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The Mom Stop: Finding a new home for Eddie
Lydia Seabol Avant More Content Now
Apr 23, 2019 at 8:54 AM Apr 23, 2019 at 8:54 AM
In the mid-1970s, when my parents were still newlyweds, my dad brought home a scraggly, dirty “cockapoo” mix as a joke to my mother, thinking the stray dog was so ugly there would be no way she’d want to keep him.
My mother, who had been begging for a dog, quickly took the pup into her arms, gave him a bath and for the next 17 years, Charlie was our family dog.
A few years after my parents adopted Charlie, a chihuahua/terrier mix who roamed their Loma Linda, California, neighborhood started spending more time at my parents’ house, whenever he wasn’t running with the ponies that the neighborhood kids rode in the streets after school. At one point, the dog showed up sick on their doorstep. My parents took him to the vet, nursed the dog back to health, and eventually, the dog became theirs. They named him Happy. While Charlie was my mother’s dog, Happy was 100 percent my dad’s.
It’s been 30 years since those dogs were alive, but my dad often spoke about them. When pets like that are apart of your lives, you don’t forget them.
After Happy died, my dad didn’t get another dog until 2010, when he adopted a long-haired Jack Russell named Maverick, who became his constant companion. At that point my dad was divorced, his children grown. He lived a quiet and solitary life where the highlight of his day was walking his dog to the beach. Despite Maverick’s tiny size, he thought he was a mastiff, puffing out his chest and barking at everyone and everything. But he was devoted, the kind of devotion my dad so desperately needed at that point in his life.
And when Maverick died suddenly in 2017, Dad couldn’t quite get over his loss. We knew he needed another dog, quickly. But he didn’t just want any dog, he wanted Maverick. The closest thing he could find was another Jack Russell named Eddie from an Arizona-based rescue group.
The rescue group warned that Eddie had had a hard life. He had been abused and ended up at one point on the euthanasia list at a shelter before he was saved. The dog spent a year and a half living with a foster family before my dad adopted him.
In a way, Dad saw some of himself in Eddie. My dad, who struggled with addiction and alcoholism in early adulthood, hadn’t had an easy start to life. Neither had Eddie. But Dad wanted to give the dog a chance at a better life, much like he had gotten.
But Eddie had issues - which led to his nickname, “Issues Eddie.” He’d wag his tail, excited to go on walks. He’d jump on my Dad’s lap, frequently giving him a lick on the face. But “Issues Eddie” considered Dad’s bed as his territory. If Dad moved too quickly or accidentally bumped Eddie while he was asleep, Dad would get bitten.
But Dad was devoted, buying Eddie squeaky dog toys and fresh turkey from the grocery store. Dad was alone, except for Eddie. And in the end, when my dad died earlier this month, it was Eddie who was there with him.
Last week, I got a call from the animal shelter, who had picked Eddie up the night my dad was found. Due to Eddie’s age and his issues, he was not considered adoptable, the shelter explained. They wanted me to sign off on his euthanasia.
Already in the depths of despair over the loss of my father, I was being asked to end the life of his dog, a dog that wasn’t perfect, but who he loved. It felt like salt to a gaping wound, but I agreed.
Soon after I got off the phone, I decided to look back through old emails to find pictures Dad had sent of Eddie. On one of those emails, something stood out - the email address of the rescue group in Arizona. I emailed them immediately, hoping with all hope that maybe there was a chance that Eddie might live.
The next day, the organization called. I explained my situation, and explained that she might not remember my dad or the dog. But I was wrong.
“Your father and I talked on the phone almost every day for the first year he had Eddie,” the rescue volunteer told me. “He was a wonderful man, and a very good friend.”
I stood on the back deck of my house, phone in hand, tears running down my face as I talked to the woman. One thing I’ve learned through my father’s loss was that although he lived a very solitary life, he had some amazing friends across the country who would do anything for him - including taking his dog.
Within 24 hours of that call, Eddie was sprung from the pound by a rescue volunteer. A day later, he was back at his original foster home in Arizona, the home where he lived before, a home where he will stay for the rest of his little life.
Waiting on him was some turkey, fresh from the grocery store, just the way my dad always fixed it. And I know that is exactly what Dad would have wanted.
Lydia Seabol Avant writes The Mom Stop for The Tuscaloosa News in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Reach her at lydia.seabolavant@tuscaloosanews.com.
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YOUR-VOICE
Opinion: Charter school expansion is not what Texas needs during a pandemic
David DeMatthews and Mary Grace McFarland
The Texas Education Agency recently approved new charter schools for the next school year, which means the state will be redistributing some education dollars and resources to new schools during a recession that has already burdened existing schools. This is not what Texas school districts need right now.
The TEA commissioner has allowed 49 new charter campuses next year, including 12 for IDEA Public Schools. The reasoning for charter expansion during a recession and pandemic is surprising. The commissioner has the authority to approve charter expansion, but must consider “information relating to any financial difficulty that a loss in enrollment may have on a district” as well as “evidence of parental and community support for or opposition to the proposed charter school.”
At least 20 Texas-based organizations that represent teachers, principals, school boards, rural and urban school districts, and superintendents expressed concern about charter expansion, claiming that the decision could “exacerbate the state’s budget crisis, harm school districts, and send Texas tax dollars out of state.”
Student enrollment is down as more parents keep children home, and now the state is allowing more charter schools to open while districts have fewer students. Charter expansion in this context does not make economic sense and is out of step with statewide elected officials’ fiscally conservative governing principles. New schools are not needed when so many districts are facing declining enrollment and budget shortfalls.
State law also requires the TEA to consider governance structure and the soundness of fiscal and administrative practices. IDEA Public Schools, a charter management organization operating in several states, has previously come under fire for questionable fiscal practices that include spending donor money to purchase a San Antonio Spurs luxury box and making a $900,000 payout to a former superintendent who resigned. The TEA also found that IDEA owed more than $130,000 to the Teacher Retirement System.
The Texas School Alliance indicated that this expansion will cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 10 years, some of which will go to organizations in California, Florida and New York. The money being spent to support charter expansion can instead be used to support existing schools and the multiple crises confronted on campuses. For example, about half a million rural households in Texas do not have access to broadband internet. Rather than investing in charter expansion, Texas could ensure more rural students have access to internet and devices, which is a long-standing equity problem the state should have addressed years ago.
The TEA should also direct resources to curbing the disproportionate impact of school closure on students with disabilities, especially given that the state has repeatedly failed to monitor special education implementation and ensure adequate levels of funding per federal law. Expanding charters at this time is especially problematic, given that many charters in the state enroll fewer students with disabilities than would be expected based on population.
Finally, the TEA should be mindful of the impact the pandemic will have on teacher and principal pipelines. Some principals and teachers have already decided to retire early, and it is likely that a number of educators will become ill from COVID-19. Rather than create more vacancies by opening new schools, the state should work with unions and teacher preparation programs to ensure the educator pipeline is sufficient to staff every Texas classroom.
The TEA is simply trying to take a business-as-usual approach by keeping pace with annual charter expansion. However, 2020 is not a typical year, and existing schools have too many financial and educational concerns to ignore. The state should reconsider charter expansion and ought to enact fiscally responsible policies that prioritize existing schools.
DeMatthews is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy in the College of Education at the University of Texas, where McFarland is a master’s student studying education policy.
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Man sentenced to life in prison for New York City bombing
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A man who was inspired by al-Qaeda and set off a bomb in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, injuring more than 30 people, has been sentenced to life in prison. He also tried to carry out other attacks in the region.
Ahmad Khan Rahimi, a 30-year-old man who is originally from Afghanistan, was convicted in October for his execution and attempted execution of bombings in New York City on September 17, 2016. He was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison.
“Rahimi attempted to wreak havoc in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. He failed,” said NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill. “Committing terrorism may seem, from the darkest places of the internet and espoused in propaganda, as a higher calling. It is not. Today’s sentencing – of life in prison – should be the strongest deterrent to future acts of terror.”
The attacks began on the morning of September 17, 2016, when an explosive device went off inside a garbage can along the route for a Marine Corps charity run in Seaside Park in New Jersey. The attack caused no injuries as the race had started late and the bomb only partially detonated.
Later that day, at about 8:30 p.m., a bomb exploded near a dumpster on West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, injuring more than 30 people and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. A second bomb was planted on West 27th Street but was defused in time.
The bombings caused a massive manhunt in New York and neighboring states.
The next evening, a backpack containing 6 improvised explosive devices was found at the entrance to the New Jersey Transit station in Elizabeth, New Jersey. One of the devices detonated as law enforcement used a robot to defuse it, but no one was injured.
On the morning of September 19, Rahimi was spotted by police in Linden, New Jersey. Rahimi fired multiple shots as he tried to escape, injuring multiple police officers before he himself was shot and placed under arrest.
Rahimi was found to be carrying a handwritten journal in which he mentioned bombs, writing: “The sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets” and “Bombs set off in the streets they plan to run a mile.” The notes mentioned former al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, but also former ISIS commander Mohammed al-Adnani and Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.
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Stabilisation fund drops to $210 million as FG withdraws $150 million
Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed
Uche Usim, Abuja
Following the Federal Government’s plan to immediately withdraw $150 million from the stabilisation fund to support the economy, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) on Thursday reminded the nation that the balance will drop to $201 million once that money is released.
NSIA, in a statement, said the federal government, via the Finance Minister, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, had powers to get a slice of the money on request.
Ahmed at a media briefing recently announced government’s plan to withdraw $150 million to cushion the negative impact of oil price decline on the federation account.
She noted that the free fall of crude oil at the international market had hammered the revenue of the government and drastically reduced the monthly allocation to the three tiers of government.
The NSIA in the statement threw its weight behind the government’s decision, adding that the move was consistent with the founding objectives of the fund.
Speaking on the withdrawal, NSIA Managing Director Uche Orji was quoted in the statement to have said that, beyond the withdrawal, the agency was exploring other avenues to support the country through various social investment initiatives.
He said, “The withdrawal reduces the value of funds under management in the Stabilisation Fund to $201 million from $351 million as at December 31 2019.
“The $351 million is comprised of core contributions of US$300 million, and US$51 million of returns earned.
“NSIA (Establishment etc.) Act 2011 is clear on our role. The NSIA is, in part, to serve as a stabilisation mechanism for the country through the Stabilisation Fund.
“Beyond the withdrawal, we are also exploring other avenues to support the country through various social investment initiatives.”
He said the NSIA remains committed to serving as an enabler to economic sustenance and growth for the country.
Specifically, he stated that Sections 47 and 48 of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority’s Establishment Act 2011 supports the withdrawal from the Stabilisation Fund.
In terms of the process for the withdrawal of the fund, the statement said Section 47 empowered the Minister of Finance to on behalf of government call for the withdrawal of the fund managed by the NSIA.
He said, “The funds drawn will be used to augment the Government’s Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee disbursements by June 2020 for allocation.
The statement noted that while the Stabilisation Fund allocation is 20 per cent of NSIA overall funds under management, the Future Generations Fund and the Nigeria
Infrastructure Fund accounts for the balance of 80 per cent.
It said the Future Generations Fund and the Nigeria Infrastructure Fund are being invested according to their individual mandates and have been profitable since inception.
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Now Reading: Keep It Trill
Josh Rosenblatt Mar 19, 2010, 4:31 pm CST
Paul Wall and his candy Cadillac. photo by Mike Frost
On March 17, MCs Chamillionaire and Paul Wall kicked off a national tour at Austin’s South by Southwest music festival. The show was a reunion for the two rappers, who helped develop the Houston hip-hop sound in the late 1990s. Back then, Houston hip-hop was a grassroots affair. With the music industry focused on rappers from the two coasts, local artists like DJ Screw and Lil’ Keke had to start their own labels, lobby local radio stations for air time, and sell mix tapes out of their cars. Chamillionaire and Wall, who had gone to high school together in nearby Jersey Village, released their tracks through independent label Swishahouse, which was becoming the breeding ground for the new sound. Fiercely regional, Swishahouse built a local fan base by putting out music by Houston, about Houston, and for Houston.
Things changed in 2005 when the music industry wised up to the Houston scene’s commercial potential and brought the Third Coast “chopped and screwed” sound to the mainstream. Wall and Chamillionaire were arguably Houston’s biggest breakout stars. Wall’s The Peoples Champ debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart that September. Two months later, Chamillionaire released The Sound of Revenge, which went platinum and won a Grammy. Suddenly obscure, dirty, unheralded Houston rap was mainstream. Wall and Chamillionaire shared an affection for the slowed-down sound of DJ Screw, but lyrically they ended up on opposite ends of an ideological divide. Wall aimed his songs at the loyal Texas hip-hop audience. Chamillionaire went straight for commercial success.
Wall’s songs were so Houston-centric they required a glossary. His hit single, “They Don’t Know,” was the ultimate declaration of regional chauvinism. Wall built that song as a catechism of hip-hop exclusivity, quizzing listeners on their knowledge of Texas rap vernacular. What do you know, he asked, about swangaz and vogues (rims and tires). Or candy paint (custom paint job)? Or P.A.T. (Port Arthur, Texas)? The punchline was that the MC answered his own question the same way every time: “nothin’.” “They Don’t Know” was a clubhouse declaration, a secret handshake, written not to invite listeners but to distinguish between those who belonged and those who didn’t. For Paul Wall, knowing about “chunkin’ a deuce” was like pronouncing “shibboleth” with an “h.” It proved he was trill or, to the initiated, true and real.
Music video by Chamillionaire performing Ridin’. (C) 2005 Universal Records a division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Not so for Chamillionaire, who seems made for mass appeal. He’s handsome and personable. He performed for American troops following the Fort Hood massacre last year. His first big radio hits, “Ridin’” and “Turn It Up,” weren’t willfully esoteric or Texas-specific; they were just classic, catchy pop songs. Chamillionaire acted as an ambassador for the Houston scene, not just an embodiment of it, which explains why he became its breakout star and Wall remains a devotee’s secret favorite.
Staying local has its rewards, as proved by Houston’s pioneering duo UGK. They were signed to Jive Records in 1992, but the label never really invested in them. While some of their former label mates sunk into obscurity (remember Whodini?), UGK’s surviving MC, Bun B, has had one of the longest careers in hip-hop by catering to Texas fans. It’s a model Wall has clearly studied. He may have smaller record sales than Chamillionaire, but he’s maintained underground appeal. Chamillionaire, meanwhile, has become the biggest-selling ringtone artist of all time. What will Texas fans think of him after all the national media attention dies away? Hard to say. In the meantime, you can count on both MCs to provide a heavy dose of synthesized string hooks, beats slower than I-10 traffic at rush hour, and the shiniest teeth you’ll ever lay eyes on. That’s how they do things in Houston.
Josh Rosenblatt writes about film from New York City.
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Getting more people walking and cycling could help save our high streets says TfL
Transport for London has published research that shows improvements to make it easier and safer to walk and cycle in London's town centres and high streets lead to an increase in retail rental values, more retail space being filled and a 93% increase in people walking in the streets. The research has also found that people walking, cycling and using public transport spend the most in their local shops, spending 40% more each month than car drivers.
In one major study published today, locations including Bromley North Village, Hornchurch Town Centre, Clapham, Woolwich Town Centre and Walworth Road were studied to assess the impact of improvements, such as widened footpaths, increased space for outdoor seating, new public squares and pedestrian crossings. The study, commissioned by TfL and conducted by Matthew Carmona from University College London's Bartlett School of Planning, found that compared to unimproved areas:
Footfall increased - the number of people standing, waiting and sitting nearly doubled and people walking in the streets increased by 93%
People spent more time in the street, with a 216% increase in activity such as going into a shop, stopping at a café or sitting on a bench
Retail rental values increased by 7.5%, suggesting that local businesses are thriving in the area
More retail space was filled by businesses, as there was a 17% decline in retail vacancy
Office rental values increased by 4%, showing that improving streets is good for many types of business
The research has been published as part of a new online hub demonstrating the economic benefits of TfL's Healthy Streets Approach, which aims to create high streets that are designed for people, inclusive and easy to access by foot or bike. Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner, said: 'With businesses across London really struggling to survive, we have to do everything we can to support them. 'The evidence is clear - adapting our streets to enable more people to walk and cycle makes them cleaner, healthier and more welcoming, which encourages more people to shop locally. 'The benefits of designing streets around pedestrians and cyclists and reducing car use can be enjoyed by everyone and will help ensure the future of our high streets.' Launched today, new online hub, The Economic Benefits of Walking and Cycling, will be kept up to date with research and statistics from TfL and others. Current material on the hub includes a report setting out the economic benefits of planning cycling and walking improvements alongside housing growth, a survey of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) demonstrating the economic importance of walking and cycling to businesses across London, and research suggesting segregated cycle routes in London make our streets more efficient.
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Man ordered to pay over £700 and issued 6 penalty points for picking up a fare for local cab firm wi
A Durham County man who was not licensed to pick up fares has been fined more than £700 after being caught by undercover consumer protection officers. Colin Eltringham, of Fishburn, was charged with driving a taxi without a hackney carriage licence following an investigation by our licensing team.
The 53-year-old failed a test purchase exercise in August last year when he picked up consumer protection officers posing as members of the public from outside of a pub in Sedgefield.
The officers had made the booking with Sedgefield Taxis, who cater for hackney carriage and private hire drivers, after receiving information that an unlicensed driver was driving one of the company's vehicles. Newton Aycliffe Magistrates Court heard Eltringham was the owner of the vehicle and had previously held a hackney carriage licence. However, he failed to renew the licence after it was suspended in 2015.
Eltringham did not attend the hearing but pleaded guilty to the offence by letter. He also admitted a further charge of driving a vehicle without insurance. Eltringham was ordered to pay a total of £737.75 in fines and costs and his driving licence was endorsed with six penalty points. Owen Cleugh, our consumer protection manager, said: "Taxi and private hire licensing is in place to protect the public and it's our job to ensure these laws are followed. This prosecution proves we will take action against those who flout the law and that the consequences of doing so can be serious, both financially and reputationally."
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Another Green Energy Source Criticized for Its 'Alarming' Impact on Wildlife
"Mega-trap."
This October 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned Yellow-rumped Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert. Workers at a state-of-the-art new solar plant have a word for the birds that fly over the plants five-mile field of mirrors, streamers, for the puff of smoke as the birds ignite in mid-air and fall singed to the ground. (AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)\n
IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair
Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version.
This October 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned Yellow-rumped Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert. Workers at a state-of-the-art new solar plant have a word for the birds that fly over the plant�s five-mile field of mirrors, �streamers,� for the puff of smoke as the birds ignite in mid-air and fall singed to the ground. (AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
The investigators want the halt until the full extent of the deaths can be assessed. Estimates per year now range from a low of about a thousand by BrightSource to 28,000 by an expert for the Center for Biological Diversity environmental group.
The deaths are "alarming. It's hard to say whether that's the location or the technology," said Garry George, renewable-energy director for the California chapter of the Audubon Society. "There needs to be some caution."
The bird kills mark the latest instance in which the quest for clean energy sometimes has inadvertent environmental harm. Solar farms have been criticized for their impacts on desert tortoises, and wind farms have killed birds, including numerous raptors.
New estimates for the Ivanpah solar plant, an innovative year-old $2.2 billion solar project with Google as a major investor, say thousands of birds are dying yearly, roasted by the concentrated sun rays from the more than 300,000 mirrors. (AP/Chris Carlson, File)
"We take this issue very seriously," said Jeff Holland, a spokesman for NRG Solar of Carlsbad, California, the second of the three companies behind the plant. The third, Google, deferred comment to its partners.
The $2.2 billion plant, which launched in February, is at Ivanpah Dry Lake near the California-Nevada border. The operator says it is the world's biggest plant to employ so-called power towers.
More than 300,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door, reflect solar rays onto three boiler towers each looming up to 40 stories high. The water inside is heated to produce steam, which turns turbines that generate enough electricity for 140,000 homes.
The site uses over 300,000 mirrors to focus sunlight on boilers' tubes atop 450 foot power towers heating water into steam which in turn drives turbines to create electricity. (AP/John Locher)
Sun rays sent up by the field of mirrors are bright enough to dazzle pilots flying in and out of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Federal wildlife officials said Ivanpah might act as a "mega-trap" for wildlife, with the bright light of the plant attracting insects, which in turn attract insect-eating birds that fly to their death in the intensely focused light rays.
Federal and state biologists call the number of deaths significant, based on sightings of birds getting singed and falling, and on retrieval of carcasses with feathers charred too severely for flight.
Ivanpah officials dispute the source of the so-called streamers, saying at least some of the puffs of smoke mark insects and bits of airborne trash being ignited by the solar rays.
Wildlife officials who witnessed the phenomena say many of the clouds of smoke were too big to come from anything but a bird, and they add that they saw "birds entering the solar flux and igniting, consequently become a streamer."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials say they want a death toll for a full year of operation.
Given the apparent scale of bird deaths at Ivanpah, authorities should thoroughly track bird kills there for a year, including during annual migratory seasons, before granting any more permits for that kind of solar technology, said George, of the Audubon Society.
The toll on birds has been surprising, said Robert Weisenmiller, chairman of the California Energy Commission. "We didn't see a lot of impact" on birds at the first, smaller power towers in the U.S. and Europe, Weisenmiller said.
The commission is now considering the application from Oakland-based BrightSource to build a mirror field and a 75-story power tower that would reach above the sand dunes and creek washes between Joshua Tree National Park and the California-Arizona border.
The proposed plant is on a flight path for birds between the Colorado River and California's largest lake, the Salton Sea — an area, experts say, is richer in avian life than the Ivanpah plant, with protected golden eagles and peregrine falcons and more than 100 other species of birds recorded there.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials warned California this month that the power-tower style of solar technology holds "the highest lethality potential" of the many solar projects burgeoning in the deserts of California.
The commission's staff estimates the proposed new tower would be almost four times as dangerous to birds as the Ivanpah plant. The agency is expected to decide this autumn on the proposal.
While biologists say there is no known feasible way to curb the number of birds killed, the companies behind the projects say they are hoping to find one — studying whether lights, sounds or some other technology would scare them away, said Joseph Desmond, senior vice president at BrightSource Energy.
BrightSource also is offering $1.8 million in compensation for anticipated bird deaths at Palen, Desmond said.
The company is proposing the money for programs such as those to spay and neuter domestic cats, which a government study found kill over 1.4 billion birds a year. Opponents say that would do nothing to help the desert birds at the proposed site.
Power-tower proponents are fighting to keep the deaths from forcing a pause in the building of new plants when they see the technology on the verge of becoming more affordable and accessible, said Thomas Conroy, a renewable-energy expert.
When it comes to powering the country's grids, "diversity of technology ... is critical," Conroy said. "Nobody should be arguing let's be all coal, all solar," all wind, or all nuclear. "And every one of those technologies has a long list of pros and cons."
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Old St. Peter's Hospital
The first non-military hospital in the state of North Carolina, St. Peter’s Hospital was built to address contagious diseases by treating patients and removing the sick from the general population. The hospital opened in 1876 and in its early years, gained a reputation for "kidnapping" some of its non-willing patients. Reform came quickly and by the early 1900s, the facility had cared for thousands throughout the state of North Carolina. Today, the building remains significant due to its partially renovated and partially persevered architectural structure, with much of the internal structure dating back to it’s original work. However the building's interior is currently serving as condos, and is not open to the public.
Old St. Peter's Hospital circa 2015
St. Peter’s Hospital was initially developed in reaction to a local Rector of St. Peter’s Church promoting medical services for the underprivileged in the city. The first civilian hospital, St. Peter’s opened on January 20th 1876. The first hospital was named Charlotte Home and Hospital, and was located in two rooms rented out of a residential home. This is widely accepted as having been the first non military hospital in North Carolina.
According to records, the first patients of the hospital were hardly willing participants in the health care movement, and the neighbors that surrounded the facility’s first few locations were displeased with their proximity to the establishment. Early employees of the hospital describe the environment of a hospital admission similar to a kidnapping, as people were essentially forced into treatment. Additionally, the neighbors complained about the chance of contagion and exposure to disease and illness the hospital facilitated. It is stated that policemen were often present to escort, or force, the ill into the building as well as to restrict rioters outside from entering.
In 1877 a permanent location was established for the Charlotte Home and Hospital. The building process was ceremonial and elaborate, and one year later the one story, four room building was opened to patients. The success of this purchase and construction is due to a local organization responsible for raising the $275 dollars required to fund the project. The Busy Bee Society, a women's academy, is credited with this achievement.
By the late 1890’s the Charlotte Home and Hospital was developing into a major medical center, serving not only residents of Charlotte but those all throughout the state of North Carolina. A major addition to the hospital was proposed in 1898. Built in front of the original building and additions, the new structure had 30 rooms over three stories, with large porches on three sides of the building and on each floor. The building contained a drug store, private doctor’s rooms, community rooms, laundry facilities, and other additions that were incredibly novel to medical centers at this time. In 1922 another 22 rooms were added, including nurses quarters, a maternity ward, baby ward, and children ward, along with additional space that would serve to double the capacity of the “charity” wards.
Today the hospital has been renovated into private offices and condos. However the building is still aesthetically similar as to how it would have appeared in 1922, with internal components of the structure dating back to its original 1800’s structure. While the building is not open to the public the exterior remains significant to medical history and North Carolina history.
http://www.cmhpf.org/S&Rs%20Alphabetical%20Order/surveys&rstpetehosp.htm http://www.carolinashealthcare.org/our-history
Old St. Peter's Hospital general information
Carolina's Health Care History
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Exterior visible from the street, interior closed to the public.
Children’s History and Children’s Museums
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Downtown Charlotte Walking Tour
This walking tour includes historic buildings and landmarks along Tyron Street and a quick walk through Charlotte's historic fourth ward. The tour also includes several museums such as the Levine Museum of the New South.
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FEMA May Have Wrongly Paid $250 Million in Sandy Relief Funds
Policy + Politics
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By Millie Dent
Up to $250 million of the $1.4 billion that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) paid to victims of Hurricane Sandy may have been improperly issued, according to a report this month from a federal watchdog.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found that FEMA doesn’t have any system in place to verify that applicants for assistance don’t have other insurance coverage. Out of the 182,900 applicants that submitted claims for damages from Sandy, more than 29,000 may have already had private home or car insurance, leading to the possibility that these were duplicate or fraudulent claims, the watchdog report said.
Related: FEMA Wasted Billions on Administrative Costs
The report outlines four different reasons why applicants with private insurance may have applied for FEMA money, and not all of them involve cheating the government. They may have had insurance but not flood insurance, or they may have had too little insurance coverage. Some filers may not have known the rules about submitting claims to both FEMA and their insurer. Others were knowingly committing fraud.
At the same time, the fraud rate might even be higher than detailed in the report because the inspector general determined its numbers using the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but participation in the Bureau by insurance agencies is voluntary and not all companies share their information. “Other than the National Flood Insurance Database, FEMA does not have a reliable tool to verify insurance coverage,” the report said.
All applicants for FEMA assistance are told that any false statements they make in their claims are against both federal and state laws, but the lax regulations make FEMA an easy and potentially tempting target for crooks.
The inspector general made three recommendations to FEMA: Clarify the possible consequences of falsifying claims or omitting information on applications, develop or use a comprehensive database to determine whether an applicant has private insurance coverage and review past payments that have a high risk of being incorrect in order to recoup any funds that shouldn’t have been paid.
Related: FEMA Still Doesn’t Know Where Its Money Is Going
FEMA said that it would work to implement the necessary changes. The agency emphasized that until a comprehensive database is put into place, insurance verification will remain a challenge.
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Millie Dent is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, where she served as News Editor of the University newspaper. She previously worked as a research assistant for Forbes Editor, Richard Behar, on his book about Bernie Madoff and was a contributing writer for Forbes on the business behind media and entertainment.
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BTS should apologise to Japan and Nazi victims, says rabbi
K-pop band accused of mocking the past as row over ‘atomic bomb’ T-shirt continues
Korean K-pop band BTS on stage in 2017. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
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A Jewish human rights organisation has condemned the K-pop band BTS over photographs of them wearing Nazi-style hats.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center accused BTS of “mocking the past” The band were dropped from a Japanese TV show last week after one of its members wore a T-shirt that appeared to celebrate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“Wearing a T-shirt in Japan mocking the victims of the … A-bomb, is just the latest incident of this band mocking the past,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Los Angeles-based centre, said in a statement.
Cooper referred to the release in early 2015 of teasers for a photo-book that showed a member of the band wearing a hat featuring the symbol of the Death’s Head Units – SS organisations that administered the Nazi concentration camps.
The statement also linked to images of band members posing at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and to footage of them waving large flags on stage that were “eerily similar” to the Nazi swastika.
“It goes without saying that this group, which was invited to speak at the UN, owes the people of Japan and the victims of the Nazism an apology,” Cooper said.
“But that is not enough. It is clear that those designing and promoting this group’s career are too comfortable with denigrating the memory of the past. The result is that young generations in Korea and around the world are more likely to identify bigotry and intolerance as being ‘cool’ and help erase the lessons of history. The management of this group, not only the front performers, should publicly apologise.”
Last Friday, the Japanese network TV Asahi abruptly cancelled BTS’s scheduled appearance on its flagship Music Station show after being alerted to a photograph of Jimin, 23, wearing a T-shirt featuring a slogan celebrating Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule in August 1945.
The words were accompanied by an image of a mushroom cloud generated by an exploding atomic bomb. Japan surrendered on 15 August that year, days after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
BTS, who have been described as the biggest boyband in the world, apologised to their Japanese fans for the cancellation but made no mention of the T-shirt. They have not publicly responded to Cooper’s criticism.
Lee Taek-gwang, a cultural critic, said the incidents were a symptom of modern South Korea’s struggle to reconcile strong nationalist sentiment with its growing international profile.
“BTS insist they are a global brand, but their identity is rooted in Korean nationalism, as it is with many young South Koreans,” said Lee, a professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, adding that nationalism continued to define the collective memory of Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910-45. “This isn’t just the case of a young band doing something stupid,” Lee said.
While overt support for the Nazis remained taboo in South Korea, the use of symbols associated with Nazism did not prompt the same level of outrage there as they did in many other countries, he said. “Young Koreans come across as liberal and cosmopolitan, but beneath the surface there are more reactionary factors at work.”
The cancellation of the band’s TV appearance came five months after they became the first K-pop band to top the Billboard 200 album chart with Love Yourself: Tear. Last week their ninth single in Japan, Fake Love/Airplane pt 2, was No 1 in the country’s Oricon daily singles chart.
The band, who won the music group award at the People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles at the weekend, performed in Paris last month in front of the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, with whom they later posed for photos. They have also played to large audiences in London and New York.
The controversies come amid a sharp deterioration in relations between Tokyo and Seoul, where some politicians have accused the band’s Japanese critics of overreacting.
Noting that other TV stations were reconsidering planned appearances by BTS, a spokesman for the ruling Democratic party said it would be inappropriate to do so “on political grounds”.
The opposition Liberty Korea party voiced “deep regret towards Japan’s intolerant cultural relativism and insular historical awareness”, according to the Korea Herald.
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Amazing Dance Music
Listening to Swan Lake Awakens the Memory of a Former Ballerina with Alzheimer’s
We’re not crying, you’re crying. Music’s ability to improve the mood and boost cognitive skills in people with dementia has long been documented. “Music is no luxury to them, but a necessity,” wrote neurologist Oliver Sacks in his 2008 book Musicophilia. “It can have a power beyond anything else to restore them to themselves, and to others, at least for a while.” Such is the case in this video of former NYC ballet dancer Marta C. González who was given the opportunity to listen to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, a piece of music we can assume she performed numerous times as shown in the interspersed archival clips from the 1960s. The music seems to awaken the choreography stored deep in her brain as she begins to spontaneously perform from her wheelchair. González founded and directed her own dance ensemble called Rosamunda.
The video was recorded last year in Valencia, Spain and published by Música para Despertar (Awakening Music), a non-profit organization that brings music to patients with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dimensia to help raise awareness of its therapeutic impact. (via Kottke)
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Why does an interference pattern occur when electrons are fired one at time?
RobC (OP)
Like so many people I am fascinated by the double slit experiment. One of its most baffling features is what happens when electrons are fired one at a time. I would have thought that an interference pattern could not be produced in this situation.
« Last Edit: 17/05/2016 07:17:41 by chris »
Re: Why does an interference pattern occur when electrons are fired one at time in t
The counterintuitive part here is that an electron can interfere with itself.
Or not. It pays to be really pedantic about this.
We can model the received pattern as the interference between waves, but a single electron, photon, or any other particle, can't "partially interact" with the detector - there is no continuum of charge, mass or energy that will allow say 10% of one incoming electron to strike the middle of the detector whilst 5% appears on either side, ad infinitum.
If you can generate and detect a single particle (and we have cascade multipliers that can) you find that each incoming particle only arrives at one point. What we record as an "interference pattern" is the sum of the probability distributions of a whole lot of particles over time.
stacyjones
In de Broglie's double solution theory there are two waves. There is the wave-function wave which is statistical, non-physical and is used to determine the probabilistic results of experiments. It is a mathematical construct only. It doesn't physically exist. There is also a physical wave in a hidden "subquantic medium" which guides the particle.
John Stewart Bell
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Bell
While the founding fathers agonized over the question 'particle' or 'wave', de Broglie in 1925 proposed the obvious answer 'particle' and 'wave'. Is it not clear from the smallness of the scintillation on the screen that we have to do with a particle? And is it not clear, from the diffraction and interference patterns, that the motion of the particle is directed by a wave? De Broglie showed in detail how the motion of a particle, passing through just one of two holes in screen, could be influenced by waves propagating through both holes. And so influenced that the particle does not go where the waves cancel out, but is attracted to where they cooperate. This idea seems to me so natural and simple, to resolve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is a great mystery to me that it was so generally ignored.
NON-LINEAR WAVE MECHANICS A CAUSAL INTERPRETATION by LOUIS DE BROGLIE
Since 1954, when this passage was written, I have come to support wholeheartedly an hypothesis proposed by Bohm and Vigier. According to this hypothesis, the random perturbations to which the particle would be constantly subjected, and which would have the probability of presence in terms of [the wave-function wave], arise from the interaction of the particle with a “subquantic medium” which escapes our observation and is entirely chaotic, and which is everywhere present in what we call “empty space”.
"The interaction of the particle with a “subquantic medium”" is another way of describing a strongly interacting dark matter.
Dark matter is not a clump of weakly interacting stuff that travels with the matter. Dark matter fills the space unoccupied by particles of matter and is displaced by the particles of matter that exist in it and move through it.
'Interpretation of quantum mechanics by the double solution theory - Louis de BROGLIE'
aflb.ensmp.fr/AFLB-classiques/aflb124p001.pdf
When in 1923-1924 I had my first ideas about Wave Mechanics I was looking for a truly concrete physical image, valid for all particles, of the wave and particle coexistence discovered by Albert Einstein in his "Theory of light quanta". I had no doubt whatsoever about the physical reality of waves and particles.
any particle, even isolated, has to be imagined as in continuous “energetic contact” with a hidden medium
The hidden medium of de Broglie wave mechanics is the strongly interacting dark matter.
For me, the particle, precisely located in space at every instant, forms on the v wave a small region of high energy concentration, which may be likened in a first approximation, to a moving singularity.
A particle may be likened in a first approximation to a moving singularity which has an associated wave in the strongly interacting dark matter.
the particle is defined as a very small region of the wave
The particle occupies a very small region of the associated wave in the dark matter.
Wave-particle duality is a moving particle and it's associated wave in the strongly interacting dark matter.
In a double slit experiment the particle travels through a single slit. It is the associated wave in the strongly interacting dark matter which passes through both. As the wave exits the slits it creates wave interference. As the particle exits a single slit the direction it travels is altered by the wave interference. This is the wave guiding the particle. Strongly detecting the particle causes a loss of cohesion between the particle and its associated wave, the particle continues on the trajectory it was traveling and it does not form an interference pattern.
The wave of wave-particle duality is a wave in the strongly interacting dark matter which fills 'empty' space.
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Quote from: stacyjones on 26/04/2016 17:07:31
Strongly detecting the particle causes a loss of cohesion between the particle and its associated wave, the particle continues on the trajectory it was traveling and it does not form an interference pattern.
And yet, when we "strongly interact" by putting a fluorescent plate or photographic film behind the slits, we see what looks like an interference pattern. How sad that the experiment does not support the theory.
Quote from: alancalverd on 26/04/2016 19:12:34
And yet, when we "strongly interact" by putting a fluorescent plate or photographic film behind the slits, we see what looks like an interference pattern.
If you "strongly interact" with the particle prior to it arriving at the detection screen you destroy the particles cohesion with its associated wave in the strongly interacting dark matter and the particle no longer creates and interference pattern. For example, if you detect the particle as it exits the slit you destroy its cohesion with its associated wave exiting both slits and the particle will not create an interference pattern. If you are detecting the particle after it has been guided by its associated wave exiting both slits then the particle will build up to form an interference pattern over time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Double-slit_experiment_results_Tanamura_2.jpg
I recommend you watch all of the following video. The double slit experiment is at the 2:43 mark.
youtube.com/watch?v=W9yWv5dqSKk
evan_au
Quote from: stacyjones
De Broglie managed to describe the self-interference effect of an electron as a wave aspect of the electron (and in fact, any particle).
These wavicles have a very short range for an electron, and even shorter for more massive particles like protons and lead nuclei, let alone a galaxy.
De Broglie did this well before anomalous rotation curves of galaxies or the patterns of light bending around galaxies were discovered, ie all the symptoms we associate with Dark Matter. These are all extremely long-range phenomena, spanning the visible width of a galaxy, and several times wider.
Occam's Razor suggests that if you have two hypotheses with equal predictive power, you prefer the one with fewer assumptions. De Broglie's model does not have any assumptions about Dark Matter, so clearly it is the simpler one.
However, if you have a hypothesis with no predictive power, you don't even apply Occam's Razor. We don't know the short-range properties of Dark Matter, so it can't predict electron diffraction.
Even worse, if a hypothesis predicts the wrong result, you can immediately discard it. De Broglie's wavicles have an incredibly short range, but the effects of Dark Matter span a long distance outside a galaxy.
If Dark Matter were strongly interacting, we would have discovered it long ago. At present, we don't know what it is (although there are lots of educated guesses).
This "Dark Matter causes electron diffraction" hypothesis is incompatible with the evidence. Forget it.
then the particle will build up to form an interference pattern over time.
This is logically impossible. The particle is travelling at a considerable speed (c in the case of photons) and can't move sideways or hang around waiting to interact with itself over time. A single electron or light photon does not have sufficient energy to generate a signal by interacting with a fluorescent screen or photographic film at more than one point, yet the received pattern (generated over time) occupies space.
Wave mechanics describes and predicts the effect, but cannot be said to be the cause.
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Quote from: evan_au on 26/04/2016 22:37:03
Occam's Razor ...
Occam's razor: 'Empty' space has mass which is displaced by matter.
What ripples when galaxy clusters collide is what waves in a double slit experiment, the mass which fills 'empty' space.
Einstein's gravitational wave is de Broglie's wave of wave-particle duality, both are waves in the mass which fills 'empty' space.
The mass which fills 'empty' space displaced by matter relates general relativity and quantum mechanics.
then the particles will build up to form an interference pattern over time.
Quote from: chiralSPO on 26/04/2016 14:26:39
I know that is what most, if not all, physicists hold to be the case. However I myself would never speak of it in such terms. The reason for my position is that such a self-interference of a single particle with itself cannot be observed. It's not even clear to me what it means in practice. I know that it sounds nice and comfortable to speak of it that way but I have my reasons to disagree, and I hold that these reasons are strong. Here's my reasoning. Take a single particle and fire it at a double slit screen such as the one in Young's double slit experiment. The particle will strike the screen at one single location. In that experiment there is no evidence of a particle interfering with itself. If we have a large ensemble of identical setups there will be a pattern which emerges when we compare the results from all experiments. That does not imply that the particle interferes with itself.
So why is there a pattern? What determines the geometry of the pattern? There's a pattern because the double slit is in reality a potential well. The shape of the potential well determines what the wave function will be.
When you studied quantum mechanics and potential wells and found the wave function did it really occur to you that the wave function is the particle interfering with itself? I know that I never though of it in those terms. All the wave function does is determine the probability of where a particle will be found. The amplitudes of those functions interfere but its not a physical interference in my opinion but a mathematical one.
Frankly I can't believe that so many physicists interpret the wave function and the patterns it predicts to be a particle acting on itself. What could possibly be the mechanism behind such a thing?
Another thing that a lot of physicists believe, and I'm not talking about 3rd rate physicists but top notch ones such as Roger Penrose. In one of his books he says that an electron can be in two places at once. That is outrageously wrong. The difference in this case is that he's wrong and its not a matter of opinion. It's a terrible misinterpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function. Some physicists speak of the electrons in an atom as being smeared out in the space surrounding the nucleus of the atom and that's why they think that way. However that viewpoint is terribly wrong. The wave function only tells you what the chances are of finding a particle at a particular location. Before the particle's position is measured one can't even speak of it as being somewhere.
I spoke to several top notch physicists and they agree with my interpretation and agree with the essence of what I just said. That's not a proof at all. I mention it so that nobody gets the idea that I'm alone in this position and it's I who is wrong. I'll probably write a paper on this some day.
I'm almost certain that a lot of people are going to stomp on me for what I wrote above and I fully understand it and even encourage it. I'm always interested in hearing other peoples views. I like to keep an open mind. Who knows. Perhaps you'll convince me I'm wrong. ]
Let the stomping begin. Lol!
Pete I generally tend to take notice of what several people say on this forum. Among these are you, Alan, Evan, Chiral and Colin. If I have missed anyone my apologies. It's a pity others don't do the same. Where else would you get scientists willing to listen to plebs like us?
Exactly my point. The wave function describes the probability of a particle being in any given place, so eventually a sufficient number of particles will have appeared at the places predicted by the wave function, that it looks like an interference pattern. But a single electron can only form a single point on that pattern - it can't "interfere with itself" or spread out and appear partially in several places at once.
If you want the long form of the argument, read Pete's reply. Just for once, we are in agreement about something!
Exactly. Wave-particle duality is a moving particle and it's associated wave in the aether. The part always travels through a single slit and the associated wave in the aether passes through both.
So you keep saying, but the aether concept, and wave-particle duality, doesn't explain anything better than quantum mechanics, which does not require this imaginary drivel, and also explains the existence of atoms, the shape of molecules, the photoelectric effect, the black body spectrum, lasers, masers, and how this computer works.
Why mess about with a useless, unnecessary, discredited and outdated fantasy?
Because it's what waves in terms of wave-particle duality.
agyejy
Being the devil's advocate here you can measure quantum wavefunctions (at least square magnitudes) many different ways. The following link is about one direct method and mentions some indirect ones:
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/58
Beyond that delocalization can have observable physical consequences. For example:
Where the very shape of the water molecule is predicted to change due to the delocalization its hydrogen atoms.
Now none of this is supports the concept of an aether. However, to dismiss the quantum mechanical wavefunction as purely mathematical does a great disservice to many experimentalists who've done very clever things to prove that the opposite.
Here is some more work to support the reality of the wavefunction:
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v11/n3/full/nphys3233.html
In my opinion it is best to give up on both classical wave and classical particles and accept that the waves of quantum mechanics have properties that aren't like either classical waves or classical particles. In short there isn't a wave particle duality there is just the wavefunction which has properties that we associate with classical waves and properties that we associate with classical particles. It isn't a wave under some cases and a particle under others. Nor is it somehow a wave and a particle at the same time. it is an entirely different entity that has both what we would call wave and particle properties. This is particularly surprising as it isn't the first time out classical notions have proven insufficient.
Quote from: agyejy on 28/04/2016 05:36:20
In de Broglie's double solution theory there are two waves. There is the wave-function wave which is statistical non-physical and is used to determine the probabilistic results of experiments. It is a mathematical construct only. It doesn't physically exist. There is also a physical wave in a hidden subquantic medium which guides the particle. Classical notions are sufficient.
Classical notions are sufficient.
But completely unnecessary, nonpredictive, and selfcontradictory.
In a double slit experiment the particle always detected traveling through a single slit because it always travels through a single slit is not contradictory.
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Donald M. Beaudette & Laura Weinstein write for The Washington Post on the recent Trial Of Facts in Belfast.
In a recent decision, a court in Northern Ireland ruled that evidence from an oral history project could not be considered in a 1972 murder case, clearing 82-year-old Ivor Bell of soliciting the killing of Jean McConville. Evidence from the Belfast Project, an oral history of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, indicated Bell and other members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kidnapped and murdered McConville because they incorrectly believed she had provided information to the British Army about IRA activity in Belfast. This evidence played an important role in Bell’s indictment and trial in the McConville case.
The body of the widowed mother of 10 was not uncovered until three decades later, and her surviving children continue to wait for justice. Bell will not face punishment for his alleged role in this crime, however.
This ordeal strained the relationship between legal justice and historical truth. While legal decisions and records inform history, historians also draw on other types of records — including oral histories — to bring forward the voices of the weak or underrepresented. The courts evaluate evidence differently, weighing only information and testimony that conforms to strict legal standards that are designed to protect the rights of accused people, not to allow the consideration of all available sources. Integrity in the historical process, however, requires the consideration of every piece of evidence.
Bell was implicated in McConville’s murder after the publication of Ed Moloney’s “Voices From the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland” in 2010. Moloney’s work drew on the Belfast Project, an oral history project that aimed to collect first hand accounts from people who had participated in paramilitary activity on both sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland. “The Troubles” refers to the period from 1969 to 1998, during which the IRA used violence in an attempt to force the British government off the island of Ireland. At the same time, loyalist paramilitaries deployed their own acts of terrorism in defense of Northern Ireland’s union with Britain, and atrocities were also committed by the British security forces. During that period, more than 3,500 people died.
Moloney and Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA member who went on to earn a PhD in history from Queen’s University in Belfast, took the lead in conducting the interviews beginning in 2001. They promised interviewees that their recorded statements, which are kept in the Boston College archives in Massachusetts, would remain confidential until their death.
However, as part of the ongoing inquiry into the murder of McConville, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) sought cooperation from the U.S. Department of Justice to obtain the recorded interviews of a number of former IRA members. Their pursuit of these accounts opened the doors for the PSNI to also demand access to other records of Belfast Project interviewees who were still living, launching a legal battle that played out in U.S. court. McIntyre and Moloney claimed their interviewees had confidentiality and therefore oral history records could not be used as evidence. But the American courts decided such promises of confidentiality were legally dubious and could not be upheld.
So, in 2014, armed with evidence from the oral history tapes, prosecutors charged Bell, a longtime member of the IRA, with abetting the murder of McConville. “Interviewee Z,” who is widely believed to be Bell, claimed that in late 1972, he, Gerry Adams and a third IRA member decided McConville should be killed for being an informant.
The inclusion of Adams in this account made the case even more controversial. Adams was the president of Sinn Fein, the Irish republican political party, and is remembered by his supporters as the hero of the peace process that led to the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998, bringing the violence of the Troubles to a close. But he was allegedly also a leading member of the IRA’s governing Army Council. Adams has denied this accusation and any role in the death of McConville or other cases, emphasizing his role as a statesman of Irish politics, rather than his alleged actions as an IRA terrorist.
When Adams was called to testify in the Bell trial, he again denied the accusations. After all, admitting to an IRA leadership role would undermine his carefully crafted legacy as a peacemaker. Adams criticized Moloney and McIntyre, charging the Belfast Project lacked “real scholarly, historical process of evaluating and bringing forward facts about Irish history.” He accused McIntyre of asking “leading questions” and of being motivated by his “hostility” to the peace process and to Adams himself.
The legal debates about the oral history project came to an abrupt close on Oct. 17, when Bell was cleared of charges and Irish Justice John O’Hara ruled the statements recorded on the tapes were not admissible as evidence. But O’Hara also questioned the motivations and scholarly value of the oral history project, raising concern about the reliability of Z’s statements because the “person interviewing him [McIntyre] had a clear bias” and was “out to get” Adams and others.
By adopting the view that the Belfast Project was illegitimate, the judge implicitly endorsed the now dominant, but empirically dubious, narrative of the Troubles that Adams was the chief architect of the peace process. Indeed, this interpretation blatantly ignores the central roles played by John Hume and David Trimble, who were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Good Friday Agreement.
By casting doubt on the truthfulness of Z’s interview, and thus of all of the interviews in the Belfast Project, the judge dismissed dissenting voices and perspectives, writing them out of the official narrative. By discrediting the project, the judge affirmed one perspective on the collective memory of this era.
Though in court, lawyers, judges and juries assess the guilt of alleged offenders according to well-honed rules of evidence and interpretations of the law, assessing historical truth is more complex.
Scholars are trained to read and interpret primary sources, including eyewitness recollections recorded in interviews, not according to evidentiary rules but in the broader context of sources and information that are available. Dissenting voices, even those who harbor animosity toward some of the people about whom they speak, must be heard so the truth of their stories can be weighed and evaluated against other evidence.
But O’Hara’s decision dismissing the viability of the Belfast Project will make oral histories of this pivotal 30-year period in Northern Ireland harder to procure, and this is a tragic loss for scholars and for the cause of truth itself.
Yet his decision does spotlight areas in which scholars must do better in the future: providing clarity and transparency about the ethical and legal implications of their work, and what promises they can and cannot make to people whose stories they collect in oral history projects. However, scholars also can and must write and speak more broadly about how historical interpretation works, so citizens are better equipped to understand that the dominant interpretation of history is not the only one, nor is it necessarily the correct one.
⏭ Donald M. Beaudette is an assistant professor of political science at Oxford College of Emory University. He is currently writing a book on punishment attacks and policing during Northern Ireland’s Troubles
⏭ Laura Weinstein is an independent scholar and analyst of Irish politics. She is currently researching a book on racism and far-right nationalism in Ireland.
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"Dissenting voices, even those who harbor animosity toward some of the people about whom they speak, must be heard so the truth of their stories can be weighed and evaluated against other evidence," Beaudette and Weinstein write in The Washington Post. This seems self-evident. We know a whole lot more about Gerry Adams and his role in the Provisional IRA thanks to Brendan Hughes. The Dark's animus for Adams and the peace process does not negate the veracity of his recollections.
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FOIA documents show the Kafkaesque state of US mass surveillance
♪ Tech biz fought the spying law and the spying law won
Iain Thomson in San Francisco Fri 16 Jun 2017 // 20:58 UTC
A mystery technology biz tried to fight off demands from the US government that it hand over people's communications flowing through its systems.
The unnamed company refused to obey the surveillance order, and was also denied the ability to even review the outcomes of any previous challenges to help form its case. That's according to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the civil-rights warriors at the ACLU and the EFF.
Back in 2014, the tech firm challenged an order issued under Section 702 of the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act, a law that allows the US government to request telecommunications data on non-US citizens. The wide-ranging powers in that act, due for renewal at the end of this year, have been highly controversial ever since the Edward Snowden archives brought them to public attention.
The heavily redacted documents [PDF] were published this week, and come from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees Uncle Sam's spying efforts. They detail a request by the unnamed company for copies of previous decisions the judges had made on Section 702 hearings, so that it could prepare its case.
Instead of allowing the firm to gather the evidence it needed, Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled that the government was perfectly within its rights to deny the company the information it requested. She said that the rulings "would be of little, if any assistance" in the case, and so denied the petition to see them.
"Beyond what is compelled by the Due Process Clause, the Court is satisfied that withholding the Requested Opinions does not violate common-sense fairness," she said.
Instead, the judge told the company to rely on the Department of Justice's accounts of previous Section 702 hearings, rather than seeing the legal cases for themselves. This passes as logic for the court.
The biz ultimately lost its battle to resist the order, and was told by the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to yield to Uncle Sam's snoops.
"In the nearly 10-year history of the law, this is the first time it’s been made public that a company refused to comply with the government’s directives requiring it to turn over users’ private data under Section 702," said ACLU lawyer Ashley Gorski.
"The company’s challenge appears to have been tied to an 'expansion' of Section 702 surveillance, though the details of that expanded surveillance remain redacted in the opinion. Despite the company’s arguments that the surveillance was unlawful, the court ultimately ordered the provider to comply with the directives."
As Kafka said, "It is an extremely painful thing to be ruled by laws that one does not know." ®
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Unplanned film supporters expose their hypocrisy
By Michael CorenContributing Columnist
Wed., July 10, 2019timer3 min. read
updateArticle was updated Jul. 11, 2019
Earlier this year I had the misfortune of going to see the controversial anti-abortion movie Unplanned. In full disclosure I didn’t go for a night’s entertainment but as a journalistic exercise.
The movie is appalling. The acting is so wooden as to be amusing, the plot is cliché upon caricature, the depiction of abortion-providers is cartoonish, and it’s all wrapped up in gory and ghoulish scenes of the blood-soaked hands of evil liberals and snarling feminists.
It’s partly financed by a pillow-manufacturer named Mike Lindell, who once said that Donald Trump was “the greatest president in history … chosen by God.” A pillow would have helped me when I watched, but not those around me. People were engaged! They cried, screamed, and prayed. There was palpable anger, and a cheering and clapping when the movie ended.
That reaction is pertinent, because abortion medics have been attacked and killed, and anti-abortion extremists are considered a domestic terrorist threat in the U.S. And there is no doubt that while it’s raw, clumsy, and didactic, the ranting of Unplanned does succeed in creating an atmosphere of fear and anger, and that can have terrible consequences.
The story concerns anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, on whose memoir the movie is based. Many medical experts question the book and the film, but testimony from doctors has never been an obstacle for the anti-abortion movement.
In this story, Abby glides from being a supporter of choice and a clinic worker to a fierce opponent of abortion. It’s all about profit and money, the movie insists, and even if it wasn’t, a fetus can feel pain. Let’s just hope then that no unborn child has to sit through this agonizing nonsense.
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It concludes with the local Planned Parenthood in Texas being closed, and Abby goes on to have lots of children and become a Roman Catholic. That clinic actually did have to close, as have others in severely conservative states in the U.S. — leading to women either having to travel to other jurisdictions for an abortion, or raise children in poverty; because most of the states restricting abortion rights are also the most resistant to increased welfare payments, public medicine, racial equality, and education opportunities. Odd that, isn’t it?
All that aside, the anti-abortion community claims the movie has been censored, especially in Canada. At an Ottawa press conference in early May, producer Lisa Wheeler said, “We have been effectively blocked from distributing the film in Canada.” Cinema chains responded that this wasn’t the case, but either way it played into the movements’ hands, enabling them to complain of elitism, the basic right of freedom of expression, and the danger of censorship. Last week, however, it was announced that Unplanned will indeed be playing in at least 24 theatres across Canada.
But just hold on one evangelical and conservative Roman Catholic moment. Freedom of expression and the danger of censorship? Support for strict censorship and harsh limits on freedom of expression are central planks of social conservative ideology. Read any anti-abortion newspaper or blog, visit their websites, study their ideas. These are some of the very same people who call for Pride marches to be banned and pro-choice speakers to be silenced.
A brief, personal story. Six years ago I experienced a fundamental change in my beliefs, the result of a deepening of my faith. Once this became known I was fired from numerous media positions. Some dismissals were understandable, some less so. The producers of a television station currently running shows promoting Unplanned wrote to me explaining, “in relation to gay marriage … it is felt that we have to part our ways as an organization.”
I wrote in one Catholic newspaper that a 10-year-old Paraguayan girl pregnant after being raped by her stepfather should be allowed an abortion. The pro-life movement now claiming censorship over the Unplanned movie organized to have me fired. They succeeded.
There are layers of hypocrisy, dishonesty, and manipulation involved in all this, and it obscures what should be self-evident. Abortion rights are essential, women’s autonomy is crucial, and abortion should be a personal and not political issue. But subtlety and truth don’t always make for an effective propaganda movie.
Michael Coren is a Toronto-based writer and contributing columnist to the Star’s Opinion section and iPolitics. Follow him on Twitter: @michaelcoren
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Just How Big IS the Global TV Market?
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On Saturday, October 12th, we are going to be offering a one-day intensive semianar entitled "How To Make A Great Pitch Reel."
Making a great pitch reel is the key to selling an idea to a TV network. And selling an idea is the key to getting commission for a series, or selling content that you already have. It's an art and a science. We've been pitching and selling shows for nearly 30 years, so we have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't.
As I started to put together the curriculum for the course, I began to think that making the pitch reel is only half of what we need to offer. We also have to talk about to whom you can sell your stuff (and how to do that).
The market for TV is not what it used to be.
Not so long ago, the only place people really looked to place their content was with a few big US cable networks - places like Discovery or Nat Geo or The Travel Channel.
That's fine, but there's a whole world out there of TV networks and cable channels and satellite providers and online networks that need content.
How much content? Well, here's a good rule of thumb: there is no point in owning a cable channel if you aren't going to put something on it all the time. So, the folks who own the networks and the channels have a never-ending appetitie for content. These things run 24 hours a day, 7 days a weeek, 365 days a year. That's a LOT of content. A lot!
But how many 'channels' are there in the world?
That turned out to be not so easy a question to answer.
As the number of 'platforms' has exploded in the US (how many cable channels do you get now? Here in NY, we get about 2,000, more or less) - the same thing has been happening in every country in the world.
Places that used to have just one State Broadcaster and a small handful of commercial networks now have hundreds of cable and satellite channels. Now, multiply that by 196 countries in the world, and you get a LOT of channels. An ENORMOUS number of channels.
And they ALL need content, all the time.
Just how many 'channels' are there?
We are still crunching the numbers, but let me give you but a small example. Last night, I decided to take a look at Poland - it's what I would call a mid-size market. It isn't the US, and it isn't Germany or the UK. It has 38 million people, about half the UK - smaller than Egypt or Pakistan or certainly India, but not tiny. Let's say 'average'.
Poland has slightly more than 300 cable, terrestrial and satellite channels. This does not include OTT or online networks.
Now, if each of those channels runs 24 hours a day (does anyone still sign off? I don't think so), then Poland consumes 7,200 hours of TV a day, or 2.6 million hours of content a year.
If Poland is the 'average' in terms of cable and satellite and broadcast penetration, then, again to purely speculate, then the world demand for TV content is an astonishing 500 million hours of programming per year.
500 million hours (actually, 499,200,000).
Now that we have made that massive assumption, let's get conservative. Very conservative. A lot of that programiming is going to be in Polish, which you probably can't do - though they can sub title or dub. A lot is going to be local.
And for every Poland, there is going to be a Vanuatu.
Vanuatu, which was the smallest market I could find, has a popluation of only 272,000 people. Yet even tiny Vanuatu has 2 channels serving it - Television Blong Vanuatu (television of Vanuatu in Bislama, the local language) and KAM-TV. Television Blong Vanuatu broadcasts in French and English!
Now, you are not about to sell your new Reality TV show to Television Blong Vanuatu (I mean, you might...), but even if you do, they are not going to pay you $150,000 per half hour. But they might pay you something. The trick here is to sell your content to lots and lots of these channels - the same content - and aggregate your income.
A few thousand here, a few hundred there, and, so long as you keep your cost of production low enough (iPhones and FCP!), you can make a nice profit. Maybe more than a nice profit.
This is whole new market, a whole new world. Let's call it a part of Globalism that works for you.
Who is going to provide these thousands and thousands and thousands of networks and channels with the content that they need to 'feed the beast'. It could be you! It SHOULD be you.
I said I was going to get conservative.
Let's say that I am off by 90% in my calculatiions.
That still leaves 50 million hours of content that has to be created every year. Let's say I am off by 99% (unlikely, but let's say so anyway), that still means that someone has to create 5 million hours of content.
This is an entirely new market that has never existed before.
If you have an idea for some kind of TV show or video or doc or whatever - how to you get your idea in front of this enormous market?
A great pitch reel.
2 minutes that sell.
And that's what we're going to explain... among other things.
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By Patrick Rall G+ Dec 1 2010 - 12:12pm
Audi unveils the redesigned 2012 A6
Last night, Audi pulled the sheets off of the redesigned 2012 A6, which is expected to make its public debut early next year (perhaps the 2011 Detroit Auto Show) and along with the standard gas and diesel engines; there will be a hybrid version shortly after the initial launch.
As you can see in the image below (or click here for a gallery of the 2012 Audi A6), the new A6 receives a front end facelift that features some styling cues from the 2011 Audi A8 – especially in the headlight area. While the 2012 Audi A6 is very similar the outgoing model, especially along the sides of the car, the biggest improvements are not noticeable to the naked eye. A combination of aluminum and high strength steel components help the A6 to feature a strong, rigid chassis with a surprisingly low curb weight – under 3,500lbs in the 2.0 TDI model. Overall, the use of high strength and lightweight materials allow the 2012 A6 to weight around 15% less than the same car with a traditional full steel construction.
Inside, the 2012 Audi A6 is fitted with all of the luxurious, high quality materials that you would expect from the Audi brand wrapped up in a cockpit-style package that wraps around the driver and front passenger. A hideaway touch screen controls the state of the art sound as well as offering controls over other vehicle systems, like the advanced Quattro AWD system. To give the new A6 an extra touch of class, the dash, center console and door panels offer real wood inserts. Like all new Audi models, soft touch materials are everywhere; from the dash to the door panels to the center console and there are even pads on the sides of the shift hump/center console.
The information provided for the 2012 Audi A6 is for the European market so we could see a slightly different engine lineup but at launch in Europe, there will be 2 gasoline engines, 3 diesel engines and a late-availability hybrid setup. The base model gasoline engine is a 2.8L V6 making 204hp and 206lb-ft of torque and the premium gas mill is a supercharged 3.0L V6 that packs 300hp while yielding 27 miles per gallon. The front wheel drive 2012 A6 models that come with the 2.8L V6 can pick between a 6-speed manual or “multitronic” CVT transmission and when that same engine is mated to the Quattro AWD system, the S-tronic 7-speed dual clutch automatic transmission is standard. The supercharged 3.0L gasoline engine comes strictly in Quattro form with the S-tronic transmission and for some sporty-shifting fun, Audi offers steering wheel mounted paddle shifters.
The smallest and most efficient engine for the 2012 Audi A6 is a 2.0L, 4-cylinder diesel that provides 177hp and 280 lb-ft of twist but more importantly this tiny diesel could offer 48 miles per gallon. The downside for this 4-cylinder diesel is that it only comes mated to a front wheel drive setup but buyers can pick between the standard manual transmission or the multitronic CVT. For those diesel fans who want a little more power, there is a pair of 3.0L oil burners that offer 204 and 245 horsepower, respectively. For the smaller of the two 6-cylinder diesels, the CVT is standard with late availability for the manual gearbox and with the 245hp diesel option, Quattro AWD and the S-tronic dual clutch transmission are standard.
The first of the 2012 Audi A6 sedans are expected to hit European dealerships in “early 2011” and shortly after the initial launch, Audi will roll out the 2012 Audi A6 Hybrid. Powered by a 2.0L, 211hp 4-cylinder gasoline engine and assisted by an electric motor that offers 45 horsepower and 155lb-ft of torque, sending power through a modified 8-speed automatic transmission to the front wheels. This new hybrid luxury sedan is expected to offer fuel economy in the 38mpg range, with the electric motor capable of speeds of 37mph without the aid of the gasoline engine but more importantly (to some drivers), the Audi A6 Hybrid still offers some fun-to-drive factor. The Audi A6 Hybrid is able to dash from 0-62 in just 7.3 seconds and reach a top speed of 147mph.
Click here for a gallery of company-provided images of the 2012 Audi A6 and for a look at the full (and very long) press release from our friends at AudiForums.com, click here.
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Distress Signals: Historical Waypoints in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Since 1850
W. Jeffrey Bolster
Published Online: June 7, 2018
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TY - JOUR AU - W. Jeffrey Bolster | Emeritus, Department of History, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. PY - 2018 TI - Distress Signals: Historical Waypoints in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Since 1850 JO - Oceanography VL - 31 UR - https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.208 ER -
The Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture Series was created by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies in honor of Roger Revelle to highlight the important links between ocean sciences and public policy. W. Jeffrey Bolster, the nineteenth annual lecturer, spoke on April 25, 2018, at the National Academy of Sciences.
Most fishermen initially feared destructive trawling technology and resisted it. This painting imagines the first encounter of schooner fishermen with a steam trawler, which took place in the Western Hemisphere shortly after the 1905 launch of the steamer Spray. Thomas M. Hoyne, New Ways on Quero Bank, 1981; courtesy of Doris O. Hoyne and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Gift of Russell W. Knight, 1982. > High res figure
By inviting a historian to deliver the 2018 Roger Revelle Lecture, the Ocean Studies Board signals the value of fruitful engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Their decision honors Roger Revelle’s legacy. A brilliant geophysicist and oceanographer, Revelle embraced interdisciplinary approaches during the final years of his career, turning his attention to malnutrition, global poverty, and education. Roger Revelle recognized that thorny problems require multiple forms of knowledge.
Historians approach the past as if it were a foreign country. Getting there is difficult, understanding what’s encountered even more so (Lowenthal, 1985; Appleby et al., 1994). Evidence is fragmentary, and contexts are crucial. Historical observations are clearly important: anyone seeking perspective on the contemporary fisheries crisis, for instance, or striving to understand how healthy marine ecosystems once functioned, would do well to pay attention to the past. Despite a recent groundswell of interest in historical evidence by some marine scientists, it has yet to penetrate deeply into assessment and policy (Alexander et al., 2011; Kittinger et al., 2014; Engelhard et al., 2016).
We are the first generation to confront numerous distress signals from the living ocean: pollution, habitat destruction, plastic infestation, anoxic zones, overfishing, biological invasions, ocean acidification, and coral bleaching. Worries in the past were more focused—in nineteenth-century America, they revolved around a central question: “Would there be fish for the future?”
It is easy to blame modern technology for ecological problems in the fishery, easy to assume that our problems began with post-World War II factory ships, rugged polyester nets, electronic fish-finders, and pinpoint GPS navigation. Voluminous evidence shows otherwise. Overfishing has deep roots in the Northwest Atlantic, and in much of the world (Jackson et al., 2001; Myers and Worm, 2003; Rosenberg et al., 2005; Lotze et al, 2006; Bolster, 2012). When historical evidence is assessed, one thing becomes readily apparent. The state of marine ecosystems and fisheries is worse than most experts imagine.
American fishermen, scientists, and policymakers have been grappling with fisheries depletion for a very long time. That conversation began in earnest during the 1850s (Figure 1; Bolster, 2012). In 1871, federal politicians commenced spending taxpayers’ dollars to reverse declining catches. Spencer F. Baird, one of the most prominent scientists in America, and the director of the US Commission on Fish and Fisheries, argued shortly thereafter for “the restoration of our exhausted cod fisheries” (USCFF, 1874). It never happened (Figure 2).
Figure 1. During the 1850s when serious concerns were first raised about the depletion of cod and mackerel stocks, men hand-lined from the decks of simple vessels like the Marblehead schooner Amy Knight, built about 1820 and shown here as a model. Model built by and photo courtesy of Erik Ronnberg. > High res figure
Figure 2. (left) In 1873, Spencer F. Baird, Director of the US Fish Commission, argued for “restoration of our exhausted cod fisheries.” It never happened. Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries (right) Cod landings in the Gulf of Maine, 1861–1928. Figure adapted from Bolster (2012). > High res figure
By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US Commission on Fish and Fisheries, and its successor after 1903, the US Bureau of Fisheries, oversaw one of the most generously funded federal research initiatives in the country (Pauly, 2000; Bolster, 2012). Investigators’ data revealed ongoing depletion.
Industrial fishing began in earnest after World War I. Overfishing increased. By the 1950s, foreign factory processing ships were fishing the Northwest Atlantic, further reducing biomass (Warner, 1977). By the time the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act became US law in 1976 (Public Law 94-265) and the 200-mile exclusive economic zone was adopted by the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1982, Northwest Atlantic groundfish stocks were reeling. They have never recovered. Many other fisheries have continued to decline, despite scientific management under revisions of federal fisheries law in the Magnuson-Stevens Act (Pauly and Maclean, 2003; Rose, 2007).
Our twenty-first-century fisheries crisis has been regarded rightfully as an ecological and political problem, but too infrequently understood in light of history—as if nature and science were somehow separate from the study of the past (Bolster, 2006). The lion’s share of marine ecology and fisheries management articles published every year cover only a brief time span. They cannot help but suspend attention to drivers of ecosystem function such as natural variability, historic anthropogenic influences, the presence or absence of certain organisms, long-term climatic cycles, and extreme weather events, among others. Lack of data is clearly a problem, compounded by some researchers’ unwillingness to dig deeply in unfamiliar types of sources, or to imagine how various materials from the past might inform their studies.
Statistical stock assessments remain the gold standard for management decisions, yet they rarely rely on information more than a few decades old. The goal of fishery managers is to sustain the biomass necessary for maximum sustainable yield. Recent data alone, however, and calculations derived from it (no matter how elegant), cannot help but ignore historic ecosystem productivity, along with other aspects of past ecosystem configuration. That leads policymakers, pressured by commercial and community groups, to establish restoration goals reflecting only a fraction of fish abundances once considered normal. Such present-centered approaches lead everyone—scientists, policymakers, and the public—to misapprehend the scale of the problem, and the fact that generations have struggled with it.
I admit candidly that historical evidence is often messy, incomplete, and inconsistent—that it is characterized by uncertainties. Frequently it does not lend itself to quantification. It is often difficult to merge with data recently obtained.
Of course, sophisticated stock assessments and mathematically precise ecosystem modeling are also riddled with uncertainties, depending on the assumptions made, data used, categories of analysis ignored, and hypotheses examined (Link et al., 2012). Each approach, whether by historians or modelers, has uncertainties. They are just different, a result of those practitioners’ training and the material at their disposal. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict pointed out years ago that if we are to truly understand things, “we must know as much about the eye that sees as about the object seen…Means of perception [are] conditioned by the trajectory in which [their] possessor has been reared” (Benedict, 1943). Fisheries management, I suggest, would benefit from openness to more “means of perception.”
Can we expand the definition of what constitutes the “best scientific information available” to include more evidence from the past? A National Academies report in 2004 on improving the best scientific information available took a step in that direction when it referred to the usefulness of anecdotal information in some circumstances. Of course, anecdotes are only one form of historical evidence (NRC, 2004).
The conversation is really about that old question—will there be fish for the future? Managers need tools to help stocks recover. It is easy to make a case that without statistical stock assessment and scientific management since 1976, the state of the fisheries would be considerably worse than it currently is. Pressures from the fishing industry and its lobbyists have been intense. That said, management protocols in place during the last 40 years have not stopped the ongoing degradation of many fisheries. In the face of this continuing problem, methodological change seems warranted.
Meaningful change to the federal fisheries law should include recognition of findings by marine ecologists willing to study past conditions. Historical observations provide sorely needed perspective on rebuilding fish stocks. Clearly, protocols for evaluating such work will need to be developed. While that will be contentious, management approaches honoring different forms of knowledge should contribute to the recovery of living marine resources.
I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I can tell you how we got here.
From 1639 to 1702, New Englanders passed laws to preserve striped bass, cod, and mackerel, despite the sea of plenty lapping at their feet. We could snort with derision, regarding those colonists as foolish because there were plenty of fish. Or, we could recognize that as emigrants from places with degraded ecosystems, colonials were worried about depletion. Their policies reflected local ecological concerns (Bolster, 2012).
Discernible human impacts on marine ecosystems were apparent by the time of George Washington’s presidency. By then, Atlantic gray whales were extinct. Right whales were greatly reduced. Great auks, the “penguins” of the North Atlantic, were heading for extinction. Other seabirds had been depleted. The abundance and distribution of walrus had been severely reduced, pushing a species once common near Nova Scotia and New Brunswick toward the Arctic. Anadromous fish runs had shrunk.
In 1797, Judge Benjamin Chadbourne described the Salmon Falls River, which flows into the Piscataqua River at the southern part of the border between Maine and New Hampshire: “Formerly, large fish such as salmon, bass and shad came up the river in plenty, but they have forsook it.” A keen observer and life-long resident, Chadbourne, then in his sixties, revealed how fishing had altered the estuarine ecosystem during his lifetime. Evidence from the Northwest Atlantic prior to 1800 reveals that the ecosystem roles of marine mammals, seabirds, and anadromous fish had all been reduced, and that estuarine productivity had been degraded. Such observations are waypoints worth noting (Chadbourne, 1797).
American fishermen ignored menhaden entirely throughout the colonial period, though farmers in Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay seined them during the late eighteenth century for fertilizer. Menhaden are bony, oily cousins of herring, and forage fish par excellence (Franklin, 2007). Today, industrial fishers seine menhaden to render them into oil and animal or poultry feed. A small-scale menhaden oil-rendering operation began in Rhode Island in 1811, but fishermen in Maine generally continued to ignore those little fish.
That changed in 1850. John Bartlett of Blue Hill, Maine, seined a few baskets of menhaden, which his wife boiled on the beach. She skimmed the oil, and a Boston merchant offered her $11 a barrel. The Bartletts then seined more ambitiously—still with handmade nets from small rowboats and sailboats near shore. Neighbors got involved.
People in Blue Hill had commercialized a previously underutilized resource—a recurring theme in fisheries history. Otherwise, they were doing with menhaden what they and neighbors had done with cod and mackerel for decades. Locals caught nearby fish, packed fish products in barrels, and sent them away for money. It seemed logical and lucrative (Bolster, 2012).
Yet hundreds of fishermen reacted angrily, inundating legislators with petitions. In 1852, Boothbay residents insisted that “taking Menhaden…in our Bays, Rivers, and Harbours is very destructive to said fish and if persisted in will eventually destroy them or drive them from our coast.” Men from Deer Isle, Ellsworth, Surry, and Sedgewick concurred. In 1857, Gouldsboro fishermen, fearing “the material injury of the codfishing interests in this state, requested legislative action to “prevent the future destruction of the menhaden” (MeSA, Legislative Laws, 1852; MeSA, Legislative Graveyard, 1857).
This fury was unlike anything that had previously existed in Maine’s legislative record. Upon encountering it in the archives, I was shocked. Why were so many fishermen angry about the commercialization of menhaden, and the money it was bringing into their hardscrabble towns?
As pieces of the puzzle came together, it became clear that the 1850s was the first decade in which fishermen from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick organized systematically to express concerns about the future of cod, haddock, and mackerel. Colonials had lamented the demise of anadromous fish—the shad, salmon, sturgeon, and others that ascended rivers to spawn. Those fish were sitting ducks. Not until the 1850s, however, did large numbers of fishermen articulate what they saw as threats to true sea fish. In 1852, the Nova Scotia Assembly debated outlawing the mackerel fishery during spawning season. In 1855, the Maine Legislature prohibited seining mackerel within three miles (4.8 km) of shore—the area it controlled (Bolster, 2012). Historians call what occurred in the 1850s a turning point. By then, the fishing banks seaward of New England and Atlantic Canada had been a coupled human-and-natural system for centuries (Liu et al., 2007).
As part of the Census of Marine Life, a University of New Hampshire research group of historians and ecologists came together in 2000, committed to interdisciplinary approaches to historic fisheries. We were fortunate to find historical records that could be merged with a modern population dynamics model to create quantifiable data for nineteenth century fisheries. Our results helped explain why fishermen changed their tune during the 1850s. Fishermen felt that catches were declining. They were right.
One of our studies used extraordinarily rich data from 326 fishing schooners from Beverly, Massachusetts, that fished the Nova Scotian Shelf during the 1850s, along with catch records from another 1,313 American schooners also fishing there (Rosenberg et al., 2005; Bolster et al., 2011).
We discovered that the 1850s were a grim decade in the offshore banks fishery (Figure 3). Landings per boat per season declined from 26,217 cod in 1852 to only 14,414 in 1859. Statisticians in our group analyzed the data using a variation of the Chapman-DeLury stock assessment method, assuming identical rates of natural mortality and recruitment. The model allowed solving for initial abundance, that is, the biomass of cod on the Nova Scotian Shelf in 1852. Our estimate was 1.26 million metric tons (mt) (Figure 4).
Figure 3. Geographic distribution of nineteenth-century fishing, with modern management areas. The Nova Scotian Shelf, highlighted in blue, figured prominently on this 1853 British Admiralty Chart of the Gulf and River St. Lawrence. (London: Bayfield, Holbrook, & Bullock). Red crosses track the course of the Beverly schooner Angler in spring 1853. Red ovals indicate locations and relative magnitudes of daily catches. British Admiralty chart courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum. Chart of NAFO management areas courtesy of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization. GIS by Stefan Claesson. Compiled by Karen E. Alexander. Adapted from Rosenberg et al. (2005). > High res figure
Figure 4. (left) Nova Scotian Shelf Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) 1852–1859. (CPUE = hundreds of fish per day per vessel ton). (right) Estimates of cod biomass on the Nova Scotian Shelf over 167 years. Adapted from Rosenberg et al. (2005). > High res figure
The 2002 cod biomass estimate by Fisheries and Oceans Canada for the same region was less than 50,000 metric tons, about 4% of that in 1852 (DFO, 2002). Cod biomass there has continued to decline. The 2009 biomass estimate was a paltry 24,000 mt, only 2% of that in 1852. Given very light fishing pressure in recent years, it appears that natural mortality is decimating cod (DFO, 2017).
Numerical estimates of historic fisheries abundance are very rare. Few extend beyond the 1960s, even in the North Atlantic, where data collection has been the most comprehensive. Fisheries records from most other parts of the world are notoriously worse, characterized by short time spans, unreliable records of landings, and lack of catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) data (Al-Abdulrazzak et al., 2015). Put another way, we don’t know a great deal about measurable ecosystem productivity in many areas today, much less in the past. Creating a defensible biomass estimate for an important fishing ground in 1852, before the onset of industrialized fishing, provided the scale of a healthy fish population. That population was by no means pristine: it had been fished commercially for more than three centuries.
Our estimate of historic biomass revealed defining characteristics of past oceans. Nevertheless, it was so far from twenty-first century biomass estimates for the same region that it seemed stratospheric, somehow not to scale. Canadian managers today use a 1980s biomass estimate as their target for rebuilding cod. Many managers consider historical evidence as not “an appropriate reference point for present-day managers working to balance stock rebuilding with fisheries yield.” Too many changes have occurred, they argue, which “preclude rebuilding a stock to its unfished level” (Henderschedt, 2015).
On the one hand, marine ecosystems are dynamic and susceptible to significant reconfiguration; they change. On the other hand, historical evidence provides perspective. The cod biomass figure for 1852 is a nagging reminder of how much coastal ecosystems have diminished in a very short time—only six human generations.
Our off-the-charts cod biomass estimate for 1852 illuminates the shifting baseline syndrome identified by Daniel Pauly in 1995. Pauly recognized that fishing pressure through time reduced ecosystem complexity. Fishing shrank abundances, altered population structure by removing large individuals, affected predator-prey relationships, and changed fishes’ geographic distribution. As a result, each human generation came to expect less, settling for a radically diminished natural world (Pauly, 1995).
It seems probable that cod’s downturn during the 1850s was caused by synergy between overfishing and natural fluctuations. The middle of the nineteenth century was exceptionally cold, the final shudder of the Little Ice Age. Cold seawater can inhibit cod reproduction. As temperatures fell, North Atlantic cod productivity probably fell as well. Meanwhile, fishermen continued to hit stocks hard (Leavenworth, 2006; Rose, 2007).
As cod catches plummeted offshore during the 1850s, and as outraged inshore fishermen protested the new menhaden fishery that was destroying forage fish, animated discussions from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia focused on depletion and the need for conservation.
Using 1,664 inshore fishing logbooks from New England, along with an analysis of the entire fleet’s tonnage and fishing patterns, our group was able to create a mathematically defensible landings estimate for Gulf of Maine cod in 1861. Information from these logbooks predated all other data sets for that fishery. Our estimate, expressed as a range (depending on the multiplier used to convert whole fish to dried fish), was between 62,600 and 78,600 metric tons. Gulf of Maine landings have never been as good since that time (Alexander et al., 2009).
Our landings estimate suggests that the fishery was thriving in 1861. Contemporaries did not think so. During the 1860s, when the average inshore boat was landing almost 16,000 cod per season, Maine fishermen proposed various bills to the legislature to reduce overfishing and save their cod. Conservation sentiment aimed at mackerel, menhaden, and cod was at its height among New England fishermen during the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. Yet, despite those efforts, the situation worsened.
During the late nineteenth century, unprecedented collapses occurred in four American fisheries—menhaden, mackerel, halibut, and lobster. They triggered protective legislation, bankruptcies, and ecological havoc. Most striking is that only one of the four species, mackerel, had been fished commercially prior to the early nineteenth century. As Americans developed new markets and new technologies, previously underutilized species became desirable, and several were driven to the brink in a very short time.
Whale oil landings flattened out at mid-century because sailing ship technology had harvested most of the whales it could reach. “Whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc,” Herman Melville wrote in Moby-Dick in 1851, was the question, or “whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.”
But oil could be rendered from menhaden as well as whales. America’s first mechanized fishing boats were menhaden seiners, built in the 1870s. Menhaden landings soared, nearly all from inshore fisheries. Landings in 1878 surpassed those in many of the next 60 years, although catching technology got progressively more efficient, with larger ships, stronger nets, hydraulic haulers, and eventually spotter aircraft.
Disaster struck in 1879. Menhaden barely appeared north of Cape Cod that summer, and they were extraordinarily scarce for six years following. Oil factories closed. One thousand men lost their jobs. Good data exists on menhaden landings from 1873 to the present. It is one of the longest time series in fisheries history, and it reveals that menhaden populations fluctuate widely (Vaughan and Smith, 2009). Was the crash in 1879 a natural downturn, or the result of overfishing, or synergy between the two? We will never know for sure, though it set the stage for subsequent collapses, alerting politicians, industrialists, and fishermen that the sea’s bounty was not limitless.
By the 1880s, mackerel was America’s most popular food fish. In 1884, mackerel landings broke all records. This fishery was still conducted entirely under sail, with powerful modern mackerel schooners exhibiting great speed and windward ability. But disaster struck this fishery in 1886. Fishermen landed less mackerel that year than in any of the previous 45 years. Bankruptcies followed, and the mackerel crash resulted in the United States’ first federal fishery law. In 1887, Congress closed the mackerel fishery for five years between March 1 and June 1, then understood as the spawning season (Bolster, 2012). Mackerel landings would not reach their 1884 level again until 1968. By then, of course, motorized fishing ships were bigger, stronger, and more efficient.
The Atlantic halibut slaughter proceeded like that of American bison, ruthlessly and in plain sight. Halibut had been ignored for centuries, until the 1830s, when entrepreneurs began to promote them. During the 1840s, Gloucester created a halibut fleet. In 1848, Atlantic halibut landings were approximately 20 million pounds (~9 million kg). From the bonanza in the late 1840s, landings tailed off, and then fell precipitously. Shortly before 1900 they fell to about 9 million pounds (~4 million kg); then to 3 million (~1.4 million kg) in 1910, and to about 1.25 million (567,000 kg) in 1915. Mopping up operations continued for a few more decades.
Today Atlantic halibut are so depleted from overfishing that they are off-limits to commercial fishing in American waters. It had taken only several human generations to destroy the population of a huge, well-known apex predator. During the 1880s, Captain Joseph W. Collins lamented in a widely circulated US Fish Commission publication that “if the present style of fishing is pursued,” halibut “will in a few years become extremely scarce, if not almost extinct.” He was right. And they were all hook-caught from small sailboats and rowboats (Bolster, 2012).
Lobsters were next. Everyone in the lobster business believed that the largest harvests occurred during the early 1870s, although Maine’s lobster landings were not tallied reliably until 1880. Nine years later saw the highpoint—24,451,219 pounds (11,090,886 kg) (State of Maine, Department of Marine Resources, 2018).
Disaster struck the lobster fishery in the 1890s. Landings fell precipitously that decade, and then fell again. Not until 1957 would Maine lobstermen land as much as had been landed 68 years earlier. By then, lobstermen had large motorized boats equipped with mechanical haulers, and nearly five times as many traps to catch the same weight of lobsters that had been caught in 1889, when men fished shallow waters from sailboats and rowboats. Foolhardy overfishing at mid-century decimated the lobster fishery (http://www.maine.gov/dmr/commercial-fishing/landings/documents/lobster.table.pdf).
Unlike halibut, however, lobster populations rebounded toward the end of the twentieth century, and in the new millennium they have been astronomical. The year 2016 saw a record harvest by Maine lobstermen: approximately 131 million pounds (59 million kg). Today, Gulf of Maine fishermen have nearly all their eggs in one basket—the lobster fishery. About 80% of Maine’s fishing revenue is now lobster based. When the stock crashes, it will create a catastrophe far worse than that of the 1890s (http://www.maine.gov/dmr/commercial-fishing/landings/documents/lobster.table.pdf).
Several points from this brief narrative deserve attention. All of those fisheries were initially inshore operations (Figure 5). As depletion ensued, fishermen moved offshore. Recent management plans have paid insufficient attention to fishes’ spatial distribution—but it matters. Another point, too often ignored, is that prior to industrialized fishing, humans wielding very simple technologies affected marine ecosystems in profound ways (Figure 6). Finally, fluctuations in those systems were the norm. Human impacts must be assessed against constantly occurring natural changes.
Figure 5. (left) Frenchman’s Bay, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, 1885. US Coast and Geodetic Survey (right) Scatterplot of aggregated cod catch per day in Frenchman’s Bay in 1861. Almost all commercial fisheries were once conducted inshore. In Frenchman’s Bay alone, 148,704 cod were caught in 1861. Fisheries restoration policy should pay attention to spatial distribution as well as to overall numbers. Courtesy of Karen E. Alexander. > High res figure
Figure 6. Simple technologies affected fish stocks. Rowboats like these were central to American fishing prior to World War I, and they persisted longer in some fisheries. The larger model depicts a seine boat used to encircle a school of mackerel or menhaden with a purse seine. Seine boats were towed behind schooners. The smaller model shows a dory, which could be used to long-line cod, set lobster traps, or assist a seine boat crew. Models built by and photo courtesy of Erik Ronnberg. > High res figure
Ill-advised as were the post-Civil War halibut and lobster industries, reckless abandon was not the norm in every fishery. What is most striking about those years was fishermen’s insistence that the resources on which they depended were shrinking, and their realization that new gear and new fisheries were exacerbating the problem.
In 1861, a legislative committee in Nova Scotia came down hard on long-lining, a new technology with considerably more catching power than old hand-lines. It is well known, they wrote, that “if this mode of taking fish” continues, “in a few years these banks…will be rendered altogether unproductive.” The next year legislators in both Newfoundland and Maine introduced bills to prohibit long-lining. Throughout the 1860s, numerous attempts to prevent long-lining “for the purpose of protecting the cod fishery” were introduced in coastal legislatures. In 1869 Massachusetts’ fish commissioners noted complaints “of a diminution in many species” (Bolster, 2012).
Here is the tragedy: fishermen often vehemently protested new gear, convinced it would drive a nail into the coffin of the fisheries—though they ultimately adopted it. That’s the shifting baseline syndrome. Time and time again, knowledge of previous depletion was lost with adoption of more efficient gear. In 1870, for instance, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, cod fishery was thriving: according to a newspaper “over a million pounds of codfish have been landed at one wharf in Portsmouth during the past winter.” Despite their concerns, local fishermen had adopted longlines. “In and about the harbor, there is now sunk over 63 miles [101 km] of trawls [longlines], on which are hung over 96,000 hooks.” Not long before, such gear would have been considered immoral. By 1870 it was the new norm (Gloucester Telegraph, March 23, 1870).
The year 1905 saw introduction of the first steam-powered otter trawler (bottom dragger) in the western Atlantic, Spray (see title page figure). A close copy of British fishing ships that had redefined North Sea fishing, Spray actively pursued fish by towing a net on the bottom. That was revolutionary. Fishermen had always waited for fish to come to hooks or gillnets (Figure 7).
Figure 7. Otter trawls were revolutionary. Fishermen no longer waited for fish to approach a hook or gill net, but actively pursued them. In spite of serious opposition, by about 1925, otter trawling was the new “normal.” Fishermen who had long feared its destructiveness came to embrace it, becoming victims of the shifting baseline syndrome. From Dyson (1977, p. 261). > High res figure
“The time to stop this thing is while it is in its beginning,” insisted a Massachusetts Congressman, who introduced a bill in 1911 to prohibit trawling. The Gloucester Board of Trade backed the prohibition, citing evidence of North Sea depletion by fleets of steam trawlers. John F. Fitzgerald, the mayor of what he called “the biggest fish port in the western world” (Boston), expressed concerns about “wiping out the fish industry.” Colossal opposition to bottom trawling existed, based on insiders’ knowledge that fisheries were already depleted. But Congress refused to ban the new technology (Bolster, 2012).
By 1914 the US Fish Commission (and its successor, the Bureau of Fisheries) had existed for more than 40 years, spending considerable taxpayer dollars to increase landings. Among other tactics, the agency managed an aggressive program for propagating fish, clams, and lobsters. Scientists liked to laud its accomplishments, but remaining optimistic was not easy, even before New York Times reporter Robert A. Widenmann drew on decades of Bureau of Fisheries data for a major feature in 1914. The headline read “Extermination Threatens American Sea Fisheries,” and its subhead continued “Cost to Consumer Has Risen between 10 and 600 Per Cent Because of Decrease in Supply—Drastic Regulation of Marine Fisheries by National Government Is Declared to be Urgently Needed.” (Widenmann, 1914; Figure 8). The Bureau’s storied efforts to propagate sea fish had not worked. The defining trajectory was clear, and disconcerting. Fishermen went farther afield, fished at greater depths, but brought home less. Draggers were just coming into use. An avalanche of cheap fish would soon silence the critics, camouflaging the extent of damage already done.
Figure 8. Based on 40 years of data collected by the US Fish Commission and the Bureau of Fisheries, this July 26, 1914, New York Times article revealed that while catching power had expanded, catches continued to decline. Revolutionary new bottom trawling technology would soon obscure that chilling insight with an avalanche of cheap fish. From Widenmann (1914). > High res figure
Most people today know at least the rough outlines of what happened next. Bottom trawling initially caught lots of fish, including unwanted ones. Bycatch soared, as did habitat destruction. Fishing boats got bigger. Technology to find and catch fish became more sophisticated. Western Atlantic catches ultimately peaked during the late 1960s, with huge foreign factory ships. By 1976, American and Canadian groundfish had been decimated. A further low point came in the 1990s. Slight rebuilding followed. We are living through another low point now.
The latest tragedy is that managers’ efforts to reduce fishing pressure and rebuild Gulf of Maine cod have been undermined, apparently by warming water. The warming has reduced recruitment and increased mortality in cod stocks (Pershing et al., 2015). Once again, marine systems’ complexity and dynamism has thwarted the best efforts to manage those systems for humans’ desired outcomes.
Swordfish have been one of management’s great successes in the last quarter century, though historical evidence suggests that swords’ recovery has not been as extensive as many believe. From 1960 to 1996, stocks declined 68%, while the average size of North Atlantic swordfish landed dropped from 266 to 90 pounds (121 to 41 kg). During the 1990s, the United States reduced landings to rebuild stocks, and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT)—the regional fisheries management organization tasked with managing high seas swordfish—adopted a rebuilding plan. Swordfish grow quickly, and spawn in temporally and spatially dispersed ways. With less fishing pressure, swordfish rebounded. An assessment in 2009 found the stock rebuilt, and a 2013 assessment concluded that its biomass would allow sustainable fishing (Neilson et al., 2013). Considerable historical evidence from 80 to 130 years ago, however, structured into quantitative analyses, shows that swordfish were then abundant in nearshore regions of New England and Nova Scotia. Although North Atlantic swordfish biomass is now at a sustainable level, swords have not repopulated their historic range. Moreover, captured fish today are much smaller. Technological shifts in the fishery have allowed fishermen to pursue them hundreds of miles offshore, and landings remain robust. But the current landings data and biomass estimates about which regulators are so happy exist over a huge spatial scale—the stock’s entire range. Close-grained historical data reveal local depletions in areas where swordfish were once common. Shifted spatial baselines may be obscuring the extent of the stock’s rebuilding (Brian R. MacKenzie, Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Technical University of Denmark, pers. comm., January 22, 2018).
One dramatic shift remains relatively unknown in the rancorous discussions that have characterized American fisheries policy for the last 160 years. From the 1850s through the 1920s, fishermen lamented depletions. Using terms such as “diminution” and “degradation,” they begged politicians to solve the fisheries problem. Scientists, meanwhile, led by the US Fish Commission, generally encouraged more robust fishing, believing that the biological knowledge and better fishing gear they were developing would sustain larger harvests.
During the early 1930s, Woods Hole Bureau of Fisheries biologists revealed notoriously poor year classes of haddock on Georges Bank. The scientific community recommended larger mesh size and smaller harvests. That was radical—one of the first instances in which fisheries scientists suggested reducing catches. By then, bottom trawling had become the new norm, and fishermen—having lost sight of previous depletions—had thrown caution to the wind. American fishermen reacted angrily to the idea of throttling back, convinced that if they did not catch those haddock, Canadians would.
The terms of the debate remained the same: “Not enough fish” versus “fish harder.” But the sides switched. Fishermen, who had long lamented depletion, insisted during the 1930s they should fish without restriction. Scientists, who had long believed in the sea’s ultimate productivity, began to advocate conservation. Both sides continued to talk past each other (Bolster, 2012).
Discussions of the problem have persisted for more than 160 years, even as the problem has worsened. Is it time to take a different tack? Or should we just count the few fish that remain more carefully (Figure 9)?
Figure 9. Historical approaches provide sorely needed perspective. This graph is not precise, but it is accurate. Courtesy of Karen E. Alexander. > High res figure
Complex systems deserve complex analysis. Without discarding statistical stock analysis, despite its limitations and uncertainties, we might incorporate other forms of knowledge into management plans, including the contextualization and perspective that history provides.
We should develop techniques to incorporate historical information, when possible, as an additional data source for use in reconstructing aspects of past ecosystems. For instance, the presence, absence, and descriptions of organisms in particular times and at particular locations have long been grouped, ranked, ordered, and analyzed to show decline. Images of species’ size and abundance have likewise been analyzed (Jackson, 1997; McClenachan and Cooper, 2008; McClenachan, 2009). Historical evidence can be binned at intervals. Terms used repetitively can reveal relative abundance. We found 3,028 descriptions, in seven categories, ranking cod abundance in nineteenth-century Frenchman’s Bay logbooks: no fish, fish very scarce, fish scarce, fish, some fish, fish plenty, and fish very plenty. Correlations existed between cod rank and cod landings. Similar descriptions of bait abundance provided more ecosystem indicators. Arithmetic, simple statistics, and GIS applied to historical observations hold out the promise of creating snapshots from the past (Alexander et al., 2009).
Binning evidence historically has shown how humans have influenced marine ecosystems over long periods of time (Pandolfi, 2003; Lotze and Milewski, 2004), and that an extreme climate event in 1815 permanently transformed Gulf of Maine fisheries (Alexander et al., 2017).
Even if historical evidence is not fully integrated into scientific data sets, it could frame data and results. According to NOAA’s Fish Watch, for instance, haddock is fully recovered, and not overfished. Moreover, overfishing is not occurring. In light of depleted haddock stocks in the early 1990s, the recent spawning stock biomass of Gulf of Maine haddock reflects managers’ success—10,325 mt estimated in 2015. Haddock has rebounded dramatically. Historical data, however, provide perspective. In 1902, almost 10,000 mt of haddock were caught in the Gulf of Maine. That makes me question the assertion that haddock is “fully recovered” (Alexander et al., 2011; NOAA, 2015).
An online NOAA report for all managed fisheries announces “44 Stocks Rebuilt as of December 31, 2017” (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/population-assessments/fishery-stock-status-updates). However, many pronouncements about “rebuilt” stocks are based on severely limited management targets, not on historical ecology.
How Might Management Change?
To begin with, policy could catch up to the best available science. Considerable research in marine historical ecology and marine environmental history has worked its way into the literature in the last 20 years. Policymakers committed to sustainability and resilience could draw on that work. Ultimately, of course, it will not be honored sufficiently until standards about “the best scientific information available” are revised to include observations from the past (Engelhard et al., 2016).
Conservation advocates have suggested more marine protected areas, seasonal moratoriums, and promoting recovery of forage fish. Historians and historical ecologists concur, but suggest as well that we learn to manage with an eye on changes over time, as well as an eye on spatial distribution within fishes’ range. The entire range of a species is not a meaningful unit of analysis. Let’s pay attention to where fish were caught, and where they are caught. Can we create policy that promotes not just recovery of biomass, but restoration of fishes’ historic ranges (Alexander et al., 2011)?
Given the devastated state of marine ecosystems, perhaps we should be managing for resilience rather than for maximum sustainable yield. The stated purpose of the Magnuson-Stevens Act is to “promote domestic and commercial recreational fishing under sound conservation and management principles” through “the best scientific information available.” I would like to see the law flipped to emphasize conservation and ecosystem recovery, while allowing some fishing. I know that is an unrealistic aspiration at this time, but so was the abolition of slavery during the 1840s. We must live in hope.
Given that marine ecosystems are coupled human-natural systems, we should assess them holistically. That is clearly the goal of ecosystem-based management (Pikitch et al., 2004). I’m encouraged, but leery. Ecosystem-based management may require more data to build even more complicated models. If current standards regarding data acceptability remain in place, historical evidence will continue to be excluded.
Self-perpetuating academic silos remain a problem. I would like to see rising generations of scientists and scholars trained in interdisciplinary ways, so that perceptions are broadened.
Finally, we must give this process time. Rebuilding will not occur in the two-year or four-year political cycle, or in the 10 years stipulated by the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The US National Marine Fisheries Service is charged with managing the tattered remnant of a once-productive system. Given the system’s fragility, and ongoing environmental change, further collapses are likely (Pershing et al., 2015). Recovery may be possible, or it may not. To find out, we need to hunker down for a long haul with a precautionary approach.
Fisheries history reveals several bold lessons. First: humans have limited ability to control nature. Second: humans have an established record of fouling up the ecosystems on which we rely for crucial goods and services. That sort of framing deserves attention. It would help us link management with humility. The bottom line is that we take too much. That has been the case for centuries, and well known, too. It’s not just fish. Look at water in the American West (Reisner, 1986).
My immersion in historical fisheries was sobering. Yet my intimacy with depictions of nearly unfathomable abundance also promoted a sense of wonder. That inspiration is worth nurturing, and right now it is only available in the historical record.
Roger Revelle
For almost half a century, Roger Revelle was a leader in the field of oceanography. Revelle trained as a geologist at Pomona College, and received his PhD in oceanography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936. As a young naval officer, he helped persuade the Navy to create the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support basic research in oceanography and was the first head of ONR’s geophysics branch. Revelle served for 12 years as the Director of Scripps (1950–1961, 1963–1964), where he built up a fleet of research ships and initiated a decade of expeditions to the deep Pacific that challenged existing geological theory.
Revelle’s early work on the carbon cycle suggested that the sea could not absorb all the carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels. He organized the first continual measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide, an effort led by Charles Keeling, resulting in a long-term record that has been essential to current research on global climate change. With Hans Suess, he published the seminal paper demonstrating the connection between increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and burning of fossil fuels. Revelle kept the issue of increasing carbon dioxide levels before the public and spearheaded efforts to investigate the mechanisms and consequences of climate change.
Revelle left Scripps for critical posts as Science Advisor to the Department of the Interior (1961–1963) and as the first Director of the Center for Population Studies at Harvard (1964–1976). Revelle applied his knowledge of geophysics, ocean resources, and population dynamics to the world’s most vexing problems: poverty, malnutrition, security, and education.
In 1957, Revelle became a member of the National Academy of Sciences to which he devoted many hours of volunteer service. He served as a member of the Ocean Studies Board, the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and many committees. He also chaired a number of influential Academy studies on subjects ranging from the environmental effects of radiation to understanding sea level change.
Photo credit: SIO Archives, UCSD
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THE RIFT: “Rock Narcotic” – Ambitious and explosive!
Los Angeles hard rock trio THE RIFT is made up of brothers Aris Anagnos (Vocals, Guitar), John Anagnos (Bass) and Ovais Malik (Drums). Since forming in 2009, they have...
by Staff August 18, 2017
Los Angeles hard rock trio THE RIFT is made up of brothers Aris Anagnos (Vocals, Guitar), John Anagnos (Bass) and Ovais Malik (Drums). Since forming in 2009, they have played alongside the likes of Exodus, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Misfits, among others. Their 2016 full-length debut “INVENTIONS” caught the attention of the media, industry insiders and radio stations, as well as Grammy winning producer Brandon Friesen who has worked with Alice in Chains and Nickelback . Now 2017 sees the band release their brand new single “Rock Narcotic”, which is music on THE RIFT own terms, and really, that’s all you could ever ask for.
Retaining a part of the feel of their previous album, “Rock Narcotic” blends the wild and energetic sound that the band has become known for, as well as the more thoughtful and deliberate sound a band as meticulous as THE RIFT has been striving for.
Aris Anagnos absolutely shines here, his vocals and fantastic guitar work undoubtedly steals the spotlight and will leave the hairs on the back of your neck to stand on end. But the single also shows off some impressive performance abilities from John and Ovais.
Most bands can be forced into a genre if it comes down to it, at least in description. But to do that with the THE RIFT defeats the very purpose of their existence. Their writing is totally uncompromising, organic and it’s enthralled with a definite sense of joyous emotion.
“Rock Narcotic” constantly rewards your curiosity, finding paths and segues everywhere, seamlessly transitioning and ebbing into and out of breakdowns and buildups, and constantly shifting dynamics back and forth, loud and soft.
But if you’re thinking this might be too complex on the ear, think again. The track has plenty of depth but is extremely accessible – catchy actually – think a cross between the futuristic alternative dynamics of The Muse, the deadly ear-worm falsetto choruses of Maroon 5 and just a pinch of the Mars Volta exuberance in the arrangement.
Simultaneously being a music lover and cynic, I am usually hard-pressed to easily accept new music by a band I don’t know much about. I am used to the few listens it takes for me to decide what I really think about a project. THE RIFT convinced me immediately, and is still convincing me after 10 days of heavy rotation.
It’s a musical tapestry woven from eloquent expression rather just volume. It’s an aural feast; teeming with carnivorous guitars, booming drums and thumping basslines, without ever being abrasive. Ambitious and explosive in their endeavors, the band’s raw talent and creative chemistry is all on show here, rivaling and even surpassing their best work.
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3 Dec 2015 • 2 min read
For those of you who haven't heard of Samurai Jack before I weep for you and at the same time I'm jealous because you get to discover it for the first time.
A cartoon that ran from 2001-2004 it was a show that focused on Jack; a samurai sent through time who is trying to defeat the shape-shifting overlord Aku and return to his home in the past. When the show ended after it's four year run there was no resolution to the story however it was still an epic show for all who watched it because of the strength in it's storytelling. 10 years later fans still demand another season or a feature-length movie to finally finish this epic tale.
In a 20 issue run after the show had finished, writer Jim Zub and artist Andy Suriano Zub produced a version of Jack for IDW publishing which continued the story. Soriano was a character designer for all 4 seasons of the show so it felt very much like the show (a few other artists contributed to the comic also) but Suriano was the main artist for the comic. It feather a mix of five-party story arcs and single-issue tales that channeled the series unique blend of sword fighting and magic.
This comic along with the many, many fans that Jack has gained over the years as people have either discovered the show or the comic probably led to the below quote from creator Genndy Tartakovski during an interview with comic book.com.
“I think through the years, after we finished Jack, almost every year it seems like Samurai Jack has gotten more and more popular and more and more people have seen it. I feel like it’s culminating to a fever pitch almost. I feel like it’s time to maybe finish the story. We’ve been trying to get the feature off the ground but maybe that’s just fate’s way of saying this is a television thing and maybe it should be a mini-series or something like that.”
Genndy Tartakovski via comicbook.com
Happily even though this was only a few months ago that dream has been realised with Adult Swim bringing the show back in 2016 which is beyond epic.
They released the below teaser and I can already see that it won't lose any of what it had 10 years ago. In fact with the way animation has come along in the past 10 years it can only help jack to be better than it was before.
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— [adult swim] (@adultswim) December 2, 2015
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The world of spies has always been ruled by the legend of one spy that never dies...007 also better known as James Bond. Over the years the cars he's
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(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
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(pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) is the debut album from Lynyrd Skynyrd, released in 1973. The album features several of the band's most well-known songs, including "Gimme Three Steps", "Simple Man", "Tuesday's Gone" and "Free Bird", which launched the band to national stardom.
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Share My World is the third studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, released by MCA Records on Earth Day, April 22, 1997. The album became Blige’s first to open at number one on the US Billboard 200 album chart. Guest appearances are made by hip hop and R&B stars such as Lil' Kim, Nas, The LOX, George Benson, Roy Ayers and R. Kelly, the album was released to generally positive reviews from most music critics, and earned Blige numerous accolades and nominations, including a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Album in 1998.
Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - That's Entertainment
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Music from the original motion picture soundtrack "That's Entertainment" narrated by Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Jean Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, James Steward and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction. The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul. The soundtrack is equally untraditional, consisting of nine songs from the movie, four tracks of dialogue snippets followed by a song, and three tracks of dialogue alone.
I Can Dream About You
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I Can Dream About You is the fifth studio album from American musician/singer/songwriter Dan Hartman, released by MCA in 1984.It was produced by Hartman and Jimmy Iovine.
First Cuckoo
‘First Cuckoo’ is well worth a listen if you like some seventies instrumental jazz/funk. Think seventies Hollywood soundtrack or theme music and you won’t be far out.
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TTB | FAQs | Alcohol Beverages With Added Caffeine
Frequently Asked Questions – Alcohol Beverages Containing Added Caffeine
CAB1: What Actions Has FDA Taken with Regard to Malt Beverages Containing Added Caffeine?
By letter dated November 17, 2010, FDA advised four industry members that it had reviewed the regulatory status of seven malt beverage products, each of which contains caffeine that has been directly added to an alcohol beverage and packaged in combined caffeine and alcohol form. The FDA letter warned the industry members that as it was used in their products, caffeine is an unsafe food additive, and therefore the products are adulterated under section 402(a)(2)(C) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 342(a)(2)(C). Among other things, the FDA letter stated that "FDA is not aware of any publicly available data to establish affirmatively safe conditions of use for caffeine added directly to alcoholic beverages and packaged in a combined form."
FDA provided these industry members with fifteen (15) days to advise them of the specific steps they have taken to correct the violation identified above and to assure that similar violations do not occur. The FDA letter provided that their responses should include any documentation necessary to show that correction has been achieved. Finally, the FDA letter provided that if the industry members cannot complete all corrections within the 15 days, they should explain the reason for the delay and the date by which each such item will be corrected and documented. The warning letters, as well as other information on the issue of alcohol beverage products containing added caffeine, may be found on the FDA Web site.
Last reviewed/updated 08/21/2014
CAB2: What Actions Has TTB Taken With Regard to the Malt Beverages Identified by FDA as Adulterated?
On November 18, 2010, TTB issued letters to those four industry members regarding the seven malt beverage products that FDA identified in its warning letters as being adulterated. The TTB letters put these companies on notice that FDA's determination that a product is adulterated under the FFDCA would have consequences under the FAA Act, because of TTB's position that adulterated alcohol beverages are mislabeled within the meaning of the FAA Act.
Consistent with the terms of the FDA warning letters, TTB asked that the companies advise TTB within the same 15-day period of the steps that they have taken to correct any violations of the FAA Act and the date by which each violation will be corrected. TTB sent copies of these letters to the brewers who have obtained certificates of label approval from TTB for these products. The TTB letters, along with other TTB guidance on the issue of alcohol beverage products containing added caffeine, may be found on the TTB web site at http://www.ttb.gov/main_pages/caffeine-added.
CAB3: Will TTB Take Enforcement Action with Regard to the Alcohol Beverages that FDA Has Identified as Adulterated?
Consistent with the actions taken by FDA, TTB is not planning to take enforcement action pending expiration of the 15-day period provided to the companies to respond to our letters. At that point, we will evaluate their responses and we will consult with FDA prior to taking enforcement action. It is our expectation that the companies will take voluntary action that will prevent any violations of the FAA Act and will at the same time address the concerns expressed by FDA.
CAB4: What are the Consequences under the FAA Act of a Determination that an Alcohol Beverage Product is Adulterated?
It is TTB's position that adulterated malt beverages, distilled spirits, and wines are mislabeled within the meaning of the FAA Act. This means, as explained further below, that the sale or shipment of an adulterated alcohol beverage in interstate or foreign commerce by an industry member subject to the provisions of 27 U.S.C. 205(e) constitutes a violation of the FAA Act, even if the bottler or importer of the product in question has obtained a certificate of label approval (COLA) or an approved formula.
Subject to the jurisdictional requirements of the FAA Act, mislabeled distilled spirits, wines, and malt beverages, including adulterated products, may not be sold or shipped, delivered for sale or shipment, or otherwise introduced or received in interstate or foreign commerce, or removed from customs custody for consumption, by a producer, importer, or wholesaler, or other industry member subject to 27 U.S.C. 205(e). TTB may pursue action to suspend or to revoke the FAA Act basic permit of industry members who willfully violate the conditions of their permit with respect to mislabeled, adulterated products. See 27 U.S.C. 204(e). Violations of the labeling provisions of the FAA Act are punishable as misdemeanors and the Government may seek injunctive relief to prevent and restrain such violations. TTB also may seek an offer in compromise covering the liability arising with respect to such violations in the sum of not more than $500 for each offense. See 27 U.S.C. 207. Under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, TTB officers may, in appropriate circumstances, temporarily detain any alcohol beverage container that is being removed in violation of law, or seek a voluntary detention agreement with the industry member. See 26 U.S.C. 5311.
CAB5: What if I Have Obtained a COLA or Formula Approval for My Alcohol Beverage?
TTB reminds you that each producer and importer of alcohol beverages is responsible for ensuring that the ingredients in its products comply with the laws and regulations that FDA administers. TTB's approval of a COLA or formula does not imply or otherwise constitute a determination that the product complies with the FFDCA, including a determination as to whether the product is adulterated because it contains an unapproved food additive. Subject to the jurisdictional requirements of the FAA Act, mislabeled distilled spirits, wines, and malt beverages, including adulterated products, may not be sold or shipped, delivered for sale or shipment, or otherwise introduced or received in interstate or foreign commerce, or removed from customs custody for consumption, by a producer, importer, or wholesaler, or other industry member subject to 27 U.S.C. 205(e), even if the bottler or importer of the product in question has obtained a COLA or an approved formula.
CAB6: How do TTB and FDA Interact with Regard to Adulterated Alcohol Beverages?
While TTB regulates the labeling of alcohol beverages pursuant to the FAA Act, it is FDA's responsibility to evaluate the safety of ingredients added to alcohol beverages, pursuant to FDA's authority under the FFDCA. TTB operates under a 1987 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with FDA that clarifies and delineates the enforcement responsibilities of each agency with respect to alcohol beverages that may be adulterated under the FFDCA and establishes procedures for coordination between the two agencies. The MOU acknowledges that TTB is the agency with a system of specific statutory and regulatory controls over alcohol beverages and that FDA has authority regarding determinations regarding the safety of food additives used in the production of alcohol beverages and over making determinations about when an alcohol beverage is considered adulterated.
CAB7: Is TTB Sharing Information with FDA About Alcohol Beverages Containing Added Caffeine?
Yes. TTB will continue to coordinate with FDA on this matter that affects issues within the jurisdiction of both agencies. TTB has already shared information with FDA regarding approved labels for alcohol beverages containing added caffeine, and we will continue to do so, as needed. In addition, upon receipt of a formal request from FDA, we will provide information to FDA about formulas for beers containing added caffeine that are approved under 27 CFR Part 25. This disclosure will be made pursuant to our authority under 26 U.S.C. 6103(o)(1) to share return information with employees of a Federal agency whose official duties require such disclosure. Such a disclosure is contingent upon an agreement by FDA to safeguard the confidentiality of this information.
CAB8: Will TTB Continue to Approve Labels or Formulas for Alcohol Beverages Containing Added Caffeine?
TTB urges all industry members to carefully consider their responsibilities to comply with the requirements of the FFDCA and to consult with FDA regarding the GRAS* status of their intended use of caffeine prior to submitting any such applications to TTB. TTB will consult with FDA before taking action with regard to any such new applications.
CAB9: Will TTB Take Action with Regard to Approved Labels or Formulas for Alcohol Beverages Containing Added Caffeine?
TTB is reviewing all approved formulas and labels for such products and will consult with FDA prior to taking action with regard to approved labels or formulas. We encourage all industry members who have received approvals from TTB and who have reason to believe that their products may not be in compliance with the FFDCA, to voluntarily surrender their approved labels and formulas to TTB.
CAB10: Does the Return of Alcohol Beverages Containing Added Caffeine by a Retailer or Wholesaler Violate the FAA Act's Prohibitions Against Consignment Sales?
No. Among other things, the FAA Act's prohibitions against consignment sales apply only to the conditions agreed to at the time of a sale. Furthermore, these prohibitions do not apply to transactions involving solely the bona fide return of merchandise for ordinary and usual commercial reasons arising after the merchandise has been sold. See 27 U.S.C. 205(d). The regulations at 27 CFR Part 11, Subpart D set forth several examples of "ordinary and usual commercial reasons" that may arise after the product has been sold, including a situation in which products may no longer be lawfully sold. See 27 CFR 11.34. The actions of a retailer or wholesaler in returning to an industry member alcohol beverages containing added caffeine, after the sale of the product, for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness, due to concerns about the legal status of such products under Federal, State, or local law, would not violate the consignment sales provisions of 27 U.S.C. 205(d). Of course, the regulations do not mandate that the industry member accept such a return. See 27 CFR 11.31(b).
CAB11: What if My Alcohol Beverage Product Contains Caffeine But I Did Not Receive a Warning Letter from FDA?
Industry members should contact FDA with all inquiries as to the GRAS* status of ingredients added to alcohol beverages. TTB will continue to coordinate with FDA on this matter.
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Metso Paper’s Gaspésia project into conclusion
Published Nov 4, 2005 10.00.00 +2 GMT
Metso Paper received in 2002 an order for a rebuild of an extensive printing and writing paper line from Papiers Gaspésia in Chandler, Quebec, Canada. The rebuild was expected to be completed in mid 2004. The project was, however, stopped early 2004 due to problems in financing. Consequently Metso Paper's accounts receivable were written off by EUR 15 million in total. The write down was included in the 2004 financial result.
According to an arrangement made in October 2005, the Papiers Gaspésia mill, including the buildings, equipment and estate, will be transferred to the development company owned by the city of Chandler. In connection with the arrangement, the previous owners of Papiers Gaspésia will pay creditors and the city a part of the liabilities and expenses. In connection with the arrangement Metso Paper has received about EUR 4 million lump-sum payment which will improve operating profit during the last quarter of 2005. Metso Paper has no remaining obligations relating to the project.
Metso is a global technology corporation serving customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry and selected other industries. In 2004, the net sales of Metso Corporation were approx. EUR 4 billion, and it has some 22,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Metso's shares are listed on the Helsinki and New York Stock Exchanges.
For further information, please contact: Olli Vaartimo, Executive Vice President and CFO, tel. +358 204 84 3010 Johanna Sintonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, tel. +358 204 84 3253
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Van der Breggen flies to fifth Flèche Wallonne victory
Anna van der Breggen equals Marianne Vos's record of five victories at Flèche Wallonne, topping the Mur de Huy for the fifth year in a row.
April 24, 2019 VeloNews.com
Photo: Luc Claessen/Getty Images
For the fifth year in a row, Anna van der Breggen (Boels-Dolmans) conquered the Mur de Huy climb to win Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday in Belgium.
The world champion got the better of fellow Dutchwoman and Women’s WorldTour rival Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-Scott) at the end of the 118.5km race. Former mountain bike world champion Annika Langvad (Boels-Dolmans) continued her remarkable run on the road racing circuit, finishing third on the day.
Racing was aggressive from the beginning with a number of small breakaways going up the road as the hilly route took its toll on the peloton. About halfway through the race, American Lauren Stephens (Tibco-SVB) found her way into a five-rider escape that rode with an advantage of nearly 55 seconds at one point.
With 42 kilometers to go, that group had disintegrated and the peloton caught them all to reset the race.
About 10 kilometers later, another dangerous move went up the road with four riders, including another American, Ruth Winder (Trek-Segafredo).
Though Winder’s move quickly built a lead of up to 45 seconds, they were caught before the final trip up the Cherave climb, about 10 kilometers from the finish in Huy.
Sunweb’s Floortje Mackaij tried to sneak off the front with three kilometers to go. But with all of the favorites still in the peloton, the race was destined to come down to the final climb up the Mur de Huy.
A crash at the bottom of the Mur disrupted the finale. Trek-Segafredo’s protected rider Elisa Longo-Borghini was caught up in that mishap, and she couldn’t contest the steep finish climb.
With one kilometer to go, Mackaij held a tenuous 15-second lead on the charging peloton. However, as the Mur de Huy ramped up, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), winner of Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race, ramped up the pace along with van der Breggen, catching the lone Dutchwoman.
Van Vleuten was poised to challenge van der Breggen, but in the end, she couldn’t topple the queen of the Mur.
“I’m not an explosive rider, so for me, it’s better to do my own pace and hope that someone blows up and I was hoping to be a little bit closer in the last 200 meters,” said van Vleuten. “But I’ve learned that it’s not over until you pass the finish line, so I kept pushing all the way.”
With her victory in this 22nd edition of the race, van der Breggen equaled the record number of wins held by Marianne Vos (CCC-Liv). Vos was not far from the action, finishing fourth on the day.
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Chair's Welcome Statement
Department Chair's Welcome Statement
Food and Agribusiness Marketing and Management
Environmental and Resource Economics
Statistics MS
Agricultural and Resource Economics MS
Applied Statistics Online MS
Affiliated Centers & Programs
Center for Experimental and Applied Economics
Welcome to the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Delaware. We are an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to developing and applying analytical tools for a diverse set of topics and societal challenges with a special focus on agriculture, the environment, and natural resources.
We offer undergraduate and graduate programs in agricultural, environmental, and resource economics; food and agribusiness marketing and management; and statistics — both online and in-person. Our Center for Experimental and Applied Economics offers students an opportunity to engage with cutting edge experimental and statistical methods to better understand human behavior in a wide range of settings.
We invite you to explore our website for more information about all that our department has to offer. If you have additional questions, please contact me at mheintze@udel.edu. Our campus in Newark, Delaware is conveniently located in the center of the U.S. East Coast within a two-hour drive of four major cities (New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, DC) as well as beautiful landscapes and popular beaches.
Martin D. Heintzelman, Department Chair
We emphasize the mastery of conceptual principles and applied skills in agribusiness marketing, applied economics, public policy, and statistical research methods. We offer three Bachelors of Science (B.S.) degree programs: Environmental and Resource Economics, Food and Agribusiness Marketing and Management and Statistics. Also, minors in most of our majors are offered to majors in other degree programs. Students in the University’s Environmental Studies major with a concentration in Environmental Economics and Resource Policy are considered part of our college and department and are advised by our faculty. We have a diverse group of students from various parts of the U.S. and abroad. Fenerous financial aid and scholarships exist for qualified students. Our university offers many opportunities for students to participate in various extra-curricular activities, student clubs and job internships programs.
APEC offers two Masters of Science (M.S.) degree programs (with thesis and non-thesis options) in Applied Economics and Statistics, an online M.S. in Applied Statistics, and a joint Ph.D. degree arrangement with UD’s Department of Economics. More than 50 percent of our students have some form of financial support and scholarships. Our faculty also serve as advisors to graduate students in the Water Science and Policy M.S. and Ph.D. program. We emphasize applied economics and the mastery of quantitative and statistical skills in data analysis, mathematical modeling, econometrics, experimental economics, research and survey methodology, and statistics. These skills are in-demand in many fields, which gives our graduates an advantage in the job market and strong preparation for doctoral degrees. As a result, we have extremely high rates of employment by our graduates. Many of our students are increasingly publishing their thesis research in peer-reviewed journals and our students have won awards for their outstanding research. We also have innovative and paid internship programs for students with local businesses.
Faculty and expertise
APEC has very engaging and excellent faculty members who have been recognized with various awards for their cutting-edge research, innovative teaching, student advising and public service. The faculty areas of expertise include agricultural policy; environmental and resource economics; food and agribusiness marketing; international trade and development; natural resource management; decision analysis; experimental and behavioral economics; health economics, community development; and statistical modeling and analysis. Within statistical analysis, core areas include nonparametric regression; survival analysis; functional data analysis; multivariate analysis, and statistical consulting. APEC has 14 tenure-track faculty in applied economics and statistics, five clinical/service faculty and three extension professionals. We currently have 149 undergraduate majors and 69 graduate students.
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Feb. 14, 2017 / 12:46 PM
Poverty puts kids at greater risk for ADHD, asthma
Dennis Thompson, HealthDay News
TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 2017 -- Children in families struggling to make ends meet are developing asthma and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at faster rates than kids from families with greater means, a new study finds.
On the other hand, kids from wealthier families are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder more often than children in poorer homes. But that likely indicates that those parents have better access to the healthcare services that can uncover an autism diagnosis, the study authors said.
The findings suggest that family income and access to health insurance play a large role in a child's physical and mental health, said lead researcher Dr. Christian Pulcini. He's a pediatrics resident with the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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"Children in poverty are more at risk for adverse health outcomes, and we need to keep that in mind when we make policy and programs that will benefit children, particularly if they are poor," Pulcini said.
For their study, Pulcini and his colleagues analyzed data from the U.S. National Survey of Children's Health, a federal survey conducted three times between 2003 and 2012.
The investigators specifically reviewed rates of asthma, ADHD and autism for two reasons, Pulcini explained. Other studies had found all three conditions on the rise in the United States. And the disorders provided a good mix of physical (asthma) and mental (ADHD and autism) health conditions that children face.
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The study found that parent-reported rates of all three conditions are increasing. Asthma and ADHD rates rose 18 percent and 44 percent, respectively, between 2003 and 2012, while autism rates increased a whopping 400 percent.
But when the researchers factored poverty into their analysis, the findings showed that family income level had a distinct effect on childhood illness:
Asthma rates increased nearly 26 percent among children in families at less than 100 percent of the federal poverty level, as opposed to about 15 percent in families between 100 percent and 199 percent of the FPL, and about 13.5 percent in families earning 200 percent or more of the poverty level.
ADHD rates were much lower for families at or above 400 percent of the federal poverty level (33 percent) than families earning less money (43 percent to 52 percent, depending on income).
Autism spectrum disorder was more likely to be diagnosed in kids from families above the federal poverty level (28 percent to just over 43 percent, depending on income) than those who fall below the poverty level (13 percent).
The 2017 federal poverty level is an annual income of $20,420 for a family of three and $24,600 for a family of four, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dr. Michael Grosso is chairman of the department of pediatrics at Northwell Health's Huntington Hospital, in Huntington, N.Y. He said that asthma and ADHD rates among poorer families could be linked with the physical and mental strains of deprivation -- a phenomenon known as "toxic stress."
Pulcini explained that children in financially struggling families are more likely to be exposed to poorer indoor and outdoor air quality, and are less likely to eat well -- two conditions that have been tied to asthma risk.
Grosso added, "We now understand that infants and children who don't have the benefit of good nutrition, a stable home environment, regular routines and protection from violence are at risk for lasting consequences including behavioral health and other medical conditions."
Conversely, Pulcini said, the fact that better-off children are more likely to be diagnosed with autism could be tied to their families' improved access to health resources.
Families with more financial means "have better access to resources to identify autism. Parents have more resources to get children screened and get them treated," Pulcini said. On the other hand, children in poorer families have to undergo a more circuitous route before their autism is recognized, he said.
"Among children who are eventually diagnosed with autism, if they are poor, they are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD first and then autism," Pulcini noted.
Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., said the study results "emphasize how important it is to consider social risk factors for disease."
"At a time when consideration is being given by some to limit healthcare coverage and other social services for the poor, the findings from this study emphasize how important it is for all children to have health insurance and other basic essentials," he said.
The study findings were published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
For more about poverty and child health, visit the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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USA Midwest
Best Minnesota downtowns
By ZachariahDaMan, September 16, 2005 in Minnesota
ZachariahDaMan 1
Location: Canton, Michigan
I was wondering what you guys thought were the best downtowns in Minnesota.
sushisimo 0
Duluth. Mainly because of the geography of it all.
Snowguy716 0
Location: Northern Minnesota
For a smaller city, Bemidji's downtown isn't bad. Considering that there is a mall and major big box developments to the north and west and a 60 store outlet mall about to be built, the downtown has remained strong. I think one of the biggest parts is being right on Lake Bemidji and having lakeside parks and also a scultpure walk in which you can walk around downtown and see scultpures by area artists.
I also think that the fact that one can still buy everything you need downtown is very important. While it no longer features a full service grocery store, it does have a general merchandise store with basic foods and then several smaller stores with produce/meat/etc.
Also, it's very hard to find a parking space, which also shows the vitality of the area.
I wouldn't rank it as one of the best, but certainly better than downtown Plymouth, or the lack thereof. (as an example)
cmj2k5 0
Mankato's downtown currently doesn't have much going on... but it has potential to be a nice place. It is in a pretty location in the Minnesota River valley and the city is growing at a solid rate.
This new hotel will add some life to the area and give the civic center more use.
http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us/cityh/pubrel/n...sid=317&cur=11#
Hopefully this sparks an upward trend!
For a smaller city, Bemidji's downtown isn't bad.
I went to college there and always found the downtown to be quaint and inviting. Most of my time spent downtown was bar hopping, so maybe my favorable images of Bemidji were seen through rose colored beer goggles, LOL.
Lake Bemidji is gorgeous and downtown is kinda perched on a peninsula of sorts, with a waterway linking into Lake Irving. And of course the University campus is right along the shores of Lake Bemidji, blending into the north part of downtown. I always loved going back to college in the Fall. A very cute town, especially Diamond Point Park.
From the view on google earth the comercial center of plymouth(which I'm sure is all coorporate retail) has a good location... if they would ever want to start some smart city center developement.
Garris 0
Location: Providence, RI (Wayland Square)
Mankato does have potential, but unfortunately, like all the MN (and, in general, Midwestern) cities, the growth is just sprawling out the suburbs (this was definitely true in Rochester).
I like Duluth. While the downtown still feels a bit gritty, there is no denying its dramatic geography.
I also like what Edina did with the, what was it called, 50 France Street concept. While somewhat artificial, there are a lot of older time commercial districts out there in Old America (like our Thayer Street or Westminster Streets in Providence, RI) that could take a lot of inspiration from how Edina was able to seamlessly integrate generous parking garage space that's accessable while not ruining the pedestrian, downtown experience.
- Garris
NCB 1
Location: New Orleans
Duluth is my pick. I thought it was very nice when I was there in '02.
bluefansmc 0
Location: Rivergate/Minneapolis, MN
Errrr....Minneapolis. It's home....
Jacob Norlund - KC 0
I like Duluth's downtown. The buildings are older and have lots of personality, the geography is very dramatic (of course, that's not a good thing if you are biking up the streets), the views are great farther up, and despite having a skywalk, which is more or less a Godsend in the winter, and the streets are quite active in the summer. Plus, the tourist / recreation / restaurant district of Canal Park is within reasonable walking distance from most of it.
I think Duluth is one of Minnesota's gems. I love that city. They've certainly improved the city in the past 10 years too.
I've just been looking up information on a proposed events center that will be built in downtown Bemidji.
The placement and design of the building is what is most impressive. The city plans to level the entire Union Square development that was built in the 1980s as a downtown revitalization project. They plan on moving the "Union Station" building that recently closed. At one point in the mid-to-late '90s there 9 tenants in the development including 4 restaurants, 4 shops, and a grocery store. All that are left now are two restaurants.. one of which is moving to a different location within the next few months. (Two of the restaurants have closed for good, as has the grocery store because it was moved. The other tenants have moved to other locations downtown)
The area will be re-landscaped and the building's architecture will be in the style of late 1800s red brick with a flat roof. The building will actually look like the old train station that was completed in 1912 and is now a museum. It will also be partially built into the ground so that it does not tower over the rest of downtown (our tallest buildings are the 5 story federal building and courthouse.. and of course, a 12 story dormatory at BSU).
It's exciting though, because it will revitalize a part of downtown that has been dead since the 1950s.
There are also proposals by developers to add onto downtown with retail/residential mixed developments.
Good, most of my family is from that area. My uncle said everything use to happen downtown, and like most cities bemidji's size, wal mart moved in.
I don't think Wal-Mart has hurt downtown. It has actually helped business down there because it has brought more people into Bemidji to shop.
Our Wal-Mart draws the most sales of any Wal-mart in a 5 state area pulling in up to $35million/quarter.
The death of downtown was sealed in the 1970s with the arrival of a mall, fast food restaurants, and K-Mart. During the 80s, major efforts were made to revitalize downtown.. and it worked. Downtown was thriving by the early '90s. There were 2 grocery stores, a big box retailer, many many restaurants, and clothing/apparel stores.. even furniture and appliance stores.
Now there is no grocery store.. but there are restaurants, coffee shops, clothing/apparel, furniture, and appliance stores still... and now the city is ready to revitalize the area again with an events/convention center.
They've just finished a $150million project that re-did the main road between Lake Irving and Lake Bemidji.. the reconstruction split the road up into two one way roads following each side of the "penninsula" to allow for more green space on the shore of Lake Bemidji. Native trees, shrubs, and grasses were planted to keep the lake shore from eroding.
In the plans, besides, the convention center, is redeveloping the site of the old Georgia Pacific plant on the southeast shore of Lake Bemidji. The site had served as a paper/wood mill since the late 1800s until 1999 when GP closed the plant. There are several proposals for development.. but it's so close to downtown that it will only complement it rather than compete with it. (plans include a pedestrian village for shopping with apartments, homes, condos, park space, and trails for snowmobiling/XC skiing, and walking/biking.
With the area expected to grow by 40% over the next 30 years, proper growth policies need to be put into place so we don't end up like an explosion on the map like St. Cloud or Brainerd.
That certainly is great news coming out of Bemidji. I do have a soft spot for that town.
ChattyPlanner 0
I have always liked Northfield's "downtown", which has probably retained much of its character due to the relatively high college student population from St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges. Jesse James was caught in Northfield (year?) and last time I was there, the bullet holes were still visible exterior walls of the bank.
Unfortunately, the big boxes have crept into town during the past 10-15 years...
By the way, except for the suburbs mentioned, every city and town that has been mentioned on this post has a college associated with it, concidence?
I think having a college/university is really important in maintaining the vitality in many smaller towns. They bring in educators and also boost the younger population, which is lacking in many small towns/cities.
I don't think having a University makes a town great, however.. I think it's what has allowed towns to stay great well after many other cities were largely de-populated, pushed into economic decline, and largely forgotten about. Having something permanent like a University can help an economy in times of recession and it also provides diversity to the economy.
For example, Bemidji is a city of 12,000 with a surrounding area (school district/zip code/etc.) population of 30,000. At the same time, there are 5,000 students at Bemidji State University and around 800 more college students at a Northwest Technical college and Oak Hills Christian Bible college. 5800 collegestudents in an area of 30,000 is a pretty big influence. It keeps businesses going in the winter that would have trouble staying open after the tourists left.
A city of similar size (or at least was) was Hibbing, where there isn't a 4 year institution and that city's population has sunk below 18000 from a height of near 25,000 30 years ago. In that same period, Bemidji has grown from 20,000 or so, to 30,000 and the growth is accelerating. I believe the vitality of a diversified economy, the large government/education center, and a tourism aspect has kept this town going and now we're being inundated with 40-50something Twin Citians who want "cabins" (rather, 4000 sq. foot mini-mansions) on lakes. Of course they're welcome, i just ask that they don't price the locals out of their own house!
City_of_Lakes 0
Duluth has my vote for things mentioned already such as geography and the obvious views of Lake Superior from town and the little shops and all. Northfield does have some nice aspects to it too. I remember watching the Jesse James reenactment when I was little, that was pretty neat, plus I like the Indian restaurant at the old hotel their.
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U.S. 202 - 500
JOHNSON HIGHWAY TO MAIN STREET
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is moving through with final design and construction to rebuild and improve Markley Street (U.S. Route 202 South) in Norristown and Johnson Highway in Norristown and East Norriton Township. The plan to improve Markley Street, which is referred to as U.S. 202 Section 500, extends from just south of its intersection with Main Street to the intersection of Johnson Highway. Johnson Highway is slated for improvement between Markley Street and DeKalb Street.
Visit the Markley Street website for up to date information Markley Street (U.S. 202 Section 500) Website
PennDOT will build the Section 500 project in three construction sections:
• Section 510 is the southern section that extends from just south of Main Street to Elm Street. This part of Markley Street. This part of Markley Street has moved to construction as of January 23, 2020 and construction is anticipated to continue through Fall 2022. Please see the Section 510 website for construction updates and detour information.
• Section 520 is the northern part of Markley Street that runs from Elm Street to Johnson Highway, and includes Johnson Highway and the rehabilitation of the Main Street Bridge over Stony Creek. The construction of Section 520 was completed and opened to traffic in September 2015.
• Section 530 will provide a new connector road between Lafayette Street and Washington Street. This part of the project began construction in Fall 2019. PennDOT and Norristown have worked closely on this project since preliminary engineering began in late 2002, and this relationship formed the basis of the agreement to transfer the ownership and maintenance responsibility of Markley Street from Norristown to PennDOT. This transfer of ownership occurred in November 2013, and the section of Markley Street between Airy Street and Johnson Highway became State Route 3020.
Visit the new Markley Street website for up to date information.
Section 510 - Main Street to Elm Street
Construction began on Section 510 on January 23, 2020. The final design plans have been completed and final construction bid documents are being prepared for Section 510. The design team has incorporated the following roadway, bridge, streetscape and pedestrian enhancements into the final plans.
Rebuild the four-lane section of Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) between Main Street and Marshall Street;
Reconstruct and widen Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) to provide one northbound lane, two southbound lanes and a center turn lane between Marshall Street and Elm Street;
Replace the two existing bridges for Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) over Stony Creek with a single bridge to accommodate five lanes of traffic;
Rehabilitate the Markley Street (U.S. 202 South)/Elm Street stone arch bridge over Stony Creek;
Construct a new sidewalk on the west side of Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) to link SEPTA train stations at Main Street and Elm Street;
Reconstruct and widen Main Street between Water Street and Barbadoes Street to provide additional travel lanes and improve traffic flow through the signalized intersection at Markley Street (U.S. 202 South);
Install brick pavers, trees and decorative pedestrian streetlights along Main Street between Barbadoes Street and Markley Street (U.S. 202 South);
Upgrade railroad grade crossings at Main Street and Marshall Street by installing new gates and signals in coordination with SEPTA;
Install Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) components to better manage traffic flow along both Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) and DeKalb Pike (U.S. 202 North) corridors;
Replace existing Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) traffic signals at Main Street, Marshall Street and Elm Street; and
Install new ADA curb ramps at all intersections to include pushbuttons, countdown signals and continental crosswalks to enhance pedestrian safety.
Section 520 – Elm Street to Johnson Highway
Construction was completed for Section 520 in September 2015 which included the following improvements:
• Reconstructed Markley Street between Elm Street and Johnson Highway to provide one lane in each direction, with a center lane for left turns and recessed parking bays in residential areas. These improvements were designed to fit within the existing roadway footprint, except where minor widening was required for parking bays. The plan included the realignment and signalization of Coolidge Boulevard to align with Brown Street to improve traffic flow and safety at the Markley Street intersection;
• Built a small off-street parking lot on the southwest corner of Harding Boulevard and Markley Street to compensate for the loss of on-street parking between Elm Street and James Street;
• Replaced existing traffic signals on Markley Street at Harding Boulevard, Fornance Street and Johnson Highway, and installed a new signal on Markley Street at the intersection with Coolidge Boulevard and Brown Street; interconnection and coordination of traffic signals with fiber optic cable to enhance traffic flow along the corridor;
• Rehabilitated the Main Street stone arch bridge over Stony Creek and rebuilt the roadway approaches between Astor Street and Water Street; and
• Improved Johnson Highway between Markley Street and DeKalb Street; by performing minor widening to provide additional turn lanes at the intersection of Markley Street; restriped Johnson Highway to provide a center lane for left turns and eliminated existing on-street parking spaces east of Pine Street.
Section 530 - Lafayette Street and Washington Street Connection
PennDOT’s design team has completed the engineering on this section of the project and construction began on this section in October 2019. The following element have been incorporated into the final design:
• The proposed connection between Lafayette Street and Washington Street will be located approximately one-hundred (100’) feet west of the intersection of Barbadoes Street and Lafayette Street. The connector roadway, which will be approximately 250’ long, will become a Norristown Municipality public street.
• Relocating the Schuylkill River Trail (SRT); providing an ADA-compliant trail crossing of the connector road near Washington Street;
• Providing bicycle and ADA-compliant pedestrian connections from the SRT to the intersection of Lafayette and Barbadoes Streets; and
• Installing a retaining wall parallel to the connector road in order to lower the roadway while maintaining the adjacent parking lot grade.
The rehabilitation of the Airy Street bridge over Markley Street originally part of Section 530 has been placed ‘on hold’. Updates on this section will be posted when they are known.
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Could apprenticeships help to improve youth unemployment?
When the financial crisis struck in 2008, young people were hit the hardest, leaving almost a quarter out of work three years later.
Figures released last week reveal that the rate has fallen, with 16 per cent of 16 to 24 years old unemployed, but what can be done to encourage further improvements?
Last month, the government launched a drive to boost the number of apprentices, which has opened up a host of new jobs for young people to start. The highest-level apprentices can go on to achieve the equivalent of a university degree and the most sought-after schemes could lead to jobs with attractive salaries.
Young people could learn how to do one of 1,200 jobs, ranging from legal work and advertising, to art gallery roles and information technology. In addition to providing school leavers will desirable skills, many commentators believe apprenticeships could help solve the problem of youth unemployment.
However, the UK has a long way to go compared to elsewhere in the world, according to a new report from the thinktank Demos, which highlighted that Britain has 11 apprentices per 1,000 employees versus 39 in Australia, 40 in Germany and 43 in Switzerland.
The firm believes that boosting the number of young people taking up apprenticeships to similar levels would boost Britain's gross domestic product by £4 billion a year, as well as improving unemployment figures.
Ben Sparkes, a 17-year old from Chelmsford in Essex, is taking part in the government scheme to increase the number of apprentices. He told the BBC that he is currently working in a men's barbers in Basildon. He said: "I took an apprenticeship because I felt it was a better way of learning, because you get people skills at the same time and you get paid to learn as well."
However, the pay is extremely low, with the national minimum wage for apprentices set at £2.73, which can be off-putting for those considering joining the scheme. Furthermore, there is some degree of academic snobbery present in the UK regarding such schemes, with commentators viewing apprenticeships as less valuable than university degrees.
While apprenticeships have the potential to boost the economy and improve youth unemployment, public perception and working conditions need to improve to encourage more school leavers to train.
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The Stars Align for Solo: A Star Wars Story’s New York Premiere
By Janelle Okwodu
Photo: Paul Bruinooge/PatrickMcMullan.com
Donald Glover and Emilia Clarke
Any Star Wars fan will tell you Han Solo always shoots first. The reputation of the franchise’s favorite smuggler precedes him, but his backstory has been consistently vague—until now. Solo: A Star Wars Story fills in the blanks with an action-packed origin tale that explains everything from Han’s surname to how he met his faithful Wookie companion, Chewbacca. The film, which premiered in New York last night with a star-studded Cinema Society screening at Chelsea’s SVA Theater, offers a new look at a classic character, complete with all the twists and turns we’ve come to expect from Star Wars’s on-screen spin-offs.
For leading man Alden Ehrenreich, stepping into the world’s biggest franchise was a blast, especially the fateful moment when he found out he’d gotten the part. “[I was] so thrilled. Over the moon. It’s hard to even wrap your head around it it’s so exciting,” he shared prescreening. Though he’s had roles in films by the Coen brothers and Francis Ford Coppola, taking on Star Wars’s world of weird creatures and larger-than-life fights came with a few welcome surprises. “I don’t think I really had a grasp of the athleticism that goes into an action movie,” said Ehrenreich, who pulled off more than his share of dramatic stunts. Taking on a beloved character may invite comparison to the original, but the actor—in true Han Solo form—was unfazed and noted that he wanted the audience to view the film with the same sense of wonder he had when he saw Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope. “I just hope they have that experience that I remember having as a kid, which is this tremendous sense of excitement and fun—just watching this great adventure story take place,” he said.
The sentiment was echoed by his costars. Coming into the project with a love of its source material and an understanding of exactly how massive its reach is, they were eager to share their collective enthusiasm. On-screen, Paul Bettany’s villain, Dyden Vos, is an agent of chaos, but the actor’s recollections of being immersed in George Lucas’s world for the first time were appropriately upbeat. “It was 1977 and I was 6; it was amazing and changed the whole world for me,” said Bettany. “It was a bit like in The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy steps out and suddenly the world is in color!” On hand with his sons, he awaited their verdict on the sci-fi extravaganza. Likewise, Donald Glover had to contend with a resident Lando Calrissian superfan—his mom. “I knew I had a bunch of big shoes to fill. My mom is a big Billy Dee Williams fan,” shared Glover. “As you can see, she’s not here right now. She’d much rather watch The Empire Strikes Back!”
For Emilia Clarke, whose cunning Qi’ra provides some of the film’s best moments, the experience was equally compelling. “The fact that a franchise can be what it was to everyone before inspiring today’s filmmakers, and then reintroduce itself in exactly the same space for a whole other generation, is kind of amazing,” said Clarke. Resplendent in a striped Alessandra Rich dress, Clarke upped the evening’s glamour quotient, but she wasn’t above geeking out over her intergalactic moments. “I’m used to the big sets and big movies; Game of Thrones is huge, but I was a part of the growth of that process. I was introduced to this world when it was [already] so huge,” said Clarke. “It’s fascinating to jump onto something when there’s so much there. Everyone brings their A game. Everyone you’re working with is working at the highest level of professionalism.”
Naturally, New York’s It crowd flocked to see one of the summer’s most anticipated movies. With everyone from Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk to Tiffany Haddish and Zazie Beetz joining the cast at Le Bain for an after party sponsored by Nissan and Fiji Water, on the rooftop of the Standard Hotel, after the screening, the force was with the party as it stretched into the wee hours.
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The Walking Marine
Walking For Veterans
The Walking Marine is better known as Terry Sharpe.
In the Fall of 2014, two United States Marine Corps veterans, Terry Sharpe and Allen Brown, completed their second 300 mile walk from their homes in North Carolina to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to get lawmakers to take action regarding the case of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been in a Mexican prison since March 2014.
Sharpe and Brown completed their first walk to the White House in September. Upon arriving, they delivered a message to President Barack Obama urging him to “make the call” to Mexico to get Tahmooressi released back to the United States. While in DC, they attended the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing along with the Marine’s mother Jill Tahmooressi and talk show host Montel Williams, who has become a vocal leader in the fight to have Tahmooressi released.
Sharpe and Brown were home for just four days before they grew fed up again and began their second walk. On their second walk, however, their target expanded from President Obama to Democrats in Congress.
According to Sharpe, only two Democrats attended the hearing. One of them was Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who he says left the hearing soon after she got her picture taken with Jill Tahmooressi.
Sharpe does not believe that this fight should be a political one, and wants Democrats to join Republicans in pressuring the White House to take action on Tahmooressi’s behalf.
“This is about getting our Marine out of the Mexican prison so he can get help for his PTSD,” said Sharpe .
Sharpe and Brown, who served together in Vietnam, are both 63 years old. They claim that the second walk has not been easy, but is necessary.
The Marines have received even more support on this second walk than they did on the last one, including from fellow Marines and veterans who have joined them for long portions of their walk.
Supporters gathered for a second time at Arlington Gateway Park just outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday morning to walk the final miles to the White House with Sharpe and Brown.
In February 2015, Sharpe reunited with Brown to participate in a protest in King, NC, where activists forced the town of King to remove a praying soldier memorial from the Central Park Veterans Memorial. Sharpe and Brown walked 30 miles carrying the Christian flag as well as the Stars and Stripes. When they arrived at the Memorial, Sharpe and Brown joined members of 2 Million Bikers to DC. Sharpe and Brown were guest speakers at the presentation.
On April 25, 2015 Sharpe and Brown joined the non-profit organization 22 Until None on a ruck in Rockingham County, North Carolina where close to 100 current and former military service members and family members hiked 4.7 miles from Cole Auditorium in Hamlet to VFW Post 4203 and back. Many of those “rucking” carried rucksacks with 22 pounds of gear inside to symbolize the 22 veterans who commit suicide each day.
On May 16, 2015 Terry led the charge again to raise awareness about the 22 US Veterans a day that commit suicide, a devastating statistic. We owe our Veterans all the support they need and deserve, and Terry wants to bring attention to their needs. He walked along with many others a little over 5 miles from the Halifax War Memorial, Halifax, VA to Constitution Square in South Boston, VA.
In June 2015, Terry set out again on his 300 mile walk from Summerfield, NC to Washington, DC to bring attention to the four Americans being held in Iranian prison. The four Americans were former United States Marine Amir Hekmati, Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, Reporter Jason Rezaian, and Robert Levinson. Terry began his walk on June 1, 2015 and ended his walk on June 20, 2015 at the steps of the US Capital. Three of them have been returned to us and many believe the efforts by Terry helped draw attention to the issue.
June 2016 again found Terry making the 300 mile walk from Summerfield, NC to Washington, DC to raise awareness of the current Veteran suicide rate, which stands at 22 per day — the equivalent of one Veteran committing suicide every 65 minutes. Terry at age 65, walked from Summerfield, NC to Washington, DC to bring attention to this terrible plight. There were numerous large rallies along the way and Terry received a warm reception everywhere he went.
May 2017 again found Terry making the 300 mile walk from Summerfield, NC to Washington, DC to raise awareness of the current Veteran suicide rate, which stands at 22 per day — the equivalent of one Veteran committing suicide every 65 minutes. Terry at age 66, again walked from Summerfield, NC to Washington, DC to bring attention to this terrible plight. Terry continued to receive warm welcomes along the way and lots of support from the many towns and cities along the way.
May 2018 Terry again took up the banner for Veterans along with Michael Boncek (US Army Veteran) and Ken Wilson (parent of a Veteran) to raise awareness for Veteran Suicide along with Veteran Homelessness and Hunger. At 67 years old Terry made the 300 mile walk and was honored to be able to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attend a special event at the White House. The reception along the way for the team was just as terrific as it has been in years past.
May 2019 Terry yet again walked for Veterans along with Michael Boncek (US Army Veteran) as well as Ken and Sherry Wilson (parent of a Veteran) to raise awareness for Veteran Suicide along with Veteran Homelessness and Hunger. At 68 years old Terry made the 300 mile walk and concluded at the very last Rolling Thunder event in Washington DC.
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Before using the red color for their red carpets Hollywood used red ink to print scripts to keep the spoilers at bay. Today, the spoiler-alert fights are intensifying — with neither camp giving up anytime soon.
The digital age has invigorated two opposing industries: The Hollywood spoiler-givers and those who foil spoilers. One is building an army of terrestrial and aerial spies, and a network of outlets (print and digital). The other is erecting barricades — both legal and physical.
A “spoiler” is defined as details about a crucial scene or a plot in a TV series or movie that is made public before the premiere of that episode or film.
Writer-director J.J. Abrams reportedly printed the scripts of his Star Wars trilogy on red paper so that they could not be photocopied. Nonetheless, late last November, one of those scripts was auctioned on eBay for U.S.$84.
Hollywood has reached a point wherein offices, editing rooms, and special effects labs are now regularly audited against potential spyware.
In the case of the HBO blockbuster Game of Thrones, a drone-killing device was used during filming in Northern Ireland to disable unauthorized aerial cameras snooping for footage. In addition, the conclusions in scripts of season eight of the series were delivered to talent in digital files that self-erased.
This is understandable, especially considering that Game of Thrones is one of the world’s most pirated TV series (together with The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory). The first four hours of season five were leaked on the eve of the season premiere and illegally downloaded 32 million times within a week.
A search for the shooting locations for Game of Thrones produces 17.4 million results, with detailed reports on various Northern Ireland sites like Moneyglass, Saintfield, and Tollymore Forest Park, as well as Kirkjufell in Iceland.
Avengers: Infinity War producers distributed fake scripts, while the real one was kept under wraps. Stars of the movie were given only those pages that had their dialogue.
Of course, the Spoiler-Alert industry is nothing new if we recall that Alfred Hitchcock reportedly bought all available first-print copies of Robert Block’s 1959 source novel in advance of the release of his 1960 horror classic Psycho.
However, despite Hitchcock’s attempts at keeping the Psycho project a secret, the spoiler industry was busy at work, and both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter published spoilers about the Psycho plot months before the film’s release.
The Spoiler-Alert industry also has its own academic branch and its own legal sector. For example, Benjamin K. Johnson and Judith E. Rosenbaum — the former is an assistant professor of Advertising at the University of Florida, the latter is an assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Maine — have studied how people react to spoilers, and in 2014 co-authored articles for Sage Journal about the factors that contribute to a person’s enjoyment of (or hatred for) spoilers.
On the legal front, before the premiere of the seventh season of series The Walking Dead, AMC, which co-produces and broadcasts the series, engaged in a legal-awareness campaign to prevent spoilers. Similarly, HBO demanded that YouTube remove a video featuring fan-made predictions of future episodes in the then-running season of Game of Thrones.
Indeed, the Spoiler-Foiling industry is getting tougher and, what worked in the past, such as disclaimers and disseminations at no charge to consumers, today no longer offers protection from claims of infringement, and does not constitute a valid defense to a guaranteed lawsuit.
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Father-in-law of slain Osceola County mother released on bond
MAN ACCUSED IN THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW JUST WALKED OUT OF THE OSCEOLA COUNTY JAIL. STEWART: WESH 2’S JIM PAYNE JOINS US NOW IN THE STUDIO WITH MORE JIM: ANGEL RIVERA AND HIS SON, CHRISTOPHER OTERO-RIVERA, WERE BOTH ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF THE YOUNGER MAN’S ESTRANGE WIFE, NICOLE MONTALVO. BUT THE STATE NEVER FORMALLY FILED MURDER CHARGES. THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR ANGEL RIVERA’S RELEASE TONIGHT. HE STAYED SILENT, HEAD COVERED, AS HE WAS ESCORTED PAST REPORTERS AND INTO A CAR. ON FRIDAY, A JUDGE REDUCED HIS BOND TO $170,000. HE CURRENTLY IS ONLY FACING CHARGES OF ABUSE OF A DEAD BODY AND FAILURE TO REPORT A DEATH. RIVERA SAID IN COURT FRIDAY THAT HIS INCOME IS 250 DOLLARS PER MONTH FROM DISABILITY CLAIMS AND IF HE GETS OUT OF JAIL, HE WILL HAVE TO FIND WORK. NICOLE MONTALVO’S REMAINS WE FOUND ON THE RIVERA FAMILY PROPERTY NEAR ST. CLOUD IN OCTOBE NOW THAT HE’S OUT OF JAIL, ANGEL RIVERA WILL HAVE TO SURRENDER HIS PASSPORT, AND STAY SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE FAMILY’S HOME IN THE MEANTIME, CHRISTOPHER OTERO-RIVERA REMAINS AT THE SAME JAIL ON NO
A man charged in connection with the death of his daughter-in-law was released from the Osceola County Jail on Monday night. Rivera stayed silent as he was released on bond, his head covered with a jacket. A judge on Friday reduced his bond from $350,000 to $170,000. Rivera and his son, Christopher Otero-Rivera, were arrested in connection with the murder of Otero-Rivera’s estranged wife, Nicole Montalvo, in October. Montalvo's remains were found behind the Rivera family's home near St. Cloud last October, but the state never filed official murder charges against them. Rivera is charged with abuse of a dead body and failure to report a death in the case of Nicole Montalvo.Rivera said in court Friday that his income is $250 per month from disability claims and if his bond is reduced and he gets out of jail, he will have to find employment.
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. —
A man charged in connection with the death of his daughter-in-law was released from the Osceola County Jail on Monday night.
Rivera stayed silent as he was released on bond, his head covered with a jacket. A judge on Friday reduced his bond from $350,000 to $170,000.
Rivera and his son, Christopher Otero-Rivera, were arrested in connection with the murder of Otero-Rivera’s estranged wife, Nicole Montalvo, in October.
Montalvo's remains were found behind the Rivera family's home near St. Cloud last October, but the state never filed official murder charges against them.
Rivera is charged with abuse of a dead body and failure to report a death in the case of Nicole Montalvo.
Rivera said in court Friday that his income is $250 per month from disability claims and if his bond is reduced and he gets out of jail, he will have to find employment.
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A Confederate monument stood at the steps of an Alabama courthouse for a century. Now it’s in a cemetery
A Confederate monument that stood at the steps of the Montgomery County, Alabama, courthouse for over a century now resides in a cemetery.
For months, the memorial, topped with a statue of a Confederate soldier, had faced protests and vandalism.
Over the summer, protesters, along with various groups including Black Lives Matter, the Rosa Parks Day Committee and local church pastors, had urged officials to remove it, according to CNN affiliate WAAY-TV. The relocation had also faced opposition.
Finally, beginning around 11 p.m. Friday, Huntsville city officials began relocating the monument of General John Morgan, a Kentucky plantation owner, according to CNN affiliate WAAY-TV.
Crews removed the monument in five chunks over the course of several hours as a large crowd looked on, WAAY-TV reported.
“It’s just a good time. People are relaxed, they’re cheering,” WAAY-TV quoted Joretha Wright, who watched the removal, as saying.
“It’s just a nice feeling with everything that has been going on and all the tension and division, it’s just nice that something like this that’s caused so much chaos is actually bringing people together,” she said.
The monument was then placed among Confederate soldiers buried at Maple Hill Cemetery, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
A national movement
Since the death of George Floyd by police in May, more than 40 Confederate symbols, from century-old monuments to a state flag, have been taken down across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
More than a dozen schools and roads named after Confederate leaders have also been renamed.
Madison County Commissioner JesHenry Malone said in a statement provided to CNN, however, that the debate to find a way to legally remove the statue began internally months before Floyd’s death.
“We know that government can be bureaucratic at times and often slower than what we would prefer, but we had no desire to violate our oaths of office to appease public sentiment,” Malone stated.
Plus, they were battling Alabama’s Memorial Preservation Act, enacted in 2017, which bars the removal, renaming and alteration of monuments, memorial streets, and memorial or architecturally significant buildings that have been located on public property for 40 or more years.
‘A day for continued growth and healing’
Malone said he had received three letters in opposition to the monument’s removal.
The Heritage Protection of North Alabama and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the original donors of the statue, tried to stop the relocation just hours before it was completed, WAAY-TV reported.
One member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy stated in an affidavit that she fears the statue wouldn’t be as protected at the cemetery as at its courthouse location, with lights and more public police presence, according to WAAY-TV.
Malone knows not everyone is celebrating the move.
“Today is a monumental day… I will not mark this day as a day of celebration but rather a day of continued growth and healing,” Malone said in his statement.
As for what will go in the spot where the controversial memorial stood, Malone told CNN they will soon have a new administrative building, and they hope to expand the current courthouse.
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Landfall is the county’s smallest city. It is a mobile home park adjacent to the Ramsey County line. The population is about 730 people (176 families) living in about 300 mobile homes.
Landfall occupies the southwesternmost corner of Oakdale Township. In 1901 John Schiltgen farmed the land Landfall sits on. Surrounding his property to the north and east was the 300-acre Oak Woods Stock Farm owned by Frank Morris. On the south was the Hudson Road leading from St. Paul to the St. Croix River bridge between Lakeland and Hudson, Wisconsin.
Landfall was incorporated as a village in 1959 and became a city in 1974. At present it has a strip of businesses, including a Harley Davidson dealer and a car dealership on Hudson Road, now the north service road of Interstate 94. The City of Maplewood, Ramsey County, provides services.
James and Mitzi Olson used to own all the land in Landfall. They moved there in 1953 into a cottage that was hardly better than a log cabin. The cottage had been there a long time and was rumored to have harbored John Dillinger, a notorious gangster who made St. Paul his home for a few months in 1934. Said Mitzi Olson in an interview in 1998, “We heard rumors that Dillinger used to live there. A fellow who used to deliver propane gas said he used to deliver packages for Dillinger as a boy.”
The Olsons had lived in a mobile home during World War II and knew that there was a shortage of affordable housing in the Twin Cities area, so they developed their site into a mobile home park. As it was on the early highway between St. Paul and Hudson, Landfall developed several businesses, including a truck stop, restaurant, and nursery, most of which left when Interstate 94 was put through and access became limited.
In the early 1990s the mobile home park was in danger of being bought up by a developer who wished to build a shopping mall or luxury housing on the site. The Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority came to the rescue by purchasing the city and preserving its low-income housing. In 1997 the County Authority sold Landfall to the Landfall Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
The City of Landfall has an area of only 52.8 acres, 11 acres of which are the waters of Tanner’s Lake, making it the county’s smallest community.
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Publishing 'that' book
Publishing String Too Short to be Saved
Donald Hall Poet
41. Going to England for a year 329 06:55
42. Getting the money together to go to England: meeting Henry Moore 310 01:48
43. String Too Short to Be Saved and interviewing TS Eliot 530 01:44
44. Interviewing Ezra Pound 735 05:02
45. Ezra Pound: lonely and misunderstood 534 05:52
46. Working for the BBC and Wednesday drinks in London 329 02:20
47. Publishing String Too Short to be Saved 336 01:19
48. Publishing 'that' book 348 04:35
49. A job offer from The New Yorker and a profile of Henry... 356 04:10
50. Writing a play based on the life of Robert Frost 309 01:24
After that first year in Thaxted which was such a full year, I came back with the manuscript of String Too Short to be Saved - all finished - and I sent it into The Viking Press, and they took it, with some enthusiasm. But it... it's a small book - it seemed huge at the time, my first prose book - and well, limited subject... a boy spends summers on the farm with his grandfather. When I began writing it, I sent the first chapter to The New Yorker - they did a lot of reminiscence at that time... memoir - and they sent it back with a nice letter. And I think I sent them a second chapter, same thing, I tried a third chapter some place - got rejected. So I decided, OK, it's not periodical stuff, I'll just make it a book. I came back with the book, and Viking took it, and scheduled it, and made a bound galley, sent it around, and one of the people they sent it to was EB White, in Maine. He was no longer active with The New Yorker but he was very connected with it, and he loved it.
The 14th US Poet Laureate Donald Hall (1928-2018) was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, then earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1951 and a BLitt, from Oxford in 1953. He published many essays and anthologies of both poetry and prose including String too Short to be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, Without: Poems, and Ox-Cart Man, a children's book which won the Caldecott Medal. Hall was editor of the magazine Oxford Poetry, literary editor of Isis, editor of New Poems, and poetry editor of The Paris Review. He won many awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Robert Frost Medal. At the end of his first Oxford year, he also won the university's Newdigate Prize, awarded for his poem Exile.
Title: Publishing "String Too Short to be Saved"
Listeners: Kendel Currier
Kendel Currier started working for Donald Hall in August of 1994 as his correspondence typist. Later she took on his manuscript typing as well, and in October of 1998 moved 100 meters down the road from Donald and became his personal assistant, adding many various new tasks to her work. As well as working for Donald for the last 10 and-a-half years, Donald Hall and Kendel Currier share a set of great (or for Kendel great-great) grandparents, making them distant cousins and part of a similar New Hampshire heritage.
Tags: String Too Short to be Saved, Thaxted, The Viking Press, The New Yorker, Maine, EB White
Duration: 1 minute, 20 seconds
Date story recorded: January 2005
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TNA Impact Wrestling Review - September 16, 2015
Drew Galloway puts away Brian Meyers for the win.
Dixie Carter and Jeff Jarrett Signed the Contract for Their Lethal Lockdown Match
This wasn't a bad promo exchange by any means, but it didn't pack the punch that it should have considering all that was on the line in the main event. I appreciated the effort to make it "personal" between the two by bringing up real life instances, but it wasn't anything we haven't heard before and quite frankly I don't care about the backstage politics. I don't want to go so far as to say this segment failed in hyping up the main event, but its sole purpose was to build anticipation for Lethal Lockdown and I can safely say I wasn't any more excited for the main event than I was before.
Mahabali Shera def. Abyss
While Shera might be over with the audience, he is still very much a work in progress in the ring. He reminds me of The Great Khali in that way, and no, not just because he's Indian. He connects with the crowd, but there's not much to him beyond that and this match was a prime example. It wasn't very good and only James Storm's interference peaked my interest. By the way, didn't he leave the company, like, three months ago? Why is he still here?
Brooke and Gail Kim battle for the Knockouts title.
Rockstar Spud Interrupted TNA World Heavyweight Champion Ethan Carter III
EC3 is perfectly suited for being the over-the-top boss of Hardy, and while Hardy plays his role well, the storyline jumped the shark when EC3 said Hardy "needed" the job as his assistant. Is his job in TNA at stake as well? Am I missing something? There's no way Hardy's house is on the verge of foreclosure like Big Show's was back in 2013, which may I mind you was an awful angle. On the bright side, Spud is an exceptional talker and carried the bulk of this segment. It's a shame he's not booked better because fans would see him as a bigger threat to take the title from EC3 next week.
Gail Kim def. Brooke, Awesome Kong and Lei'D Tapa in a Fatal 4-Way Match to Win the Knockouts Championship
As I've said before, multi-person matches tend to be hit or miss more often than not, and this was more of a miss than it was a hit. The action was all over the place and chaotic, which is usually fine, but the four-way feud wasn't built up enough for this match to feel like a major happening. Plus, if Kim was going to pin Brooke to win the title, why not just have her win the championship last week when they went one-on-one? I was more puzzled by that than anything else.
Team TNA (Drew Galloway, World Tag Team Champions The Wolves, Lashley and Bram) def. Team GFW (Jeff Jarrett, Chris Modertzky, Sonjay Dutt, Brian Meyers and Eric Young) in a Lethal Lockdown Match for Ownership of the Company
Lethal Lockdown matches confuse me. Pinfalls and submissions don't go into affect until everyone is in the ring, so I couldn't have cared less about all the brawling that went on before it. Bram was an interesting choice for the fifth member of Team TNA. On one hand, he's been long overdue for push, but it couldn't come at a worse time with him being, you know, arrested. TNA winning hardly resonated with this viewer because it was never made out to feel like a big deal and GFW was barely a threat to TNA.
And just like that, the GFW Invasion is over! Thank the lord, but at the same time, what a waste of time that was. These invasion angles never work and that was my main concern coming into this thing. Why wouldn't they blow it off at their biggest show of the year in a few short weeks? That's my other issue: What kind of card can they pull out in less than a month? I guess it doesn't even matter as this wouldn't be the first time TNA has neglected Bound for Glory. Anyway, this was a quick and painless show for the most part and certainly not as bad as some other episodes we've gotten in recent weeks.
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GT3 CUP
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Wright Motorsports Confirms IMSA Sprint Entry with Imperato and Bleekemolen
BATAVIA, Ohio, (February 28, 2020) – After previously announcing the purchase of two Porsche 911 GT3 R cars for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Wright Motorsports will now enter the second Porsche in the WeatherTech Sprint Cup, beginning with April’s Grand Prix of Long Beach. Anthony Imperato, who is also racing in the No. 16 Wright Motorsports 1st Phorm Porsche for the four endurance races on the calendar, will be joined in the No. 91 Henry Repeating Arms Porsche with sports car racing veteran Jeroen Bleekemolen.
“We’re excited to be getting our second Porsche on track to begin the WeatherTech Sprint Cup championship,” said Team Owner John Wright. “Anthony has done a great job in the endurance side of our program, and after Sebring, he’ll now get to run the Sprint events in his own car. Jeroen will be a fantastic addition to the program as our Pro driver, and we expect to be strong contenders for the title.”
Imperato started the season with the Rolex 24 at Daytona, where he, Patrick Long, Ryan Hardwick, and Klaus Bachler earned a fourth place finish in the No. 16 car. Next month, Long, Hardwick, and Imperato will compete in the Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway, the second of four endurance events on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar calendar. The eight WeatherTech Sprint Cup events will include two street circuits and six of North America’s most prestigious road courses.
“I’m looking forward to the IMSA Sprint Cup season with Wright Motorsports in the Henry Repeating Arms Porsche,” said Imperato. “It’s an awesome opportunity to be driving with Jeroen. He will be a great addition to the team, and I think we will have some success this year. I can’t wait to get started in Long Beach.”
Jeroen Bleekemolen will bring a wealth of sports car racing experience to the team, holding professional sports car racing wins from all over the world. The 2008 and 2009 Porsche Supercup Champion also holds wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as other 24 hour events including Nürburgring, Dubai, and Circuit of the Americas. The two time American Le Mans Series GTC champion, and three time North American Endurance champion has also clinched wins at iconic events such as the Twelve Hours of Sebring, Bathurst and Abu Dhabi.
“It’s great to be able to join Wright Motorsports and Anthony for the IMSA GTD Sprint Cup,” said Bleekemolen. “I have raced against Wright a lot, so I know just how good the team is. Anthony has been showing great speed and development, it will be nice to work together. I really like the sprint race calendar with some classic track and events. The competition will be very hard but we should be able to fight at the front of the field. I’m really excited to get started at Long Beach.”
Henry Repeating Arms, one of the leading rifle and shotgun manufacturers in the United States, will return as Imperato’s primary sponsor for 2020. The company is also known for its charitable endeavors under its Guns For Great Causes program, which focuses on sick children, both individual cases and children’s hospitals, veteran and wounded veteran organizations, Second Amendment and wildlife conservation organizations.
The streets of Long Beach, California will host the Grand Prix of Long Beach April 17-18. The DPi, GTLM, and GTD classes will run for one hour, 40 minutes on the tight and challenging temporary street course. The race will air Saturday, April 18th at 5:00PM eastern on NBCSN.
Event Preview: Roar Before the 24
Wright Motorsports to Compete in Michelin Pilot Challenge in 2021
Back with the Wright Stuff: Wright Motorsports Reveals 2021 IMSA Program
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NFL's latest 'Say Their Stories' PSA features Colts Darius Leonard
Leonard, who has been vocal about racial inequalities, narrates the PSA and discusses his experience of being racially profiled at a restaurant.
Credit: AP
Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Darius Leonard (53) intercepts a pass by Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark LoMoglio)
Author: WTHR.com staff
Published: 10:09 AM EST January 9, 2021
Updated: 10:10 AM EST January 9, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — The NFL is premiering its most recent installment of the league’s Say Their Stories series highlighting what the phrase "Black Lives Matter" means to Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard.
Say Their Stories is a season-long NFL initiative to continue the theme of social justice and raise awareness of systemic racism that has resonated throughout the nation, amplifying the names and stories of victims of police brutality through the voices of players.
Leonard, who has been vocal about racial inequalities in our country, narrates the piece and discusses his experience of being racially profiled last year at a restaurant with his family, which ultimately inspired his decision to wear the statement “All Black Lives Matter” on the back of his helmet this season.
“We need people to really just listen. Listen and understand our pain," said Leonard about his participation in the initiative. "They never feel our pain and why we hurt so much. Why are we saying 'Black lives matter?' We just want you to understand. If you can just listen to one story and tell your kids that (racial profiling) is not the right thing to do, that's what it's going to have to take because kids learn from their parents. As long as parents tell their kids that this is not the right way to do things, then the world will change.”
“Yes, all lives do matter, but Black lives – right now – those are the ones that really need help.”
Watch the PSA in the video below.
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Japan storm victims felt worst had passed, then floods came
by: KAORI HITOMI and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
Kazuo Sato shows the flood water level of his house as he cleans up Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Kawagoe City, Japan. Typhoon Hagibis dropped record amounts of rain for a period in some spots, according to meteorological officials, causing more than 20 rivers to overflow. Some of the muddy waters in streets, fields and residential areas have subsided. But many places remained flooded, with homes and surrounding roads covered in mud and littered with broken wooden pieces and debris. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
KAWAGOE, Japan (AP) — After the worst of Typhoon Hagibis passed over this town north of Tokyo, Kazuo Saito made sure there was no water outside his house and went to bed.
He woke up a few times throughout the night to check, but by the time he woke for good on Sunday morning, the view outside his window was almost unrecognizable.
“There was a huge river flowing in front of me,” the 74-year-old said.
The storm, which made landfall in the Tokyo region late Saturday, had dumped record amounts of rain that caused rivers to overflow their banks, some of them damaged. It turned many neighborhoods in Kawagoe into swamps.
Crews were working across central and northern Japan on Monday to dig through mudslides and search riverbanks for those missing in the storm, which killed dozens of people and left thousands of homes on Japan’s main island flooded, damaged or without power. Some 30,000 people were in evacuation centers.
More than 200 rivers overflowed and inundated the typhoon-hit areas, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation. Hagibis caused damage to extensive areas, most likely because it hardly lost strength due to warmer-than-usual sea temperatures and became a super-sized typhoon, unlike usual autumn typhoons that wane while traveling north, experts said.
Saito, wearing work clothes and long rubber boots, said he was determined not to evacuate ahead of the storm or on Sunday despite the floodwaters because “this is my only home.” His wife, Sumiko, thought evacuating at that point was too late and more dangerous.
“I was terrified and my knees trembled,” she said.
As they waited, the waters gradually subsided, and on Monday they were able to come down from the second floor of their home. They were cleaning their dirt-covered front yard and sorting out mementos and furniture that were damaged when floodwaters reached nearly the ceiling of their garage.
“If I had known the water was to come this high, I could have evacuated them inside the house,” Kazuo Saito said.
The storm was the worst Saito could recall in all his years in Kawagoe. He said a tropical storm in 1999 that flooded more than 3,000 homes had floodwaters that were only waist-high.
“This time, it came up to here,” he said, raising his arm above his head and pointing to the dark line left by the water
At a nearby nursing home, dozens of residents were evacuated on rubber boats Monday, city officials said. On Sunday, more than 120 residents of Kings Garden, another care home for the elderly, were taken to safer facilities.
Hisako Satake, 87, who was among those evacuated from Kings Garden, was brought to a nearby elementary school where about 20 others had also taken shelter.
She said that when the floodwaters started seeping into the ground floor of her nursing home, she and other residents were escorted to a chapel on the second floor. They then lost running water and electricity.
“It was a bit of surprise,” Satake said, sitting on a folded futon mattress on the school gymnasium floor. “So we prayed, and that helped us to stay calm.”
Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo.
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Memorial service for Lisa McGarvin wil be held at 1:00 p.m., Friday, February 7, 2020 at Gillette Memorial Chapel with Pastor Paul Baughman officiating. Lisa Ruth McGarvin was born on January 30, 1959, in Worland, Wyoming and died on January 31, 2020, with loved ones by her side after a short illness. Lisa's love for her family, friends, and animals touched many during her 61 years. Lisa worked as a paralegal at Daly & Sorenson at the time of her death. She was a grandmother, mother, stepmother, sister, daughter, and a dear friend to many. In 2012, she moved back to Gillette, Wyoming to be close to her family, especially her grandchildren. Lisa was a very proud mother and grandmother. Lisa shared the last 7 years with the love of her life, Danny Hoekstra, and was a stepmother to Shalayna and Chelsea. She is survived by her three adult children and five grandchildren. Tara Twomey (Shannon) and Kayleb (18), Ashlee Fischer (Joe) and Clara (7), Carson (5), and Cadee (2), Hunter Mills (Alli) and Arlo (2). She is also survived by her dad, Larry McGarvin, and siblings Jeff McGarvin (Kathy), Lucinda McGarvin, Melissa O'Melia (Bill), and Jillian Balow (John). Lisa was greeted in heaven by her mom, Susan McGarvin, her nephew Drennen O'Melia and many, many four-legged pets that she rescued and adopted. Memorials may be made in Lisa's name to benefit Fur Kids Foundation or Drennan's Dreams Foundation. Memorials and condolences may be sent in care of Gillette Memorial Chapel 210 West 5th Street, Gillette, WY 82716. Condolences may also be expressed at http://www.gillettememorialchapel.com
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Politics, The Pledge And A Peculiar History
By S.V. Dáte
Published September 11, 2012 at 2:33 PM EDT
A woman recites the Pledge of Allegiance at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 29.
When Mitt Romney uses the Pledge of Allegiance as a metaphor for all that's good and right with America, how many in his audience know that the two-sentence loyalty oath was penned not by the Founding Fathers in 1776, but a fascist preacher more than 100 years later?
Or that the original recommended posture was with a straightened arm raised upward and outward? Or that it was changed to the hand over the heart during World War II after the Nazis adopted the original as their salute?
Every so often in politics, the pledge gets wrapped up in a legal battle or a political campaign, often with the conservative candidate or group suggesting the other side is anti-American or anti-God. And each time, the actual history of the pledge is either ignored entirely or glossed over.
On Saturday in Virginia Beach, Va., Romney unveiled a strategy of using the pledge to highlight his vision for the country and to criticize President Obama — in part for the Democratic Party's short-lived exclusion of the word "God" from the platform approved at its convention last week.
On Monday in Mansfield, Ohio, Romney again kicked off his stump speech by focusing line-by-line on the words of the pledge, reports NPR's Ari Shapiro.
Despite keen interest in the pledge's concepts, its origins are not likely to come up in any modern political speech.
Fenno Jacobs / Library of Congress
Schoolchildren in Southington, Conn., recite the Pledge of Allegiance in 1942, around the time the custom of placing a hand over the heart replaced the original hand position.
Francis Bellamy was a minister who was thrown out of his Baptist post because of sermons describing Jesus as a socialist. He and novelist cousin Edward Bellamy both saw a future for the United States as a country in which the government controlled virtually every aspect of a person's life.
Francis Bellamy (who also wrote for a magazine underwritten by flag sales and therefore stood to gain by having schools require a flag salute each day) and his friends got President Benjamin Harrison to incorporate Bellamy's pledge into the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus' arrival in the New World. It has been recited in public schools ever since.
In 1954, amid anti-communist fervor, President Eisenhower and Congress added "under God" at the behest of a Presbyterian minister, George MacPherson Docherty. The Scottish immigrant became better known as a civil rights activist in later years, working with Martin Luther King Jr.
All this notwithstanding, the pledge has remained a recurring political hot button. Then-Vice President George H.W. Bush became its chief defender when running for president in 1988 against former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who had vetoed a bill requiring students to recite the pledge.
And many conservatives defended the pledge against legal challenges in recent years, winning federal appeals court rulings both in San Francisco and Boston.
Even some conservatives have noticed the seeming contradiction.
"It's ironic to see conservatives rally to such a questionable custom," Gene Healy, a Cato Institute scholar, wrote in 2003, when the California pledge case was originally in the news. "Why do so many conservatives who, by and large, exalt the individual and the family above the state, endorse this ceremony of subordination to the government? Why do Christian conservatives say it's important for schoolchildren to bow before a symbol of secular power? Indeed, why should conservatives support the Pledge at all, with or without 'under God'?"
S.V. Dáte is the congressional editor on NPR's Washington Desk.
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Shirish Dáte is an editor on NPR's Washington Desk and the author of Jeb: America's Next Bush, based on his coverage of the Florida governor as Tallahassee bureau chief for the Palm Beach Post.
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Typhoon: Songs For A Lost Childhood
Typhoon, the Portland, Ore. band led by Kyle Morton, features a dozen musicians playing precise and complicated arrangements.
Kyle Morton can trace his life as a songwriter back to a bug bite. Morton was bitten by a tick as a child, contracting a case of Lyme disease that went undiagnosed for years, even as it wreaked havoc on his body.
"It obliterated any sense of these monumental truths that I had as a kid: that I would grow up, that I would be strong and tall. That's something, on a personal level, I've been trying to come to terms with, this regret, or this feeling of loss, over a person I never became," Morton says. "So that's the only thing I find worthwhile to write about, because not only is it important to me, I think it's a feeling a lot of people can relate to — a sense of wanting to be something and not being able to achieve it."
Perhaps that's why, as an musician, Morton has overachieved in a way. Since the mid-2000s he has led the musical collective Typhoon, whose dozen or so members play rock and orchestral instruments and favor precise, complicated arrangements. Morton spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about the group's latest album, White Lighter. Click the audio link to hear more of their conversation.
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In Kansas City, Superfast Internet And A Digital Divide
KCUR | By Frank Morris
Published March 9, 2015 at 3:56 AM EDT
Since Google Fiber rolled out gigabit broadband in Kansas City four years ago, residents have enjoyed fast Internet connections, including what locals call "the world's fastest Starbucks."
Kansas City has some of the Internet's best service anywhere. Providers there jostle for customers who can now expect broadband that's about 100 times faster than the national average.
But, four years after Google Fiber landed in Kansas City, people are still trying to figure out just what to do with all that speed.
Kansas City's a modest, Midwestern place. Residents are proud of their barbecue and baseball team. But Aaron Deacon says that now there's something else: inexpensive, world-class Internet.
"Yeah, it's the best," he says. "Maybe Hong Kong's a little bit better than us, and Seoul."
Deacon runs KC Digital Drive, a group set up to make the most out ultra-high speed Internet available in the city for $70 a month. "You have faster Internet here than anyplace else, and you can get it for cheaper than anyplace else. Because Google chose this market to build out in first."
The network's still not done, but Internet connections running at close to one gigabit-per-second are easy to find.
"We're sitting at the world's fastest Starbucks," says Ilya Tabakh, the COO of Edge Up Sports, a website for sports stats and news. He points out that the coffee shop has laptops hooked up to Google Fiber and says the difference is most visible on YouTube.
"Click on a video, it's loaded," Tabakh says. "Click on another video, it's loaded. Click on another video, loaded. There is no waiting for anything."
But many users are left waiting for programs to make use of all of that speed. Running normal applications on gigabit Internet is like riding a bicycle on a NASCAR track. For the moment, only a lucky few have any access. Everybody else is still on dirt paths.
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An AT&T worker splices cable for the suburb of Overland Park. Last month, the company became the third provider broadly offering affordable gibabit Internet to residents.
Not much money can be made figuring out a 200-mile-per-hour bicycle, or to step back from the analogy, an application to maximize the massive broadband. Toby Rush, who runs a Kansas City biometrics startup called EyeVerify, says the apps will follow as access expands.
"When you can knock down the barriers — the roadblocks of near infinite bandwidth, real time, all the time, very cheap — it allows for a lot more digital things to happen, which is great for everybody," he says.
In the meantime, Rush says, Google has made gigabit speed standard in Kansas City. "Everyone else is following suit, just making this high-speed connectivity a commodity."
Mike Scott, the president of AT&T Kansas, stands by as workers splice fiber-optic cable before sinking it into someone's back yard. Last month AT&T became the third provider broadly offering affordable, one gig Internet here. Time Warner and other providers have also boosted speeds.
"It's a fiber war so to speak," he says. "We are literally standing in the trenches of a fiber war. And I think the customer ultimately wins in all this competition."
But not everyone's a customer. In some Kansas City neighborhoods only one in five households has any type of Internet connection, let alone a fast one. Michael Liimatta runs a nonprofit called Connecting for Good that's trying to change that.
"Our center here, you might consider it to be the front lines closing the digital divide in Kansas City," he says.
Folks from this low-income neighborhood come in and use Google Fiber for free, but no one has it in the huge housing project across the street. Liimatta says he's sometimes disappointed that some of the expectations that the city had in terms of universal adoption, and loads and loads of free bandwidth, "never came to be."
Not yet, anyway. Residents are still grappling with uses for super-fast Internet.
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Frank Morris has supervised the reporters in KCUR's newsroom since 1999. In addition to his managerial duties, Morris files regularly with National Public Radio. He’s covered everything from tornadoes to tax law for the network, in stories spanning eight states. His work has won dozens of awards, including four national Public Radio News Directors awards (PRNDIs) and several regional Edward R. Murrow awards. In 2012 he was honored to be named "Journalist of the Year" by the Heart of America Press Club.
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'Cheated' Out Of An Education: Book Replays UNC's Student-Athlete Scandal
Published March 23, 2015 at 6:46 PM EDT
UNC basketball fans storm the court after a win over Duke in 2014.
March Madness is college basketball's annual shining moment, and few schools have shone as bright or as long as the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels have been in 18 Final Fours and won the national championship five times, most recently in 2009.
But today, UNC's athletics are also known for something else entirely: a massive academic fraud scheme. In Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports, UNC history professor Jay Smith and Mary Willingham, who worked with UNC athletes as a learning specialist, detail the scheme and the attempts to cover it up.
They tell NPR's Robert Siegel about the scheme and the ways that many participating faculty members explain their involvement.
On how the scheme worked
Mary Willingham: Students were steered, or enrolled, by academic counselors — academic advisers that worked in the athletic department — to a lot of "paper classes" that were offered in the African-American studies department. And we traced the history of this system back, in the book, to the fall of 1988. I worked in the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes from 2003 to 2010, and I became aware of this system shortly after I arrived. ...
We told athletes to [go] to the African-American studies department, to the office manager, and get a prompt. And they would then go to the library or, with our assistance, just cut and paste from online material, or we would put something up on the screen that they would copy. And then they would just turn it in. No one really ever read them. They were always graded A or B.
On a course in which the professor only considered test questions the student answered — so, if a student only answered 11 questions out of 20, he was graded out of 11
Willingham:That was in our School of Ed, of all departments. [In] the School of Education, we had a gentleman who taught a class — it was about public schools and about public education and about education here in North Carolina. So ironic. Many, many athletes over the years took this class because it only met one night a week for three hours. Many of them slept through it or left at the break. And then there was just one test at the end, and you really only had to answer the questions that you knew or you thought you knew. And you would get a C or a B or an A. It depended on if he liked you or not. You know, you needed to make nice with him, too. It was ridiculous.
Jay Smith: Basketball players in particular are rumored to have done yardwork for this professor, to have had dinner at his house. He was very, very chummy with the athletes. That phenomenon of the "friendly faculty" member is universal. Every campus has some. And they represent curricular weak spots — soft spots that will be taken advantage of systematically.
On the common feeling among "friendly faculty" that they're helping student-athletes get through a doubly difficult college experience
Willingham:I worked with a lot of people, and I actually felt that way for a long time myself. I felt like at least I was, you know, giving the opportunity to these young men to come to college and have some sort of a college experience and play their sport, which they were happy doing. So yes, I understand the sentiment. I understand the feelings. But I'm a mother. I have three kids and I wouldn't want anyone to treat them the way that these young men — and the way that I participated in this system of fraud — I wouldn't want my kids to be treated this way.
On the difference between what happened at UNC and the easy classes any student might take
Willingham:The difference is that we needed to keep players eligible. These students ... their transcripts are littered with other pass-through classes in drama, in geology, in philosophy. Not just, you know, like maybe you or I, where we had some of those classes but we still had a major and got a decent education. The NCAA and its member institutions are promising these athletes a world-class education, and that's not what they're getting at all. Not even close.
On how much the Chapel Hill academic community knew about the scheme
Smith: There were varying levels of awareness. I mean, there were plenty of academics — the majority, I would say, across the campus — who knew nothing at all. But there were plenty others in and around that department who had administrative contact with that department in one way or another, who had to have been aware in one way or another. And some administrators, some deans, surely had to have suspected that something was amiss. But it was more convenient to look the other way.
On what sets the UNC scheme apart from what other universities have done to keep their athletes playing
Smith: We're No. 1 ... let's get that straight: UNC is No. 1. But these pressures are applied to university faculties all over the country — faculties and administrators — because it's the same game being played. What I think sets off the UNC case, in addition to being such a long-running scandal — 20 years-plus — is that our administrative leadership has been exceptionally reluctant to admit the meta-cause, the basic cause of all of the fraud, which is the need to keep athletes eligible. They just won't talk about it. ...
The current system is a mandate for fraud. It basically requires fraud and make-believe games.
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Trump Played A Low-Key Role In Weekend Shutdown Negotiations
By Scott Horsley
It is the first weekday of the partial government shutdown. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill worked through the weekend, trying to find some kind of compromise to reopen the government. President Trump also stuck close to his office. He canceled plans to travel to his Mar-a-Lago resort this weekend. Instead, he stayed behind at the White House during those negotiations. For more, we're joined by White House correspondent, NPR's Scott Horsley. Hey, Scott.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel.
MARTIN: What do we know specifically about the role that the president played in negotiations over the weekend?
HORSLEY: Well, we know it was a low-key role. He stayed largely out of sight during the weekend. The president did spend some time on the phone with the No. 2 Republicans in the Senate and the House, John Cornyn and Kevin McCarthy. His chief of staff was on the phone with Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader. And Marc Short at the White House legislative liaison was also on Capitol Hill last evening. But there was no big, you know, White House summit where he brought all the players together to sort of knock some heads, as Chuck Schumer had suggested he do at the end of the last week. This was a case where the guy whose face is on the cover of "The Art Of The Deal" apparently left the deal making to others.
MARTIN: So we know he was on the phone. We know that because the White House tweeted out this picture of the president at his desk in the Oval Office on the phone. The president, though, was pretty quiet on Twitter, which is extraordinary. So do we imagine that this was intentional to keep the president quiet?
HORSLEY: It's always risky, I think, to try to assign strategy to the president's Twitter feed. But, you know, you heard Senator Chris Coons talk earlier in the hour about the lack of trust. And this is a case where the negotiations are in a delicate stage. You could say this shutdown happened because of a lack of trust. Ending this shutdown is going to take some trust rebuilding, and it may be that the less the president is seen, the easier that is. The White House was also busy dealing with the mechanics of the shutdown over the weekend. For example, there was a flurry of activity over getting the sports channel on Armed Forces Network restarted so that men and women in uniform around the world could watch the NFL playoffs.
MARTIN: Right. Both Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Republican Lindsey Graham suggested that the president has not been a reliable negotiating partner and more specifically that the president's aides have been interfering in talks, especially when it comes to immigration - Senator Graham in particular calling out White House adviser Stephen Miller. Can you explain what his role has been in all this?
HORSLEY: That's right. Miller is a policy aide and a speechwriter for the president. And he used to be an aide to now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions when Sessions was in the Senate. Sessions and Miller are both hard-liners on immigration. Graham described Miller as an outlier for years. That was certainly true back in 2013 when they torpedoed a bipartisan immigration compromise. But it may be that the center of gravity in the GOP has moved in Miller's direction.
MARTIN: NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley. Thanks, Scott.
HORSLEY: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Rep. Adam Schiff Weighs In On How Memo Could Affect House Intelligence Investigation
Published February 2, 2018 at 4:29 PM EST
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Three days ago, the president said he would release it 100 percent. Today the White House authorized its declassification, and now the memo is out. This would be the memo from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee alleging that the FBI and Justice Department abused surveillance powers to target the Trump campaign and to spy on Trump adviser Carter Page. The memo says biased FBI agents didn't disclose that the evidence they used to get a warrant came out of paid Democratic opposition research, and that the former British spy who compiled that opposition research was, quote, "desperate that Trump not get elected."
Democrats and the intelligence community strongly objected to the release of this memo, including Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, who joins us now. Congressman Schiff, welcome.
ADAM SCHIFF: Thank you. It's good to be with you.
SHAPIRO: You've read the intelligence behind this memo, and you've said the final product that was made public today has dramatic omissions and Distortions. What are the biggest offenses in your view?
SCHIFF: Well, the biggest offense, frankly, is all that this leaves out. Now, there are some things that are in the memo that are just plain false. But the bigger problem is it gives you only cherry-picked facts from the FISA application. Now, you can imagine with any lengthy document you can pull a piece here and you can pull a piece there and you can use it to paint a portrait that would be critical of whoever wrote the document. And that's what they've done.
SHAPIRO: So are you saying there was other evidence besides the Steele dossier that went into the FISA application?
SCHIFF: Of course. And not only was there other evidence beside the Steele dossier, the way they characterize it as if the entire Steele dossier, including the salacious allegations of this video, were somehow submitted to the FISA court - that's not correct. There were portions of the work that Christopher Steele did that there were pertinent to Carter Page that were included, and some were corroborated. And there was a lot of other information presented about Carter Page, who had come to the attention of the FBI years before he had any affiliation with the Trump campaign, in connection with a Russian intelligence operation in New York. None of that is laid out in this document.
And the FBI and the Department of Justice are quite right. It's really not only reckless, but misleading for them to do this. The procedure they used to publish this document has never been used before, and for good reason. The Congress shouldn't be cherry-picking intelligence and publishing it for political reasons.
SHAPIRO: Of course, you and the Democrats on the committee have a rebuttal memo, which is still classified, and House Speaker Paul Ryan has said he supports releasing it. Have you been given any assurances about when or if your version of events will be made public?
SCHIFF: No, we haven't. We're going to try to force a vote on it on Monday. I think the Republicans know it's really unsustainable for them to claim they're doing this in the interest of transparency but refuse to let the country see the response to it. More than that, though, this whole idea that they're just doing appropriate oversight ignores the fact that we wanted - we, the Democrats, wanted the FBI to come in and have a chance to answer questions from the committee about anything the Republicans were raising, and they didn't want to hear the answers.
So if they had concerns about anything left out of the FISA application they could have asked the FBI, was this included or why it wasn't included? And the FBI would've had a chance to say, actually, we did include this information, and if you look here you'll see we did, and this other information wasn't known to us at the time. They could give explanations, but that's not really what the Republicans wanted.
SHAPIRO: You know, one lingering question is whether the White House had any role in the drafting of this memo. The committee chairman, Devin Nunes, refused to answer that question. Do you have any insight into that?
SCHIFF: Well, I don't. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me because this whole memo business is a continuation of what the chairman began when he went on that now-infamous midnight run to the White House and then later presented documents to the White House that he said he had discovered from some secret source only to find out that the documents he was presenting he had obtained from the White House. So...
SHAPIRO: And he then recused himself from the Russia investigation.
SCHIFF: He was forced to recuse himself but never really did. And he really should have. And I think his continued participation in the investigation just brings discredit upon it. We...
SHAPIRO: And in the final seconds we have, your colleagues, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have called on the speaker to remove Congressman Nunes as intelligence committee chair. Do you agree with them?
SCHIFF: I do agree with them, although considering the fact that the speaker of the House, who makes that decision, wasn't willing to weigh in when the FBI said that this was and the Department said this was extraordinarily reckless - tells you that the speaker is not going to look out for the - not only the institution, but the interest of justice. This rule presupposes that the president will exercise discretion if Congress should ever use the process, but clearly here you have a president who simply didn't care.
SHAPIRO: Congressman Schiff, thank you very much.
SCHIFF: Thank you.
SHAPIRO: Congressman Adam Schiff of California is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Biden's Victory Cemented As States Reach Deadline For Certifying Vote Tallies
By Miles Parks
Published December 8, 2020 at 5:00 AM EST
A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds up his mobile phone to display the electoral college map outside the Philadelphia Convention Center after the 2020 presidential election is called on Nov. 7 in Philadelphia.
It may come and go without much fanfare, but on Tuesday, the U.S. will pass a key deadline cementing President-elect Joe Biden's victory as the forty-sixth president.
The day, Dec. 8, is known as the "safe harbor" deadline for states to certify their results, to compel Congress to accept those results.
Most Americans see Election Day as the end of the long political season aimed at choosing new federal leadership, but it's really only the beginning.
On Nov. 3, voters actually voted for which Electoral College electors to represent them, not for the Presidential candidates themselves. Those electors then meet and cast votes, which are counted and finalized by Congress.
"The Electoral College is pretty complicated because it's a process," said Rob Alexander, a political science professor at Ohio Northern University, and the author of a book on the Electoral College. "It's not one thing, it's not one event."
Court losses have continued to pile up for President Trump, and experts have already written off his ongoing crusade against the presidential election results as a disinformation campaign.
Tuesday's deadline further limits what Trump's allies in Congress can do in terms of contesting the results.
The process is continuing but what's been clear for a month, is still clear: Joe Biden will be the next president.
Poorly written legislation
The Tuesday deadline was put in place by a piece of 130-year old legislation widely criticized as "almost unintelligible."
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 came as a reaction to the presidential election of 1876, which saw Democrat Samuel Tilden win the popular vote, but ultimately lose the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes due to contested election results coming from three Southern states under the control of Reconstruction governments.
Congress had no rules in place to deal with such a scenario, so it created an ad-hoc commission to decide the presidency, and then passed the ECA afterward to avoid similar situations in the future.
The legislation is "extraordinarily complex" and "far from the model of statutory drafting" according to an analysis by the National Task Force on Election Crises, but it does create a clearer timeline for when states need to have their election results finalized.
Electoral College electors are scheduled to meet in states across the country on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December (Dec. 14 this year) to cast their votes.
And if a state has finalized its results six days before then, according to the ECA, then those results qualify for "safe harbor" status — meaning Congress must treat them as the "conclusive" results, even if, for example, a state's legislature sends in a competing set of results.
Most states have already certified their results, and all are scheduled to be completed by Tuesday.
"If a state can conclude its process of appointing electors by that [safe harbor deadline] then Congress is bound by federal law to accept the slate of electors that is arrived upon by that date," said Rebecca Green, the co-director of the Election Law program at William and Mary.
Both Green and Alexander, of Ohio Northern, said they expect a few "faithless electors" to vote on Dec. 14 for a different candidate than voters chose, but nowhere near enough to affect the underlying result.
A majority of states have some sort of state law that either removes, penalizes, or cancels the votes of such errant electors, and the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of such rules earlier this year.
Trump allies in Congress may still look to stir drama during the Electoral vote counting on Jan. 6, but a Biden presidency at this point is virtually certain.
Despite Trump's insistence that there was a widespread cheating scheme and therefore the results need to be overturned, no evidence to support that theory has come to light, Green noted.
"We saw in the instance of the courts that the answer was 'no,' barring credible evidence," Green said. "And I have no reason to believe that the institution of Congress will not follow that similar path."
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Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution
By Dustin Jones
Published January 12, 2021 at 5:15 PM EST
Top Pentagon officials have issued a message to the troops that they must defend the Constitution and that last week's violence was a direct assault on it.
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded American forces Tuesday of their oath to defend the Constitution following the attacks on the Capitol building last week.
The letter was addressed to The Joint Force, which is made up of about 1.3 million active duty service members and more than 811,000 National Guard and reservists — all of whom swore an oath to "Support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." The oath has stood since America's founding nearly 250 years ago.
"The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process," the memorandum said. "We witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection."
The Joint Chiefs emphasized in the letter that President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, becoming the 46th Commander in Chief, and any acts to disrupt the constitutional process not only violate military values, but the law.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff is made up of the top eight military officials in the country. It includes the chair and vice chair, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Operations and the National Guard Bureau. Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was appointed by President Donald Trump last December. He and the other members are military advisors to the president, the secretary of defense and the National Security Council.
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Bill Belichick on Tom Brady: Quarterback's departure 'water under the bridge' as Patriots prepare for draft
Nate Davis / USA TODAY
Bill Belichick still isn't in any mood to talk about Tom Brady.
Monday, the New England Patriots coach held a pre-draft conference call, the first time he'd spoken to reporters since Jan. 5 – the day after the perennial AFC East champs' wild-card loss to the Tennessee Titans.
That playoff ouster also will represent the final time Brady, now a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Belichick deemed his departure "water under the bridge" – suited up for the team that he led to nine Super Bowls and six Lombardi Trophies after New England drafted him in 2000.
"It would be of course impossible to sum up everything that Tom did in 20 years into a comment, then or now," said Belichick, "and I’m sure we’ll be talking about him for years and decades to come. For right now, we’re moving forward and focused on the draft here for this call, and that’s really where our attention has been and will continue to be is to put the best team (together) in 2020."
Back in January, Belichick – Mr. "We're on to Cincinnati," his mantra intended to keep the Patriots always looking ahead – wanted to talk about the loss to the Titans, not Brady's future. Now it's all about the draft, not reflecting on Brady's contributions over two stellar decades in Foxborough.
In between, on March 17, Belichick did say this of Brady, after he announced his intention to leave the Patriots: "Tom and I will always have a great relationship built on love, admiration, respect and appreciation. Tom’s success as a player and his character as a person are exceptional. Nothing about the end of Tom’s Patriots career changes how unfathomably spectacular it was. With his relentless competitiveness and longevity, he earned everyone’s adoration and will be celebrated forever. It has been a privilege to coach Tom Brady for 20 years.
"Sometimes in life, it takes some time to pass before truly appreciating something or someone but that has not been the case with Tom. He is a special person and the greatest quarterback of all-time."
Yet now, Belichick is unsurprisingly planning for life after Brady, second-year quarterback Jarrett Stidham currently the only quarterback listed on the team's roster. Veteran Brian Hoyer has agreed to return to the team in 2020, however his signing has yet to be officially announced.
Stidham threw only four passes in three brief appearances as a rookie but seems likely to get first crack at taking over for TB12.
Belichick admitted Monday that the team will have to alter its approach after designing the offense around Brady for so many years.
"Over the last two decades, everything we did, every single decision we made in terms of major planning, was made with the idea of how to make things best for Tom Brady," said Belichick.
"Each quarterback has a different skill set, and whatever things that particular player does well, we’ll try to work towards and feature, or at least give him an opportunity to do those. And the things that either he doesn’t do well or needs more experience at or whatever the case might be, then we’ll try to minimize or until those things improve, work around them."
The Patriots hold the 23rd pick of next week's NFL draft but don't pick again until No. 87, deep in the third round. Among this year's top passing prospects, Oregon's Justin Herbert and Utah State's Jordan Love are the most realistic targets, but either might require a move up in Round 1.
Predictably, Belichick spoke in generalities about this year's incoming crop of passers, which includes LSU's Joe Burrow, Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa, Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts, Georgia's Jake Fromm and Washington's Jacob Eason.
"There’s quite a range of players and some of the systems that they play in in college are different, either than what we run or what traditional NFL systems would look like," said Belichick.
"There are always a variety of things you have to try to put together and look at, but certainly there’s a lot of interesting players and guys who have really good arms, can really throw the ball and some very athletic players, some players that have won a lot of games and have shown their competitiveness and instinctiveness. So, interesting group and probably one that has decent depth to it."
Burrow is expected to be the first pick off the board to the Bengals, while Tagovailoa is widely projected as a top-five selection.
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Looking for Tameside's sports heroes
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DO you know anyone who deserves recognition for their contribution to local sport?
Active Tameside is looking for sports achievers, coaches, clubs and volunteers who have made a difference to sport in the borough.
Sports fans have just four weeks to submit their nominations for the Pride of Tameside Awards - nominations will close on 6 August.
Shortlists will be drawn up and those who have been nominated will be invited to the awards ceremony on 22 September at Dukinfield Town Hall. The winners of the borough’s sports awards will then go on to represent Tameside at the Greater Manchester Sports Awards, which will be held in November 2017.
Active Tameside want to make sure that Tameside has a squad of strong entries, to take on the rest of Greater Manchester at the awards finals.
The eight categories for which people and clubs can be nominated are: Coach of the year; Sports achiever of the year; Disabled sports achiever of the year; Alex Williams volunteer of the year; School commitment to PE and School Sport award; Unsung hero of the year; Club of the year and the Changing lifestyle special recognition award.
Mark Tweedie, Chief Executive of Active Tameside, said: "The borough has hundreds of fantastic sports stars and inspirational unsung heroes who dedicate hundreds of hours to helping people take part in sports.
"This is your opportunity to say ‘thanks’ to the unsung heroes and ‘well done’ to the sports stars who’ve done something remarkable in their chosen sport – or sports.
"It’s really simple to make a nomination and it’s a great way to recognise coaches, volunteers, managers, trainers, the chairs and presidents of sports club, treasurers, secretaries, mentors, teams and individuals; in fact, anyone who’s contributed to sporting activity in the borough.
"We’ve had many different sports represented in previous years, including archery, athletics, ten pin bowling and cycling. Entering is easy and anyone can nominate a Tameside sports star who they believe is a winner."
To find out more and submit a nomination, visit: http://www.activetameside.com/pride-tameside-sport-awards-2/
For more information, contact Andrew Dwyer, Head of Education & Sport, tel: 0161 393 2209.
Active Tameside is the brand name for Tameside Sports Trust, a not-for-profit organisation that runs health and leisure facilities across the borough of Tameside. It partners with a wide range of local agencies and organisations to make health and fitness facilities accessible for all.
Website: www.activetameside.com
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These General Terms (the "Terms") state the rules that apply to the sales transactions facilitated by Yumasoft Inc. having a principal place of business at 245 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York, USA, 10532 (the "Company") through the cloud based all-in-one Point-of-Sale (POS) system YumaPOS and its components (the "Software"). The Software comprises: (i) POS terminal software; (ii) the customer downloadable web application YUMA and related application software, including an application aggregator and branded individual applications provided by the Company; (iii) back office software; (iv) plug-ins; (v) a kitchen management application; (vi) a driver mobile application; (vii) a warehouse mobile application; (viii) a store mobile application; and (ix) other related components.
Except to the extent expressly provided otherwise, in these Terms:
"Store" (collectively referred to as "Stores") means a natural or legal person selling or intending to sell goods through the Software.
"License" means a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable commercial license to use the current version of the Software.
"Customer" (collectively referred to as "Customers") means a natural or legal person using the Application for the purposes of purchasing one or more Goods from Stores through the Application in accordance with the terms of the User License Agreement available at http://www.yumamart.com/terms-of-use-agreement.html.
"Application" means the customer downloadable web application YUMA and related application software, including an application aggregator and branded individual applications provided by the Company.
"Goods" means goods and services featured through the Software and the Application and offered by Stores for sale to Customers.
"Order" (collectively referred to as "Orders") means a request made by a Customer to a Store through the Application for purchasing and delivering one or more Goods.
"Prices" means the prices of Goods inserted by Stores in the Software and displayed to Customers through the Application, excluding delivery costs.
The "Websites" means the group of websites related to the Software and operated by the Company, including www.yumapos.com, www.yumapos.in, www.yumamart.com, www.yumapos.co.uk,www.yumamart.ru and www.yumapos.ru.
2.1 The Company, Stores, and Customers warrant that they have the legal right and authority to consent to these Terms, to exercise their rights, and to perform their obligations under these Terms.
2.2 By placing Orders online through the Application and receiving confirmatory notices from the selected Stores, Customers conclude sale contracts with the selected Stores.
2.3 The Company merely facilitates the sales of Goods and does not sell any Goods itself. The Company disclaims any responsibility for the availability, accuracy, truthfulness, suitability, quality, and delivery of Goods.
2.4 The visual information featured in the Software and the Application about Goods is displayed for reference purposes only and cannot convey reliable information about the properties and characteristics of Goods, including their color, size, and shape.
2.5 Amendment. The Company reserves the right to amend these Terms from time to time by making the modified version available to Customers and Stores in writing. If a Customer continues using the Application after the modified version is made available to it, it agrees to be bound by the amended Terms. If a Store continues using the Software after the modified version is made available to it, the Store agrees to be bound by the amended Terms.
2.6 Intellectual Property. All title and copyrights in and to the Application and the Software (including, but not limited to, any images, photographs, animations, video, audio, music, text, and applets, incorporated into the Application and the Software) are owned by the Company, excluding intellectual property owned by Stores. The Intellectual property of the Company is protected by intellectual property laws of the United States and applicable international treaties and cannot be used in any way without obtaining a prior written consent from the Company.
2.7 Assignment. The rights and obligations of the Company under these Terms may be freely assigned to any third parties without the consent of Customers and Stores. These Terms shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Company.
3. Subject of the Terms
3.1 The Company provides the Application to Customers for the following purposes:
Featuring information about Goods made available by Stores to Customers, including the Prices and characteristics of Goods;
Placing Orders through the Application and transmitting Orders to the respective Store for further processing;
Informing Customers about the progress of their Orders;
Providing Customers with online payment facilities enabling them to purchase Goods;
Allowing Customers to receive news, offers, and promotions from Stores and the Company that can be of interest to Customers;
Contacting Customers with regard to the use of the Application.
3.2 The Company provides the Software to Stores for the following purposes:
Displaying Goods for sale;
Facilitating the placement of Orders;
Automating the processes of customer service, accounting, and business management;
Displaying information related to: (1) the number of Goods held in stock by Stores; (2) completed sales transactions; (3) Customers’ contact information; (4) activities conducted by Stores’ employees; and (5) other indicators of business performance through the Software;
Providing Stores with information about Customer’s activities; and
Sending news, promotional material, and discount proposals that can be of interest to Stores.
3.3 Each Store shall sell Goods at the Prices as indicated in the Software and deliver Goods in a timely manner in accordance with these Terms.
3.4 Ownership. The ownership rights to the ordered Goods and the risk of accidental loss or damage passes to the Customer after the payment for the ordered Goods is successfully processed and the Customer receives the ordered Goods in its possession.
3.5 Each Store shall remain solely responsible for the timely delivery of Goods to Customers.
4. Rights & Obligations
4.1 Company’s obligations. The Company undertakes to collect and process Customers’ personal data strictly in accordance with the Privacy Policy available at https://www.yumapos.com/restaurant-pos/privacy/ .
4.2 Company’s rights. The Company reserves the following rights:
To cancel an Order if the Company has reasonable grounds to believe that the information provided by a Customer in relation to the Order is not true, accurate, complete and up to date;
To suspend or cancel Customer's account if the Company has reasonable grounds to believe that the Customer used the Application for illicit purposes or in a way that contradicts these Terms and other provisions of the documents indicated in Section 17.1 of these Terms;
To suspend or terminate the agreements with a Store if the Company has reasonable grounds to believe that that Store provides poor or unsatisfactory customer care. The Company shall notify the Store concerned about such a suspension or termination at least 30 calendar days in advance.
4.3 Stores’ obligations. Each Store undertakes to ensure its obligations under this Agreement and stipulated by the applicable law, including, but not limited to:
Each Store shall process Orders received through the Software and other orders received not through the Software according to equal quality and priority standards;
Each Store shall not assign lower priority to Orders received through the Software compared to orders that are not received through the Software;
Each Store shall update the status of Orders promptly and accurately through the Software, so that the Customer is notified about the status of the Order correctly.
4.4 Rights of each Store. Each Store the following rights:
To amend the Prices, delivery costs, payment and delivery terms, and other information related to Goods;
To refuse an Order without providing the respective Customer with a detailed explanation of the reasons of cancellation. In case of such a refusal, the Store should provide the Company with information about the reasons of the cancellation;
To request Customers to pay 50-100% of the Price in advance;
To inform Customers about the status of their Orders;
To send to Customers news, promotions, and offers that can be of interest to them;
To determine their working time and delivery time.
4.5 Customer’s obligations. Each Customer has the following obligations:
To carefully read, accept, and regularly review these Terms;
To provide true, accurate, complete and up to date information required for processing its Orders;
To pay the Price of the selected Goods and the delivery costs, including applicable additional transportation costs, displayed in the Application at the time when it places an Order.
4.6 Customer’s rights. The Customer has the following rights:
To use the Application after completing the registration process in accordance with User License Agreement available at http://www.yumapos.com/user-licence-agreement.html. Please note that Customer’s account information and login credentials cannot be transferred to third parties and the Customer is fully liable for losses and damages arising out of such transfers;
To receive marketing materials and advertising messages in the form of notices, e-mails, and newsletters, subject to the possibility to unsubscribe from such communications;
To submit public reviews about Stores and anonymous reviews about the Orders.
5.1 In no event shall the Company be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, loss of information, or any other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use the Software and the Application, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
5.2 The Company disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy, truthfulness, suitability, quality, and delivery of Goods ordered through the Application. The Company has no control over, and accepts no responsibility or liability for, the acts or omissions of Stores and Customers.
5.3 The Company may contribute to the settlement of disputes between Customers and Stores, but in no way has an obligation to do so.
6. Customer’s Account
6.1 In order to start using the Application, each Customer is requested to complete a registration process and create a user account (individually referred to as an "Account" and collectively as "Accounts") by providing true, accurate, current, and complete information. The Company shall not be responsible for the truthfulness, accuracy, currency, and completeness of the Customer’s information.
6.2 In order to create an Account, a Customer has to perform the following steps: (1) enter a phone number which will be used as a username when accessing the Application; (2) choose a password; (3) insert its name; (4) specify a temporary PIN code, if necessary; (5) read the User License Agreement; (6) click on the button "Register"; and (7) enter the confirmation code received by an SMS, if no PIN code has been created.
6.3 Customers must be at least age 18 in order to use the Application and create Accounts.
6.4 Each Account is connected to a specific phone number. If the Customer would like to register more than one Account, the Customer shall use more than one phone number. The Account is not transferable.
6.5 Each Customer shall agree to update its Account as soon as any changes in Customer’s contact information occur to ensure that the Account is up-to-date, true, accurate, current, and complete.
6.6 Accounts can be cancelled at any time through the Application or by contacting the Company.
6.7 The Company may, in its sole discretion, cancel the Account and terminate the use of the Application if the Company has a reason to believe that the Customer to which the Account relates violates these Terms and it is appropriate, necessary or desirable to do so.
6.8 Each Customer shall maintain its Account and login credentials in a secure and confidential manner and use a secure encrypted connection to communicate with the Company.
7. Placing Orders
7.1 Customers can place Orders by: (1) filling out the order forms available on the Websites; (2) filling out the order forms through the Application; (3) calling Stores by phone; or (4) visiting Stores directly.
7.2 Customers shall provide true, accurate, complete and up to date information necessary for executing their Orders.
7.3 Stores shall notify Customers about the acceptance of their Orders for further processing through one of the following means: (1) notifications in the Application; (2) SMS messages; (3) phone calls; (4) push notifications; or (5) changes in the status of Orders.
7.4 If, after placing an Order, a Customer does not receive a notification from the respective Store regarding the acceptance of its Order for further processing or does not see a change in the status of the Order for 60 minutes, the Customer can either cancel the Order or request more information about the Order by contacting the Store directly.
7.5 Customers can order only Goods that are displayed in the Application at the time of placing their Orders.
7.6 In case a Store cannot provide the required quantity, range, or quality of Goods due to a lack in stock or other reasons, the Store shall notify its Customers no later than 30 minutes from placing the Order. Customers who receive such notifications can either change the quantity or range of Goods contained in their Orders or cancel their Orders.
7.7 Customers have the right to request more information about Goods before placing Orders by contacting Stores directly through the Application or by phone.
7.8 Each Store shall process orders in accordance with an order list compiled by that Store.
7.9 Each Store shall inform its Customers about the estimated delivery timeframes applicable to their Orders.
7.10 Cancellation & Amendment. Each Customer may cancel or amend its Order before it has been dispatched for delivery. An Order cannot be amended or cancelled after it has been dispatched for delivery.
8. Delivery of Orders
8.1 Customers can pick up their Orders free of charge directly at the respective Stores (if the Stores indicate such a possibility through the Application). Orders can also be delivered to addresses specified in the Orders.
8.2 Each Store shall put reasonable efforts to deliver each and every Order within the estimated timeframe. However, please note that the estimated time frames for delivery provided by Stores are only non-binding estimates.
8.3 If Goods cannot be delivered to Customers due to Customers’ faults (e.g., incorrectly quoted contact information or a false Order), the Company reserves the right to suspend the Account and deprive such Customers from placing any orders in the future.
8.4 The delivery of ordered Goods will be made to the address specified in the Orders. If a Store cannot deliver an Order to the specified address, the Store shall promptly notify the respective Customer.
8.5 The delivery can be executed only if the minimum quantity of Goods is included in the Order. The minimum quantity of Goods which can be purchased from a Store shall be clearly communicated by that Store to its Customers.
9. The Prices
9.1 The Prices in the Application are displayed in the official currency of the country in which the Application is used. The applicable taxes depend on the laws of the respective country. The currency, the Prices and the applicable taxes (if any) are displayed through the Application at the moment a Customer is placing an Order. The Prices exclude delivery costs. The delivery costs (if any) shall be displayed before a Customer places its Order and added to the total price of the Order.
9.2 The Prices remain valid as long as they are indicated in the Application. The Prices are subject to change without prior notification to Customers. The Prices for placed Orders are not subject to change.
10.1 Customers can pay their Orders by using the following payment methods:
Cash payments. Cash payments are available upon the delivery of Goods to Customers by a courier or if Customers pick up Goods at Stores. Stores or couriers delivering Orders shall issue receipts confirming the acceptance of cash payments.
Non-cash payments. Non-cash payments can be made at Stores upon pickup of Goods by a bankcard (MasterCard, MasterCard Electronic, Visa, Visa Electron) possessed by Customers. Stores shall issue receipts confirming the acceptance of non-cash payments.
Payments through the Application. All payments for Goods through the Application will be processed by an online third party payment processor chosen by the respective Customer. The Company shall not be liable if the third party payment processor declines or refuses payments. Customers are solely responsible for quoting correct payment information required for completing their payment transactions. The Company does not store any payment information of Customers. In case the Company does not receive the required payment from a Customer through the Application, the Company shall promptly inform the Customer about the failed payment transaction and offer to use other payment methods. If the Customer fails to make the payment, the Order shall be cancelled.
10.2 Each Store may, at its sole discretion, choose the payment methods listed in Section 10.1 that it accepts for receiving payments for Orders.
10.3 Third party payment processors shall transfer the funds received from a Customer (minus the commissions applicable to the transaction) to the respective Store.
10.4 The Company does not interfere in the payment transactions carried out by the third party payment processors.
11. Return & Replacement
11.1 Customers may, to the extent allowed by the return policies of the respective Stores, send to Stores requests for replacements or returns.
12.1 The Company, Stores, and Customers are not responsible for any failure to perform their obligations under these Terms, if they are prevented or delayed due to Force Majeure events, including, but not limited to, riots, wars, earthquakes, floods, fire, power supply failures, and national strikes.
13. Term & Termination
13.1 For a Customer, these Terms come into force at the moment the Customer downloads the Application from the relevant marketplace (i.e., App Store and Google Play) and installs the Application on a mobile device. These Terms are in force until terminated.
13.2 For a Store, these Terms come into force at the moment the Store creates an account in the Software and concludes a software licensing agreement with the Company.
13.3 The Company may terminate these Terms upon a written notice to a Customer. A Customer may terminate these Terms at any time without a prior notice to the Company by deleting the Application and its all copies and components.
13.4 A Store may terminate these Terms by informing the Company in writing at least 30 calendar days before the date of termination. The Company may terminate these Terms by informing a Store in writing at least 30 calendar days before the date of termination.
14. Governing Law & Disputes
14.1 These Terms are governed by, interpreted and construed according to the laws of the United States. All disputes arising out of the Agreement shall be resolved under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States.
15. Contact Details
15.1 Any questions with regard to these Terms Agreement can be addressed to the Company by using the following contact details:
The Company: Yumasoft Inc.
Address: 245 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York, USA, 10532
E-mail: sales@yumasoft.com
Phone number: +1 (864) 990-1059
16.1 These Terms have been last amended on 18th of September 2017.
17.1 For more detailed information on the terms and conditions governing the use of the Software, please refer to the following documents:
The Privacy Policy available at https://www.yumapos.com/restaurant-pos/privacy/;
The Purchase, Payment, and Delivery Terms available at http://www.yumapos.com/terms-of-services-and-payments.html;
The User License Agreement available at http://www.yumapos.com/user-licence-agreement.html; and
The Software License Agreement (for Stores) available at http://www.yumapos.com/software-license-agreement.html.
17.2 By using the Software, you agree to be legally bound by the provisions of these Terms and the provisions of the documents mentioned in Section 17.1.
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WIN A JAGERMEISTER TAP MACHINE & A BOTTLE OF 70CL JAGERMEISTER
1.Eligibility: Promotion is open to residents of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) aged 18 years or over except for employees and their immediate families of Bestway Retail (Promoter), its agents or its affiliates, or anyone else professionally associated with this Promotion.
2. Promotional period: Start date 08/09/2020. Closing date is 15/09/2020 at Midday.
3. Winner Selection: 1 winner will be selected at random by an independent objective adjudicator.
4. Winner(s) Notification: Winner(s) will be contacted by the 31th December 2020. Prize entitlement will be withdrawn after a 14-day period starting from when the winner(s) have been announced. Following this the Promoter (Bestway Retail Ltd) may re-award the prize if no response from the winner(s) has been received during this time.
5. Prize: 1 x JAGERMEISTER TAP MACHINE; 1 x A BOTTLE OF 70CL JAGERMEISTER
6. In the event of circumstances outside the reasonable control of the Promoter, or otherwise where fraud, abuse, and/or an error (human or computer) affects or could affect the proper operation of this promotion, and only where circumstances make this unavoidable, the Promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend the promotion or these terms and conditions, at any stage, but will always endeavour to minimize the effect to participants in order to avoid undue disappointment.
7. The winner(s) will be requested to participate in publicity connected with the promotion without further notice. However, if the winner is under 25 years old or is deemed to look under the age of 25 the winner cannot be used in photographic publicity connected with the promotion but their name and county will be used.
8. There is no cash alternative available in whole or in part, except in circumstances outside its control, the Promoter reserves the right to substitute a similar alternative of equal or greater value.
9. Incomplete entries or entries not in accordance with the entry instructions are invalid.
10. The Promoter reserves the right to verify all entries including but not limited to asking for address and identity details (which they must provide within 14 days) and to refuse to award a prize or withdraw prize entitlement and/or refuse further participation in the promotion and disqualify the participant where there are reasonable grounds to believe there has been a breach of these terms and conditions or any instructions forming part of this promotions entry requirements or otherwise where a participant has gained unfair advantage in participating in the promotion or won using fraudulent means.
11. A list of winner’s full names and counties can be obtained by writing to the Promoter at the below address within 12 months of the closing date.
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Karma Warner Hinchcliff
August 12, 1927 ~ October 9, 2019 (age 92)
Karma Warner Hinchcliff, 92 of Idaho Falls, passed away October 9, 2019, at her home of natural causes.
Karma was born August 12, 1927, in Ogden, Utah, to Lester Grant Hinchcliff and Adella Warner Hinchcliff. She grew up in Ogden, attending school there and graduating from Ogden High School. Karma earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in education from University of Utah, Eastern Washington University and Northern Arizona University, respectively. She filled a variety of roles as an educator throughout her life.
Karma was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served three church missions in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Salt Lake City. She was an avid reader and also enjoyed travel, genealogy, gardening, and family.
On March 31, 1950, she married Edward Kenneth Mills Jr. in Ogden, Utah. Karma is survived by her son, Edward Kenneth (Karen) Mills of Ephrata, Washington; son, Gregory Chett (Kim) Mills of St. George, Utah; daughter, Robyn Lou (Greg) Horton of Idaho Falls, Idaho; daughter, Christy (Rick) Horton of Mesa, AZ; twenty-one grandchildren and forty-eight great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Lester Grant Hinchcliff, and sister, LuJean Carver.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. Friday, October 18, 2019, at the Idaho Falls Brentwood Ward, 2040 Brentwood Drive, with Bishop Grant Stone officiating. The family will visit with friends from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. prior to services. Burial will be the following day at the Leavitt Aultorest Memorial Park Cemetery in Ogden, Utah.
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Kristina Kothrakis – Criminal Lawyer
Kristina completed her degree at Monash University and also completed a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Psychology. She is fluent in Greek and volunteers at the Broadmeadows Community Legal Centre.
Where did you go recently that put Band-Aids on your feet?
Ahhhh, going to court every day.
So it’s not a party/new shoe injury then?
No, definitely not. I go to all different courts around Melbourne and I work through my shoes so quickly that I’m constantly wearing new ones and picking up blisters to match.
Criminal Law - you’ve chosen to defend people who have pleaded guilty?
I just think it’s such an important area of law. You’re dealing with really marginalised people that don’t have the skill set to represent themselves. It's not really about condoning poor behaviour it’s making sure the system is working correctly and everyone gets a fair go.
When did this direction come to you?
It happened after uni. I left my degree feeling pretty disenchanted actually. Monash Uni has a really strong emphasis on corporate law. They give you the sense that if you’re not going to do articles at the top tier firms, then you’re a bit of a waste. So, I really didn’t know what I was going to do after I finished uni. I did a double degree with Science. I kind of had some options open but I knew I wanted to be a lawyer at the end of it, I just didn’t know what one (laughs).
Science would have been an interesting combination with Law?
Yeah, not many people did it. But I did Science all through school and so I kind of had it in my head that I was into Science (laughs). Which actually I wasn’t (laughs). I wasn’t even very good at it, I don’t know what gave me that impression (laughs).
Do you still get a little nervous walking into court?
Yeah, but not nervous in the sense that, ‘Oh god I have to speak in front of all those people’, just nervous because I want to do a good job and I hope I can answer the questions that the judge might ask - that kind of nervous.
You defend and support the law for people who are marginalised and who are in that position where others want to dislike them (and sometimes you). Therefore you’re bearing the weight of people’s emotions and opinions but you have to use the law to stop that emotion dominating the decision making – that’s a fairly big ask.
Yeah, people often say, ‘Oh how can you do that, these people are going to get what they deserve’, but often if I spend (only) five minutes telling them about the person, they’re completely turned around, saying – ‘Oh god I hope they don’t go to gaol!’
There are so many people practising criminal law and obviously not all of them went to Woodleigh, but one of the things Woodleigh teaches you is ‘No Judgement’ and ‘Respect for People’.
And you’ve got that comfortably in your system?
Yeah, I don’t know what motivates other people to work in criminal law, but that’s certainly my instinct and it’s been like this for many, many years I think. I don’t know, I think it’s got a lot to do with the type of environment we went to school in and going right through Minimbah, right through Woodleigh, I’ve got it! (Laughs, nice laugh too).
No judgement, got it.
Yeah, and just respect people.
"I loved the culture and I love that we didn’t have a uniform and we got to be a little bit scrappy. Kids should be. They shouldn’t have to worry about what they look like. I know, I hated it when Mum used to make me polish my Blundstones. I’d get straight off the bus and rub them in the dirt."
You’ve had proof that the first moment is not necessarily the only one to be judged on. That must require a ton of patience.
You’ve got to have a lot of patience. But I guess it’s not only something that you learn through training on the job, if you have it innately it makes it a lot easier.
That’s not just through schooling - that’s from your parents and environment as well?
Yeah, definitely, I grew up in a very loving and respectful household, which helped.
Any great memories?
Most are great, I loved our assemblies - I loved that they were student run.
Even from Minimbah days?
Yeah and if you were in a band you got to play a song, and no one even cared if they kept on playing the same song (laughs). You know when Mr Macmillan was there, I loved that at assembly he paid someone $5 if they could spell his name correctly. It was just informal and fun and an opportunity for the whole school to get together.
I loved sitting in the Bush Chapel and in Anna’s Garden.
I had a really hilarious moment not so long ago, where I was working on a case and the prosecutor was another guy that was in my year level at Woodleigh and the barrister that I briefed (I had no idea) he went to Woodleigh as well, although he was from the class of '87 and I just randomly said to him that I went to school with the prosecutor and he said, ‘Which school is that?’ and I said, ‘Oh, just a little school on the Peninsula,’ and he said – ‘Wasn’t Woodleigh was it?’ So at that moment the prosecutor, the defence and the barrister all came from the same little school on the Peninsula.
There were three lawyers in my year level alone.
So why were you picked for this book?
I don’t know (laughs). I have no idea what the selection criteria was.
I adore Woodleigh. I spruik it to any person who will listen to me. I have got nothing but the best memories of feeling like I was at a place that was different to most. Even though I have no experience of any other schools I just knew that Woodleigh was different and I loved the culture and I love that we didn’t have a uniform and we got to be a little bit scrappy. Kids should be. They shouldn’t have to worry about what they look like. I know, I hated it when Mum used to make me polish my Blundstones. I’d get straight off the bus and rub them in the dirt.
Interview by Emma Griffin – Photography by Amy Woodward. 2015
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Blog #10. Predicting the Future
If you have become convinced through your own peak experiences that we are all one in Consciousness and Consciousness is the only reality, you have probably begun to open to paranormal experiences such as telepathic messages, communications from spirits, awareness of energy flows, and the like.
Teachers of Enlightenment call these the “siddhis.” They are “supernatural” powers, and teachers of enlightenment consider them distractions on the path and caution their students not to become caught up in them. As spiritual author Santatagamana explains, “[A]n enlightened being is not under the illusion of being a doer or performer of actions (including siddhis),” because he is “devoid of a personal self, and only a self-deluded person would believe in ‘I do this miracle, . . . etc.’ These are merely egoic statements.”
That said, we do experience paranormal effects and abilities as we progress on the path, and if we don’t allow our egos to take over, these nonordinary powers, for example, communication with spirit guides, can help us on our path. (Instructions for getting in touch with a spirit helper are provided in Blog #6, Thinking with the Big Mind.)
An enlightened person is aware that Consciousness is the only reality, and that material reality is not only the manifestation of that Consciousness, but participates in It as an indivisible part — as one with It, just as our eyes and hands are one with our bodies.
There is nothing “lesser” or “unworthy” in being in a body and playing a part in the physical world even though sometimes we want to escape material reality because of its inevitable suffering. Still, most of us value the material world for its beauty and love, and the ecstasy of sensing, moving, doing, and relating to other living beings.
The more we grow in understanding that all beings are connected, in fact are one with each other in the Consciousness of All-That-Is, the more we see that our suffering comes from a feeling of being separate from that Consciousness, and the more we desire to fully unite with It.
We become Bodhisattvas, people who are able to reach nirvana but delay doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings. We care about the human race; in fact we care about the destiny of all beings, including our living planet itself.
Because we care for this life of material manifestation, we want to see it evolve toward a more beautiful and peaceful state of being. Knowing that intention can guide what happens, we are drawn to envision a more integrated, harmonious future for our planet and its creatures. As the dominant species with vast power to affect the lives of other living beings, we humans have a special responsibility to intend and envision such a future.
It’s up to us to predict, envision and champion a future in which we, our descendants and “all our relatives” as the Lakota people say, can thrive and enjoy life.
A way to Predict the Future
Luxuriating in bed on a Sunday morning, half dozing, with no urgent reason to get up, I heard an intense but strangulated voice bark out, “Predict the Future.”
I don’t like to predict the future because I’m well aware that the future changes. How many times have self-proclaimed messiahs predicted the end of the world on a specific date — and when the day came, nothing happened?
But I know it’s possible to predict the future because I once had a predictive dream — about a minor event. In the dream, I saw the words, “Evans” and “Israel” carved into a stone tablet. I had recently separated from my husband, whose first name was Evans, but I had no personal connection with Israel. The next day at the office (I was still working as a patent attorney at the time), the dream came true. I received an unexpected letter from an attorney in Israel about an inventor whose last name was Evans.
The dream wasn’t earth-shaking, or even very interesting, but I thought it might have held the simple teaching that it is possible to predict the future. And because the words in my dream were literally “set in stone,” I felt there must also have been a teaching about whether the future was really “set in stone.” Although I didn’t know it when I had the dream, it was already “set in stone” that I would receive the letter. It was, after all, in the mail on its way to me at the time. The fact that I would receive it was certain, just as once a ball has been thrown up in the air, it is certain it will fall down to earth.
So even though I don’t like to make predictions because most of the future isn’t set in stone, and even though I don’t take “orders” from my spirit helpers, considering them more as wise friends and advisors than all-powerful bosses, I decided to give it a try. There had been so much energy and urgency in the voice, as though it was struggling to speak against an opposing force trying to silence it.
I was also motivated to predict a utopian future because when we envision good futures (and urge others to do the same), it helps bring them about.
I had no idea how to generate a prediction, but as I sipped my coffee and watched the Sunday morning news shows, an idea popped up to cut out pictures from magazines and arrange them in an order that might suggest a prediction.
I had a pile of old New Yorker magazines in a basket, so I got down on the floor with a pair of scissors and, without thinking much about what they might “mean.” began to randomly cut out interesting-looking pictures. Thirteen seemed enough.
I didn’t call in any helping spirits, still feeling the presence of the spirit who had spoken that morning — but I did turn off the TV. I laid out the pictures on the rug and arranged and rearranged them until they “looked right” and told a story. There was an obvious central character, a picture of an adolescent boy looking perplexed about life. I placed influences from the past below him, future situations above him, and contemporary influences beside him.
It was fun, and surprising how quickly and easily a narrative constructed itself as I moved the pictures around. Here’s the story that emerged:
The Prediction Story
Once upon a time there was a boy who felt lonely and alienated, seeking an identity for himself, trying to imagine and tune in to a future self he could believe in and work toward.
He was heir to a past in which his forefathers had risked their lives and the lives of their sons to demonstrate superior skills and daring, and of course, to set an example for the boys to be just as daring — or foolhardy, as their mothers might have said.
In this past, humans of this sort had tamed and asserted dominance over many animal species by convincing the animals, through feeding and caring for them, that they were better off being dominated.
The boy was also influenced by long-dead ancestors from the deep past, ancestors fully in touch with the miraculous nature of their recent emergence from the creative void of unbeing, strong in their sense of mission to love and create in their turn the beautiful world in which they found themselves.
The boy struggled with himself, knowing neither who he was nor who or what he wanted to become. There were many paths open, careers in the world that would give him a sense of place and certain identity — musician, waiter, builder, athlete, intellectual . . . .
But his mind and emotions were stretched nearly to breaking in the strong polarity, widely shared within the consciousness of his culture, between freedom and bondage. On one side, the known occupations of adulthood felt stifling and confining. He longed to see himself free and proud, striding into an unknown future, beholden to none.
He could be an astronaut, he thought — but a free astronaut. Not for him to be confined within a space suit, one automaton among many, performing prescribed tasks the metal-and-plastic robots hadn’t yet been engineered to do. Never! He would swoop freely through space in his Superman suit, on heroic missions of his own choosing.
He was smart and good at math, and his parents thought he’d make a fine scientist, a doctor, or next-best, a medical researcher. But he saw that as a trap. Scientists were people who discovered iron-clad rules all objects had to follow, turning what they touched to dead matter, collapsing the myriad dimensions of reality into three, or better yet, squashing them down to two, until the world was dead and lifeless. And when the world had been reduced to unfeeling, inanimate matter and sterile equations, the scientists would begin to turn their blighting gaze on themselves, fixing their living flesh, their spontaneous thoughts, and hopes and dreams, like bits of killed tissue, onto microscope slides to be studied and classified.
Meanwhile, as humans became more numerous over the planet, pushing into wild habitats where animals used to roam free, human-animal encounters would happen increasingly often. Stories of people maimed and killed as they swam in the seas, hiked in the mountains, or left their homes to take out the garbage would become commonplace. Human children would regain their fear of wild places and have nightmares of being eaten by tigers and wolves, as viruses, germs, and fierce parasites overran whole populations of decadent humans whose life force proved less strong than the attackers’ will to live.
At this point, when the future seemed most bleak and the boy could find no inspiration in his dreams of freedom nor see a future in any of the paths his society held open for him, he turned inward toward the deep past of his first ancestors, connecting to the vision of life on Earth they had awakened to so long ago, when their evolving minds began to present them with visions and imaginings of things their hands could do to make life easier and more beautiful.
Back then, the boy thought, they didn’t have to strive to make money by depriving others of the means for survival. There was enough for all, and when there wasn’t they would share what they had, and the weak and old would voluntarily hold back in favor of the strong, like the grandmothers and grandfathers of the Inuit peoples of the far North, walking out on the ice floes to die so as not to consume food needed for their young ones. It would be good, the boy thought, if we could live this way now.
He was aware, of course, that there were a few important men influencing the flow of food, water, air, clothing, shelter, and all things needed for human survival on the planet, which seemed to shrink as the number of people competing for sustenance exploded. Many of these important men had little or no empathy or care for others. They were psychopaths and narcissists, so brain-washed by the prevailing vision of a dead, mechanical world of material things that they cared for nothing but their own survival, finding ways to measure their “success” by the number of objects they owned, the number of sexual encounters they could script and perform, the number of people they could hurt, and the number of insincere compliments they could extort from others. The boy could feel the hollowness of their existence and he vowed he would never be like them.
He had always felt alone because his age-mates in school repeatedly rejected him as weak, weird, and unsuccessful in the games adolescents play of status, dominance, and popularity.
But as he matured, growing out of the painful cauldron of middle and high school, he encountered other deep thinkers in college and formed bonds of friendship. He understood then that the world was more than an arena of cut-throat competition. It was also a world in which cooperation with others was not only possible, but a powerful force for creative change. The world could be made beautiful, he realized, alive and full of reciprocal love as it had been for the first people.
He shared his vision with his friends, and was surprised and heartened to find they were already thinking along the same lines. Like philosophers of old, they spent hours talking about how a vital society could be formed, what moral precepts, taught to children, would sustain it, what organizations and events would feed it, what protections were needed for those with talents in arenas other than the greedy accumulation of wealth.
He shared his ideas with his classmates in college, and afterward with people he encountered in daily life as they searched for ways to survive in a world rapidly turning its paying jobs over to robots. And the more he shared, the more he began to detect a vast, underground swell of similar sentiment and will to collaboration, cooperation, and mutual kindness, originating not only within the minds and hearts of the young people of his generation, but arising up through them from a deeper place — as a force he thought of as divine.
He had long believed in a Greater Consciousness shared by all beings, but now he could sense it as more than mere awareness. It also had power. It had will. And its will was for the unification of all life on Earth in a harmonious ecosystem whose primary thrust was the creation of beauty and minimization of suffering.
He was no longer stuck in the polarity that said he must either be bound or free, but not both. He was experiencing how each being supported each other, freeing them to be more uniquely themselves. Some loved working with children, freeing mothers to use their talents for music, art, management or medicine. Some liked working with their hands, others with their brains, others with emotions and spirits, others with food, others with healing. No one felt trapped in a job they hated, but rather free to express their deepest nature.
In due course, the boy, now grown, found a like-minded woman, both beautiful and kind, and married. They had two children and brought them up to respect the Earth and all its creatures. He was full of gratitude to be alive to see and be part of this Earth transformation, and worked to establish communal buildings and settlements with optimal numbers of people for interacting and sharing the chores of living.
There was plenty of meaningful work. People who wanted to program and repair the robots that took care of the less popular chores were as busy as they liked, and there were other tasks for people who thought they could do a better job than the robots and wanted to bring mindfulness into daily life.
Because of the ease of communication and the pervading kindness of the new human generations, telepathy, the sharing of thoughts and emotions, became a major mode of interacting with friends, relatives and even strangers. It naturally spread to the animals, first to domestic pets, cats, dogs, birds, and hamsters, and then out into the wild. Some people became specialists in communing with animals, and the animals rapidly evolved into co-creators of the Earth’s environment, with voices that noticeably strengthened year by year, as they devised and suggested new ways to play their essential parts in the ecology of the entire Earth’s biosphere.
The plants, too, shared in this communion, and in the beautiful, sacrificial way of their kind, made their medicinal properties known to people and animals who suffered from various diseases.
Population control turned out not to be a problem as people learned to connect with the Earth’s will (Gaia), and rely on her promptings for bringing new children into the world.
When the boy became a grandfather and respected elder, he looked back on his life and saw that it was good; and as he died, he blessed his descendants to continue to live in the peace and harmony of a beautiful and welcoming Earth.
Exercise in Predicting the Future
Collect some magazines.
Pray or call in a helping spirit if you like.
To enhance an altered state of consciousness you might play a recording of shamanic drumming.
Cut out pictures from the magazines of things that catch your interest. Ten to fifteen pictures should be enough.
Lay the pictures out on a surface and arrange and rearrange them to tell a story about the future.
Write the story.
(If the future you predict is dark and painful, try cutting out more pictures and arranging them into a story that solves the problems you predicted.)
You can also use this method of cutting out and arranging magazine pictures to tell a story for coming up with creative solutions for your own life problems or those of others.
Santatagamana, Turiya - The God State: Beyond Kundalini, Kriya Yoga & all Spirituality, Real Yoga Series, Book 5, independently published, 2018. (The author, Santatgamana, is someone who prefers not to reveal their identity in the ordinary world. Their website is realyoga.info.)
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Movements toward war in the Far East: China-N. Korea face off with the U.S.-backed powers
By World Tribune on August 11, 2016
By Donald Kirk
On the chessboard of Northeast, East and Southeast Asia, the players are inexorably arranging their pieces.
A naval exercise, a warplane flyover, a flotilla of fishing boats, a missile launch ― all such gestures, bloodless today, evoke the image of great powers maneuvering for bloody moves tomorrow. It’s as though we’re in a “phony war,” not enough to send civilians scurrying for cover or for armies to go on full alert but worrisome nonetheless.
The tensions build slowly. It’s possible for most of us to ignore them. What does it mean, exactly, if Chinese warships prowl the South China Sea, from the Spratly Islands in the south to the Scarborough Shoal off the Philippines to the Paracels, claimed by Vietnam?
Chinese coast guard vessel near the Senkakus this week.
How concerned should we be if the U.S. sends a destroyer within striking distance of any of these morsels of land and rocks or if Chinese and U.S. warplanes dart through the skies?
It may be dangerous to exaggerate the significance of each individual display of force, but two factors seem to be driving the region to the edge of conflict.
First, China is obviously restoring close ties to North Korea. As the U.S. prepares to send the super-counter-missile batteries known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korea, the Chinese are not likely to enforce U.N.-imposed sanctions on the North. It’s even possible they won’t object if North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un orders a fifth nuclear test, and they don’t mind at all if he persists in firing mid-range missiles of the sort that might carry warheads to just about anywhere in Northeast Asia.
That’s assuming, of course, that Kim does not order potshots toward China, much though the North Koreans hate to be under the thumb of the Chinese. That’s out of the question considering that China supplies North Korea with virtually all its oil and half its food.
As far as the Chinese are concerned, he can lob those missiles in the direction of Japan, as he did the other day, all he wants. The legacy of the Pacific War ― and Japan’s harsh occupation of much of China ― burns that deeply, or at least such is the justification for Beijing’s inflammatory rhetoric directed at Tokyo.
The second factor that’s raising tensions is Chinese resentment over the ruling by the International Court at The Hague that China has no business asserting domination over the South China Sea. That means the Chinese should get out of the reefs and atolls belonging to others and stop molesting Philippine fishing boats around the Scarborough Shoal, which is a lot closer to the Philippines than it is to China.
The Hague ruling poses a direct challenge to Beijing. The response has to be not only to reject it but to reinforce China’s claim by ever more patrols, dredging around its de facto holdings and blocking alien fishing boats and other intruding vessels.
How long can the Chinese maintain this show of defiance? Probably forever ― or until suffering a loss in war.
But what could drive tensions to the point of opening fire? The appearance in the East China Sea this week of more than 200 Chinese fishing boats around the Senkaku Islands ― or Diaoyiu to the Chinese ― held by Japan but claimed by China, showed the risks.
Half a dozen Chinese Coast Guard vessels faced off against as many from the Japanese Coast Guard. These are not navy warships. Their weapons are water cannons and mega-loudspeakers, but this is a dangerous game risking escalation that sooner or later may erupt in real shooting.
The Japanese are if anything as edgy as the Chinese. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is slowly doing away with the constraints of Article 9 of Japan’s post-war “peace constitution” banning Japanese forces from going to war on foreign turf. Japan is not about to send warplanes on the attack against the sites from which North Korea is firing its missiles, but what if Kim Jong-Un orders a shot that hits somewhere in Japan?
Like China, Japan is making its moves in a match in which the Japanese may eventually decide they’ve had enough of North Korean missile tests that send projectiles into their waters. As of now they’re preparing counter-missile defenses.
The idea is to be able to shoot down a North Korean missile ― a difficult moving target. Would it not be a lot easier, Japanese commanders and leaders might ask, to respond by firing their own missiles at targets in North Korea?
In the game for power in East Asia, the U.S. exercises a restraining influence. Japan remains a U.S. ally and isn’t yet ready to open a war that would endanger the alliance. The U.S. military presence in Japan ― 50,000 troops, including a large marine expeditionary force on Okinawa ― also provides security for South Korea against Japanese adventurism. Nobody can be sure what a remilitarized Japan, freed from the shackles of alliance with the U.S., would do.
As the players maneuver on the chessboard, the question is how long before an explosion plunges the region into a war that no one wants. No telling what the answer is, of course, but every move drives all sides closer to the point of no return.
Donald Kirk has been covering war and peace in Asia for decades. He’s at kirkdon4343@gmail.com.
Movements toward war in the Far East: China-N. Korea face off with the U.S.-backed powers, WorldTribune.com
Movements toward war in the Far East: China-N. Korea face off with the U.S.-backed powers added by World Tribune on August 11, 2016
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Houston woman builds new life and new body years after getting sober
Felicia Lee-Sexton’s gold hoops sway and her biceps bulge as she swings a sledgehammer over her head before slamming it down on a tractor tire.
On one bicep, a tattoo reads “6-16-93.”
The tattoo is a reminder of the day when her sister dragged her to a rehabilitation clinic against her will, and Lee-Sexton cried on the floor when her drug test came back positive for cocaine use.
Only two out of the 10 people whom she was in treatment with at the now-closed Riverside Hospital in Third Ward have survived. She is one of the fortunate ones, she said, because she hasn’t experienced any health problems even though she snorted and smoked cocaine for 11 years.
She remembers what it felt like to be strongly connected to a foreign, and fatal, substance.
“Most addicts don’t know they’re addicts right away,” she said. “You don’t realize your life has become unmanageable or is in a downward spiral right away. As an addict, your disease goes with you. I always think about a woman who buys all the shoes, who thinks she has it going on. She never realizes in her mind that she has a problem.”
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After getting clean, Lee-Sexton lived a pretty typical life. She owned a few businesses over a 20-year span, including a credit restoration business after she obtained her paralegal license. She married a man she met through the program, but they eventually divorced when he continued to use illegal substances.
About 10 years ago, a good friend invited her to work out. Then she tried powerlifting which segued into bodybuilding. Now, she’s a professional fitness model and bodybuilder who has amassed quite a collection of trophies and titles, including state powerlifting records for women over 50.
“I always felt there was a different me in me,” she said.
Twenty-six years after her last high, Sexton-Lee spends every day in a gym, usually the one she founded in Stafford, The Women’s Health and Fitness Center, and gets high in a different way.
Her exercise warmup includes tire slams, pushups and dumbbell raises, and it appears to be more difficult than a typical person’s full workout. She wears combat-style boots to protect her ankles, but also because it makes her feel stronger.
She breaks up her workouts in the morning, afternoon, and again, in the evening Monday through Thursday; on Friday, she takes the afternoon and evening off, but is back in the gym at 6 a.m. Saturday and again Sunday morning before church.
In between, she helps train women who want to better their lives — physically and spiritually — and goes to her other job as a wellness manager at Legacy Community Health. In the Legacy Body Positive gym, she sees patients diagnosed with diabetes, eating disorders, drug and alcohol addiction and HIV, as well as members of the LGBTQ community.
“It’s continuous work not just for today, but every day,” Sexton-Lee said. “It’s a struggle, but it’s a good struggle.”
Her body is a machine, and she loves the control she has to mold it into what she wants.
“I realized how it also transformed my thinking. It took my mind away from the negativity, and I felt so much stronger,” she said. “Things don’t bother me as much, things go over my head. It’s my release, keeps my mind clear. It’s the best thing for me. If you keep me out for a few days, I’m frantic.”
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Two years ago, Lee-Sexton self-published “From Recovery to Discovery: My Journey Through Addiction” and began giving motivational speeches about her experience as a former drug user and current fitness professional.
In October, Lee-Sexton will deliver her story in a TED Talk at Lone Star College. She plans on wearing her signature boots.
What she says can be surprising to people, but that transparency is part of the recovery process.
“With my addiction, I would do the exact same thing again because that made me who I am,” she said. “I was in a church, high-as-a-kite every Sunday…many people don’t know that an addict was sitting right next to them. But we all have a right to live out our story and have our journey. We have a right to recover the way we have to recover.
“If you really look at your life, something is going on in your house right now that you’re probably not talking about. The question is what is their story.”
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Save the Michigan State Fair
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A couple of weeks ago Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm announced in her State of the State address that she is looking at making a number of cuts to help the state regain it’s financial footing. One of the cuts that she is looking at is funding for the Michigan State Fair, a family tradition for 160 years. Although it is obvious that some cutting has to be done I do not think that eliminating one of the few annual state events is the answer. There are a number of things that can be done to make sure the tradition stays alive.
The Michigan State Fair has been struggling over the last few years. With attendance down the fair had to turn to the state for help. Fair General Manager Steve Jenkins has repeatedly stated that he knows that the fair has to be privately funded and has been making changes and adding events to the fair to bring back business. He is open to working with the state to find a way to keep the fair going. This year they are bringing in a new company with new rides and food vendors. There will be a new extreme sports area and a area dedicated to featuring historical and artistic events aimed at showcasing metro Detroit’s ethnic communities. As always the fair will feature nightly concerts, their Miracle of Life birthing exhibit, livestock shows and other state exhibits.
There are a number of summer events in the Detroit area around Labor Day but few have the variety that the State Fair has. The fair brings the country to the inner city. Many kids would never have the chance to pet a sheep or see a horse show. There are all kinds of unique attractions for people of all ages. One of the fair’s most popular attractions is it’s racing pigs show. The State Fair is also one of the least expensive events in the metro Detroit area. Admission to the fairgrounds gives access to all the exhibits and free entry into the concert bandshell area.
Over the last year Michigan has lost a number of high profile events and has had to scale back on a lot. It would be a shame to have to lose more. There is talk about trying to move the Fair elsewhere but I think that would be a mistake. Granholm keeps talking about wanting to bring Detroit back to prominence, adding more jobs and rebuilding. Sending the fair elsewhere would negate all of that.
Anyone who has visited the Fairgrounds knows that the area around it is rundown and dilapidated. While the state has poured money into rebuilding the area near the Detroit Tigers and Lions stadiums they have neglected the rest of the city. If the State would take the time to fix up the area near the fairgrounds and reassure people that the area is safe I think more people would be willing to come out to the fair. With some more promotion the fair could easily see a rise in it’s attendance this year which would help move them towards being independently run.
One of Granholm’s biggest reasons to cut funding for the fair is that she wants to sell the fairground property. There has been talk about building a job site there. This doesn’t make any sense though because the same problems will still exist; the area will still be undesirable. If the area gets sold to build real estate the property will be doing nothing to help the state. At least the fair is family friendly and provides entertainment to a lot of people who can’t afford to go elsewhere.
Hopefully Granholm will listen to the public outcry that followed her address. It is obvious that there are a number of people who enjoy and participate in the tradition. There are a number of local agricultural workers who depend on the fair for their revenue. It’s time for the state and the fair owners to work together to find a way to keep the fair going.
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Utopien im Wandel
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in East Germany
Socialist Appropriation and Dissident Contestation, 1948-1989
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Bild: DDR-Briefmarke anlässlich des zehnjährigen Jubiläums des Tages der Menschenrechte. Briefmarken-Jahrgang 1958 der Deutschen Post der DDR.
Quelle: Wikimedia Commons. Lizenz: Gemeinfrei.
von Ned Richardson-Little
It would be easy to presume that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had always been a symbol of opposition and dissent in the German Democratic Republic. Passed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, the UDHR contained a number of provisions that contradicted the political and social order of the GDR as run by the Socialist Unity Party (SED). It demanded an independent judiciary, prohibited arbitrary arrest and invasion of privacy, and guaranteed the right to leave one’s own country. In East Germany, where the judiciary was firmly an ideological organ, the Stasi regularly conducted mass surveillance and arbitrary detention and those seeking to leave the country illegally were shot at the border, this would seem to be a document seen to be inherently hostile to SED rule. Even the social rights contained in the UDHR, in particular the right to strike, were contrary to the legal realities of East Germany where citizens could not demand rights from the state that would obstruct the will of the party.
Yet over the course of East Germany’s existence, the Universal Declaration was more likely to be invoked by the SED than by its domestic opponents. The SED came to view the Universal Declaration and the UN human rights system as a whole as an ally to the Socialist Bloc and the contents of the UDHR reflected in the achievements of socialism within the borders of the GDR. For decades this was not challenged by East Germans on a mass scale, until very suddenly in the late 1980s, human rights and the UDHR became symbols of the democratic opposition. This article will trace the trajectory of the UDHR in East German public discourse from its passage in 1948 and the reaction by the SED in the Soviet Occupied Zone, through the commemorations of the UDHR on its many anniversaries before the ultimate collapse of SED in 1989.
Ambivalence: 1948-1958
In the first ten years of the UDHR’s existence, the SED was torn as to what it represented: a noble effort to realize human rights around the world against the imperialist powers or a subversive and illegitimate effort by the West to provide a pretense to interfere in the internal affairs of the Eastern Bloc? Already in 1946, in response to attacks from Social Democrats, the SED had unveiled a new slogan: “no human rights without socialism.”[1] the decision of the Eastern Bloc to abstain on the UDHR at the UN, alongside Saudi Arabia and South Africa, however, meant that East German media coverage of its passage was subdued. In a front-page article in the SED national organ Neues Deutschland, the headline proclaimed “The Struggle for Human Rights is the Struggle against the Old and New Fascism,” but quoted the Soviet delegate, Andrei Vyshinsky as saying that as written the UDHR represented an “unbearable interference in the internal affairs of all states.”[2]
Even at the 10th anniversary of the UDHR, the SED was unable to commit to the commemoration of its passage. To celebrate Human Rights Day in 1958, the Postal Service released a commemorative stamp series tentatively embracing the UDHR’s message of racial equality: One stamp depicted a European and an African man, while the other showed a European and Asian. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs prepared a public statement commending the Universal Declaration and as “highpoint in the fight of the nations for democratic rights and freedoms,” and “an achievement of the antifascist and anti-colonialist struggle.”[3] But at the last minute, the statement was rejected and the UDHR’s passage went unremarked in the East German media.
Appropriation: 1959-1973
Only a year after the SED chose to avoid mentioning the anniversary of the UDHR, it decided to create its own organization dedicated to the cause: The Committee for the Protection of Human Rights. Founded to campaign on behalf of imprisoned West German communists, the organization evolved into a socialist human rights think tank and acted to legitimize new academic work on the subject. By 1963, the East German media was filled with celebrations marking the 15th anniversary of the UDHR. On Human Rights Day, Neues Deutschland devoted a full page to the contents of the UDHR with one article on the right to peace, one on how the GDR fulfilled Art. 26 (the right to education and free expression) and another on how West Germany failed to realize social rights. SED media also closely tied the UDHR to the fight against Apartheid and described it as a document that “stigmatized racial hatred as a threat to freedom and peace.”[4]
At the next two anniversaries, GDR coverage of UDHR anniversaries only expanded: In 1964, East German legal academic Hermann Klenner published his seminal text outlining a theory of socialist human rights, Studien über die Grundrechte, and 1968 was named International Human Rights Year by the United Nations.[5] The SED aimed to convince the newly admitted UN members from the global south that it was a champion of the self-determination, which was now the first article in both of the freshly minted UN Human Rights Covenants – the legally binding treaties developed from the UDHR and passed in 1966. Along with commemorative stamps and an international symposium of experts, the SED celebrated the UDHR as a foundational text, one that had always been supported by the socialist bloc, in spite of Western efforts to make it into a tool of interventionism. In 1973, as the negotiations over the Helsinki Process were already underway, the SED celebrated finally joining the United Nations and marked the 25th anniversary of the UDHR again with speeches, events, and postage stamps. By this time, the UN human rights agenda had narrowed almost entirely to the problem of racial discrimination and Apartheid, reinforcing the SED’s belief that East Germany represented the ideals of the international community in spite of its status as an effectively one-party state.[6] In honouring the UDHR, the President of the Volkskammer declared that “human rights had found a home in the GDR.”[7]
DDR-Briefmarken zum Internationalen Jahr der Menschenrechte 1968. Linke Briefmarke: Baum, Recht auf Leben. Mittlere Briefmarke: Friedenstaube, Recht auf Frieden. Rechte Briefmarke: Hammer und Ambos, Recht auf Arbeit. Quelle: Wikimedia Commons. Lizenz: Gemeinfrei.
Contestation: 1968-1988
The Helsinki Accords of 1975, a treaty between East and West which contained provisions for human rights, accelerated, but did not start the process of challenges from below. Already in 1968, revisions to the GDR Constitution prompted Church leaders to demand further protections for religious freedom – the reforms coincided with International Human Rights Year, which the Church leaders used to their advantage citing Art. 19 on freedom of thought and conscience. Beginning in the early 1970s, those seeking to leave the GDR discovered the passage on the right to free travel in the UDHR and employed it, among many other claims, in their demands to migrate West.
In spite of a surge in applications to exit the GDR after the passage of the Helsinki Accords, the SED remained confident: commemorating the 30th anniversary of the UDHR in 1978, the GDR Committee for Human Rights declared that under socialism: the social roots of exploitation, war and misery, of racism and genocide have been forever eradicated. It is not the bourgeoisie, which proclaimed its ‘human rights’ more than 200 years ago, but the working class that has come to power since 1917, which has proven to be a reliable advocate of the rights and freedoms of all working people.[8] East German media covered the anniversary, as it had in 1968 and 1973, with articles on the superior realization of human rights under socialism and the horrors of life in Portugal, South Rhodesia, South Africa or Nicaragua and of course the USA.
In the mid-1980s, peace and environmental activists turned to the language of human rights to demand domestic political reforms forming the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights – the first independent human rights group in the GDR. By the 40th anniversary of the UDHR, the document had become a public site of contestation between dissidents and the SED. While the GDR government proclaimed its commitment to peace and the recognition that “all social, economic, cultural, civil and political rights form a unity,” through the realization of socialism, this was now openly challenged.[9] By contrast, dissidents used the anniversary to decry the absence of “peace and justice on the earth,” but also to charge the SED with “violating human dignity in our own land.” They demanded an independent judiciary, the end of censorship, and real democratic rights for all citizens to take part in governance of the GDR in order to realize basic human rights.[10]
Less than a year later, in September 1989, demonstrations in the streets of major East German cities threw the GDR into chaos and mass emigration undermined SED rule. By October, the SED had abandoned control of public spaces and the citizens of the GDR moved from asserting their rights on paper to acting as though they were already a legal reality. On November 9, the Berlin Wall opened and the right to free travel became a reality and on December 1, the SED abandoned its monopoly claim to power paving the way to free elections the following year. While the SED had celebrated so many Human Rights Days marking the passage of the UDHR in 1948 as a moment that legitimized the rule of the party and the righteousness of state socialism, on December 10, 1989, the day was now devoted to the realization of a new vision of human rights through democratization.
[1] Karl Polak, “Gewaltteilung, Menschenrechte, Rechtsstaat: Begriffsformalismus und Demokratie,” Einheit 7 (December 1946).
[2] “Kampf um die Menschenrechte heißt Kampf gegen den alten und neuen Fascismus,” Neues Deutschland, (12.12.1948).
[3] Politisches Archiv-Auswärtiges Amt, A18273, Doc. No. 28.
[4] “Ein Mensch: wie stolz das klingt,” Neues Deutschland (07.12.1963).
[5] Klenner, Studien über die Grundrechte (Berlin: Staatsverlag der DDR, 1964). On International Human Rights Year, see Steven Jensen, The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
[6] On 1973 and human rights, see Roland Burke, Human Rights Day 1973: The “Liberation” of the Universal Declaration (zuletzt abgerufen am 7. Dezember).
[7] “DDR ist Heimstatt für Menschenrechte,” Neues Deutschland (11.12.1973).
[8] “Kampf um dauerhaften Frieden fördert die Menschenrechte,” Neues Deutschland (09.12.1978).
[9] “Elementares Dokument für Völker der Welt,” Neues Deutschland (10.12.1988).
[10] "40. Jahrestag AEMR,” Robert Havemann Archiv UP 044.
Ned Richardson-Little, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in East Germany. Socialist Appropriation and Dissident Contestation, 1948-1989, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, Dezember 2018, URL: https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/universal-declaration-human-rights-east-germany
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Ancient Egyptian Art - YouTube 3:56 (With images.
Ancient Egyptians worshipped a huge number of ancient Egyptian gods and Egyptian goddesses. Some of them looked very much like humans; however others were part human and part animal, where some of them looked like crocodiles, jackals, cats, rams and even falcons. The bodies of these ancient gods were always human but their heads looked like birds and animals. Many religions only worship one.
The ancient Egyptians worshipped many thousands of gods and deities who ruled over all aspects of their lives. Learn about the strange and wonderful Egyptian gods with songs, games, downloads, and.
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Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt.Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes (often identified with Narmer).The people in Ancient Egypt divided Egypt into two areas. The 'red land' was the deserts protecting Egypt on two sides. These deserts separated ancient Egypt from neighbouring countries and invading armies. The black land was the fertile land (near the Nile River) where the ancient Egyptians grew their crops. The creation of Egypt.Ancient Egyptian food is surprisingly diverse considering the arid landscape from which it came. Although Egypt is a hot, desert country where the lack of water makes it difficult to grow crops and raise animals, the annual flooding of the river Nile (inundation) between the months of June and September made the Nile Valley one of the most fertile areas of the ancient world.
Bring the Ancient Egyptians to life in your classroom with this one day, fully interactive workshop. We provide costumes and make-up for everyone as we take the children back to an era 5000 years ago. Mummify a friend, try your hand at Egyptian crafts and live life as a Pharoah before travelling back to the future to search for ancient tombs.Egypt had one of the largest and most complex pantheons of gods of any civilization in the ancient world. Over the course of Egyptian history hundreds of gods and goddesses were worshipped. The characteristics of individual gods could be hard to pin down. Most had a principle association (for example, with the sun or the underworld) and form.
The ancient Egyptians had a tendency to merge new beliefs with the old ones rather than simply replace them. This tendency has made it difficult for modern scholars to fully understand the ancient beliefs and, although much is known, there is still much that remains a mystery. Gods.
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In ancient Egypt, long poems, or hymens, were written to the God of Aten, and were attributed to King Akhenaten. This king changed the traditional forms of Egyptian religions, in which they worshipped many Gods, and replaced it with Atenism. This hymen shows the brilliance and artistry of the era. The hymen was said to be “one of the most.
Ancient Egypt also saw the rise of a complex polytheistic religion, which included many gods and the controversy and conflict of one pharaoh (Akhenaton) even trying to convert the country to monotheism. With his failure, the country reverted back to polytheism during the reign of his son. Relying heavily on the river Nile, the ancient Egyptian civilization expanded and prospered. Trading also.
Much of the ancient world was unknown to the people who lived in ancient Egypt, so they worshiped many gods. This helped them feel more secure and more able to cope with their surroundings. Some of the Egyptian gods are listed below, along with a description of their characteristics and duties.
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Ancient Egypt: the Mythology is dedicated to providing the most detailed and accurate information about the gods, goddesses and religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptian people. The website is divided into five major sections: the Gods An encyclopedia of the major gods and goddesses in Egyptian mythology.
Ancient Egyptian scribes worked in every area of society, calculating tax revenues, perpetuating the written culture, recording legal decisions and supporting the work of architects, priests and managing foreign affairs. The ancient Egyptian calendar was developed at an early stage because it was necessary to be able to predict the coming of the inundation and because it allowed the.
Ancient Egyptian Prayers and Ritual Worship Egyptian religion was very complex with many books of worship but the most well known is the Spells of Coming(or going) Also known as The Book of the Dead he Book of the Dead was the product of a long process of evolution starting with the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom through the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom.
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UNHINGED TEXAS WOMAN DRIVING Pickup Truck With Vile Anti-Trump Message Gets Arrested For Unrelated Offense
A Texas woman driving her pickup truck with an anti-Trump message to the President and his supporters was recently arrested.
The officer charged her with an outstanding warrant and then fastened on the hand-cuffs. The District Attorney and many others feel that the warrant will not stand because she is protected by the First Amendment. Even the woman felt she wasn’t doing anything wrong and just practicing her “Freedom of Speech.”
Honestly, all she is showing to the children of America is that ‘it is okay to spread hate towards our President and get away with it.’
This woman is doing nothing more than making the left look like deceitful, evil hypocrites.
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Just another case of “Love Trumps Hate”…LOL!
The more hate these unhinged liberals spew, the more Independent voters will be inspired to go to the polls and vote for Trump in 2020.
The owner of a pickup truck that drew attention this week because of a profane anti-Trump sticker was arrested in Houston on Thursday on an outstanding warrant.
Karen Fonseca was arrested about 2 p.m. on an outstanding fraud warrant issued in August by the Rosenberg, Texas, Police Department, Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office records show.
Mike Fonseca, her husband, posted her $1,500 bond Thursday night and she was released an hour later, Houston’s KHOU-TV reported.
A sheriff’s spokesman didn’t respond to a message seeking details about the warrant.
Previously, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls threatened Fonseca with a disorderly conduct charge over the decal. However, District Attorney John Healey said he didn’t think the case would have stood up in court because of First Amendment protections on free speech.
Fonseca defended her right to keep the sticker on the vehicle.
“It’s not to cause hate or animosity,” Fonseca, 46, told the Houston Chronicle. “It’s just our freedom of speech and we’re exercising it.”
Fonseca said the message has been on the rear window of the pickup for nearly a year and it’ll stay there for the time being.
“There’s no law against freedom of speech, nothing in the law book here in Texas,” she told KHOU-TV. “I’ve been stopped numerous times, but they can’t write me a ticket.”
Nehls on Wednesday posted a photo of the profane sticker on his Facebook page, threatening the then-unidentified Fonseca with a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
A spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office said Thursday that Nehls removed the post after Fonseca was identified.
“Due to the hate messages he has been receiving toward his wife and children, the sheriff will not be commenting on the matter further,” the spokeswoman said in an email. –Fox News
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - the Only Problem Is, Madagascar is Part of Africa
"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" (2008).
"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" (2008), written by Etan Cohen and directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath for DreamWorks, continues the "Madagascar" adventures of Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien the Lemur (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their friends. If you saw the first film, you recall that Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria were star attractions in the New York Central Park Zoo until, through a convoluted sequence of events, they wound up castaways in Madagascar (an island off south-east Africa). In this episode, the animals try to get back to New York, and we learn a little bit more about their backgrounds.
This film is kid-friendly.
First, we learn that Alex was born "Alakay" to Zuba (Bernie Mac). Zuba tried to teach Alakay how to hunt, but all the cub wanted to do was dance. Poachers finally captured him after his rival Makunga (Alex Baldwin) challenged him. After the crate he is shipped in falls into the sea, it floats to New York, where Alex grows up in New York's Central Park Zoo. There, he meets Marty, Melman, and Gloria.
Hmmm, I wonder what they find so awesome...
Now, it looks as if the animals will be able to return to New York because they have a repaired plane to fly. They all board the plane, but it runs into trouble and crashes in mainland Africa. Alex reunites with Zuba, Marty joins a herd of zebra who are like him, Melman gains status as a witch doctor, and Gloria is pursued by a hippo named Moto Moto (will.i.am).
....and this is the African plain they are looking at, and it IS awesome.
The penguins set about repairing the plane again, stealing jeeps from tourists to get spare parts. The other characters, though, run into troubles with their new lives: Alex still has to contend with Makunga, who now defeats and banishes him and his family; Marty starts feeling unappreciated as just an unremarkable part of a herd; Melman starts getting "witch doctor disease;" and Gloria rejects Moto Moto.
Look! It's a bird... it's a plane... it's ... DreamWorks!
The stranded tourists add to their troubles. They build a town, stealing all the animals' water and capturing Alex, who eventually escapes. He returns to the others and challenges Makunga to a fight for leadership.
The crew, including direct/writer Eric Darnell.
The film doesn't make a lot of sense, but it is full of laughs, which is the main thing. The breakout stars are the penguins, who will delight the children and have a slightly bigger role than in the original. In that way, they are like Scrat in the "Ice Age" series, particularly "Ice Age: The Meltdown," which he really saved from becoming dull. King Julien also proves highly amusing in his appearances. However, much of the storyline involves adult characters which may leave many children uninterested, though scenes with the baby lion should please them.
There is some weird symbolism in this one.
A problem with this film is that it attempts to make the characters sympathetic and likable, rather than just comical. They just want to be loved, isn't that cute? This slows down the comedy, which is the franchise's main draw. In that sense, the character development backfires. In addition, inserting a tired subplot from "The Lion King" may have looked good on paper, but that film did it first and, frankly, better.
This film was Madagascar's mid-life crisis, but it recovered.
Making the main characters "deep" while reserving the comic hijinks for the supporting cast does work, but not as well as it would have if they forgot about trying to make us love Alex et al.and just kept everybody in the comedy loop. Do we care if Alex has issues? Not really, we care if he is funny. We care A LOT about that.
The hit song "You Got to Move It" is from this film.
The saving grace, however, is the animation. It is crisp, punchy and really captures the mood. The soundtrack also is top-notch, with "I Like To Move It" (written by Erick Morillo and Mark Quashie, performed once by will.i.am and another time by Reel 2 Reel) becoming a genuine breakout hit. "Born Free" by John Barry, "Private Dancer" by Mark Knopfler and Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" (written by him with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman) also liven things up. It's a hip soundtrack that may be more enjoyable than the film itself.
Marty talking to his new pals.
The jokes are the jokes if you don't like the current one, another is coming along in a minute. Many of them work, and they are very clever. This film just doesn't seem as funny as the first one, though, maybe because of all the pointless time wasted on trying to make us develop deep feelings for inherently goofy characters.
Ben Still, Jada and Pinkett Smith at the Israeli Premiere.
As a sequel, "Madagascar: Escape to Africa" isn't bad. It just kind of loses its way a bit. Fortunately, it did enough business to merit a sequel (actually, the sequel was planned before this film was even released). It was not a huge box office hit, barely recouping its budget domestically. Overseas ticket sales saved it - this series is warmly received internationally for obvious reasons. "Madagascar 2," as this is commonly known, is amusing enough, but personally I would watch all the "Ice Age" films first.
Labels: Alex the lion, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Escape 2 Africa, Gloria the Hippo, I like to move it, King Julien, Madagascar, Makunga, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Sacha Baron Cohen
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The average daily number of new tourists reached 540, and the Maldives tourism industry is recovering steadily
Major international flights have gradually resumed operations. After the reopening of the border, more than ten international airlines have resumed routes to the Maldives, with a total of 242 flights during this period.
According to the Maldives Tourism Authority, since the Maldives reopened its borders on July 15, a series of orderly epidemic prevention measures have been effective, and the Maldives has ushered in an initial recovery in the tourism industry. The Maldives will continuously update and adjust the local epidemic prevention strategy according to the global epidemic situation and optimize its implementation to ensure the health of every tourist and travel-related personnel who will visit the Maldives.
According to official statistics, more than 26,000 tourists from all over the world visited the Maldives from July 15 to October 14. The number of new tourists has been increasing month by month since July. As of now, the average daily number of new tourists has reached 540. Although still not as good as before the outbreak, the overall trend of the tourism industry is improving. Major international flights have gradually resumed operations. After the reopening of the border, more than ten international airlines have resumed routes to the Maldives, with a total of 242 flights during this period.
In order to adapt to the new normal of the tourism industry during the epidemic, local testing agencies have spared no effort to serve tourists, with an average of over 1,200 test samples per day. In response to the current situation of the epidemic, the Madai government has cooperated with insurance companies to launch the first travel accident insurance covering the new crown infection in the Madai area. The scope of claims covers patient isolation, treatment, transportation and other expenses. In addition, since it takes a certain amount of time for the results of the local new crown test on weekends, in order to facilitate the tourists traveling on the weekend, the Maldives Health and Safety Bureau has restricted the validity of PCR negative tests from 72 hours to 96 hours before tourists depart for Maldives. In addition to the above measures, the Director of the Maldives Tourism Bureau recently issued a statement that in accordance with the "Guidelines and Latest Guidelines for Epidemic Prevention and Control Measures Under the Resumption of Tourism Industry", tourist facilities in the Greater Male Region will be gradually opened. Private hotels and hotels can apply to the authorities to resume operations under two conditions, that is, to receive local tourists or to serve as a transit point for foreign tourists.
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Baltimore Clinic Receives Federal Loan Repayment Awards For Clinicians
Stacy M. Brown | 12/13/2019, 6 a.m.
Qwan Needum, Substance Abuse Therapist and Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Program awardee. Courtesy Photo
Chase Brexton, a clinic with a mission to provide quality care that honors diversity and improves communities, is among healthcare facilities to receive money in scholarship and loan repayment awards for clinicians and students through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC).
Chase Brexton has locations in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, and in Columbia, Easton, Glen Burnie, MICA, and Randallstown.
The funds are part of the federal Health Resources & Services Administration’s (HRSA) plan to combat the nation’s opioid crisis through an NHSC Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Program (SUD Workforce LRP).
“These loan repayment awards and scholarships make it possible for dedicated clinicians to care for the patients who need them most, including Americans with opioid use disorder and other substance abuse challenges,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a release.
The program also supports the recruitment and retention of health professionals needed in underserved areas to expand access to SUD treatment and prevent overdose deaths.
“This helps us to focus on helping clients and not be worried about student loans,” said Qwan Needum, a substance abuse therapist and SUD Workforce LRP awardee. “I’m here to help save lives and educate our clients in Baltimore City. And, one of the things I like about being at Chase Brexton is that we have all the services needed in one building, and that includes medical, dental and health— and case management.”
The loan repayment program aims to increase access to quality opioid and substance abuse disorder treatment in underserved communities across the country.
The HRSA recently announced $319 million in scholarship and loan repayment awards, including $80 million to specifically support nearly 1,250 clinicians providing substance use disorder treatment. In total, Baltimore area clinicians like Needum, have received 16 awards.
“As far as our clients’ access to care, we do see a lot of clients who don’t have insurance. We also see those who don’t know how to apply for medical insurance, so we educate them on applying for Medicaid or Medicare, or even programs that provide co-pay assistance,” Needum said.
Previously, Chase Brexton Health Care received more than $400,000 in federal grants recognizing its national leadership in quality care metrics and expanding its dental care programs.
The clinic also received a $300,000 grant through HRSA’s Oral Health Infrastructure Awards to expand its oral health programs.
Currently, Chase Brexton offers dental care at its Mt. Vernon, Columbia, Glen Burnie, and Randallstown Centers and provided care for more than 6,300 patients in the fiscal year 2018, according to their website.
Additionally, Chase Brexton received a total of $117,000 in HRSA Quality Improvement Awards, recognizing its delivery of high-quality patient care. The award included $62,254 in recognition of Chase Brexton’s role as a National Quality Leader, placing it in the top two percent of federally qualified health centers across the country.
Also included in the HRSA quality awards was $50,000 in recognition of Chase Brexton’s role as a patient-centered medical home and $5,000 to support Chase Brexton’s ongoing use of health information technology in supporting quality patient care.
Needum says the need for clinicians continues, but the loan repayment program should help.
“It’s definitely a need for more clinicians,” she stated. “In my case, I handle a lot of clients, so with the additional support, I can actually have a steady workflow instead of an overload in demand.”
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Online Bullies Make Teen Depression, PTSD Even Worse: Survey
TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Cyberbullying can worsen symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in young people, new research shows.
That's the conclusion of a recent survey of 50 teens who were inpatients at a suburban psychiatric hospital near New York City. Researchers reported that those who had been bullied had higher severity of PTSD and anger than those who were not bullied.
"Even against a backdrop of emotional challenges in the kids we studied, we noted cyberbullying had an adverse impact. It's real and should be assessed," said study co-author Philip Harvey, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.
One-fifth of participants reported being bullied online in the two months before they entered the psychiatric hospital. Half were bullied by text messages and half on Facebook. Others were bullied through transmitted pictures or videos, Instagram, instant messages and chat rooms, the survey revealed.
Harvey noted that teens who had been abused were more likely to be bullied online. This finding suggests that childhood assessments for trauma and for cyberbullying should be integrated.
"Cyberbullying is possibly more pernicious than other forms of bullying because of its reach," Harvey said in a university news release. "The bullying can be viral and persistent. To really be bullying, it has to be personal -- a directly negative comment attempting to make the person feel bad."
The study also uncovered other facts about cyberbullying:
Time spent online is not a determining factor in who is cyberbullied.
People from all economic and ethnic backgrounds are vulnerable.
Those who have previously been bullied are at a higher risk of being bullied again.
In addition to mental health professionals, parents and teens can also do their part to discourage cyberbullying, Harvey said.
"It's not hard to block someone on the internet, whether it's texting, Facebook, Twitter or sending pictures," he said. "Ask why are people choosing you to bully? If it's something you're posting, assess that and make a change."
The findings were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more on cyberbullying.
SOURCE: University of Miami, news release, Jan. 22, 2020
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App Could Help Officials Prosecute Rapists In Developing World
This entry was posted by Dancer on March 12, 2015 at 10:39 pm
A new app is aiming to crack down on rapists in a country where the crime is far too common.
MediCapt will serve as a vital tool in collecting evidence and information on cases concerning sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), TakePart reported. The cell phone app, set to be released in 2016, will digitize the process in which field workers and medical professionals gather and save information provided by rape victims.
MediCapt’s standard form — which asks questions like, “Did the perpetrator have weapons?“, “Was the victim pregnant?”, “Has she tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease?” — allows for this useful information to be stored centrally and be easily accessible to doctors, social workers and forensic teams.
The app will also allow workers to take pictures of evidence — such as a victim’s physical injuries — should the photos be relevant in a court case down the line.
According to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) — the New York City-based nonprofit that created the application — MediCapt will be an important tool that could help officials prosecute violators through the justice system.
A lack of access to computers and poor communication systems country-wide make collecting and saving information from rape cases a challenge for law enforcement, as ThinkProgress reported. Many workers use unreliable methods, like jotting down notes on paper, to record information, according to TakePart.
The app — which launched as a pilot in DRC in January 2014 — has the potential to protect women around the world in the coming years: “International adoption of this new technology will be a crucial contribution to ending impunity for mass atrocities,” PHR website states.
DRC has an abysmal track record when it comes to sexual violence. A study, published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2011, that examined Congolese women found that more than 400,000 women ages 15 to 49 were raped between 2006 and 2007 — the equivalent of four women raped every five minutes, according to researchers.
MediCapt’s makers are focused on ensuring women in the developing world can seek out justice easier.
“What was most useful was introducing clinicians to the promise and power of technology as a means for gathering evidence and prosecuting these crimes,” Karen Naimer, PHR’s director of the Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, said in an interview with ThinkProgress last year. “Some of them had never even held a smartphone before, but by the end of the first day everyone was engaged in the idea of the power this technology could bring.”
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Trends and Developments in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges to Copyright
Bernt Hugenholtz, João Pedro Quintais, Daniel Gervais (Institute for Information Law (IViR))/ December 16, 2020 December 16, 2020 /Leave a comment
The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on intellectual property (IP) law undoubtedly ranks as one of the most-discussed topics of 2020 among legal academics and practitioners (including on this blog). Following initiatives at WIPO, the EPO and several national IPOs (including the UKIPO and the USPTO), EU institutions have now also become active in this area. On 20 October 2020, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on IP rights for the development of AI technologies. In parallel, on 25 November 2020, the European Commission published a commissioned study on challenges posed by AI to the European IP rights framework.
The study, which was carried out by researchers at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) [the authors of this post] and the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy (JIIP), examines the state of the art of copyright and patent protection in Europe for AI-assisted outputs in general and in three priority domains: science (in particular meteorology), media (journalism), and pharmaceutical research. The term “AI-assisted outputs” is used in the study to refer to productions or applications generated by or with the assistance of AI systems, tools or techniques. This post focuses on the copyright analysis of the study (for a broader overview of the study, see here).
The use of AI systems in the realms of culture, innovation and science has grown spectacularly in recent years and should continue to do so. AI systems are being used to generate diverse literary and artistic content, including songs, translations, poems, screenplays, novels, photos, paintings, etc., and are making deep inroads into media and journalism. Although these systems have become increasingly sophisticated and autonomous, our study assumes that fully autonomous creation by AI does not yet exist, nor will it exist for the foreseeable future. The study, therefore, views AI systems primarily as tools in the hands of human operators.
AI and EU Copyright Law
For EU copyright law, the study looks into whether AI-assisted outputs qualify as works, at issues of authorship and ownership of AI outputs, at their protection by related rights, and at specific case studies in the areas of automated journalism and meteorology. The analysis is concentrated on the EU copyright acquis and its interpretation by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU).
Our inquiry into EU copyright law identifies four interrelated criteria to be met for an AI-assisted output to qualify as a protected “work”: the output is (1) a “production in the literary, scientific or artistic domain”; (2) the product of human intellectual effort; and (3) the result of creative choices that are (4) “expressed” in the output. Whether the first step is established EU law is however uncertain. Since most AI artefacts belong to the “literary, scientific or artistic domain” anyway, and are the result of at least some “human intellectual effort” (however remote), in practice the focus of the copyright analysis is on steps 3 and 4.
Based on a thorough analysis of the CJEU’s case law, and in light of the findings of two expert workshops, we conclude that the core issue is whether the AI-assisted output is the result of human creative choices that are “expressed” in the output. In line with the CJEU’s reasoning in the Painer (C-145/10) case, we distinguish three iterative phases of the creative process in AI-assisted production: “conception” (design and specifications), “execution” (producing draft versions) and “redaction” (editing, finalisation).
Diagram of an iterative creative process
While AI systems play a dominant role at the execution phase, the role of human authors at the conception stage often remains essential. Moreover, in many instances, human beings will also be in charge of the redaction stage. Depending on the facts of the case, this will allow human beings sufficient creative choice. Assuming these choices are expressed in the final AI-assisted output, the output will then qualify as a copyright-protected work. By contrast, if an AI system is programmed to automatically execute content without the output being conceived or redacted by a person exercising creative choices, there will be no work.
Due to the “black box” nature of some AI systems, persons in charge of the conception phase will sometimes not be able to precisely predict or explain the outcome of the execution phase. This, however, need not present an obstacle to the “work” status of the final output, assuming that such output stays within the ambit of the person’s general authorial intent.
Depending on (largely unharmonized) national rules on authorship and copyright ownership, authorship status is likely to be be accorded to the person or persons that have creatively contributed to the output. In most cases, this will be the user of the AI system, not the AI system developer, unless collaboration between the developer and user on a specific AI production justifies co-authorship. If “off-the-shelf” AI systems are used to create content, co-authorship claims by AI developers will also be unlikely for commercial reasons, since AI developers will normally not want to burden customers with downstream copyright claims.
A problem that might arise is the possibility of falsely claiming authorship in respect of AI productions that do not qualify as “works” for lack of human creativity. Producers or publishers might be tempted to falsely attribute authorship in such productions in order to benefit from the authorship presumptions granted under EU law, which allow the person whose name is mentioned as an author to initiate infringement procedures.
British and Irish copyright law accord authorship status to persons undertaking the arrangements necessary for creating computer-generated works in cases where no (human) author can be identified. These provisions have been criticised as being incompatible with EU copyright standards, since “authorless” works do not meet the EU standard of “the author’s own intellectual creation”. Perhaps they are therefore better understood as a species of related rights.
The related rights harmonised under the EU acquis offer various possibilities for protecting AI-assisted outputs that do not qualify for copyright protection. In light of the general absence in related rights’ law of a requirement of human authorship or originality, and its rationale of rewarding economic or entrepreneurial activity, related rights will accommodate AI-assisted output in cases of insufficient human creative input.
While AI-assisted outputs in the form of aural signals (audio data) may benefit from the phonographic right, audio-visual outputs will qualify for protection under the film producer’s right. Moreover, AI-assisted broadcasts may find protection under the related rights of broadcasters. None of these related rights provide for a threshold requirement, making these regimes available for AI-assisted outputs that are generated without any creative human involvement – even absent significant economic investment. In most cases the user, not the developer, of the AI system will be deemed the owner of the related right, since it is the user that triggers the acts that give rise to these rights through his use of the AI system and output generation.
Additionally, databases created using AI will qualify for sui generis protection under the EU Database Directive (96/9/EC) if the databases are the result of substantive investment. This includes investment in AI technology and know-how applied in producing the database. In light of the broad legal notion of “database”, the sui generis right potentially offers protection to a wide range of AI-assisted productions. However, it is currently uncertain whether investment in machine-generating data – for example, the generation of weather data with the aid of AI – qualifies as “obtained” rather than “created” data and therefore may be factored in. In any case, the prerequisite of a “database” rules out protection of raw data.
As various case studies in the study reveal, it is impossible to make general assessments of the copyright status of AI-assisted outputs in individual cases. In some cases, where the creative role of human beings is evident at various stages of the creative process, such as The Next Rembrandt project, the output will most likely be copyright protected. In other cases, where it is difficult or even impossible to identify creative choices, such as automatically-generated sports reports or AI-assisted weather forecasts, copyright protection will be less likely. Note however that this is the same for sports reports and weather forecasts produced without machine assistance. Nevertheless, producers of “authorless” AI-assisted outputs might still find recourse in related (neighbouring) rights.
“Authorless” AI-assisted outputs will remain completely unprotected only in cases where no related right or sui generis right is available. Since such rights attach primarily to aural and audio-visual signals, as well as to databases, such cases are most likely to occur if the AI-assisted output is in alphanumerical form. Whether this absence of IP protection might justify regulatory intervention, is primarily an economic question that cannot be addressed in the context of this study (see also here). In any case, such intervention will be justified only if no alternative protection (e.g., under trade secret protection, unfair competition or contract law) is available, and solid empirical economic analysis reveals that the absence of protection harms overall economic welfare in the EU.
The study reaches the following conclusions and recommendations regarding EU copyright law:
Current EU copyright rules are generally sufficiently flexible to deal with the challenges posed by AI-assisted outputs.
The absence of (fully) harmonised rules of authorship and copyright ownership may lead to divergent solutions in the national law of distinct Member States in respect of AI-assisted works, which could justify a harmonisation initiative.
Further research into the risks of false authorship attributions by publishers of “work-like” but “authorless” AI productions, seen in the light of the general authorship presumption in art. 5 of the Enforcement Directive (2004/48/EC), should be considered.
Related rights regimes in the EU potentially extend to “authorless” AI productions in a variety of sectors: audio recording, broadcasting, audiovisual recording, and news. In addition, the sui generis database right may offer protection to AI-produced databases that are the result of substantial investment.
The creation/obtaining distinction in the sui generis right is a cause of legal uncertainty regarding the status of machine-generated data that could justify revision or clarification of the EU Database Directive.
In sum, the study concludes that the current state of the art in AI does not require or justify immediate substantive changes in copyright law in Europe. The existing concepts of copyright law are sufficiently abstract and flexible to meet the current challenges from AI. Producers of AI-assisted outputs also have access to less demanding regimes, such as related (neighbouring) rights and sui generis database protection.
The main conclusions of the IViR/JIIP study were adopted by the European Commission in the IP Action Plan that was submitted to the European Parliament and the Council on the same day the study was published, 25 November 2020.
Part of this blog post is adapted from a previous blog post on the IPKat Blog and available here.
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OPEN LETTER: Revocation – How authors and performers can reclaim their copyrights
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Of these, 18 were developed by internal Nintendo development divisions. – it features a great multiplayer mode too, allowing you to go through intense battles with friends through the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You can play as any of the seven bounty hunters, with each of them having their own special attacks and skills. Phantom Hourglass is a little more casual than other Legend of Zelda games and arguably a little easier too, but that doesn't make it any less of a seriously entertaining pocket adventure. Dual Strike made great use of the DS's two screens, often forcing you to fight two battles simultaneously. Only the initial release date on this platform is listed. A total of six other bounty hunters are looking to gain that title, which is the premise behind Hunters. Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Osborne House, Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy, Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising and Relaxing Your Eyes, SpongeBob en zijn Vrienden: Aanval van de Speelgoedrobots, SpongeBob en zijn vrienden: De Slag om Vulkaan Eiland, SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature of the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob SquarePants: De Strijd Tegen Slijm, SpongeBob SquarePants en zijn Vrienden: Samen Staan ze Sterk, SpongeBob SquarePants: Het Surf & Skate Avontuur. The best-selling game on the Nintendo DS is New Super Mario Bros. First released in North America on May 15, 2006, it went on to sell nearly 31 million units worldwide. 5D’s World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia, Yu-Gi-Oh! Meer Brain Training van Dr. Kawashima: Hoe oud is jouw brein? From excellent original games, including Pokémon Black and White 2, through to classic SNES ports like Kirby Super Star Ultra, you're guaranteed to find something you like. This is a list of video games for the Nintendo DS video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. By The original DS console launched way back in 2004. © While New Super Mario Bros. is an awesome game, there's nothing better than going back to the classics. Combat is turn-based and deeply cerebral as you attempt to out-maneuver and overpower your enemy. The best-selling game on the Nintendo DS is New Super Mario Bros. First released in North America on May 15, 2006, it went on to sell nearly 31 million units worldwide. Eventually, he uncovers a plan to destroy the world and has to race the clock in order to save it. Receive news and offers from our other brands? Fist of the North Star DS, Laura's Passie: Avonturen Schoolmysteries, LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril, Mario & Sonic op de Olympische Winterspelen, Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis, Marvel Super Hero Squad Infinity Gauntlet, May’s Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville. You won't hear any objections from us on this one. Closing out our list is Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift - a sequel to the great-selling GBA game that was a sequel to the awesome, trail-blazing PS1 game. Please refresh the page and try again. In between battles, you'll equip characters with new weapons and skills (the former begets the latter) and take on side-quests and new characters. There was a problem. You'll basically follow Roxas and the other members of Organization XIII through the various Disney worlds. Perhaps the coolest new feature in the game is multiplayer mode, which allows you and your friends to play as other Organization XIII members. Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! The game follows the original story of George Stobbart as he travels across the world to unravel the Templar conspiracy. Should both you and a friend own a copy of the game (it's probably a pipe-dream at this point but...) you can actually face off in head-to-head battles. Sesamstraat: Klaar Voor de Start, Grover! Whether you've played the original Broken Sword on PC or not, this Director's Cut version for DS is well worth picking up. The game takes place in the Johto region and offers updated graphics, touch controls, and even the ability to use the 'Pokéwalker' – essentially a glorified Tamagotchi – to take your Pokemon wherever you go. If any game proves that Mario is still relevant, it's this one. Of the 71 games on this list, 50 were published in one or more regions by Nintendo.
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Wednesday saw a thin deployment of officers as rioters stormed the Capitol. In June, a very different scene unfolded in the same city
by Julian Borger
The contrast between the law enforcement reaction to the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday and the suppression of peaceful protests in the summer is not just stark – it is black and white. The Black Lives Matter demonstrators crowd outside the White House on 1 June was a block away from the building and made no attempt to breach its security. It was a mostly Black crowd, and it was charged by a force made up of Washington police, US Park police, over 5,000 national guard troops and federal agencies like the Bureau of Prisons. An army helicopter swooped low over the heads of the protesters. Teargas, batons and horses were used to clear a block so that Donald Trump could stage a photo op outside a church across the road. A national guard commander later admitted there had been “excessive use of force”. The events in Lafayette Park in June 2020 represented a defining moment of the Trump presidency. So will 6 January 2021. The mob that stormed the seat of US democracy on Wednesday had openly talked about such a plan, were explicitly intent on overturning a fair election, and some had hinted they might be carrying guns. They were almost all white. Many were openly white supremacists, and yet the thin Capitol police collapsed in their path. more...
US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds
Law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests show a clear disparity in responses, new statistics show
Lois Beckett
Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a non-profit that monitors political violence around the world. In the past 10 months, US law enforcement agencies have used teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and beatings at a much higher percentage at Black Lives Matter demonstrations than at pro-Trump or other rightwing protests. Law enforcement officers were also more likely to use force against leftwing demonstrators, whether the protests remained peaceful or not. The statistics, based on law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests across the United States since April 2020, show a clear disparity in how agencies have responded to the historic wave of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence, compared with demonstrations organized by Trump supporters. more...
Insurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol
Witnesses say Trump was oblivious to the gravity of the situation as five died, Congress was violated and his vice-president faced the very real possibility of being lynched
by Julian Borger in Washington
If there was one single moment when the veil of American resilience crumbled and the Trumpist assault on democracy turned into an invasion, it arrived just before 1pm on Wednesday. That was when a group of pro-Trump militants burst through a flimsy outer barrier on the north-west side of the Capitol building and advanced on a secondary barricade guarded by four frightened police officers, dressed only in basic uniforms and soft caps. One of the officers can be seen resting his hands on the barrier in as casual a manner he can manage, in an attempt to defuse the confrontation. He clearly had no idea what was coming. On the other side, a young man in a white hoodie and a red Make America Great Again cap, pulls at the metal barricade but it holds. Then an older man, also red-capped but in full military uniform, takes the youth by the shoulder and whispers something in his ear as the swelling crowd around them chants “USA”. Ten seconds later, the crowd pushes together, the metal fortification collapses, and the Capitol police officers are overwhelmed. The crowd surges past rushing towards the great white domed building atop Capitol Hill. more...
An NYPD official is suspended without pay after being connected to racists posts on a message board
By Madeline Holcombe and Sonia Moghe, CNN
(CNN) A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay and is now the subject of an internal disciplinary process after a string of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts, the NYPD confirmed. Late last year, an investigation by the City Council connected Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel to a user under the name "Clouseau." Under that identity, he routinely posted offensive messages on a public law enforcement message board attacking Black people, Muslims, the Hasidic Jewish community and others with extremely derogatory language, according to a draft report from the New York City Council Oversight and Investigations Division. more...
Race double standard clear in rioters’ Capitol insurrection
By AARON MORRISON
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Lives Matter protests, 2020: Overwhelming force from law enforcement in dozens of cities. Chemical dispersants. Rubber bullets and hand-to-hand combat with largely peaceful crowds and some unruly vandals and looters. More than 14,000 arrests. The U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021: Barely more than a few dozen arrests. Several weapons seized, improvised explosive devices found. Members of a wilding mob escorted from the premises, some not even in handcuffs. The key difference? The first set of protesters were overwhelmingly Black Americans and their allies. The second group was overwhelmingly white Americans who support outgoing President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. The violent breaching of the halls of power on Capitol Hill by the insurrectionist mob on Wednesday, which left one woman dead of a police gunshot wound, represents one of the plainest displays of a racial double standard in both modern and recent history. “When Black people protest for our lives, we are all too often met by National Guard troops or police equipped with assault rifles, shields, tear gas and battle helmets,” the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation said in a statement. “When white people attempt a coup, they are met by an underwhelming number of law enforcement personnel who act powerless to intervene, going so far as to pose for selfies with terrorists,” it said. more...
The contrast between the law enforcement reaction to the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday and the suppression of peaceful protests in the summer is not just stark – it is black and white. The Black Lives Matter demonstrators crowd outside the White House on 1 June was a block away from the building and made no attempt to breach its security. It was a mostly Black crowd, and it was charged by a force made up of Washington police, US Park police, over 5,000 national guard troops and federal agencies like the Bureau of Prisons. An army helicopter swooped low over the heads of the protesters. Teargas, batons and horses were used to clear a block so that Donald Trump could stage a photo op outside a church across the road. A national guard commander later admitted there had been “excessive use of force”.
The events in Lafayette Park in June 2020 represented a defining moment of the Trump presidency. So will 6 January 2021. The mob that stormed the seat of US democracy on Wednesday had openly talked about such a plan, were explicitly intent on overturning a fair election, and some had hinted they might be carrying guns. They were almost all white. Many were openly white supremacists, and yet the thin Capitol police collapsed in their path. more...
The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration
Authorities are more than twice as likely to break up a left-wing protest than a right-wing protest.
As images from Wednesday’s riot by pro-Trump extremists at the U.S. Capitol filled our TV screens and social media feeds, one thing was notably absent: the kind of confrontation between police and protesters that we saw during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer. Even though the Capitol mob was far more violent — and seditious — than the largely peaceful BLM demonstrators, police responded far less aggressively toward them than toward BLM protesters across the country. Researchers who track this sort of thing for a living say that fits a pattern.
Instead of National Guard troops being posted en masse around landmarks before a protest even began, we saw the Defense Department initially deny a request to send in troops — and that was after the Capitol had been breached. Instead of peaceful protesters being doused in tear gas, we saw a mob posing for selfies with police and being allowed to wander the corridors of power like they couldn’t decide whether they were invading the Capitol or touring it. Instead of President Trump calling these violent supporters “thugs,” as he called racial justice protesters, and advocating for more violent police crackdowns, we saw him remind his followers that they were loved before asking them nicely to go home. more...
'Double standard': Biden, Black lawmakers and activists decry police response to attack on US Capitol
Grace Hauck, Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden, civil rights leaders and activists blasted law enforcement agencies for their slow response to rioters at the U.S. Capitol, noting the massive show of police force in place for Black Lives Matter demonstrations last year over police killings of unarmed Black men and women. Biden said his granddaughter pointed out the unfair difference in images that showed the violence wielded against Black Lives Matter protesters versus the seemingly muted response against those who attacked the U.S. government. "No one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," Biden said in remarks to the nation Thursday. more...
President-elect Biden says Capitol Hill pro-Trump riots 'totally unacceptable'
President-elect Joe Biden comments on the protests from Donald Trump supporters that turned into a U.S. Capitol riot. video...
DC police made far more arrests at the height of Black Lives Matter protests than during the Capitol clash
By Casey Tolan, CNN
(CNN) Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, last summer found themselves facing a massive show of force: military helicopters hovering over the city, National Guard troops patrolling the streets and tear gas filling the air. When a mob of President Trump's supporters broke into the US Capitol on Wednesday, they were confronted by a far smaller police presence -- and by the end of the day, far fewer of the rioters ended up in custody. DC police arrested more than five times as many people at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer than they did during the day of insurrection at the Capitol, according to a CNN analysis of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) data. And many of those arrested amid this week's unrest were detained on less serious charges. more...
Kid glove treatment of pro-Trump mob contrasts with strong-arm police tactics against Black Lives Matter, activists say
By Robert Klemko, Kimberly Kindy, Kim Bellware and Derek Hawkins
When Chanelle Helm helped organize protests after the March 13 killing of Breonna Taylor, Louisville police responded with batons, stun grenades and tear gas. The 40-year-old Black Lives Matter activist still bears scars from rubber bullets fired at close range. So Helm was startled and frustrated Wednesday to see a White, pro-Trump mob storm the U.S. Capitol — breaking down barricades, smashing windows and striking police officers — without obvious consequence.
“Our activists are still to this day met with hyper-police violence,” Helm said. “And today you see this full-on riot — literally a coup — with people toting guns, which the police knew was coming and they just let it happen. I don’t understand where the ‘law and order’ is. This is what white supremacy looks like.” Helm and other activists across the country who spent much of 2020 facing off with law enforcement officers while protesting police brutality and racial inequality watched with a mixture of outrage and validation as the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol building during sessions of the House and Senate. more...
Rioters breached US Capitol security on Wednesday. This was the police response when it was Black protesters on DC streets last year
By Nicole Chavez, CNN
(CNN) As hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, breaking windows and wreaking havoc, politicians and activists were among the many who drew comparisons between the police response on Wednesday to that of last year's Black Lives Matter protests. The death of George Floyd -- a Black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck -- in May of 2020 prompted hundreds of protests nationwide over the summer. In many cities, including the nation's capital, police met protesters with tear gas, violence and arrests.
However, Wednesday's protests, many pointed out, were different. The Black Lives Matter Global Network, one of the most well-known organizations fighting for the well-being of Black people, described Wednesday's riots as a "coup." The group said it was "one more example of the hypocrisy in our country's law enforcement response to protest." "When Black people protest for our lives, we are all too often met by National Guard troops or police equipped with assault rifles, shields, tear gas and battle helmets," the group said in a statement. "Make no mistake, if the protesters were Black, we would have been tear gassed, battered, and perhaps shot." Here's a look at the protests from last year, compared to those on Wednesday. more...
*** White supremacist, white racist and white mobs are more of a threat to America than black extremists are. ***
New terrorism guide shows FBI still classifying Black 'extremists' as domestic terrorism threat
Jana Winter, Marquise Francis and Sean D. Naylor
More than three years after the FBI came under fire for claiming “Black identity extremists” were a domestic terrorism threat, the bureau has issued a new terrorism guide that employs almost identical terminology, according to a copy of the document obtained by Yahoo News.
The FBI’s 2020 domestic terrorism reference guide on “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism” identifies two distinct sets of groups: those motivated by white supremacy and those who use “political reasons — including racism or injustice in American society” to justify violence. The examples the FBI gives for the latter group are all Black individuals or groups.
The FBI document claims that “many” of those Black racially motivated extremists “have targeted law enforcement and the US Government,” while a “small number” of them “incorporate sovereign citizen Moorish beliefs into their ideology, which involves a rejection of their US citizenship based on a combination of sovereign citizen ideology, religious beliefs, and black separatist rhetoric.” more...
Call the GOP effort to thwart Biden what it is — racist voter suppression
To the editor: Let’s call this what it is — voter suppression. (“Mike Pence: Your loyalty should be to the Constitution, not Trump,” editorial, Dec. 31) The foundation for contesting the 2020 electoral college results, pure and simple, is voter suppression under the guise of voter fraud. And, whose votes are being suppressed? Can there be any doubt that it is those of the marginalized residents of large cities who have been impeded by racism and poverty in exercising the right to vote?
The entire compendium of challenges is directed at disenfranchising citizens more at risk, suffering greater income loss, and less able to reach polling places due to a pandemic. The disingenuous claim by far-right Republicans in Congress that they will object the electoral vote on Jan. 6 because of constitutional concerns is an insult to anyone who actually believes in the right of every citizen to have their vote count. As the announcement by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) so clearly displays, we have moved to where political theater “trumps” any concept of justice. more...
Vandals hit Black churches in D.C. during pro-Trump rallies
“This weekend, we saw forces of hate seeking to use destruction and intimidation to tear us apart,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said.
WASHINGTON — Vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic Black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze as nighttime clashes Saturday between pro-Donald Trump supporters and counter-demonstrators erupted into violence and arrests. Police on Sunday said they were investigating the incidents at the Asbury United Methodist Church and Metropolitan A.M.E. Church as potential hate crimes, which one religious leader likened to a cross burning.
“This weekend, we saw forces of hate seeking to use destruction and intimidation to tear us apart,” District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser said Sunday. “We will not let that happen.” A video posted on Twitter showed a group of men appearing to take down a BLM sign at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church as others in the crowd shout, “Whose streets? Our streets.” Another video showed people pouring an accelerant on a BLM banner and setting it ablaze in the street as others cheered and cursed antifa. Someone walks up about a minute later and uses a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. more...
Trump’s racist gambit did not work. Consider it a warning | Editorial
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
Donald Trump appears closer to accepting that he can no longer go on pretending that he won the election, after three weeks of hearing judges cackle at his fatuous claims. But let’s not forget how he tried to use racist vote-purging to steal the election, and how members of his party remained mute during this effort to savage our democracy.
Trump’s campaign attempted to throw out millions of ballots that were cast in minority cities such as Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. Never during this process did his legal legions produce evidence of widespread fraud or any impropriety in these places, and multiple courts rejected every challenge, usually with gusto. Yet he persisted, with racist strategies that perfectly encapsulate his political career.
In Wisconsin, Trump’s vote counters called for a recount of ballots in Milwaukee County — which is 58 percent Black and Latino — but not in the whiter counties, and called for the purge of hundreds of thousands of votes because they weren’t folded properly or the ink didn’t match. In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign made false claims about widespread voter fraud in Philadelphia, and argued that thousands of ballots should be declared void because election observers were not allowed to watch the count — which they had to admit was wrong, after a judge pushed back.
In Michigan, Biden’s 332,000 margin in Wayne County — home to majority-Black Detroit — was essential to his 150,000-vote victory in a battleground state. That was too much for Rudy Giuliani, a master of accidental comedy, who said, “It changes the result of the election if you take out Wayne County.” Trump even called two Republican canvassing board members from Wayne County and pressured these local election officials to not certify the results. more...
Trump is leaving minority votes on the table
Analysis by Ronald Brownstein
(CNN) President Donald Trump appears determined to end this stage of his political career the same way he began it: by promoting a racist conspiracy theory. Just as he began his long march to the White House by touting the racist "birther theory" that Barack Obama was not an American citizen, Trump and his allies are choregraphing his slow walk away from the Oval Office to a backbeat of accusations that the election was stolen from him in heavily African American cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta. These charges of urban voting fraud -- the distant bookend to his birther slanders -- underscore how much Trump's political message revolves around convincing his coalition that an insidious combination of disdainful elites and dangerous minorities is unfairly taking away "our country," as he often calls America.
"This is in the continuum of the conversation about people losing their country," says Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster. "When talking about the election being stolen from them, what they are really saying is, again, those people are taking our country. When they say, 'Let's disqualify the votes in Milwaukee ... the votes in Philadelphia ... in Atlanta and Detroit,' they are all but saying it: The votes of 'those people' should not count." That Trump and his allies would return to this imagery so quickly after an election in which he made modest but meaningful gains with Black voters, and even larger advances with Hispanics in some areas, shows how difficult it will be for the GOP to disentangle itself from the President's racist messaging and expand beyond those beachheads in the minority community to truly build the "multiracial working class" coalition that some GOP thinkers yearn for.
"If you look at Blacks ideologically, politically, it's a stereotype that they are ultraliberal," says Katherine Tate, a Brown University political scientist who studies Black voting behavior. "Higher percentages of them should have been voting Republican a while ago." Had Republicans nominated another candidate, she says, who avoided Trump's open appeals to racial resentments but offered "the same political agenda, securing the border, skepticism about Covid, withdraw troops from overseas wars and ban immigration as best you can ... that candidate would have done better [with Black voters] than Donald Trump." more...
Assault on Black votes in Wayne County reminiscent of Jim Crow
Stephen Henderson
My entire life, I’ve understood this nation’s painful and difficult, racist history of denying the vote to black people. First, because we were property and not humans. Then, because, despite a devastating war and a constitutional amendment, southern states invented new barriers to throw in our way and block us from the ballot. And just one generation before me, my father, born in Mississippi, returned home from his service in the Korean War only to be told he could not vote, because he was black.
But until Tuesday, I’ve never feared that my own vote may be discounted. I’ve never worried that when I pull the lever or put the paper ballot in the machine, that my vote might be disqualified for bogus reasons, or certainly not because I was Black. I have voted mostly in neighborhoods where I’ve lived nearly my whole life. I never took it for granted, given the history. But I never thought my own vote was in doubt.
But as the Wayne County Board of Canvassers met on Tuesday, and took an initial vote refusing to certify the ballots cast two weeks ago for president and the other offices, all of a sudden, I felt in my own gut, what Black Americans before me felt their whole lives. And when Monica Palmer, one of the Republican canvassers who did not want to certify the vote, said she would happily certify Wayne county ballots outside of Detroit but not those from the city, I felt the weight of all that history come crashing down on my soul, and in my heart. more...
Wayne County GOP canvassers tried to steal my vote. I won't be able to forget it. | Opinion
Nancy Kaffer Detroit Free Press
Last night, they tried to steal my vote. Not some nebulous "they," like you hear about in online conspiracy plots. Two Michiganders, Monica Palmer and Bill Hartmann, Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers. They tried to steal my vote, Monica Palmer and Bill Hartmann, and they did it at a public meeting, with the support of the Michigan Republican Party, and too many GOP elected officials to list here — and, if you are a GOP elected official or operative or member or sympathizer who has not spoken out against this outrage done in your name, regardless of how you have shaken your head and tsk-tsked in private, I mean you.
This isn't something I ever imagined could happen, to me or to my fellow Detroit and Wayne County voters. That is my privilege — I'm well aware of, have written about, GOP voter suppression efforts nationally and in Michigan, aimed largely at Democratic strongholds, more precisely, at Black and brown communities. Of gerrymandering and of the insidious suggestion that there is something inherently wrong with Detroit, Detroiters and particularly Detroit ballots, which, in this case, means Black voters, and Black authority. I've written about the unsuccessful attempts by GOP vote challengers to intimidate poll workers and discount votes over election week at Detroit's TCF Center.
But it simply never seemed real to me that any of our votes, once cast, could be discounted. Last night, that changed. Last night, Palmer and Hartmann voted against certifying the vote in Wayne County, the state's most populous jurisdiction and one of its most Democratic, in an effort to do ... what, I'm not even sure. But in doing so, they made it abundantly clear that their intent was to disenfranchise voters in Detroit, which, in this case, means Black, not in Oakland County, where Joe Biden expanded his margin of victory, or Washtenaw County, which he won with a nearly identical share of the vote he garnered in Wayne. more...
Kamala Harris: Facebook removes racist posts about US vice-president-elect
By James Clayton
Facebook has taken down a string of racist and misogynistic posts, memes and comments about US Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris. The social network removed the content after BBC News alerted it to three groups that regularly hosted hateful material on their pages. Facebook says it takes down 90% of hate speech before it is flagged. One media monitoring body described the pages as "dedicated to propagating racist and misogynistic smears".
'Low-hanging fruit'
However, despite the pages being places where hate-speech is regularly directed towards the vice-president-elect, Facebook said it would not take action on the groups themselves. Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said: "Facebook's removal of this content only after it's been flagged to them by the media confirms that the rules and guidelines they establish are hollow because they put little to no effort into detection and enforcement.
"We are talking about the lowest of low-hanging fruit from a detection perspective. "And yet, these escaped Facebook's notice until flagged by a third party." The pages included accusations Ms Harris was not a US citizen - because her mother was from India and her father from Jamaica. Other comments suggested she was not "black enough" for the Democrats. Another post said she should be "deported to India". And, in several memes, her name is mocked. more...
Hate crime against Black couple jolts beach town known for tolerance
Johnny and Ann Parham have received a groundswell of support from residents across Fire Island but are still grappling with the incident and its aftermath.
By Rich Schapiro
Nearly 50 years ago, Johnny and Ann Parham bought a beach house near New York City to provide a summer escape for them and their infant son. It was a two-story, cedar-shingle cottage in the tiny town of Ocean Beach on Fire Island — a place known for its natural beauty, old-time feel and liberal spirit.
In the decades that followed, the Parhams enjoyed magical summers. They hosted large lobster dinners, helped to organize community events like the Golden Wagon Film Festival and spent long days at the beach with their son and, years later, their two grandsons. Even though they were the only Black homeowners in town, Johnny and Ann never felt even a tinge of racism in Ocean Beach. “This has always been a magnificent place for us,” Johnny, now 83, said. more...
Racism turned their neighborhood into 'Cancer Alley.’ Now they’re dying from COVID-19.
Americans living in "Cancer Alley" suffer from high rates of cancer. In this six-part series, USA TODAY investigates how racism fuels COVID-19 deaths.
Rick Jervis and Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
RESERVE, La. – The doctor called on Mother’s Day with the news Karen Wilson had dreaded for weeks. Your brother won’t survive the night, he told her. Expect another call soon. Don’t be alone. Wilson’s younger brother, Jules Duhe, had been on a ventilator fighting COVID-19 since April. She hung up the phone and called her other brother, cried, showered and cried some more before finally falling asleep. At 2:30 a.m., the phone call came, springing her awake. Duhe, 53, was dead. His magnetic smile, his love of food and travel, his spontaneous visits – all gone. Wilson sat up in bed, cold shivers running through her.
Just four years earlier, Wilson had buried her older brother, James Duhe, who died of liver cancer at age 61. The cancer had consumed his body in two months, stunning the family. In August, Wilson’s sister, Shirley Jacob, already suffering congestive heart failure and other ailments, also contracted COVID-19. She died within a week. Three funerals in four years. It was nearly more than the family could handle, even in a place like Reserve, where the risk of cancer is the highest in the nation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
“A lot of people around here were dying of cancer,” Wilson said. “Now, they’re dying of COVID.” In the first half of the 20th century, Reserve was a mostly white small town on the east bank of the Mississippi River adjusting to life in post-slavery Louisiana. But in the 1960s, chemical plants arrived in force, drastically reshaping the region and transforming the racial makeup of the town. more...
'An unbelievable chain of oppression': America's history of racism was a preexisting condition for COVID-19
In a six-part series, USA TODAY investigates how racist policies of the past and present have fueled high COVID-19 deaths in communities of color.
Alan Gomez, Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Trevor Hughes, Rick Jervis, Rebecca Plevin, Kameel Stanley, Dennis Wagner, Marco della Cava, Deborah Barfield Berry, and Mark Nichols, USA TODAY
A Louisiana pastor prays as his parishioners die, first from cancer and now from COVID-19. An Indigenous community in New Mexico lacks adequate health care as the death toll mounts. A sick hospital worker in New Jersey frets about infecting others in her heavily populated neighborhood. As the country cries out for a vaccine and a return to normal, lost in the policy debates is the reality that COVID-19 kills far more people of color than white Americans. This isn't a matter of coincidence, poor choices or bad luck — it's by design. A team of USA TODAY reporters explored how the policies of the past and present have made Black, Asian, Hispanic and Indigenous Americans prime targets for COVID-19. They found:
America's education and economic systems are still unequal, disproportionately leaving people of color out of higher-wage jobs. When COVID-19 struck, more people of color were serving as essential workers directly in the path of the virus. Decades of discrimination in housing corralled people of color into tightly packed neighborhoods, fueling the virus' spread. Those neighborhoods tend to lie in "food deserts," leading to diabetes, obesity and heart disease that make people more likely to die from the virus. Environmental policies designed by white power brokers at the expense of the poor has poisoned the air they breathe, fueling cancers and leaving communities weakened in the path of the virus. A lack of federal funding left the most vulnerable communities cut off from healthcare at the most critical moment.
Put simply, America's history of racism was itself a preexisting condition. more...
Michelle Obama Comes Out and Says It: Yes, Trump’s Campaign Is Racist
Michelle Obama has delivered a blistering appraisal of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on behalf of Joe Biden.
Jamie Ross
Michelle Obama has delivered a devastating condemnation of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, saying plainly: “What the president is doing is, once again, patently false, it’s morally wrong, and, yes, it is racist. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.”
The former first lady delivered the remarkably blunt attack via Joe Biden’s YouTube page. In a video titled “Michelle Obama’s Closing Argument,” she took Trump’s campaign apart for its reliance on attacking minorities, stoking fear, and spreading lies to exploit voters’ concerns about the perilous state of the economy and the raging COVD-19 pandemic.
“The president and his allies are trying to tap into that frustration, and distract from his breathtaking failures, by giving folks someone to blame other than them,” Obama told viewers. “They’re stoking fears about Black and brown Americans, lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs, and whipping up violence and intimidation.” more...
Proud Boys Founder Recorded Video Titled '10 Things I Hate About The Jews' in 2017
By Katherine Fung
A now-deleted video from 2017 showed Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes on an anti-Semitic rant, in which he defended Holocaust deniers and perpetuated racist stereotypes. In the video titled "10 things I hate about the Jews," McInnes said Jews have a "whiny paranoid fear of Nazis" and that Israelis don't support President Donald Trump because they're "scared of Christians and Trump, who are their biggest allies."
In another video posted online after a trip to Israel with Rebel Media, a far-right Canadian website where McInnes used to be a star contributor, the Proud Boys leader said hearing from his Israeli hosts was making him anti-Semitic. "That's having the reverse effect on me: I'm becoming anti-Semitic," McInnes said.
"I felt myself defending the super far-right Nazis just because I was sick of so much brainwashing and I felt like going, 'Well, they never said it didn't happen. What they're saying is it was much less than six million and that they starved to death and weren't gassed, that they didn't have supplies,'" he added. More...
*** Trump and the GOP want to rewrite history and downplay slavery and the treatment of Black Americans at the hands of White Americans. They stole our history when they took us from our homes and sold us into slavery, they beat us and did not allow us to read or write. Many black people have been killed simply for looking at a white person. Now they are trying to deny what was done to Black Americans by rewriting the history of all that has been done to Black Americans. ***
Trump blasts 1619 Project as DeVos praises alternative Black history curriculum
Trump railed against the 1619 Project directed by The New York Times Magazine shortly after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos praised an alternative take on Black American history, the "1776 Unites Curriculum," promoted by notable conservatives.
By JUAN PEREZ JR.
President Donald Trump said he will create a commission to promote “patriotic education” and decried the “twisted web of lies” being taught in schools and the narratives in universities that “America is a wicked and racist nation.” Speaking at the White House Conference on American History on Thursday, Trump railed against "critical race theory" and the 1619 Project directed by The New York Times Magazine, calling the project "totally discredited." The 1619 Project is named after the year when the first slaves arrived in Virginia. His remarks came shortly after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at another venue praised an alternative take on Black American history, the "1776 Unites Curriculum," promoted by notable conservatives. British colonies signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Trump said his “1776 Commission," established by executive order, will encourage educators to teach children about “the miracle of American history” and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Trump also spoke about a grant awarded earlier this year by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the development of a “pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.” "Critical race theory, the 1619 project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that if not removed will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together," he said. "It will destroy our country. That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government and banned it in the strongest manner possible." More...
Trump said 'only blacks could live this way' about Chicago and hates Obama because he's Black, Michael Cohen claims
Former Trump fixer says now-president disliked Barack Obama just because of his skin colour
John T. Bennett - independent
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, claims his former client once said "only the blacks" could live in difficult conditions as the duo drove through a predominantly black neighborhood in Chicago. "Only the Blacks could live this way," Mr Cohen told NBC News in an interview to air on Tuesday to coincide with the release of his new tell-all book. "I, of course, said to him, 'Well that's not really true,'" Mr Cohen claimed. "He goes, 'No, only the Blacks could live this way.'"
Mr Cohen also contended to NBC that Mr Trump's longtime disdain for former President Barack Obama stems from the 44th commander in chief being both black and the country's first black president. Mr Trump's former fixer describes his then boss as a racist who has become the leader of a cult. He also suggests in the interview that the president should step down before he is shamed when hit with possible criminal charges. More...
Portland protests: How a 'hyper-liberal' city's racist past is resurfacing
By Ashitha Nagesh BBC News
Fred Armisen declared this - in song form - in the opening scene of the sketch comedy show Portlandia in January 2011. The show satirised the city on the US West Coast for its "hipster" culture - a city that gave unicyclists the right of way, where people brewed kombucha before it became mainstream, and whose slogan was literally "Keep Portland Weird". Four years later, with the city in the throes of rapid gentrification, beloved Portland magazine Willamette Week declared to its readers that this moment in 2011 was officially the day "Old Portland", the one that was fun, bohemian and "weird", died.
If the "Old Portland" was seen as a liberal utopia, then the "New Portland", in 2020, is characterised by civil rights protests, violent clashes between far-right and anti-fascist groups, and images of federal agents indiscriminately bundling protesters into unmarked vehicles. While Old Portlanders may have discussed their vegan cheese side-businesses, New Portlanders bond over how many times they've been tear-gassed. But this change wasn't as much of a leap as it may seem on the surface.
While the Portlandia stereotype endured for almost a decade, the reality for Portlanders themselves was very different. In the 2010s, wealthy outsiders relocated themselves and their businesses to the city in the hopes of capitalising on its "cool", while East Coast publications repeated the show's joke about Portland being "a retirement community for the young". The city's residents were frequently caricatured as the kind of people who use "cacao" as a safe word.
A city 'built on white supremacy'
Portland is often called the whitest big city in the US - about 72% of its population is non-Latino white, while only about 6.6% of the population is black (compared to 12.7% of the overall US population). This is something black history and urban development scholars say is by design, not happenstance. Prof Shirley Jackson, a Black Studies professor at Portland State University, said that it was important to remember that Oregon was founded on the basis of "excluding certain populations, namely African-Americans".
Although the provisional government of the territory banned slavery in 1844, it also required all African-Americans to leave Oregon - any black person who stayed would be publicly flogged every six months until they left. Five years later, in 1849, another law was passed forbidding free African-Americans from entering the territory, and in 1857 Oregon adopted a state constitution banning black people from entering, living or owning property in the state. In 1859, when Oregon joined the union ahead of the civil war, it was the only state to explicitly forbid black people from living within its borders.
Going into the 20th Century, the deadly, white supremacist Ku Klux Klan had increasing influence in the state. In one particularly telling photo, published by a local newspaper in 1921 and preserved by the Oregon History Project, two representatives of the KKK's Oregon chapter, wearing hoods and robes, posed with some of the state's most powerful officials - including the police chief and the district attorney.
The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color
A respected, combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over three times for promotion to brigadier general. What does his fate say about the Corps?
By Helene Cooper
WASHINGTON — All things being equal, Col. Anthony Henderson has the military background that the Marine Corps says it prizes in a general: multiple combat tours, leadership experience and the respect of those he commanded and most who commanded him. Yet three times he has been passed over for brigadier general, a prominent one-star rank that would put Colonel Henderson on the path to the top tier of Marine Corps leadership. Last year, the Navy secretary, Richard V. Spencer, even added a handwritten recommendation to Colonel Henderson’s candidacy: “Eminently qualified Marine we need now as BG,” he wrote.
But never in its history has the Marine Corps had anyone other than a white man in its most senior leadership posts. Colonel Henderson is Black. “Tony Henderson has done everything you could do in the Marines except get a hand salute from Jesus Christ himself,” said Milton D. Whitfield Sr., a former Marine gunnery sergeant who served for 21 years. Proud and fierce in their identity, the Marines have a singular race problem that critics say is rooted in decades of resistance to change. As the nation reels this summer from protests challenging centuries-long perceptions of race, the Marines — who have long cultivated a reputation as the United States’ strongest fighting force — remain an institution where a handful of white men rule over 185,000 white, African-American, Hispanic and Asian men and women. “It took an act of Congress last year to get them to integrate by gender at the platoon level,” said Representative Anthony G. Brown, Democrat of Maryland and a former Army helicopter pilot. “And now they continue to hold onto that 1950s vision of who Marines are.”
A Woman Refused To Let Him Board First-Class, But Regretted It When She Heard His Reply
Juxtaposition of two videos from Kenosha: A Black man gets shot seven times from behind; a white teen with a gun walks past police
Mark Johnson, Annysa Johnson, Talis Shelbourne - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Two videos. Two men. Two police responses on the streets of Kenosha. In the first video, taken Sunday afternoon, a Kenosha police officer fires seven shots at point blank range from behind 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a Black man, as Blake attempts to enter a gray SUV. A woman witnessing the scene can be heard screaming over and over: "Don't you do it! Don't you do it!" Police have said Blake had a knife though it cannot be seen in the video. Blake remained at Froedtert Hospital as of Friday, paralyzed from the waist down, according to a lawyer for his family.
In the second video, taken Tuesday night, Kyle Rittenhouse, a white 17-year-old, approaches officers shouldering an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle after allegedly shooting three people. Rittenhouse raises his arms in a gesture that appears to be surrendering, or possibly signaling that his hands are not on his weapon. Witnesses shout: "Hey, he just shot them! Hey, dude right here just shot them!"
Four armored vehicles, lights flashing, pass Rittenhouse, and several police cruisers can be seen nearby. No one stops Rittenhouse. He was charged Thursday with intentional and reckless homicide. The differences between the two videos have prompted a fierce national debate over race and justice. To some, the videos show clear racism. In the Blake video, less than three minutes elapse from the time police arrive on the scene to the moment Officer Rusten Sheskey shoots Blake. Those viewers say police made an inadequate effort to de-escalate the conflict or settle it by other means.
'Hatemonger' Tracks How Right-Wing Media Shaped Trump Policy Architect Stephen Miller
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Stephen Miller is the architect of Donald Trump's extreme policies on immigration. And leaked emails have shown him pushing white-power ideology cloaked in pseudo-science. So how did an affluent kid from the California suburbs — who liked mobster movies and wore gold chains — get on the path that led him to where he is now? Jean Guerrero's new book Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda follows Miller through a conservative media landscape where key figures — including right-wing radio talk-show host Larry Elder; David Horowitz, who founded the David Horowitz Freedom Center; and former Breitbart chief Steve Bannon — propelled the rise of a man who now influences who gets to be an American. Guerrero, who is a reporter for NPR member station KPBS, says she decided to write the book because she "wanted to understand what was motivating the man who is crafting these policies whose consequences I had been covering from the busiest border crossing in the country." And Stephen Miller was a big part of that. Stephen Miller grew up in Southern California during the 90s — at the same time Guerrero was growing up just a couple hours south of where he lived.
10 myths about the racial wealth gap
Dion Rabouin
For years, there's been a popular notion — even among some Black people — that the wealth difference between white and Black Americans could be closed if Black folks collectively "got it together."
Reality check: The wealth gap — which could more accurately be described as a wealth chasm because of just how large it is —would not be closed by Black Americans doing any of the things that have been proposed, or all of them.
Why it matters: The argument goes that Black Americans should focus more on education, family structure and home ownership, put money in Black-owned banks, start more Black-owned businesses, increase savings and investment and generally take personal responsibility the way other "model minorities" have and that would close the wealth gap.
The fact of the matter — evidenced by decades of reporting from the Federal Reserve System, U.S. Department of Labor, Department of Commerce and various academic and professional studies — is that the wealth gap is the product of centuries of inequality and racism that has grown too large to be impacted significantly by individual actions, achievements or choices.
Here are some of the most popular myths about the racial wealth gap's causes and solutions — and why each falls apart with a closer look.
The Fight Over Monuments of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Holds a Lesson About Whiteness in America
By Connor Towne O’Neill
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape. There’s a statue of him overlooking a cemetery in Rome, Ga., and a bust surveying the Tennessee state capitol. A county in Mississippi, a city in Arkansas and a state park in Tennessee all bear his name, along with many streets and schools and buildings. There are more monuments to Forrest in his home state of Tennessee than all three of the state’s presidents—Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James Polk—combined. And Monday, on what would be Forrest’s 199th birthday, Tennessee will observe Nathan Bedford Forrest day. For the last five years, I’ve been chasing Forrest’s memory across the country, trying to figure out what it means for Americans to still honor him in 2020. That journey started back in 2015, when President Obama came to Selma, Ala., to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama police officers beat, whipped and tear-gassed hundreds of black demonstrators on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. That morning, the usually sleepy city was constricted with cars. I was in Selma to report on the anniversary, when a search for free parking brought me to Old Live Oak Cemetery, just a few blocks from the bridge. Old Live Oak is one of those cemeteries that is so expansive it has its own system of roads. It’s also a bingo board of Old South cliches. The cemetery is shaded by centuries-old live oaks and magnolias bearded by Spanish moss, and dappled sunlight spilled across the mausoleums. And all around there were signs to alert visitors that Confederate Memorial Circle was closed for maintenance: Do Not Trespass.
White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity
When a young Southern Baptist pastor named Alan Cross arrived in Montgomery, Ala., in January 2000, he knew it was where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had his first church and where Rosa Parks helped launched the famous bus boycott, but he didn't know some other details of the city's role in civil rights history. The more he learned, the more troubled he became by one event in particular: the savage attack in May 1961 on a busload of Black and white Freedom Riders who had traveled defiantly together to Montgomery in a challenge to segregation. Over the next 15 years, Cross, who is white, would regularly take people to the old Greyhound depot in Montgomery to highlight what happened that spring day. "They pull in right here, on the side," Cross said, standing in front of the depot. "And it was quiet when they got here. But then once they start getting off the bus, around 500 people come out – men, women and children. Men were holding the Freedom Riders back, and the women were hitting them with their purses and holding their children up to claw their faces." Some of the men carried lead pipes and baseball bats. Two of the Freedom Riders, the civil rights activist John Lewis and a white ally, James Zwerg, were beaten unconscious. Though he had grown up in Mississippi and was familiar with the history of racial conflict in the South, Cross was horrified by the story of the 1961 attack on the Freedom Riders. Montgomery was known as a city of churches. Fresh out of seminary, Cross had come there to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. "Why didn't white Christians show up?" he recalled wondering.
Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows
Unfair property assessments lead to widespread overtaxation of black Americans’ homes
By Andrew Van Dam
State by state, neighborhood by neighborhood, black families pay 13 percent more in property taxes each year than a white family would in the same situation, a massive new data analysis shows. Black-owned homes are consistently assessed at higher values, relative to their actual sale price, than white homes, according to a new working paper by economists Troup Howard of the University of Utah and Carlos Avenancio-León of Indiana University. African Americans have long said they bear a disproportionate burden for taxes that support local police, schools and parks, but nationwide measures of this type of systemic racism are hard to come by. To expose the structural and historical factors behind these discriminatory property tax assessments, the economists analyzed more than a decade of tax assessment and sales data for 118 million homes throughout the country.
Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations
By Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur, CNN
(CNN) The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society. "Master bedrooms" in our homes. "Blacklists" and "whitelists" in computing. The idiom "sold down the river" in our everyday speech. Many are so entrenched that Americans don't think twice about using them. But some of these terms are directly rooted in the nation's history with chattel slavery. Others now evoke racist notions about Black people. "Words like 'slave' and' master' are so folded into our vocabulary and almost unconsciously speak to the history of racial slavery and racism in the US," says Elizabeth Pryor, an associate professor of history at Smith College. But America's reckoning with systemic racism is now forcing a more critical look at the language we use. And while the offensive nature of many of these words and phrases has long been documented, some institutions are only now beginning to drop them from the lexicon. Pryor suggests people think about the context certain words can carry and how using them could alienate others. "Language works best when it brings as many people into communication with each other," she says. "If we know, by using certain language, we're disinviting certain people from that conversation, language isn't doing its job."
Here are some familiar words and phrases you might consider dropping from your vocabulary.
‘Reject the lies of history’: Washington reckons with tributes to racist past
The US capital is adorned with monuments to American history, but as schools change names and statues are toppled, legacies are under scrutiny
David Smith in Washington
Gordon J Davis’s first encounter with the political writings of Woodrow Wilson was as a student at Columbia University. “I’m reading this stuff and saying: ‘That’s a great man,’ and mentioned it to my father who said: ‘Well, he wasn’t such a great man to us,’” recalls the 78-year-old Davis, who is a senior lawyer in New York. “He didn’t say much more about it but then, all these years later, you find out how totally corrupt and racist he was.” There is no shortage of tributes to Wilson in Washington – a leading thinktank, a high school, a house museum – and he is the only US president buried in the nation’s capital. But in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter protests and a mass awakening to systemic racism, his legacy of white supremacy is under scrutiny as never before. In the US capital, adorned with its many monuments to American history, he is also far from alone. The same revisionism is also happening for numerous other presidents whose names and likenesses adorn the 230-year-old city. From grand boulevards and soaring memorials to tree-lined suburbs and sports stadiums, nowhere does America’s current reckoning with its racist past resonate more profoundly than in a place named after George Washington, a founding father who owned slaves. For Davis, it is very personal. His grandfather, John Davis, was a high achieving African American student who went on to a job at the Government Printing Office, rose to manage an office of white staff and earned enough money to own a home in Washington and farm in Virginia.
Resources to understand America’s long history of injustice and inequality
By Washington Post Staff
The video of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis triggered protests around the world. It brought renewed attention to the high-profile deaths of black Americans during the past decade and ongoing concerns about systemic racism in the criminal justice system. The police response in some cities has further fueled protesters, leading to calls to defund the police. In Washington, D.C., President Trump’s use of the military and federal police to seize control of parts of the city — including dispersing peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square near the White House — has drawn heavy criticism from the public and top military figures. Floyd’s killing, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately infected and killed black people, has exposed long-standing racial inequities in every aspect of American life and forced a deep reckoning across society. Corporations are pledging to combat systemic racism in their companies. Some cities are considering proposals to eliminate police or reduce funds to police departments. And activists have renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments, with some even toppling the statues themselves. To help provide context to the issues driving the debate among people attending marches and rallies or those having more quiet conversations with their families and friends, we’ve compiled deeply reported stories, videos, photo essays, audio and graphics on black history, progress, inequality and injustice.
Why do Trump and allies repost racist messaging and will it help his reelection effort?
The growing pattern comes as Trump drops in national polls.
By Terrance Smith and Will Steakin
Amid historic nationwide protests calling for racial justice, President Donald Trump retweeted a video last Sunday showing a supporter yelling "white power!" Then, more than three hours and thousands of views later, the tweet was deleted and the White House issued a statement claiming the president "did not hear" what the supporter could clearly be heard saying. As startling as it was, it was only the latest instance of the president using his vast social media presence to magnify racist messaging to a segment of his political base, ahead of the November election. One critic says it's part of a growing pattern on the part of Trump, his campaign and allies to push racially inflammatory language and then, after widespread outrage, claim ignorance. Leah Wright Rigueur, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of "The Loneliness of the Black Republican," calls that pattern "convenient." "If it was actual ignorance, we wouldn't see this happening repeatedly and we also wouldn't see the same kind of targeted type of retweets, tweeting commentary, etc. So, it just seems like a very convenient shield as defense to use, when once again they find themselves in the position that they're often in," Rigueur told ABC News.
Fact check: Democratic Party did not found the KKK, did not start the Civil War
Devon Link - USA TODAY
The claim: The Democratic Party started the Civil War to preserve slavery and later the KKK. As America marks a month of protests against systemic racism and many people draw comparisons between current events and the Civil Rights Movement, an oversimplified trope about the Democratic Party’s racist past has been resurrected online. “Friendly reminder that if you support the Democrat Party, you support the party that founded the KKK and start a civil war to keep their slaves," claims an image of a tweet Instagram user @snowflake.tears shared June 19. Many Instagram users read between the lines for the tweet’s implication about the modern Democratic and Republican parties. Some argued this past action discredited current liberal policies, while others said it did not matter.
Trump accuses California Democrats of 'incredible stupidity' in row over John Wayne's white supremacy remarks
'I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility,' late actor said in 1971 interview
By John T Bennett - Washington Bureau Chief
Donald Trump is accusing some Democratic officials of "incredible stupidity" for calling for actor John Wayne's name to be removed from an airport in California even after an interview resurfaced of "The Duke" embracing white supremacy. John Wayne Airport in southern California serves Orange County and Los Angeles. Mr Trump in January 2016, as a presidential candidate, held a special event at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa. He spoke at a lectern with a wax statue of the late actor behind him. After being introduced by Wayne's daughter, the GOP candidate called himself a "longtime fan" of the star of many hit Western films. "We love John Wayne," Mr Trump said that day. "We love John Wayne and we love his family equally, right? Equally." But amid ongoing protests and other social changes following the death of George Floyd, a black man, under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Mr Trump's full embrace of Wayne could give him yet another political headache. That's because of a 1971 interview the actor conducted with Playboy magazine. "With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks," Mr Wayne said. "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people." "I don't feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago these people were slaves. Now, I'm not condoning slavery. It's just a fact of life, like the kid who gets infantile paralysis and has to wear braces so he can't play football with the rest of us," he added. "I will say this, though: I think any black who can compete with a white today can get a better break than a white man. I wish they'd tell me where in the world they have it better than right here in America."
Mississippi flag comes down after vote to remove Confederate emblem
Guardian News
Mississippi lawmakers have voted to retire the state flag, the last to feature the Confederate battle emblem. The House and Senate voted to remove the current flag, while a commission will design its replacement.
The Case Against D.C. Statehood Hasn’t Changed Since Marion Barry
It’s always been racist, partisan, and nonsensical.
By Joshua Keating
On Friday, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state. While the bill is unlikely to survive the Republican-controlled Senate—or President Donald Trump’s veto pen—it’s still a milestone in the long battle for full political representation for the residents of the nation’s capital city. D.C. residents have only had the right to vote for president since the passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961, and to elect their own mayor and city council since 1973. Still, today, D.C. has no voting representatives in Congress, laws passed by the district government can be overturned by Congress, and it has no control over most local prosecutions or—as recent events painfully showed—its own National Guard. And a dog whistle–laden speech on Thursday by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton showed that some national attitudes toward Washington haven’t changed much since the civil rights era. D.C. statehood would likely result in two more Democratic senators, but the GOP tends to define its opposition to the idea as being a matter of hewing to the Constitution, which created a federal district as the seat of government. Not every Republican argument has feinted such high-mindedness, however. In his speech, Cotton questioned whether current Mayor Muriel Bowser or controversial former Mayor Marion Barry—both Black—could be trusted with the powers of a governor. And he contrasted D.C. with Wyoming, noting that while the Western state has a smaller population, it is a “well-rounded working-class state.” Shortly before the vote, I called veteran D.C. reporter Tom Sherwood to discuss the state of statehood. Sherwood has covered local politics in D.C. for a number of outlets since the mid-1970s and co-authored the definitive history of the Barry years, Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. Today, he’s a columnist for Washington City Paper and co-host of the weekly Politics Hour on WAMU. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
How 'white fragility' reinforces racism
Robin DiAngelo’s bestselling book White Fragility has provoked an uncomfortable but vital conversation about what it means to be white. As protests organised by the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the world, she explains why white people should stop avoiding conversations about race because of their own discomfort, and how 'white fragility' plays a key role in upholding systemic racism.
The video of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis triggered protests around the world. It brought renewed attention to the high-profile deaths of black Americans during the past decade and ongoing concerns about systemic racism in the criminal justice system. The police response in some cities has further fueled protesters, leading to calls to defund the police. In Washington D.C., President Trump’s use of the military and federal police to seize control of parts of the city — including dispersing peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square near the White House — has drawn heavy criticism from the public and top military figures. Floyd’s killing, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately infected and killed black people, has exposed long-standing racial inequities in every aspect of American life and forced a deep reckoning across society. Corporations are pledging to combat systemic racism in their companies. Some cities are considering proposals to eliminate police or reduce funds to police departments. And activists have renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments, with some even toppling the statues themselves. To help provide context to the issues driving the debate among people attending marches and rallies or those having more quiet conversations with their families and friends, we’ve compiled deeply reported stories, videos, photo essays, audio and graphics on black history, progress, inequality and injustice.
Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020
The wave of violence a century ago against Black Americans echoes how today, "people feel they have little to lose, and so much at stake," one historian said.
By Erik Ortiz
Racial strife flaring across the United States. Black Americans standing up to societal structures in unpredictable ways. And people enduring months of a deadly pandemic infecting millions worldwide, shuttering businesses and heightening fears of a lengthy economic downturn. That was 1919, during what would later be coined the "Red Summer," when communities across America were reeling from white mobs inciting brutality against Black people and cities were still wrestling with a third wave of the so-called Spanish flu pandemic that emerged the previous year. The story line parallels with today: violence against Black people, leading to mass demonstrations and calls to end systemic racism, converging with a months-long coronavirus pandemic. Such commonality is not lost on historians and scholars of African American history.
Protesters topple Confederate statues during Juneteenth rallies
Demonstrations held across US against backdrop of protests fuelled by deaths of African Americans at hands of police.
Protesters brought down Confederate statues as anti-racism rallies were held across the United States to mark the Juneteenth holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the country. Demonstrations were held in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington on Friday against a backdrop of weeks of protests fuelled by the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police. In a stark illustration of the tensions roiling the nation, President Donald Trump issued a solemn White House statement commemorating Juneteenth, while also threatening protesters on Twitter ahead of his controversial rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday. Juneteenth marks the day - June 19, 1865 - when a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed slaves that they were free, two months after the Civil War had ended and two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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'Pitch Perfect 2' Returns to First Place on Tuesday with $5.28M; 'Mad Max: Fury Road' a Close Second with $5.03M
on May 20, 2015 by Daniel Garris
Universal's Pitch Perfect 2 was up one spot over Monday to move back into first place on Tuesday with $5.28 million. The highly anticipated musical comedy sequel starring Anna Kendrick has led the daily box office for four of the past five days. Pitch Perfect 2 was up a slim 1 percent over Monday's performance. It should be noted that daily percentage holds in general were softer than usual for a Tuesday due to Monday's grosses being inflated by the Victoria Day holiday in Canada. Pitch Perfect 2 has grossed a stronger than expected $79.71 million in five days and will zoom past the $80 million mark today. The film is currently running a very impressive 37 percent ahead of the $58.31 million five-day start of last year's Neighbors (which increased 9 percent on its first Tuesday to gross $4.84 million).
Warner's Mad Max: Fury Road was down one spot from Monday to land in second with $5.03 million. The critically acclaimed action film starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was down a solid 6 percent from Monday. Mad Max: Fury Road has grossed $55.79 million through five days of release. The film is running on the high end of pre-release expectations and its daily holds since Sunday suggest that it will continue to hold up well going forward. Mad Max: Fury Road is currently running 9 percent behind the $61.26 million five-day start of 2012's Prometheus (which fell 4 percent on its first Tuesday to gross $5.00 million).
Avengers: Age of Ultron held steady in third place with $3.02 million. The blockbuster superhero sequel from Disney and Marvel fell 12 percent from Monday and 50 percent from last Tuesday. Avengers: Age of Ultron is the highest grossing release of 2015 to date domestically with a 19-day take of $378.49 million. The film is currently running 19 percent behind the $468.27 million 19-day take of 2012's Marvel's The Avengers and 10 percent ahead of the $343.62 million 19-day gross of 2013's Iron Man 3.
Warner's Hot Pursuit took in $0.601 million to remain in fourth. The comedy from MGM and New Line starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara was up a sizable 25 percent over Monday, but still down a sharp 53 percent from last Tuesday. Hot Pursuit has clearly taken a direct hit from Pitch Perfect 2 this week and has grossed a softer than expected $24.53 million in twelve days. That places the film 9 percent behind the $26.87 million twelve-day take of 2011's Something Borrowed.
Tags: Hot Pursuit, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mad Max: Fury Road, Pitch Perfect 2
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[PR] ABC Fall 2015-16 Series Premiere Dates
Thread: [PR] ABC Fall 2015-16 Series Premiere Dates
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Originally released 06/10/2015
ABC Announces Fall Series Premiere Dates For 2015-16 Season
ABC will launch the 2015-2016 season in mid-September with a stable of returning hit shows and five new series to join the schedule. The premiere dates are listed below. All times listed are ET; new shows are listed in bold.
“Dancing with the Stars” will kick off its 21st season on Monday, Sept. 14. “Beyond The Tank” will air Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m., beginning Sept. 29, until “Wicked City” takes over the Tuesday 10:00 p.m. time slot, beginning Oct. 27.
10:00-11:00 p.m. “20/20”
8:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Castle”
TUESDAY, SEPT. 22
8:00-8:30 p.m. “The Muppets”
8:30-9:00 p.m. “Fresh Off the Boat”
9:00-11:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars: The Results”
8:00-8:30 p.m. “The Middle”
8:30-9:00 p.m. “The Goldbergs”
9:00-9:30 p.m. “Modern Family”
9:30-10:00 p.m. “black-ish”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Nashville”
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Scandal”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “How to Get Away with Murder”
8:00-8:30 p.m. “Last Man Standing”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”
SUNDAY, SEPT. 27
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Once Upon a Time”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Blood & Oil”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Quantico”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Beyond the Tank”
8:30-9:00 p.m. “Dr. Ken”
SUNDAY, OCT. 11
7:00-8:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Wicked City”
Source: http://www.disneyabcpress.com search Fall Premiere Dates
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Lights, camera, action! NH Hoteles film sets
By Courtney Imel | 10:12
NH Porta Rossa, Florence
Have you ever dreamt of walking right onto a film set? Our very own NH Hoteles have played the backdrop to many films and have showcased numerous personalities from the world of cinema. Movie buffs and enthusiastic travelers can now relive the scenes from their favorite films at our hotels, so pay attention as we reveal these enticing film secrets!
Built in the 12th century, the NH Porta Rossa hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Italy. Nowadays it’s considered a historical landmark and an ancient architectural gem making it the ideal set for films throughout the years. Located in the heart of the captivating Italian city of Florence, just off the Piazza della Signoria square, and minutes from the Palazzo Vecchio and Fountain of Neptune, it’s no surprise that it was chosen as the background for a few scenes in the Italian cult classic Amici Miei (My Friends) directed by Mario Monicelli in 1975.
In 1996, director Dario Argento, known in Italy as “The Master of Thrill” chose NH Porta Rossa to film his psychological thriller La Sindrome di Stendhal (The Stendhal Syndrom). Staring his daughter, Asia Argento, it tells the story of the protagonist’s experience with the actual disorder called Stendhal syndrome. The film is known as the first Italian film to use computer-generated imagery and was instantly a box office hit in Italy, leading to the success of daughter Asia Argento’s acting career.
NH Villa Carpegna, Rome
NH Villa Carpegna in Rome is nestled in a quiet area just minutes from the the city center, making it a prime location for Italian director Paolo Virzì to shoot his recent romantic comedy Tutti i Santi Giorni which depicts the story of young couple Guido, who works as a doorman at the hotel, and Antonia a car rental clerk. Take a look at the official trailer for the film and see if you can spot the NH Hoteles logo in the background. We’ll give you a hint, it’s in the hotel reception scene!
Television lovers in Italy may even remember this hotel from the series Donna Detective where a room from the hotel was used as a film set for the season finale episodes.
Actor Antonio Banderas and Director Pedro Almodóvar on set
NH Obradoiro, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The NH Obradoiro, located in the beautiful and charming city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain was the chosen destination by internationally acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar and actor Antonio Banderas during the filming of La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In) in August 2010. This psychological thriller released in 2011 went on to win four Goya Awards (including the Best Actress), the British BAFTA for Best Foreign Film, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film.
We hope you’ve enjoyed these cinema secrets coming straight from some of our favorite NH Hoteles’ destinations! Which of our hotels would you love to see as a backdrop to a film?
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Quiet on the Set: A Book Crew
Editing in Film and Fiction
We've decided to shake things up a bit with the Guest Author series and make a Guest Editorial Assistant entry! Welcome Sarah Jae-Jones (@sjaejones), Editorial Assistant at St. Martin's press, who shares her thoughts on the publication process.
When it comes to getting a book published, I find it helpful to think of the book as a movie. Growing up in Los Angeles, you can’t put help get a sense of the inner workings of movie production. My high school was a location for no less than 25 films (the most famous being Jurassic Park and Legally Blonde), so the language and medium of film is something with which I’m pretty familiar.
They say it takes a village to raise a kid. If it takes a crew to bring a film from script to screen, then it also takes a team to bring a manuscript from the writer’s head onto bookshelves across America and it’s more like Hollywood than you might think.
The publisher is the producer: the one who funds the film, who distributes the reels to theaters across the country, and who provides resources for marketing and publicity. A publishing house is like a studio, and they work on getting the public to consume the book, both as a product and an art.
But what about the writer, the novelist? The obvious analogous role seems to be the screenwriter, but in fact, the writer is actually the director. The director is responsible for the creative direction of the movie, the story it tells, what themes it explores, and how it executes them. The director’s tools are images and sound while the writer’s tools are words, but their concerns are the same: how do you best tell the story? How do you get your characters to act in real, convincing, and moving ways? How do you effectively convey the narrative with all the resources you have?
Where does the editor fall into this process? Film editing is an art into itself, but a book editor doesn’t receive the same recognition, even though the role is the same. A film editor takes raw footage and shapes a movie from it, finding the right gesture, the right take to draw the maximum effect from a scene. Then he or she cuts the film together, trimming the excess, excising the parts that drag, tightening the movie into a finished product that is paced just right.
A book editor does much the same, working in tandem with the writer/director to shape raw material into a work that lingers or zips when it needs to. Your editor should help you draw the right emotions from your characters and the scene, as well as help shape the overall arc (plot, character, etc.). Should you always listen to your editor? In the end, that’s the director’s call—it is your book after all. But there are reasons film directors employ film editors, just as there are reasons book editors exist in publishing: to work the final product into something that makes the audience/readership feel something.
After all, it takes a village to publish a book.
Sarah Jae-Jones (who prefers to be called JJ) was born and raised in sunny southern California but has since transplanted herself to New York City. She cannot possibly tell you why she gave up gorgeous weather, serene beaches, and the smell of night-blooming jasmine for soul-sucking winters, unforgiving concrete, and all-night Ukranian diners, but she blames it all on Sesame Street. When she’s not ruthlessly editing books at St. Martin's Press, she can be found jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.
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Bianca 22 March 2010 at 11:18
I also think of how the book would sound as a movie sometimes. :)
Shell Goodman Wright 23 March 2010 at 14:14
I agree. I belong to a writer's critique group and everytime I heard "more details" or "show don't tell", I close my eyes and picture what my characters are doing. They are a movie playing over and over in my mind and in my soul. I even went as far as making a soundtrack with my iTunes and play it while I work on my current draft. :-)
KT Banks 23 March 2010 at 20:41
I sometimes wondered if it was just me. Every time I write a book, I am seeing each scene in my mind.
Maybe that is why a screen writer recently told me it would be so easy to turn my books into films.
A production company in LA had "coverage" done on one of my books and they all came back recommended for commercial box office success. And then I never heard back from them. Weird, huh?
Robinson 24 March 2010 at 00:00
I'm inclined to disagree.
I would say the publishing/distribution of books and film, respectively are very similar, but the creation is wholly different.
I'm drawn to writing because it is a totally pure creative act: I am wholly responsible for words on the page and I am only limited by my imagination and writing ability. If I want help (probably) I can ask a friend or my editor or whoever to proofread it. At the end of the day, the manuscript is "ready" to publish with the input of maybe one or two others and a lot of my time.
Filmmaking, on the other hand, requires expensive equipment, locations/stages, crew (who must be paid or convinced to work free), facilities (editing, sound mixing, etc). It is the most collaborative and expensive artform I can think of off the top of my head.
In my mind, directing a film and writing a novel are on opposite ends of the storytelling spectrum. I love them both, but they are wholly different forms that require very different approaches.
Once you've got the manuscript in hand and the film in the can, your metaphor seems reasonable. I simply enjoy writing because I can leave the village to do it.
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Ellen Marie Moysons was born in 1994 and grew up in Kampenhout, Belgium.
Initially aspiring to become a writer, at the age of 14 she came in touch with Belgian artist Kaat Tilley, who inspired her to take up drawing and painting.
From 2013-2014 Ellen Marie studied Fine Arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, and continued her education at the prestigious Barcelona Academy of Art where drawing, painting and sculpture are taught according to traditional Renaissance principles. She graduated from the drawing and painting program in 2017 and was thereupon recruited as a teacher at the academy. In 2019 Ellen Marie had her first solo exhibition in her home country and has been exhibiting her work internationally ever since. The artist is currently living and working in Antwerp.
The work of Ellen Marie can be described as dynamic, expressive, full of life. Greatly inspired by dance and movement, she creates intricate constellations of human figures that seem to be floating through abstract, otherworldly spaces. Sometimes intimately entangled, at other times caught up in agonising battles or explosive dance scenes. In these larger works the artist investigates the different dynamics that exist amongst people. Without a preconceived plan, she allows the compositions to be revealed with each body part, until a harmonious whole is formed.
Parallel to this body of work a second series of paintings has been developing in which her figures appear solitary and contemplative, caught up in mystical worlds and ethereal atmospheres. Oscillating between the divine and the ordinary, her work explores the triumph and tragedy of human existence.
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Acorn Archimedes
The Archimedes was Acorn, Ltd's first general purpose home computer based on their ARM RISC CPU, and spawned a family of machines with various options.
The first models were released in June 1987, as the 300 and 400 series. The machines differed primarily in that the 400 series included more slots (four instead of two) and a ST506 controller for an internal hard drive. Both models included the ARTHUR DOS, BBC BASIC and an emulator for the BBC Microcomputers, and were mounted in excellent two-part cases with a small central unit with the monitor on top, and a separate keyboard and three-button mouse.
Four models were initially released with different amounts of memory, the A305, A310, A410 and A440. The 300 and 400 were followed by a number of machines with minor changes and upgrades:
A500 - 4 MB RAM (Archimedes development machine, never sold [1] (http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact476))
A305 - 512 KB RAM
A310 - 1 MB RAM
A420 - 2 MB RAM, 20 MB Hard disk
(A4xx/1 editions with improved memory controller)
A540 - 4 MB RAM, 100 MB Hard Disk
A680 - 8 MB RAM (RISCiX[?] development machine, never sold)
M4 - 8 MB RAM (RISCiX development machine, never sold)
R140 - 4 MB RAM, 52 MB Hard Disk, RISCiX Unix workstation
R260 - 8 MB RAM, 100 MB Hard Disk, RISCiX Unix workstation
R225 - 4 MB RAM, RISCiX Unix network computer
Work began on an upgrade to the Arthur OS as Arthur 2, but with the release of the movie of the same name the OS was renamed to RISC OS 2. This seemed like a good time to introduce a number of new machines as well, and the 300 series was replaced with the new A3000 series in May, 1989.
Unlike the 300, the 3000's were mounted in single-part cases with the keyboard attached to the main unit. This makes them harder to place on a desk because the monitor cannot be put on top. It also eliminated one of the slots, there simply wasn't room for it. Oddly the 400 series continued on after switching a few options. It seems unlikely that the less expensive 3000 style case would be able to save any real amount of money given that the 400 continued to be produced.
A3000 - 1 MB RAM
A3020 Special Edition
A4 - 2 MB RAM, Archimedes laptop computer
A5000 - 1 MB RAM, 40/80 MB Hard Disk (A4 design in a desktop case)
A5000 ('alpha variant') - 2 / 4 MB RAM, 80 / 120 MB Hard Disk
Despite the name's being reminiscent of the Archimedes naming-conventions, the A7000 was infact low-end RiscPC - the line of RISC OS computers that succeded the Archimedes in 1994.
The Archimedes was the most powerful home computer during the late 1980s; it could run a piece of software faster and with better visual quality than the more-famous Commodore Amiga. This was mainly because the ARM processor was not untypically three times faster than the competition. Despite a technical edge having been fully realised upon the release of RISC OS 2 in 1989, the Archimedes only ever met a moderate success, becoming very much a 'minority' platform (not unlike the Apple Macintosh) outside of niche markets. The education markets of the UK, Ireland, Australasia were among the platform's most dominant zones of importance, along with specialised professional work such as radio and train-station management. Most students in the aforementioned countries who attended school during the early 1990s will have used an Archimedes at least once.
The platform was very unusual in that it was and still is largely unknown outside of a handful of countries where most of its sales occurred. Very few people in Asia or the USA have ever heard of the Archimedes.
Acorn Archimedes site (http://acorn.revivalteam.de)
Virtual Acorn (http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk) - commercial Archimedes / RISC OS emulation package
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Federal Acquisition Regulation
What is step #8 in doing business with the government in Washington DC?
By Gregory James
9 steps, Federal Acquisition Regulation, SBA Mentor-Protégé Program
Explore teaming arrangements.
Teaming arrangements are a great way for an experienced business to help an non-experience business learn how to perform successfully on a federal contract. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) FAR 9.601defines contractor team arrangements as follows: “Two or more companies form a partnership or joint venture to act as a potential prime contractor;” or “A potential prime contractor agrees with one or more other companies to have them act as its subcontractors under a specified contract or acquisition program.” The Department of Defense (DOD) catagorizes teaming agreements as a prime contractor and subcontractor relationship; subcontracting; partnerships; joint ventures; cooperative research and development agreements; public-private partnership and mentor protégé agreements. Potential teaming partners must understand and create teaming documents that address contract privity, limitations on subcontracting and the SBA rules on affiliation
The most prevailing teaming business model in federal contracting is the prime contractor and subcontractor relationship. In this relationship, a group of companies form a team to work together to pursue a prime contract with the promise to work together to negotiate a subcontract with the team members if the team is successful in winning a contract award. When the team members are successful in their procurement pursuit and the proposed prime contractor is awarded a contract, the team members must then negotiate in good faith to enter into a subcontract. The subcontract serves to formalize the legal relationship between the team members and the prime contractor. http://media.nucleus.naprojects.com/pdf/American_Express_OPEN_Victory_in_Procurement_survey_3.pdf
A partnership is a business enterprise consisting of two or more individuals or concerns who come together to co-own a single business for profit. Partnerships fall into two basic types: general and limited. In a general partnership, each partner invests in a business with an agreed-upon percentage of ownership and acceptance of all the debts, regardless of which partner incurred the debt. In a general partnership, the action of any partner can bind the entire partnership on contracts
A limited partnership is a special type of partnership consisting of general partners and limited partners. The general partners manage the business enterprise and are liable for the legal debts and obligations of the partnership. The limited partners invest funds into the partnership in exchange for receiving a predetermined share of the profit. The limited partners are prohibited from participating in the management of the partnership; otherwise, they will lose their limited partner status. They have no authority to control day-to-day operations. Limited partners are liable only to the extent of their investments.
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 13 CFR 121.103(h) defines a joint venture as an association of two or more individuals or concerns formed to undertake a particular business transaction or project, rather than one in tended to continue indefinitely. The members of the joint venture share in the profits and risk of loss. The joint venture entity, and its members are in privity of contract with the government. Like the SBA regulations, the FAR FAR 19.101(7)(i), defines a joint venture as having a limited life, rather than being permanent. Unlike the SBA regulations, which permit a joint venture to submit up to three proposals for different procurements over a 2-year period, the FAR defines a joint venture as collaborating on a single specific business venture. Small disadvantaged business (SDB) see 13 CFR 124.1002(f) and (2)), Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concerns (SDVOSBs) 13 CFR 125.15(b) and SBA 8a mentor protégé participants may enter into joint venture agreements with limitations.
The SBA Mentor-Protégé Program enables concerns certified as SDBs under Section 8(a) to form a joint venture with a mentor firm to pursue large, consolidated or bundled procurements. The 8(a) firm may form a joint venture with a large or small business under an SBA-approved 8(a) joint venture agreement. The joint venture is deemed small as long as the 8(a) protégé qualifies as small for the procurement (regardless of the size of the mentor. An 8(a) protégé firm may form a joint venture with its SBA-approved mentor to pursue any type of federal contract procurement, not solely 8(a) procurements. As a result, the Limitations on Subcontracting, performance-of-work requirements of FAR 52.219-14, FAR 52-219-3, and FAR 52.219-27 would not apply. In other words, an SBA-approved 8(a) joint venture pursuing a large, bundled procurement need not worry about the percentage of work to be performed by the individual members of the joint venture.
A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) is a written agreement between a government agency and a private company to work together on a project. Under a CRADA, the government agency and private entity form teams to solve technological and industrial problems.
A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a contractual risk-sharing agreement between a public agency and a private-sector entity. Through this agreement, the public and private-sector entities share skills and assets to deliver a service or facility for the use of the general public. PPPs are typically used to provide needed public facilities and infrastructure.
In its post-Adarand guidance following the Supreme Court’s 1995 decision, the Department Of Justice (DOJ) recognized partnering as an effective strategy, and recommended that agencies actively pursue race-neutral mentor-protégé programs that do not guarantee contract awards on a noncompetitive basis Mentor-protégé programs may or may not be race-neutral depending on whether they are open to all firms based on objective economic or social data. Mentor-protégé efforts should attempt to make small and disadvantaged firms more competitive, without altering standards for competition or establishing award preferences. The GAO (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11548r.pdf) reported that as of March 2011, that NASA had 12 agreements, GSA 65, SBA 482, FAA 10, Department of Veterans Affairs 24, US AID 6, Department of Energy 120, Department of Treasury 58, Department of State 86, Environmental Protection Agency 4, Homeland Security 9, Department of Defense 101, and Department Homeland Security 220 active agreements.
Federal Mentor Protégé programs require the mentor to provide developmental assistance which may include 1. General business management, including organizational management, financial management, and personnel management, marketing, business development, and overall business planning; (ii) Engineering and technical matters such as production inventory control and quality assurance; and(iii) Any other assistance designed to develop the capabilities of the protégé firm under the developmental program. 2) Award of subcontracts under DoD contracts or other contracts on a noncompetitive basis.(3) Payment of progress payments for the performance of subcontracts by a protégé firm in amounts as provided for in the subcontract; . (4) Advance payments under such subcontracts. (5) Loans. (6) Investment(s) in the protégé firm not to exceed 10 percent. (7) Assistance that the mentor firm obtains for the protégé firm from one or more of the following: (i) Small Business Development Centers, Procurement Technical Assistance Centers).(iii) Historically black colleges and universities.(iv) Minority institutions of higher education.
The SBA’s Small Business Teaming Pilot (http://www.sba.gov/content/small-business-teaming-pilot-program) was created to help companies form teaming agreements. On September 23rd, 2011, the SBA announced the awardees of the SBTPP grants. Eleven grantees were selected from hundreds of applications submitted. Grantees were awarded between $200,000 and $500,000 in funding, for a total of approximately $5 million in Fiscal Year 2011.
Grantees are expected to help small businesses find other firms interested in teaming, assist SBs with the formation and execution of teaming arrangements, aid teams of SBs in identifying appropriate larger contracting opportunities, and assist teams of SBs with the preparation and submission of bids and offers. Grantees will leverage their existing resources and collaborate with SBA District Offices, resource partners, and other federal, state, local and tribal government small business development programs.
Please contact the awardee in your area to get help forming a teaming agreement. Teaming arrangements are a great way for a small business to eventually become a prime contractor. As discussed earlier, teaming arrangements take the form of prime contractor and subcontractor relationship; subcontracting; partnerships; joint ventures; cooperative research and development agreements; Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and mentor protégé agreements. These arrangements can help the small business learn the ins and outs of contract compliance, quality control, finance, past performance, audits and other issues around government contracting.
What are steps 5 & 6 for getting government contracts?
By Willis Hunt
9 steps, CCR, Federal Acquisition Regulation, NAICS, North American Industry Classification System, Online Representations and Certifications Application, ORCA, procurement
Steps 1 & 2 discussed how important it is to know key government websites and register the company in the CCR and ORCA. Steps 3 & 4 discussed the socio economic programs and the importance of NAICS and PSC classifications. In steps 5 & 6, we will discuss how to identify procurement opportunities and understanding the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) used by contracting officers to buy goods and services for the government.
Step 5: Identify current federal procurement opportunities. The following are the key bid notifications websites for government solicitation, request for bids and proposals. The websites are grouped into free and subscription required. The real secret in getting government contracts is to develop relationships with contracting officers and program managers. The first step is to respond to their public bid opportunities. Unsuccessful bidders have three days after the solicitation closes to request a debrief from the contracting officers. It is during the debriefing period that the company starts to develop the relationship for future contract award.
Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOps): the designated government-wide point of entry – is the exclusive official source for public access to notices of federal contracting actions over $25,000.
Federal Agency Procurement: Each agency has a list of its solicitation on their websites. It is recommended to look at each one or the target agency.
Subscription fee required:
Bid Match Service: The system will search new opportunities each day, for solicitations that correspond to your profile. The search includes most federal, state, and many local government websites for open procurement opportunities.
epipeline is the leading online source for federal government contracts opportunity research and government business intelligence.;
http://www.onvia.com/: Onvia tracks, analyzes and reports the spending of more than 89,000 federal, state and local government agencies, giving companies a single source for conducting open, intelligent and efficient business with government.
GOVWin is the single largest source for government contracting information and analysis in the world.
BidNet is a premier provider of government business intelligence, delivering content-rich actionable data to clients across the nation. Tracking government buying and planning at the local, state, and federal level.
Find RFP connects government contractors and government agency buyers. Find RFP is a pioneer in online government purchasing and e-government.
Reed Construction Data can deliver the commercial construction project information you need to get work in these tough times.
Gov Directions can help. This site publishes approximately 96,000 new government bids and request for proposals each month. Test us by registering for a Free Daily Alert.
Government Bid customers obtain direct and instant access to contract awards and advance information about upcoming opportunities at the local, state, and federal levels, aggregated daily from thousands of sites, numerous government publications and public meeting reports, and supplemented and monitored by our team of research experts.
Bid RFP searches all government agencies including states, cities and counties. Our database is updated on a daily basis to include new government procurement sites as soon as they are published.
Bid Data Line searches bid opportunity web sites of Federal, State, County, City governments along with Port Authorities, Universities and other public buying authorities.
Step 6: Familiarize yourself with the government’s contracting procedures. The Federal Acquisition Regulation and Supplemental Procurement Regulation for each agency.
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the principal set of rules in the Federal Acquisition Regulation System. This system consists of sets of regulations issued by agencies of the federal government of the United States to govern what is called the “acquisition process”; this is the process through which the government purchases (“acquires”) goods and services. That process consists of three phases: (1) need recognition and acquisition planning, (2) contract formation, and (3) contract administration. The FAR System regulates the activities of government personnel in carrying out that process. It does not regulate the purchasing activities of private sector firms, except to the extent those parts of it are incorporated into government solicitations and contracts by reference.
What steps are involved in doing business with the Federal Government in Washington D.C.?
9 steps, Business Development Program, Education, Federal Acquisition Regulation, Federal Procurement Data System, Getting Started, Marketing, Research
Thousands of government jobs are available to companies wanting to do business with government. The contract jobs are in Information Technology, Security, and all industries. Dealing with Federal Government can be frustrating. However, your efforts can be rewarded if you plan your work and work your plan. FCIS specializes helping companies market their products and services to get the government jobs by providing target markets reports and developing a Federal Marketing Plan.
Click here to download a free copy of a sample federal marketing plan.
See steps 1-2 below. Steps 3-9 will follow.
Step 1. Become familiar with the following websites for Government Contracting:
SBA Office of Government Contracting (GC): Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations (Part 125):Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): Contracting News; and Information for Contractors.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is dedicated to providing a wide range of programs and assistance to small businesses wanting to do business with the government. From the Contracting Section under Contracting Opportunities: (http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/contracting/contracting-opportunities) contain you web links to additional procurement-related programs and assistance such as; Subcontracting, Federal Business Opportunities, GSA Schedules, Green Contracting Opportunities, Federal Procurement Database Systems – Next Generation, USA Spends, Contracting of Manufacturing, Contracting Opportunities for Energy Efficient Businesses. Government Agency Acquisition Forecasts contain upcoming government contract opportunities:
Step 2. Obtain a Data Universal Number System (DUNS) number, register in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) (System and Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA). Contact Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) at to obtain a number if you do not have one. The DUNS number is free. All companies must be registered in CCR to be awarded a federal contract and to receive payment by the Government. Once you have obtained your DUNS number, your next step is to register in the Central Contractors Registration (CCR) database. The CCR requires the company to match its goods and or services with the the Federal Supply Classification Codes (FSC) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Be sure to select a primary NAICS and PSC codes. You can add supplementary classification codes but limit them to three each. Many contracting officers look at the CCR and its important noe to confuse them on what the company does.
Once the registration in the CCR is complete, click on “SBA Register or Update your SBA Profile”. The next registration sysytem is the Small Business Administration?s Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS). The company should complete information which is accessible by contracting staff under the SBA – Dynamic Small Business Search
The remaining steps 3-9 will be discussed in later posts.
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Our marketing list/reports are tailored for the company’s products/services and matched with the decision makers within specific targeted agency contracting offices. We use state of the art data mining software and have access to data from fee-based subscription services as well as current data sets from Data.gov, Federal Procurement Data System, USA Spending and other data provided and updated by the USG. Please see the samples of our reports.
No Order of Precedence Among the Small Business Socioeconomic Contracting Programs
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DoD, GSA, and NASA have adopted as final, with changes, the interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement a section of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 that clarifies that there is no order of precedence among the small business socioeconomic contracting programs. Accordingly, this final rule amends the FAR to clarify the existence of socioeconomic parity and that contracting officers may exercise discretion when determining whether an acquisition will be restricted to small businesses participating in the 8(a) Business Development Program (8(a)), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) Program, Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Program, or the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB)
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The Palestinians and the ‘process’
A map of Palestine, according to Israel's peace partner
Especially now, when the world is preparing to award the Palestinians a state — and, if things go according to plan, ethnically cleanse as many as 650,000 Jews from the land ‘that the Palestinians want for their state’ (as the media repetitiously intone) — we need to remind ourselves of who the Palestinian Arabs are:
They are the personification of the atavistic Arab culture that does not abide an alien element in its midst.
They are the bearers of the myth of Arab expulsion and the reality of refugeehood — although the Jews aren’t responsible for this, we are the ones who are paying for it.
They are the popularizers of terrorism as a means to achieve political goals, the inspiration for Al Qaeda and others.
They are a source of manpower for some of the world’s most vicious terrorist gangs.
They are remarkably cruel, to their enemies and to each other. They consider cruelty ‘masculine’.
They are the focus for the mental disorders of Jews like Larry Derfner (see here and here), who confuse their irrational guilt and suicidal impulses with morality.
They are the primary tool of Arab, Muslim, European and world-wide antisemitism, which aims above all to end the Jewish state so that the Jewish people can be persecuted out of existence.
Today the world’s leading Jew hater is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who — like Hitler — combines geopolitical goals with antisemitic ones. His objective is to remove US influence in the Middle East, get control of the region’s resources and establish a Shiite caliphate. He sees the existence of Israel as a major stumbling block for all of these enterprises, as well as an affront to Islam.
Iran is developing nuclear weapons to strengthen its hand, but Ahmadinejad has said on several occasions that the Palestinian Arabs will be the weapon that will ultimately destroy Israel.
TEHRAN — The creation of a universally-recognized Palestinian state would be just a first step towards wiping out Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday…
“Recognizing the Palestinian state is not the last goal. It is only one step forward towards liberating the whole of Palestine,” Ahmadinejad told worshippers at Friday prayers on international Qods Day — an annual show of support for the Palestinian cause.
“The Zionist regime is a center of microbes, a cancer cell and if it exists in one iota of Palestine it will mobilize again and hurt everyone.”
“It is not enough for [the Palestinians] to have a weak, powerless state in a very small piece of Palestine. They should unite to establish a state but the ultimate goal is the liberation of the whole of Palestine,” he said.
“I urge the Palestinians never to forget this ideal. Forgetting this ideal is equal to committing suicide. It would be giving an opportunity to an enemy which is on the verge of collapse and disappearance.”
It should be obvious that the threat to peace emanates from Iran, not from the lack of a Palestinian state.
The job of Israel’s government is to protect the Jewish state, and by extension the Jewish people. It is not to provide a solution for the Palestinian Arabs. The Oslo agreement of 1993 represented a disastrous deviation from its purpose, and has already resulted in thousands of Israeli (and Arab) victims. Oslo was negotiated in secret and foisted on the public — and I think on Yitzhak Rabin as well — by a cabal of politicians who understood that it would never be accepted by the great majority of Israelis, who (correctly, it turned out) didn’t trust the PLO.
Whether or not it was originally intended to do so, the Oslo-initiated process has come to stand for the uprooting of Jews from the area east of the Green Line — the wholly arbitrary 1949 armistice line. The Palestine Mandate encouraged the ‘close settlement’ of Jews on the land — all of the land. And Jews lived in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem until they were forced out at gunpoint by Jordanian soldiers in 1948. Now the ‘process’ as interpreted by Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas calls for yet another expulsion.
When 8,000 Jews were removed from the Gaza strip, it was a national catastrophe which still, 6 years later, hasn’t healed. When Avigdor Lieberman suggested that a peace treaty could include ‘land swaps’ in which Arab populated areas west of the line would become part of Palestine while Jewish settlements east of it would be joined to Israel, the Arabs screamed bloody murder — even though Lieberman was considering only a change of sovereignty in which nobody would have to leave their homes. That was a non-starter, but transfer of 650,000 Jews is considered reasonable!
At this critical point, Israel must take a turn toward reality and officially recognize the following:
The ‘peace process’ never had a chance because the Arabs never wanted less than to replace Israel. It will officially end when the Palestinians go to the UN.
The Palestinian Arabs are not the ‘other side’ in the conflict — they are primarily a tool of Israel’s more powerful enemies. Concessions to them are intended to weaken Israel strategically.
European and Obama Administration efforts to force negotiations for a ‘two-state solution’ constitute hostile diplomacy. Israel should resist, not support them. They won’t go anywhere, and are simply a way to force concessions.
The expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria would be a disaster. It would wreck Israeli society, even if the resources were available to house the refugees inside the Green Line, which they aren’t. It cannot be allowed to happen.
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2 Responses to “The Palestinians and the ‘process’”
joelsk44039 says:
Another brilliant article. The “Palestinians” don’t want “peace.” They want Israel in “pieces” and then just “gone.”
I agree that this is another brilliant article, and one I wholeheartedly endore. But it is perhaps two brilliant articles.
I especially appreciated the one which began listing all the “Palestinian Arabs’ contribution to civilization and mankind. The Palestinian Arabs have time and again proven themselves especially underserving of the excessive ‘sympathy’ they receive.
As for Ahmadinejad it seems to me he has long since proven himself worthy of martyrdom. The sooner, the better.
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The Dressmaker Gets 20th November UK Release Date – Female First (01oct15)
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Kate Winslet‘s new film The Dressmaker is set to hit the big screen in the UK on 2oth November.
The Dressmaker received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and there are just seven weeks to go before we see Winslet in action in the central role.
The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Rosalie Harn and has been adapted for the big screen by Jocelyn Moorhouse and P.J. Hogan. As well as penning the screenplay, Moorhouse is also in the director’s chair.
Moorhouse has brought us movies such as Pavane, Proof and How to Make an American Quilt during her career but this is her first feature film since A Thousand Acres back in 1997.
Winslet is set to take on the central role of Myrtle ‘Tilly’ Dunnage and is joined on the cast list by Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Judy Davis, Sarah Snook, and Kerry Fox.
The Dressmaker is a bittersweet, revenge comedy-drama set in 1950s outback Australia. Tilly Dunnage (Winslet), as elegant as she is determined, causes a stir when she returns home from the exclusive couture world of Paris to the tiny backwater of Dungatar, seeking to right the wrongs of her past.
Before she can reconcile with her eccentric mother (Davis) and the even more oddball townsfolk, Tilly is swept off her feet by local hunk, Teddy (Hemsworth). But armed with her sewing machine and her incredible talent, Tilly sets about to not only transform the women of the town but also to exact sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
2015 has already been a busy year for Winslet with Insurgent and A Little Chaos under her belt and The Dressmaker is just one of the movies that we are going to be seeing her in this autumn… she is also set to star in Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs.
The Dressmaker is released 20th November.
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Final Project: Psychological Aspects of Offender Behavior
By Day 7
Write an 8- to 10-page interview strategy that includes the following:
A summary of the murder case you selected
An analysis of the offender’s personality, including any personality disorders or comorbidity that may be present
An explanation of how aggression, attachment, and empathy factor into the offender’s personality
An explanation of how “state” versus “trait” factors into the case
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Austin (Tex.). Police Department Records of the Charles Whitman Mass Murder Case
An Inventory of the Collection
Collection Summary
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Police Department
Title: Austin (Tex.). Police Department Records of the Charles Whitman Mass Murder Case
Dates (Bulk): 1966
Abstract: Charles Joseph Whitman (1941-1966) was an ex-Marine and student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot and killed 14 people and wounded at least 33 others from the UT Tower observation deck on August 1, 1966. In the early morning hours prior to the UT attack, Whitman also murdered his beloved mother and his wife. Another individual died years later of complications from a gunshot wound inflicted during the UT attack, bringing the total death toll to 17. The collection (1941-2000, undated) documents the Austin Police Department (APD) investigation into the mass murder and is composed of reports generated by APD and other investigating bodies, photographs, negatives, digital images, correspondence, personal writings, notes, and clippings.
Accession number: AR.2000.002
Quantity: 7.25 linear feet (14 boxes)
Location: Archives Stacks, qAR, Outer Vault
Repository: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library,
810 Guadalupe, PO Box 2287, Austin, TX 78768
Charles Joseph Whitman (1941-1966) was an ex-Marine and student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot 15 people and wounded at least 33 others from the UT Tower observation deck on August 1, 1966.
Whitman was born in Lake Worth, Florida in 1941 to Charles Adolphus, a financially successful plumbing contractor, and Margaret Hodges Whitman. Whitman was the eldest of three siblings. His two brothers were Patrick, born 1945, and John Michael, known as “Johnnie Mike”, born 1949. He grew up in an authoritarian household in which his father was emotionally and physically abusive to his wife and children. As a boy, Whitman was involved with the Boy Scouts, playing piano, and hunting. At age 12, he received national recognition by becoming the youngest Eagle Scout in the world. He had a large paper route in the Lake Worth, FL, area delivering the Miami Herald. Although he was described as intelligent (with an IQ of 138.9) and had a history of good grades in school, during his final two years of high school his grades dropped. He graduated from Saint Ann High School in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1959.
On July 6, 1959, Whitman joined the United States Marine Corps. Beginning in December, 1959 he was stationed at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. He earned a Good Conduct Medal, a Sharpshooter’s Badge, and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. While at Guantanamo Bay, he was awarded a Naval Enlisted Science Education Program (NESEP) scholarship, which was designed to increase the number of scientists in the U.S. military. As part of this program, Whitman was sent to The University of Texas to begin in the Fall 1961 semester. During this time at UT, he lived at the Goodall-Wooten Dormitory and served as a dorm counselor. It was also during this period that Whitman and two other students were fined for illegally poaching a deer and butchering it in his dormitory bathroom.
Whitman earned poor grades during his first semester. In November, 1961, friend and fellow UT student, Francis Shuck, Jr. introduced Whitman to his future wife, student Kathleen “Kathy” Leissner. On August 17, 1962, the couple were married at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Needville, Texas, Kathy’s hometown. Although his grades improved after marriage, they still were not up to the standards set by the NESEP. The Marines withdrew his scholarship in the Spring 1963 semester. Whitman responded by dropping out of UT in February, 1963, and was returned to active duty with the Marines with a promotion to Lance Corporal. Kathy graduated from UT and stayed in Austin to teach at Lanier High School.
In November, 1963, he was court martialed and found guilty of gambling, usury, and the unauthorized possession of a non-military pistol. He was busted to the rank of Private and served 90 days of hard labor. In December, 1964, he was honorably discharged from the Marines and returned to Austin. In January, 1965, he re-enrolled in UT and maintained a respectable grade point average. During this time, he was employed in a number of jobs and served as a scoutmaster while still receiving financial support from his father.
In February, 1966, his parents’ ongoing marital problems came to a head. Whitman drove to Lake Worth, Florida in March to help move his mother to her own apartment in Austin. He was so concerned that his father would resort to violence while his mother was moving that he requested a local policeman stand guard while she moved her belongings out of the home. In April, 1966, she accepted a position in Austin as cashier at Wyatt’s Cafeteria. Over the next few months, Whitman’s father repeatedly phoned his wife and son pleading for his wife to return home. On July 30, two days before the shootings, the elder Whitman withdrew his financial support from his wife and son.
During 1965, Whitman visited several different doctors at the University of Texas Health Center for headaches. In March, 1966, he sought medical treatment there once again, complaining of mental health issues. He obtained a prescription for Valium and requested a psychiatric referral from general practitioner Dr. Jan D. Cochrum. He was referred to psychiatrist Dr. Maurice Dean Heatly. During his only session with Dr. Heatly, Whitman, whom Heatly later described as “oozing with hostility”, expressed concern and fear about “overwhelming periods of hostility with a very minimum of provocation” and conveyed his reoccurring fantasy of, “…going up on the Tower with a deer rifle and shooting people”. Whitman also spoke at length about his childhood, his father and his distress over his parent’s recent separation. Heatly concluded that Whitman was not dangerous enough for involuntary commitment but asked him to return one week later and/or call anytime that he needed help. Whitman never returned for treatment.
On August 1, 1966 Whitman first killed his mother, Elizabeth Whitman, at 12:30 a.m. at her residence in the Penthouse Apartments at 1212 Guadalupe Street. Later, he killed his wife, Kathleen, at 3:00 a.m at their residence on 906 Jewell Street. Around 11:30 a.m. he ascended to the top of the Tower observation deck at The University of Texas at Austin and began shooting at people on campus below. The shooting spree lasted approximately 95 minutes before he was killed by police. Two Austin Police Department officers, Houston McCoy and Ramiro Martinez, both claimed to have shot fatal rounds at the sniper. At the time, sixteen people were killed (including his wife and mother, APD officer Billy Speed, and an unborn baby) and at least 33 people were injured. In November, 2001, David Gunby died in Fort Worth, Texas, from gunshot wounds he received from Whitman in 1966. Dr. Nizam Peerwani, the Tarrant County medical examiner, ruled Gunby’s death a homicide, bringing the total dead to 17.
Whitman’s body was embalmed 24 hours before an autopsy was conducted and conclusive toxicology tests could be performed for evidence of drugs. Dexedrine, a potent amphetamine/stimulant widely used in the military to combat fatigue, was found on his body at the time of death and was a drug that Whitman ingested on a regular basis for all-night study sessions. The initial autopsy, performed by Dr. Coleman de Chenar, a Travis County medical examiner, revealed the presence of a brain tumor. De Chenar concluded that the tumor did not have an effect on Whitman’s behavior. Shortly after the shootings, Texas Governor John Connally assembled a team of medical experts, known as the Connally Commission, to investigate whether the tumor could have had an impact on Whitman’s behavior. It found that the tumor had features suggesting a glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive, malignant brain cancer. The Commission concluded that the relationship between the brain tumor and his actions were unclear, but conceded that the mass could have influenced his ability to control his actions and emotions.
Family members and friends mentioned in this records set include:
Charles Adolphus “C. A.” Whitman – Charles Joseph Whitman’s father
Margaret Whitman – Charles Joseph Whitman’s mother
John Michael “Johnnie Mike” Whitman – Charles Joseph Whitman’s brother
Patrick Grady Whitman – Charles Joseph Whitman’s brother
Kathleen Leissner Whitman – Charles Joseph Whitman’s wife
Nelson Leissner – Kathleen Whitman’s brother
Ray Leissner – Kathleen Whitman’s brother
Adam Leissner – Kathleen Whitman’s brother
Carol Leissner – Kathleen Whitman’s cousin
Linda Leissner – Kathleen Whitman’s grandmother; called Mama.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Thornbury – Friends of Charles and Kathleen Whitman
Jim Poland – Friend of Johnnie Mike Whitman’s from Florida
Schocie – Pronounced “sko-shee”. Charles and Kathleen Whitman’s dog. According to Nelson Leissner, dog did not disappear nor was it murdered. Schocie was taken to live with the Leissner family. Source: Report to the Governor, Medical Aspects, Charles J. Whitman Catastrophe” (PDF). September 8, 1966. Accessed: 2015 Aug 15
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The Austin Police Department Records of the Charles Whitman Mass Murder Case (1941-2000, undated) contains reports, correspondence, photographs, negatives, digital images, personal writings, notes and clippings generated primarily during the investigation of the Charles Whitman mass murder event and includes work done by several local, state, and federal agencies working in conjunction with the Austin Police Department such as the Texas State Department of Public Safety, Travis County, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Many of the records produced by other agencies were provided as a courtesy between agencies. Researchers should not assume that the Austin History Center holds the complete set of investigatory records from any of those agencies except those of the Austin Police Department. Records Created by the Austin Police Department (1966, 2000, undated), is comprised of material, primarily murder and assault reports, generated as a result of the multi-homicide investigation which took place in August, 1966. Of note in this series is material used as evidence in these reports including Whitman’s suicide letter, personal notes to his brothers, copies of his UT health records, invoices for weapons and equipment acquired in preparation for the mass attack and the note he left behind at the home on Jewell Street requesting that two rolls of camera film be developed. The photographs subseries includes crime scene images taken by the Austin Police Department as well as black and white prints developed by police from the undeveloped film Whitman left behind. The developed photographs capture a more personal side of Whitman, depicting scenes of him with family and friends, sitting on the porch with his dog, Schocie, and a trip to San Antonio he took with his wife just one week before the murders.
Copies of Records from Other Institutions (1941-1966, undated), contains Whitman’s educational records and correspondence related to his estate. A substantial portion of material in this series is composed of records created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with courtesy copies furnished to the Austin Police Department. The records available to researchers were provided by the FBI as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request made of original, sealed FBI documents transferred to the Austin History Center from the Austin Police Department. The copies provided by this request were redacted by the FBI and are freely available to researchers. All original (unredacted) copies of this material have been transferred back to the FBI. Other material of note in this series includes the report of Whitman’s autopsy, performed by Dr. Coleman de Chenar, who worked under the Travis County coroner’s system. The autopsy was not performed until approximately 24 hours after death and after the body already had been embalmed. Therefore, conclusive toxicology testing could not be conducted. However, Dr. de Chenar did find evidence of a brain tumor.
The Writings and Personal Effects series (1941-1966, undated) is composed of material either sieged from the Whitman’s rented home on Jewell Street or were recovered from his wallet following his death. Personal writings contained in hand-printed motivational sayings and journal entries in items such as the Green Memoranda notebook (1963) and the Daily Record of C.J. Whitman (1964) provide context and insight into his life prior to the shootings, encompassing his struggles and impending court martial from the Marines, as well as his relationships with his wife and other family members. Meticulous handwritten notes and drawings, a Marine Corps score book and training handbills clearly document his training and expertise as a military sharpshooter.
The final series, Newspaper articles, Post event Interest and Other Records (1965-1985), is comprised chiefly of magazine articles and newspaper clippings gathered in the aftermath of the tragedy; many concern the two police officers, Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy, both of whom apprehended and shot Whitman on the Tower observation deck. Several articles document the controvesy surrounding which officer actually fired the fatal shots that ended Whitman’s rampage. This series also contains the police statement of Allen Crum, the University Co-op floor manager who first helped save a boy who had been wounded in the gunfire and then accompanied Martinez and McCoy up to the tower in pursuit of Whitman.
The Austin History Center is not the official archives repository for the State of Texas nor its agencies, such as the Department of Public Safety. Nor are we the official archives repository for the United States of America or its agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Drug Administration. Individuals wishing more information on those agencies’ investigations of the Charles Whitman mass murder event may choose to place a Freedom of Information request directly with each agency. Alternatively, they may choose to place a Freedom of Information request with the Texas State Archives or the National Archives and Records Administration. Return to the Table of Contents
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Blogs > Liberty and Power > A Hundred Years of War
A Hundred Years of War
by Liberty and Power tags: World War I,war,civil liberties,Anthony Grergory
One hundred years ago today, Austria-Hungary fired the first shots of World War I, sparking its conflict with Serbia. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, had assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Mutual defense agreements ensured that the political clash did not remain regional. Austria-Hungary got support from Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. Serbia found allies in Britain, France, Belgium, Greece, Romania, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Montenegro, Japan, Brazil and the United States. The global war likely qualified as the worst bloodbath the world had yet to see, certainly in such a short duration. Fifteen million or more died in less than five years. Tens of millions were wounded, displaced, or orphaned. Disease spread. The international trade and exchange that existed before the war never fully recovered.
World War I was a low point for liberties within the United States, once America finally got engaged in the battle. People went to prison for criticizing the military or opposing the draft. Surveillance of the citizenry and crackdowns on dissent became normal. Domestic regulation and taxation skyrocketed. Almost nothing that happened during the New Deal did not have some precursor in Wilson’s wartime domestic governance. There was hope for the United States becoming freer and freer in the early 20th century. World War I altered that picture dramatically. Almost everything the federal government has done in the last century has roots in the 1910s.
For the West and the rest of the world, World War I was in a sense the worst tragedy of all time. World War II was bigger and badder, but had distinct causes in the First World War and its aftermath. During the war, both the Allies and Central Powers committed horrific atrocities. The Germans conducted ghastly submarine warfare. The British starved German civilians. Chemical weapons and trench fighting took the lives of millions in totally pointless battles over useless stretches of territory.
When the United States finally mobilized fully for war, the effort was sold as a way to save democracy and end war for all time. Out of the ashes of World War I emerged not peace and liberty, but reaction and totalitarianism. Communism took root in Eastern Europe. Fascism captured Italy and Germany. Militarists took over Japan. Managerial statism dominated in the West. The conditions for mass tyranny and another world war, even more atrocious and larger than its predecessor, were now in place. The instability of the Middle East also traces back to the work of Westerners in marking territorial boundaries according to their own priorities and bad assumptions.
The worst regimes and cataclysms of the first half of the twentieth century had roots in the international war that began a hundred years ago today. It was the beginning of three decades of unspeakable suffering, what some scholars collectively call the hemocylsm—World War I, the Soviet atrocities, World War II and its atrocities from the Holocaust to the atomic bombings. These terrors of course gave way to the Cold War, the fears of MAD, the mutually reinforcing cycle of violence between Islamic fundamentalism and Western imperialism.
Next time a war is recommended to secure peace and freedom, I recommend we all say, no thank you. We’re still suffering from the first one.
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Saint James Major, from The Twelve Apostles
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Hans Sebald Beham
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Medium and Support: Copper engraving
Credit Line: Gift of the estate of Martin Brewer Anderson, first president of the University of Rochester, by transfer from the University Libraries
For general reference, see "The Illustrated Bartsch," New York : Abaris Books, 1978-, vol. 15, p. 57, fig. 51
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Magnolia Solar Corporation Announces Appointment of Dr. Thomas Surek, World Renowned Photovoltaic Solar Cell Expert, to the Technical Advisory Board
WOBURN, MA and ALBANY, NY (Mar 8, 2011) - Magnolia Solar Corporation (OTC:MGLT ) ("Magnolia Solar") announced today that Dr. Thomas Surek has joined the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Dr. Surek's career in photovoltaics (PV), the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity, dates back more than 37 years to the formative stages of U.S. terrestrial PV programs. Dr. Surek began his pioneering work on the growth of shaped silicon crystals at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) in 1973, followed by research at Mobil Tyco Solar Energy Corporation (Waltham, MA) from 1975 to 1978. His innovative work on shaped crystal growth of silicon has culminated in the first of the new PV technologies to be commercialized on a large scale, the edge-defined film-fed growth (EFG) process.
Dr. Surek joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 1978 (then SERI, the Solar Energy Research Institute), and served in a program management capacity during his entire SERI/NREL career of nearly 29 years until his retirement in July 2007. For his last 20 years at NREL, Dr. Surek led research and development activities in thin film photovoltaics as Manager of the NREL PV Program for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Under his leadership, world-record efficiencies were achieved in crystalline silicon, thin-film, and concentrator solar cells, and many of these technologies are now being commercialized worldwide.
Following his retirement from NREL, Dr. Surek has been active as a world renowned consultant and continues his professional career to promote clean, renewable energy technologies. He expects to apply his more than 37-year experience in PV technologies to help Magnolia advance the adoption of PV systems to produce clean, cost-effective electricity in residential, commercial, and utility-scale applications.
Dr. Surek has authored more than 100 technical articles and reports in crystal growth and photovoltaics, and has two patents. He is a highly sought-after speaker at technical conferences, and frequently gives overviews of PV and solar technologies and markets to a wide variety of both technical and non-technical audiences.
Dr. Surek has received numerous awards, such as the prestigious Van Morriss award at NREL, a Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, and an Exceptional Public Service Award from DOE. Dr. Surek earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Materials Science at Stanford University in 1971, and B.Eng. in Engineering Physics at McGill University.
Dr. Ashok K. Sood, President and CEO of Magnolia Solar Corporation, stated, "We are delighted to have Dr. Surek join Magnolia Solar's Technical Advisory Board. In the mid 70's, Dr. Surek and I collaborated on silicon ribbon technology for photovoltaics while working together at Mobil-Tyco Solar Energy Corporation (Now Schott Solar). Magnolia Solar will benefit immensely from Dr. Surek's expertise in nanostructure materials, growth technology and innovative concepts to help us accelerate the development of the critical technologies required to produce Magnolia's high efficiency third generation solar cells. Dr. Surek will also be advising us on the development of our intellectual property portfolio and expanding our patent portfolio. Magnolia plans to spend considerable effort writing and filing additional patents to protect our intellectual property throughout 2011 and beyond."
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As you can see from the 18-month-old toddler's adorably hilarious pictures, he's been busy recreating his uncle's poses with the help of his Same would be with my baby. For this special occasion, we share a collection of photos taken by photographer Harry Langdon 26 years ago at one of Jolie's first photoshoots. To celebrate this special relationship, we found these 25 images illustrating daughters that look up to their mothers. TODAY’s Whistler's mother noted in her diary, "the great artist remarked to me 'Your little boy has uncommon genius, but do not urge him beyond his inclination. 復Like, from puppies to salamanders, Deku loves them all. If you are tired because of busy life, family will be a solid moral support. 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At least, that’s the impression I got after watching the adorable video of him playing a very simplified version of the game with his 3. ” Her parents required her to be religious ☆☆☆Hello, little one. Anna Nicole Smith gave birth to her and Larry Birkhead's daughter just months before she died of an accidental drug overdose in the Bahamas. 15: Olivia introduces a boy from her past to her parents. more In a small Cambodian village, fathers build their daughters "love huts" for private visits with boys from the community. He's just going to have another half brother, but I will never call him like that. He has since been placed in care Cocaine A mother and her partner A mother’s confession to tricking her daughter into going to bed early on New Year’s Eve so that she could party with her friends is causing mixed reactions online. That white bourgeois woman was 100% aware of James Charles behavior and didn’t care until he started fucking up her money. 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The video, posted on Twitter by the blog London Mothers and daughters often share a special relationship; although both parents are equally important in a child's upbringing, daughters often look to their mothers for cues on how to act in certain positions and how to dress. Puberty usually ends about 4 years after it starts, so this is usually around age 13–19. Transactional sex was once driven by poverty, says film-maker Nyasha Kadandara. 27, 2018 A mom in Jacksonville, Fla. Another Mother's Son is a British war drama film directed by Christopher Menaul and written by Jenny Lecoat. Growing up in Hawaii, it was different, it was a bit isolated, I didn’t have a lot of gay friends, I didn’t have any gay friends actually. Pasadena police say the boy's mother recently came to them when she grew suspicious that her young son may have fathered a baby with a family friend more than twice his age. If a little boy admires Elsa, just let him, and don’t make a fuss about it. According to charging documents, Taft thought her son was sexting and This mother couldn't wait to get her little baby outside to experience snow for the first time. That’s all conjecture, of course. Keira Knightley is done stripping down on camera, the actress revealed in a new interview. On 13 January 2017, the Now44News web site published an article reporting “Not so much of a physical invasion, but more a financial one. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with Parents everywhere are praising one Florida mom after she showed her daughter some tough love earlier this month in a lesson about being grateful. The sample is checked in a lab for cell changes and cervical cancer. You are young and going up when he is old and going down Apr 23, 2016 · The victim told her mother, who was waiting outside the bathroom for her, that while she was in the bathroom, a man was in the adjoining stall, and the girl saw the man holding his phone over the There are two parts to a bra's size: the chest size (also called the band size) and the cup size. ” The letter, signed by a student named Isaiah, was shared on An Arizona mom has disappeared while vacationing with her boyfriend in Belize. You wouldn't believe it to look at her, but the model, visual artist, and self-portrait photographer is in fact 60-years-old. Working with a midwife instead of an obstetrician can be an excellent alternative for women with a healthy, low-risk pregnancy – which is the vast majority of pregnant women. If you want to see something new, check out this list of rare celebrity pics, compiled by Bored Panda. 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Nov 27, 2018 · One little girl wasn’t up for sharing her dad, so whenever her mom tried to hold his hand, she peeled it away to replace with her own. Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The boys’ mom, Megan Sanchez, told Today. I recently completed a graduate course in character education in which we were required to carry out an "action project. The film follows bicycle mechanic Joseph "Jody" Summers as he lives and learns in his everyday life in the hood of Los Angeles. "When our 3-year-old daughter refused to sleep alone, we put her toddler bed in our room and let her sleep there," says Alison Bard, a Kirkland, Washington, mother of two. Ma Mère (English: My Mother) is a 2004 French film about the incestuous relationship between a 17-year-old boy and his attractive, promiscuous, 43-year-old mother. It’s little surprise, really, considering that China conducts the most executions per year of any country in the world. “Here I take a family photo each year of my Corey Maison knew she wanted to be a girl when she was 11 years old, but was scared of disapproval from her parents. Traci Elizabeth Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma, May 7, 1968) is an American actress, former pornographic actress, singer, model, writer, producer, and director. When 80-year-old Livia asked her granddaughter for full-face makeup, she didn’t expect to become an overnight internet sensation, but that’s precisely what happened! Croatian makeup artist Tea Flego is showing the whole world how a clever use of professional makeup can get rid of at least 20 My 5 year old daughter told me that her half-brother did sexual things to her. 22-year-old porn addict rapes his 46-year-old mother in Gujarat. [9] Writer Anthony Synnott placed The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane in a trend of sexualizing children in film, calling Rynn the "murdering nymphet " and comparing her to Foster's child prostitute character Iris in Taxi Feb 17, 2015 · After the first month of a baby's life on earth, the family takes him or her to a local shrine to show their new baby to the gods. Another near-example happened in the Spanish sitcom Aida when María León, sister to Paco León who plays the main character Luisma, was given a small recurring part as Luisma's coworker. A Farmer's Daughter is an innocent looking girl, typically from rural settings. Ahead, how one 27-year-old man feels about being a sugar baby. Make sure you pay in cash and throw away the receipt so you don’t leave any trace of your purchase. Nor do they have to feature young models, as Yazemeenah Rossi proves. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. However, there is a generally accepted range of behaviors linked to children’s changing age and developmental stages. The shrine offers a prayer wishing the happiness and good health for the baby. Just look at The Golden Girls’ iconic (and always funny) mother-daughter duo, Sophia and Dorothy, or Gilmore Girls’ equally memorable (and equally kooky) Lorelai and Rory. Sixteen-year-old Virginia loses her maidenhead when she is viciously raped by the ignorant muscle-man of the outfit. It feels like our childhood was so long because we were learning and experiencing new things. Her mother-in-law, Irena, and 6-year-old son Safi are there for support. 3, she doesn't like you and wants to find a reason to break up her mother and you. A 16 year old can't willingly consent to sex with an adult in most states. There is nothing wrong with masturbation and enjoying your sexuality. Baby number two was conceived in a hot tub (chicka chicka bow bow) and sometimes, after the kids were asleep, they would sneak off to the couch and get a little action there. It was recorded in a rented home studio in Hollywood by lead vocalist Marilyn Manson and guitarist and bassist Tim Sköld, and was produced by Manson and Sköld. TODAY’s Hoda Kotb has the Morning Boost. son rapes mother. A few weeks later, her mother revealed to the press that Evita's 22-year-old cousin Alejandro raped Evita. And now you got young gay boys stressed about being labeled as a potential predator because of this situation. As of early Saturday, the graphic video -- which Fox News is not Elizabeth Short showed up in Los Angeles in the 1940s with big dreams of becoming a movie star. Look at the fur. These behaviors may include exploration with other children of similar power or stature—by virtue of age, size, ability or social status. Just over half (51. To buy a thong without your parents knowing, get it from a department or discount store while you’re buying other things. She had to learn to date as an older woman, which she talks all about in the podcast Mom accused of having sex with son's 15-year-old friend, giving them weed and alcohol. In October, a 16-year-old boy was sitting on a couch watching a movie with his mother while texting a friend on his iPad. But the Jul 21, 2004 · The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl who give birth at five years old. He's quite literally punishing her by rejecting her attempts at communication, so keeping score + tit-for-tat = a petty, emotionally immature If you're someone who's interesting in the lives of celebrities, I'm sure you've noticed that those same pics just keep on popping up on the Internet. 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Virginia, the appropriately named maiden daughter of a wealthy businessman, is kidnapped by a two men and a woman. ” Dec 12, 2019 · After apparently taking over a Ring security camera in a home in Mississippi, a hacker taunted a terrified little girl in her bedroom, her family says. But as you can see from this incredible list compiled by Bored Panda, some moms seem immune to the aging process no matter how many kids she has. 9 per cent of those who were living apart. It was amazing and it’s a decision I’ve never regretted" she told Bored Panda. The same poll, which surveyed 3,500 single people (both women and men) aged 40 to 69 years old, found that 56 percent are currently separated or divorced from a spouse, 31 percent have never been married, and seven in 10 (74 percent) of formerly married singles in their 50s have been single for five Jun 26, 2020 · Ciara is currently pregnant with her third child and she’s showing off her baby bump in a new photo shoot at home!. I see my daughter dating a boy who takes her to church with him. Although we can see a tremendous amount of variety in the plant and animal life all around us, both within and Jun 24, 2020 · Check out which stars bared some skin in sexy, underwear-clad selfies. A Tennessee woman has been charged with statutory rape after police say she had sex with a 15-year-old boy. A variety of crimes are punishable by death, including tax fraud, arson, and prostitution. Nikita asks his daughters' to assist him in rekindling his relationship with their mother. Zoey Deutch plays a character who dates Lucas Grabeel, while her real-life mother Lea Thompson plays Grabeel's mother. That's still “Not so much of a physical invasion, but more a financial one. This amazing dad shows a great example to his little girl of how to show confidence in everything you do and embrace your heritage. A LAUGH. Basically, photos of famous people are just recycled on the Internet. The boy found nude photos of his 10-year-old sister on the computer of Joe Garza Jr Just let kids like what they like. The mother of the 14-year-old boy posted a video of the incident on Twitter on Thursday, saying her attorney approved its release. There have been similar incidents elsewhere. Just wait until you see this sweet baby's priceless reaction. small boy fucking her mother porn
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Anthony Gregory Feels Unwelcome In The LP
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/12/controversial-poll-disappears-from-libertarian-party-website-archive/
The poll's result was clearly skewed by its promotion on the anarchist site LewRockwell.com, which has 4X the traffic of LP.org. A more representative version was Oct 27 poll: http://www.lp.org/poll/does-government-have-a-legitimate-and-necessary-role-in-society
Yes: 69% (638 votes)
Maybe: 13% (120 votes)
No: 18% (163 votes)
The best available data (http://libertarianmajority.net/libertarian-polling#LPmembers) suggest that anarchists have dropped below 8% of LP NatCon attendees, who themselves are presumably more radical than the median LP member.
Anthony Gregory alleges that anarcho-capitalists are "unwelcome" in the LP -- a party routinely ridiculed on the LewRockwell.com blog where Gregory writes. Of course, he was presumably paid for his speech to the 2007 LPCA convention advocating government abolitionism, and I've never heard an anarchist get accused of violating the LP membership pledge (as we minarchists so often are). I was invited out of the LP as recently as this morning, by a leader of the Outright Libertarians. Gregory also writes at Antiwar.com, whose founder Justin Raimondo gave a speech to the 2003 LPIL convention advising LP to purge all liberventionists. Cry me a river, Anthony.
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Quintus Curtius’ Digest: Review
June 21, 2020LibertasLeave a comment
“It is easy to make a eunuch out of a man, but it is impossible to make a man out of a eunuch.” So Quintus just related on his brand new TikTok account. On a platform that incentivizes idleness, attention whoring, and plain idiocy, his is a welcome attempt to retake the conversational space. That’s probably why he braved the Chinese spyware and took the plunge. Now more than ever, the message needs to get out.
@qcurtius
An anecdote about the philosopher Archesilaus. Don’t try to chase popularity, friends. For it is easy to make a eunuch out of a man.
♬ original sound – qcurtius
Similarly, the message needs to get out in print. That’s why Quintus Curtius wrote Digest. Digest is a collection of the essays accumulated at Quintus’ site over the years. The work is actually in line with one of the major themes of his brand that you see repeated in the essays – the perishability of knowledge and the necessity of physically preserving it.Digest is available as an ebook, but undoubtedly, the physical copy is Quintus’ pride and joy. I just happened to have received one as a courtesy.
Digest is a long book at about 700 pages. It will take you time to read it. I received it in February, but am only now done. There are some extenuating circumstances why it took me so long. I tend to absorb the knowledge of deep subject matters like this better outdoors than indoors, where I find I’m distracted less. The coronavirus lockdowns put a damper on that for a while.
Major themes
Aside from the perishability of knowledge (illustrated most poignantly in Petrarch’s encounter with Cicero’s lost On Glory), three other major themes emerge in Digest:
The tides of fortune.
Character makes fate.
Moral corruption will cause the downfall of even the most powerful men. The same goes for civilizations.
Let’s take a look at examples of all three.
Hannibal meets with Scipio
The year was 202 B.C. and the Second Punic War wasn’t going well. Hannibal’s initial blitzkrieg had ended in his spectacular victory at Cannae, but hadn’t translated it into successful strategy. Rome not only still fought, but fought hard, and had decisively turned the tide nine years later at the Metaurus. With Hannibal ground down in southern Italy and with the ascendant Scipio successful in Spain, his options were narrowing.
The inevitable came when Rome, victorious everywhere, finally turned its attention to the Carthaginian homeland. It sent its new prodigy general, Scipio, to invade North Africa and subdue Carthage itself. Hannibal was left with no choice but to return to defend his home.
Before the battle, he met with Scipio, hoping to come to a settlement without bloodshed. Quintus Curtius relates that Hannibal warned his adversary about the fickleness of fortune. He noted that he was in the ascendant at the start of the war, but fortune turned on him anyway. It could happen to Scipio, too, Hannibal cautioned, and said that it would be better for them to come to an accommodation rather than entrust their fate to fortune’s winds. If they did so, Hannibal said, the only thing they could be certain of is that each side would see swords and corpses.
Scipio politely declined Hannibal’s invitation at their meet and went on to defeat the hated Carthaginian at the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War and securing for himself heights of glory no other Roman had yet reached.
Despite this, Hannibal’s warning came true, and fortune would turn on Scipio in the succeeding years. He was forced into a premature retirement and died an embittered man.
This essay is a good reminder that no matter how powerful you are, fortune will turn on you to some degree.
Erasmus’ loses all his money and triumphs
Henry VII was known as a miser. To be fair to him, England was just getting out of the Wars of the Roses and the peace was fragile. He needed money to maintain and rebuild his newly-won realm. Still, his reputation for miserliness lasts to this day, and he reaffirmed an old edict from Edward III that made money trying to be taken out of the country subject to confiscation.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, better known just by his middle name, was a Dutch scholar from Rotterdam who tried his hand at making a living solely through the pen. This road to success was opened by the dawn of printing, but it was, as it is now, an exceedingly difficult one.
Erasmus nevertheless made some money for himself before he was invited to visit England in 1499. However, getting it out of there proved impossible. The result was that all of his money, the money he had worked hard to amass, was taken from him and he was back to square one.
As you would expect, for a while, Erasmus was demoralized and disillusioned. Nevertheless, necessity is the mother of invention, and he had a resourceful character. Out of his desperation, he came up with his Adagia, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman adages and quotations that could be used as an easy guide for other scholars. The work was a success and continually expanded over the years until his death. The financial tragedy he suffered was the impetus to this, his greatest work.
It is a living example of the Shipwreck of Simonides. A good character can suffer bad fortune and still find ways to win.
Burkentius “profits” from a love of money
Justinian’s wars against the Goths in Italy were some of the most brutal of the early medieval period. Raging for decades up and down the peninsula, the “Gothic War” was a savage conflict where both sides suffered terribly.
What Justinian’s troops in the Gothic War may have looked like.
During a siege of the town of Osimo, a Byzantine (technically they called themselves Romans, but I’m using the vernacular adage for convenience) soldier of Gothic descent named Burkentius was bribed by some of the inhabitants to deliver a message for them through the Roman lines to the stronghold of Ravenna.
Faking his trip as one of medical necessity, Burkentius complied. However, Justinian’s general Belisarius was the best warrior of his time, and understood that something strange was going on. The garrison at Osimo was holding out for a reason.
To get information, he ordered some of his Slavic troops to capture a prisoner. This they did, and under interrogation, the prisoner revealed Burkentius’ betrayal.
He hid none of it and was burned alive. That is what the love of money, his corruption of vice, did to him. Was it worth it?
This was only one brief essay among many highlighting how unmitigated vices lead to the downfall of men. I highlighted it because it might be the most visceral.
Towards the end of Digest, Quintus Curtius highlights the sad fate of the Library of Alexandria. He notes that Carl Sagan liked to speak of its destruction as a single event where it fell to the mob, but that wasn’t entirely accurate.
Instead, the library was dissipated through neglect over the years and centuries. Nevertheless, the direction Carl Sagan warned us of was right. There was a Year Zero revolution in the late Roman Empire, with the nascent Church obliterating much of classical civilization.
And Sagan’s adage is the same as Quintus Curtius’ warning throughout Digest. Knowledge must be preserved with every generation. We think this is easy now, with digital media, but such media is easy to censor, and we shouldn’t rely on it. He was saying these things throughout essays written in 2017 and earlier.
Here we are.
The themes in Digest matter more today than ever.
So do yourself and your country a favor and buy it, preferably in physical form, now.
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Mastersingers USA To Perform In The Emerald City – July 1, 2017
March 12, 2017 April 12, 2019 musaadmin
The award-winning Mastersingers USA will perform a concert on Saturday, July 1 at 5:00 pm PDT as a featured guest at the University Congregational United Church of Christ (4515 16th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105). Celebrating its 22nd anniversary, Mastersingers USA will perform a broad range of male choral works, including classical choral works, international folk songs, and American choral music.
Under the direction of Prof. Bruce McInnes, 50 men from 28 states and 2 foreign countries specialize in the performance of wide-ranging programs of male choral works including sacred music, folk songs from around the world, and American spirituals. Mastersingers USA has performed both throughout the United States and internationally, winning First Place in the Male Choir Competition at the International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales in 2003. In 2005, the group was chosen to represent the United States in the First International Congress of Men’s Choirs in Barcelona, Spain. The group has performed in nearly 20 countries across Europe since its founding in 1995, including some of the continent’s major cathedrals – as well as festivals, and parks (… and more than a few street corners, too).
The choir includes men from across the USA, nearly all of whom have sung with Prof. Bruce McInnes in his career as a music professor at Amherst College and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, as well as other institutions in a career spanning nearly 50 years. Prof. McInnes is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Maine at Farmington, where he conducts the UMF Community Chorus. For more information about the Mastersingers USA, please visit our website at www.mastersingersusa.org.
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Meet Seattle artist who is hacking pop music to build an impression in the industry
The music industry is growing with each passing day and artists around the world are looking for new ways to impress the audience. Here we are going to talk about a famous Seattle artist who is popularly recognized as US3R. The name may appear more like a codeword; however, it represents the term USER. Along with the creativity and impact in the name, this experienced Seattle artist can also help people to enjoy some melodious musical albums from his collection.
US3R belongs to a family of musicians that are already famous in the music industry. Right from childhood, this artist had a close relationship with the recording studios. His parents used to tour various cities for famous acts and it brought new exposure to the life of a music lover’s child. US3R has now set up his name and brand in the music industry with a pop music collection.
He visited Canada and the USA recently at the beginning of the year 2020; however, soon after that, he has to stop all his tours due to the coronavirus pandemic. But this abrupt end to the tours could not stop him from achieving new goals in the music industry. During this extended lockdown period, US3R made its best efforts to influence the listeners around the world. He has now released five singles along with three famous remixes. People love him more due to his awesome performance and command on stage during live concerts. He also executed three live stream concerts during a pandemic.
The music lovers recognize US3R more due to his strong pop appeal. Every song released by this artist in the past few months had amazing pop appeal along with a deep social commentary which is usually difficult to carry for most pop artists.
This experienced and influential artist also makes use of the latest data trends and listener behavior analysis to drive his content strategy. It helps US3R to build new pop music with enhanced impact on listeners. Recently in December 2020, he also published a song that works as a voice command to streaming platforms.
US3R has lived in the areas affected by riots and pandemics. His music is an outcome of his life experiences. It can automatically connect to the souls of the listeners while building a playful pop track. His recent album is named “influence” which is a concept album containing songs relevant to the mindset of the social media addicted people. In June 2020, US3R also performed an 8 min 46-second-long live stream performance in memory of George Floyd and to raise money for the NAACP.
About US3R:
US3R has now become a big name in the pop music industry. This growing artist has already worked on several outstanding creations that are serving the tastes and preferences of the music lovers in the target market. His recently published songs have opened new doors for streaming music online. Alexa play ok computer has been one of his favorite streaming choices for launching new songs during the pandemic.
The fans can contact US3R on:
• contact: [email protected]
• website: https://imtheus3r.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/imtheus3r
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/imtheus3r
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/imtheus3r
Contact Person: Kristian Alexander
City: Seattle
Website: https://imtheus3r.com
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I-95/I-295 North Interchange Operational Improvements Project
The Florida Department of Transportation’s I-95/I-295 North Interchange Project will modernize and reconfigure the I-95/I-295 North interchange to improve traffic flow, safety and increase capacity.
The project will include a collector distributor system, which will allow motorists traveling along I-295, whether exiting or passing through, to maneuver through the interchange with fewer lane shifts.
Auxiliary lanes and minor ramp improvements will be added to I-95 and the Airport Road interchange. The Cole Road bridge over I-95 will also be replaced.
I-295 North and US 17 will also see construction work including bridge replacement/construction, ramp reconstruction and road work along US 17.
The interchange is part of an important corridor to promote economic growth and development in the region. Traffic volume is expected to increase significantly over the next two decades. Re-configuring the interchange will encourage growth and alleviate traffic issues in years ahead.
Temporary lane closures and nighttime detours will take place through the duration of the project; however, these will occur in off-peak times. Every effort will be made to minimize the impact to traffic flow in the construction zone.
Archer Western was contracted to complete the $176.8 million project late 2016. Work is expected to be completed in fall 2021, weather and schedule permitting.
I-295 West Beltway traffic impacts
Nighttime lane closures from Pulaski Road to Biscayne Boulevard Monday and Wednesday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for road work.
Daytime lane closures from Max Leggett Parkway to Dunn Avenue Monday through Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and nighttime lane closures Tuesday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. for road work.
Nighttime on-ramp closure at Max Leggett Parkway Sunday through Thursday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for road construction. Follow detour.
Daytime lane closures from Dunn Avenue to Max Leggett Parkway Monday through Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and nighttime lane closures Tuesday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. for road work.
I-95 and I-295 North Interchange Reconfiguration Public Hearing notice
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Project Start: November 2016
Cost: $176.8 million
Roads Interstate 295, Interstate 95
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Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur, GCIE (25 August 1846 - 25 December 1906) was the first Nawab of Murshidabad and the eldest son of Mansur Ali Khan, the last Nawab of Bengal. Educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow and in England, he was appointed heir to his father's titles in 1873. He succeeded as the head of the family upon his father's abdication seven years later, when the title of Nawab of Bengal was abolished. On 17 February 1882, however, Hassan Ali Mirza Khan was appointed to the lesser title of Nawab of Murshidabad and was confirmed in this title by the British in 1891.
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ABB announces the expiration and final results of the tender offer for 3.800% notes due 2028 and 4.375% notes due 2042
November 02 2020 - 07:00AM
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ZURICH, Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ABB Ltd (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) ("ABB") announced today that the cash tender offer by ABB Finance (USA) Inc. (the "Issuer") for any and all outstanding 3.800% Notes due 2028 (CUSIP No. 00037B AF9) and 4.375% Notes due 2042 (CUSIP No. 00037B AC6) (collectively, the "Notes") (the "Offer"), expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, October 30, 2020 (the "Expiration Time"). At the Expiration Time, valid tenders had been received in the amounts set forth in the table below.
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3.800% Notes due April 2028
00037B AF9 / US00037BAF94
US $750,000,000
US $1,076,000
4.375% Notes due May 2042
00037B AC6 / US00037BAC63
US $250,000
Excluding principal amounts of Notes tendered using Guaranteed Delivery Procedures (as stipulated in the Issuer's Offer to Purchase, dated October 26, 2020 (the "Offer to Purchase").
The Issuer expects to accept for payment all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Offer and expects to make payment for the Notes tendered prior to the Expiration Time in same-day funds on November 4, 2020, including with respect to the Notes tendered pursuant to the Guaranteed Delivery Procedures.
Merrill Lynch International and HSBC Bank plc served as the dealer managers for the Offer. D.F. King & Co., Inc. served as the tender agent and information agent for the Offer.
Holders who would like additional copies of the Offer to Purchase may call or email the Information Agent at (212) 269-5550 (banks and brokers), (800) 317-8033 (all others) or abb@dfking.com. Copies of the Offer to Purchase are also available at the following website: https://sites.dfkingltd.com/abb. Questions regarding the terms of the Offer should be directed to HSBC Bank plc at +44 20 7992 6237 (Europe), +1 888 HSBC 4LM (toll free), +1 212 525 5552 (collect) or liability.management@hsbcib.com or to Merrill Lynch International at +44-20-7996-5420 (Europe), +1 (888) 292-0070 (toll free), +1 (980) 387-3907 (collect) or DG.LM-EMEA@bofa.com.
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Was Adam a hermaphrodite?
I’ve been dipping into another old handbook on forensic medicine. This one is by Johann Ludwig Casper. It’s called A Handbook of the Practice of Forensic Medicine, and it was translated into English by George William Balfour. The third edition, which is the one I’ve been referring to, dates from 1861 and is freely available on google books.
Now and then, I’m asked about the developments in forensic science, and whether my decision to write historical crime fiction had anything to do with an antipathy towards modern crime solving technology. When a crime can be solved by a DNA sample, what role is there left for the old-fashioned detective to play?
There might be something in that. But what’s interesting from reading Casper is that there has always been this sense of the advance of forensic science, even in his day. His book may seem quaint and antiquanted to us, given the high-tech world of CSI. But the distance between him and his predecessors is almost equally great, as this short section from his preface to Volume I shows:
“In this book, as in all my public lectures for the last thirty-six years, I have specially striven against the prime failing of most authors on forensic medicine, viz., the separation of it from general medicine, and endeavoured to purify it from all irrelevant rubbish, which has so copiously accumulated in it by tradition… Questions, such as those we find treated of in the older writers – as, “Was Adam a hermaphrodite?” or, “Can a woman be got with child by the devil?” are certainly no longer to be met with; but the echoes of real sophistries, in which the medicina forensic was so rich, contemptibly-crafty “ifs” and “buts,” are still to be found lingering even in writing of the most modern date.”
I don’t know about you, but those are two questions to which I would dearly love to know the answer. And perhaps that’s the real reason why I am drawn to writing historical crime. Not so much because of a technophobic reaction against modern day forensics, but more because of a genuine fascination with the questions and concerns of an age long gone.
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2011 Dissertation, University of Toronto
A review of The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953, by Wilson Bell.
What was life like for prisoners and camp staff in the many “ordinary” camps, colonies, and special settlements of the Soviet Gulag? This is one of the key questions that Wilson Bell attempts to answer in The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953. Bucking the trend of studying camps in the most extreme and remote locations (e.g., work by David Nordlander on Kolyma, Simon Ertz on Noril’sk, and Alan Barenberg on Vorkuta), he examines Western Siberia, an enormous area that roughly corresponds to the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, and Kemerovo provinces of the Russian Federation. Western Siberia was the home to one of the Soviet Union’s most extensive prison camp complexes (Siblag) and its various successors and offshoots. It also included a mixture of “corrective labor camps” (ITLs), “corrective labor colonies” (ITKs) and “special settlements.” Bell devotes significant attention to each in this dissertation, a welcome decision given that current works on the Gulag tend to focus on only one of these three types of institutions. ITKs, which tended to hold prisoners with shorter sentences, are particularly understudied. Yet even though Western Siberia held many prisoners and exiles in a wide range of institutions, relatively few of its economic activities were given top priority status by the Soviet leadership. This makes the author’s choice of Western Siberia as a case study particularly valuable, as it is undoubtedly more representative of the vast Gulag system than the high priority camps that have drawn most consistent attention from historians.
Bell uses close analysis of a wide range of archival and published sources to offer a thoughtful new conception of the Gulag and its place in Soviet society. Never one to settle for easy explanations of complex phenomena, Bell’s discussion of how to understand the Gulag hinges on the tensions between sets of intersecting goals. He treats the forced labor system first and foremost as a penal institution, closely connected to trends in criminal justice and conceptions of criminality in Russia and the Soviet Union. Yet the political imperatives that accompanied collectivization and industrialization during the first five-year plan played a key role in the system’s creation. Bell argues that the desire to use the Gulag to isolate and punish enemies never disappeared, continuing to inform decisions and regulations well into the 1950s. Yet the Gulag was also an economic institution designed to allocate and exploit unfree labor. One of the strengths of the dissertation is that it examines the ebb and flow of political and economic imperatives in the Gulag’s management and everyday operation. The fact that the penal, political, and economic aspects of the Gulag are examined in each chapter speaks to Bell’s remarkable ability to avoid oversimplification, and his meticulous analysis of his sources.
Another powerful tension that emerges in Bell’s narrative is that which existed between the Gulag as a modern, bureaucratic institution that sought to regulate and control the bodies of prisoners, and the existence of informal practices that undermined many such plans. Unlike Steven Barnes, who sees the Gulag as an institutional embodiment of modernity, Bell describes the Gulag in Western Siberia as an example of what Terry Martin called “neo-traditionalism.” As Bell points out, “While Stalin and the NKVD on paper created a modern system — highly regulated, bureaucratic, efficient, etc. — for its actual operations the Gulag relied frequently on informal networks of exchange and distribution, as well as a system of privilege that depended on personal connections, for the prisoners and camp personnel alike” (p. 16). Thus, the Gulag emerges as an institution defined as much by the unintended consequences of central policies as by their intended goals. In fact, according to Bell, many regulations in the Gulag (as in Soviet society at large), were formulated in such a way that they were virtually impossible to follow, encouraging the spread of informal practices. If for Steven Barnes the Gulag was primarily an institution that was created and defined by Bolshevik ideology, for Bell this cannot adequately explain the everyday operation of the camps.
While the author places his narrative within the growing historiography on the Soviet Gulag, he also engages with broader literatures on modernity, penality, and the concentration camp. Thus, for example, he finds that the relationship between overregulation and arbitrariness present in the camps of Western Siberia closely resembles what Richard Ireland observed in his study of the Victorian prison (p. 124). He also places the widespread practice of contracting prisoner labor to industry in the context of its international origins, particularly the US South. He wades into major theoretical debates as well, examining for example the applicability of Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of the “gardening state” to the Gulag, and finding it rather wanting. Perhaps most insightful is his discussion of whether or not various institutions of the Gulag fit into Wolfgang Sofsky’s definition of the concentration camp. As his dissertation clearly demonstrates, no Gulag institution resembled the closed universe of the concentration camp. Corrective labor camps, although usually encircled by barbed wire and armed guards, had porous borders due to poor staffing and informal practices. Corrective labor colonies were often not enclosed at all, and the fact that most inmates were contracted out to other economic enterprises made isolation virtually impossible. The “special settlements” were perhaps the least isolated of all, since they more closely resembled exile villages than prison camps. Yet, as Bell skillfully points out, these “special settlements” shared important traits of the concentration camp that the labor camps and colonies did not: their residents were not convicted of a specific crime, but instead were sent there as part of a group that had been targeted by the regime (p. 53). Paradoxically, he shows that many of the “special settlements” were more geographically isolated than camps and colonies, which tended to be located closer to major cities (p. 65). In short, Bell’s dissertation is truly comparative — it does not simply adopt or apply the models of others, it deftly interrogates existing theory and historiography to see where his data fit.
Chapter 1, “Forced Labour and the Development of Siberia,” places the growth of the Gulag in Western Siberia into historical context. Bell sees the development of forced labor in Siberia as a largely ad hoc attempt to solve two longer-term Russian problems. The first was the problem of how to adequately exploit the rich mineral resources of Siberia and other remote regions of the Russian Empire. This “Siberian problem” had been an issue at least since the time of Peter the Great, and the difficulty of securing a sufficient labor force for Siberian industries was at its core. Thus, although the form and scale of the Gulag were distinctly Soviet, the idea of using penal labor to exploit Siberia’s resources had much deeper roots in Russian history. The second longer-term issue, the so-called “peasant problem,” was perhaps even more fundamental. How was the central government to pacify, exploit, and control Russia’s vast population of peasants? The “war against the peasantry” of the first five-year plan, which eventually crushed the countryside, created a surplus of kulaks that could be used to help colonize Siberia and other remote regions. Thus, as Bell demonstrates, the long-standing Siberian and peasant questions were solved in a related manner, with surplus peasants from the countryside used to colonize Western Siberia.
Chapter 2, “The Gulag in Western Siberia, 1929-1941,” explores the often chaotic process of the creation and development of a vast network of camps, colonies, and settlements in Western Siberia. In this chapter Bell emphasizes both the degree to which the development of the Gulag was unplanned and the diversity of its institutions. Overall, Western Siberia exhibited the same overall trends of the Gulag as a whole, with rapid expansion of its population in the early 1930s and once again during the Great Terror of 1937-38. Further, over time large camp complexes like Siblag tended to be broken up into smaller units, as the Gulag tended towards greater economic specialization. In this chapter Bell clearly demonstrates the degree to which the Gulag in Western Siberia was geographically, economically, and institutionally diverse, with urban and rural outposts, industrial and agricultural enterprises, consisting of camps, colonies, and “special settlements.” He even presents the curious case of the “Tomsk Camp for Family Members of Traitors to the Motherland,” a subdivision of Siblag specially designed to house family members of counterrevolutionary prisoners, which did not require prisoner labor and had no economic function whatsoever. What this “experiment” demonstrates, according to Bell, is that while the general trend was for the Gulag to become more of an economically-focused institution over time, the process was never unambiguous (p. 97).
Chapter 3, “Gulag Regulations on the Eve of World War II,” examines the Gulag at a time when many historians agree that it had become a more stable and mature system. Here, as Bell demonstrates, we see clear evidence of the desire of Gulag administrators to create a modern, bureaucratic system with highly regulated daily life for prisoners. Yet, using a number of examples of Gulag regulations dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s, he argues that authorities were rarely able to actually realize this vision for the camps. Here he uses the examples of de-convoyed prisoners (those given passes allowing them to move unguarded outside the camp), basic recordkeeping of prisoner information, and the system of graduated rations, to show just how far practices departed from regulations. Particularly striking is his conclusion that while, “The intention of these rules conforms to a modern ethos concerning the rational ordering of society….[but] The result of many of them, however, was increased inefficiency and an entrenchment of informal practices” (p. 130, emphasis in original). Overall, this chapter makes the strongest case for Bell’s observation that the Gulag both followed and departed from Foucault’s model of the modern prison. Bell’s evidence shows the desire of officials to regulate the daily life prisoners and also their clear inability to do so in many cases.
Chapter 4, “Mobilization for War,” is the first of two chapters that examines the transformation of the Gulag in Western Siberia during wartime. This chapter focuses specifically on various attempts to mobilize prisoners for war, both in economic and ideological terms. As he shows, the war resulted in the further transformation of forced labor institutions in Western Siberia. On the one hand, hundreds of thousands of prisoners evacuated from the western part of the Soviet Union became prisoners in the camps or passed through on their way elsewhere. On the other, the population of forced labor institutions in Western Siberia declined significantly over the course of the war due to astronomically high mortality rates. While mortality rates were clearly higher than the average throughout the Gulag (which was generally not the case in priority camps), Bell concludes that administrative chaos, poor record-keeping, and constantly fluctuating prisoner population render it virtually impossible to calculate an accurate yearly mortality rate (p. 164). As the economic importance of Western Siberia increased dramatically over the course of the war, so did the economic exploitation of prisoners and “special settlers” in defense and related industries. Yet the poor health of prisoners and low productivity meant that the widespread use of forced labor added little to the wartime economy. Bell also demonstrates that a remarkable amount of resources was devoted to “cultural-educational” activities among prisoners. Unlike the 1930s, the focus was now on rallying support for the state and the war effort, rather than on the idea of reforging or rehabilitation. In the end, Bell remains skeptical that such activities were fulfilled in much more than a pro forma manner.
Chapter 5, “Camp Personnel during Wartime, 1940-1945,” turns to the activities and ideological outlook of local officials during the war. This is a pathbreaking chapter, as few studies of Gulag personnel exist. Bell shows that camp personnel were constantly in short supply, poorly trained, and often lived in dreadful conditions. Looking primarily at reports from Communist Party organizations of forced labor institutions, he concludes that informal practices and relationships played a constant role in the lives of camp personnel, and by extension, the prisoners whom they guarded. Theft, blat, and other illicit economic practices were rampant, sometimes improving the lives of prisoners but often making them worse. His conclusion that camp personnel seemed to view the prisoners not as dangerous enemies, but as prisoners to be economically exploited, is certainly striking, and it runs counter to the conclusions of Steven Barnes that the Gulag was a thoroughly ideologized space.
Chapter 6, “The Gulag in Western Siberia, 1945-53,” extends the dissertation’s narrative into postwar Stalinism. In this chapter, Bell explores the paradox of the postwar Gulag, an expanding forced labor system that seemed to be increasingly ineffective in the eyes of a wide range of officials. At a time when the Gulag appeared to be more bureaucratic and professionalized than ever, the persistence of informal practices continued to undermine the creation of a modern Foucauldian prison system. The Gulag institutions in Western Siberia grew after World War II and were often split into increasingly specialized units. Regulations for the operation of camps continued to proliferate. Yet black market activity also continued, as did forbidden sexual relationships between camp staff and prisoners, subjects of significant concern in administrative reports. The rise of prisoner resistance, with frequent prisoner-on-prisoner violence, was another phenomenon that undermined the bureaucratization and regulation of life of the Gulag. For Bell, this tension between regulations and informal practices was not a new phenomenon in the postwar, but as the scale of the Gulag expanded in Stalin’s final years, it appeared to become even more pronounced than had previously been the case.
Overall, this is a fine dissertation that makes a number of original contributions to the study of the Soviet Gulag. It is the first major archival study of a non-priority part of the Soviet penal system, thus providing key insights into the experiences of ordinary prisoners, exiles, and camp staff. By examining regulations, practices, and prisoners’ experiences in a wide range of forced labor institutions in Western Siberia, it makes a strong case that the Gulag was a clear example of Soviet “neotraditionalism.” While Soviet leaders and Gulag administrators may have conceived of their system as thoroughly modern and bureaucratic, the gap between intention and capacity resulted in the proliferation of informal practices that shaped the lives of prisoners and personnel as much as formal regulations did. Such a conclusion fits with Bell’s consistent effort to place the Soviet Gulag into comparative perspective, providing readers with meaningful insight into what was unique about the Soviet Gulag and what it shared in common with other modern prison institutions. Overall this dissertation is a model of how thorough archival research can be fruitfully wedded to historical comparisons and the critical deployment of theory.
Alan Barenberg
alan.barenberg at ttu.edu
GANO (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Novosibirskoi oblasti / State Archive of Novosibirsk Province)
GARF (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiskoi Federatsii / State Archive of the Russian Federation)
GATO (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Tomskoi oblasti / State Archive of Tomsk Province)
Tomsk Memorial Society Archives
TsDNI TO (Tsentr dokumentatsii noveishei istorii Tomskoi oblasti / The Centre for the Documentation of the Contemporary History of Tomsk Province)
Dissertation Information
University of Toronto. 2011. 332 pp. Primary Advisor: Lynne Viola.
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