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People Deemed Better Looking, Better Off After a Nose Job
October 19, 2017 334 No comment
THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Is a "nose job" worth it? And if so, how much?
A new study suggests that casual observers may think patients who undergo such procedures are more attractive, more successful and healthier.
"While we are not suggesting that [a nose job] is the only way to improve one's appearance, improving our attractiveness and health as compared to others conveys a competitive advantage," said study co-author and plastic surgeon Dr. Lisa Ishii.
More than 220,000 "nose reshaping" procedures — known as rhinoplasty — were performed in the United States in 2016, up 2 percent from the previous year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The procedures are nearly as common as liposuction.
The new study examines how "casual observers" perceive people after they've had a nose job, said Ishii, a plastic surgeon and associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.
"Patients seeking rhinoplasty do so for two main reasons: to improve their self-perception and to improve how others perceive them," she said. "We wanted to measure the second one."
The researchers recruited 473 people online to evaluate the appearance of 13 rhinoplasty patients. Observers ranged in age from 18 to 73. Most were female and white, and highly educated.
The researchers deemed the patients' post-op results "optimal." They showed the observers photos taken before the nose reshaping and at least 6 months after. But they didn't reveal whether they were "before" or "after" images, and the observers never saw more than one picture of the same patient.
The patients were mostly female, with an average age of 34. Most "had nose problems that were visible to the casual observer and they wanted to look better," Ishii said.
She added that a prior study showed that the casual observer "actually picks up on even subtle nasal deformities."
Her team asked the observers to rate patients in terms of attractiveness, success level and overall health based on their photos.
On a scale of 1 to 100, the average patient's attractiveness rating improved by 14 points after remodeling, the researchers found. Ratings of success and health rose 9 and 10 points, respectively, after surgery.
Ishii called the degree of improvement significant, and said this gives patients information about how nose jobs may affect them.
"More attractive people are more successful," she said. "It's up to patients to decide whether that's worth it to them."
Insurers don't usually cover nose jobs, however. The cost can range from $6,000 to $25,000 "depending on the complexity of the procedure and the reputation of the surgeon," said plastic surgeon Dr. Clinton Humphrey. He's an associate professor with the University of Kansas Health System.
"It is important not to misinterpret these study results," cautioned Humphrey, co-author of a commentary accompanying the new research.
"This study included only patients with what were judged by surgeons to be 'ideal' results. Rhinoplasty continues to be one of the most challenging cosmetic surgical procedures," he said.
"While I always strive to achieve the best possible outcome in every one of my rhinoplasty patients, I do not achieve an 'ideal' result every time," Humphrey said.
"It would be a mistake to read this study and conclude that every patient who undergoes rhinoplasty can expect to be perceived as more successful, healthier, and more attractive," he added.
Still, he said, "patients should feel reassured that what we as rhinoplasty surgeons consider to be 'ideal' results are also viewed very favorably by the average person," Humphrey said. "As a surgeon, this study tells me that when I execute a successful rhinoplasty, I have an opportunity to positively impact my patient in a really significant way."
The study appears Oct. 19 in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.
For more about nose jobs, visit the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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by Elizabeth Gilbert
Overview - Click Here For the Autographed Copy
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.
"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are."
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.
Now ninety-five years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
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Grieve, write, heal
Wild girls. Wanting to write about them—their realistic sexual experiences, their journeys of discovering their own pleasure—formed the initial spark for Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest novel, a sprawling saga that helped her navigate a sea of grief.
This subject especially enticed Gilbert because her previous novel, The Signature of All Things, chronicles the exact opposite: a 19th-century botanist who yearns to have sex but never does. “There was just this agony in writing that character,” Gilbert admits, speaking by phone from her home in New York City. So for City of Girls, she was determined to try something different. “Let’s take the corset off and let some people have some pleasure,” she says.
Enjoyment, bliss, satisfaction—these emotions and more form the core of her big--hearted, rollicking new novel about a gaggle of lively New York showgirls. It’s narrated by Vivian Morris, who arrives in New York City in 1940 to live with her Aunt Peg, owner of the dilapidated Lily Playhouse, after being “excused” from Vassar College. (Vivian was ranked 361 in a class of 362, causing her father to remark, “Dear God, what was the other girl doing?”) In press materials for City of Girls, Gilbert compares Vivian’s story to a champagne cocktail, calling it “light and bright, crisp and fun.” She’s proud to write books that “go down easy,” she says. “I feel like it’s a real achievement to write a book that anybody can read. . . . One of the things I’ve said is I make bran muffins, but I frost them to look like cupcakes.”
The characters in City of Girls are “neither destroyed nor saved by sex,” Gilbert says, in contrast to the litany of literary heroines who face ruin or death in the face of sensuality, such as Anna Karenina, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Emma Bovary, to name a few. “Most novels about women would have you think it’s one or the other,” Gilbert says. “And that’s just not been my experience, and it’s not the experience of anybody that I know.” She says that Vivian’s comical first sexual encounter is one of her favorite scenes she’s ever written. “I was literally alone in my house laughing my ass off,” Gilbert says. “It felt like such a vindication for all of the sort of horrible virginity-losing scenes in literature. And also all the ridiculously romantic ones.”
Of course, it’s no secret that Gilbert has had more than her own share of adventures, having written her blockbuster post-divorce memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, about eating in Italy, discovering the power of prayer in India and finding love again in Indonesia. However, despite having penned a 2015 article for the New York Times Magazine called “Confessions of a Seduction Addict,” Gilbert wasn’t initially sure she could pull off this wild-girl narrative—that is, until she met a former showgirl named Norma, an “unrepentant hedonist” who was once John Wayne’s girlfriend.
“Part of my research anxiety was, how am I going to get this 95-year-old woman to talk to me about sex? But with Norma it was like, how am I going to get her to talk about anything but sex?” Gilbert says, laughing. “Every generation thinks that they invented sex, but there’s always people who are living on the edge, and Norma was one of them. She had absolutely no shame, remorse or regret about anything she’d ever done in her life. And she was fabulous.”
In addition to interviewing Norma, Gilbert and research partner Margaret Cordi (to whom the book is dedicated) poured several years into exploring a variety of topics. “My system of writing is heavily weighted in terms of hours of research,” Gilbert explains, “so 90 to 95% of the effort is gathering everything I need to feel competent enough to create a convincing world. It’s truly like learning a new language, and it takes a lot of years to get fluent.”
And then suddenly—still during the research phase, before the writing even began—everything came to a heart-stopping halt during an 18-month period of deep, dark sorrow. In 2016 Gilbert left Jose Nunes, the husband she had met in Bali, to partner with her best friend, Rayya Elias, who had just been diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer. Gilbert tossed everything aside to care for her and couldn’t even imagine writing. “It just wasn’t the time,” she says.
After Elias died in January 2018, Gilbert retreated to her country house to begin working on her manuscript, even though at first she could barely remember her characters’ names. “I didn’t leave for a couple months,” she says. “It was just me and the dog and the book, and it was really healing. Every once in a while I would think, is this good for grieving? Like, should I be around people? But in fact I was around people. I was around all the people in the book.”
Gilbert describes this isolation as exactly what she needed, “something so consuming that I would look up, and hours had passed, and I hadn’t remembered that Rayya had died,” she says. “I think that creativity is kind of the opposite of depression, the opposite of despair. And I really want to offer the book as a gift to everybody in these dark times. I hope it does for everyone what it did for me, which was cheer me up.”
But Gilbert soon faced another significant challenge: She didn’t know how the book would end. A short introduction is set in 2010, when 89-year-old Vivian receives a letter from the daughter of a man she once knew, asking Vivian to explain their relationship. The rest of the book, beginning in 1940, is Vivian’s “How I Met Your Father” response. “I love to be in control and feel like I know everything,” Gilbert acknowledges, “but you have to leave a little bit of a window open for that which will surprise you.” Luckily, the author soon lost herself in her narrator’s voice. “I would get up every morning and say to Vivian, ‘Let’s just tell everybody what happened.’ And I was able to kind of just become her.”
Gilbert took great pains to make sure Vivian’s voice rings true. “She cannot speak as though she’s got a degree in women’s studies from Bryn Mawr,” Gilbert says. “I needed to make sure that I didn’t put too much of my modern feminism into the book, that it had to be realistic to its time and to those girls.” Young Vivian adores the unbridled freedom she finds in New York with Aunt Peg, “the first freethinker [she’d] ever met,” whose theater company is “a living animation of glamour and grit and mayhem and fun.”
Gilbert herself grew up with freethinking parents, living on a small Christmas tree farm in Connecticut that her mom and dad still run. “My parents are really unconventional,” she says, “and my dad’s a real iconoclast. I feel very lucky to have been raised by a genuine eccentric. Everybody thinks their dad is weird, but my dad is really fucking weird. His disdain for anybody telling him what to do was so huge that I think I just inherited that.”
Tossing conventions to the wind, Gilbert’s own life often seems to swirl about her with plot twists like those found in her novels. In March she announced on Instagram that she’s in a new relationship with photographer Simon MacArthur, an old friend of both hers and Elias’.
“My way of living involves flinging my heart into the world and seeing what it sticks to,” she says. “So there’s always a lot of love in my life.”
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Ada Lace and the Impossible Mission (An Ada Lace Adventure #4) (Hardcover)
By Emily Calandrelli, Tamson Weston (With), Renée Kurilla (Illustrator)
Kobo eBook (September 3rd, 2018): $6.99
Paperback (September 4th, 2018): $6.99
From Emily Calandrelli—Emmy-nominated host of Xploration Outer Space, correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World, and graduate of MIT—comes the fourth novel in a fun illustrated chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology.
Third grader and inventor extraordinaire Ada Lace has a new social studies teacher—who loves group projects. While most of the class has constructed regular dioramas with clay and construction paper, Ada, her best friend Nina, and sometimes nemesis Milton have built a complex scale model of an historic silver mine. But when Milton reveals that he added his “old Milton touch” on their project right before turning it in, Ada worries that he has sabotaged their work.
In a desperate attempt to save their project, Ada and Nina use their combined creative and technical prowess to perform a heist and break into their teacher’s supply closet after school.
Do the two friends have what it takes to deceive the school’s security system? Or will they get caught trying to pull off this seemingly impossible mission.
Emily Calandrelli is an executive producer and the host of Xploration Outer Space, where she shows viewers the most exciting projects in the space industry today and a correspondent on the new series, Bill Nye Saves the World. Emily has a technical background with mechanical and aerospace engineering degrees from West Virginia University and Master’s degrees in aeronautics and astronautics as well as technology and policy from MIT. Emily is a professional speaker and writer and is passionate about exciting students and their families about science and space exploration. Emily is also deeply passionate about getting more girls interested in STEM and STEM careers. She lives in San Francisco. Learn more at TheSpaceGal.com.
Tamson Weston is the author of Hey, Pancakes!, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, and has over fifteen years experience in children’s book publishing. She works as a freelance editor and has edited books by acclaimed authors such as Adam Rex, Mac Barnett, and Dan Santat, among others. She has an MFA in writing and literature and enjoys running, biking, swimming, and lifting heavy things. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at TamsonWeston.com.
Renée Kurilla is an illustrator of many books for kids, including Orangutanka: A Story in Poems by Margarita Engle, The Owls of Blossom Wood by Catherine Coe, and the Ada Lace Adventure series by Emily Calandrelli. She lives just south of Boston with her husband, their fluffy orange cat, Timmy, and their spiky hedgehog, Lemon. Visit her at Kurillastration.com.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: September 4th, 2018
Series: An Ada Lace Adventure
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This September on HBO Canada: GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF Premieres; Comedy Special FERRELL TAKES THE FIELD, Plus New Seasons of PROJECT GREENLIGHT and DOLL & EM Debut; the VICE SPECIAL REPORT: FIXING THE SYSTEM; and More.
— September 1st, 2015
Program Alert – September 1, 2015
A provocative tale of ego, exploitation, and the lust for power comes to light when GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF premieres Sunday, Sept. 6 at 9 p.m. ET
Will Ferrell steps up to the plate in FERRELL TAKES THE FIELD on Saturday, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET.
PROJECT GREENLIGHT returns for an eight-episode season on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 10 p.m. ET.
Comedy series DOLL & EM, a bittersweet, intimate portrait of female friendship, debuts its second season Sunday, 13 at 10:30 p.m. ET
President Barack Obama’s historic visit To El Reno Prison is documented in VICE SPECIAL REPORT: PRISONS, airing Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9 p.m. ET
The HBO original documentary SAN FRANCISCO 2.0 premieres Monday, Sept. 28 at 9 p.m. ET
** Media Note ** – Download photos at https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/tv/hbo-canada/ Screeners available by request. Below is a chronological listing of HBO Canada programming highlights for September. All programming is subject to change (all times ET; visit hbocanada.com to confirm local broadcast times). Sunday, Sept. 6 9 p.m. – GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF – *Documentary Premiere* Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney examines the Church’s origins, from its roots in the mind of founder L. Ron Hubbard, to its rise in popularity in Hollywood and beyond. The heart of the film is a series of shocking revelations by former insiders, including high-ranking and recognizable members, such as acclaimed screenwriter Paul Haggis (Crash, SHOW ME A HERO), as they describe the systematic history of abuse and betrayal by Church officials, including the current leadership of the Church. Friday, Sept. 11 10 p.m. – REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER – Season 13 Episodic information is currently unavailable. Please visit https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/tv/hbo-canada/ 11 p.m. – STRIKE BACK – Season 4, Episode 6 In North Korea, Mei (Michelle Yeoh) – now embracing her real name, Li-Na – is tasked by her mentor, Moon Young-Su (Kwang-Hoon Na), to pry a confession out of Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) and Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) using Finn (Christian Antidormi) as leverage. Meanwhile, Locke (Reka Thalia Fekete) and Martinez (Milauna Jackson) recruit a familiar face in Russia to help get them into North Korea and attempt a dangerous rescue operation. Saturday, Sept. 12 10 p.m. – FERRELL TAKES THE FIELD – *Premiere* From Funny Or Die, in partnership with Major League Baseball, this one-hour comedy special covers Will Ferrell’s (THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING) one-of-a-kind day last March 12, when he took the field at 10 different positions for 10 different teams in five spring training games at Cactus League ballparks in Arizona. Dedicating the special to the fight against cancer through the charity Cancer For College, Ferrell is also honouring the historic feat of Bert Campaneris, who on Sept. 8, 1965 in only his second major league season, went 0-for-3 playing all nine positions for the Kansas City Athletics in a game against the California Angels. Sunday, Sept. 13 10 p.m. – PROJECT GREENLIGHT – Season 4, Episode 1 – *Season Premiere* The documentary series chronicling the search for a first-time director and exploring the filmmaking process, returns to HBO for its eight-episode fourth season. In the premiere episode, 13 finalists arrive in Los Angeles to meet with the PROJECT GREENLIGHT judges – Ben Affleck (Gone Girl), Matt Damon (The Martian), executive Jennifer Todd (Alice in Wonderland), producer Marc Joubert (Feast), producer Effie Brown (EPIC MEAL EMPIRE), HBO’s Len Amato (Blood Diamond), and the Farrelly brothers (Dumb and Dumber To). As the judges discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each contestant’s final project, they also debate the importance of artistic vision versus the collaborative skills required to be a successful director, all leading up to a red-carpet event, where Jason Mann is announced as the winner. 10:40 p.m. – DOLL & EM – Season 2, Episode 1 – *Season Premiere* Reunited best friends Dolly Wells (Bridget Jones’s Diary) and Emily Mortimer (THE NEWSROOM) sequester themselves in a remote lighthouse, collaborating on a semi-autobiographical script they hope will take Broadway, or at least off-Broadway, by storm. 11:05 p.m. – LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – Season 2 Episodic information is currently unavailable. Please visit https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/tv/hbo-canada/last-week-tonight-john-oliver Friday, Sept. 18 10 p.m. – REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER – Season 13 Episodic information is currently unavailable. Please visit https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/tv/hbo-canada/ 11 p.m. – STRIKE BACK – Season 4, Episode 7 In Vienna, the cloned phone of Myshkin (alex Humes), a Russian mob leader, leads Locke, Nina (Tereza Srbova), Scott, and Stonebridge into a public plaza – the site of a rendezvous between Kwon (will Yun Lee) and Oppenheimer (Michael McElhatton), who is the world’s most dangerous bomb maker, and a man Locke dearly wants to apprehend. Later, Scott and Stonebridge crash a daring bank heist orchestrated by Kwon and Li-Na in search of a one-of-a-kind document that holds the key to their diabolical plans. Sunday, Sept. 20 10 p.m. – PROJECT GREENLIGHT – Season 4, Episode 2 With two months until production begins, Effie Brown, Marc Joubert and Len Amato try to convince Jason that digital is the only way to keep the project on schedule and within budget. Meanwhile, instead of moving forward with the original PROJECT GREENLIGHT script, Jason pitches his own script: a dark comedy titled The Leisure Class. 10:35 p.m. – DOLL & EM – Season 2, Episode 2 In New York, Doll and Em set to work on their play, having secured an off-Broadway venue through Mikhail Baryshnikov (SEX AND THE CITY), and with Hollywood stars Olivia Wilde (VINYL) and Evan Rachel Wood (WESTWORLD) interested in starring as Em and Doll, respectively. Friday, Sept. 25 10 p.m. – REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER – Season 13 Episodic information is currently unavailable. Please visit https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/tv/hbo-canada/ 11 p.m. – STRIKE BACK – Season 4, Episode 8 With an assist from Nina, Scott and Stonebridge track down Matthias (Ryan Sampson), an eccentric young encryption analyst hired by Kwon and Li-Na to access vital nuclear-material codes. Later, Locke comes face-to-face with his nemesis, while Scott and Stonebridge intercept the interceptors of a key convoy. Sunday, Sept. 27 9 p.m. – VICE SPECAL REPORT: PRISONS – *Premiere* Hosted by VICE founder and correspondent Shane Smith, this special gives viewers an in-depth look at the pervasive impacts of America’s approach to crime and imprisonment, chronicling the many interlocking pieces of the sprawling system, from prisoners and their families to the judiciary and community reformers. The documentary also features President Obama’s historic tour in July 2015 of Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno in Oklahoma, where he met with inmates and prison officials. As part of the VICE special, President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, signaling criminal justice reform as a top priority for the final months of his presidency. 10 p.m. – PROJECT GREENLIGHT – Season 4, Episode 3 After filling key production-staff roles, Effie brings in the location manager to choose LA-area mansions, but Jason thinks none of them match his creative vision. Meanwhile, the production team begins casting the lead roles, and Pete Farrelly and Effie butt heads about Jason’s continued resistance to shooting digitally. 10:30 p.m. – DOLL & EM – Season 2, Episode 3 A chance bar encounter with Ewan McGregor (Mortdecai) takes Dolly by surprise, while Emily lands a film role that could threaten the future of her and Doll’s play. 11 p.m. – LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – Season 2 Episodic information is currently unavailable. Please visit https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/tv/hbo-canada/last-week-tonight-john-oliver Monday, Sept. 28 9 p.m. – SAN FRANCISCO 2.0 – *Documentary Premiere* San Francisco has long enjoyed its reputation as the counter-culture capital of America, drawing bohemians, mavericks, progressives, and activists into its streets. With the onset of the digital Gold Rush, however, young members of the tech elite are flocking to the West Coast to make their fortunes, and the influx of new tech wealth is forcing San Francisco to reinvent itself. As these innovators lead America into the golden age of digital supremacy, are the techies changing the heart and soul of their adopted city? Acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (HBO’s Journeys with George) returns to her hometown to find out what the tech boom has in store for this historically progressive city.
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Home » News » Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces That Only 2 Days Remain to File a Motion for Lead Plaintiff in a Securities Class Action Against Big Lots, Inc.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces That Only 2 Days Remain to File a Motion for Lead Plaintiff in a Securities Class Action Against Big Lots, Inc.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP today announced that only 2 days remain – until September 7, 2012 – to file a motion for lead plaintiff in a securities class action against Big Lots, Inc. (“Big Lots” or the “Company”). The action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and asserts claims on behalf of a class of purchasers of Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) stock between February 2, 2012 and April 23, 2012 (the “Class Period”).
The complaint alleges that during the Class Period, defendants issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company’s business and financial results in violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. According to the complaint, during the Class Period the defendants knew but concealed from the investing public that: (a) Big Lots’ consumables line – which represented a third of Big Lots’ business – was deteriorating; and (b) the Company’s electronic products business was being adversely affected as shoppers were increasingly seeking online deals for big ticket products, thus adversely affecting the Company’s margins and prospects.
On April 23, 2012, Big Lots issued a press release announcing updates to its first quarter 2012 retail sales guidance. The Company forecast a decline in first-quarter same-store sales, slightly negative in comparison to its prior guidance. On this news, Big Lots stock fell $11 per share to close at $34.71 per share the following day.
Plaintiffs seek to recover damages on behalf of all Class members who purchased or otherwise acquired Big Lots stock during the Class Period. If you purchased or otherwise acquired Big Lots stock during the Class Period, and either lost money on the transaction or still hold the shares, you may wish to join in this action to serve as lead plaintiff. In order to do so, you must meet certain requirements set forth in the applicable law and file appropriate papers no later than September 7, 2012.
A “lead plaintiff” is a representative party that acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order to be appointed lead plaintiff, the court must determine that the class member’s claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that the class member will adequately represent the class. Under certain circumstances, one or more class members may together serve as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. You may retain Bernstein Liebhard LLP, or other counsel of your choice, to serve as your counsel in this action.
If you are interested in discussing your rights as a Big Lots shareholder and/or have information relating to the matter, please contact Joseph R. Seidman, Jr. at (877) 779-1414 or seidman@bernlieb.com.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP has pursued hundreds of securities, consumer and shareholder rights cases and recovered over $3 billion for its clients. It has been named to The National Law Journal’s “Plaintiffs’ Hot List” in each of the last nine years.
You can obtain a copy of the complaint from the clerk of the court for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
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An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Austen’s Life
Jane Austen’s Advice on Love, Marriage, and How to Rebuff a Suitor with Clarity and Kindness
Cassandra Austen’s Drawings of English Royalty for Teenage Jane Austen’s Parodic History of England
Jane Austen’s Advice on Writing, in Letters to Her Teenage Niece
Epistles on the fine art of “speeding truth into the world.”
Despite being one of the most important writers our civilization ever produced, on whose labors humanity continues to feed, Jane Austen (December 16, 1775–July 18, 1817) left hardly any record of her opinions and theories on the craft she so masterfully wielded in practice. But a close reading of Jane Austen’s Letters (public library) reveals, here and there, little glimpses of the beloved author’s stylistic convictions — a fine, if modest, addition to this ongoing archive of notable wisdom on writing.
In one 1808 letter to her sister Cassandra, 33-year-old Austen admires a short piece by the English cricketer William Deedes, a friend of Cassandra’s — a glimpse of what she believes makes a good writer:
He has certainly great merit as a writer; he does ample justice to his subject, and without being diffuse is clear and correct… He certainly has a very pleasing way of winding up a whole, and speeding truth into the world.
In another letter from February of 1813, Austen recounts an atypically disappointing work by the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances “Fanny” Burney — whose writing Austen generally enjoyed and admired, and whose 1782 novel Cecilia heavily influenced the final pages of Pride and Prejudice — and offers a critique of its shortcomings:
The work is rather too light and bright and sparkling: it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story… something that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.
But her most explicit counsel on writing comes from a series of letters to her teenage niece, Anna. In August of 1814, 17-year-old Anna asked Austen for feedback on the novel she was writing, under the working title Which Is the Heroine — a title Austen liked “very well” and anticipated to “grow to like it very much in time.” Upon receiving the initial manuscript, Austen writes:
My dear Anna,—I am very much obliged to you for sending your MS. It has entertained me extremely; indeed all of us. I read it aloud to your grandmamma and Aunt Cass, and we were all very much pleased. The spirit does not droop at all.
Austen proceeds to comment on each of Anna’s characters and offers the first of a series of concretely rooted, generally extensible criticisms:
I do not like a lover speaking in the 3rd person; it is too much like the part of Lord Overtley, and I think it not natural.
In the same letter, Austen offers a warm disclaimer to her criticism — “If you think differently, however, you need not mind me.” — but a month later, having immersed herself in the book more thoroughly, she takes off the auntly hat and dons the writerly one. She readies Anna for some tough love:
Anna,—We have been very much amused by your three books, but I have a good many criticisms to make, more than you will like.
After complimenting a number of the girl’s characters and offering her take on the ideal length of a novel — roughly six times Anna’s first section of the novel, or a total of 288 pages — Austen makes a case against the abuses of clichéd phrases:
I have only taken the liberty of expunging one phrase of his which would not be allowable,—”Bless my heart!” It is too familiar and inelegant.
Though herself a master of detail, Austen cautions against overly precious particularities:
You describe a sweet place, but your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked. You give too many particulars of right hand and left.
She encourages the girl to focus on the relationships between the characters against a well-crafted backdrop of place:
You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on, and I hope you will do a great deal more, and make full use of them while they are so very favorably arranged.
Toward the end of the letter, Austen makes a remark at first blush amusing in the context of today’s thriving young-adult genre, then rather sad coming from a woman revolutionizing literature from within the patriarchy, and finally reluctantly sage given the general fate of female characters in canon of literature:
You are but now coming to the heart and beauty of your story. Until the heroine grows up the fun must be imperfect… One does not care for girls until they are grown up.
Although one never sees Anna’s letters to Austen — Cassandra had many of her sister’s letters destroyed after her death — it seems like the shaky confidence of the aspiring writer was rattled rather vigorously, for her aunt sent the following assurance a few months later:
My dear Anna,—I have been very far from finding your book an evil, I assure you. I read it immediately and with great pleasure.
Anna never finished her novel. But when Austen died less than three years later, the young woman inherited her aunt’s unfinished manuscript of Sanditon and later became the first writer to attempt completing it. In 1869, she collaborated with her half-brother, James Edward Austen-Leigh, on A Memoir of Jane Austen — the first major biography of their famous aunt and the primary one for decades after its publication, eclipsed only by Jan Fergus’s 1991 biography Jane Austen: A Literary Life.
Couple Jane Austen’s Letters with this year’s finest biographies, memoirs, and history books.
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21 Groups Oppose “Strong Cities” CVE Initiative in New York, Citing Civil Liberties Concerns
Expanding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts in New York City would threaten civil liberties and inappropriately stigmatize and alienate Muslim communities, the Brennan Center argued in a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The Brennan Center for Justice, along with 20 other New York-based human rights, civil liberties, and community-based organizations, sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio, expressing concern over New York City’s participation in the newly introduced “Strong Cities” initiative, as part of broader efforts to institute programs under the banner of “Countering Violent Extremism” in the United States.
The “Strong Cities” initiative would create a global network of local governments who have deployed CVE initiatives in their respective cities. Advocates argue that further CVE efforts are misguided, as such programs, both in the U.S. and abroad, have been heavily criticized for stigmatizing Muslim communities and threatening constitutionally protected freedoms. Such CVE efforts are aimed at identifying “risk factors,” which often include common behaviors associated with religious practice and political activism. Evidence suggests the new iteration of CVE programming, which focuses significantly on youth and children, have broadened these “risk factors” to include behaviors common to an adolescent population, such as “personality changes” and “clashes over ideological differences.” CVE programs have also been misused as a cover for surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations in the American Muslim communities they target.
Decades of empirical studies show there are no behavioral or demographic indicators that can be used to predict who will become a violent extremist. Given the demonstrated ineffectiveness and counterproductivity of CVE programming in other locations, establishing similar initiatives within New York City would be a setback to Mayor de Blasio's efforts to collaborate with local stakeholders on issues of discriminatory policing and surveillance impacting New York Muslims.
“Despite years of experience with CVE programming in the U.S. and abroad, there is no evidentiary basis for concluding that these programs contribute to reducing terrorism, which is their stated goal,” the letter states. “The impact of targeting Muslim communities for special CVE measures is to brand them as inherently suspicious and somehow less American than others…Muslims are part of New York’s diverse fabric. They should be treated as full partners, not as problems.”
Download the letter here (PDF)
092115 Coalition Letter to Mayor Re CVE/Strong Cities
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): A Resource Page
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Australia: "Women's Embassy" Set Up Outside Parliament House In Support Of New Aborting Reform Bill. 1973
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Australian women supporting the introduction of a new abortion Bill have set up an "embassy" in a tent outside Parliament House, Canberra
The "women's embassy" will be manned night and day until Thursday (10 May), when two private members of the House of Representatives introduce the Medical Practitioners' Clarification Bill which would allow abortion on demand up to 12 weeks into pregnancy.
GV & SV Women's embassy tent outside Parliament House in Canberra
SV Banner "abortion law reform"
SV Woman reporter approaches tent for information & girl explains
SV Girl hands out copy of bill
SV & CU People signing petition (5 shots)
PROTESTER: "Wel, we've sat up this tent as a kind of embassy for women all over Australia in Canberra."
REPORTER: "Do you fell abortion is a form of contraception? Is this what you're advocating?"
PROTESTER: "No, we are not advocating that abortion be used as a form of contraception. We want to see all contraceptive services increased and improved so that women can use effective contraceptives and have the knowledge about contraceptive.s Everything that's available to them. This is a copy of the amended bill. Because its been changed since it was first brought out."
"It is an information centre, and politicians will be able to talk to us here and hear our point of view without a lot of the falseness which has surrounded the question", she said.
The women are also distributing copies of a book on contraception, called: "What Every Woman Should Know".
"A woman reporter interviewed one of the helpers at the"embassy":
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Background: Australian women supporting the introduction of a new abortion Bill have set up an "embassy" in a tent outside Parliament House, Canberra
One of the women taking part in the vigil, Mrs. Lenore Lipscombe, a research scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra, said the "embassy" had been erected to help promote the cause of liberalisation of abortion laws.
The women are also distributing copies of a book on contraception. called: "What Every Woman Should Know".
A woman reporter interviewed one of the helpers at the "embassy":
SYNOPSIS: Signatures are being collected in support of the Bill, which is being introduced by two Independent Members form the State of Victoria. The "women's embassy", which is also giving advice on contraception, will operate until the Bill is introduced.
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Retaliatory Discharge from Worker’s Compensation Claim
In Onderko v. Sierra Lobo, Case No. E-14-009, 2014-Ohio-4115, the plaintiff filed a workers’ compensation claim for a knee injury sustained while moving furniture at work. According to his testimony, plaintiff hurt his right knee at work, but did not inform his employer of the injury but left work early and did not seek treatment until his knee “gave out” later that day while pumping gas. The medical records indicated plaintiff had injured the knee six weeks prior, and that he reinjured it at the gas station. The claim was disallowed by the Bureau, and the plaintiff failed to appeal the dismissal. Plaintiff was then terminated for the sole reason that he had filed a workers’ compensation claim, which the employer stated was a “deceptive” attempt to obtain benefits for a non-work related injury. Plaintiff brought a claim of retaliatory discharge, claiming his discharge was wrongful under the workers’ compensation statute. The trial court disagreed, and entered summary judgment in favor of the employer, holding the plaintiff lost his right to argue the workers’ compensation claim was valid when he failed to appeal. The Sixth District Court of Appeals disagreed, holding that an allowed workers’ compensation was not necessary in a retaliatory discharge case. Instead, the plaintiff need only show that a claim was filed and pursued. You can read the full opinion here.
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UN accuses Turkey of 'massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations' in Kurdish southeast
Geneva (AFP) - The UN on Friday accused Turkish security forces of serious human rights violations during operations against Kurdish militants in the southeast since July 2015 when a regional ceasefire collapsed.
The UN said satellite images of areas affected by the fighting in southeastern Turkey show an "enormous scale of destruction of the housing stock by heavy weaponry"
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A report from the UN rights office details evidence of "massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations committed between July 2015 and December 2016 in southeast Turkey".
"Government security operations" have impacted more than 30 towns and displaced between 335,000 to half a million mostly Kurdish people, the report further said.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984, although violence was contained during the truce agreed in 2013.
A portrait of Turkey's President Erdogan is seen as supporters wave flags before his speech at the Ethias Arena in Hasselt
But fighting resumed when the ceasefire collapsed in summer 2015.
Satellite images of areas affected by the latest unrest "indicate an enormous scale of destruction of the housing stock by heavy weaponry", the report said.
In Cizre, a mainly Kurdish town on the Syrian border, residents described the devastation of neighbourhoods as "apocalyptic", the UN said.
In early 2016, nearly 200 of the town's residents, among them children, "were trapped for weeks in basements without water, food, medical attention and power before being killed by fire, induced by shelling," it said.
The allegations come at a sensitive time for Ankara which is gearing up for a controversial April referendum on whether to create an executive presidency that would expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.
A Turkish soldier on armoured military vehicle patrols the border between Turkey and Syria, near the southeastern village of Besarslan, in Hatay province
UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein criticised Erdogan's government directly, saying he was "particularly concerned by reports that no credible investigation has been conducted into hundreds of alleged unlawful killings."
"Not a single suspect was apprehended and not a single individual was prosecuted," Zeid said in a statement.
So far, Erdogan's government has not agreed to any requests from the UN rights office to visit the areas affected by the anti-PKK operations.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict between the military and the PKK, which seeks greater rights and autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority.
The insurgent group is a proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.
SEE ALSO: Turkey warns US relations are at risk if Kurds help retake Raqqa
More: AFP Turkey Erdogan Kurdish
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ART INVESTMENT
Written on the 1 February 2011
Shares are volatile, property bubbles burst, but when it comes to art the investment is in the eye of the beholder. Sidney Nolan’s First Class Marksman recently became the most expensive Australian painting when it was sold for $5.4 million, but who knows what will break the record next. We speak with a local gallery owner, a CEO Institute exec and Xstrata Copper’s Sue Sara about the benefits of supporting creativity.
GLOBAL art sales fell significantly last year with New York heavyweights Christie’s and Sotheby’s falling around 30 per cent, but in Australia the trends have told a very different story.
Phillip Bacon’s namesake gallery in Fortitude Valley brushed international trends aside in 2009 with record sales and sell-out exhibitions.
“We had for instance a Jeffrey Smart exhibition which grossed over $10 million and had individual sales around the million dollar mark,” he says.
“The market has been really resilient through the global financial crisis in Australia, and while internationally the amount of sales were down around 50 per cent, the upper end of the market more than held its prices and in fact increased.
“I was surprised that we didn’t get more distressed sales, but what happened was that people were hanging on to their art because they felt they wouldn’t get a good price.”
Bacon points to the Art Market Handbook that shows art has outperformed the equity market over the long-term trend.
“You compare the art market index with the all ordinaries index and up until 2007 the all ords came in at 24,500, while the art market came in at 34,500.
“But in a way it’s an inexact science as the statisticians can only track public sales.”
As an investment class Bacon says you’ve got to love art if you want to buy it, but there are ways to find established art with upward value and potential growth markets with emerging artists.
“Do you invest in art? Only if you have an interest in it, because what’s the point of buying art if you’re going to put it away and hope it goes up in value? You may as well be buying gold.
“Go to the Queensland Art Gallery, go to local galleries, see what market appeals and talk to as many people as you can.
“If there was a magic formula we’d all be just supplying the same thing, but if they’re an emerging artist you can often smell the success, if they’re entered in prizes, win awards and are included in curated shows by galleries it’s always a good sign.”
His thoughts are echoed by CEO Institute Queensland chief executive Sue Forrester who gets a buzz out of supporting local artists, but isn’t so interested in the bottom line.
“When it comes to a passion for art and investing in art I don’t support speculating for profit, as it’s different to the share market – it’s very irrational as an investment because it’s not based on hard data.”
“I like to support emerging artists, I get a buzz from going to small local art galleries because it’s great to see the arts community, and until they make it they’re the ones living off bread and cheese.
“But if I wanted to treat art like an investment I’d treat it like any other investment like shares, debentures, or bonds – you do your research, you speak to the experts and there’s some great magazines to be found in newsagents too.”
With a keen interest in abstract modernism, Forrester says there is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ art, just what you like.
“Collecting art is certainly more driven by hearts and not by the head and certainly not by the bank account.
“Whilst they have great works at more glamorous exhibitions, it’s not about being seen wining and dining and talking about how much your collection is worth – I’d rather be drinking a cheap beer on the pavement with a local artist.”
With a private collection with her husband that includes works from Graham Fransella, Roy Jackson and Cynthia Breusch, Forrester says art is uplifting and inspires her when she walks past it.
She believes the same principle applies to business too.
“I personally think and know that people come to work for their career and to be stimulated, but people are social animals and the environment they work in is very important.
“I think art should stimulate, excite and challenge the workforce, and most big corporates do have money they set aside for that.”
Favourite haunts are Doggett Street Studio and Heiser Gallery in Fortitude Valley.
Investing in the community
With its copper business based in Brisbane, Swiss mining company Xstrata has made its share of fortunes in Queensland, and now aims to give back to the community in several ways including art.
Through the Xstrata Community Partnership Program Queensland (XCPPQ), the company established a partnership with the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation to acquire contemporary Queensland artworks for the gallery’s permanent collection.
XCPPQ chair Sue Sara says the acquisition of the contemporary pieces is important to ensure their availability for Queensland communities to enjoy now and into the future.
“Through the XCPPQ partnership the Gallery has acquired pieces by some admired Queensland artists including Tracey Moffatt, Lisa Adams, Billy Missi, Lincoln Austin, and most recently by the artists of the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation,” she says.
“At Xstrata we believe communities should benefit from our operations, both in the short and long term, which is why our copper, coal and zinc businesses have invested more than $30 million on community partnerships throughout the Queensland.
“Our partners are organisations in the areas of health, education, social and community development, environment and arts and culture, and they are delivering significant benefits to Queensland communities.”
The Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre has also recently acquired $7 million worth of Indigenous art from World Expo 88 for its public gallery.
But when it comes to a safe investment in a purely financial sense, Phillip Bacon is cautious of Aboriginal artworks as well as sculptures.
“You need to have rarity value, but there’s not much rarity value in Aboriginal art as there’s so much of it being produced,” he says.
“Sculptures are difficult because most people can’t house them, so the safest is when an artist is towards the end of their career, their works have always been sought after, they’re output has diminished or they’re dead.”
That last tip might be a depressing reality, but the recent Nolan sale and the US$106 million sale of Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust last month are both testament to the fact.
Bacon says as a rule of the thumb the cut off point where an interest in art becomes a more serious investment is $10,000 and upwards, but warns there are transactions costs and that like any investment art may not always be safe.
“The problem is that it’s easier to buy paintings of quality than it is to sell them – remember there’s a cost getting in and out, as the art industry works on a commission basis.”
“Another trend is that people have been buying art with their superannuation, but actually the upcoming Cooper Review has recommended against that.
“We don’t recommend to buy art with superannuation either, as the rules can be a bit messy.”
That is, unless you have no intention to ever sell, like Sue Forrester.
“I wouldn’t sell even if it did appreciate – art can be associated with memories, some good some bad, but I would find other assets to liquidate before my art collection.”
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Business Observer Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 2 years ago
Pair up
Public-private partnerships offer lots of benefits for business — and lots of challenges. Opportunities are on the rise.
by: Beth Luberecki Contributing Writer
Industry. Infrastructure, construction. Trend. Legislation could boost the amount of public-private partnerships in Florida. Key. While potentially lucrative for businesses, there are pitfalls.
Sarasota attorney Greg Steube has vocally championed lots of causes in Tallahassee, as a state representative for six years.
Some causes lean controversial. Others, such as public-private partnerships, also called P3s, aren't as contentious. But public-private partnerships, while not as sexy, as, say guns on college campuses, play a big role for both businesses and the general community.
“The public wins because you're getting a project sooner than you would with a traditional procurement,” says Steube, a Republican elected state senator in Sarasota this month after three terms in the state house. “The community wins because private business is coming in and building things and creating jobs, which is also creating economic development in the community. And you're not using taxpayer dollars to do it.”
Steube, who works in Becker & Poliakoff's government law and lobbying and business litigation practice groups, sponsored a bill in the 2013 legislative session designed to standardize the P3 process in the state and that created a framework for local governments to follow. “It gives investors some ease to know that the state recognizes these projects,” he says about the bill, which passed. “They're not going to invest billions of dollars and have the wheels fall off the train, so to speak.”
In 2016, another bill he sponsored that became law provides a public-records exception for unsolicited P3 proposals. “That's going to have a huge impact on developers, businesspeople, and investors,” he says, “to know that they can identify a need and then go to that governmental agency with a proposal and their competitors aren't going to come along and undercut them.
“As people start to realize they can use this and they do a small project successfully, I think you're going to see it explode,” Steube says. “There are so many other countries that do it very successfully. The United States is really behind the curve.”
An increase in P3 activity is also good for Steube's law firm — a nugget he was dinged on during his 2016 run for the Florida Senate. But he says the legislation is in the best interests of Florida.
In a standard public-private partnership, two sides enter a contractual agreement related to the delivery and financing of public buildings and infrastructure projects. The private entity finances the project and then either receives payments from the government or revenue related to the project itself, such as tolls or parking fees. As Steube says, P3s can come in a variety of forms and apply to all kinds of projects. The common parlance is that no two P3s are alike.
“In traditional government procurement, you have a lifecycle of design, build, finance, operate and maintain,” says Randall Clement, an attorney in the Orlando office of Bryant Miller Olive who has handled legal work for a number of P3 projects statewide. “A P3 is basically a government unit contracting with a private entity to perform two or more of those lifecycle stages. It's applicable to an endless variety of government undertakings, I think.”
A public-private partnership brings benefits to both sides. For the public, a private business brings capital that might take a government entity several years to fund. The agreement also transfers much of the risk of the project from the public entity — and local taxpayers — to the private sector.
“The challenge for the businessperson is the risk: You are now assuming the risk for that project,” says Steube. “But without risk there's no reward.”
For businesses, a P3 for something like a toll road or parking garage can offer a good return on investment, since there's already a fee structure in place. “Private entities aren't in the business of just giving away money,” says attorney Trent Cotney, whose Tampa-based firm, with five offices statewide, focuses on construction law. “They've evaluated the ROI and determined it's worth putting a little out for the potential gain they'll reap. I see private entities willing to foot the bill knowing they're going to have the equivalent of an annuity over and over again as the return on their investment.”
A P3 also allows businesses to develop relationships with stable customers who will hopefully come calling again. “It's an enhanced opportunity to do business with a sector that has traditionally been a reliable business partner,” Clement says. “Local governments, and government in general, have a good track record of performing their contractual obligations and meeting their payment obligations.”
'Don't jump'
A P3 can be a great opportunity, but lawyers stress caution. It might not be the right fit for every developer or builder.
“A P3 is not the kind of thing you jump into,” says Cotney. “You should already have experience doing public work. One of the problems I see is a lot of contractors who have experience with residential work then decide to do public-bid work, and it's a completely different arena. The admin alone on public jobs is usually significantly more than what you would face in the private sector.”
Other keys to success include having high levels of bonding and insurance to cover the project; legal counsel to wade through all the elements of the deal; and a willingness to over-communicate with all parties.
“It's important to be clear who's emptying the wastepaper baskets, who's cutting the lawn,” says Kenneth Artin, another attorney in Bryant Miller Olive's Orlando office. “Make it very clear in the agreements up front who's responsible for what going forward.”
Attorneys who work with P3s are unsure how or if recent legislation will boost P3 activity. “It's fair to say we are hearing more discussions and seeing more activity in this area,” Clement says. “People are at least curious and beginning to consider it for a wider range of projects.”
Steube sees something like Sarasota's Bayfront 20:20 initiative as ripe for a P3 deal, since it would be difficult for local government alone to come up with all the money needed for such a large-scale effort. “A project that size is a $300 million project,” he says. “The only way you're going to be able to do that is through some type of public-private partnership.”
Notable P3 Projects
Most public-private partnerships in Florida have centered on transportation or education. The University of South Florida, for example, is building a residential village through a P3 considered the largest public-private partnership in the state university system.
Examples of public-private partnerships in the state include:
n Pasco County recently entered into a P3 for an environmental recovery project called the Central Pasco County Beneficial Water Reuse Project. The partners include the county, the Southwest Florida Water Management District and the ownership behind 4G Ranch.
The project, in which the county signed a long-term lease with 4G, will focus on the construction of 237 acres of wetlands in an area that's suffered environmental degradation due to groundwater withdrawals. The county benefits by not spending millions to buy the land, while 4G benefits from a revenue stream and the improvements to its land that will come from the project.
The project broke ground at the end of October and is expected to be completed in a year. “That's unheard of for county projects because of all the hoops that have to be jumped through and established processes that need to happen,” says Pasco County staff biologist and project manager Jeff Harris. “This has been so efficient and saved a considerable amount of money that I can't imagine us not pursuing this P3 option more often.”
The P3 that widened Interstate 75 in Lee and Collier counties proved beneficial for a variety of reasons, says Florida Department of Transportation District 1 Secretary Billy Hattaway.
“We were able to accelerate and build this project and its associated improvements all at one time,” says Hattaway.
The private companies involved in the deal, Ajax Paving Industries Inc. and Anderson Columbia Co. Inc., advanced the funding needed for the widening. That allowed FDOT to reimburse the companies over a period of several years instead of coming up with the total cost upfront. “And they were done more quickly to allow the public to take advantage of them sooner,” Hattaway says.
The on-campus residence halls at Florida Polytechnic University in Polk County were built through a P3.
Jacksonville-based Vestcor Cos., which specializes in multifamily housing, was chosen in October 2013 to partner with the school to build and manage an on-campus residence hall.
“The school had limited credit because it was a brand new university,” says Vestcor President Will Morgan. “It was using all of its funds for infrastructure at the school, that phenomenal building and the ancillary services needed.”
Vestcor completed the project in time for the school's inaugural August 2014 class. It financed the project privately and committed to operate it for 50 years. That's long enough to give the company a return on its investment through fees it collects from students, but also requires the firm to manage the complex. It recently built a second dorm there.
The partnership must have pleased both sides: Vestcor recently built a second dorm for the university.
Partnership Problems
Not every public-private partnership works out, for a variety of reasons.
Consider Tampa Bay Water, which entered into a P3 to design, build, own and operate a desalination plant in the late 1990s.
Two private partners declared bankruptcy and a third had financial issues, which led to confusion and long delays. The plant was finished in 2003, but didn't meet the production levels Tampa Bay Water had stipulated in the contract due to technical issues resulting from inadequate pilot testing.
A big issue, in hindsight: Tampa Bay Water ceded too much control of the design process. “Our preference in looking back would be more toward a design-build-operate model, because it gives you much more involvement during design,” says Ken Herd, construction and contracts senior manager for Tampa Bay Water.
The problems at the plant have since been resolved, and Herd believes the agency is now better prepared for future P3s. Its Tampa Bay Regional Surface Water Treatment Plant, for example, was built through a P3 with Veolia Water.
“We've been very open about what we've gone through,” says Herd. “We hope the things we've learned can help others going through the same challenges in developing these types of facilities.”
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Business Observer Friday, Aug. 24, 2018 10 months ago
College upgrades program to include cybersecurity
USF Sarasota-Manatee has upgraded its IT degree to cybersecurity and IT.
by: Business Observer Staff
There’s a new cybersecurity sheriff in town.
The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee is upgrading its information technology degree to cybersecurity and information technology. The change is happening this fall, with the bachelor’s degree program a response to increased threats.
According to a press release about the program, cybersecurity jobs will grow nearly 30% through 2026.
Ehsan Sheybani, assistant professor of information systems and decision sciences, tells Coffee Talk the basic idea of the program is to give students exposure to different technologies in information systems and cybersecurity concepts through a four-year program. He also says statistics point to the fact that within the next two or three years, there will be a shortage of about one million IT and cybersecurity workers.
It’s not just businesses that need more cybersecurity workers to combat increased threats. Cybersecurity is important for individuals, Sheybani says. “We are vulnerable to cyber attacks, too,” he says.
A $100,000 grant was awarded to USF Sarasota-Manatee and Florida International University from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity at USF in Tampa. That money will be used to upgrade the program through cybersecurity classes and an advanced cybersecurity laboratory.
Sheybani says at least 100 students locally are starting the new program. The school is also looking into expanding the program into a master’s degree.
Building 'curious' leaders
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Mogul Founder Tiffany Pham's Book Is Meant To Help Young Women Get Their Careers Off The Ground — Start Reading Now
By Kristian Wilson
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There's a new career guide coming to town: Mogul founder and CEO Tiffany Pham has written a nonfiction book for teens interested in getting their careers off the ground early. Girl Mogul won't hit store shelves until April 2019, but you can read an exclusive excerpt below.
Founded in 2014, Mogul is a women's networking platform that offers users the opportunity to connect with jobs around the world. With 18 million users and listings in 196 countries, Mogul "is a social enterprise that enables women worldwide through information access, economic opportunity, and education."
Directed at teens and young adults, Girl Mogul offers Pham's experience and insight to readers who want to blaze their own trails. In addition to the Mogul CEO's guidance, the book also contains words of wisdom from other female entrepreneurs — the Mogul Mentors — and correspondence with real, average girls who wrote in asking Pham for advice. If you know an aspirational teen who's destined for the big leagues, or if you just want to make sure you're doing everything right in today's weird economy, Girl Mogul is the perfect book to help.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Girl Mogul by Tiffany Pham below, and be sure to pick up your copy when the book comes out on April 2, 2019.
'Girl Mogul: Dream It. Do it. Change the World' By Tiffany Pham
Professional Fangirling
We all have those people that we look up to, respect, and dream of one day meeting. Whether it is your favorite singer, a writer who you love, an activist who motivates you, or a politician you see making important changes in policy, it is essential to have people who inspire you. Role models give us something to strive for and the opportunity to dream big. One of the reasons that I built Mogul was to ensure that girls around the world have access to role models, no matter how their society tries to limit women. I knew how powerful it was for me to have someone to look up to, to show me what was possible.
Whether it is your favorite singer, a writer who you love, an activist who motivates you, or a politician you see making important changes in policy, it is essential to have people who inspire you.
You’ve heard the phrase It never hurts to ask. I’m here to tell you that not only does it not hurt, but asking is one of the most powerful things you can do.
1. REACH OUT TO YOUR ROLE MODELS
The first time I attempted this tactic, I was in high school. I emailed a fan letter to Kari Kimmel, a singer-songwriter whose songs have been featured in hundreds of films and television shows, such as The Office and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. A popular American Idol contestant named Kimberley Locke had selected Kari’s song “I Could” as one of her first singles when she landed a record deal, and upon listening to it on the radio for the first time, I was hooked. I found Kari’s site and sent a note to the email listed, letting her know how much the song lyrics had meant to me and asking her if there might be ways in which I could spread the word about her work.
At first, I was scared that my absolute adoration of her artistry would make me come off as young and silly. Instead, my enthusiasm made her feel appreciated. I was shocked when she responded with a kind note and shared how much it meant to her. As we continued to correspond via email, I decided to take things a step further and ask again, this time more specifically: Could I help you in any way whatsoever? Is there anything you may need at the moment that I could support you on? I wasn’t entirely sure what I could do, but I knew I loved her work, creativity, and drive. I wanted to be a part of it, even from my bedroom in Plano, Texas.
Just a few days later, she responded with an offer for me to begin to manage her website and fan letters — years before I’d ever received fan letters of my own.
I worked night and day, answering and organizing each fan letter immediately, displaying attentiveness, dedication, and enthusiasm. Kari was greatly impressed. She respected my work ethic, and subsequently gave me more responsibility. From this experience, I developed early skill sets in website development, branding, and marketing, as well as customer support. My offer to volunteer turned into a collaboration that turned into a long-term partnership. And we are still friends to this day.
So, who do you look up to? Who is working in the industry you aspire to join? Gather the courage to reach out. Ask if there is a way for you to get involved in what they are doing. What could you take off their plate to make their lives easier?
When you get your foot in the door by helping out with something (anything!), it allows you to begin to build a relationship — with that person, their staff, and their organization. By helping them, you inevitably open yourself up to an amazing learning opportunity.
This is an approach that has been incredibly helpful for me throughout my career as I’ve sought out mentors and advisors. I have never been focused on what they could give me. Instead, I approached these people with an attitude of generosity. Was there anything I could do to help them? When you stay focused on what you can bring of value, you’ll find that people are more likely to say yes to your offer. And that will become your best way to learn.
And don’t worry — you do have something of value to offer. Your value could be your skills as a calligrapher, and you could offer to help address invitations. Your skill set could be web design, and you could offer to work on their website or create ads for them. Your talent could be creative social media engagement, and you could help manage their social media presence.
And don’t worry — you do have something of value to offer.
But sometimes, just a willingness to step into any role is what is most needed. Offer your help broadly and see what happens.
2. USE YOUR CONNECTIONS
Another strategy you can use to connect with potential mentors is to look within your current circle of contacts to see if there is someone who can connect you personally to one of your idols. I call this a “warm connection” (as opposed to the dreaded “cold call”). In college, one of my best friends was Lizzi, and I knew that her father, Rob, worked in entertainment. After I graduated, I worked up the courage to ask Lizzi whether she would mind providing an introduction to her father and letting him know that I was looking for ways to get involved in the industry. She was thrilled to help, and before I knew it, he and I were connected via email. He told me that he was developing an off-off-Broadway musical called Volleygirls. Would I be interested in reading the script and sending some feedback?
I said yes, of course. I was thrilled! I was just out of college, looking for inroads into the entertainment industry, and this was perfect. As soon as he sent it to me, I read through the entire script twice. By the end of the evening, I’d sent back detailed edits.
That relatively straightforward job — providing edits on the script — led to sitting in on an in-person read-through of the show, where I befriended another one of the producers, NBC TV star Monica Raymund (now one of our Mogul users). Rob had invited me to the read-through likely not expecting me to actually show up, given that there would be little for me to do other than just listen. But I did show up. And that showed my commitment.
Next, once the show went into previews, Rob asked me to be the check-in girl. I knew I was supposed to keep track of who attended, in the hopes that Rob might be able to secure their support for the show thereafter, and that doing this job well was incredibly important. So I showed up that first night with my laptop and an Excel spreadsheet, and I more than checked people in — I created an entire database of potential partners for the show. When I sent that first file to Rob, he couldn’t believe the level of detail and organization I had brought to the job. And just a few weeks later, he promoted me to general manager of the show.
I was in my early twenties and working two other jobs at the time, but it was such an incredible and unexpected honor to be named a general manager of a musical in New York City. It stemmed from a warm introduction through a good friend, but it would have stalled out if I hadn’t overdelivered on every task I was given. I went above and beyond on every job Rob gave me so that he could see that I could handle more responsibility.
If you want to be a professional fangirl, you can’t just admire. You’ve got to truly bring value to those people you end up working for.
I wish I could say that I achieved great success solely based on hard work and a lot of moxie. But I know firsthand how important finding the right people is for opening doors to opportunity. Once you find them, if you are good to them, kind to them, respectful, and hardworking, they will recommend you to others. This is another example of the path of reciprocity. So always be kind, generous, willing to help, and willing to go the extra mile.
3. FRIENDSHIP FIRST
Over the years, my approach as a fangirl has always been to remain focused not just on building a professional relationship with someone I admire but also on creating a true friendship. From the start, I always remember to be respectful, and share how and why I appreciate their work, but once we meet, I treat them as a friend. Okay, so maybe not always like my friends my own age. I never try to gossip about crushes or anything like that. But even now, I make sure to ask my mentors about themselves — about both their job and their life — in a warm, polite, and respectful way. My main goal is to get to know a person, not to “get” something from them. People feel the difference between digging for information and a genuine interest in who they are.
My main goal is to get to know a person, not to “get” something from them.
This approach is different from typical “networking,” what many call meeting people in a certain industry just to find a connection that could lead to a job or promotion. While I’m all for staying connected and meeting new people, I’ve never liked the term networking, because of the suggestion it carries of being focused on getting something out of an interaction. I recommend building actual relationships with people who could become friends, collaborators, and partners. Networking can be perceived as cold, transactional, and short-term, whereas friendship is warm, focused on teamwork and support, and long-lasting.
Once I’ve made a connection with someone, I work to keep that relationship strong. And it has led to me working with many of the same people over and over throughout my career.
4. EMULATE—DON’T IMITATE
So have you identified someone you can reach out to yet? The time is now. Thanks to the power of the internet, it doesn’t matter where you live. You can help anyone, anywhere, as long as you have a strong internet connection. But remember that you are looking to learn, not follow their footsteps exactly. Your path won’t look just like theirs, nor should it! Don’t try to be the next so-and-so. Try to be the first and only you. That uniqueness is what will allow you to find your place in the world.
Still, I know firsthand how connecting with the right mentors can really help you forge your own path. Your learning can start today. You can do work in the hours you have between school and bedtime, or on weekends. And here’s another secret: If you find the right people to shadow, it never feels like work! It just feels like hanging out with incredibly cool people, doing amazing stuff, and developing a ton of new skills that you can apply to whatever it is you dream of doing.
This has been adapted from 'Girl Mogul: Dream It. Do it. Change the World' By Tiffany Pham.
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Cara Delevingne Has Opened Up About Her Struggle With Mental Illness
The actor and model spoke about mental illness at the Women in the World Summit last weekend.
Posted on October 13, 2015, 11:20 GMT
Actor and model Cara Delevingne opened up about her struggle with depression at the 2015 Women in the World Summit last weekend.
Anthony Harvey / Getty Images
Speaking to fellow actor Rupert Everett, Delevingne described her struggle with mental illness, which began at a young age:
I think I pushed myself so far [at school] that I got to the point where I had a mental breakdown ... I was completely suicidal, I didn't want to live any more. I thought that I was completely alone. I also realised how lucky I was, and what a wonderful family and wonderful friends I had, but that didn't matter. I wanted the world to swallow me up, and nothing seemed better to me than death.
Her depression continued throughout her success in the modelling industry, she said.
Women in the World / BuzzFeed
The person who eventually helped her through her issues was her friend and fellow supermodel Kate Moss, she said.
"What happened was I eventually said no, and I eventually took a break, from the advice of Kate Moss, who kind of picked me up off the floor," Delevingne said.
She also shared her key to happiness:
It's about finding people around you who have your best interests at heart. I had a lot of people around me who were just after what I gave them...not looking after me. So it's about finding people who care about you, and support you. And I've now been able to become a support for other people, as well.
We're glad you're doing better, Cara – and stay strong!
FashionTV / Via giphy.com
Watch the interview in full here:
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Homepage > Study by Topic > Papacy > The Biblical, Primitive Papacy Part 2 by Dave Armstrong
The Biblical, Primitive Papacy: St. Peter the "Rock": Scholarly Opinion (Mostly Protestant)
Catholics contend that the Rock is Peter himself, not his faith, or Jesus (although arguably his faith is assumed by Christ in naming Peter Rock in the first place). Many prominent
Protestant scholars and exegetes have agreed that Peter is the Rock in Matthew 16:18, including Henry Alford, (Anglican: The New Testament for English Readers, vol. 1, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1983, 119), John Broadus (Reformed Baptist: Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1886, 355-356), C. F. Keil, Gerhard Kittel (Lutheran: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, vol. VI, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1968, 98-99), Oscar Cullmann (Lutheran: Peter: Disciple, Apostle, Martyr, 2nd rev. ed., 1962), William F. Albright, Robert McAfee Brown, and more recently, highly-respected evangelical commentators R.T. France, and D.A. Carson, who both surprisingly assert that only Protestant overreaction to Catholic Petrine and papal claims have brought about the denial that Peter himself is the Rock:
Jesus now sums up Peter's significance in a name, Peter . . . It describes not so much Peter's
character (he did not prove to be 'rock-like' in terms of stability or reliability), but his
function, as the foundation-stone of Jesus' church. The feminine word for 'rock', 'petra', is
necessarily changed to the masculine 'petros' (stone) to give a man's name, but the word-play
is unmistakable (and in Aramaic would be even more so, as the same form 'kepha' would
occur in both places). It is only Protestant overreaction to the Roman Catholic claim . . . that
what is here said of Peter applies also to the later bishops of Rome, that has led some to claim
that the 'rock' here is not Peter at all but the faith which he has just confessed. The
word-play, and the whole structure of the passage, demands that this verse is every bit as
much Jesus' declaration about Peter as v.16 was Peter's declaration about Jesus . . . It is to
Peter, not to his confession, that the rock metaphor is applied . . . Peter is to be the
foundation-stone of Jesus' new community . . . which will last forever.
(R.T. France (Anglican); in Morris, Leon, General editor, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press / Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1985, vol. 1: Matthew, 254, 256)
On the basis of the distinction between 'petros' . . . and 'petra' . . . , many have attempted to
avoid identifying Peter as the rock on which Jesus builds his church. Peter is a mere 'stone,'
it is alleged; but Jesus himself is the 'rock' . . . Others adopt some other distinction . . . Yet if
it were not for Protestant reactions against extremes of Roman Catholic interpretation, it is
doubtful whether many would have taken 'rock' to be anything or anyone other than Peter . . .
The Greek makes the distinction between 'petros' and 'petra' simply because it is trying to
preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine 'petra' could not very well serve as a masculine
name . . .
Had Matthew wanted to say no more than that Peter was a stone in contrast with Jesus the
Rock, the more common word would have been 'lithos' ('stone' of almost any size). Then
there would have been no pun - and that is just the point! . . .
In this passage Jesus is the builder of the church and it would be a strange mixture of
metaphors that also sees him within the same clauses as its foundation . . .
(D.A. Carson (Baptist); in Gaebelein, Frank E., Gen. editor, Expositor's Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1984, vol. 8:Matthew, Mark, Luke {Matthew: D.A. Carson}, 368)
Other Protestant scholars and works confirm the Catholic view that Peter is the Rock:
. . . That the rock is Peter himself . . . is found almost as early as the other [interpretation], for
Tertullian and the bishop, whether Roman or Carthaginian, against whom he thundered in De
Pudicitia, assume this, though with different inferences. Its strength lies in the fact that Mt
16:19 is in the singular, and must be addressed directly to Peter . . . Many Protestant
interpreters, including notably Cullmann, take the latter view.
(New Bible Dictionary, ed. J.D. Douglas, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1962, 972)
Though in the past some authorities have considered that the term rock refers to Jesus
himself or to Peter's faith, the consensus of the great majority of scholars today is that the
most obvious and traditional understanding should be construed, namely, that rock refers to
the person of Peter.
(Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1985 edition, "Peter," Micropedia, vol. 9, 330-333. D. W. O'Connor, the author of the article, is himself Protestant and author of Peter in Rome: The Literary, Liturgical and Archaeological Evidence [1969] )
Some interpreters have . . . referred to Jesus as the rock here, but the context is against this.
Nor is it likely that Peter's faith or Peter's confession is meant. It is undoubtedly Peter
himself who is to be the rock, but Peter confessing, faithful and obedient . . . The leading
role which Peter played is shown throughout the early chapters of Acts.
(New Bible Commentary, Guthrie, D. & J.A. Motyer, eds., Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 3rd ed., 1970 [Reprinted, 1987, as The Eerdmans Bible Commentary], 837)
In view of the background of verse 19 . . . one must dismiss as confessional interpretation
[i.e., biased by denominational views] any attempt to see this rock as meaning the faith, or the
Messianic confession of Peter . . . The general sense of the passage is indisputable . . . Peter
is the rock on which the new community will be built, and in that community, Peter's authority
to 'bind' or 'release' will be a carrying out of decisions made in heaven. His teaching and
disciplinary activities will be similarly guided by the Spirit to carry out Heaven's will.
(William F. Albright [Methodist] and C.S. Mann, Anchor Bible, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971, vol. 26, 195, 197-198)
Protestants are learning that the crucial passage in Matthew 16 about the 'rock' on which the
church will be built almost certainly refers to Peter himself rather than to his faith.
(Robert McAfee Brown, in McCord, Peter J., editor, A Pope For All Christians?, New York: Paulist Press, 1976, Introduction, 7. This book is an ecumenical project offering views on the papacy from many perspectives. Brown is a Presbyterian and very prominent ecumenist)
Precisely because of the Aramaic identity of 'Kepha'/'kepha', there can be no doubt that the
rock on which the church was to be built was Peter. Is this true also for Matthew in whose
Greek there is the slight difference 'Petros'/'petra'? Probably the most common view would
be that it is . . . It would be pointless to list all the commentaries holding this view, but it is
found in [a] popular one-volume commentary . . . ; K. Stendahl in Peake's Commentary on the
Bible (2nd rev. ed.; London: Nelson, 1962), p. 787.
(Peter in the New Testament, Brown, Raymond E., Karl P. Donfried and John Reumann, editors, Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub. House / New York: Paulist Press, 1973, 92-93. This is probably the most important ecumenical work on Peter, and is thus cited first in a long bibliography in theEncyclopedia Britannica. It is a common statement by a panel of eleven Catholic and Lutheran scholars)
The great Protestant Greek scholar Marvin Vincent was among those who took the traditional view:
The word refers neither to Christ as a rock, distinguished from Simon, a stone, nor to
Peter's confession, but to Peter himself, . . . The reference of petra to Christ is forced and
unnatural. The obvious reference of the word is to Peter. The emphatic this naturally refers
to the nearest antecedent; and besides, the metaphor is thus weakened, since Christ appears
here, not as the foundation, but as the architect: "On this rock will I build." Again, Christ is
the great foundation, the chief cornerstone, but the New Testament writers recognize no
impropriety in applying to the members of Christ's church certain terms which are applied to
him. For instance, Peter himself (1 Peter 2:4), calls Christ a living stone, and in ver. 5,
addresses the church as living stones . . .
Equally untenable is the explanation which refers petra to Simon's confession. Both the play
upon the words and the natural reading of the passage are against it, and besides, it does not
conform to the fact, since the church is built, not on confessions, but on confessors - living
men . . . . . .
The reference to Simon himself is confirmed by the actual relation of Peter to the early
church . . . See Acts 1:15; 2:14,37; 3:2; 4:8; 5:15,29; 9:34,40; 10:25-6; Galatians 1:18.
(Word Studies in the New Testament, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1946 [orig. 1887], 4 vols., vol. 1, 91-92; emphasis in original)
The Catholic scholar Stanley Jaki writes:
In the Old Testament only God is called rock . . . Even if Peter's faith is taken for the rock,
this still leaves one with much to consider about the fact that apart from the faith of Peter
only God is called rock in the written word of God . . .
Simon was now Rock, the rock foundation of his Master's church . . . The name obviously
had a far deeper meaning than boanerges (sons of thunder), the name Jesus gave to James
and John (Mk 3:17). While Yahweh thundered, he was never called thunder or thunderer.
Only pagan gods could be thunderers (Jupiter was one of them), sources of fright; and never,
like a rock, sources of safety . . . The name kepha could not help but evoke in pious Jews, as
all the Twelve were, a sentiment of awe and reverence.
Obviously, a name of such connotation could not be the vehicle of that disapproval which
lurks behind Jesus' calling James and John boanerges (see the parallel passage (Lk 9:54),
where James and John want to call down fire upon the inhospitable Samaritans). This name,
not at all praiseworthy, was for a passing moment, whereas kepha was a name to last for the
sake of everlasting praise.
(And on This Rock, Front Royal, VA: Christendom College Press, 39, 77-78)
St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), a leader of the Catholic Reformation, draws out the implications of this passage for the papacy:
Our Lord then, who is comparing his Church to a building, when he says that he will build it
on St. Peter, shows that St. Peter will be its foundation-stone . . . When he makes St. Peter
its foundation, he makes him head and superior of this family.
By these words Our Lord shows the perpetuity and immovableness of this foundation. The
stone on which one raises the building is the first, the others rest on it. Other stones may be
removed without overthrowing the edifice, but he who takes away the foundation, knocks
down the house. If then the gates of hell can in no wise prevail against the Church, they can
in no wise prevail against its foundation and head, which they cannot take away and overturn
without entirely overturning the whole edifice . . .
The supreme charge which St. Peter had . . . as chief and governor, is not beside the authority
of his Master, but is only a participation in this, so that he is not the foundation of this
hierarchy besides Our Lord but rather in Our Lord: as we call him most holy Father in Our
Lord, outside whom he would be nothing . . St. Peter is foundation, not founder, of the whole
Church; foundation but founded on another foundation, which is Our Lord . . . in fine,
administrator and not lord, and in no way the foundation of our faith, hope and charity, nor
of the efficacy of the Sacraments . . . So, although he is the Good Shepherd, he gives us
shepherds (Ephesians 4:11) under himself, between whom and his Majesty there is so great a
difference that he declares himself to be the only shepherd (John 10:11; Ezekiel 34:23).
(The Catholic Controversy, translated by Henry B. Mackey, Rockford, IL: TAN Books, 1989 [orig. 1596], 242-243,245-247)
Other Protestant and Orthodox scholars who believe the Rock in Matthew 16:18 is Peter himself, include:
1) John Meyendorff (Orthodox) (in The Primacy of Peter, [he is editor], Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1992, 67-90)
2) Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. c. 895): "On Peter repose the foundations of the faith" (Epist. 99 and Niceph., PG CII, 909 A, in Meyendorff, ibid., 72)
3) St. Gregory Palamas (Orthodox, d. 1359), called Peter the "foundation of the Church" (Triads, II, I, 38, in Meyendorff, ibid., 74). Meyendorff writes: "It is not difficult to present an
abundance of such quotations. All Byzantine theologians, even after the conflict with Rome, speak of Peter in the same terms as Photius . . . without any attempt to attenuate the
meaning of biblical texts . . . the Church . . . remains eternally founded on Peter." [Ibid., 74-75] It should be noted that many Orthodox (like Protestants cited in this section) would deny
the papal succession, which is another distinct aspect of the papacy.
4) Gennadios Scholarios (Orthodox; Patriarch of Constantinople, d.c. 1472): "Christ established the Church on Peter" (On the Procession of the Holy Spirit, I, in Meyendorff, ibid., 87).
5) William Hendriksen (Reformed) (New Testament Commentary: Exposition of the Gospel According to Matthew, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1973, 647}
6) Gerhard Maier (Lutheran) [The IVP Bible Background Commentary, Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993, 90]
7) Craig L. Blomberg (Baptist) [The New American Commentary: Matthew, vol. 22, Nashville: Broadman, 1992, 251-252]
8) Albert Barnes (Presbyterian) [Notes on the New Testament, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1973, 170]
9) Herman Ridderbos (Reformed) [Bible Student's Commentary: Matthew, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1987, 303]
10) David Hill (Presbyterian) [New Century Bible Commentary: Matthew, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1972, 61]
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Homepage > Study by Topic > Sola Scriptura > St. Thomas Aquinas and Sola Scriptura by Phil Porvaznik
St. Thomas Aquinas and Sola Scriptura:
"...only canonical Scripture is a measure of faith..." (Commentary on John 21)
Thomas Aquinas and Sola Scriptura
And a review of Keith Mathison's The Shape of Sola Scriptura
The Protestant/evangelical/Reformed apologist Tim Enloe writes in a thread on Gary Hoge's EZBoard on some Latin from St. Thomas Aquinas,
<< Or maybe you'd prefer Aquinas in Latin, since the following citation has such an interesting little phrase about Scripture in it (I've bolded it for you) >>
Notandum autem, quod cum multi scriberent de catholica veritate, haec est differentia, quia illi, qui scripserunt canonicam Scripturam, sicut Evangelistic et Apostoli, et alii huiusmodi, ita constanter eam asserunt quod nihil dubitandum relinquunt. Et ideo dicit Et scimus quia verum est testimonium eius; Gal. I, 9: Si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit. Cuius ratio est, quia sola canonica scriptura est regula fidei. Alii autem sic edisserunt de veritate, quod nolunt sibi credi nisi in his quae ver dicunt. Thomas's commentary on John's Gospel, Super Evangelium S. Ioannis Lectura, ed. P. Raphaelis Cai, O.P., Editio V revisa (Romae: Marietti E ditori Ltd., 1952) n. 2656, p. 488.
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH:
"It should be noted that though many might write concerning Catholic truth, there is this difference that those who wrote the canonical Scripture, the Evangelists and Apostles, and the like, so constantly assert it that they leave no room for doubt. That is what he means when he says 'we know his witness is true.' Galatians 1:9, "If anyone preach a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be anathema!" The reason is that only canonical Scripture is a measure of faith. Others however so wrote of the truth that they should not be believed save insofar as they say true things." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of John 21)
This was answered a number of years ago in an article in Catholic Dossier (March/April 1996 issue) by an Aquinas expert, Dr. Ralph McInerny. The issue is available online here
St. Thomas Aquinas on Sola Scriptura
The article in Catholic Dossier (March/April 1996) cites the passage from Aquinas above, and responds to its misapplication by the French Catholic theologian Florent Gaboriau, who suggested in a 1985 book (Theologie Nouvelle and repeated in an article in the Revue Thomiste) this makes the usual opposition of evangelical Protestants and Catholics on sola scriptura dubious --
<< Does Thomas say that Scripture alone is the measure of our faith? The words Gaboriau has quoted are from Thomas's commentary on John's Gospel, Super Evangelium S. Ioannis Lectura, ed R. Cai, OP, Marietti: Roma, 1952, n. 2656. Thomas is commenting on John's peroration, "This is the disciple who bears witness concerning these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his witness is true. There are, however, many other things that Jesus did; but if every one of these should be written, not even the world itself, I think, could hold the books that would have to be written. Amen" (John 21:24-25). In the paragraph Gaboriau cites, Thomas is concerned with "and we know his witness is true." Here is the text... [then follows the above passage in English]...It is clear that Thomas is contrasting canonical and apocryphal works and saying that only the former have credence for Christians. The issue Gaboriau is interested in simply does not arise in this passage. >>
Dr. Norman Geisler has used the same citation from St. Thomas I believe first in his evangelical book on Aquinas (1991) then repeated in his Forward to Elliot Miller/Ken Samples book on Catholic Mariology The Cult of the Virgin (Baker, 1992). Here is an excerpt from Geisler's Forward to the latter book:
"First of all, the Roman Catholic doctrine on Mary has gone well beyond Holy Scripture. But even the great Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas affirmed that 'only the canonical Scriptures are normative for faith' (Commentary on John 21, lect. 6). In going beyond Scripture in their teachings about Mary, Roman Catholics have threatened Scripture as the sole authority of the faith. This is one reason why those dedicated to the principle of Sola Scriptura cannot avoid addressing this issue." (Norm Geisler, forward to The Cult of the Virgin)
A few years later Geisler/MacKenzie enlisted a few additional passages from Aquinas in their otherwise excellent Roman Catholics and Evangelicals: Agreements and Differences (Baker, 1995) to suggest Aquinas held to sola scriptura. These were all answered competently in Not By Scripture Alone: A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura(Queenship, 1997) edited by Robert Sungenis:
"Aquinas also said: 'The formal object of faith is Primary Truth as manifested in Holy Scripture and in the teaching of the Church which proceeds from the Primary Truth. hence, he who does not embrace the teaching of the Church as a divine and infallible law does not possess the habit of faith' [from Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3]. Thus one can easily see that not only does Aquinas direct his reader to the Church, but he also emphasizes that the Church houses the truth of Scripture, and that the Church, not just the Scripture is a divine and infallible entity. This is quite different from the impression the present Protestant apologist [referring to Geisler/MacKenzie] conveys to an untrained reader." (Not By Scripture Alone, page 324, see also page 372ff).
Ignoring this answer in Not By Scripture Alone, Webster/King in their large defense of sola scriptura titled Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith (2001) again picked up these citations from Geisler (or possibly from the French theologian Gaboriau) and tried to use them to suggest St. Thomas Aquinas believed in sola scriptura (which they define as both the material and formal sufficiency of Scripture). On Aquinas, William Webster states the following:
"This position [referring to a paragraph quoted by Alister McGrath on sola scriptura] was well expressed by Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. Norman Geisler comments...."
A paragraph from Geisler's book (Thomas Aquinas: An Evangelical Appraisal) is then cited concerning Aquinas' view of the inspiration, inerrancy, and high authority of Scripture. Then Webster continues:
"The Scriptures held a place of supreme authority in the Church. In a quotation previously referenced, Aquinas echoed the sentiments of Basil of Caesarea and Augustine, stating that the teaching of the fathers was received as authoritative only when it could be demonstrated that it was true to Scripture. He taught that Scripture alone was the canonical standard of doctrine, and therefore the foundation and source of truth for the faith of the Church: 'Only canonical Scripture is the rule of faith' (quia sola canonica scriptura est regula fidei). Note that he used the term sola Scriptura." (Webster, Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith, volume 2, page 87-88)
Is Webster representing accurately the full view of St. Thomas Aquinas? Let's look at this issue of "sola scriptura" in Aquinas (I will use his primary work the Summa Theologica).
First, what does it mean that "only canonical Scripture is a measure [or rule] of faith" (note the translation at the top and in Webster's footnote 293, page 197 reads: "A measure of faith" not "THErule of faith"). What St. Thomas is doing is contrasting Scripture to other apocryphal or non-canonical writings (as noted by Catholic Dossier above). And Catholics/Orthodox today would agree. Aquinas was not opposing "the canonical Scriptures" against the Church or her tradition which he also affirmed was a measure, a rule for faith and practice. In other words, St. Thomas is notsaying sacred tradition is not ALSO A rule for faith and practice. How do I know this? He says so below.
From something I posted to James White's old sola scriptura Email list (from June 1996). Anti-Catholic evangelical apologist Eric Svendsen was on that list, as well as Greg Krehbiel (at that time still Protestant)
FROM JAMES WHITE'S SOLA-L LIST 6/96
Eric Svendsen wrote --
ES> Paul tells us in 2 Thess 2:15 that his teaching was sometimes written and sometimes passed along orally: "Hold to the teachings we passed on to you whether by word of mouth or by letter." Yet, it was, in any case, the *same* message. No appeal can legitimately be made to this passage to introduce the notion of an on-going oral tradition that was to be held on par with (yet as different from) Paul's written instructions to the churches. >>
Greg Krehbiel responded --
GK> When I asked, last week, how you thought 1 Cor. 11:34 related to 2 Thes. 2:15, you replied in a very literal manner, as if I were claiming that the precise teachings alluded to in 1 Cor. 11 were in view in 2 Thes. 2. My point was that 1 Cor. 11 shows that some apostolic teachings go beyond what is written in Scripture, and that in 2 Thes. 2 Paul exerts us to hold fast to all the teachings, not just the written ones. >>
Here is something from St. Thomas Aquinas SUMMA THEOLOGICA that I found
ST Third Part, Question 64, Article 2 on "Whether the Sacraments are instituted by God alone?"
OBJECTION 1: For those things which God has instituted are delivered to us in Holy Scripture. But in the Sacraments certain things are done which are nowhere mentioned in Holy Scripture. For instance, the chrism with which men are confirmed, the oil with which the priests are anointed, and many others, both words and actions, which we employ in the Sacraments. Therefore, the Sacraments were not instituted by God alone.
REPLY 1: Human institutions observed in the Sacraments are not essential to the Sacrament, but belong to the solemnity which is added to the Sacraments in order to arouse devotion and reverence in the recipients. But those things that are essential to the Sacrament are instituted by Christ Himself, who is God and man.
And though they are not all handed down by the Scriptures, yet the Church holds them from the intimate tradition of the Apostles, according to the saying of the Apostle : 'THE REST I WILL SET IN ORDER WHEN I COME' (1 Cor 11:34).
Concerning 2 Thessalonians 2:15, I found the following from St. Thomas
ST Third Part, Question 25, Article 3 on Worship (veneration) of Images
OBJECTION 4: ....it seems that nothing should be done in the Divine worship that is not instituted by God; therefore the Apostle when about to hand down the doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Church, says: 'I HAVE RECEIVED OF THE LORD THAT WHICH I DELIVERED UNTO YOU' (1 Cor 11:23). But Scripture does not lay down anything concerning the adoration [i.e. veneration] of images.
REPLY 4: The Apostles, led by the inward stirring of the Holy Ghost, handed down to the churches certain instructions which they did not leave in writing, but which have been ordained in accordance with the observance of the Church as practiced by the faithful as time went on. Therefore the Apostle says: 'STAND FAST, AND HOLD THE TRADITIONS WHICH YOU HAVE LEARNED, WHETHER BY WORD' -- that is by word of mouth -- 'OR BY OUR EPISTLE' -- that is by word put into writing (2 Thess 2:15)....
On the relation of the Scripture to the Church, St. Thomas wrote [this one I got from Joe Gallegos, and it appears later in Not By Scripture Alone] --
ST II-II, Question 5, Article 3
The formal object of faith is Primary Truth as manifested in Holy Scripture and in the teaching of the Church which proceeds from the Primary Truth. Hence, he who does not embrace the teaching of the Church as a divine and infallible law does not possess the habit of faith.
Now of course you might disagree with these assertions but at least we have what this great Doctor of the Church believed. St. Thomas is well-respected among certain Reformed theologians as R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner -- See Thomas Aquinas : An Evangelical Appraisal by Norm Geisler (Baker Books, 1991). I also find it curious how Geisler tries to make it appear Aquinas believed in sola scriptura in his Roman Catholics and Evangelicals (Baker, 1995).
END of 6/96 Sola-L post
The full passage on the infallible nature of the Church's teaching office is below in a different English translation and can be found online at NewAdvent.org here
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/300503.htm
Objection 3. Further, just as man obeys God in believing the articles of faith, so does he also in keeping the commandments of the Law. Now a man can obey some commandments, and disobey others. Therefore he can believe some articles, and disbelieve others.
On the contrary, Just as mortal sin is contrary to charity, so is disbelief in one article of faith contrary to faith. Now charity does not remain in a man after one mortal sin. Therefore neither does faith, after a man disbelieves one article.
I answer that, Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith.
The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will.
From St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, Question 5, Article 3
So the great Angelic Doctor never separated the "Holy Writ" (the canonical Scriptures) from the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church -- in fact he says one who does not hold to the teaching of the Church as a divine and infallible rule does not have a true faith. Further we see in my two citations from the Summa Theologica that Aquinas indeed appealed to Apostolic Sacred Tradition as a rule for faith and practice (see above from ST, Third Part, q. 64 a. 2, his citing 1 Corinthians 11:34 and ST, Third Part q. 25 a. 3, his citing 2 Thessalonians 2:15).
Review of Keith Mathison's The Shape of Sola Scriptura
Honest book but has some mistakes (April 2, 2003)
I recommend this book over the massive Webster/King volumes. Its shorter, more honest, clears up misunderstandings, and concedes a lot of ground to the Catholic/Orthodox position. The true doctrine of "SOLA scriptura" according to Mathison is that Scripture is the sole source of infallible revelation that is interpreted in and by the visible Church. The false doctrine of "SOLO scriptura" is Scripture as interpreted solely by the individual Christian ignoring the authority of the Church. He brings out that distinction throughout the book and demolishes a lot of so-called "Evangelical" misconceptions, and critiques some Catholic/Orthodox ones.
First, Mathison concedes a ton. For example: We have no evidence demonstrating that the Church considered the Apostles teaching to be entirely confined to written documents (page 21). The concept of tradition in the Fathers designated the body of doctrine committed to the Church by the Lord or His Apostles whether oral or written (21). The Scripture is to be interpreted in and by the Church within the regula fidei (rule of faith). Taken out of this context, it would inevitably be mishandled (this point is constantly repeated and emphasized: page 48, also 81, 85, 120, 140, 147, 150, 151, 167, 267).
In the early centuries it was not possible to go to a book store and buy a copy of the Bible. Manuscripts were hand-copied, some churches had only portions. Only gradually was the New Testament accepted. Large segments of the Church were illiterate for centuries (247-248).
On the nature of the Church, Mathison says: The Church is the pillar and ground of the truth, established by Christ, given by Him the authority to "bind and loose" that is not given to every member of the Church as individuals. The Church is Christ's body and bride, "the instrument through which God makes the truth of His Word known" (Eph 3:10). And outside the Church there is no salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus) refers to the VISIBLE Church according to Mathison (268). The Church is "our mother," "the pillar and ground, the interpreter, teacher, and proclaimer of God's Word...the Christian who rejects the authority of the Church rejects the authority of the One who sent her" (Luke 10:16).
And "it is to the Church as a visible body that we must turn to find the true interpretation and preaching of the good news of Christ. It is therefore to the Church that we must turn for the true interpretation of the Scripture, for it is in the Scripture that the gospel is found" (268-270). There are leaders in the Church "to whom we owe obedience and submission (Heb 13:17)" (272).
Wonderful, quite Catholic. The problem is in IDENTIFYING WHICH visible Church and therefore TO WHOM we are to be submitted. And Mathison admits this is a problem and that Evangelical "ecclesiology" is a mess (319-320 and his chapter on "solo scriptura").
But the Church is fallible and "when this fallible Church does err, it is her responsibility to correct herself according to the final and perfect standard of Scripture." (page 269) How is that done? Who speaks for the visible Church when she errs? Who corrects the Church?
On the Fathers and medieval doctors: he cites Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Cyprian (22-29) then Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers, Cyril of Jerusalem (29-32) as adherents of "Tradition 1" = one-source concept of tradition which he says "was universally held for the first three centuries of the Church" (page 32).
However: how is this possible when no Fathers before St. Athanasius had a 27-book NT canon? Apparently, the true doctrine of "sola scriptura" can be held to without anyone knowing what the NT Scriptures are. That to me is a problem. He says "In his entire debate with the Arians, Athanasius never appeals to any plural 'traditions' " (30). But dozens of examples can be found, at least five here (De Synodis 7, 14, 47, To the Bishops of Africa 10, Festal Letter 2:6, 7). He cites Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, and Augustine as probable adherents of "Tradition 2" = two-source concept of tradition.
St. John Chrysostom clearly makes "the specific distinction between what is written and what is unwritten..." (39) St. Augustine "clearly asserts the authority of scriptural revelation, he also suggests that there is an authoritative extra-scriptural oral tradition" (e.g. infant baptism) and he "advocated a two-source concept of tradition" (40, 41, 42). St. Vincent of Lerins rejects the formal sufficiency of Scripture, while accepting its material sufficiency (44) and "argues that Scripture must be interpreted by the Church because heretics have repeatedly promoted their own various false interpretations..." (44) Agreed.
After citing the Orthodox scholar Florovsky on Vincent, Mathison says this is "completely consistent with the early father's concept of tradition" (45). I agree since (like Vincent) none of the Fathers taught the "formal sufficiency" of Scripture, even if they may have taught "material sufficiency" or Mathison's Tradition 1 (as Yves Congar has demonstrated in Tradition and Traditions).
On Aquinas (77) he needs to check the Sungenis/Gallegos reference from the Summa Theologica to the teaching of the Catholic Church as "an infallible and divine rule" (ST II-II, Q. 5, A. 3) and Aquinas comments on 1 Cor 11:34 and 2 Thess 2:15 (ST Third Part, Q. 64, A. 2 and ST Third Part, Q. 25, A. 3).
Overall, very helpful book. I disagree with his Catholic critiques and many of the old tired issues he brings up (Matthew 16 and Rock, the Papacy, "problem" popes, Unam Sanctam vs. Vatican II) have been adequately answered by Catholic apologists.
Phil Porvaznik
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A theory for the canonical prosecution of an ‘Uncle Ted’ type of prelate
What does canon law say about the reprehensible conduct alleged against former-Cardinal-but-still Archbishop Theodore McCarrick?
August 31, 2018 Edward N. Peters The Dispatch 39 Print
Pope Francis gestures during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 4. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
To the extent that the burgeoning crisis in the Church (one I think scarcely paralleled in Church history) now involves the Roman Pontiff, canon law is of limited—not none, but limited—value in dealing with some of its key aspects, including its most urgent aspect, the credible allegation that Pope Francis knowingly protected and even favored at least one homo-sexually active prelate and certain of his enablers in the Roman Curia and a national episcopate.
Respectful of the nature of the Church as willed by Christ, no mechanism of canon law provides for the removal of a pope from office. Even the automatic loss of papal office for heresy theorized by some saints and scholars (a theory I basically support) does not envision a process to remove a pope from office but rather declares that the conditions for loss of office have been satisfied. Because, however, I do not think that Francis has committed an act of heresy (see Canon 751) I speculate no further on this papal loss-of-office scenario and—prescinding from how Francis might eventually choose to respond to allegations against his own actions—I instead turn to what canon law has to say about the reprehensible conduct alleged against former-Cardinal-but-still Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, emeritus of the Archdiocese of Washington.
First, the canonical problem.
Canon law’s alleged inability to take cognizance of sexual relations by clerics between themselves and/or with ‘lay adults’ (a recent euphemism describing seminarians!) supposedly springs from the admittedly narrow wording of Canon 1395 even as broadened by provisions of m.p. Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela. But while I would contest that pessimistic interpretation on other grounds, conceding the inability of Canon 1395 to reach these offenses simply prompts the question as to whether other norms might yet enable a formal penal canonical response against an “Uncle Ted” kind of prelate. I think some other norms might.
Besides the sweeping powers of a pope broadly articulated by Canon 331, etc., powers conferred by Christ such that even a seriously compromised pope could still wield them for the protection of the Church, of more specific relevance to us is, among other norms,Canon 1399, the final penal norm of Book VI of the 1983 Code. Note that, as McCarrick and some others are bishops and often cardinals, the broad papal criminal authority over such figures implicit in Canon 331 is expressly recited in Canon 1405.
To be sure, Canon 1399 must be approached with caution by ecclesiastical leaders but it exists precisely because the Legislator knows that not all grave offenses, though quite deserving of punishment, can be adequately ‘pre-visioned’ in the text of the law. Because the Church sometimes needs a demonstrable way to respond to heinous but unimaginable offenses (the sexual exploitation of seminarians by bishops would be an example) Canon 1399 authorizes a “just penalty” for the “external violation of a divine … law” when the gravity of the offense “demands punishment and there is an urgent need to … repair scandal.”
Now assuming, first, that dismissal from the clerical state (laicization) of an Uncle Ted-type predator, a cleric who apparently long used his ecclesiastical positions to procure sexual victims, would be considered a “just penalty” for such conduct, and assuming, second, that there is “an urgent need to repair scandal” in such cases, nevertheless a third, necessary question remains: whether “divine law” forbids the kind of clerical sexual misconduct alleged against McCarrick. I think it does. The argument runs thus:
Sacrilege is forbidden by divine law and includes “profaning or treating unworthily … persons … consecrated to God.” Catechism of the Catholic Church 2120. Clerics, and a fortiori bishops, as persons consecrated to God, are forbidden to engage in, inter alia, sexual misconduct under pain of committing not only an offense against victims but also a “sacrilege” against themselves, this, even if the sexual relations with another were consensual. Peters, “Canonical considerations”, esp. pp. 157-167 and numerous sources cited therein. Note, moreover, that obligations arising from divine law, such as a cleric’s obligation to avoid sacrilege against his own person, are not subject to prescription. See, e.g., Canon 199.
Now, bringing these sacramental, moral, and ecclesiological values together—values represented with more or less explicitness in canon law (but which, we see now, are worthy of much better explicitation in the Code)—I think, in brief, that the Roman Pontiff could conclude that: upon achieving moral certainty regarding sacrilege committed by a cleric (let alone a bishop) against his own person, he (the pope) could punish such an offender with penalties up to and including dismissal from the clerical state regardless of when the sexual predation or exploitation was committed and irrespective of when it was discovered. The pope could, but need not, use a dicastery such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to investigate and assess the evidence in these cases but final judgment in the case remains with him. A pope’s use of, or failure to use, such canonical measures as seem to be available to him would be subject to the judgment of history (and of God), of course, but not to that of any other power.
I am not aware that this ‘clerical sacrilege’ theory for the prosecution of prelates for sexual misconduct under Canons 331 and 1399 has been widely explored yet and, even as I reflect on it, I can anticipate some objections to the theory along with, I hasten to add, some responses to those objections, although obviously a fuller discussion of those matters goes beyond what can be attempted here. For now, I merely raise this theory of the case for consideration by those who might be called upon to deal with current and future complaints against bishops and, in the meantime, want to suggest to the faithful that, while penal canon law certainly stands in need of several reforms, it might not be, even now, quite as powerless to confront evil in episcopal ranks as some might fear.
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Edward N. Peters, JD, JCD has doctoral degrees in canon and common law. Since 2005 he has held the Edmund Cardinal Szoka Chair at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. His personal blog on canon law issues in the news may be accessed at the "In the Light of the Law" site.
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Mr. Peters,
Canon law isn’t infallible. You are inferring that Christ not only willed the Papacy but that He willed that each and all of them never be removed by other members of the Church. I suspect we will be getting a number of Julius III type Popes in the future…active gay Popes with a partner who darken the light of the Church as it should shine to the nations. Read yesterday’s America magazine…they are numerous and brash. And you’re saying Christ wills that darkening which happened in the 10th, 11th, 15th etc. centuries. Something is missing in that view. It smacks of idolatry of the papal office. Canons can be changed. Total immunity from losing the office for Popes should be.
yes, liberals think that 2+2=5, and that a colored faced piece on the rubics cube ‘is right’ when it is in the correct place/corner though not in the correct orientation (id est, all the colored faces are not on their proper side…); and so you correctly speak of God’s Will but do not orient It correctly to It’s correct orientation – viz., is the correct orientation to His Direct Will or Permissive Will…? You mentioned Infallibilty but have this piece of your argument cube both in the wrong place/corner and wrong orientation… Try a faithful magazine to discover these two obvious liberal wrongs and what the Truth is ‘today, yesterday and forever’…or maybe the Catechism, Sacred Scripture, Sacred Magisterial-Holy Spirit Teaching, et al… Blessings and mercies in JMJ
I find your post unclear in the extreme. And thanks for the condescension but I read the entire bible and the entire Summa T….how ’bout you? Did you read them?How can the Church be a light to the nations when it structurally is set up to be a flickering light periodically thanks to deficient Popes.
Fr. Thomas J. Hennigan
Pope Benedict had a draft of a reform of Canon Law on sanctions tending to make them more specific distributed to the Bishops’ Conferences, and I assume faculties of Canon Law, but nothing came of that. Such changes in Canon Law are possible, but they would need to be well studies and made after wide consultation. Pope Francis changed canons regarding nullity with almost no consultation and taking into account mostly the situation he experienced in Buenos Aires. We don’t need another such quickie and deficient reform of Canon Law. The so-called Dallas Charter is bad law and should never have been approved by Rome. Its application by bishops has brought another dark side to the sexual abuse crisis which is the large number of innocent priests who have been falsely accused and jailed or laicized, deprived of the right to due process and even defamed by their bishops, havinge had their names published on diocesan websites, and in such things as the recent PA AG report which contains much calumny against dead and living priests. Zero tolerance and automatic expulsion from the priesthood is a bad idea and has brought about several theological and canonical problems. The bishps at Dallas bought into the notion that the problem was “pedophilia” when two years later the John Jay report clearly shows that the problem is homosexuality. I understand that McCarrick had an important role in the formulation of the so-called Dallas Charter, which is basically knee-jerk legislation, and obviously, the likes of him had an interest in the proclamation of the pedophilia narrative. Besides, the bishops didn’t apply the same standards to themselves as to their priests. One of the negative rotten fruits of all of this is the loss of confidence of priests in their bishops. Does the Church still believe in the power of grace and the possibility of true conversion? Does it still believe in the doctrine of the priestly character? Does the Church still believe that truth and justice have to be established? I have been told that if a priest is called into the Chancery, besides getting a chill down his spine wondering what they are going to accuse him of, is advised to go there only in the company of a civil and canon lawyer. How can this be squared up with Vatican II’s teaching on the relationship between priests and their bishops? Now, having lost the confidence of their priests, bishops are up the creek even more, because the laity are furious with them due to their silence about McCarrick’s shenanigans and about their complete lack of oversight or supervision (the term bishop comes from the Greek episkopos, meaning supervision or oversight) of their own seminaries and having appointed sexually active priests as formators and professors in them, and thus having lost many good men who could have become fine priests.
Another thing that may be needed is to break up huge diocese like LA, NY, Chicago and others. LA has 4 million Catholics, and I know that the Archbishop is just not capable of controlling what is going on there. In Ireland, there are 28 dioceses for 4.5 million Catholics, although Dublin could also be broken up. That could involve getting rid of Auxiliary Bishops. What sense does having several pastoral regions under an Auxiliary instead of creating a new diocese which the bishop could truly govern himself? The amount of bureaucracy, which has increased enormously since Vatican II should be cut back, and the Bishops’ Conference brought down to size, or radically reformed so that each bishop would truly fulfill his duties and not depend so much on Rome and the Bishops’ Conference to do what he should be doing.
Peter D
Surely same sex acts are forbidden by the church and always have been, as are all sexual acts against children or the vulnerable. Don’t these, in and of themselves, render the person unfit for ministry?
It should do but now you get protected and promoted for sexual deviancy.
One size doesn’t fit all. Suppose you have a priest who after say 40 years of fruitful ministry was accused of some act and there is only one accusation and this is actually impossible to prove and should have prescribed. If it can be proven, then some canonical penalties could be imposed, but not laicization, for reasons I have mentioned in another comment. In the U.S. there is a great incentive to make false accusations as the bishops have handed out astronomical sums of money, advised by lawyers and insurance companies. In the case of Public School teachers and employees, where sexual abuse of minors is maybe 10 times worse than among Catholic clergy, the victim has only 90 days to report the matter. Why doesn’t the PA AG investigate them? Because the powerful teachers’ unions don’t allow it?
I am not minimizing sins against the 6th commandment by clergy, but we have be base our judgment on truth and justice, which is mostly lacking in the press. Obviously, there are cases which merit laicization, those. However, what does a priest do once he has been laicized? He is not likely to be hired and will probably be under great stress and supposing that he has a tendency towards Same-Sex Attraction, which can be minimized by means or proper therapy and spiritual formation, being kicked out only makes him more likely to fall into more sins. SSA is not a black and white affair. It is more of a spectrum. In any case, do you know how many “credible” accusations of sexual abuse of minors there have been in 2015 among the 39,000 U.S. priests? FIVE, and similar numbers. The problem is priests who have assumed the gay identity and lifestyle. Those with SSA who don’t have this deep-seated homosexual identity can be helped to live a chaste life with the combination of therapy, spiritual life and friendship and priestly fraternity. However, these should not be accepted in a seminary until they have overcome that problem, and much less ordained. If they are already priests, then the Church should not boot them out, but help them to live their commitment to celibacy, as it has to do with heterosexual priests and lay Catholics who do feel SSA but with the grace of God live chastity.
Another fact is that the vast majority of the cases are not anal penetration, but other acts of lesser gravity, although of course not allowed for celibate priests.
Civil laws are made to apply to all cases, but Canon Law is more open to dispensations and equitative application to each case, as the purpose of the Church is the salvation of souls and of its sanctions, the conversion of the sinner.
Fr Peter Morello
Unfortunately Fr Thomas the track record of men who engage in sex with other men is persistence. There may be instances in what you propose when a priest can be rehabilitated but the risk and chance of positive outcome are great for the former [risk and recurrence] quite narrow for the latter. The crux of our dilemma is simply put homosexual behavior. Although it may seem too severe to you and others there can be no compromise. Otherwise we fall back into the previous pattern, the trap of identifying mitigating factors and ensuring continuance of what must be purged from the Church. Pope John Paul II initially decided no one with same sex attraction can be admitted to the seminary. Under pressure he mitigated that allowing men with actually committed homosexual acts if they were three years past. That’s utter nonsense. The salvation of souls is too important than finding ways to admit homosexuals.
Of course they, and even more so since a priest is supposed to be a model of holiness.
Our priest, in a Q&A after a session on “Building Bridges” to the LGBT community, using Fr. James Martin’s book as a guide, asserted that sex outside of marriage in a “committed, loving relationship” is “chastity”.
So not all believe Catholic doctrine anymore, apparently including many priests, bishops and cardinals, unfortunately.
“Uncle Ted Type Predators” include by complicity “Uncle Ted Type Enablers”. That expands the sentence of sacrilege. Your fellow canon lawyer Msgr Gerald Murray said on Arroyo’s World-Over that if the Pontiff demands the Uncle Ted types resign then he should be held to his own standard. That is voluntary of course [the Pontiff is again discussing his resignation due to age and lack of competence]. The canonical sentence of sacrilege if argued will likely be met by argument regarding conscience and culpability in today’s progressive climate. Although the original idea presented in this article if feasible should pursued. Any reasonable argument should be made to pressure the offenders.
A pope, who prior to his election, would deny an element of The Deposit of Faith, that which has been handed down from Christ, through Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and The Teaching of The Magisterium, and thus by denying an element of The Deposit of Faith, and the fact that “It is not possible to have Sacramental Communion without Ecclesial Communion”, due to The Unity of The Holy Ghost (Filioque), would err in regards to Faith and Morals, and expose himself to be anti Christ, and thus anti Peter.
Priort to being elected pope, Francis condoned same-sex sexual relationships that he defind as “private, do not include children, and are not called marriage”, and thus, according to Francis, “there is neither a third party, nor is society affected”.
Catholics recognize Our Call To Holiness, is a Call to be chaste in our thoughts, in our words, and in our deeds, as we are Called to be “Temples of The Holy Ghost”. Private morality and public morality cannot serve in opposition to one another, due to The Unity of The Holy Ghost.
Those who deny The Sanctity of the marital act within The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, deny that God Is The Author of Love, of Life, and of Marriage, and thus by denying The Most Holy And Undivided Blessd Trinity, are apostates.
An apostate cannot serve In Persona Christi.
Thomistica
Thanks for this analysis!
It sounds as if canon law needs reform to make a Pope liable to strong penalties for certain classes of action, including cover-ups. I make no claim about the culpability of the current Pope, pending further (necessary investigation). Perhaps canonical penalties on a Pope can serve as a future deterrent for any situations that can create incalculable damage in the Church. Plus underscore that Popes can be culpable, imperfect human beings.
That said, I wonder what can or should be done in civil law. Here are some questions that I think are quite relevant, independently of what canon law has to say. There is very little public discussion as yet about how to answer these questions.
**If** Vigano’s allegations about the Pope prove true, are there *any* provisions in Vatican City State civil law (even if just by reasonable inference from the spirit of extant its laws), to handle cover-ups of abuse — by a Pope or high-ranking Vatician officials?
At first glance, one might think: of course, civil procedures would naturally not be possible in the current formulation of the relevant laws in these places. So why even ask? On the other hand, the Wikipedia article about the law of Vatican City suggests that the issue might be much more complex than it might seem at first.
If there are no ways to penalize a Pope or high-level clerics in Vatican City civil law, does this not suggest a need to change the law? Obviously, there are dangers in inviting secular officials outside Vatican City to intervene. The point though is that Vatican City civil law should be changed, so that penalties in civil law are handled internally and with full, condign justice.
Civil law handling of Papal wrongdoing–not to mention high level clerics–may challenge the presumption of immunity that likely pervades the highest levels of the hierarchy. They have to be held to the same standards as the rank and file priest, on pains of a sort of super-clericalism.
These questions pertain to civil law, which is distinct from canon law. But perhaps there is need of a change in canon law, to faciliate or promote adjudication in Vatican City civil law of hierarchical abuses as a supplement to penalties in canon law?
5. What historical discussions have there been about a Pope being subject to civil law?
I’m way out of my depth on all these issues and hope authors, who have the requisite expertise, can comment.
Certainly these issues are going to become quite salient in the press in coming days, depending on what further (again, necessary) objective investigation brings up. So let’s get the discussion started.
I think the Church will have the key to this. Even if civil law prosecuted Uncle Ted or even the Pope their judgements would not impact the powers of either Uncle Ted or the Pope in the life of the Church.
For the Church to overcome hypocrisy and scandal it has, in the first instance take care of the situation at that order of ecclesial powers. If that judgement means civil authorities then that is part of the whole judgement.
My essential point is that only the Church can remove their ecclesial powers.
The ecclesial powers of the Pope and high level clerics must indeed be removed when they are involved in covering up and facilitating abuse. But this can’t be done without there also being civil penalties. To use your phrase, there must be a whole judgment.
There has to be consistency in applying natural justice to any member of the Church, regardless their status. The Church already is now playing an active role in facilitating civil procedures against rank and file priests and recognizes that the latter have to be penalized in civil law.
But the inconsistency of treatment in civil law thus far between the higher ups on the one hand, and rank and file priests they oversee on the other, is breathtaking. The higher ups rightfully hand over priests to civil authorities. But mechanisms within the Church need developing so that the higher ups themselves are not immune to the same penalties. Arguably the culpability of the higher ups is even greater than those of the rank and file, since the former have played such an important role in perpetuating the atmosphere of systematic cover-ups. They have maintained this sick status quo.
There is also a matter here of restoring confidence in the Church. Path forward the Church has to reestablish its credibility, and therefore its countercultural efficacy. by showing the seriousness of its commitment to handling the problem of abuse. The best way to do this by showing the world that it can develop a really comprehensive and well-designed system of laws and procedures.
Reform of the Church can only come–and endure–if canon law defines clear and unambiguous procedures for removal of ecclesial powers–including those of a wayward Pope– but also for facilitating civil procedures against high level clerics. The civil procedures could be those of Vatican City or guidelines for cooperation with civil authorities in other countries.
Typo in my posting, incdentially; sentence should read:
At first glance, one might think: of course, civil procedures would naturally not be possible in the current formulation of the relevant laws in Vatican City.
Here’s the thing: SOMEONE has the final word. Maybe you think it should be some sort of vote of the laity, like the voters in the United States; maybe you think it should be some sort of panel of experts chosen by … somebody? like the U.S. Supreme Court. I think you will see the problem right away. There is no guarantee that voters will make wise or virtuous decisions, whether we are talking about the American public or the Catholic laity; nor there is there any guarantee that an aristocracy, whether of justices or of Catholic lay experts, will make wise or virtuous decisions.
“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.” — Hilaire Belloc
Because knavish imbecility is a consequence of the Fall, it is inescapable.
Yes, you are out of your depth. There is an ancient principle which goes “Prima Sedes non iudicatur”, The Roman See cannot be judged by anyone, and thus the Pope. It was always considered in the early centuries to be the court of final appeal, and the idea that the Roman See would promote heresy was not contemplated. Also, you confuse the purpose of civil law and canon law. The Church’s whole purpose is the salvation of souls, even the most heinous offenders. Civil law is about justice in a society and the common good.
There is no tribunal of any sort that can judge a sitting pope. If PF stonewalls and refuses to resign in spite of overwhelming evidence that he has covered Uncle Ted’s and other sexual abuse, no one can force him out. All that could be done is to try to convince him to resign for the good of the Church, but if he refuses, then nothing can be done. According to theologians like St. Robert Bellarmine and Francisco Suárez, if he fell into formal heresy, which is not the present case, he would automatically exclude himself from the office of Pope. Argentinians, who probably know him better, think that he will never resign and hold out to the bitter end. Of course, he could resign and give failing health as the motive, which nobody would believe. I don’t expect him to declare that he is resigning due to covering up the Uncle Ted case.
Because it is an ancient principle, does not mean it is subject to revision or challenge. That was one point of the posting, which I thought was clear.
Also, I’m aware of the distinction between canon and civil law. My comments do not confuse them, but suggest their reconceptualization. Thought this was clear.
The following document suggests that internal norms for the governance of the Church can include reference to civil law. See there reference here to “Essential Norms”: http://www.usccb.org/upload/FAQs-canonical-process-sexual-abuse.pdf
“According to the Essential Norms, which constitute law on sexual abuse
of minors for the dioceses of the United States, the investigation should be conducted promptly and objectively. The Essential Norms also require the bishop to follow all civil reporting laws when the allegation concerns the sexual abuse of minors. Church officials are also to cooperate with civil authorities in their own investigations.”
It would be interesting to hear a lot more about the canonical status of these “Essential Norms”. Presumably there are provisions for their enunciation in the 1983 canon law, by inference? If they are not there even implicitly, might some future revision of canon law enunciate or crystallize a similar norm explicitly for all regions of the world? This might help restore the Church’s credibility, plus help remedy a very old problem in the Church.
I’m not so sure that the longstanding distinction between canon law and civil law is, or should be, as neat as Fr. Hennigan suggests. Why not admit areas of interaction between these two types of law, while recognizing their superarching distinction? It might be worthwhile to do an audit of those elements of canon law that implicitly reference and interact with other types of law (e.g., civil, but also natural), to understand the complexity of their relationships and how they are not necessarily siloed off.
P.S. typo in above, should read: just because *canon* law does not provide for deposition of a Pope for (say) a cover-up–not to mention any number of other possible moral offenses–does not mean that canon law should not subject to revision in this respect. I wonder whether the lack of a provision for a deposition in this case doesn’t feed into a sort of super-clericalism that may be one contributing factor in the current crisis. To this, I would add that very little appears by way of what civil procedures are appropriate against a pontiff who is engaged in cover-ups. If that is what is happening in this pontificate. (The info at this point underdetermines any possible conclusion now.)
Exactly. It may be ancient but that means zilch if such a principle prevents the Church to be a light to all men. We are a flickering light to some…not a light at all to many potential converts if they fear leaving their child in a penance room with a priest. Since we have no idea…who is good or who is bad ourselves.
Luther was 9 years old when Pope Alexander VI began his papacy and 20 years old when that papacy ended…which was the fornicating Cardinal/ Pope with 7 children…one with a married 25 year old…thus add in adultery. From the time Luther was 20 til he was 30, Pope Julius II was Pope and he had three daugthers while Cardinal. That behaviour plus Julius III the gay Pope (1550-1555) gave northern Europe even more reasons to leave the Church….plus a Japanese official toured Europe in the early 17th century and probably went back to Japan with a lot of such unseemly blocks to conversion…or blocks to even seeing the essence of Christianity.
Talk about legal justice? Cannon law is rigged! The real disgrace may be that civil law is not involved in the process. As for heads of state, like Trump and any Pope, no one should be above the law!
It’s certainly good to hear that “legal justice”, as you call it, is not rigged! I wonder if that applies in every country, or just the good ol’ U.S. of A.?
No, canon law is inadequate for this situation but not rigged. There is a possible way forward within Canon Law…that is the point of his writing…(stand corrected if I am being overly optimistic!).
“It’s pouring rain so I can’t have a picnic.”
Morgan’s reply: “Trump! Ordain women!”
“A train derailed.”
“Drat, I just stubbed my toe.”
“The eruption of Krakatoa caused considerable destruction.”
Thank you Mr Peters. I studied Canon Law only a tiny bit but loved it. When I read you article I did so several times and quickly found myself reading between the lines. I say this so you can correct me if I am wrong.
I found Canon 1399 ‘the breach in the wall’ in which case there was a certain freedom instantiated by the legislators to find a way forward to address the unforeseen.
It is certainly true that the First See can be judged by no one. But the First See is under Christ. Christ abhors hypocrisy and scandal which threatens the capacity of the universal Church to teach.
I pray and hope that those in a position to formulate a sound response to the hypocrisy and scandal which threatens to utterly undo the Church will not find they have no way forward for the sake of Christ and His Church. Perhaps you have had something to add in this way, I do not know.
At this time true Canonists are our best hope for a solid response.
So even if the bishop of Rome were a serial killer, found guilty by the civil courts, and imprisoned, there would be no way or rationale to disenthrone him or remove him from office? Does that even sound reasonable?
Very good question. Sol I’m convinced that if such were to occur the Church would [at least must] act as a body and remove him. The Eternal law and its requisite Justice rises above any canonical restriction.
Yes! It is indeed unreasonable, if there is not a clear mechanism for deposing a wayward Pope. (Again, innocent until proven guilty; the available information undetermines judgment about the current Pope–at this point, though there are many reasons for concern.)
A commission of sound canon lawyers needs to work with civil lawyers to craft new laws, both canon law and their relationship to civil law–including (or particularly) Vatican City civil law, as it pertains to a Pope and his inner circle. There need to be well defined procedures for facilitating penalties within civil law, including those of Vatican City.
**We certainly don’t need media speculation about whether, e.g., Wuerl can be whisked to the City to evade prosecution!**
The mere announcement of the forming of such a commission could do tremendous good to control damage in this environment. It will show that the institutional Church is handling the matter. Which it is not, at this moment, because it does not have the resources to do so. Incalculable damage has now been done.
I would also argue too for a full scale revision of canon law to make it more transparent. It is so much the purview of experts, a real specialty. We need that specialty, of course, but it seems that every time someone needs to interpret law (at least on many issues), a layperson will easily be bewildered. Constitutional law is similarly murky in many respects and full of ambiguity and imprecisions, but at least a layperson can get a sense of what’s going on.
Nigelteapot
How did it work out for England when the English government removed protestant heretics from the Church? I’ll tell you, the government decided it didn’t want Catholics either, and hundreds of years of mass murder and confiscation of Church property ensued.
That is what you get when you put the government over and above the Church.
Your comments would not apply if the Church itself played a role in defining the civil law of the Vatican City and making it suitably punitive for the crimes incurred.
Also, I think almost everyone agrees that handing over abusers to civil authorities is a good idea, e.g. as it has happened in the U.S. . Do you disagree? I hope not.
Yes, there can be problems if a civil authority is incapable of meting out condign justice. But well-designed canon law applicable to handing over clerics to civil authorities could help this.
Julius III (1550-1555) was an active homosexual and madly in love with a young guy named Innocenzio whom he made cardinal at about 18 and granted him a salary of 12,000 ducates and a whole lot of properties. Before being pope, he also had him adopted by his brother so that he could be considered his nephew. Later, when the pope was dead, Innocenzio lead a dissolute life and murdered several people as well as other crimes. Bot are buried in the Church of Santa María sul Monte. Also in the Villa Giulia which he had built, there are some pornographic frescoes. Twenty years after his death Pope St. Pius V was elected, So, we cannot exclude that the mess the Church is in will not be followed by a period of great reform and a return to the authentic Tradition. It wouldn’t be the first time such a thing has happened. It may be that Archbishop Viganó is he first providential step towards such a major clean up in the Church and a return to authentic doctrine as well as a correction of some of the aspects of Vatican II.
The ‘clerical sacrilege’ theory for the prosecution of prelates for sexual misconduct under Canons 331 and 1399 expounded by Mr. Peters exposes brilliantly, if unintentionally, the woeful inadequacy of canon law to address the heinous sins and outrageous civil crimes and canonical delicts that Archbishop Vigano’s accusations identify. As several other commenters here have pointedly noted and as both Faith and reason confirm, a pope’s incumbency in office is intended solely and exclusively for the good of the Church and the salvation of souls, not as a license for a pope to promote consciously and deliberately sins that “cry out to heaven for vengeance” with lies, hypocrisy, terror, and repression. A pope who thus acts shows himself not as a Vicar of Christ but as a Judas and a devil. The root of such conduct can only be apostasy and heresy which do not require one to “dig, dig, dig” in order to bring them to the light of day. In the infallible words of Eternal Wisdom it is “by their fruits ye shall know them”. Where there is moral deviance, there is doctrinal deviance and where there is doctrinal deviance, there is moral deviance. One does not need to chase recondite and obscure will-o’-the-wisp canonical theories to see that a morally evil pope is also a doctrinally heretical pope who not only can but even more must be deposed and consigned to the outer darkness where he belongs.
So the Church’s own law is inadequate and the government isn’t? So you want to put the government above the Church?
Whey is the law inadequate according to you? Because you find the Pope disagreeable and are angry you have no way to get rid of him because you personally disagree with him.
That is a dangerous position to take. By this same reasoning, who is to stop anyone who finds you disagreeable from getting rid of you? Or from getting rid of the Church when the government finds her disagreeable?
Please point out to me where I have said “the government above the Church” in my comment. It does not exist since I never wrote such a thing. Even a 1st grade elementary school student who is learning to read would immediately realize that. What I find disagreeable are your truculent and obtuse accusations that have no relation to anything I wrote, anything I sought to address, or anything that is germane to the subject at hand. I suggest that you take your medications and return to your anger-management session.
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Le postmodernisme des catholiques du XXIe siècle – Phileo-sophia
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Wildfires kill at least 74 near Athens, Greece
Updated on: July 24, 2018 / 9:15 AM / CBS/AP
At least 60 reported dead in Greece wildfires
RAFINA, Greece -- Wildfires raged through seaside resorts near the Greek capital of Athens, torching homes, cars and forests as they killed at least 74 people, authorities said Tuesday. Twenty-six of the dead were found huddled together in a compound, while a few bodies were recovered from the sea where they had fled to escape the flames and smoke.
Greece endures wildfires every summer but the fires that broke out Monday were the deadliest to hit the country since 2007. Fueled by gale-force winds, they trapped hundreds of people on beaches, roads and in homes.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared three days of national mourning. There were fears the death toll could rise even further, as there was no definitive count of how many people were missing.
Although the fires had largely abated by Tuesday afternoon, they were far from out.
Hundreds of firefighters aided by water-dropping aircraft were tackling the remaining areas in the two main blazes near the capital. One was northeast of Athens near Rafina, where most of the casualties appeared to have occurred, while the other was about 30 miles west of Athens, where some flare-ups were reported Tuesday afternoon.
Four other fires were burning in other parts of the country, including near Corinth and on the island of Crete.
Firefighters try to extinguish flames during a wildfire at the village of Kineta, near Athens, on July 24, 2018. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty
Coast guard boats patrolled the shores near fire-hit areas Tuesday after more than 700 people trapped by quick-moving fires had to be rescued from beaches or the sea, where six of the dead were found. Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said 88 people had been picked up from the sea by a military vessel.
Greek authorities urged the public to contact them if they are looking for loved ones but many people took to social media, posting pictures of those they were looking for and their last known location before the fires hit.
Fire service spokeswoman Stavroula Malliri announced Tuesday afternoon that the death toll had jumped from 50 to 74, with another 164 adults and 23 children injured by the fires. Of the adults, 71 remained hospitalized, 10 of them in serious condition, and 11 of the children were also still hospitalized.
Twenty-six of the dead were found at first light Tuesday huddled together in one compound near the sea in the community of Mati, near the port of Rafina. Red Cross rescuers who found them said they appeared to be families or groups of friends, as they were found hugging in groups of threes and fours.
With the flames whipped up by shifting gale-force winds, many tourists and residents fled toward the coastline. Some swam out to sea, braving rough water and strong currents to escape the ferocious flames and choking smoke. The speed of the fire's advance took many by surprise.
"It happened very fast. The fire was in the distance, then sparks from the fire reached us. Then the fire was all around us," resident Nikos Stavrinidis, who had gone with his wife to fix up his summer home for a visit by his daughter, told the Associated Press.
Stavrinidis, his wife and four friends swam out into the sea to escape the smoke, but they quickly became disoriented, losing sight of the shore and being swept out further by the wind and currents. Two of the group didn't survive.
"It is terrible to see the person next to you drowning and not being able to help him," Stavrinidis said, his voice breaking. The remaining survivors were picked up by a fishing boat with an Egyptian crew who jumped into the water to rescue them.
"Everything happened in seconds," said Andreaas Passios, who lives next to the compound in Mati where the 26 bodies were found. "I grabbed a beach towel. It saved my life. I soaked it, grabbed my wife and we ran to the sea."
Passios said he and his wife stayed by the sea for two hours. "It was unbelievable. Gas canisters were exploding. Burning pine cones were flying everywhere," he said.
A firefighter wears a flame resistant uniform as wildfire burns in the town of Rafina, Greece, on Monday, July 23, 2018. Costas Baltas/Reuters
When the flames died down, Spyros Hadjiandreou went searching for loved ones. "My niece and cousin were staying here on holiday. I don't know if they made it out," he said. "I don't know if they are OK. I haven't heard from them."
The two wildfires near Athens broke out in pine forests Monday during the hot, dry summer conditions. Fanned by gale-force winds, the flames spread rapidly into seaside towns.
"The police tried to direct us away from the fire, but we couldn't escape it," said Aleka Papariga, a former Greek Communist Party leader who lives near Rafina. "We got stuck in traffic and the flames were on top of us. We managed to find a small gap and we made it out."
Evangelos Bournous, the mayor of Rafina, blamed the strong winds. "We were unlucky," he said. "The wind changed and it came at us with such force that it razed the coastal area in minutes."
Rafina's dock became a makeshift hospital overnight as paramedics checked the survivors, some clad in only their bathing suits, who emerged from coast guard vessels and private boats. In all, 47 brush and forest fires broke out across Greece on Monday and early Tuesday, with most of them quickly extinguished, the fire department said.
To cope, Greece sought international help through the European Union. Spain was sending two firefighting aircraft while Cyprus was sending in 60 firefighters. Israel, Turkey and Bulgaria also offered assistance.
Heavy rain was forecast across southern Greece on Wednesday, with hopes they could help in the firefighting effort. Forest fires are common during Greece's hot, dry summers and temperatures recently reached up to 104 Fahrenheit.
In 2007, more than 60 people were killed when huge fires swept across the southern Peloponnese region.
First published on July 24, 2018 / 4:55 AM
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Is Bangalore bigger than Silicon Valley?
Some say the offshore-outsourcing capital is on the verge of overtaking Santa Clara County as the world's biggest technology hub.
Ed Frauenheim
July 29, 2004 11:32 AM PDT
Bangalore may be on the verge of overtaking Silicon Valley as the biggest IT employment region in the world on the back of the rise in offshore outsourcing, according to some estimates.
The high-tech Indian city, which is home to major Indian IT outsourcers, including Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Technologies, as well as many Western IT companies, now employs 160,000 people in the technology sector. IT accounts for 100,000 of these jobs, with the rest in business process outsourcing and call centers.
MK Shankaralinge Gowda, secretary of IT and biotechnology for the state government of Karnataka, said that the number of tech workers in the region will exceed 200,000 between 2004 and 2005, as IT and business process outsourcing companies continue to rapidly hire workers.
Gowda claims that Bangalore has already overtaken Silicon Valley, but the latest figures from California's state government Employment Development Department (EDD) estimate the number of technology workers in Santa Clara County, which is the heart of Silicon Valley, at 175,100 as of June.
Silicon Valley is not in danger of losing its stature as a tech leader, and it can benefit from competition overseas, said Sam Haddad, chairman of the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame and a consulting professor at Stanford University. Haddad said the region is seeing new growth in areas such as nanotechnology. "Silicon Valley is already beginning to reinvent itself," Haddad said. "I am very optimistic."
The county employment figures, based on U.S. Department of Labor state and area estimates, put the total number of people employed in Santa Clara at 819,900. The 175,100 tech workers are employed in computer design and related services; telecommunications companies; Internet service providers and Web-search portals; data processing, hosting and related services; and computer and electronic product manufacturing.
The 175,100 figure may not capture all the tech-related jobs in Santa Clara County. Some technology positions may show up in other statistical categories, such as employment services. For example, employment services would include an employment agency that might send programmers to work on a temporary basis for other companies.
Ruth Kavanagh, peninsula labor market consultant for Santa Clara County at the EDD, said that despite the Bangalore claim, Silicon Valley is experiencing employment growth levels similar to those in boom years.
"In recent months, we have seen significant improvement in the jobs situation. Between May and June [including non-tech jobs], we had growth rates very similar to those in 1998 and 1999. The county is gradually gaining back some of the thousands of jobs lost in the last couple of years," she said.
Kavanagh suggested the impact of offshoring may be overstated, referring to a separate report by the nonprofit Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network earlier this month.
The shift of work to lower-wage countries is just one of a number of global forces affecting job creation and loss in the region, according to that organization's report.
Andy McCue of Silicon.com reported from London.
Discuss: Is Bangalore bigger than Silicon Valley?
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Driver gets lucky escape after crashing into a cactus
Wednesday 10th July 2019 22:00 BST
Incredibly the victim, who was not named, escaped with just minor injuries after hitting the cactus which smashed through the windscreen of his car.
Police in Arizona were called to a car crash on the outskirts of Tucson on Wednesday and found the huge trunk smashed through the front window.
Pima County sheriff's Deputy Daniel Jelineo said the black sports car hit the succulent while performing a U-turn, before ending up on the other side of the road.
The cactus slammed into the glass, ending up partially inside the car and over the bonnet.
In a statement on Facebook, the officers wrote: "Once on scene they located the vehicle with a large section of cactus through the windshield.
"The driver, who appeared disoriented, sustained minor injuries, and was later detained after deputies observed possible signs and symptoms associated with impairment.
"This incident is in the early stages of the investigation."
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Evaluating Neurodegeneration Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Some New Ideas
Cohen Veterans Bioscience > Webinar Archives > Evaluating Neurodegeneration Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Some New Ideas
Trust but verify: developing (+)-opioids as medications to treat SUDs
The Tau Biology Project
Posted on February 28, 2017 in Webinar Archives
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017, at 12pm noon ET
Mony J. de Leon, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine
Silvia Fossati, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University School of Medicine
This webinar discussed the pathology of TBI and highlighted similarities and differences to Alzheimer’s Disease. The characterization of these changes were from the perspectives of neuropathology, neuroimaging, and fluid biomarkers. Neuroimaging has gained considerable value as it has evolved, from providing descriptive evidence of damage to more specific characterization of types of lesions. We reviewed selected mechanisms by which TBI can evolve into neurodegeneration, including tauopathy, amyloidosis, and cerebrovascular dysfunction, and pointed out possible opportunities for intervention. Recent work at NYU has started characterizing the glymphatic clearance system in humans, and preliminary data highlighting this work in Alzheimer’s disease and its potential in TBI were discussed.
About Mony de Leon, PhD
Dr. Mony de Leon completed his doctoral work in Gerontology at Columbia University in 1980 followed by 2 years of NIH post-doctoral training in computed tomography (CT) brain imaging at NYU (Psychiatry and Radiology) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. de Leon’s scientific goals have consistently been to develop and improve early diagnostic accuracy and mechanistic understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). He has published over 400 papers and sits on many national and international scientific review boards.
Among his early work, he published the first papers describing:
Cortical atrophy in AD using CT scans (1979)
Glucose metabolism reductions in AD (1980)
Universal involvement of the hippocampus in AD (1988)
How hippocampal atrophy predicts future dementia (1989)
How glucose metabolism reductions predict cognitive decline in aging (2001)
How hippocampal atrophy predicts cognitive decline in aging (2003)
How CSF clearance, measured with PET, predicts amyloid and tau pathology (2017)
Dr. de Leon has received many honors and awards, including the “World’s Pioneer in Brain Imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease” in 2006 at the 100th anniversary celebration of Alois Alzheimer’s first publication, the 2006 Special Award from the Alzheimer’s Association Imaging Consortium for “Imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease.” The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference created the annual de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging in 2010, and Dr. de Leon was honored as a pioneer in the 40-year development of FDG-PET at the Society for Nuclear Medicine in 2016.
About Silvia Fossati, PhD
Dr. Silvia Fossati is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the NYU School of Medicine, and the Director of the Biofluid Biomarkers Core at the Cohen Veteran Center at NYU Langone Medical Center. She is strongly committed to the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. She obtained a PhD in molecular and cellular neuropharmacology at the University of Florence, Italy. She joined the NYU School of Medicine as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2007 to conduct research focused on understanding signaling pathways that trigger cell toxicity and cellular stress responses in Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy, with a focus on mitochondrial dysfunction, deregulation of apoptotic factors, neuroinflammation, and stress of cells composing the neurovascular unit. In 2012, Silvia was promoted to a faculty position in the Pathology Department at NYU School of Medicine, and subsequently received an appointment in 2015 as Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, thereby establishing her independent laboratory. As Director of the Biofluid Biomarker Core of the NYU Cohen Veteran Center, she introduced novel ultrasensitive biomarker discovery technologies for the study of TBI and PTSD in military veterans. She has receiving multiple awards, including the Alzheimer’s Association New Investigator Research Grant, the Blas Frangione Foundation New Investigator Grant, the prestigious American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant, and, recently, the Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience. Silvia is a known expert in the molecular mechanisms of cell death/stress underlying multiple causes of brain diseases, including amyloidosis, tauopathy, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, TBI, and PTSD.
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The victims, who believed their investments were used to buy securities, have been paid almost $6 billion by Picard since he started distributing the recovered funds. The last distribution, about $349 million, was in May.
The fraud, which prosecutors said started as early as the 1960s, involved millions of pages of fake trades and account statements for thousands of customers. Picard used hundreds of professionals to unravel the swindle and determine who held valid claims and who needed to be sued, court records show.
“Our investigations, dissection and reconstruction of the fraud have proven invaluable in identifying how the Madoff Ponzi scheme began and lasted as long as it did,” David Sheehan, the trustee’s lead lawyer, said in an email.
Picard, of Baker & Hostetler in New York, recouped the cash through hundreds of lawsuits and settlements with Madoff’s customers and banks that benefited from the scheme, even if they weren’t aware of it.
Many of the cases have triggered appeals, some to the U.S. Supreme Court. While $6 billion has been paid out, billions more is being held in reserve until lawsuits are resolved that will determine who gets what.
The legal team passed the $10 billion recovery mark on Nov. 17 after reaching a deal with two funds that funneled money to the fraud, Primeo Fund and Herald Fund, both based in the Cayman Islands. The funds agreed to pay a total of $497 million to end lawsuits over their withdrawals from Madoff’s firm.
The trustee has also sued dozens of individual customers who withdrew more money from their accounts than they deposited, to repay net losers. Madoff’s lifelong friend, Edward Blumenfeld, a New York real estate developer who built a fortune by investing with the con man for decades, agreed to a settlement worth $62 million to end the lawsuit against him – a deal approved by the court Nov. 18.
The trustee has said his goal is to return 100 percent or more of the $17.5 billion in lost principal.
“It’s obscene,” Helen Davis Chaitman, a lawyer representing some victims in the case, said in an email about the fees. Chaitman, who has frequently challenged Picard in court, said federal prosecutors recovered most of the cash for victims and Picard should pay out more than just principal.
A federal jury in Manhattan in March found five former Madoff employees guilty of aiding his fraud for decades by creating fake trading documents and account statements.
They were accused of targeting thousands of retirees, wealthy investors, charities and even family and friends, and getting rich in the process. The five ex-workers are scheduled to be sentenced next month.
Madoff, 76, pleaded guilty to fraud in 2009 and is serving a 150-year sentence at a federal prison in Butner. At least seven other people have pleaded guilty to roles in the scheme, including his brother, Peter Madoff, who is serving a 10-year term.
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Driver killed in crash late Tuesday in west Charlotte near Remount Road
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America's Leading Design Cities
New York and L.A. aren't the only epicenters for graphic designers, architects, and fashion designers.
From the enduring consumer electronics influence of Apple all the way to the rise of small-scale 3D printing businesses, design skills now sit at the core of new and old U.S. industries alike.
Design is also a key piece of the creative economy, providing a way for artistically inclined workers to make a living. Some design fields like architecture require an advanced degree, while others can be entered through apprenticeships or other less traditional schooling paths.
But where are the key clusters and geographic centers of design in America? Which are its leading design cities?
To get at this, I worked with occupational data provided to me by the labor market data and research firm EMSI to study the design sector nationally and identify its major geographic clusters and locations. Our analysis focused on the key occupations that make up the design sector: architects and landscape architects; commercial and industrial designers, graphic designers, fashion designers, interior designers, set and exhibit designers, and others. We looked at both designers employed in established companies and freelancers who are self-employed.
Let’s start with some key facts on the scope and extent of the design industry nationally.
Overall, roughly 625,000 Americans were employed in design occupations in 2013. This marks a slight decline—of about 15,000—since 2009, the trough of the recession and the baseline year in EMSI’s analysis.
Of these, about 70 percent are employed by firms and other businesses, while 175,000 are self-employed. The number of self-employed designers has contracted 6 percent since 2009. The number of traditionally employed design workers has also fallen by about 1 percent.
Employed designers earn a median hourly wage of $24.55, well above EMSI’s threshold for high-wage jobs, while self-employed designers earn a slightly lower median hourly wage of $18.79, putting these in the ranks of mid-wage jobs.
Graphic design is the biggest sector of all design workers by far. There were nearly 200,000 traditionally employed graphic designers and almost another 75,000 self-employed graphic designers in 2013.
Architecture is the second-largest sector, with 85,000 working in firms and another 23,000 self-employed. There were another 21,000 landscape designers, about a quarter of whom were self-employed.
Interior design, which can require fewer years of training and formal education before professional licensing, is an occupational group that is, interestingly, about evenly split between self-employed and traditionally employed workers—about 40,000 of each in 2013.
To zero in on the major cities and clusters of design, EMSI provided data on the number, median wages and, importantly, relative regional share of designers for the largest 51 U.S. metros (those with more than a million people). This last statistic is determined using the standard metric for assessing regional concentrations, the location quotient, which in this case measures the concentration of a given occupation in a metro area to its concentration across the country. An LQ of 1 means the occupation’s share matches the national average, an LQ of 2 is double that, and so on. This enables us to identify which metros specialize in design overall and certain design sectors specifically.
Zara Matheson
The map above shows the major clusters of employed designers overall across the United States. While it is commonly assumed that the media and fashion mecca of New York or the movie capital of Los Angeles have the leading design clusters, they actually came in second and third, respectively. San Francisco is the nation’s leading design capital, with an LQ of 1.8.
New York was second with an LQ of 1.6, and L.A. was third with an LQ of 1.6. The rest of the top locations for employed designers are a mix of cities with strong knowledge economies: Minneapolis, Seattle, Denver, Portland, Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City. Just below the top ten were Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Baltimore, and Detroit—the latter few postindustrial cities showing signs of creative rebirth.
And though these are not particularly recession-proof industries, in nearly all of these metros the numbers of employed designers stayed relatively stable or even grew slightly between 2009 and 2013. Washington, D.C., was the only metro among the top 10 that saw its number of employed designers decline over this period.
But, like many creative industries, a relatively large share of designers are self-employed. The map below charts the geography of these self-employed designers.
Here, New York and Los Angeles slip even further—behind the tech hubs of San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Austin.
Digging a little deeper, several trends emerged when we focused in on specific design sectors.
Graphic design, by far the biggest segment of designers, had a far less coastal orientation than you might expect. The Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul tops the list of regular employed designers with an LQ of 1.7, perhaps driven by its long-standing strength as a center for marketing and advertising. San Francisco was second and New York third, followed by Chicago, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Jose, and Kansas City, home to Hallmark.
San Francisco again tops the list for self-employed graphic designers, and leading tech hubs dominate the rest of the list as well. Nearby Silicon Valley’s San Jose is second, followed by New York, Austin, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and Boston. Graphic design is an occupation that has changed a lot over the last decades, as the rise of tech and internet companies creates new demand, and workers have begun to gravitate towards these places.
Architects are the highest paid group of designers, and they are also generally the most highly educated. Architects employed in firms earned median hourly wages of $35.30, while their self-employed counterparts earned $22.90. But, when looking in terms of concentration, the nation’s leading clusters for architects may not be what you think. Seattle tops the list for regular employed architects with an LQ of 2.4, followed by San Francisco. Going down the list, Denver, Washington, Boston, Raleigh, Portland, and St. Louis all had higher LQs for employee architects than New York, which came in tenth, and Los Angeles, which came in twentieth.
The map above focuses on commercial and industrial designers, an occupation that has a strikingly different geography from other design clusters. Employed commercial and industrial designers, who help design manufactured products like cars, toys, and appliances, and whose numbers total nearly 30,000, are largely centered in the old industrial Midwest. Detroit is first with an LQ of 5.7, and the number of these designers in the city actually grew 29 percent between 2009 and 2013. Cincinnati, Providence, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis round out the top five, while Los Angeles is seventh, San Francisco is ninth, and New York doesn’t even crack the top twenty.
The one area of design where New York and L.A. continue to dominate is, not surprisingly, fashion. New York leads with a whopping LQ of 6.2, followed by L.A., which had an LQ of 4.8. There was also a sizeable concentration in Columbus, Ohio, the site of the headquarters for DSW; L Brands (formerly The Limited), which owns Victoria’s Secret; and former Limited property Abercrombie & Fitch. Other sizeable concentrations existed in San Francisco and, somewhat unexpectedly, Milwaukee.
Design is clearly very concentrated geographically. But its key spikes are a bit surprising, especially when we look at the relative concentrations of occupations in different metros. While New York and L.A. lead in fashion, design more broadly is concentrated in tech hubs like the Bay Area, Austin, and Seattle. And industrial centers like Detroit and Cincinnati continue to have leading clusters of industrial and commercial designers, providing a key talent asset off of which these cities can build. The geography of design in America suggests that this industry is far from faddish, frivolous, or ephemeral. It is less about trendy designs and more about clusters of technology and end-user industries. This combination of design, high tech, and industry will be a key asset in these places’ overall economic and regional competitiveness going forward.
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Richard Florida is a co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, and a distinguished fellow at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate and visiting fellow at Florida International University.
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Browse: Home » 2019 » March » 19 » LIABILITY OF McKENZIE FRIEND: EXCLUSIVE NOTE OF JUDGMENT:
LIABILITY OF McKENZIE FRIEND: EXCLUSIVE NOTE OF JUDGMENT:
March 19, 2019 · by gexall · in Avoiding negligence claims, Personal Injury, Professional negligence,
There was considerable discussion yesterday about the decision of HHJ Eady (sitting as a High Court judge) in Wright -v-Troy Lucas. My colleague Colm Nugent has been kind enough to send me a note of the judgment (where he appeared for the claimant),
COLM’S NOTE
“The underlying claim
This was a quasi-professional negligence matter arising out of the defendants’ handling of the claimant’s clinical negligence action.
Mr Wright had undergone operative treatment in 2004 by the Basildon & Thurrock Hospital NHS Trust (‘the Trust’). The resulting operative treatment left him with a massive cruciform scar across his entire abdomen and pieces of the ‘Bogota’ bag used in the surgery, still in his wound. These were later removed but the resulting operation left the claimant with a destroyed abdominal wall and this in turn led to difficulties in movement, walking and working.
Engagement of the defendants
The claimant approached the defendants at the very end of the primary limitation period in November 2008. The defendant operated as a one-person firm in Essex and styled themselves as ‘Troy Lucas – The Litigation Company’. The impression the firm sought to convey (for example in their headed paper) was that whey were regulated by the SRA, had a number of consultant and partners (including solicitors) to assist them and that they were skilled in the conduct of clinical negligence claims. All these assertions were determined to be false. The principal also claimed to be a member of APIL. The Judge found that the defendants sought to portray themselves as legal service professionals.
Despite denials, the court found that the defendants persuaded the claimant to sign a contract in December 2008, which provided for them to be paid £150 ph, with a minimum payment of £10,000 and the hourly rate would rise for £225 ph if the damages exceeded £225,000.
The contract was illegal in that it was for the provision of services that the defendants were not permitted to provide, it purported to be a CFA without giving notice to the Trust or it was a DBA at a time when DBA’s (outside of employment litigation) were not lawful.
The defendants thereafter essentially adopted the role of a legal services professionals, and went on to draft the particulars of claim, the schedule of loss, letters to the court and to the NHS Trust’s lawyers. They later went on to engage in negotiations for settlement and instructed the medico-legal expert.
As the Judge found, the defendants was entirely out of their depth and their conduct of the case was highly damaging. The schedules of loss (for £1.1m rising to almost £3m upon amendment) were unsupported by medical or documentary evidence, the responses to offers were either dismissive or responded by fantastical counter-offers, which were only ever likely to undermine the prospects of settlement.
The Judge noted that the particulars of claim and the schedules were signed with statements of truth by the claimant, and were acknowledged to be untrue, especially in relation to the loss of earnings.
Eventually, after a string of interlocutory applications which resulted in the claim being struck out bit-by-bit with adverse costs orders, the claimant dispensed with the defendant services in June 2011. But not before the claim had been irreparably damaged. Eventually, the claimant was forced to accept an earlier Part 36 offer of £20,000 (essentially general damages only), but as a consequence meet all the Trusts costs from that point; assessed at approximately £74,000.
The claim
The claim against the defendants was on the basis that they adopted the role of legal services providers who professed skill and experience in the conduct of litigation, including clinical negligence claims. Had they conducted the matter non-negligently, the claim would have been compromised at or before June 2011 at a much higher figure, with no adverse costs.
The claimant called two experts Mr RM Charnley, a Consultant Surgeon in Gastroenterology and a care/OT expert who prepared reports on the basis of the information available as at the end of 2011 only (the likely trial date). Mr Charnley agreed that the operative treatment carried out had been negligent, The Trust had previously made a limited liability concession in respect of the foreign material left in the wound.
The Judge determined that in considering the nature and standard of duty of care owed, the defendants ought to be held to the standard that they themselves professed to offer – that of legal service professionals with expertise in the conduct of claims of this nature. That was so irrespective of whether they were permitted to offer the services they professed to have expertise in.
The Judge determined that the schedules of loss were drafted without references to evidence and the claimant was given no proper advice as to the conduct of his claim, the settlement offers made or that ought to be made, or the proper value of his claim to enable him to make informed choices.
In the absence of explicit authority on the point, the court considered and adopted the analogous decision in Freeman v Marshall & Co (1966) 200 EG 777 QBD, a matter in which an individual was held to the same standard of care as a surveyor, despite not being qualified, as he had purported to offer the same services and skills as a surveyor.
The court held that the duties owed by the defendants were not consequential upon the expectation or demand for payment, in accordance with the decision in Chaudhary v Prabhakar (1988) 1 W.L.R. 29, CA.
The Judge went on to assess the damages that would have been agreed at a JSM or mediation, had the matter been conducted competently, as follows:
Head of loss
Sum ‘awarded’
General damages
Past loss of Earnings
Past Care
Aids/equipment medication
Future loss of income
Future care
Other assistance
Aids and equipment
Future therapy & healthcare
Future mobility & transport
Adverse costs
The Judge then went on to consider the loss of chance, and the claimant’s signature upon the schedules in the clinical negligence claim which he accepted were false claims. The Judge rejected the submission from the defendants that the exaggeration meant that the claimant had lost nothing of value as the claims were susceptible to being struck out. The Judge considered the most likely scenario in 2011 was that those parts of the claim which were exaggerated would have been discounted leaving the remainder of the claim intact, or it was a factor which would have played a part in any JSM or mediation.
The Judge considered that the exaggeration was a factor she could take into account when considering the loss of chance discount, which she assessed at 35%, which was deducted from the sum above.
CN – 19/3/19″
Tags: Applications, Avoiding negligence claims, Professional Negligence
Michael Loveridge · March 19, 2019 at 15:15:04 · →
I can’t find an actual link to the note.
gexall · March 23, 2019 at 12:46:59 · →
It is set out in full in the post.
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Classic Canes has two brand ambassadors, who use our products prominently and demonstrate to the world that a walking stick is a positive, empowering and stylish accessory.
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Home / 2010 / November / CLIR Issues Number 78
Number 78 • November/December 2010
Register Now for CLIR Sponsors’ Symposium 2011
CLIR to Increase Focus on “Macrosolutions”
Report Examines Use of Digital Forensics Tools and Methods in Cultural Heritage Sector
CLIR Announces Hidden Collections Awards
CLIR Board Welcomes New Board Members
• Chuck Henry Named to Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee
• CLIR Partners with Library of Congress on Preservation Symposia
CLIR Issues Now Paperless
Since the January-February 2010 issue, CLIR Issues has been produced in electronic format only. To receive the newsletter electronically, please sign up at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/pubs/issues/signup.html.
CLIR sponsors are invited to register now for the 2011 Sponsors’ Symposium, “Collaborative Opportunities Amidst Economic Pressures,” to be held April 6 in Arlington, Virginia.
The program will examine how institutions are engaging in deep collaboration to share resources and expertise with the goal of improving services and realizing benefits that extend beyond the individual organization. A morning panel, “Redefining Our Environment through Deep Collaborations,” moderated by University of Virginia University Librarian Karin Wittenborg, will focus on the Blacklight/Hydra Project, the Medical Heritage Digital Collaborative, and Germany’s TextGrid. The afternoon will begin with a session on the Digital Library Federation Program, and end with small-group discussions that will enable participants to exchange experiences and ideas on collaboration. The agenda is available at localhost:8888/wordpress/activities/registration/11sponagenda.pdf.
For registration information, go to https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/activities/registration/11sponsymp.html.
In his opening message to CLIR’s Annual Report 2009-2010, CLIR President Chuck Henry addresses the need for new partnerships that create interdependences and deep collaborations that could redefine our academic environment. He notes that CLIR will increasingly focus its work on identifying viable consortial models and supporting the emergence of deep collaborations.
“As currently conceived, neither libraries nor universities are structured, organized, or funded to achieve the kind of federated and collaborative enterprise that the digital environment can provide,” he writes.
“In light of, and in response to, this reality, CLIR will devote considerable time and talent in the coming years to identifying consortial models that can effectively reduce costs while enhancing the infrastructure and services for scholarship and teaching. Common to these efforts will be developing strong regional coalitions that bring together diverse institutions within a national framework; federating shared resources and interests, including collections, technology, and expertise; and creating a genuine, volitional dependency on other participating institutions for the provision of what was once a locally owned and managed asset…. We are calling these collaborative projects macrosolutions.”
CLIR’s Annual Report 2009-2010 is now available at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/pubs/annual/annual.html.
A new report from CLIR examines how the cultural heritage community can benefit from methods and tools developed for work in digital forensics.
Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections was written by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Richard Ovenden, and Gabriela Redwine, with research assistance from Rachel Donahue.
While the purview of digital forensics was once specialized to the fields of law enforcement, computer security, and national defense, the growing ubiquity of computers and electronic devices means that digital forensics is now used in a variety of circumstances.
Because most records today are born digital, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions increasingly receive computer storage media—and sometimes entire computers—as part of their acquisition of “papers.” Staff at these institutions face challenges such as accessing and preserving legacy formats, recovering data, ensuring authenticity, and maintaining trust. The methods and tools that forensics experts have developed can be useful in meeting these challenges. For example, the same forensics software that indexes a criminal suspect’s hard drive allows the archivist to prepare a comprehensive manifest of the electronic files a donor has turned over for accession.
The report introduces the field of digital forensics in the cultural heritage sector and explores some points of convergence between the interests of those charged with collecting and maintaining born-digital cultural heritage materials and those responsible for collecting and maintaining legal evidence.
Kirschenbaum is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and associate director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Ovenden is associate director and keeper of special collections of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and a professional fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Redwine is archivist and electronic records/metadata specialist at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Donahue is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland’s iSchool and a research assistant at MITH. The authors conducted their research and writing with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections is available electronically at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub149abst.html. Print copies will be available in January for ordering through CLIR’s Web site, for $25 per copy plus shipping and handling.
The Council on Library and Information Resources has announced the following recipients of the 2010 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards:
American Museum of Natural History Library
For the People, for Education, for Science: Web Access to the American Museum of Natural History Archives
Arizona State University Libraries
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo Son Derechos Civiles
Eleutherian Mill-Hagley Foundation, Inc., on behalf of the Hagley Museum and Library
Z. Taylor Vinson Transportation Collection Processing Project
J. Paul Getty Trust on behalf of the Getty Research Institute
Open Plan, Open Access: Increasing Researcher Access to Modern Architectural Records
Northeast Historic Film
Moving Images 1938–1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World’s Fair and its Period
San Diego Historical Society
Enhancing Access to the History of San Diego and the Border Region
Smithsonian Institution, on behalf of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Islamic Arts of the Book at the Smithsonian: Providing for Research across Disciplines
Documenting Mexican American & Latino Civil Rights:
Records of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund & California Rural Legal Assistance
Grove Press and a New American Morality
University of California, Berkeley, University of California Museum of Paleontology
Cataloging Hidden Archives of the University of California Museum of Paleontology
University of Chicago, on behalf of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
The “Color Curtain” Processing Project: Unveiling the Archives of Chicago’s Black Metropolis
Major Railroad Archival Collections
The Pruitt and Shanks Photographic Collection: The Life of a Southern Region in 140,000 Images
Promoting Research through Rare Book Cataloging Partnerships
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias Sueltas
WGBH Educational Foundation
Exposing Unknown Boston Local TV News Collections
Yale University, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
DNA to Dinosaurs: The Globalization of Science in America and the Development of a University Natural History Museum
More detail on this year’s funded projects can be found at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/hiddencollections/awards/index2010.html.
Created in 2008 with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program supports the identification and cataloging of special collections and archives of high scholarly value that are difficult or impossible to locate. Award recipients create Web-accessible records according to standards that enable the federation of their local cataloging entries into larger groups of related records, enabling the broadest-possible exposure to the scholarly community.
As part of this program, CLIR keeps a registry of hidden collections and archives, based on information supplied by applicants.
At its November meeting, the CLIR Board elected new members David Rumsey and John Vaughn.
David Rumsey is founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection; president of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco; and chairman of the board of Luna Imaging, Inc. The David Rumsey Map Collection includes more than 150,000 maps, focusing on rare 18th- and 19th -century maps of North and South America but also including other regional and world maps. More than 21,000 of the collection items have been digitized and made freely available to the public on the Web (www.davidrumsey.com), an accomplishment that earned Mr. Rumsey the Special Libraries Association Honors Award in 2002. The Web site, developed in conjunction with Luna Imaging and TechEmpower, also won the Webby Award for Technical Achievement in 2002. Mr. Rumsey serves on many boards, including The Long Now Foundation and the Stanford University Library Advisory Board. He has lectured widely and has contributed to several publications on cartography and geographic information systems. He holds B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Yale University.
John Vaughn is executive vice president of the Association of American Universities. In this capacity, he serves as deputy to the president and chief operating officer. He also serves as director of policy studies, supervising the association’s work in developing national and institutional policies that support the missions of the member universities. Mr. Vaughn has specific responsibility for association activities in the areas of intellectual property, information technology, research libraries, and scholarly communication. In promoting national policies, he works closely with government relations representatives to advance federal legislation and regulations in the support of academic programs and activities. Mr. Vaughn holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Other Board Updates
In November, CLIR Board members Michael Ann Holly (Clark Art Institute), Herman Pabbruwe (Brill), and James Williams, Jr. (University of Colorado) retired from the Board after nine years of dedicated service. Mr. Pabbruwe had also served as CLIR treasurer; he is succeeded by W. Joseph King (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education). Mr. Williams had served as secretary and is succeeded by Stephen Rhind-Tutt (Alexander Street Press). Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) remains chair, and Wendy Pradt Lougee (University of Minnesota) remains vice chair.
CLIR President Chuck Henry has been appointed to the steering committee for planning a Digital Public Library of America. The library is envisioned as an “open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that draws on the nation’s living heritage to educate, inform and empower everyone in this and future generations,” according to Sloan Foundation Vice President Doron Weber. The Sloan Foundation has provided funding for initial planning. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research program at Harvard Law School, will administer the planning effort.
The steering committee will coordinate a series of meetings and workshops to examine strategies for improving public access to comprehensive online resources. Among the first meetings will be a plenary session hosted by United States Archivist David Ferriero in early summer 2011.
A news release on the Digital Public Library Planning Initiative is available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library.
CLIR is partnering with the Library of Congress’s Preservation Directorate on three conferences in its Future Directions Symposium series. Titled “The First Decade of the New Millennium—Preservation Roadmaps for the 21st Century,” the conferences will look at the field of preservation past, present, and future. The conferences are intended to aid decision making for managers at libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions as they transition to the fiscal and stewardship realities of the 21st century.
The first conference, “Understanding the Physical Environment,” was held October 20, 2010. Attendees reviewed 25 years of research by the Image Permanence Institute that have produced resources and recommendations now widely used to preserve a broad range of media.
The next conference, “Assessing Options for Large Collections,” will be held in March 2011. Senior preservation administrators, scientists, digital collection experts, and conservators will describe options for managing large collections in the context of environmentally controlled remote storage, mass-deacidification bulk treatments, and digitization.
The third conference, planned for October 2011, will focus on the road ahead, as cultural agencies work together to devise strategies for providing broad and long-term access to the mixed collection formats of the 21st century. Emphasis will be on the most vulnerable collections.
CLIR will post registration information for the March conference when it becomes available. An overview of the conference series is available at http://www.loc.gov/preserv/symposia/schedule.html.
At the October conference, CLIR President Chuck Henry announced that CLIR will annually award a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship to an individual who wishes to work with the resources held by the Library of Congress, in partnership with the Preservation Directorate. “We hope to attract young scholars who are interested in the confluence of preservation techniques as a means by which to better understand and interpret these primary sources,” said Mr. Henry.
Library of Congress Associate Librarian for Library Services Deanna Marcum added, “We welcome this partnership with CLIR, as the Library’s preservation programs for research and collections care strive to address the changing nature of the human record, ensuring accessibility to the full content of legacy and new media collections, for current and future generations of scholars and other users.”
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Weather Alert in Will, Livingston, Lee, La Salle, Kendall, Kankakee, Kane, Iroquois, Grundy, Ford, DuPage, DeKalb and Cook counties.
China's vice president Xi Jinping to visit Iowa town
Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune reporter
Mark Twain said of the summer sunsets in Muscatine, Iowa, "I have never seen any, on either side of the ocean, that equaled them."
The Mississippi River town, about 25 miles southwest of the Quad Cities, also made a lasting impression on Xi Jinping.
China's vice president, who is expected to become the nation's leader next year, will visit Muscatine on Wednesday, 27 years after staying there when he was a mere local party official focused on farming in Hebei province. The stop is part of Xi's weeklong trip to the United States, which includes visiting Washington and Los Angeles.
Iowa officials have organized a reunion for Xi in Muscatine as well as a lavish dinner in the state's capitol building in Des Moines. They hope their hospitality and their long ties to Xi will pay off in terms of economic development.
Iowa, along with every other state, wants a piece of China. It's one of the world's fastest-growing economies and is expanding its footprint in the U.S. Chinese state-owned and private enterprises are investing directly in American industry and real estate at a time when American political and business leaders are encouraging foreign investment to spur job creation.
One of the keys to attracting Chinese investment is building personal relationships with Chinese government officials and investors. With a connection to the president-in-waiting, Iowa appears to have a leg up on neighboring Midwestern states.
"The governments here don't always understand that it's a long-term relationship that has to be developed," said John Rogers, past president of the Midwest U.S.-China Association. "The seeds you planted years ago sometimes pop up."
The Chinese are directing more dollars to the Midwest. In 2010, such investments exceeded $1.4 billion, up from $131 million in 2003, according to the New York consulting group Rhodium Group, which tracks Chinese investment in U.S. companies and real estate.
The investments have made an impact in communities hard hit by the recession and the long-term decline in Midwestern manufacturing. In Saginaw, Mich., for example, an auto-parts plant that employs about 3,000 people and nearly closed three years ago is humming after a Chinese group led by Aviation Industry Corp. of China bought the company in 2010 from General Motors Co.
Closer to home, Illinois is benefiting from China's interest in renewable energy. Wanxiang America Corp. built a plant to make solar panels and has entered into a partnership to create a solar farm on property at the Chicago-Rockford International Airport. In Lee County, Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co., one of China's largest wind-turbine producers, plans to build a $200 million wind farm. Goldwind's U.S. headquarters is in Chicago.
Iowa already is one of the biggest beneficiaries of trade with China, as it is the nation's biggest grower of soybeans, the top U.S. export to China. Iowa's exports to China grew to $627 million in 2010 from $45 million in 2000.
Despite the positive stories, the Midwest and the rest of the U.S. lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to Chinese direct investment.
In the last decade, China has targeted its foreign investment on oil, precious metals and other natural resources in Africa and Latin America to feed its growing industries back home.
But China appears to be entering a new era of foreign investment that could benefit the U.S., said Thilo Hanemann, Rhodium's research director.
"Chinese firms are pushing into developed economies, looking for brands, technology and assets that allow them to be closer to the consumer," Hanemann said.
China's growing participation in the Midwestern and U.S. economies has stirred concerns about losing America's technological advantages in aviation and other industries and provided a cautionary tale or two. Missouri is reeling from last year's collapse of a venture that promised to employ about 200 people in the manufacturing of an artificial sweetener. The state provided $17 million in tax credits to Mamtek, a Hong Kong-based company, and the city of Moberly backed $39 million in bonds to finance the project. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China.
Despite such setbacks, states are busy courting Chinese businesses and government officials. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels made a trip to China in November 2010. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn traveled to China on a business trade mission in September. His trip came after Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Chicago in January 2011.
Iowa's governor, Terry Branstad, also went to Beijing in September as part of a trade mission. During the trip, he met with Vice President Xi, where the two reminisced about Xi's trip to Iowa in 1985. (Branstad was Iowa's governor in 1985.) According to the governor's office, Xi had saved the itinerary from that long-ago visit, which included trips to a pork farm and a small vegetable farmer. During his three-day visit, Xi stayed with a family in Muscatine.
Branstad invited him back and offered to organize a reunion of the people Xi met in Muscatine in 1985.
Sarah Lande was one of the Muscatine residents who met Xi in 1985. She will be hosting a reception for him Wednesday afternoon. She said she plans to serve spring rolls, beef tenderloin on toast with a pinch of horseradish, and scallops wrapped in bacon.
"We are so honored and humbled by this," Lande said.
However, she said she is feeling a bit of pressure because Xi's visit could have business implications.
"We just wanted to extend warm hospitality," Lande said, "and we just have one hour to do it."
asachdev@tribune.com
Twitter @ameetsachdev
Chicago-area company needs more space and wants to hire 580 more workers. It’s moving to Indiana.
Jim Beam will face fines over lightning-caused bourbon fire that contaminated river
John W. Rogers Jr.
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Woman chokes on ham and dies in Bognor Regis
James Butler
A woman who lived in Bognor Regis died after choking on a piece of ham, an inquest heard.
Marie Hopkins, 85, died at home in Stanley Court - sheltered accomodation in Montgomery Drive - on February 13.
Stanley Court in Montgomery Drive, Bognor Regis. Picture: Google Maps
At the inquest into her death at Crawley Coroner's Court on Tuesday, assistant coroner Lisa Milner concluded that the retired restaurant owner's death was accidental.
She said: "Marie Hopkins died after accidentally choking on some food; therefore, my decision concerning the death is that it was an accident.
"I would like to pass on my sincere sympathies to the family of the deceased."
The inquest heard that the York native moved to Sussex 20 years ago to be nearer to her sister, but her health and mobility got worse over time.
The type 2 diabetes sufferer also had spine damage which meant that her legs were very swollen and she could not stand.
She had several carers to help her, and had no problem with swallowing, but could not cut up her food because her hands were weak.
However, her carers would not always cut up her food because it was not in her care plan, the inquest heard.
On the day of her death, at 9.47am, Ms Hopkins' carers hoisted her into her wheelchair and moved her into the lounge, where she had some Weetabix with nectarine, banana and other fruits. They returned to check on her around an hour later and she was fine.
At 12.25pm, she was served a ham salad - but when her carers returned at 4.30pm, she was sitting unresponsive in her chair.
She was hoisted to the floor and she was given CPR while an ambulance was called. But when paramedics arrived, she was declared dead at the scene.
Police also attended, and found there were no suspicious circumstances.
Three-vehicle accident blocks road in Bognor Regis
A post mortem held on February 15 found she died of asphyxia and upper airway obstruction from meat.
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Tuesday, Apr 23, 2019 11:42 AM
50/50 Raffle at Draft Fest to Benefit the American Red Cross and Flood Relief
Tragedy struck so many of those that call the Midwest home over the last several weeks as flood waters made their way throughout the region. Roadways, homes and businesses are still underwater in many areas along the Missouri River.
The devastation is real, and as Draft Fest rolls around this Saturday, the Kansas City Chiefs are doing their part to help.
Draft Fest – an exclusive, family-oriented event for Season Ticket Members at Arrowhead – will feature a 50/50 raffle benefiting the American Red Cross and their efforts in flood relief.
Steve Sanders/2014
It’s an opportunity for Chiefs’ fans to directly help those impacted by the disaster, which has claimed 441 homes in northern Missouri alone.
“Lots of people have lost their livelihood – not only their businesses, but their homes,” said Angie Springs, Communications & Marketing Manager at the American Red Cross of Missouri & Arkansas. “It’s devastating, but the Red Cross was prepared. We’ve been there to shelter folks who can’t be in their homes and we’ve been there to meet their immediate needs such as food, clothing and essential medications.”
In fact, the Red Cross has served more than 3,500 meals, 6,000 snacks and distributed more than 5,000 clean-up supplies – like rakes, shovels, buckets and gloves – to nearly 600 households in northwest Missouri.
It’s an impressive feat that’s changing lives, but the organization needs help to keep it up. That’s where the 50/50 Raffle comes into play.
Attendees can purchase three tickets for $5, 10 tickets for $10 or 60 tickets for $20, with half of all funds raised benefiting those affected by the flooding right here in Chiefs Kingdom.
It’s a way to ensure the Red Cross can keep assisting those in desperate need of help.
“As we look to support these folks, something that I always remind people is that the Red Cross is not a government agency. We are congressionally charged to do what we do, but we’re not funded by the government. We rely solely on the generosity of the American people,” Springs said. “Over 90 cents of every dollar raised goes directly out to serve those in need.”
And for those not attending Draft Fest, there’s still a way to get involved, as fans can donate directly to the American Red Cross’ flood relief efforts through this link.
This community has proven time and time again what it can accomplish when rallying around a common cause, and if history is any indication, the American Red Cross – and the individuals they’re serving – is in store for a major lift.
“This impacts and means so much to those that we serve,” Springs said. “Whether it’s the 89-year-old widow who gives us $1 or a major cooperation donating $1 million, that money is impacting lives. When everybody comes together and just gives a little bit, we’re making tomorrow just a little better for these folks in need.”
For those not attending Draft Fest that would still like to donate, click here.
Clark and Tavia Hunt Chair Nonprofit Connect Philanthropy Awards Luncheon
The 35th annual Philanthropy Awards Luncheon took place earlier this month
A Dream Becomes a Reality for Fans at Chiefs Fantasy Camp
The Chiefs held their sixth-annual Fantasy Camp last week benefiting The University of Kansas Health System
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UN headquarters bombed in Nigeria, 18 reported dead
By BASHIR ADIGUN and JON GAMBRELL | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABUJA, Nigeria � A car loaded with explosives crashed into the main United Nations� building in Nigeria�s capital and exploded Friday, killing at least 18 people in one of the deadliest assaults on the international body in a decade. A radical Muslim sect blamed for a series of attacks in the country claimed responsibility for the bombing, a major escalation of its sectarian fight against Nigeria�s weak central government.
�The brazen assault in a neighborhood surrounded by heavily fortified diplomatic posts represented the first suicide attack to target foreigners in oil-rich Nigeria, where people already live in fear of the radical Boko Haram sect. The group, which has reported links to al-Qaida, wants to implement a strict version of Shariah law in the nation and is vehemently opposed to Western education and culture.
�While police officers and local officials have primarily borne the brunt of Boko Haram�s rage, now everyone seems to be a target in a nation often divided by religion and ethnicity.
���It is an attack on the global community,�� said Viola Onwuliri, a junior Nigerian foreign minister, as she looked at the bomb site.
�A sedan loaded with explosives crashed through two gates at the exit of the United Nations compound Friday morning as guards tried in vain to stop it, witnesses told The Associated Press. The suicide bomber inside drove the car through the glass front of the main reception area of the building and detonated the explosives, inflicting the most damage possible, a spokesman for the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency said.
���I saw scattered bodies,�� said Michael Ofilaje, a UNICEF worker at the four-story building, which he said shook with the explosion. ��Many people are dead.��
�At least 18 people died in the attack, according to an AP survey of morgues at four major Abuja hospitals. Nigerian Health Minister Mohammad Ali Pate made a public appeal for blood donations, saying there were at least 60 injured people alone at the nearby National Hospital.
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UN Special Rapporteur delivers report on Khasoggi killing
China National News
Saudi Arabia is responsible, according to a report published on Wednesday by the UN Special Rapporteur
"Saudi state agents, 15 of them, acted under cover of their official status and used state means to execute Mr. Khashoggi
Saudi Arabia has reacted angrily to the report, has rejected its findings and threatened legal action
GENEVA, Switzerland - Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of a premeditated extrajudicial execution, for which Saudi Arabia is responsible, according to a report published on Wednesday by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings.
The report was angrily rejected by Saudi Arabia late Wednesday, with a Saudi official indicated the country may take legal action as a result of the report.
Following a six-month investigation, Agnes Callamard issued her findings into the killing last October of Mr Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, analyzing evidence on the basis of international human rights law, and considering steps that could have prevented his murder.
"The circumstances of Mr Khashoggi's death have led to numerous theories and allegations, but none alters the responsibility of the Saudi Arabia State," the report released on Wednesday reads. "Saudi state agents, 15 of them, acted under cover of their official status and used state means to execute Mr. Khashoggi."
"His killing was the result of elaborate planning involving extensive coordination and significant human and financial resources. It was overseen, planned and endorsed by high-level officials. It was premeditated."
The report cites six violations of international law:
- the prohibition against arbitrary deprivation of life, a fundamental principle of international law;
- the prohibition against extraterritorial use of force as enshrined in the UN Charter;
- the requirement that states use consular missions for official purposes;
- the prohibition against torture, under the terms of the Convention Against Torture, ratified by Saudi Arabia, and;
- the prohibition against enforced disappearance, and;
- in killing a journalist, the State of Saudi Arabia committed an act inconsistent with a core tenet of the United Nations, the protection of freedom of expression.
"The killing of Mr Khashoggi thus constitutes an international crime over which other States should claim universal jurisdiction. I call on those States to take the necessary measures to establish their competence to exercise jurisdiction under international law over this crime of extrajudicial execution," Callamard said.
The Special Rapporteur also determined that there was credible evidence, warranting further investigation of high-level Saudi officials' individual liability, including that of the Crown Prince.
Following the execution of Mr Khashoggi, the report notes that Saudi Arabia took timid steps towards addressing its obligations, but that four more violations have taken place:
- the responsibility to investigate, effectively, transparently, and in good faith;
- the duty of international cooperation in investigation of unlawful death;
- fair trial guarantees; and
- the obligation of non-repetition.
Callamard called on the Human Rights Council, the Security Council or the UN Secretary-General to conduct an international follow-up criminal investigation for the purpose of determining individual liability and identifying options towards judicial accountability.
The report stated that it was troubling that to date the execution of Mr Khashoggi had been met with so few effective international responses, whether legal, political or diplomatic although a number of States had issued targeted sanctions against Saudi officials.
"These must continue. They are important but insufficient. The crime committed was a State killing. These particular sanctions against 17 or more individuals act as a smokescreen, diverting attention away from State responsibility," the report reads. "The current sanctions also fail to address the central questions of chain of command and of senior leadership's responsibilities for and associated with the execution."
The report also called on Saudi Arabia to release all individuals imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their opinion and belief; and to undertake an in-depth assessment of the actors, institutions and circumstances that made it possible for the execution of Mr Khashoggi.
The report also includes a range of recommendations addressed to Turkey and the United States, as well as to Member States generally and corporate actors. She further recommends the establishment of new mechanisms at UN level to strengthen the prevention and criminal investigation of targeted killings.
Saudi Arabia reacted angrily to the report and threatened legal action.
"The death of Jamal Khashoggi was an unfortunate and painful crime that cannot be condoned or tolerated by the perpetrators. The kingdom, as already announced, has begun to take the necessary measures to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice according to the regulations in force in the kingdom after they exceeded all the applicable regulations and powers with their deed," the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Cabinet Adel Al-Jubeir said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday.
"The report of Ms. Callamard has, regrettably, presented many unfounded accusations, including the violation of a number of international conventions, and is totally unacceptable to the leadership of the Kingdom," he said.
"Saudi Arabia, while affirming its deep commitment to and respect for international conventions and laws and its rejection of all the unjustified violations and allegations contained in the report, reserves the right to take legal action to respond to them."
On the impartiality of the report and its credibility, Al-Jubeir pointed out that the conclusions reached by the Special Rapporteur relied on press and media reports, as well as on analysis and conclusions of unnamed experts, as well as her use in the report of expressions, descriptions and allegations previously used by parties hostile to the kingdom for political, ideological and historical reasons.
The minister said that the Special Rapporteur ignored the efforts made by the authorities in the kingdom to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of the crime, which had already been announced. She should have referred to those efforts and that the ongoing investigations and judicial proceedings in this case in the Kingdom should be given full respect as they infringe on to the kingdom's sovereignty and its judicial institutions, which can never be tolerated, he said.
The Saudi official added that the report in an inapprehensible manner reduced the measures taken by the Kingdom to restructure the General Intelligence Presidency in the Kingdom, which was announced.
On the eligibility of the Special Rapporteur, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs said, "The allegations and false allegations contained in the report are based on preconceived ideas and positions of Ms. Callamard regarding the kingdom. This is evidenced by her insistence since the first days of the incident to accuse the kingdom without any evidence as on the third day of the painful incident, she began to publish tweets accusing the kingdom of responsibility for the murder and of covering up the crime. She also described the statement of the Attorney General in the Kingdom as unacceptable and questioned the impartiality of the investigations, without regard to the code of conduct imposed on her by a professional and impartial evaluation of the facts. This raises an important question as to whether Ms. Callamard is qualified to submit an objective and impartial report on the case."
Minister Adel Al-Jubeir added that "based on the keenness of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to deal with this issue away from any political or media exploitation, or to negatively affect the ongoing trials in the kingdom and in continuation of its approach in cooperation with international human rights mechanisms in accordance with international norms, it provided the High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Michelle Bachelet Jeria with a detailed progress report on the case on 3 June 2019."
The minister concluded his statement by stressing that the kingdom will never accept any attempt to harm its sovereignty and that it categorically rejects any attempt to derail this issue in the kingdom's justice system or any attempt to influence it in any way. He added that the kingdom will never accept any attempt to infringe on its leadership or interfere with the functioning of its independent judicial institutions.
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Missouri misses Course Access moment
By: Thomas Arnett
This year, Missouri legislators had a chance to become national leaders in providing their students with access to new learning opportunities. On April 30, the House passed a bill to create a statewide Course Access program with a favorable vote of 110 to 40. Sadly, however, that bill stalled in the Senate as the legislative session came to a close in late May.
Missouri students deserve every available opportunity to pursue their educational goals. To this end, Course Access programs can have substantial, positive effects on students’ learning outcomes. Consider, for example, these stories from students in nearby states where Course Access programs are available.
When Elaine Nielson started taking Geometry in 8th grade, she found herself frustrated with math. It wasn’t that the class was too hard; rather, she was bored almost to tears because her teacher was spending time going over Algebra problems that she had learned back in 6th grade. As Elaine’s parents considered how best to help their daughter, her father remembered hearing about the Utah Statewide Online Education Program. Through that program, Elaine was able to take Geometry as an online course during her second semester of 8th grade while completing the rest of her courses at her neighborhood brick-and-mortar school. The following year, Elaine again completed her math course requirements through the Utah Statewide Online Education Program, which gave her extra time in her schedule for band, choir, and a role in her school’s spring musical.
For Donza Worden, a student at De Tour High School in the upper peninsula of Michigan, online learning put his “senior-year slide” in reverse. He was interested in finance and accounting, but less drawn to electives like art and music that his school offered, so his teachers encouraged him to enroll in online courses that their small, rural district didn’t have the staff or funding to offer. Between an off-site apprenticeship with a financial company and two online college courses—in English and Accounting—he managed to graduate ahead on credits and with an internship under his belt. Donza went on to Albian College and graduated summa cum laude in three years . He then took time to travel before joining Robert Baird’s investment banking division in Chicago.
But while students like Elaine and Donza in Utah and Michigan have the flexibility to take courses at times and in formats that align with their individual goals, many students in Missouri don’t even have access to some of the standard courses they need to take in preparation for college. Across the state, 30 percent of high schools do not offer chemistry, 46 percent do not offer physics, and 56 percent do not offer calculus. All of these courses could easily be made available to every Missouri student through a statewide Course Access catalog.
In this day and age, a student’s education need not be limited to the four walls of the classroom, nor to the lines drawn around his school district. Unfortunately, Missouri policymakers missed an important opportunity to make this a reality for their students by failing to pass a bill to create a statewide Course Access program. Hopefully, the legislature will consider Course Access again during next year’s session.
Thomas Arnett is a senior research fellow in education for the Clayton Christensen Institute. His work focuses on studying innovations that amplify educator capacity, documenting barriers to K-12 innovation, and identifying disruptive innovations in education. Thomas previously served as a trustee and board president for the Morgan Hill Unified School District in Morgan Hill, California, worked as an Education Pioneers fellow with the Achievement First Public Charter Schools, and taught middle school math as a Teach For America teacher in Kansas City Public Schools. Thomas received a BS in Economics from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.chron.com/business/article/Fight-against-pollution-earns-plant-neighbor-an-1682813.php\nFight against pollution earns plant neighbor an award\nA decade-long fight for Port Arthur\nNative son will get Green Nobel for grass-roots environmentalism\nMATTHEW TRESAUGUE\n, HOUSTON CHRONICLE\nPublished 5:30 am CDT, Monday, April 11, 2011\nPort Arthur's Hilton Kelley is one of the recipients of the 2011 Goldman Prize, known as the Green Nobel.\nPhoto: James Nielsen, Chronicle\nPORT ARTHUR — The public housing project where Hilton Kelley was born and raised sits in the shadows of two refineries that belch toxic chemicals into the air.\nHis mother moved him away from Carver Terrace long ago, but he is still here, waging what seems to be a one-man crusade in one of America's most polluted places. With many of this Gulf Coast town's poorest residents suffering from asthma, skin irritations and cancer, he has neither forgotten nor forgiven.\nSo for the past decade he has pushed and prodded, with a bit of shouting, mostly by him, for more restrictions on industrial construction and stricter monitoring of plant emissions.\nAnd now, what once seemed like a quixotic pursuit — greater environmental and public health protections in a refinery town - no longer seems so quixotic.\n\"Port Arthur has been a dumping ground for years because this was the area of least resistance,\" Kelley says. \"But this is a new day.\"\nFor his work, Kelley is one of the 2011 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, sometimes called the Green Nobel as the highest honor of its kind for grass-roots environmentalists.\nHe will be in San Francisco today to receive the award, given annually to an environmentalist from each continent, and the $150,000 check that goes with it. Past winners have sought justice for victims of environmental disasters at Love Canal and Bhopal, India, resisted oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and tried to prevent the U.S. military from incinerating chemical weapons.\nFilm, TV in California\nThe 50-year-old Kelley came to environmentalism late and without any training in community organizing. He left Port Arthur for the U.S. Navy in 1979 and later settled in Oakland, where he worked as a stuntman and extra on movies and television shows filmed in the San Francisco Bay area, including CBS's Nash Bridges.\nDuring a visit for Mardi Gras in 2000, Kelley saw his once-vibrant hometown in a relentless decline - its storefronts shuttered, its fields filled with rusty debris, its residents sick and its children with nothing to do. He returned to life in California, but not for long.\n\"I didn't see anyone doing anything about it,\" he said. \"And then one day I looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm from Port Arthur. What am I doing about it?'\"\nKelley recognized that the town could not pull itself back up without addressing the environmental problems first, but he knew change would not come easy in a community dependent on refineries and chemical plants for jobs. One of his early protests outside City Hall attracted only two people, and one was his brother.\nPaid for air samples\nPort Arthur, near the Louisiana border, was built on oil wealth. The city's west side, which is largely African-American, is home to eight major industrial plants, including the Motiva and Valero oil refineries.\nWithout the support of many, including the mayor at the time, Kelley took a different tack, collecting air samples during \"upset events,\" unpermitted releases caused by lightning strikes, human error, startups and shutdowns. He used the results, at a cost of $500 per sample, to prod regulators and the plants to take action.\nAmong his victories was a deal with an expanding refinery that included new pollution controls and a $3.5 million fund to support small businesses and provide health coverage for residents of Port Arthur's west side. He also managed to stop the shipment of highly toxic PCBs from Mexico for disposal at a nearby incinerator.\nAnd his efforts have made Port Arthur visible again. Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency put it on a list of 10 cities nationwide that would receive attention and funding over two years to address disproportionate environmental burdens.\n\"I have a lot of respect for Hilton,\" said Al Armendariz, the EPA's chief for Texas and four adjacent states. \"I really admire his work. He cares a lot about his community and he pushes our agency to do all we can to serve them. He is successful because he doesn't give up and because his goals are to help others.\"\nJobs come first\nSo far, the discussions, which involve Kelley and representatives from the city, EPA and industry, have touched on the relocation of Carver Terrace, additional emissions reductions and an improved alarm network for upset events.\nKelley said his goal is not to close the refineries and chemical plants but to make them cleaner, so that Port Arthur may be able to regain a bit of its past self.\n\"We understand that Port Arthur may never be what it was, but it can be better than it is,\" he said recently while standing among a row of abandoned storefronts on Procter Street, once a main commercial strip in the city's downtown.\nAt the same time, his focus on rebuilding the city has at put him at odds with other environmentalists. Kelley, for example, does not oppose the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring heavy crude from Canada's oil sands to the Port Arthur area for refining, because the city has 17 percent unemployment.\n\"That pipeline will bring thousands of jobs,\" he said. \"Our fight starts when we smell the sulfur. I'm hopeful that by the time the pipeline is done, the proper emissions controls will be in place.\"\nMatthew Tejada, director of the environmental group Air Alliance Houston, said Kelley's position made him rethink how he does his job. It's easy for activists \"in the treetops,\" like himself, to lose sight of the nuances at the grass-roots level, Tejada said.\n\"He is one of the best environmental activists in the country because he takes his marching orders from the community,\" Tejada said. \"It's not born out of idealism. It's about seeing the state of a community he loves and grew up in and doing something about it.\"\nmatthew.tresaugue@chron.com\nHill Country pipeline opponents threaten lawsuit over...\nSolaris Water Midstream expands water recycling operations in...\nBlack workers' wages still recovering from layoffs during...\nLending Tree\nCrush your debt: refinance to a 15 yr fixed\nRefinance rates are near historic lows. Don't miss out.\nRates now at 4.12% APR - $225K mortgage for $1,664/mo\nExperts are urging Americans to refinance in 2018\nWoman, 62, shot and killed in moving car in Harris County while returning from doctor's appointment\nHouston quinceañeras have become big budget celebrations, while sticking to simple traditions\nResearchers uncover new species of dinosaur at Texas state park\nKingwood man accused of shooting ex-wife's new husband as couple tried to repossess car\nVIP view: Inside the French consul general's Bastille Day cocktail party in River Oaks\nModeling agency signs teen after his hair cost him a job at Six Flags Over Texas\nAstros stars drop obscure phrases in All-Star interviews for Jimmy Fallon\nHaley Kalil, wife of Texans player, featured in SI Swimsuit Issue\nEx-Rockets big man Dikembe Mutombo is back for another hilarious commercial"
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Corpus Christi police seek driver in 'car of interest' for Christmas Eve bank robbery
Corpus Christi police release additional footage from a Christmas Eve bank robbery. Police are looking for a vehicle of interest.
Corpus Christi police seek driver in 'car of interest' for Christmas Eve bank robbery Corpus Christi police release additional footage from a Christmas Eve bank robbery. Police are looking for a vehicle of interest. Check out this story on caller.com: https://www.caller.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/28/corpus-christi-texas-police-seek-driver-car-interest-bank-robbery-crime/2431922002/
Alexandria Rodriguez, Corpus Christi Caller Times Published 11:38 a.m. CT Dec. 28, 2018 | Updated 8:45 p.m. CT Dec. 28, 2018
Corpus Christi police officers are seeking the driver of a gray, four-door sedan seen in surveillance footage moments after a bank robbery on Dec. 24, 2018 in the 5100 block of S. Padre Island Drive. Anyone with information should call police at 361-888-8477.(Photo: Contributed photo/Corpus Christi Police Department)
Corpus Christi police on Friday released additional footage of a Christmas Eve bank robbery.
The footage shows a "vehicle of interest" leaving the American Bank, in the 5100 block of South Padre Island Drive just moments after the robbery suspect is seen leaving the area in a separate vehicle.
The vehicle of interest is a small gray four-door "hatchback vehicle," according to a news release from the department. The vehicle appears to be a Ford.
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"The license plate is not legible and detectives would like to speak to the driver," the release states.
Just after 11 a.m., a man who appears to be wearing a mask entered the bank and walked up to a teller.
The Corpus Christi Police Department is seeking the public's help in identying a robbery suspect. The man seen in video footage is suspected of robbing the American Bank in the 5100 block of South Padre Island Drive on Dec. 24, 2018 (Photo: Contributed photo/Corpus Christi Police Department)
The man appeared to be wearing a gray hoodie, gloves and blue pants with stripes. The man left with an undetermined amount of money and drove away in what appeared to be a gray Chevy Impala, the release states.
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The teller told police the dark-complected man was about 5 feet, 8 inches tall to 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighed about 250 pounds, the release states.
Anyone with information about the robbery or the vehicle of interest should call Crime Stoppers at 361-888-8477.
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Thieves stole architectural gems from USC in a heist that remained hidden for years
By Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton - LA Times (TNS)
The thieves seemed to know exactly what they were looking for.
They entered an unmarked warehouse on a South Los Angeles side street, moved through a warren of file cabinets, yellowing papers and jettisoned desks, and breached a small storage room.
Inside was a cache of furniture designed by two of the most celebrated American architects of the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler.
The thieves made off with two of Wright’s striking floor lamps and a cushioned chair believed to have been designed by Schindler — a haul with a potential value of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Six years after the heist at the USC warehouse, the identities of the perpetrators remain a mystery.
There is a second puzzle: Why didn’t the university report the theft to police at the time or seek the public’s help in recovering the irreplaceable pieces?
Detectives only learned of the larceny in recent weeks, after an anonymous letter to the Los Angeles Times revealed the crime.
Ninety years ago, the lamps illuminated one of the most breathtaking living rooms in L.A. The residence belonged to Samuel Freeman and his dancer wife, Harriet, an avant-garde couple who had commissioned Wright to turn a steep and narrow plot in the Hollywood Hills into a showplace.
The architect, already famous and enjoying a midlife sojourn in California, ringed the living room with tall windows that provided dramatic views down Highland Avenue and of the surrounding hills.
The furniture he fashioned for the room included the six-foot high cast iron and glass lamps. His protege, Schindler, later worked on the house, adding his own unique furnishings.
For decades, the Freemans’ eclectic crowd of artists, scientists and leftists savored the home and its decor. “Casablanca” actor Claude Rains was a regular at the couple’s so-called “salons” and Harriet Freeman feted legendary choreographer Martha Graham at a dinner party in the living room.
Samuel Freeman died in the living room in 1981. Harriet suffered a stroke and spent her final months in a bed in the living room. She died in 1986. Childless, they left the home and furniture to USC, hoping the university would treasure the property as a site for meetings, classes and historic preservation.
Preservationists quickly learned that maintaining the Freemans’ home, like other Wright designs in L.A., would be a major challenge. The residence’s hallmark feature — patterned cement-block walls that recalled Mayan temples — proved uniquely unsuited for California’s seismic environment.
The Freeman house suffered severe structural damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Tiles tumbled from the house and broke. It took the university years to secure more than $1 million in restoration funding from FEMA and other sources.
Around 2000, in advance of the work, USC moved the contents of the home, including the Wright and Schindler furniture, to the architecture school’s rented warehouse. The brick facility on 24th Street, formerly a city power station, has a cavernous interior with at least one separate, locked room.
Some broken tiles were stored in the main room while the furniture was placed in the locked area, according to people familiar with the warehouse. For the next decade, the pieces that had delighted the Freemans and their guests would sit in the dark, glimpsed only occasionally by USC faculty, staff and students.
A facilities staffer visiting the warehouse in September 2012 noticed items missing from the locked room.
There was no sign of a break in or vandalism, and nothing but the Wright and Schindler furniture seemed to have been taken.
Kenneth Breisch, an associate professor who oversaw the graduate program in historic preservation, said that as far as he knew, there was only one key to the room and it was maintained by the facilities department.
The staffer who had discovered the missing items contacted Breisch to see if he knew anything. Told no, the staffer said he planned to alert campus police, according to Breisch.
“I just assumed they were taking care of it,” said Breisch, who declined to name the staffer. “I just assumed, I think, that it probably didn’t consist of anything of value, (or) then, I would have heard more.”
In fact, the stolen floor lamps and chair had significant value. The lamps are particularly rare and coveted by collectors. A nearly identical piece Wright made in the same period for a Hollywood Boulevard residence sold at auction two years ago for $100,000.
Told of the lamps’ theft recently, architect and author Thomas A. Heinz, the foremost expert in Wright’s interiors, exclaimed, “Wow. Wow.”
“Because these are so rare, I would say it’s a tremendous loss,” said Heinz, adding that Wright created about a dozen such lamps.
Schindler’s chairs are also in demand. Last July, two of the architect’s redwood “sling” chairs were reported stolen from an Olympic Boulevard storage unit rented by the Friends of Schindler House, the nonprofit that maintains the architect’s former West Hollywood residence.
Board member Robert Sweeney told the police the chairs were original to the Kings Road landmark and estimated their value at $25,000 each.
Despite the clear value of the items taken, no one at USC filed a report with campus police, LAPD or the university’s insurance carriers. Word of the theft circulated among some at the architecture school, but few, if any, outsiders were told.
It remained a secret until last summer when someone’s conscience appeared to have been prodded by a listing at a Chicago auction. The listing described the lot for sale as a “textile block from the Samuel Freeman House, Los Angeles” and identified the seller as a private collector in Chicago. It was a 16-inch square, the size of the original Freeman blocks, and had discolorations indicating decades in the elements. It sold for $5,000 in June.
Weeks after its sale, The Times received an anonymous email describing the warehouse theft. The author also included a link to the auction and wrote that even if the sale was not connected to the theft, it was troubling. How could the tile have fallen into private hands when its ownership had passed directly from the Freemans to USC, the writer asked.
The Times approached USC about the alleged theft in mid-January. A university spokeswoman expressed skepticism, saying that even the most minor infractions are documented by the campus police and shared with administrators. It strained credulity, she said, that a suspected felony involving priceless works of art had gone unreported.
A search of campus police databases and inquiries to a half-dozen employees turned up nothing about a theft, she said. But further investigation by USC’s Office of Professionalism and Ethics, a new unit set up in the wake of recent scandals, determined that the tip had merit.
On Jan. 22, campus police filed a report with the LAPD, identifying the three missing items. The university blamed the six-and-a-half year delay in contacting authorities on a miscommunication between employees, according to police.
“It’s quite alarming, frankly, that there’s a gap,” said Lt. Perry Griffith, of the LAPD’s Southwest station, who reviewed the report before handing it off to the department’s Art Theft Detail.
In a statement, USC said it was fully cooperating with the police probe and pursuing its own internal investigation.
“The university is reviewing its procedures and security measures related to the Freeman House and its assets,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. She added that the university “is working with its risk management team on the insurance claim process.”
LAPD Detective Don Hrycyk of the art theft unit said his investigation was at the preliminary stage.
“There was no forced entry, so it looks like someone who had access to a key,” Hrycyk said.
USC declined to identify those with access to the room and said in a statement, “It appears unlikely that there was only one key, however we expect that to be part of the investigation.”
The passage of time had made dusting for fingerprints and other forensic techniques all but impossible. Memories have faded and witnesses are out of reach.
“A lot of these people are no longer at USC,” Hrycyk said.
The tile auctioned in Chicago is not part of the LAPD investigation, he said. USC said it had “no verification” as to whether it was stolen from the house.
Jeffrey Chusid, a Cornell University professor who is a leading authority on the Freeman House, said that the auctioned tile appeared to be an original. Chusid, who lived in the house when he taught at USC in the 1980s and 1990s, said it was unlikely to be one that fell from the home during the earthquake because those were largely broken. During the 1990s, a vandal pried a tile from the street-side of the house, he said, “and that might be floating around.”
Richard Wright, the president of the Chicago auction house, said the seller told him he obtained the piece several years ago from a dealer. Wright said he believed the tile was originally from the Freeman House’s garage and that it was removed after the 1994 earthquake.
“It’s my understanding that there was some restoration done to the house,” Wright said. “Given the not-great condition, it had been a tile that had been replaced.”
Wright said the collector who consigned the tile had attested to the legal title of the concrete block. Still, he said that in the world of art auctions, “it is not always perfectly clear how things get out.”
USC students training in historic preservation regularly visit the Freeman House, but it is not open to the public.
It is situated on a narrow, winding street that dead ends on a cliffside and has little parking. To the rare visitor, the home’s disrepair is obvious, with splintered wooden beams, peeling paint and gaps in the cement-tiled walls.
USC said it is examining “options to ensure there’s a promising future for the Freeman House.”
“It’s always been hard to make it a priority of the university,” Chusid said. “It’s just unfortunate.”
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Everything You Need to Know about the 24 Hours of Le Mans Race
Breaking down the historic Le Mans 24-hour endurance-racing classic, a brutal test of driver and machine.
By Rich Ceppos
First run in 1923, the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans in France is the world's greatest sports-car race.
On the famous Mulsanne straight, the fastest cars top 200 mph.
This year, on June 15, 62 cars will start the race on Saturday at 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. Eastern time, for U.S. viewers).
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is auto racing's Boston Marathon, a brutal test of endurance where competitors race stunningly fast cars for 24 straight hours at speeds that can exceed 200 mph on the fastest section of the incredibly long 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe road course. The race is a punishing test that pushes driver and machine to their limits—and sometimes beyond. Here's everything you need to know to make sense of the race, which takes the green flag on Saturday, June 15.
What is it? The 87th running of the world's most prestigious sports-car race, which lasts (as its name makes clear) for 24 hours.
When is the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans? June 15–16, starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
How to watch? Live online at the Motor Trend on-demand website (paywall) or the Motor Trend cable-TV channel; excerpts on the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) YouTube channel.
Where is the 24 Hours of Le Mans held? Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France.
What time does it start? Coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time, with the race starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time (3:00 p.m. local time) on Saturday, June 15.
History, hellish events, and high speeds are the key ingredients that make the 24 Hours of Le Mans the world's greatest sports-car race. It is both famous and infamous for the triumphs and tragedies that have occurred there. Started in 1923 as a showcase for car manufacturers to prove the durability of their vehicles in competition, it has evolved into a high-speed chess match among top professional racing teams where strategy, teamwork, and great driving skill are as important as a car's reliability and technological edge.
The race is staged annually in mid-June by the French sanctioning organization Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Four classes of cars compete side by side, which can make the racing confusing, but a team of knowledgeable TV commentators keeps the action sorted out for you. Le Mans is part of the FIA World Endurance Championship, which includes long-distance races in nine countries. Through the years, automobile manufacturers including Porsche, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Toyota, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Chevrolet have invested tens of millions in their race teams with the hope of taking the winner's laurels and basking in the marketing glory a win confers.
The top two classes, LMP1 and LMP2, are made up of purpose-built race cars that can cost millions and are supported by large crews of engineers and technicians. The cars look like four-wheeled fighter jets and employ advanced aerodynamics to suck them to the track, which enables astounding speed in the corners. The current rules encourage teams to race gasoline-electric hybrids, and last year's winning car, Toyota's TS050 LMP1, utilized that technology to make a claimed 986 horsepower. LMP2 cars are similar but less complex, are powered by conventional gasoline engines, and are not quite as fast as the LMP1s.
About two-thirds of the field is composed of the other two classes competing in the race, the GT, or grand touring, cars: GTE-Pro and GTE-Am. These classes are based on highly modified versions of production-line sports cars with recognizable names and shapes from makers such as Ferrari, Porsche, Chevrolet, Ford, and Audi. They have about 500 horsepower, and the infighting is fierce as these cars battle for position and class wins while trying to stay out of the way of the flying prototypes. As their names imply, GTE-Pro is for full-time professional drivers and manufacturer teams, while GTE-Am is for amateur drivers and private teams. All teams must rotate three drivers through the car during the race, with no one driver behind the wheel for more than a total of 14 hours. Driver changes happen in conjunction with pit stops for fuel and fresh tires.
History runs deep at the Circuit de la Sarthe, the name of the 8.5-mile temporary course that roars to life in the sleepy French countryside every June. The original race was run entirely on local roads, but for reasons of safety it now combines sections of public road knitted together with stretches of purpose-built racetrack. The famous Mulsanne straight, part of the original track, is still in use. One of the world's longest racing straightaways at 3.7 miles, it's actually a public road, French route départementale D338, except for those few days each year when it is closed down for the 24-hour event. Another tradition: the race cars undergo one of their several technical inspections in the Le Mans town square, where they can be viewed up close by the general public. And the spraying of champagne after a race win? That was started at Le Mans as well, by American Dan Gurney after winning the 1967 race.
Racing dynasties have flourished and faded across the 86 years the event has run—it was canceled for 10 years during World War II and in 1936 because of strikes across France. Bentley and Alfa Romeo both made their early reputations with four consecutive wins each in the 1930s. Jaguar and Ferrari dominated the 1950s and 1960s. Henry Ford II's personal rivalry with Enzo Ferrari resulted in his company deciding to build the Ford GT40, which defeated Ferrari in four straight Le Mans races from 1966 through 1969. Porsche was the dominant force in the 1980s, and Audi prototypes notched an amazing 13 wins between 2000 and 2014.
Along with racing triumphs, the race has been the scene of tragedies. The worst of them occurred during the 1955 event, when a Mercedes 300SLR race car crashed at high speed on the front straight, launching flaming parts into the crowd and killing 83 spectators. It remains the worst auto-racing accident in history. As a result, automobile racing was temporarily banned in several European countries. Major safety improvements were made to the Circuit de la Sarthe in the wake of the 1955 event; numerous safety upgrades for both spectators and the racers have been implemented in the decades since. Race cars were already reaching speeds in excess of 225 mph on the Mulsanne by the early 1970s, so a pair of tight zigzag chicanes were added partway down the straight to bring speeds down. Despite the changes, the fastest of today's race cars will still top 200 mph on the Mulsanne. And that can still mean trouble, as when driver Peter Dumbreck's Mercedes race car flipped into the trees in 1999; he somehow escaped without major injury.
The danger and excitement of 1970s-era Le Mans competition was captured for the silver screen by racer/actor Steve McQueen in his movie Le Mans. And a recent tribute video of the Le Mans event brings McQueen's spare depiction up to date by evoking the romance that is the Le Mans 24 Hours. Here's a preview of what you'll see in the 2019 race.
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Chino Valley Medical Center Among 100 Great Community Hospitals by Becker's Hospital Review
News 2016 September Chino Valley Medical Center Among 100 Great Community Hospitals by Becker's Hospital Review
(Chino, Calif., August 8, 2016) – Chino Valley Medical Center (CVMC) was named one of the America’s 100 Great Hospitals® by Becker’s Hospital Review for 2016. Per Beckershospitalreview.com, the Becker's editorial team selected hospitals for inclusion based on rankings and awards from organizations including iVantage Health Analytics, Truven Health Analytics, Healthgrades, CareChex, the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Leapfrog Group. Included organizations have earned recognition from one or more of these organizations.
"I’m always proud to learn about our hospital getting the recognition it deserves.” says Dr. James Lally, President and Chief Medical Officer of Chino Valley Medical Center. “Our staff is diligent, hardworking, and compassionate. I’ve said it with one-hundred-percent confidence before; CVMC is the best community hospital.” Becker’s criteria for a “community hospital” is one with less than 550 beds, is a vital part of their respective communities, among other things.
Chino Valley Medical Center is consistently recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation, who stands ready to serve their local community with compassionate, quality care. Nationally recognized, locally preferred, community focused.
More information on other 100 Great Community Hospitals is available at: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/100-great-community-hospitals-2016.
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Battle for Baquba: Isis Sunnis wrestle with Shiite Iraqis for control of the last major town before Baghdad as country splits along sectarian lines
Isis militants stand just one hour's drive from Baghdad
Iran pledges to send 5,000 troops to support government-led Shiites
Shiites fight back in Baquba as around 40 Sunni prisoners found murdered in their cells
U.S. sends in 275 military personnel to protect embassy staff
Thousands of Iraqi Shiites enlist to fight back and protect capital
By Leon Watson
Fierce fighting erupted at the northern approaches to Baghdad today as pro-government Shiite militiamen desperately clung on to the last town before the capital in the face of a lightning-quick assault by Sunni Arab militants.
Meanwhile, in the west, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed it has taken control of the key border areas near Tal Afar and is rounding up Iraqi soldiers after a battle at an undisclosed location near the Syrian/Iraq border.
It is part of their stated aim to mark out the frontiers of a new Islamic state, merging the Iraqi areas they now control with rebel areas in Syria to form a Caliphate.
Washington has deployed some 275 military personnel to protect its embassy in Baghdad, the first time it has sent troops to Iraq since it withdrew its forces at the end of 2011 after a bloody and costly intervention launched in 2003.
The road to Baghdad: Fierce fighting is taking place at Baqubah, the last major city before the capital, as ISIS militants seize control of vast swathes of northern Iraq
It was also mulling air strikes against the militants, who are led by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant but include loyalists of now-executed Sunni Arab dictator Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, the United Nations warned Iraq is in danger of disintegrating.
A relative calm in Baghdad - ostensibly as militants have focused on their northern assault - was shattered by a string of bombings that left 17 people dead, while the bodies of 18 soldiers and police were found near the city of Samarra, all shot in the head and chest.
Since the insurgents launched their lightning assault on June 9, they have captured Mosul, a city of two million people, and a big chunk of mainly Sunni Arab territory stretching towards the capital.
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The offensive has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and sent jitters through world oil markets as the militants have advanced ever nearer Baghdad leaving the Shiite-led government in disarray.
Officials said on Tuesday that militants briefly held parts of the city of Baquba, just 40 miles from the capital.
They also took control of most of Tal Afar, a strategic Shiite-majority town between Mosul and the border with Syria, where ISIL also has fighters engaged in that country's three-year-old civil war.
The jihadist affiliated group Albaraka News via their twitter account allegedly to show an injured fighter (centre) from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after a battle with Iraqi soldiers at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
Militants tying up an Iraqi soldier captured at undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed it has taken control of the key border areas near Tal Afar
The overnight attack on Baquba, which was pushed back by security forces but left 44 prisoners dead at a police station, marked the closest that fighting has come to the capital.
In Tal Afar, militants controlled most of the town but pockets of resistance remained.
Further south, security personnel abandoned the Iraqi side of a key crossing on the border with Syria, officers said. Syrian rebel groups opposed to ISIL, who already controlled the other side of the Al-Qaim crossing, advanced across the border to take over.
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Iraqi Shiite tribesmen brandish their weapons as they gather to show their willingness to join Iraqi security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants who have taken over several northern Iraqi cities in the southern Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf
Members of the Shiite Muslim Mehdi Army militia, take part in training in the southern Iraqi city of Basra
Faced with a militant offensive sweeping south toward Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteer to fight, and thousands have signed up
Iraqi Shiite tribesmen parade with their weapons in central Baghdad's Palestine Street as they show their willingness to join Iraqi security forces
WAR IN IRAQ COST AMERICA $1.7 TRILLION
The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.
The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
When security forces, insurgents, journalists and humanitarian workers were included, the war's death toll rose to an estimated 176,000 to 189,000, the study said.
The report, the work of about 30 academics and experts, was published in advance of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003.
A cameraman was also killed and a correspondent wounded while covering the unrest, their television channel said.
The swift advance of the militants has sparked international alarm, with UN envoy to Baghdad Nickolay Mladenov warning that Iraq's territorial integrity was at stake.
'Right now, it's life-threatening for Iraq but it poses a serious danger to the region,' Mladenov said. 'Iraq faces the biggest threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity in years.'
The violence has stoked regional tensions, with Iraq accusing neighbouring Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of 'siding with terrorism' and of being responsible for financing the militants.
The comments came a day after the Sunni kingdom blamed 'sectarian' policies by Iraq's Shiite-led government for triggering the unrest.
The prime minister of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region told the BBC it would be 'almost impossible' for the country to return to how it was before the offensive, and called for Sunni Arabs to be granted an autonomous region of their own.
An Iraqi man (right) buys military uniforms at a shop in Basra, southeast of Baghdad
Rush to buy military clothing: Iraqi men buy military uniforms at a shop in Basra, south-east of Baghdad
Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles south-east of Baghdad
Alarmed by the collapse of much of the security forces in the face of the militant advance, foreign governments have begun pulling out diplomatic staff.
U.S. President Barack Obama announced that military personnel 'equipped for combat' were being deployed to Iraq to help protect the embassy in Baghdad and assist U.S. nationals.
Washington has already deployed an aircraft carrier to the Gulf, but Obama has ruled out a return to combat in Iraq for U.S. soldiers.
As the U.S. weighed its next move, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that drone strikes could be used.
Washington has ruled out cooperating militarily with Tehran, but the two governments - which have been bitter foes for more than 30 years - held 'brief discussions' on the crisis in Vienna.
Drones have been used by the U.S. against militants in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, but have been criticised by human rights groups for their heavy civilian toll.
Doubts are growing that the Iraqi security forces can hold back the militant tide, despite military commanders trumpeting a counter-offensive.
Soldiers and police fled en masse as the insurgents swept into Iraq's second city of Mosul a week ago, abandoning their vehicles and uniforms.
This image, posted on Twitter by a jihadist group, is a guide to avoiding drone strikes. Drones have been used by the U.S. against militants in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, but have been criticised by human rights groups for their heavy civilian toll
The jihadists are said to have killed scores of Iraqi soldiers as they pushed their advance, including in a 'horrifying' massacre in Salaheddin province that has drawn international condemnation.
Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called for volunteers to join the battle against the militants and thousands have signed up.
More have returned home from neighbouring Syria, where they had been fighting alongside government forces against mainly Sunni rebels there, a monitoring group said.
JORDAN RELEASES AL QAEDA CHIEF'S MENTOR AFTER THREE-YEAR SENTENCE FOR RECRUITING TALIBAN FIGHTERS
Jordan released a leading jihadist ideologist who was once mentor Al Qaeda's infamous Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after he completed a jail sentence for recruiting fighters for the Taliban, his lawyer said.
Issam Barqawi, known as Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi, 'was released from jail today and he is with his family now,' lawyer Majed Leftawi told AFP.
One of Maqdessi's brothers said he had 'just arrived home'.
Maqdessi was jailed in 2011 for 'recruiting people in Jordan to join the Taliban in Afghanistan as well as terrorist organisations.'
Jihadist Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi is embraced by guests at his home in Yajuz, Jordan, after serving his sentence for recruiting fighters for the Taliban
He was also found guilty of 'collecting funds for terrorist groups to carry out acts that would harm Jordan and its ties with other countries.'
Maqdessi was a spiritual mentor to Zarqawi before the two men fell out.
Zarqawi achieved notoriety for a spate of videotaped executions of Western hostages in Iraq before his death in in a U.S. air strike northeast of Baghdad in 2006.
Terror chief: Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi (pictured, right, talking to son of radical cleric Abu Qatada), once mentored Al Qaeda's infamous Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
In 1992, Jordanian-born Zarqawi met Maqdessi and later joined his Sunni militant group Jaish Mohammed (Mohammed's Army).
The pair was detained in Jordan for five years for membership of an outlawed Islamist organisation but freed as part of a general amnesty in 1999.
The two later fell out over 'ideological differences' and aides said Maqdessi repeatedly denounced Zarqawi.
Maqdessi was arrested again in Jordan in 2005 after remarks he made to Al-Jazeera television, but was released in 2008 for 'humanitarian reasons' after going on hunger strike.
However, signs also emerged today of a reprisal sectarian slaughter of Sunnis in Iraq, as police said pro-government Shiite militiamen killed nearly four dozen detainees after insurgents tried to storm the jail north-east of Baghdad.
A local morgue official said many of the detainees had bullet wounds to the head and chest, though the Iraqi military insisted the Sunni inmates were killed by mortar shells in the attack on the facility outside the city of Baqouba.
In Baghdad, meanwhile, the bullet-riddled bodies of four men in their late 20s or early 30s, presumably Sunnis, were found at different locations in the Shiite neighborhood of Benouk, according to police and morgue officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk with the media.
Also Tuesday, a car bomb in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district killed 12 people and wounded 30 in a crowded outdoor market, police and hospital officials said.
No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, but attacks targeting Shiite districts are routinely the work of Sunni militants.
The Sadr City deaths take to at least 22 the number of people killed in violence in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Kurdish peshmerga forces keep guard around Tal Afar of Mosul where ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, took hold and cover with fire the surrounding villages where the residents keep abandoning towards Sinjar
Tal Afar is a strategic Shiite-majority town between Mosul and the border with Syria
SAUDI ARABIA PROMOTING 'GENOCIDE', SAYS IRAQ
Baghdad has accused Saudi Arabia of supporting 'genocide' in Iraq through its 'financial and moral' backing of Sunni militants who have seized swathes of territory across the country.
A statement issued by the Iraqi government said of Riyadh: 'We hold them responsible for supporting these groups financially and morally and for the outcome of that - which includes crimes that may qualify as genocide: the spilling of Iraqi blood, the destruction of Iraqi state institutions and historic and religious sites.'
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has blamed Saudi Arabia for supporting militants in the past, but the severe language was unprecedented.
Saudi Arabia, the main Sunni power in the Gulf, funds Sunni militants in neighbouring Syria but denies it is behind ISIS.
On Monday, Riyadh blamed sectarianism in Baghdad for fuelling the violence.
The discovery was a grim reminder of a dark chapter in Iraq's history when nearly a decade ago the city woke up virtually every morning to find dozens of bodies dumped in the streets, trash heaps or in the Tigris river with torture marks or gunshot wounds.
The allegation of Shiite killings of Sunnis near Baqouba and in Baghdad were the first hints of the beginnings of a return to sectarian warfare that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007.
Sunni militants also have been accused of atrocities - an apparent attempt to provoke Shiite militias into revenge attacks that would strengthen the hand of an al-Qaida splinter group within Iraq's Sunni community.
A U.N. commission warned Tuesday that 'a regional war in the Middle East draws ever closer' as Sunni insurgents advance across Iraq to control areas bridging the Iraq-Syria frontier. It said Iraq's turmoil will have 'violent repercussions' in Syria, most dangerously the rise of sectarian violence as 'a direct consequence of the dominance of extremist groups.'
During the United States' eight-year presence in Iraq, American forces acted as a buffer between the two Islamic sects, though with limited success.
The fighting around the jail was the closest to Baghdad since the al-Qaida breakaway group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began its lightning advance, seizing several key northern cities in the Sunni heartland last week.
Officers said the local police station, which has a small jail, came under attack on Monday night by Sunni militants who arrived in two sedan cars to free the detainees. The militants fired rocket-propelled grenades on the building before opening fire with assault rifles.
A SWAT team accompanied by Shiite militiamen rushed to scene and asked the local policemen to leave, according to the officers. When the policemen later returned to the station, they found all those in the detention cells dead.
The bodies were taken to the Baqouba morgue, where an official said most had gunshot wounds to the head and chest. One detainee, however, survived and was taken to the hospital.
Iraqis who have fled fighting between security forces and al-Qaida inspired militants in their hometown of Tal Afar carry their belongings at Germawa camp for displaced Iraqis
Iraqi refugees in a hot dusty plain in the largely-autonomous Kurdish area of Dahuk, 260 miles north-west of Baghdad. It is not clear how many people fled Tel Afar. The aid group, the International Rescue Committee estimated 3,000 families fled, most to Sinjar. Others trickled to the Germawa camp
Refugees in the largely-autonomous Kurdish area of Dahuk, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad
Police later arrived at the hospital and took the wounded man away, said a hospital official.
The police officers, the hospital and morgue officials all spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their own safety.
A different account was provided by Iraq's chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi. He said 52 detainees who were held at the station in al-Kattoun died when the attackers from the Islamic State shelled it with mortars.
Nine of the attackers were killed, al-Moussawi said.
The Islamic State is known to be active in Diyala, a volatile province with a mix of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds and where Shiite militiamen are deployed alongside government forces. Sunni militants have for years targeted security forces and Shiite civilians in the province, which abuts the Iranian border.
The Islamic State has vowed to march to Baghdad, and the Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf in the worst threat to Iraq's stability since U.S. troops left. The three cities are home to some of the most revered Shiite shrines. The Islamic State has also tried to capture the city of Samarra north of Baghdad, home to another major Shiite shrine.
'AN OASIS OF GREEN TRANQUILITY': UK TO REOPEN IRANIAN EMBASSY AS WEST SEEKS HELP FROM TEHRAN TO CURB ESCALATING IRAQ CRISIS... BUT PRESIDENT ROUHANI SEEMS TO HAVE MORE PRESSING THINGS ON HIS MIND
William Hague has announced that Britain’s embassy in Iran will be reopened as the West looks to Tehran to help ease the crisis in neighbouring Iraq.
The Foreign Secretary said the 'circumstances are right' to restore the diplomatic base after a significant thawing in relations over recent months.
'Our two primary concerns when considering whether to reopen our embassy in Tehran have been assurance that our staff would be safe and secure and confidence that they would be able to carry out their functions without hindrance,' Mr Hague told MPs in a written statement.
'There has never been any doubt in my mind that we should have an embassy in Tehran if the circumstances allowed.
'Iran is an important country in a volatile region, and maintaining embassies around the world, even under difficult conditions, is a central pillar of the UK’s global diplomatic approach.
'I have therefore now decided the circumstances are right to reopen our embassy in Tehran.'
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The embassy in Iran, which closed in 2011 after hard-liners overran the building and ransacked it, was once described as 'an oasis of green tranquility in the dusty centre of the teeming Iranian capital'.
Despite the apparent warming of relations, the Foreign Office has advised against travelling to Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, pictured above watching his country's first match in the World Cup last night, has said that Iran was ready to assist Iraq if the government asked, but no such request has so far been made public.
Some 5,000 Iranians have also pledged online to defend Iraq's Shiite Muslim holy sites against Sunni extremists who are waging war against the Baghdad government.
The pledges were made on the harimshia.org website, which was launched by a group naming itself the Popular Headquarters for the Defence of Shiite Shrines, the conservative website Tabnak reported.
'Those who sign up are organised into units... and if the order is given by the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) they will go to Iraq to defend the sites,' the harimshia.org page said.
Isis Sunnis wrestle with Shiite Iraqis for control of Baquba
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'We know we need to make important changes in direction': F1 happy to work with Lewis Hamilton after world champion brands the sport a 'mess'
Lewis Hamilton claimed F1 is in a 'mess' and called for management changes
Now Formula One bosses have said they would be 'delighted' to work with him
'It'll be great to have an input directly from the drivers,' said F1 chief Ross Brawn
By Philip Duncan, Press Association Sport F1 Correspondent
Formula One says it will be 'delighted' to work alongside Lewis Hamilton following the world champion's stinging criticism of the sport.
Hamilton claimed F1 is in a 'mess' and called for management changes after his one-sided victory in France on Sunday.
The Briton, who is taking it upon himself to act as the spokesperson for the drivers, is now due to attend three crunch F1 meetings before the rules for 2021 are published in October.
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'I'm happy Lewis has confirmed his willingness to make his own contribution in the coming months, and we can't wait to work with him, particularly in each of the three meetings now scheduled,' said Ross Brawn, F1's head of motorsport.
'We are delighted with his, and all of the drivers' contributions.
'We know Formula One needs to make an important change in direction if it wants to maintain its position as one of the most followed spectacles in the world.
'It'll be great to have an input directly from the drivers. The door has always been open and it's a pity that so often in the past this opportunity has not been taken by all the parties.'
'We can't wait to work with him, Ross Brawn, F1's head of motorsport, said of Hamilton
Hamilton has dominated the new season, winning for a sixth time on Sunday to extend his championship lead to 36 points ahead of this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix.
The 34-year-old is firmly on course to claim his sixth world title, moving him to within just one of Michael Schumacher's record.
He is also just 12 victories shy of the German's record win tally, too.
Brawn, who played a pivotal role in Hamilton signing for Mercedes in 2013, added: 'Lewis seems destined to beat every record, both for this season and all-time.
'He is setting new standards and benchmarks that had previously seemed unbeatable.'
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Plans for 196 new homes in £25m development on old Stonehouse Hospital site
Persimmon Homes West Scotland confirmed an application to transform the 17-acre site.
Stefanie McCourt
A planning application has been submitted to build almost 200 new homes in Stonehouse.
Persimmon Homes West Scotland confirmed an application to build 196 houses on the site of the former Stonehouse Hospital was lodged with South Lanarkshire Council on October 25.
The developer is hoping to secure permission to transform the 17-acre site with a £25million development featuring a range of two, three, four and five-bedroom homes.
Stonehouse Hospital, built in 1896, was demolished in 2001, leaving the land vacant for more than 17 years.
NHS Lanarkshire confirmed earlier this year that it was in talks with a national housebuilder over plans for the site.
As reported in the Advertiser, South Lanarkshire Council had granted the health board more time to market the site for residential development.
Planning permission was originally granted by the authority in 2007, then extended to 2013, then to 2016.
It was extended again in 2016 for another three years.
Persimmon Homes West Scotland has submitted its planning application to build 196 new homes in Stonehouse.
In February, NHS Lanarkshire said it was “at an advanced stage in its negotiations with a national housebuilder with a view to concluding a sale of the property for private residential development”.
A spokesperson said: “The site has an extant planning consent in principle for residential development which was extended by South Lanarkshire Council in August 2016 for a further three years.”
The new planning application is available to view on South Lanarkshire Council’s website.
Several representations have been made by residents highlighting concerns over traffic and congestion, a lack of information about the proposed development provided to locals and a potential loss of privacy to those living nearby.
Former Stonehouse hospital site. A planning application has been submitted to build almost 200 new homes in Stonehouse.
The development layout is also available to view online, as are drawings of the proposed house types, details of site investigations and tree surveys, and information on road and drainage/sewer plans.
In literature lodged with the council, Persimmon Homes says it will create 392 vehicle parking spaces on the site and has committed to creating a play area on-site, despite it not being a requirement for consent.
The company also highlighted that the application marks its latest investment in South Lanarkshire, following developments in Larkhall and Cambuslang. Doug Law, managing director of Persimmon Homes West Scotland, said: “Our commitment to investing and creating new homes in South Lanarkshire remains strong.
“In addition to our investment of £25million is our Section 75 contribution of £100,000 which will be safeguarded for improvements to local leisure/play provision in Stonehouse.”
Persimmon say the development “will also help support more than 800 jobs, including direct staff, contractors and the wider supplier network”.
Mr Law added: “The regeneration of this site will not only create jobs, it will also develop a range of quality homes that meet the needs of the current housing market and enhance the surroundings area with plans to retain existing trees at the front of the site.”
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Football: Inaugural Adam Taliaferro Foundation 7v7 Tournament hits and misses
Coaches and organizers saw positives and negatives in the first Adam Taliaferro Foundation 7-on-7 Football Tournament, which Camden High School won
Football: Inaugural Adam Taliaferro Foundation 7v7 Tournament hits and misses Coaches and organizers saw positives and negatives in the first Adam Taliaferro Foundation 7-on-7 Football Tournament, which Camden High School won Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2019/06/26/camden-high-school-wins-first-adam-taliaferro-foundation-7-v-7-championship/1572137001/
Josh Friedman, Cherry Hill Courier-Post Published 9:28 p.m. ET June 26, 2019 | Updated 9:29 p.m. ET June 26, 2019
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Camden defeated Cherry Hill West, 25-8, in the Adam Taliaferro 7-on-7 Football Tournament championship game played at Rowan University in Glassboro on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer
GLASSBORO – Steve Everette still stays in contact with some of the kids he coached at the Adam Taliaferro Foundation South Jersey Football Coaches Association Blue-White All-Star Classic two years ago.
The Willingboro High School coach had planned on volunteering again this year and was especially excited about the prospect of his nephew Aaron closing out his scholastic career playing at Rowan University.
“It was a great event,” Everette said. “The stands were packed, it was a great atmosphere for a high school football game. … I had dreams of it being (Aaron’s) last game.”
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Everette fully supports the Adam Taliaferro Foundation, which provides financial, emotional and educational support to those who suffer catastrophic head and spinal injuries in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
That’s why he entered the Chimeras into the foundation’s new event, a three-day 7-on-7 tournament.
But there was also some disappointment the All-Star Game was gone.
Others involved in the tourney shared those mixed emotions.
Camden took home the inaugural championship, downing Cherry Hill West 25-8 on Wednesday night. The Panther defense was named the Most Valuable Player of the tourney.
Members of the Camden High School football team celebrate with their trophies after Camden defeated Cherry Hill West, 25-8, in the Adam Taliaferro 7-on-7 Football Tournament championship game played at Rowan University in Glassboro on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Photo: Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer )
“We had intentions of getting better every single day, that’s our goal” rising senior linebacker Tirek Austin-Cave said. “We came out her with a lot of expectations and coming out of this thing with a championship, that’s what we did. That’s the first part for this upcoming season.”
Camden head coach Dwayne Savage had the same vision when he entered the Panthers in the event.
“Anything to compete and get better is a good thing,” he said.
However, like Everette, Savage was saddened by the change.
“I would prefer to get the All-Star Game back,” he said.
But both Savage and Everette understood why the switch was made.
“There’s probably two main things,” said Tom Iacovone, President of the Foundation. “No. 1 is the (change) in the rules in high school football with the coaches working all summer. We were asking a lot of those coaches to come out here, give up a week to coach, it was a big give. And (No. 2), the cost of the game, putting 80 kids up for a week, we’re raising a lot of money and primarily we raise money for the people we help and we were raising a lot of money, but (the game) was costing a lot of money.”
The 7-on-7 tournament cost one quarter of the game, Iacovone said, and while there weren’t many fans in attendance to watch the final, the foundation expects to make between $12,000-$14,000. Last year’s All-Star game netted $14,000.
And the Foundation made the decision to switch to a tournament late, meaning with better planning next year, it could recruit more teams to compete and potentially raise even more without extra expenditures.
“We’ve had 10-15 coaches say to us we would love to be a part of this, unfortunately we’re already committed in other 7-on-7’s and that type of thing,” Iacovone said.
But Iacovone still has the same tinge of regret as Everette and Savage did. He loved the game, and they weren’t alone.
“It (stinks) that we don’t have a South Jersey All-Star Game, however, no one holds more of a responsibility than us coaches because it wasn’t being supported,” Cherry Hill West coach Brian Wright said. “It’s better to have something than nothing.”
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Wright, Everette and Savage all expressed how the tourney allowed their kids to get better. For the Lions, that’s essential considering they’re trying to get to the next level.
“We’re still trying got figure out how to win,” he said. “Even though it’s 7-on-7, I’m not the biggest 7-on-7 guy in the world, but for our kids to go out there and win and kind of carry over what we did last year, it’s huge in terms of program development for us. Any opportunity we can to reinforce our message of going out there and competing and winning and such works for me.”
Wright also wishes linemen would’ve been able to show off too.
“I’m a lineman and I will be till they put me in the ground, and that’s bothersome there’s nothing for those kids,” he said. “There’s a bunch of people that really lost out on this whole thing, the seniors, our South Jersey football community, and then the lineman.”
But Wright believes the tournament can be a success with more growth and support. Iacovone isn’t closing the door on some sort of event for linemen down the road either.
“We’re going to make some tweaks,” Iacovone said.
The good news is the Foundation raised money for those in need, and there’s room to grow on that.
And, the kids had fun.
“I’m thankful and excited that this seemed it went well,” Taliaferro said. “The players had a good time, a lot of excitement among the players, it’s a little different not having the crowds packed, I always loved having football full contact, which is great, but we’re pleased with the way this turned out.”
Josh Friedman has produced award-winning South Jersey sports coverage for the Courier Post and The Daily Journal for more than a decade. If you have or know of an interesting story to tell, reach out on Twitter at @JFriedman57 or via email at jfriedman2@gannettnj.com. You can also contact him at 856-486-2431. Help support local journalism with a Courier Post subscription.
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W Mids police lobby Blunkett
More than 5,000 police officers gathered in London to lobby their MPs over pay and David Blunkett's reform package.
More than 5,000 police officers gathered in London to lobby their MPs over pay and David Blunkett's reform package.
And West Midlands Police had more than 400 off duty officers at the day of action.
Joe Tildesley, chairman of the West Midlands Police Federation, said: "The feeling is that there's a lot of anger and frustration with the Government at the present time. We were very disappointed with their response to the ballot.
"There was a golden opportunity for the Government to step back from confrontation. What we got was a knee-jerk reaction. I just wonder if the Government was surprised by the ballot result - 93% of our force rejected it, which shows the strength of feeling."
He added: "The deal offered by the Government - the actual money on offer - was in my personal opinion a good deal.
"What was a nonsense was the bureaucratic nightmare that would have set officer against officer and force against force. We don't manufacture something, we are a service."
Mr Tildesley attacked the Home Secretary's plan for community wardens, saying: "Citizens don't want to see a two-tier police system. It's an insult to all concerned. Everybody deserves the best quality system.
"I hope the Government will listen to the 10,000 officers who have taken a day off to come here and show their feelings."
Asked if he supported the right to strike, he said: "I support the right at any time to say to the members 'Do you want to go on strike?'
"But there's a long way to go to then take industrial action. It would show however the strength of bitterness and anger and frustration in the police service towards their political masters.
"In my 30 years I have never known as bad a time as this, apart from in 1977."
One of the West Midlands contingent was police widow, Helen Walker, whose husband, Mac, was killed on duty last October 4, when he was crushed after attempting to stop a stolen car.
Mrs Walker, 44, said she was present to represent her husband, who had served in the police for 21 years.
She said: "I wrote to Mr Blunkett about the way policing is going. It's time to tackle criminals, rather than attack the police. The amount of money being spent on the rights of criminals is disproportionate to the funding and resources for victims and the police."
Mrs Walker, of Walsall, added: "My message to the Government is they should listen to the police and listen to the members of the public because they're trying to tell you something. We want a safer Britain."
She said Mr Walker was aged 46 and left four children.
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Guardianship & Administration
Aged Care & Retirement Living
Author Archives: Joanne O'Brien
About Joanne O'Brien
An expert with years of experience in, and passion for, advising the not for profit sector in all aspects of their operations from creation, management, mergers and governance through to risk and compliance and beyond, particularly in the aged care sector.
CCTV Camera trial in aged care – another moral dilemma
As has been widely reported, the federal government is funding a $500,000 trial of surveillance and monitoring systems in aged care facilities managed by SA Health.
The 12 month trial will see cameras installed in residents’ bedrooms only. They will not be installed in bathrooms. The audio-visual monitoring systems will only be turned on if the resident chooses to have their care monitored.
In describing how the systems will work, Care Protect, the UK company providing the technology and monitoring it from its base in Ireland, provided assurances about the safe guards in place to protect the privacy and dignity of residents.
The information available on Care Protect’s website confirms that, in the UK, the use of surveillance technology in bedroom areas for residents who lack capacity varies based on local authority and application of the Human Rights Act (1998). The problem for Australians is that we do not have any legislation comparable to the Human Rights Act. Questions therefore remain about:
How the rights of residents who do not have the capacity to choose or agree to surveillance of their bedrooms can in fact be protected;
Whether the law allows substitute decision makers such as enduring guardians and attorneys to agree to surveillance on behalf of residents who lack capacity;
Whether any changes to Commonwealth legislation such as the Aged Care Act will be able to override legislation in the states that contain the rules for substitute decision makers.
All we know from the media releases is that
Cameras will only be activated in residents’ bedrooms with their or their family’s consent but nothing about how the laws about substituted decision making and the fact that whatever family members are being consulted probably cannot legally give consent on behalf of a resident ; and
There will be a committee overseeing and evaluating the effectiveness of the trial but there has been no mention of any ethical oversight
Despite all of the evidence of abuse uncovered by hidden cameras I still find the suggestion that “Families will be able to watch their relatives in their bedrooms with their phones” chilling.
Perhaps the greatest moral dilemma of our time is how we protect vulnerable people whilst preserving their personal rights and dignity.
If you would like to read more about how aged care providers can respond to requests to have cameras installed please click here.
This entry was posted in Aged Services on 16 April 2019 by Joanne O'Brien.
What is the Serious Incident Response Scheme?
The 2019 federal budget includes a commitment of $1.5 million for preparatory work for the new Serious Incident Response Scheme to commence in July 2022. Providers may be wondering just what this scheme is and what additional red tape it will impose on them.
The Serious Incident Response Scheme was recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its 2017 report “Elder Abuse—A National Legal Response”. The ALRC was asked to undertake an inquiry into “Protecting the Rights of Older Australians from Abuse” as part of the Government’s recognition of the potential for elder abuse to grow given the ‘inescapable demographic destiny’ of an ageing population.
The ALRC recommended that a National Plan to Combat Elder Abuse be developed as well as changes to the law in relation to aged care, appointment of enduring appointments, wills, banking, social security, superannuation, family agreements and guardianship and financial administration.
The aged care specific reforms recommended to address these risks included:
establishing a serious incident response scheme in aged care legislation;
reforms relating to the suitability of people working in aged care—enhanced employment screening processes, and ensuring that unregistered staff are subject to the proposed National Code of Conduct for Health Care Workers;
regulating the use of restrictive practices in aged care; and
national guidelines for the community visitors scheme regarding abuse and neglect of care recipients.
The ALRC recommended that the serious incident response scheme should:
Require approved providers to notify to an independent oversight body:
an allegation or a suspicion on reasonable grounds of a serious incident; and
the outcome of an investigation into a serious incident, including findings and action taken.
Replace the current responsibilities in relation to reportable assaults.
Require the oversight body to monitor and oversee the approved provider’s investigation of, and response to, serious incidents, and enable it to conduct its own investigations of such incidents.
A ‘serious incident’ should mean:
physical, sexual or financial abuse;
seriously inappropriate, improper, inhumane or cruel treatment;
unexplained serious injury;
neglect;
However where the incident is committed by another care recipient, it should mean:
sexual abuse;
physical abuse causing serious injury; or
an incident that is part of a pattern of abuse.
In home care or flexible care, ‘serious incident’ should mean physical, sexual or financial abuse committed by a staff member against a care recipient.
An act or omission that, in all the circumstances, causes harm that is trivial or negligible should not be considered a ‘serious incident’.
The “preparatory work” may result in a scheme that is includes some or all of these recommendations. The only information available in the budget papers was that the new scheme will require residential care providers to report a broader range of incidents occurring in their facilities.
This entry was posted in Aged Services on 4 April 2019 by Joanne O'Brien.
CCTV cameras in residential aged care
We are all gradually becoming alarmingly comfortable with our public lives being recorded by security cameras located in car parks, train stations, shopping centres and the reception areas of buildings large and small. Having our private lives similarly recorded is however another matter. The very thought of cameras being installed in our bedrooms and bathrooms is at once frightening and infuriating. Despite this, many families want to install them in the rooms of their relatives receiving residential care and to record the most intimate and personal of interactions.
At a personal level, I find this perplexing and thought it worth setting out some facts about the use of CCTV cameras in residential aged care settings.
What we know about CCTV cameras in residential aged care
The Aged Care Act and Principles (Act) do not contain any specific rules about the use of CCTV cameras in residential care facilities
Consumer advocates are becoming increasingly vocal about the need for changes to the law to make it mandatory for aged care providers to give residents the option of having cameras installed in their rooms.
So far the Government’s response to these calls has been to make it the providers’ problem. In the words of Minister Wyatt: “Aged Care providers must balance each care recipient’s right to privacy and dignity with care recipients’ rights to live in a safe, secure and home-like environment without exploitation and abuse.”
Families are covertly installing cameras and downloading or streaming the footage to themselves and others
Although there is no general right to privacy in Australia there are many laws in the States and Territories that create criminal offences for filming or taking photographs of people engaged in activities that are considered to be private such as when using the toilet, showering or bathing or in a state of undress.
A resident’s right to privacy and right to be treated with dignity and respect are protected by the User Rights Principles.
There are work health and safety risks if surveillance is conducted without the knowledge of the employees, where there is no transparent policy about the use of footage or where the application of any such policy is inconsistent.
What we don’t know about CCTV cameras in residential aged care
At this stage there is uncertainty about whether a substitute decision maker, such as an enduring attorney or guardian, can consent to the use of cameras in a resident’s room if the purpose of the camera is for reasons other than a genuine medical purpose.
The better view is that a substitute decision maker cannot authorise the use of cameras in private spaces if the purpose is no more than to ensure proper care is being provided or “just in case” something untoward is happening.
What should providers do about CCTV cameras in residential aged care?
The one certainty is that providers cannot allow a vacuum to exist; they should make a decision about whether to allow cameras to be installed in residents’ rooms. Whatever, the decision, there must a clear policy and procedures in place to support that decision. That is the best way to manage the risks associated with residents and families covertly installing cameras.
Our view is that, without a mandatory requirement in the Aged Care Act for approved providers to give residents the option of having a camera installed, the legal risks and practical problems cannot be overcome.
This becomes obvious when you consider all of the risks that would have to be managed if cameras are allowed:
How will the resident’s dignity and privacy be protected?
What measures can a provider put in place to overcome the doubt about the power of substitute decision makers for residents who cannot give their consent?
Who will own and install the cameras?
Who will pay the costs associated with installation, maintenance and security of the cameras?
How and with whom will the images or footage be shared?
What cyber security arrangements will be required to ensure the footage is not misused?
What will be the impact on the provider’s insurance policies and premiums?
What will be the impact on staff and the quality of care?
What will be the attitude of doctors and other health professionals to having their consultations recorded?
Unless the government makes laws that help providers and residents deal with these uncertainties, the current dilemma will continue.
If you would like further advice on how to deal with this confronting issue, please contact us.
Royal Commission to scrutinise providers who do not respond
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety held its first day of hearings yesterday. It began with an opening address from Counsel assisting the Commission in which he informed the Commissioners that less than one half of aged care providers had responded to the Commission’s request for information about substandard care.
Even though the Commission had sought voluntary responses rather than using its extensive coercive powers, this is surprising for a number of reasons:
When the Royal Commission was announced, the industry said it would co-operate fully and look forward to participating in the Commission’s processes.
The Commissioners have made it clear that they will consider using their coercive powers if providers do not respond. If they do so, providers are likely to be given very little time to comply.
Not responding exposes providers to accusations about what they might have “to hide” and the risk of negative publicity. In this regard it is worth noting that Counsel assisting went on to say “As Commissioner Briggs noted previously, providers who do not engage with our requests draw attention to themselves and to their practices. They will be subject to careful scrutiny.”
Providing a response is a means to participate in improving the aged care system. The Royal Commission is a daunting prospect for providers but it also represents an opportunity; an opportunity to contribute to the design of an improved and more effective aged care system. The request from the Commission invited providers to comment on systemic issues within the system, provide information on changes that should be made and give details of innovative solutions they had implemented.
We have assisted providers across the spectrum of the industry to formulate their response; from those in the “top 100” large provider category to providers with less than 30 residents. It can be a time consuming and frustrating task but the risks of not responding can only be mitigated by providing a comprehensive and well considered response.
Please contact Joanne O’Brien if you would like to discuss how best to complete your response.
This entry was posted in Aged Services on 12 February 2019 by Joanne O'Brien.
Queensland Retirement Villages – New Approved Forms
The approved forms to be used by scheme operators from 1 February 2019 are now available and can be accessed using this link.
The new forms are:
• Village Comparison Document;
• Prospective Costs Document;
• Precontractual Disclosure Waiver;
• Entry Condition Report; and
• Exit Condition Report.
The Department of Housing and Public Works has now publicly stated that the implementation date for the new forms will be 1 February 2019 and operators have a busy time ahead preparing the forms for the villages and developing their processes and procedures.
If you require assistance with implementation please contact Joanne O’Brien.
This entry was posted in Aged Services on 3 December 2018 by Joanne O'Brien.
Aged Care Royal Commission Update
All providers would by now be aware that the Royal Commission has written to “larger providers” with an invitation to provide an early written submission. Here are some of the key issues to come out of that letter:
1. This is an invitation only.
The Commissioners have extensive coercive powers under which they can order providers to give information but have not used them in this initial letter. There is therefore no legal obligation on providers to respond.
However, failing to respond could come back to haunt providers if evidence is subsequently given to the Commission by a care recipient’s family or the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner. From both a legal and reputational perspective, it would be far better to be open and transparent from the outset.
This is also an opportunity for providers to give the Commissioners feedback on exactly what providers believe to be the problems within the aged care system. The more providers remind them of the findings and recommendations of the many other inquiries into aged care, the better chance there is of those findings being finally acted on.
2. Personal information should be protected.
This initial invitation does not give providers any protection from releasing personal and health care information about care recipients or other people involved in delivering care. Providers should therefore ensure that they do not release information which they are otherwise prohibited from releasing.
3. What is substandard care?
Question 1 in the Commissioners’ letter asks providers to list details of “any occasion when your service or outlet has provided substandard care” in the period since 1 July 2013. This terminology has been taken directly from the Commission’s terms of reference with the first matter that it was asked to inquire into being:
“the quality of aged care services provided to Australians, the extent to which those services meet the needs of the people accessing them, the extent of substandard care being provided, including mistreatment and all forms of abuse, the causes of any systemic failures, and any actions that should be taken in response;”
This is the context in which providers should consider whether there are any matters to include in their response. These may, or may not be, matters that have resulted in complaints or compliance action by the Quality Agency or the Department. The difficult part is determining what standard the care should be measured against; the standards in the Quality of Care Principles, community expectations or the local GP or some other measure. In the absence of any clarity coming from the Commission, a common sense approach is likely to be the best way forward with the starting point being a provider’s clinical practitioner/s and whoever is responsible for risk management considering the standard the provider will report against.
4. It will take a lot of work
What is certain is that providers should not underestimate the work involved in compiling a response to this invitation. Smaller providers who have the benefit of additional time and seeing the letters sent to larger providers should begin preparations for their responses now.
Please contact us if you require any assistance in the preparation of a response.
This entry was posted in Aged Services on 27 November 2018 by Joanne O'Brien.
Queensland Aged Care Inquiry
The Queensland Government has established its own inquiry into aged care and palliative care. The inquiry will be conducted by the Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee. The inquiry will look at:
The delivery of aged care, end-of-life and palliative care in Queensland across the health and ageing service systems; and
Community and health practitioners’ views on the desirability of supporting voluntary assisted dying, including provisions for it being legislated in Queensland and any necessary safeguards to protect vulnerable persons.
The committee report is due by 30 November 2019.
The inquiry’s terms of reference require the committee to proactively work with the Federal Government’s Royal Commission into the Quality and Safety of Aged Care and to take steps to ensure there is an appropriate exchange of information so that the inquiry can benefit from the work of the Royal Commission. Hopefully this will ensure that providers and consumers are not required to duplicate work done in responding to the Royal Commission.
Unfortunately the post on the Premier’s official Facebook page and the responses it elicited suggest otherwise. Any efforts to improve the provision of palliative care to Queenslanders is welcome as is Queensland’s participation in the debate about assisted dying laws but it is unclear why there is a need to spend more tax payers’ money on an additional inquiry in aged care given the extensive inquisitorial powers of the Royal Commission.
To register as a stakeholder in the inquiry and receive updates on its progress follow this link. If you need assistance in preparing submissions to the inquiry please contact us.
Queensland Retirement Villages – More changes
The Government has moved to ensure that residents of freehold villages have the same protections from the 18 month compulsory buyback provisions as have been given to residents who lease or licence their units. The changes have been introduced to Parliament as part of yet another omnibus bill; the Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018.
This protection will be retrospective so that they are deemed to have commenced on the same date as those given to residents holding leasehold or licence tenure from 10 November 2017. The policy justification for the retrospectivity is the need to ensure the is equity between all retirement village residents.
There is only one minor amendment that will affect operators that lease or licence units. The Bill clarifies that s.104 which prescribes the obligations of a resident who has left the village to continue paying general services charges and maintenance reserve fund contributions, only applies where the lease or licence has been terminated. If a resident moves out of the village but the right to reside is not terminated, the resident will continue to be liable for these amounts as they were when living in the village.
If you would like more information about these proposed changes or the reform process which commenced in 2017 please contact us.
Retirement village law reform in Queensland
The implementation of the amendments to the Retirement Villages Act (“RVA”) has reached the next stage with 1 February 2019 being proclaimed as the commencement date for:
The new disclosure documents; the Village comparison document and prospective costs document;
The requirement for operators to maintain a website which can relate to more than one village scheme;
The 21 day disclosure period;
The new entry and exit condition reports;
Additional information to be included in residence contracts; but no mandatory form contract as yet;
Application of the new narrower definition of reinstatement work;
Introduction of rules relating to renovation work;
Amended definition of capital replacement fund contribution;
Reduction in the time period for reconsidering an agreed resale price from 6 months to 3 months;
Residents and prospective residents to be given access to prescribed “operational documents” which will be defined in regulations yet to be released; and
The prohibition on misleading or deceptive conduct in relation to the operation of a village.
The prescribed forms for the disclosure documents, entry and exit condition reports and waiver form for the disclosure period are yet to be released.
This means that operators will have a lot of work to do over the next few months to ensure the new documents are prepared and staff are trained on the implementation of the new procedures.
CRH Law can provide assistance with preparation of the documents and training packages for staff.
This entry was posted in Aged Services on 30 October 2018 by Joanne O'Brien.
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Cascada - Playground
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I am ecstatic that Cascada has another new song out! "Playground" serves as the official song to the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Championships, and it's nice to see Natalie Horler looking as beautiful as ever. We need this trio to come back with an absolute smash of a song. For now, this one is just as good, and really shows the great direction that Cascada is going in. Watch Natalie Horler from Cascada perform the new song "Playground" whilst ice hockey players skate around her, in this new music video of the official song for the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Championships.
Cascada are a trio dance group consisting of Natalie Horler, Manian, and Yanou. The latter two are DJs who stay behind the scenes, producing the music, whilst Natalie Horler is the face of the act. They have achieved so much in the years they've been together, including storming charts worldwide, entering Eurovision, and winning awards. There's not a lot this trio hasn't done, so it's impressive that they continue to release music and tour all around the world. This is something new for the trio, releasing an official anthem of the world's Ice Hockey Championships, so it's nice to see that they are continuing to establish themselves, even if their recent singles haven't charted - that doesn't mean they aren't epic, we always add them to our party playlists.
The music video has both a sweet narrative and a performance piece. Natalie Horler shines throughout as she sings the song on the ice. Her energetic performance vibes unleash upon the viewing audience proving that she deserves to be on stage! Or in this case, on the ice.
I love that the ice hockey player can be seen skating past her in the clips. It adds an extra interesting part into the performance piece. She looks stunning, as she always does.
The narrative shows two children who are clearly into one another, and the counterparts to these two are Natalie Horler and the ice hockey player she is obviously going out with. I like how they pair up the visuals and tell a subtle, yet similar, story during the visual.
Overall, the music video is highly relatable, it also links in well with the Ice Hockey World Championships - it was no surprise to see an Ice Hockey game in the visual. I love the narrative, and Natalie Horler impresses, as always, in the performance piece. I hope more new music is on its way, we need Cascada back on the charts and the radio!
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Playwrights With and Without Agendas: Reverberation and The Colored Museum
Luke Macfarlane and Aya Cash in Reverberation. (Photo: T. Charles Erickson)
Reverberation, which just closed at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut, is the first play I’ve seen by Matthew Lopez, whose The Whipping Man was well received in New York in 2011. Reverberation is a brand-new play about the debilitating consequences of grief and the interplay of loss and sexuality. Its thirty-five-year-old protagonist, Jonathan (the Canadian-born actor Luke MacFarlane, best known for the TV series Brothers and Sisters), has lived alone in Queens since his partner of fifteen years, Gabriel, was beaten to death in front of his eyes. His grief has paralyzed him. He works out of his apartment, rarely venturing outside; he doesn’t keep up with friends; he turns down his parents’ offer to visit them in Oregon for Thanksgiving or Christmas. His only ongoing contact with the world is in the form of one-night stands with men he meets on Grindr, and he prefers them to visit him and gets rid of them when the sex is over. That’s what happens in the opening scene, where he has an intense sexual encounter with Wes (Carl Lundstedt), who’s twenty-three and so knocked out by the experience that he’s eager to see Jonathan again. “You fuck like you invented it,” he tells Jonathan, and a month or two later, when he gets up the nerve to come around to see him again, he’s both more graphic and more lyrical about what made Jonathan a more powerful, and also more poignant, lover than anyone else he’s known. By then we’ve figured out that Jonathan’s sexual performance is his way of holding onto his life with Gabe – of channeling those emotions once more – but he can only parcel them out in discrete, limited interactions.
But by the time Wes rings his doorbell a second time, Jonathan has found a friend. Claire (Aya Cash) moves in upstairs, into the apartment Jonathan used to share with Gabe but abandoned after his murder, and is so aggressive about offering her friendship that she breaks down his practiced resistance to any kind of intrusion into his private life. Initially she makes the mistake of assuming he might want to sleep with her. Once they both recover from that embarrassment, and her need for comfort after an evening with an abusive date evokes his compassion – he shares his bed with her (in a non-sexual way) so that she feel safe and cared for – she becomes his pal, his confidant and practically his roommate. On the nights when he wakes up from nightmares, she reciprocates his generosity. By act two, however, it’s clear that their intimacy has become, for him, an unhealthy substitution for the loss of Gabriel.
Carl Lundstedt and Luke Macfarlane. (Photo: T. Charles Erickson)
Reverberation holds you, and all three of the characters feel real, three-dimensional, and I don’t think that’s a small feat. Contemporary American playwrights tend to use characters to make points (as Bathsheba Doran does in The Mystery of Love and Sex, the last new play I reviewed), and contemporary American plays with gay protagonists are more likely to employ characters as exhibits in sexual-political screeds (Casa Valentina, Mothers and Sons, The Nance). Lopez puts the characters first – not just Jonathan but Claire and Wes; he isn’t interested in lecturing the audience. Not all his ideas are good ones, though: for instance, Jonathan designs sympathy cards, which, he explains to Claire, find words for the things that are too hard for people to say for themselves. (Lopez underscores the meaning of Jonathan’s job when he tells her about Gabe’s death, and her response is “I don’t know what to say.” Case in point.) Sometimes he falls into the trap, especially tempting for young playwrights, of writing set-piece speeches. There’s one in the first scene, delivered by Jonathan to Wes, about the tactile quality of books that you don’t remotely believe a man who’s retreated from the world would say to a pick-up he’s trying to hustle out the door. (Plus it’s a device: Lopez needs to find a way for Jonathan to send Wes off with a copy of one of his favorite books, James Baldwin’s Another Country, to prepare his return in the second act.) And Jonathan’s speech to Claire about Gabe’s murder feels more like an audition piece, which is how MacFarlane performs it.
The play falls apart at the end. When Wes comes back and talks about what their night together meant to him, his perspective is unexpected and even moving. But when he recounts their initial online exchange about movies and his surprise when Jonathan kissed him, you wonder if Lopez has forgotten the narrative set-up. Isn’t the idea of Grindr that it’s an easy, immediate means of finding sex partners? The real problem, though, is the Hollywood-thriller twist at the end, which (a) cheapens the drama and (b) doesn’t make sense when you run the plot back through your head (which is true of most such twists).
Jonathan is an extremely challenging role that doesn’t fully work; MacFarlane struggles with it, but the struggle is impressive, and even when he can’t quite get on top of the character, it’s an admirable performance. Lundstedt, a recent Carnegie Mellon graduate, is extremely touching as Wes; this is the kind of acting that deserves to kick-start a young actor’s career. And Cash shows both comic and dramatic range in the role of Claire. The three performers have been sensitively directed by Maxwell Williams, in a show that boasts superb production values: a fine two-level set by Andromache Chalfant, dynamic lighting by Matthew Richards, and costumes for Claire that manage to both articulate qualities in the character and give us a sense of how Jonathan sees her. (One of her outfits is a dress he buys her as a gift.) As a play, Reverberation balances virtues and faults; as a production, it telescopes the distance between Hartford and New York.
Capathia Jenkins, Ken Robinson, and Nathan Lee Graham in The Colored Museum. (Photo: T. Charles Erickson)
I felt pummeled by The Colored Museum, George C. Wolfe’s 1986 play, which Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company has mounted on its Boston University mainstage. The last show I saw that was as smug, self-congratulatory and assaultive as The Scottsboro Boys, the screeching musical tirade about race by Kander and Ebb and David Thompson that Susan Stroman directed on Broadway five years ago, in which the notorious incident of the railroaded black men accused of raping a white woman was put in the form of a minstrel show. Wolfe’s equally obvious idea is to present late-twentieth-century African-American culture as a series of exhibits: the soldier dying in the jungles of Vietnam, the prettified models on the pages of Ebony, the Afro-versus-straightened-hair debate, the coked-up clubbing drag queen and so forth. The preface, “Git on Board,” where a stewardess on a time-traveling airplane instructs her passengers to put on their shackles, reveals Wolfe’s point of view in the first couple of minutes: a century and a quarter after emancipation, blacks are still no better than slaves – to vanity, fashion and self-delusion as well as racism. Man, does Wolfe ever think he’s clever, dropping one leaden irony after another. If you were lucky enough to drift off to sleep at the end of Exhibit #1 (“Cookin’ with Aunt Ethel,” where a down-home TV chef whips up a shawl of little black figurines that hangs around her neck like an albatross) and didn’t wake up until the finale, you’d still get the whole picture.
Never having seen any previous productions of the play, I couldn’t say if Billy Porter’s direction is overstated or merely renders the script as Wolfe intended it to be performed; my guess is that it’s pretty much a fait accompli on the page. The six members of the cast – Nathan Lee Graham, Capathia Jenkins, Ken Robinson, Shayna Small, Rema Webb and the dreadlocked percussionist Akili Jamal Haynes – work up a righteous sweat, and you can be impressed by their talent and energy even as it wears you down. The monologues are punishingly attenuated, and a sketch called “The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play,” which takes on all of the drama Wolfe rejects as bourgeois – i.e., pretty much anything that’s appeared on Broadway that he didn’t have a part in, as either writer or director – feels interminable. (The only moment in it that perked me up was Jenkins’ impression of Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls.) One scene, “Symbiosis,” has a promising comic premise – an assimilated black man (Robinson) throws away all the emblems of his rebel sixties-seventies youth as the symbol of his younger self (Graham) protests – and ends well (he can’t let go of the Temptations singing “My Girl”), but in between Wolfe can’t resist turning it into yet one more lecture.
Indignation and outrage can fuel satire, though, as Voltaire and Swift and the Brecht of The Threepenny Opera knew, they’re only dramatically effective if they’re transformed. Contempt has no place in satire at all, and that’s the prevailing tone of The Colored Museum. It may cheer Wolfe to think that he’s superior not only to his subjects but to his audience, but that attitude works a kind of reverse magic on his play: the contemptuous becomes the contemptible. Both Jelly’s Last Jam, the Jelly Roll Morton musical he wrote and directed for the late, great Gregory Hines, and Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk, his tap-dancing extravaganza starring Savion Glover, suggested that African-American musical performers who succeeded in crossing the color barrier and making a hit with white audiences, like Morton and Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, were merely kissing the Man’s ass. Next season he’ll be adapting the legendary 1921 black vaudeville show Shuffle Along into a musical about the original production, to star Glover and Audra McDonald. Caveat emptor.
– Steve Vineberg is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches theatre and film. He also writes for The Threepenny Review and is the author of three books: Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and High Comedy in American Movies.
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George H.W. Bush: A Life of Service
George Herbert Walker Bush has died at age 94. He was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, on his 18th birthday in 1942 and immediately joined the Navy.
With World War II raging, Bush earned his wings in June 1943. He was the youngest pilot in the Navy at that time.
Young Pilots
From left, radioman Joe Reichert, Navy Lt. jg. George H.W. Bush, and turret gunner Leo W. Nadeau, stand in front of their TBM-1C Avenger, Nov. 2, 1944.
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In his inaugural address on Jan 20, 1989, Bush spoke about America having a meaning “beyond what we see.” The idea of America and what it stands for is important in the world, he said.
“We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state,” Bush said.
“We must act on what we know,” he said later in the speech. “I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.”
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President George H.W. Bush meets with troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving during the Gulf War, Nov. 22, 1990.
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Statement by Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis on the Passing of President George H.W. Bush
“President George Herbert Walker Bush, naval aviator, decorated in his youth for valor in combat, took his experience in war to build a better world as our commander in chief. His service to our nation demonstrated how we as a people can draw on our humility, diversity and devotion to our country to meet every challenge with fortitude and confidence. We will miss him, but at the going down of the day, his example will long guide our Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen and Marines for how to live life without regret.”
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Navy Lt. j.g. George H.W. Bush in the cockpit of his TBM Avenger, ca. 1944.
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Former President George H.W. Bush celebrates following a parachute jump for the 10th anniversary and rededication ceremonies of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, Nov. 10, 2007.
Statement by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. on the Passing of President George H.W. Bush
“The life of President George Herbert Walker Bush is an inspiration to all Americans. Today, we remember and honor his example of character, leadership, and service. His efforts throughout a long career of public service touched each of us in many ways, but none were more inspiring and impactful than his contributions to the defense of our nation.
From being the Navy's youngest pilot in the early days of World War II to serving as Commander in Chief in the last days of the Cold War and through Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, President Bush's five decades of defending the American people and American principles have few rivals in our history.
On behalf of U.S. military forces everywhere, we salute President Bush and his incredible legacy of leadership and service to our nation.”
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Local band will play huge German festival to mark international link-up between Chesterfield and Darmstadt
From L-R: Samuel Hutchinson, James Umney, Jack Cooper, Jonjo Caton, Josh Feeley. By RoeParkin Photography.
Sophie Wills
Published: 12:35 Updated: 13:24 Tuesday 23 April 2019
As Chesterfield gears up to celebrate half a century of being twinned with the German town of Darmstadt, a local band is preparing to play in front of 400,000 people at the area’s annual music festival.
Alternative indie quintet Clear Vinyl will represent Chesterfield at Schlossgrabenfest, which has attracted millions of visitors since it launched in the 1990s, in May.
Schlossgrabenfest.
Josh Feeley, James Umney, Jack Cooper, Sam Hutchinson and Jonjo Caton say they are excited to fly the flag for Chesterfield as they join more than 100 musical acts from across the globe.
Josh, on vocals, said: “It’s a dream come true for us, to be honest. We’ve been wanting to get the band on the road for years.
“We were encouraged to apply for a spot by Chesterfield Borough councillor Howard Borrell who’d heard our songs at Chesterfield FC matches and really liked our music.
“You know what competition is like in the music industry these days, we didn’t think we’d have a shot.
“But we thought, well it can’t do any harm, and within 12 hours of sending the form off we had a message saying they’d be delighted to have us play.”
While ‘Schlossgrabenfest’ might be hard to pronounce alone, Josh said: “How do you think I feel?
“I’ll have to speak in German on stage.”
He cites the band’s main influences as Catfish and The Bottlemen, Sundara Karma, Blaenavon, the Night Cafe.
“Music is escapism,” says Josh. “We’ve all got our demons and ways of dealing with them.
“A few of us tried sport for that, but none of us were any good.
“So instead we’re creating music that’s fun and you can throw yourself around to a bit.”
The twinning agreement between Chesterfield and Darmstadt was signed in 1959.
The link between the two towns was put to good use in 2010 when it was used to find relatives of Sergeant Dennis Heeley, whose plane was shot down near Salzbergen during the Second World War.
For more information on Schlossgrabenfest visit: www.schlossgrabenfest.de
Keep up with Clear Vinyl at: https://www.facebook.com/ClearVinylMusic/
READ MORE: CHESTERFIELD NAMED AS ONE OF UK’S MOST PICTURESQUE TOWNS
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Genish resigns from Telecom Italia board
Amos Genish, the Vivendi-backed former CEO of Telecom Italia (TIM) who was ousted in a dramatic boardroom coup last November, has resigned from the TIM board. Genish, who was removed as CEO after a series of moves engineered by activist investor Elliott Management and its backers, will be replaced as a Vivendi representative on the […]
Telecom Italia moves towards Open Fiber talks
Telecom Italia (TIM) has revealed that it has signed a non-disclosure agreement with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Enel with a view to starting talks about the possible sale of its fibre network. The discussions will centre around the potential integration of TIM’s fibre network with the Open Fiber infrastructure, owned by CDP and […]
Telecom Italia to sell digital-terrestrial broadcasting outfit
Telecom Italia (TIM) and GEDI Gruppo Editoriale have agreed to sell digital-terrestrial broadcasting outfit Persidera to F2i and EI Towers for an enterprise value of €240 million. TIM owns a 70% stake in the broadcasting company, and GEDI Gruppo Editoriale holds 30%. Under the terms of the deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, Persidera […]
Telecom Italia names new CFO
Telecom Italia (TIM) has named Giovanni Ronca as chief financial officer reporting directly to CEO Luigi Gubitosi. After a transition period Ronca will become CFO as of 17 June, replacing Piergiorgio Peluso. Peluso, as of that date, will report to Gubitosi, managing the Group’s strategic projects and extraordinary operations. Ronca was co-head of UniCredit commercial […]
Vivendi abandons move to replace Telecom Italia board
Vivendi has abandoned attempts to replace Telecom Italia (TIM) board members nominated by arch-foe Elliott Advisors and has said it is “prepared to give credit” to CEO Luigi Gubitosi’s request for it to withdraw its motion. Vivendi did not provide details about what Gubitosi had promised. The meeting of TIM shareholders requested by Vivendi as […]
Vivendi and Telecom Italia trade blows as shareholder meeting approaches
Vivendi and Telecom Italia (TIM) have again traded blows in the run-up to the March 29 shareholders meeting called by the French media group – TIM’s largest shareholder – in an attempt to wrest control of the company from a board dominated by members nominated by hedge fund Elliott Advisors. Vivendi has called on the […]
Elliott and Vivendi trade insults as Telecom Italia battle rages on
Media giant Vivendi and activist investor Elliott Management are continuing to engage in an increasingly aggressive war or words as the pair battle for the future of Telecom Italia (TIM), in which Vivendi remains the largest single shareholder. Responding to an appeal by Elliott to shareholders to reject Vivendi’s move to wrest control of the […]
Vivendi: Telecom Italia auditors’ report justifies claims
Vivendi has claimed that a statutory auditors’ report on Telecom Italia (TIM), released at the end of last week, confirms that the Italian telco’s chairman violated corporate laws and fundamental governance principles. Vivendi said that the report confirmed the existence of serious irregularities related to governance of the company and to its board, dominated by […]
Vivendi outlines plans to ‘restore value for Telecom Italia’
Vivendi has published a paper outlining its proposals to “restore value for Telecom Italia,” which include replacing five of the company’s 10 board directors. Vivendi said it believes Telecom Italia shareholders should vote for the revocation of five Elliott-nominated board members and the appointment of five new independent directors at Telecom Italia’s shareholders meeting on […]
TIM board approves talks with Open Fiber for possible sale of network
Telecom Italia’s (TIM) board has approved a new strategic plan that includes the opening of discussions with wholesale fibre network provider Open Fiber, with “all possible options” including a sale of the TIM network, on the table. CEO Luigi Gubitosi presented the three-year plan, which was accepted by the board with two abstentions. TIM said […]
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West Chester receives Sterling Award from National Arbor Day Foundation
The community has been a Tree City USA for 21 years.
West Chester, PA -- The National Arbor Day Foundation has awarded the Borough of West Chester the prestigious Sterling Award in recognition of ten years of participation in the Tree City USA Growth Award Program. Communities receive the award that go beyond the four standards of Tree City USA and accumulate points from a list of projects that demonstrate improvement and growth of local tree care. West Chester is the only Pennsylvania community to receive the Sterling Award this year. It was in recognition of an aggressive tree planting program from 1989 to 2009 when more than 3,000 trees were planted.
Learn more about how you can participate in local tree planting and care at West-Chester.com > tree.
The Tree City USA® program, sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters, provides direction, technical assistance, public attention, and national recognition for urban and community forestry programs in thousands of towns and cities that more than 135 million Americans call home.
The many benefits of being a Tree City include creating a framework for action, education, a positive public image, and citizen pride.
To qualify as a Tree City USA community, a community must meet four standards established by The Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters. These standards were established to ensure that every qualifying community would have a viable tree management plan and program.
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EEOC’S Las Vegas Office to Host Mediation Matters! Employer Roundtable on July 26
LAS VEGAS -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) mediation program is recognized as one of the best mediation programs in the country, and this year the program celebrates its 20th anniversary.
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the mediation program, the EEOC's Las Vegas office will host an employer's roundtable event on mediation and the benefits of early conflict resolution on Friday, July 26. The "Mediation Matters!" roundtable will be held at the EEOC's Las Vegas Office at 333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 5560, Las Vegas, Nev., from 9:30am to 10:30am. Space is limited - RSVP via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mediation-matters-las-vegas-employer-roundtable-tickets-65004412949
In fiscal year 2018, 6,754 charges were resolved nationally through the EEOC's mediation program, with a 97% satisfaction rate. The core principles that guide the success of this program include the program being free and voluntary for all parties, fair and neutral outcomes that all parties agree to, and all the proceedings are confidential. On average, complaints are resolved through mediation within 90-days of the parties' agreement to mediate. This efficient resolution benefits all parties by addressing complaints quickly and by saving significant time, resources and money.
"The benefits of mediation go beyond resolving employment disputes - it improves communication and fosters cooperation and collaboration between the parties to discover the real issues in the workplace even if the charge is not resolved," said Rosa Viramontes, director of the EEOC's Los Angeles District, which includes Las Vegas. "It provides a unique opportunity to proactively resolve issues and avoid potential charges in the future."
Further information about the EEOC and its national mediation program is available at www.eeoc.gov.
The EEOC advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. More information is available at www.eeoc.gov. Stay connected with the latest EEOC news by subscribing to our email updates.
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‘$100 laptop’ to cost $175–and run Windows
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed April 26 that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
In addition, the devices could have a new market: U.S. schools.
Nicholas Negroponte, the former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab who now heads the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, updated analysts and journalists on where the effort stands, saying: "We are perhaps at the most critical stage of OLPC's
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Former Home Secretary David Blunkett honoured by the University of Huddersfield
Lord Blunkett among seven people to receive honorary doctorates
Henryk ZientekBusiness Correspondent
Lord Blunkett and his guide dog Cosby at the graduation ceremony at the University of Huddersfield
One of the country’s best-known politicians has been honoured by the University of Huddersfield.
Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett received an honorary doctorate from the university – 44 years after gaining a Certificate in Education at the university’s forerunner institution, Huddersfield Polytechnic.
The former Sheffield MP, now Lord Blunkett of Brightside and Hillsborough, was accompanied by his guide dog Cosby at the ceremony where he was presented with his honorary doctorate by university vice-chancellor Prof Bob Cryan.
Lord Blunkett, who completed his studies at the polytechnic’s Holly Bank campus at Birchencliffe in 1973, served as a cabinet minister in the late 1990s and early 2000s – notably as minister for education and employment, home secretary and minister for work and pensions.
David Blunkett and his guide dog pictured with fellow students at Huddersfield Polytechnic's Holly bank campus, where he studied for a Certificate in Education
He was one of six people to receive honorary doctorates during the week at the university’s Queensgate campus.
Also recognised were Prof Mario Neto Borges, a leading figure in Brazilian education who studied for his PhD at Huddersfield; Sir John Parker, a leading business figure with a notable role in the revival of British shipbuilding; Roger Marsh, chairman of Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership; Dame Carol Robinson, internationally-renowned scientist and a professor of chemistry at Oxford University; and Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, a Home Office minister and University of Huddersfield graduate.
The ceremonies also saw an Emeritus Professorship conferred on David Leaper, a distinguished surgeon and lecturer who became Professor of Clinical Sciences at the University of Huddersfield in 2013.
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Intersectional observations of the Human Brain Project’s approach to sex and gender
B. Tyr Fothergill (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
William Knight (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
Bernd Carsten Stahl (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
Inga Ulnicane (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
Publication date: 7 June 2019
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This paper aims to critically assess approaches to sex and gender in the Human Brain Project (HBP) as a large information and communication technology (ICT) project case study using intersectionality.
The strategy of the HBP is contextualised within the wider context of the representation of women in ICT, and critically reflected upon from an intersectional standpoint.
The policy underpinning the approach deployed by the HBP in response to these issues parallels Horizon 2020 wording and emphasises economic outcomes, productivity and value, which aligns with other “equality” initiatives influenced by neoliberalised versions of feminism.
Research limitations/implications
Limitations include focussing on a single case study, the authors being funded as part of the Ethics and Society Subproject of the HBP, and the limited temporal period under consideration.
Social implications
The frameworks underpinning the HBP approach to sex and gender issues present risks with regard to the further entrenchment of present disparities in the ICT sector, may fail to acknowledge systemic inequalities and biases and ignore the importance of intersectionality. Shortcomings of the approach employed by the HBP up to March, 2018 included aspects of each of these risks, and replicated problematic understandings of sex, gender and diversity.
This paper is the first to use an intersectional approach to issues of sex and gender in the context of large-scale ICT research. Its value lies in raising awareness, opening a discursive space and presenting opportunities to consider and reflect upon potential, contextualised intersectional solutions to such issues.
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B. Tyr Fothergill, William Knight, Bernd Carsten Stahl and Inga Ulnicane (2019) "Intersectional observations of the Human Brain Project’s approach to sex and gender", Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print
: https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-11-2018-0091
Copyright © 2019, B. Tyr Fothergill, William Knight, Bernd Carsten Stahl and Inga Ulnicane.
Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is an enormous research endeavour with immense transformative potential within information and communication technology (ICT), neuroscience and related fields. It was funded in 2013 as a Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship to increase understanding of the brain from diverse intellectual perspectives and develop technical and ethical governance infrastructure for the advancement of neuroscience.
Like many ICT projects, women are underrepresented in the HBP. The proportionate lack of women in the HBP and similar initiatives is an ethical issue, not only because consideration for sex and gender throughout the process of research is vital to producing high-quality science (Nielsen et al., 2017 for a recent review), and because multiple perspectives are important in producing socially relevant research, but also for reasons of fairness and social justice (Monroe et al., 2014; Salinas and Bagni, 2017). The need to create truly diverse teams in ICT is immediate. Some emergent technologies are already ethically problematic, as demonstrated by the misclassification of Black women, transgender people and non-binary people by automatic gender recognition (Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Keyes, 2018). Engineering novel techniques and technologies for the betterment of society is central to the HBP mission, which makes representation at every level a particularly important consideration; thus, actions on these issues should not be taken for purely instrumental reasons.
The underrepresentation of women in the HBP has been acknowledged as a serious challenge within the leadership of the Project, who have progressively implemented an approach to the issue. However, the methods by which representation of women is achieved are worth reflecting upon, because some tactics may backfire and reinforce negative trends (Roberts, 2015). This could mean a significant loss of investment and a failure to increase diverse representation, thus robbing the project not only of prospective talent, but of public trust and potential social relevance. In this paper, we critically assess how approaches to sex and gender in large technical ICT projects are realised by using the HBP as a case study. We will contextualise the strategy of the HBP within the wider context of the representation of women in ICT, and reflect upon this approach from an intersectional standpoint.
Our intention with this work is to offer insights on the HBP strategy which may be helpful for both the HBP and future ICT projects; contribute to wider discussions on multiple inequalities and intersectionality within an EU policy framework; and raise awareness of the risks of focussing on only one axis of inequality in attempting to increase “diversity” in technical ICT projects.
Definitions and Sources
We follow Johnson et al. (2009) in our definitions of sex and gender because these were designed for biomedical research and incorporate theoretical aspects derived from the humanities and social sciences:
Sex is a multidimensional biological construct that encompasses anatomy, physiology, genes, and hormones, which together affect how we are labelled and treated in the world. Although conceptualizing sex usually relies on the female/male binary, in reality, individuals’ sex characteristics exist on a fluid and medically or socially constructed continuum. (Johnson et al., 2009, p. 3) [emphasis ours]
Although sex is primarily biologically constituted, it is not independent of social construction nor is it binary. When explicit, we use the term “female” to mean a person identifying as a member of the female biological sex, and the term “male” to mean a person identifying as a member of the male biological sex. In the observations described here, we have mainly perceived gender or descriptions thereof
Gender is a multidimensional social construct that is culturally based and historically specific, and thus constantly changing. Gender refers to the socially prescribed and experienced dimensions of “femaleness” or “maleness” in a society, and is manifested at many levels. The experience of gender is always linked to the social and political context. (Johnson et al., 2009, p. 4) [emphasis ours]
Gender is not universally understood in the same way and is not static; for example, consider the complexity inherent in geographical regions such as Europe (Verloo, 2007). Like sex, gender is also not binary and is deeply performative (Butler, 2006). We use the terms “she/woman” and “he/man” to describe these genders only when they are explicit. If not, we use “one” or the singular “they”. Sex and gender are not interchangeable, and the intrinsic linkage of both to wider cultural contexts underlines the importance and potential value of an intersectional approach.
Intersectionality was defined by Shields (2008) as “the mutually constitutive relations among social identities” (p. 301), and Walby et al. (2012) state that “inequalities mutually shape each other […] […] at their point of intersection” (p. 237). Both definitions serve our purpose here, and we agree that every person concomitantly possesses multiple identities and aspects which shape their experiences (particularly their experiences of oppression), and that these cannot simply be individually disentangled from the others. Identities, categories of social membership such as ability, class, gender reassignment, age, religion, race or ethnicity, sexuality, etc. are not easily separable, and to treat any single aspect in isolation is to contribute to inequality and oppression. The example par excellence is provided by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991): “the intersection of racism and sexism factors into Black women’s lives in ways that cannot be captured wholly by looking at the race or gender dimensions” (p. 1244). In that context, both discourses of anti-racism or feminism marginalise Black women because they privilege the views of Black men or White women respectively (see also Collins, 2008).
These definitions inform our discussion of representation in ICT, the HBP’s approach to “Gender and Diversity” through to March, 2018, and our reflections on how this strategy relates to other policies and developments. We will contextualise the HBP’s situation within ICT more broadly, and discuss observations of the available materials and events relating to the HBP’s approach.
We have written this paper from the perspective of researchers within the HBP. There are benefits and challenges of writing a pseudo-auto-ethnographical account of a project within which one is embedded. Usefully, we have been able to access the Project Blue Book (high-level personnel directory), an HBP conference on gender, a related workshop, internal circulars and advertisements and PowerPoint slides as members of the HBP. Phenomenological aspects of these events and items have heavily influenced this paper, and we have personal knowledge of circumstances (e.g. knowing approximately how many people work in the HBP; advice that the Gender partner was changing). However, our critique is tempered by an awareness of our positions within the project, and made in full knowledge of the importance of avoiding alienation of our colleagues and collaborators.
We intended to examine the HBP Gender Survey, sent to the entirety of the Project in Spring of 2017 and the HBP Gender Action Plan (GAP), to conduct a comparative analysis of baseline data with the data on underrepresented groups reported elsewhere (Napier Diversity Report, https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/pubs/napierdiversityreport/). At the time of writing, that version of the GAP was not available within the HBP, and we were not provided with the survey or its methodology. Thus, aspects of the HBP strategy discussed here are based upon first-hand experiences and observations of the presentations used at the Gender and Diversity Conference (9 March, 2018) as well as the Career-Building Workshop (8 March, 2018) and related discussions with speakers and participants at both events. We incorporate observations of textual materials relating to these events and “gender”-related HBP Open Calls. Additionally, we consulted policy documents relating to the Horizon 2020 research framework.
Representation in ICT
At this time, women are largely underrepresented within ICT education and practice in North America and Europe (Nedomova and Doucek, 2015; Pechtelidis et al., 2015; Sax et al., 2017; though see Varma and Kapur (2015) for India as a contrasting example and Wakunuma (2007) for the case of Zambia). A litany of books and articles from the previous decade traces the problematic experiences of women in computing education and related disciplines (Fisher and Margolis, 2002; Henwood, 2000; Papastergiou, 2008; Cheryan et al., 2009; Misa, 2010). This mirrors issues of representation in academic leadership (Monroe et al., 2014), particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and supports the case for considering representation in computing independently (Sax et al., 2017).
Initiatives intended to increase the proportion of “women and underrepresented minorities” in STEM and ICT are viewed as a multi-purpose solution to issues of specialist labour shortage, a way of fuelling innovation or as a method of shaping a more diverse, representative future (Roberts et al., 2002; Lagesen, 2007; Henwood, 2000; Bosch, 2015; Rodriguez and Lehman, 2017). There are many complex cultural, systemic and infrastructural factors contributing to the underrepresentation of women in these areas, including the early age at which activities may be gendered and the pervasiveness of negative attitudes toward women in certain professions (Pearce, 2017). This has resulted in many interpretations of the core nature of the problem and multiple framings of women. In many of these cases, women are presented as a homogenous group posing a problem to solve (Henwood, 2000), the answer to problems of “equality” (Monroe et al., 2014; Salinas and Bagni, 2017) or as a way of improving research and innovation (Nielsen et al., 2017).
Published articles suggest strategies to improve the inclusion of women, ranging from ways to achieve “gender equity/equality” at scientific events and conferences (Débarre et al., 2018; Moghaddam and Gur, 2016), to lists of policies or actions to implement (Monroe et al., 2014) to picking apart the many contributing factors when women select (or exclude) ICT degrees or professions (Sax et al., 2017), to simply concluding that since the numbers of women in ICT roles are rising overall, that the problem with fix itself (Nedomova and Doucek, 2015).
However, a diverse, representative workforce with the capacity to produce the desired trends in innovation cannot be achieved by simply “hiring women”, implementing “family-friendly” policies (Monroe et al., 2014) or even addressing issues of stereotyping, identity dissonance and individual belonging (Henwood, 2000; Bosch, 2015; Pechtelidis et al., 2015; Rodriguez and Lehman, 2017). People hold multiple categories of social membership (identities) concomitantly (Museus and Griffin, 2011), and these mutually shape each other and contingent social relations (Walby et al., 2012). Therefore, attempts to achieve “diversity” solely through “gender” are problematic because there is no such thing as “a woman”: one’s identity is multivariate and fluctuates. To focus questions about inclusion on a single variable (in this case, sex or gender, though these are frequently conflated) can exclude groups of people, especially when other aspects such as class or “race/ethnicity” are taken to be neutral or default categories (e.g. “whiteness” following Carbado, 2013). Efforts to increase the number of women in academia, STEM or ICT tend to focus on “women”, are often not intersectional and can thus serve to further marginalise those who are not in positions of privilege to begin with (e.g. women and non-binary people who are not White, able, middle class, cis-gendered, etc.).
Intersectional methodologies are incorporated into research design and analysis (Windsong, 2018), and Rodriguez and Lehman (2017) advocate for an intersectional agenda in ICT, drawing on decades of feminist and critical race theory research. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s seminal text detailed how the experiences of being a Black woman are not simply a combination of experiencing being Black (with the idea of “man” as default) and experiencing being a woman (with the idea of “White” as default; Crenshaw, 1991). Black women and Black LGBTQ academics in computing experience an intensely inhospitable environment (Payton et al., 2018). Harris and Daniels (2017) note the hostility experienced by Black lesbians in the tech industry, and Gray (2012) describes the oppression of Black and Latinx sexual minorities in digitally mediated spaces. Religion also affects whether women consider a career in ICT (Trauth et al., 2008). Individual complexes of identities result in distinct experiences (Crenshaw, 1991; McCall, 2005; Shields, 2008; Bryant, 2017), and univariate approaches to “gender equality” are thus unlikely to achieve their intended impact apart from in highly specific circumstances (e.g.: Monroe et al. (2004) describe success in appointing women at elite US colleges established in the 19th century to educate the sisters of wealthy White men (p. 420-421)).
These calls for attention to intersectionality are not European, and thus less influential upon the HBP context. Furthermore, the role of women in ICT has received less scholarly attention in Europe recently (though see Walby et al., 2012; Pechtelidis et al., 2015). In a European context, “multiple inequalities” or “multiple discrimination” is the dominant frame within which identity intersections are addressed (Krizsan, 2012; Agustín and Siim, 2014). This is inadequate because it does not allow for compound or intersectional discrimination, precisely the phenomenon described by intersectional feminists and critical race theorists for decades. “Multiple inequalities” acknowledges that a single individual might be discriminated against in different situations for different reasons. However, different types of inequality are not structurally parallel or similar to one another (Verloo, 2006; Lombardo and Verloo, 2009); categories of identity do not have the same weight or influence in any situation; the model is narrow and excludes other approaches to inequality; and it omits the concept of class entirely (Kantola and Nousiainen, 2009).
Class or socioeconomic background is a significant factor in accessing career paths leading to a position in ICT or academia. Class and labour are considered in Marxist scholarship and feminist theorisations of gender in ICT (Fuchs, 2010, 2019; Adam et al., 2004). However, most approaches to diversity in ICT research (including intersectional works) lack deep engagement with class. The EPSRC Napier Report on Diversity mentions class in only a single instance, obliquely. This is concerning, particularly in light of the failure of the “multiple inequalities” framework to accommodate socioeconomic status and the innate, culturally contingent complexities in defining class.
There is another significant challenge to pursuing an intersectional agenda in European ICT (and therefore the HBP): Despite their prominence and centrality in intersectional scholarship, Black women have been “displaced from feminist dialogues about intersectionality in Europe” (Cho et al., 2013, p. 799). This is linked to current European attitudes toward the analytical utility of “race” or “ethnicity”, perceived as useful only in the USA and the United Kingdom (Cho et al., 2013; Lewis, 2013), which amounts to “an act of epistemological and social erasure—erasure both of contemporary realities of intersectional subjects […] […] and the history of racial categories […] […] across the whole of Europe” (Lewis, 2013, p. 887). Race and ethnicity, like gender and sex, are cultural constructs, and they play a major role in the exclusion of groups and individuals from participation (Rodriguez and Lehman, 2017).
Representation in the HBP
The HBP has an entire Subproject dedicated to Ethics and Society, which promotes the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) within the HBP. Gender is an important part of RRI within the Horizon 2020 framework and is one of five thematic constitutive elements. Other approaches to RRI explicitly frame “diversity” as vital to truly responsible innovation: “Responsible innovation should not just welcome diversity; it should nurture it” (Stilgoe et al., 2013, p. 1573). Although the nature and utility of “diversity” is debated, there is agreement that it is not limited to sex or gender, with other categories of social membership more frequently associated with the term (Baker et al., 2016).
Beyond the overall under-representation of women in the HBP, they are most visible in managerial posts, and take on additional administrative roles. This is typical, and such trends benefit men’s research careers (Angervall et al., 2015). Of the 16 SP Managers in the SGA1 funding period HBP Blue Book, 11 were women. In comparison, there were 23 women listed as non-managerial leaders in the project Blue Book and 141 men. At that time, 7 of the 19 Ethics Rapporteurs were women and four of these were also SP Managers. HBP Subproject webpages present a similar narrative: of the research Subprojects, only SP12, Ethics and Society, had equal representation of men and women at the time of writing.
Policies to address gender in the HBP were designed to align with Horizon 2020 policy. Presented as “Gender Equality”, and outlined on the EC website:
In Horizon 2020 Gender is a cross-cutting issue and is mainstreamed in each of the different parts of the Work Programme, ensuring a more integrated approach to research and innovation. (http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/promoting-gender-equality-research-and-innovation)
A series of objectives, including: “gender balance in research teams”; “gender balance in decision-making” (with at least “40 per cent of the underrepresented sex” in panels and groups, 50 per cent in advisory groups); and “integrating the gender dimension in research and innovation”, are listed on the website and in the guidance (http://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/h2020-hi-guide-gender_en.pdf).
According to the website, achieving these objectives will:
reach a critical mass of universities and research institutions in Europe which implement long-term institutional change through gender equality plans;
increase the participation of women in research, improve their careers and achieve gender balance in decision making; and
increase the scientific quality and societal relevance of produced knowledge, technologies and innovations by integrating an in-depth understanding of both genders’ needs, behaviours and attitudes. It also contributes to the production of goods and services better suited to potential markets.
The H2020 objectives appear to be aimed at increasing “diversity”, but this is only true if “diversity” consists of women already occupying intersectionally privileged positions (able, middle class, etc.). Furthermore, gender is presented as binary (“both genders”) and conflated with sex (“40 per cent of the underrepresented sex”). In the guidance document, this is only clarified with a brief reference to Londa Schiebinger’s work on sex and gender in innovation (Schiebinger, 2014). Race, ethnicity, disability and accessibility, class, religion, sexuality, age, gender reassignment (a protected characteristic in the UK) and related axes of oppression which clearly intersect with sex and gender do not merit mention.
The HBP has acted on these Gender Equality goals. An initial approach to addressing the underrepresentation of women and the issue of diversity in the HBP from January of 2017 (in the SGA1 funding period) included creating a Gender Advisory Committee and coordinating “gender equality activities” with support from consultants at EAF Berlin (Europäische Akademie für Frauen in Politik und Wirtschaft Berlin), a non-profit organisation dedicated to “diversity in leadership”. An HBP-wide Gender Survey was conducted from May to June of 2017, followed by the production of a Gender Action Plan in March of 2018, including targets and key performance indicators. The survey results and the Gender Action Plan were presented in a summary format in the Gender Equality and Diversity Conference.
HBP gender and diversity conference and gender action plan
The primary purposes of the HBP Gender and Diversity Conference were to present the results of the Gender Survey and introduce the Gender Action Plan (GAP). Despite widely disseminated encouragement from prominent HBP leaders for “men” or “males” to attend, the vast majority of attendees were women. The survey results presentation led directly into the Gender Action Plan outline, and both indicated inequities and imbalances in the HBP leadership and project itself. Despite the inclusion of the word “diversity” in the conference title, this concept was not a core constituent element.
Unfortunately, a lack of contextual, qualitative, and numerical data has prevented an in-depth analysis; it was not possible to subject the survey itself to textual analysis as we were not given access to it. We therefore review and respond to the material presented at the conference in a summary fashion below. The terms “female” and “woman” were used interchangeably (likewise “men” and “male”, with other genders overlooked), and no acknowledgment of the difference between sex and gender was made; the terms used below follow these conventions. Likewise, the charts below are adapted from (and thus reflect) the terminology used in the survey presentation.
The survey was completed by 160 HBP members, who were broadly classed by leadership role (Figure 1).
Considering the underrepresentation of women in the HBP, the disproportionately high number of women taking the survey is notable.
At the time of the survey, women occupied only 15 per cent of HBP leadership roles, and were more likely than men to think they were not equally represented in decision-making positions in the HBP. In fact, nearly half of men not in leadership positions in the HBP (Figure 2) thought women were represented equally in this regard, which represents a considerable gap in understanding.
Females who responded to the survey, especially those in leadership, were far more likely to live in a dual-career couple than males (Figure 3). This contributes to different working experiences and a potential gap in life quality between males and females.
More female leaders were in favour of measurable gender targets than male leaders. Non-leader members were either not asked this question, or their responses were not presented (Figure 4). This is problematic because that group is the largest in the HBP.
The following strategic plan was offered to tackle issue-related indicators: taking both a top-down and bottom-up approach; mainstreaming gender and diversity (“diversity” in this context appeared to amount to “more women/females”); promotion schemes for women, and making offers to women and men to encourage them to be agents of change; suggested indicators and targets; and measures to be taken in four action fields.
According to the presentation, 42 per cent of attendees of HBP Education events were female, and 28 per cent of lecturers at events were female. The suggested goal was increasing the former by 2 per cent and the latter by 12 per cent. We understand that women were and not 42 per cent of the HBP, and that they were therefore already overrepresented in such contexts. To require attendance figures in excess of proportionate representation would only add to the labour performed by HBP women.
The second set of indicators required appointing an arbitrary number of women to positions of leadership, and increasing percentages of women in governing bodies. It also recommended that an arbitrary number of “gender” events be held. These are potentially valuable goals, but in the absence of contextual data (e.g. numbers of “males”, “females”, etc. and when these data were collected; how proportionally representative the statistics are; and methods to support implementation), they seemed unlikely to have much impact even without the incorporation of intersectional concerns.
Intended actions following from these indicators were intended to address “gender” in the HBP. These consisted of workshops for PhD students; career-building workshops for female scientists; production of a resource list on women in STEM; a fellowship programme; leadership training; a sponsorship (mentoring) programme for future leaders; more gender events; and offering childcare support at conferences.
These activities not only tacitly excluded other genders (apart from in the realm of leadership), and might therefore either be ignored or spark resistance to the programme, but they also excluded non-researchers. This was sometimes explicit (as outlined the workshop description below) and in keeping with a prevailing view that other labour is not as valuable as that of “scientists”. Implicitly framing childcare as a concern of “women/females” is also an issue, and assigning the responsibility for associated costs onto HBP partners “according to their rules and regulations” appeared particularly galling since it is unlikely that most member or partner institutions had policies governing this. Furthermore, these actions did not address the many structural causes for the perceived lack of “women”. Finally, these solutions were outlined from a perspective detached from the realities of “women/females” in the HBP. As far as we could assess, at no point were “female/women” PhD students and researchers asked what they would personally require to remain in the HBP or consider continuing a career in ICT or neuroscience.
The final recommendations to address “gender” in the HBP focussed on governance structures. These began with work–life balance policies and included items which would be practically impossible to enforce at the project level, such as meeting times and email conduct. Some recommendations (e.g. “supporting partner institutions, HBP leaders and individuals” were so vague that they were meaningless, whereas others extended extant structures (the Gender Advisory Committee). The plan also recommended that Open Calls be evaluated by panels with an unspecified percentage of women, and that new applications to collaborate with the HBP be subject to requirements of female–male ratios. Annual reporting with numerical data was then advised, without irony.
Finally, the presentation closed with a “Call to Action”, including the following directives:
“Encourage diversity in your team!
Consider women and men equally for promotion!
Support colleagues with childcare responsibilities!
Seek female and male speakers for your events!
Invite female and male members for committees!
Check your partner institution’s rules and regulations!”
The items in the Call to Action above are inherently problematic, despite positive language and clear intentions to include “men/males”: diversity is not defined; gender is presented as binary; support is not clear in the context of childcare responsibilities and frames those with children as creating more work for those without children; blandly stating that females and males should be members of committees without reference is both self-evident and toothless; and the exultation to check your partner institution’s rules and regulations in an attempt to encourage compliance with unknown policies appears asinine.
Other speakers at the conference presented more nuanced perspectives on gender in the HBP, especially Ineke Klinge (Chair of the Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on Gender) and Londa Schiebinger (head of Gendered Innovations, Stanford University). Schiebinger’s paper focussed on how including aspects of sex and gender in scientific research improved research results (outlined by Nielsen et al., 2017). She also made a clear statement about sex and gender not being interchangeable, and in conversation with one author of this paper, agreed that gender and sex were not the only aspects of identity important to consider with regard to increasing diverse representation in the HBP.
The predominating discourse of the conference advocated for prioritising gender or incorporating sex and gender for instrumental reasons: to produce “excellent science” and as a proven way of “adding value”. Representation went unmentioned. Social justice or ethical considerations, in the words of one speaker, were not sufficient motivators for change. Furthermore, there was a focus on showcasing “females” or “women” and a parallel deontological fixation on leaders/leadership, governance, rules and regulation in the HBP and EAF presentations. This reflected a lack of awareness of the situation of “females/women” in the project and a neglect of other genders, not to mention a general failure to consider power relationships and cultural change. Overall, a hierarchical and firmly research economy-driven view in which women were most productively transformed into a source of value pervaded.
HBP gender and diversity workshop: Fixing the women
The Gender and Diversity Career-Building Workshop was offered on the 8th of March 2018, a provisional step in transforming the “females/women” in the HBP. To take part, one had to fulfil several criteria: be “female” (rather than identify as a woman, etc.); be a post-doctoral or PhD researcher; invest time in the process of nomination within the appropriate Subproject; and write an application to take part. Additionally (to quote the advertisement):
“Candidates should:
have a proven scientific record;
be particularly ambitious;
be motivated to pursue towards [sic] leadership positions in academia; and
be working in the Human Brain Project (HBP).”
If one met these criteria, they would be offered personal skills training, information on scientific career building, career planning opportunities, a session on self-presentation and a “Networking Night in which they would be able to meet successful female scientists to give participants first-hand insights into the challenges that lie ahead of them”. One author of this paper applied to and attended the workshop; below, we outline this event and offer considerations for the future.
Unfortunately, one of the EAF organisers fell seriously ill, which prevented some aspects of the Career Building Workshop from going ahead. The event was facilitated in a lecture format, except for a partnered reflection activity designed to aid in career planning, a drawing activity intended to help the attendee focus on the areas of their life which they needed to “fix” and a guided self-presentation session.
The workshop began with a distinguished speaker from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She presented a narrative which, whilst intended to be inspirational, may have undermined the intent behind the workshop. The speaker had three daughters and a very successful research career in data science, which she acknowledged was partly due to a supportive spouse and hiring a nanny. This information was received by some attendees with unease, perhaps due to the exceptional unlikeliness of access to the resources to do the same (also, some had children but not necessarily partners). She asserted that the first three years after one’s PhD were the most important, and that it may not be “worth it” if success during this period eluded a researcher. She unequivocally stated that the most important factor in research career success was mobility across countries. Her period of mobility was a 1.5-year post at an extremely prestigious US university, which came across awkwardly because most of the participants (the majority of whom were long past their PhD) had already moved countries several times and/or for a longer duration. This opening session demonstrated that the workshop aims had not been designed with the situation of precariously employed researchers or the current research context in mind.
Perennial challenges such as: “my parents are getting old and I want to live near them and still have a career”, or “I want to be able to live with my husband and still have a career” or “when can I have a child and still have a career?” were raised but not discussed, and the implications of structural oppression were avoided. Practical solutions or an opportunity to openly discuss these were not provided. Apart from the self-presentation training, attendees were treated as a homogenous, heteronormative group. Attendees were quietly expected to come from an educated, middle class background, want a (male) partner and children, be abled, to have common learning and working experiences, etc. Workshop activities did not link to the Gender Action Plan presented the next day in any discernible way.
There are multiple considerations regarding the exclusion of groups and individuals from this workshop. In the context of multi-scalar power relations, it may be socially uncomfortable to request nomination for inclusion in such an event, let alone one offered only to members of a single gender identity. Considering the strategies consciously or unconsciously deployed to avoid social friction in ICT (Adam et al., 2004; Alfrey and Twine, 2017), it may seem counterproductive to put one’s head above the parapet by singling out the gender aspect. Furthermore, it is well-documented that many women are uncomfortable with self-promotion, partly due to the perceived social consequences of this behaviour (Lindeman et al., 2018). Therefore, viewing oneself as “particularly ambitious” could be seen as destructive; likewise, an unqualified statement like “have a proven scientific record” is unclear. What is proven? Does this only refer to publications, or can it mean datasets? Is a social scientist an acceptable applicant? Furthermore, requiring a desire for leadership from the candidate places another social burden on them and conflates leadership with success.
Transnational research feminism?
The presentations, papers and discussion at the HBP Gender and Diversity Conference and sessions in the Career-Building Workshop were intended to bolster the participation of “women/females” in the HBP and related research pathways whilst highlighting the importance of incorporating sex and gender into research. The reasoning behind these concerns is aligned with recent high-profile research (Nielsen et al., 2017), and variously described as increasing scientific excellence, improving research quality, raising productivity, “saving lives and money” and adding value to the HBP. These are noble and useful goals, but important considerations could be lost in the process.
The focus of sex and gender initiatives in the HBP and in ICT research more broadly is to increase participation and capitalise on the abilities of “diverse” teams to produce higher quality research, making the most of an untapped talent pool and becoming or remaining competitive in specific fields (Herring, 2009, though see Stojmenovska et al., 2017 for a critique). These aims replicate a conflation of sex and gender with “diversity” and unerringly echo strategies employed by corporate or state initiatives under the umbrella of Transnational Business Feminism and other forms of the neoliberalisation of feminism (Prügl and True, 2014; Roberts, 2015; Prügl, 2015). In other words, women in the supply (innovation, research, etc.) and/or marketing (publishing, patents, proposals, etc.) chains are offered conditional empowerment to produce advancements which benefit the overall system, and which may only serve to reinforce systemic oppression (Prügl, 2015). Whether or not this attempted mobilisation of women’s labour is in response to a perceived crisis in ICT innovation (see arguments outlined in Roberts, 2015, p. 215-216) is certainly up for debate. This approach to the role of women in innovation may be problematic for the following reasons:
It ignores the nature of gender oppression within ICT and other disciplines, and makes diverse representation in the workforce merely incidental to research and innovation.
It is unlikely to be successful for recruitment and outcomes because programmes adhere to an extant structure and operate within a wider system of oppression which does not respond to the interests or needs of women.
In a European context, it does not acknowledge intersectionality apart from occasional confusion with “multiple inequalities” as operationalised within an anti-discrimination policy framework.
Many who have and continue to benefit from the current systems are likely to possess various forms of privilege and therefore to maintain the status quo, thus indirectly contributing to systemic oppression.
Furthermore, this narrative is aligned with the Horizon 2020 gender strategy, which focusses on labour, employment and economic productivity, and in turn has been influenced by other European policy developments. The failure of “multiple inequalities” frameworks to consider aspects such as class, and the historic erasure of other groups from dialogue (in the words of one Gender and Diversity conference attendee: “We don’t have race in Europe”) is tantamount to total exclusion.
We do, in fact, have “race/ethnicity” in Europe, and this is not a recent phenomenon (Jones, 1997). To continue the historic erasure of culturally constructed categories of difference is to deny the experiences and identities of intersectional people (Lewis, 2013), and write them out of expectations for an innovative, inclusive, representative future. The same could be said of neglecting the effects of class. Rodriguez and Lehman make an explicit call for the incorporation of intersectionality, including addressing classism, to support the growth of computing sciences (2017), and projects like the HBP are ideally positioned to tackle this challenge.
An intersectional future for the HBP?
As this paper was in the final stages of completion, it became clear that the Gender Action Plan as introduced at the HBP Conference on Gender and Diversity would not materialise as planned due to a change in consulting partnership. The approach, events and materials discussed in the preceding sections were created by EAF Berlin, and the integration of the new partner, CONVELOP, has begun.
CONVELOP was selected following an Open Call, “Coordination of Gender Equality Activities”, and appears to be charting a different course for progress within the HBP on issues of sex, gender and diversity. At the time of writing, their strategy (as outlined in the proposal: “WE ARE HBP”) incorporates some considerations for which we advocate here, including an intersectional approach. The motivation for employing this approach appears to be partly to overcome resistance rather than an embrace of intersectional feminist theory (Rodriguez and Lehman, 2017) or as a commitment to “curating communities” (Pearce, 2017). Nonetheless, any acknowledgment of “multivariate” identities is promising, and we will follow the work of CONVELOP in the HBP with interest.
Despite the lack of access to the intended primary data sources, we have used first-hand observations of project documents and gender-related materials and events to demonstrate that the HBP approach to sex and gender up to March, 2018 is aligned with H2020 policy, and that several shortcomings are evident, which resonate with the concerns of intersectionality and labour scholars:
A failure to acknowledge class, “race/ethnicity” and other factors outside of H2020 gender policy undermines attempts to recruit “women”.
The resemblance to neoliberalised versions of feminism deployed to exploit women’s labour to the benefit of systems of oppression is uncanny.
The focus on one gender may cause reticence to participate amongst women, and spur resistance amongst other genders.
Targeting only “researchers”, “scientists” or “leaders” reinforces hierarchies and excludes many women from programmes.
Likewise, a neglect of the areas in which women are overrepresented in the project leads to a narrowness of vision.
Whilst not intended to be comprehensive, the list below provides some ideas for developing related policy in large ICT projects:
reflect upon the wording and vocabulary used when advertising funding, positions, etc.;
include non-researchers in all aspects of work;
include all genders in efforts to increase “diversity”, be clear that gender and sex are different and do not conflate gender with sexuality;
fund childcare where children live;
consider that individuals may have caring, household, or community duties apart from childcare, this may (a) incorporate intersectional positions such as income, age, religion, etc. and (b) be true of all genders;
address education, project, meeting, and venue accessibility, take multiple religious calendars into account when scheduling meetings, and arrange social and networking events that are not centred around alcohol;
make travel and hotel bookings through the project or institution so that reimbursement delays do not hinder applicants;
when hiring, take breaks into account and recruit by career stage rather than the dates by which degrees or qualifications were obtained;
arrange for long-term support of mentoring programmes and reward mentorship;
make investments in educational ICT programmes for young children; and
consider that high-quality research may not require researchers constantly moving institutions, and enhance support for international collaborations and consortia.
We have used an intersectional approach to open up the complex, culturally contingent space around gender and increasing diversity in ICT, but it is not clear what an intersectional HBP future would look like. Including sex, gender and other intersectional factors in scientific research increases research quality; more diverse representation in ICT is socially responsible and may stifle the perpetuation of intersectional marginalisation. But arbitrary requirements for an increase in “women” in the HBP are unlikely to have the impacts associated with diverse teams. Furthermore, would a truly intersectional HBP be 50 per cent “women”? Would the HBP serve as a representational microcosm of the population of the EU 28?
Any approach to diversity should be thoughtfully considered. The HBP has a unique opportunity to make a significant contribution to social good and equality within Europe and beyond, in addition to producing excellent science. Continuing, diachronic reflection on the impact of intersectional efforts in the HBP (and ICT more broadly) is a potentially productive line of future research.
HBP gender survey participants and leadership status
Survey participant views on representation in HBP leadership
Dual-career couple status of gender survey participants
Survey participant views on a Gender Action Plan with targets
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Windsong, E.A. (2018), “Incorporating intersectionality into research design: an example using qualitative interviews”, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 135-147.
We are grateful to our colleagues and collaborators in the Human Brain Project, most especially Christine Aicardi and Arleen Salles for their helpful comments on a draft of this paper. We are also thankful for the support of the Ethics and Society subproject (SP12). Thanks also to Kutoma Wakunuma, anonymous reviewers, and attendees of the ETHICOMP conference hosted by the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJAIT) and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, in Tricity, Poland for thoughtful comments and discussions which have enhanced this paper. The ideas presented here represent the views of the authors. We do not claim to reflect the position of the Human Brain Project or its funder, the European Commission. This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement Nos. 720270 and 785907 (HBP SGA1 and SGA2).
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Nail Health, Nail Disorders & Disease
Can Hydrogen Peroxide Kill Toenail Fungus? How About Listerine?
Toenail fungus is an infection of the nail bed. It is a slow growing fungus that develops when exposed to moist damp areas. Its causes involve weak immunity, old age, athlete's foot, skin diseases like psoriasis, a minor injury to the nails or skin near the nails, and others. Its symptoms involve discoloration, thickening, and crumbling of the infected nails. It goes not to go on its own without treatment. In case, the patient has diabetes, it is necessary to treat this infection quickly or it would lead to complications.
Can Hydrogen Peroxide Kill Toenail Fungus?
Toenail fungus is an infectious disease characterized by discoloration and thickening of the toenail. It is also known as onychomycosis. It goes deep in the toenail and disrupts the integrity of the nail. The infected nail becomes discolored, thickened, and crumbled at the edge. It can be painful. It can develop in any person at any age. Its incidence is commonly marked in the old people who are above 60 years. it develops in the person who is immune deprived, or who have diabetes, minor skin injury or toe injury, other skin conditions like psoriasis and Athlete’s foot.(1)
Hydrogen peroxide (HP) in a concentration of 3% can be applied on the nails to treat toenail fungus. It is a solution made up of oxygen and water. It has strong oxidizing properties that are usually used to deal with beauty and health problems. It is also used to clean teeth and stains on clothes.(2)
It is the oxidation therapy by which hydrogen peroxide can treat toenail fungus. When hydrogen peroxide is applied to the affected nails, it usually oxidizes the causative fungus that grows on the affected nails. In this activity, it kills the causative microorganism. It has both antibacterial and antifungal properties. It is possible when the affected area is dipped in the solution of hydrogen peroxide for 30 minutes daily.(2)
The oxidation therapy of hydrogen peroxide is effective in the treatment of toenail fungus when used in a lower concentration. In high concentration, it is used for a long time, it may cause side effects. Its side effects include redness and irritation on the applied areas. Its 3% solution is used for treatment. It is used for 30 minutes every day. It can also be used in a solution that contains 5 % vinegar to avoid side effects and have good results.(2)
How About Listerine?
Listerine can be used for the treatment of toenail fungus as a home remedy. It is a cheap and effective way to treat toenail fungus.(3) It contains Camphor, Thymol, and Menthol that has antifungal properties. It takes a long time to treat the fungus. It should be applied on the nails every night before going to sleep for at least six to twelve weeks to get rid of this fungus. It depends on the severity of the infection and health of the patient.(4)
Listerine is a home remedy that can be used without any hassle. It is cheap and easily available in the market. If the toe is soaked in a liquid containing Listerine for a few weeks, it can kill the fungus. But most patients do not have this much patience to apply this chemical regularly for a long time.
However, research studies and clinical studies are not present that can prove its effectiveness for the treatment of toenail fungus. However, the FDA has approved Undecylenic Acid present in Listerine that can treat nail fungus.(3)
Toenail fungus is caused when someone is continuously exposed to a warm and moist environment. Hydrogen peroxide and Listerine can be used as a home remedy to kill toenail fungus. Hydrogen peroxide has oxidative properties that kill toenail fungus. Listerine is cheap and easily available chemical to get rid of this fungus. However, it is not proved in clinical studies and research studies.
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About FPP
Founded in 2009 by Emmy-award winning director, producer and cinematographer Mary Olive Smith, Flying Pup Productions produces a wide range of visually powerful, character-driven documentaries that move and motivate the world — from feature-length films to branded shorts for a variety of organizations. Taking the viewer on an intimate journey across the globe, we tackle stories ranging from the fight for safe motherhood in remote parts of the globe to the building of a great American art museum in New York City, and from championing the journeys of children with developmental disabilities to shining a spotlight on solutions to the global climate crisis.
Clients and projects include “24 Hours of Reality" (Shoulder Hill Events for the Climate Reality Project), the Neglected Tropical Diseases Forum (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GSK), Global Health Frontiers (Cielo Productions), the Whitney Museum of American Art, NOVA (PBS) and The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship.
About | Mary Olive Smith
Capturing the human spirit.
With a unique ability to capture the human spirit in her storytelling and to develop trust and empathy with her subjects, Mary Olive works as a director, producer and cinematographer and has filmed in nearly 30 countries. She founded Flying Pup Productions (FPP) after 13 years producing prime-time programs at Engel Entertainment for major broadcasters. This Fall she returns for another season of “24 Hours of Reality,” produced by Shoulder Hill Events on behalf of The Climate Reality Project (founded by Al Gore), where in 2016 she acted as series producer for short documentaries that highlight solutions to the climate crisis.
At Flying Pup Productions, she executive produces productions for a variety of notable organizations. Earlier in 2016 FPP produced the Whitney Museum of Art’s “Building the New Whitney” for their annual gala video as well as a tribute film to art collector Leonard Lauder. Other projects include videos for GlaxoSmithKline and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation on the fight against neglected tropical diseases and highlight videos for The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship at universities across the country. Mary Olive was also a cinematographer for the television series “Global Health Frontiers,” which won first place in the 2017 National Headliner Awards for best journalism in the category of science/health reporting for television.
Mary Olive’s feature-length directorial debut, “A Walk to Beautiful,” won the 2008 Emmy for News and Documentary for broadcast nationwide on NOVA (PBS) and the International Documentary Association’s Best Feature Doc Award. “AWTB” follows the journeys of women in Ethiopia with devastating child birth injuries call obstetric fistula. It was released theatrically in NYC, San Francisco and L.A. She was also the Field Producer and Cinematographer on “Child Brides” (Now on PBS)—winner of the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow Award.
With FPP she was co-director and Director of Photography on the feature-length documentary “Fixing the Future” with host David Brancaccio (2012), a journey across America exploring how Main Street is bringing back jobs. Mary Olive continues to work with on her independent film, CHEER, about girls who are changing attitudes toward people with developmental disabilities.
Mary Olive has appeared on NPR's "The World," "The Brian Lehrer Show" and the national TV program "Dialogue." She has been invited to speak at a number of venues such as Princeton University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a global conference on women's health called Women Deliver. She has served as a juror for the International Emmy Awards and for the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Grants. She is a member of the International Documentary Association and Women Make Movies.
Mary Olive earned a BA from Davidson College, a Masters from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and was the recipient of a National Security Education Program Fellowship for documentary filming in Senegal. When she is not directing or shooting docs, she moonlights with the roots country/blues band Stillhouse Serenade (vocals and guitar). She and her husband Danny Weiss have a 8-year-old son named Grant, who’s laughter and innate ability to live life to the fullest causes us to rethink the word “ability.”
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A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Some clouds. Low around 75F. Winds light and variable..
A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Some clouds. Low around 75F. Winds light and variable.
This 2015 photo shows the house that Terrell Bowers built on Fones Cliffs.
PAMELA A. D’ANGELO FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR
Developer shelves condo plan for Fones Cliffs, will sell to conservation group
By Pamela A. D’Angelo For The Free Lance–Star
After more than a decade of battles with neighbors, environmentalists and other groups, a developer who owns property adjacent to a controversial golf-course development planned on Fones Cliffs is selling it to a conservation group.
Ultimately, the property will be purchased by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Terrell Bowers, who owns the parcel he called Rappahannock Cliffs, had been in the process of asking Richmond County for a rezoning so he could build 10 high-rise condominiums that would house 200 units. The cliffs above the Rappahannock River about halfway between Port Royal and Tappahannock draw hundreds of bald eagles, are important to watermen who fish in the river and are a historic area for the Rappahannock Tribe.
“Many people will rejoice that a large section of this iconic landmark will be conserved forever instead of built out with 10-story condominium towers or houses,” he said.
Bowers was working in the commercial real estate business in Richmond in 2003 when he purchased the 250 acres along Fones Cliffs as a weekend getaway. He built a four-bedroom house on the property that now sits abandoned, windows broken, teetering on the edge of the eroding cliffs.
He had considered a conservation easement on the land, but then made plans to build condominiums.
Now a resident of South Carolina, he sent out a press release Wednesday announcing the property was under contract with The Conservation Fund, a national group that acts as an intermediary for federal agencies because it can move much quicker to purchase properties. In this case, the property will eventually be sold to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which already owns the neighboring Rappahannock River Valley Wildlife Refuge.
Heather Richards, Virginia state director for the Conservation Fund, confirmed there is a contract on the property, but could not divulge the purchase price. She said funding will come from a variety of sources and is still being worked out. The Fund plans to close on the deal by the end of the year.
Richards said the group had been talking with Bowers for years about buying the property. Bowers said Fish and Wildlife has been in talks with him since he bought the property 15 years ago.
Bowers also said he was scheduled to go before the Richmond County Planning Commission next week to request rezoning for 200 condominium units consolidated into 10 four-story buildings.
Then came what he calls a “twist of fate.” The Conservancy Fund made an offer on his property. But it was when his wife called to say her car had broken down next to a cornfield in South Carolina that things began to change.
“Deane was burning hot on the side of the road. She had to get towed 25 miles to the mechanic, who couldn’t look at it until the next week, and get a ride home another 30 miles away,” Bowers wrote in his press release.
Then came news of Hurricane Florence.
“The expectation was that we would have to evacuate. And she wouldn’t have a car, he wrote. “I could either stay put and go to the Planning Commission and head home Tuesday, or rescue the damsel in distress.”
He said he drove back to South Carolina, where his wife convinced him to sell the property to the Conservation Fund.
“She helped me see ... in the big scheme of things it was the right thing to do,” he said.
Next door to Bowers’ property is nearly 1,000 acres of similar property owned by the New York development company Virginia True Corp. Problems began last year after more than 13 acres were cleared to build a golf course on the environmentally sensitive Fones Cliffs without proper permits or erosion, sediment or stormwater controls.
Heavy rains caused the cliffs to erode into the river, which led to fines and citations from the state Department of Environmental Quality. The case was referred to the state Attorney General’s office last month.
Richards said the Fund, which has conserved more than 70,000 acres since it was established in 1985, is not in talks with Virginia True, but added that “hope springs eternal.”
“We would love to see as much of Fones Cliffs preserved as we can,” she said. “If there’s an opportunity to talk with them, I would welcome that opportunity to sit down with and figure out a conservation solution for that property as well.”
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Home > About Us > Our Leadership
At Fred Smith, it all begins with great leadership. Our supervisors have been with us for at least 22 years. That adds up to a LOT of collective knowledge. In many cases, our team knows the buildings we work in better than the people who actually built them.
Put that expertise to work for you today.
Our Supervisors:
John Shannon (Vice President – Senior Field Supervisor), Anthony Meilak, Spencer Kraus (Account Manager – Supervisor), Fred Berges, James Keeney, Lawrence Lieberman, Angelo Telesmanic and Ernest Kalmeta.
Philip Kraus, President – CEO
Philip Kraus is a recognized leader and innovator in New York City’s plumbing and heating repair services industry and is known for cultivating top talent. He has served the cooperative and condominium real estate industry honorably for over 40 years. Philip is a graduate of the Hackley School, holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Ithaca College, and served for six years in the National Guard. He is a New York City Licensed Master Plumber, a Licensed Fire Suppression Piping Contractor, and a leading water purification expert.
Sandra Plowman Kraus, Chief Financial Officer- CFO
Sandra is a respected executive with more than thirty years experience in finance and operations management. Her responsibilities include Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Information Technology and Marketing. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, and was elected to the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team for Software and Data Services. Sandra earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Southern Methodist University, a Masters of Business Administration from the Cox School of Business, and a Juris Doctor from the Cardozo School of Law.
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Chili ingredient likely caused large restaurant-related outbreak
By Joe Whitworth on May 14, 2019
A chipotle chili product was the most likely vehicle of infection in the largest recorded norovirus restaurant outbreak in the United Kingdom, according to researchers.
During October and November 2016, more than 1,000 customers and staff reported gastroenteritis after eating at 23 different locations of the Wahaca restaurant group in the U.K. Norovirus genogroup II.6 (GII.6) was identified from 30 of 48 samples from staff.
The outbreak coincided with a new menu launch, according to the study published in the journal Eurosurveillance.
“We recommend that multi-branch restaurants with central suppliers and kitchens are vigilant to the possibility of contaminated ingredients entering their supply chain and the potential for rapid spread of pathogens. Food business operators should ensure that appropriate hazard analysis and critical control point processes are in place, particularly for new ingredients and ready-to-eat foods and consider the potential for cross-contamination within preparation areas in risk assessments,” the researchers wrote.
Product from outside the EU
Involvement of all 23 branches suggested the vehicle of transmission was a nationally distributed item that had either been newly introduced or modified for use in the new menu. The most likely vehicle was found to be a new chipotle chili product imported from outside the European Union that was used uncooked in implicated dishes.
Public health implications could have been more serious had the outbreak been caused by a more virulent pathogen than norovirus, which is generally a mild and self-limiting illness, according to the researchers.
The likely source was a contaminated batch of a nationally distributed ingredient, but analytical studies were unable to implicate a single ingredient.
The investigation highlighted challenges in identifying the vehicle of transmission from a large, complex menu with multiple ingredients used in numerous dishes with possible undocumented variation between restaurant locations.
Environmental health investigations identified one chipotle product which had been labelled as another chipotle product in some locations.
“It had been newly imported from outside the European Union for the new menu, was not tinned and was not cooked during initial processing. It is plausible that chipotle product B may have been mistakenly used in the chipotle mayo in place of chipotle product A in some branches and this may explain the variation in attack rate,” according to researchers.
Illnesses after new menu launch
On Oct. 27, 2016, Public Health England (PHE) received reports of diarrhea and vomiting affecting 10 staff at a London location of the restaurant chain. In the following days, customers from all branches and staff members from 22 sites reported gastrointestinal symptoms to the company’s head office.
The day before, a new menu was introduced at all branches with more than 70 dishes, 12 of which had never been served before.
In total, 287 staff members and 825 customers reported gastrointestinal illness to the company. The first report of illness on Oct. 19 was in a staff member and the last recorded illness onset date was Nov. 11. Customers first reported illnesses following consumption of food at one branch on Oct. 15 and the last consumer to report an illness dined on Nov. 10.
Four retrospective cohort studies were conducted, one among staff of the restaurant group and three in customers at four locations.
Staff and customer cases
Fifty-eight percent (589 out of 1,029) of staff completed the questionnaire, of whom 125 were categorized as cases. The age range was 16 to 55 years, with 57 percent of the patients being female.
Of 159 customer responses in the combined customer cohort study, 37 were male with ages ranging from 7 to 65 years. There were 58 confirmed customer cases.
The chipotle chili was the only ingredient in common between two dishes implicated in the multivariable analysis of the staff cohort study and one dish implicated by the combined customer study. Recipes for salmon and chicken tostadas included chipotle mayo. The recipe for chicken wing glaze included a chipotle chili paste.
All dishes associated with gastrointestinal illness in the multivariable analysis were prepared in the salad section, meaning cross-contamination could have played a role in transmission, researchers reported.
Customer cohort studies found a strong association between gastrointestinal illness and consumption of dishes containing poached, ready-to-eat, vacuum-packed chicken from a new supplier, introduced for the menu change.
Food chain investigations found no evidence to implicate chicken as a vehicle for norovirus transmission and it was supplied to other U.K. restaurants, but there were no reports of similar outbreaks or of gastrointestinal illness from staff responsible for processing it.
Wahaca voluntarily closed 16 of its locations in the U.K. and discarded fresh and partially used produce. Those restaurants carried out deep cleaning, including environmental fogging. Staff were advised to stay off work for 72 hours following their last gastrointestinal symptoms and were offered paid sick leave to encourage policy adherence. Potential vehicles of norovirus transmission identified by epidemiological studies were removed from the menu.
Researchers were unable to test the potential vehicles identified for norovirus, because accredited methods are only available for limited food items, not implicated in the outbreak.
The team said development of sensitive laboratory methods for testing food specimens for viruses during outbreaks would be valuable in future investigations.
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Tags: chipotle chili, Eurosurveillance, gastroenteritis, Norovirus outbreak, Public Health England (PHE), Wahaca
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Bolsonaro's approval rating plunges as Brazilians lose confidence
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (L), pictured here with US President Donald Trump, has seen his image tarnished by a series of political scandals AFP
Rio de Janeiro (AFP)
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's approval rating plunged in March, a poll showed Wednesday, after a series of political scandals tarnished his anti-corruption image.
Bolsonaro's score of 51 percent was the worst reading recorded by a first-term president in the three months after taking power, according to Ibope institute, which surveyed around 2,000 Brazilians.
That compares with the far-right leader's 67 percent approval rating in January soon after he was sworn in.
Public confidence in the ultraconservative Bolsonaro also fell to 49 percent this month from 62 percent at the start of the year.
And 44 percent of Brazilians declared they had no confidence in the former paratrooper, compared with 30 percent in January.
"The government is unpopular, it is losing capital rapidly, it has internal battles," political analyst Andre Cesar of Hold consultancy told AFP.
On top of that, Bolsonaro is trying to push through an "extremely unpopular" reform of the country's generous pension system.
Bolsonaro took office on January 1 after winning 55 percent of votes in October on promises to fight corruption and violence, as well as overhaul the country's finances and revive economic growth.
But a slew of scandals, including allegations of illegal financial transactions involving one of Bolsonaro's sons and the sacking of a close aide suspected of misusing campaign funds in last year's election, have eroded faith in his anti-corruption rhetoric.
Disappointment with Bolsonaro has extended to his government, with Ibope's latest survey showing fewer Brazilians having a positive impression of the administration -- 34 percent in March compared with 49 percent at the start of the term.
The percentage of Brazilians who consider Bolsonaro's government "bad or terrible" rose to 24 percent from 11 percent over the same period.
Bolsonaro's personal reading was the lowest since 1995 when former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso scored 41 percent three months after taking power. Cardoso was re-elected four years later.
Jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva scored 51 percent two months after taking power for the first time in 2003.
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France, Germany seek to boost multilateralism
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (L) and Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speak to reporters at the French Mission to the United Nations in New York on April 2, 2019 AFP
United Nations (United States) (AFP)
France and Germany on Tuesday announced an initiative to bolster multilateralism, warning that the rules-based order embodied by such organizations as the United Nations was under threat of unraveling.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his German counterpart Heiko Maas will officially launch the Alliance for Multilateralism in September during the annual General Assembly meeting of world leaders.
The move comes as the United States under President Donald Trump is cutting funding to the United Nations, withdrawing from international agreements and shunning cooperation on key issues like climate.
The US retreat has given China an opportunity to advance its agenda, promoting its controversial Belt and Road investment scheme while Russia has set up parallel tracks in Syria, for instance, that have sidelined UN efforts.
"Confronted with the risk of deconstruction of our multilateral edifice, France and Germany are convinced that they can convey a message together," Le Drian told a news conference.
"We are in a good position to show to the world what could be the consequences of unilateralism and isolationism, and enabling nationalist and extremist speech to flourish."
Aside from the European powers, Canada and Japan are expected to join, along with possibly Australia, India, Indonesia and Mexico, according to diplomats.
The foreign ministers stressed that the alliance was not directed against the United States.
"We don't want to lock out anyone," said Maas. "Of course, we would be happy if the United States were to join such an initiative."
But the German foreign minister said alliance members must commit to a rules-based international order.
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The 9 Most Romantic Escapes In The U.S.
Comedian Jamie Lee Brings a Sharp Female Perspective To HBO’s ‘Crashing’
Cait Munro· January 10, 2018
Photo: Steven Gerlich
The second season of HBO’s Crashing, which follows the misadventures of an unlikely stand-up comic played by and based on comedian Pete Holmes, premieres on January 14, and fans may be surprised at the swift arrival of a love interest in the first episode. Played by Jamie Lee, a fellow comedian who wrote for the show’s first season, Ali is beautiful, funny, and way out of Pete’s league. He is, of course, immediately smitten, a fact that leads to a litany of cringe-worthy moments, including one involving the reaction a hot tray of lasagna has when it meets a fancy tempered glass table.
The comedy world is notoriously male-dominated, even more so than other sectors of the entertainment industry. Crashing‘s first season was, in some ways, a reflection of that fact, offering up cameos from the likes of Sarah Silverman, Rachel Feinstein, and Vanessa Bayer, but failing to provide the audience with a fully fleshed-out female character (aside from, at times, Pete’s ex-wife Jessica, played by Lauren Lapkus) with whom to relate.
Crashing is also, at its core, a show about how much it can really suck trying to pursue your dream—especially when your dream is something as competitive as stand-up comedy. Pete, 30-something, separated from his wife (who financially supported him), and without a home, works an embarrassing job at Cold Stone Creamery to pay the bills and must hand out fliers to disinterested passersby on the streets of New York in order to earn stage time at a seedy comedy club. The character of Ali gives us a window into what this life looks like from the perspective of a woman who has to try twice as hard to prove herself in an industry filled with bumbling dudes, many of whom are just a little too quick to let her know that they totally believe women are funny.
Because Crashing is a show that very much imitates life, none of what Ali goes through is that far off from the early-career experiences of Lee herself, who made the decision to get into comedy following what she remembers as a rare, weirdly cinematic moment while on the phone with her dad on a New York street corner. Despite a role as a core cast member on MTV’s beloved Girl Code, a book bearing the hilarious title Weddiculous: The Unfiltered Guide to Being a Bride, and a place on pretty much every “Comedians to Watch” list recently published on the internet, Lee is totally humble and actually genuinely shocked to be starring in a major HBO show. And, hey, given the stuff we now know aspiring stand-ups have to go through to make it, I guess we can’t blame her.
We caught up with Lee at the HBO headquarters in New York to talk about #MeToo, sex scenes, and the importance of getting out of your own head.
So you started last season as a writer on the show and now you’re starring on it. What has that transition been like for you?
It was pretty surprising. I mean, I’ve always been a writer/performer, so that part was there, but I never expected to become the lead. I hoped, but initially, I was gunning for a much smaller part that I had written in the hopes of potentially being on the show. I would also have had to audition for that part as well, but I just thought that it was more likely, that maybe there would be a smaller pool of people to audition [for the smaller role]. And then when I got an audition time for the lead, I was like oh. I knew a bunch of people who were auditioning, everyone was texting me being like ‘I’m going in for this,’ and I was like cool, I was wishing them luck. I was in no way competitive about it. And then when I found out I got it, I was just so shocked, because there are so many rejections in this career, especially on the acting front. It’s like until you get that first thing, you’re just chugging along, and then you’ll get callbacks, you have all these false starts of, oh it’s happening, no it’s not, oh it’s happening, no it’s not. So the fact that it just happened, I was like, oh, I guess sometimes it happens! That’s just crazy.
As a stand-up comedian yourself, how much do you relate to Ali’s experiences?
It’s definitely representative of a time when I was first starting out, really pursuing stand-up hard. I relate to the character’s determination and really putting her nose to the ground and working really hard. I think in stand-up there are no handouts, it’s really every man for themselves. You have a community, and you make friends, and you guys can work on things together, but ultimately, it’s up to you. No one’s gonna hold your hand through it and I think it’s really exciting to show a girl stand-up who’s like, I got this, because I think pursuing stand-up in New York can be really daunting.
There’s a moment that I really love where the comedy club owner is like, ‘Just so you know, I think girls are funny!’ and your character is like ‘Okay…’
Yeah, I think that moment is very representative of just, there’s so many awkward interactions—not necessarily that or to that level—but when you are a girl in stand-up. Sometimes people just don’t know how to talk to you. They speak to you like you’re an alien. I’m just another comedian, it’s not that crazy.
There definitely have been moments where I’m like, I get it, I’m a girl, that’s all anyone wants to talk about. And it’s so weird because when you’re doing stand-up, you’re working so hard at just being good at it that you’re not thinking about ‘I’m a woman in this business.’ You don’t have time. Later, you have time. I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I didn’t think about those things. Like, I don’t have time to think about anything other than just being good. So now I look back and I’m like, yeah, there was some weird sexist times. I mean, there were lots. But also, we’re so used to that that sometimes we don’t even really realize it’s happening until later.
I feel like the #MeToo movement has really touched every industry, but do you think there’s going to be some kind of reckoning within the comedy world? Have you already begun to see that?
I think that there will be. I feel like that movement is pervasive enough where it’s definitely going to occupy every single corner of the entertainment industry, and hopefully way beyond that. I think that people are listening. And, to be completely honest, I’ve already seen some small changes. Just, like, I’ve been in conversations with guys recently—and I’m sure you’ve dealt with this—where you’ll be talking or you’ll start to talk and then a guy, because his voice is more booming naturally, physically, will start talking and cut you off, and I don’t even think it’s deliberate. They’re just used to cutting you off because their voice trumps your voice tonally. And I’ve noticed a couple times where the guy will be like ‘I’m sorry what were you saying?’ And they’ll stop. And I’m like, oh, maybe that’s because of that. I can’t say for sure, but I’m hopeful.
I understand if you don’t want to talk about this, but I know that you and Pete [Holmes] dated briefly. Was that awkward filming a romantic scene with someone that you dated?
Strangely not. I mean, first of all, sex scenes are not sexy, in my opinion. So, it was strangely just kind of goofy, more than anything. We’ve been friends—we dated for one-tenth of our friendship—so I don’t define us in those terms and I don’t think he does either. It’s more like, that was a thing that happened and now we’re friends.
Did you know that you always wanted to be a comedian, or what was that evolution like for you?
You know, I was never—you hear those stories of, like, ‘every night my parents would tell me to go to bed and I would be like no and I would stay up and watch Johnny Carson’. I was never that kid. I didn’t give a f*** about late night TV. I never was sophisticated in that way. I did love comedy, and I got really into stand-up specials when I was in college. Actually, I got really into Margaret Cho was I was in middle school and then I started to pay attention to stand-up and then I got really, really into it in college.
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I think all signs were pointing to [doing] stand-up, but I didn’t put it all together until I moved to New York. I knew I loved writing, I knew I was good at writing, I knew I liked performing, I knew I was good at performing, but I didn’t know how to put the pieces together. Stand-up is the answer to all of it, and as soon as I realized that, it was actually the only ah-ha moment I’ve ever had in my life. I literally had an epiphany. I still remember where I was. I was on the phone with my dad, I was at Columbus Circle, I was on my lunch break from my day job.
That’s such a New York moment.
It was! It was so cinematic. And I was just like, ‘I think I wanna do stand-up’, and my dad who is the most supportive person alive, was just like, ‘you should do it, Jame’—he’s from Texas—and I was like oh. And that was it. It really was like that day where I was like, let’s start this. And nothing is ever like that! It doesn’t work that way. Usually, you like, brood on it for a couple of years. But I was just like this needs to happen.
What advice do you have for women, or just people, who want to pursue a career in stand-up?
I would say, please do it, we need you. I would also say tune out the noise and just focus on yourself. It’s not selfish, it’s just what you have to do. I think that I was really bad about that. I started meditating and it really calmed me down. I used to be like, after this, after we talk, I would be like, ‘what did I say? How did I come off?’ And now I’m like, not that I don’t give a f***, but I definitely am not stressing about things that I can’t control.
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Breakaway Anglicans 'Glad' to be Out of Episcopal Church
By Lillian Kwon ( [email protected] ) May 30, 2007 01:54 PM EDT Comment
The latest withdrawal from The Episcopal Church has left the breakaway Colorado Springs parish divided between congregants assured of their split and others who are confused.
A day after a vote to break away from The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Colorado, Grace Church and St. Stephen's Parish held its three weekly worship services on Pentecost Sunday with over 500 parishioners who agreed with the vote. Although the congregation was reduced by about 27 percent, the spirit of the breakaway church was anything but somber.
Parishioners carried the Anglican Communion's Compass Rose flag, replacing the flag of The Episcopal Church, in a procession as the congregation celebrated their continued commitment to the Anglican Communion. After the Rev. Don Armstrong, rector of the church, announced the final votes, the congregation applauded. And after he delivered a message on Pentecost, they clapped again.
Grace Church and St. Stephen's Parish is a conservative church and Alan Crippen, spokesman for the church, has never heard applause after a sermon, he said.
The service marked a time to celebrate "the rebirth of Grace Church," said Armstrong.
"We are released from all that has divided us, embittered us, distracted us, and diminished us," he said in his sermon. "And on this day we are empowered by the Holy Spirit for a new life, a new witness, new community, and new worship."
Meanwhile, parishioners who do not agree with the split held their own worship service at the nearby First Christian Church. Some, who are undecided, are attending both.
On Saturday, 370 votes were cast out of the 763 congregants who were eligible to vote by canon (church) law. An overwhelming 93 percent approved the church vestry (governing board)'s earlier decision to secede from The Episcopal Church and join the Convocation of Anglicans in North America - the conservative offshoot group of the Church of Nigeria.
"We are no longer a part of a corrupt and apostate Episcopal Church," Armstrong told parishioners on Sunday.
However, Beckett Stokes, the communications director for the Diocese of Colorado, argues the vote has no legal grounding.
"Because The Episcopal Church is a hierarchical church, parishes are not established by the vote of a congregation but only by actions taken by a diocesan convention and ecclesiastical authority. Conversely, no vote taken by a congregation or by its vestry can dissolve a parish or change its affiliation to another religious body," the spokesperson said.
Still, the vote strongly affirmed the vestry decision to secede, the parish says. And the vote was also good news to Bishop Alpha Mohamed of Tanzania who had visited the church earlier. "We have learned with much relief to learn that Grace Church and St. Stephen's Parish has followed the Orthodox and scriptural basis," he said.
Since The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop in 2003, Armstrong has spoken out against gay clergy and has been featured on news networks like Fox News' "O-Reilly Factor" and radio programs.
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New York’s Other Water Crisis
September 14, 2016 | by David Howard King
Gov. Cuomo (photo: Governor's Office on Flickr)
In 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was looking at how to fund the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge and in such a way that he could promise minimal toll hikes. Construction had actually already begun on the $4 billion project despite no clear funding plan in place and pressure to detail the spending was mounting.
On June 13, 2014 Cuomo announced that the state Environmental Facilities Corp. would loan the state up to $511 million for the multi-billion dollar project from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. The fund, which is actually backed by federal dollars, exists to dole out low-interest loans for projects like local sewer repairs and wastewater treatment plant upgrades. The state also has a similar Drinking Water Revolving Fund that gives out loans for water main repairs and upgrades.
The move was met with immediate backlash from environmental groups that insisted the funds were simply not meant for a transportation project and that the move could set a bad precedent - perhaps undermining the very purpose for the federal funding and killing funding for clean-water infrastructure in New York and elsewhere. Budget watchdogs also attacked the plan as a “gimmick” and “irresponsible.” After much hand-wringing, it did not go forward as the Cuomo administration had sought.
As the Cuomo administration struggles to divert blame for the debacle in Hoosick Falls, where the state resisted calls to notify residents of contaminated drinking water, environmentalists and others point to the Tappan Zee loan episode as evidence that the administration has repeatedly not fully recognized major clean water and water infrastructure issues facing the state, instead concentrating on costly transportation economic development projects that benefit developers while localities grapple with the costs and consequences of decaying water infrastructure. On the other hand, for some legislators and advocates say it represents the administration’s ability to recognize a problem and tackle it head on with an efficient solution.
Asked if the administration could do more to help localities struggling to pay for water-related infrastructure repairs, Cuomo told Gotham Gazette: “I think this is a national crisis when it comes to water quality. I think we are just starting to learn about chemicals in the water and just how dangerous they can be. I think as time goes on you are going to see more and more dangerous chemicals being disclosed in the water we’re drinking.”
Cuomo added that he was advocating for the EPA to update its regulations to force all municipalities to conduct water safety testing (there is currently a 10,000 person population threshold). If the federal government fails to act, Cuomo said he would introduced legislation to force localities of any size to do water quality testing and that the administration would pay for the testing of localities that are strapped for cash.
Environmental groups estimated at the time of the Tappan Zee loan controversy that localities across the state were contending with $36 billion in costs related to clean water infrastructure demands over the next 20 years.
“Clean-water funds have never been used for a transportation project before – and we shouldn’t start now,” said Marcia Bystryn, president of The New York League of Conservation voter, in a 2014 statement. “If approved, this would set a very bad precedent, especially considering the huge backlog of wastewater projects across the state. We urge the Environmental Facilities Corporation Board to reject this proposal.”
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which provided the state with the billions of dollars for the fund over the last two decades, eventually rejected the proposal. But the state didn’t back down and appealed the decision. In the end a compromise allowed the state to use $1.3 million for oyster bed restoration and the replacement of a falcon box, with none of the money going toward the “New New York Bridge,” the funding of which is still not completely clear.
The ordeal leant new focus to clean water infrastructure demands faced by localities across the state. (As has the recent crisis in Hoosick Falls and questions about water contamination elsewhere in the state.) While Cuomo administration officials noted that millions of dollars were sitting in the revolving fund untouched as proof that they were unneeded, local leaders countered that they simply couldn’t afford to take on anymore debt, regardless of the interest rate, because they would never be able to repay it. Meanwhile, municipalities have grappled with decaying and dilapidated water infrastructure and seen overflowing sewer lines, exploding water mains, and sinkholes.
In 2015 the state Legislature pressed for a new program to help fund water infrastructure projects across the state. Cuomo signed the New York State Water Infrastructure Act to disperse $200 million in grants to localities for water infrastructure repairs and improvements. By December 2015, $75 million in grants had been awarded. This year the state Assembly successfully fought for a $200 million increase to the program.
James Tierney, deputy commissioner for water at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, told Gotham Gazette that the grant program mixes and matches loans from the revolving fund and grants to kickstart projects proposed by municipalities. Tierney said his focus has been on helping “hardship” municipalities in both rural and urban areas. He noted that a lot of communities weren’t in a position to utilize the revolving loan funds. “A lot of communities were making the case after the Great Recession, saying ‘Hey we’ve got nothing here. We can’t afford these loans.’”
Tierney said that the pressure on municipalities and the state to fund water projects has increased as the federal government has altered the strategy behind the Clean Water Act. Early in the 1970s when the program was starting some water infrastructure projects would receive up to 75 percent funding with municipalities covering only 12 percent. “In the olden days it was much more about funding infrastructure and regulations. Then it turned into grants and then loans and then the pot for loans began to sink.” said Tierney.
He noted that the Congressional Budget Office reports that only 4 percent of water infrastructure projects are funded by the federal government.
A number localities, including Syracuse, are focused on advocating for more federal funds. But in the meantime many local officials and state legislators are pleased with the administration’s efforts with the grant program. Advocates have noted a positive trend.
“We have seen a total “180” on water infrastructure funding,” said Liz Moran of Environmental Advocates of New York. Moran said the Tappan Zee raid and the backlash that followed “was a wake up call” for the Cuomo administration about just how necessary water infrastructure funding is.
“After the raid ceased it became clear that the money was needed to go to these problems,” said Moran. “Maybe the governor didn’t know about the need in the first place, but we are very happy he's embraced the programs now.”
The notion that taking on loans from the revolving fund wasn’t the ideal solution to dire infrastructure needs faced by cash-strapped localities across the state wasn’t new in 2014 or 2015.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, a Democrat like Cuomo who has clashed with the governor, has been calling for state and federal assistance in dealing with her city’s water infrastructure needs for years. In 2014 Miner called for the state to create “The Syracuse Billion,” a take off of Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion program that invested in major economic development projects. But Miner wasn’t looking for deals to draw high-tech firms to the area. Instead she proposed using $750 million of the cash to replace and repair a 550-mile, 100-year-old water pipeline that is in constant disrepair.
Cuomo responded that Syracuse was going “bankrupt,” adding, "You are unsustainable. You need jobs, an economy, business. Show us how you become economically stronger and create jobs. Then you fix your own pipes." He later added he was saying the city was “metaphorically” bankrupt, according to The Post-Standard.
Miner told Gotham Gazette that she thinks the Tappan Zee Bridge funding battle “brought attention to the fund and the overwhelming need for water infrastructure funding throughout the state. Every municipality has water problems,” Miner said, “from Hoosick Falls to Long Island, Kingston and Buffalo.”
During a 2015 budget hearing Miner pressed the State to use bank settlement funds to help struggling localities across the state. She said municipalities are handicapped by the state’s property tax cap and increasing state mandates, and can’t afford to make major infrastructure repairs without drastic intervention.
Cuomo did not grant Miner’s wish, but the Assembly used discretionary funds to allocate $10 million to repair Syracuse’s water infrastructure through the 2015 budget. Cuomo used settlement funds for transportation projects like the Tappan Zee replacement and for economic development grants.
Assemblymember Steve Otis, a Democrat representing Rye who championed the state’s grant program, is intimately familiar with infrastructure funding challenges faced by localities around the state. Otis served as mayor of Rye for 12 years. “We knew there was a great need. But the loan fund does not receive applications for all the money that is available,” Otis said in an interview. “Why? Because these localities couldn't afford to incur 100 percent debt.”
Otis said the program was so successful and the need so great that the Legislature doubled funding for it in 2016. The first round of the program doled out $75 million in grants; the second $175 million; and the third round will come next year with the distribution of another $175 million.
Otis praised the Cuomo administration for expediting the grants. “These are simple projects that are helping communities maintain water quality and the Cuomo administration has done a fantastic job getting the grants out the door and recognizing the need.”
But Otis, as well as advocates and other government officials and workers charged with dealing with water infrastructure across the state, acknowledge the program can’t help everyone. “One or two municipalities could eat up all the funding in one shot,” Otis said, indicating the scale of the need around the state.
Miner said that in her experience the Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) grant programs have been targeted toward smaller communities and that some of them require extensive pre-design work even to apply. Syracuse was, however, awarded $679,444 for a water infrastructure project in August through the New York State Water Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2015.
Asked about the program, Miner initially responded that Syracuse was ineligible because of its large population, though the program does not have a population restriction. Miner later clarified through a spokesperson that she was talking about other grant programs offered by the EFC and that she believes the EFC needs to offer a wide array of water infrastructure grant programs for communities of all sizes.
Officials from the EFC, the agency tasked with overseeing both the revolving loan programs and the water grant initiative, confirmed that there are no population restraints on the grant program.
Joe Coffey, the water commissioner for the city of Albany, is all too familiar with just how costly it is to maintain an aging water system. Albany’s dates to the 19th century. The city’s water treatment plant was built in the 1930s, as was the transfer line. And as Coffey points out, age is the greatest indicator of the possibility of infrastructure failure.
This summer residents have had to contend with a number of water main breaks and sinkholes that have gnarled traffic on busy roads not far from the Capitol building while the city continues to remedy sewer system overflows into the Hudson River, which functions not only as a source of recreation and food for some locals but as a water source for those down river.
”You can't print enough money to replace our water and sewer system,” said Coffey. “You are looking at asset management and the probability of failure--if it fails what's the consequence of failure?”
Albany recently won an $837,500 grant from the State. Coffey said the cash will allow Albany’s water department to leverage other funds for more projects and to expedite urgent repairs.
“It’s a tough call on how to balance investment in aide for water infrastructure,” said Coffey. “But without water you have nothing. In this state we are were blessed with an abundant supply of safe, reliable drinking water and from that we can leverage economic development and all the things that come after that. If you don’t make repairs you don’t have that base and these issues become real quality-of-life problems.”
Miner, the Syracuse mayor, echoes Coffey’s concerns about infrastructure. “I don’t want to undercut the [grant] program, but nobody wants to cut a ribbon underground--but at least people are talking about it now,” said Miner, hitting on one of the key reasons for a lack of focus on essential, basic infrastructure repairs.
Miner estimates the total cost of replacing the city’s most troublesome water lines would be around $730 million. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard the city hit its 102nd water main break of this year in May--a lower total than the 171 water main breaks it had suffered by the same time last year.
Tierney, of the DEC, acknowledged that a number of cities across the state are facing problems so large that they can’t be addressed as a whole. “The first step is recognizing the problem. Some of this infrastructure is very old and they are dealing with combined problems and it is a lot. Our approach has been to phase things in in a reasonable way, to use grant programs and EFC loans and coach communities how to apply for funds.”
Miner said Syracuse is now focusing on utilizing data analysis to predict and pinpoint where fixes should be made to preempt major problems, rather than pushing for a comprehensive replacement project.
She remains concerned that the state’s economic development spending may be undermined if it does not provide more assistance to localities facing dire infrastructure needs. “You can’t build a high-tech center if people can’t make coffee or flush their toilets,” said Miner.
by David King, Albany editor, Gotham Gazette
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Wanted: Metrics for Measuring Cyber Performance and Effectiveness
by Tobias Naegele | Aug 23, 2017
Chief information security officers (CISOs) face a dizzying array of cybersecurity tools to choose from, each loaded with features and promised capabilities that are hard to measure or judge.
That leaves CISOs trying to balance unknown risks against growing costs, without a clear ability to justify the return on their cybersecurity investment. Not surprisingly, today’s high-threat environment makes it preferable to choose safe over sorry – regardless of cost. But is there a better way?
Some cyber insiders believe there is.
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Acting U.S. Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Margie Graves acknowledges the problem.
“Defining the measure of success is hard sometimes, because it’s hard to measure things that don’t happen,” Graves said. President’s Trump’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity asks each agency to develop its own risk management plan, she noted. “It should be articulated on that plan how every dollar will be applied to buying down that risk.”
There is a difference though, between a plan and an actual measure. A plan can justify an investment intended to reduce risk. But judgment, rather than hard knowledge, will determine how much risk is mitigated by any given tool.
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have been trying to develop a methodology measuring the actual value of a given cyber tool’s performance. Their NIPRNet/SIPRNET Cyber Security Architecture Review (NSCSAR – pronounced “NASCAR”) is a classified effort to define a framework for measuring cybersecurity performance, said DISA CIO and Risk Management Executive John Hickey.
“We just went through a drill of ‘what are those metrics that are actually going to show us the effectiveness of those tools,’ because a lot of times we make an investment, people want a return on that investment,” he told GovTechWorks in June. “Security is a poor example of what you are going after. It is really the effectiveness of the security tools or compliance capabilities.”
The NSCSAR review, conducted in partnership with NSA and the Defense Department, may point to a future means of measuring cyber defense capability. “It is a framework that actually looks at the kill chain, how the enemy will move through that kill chain and what defenses we have in place,” Hickey said, adding that NSA is working with DISA on an unclassified version of the framework that could be shared with other agencies or the private sector to measure cyber performance.
“It is a methodology,” Hickey explained. “We look at the sensors we have today and measure what functionality they perform against the threat.… We are tracking the effectiveness of the tools and capabilities to get after that threat, and then making our decisions on what priorities to fund.”
Measuring Security
NSS Labs Inc., independently tests the cybersecurity performance of firewalls and other cyber defenses, annually scoring products’ performances. The Austin, Texas, company evaluated 11 next-generation firewall (NGFW) products from 10 vendors in June 2017, comparing the effectiveness of their security performance, as well as the firewalls’ stability, reliability and total cost of ownership.
In the test, products were presumed to be able to provide basic packet filtering, stateful multi-layer inspection, network address translation, virtual private network capability, application awareness controls, user/group controls, integrated intrusion prevention, reputation services, anti-malware capabilities and SSL inspection. Among the findings:
Eight of 11 products tested scored “above average” in terms of both performance and cost-effectiveness; Three scored below
Overall security effectiveness ranged from as low as 25.8 percent, up to 99.9; average security effectiveness was 67.3 percent
Four products scored below 78.5 percent
Total cost of ownership ranged from $5 per protected megabit/second to $105, with an average of $22
Nine products failed to detect at least one evasion, while only two detected all evasion attempts
NSS conducted similar tests of advanced endpoint protection tools, data center firewalls, and web application firewalls earlier this year.
But point-in-time performance tests don’t provide a reliable measure of ongoing performance. And measuring the effectiveness of a single tool does not necessarily indicate how well it performs its particular duties as part of a suite of tools, notes Robert J. Carey, vice president within the Global Solutions division at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). The former U.S. Navy CIO and Defense Department principal deputy CIO says that though these tests are valuable, they still make it hard to quantify and compare the performance of different products in an organization’s security stack.
The evolution and blurring of the lines between different cybersecurity tools – from firewalls to intrusion detection/protection, gateways, traffic analysis tools, threat intelligence, intrusion detection, anomaly detection and so on – mean it’s easy to add another tool to one’s stack, but like any multivariate function, it is hard to be sure of its individual contributions to threat protection and what you can do without.
“We don’t know what an adequate cyber security stack looks like. What part of the threat does the firewall protect against, the intrusion detection tool, and so on?” Carey says. “We perceive that the tools are part of the solution. But it’s difficult to quantify the benefit. There’s too much marketing fluff about features and not enough facts.”
Mike Spanbauer, vice president of research strategy at NSS, says this is a common concern, especially in large, managed environments — as is the case in many government instances. One way to address it is to replicate the security stack in a test environment and experiment to see how tools perform against a range of known, current threats while under different configurations and settings.
Another solution is to add one more tool to monitor and measure performance. NSS’ Cyber Advanced Warning System (CAWS) provides continuous security validation monitoring by capturing live threats and then injecting them into a test environment mirroring customers’ actual security stacks. New threats are identified and tested non-stop. If they succeed in penetrating the stack, system owners are notified so they can update their policies to stop that threat in the future.
“We harvest the live threats and capture those in a very careful manner and preserve the complete properties,” Spanbauer said. “Then we bring those back into our virtual environment and run them across the [cyber stack] and determine whether it is detected.”
Adding more tools and solutions isn’t necessarily what Carey had in mind. While that monitoring may reduce risk, it also adds another expense.
And measuring value in terms of return on investment, is a challenge when every new tool adds real cost and results are so difficult to define. In cybersecurity, though managing risk has become the name of the game, actually calculating risk is hard.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the 800-53 security controls and the cybersecurity risk management framework that encompass today’s best practices. Carey worries that risk management delivers an illusion of security by accepting some level of vulnerability depending on level of investment. The trouble with that is that it drives a compliance culture in which security departments focus on following the framework more than defending the network and securing its applications and data.
“I’m in favor of moving away from risk management,” GDIT’s Carey says. “It’s what we’ve been doing for the past 25 years. It’s produced a lot of spend, but no measurable results. We should move to effects-based cyber. Instead of 60 shades of gray, maybe we should have just five well defined capability bands.”
The ultimate goal: Bring compliance into line with security so that doing the former, delivers the latter. But the evolving nature of cyber threats suggests that may never be possible.
Automated tools will only be as good as the data and intelligence built into them. True, automation improves speed and efficiency, Carey says. “But it doesn’t necessarily make me better.”
System owners should be able to look at their cyber stack and determine exactly how much better security performance would be if they added another tool or upgraded an existing one. If that were the case, they could spend most of their time focused on stopping the most dangerous threats – zero-day vulnerabilities that no tool can identify because they’ve never seen it before – rather than ensuring all processes and controls are in place to minimize risk in the event of a breach.
Point-in-time measures based on known vulnerabilities and available threats help, but may be blind to new or emerging threats of the sort that the NSA identifies and often keeps secret.
The NSCSAR tests DISA and NSA perform include that kind of advanced threat. Rather than trying to measure overall security, they’ve determined that breaking it down into the different levels of security makes sense. Says DISA’s Hickey: “You’ve got to tackle ‘what are we doing at the perimeter, what are we doing at the region and what are we doing at the endpoint.’” A single overall picture isn’t really possible, he says. Rather, one has to ask: “What is that situational awareness? What are those gaps and seams? What do we stop [doing now] in order to do something else? Those are the types of measurements we are looking at.”
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Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) | Feb 19, 2014
Surf’s Up: New Consumer Directive makes some Waves
In Europe, online sales are set to reach 191 billion Euro by the year 2017.[1] Faced with these numbers, businesses simply cannot afford to pass up the opportunities presented to them by online channels. Neither can they afford to remain in the dark about developments in the e-commerce regulatory sector. The ever-changing landscape of the world market necessitates a fast reaction time and a keen adaptability for businesses to remain relevant.
The new Directive on Consumer Rights (2011/83/EC) (the “Directive”) was adopted by an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament. The deadline for all Member States to transpose the new rules contained in the Directive into their national laws was the 13th December 2013, and Malta was right on cue with its promulgation of the Consumer Rights Regulations by virtue of Legal Notice 439 of 2013, which revoked the Distance Selling Regulations of 2001. The provisions of this new Directive, and the strengthened rights granted to consumers, will apply to contracts concluded between a trader and a consumer after the 13th June of this year. However, online sellers would do well to heed the warnings of the new Directive and get their websites and procedures in line with its consumer-friendly rules before then.
When does the Directive come into play?
Although the Directive, by its nature, requires transposition into the national laws of the Member States in order to take effect, its provisions allow State legislatures minimal wriggling room. In fact, article 4 prohibits Member States from maintaining or introducing in their own law consumer protection measures which are more or less stringent than those provided for by the Directive, effectively forcing the legislatures’ hands to transpose its provisions almost tale quale.
Online sales contracts often have private international law implications in that they raise the question of which law is to govern the contract: is it to be the law chosen by the parties, the law of the country where the seller is based, or the law of the country where the buyer is based? The answer lies amongst the provisions of the Rome I Regulation which allows the parties to consumer contracts to choose the law which is to apply to their agreement, subject however to the principal of “directing activities”. This principle is aimed at online traders, and essentially prevents them from choosing a law to govern their contracts with consumers which would put the latter at a disadvantage. According to this principle, where a trader “directs” his business activities to any country, a consumer contract with a person habitually resident in that country must respect the mandatory consumer rights provisions of that country’s law, such that the consumer is not in a worse position than if the law of his own country of residence governed the contract. Although the precise meaning of the term “directing activities” remains vague, the preamble to the Directive offers some guidance. It appears that whilst the mere accessibility of a trader’s website from a particular country does not, by itself, mean that that trader is directing his activities to that country, the fact that a website solicits the conclusion of contracts (basically, invites consumers to make purchases) and that a contract with a consumer based in that country has actually been completed, is a strong indication that a trader is directing his activities to that particular country. Where that particular country is an EU Member State the provisions of the Directive as transposed in the national law of that State immediately come into play.
Thus, the Directive, combined with the relevant provisions of Rome I, creates a very level playing field across the EU in terms of consumer protection, meaning that, regardless of where he is based or which law he has chosen to govern his consumer contracts, an online merchant trading with consumers based in the EU must respect the consumer rights provided for by the Directive.
What does the Directive aim to achieve?
Whilst consumer protection, as a necessary precursor to the highly prized ‘free movement of goods and services within the internal market’, has always been a high priority matter for the EU institutions, it has never assumed more relevance than it does in the present day. With the major retail economies of Europe increasingly relying on online sales to drive growth, businesses are forced to become well-acquainted with the increased consumer protection measures reserved for distance sales.
The new Directive is squarely aimed at achieving greater consumer protection by harmonising rules relating to consumer information and the right of withdrawal in both distance and off-premises contracts, thus enabling cross-border distance selling, particularly internet selling, to reach its full potential.
Where do Online Sales feature in all of this?
In the context of ‘distance contracts’ (whether these are concluded via email, mail order, through a website, or by phone) the consumer is at a significant disadvantage in that he cannot verify either the existence of a legitimate retail structure, or the actual state of the goods which he is acquiring. It’s not surprising then that the Directive lays down significantly more onerous rules intended to achieve higher levels of consumer protection in the context of online sales. Failure to abide by these rules could result in invalid sales, penalties and consequential losses for online traders.
The question is, are you compliant?
Knowledge is Power: Respect the Buyer’s Need to Know
Under the Directive, the consumer’s right to know is sacrosanct. Before the consumer makes an order on a website he must have before him the following information, which must be clear and comprehensible. The information provided on a seller’s website actually forms part of the distance contract between trader and consumer, so it cannot simply be changed mid-way through a transaction without the consumer having first agreed to such change.
The consumer needs to know exactly what he’s buying. The main characteristics of the goods or services being sold must be described as thoroughly as possible, and this information must show up on the trader’s website at the point just before the consumer places his order;
The consumer needs to know who he’s dealing with. The trader must provide its name, or trading name, as the case may be;
Where can I reach you?
The buyer needs to be able to reach the trader if there’s a problem with the goods or services, or if he wishes to withdraw from the contract. Thus, the trader must provide his business address and, where applicable, any other address where the buyer can send complaints, as well as a telephone number and email address, where available. The consumer also needs to know how he can communicate complaints to the seller and how he is to be redressed if there’s a problem.
Interestingly, the Directive lays down that in the case of a ‘public auction’, the information referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) above may be replaced by the equivalent details of the auctioneer. It is noteworthy, however, that online platforms such as Ebay are not considered as public auctions for the purposes of the Directive, as these are not ‘a method of sale where goods or services are offered by the trader to the consumers, who attend or are given the possibility to attend the auction in person.’ Thus, in a forum such as Ebay, the details of the actual seller must be provided.
The trader must also indicate the total price of the goods or services which he is trying to sell. This total price must include taxes, plus all additional freight, delivery or postal charges. If the trader fails to indicate such additional charges, the buyer is not bound to pay for them, which means that the trader will be footing the bill for delivery. Where, for any reason, the total price of the goods or services the seller is offering cannot be calculated in advance, he must at least indicate the manner in which it is to be calculated. Where additional charges, like freight, delivery or postage, cannot be calculated in advance, the trader must at least indicate that such additional charges apply. If he doesn’t, the consumer won’t be bound to pay them, but the trader will. All of this information must show up on the trader’s website at the point just before the consumer places his order.
How shall we do this?
The consumer needs to know how he is going to pay, and how and when the goods or services are going to reach him. On the trader’s website, there must be clearly indicated the arrangements for payment, and for delivery in the case of goods, or for performance in the case of services. Delivery restrictions and which means of payment are accepted (such as VISA, Mastercard, Paypal and/or cheque) must be indicated somewhere on the website, and not later than the point at which the customer can begin to place his order. It is noteworthy that traders may not charge consumers fees for the use of a particular means of payment which exceed those borne by the trader.
Where the consumer has a right of withdrawal (as described in some detail later in this article), the trader must let the consumer know how and by when he can exercise this right. He must do this by making available to the buyer the model withdrawal form as set out in Annex I(B) of the Directive. Where in certain circumstances laid down in the Directive, the right of withdrawal is not available to the consumer, the trader must make this clear. If the buyer does have a right to withdraw initially, but can lose such right, then the trader must tell him how he can lose such right.
Who’s going to pay if I send it back?
If the buyer is expected to foot the bill for the return of the goods, the trader must make this clear. He must also specify how much this is going to cost the buyer (unless the buyer can return them by normal post). If he fails to provide such information do so, the buyer will not be liable for such costs.
The information in (f) and (g) above may be supplied to the consumer by the trader by means of the model instructions on withdrawal set out in Annex I(A) of the Directive.
What if the goods are faulty?
The trader must remind the buyer of his legal and commercial guarantees, as well as provide him with the details of any after-sales service. Legal guarantees are those granted to the consumer by the law governing the contract between the trader and the consumer and which, in accordance with article 6 of the Rome I Regulation, must not fall short of those granted to the consumer by the law of his country of habitual residence. Commercial guarantees are those which are agreed upon contractually between the trader and consumer, and which apply over and above the applicable legal guarantees.
How long will I be bound for?
If the contract is ongoing, such as in the case of the purchase of a subscription, the buyer needs to know how long he is bound for by the contract. If the contract is indefinite, or is extended automatically, the buyer needs to know how he can terminate it. This information must show up on the website just before the consumer places his order.
Do I need to pay a deposit?
Where the buyer must pay a deposit on his purchase, he needs to know how much he is expected to pay and on what conditions he will forfeit such deposit.
What about digital content?
The consumer must be informed of the functionality of digital content, including applicable technical protection measures, and of any relevant interoperability with hardware and software.
Don’t Play Games: The Obligation to pay must be Explicit
Online traders must ensure that consumers explicitly acknowledge their obligation to pay when placing their order. Thus, it is not sufficient for an online button or similar function to state “Order Now” – this must be changed to the somewhat less catchy, “Order with Obligation to Pay”, or to a similarly clear phrase that emphasises that ordering entails an obligation to pay. If the trader fails to comply with this requirement, then the buyer is not bound by his order.
Seal the Deal: Confirmation of the Sale
Confirmation of the sale must be provided to the buyer in writing – an email would suffice for this purpose. This must be provided within a reasonable time after the sale, and at the latest at the time of the delivery of the goods or before the performance of the service begins. It must contain all the information indicated in paragraphs (a) to (k) above.
The Buyer can Back Out: The Right of Withdrawal
The right of withdrawal referred to in paragraph (f) above is the buyer’s right to change his mind and withdraw from an online sale – so long as he does so within a period of 14 days. He may do this without giving any reason, and without incurring any costs, except for the cost of the return. In the case of sales contracts for goods, these 14 days start running only from the moment that the buyer receives physical possession of the goods. Where multiple goods are ordered by the buyer in one order and are delivered separately, the 14 days begin to run from the day on which the buyer acquires physical possession of the last good. In the case of service contracts, or for the supply of digital content, the 14 days begin to run on the day of the conclusion of the contract. Notably, however, the buyer loses his right to withdraw from a contract for the supply of digital content (which is not supplied on a tangible medium such as a CD, DVD etc.) as soon as downloading commences.
If the trader has omitted to provide the consumer with information about his right of withdrawal, the consumer will have 12 months from the end of the initial 14 day withdrawal period within which he can withdraw from the contract. If within those 12 months, the trader provides the necessary information to the consumer about his right to withdraw, the consumer will then have 14 days from the date on which he received such information.
Where the buyer has withdrawn from the contract within the specified time frames, the trader must reimburse all payments received from him, including any delivery costs, within 14 days from the day on which the buyer informed him of his decision to withdraw. Such reimbursement must be made by the same means as the buyer used to make the payment. The trader may however withhold the reimbursement until he receives the goods back, or proof of the return of the goods, whichever is the earliest.
Dinner Jackets and Fine Wines: Exceptions to the Right of Withdrawal
There are certain situations in which it would be an outright injustice to allow the buyer to back out of the sale. In these cases, the Directive expressly excludes the right of withdrawal. This is the case where the price for the supply of goods or services is dependant on fluctuations in the financial market which may occur during the withdrawal period, such as, for instance, with wine supplied on the basis of a speculative contract, where the value is dependant on fluctuations in the market (“vin en primeur”). It stands to reason, also, that there should be an exception to the right of withdrawal in the case of sales of clearly personalised goods, or of goods made to the consumer’s specifications, such as tailored suits or curtains. The online purchaser of a newspaper, periodical or magazine is also deprived of his right to withdraw from the contract, because the value of these articles would undoubtedly be affected by the passing of even a short period of time. The exception to this rule is the conclusion of a contract for a subscription for such publications. Consumers should be 100% certain before booking hotels, holiday villas or cultural or sporting events online – cancelling these bookings could result in a vacancy difficult to fill if the right of withdrawal were allowed to be exercised. The same goes for car rental and catering services.
Get me to the Church on Time … or I Want my Money Back!
The Directive bears more good news for online shoppers – if the trader fails to deliver the goods to the consumer at the time agreed upon, or by not later than 30 days from the conclusion of the contract, the consumer shall call upon him to make the delivery within an additional period of time appropriate to the circumstances. If the trader fails to deliver the goods within that additional period of time, the consumer shall be entitled to terminate the contract and the trader shall be liable to reimburse all sums paid under the contract without delay. Where the trader has outright refused to deliver the goods, or where the delivery within the agreed period is essential, taking into account all the circumstances surrounding the conclusion of the contract – such as in the case of a wedding dress where the trader has been informed of the date of the wedding – or where the customer has informed the trader that delivery by a specified date is essential, the customer need not provide an additional period of time for the delivery, but may simply terminate the contract immediately.
When you assume…
Those notorious pre-ticked boxes binding consumers to pay for taxi services, hotel rooms, insurance and all other manner of extra goods and services have been definitely banned by the Directive. Any additional payments must be expressly consented to by the buyer, and if this consent has been inferred in some way (including through the use of pre-ticked boxes), the buyer shall have the right to be reimbursed for this payment.
[1] Figures based on Forbes’ projections for US and EU Commerce for 2012 – 2017; accessible at http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2013/03/14/us-online-retail-sales-to-reach-370b-by-2017-e191b-in-europe/
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History of the 1964-1969 Buick Special
The 1964 Buick Special was a complete departure from the 1963 model of the same name. Where the 1963 car had been a unibody compact car, the 1964 was a mid-size body-on-frame design with strong horizontal lines. Body styles for the 1964 Buick Special included 2-door and 4-door sedans, a 2-door convertible, and 4-door station wagon.
As Buick’s base-level intermediate car, the 1964 Special was a fairly Spartan vehicle, without anything in the way of bling, and except for the convertible, lacking even the basic luxury of carpeting. Upholstery was all cloth, and standard features were limited to electric wipers, turn signals, ashtray, dome lights, and a step-on parking brake. The Special did have Buick’s typical trio of ventiports, on the fenders, however.
Engine options included a 225-cid V-6 unit that was rated at 155 horsepower, and a 300-cid V-8 with 210 horsepower. There was also an improved engine option at 250 horsepower from the same 300-cid engine. The standard transmission was a 3-speed manual, with 4-speed manual and automatic options available.
The Buick Special Deluxe was a separate line built on the same platform, featuring more creature comforts and more chrome trim in each year. Special Deluxe line cars were offered in 2-door and 4-door sedan and 4-door wagon only.
For 1965, the Special got a bit of the coke bottle design that was sweeping GM during that era. The bodywork rose and swelled outward a bit behind the doors, giving the cars a more aggressive and sporty look. That motif got another boost in 1966, with more sculpting in the fenders. Also new for 1966, the Special 2-door sedan became a coupe. The other body style options continued. The V-6 engine received a boost to 160 horsepower, and an optional V-8 produced 260 horsepower.
In 1967, the convertible was dropped from the Buick Special line, leaving only the 4-door sedan, 2-door coupe, and 4-door station wagon. All else about the Special remained the same as the 1966 model.
The 1968 brought model year brought an upgrade—all Buick Specials were now Special Deluxe in name and in features. These cars now received Buick’s trademark sweepspear side molding. The 6-cylinder engine was changed to an inline design, with 155 horsepower from 250 cubic inches of displacement. The V-8 option now displaced 350 cubic inches and produced 230 horsepower. No further changes were made for the final year of this generation in 1969.
Collectors will want to seek out Special Deluxe editions with a good optional feature set, including the 4-speed manual transmission and uprated V-8 engines with four-barrel carburetor. Note that the popular California GS models were built using the same model number as the Special, featuring upgraded trim and engine options.
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Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen Won't Be In 'Fuller House'
By Stephanie Marcus
We didn't expect Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to appear in the new "Full House" reboot, and it turns out the 28-year-old fashion designers will not reprise their shared role as Michelle Tanner, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Although Ashley and Mary-Kate will not be a part of Fuller House, I know how much Full House has meant to them and they are still very much considered family," executive producer Robert L. Boyett said in a statement. "It has been exciting to see how they have built their professional careers, and I support their choice to focus on their fashion brands and various business endeavors. I appreciate their support and good wishes towards Fuller House."
The news comes weeks after John Stamos, who is both producing and slated to appear in the Netflix series, called "bullshit" on the sisters, after they told Women's Wear Daily they weren't in the loop regarding the new show. Stamos later tweeted that he and Mary-Kate had smoothed things out after having a "sweet talk," but he apparently wasn't able to sweet-talk the twins into appearing on the show.
In addition to Stamos, fans of the original series ABC can expect Andrea Barber, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure, and Dave Coulier to reprise their roles in the revival, which will focus on Bure's D.J. Tanner, now a widow with three kids.
Earlier this month, Bure spoke about "Fuller House" on the "Today" show, saying that the Netflix series won't be the same as the original. "It's definitely a fresh take," she said. "We're not doing the old show, it's not a reunion. It's a spinoff show."
UPDATE: On Friday night, John Stamos retweeted this very article and then wrote that he was "#heartbroken" over the news:
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Black women seek to provide leadership at decision-making tables
By Kimberly Peeler-Allen
At a recent Higher Heights luncheon in Washington DC, Donna Brazile said, “I didn’t get to (run Al Gore’s presidential campaign) because someone invited me to the table. I got there because I brought my own folding chair!”
Two women who are currently trying to squeeze their folding chairs up to the table are Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to serve as Attorney General and Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York State Senate Democratic Conference Leader.
There are many reasons why both women have not been included at decision making tables—partisan bickering and gamesmanship, the threat to the status quo, etc.--but at no point, however, has anyone questioned the qualifications of these women to accomplish the task at hand.
This leaves only one conclusion:
When the people at the table truly reflect the voices of individuals they represent, things change.
Today, April 5th, is an unfortunate milestone. It marks 147 days since Loretta Lynch was nominated to become the next Attorney General of the United States. Tomorrow, Lynch’s nomination will become the longest delayed presidential nomination in over 30 years.
Lynch would be the first Black women to serve as Attorney General and only the second women to hold the post.
Lynch is currently serving her second tenure as US Attorney for the Eastern District, a position to which she was first appointed by President Clinton and served from 1999 to 2001. She was reappointed by President Obama in 2010. Throughout her career, Lynch has established her reputation by fighting public and corporate corruption.
On the state and local level Black women are having an equally challenging time elbowing their way to the table.
In 2012, State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins became the first woman leader of a legislative conference in New York State history. This year, Senator Stewart-Cousins attempted to break the long-standing history of the "three men in the room" budget negotiations. She thought it was important as the Governor and Legislative leaders decided on a $142 billion budget that a woman be part of the discussion.
Good government groups have criticized the process because of the lack of transparency and inclusion. Historically the opaque negotiations have been done by “three men in a room”, the Assembly Speaker, the Senate Majority Leader and the Governor. This year, the Governor opted to include the leader of the Senate Independent Democrats Conference, a minor conference within the body. Many saw this opening as an opportunity for the Minority Leader of the State Assembly and Democratic Leader of the State Senate to participate in the negotiation meetings. The louder the call to include Leader Stewart-Cousins in the negotiations the more resistant the Governor became, until he ultimately canceled all in person meetings and only negotiated the final details of the budget through one-on-one conversations by phone.
The final budget has been a big disappointment for working families and communities of color. Among other provisions, increasing the state’s minimum wage and comprehensive juvenile justice reform were omitted from the final bill. If Leader Stewart-Cousins had been included in the final negotiations would those measures have ended up on the cutting room floor? We’ll never know.
Shirley Chisholm once said, “Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” It’s time that we as a nation recognize the value and the benefit that Loretta Lynch, Andrea Stewart-Cousins and countless other Black women bring to decision making tables and SCOOT OVER!!!!
Kimberly Peeler-Allen is Co-Founder of Higher Heights and formerly the principal of Peeler Allen Consulting, LLC the only Black woman led political fundraising firm in New York State.
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Men's Basketball Comeback Bid Falls Short of Oberlin
The Hiram College men’s basketball rally from a 15-point deficit after the first 20 minutes against Oberlin College fell short falling to the Yeomen, 55-51, in a North Coast Athletic Conference game at Price Gymnasium.
Despite opening the game with a pair of free-throws as a result of a technical foul before the game officially started and a successful three-point shot by Hiram (1-3, 0-2 NCAC) junior forward Chris Zurowski (Medina) for an early 5-0 lead, Oberlin (2-5, 1-1 NCAC) caught fire from three-point range shooting 76.9 percent (10-of-13) in the first half. The Yeomen put together a stretch of seven straight successful triples resulting in a 17-point advantage, 26-9, with 11:55 left in the half. The Terriers could do nothing but try and wait out the hot shooting, but the deficit would grow to as many as 19 points and trailed 38-23 at halftime.
Hiram began its rally right from the start of the second half, beginning the period with an 8-0 scoring run that ended in a jumper by senior forward Steve Zivoder (Garrettsville/Garfield) that got Hiram to within seven points, 38-31, with 15:05 left to play. Oberlin answered back with an ensuing, 11-2, run of its own to extend the lead back to double-digits, 49-33, at the 12:18 mark. Trailing by 10 points with just under eight minutes to go, Hiram made one final push outscoring Oberlin, 10-2, to make it a one-possession ball game, 53-51, on a three-pointer by junior guard Aaron Stefanov (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) with 1:56 to play. The Terriers then went scoreless the rest of the way as the Yeomen added a pair of free-throws to seal the victory with two seconds on the clock to hang on for a 55-51 win.
Oberlin shot just 25.0 percent in the second half after a first half that saw the Yeomen convert 68.4 percent of their overall shots. Oberlin finished the game shooting 44.2 percent (19-of-43) for the game and was led by Austin Little who scored a game-high 20 points on seven-of-15 shooting (46.7 percent), including six-of-12 (50.0 percent) from behind the arc. The Yeomen had one other player in double-figures in Andrew Fox who scored 11 points in addition to recording a game-high nine assists. In addition, Randy Ollie grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds.
Hiram ended up shooting 41.3 percent (19-of-46) from the field and had two players score in double-digits. Zivoder finished the game with a team-high 12 points on four-of-nine shooting (44.4 percent). Fellow senior forward Justin Lonis (Mentor/Perrysburg) rounded out the high-scorers with a career-high 10 points.
Hiram will travel to Youngstown for a non-conference game against NCAA Division I Youngstown State University on Saturday, Dec. 8. The game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
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January 24, 2019 9:03 AM EDT
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA and LIEGE, BELGIUM – January 24, 2019 – (GLOBE NEWSWIRE – HISPANICIZE WIRE) — Advanced Nuclear Medicine Ingredients SA (“ANMI”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:TLX, “Telix”) today announced that it has completed the in-licensing of 99mtechnetium-EDDA/HYNIC-Lys(NaI)-Urea-Glu (99mTc-iPSMA), a novel clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical for the imaging of prostate cancer, from the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (“ININ”).
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography or “SPECT” is a nuclear medicine imaging procedure widely used especially in the management of cancer and is an alternative to the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) approach already under development by ANMI/Telix (the illumetTM / 68Ga-PSMA kit). SPECT is similar to PET in its use of radioactive tracer material and detection of gamma rays (and it is often generically referred to as “gamma imaging”). However, in much of the world PET/CT technology is not yet widely available, and therefore SPECT remains the dominant nuclear imaging modality for cancer management.
The ININ team and collaborators have clinically evaluated 99mTc-iPSMA with SPECT/CT and the acquired results demonstrate highly sensitive detection of prostate cancer lesions.1,[2]. The clinical and commercial potential of 99mTc-iPSMA to evaluate both primary disease and metastases in regions that do not have extensive PET infrastructure (at this time), is significant. The images obtained with 9mTc-iPSMA are qualitatively and semi-quantitatively similar to 68Ga-PSMA-11 with PET/CT. 99mTc-iPSMA has robust international patent protection in relevant commercial markets.
Telix Group CEO Dr. Christian Behrenbruch stated, “In the US and EU where PET infrastructure is well-developed, PET-based nuclear medicine dominates due to superior image quality, the quantitative nature of PET and higher reimbursement for PET-based procedures compared to traditional SPECT-based nuclear medicine procedures. However, we believe that the availability of PSMA imaging is fundamental to enabling patient access to 177Lu-PSMA therapy on a global basis and therefore a kit-based approach based on 99mTc-iPSMA is a powerful addition to the product portfolio and complements our existing development of the 68Ga-PSMA illumetTM kit.”
ANMI Co-Founder and CSO Dr. Sam Voccia noted, “Delivering SPECT PSMA to patients in countries where PET is not accessible or has limited availability will contribute to better management of prostate cancer globally. This is particularly the case for key Asian and Latin American growth markets where there is major demand for prostate imaging and where a product like this can ensure that we ‘leave no patient behind’ in terms of access to prostate imaging technology.”
The development of the 99mTc-iPSMA product is the result of world-class research conducted by the highly innovative ININ research group of the National Laboratory on Research and Development of Radiopharmaceuticals (LANIDER), who have vast experience in the field of nuclear medicine. The LADINDER group maintains various national and international collaborations through a scientific association with the Mexican National Institute of Cancerology (INCan) and the National Laboratories of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT). The license agreement with ININ is a worldwide agreement3 and includes a manufacturing partnership for the product.
About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (“Telix”) is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of diagnostic and therapeutic products based on targeted radiopharmaceuticals or “molecularly-targeted radiation” (MTR). The company is headquartered in Melbourne with international operations in Brussels (EU), Kyoto (Japan) and Indianapolis (USA). Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage oncology products that address significant unmet medical need in renal, prostate and brain (glioblastoma) cancer. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:TLX). For more information visit www.telixpharma.com.
About Advanced Nuclear Medicine Ingredients (ANMI) SA
ANMI SA is an innovative pharmaceutical company developing novel radiopharmaceutical solutions, located in Liège, Belgium. ANMI has developed innovative solutions to facilitate the scalable synthesis of “theranostic” radiopharmaceuticals and to streamline routine production in hospitals and radiopharmacies. ANMI’s mission is to increase patient access to new highly specific theranostic radiopharmaceuticals through efficient and cost-effective production processes. ANMI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telix Pharmaceuticals. For more information visit www.anmi.be.
About Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ)
ININ was established by the Mexican Government to contribute to the objectives of a competitive national economy, establishment of high-value technology-based employment, sustainability of the environment and energy security. ININ achieves this mission through excellence in the research and development of nuclear science and technology. ININ is an internationally recognized innovator in the field of nuclear medicine.
About Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)
PSMA is a cancer target (cell surface antigen) that is highly upregulated in prostate cancer cells and is a highly validated and promising target for a range of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in prostate cancer.
About iPSMA (99mTc-EDDA/HYNIC-iPSMA)
99mTc-EDDA/HYNIC-iPSMA (99Tc-iPSMA) is a small molecule (ligand) that targets and binds to PSMA and enables metastatic prostate cancer can be imaged using Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). SPECT is a highly effective and widely used imaging modality in the management of cancer. 99Tc-iPSMA is a development stage radiopharmaceutical imaging agent that is designed to facilitate the visualization of subtle changes in biochemical and biological processes associated with disease progression. The expression of distinct proteins by diseased cells offers the opportunity to “visualize cancer”, potentially allowing for improved detection and staging, more precise biopsies, and a targeted treatment plan including active surveillance as a disease management tool.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States, or in any other jurisdiction in which such an offer would be illegal. The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the “US Securities Act”), or under the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered or sold within the United States, unless the securities have been registered under the US Securities Act or an exemption from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act is available. None of the products described in this release have obtained a marketing authorization in any jurisdiction, including the United States and Europe.
1 Nucl Med Biol. 2017;48:36–44
2 Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2018; 8(5): 332–340
3 Excluding Mexico and South Africa
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/ae4f3360-1af2-422c-a11b-6ced81049fe6
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Mary Todd Lincoln May Have Had Pernicious Anemia
In a new book, a physician and scholar argues that a deficiency in vitamin B12 could explain the first lady’s long list of ailments and notoriously strange behavior.
Sarah Pruitt
Mary Todd Lincoln has always been a puzzling, polarizing figure. As a young woman, the well-educated and ambitious Kentucky belle used her charm to help propel her husband to the White House. As first lady, she was initially praised as a gracious hostess and sparkling conversationalist. But extravagant shopping sprees in New York to furnish the executive mansion soon earned Mrs. Lincoln the scorn of the press and much of Washington society, which saw her as spoiled and narcissistic. The fact that she was Southern, during the Civil War, was another big strike against her.
No previous first lady (the term was not even in wide use by 1860, when Lincolns entered the White House) had been the object of such public fascination, or controversy. Mrs. Lincoln was often pale, and frequently complained of headaches or other ailments. Gossip swirled about her stormy moods; she was even said to hit her husband, or to insult him in front of visitors. Abraham Lincoln’s assistant private secretary, John Hay, famously dubbed her “the hellcat.”
Things got progressively worse after Mrs. Lincoln lost her young son Willie to typhoid fever in 1862 (another son, Edward, had died in 1850) and her husband to an assassin’s bullet in 1865. Her youngest son, Tad, died in 1871; four years later, Robert Lincoln had his mother committed to a private sanatorium in Batavia, Illinois. Though a later hearing reversed the finding that she was insane and she was released after several months, later historians largely accepted the idea that Mary Lincoln suffered from mental illness of some kind. As her biographer Jean Baker recently told CNN: “Every medical diagnosis has been postulated about her; it runs the gamut from Lyme disease to chronic fatigue to diabetes.”
Dr. John G. Sotos is the latest to offer a theory that could explain Mrs. Lincoln’s troubles. A cardiologist and technology executive who served as a medical and technical consultant on the TV show “House M.D.,” Sotos was researching a book on Abraham Lincoln’s health when he came across a letter written in 1852, which mentions that Mary Lincoln was suffering from a sore mouth. Knowing that vitamin B12 deficiency can cause mouth pain, he began digging further into the first lady’s health history. Though none of Mrs. Lincoln’s medical records survive to the present day, except for some doctors’ notes from her institutionalization, Sotos used hundreds of letters and photos of the time to build his case.
As reported in his book “The Mary Lincoln Mind-Body Sourcebook” and in an article published last week in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Sotos found that the progressive disease, caused by a B12 deficiency, could explain much of Mrs. Lincoln’s long list of physical symptoms, including weakness, fatigue, fevers, headaches, gait problems, rapid heartbeat, mouth soreness, swelling and vision trouble. In addition, the pernicious anemia could explain her irritability, and the delusions and hallucinations she increasingly suffered in later life. “With any complex disease that affects so many organs, you get a long list of symptoms,” Sotos told the New York Times. “Mary had just about all of them.”
The human body needs Vitamin B12 to make red blood cells and nerves and keep DNA functioning. A deficiency can disrupt this process, affecting the brain, nervous system and other organs. Few serious cases of pernicious anemia occur today, as blood tests can diagnose the condition early on and doctors can treat it. This was not the case in Mrs. Lincoln’s era: Pernicious anemia didn’t even appear in English-language medical literature until 1874, eight years before she died. A diagnosis was an effective death sentence until 1926, when George Whipple, George Minot and William Murphy developed the first effective treatment, in which patients ate a half-pound of raw liver daily to cure the disease. (The three doctors shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 for the accomplishment.) Scientists finally developed a vaccine in 1948.
According to Sotos, photos of Mary Lincoln appear to back up his theory. Her stocky frame, wide face and jaw and widely spaced eyes are all common characteristics of people suffering from pernicious anemia, though no one knows why this is true. In addition, he points out that Mrs. Lincoln’s parents were cousins with ancestors from a part of Scotland where pernicious anemia has been found to be unusually common.
Despite Sotos’ argument, some scholars take issue in principle with the practice of retrospectively diagnosing historical figures. Baker, for her part, is not totally convinced. She points out Mrs. Lincoln’s enormous energy (not typical of sufferers of pernicious anemia, though the disease is progressive) and said that recently found letters suggest the first lady may have been taking too much chloral hydrate to help her sleep, which might explain some of her mental problems. Other recent scholarship has suggested Mrs. Lincoln suffered from spinal stenosis or diabetes.
But Sotos holds firm that only his diagnosis of pernicious anemia can most fully explain the extensive roster of Mrs. Lincoln’s physical and mental ailments. Above all, however, he hopes his theory will convince many historians to regard Mrs. Lincoln with more sympathy, seeing her not as a manic, crazed harpy but “simply a woman with a biochemically injured mind.”
https://www.history.com/news/according-to-new-theory-mary-todd-lincoln-likely-had-pernicious-anemia
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Collections > Regions > West Indies Collection
West Indies Collection
The West Indies is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
The region includes all the islands in or bordering the Caribbean Sea, plus The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the Atlantic Ocean. Depending on the context, some references to the West Indies may include some nations of northern South America that share the history and culture of the West Indian islands.
Indigenous peoples were the first inhabitants of the West Indies. In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands, where he is believed by historians to have first set foot on land in the Bahamas. After the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, Europeans began to use the term West Indies to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
In the late sixteenth century, French, English and Dutch merchants and privateers began their operations in the Caribbean Sea, attacking Spanish and Portuguese shipping and coastal areas. They often took refuge and refitted their ships in the areas the Spanish could not conquer, including the islands of the Lesser Antilles, the northern coast of South America including the mouth of the Orinoco, and the Atlantic Coast of Central America.
In the Lesser Antilles they managed to establish a foothold following the colonization of St Kitts in 1624 and Barbados in 1626, and when the Sugar Revolution took off in the mid-seventeenth century, they brought in thousands of Africans to work the fields and mills as slave laborers. These Africans wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as indentured servants.
The struggle between the northern Europeans and the Spanish spread southward in the mid to late seventeenth century, as English, Dutch, French and Spanish colonists, and in many cases their slaves from Africa first entered and then occupied the coast of The Guianas (which fell to the French, English and Dutch) and the Orinoco valley, which fell to the Spanish. The Dutch, allied with the Caribs of the Orinoco, would eventually carry the struggles deep into South America, first along the Orinoco and then along the northern reaches of the Amazon.
Since no European country had occupied much of Central America, gradually the English of Jamaica established alliances with the Miskito Kingdom of modern-day Nicaragua and Honduras, and then began logging on the coast of modern-day Belize. These interconnected commercial and diplomatic relations made up the Western Caribbean Zone which was in place in the early eighteenth century. In the Miskito Kingdom, the rise to power of the Miskito-Zambos, who originated in the survivors of a rebellion aboard a slave ship in the 1640s and the introduction of African slaves by British settlers within the Miskito area and in Belize, also transformed this area into one with a high percentage of persons of African descent as was found in most of the rest of the Caribbean.
From the 17th through the 19th century, the European colonial territories of the West Indies were the French West Indies, British West Indies, the Danish West Indies, the Netherlands Antilles (Dutch West Indies), and the Spanish West Indies. In 1916, Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the United States for US $25 million in gold, per the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the U.S., called the United States Virgin Islands.
Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom reorganized all their West Indies island territories (except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas) into the West Indies Federation. They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single, independent nation. However, the Federation had limited powers, numerous practical problems, and a lack of popular support; consequently, it was dissolved by the British in 1963, with nine provinces eventually becoming independent sovereign states and four becoming current British Overseas Territories.
West Indies or West India was the namesake of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West Indies.
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A Voyage in the West Indies 1820
Bermuda, a Colony, a Fortress, and a Prison 1857
A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica 1826
The Martinique Horror and St. Vincent Calamity 1902
The American Atlas 1776
Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies 1885
Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica 1849
The West Indies and the Spanish Main 1896
The West-India Atlas 1775
The History of Barbados 1848
Ten Views in the Island of Antigua 1823
A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements 1762
Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba 1855
Map of the British Empire in America 1746
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M. Floating Dock "Bermuda" 1870
An Account of the Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent 1825
Central American and West Indian Archaeology 1916
A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage 1589
La Guadeloupe Pittoresque 1863
A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica 1825
Scenery of the Windward and Leeward Islands 1837
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Cuban Overture
With huge fame and fortune firmly in his grip, George Gershwin (1898-1937), he of the song hits past counting and the successful musical shows, had self-improvement on his mind. With Rhapsody in Blue, the Concerto in F, Rhapsody No. 2, and An American in Paris under his belt, he sought to cover his tracks in terms of the technical skill he knew was lacking in his creative arsenal. Enter Joseph Schillinger. Russian-born and trained, Schillinger emigrated to America in 1928, settling in New York as a teacher of music, mathematics, and art history, but notably of his own system of composition based on rigid mathematical principles. It was recommended to Gershwin that he study with Schillinger, and deadly in earnest about improving his orchestration and counterpoint, he put himself in Schillinger’s hands from 1932 to 1936, when he left for California and the movies.
The Schillinger System was strong on technique but weak on originality. Clearly a good deal for Gershwin, who lacked the technique but was overwhelmingly original. The lessons were done on graph paper with such titles as “Rhythmic Groups Resulting from the Interference of Several Synchronized Periodicities” and “Groups With The Fractioning Around the Axis of Symmetry.” (It’s a testament to Gershwin’s genius that such a curriculum didn’t kill his inspiration.) In fact Schillinger counted many successful musicians among his students, in addition to Gershwin, there were Tommy Dorsey, Vernon Duke, Benny Goodman, and Oscar Levant. (And they remained successful even AS, after Schillinger.)
The first work Gershwin composed under the Schillinger influence was the Cuban Overture, which was first titled Rumba. As Rumba, it was premiered in August 1932 at the first all-Gershwin concert at New York’s Lewisohn Stadium for a cheering crowd of 18,000 people, with a reported 5,000 turned away. “It was,” Gershwin later said, “the most exciting night I have ever had.”
Gershwin prepared a short analysis of Rumba, in which he said, The composition was inspired by a short visit to Havana…and I endeavored to combine the Cuban rhythms with my original thematic material. The result is a symphonic overture which embodies the essence of the Cuban dance. On the title page he indicated that the players of the four Cuban instruments claves, maracas, guiro, and bongos -- should be placed right in front of the conductor’s stand.
Had Gershwin lived longer than the 38 years he was allotted, the Cuban Overture might have become a signpost on the way to a greatly advanced compositional style. The piece is both characteristic Gershwin and Gershwin in transit. No one hearing it would question who the author is, yet it is apparent that the familiar fingerprints the infectious rhythms, this time rumba, and distinctive bluesy melodic strains are guided by a considerably more sophisticated and learned hand than the one that had etched the early symphonic/jazz works.
- Program Notes by Orrin Howard
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Scripps, BBC Worldwide U.K. TV Network Venture Acquires 'Believe'
1:38 AM PDT 10/3/2013 by Stuart Kemp
Eric Liebowitz/NBC
"Believe"
UKTV inks a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for the Alfonso Cuaron and J.J. Abrams show.
LONDON – UKTV, the multi-channel network operator owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, has inked a deal for Believe, written and produced by filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and exec produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions (Star Trek: Into Darkness).
The show details the story of a young girl with supernatural powers who is placed under the protection of an escaped death row inmate who must shield her from the mysterious forces out to hunt her down.
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UKTV’s flagship entertainment channel, Watch, will air the supernatural thriller, marking the show's U.K. premiere.
UKTV struck the British deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution and is scheduled to air on Watch in early 2014.
Watch’s general manager Steve Hornsey described the show as being "laced with intricate twists and turns" and said Believe "perfectly embodies Watch’s brand position of showcasing compelling, out of the ordinary programming."
Johnny Sequoyah, Jake McLaughlin, Delroy Lindo and Kyle MacLachlan star in the show.
The deal was brokered by UKTV’s director of program acquisitions Catherine Mackin.
Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution president Jeffrey Schlesinger said: "From the creative auspices to the writing to the performances, Believe is a terrific series and we are pleased that it will have a great home on Watch in the U.K."
Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time) and Arian Moayed (The Following) also star in the series, which is produced by Bonanza Productions. in association with Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Believe was created by Cuaron, who directed the pilot episode and serves as executive producer on the series, along with Abrams, Bryan Burk (Star Trek), Dave Erickson (Sons of Anarchy) and Hans Tobeason (Damages).
Kathy Lingg (Person of Interest) is co-executive producer.
Believe debuts in midseason on NBC in the U.S. and joins other American acquisitions on Watch's lineup, including Grimm, Perception and Beauty and the Beast.
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‘Danjuma’s statement was a wake-up call to citizens and governments’
Marie Sana March 31, 2018 Government and politics No Comments on ‘Danjuma’s statement was a wake-up call to citizens and governments’
Security expert, Dr. Ona Ekhomu, speaks on the issues raised by Gen. Theophilus Danjuma and others security challenges in the country
How can Nigeria be secured?
The security challenges facing Nigeria are quite complex. There is a broad threat spectrum ranging from assault to suicide terrorism (Person Borne Improvised Explosive Device, PBIED, threat). Almost every state in the country is affected by grave security threats.
The authorities appear to be overwhelmed. At present, the military is running JTF operations in 34 out of 36 states of the country. The Police have been relegated to the background, in direct contravention of the constitutional mandate to be in charge of internal security.
The “self-defense” and “be vigilant” advice given by Gen. T.Y. Danjuma was quite apt. Every citizen has the right to protect him/herself and his/her property. That is an inalienable right. If someone should attack you with a knife, you will not simply offer your throat to be slit; you will instinctively raise your hand in defensive maneuvers and possibly disarm the adversary, if you are trained in the martial arts.
Danjuma recognised the relative ineffectiveness of the security officials to protect the farmers from the herders and vice versa.
Going forward, I suggest that we create a programme in every state and local government area called the Community Security Defense Shield. In this programme, vigilance groups are organised in every community and they report to a coordinator and are recognised by the Police and the local government intelligence chief.
The vigilance group members should patrol and defend the community and call the Police when the threat exceeds their capacity to contain. As provided in S14 CPA, all arrested persons shall be promptly handed over to the Police for arraignment and prosecution. If a threat exceeds the powers of the police, then the threat could be escalated to the military.
Vigilance group members should receive a salary of N10, 000 per month for their services. These men and women should have hunters among them, armed with shotguns to provide firepower.
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You might want to consider it as Citizens on Patrol (CoP). The benefit is that it will eliminate the phenomenon of ungoverned spaces in the country. The stipend for the vigilance group should be sourced from the security votes of the governors.
What do you make of Gen. Danjuma’s statement?
The statement was intended as a wake-up call to the citizens and the governments. It sought to dispel false hopes by citizens that the security threat would be solved miraculously. The General told his kinsmen that the solution to the problem of incessant herders’ violence laid with them.
I don’t agree that the statement was an invitation to anarchy. The statement was actually meant to avert further bloodshed. The self-defence doctrine is rooted in the right to life of the citizen.
How true are his allegations?
Nigerians are being slaughtered quite frequently by armed herder militia, who claim that they have a right to graze on colonial grazing routes. In 2017, herder militia killed about 700 persons. Most of these killings occurred in Lau Council of Taraba State, Agatu Guma and Logo Councils of Benue State, Nimbo in Enugu State and others. So, the allegation of mass murder is correct.
The second allegation is that some military personnel are not neutral and they assist the aggressors. This is a glittering generalisation. It is only in a few known cases that service members would misbehave. The military is the strength of the nation and protects Nigerians against Boko Haram insurgents, ISIS in West Africa, Camerounian gendarmes, Don Waney, the kidnapper and mass murderer and sundry anarchists in this country. In fact, the Nigerian service member is over-worked and under-appreciated.
Clearly, the allegations against wrongdoing by service members should be investigated and errant members purged to restore full trust in the impartiality and incorruptibility of the military.
Military personnel are human beings and all human beings are subject to bias. Subjectivity by military personnel are sociological facts that are subsumed by inter-subjectivity and thus become objective. A service personnel whose wife is from Taraba State would feel some affinity with that state.
However, he knows that whatever decision he makes will be reviewed by his superiors. So, he would try to be objective.
The point here is that the integrity and capacity of the leadership of the military as an institution is what we can count on to reduce bias.
How seriously should the allegations be taken?
I don’t think that any right-thinking person would dismiss Danjuma’s words casually. President Muhammadu Buhari recently visited Benue, Taraba and Zamfara states on condolence visits because of the carnage that had occurred in those states.
Buhari served as the consoler-in-chief. If there had not been mass murders in those states, the President wouldn’t have undertaken the tour. His visit to the most affected states enabled him see first-hand, the level of devastation that took place during the attacks.
Danjuma raised an important alarm. It behooves the government to listen.
What is your take on criminal activities in the country?
It is too much! Nigeria has more than its fair share of violent crimes and terrorism. The crime control agencies and counter-terrorism and anti-terrorism officials must work hard to address the security challenges.
Nigerians are now openly questioning why the government is unable or unwilling to keep its part of the social contract, where government guarantees us security and welfare in exchange for our obedience.
I observe a lot of intellectual incapacity and laziness on the part of many government officials. The political elite must redefine their mission to be “service” rather than “progress” or “power.” Our leaders must commit to serve us and do so indeed. Nigeria can then achieve its potential for greatness.
I remember then General Muhammadu Buhari’s interview with Kaye Whiteman of West Africa Magazine in 1984. When he was asked to sum up his mission as a military head of state, he answered “service.”
Do all these not support the calls for state Police?
I support vigilantism, but I am opposed to state Police, which I see as an attempt by unscrupulous politicians to acquire more coercive powers with which to hound their opponents to hell.
We have many quasi-state police agencies in Lagos State, including LASTMA, KAI, Lagos Neighborhood Safety Corps, Neighborhood Watch, and so on. State Police will lead to the speedy destruction of Nigeria, as we know it. Pride goeth before a fall.
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Motorsports Hall of Fame Class of 2012
LONG BEACH, Calif. (April 13, 2012)– Racing legends Derek Bell, Neil Bonnett, Pop Dreyer, Vic Edelbrock, Sr., Ricky Johnson, Ed Pink and Danny Sullivan will be this year’s inductees into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America at the organization’s 24th Annual Induction Ceremony that will be held on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit.
The Class of 2012 announcement was made in a press conference on the opening day of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach where Hall President Ron Watson was joined by Sullivan and Pink, who represented the accomplished motorsports legends that make up this year’s illustrious group of inductees. Among the Hall members in attendance at the press conference were Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner Parnelli Jones.
“The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America’s Class of 2012 is an incredible example of the breadth and variety of American motor racing,” Watson said. “It spotlights the talented, glamorous personalities of victory lane alongside equally important heroes from behind-the-scenes.”
Sullivan, a former Indy Car Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner, scored his only Long Beach victory 20 years ago in 1992 on the famous California street circuit. He is best known for his Indy Car accomplishments, but Sullivan also raced in Formula 1, Can-Am and sports cars. His 17th and final Indy Car win came in 1993 on the Belle Isle road course, located just a few miles from the Fillmore in the heart of downtown Detroit.
“Obviously it’s a great honor,” Sullivan said. “To get inducted with the great class that we have, and join the people that are already in, like ‘The Snake’ back there, to get in with that group is credible for your career. I think it just puts a nice exclamation point at the end of your career that says ‘hey you did something and accomplished something’ that was recognized by your peers, and the voters, and that makes it special.”
Pink has more than 45 years of engine building experience and opened Ed Pink Racing Engines in 1961. Part of the Southern California post World War II Hot Rod Era, Pink first raced on dry lakes and then moved to drag strips. From the early ‘60s through the mid ‘70s Pink was famous for his blown fuel drag engines, but he has also supplied power for Indy Cars and a variety of road racing machines.
“When I first heard that I was going to be inducted it kind of blew me away quite a bit,” Pink said. “When I got the program that showed all of the people that are in it, that really gets your attention. You have Amelia Earhart in it, Gaston Chevrolet, Henry Ford, and it just goes on and on with the heroes and the heroines of the motorsports business. To be included in a group like that is really something, because when I started out doing this, I didn’t do it to get into any Hall of Fame, or anything like that. I did it because this is what I love to do, and to be honored for doing what I love to do is just really something special with this great group. It just really takes your breath away.”
Bell is perhaps best known for his five wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1975, 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987) and two World Sports Car Championship titles (1985-86). He made his impact in the United States by winning the Rolex 24 At Daytona in 1986, 1987 and 1989.
Bonnett was one of the most affable drivers in NASCAR Winston Cup Series history, earning 18 series victories during his 18-year career. Among his 18 wins were back-to-back victories in NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 (1982 and 1983). Bonnett also won back-to-back Busch Clash races at Daytona International Speedway (1983 and 1984).
Dreyer’s first name was Floyd but he was known as “Pop” and as one of the most resilient motorcycle competitors of all time. His career spanned an amazing 70 years, from the late teens to the 1980s. He was a side-car motorcycle racing pioneer and open-wheel Midget and Sprint Car builder who competed on dirt as well as on the famed board speedways of the teens and early 1920s.
Edelbrock was considered one of the founders of the American hot rod movement. Starting with a small auto repair shop in Beverly Hills in 1933, the Edelbrock Corporation grew into one of the world's premier parts suppliers for racers and auto hobbyists. After World War II, Edelbrock started selling parts by catalog and his Midget racing team gained fame for beating the then-dominant Offy Midgets with their souped up Ford V-8 60s.
Johnson was one of the greatest AMA motocross and Supercross racers and champions of all-time. During the 1980s, he won seven AMA national championships and was part of four winning U.S. Motocross des Nations teams. In all, Johnson tallied an amazing 61 AMA national wins. He retired as the all-time AMA Supercross wins leader in 1991 and later moved to Off-Road Truck competition where he remains active today.
In other Motorsports Hall of Fame news, Watson confirmed today that the organization is presently reviewing several proposals that will see the Hall and its collection of memorabilia and racing machines housed in a new location in the near future. The Hall is presently located at the Detroit Science Center, which is currently closed due to the economy since late last year. Several groups and organizations from around the country, however, have demonstrated a strong interest in housing the MSHF, and the organization hopes to announce the selected group and location by August’s induction ceremony.
Tickets for the 24th Annual Motorsports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony can be purchased by calling 248-349-RACE (7223) or at www.mshf.com.
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Factories Act 1955 (No. 10 of 1955)
Amended by the Safety in Industry Act 1980. Partly repealed by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989 and through S.I. No. 237 of 1989, S.I. No. 357 of 1995 and S.I. No. 138 of 2001.
From I November 2007, Sections 33 to 35 and 115 and 116 repealed through the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 (Repeals)(Commencement) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 300 of 2007) and replaced by certain provisions of Chapter 2 (Use of Work Equipment) of Part 2 of S.I. No. 299 of 2007
Regulations and Orders made under the Act
Factories Act 1955 (Definition of "Work of Engineering Construction") Regulations 1981 (S.I. No. 58 of 1981)
Factories (Report of Examination of Air Receivers) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 (S.I. No. 357 of 1978)
Factories (Report of Examination of Steam Receivers) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 (S.I. No. 358 of 1978)
Factories (Report of Examination of Steam Boilers) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 (S.I. No. 359 of 1978)
Factories Act 1955 (Hoists) (Exemption) Order 1977 (S.I. No. 13 of 1977)
Factories Lead Process (Medical Examination) Regulations 1976 (S.I. No. 45 of 1976)
Factories Act 1955 (Hoistways)(Exemption) Order 1976 (S.I. No. 236 of 1976)
Factories (Non-Ferrous Metals) (Melting and Founding) Regulations 1975 (S.I. No. 237 of 1975)
Factories (Wool and Hair Processing) Regulations 1975 (S.I. No. 272 of 1975)
Factories (Abrasive Blasting of Surfaces) Regulations 1974 (S.I. No. 357 of 1974)
Factories (Miscellaneous Orders and Regulations) (Revocation) Order 1973 (S.I. No. 94 of 1973)
Factories (Refractory Materials) Regulations 1973 (S.I. No. 246 of 1973)
Factories (Celluloid) Regulations 1973 (S.I. No. 277 of 1973)
Factories (Woodworking Machinery) Regulations 1972 (S.I. No. 203 of 1972)
Factories Act, 1955 (Application of Section 76 to Certain Diseases) Regulations 1972 (S.I. No. 262 of 1972)
Docks (Safety, Health and Welfare) (Forms) Regulations 1965 (S.I. No. 63 of 1965)
Factories (Adaptation of Regulations) Regulations 1961 (S.I. No. 247 of 1961)
Docks (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations 1960 (S.I. No. 279 of 1960)
Factories Act, 1955 (Hygrometers) Regulations 1958 (S.I. No. 160 of 1958)
Factories Act, 1955 (Commencement of Section 34 and 35) Order 1957 (S.I. No. 260 of 1957)
Factories Act, 1955 (Commencement) Order 1956 (S.I. No. 160 of 1956)
Factories Act, 1955 (Commencement of Section 22 (2) and 33 (4) and (7)) Order 1956 (S.I. No. 161 of 1956)
Factories Act, 1955 (Building Operations, Engineering Works, Docks etc.) (Modifications) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 163 of 1956)
Factories (Certificate of Fitness of Young Persons) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 165 of 1956)
Home Work Order, 1911 (Variation) Order 1956 (S.I. No. 168 of 1956)
Factories (Preparation of Steam Boilers for Examination) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 174 of 1956)
Chains Ropes and Lifting Tackle (Register) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 178 of 1956)
Factories (Notification of Industrial Diseases) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 181 of 1956)
Factories (Report of Examination of Steam Boilers) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 183 of 1956)
Factories (Report of Examination of Steam Receivers) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 184 of 1956)
Factories (Report of Examination of Air Receivers) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 185 of 1956)
Factories Act, 1955 (Birth Certificate) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 248 of 1956)
Cellulose Solutions Regulations 1939, SR&O No. 385
Locomotive Regulations 1906, SR&O No. 679
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IDT in Collaboration with Northeastern University Silicon Valley Announces Partnership with World Stage Racing’s Brian Wong
Driver Returns to NASCAR Competition with IDT Logo on the No. 40 Chevrolet
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 22, 2016—Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) (NASDAQ: IDTI) in collaboration with Northeastern University, Silicon Valley Campus, today announced its partnership with World Stage Racing’s Brian Wong, who is returning to NASCAR competition for the first time in nearly 10 months. Wong, whose has a reputation as a “road racking specialist,” will compete at this weekend’s K&N Pro Series West in conjunction with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Sharing the same weekend with the biggest names in NASCAR, both driver and team will continue their focus on digitally focused platforms by partnering with IDT, a global semiconductor company headquartered in Silicon Valley. IDT develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers’ applications. IDT’s market-leading products in RF, timing, wireless power transfer, serial switching, interfaces and sensing solutions are among the company’s broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. The campus of IDT’s headquarters also houses the Silicon Valley hub for Northeastern University, which which Wong is closely affiliated.
“Competing at Sonoma alongside the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is another amazing opportunity,” Wong said. “Any event in California is considered a home race for us. Everyone at World Stage Racing and Ranier Racing with MDM have been working very hard to put this program together, and it’s great to see it all happen. We have a great partner in IDT along with us, as well as some of our long-time partners such as GT Channel and more. It’s a very competitive field out there this weekend, but it’s a track we know well and it’s an excellent team, so we all feel very prepared.”
As the flagship driver behind World Stage’s continuing efforts, Wong will take to the wheel of the No. 40 Chevrolet, prepared by Ranier Racing with MDM. As a team comprised of both NASCAR veterans and business professionals from a number of disciplines, the unique makeup of the team is a very cohesive fit with World Stage Racing, which strives for taking a business-minded approach to racing.
A highly experienced driver in both NASCAR and sports car competition, Wong will return to the event as a veteran of road races around the world, having competed in everything from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, to the former American Le Mans Series, and even the Red Bull Global Rallycross championship. No stranger to large venues and success, Wong has competed at events including the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, and became the first Chinese-American in history to score a podium finish in American Le Mans Series competition by taking third at the famed Petit Le Mans. As the first race of his 2016 season, Wong is aware that the limited track-time inherent in a joint race weekend will provide a unique challenge, but he’s optimistic that he can draw from nearly ten years of experience.
Adorning the No. 40 will be the colors of IDT, a 36-year-old Silicon Valley semiconductor company that develops a wide range of products. In fact, virtually every 4G LTE call globally goes through IDT chips. IDT also has a strong presence in automotive electronics with products that include sensing solutions that enable the increased energy efficiency of the vehicle. The company also is currently involved in research that uses its technology to enable network-connected autonomous vehicles. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol "IDTI."
In addition to sharing a building, IDT and Northeastern University are engaged in research with one another and have a close relationship. As the first in a series of educational hubs embedded directly in companies across the Bay Area, Northeastern University—Silicon Valley was conceived to educate more working professionals in the Silicon Valley region and beyond in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM fields).
Practice for the race begins this Friday, June 24, with the race taking place on Saturday, June 25, at 1PM PST. The team will provide continuous updates throughout the race weekend.
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers’ applications. IDT’s market-leading products in RF, timing, wireless power transfer, serial switching, interfaces and sensing solutions are among the company’s broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.” Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.
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Massachusetts’ Knight-Dik Insurance: 100 Years, Four Generations
By Elizabeth Blosfield | June 28, 2017
When Thomas Babb launched his insurance agency – Thomas Babb Insurance Agency – in an 11-story building in downtown Worcester, Mass., in 1917, he also launched a legacy that would span a century of growth and four generations of leadership.
Babb later sold the agency to Harold Knight, who rebranded it to the Harold Knight Agency. In 1955 when Bob Dik came on board, the agency once again rebranded to become the Knight-Dik Insurance Agency and continued its growth through the acquisition of small agencies in central Massachussetts.
This year, Knight-Dik Insurance is celebrating its 100-year anniversary since its 1917 inception on Main Street in Worcester. Although the agency has had multiple addresses since its beginning, all of them have remained on Main Street.
The agency’s secret to success and longevity, however, is as much about stability as it is about change, Ross Dik, Bob Dik’s son, Harold Knight’s grandson and current agency President and CEO, told Insurance Journal.
“We’re constantly on the lookout for the next thing,” he said.
Ross Dik
Photo Credit: Brad Kane
This strategy has proven particularly effective for the company in terms of technology. Indeed, when Ross officially joined the business in 1981, he instantly began working on moving the agency technologically forward. He introduced mainframe computers to the office at a cost of $78,000, which included creating a designated air-conditioned room in which to keep them.
“The first day, the system crashed because information was copying itself and there wasn’t enough storage space,” Ross recalled in a company press release. “Trust me; it was not a highlight of my career. But eventually we got all the bugs worked out and it helped the company grow immensely.”
Now, he says the agency is trying to keep technology and any advantages that come with it at the forefront of its business strategy.
“It’s only been probably about seven years or so that it feels like [technology] is all coming together and paying dividends, both on the efficiency and customer level,” he said. “That’s the exciting thing to me. I think the first long phase of technology was as much a burden to us as it was an advantage, so it’s fun to see that it really is paying off and helping everyday.”
This focus on innovation is nothing new to Knight-Dik Insurance, however. In the early-1970s, Knight-Dik became the first agency in Massachusetts to file a Mass Merchandising account. This was a discounted insurance program for employees of State Mutual Insurance Company, and similar accounts would be set up for Paul Revere Insurance and Clark University.
“Massachusetts approved that type of discounted plan for employers, and we filed the first plan in the state and went on to do a lot of that,” Ross said. “We ended up really getting involved in employer-based insurance marketing, and we grew heavily in that area for a number of years.”
Ross Dik, Left; with his son, Christopher Dik, Right
In 2011, Ross’ son, Christopher Dik, became the fourth generation to be involved in moving the agency forward. In his first year, the agency focused on creating a new branded division called Workers’ Comp Results, which focuses on solving the many workers’ compensation issues affecting employers, Ross said.
“The first nine months was tough,” Ross added in the release. “But [Christopher] stuck it out, found out that he had a knack when it came to workers’ compensation insurance, and has been on fire ever since.”
Indeed, innovation doesn’t come without challenges, but Ross explained the agency is committed to working through any difficulties in order to continue growing and moving forward.
“There is an awful lot of pressure with the different ways clients can get insurance now,” he said. “They can get it online, from directs, from 800 numbers or from local agents.”
But the biggest challenge Ross sees with technology today is the ability to continue to connect with clients as face-to-face communication has lessened.
“Our communications with clients went from faxes to emails to texts,” he said. “Very few people come to our office anymore, and we estimate probably about 90% of our clients will never visit our office. I think the biggest wake-up call for us as we saw technology evolve was that we need to be far more proactive in terms of keeping the communication lines open and connecting deeper with the client than just through stale mailings and faceless communication. The easy part when clients had to come in to the office was that it allowed us to have a relationship and connect. When you take that out of the equation, then we had to figure out valued reasons to connect to clients.”
Knight-Dik is currently using a software program called Guided Conversations that allows its customers to interact with their insurance program on their own terms and ask insurance questions at any time of the day to get immediate and accurate answers.
“[Guided Conversations] has been very well-received and allows the customer to do the work on their own time, but still allows them to contact us at any time,” Ross said. “More and more customers want to take control of the process and have more involvement, and Guided Conversations allows them to do that.”
Knight-Dik is working to bolster the program in the future through an automated program to make its website more efficient as a source of information and a more interactive part of how the agency does business. The automated program serves to integrate client information so the agency can search, identify, review and communicate in terms of what coverage clients have and what coverage they may need, Ross said.
“Instead of sending general communications out that may or may not apply, we can send communications out that are really specific to each client and change client-to-client,” he added.
The agency is working with a firm that has the capability of extracting data from Knight-Dik’s management system and then communicating with clients on a one-on-one basis. Knight-Dik is piloting the program in 2017 and hopes to be able to use the technology with all clients by 2018, Ross stated.
“I think technology has allowed us to have a much greater geographic footprint as well, because there’s not this pressure on having immediate face-to-face access,” he said. “More and more people are comfortable not having to have an immediate local agent as their representative, so throughout the state, we feel we can service our clients very easily. That’s what we want to be doing – using technology to help better serve clients.”
Although it has worked hard to take advantage of advancements in technology and embrace innovation, the biggest success strategy for Knight-Dik Insurance has not only been its ability to adapt to change, but to retain the stability of its legacy, Ross said.
“We’re really pleased that we’ve continued to grow at a double-digit pace, which is a really valued number in our industry at this point,” he stated. “I think the biggest success factor for us is that we’ve had stability through long-standing leadership, long-standing employees, and subsequently, long-standing customers.”
About Elizabeth Blosfield
Elizabeth Blosfield is the East region editor at Insurance Journal.
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This is the third consecutive year a Volvo has been named a finalist in the North American Car of the Year competition. The XC90 full size SUV was named 2016 North American Truck of the Year.
Votes from nearly 60 jurors were tallied confidentially by Deloitte LLP and remained sealed until they were announced today by the organization's officers, including Vice President Matt DeLorenzo and Secretary-Treasurer Lauren Fix.
Chosen from dozens of new vehicles, jurors' evaluated the finalists based on segment leadership, innovation, design, safety, handling, driver satisfaction and value for the dollar. The process started in June 2017 by determining vehicle eligibility, and includes three rounds of voting.
Winners of the NACTOY award will be announced at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit on January 15, 2018.
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Schweden - Zuständige Behörde (Art. 6)
Designated Competent Authority(ies):
Since 1 January 2005, the Judicial Office at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs no longer issues Apostilles. Sweden has decentralised the issuance of Apostilles and designated all notaries public as Competent Authorities. There are approximately 250 notaries public in Sweden. They are appointed by the local County Administrative Board (Länsstyrelsen).
There is no centralised register of all notaries public. A comprehensive list is, however, published annually in the "Sveriges Statskalender", which can be ordered from: Fritzes kundservice, SE-106 47 Stockholm; Tel: +46 (8) 690-9190; Fax: +46 (8) 690-9191; e-mail: order.fritzes@liber.se; website: www.fritzes.se. The Statskalender contains the full addresses of the Swedish administration, down to the level of individuals. The cost of a Statskalender is approximately €140. The publication is not available in electronic form.
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Heartworm in Dogs
Information about Heartworm Positive Dogs
What is heartworm disease?
Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal disease in pets in the United States and many other parts of the world. It is caused by foot-long worms (heartworms) that live in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels of affected pets, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs in the body. Heartworm disease affects dogs, cats and ferrets, but heartworms also live in other mammal species, including wolves, coyotes, foxes, sea lions and—in rare instances—humans. Because wild species such as foxes and coyotes live in proximity to many urban areas, they are considered important carriers of the disease.
Dogs. The dog is a natural host for heartworms, which means that heartworms that live inside the dog mature into adults, mate and produce offspring. If untreated, their numbers can increase, and dogs have been known to harbor several hundred worms in their bodies. Heartworm disease causes lasting damage to the heart, lungs and arteries, and can affect the dog’s health and quality of life long after the parasites are gone. For this reason, prevention is by far the best option, and treatment—when needed—should be administered as early in the course of the disease as possible.
Cats. Heartworm disease in cats is very different from heartworm disease in dogs. The cat is an atypical host for heartworms, and most worms in cats do not survive to the adult stage. Cats with adult heartworms typically have just one to three worms, and many cats affected by heartworms have no adult worms. While this means heartworm disease often goes undiagnosed in cats, it’s important to understand that even immature worms cause real damage in the form of a condition known as heartworm associated respiratory disease (HARD). Moreover, the medication used to treat heartworm infections in dogs cannot be used in cats, so prevention is the only means of protecting cats from the effects of heartworm disease.
How is heartworm disease transmitted from one pet to another?
The mosquito plays an essential role in the heartworm life cycle. Adult female heartworms living in an infected dog, fox, coyote, or wolf produce microscopic baby worms called microfilaria that circulate in the bloodstream. When a mosquito bites and takes a blood meal from an infected animal, it picks up these baby worms, which develop and mature into “infective stage” larvae over a period of 10 to 14 days. Then, when the infected mosquito bites another dog, cat, or susceptible wild animal, the infective larvae are deposited onto the surface of the animal's skin and enter the new host through the mosquito’s bite wound. Once inside a new host, it takes approximately 6 months for the larvae to mature into adult heartworms. Once mature, heartworms can live for 5 to 7 years in dogs and up to 2 or 3 years in cats. Because of the longevity of these worms, each mosquito season can lead to an increasing number of worms in an infected pet.
What are the signs of heartworm disease in dogs?
In the early stages of the disease, many dogs show few symptoms or no symptoms at all. The longer the infection persists, the more likely symptoms will develop. Active dogs, dogs heavily infected with heartworms, or those with other health problems often show pronounced clinical signs.
Signs of heartworm disease may include a mild persistent cough, reluctance to exercise, fatigue after moderate activity, decreased appetite, and weight loss. As heartworm disease progresses, pets may develop heart failure and the appearance of a swollen belly due to excess fluid in the abdomen. Dogs with large numbers of heartworms can develop a sudden blockages of blood flow within the heart leading to a life-threatening form of cardiovascular collapse. This is called caval syndrome, and is marked by a sudden onset of labored breathing, pale gums, and dark bloody or coffee-colored urine. Without prompt surgical removal of the heartworm blockage, few dogs survive.
How significant is my pet's risk for heartworm infection?
Many factors must be considered, even if heartworms do not seem to be a problem in your local area. Your community may have a greater incidence of heartworm disease than you realize—or you may unknowingly travel with your pet to an area where heartworms are more common. Heartworm disease is also spreading to new regions of the country each year. Stray and neglected dogs and certain wildlife such as coyotes, wolves, and foxes can be carriers of heartworms. Mosquitoes blown great distances by the wind and the relocation of infected pets to previously uninfected areas also contribute to the spread of heartworm disease (this happened following Hurricane Katrina when 250,000 pets, many of them infected with heartworms, were “adopted” and shipped throughout the country).
The fact is that heartworm disease has been diagnosed in all 50 states, and risk factors are impossible to predict. Multiple variables, from climate variations to the presence of wildlife carriers, cause rates of infections to vary dramatically from year to year—even within communities. And because infected mosquitoes can come inside, both outdoor and indoor pets are at risk.
For that reason, the American Heartworm Society recommends that you “think 12:” (1) get your pet tested every 12 months for heartworm and (2) give your pet heartworm preventive 12 months a year.
What do I need to know about heartworm testing?
Heartworm disease is a serious, progressive disease. The earlier it is detected, the better the chances the pet will recover. There are few, if any, early signs of disease when a dog or cat is infected with heartworms, so detecting their presence with a heartworm test administered by a veterinarian is important. The test requires just a small blood sample from your pet, and it works by detecting the presence of heartworm proteins. Some veterinarians process heartworm tests right in their hospitals while others send the samples to a diagnostic laboratory. In either case, results are obtained quickly. If your pet tests positive, further tests may be ordered.
When should my dog be tested?
Testing procedures and timing differ somewhat between dogs and cats.
Dogs. All dogs should be tested annually for heartworm infection, and this can usually be done during a routine visit for preventive care. Following are guidelines on testing and timing:
Puppies under 7 months of age can be started on heartworm prevention without a heartworm test (it takes at least 6 months for a dog to test positive after it has been infected), but should be tested 6 months after your initial visit, tested again 6 months later and yearly after that to ensure they are heartworm-free.
Adult dogs over 7 months of age and previously not on a preventive need to be tested prior to starting heartworm prevention. They, too, need to be tested 6 months and 12 months later and annually after that.
If there has been a lapse in prevention (one or more late or missed doses), dogs should be tested immediately, then tested again six months later and annually after that.
Annual testing is necessary, even when dogs are on heartworm prevention year-round, to ensure that the prevention program is working. Heartworm medications are highly effective, but dogs can still become infected. If you miss just one dose of a monthly medication—or give it late—it can leave your dog unprotected. Even if you give the medication as recommended, your dog may spit out or vomit a heartworm pill—or rub off a topical medication. Heartworm preventives are highly effective, but not 100 percent effective. If you don’t get your dog test, you won’t know your dog needs treatment.
More questions about heartworm disease
How do monthly heartworm preventives work?
Whether the preventive you choose is given as a pill, a spot-on topical medication or as an injection, all approved heartworm medications work by eliminating the immature (larval) stages of the heartworm parasite. This includes the infective heartworm larvae deposited by the mosquito as well as the following larval stage that develops inside the animal. Unfortunately, in as little as 51 days, immature heartworm larvae can molt into an adult stage, which cannot be effectively eliminated by preventives. Because heartworms must be eliminated before they reach this adult stage, it is extremely important that heartworm preventives be administered strictly on schedule (monthly for oral and topical products and every 6 months for the injectable). Administering prevention late can allow immature larvae to molt into the adult stage, which is poorly prevented.
When do I start my dog on heartworm prevention?
The risk of puppies getting heartworm disease is equal to that of adult pets. The American Heartworm Society recommends that puppies be started on a heartworm preventive as early as the product label allows, and no later than 8 weeks of age.
The dosage of a heartworm medication is based on body weight, not age. Puppies grow rapidly in their first months of life, and the rate of growth—especially in dogs—varies widely from one breed to another. That means a young animal can gain enough weight to bump it from one dosage range to the next within a matter of weeks. Ask your veterinarian for advice about anticipating when a dosage change will be needed. If your pet is on a monthly preventive, you may want to buy just one or two doses at a time if a dosage change is anticipated (note that there is a sustained-release injectable preventive available for dogs 6 months of age or older). Also make sure to bring your pet in for every scheduled well-puppy exam, so that you stay on top of all health issues, including heartworm protection. Confirm that you are giving the right heartworm preventive dosage by having your pet weighed at every visit.
Do I need a prescription for my pet’s heartworm preventive medication? If so, why?
Yes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling on heartworm preventives states that the medication is to be used by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian. This means heartworm preventives must be purchased from your veterinarian or with a prescription through a pet pharmacy Prior to prescribing a heartworm preventive, the veterinarian typically performs a heartworm test to make sure your pet doesn't already have adult heartworms, as giving preventives can lead to rare but possibly severe reactions that could be harmful or even fatal. It is not necessary to test very young puppies or kittens prior to starting preventives since it takes approximately 6 months for heartworms to develop to adulthood. If the heartworm testing is negative, prevention medication is prescribed.
Is there an effective natural prevention for heartworm?
Only heartworm prevention products that are tested and proven effective by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be used.
Is there a vaccine for heartworm disease?
No. At this time, there is not a commercially available vaccine for the prevention of heartworm disease in dogs or cats. However, research scientists are looking at this possibility. Right now, heartworm disease can only be prevented through the regular and appropriate use of preventive medications, which are prescribed by your veterinarian. These medications are available as a once-a-month chewable, a once-a-month topical, and a twice-a-year injection. You should determine the best option for your pet by talking with your veterinarian. Many of the medications have the added benefit of preventing other parasites as well.
Are heartworms more common in certain areas of the United States?
Heartworms have been found in all 50 states, although certain areas have a higher risk of heartworm than others. Some very high-risk areas include large regions, such as near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and along river tributaries. Most states have "hot spots" where the heartworm infection rate is very high compared with other areas in the same state. Factors affecting the level of risk of heartworm infection include the climate (temperature, humidity), the species of mosquitoes in the area, presence of mosquito breeding areas, and presence of animal “reservoirs” (such as infected dogs, foxes or coyotes).
I live in a northern state. How long should my dog be on heartworm prevention?
For a variety of reasons, even in regions of the country where winters are cold, the American Heartworm Society is now recommending a year-round prevention program. Dogs have been diagnosed with heartworms in almost every county in Minnesota, and there are differences in the duration of the mosquito season from the north of the state and the south of the state. Mosquito species are constantly changing and adapting to cold climates and some species successfully overwinter indoors as well. Year-round prevention is the safest, and is recommended. Remember too that many of these products are de-worming your pet for intestinal parasites that can pose serious health risks for humans.
What causes a dog to die from heartworm disease?
Heartworm disease is very complex and can affect many vital organs, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. As a result, the outcome of infection varies greatly from patient to patient. The adult worms cause inflammation of the blood vessels and can block blood flow leading to pulmonary thrombosis (clots in the lungs) and heart failure. Remember, heartworms are “foot-long” parasites and the damage they cause can be severe. Heartworm disease can also lead to liver or kidney failure. Dogs that are exposed to a large number of infective larvae at once are at great risk of sudden death due to massive numbers of developing larvae bombarding the vascular system. Other animals may live for a long time with only a few adult heartworms and show no clinical signs unless faced with an environmental change, such as an extreme increase in temperature, or another significant health problem.
The expiration date on my pet’s heartworm medication is past. Can I still use the medication?
As with all drugs or pharmaceutical products, heartworm preventives should be used before the expiration date on the package, because it is impossible to predict if it will be effective or safe. The expiration date is established by a series of tests mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to provide assurance that the product is effective and has undergone no significant deterioration.
I have missed 2 months of heartworm prevention for my dog. What should I do?
You need to consult your veterinarian, and immediately re-start your dog on monthly preventive—then retest your dog 6 months later. The reason for re-testing is that heartworms must be approximately 7 months old before the infection can be diagnosed.
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Fox mum on quarterback situation | Rock Hill Herald
Fox mum on quarterback situation
By daringantt@carolina.rr.com - daringantt@carolina.rr.com
Panthers' QB Vinny Testaverde calls a play at the line.
CHARLOTTE -- Just as there's no predicting which turn the Carolina Panthers quarterback position will take next, coach John Fox isn't about to declare which way he's thinking of turning it.
Fox was asked Tuesday if David Carr would return to the starting lineup after the bye, provided he recovered from the back injury that knocked him out last week. Fox hedged, given the impressive short-time performance of Vinny Testaverde.
"I think right now we're going to evaluate it as we go," Fox said. "We have options. We didn't have these same options a week ago or really the last couple of weeks. I'm not going to commit to it now. A lot of it is based on what we see in practice or whoever gives us the best chance to win.
"Really, four days ago when I looked at practice and I saw two guys that weren't with us in September, I definitely wasn't worried about all of the options we might have a week later -- or if there would be any options."
"It was a great preparation performance," Fox said. "And I don't care about the age or anything. For anybody to do that, that's a huge accomplishment. The guy played well. It wasn't like he just went out there and handed the ball off every play and got us out of a game. He played well.
"Early on, we had to make adjustments with the guys around him. We stayed with the plan. If anything, we didn't execute around him early in the game. We stuck with it and cleaned some things up at halftime. We executed better in that game in the second half offensively."
The adjustments have been par for the course for the Panthers, who have used four quarterbacks in the last four games. Carr came in for Jake Delhomme in Atlanta when the starter came up with what would be a season-ending elbow problem.
Rookie Matt Moore, a waiver claim from Dallas, had to sub in for Carr two weeks later when the former No. 2 had to leave the game with a back problem. That led them to sign Testaverde, who turned down a chance to play in Arizona in order to stay closer to his family in New York. That doesn't even count Brett Basanez, who they hoped to be their third before a season-ending wrist injury in the preseason.
"I think it's like any change, you adjust something and it affects a lot of people," Fox said. "When it's the quarterback position, it's your field judge and he's in charge of communicating the huddle call, there's time management issues. There's a lot going on in that guy's mind and that is why the quarterback position is so key. Typically, the guys with really good ones do well.
"It's a difficult position to have injuries at. But our guys have responded well, whether it's been David Carr, Matt Moore or Vinny last week. Guys have responded well."
While the players involved are still getting to know one another, the bigger issues are for the coaching staff.
After all, they knew exactly what to expect of Delhomme. Carr was a more mobile, athletic guy, with not as much arm and a tendency to hold on to the ball too long. Moore was a babe in the woods, able to do only the basics since he went to camp with the Cowboys.
Testaverde brought a different element altogether. He's not going to move around much, but he's clearly got the strongest arm of the bunch, and he's looked most comfortable when airing it out.
Fox said it was comparable to the defense's game-planning for Arizona, since they initially had to get ready for left-handed Matt Leinart and right-handed Kurt Warner, since the Cardinals did different things with each.
"I think the burden kind of falls on the coaching staff, making sure they're getting the right calls with the right guys," Fox said.
• EXTRA POINTS: Linebacker Dan Morgan walked out of Bank of America Stadium on Tuesday without a protective boot or a limp, after missing the last three games with a partial tear of the Achilles tendon. When asked if he thought he'd be ready for Indianapolis in two weeks, Morgan grinned and said: "I hope so, but this is a serious day-to-day."
Where to put him's another question which Fox dodged, and it's reasonable to ask since rookie Jon Beason's played so well there. Morgan's played outside before, so it's possible he could swap spots with Beason or play the weakside himself.
"We'll kind of evaluate that when those things arise," Fox said. "It's good to have some competition within your own team. We'll put the guy in there we think gives us the best chance." ...
Fox said the only new injury from Sunday's game was left guard Mike Wahle, who left the game late with a "slight concussion." But he said Wahle felt fine and should be OK to practice. ...
The Panthers will return to practice today and Thursday before getting the rest of the weekend off.
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Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
The Politics of the Royal Bed
by Madeleine Gray | posted in: Welsh History | 0
… or ‘the politics of The Royal Bed’ – this being the title of Sion Eirian’s English-language adaptation of the Saunders Lewis play Siwan. Yes, it’s a play that puts the female perspective centre stage; yes it’s a good part for a mature woman, yes it’s about medieval Wales, yes Sion Eirian’s translation shares all this with a wider audience. Well worth going to the premiere at Newport’s Riverfront theatre in mid February, or catching it on its Welsh tour.
But. I can’t help feeling it’s a pity that modern drama about the period still focusses on Siwan’s affair with the young Marcher lord William de Breos and its emotional fallout. It’s the same episode that forms the centrepiece of Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters)’s novel The Green Branch and Sharon Kay Penman’s Here be Dragons. There was so much more to Siwan than that. Illegitimate daughter of King John of England, she was married to Llywelyn ab Iorwerth of Wales when she was only 15, as part of a peace treaty. Her knowledge of the framework of power at the English court was invaluable to her husband. She was able to act as his channel of communication first with John and then with her half-brother Henry III, and she was a major power behind the scenes in a crucial period of the struggle for Welsh independence.
It’s a pity to neglect all that in favour of a love affair.
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Siwan
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#megamillions Lucky Friday the 13th for a Texas player with a $4 million prize
The Mega Millions jackpot is growing! After no ticket matched all six numbers drawn in Friday night's drawing, the estimated jackpot for next Tuesday, May 17, is $174 million ($114 million cash). It's the largest Mega Millions jackpot since last November!
There were three Match 5 winners in the May 13 drawing, one each in Maryland, New Jersey and Texas. All three matched the five white balls – 20, 21, 38, 54 and 66, missing only the Mega Ball of 7. The Texas ticket included the optional Megaplier purchase, making it worth $4 million instead of the standard $1 million when the 4x Megaplier was drawn.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won in Washington on March 8.
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Sunny to partly cloudy. High 96F. Winds light and variable..
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By 2020, 67% of the state’s jobs will require a postsecondary degree or credential. Today, 49% of North Carolinians 25 to 44 have such an education. Pixabay.com illustration
State aims for 2 million postsecondary degrees by 2030
By Brooke Conrad/Carolina Journal News Service
RALEIGH — A bill N.C. lawmakers passed in late June aims to help 2 million residents get a postsecondary degree or certificate by 2030.
The state’s workforce will lag if North Carolina doesn’t boost education opportunities for residents, show findings from myFutureNC, a statewide organization for educational attainment. By 2020, 67% of the state’s jobs will require a postsecondary degree or credential. Today, 49% of North Carolinians 25 to 44 have such an education.
House Bill 664, myFutureNC/Postsecondary Attainment Goal, seeks to close the gap.
Rep. John Fraley, R-Iredell, who is also a member of the myFutureNC Commission, sponsored the bill.
“Once you get into the workforce and start raising a family, if you lose your job due to automation and you’re not properly educated or trained or ready to go back to school, it could have a huge impact on your life and your ability to make a living,” Fraley said.
The bill passed the House 114-1; the Senate, 46-0. The first edition of the bill included a joint legislative task force, which was later eliminated and replaced with a requirement that the myFutureNC Commission report annually to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee and the General Assembly about its progress toward the 2030 goal.
Fraley said representatives from the House, Senate, and governor’s office will collaborate with members of the commission to examine which of the state’s education programs are working.
“It’s too early to tell exactly how that’s going to work. My sense is that ultimately there’s going to be a task force that is developed to work on those items, and they will be in charge of what they want to report to the myFutureNC Commission.”
Fraley said he believes it is “quite urgent” that the state begin making progress on the initiative, and that it will ultimately benefit North Carolina’s economic vitality.
“I think this is a very exciting and worthwhile endeavor, and it’s going to require a lot of people to work together toward the same goal.”
Gov. Roy Cooper signed the bill into law.
John Fraley
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More Than 2 Million Syrian Refugees Spread Over Neighbouring Countries – UN
by niyi
Over two million Syrians have now fled their war-ravaged country, according to the UN refugee agency, marking the nearly 10-fold increase from a year ago.
In addition to the two million Syrians living as refugees, another 4.25 million people have been displaced within the country since the conflict began in March 2011, UN figures show.
“Syria is haemorrhaging women, children and men who cross borders often with little more than the clothes on their backs,” the UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday, pointing out that on September 3, 2012, it had registered just 230,671 Syrian refugees.
A total of 6.2 million Syrians have thus been displaced from their homes, a number without parallel in any other country and representing nearly a third of Syria’s pre-war population of 20.8 million.
“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century,” Antonio Guterres, the UN high commissioner for refugees, said in a statement, describing the situation in the country as “a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history”.
The only solace, he said, “is the humanity shown by the neighbouring countries in welcoming and saving the lives of so many refugees”.
In the past 12 months, almost 1.8 million people have fled Syria, and an average of 5,000 continue to cross into neighbouring countries each day, UNHCR said, pointing out that on August 23, the number of Syrian children living as refugees topped one million.
The influx is placing an overwhelming burden on the host countries, UNHCR said.
At the end of August, about 716,000 Syrian refugees were registered or in the process of being registered in Lebanon, 515,000 in Jordan, 460,000 in Turkey, 168,000 in Iraq and 110,000 in Egypt, according to the agency’s numbers.
Thousands of migrants have also arrived in the past few weeks in Sicily, many of them coming from Egypt or Syria, among migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
The Italian Interior Ministry estimates that 3,000 Syrian migrants arrived in Italy from the beginning of this year up until the end of August.
Although the number of people fleeing Syria has been increasing as the war lingers, the recent surge is partly because of the imminent strike from the West over President Assad’s alleged use of Chemical weapons, as Syrians have been running for their safety since the United States announced that President Assad would pay for his sins.
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"Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright"
March 14 through July 20, 2003
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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"Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright" showcases 48 stained glass windows, two architectural models and 13 original plates from two of Wright's portfolios. Of the windows featured, many are being shown to the public for the first time and nearly half are drawn from private collections throughout North America. Other loans were made possible by several restoration projects at major Wright buildings requiring the temporary removal of the delicate glass panes.
From 1885 to 1923, decorative glass windows were an integral part of Wright's architecture. During this period, he designed more than 4,500 windows for 160 buildings, of which almost 100 were completed. The exhibition explores how Wright came to see the design of window spaces as a way to bring the outside in, and to visually unite landscape and interior. The exhibition challenges conventional wisdom about Wright's use of windows by revealing the extent to which Wright chose to emphasize, not abolish, the separation of inside and outside. In his own words, he sought to create "light screens"-a term that evokes Japanese shoji screens, which were arranged in bands like his windows.
"Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright" is organized by Exhibitions International, N.Y. in cooperation with The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Ariz. The exhibition and its national tour are sponsored by Steelcase Inc. The exhibition's presentation at the Renwick Gallery is supported by the James Renwick Alliance and Steelcase Inc.
Julie L. Sloan, LLC, scholar, author and glass conservator, organized the exhibition. Kenneth Trapp, curator-in-charge, oversaw the installation of this exhibition at the Renwick Gallery.
The exhibition is accompanied by two books written by Sloan and published by Rizzoli International Publications: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright (softcover, $24.95/hardcover, $39.95), a 160-page exhibition catalog with 192 color illustrations, which examines Wright's masterly manipulation of light, composition and color in his patterned windows; and Light Screens: The Complete Leaded Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright (hardcover, $175), a detailed documentation and appraisal of the more than 500 window designs that are major achievements within Wright's oeuvre. The books are available for purchase at the Renwick Gallery store and on the museum's Web site.
Public programs:
A schedule of public programs, including lectures, gallery talks, symposia, craft demonstrations, concerts and performances is available in a brochure. Call (202) 275-1500 to receive a copy by mail or visit the museum's online calendar of events at AmericanArt.si.edu.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum collection began with gifts of art donated to the federal government in 1829 and has evolved into the world's most important American art holdings with approximately 39,000 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, photographs, folk art and contemporary crafts. While the renovation of the museum's historic home-the Patent Office Building-continues, American Art offers a full program of exhibitions at its Renwick Gallery.
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to exhibiting American crafts from the 19th to the 21st century. The Renwick is located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W., near the Farragut North (Red line) and Farragut West (Blue and Orange lines) Metrorail stations. Museum hours are from 10 a.m. to .5:30 p.m. daily. Admission is free. Public information: (202) 357-2700; (202) 357-1729 (TTY); (202) 633-9126 (Spanish). Recorded information: (202) 633-8998.
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Anne: GM crops can be 'more efficient use of the land'
Princess Anne has explained why she supports genetically modified crops - despite her brother Charles being an outspoken opponent of them.
"They do add to our ability to perhaps be more efficient users of the land," she told BBC One's Countryfile.
"I think in the long-term, when you've got the prospect of nine billion [people] to feed, you are going to need some help in doing that."
Prince Charles once warned that the development of GM crops risked creating "the biggest disaster environmentally of all time" and accused multinational corporations of conducting an experiment with nature which had gone "seriously wrong".
Princess Anne: Gassing badgers is most humane way to cull them
£6.4 million grant to develop genetically modified crops
British scientists have won a £6.4 million grant to develop GM crops - one of the largest single investments into genetic modification in the UK. The money was awarded by the Gates Foundation and will be used to cultivate corn, wheat and rice that need little or no fertiliser.
Genetically modified oilseed rape Credit: Press Association
It is hoped the work at the John Innes Centre in Norwich will benefit struggling maize farmers in sub-Saharan Africa who cannot afford to treat their crops. Scientists are trying to engineer cereal crops capable of taking nitrogen from the air rather than needing chemical ammonia spread on fields.
Controversy over GM crops looks set to re-ignite
The arguments and controversies over GM crops look set to re-ignite this weekend, with a protest against new genetic experiments on wheat.
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It’s a story of success for Approved Training Ltd!
When Paul Blackshaw decided to set up a new company, he knew he would need to engage the services of an accountant. He was sure that finding the right accountants could make quite a difference to his business. But how would he decide which accountants would be right for him?
In an interview with Paul Blackshaw of Approved Training Limited. He explains how he decided on James Scott Accountants and the difference it has made to his business in the first 12 months of trading.
Paul set up Approved Training Limited because he was passionate about trying to help young people get into full time employment. He knew there were schemes available to them, but he felt he had a better and more innovative approach which would make a difference to both the employer and the employee.
Twelve months on, Approved Training Limited is training copious numbers of young people to join businesses, mainly into the construction industry. Approved Training, in conjunction with the companies they work with, are providing these young people with a trade, the practical and academic skills and abilities, which potentially set them up for life. They do this through a range of traineeships, apprenticeships and vocational courses, all of which are helping school leavers and young people to either enter the world of full time employment for the first time or in some cases to get their feet more firmly on the ladder to permanent employment.
Paul and his team have an innovative and fresh approach to training which is winning him a lot of admiration from his peers. It has also given the company the opportunity to access larger sums of government funding faster than he would have ever expected when he first dreamt of setting up the business.
Paul recognises that James Scott’s Accountants have had a pivotal role in his success. He recognises this particularly because of the relationship that he has with James Scott and the way they approach things, more than specifically the work they have undertaken. It was their approachability and down to earth advice which appealed to him from the start.
He said, “I guess I realised that any accountant can advise on setting up a business and can complete your year-end accounts for you. I wanted more than that. As a small business you can often feel at the bottom of the queue. Brendan and the team at James Scott’s aren’t like that, they always have time for me.
An example of this was recently when I wanted my first year accounts completed quickly, it was important for the business to be able to report our results as soon as possible. I told Brendan this and he just got on and did it!”
Through this first year Paul has received a lot of help and advice, including when to register for VAT, which, when the time was right, James Scott Accountants arranged for them. Paul and his team have also received training on “xero”, an online accountancy software package. James Scott Accountants also runs the payroll system for Approved Training and are setting up their auto enrolment system.
Paul is expecting even bigger and better success in his next year, he knows that there will be challenges along the way, but understands that having the support of James Scott Accountants will help to make it easier.
For more information on the way that Approved Training are changing the lives of young people, please visit their website www.approvedtraining.net
If you are thinking about setting up a new business or have recently set up a business and feel that James Scott could be the right accountants for you, why not give them a call and drop in for a coffee. Tel 0161 653 2274 or email bnf@jamesscott.com
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In this 1960 photo made available by NASA, Jerrie Cobb prepares to operate the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF) at the Lewis Research Center in Ohio. The three-axis rig was developed to train Project Mercury pilots in bringing a spinning spacecraft under control. The two controllers in Cobb's hands activated small nitrogen gas thrusters that were used to bring the MASTIF under control. Cobb died in Florida at age 88 on March 18. | NASA / VIA AP
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America's first female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, one of the 'Mercury 13,' dies at 88
Online: Apr 19, 2019
Last Modified: Apr 19, 2019
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - America’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.
Cobb died in Florida at age 88 on March 18 following a brief illness. News of her death came Thursday from journalist Miles O’Brien, serving as a family spokesman.
In 1961, Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut testing. Altogether, 13 women passed the arduous physical testing and became known as the Mercury 13. But NASA already had its Mercury 7 astronauts, all jet test pilots and all military men.
None of the Mercury 13 ever reached space, despite Cobb’s testimony in 1962 before a Congressional panel.
“We seek, only, a place in our nation’s space future without discrimination,” she told a special House subcommittee on the selection of astronauts.
Instead of making her an astronaut, NASA tapped her as a consultant to talk up the space program. She was dismissed one week after commenting: “I’m the most unconsulted consultant in any government agency.”
She wrote in her 1997 autobiography “Jerrie Cobb, Solo Pilot,” “My country, my culture, was not ready to allow a woman to fly in space.”
Cobb served for decades as a humanitarian aid pilot in the Amazon jungle.
“She should have gone to space, but turned her life into one of service with grace,” tweeted Ellen Stofan, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum and a former NASA scientist.
The Soviet Union ended up putting the first woman into space in 1963: Valentina Tereshkova. NASA didn’t fly a woman in space — Sally Ride — until 1983.
Cobb and other surviving members of the Mercury 13 attended the 1995 shuttle launch of Eileen Collins, NASA’s first female space pilot and later its first female space commander.
“Jerrie Cobb served as an inspiration to many of our members in her record breaking, her desire to go into space, and just to prove that women could do what men could do,” said Laura Ohrenberg, headquarters manager in Oklahoma City for the Ninety-Nines Inc., an international organization of licensed women pilots.
Still hopeful, Cobb emerged in 1998 to make another pitch for space as NASA prepared to launch Mercury astronaut John Glenn — the first American to orbit the world — on shuttle Discovery at age 77.
Cobb maintained that the geriatric space study should also include an older woman.
“I would give my life to fly in space, I really would,” Cobb told The Associated Press at age 67 in 1998. “It’s hard for me to talk about it, but I would. I would then, and I will now.”
“It just didn’t work out then, and I just hope and pray it will now,” she added.
It didn’t. NASA never flew another elderly person in space, male or female.
Geraldyn Cobb was born on March 5, 1931, in Norman, Oklahoma, the second daughter of a military pilot and his wife. She flew her father’s open cockpit Waco biplane at age 12 and got her private pilot’s license four years later.
The Mercury 13’s story is told in a recent Netflix documentary and a play based on Cobb’s life, “They Promised Her the Moon,” is currently running in San Diego.
In her autobiography, Cobb described how she danced on the wings of her plane in the Amazon moonlight, when learning via radio on July 20, 1969, that Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed on the moon.
She wrote: “Yes, I wish I were on the moon with my fellow pilots, exploring another celestial body. How I would love to see our beautiful blue planet Earth floating in the blackness of space. And see the stars and galaxies in their true brilliance, without the filter of our atmosphere. But I’m happy flying here in Amazonas, serving my brethren. ‘Contenta, Senor, contenta.’ (I am happy, Lord, happy.)”
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