 200 BC that Simon the priest dies, and it says, just during the seven days of mourning over his death, “This temporary measure is as a sign of mourning, we won’t speak Yehovah’s name for seven days because this great high priest died.” This is in the same passage talking about the red string and talking about the doors of the Temple, and I’m reading this and I’m thinking, “I don’t know if this happened or not, I don’t know if he really saw a white figure or not. Maybe he did, it sounds like what I saw with Elijah, you know, it actually sounds very much like…” And as a kid I didn’t know this passage. This isn’t something that’s taught in yeshivas and rabbinical schools. But it sounds very much like what I saw - an old man dressed in white, wrapped in white. Maybe he did see it, but is your faith is going to be based on some story in the Talmud about he saw the guy dressed in white not the guy dressed in black, or there was a red string, not a white string? That’s not even what Isaiah is talking about! It’s a metaphor, it’s a symbol! That’s the whole point! The symbol is, if your sins are red I can make them white!
And this is where I’m vexed by this whole attempt to convert Jews based on something in the Talmud which maybe happened, maybe didn’t happen. The whole point in the passage in Isaiah here is if your sins are red, I can make them white. And how am I going to do that? I’m going to do that because you repent, and you think your repentance can’t clean you, it can! That’s the point.
Now can we read verses 17 and 18 again, he says, “Limdu heytev,” - learn to do good, “dirshu mishpat,” - seek judgement, “asheru khamotz,” - make happy the sour “shiftu yatom, rivu almana,” - “do justice for the orphan and plead the case of the widow, and go let us reason,” says Yehovah. “If your sins are as scarlet they will be as white as snow, if they are red as crimson they will become like wool.” And the whole point of this argument based in the Talmud is to throw reason out the door. “We’ve got this miracle and it stopped happening, and it was the same time (it was 3 or 5 years off but whatever).”
It’s not about reason. I say, let’s go to reason. That’s what you wanted to talk about? That’s the whole point here of the story, it’s about using reason. And from my perspective, rational thought is a core Jewish and Tanakh value. Thinking rationally… and look, God gave us reason, He created us with reason, He didn’t make us like animals. He made us in the image of Yehovah, in the image of God. That means we have reason. Now, I’ve heard people warned all the time - you’re being too rational, you’ll lose your faith. And I say if your faith isn’t consistent with reason, it’s not a biblical faith. And I say you need both information and inspiration, it can’t just be inspiration. You need to have the information and inspiration, they’re indispensable to each other. And the point of Isaiah 1:18 to 20 is that repentance… Say “repentance”.
Keith: Repentance.
Nehemia: Repentance will result in forgiveness and reward. Refusal to repent will result in punishment. “For the mouth of Yehovah has spoken.” I’m done.
Keith: Wow, and this is the reasoning together. Okay, so this is the verse that I would like people to do something really kind of radical. Instead of us making it the Word of the Week, I would like people to first go to Isaiah 1:18 and pick a part, a little bit of this verse, because I do think it’s pretty powerful, especially the word that’s used there. In fact, what I want to do if we can, we have a couple here, I want to take a little bit of a break, because one of the things that’s interesting, you know, as you were talking about that, Nehemia, I will confess…
Nehemia: You were zoning out, they can see it on the video.
Keith: Look, I was zoning out. Now let me tell you why I was zoning out and why it’s important that you did bring it. We have two backgrounds. Very clearly two different backgrounds.
Keith: You and I are not the same, we don’t come from the same place. And my passion, my desire, if I could go so far as to say, my mission, is to try and reach those people that are in a place where they don’t have access to the information at all. And here is why I’m going to get in trouble, please don’t edit it out. When I first learned about the Messianic movement, I was a little bit shocked. And the reason I was shocked, I had no access to it whatsoever, I didn’t know anything about Messianics or anything like that.
But one of the things that really threw me off was I thought, “Okay, great, if these are people who really have taken the Jewish side of things from history, and Christian side of things, and their faith, and they brought them together, wow - that must mean that they’re interacting with the text. That must mean that they know that this is the word, and that’s the word, and then I was shocked because I kept coming across leaders, and I would say, “So what do you do with this verse?” And they would say, “Well, it says it right here in the King James.” I’m like, “I understand what it says in the King James, let’s open up the Hebrew.” And many of them would just in humility say, “You know what, I’ll get to it, I’ve been so busy, I’ll get to it, but I haven’t gotten a chance to learn much of Hebrew.” So then you come along and you say that there are these people… and look - this is your experience.
Nehemia: Oh yeah.
Keith: Where they come to you with these fantastical stories.
Nehemia: Oh, I would say I get this email probably once a month – “How can you not believe in him, don’t you know what it says in the Talmud about the red string?” I get this all the time. And I’m thinking, “Have you even read what it says in the Talmud about the red string?”
Keith: Okay, so this is what I want to say.
Nehemia: Have you even read Isaiah, what it says about the red string?
Keith: And here is where my confession comes in…
Nehemia: And my gut reaction is, if that’s what your faith is based on, I don’t need to believe that. Like, can the conversation. If that’s really the source of your faith then we’re done.
Keith: So that’s why for me, and I guess I’ve gotten into a little trouble about this, I take a different approach. When we’re sitting here and we’re looking at this, and now, again, this is a real experience, I can’t take that away from them, it’s like me talking about my experience when people said to me, “Keith…” whatever, I can’t even begin to tell you the kind of things I deal with or the assumptions that people make about me… And look, that’s not so important, but I think the thing that’s really powerful about this is that people actually can get past what someone said.
Keith: Including the Talmud. Because what is the Talmud, Nehemia, in comparison to Scripture, from your opinion?
Nehemia: A bunch of words of men, and this is the word of the living God.
Keith: Exactly. So like I said, I’m sitting here, that hasn’t been my experience, people don’t come to me with that because they make assumptions about what I believe or don’t believe. But then when we get to this word, and we’re opening it up and we’re doing it, I get overly excited about it. And so again, what I want people to do, if it’s okay, is go to 1:18 and to just go through and say, “What are these words? What do these words mean?” And they actually can do that.
Nehemia: And I guess the issue is that sometimes it’s difficult to see what Scripture says, because all these traditions and doctrines and arguments and claims are piled on top of it…
Keith: That’s a good point.
Nehemia: And we’ve got to unpack those so we can actually see what it says down there in Scripture, and what Scripture says is, “Repent, and then I’ll make your sins, which are red, white as snow.” It’s really simple and straightforward. But yeah, I’m done.
Keith: Okay. Well, if it’s okay, we can do one of two things.
Nehemia: Bevakasha.
Keith: One of two things. We actually talked about a few of these things, actually one of the things that’s cool, even in verse 22 it talks about “your silver has become dross”. I thought you did a really good job of explaining about what that process was, and then again, we have it here. But I don’t want to jump ahead if we don’t need to jump ahead, I mean, if there’s something…
Nehemia: I’m ready to jump ahead. What’ve you got?
Keith: Okay. For me, I like verse 24.
Nehemia: Let’s go for 24. Oh yeah, 24 is fine. And then I want to go to 26.
Keith: Okay, awesome. So here’s an example where we see the word “Lord” - capital “L” with a little “o”, a little “r” and a little “d”. And in this situation it says, “ha’adon Yehovah tzeva’ot” - therefore the Lord, God of hosts, and then it goes on to say, the mighty one of Israel. And for me, whenever I get these phrases that are like descriptions of Him, and we find it over and over again… I wrote a book called, which one was it? His Hallowed Name Revealed Again, that was the only book, and in the back of the book I do this deal where I give people a chance to see, I think it’s 40 times where Yehovah is connected to a descriptive aspect, or other times where it’s Elohim, or El, and it really, really is pretty cool, because what it allows people to do, it’s another one of these examples where you get a chance to interact with the text as it says it, as you’re actually looking at it. And people have been able to take some of those descriptions, some of those, like I say, descriptions of Him and apply them in their life. I mean, He is the God, He is the Lord, the Adon, the God of… Yehovah tzeva’ot, He’s over the hosts, He’s the mighty one of Israel, and it’s like in times like these, when you look around and you see what’s going on, you’ve got to be reminded. This is a part of His description, this is who He is. He’s the mighty one of Israel, not the prime minister, not the government that thinks that they’re the superpower, they’re not the mighty ones of Israel. He is the mighty one of Israel.
Keith: And over and over again, He’s got all these descriptions, this is just one example that kind of got me excited.
Nehemia: Yeah, so can we make “Adon” the Word of the Week?
Keith: Oh, that would be great.
Nehemia: Because that’s a good word. Because we’ve got the word “Adonay”, and Adonay which is not the Word of the Week, means “my great lord”, it’s actually the plural of “Adon”, with the “my” suffix. It’s adonim-y which becomes Adonay.
But Adon is the singular, it means “lord”, and here we have the hei which is “the” - ha’adon, so we have Hei Alef Dalet Vav Nun, 5 letters, the Vav there is functioning as a vowel, and so the actual root is Alef Dalet Nun, which means “lord”. It could also mean “the owner”, of like an ox is called adon, it could mean “a master”, it’s the root of the word adonay as well, ha’adon. And we have seven times in the Tanakh that it says ha’adon, or ha’adon Yehovah, and we have once where we have… well, kind of, it says, Aron Yehovah - the Ark of Yehovah, adon kol ha’aretz, Joshua 3:13, the master of the whole world, the Lord of the whole world. But Adon Yehovah we have seven times, for example, Exodus 23:17, Exodus 34:23 et cetera, seven times, and we have it four times in Isaiah.
Keith: Four times in Isaiah?
Nehemia: No, five times in Isaiah, sorry!
Nehemia: Five times in Isaiah where he has “Adon Yehovah” and Isaiah, I want to say, always has “Yehovah tzeva’ot”, so we’ve got twice in Exodus without the tzeva’ot. Actually Exodus 34:23 has “Ha’adon Yehovah Elohey Yisra’el” - The Lord Yehovah God of Israel, and five times in Isaiah “the Lord Yehovah of hosts”. So adon is the Word of the Week, ha’adon.
Keith: Man, oh man, it is amazing.
Keith: I have to say, I make fun about the computer. You know, when it works like this and you can see those things so quickly and it really is kind of…
Nehemia: It’s pretty awesome.
Keith: It’s very awesome. Okay, so that’s what I had in 24. You go ahead.
Nehemia: Yeah, so that’s 24.
Keith: You said you want to say something about 25?
Nehemia: 26. Can you read 26?
Keith: Sure. “Then I will restore your judges as at the first, and your councilors”, it says. “Your councilors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful city.”
Nehemia: And so that’s interesting. Here is another name for Jerusalem - “Ir hatzedek” - city of righteousness, “kirya ne’emana” - kirya is another word for ir, kirya ne’emana - a faithful city.
Keith: You have to put that in the intro. Can you add this phrase in the intro, when you talk about the eternal city? This is good stuff here.
Nehemia: Beseder.
Keith: This is nice.
Nehemia: Okay. Yeah, the faithful city. Actually, this is homework. I’m going to give people the verses, and youv’e got to go look this up, and if you have other ones that I didn't bring, then please go bring them and post them on Nehemiaswall.com and BFAInternational.com.
So different names for Jerusalem, Isaiah 62:12 has a name for Jerusalem, Zechariah 8:3, and I think we’re going to get to some of these again, or maybe not, maybe we did already. Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 33:16, and that’s it. So if you have other ones… And then we have to end in verse 27.
Keith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, “Zion will be redeemed with justice”.
Nehemia: Tipadeh. Maybe that should’ve been the Word of the Week.
Keith: Maybe it should have been…
Nehemia: It has to be.
Keith: “And her repentant ones with righteousness.” Knock yourself out.
Nehemia: “Zion will be redeemed through justice,” is what it says in Hebrew, “and her captives through righteousness.” Wow. I can’t wait for that redemption through justice and righteousness. It’s telling us what we have to do.
Alright, so for me this is the choice of Deuteronomy 30:9, where He places before us life and good, death and evil. Choose life that you may live.
Nehemia: This is what we need to be redeemed, is to live a righteous and just life, a life of righteousness and justice. So Isaiah 35:10 and 51:11 have the phrase “pedu’yey Yehovah” - those who are redeemed of Yehovah. And I’m going to ask you to share about…
Keith: There’s a section that we’re going to be dealing with…
Nehemia: I think that’s one of the sections, isn’t it?
Keith: No, no. Believe it or not, I actually... I have an application with the…
Nehemia: Okay, so we’re going to talk about that later. Alright, beseder. So look forward to that in a future section, I’m going to hold him to it to talk about the redeemed of Yehovah in a future section.
Keith: What I really want to talk about is sort of the bigger picture around it.
Keith: But, in Isaiah 1:27 it says “Zion”, Tziyon. And for me, again, Nehemia, I don’t know how many times Isaiah talks about this word, how many times he says this word, you could probably “tap tap tap” and we could see who could find it faster, let’s see. Hold on.
Nehemia: I’ll let you do it. What are you asking? Padah?
Keith: [laughing] What did you say?
Nehemia: Padah appears 60 times in the Tanakh, that root, and in Isaiah it appears…
Keith: No, I was asking about the word “Zion”.
Nehemia: Oh, Zion.
Keith: Yeah, so 158 times…
Nehemia: Tziyon is 159 times I got, and of those in Isaiah… and Zion, of course, is the mountain on which Jerusalem is located. 49 times in Isaiah.
Keith: Isaiah really loves this word. He loves this word. And I love this word, and I love that idea… You know, people are called Zionists. There’s a cult, something called “the Zionist movement”. Now, I don’t want to get overwhelmed when I talk about this, there’s sort of a political issue that’s going on… by the time the people will hear about this, which will be well into the summer, there could either be a new…
Nehemia: We’ll probably have another war by then.
Keith: Oh boy, I hope not.
Nehemia: I hope not, too.
Keith: There would either be a new prime minister, or a new government. It’s possible you have the same government… you know, the system that goes on here, and then you know, whether the people are the conservatives… I was looking at a bus the other day. The bus goes down and it says, it’s either us or those from the left. And I’m like, it’s on the bus, people talking about the different groups and who is really Israel and Zionists, and not Zionists, et cetera. But when I see this, Nehemia, when I think about Zion, and the beauty of the word, and what it means and to be here… and like I say, we see it. We’re going to be… we’ll be talking about this soon, but we’ll actually go to Mount Zion. And… wow. [laughing]
Nehemia: I think tomorrow morning we’re going to Mount Zion.
Keith: Maybe, yeah.
Nehemia: May it be. So “Zionists” simply means people who believe that God gave Israel to the people of Israel, and that we should return to live here. That we were sent out into exile and it’s time for us to return, that’s what a Zionist means.
Keith: Amen. Zionist, you can pray.
Nehemia: Yeah, and I’m a proud Zionist. Yehovah gave us this land. Wow.
Yehovah, Avinu shebashamayim - Yehovah, our Father in heaven, boreh olam - Creator of the universe, go’alenu - our redeemer, Yehovah - the One who through righteousness and justice will turn our sins though they be as scarlet, white as snow. Yehovah, I ask that… You said, “Tziyon bemishpat tipadeh, veshave’hah beetzdaka” - Zion will be redeemed through justice, and her captives through righteousness. Yehovah, I ask You to turn the hearts of Your people to You, to justice and righteousness. The ones who are still captive in many parts of the world. They’re physically captives or they’re spiritually captives out in the diaspora, and many of Your people who have turned to You who aren’t from Your seed of Israel or… they are captives in the systems in which they’re operating. Yehovah, I ask You to redeem them, to accept their righteousness and their justice, their desire to do righteousness and justice, that You redeem them and You free them, You set the captives free and… Yehovah, I ask for peace for the faithful city Jerusalem, peace for the city of truth, which sometimes is mired with these politicians who aren’t always focused on truth, but Your people, Yehovah, love You. And Your people are trying to be faithful to You, Yehovah. And please, Yehovah, remember the righteousness of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who served You and You had a covenant with them. Remember Your covenant, Yehovah, and redeem Your people, Israel, redeem all those who call upon Your name, and bring peace to Your people wherever they may be in the world. Amen.
The Original Torah Pearls - Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22)
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Proverbs Pearls sounds like an amazing idea!! Infact, it would be amazing if ya’ll did every book as a Pearls portion! Thank you guys so much for all your work!
Charlotte Smith-Connolly says:
I love the book of Isaiah. Chapter 6 is my favourite, maybe. I enjoy listening to Nehemia explaining the ancient Hebrew. It lets me understand more about Yehovah’s view of our way of living and how we can please Him better. It’s brilliant! Many thanks.
My homework: 1Kings 8:29 the place of which You have said: My name shall be there; 1Kings 9:3 .. put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there all the days (says Jehovah).
Blessed are those who can enjoy this now. Thanks YHWH for Nehemia, the living house of our Lord, both of them in Jerusalem, as through him is going forth the Torah (law) and restoration of the Creator´s Name and truth even today.
Ted Craven says:
If Nehemia really wants to resolve the Messiah question, maybe he could apologize for shutting the door on Elijah, promise not to do it again, and invite him back. Since Yehovah can make scarlet sins as white as snow, I am sure that he would overlook the Elijah incident if asked nicely. I’m not even sure that it was actually a sin. It seems more in the line of a severe breach of etiquette.
Imagine the opportunity to ask Elijah about the Messiah! Or about 1 Kings 19:3 and what he saw. Although I have my own ideas about that…
I think that Elijah saw that all his great miracles were not going to be sufficient to turn Israel around and avert the disaster that was coming and that this is why he was so depressed. But in 1 Kings 19:11-12 Yehovah revealed to Elijah that it was not mighty works that would bring salvation to Israel but rather the “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit. And in fact, the entire generation that witnessed at first hand all of Moses’ mighty works perished in the wilderness due to unbelief (excepting Joshua and Caleb). Even Aaron who actually performed some of the miracles didn’t make it into the Promised Land.
And I think that perhaps that is why Elijah was granted the task and opportunity to prepare Israel for the coming of the Messiah. Just as the High Priest was required to cleanse himself before going in to the Ark, I think that the Israeli nation was supposed to cleanse itself for the coming of the Messiah by following the Torah. Today we see that one portion of Israel has rewritten the Torah and another portion tends to ignore it. So if that really is Elijah’s job, he will have his hands full when he arrives and could probably use all the help he can get.
It might also be that Elijah’s second round of miracles will be less flashy than the first, but more marvelous in that they would actually lead up to the salvation of Israel.
This speculation may be all wrong, but I wouldn’t mind in the least if Elijah were to show up and set me straight.
Arie Kralt says:
Nehemia, may YHVH bless you and keep you!
Im in to your teachings for 2 weeks and i really enjoy it.
In different teachings youve asked people for help to find manuscripts.
Im studying scripture, and have access to the ATLA-Library, and alsof to the royal library of the hague. Im living next to Leiden, so i also can visit that library.
If you will find something, that you want to have, or Mayne you are looking for a book, you can ask me!
Arie from the Netherlands
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Supporting world-leading neonatal research
One of the three core objectives of The Neonatal Trust is to aid neonatal-related medical research. The Neonatal Trust is proud to support neonatal research, as it creates enhanced outcomes for thousands of future neonatal babies. Note: All research we support has appropriate ethics sign off.
A good example is the world leading research into the early care of neonatal babies undertaken by Dr Max Berry and her team. The long term view is being looked at, with the differences in circumstances and care – and how these can impact their life beyond the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and/or Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU).
Here’s some specific insights into the research being undertaken:
The ‘Unicorn babies’ study is underway to better understand the incidence of premature babies having some sort of brain injury. The impact of preterm-associated brain injury varies enormously between children but we know that it increases their risk of going on to develop complications such as cerebral palsy or learning difficulties. Learn more here about a specific study into the role of creatine and brain development.
Dr Max Berry and her team of researchers and clinicians are undertaking some remarkable work into the enhanced understanding of the long-term impacts of prematurity. Watch this video from a 1News piece on using data to assess the trends in the long term outcomes for premature babies.
View this video from 1News on the World leading research we’re supporting – this on blood transfusions, and the best way to enhance effectiveness. The video features Maria Saito-Benz (pictured to the right) and Dr Max Berry.
Learn more here about the observational studies underway: ‘NIMO for Anaemic Infants (‘NIMO-AI’)’. This research looks into how treating anaemia (a very common problem for preterm infants) with blood transfusion changes the oxygen levels in a baby’s brain and other organs.
In 2017, at the Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand’s annual scientific meeting, Maria Saito-Benz was awarded the New Investigator Award for Neonatology for a superb presentation describing NIMO-AI and her results to date. Read about this here.
A recent Otago University article provides an insight into her work, including looking into the effect of nutrition in the first month of life
An insight into the world of neonatal research can be read in this story from the Generosity Journal (which is produced by the wonderful One Percent Collective). Handily for those who like to print and read, here’s a PDF version as well.
New Zealand is lucky to have world leading practitioners working on neonatal research. One of these is Dr Max Berry who holds the dual roles of:
Consultant Neonatologist with Capital & Coast District Health Board – working in the Wellington Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and
Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Otago, Wellington.
Read more about Dr Max Berry and the different research programmes here
Supporting enhanced care, by providing a patient voice
In addition to supporting clinical research, we help to get a ‘patient voice’ and direct feedback from those who have been on a neonatal journey. For example, contributing to a working group aiming to better understand the information and care given to parents of very early babies (those aged 23 to 26 weeks gestation). Having a patient voice is an important step in identifying improvement opportunities and ensuring consistency of approach and messaging.
The Neonatal Trust is proud to support neonatal research. Increased understanding and enhancements to clinical care will help thousands of babies for years to come.
To learn more about our support, you can view this gallery of examples
If you would like to support the work of The Neonatal Trust, you can make a donation here
If your organisation looks to support good causes, we’d love to hear from you on info@neonataltrust.org.nz
– Some examples below.
Working with Partners
We often work with Partners who have a desire to support research. Through fundraising events and intiatives, we have helped to purchase particular equipment, consumables, etc to ensure that the research can meet its objectives. Examples of this include:
Working with ICAP to purchase a Bioamplifier to measure brain blood flow and collect data at a very granular level.
Read more about the ICAP Charity Day, see pictures of the fun that was had while fundraising, and learn about the support of research that it enabled.
Both the PwC Charity Relay and NZFMA Charity Ball helped to purchase NIRS probes and provide other support for the research of Dr Max Berry. As a guide to the expense involved with this critical research, the specialist Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) probes needed for the care and monitoring of extremely premature babies are $200+ EACH. Moreover, due to the heightened risk of infection (premature babies have under-developed and compromised immune systems) the probes can only be used for one baby.
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Texas Jazz & Blues Camp Faculty
Don Braden
Music Director, Texas Jazz & Blues Camp
Don Braden is a Jazz musician of the highest caliber. For over 30 years he has toured the world leading his own ensembles on saxophone and flute, as a special guest, and as a sideman with Jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, and many others. He has composed music for ensembles ranging from duo to full symphonic orchestra, in many styles, for recordings (including 19 CDs as a leader and over 80 as a sideman), film, and the television networks NIckelodeon and CBS. Braden is a leading arranger of contemporary standards, and has built a solid collection of newer American songs into his Jazz repertoire. He is also a world renowned educator, having spent over two decades giving master classes at countless schools and universities, and running first class educational programs such as the Litchfield Jazz Camp, NJPAC's Wells Fargo Jazz For Teens, and most recently, the Harvard University Monday Jazz Band. He is an imaginative, technically excellent, soulful saxophonist, and his harmonic and rhythmic sophistication give him a unique approach to improvising as well as composing and arranging. Most important of all: he has a beautiful sound, and he swings! All this combines with his joyous yet disciplined personality to make him one of the most important musicians working today.
Andre Hayward
Jazz Improv Director
Andre Hayward is an extremely gifted trombonist with the sound and clarity reminiscent of the late J.J. Johnson. His gospel-tinged approach is refreshing and will warm the hearts of anyone he comes in contact with. He landed his first engagement with trumpeter Roy Hargrove for a European tour after being heard at a jam session during a festival while playing with the Texas Southern University Jazz Ensemble. After Hargrove, Hayward performed and recorded with singer/bandleader Betty Carter for five years in her acclaimed “Jazz Ahead” program. Other acclaimed performers include Joe Williams, Slide Hampton, John Lewis, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gerald Wilson, Kirk Whalum, Jimmy Heath, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and Illinois Jacquet’s Big Band.
Murali is the oldest son of late jazz luminary Larry Coryell. Murali has has been rubbing shoulders with music legends like Carlos Santana and Miles Davis since before he could pick up an guitar. Along with his brother Julian, the Coryells are a veritable jazz guitar dynasty. Murali has played with Buddy Guy; toured with Bill Evans and Joe Louis Walker; and opened for B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, Gregg Allman, and George Thorogood among others. Known as much for his smooth vocals and excellent songwriting as he is for his dazzling guitar play, Coryell has seven critically acclaimed solo albums to his name. His music has been featured by Rolling Stone, CNN, and The New York Times, and garnered him a 2014 Blues Music Award nomination. Coryell has a B.A. in Music Theory and Composition from SUNY New Paltz in upstate New York and was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame in 2013.
Ernie Durawa
best known for his decade-long stint behind the drums for legendary Tejano all-star band the Texas Tornados from 1989 to 1999. Born in San Antonio, the Grammy Award Recording Artist is a Texas music connoisseur and a veteran mainstay of the Austin music scene. A master of everything from rock and R&B, to blues and jazz, to country and Tex-Mex, what sets Durawa apart as a drummer is his ability to blend multiple styles into something new. Before joining the Tornadoes with long-time friend and fellow San Antonian Doug Sahm, Durawa studied under Chicago legend Roy C. Knapp and played with a number of bands including Charlie & the Jives and the Dell-Kings. He’s most recently released records with Los Jazz Vatos and is heavily involved with the South Austin Marimba Band and the National Guitar Workshop summer music camps. Durawa has also been inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame.
Tom Brechtlein
Tom Brechtlein grew up in East Meadow, Long Island and gravitated to drums after listening to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In junior high, his attention turned to big band jazz, and he became attracted to the music of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. His investigation of jazz led him to Dave Brubeck's drummer Joe Morello and then to modern giants like Elvin Jones and Tony Williams as well as legends like Papa Jo Jones, Max Roach and Philly Joe Jones. "When I was 18," he recalls, "I saw Chick Corea's Return To Forever on PBS Television; and I remember sitting there thinking, ' I'm going to play with that guy someday.'" Two years later, in 1978, he auditioned with Corea and got the gig. He remained in the band till 1983, at which point he joined Wayne Shorter's band. There followed extensive road work with guitarist Al Di Meola and violinist Jean Luc Ponty before Tom finally hooked up with Robben Ford in 1986
Paul Deemer
Ensembles, Trombone, Improvisation
After graduating with his Masters degree in Studio Music and Jazz from the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida, Paul moved to Austin, Texas and quickly became one of the city’s first call trombonists. Paul is on faculty at UT Austin, and Texas State University, and is currently playing and touring with musical groups The Polyphonic Spree, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Progger (an offshoot of Snarky Puppy), The Royal Dukes, and Summit Recording artists Jazzbonez, among many others in the Austin area., Paul was featured as the guest artist and clinician with the University of Arizona Concert Jazz Band for the Arizona Jazz Festiva, and was a featured performer at the 2015 TMEA convention in San Antonio and was also featured in a showcase at the American Trombone workshop in March of 2015. In November 2014, Paul had the honor of conducting one of the Region 26 jazz bands in Austin and was also selected to give a masterclass at the renowned Booker T. Washington High School of Performing Arts in Dallas. Paul can regularly be seen performing with his own group at the Elephant Room, and has performed with Frankie Valli, Robert “Sput” Searight’s (Snarky Puppy) the Sput and Nate show, Walkmen during FFFun Fest 2014, and in the Grooveline Horn section for The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band in Shreveport, Louisiana and Austin, Texas. Paul teaches and gives clinics throughout the state of Texas and runs a Jazz Concert Series in Austin, Texas, where his band is regularly featured.
Ponder East
Ponder East has been the Region 18 jazz coordinator, hosting the all-region jazz band auditions and organizing the bands for their rehearsals and concert for the past 4 years. He has taught in Wylie Intermediate School, Grapevine Middle School, LBJ and LASA High School and KIPP Austin College Prep. A big fan of Count Bassie, Pond also plays in groups, the J’aibeaux Quintet and The Gladiators Big Bands. He also has served as clinicians at Region 15 – TMEA All-Region Jazz Band Two, Hernandez Middle School, RRISD and Cele Middle School, PfISD.
Paul Garretson
Percussion Specialist
Paul Garretson has been playing drums professionally since the age of 14 in San Antonio Texas where he performed with jazz artist Nobuko and Angel Sucheras. He received his Masters in Music Performance at the University Of North Texas where he performed in the famed North Texas Lab Band and concerts with jazz artists Tom Harrell and Herb Ellis. While at North Texas, he performed with well-known artists such as Gladys Knight and the Pips, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Nabors, and the Smothers Brothers. Paul also worked for three years in Nashville as a freelance player and toured throughout the United States with contemporary Christian artists The Gaither Vocal Band and Farrell/Farrell. Upon leaving Nashville, Paul moved to Austin, Texas, and played with such well-known local artists as Tish Hinojosa, Clay Blaker, The Brian Barber Trio, Mr. Fabulous, The Groove Machine, and Danny Britt. Also an accomplished orchestral player, Paul performed with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Texas Choral Consort. In 2008 Paul moved back to Nashville where he has established himself as a performer playing and or recording with Brian Bandas, Trudy Chase, Denny Jiosa, Tim Hayden, the Happy Goat Band, and Tiger Gagan. He recently has worked with CCM artists Drew Cline and Nailed. Mr. Garretson also currently teaches percussion at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN and arranges and coordinates the percussion classes and private lessons at Wilson Central High School. Mr. Garretson is also the founder and director of the Ratamacamp Percussion which is now in its 15th year of existence.
B.S. in ministries & music from Howard Payne University. Graduate studies at Episcopal Theological Seminary. Ensemble director of the NAJO, Mainstream Jazz Quintet, Rhythm Congress Band, and the Ken Ragsdale Orchestra. Worship leader and choir director for the Sanctuary, and additional music ministry directing experience in the Seattle and Austin areas. Extensive private trumpet teaching experience and ensemble directing, ranging from small groups to large jazz orchestras, in a diverse range of musical styles.
Sarah Milligan
Sarah Milligan is a jazz saxophonist residing in Austin, Texas. Originally from Sierra Vista, Arizona, Sarah studied jazz in high school with University of Arizona Saxophone Professor Kelland Thomas, then moved to the Tucson Jazz Institute where she studied under Brice Winston, Scott Black, and Doug Tidaback. She currently earning a BM in Jazz Studies under Dr. John Mills, John Fremgen, and Jeff Hellmer and a minor in Arts Management and Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. During her journey as a musician, Sarah has performed in many of the world’s renowned jazz festivals including the Next Generation Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington, The Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), and has shared the stage with wonderful musicians such as Terrell Stafford, Cyrus Chestnut, Kenny Rampton, Conrad Herwig, and Joe Lovano. Sarah was selected as a part of the Women In Jazz Organization’s (WIJO) mentorship program in spring 2019, and initiated Jazz Girls Texas, an Austin branch of JEN’s Jazz Girls Day. Sarah’s nonprofit experiences ranges from working with organizations such as Ballet Austin, Jazz Outreach Initiative, and Jazz Houston; and is currently on music faculty and the administrative team at the New School of Music in Austin, Texas.
Bass, Ensembles
Phil Spencer has been performing and teaching bass since 2002. Spencer has a Bachelor of Music in music performance from the University of Northern Colorado and has collaborated with a long list of musical projects including The Austin Piazzolla, The Parish Festival, Bluesqueezebox, Mamahawk, Hot Club of Austin, Graham Weber, The Central Texas Master Singers, and the Abilene Philharmonic.
Jay Tillman
Piano, Organ, Bass, Percussion
Jay Tillman is a multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas, USA. Although his primary instrument is piano, he is proficient in organ, bass, and percussion. He is currently a student, the Minister of Music of his local church, and has been a frequent music instructor/consultant for The African American Cultural Center in Austin, Texas. He is a proud member of the Huston-Tillotson Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Gloria Quinlan. His energetic playing style, reflects his effervescent personality. He is fluent in gospel, pop, jazz, soul, fusion, and country- and plays them all with improvisational prowess. He has dedicated his life to music education, and believes that "the key to living a happy life is Jesus, and Gustav Mahler." He attributes most of his musical success to his three teachers: Jay Booker, John Tatum, and Dr. Stephen Burnaman.
Dominik Wachtel
Dominik began his musical studies at the age of five. He holds two bachelor’s degrees from the Vienna Conservatory in both classical and jazz piano. In 2012 Dominik was chosen to play with the Vienna Military Brass Band. They performed at many official ceremonies and balls, including the birthday celebration for the former president of Austria, Heinz Fischer. Dominik received a scholarship from the University of North Texas to pursue his masters degree in jazz. Since living in Austin, he has performed with Hailey Tuck, a SONY recording artist, at the South by Southwest festival 2018, played at the infamous Townsend with award winning band A Is Red, accompanied the American Ballet Theater for their summer intensive program at University of Texas at Austin, and performed at Jazz TX in San Antonio.
Red Young
MASTERCLASSES, KEYBOARDS, B3 ORGAN, ARRANGING
A true master of the keyboard and Hammond B3, Red Young became obsessed with the ivories starting at age 3. In the years that followed he capitalized on endless opportunities to display his keyboard prowess, playing in a variety of styles. You have heard his work on recordings by Joan Armatrading, Dolly Parton, Eric Burdon, Marcia Ball, Ray Benson, Kirk Fletcher, Janiva Magness and others; TV shows such as Everybody Loves Raymond, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Osbornes; and movies such as, In The Line Of Fire, and Indecent Proposal. Red has a legacy reaching into multiple genres, and live performances include Austin City Limits (Eric Burdon. Amos Lee), HBO (Linda Ronstadt-Nelson Riddle) and touring with Eric Burdon, Linda Ronstadt, Joan Armatrading, Sonny & Cher and others in countless performances around the world. Red is also a remarkable composer and arranger, and performs throughout the world in many different formats – both piano, organ, on vocals, conducting, producing and arranging. As a very active performer throughout Austin and the rest of Texas, Red is especially noted for his 9 piece swing band, Red Young and His Hot Horns, which features his arrangements and originals of blues and jazz. http://redyoung.com
Chris Young
Chris began playing the guitar at the age of eight, influenced by blues and rock greats Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eddie Van Halen and began studying classical guitar at age ten. At age thirteen, Chris won Houston’s “Best Guitarist in Houston Under 18” in the rock category. While attending the University of Miami under music scholarship, he performed in the award-winning University of Miami Concert Jazz Band and played with jazz greats Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano and others. He also played in several bands and with numerous local artists including Christian R&B artist Neville Peter and Nashville piano-rocker Gabe Dixon. Upon graduating from college, Chris coached a jazz guitar ensemble of five undergraduate guitarists and a rhythm section at the University of Miami and prepared them for two annual concerts. He also led the jazz guitar program at Miami’s arts magnet high school, “New World School of the Arts” and taught jazz improvisation to a large class of multi-instrumentalist and moonlighted as a wedding guitarist during this time. Chris moved to New York City in 2000 and soon began playing guitar for neo-soul diva Angie Stone. He toured nationally in support of her album, “Mahogany Soul” and appeared on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, “Live at the Apollo” and BET’s “106th and Park”. Chris later moved to Japan in 2004 and recorded and/or toured the US and Japan with Interscope Records avant garde R&B artist Bilal Oliver, African pop singer and superstar fusion bassist Richard Bona and Japanese jazz pioneer and saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. Now living in Austin, Texas, Chris can be found performing regularly with ‘Eastern Soul’ artist Nagavalli, originally from Mumbai, whose music intersperses elements of Indian ragas, rock, jazz, electronica, rap and soul. Along with balancing performing, songwriting and recording, Chris teaches guitar, bass, ukulele, piano, drums and voice to a wide variety of students.
Chloe Youtsey
Voice, Piano
Chloe Youtsey grew up in an Air Force military home which involved frequent relocations and allowed her to receive piano training in Virginia, Germany, Turkey, and Japan. She graduated from James Madison University with a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies and Vocal Performance. She divides her time between composing, teaching, performing, and directing children's musicals. Her favorite musical influences are Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Gregory Porter, Sarah Vaughan, and Nancy Wilson. Chloe recently attended Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency with 23 other musicians. The two-week program culminated in three nights of performances at the Kennedy Center presenting the resident artists' original work. She has also made guest artist appearances with the Andre Hayward Quartet and TriplePointe.
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Jets WR Chris Hogan Still Has Something to Prove
Veteran Wideout Chris Hogan Says He Looked Up to Wayne Chrebet
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Chris Hogan might be a seasoned veteran, but he is approaching his new start with the Jets like the undrafted free agent he is out of Monmouth University who is going to do everything he can to make a favorable impression.
"This is a new team," Hogan said on Thursday. "These guys might know my name and they might have played against me. Whatever they think about me — I still have something to prove to these guys. This is a whole new group of guys that I've never been around. And for me, every single day, all I really want to do is show them I'm going to show up to work every single day and I'm going to work as hard as I can."
Hogan, a 6-1, 210-pounder in his eighth NFL season, went through COVID-19 testing early this week and then passed his physical on Tuesday. He was on the practice field the past two days and made a couple of catches in team drills Thursday morning, including a scoring reception in the back of the end zone from Mike White.
"These are live reps," said Hogan, who has averaged 13.3 yards on his 202 regular-season receptions, and 15.9 yards on his 34 postseason grabs. "That's how I'm approaching it — I think that's how a lot of guys should approach it. When we put these pads on, these are game reps because there aren't going to be reps in the preseason, and the first time that we are in live action is going to be the first game of the season. We don't really have room for those mental errors that we can make in the preseason and then correct."
Both Jets' wide receiver coaches, Shawn Jefferson and Hines Ward, lauded Hogan's professionalism. Hogan, who averaged 37 receptions and 505 yards from 2014-18, appeared in only seven games with Carolina last season because of a left knee injury.
"He knows how to get himself in shape and knows what it takes to be able to be able to play in this league for a long time," Ward said. "I love the leadership that he provides our room because he's out there helping the young guys like hey man, we have to pick it up, or I need to push myself to do better and better each day. The leadership aspect with somebody who's been there and done that — that's what I like about Chris Hogan."
The Jets signed Hogan this week after their WR group was hit with early camp injuries. Vyncint Smith is expected to miss 5-to-8 weeks after core surgery and rookie Denzel Mims, a second-round pick from Baylor, has been unable to practice because of a tight hamstring.
"He's been in the fire before," Jefferson said of Hogan. "He's been in the fire and he's got some stuff in his neck, too, so that's the thing I really like about him."
Raised in Wyckoff, NJ, Hogan played both football and lacrosse at Ramapo HS. He went to Penn State on a lacrosse scholarship and was voted first-team All-ECAC his senior season. After graduating in 2010, he enrolled at Monmouth and played QB, WR and CB for the Hawks before embarking on his professional football career. And after suiting up in game action for the Bills (2013-15), the Patriots (2016-18) and the Panthers (2019), Hogan will have the opportunity to again call New Jersey home during the season.
"I think my wife and kids are more excited about it," Hogan said. "We lived apart during the year for the last 10 years. I've put my family all over the map and we've dealt with it and handled it very well. But for me to be able to be so close to home on a team that I watched growing up — big fan of the history here and Joe [Namath] and Wayne Chrebet is obviously always someone I've looked up to and admired when I started playing this game."
Thankful for another opportunity here with the Jets, Hogan acknowledged he was angry and frustrated after he got injured last season in Carolina and finished with just 7 receptions. He got back to work as soon as the offseason began and then waited during the pandemic for his next chance.
"I had that drive, I had that hunger," Hogan said. "That's something that I never lost, but maybe there was something there that I needed to find again. But I think I found it and I'm just excited to be out there every day."
It was in 2012 when Hogan was at Dolphins training camp and Reggie Bush remarked that the Hogan was open all the time and dubbed Hogan 7-Eleven. The nickname stuck and Jets Coach Adam Gase has already referred to the veteran receiver by his moniker.
"I tell people, if they're still calling me 7-11, I still have a job," Hogan said. "If they stop calling me that, I might not be in the league anymore."
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TechX: inside the UK oil & gas industry’s new tech accelerator
The UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre recently launched a tech accelerator called TechX. Director David Millar explains how it works, and why now is the perfect time for the oil and gas industry to embrace new technology.
The UK’s Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is looking to change this with the launch of its TechX accelerator, which will offer expert mentoring, facilities access and funding to those looking to advance the oil and gas industry. Credit: Courtesy of TechX
Tech accelerators can be found around the world, helping start-ups, entrepreneurs and SMEs develop and grow into commercially successful companies. But they are rare in the risk-averse oil and gas sector, which has traditionally been slow to accept new technological advances, digital or hardware-based, lagging behind many other industries.
The UK’s Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is looking to change this with the launch of its TechX accelerator, which will offer expert mentoring, facilities access and funding to those looking to advance the oil and gas industry. OGTC technology accelerator director David Millar says now is the time to create exciting new products that could help ensure the success of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) for years to come, and here speaks to Molly Lempriere about how to implement change.
Molly Lempriere (ML): Could you tell me a little bit about how TechX is organised?
David Millar (DM): It’s organised into three programmes. Firstly, we’ve got our Ventures program which is in collaboration with Deep Science Ventures in London.
Our Pioneers program, which is for start-ups, is a four-month full-time programme at the centre in Aberdeen, followed by a 12-month incubator programme. So they’re getting 16 months, really, of co-working support, funding, mentoring, partnership, education, rapid prototyping, access to the market and investors.
We’ve got £100,000 on offer for each of the start-ups that go through that programme, and we’re also collaborating with BP’s technology venture arm. We have additional sponsorship on offer for two of the most exciting companies that will graduate, which will have the chance to get an additional £100,000 each, plus deep-access into the BP world and potential to enter into their investment pipeline.
Then the third programme is our Market Entry program, which is predominantly designed for more mature organisations, SMEs. This is really about getting them fast-track access to facilities to test out their product, validate it with the industry, and then provide them with any additional funding they need to help them get into the market and then scale-up from there.
All programmes kick-off this year; the Venture program will start in July, applications for the Pioneer programs close on 7 February, and the Market Entry program has an ongoing application process.
ML: What are the biggest challenges SMEs and entrepreneurs face getting in to the oil and gas industry?
DM: I think one of the biggest challenges in the oil and gas industry is that it’s very risk-averse, very reluctant to try new things. One of the phrases we hear quite often is the ‘race to be second’; nobody really wants to be the first to try something out. It’s a challenge for companies that have a new product that’s very unique, as it’s difficult to find someone to trial things with. Companies are not sure that they want to be first. That’s a big challenge, so working with the operators to help de-risk things for them is key.
The availability of funding is also a big challenge, particularly for early-stage companies. Most venture capitalists, most venture technology or investment arms of operators will only invest in companies that are performing at a certain level, so normally a certain amount of million turnovers a year to show that people are interested in the project, that’s usually when they’ll get interested. Big operators like Shell, Total or BP are not always geared up to then work with a two/three person start-up company.
We can come in and fill a bit of that gap there, help nurture a company, validate their offering, test it out and provide a lot of the funding, so we can de-risk a lot of that from a financial perspective. But we do at some point need angel investors, venture arms of operators, venture capitalists, or PE houses to come along to the party to help us. They will need investment at some point and we can’t do it all. But we can certainly help them on the start of that journey and show confidence in the company, that we’re investing in this company and we think you should as well.
ML: How optimistic are you about the UK’s oil and gas industry, and how big a role can technology play in extending the North Sea’s life?
DM: Personally, I’m hugely optimistic about the industry and I’m hugely optimistic about the opportunities for the north-east of Scotland. We’ve produced around 44 billion barrels of oil since 1964 out of the UK; we think there’s about 15-20 billion barrels left. For every billion barrels we produce, that contributes £50bn to the UK economy. There’s a huge prize there.
If we continue to use our current work practices and the technology available to us now, and did nothing, we’d probably get only about five billion barrels of that 20. We’d be leaving a lot behind, so technology is hugely important. If we don’t invest in technology and new ways of working, we will never be able to extract that additional ten to 15 billion barrels that is there. That is our mission as a centre, we want to unlock that potential, we want to get every last drop that we can out of the UKCS to benefit both the north-east of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
We are not looking for just Aberdeen or UK-based companies; we’re working hard with different organisations and entities to get that message out so that we can attract them. And we’re starting to see that coming through. W got about 140 applications so far, from 20 different countries with a good spread across eastern and western, so we are managing to get the message out there.
ML: Why do you think oil and gas fell behind technology? Did they get too comfortable as big players in the world?
DM: This is where I need to be careful. I think there are many factors to it. There will be cynics that say greed was a factor, that when oil prices were good companies were raking in the cash and inefficiencies were hidden because of that. I think the North Sea has shown that when there was $110 oil, a lot of the inefficiencies were hidden because the profit margins were still so high. It’s only when you start to bring that oil price down to be at the intersection point of your operating cost that people say, ‘right ok, now we need to start cutting costs’.
The first thing to go, unfortunately, is people because that’s the biggest cost they carry, so they lean down non-essential personnel as much as they can. They find different ways of working, efficiencies, and there is some innovation in that space, but nothing that’s game changing. They’re getting the 10%, 20%, 30% improvements, but they get to a point where they’ve leaned out and they can’t really change their processes much and they’re still struggling.
It’s that point where we start to think we need to jump the curve and we need to do something different, and that’s where technology and innovation really come in.
Companies want to stay in the UKCS longer. BP’s just discovered potentially two new wells and they’re looking to double their output. So if we can help bring innovation to them, that can only be of benefit because they can increase their field life, they can create more profits. It’s almost like we’re at a turning point and we’re trying to capitalise on that.
Yes we’re late to the party, but I think we can really accelerate that journey to learn a lot from what other industries are using already, and potentially be a pioneer for some of the new stuff that’s coming about as well. So it’s a really exciting time.
Update: TechX announced the ten companies chosen for its Pioneer program on the 15th of March. The successful startups were;
Blue Gentoo
Immaterial
Paragon Inspection Limited
RAB Microfluidics:
Sensalytx
Specialist Safety Systems
Tenzor Geo
test 1 srl
Tubular Sciences
MCL Unitex
Flexible Passive Fire Protection Systems, Fire Seals and Fireproof Enclosures
Alimak
Offshore Lifts for Men and Materials
ToolKitX
Modular Software and Mobile Applications for Offshore Project Management
GMB union ramps up the British Gas engineer strike
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EXCLUSIVE: New FINDING DORY Concept Art and Characters Revealed
Happy New Year! What an exciting time to be a Pixar fan; coming off of the thunderous year that was 2015 with both feature films Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, and an exciting year ahead with the up-and-coming sequel to the now 13 year-old Finding Nemo with June 16th's Finding Dory! And what better way to start off the new year than with new concept art and first looks at two of the new character's from Director Andrew Stanton's third feature film from the studio. Check out the new concept art of Dory meeting her new sea-bound friends, Bailey (a snub-nosed beluga whale voiced by Ty Burrell) ,and his pal Destiny (a sweet whale shark voiced by Kaitlin Olson) as well as segments from the Entertainment Weekly article that published the story after the break!
Via Entertainment Weekly, Modern family star Ty Burell comments on his work at Pixar with Finding Dory and bringing Bailey to life:
“I’m a huge fan [of Finding Nemo],” he says. “It’s hard to find that balance of very sweet, very funny and great adventure in a story.”
“My character isn’t great at his own sonar capability, and Destiny has trouble swimming straight,” Burrell explains. Together, the offbeat duo — seen in the above concept art for the first time — play an important role in reuniting Dory with her loved ones. (But only if they can manage to get along first.)
Bailey and Destiny, a sweet whale shark voiced by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actress Kaitlin Olson, meet Dory at the rehabilitation center at a marine life facility located in northern California previously made known to be the home of Dory's parents.
“We totally get on each other’s nerves,” Olson reveals. “I like to think I’m a shark, but Bailey calls me a whale, and I make fun of his head, because it’s gigantic.”
“There’s always a deeper message with Pixar, and so much of it [in Finding Dory] is that these characters are trying to find faith in themselves,” says Burrell. “They’re trying to overcome their insecurities in order to help somebody in need.”
Bailey and Destiny seems to be a really fun pairing of eccentric characters who hopefully pull out the whale-speaking-DNA in Dory that makes her one of the most unique fish in the sea.
Finding Dory swims into theaters this June 17th, 2016!
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Trove Of Recipes Dating Back To Inquisition Reveals A Family's Secret Jewish Roots : The Salt Many Jews were forced to convert during the Inquisition, a history often lost to their descendants. Finding recipes adhering to Jewish food customs helped one woman unearth her family's hidden past.
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Trove Of Recipes Dating Back To Inquisition Reveals A Family's Secret Jewish Roots
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Genie Milgrom, pictured in 2013, stands in the entryway of her Miami home wrapped in a long family tree, filled with the names of 22 generations of grandmothers. Raised Catholic, Milgrom traced her family's hidden Jewish roots with the help of a trove of ancient family recipes written down by the women of her family over generations. Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
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Genie Milgrom, pictured in 2013, stands in the entryway of her Miami home wrapped in a long family tree, filled with the names of 22 generations of grandmothers. Raised Catholic, Milgrom traced her family's hidden Jewish roots with the help of a trove of ancient family recipes written down by the women of her family over generations.
With the holidays approaching, it's the time of year for families to come together and share their traditions. But which traditions?
In a trove of old family recipes, Genie Milgrom found clues that led her to Inquisition-era Spain and her family's hidden Jewish heritage. Milgrom is a Cuban-American, now 65, who was raised a devout Catholic. Several years ago, when her Mom became ill, Milgrom went through her things and found a collection of recipes that had been recorded and handed down by generations of aunts and grandmothers. Some of the recipes traced all the way back to Inquisition-era Spain and Portugal.
At her home in Miami, Milgrom pulls some of the recipes from a shelf. Many are written on yellowed paper in faded ink. "You can see old handwriting and little snippets of paper," she says. "So this was just pages and pages and hundreds of these. ... Some are just crumbling."
As a girl, Milgrom says her maternal grandmother taught her some of the family's food customs. Many years later, she realized they revealed their secret Jewish roots.
"In the Jewish dietary laws, we're not allowed to consume any blood," she says. "So she taught me how to check for blood in the eggs. You never pour them directly into a recipe."
Milgrom says her grandmother also insisted she learn another family custom that involved burning a small bit of bread dough in the oven. She says, "Jewish women, when they make the bread for Friday nights, they take a little bit of the dough and they burn it like an offering and say a blessing in the oven. And you always have to have five pounds of flour to do this." Her grandmother, she says, didn't teach her to say a blessing. "But she taught me to always bake with five pounds and to always take a little bit and burn it in the back of the oven."
Milgrom has a big personality, short black hair, a permanent smile, and she's constantly in motion. On this day, she has prepared one of the most unusual recipes she uncovered, a sugary dessert called "chuletas," the Spanish word for pork chops.
"It's designed to look like a pork chop," Milgrom explains, "but it's really made from bread and milk." Basically, it's French toast that's fried in the shape of a pork chop and dressed up with tomato jam and pimentos.
Among the family recipes handed down to Milgrom is chuletas, the Spanish word for pork chops. Made from bread and milk, the dish is basically French toast that's been fried in the shape of a pork chop and dressed up with tomato jam and pimentos. Crypto-Jews would have eaten it so that their Catholic neighbors and employees would not suspect they still kept their faith in secret. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
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Among the family recipes handed down to Milgrom is chuletas, the Spanish word for pork chops. Made from bread and milk, the dish is basically French toast that's been fried in the shape of a pork chop and dressed up with tomato jam and pimentos. Crypto-Jews would have eaten it so that their Catholic neighbors and employees would not suspect they still kept their faith in secret.
Jewish dietary laws forbid the consumption of pork, so these chuletas were eaten as a sort of cover, she explains. "It was the kind of thing that the crypto-Jews had to be eating to disguise to their neighbors and to the people who worked for them that they were [not, in fact,] eating pork." In 15th century Portugal and Spain and later, Milgrom says Jews would burn a pork chop in the fire so that their homes smelled like pork while they ate these chuletas.
Those recipes helped confirm something she'd long suspected — that she was descended from Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism more than 500 years ago during the Inquisition. Some of these converts, called crypto-Jews, secretly continued to adhere to Judaism.
From the time she was very young, Milgrom says she never felt like she fit in. She attended Catholic schools and a Catholic university and married young. But throughout her life, she always felt drawn to the Jewish faith. When her marriage ended after 20 years, she decided to convert to Judaism. "I have always felt Jewish," she says. "Whether its epigenetics, it's in my head, it's in my brain, it's in my soul — not getting religious about this, whatever it is, I am where I belong right now."
Milgrom says her mother and others in her family weren't happy when she decided to convert. But a turning point came when her grandmother died. Her mother insisted on burying her the very next day. It was a family custom she said, consistent with Jewish tradition but unusual for Catholics.
After the burial, Milgrom says her mother gave her a box that her grandmother had wanted her to have. "I opened the box and it was an earring with a Star of David in it and a hamsa, which is an artifact that we wear that is like the Hand of God," Milgrom says, "That is what started me deep into searching my genealogy because in death, she sent me the message, we were Jews."
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Milgrom has written several books about her journey. Her latest is a cookbook, Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers. Her research took her to her family's ancestral village, Fermoselle, on the border between Spain and Portugal. Working with local historians there, she found evidence that until the Inquisition, the town had been Jewish.
But it was in the Inquisition records housed in Lisbon that she found what she was looking for. In the 16th and 17th generations on her mother's side, the records showed her grandmothers were Jewish. "I finally succeeded in going back 22 generations," Milgrom says. Through her research, she's traced her Jewish roots back to 1405 on her maternal lineage and back even further, to 1110, on her father's side.
She says the records show 45 of her relatives were actually burned at the stake for being Jews. It's a reminder of why her family hid their Jewish customs and centuries later, were still reluctant to talk about them. Milgrom, however, does talk about her heritage and travels around the world speaking about what it means to be a crypto-Jew.
At the launch of her new cookbook at the Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach, she was introduced by Tudor Parfitt, a professor of Jewish studies at Florida International University. Parfitt says especially in Latin America, there's a growing number of people who believe they have Jewish ancestry.
"Genie's a very good example of the phenomenon," he says. "But the phenomenon is very widespread and involves perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of people."
There are communities with crypto-Judaic roots throughout Latin America. Milgrom, who's active on social media, says she receives between 200 and 400 emails every month from people around the world who are investigating their Jewish roots. Not everyone wants to convert to Judaism, she says; many just want to know their family's history.
"To me, this is not really too much about changing the religion." She says it's more about "righting a historical wrong and being able to say, 'OK, my ancestors were Jewish.' And a lot of people are proud of that."
Finding your Jewish roots is difficult, Milgrom says, because so much of crypto-Jewish history was deliberately erased, often by the families themselves. That's why the recipes are so special, she says. "When I saw them, I said, 'If these grandmothers carried these around for centuries, then it's my duty to honor the fact that they found that it was a treasure to save."
In addition to her new cookbook, Genie Milgrom is part of a group working to digitize the records of Inquisition tribunals in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru and other countries. She hopes making those records available on the Internet will help others trace their family roots and uncover five centuries of suppressed Jewish history.
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U.S. Fines Takata Up To $200 Million Over Defective Airbags : The Two-Way Nearly a third of the fine — $70 million — is "payable in cash," according to the Department of Transportation. The remaining $130 million would only be due if other problems emerge.
U.S. Fines Takata Up To $200 Million Over Defective Airbags
November 3, 20152:15 PM ET
Calling it the largest fine in the history of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says his agency is imposing a civil penalty of $200 million on Takata over the company's handling of defective air bag inflators.
Nearly a third of the fine — $70 million — is "payable in cash," according to the Department of Transportation. The remaining $130 million would only be levied if Takata either fails to follow through on remedying the situation, or if more problems are uncovered, the agency says.
"I have to say, this has been a mess," Foxx said Tuesday, of a process that has resulted in 44 separate recalls and affected some 19 million vehicles. "And today, NHTSA is stepping in to clean up the mess."
Problems with air bags supplied by Takata have been blamed for seven deaths and nearly 100 injuries in the U.S., according to federal figures. Faced with evidence that its air bags have the potential to explode — and send metal fragments flying — the Japanese company agreed to declare the systems defective in millions of vehicles earlier this year.
Foxx blamed "delay, misdirection, and refusal to acknowledge the truth" for a safety crisis in which recalls that began as early as 2008 have repeatedly been expanded.
"We shouldn't even be here," Foxx said. "DOT should not have to place itself in the middle of a massive safety recall. Record-setting civil penalties are not something to brag about, and American drivers should not have to worry that a device designed to save their life might actually take it."
In announcing the civil penalty against Takata, Foxx also said the company won't be allowed to use ammonium nitrate as a propellant in new air bag inflators.
"We believe this chemical is a factor in these ruptures," Foxx said, adding that the combination of Takata's "delays and denial" and lingering questions about ammonium nitrate's safety led to the new prohibition.
If you're unsure if your car is covered by the recall, you can look up its status by using the Vehicle Identification Number, at the NHTSA site.
"For years, Takata has built and sold defective products, refused to acknowledge the defect, and failed to provide full information to NHTSA, its customers, or the public," said Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "The result of that delay and denial has harmed scores of consumers and caused the largest, most complex safety recall in history."
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Expert guide to nursing degrees and nursing school rankings
Bachelor’s of Nursing Programs in South Carolina
If you are looking for Bachelor’s of Nursing programs in South Carolina, then you will happily discover here that there are many first-rate degrees available to begin your professional nursing career at some of the highest ranked universities in the South. As the first of the thirteen colonies to declare independence from Britain in the American Revolution, South Carolina has a long distinguished history of providing higher education at diverse institutions. Due to the rising need to combat the state’s low immunization coverage among adolescents, high incidence rate of infections, and increasing rate of binge drinking, many of these universities are shifting their focus to preparing students for health services. The following are the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs that can help you get on the right path to becoming a registered nurse and improving public health in South Carolina.
Division of Nursing
Situated on a 200-acre urban campus just inside the city limits of Greenville as a private Christian liberal arts institution with over 3,000 students training, Bob Jones University is ranked in the 279th spot on Forbes magazine’s list of “America’s Best Colleges. In an effort to prepare students for fulfilling their calling in the God-given ministry, the Division of Nursing offers extensive clinical programs to obtain experience in intensive care, community health, medical missions, maternity, pediatrics, and more.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Rooted in a unique core that combines Bible with liberal arts courses, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program is designed to prepare undergraduate students with the experiences needed to serve Jesus Christ as skilled, confident, and compassionate nurses. Since the program includes Kaplan Integrated testing throughout the junior and senior years as well as a full-year of live review courses, graduates have achieved a cumulative pass rate of over 94% on the NCLEX-RN examination for licensure since 2007.
Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS)
1700 Wade Hampton Blvd.
cmcguire@bju.edu
http://www.bju.edu/academics/programs/nursing/
Charleston Southern University
As the largest accredited independent Christian liberal arts institution located near historic Charleston along the South Carolina coastline with over 3,200 students, Charleston Southern University has been named to “America’s Best College Buys” by Forbes magazine and the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Furthermore, the U.S. News and World Report recognizes CSU for having the 56th best online bachelor’s degree programs in the entire nation.
Boasting the highest seven-year pass rate on the NCLEX-RN examination in South Carolina at an impressive 96%, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program delivers the undergraduate education needed to develop professional nurses who integrate Christian values into their daily nursing practices. After completing the 129-credit program, graduates are eligible to become registered nurses for practice in a wide range of healthcare settings as well as to purse an advanced nursing degree in graduate school.
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
9200 University Blvd.
atoader@csuniv.edu
http://www.csuniv.edu/nursing/bsnursing.html
Standing on a vast 17,000-acre suburban lakefront campus as a public institution that is quickly becoming one of the nation’s to research universities, Clemson University is ranked as the 62nd best college, 21st top public school, and 8th best up-and-coming school in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report. Along with having the country’s fifth best career services program, the School of Nursing is acclaimed for offering the 127th best graduate nursing degrees in America.
Available for undergraduate students to enter as freshmen or after the sophomore year with a change of majors, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program follows a 124-credit curriculum with general science courses in the first two years and nursing courses through the final two years. With a very high pass rate of 95.2% on the NCLEX-RN exam after graduation, the program features valuable on-campus simulation labs with high-tech human patient simulators and clinical rotations in local hospitals throughout the Upstate.
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
508 Edwards Hall
janicem@clemson.edu
http://www.clemson.edu/hehd/departments/nursing/academics/degrees/bs_nursing/
Francis Marion University
Named in honor of South Carolina’s Revolutionary War hero as a public liberal arts institution on a 400-acre rural campus known for its beautiful foliage about seven miles east of Florence, Francis Marion University is ranked as the 73rd best college and 33rd top public school in the South by the U.S. News and World Report. The Department of Nursing is strongly committed to preparing students for functioning competently as compassionate professional nurses with a dedication to lifelong learning.
As a 2+2 program, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) features the completion of 59 semester hours of lower-division general education before moving on to the upper-division nursing core of 61 semester hours and 500 hours of supervised clinical experience in local community-based health settings. With its strong focus on the knowledge, attributes, values, and skills needed to succeed in professional nursing practice with patients of all ages, the program has earned a high average pass rate of 94.1% on the NCLEX-RN examination.
4822 East Palmetto Street
Rwittmannprice@fmarion.edu
http://www.fmarion.edu/academics/bsnprogram
Lander University
William Preston Turner School of Nursing
Currently ranked as the 66th best college and 8th top public school in the South by the U.S. News and World Report, Lander University is a four-year public institution of around 3,000 students on a 123-acre wooded suburban campus in Greenwood within the Piedmont region of western South Carolina. Well-known for being one of the first institutions in the state to offer an online BSN option, the William Preston Turner School of Nursing is focused on the Neuman Systems Model for providing an innovative holistic approach to medical care.
Featuring more than 30 options for complimentary minor studies, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program is focused on preparing undergraduate students to provide comprehensive holistic nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan to address the changing healthcare needs of the 21st century. After completing the 126-credit program through online courses and close-to-home clinical experiences, graduates have averaged a 93% pass rate of the NCLEX-RN examination over the last five years.
320 Stanley Avenue
Greenwood, SC 29649
rsouth@lander.edu
http://www.lander.edu/academics/Colleges-Departments/Science-Mathematics/Nursing/Programs.aspx
Newberry College
Affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America as a small independent institution with a diverse population of around 1,100 students on a beautiful 90-acre urban campus in South Carolina’s safest town, Newberry College is ranked as the 35th best college and 8th top university for veterans in the South by the U.S. News and World Report. In partnership with Lexington Medical Center, the Department of Nursing provides baccalaureate nursing education in the Christian tradition.
Designed in a blended format that combines online coursework with face-to-face off-campus meetings in the Lexington/Columbia area two to four times each semester, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program equips undergraduate students with the skills needed to assume leadership roles in the thriving nursing field. As an upper-division program, students will need to complete all general education courses and pass the TEAS-V test to be considered for admissions into the BSN major in the junior year.
betsy.mcdowell@newberry.edu
http://www.newberry.edu/academics/areasofstudy/nursing.aspx
As a senior land-grant public institution of around 4,000 students on a 160-acre urban campus within the Orangeburg community on the Edisto River in the Piedmont area, South Carolina State University is recognized for being the 24th best historically black university in the United States by the U.S. News and World Report. The Department of Nursing is dedicated to training a diverse professional nursing workforce for fulfilling exciting career opportunities in home health, occupational health, school nursing, family practice, long-term care, and more.
Intended for undergraduate students without a nursing background through a four-year pre-licensure generic curriculum plan, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program is focused on building a multicultural learning environment that produces leaders, clinicians, scholars, and researchers to enhance healthcare delivery outcomes in the state. Through comprehensive educational and clinical experiences to expand nursing knowledge, the program has achieved a rather high average pass rate of 88% on the NCLEX-RN examination for obtaining RN licensure within South Carolina.
300 College Street NE
Orangeburg, SC 29115
sharris1@scsu.edu
http://www.scsu.edu/academicdepartments/departmentofnursing.aspx
Located in the Carolina Research Park within just 11 miles from downtown historic Columbia in the thriving state capitol region as a satellite campus of the private for-profit institution based in Savannah, South University Online responds to the academic needs of over 18,300 students at the associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral level from the comfort of home. Within the Department of Nursing, there are four online degree programs available to prepare nurses for meeting the challenges of today’s changing healthcare landscape.
Offered as a degree completion program for registered nurses who wish to become more proficient in the field and improve the delivery of patient care, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program provides 45 nursing credit hours for experience to earn the degree in as little as 12 months. Upon completion, graduates will have the management abilities needed to establish priorities, delegate responsibilities, formulate critical decisions, and assume leadership positions in a nursing department.
9 Science Court
studentsupport@southuniversity.edu
http://online.southuniversity.edu/degrees/bachelor-science-nursing.aspx
First established in 1801 as South Carolina’s flagship public research institution on a 444-acre urban campus in the heart of the state’s vibrant capital city in Columbia, the University of South Carolina is currently ranked as the 112th best college, 55th top public school, and 22nd top university for veterans in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report. Even more importantly, the College of Nursing has the 79th best nursing degrees and 16th best online graduate nursing programs in the United States.
With the goal of producing high-quality professional nurses who can provide evidence-based clinically competent care across the health continuum with cultural sensitivity, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program follows an upper-division structure to combine clinical hours with classroom nursing instruction full-time in the junior year. After completing the 120 credits needed to graduate, students have received an average pass rate of 79.7% on the NCLEX-RN examination in South Carolina.
1601 Greene Street
nursinq@mailbox.sc.edu
http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/nursing/academic_programs/bs_nursing/index.php
University of South Carolina – Aiken
Based on a 453-acre suburban campus in historic Aiken as a comprehensive public liberal arts institution committed to active learning for over 3,500 students, the University of South Carolina – Aiken is ranked as the 23rd best college, 2nd top public school, and 5th best college for veterans in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report. With the 41st best online bachelor’s programs, the School of Nursing prepares baccalaureate-level nurses to face the challenges and excitement of today’s changing healthcare field.
Fully accredited by the Commission on College Nursing Education (CCNE), the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program is available in a four-year Generic track for pre-licensed undergraduate students as well as a RN/BSN Completion track for nurses who have already received an unencumbered license to practice in South Carolina. Through traditional classroom instruction, hands-on lab experiences, high-fidelity simulation, and actual clinical practice, the program has a proven track record of helping 88.1% of graduates on average to pass the NCLEX-RN examination the first time.
471 University Parkway
ThayerM@usca.edu
http://web.usca.edu/nursing/programs/
University of South Carolina – Upstate
Currently ranked as the 29th best college and 3rd top public school in the South by the U.S. News and World Report, the University of South Carolina – Upstate is the state’s fastest growing public institution based on a 300-acre urban residential campus in Spartanburg in the Piedmont foothills with a commuter location in Greenville. With on-site and distance learning options available, the Mary Black School of Nursing is home to the largest four-year undergraduate nursing program in South Carolina.
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program has been established to empower undergraduate students to become competent healthcare professionals who provide high-quality comprehensive nursing care to diverse patient populations in a wide variety of clinical settings nationwide. After beginning a career in professional nursing in the four-year BSN track with at least 120 credits, graduates have achieved an average pass rate of 84.9% on the NCLEX-RN examination for licensing.
nursing@uscupstate.edu
https://www.uscupstate.edu/academics/nursing/
Although there are abundant job opportunities at the associate’s degree level statewide, it is highly recommended that you consider enrolling in one of these Bachelor’s of Nursing programs in South Carolina to open more advanced leadership roles, deliver higher quality patient care, realize an increased salary potential, and fulfill the requirements need to attend graduate school in the future.
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Charlize Theron launches initiative to fight gender violence
FILE – This Feb. 9, 2020 file photo shows actress Charlize Theron at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Theron and her foundation are committing $1 million to coronavirus relief efforts, with half dedicated to fighting gender-based violence resulting from the outbreak. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Charlize Theron and her foundation are committing $1 million to coronavirus relief efforts, with half of that dedicated to fighting gender-based violence resulting from the outbreak.
The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project announced Wednesday that under an initiative called Together For Her, $500,000 would go to domestic violence shelters and community-based programs fighting gender-based violence. Advocates have warned that domestic abuse is a major danger during the pandemic as lockdown orders sometimes mean women at risk are confined at home with their abusers, with little means of escape. Children are also imperiled.
The Oscar-winning actress will be supporting efforts in the United States and in her home country of South Africa, according to a statement from the foundation. Additional funds will be designated both domestically and internationally through two partner organizations, CARE and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
“As the global spread of COVID-19 has forced people indoors, life has become even more dangerous for women experiencing domestic violence, especially for those who are most marginalized and are at increased risk of experiencing violence,” the statement said.
It said donations to Together for Her would be directed toward services such as shelters, support and counseling, helplines, crisis intervention, health services, legal services and other forms of support for women and children experiencing domestic violence.
“Charlize and these three organizations are calling upon other influential women and organizations to join this critical cause to provide safe spaces and lifesaving programs for women in need,” the statement said.
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by JOCELYN NOVECK, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2021
Like so much this past year, the inaugural celebration will be like no other: pared down, distanced, much of it virtual. But for actor Christopher Jackson — the original George Washington in Broadway's “Hamilton" — performing in a virtual “ball” is a way of participating in an essential rite of American democracy.
“I’m glad to play a part in it,” says Jackson, who will perform at the quadrennial ball for the Creative Coalition, a fundraiser for arts education and one of the more prominent unofficial events surrounding Joe Biden’s inauguration. “It’s a great honor, and I’m very grateful that we have allowed our system to continue to work in the way it was intended.”
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Mormon church opposes Utah LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’ ban
by: BRADY McCOMBS and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
FILE – This Oct. 4, 2019, file photo, shows the Salt Lake Temple at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints is opposing a proposed ban on conversion therapy in Utah, just months after it said it wouldn’t stand in the way of a similar rule under consideration. The church said in a statement posted Tuesday night, Oct. 15, 2019, that the regulatory rule prohibiting Utah psychologists from engaging in LBGTQ conversion therapy with minors would fail to safeguard “religious beliefs” and doesn’t account for “important realities of gender identity in the development of children.” (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposed ban on so-called conversion therapy in Utah is in danger of being derailed after the influential Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints came out Tuesday night in opposition, just months after it said it wouldn’t stand in the way of a similar measure under consideration.
The church said in a statement that the regulatory rule prohibiting Utah psychologists from engaging in the discredited practice with LGBTQ minors would fail to safeguard religious beliefs and doesn’t account for “important realities of gender identity in the development of children.”
State regulators crafted the rule at the request of Republican Gov. Gary Herbert, a member of the church, who in June asked for a set of rules after a similar bill died in the Legislature despite the church not taking a position.
The church’s statement strikes a blow to the hopes of LGBTQ advocates hoping Utah could join 18 states that have enacted laws banning or restricting the practice opposed by the American Psychological Association.
Justin Utley, a former member of the faith who says he was sent through harmful “conversion therapy” by the church’s therapy services years ago, called the church’s position disheartening.
“It’s a fear tactic, and it’s a control tactic,” said Utley, now 42, who attempted suicide after his sessions. “They have once again interjected themselves in a discussion that they have no business being involved in. This is about mental health, it’s not about getting an exemption for mistreating people.”
The faith widely known as the Mormon church accounts for nearly two-thirds of the state’s residents, and nearly every state lawmaker. It’s unknown how the church’s position will impact the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing’s pending decision. The agency has said the rule could go into effect as early as next week.
The division didn’t immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday.
Troy Williams, executive director of the LGBTQ rights group Equality Utah, said he is surprised by the church’s stance since the rule was already revised to align with the failed legislation. His group is reaching out the church to see if more changes could be made to address its concerns while keeping the substance intact.
The church said it denounces any “abusive” treatment and that it “hopes that those who experience same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria find compassion and understanding from family members.”
The opposition comes after one of the religion’s top leaders, Dallin H. Oaks, said this month that a person’s gender assigned at birth is “essential to the plan of salvation” and that they don’t know “why same-sex attraction and confusion about sexual identity occur.”
His remarks were reminiscent of a time in the 1970s when church scholars say the faith taught that homosexuality could be “cured.” The church has since said homosexuality is not a sin, though it remains opposed to same-sex marriage and intimacy.
At the public hearing last month, opponents of the proposal argued the rule would prevent parents from getting help for their children with “unwanted” homosexual feelings or even from talking about sexuality.
The president of the conservative Utah Eagle Forum, Gayle Ruzicka, is against the proposed ban and cheered the church’s announcement. She contended that children don’t need “therapy that affirms whatever they’re thinking they are at that time.”
The ban had widespread support, however, among people who submitted written comments, with about 85% in favor as of late September.
Nathan Dalley, 20, has also spoken out against his “therapy” sessions aimed at changing his sexual orientation as well as his posture, walk and gestures.
He said the experience led to a suicide attempt at age 16. “It takes all these insecurities you have about yourself … and convinces you they’re accurate,” he said Wednesday.
Patriots’ Bill Belichick declines to accept Presidential Medal of Freedom
(NEXSTAR) – New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has declined to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump, according to a statement obtained by ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Belichick said he was initially "flattered" because of his "respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients."
Iran general warns US: Military ready to respond to pressure
by Amir Vahdat/AP / Jan 1, 2021
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The top commander of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Friday that his country was fully prepared to respond to any U.S. military pressure as tensions between Tehran and Washington remain high in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Gen. Hossein Salami spoke at a ceremony at Tehran University commemorating the upcoming one-year anniversary of the U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who headed the expeditionary Quds force, on Jan. 3, 2020.
Vaccine scam targeting senior citizens
by Jesse Cordova / Dec 24, 2020
(NBC) - The government is warning senior citizens to watch out for COVID vaccine scams.
It is important to know that Medicare covers the vaccine. So, there should be no cost to you. If anyone asks you to share your Medicare number or pay for access to a vaccine, it is likely a scam. You cannot pay to get early access to the vaccine or be put on a waiting list.
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Woman thought she had kidney stones, gave birth to triplets
Posted: Aug 17, 2019 / 02:02 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 20, 2019 / 01:56 PM CDT
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman who recently gave birth to triplets says she didn’t find out about her pregnancy until she went to the hospital with what she thought were kidney stones.
KOTA-TV reports Dannette Giltz, of Sturgis, gave birth to the healthy triplets on Aug. 10.
Giltz says that despite having two other children, she did not know she was 34 weeks pregnant. She says that when she started having pains, she thought it was from kidney stones, which she has had before. Doctors told her she was actually in labor — with multiple babies.
The triplets were born within four minutes. Each weighed about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms).
The babies’ names are Blaze, Gypsy and Nikki.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Supreme court has overturned a man's bank robbery conviction because of a prosecutor's reference to a classic horror movie.
During closing arguments in the case against Damon Williams, the prosecutor showed jurors a photo from the movie “The Shining” depicting a character played by Jack Nicholson telling his terrified wife and son, “Here’s Johnny!” moments after breaking through a door with an axe.
(NEXSTAR) - In a new interview, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb says there's a "serious possibility" that an interstellar object that passed through Earth' solar system could be an alien spacecraft.
Scientists, who discovered the object in 2017, call the mysterious entity 'Oumuamua. The scientific consensus determined 'Oumuamua to be of natural origin, but Loeb disagrees. In his new book "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth," he argues that the interstellar mystery object was likely similar to a light sail — a method of spacecraft propulsion — created by extraterrestrials.
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Our Q&A with BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman
Written by Erin McGhee
BlueCat Screenplay Competition founder and judge Gordy Hoffman
In Seattle for one-on-one script consultations, Gordy Hoffman, founder and judge of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition spent an evening with Northwest Screenwriters Guild members for a moderated Q&A where he discussed screenplay competitions, what sets the BlueCat Screenplay Competition apart and how writers can hone their craft.
Hosted at the Seattle Film Institute and moderated by NwSG member Arthur Rains-McNally, Hoffman talked about his trajectory from shooting his own films in elementary school in the woods around his hometown of Rochester, NY to attending the University of Kansas to writing and producing screenplays in Los Angeles.
He founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 1998 and remains its judge. Asked why BlueCat consistently makes all the top 10 lists of the most important screenplay competitions in the industry, both for screenplay and television script writing, and what makes it special, Hoffman elaborated: “Transparency sets us apart. You know who’s reading your script, you know their credentials and what they’ve done in the industry and we pay them accordingly so we can attract and retain the best.”
Asked how one goes about winning the BlueCat Screenplay Competition and whether it favors any particular genre, he explained that it all comes down to good storytelling and strong relationships between characters. They’ve awarded the top prize to any variety of genres – horror, comedy, drama and everything in between, but the winners all had a couple of elements in common: unique characters, relationships between those characters that are compelling and that the audience cares about and a strong storyline.
It’s the same commercially: “Whether it’s Black Panther, The Meg, or Black Klansman, they were all great screenplays because you care about the characters and the relationships between them. And the high quality storytelling.”
Hoffman also talked about the importance of writing and producing short films, particularly for new writers. The short film format forces writers to develop compelling characters and compelling relationships between those characters quickly, and to create an emotional connection with the audience quickly. He explained that it’s also easy for new writers and producers to work in their communities to produce shorts, rather than attempting to bring a full screenplay to fruition. Hoffman’s short film Dog Bowl had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen at over 50 festivals around the world.
In addition to the Q&A on Friday evening, August 17, Hoffman sold out all available slots for one-on-one script consultations for aspiring screenwriters in the Seattle area on August 17 and 18. BlueCat Screenplay Competition offers a variety of other services for screenwriters, including:
Written, Skype and in-person script consultations, for features, TV pilots and shorts
Workshops, and
Online screenwriting courses
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Facebook tells us how its new board will oversee Mark Zuckerberg
Deciding what its members should do, ensuring diversity, learning to accept its decisions — none of it was straightforward, Facebook's executives say.
The new board's structure means Mark Zuckerberg couldn't just shut it down if he didn't like its decisions.
Photo: Courtesy of Facebook
Following a global search more than a year in the making, on Wednesday, Facebook unveiled the first 20 members of its long-awaited oversight board, which will act as a sort of Supreme Court for Facebook's content decisions. The cohort was meticulously selected with an eye toward representing a cross-section of world cultures — in an attempt to answer Facebook's critics on all sides.
The members, including four co-chairs, have collectively lived in 27 countries and speak 29 languages among them. They criss-cross the ideological spectrum, from former U.S. Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael McConnell, who was once considered by President George W. Bush for the actual Supreme Court, to Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former social-democrat prime minister of Denmark. McConnell and Schmidt will co-chair the board, along with Catalina Botero Marino, who is a former special rapporteur on freedom of expression for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and Jamal Greene, a professor of law at Columbia Law School who focuses on constitutional law and the First Amendment.
In a call with reporters Wednesday, the board's co-chairs acknowledged the sheer difficulty — if not impossibility — of the task ahead of them. "We're going to be having to select just a few flowers, or maybe they're weeds, from a field of possibilities," McConnell said of the case-selection process. "No one will be satisfied with the decisions that the oversight board makes in every case. We won't please everyone."
Facebook sourced the board chairs through a global consultation process and established an independent legal trust to fund the board going forward. The company then worked with the chairs to select the first group of members. Some of them are noted Facebook critics themselves.
"Social media can spread speech that is hateful, deceitful and harmful. And until now, some of the most difficult decisions around content have been made by Facebook, and you could say, ultimately, by Mark Zuckerberg," Schmidt said on the call. "That's why I feel that this is a huge step for the global community that Facebook has decided to change that."
Right now, a quarter of the members are from the United States, but it will be up to the board to appoint the remaining 20. The board will also have the freedom to decide which cases to take up, based both on recommendations from Facebook and user appeals. Whatever decision the board makes about whether Facebook should reinstate a given post or not will be binding.
This grand experiment in oversight on the internet is slated to begin this fall, and it will undoubtedly draw yet more scrutiny to the tech giant.
Protocol spoke with the Facebook team that led the search for the board about who they picked, the impossible task of choosing a 40-person cohort that truly represents the world, and how the board might some day spawn similar oversight bodies for tech companies across the internet.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Walk me through the last few months trying to build the board's founding membership team.
Brent Harris (director of governance and strategic initiatives): When we started on this journey and said Facebook can't make all these decisions on its own, we also felt like we didn't have all the answers on how to build this board. We engaged in this consultation process and gathered feedback and heard from stakeholders and critics on what they thought we should build. That resulted in the charter and the bylaws. Part of that consultation has also been an opportunity for us to see what the job is and learn what it is like to take these hard decisions to these people and ask them to deliberate in a panel. That's been an opportunity for us to both learn the job and see hundreds of people in action and taking this on.
Fariba Yassaee (manager of governance and strategic initiatives): It was like putting together pieces of a puzzle. We have so many qualified candidates, who had been sourced and who had been vetted and who had been interviewed. People from around the world who were highly qualified to serve. At the end of the day, we were trying to achieve as much diversity for a small group, a small cohort, as we could for this first round.
Tell me about the makeup of the team.
Yassaee: We've got five people from the U.S., two of them from Latin America, four from Europe, two from sub-Saharan Africa, two from Middle East North Africa, two from Central South Asia, and three from Asia Pacific Oceania. Collectively the members have lived in over 27 countries. They speak at least 29 languages among them. All of them have expertise or experience advocating for human rights. Eight work in non profits. Two of them have previously served as special rapporteurs in key areas of interest. Three of them are former judges of national or international courts. Six of them are current or former full-time journalists. Two of them are well-versed in computer programming languages. Two are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. One is a Nobel Peace prize winner. One led a newspaper to win its first Pulitzer Prize.
I'm sure being on the board is an honor for a lot of people. But it's also so much pressure. You know more than anyone the kind of personal attacks that Facebook employees can face about content decisions. I wonder whether you felt any resistance from people who don't want to be on the hook for those decisions?
Yassaee: In all honesty, no. We have people on this board who have been quite critical of Facebook and quite critical of social media. There are many of them, and that will continue. At least from all the members I spoke to, there was initially, perhaps, some curiosity around the intent. As they consulted with us over the last several months and years, they came to see this was a legitimate institution we were looking to stand up and be separate from Facebook and answer to users and not the company.
You obviously want the board to be diverse, but you could never build a board that really represents all of the cultures and viewpoints that exist on Facebook. So what did you prioritize?
Yassaee: A lot of it came to us throughout the consultation process. Within the U.S., most people commented on needing to see a diversity of political and social viewpoints. Within sub-Saharan Africa, they pointed out they wanted to see a francophone member; they pointed out they wanted to see the four regions within sub-Saharan Africa covered. Throughout the Middle East, there was talk of Israel, Palestine, Gulf countries.
We got a lot of input along the lines of professions. Since this is something people in the beginning were talking about as a court, although it's not a court there was a conversation around how many members should be lawyers? How many should be journalists? We wanted to incorporate that professional diversity. It was also key we had gender balance on this board. We also heard we wanted to see linguistic diversity. Latin America is not just Spanish. It was important we had Portuguese represented as well.
Hopefully people will be pleased with what they see so far. But there's more work to be done.
What happens if the board's decision really fundamentally contradicts something that, say, Mark Zuckerberg feels strongly about? For instance, Facebook's response to COVID propaganda has been pretty firm, and Mark said that's because when you're dealing with a global pandemic, it's a lot more black and white than, say, politics. What if the board members don't see it that way?
Heather Moore (manager of governance and strategic initiatives): That's the reality of oversight. We have been working on this for a year and half, and as much as we've been consulting externally, we've been really working with the teams internally to gather and garner alignment on that point. This board may make decisions we fundamentally, strongly disagree with. That's why you see in the charter and the bylaws that the board has binding authority. We worked really extensively internally to get that commitment, and that's what we've codified.
The board does have to apply Facebook's community standards, and ultimately, its values, especially looking to human rights norms and standards. It has quite a task ahead of it. But given the profiles of individuals we've picked on the board and their geographic and intellectual diversity, I think we all feel pretty good about them making the final decision, irrespective of whether or not we disagree with it. Ultimately these are decisions for users and not for us as employees.
Who will make the decision to keep this going or not?
Yassaee: We made a commitment up front to $130 million. That is a commitment that will stay. But the trust will issue reports on a yearly basis, so we start the conversation early about putting more money on top of that $130 million, that will lead it on the path of endowment. Facebook can't make a decision to call the board off. They're a separate legal entity, and the trust allows for more than just Facebook to contribute funding.
Harris: That was conscious on our part in building the trust. It has been built in a way that it can go beyond Facebook and go to more parts of the industry.
In other words, it could be applied to other companies?
Harris: That is certainly a possibility. We've built it in a way where other companies can choose to join.
Yassaee: That's actually something we've heard during the consultations: that this should be an industry body, not a Facebook body. You never know where the board might take this in the future.
I'm sure your tech industry brethren just love the idea of Facebook setting up an oversight board for them. Have you heard from other companies that they're interested in being overseen by this?
Harris: We have seen companies participate and leaders within the industry participate in different parts of the consultation. They've come to talks we've held. They've watched this closely. I anticipate this is where the industry is headed. We're already seeing more stakeholders call for this, more experts call for this. I think regulators increasingly will call for the forms of oversight and transparency and user appeals we're building.
Can you say more about what other tech leaders have participated?
Harris: I don't think it would be appropriate for me to do so, but I don't think it's hard to imagine who has participated. We've had interest, phone calls, participation from almost every part of the industry, watching how this is being built, at times also sharing their own perspective and feedback about what they think we're doing right and what's potentially off and what makes them nervous.
Yassaee: It's not just the big tech companies, either. There are a lot of smaller tech companies out there who don't have the resourcing to make content and policy decisions the way some of the bigger ones do.
What will be the measures of whether this board is working?
Moore: A couple of the things the report will look to and speak to are: Is the board taking cases? Is the board issuing decisions? It's really about the operational pieces and functional pieces, not the subjective pieces. Are they continuing to source and search for new members and bringing them through the trustee confirmation process? It's really making sure the board is operating and nothing more.
What are some questions you're most eager for the board to answer?
Yassaee: I live in D.C., so politics, politics, politics. A lot that we've heard about throughout this process is: What is the board going to do on political ads? Is that really of importance to the entire board or just the Americans? I'm curious to see how that plays out.
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Issie Lapowsky (@issielapowsky) is a senior reporter at Protocol, covering the intersection of technology, politics, and national affairs. Previously, she was a senior writer at Wired, where she covered the 2016 election and the Facebook beat in its aftermath. Prior to that, Issie worked as a staff writer for Inc. magazine, writing about small business and entrepreneurship. She has also worked as an on-air contributor for CBS News and taught a graduate-level course at New York University’s Center for Publishing on how tech giants have affected publishing. Email Issie.
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Expensify CEO David Barrett: ‘Most CEOs are not bad people, they're just cowards’
"Remember that one time when we almost had civil war? What did you do about it?"
Expensify CEO David Barrett has thoughts on what it means for tech CEOs to claim they act apolitically.
Photo: Expensify
Benjamin Pimentel
Benjamin Pimentel ( @benpimentel) covers fintech from San Francisco. He has reported on many of the biggest tech stories over the past 20 years for the San Francisco Chronicle, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Business Insider, from the dot-com crash, the rise of cloud computing, social networking and AI to the impact of the Great Recession and the COVID crisis on Silicon Valley and beyond. He can be reached at bpimentel@protocol.com or via Signal at (510)731-8429.
The Trump presidency ends tomorrow. It's a political change in which Expensify founder and CEO David Barrett played a brief, but explosive role.
Barrett became famous last fall — or infamous, depending on whom you ask — for sending an email to the fintech startup's clients, urging them to reject Trump and support President-elect Joe Biden.
<p>"Anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy," Barrett said in the email.</p><p>It was an unprecedented political maneuver by a CEO-founder in Silicon Valley, and one that drew praise from a preeminent historian of the region.</p><p>"This was a moment that utterly transcended politics as usual, and his statement utterly transcended politics as usual," futurist and historian Paul Saffo told Protocol. "I'm sure investors got a little bit of a case of indigestion over this. It was a bold move and I would say it was made with considerable character."</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p>And it wasn't a one-off: Barrett sent another email to Expensify customers over the weekend, telling its users about its plans to spend $3 million on fighting inequality, while also railing against the "domestic terrorists" who invaded the Capitol earlier this month.</p><p>Barrett talked to Protocol last Friday, before the latest email, about the coming transition, which he reflected on in a celebratory mood even as he looked back on the controversial episode. "We just survived Trump. This is going to be an amazing year," he said. "The economy's coming back. The vaccines are rolling out. Travel is going to restart. We got a new administration that's going to make reasonable decisions. We avoided a civil war. Everything's on the up and up."</p><p><em>The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.</em></p><p><strong>You sent that email taking a position on the election. I've talked to a lot of CEOs in Silicon Valley who'd rather stay in the middle. They're not going to say what they think or even who they voted for because it's safer.</strong></p><p>My opinion is a little bit different. I think this idea of "Oh, we're apolitical," I think that's kind of bullshit. I think there's no such thing in a democracy as being apolitical. Every action you take is your position. I think that a large number of these tech companies, by saying, "Oh, we're apolitical," that's a very convenient way of saying, "No, I'm voting for the status quo. I support the current administration, and I'm not going to take actions to do anything about it because it's actually good for business." I think it's actually pretty cynical.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p><strong>There's going to be a change, and there will be new issues. It's probably not going to be as intense as Trump, but there will be issues. How do you navigate them? It can be a slippery slope when you start to take positions.</strong></p><p>I think the litmus test is: What is the real-world potential impact of this? I don't anticipate to weigh in on the normal issues. It sounded bombastic back then when I wrote the newsletter: "Hey, I am genuinely concerned that we're going to have a true civil war, and that's going to be really bad for business. My business is great. We're profitable. We're growing. We're surviving the pandemic. So long as we don't descend into civil war, we'll be fine. But Trump is saying he's not going to leave office, and is anyone reading this crazy shit? We should take it seriously." </p><p>This is not normal politics. This is not taxes or health care or whatever. This is like the destruction of our nation up for discussion. The only reason I felt it was important as a CEO to weigh in was that the stakes are too high to be neutral here. </p><p>Even right now. The guy's still not out of office, by the way. The FBI's warning that we're going to have attacks on every state Capitol. Never has that happened in the history of the nation before. This is so wild, what we're talking about. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p>I feel that we need to keep reminding ourselves just how beyond the pale this is. As business leaders, it's just shameful to just sit out this entire thing. It's like, "Oh, remember that one time when we almost had civil war? What did you do about it? Oh, fucking nothing? Oh, good job."</p><p><strong>What was the reaction to the email like? Did any of it give you pause?</strong></p><p>Expensify is not a product you adopt overnight. You also don't leave it overnight. We just didn't know what the reaction was going to be. We saw this thing just go so much bigger than we expected. We were like, "Oh, fuck. OK. That's exciting."</p><p>Most people ignored it, or agreed with it, or vented about it or whatever. The vast majority of people, they're too busy. And in this Twitter news cycle, sustaining anger for more than like 10 seconds is hard. It's like, "Fuck Trump! Oh, such a cute puppy!" It's so hard to do anything.</p><p><strong>Where does that come from, that belief in taking a position? Can you talk a bit about your background?</strong></p><p>My background has always been in hard engineering. Never been in finance. Never been in politics or any of that stuff. I think what you're getting at [is]: Why are you so outspoken? I'm in a lucky position to do that. I run a very profitable business that has a very distributed customer base. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="4"> </div> </div></p><p>I think most CEOs, it's not that they're bad people, they're just cowards. They're like, "Yeah, I would like to take a stand, but I can't because of investors, customers and things like this." It basically comes down to, "I care more about hitting the next quarter results than preventing a civil war," which is so fucked up. They're more afraid of their investors than they are of militants. I'm in a lucky position where I don't have to be afraid of my investors. I'm super profitable. I can't get fired. There's no majority on the board that can fire me. So I think that I am in a position [where] I can take these stands much more than others. </p><p>I've heard from a lot of other CEOs [about speaking up, and they say]: "I can't. I wish I could. I feel bad. I feel ashamed. But I kind of can't." I feel I can give an example of, like, "Guys, speak up. The water's fine." Defending democracy is not actually a bold choice because most people agree with it.</p><p>Sure, we got a lot of shit on Twitter, or whatever. Those people weren't our customers anyway. It had no negative impact on revenue. If anything, I think we're gonna look back and this is going to be an incredible brand building event. We didn't expect this to go as viral as it did. It's like, "Shocker! Getting massive coverage for defending democracy is good for business, actually."</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="5"> </div> </div></p><p>I think that CEOs need to have the courage to actually step up for things that matter, and be less sort of afraid of the impact on their businesses. Because most customers, especially the people who are actually buying the software, they care about stability, they care about democracy.</p><p><strong>Would you consider politics after your business career?</strong></p><p>No, that sounds like a huge pain in the ass. Plus that assumes that there is an "after my business career." I just made this giant profitable business, and it's fucking awesome. I want to work here forever. My goal is just to stay here forever.</p>
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Amazon’s head of Alexa Trust on how Big Tech should talk about data
Anne Toth, Amazon's director of Alexa Trust, explains what it takes to get people to feel comfortable using your product — and why that is work worth doing.
Anne Toth, Amazon's director of Alexa Trust, has been working on tech privacy for decades.
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David Pierce ( @pierce) is Protocol's editor at large. Prior to joining Protocol, he was a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, a senior writer with Wired, and deputy editor at The Verge. He owns all the phones.
Anne Toth has had a long career in the tech industry, thinking about privacy and security at companies like Yahoo, Google and Slack, working with the World Economic Forum and advising companies around Silicon Valley.
Last August she took on a new job as the director of Alexa Trust, leading a big team tackling a big question: How do you make people feel good using a product like Alexa, which is designed to be deeply ingrained in their lives? "Alexa in your home is probably the closest sort of consumer experience or manifestation of AI in your life," she said. That comes with data questions, privacy questions, ethical questions and lots more.
<p>During CES week, when Toth was also on a popular panel about the future of privacy, she hopped on a Chime call to talk about her team, her career and what it takes to get users to trust Big Tech. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p><em>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.</em></p><p><strong>How does the Trust team work? That's what it's called, right?</strong></p><p>Yeah. I work on the Alexa Trust org, it's part of the Alexa organization overall. The team that I work on is responsible for building all the privacy features, all the privacy controls and settings, and thinking about privacy across Alexa, as well as accessibility. So the aging teams, the accessibility teams, Alexa for Everyone, all reside within this organization. And we're thinking about content issues and the whole gamut. So really all of the all of the policy dimensions and how they manifest in consumer-accessible controls and features is what this team thinks about.</p><p><strong>Why is that one team? You just named a bunch of different, equally important things. What is the tie that binds all of those things?</strong></p><p>Well … I think it's trust, right? It's, how do we develop trustworthy experiences? We are very much a horizontal organization that works throughout the Alexa org. </p><p>And the Alexa org actually is much larger than I even anticipated. When I first was interviewing with the organization, I was really surprised at how big and how quickly it's grown. So it's truly a horizontal effort to think about the customer experience, and all of these areas where there are potential trust issues, and try to deal with them very proactively. </p><p><strong>That's a much bigger definition of trust than I would have guessed. I feel like we talk about trust a lot as sort of synonymous with privacy, and so "what do you do with my data" is the core question. But then when you put things like accessibility and ethics in there, it broadens the definition of what you're looking at in this really interesting way.</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p>Yeah, it's a very expansive view. I have worked on privacy for most of my career. It often presents as a defensive issue for companies, right? And even the word "privacy" brings up a sort of connotation that makes you think about all the things you don't want people to know. </p><p>But I think of it really as an opportunity to innovate and to try to create more positive experiences, rather than to think of it as a defensive posture. How are we enabling the usage of data to help create better experiences for customers? Because that's really, ultimately what customers want: for you to use data to make this better for me. And I'm totally good with that. The concern is when I'm not sure what I'm getting out of you using my data, and you have it, and why do you have it? That's the area that's problematic. And what I see, and what we're trying to do, is to be very transparent, and to demonstrate time and again how your data is actually benefiting you in this product experience.</p><p><strong>That's actually one of the things I wanted to talk about. You said in another interview that so much of privacy and security is basically just, like, don't screw up. There's no positive experience, it's just there until you ruin it. It's interesting to think about it the other way: to say, "What does it look like to be more proactive about privacy and data security?" What does that look like for you, in terms of how to actually put it in front of people in a way that feels useful, instead of just having pop-ups that say, "Don't worry, we're not using your data for bad things?"</strong><br></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p>Designing for privacy, or designing for trust more specifically, is about baby steps. It's like developing a relationship with a person, right? You have to earn the trust. And you have to do things in the beginning that over time become less important. So the wake word: We rely very heavily on the wake word. You have to invoke Alexa. But the use of the wake word, and the training around that, is in order to make people comfortable with the fact that we are only streaming your requests to the cloud once the wake word has been invoked. </p><p>That is about interjecting some conscious friction, to create a trusted experience so that later when we have more advanced features, more advanced conversational-type elements, you'll be in a place where you're comfortable with that experience. It moved you along that learning curve, and got to that place where you trust us to do that for you effectively. </p><p>I think it was on Twitter or on LinkedIn, I saw that there was an article that had gone viral. There was a security organization that did a breakdown of an Echo device because there was a theory the mic-off button was in fact just cosmetic. So they did a whole breakdown and sort of mapped out the electronics to prove, in fact, if the red light is on, the wiring to the mic is disabled. The red light and the mic cannot both be on at the same time and vice versa. That was a design choice. There are a lot of choices that are about getting people comfortable with the device, and feeling that degree of trust so that later down the road, we can introduce more features that people will be more likely to use. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="4"> </div> </div></p><p><strong>But it's telling even that those sort of conspiracy theories exist, right? People think the same thing about Facebook turning on their microphone. Does it feel like there is this perception hole that every big tech company is in right now? That you, as Alexa, have to go out of your way to convince people that you're doing the right thing, as opposed to even starting in a neutral place? It just feels like we're in this place where people are learning to be suspicious about things that they don't understand.</strong></p><p>I'm kind of a hardened cynic. That's just my natural disposition on things. So yes, I think we are in a period of time right now where skepticism is at an all-time high. And I think deservedly so, in the world we're living in at the present moment.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="5"> </div> </div></p><p>But what I'm often heartened by is that people have put this device into their homes, into their most sacred private spaces with their families with their loved ones. To do that is a big leap of faith and trust in Amazon and Alexa. So the mere fact that we're there is already a sign that people have extended to us the benefit of the doubt and have said "we trust you." </p><p>So it's not even so much about having to earn that trust in the first place as it is having to be worthy of that trust, right? Or be worthy of that privilege of being in that space. That's the goal for me: to make sure that we continue to be worthy of the trust they've already placed in us, which is not a hurdle everyone gets over. </p><p><strong>What about as you think about things like default settings versus giving people choice? You can give people all the options in the world, but we know for a fact that most people are never going to change anything. So I'm suspicious of the idea that that's a solution to these problems, but it's definitely part of the solution. How do you think about making good decisions for people versus letting people make decisions?</strong> </p><p>First of all, no two people have the exact same notions of privacy. It's different generations, different cultures, different backgrounds, different experiences, all driving different expectations. No matter where you set a default, it's not going to be right for everybody. So there has to be the ability to change it. And you have to make that easy to find. <br></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="6"> </div> </div></p><p>So in the Alexa context, voice-forward commands to try to make it as easy as possible to be able to say, "why did you do that," or "delete what I just said," or "delete everything I have ever said" — those kinds of interactions help reduce the friction in privacy, they make it easier for people to exercise those those options. </p><p>Your default settings generally represent your organizational bias, in one way or the other. And in this case, the default settings that we have reflect our ability to use data in a way that's going to improve the product and make it better for the customer. So that's where they are. And that's how they've been determined. But they're not immovable. And that's the most important part. </p><p><strong>Well, that education piece seems hard, though. We've seen Facebook, for instance, try to explain why it collects a lot of data. And it doesn't necessarily track for a lot of people. There was this big dustup with WhatsApp, people lost their minds. Is it harder than you're making it sound to help people understand what you're doing with their data?</strong></p><p>In some ways, I think that this product gives you a more immediate example of that data benefit than other products. I mean, I spent a lot of my career talking about the benefits of targeted advertising, and how if you're going to get an ad, better to get a targeted ad than one that's irrelevant. But the relative benefit to you as a customer, as an individual, for that use of your data doesn't really feel as meaningful as the types of experiences or improvements we're able to make. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="7"> </div> </div></p><p>And there's lots of data, particularly looking at introducing Alexa into new countries and languages and dialects, where the ability to use that voice data to dramatically improve our responses and our accuracy is something that is noticeable by people over time. I think people would recognize that, that trajectory.</p><p><strong>That's fair. And it does seem like most people, when you explain it to them, will understand pieces of it like that.</strong> </p><p>This is why I love "Alexa, why did you do that?" Because Alexa doesn't always get it right the first time, and to be able to actually ask and get a response about what that reasoning was, and you can see it in real time — you can't do that with a lot of other experiences. That's a cool one that I hope more people use. </p><p>But we are faced with some real challenges under regulation about explainable AI. These technologies are getting more and more sophisticated, and when they work really well, sometimes we're delighted, and sometimes we're creeped out. It's that balancing act of like, "Wait a minute, that was really useful … should I be worried?" Which is why trust is so important to develop, so that when you get to that moment, you can offer a customer benefit without it being intrusive, or invasive or feeling somehow uncomfortable. Devices should learn!</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="8"> </div> </div></p><p><strong>You're a privacy person, so I have a current events question for you: We're in the middle right now of this privacy versus transparency debate, where it's either better to let people use encrypted services because they can't be watched or becomes a problem because bad people can do bad stuff in those encrypted services and nobody can find them. And obviously, this shows up in lots of scary ways recently. Where do you fall on the debate?</strong></p><p>I will have to speak to this on a personal level, but all the messaging apps I use are end-to-end encrypted for primary messaging. I think it's important, and I think that there's a role that they play that is important. There are lots of people who think that people aren't really concerned about privacy in the world, and we've passed that moment where privacy is an issue. Just based on the number of people that I've seen crop up on Signal and Telegram in the last week, I can tell you that people really are paying attention. So I think that if that's the indicator that we should be looking at, then I would say privacy is not dead. People really do care. And it's something everybody should be paying attention to.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="9"> </div> </div></p>
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Poshmark made ecommerce social. Wall Street is on board.
"When we go social, we're not going back," says co-founder Tracy Sun.
Tracy Sun is Poshmark's co-founder and SVP of new markets.
Photo: Poshmark/Ken Jay
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Hirsh Chitkara (@ChitkaraHirsh) is a researcher at Protocol, based out of New York City. Before joining Protocol, he worked for Business Insider Intelligence, where he wrote about Big Tech, telecoms, workplace privacy, smart cities, and geopolitics. He also worked on the Strategy & Analytics team at the Cleveland Indians.
Investors were keen to buy into Poshmark's vision for the future of retail — one that is social, online and secondhand. The company's stock price more than doubled within a few minutes of its Nasdaq debut this morning, rising from $42 to $103.
Poshmark is anything but an overnight success. The California-based company, founded in 2011, has steadily attracted a community of 31.7 million active users to its marketplace for secondhand apparel, accessories, footwear, home and beauty products. In 2019, these users spent an average of 27 minutes per day on the platform, placing it in the same realm as some of the most popular social media services. This is likely why Poshmark points out in its S-1 that it isn't just an ecommerce platform, but a "social marketplace." Users can like, comment, share and follow other buyers and sellers on the platform.
<p>For the first time since its founding, Poshmark <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825480/000119312520320132/d66583ds1.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">turned a profit</a> in its quarter that ended in June, and was again profitable the following quarter. It makes money by charging sellers a fee: 20% for items over $15, and $2.95 for everything else. And though Poshmark markets itself as a <a href="https://blog.poshmark.com/2020/02/26/the-revival-of-iconic-handbags/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">trusted source for luxury items</a> (it provides <a href="https://poshmark.com/posh_authenticate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free authentication</a> for items over $500), the average order value in 2019 was just $33.<br></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p>Co-founder and SVP of New Markets Tracy Sun spoke with Protocol soon after Poshmark's market debut. Sun discussed the importance of social commerce, why users are spending so much time on Poshmark, and how the company is investing for long-term growth. </p><p><em>The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.</em></p><p><strong>As you went through the IPO process, what were some common questions from investors?</strong></p><p>The main questions we get from investors are about our social commerce marketplace and the magic behind it. Here's the thing: A lot of social networks are tacking on commerce, and a lot of commerce companies are tacking on social. Poshmark is different in that we built our business with social and commerce integrated from the very beginning. This means we are at the forefront of social commerce and this puts us in a leadership position. </p><p>Many people are aware that social commerce is a global phenomenon. So they really want to understand, "How does it work? Where is the momentum coming from? And why have we been able to get to where we are today?"</p><p><strong>What's driving customers to spend those 27 minutes each day on Poshmark? Are customers treating it as a social experience, even if they have no immediate intention of buying?</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p>Shopping, historically, has always been social. Hundreds of years ago, people wanted to talk to one another about the items they were buying. They wanted to know the people they were buying from. That's just inherent in us in shopping.</p><p>With the rise of ecommerce, all of that engagement and vibrancy that human beings have when they connect with one another got stripped out of shopping. What we see online is the photo of the product and price. What Poshmark does is put all of that vibrancy of social community connections back into shopping.</p><p>To your question of what people are doing on the platform: They are talking to one another; they are getting to know who they're buying from and selling to; they're getting inspiration; they're getting recommendations; they're asking questions about color, fit, sizing and everything else we're accustomed to asking in a social environment. And honestly, this is the way people are shopping today. Gen Z and the younger generations refuse to have one-way communication, they want to be involved, talk to their peers and socialize. So we've built this social marketplace in order to help enable that, and, as a result, help our buyers and sellers thrive.</p><p><strong>There's a fairly large gap between your average selling price of $33 and the authentication threshold of $500. How does Poshmark build consumer trust for customers making purchases below $500?</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p>Buyer and seller trust is extremely important to us. As you mentioned, we offer authentication services on certain items. There are also a lot of investments we're making — on the human, technology and program side — to protect our community.</p><p>We have machine learning in the background that helps strengthen the integrity of our marketplace. We have a community program where we enable anyone on our site to flag any listings that violate our politics, and our politics are very clearly stated on our site. We also have a team of people who are constantly monitoring listings.</p><p><strong>Poshmark experienced a dip at the onset of the pandemic in March, but then performed really well in the subsequent months. How do you plan on retaining that momentum as the pandemic hopefully subsides?</strong></p><p>There are three trends driving momentum in commerce: the shift online, the shift to social, and the shift to resale or secondhand. Over the past year, those trends that were already there have accelerated. Once we go online, we're not going back. When we go social, we're not going back. These trends are here to stay. </p><p>We see ourselves at the intersection of these trends and the leader at this intersection. We are focused on continuing to build long-term growth. So we started with women's products and added men's and kids'. Last year we added home goods, and most recently we launched beauty. We'll continue to add more categories so that our buyers and sellers can transact with more items, [and] international [expansion]. Then the last one is building enterprise-grade tools and services to support those sellers that are looking to move a high volume of inventory. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="4"> </div> </div></p>
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Affirm CEO Max Levchin: ‘I see an ocean of opportunities’
The fintech startup's stock soared more than 90% in its IPO debut today.
It was a blockbuster debut for Affirm. The fintech startup's shares soared more than 90% when it went public on Wednesday.
The day itself began quietly for CEO Max Levchin: He kicked it off with a Zoom call with his kids, made a latte for his wife and joined a group chat with some high school friends, one of whom is recovering from COVID-19. "We were very happy to hear that he's doing well," he told Protocol shortly after his startup began trading on the Nasdaq Global Exchange.
<p>Affirm's stock opened at $90.90 after pricing at $49 a share, before climbing to as high as $96.07 in late trades.</p><p>Levchin took some time off to share his thoughts into what the successful trading debut means and what's next for the fintech startup.</p><p><em>The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.</em></p><p><strong>Quick thoughts on why the stock is rallying?</strong></p><p>I think the market does what it does. I choose to interpret it as, "People love what we stand for beyond the opportunity for financial gain." We have a story to tell, and our story is special. We built a product that actually improves lives in financial services.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p><strong>What were the common questions you were asked by investors in the IPO process?</strong></p><p>The question I heard a bunch — and I enjoyed answering — was: What makes you different? It's a hot space. There are tons of incumbents and a lot of new players. What do you do that makes you special? One big part of it is how much we attach ourselves to the idea of honest financial products, not just an opportunity for profit. It's really powerful, and that's resonated with millions of consumers and thousands and thousands merchants. That's part of our story and we tell it every time.</p><p>We took the time to build a fully universal solution. We will scale with the merchant up and down, something as enormous and complex as Walmart, and as technologically advanced and sophisticated and demanding as Shopify, and literally thousands of brands that we would have only heard of if we were looking for very specific things. We are built by a lot of engineers who are very technology-first. And that allowed us to do things right.</p><p><strong>Some analysts, while acknowledging your growth, also point to the state of the economy. Given that consumers are still facing a lot of uncertainty given the pandemic and the economic downturn, how do you reflect on those concerns?</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p>I think they are justified in the sense that the U.S. economy took a giant step back, in many ways, and yet also transformed itself, in some pretty fantastic ways. We saw the massive acceleration of the offline to online movement in commerce. I think the economy is being forced to modernize itself.</p><p><strong>Are there things in the way the economy has changed over the past year since the pandemic began that worry you, that you feel could be a problem?</strong></p><p>Part of what makes us different and special is we work with our consumers and our merchants to evaluate every transaction. So in many ways, I think our products are more important than ever to consumers. Some of them have lost their jobs, some of them are trying to be a little bit smarter about budgeting and affordability. I think these folks really benefited from Affirm. And we take great pride in helping them navigate the uncertainty and complexity around them. From a more macro view, income inequality is something that our society struggles with and is right to be concerned about.</p><p><strong>What are the biggest challenges for you this year, post-IPO?</strong></p><p>We are fundamentally limited by a number of things we can build and ship in per-unit time. I see an ocean of opportunities, and probably prioritizing them, and being focused and not trying to do everything for the exact same time despite the fact that it feels like we can do so much to help, is probably my personal challenge.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p><strong>What was the toughest part of the IPO process for you?</strong> </p><p>The level of effort and intensity that our team brought to bear to make this happen constantly made me feel like I'm just not working hard enough. The sheer amount of work we were able to do in a shorter period of time was something else. That said, we weren't going to cut corners. We were going to do it right. We were going to go out when we were ready and when the market was ready for us.</p>
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson explains how he decided to face off with Parler
Also, why he thinks the $3.2 billion purchase of Segment will help Twilio's customers help their customers and why he's OK with being reliant on AWS.
"I think in a society, words matter, actions matter," Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson said. "That's why companies have things like Terms of Service and acceptable use policies."
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Tom Krazit
Tom Krazit ( @tomkrazit) is a senior reporter at Protocol, covering cloud computing and enterprise technology out of the Pacific Northwest. He has written and edited stories about the technology industry for almost two decades for publications such as IDG, CNET, paidContent, and GeekWire. He served as executive editor of Gigaom and Structure, and most recently produced a leading cloud computing newsletter called Mostly Cloudy.
Cloud computing companies were one of the few segments of society that enjoyed 2020. But even companies like Twilio, whose stock price tripled over the last 12 months, have had enough of 2021 already.
Last Friday, in the wake of the deadly attack on the Capitol, Twilio sent a letter to the right-wing social media app Parler notifying the company that it was violating Twilio's acceptable use policy for two of its authentication services. Parler decided to turn off Twilio's services rather than moderate calls for violence against elected officials on its app, which became a moot point after AWS cut Parler off from its own computing and storage services Sunday evening.
<p>This was not the way CEO Jeff Lawson wanted to kick off a round of publicity for his new book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Your-Developer-Software-Developers/dp/0063018292" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ask Your Developer</a>." But little that has happened this month has gone according to plan, and he is quick to defend his decision from last week.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p>"If you walk into a movie theater and yell 'fire,' or you walk into an ice cream parlor and start yelling racist epithets, don't expect to be a customer of that establishment for very long," he said in an interview with Protocol Tuesday.</p><p>Lawson built Twilio into a $60 billion company based around communications APIs that allow app and web developers to build customer service and support capabilities into their own products. Just as Stripe became a central hub for payment technology for a generation of developers, Twilio enjoys a similar position when it comes to communications technology.</p><p>In his conversation with Protocol, Lawson explained the thinking behind Twilio's decision on Parler, the strategy behind <a href="https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/why-did-twilio-pay-3-billion-for-segment-developers" target="_self">last year's $3.2 billion acquisition of Segment</a> and why developers should be free to choose no code, low code or "yo code" tools when building their apps.</p><p><em>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.</em></p><p><strong>Given everything that's happened in the last week, I was wondering if you could walk me through your decision to suspend service to Parler?</strong></p><p>I think in a society, words matter, actions matter. And we all have to work together to build a society. That's why companies have things like Terms of Service and acceptable use policies, because they say "What is acceptable?" There's a wide variety of things that are acceptable, but there's also fringe things that aren't.</p><p>This is not new to the online world, but think about the offline world. If you walk into a movie theater and yell "fire," or you walk into an ice cream parlor and start yelling racist epithets, don't expect to be a customer of that establishment for very long. I think what you see is the online world doing the same thing.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p>When people at the fringes of society are doing things like advocating for violence, overthrow[ing] the government, murder and hate, those are things that are largely illegal. And therefore companies like Twilio are saying: That's not how you're allowed to use our products, our platform,</p><p>This is fringe, extremist stuff. And if this were some other religion we'd be having a very different conversation. I just think that because it is happening in America, and it's largely white, it's "why are we shutting it down?" But when it's religious extremism of other varieties? People have a very clear sense: "Oh, yeah, that's wrong. And that shouldn't be allowed."</p><p><strong>What was the motivation behind the Segment deal?</strong></p><p>Our goal is to build the leading customer engagement platform. And customer engagement is essentially the sum of all of the interactions a company has with its customer that makes the customer love the company and want to buy products and want to be a loyal customer and repeat customer. And there's really two parts to building a great customer experience or customer engagement.</p><p>One is knowing your customer, and then, two, engaging with them using communications to say relevant things and to actually be a good communicator. Twilio has long played in the second category of helping companies to communicate with their customers, with text, with voice, [with] video, with chat across many different parts of the customer experience spectrum, whether it's on the ... marketing side, or the sales side, or the customer support side, or while you're using a product.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p>But the first thing you need to do is really understand your customer: understand who they are, what products they're looking for and how they use your product. That's what helps you be really good at engaging with customers. And that's what Segment does.</p><p>If you think about especially B2C companies, the way the story of who you are, what products you're interested in, what your purchase history is, that is all told through data that is on various systems throughout the company. The marketing system knows which emails you clicked on, maybe indicating that you liked those products; the ecommerce system knows which products you bought, historically; the customer support system knows how many times you've interacted with the company and the problems that you've had. The sum of understanding you is the sum of all those data points about you.</p><p>Segment allows companies to take all those bits of data that are siloed, all throughout the company and all those different computer systems, and actually pull them together to build a cohesive picture of, you know, you.</p><p><strong>The way that your customers go about this is they build these customer service products for themselves, using some of your basic plumbing tools. Do you see yourself increasingly competing with companies that sort of just provide that whole experience as a service?</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="4"> </div> </div></p><p>Generally speaking, companies need to be able to build parts of their customer experience that their customers value, because that's how you differentiate in the market. If you have the exact same customer experience as all your competitors, you're not going to be very differentiated, especially in the digital era where the perception that customers have so many companies is the digital experience you have.</p><p>Companies who win are companies who are good at building software that differentiates them in the eyes of their customers. Now, you do that by buying some things and building some things. And so a lot of companies will have, you know, SaaS products that they bought, but they need to make those SaaS products do new and interesting things to answer their customers' needs. </p><p>Many of the problems that arise are from companies having bought a whole bunch of SaaS applications that can't talk to each other. They become data silos, and getting the data out of one into the other in order to build a really cohesive experience is tremendously hard. Segment and Twilio allow you to take the investments you've made in a bunch of SaaS products and make them better.</p><p><strong>It appears you're all in on AWS from an infrastructure standpoint, behind your own platform. As you get bigger, have you considered multicloud, or bringing in other providers as you scale?</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="5"> </div> </div></p><p>We do have other vendors in the mix at Twilio, although the majority of our infrastructure is with AWS. That doesn't trouble me per se, because if you think about it, what do I want my product teams at Twilio doing? I want them building the things our customers care about.</p><p>Our customers don't really care about where our CPU and storage is. They care about what our products do, and how our products are making our customers' lives better. The more time that we get to spend doing those things that our customers care about and are buying from us, the better.</p><p>That's the great role of infrastructure; infrastructure lets you focus on the things that you do well as your core competency. We are very happy Amazon customers, they provide a great platform. Of course, it helps that I worked there in the very early days of AWS and I know a lot of the people there. But ultimately it's about picking the best tool for the job and then allowing your teams to focus on building the differentiation that your customers care about.</p><p><strong>You mentioned picking the best tool for the job. Increasingly, there are options from Microsoft and Google that are best-in-class tools for a job depending on different needs. But there is obviously some convenience of being all in on AWS, they have a certain way of doing things you understand, so your engineers don't have to learn different tricks. How do you balance that?</strong></p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="6"> </div> </div></p><p>Developers have the freedom to propose the tool for the job. Now, if it's a new tool we've never used before, there may be an architectural review, there may be a security review, etc. But ultimately, we want developers at Twilio who are building products to be able to essentially pick the right piece of infrastructure that's going to facilitate them building the best product.</p><p>That's one of the points that I make in my book, which is that company policies are useful to protect customers: say, security, and things like that. Of course, you want those things to be taken care of, but you also want to trust your developers to make the right technical decisions for the products they're building.</p><p>In fact, in the areas where we don't use AWS, that's because a developer thought that some other service would be the best tool for the job. And having gone through the appropriate reviews, we let them do that.</p><p><strong>How do low code and no code strategies play into your thinking over the next few years?</strong></p><p>There's three varieties of building tools, if you will: There's low code, no code, and I like to call it "yo code," for the traditional developer approach. There's the right place for each and the right audience for each.</p><p>I think there's builders of many different kinds in the world: There's builders who want to open an IDE and hammer out code, there's builders who want to drag and drop and there's builders who want something in the middle. And we support all those methods of building; we're not religious about saying, in order to build something, you have to write code, you have to love Python, or C or whatever it is.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="7"> </div> </div></p><p>We've got a variety of low code and no code solutions on our platform already. And I think the traction that we're getting with those really speaks to the fact that there's a lot of different ways to build and a lot of different types of builders out there. And ultimately, what we care about is that people are able to innovate at the pace and speed and with the tools that they're most comfortable with.</p><p><strong>Even "yo code" has incorporated a lot of abstractions over time, right? I mean, no one's doing assembly.</strong></p><p>I like to think of it like how we've used Moore's law over the last 40 years. Computers haven't gotten that much faster in terms of how we use them. It's not like your word processor is 10 million times faster than it was in 1990.</p><p>But how we've used Moore's law is to create abstractions that make it easier and easier to build complex, sophisticated software, including the internet itself, right? The fact that you can use Google Docs, which is a word processor, delivered entirely inside the web browser, that's so many layers of abstractions that basically compost the layers below, and make it so that, as a developer or a user, you don't have to care about those details anymore.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="8"> </div> </div></p><p>That frees you to actually build more sophisticated, more agile software that gets updated more frequently. In many ways, as technologists and as [a] society, we've used Moore's law to do that, instead of to make our computers all that much faster for the user.</p>
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115 Properties to be Featured in 10-State Micoley.com Auction Event on May 31
Wide-ranging auction to occur at the end of the month, with varied property types across the entire United States available for purchase before their scheduled online auction.
Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) May 07, 2014
At the end of this month, real estate marketing firm Micoley.com will offer buyers close to 100 opportunities to invest in properties that range from turn-key businesses such as hotels, gas stations, restaurants and bars, to residential, multi-family and vacant land properties. In total, there are 115 available properties, spread across the states of Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Although the auction will not take place until May 31, over 40 over the 115 properties have already received pending or accepted offers, so it would behoove interested partakers to act quickly to beat the spring rush -- negotiating with the seller prior to the auction day will avoid competition with other buyers on the 31st.
"Buyers are becoming more accustomed to the benefits of purchasing real estate through online auctions," stated Wade T. Micoley, President & CEO of Micoley.com. "Even though foreclosure rates are down in some areas, sellers are still very highly motivated, which provides a definite advantage for buyers. However, doing one's due diligence is always highly recommended," also stated Micoley.
There are a couple of properties in Wisconsin that are drawing particular attention. The first is a custom-built waterfront home located in Door County at 340 N Joliet Ave in Sturgeon Bay (zip: 54235) -- with more than 70 feet of water frontage on the Bay of Green Bay. The two-story brick-built house is 2,736 square feet with two bedrooms, two full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, and one full basement, with hardwood flooring throughout and a Concord elevator. The master suite contains a whirlpool tub, walk-in closet, and private porch, as well. This property is listed at $599,900 with an opening bid of $500,000 if no offer is received before the May 31 auction.
The second Wisconsin property is the Cozy Corner Tavern in downtown Black River Falls at 43 Main St (zip: 54615) -- an excellent turnkey opportunity. With an active bar and restaurant, this two-story, 5,280-square foot property has a strong history -- it was constructed in 1930 -- and the Cozy Corner Tavern has made a great name for itself in Jackson County. The property is a great opportunity for added income with five rental units also included in this bulk deal. The property is listed at $365,000 with an opening bid of $285,000.
Also featured in the upcoming auction is a commercial investment opportunity at 395 S Locust Street in Manteno, Illinois (zip: 60950). This is a 13,761-square foot, multi-tenant facility professionally updated in 2004 with a new interior and façade, allowing for 10,761 square feet of the building to be used for showroom, retail, mezzanine, or office space -- with an additional 3,000 square feet of warehouse space. The property is listed at $875,000 with an opening bid of $575,000.
Each one of these properties has motivated, high-energy sellers entertaining early bids, meaning that although all three go up for auction on May 31, they may very well sell before that date arrives. Potential buyers would be well advised to begin researching as soon as possible if these properties pique their interest. Indeed, all three properties, along with the full spread of offerings -- which also include residential homes and vacant land -- can be viewed by visiting micoley.com.
Interested parties should visit micoley.com to find photos and details about the property, or by visiting in person and performing an inspection on site, which is highly recommended. 1-866-371-3619 is Micoley.com's information line. Additionally, Micoley.com features a live chat service through which questions can be answered.
About Micoley.com:
Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Micoley.com is a real estate marketing firm specializing in project focused auctions of bank-owned properties throughout the United States. The Micoley.com approach to real estate marketing tailors each auction plan to the client’s individual needs. The site is constantly being updated for the benefit of buyers, as large scale auction events are held monthly, and new properties are added daily. IL Broker Firm: Micoley.com LLC #481.011994. IL Broker: Robert Stone #471.015845. WI Auctioneer Firm: Micoley.com LLC #432-53. Registered Wisconsin Auctioneer: Wade T. Micoley #2647-052. WI Broker Firm: WM Enterprises, Inc. #835181-91. WI Broker: Wade T. Micoley #43427-90. For a full list of licensing please visit their website.
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'Worst Congress ever,' by the numbers
By JONATHAN TOPAZ
Google “worst Congress ever”, and you’ll get nearly 5.4 million results — many of them scathing takes on two years of dysfunction, partisan warfare and all-around mayhem on Capitol Hill.
And indeed, this Congress has been singularly unproductive, shutting down most government functions for two weeks last fall, passing the fewest bills in memory and lurching from crisis to crisis, to the great ire of most American voters.
So, how does it measure up? Behold, the 113th Congress, by the numbers:
0: Combined number of Senate Republicans more liberal than a Senate Democrat and Senate Democrats more conservative than a Senate Republican in 2013, according to the National Journal annual rankings. In 1994, there were 34 senators who ranked between the most conservative Democrat and the most liberal Republican in terms of ideology.
1: The number of House majority leaders to have lost a primary election since the position was created in 1899. Rep. Eric Cantor made history in his GOP primary loss to Dave Brat, who ultimately won election to the House for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in November.
3: The number of World War II veterans in the 113th Congress — Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Ralph Hall (R-Texas). At the opening of the Congress, 20 percent of members had served in the military, compared with 73 percent in the 92nd Congress (1971-1972).
3: The number of senators at the beginning of the 113th Congress who did not complete their terms. John Kerry (D-Mass.) left the Senate after earning confirmation in January 2013 to become secretary of state. Lautenberg died in June 2013. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) retired from the Senate in February 2014.
12: The number of Republican House members who did not vote for John Boehner’s reelection as speaker in January 2013, the highest total in more than 20 years.
12.9: The time in hours (roughly) of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s March 2013 filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director. Paul began speaking at 11:47 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, and ceded the floor around 12:39 a.m. on Thursday, March 7, in a filibuster aimed at the Obama administration’s drones policy.
14.5: Congress’s average approval rating in 2013-2014, according to Gallup. The average approval rating for Congress in 2013 was a record-low 14 percent, which increased 1 percentage point to 15 percent in 2014.
16: Days the government was shut down in October 2013.
40: Percentage of calendar days the House was in session over the course of the 113th Congress, less than 147 days per year, on average. The Senate was in session 141 days per year, on average, just under 39 percent of the time.
59: The number of years retiring Democratic Rep. John Dingell of Michigan served in the House, making him the longest-serving member in congressional history. His wife, Debbie, won election to his Michigan 12th District seat in November.
62: The average age for senators at the beginning of the congressional term. The senators were, on average, 0.2 years younger than those in the 112th Congress and 1.1 years younger than those in the 111th Congress.
65: Percentage of Americans who think the 113th is the “worst Congress of their lifetime,” according to a CNN/ORC International poll released in September.
81: The number of freshman members in the House, the second-highest number in 20 years.
93: The number of senators who voted for legislation in June 2014 to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs, a bill ultimately signed into law by President Barack Obama. The VA bill marked a rare bipartisan achievement for Congress.
103: Female members at the beginning of the 113th Congress, a record.
234: The number of bills passed by the 113th Congress, the lowest recorded total in congressional history. The number is down 18 percent from the 112th Congress and is only about a fourth of the 906 public bills legislation passed by the 80th in 1947-48, which President Harry Truman dubbed the “Do Nothing Congress.”
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The Early Asimov: Volume 2
(The Early Asimov)
by Isaac Asimov
In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science fiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories un the various SF magazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become a world reknowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic FOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous Three Laws of Robotics.
THE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an usurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each story is prefaced by Dr Asimov with fascinatng biographical details of how and when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The result is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes engrossing entertainmentb in its own right and, in addition gives the reader a first-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand Master of science fiction
Homo Sol
Half-Breeds on Venus
The Imaginary
Christmas on Ganymede
The Little Man on the Subway
The Hazing
Super-Neutron
Not Final!
Legal Rites
Time Pussy
About the Author :: Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (born Isaac Yudovich Ozimov, 1920–1992), was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited about 500 books and over 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (the sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology).
Isaac Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most ... (more)
famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, an accolade that many still find persuasive. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
Isaac Asimov. Wikipedia.
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Kevin Smith calls for DC, Warner Bros. to make 'Batman' horror film
Director envisions possible response to Marvel's 'Black Panther' success
By Michael Tanenbaum
PictureGroup/USA TODAY NETWORK
Kevin Smith speaks at the 2017 Television Industry Advocacy Awards.
New Jersey native and cult movie director Kevin Smith is back on his feet after a suffering a terrifying heart attack during a pair of stand-up shows in late February. He's even gone vegetarian to keep healthy, somehow losing 17 pounds on a strict potato diet.
Smith is a huge podcaster, hosting several shows that touch on various topics within and outside the film industry.
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He's apparently a fan of the direction Marvel and Warner Bros. went with the record-setting "Black Panther," which departed from the shared universe concept in favor of writing a film that was internally coherent. Speaking on his "Fatman on Batman" podcast this week, Smith argued that DC and Warner Bros. should consider taking a similar approach with a Batman movie (transcript via MovieWeb):
"I would do what (Warner Bros.) are doing right now, which is, let's just start making movies that aren't connected. Don't worry about that universe, don't worry about tying things together. They were masters at this sh*t. They mastered the comic book movie in the '70s with Superman, in the late '80s, early '90s with Batman, they have the f*cking Dark Knight trilogy, they should be able to do this in their f*cking sleep..."
"...I don't think they should just be making f*cking 200 million-dollar f*cking Batman movies. They don't need to. You can do a f*cking 15 million-dollar cool horror version of that movie, sh*t, for even less. Arkham Asylum, if they were ever gonna do Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum, takes place in one f*cking location, man. Bunch of spooky rooms with the rogue's gallery. Everybody's f*cking in it."
Film and comic fans are looking for ways to keep up the spirit of the moment created by "Black Panther," an Afro-centric movie that further signals several important shifts in the movie industry. To Smith's point about containing budgets, it's worth remembering that Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning "Get Out" cost just $5 million compared to the reported $200 million for "Black Panther."
What would a Batman horror movie look like? Well, if even "The Lego Batman Movie" could garner positive reviews by mining the superhero's insecurities, a more serious psychological turn that blends nightmare and reality could play well with an audience whose investment in Bruce Wayne has been proven time and again.
Check out the full podcast below.
Michael Tanenbaum
tanenbaum@phillyvoice.com
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> Pirtek Hull
> Let there be flight!
Let there be flight!
Nothing compares to the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin in full roar.
Among the second world war aircraft powered by this engineering classic, was the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber. Thousands of these war machines were built, many of which were based on the flatlands of eastern England, setting forth on bombing raids over Europe. More than half were lost during the war and only 17 aircraft survive today. Of these only two remain airworthy, one in Canada and one in the UK.
Pirtek is playing its part in changing this. A number of these venerable bombers are under restoration to airworthiness, including NX611, a Lancaster Mk. VII at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, owned and run by the Panton family. In the Pipeline was taken around by Andrew Panton, a third-generation participant in the museum.
NX611 was named Just Jane upon the beginning of her restoration in 1992 and among her other claims to fame, she has appeared in Doctor Who. The aircraft looks stunning on the outside and is well on the way to being airworthy, but it’s been a long journey.
As the Lancasters went out of service in the ’50s and ’60s, the number flying plummeted, as what was then recent history did not provoke the interest it does today. The ’60s were a time of looking forward to the “white heat of the technological revolution”, not to mention Swinging London, Woodstock and the rest. By the latter half of the decade there was only one Lancaster flying in the world.
The plane later to be renamed Just Jane went up for auction in 1972 and brothers Fred and Harold Panton were keen to buy a second world war bomber to honour the memory of their brother Christopher, who had been lost in the Nuremberg raid in 1944. The aircraft was eventually sold to another buyer, however, but when she came up for sale again in 1983, they were able to complete the purchase.
A condition of sale was that she would complete a previously agreed total of 10 years’ gate-guardianship at RAF Scampton and when this period was up, she was brought to East Kirby in 1987. She hadn’t flown for 23 years and restoration began in earnest in 1993. The rest is history.
“She’s in good condition really, she just lacks that final 10 per cent to make her airworthy,” says Andrew. It’s been a detailed job, he explains. “You have to go through the whole aircraft with a fine toothcomb. A lot of rivets need replacing because they’re the original type, rather than the ones we use today. So in theory she had to come apart and go back together again.”
It wouldn’t be a great idea to fly her right now, but she’s almost there. “She has got no ailerons at the moment,” Andrew says, “because they’re off for overhaul. Once they’re back on, technically she could fly.”
The aircraft has the four original Merlins and the museum has one more working engine in reserve, with a further five not airworthy at this time. Fuel and oil lines to the engines are a large part of Pirtek’s contribution to the aircraft.
“There’s a lot of different sorts of pipes on the aircraft,” says Andrew. “All rubber pipes that come from the fuel tanks to the fuel cocks, fuel cocks to the engines, oil tanks to engines and then from the hydraulic collector tank through to the hydraulic services like the flaps and the undercarriage. Pirtek produces new pipes for us as and when we take them off. The materials are different from the originals, but the principle’s the same, so they’re a very high Pirtek standard.”
Wooden Wonder
The museum has a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber, also in taxiing condition. The Mosquito was a mostly wooden construction (known as the Wooden Wonder), multi-role aircraft that undertook photo-reconnaissance activities as well as being a night fighter and light bomber. The plane is privately owned but Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre does the engineering for the owner. This means Pirtek supplies the hoses for the Wooden Wonder as well.
“The Mosquito has Merlin 25s,” says Andrew, “whereas the Lancaster has Merlin 24s. They’re basically the same engine, it’s just the coolant flows the opposite way.”
Additionally, the museum has a Percival Proctor and a Handley Page Hampden, from the same era, and several wartime vehicles including a Ford WOT1 fire tender.
Of the more graphic exhibits in the museum are a number of twisted propellers, engine parts and other relics of crashed aircraft. Andrew explains, “These are all parts recovered from crashes in Lincolnshire. We’ve got various different engines and other aircraft parts. The damage to these heavy-duty parts really demonstrates the forces involved with the crash, how easily it bends propellers and smashes engines.”
With an eye to the future, Andrew describes the requirements for flying the Lancaster. “The aircraft has two wheels under the wings and the third at the tail, making its on-ground handling quite different from most modern large aircraft, which have the third wheel at the nose. It’s all about steering the plane using asymmetric power. The angle of approach is also different for tailwheel aircraft. There are quite a few variances. Once you’re flying, it’s no different, but take-off, landing and taxiing are very different.
“The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, for example, trains pilots on a De Havilland Chipmunk, a single-engined tailwheel aircraft. They’ll go from that to something like the twin-engined Douglas Dakota, a multi-engine tailwheel plane. From there, they move on to the multi-engined Lancaster.”
While Just Jane is not yet airborne, in the meantime, the museum runs earthbound trips around the airfield. “We do taxi rides on the Lancaster so people can get on board and have a ride with the engines running. We’re booked about a year in advance at the moment; it’s a very popular aircraft,” says Andrew.
All being well, Just Jane should be flying again very soon, at which point Pirtek pipes will take to the skies.
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Rockland County Catholic Coalition
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Obama Administration launches direct attack on the Catholic Church and the Primacy of Conscience
Publication date: 01/20/2012) by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(http://www.usccb.org/news/2012/12-012.cfm)
Unconscionable to force citizens to buy contraceptives against their will. No change in limited exemption, only delay in enforcement. Matter of freedom of conscience, freedom of religion.
WASHINGTON — The Catholic bishops of the United States called “literally unconscionable” a decision by the Obama Administration to continue to demand that sterilization, abortifacients and contraception be included in virtually all health plans. Today’s announcement means that this mandate and its very narrow exemption will not change at all; instead there will only be a delay in enforcement against some employers.
“In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences,” said Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The cardinal-designate continued, “To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty.”
The HHS rule requires that sterilization and contraception – including controversial abortifacients – be included among “preventive services” coverage in almost every healthcare plan available to Americans. “The government should not force Americans to act as if pregnancy is a disease to be prevented at all costs,” added Cardinal-designate Dolan. At issue, the U.S. bishops and other religious leaders insist, is the survival of a cornerstone constitutionally protected freedom that ensures respect for the conscience of Catholics and all other Americans.
“This is nothing less than a direct attack on religion and First Amendment rights,” said Franciscan Sister Jane Marie Klein, chairperson of the board at Franciscan Alliance, Inc., a system of 13 Catholic hospitals. “I have hundreds of employees who will be upset and confused by this edict. I cannot understand it at all.”
Daughter of Charity Sister Carol Keehan, president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, voiced disappointment with the decision. Catholic hospitals serve one out of six people who seek hospital care annually. “This was a missed opportunity to be clear on appropriate conscience protection,” Sister Keehan said.
Cardinal-designate Dolan urged that the HHS mandate be overturned. “The Obama administration has now drawn an unprecedented line in the sand,” he said. “The Catholic bishops are committed to working with our fellow Americans to reform the law and change this unjust regulation. We will continue to study all the implications of this troubling decision.”
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Orangetown Debates Future of Sewer Department Should it be Privatized, Streamlined or Merged?
By dskriloff on May 16, 2014 Comments
BY ROBERTKNIGHT
CITY EDITOR
ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES
The Orangetown Town Board spent more than an hour Tuesday debating how to reduce costs in its $8 million sewer department.
The department, currently headed by Director Joseph Moran, is the third largest unit of town government in Orangetown, after police and highway, operating a waste water collection and treatment system that is one of the largest such municipal programs in the lower Hudson River Valley.
Almost all of its operating costs are fixed, town officials say, and cannot easily be reduced if Orangetown is to continue treating all sewage generated by the 50,000 residents throughout the municipality.
The town-wide system was created in the early 1940’s by combining the private system at Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River with the US Army system built to serve Camp Shanks in Orangeburg. Within a few years, the system was expanded and now serves the town’s four villages and seven hamlets, from Palisades north to Upper Nyack and west to Pearl River.
Almost every home and business in Orangetown is connected to the town sewer system via underground pipes and transported to the town treatment plant off Route 303 in Orangeburg. There it is purified, filtered and cleansed before being sent in much larger pipes eastward to a point between Piermont and Sparkill where it is discharged into the Hudson River.
Local Cost
Although large industrial and commercial users of the system who discharge their plant wastes into it pay separate fees for this service, the bulk of the $8 million annual cost to operate the system is born by the residential homeowners, through their annual property taxes.
Town officials have tried for years to find ways to reduce this cost, but to little effect since most of the expenses are fixed, such as salaries and benefits for its 38 employees, utility and chemical costs to process the sewage, and bond repayments on the millions of dollars it has cost Orangetown to construct the lateral and trunk sewer lines and the complex treatment plant.
Two other sewer districts serve the rest of Rockland County, with Clarkstown and Ramapo having combined their departments decades ago into the Rockland County Sewer District No. 1, with treatment facilities in Hillburn and Orangeburg. A similar but smaller district handles the sewage from Haverstraw and Stony Point, with all five towns eventually pumping all of their effluent into various points along the Hudson River.
Ever since Donald Brenner was sewer director in Orangetown, various town boards there have contemplated abolishing their town’s operations and merging them into the county treatment network. Among other inducements, merger proponents have cited the fact that the town and county treatment plants are located next door to each other on Route 303 in Orangeburg, and that it would make economic sense to combine them into a single operation, with a single staff.
Brenner and Republicans have steadfastly fought against such a merger over the decades, however, while Democrats have generally either favored it, or at least favored doing a financial study to see if it made economic sense or not.
Study Imminent
Such a study is now imminent, but it probably won’t include an investigation into a potential merger as one of its options.
Council members debated the pros and cons of such a study at length Tuesday, and listened to a presentation by consultant Teno West of the law firm of Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West, a self-described leading expert in the fields of wastewater management and public-private partnerships. The firm, with five offices nationally, is headquartered in White Plains.
The board did not take West up on his offer to perform a study of Orangetown’s sewer operations for a fee of $19,500, but did listen to his comments and suggestions, and thanked him for his gratis appearance. He had been invited by Supervisor Andrew Stewart, the board’s only Democrat, because of his expertise in the subject area and familiarity with Rockland County, since he is also a consultant to the county sewer district and the county solid waste management authority among dozens of other municipal clients.
Republican board members seemed skeptical of West’s presentation, asking him numerous questions about his background and methodologies, and concluding their listening session by essentially telling him “don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
For his fee, West said he and sewer engineer Michael Gritzuk would do an in-depth study of Orangetown’s current sewer operations, and make a series of recommendations to the Town Board on how they could be improved and the costs reduced.
Since he realized the Town Board majority was opposed to any consideration of consolidation with Rockland County, West said his study would concentrate on the areas of continued town operation, a joint public-private venture or privatization of the sewer system, with a detailed analysis of the pros and cons and cost estimates of each concept.
Specifically, West said the study would investigate:
The evaluation of the current management and operation of the town’s wastewater collection and treatment system and its comparison with other similar system as well as industry standards to assess current performance, and
The evaluation of the costs and benefits associated with private management of operation of its wastewater collection and treatment system.
West said the firm would use both attorneys and engineers to:
Begin with kick-off meetings with town officials to review the scope of the study, gain an understanding of the system’s current operational and financial position and challenges and identify the town’s long-range utility objectives.
Identify comparable wastewater facilities and relevant industry standards against which a comparison of Orangetown’s wastewater facilities can be conducted.
Undertake a comprehensive assessment of the town’s wastewater facilities, considering numerous factors including but not limited to the results of team inspections, existing engineering reports, the most recent budget for the department, its current staffing plan, collective bargaining agreements, records regarding operational costs and procurement practices and other information provided by staff.
Conduct a comparison of the wastewater system against the benchmarks of current industry standards and models of comparable other systems considering a variety of factors such as risk allocation, capital and operational cost and revenue analyses, legal and contractual factors and schedule concerns.
Assess each option for future operation and management, including but not limited to operation and management by a private contractor of the wastewater system based upon the consideration of similar factors, and finally
Prepare, submit and present a report of findings and recommendations.”
Local Credits
West said he and Gritzuk have performed similar studies and acted as consultants for Rockland, Nassau and Broome Counties, Ramapo Local Development Corporation; Towns of Ramapo, North Hempstead and Poughkeepsie and the cities of Binghamton and Johnson City, among dozens of other clients.
In some cases the municipalities decided they could cut costs themselves, based on the firm’s reports, West said. In others they joined with private firms to form public-private partnerships and in yet other cases they turned over their sewer systems to private ventures to operate.
He said one of their most successful ventures was in the nearby Town of Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County, a township similar in size to Orangetown. There, town officials followed the firm’s recommendation and partnered with United Water – Suez to operate their municipal sewer system. West estimated the town reduced its sewer operating costs by about one-third through that partnership, under which United Water actually runs the system, using town employees.
While Town Board members appeared skeptical of West’s presentation Stewart hailed it as a breakthrough in long-stalled discussions over how to cut costs in the beleaguered sewer department.
“There is a high likelihood that Orangetown could derive substantial benefits from a public-private partnership for management of the wastewater treatment plant and collection system, as recent experience in Poughkeepsie and other places, and a review of literature on this suggests,” Stewart told the board in a four-page memo distributed last week.
Stewart’s Analysis
Stewart said a town-county-merger would probably increase Orangetown residents’ sewer charges, so he recommended that the Town Board obtain a study of the potential benefits of a public private partnership for private operation and maintenance of the sewer system.
Stewart then told the board he contacted numerous potential consultants and decided to invite West and his firm to make the initial presentation, based on his familiarity with the subject and experience in this geographical area.
Stewart said after speaking with West and other consultants and reviewing literature from the Internet, he was suggesting that Orangetown hire such a firm to study:
Benchmark current operations for both the sewer processing plant and the collection system against similar municipal plants, privately run plants and the benefits and drawbacks of private versus municipal run operations;
Benchmarks for comparisons including such factors as sludge processing capacity, the number of pump stations and miles of pipe, the average age of the systems, hours of operation, safety, maintenance, capital spending, water testing procedures, what gets measured and the number and amount of overflows;
Delineating the items to be compared, including labor costs (staff, titles, salary, overtime, benefits, etc.), operation and maintenance of the plant including utilities, chemicals, uptime and DEC fines and finally “other questions,” such as labor-saving technologies, elimination of 24-hour operation, implementation of a “buddy system,” and time clock operation, cutting overtime costs, staffing needed, improvement in the “gas boy” security system and the potential for succession planning for licensed operator requirements, now set by the county and state.
West also submitted to the board a three-page list of specific advantages that could be achieved through a public-private partnership, if that is the course of action to be recommended after a thorough study is completed.
Board Reaction
Board members appeared diverse in their reaction to West’s proposal, some praising it and other seeming highly skeptical.
Stewart, who had invited him, defended the presentation and said he intended to put a resolution on next week’s business meeting agenda to hire his firm for the suggested fee of $19,500. He said he was particularly impressed with West’s work in Poughkeepsie, where he said the firm saved the town 25 to 30% of its sewer budget by recommending the public-private partnership with United Water. If he could do the same in Orangetown, it would save taxpayers millions of dollars, Stewart estimated, although he noted that he is “not a big fan of United Water,” having been an outspoken critic of the company’s proposoal for a desalination plant.
Paul Valentine of Blauvelt praised West’s report, and said he and other town officials had spoken at length with the Poughkeepsie supervisor, and came away feeling it was a good deal for that town, and may be for Orangetown as well. As a result, he said he was prepared to vote to hire West’s firm, and considered the cost to be “well worth it” if he can achieve similar results here.
Fellow Republican Denis Troy of Pearl River held an opposite view, however, saying he is “dead set against any public-private partnership” to run the sewer department or any other branch of town government, and would vote against hiring West or any other consultant for such a study.
He was joined by Councilman Thomas Morr, Pearl River, who said he saw no need to hire an outside firm for nearly $20,000, when Supervisor Stewart, his staff, and DEME head Morgan should be perfectly capable of conducting such a study themselves, in-house, at no cost to Orangetown.
No “Trust”
“I don’t trust you, I don’t,” Troy shouted at Stewart when he tried to defend West and explain why he invited him to appear. Troy also said he felt Stewart did not provide adequate notice to the council, which Stewart denied being the case.
Diviny supported Troy, saying he would never entertain partnering with United Water on anything, claiming all the company has done in Orangetown for the past half-century is to constantly raise the cost of water bills to local residents, without providing any better service.
Saying “I’ve done my homework on this (via the internet) and I’m not convinced” a public-private partnership will benefit anyone except the private partner, at taxpayer expense, Diviny said he spoke with other municipalities where their water bills alone skyrocketed from $200 per month to $800 per month when municipal drinking systems were taken over by private partnerships.
With a clear-cut division obvious on the Town Board, it was unclear at the meeting’s conclusion Tuesday whether or not Stewart would attempt to put the item back on the agenda for next week’s business meeting, where it appeared headed for a 3-2 defeat based on this week’s council comments.
Orangetown Debates Future of Sewer Department Should it be Privatized, Streamlined or Merged? added by dskriloff on May 16, 2014
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Energy tycoon to pay £300,000 to his ex-wife – almost 20 years after their divorce
A tycoon who made his millions years after divorcing his ex-wife has been ordered to pay her a £300,000 lump sum a quarter of a century on.
Dale Vince, 53, has been told he must make the “modest” payment despite the time lapse involved and the fact they were no longer together when he generated his wealth.
His ex-wife, Kathleen Wyatt, 55, first took her claim for “financial remedy” to the courts in 2011. This was blocked twice but was eventually given the green light by the Supreme Court in March 2015.
She had demanded a £1.9m payout, but approving the terms of the settlement, High Court family judge Mr Justice Cobb said Ms Wyatt was “entitled to receive a modest capital award” following the breakdown of the marriage.
“The lump sum payment agreed between the parties fairly represents, in my view, a realistic and balanced appraisal of the unusual circumstances of this case,” he said.
The couple met in their early 20s and married in 1981. They had very little money and the court was told they lived a New Age traveller lifestyle.
They separated in the mid-1980s and divorced in 1992. Mr Vince – who now lives in Stroud in Gloucestershire – went on to found wind-power firm Ecotricity in 2011.
Mr Vince, said to be worth about £107m, branded the decision “mad” and feared it would set a dangerous precedent.
“This could signal open season for people who had brief relationships a quarter of a century ago,” he said.
“Our relationship ended 32 years ago which is an incredible passing of time. We had a settlement 20 years ago but I cannot prove that because it was so long ago that not even the courts keep records.
“I think it is very wrong just to cash in what is in effect a very old lottery ticket on her part.”
Neither Ms Wyatt nor Mr Vince was in court for the announcement.
If you need to speak to a family solicitor on separating finances in divorce, speak to us on 0800 923 2073.
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CEO update | September 2020 | Our new technology initiatives
Over the past month things at Resolution Institute have been moving with a focus and commitment that has given me a sense of pride for our community, staff team and members. This shows what a resilient community we are.
In his update, Trevor Slater talks about the roller coaster ride that COVID-19 has brought with it, and whilst challenging, this has also come with some opportunities like increased flexibility and new ways of working and connecting with each other. Back in December and January, I was travelling regularly to meet members and to connect with various PDGs and stakeholders. Now it is much easier to use technology to facilitate these connections in a way that is equally important and rewarding, in a much more flexible and timely manner. I look forward to being able to connect with people in person again soon; however, I truly believe that this period has taught us how to make the most of what we have available to us.
In light of this, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you two of the technology initiatives that staff at Resolution Institute are currently working on. First is an online community portal which will enable you, our members, to engage and interact with each other, the broader profession and with staff. This portal gives us the tool to create private, secure communities to drive interactions, knowledge sharing, resource sharing, and engagement among members. We expect that this portal will give you the ability to communicate and share information on your time — I have no doubt that the resources, best practices, and experience created will become invaluable to you to network and build relationships in this new era, whilst we redefine the way we communicate, collaborate and stay in touch. Contained within this platform is also a portal to enable us to connect and build our formal mentoring and supervision program, a high priority initiative for members for quite some time now. We are currently in the build phase of this project and more information on the launch of our online portal will be available later in the year.
The second initiative I want to share with you is ‘Fort Doc’. Resolution Institute is an Authorised Nominating Authority (ANA) in the various Australian Security of Payment schemes, as well as a nominator of third-party arbitrators and mediators. This is an important aspect of Resolution Institute’s work as a not-for-profit membership organisation that promotes and facilitates the development and use of dispute resolution. Currently we accept applications for these schemes via email, or using an online application form (or via hard copy) which limits us to accepting them only during business hours. There are also limitations in terms of the size and number of files that can be submitted. This has left us at a disadvantage, and we are now rectifying this. We are developing our own customised platform that not only enables us to accept applications out of hours, and a larger number of files with larger file sizes, but also allows us to use this platform to streamline back end processes associated with the processing of these applications. This will make it easier to work with us from the perspective of the parties and the dispute resolver.
Over the next two years we will continue to invest in technology to support our goal of service provision excellence for our members. Technology underpins everything that we do administratively and will be integral to the success of Resolution Institute and our significant programmes of work. Staff need to be able to use our technology as an enabler, freeing up valuable time to focus on value-add activities—ensuring agility and high-quality service delivery.
In my update last month, I outlined some changes that had been put in place in the staff team. Since that update, I am delighted to introduce you to three new team members who have joined us.
David Chin joins us as our Membership Manager and works across Australia and New Zealand to ensure we deliver on our strategic objective of driving member engagement and value. Ian Richardson joins us as Membership Officer in Australia, working closely with David to support our Australian members. Both David and Ian have jumped straight into things here and are working on the online community portal as their first key initiative. Both David and Ian have impressive careers in service-focused roles, and I can confidently say that they are already adding value to our team.
Laetitia Lake started last week as EA / Project Officer and she will play a critical role in coordinating our upcoming projects as well as providing the Board and me with a range of high-level executive support and secretariat services. Laetitia has worked in various EA and project roles and has recently finished a period of maternity leave with her son. I am excited to have David, Ian and Laetitia on board and I am sure they will enjoy getting to know our members like I have over the past nine months.
Finally, and most importantly, please continue to take care of yourselves, each other and above all, stay safe.
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Ukrainian flight did not declare emergency before crash – Iranian media
Rescue team members check the debris from the Ukraine International Airlines plane that crashed after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran January 8, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Ukrainian airliner with 176 aboard that crashed in Iran on Wednesday did not declare an emergency, Iranian media said, quoting an official of the Iran Civil Aviation Organization.
The comments were made by Hassan Rezaeifar, the general director of the body’s panel to investigate aircraft accidents.
Foreigners accounted for 32 of those on board, state television said.
The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport due to technical problems, killing all on board, state media said.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
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Jobs, tech and investment for Mexico, government celebrates USMCA deal
FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Jesus Seade (not pictured) hold a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico, December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The USMCA North American trade deal will bring jobs, technology and investment to Mexico, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday, a day after the agreement passed a major hurdle and was approved in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ebrard said backing for the deal by the U.S. House had ended a long period of uncertainty for investment. USMCA must now be approved by the U.S. Senate and Canadian parliament. Is unlikely to face strong opposition in either.
Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Alison Williams
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Tourism School at SICHE in 2009: Ha'amori
Wednesday, 24 December 2008 10:36 AM
The Solomon Islands College of Higher Education (SICHE) will introduce Tourism Studies and a diploma programme at its School of Education next year.
The tourism programme will be part of the new School of Tourism and Hospitality that SICHE will add to its present courses.
Director of SICHE, Dick Ha'amori, revealed this at the college's graduation ceremony early last week.
Mr. Ha'amori said it is visionary on the part of the government, especially the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, to support SICHE in establishing the new initiative.
He said theory impressions of the new school have been prepared and an architect is now working on details of the new school facilities.
Mr. Ha'amori said that there will also be various assistance from the Waikato University in New Zealand.
He said the rest of the college's curriculum will be reviewed, redeveloped and new ones developed, "by 2010 all SICHE programmes will all have been reviewed."
He said that the administrative arrangement to manage this very important college wide curriculum review is now in place.
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Tom DeLay steps down
The former House majority leader will resign from his seat in Congress and not seek reelection in November
By Farhad Manjoo
April 4, 2006 9:29AM (UTC)
When you allow yourself to dream about news like this, it's usually accompanied by church bells and a halo, perhaps a rainbow and the clearing of storm clouds -- something to mark the glorious dawning of a new day. Instead, the news hit suddenly tonight, upturning everything when one least expected it: "I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress," Rep. Tom DeLay told Time magazine on Monday. DeLay has already notified President Bush and some members of Congress of his plans; he'll hold a news conference on Tuesday to make it official, and says that he is likely to leave office in May. Texas GOP officials would then need to find another Republican to run against Democrat Nick Lampson, the former congressman who had been mounting a tough challenge to DeLay.
DeLay gave two interviews on Monday to announce his intentions -- one to Time and one to the Galveston County Daily News. Each outlet cites the same reason for his departure: DeLay's reelection campaign recently scrutinized internal polls and determined that there was a good chance that the congressman could lose his seat to Lampson. "Luckily there were more people that loved me than hated me," DeLay told the newspaper of what the polls revealed about his district. "Even though I thought I could win, it was a little too risky." DeLay told Time that he had "a little bit better than a 50/50 chance of winning reelection," but that another Republican without his baggage -- the indictment and the lingering ethical questions, not to mention the fact that so many people just plain hate the man -- would easily win against Lampson. "There's no reason to risk a seat," he told Time. "This is a very strong Republican district. It's obvious to me that anybody but me running here will overwhelmingly win the seat."
As to those ethical inquiries, even in defeat DeLay was as self-satisfied as ever. "You can't prove to me one thing that I have done for my own personal gain," he said. "Yes, I play golf. I'm very proud of the fact that I play golf. It's the only thing that I do for myself. And when you go to a country and you're there for seven days and you take an afternoon off to play golf, what does the national media write? All about the golf, not about the meeting that I went to. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. I've never done anything in my political career for my own personal gain. You can look at my bank account and my house to understand that."
To the Galveston News, DeLay admitted one regret -- that other people had not lived up to his high expectations. "I regret having people on my staff who I trusted who have disappointed me," DeLay said. (Two former DeLay associates, Tony Rudy and Michael Scanlon, have pleaded guilty in the corruption scandal connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.)
As for what happens now, DeLay appeared upbeat. For one thing, he said he's sure that his seat will remain in the GOP's hands, and that his departure also makes it more difficult for Democrats to make this year's congressional races a referendum on DeLay's bad behavior. "I imagine that this is the worst news he could get," DeLay told the Galveston News, referring to Lampson. "He is going to have to tell people what he is for ... I would assume, being the realist I am, that Mr. Lampson is going to have a hard time keeping this a national race."
DeLay also insisted that he's not likely to face any legal trouble, even though the Justice Department is investigating his role in the Abramoff matter. "I paid lawyers to investigate me as if they were prosecuting me," he told Time. "They found nothing. There is absolutely nothing -- no connection with Jack Abramoff that is illegal, dishonest, unethical or against the House rules." Richard Cullen, an attorney on DeLay's team, told the magazine that he recently reviewed 1,000 e-mail messages from DeLay's office computers that have been turned over to the government. "They were everything we felt related to the Abramoff investigation," DeLay said. "None are from DeLay. They're from staffers, showing their give and take with Abramoff. There was nothing that I said to myself or DeLay, 'Wow, this is really bad for him.'"
DeLay said he'll now work hard to promote right-wing causes and politicians. "I can continue to be a leader of the conservative cause," he told the Galveston News. "I can do more to grow the Republican majority, rather than spend the next eight months locked down in running a campaign."
It isn't clear, though, whether DeLay yet understands how radioactive he is. More than any other Republican, he has come to symbolize the routine abuse of power that now epitomizes how Washington works; George W. Bush is disastrously incompetent, but Tom DeLay may be something even worse -- he was disastrously competent, a man so adept at fusing money, religion, power and meanness that, at his height, you had to wonder whether anything could ever bring him down.
Now the fall has come. And for observers with an eye for irony, the thing that did him in speaks volumes: In 2003, Tom DeLay spearheaded the plan to gerrymander Texas' congressional districts in order to give Republicans more seats in the House. As Jeffrey Toobin has pointed out, the plan pushed five more Republicans into Congress, but at a cost to DeLay -- his own district became significantly more blue. It's only because of that effort that Lampson -- who lost his House seat in a neighboring district after the 2003 gerrymandering -- is at all competitive in DeLay's district now.
In the interviews, DeLay appeared to believe that his resignation marks the end of his time in the sun, that now we'll all forget about how ugly his reign in the House was. But if he thinks that we won't have Tom DeLay to kick around anymore, he's probably wrong. It's not just that the investigations and the recriminations will continue; despite his claims of innocence, more troubling news is sure to come spilling out. The bigger problem is the long term.
"I don't care what history writes," DeLay told Time. That's good for him because history won't treat Tom DeLay kindly.
Farhad Manjoo is a Salon staff writer and the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.
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