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Sleep boosts brain's self-cleaning system
Health 17 October 2013
We get busy sleeping, the brain gets busy cleaning
(Image: Frank van Delft/Cultura/The Image Bank/Getty)
By Alyssa Botelho
A good night’s sleep may literally clear the mind. The brain’s molecular waste-disposal system – discovered last year – is most active when we are slumbering, a study in mice suggests.
This adds to our understanding of the purpose of sleep and could inspire treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurological diseases linked to protein build-up in the brain.
“If this waste-disposal system is under the body’s intrinsic regulation, there could be a pharmacological way to turn the system up or down,” says Jeffrey Iliff at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, one of the study authors. “Perhaps this is a biological pathway that could be co-opted to rescue us from or improve neurological degeneration.”
Double the plumbing
Most of the body’s waste disposal is done by the lymphatic system, which clears damaged or misplaced molecules and pathogens from tissue and transports them to the blood, where they are broken down by the liver and excreted. But the traffic across delicate brain tissue is regulated by the blood-brain barrier, which does not allow the lymph to clean up in the way it does elsewhere.
Last year, Iliff and his colleagues discovered that the brain flushes out its waste via what he describes as a “second set of pipes”. This glymphatic system is made out of glial cells – sometimes called the “glue of the nervous system” because one of their primary functions is to help hold neurons in place. The glial cells form tubes around blood vessels in the brain. Special fluid flows in the space between the glial cells and the blood vessel and sweeps protein build-ups away from brain tissue, where they can cause disease.
The initial discovery of the system last year involved tracking the fluid flow using a powerful imaging technique called two-photon microscopy. Now the team has employed that same technique to compare glymphatic flow in conscious and sleeping mice.
They found that waste-clearing fluid flows much more rapidly in the brains of mice that were either sleeping or anaesthetised compared with awake mice.
The reason for the increased flow, the researchers suggest, could be that the glial cells shrink away from the blood vessels during sleep. This leads to a 60 per cent increase in volume between the outer glymphatic pipes and the inner blood vessels, letting more fluid pass through the brain.
Further testing showed that beta amyloid protein – which is associated with Alzheimer’s when it clumps together in the brain to form plaques – was cleared twice as rapidly from the brains of sleeping mice compared with mice that were kept awake.
“This is very important because I don’t think people have been thinking of how the sleep-wake cycle might influence a process of neurodegeneration,” says David Holtzman, a neuroscientist and Alzheimer’s researcher at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
“This work emphasises how we might want to think about ways our normal habits, even sleep, predispose us to certain problems later in life,” he says.
Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1241224
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Vernon L. Estes Jr.
Vernon L. Estes Jr., born May 2, 1937 passed away Thursday, May 22, 2014.
Vernon L. Estes Jr. Vernon L. Estes Jr., born May 2, 1937 passed away Thursday, May 22, 2014. Check out this story on newsleader.com: http://www.newsleader.com/story/life/announcements/obituaries/2014/05/24/vernon-l-estes-jr/9535957/
STA Published 1:20 p.m. ET May 24, 2014 | Updated 2:30 p.m. ET May 24, 2014
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NEWPORT NEWS – Vernon L. Estes Jr., born May 2, 1937, the son of the late, Vernon L. Estes Sr. and Gay Phillips Estes, passed away Thursday, May 22, 2014.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 51 years, Joyce Marie Spears Estes, as well as sisters, Martha Estes Harris and Brenda Faye Estes.
He lived in Waynesboro for most of his life and moved to Newport News in 2010 to live with his daughter and granddaughter.
He was a member of Shenandoah Heights Baptist Church where he served as a Deacon, Sunday school teacher, and choir member for a number of years.
A graduate of Wilson Memorial High School, he was a salesman for more than 50 years, retiring from S & D Coffee, Inc. in 2000. After retirement, he worked for McDow Funeral Home, in Waynesboro for 10 years and Peninsula Funeral Home in Newport News for four years.
He is survived by daughters, Rhonda Estes Wheeler of Newport News, Kimberly L. Estes of Staunton; his son, Derek Vernon Estes and his wife, Kathi Balestino-Estes, of Glenelg, Md.; granddaughters, Emily Marie Wheeler and her partner, Bobby Hawkins of Newport News, Mia Kathryn Estes of Glenelg, Md. and his grandson, Colin Derek Estes of Glenelg, Md.
He is also survived by sisters, Myra Estes, Nina Dameron, and Mary Bosserman, as well as many nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be at Augusta Memorial Park in Fishersville, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Betty B. Hudson presiding.
Condolences and memories may be shared with the family atwww.mcdowfuneralhomeinc.com.
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When asked what qualities they’re looking for in a potential spouse, never-married men were most likely to say that finding someone who shared “similar ideas about having and raising children” was very important to them. This was a priority for women, too, but not the most commonly cited one.
Women were most likely to say they wanted a spouse with a “steady job.”
You can imagine how this might be a problem, seeing as “steady jobs” are hard to come by these days, especially if you’re young and male. Even more so if you happen to also be low-skilled or black, among the demographics for whom both marriage and employment rates – not coincidentally – have fallen furthest in recent decades.
Wages for young men who are gainfully employed have skidded downward in the past 30 years, by about 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms. Worse, many don’t find jobs at all. Which means the number of “eligible bachelors” out there – at least as defined by the quality that most women say is important to them in a partner – has fallen.
Consider what has happened to the gender ratios in the population of never-married Americans, ages 25 to 34: In 1960, there were 139 employed men for every 100 women, primarily because women tend to marry younger than men do. By 2012, the ratio had dropped to 91 employed men for every 100 women.
The ratio is particularly stark for young, never-married African-Americans, among whom there are just 51 employed men for every 100 women. This seems an especially cruel trend when you consider that, of all races surveyed, blacks were most likely to cite a “steady job” as a top criterion for a potential spouse, the Pew report found. Nine out of 10 black women surveyed said this was “very important” in selecting a spouse. Blacks were also most likely to have traditional views about the social significance of marriage, saying that it is “very important” that a couple legally marry if they plan to spend the rest of their lives together.
The lesson of all this: If family-values types want to promote wedlock among the young and noncommittal, they might start not by lecturing about morality but rather by improving the economic prospects for millennials. Higher incomes and better employment prospects, as it turns out, are also associated with lower rates of divorce.
I often hear puzzlement about why the gay and lesbian community is so intent on gaining access to an institution that their straight peers are increasingly forgoing. But, actually, the intensifying fight for legal recognition of same-sex unions seems perfectly consistent with declining marriage rates: If you view marriage as aspirational, as a milestone that Americans are sidestepping because of financial insecurity rather than disinterest, of course it makes sense that access to marriage should become more desirable over time, especially to historically marginalized groups.
For most of Western history, marriage was a political and economic transaction (for both the spouses, and the communities they belonged to). In the late 18th century, it began transforming into an institution based on love and soul-mating. Now, it’s about politics and economics once again.
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Retracted: How Trump Colluded With Russia In Plain Sight
Newsweek Staff
On 2/20/18 at 11:05 AM EST
Opinion Trump Daca Putin Russia
This article by Anders Aslund, which first appeared on the Atlantic Council website, has been retracted by the Atlantic Council and removed from their website.
On February 16, the Justice Department indicted 13 Russians for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Donald J. Trump was elected with the slightest of margins in the Electoral College, while losing the popular vote by 2.9 million.
The fundamental question is if he won thanks to collusion with the Kremlin.
Luke Harding, The Guardian's veteran correspondent in Moscow, who was expelled by the Kremlin in 2011, has written an extraordinary investigation of this drama, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win (Vintage Press).
Harding is probably the most qualified person for this kind of investigation. Apart from his extensive reporting for the Guardian, he has written books about Wikileaks; the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned by the FSB in London; the Snowden files; and the Russian mafia state. In elegant prose, Harding goes through the many accusations against Trump and his company for having colluded with the Kremlin.
Harding leaves little doubt: It was collusion. He presents an overwhelming number of connections between Trump and his close associates with Russian intelligence and organized crime, and he digs into all of them with hard evidence. Initially, Trump and his associates denied it all, but since they had to admit their many meetings with Russians, their guilt appears all the more evident.
The evidence against Trump is substantial: "Putin was practically the only person on the planet to escape Trump's sweeping invective," Harding writes.
In July 2016, Trump stated publicly: "Russia if you're listening. I hope you're able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." The Kremlin complied and dripped the emails through Wikileaks, which "was a straightforward appeal to a foreign power to commit espionage against a political opponent," Harding writes.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. Intelligence agencies of seven countries reported collusion between Trump and Russia. MIKHAIL KLIMENTIEV/AFP/Getty
Harding met with the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele both before and after his famous dossier came out. He reports that Steele himself thought that his dossier was 70 to 90 percent accurate.
The reasons to believe Steele are multiple and overwhelming. The intelligence agencies of no fewer than seven other countries reported collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia—namely Australia, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, and Sweden, just about everybody but the United States.
When I read the Steele dossier, my first reflection was that several people will end up dead. One source, FSB General Oleg Erovinkin, who was close to Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, was found dead in his car in Moscow on December 26, 2017.
Meanwhile, U.S. journalists were sent out not to report on the Steele dossier but to verify its sources, seemingly having confused the profession of journalism with that of the prosecution. If not everything is proven correct, nothing must be reported.
Another obvious connection between Russian intelligence and the Trump campaign went through Paul Manafort, who worked for the budding Ukrainian dictator Viktor Yanukovych for nine years with a reported black income of $9 million a year, now confirmed by the Mueller indictment against him.
There are so many other connections between dubious Russians and the Trump campaign, apart from Michael Flynn, Carter Page, and George Papadopoulos. Trump's partners in New York real estate were connected with the worst of Russian mafia.
But there is a great embarrassment for U.S. media in the Trump-Russia story. The media had access to the Steele dossier long before the elections, but they were so incompetent that they failed to report on it.
The three exceptions were David Corn in Mother Jones, Franklin Foer in Slate, and finally Buzzfeed, which sensibly published the whole dossier, but only in January 2017.
The mainstream U.S. media missed the greatest scandal of the 2016 election campaign because they were so stuck in medieval liturgy that it rendered them incapable of reporting the truth. Their embarrassment might be the reason why Harding's best-selling book has received so few reviews.
Harding's riveting book shows that the question is not whether the Kremlin helped Trump win the U.S. presidential election but whether it can be proved in court and whether it is punishable according to all too arcane U.S. law, which could not even sentence Al Capone for anything but tax evasion.
This book is compulsory reading for everybody who wants to understand what the Trump administration is really about.
Our only last hope is Robert Mueller and his ongoing investigation.
Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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The Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau was established in 1947 when the three churches of Hesse, Nassau and Frankfurt came together. A long common history, the experience of the church struggle from 1933 to 1945 and the responsibilities of the church in the territories of Rhine and Main led to the united church. From the beginning the inter-relation between witness and service was stressed and led to a strong commitment in the fields of justice, peace and the integrity of creation. The particular tasks of the ECHN grew out of the increasing industrialization of the Rhine-Main region, which also affects the countryside. The smaller towns and villages still play a creative role in the life of the Christian community. A major responsibility is the pastoral care of people. The ECHN's main emphasis is on the oikoumene and it is involved in partnership relations with various churches in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Napolitano decision a victory for diversity<br>
Originally Published: February 28, 2001 6 a.m.
“Much discussion of what is likely to happen to English is colored, sometimes luridly, by what people dread or desire — for their children, their neighborhoods, their nations, their world. Human aspirations, of course, have a great deal to do with what comes to pass. And language is very much tied up with aspiration.” — Barbara Wallraff, “What Global Language?,” Atlantic Monthly, November 2000.
When Senator Jack Jackson (D-Window Rock) stated that “some things cannot be taught in English,” he made an important point — our understanding of our world is inextricably tied to our language, no matter what our culture. He, and the thousands of others who banded together against Proposition 203, the initiative to ban bilingual education in the schools, fought for more than just the right to teach in Navajo, but the right to determine the future of Native American cultures. Indeed, they fought to ensure that Native cultures survive. With State Attorney General Janet Napolitano’s recent opinion that Prop. 203 will not apply to Native American language instruction, they stand victorious.
And it is a crucial victory. Proposition 203 was not just about speaking Spanish or Navajo or Hopi in the classroom. In the minds of many voters, it was about which language would be spoken in this country, which culture would prevail in an increasingly diversified nation.
Perhaps the fact that the United States has long been what we might call “linguacentric,” perhaps even “linguaphobic,” valuing one language, the English language, to the exclusion of all others, is no surprise. More than once before the election, I heard irate stories about English-speaking visiting southern California who were unable to communicate with the local people, because they did not speak Spanish. But more than being irate, I think they were uneasy and found it simple to slip into cultural indignation—to use the “but this is America” defense— to cover their fear.
But the “this is America” shield is weakening, because how we define America is changing. It has to. From all indications, English will not have the predominance many English-speakers hope it will have. According to the 1990 census, only one in seven people said they spoke English at home. That was ten years ago. According to that same census, from 1980-1990 the number of Spanish speakers in this country grew by 50 percent.
You can’t argue with number like that. As Barbara Wallraff points out in her article, “What Global Language?,” Atlantic Monthly, November 2000, people are “delighted to be able to gather information, shop, do business and be entertained in [their] own language.” There is no way, not by force or threat of punishment, to make people stop speaking their language, to adopt another language, or even to leave theirs by the wayside because they are told there will be a better job if they do. Even if they do not speak it publicly, they will speak it nonetheless.
The debate over Proposition 203 brought out another ugly fact: many people in this country knowing English not with education alone but with intelligence itself. Many assume that those who do not speak English are somehow lesser—not as intelligent, not as cultured, not as fortunate—and so deserving of either disdain or of pity.
But there is nothing inherent in the language that makes it superior to another, nothing that indicates that the people who speak it are somehow more intelligent than those in this country who speak Spanish or Navajo or Hopi, or the plethora of other languages spoken here. In this country, the domination of English can be traced to colonialism—English gained the upper hand through bloodshed and oppression. English gained the upper hand through boarding schools.
Proposition 203 strikes at the heart of a complex issue—language is, after all, raw and powerful. Those speaking it within a group are bound together; those who cannot speak it are relegated to the fringes, no matter what language they speak. It would be well considered for those people who speak “English Only” to learn other languages, just as it is important those who do not speak English (in this country) to learn it—for the sake of equal opportunity. This is what the real intention of Proposition 203 should be: to provide students with equal opportunities when it comes to the workplace. It may be true that those who have a better grasp of English have a better chance of doing well in school and therefore, stand a better chance of securing employment when they graduate. But the way to unify what promises to be a linguistically divided nation is not to tout one language to the detriment of another. We instead should recognize our diversity and embrace it. We should teach more languages, and to everyone who wants to learn them.
It is with relief that we note that Janet Napolitano’s opinion includes the idea that in order to rectify some of our problems, Native American courses in language and culture should be offered to all students. This not only helps to keep Native American cultures intact. It also helps those outside these cultures to understand them, and it is understanding, above all, that leads us to truth.
— Janel States James
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Before Winslow, there was Brigham City
<i>Todd Roth/NHO</i><br> One of the remaining buildings at the Brigham City settlement housed a dining hall, kitchen and bakery.
Todd Roth
Originally Published: June 15, 2010 5:10 p.m.
WINSLOW, Ariz. - Winslow was established in 1881 when the A&PRR (Atlantic and Pacific Railroad) built a terminal at what is now Winslow. Winslow's first settler was F.G. Demarest who lived in a tent. Five years prior in 1876, the small Mormon settlement of Brigham City was located one mile northeast on the Little Colorado River. Some of the structures remain and initial restoration was begun in 2009.
Brigham City was one of four contemporary Mormon settlements in the Winslow area. The other three were Obed, Sunset and Joseph City. In 1879 four more Mormon settlements were established south of Winslow at Woodruff, Snowflake, Taylor and Show Low. Brigham City was used briefly as the local headquarters during the construction of the Atlantic Pacific Railroad.
In February 1876, Brigham Young called four of his captains together to organize a group of 300 people in four companies to settle the Arizona Territory. Captain Jesse O. Ballinger, along with 35 men - some with families - arrived at Brigham City (Ballinger's Camp) in the spring of 1876, placing the 21st Mormon "Arizona Stake" in the Arizona Territory, here.
A square fort 200 feet per side and an eight-foot high wall was constructed of locally quarried Moenkopi sandstone. Inside the walls were 36 dwelling units, a dining room that could seat 150, a kitchen with bake house (later annexed), cellar, storehouse, water well, rooms for soap and pottery making, and a leather working shop.
In addition, there was a school, pottery firing kiln and blacksmith shop. There was a well outside along with a gristmill.
About half of the 274 acres was used for growing wheat. Livestock were also kept at the site in corrals. Brigham City had a medieval fortress appearance because the settlers were worried about being attacked by local Native Americans. The northeast and southwest corners were bastions that provided lookouts and the ability to fire on invaders approaching the walls. Due to severe weather, floods and alkaline water, the settlers were allowed to leave in 1881 and released from their duties by Elder Erastus Snow.
An identical settlement called Sunset was located across the Little Colorado River from Brigham City, in a northeasterly direction. Over time it was washed away by floods and nothing remains of this settlement today.
It's been surmised that the La Posada Hotel used sandstone from Brigham City to enclose the lawn and gardens on the west side of the hotel.
Many decedents of the original Brigham City still live in Winslow and surrounding areas. A Brigham City restoration committee has been formed, with the group working on some initial restoration in April 2009.
For more information contact Gordon McHood at (928) 289-6719.
Special thanks to the Olds Trails Museum, located at 212 North Kinsley Ave., for providing specific details identifying existing structures.
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National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) was conceived and founded in 1988 by the late Mr. J. R. D. Tata, who sought to create an institution to conduct advanced multidisciplinary research. Housed in a picturesque green campus in Bangalore the Institute serves as a forum to bring together individuals from diverse intellectual backgrounds. They include administrators and managers from industry and government, leaders in public affairs, eminent individuals in different walks of life, and the academicians in the natural and life sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
The philosophy underlying NIAS is given shape by its research teams, which are drawn from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, humanities and arts. The Institute is unique in its integrated approach to the study of intersections between science and technology, philosophy, social issues and leadership.
The objective is to nurture a broad base of scholars, managers and leaders who would respond to the complex challenges that face contemporary India and global society, with insight, sensitivity, confidence and dedication.
The Institute has ample facilities for conferences, lectures and theatrical programmes. The JRD Tata Auditorium and the Lecture Halls facilitate an ideal atmosphere for long hours of deliberation and discussion. Situated on five acres of land within the verdant campus of the Indian Institute of Science, the buildings of NIAS have a strikingly distinctive architecture with elegant lines and arched corridors. The fully furnished guest rooms make the visitors' and course participants' stay a pleasant one.
NIAS has an active programme of public lectures, regional, national and international conferences, symposia and seminars organized independently or jointly with other institutions that focus on topical areas of research and public concern.
The current aims of NIAS are to integrate the findings of scholarship in the natural and social sciences as well as technology, the humanities and arts through multi-disciplinary research on the complex issues that face Indian and global society, and to assist in the creation of new leadership with broad horizons in all sectors of society by disseminating the conclusions of such research through appropriate publications and courses as well as through dialogues with leaders and the public.
The National Institute of Advanced Studies is an autonomous organisation. It is a registered Society under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 on 20th June 1988. The Council of Management, the Academic Council and the Holding Trustees are the three authorities responsible for overall administration of the Institute.
Dr. Raja Ramanna was the Founder Director until his retirement in July 1997, and followed by Prof R. Narasimha until 2004, Dr. K. Kasturirangan during 2004-2009, Prof. V S Ramamurthy during 2009-2014 and Prof Baldev Raj during 2014-2018. Prof V S Ramamurthy was the interim Director during 10 January - 18 March 2018.
Sri S Ramadorai currently chairs the Council of Management. Dr Shailesh Nayak has taken over as the Director of NIAS on 19 March 2018.
NIAS Society has the Institute which has 4 schools - School of Social Sciences, School of Humanities, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, and the School of Conflict and Security Studies and various programmes.
In 2017, NIAS Council of Management established a new Centre for Spatial Analytics and Advanced GIS (C-SAG) to mainly focus on development of knolwedge assets and intellectual property in Spatial Analytics and GIS. C-SAG has been accorded independent and autonomous functional status under the NIAS Council of Management.
http://www.csag.res.in
The National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) was conceived and established by the vision and initiative of the late Mr. J. R. D. Tata.
He sought to create an institution which would conduct advanced research in multidisciplinary areas, and also serve as a forum that will bring together administrators and managers from industry and government, leaders in public affairs, eminent individuals in different walks of life, and the academic community in the natural & social sciences, and the arts & humanities.
Dr. Raja Ramanna, as the Founder Director, immensely contributed to the growth and development of this Institute. Over a period of time, NIAS initiated several research programmes and other activities that brought recognition and fame.
NIAS is a registered society (on 20 June 1988) under the Karnataka Societies Registration Regulation Act. The Institute is an autonomous organisation governed by a council of management. It is located on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and was established in 1988 with Dr. Raja Ramanna as the Founder Director until his retirement in July 1997, and followed by Prof R. Narasimha until 2004, Dr. K. Kasturirangan during 2004-2009, Prof. V S Ramamurthy during 2009-2014 and Prof. Baldev Raj during September 2014-6 January 2018. Mr. S Ramadorai currently chairs the Council of Management. Dr Shailesh Nayak took over as the Director of NIAS on 19 March 2018.
Over the years, NIAS has moved towards fulfilling the dreams of its founder Mr. J. R. D. Tata. As a multidisciplinary Institute, NIAS combines scientific and humanistic perspectives on topics of national and international importance.
Activities of NIAS include research, analysis, publications and teaching. Following the ideas of its founder, NIAS has also been an educational centre for future leaders of India through its courses and educational programmes.
NIAS has created a unique ambience wherein researchers, scholars, speakers and visitors from a variety of disciplines interact in a meaningful manner.
The PhD programme that was initiated in 2004 has added to the dynamism with exploratory interest in many interdisciplinary areas of research.
The Centre for Spatial Analytics and Advanced GIS (C-SAG) has been established under the aegis of NIAS Council of Management with support from Tata Trusts in October 2017.
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A research ethics statement or protocol is an essential part of every proposal for research involving human and/or animal subjects, and must be submitted to the NIAS Ethics Committee for review and approval. This document contains the Principles and Guidelines on Research Ethics adopted by NIAS.
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The NIAS emblem can be traced back to a remarkable Sanskrit work called the Sulva-sutras. Sulva-sutras are one of the four Kalpa-sutra texts concerned chiefly with Vedic ritual and display a deep knowledge of geometry from pre-Euclidean times. Scholars are not agreed on the precise date of the Sutras, but the text clearly pre-dates Panini and must have been composed before the 6th century B.C. The NIAS emblem displays an arrangement of bricks in the first layer of an altar called ‘syena-cita’. The altar has the shape of an eagle or falcon and is described in the eleventh chapter of the Baudayana text.
The syena-cita represents imagination that inspires great mathematics and engineering – an apt symbol for the National Institute of Advanced Studies.
For complete write-up read: R Narasimha, About the NIAS Emblem, National Institute of Advanced Studies
The NIAS Logo was designed by the renowned sculptor Mr. Balan Nambiar.
The facilities of NIAS include:
JRD Tata Auditorium
Green House for open air activities
These facilities are used from time to time for various activities of the Institute and when they are not being used by the Institute it is available for others.
Architecture of the auditorium blends harmoniously with the main building and has the following facilities.
A seating capacity of 320 persons
Flexible seat arrangement
Excellent acoustics
A long foyer
It is a distinguished venue as much for an international symposium as for a round table discussion, a performing arts event or an exhibition of paintings and sculptures.
Lecture Hall / Conference Room
The faculty block of NIAS has a lecture hall with a seating capacity of 100 and a conference room.
Arrangement for a Seminar
Round table session in progress
Guest Rooms - Accommodation for Participants
The Institute has 30 fully equipped residential rooms along with a common dining hall and lounge, capable of accommodating 60 people at a time.
For reservations contact:
Mr. Srinivasa Aithal, Head, Administration, NIAS
Head, Administration
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560 012
+91 - 80 - 22185000
admin@nias.iisc.ernet.in
Plants and Trees in NIAS
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Campus
NIAS is located in the northwest corner of the IISc campus. The NIAS main gate is located next to the back arch (not the front gate) of the Ramaiah College complex, which is the best landmark to reach here. One can also reach NIAS using any of the entrances of IISc.
If you are coming from town (MG Rd etc), go north on Bellary Road up to Mekhri Circle, take a left there on to CV Raman Road. (If you are coming from Jayamahal Road you will go straight at Mekhri Circle, if coming from the airport direction, it's a right turn.) Continue down that road to the second signal, which is at CNR Rao Circle. The Main Gate of the IISc campus is on your right (sharp right).
Easiest way to approach NIAS from other directions could be tell the driver that you want to go to Mathikere; once in the general neighbourhood you can ask for NIAS.
From MG Road it should take about 40 minutes to reach the campus.
2019 Holiday List
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Entertainment Bollywood Golmaal Again Actor Waited For Long 14 Years After Marriage to Become...
Golmaal Again Actor Waited For Long 14 Years After Marriage to Become a Father And Now Blessed With a Baby
The Golmaal Again actor Shreyas Talpade is on cloud 9. And why not the reason behind that is so special for him. The actor and his wife Deepti have been blessed with a baby girl through surrogacy on May 4.
It is indeed a happy moment for the couple, as they welcomed their first child after 14 years of marriage. The couple was heading to Hong Kong for a holiday when their daughter arrived earlier than expected. Shreyas Talpade while talking to a leading daily said that:
“On the way (to the cruise in Hong Kong), we learnt that the surrogate mother had gone into labour prematurely so we changed our plans and headed back to India the same night.”
The actor further added:
“Our baby has already got both of us wrapped around her little fingers. She is a little stubborn and it feels like she is telling us – ‘Where are you going without me?”
Shreyas also revealed that he and his wife faced a lot of difficulties in conceiving due to some medical issues and therefore decided to take help of surrogacy to become parents. The actor called it “one of the best decisions of my life.”
He went on to say that:
“I was to start shooting from May 15 but luckily for me, the shoot has been pushed to June so I’ve got a month to focus on my baby. I’ve always wanted a daughter so I could buy her dolls, teddy bears and plenty of pretty dresses.”
God Bless the lovely family!
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PDA Quality Metrics Task Force to Comment on U.S. FDA Metrics Draft Guidance
Bethesda, Md., November 30, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) is preparing comments on the U.S. FDA’s revised draft guidance for industry: Submission of Quality Metrics Data. The revised draft was issued after strong public interest and comment on the first draft, which was published in 2015.
Parenteral Drug Association Celebrates 70 Years of Connecting People, Science and Regulation
Bethesda, Md., November 18, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) marks its 70th Anniversary in November. PDA’s original Certificate of Incorporation was signed in November 1946 by its six original directors: Harold London, Rudolph Price, A. Lincoln Konwiser, Max Gold, Arthur Herrick, and Abraham Wagner.
PDA’s PAC iAM Task Force Releases Work Plan to Reduce Manufacturing Change Barriers
Bethesda, Md., September 19, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) has announced its program to reduce hurdles to pharmaceutical manufacturing innovation caused by disparate national regulations that discourage changes
PDA Education to Offer FDA CDER Five Specialized Courses on Sterilization and Media Fills
Bethesda, Md., August 12, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Education—Where Excellence Begins—announces the development of five specialized courses for officials in the U.S. FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, commencing in September and running through early 2017.
PDA Announces over 25 FDA Officials at Podium for 25th PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference
Bethesda, Md., July 26, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) proudly announces the appearance of more than 25 U.S. FDA officials as speakers and moderators for the Silver, 25th Anniversary PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, September 12-14, 2016.
PDA and PIC/S Offer 2-Day Training on GMPs for Pharma Ingredients in San Juan Aug. 8-9 Regulators from around the world will be on hand at the two-day event
Bethesda, Md., July 21, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) invites pharmaceutical professionals and regulatory officials to participate in a 2-day, experienced-based training course on the application of good manufacturing practices (GMPs) regulations to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) production in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 8-9.
U.S. FDA to Speak on Biosimilars at June PDA/PQRI Conference in Baltimore
Bethesda, Md., June 2, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association, Inc. (PDA) announced the participation of four confirmed officials from the U.S. FDA at its Biosimilars Conference, cosponsored with the Product Quality Research Institute, at the Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, Md., June 20-21.
PDA Trains Six Auditors from Two Companies in Quality Culture Assessment Tool Pilot
Bethesda, Md., May 19, 2016 – The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) today launched a pilot for its Quality Culture Assessment Tool with an assessor training session. Members of PDA’s Quality Culture Maturity Task Force met with six auditors from two companies to introduce the assessment tool and learn how to apply it to simulated manufacturing case studies.
Two PDA Leaders Recognized as Most Influential People in Drug Development and Manufacture in 2016
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Terror at sea: Helicopter rescues frightened cruise passengers in Norway
The Viking Sky cruise ship was carrying 1,300 passengers and crew when it experienced engine trouble
This photo provided by Alexus Sheppard shows passengers on board the Viking Sky, waiting to be evacuated, off the coast of Norway on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Rescue workers off Norway’s western coast rushed to evacuate 1,300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday, winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side and high winds battered the operation. (Alexus Sheppard via AP)
Rodney Horgen recalled the moment he thought he was facing the end: when a huge wave crashed through the Viking Sky cruise ship’s glass doors and swept his wife 30 feet across the floor.
Horgen, 62, of Minnesota, was visiting Norway on a dream pilgrimage to his ancestral homeland when the luxury cruise quickly turned into a nightmare.
The Viking Sky was carrying 1,373 passengers and crew, going from Norway’s Arctic north to the southern city of Stavanger when it had engine trouble along Norway’s rough, frigid western coast. Struggling in heavy seas to avoid being dashed on the rocky coast, the ship issued a mayday call Saturday afternoon.
Horgan said he knew something was badly amiss when the guests on the heaving ship were summoned to the vessel’s muster points.
READ MORE: 1,300 cruise ship passengers rescued by helicopter amid storm off Norway’s coast
“When the windows and door flew open and the 2 metres (6 feet) of water swept people and tables 20 to 30 feet that was the breaker. I said to myself, ‘This is it,’” Horgen told The Associated Press. “I grabbed my wife but I couldn’t hold on. And she was thrown across the room. And then she got thrown back again by the wave coming back.”
Photos posted on social media showed the ship listing from side to side and furniture smashing violently into the ship’s walls. The hands and faces of fellow passengers were cut and bleeding from the shattered glass, he said.
An experienced fisherman, Horgen said he had never before encountered such rough boating conditions.
“I did not have a lot of hope. I knew how cold that water was and where we were and the waves and everything. You would not last very long,” he said. “That was very, very frightening.”
And yet, the scariest part was yet to come.
That was when hundreds of passengers, including Horgen, were winched off the heaving ship by helicopter, one-by-one as winds howled around them in the dark of night, by rescue workers trying to evacuate everyone on board.
Waves up to 26-feet- (8-meters-) high were smacking into the ship, making it impossible to evacuate anyone by boat.
The ship was within 100 metres (300 feet) of striking rocks under the water and 900 metres (2,950 feet) from shore when it stopped and anchored in Hustadvika Bay so passengers could be evacuated, Coast Guard official Emil Heggelund told Norway’s VG newspaper.
Norway’s Joint Rescue Coordination Center stepped in, sending in five helicopters. Passenger Alexus Sheppard told the AP that people with injuries or disabilities were winched off the cruise ship first.
“It was frightening at first. And when the general alarm sounded it became VERY real,” she wrote in a text.
Janet Jacob, among the first group of passengers evacuated to the nearby town of Molde, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that the winds felt “like a tornado” and prompted her to start praying for everyone on the ship.
“I was afraid. I’ve never experienced anything so scary,” she said.
“We saw two people taken off by stretcher,” passenger Dereck Brown told Norwegian newspaper Romsdal Budstikke. “People were alarmed. Many were frightened but they were calm.”
Viking Ocean Cruises, the company that owns and operates the ship, said 20 people were injured and received treatment at medical centres.
The airlift evacuation went all through the night and into Sunday morning, slowing for a bit when two of the five rescue helicopters had to be diverted to save nine crewmembers from a nearby ailing cargo ship.
In all, 479 passengers were airlifted to land, leaving 436 passengers and 458 crew members onboard, the company said, when the Viking Sky’s captain decided on a new plan.
Einar Knudsen of Norway’s Joint Rescue Coordination Center said the airlift was halted when the captain decided before noon Sunday to try to bring the cruise ship to the nearby port of Molde on its own engines.
“The conditions were good enough for the captain to have no more evacuations,” Knudsen told the AP.
Three of the ship’s four engines were working so a tug boat and two other vessels assisted the Viking Sky as it slowly headed to Molde under its own power. It finally docked at the port late Sunday afternoon, the cruise company said.
The Viking Oceans Cruise company said the ship’s next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia and Germany that was to leave on Wednesday, was cancelled. Norway’s Accident Investigations Board said the ship would remain in Molde, pending an investigation.
The Viking Sky was a relatively new ship, delivered in 2017 to operator Viking Ocean Cruises.
It had departed for a 12-day cruise from the southern Norwegian city of Bergen, visiting the Norwegian towns and cities of Narvik, Alta, Tromso and Bodo before its scheduled arrival Tuesday in the British port of Tilbury on the River Thames. The passengers were mostly an English-speaking mix of American, British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian citizens.
Viking Cruises chairman Torstein Hagen praised the rescue operation by Norwegian authorities and the actions of the vessel’s crew.
He told the VG newspaper that the events surrounding the Viking Sky were “some of the worst I have been involved in, but now it looks like it’s going well in the end and that we’ve been lucky.”
Shipping tycoon Hagen is one of Norway’s richest men and the founder of the Switzerland-based Viking Cruises that operates river and ocean cruises.
“I’m very proud of our crew,” Hagen told VG.
When asked why the cruise ship ventured into an area known for its rough waters in the middle of a storm that had been forecast by meteorologists, Knudsen, from Norway’s rescue service, said it was the captain’s decision to proceed with the cruise.
Mark Lewis And Jari Tanner, The Associated Press
Passengers are helped from a rescue helicopter in Fraena, Norway, Sunday March 24, 2019, after being rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship. Rescue workers are evacuating more passengers from a cruise ship that had engine problems in bad weather off Norway’s western coast while authorities prepare to tow the vessel to a nearby port. (Svein Ove Ekornesvag/NTB Scanpix via AP)
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Population projections
National population projections QMI
Andrew Nash
Last revised:
Methodology background
Important points about national population projections data
Output quality
About the output
How the output is created
Validation and quality assurance
Sources for further information or advice
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1. Methodology background
National Statistic
Frequency Biennial
How compiled Based on third party data
Geographic coverage UK
Last revised 29 October 2015
2. Important points about national population projections data
National population projections (NPPs) provide statistics on potential future population levels of the UK and its constituent countries.
They are not forecasts and do not attempt to predict the impact of future political and economic changes.
They will inevitably differ to a greater or lesser extent from actual future population.
The projections become increasingly uncertain the further into the future they go; this means longer-term figures should be treated with caution.
We publish national population projections (NPPs) every two years. We base them on the most recently available population estimates together with assumptions about future levels of fertility, mortality and migration. Each new edition of the NPPs supersedes the previous one.
NPPs are broken down by sex and single year of age and usually cover the following 100 years, although because of the uncertainty of longer-term projections we only focus on the first 25 years in our bulletins.
NPPs are used both within and outside of government as the definitive set of national population projections. Examples of their uses include informing fiscal projections, identifying future demand for health and education services and estimating the future cost of state pensions. They are also used as the base for subnational population projections and household projections.
4. Output quality
This report provides a range of information that describes the quality of the data and details any points that should be noted when using the output.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) has developed Guidelines for Measuring Statistical Quality based upon the five European Statistical System (ESS) Quality Dimensions. This report addresses the quality dimensions and important quality characteristics, which are:
timeliness and punctuality
coherence and comparability
output quality trade-offs
assessment of user needs and perceptions
accessibility and clarity
We provide more information about these quality dimensions in the following sections.
5. About the output
(The degree to which the statistical output meets users’ needs.)
The national population projections (NPPs) serve a wide range of users across government and beyond. We produce the projections at the request of the National Statistician and the Registrars General for Scotland and Northern Ireland. As such, their content and method of production have been formally agreed and are regularly revisited to see if changes are required.
The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) assessed the NPPs, along with other population projections and estimates, for their compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. OSR published its findings in Report number 309 and confirmed the NPPs’ reaccreditation with National Statistics status in March 2017.
The NPP Committee, accountable to the National Statistician and Registrars General, oversees the projections process. Within the production process we and the devolved administrations consult leading stakeholders, including representatives from relevant government departments and other parties such as the Bank of England and the Local Government Association. Consultation meetings allow stakeholders to discuss proposed assumptions, highlight potential new data requirements or request changes to presentation or the publication timetable. We take into account stakeholder views and suggestions as far as possible, within the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
We base the projections on the latest available mid-year population estimates for each UK country and also use the latest data on births, deaths, internal and international migration. However, they are not forecasts and, because of the inherent uncertainty of demographic behaviour, any set of projections will inevitably differ from actual future outcomes to a greater or lesser extent. To give users of the projections an indication of this uncertainty, we produce a number of variant population projections based on alternative assumptions about the future.
The NPPs do not attempt to predict the impact of future political and economic changes. This means, for example, that the principal projections do not make adjustments for the possible demographic consequences of the UK’s pending withdrawal from the European Union.
The projections cover a period of 100 years but uncertainty necessarily increases the further into the future they go. Long-term figures should be treated with great caution and we recommend that projections by single year of age should be treated with extreme caution when looking beyond 25 years.
We regularly consider what user needs are not being met by our published statistics – we identify these needs using the processes described in the following Assessment of user needs and perceptions section. At present known gaps in user needs include:
earlier publication of the NPPs: we are aware that some users would benefit from earlier publication and we will review whether this is feasible for future releases
more information on uncertainty around projections: our current methods do not allow the creation of measures of uncertainty; while we recognise that there is some user interest in this, further research into alternative approaches is currently a low priority
projections by ethnic group: for these we refer users to ETHPOP, a resource developed by demographers in academia; however, there may be scope for us to review the potential for alternative and more regular products, this is also a low priority
(Timeliness refers to the lapse of time between publication and the period to which the data refer. Punctuality refers to the gap between planned and actual publication dates.)
We publish the national population projections (NPPs) every two years, usually in the October following the reference year (for example, we published the 2016-based NPPs in October 2017). This publication includes the principal projection and the main variant projections. We discuss which variants to include with our main stakeholders across government. If this process indicates demand for more variants than we are able to produce in the main release, we publish the lower priority variants around a month later.
The starting point for the projections is the population estimates for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which are produced by Office for National Statistics (ONS), National Records of Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) respectively. The last of these estimates become available at the end of June of the year following the reference year and we publish the NPPs approximately four months later. We have always met the planned publication date.
Historically the main NPPs release was followed by a reference volume containing details of the results of the projections, the assumptions made for future fertility, mortality and migration, and also the methodology behind the calculations. However, we now publish all this information with the main release.
For more details on related releases, the ONS Release Calendar provides 12 months’ advance notice of release dates. In the unlikely event of a change to the pre-announced release schedule, we will draw public attention to the change and fully explain the reasons for the change at the same time, as set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
6. How the output is created
We calculate the national population projections (NPPs) using a number of standard demographic methods. Full details of the methods can be found via the bulletin. Some of the main methodological points are detailed in this section.
We make the projections for successive years running from one mid-year to the next using the cohort component method, which can be summarised as:
Population (year x) plus Births (between years x and y) minus Deaths (between years x and y) plus In-Migrants (between years x and y) minus Out-Migrants (between years x and y) equals Population (year y).
For each age, the starting population plus or minus the net number of migrants (immigrants minus emigrants) less the number of deaths produces the number in the population, one year older, at the end of the year. To this we add survivors of those born during the year. We define age as completed years at the last birthday.
We use the mid-year population estimates from each country as the starting population. We calculate the numbers of births, deaths and migrants using the assumptions of future levels of fertility, mortality and migration, which we determine using a mixture of data observation and extrapolation, as well as consideration of expert opinion. We also adjust the assumptions for the first year of the projection to take into account the very latest data.
In 2012, we commissioned a migration assumptions methodology review from the University of Southampton. This made various recommendations on the methodology for setting international migration assumptions with the intention of increasing transparency and streamlining previous processes. The results are as follows.
From the 2012-based NPPs onwards we have applied overall international migration assumptions, rather than breaking them down by world area.
Also from the 2012-based NPPs onwards we have produced separate international migration assumptions for each UK country.
For the 2012-based NPPs we used ARIMA models (a standard approach to time series extrapolation) to determine the principal international migration assumptions. However, the rise in net migration by 2014 led to the models projecting values that were deemed improbably high. In consequence, for the 2014-based NPPs we used a 25-year rolling average of international migration to and from the UK. For the 2016-based NPPs we modified this to a straight 25-year average covering the period 1992 to 2016, so avoiding the weighting towards the latter end of the series. Our Expert Advisory Panel and delegates at the NPP consultation supported the use of this approach. For the 2012-based NPPs we also used ARIMA models for the cross-border flows between the four nations of the UK. However, since the 2014-based NPPs we have calculated the cross-border flows using rates of movement by age and sex rather than fixed numbers – this avoids the projections producing implausible values, such as negative population stocks, when projected fixed levels of out-migration are bigger than the initial population size.
The 2001 National Statistics Quality Review of methodology for projecting mortality assessed various projection methods and concluded that no alternative method would be likely to outperform the existing method. It recommended some amendments to the methodology such as setting a target year at 25 years hence and using UK rather than England and Wales data to analyse past trends. These changes were implemented in subsequent projections. In January 2015, we initiated a new review into the methodology for setting mortality assumptions. We implemented some enhancements for the 2014-based NPPs, including a new method of smoothing historical mortality data to analyse past trends and determine the rates of mortality improvement for 2014, the initial year of the projections.
Following the 2014-based projections we commissioned the University of Southampton (UoS) to review the methodology for producing the mortality assumptions. UoS developed a new methodology for modelling mortality improvement rates using a Generalised Additive Model with separate models for infant and old age mortality. We have carried out initial testing on the model and will carry out further testing and development over the next two years with a view to transitioning to the model for the 2018-based projections.
We have used a consistent method for the fertility assumptions for several rounds of projections. We assume a completed family size (CFS) for the 25th year of the projections and then set the trajectory between the current level of fertility and the long-term CFS using analysis of recent trends, an assessment of their implications for future CFS and expert opinion.
We compute the population for each of the constituent countries of the UK and add the results together to produce projections for England and Wales (combined), Great Britain and the UK. We produce variant projections using the same method but with alternative assumptions of future levels of fertility, mortality and migration. We have published details of these alongside the release. Previously we calculated some variant projections on a non-additive basis, meaning we calculated the projections for each geographic level separately. This meant that the totals for England and Wales (combined), Great Britain and the UK didn’t necessarily match the sum of the constituent country totals.
7. Validation and quality assurance
(The degree of closeness between an estimate and the true value.)
The national population projections (NPPs) use the latest official population estimates as their base year and are inevitably dependent on the accuracy of these estimates. The accuracy of these estimates can be assessed after a census has been carried out. We calculate the population estimates using the internationally recognised cohort component method – starting with the population data from the last decennial census and updating each year with the available data on births, deaths and migration. The report Population estimates for local authorities across UK constituent countries: a comparison of data sources and methods compares the population estimates methodology used across the four UK countries.
We consider each component of the projections – fertility, migration and mortality – separately when setting the assumptions for each set of projections. The assumptions are based largely on extrapolation of past trends. Inevitably there is some element of subjective judgement and choices of main assumptions are also informed by the views of an Expert Advisory Panel, as well as by NPP consultation events where we meet our main stakeholders. We provide more detail on the respective Expert Advisory Panel with each publication.
Because of the inherent uncertainty around future demographic behaviour we often hold long-term assumptions of each component constant. International migration numbers are particularly unpredictable, with recent figures varying widely, so we usually assume a constant level from just a few years into the projection period – for example, in the 2016-based projections we assumed annual net migration of 165,000 per year, applying from the year ending mid-2023 onwards. Fertility measures are less volatile, although as a period measure the total fertility rate (TFR) is affected by when women choose to have their children as well as the number that they choose to have. We usually assume the TFR to be static about 10 to 15 years into the projection. We measure mortality in terms of improvements in mortality rates and, as changes are more gradual and stable, assume the current rates gradually converge to a standard rate of improvement at the same level, for all but the oldest ages, 25 years into the projection. We review all these time periods for each new set of projections.
It would be improbable for any projection to correspond entirely with the actual demographic outcome. Changes in government policy, in the economy, in individual, family and household behaviour and in events outside the UK will influence the three main components of population change. Our variant projections offer a set of plausible alternative scenarios according to higher or lower assumptions about the trajectories of fertility, migration and mortality.
Some of the variants combine alternative assumptions – for example, a “young” population assumption (high fertility, high migration and low life expectancy assumptions). Other variants allow users to decompose the projections to increase understanding of how changes in the assumptions affect the projected population. For example, by comparing the zero net migration variant with the principal projection, the impact of the level of assumed migration in the principal projection can be assessed. The variant projection results are also available in the release.
The method we use to produce the projections does not enable statements of probability to be attached to them, or for confidence intervals to be ascribed to the variant projections. Therefore, the levels of uncertainty for the fertility, mortality and migration assumptions are not directly comparable. However, study of past data shows that international migration has been more volatile than the other components.
It is also possible to look at earlier projection sets and compare them with what subsequently happened. In July 2015, we published an accuracy report, which compared NPPs with population and migration estimates and births and deaths data up to 2013, where available. In 2007, we published the article Fifty years of United Kingdom population projections: how accurate have they been?. A previous analysis covering the projections made during the period 1971 to 1991 is in Population Trends number 77 – details of this are in the Index to Articles 1975 to 2003.
All of these articles consider how close to the actual outcome the NPPs have been, the errors for each of the three individual assumptions and whether accuracy has improved in more recent projections. They also discuss the variant projections. These analyses are inevitably dependent on comparisons with the latest population estimates. Revisions to estimates of the past and current population (for example, the revisions made to population estimates following the 2001 and 2011 Censuses) also play a part in explaining projection error. Revisions may make the projections look more or less accurate than they really are.
The 2007 article UK national population projections in perspective: How successful compared to those in other European countries by Nico Keilman (University of Oslo) offers an international comparison of accuracy.
Quality assurance of administrative data
In January 2015, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) issued the Regulatory Standard for the quality assurance of administrative data. This new standard applies to all official statistics where administrative data are used in the production of these statistics. All producers of official statistics that use administrative data need to implement this requirement, by embedding good practice into their production to assure the quality of the data.
In response, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Population Statistics Division has published a set of Quality Assurance of Administrative Data reports for all of the administrative datasets that underlie its products. Many of these underlie the national population projections either directly or indirectly (via the population and migration estimates).
(Coherence is the degree to which data that are derived from different sources or methods but refer to the same topic, are similar. Comparability is the degree to which data can be compared over time and domain, for example, geographic level.)
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O. Reg. 220/01: BOILERS AND PRESSURE VESSELS
under Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 16
current July 1, 2018 – (e-Laws currency date)
November 7, 2017 – June 30, 2018
June 27, 2001 – November 6, 2017
Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000
Boilers and Pressure Vessels
Consolidation Period: From July 1, 2018 to the e-Laws currency date.
Legislative History: 420/17.
“alteration” means any change in the item described on the original manufacturer’s data report that requires a change of design calculations or otherwise affects the pressure-containing capability of a boiler or pressure vessel; (“modification”)
“boiler” means a fired vessel in which gas or vapour may be generated or a gas, vapour or liquid may be put under pressure by heating; (“chaudière”)
“certificate of inspection” means a certificate described in section 5 in respect of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping; (“certificat d’inspection”)
“code adoption document” means the “Boilers and Pressure Vessels Code Adoption Document” adopted as part of this Regulation under Ontario Regulation 223/01; (“document d’adoption de code”)
“design”, in reference to a boiler, pressure vessel or piping, means its plan or pattern and includes, where required, drawings, specifications, calculations and test data, or a model; (“conception” ou “plan”)
“fired vessel” means a vessel that is directly heated by,
(a) a flame or the hot gases of combustion,
(b) electricity, or
(c) any means other than a thermal liquid; (“appareil soumis à l’action de la chaleur”)
“fitting” means an appurtenance that is attached to or used in connection with a boiler, a pressure vessel or piping and includes such things as valves, gauges and controlling devices and other pressure-retaining components; (“accessoire”)
“insurer” means a person licensed under the Insurance Act to undertake boiler and machinery insurance as defined by that Act; (“assureur”)
“low pressure boiler” means,
(a) a boiler that is intended to generate steam or other vapour at a pressure of 15 psi (103 kPa) or less, or
(b) a boiler that is intended to be operated at a pressure of 160 psi (1,100 kPa) or less where the water temperature at any boiler outlet is 250°F (121°C) or less; (“chaudière à basse pression”)
“maximum allowable working pressure” means the maximum pressure at which a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping is permitted to be operated or used under this Regulation; (“pression maximale de service autorisée”)
“operator”, in respect of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, means the person who is responsible for aspects of its day-to-day operation; (“opérateur”)
“periodic inspection” means an inspection conducted under subsection 10 (1); (“inspection périodique”)
“piping” means a system of pipes that is used to contain a gas, vapour or liquid under pressure and includes any boiler, pressure vessel or fitting connected to such system; (“tuyauterie”)
“pressure” means pressure above prevailing atmospheric pressure; (“pression”)
“pressure vessel” means any enclosed unfired vessel that contains gas, vapour or liquid under pressure; (“appareil sous pression”)
“professional engineer” means a person who is licensed under the Professional Engineers Act; (“ingénieur”)
“record of inspection” means a record described in clause 10 (5) (b) in respect of a boiler or pressure vessel; (“relevé d’inspection”)
“repair” means any work necessary to restore a boiler or pressure vessel to a safe and satisfactory operating condition that does not result in a deviation from the original design; (“réparation”)
“third party inspection provider” means a person who conducts a periodic inspection of a thing on behalf of its insurer, where the person is so authorized by the director in accordance with this Regulation and is retained by the insurer to conduct the inspection; (“tiers fournisseur de services d’inspection”)
“used boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping” means a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping that has been in service and that has been moved from its previous site for use elsewhere. (“chaudière, appareil sous pression, accessoire ou tuyauterie usagés”) O. Reg. 220/01, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 1 (2-5).
(2) In the event of a conflict between a provision of this Regulation and the code adoption document, this Regulation prevails. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 1 (2).
(3) A reference in this Regulation to a director is a reference to the director to whom the subject matter of this Regulation is assigned. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 1 (3).
2. (1) This Regulation applies to the design, construction, maintenance, use, operation, repair and service of boilers, pressure vessels and piping. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 2 (1).
(2) This Regulation does not apply to,
(a) a boiler that is used in connection with a hot liquid heating system that has no valves or other obstructions to free circulation between the boiler and an expansion tank that is vented freely to the atmosphere;
(b) a low pressure boiler that has either a wetted heating surface of 30 square feet (2.79 square metres) or less, or a power rating of 30 kW or less;
(c) a boiler having a heating surface of 10 square feet (0.93 square metres) or less;
(d) a pressure vessel, fitting or piping that contains a gas, vapour or liquid at a maximum allowable working pressure of 15 psi (103 kPa) or less;
(e) a pressure vessel, fitting or piping that contains liquids not more hazardous than water and that operate at a temperature of 150°F (65°C) or less and at a maximum allowable working pressure of 250 psi (1,717 kPa) or less;
(f) a pressure vessel for domestic use that has an internal diameter of 24 inches (610 mm) or less for the storage of hot water where the temperature does not exceed 212°F (100°C) and the heat input is 120 kW or less;
(g) a pressure vessel that is used exclusively for hydraulic purposes at a temperature no greater than 150°F (65°C);
(h) a pressure vessel that has an internal diameter of 24 inches (610 mm) or less that is connected in a liquid pumping system at a temperature that does not exceed 150°F (65°C) and that contains air or an inert gas compressed to serve as a cushion;
(i) a refrigeration piping that has a capacity of three tons (11 kW) or less of refrigeration or a capacity of five tons (18 kW) or less of refrigeration in an air conditioning system;
(j) pressure piping that forms part of the heating system in a building that is,
(i) heated by steam at a pressure not exceeding 15 psi (103kPa), or
(ii) heated by water at a pressure not exceeding 160 psi (1,100 kPa) and at a temperature that does not exceed 250°F (121°C);
(k) compressed air piping, up to and including ¾ inch nominal pipe size;
(l) hot oil piping, where the pressure is not greater than 100 psi (687 kPa) and the operating temperature is not less than 50°F (10°C) lower than the flash point of the oil;
(m) pressure containers that form an integral part of or that are a component of rotating or reciprocating mechanical devices, including pumps, compressors, turbines, generators, engines and hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders where the primary design considerations or stresses, or both, are derived from the functional requirements of the device;
(n) automatic fire protection systems that are designed and installed in accordance with Ontario Regulation 332/12 (Building Code) and Ontario Regulation 213/07 (Fire Code);
(o) any component or system related to the subject matter of this Regulation that is regulated under any Act or regulation of the Government of Canada unless specifically requested otherwise by the Government of Canada;
(p) buried water piping that operates at a temperature of 150°F (65°C) or less at a maximum allowable working pressure of 740 psi (5,100 kPa).
(q) a pressure vessel having a capacity of 1 and one-half (1½) cubic feet (42.5L) or less, that is not a fitting;
(r) a pressure vessel having an internal diameter of six (6) inches (152mm) or less;
(s) inert-gas filled high voltage switchgear and control gear with an internal pressure that does not exceed 150 psi (1,030 kPa), rated 15 kW and above that are located within an electric utility installation that has controlled access for maintenance or repair and that is not accessible to the public;
(t) flexible hoses and portable air piping used in mines;
(u) piping, pressure vessels and fittings regulated by any one of the following regulations made under the Act:
(i) Ontario Regulation 210/01 (Oil and Gas Pipeline Systems),
(ii) Ontario Regulation 211/01 (Propane Storage and Handling),
(iii) Ontario Regulation 212/01 (Gaseous Fuels),
(iv) Ontario Regulation 213/01 (Fuel Oil), or
(v) Ontario Regulation 214/01 (Compressed Gas). O. Reg. 220/01, s. 2 (2); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 2.
Operating and Other Requirements
General requirement for compliance
3. (1) Every person engaged in an activity, use of equipment, process or procedure to which the Act and this Regulation apply shall comply with the Act and this Regulation. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 3 (1).
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the reference to an activity, use of equipment, process or procedure includes, but is not limited to, design, manufacture, installation, repair, alteration, maintenance, service, use or disposal. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 3 (2).
(3) Every owner and operator of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping shall ensure that the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, as the case may be, is maintained in safe working condition and operated safely. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 3 (2).
Design registration requirement
4. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall manufacture a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping for use in Ontario unless its design is registered with the director. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (1).
(2) A person who submits a design submission for registration may commence construction of the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping before the submission is registered if the person assumes all risks related to the construction, whether for an installation or alteration. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (2).
(3) The design for a boiler or pressure vessel shall bear the signature and seal of a professional engineer who is experienced in the design of boilers, pressure vessels, piping or fittings. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (3).
(4) Where the designer, manufacturer, installer or owner of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping proposes a change to its registered design, as determined in accordance with the code adoption document, they shall submit the design and specifications of the change to the director and obtain registration before beginning to make the change. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (4).
(5) If an inspector finds, after its manufacture or installation, that a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping for which a design registration has been issued is defective, the inspector may, despite the fact that the registration has been issued, permit the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping to be operated or used within such limits of safety as the inspector considers adequate in the circumstances and shall require the manufacturer or installer to correct the defects within such period as the inspector may allow. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (5).
(6) If the defects found under subsection (5) are due to the design and specifications of the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping and, in the director’s opinion, they cannot be remedied, the director shall cancel the design registration, and no additional boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping shall be manufactured or installed based on that design. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (6).
(7) Where a boiler, pressure vessel, piping or fitting has not been manufactured or installed in conformity with its registered design but nevertheless may be used safely at a lower pressure than its design pressure, the inspector shall fix its maximum allowable working pressure having regard to its design, condition and installation and the purpose for which it is to be operated or used. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (7).
(8) Where an unused boiler or pressure vessel has been manufactured and its design and specifications have not been registered, the director may cause it to be inspected and, if satisfied that it may be operated or used safely, may issue a certificate of inspection for it as a used boiler or pressure vessel. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 4 (8).
Requirement for certificate of inspection
5. (1) No person shall operate or use or permit a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping to be operated or used unless the director has issued a current certificate of inspection to the owner or operator stating that the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, as the case may be, has passed an inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 4.
(2) An owner or operator of a boiler or pressure vessel who holds a record of inspection for it issued before the day section 10.1 comes into force is deemed to hold a certificate of inspection for it until the time that the next periodic inspection is required, in accordance with the intervals set out in the code adoption document. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 4.
Operation of boiler, etc.
6. (1) No person shall operate or use or permit a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping to be operated or used at a pressure higher than its maximum allowable working pressure as shown in the certificate of inspection. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (1); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 5 (1).
(2) Where there is any possibility of any gas, vapour or liquid causing injury to a person inspecting, repairing or maintaining a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, the owner, the operator or any other person responsible for it or in immediate charge of it shall ensure that,
(a) a competent person is stationed so as to prevent any gas, vapour or liquid from entering the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping or any part of it; and
(b) such other measures are taken to the satisfaction of the person inspecting, repairing or maintaining the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping to ensure his or her safety. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (2); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 5 (2).
(3) Every boiler, pressure vessel and piping shall have adequate pressure relief devices set to relieve at or below its maximum allowable working pressure in accordance with the code adoption document. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (3).
(4) No person shall alter, interfere with or render inoperative any fitting that is attached for safety purposes to a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping while it is in operation or use without the consent of an inspector. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (4).
(5) No person shall operate or use or permit a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping to be operated or used if it has been sealed by an inspector. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (5).
(6) No person shall move a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping that has been sealed to another location for operation or use without the consent of the director. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (6).
(7) Every owner of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping shall ensure that it is maintained in a safe working condition and operated safely. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 6 (7).
7. (1) No person shall alter a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping unless the alteration is registered and is inspected by an inspector. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 7 (1).
(2) No person shall put into operation or use,
(a) a boiler or pressure vessel to which an alteration has been made unless a new registration and certificate of inspection have been issued;
(b) a piping or fitting to which an alteration has been made unless a new registration has been issued. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 7 (2).
(3) No person shall repair a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping without the prior concurrence of and subsequent inspection by an inspector or, where the thing is insured, without the prior concurrence of and subsequent inspection by the insurer, as the case requires. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 7 (3).
(4) A boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping that is altered or repaired under this section shall not be operated or used or be permitted to be operated or used unless it is inspected by an inspector or an insurer. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 7 (4).
(5) Subsections (3) and (4) do not apply with respect to boilers, pressure vessels, fittings and piping for which a program for repair and self-inspection is in place that satisfies the director that the repair or alteration will be carried out in a safe manner. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 7 (5).
8. (1) Upon permanently removing a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping from operation or use, the owner, the operator or any other person responsible for it or in immediate charge of it shall forthwith notify the director of the removal in the form published by the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 6.
(2) Where an explosion or rupture of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping occurs or where an accident arises out of its operation or use that causes injury or death to a person or property damage, the owner, the operator or any other person responsible for it or in immediate charge of it shall,
(a) forthwith notify the director, in person or by telephone, of the occurrence and provide full details of it; and
(b) within 48 hours after the explosion, rupture or accident occurs, send the director and insurer, if it is insured, a written report of the circumstances of the occurrence. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 6.
(3) The director or any inspector under the director’s instruction may investigate any matter reported under subsection (2), or of which he or she becomes aware, to determine its cause. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 8 (3).
(4) Where an explosion or rupture of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping occurs, no person shall, except for the purpose of saving a life or relieving human suffering, interfere with, disturb, destroy, carry away or alter any wreckage, article or thing at the scene of or connected with the occurrence until permission to do so in writing is given by an inspector. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 8 (4).
9. (1) The director may require the inspection of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping in accordance with the code adoption document at any stage of its manufacture. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 9 (1).
(2) An inspector shall inspect every new and used boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping before it is put into operation or use. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (2).
(2.1) The owner of the thing inspected under subsection (2) shall pay the fee set by the Corporation for the inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (2).
(3) After an inspection is conducted under subsection (1) or (2), if the director is satisfied that the thing inspected may be operated or used safely, he or she shall issue a certificate of inspection in accordance with the code adoption document. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 9 (3); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (3).
(4) If a required inspection of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping has not been conducted during its manufacture or its installation, the director, if satisfied that it may be operated or used safely, may issue a certificate of inspection on payment of the fee set by the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (4).
(5) Even if the director has issued a certificate of inspection, the director may order a subsequent inspection of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping at any time or an inspector may conduct a subsequent inspection at any time, and the owner shall pay the fee set by the Corporation for the inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (4).
(6) The director may employ the services of an insurer or of any person qualified to engage in the business of inspecting boilers and pressure vessels in Ontario to conduct an inspection and to report on it within 14 days after its completion. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (4).
(7) An inspector may require the owner, the operator or any other person responsible for a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping or in immediate charge of it to do all things necessary for a proper inspection, including,
(a) preparing it for inspection or a test in such manner as the inspector requires and to supply water for any test and to assist in making the test;
(b) cutting or drilling holes in the thing being inspected or using any other method to enable the inspector to determine its condition and the thickness of the metal;
(c) putting it under pressure or otherwise putting it into operation so that the inspector may test the safety valves or any part of the installation under operating conditions;
(d) stopping the application of heat to a boiler or reducing the pressure upon a boiler, pressure vessel, piping or fitting to a designated pressure if the inspector has reason to believe that it is in an unacceptable condition within the meaning of section 11; and
(e) doing any other thing the inspector considers necessary to ensure a proper inspection. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 9 (7); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 7 (5, 6).
Periodic inspections
10. (1) Every owner of a boiler or pressure vessel that is in operation or use shall have it inspected,
(a) if it is not insured, by an inspector and at the intervals that are set out in the code adoption document; or
(b) if it is insured, by its insurer at the intervals that are set out in the code adoption document, unless the director requires an inspector to conduct the inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(2) If an inspector conducts an inspection under subsection (1), the owner shall pay the fee set by the Corporation for the inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(3) When a boiler or pressure vessel is being inspected, any person who is the owner, the operator or any other person responsible for it or in immediate charge of it shall point out to the person doing the inspection any defect of which the first person has knowledge or that the first person believes to exist in it. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(4) If a third party inspection provider conducts an inspection under clause (1) (b) on behalf of the insurer, the provider shall notify the insurer upon completion of the inspection and shall provide the insurer with a report on the inspection within 10 days of completing the inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(5) Following an inspection, the inspector, in the case of an inspection under clause (1) (a) or the insurer, in the case of an inspection under clause (1) (b), shall,
(a) issue an inspection report on the inspection to the owner and the operator of the boiler or pressure vessel that was inspected; and
(b) if satisfied that the boiler or pressure vessel can continue to be operated or used safely, issue a record of inspection to the owner, the operator, the director and the Corporation no later than 30 days after the day on which the inspection is conducted. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(6) The inspection report and record of inspection shall,
(a) be in writing, subject to subsection (9);
(b) be prepared in the form and manner set out in the code adoption document; and
(c) disclose the information, if any, set out in the code adoption document. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(7) The owner and the operator who receive the inspection report and the insurer, if any, who issues it shall retain the inspection report for six years from the date of the inspection to which the report relates. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(8) The director may request that an owner, operator or insurer who is required to retain an inspection report under subsection (7) provide a copy of it at any time within the retention period specified in that subsection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(9) An inspector or insurer that issues a record of inspection to the director and the Corporation under clause (5) (b) shall do so in a format specified by the director. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
Application for certificate of inspection
10.1 (1) Subject to subsection (3), an owner or operator may obtain a certificate of inspection in respect of a boiler or pressure vessel only by applying to the Corporation for the certificate by,
(a) filing with the Corporation the record of inspection that the owner or operator receives for the boiler or pressure vessel, as the case may be;
(b) paying the fee set by the Corporation; and
(c) submitting a completed application form, if any, published by the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(2) An owner or operator may make the application in electronic format. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(3) An owner or operator who receives a record of inspection on or after the day this section comes into force shall apply for a certificate of inspection no later than 30 days after receiving the record of inspection. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(4) If an owner or operator has applied to the Corporation for a certificate of inspection in accordance with subsection (1), the director shall issue a certificate of inspection to the applicant. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(5) A certificate of inspection remains valid for the period specified by the director. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(6) The owner of every boiler or pressure vessel in respect of which a certificate of inspection has been issued shall keep the certificate in good condition and post it in a conspicuous place near the boiler or pressure vessel, as the case may be, or, if that is impractical, at the place that an inspector or the insurer of it directs in writing. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
Notice to director of changes
10.2 (1) If a change occurs with respect to the operation of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping or the name of the operator of it, the current operator shall notify the director in writing, within 10 days after the change, of the details and the effective date of the change. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(2) If a change occurs in the ownership of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, the current owner shall notify the director in writing, within 10 days after the change, of the details and the effective date of the change, including the name of the operator as of the date of the change. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(3) If a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping is insured,
(a) the insurer of the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping shall forthwith notify the director in writing if the insurance is cancelled, suspended or not renewed; and
(b) the owner or operator of the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping shall forthwith notify the director in writing if there is a change in the insurer or in the insurance. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(4) The notice mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be prepared in the form and manner set out in the code adoption document and shall include any information required by the code adoption document. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(5) If the director receives a notice under subsection (1), (2) or (3) and is of the opinion that the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping cannot be operated or used safely, the director shall seal the boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping or suspend or revoke the certificate of inspection issued for it. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(6) If at any time, other than when a boiler or pressure vessel is being inspected under section 10, any person who is the owner, the operator or any other person responsible for a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping or in immediate charge of it learns of any defect that might render it unsafe to operate or use, the person shall forthwith notify the director and insurer, if it is insured, of the circumstances, in person, by telephone or by any other means appropriate to ensure a record of the communication. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
Unacceptable condition
“unacceptable condition” with respect to a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, means a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping where,
(a) it is being used in an unsafe manner,
(b) there is any deterioration that is likely to impair its safe operation,
(c) an alteration to it has not been registered and inspected in accordance with section 7, or
(d) the condition of the relief valves or piping is likely to impair its safe operation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
(2) If, in the opinion of an inspector or an insurer of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping, or a third party inspection provider acting on behalf of the insurer, it is in an unacceptable condition,
(a) the third party inspection provider shall notify the insurer forthwith, if it is the third party inspection provider that forms that opinion;
(b) the inspector or insurer shall notify the director forthwith and shall not issue a record of inspection in respect of the boiler or pressure vessel;
(c) an inspector shall take those steps that are necessary to remove the danger, including affixing a seal, disconnecting the power or other means; and
(d) the director may cancel any certificate of design registration issued for it under section 4 or any certificate of inspection issued for it. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
Cancellation of certificate of inspection
11.1 If an inspector has inspected a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping and is satisfied that it can no longer be operated or used safely, the inspector shall condemn it, notify the director that it has been condemned, seal it with a seal or label indicating that it is condemned and take possession of the certificate of inspection issued for it. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 8.
Certificate of competency for periodic inspections
12. (1) No person shall conduct a periodic inspection of a boiler or pressure vessel unless the person holds a current certificate of competency. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 9 (1).
(2) No person shall conduct a periodic inspection if the person has any direct commercial interest in boilers or pressure vessels. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 9 (1).
(3) An application for a certificate of competency to conduct a periodic inspection on behalf of an insurer shall be in the form published by the Corporation and shall be accompanied by the fee set by the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 9 (1).
(4) The director may issue a certificate of competency to any person to conduct a periodic inspection on behalf of an insurer if the person pays the fee set by the Corporation and the person,
(a) is employed by an insurer or by a third party inspection provider;
(b) is the holder of an Ontario secondary school diploma;
(c) has the education and experience required by the code adoption document;
(d) passes the examinations or tests required by the code adoption document; or
(e) in the opinion of the director, possesses qualifications or experience equivalent to those mentioned in clauses (b), (c) and (d). O. Reg. 220/01, s. 12 (4); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 9 (2-4).
(5) A certificate of competency may, in accordance with its terms, be restricted in scope and subject to conditions. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 12 (5).
(6) A certificate of competency to conduct a periodic inspection on behalf of an insurer shall be in the form published by the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 9 (5).
(7) A certificate of competency continues in force for the period set out in it or until the holder ceases to be employed as set out in clause (4) (a), whichever occurs first. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 12 (7).
(8) Where a person ceases to be employed as set out in clause (4) (a) but is re-employed in accordance with that clause within five years, the director may issue a certificate of competency to conduct a periodic inspection to the person under this section. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 12 (8); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 9 (6).
(9) The holder of a certificate of competency who applies to the director for a renewal of the certificate before the expiry of the certificate shall be issued a renewal if the holder continues to meet the requirements set out in subsection (4). O. Reg. 220/01, s. 12 (9).
(10) On every inspection of a boiler or pressure vessel, a holder of a certificate of competency,
(a) shall satisfy himself or herself that the boiler or pressure vessel is being operated or used and maintained in accordance with this Regulation and that the pressure relief devices are properly set and protected against unauthorized adjustment; and
(b) shall review the maximum allowable working pressure of the boiler or pressure vessel and make, or require the owner or operator of the boiler or pressure vessel to make, any reduction in it for safe operation or use having regard to the design, manufacture, age, condition and use of the boiler or pressure vessel. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 12 (10).
Duties of insurers for periodic inspections
12.1 (1) An insurer shall ensure that every person employed by it to conduct a periodic inspection holds a current certificate of competency issued under section 12. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(2) If an insurer retains the services of a third party inspection provider to conduct a periodic inspection, the insurer shall ensure that,
(a) the provider holds a current certificate of authorization issued under section 12.2; and
(b) every person employed by the provider to conduct the inspection holds a current certificate of competency issued under section 12. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
Authorization of third party inspection providers
12.2 (1) No third party inspection provider shall conduct a periodic inspection unless,
(a) the provider holds a current certificate of authorization issued under this section; and
(b) the provider has been retained by the insurer of the thing being inspected to conduct the inspection on the insurer’s behalf. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(2) A third party inspection provider shall ensure that every person employed by it to conduct a periodic inspection holds a current certificate of competency issued under section 12. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(3) An application for a certificate of authorization issued under this section or renewal of such a certificate shall be made to the director in the form published by the Corporation and shall be accompanied by the fee set by the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(4) The director shall issue a certificate of authorization or a renewal of a certificate if the applicant pays the fees set by the Corporation and is not in arrears of any such fees owed to the Corporation. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(5) A certificate of authorization issued under this section or a renewal of the certificate expires on the date specified in it. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(6) A certificate of authorization issued under this section is not transferrable. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(7) Any person to whom the director has issued an authorization before the day this section comes into force shall be deemed to hold a certificate of authorization issued under this section. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
(8) The deemed certificate of authorization expires on the date specified in it. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 10.
Welding and brazing requirements
13. (1) The welding and brazing procedures used in the manufacture, installation, alteration or repair of a boiler, pressure vessel, fitting or piping are established as set out in the code adoption document and shall be submitted to the director. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (1).
(2) Every welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator shall pass such tests as the director may require and pay the fee set by the Corporation for taking the tests. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (2); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 11 (2).
(3) No person shall act as a welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator unless the person is certified in accordance with the code adoption document. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (3).
(4) The director shall issue a certificate to every welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator who passes the required tests and pays the fee set by the Corporation. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (4); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 11 (2).
(5) A welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator may be required at any time to pass such further tests as may be required in the code adoption document and, on being so required, his or her certificate shall be provisionally suspended, but a new certificate shall be issued to the welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator who passes the required tests and pays the fee set by the Corporation. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (5); O. Reg. 420/17, s. 11 (2).
(6) Every welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator shall have his or her certificate readily available and produce it when requested by an inspector. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (6).
(7) When a welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator is first employed or changes employer, he or she shall not begin welding or brazing for his or her employer or for the new employer until he or she has passed such further tests as the director may require. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (7).
(8) A welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator shall only weld or braze for the employer named on his or her certificate and only with respect to the type of welding or brazing set out in the certificate. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (8).
(9) An employer shall only permit a welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator to weld or braze if,
(a) the employer is the employer named in the person’s certificate; and
(b) the person welds or brazes in accordance with his or her certificate. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (9).
(10) No welder, welding operator, brazer or brazing operator shall weld,
(a) except in accordance with a procedure set out in the code adoption document;
(b) unless he or she is the holder of a subsisting certificate;
(c) in the employ of an employer other than the employer named in his or her certificate; and
(d) anything where he or she is not qualified in the appropriate class or position of welding as set out in the code adoption document. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (10).
“employer” includes a trade association of persons or companies whose business includes welding or brazing. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 13 (11).
Identification and marking
14. (1) No person shall permanently cover or obliterate any identification markings on a boiler or pressure vessel. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 14 (1).
(2) Where it is impracticable to comply with subsection (1), the marking shall be reproduced on a metal plate permanently attached to the boiler or pressure vessel, so as to be readily accessible. O. Reg. 220/01, s. 14 (2).
Requirements for insurers
“audit” includes a compliance survey. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 12.
(2) Every insurer shall file information with the director in a form published by the Corporation and at the frequency set out in the code adoption document. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 12.
(3) Every insurer that files a form in accordance with subsection (2) shall attest to the accuracy of the information in the form. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 12.
(4) The director may require that an insurer be audited by a person designated by the director for that purpose, which may include an employee of the Corporation or a third party. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 12.
(5) An insurer shall pay the fee set by the Corporation for an audit under this section. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 12.
16. A person who obtains information in the course of exercising a power or carrying out a duty under this Regulation shall preserve secrecy with respect to the information and shall not communicate the information to any person except,
(a) as may be required to comply with this Regulation or as otherwise required by law;
(b) as authorized under the Regulatory Modernization Act, 2007;
(c) to a law enforcement agency;
(d) to the counsel of the person communicating the information; or
(e) with the consent of the person to whom the information relates. O. Reg. 420/17, s. 12.
TABLE Revoked: O. Reg. 420/17, s. 13.
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under Retirement Homes Act, 2010, S.O. 2010, c. 11
current November 1, 2018 – (e-Laws currency date)
April 23, 2018 – June 30, 2018
January 1, 2013 – June 30, 2013
May 17, 2011 – April 11, 2012
May 16, 2011 – May 16, 2011
Retirement Homes Act, 2010
Consolidation Period: From November 1, 2018 to the e-Laws currency date.
Legislative History: 53/12, 416/12, 309/18, 453/18.
Definitions for the Act
Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority
Operation of a Retirement Home
Deemed licensee
Application for licence
Extra expense insurance
Reduction in care services
Ceasing to operate a retirement home
Residents’ Rights
Copies of agreements to residents
Agreement before resident commences residency
Package of information for residents
Posted information
Residents’ Council
Hiring staff and volunteers
Policy of zero tolerance of abuse and neglect
Standards for Retirement Homes
Risk of falls
Safety Plans
Emergency plan, general
Emergency plan, retirement home with more than 10 residents
Emergency plan, retirement home with 10 or fewer residents
Standards for Care Services Provided by Regulated Health Professionals
Certificate of registration required
Standards Relating to the Administration of Drugs or Other Substances
Administration of drugs or other substances
Storage of drugs or other substances
Medication error
Standards Relating to Other Care Services
Assistance with feeding
Assistance with bathing
Assistance with dressing
Assistance with personal hygiene
Assistance with ambulation
Provision of a meal
Dementia care program
Provision of skin and wound care
Assessment of Care Needs
Initial assessment of care needs
Full assessment of care needs
Exception, initial assessment
Exception, full assessment
Development of plan of care
Approval of the plan of care
Alternatives to a retirement home
Application of Health Care Consent Act, 1996
Prohibited devices
Personal assistance services devices
Restraint by a physical device
Restraint by a drug
Contents of records
Format and retention of records
Trust for resident’s money
Exemption for reporting to the Registrar
Procedure for complaints to licensee
Inspection of retirement home
Administrative penalties
Notice of certain events
Right to use French in dealings with the Authority
Administration of the Fund
Approval of claims
Approval of emergency payments
Care and safety standards
(b) any threatening or intimidating gestures, actions, behaviour or remarks by a resident that causes alarm or fear to another resident if the resident performing the gestures, actions, behaviour or remarks understands and appreciates their consequences; (“mauvais traitement d’ordre psychologique”)
(a) any form of verbal communication of a threatening or intimidating nature or any form of verbal communication of a belittling or degrading nature that diminishes a resident’s sense of well-being, dignity or self-worth, if the communication is made by anyone other than a resident, or
(b) any form of verbal communication of a threatening or intimidating nature made by a resident that leads another resident to fear for his or her safety if the resident making the communication understands and appreciates its consequences. (“mauvais traitement d’ordre verbal”) O. Reg. 166/11, s. 1 (1).
(2) For the purposes of clause (a) of the definition of “physical abuse” in subsection (1), physical abuse does not include the use of force that is appropriate to the provision of care or assisting a resident with activities of daily living, unless the force used is excessive in the circumstances. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 1 (2).
(b) consensual touching, behaviour or remarks of a sexual nature between a resident and a licensee or staff member that is in the course of a sexual relationship that began before the resident commenced residency in the retirement home or before the licensee or staff member became a licensee or staff member. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 1 (3).
2. (1) The following services are prescribed as care services for the purposes of the Act:
1. Any service that a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario provides while engaging in the practice of medicine.
2. Any service that a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario provides while engaging in the practice of nursing.
3. Any service that a member of the Ontario College of Pharmacists provides while engaging in the practice of pharmacy.
4. The provision of a dementia care program.
5. The provision of a skin and wound care program. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 2 (1).
(2) Services provided under the Homemakers and Nurses Services Act are not care services for the purposes of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 2 (2).
3. (1) For the purposes of clause (b) of the definition of “retirement home” in subsection 2 (1) of the Act, a residential complex or the part of a residential complex that is a retirement home must be occupied or be intended to be occupied by at least six persons who are not related to the operator of the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 3 (1).
(2) The following premises are prescribed for the purposes of clause (f) of the definition of “retirement home” in subsection 2 (1) of the Act as not being retirement homes:
1. Premises, or parts of premises, at which a supportive housing program or a residential treatment program is provided and funded under the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994, the Local Health System Integration Act, 2006 or the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Act.
2. Premises or parts of premises funded under the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. O. Reg. 416/12, s. 1.
(3) A statement in this section or the definition of “retirement home” in subsection 2 (1) of the Act that part of a premises is or is not a retirement home applies only to that part of the premises. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 3 (3).
“adverse drug reaction” means a harmful and unintended response by a resident to a drug or combination of drugs that occurs at doses normally used or tested for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of a disease or the modification of an organic function; (“réaction indésirable à un médicament”)
“altered skin integrity” means potential or actual disruption of epidermal or dermal tissue, including skin breakdown, pressure ulcers and skin tears or wounds; (“signes d’altération de l’intégrité épidermique”)
“drug” means a drug as defined in the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act; (“médicament”)
(b) a response to circumstances within the social or physical environment that may be frustrating, frightening or confusing to a person. (“comportements réactifs”) O. Reg. 166/11, s. 4 (1).
(2) If this Regulation requires or permits a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, to perform an act, that person must hold a current certificate of registration issued by the College that authorizes the person to engage in the practice of a health profession and that is not subject to a term, condition or limitation that the member only practise the health profession while under the direction or supervision of another member of that College. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 4 (2).
4.1 For the purposes of subsection 12 (15) of the Act, the first election of the directors mentioned in subsection 12 (7) of the Act shall take place before December 31, 2012. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 1.
4.2 For greater certainty, a person who operates a retirement home and who is deemed under subsection 33 (2) of the Act to be licensed under the Act to operate the home until the time specified in that subsection shall be deemed to be a licensee until that time and a licence that expires at that time shall be deemed to have been issued under the Act for the home. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 2.
5. (1) An applicant for a licence shall provide the Registrar with the documents and information required under section 34 of the Act in the form and manner that the Registrar specifies. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 5 (1).
(2) The documents and information that an applicant for a licence provides to the Registrar shall include evidence satisfactory to the Registrar of all the information that the Registrar includes in the registers established under subsection 106 (1) of the Act including,
(a) the name and address of the applicant;
(b) the name of the primary contact person for the applicant and, if available, additional contact information for the applicant, such as e-mail address, telephone number, fax number and website address;
(c) the name of every person who has a controlling interest in the applicant;
(d) the name of the person, if any, that the applicant has employed or retained to manage the operations or most of the operations of the retirement home;
(e) the name and address of the retirement home;
(f) a statement whether there is an automatic sprinkler in the room of each resident of the retirement home or elsewhere in the home and, if so, information about the sprinklers;
(g) the number of residents that the retirement home can accommodate; and
(h) the care services that the applicant, when licensed, will make available to the residents of the retirement home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 5 (2).
(3) In addition to subsection (2), the documents and information that an applicant for a licence provides to the Registrar shall include,
(a) disclosure of all non-arm’s length relationships between the applicant and external care providers that are currently providing care services to a resident of the home or that the applicant intends to have provide care services to a resident of the home; and
(b) signed declarations from each of the persons mentioned in subparagraphs 1 i, ii, iii and iv of section 35 of the Act disclosing,
(i) every offence with which the person has been charged under the Criminal Code (Canada), the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) or the Cannabis Act (Canada) and the outcome of the charge,
(ii) every order of a judge or justice of the peace made against the person in respect of an offence under the Criminal Code (Canada), the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) or the Cannabis Act (Canada), including a peace bond, probation order, prohibition order or warrant to arrest, and
(iii) Revoked: O. Reg. 453/18, s. 1 (3).
(iv) every offence of which the person has been convicted under the Criminal Code (Canada), the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) or the Cannabis Act (Canada). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 5 (3); O. Reg. 309/18, s. 1; O. Reg. 453/18, s. 1.
(4) An application for a licence shall include payment of the application fee set by the Authority that is in effect on the date the applicant makes the application. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 5 (4).
5.1 (1) In this section,
“authorized insurer” means an insurance provider licensed under the laws of a jurisdiction in Canada to undertake insurance; (“assureur agréé”)
“extra expense insurance” means an insurance policy with respect to a retirement home under which the insurer undertakes to pay for the additional costs of providing reasonable alternate accommodation and care to residents of the home for a period of no less than 120 days if, as a result of loss or damage to the home,
(a) the licensee is unable to safely provide the normal accommodation or care in the home to those residents, and
(b) the loss or damage is a peril for which insurance is reasonably available. (“assurance des frais supplémentaires”) O. Reg. 53/12, s. 3 (1).
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 4 of section 35 of the Act, it is a requirement for the issuance of a licence to operate a specific retirement home that the applicant has demonstrated that the applicant has obtained extra expense insurance with respect to the home, or will obtain it, from an authorized insurer and will maintain it in full force and effect beginning no later than January 1, 2014 for as long as the applicant operates the home. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 3 (1).
(2.1) For the purposes of subsection 60 (3) of the Act, every licensee of a retirement home shall at all times, beginning no later than January 1, 2014, maintain in full force and effect extra expense insurance from an authorized insurer. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 3 (2).
(2.2) For the purposes of subsection 108 (1) of the Act, the Registrar may at any time request that a licensee give the Registrar a certificate of insurance issued by an authorized insurer that demonstrates that the licensee has the extra expense insurance required by subsection (3) and the licensee shall provide the certificate within the time period specified by the Registrar. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 3 (2).
(3) Nothing in this section overrides or affects anything in the Insurance Act that would otherwise apply with respect to an authorized insurer. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 3 (1).
6. For the purposes of subsection 44 (1) of the Act, the licensee of a retirement home shall, at least 90 days before the reduction in care services takes effect, deliver the written notice mentioned in clause 44 (1) (a) of the Act directly to each resident and give the notice to the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 6.
7. (1) For the purposes of section 49 of the Act, the licensee of a retirement home shall give the Registrar the transition plan mentioned in clause 49 (1) (a) of the Act at least 120 days before the home ceases to be operated as a retirement home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 7 (1).
(2) The transition plan shall include,
(a) a statement that the licensee intends to cease operating the home as a retirement home;
(b) the date on which the licensee intends to cease operating the home as a retirement home;
(c) the licensee’s reasons for ceasing to operate the home as a retirement home;
(d) a description of how the licensee intends to use the home after the home ceases to be operated as a retirement home;
(e) the date by which the licensee gave, or intends to give, to each resident and the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, written notice of the date the home will cease to be operated as a retirement home;
(f) a summary of the care needs of the residents and a summary of the care services that the licensee provides to the residents;
(g) a list of alternate accommodation and external care providers that may be available to meet the needs of the residents after the home ceases to be operated as a retirement home;
(h) a list of health service organizations in the community that may be affected by the home ceasing to be operated as a retirement home;
(i) a list of external care providers who provide care services to residents of the home;
(j) a description of how the licensee will deal with any money that residents have entrusted to the licensee;
(k) the names of all persons who, to the best of the licensee’s knowledge, may manage the operations or most of the operations of the home at any time before it ceases to be operated as a retirement home; and
(l) a declaration by the licensee that the licensee will comply with clause 49 (1) (d) of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 7 (2).
(3) For the purposes of section 49 of the Act, the licensee of a retirement home shall, at least 120 days before a retirement home ceases to be operated as a retirement home, deliver the written notice mentioned in clause 44 (1) (b) of the Act directly to each resident and give the notice to the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 7 (3).
8. For the purposes of informing residents of their rights set out in the Residents’ Bill of Rights, the licensee of a retirement home shall provide to each resident of the home and to the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, the resident’s plan of care and a copy of each written agreement between the licensee and the resident,
(a) as soon as possible after the agreement is made or the plan of care is developed, as the case may be; and
(b) whenever the resident or any of the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, reasonably requests a copy after the time described in clause (a). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 8.
9. The agreement that subsection 53 (1) of the Act requires the licensee of a retirement home to enter into with a resident of the home shall contain,
(a) the heading “Retirement Homes Act, 2010 Provisions” or the equivalent of that heading in the language of the agreement if the agreement is not in English;
(b) under the heading mentioned in clause (a), a notice to the resident that sections 77 and 80 of the Act authorize an inspector or an investigator respectively to inspect, copy and remove records containing a resident’s personal information, including personal health information, from the home for the purpose of determining whether the licensee is in compliance with the requirements of the Act;
(c) under the heading mentioned in clause (a), a statement as to whether or not the licensee will indemnify the resident against loss of the resident’s possessions and if so, the details of the indemnification, including the extent to which the resident’s possessions are insured by the licensee; and
(d) under the heading mentioned in clause (a), a statement from the licensee that,
(i) the licensee has given to the resident the package of information required by clause 54 (1) (a) of the Act,
(ii) the package includes all of the information required under subsection 54 (2) of the Act, and
(iii) the licensee warrants that all of the information that the licensee provided in the package was accurate and complete on the date of the agreement. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 9.
10. For the purposes of clause 54 (2) (v) of the Act, the package of information mentioned in clause 54 (1) (a) of the Act that a licensee of a retirement home is required to give to every resident of the home shall include,
(a) a statement that section 62 of the Act requires the licensee to assess a resident when the resident commences residency in the home and to reassess the resident every six months but that the licensee is not authorized to assess or reassess a resident without the resident’s consent;
(b) a statement that the residents have the right to form a Residents’ Council if one does not yet exist;
(c) a statement whether the licensee offers programs, activities or services to encourage the mental stimulation of residents and, if so, information about them;
(d) a statement whether the licensee offers programs, activities or services to address the social, recreational and spiritual needs of residents and, if so, information about them;
(e) information about how to reduce the incidence of infectious disease outbreaks, including the need for and method of maintaining proper hand hygiene and the need for and process of reporting infectious illness;
(f) information about the strategies the licensee has implemented to reduce or mitigate the risk of falls in common areas of the home;
(g) a statement as to whether or not services in the home are provided in French or in any other languages in addition to English and, if so, a list of those languages;
(h) a statement that section 68 of the Act prohibits the licensee and external care providers who provide care services in the home from restraining a resident of the home in any way including by the use of a physical device or by the administration of a drug except as permitted by section 71 of the Act when immediate action is necessary to prevent serious bodily harm to a resident or to others;
(i) a statement whether the licensee allows a resident of the home to entrust money to the care of the licensee on behalf of the resident and if so, a copy of the written trust account policy and procedures described in subsection 57 (7);
(j) a statement that the Act does not require the licensee to audit trust accounts into which the licensee is required to deposit money entrusted into the licensee’s care on behalf of a resident but that the Registrar may order the licensee to audit any such trust account; and
(k) a statement that sections 77 and 80 of the Act authorize an inspector or an investigator respectively to inspect, copy and remove records containing a resident’s personal information, including personal health information, from the home for the purpose of determining whether the licensee is in compliance with the requirements of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 10.
11. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 4 of subsection 55 (2) of the Act, the following information is prescribed as information that must be posted in a retirement home under that subsection:
1. Contact information for the Authority.
2. A statement as to whether or not services in the home are provided in French or in any other languages in addition to English and, if so, a list of those languages.
3. An explanation of the procedures to be followed in the case of an evacuation.
4. Information about reporting to the Registrar matters relating to the care and safety of the residents of the home that is on a sign that the Registrar provides or that is in a form that the Registrar approves.
5. A statement that sections 77 and 80 of the Act authorize an inspector or an investigator respectively to inspect, copy and remove records containing a resident’s personal information, including personal health information, from the home for the purpose of determining whether the licensee is in compliance with the requirements of the Act.
6. A copy of the most recent final inspection report prepared by an inspector under section 77 of the Act, subject to section 114 of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 11; O. Reg. 53/12, s. 4 (1, 2).
(2) Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 4 (4).
12. (1) For the purposes of clause 58 (1) (a) of the Act, within 10 days of receiving a request from the Residents’ Council, a licensee of a retirement home shall, to the extent that it is reasonably practicable to do so,
(a) subject to subsections (2) and (3), provide to the Council any information that the Council requests with respect to building maintenance, resident safety and personal care, programming, food and other aspects of life in the home;
(b) make available to the Council, for the purpose of holding meetings from time to time, an area within the home that is easily accessible to all residents and that allows the Council to hold meetings that are closed to the licensee and the staff of the home; and
(c) make available to the Council, for the purpose of posting notices and other information, an area within the home that is easily accessible to all residents. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 12 (1).
(2) If the licensee is unable to provide the information or assistance requested under subsection (1) within 10 days of receiving the request, the licensee shall,
(a) within the 10 days, advise the Residents’ Council of the reasons for the delay and the date by which the licensee reasonably expects to be able to provide the information or assistance, as the case may be; and
(b) provide the information or assistance, as the case may be, to the Residents’ Council as soon as is reasonably practicable. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 12 (2).
(3) If it is not reasonably practicable for the licensee to provide the information or assistance requested under subsection (1), the licensee shall, within 10 days of receiving the request, advise the Residents’ Council of the reasons why the licensee will not be providing the information or assistance, as the case may be. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 12 (3).
13. (1) The police record check required by section 64 of the Act for a staff member or a volunteer working in a retirement home shall be,
(a) conducted by a police record check provider within the meaning of the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015; and
(b) conducted within six months before the licensee of the home hires the staff member or accepts the volunteer to work in the home, as the case may be. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 13 (1); O. Reg. 453/18, s. 2 (1, 2).
(2) The police record check must be a vulnerable sector check mentioned in paragraph 3 of subsection 8 (1) of the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 to determine the person’s suitability to be a staff member or volunteer in a retirement home and to protect residents from abuse and neglect. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 13 (2); O. Reg. 453/18, s. 2 (3).
(3) Subject to section 1 of the Schedule to the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 with respect to a police record check set out in Column 4 of the Table to section 1 of that Schedule, a licensee of a retirement home shall require that a staff member or volunteer who applies to work or who works in the home provide the licensee with a signed declaration disclosing the following with respect to the period since the day the person’s last police record check was conducted under subsection (1) of this section or, if no such police record check has been conducted, since July 1, 2012:
1. Every offence with which the person has been charged under the Criminal Code (Canada), the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) or the Cannabis Act (Canada) and the outcome of the charge.
2. Every order of a judge or justice of the peace made against the person in respect of an offence under the Criminal Code (Canada), the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) or the Cannabis Act (Canada), including a peace bond, probation order, prohibition order or warrant to arrest.
3. Revoked: O. Reg. 453/18, s. 2 (7).
4. Every offence of which the person has been convicted under the Criminal Code (Canada), the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) or the Cannabis Act (Canada). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 13 (3); O. Reg. 309/18, s. 1; O. Reg. 453/18, s. 2 (4-8).
(4) A person who is required to provide a declaration under subsection (3) shall provide it promptly each time that,
(a) the person has been made aware that a charge has been laid or an order has been made against the person; or
(b) the person has been convicted or the charge is otherwise disposed of, in the case of a charge. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 13 (4).
(5) The requirements of section 64 of the Act and of subsections (1) to (4) of this section do not apply with respect to a person who is to perform work at the retirement home if the person,
(b) is only to provide occasional maintenance or repair services to the home;
(c) is not to provide direct care to residents; and
(d) is to be monitored and supervised by the licensee in accordance with written policies that the licensee has prepared to monitor and supervise persons who provide occasional maintenance or repair services. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 13 (5).
(6) The requirements of section 64 of the Act and of subsections (1) to (5) of this section do not apply with respect to a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario or a member of the Ontario College of Pharmacists. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 13 (6).
14. (1) For the purposes of clause 65 (2) (j) of the Act, every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that all staff who work in the home receive training in the procedure described in subsection 73 (1) of the Act for a person to complain to the licensee. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 14 (1).
(2) For the purposes of subsection 65 (4) of the Act, the licensee shall ensure that the persons who are required to receive training under subsection 65 (2) of the Act receive the training at least annually. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 14 (2).
(3) For the purposes of paragraph 5 of subsection 65 (5) of the Act, every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that every staff member who provides a care service to a resident has received or receives training in,
(a) ways to encourage mental stimulation in residents, ways to provide mental stimulation to residents and the positive effects of encouraging and providing such mental stimulation; and
(b) each care service offered in the home so that the staff member is able to understand the general nature of each of those services, the standards applicable under the Act to each of those services and the aspects of each of those services that may be relevant to the staff member’s own duties in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 14 (3).
(4) The licensee shall ensure that every staff member receives the training described in subsection (3) and in subsection 65 (5) of the Act as soon as possible and, in any event, no later than six months from the day the person becomes a staff member at the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 14 (4).
(5) The licensee shall ensure that the persons who are required to receive the training described in subsection 65 (5) of the Act receive that training on an ongoing basis, namely at least annually after receiving the training described in subsection (4). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 14 (5).
15. (1) The program for preventing abuse and neglect described in clause 67 (5) (c) of the Act shall entail training and retraining requirements for all staff of the retirement home, including,
(a) training on the relationship between power imbalances between staff and residents and the potential for abuse and neglect by those in a position of trust, power and responsibility for resident care; and
(b) situations that may lead to abuse and neglect and how to avoid such situations. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 15 (1).
(2) The procedures for investigating and responding to alleged, suspected or witnessed abuse and neglect of residents described in clause 67 (5) (e) of the Act shall include details outlining who will undertake the investigation and who will be informed of the investigation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 15 (2).
(3) The policy to promote zero tolerance of abuse and neglect of residents described in subsection 67 (4) of the Act shall,
(a) contain procedures and interventions to assist and support residents who have been abused or neglected or allegedly abused or neglected;
(b) contain procedures and interventions to deal with persons who have abused or neglected or allegedly abused or neglected residents, as appropriate;
(c) identify measures and strategies to prevent abuse and neglect;
(d) provide that the licensee of the retirement home shall ensure that the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, and any other person specified by the resident,
(i) are notified immediately upon the licensee becoming aware of an alleged, suspected or witnessed incident of abuse or neglect of a resident that has resulted in a physical injury or pain to a resident or that causes distress to a resident that could potentially be detrimental to a resident’s health or well-being, and
(ii) are notified within 12 hours upon the licensee becoming aware of any other alleged, suspected or witnessed incident of abuse or neglect of a resident;
(e) provide that the licensee of the retirement home shall ensure that the resident and the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, are notified of the results of an investigation described in clause 67 (5) (e) of the Act immediately upon the completion of the investigation;
(f) provide that the licensee of the retirement home shall ensure that the appropriate police force is immediately notified of any alleged, suspected or witnessed incident of abuse or neglect of a resident that the licensee suspects may constitute a criminal offence; and
Note: On the day section 212 of Schedule 1 to the Safer Ontario Act, 2018 comes into force, clause 15 (3) (f) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “the appropriate police force” and substituting “the appropriate police service”. (See: O. Reg. 453/18, s. 3)
(g) provide that the licensee of the retirement home shall ensure that,
(i) an analysis of every incident of abuse or neglect of a resident at the home is undertaken promptly after the licensee becomes aware of it,
(ii) at least once in every calendar year, an evaluation is made to determine the effectiveness of the policy and what changes and improvements are required to prevent further occurrences of abuse and neglect of residents,
(iii) the results of the analysis undertaken under subclause (i) are considered in the evaluation mentioned in subclause (ii),
(iv) the changes and improvements mentioned in subclause (ii) are promptly implemented, and
(v) a written record of everything provided for in subclauses (ii) and (iv) and the date of the evaluation, the names of the persons who participated in the evaluation and the date that the changes and improvements were implemented is promptly prepared. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 15 (3).
16. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that there are procedures in place for responding to extreme hot and cold weather conditions, including detailed practices for addressing failures of any temperature control systems in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 16 (1).
(2) The licensee shall document the procedures implemented. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 16 (2).
(3) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that timely action is taken to deal with extreme temperature changes in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 16 (3).
17. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that the common areas of the home, including the floors and any furnishings, equipment and linens in those areas, are clean and sanitary. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 17 (1).
(2) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that bathrooms in common areas of the home that are used by residents are adequately stocked with supplies including toilet paper. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 5.
(3) The licensee shall document the routines and methods used to comply with subsections (1) and (2). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 17 (3).
18. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that there are procedures in place to keep the home free from pests and to deal with pests in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 18 (1).
(3) The licensee shall ensure that timely action is taken to deal with pests in the retirement home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 18 (3).
19. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that a maintenance program is in place to ensure that the building forming the retirement home, including both interior and exterior areas and its operational systems, are maintained in good repair. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 19 (1).
(2) The maintenance program shall include policies and procedures for routine, preventative and remedial maintenance of the following in the retirement home:
1. Plumbing fixtures, toilets and sinks located in common areas of the home.
2. Heating systems and hot water boilers.
3. If provided by the licensee, ventilation systems, air conditioning systems, hot water holding tanks and computerized systems monitoring the home’s water temperature.
4. If provided by the licensee, equipment, devices, assistive aids, positioning aids and shower grab bars. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 19 (2).
20. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that this section is complied with whenever food is prepared in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 20 (1).
(2) The licensee shall ensure that all foods and fluids used in food preparation are prepared, stored, and served using methods to prevent contamination and food borne illness. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 20 (2).
(3) The licensee shall implement procedures for each of the following matters and ensure that all staff involved in preparing food receives adequate training in them and are retrained annually:
1. The safe handling and storage of food, including how to maintain food at an appropriate temperature and how to practice good hand hygiene.
2. The safe operation, cleaning and sanitizing of all dishes, utensils and equipment involved in food preparation.
3. The separation of clean and dirty dishes during the service of food.
4. The safe disposal of leftover food.
5. Appropriate cleaning schedules and sanitation practices. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 20 (3).
(4) The licensee shall ensure that whenever food is prepared in the retirement home, at least one person involved in preparing the food holds a current certificate in food handling from the local public health unit or has recently successfully completed a food handling training program equivalent to that offered by public health units. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 20 (4).
“hazardous substance” means a hazardous product as defined in the Hazardous Products Act (Canada). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 21 (1); O. Reg. 453/18, s. 4.
(2) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that all hazardous substances used by staff of the home or under their control are labelled properly and are kept inaccessible to residents at all times. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 21 (2).
22. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall develop, document and implement strategies to reduce or mitigate the risk of falls in common areas of the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 22 (1).
(2) If a resident of a retirement home falls in a common area of the home or while being assisted by the licensee or staff, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) there is a timely and appropriate response to the fall;
(b) corrective action is taken as necessary to prevent future harm to residents; and
(c) the licensee or a staff member documents the fall, the response to the fall and the corrective actions taken, if any. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 22 (2).
(3) If a resident of a retirement home falls in the home in circumstances other than those described in subsection (2) and the licensee or a staff member becomes aware of the fall, the licensee shall ensure that the licensee or a staff member documents the fall, the response to the fall and the corrective actions taken, if any. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 22 (3).
(4) Every licensee of a retirement home shall keep a written record of all falls for which the licensee is required to ensure documentation under subsection (2) or (3) and that occur in each year, evaluate the risk of falls in the home at least annually and keep a written record of each evaluation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 22 (4).
23. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall develop and implement a written behaviour management strategy that includes,
(a) techniques to prevent and address resident behaviours that pose a risk to the resident or others in the home;
(b) strategies for interventions to prevent and address resident behaviours that pose a risk to the resident or others in the home;
(c) strategies for monitoring residents that have demonstrated behaviours that pose a risk to the resident or others in the home; and
(d) protocols for how staff and volunteers shall report and be informed of resident behaviours that pose a risk to the resident or others in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 23 (1).
(2) The licensee shall ensure that all staff who provide care services to residents are advised at the beginning of every shift of each resident whose behaviours require heightened monitoring because those behaviours pose a risk to the resident or others in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 23 (2).
24. (1) The emergency plan required under paragraph 1 of subsection 60 (4) of the Act shall meet the requirements set out in this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 24 (1).
(2) The licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that the emergency plan for the home is in writing. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 24 (2).
(3) If there is a conflict or an inconsistency between a provision of the fire code under the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997 and a provision of the emergency plan, the fire code prevails to the extent of the conflict or inconsistency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 24 (3).
(4) The licensee shall keep current all arrangements with community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 24 (4).
(a) on an annual basis at least, test the emergency plan, including arrangements with community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency, related to,
(i) the loss of essential services,
(ii) situations involving a missing resident,
(iii) medical emergencies, and
(iv) violent outbursts;
(b) at least once every two years, conduct a planned evacuation of the retirement home; and
(c) keep a written record of the testing of the emergency plan and planned evacuations and of any changes made to improve the emergency plan. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 24 (5).
25. (1) The emergency plan for a retirement home that has more than 10 residents shall, in addition to the requirements in section 24, meet the requirements set out in this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 25 (1).
(2) The licensee shall ensure that the development of the emergency plan includes,
(a) consultation with the relevant community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency;
(b) identification of hazards and risks that may give rise to an emergency affecting the home, whether the hazards and risks arise within the home or in the surrounding vicinity or community, and strategies to address those hazards and risks. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 25 (2).
(3) The licensee shall ensure that the emergency plan provides for the following:
2. Evacuation of the retirement home, including a system in the home to account for the whereabouts of all residents in the event that it is necessary to evacuate and relocate residents and evacuate staff and others in case of an emergency.
3. Resources, supplies and equipment vital for the emergency response being set aside and readily available at the retirement home and regular testing of all such resources, supplies and equipment to ensure that they are in working order.
4. Identification of the community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 25 (3).
(4) The licensee shall ensure that the emergency plan addresses the following components:
4. Specific staff roles and responsibilities. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 25 (4).
(5) The licensee shall ensure that the emergency plan for the retirement home is evaluated and updated at least annually and that the updating includes contact information for the relevant community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 25 (5).
26. The emergency plan for a retirement home that has 10 or fewer residents shall, in addition to the requirements in section 24, meet the following requirements:
1. The plan shall be developed in consultation with the relevant community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency.
2. The plan shall identify and address hazards and risks that may give rise to an emergency affecting the home.
3. The plan shall include steps in the evacuation of the home, including a system in the home to account for the whereabouts of all residents in the event that it is necessary to evacuate and relocate residents and evacuate staff and others in case of an emergency.
4. The plan shall require that resources, supplies and equipment vital for the emergency response are set aside, readily available at the home and tested regularly to ensure that they are in working order.
5. The plan shall identify the relevant community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency.
6. The licensee shall ensure that the plan is updated at least annually and that the updating includes contact information for the relevant community agencies, partner facilities and resources that will be involved in responding to an emergency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 26.
27. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that the infection prevention and control program required by paragraph 2 of subsection 60 (4) of the Act complies with the requirements in this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (1).
(2) The licensee shall consult on an ongoing basis and not less than once a year with the local medical officer of health or designate about identifying and addressing health care issues in the retirement home in order to reduce the incidence of infectious disease outbreaks in the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (2).
(3) The licensee shall keep a written record of the consultation required under subsection (2) that shall include a record of when the consultation took place, what was discussed and any recommendations that the local medical officer of health or designate made. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (3).
(4) The licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that a written surveillance protocol is established in consultation with the local medical officer of health or designate in order to identify, document and monitor residents who report symptoms of respiratory or gastrointestinal illness. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (4).
(5) The licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that,
(a) if an infectious disease outbreak occurs in the home, the outbreak is reported to the local medical officer of health or designate and the licensee defers to the officer or designate, as the case may be, for assistance and consultation as appropriate;
(b) if there is an increase in the number of symptomatic residents in the home, the increase is reported immediately to the local medical officer of health or designate and that the officer or designate, as the case may be, is consulted; and
(c) processes for meeting the requirements in clauses (a) and (b) are established and the processes are recorded in writing. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (5).
(6) The licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that each resident and the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, are given information about how to reduce the incidence of infectious disease, including the need for and method of maintaining proper hand hygiene and the need for and process of reporting infectious illness. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (6).
(7) The licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that waterless, alcohol-based hand sanitizer or another form of hand sanitation that provides equivalent protection against infectious disease transmission is available for use by residents and staff in communal resident areas and in staff work areas. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (7).
(a) each resident, each member of the staff of the home and each volunteer receive information about the advantages of an annual influenza vaccination and where the vaccination is available;
(b) each resident is screened for tuberculosis within 14 days of commencing residency in the home, unless the resident has been screened not more than 90 days before commencing residency and the documented results of the screening are available to the licensee;
(c) each member of the staff has been screened for tuberculosis and all other infectious diseases that are appropriate in accordance with evidence-based practices or, if there are no such practices, in accordance with prevailing practices; and
(d) the screening for each of the infectious diseases described in clause (c) has been done using procedures that accord with evidence-based practices or, if there are no such practices, with prevailing practices. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (8).
(9) The licensee shall ensure that each staff member who works in the retirement home receives training on how to reduce the incidence of infectious disease transmission, including,
(a) the need for and method of maintaining proper hand hygiene and method of preventing cross contamination, including proper handling of soiled linens, the protection of uniforms, and the separation of clean and dirty items; and
(b) the need for and process of reporting, providing surveillance of and documenting incidents of infectious illness. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 27 (9).
28. If the licensee of a retirement home or the staff of the home provide a care service described in the provision of this Regulation mentioned in Column 1 of the following Table to a resident of the home, the licensee shall ensure that all individuals involved in providing that service have the appropriate and current certificate of registration with the College mentioned opposite it in Column 2:
Care Service Provided
Paragraph 1 of subsection 2 (1)
College of Nurses of Ontario
Ontario College of Pharmacists
29. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is the administration of a drug or other substance, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) no drug is administered by the licensee or the staff to the resident in the home unless the drug has been prescribed for the resident by a person who is authorized to prescribe a drug under section 27 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991;
(b) no drug is administered by the licensee or the staff to the resident in the home except in accordance with the directions for use specified by the person who prescribed the drug for the resident;
(c) neither the licensee nor a staff member administers a drug to a resident in the home unless the licensee or the staff member has received training in the procedures applicable to the administration of the drug;
(d) a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, supervises the administration of the drug or other substance to the resident in the home;
(e) if the licensee or a staff member is involved in the administration of the drug or other substance at the home, that the licensee or staff member is trained in,
(i) ways of reducing the incidence of infectious disease, including maintaining proper hand hygiene,
(ii) the safe disposal of syringes and other sharps, and
(iii) recognizing an adverse drug reaction and taking appropriate action; and
(f) no drug is administered by a volunteer. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 29.
30. If drugs or other substances are stored in a retirement home on behalf of a resident, the licensee of the home shall ensure that,
(a) the drugs or other substances are stored in an area or a medication cart that,
(i) is used exclusively for drugs or other substances and for supplies related to drugs or other substances,
(ii) is locked and secure,
(iii) protects the drugs or other substances from heat, light, humidity or other environmental conditions that may affect their efficacy, and
(iv) complies with the manufacturer’s instructions for the storage of the drugs or other substances;
(b) controlled substances as defined in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada) are stored in a separate, double-locked stationary cupboard in the locked area or stored in a separate locked area within the locked medication cart; and
(c) an audit of the controlled substances mentioned in clause (b) is performed monthly. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 30.
31. (1) If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is the administration of a drug or other substance, the licensee shall establish a medication management system, which includes written policies and procedures, to ensure that all drugs and other substances to be administered to residents of the home are acquired, received in the home, stored, dispensed, administered, destroyed and disposed of correctly as required by law and in accordance with prevailing practices. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 31 (1).
(2) As part of the medication management system, the licensee shall make a current reference text about pharmaceuticals available to all staff who are involved in the administration of a drug or other substance to a resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 31 (2).
32. If the licensee or a member of the staff of a retirement home administers a drug or other substance to a resident, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) the person who administered the drug or other substance prepares a written record noting the name and amount of the drug or other substance, the route of its administration and the time and date on which it was administered;
(b) if a drug is administered, there is written evidence that the drug was prescribed for the resident by a person who is authorized to prescribe a drug under section 27 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991; and
(c) the administration of drugs and other substances in the home is evaluated at least annually and the licensee keeps a written record of each evaluation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 32.
“medication error”, in relation to a retirement home, means an act of commission or omission by the licensee or a member of the staff in connection with the prescribing, ordering, storing, labelling, dispensing, administering or distributing of a drug or other substance or the transcribing of a prescription if the act results in harm to a resident of the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 33 (1).
(2) If a medication error occurs in a retirement home or if a resident of the home has an adverse reaction to a drug or other substance administered to the resident in the home by the licensee or a member of the staff, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) a written record is prepared documenting the error or reaction and the immediate actions taken to assess and maintain the resident’s health;
(b) the error or reaction is reported to the resident, the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, and, to the extent that the following persons are known to the licensee: the person who prescribed the drug, the resident’s attending physician or registered nurse in the extended class and any person who provides pharmacy services to the resident;
(c) a written record is prepared indicating to whom the error or reaction was reported; and
(d) in the case of a medication error, corrective action is taken as necessary to prevent future harm to residents. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 33 (2).
(3) Every licensee of a retirement home shall evaluate the risk of medication errors and adverse drug reactions in the home at least annually and keep a written record of each evaluation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 33 (3).
34. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is assistance with feeding, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) if there is a dining area in the home, the area contains furnishings and equipment that,
(i) are suitable for the age of the population being served,
(ii) allow adequate space for residents and any staff and volunteers assisting those residents to use the area safely, and
(iii) are available in sufficient quantities for the number of residents who use the dining area and for the staff and volunteers who assist those residents;
(b) the resident receives assistance, if required, to eat and drink as safely, comfortably and independently as possible, including assistance with any eating aids or assistive devices and any necessary encouragement;
(c) the resident receives assistance, if required, to insert his or her dentures before a meal;
(d) staff monitor the resident during a meal; and
(e) if the resident is unable to independently access snacks and drinks between meals, the resident is given access to those items. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 34.
35. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is assistance with bathing, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) the resident is bathed only by staff who are trained to bathe a person of the resident’s characteristics and condition;
(b) the resident is bathed in a manner that respects the resident’s privacy and preferences, except to the extent that these are contraindicated by a medical condition; and
(c) the resident is bathed as frequently as is consistent with the resident’s plan of care. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 35.
36. (1) If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is continence care, the licensee shall establish a continence care program that includes,
(a) measures to promote continence;
(b) measures to prevent constipation, including nutrition and hydration protocols;
(c) toileting programs; and
(d) strategies to maximize the resident’s independence, comfort and dignity, including the use of equipment, supplies, devices and assistive aids. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 36 (1).
(2) If, as part of the continence care program, a licensee provides continence care products to a resident, the licensee shall,
(a) provide products that,
(i) are based on the resident’s individually assessed needs,
(ii) properly fit the resident,
(iii) promote the resident’s comfort, ease of use, dignity and good skin integrity,
(v) are appropriate for the time of day, and for the individual resident’s type of incontinence; and
(b) evaluate the resident’s satisfaction with the products at least annually in consultation with the resident, the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, and the staff who provide care services to the resident, and consider the evaluation when purchasing products. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 36 (2).
37. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is assistance with dressing, the licensee shall ensure that the resident is assisted with getting dressed as required, and is dressed appropriately, suitably to the time of day and the weather, in keeping with his or her preferences, in his or her own clean clothing and in appropriate clean footwear. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 37.
38. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is assistance with personal hygiene, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) the resident receives individualized personal care, including hygiene care and grooming, on a daily basis;
(b) the resident receives oral care to maintain the integrity of oral tissue that includes, to the extent required,
(i) mouth care in the morning and evening, including the cleaning of dentures, and
(ii) cuing the resident to brush his or her own teeth or physically assisting the resident to do so if the resident cannot, for any reason, do so;
(c) the resident receives assistance, if required, to insert and remove dentures;
(d) the resident receives preventive and basic foot care services, as required, including the cutting of toenails, to ensure comfort and prevent infection; and
(e) the resident receives fingernail care, as required, including the cutting of fingernails. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 38.
39. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is assistance with ambulation, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) staff use safe transferring and positioning devices or techniques when assisting the resident; and
(b) the resident receives help in accessing his or her mobility devices, including wheelchairs, walkers and canes. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 39.
40. If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is the provision of a meal, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) if the licensee is the sole provider of the resident’s meals, the resident is offered at least three meals per day at reasonable and regular meal hours, a beverage between the morning and midday meals, a snack and a beverage between the midday and evening meals and a snack and a beverage after the evening meal;
(b) menus provide adequate nutrients, fibre and energy for the resident, include fresh seasonal foods and are consistent with standards of good nutrition in Canada;
(c) the menu is varied and changes daily;
(d) the menu cycle changes at least every 21 days;
(e) the menu includes alternative entrée choices at each meal;
(f) an individualized menu is developed for the resident if the resident’s needs cannot be met through the home’s menu cycle;
(g) the resident is informed of his or her daily and weekly menu options;
(h) the resident is given sufficient time to eat at his or her own pace;
(i) food service workers and staff assisting the resident are aware of the resident’s diet, special needs and preferences;
(j) staff monitor the resident during meals as required;
(k) staff and volunteers hold and transport perishable hot and cold food safely; and
(l) all dishes, utensils and equipment involved in the provision of a meal and provided by the licensee are clean and sanitary before each use and are cleaned and sanitized after each use. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 40.
41. (1) If the licensee of a retirement home provides a dementia care program to a resident of the home, the licensee shall ensure that the program complies with this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 41 (1).
(2) The program shall include,
(a) therapies, techniques and activities, including mental stimulation, to maximize the functioning and independence of the resident in the areas of physical, cognitive, sensory and social abilities;
(b) monitoring the resident for safety and wellbeing;
(c) therapies, techniques and activities to promote quality of life and wellbeing for the resident;
(d) strategies for communicating with the resident if the resident has compromised communication and verbalization skills, a cognitive impairment or cannot communicate in the languages used in the retirement home; and
(e) strategies for identifying and addressing triggers for responsive behaviours if the resident exhibits responsive behaviours. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 41 (2).
(3) The program shall be developed and implemented in accordance with evidence-based practices and, if there are none, in accordance with prevailing practices. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 41 (3).
(4) The program shall be supervised by a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, with specific training in dementia care and care of older adults. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 41 (4).
(5) The program shall be evaluated at least annually and the licensee shall keep a written record of each evaluation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 41 (5).
42. (1) If one of the care services that the licensee or the staff of a retirement home provide to a resident of the home is the provision of skin and wound care, the licensee shall ensure that the program for the care complies with this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 42 (1).
(2) The care provided under the program shall include,
(a) effective skin and wound care interventions;
(b) routine skin care to maintain the resident’s skin integrity and prevent wounds;
(c) strategies to promote the resident’s comfort and mobility;
(d) strategies to promote the prevention of infection, including the monitoring of the resident;
(e) strategies to transfer and position the resident to reduce and prevent skin breakdown and to reduce and relieve pressure, including the use of equipment, supplies, devices and positioning aids; and
(f) preventive measures, including physiotherapy, nutrition care and proper positioning, if necessary. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 42 (2).
(4) If a resident who receives care under the program is at risk of altered skin integrity, the licensee shall ensure that the resident promptly receives a skin assessment by a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, who has adequate training in skin and wound care. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 42 (4).
(5) If a skin assessment under subsection (4) determines that the resident is not exhibiting altered skin integrity, the licensee shall ensure that all necessary modifications are made to the resident’s plan of care that will reduce the risk to the resident of altered skin integrity. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 42 (5).
(6) If a resident who receives care under the program is exhibiting altered skin integrity, the licensee shall ensure that the resident immediately receives the required treatments and interventions under the supervision of a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or the College of Nurses of Ontario. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 6.
(7) If a resident who does not receive care under the program is exhibiting altered skin integrity and the licensee or staff of the home are aware or ought to be aware of the resident’s altered skin integrity, the licensee shall ensure that the resident and the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, are immediately informed about the risk of harm to the resident and options for obtaining the required treatments and interventions under the supervision of a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or the College of Nurses of Ontario. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 6.
43. (1) Subject to section 45, no later than two days after a resident commences residency in a retirement home, the licensee of the home shall ensure that an initial assessment of the resident’s immediate care needs is conducted. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 43 (1).
(2) The initial assessment mentioned in subsection (1) shall consider the following matters with respect to the resident:
1. Continence.
2. Presence of infectious diseases.
3. Risk of falling.
4. Known allergies.
5. Dietary needs including known food restrictions.
6. Cognitive ability.
7. Risk of harm to self and to others.
8. Risk of wandering.
9. Needs related to drugs and other substances. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 43 (2).
44. (1) Subject to section 46, no later than 14 days after a resident commences residency in a retirement home, the licensee shall ensure that a full assessment of the resident’s care needs and preferences is conducted. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 44 (1).
(2) The full assessment mentioned in subsection (1) shall consider the following matters with respect to the resident:
1. Physical and mental health.
2. Functional capacity.
4. Behavioural issues.
5. Need for care services.
6. Need for assistance with the activities of daily living.
7. The matters listed in subsection 43 (2).
8. Any other matter relevant to developing a plan of care for the resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 44 (2).
(3) If a licensee or a staff member of a retirement home has reason to believe that a resident’s care needs may include dementia care, skin and wound care, or the use of a personal assistance services device, the licensee shall ensure that the full assessment is,
(a) conducted by a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991; and
(b) if the resident’s care needs include dementia care, carried out using a clinically appropriate assessment instrument that is specifically designed for the assessment of dementia and related conditions. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 44 (3).
45. A licensee is exempt from the requirement in section 43 to conduct an initial assessment if,
(a) the licensee, a staff member in a retirement home or a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, conducts an initial assessment of the resident in accordance with that section not more than 30 days before the resident commences residency;
(b) the licensee, a staff member in a retirement home or a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, conducts a full assessment of the resident in accordance with that section not more than 30 days before the resident commences residency; or
(c) the licensee or a staff member in a retirement home conducts a full assessment of the resident in accordance with section 44 not later than two days after the resident commences residency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 45.
46. A licensee is exempt from the requirement in section 44 to conduct a full assessment if the licensee, a staff member in a retirement home or a member of a College, as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, conducts a full assessment of the resident in accordance with that section not more than 30 days before the resident commences residency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 46.
47. (1) Subject to subsection (4), as soon as possible and not later than two days after a resident commences residency in a retirement home, the licensee of a retirement home shall develop an initial plan of care for the resident based on the initial assessment of the resident’s immediate care needs conducted under section 43 that includes all of the information listed in subsection 62 (4) of the Act that is relevant to the resident’s immediate care needs. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (1).
(2) No later than 21 days after a resident commences residency in a retirement home, the licensee of the home shall develop a complete plan of care for the resident based on the full assessment of the resident’s care needs and preferences conducted under section 44 that takes into account all of the matters that must be considered in a full assessment. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (2).
(3) A licensee of a retirement home is exempt from the requirement in subsection (1) to develop an initial plan of care for a resident not later than two days after the resident commences residency if the licensee develops a complete plan of care for the resident based on a full assessment of the resident’s care needs and preferences not later than two days after the resident commences residency. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (3).
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), a plan of care for a resident is complete if the plan,
(a) satisfies the requirements in subsections 62 (4) of the Act;
(b) sets out,
(i) any information that is necessary to allow the licensee’s staff to understand the resident’s needs and preferences, including cultural, spiritual and religious preferences and customary routines,
(ii) the names and contact information of the resident’s substitute decision-makers, if any, and
(iii) the names of the persons who participated in the development of the plan and whether the resident and his or her substitute decision-makers, if any, participated in the development of the plan; and
(c) has been approved in accordance with subsection 62 (9) of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (4).
(5) If an assessment of a resident indicates that the resident’s care needs may include dementia care, skin and wound care or the use of a personal assistance services device, the licensee shall ensure that an interdisciplinary care conference is held as part of the development of the resident’s plan of care and that the resident’s plan of care takes into account the results of the care conference. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (5).
(6) The licensee shall ensure that the resident, the resident’s substitute decision-maker, if any, and any other person designated by the resident or the substitute decision-maker are given an opportunity to participate in the interdisciplinary care conference mentioned in subsection (5). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (6).
(7) If one of the care services that the licensee provides to a resident is the provision of a meal, the resident’s plan of care is only complete if it includes a description of the food restrictions, food allergies and food sensitivities of the resident that are known. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 47 (7).
48. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 2 of subsection 62 (9) of the Act and subject to subsection (2), the licensee shall ensure that a resident’s plan of care is approved by,
(a) a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or the College of Nurses of Ontario; or
(b) a person acting under the supervision of a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or the College of Nurses of Ontario. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 48 (1).
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 2 of subsection 62 (9) of the Act, if an assessment of a resident indicates that the resident’s care needs may include dementia care, skin and wound care or the use of a personal assistance services device, the licensee shall ensure that the resident’s plan of care is approved by a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or the College of Nurses of Ontario. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 48 (2); O. Reg. 53/12, s. 7.
49. (1) For the purposes of subsection 63 (3) of the Act, the licensee of a retirement home shall provide a resident with information about alternatives to living in the home if,
(a) an assessment of the resident indicates that the resident may be eligible for admission to a long-term care home as defined in the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007; or
(b) the resident’s care needs cannot be met at the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 49 (1).
(2) A licensee shall provide to the Registrar annually the documentation required under clause 63 (3) (c) of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 49 (2).
50. The Health Care Consent Act, 1996 applies to a resident of a retirement home in relation to decisions concerning a personal assistance service as defined in that Act, as if the resident were a recipient as defined in that Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 50.
51. For the purposes of subsection 60 (3) of the Act, every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that none of the following devices are used in the home:
1. A roller bar on wheelchairs, commodes or toilets.
2. Any device used to restrain a person to a commode or toilet.
7. Sheets, wraps, tensors or other types of strips or bandages used other than for a therapeutic purpose. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 51.
52. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that the home’s written policy under subsection 68 (3) of the Act deals with,
(a) the duties and responsibilities of staff, including,
(i) who has the authority to apply a personal assistance services device to a resident or to release a resident from a personal assistance services device, and
(ii) ensuring that all appropriate staff are aware at all times of when the licensee has permitted the use of a personal assistance services device for a resident;
(b) the prohibition on restraining a resident in any way under subsection 68 (1) of the Act except when restraining under the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act when immediate action is necessary to prevent serious bodily harm to the person or others;
(c) the types of personal assistance services devices permitted to be used;
(d) how consent to the use of personal assistance services devices as set out in section 69 of the Act is to be obtained and documented;
(e) alternatives to the use of personal assistance services devices, including how the alternatives are planned, developed and implemented, using an interdisciplinary approach; and
(f) how the use of personal assistance services devices in the home will be evaluated to ensure that all necessary use of a personal assistance services device is done in accordance with the Act and this Regulation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 52 (1).
(2) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that a personal assistance services device used under section 69 of the Act is,
(a) well maintained;
(b) applied by staff of the home in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, if any;
(c) used in accordance with evidence-based practices and, if there are none, in accordance with prevailing practices;
(d) not altered except for routine adjustments in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, if any;
(e) removed as soon as it is no longer required to assist a resident with a routine activity of living, unless the resident requests that it be retained; and
(f) removed as soon as a resident has altered skin integrity or is at risk of altered skin integrity related to the use of the device. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 52 (2).
53. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that the following requirements are met with respect to the restraining of a resident by a physical device pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act:
1. A member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario has ordered the use of the device.
2. Staff apply the device in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, if any.
3. The device is well maintained.
4. The device is not altered except for routine adjustments in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, if any. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 53 (1).
(2) If a resident is being restrained by a physical device when immediate action is necessary to prevent serious bodily harm to the resident or to others pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act, the licensee shall ensure that,
(a) the resident is monitored or supervised on an ongoing basis and released from the device and repositioned when necessary based on the resident’s condition or circumstances; and
(b) the resident’s condition is reassessed only by a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or the College of Nurses of Ontario at least every 15 minutes and at any other time when reassessment is necessary based on the resident’s condition or circumstances. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 53 (2).
(3) After the application of a physical device pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act, the licensee shall explain to the resident, or the resident’s substitute decision-makers if the resident is incapable, the reason for the use of the device. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 53 (3).
(4) If a resident has been restrained by a physical device pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act and if the resident is released from the device or the use of the device is being discontinued, the licensee shall ensure that appropriate post-restraining care is provided to ensure the safety and comfort of the resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 53 (4).
(5) Every licensee shall ensure that every use of a physical device to restrain a resident pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act is documented and, without limiting the generality of this requirement, the licensee shall ensure that the following are documented:
1. The circumstances precipitating the application of the device.
4. All assessments, reassessments and monitoring of the resident, including the resident’s response.
6. The removal or discontinuance of the device, including the time of removal or discontinuance of the device and the post-restraining care of the resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 53 (5).
54. (1) For the purposes of subsection 71 (3) of the Act, the administration of a drug pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act may be ordered by a registered nurse in the extended class. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 54 (1).
(2) Every licensee shall ensure that every administration of a drug to restrain a resident when immediate action is necessary to prevent serious bodily harm to the resident or to others pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act is documented, and without limiting the generality of this requirement, the licensee shall ensure that the following are documented:
1. The circumstances precipitating the administration of the drug.
2. The person who made the order, what drug was administered, the dosage given, by what means the drug was administered, the times when the drug was administered and the person who administered the drug.
5. Discussions with the resident or, if the resident is incapable, the resident’s substitute decision-makers, after the administration of the drug to explain the reasons for the use of the drug. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 54 (2).
(3) Every licensee shall ensure that every administration of a drug to restrain a resident when immediate action is necessary to prevent serious bodily harm to the resident or to others pursuant to the common law duty described in subsection 71 (1) of the Act ceases immediately once the threat of serious bodily harm to residents or others has passed. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 54 (3).
(4) Every licensee shall develop and implement polices to ensure that the requirements under subsections (2) and (3) are met and shall ensure that staff receive annual training in the policies. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 54 (4).
55. (1) The licensee of a retirement home shall keep a record for each resident of the home that complies with the requirements of this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 55 (1).
(2) The record for each resident shall include,
(a) documentation of all consents related to the collection, use, retention or disclosure of the resident’s personal information, including personal health information;
(b) if the resident was assessed for the purposes of developing the resident’s plan of care, documentation of when the resident was assessed and by whom;
(c) if the resident did not consent to an assessment, documentation of that fact;
(d) a copy of the resident’s most recent plan of care;
(e) a copy of the written agreement between the resident and the licensee required under section 53 of the Act;
(f) if the licensee is required to deliver notice to the resident under clause 49 (1) (b) of the Act with respect to ceasing to operate the home as a retirement home, evidence that the licensee delivered the notice and that the resident received it; and
(g) a copy of the written instructions and authorizations and acknowledgements of receipt of funds of the resident and the person acting on behalf of the resident that relate to money required to be held in trust under section 72 of the Act and that subclause 57 (9) (g) (ii) of this Regulation requires the licensee to retain. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 55 (2).
(3) In addition to subsection (2), for each resident of a retirement home to which the licensee of the home provides at least one care service, the record shall include,
(a) the following documents or information to the extent that they are reasonably available to the licensee:
(i) the name and contact information of the resident’s known substitute decision-makers, if any,
(ii) the name and contact information of the resident’s next of kin,
(iii) the name of the resident’s primary health care provider; and
(b) the information required under subsection 62 (11) of the Act. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 55 (3).
(4) In addition to subsection (2), for each resident of a retirement home to which the licensee of the home provides at least one care service described in subsection 2 (1), the record shall include,
(a) the resident’s health number; and
(b) all information of the resident’s medical history, including the period before the date on which the resident commenced residency in the home, that is relevant to the care services that the licensee provides to the resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 55 (4).
(5) A licensee of a retirement home shall keep records proving compliance with the Act and this Regulation in relation to,
(a) the police record checks required by section 64 of the Act;
(b) the declarations required by subsection 13 (3) of this Regulation;
(c) the skills, qualifications and training of the staff who work in the home;
(d) the training of volunteers required by section 66 of the Act;
(e) the consultations required under subsection 25 (2) or paragraph 1 of section 26 of this Regulation, as the case may be; and
(f) the screening required under subsection 27 (8) of this Regulation. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 55 (5); O. Reg. 453/18, s. 5.
“record” means any document or record of information, including personal health information, in any form. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (1).
(2) This section applies to all records that the licensee of a retirement home is required to keep under the Act or this Regulation, including records relating to a resident, and documentation that the licensee is required to keep when providing a care service to a resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (2).
(3) The licensee shall ensure that each of the records is kept in a readable and useable format that allows a complete copy of the record to be readily produced. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (3).
(4) The licensee shall ensure that each of the records is retained for a reasonable length of time to be determined based on the nature of the record. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (4).
(5) In addition to subsection (4), if a record is a record that subsection 55 (1) requires the licensee to keep in respect of a resident of a retirement home, the licensee shall ensure that the record is retained for no less than seven years from the last day on which the person is a resident of the home and that a copy of the record is available in the home at all times during that period. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (5).
(6) The licensee shall ensure that records relating to a resident or to the police record checks required by section 64 of the Act or the declarations required by subsection 13 (3) of this Regulation with respect to staff who work in the retirement home are kept in a manner that protects the security and confidentiality of the records. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (6); O. Reg. 453/18, s. 5.
(7) The licensee shall develop a written policy detailing how the licensee will comply with the requirements in this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 56 (7).
“financial institution” means,
“person acting on behalf of a resident” means a person legally authorized to manage property for a resident. (“personne agissant pour le compte d’un résident”) O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (1).
(2) For the purposes of section 72 of the Act, if money is entrusted to the care of a licensee of a retirement home on behalf of residents of the home, the licensee shall establish and maintain at least one non-interest bearing trust account at a financial institution in which the licensee shall deposit all money entrusted to the licensee’s care on behalf of the residents. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (2).
(3) The licensee shall ensure that the balance of the money in the trust account does not exceed the amount for which the account is insured through the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation or another entity that provides deposit insurance. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (3).
(4) If the licensee allows residents to entrust money to the licensee’s care, the licensee shall keep petty cash trust money in the retirement home, composed of money withdrawn from a trust account, that is sufficient to meet the daily cash needs of the residents who have money deposited in a trust account for them. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (4).
(5) The licensee shall not,
(a) hold more than $10,000 for any resident at any time;
(b) commingle resident funds held in trust with any other funds that the licensee holds; or
(c) charge a resident, or a person acting on behalf of a resident, a transaction fee for withdrawals, deposits or any other transaction related to money held in trust. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (5).
(6) Subject to clause (5) (c), a licensee may charge a resident a reasonable service fee, other than a transaction fee, as consideration for holding money in trust on behalf of the resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (6).
(7) If the licensee allows residents to entrust money to the licensee’s care, the licensee shall establish a written policy and procedures for the management of trust accounts for residents and the petty cash trust money, which shall include,
(a) a system to record the written authorizations required under subsection (10); and
(b) the hours when a resident, or the person acting on behalf of the resident, can make deposits to or withdrawals from the resident’s funds in a trust account and make withdrawals from the petty cash trust money. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (7).
(8) The licensee shall provide a copy of the written policy and procedures to every resident and person acting on behalf of a resident who asks to have money deposited into a trust account. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (8).
(a) provide a resident, or a person acting on behalf of a resident, with a written receipt for all money that the licensee receives from the resident, or any other person, for deposit in a trust account for the resident;
(b) if the licensee has deposited in a trust account money received from any person on behalf of a resident, make part or all of the money available to the resident or a person acting on behalf of the resident,
(i) in accordance with the instructions of the resident or a person acting on behalf of the resident in respect of the property that the resident or the person is legally authorized to manage, and
(ii) upon the resident, or the person acting on behalf of the resident, signing an acknowledgement that the resident, or the person acting on behalf of the resident, received the money made available;
(e) on the written demand of a resident, or a person acting on behalf of a resident, make the resident’s book of account mentioned in clause (d) available for inspection by the resident or the person during any business day;
(iii) the written receipts and statements provided to the resident, or a person acting on behalf of a resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (9).
(10) A resident, or a person acting on behalf of a resident, who wishes to pay a licensee for rent, care services or other legitimate charges with money from a trust account shall provide the licensee with a written authorization that specifies what the charge is for, including a description of the goods or services provided, the frequency and timing of the withdrawal and the amount of the charge. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (10).
(11) If a written authorization has been provided under subsection (10), the licensee is not required to obtain a written acknowledgement of receipt of funds for every authorized withdrawal, but shall include these withdrawals in the quarterly itemized statement described in clause (9) (f). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (11).
(12) At the Registrar’s request, the licensee shall immediately have a trust account established under subsection (2) audited by a public accountant licensed under the Public Accounting Act, 2004 and shall make the results of the audit available to the Registrar. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (12).
(13) A licensee of a retirement home shall not receive, hold or administer the property of a resident in trust other than as provided for in this section. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (13).
(14) A licensee of a retirement home shall not cease to allow residents of the home to entrust money to the licensee’s care until at least 90 days after the licensee has delivered written notice of the licensee’s intention to each resident and to the substitute decision-makers, if any, of each resident. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 57 (14).
58. A person is exempt from the requirement to make a report to the Registrar under subsection 75 (1) of the Act if the person does not have reasonable grounds to suspect that the subject, or possible subject, of improper or incompetent treatment or care, abuse, neglect, unlawful conduct or misuse or misappropriation of money is a resident of a retirement home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 58.
58.1 For the purposes of subsection 77 (3) of the Act, the Registrar shall ensure that every retirement home in respect of which a licence has been issued is inspected under the Act at least once every three years. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 8.
59. (1) Every licensee of a retirement home shall ensure that every written or verbal complaint made to the licensee or a staff member concerning the care of a resident or operation of the home is dealt with as follows:
1. The complaint shall be investigated. If the complaint alleges harm or risk of harm to one or more residents, the investigation shall be commenced immediately.
2. The complaint shall be resolved if possible, and a response that complies with paragraph 4 provided within 10 business days of the receipt of the complaint.
3. For those complaints that cannot be investigated and resolved within 10 business days, an acknowledgement of receipt of the complaint shall be provided within 10 business days of receipt of the complaint, including the date by which the complainant can reasonably expect a resolution, and a follow-up response that complies with paragraph 4 shall be provided as soon as possible in the circumstances.
ii. that the licensee believes the complaint to be unfounded and the reasons for the belief. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 59 (1).
(2) The licensee shall ensure that a written record is kept in the retirement home that includes,
(b) the date that the complaint was received;
(d) the final resolution, if any, of the complaint;
(f) any response made in turn by the complainant. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 59 (2).
(a) the written record is reviewed and analyzed for trends at least quarterly;
(b) the results of the review and analysis are taken into account in determining what improvements are required in the retirement home; and
(c) a written record is kept of each review and of the improvements made in response. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 59 (3).
(4) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply with respect to verbal complaints that the licensee is able to resolve within 24 hours of the complaint being received. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 59 (4).
(5) If a complaint is made before the day this section comes into force, but not finally dealt with by that day, the complaint shall be dealt with as provided for in this section to the extent possible. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 59 (5).
60. For greater certainty, if a complaint received under subsection 83 (1) of the Act with respect to a retirement home or information that the Registrar receives indicates that a contravention of section 115 of the Act may have occurred, the Registrar may, if the Registrar considers it appropriate, have an inspector visit the home. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 9.
60.1 (1) For the purposes of section 93 of the Act, the Registrar shall determine the amount of an administrative penalty for a contravention of a requirement under the Act in accordance with the following rules:
1. The Registrar shall determine whether, in his or her opinion, the contravention had a major, moderate or minor adverse effect, or the potential to have such an adverse effect, on residents of a retirement home or other persons.
2. The range for the administrative penalty is set out in Column 2 of the Table to this subsection opposite the determination set out in Column 1 as described in paragraph 1.
3. The amount of the administrative penalty for the contravention is an amount selected by the Registrar from within the range described in paragraph 2 after considering the following criteria:
i. The extent to which the person who committed the contravention has mitigated the adverse effects of the contravention or the potential for the contravention to adversely affect residents of the retirement home or other persons.
ii. Whether the person who committed the contravention has previously contravened any requirement under the Act.
iii. Whether the person who committed the contravention derived any economic benefit from the contravention.
iv. The purpose of the administrative penalty as set out in subsection 93 (2) of the Act.
Range of Administrative PEnalties
Severity of adverse effect or potential adverse effect
From $2,500 to $10,000
From $1,000 to $5,000
From $100 to $2,000
O. Reg. 53/12, s. 10.
(2) A person ordered to pay an administrative penalty is required to pay the penalty within 30 days of being served with the order or whatever other longer period that is specified in the order. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 10.
61. Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 11.
62. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 3 of subsection 106 (1) of the Act, a register shall contain, for each licence to operate a retirement home,
(a) the name of the primary contact person for the licensee and, if available, additional contact information for the licensee, such as e-mail address, telephone number, fax number and website address;
(b) the name of every person who has a controlling interest in the licensee;
(c) a unique identifier for the licence;
(d) the date that a licence to operate the home was first issued; and
(e) the name of the person, if any, that the licensee employs or retains to manage the operations or most of the operations of the home. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 62 (1).
(2) The Registrar shall ensure that the information required to be contained in the registers under subsection 106 (1) of the Act,
(a) is added to a register as soon as practicable after the Registrar becomes aware of the information;
(b) is updated as soon as practicable after the Registrar becomes aware of any new information related to matters about which information is already contained in a register; and
(c) remains in a register for a length of time that is reasonable in light of,
(i) the nature and importance of the information,
(ii) the interest of residents and the public in the information, and
(iii) the potential that the information will cause undue prejudice to a licensee. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 62 (2).
63. The following events are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 4 of subsection 109 (2) of the Act:
1. A material change in any of the information required to be contained in a register under subsection 106 (1) of the Act in respect of the licence of a licensee.
2. A material change in any of the information that a licensee provided to the Registrar in support of the licensee’s application for a licence. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 63.
64. (1) Everyone has the right to use French in any dealing with the Authority. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 64 (1).
(2) If a person requests that a communication, information or notice be made available in French, the Authority shall do so promptly. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 64 (2).
(3) The Authority shall make the following available in French as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so:
1. All communications, information and notices that are in writing and that the Authority directs at the public.
2. Anything that the Authority is required to make available to the public under the Act, including,
i. its by-laws,
ii. all forms that it develops,
iii. the code of ethics that it is required to establish under section 26 of the Act,
iv. its annual reports required under section 31 of the Act,
v. all information required to be contained in the registers under subsection 106 (1) of the Act, and
vi. all statistical information about retirement homes that it publishes or makes available to the public. O. Reg. 166/11, s. 64 (3).
(4) Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 12 (2).
64.1 (1) The Authority shall hold the Fund in trust for the benefit of residents and former residents whom the Registrar approves to receive the benefit of a payment under section 64.3 or 64.4. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(2) The Fund consists of money paid into the Fund under subsection (3) or (4), all administrative penalties collected by the Authority and all income on money paid into the Fund. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(3) The Authority may make payments into the Fund. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(4) The Authority may borrow money to supplement the Fund and shall pay the borrowed money into the Fund. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(5) No payments shall be made out of the Fund to satisfy or settle any claim or judgment or other court order resulting from the fraud, negligence or wilful misconduct of the Authority, its officers, directors, employees or agents. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(6) The Authority shall hold the Fund in an interest-bearing account at a financial institution as defined in subsection 57 (1). O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(7) At the Minister’s request, the Authority shall make available to the Minister any information, books, records or documents that it keeps respecting the affairs of the Fund. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(8) The Authority shall have the Fund audited annually by a public accountant licensed under the Public Accounting Act, 2004 and shall include the results of the audit in the Authority’s annual report required under section 31 of the Act. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(9) At the Minister’s request, the Authority shall immediately have the Fund audited in the manner that the Minister requires and shall make the results of the audit immediately available to the Minister. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(10) The Authority shall assist the auditors in performing any audit requested by the Minister under subsection (9) and shall provide any books, records or information that may be required to complete the audit. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
64.2 (1) An individual may make a claim to the Registrar for payment of compensation from the Fund if,
(a) the individual is a resident of a retirement home or was a resident of a retirement home immediately before the event giving rise to the claim arose;
(b) the claim is for the additional costs that the individual incurred to obtain reasonable alternate accommodation and care for a period of no more than 120 days if, as a direct result of emergency circumstances arising from loss or damage to the home, the operator was unable to safely provide the normal accommodation or care in the home to the individual;
(c) the individual and the operator have taken, both before and after the event giving rise to the claim arose, all reasonable steps to mitigate the costs mentioned in clause (b);
(d) the individual makes the claim in the form and manner required by the Registrar no more than 90 days following the end of the period for which the individual claims the compensation; and
(e) the event giving rise to the claim arose after January 1, 2014. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(2) The Authority may request that the individual provide the Authority with the documents and other information that the Authority requires to assist the Registrar in deciding whether to approve a claim for compensation. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
64.3 (1) If the Registrar receives a claim from an individual for the payment of compensation and is of the opinion that the following criteria are satisfied, the Registrar may approve the claim and direct the Authority to pay a specified amount to the claimant:
1. The claim satisfies the conditions described in subsection 64.2 (1).
2. Payment to the claimant would assist the claimant to find, move to or pay for alternate accommodation or to access alternate care providers.
3. Payment from the Fund to the claimant would be consistent with the fundamental principle described in section 1 of the Act.
4. The Fund has the capacity to make the payment. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(2) The total amount paid to a claimant shall not exceed $10,000. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), the Authority shall comply with a direction by the Registrar made under subsection (1). O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(4) The Registrar may make approval of a claim conditional on the claimant first,
(a) satisfying the Registrar that the claimant has exhausted any or all legal remedies available to him or her to recover the costs claimed; or
(b) entering into a written agreement with the Authority subrogating the Fund to any and all rights and remedies to which the claimant is entitled in respect of the claim. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
(5) The Authority shall promptly inform a claimant of any decision or direction by the Registrar made under this section with respect to the claim. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 13.
64.4 (1) The Registrar may approve a resident or former resident of a retirement home to receive the benefit of payment from the Fund and may direct the Authority to pay specified amounts to the individual or to other specified persons for the benefit of the individual if the Registrar is of the opinion that,
(a) as a direct result of emergency circumstances arising from loss or damage to the home or from abuse or neglect resulting in a serious and imminent risk of harm to the individual, the operator is unable to safely provide the normal accommodation or care in the home to the individual;
(b) payment would enable or assist the individual to find, move to or pay for reasonable alternate accommodation or to access alternate care providers;
(c) payment from the Fund in the circumstances would be consistent with the fundamental principle described in section 1 of the Act; and
(d) the Fund has the capacity to make the payment. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 14.
(2) The total amount in respect of an individual that is paid to or for the benefit of the individual shall not exceed $2,000. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 14.
(4) The Registrar may make approval conditional on the individual first entering into a written agreement with the Authority subrogating the Fund to any and all rights and remedies to which the individual is entitled in respect of the costs to which the payments relate. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 14.
(5) The Authority shall promptly inform all individuals who the Registrar approves to receive the benefit of a payment from the Fund of any decision or direction by the Registrar made under this section with respect to the payment. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 14.
64.5 Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (5).
64.8 A licensee of a retirement home is not required to comply with section 53 of the Act in respect of a resident who commences residency in the home before July 1, 2012. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
64.9 (1) A licensee of a retirement home is not required to comply with section 54 of the Act in respect of a resident who commences residency in the home before July 1, 2012. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
(2) Despite subsection (1), after July 1, 2012, a licensee shall provide the package of information mentioned in clause 54 (1) (a) of the Act to a resident who commenced residency before July 1, 2012 if the resident or a substitute decision-maker of the resident so requests. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
64.10 Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (2).
64.12 (1) For the purposes of subsection 60 (5) of the Act, a licensee to whom a standard mentioned in subsection 60 (1) or (3) of the Act or a requirement mentioned in subsection 60 (4) of the Act applies shall comply with the standard or requirement, as the case may be, by the day on which the standard or requirement, as the case may be, first applies to the licensee. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
(3), (4) Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (3).
64.13 (1) For the purposes of section 62 of the Act, if a resident commenced residency in a retirement home before January 1, 2013 and the licensee of the home has reason to believe that the resident’s care needs may include the use of a personal assistance services device, section 62 of the Act and sections 44, 46, 47 and 48 of this Regulation apply in respect of the resident as if the resident commences residency in the home on July 1, 2013. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
(2) For the purposes of section 62 of the Act, if a resident commenced residency in a retirement home before January 1, 2013 and the licensee of the home does not have reason to believe that the resident’s care needs may include the use of a personal assistance services device, section 62 of the Act and sections 44, 46, 47 and 48 of this Regulation apply in respect of the resident as if the resident commences residency in the home on January 1, 2014. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), if a resident commenced residency in a retirement home before January 1, 2013, the licensee of the home is exempt from the requirement in section 43 to ensure that an initial assessment of the resident is conducted and from the requirement in subsection 47 (1) to develop an initial plan of care for the resident. O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (1).
64.14, 64.15 Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (3).
64.16 (1) Revoked: O. Reg. 53/12, s. 15 (3).
65. Omitted (revokes other Regulations). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 65.
66. (1) Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation). O. Reg. 166/11, s. 66 (1).
(2) Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation). O. Reg. 53/12, s. 16.
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How Much Of Netflix’s ‘Polka King’ Is Actually True?
Netflix’s jaunty biopic The Polka King stars Jack Black as Polish charm bomb Jan Lewan, a polka band leader who became infamous for conning friends, fans, and retirees into a $4.5 million Ponzi scheme. Amid Black’s charismatic showmanship, Jenny Slate’s hilarious antics as Jan’s beauty queen wife, bus crashes, pope visits and more, it’s easy to assume director Maya Forbes (Infinitely Polar Bear) and her co-writer Wally Wolodarksy are playing fast and loose with the facts. So, how much of Netflix’s The Polka King is actually true? Let’s break it down.
The self-proclaimed Polka King
Polish immigrant Jan Lewan (formerly Jan Lewandowski) was once beloved by the people of Hazelton, Pennsylvania. There, he owned a local giftshop and fronted a popular polka band. He was seen as a “a showman supreme”, “the Polish prince” and “ruler of the greatest Polka empire, Northeast Pennsylvania ever saw.” A press release for The Man Who Would Be Polka King, the 2009 documentary on which The King of Polka is based, described his allure and crimes thusly:
“Like Bernie Madoff in sequins, Lewan built his fortune on an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Charming and bubbling over with energy, he offered his fans a complete polka lifestyle, from concerts and ethnic trinkets, to tours of Europe and even access to the ultimate Polish celebrity, Pope John Paul II. The mostly elderly crowd was more than happy to turn over their life savings to invest in what seemed like a thriving business. So when it all came crashing down, polka fans everywhere were left scratching their heads, wondering how it all went so wrong.”
Yeah, Lewan met the pope!
“No one could explain how exactly Jan knew (the pope) in the first place,” the documentary notes, before allowing Lewan’s associates to speculate. Everyone has a different account. Accordion player Pete Chaco details the story seen in the movie, where Lewan admits he doesn’t have an audience with the pope arranged. “There was a valise,” Chaco recalls, “There was money in that valise.” Lewan left the tour group in Italy and went off alone, save for his valise. What happened next is unknown. Did he bribe someone to get his group access to Pope John Paul II?
In The Man Who Would be Polka King, Lewan’s grown son Daniel Lewan admits, “There were donations made by the tour group. But not in that sense. Many times my dad didn’t donate a penny and got an audience, and then there were times that he did. I mean, the world is filled with business.”
Beauty Queen Marla Lewan
In real life, Lewan’s wife’s name was not Marla, but Rhonda. In The Man Who Would Be Polka King, she recalls falling for the “ethnic entertainer,” when they met at a telethon when she was a junior in high school. “I was infatuated! He had charm, sophistication. Such a classy entertainer with that accent.” Jenny Slate repeats all of the above when playing “Marla” in The Polka King.
That Grammy Nomination?
True! Between 1986 and 2009, the Grammys had a “Best Polka Album” category. And in 1995, Jan Lewan was nominated for the album, Jan Lewan and His Orchestra. But he lost to Walter Ostanek Band’s Music and Friend. Plus, Lewan and Rhonda did meet Tom Jones and Judy Tenuta. The doc also has pictures of them with Boys II Men.
“I was never nobody! I was always Marla.”
The dry-cleaner scene where an old schoolmate shades Marla with “I knew you when you were nobody” is based on a real incident. Rhonda recalls that moment in The Man Who Would Be Polka King, saying, “What am I now? I’m still Rhonda.”
After the Grammy Awards, Rhonda tired of being seen only as Jan’s wife. “I was 35 years old,” she told the documentarians, “I needed to get my life back.” So she entered the Mrs. Pennsylvania pageant. And yes, she did “actually go to Florida to get a bathing suit.”
The look of the Polka King’s world.
I grew up about a few hours away from Hazelton, Pennsylvania. And let me tell you watching The King of Polka felt like going home. Despite the fact that the film was shot in Rhode Island, Forbes, Wolodarksy and company did a hell of a job depicting the feel of this Pennsylvania in set dressing, wardrobe, Polish culture, and even Marla’s overzealous eyeshadow.
The beauty pageant scandal marked Lewan’s downfall
The shocking allegations that Lewan fixed the 1998’s Mrs. Pennsylvania pageant spooked investors into demanding their money back, which precipitated the beginning of the end for his scheme. The Lewans did go on a local talk show to address the matter, where he flatly denied it. For her part, Mrs. Lewan told the press, “I was an unwitting pawn in this alleged deception.”
Five years later, it was determined Rita Roley was the rightful winner. But it seemed unlikely she’d ever see the trophy, three-piece luggage set and a camcorder awarded that day. Roley told Lancaster Online, “I just wanted to go down on the books as the winner. This has pretty much given me closure.” She did add, “We’re certainly going to try (to get the prizes). She still has everything. She always refused to give it up.”
In the doc, Rhonda showed off the trophy, crown, and sash. She offered some advice to Roley, “Get on with your life. Get over it.”
There Is No “Mickey Pizzazz.”
It seems like Jason Schwartzman’s role is an amalgamation of people, though perhaps chiefly Chaco, who spoke frankly with the documentary’s team about Lewan’s brags about investments and curious ventures. There is no mention in the doc of the accordion player sleeping with Lewan’s mother-in-law. However, Daniel Lewan puts forth in the doc that the two “got together” to spread a whisper campaign that scared more people into pulling out money from his father’s companies. It is generally agreed that Rhonda’s mom “hated” Lewan.
The bus accident was even worse than The Polka King depicts.
In 2001, Lewan’s son Daniel did suffer critical injuries in the crash. Cosmopolitan Review noted, “(Jan Lewan) cradled his son on the floor of the bus, holding his bloodied head, overwcome [sic] with guilt about taking him out of school to tour.” Daniel reflects in the doc, “Everything but death. That’s what happened to me.”
What The King of Polka left out was two members of the band, trombone player John Stabinsky and accordion player Thomas Karas, died in that crash. Also, Lewan claimed that much of his investor paperwork was destroyed in the accident, using the accident as an excuse to delay paying back his investors. “I honestly don’t buy it,” Chaco said. “How much blood did you have to pour out on those books to make them not legible to read?”
Only 5 years in jail!
Lewan declared bankruptcy, liquidated his assets, plead guilty, and all he got for fleecing over 400 investors across 22 states for nearly five million dollars was five years in prison. But it wasn’t easy time served.
Was Lewan shivved in the neck?
Yes. For his first three years behind bars, Lewan was sent to a maximum security prison in Delaware. This is an unusual occurrence for white collar criminals, which might explain why Lewan was attacked. He said his cellmate sliced his neck “from ear to ear” over an untrue “rumor.” In the doc, William Winchester, a former inmate who met Lewan in prison, said, “There was a false statement that he was in for rape of a child. If it’s anything to do with a child, somebody’s going to get you.”
Despite a horrific wound, Lewan survived, though he lost some of his hearing and suffers numbness on one side of his body as a result of the razor attack.
The parking lot confrontation is based on real comments.
Lewan’s victims had little sympathy when asked about this near-fatal attack. They laughed and said his attacker “should of finished the job,” “should have gone all the way around (his neck)” and “The guy didn’t go deep enough.” However, they said it to the documentary crew, not a defensive mother-in-law. In The Man Who Would Be Polka King, it’s not Rhonda’s mother, but Rhonda who defends Lewan in response, saying, “Nobody put a gun to their head. No one pushed them. He thought it would all work too.”
What happened to Marla/Rhonda?
Bustle did some digging. She divorced Jan, and in 2010 married his former bandmate Steve Saive, who was driving the bus on the night of the fateful crash. (Steve Saive is also the name of the poster of the above pope video.) However, Rhonda seems to be on good terms with Lewan. At the end of the doc, she cries while saying, “I pity him so much, because he didn’t mean to hurt anybody.” In January of 2017, she attended The Polka King’s Sundance premier alongside him.
How about that Polka rap?
As portrayed, Lewan learned about rap in prison, and decided to attempt a genre mash-up. “In a song you have chorus that just repeats same words,” Lewandowski said, “But if you add rap to polka, you can replace the chorus and move the story along, developing it more.”
Below is Lewan performing “Rappin’ Polka” in Hazelton in the fall of 2010.
Lewan still denies wrong-doing.
Regarding the beauty pageant bribe accusation, he’s said, “I didn’t even want her in that pageant. I needed her in the business.” And as to the Ponzi scheme, he’s said, “I believe to this day that I could have made it” if the pageant hadn’t lost him investors and the bus accident hadn’t brought a swift and costly end to the band’s tour.
Lewan says he intends to make amends.
Since his release in 2009 he has said, “I have paid my time. Now I pay off the restitution.” In 2010, when he returned to performing, Lewan told Citizen’s Voice, “Perhaps I make it. God knows. Even if I make a little bit, at least I try.”
You can watch The Polka King and The Man Who Would Be Polka King on Netflix on. (The entire doc is narrated from the bar stool of a pub. Which should be reason enough to watch it.)
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You’re Entitled To An Opinion But
Rachel Stewart July 19, 2016
You’re probably aware that Sonia Kruger made some remarks about stopping Muslim immigration into Australia yesterday, suggesting it should be “stopped now, because I would like to feel safe….”
Her co-host, David Campbell, started to say that “This breeds hate. This sort of article breeds hate. When you have someone like Pauline Hanson….” and Sonia came in over the top of him and said “So, you’re not allowed to talk about it? You’re just not allowed to talk about it? You’re not allowed to discuss it?”
Here’s the thing – we are discussing it. We’re discussing it right now. Actually half the internet is discussing this topic, from all sides and angles.
And yet I’ve seen a large number of people stand up against the more-or-less polite discussion on this topic in defense of Sonia Kruger, saying “She’s entitled to her opinion” and “What about freedom of speech?”
Yes. What about Freedom of Speech?
Freedom of Speech does not mean that you can say absolutely whatever you like without anyone responding to your opinion. Freedom of Speech doesn’t make you immune from being told that you’re wrong.
Ironically I’ve only ever seen people bring up “Freedom of Speech” and “Everyone is entitled to an opinion” on the internet in an attempt to silence anyone who disagrees with them.
Sonia Kruger is absolutely entitled to her opinion, she’s even entitled to voice it on National television, but that means that everyone else is allowed to have an opinion on her opinion.
And hey, here I am having an opinion on people having an opinion on people having an opinion on her opinion.
Sounds like we’re discussing the topic. Maybe the conversation isn’t going the way Sonia intended, but she hasn’t been silenced. Her opinion is being heard. If anything Sonia has been given more of a public platform for her opinion in the last 24 hours than she’s previously had in her life.
The other thing that seems up upset people is that having the right to an opinion doesn’t protect you from being called a bigot, or racist, as Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, pointed out on twitter “If you don’t want to be called a racist or bigot, start by not doing something that involves racism or bigotry.”
If you don't want to be called a racist or bigot, start by not doing something that involves racism or bigotry
— Tim Soutphommasane (@timsout) July 18, 2016
He also encouraged people to speak out against it.
This stereotyping of Muslims does nothing but breed hate, as @DavidCampbell73 says – let's speak out against it https://t.co/ypDA3u9PDO
So, go ahead and have an opinion, you can even share it far and wide, but you need to be prepared for other people to have an opinion also.
debate opinions politics
Just leaving this everywhere she is mentioned.
Parenting Central says:
Alexandra Bennett says:
She’s entitled to her opinion. However, if you say racist things then people will call you racist. It’s your right to be racist. But you just have to deal with the backlash.
Oooops. Just read your article. It basically said the same thing. Great minds think alike.
? I’m glad we’re on the same page.
Hannah Shaw says:
Even more irony – it’s ‘opinions’ like this from people like her that we needed freedom of speech in the first place, because certain groups were not allowed to say how they should be permitted to sit next to white people on the bus, in class or go to ‘white’ restaurants, even having to do their laundry in a separate laundromat. But as they say, opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one but they are not always pleasant when shared!
Amy @ HandbagMafia says:
People are so sure they’re “entitled” to an opinion and so outraged when their bad opinion is debated, aren’t they?
In The Lyons Den says:
I think it is great that things are being discussed, that’s what so many people fought for. It is great to open discussion up too but yes it is good to remind ourselves that our opinions and views will always be judged by others. We do all need to try to work together. Great post. 🙂
Helen K says:
Yes. So true. And – you (I) would think, self -evident (but apparently not).
Mel Roworth says:
I live in fear. “As a mother” I fear that this kind of ignorance will triumph. I shudder to think of the ramifications.
I just wish we would stop giving all these stupid people the loud voiced platforms to spread the fear.
I hope I never hear the terms ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘PC’ again. Great post.
breharne says:
I agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion and also the potential criticism they may receive in relation to their opinion. I just wish ‘others’ more positive opinions were given the platform and publicity that Sonia received. Without Muslim migration I would never have met the love of my life which in turn means I wouldn’t have my 2 amazing daughters.
Mummy Muckups (Anna) says:
So disappointed to hear this from such a talented woman whom I previously admired. Over and out, Sonia.
Katie M Little says:
I’d love to be a fly on the wall the next time Sonia bumps into her ‘many good friends’ who are Muslim at a bbq…. ?
Rachel @ Tweens2teen says:
You’re so right Rachel. There’s nothing wrong with having an opinion, people just need to find a polite way to say it that doesn’t step on the rights of others to feel safe and not be judged.
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Officers from the Ministry of Environment examine a container full of non-recyclable plastic which was detained by authorities at the west port in Klang, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Malaysia environment minister Yeo Bee Yin says Malaysia has become a dumping ground for the world’s plastic waste, and the country has begun sending non-recyclable plastic scrap to the developed countries of origin. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Malaysia to send back plastic waste to foreign nations
The 3,000 metric tons will go to countries like the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia
Malaysia will send back some 3,000 metric tons (3,300 tons) of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich nations, Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said Tuesday.
Yeo said Malaysia and many developing countries have become new targets after China banned the import of plastic waste last year. She said 60 containers stacked with contaminated waste were smuggled in en route to illegal processing facilities in the country and will be sent back to their countries of origin.
Ten of the containers are due to be shipped back within two weeks, she said, as she showed reporters contents of the waste at a port outside Kuala Lumpur.
The displayed items included cables from the U.K., contaminated milk cartons from Australia and compact discs from Bangladesh, as well as bales of electronic and household waste from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia and China. Yeo said the waste from China appeared to be garbage from France and other countries that had been rerouted after a ban imposed by China.
In one case alone, Yeo said a U.K. recycling company exported more than 50,000 metric tons (55,000 tons) of plastic waste in about 1,000 containers to Malaysia over the past two years.
“This is probably just the tip of the iceberg (due) to the banning of plastic waste by China,” Yeo told a news conference. “Malaysia will not be a dumping ground to the world … we will fight back. Even though we are a small country, we can’t be bullied by developed countries.”
The government has clamped down on dozens of illegal plastic recycling facilities that had mushroomed across the country, shuttering more than 150 plants since last July. Earlier this month, the government also sent back five containers of waste to Spain.
Yeo said China’s plastic waste ban had “opened up the eyes of the world to see that we have a huge garbage and recycling problem.”
Citizens in rich nations diligently separate their waste for recycling but the garbage ended up being dumped in developing nations where they are recycled illegally, causing environmental and health hazards, she said.
“We urge the developed countries to review their management of plastic waste and stop shipping the garbage out to the developing countries,” she said, calling such practices “unfair and uncivilized.”
Yeo vowed to take action against Malaysian companies illegally importing used plastic, calling them “traitors to the country’s sustainability.”
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Remembering Pakistan’s Most Vulnerable Blasphemy Victims
By ICC’s Pakistan Correspondent
05/09/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – As the world celebrates the long awaited release of Asia Bibi, it’s important to remember that she is not the only individual to suffer under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. In fact, since Sections 295-B and 295-C were added in the late 1980s, more than 1,500 individuals have had their lives forever changed by blasphemy accusations.
Among the most vulnerable to be abuse under the blasphemy laws are Pakistanis suffering from mental health disorders. Under the current interpretation of the law, there is no distinction made between premeditated crimes and unintentional acts. Psychological disorders are often cast aside in the legal process with minors and those found to be clinically disabled being held fully accountable for their actions.
To date, International Christian Concern (ICC) has documented 12 individuals with mental disabilities have been accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Most of these individuals have endured torture and been beaten due to the crime with which they are accused or convicted. Out of these 12, ICC found that five were Muslims, four were Christians, and the religious backgrounds of three others were unidentifiable.
Below are details of three of the 12 cases identified by ICC:
Muhammad Asghar, an elderly Muslim and citizen of Scotland, was arrested for insulting Islam in Pakistan in 2010 when he reportedly claimed that he was the reincarnated Prophet Muhammad. He is currently on death row. Four months before his arrest, Asghar was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia during treatment he was receiving at Edinburgh’s Royal Victoria Hospital. In September 2014, Muhammad Asghar was attacked by a policeman in Adiala Prison located in Rawalpindi.
Rimsha Masih, a mentally disabled Christian girl, was accused of burning papers containing Quranic verses in August 2012 by a Muslim cleric named Haifiz Muhammad Khalid Chishti. It was later revealed that the accuser planted the burned pages in Rimsha’s backpack to incriminate Rimsha. In November 2012, the Islamabad High Court declared Rimsha innocent; however, she and her family had to flee the country permanently for their safety.
Yaqoob Bashir, a mentally disabled Christian man, was accused of burning a booklet that contained Quranic verses in Mirpurkhas in June 2015. Bashir was reportedly receiving treatment at a mental health facility in Hyderabad prior to this accusation. Since then, Bashir has been attacked and beaten multiple times in prison. In September 2018, the trial court sentenced him to life in prison despite finding that Bashir was mentally disabled. Bashir’s appeal is pending before the Hyderabad High Court.
The nine other cases of mentally disabled individuals accused of blasphemy in Pakistan documented by ICC include:
Ghulam Muhammad, accused of burning a Quran in Jalalpur in February 2003.
Tahir Mehmood, also accused of burning a Quran in Sheikhupura in March 2005.
Samiullah, accused of putting his foot on a copy of the Quran in June 2006.
Tony Naseem, accused of burning a Quran in 2010.
Khanqah Dogran, accused of setting copies of the Quran on fire in a mosque in Sheikhupura in 2011.
An unidentified mentally disabled man arrested in Bahawalpur in July 2012 after he was accused of burning pages of the Quran.
Another unidentified mentally disabled man accused of insulting Islamic personages in the Dadu District of the Sindh province in December 2012.
Hymayun Masih, accused of burning pages of the Quran in May 2015.
Asif Stephen, a mentally disabled Christian youth accused of tearing pages of Islamic literature in Jamkay Chatha in August 2017.
“These laws do not say anything about the mentally disabled being alleged for blasphemy,” Shamaoon Qaiser, a former parliamentarian in the Punjab Assembly, explained to ICC. “No amendments have been introduced in the last three decades to make these laws ‘less pious.’ This shows a lack of willingness on behalf of the legislators.”
“Immediate amendments must be introduced to give relief to the mentally disabled who are currently in prison,” Qaiser concluded.
While it is important to celebrate the monumental victory of Asia Bibi’s release from Pakistan, it is as, if not more, important to keep a watchful eye on those who continue to suffer under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. Especially those most vulnerable to the abuse of those laws.
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No More Heart Health Valentines from Coke
By Cara Wilking, JD, Consulting Attorney, Public Health Advocacy Institute
[PLEASE NOTE: This blog post was prepared prior to unexplained changes to Coca-Cola’s database of its funding of organizations in the United States. The information reflects the dollar amounts initially reported by Coca-Cola in the Fall of 2015.]
For years, the month of February has been the kick-off of the Coca-Cola Company’s sponsorship of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Heart Truth campaign. Heart Truth began in 2002, with the goal of raising awareness that heart disease is the number one killer of women. The campaign fits within the general mission of NHLBI to collaborate with a range of stakeholders to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases. As part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NHLBI provides research funding and conducts outreach with the public to improve the public health. As a federal agency, NHLBI is subject to legal limits on its use of funds and HHS’s ethical guidelines for co-sponsorship of events. These guidelines are meant to guard against conflicts of interest that would undermine the primary mission of NHLBI. Coke’s corporate funding disclosures in the Fall of 2015 indicate that as public pressure on NHLBI built, Coke shifted the bulk of its heart health giving to a tight circle of non-governmental heart health organizations consisting of the American College of Cardiology, the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, the American Dietetic Association, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
Coke’s Heart Health Campaign
From 2008 to 2014, The Coca-Cola Company, under its Diet Coke brand, was the Heart Truth campaign’s most visible co-sponsor: Despite the fact that HHS’s ethical guidelines place a particular emphasis on avoiding the appearance of product endorsement, Heart Truth logos were printed on billions of Diet Coke cans, heart health-themed Diet Coke ads ran during the Olympic Games, Coke enlisted high-profile celebrities like Heidi Klum to appear at Heart Truth events, and Diet Coke beverages were distributed at community heart health screenings.
NHLBI’s partnership with Coke drew ire from the public health community because it seemed untenable to partner with a company that also sells sugary drinks linked to obesity and heart disease. The fact that the partnership focused on Diet Coke was particularly problematic because it closely followed the release of the NHBLI-funded Framingham Heart Study’s findings that consumption of diet soft drinks appeared to be linked to increased risk factors for heart disease.
In 2010, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (“CSPI”) called on the government agency to sever its ties with Coke, but NHLBI publicly refused to do so. The primary rationale NHLBI gave for keeping Coke as a corporate sponsor was that the company allowed the agency to extend its reach to get out the message that heart disease is an important health concern for women. CSPI’s challenge to the program led to a public debate about the role of Coke in NHLBI’s educational activities.
Coke’s Heart Truth Contracts with NHLBI
In 2010, PHAI requested Coke’s contracts with the NHLBI pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and received copies of contracts the company entered into with Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide on behalf of the NHLBI from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010:
Coke Agreement_December-17-2007
Coke Agreement_Jan-3-2008
Coke Agreement_Oct-21-2008
Coke Agreement_Jan-13-2010-2011
At the time, the dollar amounts in these contracts were redacted as proprietary information.
Coke’s recent funding disclosures date back to 2010, and show that in 2010 the company paid NHLBI $440,000 in support of a fashion show to promote heart health awareness. Through its contracts with NHLBI for the 2010 Heart Truth Fashion Show, Coke was granted:
-Exclusivity as the only carbonated beverage category event sponsor
-Full use of the NHLBI Heart Truth logo in any Coke marketing, advertising and or promotional materials or activities
-Assistance from NHLBI’s agent, Ogilvy, in the “development of heart health content and messages” for its use
-“Access to heart health experts and spokespeople to serve on Coca-Cola’s behalf including at Coca-Cola luncheons, ambassador program, opinion shaper and other customer/VIP events”
-Highlighted attention to Coca-Cola’s partnership activities on the Heart Truth webpage
-Soundbites from NHLBI representatives at Heart Truth events for use by Coca-Cola
-The right to provide free samples of Coca-Cola products at the fashion show
-The right to feature Coca-Cola advertising in essentially all aspects of the event
-Pre-approval of “all [NHLBI] creative materials, press releases, collateral materials, signage and other items using” Coca-Cola’s trademarks
The breadth of the rights granted to Coca-Cola is in keeping with a typical private arrangement for event sponsorship, but seems startling in the context of a government run educational campaign. Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide was awarded multi-year government contracts from the NHLBI totaling $11.9 million to execute the Heart Truth campaign on its behalf. Organizers of complex, national educational campaigns must work with sponsors to ensure events run smoothly. The contracts Ogilvy entered into on NHLBI’s behalf with Coke, however, reveal a situation where it appears that NHLBI was granting Coke rights to advance the company’s commercial agenda.
Coke Abruptly Shifts Its Heart Health Spending
In March of 2010, PHAI wrote a detailed letter to the Associate General Counsel for Health and Human Services (HHS), asking that it review NHLBI’s relationship with Coke pursuant to the agency’s written ethical guidelines for co-sponsorships of events. In its reply, HHS cited a general provision of the Public Health Service Act granting NHLBI the authority to conduct health promotion campaigns and deferred decision-making about the appropriateness of Coke’s co-sponsorship of the Heart Truth campaign to NHBLI. Despite NHLBI’s public defense of Coke in response to CSPI’s letter and apparent agency inaction after PHAI’s request to review the relationship, after 2011 Coca-Cola shifted its support for Heart Truth and other heart health activities sharply away from the NHLBI.
According to Coke’s initial funding disclosures in the Fall of 2015, between 2010 and 2015, Coke’s total funding of heart health-related organizations and educational activities was approximately $8 million (click here for a detailed description). $7.8 million of these funds went to just five organizations: NHLBI (via Ogilvy and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health), the American College of Cardiology, the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, the American Dietetic Association, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. NHLBI-related funding of the Heart Truth totaled $1.9 million with Coke’s contributions peaking at $1 mil in 2011. Starting in 2012, Coke sharply reduced its direct NHLBI support and shifted its gifts to private organizations not subject to FOIA requests.
Coke’s Heart Truth Spending to Key Partners (2010-2015)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiologists Associated with Millions in Coke Money
Coke’s Heart Truth partnership with NHLBI was created under the leadership of then NHLBI Director Elizabeth (Betsy) Nabel, MD. Dr. Nabel is a cardiologist who left public service in 2010 to become President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, MA. Dr. Nabel traveled to Canada to be an official 2010 Olympic Games Torchbearer for Coke and spoke glowingly about her relationship with Coke.
It turned out that Dr. Nabel was not the only Coke heart health partner at BWH. She was joined by Dr. JoAnne Foody, MD, the Medical Director of BWH’s Pollin Cardiovascular Wellness Center. Dr. Foody is featured as a heart health expert in continuing education presentations produced by Coca-Cola’s Beverage Institute for Health, and in 2011 was selected to serve as the Editor-In-Chief of the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) CardioSmart initiative. ACC received $2.6 million in Coke funding for CardioSmart and community screenings between 2010 and 2015. CardioSmart is described as “a patient education site committed to providing accurate, un-biased heart health information in an advertising-free environment.”
Coke clearly valued its relationship with Dr. Foody. As was reported in 2012, she was included in an email sent from Coca-Cola executive Helen Tarleton to a list of “partners” in various health organizations sharing the company’s position on a proposed New York City ordinance to limit soda portions. The email asked Dr. Foody to disseminate a Coke infographic downplaying the role of sugary drinks in the obesity epidemic. Coke’s direct request to advance a policy position potentially at odds with CardioSmart’s mission to educate heart health patients is a striking example of the depth of the relationships it formed with its public health “partners.”
In 2013 and 2014, Dr. Nabel and Dr. Foody leveraged their relationship with Coke into $1.2 million dollars of funding for a BWH cardiovascular health initiative called ClimbCorps to promote stair climbing for heart health and provide heart health education. Dr. Foody served as the ClimbCorps’ Medical Director. In 2013, Coca-Cola executive Helen Tarleton personally attended a ClimbCorps event with Dr. Nabel and Dr. Foody. The program no longer has an active website and all links to ClimbCorps redirect to the BWH general website. The program’s emphasis on physical activity fit well within Coke’s overall obesity strategy to focus on physical activity as opposed to diet.
Coke Exits the Heart Health Picture
Coke’s funding disclosures paint a more complete picture of how it operated and who it turned to when it needed to shift its giving from a highly scrutinized government agency to private organizations. In response to public pressure, Coke has since bowed out of the heart health initiatives it funded over the past five years:
Coke ended its role as a corporate sponsor of NHLBI’s Heart Truth Campaign in 2014
After being called out by the New York Times for funding junk science promoted by Coke and researchers it funded that focused on what it calls “energy balance science” (which claims that there is no established link between soda consumption and obesity and promotes exercise as the most effective way of compensating for the extra calories derived from soda consumption), Coke announced in September 2015 that it would no longer fund the American College of Cardiology including the CardioSmart program
ClimbCorps is no longer an active program of BWH
In the process, millions of dollars were spent in ways that Coke itself now admits were not adequately transparent, and were inappropriate given the company’s overwhelming commercial interests in the health issues addressed.
There is no question that funds are desperately needed for programs to address crucial diet-related public health issues like cardiovascular disease in women. Coke spent $8 million on heart health education in five years (not including the in-kind contributions it made via specially printed product packages, Heart Truth dedicated websites and television commercials), while the federal government spent just $17 million on the Heart Truth campaign over ten years. The problem with Coke’s heart health spending is that its primary goal has been to downplay the role of sugary drinks in the obesity epidemic and to position diet beverages as healthy alternatives. Neither of these positions is fully supported by actual evidence and, as such, are in conflict with the mission of truly unbiased cardiovascular health initiatives.
There remain many unanswered questions about Coke’s heart health “partnerships.” To what extent did Coke’s initial participation with NHBLI’s Heart Truth campaign give the company legitimacy through what appeared to have been the government’s imprimatur and grant it access to the private organizations it subsequently partnered with? What other requests for political support did the company make of the heart health organizations it funded? How did Coke’s funding impact the heart health activities of the organizations it funded in terms of dietary recommendations to the public or support for public health policies at odds with Coke’s agenda? The most important question left in the wake of Coke’s co-optation of the Heart Truth campaign is this: Moving forward, how can the United States create and sustain unbiased funding mechanisms for the crucial public health issues of our time?
Tags: Betsy Nabel, coke, Heart Truth, nhlbi, obesity, soda, sugary drinks, the coca-cola company, transparency initiative
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Coke’s Balancing Act
By Cara Wilking, JD, Consulting Attorney
The Coca-Cola Company’s pouring of millions of dollars into the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), a front group focused on exercise as opposed to diet to combat obesity, has crystallized an issue that the public health community has long been concerned about: the role of industry funding to research and develop solutions to public health threats. A New York Times story exposing this funding arrangement has led to a public relations nightmare that finally culminated in a formal statement from Coke’s Chairman and CEO, Muhtar Kent. Mr. Kent stated that the accusation that the company is deceiving the public about its support for scientific research “does not reflect our intent or our values,” and promised more transparency. He promised to make available a list of the funding it supports, and to convene expert panels to assist with future “investments in academic research.”
Coke’s funding of GEBN is part of a well-articulated company strategy it calls “Balancing the Debate.” Coca-Cola’s chief scientific officer, Rhona S. Applebaum , PhD, laid out the Balancing the Debate strategy at a 2012 conference for the sugar industry. (CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL PRESENTATION) The strategy seeks to discredit what the company calls “detractors” in the scientific community like Kelly Brownell, Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University (formerly of Yale University), and public health organizations like Center for Science in the Public Interest.
At that 2012 industry conference, Ms. Applebaum told participants that she had come with a “plea from Coca-Cola” that “we all have to work together and use science.”
To that end, Ms. Applebaum, shared Coke’s strategy to “Balance the Debate” by using three interdependent steps: “Cultivate Relationships,” “Collaborate Research,” and “Communicate Results.” These steps, if properly taken, will result in a balanced debate that will “Address the Negative” and “Advance the Positive” for the food industry.
Ms. Applebaum, was clear that cultivating relationships and research collaborations comes down to dollars and cents. She outlined how to use research funding for “defensive and offensive science and research” to address the issues faced by the food industry.
The GEBN seems to have been tailor-made for the offensive and defensive research Coke had in mind, and it amplifies and expands the mission and capabilities of Coke’s Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness, which is run by Ms. Applebaum. On a slide entitled “What Experts Tell Us,” Ms. Applebaum gave insight into the company’s research agenda to “Shift energy balance,” “Inspire/Motivate consumer behavior change,” and “Bring opportunities (on energy in/out).”
To add a gloss of legitimacy to Coke’s vision for funding science to serve its agenda, its chief scientific officer, Ms. Applebaum, co-authored two papers: one in 2009 with guiding principles for industry funding of food science and nutrition research, and one in 2012 with guiding principles for establishing panels of scientific advisers. With respect to funding food science and nutrition research like that conducted by GEBN, Ms. Applebaum co-wrote the following guiding principles:
In the conduct of public/private research relationships, all relevant parties shall:
1) conduct or sponsor research that is factual, transparent, and designed objectively; according to accepted principles of scientific inquiry, the research design will generate an appropriately phrased hypothesis and the research will answer the appropriate questions, rather than favor a particular outcome;
2) require control of both study design and research itself to remain with scientific investigators;
3) not offer or accept remuneration geared to the outcome of a research project;
4) prior to the commencement of studies, ensure that there is a written agreement that the investigative team has the freedom and obligation to attempt to publish the findings within some specified time frame;
5) require, in publications and conference presentations, fully signed disclosure of all financial interests;
6) not participate in undisclosed paid authorship arrangements in industry-sponsored publications or presentations;
7) guarantee accessibility to all data and control of statistical analysis by investigators and appropriate auditors/reviewers; and
8) require that academic researchers, when they work in contract research organizations or act as contract researchers, make clear statements of their affiliation; require that such researchers publish only under the auspices of the contract research organizations. (emphasis added).
These guiding principles clearly were not adequately followed in the case of Coke’s funding of the GEBN, and it remains to be seen what other research it has been cultivating as part of its effort to “balance the debate.” Moreover, the whole concept of funding “defensive and offensive science and research” is completely at odds with the principles of objective research design contained in the guiding principles.
Coke has had a concerted effort to fund science in its favor pursuant to a specific plan laid out by its chief scientist in 2012, and it failed to adequately follow the ethical guidelines its chief scientist helped to write in 2009. The remedies CEO Kent now promises are to disclose who the company has funded (something, according to their chief scientist, the company should have already been doing), and enlisting more experts to help sort things out. For Coke’s CEO to say that the criticism of actions that were clearly in line with a well-articulated Coca-Cola Company strategic plan and failed to comply with basic ethical principles co-written by its chief scientific officer “does not reflect” the company’s “intent” or “values” is partly right and partly wrong. It clearly reflects Coke’s intent to fund science to serve its interests. It does not, however, reflect the purported values of the company with respect to working with scientific researchers.
Tags: coca-cola, coke, Muhtar Kent, Rhona S. Applebaum, self-regulation, soda, sugary drinks, the coca-cola company
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Re-Tooling Bottled Water Bans and Healthy Beverage Requirements to Serve Sustainability and Public Health Goals: A Constructive Path Forward
By Cara Wilking, JD, PHAI Consulting Attorney
Researchers at the University of Vermont in Burlington (UVM) published a paper describing the impact of a campus bottled water ban that was paired with a healthy beverage requirement. The study found that removing bottled water from campus had no impact on the number of plastic bottles shipped to the campus, and resulted in higher consumption of unhealthy beverages. These results do not support the sustainability or public health goals of the bottled water ban: it failed to reduce plastic trash and carbon emissions or improve the nutrition profile of beverages consumed by students, faculty and staff on the UVM campus.
The study puts a fine point on a very practical tension that exists between two highly organized movements: the obesity and oral health prevention movements with a primary focus on shifting the public from caloric beverages to non-caloric beverages like water–for the most part regardless of how they are packaged; and a segment of the sustainability movement that has honed in on bottled water as a unique source of plastic trash, carbon emissions from its transportation, and a burden on communities from where it is extracted for packaging. The public health community regards bottled water as a healthy alternative to other drinks when consumers are choosing a beverage to buy, and the environmental community considers b ottled water to be a needless source of pollution. The UVM study findings call out for solutions that meet the goals of both groups, and that combine their forces for a greater collective impact.
A constructive path forward is for both movements to work together to reduce access points for all packaged beverages. A key to the bottled beverage industry’s success has been to insert itself into every aspect of daily life. Vending machines are found in parks, schools, college campuses, recreation centers, etc. And coolers selling bottled beverages are placed at the end-caps of retail check-out lines, and fill the walls of convenience stores all over the country—including in places like college campuses. These access points haven’t always been there. They’ve been inserted via private contracts over time—these are contracts that are not required to be renewed and can be radically altered to support the environment and the public health.
A strategic focus on reducing total access points for packaged beverages benefits the environment through:
Reduction in total number of plastic bottles used
Reduction in carbon emissions from transport of bottled beverages
Reduction in energy use from vending equipment and refrigerated cases
Increase in awareness of and local support for public water systems
And benefits the public health through:
Reduction of total packaged beverages consumed, many of which contribute to diet-related chronic disease and poor oral health
Increase in investment and maintenance of plumbed drinking water access points
Increase in awareness of and local support for community water systems
A focus on a total reduction of packaged beverages is timely because demand for sugary drinks is on the decline. This new path will require both movements to expand their thinking on their respective issues and entails political risks on both sides. The obesity prevention movement will have to move beyond efforts to change the product mix in existing vending machines and other retail sales outlets and embrace phase-outs of beverage vending machines and cooler equipment. A focus on an overall total reduction in sales of bottled beverages will not be cost-neutral in terms of revenues from bottled beverage sales. This will undoubtedly raise great opposition from the beverage industry and firms and institutions that profit from packaged beverage sales.
The environmental movement will have to expand its definition of bottled water to include water that has been carbonated, sweetened, flavored or brewed and packaged in plastic. A focus on bottled water alone has strategic benefits, especially on a college campus, because plain water can be accessed via drinking fountains. Moreover, allowing other packaged beverages to remain quells critics by providing choices beyond the drinking fountain. There, however, seem to be few discernible differences between bottled water and other bottled beverages: all have water as the primary ingredient, both may have been bottled at the same factory, both are placed in plastic containers, trucked in a vehicle, refrigerated in a machine, tossed into a trash or recycling receptacle, or not properly disposed of at all.
Both movements have built momentum and achieved many accomplishments. Imagine how much more progress can be made if they join forces.
Tags: bottled water bans, community water systems, drinking fountains, healthy vending, obesity, public health, soda industry, UVM, vending machines
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Copycat Snacks Undermine School Nutrition
Today, the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, is releasing the issue brief Copycat Snacks in Schools on the food industry’s recent push to market popular junk food brands in schools. As noted in today’s New York Times story by Michael Moss entitled “The Domino’s Smart Slice Goes To School,” PHAI has called upon the USDA to address branded junk food marketing in schools. Starting July 1, 2014, all foods sold outside of the National School Lunch Program, such as food from vending machines and school stores, will have to meet United States Department of Agriculture “Smart Snacks” nutrition criteria. Not wanting to lose an in-school marketing opportunity, major food companies like PepsiCo are producing reformulated versions of popular junk foods like Cheetos® and Doritos® that meet the Smart Snacks criteria, but use the same brand names, logos and spokescharacters as are used to market traditional junk food.
For example, PepsiCo produces and markets to school food service directors a product called Cheetos® Flamin’ Hot Puffs Reduced Fat. This product meets the USDA Smart Snack guidelines, but it is not widely available for retail purchase outside of schools. Instead, PepsiCo offers Cheetos® Flamin’ Hot Puffs to the broader public. As you can see below, the product packaging is almost identical.
Copycat snacks like reduced fat versions of Cheetos® products are not widely available for purchase outside of schools and are clearly designed to co-market traditional junk food to children in school. The issue brief describes copycat snacks, how they undermine nutrition education efforts, and what can be done to stop the sale and marketing of these products in schools.
Tags: Cheetos, childhood obesity, competitive foods, food marketing, junk food marketing, school food, school nutrition, USDA Smart Snacks
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PHAI’s Gottlieb and Wilking Co-author study in JAMA Pediatrics Showing that Fast Food Giants Confuse and Deceive Kids
After much criticism and prodding, Fast food giants McDonald’s and Burger King agreed to depict healthier food options in advertising directed at children. Researchers at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, along with the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University School of Law, found that attempts to honor these pledges by depicting healthier kids’ meals frequently go unnoticed by children ages 3 to 7 years-old. In research published on March 31, 2014 in JAMA Pediatrics, these researchers found that one-half to one-third of children did not identify milk when shown McDonald’s and Burger King children’s advertising images depicting that product. Sliced apples in Burger King’s ads were identified as apples by only 10 percent of young viewers; instead most believed that the ads were depicting french fries.
Children in the study were confused by the images of food. One typical participant said, “And I see some…are those apples slices?”
The researcher replied, “I can’t tell you…you just have to say what you think they are.”
“I think they’re french fries,” the child responded.
Video of this and other responses from children participating in the study
“Burger King’s depiction of apple slices as ‘Fresh Apple Fries’ was misleading to children in the target age range,” said principal investigator James Sargent, MD, co-director Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center. “The advertisement would be deceptive by industry standards, yet their self-regulation bodies took no action to address the misleading depiction.”
Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director of PHAI and an author of the study, observed that, “when young children believe they will be getting french fries with their meals because of deceptive or confusing advertising imagery, they may insist that the adult bringing them orders french fries instead of apple slices. Likewise, if advertising leads children to expect a sugary drink rather than milk, they may well end up getting the sugary drink. This has the effect of undermining the self-regulatory pledges that the companies made.”
Study author and PHAI Senior Staff Attorney Cara Wilking said she found it, “troubling that fast food giants would publicly make a self-regulatory pledge, fail to live up to the pledge, and receive no sanction from the relevant self-regulatory body. Such failures suggests that self-regulation is often more about public relations than about fulfilling the role of actual governmental regulation.”
Sargent and his colleagues studied fast food television ads aimed at children from July 2010 through June 2011. In this study researchers extracted “freeze frames” of Kids Meals shown in TV ads that appeared on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and other children’s cable networks. Of the four healthy food depictions studied, only McDonald’s presentation of apple slices was recognized as an apple product by a large majority of the target audience, regardless of age. Researchers found that the other three presentations represented poor communication.
This study follows an earlier investigation conducted by Sargent and his colleagues, which found that McDonald’s and Burger King children’s advertising emphasized giveaways like toys or box office movie tie-ins to develop children’s brand awareness for fast food chains, despite self-imposed guidelines that discourage the practice.
While the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission play important regulatory roles in food labeling and marketing, the Better Business Bureau operates a self-regulatory system for children’s advertising. Two different programs offer guidelines to keep children’s advertising focused on the food, not toys, and, more specifically, on foods with nutritional value.
“The fast food industry spends somewhere between $100 to 200 million dollars a year on advertising to children, ads that aim to develop brand awareness and preferences in children who can’t even read or write, much less think critically about what is being presented.” said Sargent.
Bernhardt AM, Wilking C, Gottlieb M, Emond J, Sargent JD. Children’s Reaction to Depictions of Healthy Foods in Fast-Food Television Advertisements. JAMA Pediatr.2014;():. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.140.
This study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research program.
Tags: Burger King, CARU, McDonald's, obesity, self-regulation
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Verizon Mobile Ad Promotes Distracted Driving
Monday, October 21st, 2013
By Matthew Puder, Legal Intern
The commercial for Verizon’s NFL Mobile app begins with a noisy, crowded stadium and flashing camera lights. The quarterback calls out a play and makes offensive adjustments, and linebacker Clay Matthews counters by calling out his own defensive adjustment. The ball is hiked and handed off to the running back. Players run through a crowd of cheering fans on the field of play and then Clay Matthews lays a crushing tackle on the running back, jumps up, and flexes.
A voiceover comes on and states “Never be far from the game. Download NFL Mobile and watch live NFL games exclusively from Verizon. Never be without football.” During these few sentences the commercial cuts to a quick scene, about one-second in duration, of a man and a woman in a car. She leans from over him, from left to right, and shows him the live action football play that just unfolded on her mobile device.
To most, this one-second visual of the man and woman in the car would not evoke much thought. But when looked at in the context of Verizon’s corporate responsibility pledge to eliminate distracted driving, the innocuous clip becomes somewhat more concerning.
Verizon boasts to have taken the pledge to eliminate distracted driving by partnering with Sprint and T-Mobile to promote AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign. The essence of the campaign is to raise awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. It also advocates that drivers take the pledge to refrain from texting and driving so as to eliminate distracted driving, making the roadways a safer place for all who use them. Texting and driving is a major public health concern as the combination of the two creates a 23 fold increase in the chance of getting into an automobile accident.
In his blog post describing Verizon’s contribution to the campaign, Jack MaCartney, the Director of Corporate and Community Responsibility, acknowledges “Taking our eyes off the road, our hands off the wheel, to send or read a text, email, comment, post, tweet, is an unnecessary risk.” While Verizon’s efforts to call attention to the dangers of distracted driving are commendable, the commercial described above indicates that Verizon may not be as in touch with its distracted driving campaign as it claims to be.
Although the man and the woman in the one-second scene in the commercial appear to be in the back of a cab or a friend’s car that may not be readily apparent to the audience at first glance. The man is sitting in the position that a driver would normally be, and the woman in the position of the passenger. At a glance, the commercial seems to be advocating watching live football in the car in a way that would take the driver’s eyes off of the road. But, even assuming that the NFL live video was confined to the back seat, the temptation for the driver to look back to see a play or replay could also create an unnecessary distraction. AT&T, for example, has helped helped to vividly describe the consequences of inattention to the road in its commissioned film by noted directed Werner Herzog, “From One Second to the Next.”
The Verizon spot is reminiscent of a Beck’s Beer commercial that was cited and sanctioned by the FTC for violations of the FTC Act involving the combination of beer and sailing. The commercial depicted a number of passengers on the boat with a large bucked of ice containing bottles of Beck’s Beer. Almost all of the passengers held bottles of beer, with one passenger standing dangerously close the bowsprit, others sitting on the edge of the bow, and none of passengers wearing life jackets. The issue the FTC had with the commercial was that the advertisers depicted boating passengers as drinking Beck’s Beer while engaged in activities that require a high degree of alertness and coordination to avoid falling overboard.
In its complaint the FTC stated that as many as one-half of all boating fatalities are alcohol related, including an average of 60 recreational boat fatalities annually from falling overboard while drinking. Also it the its complaint, the FTC acknowledged that the company may be in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Beer Institute’s own Advertising Marketing Code, and federal and state boating safety laws. The After its investigation, the FTC concluded that Beck’s had violated the FTC Act with this advertisement and were sanctioned with strong oversight by the FTC of future advertisements involving alcoholic beverages and boats.
Verizon’s commercial is arguably similar to the sanctioned conduct of Beck’s Beer. Like the Becks commercial where it was only the passengers drinking while on the boat, the passengers in the car are engaging in activity that poses a public health hazard. The FTC did not make the distinction between passengers and driver in its citation of the Beck’s commercial. Additionally, like the Beck’s commercial, the NFL Mobile commercial promotes activity that is prohibited by law in many states, i.e. using mobile devices while driving. Verizon could have omitted the passengers being in the car and put them somewhere else where the passenger has a further removed from being the driver, such as in a bus or in the subway.
While Verizon most likely did not make the commercial with the intention of promoting unsafe behavior, the company was at best oblivious and at worst careless in its production of the commercial. Verizon should take care to ensure that all forms of media use while driving are eliminated, not just texting, as they all increase the risk of injury and death. The company should be more and aware and sensitive to the messages it promotes in its commercials concerning mobile media and the dangerous implications they may have.
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Is McDonald’s Selling What It Advertises to Kids?
by Cara Wilking, J.D.
Since 2008, national advertising for McDonald’s Happy Meals has not depicted soda as per a self-regulatory pledge made to the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI). In a recent pledge with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, McDonald’s stated that it will not display soda company logos in the children’s section of its restaurant menu boards or otherwise promote or feature soda, but soda will remain on the children’s menu. This seems to be a huge public admission that McDonald’s has no plans to actually take soda off of its children’s menu. Almost five years after McDonald’s began implementation of its CFBAI pledge its in-store children’s menu offerings still do not match the Happy Meal combinations it advertises to the public.
In July of 2011, I wrote about the fact that McDonald’s CFBAI pledge had not translated into its healthier options becoming its most popular or commonly sold options (a fact later confirmed by McDonald’s). At that time, meal combinations with french fries and a 12 oz. soda were the most popular Happy Meal combinations. Two years later, soda is still on the children’s menu. In order to truly improve the nutritional profile of the meals it actually sells, McDonald’s needs to do the same thing with beverages that it did with its french fries. Change the default. When a parent orders a Happy Meal the clerk should ask, “milk, apple juice or water.” Its CGI pledge does not accomplish that and evinces a potentially huge disconnect between what McDonald’s advertises and what it is actually selling to children and their parents.
Tags: Alliance for a Healthier Generation, CFBAI, children, Clinton Global Initiative, Food Advertising, Happy Meal, McDonald's Happy Meals, obesity
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McDonald’s Repeatedly Violates CARU Premium Guideline
In response to a recent study finding that nationally televised fast food television advertisements to children by McDonald’s and Burger King from 2009-2010 focused primarily on toys, movie tie-ins and branding, CARU Director Wayne Keeley stated that “[b]oth companies have always respected CARU’s recommendations by discontinuing the challenged ads, and pledged to take into account CARU’s recommendations in their future advertising,” and went on to note that there haven’t been any recent cases involving either of the two companies.
A look at CARU case reports tells a different story. Since 2005, McDonald’s Corporation has been cited by CARU six times for violations of its premium guideline. Just one of these cases, from Sept 2012, was decided in McDonald’s favor. The most recent CARU case against the company in December 2012 found the premium guideline had been violated. Each time McDonald’s pledged to take CARU guidelines into consideration in future advertisements. Burger King also was found to have violated CARU’s premium guideline in 2011.
A list of CARU case reports. Click on the image above to view a larger version.
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New study finds McDonald’s and Burger King responsible for 99% of fast-food television ads for kids, suggests industry’s efforts to self-regulate its marketing practices are ineffective
Fast-food companies emphasize toy giveaways and movie tie-ins rather than food products when marketing to kids on television, which suggests that industry is not abiding by its self-regulatory pledges for child-directed marketing, according to a study co-authored by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law. The study, “How Television Fast Food Marketing Aimed at Children Compares with Adult Advertisements,” is published in PLOS ONE and found that among ads for children’s meals, toy giveaways appeared in 69 percent of ads and movie tie-ins were used in 55 percent of ads.
“Fast-food companies use free toys and popular movies to appeal to kids and their ads are much more focused on promotions, brands, and logos—not on the food,” said James Sargent, Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the lead author of the study. “These are techniques that the companies’ own self-regulatory body calls potentially misleading and it’s a clear sign that they’re not living up to their pledges about marketing to kids.”
Sargent and his colleagues examined all nationally televised ads for children’s meals by leading fast-food restaurants for one year, from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. They compared ads for kids with ads for adults from the same companies to assess whether self-regulatory pledges for food marketing to children had been implemented.
Key findings include:
Nearly all (99%) of the ads that aired during the study period were attributable to McDonald’s (70%) and Burger King (29%).
McDonald’s had the strongest emphasis on the children’s market, with 40% of its 44,062 ads aimed at kids, compared to 21% of 37,210 aired ads for Burger King.
Seventy-nine percent of the fast-food ads aimed at kids aired on only four channels: Cartoon Network (32.3%), Nickelodeon (18.3%), Disney XD (16.2%), and Nicktoons (12.4%).
Compared with fast food ads for adults, kids ads emphasized branding and the food images were smaller. For example:
Images of food packaging were present in 88 percent of ads directed at kids and 23 percent of ads for adults.
A street view of the restaurant appeared in 41 percent of ads directed at kids and 12 percent of ads for adults.
Food images averaged 20 percent of the screen diagonal in kids’ ads, but 45 percent of the screen diagonal in adult ads.
Leaders of the food and beverage industry have publicly recognized the need to reform marketing practices targeting children. In 2006, the Council of Better Business Bureaus launched the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), a voluntary pledge by major U.S. food manufacturers to advertise only healthier products to young children. McDonald’s and Burger King participate in the CFBAI. Both companies also have pledged to abide by marketing guidelines set by the Children’s Advertising Review Unit, which include a provision stating that food—not toys or other promotions—should be the primary focus of ads directed at kids.
“This study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that there’s a big gap between what industry has promised and what they’re actually doing when it comes to marketing to kids,” said Cara Wilking, J.D. of the Public Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law. “There comes a point when intervention by a regulatory body like the Federal Trade Commission or state Attorneys General is needed to address self-regulatory failures. These findings suggest we’ve reached it with respect to fast food marketing to kids.”
A recent report by the Federal Trade Commission found that among all U.S. food and beverage companies, fast-food companies spent the most on marketing directed at youths ages 2 to 17—more than $714 million in 2009. The report also found that fast-food companies have dramatically increased their spending on television ads and new media targeting kids ages 2 to 11. Further analysis of that report shows while some fast-food restaurants slightly improved the nutritional quality of kids’ meals, the number of child-directed television ads for other higher-calorie meals and menu items more than doubled from 2006 to 2009.
Tags: CFBAI, child nutrition, consumer protection, enforcement, food marketing, Happy Meal, McDonald's, self-regulation
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Banned In the Cage: How Xyience and NOS Unfairly and Deceptively Market Energy Drinks
by Cara Wilking, J.D., Rebecca Leff and Katelyn Blaney
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has its roots in “cage-fighting” and was long considered too wild and violent for mainstream sports fans. Not long ago cage-fighting was shunned by parents, banned by states and rejected by broadcast networks and cable operators for its brutality. While cage-fighting remains outlawed in some states, it has been recast as mixed martial arts (MMA). UFC has successfully migrated from pay-per-view television to the Fox Television broadcast network. Despite the UFC’s efforts to rehabilitate its image, bouts are still held in an eight-sided cage (called the “octagon”) where fighters’ blood is commonly spilled. The UFC has an official energy drink called Xyience Energy. NOS energy drink (a Coca-Cola Company product) sponsors MMA champion Georges St-Pierre and has built an ad campaign around the UFC champion. UFC fighters appear on cans of Xyience, attend promotional events and wear the Xyience logo. According to the president of Xyience, UFC fans, who are two thirds male, between the ages of 21 and 34 are the company’s target demographic.
Energy Drinks Are Associated with Increased Risk-Taking, Including Fighting
Energy drink composition, marketing and consumption are currently under investigation by state and federal regulators. Energy drink consumption has been linked to adverse health events including caffeine intoxication, dehydration and even death. Moreover, a 2008 study found that frequent energy drink consumption by young adults, particularly young white males, was positively associated with risk-taking including fighting. The study concluded that energy drink consumption is closely associated with problem behavior syndrome. The group the study found to be most at risk overlaps with Xyience’s target demographic.
Six States and the Association of Ringside Physicians Ban the Use of Stimulant Drinks During MMA Fights
UFC champion Ronda Rousey holding a can of Xyience after a 2013 bout in California.
In order to protect the safety of combatants, Arkansas, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin ban the use of energy drinks during professional or amateur mixed martial arts bouts. Click here for a legal summary of these policies. State athletic commissions require that a physician be present ringside during mixed martial arts bouts. The Association of Ringside Physicians, a group created “to develop medical protocols and guidelines to ensure the safety and protection of Professional Boxers and MMA Athletes,” stipulates that “only water or an approved electrolyte drink by the Commission may be consumed during the bout,” and “[c]ontestants should not consume energy drinks on the date of the contest.”
The Cross-Promotion of UFC and Energy Drinks Is Unfair and Deceptive to Young Consumers
This poster is featured on the Xyience website advertising a bout in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Wisconsin bans the use of energy drinks during MMA fights
Marketing energy drinks alongside cage-fighting warrants further investigation as a potentially unfair and deceptive trade practice under state and federal consumer protection law. A deceptive trade practice is a marketing tactic that is likely to mislead a reasonable member of the target audience and is material to the consumer’s decision to purchase the product. A reasonable member of the target audience of UFC fans would be misled into thinking that energy drinks are permissible during bouts. The reasonable consumer likely does not know that energy drinks are actually banned during bouts in six states and by the Association of Ringside Physicians. This omission is not easily discovered by consumers as one has to search state athletic commission regulations to find such information. The cross-promotion of UFC and energy drinks is material to the target demographic because there are a number of energy drinks on the market that do not cross-promote UFC. Placing the UFC logo or pictures of a UFC fighter on a can and sponsoring top UFC fighters is intended to drive UFC fans to select drinks like Xyience and NOS over other energy drinks.
Energy drink cross-promotion of UFC may also be considered an unfair trade practice in jurisdictions that focus on marketing that violates established public policies. As noted above, six states and the Association of Ringside Physicians ban the use of energy drinks during fights. Marketing that associates energy drink consumption with UFC violates these established public policies and presents a potential health harm to the target audience of consumers—a demographic of energy drink users research has shown already is susceptible to engaging in risky behavior like fighting.
Energy Drinks and Fighting Don’t Mix
Xyience and NOS should abandon their association with UFC and MMA. Current marketing campaigns are unfair and deceptive to the target audience of consumers. Consumers deserve the same protections six states and the Association of Ringside Physicians extended to professional and amateur MMA athletes when they banned the use of energy drinks during bouts.
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National Alliance Monthly News - February 2019
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Black History Month has been a wonderful opportunity to highlight the many contributions African Americans have made to our history and culture, as well as the ways in which charter schools are fulfilling the promise of making a high-quality education available to more students. We were especially thrilled this week to welcome school leaders of color to Capitol Hill to personally make the case to members of Congress and the media about the impact their schools are having in their communities. You can read more about their visit in the Washington Update below.
I was also excited to visit one of the schools whose representatives joined us for the school leaders of color meetings. Purpose Prep in Nashville, Tennessee, opened in 2013 and has grown to serve more than 360 students in grades K-4. Students in the school’s North Nashville neighborhood needed a high-quality charter school option, and founder Lagra Newman and her team have delivered. Purpose Prep has been recognized as a Tennessee Reward School for academic achievement, ranking in the top five percent of schools in the state. In fact, Purpose Prep is the first elementary school in North Nashville ever to be named a Reward School.
When I visited this week, I was struck by the school’s focus on quality and coaching, a recognition that great schools require constant cultivation. Lagra started Purpose Prep after participating in the Building Excellent Schools fellowship, which allowed her to glean lessons and insights from the best schools in the country. She shares what she learned—and what she continues to learn—with her team, and all the teachers at Purpose benefit from hands-on coaching, similar to the way athletes get coached. This leads to high-quality instruction and great results for students. You can get a feel for the school yourself by checking out the “day in the life” feature on Purpose’s website.
Spending time with the educators and students at Purpose Prep was fun and inspiring. It’s always an honor to champion schools like Purpose Prep that reflect the passion of their founders and bring new opportunities to students, families, and communities. If you know of a school we should visit, please reach out to us on social media: @charteralliance.
Save the Date: National Charter Schools Week, May 12-18
Join the National Alliance to celebrate the public charter school movement, May 12-18! National Charter Schools Week is a chance for students, teachers, leaders, parents, supporters, and advocates to come together to show how charter schools are committed to providing high-quality public education to students nationwide. This year’s dates are a bit later than usual, so mark your calendar now. Sign up to receive updates on the week’s festivities!
Facilities Funding News
We continue to raise awareness of charter schools’ facilities needs and press lawmakers for fair funding. This month, Nina Rees joined partners in Ohio and Nevada to publish op-eds in local newspapers targeting state policymakers.
The National Charter School Resource Center recently released reports on the charter school facilities landscapes in Oklahoma and Louisiana. The survey found that half of Oklahoma charter schools lack the facility amenities and specialized instructional spaces they require to best implement their educational program, while many Louisiana charter schools face similar challenges. Both surveys show that access to facilities continues to be an issue for charter schools across the country.
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Representative Donald Norcross (D-NJ), and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) have introduced a $100 billion public school infrastructure proposal, the Rebuild America’s Schools Act. The legislation would authorize $70 billion in grants and $30 billion in bonds to help address critical physical and digital infrastructure needs in schools across the country. Charter schools would be eligible to apply as local educational agencies or as part of their school district’s application. We are exploring options for adding additional language to ensure charter schools have equitable access to the provisions in this bill. For more information, see the summary fact sheet.
Earlier this week, the National Alliance hosted nearly 50 charter school leaders from 18 states to participate in the 4th annual School Leaders of Color Action Initiative in Washington, D.C. These African-American, Latinx, Native, and Asian-American leaders attended trainings, discussions, and a reception on Capitol Hill, and conducted visits to Congressional offices.
National Alliance board member and former Senator Mary Landrieu, Elsie Urueta Pollock (Tulsa Honor Academy), Amanda Johnson (Clarksdale Collegiate), and John Esa (Redmond Proficiency Academy) mingle with House Education and Labor Committee’s Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC) at the School Leaders of Color convening reception.
Sarah Davis (Resurgence Hall Charter School) and Latrisha Chattin (Susie King Taylor Community School) with Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA).
John Taylor (Booker T. Washington Academy), Kristine Rivera (Excellence Community Schools), and Quentin Phipps (Excellence Community Schools) with House Appropriations Labor HHS Subcommittee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT).
School leaders shared their stories with members of Congress and staffers, describing the benefits their schools bring to their communities and making a direct appeal for more funding for charter school growth. It was a great couple of days that will have long-lasting impact. Roland Martin conducted interviews with school leaders on site—watch them here. Also check out The 74’s article on the meetings and read Ron Rice’s blog post. And find pictures and stories from the visit on social media via the hashtag #SLOC2019.
A landmark education reform bill that would have created public charter schools in West Virginia failed to garner enough legislative support. As a result, the state will remain one of just six in the country without a charter law. The National Alliance issued a statement lamenting the consequences for “West Virginia students and families who have been denied the opportunity to choose the best public school for them because adults are more concerned with advocating for their own interests.”
A bill to increase accountability for full-time virtual charter schools was introduced in the New Mexico legislature. The bill contains many of the recommendations outlined in the National Alliance’s policy brief A Call to Action to Improve the Quality of Full-Time Virtual Charter Schools. As the bill makes its way through committees, we continue to work closely with allies in New Mexico to improve the state’s charter laws and will provide updates as they develop.
A package of bills introduced in the California assembly this week would impose severe restrictions on charter school growth in the state. Among other things, the bills would cap the number of charter schools at the current number and eliminate the ability to appeal school board rejections of charter school applications. You can find more details in this article. The National Alliance will be working with state partners to push back hard against the legislation.
From The Charter Blog
The Charter Blog was feeling musical this month. A professional vocalist wrote about her experience at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, and how she now empowers students through music. La'Vonne Tynes, a music teacher at Friendship Public Charter School, reflected on why she chose to teach at a charter school. And Larry Milian, director and faculty advisor of the SLAM Radio program at Miami’s SLAM Academy, discussed how students are breaking new ground as key players in the production of a national radio program on Sirius XM.
Miriam Raccah, the executive director of Bronx Charter School for the Arts, wrote about the a-ha moment that convinced her to make an impact through education—and what she’s learned as a school leader of color.
How much do you know about the Waldorf education model? The National Alliance's Jamison White explained the history of the Waldorf approach and profiled Journey School, a public charter school in California bringing this holistic model to public school students.
National Alliance research fellow Adam Gerstenfeld explained how charter school lotteries work to give all students equal access to the charter school of their choice, despite growing wait lists. And Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow Tim Abram explained how charter schools are public schools, free to students.
New School Culture Toolkit: The National Alliance, in partnership with TNTP, released a hands-on resource guide for charter school leaders to build strong and effective school cultures. The toolkit—which features resources on retaining great teachers, compensation and career pathways, and hiring top talent—offers leaders tools that can be implemented immediately. The National Alliance’s Kat Sullivan outlined the core elements in a blog post.
Engaging Families in School Choice: Roland Martin’s “Is School Choice the Black Choice?” tour stopped at Morehouse College in Atlanta last week. The tour is designed to engage black families on issues of educational equity, student achievement, and parental involvement. The 74 recapped the Atlanta event.
New CREDO research on Idaho finds that, on average, charter school students experience similar learning gains in math and stronger learning gains in reading compared to their district school peers. Students in rural charter schools saw stronger gains in both reading and math compared to their district counterparts. In an oft-repeated trend, growth was weaker in both reading and math among online charter students relative to the average district students or brick-and-mortar charter school students.
New CREDO research on Ohio finds significant reading progress for students attending brick-and-mortar charter schools and significant reading and math progress for African-American students attending charter schools. Once again, performance among students in online charter schools lagged. Our friends at the Fordham Institute dove into the results in a blog post.
Supporting Students’ College Aspirations
Applications are still open for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholars Program, which offers support for students in grades 8 through 12 to help prepare them for college success. Current 7th graders with financial need can apply through March 14, 2019.
Get Ready for NCSC 2019!
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November 2, 2018 / 10:28 AM / 8 months ago
Gunmen kill a leader of India's ruling party in disputed Kashmir
Fayaz Bukhari
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed a leader of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir state late on Thursday, prompting authorities to impose a curfew in the area.
Demonstrators shout slogans next to burning tyres during a protest against the killing of a leader of India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP), and his brother by unidentified gunmen in Kishtwar town, in Jammu November 2, 2018. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta
Anil Parihar, 53, state secretary of the BJP, and his brother, Ajit, were shot dead in the predominantly Muslim town of Kishtwar, while they headed home after shutting their shop, police said.
Police are investigating whether it was a militant attack or a criminal act, a senior police officer said.
Anil Parihar was an influential leader in the region. He was considered a moderate and had a sizeable support base, even among Muslims, media reported.
Indian Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state, has been beset by a 29-year-old insurgency.
India accuses Pakistan for sheltering anti-India militants but Pakistan denies that. Pakistan, which like India, claims the whole of Kashmir, calls for talks to decide the region’s future.
The BJP leader in the state had two bodyguards but they were not with him at the time of the attack, said Kishtwar’s senior police official, Rajinder Gupta.
Kashmir is under direct rule by the federal government, which gives the BJP a free hand to control it ahead of a general election that must be called early next year.
Federal home minister Rajnath Singh said he was shocked and pained by the killing of the brothers.
“Police will leave no stone unturned to bring the perpetrators to justice,” Singh said on Twitter.
Kashmir has been at the heart of decades of hostility between India and Pakistan, which have gone to war over it twice since independence from Britain in 1947.
Writing by Malini Menon; Editing by Martin Howell
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July 25, 2010 / 3:28 AM / 9 years ago
U.S., South Korea start military drills as North protests
SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.S. and South Korean militaries kicked off large exercises on Sunday to underscore deterrence against North Korea after accusing the reclusive communist state of sinking a warship.
The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (bottom) and the South Korean Navy's Landing Platform Helicopter ship Dokdo leave for a U.S.-South Korea joint naval and air exercise at a South Korean naval port in Busan, about 420 km (262 miles) southeast of Seoul, July 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jo Jung-Ho/Yonhap
Pyongyang warned that the drill had pitched the peninsula onto the brink of war.
U.S. naval vessels, including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, began the drills by setting off from South Korean ports where they had called last week in a show of force timed with a high-level meeting between the two allies.
North Korea drove tensions to new heights after a team of investigators, led by South Korea’s military, accused it of firing a torpedo in March to sink the corvette Cheonan, killing 46 men.
The United States announced new sanctions on the North last week, freezing the assets of Pyongyang’s leaders it said were earned through illcit activities and cutting off the flow of cash to them. The moves would also ban travel by some individuals.
China had objected to the drills.
Beijing criticized the introduction of large-scale military equipment into the Yellow Sea off the peninsula’s west coast, prompting a move of the bulk of the exercises to areas off the east coast.
On Saturday, the North’s powerful National Defense Commission vowed to launch a “sacred war” against the United States and South Korea at “any time necessary,” in response to the drills, denounced as “reckless.”
VESSELS, AIRCRAFT
The drills involve more than 200 aircraft, including the F-22 Raptor fighter, and three destroyers, including the USS John S. McCain, part of the 97,000-tonne USS George Washington’s strike group.
Four Japanese military officers will be on board the carrier to observe the drills.
Pyongyang has routinely been shrill in voicing its anger in the past when the allies conducted exercises.
But U.S. officials say further provocations are possible in coming months, especially as the North tries to build political momentum for the succession to leader Kim Jong-il, expected to hand power to his youngest son.
North Korea has called for the resumption of six-party nuclear disarmament talks that it had boycotted since late 2008, a move analysts said was an attempt to put the Cheonan incident behind it and win lucrative aid through negotiations with the South, the United States, Japan, Russia and China.
On Saturday, the North’s foreign ministry said it was ready for dialogue but vowed to respond by force if it had to.
“We are not the one who would be surprised by military threats or sanctions,” a ministry spokesman said.
Editing by Ron Popeski
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Storm Barry cuts half U.S. Gulf Coast oil output, flooding fears close coastal refinery
Erwin Seba
HOUSTON (Reuters) - An intensifying tropical storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Thursday cut more than half the region’s oil output, with energy companies evacuating staff from nearly 200 offshore facilities and a coastal refinery.
Oil firms shut more than 1 million barrels per day of oil production, 53% of Gulf of Mexico’s output, and 1.2 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas production, according to a U.S. regulator.
Tropical Storm Barry’s winds reached 50 miles per hour (85 km/h) late Thursday and are expected to intensify, possibly reaching at least 74 mph, a category one hurricane, as it nears the coast, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
It expects as much as 25 inches (64 cm) of rain to fall, with flooding due to the rains and a storm surge.
Despite the production cuts, U.S. crude, natural gas and gasoline futures slipped on Thursday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast weaker demand for its output next year.
Dozens of oil and gas producers have removed staff from 191 production platforms, according to offshore drilling regulator U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. It said seven rigs and 11 drill ships were evacuated or moved out of Barry’s path.
Phillips 66 (PSX.N) evacuated staff and halted operations at its 253,600-barrel-per-day (bpd) Alliance, Louisiana, refinery and pipeline operator Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO) also evacuated three offshore platforms and halted some deepwater Gulf of Mexico natural gas pipelines.
The storm prompted Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC.N), Chevron Corp (CVX.N), Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) and others to move staff out of the path of the storm and many halted production, according to company reports.
U.S. crude futures, which rose more than 4% on Wednesday, settled at $60.20 a barrel on Thursday, down 23 cents on the day but near a six-week high. Gasoline futures slipped a fraction.
The National Weather Service issued a hurricane warning for part of the Louisiana coast by Friday night and projected landfall over the state’s central or southeastern coast.
Data provider Refinitiv said natural gas output in the Lower 48 states could drop to a seven-week low of 87.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) on Thursday due to the closings, from a record high of 91.1 bcfd on July 5.
Packing winds of 50 mph, the storm late Thursday was about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River, moving west at about 3 miles per hour (6 km per hour). It could make landfall late Friday or Saturday along the Louisiana coast and bring 10 inches to 20 inches (38 cm) of rain to the central Gulf Coast, forecasters said.
A 3-foot to 6-foot (0.9-meter to 1.8-meter) storm surge was expected at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River, according to the National Weather Service.
PBF, Valero do not plan to shut Louisiana refineries ahead of storm: sources
Phillips 66’s Alliance refinery sits next to the river 39 miles (63 km) south of New Orleans. The last hurricane to flood the refinery was 2012’s Hurricane Isaac. The refinery was also shut by Hurricane Gustav in 2008 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
In 2017, Hurricane Nate led Phillips 66 to shut the refinery, which was restarted within days as the storm turned away from the area.
Reporting by Erwin Seba in Houston and Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by David Gregorio and Lisa Shumaker
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SEC shortens settlement cycle for securities trades
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators moved on Wednesday to modernize regulations that require stock and bond trades to settle within three business days, a step the industry has urged the government to take for years.
A sign for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pictured in the foyer of the Fort Worth Regional Office in Fort Worth, Texas June 28, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Stone
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to shorten that timeframe to two business days, a change that aims to reduce credit and market risk, including the risk of a trading counterparty defaulting.
Modern technology lets investors make trades in a matter of milliseconds. But since 1993, the SEC’s rules have required brokers to wait for three business days between the time an investor’s order is executed, to when the cash and ownership of the security are exchanged.
“It is finally time to say hasta la vista to the antiquated T+3 settlement cycle,” acting SEC Chairman Michael Piwowar said.
The shortened cycle, he added, will reduce “the time horizon for risk exposures” and also “should improve capital efficiency and enhance the resilience of the national clearance and settlement system.”
Wall Street trade groups have said the change would decrease counterparty risks, bolster financial stability and align with many other international markets that have already adopted a two-day securities settlement cycle.
Consumer groups also support the change, although some have said the settlement time should be reduced even further, to just one day.
Democratic SEC Commissioner Kara Stein expressed some support on Wednesday for shortening the cycle to one day, saying she believes technology exists to accomplish such a goal.
“I have asked the staff to study not only the changes resulting from a movement to a T+2 settlement cycle, but also to consider further improvements,” she said.
The new two-day settlement time is slated to take effect on Sept. 5.
Besides applying to stocks and bonds, the change will also apply to exchange-traded funds, certain mutual funds, municipal securities and limited partnerships that trade on exchanges.
Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Lisa Von Ahn
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Nigerian writers compete with other African counterparts for literature prize
January 4, 2017 Press Release
Helon Habila, chair of the judging panel of the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature, has announced the 2016 list of nine books. The list is made up of entries from first-time authors whose books were published in the past 24 months.
The listed books are Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya (Coffee House Press, USA), The Yearning by Mohale Mashigo (PanMacmillan, South Africa), Piggy Boy’s Blues by Nakhane Toure (Blackbird Books imprint of Jacana Media, SA), The Peculiars by Jen Thorpe (Penguin Random House, USA), Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John (Cassava Republic, Nigeria), And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile (Farafina an imprint of Kachifo Limited, Nigeria), Dub Steps by Andrew Miller (Jacana Media, South Africa), The Seed Thief by Jacqui L’Ange (Umuzi Publishers, South Africa) and Nwezelenga: The Star Child by Unathi Magubeni (Black Bird Books Imprint of Jacana Media, South Africa).
The Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat Nigeria, Matthew Willsher, endorsed the judges’ carefully moderated selection process, saying:
“The novels in this year’s longlist represent a good number of African publishing companies. Each novel reflects a very interesting and dynamic perspective that will provoke intense conversations about different personal and societal issues.”
The judging panel, comprising Nigerian novelist and poet, Helon Habila (Chair), South African writer/activist Elinor Sisulu and Ivorian writer and Africa39 laureate Edwige Rene Dro, now has the task of selecting three authors for the shortlist.
The winner of the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature will be announced in March 2017 and will receive £15,000, an engraved Montblanc Meisterstück pen, and an Etisalat-sponsored fellowship at the University of East Anglia to be mentored by renowned Professor Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland.
About the Judging Panel
Nigerian-born Helon Habila is an award-winning author and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University, USA. His novels include Waiting for an Angel (2002), Measuring Time (2007), and Oil on Water (2010). His current book is a work of nonfiction, The Chibok Girls. His novels, poems, and short stories have won many honours, including the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section), the Caine Prize, The Library of Virginia Annual Literary Award for fiction and most recently the Windham-Campbell Prize. Habila has been a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review since 2004, and is a regular reviewer for the Guardian, UK.
Elinor Sisulu is a Zimbabwean-born South Africa writer and human rights activist. Elinor Sisulu combines training in history, English literature, development studies and feminist theory from institutions in Zimbabwe, Senegal and the Netherlands.
She is the author of the award-winning children’s book The Day Gogo Went to Vote. Her biography on her parents-in-law, Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime, secured her the prestigious 2003 Noma Award for publishing in Africa.
Elinor’s involvement in book promotion and literary development efforts for many years has culminated in her work with the Puku Children’s Literature Foundation. She has been a judge for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the Sanlam Youth Literature Prize and the Penguin Africa Writer’s Competition.
Edwige-Renée Dro is an Ivorian writer who is passionate about getting the Francophone voice into the mainstream. She translates for PEN International as well as Global Voices Online. She worked on the translation of Les Cités Fantastiques (The Fantastic Cities), a coffee-table book featuring poems and paintings by Werewere Liking. Edwige has her own blog at www.africanmusings.wordpress.com and runs a book reading group in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She won the 2015 PEN International New Voices award and was shortlisted for the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship in 2014. She was also one of the featured writers in the Hay Festival’s prestigious initiative Africa39.
About the Etisalat Prize for Literature
Etisalat Prize for Literature is a pan-African prize that celebrates debut African writers of published book-length fiction. Previous winners include Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo in 2013 for her novel We Need New Names, South Africa’s Songeziwe Mahlangu in 2014 for Penumbra and Democratic Republic of Congo’s Fiston Mwanza Mujila, whose book Tram 83 won the Etisalat Prize in 2015.
The Etisalat Prize for Literature also incorporates an award for Flash Fiction; an online-based competition for non-published African writers of short stories.
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6 Major Health Problems Caused By Lack of Sleep
You deal with the fallout of not getting enough sleep by feeling a little groggy every morning. But what you may not realize is the domino effect at work here, and it’s much more dangerous than just feeling tired. Increasingly, researchers tell us, it’s clear that “short sleeping” can get us into plenty of trouble with our health.
Insufficient sleep is linked not only to obesity—which brings its own set of health issues—but also to a host of other maladies. Here’s a sampling of health problems you might bring on by skimping on sleep.
In a 2010 study published in the journal Sleep, researchers at the West Virginia University School of Medicine reviewed data from 30,397 people. They discovered that those sleeping fewer than 7 hours a night were at increased risk of heart disease. In particular, women under 60 who sleep 5 hours or fewer a night have twice the risk for developing heart disease.
According to a study in the journal Diabetes in 2011, University of Chicago and Northwestern University researchers found that when people with type 2 diabetes slept poorly at night, they had a 9% higher fasting glucose level, a 30% higher fasting insulin level, and a 43% higher insulin resistance level. Diabetics with insomnia fared even worse—their fasting glucose levels were 23% higher, their fasting insulin levels were 48 percent higher, and their insulin resistance levels were 82% higher than diabetics who didn’t have insomnia.
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Researchers at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan, studied data from nearly 24,000 women ages 40 to 79, and learned that those who slept fewer than 6 hours a night had a 62% higher risk for breast cancer, while those who slept more than 9 hours a night had a 28% lower risk.
In findings presented at the May 2011 meeting of the American Urological Association, researchers at the New England Research Institute in Watertown, MA, reviewed data from 4,145 middle-aged men and women and here’s what they discovered: Five years of sleeping restlessly or too little (fewer than 5 hours a night) can increase by 80 to 90% a woman’s risk of needing to wake at night to urinate (nocturia) or of becoming incontinent. A whopping 42% of the women classified themselves as restless sleepers, compared with 34% of the men. The researchers theorize that sleeping poorly causes inflammation, which in turn can lead to urinary problems.
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In a study of 1,240 people published in 2011, Case Western University researchers found that those who slept fewer than 6 hours a night were 47 percent more likely to have colorectal polyps, which can become cancerous, than people who clocked at least 7 hours of sleep.
A 10-year study of some 16,000 people by researchers at the University of Copenhagen connected the dots between a lack of sleep and an increased risk of mortality. It turns out that the men who reported sleeping badly, especially those under 45, had twice the risk for death than men who reported sleeping well. And men who had three or more sleep disturbances a night had a suicide risk five times higher than men whose sleep was undisturbed. Though sleep disturbances didn’t affect women’s mortality, both women and men who reported sleep disturbances were more likely to have high blood pressure and diabetes.
Excerpted from The Belly Melt Diet, by the editors of Prevention. Order your copy today!
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Robbins Arroyo LLP: USA Technologies, Inc. (USAT) Misled Shareholders According to a Recently Filed Class Action
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Oct 07, 2015, 03:49 ET
SAN DIEGO and MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Shareholder rights law firm Robbins Arroyo LLP announces that a securities fraud class action complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges that officers and directors of USA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQGM: USAT) violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 between September 29, 2014 and September 29, 2015, by making materially false and misleading statements about USA Technologies' business policies. USA Technologies provides wireless networking, cashless transactions, asset monitoring, and other value-added services principally to the small ticket, unattended point of sale market in the United States and internationally.
View this press release on the law firm's Shareholder Rights Blog: www.robbinsarroyo.com/shareholders-rights-blog/usa-technologies-inc
USA Technologies Fails to Disclose Financial Reporting Deficiencies
According to the complaint, USA Technologies officials failed to disclose that there were significant deficiencies in the design and operating effectiveness of the company's internal control over financial reporting. The complaint further alleges that when aggregated, these deficiencies represented a material weakness in internal control, and as a result, the company's public statements were false and misleading.
On September 29, 2015, USA Technologies announced that it was unable to timely file its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, due to deficiencies in its internal control over its financial reporting. The company stated that the most significant weaknesses related to certain customer accounts and receivable balances involving customer processing and service fees. Specifically, the procedures in place did not identify a significant amount of small balance accounts that may be uncollectible, causing the company to increase its bad debt reserve by approximately $450,000, resulting in an after-tax charge of approximately $270,000. On this news, USA Technologies stock fell $0.28, or 10.1%, to close at $2.49 on September 30, 2015.
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Concerned shareholders who would like more information about their rights and potential remedies can contact attorney Darnell R. Donahue at (800) 350-6003, DDonahue@robbinsarroyo.com, or via the shareholder information form on the firm's website.
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Moving through three generations and back and forth in time, THE GUEST BOOK is Sarah Blake's triumphant new novel that tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quiet, until the present calls forth a reckoning. In this interview, conducted by Bookreporter.com reviewer Amy Haddock, Blake explains her inspiration for writing the book --- her first since 2010’s THE POSTMISTRESS --- how she went about crafting the complex characters of her sweeping family saga, the America that she hopes readers see in the pages of her story, and why she thinks it’s so difficult for some people to see the privilege that exists in their own lives and to speak up when fellow humans are being degraded.
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Ne-Yo Previews Introspective ‘R.E.D.’ Album in NYC
‘This is probably the most honest album I’ve ever written,’ says R&B singer
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Ne-Yo performs at HOT 97's Summer Jam in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Ne-Yo held a listening at Def Jam’s New York headquarters on Wednesday night for his fifth LP, R.E.D. (a.k.a. Realizing Every Dream), and though the 31-year-old R&B singer’s dress code was unusually relaxed – he cheated on his trademark fedora with a laidback camouflage cap – he made sure that the scene was set for romance. Chocolate-dipped strawberries, red velvet cupcakes, long-stem cherries and scented candles dotted the office space. When he pressed play on album-opener “Cracks in Mr. Perfect,” which includes a frank verse about knowingly having unprotected sex with a virtual stranger, it became clear that the man born Schaffer Smith is digging deeper this time around. “This is probably the most honest album I’ve ever written – almost honest to a fault,” said Ne-Yo. “It’s going to change some people’s opinions of me … but fuck it.”
Not that R&B’s good guy has spun into full-on Dark Knight mode. R.E.D. (due out on September 18th) is as sentimental as any Ne-Yo album, but his introspection leads to some of his rawest lyrics yet – a welcome growth after his disappointing 2010 album, Libra Scale. Here were some of the notable tracks:
“Lazy Love“: Adorned with slow-drip synths and a sonorous bass, the album’s lead single emphasizes the kind of languid desire that pins a couple to their sheets way past morning.
“Should Be You“ feat. Fabolous: Ne-Yo croons about the one that got away over Nineties-style production. It’s remnisicent of Mary J. Blige’s “I Love You,” and it features the rapper Fabolous, who delivers clever one-liners about his regrets: “If I had dollar for every should-be/You know how rich I would be?”
“She Is“: This record is one that Ne-Yo hopes will earn him stage time at the Country Music Awards. Co-written with Carrie Underwood’s go-to collaborator, Luke Laird, the lyrics’ mild Nashville nuance actually blend quite seamlessly with the singer’s soulful vocals.
“All She Wants“ feat. ReVaughn Brown: Ne-Yo gives thanks to a lover for not being a gold-digger over hip-swaying 808s, while newcomer Brown adds airy background notes.
“Slow Down“: A sedated number that spotlights Ne-Yo’s lithe falsetto, as he urges workaholic twosomes to turn off their iPhones for just one night, or three.
“Stress Reliever“: “This is about my favorite sexual position/Let’s see if your imaginations can guess it,” Ne-Yo prefaces on this ditty that hearkens to R. Kelly and Lil Wayne’s lewdest jams (hint: the word “lollipop” makes an appearance.)
“Alone With You“: Directly inspired by the Beatles, this balmy track offers the perfect soundscape for an aimless, scenic drive. Bonus: according to Ne-Yo’s 18-month-old daughter, Madilyn, it apparently converts into a mute button for bawling infants as well.
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THE ROCKBEARE MANOR SERVING TABLE
Height: 2 ft 11¾ in; 91cm
Width: 10 ft 4 in; 315 cm
Depth: 3 ft 11½ in; 121 cm (at centre)
Depth: 2 ft 10 in; 86.5 cm (at ends)
Additional depth of curved edge: 1 ft 1½ in; 34.5 cm
A George III mahogany serving table by Thomas Chippendale.
The side table was originally en suite with a pair of pedestal urns, now in a private collection in New York, which conform in design to a suite of table and pedestal urns supplied by Chippendale to Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland, circa 1775. The fact that this table fitted into the curved alcove at Rockbeare Manor can be seen as proof that it was made for the space. Rockbeare Manor is therefore a newly discovered Chippendale commission.
SIR JOHN DUNTZE OF ROCKBEARE MANOR, DEVON
John Duntze was the son of an immigrant merchant from Bremen who settled in Exeter, Devon, England. The Duntze family owned Rockbeare Manor from the middle of the 18th century and remodelled the house to its present form, apart from the second storey, which was added by the next owner in the 1820s. Sir John Duntze ran a highly successful business as a clothier and general merchant in Exeter. He became one of the founding partners of the Exeter bank Duntze-Sanders-Hamilton & Co., and was partner in the London bank Halliday-Duntze-Pread & Co. until the 1780s. He also served as member of Parliament for Tiverton from 1768 to 1795.
In 1769 Duntze extended Rockbeare by adding a dining room wing to the house. The Paxton dining room suite was delivered circa 1775, so the Rockbeare dining room suite fits into this timeframe perfectly. Sir John would have been in contact with fellow MPs in London who had commissioned furniture from Chippendale. It is also possible that he was aware of the workmanship of the Chippendale firm at Saltram House, near Plymouth, which is only a few miles away from Rockbeare. Coincidentally, the dining room suite at Saltram also features a curved serving table with accompanying pedestal urns.
Sir John Duntze sold Rockbeare Manor in 1815 to Thomas Porter, who in turn sold it to William Nation in 1859. Rockbeare passed by descent to Colonel Spencer Follett and is still in private ownership today. The Rockbeare suite remained in the house until only recently.
Research in the Duntze papers has not revealed any Chippendale invoices or any bank records for Sir John. These records may still be found at some stage in the future.
Literature: Christopher Hussey, ‘Rockbeare Manor – I’, Country Life, 19 April 1930, pp. 570–76.
Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. II, p. 193.
Illustrated:
Christopher Hussey, ‘Rockbeare Manor – II, Devonshire’, Country Life, 3 May 1930, p. 643, illus. 2–3.
Sir John Duntze, Rockbeare Manor, Devon, England.
A GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRÉTAIRE CABINET
A GEORGE III BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
A GEORGE III BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY TAMBOUR ROLL-TOP WRITING TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS
A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY KLISMOS BERGÈRE CHAIRS
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
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Robots in the Home
This article was published by ComputorEdge , issue #2230, 2004-07-23 , as a feature article, in both their print edition (on pages 20 and 22) and their website.
During the past few decades, the computer invasion of our homes has continued to gain momentum. However, that invasion has always been conducted by human power — typically with the computer consumer carrying their new purchase into the home with happy anticipation. We have yet to arrive at a point in the history of human progress when computer devices, in the form of robots, are invading our homes under their own steam. Thankfully, the apocalyptic future portrayed in the Terminator movies is much further down the road.
But we are certainly wasting no time in making it all possible. For instance, as a result of the tremendous progress made with X10 technology, it has become much easier for people to wire up their homes, and automate the control of more systems within their homesteads. It was not that long ago when hardware hobbyists began controlling their homes' lighting, heating, and cooling systems from their computers. Now, it's almost commonplace. How long will it be before HAL refuses to open the garage door?
As microprocessor-based technology becomes more powerful, affordable, and embeddable, we will undoubtedly see increased mechanization of the home itself. Yet this is not the same phenomenon as the use of domestic robots, which are mobile. A home network, whether wireless or based upon Ethernet lines, is static, in the sense that it has no moving parts. A robot careening through the kitchen encounters far more obstacles, both technically and literally.
Nonetheless, during the past few years, we have seen some first steps towards the use of robots in the home. Given the difficulties of developing robots that can easily negotiate stairs, the first domestic robots created and sold have been limited to performing what can be done by a wheeled device, and not requiring climbing or other coordination. Naturally, vacuuming floors was the first application, as it is simple — at least, relative to other household chores.
This article will focus on robotic vacuums, as they are the type of domestic helpmate most likely to be seen by readers during the next few years. While discussions of proof-of-concept home robots can be fascinating, few of us can afford such products, as they are usually priced in the thousands of dollars. In addition, some of the most interesting ideas are still on the drawing boards in product development labs.
Vacuum vs. Broom
Ask the citizens of any industrialized country, which chores in the home they dislike the most, and perhaps the top two "favorites" will be: doing laundry, and vacuuming. Both tasks have admittedly been made less arduous through the wonders of science. After all, pushing a Hoover, or being dragged around the living room by the same, is easier than wielding a mean broom. But we Americans are always looking for ways to further minimize physical exertion; thus was born the automatic vacuum.
There is some debate as to which was the premier vacuuming robot. Some argue that iRobot's "Roomba Intelligent FloorVac" was the first one made generally available with a price tag that allowed it to be purchased by the average American consumer. The battery-powered Roomba looks like a tiny silver and black flying saucer, and is priced accordingly — anywhere from $179.99 to $199.99 (not to be confused with $200).
What's interesting is how the Roomba navigates in such a manner as to cover all of the carpet in a room. The design of the device is likely derived from the Urbie robots created by iRobot for the U.S. military, and intended for detecting mines. The manufacturer probably figured that if the device can successfully navigate a minefield during a war, it may have a fighting chance within the typical child's bedroom.
The Roomba moves about its environment in a largely random fashion, backing up and changing course when it encounters an obstacle — detected by the high-tech method of bumping into the obstacle. The device also changes course when it hits its "virtual wall", which is an invisible electronic beam that can be placed across any open doorway, to prevent the unit from escaping and presumably terrorizing the neighborhood, vacuuming someone else's place, or bumping into other Roombas and forming a union.
The Roomba has sensors that help it to follow walls and other objects on the floor. But what happens when the floor disappears, such as at the top of some stairs? According to the manufacturer, the built-in "Cliff Avoidance Sensors" detect the stairs, giving the slow-moving robot a chance to turn away from the abyss. (If only they could invent something similar for the stock market.)
MechVac vs. Dust Bunny
The other contender for the prize of first-to-market is the Trilobite, manufactured by Electrolux, a veteran of the vacuuming business. While the Trilobite serves the same purpose — sucking up unwanted dirt and spare change — its navigation system is more advanced than a sensitive bumper and a random walk. It utilizes ultrasound to detect its surroundings, similar to that of a bat (although consuming far fewer insects per outing, at least for most homes). The Trilobite transmits an ultrasonic signal, which reflects off of furniture, TV-hypnotized spouses, and other stationary objects. The return signal is received by microphones inside the unit, and used to form an internal map of its environment.
The Trilobite calculates the size of a room by following around the walls. After it is finished mapping the room, it automatically begins to clean. According to Martin Hedström, a product manager at the Electrolux plant in Västervik, Sweden, "It is unlike any other vacuum cleaner. Many people become very attached to their Trilobites, and treat them like family pets." Hmm, these people may need to get out of the house more often.
A third option for the consumer with money to burn and dust to spare, is the Karcher RC3000 Robocleaner, available for a mere $1495. One interesting feature of this product, is that as soon as its battery starts running low or the dirt receptacle becomes full, the unit returns automatically to its "Base Station". Parents inform me that they see similar behavior with their penniless teenage children, though with less interest in doing domestic chores.
Dirt Bags of the Future
Despite the technological advances demonstrated by the products mentioned above, we are clearly in the earliest days of domestic robots. For instance, a Consumer Reports reviewer noted that the Roomba under evaluation vacuumed some areas of the floor countless times, while completely missing other areas. Even these high-tech, automated vacuums need room for improvement (no pun intended).
Because of the difficulties in automating climbing and other physical activities requiring refined coordination and balance, it is likely that the next area of application will be wheeled robots that can move around the room and dust surfaces of heavy objects, and possibly pick up and clean small, lightweight objects. But for now, you may want to keep your expectations low, to avoid disappointment. It will be some time before domestic robots are making a big impact, aside from running into walls.
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Airbus Leads Civil Helo Industry in Q3 Billings, Shipments, GAMA Reports
By S.L. Fuller | November 17, 2017
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Los Angeles Police Department flies the Airbus Helicopters H125. Photo courtesy of Airbus Helicopters
The second quarter of 2017 showed market stabilization, and the third quarter continues the trend. The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) said rotorcraft shipments have increased by 7.7% year-to-date. And compared to last year, rotorcraft billings increased by 8.8% to $2.7 billion. General aviation fixed-wing aircraft shipments increased by 1.7% and billings decreased 2.8%.
“The third quarter shipment and billing numbers continue a similar pattern for the industry this year: mixed, with some bright spots that continue trending upward, particularly in the rotorcraft market,” said GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce. “We’ve been very focused on streamlining certification and validation processes around the world, which will help our member companies continue bringing new and safer products to the market and hopefully spur growth in future quarters.”
GAMA said that during the third quarter of 2017, there was an increase in piston helicopter shipments from 168 to 190 units in the first nine months of 2017 compared to last year. Turbine helicopter shipments, the association continued, increased by 5.6% to 471 units.
So far, Airbus Helicopters has moved the most helicopters in 2017. In the third quarter, the manufacturer shipped 67 aircraft for total billings of $369.5 million, according to GAMA’s report. Year-to-date, Airbus has shipped 242 units for more than $1.19 billion in total billings. With top numbers for the manufacturer, the H125/H125M has accounted for 85 of those units. That aircraft was also the top mover in the third quarter.
In terms of units shipped, Robinson Helicopter Co. has had the second-best year so far, according to GAMA’s report. It shipped 69 units in the third quarter, bring its year-to-date total to 220. In 2017, the R44 Raven II has been doing the most moving for Robinson. Billings to date was reported at nearly $117 million — three manufacturers have a higher year-to-date billings value.
On of those manufacturers is Leonardo, which has had the second-best year so far in terms of billings. The Italian manufacturer had the most value in billables in the second quarter. In the third quarter, the company shipped 19 units — most frequently the AW139 at six units. Year-to-date, the company has shipped 102 helicopters (AW139 wins again for the manufacturer’s most-shipped). These helicopters are more expensive than Robinson models, bringing in $806.4 million in billings for Leonardo.
GAMA reported that Bell Helicopter — another manufacturer with more in billings than Robinson — has moved 87 units year-to-date for $502.5 million in billings. By a narrow margin, the 407GXP has been shipped the most, both for the year-to-date (30 units) and the third quarter (15 units). Close behind is the 429.
Hélicoptères Guimbal shipped six Cabri G2s in the third quarter, for a total 26 units year-to-date. That equals nearly $10.5 million in billings.
Enstrom Helicopter Corp. was able to ship two 480Bs in the third quarter. So far this year, the manufacturer has five units for some $5.9 million in billings.
In terms of units shipped, Sikorsky is reported with the least amount. It has only shipped three S-76s this entire year so far — all in the second quarter. But, at the aircraft’s value, the company has had a total of $39 million in billings.
GAMA’s “Other Military and Government Aircraft Shipments” section paints a different picture for Sikorsky.
Sikorsky in the third quarter shipped 33 Black Hawks and seven Seahawks, bringing the year-to-date units shipped total up to 111 (89 Black Hawks, 22 Seahawks).
Bell shipped eight H-1s and five V-22s during the third quarter of 2017. Year-to-date, the manufacturer has moved 25 H-1s and 15 V-22s.
NHIndustries, of which Airbus and Leonardo are a part of, moved eight NH90s in the third quarter. So far this year, it has shipped 24.
Click here to see GAMA's report.
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RTÉ Investigates
Outrage as father and daughter drown crossing river from Mexico to US
Mexican police patrol the area where the bodies of Oscar Ramirez and his daughter were found
Images of a drowned Salvadoran migrant and his two-year-old daughter who died while trying to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico to the United States have sparked outrage, underscoring the dangers faced by asylum-seekers.
Oscar Martinez Ramirez, 25, fled El Salvador with his 21-year-old wife and their daughter and decided to make the risky crossing from Mexico to the US on Sunday, according to a Mexican court report seen by AFP.
Mr Ramirez carried the little girl on his back, stowing her inside his t-shirt to keep her safe as they attempted to cross the river.
But the pair were swept away by violent currents. Mr Ramirez's wife, who survived the crossing, witnessed their deaths.
The two bodies were found on Monday in Matamoros in Tamaulipas state.
A series of photographs showing the young father and child lying face-down in water have stirred anger in El Salvador and Mexico, where the government had faced sharp criticism for its treatment of migrants.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December vowing to protect migrants' rights, has previously come under fire over an AFP journalist's images last week of heavily armed National Guardsmen forcibly detaining two women and a girl at the Rio Grande.
Yesterday, he said the 15,000 troops his government has deployed to the US border do not have orders to stop migrants from crossing, and vowed to investigate the controversial detention.
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International law protects the right of undocumented migrants to cross borders to seek asylum, and Mexico has not typically stopped them from doing so at its northern border.
But Mr Lopez Obrador is facing pressure from US President Donald Trump on the issue, and his government is eager to show results and avoid the punitive tariffs the US leader threatened last month to impose on Mexican goods.
On 7 June, the two countries reached an agreement, with Mexico agreeing to reinforce its southern border with 6,000 National Guardsmen.
The US has given Mexico 45 days to take action.
The UN refugee agency said the photo symbolises the failure to deal with their desperation.
2015: Alan Kurdi from Syria drowns in the Mediterranean
2019: Óscar Alberto + Valeria from El Salvador drown in the Rio Grande
We are once again confronted with powerful visual evidence of people continuing to die during their dangerous journeys across borders.
How many more?
— UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) June 26, 2019
"UNHCR … is deeply shocked to see the heart-breaking photo of the drowned bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria from El Salvador washed up on the banks of the Rio Grande," it said in a statement.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said they had risked their lives because they could not get the protection they were entitled to under international law.
"The deaths of Oscar and Valeria represent a failure to address the violence and desperation pushing people to take journeys of danger for the prospect of a life in safety and dignity," he said in the statement.
UNHCR compared it with the iconic photograph of a Syrian refugee toddler, Alan Kurdi, washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean in 2015.
He was part of a Syrian refugee wave that caused panic in Europe, prompting Turkey to effectively shut down the migrant route through Greece at the European Union's behest.
Since then, many countries have erected barriers to migrants and some, like the European Union and the United States, have pressured their neighbours to cut the numbers of people trying to make the journey.
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Are We on Right Track with North Korea? Let’s Give Trump a Chance
By: Scott Jennings
President Donald Trump’s dramatic announcement that he will meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has stirred mixed feelings among conservatives who have previously expressed skepticism about engaging the murderous regime.
Rep. Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, summed up the fear and hope ahead of the meeting: “Remember, North Korean regimes have repeatedly used talks and empty promises to extract concessions and buy time. North Korea uses this to advance its nuclear and missile programs. We’ve got to break this cycle.”
The Trump Administration says it has extracted two promises in exchange for talks: no missile tests before the summit, and a commitment to denuclearization.
North Korea has not conducted a missile test since November 28, although it has irritated the United State by sending supplies to Syria that “could be used in the production of chemical weapons” and testing a reactor that could be used to produce nuclear weapons.
These new revelations about North Korean activity beyond its frequent missile tests, which once riled President Trump so that he warned North Korea it would face “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” raise the specter that Kim has no intention of denuclearizing or of being a better world actor. Recall that in 2005, under the leadership of Kim’s father, North Korea promised denuclearization but later reneged.
But this time may be different because of Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign, which has clearly put the economic squeeze on Kim. Since Trump took over, the United States has “leveled some of its most significant and far-reaching sanctions…and has also succeeded in pressuring China to further isolate the regime,” according to CNN.
“The trucks coming from China have gone to almost none and it’s going to have a negative effect on North Korea’s economy in the coming months and years if the sanctions continue,” CNN’s Will Ripley said.
President Trump deserves enormous credit for ratcheting up sanctions and rallying the international community. How can you blame him for wanting to try something different by engaging in direct talks? After all, the last quarter century of U.S. policy delivered nothing but a North Korea with nuclear weapons. Perhaps it is time for a new approach, something Trump promised during his campaign.
There is risk in what the president is doing. Certainly, Kim may simply be stalling while he puts the finishing touches on his nuclear arsenal. He may also believe, now that he has nuclear weapons, the civilized world doesn’t have the fortitude to attack. On his way out the door, Trump’s now-excommunicated strategist Steve Bannon told a reporter that there was no “military solution” to this problem, a remark surely heard in Pyongyang.
Bannon’s statement was a stunning strategic error and he was fired just three days later. The Trump Administration must clearly communicate that we are ready, willing, and able to attack if necessary.
It is vital for Kim to understand that there only two roads out of this summit: denuclearize, cease human rights abuses, and become part of the international community; or face military and economic devastation at the hands of a fully committed international coalition.
For now, conservatives—even the most hawkish—should give President Trump credit for trying to break the logjam. How many nights in the last year did we wonder whether nuclear war was imminent? Too many, and thanks to the Trump Administration’s efforts the tension seems to be reduced, at least for now.
But we should not be Pollyanna. Now that they have nuclear weapons, something the North Koreans have desired since the 1950’s, will Kim really give them up so easily? In their eyes, achieving nuclear status means nothing short of regime survival. Of course, with sanctions drying up supplies to an already starving nation, Trump may have changed the definition of “survival.”
Trump’s critics have derided the inexperienced commander-in-chief for making a rash decision to meet, but they forget that Kim has never met another world leader and hasn’t been out of his country since taking over in 2011. True, the meeting provides Kim a status he has long craved, but his negotiating position been severely weakened by Trump’s sanctions.
Best case scenario – Trump shows the same resolve and fortitude in person that he has shown from afar, and Kim leaves understanding that the passive posture of previous American presidents has given way to a tougher commander-in-chief who absolutely will not allow nuclear weapons to be aimed at the United States by an unstable dictator.
Scott Jennings is a CNN Contributor and Partner at RunSwitch Public Relations. He can be reached at scott@runswitchpr.com or @ScottJenningsKY on Twitter. The online version contains hyperlinked citations. Jennings is currently a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
Posted on March 23, 2018 in Article, News, Scott Jennings
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Man arrested for the fatal shooting of an 83-year-old woman in May
A 35-year-old man is expected in court on Friday after he was apprehended by residents and handed over to the police in connection with the fatal shooting of an 83-year-old woman at Godini locality, in Ngqeleni, in May.
According to police spokesperson, Captain Dineo Koena, it is alleged that the man, wearing a baraclava, hid near the deceased's homestead on the night of 25 May and when he saw a 40-year-old man, who was on his way home, he pointed a firearm at him and ordered him to knock at the deceased's door.
"The man, who is a family to the deceased, who was staying alone, knocked at the door and when the deceased opened the suspect allegedly fired several shots to the deceased and she died instantly," Capt Koena described.
"The suspect then fled the scene and the man raised alarm to the neighbourhood."
She added that through thorough investigations and working hand-in-glove with the community of that area, the suspect was arrested by the Godini community, who handed him to police unharmed on Wednesday morning, at about 11h00.
He is now expected in the Ngqeleni Magistrate's Court on Friday facing a charge of murder.
The Acting Cluster Commander, Colonel Phathekile Majaja, applauded both the community and the Detectives and said "I have to thank the community of Godini for assisting us in arresting this suspect who brutally killed the old woman.
"It is the responsibility of us all to remove all those that are terrorising people especially women and children by exposing them. They don't have space in our society. Your continuous support in the fight against crime cannot be overlooked. Together we can do more."
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The 10 Cities In New York With The Highest Divorce Rates For 2019
We analyzed over 167 places in New York to identify the ones that have the highest rates of divorce.
Chris Kolmar, RoadSnacks
December 20, 2018 - 673 views
If you’re married, the thought of divorce has probably popped into your mind at least once.
Come on, admit it.
And if you’re not married, let me tell you that there’s gonna be a point at 2 a.m. when you have a crying baby and haven’t slept in two months that it’s gonna run through your head to run.
Far.
But, don’t just take my word for it, take the word of the some 1,377,956 people living in New York over fifteen years of age who are divorced. Or compare that to the 28,339,199 dAmericans who are already divorced in 2019.
A lot of people make the decision to run away – or simply split up – across the Empire State.
Isn’t the divorce rate in America close to 50%? Yes indeed. But that’s not quite what we’re measuring; we are looking at counts and percentages of people over 15 years old who are currently divorced.
You typically calculate that 50% statistic as percent of marriages.
But we are just going to focus on the actual number of divorced people today — what better way to measure marital misery than the straight count of people in New York it affects?
So now that we have you biting your nails, rethinking your world view, and pulling out your hair, let’s take a look at the places in New York with highest rates of divorcees.
The 10 Cities In New York With The Highest Divorce Rates
Bath (Photos)
North Syracuse (Photos)
Mechanicville (Photos)
Glens Falls (Photos)
Williamsville (Photos)
Hudson (Photos)
East Rochester (Photos)
Jamestown (Photos)
Olean (Photos)
Let’s quickly recap before we dive into the methodology and a closer look at the top ten places in NY.
What is the city in New York with the highest divorce rate? That would be Bath, with 19.2% of people over 15 years of age being divorced, per the most recent census data.
What is the overall New York divorce rate? According to the 2013-2017 Community Survey, the overall divorce rate in New York is 8.7%, which compares to the US divorce rate of 10.9%.
Alrighty, on to how we calculated the places with the highest divorce rates in New York.
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Since that this is the 58th category of rankings we are compiling for the site, we had a pretty good idea where to find data on marriage and divorce in America — the U.S. Census Bureau. Because who likes tracking misery more than the U.S. government?
Specifically, we looked at the 2013-2017 American Community Survey specifically table S1201 — Marital Status.
Pretty straight forward on that front — we just had to extract the following column of data:
Population 15 Years and Over -> Divorced
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There’s some kinda interesting/fun/sad data in there like .1% of female Americans aged 15-19 are divorced, but 0% of males (That’s probably a rounding issue, but still).
But the national data is for another day, today the analysis focuses on the 167 places in New York with a population of over 5,000.
We ranked each of these places by the percentage of divorcees over 15 years of age from highest to lowest. We crowned the divorce capital of New York the place with the highest incidence of divorcees, Bath.
And if you’re trying to avoid divorce, check out New Square, the city with the lowest divorce rate in New York.
Now on to a deeper look at the top ten.
Divorce Rate: 19.2%
Divorcees: 969
More on Bath: Photos | Data
Bath is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The Town of Bath has an area of 96.3 sq mi and a population of 12,097. Its largest settlement is the Village of Bath, which has an area of 2.9 sq mi and a population of 5,641. The Town is located in the central part of the county, northwest of Elmira, New York. The Town are either named after the city in England or after Lady Bath, daughter of a landowner.
2. North Syracuse
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Divorcees: 1,021
More on North Syracuse: Photos | Data
North Syracuse is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 6,800 at the 2010 census. North Syracuse is located in the towns of Cicero and Clay, north of the city of Syracuse.
3. Mechanicville
More on Mechanicville: Photos | Data
Mechanicville is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population is 5,196 as of the 2010 census. It is the smallest city by area in the state. The name is derived from the occupations of early residents.
4. Glens Falls
More on Glens Falls: Photos | Data
Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern end of the city.
5. Williamsville
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More on Williamsville: Photos | Data
Williamsville is a village in Erie County, New York, in the United States. The population was 5,300 at the 2010 census. The village is named after Jonas Williams, an early settler. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
6. Hudson
More on Hudson: Photos | Data
Hudson is a city located along the west border of Columbia County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 6,713, the second-largest in the county, following the nearby town of Kinderhook. Located on the east side of the Hudson River and 120 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, it was named for the river and its namesake explorer Henry Hudson.
7. East Rochester
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More on East Rochester: Photos | Data
East Rochester is a coterminous town and village located southeast of the City of Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The village, home to about 6,600 people, is surrounded by Pittsford on the west side and by Perinton to the east. The southern boundary is delimited by New York State Route 31F, which runs parallel to but never enters East Rochester. The village line in the remaining three directions are less distinct.
8. Jamestown
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Jamestown is a city in southern Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 31,146 at the 2010 census. Situated between Lake Erie to the northwest and the Allegheny National Forest to the south, Jamestown is the largest population center in the county. Nearby Chautauqua Lake is a freshwater resource used by fishermen, boaters and naturalists.
9. Olean
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More on Olean: Photos | Data
Olean is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. Olean is the largest city in Cattaraugus County and serves as its financial, business, transportation and entertainment center. It is one of the principal cities of the Southern Tier region of New York.
10. Waterloo
More on Waterloo: Data
Waterloo is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 7,642 at the 2010 census. The town, as well as its major community, are named after Waterloo, Belgium.
Next 10 Cities
Getting Some Closure In New York After Untying The Know
Besides just coming up with what we thought would be a great new blog/book title, “Untying the Knot In New York: Life After Divorce”, we now have a sense of what places in the Empire State don’t pay much attention to the whole “’til death do we part” phrase.
Try to keep in mind that the reason cities rank where they do in New York could be because of the age, education, and income distribution, as all of those things impact the rate of divorce.
And, in all honestly, that’s probably for the best. It’s much better to get out of a toxic relationship than stay it.
Just make sure you have your running shoes ready to go.
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Detailed List Of The Cities With The Highest Divorce Rates In New York
1 Bath, NY 19.2%
2 North Syracuse, NY 16.9%
3 Mechanicville, NY 16.7%
4 Glens Falls, NY 16.7%
5 Williamsville, NY 16.6%
6 Hudson, NY 16.4%
7 East Rochester, NY 16.3%
8 Jamestown, NY 16.1%
9 Olean, NY 16.0%
10 Waterloo, NY 15.5%
11 Salamanca, NY 15.4%
12 Newark, NY 15.3%
13 East Aurora, NY 15.3%
14 Oneida, NY 15.2%
15 Great Neck Plaza, NY 14.9%
16 Auburn, NY 14.9%
17 Endicott, NY 14.7%
18 Fulton, NY 14.6%
19 Malone, NY 14.6%
20 Medina, NY 14.5%
21 Hudson Falls, NY 14.5%
22 Warwick, NY 14.4%
23 Lockport, NY 14.4%
24 Scotia, NY 14.4%
25 Baldwinsville, NY 14.4%
26 Tonawanda, NY 14.1%
27 Webster, NY 13.9%
28 Canandaigua, NY 13.9%
29 Corning, NY 13.8%
30 Batavia, NY 13.8%
31 Ballston Spa, NY 13.8%
32 Norwich, NY 13.7%
33 Tuckahoe, NY 13.6%
34 Herkimer, NY 13.6%
35 Solvay, NY 13.4%
36 Fairport, NY 13.4%
37 Binghamton, NY 13.2%
38 Rome, NY 13.1%
39 Dunkirk, NY 13.1%
40 Watertown, NY 13.0%
41 Albion, NY 13.0%
42 Massena, NY 13.0%
43 Hornell, NY 12.9%
44 Lancaster, NY 12.7%
45 Ilion, NY 12.6%
46 Kingston, NY 12.6%
47 Johnstown, NY 12.4%
48 Long Beach, NY 12.3%
49 Gloversville, NY 12.2%
50 Johnson City, NY 12.2%
51 Ogdensburg, NY 12.2%
52 Niagara Falls, NY 12.1%
53 North Tonawanda, NY 12.1%
54 Hamburg, NY 12.1%
55 Amsterdam, NY 12.0%
56 Amityville, NY 12.0%
57 Peekskill, NY 11.8%
58 Northport, NY 11.8%
59 Patchogue, NY 11.8%
60 Elmira, NY 11.5%
61 Manorhaven, NY 11.5%
62 Port Jervis, NY 11.5%
63 Cohoes, NY 11.4%
64 Utica, NY 11.4%
65 Rochester, NY 11.1%
66 Oswego, NY 11.1%
67 Lackawanna, NY 10.9%
68 Schenectady, NY 10.9%
69 Saratoga Springs, NY 10.8%
70 Nyack, NY 10.6%
71 Saranac Lake, NY 10.6%
72 Washingtonville, NY 10.6%
73 Mount Vernon, NY 10.6%
74 Colonie, NY 10.5%
75 Farmingdale, NY 10.5%
76 Goshen, NY 10.4%
77 Plattsburgh, NY 10.4%
78 Watervliet, NY 10.3%
79 Buffalo, NY 10.3%
80 Poughkeepsie, NY 10.3%
81 Suffern, NY 10.2%
82 Mamaroneck, NY 10.2%
83 Kenmore, NY 10.2%
84 Rensselaer, NY 10.1%
85 Syracuse, NY 10.0%
86 Beacon, NY 9.9%
87 Monticello, NY 9.8%
88 Ossining, NY 9.8%
89 Haverstraw, NY 9.7%
90 Depew, NY 9.7%
91 Wappingers Falls, NY 9.7%
92 Hilton, NY 9.6%
93 Troy, NY 9.5%
94 Tarr, NY 9.2%
95 Port Jefferson, NY 9.1%
96 Geneva, NY 9.0%
97 Pleasantville, NY 8.9%
98 Glen Cove, NY 8.9%
99 Horseheads, NY 8.9%
100 Cortland, NY 8.8%
About Chris Kolmar
Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.
He believes the key to finding the right place to live comes down to looking at the data, reading about things to do, and, most importantly, checking it out yourself before you move.
If you've been looking for a place to live in the past several years, you've probably stumbled upon his writing already.
You can find out more about him on LinkedIn or his website.
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Indian call centre closed down – 750 people apprehended
Police in the western Indian city of Thane have arrested more than 750 people suspected of defrauding US citizens from a fake call centre.
Officers say the suspects obtained lists of US tax defaulters and used threats to obtain their bank details.
The scam is said to have netted more than $150,000 (£118,000) a day, making it one of the biggest frauds in India’s history.
Thane police officials said they were contacting the FBI to ask for help.
Some 70 of those detained were formally arrested, police said, with the rest released pending further inquiries. Nine people believed to have led the scam have been identified.
The scammers pretended to be members of the US Internal Revenue Service, and told victims they owed back taxes.
In some cases, the victims were duped into buying gift vouchers from different companies and bullied into revealing voucher ID numbers, police said.
The scammers then made purchases with the voucher numbers.
Police say those involved in the scam at the Indian end retained 70% of the earnings, with 30% going to their US collaborators.
Paramvir Singh, the police commissioner of Thane, told reporters that 851 hard disks, high-end servers, and other electronic equipment had been seized.
Mr Singh said overnight raids on Wednesday had lasted well into the morning, and involved more than 200 policemen who had raided buildings in three locations in the city.
Thane police superintendent Mahesh Patil told BBC Hindi that the investigation could open up cases from other countries as well.
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Our person-centered philosophy is always our main focus. Saint_John's On The Lake is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of local business, social and spiritual leaders as well as two Saint_John's residents. The Board of Directors meets seven times per year.
STEPHANIE SUE STEIN
STEPHANIE SUE STEIN, Board Chair
Stephanie Sue Stein is Chair of the Board, and a driving force behind both the re-creation of the care neighborhoods and the founding of the Institute on Aging.
Stephanie’s career was spent developing and implementing programs and services for and with older people. She first served as the Director of Aging programs at the Social Development Commission and then became the Director of the Milwaukee County Department on Aging. Since retirement she has served as interim executive director of two non-profit organizations.
Stephanie continues her passion for working in the field of aging by serving on several boards, being a volunteer driver, and advocating for better senior programs with local state and national partners.
STUART PARSONS
Board Vice-Chair
STUART PARSONS, Board Vice-Chair
Stuart Parsons currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board, and a member of both the Finance and Governance Committees. A graduate of Harvard College and Law School, he is a retired partner of the Quarles & Brady law firm, where as a trial lawyer he handled business and commercial cases.
He is a parishioner of Christ Church Episcopal, Whitefish Bay, and serves as Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee.
He has many close friends residing at Saint_John's, and believes that tapping the energy and talent of the of older adults is an important societal challenge.
DEBORAH G. CONTA
DEBORAH G. CONTA, Secretary
Deborah Conta, Secretary of the Board and member of the Building and Social Accountability Committees, is a retired clinical social worker. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and post-graduate certification in Marriage and Family Therapy. She worked in health care and for 20 years maintained an independent defense-based consulting practice in the field of sentencing.
Deborah and her family were extremely pleased with the care and attention their mother, a resident of Saint_John's, experienced and the comfort they received from staff members before, during and after her death. Memories of her mother’s life and death are at the heart of Deborah’s commitment to this community.
JOHN MELLOWES
JOHN MELLOWES, Treasurer
John Mellowes is the Treasurer of the Board. He graduated from Cornell University with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. Following graduation, he served in the US Navy as a Lieutenant.
John is the Chairman Emeritus of Charter Manufacturing Co, Inc.; he previously served as Chairman and CEO. Charter is a fourth generation, family-owned and operated producer of steel bar, rod, wire and wire parts. John serves as a Regent on the Board of Directors for Milwaukee School of Engineering.
John’s mother resided at Saint_John's and he was impressed with the campus and the opportunities provided to residents. John finds serving on the Board of Directors very fulfilling.
KATHY AMBRUSTER
KATHY AMBRUSTER, Board Member
Kathy Armbruster chairs on the Social Accountability Committee. Kathy is a long time Episcopalian and is a member of All Saint’s Cathedral, Milwaukee, where she serves on several committees. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business Administration and has worked in Leadership Development and Human Resources for most of her career. She is employed at Northwestern Mutual and has prior work experience in collegiate and manufacturing settings. Kathy has a strong interest in supporting Saint_John's to become an employer of choice in Milwaukee.
POLLY WALKER BEAL
POLLY WALKER BEAL, Board Member
Polly Beal serves on the Finance Committee and as liaison to the Foundation Board. She is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and a fundraising consultant. She earned a BA degree in Political Science from Boston University. Her board service includes Columbia Health Systems Board, University School, Milwaukee Art Museum, Skylight Music Theater, among others. Her interest in Saint_John's began in 2010 when she realized the need for quality options for older adults. As a member of Christ Church Episcopal, she finds her work important to the many friends who are current residents and for those who may live at Saint_John's in the future.
DIANE BECKLEY
DIANE BECKLEY, Board Member
Diane Beckley holds a Liberal Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and Cultural Studies; she is the Chief Operating Officer for St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care – Bucyrus Campus. As a Graduate of the Marquette ACRE Program, Diane has a driving passion for Real Estate Development, community engagement and working at the leadership level of Non Profit organizations. She looks forward to serving on the Board on the cusp of opening innovative spaces for living and care as well as the landmark Institute on Aging.
LEE COPPERNOLL
LEE COPPERNOLL, Board Member
Lee Coppernoll recently retired as the Associate Director of the Marquette University Haggerty Museum of Art. She is holds a BA from Coe College, an AM from Brown University and a Masters of Divinity form Union Theological Seminary. As a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Lee is familiar with and appreciative of the innovative and holistic vision that shapes the many outstanding services Saint_John's provides to residents, and she looks forward to supporting these efforts as a member of the board.
JOHN R. DAWSON
JOHN R. DAWSON, Board Member
John Dawson serves on the Governance Committee and is chair of the Building Committee. John served for 4 years as a junior officer in the Navy before attending law school. His career was as a litigation attorney in office of Foley & Lardner. During portions of his career John served as national chair of Foley’s litigation department and later as managing partner of the firm’s Milwaukee office.
As a member of Saint_John's Shore Holder’s Club, John was pleased to be invited to join the Board of Directors and has become extremely impressed by the staff and their exceptional work in the care and assistance to older adults.
FR. SETH DIETRICH
FR. SETH DIETRICH, Board Member
The Rev. Seth Dietrich is the rector of Christ Church Episcopal in Whitefish Bay. Seth attended Wheaton College. After stints in health insurance and social services, Seth followed a call to ministry in the Episcopal Church. He attended Virginia Seminary and while there completed his Clinical Pastoral Education at Goodwin House, a senior living complex similar in many ways to Saint_John's. Seth sometimes feels like the better half of his congregation live at Saint_John's, and he is continually impressed by the level of programming and the philosophy of care. He is especially honored to serve in the early formation of the new Saint_John's Institute on Aging.
SANFORD FEDDERLY
Board Member & Resident
SANFORD FEDDERLY, Board Member & Resident
Sanford (Sandy) Fedderly graduated from the University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy. Sandy and his wife founded Tri City Pharmacy providing service to eight Milwaukee area nursing homes, including Saint_John's, and more than 1000 patients.
Sandy was an organizer of Tri City National Bank and continues to serves on the Board of Directors, and the audit and loan committees.
After retiring and moving to Saint_John's, he was asked to be a resident board member and join the Finance Committee. He is honored to use his experience to be of service.
KATHY J. HOUSIAUX
KATHY J. HOUSIAUX, Board Member
Kathy Housiaux earned her BA at Connecticut College. She retired after 36 years in education as a teacher and administrator at University School of Milwaukee, a private preparatory school. Kathy serves on the Social Accountability Committee at Saint_John's. She also volunteers at Saint Christopher’s Episcopal Church and Next Door, and sings with the Junior League Singers. Kathy is passionate about Saint_John's commitment to high quality care and services, concerned about employee advancement and excited by the prospect of additional community outreach.
DAVID C. KUEHL
DAVID C. KUEHL, Board Member
David Kuehl is a past Board Chairman, and member of the Building, Finance and Governance Committees. David was eager to serve on the Board when asked recognizing it as a unique asset to the community. Through its outstanding “person first” philosophy, committed team, and innovative programming Saint_John's serves as a model for senior living both here and throughout the country making it a fun and exciting place to be involved with. David is a lawyer by training and practiced earlier in his career at Reinhart, Boerner Van Deuren specializing in business transactions. He is currently general counsel at Lubar & Co., Incorporated.
RT. REV. STEVEN A. MILLER
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
RT. REV. STEVEN A. MILLER, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
The Rt. Rev. Steven Andrew Miller is the 11th Bishop of Milwaukee. A native of Detroit, Bishop Miller graduated from Michigan State University and the General Theological Seminary. After ordination as deacon and priest, he served churches in Missouri and Virginia. In 2003 he was elected Bishop Diocesan of Milwaukee and was ordained and consecrated in October of that year.
Ministry with and to seniors has long been one of Bishop Miller’s passions. He frequently reminds Saint_John's that our person first focus is a part of the Organization’s Episcopal DNA, an example of the living out of the Baptismal promise to “respect the dignity of every human being.
JUDY T. MOON
JUDY T. MOON, Board Member
Judy Tanner Moon chairs the Governance Committee and serves on the Social Accountability Committee. She has a BA in Psychology and a MA in Religious Studies and works as a Chaplain at Zilber Family Hospice. Her interest centers on aging and ones continued ability to grow spiritually as we age and face new challenges. Judy believes the desire to expand our interests and experiences, learn, mature and explore intellectually, spiritually and or emotionally continues throughout life. She accepted a position on the Board because she felt closely aligned with the mission and purpose of Saint_John's On The Lake.
MARY BETH PETERSEN
MARY BETH PETERSEN, Board Member & Resident
Mary Beth Petersen has been a resident since 2011, and has spent time in rehab following surgery. Mary Beth’s mother also lived at Saint_John's. Mary Beth earned her nursing degrees at Marquette University. She began her career as an ICU nurse and retired as an organization development coach at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
Mary Beth wanted to serve on the Board to offer her nursing and change management experience as resources; she serves on the Building Committee. Mary Beth also coordinates resident involvement in Aged to Perfection, a 3-credit UW-Milwaukee undergraduate course embedded at Saint_John's and co-leads the Pet Project providing resources to residents with pets.
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Top Clinton donor and "Koch Brother of Israel" supports profiling and "intense" interrogation of refugees
Media mogul Haim Saban, close ally of Hillary & pro-Israel activist, defends harsher vetting practices for refugees
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2015/11/20/top_clinton_donor_and_koch_brother_of_israel_supports_profiling_and_intense_interrogation_of_muslims/
Ben Norton
November 21, 2015 1:54AM (UTC)
(This article was updated to include a follow-up statement from Saban, in which he clarified that he meant to refer to Syrian refugees, not all Muslims.)
"Profiling, listening in on anyone and everybody who looks suspicious, or interviewing Muslims in a more intense way than interviewing Christian refugees is all acceptable," according to top Hillary Clinton donor and prominent pro-Israel activist Haim Saban. The billionaire entertainment executive and media mogul, who is among the 500 richest people in the world, made these remarks in an interview with The Wrap.
"I’m not suggesting we put Muslims through some kind of a torture room to get them to admit that they are or they’re not terrorists," Saban added. "But I am saying we should have more scrutiny."
After this article was published, Saban's spokesperson contacted Salon with an updated statement, clarifying that Saban misspoke and actually defended harsher vetting practices for Syrian refugees, not all Muslims.
"I misspoke. I believe that all refugees coming from Syria -- a war-torn country that ISIS calls home – regardless of religion require additional scrutiny before entering the United States," Saban said. "I regret making a religious distinction as opposed to a geographical one: it's about scrutinizing every single individual coming from a country with ISIS strongholds."
Saban -- whom Clinton calls "a very good friend, supporter, and adviser" -- and his wife Cheryl have given $2 million to Clinton's Super PAC, Priorities USA Action. In May, he hosted a fundraiser for Clinton, earning her $2 million more. Those who hoped to dine with the Democratic presidential candidate at the event paid a minimum of $2,700 per person just to get in.
The November 13 ISIS attacks on Paris, Saban argued in the interview, will help Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign. Clinton "has been in the trenches her whole life," Saban said. "She's also made of steel. She's absolutely made of steel and she will take no baloney from no ISIS." He described the Paris attacks as "a wake-up call," adding "I fully believe we're in a different kind of World War III."
In the updated statement, Saban said that, "while in contradiction to our country's principles in time of peace, I'm comfortable with the government taking additional measures, including increased surveillance of individuals they deem suspicious."
He also took several jabs at fellow Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, criticizing the self-declared democratic socialist for his much less hawkish positions. Saban maintained that Hillary Clinton's support for the illegal Iraq War, which Sanders and most of the American Left strongly opposed, "was the right vote." "She apologized, but I don't think she should have," Saban continued.
"But that's easy for me to say. I'm sitting in Beverly Park," he added, referring to the gated Los Angeles neighborhood Forbes describes as "Beverly Hills' mansion-packed billionaire community."
"Koch Brother of Israel"
Haim Saban is known for his diehard pro-Israel stance, and for putting his money where is mouth is. He and leading GOP funder Sheldon Adelson have been described by former AIPAC official M.J. Rosenberg as the Koch Brothers of Israel.
Saban said the breakdown of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians moved him "very far to the right," adding he is "sometimes to the right of [Avigdor] Lieberman," a far-right Israeli politician who called for the beheading of "disloyal" Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Despite his extreme right-wing views, Saban is a leading supporter of the Democratic Party. He has donated many millions of dollars to the Clintons, in particular. In the 2008 presidential election, he also publicly supported Hillary, for whom he raised large sums of money and held fundraisers.
The billionaire has founded several pro-Israel think tanks and organizations. "I'm a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel," he told the New York Times.
Clinton wrote a letter to Saban in July, in which she smeared and vilified Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a nonviolent global grassroots movement called for by Palestinian civil society that seeks to pressure Israel, through peaceful economic measures, to comply with international law and end its illegal occupation and oppression of the indigenous Palestinian people. Clinton asked the billionaire for advice on how to undermine the BDS movement, emphasizing "how crucial it is for America to defend Israel at every turn."
In her letter to Saban, Clinton also referred to U.N. resolutions calling on Israel to abide by international law and cease its illegal activity as "anti-Israel resolutions." Salon has exposed how, under Clinton's leadership, the U.S. State Department, in its own words, "deferred" U.N. action on Israeli war crimes, in hopes of "reframing the debate" about the atrocities and "moving away from the U.N."
In an interview with the right-wing Israeli publication the Jerusalem Post, Saban characterized Clinton as the ideal U.S. presidential candidate for Israel.
Watch the GOP's ludicrous responses to the Syrian refugee crisis:
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Ben Norton is a politics reporter and staff writer at AlterNet. You can find him on Twitter at @BenjaminNorton.
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Saul Ewing LLP Partner Harriet Cooperman Named One of the Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys
(Baltimore, MD, June 25, 2012) — Harriet E. Cooperman, co-chair of Saul Ewing’s Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits Practice and chair of its Employment Litigation Practice, has been named one of the 100 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers in the United States by Lawdragon and Human Resources Executive. This is the third consecutive year that Cooperman has been named to the list, titled “The Guide to World-Class Employment Lawyers.”
Cooperman represents businesses, associations, and governmental entities in a wide variety of labor and employment law matters. She has litigated numerous labor and employment cases, both jury and non-jury, before courts and administrative agencies around the United States, covering a wide variety of issues, such as non-competition and trade secrets, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, NLRA matters, wage and hour and wage payment, employment torts, and ERISA. She is Vice Chair of the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board, and has been a member of the Board since its inception in 2001. Cooperman is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
Cooperman received her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law and her B.S. from Cornell University.
Lawdragon is a fast-growing new media company that provides free legal news and features as well as a searchable database of legal professionals that includes online profiles of attorneys and firms. It publishes “The Guide to World-Class Employment Lawyers” in partnership with Human Resource Executive magazine. This is their fifth annual guide to leading employment lawyers.
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What is Amazon up to?
06 Nov What is Amazon up to?
Posted at 07:24h in News by admin
I first noticed Amazon Lockers in our local Safeway. The bright yellow metal boxes at the front of the store caught my attention, but I had no idea what they were for. I asked the clerk and he said they were for Amazon deliveries. Huh? In a grocery store? Interesting. I hadn’t really paid attention to Amazon before this, apart from buying books or gifts online from them a few times a year for the last decade.
Then Amazon acquired Whole Foods this past summer for a cool $13 billion+. What was an e-retailer doing buying an organic grocery chain? Now I was officially curious. So when I saw a USPS mail carrier delivering on a Sunday a few months back, I wasn’t surprised when his reply to my, “Why are you delivering today?” was, “We made a deal with Amazon to deliver their stuff on Sundays and holidays.”
Most people know that Amazon, founded just over 20 years ago, is the world’s largest online retailer of books, clothing, electronics, music, and pretty much any other everyday item you can think of. But what are they up to now? I decided to do a little research to find out.
A Forbes article on the Whole Foods acquisition claims that Amazon’s purchase of what many people jokingly call “Whole Paycheck” is all about consumer data and the private label business. By purchasing the exclusive supermarket chain, Amazon is playing out its strategy to become more vertically integrated. The same Forbes article mentions that–an eye-opener for me–the Academy Award nominated “Manchester by the Sea” film was produced completely by Amazon. I had no idea they were in the movie-making business.
While Whole Foods is its largest acquisition yet, it’s only the latest in a long line of companies Amazon has swallowed up, including Audible, Inc., the largest U.S. producer and retailer of audio books, acquired in 2008, and Zappos.com, one of the world’s largest online shoe stores, acquired in 2009.
You might remember when public concern arose earlier this spring after a consumer asked Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant device, “Are you connected to the CIA?” The robot’s response was less than transparent, and quickly re-programmed to ease consumers’ minds.
Amazon’s drone-delivery program has also been controversial. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos first announced the company’s drone initiative in 2013, stating that the delivery program would rollout in 2018. Many laughed at the rigorous timeline, doubting it could or would be done. However, Amazon is still on track. The company has been testing delivery of packages by drone in the UK and Canada and already gave a public demonstration of the first U.S. delivery. Just last month an executive order by Trump was signed to allow testing of drone operations here in the U.S., opening the door to drone delivery testing on Amazon’s home turf.
Amazon is also engaged in the clean-energy sector in a big way. It operates 18 wind and solar farms, just recently christening its largest wind farm yet, located in Texas. Amazon’s website says they have a “long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for the AWS global infrastructure footprint.” AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is a cloud services platform used by other industry giants like Netflix, Kellogg’s, Expedia, and 3M.
I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz from busy moms about Amazon Dash, a service offering the ability to instantly re-order products with the click of a button. Oh, yeah, and from dads who claim Amazon Fire is better than Netflix. (I’m not convinced yet.)
Just last month I started seeing TV commercials where an Amazon delivery person leaves a delivery inside your house. This is the new Amazon Key service, and it’s designed to fight against “porch pirates” who steal packages from your doorstep when you’re not at home. It launches this week in 37 cities, just in time for the holiday ordering season. Pretty brilliant.
Amazon is growing so exponentially that it’s looking to build a second headquarters. The retail giant is specifically looking for its new location to include non-stop flights to Seattle, the home of its main headquarters, and close proximity to the Bay Area. A cohort in Sacramento put together a proposal, excited about the potential of adding 50,000 high-paying jobs to the area. Could Amazon be the next major driver of economic growth in Northern California? With 238 proposals to sift through, we probably won’t know until next spring.
When I was a kid, the Amazon I learned about was the world’s largest river in a giant tropical rainforest in South America where most of the world’s trees and organisms lived. I wonder if the Amazon my daughter will grow up to know will be something entirely different.
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Scottish Business Network Masterclass
Interviewed by Fraser Allen
We have heard from Scots at the top of their field...
Scottish Business Network have started a members only Expert Sessions series where Scots at the top of their fields share tales of their business journey and advice they have for the members.
Edel Harris
CEO of Cornerstone and Member of the Board at SCDI
Edel spoke candidly about her experiences running one of Scotland's largest charities and discussed how Scoltand are showing the rest of the world how the Third Sector can innovate.
Edel Harris joined Cornerstone, one of Scotland's largest charities, as Chief Executive in May 2008 having previously been Deputy Chief Executive of Aberdeen Foyer. A former Metropolitan Police Officer Edel's background is in health promotion, holding a 1st class honours degree in Health and Social Care. She spent 8 years working for NHS Grampian and has significant experience in setting up and leading successful social enterprises and in developing new social care services.
Edel is a Director of the Aberdeen Football Club Community Trust, Director of Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) and served as the first female President of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce. She was also one of the first Directors of Opportunity North East (ONE), former Chair of The Life Changes Trust and former Chair of the Scottish Government's Social Investment Fund.
Amongst Edel’s many achievements she was awarded the 2015 IOD North East Director of the Year accolade and in 2017 became the Scottish EY Entrepreneur of the Year. On International Women’s Day 2018 Edel was awarded an honorary doctorate from Robert Gordon University for her contribution to charity and business in Scotland.
Sheila Flavell
Chief Operating Officer of FDM Group and Non-Exec Director at techUK.
Sheila spoke to our members on SBN's 3rd Birthday about how her career went from being a police officer on the streets of Glasgow in the 70s to starting a Billion Dollar Company in the early 2000's.
Sheila is the COO and an Executive Board Director of FDM Group and has over 30 years of experience in the global tech sector. She is passionate about enhancing diversity in the workplace and creating exciting careers for the next generation of digital talent. Sheila played an integral role in the Group’s flotation on AIM in 2005 and was a key instigator of the management buy-out of the Group in 2010 and the subsequent listing onto the main FTSE Market in 2014. Sheila’s knowledge of the sector has been crucial in driving the Group’s global expansion programme, taking FDM into the FTSE250. She spearheads FDM’s Global Women in Tech campaign and FDM’s Getting Back to Business programme, aimed at providing opportunities for returners to work. Sheila Chairs the Institute of Coding’s Industry Advisory Board, sits on the main Board of techUK and its Diversity Council.
Sheila has won many awards during her career for her services to business and the tech industry. Sheila was recognised as Women of the Year at the Information Age Women in IT Awards 2018 and she was thrilled to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 Scotland Women in Tech Awards. She was also recognised as Woman of the Year at the Computing Women in IT Excellence Awards in 2017, as well as being named one of the 25 Most Influential Women of the North American Mid-Market by CEO Connection for past 3 years. Some of her other awards include, Entrepreneur of the year, Leader of the Year, one of the 100 Women Role Models in Tech by Business Cloud and being selected as one of Brummell Magazine’s Top 30 Most Inspirational Female Entrepreneurs in the City. She believes that “you cannot be what you cannot see” and knows the importance of highlighting role models. She mentors several women to support them through their career progression and travels the world leading FDM’s expansion and championing a career in tech for all. She is most proud of her contribution towards FDM having a Zero gender pay gap.
Gary Turner
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Xero
Gary shared his insights of growing a company from 3 to 300 in the UK alone at our final event of 2018 on November 20th.
Gary Turner is co-founder and managing director at Xero UK and is responsible for Xero's business operations across Europe, Middle East & Africa. Xero is the multi-award-winning global leader in online accounting software with 1.4 million paying subscribers in 180 countries.
Under Gary's leadership, Xero UK has scaled from a three-person startup with annual revenues of £50k to more than £40M in the year to 31 March 2018.
A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Gary previously held senior positions at Microsoft, Systems Union and Pegasus Software. He's an engaging speaker, writer and thought-leader on start-ups, digital transformation and leadership inside hyper-growth organisations. Gary has also served as a mentor to early stage Fintech startups at TechStars London.
Gary has also established Xerocon London as the UK's leading conference franchise for the British accounting industry with over 2,000 delegates attending Xerocon at Excel Docklands in October 2017.
George Mackintosh
Proprietor of Papple Steading, Chairman of CBI, Founder of Eggplant and Associate Entrepreneur in Residence at The University of Edinburgh Business School.
George was interviewed by Fraser Allen at our Members Only Masterclass on September 18th at The Caledonian Cub.
George is a serial entrepreneur in technology markets. After the University of Edinburgh, he went to work for Ford as a production foreman in the Dagenham Engine Plant. He moved to catch the boom in the telecommunications industry as a salesman and manager for CASE, Motorola and then Cable & Wireless. Since 1992 he has been a partner or founder of a number of businesses in the UK, Hong Kong and the USA. He has raised money from 3i and other VCs and made successful trade and private equity exits.
George is a board member of TestPlant [now Eggplant], a business he founded in 2008. TestPlant makes software to automate the testing of systems. It has operations in the US and the UK with sales offices in Germany, China and Japan. The company been listed three times in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, it is a Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 100, a Red Herring Global 100 winner and has been honoured with three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.
As the Chair of the CBI Enterprise Forum which represents the CBI’s small and medium sized business members, George uses his own experience of start-ups and scale-ups, of managing cash and raising money to encourage discussion and to fight for a better deal and a higher profile for SMEs and entrepreneurs.
Born in Inverness, George was brought up on a farm, the eldest of six children. He has competed in semi-professionally in motor sports. He has six children and lives in Edinburgh with his wife, young children and their dogs. He is a trustee of the charity Kids in Museums, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He became Chair of the CBI’s Enterprise Forum in January 2017. Recently he acquired a historic farm in East Lothian and plans to create a heritage, business and conference centre
Sherry Coutu
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor and Founder & Chairman of Founders4Schools
Sherry Coutu held an insightful Members Only Masterclass at our event on June 19th 2018, at the stunning offices of Penna.
Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. She chairs Founders4Schools and is a non-executive member of Cambridge University (Finance Board), Cambridge Assessment, Cambridge University Press and a NED of Zoopla and the London Stock Exchange Group. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Linkedin.com.
Philanthropically, she supports the Prince's Trust, the Crick Institute and serves on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Council. Sherry has an MBA from Harvard, an MSc (with distinction) from the London School of Economics, and a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to entrepreneurship in the New Year's Honours List 2013, is author of 'The Scale-up Report' on UK economic growth and serves as an Ambassador for London.
David Sole
Former Scotland Rugby Captain and Managing Partner of School for CEO's
We held an exclusive interview with David Sole on the sunny balcony of the NatWest buildings at our event on May 22nd, 2018.
David Sole established his own company in June 2007 after 6½ years with the Change Partnership and Whitehead Mann. In 2011 he co-founded the School for CEOs with Patrick Macdonald – a business which runs development programmes for aspiring business leaders which merged with his business in June 2017. In 2015 he co-authored a book “21st Century Networking” published by Elliot & Thompson.
Prior to that, he spent 11 years working for United Distillers and Diageo in global operations where he was ultimately responsible for the procurement of commodities and neutral spirit across the globe.
He played international rugby for Scotland from 1986 to 1992 and was captain 25 times, including the famous victory over England in 1990 to win Scotland’s third Grand Slam. He also played for the British Lions in 1989 and the Barbarians. He was awarded an OBE for services to rugby football in 1993.
Russell Wardrop
Chief Executive of Kissing with Confidence
Russell held a Masterlass for the SBN Members on April 17th 2018 at the offices of Smith and Williamson 25 Moorgate, London EC2R 6AY, UK
Russell Wardrop is Co-founder and Chief Executive of Kissing With Confidence Ltd, a communications consultancy that creates Rainmakers and helps businesses grow. His vision and drive are central to the development of the business. For 17 years he has delivered training and coaching internationally at the highest levels and he is now a leading business speaker. He believes that delivering a keynote for three hours to 250 delegates at a conference, with a flipchart and a pen, is better than golf.
A former academic and award winning architect, he has a passion for continuous personal improvement through behavioural change and tough love. Rainmaking and Pitching are his particular specialisms, though he also has a keen interest in political oratory and has appeared on television on a number of occasions, offering critiques of high profile debates and political speeches.
The creative force behind the KWC Rainmaker Programme, which typically achieves on average 40 x ROI after just 4 weeks, Russell believes everyone can be a Rainmaker, an evangelist for your business, with the essential skills and motivation to help your business grow.
Tweedie Brown
Chairman, CBE, OBE,Trustee
Tweedie spoke to the SBN members at our event on 20th March 2018 at Bristows,100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DH
Formerly a Brigadier in the British Army. Notable career highlights include 4 years spent in Berlin before, during and after the Fall of the Wall, initially as Deputy Chief of Staff and subsequently as Deputy Commander; then Chief Executive of a Defence Agency, Commander of the Defence College of Logistics and finally Chief of Staff to the Adjutant General.
Spent the last 14 years in the commercial defence, energy, property and tech sectors, both domestic and international.
Formerly Managing Director of the Property Search Group plc, a business format franchise with 75 offices in England and Wales. Consolidated this involvement with current roles as Chairman of the Guild of Letting and Management, Joint Chairman of Caridon Property Ltd, Chairman of Exemplar Ltd custom-build passive housing, Chairman of VPS (Virtual Power Supplies) and the Estate and Letting Agent of the Year Awards (The ESTAS).
Awarded the OBE in 1992 and the CBE in 2003. A Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers
Julie Ashworth
CEO and Round the World Yachtsman
Julie spoke to the SBN members at our event on 23rd January 2018 at Shepherd and Wedderburn,10 St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AL
Julie is CEO of BroadReach, an International Leadership Development Company based in Edinburgh but with over 60% of its clients world wide from Australia, the US and South America to Vietnam and the UAE. With its roots in retail it’s clients now span multiple industries with a commonality of multiple channels to markets or operations in multiple geographies
Julie is also Executive Chair of Clear Returns an ‘established’ predictive tech start up based in Glasgow who’s technology predictive what will be returned when you buy online. This role has taken her to Silicon Valley where as part of SVc2UK she met with Google, Facebook Huddle and others as part of the International Tech start up and scaling scene
Alongside this she is Chair at the Institute of Directors , Edinburgh and a member of the IOD Scotland committee. She is on the Court o fresh Merchant Company of Edinburgh and a Governor of George Watson’s College.
Julie also is on the advisory board of Founders 4 Schools Edinburgh and the Scottish representative for Women on Boards.
Bob Keiller
Chairman of Scottish Enterprise
Bob spoke to the SBN members at our event on 21st November 2017 at Ignition Law, First Floor, Moray House, 23 – 31 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 7PA
Bob is a fellow Scot and former CEO Wood Group, an international energy services company with $7 billion (USD) sales, over 40,000 employees, and operations in more than 50 countries.
Bob is also former Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Exchange. Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2008, he was also named Scottish Businessman of the Year in 2007 and Grampian Industrialist of the Year in 2008.
Bob recently presented at TEDX Glasgow and you can view his inspiring presentation here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWkN0k0MVE
CEO of Cath Kidston
Kenny spoke to the SBN members at our event on 17th October 2017 at Scotland House, 58 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DS
Since joining Cath Kidston Ltd as CEO in November 2011 Kenny Wilson has been instrumental in growing the brand both domestically and internationally and steering Cath Kidston successfully through the transition from a founder-led business to a successful and sustainable international brand. Since joining, Kenny has grown Cath Kidston’s international footprint considerably. Today Japan is Cath Kidston’s second largest market after the UK and in 2016 its first stores opened in India. Cath Kidston is currently working on the opening of its first stores in Latin America in Argentina and Mexico.
In the year to 26 March 2017 the company reported worldwide network sales of £129.2 million, 7.9% more than in the prior year, and international retail sales increased by 19.5% to £42.3 million. Today Cath Kidston operates from 219 stores in 15 countries, with 88 stores in the UK and 131 internationally.
In 2014, Cath Kidston Ltd. attracted significant new investment from Baring Private Equity Asia.
Kenny has considerable experience of managing and growing international retail brands. Before joining Cath Kidston, Kenny was President, Europe for Claire’s Accessories, where he doubled profitability in two years and led a team that delivered impressive expansion across Europe, opening more than 200 stores between 2010 and 2011. He previously spent 18 years at Levi Strauss EMEA where he was a key player in expanding the Levi’s brand across the region, as President, Levi’s Brand and Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations.
Kenny was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and studied English at Aberdeen University.
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Rafael Ramirez
Director of the Oxford Scenarios Programme and Professor of Practice
rafael.ramirez@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Rafael is the first Professor of Practice at the University of Oxford.
Rafael directs the award-winning Oxford Scenarios Programme and he is Academic Director of the Oxford Networked Strategy Lab.
He is one of the world’s leading experts on scenario planning. As a researcher and advisor, Rafael has worked extensively with NGOs, corporations, inter-governmental organisations, governments and think tanks. He is the author of several books and many scholarly papers, and he sits on the editorial boards of three scenario planning journals.
Rafael holds a PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and master’s degrees from York University in Toronto and Oxford.
Prior to coming to Oxford, Rafael was part of Shell’s scenarios team and Professor of Management in HEC in Paris. Rafael is fluent in French, Spanish, and English and he has worked on all continents.
Scenario planning
Interactive and networked strategy
Aesthetics and business
Read an interview with Rafael in the Oxford Times.
Rafael talks about the Oxford Scenarios Programme
Designing the Oxford Scenarios Programme
Rafael researches scenario planning and, together with colleagues, he has developed the practice so rigorously that it has now become a research methodology.
Rafael’s work on strategic innovation is considered to have been ahead of its time.
He is a co-developer of the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach, which focuses on how scenarios planning can be used to support strategy and public policy.
Rafael’s groundbreaking research on interactive value and networked strategy has led to widely cited papers in the Harvard Business Review, the Strategic Management Journal and to the development of the Oxford Networked Strategy Lab.
View Rafael's research.
Rafael has designed, prepared and run many scenario planning and interactive strategy engagements on all continents.
He has worked with a very wide range of world-leading organisations, such as EDF, the World Economic Forum, Atkins Global and BMW.
Rafael has served as Visiting Professor of Scenarios and Corporate Strategy at Shell International and Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Strategic Foresight. Since 2016, Rafael has been an advisor to Strategy 50.
He is a co-founder of normanpartners, which helps organisations to gain the advantage in their networked world of business.
Rafael is a top-rated teacher and the programme he directs (the Oxford Scenarios Programme) has won an award for excellence.
He teaches on:
Oxford Scenarios Programme
Oxford Networked Strategy Lab
Consulting and Coaching for Change
Custom Executive Education programmes (for companies such as AT Kearney, BMW, O2, Rolls-Royce and Scottish Water).
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Miami crushes No. 1 Duke
Jan 24, 2013 at 12:01 AM Jan 24, 2013 at 1:53 PM
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) � The Miami Hurricanes turned a rare sellout into a blowout, upsetting Duke for their first victory ever over a No. 1 team.
No. 25-ranked Miami delighted a boisterous crowd by holding the Blue Devils without a field goal for more than 8 minutes in the first half Wednesday night, and went on to win 90-63.
Duke seemed rattled by the capacity crowd, only the 10th in 10 years at Miami's on-campus arena. Students began lining up for seats outside the arena almost 24 hours before tipoff, a rarity for the attendance-challenged Hurricanes.
"I don't know how you can sit outside for a basketball game for that long," Miami guard Durand Scott said. "That made me want to win for them even more."
Miami (14-3, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) took control with a stunning 25-1 run midway through the opening half. The Blue Devils missed 13 consecutive shots despite numerous good looks, while four Hurricanes hit 3-pointers during the run that transformed a 14-13 deficit into a 38-15 lead.
Duke (16-2, 3-2) fell to 0-2 when playing on an opponent's court. The Blue Devils' other loss came at North Carolina State, a defeat cost them the No. 1 ranking.
After regaining the top spot this week, they endured the third-worst defeat ever for a No. 1 team. The last time Duke lost a regular-season game by a bigger margin was in January 1984.
"We expected them to be terrific, and we have to match terrific, and then you have a terrific game," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "What you had was a terrific win for them, but not a terrific game. We didn't hold our end of the bargain."
The Hurricanes, who are alone atop the league standings, won their sixth consecutive game. They beat Duke for the second straight time � but only the fourth time in the 19-game series.
Miami had been 0-6 against No. 1 teams. Coach Jim Larranaga also beat a No. 1 team for the first time.
"This is a great memory," Larranaga said.
Scott scored a season-high 25 points for the Hurricanes, and Kenny Kadji added a season-high 22. Shane Larkin had 18 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and Durham, N.C. native Julian Gamble had 10 rebounds and four blocked shots.
Miami senior center Reggie Johnson came off the bench in his first action since being sidelined with a broken left thumb Dec. 18. He had two points and five rebounds in 16 minutes.
"I feel like when I told the guys today I was playing, it gave the guys a lot more energy," Johnson said. "That really helped us."
The Hurricanes, ranked this week for the first time in three years, improved to 8-0 at home.
Seth Curry, Tyler Thornton and Quinn Cook went a combined 1 for 29 for the Blue Devils, who shot a season-low 30 percent. Rasheed Sulaimon led them with 16 points.
Duke went 4 for 23 from 3-point range, while Miami went 9 for 19 and shot 57 percent overall.
"Especially in the first couple of minutes, we got a lot of great shots," Blue Devils forward Mason Plumlee said. "You're going to miss some, but you have to keep shooting. The biggest mistake you can make is questioning your shot because you're missing open shots."
Kadji made two 3s during the Hurricanes' first-half spurt, then capped it with a three-point play. Duke shot 22 percent in the first half, including two for 11 on 3-pointers, and trailed 42-19 at halftime.
There was no letup by the Hurricanes to start the second half. They scored the first seven points for a shocking 49-19 lead, and punctuated the drubbing with five dunks in the final 10 minutes.
"Some teams come out the second half flat and think they have the game won," Larkin said, "but we stayed with it with the same energy in the second half. We played great the whole game."
A Duke mistake � one in a long series � early in the second half had Krzyzewski red-faced and on the court, screaming at his team. But he couldn't inspire a turnaround.
"Over-rated," fans chanted with 3 minutes left. When the game ended, they poured onto the court and mobbed their team.
"The crowd I'm sure helped them some," Krzyzewski said. "But they didn't need much help."
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Aline Vida and her band at North City Bistro Wednesday night
Live Music: Aline Vida and her band will play at the North City Bistro on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 from 7 - 9:30pm. Cover $12. The Bistro is located at 1520 NE 177th Street,Shoreline 98155 in the North City business district. Telephone: 206-365-4447.
Aline Vida has a voice and style all her own. She infuses pop, blues, electronica, soul, and rock all into one. Her music has been featured on the TV show "Justified" She will be performing her original music along with covers. Her band features Karl Haug on guitar, Sean Fairchild on Bass, and Josh Kossak on drums. A lot of the original songs are written by Aline Vida and Karl Haug.
Karl Haug has been described as having a sense of where and how his instrument can fill a wide range of roles in a song. To accomplish this, he sometimes uses unorthodox techniques to produce interesting background textures, along with alternate tunings, echoes, wahs, and other effects.
Sean Fairchild is a bassist's bassist, Sean is very active in the Northwest and national music scenes, performing with various groups and recording on session dates as availability allows. An Emmy award winner, bandleader, and vocalist, in addition to his favored role as bass player, he has performed at high profile venues and festivals around the country and appeared on stages as for as Asia and Europe.
Josh Kossak was born and raised in Marysville, Washington, started playing drums at the ripe-old-age age of 3. After graduating from the Musicians Institute, Josh toured with hard rock band Citizen Rising, played with Las Vegas reggae band Crossfire and with jazz fusion guitarist Lee Wanner at the legendary jazz club The Baked Potato.
In 2008 and 2009 Josh played with gospel worship group Dane Patao and Victorious. During this time Josh also became a go-to drummer for many L.A. churches and also was able to share the stage with Chante Moore.
For reservations visit the Bistro webpage or call 206-365-4447.
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26-Aug-16 10:40 AM by Ken Gagne
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Last month saw the release of Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the JJ Abrams / Kelvin / Handsome universe that began with the 2009 reboot and continued in 2013 with Star Trek Into Darkness. Although I was excited for any new live-action media in the Star Trek franchise, I wasn't sure what to expect from this outing. The 2009 film was a welcome and necessary update to the formula, while the 2013 film was mired in too many weird plot devices and allusions. With a new director and scriptwriter, the latter including Simon Pegg ("Scotty"), would Star Trek Beyond prove a fitting closure to what was originally intended to be a trilogy?
The family that treks together!
Yes. Star Trek Beyond was utterly delightful, with a perfect mix of action and character moments. While the 2009 film may've been decried as being too heavy on action, Star Trek Beyond bookends with intense, concentrated action sequences, leaving the middle of the story to focus on pairs of characters: Kirk and Chekhov, Scotty and Jaylah, Spock and Bones, Uhura and Sulu. There was none of the stereotypes or pettiness we saw in Star Trek Into Darkness, instead allowing the characters to demonstrate genuine introspection, growth, and camaraderie.
Whereas I used this blog to dissect the previous two Star Trek films in prose, for Star Trek Beyond, I took to the air with my friend Sabriel Mastin, the only person I know who can out-recollect me on any Star Trek series. We co-opted Polygamer, my biweekly audio podcast about equality and diversity in games, to produce a bonus episode in which we reviewed and raved about the movie. Give it a listen:
On a personal note, I saw Star Trek Beyond opening weekend with the KansasFest 2016 crew. Conspicuously missing was my father, who had passed away just a few months earlier. He's the one who got me into Star Trek in the first place, and we'd seen the last six films together in theaters. It was tough to sit through this film without him… but a week later, I saw the movie again with my oldest brother and our mom, for whom this was her first theatrical Star Trek outing. Although she's not as mired in Trek lore as some, she nonetheless found the film exciting to watch and was glad she went.
There's talk of a fourth film with this crew (though sadly, without Chekhov, in memory of the late Anton Yelchin; and without Ambassador Spock, in memory of Leonard Nimoy). I'm eager to spend the intervening years continuing to bring my mom up to speed in time to better enjoy the Enterprise's next voyage!
03-Mar-15 8:48 PM by Ken Gagne
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It's been hard to come to terms with the passing of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who brought Star Trek's half-Vulcan science officer to life and created a cultural phenomenon that would persist for generations — including within my own family.
My father introduced me to Star Trek when The Next Generation premiered in 1987. At that age, I didn't understand that different people led different lives, and I went to school the next day thinking all my classmates had watched it, too. I spent my recess talking about Star Trek to anyone on the playground who would listen, nonplussed when they weren't as excited as I was. It wasn't until years later that I learned of IDIC — Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: that differences are to be not just tolerated, but celebrated. Decades after discovering Star Trek, I've grown deeply curious about those differences, interviewing people every week to learn about their lives and experiences, so that I never again make that same lunchtime assumption I did in second grade.
My earliest memory of Leonard Nimoy was watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture on VHS with my family. When Spock first beams aboard the Enterprise, whereas Kirk and McCoy are happy to see him, Spock is unmoved by seeing his old crewmates. I asked my parents what was wrong with him, and rather than try to explain the alien suppression of emotions, they just said that Spock didn't remember his friends.
But Vulcan's emotions run deep and hot: they feel everything humans do, even more so, which is why they can't allow themselves to be ruled by their feelings, lest they run amok. I was raised in a family that did not celebrate such passions, so, like Spock, I kept mine reined in. I learned the hard way that it's better to embrace one's humanity… something that Spock at times struggled to understand himself.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy: http://t.co/bD0GBvyrcz #LLAP pic.twitter.com/c6PeC0qadt
— someecards (@someecards) February 27, 2015
Spock wasn't the only one with an identity crisis. I'm too young to remember Nimoy's efforts to break typecasting, which may be for the best: while I try to acknowledge actors' lesser-known works, Nimoy was always Spock to me. And unlike some actors who fade from the limelight, Nimoy always seemed to be doing something special, whether it was as silly as a Priceline commercial, as fun as directing Three Men and a Baby as invisible as voicing a Transformers villain or narrating a video game, as meaningless as singing a silly song, or as meaningful as advocating for diversity in body types. While I may've believed Spock had forgotten his friends, it was impossible for us to forget Spock. It felt like Leonard Nimoy would always be there; waking up on Saturday to a world without him was hard.
I never got to meet Leonard Nimoy. The closest opportunity I had was a Boston convention in November 2009, but I was at a Star Wars concert narrated by Anthony Daniels instead. It was a similar venue in which I did finally see Leonard Nimoy, though: he narrated the Boston Pops' "Out of This World" concert this past May. No one in the audience, least of all me, imagined it was Nimoy's last May in his final trip around the sun.
That concert was a homecoming for Nimoy, being born and raised right in the heart of Boston. He often lent his sonorous voice to his hometown, narrating not just the Boston Pops but also the Boston Museum of Science's Omni Mugar theater. As a student and teacher, child and adult, I've been to the MoS many times; Leonard Nimoy is my earliest memory of it.
Now all we have are memories and Nimoy's exhaustive library of art. There have been and will be other Spocks, of course — most notably Zachary Quinto, but also other incarnations across many fan films, and the continuing voyages of the starship Enterprise in novels and other media. But there never will be another Leonard Nimoy.
It's been less than a week, and I miss him already.
I may not have properly expressed or acknowledged, even to myself, Nimoy's importance. I've been going to Apple conventions my entire life, but it wasn't until 2013 that I attended my first Star Trek convention. But both Apple and Star Trek have been fundamental in informing my outlooks and philosophies.
Celebrities aren't my only heroes, but celebrities can help me get to know my heroes. Star Trek is something I've shared with my father ever since TNG's debut. We've been at the opening night of each of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies. I hesitantly mark our time together by these milestones, knowing that the same COPD that claimed Nimoy now stalks my father. As a friend of mine recently put it, "Time will take all the people I look up to."
Live long and prosper…
But we are fortunate to have had Leonard Nimoy grace us for 83 wonderful years. From wherever he came, he has returned. We salute him and his many contributions to art, science, and humanity. Thank you for so many adventures and missions.
Astronaut Terry Virts captured this photo from the International Space Station flying over Boston, where Leonard Nimoy was born. Image Credit: NASA #RIPLeonardNimoy #startrek #leonardnimoy #space #nasa #iss #astronauts #spacestation #boston
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Even Trekkies need cars & insurance
08-May-13 10:45 AM by Ken Gagne
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Star Trek celebrities have been long sought after to endorse a variety of products, from William Shatner pitching Priceline and DirectTV to Jonathan Frakes hawking enterprise software. The connection between Star Trek and the product being sold can be tenuous or non-existent, but a savvy director and clever script can nonetheless make the most of their actors' heritage.
With the release of Star Trek Into Darkness just a week away, we're seeing a new spate of advertisers timing their tangential promotions to coincide. Car insurance company esurance collaborated directly with the team at CBS and Paramount to get their hands on the 2009 film's set and shoot a short encounter on the bridge of the U.S.S. Not Enterprise:
Opting away from a Star Trek setting and instead relying on known actors, Audi has created a car commercial that pits the two Spocks in a race to the golf club:
Leonard Nimoy's the real star here, working in references not only to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan but to his singing career. He also proves that he's a far more experienced Vulcan than young upstart Zachary Quinto, who still has much to learn!
For those of us who have been avoiding spoiler-laden summer movie trailers, these commercials are fun little doses of original content bases on our favorite spacefaring franchise. Still, they're no substitute for the real thing. See you next week!
It All Started with a Big Bang
25-Jan-10 1:45 PM by Ken Gagne
Filed under Television; 3 comments.
I've now had a month to play with and evaluate my Christmas bounties and have come to a conclusion: the thought and care that went into my handmade Pac-Man scarf puts it on top, but the first two seasons of Big Bang Theory on DVD made for a close match.
True to the conjecture that "the geek shall inherit the Earth", we finally seem to be in an era where it's hip to be a geek. The world runs on the Internet and is beholden to those who have mastered it, while the success of movies like Batman and TV shows such as Battlestar Galactica are evidence of the consumer power of the geek demographic.
Big Bang Theory puts those geeks in the spotlight with two cohabitating physicists, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons). Together with co-workers Howard (Simon Helberg of Dr. Horrible) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar), they play Halo and Dungeons & Dragons, attend Star Trek conventions and costume contests, and postulate about quantum mechanics and string theory. When Penny (Kaley Cuoco), a cute Cheesecake Factory waitress, moves in next door, Leonard tries to get her attention without abandoning his esoteric lifestyle. Hilarity ensues.
Although the show does play to some stereotypes, it does so respectfully. Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj are respected by their peers and are successful in and fulfilled by their careers and hobbies. The humor arises not from lampooning what it means to be a geek as much as it does by highlighting the culture clash that occurs when geeks try to interact with the rest of society. Besides, how could the show poke fun at geeks when the geeks in the audience can empathize with so many of the jokes? This is a show about laughing with, not at, the heroes.
Although adorable and well-intentioned Leonard is ostensibly the star of the show, the scenes are often stolen by Sheldon, who exaggerates the geek archetype by proving himself completely devoid of emotion. Imagine a creature as logical as Spock but with a complete unawareness of the existence of other organisms' emotions or how to be sensitive to them. Such extreme snarkiness is unattractive, but it makes Sheldon's occasional humanity all the more surprising.
Take this scene from the second season's Christmas episode. Sheldon, not knowing what price range his gift from Penny will fall under, has prepared several gifts to give her based on the value of what he receives. Once he has received and evaluated her gift, he intends to sneak away to choose the appropriate reciprocation.
Would any of us have reacted any differently? (The fact that you're reading Showbits in the first place suggests "no".)
From the opening number performed and sung by Barenaked Ladies to the epilogue, each episode is a riot of intelligent, witty humor. If you liked the superior stylings of Frasier, you'll like Big Bang Theory. My thanks to those who took a chance on introducing me to this series for Christmas.
Beantown Is Geektown
02-Nov-09 2:22 PM by Ken Gagne
Filed under Potpourri, Star Trek, Star Wars; 4 comments.
The passing of Halloween means the holidays are nearly upon us — but if you're a geek in Boston, then there are far more significant festivities headed your way. The biggest and best celebrities of science fiction will be coming to Massachusetts for three different events this month:
• On Saturday, November 14th, the touring "Star Wars In Concert" comes to the TD Garden for both a 3:00 PM matinee and an 8:00 PM performance. The concert is described as "John Williams' breathtaking score from the epic Star Wars saga … performed by a live symphony orchestra and chorus, accompanied by a stunning video montage on an enormous LED screen." Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) has been narrating this concert, though it's unclear if that's only at specific venues. Us Bostonians are no stranger to hearing Mr. Williams' soundtracks performed live, as the composer is also the director emeritus of the renowned Boston Pops Orchestra and often serves as guest conductor, but a dedicated concert to this particular score is a rare treat. Tickets are $32.50, $52.50, or $72.50, plus applicable taxes and fees.
• That same weekend is the New England Fan Experience (NEFX) sci-fi convention. Star Trek headliners include Bostonian Leonard Nimoy (Spock Prime) as well as John de Lancie (Q), though the former will be available only on Saturday, competing with the aforementioned Star Wars concert. Online tickets (via a Web site that is remarkably reminiscent of a GeoCities page) are available through November 6th for $45 each, or for $50 at the door.
• NEFX 2009 is held a week earlier than in 2008, avoiding the conflict that occurred last year with the annual Super Megafest, traditionally held the weekend before Thanksgiving. That means this year, you can attend NEFX one week and Super Megafest the next! The latter is held in Framingham, less than a half-hour west of Boston. The expo — which features an unusual amalgam of sci-fi actors, comic book artists, TV show stars, and pro wrestlers — will this year present Brent Spiner (Star Trek's Data), Ray Park (Star Wars' Darth Maul and, more recently, G.I. Joe's Snake Eyes), and James Marsters (Buffy's Spike). In addition to signings, each star also has a half-hour Q&A session, though the schedule is unknowable prior to the event: an email from its coordinator informed me, "No, panels will not be posted on the site. Most celebs will do Q&A sessions both days. However sat is probably the better day to see more Q&A sessions." Last year I happened to show up just in time to see Jonathan Frakes; otherwise I would've been out of luck. The actual show floor is quite small but packs a lot into it. Tickets for the entire November 21-22 weekend are only $20.
Though the two conventions offer cheaper admittance than the orchestral concert, they also have the most potential to drain your allowance, based on how many celebrity autographs you want to go home with; typical fees range from $20 to $50 or more per signing. This will be my third Super Megafest, and I usually budget $100 for at least three autographs.
If you'll be attending either the Star Wars matinee or the Super Megafest, be sure to say hello to Showbits!
A New Star Trek for a New Generation
08-May-09 6:32 PM by Ken Gagne
Filed under Reviews, Star Trek; 6 comments.
My father with his oldest and youngest sons
After years of cautious optimism, this is the week we've long lived and prospered for: the return of Star Trek to the silver screen. Much has changed in the seven years since the last film, including the cancellation of the TV series Enterprise, marking not only the end of a continuous 18-year run for the franchise on the small screen, but also a changing of the guard. A familiar cadre of talent had run Star Trek for decades — into the ground, some would say. The 2009 film, directed and produced by J.J. Abrams and starring mostly unknowns, could either invigorate or distort Star Trek. With my father (who introduced me to the show in 1987) and my oldest brother, we were there for last night's premiere. How did we — dedicated and casual Star Trek fans, young and old — react?
I'll answer for me: The first ten minutes had me in tears. That isn't hyperbole or dramatic effect; it's literal truth. This action-packed opening sequence is so tragic, yet so heroic; and what it does to the Star Trek universe is terrible, yet also elegant and necessary. This film is both a prequel and a reboot, documenting the first voyage of Kirk, Spock, and company — but it's not the same ship and crew we remember from 1966. There are differences, both subtle and profound, which the opening sequence makes possible, thus giving the creative team the leeway they need to make something both fresh and familiar.
Fans will find much to like here, such as in nods to Trek lore that don't feel forced, be it the death of a character or Chekov's accent. But there's more going on here than in the details, such as the recasting of the iconic crew. I found it surprisingly easy to accept fresh faces in roles that we've long identified with particular actors, and these newcomers' performances are mostly true to the characters as originally written, without being mockeries. Sulu, Chekov, and Scotty each get notable scenes; Bones and Uhura, a bit more. But this adventure is really about the young, brash Spock and Kirk. These aren't the older, wiser Starfleet officers we're accustomed to, yet I can imagine Chris Pine's Kirk acting and reacting just as William Shatner's Kirk would've under these circumstances.
Looking Back on the Future of Star Trek
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This week, the Star Trek franchise turned exactly 42.5 years old. Despite being a not particularly noteworthy milestone, I used the occasion to finally watch the show's 40th anniversary special. The special, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, aired on the History Channel in February 2007 and will be included in next month's release of TOS Season 1 on Blu-Ray. Though the primary purpose of the documentary is to showcase the then-recently-concluded Christie's auction of thousands of Star Trek props, it also features several stars of the franchise's first four shows reflecting on their roles. I found the most striking observation came from Kate Mulgrew: "I don't know a lot of doctors and lawyers who watch doctors and lawyers shows — but almost every scientist I've ever known loved Star Trek." It's a sentiment consistent with the need to have shows like Star Trek on the air.
The franchise's 726 episodes and ten movies are condensed into this other 40th anniversary tribute, which for some reason was uploaded to YouTube just last week. The video — set to one of my favorite instrumental pieces, the orchestral suite from "The Inner Light" — is a brief visual tour of the entire history of Star Trek's two-hundred-year history. Considering how many characters there are to fit into the montage's seven-minute length, you'll forgive the editor if he transitions from one character to the next a bit too swiftly.
I was moved by how familiar I found each of these characters, and how glad I was to see them again. But then, I shouldn't be surprised: Star Trek was on the air consistently for 18 years, making it a constant companion for roughly two-thirds of my life. You could argue it was just a TV show (in which case I wonder what you're doing reading this blog), but every day without a Trek seems dark, as the program represents a hope for humanity.
With the cancellation of Enterprise, television has been without a Star Trek for four years. Now we stand on the cusp of a new Star Trek film — the first one in seven years, the longest span between any two Star Trek movies ever. This movie has the potential to reenergize the franchise and bring it back not only to the public consciousness, but to the television screen. It will be a long time before we can effectively measure the film's success and impact — but it will be only two months before we will have the full feature to judge, and not just this trailer:
(Hat tip to Dayton Ward)
23-Oct-07 4:16 PM by Ken Gagne
Filed under Humor, Star Trek, Television; 1 comment.
It was ten years ago that I first became aware of The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn. The political commentary and satire that are the show's hallmarks provided welcome relief from the doom and gloom of daily newspapers and evening news. The show lasted only a short time with its first host but has enjoyed great success with Kilborn's successor, Jon Stewart.
Now the entire archives of the Stewart era are available for free online viewing at the show's official Web site. Comedy Central's library features an easy-to-use slider for calling up specific days, months, and years of episodes, as well as offering a standard keyword search. It's easy to find and watch classic interviews such as with Scott Bakula or Jeri Ryan, or more recent episodes such as an aforementioned critique of Representative Wu's analysis of the White House administration:
(Hat tip to Slashdot)
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Executive and Supervisory Board members of SICK AG
Dr. Robert Bauer (Chairman of the Board)
Dr. Bauer has been Chairman of the SICK AG Executive Board since October 1, 2006. He is also responsible for the Technology Division. He came to the company in 1994 as a division manager in the field of automation technology research and development before assuming overall responsibility for research and development in 1998. He was appointed to the Executive Board on January 1, 2000.
Born in Munich in 1960, Dr. Bauer studied electrical engineering with core modules on electrophysics/optics at the Technical University of Munich from 1979 to 1985. He received his doctorate in the field of semiconductor-based integrated optics in 1990.
Reinhard Bösl
Reinhard Bösl has been a member of the SICK AG Executive Board since July 1, 2007. He is responsible for the Systems & Industries Division, which includes Factory Automation, Logistics Automation, and Process Automation.
Born in the East Bavarian district of Parkstein in 1958, Reinhard Bösl studied computer science in Munich. He subsequently held a variety of positions at Witron Logistik + Informatik GmbH in Parkstein before becoming the company’s Managing Director in 1998. From 2004, he held various managerial positions at Krones AG in Neutraubling, Germany, which included a role as Managing Director of the subsidiary Syskron GmbH.
Dr. Mats Gökstorp
Dr. Mats Gökstorp was appointed to the Executive Board on May 1, 2013, where he is responsible for Sales & Service. He joined the company in 2003 with the acquisition of SICK IVP in Sweden and moved to Germany in 2007, becoming Division Manager and member of the Management Board. For the last few years, he has been in charge of global sales processes at SICK.
Mats Gökstorp was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965. After studying Computer Science and Engineering both in Sweden and the USA, he received his doctorate in 1995. He went into business with a small start-up company in 1993, where he worked in several positions in areas ranging from development to sales. By 2001, he had progressed to the role of General Manager, a position he held until 2007.
Dr. Martin Krämer
Dr. Martin Krämer has been a member of the Executive Board since July 1, 2012 and is responsible for Human Resources, Procurement, Compliance, and the Legal Counsel Office. He has been Head of the General Legal Counsel Office since he first joined the company in 1999.
Born in Rottweil in 1960, Dr. Krämer completed his law studies in Tübingen and Freiburg before specializing in company and labor law. He received his doctorate in 1999. Initially working as a lawyer, he went to the Lidl & Schwarz Group in 1995 as Manager of the legal department. He later completed a master’s degree in “International Commercial Law” at Davis University, USA between 2004 and 2009.
Markus Vatter
Markus Vatter has been a member of the SICK AG Executive Board since July 1, 2006, where he is responsible for Controlling, Finance & IT.
Marcus Vatter was born in Wiesbaden in 1966. He obtained his degree at the Technical University of Darmstadt before starting his career as industrial engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart. His next position was at Müller Weingarten GmbH, where he worked before accepting the role of Managing Director of KaVo Dental GmbH in Biberach in 2001. Managing Director of KaVo Dental GmbH in Biberach in 2001.
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Karl-Heinz Barth*, Donaueschingen
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Franz Bausch, Hinterzarten
Prof. Mark K. Binz, Stuttgart
Klaus M. Bukenberger, Schenkenzell
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Corporate Governance Consulting
Dr. Bernd Cordes*, Emmendingen
Head of Global Business Center 07 of SICK AG
Sebastian Glaser, Munich
Managing Partner of Sick Holding GmbH
Dr. Matthias Müller*, Braunschweig
Head of Finance on the Federal Executive Board for the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Berlin
Renate Sick-Glaser, Freiburg
Hermann Spieß*, Breisach
Union Secretary of IG Metall
Susanne Tröndle*, Waldkirch
(Deputy Chairwoman)
Group Works Council, General Works Council and Works Council Chairwoman of SICK AG
Dr. Eberhard Veit, Göppingen
Managing Partner of 4.0-Veit GbR
Thomas Weckopp*, Korschenbroich
Chairman of the Works Council of SICK AG
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The University of Southampton welcomed HRH The Duchess of Cornwall to the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU) on Thursday 13 December to see its pioneering research into the cure and prevention of bone diseases.
During her visit The Duchess of Cornwall visited the Osteoporosis Centre, a joint venture between the University and Southampton General Hospital, where she met members of staff and patients taking part in medical studies.
Professor Cyrus Cooper, Director of the MRC LEU, said: “We are thrilled to welcome The Duchess of Cornwall to the Unit. Bone conditions such as osteoporosis predominately affect those in later life and rates will rise as our population lives longer. We are extremely happy to be able to show Her Royal Highness, President of the National Osteoporosis Society, the work we are doing in this important area of medical research.”
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
The Osteoporosis Centre, which is based at the General Hospital and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is responsible for ground-breaking research into this disorder. For example, the Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study (MAVIDOS) is a clinical trial that aims to demonstrate whether supplementation of women with vitamin D (compared with placebo) throughout pregnancy will lead to improved bone development in the baby. Earlier this year the trial celebrated its 500th baby being born.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Don Nutbeam added: “We are honoured to have HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visit our MRC LEU today to see some of the pioneering research being carried out and to meet our researchers. The University of Southampton is recognised for being at the forefront of life-changing research for the past 60 years across a broad range of disciplines. We are delighted that we have been able to demonstrate a small part of that to such a distinguished guest.”
The Duchess of Cornwall also met academics and researchers from the University’s Faculty of Medicine, hospital and the MRC, as well as members of the National Osteoporosis Society’s local support group, which also celebrates its 20th anniversary.
The Duchess of Cornwall has been President of the National Osteoporosis Society since 2001 and was Patron between 1997 and 2001.
Claire Severgnini, Chief Executive of the National Osteoporosis Society, said:
“Today’s visit by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall reinforces her dedication to the field of osteoporosis and bone health.
“The National Osteoporosis Society is extremely fortunate to have Her Royal Highness as our President. She works tirelessly to raise awareness of this prevalent and debilitating condition and knows and understands the devastating impact that osteoporosis can have on people as well as their families.”
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Young Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich Makes His Star Wars Debut
It’s the worst-kept secret in Hollywood: Alden Ehrenreich is officially stepping aboard the Millennium Falcon in the forthcoming Han Solo standalone film as the scruffy nerfherder himself.
In May, it was reported that Ehrenreich had nabbed the coveted role of young Han Solo in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Star Wars anthology film, but he made his formal debut at Star Wars Celebration’s closing Future Filmmakers panel on Sunday (July 17) in London. Ehrenreich looked so much like Harrison Ford’s iconic character that even John Boyega, who joined Ehrenreich and directors Lord and Miller onstage, exclaimed, “He’s smiling just like Han!”
It took Lord and Miller months to find their Han Solo. According to the directors, they saw over 3,000 actors for the role “from all across the world.” Remarkably, Ehrenreich was the first actor to audition for the role of young Han.
During the final stages of the casting process, Ehrenreich tested in the Millennium Falcon with his right-hand Wookie, Chewbacca. “I’d never acted with a Wookie before,” Ehrenreich said.
Details about Lord and Miller’s Han Solo standalone have been sparse, but here’s what we do know: it takes place sometime before A New Hope and Chewbacca will star alongside the smooth-talking smuggler. So the untitled Han Solo film—which will sadly remain untitled for the time being—will presumably follow Han and Chewie on adventures before they docked the Millennium Falcon on Tattooine.
Midway through the panel, however, moderator Pablo Hidalgo did ask Ehrenreich what it felt like to “do that first discovery of the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca.” (Hmm.) Despite the nerves, Ehrenreich said, “There’s something about it that felt so exciting that it was more exciting than it was nerve-wracking.”
When asked why Lord and Miller wanted to tell a Han Solo story, Lord said, “I relate to him. He doesn’t want to do anything that he’s told to do. When you tell him not to do something, it makes him want to do it more. He’s very sarcastic. But at the end of the day, he’s unreasonably optimistic.”
“He’s this seemingly grumpy guy with the biggest heart in the galaxy,” Miller added. “He’s a maverick. He’s a scoundrel. He’s clever, but he’s not smart. He wants to present himself as this cool, tough guy but in the end, he always does the right thing.”
Lord and Miller confirmed that they are still in the early stages of pre-production. “We just moved here [London] two days ago,” Miller said. The directors confirmed that they are still working on the script with Larry and Jon Kasdan, and that there’s still “a lot of sets to design and build and characters and robots and droids and aliens and creatures for Neal [Scanlan] and his team to create.”
Filming is set to commence at end of January, early February.
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Mildred D. Taylor
(1943-), American
During her childhood and young adulthood, Mildred D. Taylor experienced and understood the South—where most of her books are set—in light of her life in the North. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1943, she and her family moved to Ohio after her birth because of her father's impassioned refusal to raise his daughters in a racist society. Though they lived in the North, Taylor and her family never left the South behind, and every year they traveled there to visit family.
Taylor grew to understand and even dread the encounters with bigotry characteristic of her trips to the South—in Something About the Author, she describes being overcome by nausea while crossing over the Ohio River into Kentucky. However, while her Northern town more subtly harbored racial biases, they were no less hurtful than the biases of the South. Taylor often found herself in the dubious position of being the only African American in her class, where she experienced the pressure of being the first example of her race her classmates had ever known. Also troubling were the versions of history and black heritage presented in her textbooks, which perpetuated a subtle brand of racism: they ignored the suffering of African Americans under the white-dominated system of slavery, and they glossed over the tremendous struggle African Americans waged for freedom. No one, Taylor's teacher included, believed her when she tried to explain the truth.
These experiences fired Taylor's desire to write. After Taylor completed her college education, she worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia and as a teacher, recruiter, and editor around the country. In 1973, she wrote her first book, Song of the Trees. Song of the Trees introduced the Logan family, the heroes of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and won the contest for which she wrote it. Continuing to draw on her family history and the stories her family shared when she was growing up, she completed Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in 1977, which was awarded the Newbery Medal. She continued to develop the story of the Logan family in Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Road to Memphis, The Well: David's Story, and The Land.
Mildred D. Taylor Quotes
So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.
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Song of the Trees
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
The Friendship
Mississippi Bridge
The Road To Memphis
The Well: David's Story
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St. George Mushrooms
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St. George mushrooms are small to medium in size with caps averaging 5-15 centimeters in diameter and are connected to thick, stout stems. The smooth, ivory, umbrella-shaped caps are firm with inwardly curled edges. The caps may also become irregular in shape with tan or sun-blushed spots from age and exposure to the sun. Underneath the cap, there are many white gills that are very narrow and crowded. The white, broad, club-footed stem averages 2-7 centimeters in length and may be straight or slightly curved. St. George mushrooms have an unusual cucumber and mealy, flour aroma and are somewhat powdery with an earthy flavor.
St. George mushrooms are available in the mid-spring through summer.
St. George mushrooms, botanically classified as Calocybe gambosa, are a wild, edible variety that can be consumed both raw and cooked and are members of the Lyophyllaceae family. Growing in rings in grasslands, woodlands, fields, and along roadsides, St. George mushrooms are named after its fruiting appearance each spring to the national holiday, St. George’s Day in mid-April. St. George mushrooms are valued for their early fruiting season, unusual texture, and strong flavors and are used in a wide variety of culinary applications across Europe.
St. George mushrooms contain vitamin D, dietary fiber, calcium, iron, and some vitamin C.
St. George mushrooms are best suited for both raw and cooked applications such as sautéing, boiling, or pan-frying. They can be used as a substitute in recipes that call for other cultivated mushrooms and can be consumed fresh, but the preferred method is cooking due to their powdery flavor when raw. St. George mushrooms can be added to pasta dishes, omelets, served on toast, or sautéed with asparagus and served as a side dish. They can also be diced and added to soups, served over braised meats, fried in butter, or pickled for extended use. St. George mushrooms pair well with eggs, duck eggs, bacon, offal, poultry, risotto, asparagus, garlic, lemon juice, and sherry. They will keep up to one week when stored in a paper bag in the refrigerator.
The timing of the fruiting of St. George mushrooms in Italy reflects its name as the mushrooms appear in March and are known as Marzolino. In Italy, the variety was once highly valued and was one of the most expensive mushrooms in the 16th century. In Germany, St. George mushrooms appear in May and are also known as Maipilz.
St. George mushrooms are found throughout the cooler climates of Europe and North America and have been growing wild since ancient times, often found in the same places year after year. This variety was first classified in 1821 and was reclassified several times until 1962. Today St. George mushrooms can be found in the wild and are sold at local markets in Europe, North America, and in select regions in Japan.
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A quarter of US PCs infected with malware: OECD
June 2, 2008 — 11.22pm
An OECD study into online crime says that increased activity by cyber criminals has left an estimated one-in-four US computers infected with malware.
The report, entitled Malicious Software (malware): a Security Threat to the Internet Economy, gives an impression of two worlds engaged in an uneven war of virus invasion and belated defence.
Cyber crime, to steal data, spy and attack government and business computer systems "is a potentially serious threat to the internet economy," the study, published on Friday, warns.
Organisations involved in "fighting malware offer essentially a fragmented local response to a global threat," the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says.
"Over the last 20 years, malware has evolved from occasional 'exploits' to a global multi-million-dollar criminal industry ... Cyber criminals are becoming wealthier and therefore have more financial power to create larger engines of destruction."
"It is estimated that 59 million users in the US have spyware or other types of malware on their computers," the OECD report said.
According to Nielsen/Netratings, the US internet population stood at an estimated 216 million at the end of 2007.
In the last five years there has been a upsurge in such criminal activity to attack systems and steal information, money and identities.
Using agents with names ranging from "zombies" and "worms" to "botnets," "Trojan horses" or "money mules," criminals can wreak havoc, usurping identities, recruiting and organising cohorts of computers for coordinated attacks, and even steal data for ransom.
"A botnet is a group of malware-infected computers also called 'zombies' or bots that can be used remotely to carry out attacks against other computer systems," the OECD said.
The report implied that some governments might also use similar techniques, saying: "It can also be assumed that nation states have the same capabilities."
The OECD warns that all forms of hacking have gone far beyond the adolescent disruption of the early days of the personal computer, to become a powerful and growing weapon in the hands of serious criminals.
It is highly profitable, at minimal cost to the criminals but a huge and unknown cost to honest users.
"There is no simple conclusion to the complex problems presented by malware," the report concludes.
"Malware has the potential to adversely affect any and all Internet users, from enterprises to governments to end users."
The rapid onward march of malware "makes international co-operation essential to addressing the problem," it said.
The first malicious virus, called "brain," emerged in 1986 and in 1988 a "worm" called "Morris" ate into more than 6000 computers. The development of electronic mail in the 1990s generated worm epidemics under such names as "Melissa" or "MyDoom."
Some studies estimate that about 80 per cent of web-based malware was hosted on "innocent but compromised" websites and one report found 53.9 per cent of all malicious sites were hosted in China, followed by the United States with 27.2 percent.
"In June 2006, a Trojan horse attacked files in Microsoft Windows users' 'my documents.' The files were then encrypted so users could not access them withut paying a ranson," the OECD report noted.
Kits to mount cyber attacks can even be downloaded easily from the internet and some even come with "service" contracts requiring the buyer to make new versions for the seller. This could cost as little as $US800 .
Addresses harvested through the Internet can be used to control a botnet and can be bought for about $US100 for 10 million addresses.
An association of British banks estimated malware losses at £12.2 million in 2004 but £33.5 million in 2006.
One defensive action every computer user can take is to install a firewall and anti-virus software to keep subversive agents out, and to react quickly when invasion is suspected, the report advises.
However, a study by the Australian government in 2005 found that only one in seven Australian computers was protected by a firewall.
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Home > SVA Quarterly > Impact investing > STREAT’s ahead: funding social impact with equity
STREAT’s ahead: funding social impact with equity
Melbourne-based, social enterprise STREAT took an out-of-the-box approach to expansion attracting equity investment and doubling its capacity overnight.
You couldn’t meet Bec Scott for more than a few minutes without knowing she wanted to create something remarkable. From day one, she has been driven to see her brainchild, STREAT, a social enterprise providing homeless youth with a pathway to long-term employment in hospitality, quickly achieve sufficient scale to become self-sustaining through its own business income.
This is an audacious goal given the cost of the wrap-around social support but one that Scott is driven to prove is possible. The idea for STREAT was seeded between 2004 and 2006, when Scott and co-founder Kate Barrelle worked for KOTO, a training program and restaurant providing Vietnamese street youth with life and job skills. During this time they became increasingly convinced of the power of social enterprise to improve the wellbeing of the world’s most vulnerable people.
In 2007, Scott visited similar projects in Thailand, Laos and Indonesia as part of a study tour funded by the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship in ethical leadership program. It was from these experiences and research that STREAT was born.
In just a few years, Scott had demonstrated the effectiveness of STREAT’s model which provides wrap-around support alongside training and work opportunities initially in its Melbourne-based coffee carts. The support provides the 16-25 year old trainees with both work and life skills to help them get their lives back on track.
It’s not an option, not to grow… we’ll have to take risks, sometimes big ones.
After the pilot-program in 2009, STREAT opened its doors in 2010 and by 2012, 41 trainees had come through the program. The results were excellent; 27 had moved into either jobs or full apprenticeships in retail or hospitality businesses elsewhere.
Scott was always clear about her goal of reaching sufficient scale to become self-sustaining. “It’s not an option, not to grow,” says Scott. “We couldn’t just run a handful of coffee carts, and add some new carts from time to time. I realise this means we’ll have to take risks, sometimes big ones; but I’m OK with that.”
Seizing the opportunity
So when the opportunity came early 2012 to acquire another, larger social enterprise – which would double STREAT’S capacity for social impact overnight – Scott seized it.
That opportunity was Melbourne-based enterprise: the Social Roasting Company (SRC), which consisted of three cafés and a wholesale coffee roasting business. For three years, SRC had been turning a small profit, whilst employing people that had been excluded from the labour market – including refugees, migrants and the long-term unemployed.
Shead knew Scott had both a deep passion for the cause and strong business acumen.
However, Sydney-based Fair Business which ran SRC knew that overseeing the enterprise from 900kms away had constrained its ability to grow. Without sufficient local networks and knowledge, Fair Business CEO Alex Shead had struggled to “crack the Melbourne market”. Despite trying, he hadn’t been able to raise funds to support the business. Also, it was more costly to run it from a distance; it required more people, and extra travel expenses.
Having met Scott at a social enterprise event a few years previously, Shead contacted her to see if STREAT would be interested in buying the business. For Shead, it was critical that SRC was sold to someone who wanted to achieve a greater social impact – not merely to run a successful café. Shead knew Scott had both a deep passion for the cause and a strong business acumen.
Importantly, there was alignment between the two ventures. STREAT saw SRC as a well-run business that was suited to the STREAT model: it had grown to be a stable, profitable enterprise with a loyal customer base. Shead recognised STREAT as having a good model for addressing homelessness. Although the model was different from SRC’s, there was strong brand alignment as SRC was known in the community for its social impact alongside its quality food and coffee.
Together Scott and Shead negotiated a sale price of $274k for two cafés (one in Flemington, one at McKillop St in the CBD) and the coffee roasting business attached to the Flemington café. Fair Business chose to sell the third café privately.
So STREAT needed to raise $300k to make this deal viable – $274k for the purchase, plus additional funds to cover legal and other transition costs. The expansion, if it could be achieved, would mean STREAT would more than double in capacity overnight.
The challenge of raising funds for non-profits
Non-profits traditionally attract finances in one of three ways: community fundraising, grants, or debt. In this instance, the downsides of each seemed insurmountable.
Community fundraising involves seeking donations from the community. The benefit of this is that funds are not tied to any particular purpose, and do not need to be repaid. The major downside is that fundraising is slow; raising $300k through donations could take a long time and significant effort.
Grants from philanthropists, foundations, or government are another option. They also do not need to be repaid, but there is an extremely short supply. Attracting $300k through grants would be a slow, uncertain process – requiring time-consuming applications and relationship building.
Debt financing involves taking a loan from a bank or funder with agreed repayment rates. Whilst debt can enable rapid expansion since funds are readily available, the major concern is that funds must be paid back according to a repayment schedule – which can be risky if the business expansion returns a surplus that is lower than expected. Given the size of the proposed expansion (doubling STREAT’s capacity overnight), Scott recognised this was a significant concern.
Equity: a novel solution
On the advice of her mentor Paul Steele, a former private equity investor and now CEO of philanthropic trust, donkey wheel, Scott explored equity as an option.
In an equity deal, investors purchase an ownership stake and receive a share of the profit. Investment would provide STREAT with the additional capital required. As opposed to debt, a major strength of equity is that the risks of failing are shared between the operator and the investors. At the same time, the business will likely forego a degree of control, due to diluted ownership.
The challenge, of course, is how you enable a non-profit to expand through equity as there is no clear ownership structure that can be sold and any surplus cannot be distributed to investors.
Steele proposed that STREAT establish a for-profit entity called STREAT Enterprises that would own the purchased businesses. STREAT could then sell shares in STREAT Enterprises to finance the purchase.
Figure 1: The proposed for-profit entity which would own the purchased business.
Scott decided this was worth pursuing, and together with Steele convinced STREAT’s board that it was a viable direction for the enterprise.
Balancing the three factors: the equity sale price, the amount of equity sold, and the expected financial return is one of the challenges of structuring an equity deal. STREAT knew that the more equity it sold the less control it would have over the organisation. If it sold less than 50%, for example, it would retain full control. Ideally it wanted to sell shares worth $300k to cover the whole expansion. If it sold less than $300k, it would need to raise additional money elsewhere, or use its own capital. However, the less equity you sell for a higher price, the greater the amount of income you will need to generate to pay dividends to investors. The range of possible equity sales is constrained by the profitability of the enterprise’s business model.
Scott decided to sell 50% of the equity in STREAT Enterprises for $300k to retain control and raise sufficient funds to cover the entire purchase. Projecting forward on how the businesses would perform, Scott indicated to prospective investors that they could expect a financial return between 7 and 12%, over the first three years. This meant that STREAT Enterprises (incorporating the two cafés and the coffee roasting business) would need to generate on average $42k pa in profit to repay investors.
Attracting investors
STREAT was selective in seeking investors. It decided to only look for investors that would use the return for purposes that aligned with its values and positively contributed to society and the environment. Also, STREAT would only accept investments of at least $50k to limit the number of stakeholders and therefore the amount of work involved in maintaining relationships.
STREAT found four investors who fitted the bill: the McKinnon Family Foundation, donkey wheel, Small Giants, and SRC’s previous owner, Fair Business. Each investor had an interest in ‘blended value’ – for-profit organisations that aim to have a substantial social impact. As a result, the most important factor for all investors was that STREAT achieved its social goals – and that the acquisition would increase the overall social impact. However, an expectation of return was also important since the investors wanted to see more deals like this promoted across Australia. Additionally, two investors (donkey wheel and McKinnon) were Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) investing their corpus (the money sitting in the foundation) – and so needed the returns to exceed the 5% pa minimum that they are obligated to distribute each year.
The make-up of the board briefly became a point of contention. Originally, STREAT wanted to maintain full control of board appointments. Whilst none of the investors sought seats on the board, they did want to ensure there was a formal means for raising issues – and so negotiated that board appointments would be made by a vote of the owners according to their level of ownership.
Figure 2: Investment in the newly created for-profit STREAT Enterprises
Clarifying the finer details amongst investors
As is often the case, the finer details of the deal’s structure contained the most interesting points. The management agreement between shareholders outlines how STREAT (the original non-profit) would be the exclusive manager of the three businesses owned by STREAT Enterprises. For these services, STREAT receives a management fee of 12% of business revenue each year. Procurement is through STREAT to take advantage of its buying power (since it owns multiple cafés).
Legal firm Holding Redlich provided pro bono support to draw up a shareholders agreement, which outlined that all shares are ordinary shares with each investor entitled to their share of the dividends paid. Shares are transferrable, and hence investors are able to exit if they find a buyer for their share. (Approval is not required by the other owners.)
The results speak for themselves
The risks in the deal were substantial, especially given that Scott did not yet fully understand the café business.
…later in 2013 they will hit 50 trainees pa: double their previous numbers.
However, she identified the biggest risks in the transition and successfully mitigated them. To prevent staff leaving, Scott reduced job uncertainty by offering everyone in the business a new contract. She also promoted awareness amongst staff of the social impact, and made it clear that this was not a hostile takeover. To reduce the risk that customers left, she made a big push on PR and media, and wrote a letter to all customers explaining why the acquisition was happening, attached it to every menu, and posted it in each café’s front window.
To ensure STREAT had the capacity to expand successfully, Scott focused on creating and maintaining a stable core team and a stable culture. She also brought in a new staff member that had substantial experience in successfully scaling up another food-based business.
As a result, STREAT has expanded its social impact; it is already able to take on 50% more trainees than previously. Scott and the team are confident that later in 2013 they will hit 50 trainees pa: double their previous numbers.
Relied on relationships of trust
What allowed Scott to take this unconventional step, and prove wrong the naysayers who had thought she was overreaching, were the relationships behind this acquisition.
The trusting relationships enabled the deal to move quickly…
Steele, the behind-the-scenes deal-maker, was a long-time confidante and advisor to Scott. “Working in the same building, Paul has become one of my most trusted supporters. Without him, I wouldn’t have even known this was possible. Additionally his advice and oversight was critical in fine-tuning the details of the deal.”
The four investors in the new business had each known either Steele or Scott personally for many years before this deal was on the table. “The trusting relationships enabled the deal to move quickly, even though some of the financial projections and valuations were essentially ‘back-of-the-envelope’ calculations.”
As far as the financial returns went, investors either trusted Scott and her ability to deliver, or Steele’s appraisal of Scott’s abilities and business model. “Danny [Almagor, Small Giants co-founder and CEO] had been part of the social enterprise scene with me for years,” said Scott. “He knew STREAT and how it operated back-to-front, well before this deal was on the table. And that meant he was already keen to be a part of it, before the details had been decided.”
Most people who meet Scott recognise her ability to build strong relationships. In part it is her authenticity: she clearly believes with all her heart that STREAT’s audacious goals are possible. To some extent it is her ability as a communicator: honed in a previous job explaining complex scientific concepts to young people. And partly it is a genuine love of people – meaning that she makes those around her feel heard and valued, and builds relationships that last.
Lessons for social entrepreneurs, investors and supporters
Scaling social enterprises will almost always require its entrepreneurs to take risks, and choose paradigm-challenging approaches. Scott did not let the norms of the non-profit sector limit the potential of STREAT’s mission.
… they will add even more value through connections and expertise.
She also demonstrated that one of the most valuable skills of an entrepreneur is the capacity to create and sustain trusting relationships – relationships that you can lean on and that will support you throughout the journey.
A less expected benefit for STREAT in this deal was how the investors became a supportive network for the enterprise. More so than grant investors, these investors care about the ongoing health of the business. STREAT’s investors became useful as a sounding board and as moral support. “Into the future, I expect that they will add even more value through connections and expertise,” said Scott.
The deal also exemplifies a clear opportunity for impact-mindful investors. By investing in social enterprises, investors can use their corpus as well as their disbursements – thus enhancing their social impact. Many philanthropic funds invest their corpus in traditional assets (such as property, stocks or government bonds) – often through a third-party investment manager. They then disburse an amount each year in grants to help community organisations have an impact. In Australia, Private Ancillary Funds are required to disburse 5% of their corpus each year.
In this deal, investors chose to invest their corpus in STREAT, rather than in traditional commercial assets. This meant that they were able to have an impact through their corpus, as well as their disbursements. If more investors took this approach, they would potentially be able to significantly increase their impact.
Scott valued Steele’s moral support and his experienced advice.
Finally, we see that supporters have an important role to play in equity financing and other social finance deals. In this case, Paul Steele played multiple roles – supporting Scott in some key ways:
Building capacity; he was an ‘expert’. To expand as STREAT did requires important capabilities – such as financial modeling and the know-how to structure the legal entity.
Attracting investors; he was a ‘connector’. The network around a social enterprise is often small and it can be hard to find investors. Steele was able to champion the deal, and attract investors from his own network.
Providing due diligence; he was a ‘credible advocate’. Investors seek reassurance that the social enterprise and the deal have been comprehensively tested and verified. In this deal, Steele’s credibility was important; investors trusted his assessment of risk and return and of STREAT’s business model Scott’s abilities.
Supporting the social entrepreneur; he was a ‘mentor’. Structuring a deal like this can be challenging and Scott valued Steele’s moral support and his experienced advice.
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West Point Coach Barb Rolf Nominated for North America Coach of the Year
Special Olympics Nebraska is proud to nominate West Point coach Barb Rolf as the Special Olympics North America Coach of the Year.
Barb has been involved with Special Olympics Nebraska for 34 years! She has coached Athletics, Soccer, Flag Football, Softball, Basketball, Bowling, Unified Bowling, Bocce, Powerlifting, Floor Hockey, Aquatics, Unified Golf, Roller Skating, Volleyball, and Snowshoeing.
Barb is a tremendous teacher and always puts her athletes first. Her example has filtered through the entire program in which she leads. Her athletes, coaches, and supporters provide as good of demonstration of sportsmanship as any delegation you will find. This is due to the fine example and standard that is set by Barb with her daily actions. She is organized, communicates well, and leads by example. She not only supports the sport component of Special Olympics, but is heavily involved with health, education, and development. She has developed a program within a smaller community and made it very special due to her ability to lead, motivate, and her commitment to our mission.
Barb has been involved as a coach with Special Olympics since 1981. She has touched the lives of so many different people within the roles she has held. She has been a coach and Head of Delegation. She has not only represented Special Olympics Nebraska, but Special Olympics USA as well. She has been involved with three separate National Games as well as three separate World Games. The athletes she has served always show tremendous dedication and sportsmanship in large part due to the guidance she provides.
Barb is a Physical Education Teacher and has been critical in the partnership held between Special Olympics Nebraska and the school district in which she is employed. She is also part of the committee that is working to bring Unified Sports to our Nebraska schools as a result of a growing partnership between the Nebraska School Activities Association and Special Olympics Nebraska.
Barb is a tremendous person and has given to the Special Olympics movement for 34 years. She is an integral part of the Special Olympics Nebraska community as well as the community of West Point, NE. She cares a great deal for all she comes in contact with and sets a standard of excellence for her peers to follow. She is well respected and has impacted athletes and stakeholders of Special Olympics from all over the world. She is consistent and driven to succeed, and the outcome achieved for any event, competition, or initiative in which she is a part of is of the highest standard.
"West Point competes year around so there is no off season for Coach Rolf. he shows no signs of frustration just a determined face as she keeps each athlete in check. She treats and knows each athlete like she would her own child and they look up to her as a second mom."
-Alisa Hoffman, SONE coach and staff member
"She is very dedicated at all our practices. She is pretty much the best coach you will ever see. She is the best coach I have seen at pretty much all the sports."
-Kendrick Luebbert, West Point Athlete
"Barb has been a steadfast supporter of individuals with intellectual disabilities for her entire adult life. As a head of delegation and coach for Special Olympics Nebraska, she is the type of person we can ALWAYS count on to go above and beyond in this role."
-Carolyn Chamberlin, Special Olympics Nebraska CEO/President
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We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH. The use of the Internet pages of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.
The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.
As the controller, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.
The data protection declaration of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.
In this data protection declaration, we use, inter alia, the following terms:
a) Personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
b) Data subject
Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.
c) Processing
Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
d) Restriction of processing
Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.
Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.
f) Pseudonymisation
Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.
g) Controller or controller responsible for the processing
Controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.
h) Processor
Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
i) Recipient
Recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
j) Third party
Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.
k) Consent
Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
2. Name and Address of the controller
Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:
Martinszeller Str. 21
87477 Sulzberg
Email: info@suma.de
Website: www.suma.de
3. Name and Address of the Data Protection Officer
The Data Protection Officer of the controller is:
Thomas Hug
IDKOM AG
87437 Kempten (Allgäu)
Email: datenschutz@idkom.de
Website: www.idkom.de
Any data subject may, at any time, contact our Data Protection Officer directly with all questions and suggestions concerning data protection.
The Internet pages of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the dats subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.
Through the use of cookies, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.
By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user's computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online store remembers the articles that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.
5. Collection of general data and information
The website of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using these general data and information, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
6. Registration on our website
The data subject has the possibility to register on the website of the controller with the indication of personal data. Which personal data are transmitted to the controller is determined by the respective input mask used for the registration. The personal data entered by the data subject are collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the controller, and for his own purposes. The controller may request transfer to one or more processors (e.g. a parcel service) that also uses personal data for an internal purpose which is attributable to the controller.
By registering on the website of the controller, the IP address—assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject—date, and time of the registration are also stored. The storage of this data takes place against the background that this is the only way to prevent the misuse of our services, and, if necessary, to make it possible to investigate committed offenses. Insofar, the storage of this data is necessary to secure the controller. This data is not passed on to third parties unless there is a statutory obligation to pass on the data, or if the transfer serves the aim of criminal prosecution.
The registration of the data subject, with the voluntary indication of personal data, is intended to enable the controller to offer the data subject contents or services that may only be offered to registered users due to the nature of the matter in question. Registered persons are free to change the personal data specified during the registration at any time, or to have them completely deleted from the data stock of the controller.
The data controller shall, at any time, provide information upon request to each data subject as to what personal data are stored about the data subject. In addition, the data controller shall correct or erase personal data at the request or indication of the data subject, insofar as there are no statutory storage obligations. The entirety of the controller’s employees are available to the data subject in this respect as contact persons.
7. Subscription to our newsletters
On the website of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH, users are given the opportunity to subscribe to our enterprise's newsletter. The input mask used for this purpose determines what personal data are transmitted, as well as when the newsletter is ordered from the controller.
The SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH informs its customers and business partners regularly by means of a newsletter about enterprise offers. The enterprise's newsletter may only be received by the data subject if (1) the data subject has a valid e-mail address and (2) the data subject registers for the newsletter shipping. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address registered by a data subject for the first time for newsletter shipping, for legal reasons, in the double opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail is used to prove whether the owner of the e-mail address as the data subject is authorized to receive the newsletter.
During the registration for the newsletter, we also store the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject at the time of the registration, as well as the date and time of the registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand the (possible) misuse of the e-mail address of a data subject at a later date, and it therefore serves the aim of the legal protection of the controller.
The personal data collected as part of a registration for the newsletter will only be used to send our newsletter. In addition, subscribers to the newsletter may be informed by e-mail, as long as this is necessary for the operation of the newsletter service or a registration in question, as this could be the case in the event of modifications to the newsletter offer, or in the event of a change in technical circumstances. There will be no transfer of personal data collected by the newsletter service to third parties. The subscription to our newsletter may be terminated by the data subject at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data, which the data subject has given for shipping the newsletter, may be revoked at any time. For the purpose of revocation of consent, a corresponding link is found in each newsletter. It is also possible to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time directly on the website of the controller, or to communicate this to the controller in a different way.
The newsletter of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH contains so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in such e-mails, which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH may see if and when an e-mail was opened by a data subject, and which links in the e-mail were called up by data subjects.
Such personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analyzed by the controller in order to optimize the shipping of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the controller. The SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.
9. Contact possibility via the website
The website of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.
10. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data
The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.
If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.
11. Rights of the data subject
a) Right of confirmation
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of confirmation, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
b) Right of access
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller free information about his or her personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European directives and regulations grant the data subject access to the following information:
the purposes of the processing;
the categories of personal data concerned;
the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing;
the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
Furthermore, the data subject shall have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. Where this is the case, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
c) Right to rectification
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay, and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary:
The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject withdraws consent to which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
e) Right of restriction of processing
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:
The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use instead.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.
f) Right to data portability
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH.
g) Right to object
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
The SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject's explicit consent.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH.
i) Right to withdraw data protection consent
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the SUMA Rührtechnik GmbH.
12. Data protection for applications and the application procedures
The data controller shall collect and process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of the processing of the application procedure. The processing may also be carried out electronically. This is the case, in particular, if an applicant submits corresponding application documents by e-mail or by means of a web form on the website to the controller. If the data controller concludes an employment contract with an applicant, the submitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with legal requirements. If no employment contract is concluded with the applicant by the controller, the application documents shall be automatically erased two months after notification of the refusal decision, provided that no other legitimate interests of the controller are opposed to the erasure. Other legitimate interest in this relation is, e.g. a burden of proof in a procedure under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
13. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
On this website, the controller has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application "_gat. _anonymizeIp". By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us.
Google Analytics places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google Analytics component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits of our website by the data subject. With each visit to our Internet site, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.
14. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google+
On this website, the controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is a social meeting place on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Google+ allows users of the social network to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Google+ is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically downloads a display of the corresponding Google+ button of Google through the respective Google+ button component. During the course of this technical procedure, Google is made aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available under https://developers.google.com/+/.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google recognizes with each call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of his or her stay on our Internet site, which specific sub-pages of our Internet page were visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Google+ button and Google matches this with the respective Google+ account associated with the data subject.
If the data subject clicks on the Google+ button integrated on our website and thus gives a Google+ 1 recommendation, then Google assigns this information to the personal Google+ user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Google stores the Google+ 1 recommendation of the data subject, making it publicly available in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. Subsequently, a Google+ 1 recommendation given by the data subject on this website together with other personal data, such as the Google+ account name used by the data subject and the stored photo, is stored and processed on other Google services, such as search-engine results of the Google search engine, the Google account of the data subject or in other places, e.g. on Internet pages, or in relation to advertisements. Google is also able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored on Google. Google further records this personal information with the purpose of improving or optimizing the various Google services.
Through the Google+ button, Google receives information that the data subject visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call-up to our website is logged in to Google+. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks or doesn’t click on the Google+ button.
If the data subject does not wish to transmit personal data to Google, he or she may prevent such transmission by logging out of his Google+ account before calling up our website.
Further information and the data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. More references from Google about the Google+ 1 button may be obtained under https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
15. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google-AdWords
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows the advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-define specific keywords with the help of which an ad on Google's search results only then displayed, when the user utilizes the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.
The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website.
If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject through Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, e.g, the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or canceled a sale of goods.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.
The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as stated above, by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie set by Google AdWords may be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject has a possibility of objecting to the interest based advertisement of Google. Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
16. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Matomo
On this website, the controller has integrated the Matomo component. Matomo is an open-source software tool for web analysis. Web analysis is the collection, gathering and evaluation of data on the behavior of visitors from Internet sites. A web analysis tool collects, inter alia, data on the website from which a data subject came to a website (so-called referrer), which pages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a sub-page was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used for the optimization of a website and the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The software is operated on the server of the controller, the data protection-sensitive log files are stored exclusively on this server.
The purpose of the Matomo component is the analysis of the visitor flows on our website. The controller uses the obtained data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of this website in order to compile online reports, which show the activities on our Internet pages.
Matomo sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, an analysis of the use of our website is enabled. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically through the Matomo component prompted to submit data for the purpose of online analysis to our server. During the course of this technical procedure, we obtain knowledge about personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves to understand the origin of visitors and clicks.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which access was made, and the frequency of visits to our website. With each visit of our Internet pages, these personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, are transferred to our server. These personal data will be stored by us. We do not forward this personal data to third parties.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the used Internet browser would also prevent Matomo from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Matomo may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by Matomo as well as the processing of these data by Matomo and the chance to preclude any such. For this, the data subject must set a "Do Not Track" option in the browser.
With each setting of the opt-out cookie, however, there is the possibility that the websites of the controller are no longer fully usable for the data subject.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Matomo may be retrieved under https://matomo.org/privacy/.
17. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Xing
On this website, the controller has integrated components of XING. XING is an Internet-based social network that enables users to connect with existing business contacts and to create new business contacts. The individual users can create a personal profile of themselves at XING. Companies may, e.g. create company profiles or publish jobs on XING.
The operating company of XING is XING SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a XING component (XING plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding XING component of XING. Further information about the XING plug-in the may be accessed under https://dev.xing.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, XING gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on XING, XING detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the XING component and associated with the respective XING account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on the XING button integrated on our Internet site, e.g. the "Share"-button, then XING assigns this information to the personal XING user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
XING receives information via the XING component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at XING at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the XING component or not. If such a transmission of information to XING is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their XING account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection provisions published by XING, which is available under https://www.xing.com/privacy, provide information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by XING. In addition, XING has published privacy notices for the XING share button under https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
18. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.
YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.
YouTube's data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
19. Legal basis for the processing
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
20. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legitimate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the shareholders.
21. Period for which the personal data will be stored
The criteria used to determine the period of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.
22. Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; Requirement necessary to enter into a contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data
We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.
23. Existence of automated decision-making
As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.
This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the DGD - Your External DPO that was developed in cooperation with German Lawyers from WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, Cologne.
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Decision time at the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship 2013 in Stuttgart
An Australian is the best lumberjack sportsman in the world
Kiwis from New Zealand win team competition
Brad De Losa from Australia from now on leads the international ranking list of the top lumberjack athletes. At the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship 2013, De Losa won three of six competitions wielding axe and saw masterfully and with the best time, thereby standing out clearly from the other competitors. A total of fourteen sportsmen from just as many countries competed at the World Championship in the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart on October 26. On the previous day, the team from New Zealand secured Gold in the team competition ahead of the teams from the United States and Australia. More than 10,000 spectators experienced the adrenaline rush with the athletes on both days of competition in the sold-out event at the Porsche Arena.
Technical precision, powerful and quick at the same time - this is how the world's fourteen greatest lumberjack sportsmen wielded their axe and saw as a piece of sports equipment at the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship 2013 in Stuttgart. The winner of this competition of top athletes was Brad De Losa. For the first time, the Australian prevailed over his competitors, and he did this in a clear manner. Second and third place was taken by US-American Matthew Cogar and Czech Martin Komárek. While New Zealand was still in the lead at the Team World Championship the day before, Australia was clearly in a dominating position on the second day of competition. World Champion Brad De Losa was delighted with his win: "Yet my start was a dream. I kept on working hard during the whole competition, and at the end, the dream became true." Runner-up world champion Matt Cogar was moved as well: "What happened here, was really unbelievable. I am so proud having been part of this competition. One day, I will look back to this moment, keeping an incomprehensibly great experience in mind."
The 14-strong starting field from Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand fought hard for the title. From the start, Australian Brad De Losa prevailed three of six disciplines with best times and took the lead in the field of competitors. By and by, he extended his lead, showing awesome performances at axe and saw. Finally, he reached for gold, not being really challenged by his competitors. The fight for second, however, remained undecided a long time; US-American Matt Cogar, Czech Martin Komárek and German Robert Ebner fought a neck-and-neck race. But it wasn't until the racing chain saw Hot Saw, that placement was decided, resulting in an ungrateful fourth place for the German. "At the end, it was again the Hot Saw that put a spoke in my wheel", commented Robert Ebner. "A time of about eight seconds would have been sufficient for me, but I wanted to hurry up. Then, I slipped off the start trigger, that's it. It was simply not to be." Jason Wynyard from New Zealand, world champion of the previous year, having won the title already five times, ended up in fifth.
During the first round of the competition, athletes competed in the disciplines Underhand Chop (axe), Stock Saw (saw) and Standing Block Chop (axe) to progress to the 2nd round. The top ten athletes then fought it out in the disciplines Single Buck (hand cross-cut saw) and Springboard (axe). The top six athletes then competed against each other in the final event, the Hot Saw (racing chain saw) discipline. By the end, for World Champion Brad De Losa 77 points after three rounds were enough to win the title. The runner-up and the third placed followed with 69 and 68 points. For the first time, the individual competition in 2013 was held after an initial series of rounds. And so it came down to the best performance in all six disci-plines; a poor round and one were out, no matter how strong the performance was in any of the other disciplines.
Four disciplines transform timber blocks into firewood – in less than a minute
On October 25, over 100 lumberjack athletes from 23 countries competed for Gold in the Team World Championship of the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Series in Stuttgart. The winners were the New Zealanders. They kept their nerve and gave an outstanding performance with the axe and saw; within 51,74 seconds the four sportsmen transformed just as many timber blocks into firewood, thus missing their own world record of the previous year only by 44 hundredths of a second. This secured 1st place for them ahead of the United States who needed only 62 hundredths more.
More than 10,000 spectators experienced the adrenaline rush with the athletes on both days of competition in the sold-out event at the Porsche Arena. The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship in 2013 took place for the ninth time and was held for the first time in Stuttgart. The top-class lumberjack sports series had previously taken place in Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland and Austria.
About the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® series
The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Series is an international competition series in lumberjack sports. The sport originated in Australia during the 19th century. Even then, foresters organized local competitions to find the best in their profession. Over time, these local events then developed into international competitions at the highest sporting level. The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Series has been going since 1985. Athletes compete in three axe and saw disciplines: Springboard, Underhand Chop and Standing Block Chop are part of the classic axe competitions; with Single Buck (hand cross-cut saw), Stock Saw (conventional chain saw) and Hot Saw (powerful 60 to 80 HP chain saw), athletes wield saws to compete for the best times. Although STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® competitions are multi-event competitions, it is not enough to simply be physically fit and demonstrate technical perfection in one discipline, for only consistently good performances in all three axe and saw disciplines will assure victory.
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A masterful performance with the axe and saw gave him a podium finish: At the World Championship in lumberjack sports, Martin Komárek came third, having become runner-up world champion at the World Championship 2012.
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Word Championship runner-up Matthew Cogar prevailed over Martin Komárek and Robert Ebner in the fight for the second place.
The final decision for Brad De Losa at the Hot Saw.
Brad De Losa is the new World Champion of the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Series. Fourteen national masters in lumberjack sports competed for the title in the Porsche Arena. Taking 2nd and 3rd place: Matthew Cogar, USA, and Czech Martin Komárek.
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship staged over 100 lumberjack athletes from 23 countries in the Stuttgart Porsche Arena.
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$238 Million in Infrastructure Projects Planned in Mon Power Area
Work Expected to Help Reduce Number and Duration of Power Outages and Meet Future Load Growth
To help enhance service reliability for customers, FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) is continuing construction work this summer and throughout the remainder of 2016 on distribution and transmission infrastructure projects totaling approximately $238 million in Mon Power's 34-county West Virginia service area.
To date, more than $150 million of the total has been spent on transmission enhancements to reinforce the system and support economic growth, along with constructing new distribution lines and inspecting and replacing utility poles and other equipment.
"Each year we carefully review and plan transmission and distribution projects that will enhance service to our customers while also preparing our system for future load growth," said Holly Kauffman, president of FirstEnergy's West Virginia operations. "By doing proactive upgrades, we focus on the reliability and resiliency of our system with the goal of reducing the duration and frequency of service interruptions."
FirstEnergy projects completed, underway or planned in the Mon Power footprint in 2016 include:
Completing construction on a new 138-kilovolt (kV) transmission line that will support the natural gas industry and enhance electric service reliability for nearly 13,000 Mon Power customers in the Clarksburg and Salem areas. The 18-mile transmission line will be energized later this year and connects substations in Clarksburg and Waldo Run. About $46 million of the $83 million project will be spent in 2016.
Constructing a new transmission substation near Smithfield, W.Va., to meet the electrical needs of a nearby gas processing facility expanding its operations. The $76 million project includes building a two-mile transmission line to connect the new substation with the plant. The project is scheduled to be operational by year's end, with about $44 million spent on the project in 2016. Additionally, the project should enhance service reliability for more than 6,000 Mon Power customers in Wetzel, Marion and Tyler counties.
Building a new substation and two new, three-mile power lines near Greenwood, W. Va., at a cost of about $5 million to provide electrical service to a fracking water treatment plant to be constructed in Doddridge County. The project should be complete and in-service by mid-2016.
Adding a second transformer at a cost of $700,000 to a substation near Cassville, W. Va., to enhance service reliability for nearly 2,000 customers in western Monongalia County.
Providing electrical service to new residential and commercial customers in north-central West Virginia, specifically the Interstate-79 corridor and Parkersburg region, at a cost of more than $23 million.
Upgrading and replacing equipment on distribution circuits throughout the service territory at an expected cost of more than $6 million. The updates – including installing new wire, cable and fuses – are expected to enhance reliability for Mon Power customers.
Inspecting about 22,000 distribution poles and replacing about 260 poles at an expected cost of more than $1.6 million.
About $88 million of the budgeted total will be for transmission-related projects owned by the Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line Company (TrAILCo), a FirstEnergy transmission affiliate.
Virtual Tour: PG&E's New Substation Training Center
Distributed Sensor Technology Provides Busbar Protection
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Rewriting Life
Caterpillar Flu Vaccine Delayed
The FDA wants further evidence that the novel approach is completely safe.
by Jennifer Chu
A new method of making flu vaccines is faster, more efficient, and more robust than the one that has been in use for the last 50 years. It has the potential to scale up rapidly, to deal with new strains of influenza such as this year’s H1N1, and to help stem a pandemic tide. However, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted in late November not to approve the technology, which involves growing key vaccine ingredients inside caterpillar cells instead of in chicken eggs, as is currently done. The FDA says that the company behind the new approach, Protein Sciences, based in Meriden, CT, needs to test it further before the method can be approved for use in the United States.
Growing immunity: These images show insect cells growing without virus genes (top) and with virus genes (bottom). Scientists say the approach can produce 100,000 doses of vaccine per week, and can be adapted for different viruses, including H1N1 (swine flu).
Jose Romero, chief of pediatric disease at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and a member of the 11-person FDA panel, says that, while the company has more to do in order to prove safety, the cell-based technology shows considerable promise.
“This type of technology is going to move traditional influenza vaccinology into the 21st century,” says Romero. “We recognize that there may come a day when a strain does arrive that cannot be supported by growth in traditional egg-based technology, and this and other cell-based technologies can breach that problem and provide us with another avenue for developing vaccines.”
Today’s egg-based vaccine technology is slow and unwieldy, requiring at least six months’ of production time and millions of eggs to supply enough doses for a regular flu season. If a new virus appears unexpectedly, the antiquated system wouldn’t be able to gear up fast enough to produce a new vaccine, many experts agree. What’s more, if the virus itself were derived from birds, it might reduce the supply of eggs, hampering the country’s main means of vaccine production.
For the past decade, Protein Sciences, along with a number of other companies, has been looking to cell-based vaccines as a more efficient and robust alternative. Instead of growing viruses in chicken eggs, researchers inject virus strains into insect cells. Both the virus and the cells then grow and multiply quickly in bioreactors. Scientists break the cell walls and harvest a key protein, called hemagglutinin, produced by the virus. This protein, found on the influenza virus’s outer surface, is responsible for binding to cells in the body, causing a viral infection. Scientists purify and inactivate the harvested protein so that it can stimulate an immune response without causing an infection. The protein is the main ingredient in a vaccine.
Protein Sciences’ technology, which is twice as fast as the egg-based approach, is a slight variation on the conventional cell-based approach. Instead of growing live viruses, the company replicates viral DNA within cells. The genes for hemagglutinin are extracted from a dead flu virus and injected into baculovirus–a virus that infects a caterpillar called the armyworm. The baculovirus is then injected into ovary cells isolated from the armyworm. In a bioreactor, the virus eats away at cells, replicating DNA and producing hemagglutinin.
“Because the starting material is a DNA sequence, it eliminates a lot of steps you have to go through, because the flu virus itself is not part of this production process,” says John Treanor, a medical advisor to the company and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. “You also don’t have concerns of workers getting infected, versus using a growing virus.”
Treanor headed four clinical trials to test the vaccine for effectiveness against seasonal flu. The trials compared the effects of the company’s vaccine against a conventional one in 3,231 people aged 18 and older.
The company presented its results to the FDA advisory board. While the new vaccine was found to protect against seasonal flu symptoms in those 18 to 49, it was not possible to draw significant conclusions for older participants. Several older subjects suffered from facial swelling after receiving the vaccine, and one developed a temporary paralysis on one side of the face. This might have been a preexisting condition, but researchers couldn’t be sure if the condition was independent of the vaccine. “When you have one case, it’s hard to know,” says Treanor.
The FDA panel recommended that the company expand the patient group to determine whether the vaccine is safe in a larger, older population.
Other companies seeking FDA approval for similar cell-based vaccines include Novartis, which opened a vaccine manufacturing plant in North Carolina this week and plans to produce vaccines from dog kidney cells.
FluGen, a vaccine company based in Madison, WI, has also entered the race. It is growing flu virus in manipulated hamster ovary cells–a cell line that has already been approved by the FDA for producing drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis. FluGen is a little behind its bigger competitors, but CEO Paul Radspinner says he will take a lesson from Protein Sciences’ experience when it comes time to seek FDA approval. “Maybe it’s a learning point,” says Radspinner. “We’ll be very careful with where we go with clinical trials where there’s a database of patients coming through, and [make sure] that preexisting conditions are being noted.”
Jennifer Chu
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New & Forthcoming Titles | International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship
International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship
Series Editors: Acs, Zoltan J., Audretsch, David B.
Interest in entrepreneurship has surged in the last decade. Scholars across a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines have responded by generating new research approaches uncovering a wealth of new findings and insights about entrepreneurship. This new research spans not just a diverse set of fields, such as management, finance, psychology, economics, sociology, and geography but also a wide range of countries reflecting the fact that entrepreneurship is a global phenomenon. The exceptionally cross-disciplinary nature of entrepreneurship has made it difficult for scholars in any one particular field to become aware of and understand the leading contributions and insights emerging in other disciplines. The purpose of this series is to compile a series of handbooks, each devoted to a particular issue in the entrepreneurship. Each handbook will draw upon the leading international scholars from the entire range of disciplines contributing to entrepreneurship to articulate the state of knowledge about a particular topic. The contribution should identify the fundamental questions, which are being posed, the methodological approaches, types of data bases used for empirical analyses, the most important empirical regularities to emerge in the literature, major policy conclusions, and the most promising research direction. Thus, each handbook will reflect the interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship that has proven to be elusive to discipline-based scholars. A goal of the International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship is not only to provide a state-of-the-art coverage of what has been learned about entrepreneurship, but that when viewed in its entirety, entrepreneurship is emerging as bone fide academic discipline.
The particular topics in the Series will be drawn from discussions with the leading scholars. Each handbook will be directed and compiled by a Handbook Editor. (S)he will work closely with the Series Editors to ensure that the contents and contributions are appropriate, and that there is consistency with the other volumes in the Series.
Responsible Editor, Nicholas Philipson
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Life-saving stem cell transplants for children
Our team provides stem cell transplants and exceptional care to help restore your child to health.
Cancer and Blood Diseases
Stem Cell Transplantation Overview
Treatment and Research
Brothers with IPEX syndrome get a second chance after stem cell transplant >
All Cancer and Blood Disease Clinical Trials
New Clinical Trial for Patients with SCID
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can be a curative therapy for children and young adults with immunological, hematological and metabolic diseases as well as for patients with cancers who have not responded to standard chemotherapy.
The Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation program was established at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in 1986. Since then, we have transplanted more than 900 patients.
The program is housed in a 12-bed Stem Cell Transplant Unit with HEPA-filtered air and a dedicated nursing staff on the first floor of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. The program is growing and will move to a new 24-bed unit. Now that the Stanford Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine is open, the program is capable of producing cells required for both cellular and gene therapies.
Testing an approach to reduce graft-versus-host disease
Graft-versus-host disease is one of the most common complications of stem cell transplantation. Stanford’s Maria Grazia Roncarolo, MD, and her team have launched a clinical trial to test whether T-cells can help prevent graft-versus-host disease after stem cell transplantation. This trial is only available at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
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The program is an active member of the Children’s Oncology Group, the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Consortium and the Bone Marrow Transplantation Clinical Trials Network. Our stem cell transplant patients are treated on either standard of care protocols or investigational protocols for diseases and conditions that have no established therapies. The investigational protocols have all been approved by both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Stanford Investigational Review Board. The program’s attending physicians are all board-certified physicians with accreditation in hematology, oncology and/or immunology, and all are certified by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).
Our principal goals are:
Improving the effectiveness and safety of stem cell transplantation
Developing approaches to treat patients and diseases that cannot currently be successfully treated by stem cell transplantation
We are currently developing several innovative theories, including:
An antibody-mediated preparative regimen for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation that does not require either chemotherapy or irradiation, thereby eliminating the side effects associated with the use of chemotherapy and irradiation
Regulatory T lymphocytes (TR1 cells) that are being evaluated for their ability to prevent acute graft-versus-host disease in mismatched stem cell transplantation
Innovative preparative regimens with reduced or no doses of cyclophosphamide to reduce or eliminate the side effects associated with cyclophosphamide
With the opening of the Stanford Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine, clinical Phase 1, proof-of-concept trials using gene editing and gene transfer techniques are under development to treat patients with diverse diseases, including:
Patients with sickle cell anemia, who will be treated by the transplantation of autologous hematopoietic stem cells that have been edited to replace the sickle cell anemia gene with the normal hemoglobin gene
Patients with IPEX syndrome, a genetic immunodysregulatory disease, who will be treated by the infusion of autologous T lymphocytes that have been transduced with a lentiviral vector containing the normal FOXP3 gene followed by the transplantation of autologous hematopoietic stem cells transduced with the same FOXP3-containing lentiviral vector
Patients with acute myelogenous leukemia, who will receive TR1 cells as a means to reduce acute graft-versus-host disease and also as immunotherapy for their acute myelogenous leukemia
Pre-clinical and developmental research has been undertaken by the members of the Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine and other scientists at Stanford University. The Stanford Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine makes it possible for pre-clinical research to be directly translated into Phase 1, proof-of-concept clinical trials at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
The clinical stem cell transplant of each patient is determined by the patient’s disease, the source of the hematopoietic stem cells used for transplantation, the stem cell donor and the patient’s prior clinical history. The stem cell donor can be the patient themselves (autologous) or someone else (allogeneic). The stem cells can come from bone marrow, peripheral blood or cord blood. The patient’s disease and clinical history will determine the specific therapy that he or she receives prior to transplantation. Patients are usually hospitalized for 1 to 2 months depending upon their clinical status. After their discharge, patients will have follow-up visits in the outpatient clinic, including the long-term follow-up clinic.
Stem cell transplant patient and family support
We recognize that stem cell transplantation places enormous emotional, financial, psychological and logistical burdens on patients and families. In addition to a dedicated inpatient and outpatient nursing staff, the program provides multifaceted support for patients and families, including dedicated social workers and child life specialists; a hospital-based school; physical, occupational and speech therapy; and spiritual support. Our social workers also conduct group therapy sessions for families. The hospital-based school is a unique collaboration between the hospital and the Palo Alto Unified School District that permits young patients to continue their schoolwork during transplantation and aids in their transition back to their original school.
In addition, the newly renovated Ronald McDonald House is available for housing patients and families. A shuttle is available to transport patients and families between the house and the hospital.
Contact us online or call (650) 497-8953 for more information.
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AMLO Talks With Trump, Proposes Job Plan For Central Americans
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) will unveil A new program to deter migration on Friday. | Photo: Reuters
Mexico's President Lopez Obrador talks with U.S. President DonaldTrump and says will introduce new program on Friday to deter migration in the region.
Mexico’s newly inaugurated President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced by Twitter that he had a “respectful and friendly” conversation with his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, about job creation in Central America and Mexico to benefit members of the Central American Exodus, or migrant caravan.
Mexico, US Foreign Ministers Have 'Friendly Conversation'
AMLO reported Wednesday night that he and Trump talked by phone “in respectful and friendly terms” to deal with the issue of migration and the possibility of applying a joint program for the development and creation of jobs in Central America and Mexico.
Lopez Obrador made humane “comprehensive” immigration policy a central tenet of his campaign platform in 2018 and signed a deal with the leaders of the Northern Triangle countries (Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador) to create “programs (and) projects ... in order to create jobs and fight poverty in the region,” just hours after being sworn in on Dec. 1.
The pact is backed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL).
Also present during the call was AMLO’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, who met with his counterpart, Mike Pompeo on Dec. 3.
Hoy conversamos por teléfono con el presidente Donald Trump. En términos respetuosos y de amistad, tratamos el tema migratorio y la posibilidad de aplicar un programa conjunto para el desarrollo y la creación de empleos en Centroamérica y en nuestro país. pic.twitter.com/6BHVGBIZH2
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) 13 de diciembre de 2018
Today we talked by phone with president Donald Trump. We talked in a respectful and friendly manner about migration and the possibility to implement a joint program to develop and create employment in Central America and our country.
Mexico’s head of state will also announce his administration’s immigration policy and "new instruments" for Central Americans to access jobs in the country.
As early as last July AMLO proposed to curb migration by addressing its root causes in a plan that would include the U.S., Mexico, and Central American countries, where each “would contribute according to the size of its economy,” said the then-presidential candidate.
“We could collect a considerable amount of resources for the development of the region where 75 percent would be directed to finance projects to create jobs and fight poverty, and the remaining 25 percent, [would be directed to] border control and security. In this way, I reiterate, we would be addressing the causes that originate the migratory phenomenon,” proposed AMLO several months ago.
The director of the nation’s Institute of Migration (INM), Tonatiuh Guillen Lopez told reporters at a press conference this week that the government will open up work opportunities for Northern Triangle citizens to work in Mexico’s southern states.
"The government's proposal is to open … the labor market.” The official added that migrants and refugees should “not be criminalized;” a regular practice among destination countries .
"President Trump has been the champion in denouncing the migrant caravan as criminals, but this has nothing to do with reality (that this is) a humanitarian crisis" Lopez said.
3,300 Exodus Migrants Fleeing 'War Zones-Like Conditions' Seek Asylum in Mexico
As AMLO tweeted about "friendly" relations with the U.S., Trump shouted over Twitter at the same time, “MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!”
Five migrant caravans have departed from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador since Oct. 12, trekking to Tijuana, Mexico in just over a month. The thousands of Central American asylum seekers have been accused by U.S. President Trump of being ‘criminal invaders’ as they made the dangerous journey to escape overwhelming poverty, violence and climate change within their home countries.
According to the 2017 International Migration Report, world migration rose from 173 million in 2000 to 220 million in 2010, then 258 million last year.
Andres Ramirez Silva, director of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar), said this week that about 3,000 Exodus refugees remain in temporary shelters in Tijuana and another 1,200 are in Mexicali, Mexico along the U.S. border waiting to enter the country.
Silva added that an estimated 1,100 “may have crossed into the United States."
Since the Exodus entered Mexico on Oct. 19, about 3,700 of them have requested asylum in the country, according to Silva. In 2018 there were 26,000 asylum applications, that is three times more than in 2014.
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Texas Supreme Court Opinion Summaries — 4/27/18
Posted by Rich Phillips, Emily Fitzgerald, and Chris Dachniwsky
Here are the summaries of the 10 cases issued by the Supreme Court of Texas on April 27, 2018:
No. 16-0301, Oncor Electric Delivery Co. LLC v. Chaparral Energy, LLC — In a unanimous opinion by Justice Boyd, the Supreme Court held that the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) has exclusive jurisdiction to resolve breach-of-contract claims against a PUC-regulated utility. In 2007, Chaparral Energy hired Oncor Electric Delivery to provide electricity to two wells Chaparral had recently drilled. Oncor allegedly represented that it could complete the work within about 90 days, or earlier. After a series of delays, and allegedly false representations, Oncor completed construction in December 2008. Chaparral sued Oncor in district court for breach of contract, alleging that Oncor did not act with good faith, failed to use reasonable diligence, and engaged in intentional misconduct. A jury found Oncor breached the contract and awarded damages to Chaparral. Oncor appealed and argued for the first time that the PUC had exclusive jurisdiction over the breach-of-contract claims. The court of appeals denied Oncor’s “jurisdictional challenge” and affirmed the trial court’s judgment. The Texas Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA) grants the PUC exclusive jurisdiction over “the rates, operations, and services of an electric utility.” Therefore, the Court analyzed whether the breach of a private contract falls within the scope of this exclusive jurisdiction. Determining that “services” is defined to have “its broadest and most inclusive meaning,” the Court held that the breach-of-contract claim involves Oncor’s “services,” and therefore the claim falls under the PUC’s exclusive jurisdiction. The Court further determined that the inadequate-remedy exception does not apply to relieve Chaparral of the obligation to exhaust its administrative remedies before the PUC before seeking relief in district court, and that requiring Chaparral to exhaust its administrative remedies does not deprive it of its constitutional rights to a jury trial or open courts.
No. 16-0519, Honors Academy, Inc. v. Texas Education Agency — This appeal arises from attempts by two open-enrollment charter schools to challenge a decision by the Commissioner of Education to revoke their charters. The Texas Education Code requires the Commissioner to revoke the charters of open-enrollment charter schools that fall below certain financial or academic standards for three consecutive years. The statute provides for an appeal to the State Office of Administrative Hearings, but mandates a deferential “arbitrary and capricious or clearly erroneous” standard of review and bars any judicial review of the administrative law judge's decision. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Devine (Justice Blacklock did not participate in the decision), the Court held that the schools' charters were not vested property rights and rejected a claim that the revocation violated the due course of law clause of the Texas Constitution or the prohibition on retrospective laws. The Court reasoned that because charter schools are essentially part of the public school system and not purely private entities, they are similar to subordinate governmental units (like municipal corporations), who do not acquire vested rights against the state. The Court also rejected the charters schools' attempts to invoke the ultra vires doctrine to support their claims against the Commissioner. The Court concluded that because the statute at issue made the Commissioner's decision final and unappealable, the schools were required to establish a “conspicuous and irreconcilable conflict" between the Commissioner's actions and the statute to obtain relief in an ultra vires suit. Because they failed to do so, they could not obtain relief. Justice Johnson issued a brief concurring opinion, again noting his concern about whether the Legislature has the constitutional authority to grant governmental immunity. Justice Johnson has commented on this in other cases, and seems to be inviting someone to bring a case to the Court that would allow full consideration of this issue.
No. 16-0542, Fort Worth Transportation Authority v. Rodriguez — This appeal arises from a wrongful-death suit against the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, two independent contractors, and the driver of a FWTA bus, after the bus hit and killed a pedestrian. The driver was employed by McDonald Transit, Inc., which was a subsidiary of McDonald Transit Associates, Inc. These two entities were, in turn, independent contractors of the FWTA. The primary issues in the appeal relate to how the damages cap in the Texas Tort Claims Act applies to FWTA, the two independent contractors, and the bus driver. Because the FWTA is a governmental unit, the claim is governed by the TTCA, which waives liability for certain claims, but includes a $100,000 damages cap. The TTCA also includes an election-of-remedies provision that bars recovery against governmental employees if the plaintiff sues the governmental unit. The court of appeals held that the $100,000 cap applies to each entity (the FWTA and its contractors) such that the plaintiffs could recover up to $300,000. The court of appeals also held that the bus driver was not protected by the election-of-remedies provision because she was employed by one of the contractors, not by the governmental unit. In an opinion by Justice Green (joined by Chief Justice Hecht and Justices Guzman, Devine, and Brown), the Court noted that the statute that authorizes local transportation authorities to contract with private entities to perform services expressly grants a private contractor the same limitation on liability contained in the TTCA. The Court then held that this damages cap applies cumulatively to the FWTA and the independent contractors such that the plaintiffs' total recovery against all three entities is limited to $100,000. The Court next held that the bus driver was protected by the election-of-remedies provision in the TTCA. The Court reasoned that if the independent contractors are treated as the government for purposes of liability, then the employee of the contractor should be treated as a governmental employee for purposes of liability. Justice Johnson issued a dissenting opinion (joined by Justices Lehrmann and Boyd). The dissenters would have held that the cap applies individually to each defendant and that the bus driver is not protected by the election-of-remedies provision in the TTCA. The dissent also points out that there may be constitutional issues with the Legislature's attempt to limit a private party's liability, but does not address those issues because they were not raised by the plaintiffs.
No. 16-0588, Lujan v. Navistar, Inc. — In this commercial dispute, the Court held that Texas recognizes the “sham-affidavit rule,” resolving an issue that has been festering for a long time in the courts of appeals. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Blacklock, the Court held that under Rule 166a(c), a trial court may not weigh the evidence or determine its credibility, but the court “may conclude that a party does not raise a genuine fact issue by submitting sworn testimony that materially conflicts with the same witness’s prior sworn testimony, unless there is a sufficient explanation for the conflict.” The Court warned that this rule does not authorize trial courts to strike every affidavit that contradicts the affiant’s prior sworn testimony. “Sometimes a contradictory affidavit is warranted. But an explanation for the contradiction is also warranted.” Further, the Court noted that federal precedent applying the sham-affidavit rule is persuasive because Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a) is materially indistinguishable from Rule 166a(c). The Court clarified that application of the sham affidavit rule:
(1) does not require a finding of bad faith;
(2) does not conflict with the Court’s holdings in Gaines v. Hamman, 358 S.W.2d 557 (Tex. 1962) (holding that when “conflicting inferences may be drawn from the deposition and from the affidavit of the same party, a fact issue is presented”), or Randall v. Dallas Power & Light Co., 752 S.W.2d 4 (Tex. 1988) (holding that when an inconsistency exists, depositions control over affidavits), because the sham affidavit rule provides only that the trial court may insist on a sufficient explanation, and may grant summary judgment if none is forthcoming, when the circumstances point to the likelihood of a sham rather than a legitimate conflicting inference; and
(3) is reviewable for abuse of discretion.
No. 16-0626, Willacy County Appraisal District v. Sebastian Cotton & Grain, Ltd. — This case arises from a dispute about the taxation of grain inventory stored on property in Willacy County. The property owner (Sebastian Cotton & Gran, Ltd.) initially told the appraisal district that it owned the grain and claimed an exemption from taxation. But when it received the tax bill (which rejected the exemption), Sebastian sought a modification of the tax roll to reflect that most of the grain was owned by a third party, DeBruce Grain. In support of that modification, Sebastian provided contracts showing the grain was sold to DeBruce. The chief appraiser agreed to change the tax rolls and the parties entered into an agreement under section 1.111(e) of the Property Tax Code. Sebastian received a refund on taxes paid and a new tax bill was sent to DeBruce. DeBruce then protested because the contracts at issue provided that they were subject to the National Grain and Feed Association Rules, which provided that title to the grain had not yet transferred to DeBruce. DeBruce also pointed out that two of the sale contracts had been cancelled. The appraisal district changed the tax rolls back to reflect that the grain was owned by Sebastian, and Sebastian challenged the district's authority to make that change. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Green, the Supreme Court held that (1) the correction was permissible under section 25.25(b) of the Property Tax Code; (2) the agreement between Sebastian and the chief appraiser under section 1.111(e) could be vitiated by fraud; and (3) Sebastian is not entitled to seek attorney's fees under section 42.29 of the Property Tax Code, because that section does not provide for fees in a proceeding under section 25.25(b).
No. 16-0804, Perryman v. Spartan Texas Six Capital Partners, Ltd. — In this deed-interpretation case, the Court addressed the application of the rule from Duhig v. Peavy-Moore Lumber Co., 144 S.W.2d 878 (Tex. 1940), which applies when a deed purports to grant more than the grantor owns without disclosing the grantor's limited interests. In Duhig, the grantor purported to convey 1/2 of the property to the grantee and to reserve 1/2 to himself. But the grantor did not disclose that a third party already owned 1/2 of the property. In that case, the Court held that because the grantor misrepresented what he owned by purporting to convey 1/2 and reserve 1/2, the grantor was estopped from claiming the 1/2 interest he tried to reserve for himself. Here, the deed provided that the grant of the royalty interest was “less, save and except” an “undivided one-half (1/2) of all royalties from the production of oil, gas and/or other minerals that may be produced from the above described premises which are now owned by the Grantor.” At the time of the conveyance, the grantors owned all of the premises, but owned only 3/4 of the royalty interests. The court of appeals held that the Duhig rule applied to estop the grantors from claiming an interest in the 1/2 of the royalties excepted from the conveyance. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Boyd (but without the participation of Justice Blacklock), the Court reached the “same basic outcome as the court of appeals,” but did so using a different rationale. The Court first concluded that the deeds at issue did not create a Duhig problem, because they did not purport to reserve any royalty interests for the grantors. They merely excepted 1/2 of the royalty interest from the grant. (In reaching this conclusion, the Court disagreed with both petitioners and respondents, who all agreed that the “less, save, and except” language was a reservation.) Instead, the Court construed the language of the exception clause to determine what was conveyed. The Court invoked the last-antecedent doctrine to conclude that the most reasonable construction of the deed is that the “now owned by Grantor” language modifies only “premises,” and not “royalties” or “minerals.” Therefore, the Court concluded that the clause excepted 1/2 of all the royalties from all of the premises, which means that the deeds conveyed 1/2 of the royalty interests, not just 1/2 of the royalty interest the grantors then owned. That left the grantees collectively with 1/2 of the royalty interest, the grantors with 1/4 of the royalty interest and the third party with the 1/4 royalty interest it already owned.
No. 16-0829, In re State of Texas — This case arises from a civil commitment order for a person found by a jury to be a sexually violent predator. The civil commitment procedure allows the State to continue supervision and treatment of someone found to be a sexually violent predator after completion of the criminal sentence. The statute at issue requires appointment of counsel for indigent persons at specified hearings during the civil commitment. In 2015, the relevant statute was amended to provide for a tiered system of supervision and treatment. The amendment also provided a procedure to modify already existing civil commitment orders to make them compliant with the amended statute. In this case, the person subject to civil commitment argued that he was entitled to appointment of counsel for the hearing to modify his civil commitment order under the 2015 amendments. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Lehrmann (Justice Blacklock did not participate in the decision), the Supreme Court disagreed. The Court first concluded that nothing in the statute requires appointment of counsel for the modification hearing. The Court then rejected the argument that due process required appointment of counsel because of the limited nature of the modification hearing. The Court expressly reserved any issues about the constitutionality of the civil commitment procedure as amended in 2015 and emphasized the narrow issue presented in this case.
No. 16-0851, In re North Cypress Medical Center Operating Co., Ltd. — The primary issue in this mandamus proceeding is whether a hospital’s negotiated reimbursement rates with private insurers are discoverable by an uninsured patient in a suit about the reasonableness of charges for medical treatment. In an opinion by Justice Lehrmann (joined by Justices Johnson, Boyd, Devine, Brown, and Blacklock), the Court held that those reimbursement rates are relevant and discoverable. The Court noted that the amounts charged by hospitals to uninsured patients are “increasingly arbitrary” and “are set as high as possible because reimbursement rates increase typically increase along with them.” Thus, because the “vast majority” of a hospital’s payments for its services come from private insurers and public payers, the reimbursement rates negotiated with those private insurers and public payers are at least some evidence of what constitutes a reasonable charge. The majority also noted that other courts across the nation have reached the some conclusion.
Chief Justice Hecht (joined by Justices Green and Guzman) dissented. The dissent primarily argued that the Court’s previous decision in In re National Lloyds Insurance Co., which holds that the amount of one party’s attorney’s fees in a case is generally irrelevant in determining the reasonableness of its opponent’s fees, is indistinguishable from this case, and that the marginal relevance of the private and public reimbursement rates will be outweighed by risks of abuse and confusion to the jury.
No. 16-0935, Youngkin v. Hines — In this first of two cases addressing Texas's anti-SLAPP statute (the Texas Citizens Participation Act), the Supreme Court holds that an attorney’s statements in open court constitute the exercise of the right to petition such that a lawsuit brought in response to those statements may be dismissed under the TCPA. The case arises from a claim by one party in litigation against the other side's lawyer for allegedly defrauding him out of certain real estate through a settlement agreement read into the record in a prior litigation. The attorney moved to dismiss the claims under the TCPA, arguing that his recital of the settlement agreement into the court record constituted the exercise of his right to petition. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Lehrmann, the Court first held that the TCPA applies to these statements even though the attorney was not exercising his own right to petition, because while the statutory text references the First Amendment, it does not restrict the definition of the term “exercise of the right to petition” to only constitutionally protected activities. The Court then held that the attorney had established the affirmative defense of attorney immunity even though he submitted no evidence on that defense, because the facts required to support the defense are: (1) the type of conduct at issue and (2) the existence of an attorney-client relationship, neither of which were contested issues.
No. 17-0437, Castleman v. Internet Money Limited — In this second TCPA case of the day, the Supreme Court addressed the application of the commercial-speech exception to the TCPA. In a per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court noted a divide between the courts of appeals on how to interpret the commercial-speech exception, and clarified that the exception applies when four factors are present:
(1) the defendant is primarily engaged in the business of selling or leasing goods;
(2) the defendant made the statement on which the claim is based in his capacity as the seller or lessor of those goods;
(3) the statement arose out of a commercial transaction involving the goods the seller provides; and
(4) the intended audience of the statement was actual or potential customers of the defendant.
The Court noted that any other construction would deny the protections of the TCPA to any vendor or merchant, regardless of the context of their speech. Applying these, the Court noted that while the defendant was primarily engaged in the business of selling goods, his allegedly defamatory statements did not arise out of his sale of those goods, but instead arose out of his status as a customer of the plaintiff’s services. Accordingly, the commercial-speech exception did not apply. The Court remanded the case to the court of appeals to address whether the defendant met his burden under the TCPA to secure dismissal of the legal action.
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Murdoch Awaits Decision on His Dow Offer
RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
The News Corporation appeared tantalizingly close to succeeding in its bid to acquire Dow Jones & Company.
The News Corporation appeared tantalizingly close to winning the support of enough members of the Bancroft family to succeed in its bid to acquire Dow Jones & Company last night, but not close enough to conclusively claim victory.
Family members and trusts representing more than 30 percent of the shareholder vote — enough to put the deal over the top — indicated to their lawyers that they would support the bid, but some of them had not yet delivered signed commitments and could still back away, according to people briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss it.
Late last night, bankers on both sides said that the Bancrofts’ chief lawyer, Michael B. Elefante, who was canvassing the family members, still had not given them a precise count of votes committed and those still pending. Some votes appeared to be held up by last-minute negotiations over a side issue — who would pay the fees of the bankers and lawyers advising the family and its various trusts.
The News Corporation has not said how many firmly committed votes it needs from the family before it will be confident enough in the outcome to proceed; people involved in the negotiations put the minimum figure at 30 to 34 percent of the overall shareholder vote.
The Ottaway family, longtime junior partners in Dow Jones, hold 7 percent of the shareholder vote and are opposed to the deal, and the Bancrofts, with 64 percent, were deeply divided, with a set of alliances that continued shifting until the last day.
That leaves 29 percent of the vote in outside hands, the great majority of which is expected to favor the deal. But it is hard to predict what fraction will vote against, and how many shareholders simply will not vote — making it equally hard to be certain how many Bancroft shares the News Corporation needed.
The $5 billion, $60-a-share takeover would give Mr. Murdoch one of the world’s great media trophy properties and a larger voice in national affairs. It would also provide a ready source of material and credibility for his newest big gamble, the Fox Business Channel, which he plans to start in October.
Dow Jones’s centerpiece is The Wall Street Journal, with domestic circulation of more than two million six days a week, second only to USA Today, but the company also has many other parts, like Barron’s magazine, Dow Jones Newswires, the MarketWatch Web site and Factiva, an electronic news archive and information service.
The byzantine takeover fight, which has already dragged on for four months, took several more unorthodox turns yesterday.
Last night, well after the 5 p.m. Eastern deadline for the Bancroft votes to be delivered to the family’s Boston law firm, Hemenway & Barnes, there was still no firm answer from one set of family trusts.
Those trusts are controlled by another set of the family’s lawyers, based in Denver, who were seeking a higher price for the supervoting Class B shares, which are owned primarily by the Bancrofts. Dow Jones management has firmly opposed such a premium.
Another complication emerged yesterday as those Denver trusts sought to have Dow Jones pay their fees and expenses for advisers and lawyers, which could run into the millions of dollars, according to people involved in the talks.
The Denver trusts and several others have suggested that by having the company pay the family’s fees and expenses, they would effectively receive a differential price.
Some people involved in the talks suggested that if Dow Jones were willing to pay the fees and expenses, some of the trusts would most likely vote in favor of the deal.
Complicating the situation further was the revelation that Merrill Lynch, which had been representing the family on behalf of the Boston-based branch, had struck a deal for Dow Jones to pay its expenses, while advisers to other parts of the family had no such arrangement.
The arrangement with Merrill Lynch had some family members up in arms yesterday, claiming that it was a conflict of interest because Merrill Lynch had made repeated presentations to the entire family and was supposed to be unbiased.
The Denver faction, controlling 9 percent of the shareholder vote, is crucial to the deal — it is the only large bloc that wants to sell, but has been holding out for a higher price. If it can be won over, that would almost certainly give Mr. Murdoch enough confidence that he has a majority to proceed with a shareholder vote.
The history of the News Corporation’s takeover attempt has been one of the most convoluted in recent memory. The Bancrofts at first declined to respond to the offer, then rejected it out of hand and did not reply to Mr. Murdoch’s missives, and then finally agreed to talk with him.
The result was essentially a three-way negotiation, with the Dow Jones board, the News Corporation and the Bancrofts looking for common ground. Meanwhile, the family hashed out its own internal disputes, with some members wavering and others changing sides outright, making it difficult all along to take a reliable reading of its intentions.
The family won an agreement to limit Mr. Murdoch’s control of the Journal’s newsroom and its pages, but it did not go as far as the arrangement they originally demanded.
Experts in trusts and estates said that if the Bancrofts rejected the offer, it might lead to a flurry of lawsuits pitting family members against each other. They said that people who wanted to sell but had little or no voting power over their shares could have strong cases against trustees — whether family members or not — who voted against the deal.
“The requirement for prudent investing by the trustees overrules the right to retain the Dow Jones stock,” said William Zabel, a trusts and estates lawyer at the firm Schulte, Roth & Zabel. “The lack of any competing offer would appear to make it legally unreasonable for them not to sell.”
Donald A. Hamburg, a trusts and estates lawyer at the firm Golenbock, Eiseman, Assor, Bell & Peskoe, said that “the answer to every trust question lies in the wording of the particular trust,” and there could be provisions in the Bancroft trusts that give the trustees particular powers to do as they see fit.
But as a general matter, he said, “a trustee has to vote in the best interests of the entire group of beneficiaries,” and turning down a windfall could easily be seen as a violation of that principle. Even younger members of the family who are not current beneficiaries, but would inherit interests in the trusts, would have standing to sue, he said.
In The Journal’s central newsroom in the World Financial Center, according to reporters working there, there was an eerie silence late Monday afternoon, as people nervously awaited an answer and many of them obsessively checked the internal “News Edge” wires system for news.
Similar scenes played out in the paper’s Washington and Los Angeles bureaus, with several reporters and editors saying the apprehensive feeling in the air was because of concerns about Mr. Murdoch as well as the worry that Dow Jones would be even more vulnerable if the deal collapsed.
The nail-biting played out against increasing newsroom tension between those who favor the sale and those who do not. Several reporters in the paper’s Pursuits and Weekend Journal sections said they were furious that their editors had been talking favorably about life under the News Corporation.
To the last, people inside and outside Dow Jones who opposed the sale were trying to arrange alternative deals that would allow some Bancroft family members to sell and others to keep control of the company. Brad Greenspan, an Internet entrepreneur, said that in the last few days, he arranged conversations between one of his tentative backers for such a bid, Intel Capital, and Leslie Hill, a family member who sits on the Dow Jones board.
Mr. Murdoch has said he wants to invest in The Journal and beef up its national affairs coverage, diluting its traditional emphasis on business news, and its European and Asian editions, making it a tougher competitor for The New York Times and The Financial Times. That could mean losing money in the short run, something Mr. Murdoch has always been willing to do with certain properties.
Mr. Murdoch first made his offer to Dow Jones’s chief executive, Richard F. Zannino, over breakfast on March 29, and made a formal, written bid to the board on April 17, but news of the offer did not break until May 1.
On May 2, Mr. Zannino made a presentation to the Dow Jones board that made it seem to many of them that the company’s prospects on its own were poor and that he favored a sale. He later insisted that he had not meant to give those impressions, but even so, the presentation had a sobering effect, and most of the board clearly thought that Mr. Murdoch’s $60-a-share offer was simply too good to pass up.
That breakfast with Mr. Murdoch set in motion a long struggle within the Bancroft family. Factions formed and dissolved, and momentum swung widely as family members changed sides, children were pitted against parents and, in some cases, siblings opposed each other.
For a private, reserved clan that had long frowned on confrontation or aggressive involvement in the company’s affairs, it was a long, uncomfortable conflict, played out with the news media trying to dissect their personalities and rivalries. And for much of that time, shareholders and executives at both companies could do little but watch and wait as the family labored to reach a conclusion.
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Social media to blame for increase in trademark cases, says Little League
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The non-profit amateur baseball competition Little League has claimed social media have caused an increase in cases of its trademark being infringed.
In an interview with the sports website of the Pennsylvania State University, Penn Live, Patrick Wilson, senior vice president of operations and program development at Little League, said “the growth of trademark infringement is attributed mostly to social media”.
Wilson also stated that the organisation’s annual report listed 45 instances of trademark infringement in the year ending September 30, 2013.
“Protecting our name and brand identity, which is a point of differentiation, is extremely important to our organisation,” he said.
The organisation holds the rights to the trademark ‘Little League’, ‘Little Leaguer’ and ‘Little League Baseball’, as well as the Little League logo, which features a white silhouette of a player hitting a ball on top of a blue and red stitched baseball, with the words ‘Little League’ on top and ‘Baseball’ on the bottom.
Other variations include a white silhouette of a player cheering and a child with a parent.
Protecting its trademarks online is increasingly a problem for the amateur baseball organisation.
A lawsuit filed in July at the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleged that the domain alittleleaguelearningcenter.com and alittleleaguelearning.com, managed by the Florida-based A Little League Learning Center, infringed its trademark.
Social media; trademark infringement; Little League
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I am interested in all aspects of social evolution, especially in ants. Most of my recent research has focused on army ants and the evolution of colony kin-structures. My general research interests include molecular phylogenetics, the evolution of social systems, social conflicts, and population genetics.
Apr - Aug 2008 Post-doc in Prof. L. Keller's group. University of Lausanne. Apr 2007 - Mar 2008 Post-doc in Prof. J. J. Boomsma's group. University of Copenhagen. Dec 2003 - Mar 2007 PhD. "Army ants - a study in molecular ecology and evolution". Supervisor: Prof. J. J. Boomsma. University of Copenhagen. Jun 2003 - Nov 2003 Research assistant in Prof. B. Hölldobler's and Prof. J. Gadau's group. University of Würzburg. Oct 1999 - Apr 2003 Biology Diploma. "Molecular phylogenetics and the evolution of slavery in honey ants (genus Myrmecocystus)". Supervisors: Prof. B. Hölldobler, Prof. J. Gadau. University of Würzburg. Jul 2000 - Jul 2001 Graduate student. Work on squirrel and gecko molecular phylogenetics in Prof. L. Roth's and Prof. J. Mercer's group. Duke University. Oct 1997 - Oct 1999 Biology Prediploma. University of Heidelberg.
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> Scholarship News
> 2014 Samstag Scholarships announced
2014 Samstag Scholarships announced
Samstag media release
The University of South Australia has today announced the 2014 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships.
The two recipients of the prestigious 2014 Samstag Scholarships are Madison Bycroft, from South Australia, and Linda Tegg, from Victoria.
These renowned and prestigious scholarships have been awarded on behalf of the Trustee of the estate of Gordon Samstag, the celebrated American artist who taught at the South Australian School of Art in the 1960s. A total of 132 Samstag Scholarships have now been awarded since 1992.
Madison Bycroft, a recent graduate of the South Australian School of Art, part of the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia, is an artist who according to arts writer Jasmin Stephens ‘uses video installation and sculpture to evince a unified optimism to art and life’. Since graduating, her work has featured in a variety of exhibitions, and her latest work Songs for Tounji has been awarded the 2013 Fleurieu Art Prize Youth Commission for Sculpture. Bycroft intends to use the Scholarship to develop the sculptural potential of her practice.
Linda Tegg, an artist using photography, video, installation and performance, creates works of art that challenge the act of viewing and being viewed. Tegg received a Masters from the Victorian College of the Arts and is currently living and working in Melbourne. Her work Tortoise, 2013, was featured in ‘NEW13’ at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, highlighting Tegg as a promising talent to watch. The Samstag Scholarship will enable Tegg to further her interest in interdisciplinary practice by working within a world leading post-graduate program that actively links artistic, design and scientific research.
Both artists will receive a twelve month living allowance of US$43,000 (United States dollars), as well as travel expenses and the cost of institutional study fees at a destination of their choice.
The selection committee for 2014 Samstag Scholarships were the University of South Australia’s Associate Professor Andrew Hill, Director of the South Australian School of Art and Louise Haselton, artist and lecturer at the School of Art; with external artist selector Mikala Dwyer, an internationally exhibited artist, lecturer at the Sydney College of the Arts and celebrated recipient of a Samstag Scholarship, in 2005.
This year the commissioned Samstag essayist writing on Madison Bycroft and Linda Tegg is respected arts writer and curator Jasmin Stephens. Stephens’ essays along with selected images and films, and biographical information of both artists, are available on the Samstag Program website.
Samstag Museum of Art Director Erica Green in extending her congratulations to these two outstanding recipients, noted that ‘the Samstag Scholarships have now been awarded for over twenty years, a remarkable legacy that has provided all scholars with significantly enhanced opportunities for developing their practice and furthering their careers. The Samstag Bequest is a legacy that with prudent management, and despite the world-wide financial situation affecting many benefactions, will continue in perpetuity’.
For further information contact
Erica Green, Director, Samstag Museum of Art
Tel + 618 (08) 8302 0872
Email: erica.green@unisa.edu.au
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Oct. 23, 2009 / 12:27 PM
Google and Microsoft go green
LONDON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Technology giants Google and Microsoft could look to investments in offshore wind farms in Britain as part an effort to go green, energy advisers said.
Investments in offshore wind farms would coordinate with corporate strategies to cut costs and the environmental footprint of their energy consumption, though neither company offered information on future investments, The Financial Times reports.
Both companies are active in so-called green energy technology. John Lynch, who heads the European power division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told the Times he "would not be surprised" if information companies invested in wind as a way to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
London, meanwhile, needs offshore wind power in order to meet its goal of generating around 30 percent of national energy demands with renewable resources. With the British economy limping along in recession, however, revenue for such technology is in short supply.
While analysts said Google and Microsoft would only take a minority stake in offshore wind farms, Charles Anglin of the British Wind Energy Association said companies with big energy bills might foot at least part of the move to go green.
"Companies with a big electricity bill will be looking to get into the business and supply themselves," he said.
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Jaguars' defense gets embarrassed by Titans' Henry
Jacksonville Jaguars' defense follows up shutout performance with dreadful effort in 30-9 loss to Tennessee Titans
Jaguars' defense gets embarrassed by Titans' Henry Jacksonville Jaguars' defense follows up shutout performance with dreadful effort in 30-9 loss to Tennessee Titans Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2018/12/06/jaguars-defense-gets-embarrassed-by-titans-henry/38687903/
AP Published 11:29 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2018 | Updated 1:19 a.m. ET Dec. 7, 2018
Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry (22) runs into the end zone for a touchdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/James Kenney)(Photo: The Associated Press)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars' defense followed up a shutout with a washout.
A defense that prides itself as one of the NFL's best got embarrassed on a national stage by Derrick Henry in the Jaguars' 30-9 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thursday night.
"It was sad out there," Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey said.
Henry stiff-armed three Jaguars on an NFL record-tying 99-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and spent the rest of the night running all over a defense that seemed like it would have rather been anywhere else. Henry finished the night with a franchise-record 238 yards rushing and four touchdowns on just 17 carries.
Jacksonville's toothless offense generally leaves its defense with no margin for error. The Jaguars produced a single-digit scoring total for the fifth time this season Thursday. They have exceeded 21 points just once in their last nine games.
So if the defense isn't dominant, the Jaguars have little chance of winning. That defense was virtually flawless Sunday as the Jaguars snapped a seven-game skid with a 6-0 victory over Indianapolis that resulted in Colts quarterback Andrew Luck's first career shutout loss.
But a defense that could do no wrong against the Colts did very little right Thursday.
"We pitched a shutout to a top-five offense, and then you come back and you're sitting here right now and got drummed like that on national TV," Jaguars safety Tashaun Gipson said. "Who would want to watch the Jaguars on national television when you let Derrick Henry run for (almost) 250? He could have run for 300 today, if we're being honest with ourselves. If I was his coach, I would have let him break the record."
The difference was that the Colts continually threw the ball against a Jacksonville defense that has allowed 15 touchdown passes all season, matching Minnesota for the fewest of any NFL team. Jacksonville is more vulnerable against the run, which helps explain why the Jaguars have lost to the Titans four straight times.
"We've got to stop the run," Jaguars cornerback A.J. Bouye said. "Everybody tried to talk about like how our defense is back. People have got to realize Indy played to our strengths. They tried to pass the ball (nearly) 60 times. (Tennessee) didn't really try to pass the ball today. They just ran the ball and they dominated. That's been the common denominator for the last four times we played them."
Tennessee (7-6) took the lead for good by driving 73 yards on the game's opening possession and scoring on Henry's 3-yard touchdown run. Henry's second touchdown was far more impressive and capped a four-play sequence that essentially decided the game.
Jacksonville (4-9) trailed 7-2 and had second-and-goal at the 1 with a chance to take the lead in the second quarter, but the Jaguars failed to score. Leonard Fournette was stopped on a second-down run, quarterback Cody Kessler couldn't connect with Tommy Bohanon on third down and Fournette was stopped again on fourth down.
Then Henry delivered the knockout blow.
Henry cut around the left end and headed down the sideline. His first stiff-arm knocked cornerback A.J. Bouye out of the play about 20 yards downfield. Henry later used his arm to toss linebacker Leon Jacobs to the ground and then stiff-armed linebacker Myles Jack out of the way as well.
The 2015 Heisman Trophy winner from Alabama then sailed into the end zone and celebrated with a Heisman pose. The only other NFL player ever to score on a 99-yard run was Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett, who did it for the Dallas Cowboys against the Minnesota Vikings in 1983.
"He knows how to use that stiff arm good," Bouye said. "In my mind, I was like, 'Let me slow him up.' I slowed him up and he stiff-armed two more guys. That's when you realize how good his stiff arm is."
Henry wasn't finished imposing his will on Jacksonville's defense.
He scored two more touchdowns in the third quarter — one on a 16-yard run up the middle and another on a 54-yard burst around right end. His 238-yard performance broke the franchise record previously held by Chris Johnson, who ran for 228 yards against Jacksonville on Nov. 1, 2009.
"It was like Little League out there," Gipson said. "Every time he touched the ball, he was scoring, it felt like."
Jaguars defensive end Calais Campbell insisted the Jaguars didn't give up even as they missed plenty of tackles and couldn't bring down Henry. Campbell cited a goal-line stand the Jaguars made after the Titans already had built a 30-9 lead.
"We didn't play good enough, but nobody quit," Campbell said. "That's not in our DNA."
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Collingwood's Marley Williams convicted of GBH
February 21, 2014 — 8.37am
Collingwood young gun Marley Williams has been convicted of grievous bodily harm for breaking a man's jaw in a brutal one-punch attack outside a nightclub.
Williams' family and supporters slumped in their seats and wept as the jury at Albany District Court delivered the verdict following more than two-and-a-half hours of deliberations.
Collingwood's Marley Williams. Credit:Sebastian Costanzo
The 20-year-old had been charged with grievous bodily harm over the attack on 29-year-old Matthew Robertson during the Christmas holidays in 2012, and the jury had been told they had the option of finding Williams guilty of the lesser charge of assault.
But the 12-person panel found Williams guilty of the more serious charge, which carries a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
He will be sentenced in April.
The Magpies defender had pleaded not guilty to a count of grievous bodily harm over the violence outside Studio 146, which began when Williams ran into three men, including Mr Robertson, in the toilets.
Williams told police he had been assaulted there, and "I wasn't going to let them get the better of me".
But in court, he denied he had been angry and out for revenge when he hit Mr Robertson, claiming he feared for his own safety as the men approached him on the street.
"I threw a punch that I didn't think about - it was a reflex punch. I threw it to tell them to back off," Williams said.
"I was not intending to hurt anyone. It was more of a warning punch. It was either strike or be beaten up."
But prosecutors said Williams was acting out of "malicious, vindictive vengeance" when he swung the left-handed punch, which left Mr Robertson needing an emergency flight to Perth for surgery.
Prosecutor Tony Loudon said Williams attacked a man who was standing in an "utterly defensive position", posing no threat with his arms folded.
"He moves his weight to increase the power of his punch," Mr Loudon said. "This was a powerful punch, and he was intending to put his whole body behind it.
"How is that reasonable to defend himself against a man with his arms folded?"
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North Korean Video Imagines What It Would Be Like to Wipe Out a U.S. City
North Korea likes to drop hints about wanting to annihilate the United States, but just to make it clear, they've produced a helpful propaganda film to show exactly how that's going to go down.
Alexander Abad-Santos
North Korea likes to drop hints about annihilating the United States with nuclear weapons, but just to make it clear, they've produced a helpful propaganda film to show exactly how that's going to go down. The video—which was posted on one of North Korea's official propaganda websites, Uriminzokkiri, over the weekend—is a low-budget visualization of what a city that looks like what a North Korean thinks New York City might look like burning in horror to the tune of "We Are the World."
As you can see it all begins with an odd dream sequence of a patriotic North Korean citizen that involves the rocket launch the country had in December. And yeah, that's "We Are the World" playing while all of this is happening. That sort of makes sense in that the video is imagining a unified Korea—such is the power of the rocket. Here's the sort of scary part. The rocket, which unified Korea, eventually evolves into this friendly-looking thing:
Except that thing is anything but friendly. That spaceship zooms over a United States which seems to be on fire, and this city, which we think is supposed to be New York, being attacked:
According to Australia's AAP news agency, the captions read: "Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing ... It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze." And here's one more shot of the imagined U.S. city being bombed. (Mind you, "We Are the World" has not stopped at this point.)
The video concludes with the dream being over, but an inspired young man believing this can surely happen. "Despite all kinds of attempts by imperialists to isolate and crush us ... never will anyone be able to stop the people marching toward a final victory," the video says.
So, North Korea really doesn't like the U.S. very much lately. Our first clue was that Barack Obama did not receive a New Year's card from Kim Jong-un, like the prime minister of Malta and president of Mongolia did. But also, the U.S. along with South Korea and Japan haven't been supportive of North Korea's nuclear ambitions of late. And North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency wrote today:
The DPRK has drawn a final conclusion that it will have to take a measure stronger than a nuclear test to cope with the hostile forces' nuclear war moves that have become ever more undisguised. This is the demand of the people.
There is no other option for the DPRK but to fight it out.
Well, they have now exhausted the only other option of imagining the whole thing via low budget propaganda videos.
Alexander Abad-Santos is a former writer for The Wire.
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The ultimate guide for everything local
Should your Shrewsbury business be harnessing the power of Pinterest?
Every month a new 'next big thing' in the social media world emerges and if you are a Shrewsbury based business or social media user it can be a big headache trying to keep up.
Despite their heralding with trumpets and fanfares, none of them ever seem to have the weight to make much of a dent in the popularity of the big boys - facebook and twitter.
In fact, new platforms are enjoying increasingly shorter lifespans, quickly being steamrolled into submission by the mainstays, as they battle for social media supremacy, or attaching themselves to these heavyweights in order to gain a good reputation from the off.
Pinterest, however, is proving it has the mettle to stand up and be counted and is bringing something almost new to the table. It started out in 2010 as a simple virtual pinboard where users 'pin up' their favourite things, everything from a Victoria Sponge recipe to a design for their dream bathroom, but in a few short months Pinterest has become slicker, smarter and is now the third most visited social media platform (in March 2012) behind only Facebook with seven billion visits and Twitter with 150 million.
Unlike the other platforms which centre around text-based status updates, Pinterest is image-based and is a gallery of each user's personal preferences, sentiments and images and populated by their favourite products and brands.
Brands, therefore, have been forced tosit up and take notice and it has been a case of 'if you snooze, you lose' - not only because of Pinterest's exponential growth and almost unprecedented popularity, but also for the simple fact that each pin on the social sharing site represents a personal endorsement by the user - an endorsement which is then shared over and over again.
In the US, Pinterest has a strong demographic concentration with approximately 70% of the site’s 12 million users being women aged 25 – 44, half of which have children.
In the UK though, it's far more even with 56% of users being male of the same age range. The UK usage may currently be dramatically less than the US, but trend analysis suggests it is only a matter of time before the UK catches up with a female stronghold and with usage shifting away from marketing and venture capitalist content to being design, fashion and product-led like the US.
Like all social sharing platforms, the key to cracking the crowd as a retailer is interaction. Pinterest users are happy to support brands' advertising efforts, just not intentionally. Pinterest isn't solely about self-promotion like Facebook and Twitter, it's about providing value-added content - telling the world what your brand likes are and gaining popularity and boosting awareness as a result. If you are a service-oriented business and not product-led, remember, pins should complement the lifestyle your brand promotes and most importantly they should be fun.
It's still early days for Pinterest and there are several issues that need to be ironed out, copyright for one and the fact it is prone to crashing (popularity curse), but if you're still wondering if there's room for Pinterest in your social media strategy, then consider the fact that in January 2012 Pinterest drove more traffic to business websites than Google Plus and YouTube combined. A fact which no one can argue with, or perhaps, afford to ignore.
If you would like to learn more about your social media needs and how it could help your business go further, call us here at thebestof Shrewsbury on 01743 454959.
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American Ideas and Innovation
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Step into a world where past innovations fuel the imagination of generations to come. A vibrant exploration of genius in all its forms, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation allows you to experience the strides of America’s greatest minds while fully immersing yourself in their stories. Step inside the bus where Rosa Parks took a stand by taking a seat. Play pilot as you explore flight innovations, starting with the Wright brothers' achievements, or make yourself at home inside Buckminster Fuller’s circular Dymaxion House. Put yourself in the place of the movers and shakers who blazed the trail to where we stand today. And in doing so, discover your own path.
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Looking for inspiring things to do? From race cars to freedom rides, modular houses to microprocessors, the wide-ranging exhibits of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation bring you face to face with real things that have the power to inspire, inform and engage you in ways no image or description can do on its own.
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Find your next obsession on a quirky journey through the outlandish and profound creations of brilliant hackers, inventors and entrepreneurs. Inside and outside Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, explore 24 acres of cutting-edge technology alongside the historic inventions and innovations that first sparked the maker movement.
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All tagged movie
Apr 29 Avengers assemble one last time in epic finale
Alexandra Licata -- SPORTS EDITOR
Seven years after the release of “The Avengers” and 11 years after the launch of Marvel Studios’ “Iron Man,” a core part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) comes to a highly anticipated end with “Avengers: Endgame.” The franchise leaves behind a transformation of the film industry, use of technology and a new definition of what it means to be a hero.
Apr 22 An underwhelming ‘After'thought
Victoria Bell - ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Based on a popular One Direction Wattpad fan fiction of the same name, “After” is a teen romance movie with themes of love, lust and heartache. Hardin Scott, who represents Harry Styles, is a bad boy who catches feelings for a sweet, innocent girl named Tessa Young. Though a similar plot to many movies of this genre, “After” somehow managed to ruin teen romance films for good.
Apr 1 Jordan Peele scares 'Us' again
Megan Spreen
The best word to describe “Us” is “spectacular.” “Us,” written and directed by Jordan Peele, is the highly anticipated follow-up to his 2017 horror debut, “Get Out.”
Apr 1 A film in 'Transit' through time
Audra Nemirow
Do not be deceived by its title – the characters in “Transit” are hopelessly stuck. This is a film about waiting. Yet the film itself is not at all static, as it possesses a fresh fluidity that will stun the unprepared mind. What seems to be a period thriller at first glance in reality was a startling meditation on human relationships and what it means to be a refugee.
Mar 11 Celebrating women in 'What Men Want'
Considering March is International Women’s Month, the recent movie “What Men Want” journeys through the trials and tribulations of Ali Davis, a female sports agent working toward her goal of signing the next NBA draft pick.
Feb 25 'Star Trek' unburies its gay relationships
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Feb 11 She will literally ‘Love You to Death'
Based on a true story, Lifetime’s new movie “Love You to Death,” reenacts the unfortunate circumstances of Gypsy Blanchard, who was medically misdiagnosed and held prisoner in her own childhood home.
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Minors: Finally healthy, Dugan making progress
By Jeff MoellerCorrespondent
Jul 27, 2014 at 12:01 AM Jul 27, 2014 at 12:42 AM
READING � Kelly Dugan is seeking an opportunity to shine in the Phillies organization.
At Double-A Reading, Dugan is soaking in the rays every day he steps on the field.
Taken in the second round of the 2009 draft, Dugan truly has enjoyed every moment of this season, one that has been solid rather than this recent fractured past that began with a broken elbow and a stress fracture his time during his sophomore and junior years at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California.
From there, Dugan began a series of fateful events that could have a difficult time being believably scripted. After a slow, methodical start with the Gulf Coast Phillies at the end of the 2009 campaign in which he hit. 233, Dugan appeared in only 28 games in 2010 with Gulf Coast and Williamsport because of a staph infection.
A stress fracture reduced his play to 47 games at Williamsport in 2011, and a rash of hamstring and ankle injuries initially reduced his outfield play with Lakewood the following year. Yet, Dugan still managed a respectable .300, 12-homer, 60-RBI season there.
Last year, he suffered a toe injury that kept him in extended spring training. Dugan then joined Clearwater, where he responded with a .318 average and 10 homers and 36 RBIs. He was promoted to Reading in early July and finished the year with a combined 20 homers, a combined .291 average and 59 RBIs.
Suddenly, baseball finally kind to him, and Dugan appeared ready for a breakout campaign at Reading this season. Dugan started slowly, but he recently has been finding his groove with his compact, left-handed swing. Through Friday�s games, Dugan was hitting .287 and nearly .300 over his last 10 games.
�Things are going well for me right now,� said Dugan, whose steady progress has been a parallel to the team�s battle to get out of the Eastern Division basement. �I just got started with my game late this season. We have been kicking it up as a team.�
Yet, Dugan quickly dismissed any of the past pitfalls that had limited him to less than 1,500 at-bats in his five seasons before this year.
�I�m happy to be here,� said the 23-year-old. �(Past injuries) are not my concern right now. My past was rough at times, but now it�s just baseball for me, and so far, so good. I just want to keep it going.�
Recognized by the Phillies� brass and scouts as a smooth, contact hitter, Dugan has been diligently working to improve his walk-to-strikeout ratio (18 walks, 36 strikeouts in 150 at-bats) on-base percentage (.386) and slugging percentage (.400).
�I�m working on every part of my game,� he said. �I know I can get better, and I want to belong. I feel like I am getting better and I want to take my game to a high level.
�This is the time of the season when I tend to become a better hitter, and I have been healthy. It is about offensive, base running and just playing hard.�
Phillies director of player development Joe Jordan is happy to be able to watch Dugan stay healthy into late July.
�He is a good hitter and hasn�t reached his peak yet,� said Jordan. �He has made great strides and needs to keep working on all parts of his game. We�re looking for him to put everything together this season.
�He certainly has the ability to be a major factor in our system.�
Dugan realizes the organization�s expectations and has worked to keep everything in its proper perspective.
�I�m just trying to compete to win,� said Dugan, who spent a month in the big-league camp before he was assigned in mid-March. �I set goals for myself each season and look to maximize my abilities.
�When I was (in the Phillies� camp), I got a chance to pick up some tips from Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Marlon Byrd and others and see how they go about their business. I definitely was able to learn from them and take something to improve my game.�
Dugan also hasn�t been bothered by a series of local media reports that have downplayed the Phillies� outfield prospects. Still, Dugan�s stock has been on the rise along with fellow prospects and teammates Aaron Altherr and Zach Collier.
Altheer spent some time with the parent club this season, and Collier is back after an injury. Former top prospect Tyson Gillies was released earlier this season by Lehigh Valley. Cameron Perkins and Leandro Castro, both free agents, have had their share of up and downs with the Ironpigs.
�I don�t think something like that should affect how I go out there and play,� Dugan said. �I�m just here to work hard every day. No matter whatever is going on, I just have to go about my business.
�We (Altherr and Collier) are all just trying to work together. We have been all supportive of each other.�
Reading manager Dusty Wathan appreciates Dugan�s efforts in the batter�s box and on the field. Wathan envisions Dugan continuing to develop as a corner outfielder, notably in right field.
�He has really been seeing the ball well,� Wathan said. �You can see him making better contact and becoming more comfortable at the plate. It�s great to see him get through a whole season with any injuries.
�He started a little slow, but he has been heating up. He also works very hard on his defense and has a strong arm. Kelly has been getting better position in the field. He has the potential to put everything together this season.�
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Home > News > Events > Original James Bond Watch Coming To America
Original James Bond Watch Coming To America
July 9, 2009 by David Leigh
Ian Fleming’s Rolex Explorer watch will be exhibited in the United States for the first time, when the National Watch & Clock Museum presents an exhibition opening in the summer of 2010 that will explore the subject of the watches of James Bond.
The watch was recently on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, featured in an exhibit on the life and work of Ian Fleming. Fionn Morgan, Ian Fleming’s stepdaughter, states “Ian would have enjoyed the idea of displaying his own Oyster Perpetual as part of an exhibition of James Bond watches…It is wonderful to see the James Bond legacy presented through the watches that this character has worn. It is further most gratifying to see Ian’s Explorer number 1016 displayed as the origin of this long and continuous chronology. Collectors and the public will learn a lot through this exhibition.”
“The National Watch & Clock Museum is honored to be able to display Mr. Fleming’s watch” Museum Director Noel Poirier comments, “and we are thankful to the Fleming family for allowing this one of a kind object to be a part of the Bond watch exhibit.” The exhibit will also include examples of the watches worn throughout the James Bond novels and motion pictures. Additionally, memorabilia from fans of the character will also be included in the exhibit.
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Catholic priest 'didn't know 15 was under-age'
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A German priest on trial in Norway for having sex with a 15-year-old girl claimed he did so because he did not know the country's legal age of consent was higher than Germany's.
“She was the love of my life,” the priest, who is in his early 30s, told the court on Tuesday. He added he “did not know the age of consent was 16 years old in Norway. In my home country of Germany it is 14."
"If I had been familiar with Norwegian law in this field, it would not have happened," he said. "When we started the relationship, I knew I broke the laws of the Church. I was not aware that I was also breaking Norwegian law."
The relationship only came to light when the girl made a church confession she thought was confidential. Yet the church's pastor claims confidentiality did not apply, as the teenager was not a confirmed Catholic.
She called on the court not to condemn the priest when she gave evidence, saying he had not coerced her. "I do not think he has done anything wrong," she said.
The 15-year-old explained that she had been horrified when the man was charged following a confession she had made in church."I was assured that it was 100 percent confidential,” she told the court.
"I find it appalling that a girl of fifteen years should be guaranteed confidentiality, only for it not to apply because she is not Catholic," Yngvil Semb Hartmann, the girl's lawyer, told the court.
The priest said that the relationship had developed from an innocent flirtation he began with the girl when he worked in a youth ministry for the Catholic Church in Bergen during the summer.
"After an evening event, she waited for me in the sacristy," he told the court. "She was with me. We talked together and kissed each other. It was the first time we had sexual relations."
The girl then messaged him on Snapchat, asking if he wanted to meet again, after which the relationship developed further.
The priest faces six months in jail, one of them suspended, if found guilty of abusing the 15-year-old girl.
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Re: Universal Studios Hollywood to announce Wizarding World
by Top Thrill Dragster » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:08 pm
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem and Super Silly Funland has finally been officially announced!
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., June 11, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Studios HollywoodSM today announced that the theme park will be home to the newest version of the wildly popular "Despicable Me Minion Mayhem" attraction during a press conference at International Pow Wow, one of the largest travel trade shows in the United States held this week in Las Vegas. News of the Spring 2014 grand opening also revealed that the iconic theme park will unveil a "Super Silly Fun Land," based on the park depicted in Despicable Me, adjacent to the attraction.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130611/LA30324)
"Coming off the successive, highly popular launches of King Kong 360 3-D and 'Transformers™: The Ride—3D,' the 'Despicable Me Minion Mayhem' attraction is our next global movie blockbuster come to life," said Larry Kurzweil, President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Studios Hollywood. "Our park will also be home to 'Super Silly Fun Land' – a colorful and whimsical play land sure to be an all-time favorite."
"Despicable Me Minion Mayhem" will be a movie motion-simulator adventure inspired by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's worldwide blockbuster, Despicable Me which entertained audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history.
The ride continues the story line from the blockbuster film through all-new 3D Ultra-HD animation in an interactive ride vehicle system. The fully immersive experience features the cast of leading characters that have captivated audiences worldwide: super-villain Gru, his adorable girls (Margo, Edith and Agnes) and the unpredictably hilarious Minions.
"The 'Despicable Me Minion Mayhem' attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood will continue to push the creative envelope with its exceptional show content, sight gags, special effects and 3D digital animation. The exterior treatment will feature even more thematic and colorful creative touches that will literally place park guests inside Gru's world," said Mark Woodbury, President, Universal Creative.
Guests will experience Despicable Me-themed queues, preshow videos and comedic dialogue that set up the fundamental plot: Gru schemes to create more mischievous Minions from human recruits.
Guests will be transported into Gru's house as they meander through his living room and encounter visual elements as seen in the film – including the moon-shrinking SR-6 shrink ray – while they zig-zag through a comedic adventure featuring Gru's super-villain laboratory. The exciting journey continues as they swerve, bounce and plunge to get through the frantically humorous Minion training mission while donning specially designed 3D Minion goggles. Fun and frolic continue in a post-show dance party where Minion walkaround characters invite guests to strut their stuff in an impromptu Minion-inspired dance party.
Directly adjacent to "Despicable Me Minion Mayhem" will be "Super Silly Fun Land," an elaborate activity zone inspired by the memorable pierside park featured in Despicable Me. A colorfully themed water play area will delight guests of all ages with a multitude of fountains, water dumps and splash pools. Nearby, a dry play zone will invite guests to climb, crawl, jump and slide – while a themed ride will soar and spin guests aboard a fleet of imaginative ride vehicles for a view of "Super Silly Fun Land."
"Despicable Me Minion Mayhem" was produced in collaboration between Universal Creative and Illumination Entertainment, and was recently honored as Best Animated Special Production at the 2012 Annie Awards, which recognizes Outstanding Achievements in the field of Animation.
Universal Studios HollywoodSM, The Entertainment Capital of L.A.SM, includes a full-day, movie-based theme park and Studio Tour; the CityWalk® entertainment, shopping and dining complex, the Universal CityWalk Cinemas, the "5 Towers" state-of-the-art outdoor concert venue, and the Gibson Amphitheatre concert and special event arena. World-class rides and attractions include the intense, award-winning ride, "King Kong 360 3-D" on the famed behind-the-scenes Studio Tour, "The Simpsons RideTM," "Revenge of the MummySM —The Ride" indoor roller coaster and "Jurassic Park® —The Ride," as well as the award-winning, critically acclaimed mega-attraction, "Transformers™: The Ride—3D."
SOURCE Universal Studios Hollywood
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by Jew » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:02 am
A flat ride for USH! Awesome!
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Jason X versus the Robot Space Donkey!
by DBJ » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:16 am
Wow, that's great! A new flat ride for USH was unexpected. Very glad to see them finally turn that corner of the upper lot into space for a new ride.
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by gisco » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:06 am
Nice to see a flat going in. I always thought that was an area they were short on.
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by Wes » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:15 pm
So this land is more or less replacing the Curious George area that's getting turned into Potterverse right.
by Jew » Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:23 pm
That's what it sounds like. That area was kind of tired (is Curious George even still relevant?), though I'm sure some kids will miss the jungle portion. Can't go wrong with those giant foam ball war zones.
I think Intamin should make a donkey!
Location: Sunny Southern California
by Musketeer » Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:53 pm
I am really excited for the future of USH! I really enjoyed Despicable Me at Universal in Orlando, so i'm happy to see that on the west coast. Also excited for a flat ride to accompany it! With all the Simpsons rumors and knowing that Potter is coming, there is a bright future ahead for this park. Can't wait.
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by Woodie Warrior » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:59 pm
Despicable Me is the most popular ride right now at USO and should fit in great here.
Top 10: 1. The Voyage 2. Outlaw Run 3. Millennium Force 4. SkyRush 5. Maverick
6. El Toro 7. Fahrenheit 8. Storm Runner 9. Thunderbird 10. Powder Keg
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Am I allowed to eat donkey during lent?
by Double0Kevin » Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:53 pm
Woodie Warrior wrote: Despicable Me is the most popular ride right now at USO and should fit in great here.
I don't know that it's the most popular, but it's capacity and appeal to everyone does cause it to have some lengthy lines. I hope that the USH one has improved capacity based on the larger building size. I'm excited though, it was by far one of the better 3D attractions I've experienced and I think it will fit in great at USH. I'm stoked for the flat ride too, I guess I never realized that USH never had one. Nice to round out the offerings of the park a bit more.
by Jew » Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:53 pm
Here's what the building currently looks like.
New structures popping up!
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UEFA Champions League - 'Humble' Auxerre hoping to match Madrid - News
'Humble' Auxerre hoping to match Madrid
Jean Fernandez hoped Real Madrid CF would not prove to be "too much" for AJ Auxerre to handle at the Santiago Bernabéu as his side bid to continue their adventure in the UEFA Europa League.
Bruised but enriched by their experiences in UEFA Champions League Group G, AJ Auxerre will bid to pick up a point or more in their final game at Real Madrid CF and hope it is enough to move them above AFC Ajax and into the UEFA Europa League round of 32. Auxerre coach Jean Fernandez said his side were coming to the Santiago Bernabéu "with humility". Speaking in the stead of suspended José Mourinho, assistant coach Aitor Karanka said Madrid would be treating the game like any other, despite already wrapping up top spot in the section.
Jean Fernandez, Auxerre coach
We haven't won many matches but we have always believed in ourselves. It is very important to play our best, understanding that we are up against one of the best teams in Europe. We are coming here with humility; Real Madrid have no weaknesses. FC Barcelona and Real Madrid are the strongest teams in Europe, and their 5-0 defeat at the Camp Nou is not going to change my opinion of Real. They play very fast and it could be too much for us.
We knew that this group was going to be very tough because the other three teams are stronger than us. It will be difficult, but we will try to get a point and hope to qualify for the Europa League . We have enjoyed the competition and playing at the Santiago Bernabéu is a big thrill for us.
Aitor Karanka, Madrid assistant coach
Real Madrid never play 'insignificant' games. We have the opportunity of qualifying for the next phase with the highest points total in our history. Playing in the shirt of this club one must always stand up and be counted . There are fans coming to the stadium to support us and to enjoy a game.
The team that will play will be a strong one as this is a Champions League game and we must rise to that level. The only player who will be rested for this encounter is Iker Casillas. In terms of Cristiano Ronaldo, he'd have to be half dead not to play; he's always keen. On a personal note, to be leading from the bench during a Champions League game is very special and I will try to enjoy it but I recognise I have a job to do. I've been learning and enjoying my time alongside our coach.
• Real Madrid
Sami Khedira (thigh), Ángel Di María (ingrowing toenail), Gonzalo Higuaín (back), Fernando Gago (knee), Gonzalo Higuaín (back), Sergio Canales (knee) and Kaká (knee) are all out of the reckoning, while Casillas will be rested. Youngsters Álvaro Morata and Pablo Sarabia may get the chance to impress.
• Auxerre
Steeven Langil is fit despite having been set for knee surgery prior to Matchday 5, while Anthony Le Tallec is in the squad for the first time since sustaining an ankle injury in September. Delvin Ndinga (quadriceps), Alexandre Licata (ankle) and Cédric Hengbart (hamstring) are out until next year while Yaya Sanogo (broken tibia) and Ireneusz Jeleń (knee) have been sidelined since September. Jérémy Berthod has not played since picking up a calf problem last month.
Weekend results
04/12/10 Real Madrid 2-0 Valencia CF
(Ronaldo 73 87)
Cristiano Ronaldo took his tally to 21 goals in his last 17 games for club and country and earned Madrid their 13th successive home win in all competitions.
04/12/10 RC Lens 1-1 Auxerre
(Yahia 29; Mignot 87)
Jean-Pascal Mignot scored his second goal in three league games but Auxerre remain without a win in four games in all competitions.
When playing for Olympique Lyonnais, Madrid striker Karim Benzema struck 23 seconds into the title-clinching win at Auxerre on the final day of the 2007/08 Ligue 1 season.
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X-amining Uncanny X-Men #210
"The Morning After"
The Marauders make their move as the X-Men hunt for their missing teammates.
Writer: Chris Claremont
Artists: John Romita Jr. & Dan Green
Letterer: Tom Orzechowski
Colorist: Glynis Oliver
Editor: Ann Nocenti
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
In Los Angeles, a Hellfire Club soldier named Richard and his girlfriend Tommy, a former Morlock, are hunted by unseen pursuers. Richard is struck by an energy blast, and urges Tommy to leave him behind. She slips aboard a train heading east. In San Fransisco, Dazzler is possessed by a psychic entity named Malice, a teammate of the group hunting Tommy. In New York, the X-Men search for the missing Phoenix and Nightcrawler. At the mansion, Kitty modifies Cerebro so that non-telepaths can use it. Shortly thereafter, it alarms, indicating one of missing X-Men has been detected, and Kitty, Colossus and Illyana leave to investigate. Meanwhile, Magneto arrives at the Hellfire Club and sees X-Factor from afar, whom he recognizes as the original X-Men. Inside the club, Sebastian Shaw offers Magneto the title of White King, to be claimed in his own name or the name of the X-Men. Magneto agrees to consider the offer.
Elsewhere, Nightcrawler is chased into a derelict warehouse on the Hudson River by an angry mob when Kitty, Colossus and Illyana arrive. Kitty admonishes the crow, and manages to disperse them. When she asks Nightcrawler why he didn't just teleport away, he tells her he has lost his power. Meanwhile, in Central Park, Wolverine and Storm track Rachel's scent to the point where it disappears, and they determine there's nothing further they can do for their teammate. Beneath the streets, Tommy emerges from a subway car and heads for the Morlock Tunnels, but just outside she's caught by the group that killed her boyfriend. Announcing themselves as the Marauders, they thank her for leading them to the rest of the Morlocks, then tell her she'll soon have lots of company just before they kill her.
Firsts and Other Notables
The Marauders make their first partial appearance, in shadow. As of yet, we don't know much about them besides the name of their group and their homicidal tendencies. They do mention having a boss, who will eventually be revealed to be Mr. Sinister, making this the first reference (albeit indirectly) to that character.
One member of the Marauders who does get named this issue is Malice, a psychic entity who can take control of other people's bodies (placing a choker with a face on it around her victim's neck when she does so) and appears for the first time as she takes control of Dazzler, who is still in hiding as a member of Lila Cheney's band. We'll next see her in issue #213.
To a lesser extent, the Morlock Tommy, a young woman who can make herself paper thin (and is also brightly colored for some reason), make her first and last appearance, serving as the Marauders' first on-panel victim. It's said in this issue that she is responsible for leading them to the Morlock Tunnels (thus enabling the ensuing massacre to commence), but later issues will somewhat contradict this by revealing that Gambit was tasked by Mr. Sinister, the Marauders' leader, to assemble the team and lead them into the tunnels. It could be argued that, in this issue, Tommy merely led them to the door, so to speak, while Gambit showed them how to open it.
The X-Men learn of X-Factor, at least in terms of them being mutant hunters for hire, this issue (which seems a bit odd given X-Factor has been doing their thing for a while now, but the X-Men have been in San Fransisco and then in the Morlock Tunnels for most of that time) and the original X-Men appear as X-Factor in the book for the first time. In one of the first crossovers between the books (we'll see this same (mostly) scene from X-Factor's perpsective in their ninth issue), Magneto and X-Factor witness each other from afar and recognize one another, though neither is in a position to confront the other (and Magneto assumes that Jean is Madelyne, which, presuming he tells the X-Men of this encounter some point off panel, will cause some problems later down the line when the X-Men start hanging out with Madelyne again).
Magneto is offered the title of White King of the Hellfire Club in this issue, with Sebastian Shaw arguing that in the face of rising anti-mutant sentiment, the X-Men and Hellfire Club must work together to survive despite their differences. The remaining Lords Cardinal, including the White Queen and Selene, all appear, and though Magneto will ultimately accept their offer on behalf of the X-Men, it will be sometime before we see any of the Lords Cardinal again in the book, and the X-Men's alliance with the club will largely become a non-starter.
Nightcrawler has seeming lost his power as of this issue. It will return next issue, though it will be unreliable when it does.
As of this issue, Cerebro is modified so that non-telepaths can use it.
Though John Romita Jr.'s run on the title ends with the next issue, he will merely be providing layouts for Brett Blevins pencils, making this issue the final pairing of Romita Jr. with inker Dan Green (at least until Romita's second run on the book).
The cover to this issue is another iconic, often homaged X-Men cover.
As Dazzler schleps around stage equipment, we're once again reminded that mutants are generally stronger than regular humans, regardless of whatever other powers they have, something that doesn't get brought up too often.
Rogue hasn't angsted about it a lot lately, but we get a moment where she reflects on her inability to touch anyone after saving some grateful construction workers.
She also mentions carrying a stash of cash in her belt at all times, the better to pay for her purchases at Bloomingdales.
Colossus returns to wearing his original yellow and red costume, saying all of his new ones have been damaged.
Kitty is now able to control her power to the point where she can solidify her forearm while phasing the rest of her body.
Storm admonishes Wolverine for his actions against Rachel, not disagreeing with his intent to stop her from killing but saying it never should have come down to Wolverine having to kill Rachel, and that the X-Men, as a team, should have handled the situation together.
I Love the 80s
I'm not sure if its meant to be a reference to Dr. Strangelove or not, but the zeal with which a store clerk declares you can't fight in Bloomingdales is hilarious.
"Ah, Illyana, my sister, I am now going to tell you information you already know about yourself out loud, as though someone who may not know the information we both already know is listening to us."
Human/Mutant Relations
A shopper at Bloomingdales confronts Rogue for being a "mutie", sparking a confrontation between himself and one of the construction workers she rescued earlier.
In a nod to the fact that the general public is often seen lauding the superpowered Avengers even while they fear and hate the mutant X-Men (a hypocrisy that is never properly addressed in the Marvel Universe), a cop tells X-Factor that mutant or superhuman makes no difference to him.
Nightcrawler is chased by an anti-mutant mob, in a deliberate echo of his first appearance.
Kitty admonishes the leader of the mob for saying Nightcrawler "obviously" isn't human, pointing out the Nazis once said the same thing about Jewish people.
In a delightfully cheeky rejoinder, when Kitty is told she shouldn't talk to her elders in such a way, she responds that she doesn't, to the ones she respects.
Teebore's Take
In many ways, this is another Quintessential Claremont Quiet issue, a downtime story set after a big action story that allows the characters a chance to breathe and reflect on recent events while subplots are advanced. But it's also a lot more than that. For one thing, it continues to add to the air of menace surrounding human/mutant relations, giving Kitty another chance to confront bigots with the illogic of their hatred (and in a bit more eloquent manner than in similar times past). It also, one month after Louise Simonson used an issue of Uncanny X-Men to setup a story in X-Factor, formally acknowledges the existence of that title by having Rogue and Magneto react to their public mission, in the process bringing us the closest yet to a direct crossover between the titles.
But even while, plotwise, it's mostly reacting to the previous story arc, this issue is also setting up the next one. As that arc is "Mutant Massacre", which will shake up the book like it hasn't been shook since Giant Size X-Men #1,this issue also, retroactively, serves as a last gasp for a certain era of X-Men. The "classic" New X-Men roster is long gone: Cyclops is a wife-abandoning cad, Banshee is retired, Storm is punked out and powerless. But the Romita Jr.-era X-Men have been around almost as long as the original New X-Men were, and for fans of that era (like myself), this issue is somewhat bittersweet, an ending of sorts to a certain style of X-Men story. As a result, it's another personal favorite, one last chance to enjoy this iteration of characters in this setting before the story this issue is setting up comes along and blows it all up.
Tomorrow, the New Mutants star in the "very special" New Mutants #45, followed by X-Factor #9, in which the conflict with Freedom Force escalates, on Friday and next week, Longshot returns in Uncanny X-Men Annual #10.
Posted by Austin Gorton at 2:00 PM
Labels: Claremont/Romita Jr., Comic Book reviews, comics, Uncanny X-Men, X-aminations, X-Men
Matt October 9, 2013 at 3:36 PM
Okay. Now I'm interested again (can you tell I've been feigning it lately?). As I've said before, I have a weird relationship with the rest of Claremont's run. He's not writing the X-Men I want to read about, with regards to casting and behavior -- but the stories are so engrossing that it's hard to get too upset about that. Essentially from this issue up to "Fall of the Mutants", the X-Men's adventures become one long, single saga again, which I love. And then after a short break in the Outback, the sprawling saga continues again from "Inferno" through to the very end of Claremont's run.
Anyway... Love the cover. Even if it does feature mohawk Storm, this is one of my very favorite X-Men covers. The caption, while a little corny, really helps to sell it.
"The Marauders make their first partial appearance, in shadow"
John Romita, Jr. designed the Marauders -- I've seent his model sheets in a collected edition -- yet he barely had a chance to draw them in the comics. I've still never read a satisfactory explanation for his departure from the series, but all signs point to it being abrupt and unexpected.
"...Magneto and X-Factor witness each other from afar and recognize one another..."
X-Factor's uniforms look fine in their own series, but for some reason here they look like pajamas. Why is that?
"Nightcrawler has seeming lost his power as of this issue. It will return next issue, though it will be unreliable when it does."
And I believe it stays unreliable aaaalllll the way up to Alan Davis's run as writer of Excalibur, circa 1992 or so. I tend to wonder if Claremont intended it to be permanent, maybe to get the character to rely more on his other abilities?
"She also mentions carrying a stash of cash in her belt at all times, the better to pay for her purchases at Bloomingdales."
Is it just me, or does the coloring make Rogue look absolutely hideous in that scene, after the make-up artist is done with her?
"Colossus returns to wearing his original yellow and red costume, saying all of his new ones have been damaged."
Yay! Nothing beats Colossus's orignal costume. Though Illyana has a point in calling attention to the "really bright colors". At this point, the X-Men pretty much all wear darker shades, and it'll only get worse following "Mutant Massacre", when primary colors vanish almost entirely from their collective wardrobe.
Teebore October 9, 2013 at 4:54 PM
@Matt: And then after a short break in the Outback, the sprawling saga continues again from "Inferno" through to the very end of Claremont's run.
Plus, there's two really good, traditionally-structured stories during that Outback break. But yeah, after "Mutant Massacre", this pretty much becomes one big sprawling saga again.
I've still never read a satisfactory explanation for his departure from the series, but all signs point to it being abrupt and unexpected.
I've always heard he left to do Star Brand, either by choice or because he was assigned (and either way, he probably figured the only way to improve on being a part of comics' best selling title was to launch the flagship book of an entire new universe, because of course no one knew then what a flop it would be). Though that doesn't really explain the seeming abruptness of his departure.
I'm not sure if its the pencils, the inks or the colors, but you're right.
And I believe it stays unreliable aaaalllll the way up to Alan Davis's run as writer of Excalibur, circa 1992 or so.
Wow, I had no idea it lasted that long. I just assumed it was back to normal by the time Excalibur rolled around.
Dr. Bitz October 9, 2013 at 5:19 PM
"then tell her she'll soon have lots of company just before they kill her."
I'd feel bad for her if I didn't think Tommy was a stupid name for a girl.
"The X-Men learn of X-Factor, at least in terms of them being mutant hunters for hire"
Yeah, I get they were in San Francisco but they were airing commercials for X-Factor in Alaska. You'd think California would be included too. (Unless maybe they could only afford commercials in Alaska where airtime is, presumably, cheaper? Or just so Cyclops could rub Maddy's nose in it?)
Anyway, given the who the X-Men are, you'd think they'd keep more current on mutant-centric events like X-Factor popping up on the scene and very publicly kidnapping mutants.
@Dr. Bitz: I'd feel bad for her if I didn't think Tommy was a stupid name for a girl.
Also, if she wasn't stupidly rainbow colored for no reason.
Unless maybe they could only afford commercials in Alaska where airtime is, presumably, cheaper? Or just so Cyclops could rub Maddy's nose in it?
I'm pretty sure the commercials just aired in New York and Alaska, all so Cyclops could rub Maddy's nose in it.
Seriously though, you could fudge the timeline a bit and suggest the X-Factor ads didn't start airing in earnest until after the X-Men left San Fran. But even then, considering X-Factor has, in its short time, become pervasive enough in the Marvel Universe that we've seen kids plays X-Factor/Mutants instead of Cowboys/Indians, the X-Men need to take some blame for dropping the ball.
Jason October 10, 2013 at 1:52 AM
"and Magneto assumes that Jean is Madelyne, which, presuming he tells the X-Men of this encounter some point off panel, will cause some problems later down the line when the X-Men start hanging out with Madelyne again"
Should we just assume he never told them about it? Or at least, never went into specifics? Things got pretty hectic after all, right after this. Would he be qualifying his, "Hey, I saw the original X-Men calling themselves X-Factor" with an added, "Oh, and by the way, there was a redheaded lady with them. I assume that's his wife. Right? Someone mentioned to me once that his wife looks just like Jean Grey. So I just assumed. I mean, I didn't hear them say her name or anything, I was kind of far away and I only saw them for a few seconds. Anyway, just so we're clear, Scott's wife is a member of X-Factor, so next time you see her, ask her about that."
"To a lesser extent, the Morlock Tommy, a young woman who can make herself paper thin (and is also brightly colored for some reason), make her first and last appearance, serving as the Marauders' first on-panel victim."
So much goes on in this issue that I always kind of forget about this bit and am somewhat surprised when I re-read it. It's a bit poignant, isn't it? A mutant girl and a Hellfire guard, in love? And we never find out how they met, we just get to see them right before they're murdered.
Back in the comments section of my write-up for this issue, people made fun of the "new wave" line, which still annoys me. I think it's a great line, acknowledging a fashion trend of the time that made superhero costumes almost seem tame. But of course people make fun of it. (Meanwhile, Grant Morrison's line in an X-Men issue about how they love superheroes in India because the costumes look like Bollywood ... everyone says "Oh, another brilliant pop cultural allusion by Morrison, WHAT A GENIUS WHERE DOES HE GET HIS INSANE IDEAS."
I am bitter.
"Kitty is now able to control her power to the point where she can solidify her forearm while phasing the rest of her body."
That won't last long. :)
"Ah, Illyana, my sister, I am now going to tell you information you already know about yourself out loud, as though someone who may not know the information we both already know is listening to us." "
But notice the lettering in that word balloon. That was added after the fact. Presumably by Shooter, Mr. "Every Issue Is Somebody's First."
"I'm not sure if its meant to be a reference to Dr. Strangelove or not, but the zeal with which a store clerk declares you can't fight in Bloomingdales is hilarious."
Ha, the Strangelove connection never occurred to me. Deliberate or not, I like it!
"And I believe it stays unreliable aaaalllll the way up to Alan Davis's run as writer of Excalibur, circa 1992 or so."
More or less. After his recovery, the deal is that he can teleport once a day without strain. Anything more leaves him feeling weak. Similarly, of course, Kitty remains in her "permanent phase, have to concentrate to stay solid" status quo during that time. (Which I always thought was stupid. How does she stay solid when she sleeps?)
"I tend to wonder if Claremont intended it to be permanent, maybe to get the character to rely more on his other abilities?"
There is a thought-balloon from Kitty in an Excalibur issue that I think was explicitly spelling out his intentions: namely, that he wanted every member of that team to have a definite weakness/limitation/Achilles heel.
"Seriously though, you could fudge the timeline a bit and suggest the X-Factor ads didn't start airing in earnest until after the X-Men left San Fran."
Or just assume that the X-Men were too busy to sit around watching TV. Not everyone can be a gentleman of leisure, Teebore. :)
Mela October 10, 2013 at 6:26 AM
It's a bit poignant, isn't it? A mutant girl and a Hellfire guard, in love? And we never find out how they met, we just get to see them right before they're murdered.
I think that's one of the reasons I'm kind of fascinated by Tommy (along with her appearing in the animated show) - she has this fairly dramatic implied backstory, but all we get to see is the tragic ending. I kind of like her rainbow-hued skin, too, but I'm a sucker for pastels like that (yes, I'm still girly). Like I said before, I latch onto weird fringey X-characters.
And yeah, Rogue's makeover was pretty tragic. I know bolds were in during the 80s, but yeesh, dial it back a bit.
Johnny Feathers October 10, 2013 at 8:17 AM
And this is where I came in--my first issue of the X-Men! I got it in a package of like 30 Marvel comics from the JCPenney catalog, most of which I had no familiarity with. And while I enjoyed them all, only the X-Men issue, with its sense of foreboding and violence, prompted me to start buying issues continuously. And even despite his limited appearance, I was immediately intrigued by Wolverine. Just who IS this bad-ass talking to the Mohawk chick? The whole aesthetic made the X-Men just too cool, and that cover remains one of my all-time favorites. I was surprised and a little disappointed to not find it as a t-shirt at the recent comic con I attended.
Matt October 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM
Teebore -- "Though that doesn't really explain the seeming abruptness of his departure."
I think I linked it here a while back, but on his now-defunct blog, Jim Shooter made a somewhat cryptic comment that Claremont had Romita "removed" from the series. So make of that what you will, I guess.
Jason -- "Meanwhile, Grant Morrison's line in an X-Men issue about how they love superheroes in India because the costumes look like Bollywood ... everyone says 'Oh, another brilliant pop cultural allusion by Morrison, WHAT A GENIUS WHERE DOES HE GET HIS INSANE IDEAS.'"
I agree, there. I was also really irritated by the scene in Morrison's first issue where the X-Men all discussed how silly it was that they ever wore costumes in the first place. It's one thing to write the costumes out of the series for a reason, but don't make that reason be that they never wanted to wear them in the first place. It just doesn't ring true to the many times they wore them when they didn't have to (especially in Wolverine's case)!
Say, Teebore -- I meant to ask yesterday: Are you going to look into any of the ancillary "Mutant Massacre" crossover issues? I know it touched Daredevil, Power Pack, and Thor at the very least, though I'm pretty sure Thor is the only "essential" chapter, as it continues a cliffhanger from X-Factor (plus it's written and drawn by Walter Simonson, of course).
Wait. It's only written by Simonson. I forgot it was published after the point where Sal Buscema took over as regular artist. But still.
Jonathan Washington October 11, 2013 at 2:39 AM
I'm gonna have to break my comments down to two parts so before I discuss my likes/dislikes of this issue I have to get two things out of the way:
1) I wanted to read the "Mutant Massacre arc for the longest time (I started reading comics in the 90s and by then these issues had become rather pricey.) When I finally got the trade I was stoked! Yet as much as I was entertained by much of the crossover, I was a kinda disappointed with the storyline overall. I detail some of the reasons when their individual issues get posted, but the biggest problem for me was that for a story that was suppose to be killing off the Morlocks it...well didn't. The Morlocks turn out to be roaches because no matter how many times they are exterminated (there have been about 3 or 4 attempts after this story, including M-Day) there always seems to be a colony in the tunnels. Even in this story, I think the creators "oversold" the destruction of the Morlocks with lots of melodramatic "telling" of their near-extinction while showing very little of the sort (although that might also be a comics code problem.)
2) This is the issue that confirmed that the people in-universe have something to the people out-of-universe because nobody likes Phoenix! I mean think about it. The X-Men are dealing with some dangerous enemies at this time, with more on the way. X-Factor enflammed genetic-based bigotry is also a concern. In the midst of this a wayward teammate is missing (after being stabbed, mine you.) How does Rachel's close-kit teammates respond:
Rogue goes on a shopping spree (and pretty much says "good riddance" while trying on dresses)
Kitty whines about how Phoenix "betrayed her."
Storm and Wolverine just shrug and say she's probably better off anyway (and make it more an issue about "teamwork and not rushing off" rather then, you know Aesops about the dangers of giving your own teammate the three-clawed handshake.) Combined with the fact the team doesn't mention Rachel at ALL, after this issue and I just read this subplot, stunned that the X-men didn't just straight-up push Phoenix toward's Spiral's dimensional gate themselves.
1) Tommy looks kind of dumb, but I like non-human looking mutants. Even if her looks had nothing to do with her powers, they justify her joining the Morlocks to escape persecution.
In the first Milligan/ Allred issue of X-Force, Zeitgeist tossed out a comment about how he prefers teammates who look human. I thought intra-mutant prejudice added a touch of belivability to the Marvel U. I'm not a fan of the Morlocks (too farfetched, even for super-hero comics), but the concept of non-humanoid mutants banding together makes sense.
2) I like the "new wave" line because I think both Claremont and Colossus were out of touch enough to think they were hip to use it. I like Morrison's Bollywood line because the idea makes sense. One's an appropriate groaner, the other's feasible.
I'm not a fan of super-heroes in comics having disdain for costumes because they are a genre staple. Hawkeye used to look ridiculous but I bought the idea of someone running around in that costume next to Captain America and Iron Man. Now, he looks generic and fades into the background of any Avengers team picture.
(Yes, his current comic is enjoyable. He doesn't need a costume there because the stories aren't all typical super-hero fare.)
Spandex looks stupid on film, but movie-style costumes look blah on the page.
3) Like Jonathan Washington, I found the Mutant Massacre slightly disappointing when I read it in the '90s. It' not bad, exactly, but I always pictured it being bigger. The final issue, nicely drawn by Alan Davis, is the highlight (other than Colossus's attack on Riptide) but is separate from the main action. I feel like the story didn't have a proper conclusion. I had the same reaction reading the Kree-Skrull war (only 4 issues of Neal Adams? that stupid ending? Gah). Too much hype.
- Mike Loughlin
Now on to what I love about #210
1) The three X-Men confronting the violent mob. Kitty's speech was really poignant. And yes she has been giving a bit too many "soapbox moments" around this time, but let's remember that's it's actually Colossus who confronts the mob first. Kitty's just follows his lead. This was an excellent showing for Peter before he's written out of the books, proving once again that he's the "heart" of the team (Earlier Kitty lamented the seeming futility of the Xavier's dream and the X-Men's role in it. Peter then aptly demonstrates why it's still important. Even during these "dark" times. Something that I feel factors into his return to the team.) If nothing else it makes his actions NEXT issue all the more shocking.
2) The two window-washers. I mean I know as one-of characters they're not particularly deep, but sometimes it's nice to see that not EVERY human is a one-note bigot. And on a related note, the Tommy/Hellfire Club merc paring were ace too. Unlike Uncanny X-Men 205, this was a in media res scene that works, since here we are given enough information to read between the lines, given the pair a tragic "Romeo and Juliet" vibe (especially since as a Morlock, Tommy probably never really met too many "nice" humans)
3) I give kudos to this comic and X-Factor for finally trying to resolve a huge dichotomy about the Marvel Universe where the Avengers don't get harrassed like the X-Men, despite them all having super-powers. Too bad this explaination will be ignored anywhere other than the x-books (until the post-Civil War era anyway, where it will become status quo).
4) The ending. Even knowing what was going to happen, I have to admit I felt a delightfully sadistic sense of glee at the "surprise." The Mauraders, of course could have just killed the Morlock earlier, but waiting just until she's engulfed in a false sense of security before springing the trap (and then taunting her about her mistakes to boot) is a spectacular delight of senseless cruelty. Indeed, one can even "fan-wank" the haphazard retcon that way: that the villains could have just relied on Gambit, bit that at least some of them chose to follow Tommy simply because they're psycho mofos that like to screw with people.
@Jason: Should we just assume he never told them about it? Or at least, never went into specifics? Things got pretty hectic after all, right after this.
That's the obvious explanation, though I'm pretty sure Wolverine speaks of X-Factor in a way that he indicates he's aware of them beyond their ads, which suggests Magneto did tell them about X-Factor, though it's not, as you say, outside the realm of possibility that he never brought up "Madelyne".
It is poignant, and a great use of in media res storytelling. It suggests a fully formed story somewhere that we're just not privy to.
I think it's a great line, acknowledging a fashion trend of the time that made superhero costumes almost seem tame.
I do too. And I hear you about the frustrating Morrison love.
Ah, I had not ever noticed that before! Good catch.
Which I always thought was stupid. How does she stay solid when she sleeps?
I've often wondered that as well...
I dunno, if Kitty has time to go on dates to concerts, it seems like at some point some X-Man would have plopped down in front of the TV for a bit. :)
@Mela: I kind of like her rainbow-hued skin, too, but I'm a sucker for pastels like that
I've just always been confused by it. I guess it's supposed to be one of those random physical mutations that doesn't really relate to the power (like Nightcrawler), but its just so bold a look that it sticks out to me.
@Johnny: The whole aesthetic made the X-Men just too cool, and that cover remains one of my all-time favorites.
@Matt: Jim Shooter made a somewhat cryptic comment that Claremont had Romita "removed" from the series. So make of that what you will, I guess.
Yeah, I've read some vague things (mainly from Romita's perspective) that Claremont wasn't his biggest fan, but it seems like if Claremont did want him off, he'd have lined up a replacement or planned for it to happen at a more natural end point. Then again, maybe not.
Are you going to look into any of the ancillary "Mutant Massacre" crossover issues?
Yes, I'm planning on covering all the non-X-book tie-ins, though probably all in one post, as, like you say, all but Thor are pretty tangential to the main story/the X-Men narrative as a whole.
Blam October 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM
I have never seen a bus-side ad that wordy.
Not just you, Matt. Colors from this era aren't really known for their subtlety, granted, so you would expect it to be tricky with such blunt tools to sell visually that Rogue had newly applied make-up, but the result is just ghastly.
I actually really like that cop's "What's the difference?!" after Jean points out that the Avengers be not mutants. The idea of Magneto looking over and assuming that Jean is Madelyne is nice too, although I understand that it's merely a little oasis of sense-making in the larger fustercluck of the contrivances that keep X-Factor apart from their old friends and that apparently this is problematic in light of Madelyne's actual return and that (as Dr. Bitz points out) X-Factor is something that should be on the X-Men's radar even apart from it being all over the news.
Jean doesn't actually remember when Hank, the Professor, and Phoenix (who in continuity no longer was Jean) thought the rest of the X-Men were dead nearly 100 issues ago, but you'd think that just touching base might be in order after Jean was revived especially in this crazy life of theirs. Let's not forget too that Hank was a longtime Avenger and would probably the first call made by Cap upon Jean's return, his being a mutual friend and freaking genius biologist. No matter how alienated they might feel by the arrival of Magneto, Jean should call up Ororo for a cup of coffee, say, even if it's under the larger plot guise of sussing out whether the X-Men have been brainwashed, making sure the younger students are okay, whatever.
As a wise man once said: "Grr. Arrgh."
There are playing-card suits on the Inner Circle's table and chairs, even though the hierarchy is based on chess pieces.
Shouldn't Cerebro detect the members of X-Factor and the other mutants who live in their headquarters?
Teebore October 22, 2013 at 10:13 AM
@Jonathan: Even in this story, I think the creators "oversold" the destruction of the Morlocks with lots of melodramatic "telling" of their near-extinction while showing very little of the sort (although that might also be a comics code problem.)
Yeah, I think some of that is tied to restrictions from the code - there's only so much grisliness they could depict, and I think they pushed the boundaries even with what they did show.
As for the Morlocks resiliency, I know what you mean, though I don't really blame this story for that. It clearly intends to wipe out most of the Morlocks (with Callisto and Sunder in X-Men and Masque, Caliban, Leech and Skids in X-Factor being the only survivors, and all of them move out of the tunnels as a result) and Claremont really only returned to the tunnels once more to show a few survivors. All of the subsequent "hey, there's still Morlocks!" were post-Claremont, and while it bugs me, I don't hold it against this story.
Combined with the fact the team doesn't mention Rachel at ALL, after this issue and I just read this subplot, stunned that the X-men didn't just straight-up push Phoenix toward's Spiral's dimensional gate themselves
There's definitely a sense that someone (Claremont, whomever) wanted Rachel GONE, and fast, so he wrote her out quickly, and paid little more than lip service to her departure within the book itself (which, granted, is still more than we'd get these days).
If nothing else it makes his actions NEXT issue all the more shocking.
I mean I know as one-of characters they're not particularly deep, but sometimes it's nice to see that not EVERY human is a one-note bigot.
Agreed. I always like it when we get that random one-off human who's like, "yeah, I'm not a bigot. Deal with it". It makes the examples of bigotry all the more effective when there's some contrast to it.
Too bad this explaination will be ignored anywhere other than the x-books
Yeah, I always wished that got picked up elsewhere. Oh well.
@Mike: I'm not a fan of super-heroes in comics having disdain for costumes because they are a genre staple.
Ditto. Ad I'm on board with your Hawkeye example. I don't think his classic look would translate well to a movie, but that doesn't mean the movie look has to invade the comic.
I feel like the story didn't have a proper conclusion. I had the same reaction reading the Kree-Skrull war (only 4 issues of Neal Adams? that stupid ending? Gah). Too much hype.
I got to read this early enough in my comic reading that it wasn't too over-hyped for me(beyond feeling like it was a big deal for the characters, which it was), but I know what you mean. The Kree-Skrull has always felt more like a loose connection of standalone stories than an actual war arc, and "Mutant Massacre" is definitely oddly constructed in the way that it pretty much climaxes in the first issue, and everything after that is denouement.
@Blam: No matter how alienated they might feel by the arrival of Magneto, Jean should call up Ororo for a cup of coffee, say, even if it's under the larger plot guise of sussing out whether the X-Men have been brainwashed, making sure the younger students are okay, whatever.
Definitely. It's one thing to say, "yikes, the X-Men are friends with Magneto now? No thank you, let's do our own thing" and quite another to simply make no entreaties to your friends or even check to make sure the New Mutants are okay (not that Jean knows about them, of course, but Scott does, and he presumably shares her concerns). I mean, if the whole idea of X-Factor is to help mutants , and they think the X-Men
are comprised, shouldn't the first thing they do be to storm the mansion and "rescue" the New Mutants?
Indeed. :)
I think those actually may go back to Byrne, but I could be wrong.
Probably? Honestly, the range and use of Cerebro has varied so much over the years that it's hard to say. On the one hand, it sometimes seems limited in how far it can detect mutants, and then it seems like it can boost Xavier's power to worldwide levels. And of course, it ostensibly goes off whenever a new mutant, anywhere manifests, which suggests a pretty far reaching range.
But then, X-Factor aren't new mutants (though Rusty and Artie were - maybe none of the X-Men were paying attention when Cerebro alerted to them? They were in San Fran at the time) so I guess Cerebro wouldn't detect them unless someone was actively looking for them?
Teemu January 19, 2014 at 3:56 AM
Richard is struck by an energy blast, and urges Tommy to leave him behind.
No! Au contraire, he's begging Tommy to help him, to give him his gun, but Tommy runs away.
She and Richard had a traditional against-odds romance going, but by doing that she also abandons the trope of "I ain't gonna leave you behind!" and thus the story neither won't go like in the movies. Scalphunter even taunts her about it in the end... "Together you might have had a chance. Alone, nope."
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Portland Trail Blazers vs Golden State Warriors Game 1 NBA Pick – May 14th
NBA Picks May 14th, 2019 May 16, 2019 by Andruw Burling
+7.5SPREAD
MY PICK
PLACE BET!
The NBA Conference Finals get underway on Tuesday night. The Portland Trail Blazers and the Golden State Warriors will meet in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. I expect this to be a good game as both teams try to get a feel for each other early in the series. This game is going to start at around 9:00 PM Eastern time on ESPN.
The Trail Blazers finished the season in third place of the Western Conference with a record of 53-29. Portland met up with the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round and were able to knock them off in five games. The Trail Blazers then played the Denver Nuggets where they won in a tough seven-game series. Portland will look to pull off the road upset in Game 1 to earn a series lead.
Golden State finished in the top spot of the Western Conference with a 57-25 record this season. The Warriors were able to knock off the Los Angeles Clippers and the Houston Rockets in six games. Golden State has been battling with some injuries, but still remain the favorites to win the NBA Championship. The Warriors will look to take one step closer with a home win on Tuesday night.
Game 1 will be a big matchup as the Warriors will continue to be without Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins. Golden State will look for their Guards to out battle the Trail Blazers Guards. This should help lead to a tight matchup in Game 1. Portland will look to use this to their advantage as they pull off a huge upset.
Regular Season Matchups
The Warriors hosted the first game of the regular season series on November 23. Damian Lillard had 23 points, while Jusuf Nurkic had 22 points, but it was not enough for the Trail Blazers. Kevin Durant dropped 32 points, 9 rebounds, and 7 assists. Klay Thompson had another 31 points to help give Golden State a 125-97 win at home.
These two teams met up again on December 27 in Golden State. Steph Curry added 29 points from the Point Guard spot. Kevin Durant added another 26 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists. Jusuf Nurkic dropped 27 points and 12 rebounds. C.J. McCollum added 24 points for the Trail Blazers as Portland finished with a 110-109 win in overtime.
The Trail Blazers hosted the third game of the season series on December 29. Damian Lillard put up a huge night, dropping 40 points to try and help Portland win, but it was not enough. Klay Thompson put up 32 points, while Kevin Durant and Steph Curry each had 25 points. The Warriors were able to finish with a 115-105 win on the road.
Portland hosted the final game of the regular season series on February 13. Kevin Durant and Steph Curry each put up 32 point performances, but no other player on Golden State had double-digit points. Damian Lillard had 29 points and Jake Layman had 17 points off the bench. The Trail Blazers bench combined for 52 points to help give Portland a 129-107 win at home to tie up the series 2-2.
Three Point Shooting
The Trail Blazers have been doing well when it comes to shooting the three ball. Portland was able to make around 35.9 percent of their shots from deep in the regular season. The Trail Blazers allowed their opponents to make 35.9 percent of their shots from deep as well in the regular season. Portland has made around 35.9 percent of their three-point shots in the playoffs, which is second for remaining teams.
Golden State was able to make around 38.5 percent of their three points shots in the regular season, while holding opposing teams to a three-point percentage of 34.7 percent. The Warriors have been the best team at shooting the three ball in the playoffs, making around 37.2 percent of their shots from behind the arc.
Portland has been doing well at shooting the three ball, but they are not as strong as the Warriors. Golden State’s three-point defense has been doing well and they will look to shut down the Trail Blazers from behind the line. Both guard pairs will look to earn the edge at shooting the three-point ball, which should be something to watch throughout this series.
Damian Lillard has put up a strong performance from the Point Guard spot throughout these playoffs. Lillard has averaged around 28.5 points and 6 assists per game. C.J. McCollum is averaging around 25.5 points and 6 rebounds per game from the other Guard spot. Enes Kanter has stepped up averaging 13 points and 10.5 rebounds per game in this playoff run.
Steph Curry is averaging around 24.5 points per game at the Point Guard position in the playoffs. Klay Thompson has averaged around 18.5 points per game in the playoffs. Draymond Green is averaging 12.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 8 assists per game. Andre Iguodala has averaged 12 points per game.
These two teams have a strong Guard pairing that they will look to help lead them to a victory. I expect both pairs of Guards will play a big role throughout this series as they go up against each other. Enes Kanter will look to put up a strong showing as he goes up against the Warriors who do not have a true Center in the starting lineup with DeMarcus Cousins out.
Pick Overview
These two teams have been doing well enough to make it to the Western Conference Finals. Both teams will look to earn a big win in Game 1 to earn a lead. I expect both teams to come out a bit slower to feel each other out to set up the series. The Trail Blazers will need McCollum and Lillard to put up big performances if they want to win on the road.
BetOnline has Golden State listed as a -7.5 against the spread. The Warriors have earned the right to be favorites in this series, but I believe that with the injuries that they have suffered, this spread is too big. I believe that the Trail Blazers can keep up with Golden State in Game 1, which makes them have a lot of value as underdogs this big.
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS +7.5
Andruw Burling
Andruw Burling has been writing sports picks since 2017, covering mainly NHL and NBA content, but doing work in other sports as well. Andruw grew up in Las Vegas and has been around sports since a young age. He grew up a huge NHL and NBA fan and continues to use that knowledge in his content today.
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Another guilty plea entered in Army Corps contracting scheme
By Ann E. Marimow
Ann E. Marimow
Reporter covering legal affairs
The former president of a Northern Virginia company pleaded guilty Thursday for her role in what prosecutors have called one of the largest bribery schemes in federal contracting history.
Min Jung Cho, the former owner of Nova Datacom, is one of 15 people — including two former Army Corps of Engineers employees — to accept plea deals in the case. The far-reaching conspiracy involved the awarding or steering of government contracts in exchange for more than $30 million in bribes and kickbacks.
And the investigation is not over, according to Ronald C. Machen Jr., U.S. attorney for the District, who said in a statement Thursday that his office is also probing Department of the Army contracts and a former employee there who traded contracts “for cash, gambling in Las Vegas and a $70,000 Lexus.”
Machen described a “brazen fraud” and “a sprawling bribery scheme involving corrupt public officials and compromised government contractors.”
Neither prosecutors nor the Army would name the latest target, who is identified in court documents as “Public Official C.” The individual is described as a former assistant program manager for a division of the Army that provides information management systems. The suspect, who began working for the government in 1990, had been an Army contracting officer in Seoul before moving to Fairfax Station in 2010 for a posting at Fort Belvoir, prosecutors said. Independent efforts to identify Public Official C, who resigned last April, were unsuccessful.
Cho, 44, and her brother, company founder Young N. “Alex” Cho, have been cooperating with investigators, prosecutors said in court. The company also pleaded guilty Thursday, admitting to paying more than $15 million in bribes to the three public officials and more than $790,000 in kickbacks to two other company executives who directed subcontracts to Nova Datacom.
Min Cho, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, faces up to five years in prison, according to the plea agreement. The now-defunct company, which was based in Chantilly and provided security services to federal agencies and private-sector companies, faces a fine of up to $79 million. But it was not clear how it would pay such a large amount; Min Cho’s attorney, Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder, told U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan that the company does not have any assets.
Van Gelder described her client’s crime as one “in which you look the other way and try to minimize the actions.” But her brother “was in too deep and it just got out of hand,” Van Gelder said.
The scheme, according to prosecutors, began in 2007 with an arrangement between Alex Cho and an Army Corps of Engineers program manager, Kerry Khan, who is awaiting sentencing. Khan has admitted to directing contracts to companies in exchange for bribesand establishing shell companies to hide the money and buy real estate.
Alex Cho transferred control of the company to his sister in 2007 as part of a plan to expand into government contracting and gain a competitive edge by obtaining “small disadvantaged business” status by having a minority woman at the helm.
Min Cho admitted Thursday that she knew from discussions with her brother that he and another Nova Datacom employee, Nick Park, had bribed Public Official C in exchange for steering contracts their way.
She was also involved in conversations, according to court papers, in which her brother discussed plans to withhold information from investigators, who were looking into false documents the company had submitted, because of concerns they would learn of the bribery scheme.
“We committed these crimes,” she told the judge.
In June 2007, according to court documents, Park began giving the official gifts, including first-class airline upgrades. That month, the official recommended Nova Datacom for a contract worth about $330,000.
The next month, Park met up with the official in Hawaii to hand deliver $40,000 in cash. Alex Cho had directed his sister to give him the money that Park used to make the payment. Later that year, Alex Cho paid the official $10,000 more in cash, in addition to casino chips and lodging in Las Vegas, the documents say.
Park and Alex Cho pleaded guilty previously and are awaiting sentencing.
Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.
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VERBUND Supervisory Board Says "Yes" To European Hydro Power
7/16/2001Wien
Figures of the hydro power company with European dimensions speak for themselves - Leading role of VERBUND, holding over 60 percent - Transnational hydroelectric power company offers economic and ecological advantages and strengthens renewable energy in the liberalized market - Ownership and water rights remain in Austria, contrary to false statements
Today the Supervisory Board of VERBUND has approved the framework agreement between E.ON Energie and Verbundgesellschaft on the establishment of European Hydro Power GmbH (EHP). This was an important step to the establishment of a hydroelectric power company with European dimensions under the leadership of VERBUND.
The figures of EHP, in which the hydroelectric plants of VERBUND-Austrian Hydro Power AG (AHP) and those of E.ON Wasserkraft GmbH will be merged, speak for themselves. The company will dispose of more than 200 hydroelectric plants with a capacity of approx. 9,600 MW and a mean generating capacity of over 35,000 GWh when completed and employ approx. 2,500 persons in Austria and in Germany. EHP is to be headquartered in Salzburg, where approx. 300 highly trained persons will be employed.
In the company, which bundles the activities of the two large producers of power generated from eco-friendly, renewable water power and will thus guarantee the optimal use of this valuable form of energy, VERBUND will clearly take the leading role, holding a share of over 60 percent.
To VERBUND and its shareholders the leading role in the joint hydro power company means a considerable economic boosting, particularly since EHP will be consolidated in the VERBUND balance sheet. This will bring a 15 percent jump in sales and an increase of even 25 percent in the operating result. Considering the moderate growth of the domestic power market - one to two percent annually - these values could be reached in seven years at the earliest. The savings potential resulting from the joint operation of the power plants and an optimized use of funds in all sectors amounts to approx. 300 million ATS (25 million Euro) p.a.
In addition to the economic benefits the transnational hydroelectric power company also offers clear ecological advantages: Hydro power will be better able to hold its ground in the liberalized European market – also versus nuclear power.
The total production of EHP will be at the disposal of VERBUND and E.ON Energie according to their shares. VERBUND and E.ON commit themselves to buy the total production of EHP at market prices derived from wholesale prices.
Contrary to false statements that have repeatedly been made this joint hydro power company does not at all mean giving up Austria’s hydroelectric plants or the water rights, particularly since EHP takes on the operational management and coordination but not the direct ownership of the power plants or the water rights. The latter will remain under the ownership of AHP in Austria and E.ON Wasserkraft GmbH in Germany respectively. Thus E.ON is not only a minority partner in EHP but it also does not gain any influence over the domestic water resources in terms of property rights.
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Google & Social: A Cautionary Tale
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Google’s recent acquisition of Wildfire was just the latest in a long series of big moves made by the search giant in their quest for prominence in the social sphere. But it was the first significant one in a while that didn’t involve launching a product of their own. True, there have been social-oriented acquisitions in the past (Blogger back in the day comes to mind), but lately Google’s most memorable efforts to dabble into the social space came straight out of the labs over in Mountain View and, unfortunately for them, didn’t reach the heights they were undoubtedly hoping for.
Let’s take a look back at some of their efforts and learn some lessons of our own for launching a new product/service.
1. Google Wave: Too Smart for its Own Good?
Back in 2009 when Google VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, and his team first unveiled Google Wave at that year’s I/O conference, people believed they had just witnessed the second coming of email. Combining the latter with instant messaging and layering a boatload of functionality on top of the already impressive combo, Wave promised a radical shift in the way we communicated on the web. Expectations couldn’t have been higher, and everyone and their mother in the tech/geek world (including yours truly) just couldn’t wait to get their golden ticket and grubby hands on the beta (limited to 100,000 users only at first).
Initial feedback ranged from mixed to very positive (check out Engadget‘s and Ars Technica‘s hands-on reviews at the time for instance), with everyone agreeing that this was a tool with a tremendous amount of potential. But analysts also waved a few red flags, cautioning people to keep their expectations grounded as Wave needed to work out some kinks before being officially anointed the future of the Internet, most notably that it lacked a clear purpose and viable real-life applications. Unfortunately, those hurdles proved too great, adoption never took off, even after removing the invite-only gate, and Google pulled the plug on Wave barely a year after introducing it.
But come on, this was pretty cool:
2. Google Buzz: Parlez-vous Privacy?
As with Wave, Buzz was greeted with a fair amount of buzz (OK, that was too easy) upon release. Some were already dubbing it the “Twitter killer” as Google was looking to leverage its considerable Gmail user base by integrating the new product directly within their email client. This would allow users to post updates visible to anyone in their Gmail contact list, directly from their Gmail page. In addition to the convenience of not having to change windows/tabs, Google enabled auto-following between a user and all his/her Gmail contacts, public and private sharing (which meant your posts would be indexed and thus Googleable) and a customized recommendation system for access to only the most relevant updates. All in all, it seemed the search giant had finally hit a social home run, and initial numbers posted on the official Gmail blog seemed to confirm it. Within 56 hours Buzz already had over 9 million posts and comments, which represents more than 160,000 comments and posts per hour.
Google however, neglected one vital aspect that would eventually bring about the demise of its newborn product: privacy. As soon as Buzz was announced, and even prior to launch, industry experts started pointing out the various breaches of user information that the company’s decision to automatically opt in its customer base, had caused. Chief among these complaints and considered the biggest privacy flaw was the public disclosure of the names of all Gmail contacts on a given user’s Google profile. After being hit with various lawsuits and settling a few of them, as well as being investigated by the FTC, Google decided to shut down its Buzz service a little over two years after its inception.
3. Google+: Is This Thing On?
By launching its own social network, pitting itself in direct competition with Facebook and its already built-in user base of 500 million-plus (at time of launch), Google knew it was taking a big gamble. So, when they officially announced the launch of Google+, it was immediately met with skepticism, fueled undoubtedly by the company’s recent history with failed social products. Features such as Circles (a fancy term for lists) or Hangouts (a glorified chat) didn’t do much to help the matter. When asked whether he felt threatened on the Charlie Rose show, Mark Zuckerberg said Google was just “trying to build their own little version of Facebook” (even though he eventually got on it too).
Fast-forward to over a year later, and the jury is still out as to whether Google+ is a success. Some still believe in its potential, believing it’s only a matter of time before the social network truly takes off. But when faced with the hard, cold truth, we can only note that there just isn’t much going on there right now. People from within the company itself seem to have lost faith as well, as illustrated by Steve Yegge’s infamous rant. Instead of a list of raw numbers, here’s a nice little infographic (courtesy of Umpf) to prove my point:
So as you can see, even one of the largest and most innovative companies in the world has had its own share of hiccups when launching new products/services. Google prides itself in letting its teams run independently to pursue their own projects, with the firm belief that it breeds innovation. But we can see in the 3 cases mentioned above that some coordinated homework and research wouldn’t have hurt. The good news is the lessons learned are applicable to businesses of all sizes:
Make sure your product has legs: Wave was considered a genius idea with the potential to revolutionize the way we interacted online, but didn’t live up to its lofty promise by failing to explain exactly what it was for or to promote its benefits clearly. Buzz was a good idea to begin with, but its utter disregard (blissful ignorance?) for privacy laws pretty much crippled it from the start. So do some research on your target audience and gauge potential interest, and identify any risks/opportunities that may arise during your product’s lifecycle before moving forward with any development. A beta is a great way to get an initial read and make tweaks before exposing your new product/service to the masses.
Be wary of the state of the competitive market: Google+ hasn’t offered enough difference-making features to make it a viable alternative to Facebook yet. If you are going after a market with firmly established leaders, identify some of the pain points that users are facing (using SWOT analysis, BCG or McKinsey matrices…) and launch a product that serves unmet needs in order to carve out unique market share.
And most importantly, make sure your product is ready for consumption: Wave was available to only a limited number of people, in part due to the lack of technical resources to support heavier use. By the time Google was ready to accommodate everyone, the hype was over, and even the most fervent supporters had lost interest. At time of launch, your product/service needs to be robust enough for your consumers to, well, consume and enjoy. Beta testing is a great way to battle-proof it prior to general availability, but make sure to gather feedback from your testers and adjust accordingly in quick fashion.
Have you had issues launching a product or service of your own, and if so, what have you been able to take away from the experience? Share away in the comments!
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I think the biggest concern that so many of us small businesses have, is that there are so many “social” forms of media that we do not what which one to devote time to and which one to ignore.
Great post though and thanks again, VR.
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The Internet Archive Fixes 9 Million Broken Links on Wikipedia
A heroic, knowledge-saving task involving two of the most important organizations on the internet.
Oct 2 2018, 1:39pm
Image: Wikipedia
One of biggest problems on Wikipedia isn’t people maliciously submitting false content—the ecosystem actually moderates what can and can’t be posted with decent efficiency and deals with false information quickly. Instead, it's the third-party citations that Wikipedia relies on. Roughly 20 million links on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites are added and changed each week. And when a link doesn’t work anymore, the veracity of information in the article can’t be proven.
But the Internet Archive has been actively working to address this problem. According to a blog posted Monday, the archive has spent the last five years backing up nearly 9 million links referenced in Wikipedia and close to 300 Wikimedia sites across 22 different languages. And since 2015, a software bot called IABot has been identifying woking links that can replace the broken ones.
“When broken links are discovered, IABot searches for archives in the Wayback Machine and other web archives to replace them with,” the blog post reads.
Image: Internet Archive
In the future, Internet Archive says that it plans to expand its efforts beyond Wikimedia sites and to other types of websites, e-books, and academic papers. After all, broken links aren’t just a problem on Wikipedia—they’re a problem across the internet at large. In 2013, The Atlantic found that 49 percent of the links cited in Supreme Court decisions are broken, for example.
The Internet Archive’s broken link archiving could prove especially important in terms of Wikipedia’s fact-checking capacity on YouTube. Earlier this year, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced (without warning Wikipedia) that the site would provide links to Wikipedia articles on videos that have content related to conspiracy theories, a prevalent issue on the site.
However, there are limits to the effectiveness of archiving. In April, NBC anchor Joy Reid claimed that the Internet Archive had been hacked and manipulated to display posts on her former blog which she claims that she didn’t write. Internet Archive denied that any hack occurred. However, as we wrote at the time, the incident highlighted limits to web archiving, because many sites are only backed up to a single archive (usually the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.) For instance, certain archived pages can appear incomplete on the Wayback Machine due to issues with Javascript.
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Who the Hell is Jimi Somewhere?
The 20-year-old is being hailed as Norway’s answer to Kevin Abstract. We’re premiering a song and video from his second EP, PONYBOY.
by Daisy Jones
Lead photo by Michael Ray VC Angeles
If you drive about an hour west of Oslo, Norway, you’ll reach a small, postcard-pretty town called Hokksund. There’s not much there—it’s mainly forest and rivers, with about 8000 residents dotted around in flat, white houses. But there is a high school, a skatepark and one kiosk that opens during busier seasons. Sometimes, people drive up there to visit the local glass factory. Mainly though, it’s just a beautiful place, where nothing ever happens.
Jimi Somewhere—real name Benjamin Schandy—spent the first 16 years of his life in Hokksund. He enjoyed it, but was also bored out of his mind. So as is usual with kids in small towns, Jimi found refuge elsewhere. He learned guitar. Filmed his mates skateboarding. Became obsessed with American pop punk at first, like Blink 182, Green Day, My Chemical Romance. Then later discovered newer hip hop, like Odd Future, Brockhampton, Joey Badass, Mac Miller. He started writing raps. Got into Spike Jonze, the Coppola canon, Wes Anderson. “I’ve taken all these things and combined them to make... me,” he says.
We’re sitting in a cafe just off Brick Lane, east London. Jimi is drinking a bright green juice the same color as his homemade t shirt, the back of which reads: “Life was better when I was 17”—lyrics to his most well-known song, “1st Place.” His girlfriend is sitting beside him in a puffa jacket, scrolling through her iPhone and occasionally looking up to laugh at something one of us has said. Her hair is long and purpley violet, while his is faded red. Next to each other, the two of them look especially young and colourful, like teenagers who might be cast in a movie as “teenagers.” “I only got here last night, but I leave tomorrow,” Jimi says, blinking at the sun, making small talk.
Jimi played in a few pop punk bands back in Hokksund. But it wasn’t until he left for boarding school two hours away—along with his childhood best friend Milo Orchis—that he started experimenting and trying out different styles. Milo is a natural producer, so he would produce in their dorm, while Jimi would write and sing. “Kevin Abstract put out MTV1987 and I was like, ‘this is the best thing ever,’” Jimi says, looking back. “He made it with his best friend in their bedroom, and it sounded so professional. I was like ‘woah, we can do this.’ He’s probably my biggest influence.”
Clicking through Jimi’s Soundcloud, it can be easy to hear these influences. His 2016 debut EP, Memoria, is full of jangling electric guitar and honey-sweet falsetto, interspersed with the odd rap feature and heavy instrumental breakdown. Like many of the contemporaries he namechecks, Jimi’s sound is loosely defined and cinematic, a product of being online and waywardly soaking up culture. Sometimes it sounds emo or pop punk, other times like hip hop, but often it’s just a mesh of everything, more to do with feeling than any particular style. In “1st Place,” for example, you can hear a conversation between lovers, ocean waves in the background, like a brief snapshot of a bigger story.
In recent years, his music has gotten tighter. His lyrics are more poetic. His voice glossier, more expressive. His beats smoother. “I Shot My Dog,” a new song premiering on Noisey today at the top of this page alongside a new video, which is spliced up with “1st Place”, sounds like a golden-tinged coming-of-age movie, compressed into five and a half minutes. “I shot my dog, they burned the church / I left my home, to my find worth / I miss the friends, I grew up with / They’re all in jobs, or they’ve got kids,” he sings, frustrated, his voice a mixture of Tom Delonge and Matt Champion with a Norwegian twang. It’s a song just as much about growing up as it is wishing you didn’t have to.
Jimi loves movies. While we’re chatting, he takes out his phone and shows me this app called Letterboxd, where users can log and rate everything they’ve watched. It’s basically a social network for cinema nerds. “Here are all my top rated,” he says, flicking past Lost in Translation, Stand By Me, American Beauty, The Favourite. I notice that right at the top is the Spike Jonze movie Her, but confess I haven’t seen it yet. Jimi nearly drops his phone, incredulous. “You haven’t seen it?!” he says, suddenly enthusiastic. “That film is the best! Whenever I watch it I go through all kinds of emotions. It’s funny. It’s heartfelt. It’s… everything.”
The name of his upcoming EP, a 7-track collection called PONYBOY, is a movie reference. It’s named after a character in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 classic The Outsiders. Unlike previous releases, though, PONYBOY was written and recorded in LA. Jimi explains how him and Milo pooled all their money together after high school and flew over for three months, just to see what might happen. While out there, they met another producer, Bearson, who also worked on PONYBOY. They got signed to a label, Next Wave. They even hung out with Kevin Abstract. “We care a lot about projects, we treat everything with an album mentality,” Jimi says. “I’m so happy with how it turned out.”
Photo by Dev Dhunsi
Jimi is a product of his generation. What's weird, is that it doesn’t feel like so long ago that Odd Future were releasing their own mixtapes as free downloads. And it’s been much less time since Brockhampton formed on a Kanye West forum and built their own cult following. Kevin Abstact’s American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story came out in 2016. But Jimi belongs to a even newer era of kids who grew up listening to this stuff, and seeing these people as their idols. And the result is music that fits within the world they created, even though, this time, it's coming from a boy in a small suburban town in Norway, surrounded by trees and lake.
I wonder how Jimi and his girlfriend are going to spend the rest of the day. It’s sunny outside despite being February, so they tell me they might take a walk, maybe look around some cheap thrift stores. They ask if I have any recommendations because I’m wearing an Adidas sweatshirt and stonewashed denim. I tell them it’s so expensive round here, but good luck anyway, and point to the strip of vintage shops down the road. We shake hands and say goodbye, and I leave them finishing off their juices and chatting closely.
Later that night I can’t sleep, so I decide to stick on the Spike Jonze movie Her. Jimi’s right. It does make you feel all kinds of emotions. It’s funny. It’s heartbreaking. It’s everything. Then at five in the morning, I rewatch Lost in Translation. The day had begun with me trying to understand the world of Jimi Somewhere, but he had inadvertently pushed me into other worlds, and then other worlds after that. Which maybe is exactly what he’s about anyway.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK.
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Kim So Yeon is a popular South Korean actress. Born on November 2, 1980, she first entered the entertainment industry at the age of 14 when she entered the Miss Binggrae beauty pageant without her parents’ permission. She is said to have won the top prize after using a marker pen as eyeliner. She made her acting debut at the age of 14 in the 1994 television series “Dinosaur Teacher” and has won many acting accolades for her roles in television and films since. She is best known for her roles in the popular television dramas “All About Eve” (2000), “IRIS” (2009), “Prosecutor Princess” (2010), “Two Weeks” (2013), “I Need Romance 3” (2014) and “Falling for Innocence” (2015). She also appeared in the female version of the military reality show “Real Men” (2014) and paired with junior actor Kwak Si Yang in “We Got Married Season 4” (2015).
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Albany County Educator Receives UW Extension Newer Employee Award
November 30, 2015 — Effectiveness in working with educators in several specialty areas is among reasons an Albany County University of Wyoming Extension educator has received the Newer Employee Recognition Award.
Holiday Home Tour Scheduled Dec. 6
November 30, 2015 — Three unique homes will be open for the public to enjoy the spirit of the holiday season during the University Women’s Club annual Holiday Home Tour Sunday, Dec. 6, from noon-4 p.m.
Solar PV Array at War Memorial Stadium Lot
November 30, 2015 — A new solar photovoltaic (PV) array recently was installed at the Ford Lot at the University of Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium.
UW Percussion Ensemble and Pan Band to Perform Dec. 3 at UW
November 30, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Percussion Ensemble and Pan Band will perform a free concert Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.
UW Podcast Examines Hollywood Blacklist
November 30, 2015 — With the release of the new film “Trumbo,” a modern and classical languages professor will examine how Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay “Spartacus” signaled the end of the notorious Hollywood blacklist on this week’s University of Wyoming podcast, “The University of Wyoming Today.”
December Planetarium Schedule Provides Introductory Programs for Stargazers
November 25, 2015 — Long December nights provide plenty of opportunities for the public to gaze at the skies during programs scheduled next month at the Harry C. Vaughan University of Wyoming Planetarium.
Denver Comedy Works Comedians to Perform at UW Dec. 4
November 25, 2015 — Stand-up comedians Brent Gill and Heath Arthur will perform with guest emcee Vinnie Montez Friday, Dec. 4, at 9 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Union lower level. The show is free and open to the public.
University of Wyoming Calendar for Nov. 30-Dec. 6
November 25, 2015 — These are among the activities scheduled Nov. 30-Dec. 6 at the University of Wyoming:
UW Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Celebrates 75 Years
November 25, 2015 — Thanksgiving 2015 (Nov. 26) marks the 75th anniversary of the University of Wyoming’s membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society.
UW Religion Today: Is Christianity Successful?
November 25, 2015 — The question of whether or not Christianity is successful depends on how success is measured. Why not treat the question as a horse race and ask, “What is the biggest religion?”
Wyoming Illustrator Zachary Pullen to Speak at UW Dec. 5
November 25, 2015 — Wyoming illustrator Zachary Pullen will discuss his most recent book, “The Presidents,” Saturday, Dec. 5, at 11 a.m. in the University of Wyoming Union Family Room.
Last Fall Semester Faculty Recital Dec. 4
November 24, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Department of Music’s Fall Faculty Recital Series concludes Friday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall with a performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 4 and 5.
Ruckelshaus Receives 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom
November 24, 2015 — President Barack Obama today (Nov. 24) presents a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to William Ruckelshaus, for whom the University of Wyoming’s Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources is named.
Soweto Gospel Choir to Perform at UW Dec. 6
November 24, 2015 — The Soweto Gospel Choir will perform at the University of Wyoming Sunday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. in the College of Arts and Sciences auditorium, the final performance of the Cultural Programs fall series.
Speak Like a Girl Poetry Slam Night Dec. 2
November 24, 2015 — Real Women, Real Bodies, a University of Wyoming recognized student organization, will host a “Speak Like a Girl” poetry slam Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. in the UW College of Education auditorium.
Wyoming Business Tips for Nov. 29-Dec. 5
November 24, 2015 — A weekly look at Wyoming business questions from the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (WSBDC), part of WyomingEntrepreneur.Biz, a collection of business assistance programs at the University of Wyoming.
Community Development Educator Receives UW Extension’s Highest Honor
November 23, 2015 — An educator recognized for her efforts to provide training to elected and appointed board members and government has received University of Wyoming Extension’s highest honor.
Lane Buchanan is UW’s New Registrar
November 23, 2015 — Lane Buchanan was named the registrar for the University of Wyoming, effective Nov. 1.
UW Announces Thanksgiving Closures
November 23, 2015 — Most University of Wyoming business and administrative offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26-27, for Thanksgiving. Normal business hours (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) will resume Monday, Nov. 30. UW classes will be dismissed Nov. 25-27.
UW Art Museum Hosts Annual Holiday Events Dec. 3-5
November 23, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Art Museum will launch the holiday season with two free public celebrations, Festival of Trees and 23rd Annual Happy Holidays, Laramie! Thursday, Dec. 3-Saturday, Dec. 5.
UW Holiday Market Set Dec. 4
November 23, 2015 — More than 70 vendors will sell seasonal items at the annual Holiday Market Friday, Dec. 4, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on the second floor of the University of Wyoming Union.
UW Physical Plants Outlines Recommended Cold Weather Procedures
November 23, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Physical Plant has issued recommendations to ensure safety and security in all buildings during lengthy closures or anticipated periods of extremely cold weather.
UW Podcast Examines Childhood Obesity
November 23, 2015 — A new program to combat childhood obesity and a look at the first Thanksgiving are among topics on this week’s University of Wyoming podcast, “The University of Wyoming Today.”
UW Professor Cited for Distinguished Research Poster
November 23, 2015 — A poster session describing research led by University of Wyoming College of Education faculty member Chris Haynes earned “Distinguished Research Poster” recognition at the 34th National Agricultural Mechanics Professional Development Blue Ribbon Research Conference.
UW Regulation Requires Annual Motor Vehicle Records Check
November 23, 2015 — Individuals who know they will drive on University of Wyoming business during 2016 need to make a new request by Dec. 1, 2015.
UW Trustees Approve Personnel Items
November 23, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees approved the following appointments during its meeting Friday, Nov. 20:
Campus Construction Update for Nov. 22-Dec. 5
November 20, 2015 — These are among the construction activities scheduled Nov. 22-Dec. 5 at the University of Wyoming:
County Data Now Available on UW Website
November 20, 2015 — Details about the University of Wyoming's interaction with the state's 23 counties are available online.
Laser Light Show and Observatory Tour for UW Students Dec. 2
November 20, 2015 — University of Wyoming students will be able to enjoy free laser light shows synchronized to Daft Punk music, as well as a STAR observatory tour, Wednesday, Dec. 2, in the Harry C. Vaughn Planetarium. The event is for UW students only.
University of Wyoming Calendar for Nov. 23-29
November 20, 2015 — These are among the activities scheduled Nov. 23-29 at the University of Wyoming:
UW Trustees Approve 4 Percent Tuition Increase
November 20, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees voted today (Friday) to raise student tuition by 4 percent in the 2016-17 academic year, with half of the revenues generated by the increase going to faculty and staff compensation.
Second UW Presidential Search Committee Narrows List of Candidates
November 19, 2015 — The second committee involved in the search for a new University of Wyoming president has narrowed the list of semifinalists and will now begin the process of conducting in-depth background and reference checks.
UW Meat Judging Team Finishes Season with Reserve National Champion Honor
November 19, 2015 — University of Wyoming meat judging team members broke team records and posted a perfect score in specifications en route to its reserve national championship finish during the fall season.
Turkey Preparation, Roasting Information Available from UW Extension
November 18, 2015 — University of Wyoming Extension nutrition and food safety educators offer Turkey 1.0 information for newbies and those who haven’t prepared the Thanksgiving meal for a while.
UW Art Museum Accepts Works for Juried Student Exhibition
November 18, 2015 — The official call for entries is available online for the University of Wyoming Art Museum’s 41st annual Juried UW Student Exhibition in the spring.
UW Art Show Draws Inspiration from Disney-Pixar’s ‘Good Dinosaur’
November 18, 2015 — An art show that draws inspiration from Disney-Pixar’s new animated film “The Good Dinosaur” is scheduled Friday, Nov. 20, at 5 p.m. in the UW Geological Museum.
UW Equestrian Club to Compete in Semester’s Final Show
November 17, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Equestrian Club will compete in the fall semester’s final western horse show Nov. 21-22 at Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Cheyenne.
UW International Education Week Underway
November 17, 2015 — International Education Week at the University of Wyoming continues through Saturday, Nov. 21.
UW Wellness Center in Half Acre Now Open
November 17, 2015 — The Wellness Center is now open at the University of Wyoming Half Acre Recreation and Wellness Center.
Campus Pepsi Machines Accept WyoOne ID Campus $ and Dining $
November 16, 2015 — Pepsi vending machines at the University of Wyoming recently expanded their payment options and now accept Campus $ and Dining $ as a method of payment on campus.
Remaining AHC Director Finalists to Give Public Presentations
November 16, 2015 — Two of the three finalists for the position of director of the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center are scheduled to visit the university this week.
Sexual Assault Awareness Week at UW Nov. 17-19
November 16, 2015 — Voices of Courage, a University of Wyoming recognized student organization, will offer several events Nov. 17-19 for Sexual Assault Awareness Week.
UW Podcast Examines Significant Wyoming Artifacts
November 16, 2015 — A historic map of early Wyoming and tools used by the state’s earliest humans are among topics on this week’s University of Wyoming podcast, “The University of Wyoming Today.”
UW Researchers Discover Sediment Size Does Matter in High-Elevation Erosion Rates
November 16, 2015 — When it comes to sediment in the High Sierra, size does matter, according to two University of Wyoming researchers.
UW Senior Honor Society Selects ‘Top Profs’
November 16, 2015 — Members of the University of Wyoming Cap and Gown Chapter of Mortar Board have named their "Top Profs" for the academic year.
UW Staff Senate Raffles Underway
November 16, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Staff Senate is selling tickets now for both a meat package and a 50-50 drawing. The drawing for both raffles will be held during the Dec. 4 Holiday Market in the Wyoming Union.
Website Offers Free Audio/Video Production Tools to UW
November 16, 2015 — Thousands of audio tracks, sound effects, stock video clips, motion backgrounds and After Effects templates are now available free to University of Wyoming employees and students.
‘Interstellar’ Movie Screening and Discussion in UW Planetarium Set Nov. 20
November 16, 2015 — Film screenings of “Interstellar” will be shown Friday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Harry C. Vaughan University of Wyoming Planetarium, located in the basement of the Physical Sciences Building.
Activities Scheduled at UW for Hunger and Homelessness Week Nov. 16-20
November 13, 2015 — Activities are scheduled at the University of Wyoming during Hunger and Homelessness Week Nov. 16-20.
A Message from the President: Diversity and Inclusion at UW
November 13, 2015 — Over the course of the last several months, I have had conversations with a variety of stakeholders, both within and outside the university, regarding diversity and inclusion at the University of Wyoming. Through these conversations and informative dialogues, it has become clear to me that as a university, we must strengthen our commitment to diversity, and we must do more to make UW a welcoming and supportive place for all members of our community.
Campus Construction Update for Nov. 15-21
November 13, 2015 — These are among the construction activities scheduled Nov. 15-21 at the University of Wyoming:
Juilliard-Trained Pianist Sisters Perform at UW Nov. 20
November 13, 2015 — Julliard School-trained pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton will perform at the University of Wyoming at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. The sisters’ performance is part of the UW Cultural Programs series.
Second UW Presidential Search Committee Reviews Semifinalists
November 13, 2015 — The second committee involved in the search for a new University of Wyoming president has begun considering a list of semifinalists forwarded by the first search committee, with a charge of identifying finalists to submit to the UW Board of Trustees.
UW Alumni Named National Geographic Adventurers of the Year
November 13, 2015 — University of Wyoming alumni Joe Riis and Arthur Middleton have been named 2016 National Geographic Adventurers of the Year for their work studying, photographing and exploring wildlife migrations in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE).
UW Trustees Set Agenda for Nov. 18-20 Meeting
November 13, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees is scheduled to establish tuition rates for the 2016-17 academic year during the board’s regular meeting Wednesday through Friday, Nov. 18-20.
UW Will Develop Diversity Plan, Hire Diversity Coordinator
November 13, 2015 — Seeking to strengthen the University of Wyoming’s commitment to diversity, President Dick McGinity will appoint a committee to develop a plan laying out specific measures to achieve that objective. And he will create a new position to coordinate UW’s diversity efforts.
Wyoming Business Tips for Nov. 22-28
Wyoming State High School Football Championship Results
November 13, 2015 — The University of Wyoming is playing host to the Wyoming State High School Football Championships Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14.
Irish Researcher Collaborates with UW Scientists
November 12, 2015 — A genetic engineer from a university in Ireland says his collaboration with researchers at the University of Wyoming could lay the groundwork to develop hand-held detection devices for use in environmental monitoring and pathogen detection.
UW Energy Resources Council to Meet Nov. 20
November 12, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Energy Resources Council (ERC) will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at the BP Collaboration Center in the Energy Innovation Center on the UW campus.
UW Symphony Orchestra to Perform Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony Nov. 18
November 12, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra (UWSO) will perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.
2015 Wyoming High School Football State Championships Kick Off at War Memorial Stadium Friday and Saturday
November 11, 2015 — The 2015 Wyoming High School Football State Championships kick off at War Memorial Stadium at the University of Wyoming this Friday and Saturday with five title games.
A Message from the President: Veterans Contribute Much to UW Community
November 11, 2015 — As a military veteran and president of the University of Wyoming, I’m proud to take a few moments on Veterans Day 2015 to salute the men and women who have served and are serving our nation in the armed forces -- and to make note of the importance of veterans who study and work at the university.
Richardson to Give 2015 Buchanan Lecture Thursday
November 11, 2015 — University of Wyoming at Casper faculty member Bruce Richardson, senior lecturer in the Department of English, will give the 2015 Buchanan Lecture Thursday, Nov. 12, at 3 p.m. in the UW College of Agriculture auditorium.
UW Country Swing Dance Fundraiser for United Way Set Nov. 12
November 11, 2015 — The University of Wyoming's Cowboy Country Swing Club is raising money for the United Way of Albany County by hosting a fundraising dance Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in the Wyoming Union Ballroom.
UW Religion Today: Thanksgiving at Plymouth: The Christmas Substitute (or, You Can’t Stop a Good Party)
November 11, 2015 — The celebration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in late November was not enacted until the 1870s. The official reason was to commemorate the landing at Plymouth of the nation’s Puritan forefathers and foremothers. The holiday’s national designation stemmed from two forces. The first was the unceasing will of author Sarah Josepha Hale, who spent 40 years of her adult life campaigning for the declaration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
‘You be the Judge’ Workshop Nov. 18-19 at Albany County Courthouse
November 11, 2015 — The public can learn about the judicial system during a free workshop titled, “You be the Judge,” Wednesday, Nov. 18, and Thursday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. at the Albany County Courthouse, located at 525 Grand Ave. in Laramie.
Aragon to Discuss Mestizaje Culture in UW Multicultural Affairs Speaker Series Nov. 11
November 10, 2015 — University of Wyoming Associate Professor Cecilia Aragon will discuss Mestizaje, the racial or cultural mixing of Amerindians with Europeans, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at noon in the University of Wyoming Union West Ballroom.
Community Members Invited for Input on Agricultural Plan on Reservation
November 10, 2015 — A series of meetings to describe the community-based Wind River Indian Reservation Agricultural Resource Management Plan, and to seek input from residents about agricultural issues and solutions in their region of the reservation, are planned in four Fremont County communities.
Hip-Hop Violinist DSharp to Perform Nov. 13 at UW
November 10, 2015 — Hip-hop violinist DSharp will perform Friday, Nov. 13, at 9 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Union Ballroom. The concert, free and open to all students and the public, is a Friday Night Fever event.
UW Assistant Professor to Build Organic Agriculture Curriculum Available to Anyone
November 10, 2015 — A University of Wyoming faculty member who believes organic agriculture is often oversimplified and misrepresented has her opportunity to correct that by building a relevant student curriculum with a $243,000 Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
UW Quartet and Australian Storyteller to Give Concert and Workshop in Wamsutter
November 10, 2015 — Lights Along the Shore, a University of Wyoming instrumental quartet, and Australian master storyteller Paul Taylor will give a concert and a school workshop Monday, Nov. 23, at Desert School in Wamsutter. The free concert will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the school gym.
Counseling Association Honors UW’s Jane Warren
November 9, 2015 — The Wyoming Counseling Association (WCA) recently presented its J.F. MacNeel Award to Jane Warren, University of Wyoming College of Education Department of Professional Studies associate professor.
Dinosaur Film, Chili Peppers Among UW Podcast Topics
November 9, 2015 — A promising method that uses chili peppers to manage obesity and a new animated dinosaur movie that takes place in Wyoming are among topics on this week’s University of Wyoming podcast, “The University of Wyoming Today.”
Powell Physician is UW Outstanding Health Sciences Alumna
November 9, 2015 — Dr. Valerie Lengfelder, of Powell, recently was honored as the University of Wyoming’s College of Health Sciences’ 2015 Outstanding Alumna.
Three of Wyoming’s Top Artifacts are Housed at UW
November 9, 2015 — Three of the state’s top 10 artifacts are housed at the University of Wyoming.
Tri Delta Clothing Drive Underway
November 9, 2015 — The University of Wyoming chapter of the Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) sorority is sponsoring a clothing drive to benefit the Clothing Cottage Thrift Boutique, a nonprofit organization in Laramie.
UW AHC Director Finalists to Give Public Presentations
November 9, 2015 — Three finalists for the position of director of the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center have been identified, and they are scheduled to visit the university beginning this week.
UW Research Program Names Inaugural Class of Student Scholars
November 9, 2015 — Twenty University of Wyoming students have been named to the inaugural class of student researchers in the Wyoming Research Scholars Program (WRSP).
UW Wind Symphony to Present New Symphony for Band Nov. 12
November 9, 2015 — Was it the gods’ retaliation and their power to create havoc, or was it Odysseus’ arrogance?
Winter Safety Reminders
November 9, 2015 — The recent snow and colder weather remind everyone of some of the hazards that must be dealt with during the long winter months.
Campus Construction Update for Nov. 8-14
November 6, 2015 — These are among the construction activities scheduled Nov. 8-14 at the University of Wyoming:
First Committee Advances List of Semifinalists in UW Presidential Search
November 6, 2015 — The search for a new University of Wyoming president has moved to the next stage, as the first committee involved in the search has approved a list of semifinalists to advance to the second search committee.
Guest Artists Trio Solis to Perform at UW Nov. 13
November 6, 2015 — Guest artists Trio Solis will perform a variety of classical, pop, jazz and Broadway music Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. The free concert is part of the UW Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.
Mount Moran Supercomputer Helps UW Scientists Reach Peak Performance
November 6, 2015 — Grab a pencil and write the number 150.
University of Wyoming Calendar for Nov. 9-15
November 6, 2015 — These are among the activities scheduled Nov. 9-15 at the University of Wyoming:
UW College of Business Hosts Successful DECA Day
November 6, 2015 — More than 200 students representing nine high schools recently took part in activities in the first “DECA Day,” hosted by the University of Wyoming College of Business.
UW Spooky Sprint Students Collect Donated Food Items
November 6, 2015 — University of Wyoming students recently collected more than 200 nonperishable food items for the Laramie Soup Kitchen as part of the fourth annual National Day of Service.
Kemmerer Fellow to Research Climbing and Hunting Permits on National Forest Lands
November 5, 2015 — University of Wyoming student Hunter Bruce, of Dexter, Mo., won the 2015-16 John L. Kemmerer Jr. Graduate Fellowship, an endowed award to recognize and support outstanding students studying natural resources recreation and tourism through the UW Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.
SAC-sponsored Thanksgiving Dinner Nov. 18
November 5, 2015 — A traditional holiday feast will be served at the annual Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Union Ballroom. Tickets will be available beginning Monday, Nov. 9.
UW Contingent Selected for Prestigious Engineering Competition
November 5, 2015 — The hard work of a group of engineering students was rewarded recently, as it was announced that a University of Wyoming team was selected to participate in a national rover design and demonstration competition.
UW Designated as Bicycle Friendly University
November 5, 2015 — The League of American Bicyclists today (Nov. 5) recognized the University of Wyoming as a Bicycle Friendly University.
UW Doctoral Candidate Among Eight National Scholarship Recipients
November 5, 2015 — University of Wyoming Ph.D. candidate Judd Larson is among eight national recipients of the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) scholarship.
UW Faculty Recital Series ‘An Evening of Reed Trios’ Nov. 9
November 5, 2015 — “An Evening of Reed Trios” will be performed Monday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. The free concert is part of the UW Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.
Visiting Artist Wayne White on UW Campus Nov. 9-13
November 5, 2015 — Artist Wayne White will visit the University of Wyoming Nov. 9-13 as part of a three-part, grant-funded program, “The Global Arts Education Series,” which seeks to enhance and cultivate diversity while embracing and promoting excellence in art.
Portland’s Fruition to Perform at UW Nov. 11
November 4, 2015 — Folk-alternative rock band Fruition will perform at the University of Wyoming Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m. in the lower level of the Wyoming Union. The event is free and open to the public.
UW-Casper Hosts Statewide Information Session on Master’s Counseling Program in Casper
November 4, 2015 — The University of Wyoming at Casper will hold a statewide information session regarding the master’s degree in mental health or school counseling Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m.-noon in Room 420 of the Union/University Building at Casper College. The session will be offered via video conference to the following locations:
UW Class Offers Bingo, Auction to Support Kenyan Orphanage
November 4, 2015 — Students in a University of Wyoming cross-cultural communication class have organized a charity bingo night and silent auction to raise funds for an orphanage and school in Nakuru, Kenya.
UW Geological Museum Accepting Submissions for Art Show
November 4, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Geological Museum is calling for artwork exploring a wide range of topics in geologic history and paleontological discoveries from across Wyoming. Selected work will be displayed in a mixed-media show in the museum’s gallery and exhibit space.
UW Promotes Capsaicin as Marketing Opportunity to Manage Obesity
November 4, 2015 — Researchers at the University of Wyoming have found that capsaicin -- the compound that makes chili peppers spicy -- could be developed into a therapeutic strategy to manage obesity.
‘Fabricated Dissolution’ Exhibition on Display in Gallery 234 Until Nov. 19
November 4, 2015 — A new exhibition, “Fabricated Dissolution,” from artist Stacy Stibora will be on display at the University of Wyoming in Gallery 234 until Thursday, Nov. 19.
‘Targeting Conservation Easement Purchases to Benefit Wildlife’ Published
November 4, 2015 — A new publication that seeks to inform how conservation easements are purchased is now available from the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Open Spaces Initiative.
Governor’s Brucellosis Coordination Team Meeting in Lander Nov. 20
November 3, 2015 — Brucellosis updates and surveillance and action plan results are among topics at the Governor’s Brucellosis Coordination Team meeting Friday, Nov. 20, from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at The Inn at Lander, 250 Grandview Dr. in Lander.
Holocaust Survivor to Speak at UW
November 3, 2015 — As part of the University of Wyoming Holocaust Remembrance Week Nov. 9-13, Holocaust survivor Estelle Nadel will speak Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 4 p.m. in Room 302 of the Classroom Building.
UW ‘Legacy of Light’ Production Set Nov. 10-15
November 3, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance fall season continues with the comedy “Legacy of Light” Nov. 10-14 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. on the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Main Stage.
Veterans Day Roll Call Event at UW to Honor Fallen Soldiers
November 3, 2015 — Volunteers are needed to read the names of military veterans who have died serving their country during a Veterans Day event Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the University of Wyoming.
Wyoming INBRE Receives $17.4 Million NIH Grant for Biomedical Research and Education
November 3, 2015 — Biomedical research and education in Wyoming will be strengthened by a $17.4 million grant awarded to the University of Wyoming from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Free Student Movie Night at Regal Fox Theater Nov. 6
November 2, 2015 — University of Wyoming students are invited to a free movie night at the Laramie Regal Fox Theater 6 to watch “Spectre,” the latest James Bond movie, Friday, Nov. 6, at 10:30 p.m.
Release Time for Thursday’s UW Benefit Fair
November 2, 2015 — University of Wyoming President Dick McGinity has authorized a maximum of one hour of release time to participate in the Human Resources Department Employee Benefit Fair Thursday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Wyoming Union Ballroom.
Richardson Selected to Give 2015 Buchanan Lecture
November 2, 2015 — University of Wyoming at Casper faculty member Bruce Richardson, senior lecturer in the Department of English, is the speaker for UW’s 2015 Buchanan Lecture that honors retired UW President Tom Buchanan.
UW Conference Center Sees Increase in Business
November 2, 2015 — Since assuming management of the University of Wyoming Conference Center Feb. 1, UW Catering and Events has hosted 295 events there, serving a total of 33,150 people.
UW Information Technology to Recognize Excellence
November 2, 2015 — University of Wyoming Information Technology is seeking nominations for its semiannual program to recognize individual excellence in the division.
UW Professor Honored for Hydration Research
November 2, 2015 — A University of Wyoming researcher recently received a young researcher award for his work in the field of hydration and health.
UW’s Bruce Receives National Counselor Education Honor
November 2, 2015 — A longtime University of Wyoming counselor education faculty member’s lifelong commitment to her profession, her students and her peers was spotlighted during the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s (ACES) 2015 conference last month.
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Project aims cope with increased European air traffic
Up to 33,000 flights travel across the EU every day
European air traffic management costs £3 billion more than similar systems
Warwick Business School is part of a team of researchers that has won an Innovation Award at the annual World Air Traffic Management Congress in Madrid.
Arne Strauss, Associate Professor of Operational Research, is part of a research collaboration involving academics covering economics and engineering from the University of Warwick, the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and the University of Applied Sciences Worms, Germany, to improve air traffic control within the EU, which boasts some of the busiest skies in the world.
The EU has to handle up to 33,000 flights with the current European air traffic management system costing up to €3 billion more than other similar systems in the world every year.
Dr Strauss and the team of researchers won the Innovation Award at the 19th annual Jane's Air Traffic Control Awards at the World ATM Congress in Madrid, recognising projects to improve airspace capacity, efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability.
The project was chosen by an independent panel of experienced judges from the SESAR Deployment Manager, EUROCONTROL, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA), and IHS Markit.
Dr Strauss said: “It is a great honour to receive this award and be part of a project that is doing such interesting and innovative work. I believe the research will have great impact on Europe’s air traffic control systems as it looks to cope with the increasing complexity of more and more planes in the sky.
“My team at Warwick has been contributing the operational research modelling capability, specifically the trajectory price optimisation algorithms, models of the airline's choice of trajectory for a given flight, as well as mathematical procedures on how the envisioned central network manager should order airspace capacity.”
Dr Strauss and the team of academics are working on a concept called Co-ordinated Capacity Ordering and Trajectory Pricing for Better-Performing ATM (COCTA). This was designed to strengthen the role of the EUROCONTROL Network Manager by combining co-ordinated capacity provision with a novel approach for demand management.
The team has developed a complex optimisation model and applied it to a large-scale case study involving more than 11,000 flights from eight ANSPs in highly congested European airspace.
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Trump says U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe is wrong to protest during national anthem
Courtesy: MGN
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Posted: Tue 12:39 PM, Jun 25, 2019
By: Christopher Brito | CBS News
President Trump has called U.S. women's soccer co-captain Meghan Rapinoe's protest during the national anthem inappropriate. The star forward has been protesting during the "Star Spangled Banner" since former 49ers quarterback Colin Kapernick began doing it at NFL games to call attention to police brutality and social injustice in 2016.
After the USA's 2-1 victory over Spain Monday, Mr. Trump gave an interview to The Hill about the team and Rapinoe, who scored both goals in the thrilling win. When asked if he thought Rapinoe protesting during the anthem was appropriate, he replied, "No. I don't think so."
Rapinoe, who is openly gay, initially started to protest in solidarity with Kapernick by kneeling when the anthem was played at National Women's Soccer League and women's national team games. But when the U.S. Soccer Federation adopted a policy that requires players to "stand and honor" the flag, she decided to follow it.
Before the FIFA Women's World Cup in France kicked off, Rapinoe, who see herself as a "walking protest when it comes to the Trump administration," told Yahoo Sports she wouldn't sing the anthem or place her hand over her heart. And so far, she hasn't.
Still, Mr. Trump offered praise of the women's national team. "I love watching women's soccer," he said. "They're really talented."
The president also sidestepped on the whether the women's team should be getting equal pay as the men's team, despite being more successful than them on the field. Twenty-eight players have sued U.S. Soccer over the pay wage gap, alleging gender discrimination.
"I think a lot of it also has to do with the economics," Mr. Trump said. "I mean who draws more, where is the money coming in. I know that when you have the great stars like [Cristiano] Ronaldo and some of these stars … that get paid a lot of money, but they draw hundreds of thousands of people."
"But I haven't taken a position on that at all," he said. "I'd have to look at it."
The reigning champion U.S. team has been on a tear so far in the FIFA Women's World Cup. The Americans have scored 24 goals in four matches and have only allowed one goal, which came on Monday versus a surging Spanish squad. USA will play France on Friday in the quarterfinals.
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Cities and Urbanization
The world’s fastest-growing populations are in the Middle East and Africa. Here's why
Africa and the Middle East were home to the world's fastest growing populations between 2010-2015.
Image: REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Callum Brodie
By 2050 the Middle East and Africa will be home to around 3.4 billion people – this is likely to be more than the populations of China and India combined. Such an unprecedented boom will present challenges as well as opportunities for the international community.
The United Nations’ World Population Prospects 2017 report shows that the world’s fastest-growing populations from 2010 to 2015 were in Middle Eastern and African countries.
The following nations have experienced the most accelerated rate of population growth:
Image: World Population Prospects 2017
Unprecedented growth
Whereas growth in other populous regions, such as Europe, China and the Americas, has stalled in recent years, in Africa and the Middle East the numbers continue to increase at a rapid rate.
To put this into perspective, Africa’s population is expected to double to 2 billion by 2050. By 2100 its population could easily have doubled again. If that happens, at least four billion of the world’s 11 billion people will be African.
This unprecedented growth is largely due to the fact that infant mortality rates are down significantly and life expectancy has improved. Birth rates remain high at about five children per woman.
Meanwhile, in the Middle East, a combination of a rapidly increasing youth population and an influx of migrant workers has propelled countries such as Kuwait and Oman into the top 10 fastest-growing populations.
Topping that list is Qatar, which experienced population growth of almost 7% in the five years from 2010 to 2015. However, unlike most of the other countries on the list, Qatar’s growth is mainly down to its ambitions to make a mark on the world stage.
Having won the right to host the 2022 soccer World Cup, Qatar has embarked on some significant construction projects that have required a heavy reliance on migrant labour. Of Qatar’s estimated population of 2.57 million, 90% are migrant workers.
Image: Reuters
There are pros and cons associated with population growth. Some are more obvious than others.
The global population has more than tripled since the UN was created in 1945. The main knock-on effect of this is the substantially increased demand on shared resources.
Environmental problems – from climate change to species loss to overzealous resource extraction – are either caused or exacerbated by population growth. Then there are the less obvious side effects to consider: Air traffic volumes are forecast to double within the next 20 years.
In certain parts of the world ageing populations are putting a strain on healthcare capacity and economic growth. China, a country that for decades has enforced a one-child only policy, is now exploring financial incentives for couples who have a second child.
Yet there are also myriad opportunities for communities and companies to stand out from the rapidly-growing crowd.
In the Middle East, a larger youth population has coincided with greater social empowerment. Women often married young and rarely worked outside the home. Now, more girls are attending school and more women are entering the labour force. Couples are waiting longer to marry and are having fewer children.
Meanwhile, the challenges created by a burgeoning population will provide compelling investment opportunities for socially-engaged organizations.
Image: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
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NIST cybersecurity resources for smaller businesses
How can smaller businesses address their cybersecurity risks without the resources of large organizations?
Lysa Myers 4 Apr 2019 - 11:32AM
There are a lot of challenges to being a small-business owner, including safely managing technology. Every risk can have an outsized effect on your ability to stay in business. And resources for protecting your business are often geared towards much larger organizations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims to change that, with the release of their Small Business Cybersecurity Corner.
How is protecting a smaller business different?
On a fundamental level, the techniques needed to protect a small business aren’t all that different from those needed to protect a very large organization. The biggest differences boil down to complexity, expertise, and resilience.
A small network will necessarily be a lot less complex, which means it can be easier to protect. But if you don’t have the expertise to know whether you’ve adequately protected your data and devices, that simplicity is largely irrelevant. And while the cost of a security incident may be lower because of a small number of records or machines affected, if it’s a huge percentage of a small amount of profit, it can be very difficult for businesses to bounce back.
Existing advice for assessing and protecting against cybersecurity risks can often seem overwhelming to those who aren’t computer experts. But now, there’s a specific resource that speaks to smaller businesses. And it uses more approachable language, to help smaller companies understand their specific risks as well as the measures used to mitigate them.
NIST resources for small businesses
Let’s do a quick tour of NIST’s Small Business Cybersecurity Corner, to illustrate the variety of resources they’re offering. The first section is Cybersecurity Basics, which is a great place to start.
NIST’s Small Business Cybersecurity Corner
This section has three sub-sections: “Cybersecurity Risks”, “For Managers”, and “Glossary”. The Cybersecurity Risks page has two groups of articles. The first group is called “Risks & Threats”; this covers a wide variety of common concerns, and it’s well balanced between helping you understand threats as well as how to address or identify them. The second group is called “Risk Management”, and it specifically discusses risk management myths as well as providing statistics that stress the importance of managing technological risk.
The “For Managers” section covers security from a management perspective. This includes Board-level discussions of security and risk, topics of discussion for CEOs considering their company’s security posture, improving security culture at all levels of the organization, and how to hire new security staff.
The Glossary is just what you’d expect, and it covers several dozen terms describing security concepts that are used throughout the site.
The “Cybersecurity Basics” section is a good place to start for those who are very new to the topic of security, and may be a good review for people who are more familiar. The myths document is likely to be particularly helpful for those who are coming in with some level of security preconceptions.
This section has the sort of content that NIST has become well known for, as well as additional articles covering these resources in clearer, less technical language.
The “Cybersecurity Resources Roadmap” is a good place to start when navigating this section. It is an infographic to help you determine how to get started, or where you need to go if you are further along on your journey towards protecting your environment. Each tier will point you to the specific resources that will be most helpful.
Responding to a Cyber Incident
This section is where to go if you’ve been the victim of a security event and need to know what to do next. The data breach guide even includes a sample template for a breach response notification, so you can ensure that you’ve covered the necessary bases as efficiently and professionally as possible, even in a very stressful situation.
This section was created with the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and is geared primarily towards small manufacturers. This goes into more detail about the NIST 800-171 Handbook to assist those who supply products for the Department of Defense.
Contributor Directory
This section is a list of resources and other government organizations helping to improve cybersecurity. I’d like to draw particular attention to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workforce Management Guidebook, which can be particularly helpful if you’re at a point of wanting to hire people to help improve your security capability.
The FAQ section answers frequently asked questions about the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity site itself, such as why small to medium-sized businesses need to be concerned about security.
Once you’ve gotten up to speed on the basics, you may wish to revisit the site regularly, to see what the newest topics of interest are. The Blog section is periodically updated with things that NIST is doing, as well as current events of interest.
I hope NIST’s efforts are only the beginning of a major trend towards educating small-business owners about security topics. There’s a tremendous need that must be filled, especially around making regulatory compliance understandable by mere mortals. If you own a small business, do you think this level of information is useful? If so, why? Or if not, what would you like to see done differently?
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All Girls Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens Beaverton, OR
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Boarding Schools for Girls in Beaverton, OR
As a leading Therapeutic Treatment Program, WinGate Wilderness Therapy assists teen girls from Beaverton, OR who may be struggling with substance abuse, addiction, and mental health or behavioral issues. We have a unique approach to therapy which offers more than what regular boarding schools in Beaverton, OR for girls could give, and our treatment is provided in such a way that produces long-lasting, fast results.
WinGate may be located outside the Beaverton, OR area, but we highly recommend that parents of teenage girls who are troubled send their children away from the place they are the most comfortable and where they won’t be hindered from recovery by negative influences. This is why WinGate will accept adolescents from anywhere in the country.
With the many different reasons why parents from Beaverton, OR are looking for Boarding Schools for Girls, the reasons they have for doing so are pretty much just as varied as the teen girls are. The core reason however, is that these parents feel like they are powerless as they watch their daughters continue to show anger issues, resist authority, engage in substance abuse and suffer from depression – and they don’t know who to go for help.
The academic performance of these teens may also be suffering, and there could be issues with sexual promiscuity. Despite the frustration the parents are experiencing, however, as they desperately attempt to help their child, it is important to remember there are answers: these are just the kinds of girls who will best benefit from Wilderness Therapy Programs of WinGate.
The adolescent girls going through this treatment program won’t only experience therapeutic counseling that is individualized, but they’ll also receive excellent academic instruction in a setting that is positive and safe. They will also be separated from the opposite sex being a distraction, and given challenges and tasks that will help them to understand how to control their emotions and let the therapy have a better effect.
Parents of teenagers from the Beaverton, OR area shouldn’t feel powerless to help them and get them back on the path that is right. The WinGate Wilderness Therapy consultants can answer questions parents have now, plus help them to decide the best program for their struggling teen girls when they call (800) 560-1599 today.
Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Beaverton, OR
Teenage girls have emotions that run high during their adolescent years, and many Beaverton, OR area teens end up struggling with substance abuse, depression, and anger issues. When this occurs, parents of these struggling adolescents often seek out therapeutic boarding schools for girls in order to help them re-build themselves and facilitate a successful recovery.
However, not all experts agree that single-sex education and therapeutic services offer much of an advantage over their co-ed counterparts – and in cases where significant behavioral change is needed, it’s co-ed Wilderness Therapy Programs like that of WinGate Wilderness that provide more effective results.
There is an abundance of evidence that separating the sexes may actually hinder a teenager’s ability to achieve both social and personal growth and, by default, reinforce gender stereotypes which can cause self-confidence and self-esteem issues in teen girls already struggling through recovery. In fact, according to an Arizona State University study, adolescents who were not exposed to the opposite sex and who did not learn from or about each other harbored more stereotypical gender views.
If this is truly the case, and struggling teens are not taught how to manage themselves amongst both sexes during their therapeutic process, how can they then be expected to be successful when re-entering the real world?
At Wingate, we recognize the significant benefits which co-ed therapeutic boarding schools offer. However, while we consider diversity to be an important part of the therapeutic process, we approach recovery and treatment in a more unique way than traditional co-ed boarding schools: we use nature as a primary catalyst for change.
As an affiliated member of National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, our direction is entirely focused on achieving lasting results, and WinGate believes that distractions which get in the way of the recovery process aren’t necessarily from gender. Instead, they come from lack of focus. WinGate provides the optimal environment for focus through their wilderness therapy programs, and as a result, they are able to achieve meaningful, long-lasting change.
It is imperative that all teenage girls from Beaverton, OR receive the treatment they need before irreparable, long-term damage is caused – but segregation of the sexes may do more harm than good.
Wilderness Therapy for Beaverton, OR Adolescents
Although parents may search for girls boarding schools when attempting to find the right facility for their at-risk daughters, finding a treatment program which provides the most effective care for teens from Beaverton, OR, frequently proves to be a more difficult than expected. Most parents gravitate first toward more traditional options; however, it’s important to keep in mind that they don’t always provide the type of therapy which some teenage girls really need.
Wingate’s wilderness therapy and adventure therapy programs provide a distinctive treatment opportunity which features an extremely high success rates in adolescents suffering from addiction and various behavioral disorders, and it is fast becoming the preferred alternative when it comes fast long-lasting recovery.
Wilderness therapy programs take struggling teens from the Beaverton, OR area, and places them in outdoor environments where the cooperation between peers and the natural challenges which nature provides encourages organic change in a troubled teen’s behavior. Unlike therapeutic boarding schools, WinGate’s wilderness therapy programs get down to basics in their behavioral modification approach.
Through assigned tasks and group therapeutic exercises, an environment of positive and negative consequences – and their respective rewards – is created. WinGate believes that confrontation and change initiated through force results in impermanence, while inspiring change through cooperation imparts deep, relevant change.
When considering where to send their daughters, parents can’t help but be attracted boarding schools which have a shiny, happy appearance on the outside. They may promoting respect and offer an incentive for good behavior through a number of perks and benefits for those attending, however, much of this is more of an appeasement to parents of struggling teen girls from Beaverton, OR who perhaps feel a little guilty about sending their daughters away.
At WinGate, Beaverton, OR troubled adolescent girls who are in need of treatment for substance abuse, anger issues, or behavioral and mental health issues get more focused and directed care. By eliminating the distractions, struggling teens learn to find peace and a change of heart through WinGate’s Strengths Based/Natural Consequences model.
We believe that permanent change comes from personal growth, not fabricated perks and rewards, and for parents who are looking to heal their teen daughters through permanent change WinGate should be the first choice.
Call (800) 560-1599 now, and see how WinGate Wilderness Therapy can help heal and provide lasting results.
National Mental Health Resources for Parents and Teens
National Council for Behavioral Health: Excellence in Mental Health Act - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, recently released a Request for Applications for Planning Grants for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. It is particularly useful for community-based behavioral healthcare organizations that plan to deliver extensive, multidisciplinary, person-centered, assessment, evidence-based screening, diagnostics, prevention, treatment, and wellness services; including 24/7 peer support and crisis response services.
Life Skills Training for Problem Teens from Beaverton, OR
Troubled teens exist in Beaverton, OR just like all other cities. Problems with drug and alcohol addiction can destroy a teen's life while behavioral and emotional difficulties can absolutely abolish a healty personal and family situation. Our program at WinGate Wilderness Therapy addresses those difficulties and consistently produce positive end results.
Your troubled teen might be able to be helped at Cedar Hills Hospital, but that might not be the best answer for your son or daughter. Why not call WinGate Wilderness Therapy at (800) 560-1599. It could start the road to full recovery of your troubled teen.
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Quotes to Live By.
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
Call WinGate Wilderness Therapy right now at (800) 560-1599 to get the help your troubled teen needs. It might be hard to start the process, but the results will help your son or daughter get back on track for living a worthwhile and rewarding life.
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600 Thilmany Road
600 Thilmany Road | National or State Registers Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
Eagle Paper and Flouring Mill
600 Thilmany Road, Kaukauna, Outagamie County
Date of construction: 1872 (with additions between 1882-1920)
In 1872, brothers Col. Henry August Frambach and John Stoveken constructed a stone mill on an island between the Fox River and the federal canal in which to operate a flour and paper mill. Known as the Eagle Paper and Flouring Mill, it was the first paper mill in the City of Kaukauna, occupying a prominent location within the Fox River Valley which became the center of paper milling in the Midwest. Frambach and Stoveken initially used straw, cloth rags, and waste paper to manufacture paper, the common methods of the day. They soon began experimenting and became the first mill in Wisconsin to manufacture paper from ground wood pulp, a new technology that radically changed the industry and fueled the economy of the Fox River Valley with the expansion of the paper making and wood pulp industries.
Frambach eventually developed at least 10 patents associated with milling paper and wood pulp. During the early 1880s, the Eagle Paper and Flouring Mill was the largest paper manufacturer in the state. As the company prospered, numerous additions were constructed onto the building through the turn of the century. Eventually, the brothers sold the mill to other paper manufacturers. After housing the Kaukauna Paper Company and Union Bag & Paper Company, the Eagle Paper and Flouring Mill became a part of the neighboring Thilmany Paper complex.
The mill has remained in use by the paper industry almost continuously since the 1870s, thereby escaping deterioration and neglect. It remains the only historic paper mill in Kaukauna today, is one of the Fox Valley’s most impressive historic industrial buildings, and is one of the most architecturally intact historic paper mills in the State of Wisconsin.
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Longest pedestrian suspension bridge in North America to open in Gatlinburg, TN
It’s 680 feet long and 140 feet above the ground
It measures 680 feet long and has glass floor panels at its highest point, which is some 140 feet above the valley below.
By WVLT staff and Ed Payne | April 30, 2019 at 6:45 PM EDT - Updated May 16 at 1:58 PM
GATLINBURG, TN (WVLT/Gray News) – Eastern Tennessee will soon add a new attraction to the region’s host of amusement parks, country music reviews and vacation rentals.
The Gatlinburg SkyLift Park announced the grand opening of its new SkyBridge, the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in North America.
The SkyBridge officially opens to the public on the afternoon of May 17.
The area around the bridge also features an observation area, snack shop and bar and gift shop.
Posted by Gatlinburg SkyLift Park on Monday, April 29, 2019
"The Gatlinburg SkyLift is an instantly recognizable landmark in the downtown area, and we wanted to preserve its history and all treasured memories in our expansion," said General Manager Randy Watson in a news release.
Since the November 2016 wildfires, visitors have been unable to get off the SkyLift at the top of the ride. With the grand opening, however, visitors will now have access to all three attractions for one price, the park said.
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