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Harry Micajah Daugherty
Harry Micajah Daugherty served as the 51st attorney general of the United States, under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, but left office with his reputation forever tainted by accusations of political corruption and scandal.
Daugherty was born in Ohio on January 26, 1860, in a town called Washington Court House. He received his law degree in 1881 from the University of Michigan. He moved back to Ohio and was admitted to the state bar. Daugherty began practicing law in his hometown before entering politics. Daugherty became township clerk and, in 1890, was elected to the Ohio General Assembly. The ambitious Daugherty served two terms in the assembly before moving to Columbus in 1894. In Columbus he established a lucrative corporate law practice and continued to build his connections within the Republican Party. Daugherty ran for state attorney general in 1895 and lost. In 1897, he failed in his attempt to become governor of Ohio.
In 1902, Daugherty established the law firm of Daugherty, Todd & Rarey; he remained a senior member of the firm until his appointment as U.S. attorney general in 1921. Daugherty had become acquainted with rising Republican star
Warren G. Harding, who served as lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1905. Daugherty became involved in Harding's campaigns, which included an unsuccessful run for governor in 1910. Daugherty managed Harding's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1914.
At the 1920 Republican Convention, a standoff developed between supporters of the presidential candidacies of former Army Chief of Staff General Leonard Wood and Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden. Although Harding had introduced no significant national legislation and was not known for his leadership abilities, Daugherty and a group of Harding's political supporters managed to position him as the ideal compromise candidate to break the deadlock. Harding was elected as the Republican party nominee on the 10th ballot and went on to become the 29th president of the United States. In return for his help and support, Harding appointed Daugherty U.S. attorney general in 1921.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, faced with a backlog of cases in the federal courts and efforts by some congressmen to end lifetime tenure for federal judges, had sought judicial reform by proposing the creation of a conference of judges to assess lower court needs. He also suggested the appointment of at-large judges who could be assigned as needed to various courts. Daugherty joined with Taft to urge Congress to pass the proposed legislation. In 1922, Congress established what ultimately became the judicial conference of the united states.
Daugherty and many of the Ohio Republicans who had helped Harding achieve the presidency moved to Washington with him, and became mired in allegations of corrupt self-enrichment schemes. Harding's sudden death in August 1923 and the succession of Calvin Coolidge as president happened just as the public was beginning to become aware of the machinations of those the press dubbed the "Ohio Gang."
Daugherty was acquitted of charges that he was directly involved in the most famous of these scandals, the Teapot Dome Scandal, where the secretary of the interior was accused of arranging for the private development of federally-owned oil fields in return for a bribe of $100,000. However, Daugherty's failure to aggressively prosecute those involved and further allegations that he obstructed justice by trying to block a congressional investigation resulted in a loss of confidence in the attorney general. An investigation led by Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana resulted in Daugherty's resignation in March 1924.
In 1927, Daugherty was tried twice on charges of engaging in graft and fraud while serving as attorney general. Both cases ended in a hung jury. Daugherty spent the rest of his life practicing law in Ohio and attempting to rehabilitate both his own reputation and that of Harding. In 1932, he coauthored a book with Thomas Dixon called The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy. Daugherty died of a heart attack in Columbus, Ohio, on October 12, 1941, at the age of 81.
Daugherty, Harry M., and Thomas Dixon. 1932. The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy. New York: Churchill.
U.S. Justice Department. 1985. Attorneys General of the United States, 1789–1985. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Teapot Dome Scandal
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire that took place in New York City on March 25, 1911, remains a landmark event in the history of U.S. industrial disasters. The fire that claimed the lives of 146 people, most of them immigrant women and girls, caused an outcry against unsafe working conditions in factories and sweatshops located in New York and in other industrial centers throughout the United States and became the genesis for numerous workplace safety regulations on both the state and federal level.
The ten-storey Asch building, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street in New York City. The top three floors of the building housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The Triangle Company, like its competitors, used subcontractors for the manufacture of women's clothing. Under this system, workers dealt directly with subcontractors who paid them extremely low wages and required them to work long hours in unsafe conditions. The Triangle Company was the largest manufacturer of shirt-waists in the city, employing approximately 700 people. While the subcontractors, foremen, and a few others were male, the great majority of the workers were female. Most of the Triangle workers, who ranged in age from 15 to 23, were Italian or European Jewish immigrants. Many of them spoke little English. Their average pay was $6 per week, and many worked six days a week in order to earn a little more money.
Like many of their fellow immigrants in other factories throughout the city, the Triangle Shirtwaist workers labored from 7 in the morning until 8 at night with one half-hour break for lunch. They spent their time hunched over heavy, dangerous sewing machines that were operated by foot pedals. The rooms in which they worked were dirty, dim, and poorly ventilated. The finished shirtwaists hung on lines above the workers' heads and bundles of material, trimmings, and scraps of fabric were piled high in the cramped aisles between the machines. Most of the doors were locked on the theory that locked doors prevented the workers from stealing material.
In November 1909, these conditions led the local labor union to call for a strike against the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Over the next few weeks, the strike spread to the city's other shirtwaist manufacturers. Although local newspapers referred to the general strike as the "uprising of the ten thousand," estimates of the actual number of women workers who participated in the walk out range from 20,000 to 30,000. Predictably, government officials, the media, and the public split into two camps with unions, labor organizations, and blue collar workers supporting the strikers while businesses and industrial leaders denounced them.
Although the manufacturers tried a number of tactics to break the strike including mass arrests and the use of thugs to beat and threaten the workers, public opinion appeared to reside with labor. In February 1910 the opposing groups reached a settlement which gave the strikers a slight wage increase. Although the strikers thought they had gained a shorter work-week and better working conditions, no changes were made. In particular, union demands for better fire safety were not addressed.
Saturday shifts generally ended earlier than weekday shifts. On Saturday, March 25, 1911, workers in other parts of the building had left at around noon. Many of the 500 workers present that day at the Triangle Company had begun to put away their work and to put on their hats and coats in anticipation of the factory's 4:45 P.M. quitting time. At approximately 4:30 P.M. the cry of "Fire!" was heard on the eighth floor. Pandemonium ensued as flames began to leap over the piles of rags that littered the floor. While a few workers attempted to throw buckets of water at the fire, terrified women and girls struggled to make their way to the narrow stairway or the factory's single fire escape. Others crowded into one of two elevators (one was not in service) as the fire spread to the ninth and tenth floors.
Most of the workers on the eighth floor were able to make their way to safety. Workers on the tenth floor where company offices were located received a phone call about the fire and were able to climb to the roof of the fireproof building where they made their way to the adjoining New York University building and were rescued. Those on the ninth floor were not as lucky. The fire moved so quickly, that the corpses of some were found still seated in front of their sewing machines. As the conflagration built, the workers on that floor found no way to escape. The exit doors, which swung inward, were locked. The one working elevator, after making its way down with the first load of workers, stopped working. The number of workers on the fire escape was so great that it gave way and collapsed, killing a number of girls and women who were on it. Some women tried to slide down the elevator cables but lost their grip and plunged to their deaths. As horrified onlookers watched, other desperate workers began breaking windows and jumping from the ninth floor to the street.
As corpses piled up on the sidewalks outside the building, two fire fighting companies arrived followed by several others but found themselves helpless. Their ladders only extended to the sixth floor and their hoses were too short to be of use. They tried to use safety nets, but girls and women jumped in groups of three and four breaking the nets and fatally hitting the concrete pavement. In less than 15 minutes a total of 146 women and girls had died from burns, suffocation, or falls from the fire escape, the elevator shafts, or the ninth floor. Although the remains of most of the workers were identified within one week, seven remained unidentified.
The gruesome events of the day consumed the city of New York for a number of weeks. Most people were repulsed at the horrific way in which the women had died and the lack of safety precautions that had led to the massive loss of life. However, some defended the right of businesses to operate as they saw fit and to remain free from government safety regulations which they saw as government intervention. Many government officials pronounced themselves powerless to impose safety regulation.
An investigation ensued and the owners of the company were ordered to stand trial on charges of manslaughter. The exact cause of the fire was never determined, although many contended it was caused by a spark from one of the sewing machines or a carelessly tossed cigarette. Blanck and Harris were acquitted by a jury charged with deciding whether they knew that the doors were locked at the time of the fire. The families of 23 of the victims filed civil suits against the owners, and in 1914 a judge ordered them to pay $75 to each of the families. Three days after the fire, the Triangle Company inserted a notice in trade papers stating that the company was doing business at 9-11 University Place. Within days, New York City's Building Inspection Department found that the company's new building was not fireproof, and the company had already permitted the exit to the factory's one fire escape to be blocked.
Immediately after the fire, numerous organizations held meetings to look into improving working conditions in factories and other places of work. A committee of 25 citizens, including Frances Perkins and henry l. stimson—who later became cabinet members in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration—was created as a first step in establishing a Bureau of Fire Prevention. A nine-member Factory Investigating Commission, chaired by state senators Alfred E. Smith (the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928), Robert W. Wagner, and union leader samuel gompers, worked from 1911 to 1914 to investigate fire safety as well as other conditions affecting the health and welfare of factory workers.
In 1912 the New York State Assembly enacted legislation that required installation of automatic sprinkler systems in buildings over seven stories high that had more than 200 people employed above the seventh floor. Legislation also provided for fire drills and the installation of fire alarm systems in factory buildings over two stories high that employed 25 persons or more above the ground floor. Additional laws mandated that factory waste should not be permitted on factory floors but instead should be deposited in fireproof receptacles. Because of the bodies found in the open elevator shafts of the Asch Building, legislation was enacted that required all elevator shafts to be enclosed.
The scope of safety laws was expanded by legislation that limited the number of hours that minors could work and prohibited children under the age of 16 from operating dangerous machinery. Many laws passed by the New York Assembly in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire were the basis of similar workplace safety legislation in numerous states throughout the country.
Another byproduct of the fire was an increased support for unions, particularly the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). The ILGWU, to which some Triangle company employees had belonged, helped form the Joint Relief Committee which collected moneys to be distributed to the families of the lost workers. The union gained thousands of new members in industrial centers around the country and helped to lobby for stricter safety regulations, many of which eventually were encoded in federal legislation passed during the administration of President Roosevelt. These laws, in turn, were the genesis of the U.S. Labor department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA was established in 1971 by the occupational safety and health act to improve workplace safety conditions for the nation's workers who numbered 111 million in 2003.
Cornell University Library. 1998. The Triangle Factory Fire. Available online at <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire> (accessed September 10, 2003).
De Angelis, Gina. 2001. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911. New York: Chelsea House.
McClymer, John F. 1998. The Triangle Strike and Fire. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College.
Stein, Leon. 2001. The Triangle Fire. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press.
Von Drehle, Dave. 2003. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
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Cataldo Law Offices, L.L.C.
Cataldo Law Offices, L.L.C. - Franklin, MA
1000 Franklin Village DriveSuite 207Franklin, MA 02038
Franklin Criminal Law Firm
The firm originated in 1961. The firm's major emphasis is Litigation including extensive Criminal Law and Domestic Relations practices.
Attorneys Joseph P. Cataldo and Cornelius J. Madera III, representing clients in all serious criminal matters, violent and non-violent, drunk driving, sexual abuse, domestic restraining orders and assault, and drug offenses in all Courts.
Attorney Joseph Cataldo, a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Massachusetts Bar...
Attorney Joseph Cataldo, a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston and Norfolk County Bar Associations, is one of the preeminent criminal attorneys in the area.
Attorney Madera is a former assistant district attorney with extensive criminal litigation experience, and is also one of the most active criminal attorneys in the area.
In the Domestic Relations field, Attorney Paul A. Cataldo listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" is a top Domestic Relations attorney, a past President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Massachusetts chapter, a member of National American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a member of the Massachusetts and Norfolk County Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Massachusetts and Norfolk County Bar Associations and one of the top divorce litigators in the area, and he handles all divorce matters including, property division, alimony, support and custody issues.
Many of the firm's clients are referred to the firm by other professionals relying on the experienced expert legal assistance provided to clients by our attorneys.
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Noel Robert Boeke
100 North Tampa Street, Suite 4100 Tampa, Florida 33602
Firm: Holland & Knight LLP
Noel R. Boeke is a business lawyer who focuses on solving a wide range of business problems. He specializes in bankruptcy, creditors' rights litigation, commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and documenting loan transactions. He also has experience in business contract negotiations and Uniform Commercial Code issues.
Mr. Boeke has represented various types of business clients, financial institutions and other creditors, including commercial banks, private equity funds, finance subsidiaries of manufacturers, corporations, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, special servicers, chapter 11 debtors and creditor committees. His practice includes a wide range of representation of these types of clients in litigation, bankruptcy, negotiation of loan workouts, asset sales and purchases, and documentation of debtor-in-possession financing, and other loan transactions and security interests. Mr. Boeke also handles litigation in federal, bankruptcy and state courts, and at arbitration, with a focus on creditors' rights issues, including credit litigation, lien enforcement, commercial mortgage foreclosures, fraudulent or preferential transfer actions, consumer finance defense litigation, defense of actions involving debt collection practices, assignments for the benefit of creditors and other types of credit litigation. Mr. Boeke has also provided a wide variety of services to lenders and creditors with respect to perfection and enforcement of their rights under the Uniform Commercial Code.
Mr. Boeke has also represented numerous clients in merger and acquisition transactions, including buyers and sellers of businesses, assets and loans. His practice includes representation of lenders in real estate loan transactions and other commercial loan transactions, whether unsecured or secured by personal property.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Boeke served more than seven years in the U.S. Navy. He served two years on the Headquarters Staff of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program in Washington, D.C., primarily assisting in the annual planning, award and administration of Naval shipbuilding and engineering services contracts. Mr. Boeke then served five years at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, as the on-site contracts and financial representative for all nuclear-related shipbuilding, overhaul and business matters at the shipyard.
Mr. Boeke is past president (2007-2009) of the Florida Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association ("TMA"), an international nonprofit organization dedicated to corporate renewal and turnaround management. He has also served on the National TMA Board since 2010, and was vice president for Education in 2011. He was co-chair of the TMA Annual Conference for 2010, chairman of the TMA Southeast Regional Conference (2009/2010/2011) and prior co-chair of the TMA Spring Conference (2009). Mr. Boeke was a member of Vistage f/k/a The Executive Committee, President's Forum (TEC #2223) from 2006-2012.
Mr. Boeke serves on the Board of Trustees for Saint Leo University. He also serves on the Florida Bar Grievance Committee for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. He is currently a member of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Leadership Tampa Class of 2013.
During law school, Mr. Boeke served as notes editor of the Georgia Law Review. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.
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Former William Tyrrell detective’s heartfelt message
by Justin Lees
19th Aug 2020 8:55 PM | Updated: 20th Aug 2020 5:33 AM
Being a cop changes you - that's the one thing Gary Jubelin wants people to know so they understand the police better.
The former top homicide detective made the heartfelt declaration on Wednesday during a live online Q&A with News Corp Australia readers, as he discussed a career that spanned early days as a uniformed officer, through gangland murders, to his leadership of, and dismissal from, the William Tyrrell investigation.
Asked, "If there is one thing you want the world to know about policing that you think most
people are unaware of, what is it?" Jubelin responded: "Policing changes people. You get to see a different side of life, both good and bad.
"I do not think I have seen anyone leave the force the same person as when they came in.
"I think if the public understood that, they would understand policing a little bit more."
Gary Jubelin’s career has spanned the early days as a uniformed officer, through gangland murders, to his leadership of, and dismissal from, the William Tyrrell investigation. Picture: Nathan Edwards
In a wide-ranging discussion with Claire Harvey, Jubelin also tackled questions on cases he'd like to investigate, the public's love of true crime - and its unexpected advantages - and why he decided to write his story, among many other issues, in the live News Corp Australia event to launch his new book I Catch Killers: The Life And Many Deaths Of A Homicide Detective.
I Catch Killers covers Gary Jubelin’s long career in the police force, working on some of Australia’s biggest cases.
Asked what he makes of the seemingly insatiable public appetite for crime storytelling, and whether it can help or hinder police, Jubelin was understanding.
"It's human nature, people are curious," said the 58-year-old, who readily acknowledges his own drive to examine unsolved crime cases.
"It's about what goes on behind the scenes. People don't want to be involved too closely but they want to take a look. We all want to walk on the wild side."
And from a professional perspective he welcomed the interest, saying, "It keeps us all on our toes."
Gary Jubelin says his new book is for “anyone who is interested in true crime and police work”. . Picture: Tim Hunter.
Despite being one of the best-known lawmen in Australia, with an enduring interest in investigation, Jubelin was modest when it came to discussing other well-known unsolved cases - at pains to point out that being interested does not mean he thinks he could do a better job than his former colleagues in the force.
He noted he is fascinated by the Claremont killings case in WA and said he would have relished the challenge of being involved in the original Melbourne "Underbelly" gangland operations, paying tribute to the officers who brought down the likes of Carl Williams.
Setting aside fact for fiction momentarily, he nominated US cop drama The Wire as the most realistic representation of the job ("that's a question I'm asked a lot," he noted) and also saluted True Detective - "the first season" - for its portrayal of police partnerships
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Returning to real life, and why he wrote his book, Jubelin referenced his high-profile removal from the investigation into missing three-year-old William Tyrrell. He was found guilty of illegally recording a conversation with a person of interest during the search for answers; and is currently appealing against his sentence and $10,000 fine.
"There was a lot of speculation and I wanted people to understand who I am, warts and all."
While he did not have a particular audience in mind when he sat down to write, along with journalist Dan Box, Jubelin now sees I Catch Killers as for "anyone who is interested in true crime and police work".
But he stressed: "This is just my story. All police officers have their own stories".
I Catch Killers: The Life And Many Deaths Of A Homicide Detective by Gary Jubelin, published by HarperCollins Australia, is available now.
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685 F. 2d 1131 - United States v. Fifty-Three Eclectus Parrots E
685 F2d 1131 United States v. Fifty-Three Eclectus Parrots E
4 ITRD 1346
FIFTY-THREE (53) ECLECTUS PARROTS, Defendants
George E. Allen, Claimant-Appellant.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 10, 1982.
Robert Glenn White, Glad, White & Ferguson, San Francisco, Cal., for claimant-appellant.
Wells D. Burgess, Maryann Walsh, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Before DUNIWAY, KENNEDY and CANBY, Circuit Judges.
CANBY, Circuit Judge.
Allen appeals from a summary judgment in favor of the government, ordering the forfeiture of 56 eclectus parrots. We affirm.
Appellant Allen raises and trades birds as an avocation. On his behalf, an importer bought eclectus parrots from a bird dealer in Singapore and imported them into the United States. The birds originated in Indonesia, which has prohibited the export of eclectus parrots, with special exceptions not applicable here, since 1972. The parrots arrived in the United States without any documentation showing their legal acquisition or export from Indonesia. Importation of protected wild birds without such accompanying documentation is proscribed by 19 U.S.C. § 1527 (1976).1 The government therefore instituted this in rem forfeiture action under 19 U.S.C. § 1527(b).
The facts surrounding the importation of the birds are essentially undisputed. Appellant's importer knew that the eclectus parrots originated in Indonesia, not Singapore. He did not know, however, that Indonesia restricted their export, or that these particular parrots had been exported illegally. Before bringing the parrots into this country the importer had asked United States Customs agents whether importing Indonesian eclectus parrots was against United States law, but had received no definitive answer.
Appellant raises two issues:
(1) Whether forfeiture of wild birds under § 1527(b) is proper in the absence of culpable disregard of foreign wildlife laws by the owner; and
(2) Whether eclectus parrots are "wild" within the meaning of 19 U.S.C. § 1527.
Section 1527(b) provides: "Any mammal or bird ... imported into the United States in violation of the provisions of the preceding subdivision (§ 1527(a)) shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture under the customs laws." (emphasis added). Appellant argues that this subsection authorizes forfeiture only where the government shows the owner's culpable disregard of foreign wildlife laws. Although this contention has apparently never before been raised in the context of § 1527, the defense of non-culpability has frequently been rejected in forfeiture proceedings under other statutes.2 We conclude that nothing in the legislative history of § 1527 supports appellant's argument and that the plain words and purpose of the statute militate against such an interpretation.3
Section 1527(b), as quoted above, is unequivocal and mandatory on its face; it prescribes forfeiture without regard to the presence or absence of culpability on the part of the owner of birds illegally imported. This fact alone is probably sufficient answer to Appellant's primary argument. See Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, 437 U.S. 153, 184 n.29, 98 S.Ct. 2279, 2296 n.29, 57 L.Ed.2d 117 (1978). In any event, the purpose of the statute supports a literal interpretation of its language. Section 1527 is manifestly aimed at protecting endangered species of wild animals and birds, and at cooperating with other nations that pursue that goal.4 The primary means chosen by Congress to achieve these aims was a limitation of importation, since a thriving import market in the United States could unquestionably constitute a significant threat to the continued existence and propagation of endangered species in the wild. To permit an importer to retain improperly taken birds on the ground of non-culpability would lend support to the commercial traffic in such birds, as the facts of this case demonstrate. Rather than reading into § 1527(b) a defense that would partially undermine its purpose, we adhere to the literal interpretation of the statute that places upon the owner the affirmative burden of insuring, by the appropriate documentation, that foreign wildlife laws have not been violated.
By its terms, section 1527 applies to both direct and indirect importations of wild birds and mammals from countries restricting their taking or export. We interpret the statute to require proper documentation from the animal's country of origin, whether or not the United States importer was involved in the initial export from that country. It is not unreasonable to require those who import wild birds and mammals to ascertain their origin. The conservation purpose of the statute could be undermined significantly by permitting such importers to avoid the application of the statute by trading through intermediary countries. In the present case, although Appellant dealt only with a Singapore exporter, Appellant knew that the birds originated in Indonesia.
The scant legislative history of the statute does not alter our conclusion. Appellant argues that Congress demonstrated an intent to require culpability in the following statement in a House Report: "(W)e should not countenance disregard of the laws of (foreign) countries by permitting importation of birds and mammals taken or exported in violation of (foreign laws for the protection of wild birds and mammals)." H.R.Rep.No.7, 71st Cong., 1st Sess. 182 (1929), reprinted in Tariff Bill of 1929, Comparative Print of the Tariff Act of 1922 with H.R.2667, H.R.Doc.No.15, at 357 (1929). We cannot draw from this general statement the conclusion urged by Appellant; the "disregard" Congress wished to discourage is not stated to be only that of the importing owner. The conclusion that the legislative history does suggest is that neither House expressly considered the narrow question of owner culpability.5
Appellant also argues that the United States Customs Service must publish any foreign wildlife protection laws which serve as the predicate for requiring documentation under § 1527. First he contends that we should interpret the statute itself to require publication because Customs adopted a regulation, contemporaneously with the enactment of § 1527, that required publication. Appellant refers to the last sentence of the first regulation issued under § 1527 which provided:
(a) No wild mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, shall be released from customs custody, under bond or otherwise, if the collector has knowledge of a foreign law or regulation that brings it within the purview of subdivision (2) of section 527 (19 U.S.C. § 1527), unless accompanied by the required consular certificate or entitled to entry under the provisions of subdivision (c) of such section.
(b) When in doubt as to the admissibility under such section of any importation, the collector should refer the case to the bureau for instructions. Information with respect to the laws or regulations of foreign governments restricting the taking, killing, possession, or exportation to the United States of wild mammals or birds or parts or products thereof will be published in the Treasury Decisions.
T.D. 44412, 58 Treas.Dec. 724-25 (1930). (Emphasis added.)
Even if we were to view this regulation as an interpretation of § 1527, requiring publication of foreign wildlife laws, that "interpretation" was abandoned long ago. Since 1939, the regulations have not contained any statement that foreign laws will be published, and since 1952, Customs has published no new § 1527 notices. Moreover, we do not believe that the original regulation or the § 1527 notices published pursuant to it interpreted § 1527 to require publication of foreign wildlife laws. Treasury Decision 44412, supra, recited the full text of § 1527 as a preface to the regulation. Nothing in the statute suggests that publication is required. The regulation which followed focused on the collector's knowledge of foreign laws as it pertained to his enforcement duties. Publication of those laws in the Treasury Decisions was one source of information for him, but it is not at all clear that this was to be his only source. In fact, "when in doubt" the collector was to "refer the case to the bureau for instructions." We therefore cannot read the regulation as a contemporaneous construction of § 1527 requiring publication of foreign laws as a prerequisite to enforcement.
We also reject Appellant's contention that, even if the statute does not require publication of foreign laws, the current rules of Customs have imposed such a duty. We recognize that an agency can create a duty to the public which no statute has expressly created,6 but we cannot agree that Customs has done so here. At the time Appellant imported the parrots, the only applicable regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations was 19 C.F.R. § 12.28,7 which does not require or even mention publication of foreign wildlife laws. Therefore, the only possible source for an existing agency publication requirement is § 12.28 of the U. S. Customs Manual (1976 ed.), which states that information concerning foreign wildlife laws or regulations "will be published" in the Customs Bulletin. But the Manual is an internal agency guide for Customs offices; it was not intended for the use of the general public. It specifically refers the public to the Code of Federal Regulations for guidance concerning proper observance of the customs and navigations laws.8 Recently, this Circuit stated: " '(N)ot all agency policy pronouncements which find their way to the public can be considered regulations enforceable in federal court.' " Rank v. Nimmo, 677 F.2d 692, 698 (9th Cir. 1982), quoting Chasse v. Chasen, 595 F.2d 59, 62 (1st Cir. 1979). To have the " 'force and effect of law,' " enforceable against an agency in federal court, the agency pronouncement must "(1) prescribe substantive rules-not interpretive rules, general statements of policy or rules of agency organization, procedure or practice-and, (2) conform to certain procedural requirements." Id. at 698 (emphasis in original). To satisfy the first requirement the rule must be legislative in nature, affecting individual rights and obligations; to satisfy the second, it must have been promulgated pursuant to a specific statutory grant of authority and in conformance with the procedural requirements imposed by Congress. Id. Clearly, this internal procedure for alerting Customs officers to possible infringements of 19 U.S.C. § 1527 was not intended as a substantive rule, and was not entitled to the force and effect of law against the government. See id. at 698-99 (holding that VA Lenders' Handbook and VA Circulars do not have the force and effect of the law.)9
Appellant cites Morton v. Ruiz, 415 U.S. 199, 233-35, 94 S.Ct. 1055, 1073-74, 39 L.Ed.2d 270 (1974), for the proposition that an agency is bound to follow a publication requirement set forth in its manual even though the manual is for internal use only. We do not view Ruiz as comparable to the present case. In Ruiz, the Bureau of Indian Affairs had failed to publish Indian welfare eligibility requirements which restricted benefits authorized by Congress. Id. at 230, 94 S.Ct. at 1072. Assuming arguendo that the Secretary rationally could have so limited the welfare benefits, id. at 231, 94 S.Ct. at 1072, the Court concluded that to do so, the Secretary must treat the restrictions as legislative-type rules, id. at 236, 94 S.Ct. at 1075, and publish them accordingly, id. The present case differs markedly from Ruiz. The "publication requirement" contained in the Customs Manual is not a rule eliminating, narrowing or redefining Appellant's statutory rights. It is merely a method for providing customs agents with information pertinent to their law enforcement duties.
Furthermore, we reject Appellant's contention that, as an "innocent" owner-claimant, he is protected from the sanction of forfeiture by the final paragraphs of Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co., 416 U.S. 663, 688-90, 94 S.Ct. 2080, 2094-95, 40 L.Ed.2d 452 (1974). In that case, the Supreme Court was confronted with a yacht owner's constitutional challenge to a Puerto Rican forfeiture statute. The yacht had been forfeited because a lessee had used it to transport marijuana. The yacht's owner was neither aware of nor involved in the transportation of the marijuana. In spite of that fact, the Supreme Court held that forfeiture did not violate the owner's Fifth Amendment rights. Id. at 680-690, 94 S.Ct. at 2090-95. The owner had "voluntarily entrusted" the yacht to the lessee. Appellant here, however, relies on the Court's closing suggestion in Calero-Toledo that another owner's challenge might succeed if he could prove "not only that he was uninvolved in and unaware of the wrongful activity, but also that he had done all that reasonably could be expected to prevent the proscribed use of his property; for in that circumstance, it would be difficult to conclude that forfeiture served legitimate purposes and was not unduly oppressive." Id. at 689-90, 94 S.Ct. at 2094-95. This language, however, referred to the rights of an owner who had not violated the terms of any statute. The only reason for the hypothetical forfeiture was that others had used the property for illegal purposes. In contrast, Appellant in this case was directly involved in the violation of a United States customs law and forfeiture serves the purposes of that law. No forfeiture would have been authorized had Appellant or his importer presented proper documentation for the birds. By failing to do so Appellant violated 19 U.S.C. § 1527 and precipitated the forfeiture. The birds were not imported against Appellant's will and Appellant has not alleged any attempt to secure the required documentation, or even any founded belief that the documentation could have been secured. Appellant therefore cannot avail himself of the limited exception to forfeiture suggested by Calero-Toledo for the benefit of wholly innocent owners who have taken all reasonable precautions to prevent the proscribed activity.
Finally, Appellant contends that the eclectus parrots are not "wild" within the meaning of § 1527, since breeders have had some limited success in breeding the birds in captivity, and some of the birds show signs of having been so bred. The government maintains that § 1527 applies to any foreign bird whose species is normally found in a wild state if the country of origin protects the species. We adopt the government's definition of "wild." A contrary interpretation would create obvious enforcement difficulties. The inquiry must be directed to the species. Cf. 18 U.S.C. § 42(a)(2) (Lacey Act defines "wild" to mean creatures that "normally are found in a wild state"). Since Appellant did not present any evidence that the species is no longer normally found in a wild state, there was no genuine issue of material fact and the United States was entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law. Summary judgment was therefore proper. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a).
19 U.S.C. § 1527 (1976) was enacted as part of the Tariff Act of 1930, § 527, 46 Stat. 590, 741 (1930). In pertinent part, it provides as follows:
(a) Importation prohibited
If the laws or regulations of any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government restrict the taking, killing, possession, or exportation to the United States, of any wild mammal or bird, alive or dead, or restrict the exportation to the United States of any part or product of any wild mammal or bird, whether raw or manufactured, no such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, shall, after the expiration of ninety days after June 17, 1930, be imported into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, directly or indirectly, unless accompanied by a certification of the United States consul, for the consular district in which is located the port or place from which such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, was exported from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, that such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, has not been acquired or exported in violation of the laws or regulations of such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government.
(b) Forfeiture
Any mammal or bird, alive or dead, or any part thereof, whether raw or manufactured, imported into the United States in violation of the provisions of the preceding subdivision shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture under the customs laws. Any such article so forfeited may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury and under such regulations as he may prescribe, be placed with the departments or bureaus of the Federal or State Governments, or with societies or museums, for exhibition or scientific or educational purposes, or destroyed, or (except in the case of heads or horns of wild mammals) sold in the manner provided by law.
Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co., 416 U.S. 663, 688-90, 94 S.Ct. 2080, 2094-95, 40 L.Ed.2d 452 (1974); United States v. Six Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($6,700.00) in United States Currency, 615 F.2d 1 (1st Cir. 1980); United States v. One 1975 Pontiac Le Mans, 621 F.2d 444, 447 (1st Cir. 1980); United States v. One 1975 Ford Pickup, 558 F.2d 755, 756-57 (5th Cir. 1977) (per curiam); United States v. One 1967 Cadillac Coupe Eldorado, 415 F.2d 647, 648 (9th Cir. 1969); United States v. Bride, 308 F.2d 470, 474 (9th Cir. 1962)
In Jen Dao Chen v. United States, 385 F.2d 939, 942 (9th Cir. 1967), this court interpreted 19 U.S.C. § 1592 as not permitting the forfeiture of an innocent owner's property. However, § 1592 contained language from which a requirement of intent to defraud the government could be drawn. Moreover, in Chen the person who allegedly made the false declaration in violation of § 1592 was a trespasser with respect to the property he falsely declared. In United States v. Wagner, 434 F.2d 627, 628-29 (9th Cir. 1970), we limited the Chen case based upon these two factors. Since the language of § 1527 does not suggest the culpability of the owner is relevant, and since the importers who imported the parrots were not trespassers with respect to them, Chen is inapposite
See H.R.Rep.No.7, 71st Cong., 1st Sess. 181-82 (1929), reprinted in Tariff Bill of 1929, Comparative Print of the Tariff Act of 1922 with H.R.2667, H.R.Doc.No.15, at 357 (1929)
The only objection to the proposed § 1527 was the contention that enforcing the internal policies of foreign countries by such a drastic statutory provision was "beyond the proper purpose of the (tariff) bill", S.Rep.No.37, 71st Cong., 1st Sess. 76 (1929), reprinted in 71 Cong.Rec.3378 at 3399. The Senate, however, receded from its attempt to eliminate § 1527 and agreed to restoration of the section, 72 Cong.Rec.10635 (1930). Section 1527 was enacted as proposed by the House
See Morton v. Ruiz, 415 U.S. 199, 235, 94 S.Ct. 1055, 1074, 39 L.Ed.2d 270 (1974); United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 694-96, 94 S.Ct. 3090, 3100-01, 41 L.Ed.2d 1039 (1974) (legislative rules); cf. Ruanswang v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 591 F.2d 39, 44-46 (9th Cir. 1978) (I.N.S. regulations, which established standards, bind agency; adjudicatory rulemaking was ineffective to create additional standards absent adequate notice). But cf. Schweiker v. Hansen, 450 U.S. 785, 789, 101 S.Ct. 1468, 1471, 67 L.Ed.2d 685 (1981) (Social Security Act claims manual is handbook for internal use; agents' failure to follow procedure prescribed by manual does not provide the basis for estoppel against the government); Lewin v. Schweiker, 654 F.2d 631, 633 (9th Cir. 1981) (Social Security Administration's claims manual is an internal agency guide, without the force or effect of a statute or regulation); Caterpillar Tractor Co. v. United States, 589 F.2d 1040, 1043 (Ct.Cl.1978) (taxpayer relies on revenue rulings and informal I.R.S. publications at his own peril). See generally, Davis, Administrative Law Treatise, § 7:21 (1979)
19 C.F.R. § 12.28 (1979) provided as follows:
§ 12.28 Importation of wild mammals and birds in violation of foreign law.
(a) No imported wild mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, shall be released from Customs custody, except as permitted under § 12.26(i) relating to an in-bond movement to a port designated for wildlife entry, if the district director of Customs has knowledge of a foreign law or regulation obliging enforcement of section 527(a), Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1527(a)), unless the importation is an excepted transaction entitled to entry under the provisions of section 527(a) of the Tariff Act or, in connection with the entry, there is presented documentation in either manner specified in 50 CFR § 17.4(c)(1) or (2) required for import transactions subject to foreign laws or regulations regarding taking, transportation, or sale of wildlife including wild mammals and birds or parts or products thereof (see § 12.26).
The Order of Publication of June 1, 1954, included in the Customs Manual, describes the manual's regulations as follows:
The regulations contained herein are effective only against persons in their capacity as officers, agents, or employees of the Customs Service, and do not prescribe procedures necessary for the public to know or follow in dealing with the Customs Service. Regulations which are of interest to the public as a guide to proper observance of the customs and navigation laws are contained in the volume "Code of Federal Regulations, Title 19, Chapter 1," also known as the "Customs Regulations."
As was the case in Rank v. Nimmo, 677 F.2d at 698 n.10, nothing in the record here suggests that Appellant relied to his detriment on § 12.28 of the Customs Manual
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District 9: Still Poignant and Depressingly Relevant Eleven Years Later
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District 9: Still Poignant and Depressingly Relevant Eleven Years Later (Review)
by Thaddeus Buttrey
District 9 (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
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District 9 reminds us why it’s a modern classic with a blend of visual achievement and sharp social commentary.
I’m going to add an important caveat right here in my introduction: this review is going to get political. I try to avoid expressing my own views in my reviews if I can help it, but that hasn’t stopped me from hinting at them in the past. District 9 is an overtly political movie, and it would be really difficult to talk about it without mentioning its political element. So if the movie I’m reviewing isn’t going to be bipartisan, neither am I. If that kind of thing bothers you, you’ve seen my score: District 9 is great. Now then, let’s get into this review.
I was fourteen years old when District 9 first came out in 2009, and, when my dad and I went to the cinema, we had a choice between that and Inglorious Basterds. We went with the latter, and, though I kept meaning to watch District 9, I just never got around to it until writing this review, eleven years later. Since the film is getting released in 4K Ultra HD on October 19, I figured now was as a good a time as any to give it a watch. Now, this might be odd to say, but I’m glad I waited this long to see it: I was able to go into it with fresh eyes and without any expectations or half-memories from past viewings. Let me tell you, given the backdrop of, you know, EVERYTHING, and, despite being over a decade old, District 9 resonates more in 2020 than other films that have came out this year.
District 9 follows Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley), a South African government agent tasked with the relocation of a community of extraterrestrials who are forced to live in a massive slum. While serving eviction notices, Wilkus has an accident that begins to change his body, causing him to be targeted by his own government agency, and allows him to see life through the aliens’ eyes.
Sharlto Copley in District 9 (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
First of all, this film holds up visually. The cinematography is really well done: there are sections meant to look like news reports or found footage, but it never devolves into shaky-cam, so it gets the desired effect without making you motion sick. The makeup and practical effects are top notch: there is some seriously impressive prosthetic work, and it makes for a bodily transformation that looks unbelievably unpleasant (but, like, in a good way). Not to mention the CGI, which holds up surprisingly well. I mean, not all of it looks amazing, but it’s still done well enough that it looks better than most of its contemporaries, and even a lot of films that have come out in the last few years. Seriously, the craft of this film is masterful, and it would get a recommendation from me based on its technical aspects alone.
Hey, remember that whole politics talk I gave at the beginning of this review? Well, buckle up, because we’re going to dive into that now. The science fiction genre is not a stranger to indirect representation and social commentary: Godzilla (1954) was an allegory for the dangers of nuclear war. Robocop (1987) was a warning of how the mass privatization of government and municipal programs will lead to the decimation of social safety nets. They Live! (1988) was a vehicle for John Carpenter to rail against the Reagan administration for two glorious hours.
District 9 continues this tradition by addressing a prevalent issue in 2009 that has only become more relevant in 2020: the treatment of immigrants and minorities at the hands of the powerful. First of all, instead of “illegal aliens,” we have literal aliens who come to Earth malnourished and desperate after their ship malfunctions. They’re forced into a massive slum and face discrimination from all of the humans in Johanasburg (“Prawns” is a common slur used to refer to the aliens throughout the movie). We see how government officials disregard the lives of others in the name of profiteering from arms dealing, and we watch as Wikus’ government agency kills the aliens with impunity over minor infractions, often with smiles on their faces. You can understand how seeing people in positions of power murder minorities is harrowing, given the current political climate in my home country of the United States.
It also addresses how governments target dissenters who reveal their atrocities, ruining their lives and framing them as evil people. It shows how a government may use the media to frame their dissidents as monsters. Wikus gets first hand experience of what it is like to live as an alien, and is quickly targeted by the government agency he works for, who immediately raid his home, arrest his work associate, tap his phone calls with his wife, and send paramilitary squads to abduct him. I think this movie is prophetic, and reminded me of how the US treated some of its own whistleblowers: District 9 came out before Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden leaked some of the US government’s illegal activities. As of writing this, Manning has just been released from prison but faces a fine of over $250,000, and Snowden is still in Russia unable to return to the United States without facing criminal charges.
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District 9 may be turning eleven this year, but watching it was a sobering reminder of what is happening outside of my sphere of comfort. It’s an extremely well-made film, and, while parts of it are sensationalized in a manner consistent with how I would want a science fiction film sensationalized, it addresses its social aspect effectively. I wish I could tell you that these were products of fiction and that, once the credits roll, we can remove what we witnessed from our minds. But I can’t. Right now, we have our own immigration and racial prejudice crises, and not just in South Africa or in the USA. District 9 is an outstanding movie, but it also presents a challenge to its viewers: what will you do when you see someone different than you being mistreated?
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lush prize judges 2013
The 2013 Lush Prize judging panel.
Dr Kelly BéruBé
Dr BéruBé is Director of the Lung and Particle Research Group at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University. With a background in electron microscopy and lung toxicology, she has built an international reputation in the field air pollution and human health and holds numerous appointments in the USA and UK on funding bodies, advisory councils, professional societies and journal editorial boards that focus on environmental health.
Nick Jukes is Co-ordinator of InterNICHE, the International Network for Humane Education. Based in the UK, Nick has been working internationally since the mid-1990s to enhance education and training in the life sciences through curricular transformation and replacement of animal experiments.
Professor Lisbeth E. Knudsen
Lisbeth is professor in Toxicology at the University of Copenhagen. She is a member of Danish Consensus Platform for 3R Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (DACOPA) and received the Nordic Alternative Price 2006 for promoting development of alternatives to animal testing.
Dr. Hajime Kojima
Dr. Kojima is the Director of JaCVAM.: the Japanese Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods. JaCVAM is located in the office of New Testing Method Assessment, Division of Pharmacology, Biological Safety Research Center (BSRC), National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) in Tokyo.
Gill is a British scientist and writer who specialises in alternatives to animal testing and animal rights. From 1981 until 2009 she was the science director of the Dr Hadwen Trust, a medical research charity.
Gilly gained her PhD from the Welsh School of Pharmacy in 2002 and has seven years experience working in the R&D industry developing transdermal products. She is now the Science Advisor for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Foundation (PETA) and the PETA International Science Consortium and works with regulators, policymakers, industry and other scientists to reduce the use of animals in experiments, improve their welfare and ultimately eliminate animal experimentation altogether.
Sean O’Callaghan
Sean O’Callaghan, this year’s Lush customer judge, is a vegan blogger, community organiser, event planner and director of his own vegan PR company, fgv/PR. As a long term vegan, he maintains a dedicated commitment to improving outcomes for non-human animals wherever possible. He can be found at fatgayvegan.com or followed on Twitter via @FatGayVegan.
Troy Seidle is Director of Research & Toxicology for Humane Society International. He manages the AXLR8 (pronounced “accelerate”) project, which aims to hasten the transition toward animal-free approaches to safety testing through internationally coordinated research and development.
Andrew Tyler
Since 1995, Andrew Tyler has been the director of Animal Aid, Europe’s largest animal rights organisation and one of the first in the world. Animal Aid campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse, and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. Its undercover investigations and other evidence are often used prominently by the media. Animal Aid offers a large range of ethical mail order goods and provides teaching resources free of charge to hundreds of schools across the country.
Roxy White
Roxy White, IT/Technical Support Helpdesk Supervisor, Lush North America, has been a Lush customer since 1997 and Lush employee since 2008. She started out as a seasonal Christmas hire and is now is known as Mama Rox to all her shops and co-workers, helping keep technical operations running smoothly.
Some judges from 2012 are unable to join us again this year.
Matilda Hearn
Matilda is a supervisor at Lush Oxford. She has played an active role in the Fighting Animal Testing campaign, most notably dressing as a bunny to hand over the petitions to the European Parliament in Brussels.
Matilda also interns for the Sumatran Orangutan Society and has worked as a volunteer for Wildlife Friends of Thailand. She holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Primate Conservation, with a research focus on captive animal welfare. She conducted behavioural observations in UK zoos in order to identify factors affecting the welfare of captive primates.
Sofia Lopes
Sofia is an activist and Lush customer from Lisbon, who has been an animal activist since 2007. In 2008 she enrolled at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Science where, for the brief period she attended the Biology course, animal tests and vivisection were almost constantly presented to students as a necessary measure.
The insufficient or complete lack of questioning and critical thinking regarding these procedures by the majority of students and teachers, were critical to her understanding of the complexity and depth of the problems non-human animals face today. Pursuing a greater comprehension of the cultural dimension and social perspective to this matter, she attended the Faculty of Arts where she has just finished her degree, holding a BA in Artistic Studies – Comparative Cultures and Arts which took an interdisciplinary approach. She has also developed a yet to be published research essay on non-human animals and language.
Caroline is leader of the Green Party as well as its first MP, representing Brighton Pavilion. She served as an MEP from 1999 until 2010 and as an Oxfordshire councillor previously.
She is Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fuel Poverty, as well as Vice Chair of the Animal Welfare, Public and Commercial Services, Sustainable Housing and CND All Party Parliamentary Groups. She is also a member of the Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee.
Caroline continues to be an active campaigner on a range of issues and has been voted the UK’s most ethical politician in 2007, 2009 and 2010 by readers of the Observer. She is also in the Environment Agency’s Top 100 Eco-Heroes of all time.
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A trusted guide in an uncertain time
For new immigrants and other Latino/a community members in the Twin Cities, CLUES (Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio) is a place people can rely on for a host of services supporting their health and well-being.
The organization connects people to resources and offers services such as English classes, financial coaching, tax preparation services, employment placement assistance and behavioral health services. Another key offering: guiding people toward citizenship.
In 2014 President Obama announced his executive actions expanding the number of people eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) by an estimated 4.9 million. CLUES geared up for an influx of people wanting their help to apply and were awarded a grant from the Mardag Foundation for that effort.
Ruby Azurdia-Lee, CLUES president, recalled, “There was such excitement at the time. Many people advocated for years to seek reforms to our broken immigration system.”
Responding to uncertainty
The excitement soon turned to questions when a court order halted Obama’s executive actions. The nonprofit used their outreach funds to keep people informed about the order status through social media and other channels. They held open houses and other outreach efforts in greater Minnesota, bringing attorneys to answer legal questions. They also developed a resource guide. Additionally, they expanded their lending circles, which is a way for people to pool money to lend to one another while building credit. It’s also a way to fund expensive immigration application fees.
A few short years later the climate has changed more than anyone anticipated. Instead of directing people to home buying resources and citizenship guides, CLUES is now doing things like role-playing for potential raids and preparing parents for the unthinkable, such as who will be the guardian of their children if they are deported.
“People are living in extreme fear and intense stress,” said Azurdia-Lee. “It’s a new day.”
In the rapidly changing political climate, CLUES has to stay nimble to effectively support the community’s needs. Although they cannot meet every need, they continue to be a lighthouse for Latinos/as.
“Personally and institutionally I feel a great responsibility to do as much as we can to help,” said Azurdia-Lee.
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The Changing of the Guard?
At Saturday lunchtime, I turned on to BT Sport to watch Spurs play their arch rivals, Arsenal in the local derby match. Now, as a long time Spurs’ supporter, I live more in hope than expectation. It felt similar for this match, although there was more of the latter and less of the former than in previous matches. After all, hadn’t Spurs hammered Chelsea recently? There is always, however, as with any Tottenham supporter, that nagging doubt. How will we contrive to blow it this time? After all, this is the club that, if memory serves me well, was winning 5-1 at home to Aston Villa, only to draw 5-5 and that only as a result of one of our defenders clearing a potential match winner off the line. It was also the club that was 3-0 up against Manchester United only to lose 3-5. Spurs’ fans have trepidation built into their genes. Could that be about to change?
Well, it was the manner of the wins of late that make me think that it just might. Spurs of old weren’t as fit as some of their rivals and they tended to rely on the individual genius of players bought in, such as the brilliant and much lamented Dimitar Berbatov. All that now swept away with home grown youngsters, relentless effort, teamwork and no little skill. Not that a Luka Modric, working his magic in the middle of the park, would go amiss.
It is, however, somewhat ironic that among the first matches that this “new” Spurs should be on display should be that against Arsenal. Now Arsene Wenger has been a progressive and civilising force in English football for the past 16 years. Not only in the football that the team played, but in their training, diet and everything else. What, I suppose, is called a holistic approach. Now, I realise that it may sound heretical, coming from a Spurs’ supporter, but Professor Wenger’s teams have produced some lovely football during his tenure. Indeed, it’s why one of the books I’m writing is entitled “Why Don’t You Just Support Arsenal?” This being my wife’s response to my complaints after I had come home from watching them lose, yet again, on TV in the local pub,
Well, I do believe that what I witnessed on Saturday was a changing of the guard. As, I think, someone once said to Tony Blair, “You were the future once”. As was the Professor. Maybe that is about to change, although only time will tell. However, what is evident is that there is now a new breed of young managers of whom Mauricio Pochettino is one. He has already changed the football culture at Spurs, much as Arsene Wenger did all those years ago at their rivals. Is the guard really changing? Well I think it just might be.
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This is Sirius
By John Dunn on 26 July 2015 in Sirius
There have always been close bonds between the residents of Sirius. They have formed a strong and happy community. From the outset, Sirius has been one of the great success stories of public housing in New South Wales.
How to account for this? For one thing, many of the original residents were firmly connected to the area before they moved in. They had fought alongside Nita McCrae, Jack Mundey and the Builders Labourers Federation with the world’s first Green Bans to save The Rocks from demolition at the hands of the NSW Government. The Green Bans were lifted to allow Sirius to be built. Another reason for residents living happily together in Sirius is that individual units are well designed, and there is a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom units to accommodate families, couples and single aged units. At the time it was revolutionary to combine different types of units in a single block of units, but the success of this approach was soon evident. (See a typical floorplan here.)
But perhaps the most important reason Sirius became a strong and happy community was that it had a variety of common areas where residents could meet one another. Near the entrance to the main tower is a large community room, and through this are open-air courtyards at the rear of the complex; above this community room is a library; on the eighth floor is a Heritage Room which was originally set aside for older residents; and on the stepped rooftops of the tower are several roof gardens. Residents are now denied access to most of these areas, effectively cutting them off from one another. Could this be one more way Housing NSW wants to make Sirius unliveable for its residents? Below is a summary of the community areas that are now denied to residents.
The Phillip Room
For the majority of residents living in the central tower, the most important communal area was the Phillip Room, the large community room on the ground floor. The Phillip Room was the only room all residents passed when they entered the tower. Not only did the Phillip Room provide an area where people could meet, it was the only way for residents in the tower to access the open courtyard areas to the east of the complex.
General access to the Phillip Room by residents is no longer available. Over the past year it has been used by Housing NSW for Housing Lotto. If residents wish to use the room, a phone number is provided where a message can be left, and if their proposed use is approved, residents are given permission to travel to Surry Hills to pick up a key the afternoon beforehand, and the key must be returned the following day. Effectively, this procedure locks residents out of the Phillip Room and also denies them access to outside, the shaded area in the plan above.
Above are photos of areas on the east side of Sirius where it seems Housing NSW has encouraged weeds and undergrowth. Residents are not permitted in these areas.
The Heritage Room, the Library and the Roof Gardens
The 8th-floor Heritage Room was planned as a refuge for older residents, and for 35 years it was well maintained by residents. The photo on the walls records the city skyline when viewed from Sirius at the time of its construction.
Late 2014 Housing NSW, Housing NSW locked the door and pinned a sign on it. The Heritage Room joined the Roof Gardens of the tower block and the first-floor Library as areas to which residents were denied access.
heritage, NSW Government, Sirius
Patron Eva Cox Stands with Millers Point Community
S.O.S. Save Our Sirius
2 Responses to This is Sirius
julie hayden 27 July 2015 at 11:28 pm #
I live in Sirius number 38 , that note on the heritage room door was not put up until most of us had tried to get in and our keys no longer opened the door. when I asked why I could not access the room I was told we had been notified (not true) after several calls to the housing dept. I was told sorry a note was put on the door and someone had ripped it off . we have been complaining for over a year that the intercom system does not work and they still have not fixed it. people have to ring your phone to gain access to the main entrance. and last saturday night a security guard tried to break my door down, scaring me half to death. which makes me wonder are they using scare tactics now. by the way it was 3am when he tried to break my door down.
JohnD 28 July 2015 at 9:52 am #
There are many disturbing stories of security guards harassing residents in the middle of the night, but they appear to spend little time looking after the empty properties. 35 Lower Fort Street is empty but often rain is coming in open doors and windows, and over the weekend someone broke in to it. Security officers were nowhere to be seen. However, a former neighbour in the Bettington Street flats reported she had become scared following similar behaviour by security officers in the middle of the night. Intimidating single and vulnerable women. Good tactic. Is this something Brad Hazzard is proud of?
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Myshkin
Myshkin (Russian Мышкин ) is a town in the Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. With 5932 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) it is the smallest city in the oblast.
2.1 Population development
3.2 educational institutions
4.1 Museums
4.3 Regular events
The city is situated on the Volga River 233 km northeast of Moscow, 520 km south-east of Saint Petersburg and 85 km north-west of the regional center of Yaroslavl. Approximately 40 km north of Mishkin is the Rybinsk Reservoir. The Volga River is about 300 to 600 meters wide at the height of Myshkin. The nearest railway station Volga Stanzija is located 22 km north of the city. Myshkin is a town with about 20 associated villages. The total area of the district extends to about 100 km ². Directly opposite Myshkin flows into the river Juhot into the Volga. A little further north, on the other bank of the Volga, is the old village Ochotino with a cathedral from the 17th century.
Myshkin is located in the temperate zone continental climate with snowy winters and short hot summers. The average temperatures are in January minus 11 ° C and in July 17.5 ° C. The Volga end of November is usually covered with ice until the end of April (but the year 2007 was an exception ). The ecological situation in the city is safe. The water quality in the Volga in the region of Myshkin and upstream is also harmless and has no serious traces of pollution.
The legend of the origin of the city is as follows: On the high bank of the Volga once a prince is said to have (probably Fyodor Mikhailovich Mstislavsky ) made a nap after a successful hunt. He slept for several hours already, because a mouse jumped over his face and woke him up. The prince was angry at first, but saw the same moment next to a snake. The mouse saved his life. Then the prince summoned his men and ordered on this place a chapel in honor of Saints Boris and Gleb to build. Around the chapel, the city has emerged, which is called Myshkin (literally " city mouse ").
Excavations suggest that humans have lived on the site of the present town already to the 8th millennium BC. From the 7th century to the 5th century BC, the region inhabited the tribes of Djakovokultur, who belonged to the Finno -Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, and from which the tribe of the Merja emerged later. The Merja inhabited the territory around Myshkin in the 6th - 11th Century. The Slavic tribes, who were advancing more and more towards the north from the 11th century, mingled over time with the Merja. Several hydro and toponyms in the region around Myshkin go back to the Merja. The ongoing excavations still bring significant objects of art and craft of that era to the fore.
The high hill on the Volga River opposite the mouth of the river Juhot was favorable for the establishment of the settlement, which did not arrive until the 18th century the status of a city by the Edict of Catherine the Great. The findings of archaeological research in this space indicate the existence of a small town settlement in the 11th - 13th Century back.
The city had suffered greatly from the war of Novgorod and Suzdal princes mid-12th century, in 1238 it was completely destroyed by the Tartar warriors. Later Myshkin was rebuilt and lasted till the 17th century as a village Myschkino. In the 15th - 17th Century included the lands around Myshkin around the Prince Schumorowski, Uschaty, Juchotski, Mezecki, Mstislavsky, and later the Moscow Chudov monastery. 1551 were in the areas of Prince Uschatys between Myshkin and the city today lying in the Rybinsk reservoir under water Mologa prepared wood blocks for the walls and towers of the city Swijaschsk and along the Volga abgeflößt to the base of the Russian army at the siege of Kazan.
The location of Myshkin proved to be low because of the proximity of the Volga - current thresholds under which the passage was by the current threshold Myshkin Gate as particularly difficult. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit animated inhabitants of the city piloted craft have learned and well deserved it, by conducting merchant ships through the sleepers.
Following the administrative reform of Catherine the II Myshkin 1777 has the status of a city, in 1778 received the coat of arms with the Yaroslavl Bears in the top and a mouse in the lower part and 1780 a city development plan, whose investment scheme has been preserved to this day essentially.
The 19th century became the heyday of Myshkin. The rich merchants Myschkiner Sizkow, Tschistow and Stolbow were known in many cities of Russia. A resident of the village Kajurowo, located in the administrative area of Myshkin, called Pyotr Smirnov Arsenjewitsch, was famous in the world as the inventor of the Russian vodka, the Smirnoff vodka. The city became an important trading center for the wholesale butter, bread, textiles, which were further delivered to St. Petersburg. Myshkin became the center of the assembly line in the region. Fyodor Konstantinovich Opotschinin founded in Myshkin a library which everyone Gouvernementstadt the honor would have done according to the assertions of the contemporaries.
1927 Myshkin has lost its city status in its history for the second time and was again in the village Myschkino ( Мышкино ) ( from 1943 urban-type settlement ) converted. In the 1940s, the construction of the Rybinsk Reservoir and the associated flooding of extensive territories also third Myshkin is gone. New wealth was 1969, the construction of a gas compressor station a few kilometers north of the city.
In 1966, the Ethnographic Museum was founded.
Much has changed in Myshkin in the course of perestroika and the subsequent years. In 1991, the city got back its status and was renamed back to Myshkin.
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Tourism is an important economic factor is rising. Counted the city early 90s 7,000 tourists, so their number increased tenfold in 2006 to 70,000.
With money from the tourism residents restored the cathedrals, and set the run-down in recent decades buildings repaired. All this has a positive effect on employment policy in the city itself and in the surrounding villages.
An important role in the economic development of the city is increasingly playing the gas compressor station with the corresponding through -line infrastructure of society " SEVGAZPROM ", which was built in the 70s of the 20th century. By Rajon Myshkin run three major oil and gas pipelines (oil pipeline "Druzhba " gas pipeline of the Nord Stream project) that contribute to improving the economic situation in the city and the county Myshkin an important contribution.
In the city there is a local hospital, which is also responsible for the medical care in Rajon.
Myshkin has no bridge across the Volga and no railway station. The nearest road link across the Volga runs over the dam in the 40 km (by road) remote town of Uglich. The nearest railway station is about 22 km north of the city. The transport by which the city's most frequented, are passenger ships and create upstream and pass down in the city. On the other bank of the Volga runs several times daily passenger and car ferry in the summer daytime hourly.
There are daily bus to the railway station Volga Stanzija, to Uglich, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl and in several villages of the district. In winter, the ferry service is set via the Volga, why get into this time of year vehicles only by going through Uglich on the other side of the Volga. However, if the ice is thick enough, the motor vehicle traffic also takes place directly on the Volga.
The most famous educational institution in the city is Opotschinin library. The core of the library formed only books from private collections of the great-grandfather of the famous military leader, Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, books of the library's founder, including their by A. A. Tyutchev, the cousin of the Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev, and many other merchants from the area. The library should be a foundation of scientific books, manuscript collections, and as a repository of rare books. Counted at the end of the 19th century, the library of 12,000 volumes. Here public events were organized and shown plays. In the library, a weather station was set up that used connections to other European cities.
Culture and sights
The residents and the well-known personalities Myshkin maintain and market the city as a classic Russian province with an authentic architecture and a unique atmosphere, the typical mid Russian landscape with the river, which became the urban element connects. The goal is to build a city as an open air museum and at the same time a living museum.
There are four theaters in Myshkin and a literary salon. Total Myshkin has an unusual for the size of the city density of museums, exhibition halls and other cultural institutions. There is also a picture gallery and a library of nearly 60,000 volumes. There is in addition a working forge and old forge.
1966 Ethnographic museum was opened in the city, which now counts over 15,000 objects of art and consists of several exhibitions.
Currently, the city has ten museums. In addition to the ethnographic museum, there is a commercial museum, the vodka manufacturer P. A. Smirnov, who was born in the district of Myshkin the museum; the Filzschuhmuseum, the Mouse Museum - the only one of its kind in the world, the Museum of family collections, the Museum of Kazkari ( a Russian -speaking minority, which speaks an old dialect ), the Museum of the Land of Utchema.
At the architectural landmarks of the city were two cathedrals: St Nicholas Cathedral ( Никольский собор ) that existed prior to the awarding of city status, and the Uspensky Cathedral ( Успенский собор ), built in the first half of the 19th century with the help of donations Myschkiner the merchants. In most buildings, which have an architectural, historical or historical relevance, either name tags or plaques are present.
Each year there are literary and cultural-historical reading rows in Myshkin. The reports above are printed in the old Myschkiner printing.
With the person by Fyodor Konstantinovich Opotschinin, a native of St. Petersburg, the formation of the first municipal library is connected. Opotschinin was the district chairman of the local nobility. He was responsible for the opening of schools and other educational institutions. Opotschinin was a historian, Archeograf, bibliophile and has also worked at the magazine " Old Time in Russia" ( " Русская старина " ) in Saint Petersburg.
The most famous man from the area around Myshkin, the vodka manufacturer P. A. Smirnov ( Smirnoff vodka), was born in the village in the district Kajurowo Myshkin. Recently, a museum was opened in his honor.
The brother of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Dostoyevsky, who had spent some time living in Yaroslavl, the regional capital, is said to have given the writer's notice, the name of Myshkin in allusion to the small and little-known city for the prototype of the protagonist of his Romans to take the idiot.
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Critical Mess – Cut The Cord (Music Video)
By Diandra K.C. June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019
German death metal band Critical Mess shares new music video for “Cut The Cord”, taken from their upcoming album “Man Made Machine Made Man”. Find more details below.
Hannover-based metal band Critical Mess was founded in 2012 and has undergone many changes in style, lineup and names. When it all finally settled down in 2016, the band found its perfect and unique style. Critical Mess stays true to the old school death metal, and their musical influences reach from early thrash metal and hardcore to today’s modern technical and extreme metal. In 2018, they released their debut album “Human Præ”.
Their second full-length album “Man Made Machine Made Man” will be released on June 21st. Today, they present the first single of the new album called “Cut the Cord”. You can watch the video inspired by the fast and relentless advance of artificial intelligence below.
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Emergency-room doctor answers questions about COVID-19
"We need to be concerned, but not panic-stricken. We need to be aware, but not paranoid," Dr. Mitch Shulman says.
Jason Magder • Montreal Gazette
Mar 18, 2020 • Last Updated March 18, 2020 • 4 minute read
Patients in beds in the hallway in the emergency department of a Montreal area hospital Thursday February 27, 2020. Montreal Gazette
As Canada shuts its border, schools, bars and arenas, and people are ordered to stay out of public spaces as much as possible, there are many questions about the coronavirus and the possible negative outcomes.
Dr. Mitch Shulman is an emergency-room physician and a regular radio commentator on CJAD 800 AM. He recently travelled to South Africa and returned home, so he is now in mandatory 14-day isolation. He answered questions from the Montreal Gazette in a phone interview about the virus.
What are the symptoms of COVID-19, and what do people do if they suspect they have been infected?
“There are three criteria: fever with cough and shortness of breath, contact with someone who has travelled, or if someone has a pneumonia and we can’t figure out why they have it. If you think you have the virus, call the COVID-19 hotline (1-877-644-4545). They will tell you if you need to go to a test centre. You really don’t want to go to a clinic; you really don’t want to go to the ER unless you’re really sick and you need (urgent care).”
How do people contract the illness?
“The most common questions I get are: ‘I have a package that was delivered. Can I get the virus (from the box)?’ Or: ‘My newspaper was delivered and I’m not sure the delivery person was healthy. Should I touch the newspaper?’ We know the cold virus and influenza can survive a fair amount of time on an inanimate surface. COVID-19 is probably the same in that sense, but it’s not going to be transmitted by a newspaper or package. It’s going to be sharing the same computer or door handle. If you want to reduce your risk, it’s simple and straight forward: wash your hands — then the risk is gone.”
A lot of people are panicking, while others are not taking the government’s public health orders seriously enough. What is the right amount of concern people should have?
“We need to be concerned, but not panic-stricken. We need to be aware, but not paranoid. I think we want to avoid people getting sick. That’s the reasonable approach. So, wash your hands, keep yourself in the best possible shape you can by trying to get enough sleep, eating properly and getting exercise.”
Why did the government put in place measures when so few people had tested positive for the virus?
“Early is important, because you have to catch it before it has a time to flare up. If we get on it early — as we are trying to do right now — maybe we can avoid what we saw in countries like China and what we’re seeing right now in Italy and Spain. All it takes is a handful of people who disregard the warnings and become ill and spread it in the community for us to have a disaster.”
Two young men walk out of the COVID-19 test centre at Montreal’s Hôtel Dieu Hospital on March 14, 2020 after washing their hands, taking a mask and leaving. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette
How have hospitals prepared for this outbreak?
“From the very first moment we heard about coronavirus in January, all the hospitals were on high alert. All the hospital emergency rooms are preparing for a surge of cases. They have been inventorying their equipment and supplies and their ability to expand as required.”
Who is most at risk of getting very ill or dying from the virus?
“About 80 per cent of people will have a cold and will not be at risk. There is a percentage of people who will be tremendous at risk. It seems to be older people and whether it’s a function of age or frailty we’re not sure yet. So someone with an underlying health issue, someone with multiple medical problems, these are the people who I am most concerned about right now.”
We hear about a number of people who have tested positive for the virus. Are there people who have it and have not been tested?
“I’m willing to bet there are a lot of people out there who have a few sniffles, a sore throat, a low-grade fever, maybe a bit of a cough who are out there who have the virus. Is that dangerous or bad? As long as they are isolating themselves and not spreading it to other people, it’s not. If you’re at home, as long as you’re staying at home, you’re doing exactly what needs to be done, whatever the bug is.”
So why is the virus so dangerous?
“The scary thing is not that we can’t treat these people. I’m sure we can. The scary thing is what if we get hit with a tsunami of cases? I’m not sure we can handle that. So the real answer is to contain it now — and that’s within everyone’s grasp.”
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News & Stories > Publications > Fearless Science > Assembling the building blocks of human biology
James Thomson
Assembling the building blocks of human biology
Director, Morgridge Regenerative Biology
Regenerative Biology
There are tremendous parallels between the early days of recombinant DNA technology in the 70s and the early days of stem cell research. Both created a big social uproar over whether we should be doing the work, followed by a compromise and then getting on with the research. Recombinant DNA essentially gave us unlimited access to all the genes in the body — and pluripotent stem cells provides the same thing, except for cells. For the first time, pluripotent stem cells give biomedical science access to all of the cellular building blocks of the human body.
Today, our lab is focusing on two topics: blood vessels and developmental clocks.
On the question of clocks, we’d like to understand what controls the wide variation in gestation rates across species — or why it takes 9 months for a human to develop and three weeks for a mouse. This is important because, unfortunately, human stem cells repeat this timing in a culture dish. Growing some types of cells, like neural cells, takes several months, thus making stem cell therapies difficult. If we can find a way to control developmental timing, we can make those cells available faster to treat disease.
We also decided to focus on blood vessels, from arteries to small capillaries, because any advanced engineered tissue will require a blood supply, and cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death worldwide. In the U.S. for example, heart disease and stroke are the No. 1 and No. 3 killers, respectively. Blood vessels also play a role in the pathogenesis of a wide range of other important diseases, from how cancer spreads to complications from diabetes. A better understanding of the vasculature will have an impact on the majority of conditions that kill us.
We are already seeing clinical trials based on stem cell therapies, including trials for macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. And multiple groups are gearing up for clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease. However, it’s the insights we will get from stem cells on how the human body works that will ultimately change the face of medicine.
Parkinson’s is a good example. This is the first time we can grow the neurons responsible for Parkinson’s in bulk and study them and understand why they die. While I am hopeful that stem cell-based transplantation therapies will work for Parkinson’s, in the long term it will be much more important to understand why those cells are dying, so we can prevent their death from occurring in the first place, eliminating the need for cell transplantation.
Fearless Science
Science moves. It unlocks mysteries in medicine and opens new doors in human health. But science doesn’t thrive by asking safe questions. It moves when we push fearlessly into new frontiers. This Spring 2018 report explores science with the promise to move our lives.
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Nomads (1986)
evanconaway Horror December 10, 2018 February 1, 2019 2 Minutes
Bikers and hooligans in 1980s Los Angeles are really just ghosts. I don’t know if this makes them better or worse.
Pierce Brosnan plays a French anthropologist who dies at the beginning of the film. However, Lesley-Anne Down, the attendant doctor, somehow gets possessed by his memories. Through hallucinations, Down discovers that Brosnan had come across a group of what he initially believed to be urban nomads, street punks who never slept and just wandered from party to party. Unfortunately, Brosnan eventually learns that these nomads are in fact Einwetok, evil tricksters spirits drawn to locations of violence. Brosnan’s new house happens to be the site of a vicious murder, and now they want him for their own. While Down can’t save Brosnan, she does manage to meet Brosnan’s wife, Anna Maria Monticelli. Down and Monticelli then escape the wrath of the Einwetok as they come after them.
Nomads is a confusing movie, moving between the film’s past and present seamlessly while also mixing in hallucinated flashbacks and causing Down’s character to often relive what has happened to Brosnan, while Brosnan himself at times wanders into pure illusion. Critics reamed it for its problematic structure, but the thing it nails is a creepy, dreamlike atmosphere, fueled by Ted Nugent’s music and full of dirty alleys and distant views of the LA skyline. Unfortunately, the Einwetok are primarily silent, though they attack people whenever possible and loudly dance to music and party while playing with knives, sticks, motorcycles, and whatever else they feel like. They’re all dressed like leather-clad punks, too, so remember that bikers and the urban youth are a real problem, folks.
No, the Einwetok don’t appear to be particularly menacing, even when they’re committing acts of violence. They’re certainly mysterious, but they don’t feel particularly threatening up until they show up en masse. As much as the movie poster wants to claim you’ll be terrified, you won’t be. You might feel dread though; the way the movie is approached, the soundtrack, and the cinematography help build a menace that the evil spirits just don’t match. It’s this sense of dread that made the movie one really important fan: Arnold Schwarzenegger. You see, John McTiernan directed Nomads, and Schwarzenegger loved it so much, he brought him in to direct his next movie project, a little film called Predator.
Regardless of what you think about McTiernan due to his legal troubles (which is a nice way of saying his prison sentence resulting from his illegal wiretapping of a producer’s phone), there’s a lot in his oeuvre worth watching. In my opinion, Nomads is one of these, even if its problematic and obviously the work of an inexperienced but talented director. Give it a shot sometime when you want something very ’80s and a little messy.
Published December 10, 2018 February 1, 2019
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In a bid to provide formal financial services to all Rwandans, mobile banking platform, MobiCash Rwanda, which launched in the country last year, is set to launch electronic wallets to Rwandans to drive financial access to the unbanked and underbanked. According to Pascal Nyagahene, the MobiCash Rwanda chief executive officer, “We are removing all the barriers barring people, especially those in the grassroots from accessing formal financial services.” Nyagahene said they are currently doing a pilot phase of the platform that will see people open accounts, deposit and withdraw money and send and receive money. Account-holders will also be able to carry out the existing value-added services such as making Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) payments, purchasing electricity, pay-tv subscriptions, and purchase airtime. The 2016 Finscope Survey that was launched last month in Kigali indicated that 90 percent of Rwandans have access to financial services. However, 72 percent of them are excluded from formal financial services, up from 52 percent in 2012. At the launch of the survey, John Rwangombwa, the governor of the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) noted that the use of mobile banking technology is key in getting those transacting informally to formal. “Digital financial platforms especially those accessible on mobile phones can be used as a tool towards bringing more Rwandans to formal financial services,” he said. Nyagahene also noted that they are working with different financial sector stakeholders such as banks, payment switches and the mobile network providers to see that they integrate the MobiCash platform with theirs so as to enable people to easily transfer funds from their bank accounts or mobile money wallets to their MobiCash accounts, thus providing an array of options for people to work with affordably. “We are not looking at providing competition to the banks and mobile money players but at ways, we can complement each other in order to achieve the bigger goal of financial inclusion for all and a cashless economy,” Nyagahene closed.
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Didymus Mutasa
ZANU—Deputy Secretary of Finance ZANU-PF Administrative Secretary
The interview was held by Tor Sellström in Harare on 25 July 1995.
Tor Sellström: When did you first come into contact with Sweden or any other Nordic country?
Didymus Mutasa: I started my serious political involvement in 1963. At that time, there were quite a number of Swedish missionaries in Rhodesia who had come to work with the American Methodist Church, for instance in our area. We used to go to meetings organized by different churches.
There was a meeting at Waddilove in 1957 or 1958. I do not remember the exact date. The missionaries insisted that they did not want to have separate accommodation from the African delegates and that they did not want to eat different food from the African delegates. They said that they were the same people as the Africans, and if Africans were invited to the conference they should be treated in the same way. So they packed their bags and slept with us in the same dormitories. They opened our eyes to the fact that, really, the white people that we had in Rhodesia were not different from others. They were people of the same class, and sometimes even people of a very much lower class, who—certainly when they settled in Africa—however, pretended to enjoy a status which was higher than their class. Instead of looking at themselves as workers, they wanted to become masters. I think that that problem was set out in my mind through our involvement with the missionaries, and particularly with the missionaries from Sweden.
Tor Sellström: Did you also meet missionaries from the other Nordic countries?
Didymus Mutasa: No, unfortunately. I only met missionaries from Sweden, but during the later period of our involvement in the liberation struggle we met all sorts of people. We visited Sweden and got support from a group called Emmaus Björkå. They were young Swedish people, full of enthusiasm, hoping that their work— collecting bits and pieces of clothes—would help the Zimbabwean refugees in Mozambique. They lived a very simple kind of life, which we enjoyed. Like a community. We were sent there from the bush. And there we were in Sweden, experiencing a bit of bush life!
Tor Sellström: When was that?
Didymus Mutasa: That was in 1976. There were three of us who left Mozambique and were told to go to Emmaus Björkå. We went around collecting some clothes, packed them and sent them to Mozambique. Then we went to another little group in Stockholm. We also worked with them, going from one office to another. We were a scruffy little liberation movement and not very many important people wanted to see us. But those youngsters were very keen. They would telephone around and say: ‘Why do you not want to see this people? Why do you not want to know what their wishes and their demands are?’ And then, occasionally, they were told: ‘You know, we give quite a lot through SIDA. Why do you not go and see SIDA?’ So we went to SIDA and talked to them, which I believe people like Herbert Chitepo, President Mugabe and comrade Simon Muzenda had already done. So we were updating SIDA on our needs. Back in Mozambique, the SIDA representative in Maputo came to see us and said: ‘I understand that you have been to my country. I am sorry that you did not tell me before you went, but what are your needs?’ We then sat down and discussed with him.
Tor Sellström: With Jan Cedergren?
Didymus Mutasa: Yes, Cedergren. He would sit down with us and very generously give us the things we asked for. I think that SIDA also paid for the freight of the clothes from Emmaus Björkå. They also supplied us with the food that we needed—tinned food particularly, beans, meat, milk—partly for the children and partly for us. When we started working with SIDA, the budget for ZANU was in the region of two million Swedish Kronor. We then had people who were running away from Rhodesia and we went to Cedergren and said: ‘Now, this is a problem.’ He said: ‘Fine, I can raise your budget to about 8 million.’ We thought that this was tremendous. It was a lot of money. He said: ‘Well, as long as you can account for it and as long as you can give me a list of the things that you need, I will buy some of the things and give you the money to buy the other things. But you must definitely account for it.’ It was our responsibility together with the late Ernest Kadungure to provide that information to Cedergren.
After that we did not find it really necessary to make long journeys to Sweden and the other Nordic countries any more, because SIDA was right in our midst. The man was absolutely sympathetic to our cause. It was the same sort of experience as I explained about the Swedish missionaries. Here was a Swedish man, who—because he trusted us and we trusted him—actually was walking with us more than just one mile. You asked him to go one mile and he came two miles with us. That was absolutely good for us. By the time we left Mozambique, I think that the Swedish assistance to ZANU-PF alone was somewhere in the region of 16 million Swedish Kronor.
Tor Sellström: Yes, it was. Then you got an extra allocation for the repatriation of the refugees of 5 million.
Didymus Mutasa: Exactly. That is true.
Tor Sellström: How did you view this? Sweden was a Western country. You were a liberation movement which had adopted Marxism-Leninism as the guiding principle and you were using armed warfare to get rid of the colonialists.
Didymus Mutasa: Well, all Western governments were clear on one question. They could not give us arms, but they could give us food and after they had taken that stand there were a few who did that, like Sweden, Belgium to some extent, Norway again to some extent and Holland to quite a great extent. In Holland it was not the government, but non-governmental organizations, as in Denmark. Those countries gave us clothes, food and many of the things that we wanted, but not arms. But we understood why, because the racist regime that we were fighting against was to a great extent white and many of the people who came to settle in Rhodesia were not from England. Some had come from Italy, some from Holland and others from all over Europe. It was very difficult for these governments to give us arms to fight against their own people. But they did not mind giving us food, because I think that in their own argument we had to exist.
But the Swedish government went a little further in that their support was much greater than the others. In fact, at one time it was greater than all the other Western governments put together. We explained that as due to the understanding of the Prime Minister, Olof Palme. He himself was a socialist. Although he wanted change through non-violent means, I think that he understood our cause when we explained that we were really getting enough arms from China and that we were not fighting a conventional war which needed huge supplies of arms, but just a few guns to protect ourselves. Our mission was not really to go and kill people, but to protect them. In the course of the events, we might find it necessary to kill the enemy, but that was not the objective. The objective was to change his way of thinking and let him see that what was going on in Rhodesia was wrong.
Tor Sellström: Do you feel that there were political conditions attached to the Swedish and Nordic support? Was there a hidden agenda attached to it?
Didymus Mutasa: None whatsoever, but I do not know whether this is just a feeling which I developed from my own experience with the Swedish people. When I was in detention, I was adopted by a Swedish group of Amnesty International. A young fellow called Peter Malmström used to write to me all the time. He also used to write to Ian Smith almost every month, asking him to release me or try me. That experience gave us an understanding of the Swedish people, which was very different from others. We could see that they were absolutely concerned about us and would like our situation to change. When we found that extending to the Swedish government, we realized that they must have the same heart because with Amnesty International and the schools that were involved in sending letters and clothes, adopting children or detainees and their families, it was tremendous, absolutely tremendous. It could not come from any other group of people, except those that had the correct heart.
Tor Sellström: Did you or your family members receive support through Christian Care or IDAF?
Didymus Mutasa: Yes. My family received assistance from Christian Care here in Zimbabwe. My children were educated through Christian Care and all my legal fees were paid by IDAF. The man who was instrumental in the setting up of these funds was Guy Clutton-Brock, who was a very close friend of mine. Right at the beginning—when I was still a ‘free’ man in Zimbabwe—I was also involved in setting them up. I never knew that I myself would be a beneficiary!
Tor Sellström: There were a lot of Swedish funds via Christian Care and IDAF?
Didymus Mutasa: Indeed.
Tor Sellström: I know that some families were supported, like the Chinamano family. Others got scholarships, among them President Mugabe. I think that he studied law and economics at the University of London with that funding?
Didymus Mutasa: Yes, that is very true. Through Reverend Collins at IDAF. His wife is still running that fund. Yes, I am aware of that.
Tor Sellström: Coming back to the assistance to the refugee camps and for the running of the ZANU office in Mozambique, do you think that the principles of accountability were both sufficient and flexible?
Didymus Mutasa: Oh, yes. They were simple and convenient. Cedergren was in Maputo and rather than us going to Swaziland to buy vehicles or whatever we needed, on occasions we would ask him to do it for us. He actually used the money, showed us the receipts and said: ‘This is the amount of money that I am subtracting from the budget that we have put together.’ The accountability was, as far as I am concerned, absolutely perfect.
Tor Sellström: There was, of course, the alternative to channel the SIDA funds through the OAU Liberation Committee, but in the case of Zimbabwe both ZANU and ZAPU explicitly wanted the funds directly. Was it because you had a modus operandi with the local Nordic aid offices?
Didymus Mutasa: We had already established good contacts with SIDA and the other Nordic countries. We had to a great extent also experienced the bureaucracy within the OAU. They would say that we must wait for the summit meeting of the Heads of States, which then would take quite a long time to decide whether it was necessary for us to pursue the liberation struggle. In the meanwhile, we would be sitting under the sun, waiting and hoping that the assistance would arrive. Why should assistance from Emmaus Björkå, first of all, sit in Stockholm for three or four months before it was sent to Dar es Salaam, where it would remain for another three or four months before finding its way to the OAU man, Hashim Mbita, who then, ceremoniously, would bring it to our President? It would take about eight months to get the money and the struggle would be delayed or slowed down for that length of time. So, we felt, well, why do we not get the money directly?
When we got the money directly, we also became more enthusiastic. You could then say to the youngsters: ‘Go inside the country. You can take this amount of food, and when you need it you can use it.’ And when there were areas within the country that needed food, they could actually come and get some from us. During the later stages of the struggle, the liberated areas inside the country needed food. And sometimes the food was brought from Mozambique.
Tor Sellström: Did the Nordic countries support ZANU and the Patriotic Front diplomatically? When you met in diplomatic fora, did you consult with them?
Didymus Mutasa: Yes, we did. To a great extent. Most of our time was taken up by explaining the activities of the British government, because it was the main actor vis-à-vis the regime in Rhodesia. It was to a great extent the stumbling block, being a colonial power which did not accept that situation, at the same time stopping the international community from having anything to do with Rhodesia. We found that it was necessary to explain the situation to our friends and we believe that they in turn quietly approached the British and said: ‘Why are things happening that way?’
There were many fronts in the war. Within the country we had to make our people understand what was going on and within the liberation movement itself all of us had to understand the purpose of the war. We also found that our friends needed people who could work with them almost on a full time basis. Our external relations office in Maputo was very busy, collecting newspaper cuttings and giving out information to the people that assisted us.
Tor Sellström: You invited both Emmaus Björkå and SIDA to the independence celebrations in 1980?
Didymus Mutasa: Yes. By the time of independence, we had made quite a number of friends. As the saying goes, success breeds more success. The small beginnings in Sweden were noticed by people in Holland and the Holland Committee on Southern Africa started to work with us as well. In Germany, there were about four groups that helped us. The Communist Party of West Germany worked very hard. A group of enthusiastic youngsters went around with us from one town to another, collecting funds. I think that at one time we must have raised somewhere in the region of two million US Dollars, with which we bought Scania trucks to transport food and other materials. These people sent out their information material in the German language, which also could be read in Switzerland. The German part of Switzerland then started to be interested and to organize assistance for us.
There was a proliferation of these solidarity groups. The only country where they did not appear was Britain. I do not know why. Aid organizations like War on Want, Christian Aid and others actually gave us assistance, but the organized solidarity groups were not to be found.
Tor Sellström: How about Finland?
Didymus Mutasa: For some reason unknown to us, Finland was more connected to ZAPU than to us. The Social Democratic Party in Germany was also giving more assistance to ZAPU than to us. But we did not mind. We felt that it really was for the same cause. We were very pleased that assistance was forthcoming and that it was going to people who needed it and made use of it.
Tor Sellström: In the case of the Swedish government, the same amount was given to ZANU and ZAPU. How did you look upon that?
Didymus Mutasa: I used to joke with Cedergren and say: ‘I do not think that there are as many refugees in Zambia as there are in Mozambique.’ And he would say: ‘Yes, I know, but this is the decision by my government.’
Tor Sellström: You could live with that?
Didymus Mutasa: Oh, yes! We knew that the Swedish government gave 32 million Kronor to the liberation movements. That was a lot of money. We were most grateful for the 16 million that ZANU received, although it did not come as cash, but as material support. Otherwise we would have been inundated with people that we could not have fed and the Mozambican government, which helped us, would have absolutely found it difficult to carry on. Some of the economic problems the Mozambican government was facing were due to the support of our war effort. They were bombed and their infrastructure was destroyed by the Smith regime.
Tor Sellström: After independence, you hosted SWAPO, ANC and PAC. In the case of the Nordic countries, SWAPO and ANC—but partly also PAC—were recipients of official support in Zimbabwe. Did you view this as a problem?
Didymus Mutasa: No, we viewed it as a duty, a duty which earlier had been carried out by Tanzania and Mozambique throughout our own liberation struggle. We had been received by FRELIMO. They hosted us and in turn we felt duty-bound to host the other liberation movements. We were very pleased to have them here. We did not have much trouble from them as liberation movements. They had a purpose. They were really keen to work hard for the benefit of their countries. We were, in a way, proud that we were able to give them sanctuary.
Tor Sellström: You yourself worked hard through the Cold Comfort Farm and other organizations to link the South African liberation movements with the democratic forces inside South Africa?
Didymus Mutasa: That is very true. We did that, and again thanks to the help that we received from Sweden. We were able to get people from South Africa to experience Zimbabwean life after independence. We used to say to our South African friends: ‘Our boundary is the Limpopo. When you go beyond the Limpopo, you must realize that you are going beyond apartheid and when you return we hope that you will keep it that way and start to influence people who will not be able to cross the Limpopo, but nonetheless should leave apartheid behind.’ It was important for them. We had some South African farmers who came here and lived with fellow Zimbabwean farmers, sharing the peace and quietness and the development that these communities of farmers were experiencing. We brought in students. The students’ programme went on a little longer, because it involved not only students from South Africa, but from Southern Africa. We had students from Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Namibia. It was very interesting to watch these youngsters discussing and thinking about the future.
But the funniest meeting that we organized was with a group of women from South Africa. They came to the airport in Harare and as they were waiting in the hall, the white South African women thought that the black South African women were their Zimbabwean hosts. We then drove them to Cold Comfort Farm and said: ‘Well, ladies, you may not realize this, but we have brought you here together because we think that it is necessary for you to live in your own country in this way.’ One woman raised her hand and said: ‘What do you mean? Are you saying that these ladies are from South Africa?’ We said: ‘Yes.’ And she said: ‘Fancy, we have come all the way from South Africa to meet here in Zimbabwe. Why can we not do this in our own country?’ We found that absolutely important. Indeed, we think that it was crucial.
When we met with the white South African women we said: ‘You know, it is your children who are being involved in the war and they are being killed. What are they dying for? It is not that the South Africans are poor and have to fight for food. South Africa is one of the richest countries in the world. So what is your son fighting for?’ Those who had grown-up children in the war started to shake. We found it necessary, because when they went back home they decided: ‘We have had enough. We cannot let our children suffer. We cannot let this war go on.’ It was very important for us to undertake that programme.
Tor Sellström: Did Sweden or the other Nordic countries support these programmes?
Didymus Mutasa: Yes, tremendously. I think that we got the biggest assistance from SIDA. We ought to talk to them now to let us do a programme for rural development. That is our next struggle.
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John Forsythe
John Forsythe in The Muppets Go Hollywood
John Forsythe (1918-2010) was an actor who has starred in film and television since the 1950s, but is perhaps best remembered as the voice of the Charlie on the TV show Charlie's Angels and the recent movie series. He made a brief appearance in the 1979 special The Muppets Go Hollywood.
Forsythe began his movie career in bit parts, alternating with stage appearances, gradually moving up to second and third-billed leads, notably as artist Sam Marlowe in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry. He reunited with the director in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "I Saw the Whole Thing" and the film Topaz. Other film credits include Destination Tokyo, In Cold Blood, and Scrooged (as Bill Murray's Marley-esque boss).
On television, Forsythe starred on the 1960s sitcoms Bachelor Father and The John Forsythe Show. In addition to Charlie's Angels, later TV work was highlighted by his portrayal of patriarch Blake Carrington on the soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys.
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The Square Off chess board melds the classical with the robotic
January 16, 2019 by News Desk Leave a Comment
CES crowds can be tough — especially toward the end of the week. You’re physically and emotionally drained, and you’re pretty sure you’ve seen everything the consumer electronics world has to offer. And then something comes along to knock your socks off. Square Off was one such product, impressing the crowd at our meetup and walking away the winner of our hardware pitch-off.
The company’s first product looks like your run of the mill wooden chess board. And that’s part of the charm. Turn it on with the single button, and the system goes to work, tapping into chess AI software built by Stockfish and moving opposing pieces accordingly with an electromagnet attached to a robotic arm hidden under the board.
It’s an overused word in this space, but the effect is downright magical. It’s like playing chess against a ghost — and who hasn’t wanted to do that at some point? Players can challenge the board using 20 different difficulty levels or can play against opponents remotely, via chess.com.
Bhavya Gohil, the co-founder and CEO of Square Off creator InfiVention, told TechCrunch that the product started life as a college project aimed at creating a chess board for people with visual impairment. After a trip to Maker Faire Rome, however, its inventors recognized that the product had the potential for broader appeal.
One Kickstarter and another Indiegogo campaign later, the company had raised in excess of $600,000 for the project. After a year learning the manufacturing ropes in China, the company began shipping retail products in March of last year, launching a website the following month. In October, the product landed on Amazon, tripling sales for the holiday. All told, the company has sold 9,000 units — not bad for a chess startup charging $369 a pop. A majority of those (80 percent) have been sold in the U.S., with the remainder being sold in Europe.
In November, the company scored a seed round of $1.1 million. InfiVention is planning version 2.0 for a mid-2020 launch. That one will be more versatile, covering additional classic table-top games like checkers and backgammon. That version will be even more versatile when it’s opened up to table-top game developers looking to build their own titles into the platform via the app.
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2020 was the year of inequality: can we turn it around in 2021?
by Ben Philips | Author
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 08:00 GMT
Volunteers from Forgotten Harvest food bank sort and separate different goods before a mobile pantry distribution ahead of Christmas, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Warren, Michigan, U.S., December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Emily Elconin
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
This year has been of a story of mourning, but it has been a story of organising too. The story of 2021 has not yet been written: we can write it; we can right it
Ben Phillips is the author of How to Fight Inequality
2020 was cruellest to those who already had the least.
At first it was said that “the virus doesn’t discriminate”, but as COVID-19 spread it became clear that having a low income, being an essential worker or being a member of a marginalised racial minority are “co-morbidities” – factors which make people more likely to die.
Then the pandemic created a hunger crisis, leaving hundreds of millions of already struggling people without the earnings to feed their families.
It created an educational crisis, too. United Nations children’s agency UNICEF found that a third of the world’s schoolchildren – 463 million children globally – had had “no such thing as remote learning” when COVID-19 shuttered their schools.
Soon after discovering viable vaccines exist, we learned that rich countries had pre-booked almost all the initial supply and that outdated rules on “intellectual property” could prevent the mass simultaneous production of vaccines for all in 2021.
2020 has been most generous to those who already had the most.
Whilst at first it was imagined that no one could possibly gain in such a disaster, it’s now been shown to have made the rich richer: the U.S.’s 651 billionaires have gained over $1 trillion, with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos alone gaining over $70 billion.
So what does this mean for 2021? There are two rival stories.
The pessimistic story says that inequality is now in an out-of-control spiral: that governments will be unable to fund core services or look after the unemployed; that online retail monopolies will be the only thriving businesses; that an underclass of the uninsured, unvaccinated, offline and out-of-work will be kept from the gates of the working-from-home by a new cohort of private guards.
Worst of all, it says that as vicious inequality hardens, we’ll even learn to blame those who have been pushed behind.
The optimistic story says that it is in crises that inequality has been turned around – from the launch of the New Deal in the USA in the Great Depression, to the creation of welfare states in Europe after World War II, to the introduction of universal healthcare in Thailand in response to the AIDS crisis.
But history shows that neither of those two stories gets it quite right, if they assume any automaticity. One way to think of crises is like heat. Like the fire of a blacksmith or glassblower, crises make malleable formerly rigid social and political structures. Which direction they bend depends entirely on the direction in which they are pressed harder.
The pandemic profiteers will not cede easily. They’ll back those claiming that, as there’s “no money”, everyone with shrinking stomachs needs to tighten their belts. They’ll say that if pharmaceutical companies are required to share their formulas so enough doses can be produced, they will be ruined and never make medicine again.
They’ll say too that if the richest are required to pay tax on their wealth, they will lose all incentive to lift the rest of us. Even more brutally, we’ll be told by ultra-nationalists that those with little should fear those with even less; and though they’ll claim to be grassroots expressions of ordinary folk, they will be very well resourced by helpful plutocrats.
The good news is that we are witnessing something else, too. From essential workers organising for health and safety and better pay, to the growing international movements for Climate Justice, Black Lives Matter, and the People’s Vaccine, we are seeing a coming together of what the Poor People’s Campaign’s Reverend William Barber calls “fusion coalitions”, building the collective power necessary to win.
Wealth taxes have been passed in Argentina, and proposals are being debated in countries from South Africa to Germany; the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is debating a waiver on patents for Covid-19 vaccines; the World Health Organisation (WHO) has explicitly called on countries to remove all healthcare fees.
None of these will come by relying on those in authority, they can only be won through pressure from below. As young activists expressed it to me, “there’s no justice, just us”, but just us – organised – is powerful. 2020 has been of a story of mourning, but it has been a story of organising too. The story of 2021 has not yet been written: we can write it; we can right it.
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Why are Institutional Investors Interested in Buying Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC)?
Sue Brooks
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) is 4.40% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $15.26 and a high of $61.07 in the current 52-week trading range. The MPC stock was last observed hovering at around $44.17 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.99% off its average median price target of $48.50 for the next 12 months. It is also 34.58% off the consensus price target high of $66.00 offered by 18 analysts, but current levels are -7.95% lower than the price target low of $40.00 for the same period.
Currently trading at $43.18, the stock is 3.88% and 11.38% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 5.25 million and changing -2.24% at the moment leaves the stock 25.97% off its SMA200. MPC registered -27.29% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of 19.28%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $41.52 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $35.80.
The stock witnessed a 1.72% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 38.75%, and is 4.40% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.55% over the week and 3.81% over the month.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) has around 60910 employees, a market worth around $28.74B and $82.06B in sales. Profit margin for the company is -23.60%. Distance from 52-week low is 182.96% and -29.29% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.10%).
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) Analyst Forecasts
Analyst recommendations provided by FactSet shows that the consensus forecast for Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a “Overweight”. 18 analysts offering their recommendations for the stock have an average rating of 2.10, where 4 rate it as a Hold and 1 think it is a “Overweight”. 13 of the analysts rate the stock as a “Buy”. 0 analysts have rated the stock as a Sell or Underperform.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation is expected to release its quarterly report on 05/05/2021 and quarterly earnings per share for the current quarter are estimated at -$0.99 with sales reaching $17.33B over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -24.80% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -42.90% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -44.80% in year-over-year returns.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) Top Institutional Holders
1,157 institutions hold shares in Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC), with 3.66M shares held by insiders accounting for 0.56% while institutional investors hold 76.40% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 650.00M, and float is at 646.99M with Short Float at 5.01%. Institutions hold 75.97% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is Blackrock Inc. with over 73.34 million shares valued at $2.15 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.27% of the MPC Shares outstanding. As of Sep 29, 2020, the second largest holder is Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) with 64.72 million shares valued at $1.9 billion to account for 9.95% of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are State Street Corporation which holds 37.56 million shares representing 5.77% and valued at over $1.1 billion, while Morgan Stanley holds 1.85% of the shares totaling 12.07 million with a market value of $354.08 million.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) Insider Activity
A total of 38 insider transactions have happened at Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) in the last six months, with sales accounting for 16 and purchases happening 22 times.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC): Who are the competitors?
The company’s main competitors (and peers) include Valero Energy Corporation (VLO) that is trading -39.37% down over the past 12 months. Delek US Holdings Inc. (DK) is -49.87% down on the 1-year trading charts. Short interest in the company’s stock has risen 5.37% from the last report on Nov 12, 2020 to stand at a total of 30.65 million short shares sold with a short interest ratio of 4.61.
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Familly health
The neglected epidemic: road traffic injuries in Kenya
2 Unsung heros & Martyrs of Ebola the doctors and frontline workers
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Motorized road transport has changed the face of employment, trade, family life and health care, bringing benefits that were unimaginable 100 years ago. We can now get patients to emergency rooms, deliver relief at the sites of disasters and take holidays in places we would not have been able to visit before. However, the price we are paying for such benefits is too high.
At the inquest into the world’s first road traffic death in 1896, the coroner was reported to have said “this must never happen again”. More than a century later, 1.2 million people are killed on roads every year and up to 50 million more are injured. These casualties of the road will increase unless safety is made a priority.
Roads are bustling with cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles, mopeds and other types of two- and three-wheelers. By making the transportation of goods and people faster and more efficient, these vehicles support economic and social development in many countries. A recent addition the mobile phone has further added the risk due to use while driving or crossing roads. Pedestrians and cyclists using roads are particularly at risk. Crashes are frequent. Deaths and injuries are common.
If current trends continue, the number of people killed and injured on the roads will rise by more than 60% between 2000 and 2020.
During the course of any day, the tragic news of a death on the road is delivered about 20 times to families and friends. One hundred times, people will hear that one of their family members has survived a crash but with serious injury and perhaps lifelong disability. The shock and grief these events cause are all too well-known throughout the world
A variety of approaches are being used to tackle some of the causes, including better legislation, enforcement and information. A number of initiatives, show that improving road safety is possible.
Kenya needs to designate a lead agency in government which can coordinate the national road safety efforts. There is also need to assess the problem, prepare a national road safety strategy, allocate financial and human resources, and implement specific interventions that are known to work. These include setting and enforcing laws on seat-belts, child restraints, helmets and drink driving; regulated use of cell phones; and promoting daytime running lights and improved visibility of all road users.
In addition to setting laws and raising awareness, there is need to formulate policies that promote safer vehicles, safer traffic management and safer road design. The countries that have been most successful have been those that have engaged many different groups from government, civil society and industry in a coordinated programme of road safety.
Every sector is important - transport, education, health, law enforcement - in tackling the problem. The public health community needs to increase its contribution. By strengthening emergency services for victims, improving data collection, contributing to policies, developing prevention activities or simply ringing the alarm bell - as we are doing today - we can all make significant contributions.
Everyone can increase road safety in their private capacity as well - as drivers, passengers and pedestrians, and as members of the public who influence decision-makers. Road deaths and injuries are preventable. Let us use all means to draw attention to this fact.
Road traffic injuries particularly affect the productive (working) age group (15-44 years) and children. The problem is increasing at a fast rate in due to rapid motorization and other factors. However, public policy responses to this epidemic have been muted at national and international levels. Policy makers need to recognize this growing problem as a public health crisis and design appropriate policy responses.
People are frequently aware of these risks. A regular commuter on the buses to Nyanza-said, “Many of us know most of the buses are death traps but since we have no alternative we have no choice but to use the buses.”
Reasons for high burden in Kenya Growth in motor vehicle numbers The growth in numbers of motor vehicles is a major contributing factor in the rising toll of fatalities and injuries from road traffic crashes. Poor enforcement of traffic safety regulations
Another explanation for the high burden is poor enforcement of traffic safety regulations in low-income countries due to inadequate resources, administrative problems, and corruption. Corruption is a huge problem, often creating a circle of blame---the police blame drivers and the public, the public blames drivers and the police, and drivers blame the police. Corruption also extends to vehicle and driver licensing agencies. An officer with Traffic department said, “You wonder how most of the buses/matatus secured road worthiness certificates in the first place. And when you ban the buses from the roads, they still find their way of returning to the roads.”
Inadequacy of public health infrastructure and poor access to health services
Another explanation is the inadequacy of the public health infrastructure in providing treatment for traffic injuries. Only 40% of public, mission, and private hospitals in Kenya in 1999 were well prepared to treat trauma cases from traffic crashes, with 74% of the least injuries. The poor public health infrastructure means that patients often do not receive appropriate care promptly. This delay can compromise the patient's recovery, as there is a strong correlation between the time taken to receive appropriate treatment and the likelihood of adverse health outcomes and long term disability occurring.
Addressing the risks will require multiple policy initiatives. To be effective, policies on traffic safety must be based on local evidence and research, and designed for the particular social, political, and economic circumstances.
Five Key areas of Intervention
1. Speed Speed: slow down! Speed contributes to at least 30% of road traffic crashes and deaths. For every 1km/hr increase in speed there is a 3% increase in the incidence of injury crashes and a 5% increase in the risk of a fatal crash. Pedestrians are eight times more likely to be killed by cars traveling at 50km/h than 30km/h. Key interventions setting and enforcing speed limits designing roads according to their function (e.g. highways, suburban roads) speed cameras or stationary enforcement traffic calming measures, such as speed bumps and traffic circles education and public information.
2. Alcohol: Alcohol: don't drink alcohol and drive Facts Any level of alcohol in the blood increases the risk of crashes. The risk of crashes increases significantly with blood alcohol concentrations greater than 0.04g/dl. Key interventions setting and enforcing blood alcohol concentration limits random breath testing mass media campaigns tough and swift penalties for offenders breath test devices as ignition interlocks in vehicles.
3.Seat Belts: Seat-belts and child restraints: strap in!
Seat-belt usage has saved more lives than any other road safety intervention. Seat-belts reduce fatal or serious injury by 40-65%. Child restraints reduce infant deaths by 71% and deaths in young children by 54%. Key interventions setting and enforcing seat-belt use and child restraint laws publicity campaigns smart, audible seat belt reminders (e.g. alarm sounds in vehicles) child restraint loan programmes.
4. Helmets: Wear helmets! Facts Head trauma is the main cause of death and disability in drivers of motorized two-wheelers. Among children, bicycle injuries are the leading cause of injury. Key interventions setting and enforcing laws on helmet wearing standards for motorcycle helmets penalties for non-use targeted information campaigns. Example: Helmet use in Thailand In the year following enforcement of the helmet-wearing law in Thailand, helmet use increased five-fold, head injuries decreased by 41%, and deaths decreased by 20%.
5. Visibility: Visibility: see and be seen Facts Motorized vehicles using daytime running lights have a crash rate 10-15% lower than those that do not. One third of people hit on the road report they had difficulty seeing the vehicle; almost half of drivers have difficulty in seeing the pedestrian. Key interventions Daytime running lights for two-wheelers and cars Reflectors on vehicles and reflective clothing for people White/yellow helmets Street lighting.
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lost tribes of Israel.
Richard Reader Harris
Published 1907 by Robert Banks in London .
But the ten tribes cannot cross because of their great piety and their reverence for the day of rest. Jesus Christ promised His 12 disciples that each of them would rule one tribe of Israel. God's humorous correction of Philistines! The southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin constitute the historical forbears of most of the Jewish People as it is known today. The Sacae appear in this region soon after the fall of the kingdom of Israel.
Shortly after Yosef made this ruling, the State of Israel began aiding the members of Beta Israel who were being persecuted and sought to escape Ethiopia. So no, our search will be more involved that just looking in the modern nation of Judah. This endeavor failed, and the two nations, representing the Jews and Israelites, never reconciled. The ritual sun-rise service held at the crack of dawn is the exact point where night is equally divided with day on the spring equinox.
Messianic believers supported Cromwell's Republic in the expectation that it was a preparation for the fifth monarchy —that is, the monarchy that should succeed the BabylonianPersianGreekand Roman world empires. After he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Many of the Jews who remained in the land intermarried with people from Cutha, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim who had been sent by the Assyrian king to inhabit Samaria 2 Kings ; Ezra — There is a prophecy that states that the House of Judah and the House of Israel 10 tribes will be rejoined.
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Meanwhile, some alien populations — Cutha, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim — were brought in to settle the northern kingdom, and those groups all ended up assimilating with each other and with the Israelites who remained lost tribes of Israel.
book the north. Since the Edict of Expulsion inJews had been prohibited by law lost tribes of Israel. book living in England. The reason is that the wheel of the SUN calendar was divided into eight equal segments and it is still used by all modern pagans and Satan worshippers.
After he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Now will be the beginning of a new era, a restoration if you will. It is by no coincidence that a only a hundred years after Israel had been taken captive into the Black Sea and Caspian Sea area that the Celts, worshipping a god named Baal, migrated into Europe from this very same locale, and moved west up into Europe.
They lost tribes of Israel. book forth to pillage and to capture booty in conjunction with the Arabs their neighbors. With the approach ofconsidered a significant date, Cromwell was allegedly interested in the return of the Jews to England because of the many theories circulating related to millennial thinking about the end of the world.
Yes, the iron age began somewhere around the year B. The Israelites, Tyrians and Sidonians were a related people who spoke dialects of the same language. Christ will rule the nations at His return.
The Jews of Kheibar have built many large fortified cities. The Bible relates that the population of Israel was exiled, leaving only the Tribe of Judahthe Tribe of Simeon that was "absorbed" into Judahthe Tribe of Benjaminand the people of the Tribe of Levi who lived among them of the original Israelite tribes in the southern Kingdom of Judah.
They are gathered spiritually as they join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and make and keep sacred covenants. Ever wondered why He chose 12 disciples??? Then when you go to Acts chapter 1, before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; Peter said we need to replace this position.
As large numbers of refugees poured out of Asia into Europe in search of new homelands, they fought both the Romans and each other. Where can we find the lost tribes of Israel? Perhaps Bene Menashein Northern India, can claim the title. According to Parfitt, the lost tribes all assimilated into the groups around them, and eventually disappeared.
And the Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom? In Tractate Sanhedrin B, Rabbi Eliezer states: Just like a day is followed by darkness, and the light later returns, so too, although it will become 'dark' for the ten tribes, God will ultimately take them out of their darkness.
They kept alive a national sense of self despite having neither nation nor homeland as a people. This endeavor failed, and the two nations, representing the Jews and Israelites, never reconciled.The Lost Tribes of Israel and the Book of Revelation. They are those who are from the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Because this number represents the “full number” of Israelites saved.is a symbolic number: 12 x 12 x 1, John seems to show that the twelve tribes are those restored in the Church, under the twelve.
Feb 23, · The mystery of the lost tribes of Israel reverberates through three millennia of human experience.
Of the twelve tribes mentioned in the Bible, only those of Judah and Benjamin survived the. Although there may be descendants of the lost House of Israel in these countries, not every person in those countries is from lost tribes of Israel. book lost tribes by any means. Rather the lost tribes of Israel are amongst them and have a large influence over a nation if there is many of them there.In the Apocrypha book it is revealed that the bulk of the Pdf tribes of Israel pdf to a land which we can safely say is the modern day Americas today.
There is also mention in the New testament by the Messiah after his resurrection that he had to go and visit the other lost sheep. This is interesting seeing as we know that at the time of the.The largest kingdom, Israel, was composed of ten tribes. The smaller kingdom, Download pdf, was composed of two tribes.
Judah was “Jewish,” Israel was not. Many assume that the history of the ten tribes of Israel ended when Samaria, Israel’s capital, fell to the Assyrians in B.C.
Both the Bible and secular history assert otherwise.British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a pseudoarchaeological ebook that the people of ebook British Isles are "genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.
With roots in the 16th century, British Israelism was inspired by several 19th-century English writings such as John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origin.
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Murphy Administration Announces $155 Million in Additional Funding to Ensure Health, Safety and Quality in Long-Term Care Facilities
Department of Health Releases Reopening Directive to Ensure Preparedness, Provides $25 Million to Assist Facilities with Increased Testing
Department of Human Services Proposes $130 Million Medicaid Funding Increase to Bolster Workforce and Help Stabilize Facilities
TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy, Department of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, and Department of Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson today announced the Administration’s proposal to provide long-term care facilities with $155 million in additional funding as they look to reopen to visitors and resume normal operations. The funding—which will be a mix of state and federal monies—will allow for the implementation of a new DOH directive for the safe reopening of long-term care facilities for indoor visitation by appointment and other activities if the facilities have no COVID-19 cases among residents or staff. Before reopening, facilities must meet certain public health benchmarks including adequate infection control, staff and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to ensure preparedness.
“Throughout this pandemic, one of the most-impacted communities in our state has been the residents and staff of our long-term care facilities,” said Governor Murphy. “Today’s announcement will allow facilities to meet the ongoing challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, while also ensuring both high-quality care and the health and safety of residents and staff going forward. And, most importantly, it will allow for residents to safely reunite with loved ones.”
Today, Commissioner Persichilli announced a directive for the phased reopening of long-term care facilities to implement certain requirements, preparations in the event of a surge of COVID and to attest about their preparations to the Department of Health (DOH). When facilities conclude their outbreaks and implement the requirements of the DOH’s directive, they will advance in phases, and in each phase, will be able to restore services for residents and ultimately allow for indoor visitation and resumption of normal activities.
The phased-in reopening is based on the outbreak status of a facility, its ability to meet criteria including but not limited to testing of staff and residents, infection control protocols, and adequate staffing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and is tied to the timing of the state’s reopening plan. In order to assist facilities with the cost of testing benchmarks, DOH also announced $25 million in funding, which will assist long-term care facilities with the cost of weekly testing for all staff. These facilities will have priority access to the Rutgers University saliva test.
To date, more than 30 million units of PPE have been distributed to long-term care facilities. Stockpiling for these facilities is underway, along with ongoing inventory assessment. Infection control-focused surveys also have been completed in 467 facilities including: 370 nursing homes, 49 assisted livings, six dementia care homes, four specialty hospitals, 27 end stage renal dialysis centers, five ambulatory surgery centers and six acute care hospitals. In addition, over 3,600 backlogged complaints, some dating to 2017, have been cleared.
In implementing a key recommendation outlined in the nursing home review conducted by Manatt Health, DOH also developed a forward-looking testing plan for residents and staff. Baseline testing for both was completed by the end of May, and retesting continues for those who have tested negative, which is a recommendation of both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department. To date, over 310,000 tests have been completed on residents and more than 495,000 tests have been done on staff. The positivity rate for long-term care residents has been reduced from 6% in May to less than 1% in July. The positivity rate for staff has also fallen from 3% in May to less than 1% in July.
Under another recommendation in the nursing home review conducted by Manatt Health, DOH created a Long-Term Care Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to provide a centralized command structure to manage the emergency response to COVID in long-term care facilities. The EOC, chaired by Dr. David Adinaro, DOH’s Deputy Commissioner for Public Health Services, monitors COVID testing of residents and staff, supplies of PPE and therapeutics needed to protect residents and staff.
“Reuniting families with their loved ones in these facilities is critical for the mental, physical, social and emotional well-being of our most vulnerable residents,” said Commissioner Persichilli. “With the virus still circulating in our communities, we must balance the health and well-being of residents with proper infection control and employee safety protections. The restart plan will give long-term care facilities, residents and families direction for resuming normal activities.”
The Department of Health curtailed visitation at long-term care facilities in March due to COVID-19. Outdoor visits have been allowed by appointment since June 21. DOH issued another directive on July 15 that permitted parents, a family member, legal guardians and support persons of pediatric, developmentally disabled and intellectually disabled residents of long-term care facilities to arrange for by-appointment indoor visits with their loved ones. DOH reviewed the guidance with the New Jersey Long-Term Care Ombudsman, state disability rights advocates, unions and the long-term care industry.
The Department of Human Services (DHS) also unveiled a proposal to provide increases in Medicaid funding to nursing facilities to support wage enhancements for the front-line certified nurse aide workforce and to support compliance with Department of Health infection control directives.
Under the proposal, new Medicaid funding of $130 million—$62 million in state funding, the remainder in federal matching funds—would be available to nursing facilities for the next fiscal year from October 1st to June 30th. This funding would increase a nursing facility's Medicaid rates by 10 percent.
Of the proposed $130 million, $78 million must be used to increase wages for certified nurse aides (CNAs). On average, this funding will support a 20 percent hourly wage increase for CNAs depending on a facility's current wage rates. The remaining $52 million would assist facilities in supporting COVID-19-related infection control and compliance with specifics in DOH directives, including infection control, PPE, cleaning, other staffing needs, etc. Funding would be subject to recoupment if a facility fails to meet DOH-specified requirements or is found to have repeat infection control failures.
The proposed legislation would give DHS the authority to require facility reporting of the relevant wage data to ensure compliance and be subject to recoupment for non-compliance. Facilities that fail to pass-through the funding to wages or fail to comply with specific DOH infection control requirements and/or are found to have repeat infection control violations would be subject to recoupment of funds by the DHS. The Department of Human Services proposal requires legislative approval and approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“We are working with the Legislature on our shared goal of supporting Medicaid recipients and the staff who work tirelessly to care for them. We thank Chairman Vitale and Chairwoman Huttle for their leadership on these important issues,” Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson said. “Wage enhancements will help support the critical frontline certified nurse aide workforce and help contribute to decreasing the risk of exposure for staff and residents. Funding for enhanced infection control – that is tied to clear accountability measures and compliance with health and safety requirements – will further help to increase facilities' tools to support residents. We look forward to enactment of this proposal.”
“The long-term care facilities were hit the hardest by COVID-19 with a staggering number of lives lost. This is a tragedy that demands reforms to protect the health and safety of residents and employees. This is a start. It will direct funding to increase the chronically-low pay of the workers who are on the front lines caring for the most vulnerable patients and making other improvements in safety practices," said Senate President Steve Sweeney. "It is vital that any additional support is linked to tougher standards on infection control, which I will be including in legislation. We want to get the facilities open but this must be done in ways that assure the residents and their families that health and safety are the top priorities.”
"I support legislation that will enable the state's application for federal matching funds to provide a wage increase to frontline workers at our state’s long term health care facilities. Increasing the pay of these workers is a smart investment for both our workers and patient safety," said Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. "We have and continue to face one of the most challenging health crisis in a century. The pandemic hit our nursing homes hardest despite the staffs' best efforts. Ensuring the staff who put themselves at risk every day to take care of others are compensated appropriately for their work is an important step."
“The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed numerous issues within our long-term care industry,” said Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, Chair of the Assembly Human Services Committee. “I share the Administration’s commitment to enact legislation that supports our CNA workforce and achieves the broader recommendations set forth in the Nursing home review conducted by Manatt Health. With this funding, we now have an opportunity to take meaningful action to create more resilient, transparent long-term care facilities.”
“Long-term care facilities are home to some of New Jersey’s most vulnerable residents,” said Senator Joe Vitale, Chair of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee. “To provide the highest quality of care possible, we must recruit, train, and pay our workforce well. I look forward to continuing our partnership with the Administration and legislative leaders to deliver reforms that will help ensure New Jersey has the resources in place to weather the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and improve the future of the long-term care industry.”
“This pandemic has revealed the specific vulnerabilities of our frail elderly population, and NJHA and its long term care members share the Governor’s commitment to delivering care that is safe, efficient and remains centered on the physical and emotional well-being of our aging residents,” said Cathy Bennett, President and CEO, New Jersey Hospital Association. “We look forward to working with our members and their dedicated staffs, along with public health, policymakers and the Murphy Administration, to bring these improvements forward.”
“This legislation represents a strong first step towards providing all nursing home workers with the compensation they need to provide for their own families as they care for ours,” said Milly Silva, Executive Vice President, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. “CNAs are the backbone of direct care in nursing homes and have one of the most difficult jobs imaginable, even in normal times. Serving on the frontlines of COVID-19, caregivers have risen to the challenge and performed countless acts of heroism and compassion to keep their patients safe, despite the dangers of the job and earning poverty wages.”
“CNAs in long term care put their health and safety on the line every day. It is essential that their work is recognized and raising their wages is an important first step,” said Sue Cleary, President of AFSCME 1199J. “There must be a continuing effort to fix the short staffing problem that has plagued the industry for many years which has had a significant impact on our members.”
Under the DOH directive, when a facility is permitted to enter a reopening phase depends on compliance with the following benchmarks:
Facilities must not have an active outbreak. An outbreak is considered concluded when a facility has 28 days – two incubation periods with no new positive staff or residents – and, if a CMS-certified facility, a DOH survey inspection.
They must be fully staffed and have a plan for additional staffing in case of an outbreak or emergency.
Staff testing must continue to be conducted weekly.
It is essential that they have enough PPE for present use in addition to a stockpile for emergencies.
They must have an updated outbreak plan with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan must also include a communications strategy that outlines regular communication with residents and families about cases and outbreaks or any other emergency. The plan must also include methods for virtual communication in the event of visitation restrictions. The plan must be posted on their website.
Facilities must contract with an infection control service within two months or hire a full-time employee in the infection control role if they have more than 100 beds or hemodialysis.
Facilities with ventilator beds are required to hire an infection control employee per current statute.
Every facility will be required to put in place within nine months a respiratory protection program that complies with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards including medical screenings and fit testing of employees using respirators (N95 Masks).
There are four phases of DOH’s reopening plan as outlined in the directive, all tied to the state’s planned stages of reopening. All facilities start in Phase 0 as of today.
Once visitation can begin, facilities must follow rigorous infection prevention and control protocols, including:
Visitor screening, including temperature checks;
Requiring visitors to practice routine infection prevention and control precautions including wearing a mask and social distancing;
Having a plan that limits hours of visitation and number of visitors in the facility at one time. Residents will be limited to two visitors at a time;
Identifying a visitation area that allows for social distancing and deep cleaning if the resident is in a shared room;
Receiving informed consent from the visitor and resident acknowledging that they are aware of the risks of exposure to COVID-19 and that they will follow rules set by the facility;
Instructing visitors to monitor for fever or other COVID-19 symptoms for at least 14 days after their visit, and to immediately notify the facility if they experience symptoms.
Recognizing that some residents need additional support regardless of the situation at their facility or their COVID status, a new category of essential caregiver will be added for all residents with proper precautions such as screening and the use of PPE.
Click here to read the DOH directive.
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First Amendment Protects the Right to Give and to Receive
By Andrew Horwitz | Roger Williams University
Sadly, Cranston, R.I., has recently joined the ranks of those jurisdictions that have decided that the best way to deal with homelessness is to make it a crime.
This national phenomenon, fostered in an environment of ignorance, fear and hatred, is nothing new, but it is suddenly becoming much more pervasive. Jurisdictions around the country have moved to criminalize activities that are inherently associated with homelessness, such as sleeping in public, sleeping in vehicles, loitering and panhandling.
Of course, criminalizing these activities doesn’t resolve the underlying problems, but it does sometimes move the problems out of public view; to some, that seems to be a worthy objective.
On Feb. 15, 2017, the Cranston City Council approved an amendment to an ordinance titled “Solicitation on Roadways Prohibited” that makes it a crime for a person to “stand in or enter upon a roadway for the purpose of distributing anything to the occupant of any vehicle or for the purpose of receiving anything from the occupant of any vehicle.” The amendment changed the name of the Ordinance to “Prohibition Against Distribution to and Receiving from Occupants of Vehicles,” but that did not change the intent of the ordinance: the prohibition of panhandling.
The prior version of the ordinance had broadly prohibited distributing literature to or requesting donations from the operator or any passenger of any motor vehicle. As a consequence of a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the city of Cranston signed a consent judgment conceding that that ordinance violated the First Amendment.
Undeterred by this pesky thing called the U.S. Constitution, however, the Cranston City Council carried on in its war on the homeless, seeking an end run around the exercise of clearly established constitutional rights. This latest amendment, the supporters contend, is somehow more narrowly tailored than the prior law, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would clearly say otherwise.
In Cutting v. City of Portland, Maine, 802 F.3d 79 (1st Cir. 2015), the Boston-based 1st Circuit struck down on First Amendment grounds an ordinance banning panhandling on medians in Portland, Maine. In that case, the city conceded that roadway medians — the target of the Cranston ordinance — are “traditional public fora” where a great deal of constitutionally protected speech has historically taken place. As such, the 1st Circuit noted, in such places “the government’s authority to regulate speech . . . is especially limited.” The 1st Circuit cited the same lack of evidence that plagued the Cranston City Council deliberations — broad assertions concerning public safety without any actual data suggesting that a public safety problem exists. The panel found that such a sweeping intrusion into the free speech rights of panhandlers and passersby simply could not survive constitutional scrutiny.
Shortly after that decision was issued, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in McLaughlin v. City of Lowell, 140 F. Supp.3d 177 (D. Mass. 2015), similarly struck down on First Amendment grounds an ordinance that sought to prohibit soliciting in the downtown area of Lowell. Emphasizing that panhandling “is expressive activity within the scope of the First Amendment,” and that it “is an expressive act regardless of what words, if any, a panhandler speaks,” the court found that the broad prohibition of panhandling in the downtown area violated the Constitution.
Fully aware of this case law, which informed the consent decree the city had signed, and advised by multiple lawyers that the proposed ordinance was in every meaningful way a duplicate of the Portland ordinance that the 1st Circuit rejected, the Cranston City Council went ahead and passed this amendment. The public hearings included multiple sad displays of venom and animus toward the homeless, and the resulting legislation was an equally mean-spirited act that defies any sensible public policy and that will undoubtedly cost the city tens or more likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation costs.
Many of us who care deeply about our constitutional rights felt compelled to respond. On March 27, 2017, we stood on a median in Cranston and distributed literature through car windows, just as clear a violation of the ordinance as it was a valid assertion of our First Amendment rights. As we were removed from the median by the Cranston Police Department, some of us were — absurdly — charged with violating a state statute that prohibits a pedestrian from crossing a freeway. Because the median on which we stood was not even plausibly connected to a freeway, those charges were summarily dismissed at our arraignment. The more interesting charges — those involving violating the anti-panhandling ordinance — lie ahead.
The saddest part of what comes next is that the money that will go to feed the lawyers could instead be used to feed and house the homeless. What a sad and shameful display.
Andrew Horwitz is a professor of law, assistant dean for experiential education and director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at the Roger Williams University School of Law. This post originally appeared on the university’s First Amendment blog.
Above photo provided by Wikimedia user Ellin Beltz and used under a CC 3.0 license.
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Bede's Eccl. History 1
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History 1
THE English version of the “Ecclesiastical History” in the following pages is a revision of the translation of Dr. Giles, which is itself a revision of the earlier rendering of Stevens. In the present edition very considerable alterations have been made, but the work of Dr. Giles remains the basis of the translation. The Latin text used throughout is Mr. Plummer’s. Since the edition of Dr. Giles appeared in 1842, so much fresh work on the subject has been done, and recent research has brought so many new facts to light, that it has been found necessary to rewrite the notes almost entirely, and to add a new introduction. After the appearance of Mr. Plummer’s edition of the Historical Works of Bede, it might seem superfluous, for the present at least, to write any notes at all on the “Ecclesiastical History.” The present volume, however, is intended to fulfil a different and much humbler function. There has been no attempt at any original work, and no new theories are advanced. The object of the book is merely to present in a short and convenient form the substance of the views held by trustworthy authorities, and it is hoped that it may be found useful by those students who have either no time or no inclination to deal with more important works.
Among the books of which most use has been made, are Mr. Plummer’s edition of the Ecclesiastical History, Messrs’ Mayor and Lumby’s edition of Books III and IV, Dr. Bright’s “Early English Church History,” and Dr. Hunt’s “History of the English Church from its foundation to the Norman Conquest.” Many of the articles in the “Dictionary of Christian Biography ” and the “Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,” Dr. Mason’s “Mission of St. Augustine,” Dr. Rhys’s “Celtic Britain,” and a number of other books, mentioned in the notes, have been consulted.
For help received in different ways I wish to express my gratitude to various correspondents and friends. I am particularly indebted to Mr. Edward Bell, who has kindly revised my proofs and made many valuable suggestions. For information on certain points I have to thank the Rev. Charles Plummer, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Professor Lindsay of St. Andrews University, Miss Wordsworth, Principal, and Miss Lodge, Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; and in a very special sense I wish to acknowledge my obligations to Miss Paterson, Assistant Librarian at the University Library, St. Andrews, whose unfailing kindness in verifying references, and supplying me with books, has greatly lightened my labours.
AT this time, that is, in the year of our Lord 605, the blessed Pope Gregory, after having most gloriously governed the Roman Apostolic see thirteen years, six months, and ten days, died, and was translated to an eternal abode in the kingdom of Heaven. Of whom, seeing that by his zeal he converted our nation, the English, from the power of Satan to the faith of Christ, it behoves us to discourse more at large in our Ecclesiastical History, for we may rightly, nay, we must, call him our apostle; because, as soon as he began to wield the pontifical power over all the world, and was placed over the Churches long before converted to the true faith, he made our nation, till then enslaved to idols, the Church of Christ, so that concerning him we may use those words of the Apostle; “if he be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless he is to us; for the seal of his apostleship are we in the Lord.”
EDWIN being slain in battle, the kingdom of the Deiri, to which province his family belonged, and where he first began to reign, passed to Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric, who, through the preaching of Paulinus, had also received the mysteries of the faith. But the kingdom of the Bernicians—for into these two provinces the nation of the Northumbrians was formerly divided —passed to Eanfrid, the son of Ethelfrid, who derived his origin from the royal family of that province. For all the time that Edwin reigned, the sons of the aforesaid Ethelfrid, who had reigned before him, with many of the younger nobility, lived in banishment among the Scots or Picts, and were there instructed according to the doctrine of the Scots, and were renewed with the grace of Baptism. Upon the death of the king, their enemy, they were allowed to return home, and the aforesaid Eanfrid, as the eldest of them, became king of the Bernicians. Both those kings, as soon as they obtained the government of their earthly kingdoms, abjured and betrayed the mysteries of the heavenly kingdom to which they had been admitted, and again delivered themselves up to defilement and perdition through the abominations of their former idolatry.
But soon after, the king of the Britons, Caedwalla, the unrighteous instrument of rightful vengeance, slew them both. First, in the following summer, he put Osric to death; for, being rashly besieged by him in the municipal town, he sallied out on a sudden with all his forces, took him by surprise, and destroyed him and all his army. Then,when he had occupied the provinces of the Northumbrians for a whole year,not ruling them like a victorious king, but ravaging them like a furious tyrant, he at length put an end to Eanfrid, in like manner, when he unadvisedly came to him with only twelve chosen soldiers, to sue for peace. To this day, that year is looked upon as ill-omened, and hateful to all good men; as well on account of the apostacy of the English kings, who had renounced the mysteries of the faith, as of the outrageous tyranny of the British king. Hence it has been generally agreed, in reckoning the dates of the kings, to abolish the memory of those faithless monarchs, and to assign that year to the reign of the following king, Oswald, a man beloved of God. This king, after the death of his brother Eanfrid,advanced with an army, small, indeed, in number, but strengthened with the faith of Christ; and the impious commander of the Britons, in spite of his vast forces, which he boasted nothing could withstand, was slain at a place called in the English tongue Denisesburna, that is, the brook of Denis.
IN the above-mentioned year of the aforesaid eclipse and of the pestilence which followed it immediately, in which also Bishop Colman, being overcome by the united effort of the Catholics, returned home, Deusdedit, the sixth bishop of the church of Canterbury, died on the 14th of July. Earconbert,also, king of Kent, departed this life the same month and day; leaving his kingdom to his son Egbert, who held it for nine years. The see then became vacant for no small time, until, the priest Wighard, a man of great learning in the teaching of the Church, of the English race, was sent to Rome by King Egbert and Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, as was briefly mentioned in the foregoing book, with a request that he might be ordained Archbishop of the Church of England; and at the same time presents were sent to the Apostolic pope, and many vessels of gold and silver. Arriving at Rome, where Vitalian presided at that time over the Apostolic see, and having made known to the aforesaid Apostolic pope the occasion of his journey, he was not long after carried off, with almost all his companions who had come with him, by a pestilence which fell upon them.
THE venerable Ethewald succeeded the man of God, Cuthbert, in the exercise of a solitary life, which he spent in the isle of Fame before he became a bishop. After he had received the priesthood, he consecrated his office by deeds worthy of that degree for many years in the monastery which is called Inhrypum. To the end that his merit and manner of life may be the more certainly made known, I will relate one miracle of his, which was told me by one of the brothers for and on whom the same was wrought; to wit, Guthfrid, the venerable servant and priest of Christ, who also, afterwards, as abbot, presided over the brethren of the same church of Lindisfarne, in which he was educated.
“I came,” says he, “to the island of Fame, with two others of the brethren, desiring to speak with the most reverend father, Ethelwald. Having been refreshed with his discourse, and asked for his blessing, as we were returning home, behold on a sudden, when we were in the midst of the sea, the fair weather in which we were sailing, was broken, and there arose so great and terrible a tempest, that neither sails nor oars were of any use to us, nor had we anything to expect but death. After long struggling with the wind and waves to no effect, at last we looked back to see whether it was possible by any means at least to return to the island whence we came, but we found that we were on all sides alike cut off by the storm, and that there was no hope of escape by our own efforts. But looking further, we perceived, on the island of Fame, our father Ethelwald, beloved of God, come out of his retreat to watch our course; for, hearing the noise of the tempest and raging sea, he had come forth to see what would become of us. When he beheld us in distress and despair, he bowed his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in prayer for our life and safety; and as he finished his prayer, he calmed the swelling water, in such sort that the fierceness of the storm ceased on all sides, and fair winds attended us over a smooth sea to the very shore. When we had landed, and had pulled up our small vessel from the waves, the storm, which had ceased a short time for our sake, presently returned, and raged furiously during the whole day; so that it plainly appeared that the brief interval of calm had been granted by Heaven in answer to the prayers of the man of God, to the end that we might escape.”
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How i Became A Texican
On my mothers side, the families got to Texas in the 1830s and 1840s.
Bakers came from Georgia, Dubose’s came from South Carolina.
On my fathers side, the Carleton came in late 1863. My great grandfather, William Lewis Carleton, was born at his grandfathers home, who was an American Revolutionary War Soldier, in North Carolina.
His father was a medical doctor, a lay Baptist preacher, and a farmer, in Alabama, where my great grandfather grew up.
He studied and became a doctor himself, but he also studied, and became a Methodist Minister.
He married my great-grandmother, in Louisiana. Her father fought with the Mississippi contingent at the Battle of New Orleans, with Andrew Jackson.
When the Late War of Norther Aggression broke out, he was a circuit riding Methodist minister, in Washington County Arkansas. He practiced his doctoring on folks needed it as he rode his circuit. Minister to them, doctor them, preform their weddings and burials.
He did not have to go into the army, as he was a minister, and ministers were exempt. There were two circuit riding ministers in this territory, the other was older, although my great grandfather was married man with children. He and the other minister talked it over, and decided one would stay and ride the circuit, and one would enlist in the army.
My great grandfather enlisted, and the other minister bought him a greatcoat for him to go in.
At this time, there were no chaplain positions in the Confederate Army, he went as a soldier, enlisting with men of his ministerial flock.
When the chaplain position was formed in the Confederate army, he was appointed as chaplain in his outfit.
He shot yankees, helped the wounded, and prayed for the dying.
The only account we have of him in battle, was passed down verbally. He told of how, when a friend was shot down at his side, he knelt and prayed with the dying man, while yankee bullets were knocking bark from an oak tree in his face.
When the yankees invaded Arkansas, he was given permission to go home, to move his family to Texas. He packed his widowed mother, his children, wife, in two covered wagons and came to Texas.
Two weeks after they pulled out, the damn yankee soldiers, hanged a 12 year old neighbor boy trying to make him tell where non existent money was buried. It was because this was typical yankee USA soldier criminality, he took the family to Texas. Said he figured if there was anyplace left where his family would be safe from the crimes of the USA yankee soldiers, it would be Texas.
Once in Texas, the methodist church put him back to work circuit riding, and he continued his medical doctoring.
Thats how my families got to Texas, and why i am a Texican.
John C Carleton
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With August being Women’s Month, we’ve rounded up four great female-led movies for you to enjoy this chilly season on Vodacom’s movie streaming network, Video Play. Curl up, grab the popcorn and see girl power in action!
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After four thieves are left dead during an armed robbery in Chicago, four widows connect to pull off the heist their husbands could not accomplish. This drama/thriller directed by Steve McQueen stars Viola Davis (who received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role), Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo.
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State Parkland Expansion Touches Colonial, Native American History
January 7, 2020 New York State Parks Leave a comment
Before State Parks could purchase 131 acres of Saratoga County forest to add to Moreau Lake State Park in 2018, staffers first had to find out about all past owners of that land – back to the beginning of written records.
As anyone who has ever purchased a home knows, information on past ownership is addressed in a process called a title search. Property records uncovered in such searches are normally covered by a special kind of insurance meant to protect the buyer of a property against claims over disputed ownership that might arise after the sale.
However, since New York State cannot purchase title insurance on land, it had to ensure that there were absolutely no hidden claims lurking from the past in the potential Moreau purchase. For State Parks, the only way to do that was to follow property records as far back as possible.
This historical detective work stretched back more than three centuries, to a controversial royal land grant during New York’s colonial period that covered Native American lands in what is now much of Saratoga County, as well as parts of Montgomery, Schenectady and Fulton counties.
Called the Kayaderosseras Patent, this land transfer was issued in 1708 by a Royal Governor of some ill repute named Lord Cornbury, who under dubious circumstances bestowed up to 800,000 acres north of the Mohawk River and west of the Hudson River.
Ownership of that land was a disputed tale riddled by claims of fraud and missing records, with Native Americans saying that the Colonial patent holders grossly overstated what originally was intended to be a very modest land sale. And the entire affair took six decades to untangle…
Based on a shadowy alleged sale agreement dated several years earlier from native Mohawk tribal leaders, Cornbury awarded this massive tract of land to 13 prominent Colonial citizens of the time _ all in exchange for official fees, of course. The group included such well-connected players as the colony’s Attorney General, several prominent Albany residents, and some Manhattan businessman of Dutch ancestry, with one of them named Joris Hooglandt.
The land patent in colonial New York was an important unit of settlement, along with the large manors of the Hudson Valley—preeminent among them the Van Rensselaer Manor, or Rensselaerwyck, which covered much of present-day Albany and Rensselear counties, as well as parts of Columbia and Greene counties, and Livingston Manor further to the south in Columbia and Dutchess counties. These areas were governed by powerful and wealthy patroons who enjoyed sweeping authority over land usage.
Prior to the American Revolution, land patents were issued by the English Crown or colonial authorities to individuals or groups as a means of encouraging settlement of the sparsely populated frontier. To those who were granted patents fell the responsibility of surveying, subdividing and conveying parcels to new settlers, which were offered either as freehold land or otherwise as land occupied under lease agreement, as was the case of the quasi-feudal manor system.
The Kayaderosseras episode can be seen as an early example of the dispossession of Native American lands that was to occur repeatedly throughout American history in the years that followed it. Here in the 21st century, the story of this land can be updated to reflect a more nuanced point of view on past decisions and actions that might not now be seen as just or exemplary.
Kayaderosseras Patent survey (Source- Saratoga County Historian)
On the left, a map of present-day Moreau, with the 2018 addition to Moreau Lake State Park highlighted in green. To the right, an 1866 atlas of Moreau shows the outlines of portions of the Kayaderosseras Patent, highlighted in orange. A small orange arrow points to Moreau Lake.
The shadowy origins of this patent were described in an 1878 history of Saratoga County by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester:
“By far the largest and most important land-grant made in colonial times, any part of which lay within the bounds of Saratoga County, was the patent founded on the old Indian hunting-ground of Kay-ad-ros-se-ra. This large tract includes the greater part of Saratoga County, and runs also on the north into Warren county, and on the west into Montgomery and Fulton.
Kay-ad-ros-se-ra, “the country of the lake of the crooked stream,” as has already been seen in these pages, was the favorite hunting-ground of the Mohawk branch of the Iroquois or Five Nations of central New York. The Indian deed was obtained of the Mohawk chief in the year 1703, but the patent was not granted till the year 1708, and the Indians did not ratify the purchase till the year 1768. This patent was, therefore, disputed ground for more than sixty years.”
According to the online description by the New York State Museum, the alleged size of the Kayaderosseras patent later was reduced by Colonial officials, but still was claimed to encompass more than 250,000 acres.
However, these supposed new owners took no action on their land patent for decades, with property interests changing hands during the years before steps to conduct land surveys finally started in the aftermath of the French and Indian War in the 1760s, which settled that the British, and not the French, would control North America. By that time, due to subsequent sales, deaths and inheritances, interests in the land patent had spread out to among some 130 colonists.
Sylvester’s story continues:
“At length, in 1763, the French and Indian war being over, the patentees of Kayadrossera began to look, with longing eyes, after their lands. In the year 1764, some one of them began to issue permits to settlers to enter upon and occupy portions of the patent.
In pursuance of these permits, several families moved upon the patent in the vicinity of Saratoga lake, at the mouth of the Kayadrossera river.
In the fall of that year the Mohawks, upon their hunting excursion, fell upon these settlers and drove them away.
Learning from the settlers that they claimed it by purchase, the Mohawks became alarmed, as they said they had never heard of such purchase.
The Mohawks at once appealed to Sir William Johnson, and were surprised to learn that the whole of their favorite hunting-ground had been deeded away by their fathers more than two generations before.”
It is telling who the Mohawks turned to as their advocate. Johnson, whose home in Johnstown, Montgomery County, is now a state historic site, was the largest single landowner and most influential individual in the colonial Mohawk Valley. His success and fairness in dealing with the Mohawks, as part of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, greatly influenced England’s victory over France for control of North America.
For his service, the British Crown bestowed upon Johnson the title of Baronet, and appointed him Superintendent of Indian Affairs, a position to which he devoted himself and held throughout his life.
It is important to note that Sylvester was writing as a resident of the mid-19th century, a time when the U.S. was fighting a series of violent wars against the Native Americans of the Great Plains. His viewpoint was likely informed by the predominant viewpoint that Native lands had to be taken, by force if necessary, for the United States to grow.
As Sylvester returns to the saga where the Mohawks turned to Johnson for help with the alleged decades-old sale of their lands:
“Sir William took up the matter warmly in favor of the Mohawks, and made every effort in his power to have the patent set aside.
In the first place, Sir William wrote to Lieutenant-Governor Colden, stating the case as he understood it, and urging relief. That very autumn, Sir William introduced a bill into the Colonial Assembly to vacate the patent on the ground of fraud.
These measures failing, in the year 1765 Sir William appealed to the council in person in behalf of his dusky brethren, but the members of the council put him off with, among other things, the plea that to vacate the patent in council would be disrespectful to the council who granted it. By this time the controversy had been taken up warmly by all the tribes of the confederacy of the Six Nations, and Sir William in their behalf petitioned to have the patent vacated on the ground of fraud by act of Parliament.
At length the proprietors themselves became alarmed for the safety of their patent, and offered to compromise with the Indians by paying them a certain sum of money to satisfy their claim. The Mohawks thought the sum offered too small, and the effort failed.
Thus the matter went on till the year 1768, when the proprietors of Kayadrossera gave to the governor, Sir Henry Moore, full power to settle with the Indians. In pursuance of this authority, Sir Henry proceeded to the Mohawk country in the early summer of 1768, and called a council of the Indians to deliberate upon the matter. But it was found that the proprietors had no copy of the Indian deed to produce in evidence on the occasion, and that, as no survey had ever been made, no proper understanding of the subject could be arrived at, and the council was dissolved.
Upon his return to New York, the governor ordered a survey of the patent to be made. The outlines of this great patent were accordingly given by the surveyor-general, and, the boundaries being ascertained, a compromise was arrived at. The proprietors relinquished a large tract on the northwestern quarter of what they had claimed to be their land, and fixed the northern and western boundaries as they now run. They likewise paid the Indians the sum of five thousand dollars in full of all their claims and the Mohawks thereupon ratified the patent and forever relinquished their claims to their old favorite hunting-ground.”
Ultimately, with Johnson’s intervention, the once-gigantic Kayaderosseras land grant was reduced to about 23,000 acres as part of a compromise that eventually concluded the sale in 1768, according to State Museum records.
And this brings our story full circle at last…
The new portion of Moreau Lake State Park so recently added was among the patent lands awarded in 1708 to Joris Hooglandt, the Dutch merchant who lived in Colonial Manhattan. He died in 1712, and there is no record that he ever saw or did anything with the disputed land that he allegedly owned.
In 1723, his children sold their claim to the widow of Hooghlandt’s brother. And in 1770, with the dispute finally settled, descendants of that family ended up with two of the original 13 patent shares, making it the largest single largest land distribution that could be traced back to an original party.
Over the years, this land was sold many times privately before finally becoming part of Moreau Lake State Park in 2018.
This new parcel at Moreau Lake State Park encompasses multiple summits, including portions of the Palmertown Range, and affords dramatic views of the Hudson Valley and southern Adirondack Mountains. The park was 700 acres when established in 1968, and has since grown to about 6,100 acres.
And this land, like all land, has a story to tell, which in this instance may help state residents further examine and appreciate some lesser-known aspects of our shared history.
Post by Brian Nearing, Deputy Public Information Officer; Travis Bowman, Senior Curator, Bureau of Historic Sites, and William Krattinger, Parks Survey Project Director.
Cover Photo: Historical maker on the Kayaderosseras Patent in Ballston Lake, Saratoga County. (Courtesy of Saratoga County Historian and William G. Pomeroy Foundation)
New York State Museum link of the Kayaderosseras Patent.
History of Saratoga County, New York (1878), by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester
Read a Daily Gazette account of an 1812 copy of the Kayaderosseras Patent map being restored and put on display at the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office in the village of Ballston Spa, which was first settled in 1771, the year after the disputed land patent was resolved..
Follow this link to an 1866 map of Saratoga County, showing the outlines of the patent, maintained by Clark University.
War On the Middleline: The Founding of a Community in the Kayaderosseras, By James E. Richmond
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Rain Gardens: State Parks Has Them and You Can Have Them Too
September 25, 2018 New York State Parks 3 Comments
What is a rain garden?
A rain garden is a plant-filled shallow depression that collects rainwater (stormwater) runoff. Rain gardens are a great do-it-yourself project for homeowners to manage small amounts of stormwater on their own property. By directing runoff into the garden, the rain that falls on rooftops, driveways, and other impervious surfaces on your property infiltrates into the ground. The water in the ground recharges local and regional aquifers instead of running off across roads and parking lots eventually polluting local waterways.
Rain gardens are pollinator gardens too! A tiger swallowtail is nectaring on the blazing star (Liatris spicata) in this rain garden.
Rain gardens are beneficial in many ways
In addition to keeping local waterways clean by filtering stormwater runoff, rain gardens also help to alleviate problems with flooding and drainage. Rain gardens are attractive and functional features that, enhance the beauty of yards and communities. When planted with native plants they provide valuable habitat and food for wildlife. like birds and butterflies and they can reduce the need for expensive stormwater treatment structures in your community.
Selecting Plants for the Garden
When considering plants for rain gardens, remember that the they are flooded periodically and can go through dry times. Plants in the middle of the garden, where it is deepest, should be the most adapted to very wet conditions and able to withstand being covered by water for a day or more. Plants on the edges of the garden should be able to be briefly flooded with water, like a few hours. Be sure to stabilize the raised bank around your garden that holds the water in grass or dry-tolerant native plants as well.
New England Aster is a great rain garden plant for fall color. And migrating monarch butterflies love them too!
Native Plants for Rain Gardens
Native plants are a great choice for rain gardens. Planting natives helps protect New York’s biodiversity by providing food and habitat for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Natives have evolved in our environment over many years and many of our wetland and riparian species are adapted to alternating periods of wet and dry. The deep roots of natives absorb and filter runoff more effectively than the short roots of many turf grasses and other ornamental plants – making them a perfect fit for rain gardens!
Swamp milkweed, common boneset, cardinal flower, blue flag iris, Joe-pye weed, and white turtlehead are just a few of our native flowers that are happy in rain gardens. Shrubs including buttonbush, bayberry, ninebark, summersweet, and winterberry can also be added if the garden is large enough.
When constructing the garden you should consider if the site is sunny or shady in order to select the best plants. Remember – you need 6 hours or more or sun to be considered ‘full sun’. It is easiest to find plants that work well for rain gardens that need sun, so keep this in mind when planning the location of your rain garden. Just like with any other garden, think about what variety of height, color, and blooming period you would like as well. Mix a variety of flowers, grasses, sedges, for different shapes and textures above, and different root depths below the surface. Shrubs are great in rain gardens too, if you have the space. Consider planting flowers in masses of color to attract birds and butterflies. Follow the tricks the professionals use and group plants in odd-number clumps, using 3, 5, or 7 (or more – just stick to odd numbers) of the same plant all together. This way your rain garden is not only stopping stormwater runoff but is also providing you with a beautiful landscape to enjoy all summer long.
Get Outside and Get Inspired
Rain gardens aren’t just for homeowners. Here at New York State Parks, we use them to help manage stormwater on our properties too! Many local parks or other public places have rain gardens you can stop by and see.
In the Capital District area, there are rain gardens at Saratoga Spa State Park, Grafton Lakes State Park, Moreau Lake State Park, and Mine Kill State Park. Many of these sites also use other environmentally friendly practices for managing stormwater such as porous pavement as well.
Rain garden at the Creekside Classroom at Saratoga Spa State Park. Coneflowers, blazing star, black eyed Susan’s, swamp milkweed, summersweet, winterberry and more are planted in this rain garden!
If you want to learn more about rain gardens, check out these great step by step how-to manuals that are available for free online
Rain Gardens: A how-to manual for homeowners.
Rain Gardens: A design guide for homeowners in Connecticut.
The Vermont Rain Garden Manual
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100 Years at Thacher State Park
September 9, 2014 New York State Parks Leave a comment
A 1920s postcard showing the original ladder on the Indian Ladder Trail.
John Boyd Thacher State Park will be hosting a Centennial Celebration on Saturday, September 13th from 10am to 7pm. This free event will feature a variety of fun things to do, including live birds of prey, guided hikes to Tory and Hailes Caves, live music from Oobleck and Hair of the Dog, and kids’ activities including horse-drawn wagon rides, bouncy castles, a climbing wall and pony rides, along with outdoor workshops from L.L. Bean. A ceremony will be held at Thacher Point at 11:00am as at the original dedication 100 years ago.
On September 14th, 1914, Emma Treadwell Thacher joined Governor Martin Glynn and over 1,000 other attendees to formally dedicate 350 acres of the Helderberg Escarpment in memory of her late husband, John Boyd Thacher. Since that day, John Boyd Thacher State Park has expanded to cover over 2400 acres with 25 miles of hiking trails and 9 picnic pavilions to be enjoyed by the public. Please join us on September 13th as we celebrate our history and look forward to the next century of John Boyd Thacher State Park.
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Welcome, Daryle the Turtle!
June 24, 2014 New York State Parks Leave a comment
There’s a new critter at the Moreau Lakes Nature Center in Saratoga County – Daryle the eastern box turtle!
For now, Daryle is staying behind the scenes as he gets used to his new home and lifestyle, but this summer he will star in educational programming out of the Nature Center.
Box turtles are named for the special, hinged plastron that allow these turtles to close their shell almost completely. Box turtles live in open woodlands, pastures, and marshy meadows. They are often found near streams and ponds, where they like to enter the shallow water (although they are not aquatic).
Daryle found his way to Moreau Lakes through Mid-Atlantic Turtle and Tortoise Society (MATTS). MATTS is dedicated to protecting habitat for turtles and tortoises and educating the public on proper care for pet turtles and tortoises.
Daryle was attacked by a dog, and his subsequent injuries meant that he would never be able to close up his shell again. He would not have been able to survive in the wild, and so he was relocated to the nature center. However, Daryle won’t be lonely at Moreau – another turtle from MATTS rescue is already resident at the nature center. Berlin, the painted turtle, was an abandoned pet who has also found a new home at Moreau Lakes.
The painted turtle is one of the most common turtle species in North America. In fact, it’s the only turtle that naturally occurs across the whole continent. They are often seen basking in groups on logs in the water and along the shore. They are omnivores, dining on plants, slugs, snails, insects, algae, as well as carrion and small fish.
Painted turtles and box turtles are cute, but don’t take one home! Capturing native NY species as pets is illegal. Fortunately, the Moreau Lakes Nature Center has educated, caring staff that will make sure these unreleasable turtles live in comfort the rest of their days.
Photos by Rebecca Mullins, Moreau Lake State Park. Post by Paris Harper
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Salamander Migrations
May 16, 2014 New York State Parks Leave a comment
Salamander migrations are annual events that happen within a very short time frame every year. Salamanders are cued to specific temperature, humidity, air pressure and light conditions which signal to them that it is safe to travel. This typically occurs on the first rainy night above 45°F in the late winter or early spring. Although the salamander migration often occurs on one big night, this year’s inconsistent weather led to a series of smaller salamander movements that were staggered across a few weeks.
Salamanders belong to the group of animals called amphibians, which all share the ability to breathe through their skin. For this reason their skin must remain damp at all times, which is why rainy conditions are necessary for any long-range movement across land.
When salamanders migrate, they are moving away from their overwintering spots in wooded upland areas to vernal pools in lowland areas and depressions. Vernal pools are temporary pools created by spring rain and snow melt that dry up by mid-summer. Predators like fish and turtles cannot live in vernal pools, and so they are a strategic habitat for salamanders to breed and lay their eggs.
Once they have arrived at the vernal pool, male salamanders perform courtship dances to attract mates. Once they have paired off, the males deposit sperm packets on the twigs and leaf litter in the pond, which the females pick up and use to fertilize their eggs, which are laid underwater in groups of 100-300. On the next warm, wet night the adults will relocate to their summer habitats – usually a cozy spot underneath a rock or log.
Salamanders are extremely vulnerable during migration events, especially when their routes require them to cross roads. Many State Parks organize volunteer groups to meet on these special nights to act as amphibian crossing-guards. A few weeks ago, some friends and I took a slow night drive on the county roads near Thacher State Park in Albany County to see if we could help any salamanders on their journey. We saw plenty of salamanders, and frogs, too!
featured image is a spotted salamander. Photos and post by Paris Harper
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Rosa Parks: Historical Heroes
Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.
Sojourner Truth Timeline
Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.
Learning About Amelia Boynton Robinson
Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.
All About Katherine Johnson
Introduce your second and third graders to the inspiring mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson. After reading a short biography, children will use what they've learned to answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.
Historical Heroes: Lorraine Hansberry
Introduce children to American playwright Lorraine Hanberry, who was only 29 years old when she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play for "A Raisin in the Sun."
Who is Angela Davis?
Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.
Women Who Dared to Dream Cards
Children are introduced to 24 changemakers from around the world with this set of Women Who Dared to Dream cards.
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Happening Now: State of the Climate in 2013
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State of the Climate
The numbers are in. The American Meteorological Society’s State of the Climate in 2013 shows that the vast majority of worldwide climate indicators continued to reflect trends of a warmer planet. This report, released in 2014 and compiled by hundreds of scientists from organizations around the world and coordinated by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, used dozens of climate indicators to track patterns, changes, and trends of the global climate system.
Our ocean is a vital component of the climate system, and therefore many aspects of it can be studied as climate indicators. For example: The globally averaged sea surface temperature for 2013 was among the 10 highest on record, with the North Pacific reaching an historic high temperature. Rising sea surface temperatures can increase the destructive potential of tropical storms and have major impacts on ocean life.
The Arctic experienced its seventh warmest year on record, and it is warming at twice the rate of lower latitudes. This is called “Arctic Amplification.” Arctic sea ice extent was the sixth lowest since satellite observations began. Arctic sea ice exerts a cooling influence on the climate by reflecting sunlight, and is an important habitat for arctic animals.
2013 global average sea level was 1.5 inches above the 1993-2010 average, which is the highest yearly average in the satellite record, and on pace with the trend of ~3.2 mm per year over the past two decades. Rising sea levels threaten coastal communities, infrastructure, and fish and wildlife habitats.
Our ocean and climate are inextricably linked, so it’s important that we continue to study how and why they are changing.
For the full report, and to learn more about our climate, visit ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc.
The Arctic: Our First Sign of Climate Change
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The Role of Ice in the Ocean: Part 1
The annual State of the Climate Report presents a detailed, peer-reviewed update on global climate indicators and notable weather events in the U.S. and around the world.
NOAA is working with partners and the public to build a climate-smart nation that is resilient to climate and weather extremes, and long-term changes.
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Home » Sections » Environment & resources » Climate change
Climate: What’s changed, what hasn’t and what we can do about it
Six months to COP21
Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD
In my first climate change lecture, nearly two years ago, my key message was that meeting the challenge of climate change required us to achieve zero net greenhouse emissions globally by the end of this century.
That’s because carbon dioxide emissions accumulate and are long-lived. Without zero net CO2 emissions, temperatures will just keep rising. When I said that two years ago, it was deemed controversial. Today, I’m pleased to see that it has become conventional wisdom and a commonly shared goal–including just last month by the G7 Leaders.
Not much has changed since then…except prices.
So let me start by reflecting on what has and what hasn’t changed since that day (9 October 2013). First of all, the science has not changed. The IPCC’s recent Fifth Assessment Report has confirmed the seriousness and urgency of the issue. The second key element that has NOT changed is the predominance of fossil fuels. Two years ago, we were awash in fossil fuels. Unfortunately, they still dominate global energy supply, accounting for an aggregate share of 81%. In fact, the carbon intensity of the fuel mix has hardly changed since 1990.
What has changed significantly is the price of fossil fuels. On the day I delivered my first LSE lecture, Brent crude stood at US$109 per barrel. By mid-January 2015, the price had plunged to less than US$50 per barrel. It has since followed an upward and volatile trend, but remains well below last year’s peak, fluctuating at around US$60 per barrel. Of course, coal prices have fallen too, though less dramatically.
Read the full speech
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June 2nd
Debates of June 2nd, 2016
House of Commons Hansard #64 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was vote.
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Alain Rayes Conservative Richmond—Arthabaska, QC
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question, but I am flabbergasted.
I just cannot get over how the other opposition parties are playing right into the government's hands. The opposition parties that want to get on board with the plan to set up a committee are telling Canadians that they are not smart enough to have an opinion about something as important as the voting system.
The Conservative government made changes, but it never put forward a motion or a bill to change the voting system. Now the government wants a partisan committee composed of elected men and women to come up with a proposal that suits their personal interests.
I am not the only one to say that. I challenge the government to find a single political analyst who supports the government's proposal. The NDP, the Bloc Québécois, and the other parties are flirting with the government. I could just about fall off my chair.
Peter Fonseca Liberal Mississauga East—Cooksville, ON
Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the hon. member for Richmond—Arthabaska. The member was talking about being hyperpartisan and how to take that out of politics.That is the platform that we ran on, a platform of real change, of positive change. Having accepted the motion from the NDP, we are reaching across the aisle, looking at ideas from all members.
Would the member be open-minded enough to reach out to his constituents through Twitter, through a town hall, through emails, voice drops, whatever, to bring them into the process and let them speak to what they would like to see in terms of electoral reform here in this country?
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for his question.
I will be pleased to consult my constituents and ask their opinion. I think that everyone will do that. The committee will do it and the members will too. However, ultimately, I will never tell them that it is an elected official, here in the House, who will make a final decision on the voting system, the very foundation of our democracy, without asking for their clear opinion.
I would like to remind everyone that I studied math and computer science and that I also have an MBA. Right now, there are 26 million voters registered in Canada. Even if we look at the worst-case scenario for a referendum, which is about 50% of voters, that would still be 13 million people who voted during the most recent referendums on the voting system in the various provinces in Canada.
Here in the House, the government is saying that, in the next six months, the committee members will decide what is good for Canadians and that they will do so during the summer, when they are busy barbecuing, sitting around their pools, or vacationing in various places across the country or throughout the world. No, thank you. I will not play the game of the members across the way and I hope that the other opposition parties will not play either.
Kennedy Stewart NDP Burnaby South, BC
Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue.
I am very happy to stand up today to speak to the motion. My colleagues have outlined the core of the motion, what we are proposing for the committee, and the good news about the co-operation that seems to be bursting on the scene here in the House of Commons. However, I would like to give a little context. Since I did spend six years doing a Ph.D. on political science, I might as well geek out a bit and use some of that knowledge, as we look at changing what is a fundamental institution of our country.
In early political science, all that political scientists studied were rules. They studied the institutions by which we make decisions. They tried to say that if we had a certain set of rules or institutions, we would always get a certain outcome. That was how political science really started. They soon found out that was not the case because a little thing called human behaviour got in the way. Consequently, in the fifties, we had a behavioural revolution. All we studied was human behaviour, saying that was what determined the outcomes of politics. However, after some while, they found that institutions did matter, and we had this kind of merger of the two ideas. It was said that both institutions, the rules by which we make the decisions and human behaviour, help to determine how we make certain political outcomes. Therefore, in a way, the rules by which our institutions are structured bound our behaviour.
We notice this in the House of Commons. We are elected through the first past the post system currently. That sets up an adversarial system in the House of Commons. By the nature of the rules, we have to have a majority on one side, followed by an opposition on the other. The expression that we are two sword lengths apart, and all that, has come from that tradition. However, it means we have an adversarial system. The government proposes something, and then our job as opposition is to criticize it.
These kinds of rules exist in all kinds of legislatures. Some first past the post majority systems are very adversarial. We see that. We see conflict and nastiness. Others are less so. Others are more co-operative. Although they are adversarial and although people are pitted against one another, the behaviour within the House matters. Therefore, I am hopeful that what we are seeing here today is perhaps us taking control of this institution, realizing that we are bound by the current rules we have, but deciding to change our behaviour collectively.
I was in the last Parliament. It was very adversarial, and it was by nature. I was very opposed to a number of the bills that the Conservatives put forward, the way they were pushed through the House of Commons by closure, omnibus bills, and those types of things. I was not just angry at the content of the bills, but a lot of the ways by which those bills were forced through Parliament offended me. I spoke up about that quite a lot.
Now, we are in a new Parliament, and we have had promises that things are going to work differently. We have the same rules we had before, but perhaps we can have different behaviour. What I have noticed as an MP is that we have vestiges of the last Parliament. We are still acting that way. We have a different Prime Minister. We have different positions on this side of the House, and maybe we do not have to be so adversarial. I was very happy with the motion we put forward, but I was extremely happy to hear that the government had decided it would support it. To me, that represents an important cultural shift in the House. I will not say everything is roses, but it does say to Canadians that this place is different now than the last Parliament. That would never have happened in the last Parliament, and it is an important step forward.
If the vote does pass next week, we will have a committee that will go forward to study our electoral formula, the formula by which we redistribute our votes, but also other aspects of the electoral system. That is very important.
We actually have two institutional changes to consider. We have the matter of how the electoral formula will redistribute our votes. The other consideration is the way we are going to make the decisions about how we change the votes.
The Conservatives have been quite clear. They demand a referendum, although I have not heard much detail, for example, on the threshold of acceptance. I do not know if it is 50% or 60%. They have not laid out much in the way of specifics in terms of what their referendum would look like.
I think it is a valid thing for them to argue, although I do not agree with it at this point. We have a bit of a conundrum here in the House of Commons because we had an unusual election promise. It is playing out that we are a little uncertain about how this should go forward.
As an example, our platform included a promise to bring in a mixed member proportional system. We have made that very clear. We made that clear in many elections, all the way through. If we had been elected in a majority in the House of Commons, we would have had a mandate to put through a mixed member proportional system. In other elections, parties campaigned on referendums to change electoral systems. I did not see that in the Conservative platform. I did not see a proposal for a referendum. This is a new thing for the official opposition to suggest this.
We had from the Prime Minister an election promise that I have not seen in any other election. It was not a promise for a specific system; it was a promise that changed the current system, and that is unusual. I think we have had a bit of trouble trying to figure out how that should happen because we do not have a lot of precedents to look at. We do not have many countries where we can say a government was elected with a majority making a promise to change the system, without giving an idea of what that would be.
I suspect if I were a Liberal, I would probably like a alternative vote system because that would benefit me in upcoming elections. I have read the work of the very respected political science professor from Quebec, our Global Affairs minister, whose preference is for some version of alternative votes. I know that the Liberals will be going into the committee thinking that this is their top preference and what they would like. Of course, Canadians know what the NDP's position has been forever, which is a mixed member proportional system, so that is what we will be going into the committee for.
With the Conservatives, we know it is the status quo, but the promise from the Prime Minister is that we will not have the status quo. I am quite happy that we have come to point where we have a committee that can show Canadians what a proportional system would look like. It is not an adversarial system. We know committees are set up to be adversarial. One side has a clear majority and another side argues. It is just like here in the House of Commons. Eventually, if behaviour changes, sometimes we can make amendments to committee reports, or sometimes bill will change slightly. That is if the behaviour changes, if the culture is different. However, it is still a majority system, where the majority kind of rams things through.
If the motion holds, we are getting into a position where we will show Canadians how we as politicians will operate under a proportional system. That is incredibly important. It is almost a preview of what Canadians could see if we changed our electoral system to make it more proportional.
My colleagues have outlined very well what we have proposed here. They have also outlined, and again thanks to the government for agreeing, that this is a better structure for a committee that we should go forward with. However, what we need to hear as soon as the committee is struck are the principles for it.
I have a bill in front of Parliament concerning gender equity, which would nudge parties toward running more women candidates in the hope that we can get more women elected to this place. Canada is ranked 61st in the world in terms of the number of women who are elected to this legislature. We used to be 19th in the world. We have fallen to 61st because other countries have taken measures within their electoral laws to prompt parties to run more women candidates. I know we started to have that debate here, but I think that would be something that the committee might consider. Because we are proportional, we could have a very balanced discussion about that.
I know what my sights are set on. It is trying to get as much of a proportional system as we can, but which the parties can agree on. The second thing is to fundamentally change this place to make it more reflective of the Canadian population. To have only one-quarter of our members being women, parties have to nominate more women candidates. We want a Parliament that reflects Canada more broadly and that the politics and presence of all Canadians are felt in this place.
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to come back to the comment of the member for Burnaby South that had the NDP won the election with a majority government, it would have brought in proportional representation. History belies this point. New Democrats have been in power in six or seven provinces and have never actually done it, even though they made that promise over and over again. Their federal and provincial parties are the same party, it is in their constitution, so it is a little strange for them to say that.
On another point, we have talked about first past the post and mixed member proportional. First past the post, as a term, was introduced to be diminutive. It was introduced to say it is a horse race, not a real system. I wonder if we could, as a group, agree to call it single member plurality, which is the correct name for it. We should do that or start giving everything nicknames. For example, mixed member proportional could be first past the post with consolation prizes. There are a whole lot of different systems out there and we should be using the technical terms so we do not bias the terminology.
Mr. Speaker, I guess it is technicality versus what the public is most familiar with. Of course, we will not have to talk about it much because the last election was the last election that used first past the post/single member plurality, so perhaps it will be thrown into the dustbin of history and we will have a new system.
I take the member's point that we have to make it clear when we are explaining to Canadians that this is a very technical thing, which I have been explaining for 20 years to people. I really hope the government puts all of its resources into this to help Canadians through this, because it is basically a mathematical redistribution of votes, which is not that sexy most of the time.
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, the member had some interesting things to say and I thank him for doing so. In the last election, I heard at thousands of doors an awful lot about a variety of issues, with emphasis on the economy, jobs and employment, the refugee crisis. I had conversations about leadership and preferences for the person people wanted as prime minister. I cannot really recall a comment about electoral reform and the desirability of it. This was not an issue that the majority of Canadians based their decision on, so it is a little disingenuous for parties or the government to claim this mandate for doing so.
In the member's speech, he talked about the NDP's desirability for proportional representation and he talked about the desirability perhaps of the government for an alternate vote. This is again a discussion of political parties deciding how they want to set up the system. Why will they not agree that Canadians ought to have the final say with whatever proposal is put forward and decide yes or no by referendum once the consultation is concluded?
June 2nd, 2016 / 5:05 p.m.
Mr. Speaker, these are great questions and these are the kinds of discussions that will take place in committee. However, let us be clear that we all have partisan choices. New Democrats have been clear for decades that ours is mixed member proportionality, but the member's preference is for the current system.
In the election campaign, the Prime Minister made a promise to the Canadian public that that would be the last election under first past the post or single member plurality, as my colleague would call it. That is what we are trying to move towards. I would encourage the member to drop the spirit of the last Parliament and work with this Parliament. He should not use the adversarial system of the last Parliament and change his behaviour. Let us all work together on this.
Pierre-Luc Dusseault NDP Sherbrooke, QC
Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague on his expertise.
I am wondering whether, like me, he is at least somewhat optimistic about the outcome of this process. He is very familiar with how parliamentary committees operate and how they make recommendations.
Does he share my rather cautious optimism regarding the answer the government will get from the committee when it submits its report and recommendations based on its consultations?
Mr. Speaker, my hope springs eternal, and I forgot to mention in my speech how much I would like to thank the member for Skeena and the member for Rosemont, from our party, for making this happen.
We will have this committee, we will have our discussions, and there will be a committee report. I think it is something that is such a big change that we will have to take it step by step. However, I am very happy with the first step we took today.
The Deputy Speaker Conservative Bruce Stanton
Before I recognize the hon. member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue, I must inform her that she has about seven and a half minutes remaining and I will have to interrupt her at 5:15 p.m.
The hon. member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue.
Christine Moore NDP Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
Mr. Speaker, although I do not have 10 minutes to speak, I am pleased to be able to speak to this motion on the special committee and, more generally, on electoral reform.
I want to thank my colleague from Skeena—Bulkley Valley for the work he has done. I also want to commend the work done by the member for Edmonton Centre, among others. In the previous Parliament, my former colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent, Alexandrine Latendresse, also worked very hard on the issue of electoral reform.
I would like to point out that most NDP members who were here before 2015 did a great deal of consultation in their ridings and used every means available to them to talk about electoral reform in a general sense in order to get a clearer picture of the most common concerns.
One of the most frequently raised points on the topic of electoral reform and our current system was that it does not make sense for a majority to have 100% control over Parliament when the majority of Canadians did not vote for them. Many people told me that minority governments are also perhaps not so effective, because that situation often leads to quick elections and not much work gets done during those Parliaments.
Nevertheless, many people have told me that they much preferred minority governments because members were forced to talk to each other to achieve their goals. Others told me that the problems started up again as soon as majority governments returned and they were allowed to take all control.
It obviously does not make sense to talk about electoral reform in a committee controlled by the majority government. If that had been the process, it would have made a mockery of our democracy, and I supported the proposal by my colleague from Skeena—Bulkley Valley to ensure that the committee reflects the percentage of votes we received.
As a result of his work, we will have a committee in which at least two parties will have to agree on the recommendations for them to be included in the report. At the very least, two parties will have to work together. For some recommendations, it may be two different parties than for other recommendations. At least the composition of the committee will leave us no choice but to work together. I am so happy about that.
Now, I will talk a bit about the points that are most often raised when I speak to people in my riding. One of the concerns that is raised most often has to do with the principle of local representation. People are worried that, if a new system is put in place, they will lose their local MP. They think it is extremely important to have a representative in the riding and to be able to contact someone who will help them. They are afraid of being forgotten if they are placed with a member who comes from a big city, for example. That is one of the points that was raised most often in the discussions that I have had with my constituents.
People also wanted to ensure that every vote counts. That is important. People told us that they always felt as though their vote was lost. They feel that is unacceptable. They said they liked voting for small parties and for people who really share their beliefs, but they know that if they do so, their vote is basically worthless. They often feel as though they cannot vote for their preferred candidate, who will do the best job, but instead they have to vote for the least objectionable candidate, according to the context and that person's chance of winning. That is not how people want to vote.
These are really important elements to consider and the committee will be able to examine the different systems based on these factors, as well as factors related to local representation and the ability of small parties to exist.
If we reform the electoral system, we need to remember that one thing that is different about Canada is that independent candidates regularly run in local elections. In my opinion, we need to take into account the fact that some members want to run as independents or that some candidates want to try their luck that way.
All of these different points can be studied by this committee, and no one party will have control. Obviously, the committee will produce its findings, but there is much more. With respect to witnesses, if a party has the absolute majority, it can block a witness who may have views that differ from the party's, for example.
This could affect more than the committee's decision or the recommendations it makes. It could affect the work that members do in this committee and even the reliability of the committee process. If people only listen to the witnesses they want to hear, the testimony will not reflect reality.
In such a comprehensive process, it is important to hear from experts who can provide information and talk about all the possibilities. Once we have this information and the recommendations on the table, we can decide on how to proceed.
However, for now, it is important to arrive at these recommendations based on as much information as possible. We must work as a team and be sure that our process is democratic and representative. Once this process is complete, we can decide what to do with the recommendations. Do we submit them to the public in a referendum? Do we move straight to a bill because there was a broad public consensus? To do so, we have to do the work fairly and equitably. All parliamentarians, who represent all of the political views across the country, must have a chance to be heard, participate actively, and vote.
With this process in place, the first step will be to make some specific recommendations. Once we have the recommendations, we can decide what to do. A number of Conservative colleagues have mentioned a referendum, which is why I wanted to touch on that topic. Before we talk about a referendum, we need to know what we would ultimately want to ask in a referendum. Right now, we want to look at all of the proposals. We cannot hold a referendum to ask the public whether they agree with each of our proposals.
When a referendum is held, the question must be clear. I think the proposal needs to be quite clear so that people understand it and can respond accordingly.
I am very pleased to conclude the debate on the excellent motion moved by my colleague from Skeena—Bulkley Valley.
It being 5:15 p.m., pursuant to an order made earlier today, all questions necessary to dispose of the opposition motion are deemed put and a recorded division deemed requested and deferred until Tuesday, June 7, 2016, at the expiry of the time provided for oral questions.
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Speaker, I think if you were to canvas the House, you would find the will to call it 5:30 p.m.
Is that agreed?
It being 5:30 p.m., we will now proceed to the consideration of private members' business as listed on today's Order Paper.
Income Tax ActPrivate Members' Business
Bryan May Liberal Cambridge, ON
moved that Bill C-240, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (tax credit — first aid), be read the second time and referred to a committee.
Mr. Speaker, today it is my pleasure to rise in the House and speak to my private member's bill, an act to amend the Income Tax Act to provide a non-refundable tax credit for those who take first aid courses.
I recognize well that my role is often to advocate for and represent my riding of Cambridge in North Dumfries. This is a role that I am honoured and humbled to fulfill, and I thank the people of my riding for placing their trust in me.
Private members' bills provide a unique and valuable opportunity to represent all Canadians. That is something that was foremost in my mind when I was designing my bill. I wanted to ensure that Canadian values and interests were inherent and that my bill would create a benefit that all Canadians could access equally.
With my PMB I wanted to achieve a few broad goals. We need to start a national conversation in this country about emergency preparedness and getting ready for the demographic shifts that we know are approaching.
The need for emergency preparedness has always been present in our society. However, with an aging population, Canadians need to be ready for more medical emergencies, more cardiac arrests, more strokes, and more falls.
The need for basic medical emergency preparedness in Canada is still growing, and this need has never been greater. In Canada, there is a heart attack every 12 minutes. People experiencing cardiac arrest have their chance of survival increased exponentially if there is a first responder or similarly trained individual present. Unfortunately, in many cases of cardiac arrest, no one with this lifesaving knowledge is nearby.
Right now more than half of adult Canadians live in a household in which no members have an up-to-date first aid or CPR certification. This reality is as dangerous as it is unacceptable, particularly when the training is readily available. These Canadian households are not prepared for emergencies. They are at risk, and it is our moral duty to do whatever we can to help our citizens be better prepared.
This legislation would fill a void in our current legislative framework and our broader society. Training to prepare people for medical emergencies is there, and we know it works. The only limitation is how many people in Canada have the training and the confidence to take action. This legislation is a measured response to the need for an incentive to encourage more Canadians to get trained.
The bill is designed to provide a modest change, innovate within a sector, and improve lives in a measured and specific way.
The legislation has the potential to make a lasting impact on the lives of many Canadians without making a lasting impact on their wallets. It is designed to appeal broadly to those members of the House who consider themselves fiscally responsible, as the costs are reasonable. At the same time, the bill's appeal is obvious to those members who seek an avenue for bettering people's lives and making our communities stronger, safer, and healthier.
I hope that my attempts to create this legislation, however humble, will save lives and achieve far grander benefits than might otherwise be apparent.
When people undertake first aid certification, what they are ultimately doing is gaining the skills and knowledge to serve their community at a personal cost. Perhaps even more important than the skills they are learning is the confidence they are gaining in an emergency situation where literally every second counts. The confidence gained through these courses can be the difference between life and death. Undertaking first aid training and administering first aid are fundamentally selfless acts that benefit not only the individual citizen but our communities as a whole. The House has the opportunity to recognize, incentivize, and facilitate these selfless acts by reducing the costs incurred by these civic-minded individuals. That is something that all members should laud, appreciate, and promote.
With this private member's bill, I propose that our government should provide a tax credit to those who take an accredited first aid, CPR, or AED training course. This tax credit would be non-refundable and provide a deduction in the amount owing equal to the lowest federal income tax rate currently at 15%. This tax credit would come at a relatively low cost to the government but would make a difference in the affordability of lifesaving training for individual Canadians.
According to Ipsos Reid, only 18% of Canadians have an up-to-date certification, meaning they have passed a course in the last three years. That means approximately 1.8 million Canadians will take this lifesaving training this year. At $15 per person, the bill would cost the government a maximum of $26.5 million this year. Compared to the value of the lives being saved, this is miniscule.
Of course, not all course participants will be eligible for the tax credit, nor will they all owe taxes. More than half of certified Canadians have their training financed by their workplace. When these facts are considered, we can see that the cost to the government would actually be much lower, likely less than $13 million.
As I have said, a great many Canadians are trained in lifesaving first aid, CPR, and AED techniques through the generosity of their employers. This generosity is to be commended. These employers recognize the value of having certified employees in their workplace. However, employers who pay for their employees' training are not eligible for the tax credit, because they already receive tax incentives when they claim it as a business expense. Similarly, the employee cannot claim the cost of a course that their employer has paid for.
For many Canadians, however, this type of training is not available at their workplace. Many of these people are still interested in the training and frankly, society would be greatly benefited from their having this training.
First aid training is lifesaving. My hope is that by making first aid courses more financially accessible, Canada will have more citizens with these lifesavings skills. Having more people with first aid training increases the likelihood of trained individuals being at hand during an emergency.
One-third of Canadians have never taken a first aid, CPR, or AED training course. This is a huge lifesaving resource that we are not accessing as a culture, but we should be. Helping Canadians gain the skill to treat medical emergencies out of hospital also has the potential to result in cost savings to the health care system by giving individuals the skills to better respond to minor situations, such as cuts and scrapes, and the knowledge and confidence to help minimize the damage sustained in the case of more substantive injuries.
For someone who breaks a bone, for example, knowing how to place a splint could have a major impact on their recovery time and the cost associated with it. For someone having a seizure, a passerby with the knowledge of rescue treatments, how to give care, comfort, and first aid, and when to call for emergency help can prevent injuries and keep many Canadians safe.
It is my hope that Canadians will take advantage of this modest tax credit to gain the skills that might allow them to save lives, prevent injuries, and help keep their neighbours and families safe.
I know that I am not the only member of Parliament for whom safeguarding the well-being of Canadians is of the utmost priority. The member for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston has made it his personal mission over the past number of years to increase the number of automatic external defibrillators in his riding and has campaigned for greater access to these devices all across Canada.
An AED is a small portable device used to deliver a shock to correct abnormal beating of the heart. These AEDs, when kept in public spaces, are an incredible asset to the safety of those around them. Every police cruiser in Ottawa has one of these devices, and it has directly resulted in around 10 lives saved every single year.
Every workplace under federal jurisdiction is required to have first aid kits for this same reason, but we need to ensure that their are hands capable of wielding these tools so that they can be effective at saving lives.
Before working in the House, I was an employee at the YMCA for many years. I remember, as the director of the YMCA about 10 years ago, my boss came to me and said that he wanted me to become a lifeguard. My first response was why. At 30 years old, why was this something that was important?
I am very glad for the opportunity to do that, although it was incredibly humbling, at 30 years old, to be taking lifesaving training with a number of 16-year-olds. However, I can say that this first aid training has made me confident that in the face of any emergency I would be able to safeguard the lives and well-being of my neighbours, my family, and my colleagues.
It is my hope to spread that kind of knowledge and confidence within Canada. I have been asking for support for the bill for the past few months. In fact, I have been nagging people to a certain extent and sending them video emails and those sorts of things. I have risen today in the House to debate it and ask for the support of all members.
I ask for this support for the sake of the well-being of our communities. The House has the opportunity to safeguard the lives of Canadians and display our commitment to emergency preparedness. I am confident that the members of the House will appreciate the impact of the legislation on the lives and safety of ordinary families. My hope is that my bill passes second reading and goes to committee, where I am open to any recommendations to make the bill better.
I thank members for their support on this issue, and I look forward to hearing their thoughts and answering any questions from the House.
Alupa Clarke Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Cambridge for his fine speech and his bill, which is quite laudable and very hard to oppose. My question is very simple. I was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces for a few years. Every year we had to take a first aid course, so that we would be able to give first aid to anyone who might need it, whether it was during our missions or while on exercise in the forest.
My colleague wants to offer a tax credit for that. That is good. As members know, we on this side of the House love tax credits. In his bill, did the member include any guidelines or provisions to ensure that official, recognized organizations would be the ones to provide the first aid courses, in order to ensure that this tax credit does not become a means for private companies to set up shop simply to make money while offering poor-quality courses?
Mr. Speaker, I am encouraged that there are others in the House who are as passionate about this particular issue as I am.
I understand his concern and, yes, there are safeguards in place. The provinces oversee the accreditation of institutions like the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club, the Red Cross, and all these organizations that responsibly offer this kind of training. It is very clear in the bill that only accredited courses would qualify for this tax credit. As accreditation has been the provinces' responsibility, they have been doing a fairly good job of that.
Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate my hon. colleague on the bill, and the New Democrats will be supporting it.
We are, however, concerned about the excessive proliferation of what are called boutique non-refundable tax credits that have been added to the Income Tax Act in recent years. These non-refundable tax credits are generally believed primarily to benefit middle- to upper-income families for whom financial barriers are less of a concern.
This also may have the unintended consequence of subsidizing the corporate sector by inadvertently encouraging employers to abandon their existing first aid training for employees. Finally, we believe that access to lifesaving training such as first aid and CPR should be equitable.
Will the hon. member consider ensuring the bill would commit the government to assisting low-income Canadians or Canadians with no taxable income to take these lifesaving courses, and ensure that corporations still provide these necessary services to their employees?
Mr. Speaker, I am very excited to hear that New Democrats will be supporting the bill, and I thank them for that.
To the first part of his question, no, this is not a boutique tax credit. A boutique tax credit, by definition, is one that supports a very small number of people. There is a very specific parameter around the tax credit. The benefits of the bill would be available for anyone in this country who availed themselves of a training course, so by definition I would suggest that it is not.
I share the hon. member's concern about potentially having adverse impacts in terms of suggesting that other employers would not offer this anymore. I do not have any reason to believe that would be the case. This is a very modest bill. We are not suggesting we would be paying for 100% of the cost of this training. Because I have kept this very modest, it would not have the impact that the member was necessarily suggesting.
Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-240, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (tax credit — first aid). I thank my colleague from Cambridge for bringing this important issue to the House.
I was excited to see my colleague opposite offering Canadians a tax credit rather than increasing their taxes. I hope it is the first of many.
This bill, as we all know, proposes amending the Income Tax Act to provide a non-refundable tax credit to individuals who complete a first aid or other health and safety instructional program or course. The proposed tax credit will be similar to the federal student tuition taxation credit for everyone who takes life-saving first aid, CPR or automated external defibrillator, AED, training.
This bill could mean the difference between life and death in an emergency situation. Tax credits like the one proposed in this bill will encourage Canadians to get trained and certified in CPR, first aid, and AED use. During an emergency, having someone on site who is trained in first aid and CPR could make the difference as we all know.
In fact, according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, there are 40,000 cardiac arrest incidents in Canada each year. That is one every thirteen minutes, and 85% of those incidents will take place outside of hospitals. After 12 minutes, the survival rate is just 5%. After four minutes, significant brain damage can occur. During an emergency situation, CPR plus an AED double the chance of survival.
These are our neighbours, our friends, and family. The importance of CPR, first aid, and AED training is clear just by looking at the number of people who spend their hard-earned money to be trained, groups like Scouts and Girl Guides, youth groups, babysitters, camp counsellors, first responders, just to name a few. That includes, of course, both adults and children.
St. John Ambulance alone, certifies more than 550,000 Canadians a year, with more than 100 locations across Canada, including a location in Lindsay in my riding.
The proposed bill will have a direct impact on Canadians who may be considering training, but are worried about the cost. However, for most people looking to take these types of courses, it really is not about the prices. It is about helping our fellow Canadians. Therefore, why not give them thanks from the Government of Canada, after all they are spending their own money.
Canadians coast to coast will see the direct benefits of this proposed change. This is not a new issue of importance for Canadians or for the government. It was our government that initiated the national AED program, which saw $10 million funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada, to install AEDs in rinks, arenas, and recreation centres all across Canada.
According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, this initiative, recently concluded, was responsible for the installation of 3,234 AEDs and the training of 25,360 Canadians on how to respond to cardiac arrest situation.
In my riding this program allowed for 23 AEDs to be installed in public access areas like the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena in Minden, the A.J. LaRue Arena in Haliburton, and the Lindsay Recreation Complex.
This program has already been responsible for saving 10 lives across Canada.
I believe this bill represents a continuation of a number of tax credits initially started by our previous government, including the children's fitness and arts tax credits, both of which are now sadly gone, and the volunteer firefighters tax credit. The volunteer firefighters tax credit had the same effect I think this bill will have. It encouraged Canadians to be trained and to help each other. It allowed for Canadians to help themselves. Again, it is not about the cost, it is about helping our fellow citizens.
As such, we should let the measure we are discussing now, and the previously mentioned measures, act as a way of giving back to Canadians for trying to help and do the right thing. In many small communities, like those in my riding, many firefighting departments are completely run by volunteers. These Canadians sacrifice their time and safety, even time with family, to help protect others.
Increasing the number of Canadians who have the financial ability to be trained in CPR, first aid, and AED use will help Canadians coast to coast to coast, especially in remote and rural areas where medical assistance is not always around the corner.
A 2012 Ipsos Reid poll showed that 38% of Canadians said that they had provided first aid, and 78% believed it was important to know how to perform first aid. While the information is a few years old, it is still very relevant for the discussion on this bill. The results showed that two in three Canadians had taken a first aid course, with only 18% having taken it within three years of the poll, and 49% having taken it more than three years before that poll.
Canadians who have taken a first aid course are significantly more competent in their skills to help someone in a medical emergency.
The results of this poll help paint a very big picture. It paints a picture of the importance of first aid, CPR, and AED training. Similar information has been found by our neighbours south of the border. According to the American Heart Association, each year more than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States. Almost 90% of people who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests die.
CPR, especially if performed in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest, can double or triple a person's chance of survival. Seventy per cent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in homes. Unfortunately, only about 46% of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest get the immediate help they need before professional help arrives.
Our Conservative Party highly values life and life-saving capabilities, and I support incentives and rewards to help save lives. If more medically trained personnel exist, financial burdens to emergency services may be reduced, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity.
While there is much to praise about the proposed bill, I look forward to seeing what the potential cost of these measures will be. We need to ensure that proper balance of tax credits and fiscal responsibility are there.
Canadians are kind and generous people, as we all know. I believe the bill would give Canadians an increased opportunity to be certified in first aid, CPR, and AED use, which of course, as I think we all agree in the House, is a benefit to all.
I would like to thank the Canadian Red Cross, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, St. John Ambulance, and all the organizations that have promoted, trained, and certified Canadians in first aid, CPR, and AED use. I would also like to thank the volunteers, because we cannot forget the volunteers who work so hard in our communities to make them safer.
People should remember that during CPR, we should push on the chest at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute, or to the beat of the Bee Gees song, Stayin' Alive.
I encourage all members to support the bill and to encourage all Canadians to get trained in first aid, CPR, and AED use. It could mean the difference between life and death in an emergency situation.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-240, an act to amend the Income Tax Act, to provide a tax credit for first aid courses. This bill proposes to introduce a non-refundable tax credit of up to $200 for all first aid courses, cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, and automated external defibrillator training.
The member for Cambridge introduced this bill with the intention of providing a financial incentive to encourage more Canadians to receive first aid and other emergency health and safety training courses. If adopted, all taxpayers and their eligible children would become eligible for this credit. I want to congratulate him on this initiative and tell him that the New Democrats will be proudly supporting this at second reading.
First aid, CPR, and AED are skills that can be used by everyday citizens in emergency situations to stabilize health conditions until first responders arrive. An Ipsos Reid poll commissioned in 2012 revealed that nearly 40% of Canadians say they have provided first aid in their lifetime. The majority of first aid is provided, importantly, to a family member.
As well, while nearly 80% of Canadians believe first aid is a very important skill to have, only 18% of Canadians have been certified. According to the Red Cross, Canadians with first aid training and certification are considerably more confident in their skills to be able to help someone experiencing a medical emergency. It saves lives.
Here are a few relevant facts about first aid in Canada. The Red Cross estimates it trains approximately 600,000 Canadians every year in first aid, CPR, and/or AED. While nearly 80% of Canadians believe first aid is a very important skill to have, only 18% of Canadians were certified. An Ipsos Reid poll commissioned in 2012 revealed that 40% of Canadians have provided that important skill to their family members. First aid saves lives, and efforts to promote this training should be encouraged.
New Democrats support the objective of this bill and look forward to engaging in a deeper study at the committee stage. As a party, New Democrats believe fundamentally that the lens of equity and social justice should be applied to all legislation that passes through the House. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that New Democrats are always concerned by the proliferation of non-refundable tax credits that have been added to the Income Tax Act in recent years.
Many expert observers argue that these kinds of tax credits primarily benefit middle- and upper-income households. To quote a 2013 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
These credits...make the tax system less transparent and...once they are put in place there is little...accountability of the amount of money spent on them or their effectiveness.
...a large number of current deductions and credits disproportionately benefit high earners....
The question of accessibility cannot be forgotten in the larger discussion around the promotion of first aid training. When assessing this bill, members should ask themselves who benefits and who could be left out. Certainly, this bill can achieve the desired effect of promoting first aid training among a number of families. However, the same must be focused on low-income Canadians and those on social assistance.
There are Canadians for whom the cost of first aid training presents a barrier. These are the Canadians who might not have enough income to benefit from a non-refundable tax credit, and like the rest of us, these Canadians would also greatly benefit from first aid training. It is, therefore, my hope that this bill progresses to the committee stage and that the committee is given the opportunity to take a closer look at the issues of accessibility in this bill, in the hopes of broadening its reach.
On a similar note, New Democrats believe all bills involving tax credits should be properly costed before being adopted by Parliament. In my research on this bill, I asked the Library of Parliament to draw up a rough estimate of the annual cost of Bill C-240. Accounting for multiple variables, the analysts have estimated a cost at between $30 million and $60 million per year. While relatively small in the grand scheme of a $300-billion budget, it is not insignificant, particularly when we consider the number of proposals for tax credits that have been introduced in Parliament and the others that are already on the books.
Finally, this initiative may also have the unintended consequence of subsidizing the corporate sector by inadvertently encouraging employers to abandon their existing first aid training programs. We would have to keep a close eye on that.
These are some of the issues that New Democrats believe require consideration at committee stage, and I look forward to having the opportunity to participate in that analysis.
As I have stated before, Mr. Speaker, this bill has the laudable goal of promoting life-saving first aid training among Canadians, and it spurs a conversation about how best to improve first aid training in our communities.
While reading Bill C-240, I was reminded of the local heroes in Vancouver and across Canada who either teach or use first aid, CPR, and automated external defibrillation to save lives every day. My thoughts go to those remarkable first responders in Vancouver who have worked admirably throughout the years, and today, often in very challenging situations, to make our communities safer for everyone.
I have often had the great pleasure to meet with firefighters in Vancouver, from IAFF Local 18, people like Rob Weeks, Lee Lax, Dustin Bourdeaudhuy, and Chris Coleman. These are hard-working local heroes who, with their workmates, often on the front lines of traumatic and tragic events, provide life-saving skills every day. In their jobs they save lives, livelihoods, homes, and more. In my meetings, I hear the pride they have to serve the public and to perform their jobs with honour and professionalism. These men and their colleagues truly make Vancouver a safer community for everyone. On behalf of the residents of Vancouver Kingsway, I want to thank them here in this House for their work.
I have also listened to the legitimate requests these local heroes have made to improve their occupational health and safety, and their quality of life. I have heard their requests for a firefighter compensation fund, funding for increased staffing in fire halls, and better PTSD services for working firefighters. We need to act on these justified and necessary requests, and do so soon.
My thoughts also go to first responders such as Tom Stamatakis, from the Vancouver Police Union, and the men and women who serve us in the police forces across this country. I have heard of the valiant work of policemen and policewomen who patrol the streets and are often the first people to answer emergency calls. In cities sometimes blighted by organized criminal activity, the policemen and policewomen are on the front lines every day to make our cities and towns safe and secure places to live. They save lives every day as well. I want to thank them in this House for their work.
In my capacity as health critic, I have also had the great pleasure of meeting with representatives from the Paramedic Association of Canada. Paramedics save lives every day in emergency situations, using first aid skills, and a variety of other specialized medical training. We need to thank them and support them in their work.
My thoughts also go to the countless organizations in Canada that provide first aid training in schools, community centres, and offices, to better equip the public for emergencies. Many see first aid as a form of community care, a form of empowerment for people in our communities to take care of themselves and save lives.
As many know, Vancouver is blessed with its location between the mountains and the ocean. Despite the wonderful geographic features that make Vancouver so unique around the world, we also live with many of the associated risks. Vancouverites are active boaters, swimmers, hikers, and skiers. These exciting sports are part of the attraction of the west coast lifestyle, but they also raise the risk of accidents and emergencies. Widespread first aid training is vital to creating a safer environment for Vancouverites, British Columbians, and indeed all Canadians, to get out and play in our beautiful environment and our country. Therefore, thousands of Vancouverites, and millions of Canadians, count on incredible non-profit Canadian agencies, such as the Lifesaving Society, St. John Ambulance, Canadian Ski Patrol, Canadian Red Cross, and Heart and Stroke Foundation to provide life-saving first aid training.
Vancouver is a city that sits on a seismologically active fault line. Frequent minor earthquakes in the region are a reminder of the power of the earth beneath the feet of Vancouverites and British Columbians. For years, geological scientists have predicted the possibility of a large seismic event in the Pacific northwest. The “big one”, as it is commonly referred to, could strike here, at any time. We had recently a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on the west coast of Haida Gwaii. Earthquake preparedness is part of the way of life for Vancouverites. We need to make sure our first aid training, our seismic upgrading, and our preparation for our population, particularly on the west coast, is given a high priority by the Liberal government.
To conclude, I want to reiterate that the New Democratic Party's support for Bill C-240 is strong. We believe more needs to be done to promote first aid training among Canadians to make our communities safer. We look forward to a vibrant debate at committee stage and beyond as we work to improve and implement the provisions of this important bill.
Once again, I thank my hon. colleague for bringing this important issue to the attention of the House.
Saint-Maurice—Champlain Québec
François-Philippe Champagne LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, the member for Cambridge is not only a great member, but he is also a friend.
The bill pursues a great goal. I think all members would agree to that. We all commend members who present private member's bills because we know how much work, time, and effort goes into them, and I know the member is genuine in trying to pursue a very important initiative in our country.
I took a course in first aid when I was an army cadet and it has served me well throughout my life, so I do understand what the member is trying to achieve, and I commend him for that because he has taken this issue very seriously. We had a number of consultations. We spoke together. We spoke with the minister, but as good as the policy objective is, the tax system is not the appropriate vehicle for action, and we believe it would be unlikely to increase participation.
Considering that 67% of Canadians have taken first aid courses, it is unlikely that a deduction of $15 claimed about 16 months afterwards would have a significant effect on increasing enrolment in our country.
In addition, the tax credit would be complicating our tax system and adding significant administration and compliance costs for the government.
I have the privilege once again to discuss an issue that is important to Canadians in the House, in their House of Commons. I thank my colleague for introducing Bill C-240, an act to amend the Income Tax Act.
Among other things, the bill seeks to provide a non-refundable tax credit to individuals who complete a first aid or other health and safety instructional program or course. I thank my colleague for his efforts, and he knows that. However, the Government of Canada is trying mainly to help the middle class and those working hard to join it. That is why in December, one of the first things our government did was to implement a tax cut for the middle class. In total, nearly nine million Canadians have been benefiting from this tax cut since January 1, 2016.
Next came budget 2016 and the new Canada child benefit. This benefit will provide additional support to Canadian families to help them deal with the high cost of raising children, and it will replace the current complicated child benefit system. The new benefit will also be better targeted to help those who need it most.
In the same vein, budget 2016 reflects our election commitment to eliminate poorly targeted and inefficient programs, wasteful spending, and ineffective and obsolete government initiatives.
As a first step towards meeting this commitment, budget 2016 announced annual reductions of $221 million in professional services, travel and government advertising, starting in 2016–17.
Going forward, under the leadership of the President of the Treasury Board, the government will identify other changes and better align government spending with priorities.
In addition, the government remains committed to ensuring federal tax expenditures are fair for Canadians, efficient and fiscally responsible.
Individuals and businesses have expressed concerns related to the efficiency and fairness of the tax system and how the increasing number of tax expenditures has made the federal tax system more complex.
In the coming year, the government will undertake a review of the Canadian tax system to determine whether it works well for Canadians, with a view to eliminating poorly targeted and inefficient tax measures. Consequently, introducing a new expenditures outside the budget process would run counter to the objectives of the comprehensive review of current spending that the Government of Canada is currently conducting.
Let us take a closer look at what the bill sets out to do. As I said earlier, my colleague from Cambridge has a worthwhile goal, but we need to examine the degree of complexity that this proposal would add to the tax system.
The bill seeks to provide a maximum tax credit of 15% of up to $200 for the cost of a first aid or other health and safety instructional program or course successfully completed by an individual or the individual's qualifying child. The bill would provide a limited incentive, as I said earlier.
Let us look at the facts: the number of Canadians who register for a first aid course is already quite high, and that is very good. According to a 2012 Ipsos Reid poll conducted for the Canadian Red Cross, we should be pleased that 67% of Canadians have taken a first aid course, of which roughly a fifth were taken in the past three years.
What is more, existing policies at various levels of government make it mandatory to know first aid at the workplace. Many employers help their employees take this type of training. At the federal level, the Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations stipulate how many employees are required to receive first aid training at federally regulated workplaces.
Furthermore, all the provinces and territories have adopted legislative requirements for the workplace regarding employee training in first aid. Given that a typical first aid course costs around $100, it is unlikely, in our view, that a $15 refund received up to 16 months after the training cost was incurred would lead to a significant increase in the number of registrations for such programs. The credit would probably mainly constitute a subsidy for the many Canadians who are already taking such courses. It is estimated that this would cost the Canadian government approximately $17 million per year.
The average benefit of this measure, in terms of reduction of income tax payable, would be weak relative to its administrative costs and compliance costs. What is more, the bill establishes no criteria for the quality or legitimacy of programs eligible to the credit. It is for these reasons that the government is opposed to this bill.
I would now like to draw the attention of the House to certain measures that the government has taken in budget 2016 to strengthen Canada's financial sector to support economic growth in the country. Canada’s financial sector framework balances various objectives, namely those of stability, competition, and meeting the evolving needs of consumers and Canadian businesses.
The financial sector plays a vital role in allocating capital efficiently to businesses and households across the economy. It must continue to play this role effectively, to ensure that Canada’s economic growth will be long-lasting and inclusive. Canadians deserve financial consumer protection that keeps pace in meeting their needs. In addition, the financial consumer protection framework must provide clarity to guide the operations of federally regulated banks.
Amendments to the Bank Act will be proposed to modernize the protection framework for these consumers by clarifying and enhancing protection measures through a new chapter in the act. They will reaffirm the government’s intent to have a system of exclusive rules to ensure an efficient national banking system from coast to coast to coast.
The government will collaborate with provinces, territories, and stakeholders to support the implementation of the framework, as well as to enhance consumer education and financial literacy. Stable and secure housing markets protect the greatest investment of many middle-class Canadian families. This is why on December 11, 2015, the government announced coordinated actions to strengthen the resiliency of Canada’s housing finance system, increase market discipline in residential lending, and promote long-term stability and balanced economic growth.
In closing, I would like to thank my hon. colleague from Cambridge once again for his motion. I thank him for having proposed an important bill, and as I was saying earlier, we will have to oppose that bill as it now stands, for even though its objective is laudable, we have to consider its important tax implications, the cost of this measure, and especially the fact that 67% of Canadians have already taken part in a first aid program or course, and in our view a new tax credit will have a limited impact on participation.
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Gov. Ricketts Establishes Economic Development Field Office in North Omaha
Published on aaron.mack at December 21, 2020
Photo: Director Tony Goins (podium) and Gov. Ricketts (in back of podium) at today’s press briefing. Video from today’s briefing is available by clicking here.
Today, Governor Pete Ricketts announced that the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) is launching a new North Omaha field office. The office will work to attract investment, support local entrepreneurs, develop the workforce, and grow the inventory of affordable housing.
“With its physical presence in North Omaha, Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development will connect more Nebraskans to great opportunities to create jobs, grow businesses, and achieve their dreams,” said Gov. Ricketts. “North Omaha is brimming with potential, and we have terrific leaders in place to help the community prosper.”
Bellevue resident Trevon Brooks, an entrepreneur and mentor who has been a part of the local business community since retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 2017, has been selected to manage the new location. He will be supported by staff including Georgetown University law grad Jacquelyn Morrison—recently hired by DED to help administer the State’s business incentives—and a yet-to-be-named housing specialist, among others.
“We are choosing proactive leaders with a passion for the community to help achieve our vision for this new DED location,” said DED Director Tony Goins. “I want to thank our Governor for his outstanding leadership in bringing this project to fruition. We are ready to put boots on the ground and help support a thriving North Omaha business community.”
The new field office is part of a broader effort launched by Gov. Ricketts earlier this year to spur growth in North Omaha. The “North Omaha Economic Revitalization Committee”—led by State officials including DED Director Goins, Department of Health and Human Services CEO Dannette Smith, and Department of Administrative Services (DAS) Director Jason Jackson, in collaboration with numerous public and private sector leaders—is focused on removing barriers to growth and creating new opportunities to do business throughout the region.
At today’s briefing, DAS Director Jackson also announced an initiative to increase contracting opportunities with the State. The project is especially designed to help educate small businesses and minority-owned companies on the opportunity to compete for contracts.
The State Purchasing Bureau within DAS has implemented several enhancements to increase opportunities for these businesses to work with the State. The initiatives have eased the process of submitting a bid proposal, brought greater transparency to contracting opportunities, and raised awareness about contracting opportunities.
One of these initiatives is the Procurement Concierge Program, which walks businesses through the process of bidding on government contracts. Other efforts include the online publication of upcoming bid opportunities and a media campaign to solicit bids from businesses in North and South Omaha. Additionally, State officials are dedicating resources to educating businesses on how they can expand beyond Nebraska by participating in cooperative contracts with other states and political subdivisions. Businesses can search for bid opportunities with the State of Nebraska by visiting the DAS State Purchasing Bureau website by clicking here.
“We are excited about making it easier to do business with state government,” said DAS Director Jason Jackson. “These initiatives are going to enable us to increase opportunity for small businesses and minority-owned businesses, while keeping more taxpayer money in Nebraska.”
The North Omaha office is scheduled to be up and running in January of 2021.
Video from this afternoon’s press conference is available by clicking here.
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Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ; the 14,000 infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem, the first Christian martyrs; Venerable Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th c.) Venerable Benjamin, monk of Nitria in Egyptn (392); Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), Constantinople (485); Venerable Thaddeus, Confessor, of the Studion Monastery (818); Venerble Saint George, Bishop of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia (ca.857-891) Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France (ca.280); Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome; Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa; Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France (7th c.)' Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), Abbot, born in Bayeux, monk at the monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche in Normany, and other smaller monasteries (596); Saint Girald (Girard, Giraud), monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul, and of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered (1031); Saint Mark the Grave-digger, of the Kiev Caves (11th c.); Saints Theophilus and John, of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th c.); Saint Theophilus, Abbot, of Luga and Omutch (Pskov) (1412), disciple of St. Arsenius of Konevits. Saint Basiliscus, Elder, the Hesychast of Siberia (Turinsk) (1824); Venerable Laurence of Chernigov (1950); New Hieromartyr Arcadius, Bishop of Tver (1937); New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent (1938); Virgin-martyrs: Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agrippina and Natalia (1942); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the consecration of the Church of the Holy Forty Martyrs, near the Copper Tetrapyle (four-way arch); Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.
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Little-Known Facts About Vincent Van Gogh
Daisha Jaskolski November 11, 2019 May 28, 2020
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most celebrated and well known artists in the world. The French painter became famed for his impressionistic style of artistry, but only after his death. He also had a fascinating life of artistic endeavours, battles with mental illness, financial hardships and more.
Here are some fascinating facts about Van Gogh that you may not have known about until now!
#1: He Had a Family of Vincents
Vincent Van Gogh (the painter) was not the only member of his family to carry that name. In fact, there were 4 other family members with the exact same name as he! Vincent was originally named after his stillborn elder brother, who was also named after their grandfather, Vincent Van Gogh. Later, the painter also became an uncle to another namesake when his brother Theo named his child Vincent as well.
#2: He Started His Career at 27
Many famous artists began painting in their teens or even their childhood years, but this was not the case with Van Gogh. Vincent only began to paint at the age of 27, and taught himself his own trademark techniques. Nowadays, more convenient sources of entertainment like the ability to play Roulette online are available!
His earlier works are not the brightly coloured, impressionist works that he is known for today. When he started out, he used a dull colour palette and harsh subject matter, favouring themes like poverty and emotional challenges.
#3: He Was Good Friends with Gaugin
Van Gogh had a close friendship with another iconic painter of the time, Paul Gaugin. The two met in Paris in 1887, and painted together often. Despite this, their artistic styles remained vastly different. Van Gogh’s friendship with Gaugin seemingly ended after his self-mutilation incident, which involved both artists.
#4: He Documented His Life with Letters
Vincent penned more than 800 letters during his life, most of which to his brother and confidant Theo, his friends Paul Gaugin and Emile Bernard, and a few others. Most of his letters do not offer dates, but still offer an extensive source of information about the artist’s life and interpersonal relationships.
Over 600 of the recovered letters were exchanged between himself and his brother, telling of their lifelong friendship and of Van Gogh’s artistic theories. Theo kept all of these letters, and after both Van Goghs had passed away, Theo’s wife Johanna collated and edited them, publishing them later in 1914.
#5: He Was a Jack of All Trades
Van Gogh tried out many other careers before becoming an artist. Before painting, he tried his hand at teaching schoolchildren, preaching, and dealing in art.
#6: He Created Thousands of Works
Van Gogh’s artistic life did not last very long, but in his decade of artistry he managed to create over 2,100 works, including 860 oil paintings. Many of those paintings were only done in the last 2 years of his life.
#7: He Only Became Iconic in Death
Van Gogh only sold 1 painting during his lifetime – the Red Vineyards Near Arles. However, after his death the public began to realise his brilliance, and today his works are some of the most valuable in the world.
#8: He Suffered from Mental Illness
Vincent was plagued by mental illness and spent much time in psychiatric hospitals like Saint-Remy. Modern scientists believe that he suffered from bipolar disorder and psychotic episodes, which were worsened by a poor diet and heavy drinking.
#9: He Cut Off His Own Ear
There are dozens of theories surrounding Van Gogh’s removal of his ear. A prevalent one states that the artist took a razor to it and severed it after a fight with his friend Paul Gaugin. Rumour has it that he then wrapped up the ear in paper and delivered it to a brothel which he and his friend both frequented.
Daisha Jaskolski
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40 DAYS AFTER; WE’RE YET TO COME TO TERMS WITH AJIMOBI’S DEATH | OYO APC WOMEN
As the 40-day Fidau prayer of the late former governor of Oyo state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, holds today in his private residence, the leadership of the Women’s wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has disclosed that most members of the party as well as admirers of the deceased were yet to come to terms with the reality of his death for many good reasons.
Ajimobi died at a Lagos hospital on June 25, 2020 and he was buried in his Oluyole residence on June 28, 2020 in accordance with Islamic traditions. He was, until his death, the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the APC having left office as the Executive Governor of the Pacesetter state on May 29, 2019 after serving for an unprecedented two terms of uninterrupted eight years.
Speaking with a cross section of journalists at the Party’s Secretariat in Oke-Ado, Ibadan on Wednesday, the APC’s State Woman Leader, Mrs Mabel Williams, described the late former governor as a quintessential leader, humanitarian par excellence and wonderful being whose memory would linger forever in the hearts of many people especially family members, political associates, admirers and good people of the state.
Her words; “it is still very difficult for many of us to accept the reality of the demise of our leader who spent the greater part of his 70 years on earth to serve his people, fatherland and humanity as a whole. Sen. Ajimobi was the best thing to have happened to us as women in the politics of the state because he was never tired of listening to us.
Most monumental achievements he recorded as the governor of the state for eight years are there till tomorrow for the whole world to see and appreciate.
“As members of his immediate family put up arrangements for another Fidau prayers to mark the 40th day of his transition to glory, the teeming women population of Oyo APC are united in supplications for God to repose his soul and grant him eternal rest.
We also use this avenue to sympathise with our mother, the immediate past First Lady of the state, Chief (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi and the entire Ajimobi family.
“We are grateful to God for giving Her Excellency, Mrs Ajimobi, the courage to cope with the challenges associated with the untimely death of her husband and we solemnly pray God Almighty to bless her with good health, peace of mind and longevity to enable her continue to paddle the canoe of family, societal and political service which her beloved husband has parted with.” Williams said.
Other members of the Wing who toed the line of Mrs Williams to extol the virtue of late former governor are; Mrs Toyin Ajibade (Deputy State Woman Leader), Mrs. Taiwo Motélèolá (Oyo South Senatorial district’s Woman Leader), Alhaja ‘Juwon Adewuyi (Oyo Central Senatorial district’s Woman Leader) and Mrs Juliana Ajuwon (Oyo North Senatorial district’s Woman Leader.
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New York Building
Design & Layout Photos by Day Photos Illuminated Interior Photos What People Said
The New York State Building will have the distinction of being the only building to endure beyond the close of the Exposition. It was planned to be a permanent building, constructed of marble, referred to by the local press as the "marble heap." Buffalo architect George Cary was chosen to design the building, whose construction costs were borne by the State of New York ($100,000), the City of Buffalo ($25,000), and the Buffalo Historical Society ($25,000) whose permanent home the building was planned to become after the close of the Exposition. Construction on the 31,803 square foot building began in late spring 1900; the building opened July 1, 1901. Its formal opening was held on August 6, with invitations to the event sent to 1,000.
George Cary wrote the following description of the building for the Exposition's Art Hand-Book:
"The New York State Building is situated on the north side of the west bay of the park lake, near the Elmwood Avenue entrance. Used as the New York State Building during the Expositon, it is to remain afterward a permanent building for the Buffalo Historical Society. The building is of white Vermont marble, in the classic order of architecture known as the Greek Doric, being of the same order as the Parthenon at Athens, by Pericles. This would seem best to harmonize with the Albright Art Gallery on the opposite side of the water, designed in the spirit of the Erechtheum, which stands with the Parthenon on the Acropolis.
The Greek Doric is suggestive of solidity and force, has little carving, and its lines are all curved slightly upward. As exhibited in the monuments of the age of Pericles at Athens, the Greek Doric combines with solidity and force the most subtle and delicate refinement of outlines and proportions that architecture has known.
The building is a rectangle about 130 x 80 feet, and 50 feet high. On the north front is located the statue, "Aspiration," by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. The northern facade is faced with three-quarter colums, and the entrance is through a vestibule, the bronze doors of which were the gift of the president of the Buffalo Historical Society, Mr. Andrew Langdon. The panels on these doors, presenting "History," and "Ethnology," are the work of Perry. On the south, dividing the paths leading to the park, are Andersen's equestrian groups called "Progress," and between these two on the axis of the building is Andersen's bronze group termed "Affinity." At the starting-point of the grand marble staircase leading up to the southern entrance stands Elwell's statue of "Intelligence"...
The southern entrance is through a portico 61 x 17 feet, embellished by ten Doric columns, and commanding a view of the park lake, the electric fountains, and the park.
The floor-level is taken 7 feet above ground to the north, while to the south the grade is kept at the ground-level of the basement, so as to get good light, and to enter the bicycle-room and other rooms of the basement direct. The height of the basement is 14 feet. Here is the dining-room, facing the park to the south, the bicycle-room, kitchen, and janitor's quarters(entered from the hall and also from the outside), also boiler-rooms, etc., and the storage-room to the west, under the audience hall. The ground floor is 15 feet hight. Here is the audience-hall, which seats 250 persons.
The library occupies and eastern end of the building on this floor, and between the library and the audience-hall is the grand hall, stairway, and gallery. This grand hall, finished in black marble and gold, the largest room on this floor, may be given over to museum purposes, opening up into the upper floor to be used for larger relics.
North of this grand hall is the lobby, giving access to the governor's room to the east, a committee-room to the west, to cloak-rooms and toilet rooms, as well as an entrance to all the other rooms on this floor.
The second floor runs up into the roof, making the rooms 18 feet high. It is lighted entirely by skylights, and will be used for museum purposes.
The building is absolutely fire-proof. It is planned to accomodate not only the ultimate needs of the Historical Society, but also the immediate needs of the Exposition. It is provided with a heating and ventilating plant, and is lighted by a thousand electric lights."
The former New York State Building will be transferred to the Buffalo Historical Society on December 21, 1901. The organization is now called The Buffalo History Museum.
In 1987, this building will be designated a National Historic Landmark.
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HomeTopicsArts and EntertainmentRoxborough: Advent’s Effect On People and Businesses
Roxborough: Advent’s Effect On People and Businesses
June 18, 2015 Arts and Entertainment, Business, Fashion, Featured Stories, Featured Videos, Food, Manayunk, Neighborhoods, Ridge Avenue, Roxborough, Uncategorized 0
The Roxborough/Manayunk community contains a variety of different people and businesses, so Advent was the perfect advertising agency to come in and provide this neighborhood with what it needed.
In 2012, Joseph Decandido and his partner decided to start Advent, which is an advertising agency that deals with events, entertainment and small local businesses.
“I had come from Mad River Bar and Grill in Manayunk, and ran that for four years,” Decandido said. “I had some good contacts in Roxborough and Manayunk, so I decided to stay local to the area.
In order to get this company off to a strong start, especially after his original partner left, Decandido had to hire the right people who he could trust. He since hired Kevin Baxter last September to help with the creative direction of the company, and also has an internship program to help out with the setting up and running of events.
“What we like is young and hungry,” Decandido said. “We really like teaching, so if I did not do events I would probably be a teacher.”
Advent has made its mark in the community, and currently does three seasonal events in the spring, summer and fall for Roxborough. The Art is Life festival takes place in the spring, the Solstice festival in the summer and Roxtoberfest in the fall. Advent also runs events in Manayunk, such as the Street Food Festival and also created the Mummers Mardi Gras parade that takes place on Main Street.
The Roxborough Development Corporation originally came to Advent and was interested in organizing a fall festival. Decandido came up with the idea, Roxtoberfest, and the Roxborough Development Corporation ended up loving the idea.
Advent’s role for these events focuses on branding, marketing strategies, communications, billboards, and the use of buses and taxis as advertisement placement.
“Our role is to basically produce, start to finish, these events,” Decandido said. “My passion is in events.”
Besides running these events, Advent also gets involved with small business marketing. The UPS store, Nationwide Insurance, All-Seasons Car Wash and J.D. Mcgillicuddys all use Advent to help market their companies.
“They all depend on us to be their marketing arms, so they do not have an internal person that handles their marketing,” Decandido said. “Everything that goes out there from their reputation management, branding and marketing material, we handle.”
With the events and small businesses that Advent keeps tabs on, it helps to have an experienced person like Baxter that knows how to deal with people and businesses.
After running a company for 12 years that dealt with nightlife and concerts, Baxter decided to join Decandido to get more involved with digital and social media marketing.
“I have kind of taken the direction where we have gotten more of these clients, and done more of the small business,” Baxter said. “It is tough because you are dealing with people that do not have a ton of money, so the budgets can be tight.”
“We are just like a creative think tank here, so anything that needs to be done for a business, we get it done,” Baxter said.
Baxter explained the part of the business that Decandido opened him up to was the sponsorship side of it. Baxter has learned that you can make money from family friendly events because he has never been exposed to that side of the business.
The first Roxtoberfest had 63 vendors, which contained food truck and children activities. For the second Roxtoberfest, Ridge Avenue was closed off for 85 vendors and saw the attendance increase from 1500 to 3000 people.
“The growth is really that we started from one festival with the town, and than did the summer Solstice festival,” Decandido said. “Based on that, and the success of year two of Roxtoberfest, we had proposed doing a spring festival.”
In Manayunk, Advent ran the beer garden for the Street Food Festival, which was about $7,000 in revenue. The second time Advent did it, the company brought in around $21,000 in revenue.
Advent also decided to do an event at the Piazza to highlight the Mummers called Mummers Mardi Gras.
“We thought that the pageantry of mummery is something that needed to be highlighted besides New Years day,” Decandido said.
Advent currently has five clients on retainer, six festivals, New Years Eve and some other small projects.
Seeing how much the Advent name has made an impression on the Roxborough/Manayunk community, Decandido realizes expansion is a possibility, but wants to focus on improving the events and businesses he currently has.
“I really like doing the community stuff, so we are going to continue to build these events and take on more clients,” Decandido said.
– Text, images and video by Patrick Paul.
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On the corner of Mansion and Gay streets, a vacant lot served as parking space for about 30 cars each day. The lot had been looked after and cared for by the community for thirty […]
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The Humane League partnered with Whole Foods yesterday to present Philadelphia’s first Veg Fest. Situated at Headhouse Square in Society Hill, Veg Fest featured a variety of food vendors, clothing companies and activist organizations. The common […]
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War looms! Okay, of all the various things said in this, a wild, wild week in the world of Rugby League, it is perhaps the most exaggerated. But it’s very clear that unrest and a split is rife within the game. Super League’s decision to reveal their intentions for the league structure has seen chaos ensue, and it’s been hard to keep up with it all. Thankfully for you all, League Express is on hand to be your go-to guide on everything that has gone on so far, along with more updates on a massive piece of news for the sport. There will be all your usual news, match reports and columns too, of course, and this is just a taster of what’s inside. Two pages, three interviews. Eamonn McManus, Ian Lenagan and Gary Hetherington sound off on this week’s madness. It’s fiery! The Championship clubs have their say too. Spoiler – they’re not happy. We reveal Warrington’s latest signing for 2019. Wakefield have their eyes set on one Super League forward. They’ve been linked with him before. Eamonn McManus has also been talking about on-field activity at Saints. In particular, about Ben Barba. Huddersfield are closing in on one well known NRL star, and he could be arriving soon if the Giants have their way. And of course, we have a full-page interview with the RFL’s new CEO, Robert Elstone. John Bateman provides another update on his future. There’s all that along with, of course, all the usual reports, news from the lower leagues and much more. Can’t wait until Monday, you know the drill. Head to totalrl.com/le and get your online copy tonight!
War looms!
Okay, of all the various things said in this, a wild, wild week in the world of Rugby League, it is perhaps the most exaggerated. But it’s very clear that unrest and a split is rife within the game.
Super League’s decision to reveal their intentions for the league structure has seen chaos ensue, and it’s been hard to keep up with it all.
Thankfully for you all, League Express is on hand to be your go-to guide on everything that has gone on so far, along with more updates on a massive piece of news for the sport.
There will be all your usual news, match reports and columns too, of course, and this is just a taster of what’s inside.
Two pages, three interviews. Eamonn McManus, Ian Lenagan and Gary Hetherington sound off on this week’s madness. It’s fiery!
The Championship clubs have their say too. Spoiler – they’re not happy.
We reveal Warrington’s latest signing for 2019.
Wakefield have their eyes set on one Super League forward. They’ve been linked with him before.
Eamonn McManus has also been talking about on-field activity at Saints. In particular, about Ben Barba.
Huddersfield are closing in on one well known NRL star, and he could be arriving soon if the Giants have their way.
And of course, we have a full-page interview with the RFL’s new CEO, Robert Elstone.
John Bateman provides another update on his future.
There’s all that along with, of course, all the usual reports, news from the lower leagues and much more. Can’t wait until Monday, you know the drill. Head to totalrl.com/le and get your online copy tonight!
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Truxton Trust Adds William Benson as Private Banking Vice President
Company Release - 6/22/2020 11:00 AM ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Truxton Trust Company announced that William A. Benson has joined the firm as Vice President, Private Banking.
Mr. Benson has over ten years’ experience in banking in Nashville, having worked in Private Banking and Healthcare Lending at two area banks. Mr. Benson earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Georgia Terry College of Business. He is active in the community and is currently an Ambassador for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and a Young Alumni Board Member and Alumni Board Member at Montgomery Bell Academy and The Ensworth School, respectively.
“William’s diverse banking background, work ethic, and focus on client service make him a wonderful addition to our Private Banking team as our business continues to grow” said Tom Stumb, Chairman of the Board and CEO. He continued, “We are dedicated to providing the best service and resources to our clients and shareholders and are always excited to welcome folks who match the high caliber of those who already work here.”
About Truxton Trust
Truxton Trust Company is a provider of private banking, wealth management, trust, and family office services for wealthy individuals, their families and their business interests. Serving clients across the world, Truxton’s vastly experienced team of professionals provides customized solutions to its clients’ complex financial needs. Founded in 2004 in Nashville, Tennessee, Truxton Trust upholds its original guiding principle: do the right thing. Truxton Trust Company is a subsidiary of financial holding company, Truxton Corporation (OTCPK: TRUX). For more information, visit truxtontrust.com.
Media Relations Investor Relations
Tamara Schoeplein Andrew May
tamara.schoeplein@truxtontrust.com andrew.may@truxtontrust.com
Source: Truxton Trust Company
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StoneMor Inc. Announces Withdrawal of Axar Proposal, Proposed Amendments to Charter to Be Considered by Its Stockholders and Election of Kevin D. Patrick to the Board of Directors
Company Release - 9/8/2020 8:55 AM ET
TREVOSE, Pa., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StoneMor Inc. (NYSE: STON) (“StoneMor” or the “Company”), a leading owner and operator of cemeteries and funeral homes, announced today that Axar Capital Management, LP (“Axar”), after determining that it will not be able to reach an agreement with the Special Committee on terms that would be satisfactory to Axar, has withdrawn its proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company not owned by Axar or its affiliates. A copy of the letter from Axar withdrawing its proposal is attached hereto as Annex A.
Stephen J. Negrotti, Chairman of the Special Committee of the Board of Directors said, “We have worked closely with Axar over the last six weeks to evaluate its most recent proposal. We have consulted with our financial and legal advisors throughout the process. Despite these efforts, there remained a substantial difference regarding the valuation of the Company.”
Proposed Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation
In an unrelated announcement, the Company also disclosed that its Board has voted unanimously to submit two proposals to the Company’s stockholders at its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to amend its certificate of incorporation. The first proposal would effect a reverse split of the Company’s common stock at a ratio of 1-for-10 in the event that the Board deems such action to be advisable to avoid delisting on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), or otherwise in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders at the time.
As previously reported, the Company received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) in April 2020 stating that it was not in compliance with the NYSE’s minimum price continued listing requirements. In order to regain compliance, the closing price of the Company’s common stock on December 24, 2020 and the average closing price for the 30 trading days ending on that date must be at least $1.00. The Company also would regain compliance if the closing price of the common stock on the last trading day of any month and the average closing price for the 30 trading days ending on that date is at least $1.00.
The second proposal would declassify the Board and provide for annual elections for all directors. Currently, the Company’s Board is divided into three classes, with the members of each class serving staggered three-year terms. If the stockholders approve the proposal, each director will resign upon the effectiveness of the amendment and immediately be reappointed to the Board to serve until the Company’s 2021 annual meeting. Beginning at that meeting, all directors will stand for election annually.
The proposals to amend the Company’s certificate of incorporation will be detailed in the Company’s proxy statement, which will be filed and disseminated to the stockholders in advance of the annual meeting, which will be held on November 5, 2020. This press release is being provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute the solicitation of any vote for approval of any transaction or proposal.
Election of Kevin D. Patrick to Board
Lastly, StoneMor also announced that on September 4, 2020, the Board increased the size of the Board to eight directors and elected Kevin D. Patrick to fill the new position. Mr. Patrick has been Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation since August 2017. In this capacity, he is responsible for all financial aspects of the operation of the Foundation, which has assets of approximately $1.0 billion, including an endowment of approximately $700.0 million, annual revenues in excess of $200.0 million and approximately $337.0 million in outstanding debt. Mr. Patrick holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut and a BBA in Finance from Connecticut State University’s Ancell School of Business.
Andrew Axelrod, StoneMor’s Chairman of the Board, said, “We are excited to welcome Kevin to the Company’s Board of Directors. His experience as a Chief Financial Officer, particularly in regards to corporate development, business turnarounds and financing strategies, is a perfect match as StoneMor looks to the future.”
“As I researched and met with the team at StoneMor, I have been very impressed with the turnaround strategy and the progress achieved by Joe Redling and the management team,” said Kevin D. Patrick. “I am looking forward to bringing new perspectives and experiences to the Company as a board member and am ready to support the continued turnaround efforts.”
About StoneMor Inc.
StoneMor Inc., headquartered in Trevose, Pennsylvania, is an owner and operator of cemeteries and funeral homes in the United States, with 319 cemeteries and 88 funeral homes in 27 states and Puerto Rico.
StoneMor’s cemetery products and services, which are sold on both a pre-need (before death) and at-need (at death) basis, include: burial lots, lawn and mausoleum crypts, burial vaults, caskets, memorials, and all services which provide for the installation of this merchandise. For additional information about StoneMor Inc. please visit StoneMor’s website, and the investors section, at http://www.stonemor.com.
CONTACT: Investor Relations
StoneMor Inc.
A PDF listed as ANNEX A is available at: http://ml.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/6c10c3a2-4e6c-4415-8eab-950b0e3afcf6
Source: StoneMor Partners L.P.
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A route of administration is the method in which a psychoactive substance is taken into the body. The route with which a substance has been administered can greatly impact its potency, duration, and subjective effects. For example, many substances are more effective when consumed using particular routes of administration, while some substances are completely inactive with certain routes. Determining an optimal route of administration is highly dependent on the substance consumed, its desired duration and potency and side effects, and one's personal comfort level.
1 Oral cavity
1.1 Oral
1.2 Sublingual
1.3 Buccal
2 Nasal cavity
2.1 Insufflation
3 Respiratory tract
3.1 Inhalation
3.2 Smoked
3.3 Vaporized
4 Injection
4.1 Intravenous
4.2 Intramuscular
4.3 Subcutaneous
5 Rectal
6 Transdermal
The most common route of administration for most classes of drugs is oral administration, which allows a substance to be absorbed through blood vessels lining the stomach and intestines. The onset is generally slower than other methods of ingestion, varying between individual substances.[1] This method can also cause a greater propensity for nausea compared to other methods and the duration and absorption are generally longer as well.[2][3]
Sublingual administration refers to absorption under the tongue.[4] It is a common route of administration for drugs such as LSD. Sublingual administration can result in a faster absorption than oral administration. It also circumvents first pass metabolism of certain drugs, such as 25I-NBOMe, which can be absorbed via sublingual and buccal administration but not oral administration. Sublingual administration results in the substance being absorbed through the large lingual artery present underneath the tongue.
Caustic substances, such as the freebase form of amine-containing drugs, should not be used sublingually because they can severely burn the inside of one's mouth.
Buccal administration refers to the absorption through the cheek and gum. This is commonly employed when ingesting drugs such as 25I-NBOMe, DOM, LSD and other substances contained within blotter paper. Like sublingual absorption, the substance is largely absorbed through the lingual artery but is also absorbed through gum lining. This method is used when chewing plant leaves such as khat, kratom, salvia divinorum, and sometimes tobacco.
Nasal cavity
Insufflation
Insufflation (also called inhalation and snorting) refers to the introduction of a substance into the sinus via the nostrils and circumvents first pass metabolism. Insufflation is a very common method of use for substances in powder form. Some users find this route to be painful and uncomfortable, although certain substances are easier to insufflate than others.
This method is capable of rapid absorption through mucous membranes and blood vessels in the sinus. Absorption and onset is generally much more rapid than oral and, as a result, a substance feels much more intense and is often shorter acting than if taken orally. Insufflation is common with drugs such as cocaine and ketamine, and is also utilized in yopo rituals. Insufflating tobacco in snuff form was a common practice until the early 20th century.
Frequent insufflation of some substances can damage one's mucous membranes, induce bleeding, damage the nostril's cartilage and lining, burn the throat, and cause other trauma to the nasal passage and sinus area.[5] To reduce damage, it is recommended to grind the substance completely before use and alternate nostrils.[6] It can also cause nasal congestion. Also, sharing snorting equipment (straws, banknotes, bullets, etc) has been linked to the transmission of hepatitis C. In one study, the University of Tennessee Medical Center researches warned that other blood-borne diseases such as HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, could be transmitted as well.[7]
Inhaled administration is used for inhalants gases such as nitrous oxide, volatile liquids such as ether, and volatile viscous compounds such as poppers. It is substantially easier to overdose on alcohol inhalation than drinking alcohol. Inhalants do not require an external heat source to produce psychoactive vapors that can then be inhaled through various methods depending on the substance used. Inhaled substances are absorbed very rapidly and lead to an almost instantaneous absorption of the substance and passage through the blood brain barrier.[8] Many substances can be inhaled to achieve an altered state of consciousness, however, some substances used for this purpose produce highly negative physical and neurotoxic effects including solvents like toluene (see toluene toxicity) often found in glue, acetone often found in nail polish, and gasoline.[9], and number of gases intended for household or industrial use including butane gas sold as lighter gas refill.
Smoking substances is a common method of consumption with the most common examples including cannabis and tobacco. To smoke a substance a direct heat source, most often a flame, is applied directly to the substance with no barrier between the heat source and the substance. It is for this reason that heroin is colloquially referred to as "smoked" but is really vaporized often using tinfoil as a barrier between the substance and the flame source. The smoking of substances can lead to an almost instantaneous absorption of the substance and passage through the blood brain barrier.[10] When a substance is smoked, the substance is absorbed through blood vessels found in the bronchi tubes contained within the lungs. Like insufflation, the duration is decreased while its intensity is increased in proportion to oral absorption. Smoking a substance also bypasses the GI tract's tendency to break certain substances down, such as DMT.
Cannabis is commonly consumed via the respiratory tract. The average THC transfer rate for joints, bongs, and vaporizers, is 20-26%,[11] 40%,[11] and 55-83%,[12] respectively. For a proper gas or smoke deposition, one are advised to take a deep initial breath, and then hold it for 10 seconds to allow for the gas or smoke to get fully absorbed in the lungs. Subjects are frequently instructed to follow the "10 seconds rule" in studies.[13][14][15] Prolonged breath holding does not substantially enhance the effects of inhaled marijuana smoke.[16][17]
Bongs that are cleaned regularly eliminates yeast, fungi, bacteria and pathogens that can cause several symptoms that vary from allergy to lung infection.[18][19][20]
Vaporizing substances is a common method of consumption with the most common examples including heroin and crack-cocaine. Vaporizing a substance allows for more temperature control because the flame or heat source does not come into direct contact with the substance. Even though many drugs, like heroin and oxycodone pills are colloquially referred to as "smoked" the process used to consume them is vaporization.Vaporizing substances can lead to an almost instantaneous absorption of the substance and passage through the blood brain barrier.[21] When a substance is vaporized, the substance is absorbed through blood vessels found in the bronchi tubes contained within the lungs. Like insufflation, the duration is decreased while its intensity is increased in proportion to oral absorption. Vaporizing a substance also bypasses the GI tract's tendency to break certain substances down, such as DMT.
Vaporization is commonly associated with the vaporizer pens that have become popular within the past decade, but it is not limited to ingesting the vapors from an electronic heat source. Smoking substances off of tinfoil is a common method of vaporizing substances with a flame heat source.
Due to the higher level of temperature control, vaporization is often a more efficient way to consume a substance. Especially when vaporizing off of tin foil or a oil burning pipe, the heat source can be held at different distances to create the perfect temperature to convert the substance into a vapor that can be inhaled. Smoking a substance that should be vaporized leads to a blast of heat that may burn off the active ingredient or ignite the substance itself, both of which are wasteful and incorrect.
Ethnobotanist Daniel Siebert cautions that inhaling hot air can be irritating and potentially damaging to the lungs. Vapor produced by a heat gun needs to be cooled by running it through a water pipe or cooling chamber before inhalation.[22]
About 0.1 mL of the solution is lost in conventional syringes through the luer lock tip and the luer lock adapter of the hypodermic needle. That can be compensated by either adding extra 10% or 5% substance in 1 mL or 2 mL syringes respectively, or by using low dead space syringes.
Main article: Safer injection guide § I.V. injection
Intravenous administration refers to a drug being directly introduced into the bloodstream using a hypodermic needle. This method has the benefit of a very short onset and eliminates absorption by directly entering the bloodstream.[23] However, much greater care must be taken when compared to other methods of administration. Sterilized, unused needles and a high purity substance with little to no adulterant are required to avoid damage to the circulatory system.[24] Making sure no air bubbles are present in the reservoir before the plunger is released is also of dire importance as air bubbles in the bloodstream can easily be lethal.[25] This route is commonly used with substances such as heroin, but can be employed with almost any pure substance.
Intramuscular
Main article: Safer injection guide § I.M. injection
Intramuscular administration refers to a drug being injected into the muscle tissue using a hypodermic needle. This method is very similar to the intravenous route, but is often more painful with a decreased onset and absorption. Some drugs (such as ketamine) are commonly administered via this route.[26] Like intravenous administration, intramuscular injection must be taken with precaution, using sterilized unused needles and not leaving any residual air bubbles in the reservoir.
Main article: Safer injection guide § S.C. injection
Subcutaneous administration (also known as skin popping) refers to a drug being injected into the subcutis, the layer of skin directly below the dermis and epidermis. Subcutaneous administration is relatively uncommon among psychonautics, as many people are not trained how to do it or would rather use a different route of administration which they are more familiar with.
Rectal administration, also commonly referred to as boofing or plugging, is one of the most effective methods of administration for many substances.[27][28] The absorption rate is very high compared to other methods and the onset is usually very short, generally with a higher intensity and shorter duration. This is due to a large amount of arteries located in the rectum; thus rectal administration is often superior to other methods despite social stigma. Caustic substances such as 4-FA or phenibut hydrochloride should not be plugged because they can burn the interior rectum resulting in a considerable amount of gastrointestinal distress.
Rectal administration can involve either the insertion of a low-volume solution into the rectum, using a syringe or pipette, or by placing a pill or gelatin capsule containing the active substance. The latter form is known as a suppository, and is common in medicine when the gastrointestinal tract cannot support oral medicine.
Transdermal is a route of administration where active ingredients are delivered across the skin for systemic distribution. Examples include transdermal patches used for medicine delivery for opioids such as fentanyl [29] and transdermal implants used for medical or anesthetic purposes.
Psychoactive substance index
Route of administration (Wikipedia)
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Mr. Davidson: Gosh. I am not sure what constitutes the electronic equivalent to being lost under a table, but if it can be done with bits of paper, I am sure that it can be done with gee-whizzery. I find it difficult to operate my computer and I cannot believe that everybody else operates theirs to the highest possible standard and that there is no scope for jiggery-pokery. It is not clear how we could be confident that a recount was being conducted according to the highest standards.
Mr. Miller: My hon. Friend's argument reminds me a little of that of a constituent, who explained carefully, in a seven-page letter, the reason for voting in pencil. He argued that it was so that "they" could alter the results. I asked him how I got elected when "they" altered the results. My hon. Friend is presenting conspiracy theories.
Mr. Davidson: I can give my hon. Friend's constituent a simple explanation: I always thought that he was one of "they". I rest my case.
Let me remind the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr. Lammy), of the saying that we are at our best when we are at our boldest. I hope that when he sums up, he will be a little bolder than his fellow Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Mr. Leslie), who opened the debate. [Interruption.] I am an optimist. Nobody is beyond
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redemption. My hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham is too young to be completely institutionalised.
We should consider a pilot for first past the post. As I said earlier, I do not understand why we cannot hold a first-past-the-post pilot in Scotland in the European elections to ascertain whether the turnout increases drastically.
Angus Robertson: How is it possible to hold a first-past-the-post election for the European Parliament in any region, given that under treaty obligations, the United Kingdom and every other European Union member state must have the same or a similar proportional representation electoral system?
Mr. Davidson: The hon. Gentleman does not appreciate the extent of the Prime Minister's influence with our European partners. I am convinced that if we had the will, we could debate with our European partners and tell them that we were being bold. We could say, "We are at our best when we are at our boldest and we call on you to agree to the experiment." There would be something in that for many of our European colleagues, because if we managed to find a method of increasing people's connection to the European Parliament, they might want to copy it. The falling turnout in European elections is happening not only in the United Kingdom but everywhere else in the European Union.
It is no coincidence that in virtually every referendum held in the European Union, "they"—whether it is my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Mr. Miller) or his colleagues—lose. Those who are running the system lose referendums. It is only when they have to re-run them—as in Ireland—that they occasionally win them.
I notice that the Minister has had to bring in reinforcements now that we are discussing the question of boldness. My second point about boldness was also raised obliquely by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Harris); it concerns the question of compulsory voting. Have the Government considered looking at the Australian example? I was in Australia recently and I was struck by the fact that, over there, compulsory voting, which would seem contentious in the extreme to us, is now accepted as part of the furniture. This raises the issue of people's rights and responsibilities. All the citizens of this country have rights—quite rightly so—and we are seeking to expand them. There is also an issue of responsibilities. In Australia, people have the opportunity to go along and not vote, but they actually have to make the effort to make that decision, as it were. We ought at least to be seriously considering that option.
My third point concerning boldness relates to a referendum on the European constitution. I have already touched on whether we could have a pilot on this. We could ask people whether they would like to have a referendum. Public opinion indicates overwhelmingly that people wish to have a voice on the
new European constitution. I am not entirely familiar with the position taken by all the Irish parties, but I think that every party bar my own, which is split on this question, is now in favour of a referendum on it. I hope that the Minister will take this opportunity to increase interest in politics and get himself on the news tonight by announcing that we are to have a referendum on the European constitution.
Mr. Peter Duncan: Be bold!
Mr. Davidson: I would also tell the Minister to be bold. This would get him some good coverage. He would be speaking to the Prime Minister pretty quickly if he announced that tonight.
The final point about boldness that I would like the Minister to consider is the question of the simplification of the electoral system. As has already been mentioned, in Scotland, we are in danger of having four different levels of government with four different electoral systems. That is clearly a recipe for confusion. The European Union might well not allow us to consider anything other than proportional representation at European level. However, we are still open to having a similar or equivalent system across the three other tiers. I hope that the Minister will take this opportunity to say that the Government will introduce positive proposals in due course for a first-past-the-post system for the Scottish Parliament. In consequence, we could then ensure that first past the post could be retained for Scottish local government as well.
I would like to say how grateful I am that the new sitting hours of the House have the last speaker finishing at 7 o'clock rather than 10 o'clock. Given the lack of interventions, I am not sure that, if we had had to continue until 10 o'clock, I would have been able to abide by the Whips' exhortation to keep things going as long as possible.
I support the Government in this matter. What they have done is necessary but not sufficient, and I hope that when the Minister comes to his summation, he will be bold and take up some of the very positive suggestions that have been made by my colleagues and me.
Mr. Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): This is quite an important debate. [Laughter.] Opposition Members may laugh and Liberal Democrat Front-Bench Members chuckle, but some of us have experience of pilot schemes for postal voting. I shall explain what has happened in Chorley in the past two years. It may be a lesson for the Liberal Democrats, but that is never hard. It is important to discuss previous experience.
We were lucky in Chorley. Two years ago, not just the Labour group that runs the borough council—far from it—but all three political parties and the independent councillors wanted to encourage the good electors of Chorley to exercise their franchise again. The Liberal Democrat vote collapsed in the local elections, and we felt sorry for them. We felt sorry for all political parties. Once the vote goes below 30 per cent. in certain wards, the problem must be addressed. One of the ways to deal with the problem of people not voting is to give them more time and more opportunity to vote. We believed that the right thing to do was to apply for a pilot in postal voting.
Two years ago, the leader of the council, Jack Wilson, the leaders of the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and a couple of Independants agreed to work together to try to persuade more people to vote. They said that if someone objected they would not proceed. It is important that the political parties work together to ensure that more people use their democratic right.
Angus Robertson: Will the hon. Gentleman advise his hon. Friends on the Front Bench that any pilot in any electoral region in the UK should have the support of the main political parties in that region?
Mr. Hoyle: I am talking about Chorley borough council. The council felt that that was right. If the hon. Gentleman welcomes the position of the Labour leader of Chorley borough council that is fine, but I want to explain how it worked in Chorley. It is up to the people to decide how it should work in the hon. Gentleman's own country. It is not up to me to decide what is good for Scotland. It is up to the Minister and the hon. Gentleman to negotiate and discuss that. It is not for me to influence the views of the people of Scotland. I have no wish to do that, because I do not want my postbag to be full of letters from Scotland. I shall concentrate on the experience of Chorley.
Leaders of all the political parties in Chorley worked together. They wanted to encourage more people to vote, and they wanted to be in the first pilot scheme. The chief executive, Jeff Davies, who has been there a long time, had seen a declining turnout at every local election. In the general election, there was a 62 per cent. turnout. I was asked why I could bring in 62 per cent. whereas in wards the turnout was down to 24 per cent.
It was decided that an application should be made for Chorley to be in the first wave of pilot schemes. That application was successful. Thankfully, it went very well. Councillors had to change the way in which they canvassed. They had a new system to work with, and all political parties were sceptical about whether it would work. We wondered how we would let the public know that there was a new scheme and a new way to vote. We got the newspapers involved, because the media have a role to play. They are good at persuading people not to vote by condemning us and showing us up. However, the local newspapers were helpful and urged their readers to get behind this new idea.
On the side of the town hall and the council offices was a thermometer, and each day as the votes came in the thermometer rose nicely. It worked. People were engaged with the new way of voting. It encouraged people who had never voted before, who did not like the system or were afraid of going into the polling station. I do not know whether it is agoraphobia, but some people have a fear of the ballot box. They were able to vote at home and post their ballot paper to the town hall.
Royal Mail played its part. This is about partnership. We had the co-operation of the media, the council officers, who had a new system to work with, the political parties and Royal Mail, which emptied the postboxes and made two deliveries a day to the town
hall. The advantage was that representatives from each of the political parties watched the ballot papers being opened, checked, bundled and put away. The bar codes were also checked, so we knew that the ballot papers were correct. That system was very successful.
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Úvod Periodické publikace Lynx, nová série 2017/48/1 První nálezy a fenologie netopýra Saviova (Hypsugo savii) na Děčínsku (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) [First findings and phenology of Hypsugo savii in the Děčín District, Czech Republic (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)]
První nálezy a fenologie netopýra Saviova (Hypsugo savii) na Děčínsku (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) [First findings and phenology of Hypsugo savii in the Děčín District, Czech Republic (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)]
Pavel Benda, Tomáš Bartonička, Jakub Juda
10.2478/lynx-2017-0001
Lynx, nová série | 2017/48/1
As a part of the bat research in the Děčín district (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), two automatic detectors were installed at two locations, i.e. in the Labe (Elbe) river canyon near Hřensko and at the Pavlínka pond near Jetřichovice, for a period from April to September 2016. The acoustic recordings were further analysed using the semi-automatic software SonoChiro, which is capable of evaluating a large number of bat signals in a relatively short time. Altogether 942,000 echolocation signals and 18 bat species were determined. The highest values of the identification reliability index were found for the recordings of echolocation signals of the bat genera Pipistrellus, Nyctalus, and Vespertilio. Conversely, species of the genus Myotis, especially those with the peak frequencies above 35 kHz, were identified with a lesser accuracy. Hypsugo savii, a Mediterranean species that has been spreading over the past decade, was identified in both studied localities. This is the northernmost finding of the species in central Europe so far. Significantly higher flight activity of H. savii was detected in the Elbe canyon. The recordings were made in three periods: (1) from mid-April to late May, during the spring migrations, (2) in the second half of July, during the dispersion of individuals after the desintegration of the nursery colonies, and (3) from late August to early September, during the autumn migration, when the highest numbers of signals were detected. In the period of spring migration and summer dispersion, most of the signals come from the bats heading north, downstream the Elbe river. On the contrary, during the autumn migration, most of the signals were recorded from the bats heading south, upstream the river. The echolocation signals of H. savii can be easily identified and thus an acoustic approach in the study of migration phenology would be an appropriate and very effective method in this species.
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#47: Tom Siders
February 19, 2020 Ryan Beach
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Thomas Siders joined the BSO as Assistant Principal Trumpet in January 2010 and was promoted to Associate Principal Trumpet in 2015. He is currently a member of the trumpet faculties at The Boston Conservatory, Boston University, and New England Conservatory. An active clinician, Mr. Siders has presented masterclasses at The Boston Conservatory, Louisiana State University, Miami University (OH), New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, and Rice University. Mr. Siders received degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, where he studied with Ray Sasaki and Marie Speziale, respectively. Prior to his appointment to the BSO, Mr. Siders was a New World Symphony Fellow. He was also a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 2008 and 2009.
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An ex-Liverpool player finally talks a bit of sense
Date: 18th January 2011 at 3:50pm
Written by: Jay
It is very difficult for an ex professional player to look at modern day football without the odd shake of the head, or questioning how the game has changed in such a short space of time. It has massively, although in some cases not for the better.
I question the professionalism of some current players within the game. Don’t get me wrong, off the pitch a lot of the guys are absolute saints – eating and drinking correctly so they stay in peak physical shape and not falling out of night clubs and bars (well some of them), but on it many choose to cheat and disrespect the game, by diving, feigning injury, trying to get opposition players sent off and in short conning the referees and ruining the spectacle for supporters. It is becoming far more frequent and I question the personal pride of some of these players.
Yes I know some will point the finger at perhaps the lack of professionalism of players in my era off the pitch, and in many cases you are right, but on the pitch you couldn’t question it as we played the game in the way it should be played with 100% honesty and commitment. We didn’t look to get players sent off, throw ourselves to the ground at the slightest touch; we had too much self pride and a respect for the game that is sadly lacking today. When I was playing I used to have a huge amount of respect for Thierry Henry, for the way he always attempted to remain on his feet, even after a challenge, and he never looked to show any weakness against the opposition. You compare that with someone like Emile Heskey who on occasions would hit the ground at the slightest nudge. What is frustrating is that whenever you go around a Premier League training ground you will undoubtedly see hard tackles flying in, physical battles throughout, yet as soon as the weekend comes along that goes out the window, leaving the referees with the thankless task of dissecting what is foul play and what is not. Their lack of honesty is destroying the game and in some cases making a mockery of it.
The worst thing about the change in players’ attitudes is that it puts an extra onus on the referees and their assistants to read through the lines to make the correct call. Being an official is an impossible task, made harder by the increase in camera angles and, more significantly, the ever changing laws of the game. Players don’t do anything to make the situation any easier and therefore it is a vicious circle that the refs find themselves in, and where they are simply in a no win situation.
I question whether the refs are given enough assistance over such matters and maybe the introduction of some panel or committee to root out these players, who are cheating and conniving, would go some way in bringing a little more honesty and professionalism on the pitch back to the game. It certainly needs it.
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Five Things We Learned – United at Chicago Fire
Date: 24th July 2011 at 2:56am
Written by: Zayd Jawad
Rooney - amongst the goals
In what was set to be a new test for Manchester United, given the sweltering heat in which they would be hosted, Sir Alex Ferguson’s men maintained their 100% winning record on their US tour with a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire. Despite the comfortable appearance of the score-line, it may well be agreed that this was United’s most disappointing performance on tour so far, struggling for the best part of an hour which could have seen them worse than the goal down that had already been conceded in the first half. However, with a host of changes at half time, the deficit was overturned with Rooney, Rafael and Nani finding their way on to the scoresheet. And so with this, here are five things that may be taken from the game.
1) Some are lacking match fitness
This is not made to be a point of criticism, as some within the side that played against Chicago will have not had any pre-season matches as yet and naturally take time to settle. For example, Dimitar Berbatov and Phil Jones both having recently joined the tour will have lacked some sharpness and this showed in areas of the game where United failed to take control as they had done in previous games and struggled to find their edge. Nonetheless this is what pre-season aims to do so that the cobwebs may be shaken off and a slightly rusty squad will have hopefully become a well oiled machine by the time the first kick off of the new season takes place. Although Jones may have felt he could have done better after getting beaten to a header when the first goal was conceded, it was important to get a solid game in as part of settling in to a new club and will come into his own as the season moves forward and he continues to improve.
2) David De Gea made his debut
After his much-publicised move to Old Trafford this Summer, United fans will have been keen to see Van Der Sar’s successor in action off the heels of an impressive under-21 championship for Spain. The game against Chicago Fire marked his first in a United kit and showed glimpses of what he is capable of, notably on approach to half time with a feet-first save on a goal-bound effort. Naturally from one appearance fans will not be able to gauge much about their latest goalkeeping acquisition, but a solid debut was important in establishing a good start in what Ferguson will hope to be a long career behind the back four at Manchester United.
3) Nani and Rafael impressed on the right
With question marks hanging over the future of Nani at United this Summer, particularly with the arrival of Ashley Young, it will have been positive to see the young Portuguese winger get on the scoresheet with a coolly taken finish that defied the heat. Finishing with his classic exuberant celebration will have put a smile on the faces of those fans wishing to continue to see Nani at Old Trafford, with many believing deservedly so after one of his most impressive seasons in his United career. Next season could also be a big year for Rafael, as the first full season without Gary Neville approaches and coming off the back of a season that saw the Brazilian continue to improve, many will be interested to see how he and his brother develop next year. An impressive showing against Chicago was capped by a burst in to the box with a cheeky nutmeg finish from a tight angle to give United the lead in the second half.
4) Rooney is looking sharp
Wayne Rooney carried on his rich form on the tour with another goal with a smartly taken chip to bring the game on level terms. Rooney has impressed in the games in which he has featured, following his hat trick against Seattle Sounders. Such a sharp, effective showing is a positive sign of things to come, as fans will be anxious for him to be firing on all cylinders and leading the charge for a possible 20th league title next season.
5) Established signing or stick to youth?
With all that has been said regarding potential big money signings in the midfield area, particularly one Wesley Sneijder, one must wonder whether or not Sir Alex Ferguson will instead opt for using other options available. For example, if Fletcher were to regain his fitness it would be a major boost to the midfield, with the impressive Tom Cleverley also in with a chance of regular games for the coming months. Finally the possibility of Jones having a defensive midfield role is one that may not be ruled out. The benefit of this tour is that such systems and ideas can be put into practice without repercussion and may bode well if this were to be implemented when it all begins to count in August.
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is believed to date back to the ancient olympic games in 648 BC, when pankration was considered the combat sport of the Ancient Greek armies.
This style of combat later resurfaced in the 20th century in Brazil via a combat sport known as vale tudo (“anything goes”), and pancrase in Japan.
MMA first came to the attention of an American audience after the Gracie family decided to showcase its trademark Brazilian jujitsu in the USA in the 1990s. Royce Gracie represented the family in a 1993 that came to be called UFC 1. The name referred to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), an organization that became the leading promoter of MMA events. The earliest aim of the UFC events was to pit fighters of different styles against each other—such as wrestler against boxer and kickboxer against judoka. As the UFC’s first TV pay-per-view event, the tournament attracted 86,000 viewers. That number increased to 300,000 by the third event.
In 2001 new UFC management (Zuffa) created rules to make the sport more palatable for a wider television audience. It added weight classes, stricter rules, rounds, and time limits. The revamped UFC now featured newer fighters who were more skilled as boxers, wrestlers, and jiu jitsu players, and they were forced to cross train extensively to ensure peak physical condition. In the United States the sport came to be regulated by the same bodies that governed boxing, including the Nevada State Athletic Commission and the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board.
On the professional level, the UFC, based in Las Vegas, is the leading MMA promotion worldwide. It produces many live events each year, and its pay-per-view cable television broadcasts have reached viewers in some 130 countries around the world, recently securing landmark deals with FOX and ESPN. The organization, founded in 1993, was purchased by Zuffa Inc. in January 2001 for $2 million and as the popularity of the sport sky-rocketed, it was announced in 2016 that the UFC was being sold to the talent agency WME-IMG for over $4 billion.
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The Rochester Police Department has an extensive heritage with a service record dating back to 1878.
Rochester police officer’s were known formally as Constable and later as Marshal. Beginning in 1915 the term marshal was used for law officers, and sometime after 1966 and ever since the term police officer has been used for those holding this position. A review of the minutes of village board meetings, and police department records revealed the following individuals as having served in the capacity as law enforcement officer with the Village of Rochester.
The Rochester Police Department today is one of the most technologically advanced and respected in the area.
The Village of Rochester is located in central Illinois, near Springfield, the capital of Illinois. It’s offices are in the Rochester Village and Library complex located at One Community Drive, on State Route 29, at the east side of the community of Rochester. This spacious, state-of-the-art facility was built in 1995. It houses not only the Police Department, but also in separate quarters, the village government offices, and community library.
The Police Department occupies 3,500 square feet of the complex with two private offices for command personnel, squad room with individual cubicles for each officer, meeting room, break room/kitchen, an evidence processing lab, three separate interview rooms, a locker room with shower, a two car attached garage, and several storage and evidence rooms.
The Rochester Police Department is a full-time agency, providing twenty-four hour a day service. Its members are all graduates of the state’s police training academies and are state certified police officers. In addition to this mandated training, all officers have additional specialized training in various disciplines.
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The Holidays Are Coming and It’s Time to Up the (Digital) Ante
Sticky Post By rockorange On October 31, 2016
Today is Halloween which, as well as meaning I’m dressed as a skeleton in the office, means that there are only 54 days left to Christmas. And only 25 till Black Friday which, for brands, is the real start of the Holiday season.
Two facts that holiday marketers need to have top of mind at this point in time are that firstly, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 40 percent of consumers will have already started their holiday shopping by Halloween, and secondly, according to eMarketer, total retail holiday season sales this year will only increase 1.8 percent. That means this year, brand marketers must up the ante when it comes to their holiday marketing initiatives if they want to maximize share of wallet.
So how, especially this late in the game, can they do that?
Simply put, right now, brand marketers need to put all their efforts into fishing where there are fish. And by that we mean focus on digital. Your digital channels must be at the center of all your holiday marketing initiatives from this point on. Why? Because, almost half of holiday shopping (46 percent) will be done online and 21.4 percent of smartphone owners will use their device to purchase holiday merchandise this year, the highest seen since NRF first asked in 2011.
And when thinking about digital don’t limit your thinking to your website. Over half (55 percent) of respondents in a recent survey said a brand’s social media presence has at least some influence on their decision-making process when deciding where to buy during the holiday season and that Facebook and Pinterest influenced 69 percent of respondents for shopping ideas and inspiration.
Similarly email should be integrated into your communication efforts with eight in 10 consumers who sign up for a brands’ email will make a purchase based on what they receive in their inbox. In fact, brands who sent out two mailings in a day last holiday season saw an 88 percent increase in email revenue.
The best thing about a digital first approach is that you don’t have to blow your budget to make a significant impact. For example, last year RockOrange implemented an ‘on-a-shoestring’ digital campaign that saw online retailer Zappos own back-to-school. The integrated campaign earned a robust 8,189 online mentions, representing a 2.6% share of voice out of the total 2015 Zappos brand mentions of 314,016. You can find out more in this blog post – How to Make the Most of Limited Back-to-School Marketing Budgets.
How are you planning on using digital marketing this holiday season? Let us know in a comment.
Halloween Playlist
We’ve definitely been there when the scary music scares us more than the actual scene; and the worst part is that pillow over your eyes can’t also kill the music. Most scary scenes have a clever way of using sound to shock us one high-pitched note at a time. So, in the spirit of Halloween, we compiled some scary and suspenseful classics that will surely give you goose bumps!
Just kidding… we also incorporated some less scary ones too!
Hit play and get ready to get some chills!
How Can Brands Prevent Sharing #TMI?
Social media has created a share-society. And, with the rise of real-time social sharing apps like Facebook Live and storytelling features and apps like Snapchat and Instagram Stories, social media users can quite literally share their every single move, all day, every day. And by users we’re not just talking about the everyday consumer snapping photos of every meal they sit down to eat, or celebs posting endless selfies, but also brands, who are leveraging the channels to build deeper relationships with their customers through authentic, behind-the-scenes, how-the-sauce-is-made glimpses into their day-to-day operations.
However, there’s a line of appropriateness that shouldn’t be forgotten. You can share too much on social media and if you cross the line you’re at risk of alienating, and potentially losing, customers and fans. So as we watch DJ Khaled snapchat his wife giving birth, we’re left asking… How can brands prevent sharing #TMI?
Which Artist Today Could Win A Nobel Prize?
Last week, Bob Dylan, an American folk singer who is one of the symbols of the peace movement in the 1960s, won a Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan’s award is seen as the most radical choice in history and stretches the definition of literature.
It also opened up a discussion of whether musicians are actually artists or simply entertainers. Some, like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, have changed the course of history by creating music that resonates with the younger generations. Woodstock started the free love movement and changed the course of a nation.
So we asked our Rockstars – Which modern musician might one day win a Nobel Prize?
Why is Agency Diversity So Important?
This week Verizon joined the growing list of global brands including HP and General Mills that are now demanding diversity from their agencies. With these very public calls to action, some are wondering if we’re at a tipping point in entering the age of inclusion in the agency sector? As our Principal, Miguel Piedra outlined in a recent blog post, diversity is baked into RockOrange’s DNA. We make diversity work for us, and for our clients. So with the issue being one so close to our hearts, this week we asked our RockStars – Why is Agency Diversity So Important?
Sticky Post By rockorange Posted in Press Release Permalink
Bulldog Reporter Awards RockOrange Bronze for Miami Zoological Wildlife Foundation Digital Campaign
We’re thrilled to announce that RockOrange has been awarded Bronze in the category of ‘Best Use of Digital/Social for Cause/Advocacy/Corporate Social Responsibility’ for the digital work we executed on behalf of Miami’s Zoological Wildlife Foundation (ZWF) in this year’s Bulldog Reporter Digital/Social PR Awards.
RockOrange was hired as the Agency of Record by ZWF in 2015 to help the brand find its voice, increase brand awareness and drive visits to the property. Through a series of content-driven digital strategies, we helped ZWF increase its online presence increased by 343 percent. Website traffic increased by 63 percent and the brand’s social media following shot up 67 percent.
The increased digital presence and media coverage resulted in their ranking on TripAdvisor as the #5 Best Thing to Do in Miami, #9 Best Zoo in the World, and #4 Best Zoo in the U.S. Brand sentiment increased from 92 percent positive to 98 percent positive and brand negativity decreased 67 percent.
RockOrange’s bronze is one of 48 honors awarded to companies who have made amazing strides in the world of digital and social media public relations and communications. Bulldog’s Digital/Social awards were by working and award-winning journalists from a number of different media outlets including The Washington Post, USA Today and The Oregonian. Scoring for agencies is based on the following criteria: creativity and originality, strategic and tactical brilliance, breakthrough communications approaches and of course the results of all efforts.
Who’s Your Favorite Superhero?
Sticky Post By rockorange On October 7, 2016
Last Friday, Netflix introduced another in its line of superhero shows with Luke Cage, a DC character that brawls his way through bad guys in New York City. Netflix has Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, the other superhero Netflix show, live and date in the same hero world in their respective shows, which follows the comic world. Starting with Daredevil, Netflix has capitalized on the superhero frenzy that has taken over the movie industry.
Last year, these larger-than-life movies grossed about $700 million in the box office with the Avengers: Age of Ultron being the highest grossing film. Films like the Avengers, Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad were all in the top ten highest grossing films in the last couple years.
And with these movies making you leave the theater hoping you had a superpower, the stream of themed movies doesn’t seem to be ebbing anytime soon. Spider-Man has the ability of a spider, the Flash has incredible speed and Superman is, well, super. Yet with all these, they teach us the values and morals of what it means to be a good Samaritan. That’s why this week we asked our RockStars – Who’s your favorite superhero?
Sticky Post By rockorange Posted in Blog, Featured Permalink
You Can’t Force Diversity. Instead, Look For Places Where It Grows Naturally.
By Miguel Piedra, Principal & Managing Partner, RockOrange
Last month, Palo Alto-based computer hardware developer HP made news when its CMO issued an ultimatum to its PR and advertising partners, exhorting them to submit plans for those agencies to become more diverse in the next 30 days.
In the letter, Antonio Lucio put HP’s roster of agencies on notice. That includes some of the most prominent names in our industry: FleishmanHillard and Porter Novelli for PR; and BBDO, Fred & Farid, and Gyro for advertising.
Lucio’s goal is laudable. The communications and creative world is overwhelmingly white and male. Hispanics, African-Americans and women are chronically underrepresented—doubly so in leadership roles. This at least partly explains many of the embarrassingly tone deaf and cringe-worthy campaigns that have tried unsuccessfully to court these demographics. To understand a culture, one must have at least some mooring in that culture. To execute a successful campaign, you need at least one person in the room who understands the target demographic. Too often, there are none.
But for diversity to take hold and deliver real, positive outcomes, the organization must truly believe in it. Lucio’s heart is in the right place. But from an internal, agency perspective, I can see the natural progression of what will come from this strategy. Ultimatum delivered, the hiring partners will scramble to keep the business. No one is in business to lose money. So whether or not they believe in the core value of diversity becomes beside the point. They will have their talent acquisition and human resources teams do what is necessary to ensure the business is kept. But in the end, if someone is hired as a show pony, or as a token nod to diversity, that is how he or she will be treated. How does that achieve the desired end of viewing projects through different lenses?
Understand, diversity is two-pronged: you must first hire a collection of individuals from different backgrounds, and then empower them to have an effect on your business. It is hard to imagine an agency compelled to hire or promote to meet a client ultimatum will deign to do the latter. The only thing that gets more diversity is the Meet the Team page on their website.
Instead, brands like HP would do well to hire agencies that already value diversity and show the veracity of that belief through their staffing.
There are many agencies around the country that look and act like ours. At RockOrange we are not only minority owned, but more than two thirds of our agency is comprised of women and at any given moment we are 75-80 percent black or Hispanic. Our RockStars range in age from 22 to 50s. We draw from a rich array of life experiences, employing talent from all walks of life and socioeconomic backgrounds.
It wasn’t difficult to do this, and it wasn’t an accident. Miami is an overwhelmingly diverse city, a tapestry of black, white, brown, and all shades between, serving as a model for the next American generation. If you’re a believer in demographic data and population trends, Miami—and by extension our agency—looks a lot like how the country will look in 2050.
But our adherence to diversity as a value is rooted in more than simple geography. Many of our team members have worked in homogenous environments where everyone is from the same place and brings similar experiences. The effect is a deafening echo chamber where disagreement is viewed as dissention. Lack of diversity fosters groupthink, narrowing the collective view. The narrower the view, the broader the blind spot. It’s a dangerous way to do business. It’s how a campaign winds up comparing Naomi Campbell to a chocolate bar. It’s how every Latino menu item at national chains ends up being “spicy” or “fiery”.
For executives like Lucio who understand the underlying business proposition behind diversity, there are alternatives to shoehorning it into the vast organizations they hire—admirable a goal though it may be. Our agency has diversity baked into its very DNA. And while we work with mostly national or international brands, everyone’s unique point of view is not just respected—it’s required. We make diversity work for us, and for our clients.
Instead, try working with agencies that are already built that way. As someone who has worked on both the client side as a chief communicator and the agency side as an owner, I can attest that the work product is guaranteed to be more authentic and appealing when it comes from a room of different people with diverging opinions.
An agency that needs to be told to make itself more diverse has a long hill to climb before it becomes truly diverse. For those who see the value, there’s no such thing as scrambling to keep the business with token hires.
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What is an Apostille?
by Shandra Keesecker-Rivero
Official documents from outside of Mexico generally must be accompanied by an Apostille (issued in the country of origin) for legal transactions. Yet, what is an Apostille?
An Apostille (pronounced ah-po-steel), French for certification, is used to authenticate a document for use in another country. This form of acknowledging documents from abroad came out of the 1961 Hague Convention and is recognized in most countries across the globe, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. An Apostille is generally required on documents presented in Mexico from abroad, along with the accompanying translation.
What is important to keep in mind is the Apostille only acknowledges the authenticity of the signature or stamp on a document (i.e. Notary Public, State Registrar, etc.), but not the content of the document itself. Rather, the Apostille verifies the legal status of the person (usually a Notary Public) at the time a document was signed/issued.
How do I get an Apostille?
In the U.S., an Apostille is most frequently issued by the Secretary of State from the document’s origin (birth certificate, for example). Individuals can contact the Secretary of State in their desired state in order to obtain an Apostille.
Obtaining an Apostille is easy to do on your own. Search for Apostille services on the Secretary/Department of State for the state corresponding to the document (i.e. Arizona birth certificate – search at azsos.gov).
Filing tips?
Though in-person services are currently suspended in Arizona due to Covid, the Arizona Secretary of State provides request service by mail, as well as additional information by calling: 602-542-6187 or 1-800-458-5842
As much of the work received in our own translation office comes from Arizona, here are filing tips from the Arizona Secretary of State on what to submit when requesting an Apostille
An original notarized or certified recorded document.
Apostille/Certificate of Authentication Request form (PDF)
Filing fee (as updated) Filing fees vary by state, from $3 US per Apostille in Arizona (along with return postage)
Find a service that can be tracked to ensure document’s return to you.
Don’t send documents recorded by another state. The state that produced the document needs to certify it (I.E. a birth certificate from Nevada needs to be certified by the Nevada Secretary of State’s office). Documents returned by other states will be returned to you.
No issuing of electronic apostilles.
Where to File (AZ)
Filing By Mail
Attn: Apostille Dept.
1700 W. Washington Street, Fl. 7
Phoenix, AZ 85007-2808
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Thousands of Nigerians Continue to Protest for Widespread Police Reforms Following SARS Disbandment
Brian Espinoza
Nigerians are protesting against human rights abuses carried out by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a police unit commonly known as SARS.
The police unit has been caught on video multiple times shooting, torturing, extorting, beating, robbing, and kidnapping Nigerians.
A video of a SARS officer shooting a young man while confiscating the man’s Lexus on October 3 sparked outrage across the West African nation, leading to protests since October 8.
Since then, the government has agreed to some demands and disbanded the unit for the fourth time, only to replace it with a SWAT unit.
Still, Nigerians continue to protest, demanding wide-scale police reforms.
SARS Accused of Major Human Rights Abuses
Nigeria has been rocked by ongoing protests over police brutality stemming from the long time corruption and abuse by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The squad, better known as SARS, has long been embroiled in controversy for engaging in torture, mock executions, robbery, extortion, kidnapping, harassment, and murder. For many Nigerians, the unit is just the worst example of many of the abuses that Nigerian police engage in and is part of a systemic problem.
The most recent anger was sparked by a video that went viral on October 3, which shows a SARS officer was seen shooting a young man in front of a hotel while taking away his Lexus SUV. Adding to the collective anger was news that the phone used to record the incident was quickly confiscated by SARS officers after the video went live.
Following days of simmering, the tensions boiled over on October 8, after activists and social media called for wide-scale protests to demand SARS be disbanded. Like many recent protests worldwide, the message was quickly spread and amplified with the help of social media, prompting tens of thousands of people across Nigeria to take to the streets and make #endSARS trend online.
Wide-Scale Protests Across Nigeria
Since October 8, the ongoing protests have been mainly peaceful, although there have been incidents of police interfering with heavy-handed tactics. Online, hundreds of videos can be found of police using water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds. Others show them wildly shooting into crowds of protesters.
However, these actions often have the opposite of their intended effect and draw out more protesters daily. Additionally, the videos of violent police tactics amplify the message worldwide, especially as members of the Nigerian diaspora push the topic online.
Nigerian actor John Boyega has actively supported the movement on Twitter, calling out Nigerian police corruption. Similarly, Nigerian rapper Burna Boy made serious efforts to spread information about the protests to his global audience.
On October 10, he made a statement, promising to help fund any protester who is harmed and/or arrested by police during demonstrations. He also asked for donations to that fund and promised to make sure people are educated about the situation. To that end, he has been funding billboards with #ENDSARS and relevant information across the United Kingdom.
Finally up in Mile 1 PHC opp shop rite! #SARSMUSTEND … shame on New Crystal Company for blatantly attempting to silence us by not putting ALL our boards up. we’re not relenting still! pic.twitter.com/QWyStZWdV7
— Burna Boy (@burnaboy) October 13, 2020
In North America, multiple artists have come out in support of the cause. Rapper Kanye West tweeted out, “I stand with my Nigerian brothers and sisters to end police brutality, the government must answer to the peoples cries #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria”
I stand with my Nigerian brothers and sisters to end police brutality, the government must answer to the peoples cries #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria
— ye (@kanyewest) October 12, 2020
Meanwhile, fellow artist Drake highlighted a post about the situation on his Instagram story.
SARS Out, SWAT In
As the protests continued, the message and movement evolved. On Sunday, a list of demands began to be circulated on social media.
Beyond wanting SARS disbanded, the demands called for anyone arrested during the protests to be released. It also called for compensation for those killed by police brutality in Nigeria.
It’s unknown exactly how many have died as a result of the protests, but Human Rights Watch estimates that upwards of 10 people have been killed by police while protesting.
Demonstrators are also calling for an independent body be set up within 10 days to investigate and prosecute all reports of police misconduct, as well as psychological evaluations and retraining of SARS operatives before they were moved to other units.
Additionally, protesters want to ensure that Nigerian police are adequately paid, so they’re less willing to engage in corruption.
Protesters got a major victory on Sunday when the government announced that SARS would be disbanding and there would be investigations into the conduct of the officers. Until those investigations were complete, SARS officers would be placed into other units after a psychological evaluation, in line with protester demands.
However, for many protesters, this wasn’t enough. They want widespread police reforms, especially because disbanding SARS isn’t a new thing.
This will be the fourth time the unit has been disbanded, and each time it’s brought back, it faces the same accusations. It’s widely believed that the unit isn’t the problem and instead blame the mindset within Nigerian police that allows a unit like SARS to be so brutal and corrupt.
It wasn’t until Tuesday that police finally agreed to stop using force against protesters. At the same time, President Muhammadu Buhari gave a speech where he promised that widespread police reforms would come.
“I want to use this opportunity to address the recent genuine concerns and agitations by Nigerians about the excessive use of force, and in some cases extrajudicial killings and wrongful conduct, by men of the Nigerian police force,” he said.
“The disbanding of SARS is only the first step in our commitment to extensive police reform in order to ensure the primary of the police and other law enforcement agencies remain the protection of lives.” and added, “We will also ensure that all those responsible for misconduct or wrongful acts are brought to justice.”
The disbanding of SARS is only the first step in our commitment to extensive police reforms in order to ensure that the primary duty of the police and other law enforcement agencies remains the protection of lives and livelihood of our people. pic.twitter.com/XjQMSr3jlm
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) October 12, 2020
Many Nigerians were bitterly disappointed when it was announced that SARS would be replaced with a group known as Special Weapons Assault Team, or SWAT.
With that, protests continued into Wednesday, and demands have been expanded to call for more fundamental changes to the police system. The calls are similar to ones made against police in countries like the U.S. and U.K. following the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others.
See What Others Are Saying: (Reuters) (CNN) (Vanguard Nigeria)
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In a viral Twitter thread, influencer Kristen Gray encouraged people to move to Bali like she did while promoting her eBook and other resources on how to do so amid COVID-19 restrictions.
Many criticized her for encouraging an influx of travelers during the pandemic. She also sparked conversations about gentrification and was slammed for falsely characterizing Indonesia as queer-friendly.
The local government promised to deport her Tuesday, arguing that selling her book and offering paid consultations on traveling to Bali violated the purpose of her visitor stay permit. They also say she was “spreading information that could unsettle the public.”
“I am not guilty. I have not overstayed my visa. I have not made money in Indonesian rupiah in Indonesia,” Gray told reporters. “I put out a statement about LGBT and I am being deported because of LGBT.”
Kristen Gray Goes Viral
Officials in Indonesia said Tuesday that they will deport Kristen Gray, an American influencer who has caused international outrage in the last week.
Gray moved to Bali with her girlfriend in 2019 with plans to stay for six months. In reality, the couple ended up staying much longer because of the coronavirus pandemic, and in a viral Twitter thread, Gray shared how positive their experience has been.
For anyone curious about the deleted/hidden Bali thread pic.twitter.com/FYA3mRcMNf
— Salt chip (@gastricslut) January 17, 2021
Gray pointed to several benefits of moving to Bali in her posts, like its safety, low cost of living, luxury lifestyle, as well as its queer-friendly and Black communities.
She also encouraged others to make the same move and promoted their $30 eBook “Our Bali Life Is Yours” for tips on how to do it. “We include direct links to our visa agents and how to go about getting to Indonesia during COVID,” she even wrote in one post.
The thread sparked outrage for encouraging an influx of travelers to a country that has closed its borders over the worsening pandemic. On top of that, it sparked conversations about the gentrification of neighborhoods there.
Bali is a major tourist destination for Americans, Europeans, and Australians in particular, and like areas all over the world, it has suffered from the loss in visitors this year.
However, many online noted that locals have been steadily priced out of certain areas of the island as foreigners open businesses to cater to tourists. Others argue that poorly regulated development is also destroying industries that Balinese people have historically relied on.
Aside from those criticisms, many people also took issue with Gray characterizing Bali as a queer-friendly when the reality for locals is far different.
“It well may be the case for you. However, please recognize that it is because a) you’re a foreigner and b) you have economic leverage since the Indonesian local community is financially dependent on keeping you happy so they don’t mess with you,” a user named Kai Mata said in a viral TikTok.
“Please realize for the rest of us Indonesians on the island, this is not a queer-friendly place. Our gay communities are often shut down and raided by authorities and Indonesia at large has tried to mandate conversion therapy for us the LGBTQ+ Community.“
For those averse to reading, here is a succinct video regarding this for your heart’s desires. pic.twitter.com/fEgspkHyJY
— Kai Mata🏳️🌈 (@kaimatamusic) January 18, 2021
Government Responds
The local government responded to the public outrage over Gray’s thread Tuesday. In a statement, it said selling her book and also offering paid consultations on traveling to Bali violated the purpose of her visitor stay permit, which was valid until January 24.
Gray was also accused of “spreading information that could unsettle the public” by saying Bali is queer-friendly and suggesting foreigners travel there during the pandemic.
According to Reuters, she was being held at an immigration detention facility Tuesday and was to be deported as soon as a flight was available.
In a brief statement to the Balinese press, Gray defended herself. “I am not guilty. I have not overstayed my visa. I have not made money in Indonesian rupiah in Indonesia. I put out a statement about LGBT and I am being deported because of LGBT,” she explained.
Many of her fans believe her and also argue that she is seeing this level of criticism because she is a Black woman.
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A petition circulating across South Korea calls for sexualized fanfiction depicting K-pop stars and other real people to be outlawed and classified as sex crimes.
The petition particularly focuses on the way male stars are depicted in same-sex relationships and argues that they often feature people who are minors.
A similar petition was submitted last week to President Moon Jae-in; however, it focused on deep fakes. Because both petitions have over 200,000 signatures, they will need to be addressed by President Moon.
K-Pop Fanfiction Causes Chaos
A petition began circulating across South Korea this week demanding that “real person slash” fanfiction works be outlawed and charged as sex crimes.
“Real person slash” refers to a specific form of fanfiction that most often features sexualized versions of K-pop stars and other real people.
In particular, the petition focuses on the way male stars are depicted in same-sex relationships and the age of some of the people being portrayed. The petition notes, “due to the nature of the profession of idols, whose average age is young, many of the victims are still minors or children.”
The petition was submitted to the Blue House, South Korea’s version of the White House, and currently has over 200,000 signatures. It received a big boost in attention after K-pop star Nancy, from the group Momoland, was secretly filmed by a member of her agency while she was changing backstage. This person then doctored some of the images and uploaded them online.
While Nancy’s case isn’t hand-drawn fanfic, it did fuel outrage at what’s seen as an ineffective approach towards sex crimes in the country. Signers of this petition believe that these fanfics fall into the same category of likely illegality as deep fakes.
Deep Fakes Also Being Targeted
Additionally, just last week deep fakes – which often feature k-pop stars – had its own petition submitted to the president last week with over 300,000 signatures.
Because both petitions have over 200,000 signatures, they will need to be addressed by President Moon Jae-in
For years South Korea has struggled with secret cameras, deep fakes, revenge porn, and more violent sex crimes, such as the infamous Nth Room case that saw certain stars filming themselves having sex with women against their consent.
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Italian prosecutors have started their trial against more than 320 defendants linked to the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
The charges range from murder and drug trafficking to extortion and money laundering.
The case is so large, high-profile, and potentially dangerous that the government built a bunker for the event in Calabria, the home territory of the ‘Ndrangheta.
Details uncovered could deliver a massive blow to organized crime in Italy and potentially across the world as the ‘Ndrangheta has major dealings in Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
Hundreds of ‘Ndranghetisti Facing Charges
A major mob trial kicked off in Italy Wednesday involving more than 320 defendants who are part of or associated with the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
In addition to these defendants going on trial, 90 others have elected for a fast-tracked trial elsewhere in Calabria.
While this is a massive affair, it’s still not the country’s largest mob-related trial in history. That happened in the ’80s against the Cosa Nostra from Sicily.
The trial is so high-profile and potentially dangerous that the government built a bunker for the event in Calabria, close to the home territory of the ‘Ndrangheta.
The court is looking at many charges against the defendants, including extortion, drug and arms trafficking, money laundering, and Mafia association – a term used in Italy’s penal code for members of organized crime.
Breaking Into the Family
Investigators hope that the trial will show just how entrenched organized crime is in the territory, as it’s believed that the ‘Ndrangheta has dealings with local politicians and businessmen. These dealings are believed to not only stem from their illicit activities but also from their legitimate businesses that were initially funded via crime-related funds. Either way, the trial is seen as a major blow for the group.
The organization is made up of multiple groups of tight-knight families that are all interconnected. For years investigators have tried to get more information on the group but following the arrest and prosecution of Luigi Mancuso, a boss in the ‘Ndrangheta, investigators finally had a way to look more closely at 12 families who make up part of the ‘Ndrangheta.
During their investigation police and prosecutors managed to turn some members of those families and use them as informants. They are expected to take the stand as witnesses during the trial. In total, prosecutors hope to put bring out over 900 witnesses.
If successful, this could be a massive blow to organized crime in Italy and potentially across the world as the ‘Ndrangheta has major dealing in Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
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Wicked in a Kilt by Anna Durand
She has three rules in life: no sex, no love, no marriage. He intends to seduce her to break all three.
Calli Douglas has avoided romance for five years, bound by a promise she never should’ve made to a man she doesn’t love. Now, he refuses to let her go. When she leaves her backwoods hideaway to attend her cousin’s wedding, Calli has no intention of meeting a man. But fate has other plans–in the form of one scorching-hot Scotsman.
Aidan “Don Juan” MacTaggart is the living embodiment of carnal pleasure and seductive prowess, but he longs for love and commitment. The moment he sets eyes on Calli, the stunning American captivates him. Though she’s sworn off sex and romance, unraveling the mystery of why tantalizes Aidan almost as much as her sensual curves.
As their passion for each other inspires them to explore their steamiest desires, a deeper bond takes root. But when secrets from both their pasts threaten their happiness, they must confront their fears or lose everything.
The meet-cute of our main characters was by far the best feature of this read. After all, there’s nothing quite like a case of mistaken identity where our male lead is thought to be the tardy stripper for a bachelorette party. Aidan might run away at the prospect of removing his clothes in front of a room full of ladies he doesn’t know, but he’s not afraid to run into the arms of Calli after this brief misunderstanding. Following this rather abrupt first meeting, Aidan is surreptitiously invited by the bride-to-be to attend the wedding, and he and Calli share a romantic dance or two. This is when things moved a bit too quickly for me. Calli goes back to Michigan after the wedding, and when Aidan calls her up from Chicago he offers to drive the 3-4 hours up to meet her so they can…hang out? Maybe this is why I’m still single. Calli saw it as a sweet gesture, I saw it as slightly creepy. Upon his arrival at her humble abode we see him try to woo her into taking a chance on him by throwing all of her steadfast rules out the window.
Playing a board game together. Sharing his favorite brand of whiskey with her. Making their first time special by lighting a bunch of candles. Sounds like some sweet and romantic ways to connect, don’t they? Of course they do! These are all the things which worked for Aidan’s brother, Lachlan, who was the male lead of book one as he successfully wooed Erica into being his wife. Aidan tries his darnedest to replicate as many of his brother’s romantic gestures with Calli in the hopes that it will tear down her walls, and she’ll open up to the idea of falling in love with him.
That in and of itself was kind of…off-putting…considering he’s known this woman for all of about 2 days before he determines she’s destined to be the American wife he’s been searching for. The fact that he constantly references Lachlan and Erica’s relationship throughout their time together, and reveals that he’s employing some of the same tactics used by his brother makes it even more surprising to me that Calli didn’t throw this sexy-as-sin Scot out on his firm behind. He asks her to give him four weeks to try out a relationship, as that’s how long it took for Lachlan and Erica to fall in love. Even with this four week timeline he proposes to her after just one week, acknowledging that he doesn’t love her yet. Coming on a bit strong, buddy!!
The Cat’s Outta the Bag
Similar to book one, this novel presents us with our two leads keeping secrets from each other which eventually come to light towards the end of the book. Calli’s secret is that she married a man right out of college so he could get a green card, and over six years later he refuses to give her a divorce as he’s always been in love with her. I must say, this side story was resolved so quickly and easily after it was revealed to Aidan that it felt like a wasted opportunity for more exciting drama. Aidan stays pretty much out of the ordeal entirely, which on the one hand was refreshing, as it allowed Calli to handle matters on her own. But on the other hand it never really felt fully incorporated into the story, so it was more like a side annoyance that never rose to the level of being truly important.
As for Aidan’s back-story, and the climactic reasoning that threatens to end his relationship with Calli, all revolves around an ex girlfriend. This ex has been calling him a lot lately, demanding money as compensation for an accident that was in no way, shape, or form Aidan’s fault. When his ex reveals she’s pregnant, claiming the child is Aidan’s, he’s willing to give up his newfound love for Calli to marry his ex…an idea which is quickly abandoned before it even has a chance to fully take shape. However, that one moment of doubt causes Calli to start questioning the rapidity of their entire relationship, which Aidan subsequently judges her for. As a reminder…these people have only known each other for a span of two weeks. It was never clear to me why things had to be all or nothing for their relationship. Why does Aidan have to propose after one week even though he knows he doesn’t love her yet? Why are the only two solutions either getting married and moving to Scotland, or breaking up? Whatever happened to dating?
Series: Hot Scots, book 2. Overall I enjoyed the romance in book 1 better, but I’m still intrigued to see what’s in store for our next MacTaggart brother.
Final Impressions: The progression of this novel was extremely similar to that of the plot from the first book, albeit it never quite reached the same level of excitement. I simply wasn’t as connected to Aidan and Calli as I was to Lachlan and Emily. Even when we compare the side stories of Emily being framed for a crime she didn’t commit, and Calli fearing the discovery of her sham marriage, Emily’s tale of misery was far more interesting. Something else which distracted from the romance between Calli and Aidan was the fact that we are introduced to their respective siblings later on in the novel who proceed to have a love affair of their own, and I must say I almost wanted to see more from that couple! I did enjoy the meet-cute, and some of the teasing seduction initiated by Aidan, but overall their relationship felt off and extremely rushed.
Smut Level: There’s nothing quite like finding a secluded spot after a soothing summer’s drive to appreciate the scenery…and maybe have sex against the car door.
Get it on Amazon: Click Here. $4.99 Kindle Price. Jacobsville Books. 228 Pages.
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Beverly Huckman, Champion of Equal Opportunity
Beverly Huckman, a champion for equality, affirmative action, diversity and inclusiveness who served for 38 years at Rush, died May 27 at her Chicago home. She was 77.
Huckman, who retired in 2012, was Rush’s associate vice president for equal opportunity and diversity.
“Beverly did some of the earliest work at Rush organizing our approach to diversity. She helped to found the ADA Task Force at Rush and did countless other things in support of equal rights for all. She touched many lives here and well beyond Rush,” said Larry Goodman, MD, the recently retired former CEO of Rush University Medical Center and the Rush University System for Health.
“Some people come into our lives for a season, but Beverly’s commitment to diversity, inclusiveness and equity has left a lasting impression on me and those of us who were blessed to know her,” says Terry Peterson, vice president of corporate and external affairs and chairperson of the Rush Diversity Leadership Council.
Inspired by ‘I Have a Dream’
Huckman’s commitment to equality was kindled by her childhood experience attending a segregated public school in Portsmouth, Virginia. She majored in government with an interest in African studies at Smith College, graduating with honors in 1963. That summer, she was in the crowd in the National Mall in Washington when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which made a lifelong impression on her.
Huckman began her career working for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Philadelphia. She then moved with her husband, Michael Huckman, MD, to St. Louis, where he had a medical fellowship.
There, she represented public housing tenants in a rent strike that was settled in the tenants’ favor. Huckman helped write the settlement, which established the St. Louis Civic Alliance for Housing, paving the way for tenant management in public housing.
After moving to Evanston in 1970, she was a consultant to the Human Relations Commissions of both Evanston and Skokie and was instrumental in the establishment of public housing in both communities. In 1974, she became equal opportunity coordinator for academic affairs at what was then Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center.
“Beverly was a true leader and champion for diversity and inclusion at Rush,” said Cynthia Boyd, MD, MBA, vice president and chief compliance officer at the Medical Center and senior associate dean, diversity and inclusion, integrated medical education at Rush Medical College. “She was steadfast in her commitment to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and women at Rush at various levels and positions of leadership. She brought Rush along in this regard, blazing the trail. Rush is a better place because of Beverly, and she will be missed.”
Led award-winning diversity and equality efforts
Huckman was responsible for the development and implementation of the Rush Diversity, Equal Opportunity, and Affirmative Action programs, the Policies and Procedures on Harassment, programs related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and other civil rights policies and programs. Largely due to her efforts, Rush received the Henry Betts, MD, Award for significant contributions in promoting disability rights and employment advocacy.
She championed numerous initiatives aimed at increasing the recruitment and retention of medical and nursing students from underrepresented minority groups, and she was a strong advocate for the professional development of women in academic medicine throughout her career. As a founding member of Rush’s Diversity Leadership Council, she was instrumental in helping to increase the diversity of the Rush Board of Trustees, senior management and university leadership.
She also was instrumental in the Medical Center receiving the U.S. Department of Labor “EVE Award” for Exemplary Voluntary Efforts in Equal Opportunity for Minorities, Women, Individuals with Disabilities, and Veterans in 2007, and receiving the LGBT Healthcare Equality award from the Human Rights Campaign over the years 2009 to 2012.
Huckman received the 1997 Eugene J-MA Thonar Award for outstanding contributions to advancing opportunities for people with disabilities, the 2005 Henry P. Russe, MD Humanitarian Award and the 2012 J. Robert Clapp Diversity Leadership Award.
Even after retiring from Rush, Huckman remained committed to Rush and its diversity and inclusion efforts. She continued to attend the Clapp Award ceremony at Rush each year and was in the audience for it in March.
“I saw her after a doctor’s visit just a few weeks ago, and we were planning an experience with area high school students,” said Sharon Gates, director of community engagement for Rush University. “I’m thankful for the privilege and honor of working with her.”
In addition to Michael, her husband of 54 years and the former director of Rush’s Section of Neuroradiology, Huckman is survived by their two sons, Andrew and Robert, and daughters-in-law Elaine and Jennifer, her grandson, Noah, brother and sister-in-law, Alan and Evelyn Blachman, many nieces and nephews, and her caregiver, Miriam Edwards.
Funeral services will be held 11:30 a.m., Thursday, May 30, at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St., Evanston, IL 60202. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to The Huckman Family Fund at Beth Emet or to Smith College. For funeral information, please call (847) 256-5700.
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Ant tried to steal a diamond from a jewelry store (video)
August 9, 2018 RR Society
Ant tried to steal a diamond from a jewelry store (video) And he almost succeeded. Ants may seem small and harmless, but it is only at first glance. So, in one of jewelry stores of Italy, the insect tried to quietly steal a large diamond. Fortunately, the little thief caught the eye of store employees, who managed to capture on video his escape with the stone. During the download an error has occurred. See also: The bear got into the restaurant and took the pizza from visitors Exploding ants and hairy crabs: nature is richer than we thought A stray dog stole the store a book about loneliness
Where is the world’s only boiling river (photo)
Where is the world’s only boiling river (photo) It is the phenomenon scientists can’t solve so far. Unique and very dangerous river Mantuano, also known as Shanay-Tempesta (“Warmed by the heat of the sun”), located deep in the tropical forests of the Peruvian part of the Amazon basin. Publication of Jime del Solar (@jimedelsolar) APR 15, 2018 at 2:06 PDT During the download an error has occurred. The maximum width of the river is 25 m, depth — 6 meters and a length of 6.4 kilometers. Famous Manuaku the fact that the temperature of the water ranges from 45 to 100 degrees. There’s nothing alive, and putting his hand into the water just for a few seconds, you can get third-degree burns. The most amazing thing — no one knows why the river is such a high temperature. Termostatico in the vicinity, and the nearest active volcano that could heat
The actress from the TV series “Happy together” in a coma
The actress from the TV series “Happy together” in a coma MOSCOW, 9 Aug — RIA Novosti. Actress and choreographer Maria Simdyankin in a coma. This was reported by her friend Elena Ksenofontova. “Three days ago Machines, the body refused to work on their own. Refused to heart, lungs, and kidneys. Life is sustained by machines. She’s in a coma,” wrote one in Instagram. Publication of Elena Ksenofontova (@elena_ksenofontova_official) 8 August 2018 at 3:16 PDT During the download an error has occurred. According to her, Simdyankin fighting the disease for over two years. Later it was reported an improvement in the girlfriend — actress to breathe independently, she has earned the heart. Maria Simdyankin plays in the theatre and cinema. In particular, she starred in the television series “Happy together”, “Return of Mukhtar”, “Margot-2”, “Kulagin and partners”.
The Moscow regional election Commission was formed more than 80 temporary sites for the elections of the head of the Moscow region
August 9, 2018 RR Politics
© Anton vergun/TASS MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. The electoral Commission of the Moscow region formed 83 temporary polling station at the election of the Governor of the Moscow region. This decision was taken by the Commission at the meeting on Thursday. “As of this morning in the Moscow region 83 formed temporary site,” – said at the meeting, the Chairman of Mosoblispolkom of Elmira Khaimurzina.
The campaign of the candidate in mayors of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin will start on August 13
Volunteers from the election headquarters of the candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin on Pokrovka street © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Start the active campaign of the candidate in mayors of Moscow, acting mayor Sergei Sobyanin will start from August 13. This was reported to journalists on Thursday the Chairman of the electoral headquarters Sobyanin Konstantin Remchukov.
The Russian military shot down near air base Hamim launched by militants drone
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Storm ditch in Sochi, where he drowned the child, was rebuilt about 20 years ago
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Storm ditch in Sochi, where he drowned the child, was rebuilt about 20 years ago As reported in Prosecutor’s office, the landlord, who conducted the rebuilding of at the moment is neither a suspect nor a defendant in the case. KRASNODAR, August 9. /TASS/. Storm sewer in the Lazarev district of Sochi, where on August 3 said boy, was rebuilt by the landlord about 20 years ago. About this TASS said Thursday in a press-service of Prosecutor’s office of Krasnodar Krai. As previously reported, on August 3 during a heavy rain in the village of Lazarevskoye the boy fell in the storm ditch, and was taken by the current. The child’s body was discovered in the sea. In the municipality of Sochi stated that the lattice on a manifold is not in the design but a warning about the showers, it was announced in advance. Later the information appeared that
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In Colorado went hail the size of a baseball
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Near Rostov found a burial for a thousand years older than the Egyptian pyramids
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Camel wins late-night live music approval
It just needs the final approval of City Council.
October 14, 2014; 10:16 AM • by RVANews staff
Update #2 — October 14, 2014; 10:09 AM
In last night’s City Council session the council approved a request to allow the Camel to let bands play later into the evening. According to RTD the music can now play until 2:00 AM any day of the week. Previously music had to stop at 11:00 PM on weekdays (Sunday -Thursday) and 1:00 AM on weekends (Friday and Saturday). Rock on Camel, rock on.
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Update #1 — July 8, 2014; 9:18 AM
The Camel is one step closer to allowing bands to play until 2:00 AM. The City’s Planning Commission yesterday approved The Camel’s petition to allow late-night live music. All that stands in The Camel’s way is final approval from City Council.
Ned Oliver of Style Weekly has a recap of yesterday’s meeting:
Twenty supporters spoke at a public hearing, including musicians, fans and staff members at the bar and restaurant, which currently must stop music at 11 p.m. from Monday to Thursday and 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
“It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but for someone who is a professional musician, … this extra hour, I’ve seen how it can effect how much money I can make there as a business, and I’m one person,” said Adrianne Ciucci, a member of the Southern Belles, which plays shows at the venue.
Owner Rand Burgess says that the limited hours have prevented him from booking certain acts because headlining bands typically want to start their set between 11 p.m. and midnight. Earlier shows don’t bring in as much revenue, he says.
Supporters say the Camel has served as an incubator for the city’s growing music scene, and more than that is just a great place to hang out. “I don’t like seeing drunken buffoons falling all over the place,” one patron told the commission. “It’s a place where I can go have one or two beers and not feel like I’m in a room full of debauchery.”
But not everyone is on board.
Two residents and one lawyer spoke against approving the request. The primary objections came from Dan Shorkey, who owns and lives in the apartment above the tanning salon next door.
Likewise, city staff members who reviewed Burgess’ application recommended the commission deny the request. The staff members wrote that under the new rules, the Camel would qualify as a night club, a use that’s not permitted on the block under the city’s master plan.
City Council next meets on July 14th.
Original — July 07, 2014
After nearly a year of trying to get city rules amended so that the music at The Camel can play later it looks like there will finally be a decision tonight. Currently shows at The Camel must stop by 11:00 PM Sunday through Thursday and by 1:00 AM on Fridays and Saturdays. The hope is to get that time changed to 2:00 AM for all seven days of the week.
Owner of The Camel Rand Burgess posted the following on the online petition that now has over 3,000 signatures in support of the change..
Seven months since we originally filed to amend our Special Use Permit we will finally get in front of the planning commission this Monday, July 7th at 1:30pm. The meeting will be held on the fifth floor of city hall.
If you are able to make it to this meeting it would be greatly appreciated. If transportation is an issue we will have a shuttle van to shuttle people down to city hall. We will be hosting lunch for any supporters which will be served at noon, with the first shuttle leaving around 1pm.
Again, I appreciate all of your support and hope to see y’all on Monday.
Have a safe and happy independence day.
Rand Burgess
The Camel
RTD also has a mention of the meeting.
Photo of Cardinal Compass playing The Camel by Eli Christman
October 14, 2014 10:16 AM · in Fan of the Fan 1 2 updates
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Helgram Game: Other Key Members
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Other Important House Members
Llewellyn Stephenson-Helgram, Master at Arms
Duke Llewellyn
Eldest son of the late Duke Stephen and his wife Shevaun, who became head of the Stephenson-Helgram branch when his father was killed by Caine Rilgason. Llewellyn is a highly skilled warrior, who was trained by his father from a young age. He accompanied Stephen on his last mission, and saw his father die, but did successfully rescue the girl they went to save, although he’s never really forgiven her for being the cause of his father’s death. He took over as Master at Arms with the agreement of Grand Duke Graham junior, and has performed his duties well. However, he has a harder edge than his father, which occasionally comes out when one of his students is being particularly clueless. To this day, he has a deep and abiding hatred of Caine Rilgason, and has sworn vendetta against him.
He spends a lot of time co-operating with Warmistress Joan and they work well together.
Cíaran is a the younger son of Duke Richard, the historian. Richard fostered him with the Court of King Swayville, where he served as a page. However, somehow he fell foul of the King’s then apprentice, Lucian, and ended up returning to House Helgram in semi-disgrace. His father decided it would be best if he left Chaos for a while, and he was sent into Shadow, and found a position as a junior scribe in the Court of Queen Elizabeth I. He made his mark there, and learned a great deal about how a Royal Household should work. Eventually, the dust settled back in Thelbane, and he returned home, where he was appointed as Lord Chamberlain and Head of the Royal Household in Helgram Palace, as well as serving on Graham’s Privy Council. Grand Duke Bleys has seen no reason to change this appointement.
Mikel is a son of Duke Daveth with Helena Sawall, and is half-brother to Daveth’s daughter Elowen. He grew up in House Helgram, doing well as a sorcerer, but also showing a flair for admin and politics. After he walked the Logrus, he travelled in Shadow for some years, before returning to work within King Swayville’s court for a while, making contacts and gaining experience of high level government and administration. He returned to House Helgram when his grandfather died, and made himself available to Duke Graham Junior, who took note of his experience within Swayville’s court, and appointed him to run the Helgram bureaucracy and administration. He has one son, Rory, who is an excellent magician in his own right.
David is the son of Duchess Matilda, and has a Channicut father. He was initially brought up within his father’s House. However, it soon became clear that while he’d inherited the Channicut financial acumen, in him it was more focused towards fiscal responsibility, rather than naked acquisition. This made him unpopular with certain elements of Channicut, and eventually he returned to his mother’s House, and began working in the House Treasury. He became House Treasurer about 150 years ago.
As Treasurer, he is responsible for watching House spending and budgets with an eagle eye, and making sure that the Helgram Inc doesn’t run at a loss, despite the Grand Duke’s efforts to work his way through the House coffers.
Finn Harrison-Helgram, Chief Constable
Finn is the second son of the late Duke Henry, and inherited both his father’s inherent magical skill, and his grandmother’s flair for matters military. He was taken in hand at a young age by his Uncle Daveth, who made sure that he didn’t lose control of his magic, the way his father had. Daveth kept him focused, and he graduated safely from the Helgram Academy with specialism in combat and investigative magic. He then spent some years training in House Hendrake, to develop his military ability, before returning to House Helgram and applying that knowledge to the Helgram armed forces.
When policing duties were split out from the straight military, Finn volunteered to become the House Chief Constable of the small but efficient House Police. Most of their duties relate to the main public and communal areas of Helgramways. Within the sub-Ways, the owner usually makes his own policing arrangements, and will deal with most of the everyday matters. However, the House Police do get involved if a serious crime, such as murder or rape, takes place.
The Chief Constable runs the small but efficient House Police. For the most part, their responsibilities are restricted to the main communal areas of Helgramways, although they may get called into an individual sub-Ways if a serious crime has been committed.
Dhugal is the son of Clarissa’s younger sister, Duchess Florence. He became fascinated with the family, and genealogy at a young age, and studied both magical and mundane healing and genetics at the Helgram Academy. He became the Keeper of the Lineage quite some time ago. His position deals with the far from minor job of keeping track of Helgram genealogy, and also functions to award and keep track of the heraldry of the individual members of the House. He works closely with Myron Henry Helgram, who teaches law, politics and genealogy at the Helgram Academy.
Gwenith is the daughter of Duchess Eleanor. Where her mother’s skill is with people, and getting them to do what she wants, in Gwenith it has come out more as empathy, and an innate ability to heal. After walking the Logrus, she travelled extensively in Shadow, learning a variety of healing techniques in a number of different tech levels. She is very capable both as a magical healer, and using shape shifting.
In her role as House Infirmarer, she is effectively the Chief Medical Officer for House Helgram, running the main Helgram hospital/infirmary, and she and her staff see to the health and wellbeing of the House.
Elowen Daveth-Helgram, House Poisons Expert
Elowen is the elder of twin daughters of Duke Daveth and Dybele Hendrake. Her sister, Eithne, went missing during the purge by Eric of Karm and Caine Rilgason, and is assumed to be dead. Elowen was something of an explorer in her youth, but thankfully didn’t suffer the fate of her sister during her travels in Shadow. Early in her youth, she developed an interest in poisons and their antidotes. As time passed, it became apparent that it was more than just an interest – it was more of an innate gift – and given the prevalence of Jesby poisons in the Courts, the House made sure that she was trained in the use of it. After she walked the Logrus, she spent a great deal of time in Shadow, learning more about her craft on many different worlds. When she finally returned to House Helgram, its because somewhere in her travels she had fallen pregnant, and she decided she wanted her child to be born in the House. Since then she has worked closely with both the Helgram Infirmary, and the Institute for Magic and Science.
Working closely with the House Treasurer, Linsday is responsible for co-ordinating all of House Helgram’s internal and external financial endeavours: keeping an eye on manufacturing, looking for good trading opportunities, and investing the House coffers wisely. She is the daughter of Eleanor, and inherited her mother’s people skills, but decided to put them towards commerce and the financial benefit of the House.
While she was in the Upper House of the Academy, she was interning on a trading delegation in Shadow when they were attacked by Caine Rilgason. Her mentor, Pieter Richardson-Helgram, managed to get word back to the House before being killed, and a rescue mission was launched. Lindsay and one other member of the delegation were rescued, but the other four were murdered, along with Duke Stephen. Since that time, she has had a difficult relationship with Stephen’s son Llewellyn, who blames her for his father’s death.
She recovered from her injuries, and returned to her studies, and eventually went on to work in her chosen fields. She has degrees in economics, market forces and Thelbane commercial law.
Duke Jowan
Jowan is the grandson of Duke Daveth and Dybele Hendrake. Jowan was educated in Shadow, rather than at the Helgram Academy, but since he returned to the Courts he has been very involved in promoting Helgram interests. He is a trained lawyer, with a thorough understanding of Chaos jurisprudence, and has also served the House in diplomacy and trade, and teaches at the Helgram Academy as a visiting lecturer. He was appointed as the Helgram Agent in the Black Zone shortly after the end of the War Between the Powers. He has been instrumental in establishing the Helgram Zócalo.
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Any serious spinal cord injury can have a life changing and traumatic impact on the individual. Whilst we tend to focus on loss of movement and sensation when it comes to these types of injuries, it’s important to note that there are generally other, secondary complications that can be just as challenging to cope with.
These secondary complications include problems with bowel and bladder function as well as issues such as autonomic dysreflexia and spasticity.
Another potential problem that can occur as a result of lack of mobility is the increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), particularly in the acute stages of a spinal cord injury.
Here we take a look at what deep vein thrombosis is and how individuals with a spinal cord injury can reduce their risk of this potentially life-threatening health condition.
What is Deep Vein Thrombosis?
Deep vein thrombosis occurs as a result of a blood clot that develops in a vein in the body, most typically in the thigh area or lower leg. A clot can cause huge complications if it breaks away and is transported to the lungs, where it can cause a pulmonary embolism, damaging the artery and surrounding tissue.
Any DVT can be life-threatening if the condition isn’t managed properly.
A deep vein thrombosis will often exhibit symptoms such as swelling in the affected limb and a feeling of warmth. The area might painful or tender to touch.
A pulmonary embolism is possible if you then develop symptoms such as difficulty breathing, sudden chest pain and coughing blood.
Why are SCI Patients at Risk of DVT?
Individuals who have sustained a serious spinal cord injury are particularly at risk of developing DVT, especially in the early stages following their injury. In one study, 43% of patients were found to have a DVT within seven days up to three to four weeks following their diagnosis.
Lack of mobility, due to full or partial paralysis, puts those with SCIs at a higher risk of developing a DVT. This is because the movement of blood through the veins slows down which then increases the likelihood of a clot developing in the first place.
If a person also has other contributing factors, such as being overweight or has a previous history of heart problems, the risk of deep vein thrombosis is also likely to increase. The potential in the early stages of injury is more pronounced because the individual often has to be kept immobile whilst they initially recover from their injury.
Once someone has passed the initial treatment stage of their spinal cord injury, that does not mean the risk of developing a DVT has diminished completely. A lot will depend on the extent and level of their injury. Those with full paralysis below the neck are more likely to have issues with DVTs than someone that has partial damage below the waist.
Whilst the risk of DVT will decrease after the acute stage, research suggests that as many as 12% of patients are still at risk between the third and twelfth month following their injury.
Preventing DVT in SCI Patients
When someone has been diagnosed with a spinal cord injury, there are a lot of things that need to be done in the initial stages of recovery. This includes monitoring the individual to make sure that the risk of secondary issues such as developing deep vein thrombosis are kept to a minimum.
It’s important to try and prevent a problem such as spinal thrombosis from occurring and typically this is managed by administering anticoagulants which help to stop clots from forming. These medications are generally administered within the first few days following a spinal cord injury but may continue to be provided after the initial recovery phase.
An ultrasound process called Duplex is usually employed to diagnose a blood clot. This involves pushing the clot to depress or collapse it using the ultrasound device as well as looking for abnormalities in blood flow.
Treatment will depend on the size and severity of the blood clot and may include hospitalization and the use of a powerful anti-coagulant such as heparin or warfarin. In most cases, the clot will eventually dissolve, though in some cases, the patient may need to continue taking blood thinning for an extended period of time.
Regular monitoring is obviously important for those with a spinal cord injury and recognizing the symptoms associated with various potential secondary complications is vital for maintaining good health. Maintaining movement and blood flow through exercise can also help prevent clots from developing in the first place.
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The History Of Network Marketing As A Home Business
By Warren Wojnowski
The mere mention of the network marketing or MLM industry can cause a very visceral reaction with many people.
When you hear someone such as Donald Trump suggest network marketing is a terrific home based business vehicle for the average person, what reaction do you have? Do you find yourself feeling skeptical or hold a negative opinion of the industry?
If you already participate in network marketing, do you sometimes feel embarrassed to admit it? Or, if you’re not in it yet, are you embarrassed to admit you are seriously considering it? If so, why? What is it about your beliefs around network marketing that lead you to have these feelings?
To put these feelings into some context, let's take a look at the industry of MLM or network marketing.
Network Marketing MLM in the 21st Century
Network marketing is a +$100 billion dollar per year industry which represents an accessible way for the average person to launch a legitimate business with the potential of generating very substantial income.
It offers the opportunity to launch a business on a part-time basis, and then growing that into a full-time (or more) income. And it requires the least amount of start-up capital and ongoing operating expense of virtually any legitimate business model.
Network marketing/MLM is responsible for enabling the creation of an untold number of millionaires.
Paul Zane Pilzer, a world renowned economist and college professor, goes so far as to predict that over 10 million new millionaires will be created through network marketing over the next 10 years.
If this is true, why on earth would you feel ashamed or embarrassed to be part of this industry?
Well, there’s a lot of history behind network marketing. So let’s review that history for a few moments and perhaps it will shed some light on where a lot of your feelings and attitudes around the industry may have come from.
The History Of Network Marketing
Network Marketing as a means of product distribution – which is really all that it is – has been around literally forever. You can go back through history and the establishment of trade routes and find examples of traders who distributed goods, food, and fur, face-to-face, on behalf of various backers. Sometimes these backers were rulers of a country, sometimes they were powerful individuals, and sometimes they were large businesses or companies.
The North American history of the notion of direct selling can be traced back to the 1600’s. For example, the Voyageurs established fur trading routes and posts on behalf of the Hudson Bay Company. The Hudson Bay Company itself relied upon the influence of Prince Rupert, who was the cousin of King Charles II, to acquire the Royal Charter which, in May, 1670 granted the lands of the Hudson Bay watershed to "the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson Bay."
In New England, in the mid 1700’s, began the phenomenon of the Yankee Peddler, in which peddlers would travel in their cart home to home throughout the countryside, selling their wares.
From there evolved the concept of the door-to-door salesman. The Watkins Company was launched in 1868, selling a popular liniment. The late 1800s saw the spawning of new companies employing door-to-door salesmen to distribute bibles, books, spices, remedies, perfumes, tonics and the like. The California Perfume Company, which later became better known as Avon, was founded in the late 1800s.
The Fuller Brush Company debuted in the early 1900s and it was Alfred Fuller who is credited with transforming door-to-door direct selling into something different. Rather than positioning himself as a salesman who sold brushes and focusing on the features of the brushes, he instead focused his attention on selling the benefits of his brushes to the consumers.
This is referred to as “empowering the consumer”.
His entire company vision was crafted in the context of the service he was able to provide to his customer. The approach was revolutionary.
The early 1900’s also saw the emergence of vacuum cleaner and encyclopedia companies such as Electrolux, World Book and Britannica.
,b>The Dawn of a New Age
The term “network marketing” specifically is 20th century creation.
Its genesis lies in the post World War era of the late 40s and early 50s. This was the dawning of the era of the subdivision in which genuine neighborhoods flourished with their own circle of trusting relationships and backyard barbeques.
It is out of this trend that the term “belly to belly” marketing – or warm market as you may better recognize it – was coined.
A company named California Vitamins came to the realization that many of their new sales recruits were in fact friends and family of their existing sales force. These new recruits’ primary motivation to becoming a sales associate was that they wanted the products for themselves at the wholesale cost.
That led the company to recognize it was easier to build a sales force with a lot of people who sell a small amount of product, than it was to find a small number of top sellers who would move mountains of product.
And so California Vitamins designed a revolutionary sales compensation model encouraging their salespeople to invite new representatives from satisfied customers, most of whom were family and friends. Each of those new representatives in turn had the same right to offer the product and opportunity to become a representative to others.
This allowed the sales force to grow exponentially. The company rewarded its representatives for the sales produced by their entire group – or network – of sales representatives. And so multi-level marketing was born.
It was also during this time that the home party plan was introduced.
The original party plan was the Stanley Hostess Party Plan, by Stanley Home Products. The focus of the party plan was to demonstrate the myriad of uses and benefits of the products right in the home. Out of the original Stanley dealer roster came the founders of such future marketing program giants as Mary Kay and Tupperware.
The introduction of the multi-level, person-to-person sales program in the mid 1950s coincided with another pair of new giants arriving on the scene. First, Shaklee was launched. Then, a couple of years later, in 1959, came the birth of Amway.
The Advent of MLM
The term multi-level marketing, or MLM, became a part of the industry lexicon.
And the direct selling industry would never be the same.
The popular notion that MLM companies really gained steam in the mid 1970s when the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged that Amway and its multi-level marketing structure constituted an illegal pyramid.
This made lots of headlines in the mainstream press.
In fact, in 1979 the court sided with Amway and deemed its multi-level marketing structure valid and legal and that its model represented a legitimate business opportunity.
Out of that court decision, the “Amway Safeguard Rule” set the legal standard for direct selling, multi-level, and network marketing based companies going forward.
The Myth of the MLM Pyramid
However, the myth of all MLMs being pyramids lives on.
Amway and its multi-level structure were targeted by the FTC partly in response to a proliferation of pyramid programs in the 1970s. In these illegal pyramids, money was the only commodity or “value” that moved through the program. There was no underlying product or service.
Schemes were developed whose only purpose was specifically to recruit others into the program. It was the emergence of several high profile schemes that led to a rash of regulatory requirements and the ultimate targeting of MLM as a structure. It also led to the clarification of speculative or fraudulent schemes and legitimate direct sales activities.
The Amway Safeguard Rule identifies three key points which ensure the validity of the opportunity. It was the existence of these three points as part of the Amway structure that led the court to conclude the business was not an illegal pyramid.
These therefore are important criteria with which to assess any network marketing or MLM opportunity and establish whether it is in fact legal as opposed to “one of those pyramid scams”.
1. Does the opportunity require the retail sale of products or services before one can qualify for any recruiting commissions or sales?
2. Does the opportunity have a mechanism in place to prevent the stockpiling of inventory of physical products with no intention of reselling?
3. Does the opportunity offer representatives who choose to leave a buy-back provision on unsold, unopened inventory or products?
The term “network marketing” became popular in the 1980s. It was partly coined as a way of getting away from the stigma of MLM.
Ultimately, direct sales and multi-level marketing are distinct subsets within the overall network marketing industry. In simplistic terms, they can be defined this way:
Direct selling is where the profit or commission for a retail sale is paid to one person.
Multi-level marketing is where the profit or commission for a retail sale is shared with an up-line (or recruiter). Typically there are also bonuses paid based on recruiting activity, so long as the recruiting is accompanied with ongoing retail sales activity.
Network Marketing Gains Legitimacy
Finally, network marketing and MLM gained a strong degree of legitimacy in the 1990s and into the 21st century.
A number of very well known and respected authors and business people began to lend their public endorsement to the industry. People such as Brian Tracy, Robert Kiyosaki, Paul Zane Pilzer, Jim Rohn, and even Donald Trump began to openly talk about the merits of the industry and, in fact, encouraged people to consider it.
At the same time, MLM network marketing morphed into a proven, preferred method of product distribution by some of the largest companies on the planet.
Corporations came to the conclusion that network marketing, as a distribution channel, offered many advantages, not the least of which is that it’s lower cost.
Commissions are only paid on the sale of product or services and the structure allows the companies to offload much of the time and training requirements onto its representatives, who are incented to train the new representative they recruit.
In particular for new product launches, network marketing distribution allowed companies to avoid costly traditional advertising campaigns.
Pretty soon telecommunications companies, travel companies, satellite providers, financial services companies, and many other industries joined the party. Today there are literally thousands upon thousands of network marketing based companies operating throughout the world.
Today, network marketing is a +$100 billion dollar industry.
So there you have it, we’ve come full circle.
So now let me ask you this question. Do you still feel as though there is a reason to feel ashamed or embarrassed to admit you are involved in or considering getting inolved in MLM or network marketing? Or might you conclude it's an avenue of wealth building that at least merits further investigation?
Want to learn more wealth creation strategies? Warren Wojnowski is a successful entrepreneur and marketer, as well as one of the great new self improvement teachers. Get a FREE eBook, 7 Steps to Happiness by subscribing to his newsletter at www.inspiredabundance.com/create-wealth
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{Out and About: Clueless the Musical}
Alicia Silverstone in the original Clueless.
I know what you’re thinking. There’s a Clueless musical? As, if!
But there is… and Friday evening my friend Sarah and I headed on over to check it out. We first learned about it when we saw Puffs (the unofficial Harry Potter-based show which focuses on the life of the members of Hufflepuff House). In the program a little ad for Clueless caught my eye, and by the time the show ended, we had tickets in hand!
The Smoking’ Sarong and the Teach’s Torment from The Polynesian.
The evening began with dinner. One of my favorite things to do when planning an evening out is play “choose the restaurant.” Sometimes this means going somewhere tried and true, but other times I search the surrounding area and assess menus like I’m creating a plan for world peace. For this particular evening’s festivities, I chose The Polynesian, a bar with food just down the block from the theater. I am a sucker for fancily-named cocktails.
For dinner we had the Polynesian pu pu platter, which included a lot of different items from their menu and came as a large tower. What’s not to like? It was bonus that all the food was really good.
After dinner, the evening’s excursion took us on a quick walk to Shmackary’s to get cookies, and then off to Clueless!
A little background: I LOVED CLUELESS the movie when it first opened back in 1995. Like, a lot. It came out when I was fourteen, and it was my favorite thing ever. For this nineties adolescent (seriously, I turned nine in 1990 and 18 in 1999), Clueless was the defining movie of my teen years, though my actual teen years resembled it in no way whatsoever, other than the fact that I wanted Cher’s hair and clothes more than anything. For me, the movie has also stood the test of time, and I still love watching it, though I don’t do so as much as I used to. And if I’m being honest, I still want Cher’s hair (her wardrobe might be a little dated for me at this point!). So even though I knew going in that it couldn’t possibly top a beloved movie from my youth, I was super excited going in.
Because the show was written by Amy Heckerling (the original writer), all the memorable lines and scenes from the original script were there. A few changes were made here and there to work better for the stage, but for the most part it was the same story with the same cast of characters. And while it was not quite as charming as the original movie, the mix of nineties music with the classic storyline made it an amusing way to spend the evening.
I will say that I definitely missed the original cast. It was just not quite the same without Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd. Cher is normally played by Dove Cameron, who is a person I’m supposed to have heard of… I never had, but all my students told me all about her when I mentioned I was going to see the show. She turned out to be out for the performance. And so the theater was filled with two types of people: disappointed tweens who were there to see Dove Cameron and their parents who loved Clueless. I have no comparison, but I enjoyed the understudy a lot. She embodied a lot, but not quite all of, the spirit that Alicia Silverstone had when she played Cher. I was disappointed in Dave Thomas Brown’s portrayal of Josh at first, but he grew on me towards the end of the first act (I don’t really think this was his fault as an actor, I just really adore Paul Rudd).
The name Clueless was enough of a draw for me, and then I found that it’s a jukebox musical, using all songs from the 80’s and 90’s with reworked lyrics to match the scenes. This included songs from the original movie, as well as other classics like Ace of Base’s “Beautiful Life,” N’Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye” and Tai Bachman’s “She’s So High,” which was a duet between Josh and Cher and my favorite number in the whole show.
Costume-wise, Amy Clark stayed true to the original work. Cher’s iconic plaid mini-skirt and blazer were there, as well as the red dress she gets mugged in (although they call it an Armani instead of an Alaia… sidebar, I’m realizing as I write this that I’m pretty sure I love wearing little red dresses because of Clueless), her plaid skirt, vest, and long sleeved shirt combination that she wears when Tai called her “a virgin who can’t drive.” Dionne’s outfits were just as outrageous, and Josh wore the obligatory plaid shirts and activist t-shirts. They really embodied the spirit of the 90’s and the original movie. They even put in the fact that Murray never pulls his pants up high enough, and gave him costumes to reflect that.
Clueless: the Musical premiered at The Pershing Square Signature Theater on November 20, 2018. Unfortunately, for those interested in checking it out, we saw it the night before it closed on January 12.
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Every Man Remembered – London’s Hull Brothers
One of my Christmas presents last year was a poppy lapel pin. It is made from British shell fuses fired during the Battle of the Somme. It also includes finely ground earth from places inextricably linked with those months which, for many, define the Great War: Gommecourt, Hebuterne, Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, Ovillers, La Boiselle, Fricourt and Mametz. Places which are still etched in the minds over a century later.
Importantly for me the poppy was accompanied by a certificate commemorating the life of a soldier who fell during the second to the 141st (and final) day of the Battle. My wish was to research his life and record it on the “Every Man Remembered” site. It did not work out quite as anticipated. I researched more than one life, in what proved to be a series of deaths which in a matter of months devastated a London family. But this family’s story is similar to stories repeated up and down the country.
The name on the certificate was Pte W Hull, 19930, of the East Yorkshire Regiment who died on 16 July 1916. He is buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt l’Abbe, located 10 kilometres south west of Albert. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website indicate he served with the 1st Battalion, but give no family details.
Certificate for Pte W Hull – Photo by Jane Roberts
The cemetery was the scene of intense activity during the Battle of the Somme, as indicated by the multiple burials marked by many of the headstones. Begun in May 1916, it provided the base for a number of Casualty Clearing Stations. From April 1916 the 36th Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) was located there. In May the 38th CCS joined them, followed in July by the 2/2nd London CCS.
William Henry Hull’s birth was registered in Holborn, in the first quarter of 1895. His parents, William George Hull and Ann King (known as Annie), married on 28 October 1894 at St Peter’s Saffron Hill, Holborn. They went on to have four other children: Albert Edward, registered in 1897, Robert George in 1900, Annie Lydia in 1903 (born 2 February) and Charles Frederick in 1907 (born 22 September). Their address in the 1901 census onwards is 17, Northampton Road, Clerkenwell. The family are still recorded there in the 1939 Register.
This was a subdivided property typical of the area, characterised by densely populated high occupancy houses, interspersed with areas of model dwellings, the latter an attempt to provide decent working class accommodation.
A manufacturing area characterised by a high working class presence, Clerkenwell had a significant number of artisan metal-based crafts emanating from its early watchmaking traditions. Although watchmaking in the area suffered a decline by the end of the 19th century in the face of cheap and foreign competition, other offshoots such as scientific and surgical instrument making and barometer and chronometer manufacture had a presence. The other significant industry was printing. This strengthened its grip in the period the Hull family lived in the area. It was, in the main, centred around the printing of small periodicals, engravings, maps, books and pamphlets rather than national or London-wide daily press. And with his printing industry earnings, as a compositor setting the type ready for printing, William (senior) supported his family. William and Albert’s early jobs, as indicated in the 1911 census, were as errand boys at a photographers and barometer works respectively.
By the time he joined the Colours, William worked as a liftman. He enlisted in Clerkenwell on 18 September 1915. On the 19 September he went to join his regiment. Appropriately, given his surname, he was assigned to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, East Riding Regiment, a training unit based at Beverley. Standing at 5’ 4 ½” and weighing 126lbs (9 stones), he had a scar on his forehead and his right upper lip, he also had “I love Jessie James” inked on his left upper arm. And he did, for he married her at Holborn Registry Office on 20 February 1916. She went on to live at 17 Northampton Road whilst William resumed his training.
It was not until 14 June 1916 that he embarked to serve with either the 7th or 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – his papers are ambiguous. However on 9 July he was posted to the 1st Battalion and joined them in the field on 10 July 1916. The Unit War Diary of the 1st East Yorkshires records it was a fine day, and notes the arrival of two drafts of men from the West and East Yorkshire Regiments, whilst they were en route to Ville via Corbie.
They arrived at Ville on 11 July, in readiness for their next offensive – an attempt to break through the German second position on the line from Longueval to Bazentin-le-Petit. This was the successful Battle of Bazentin Ridge. Launched in the early hours of 14 July 1916 it lasted until 17 July by which time the German second position was captured on a front of 6,000 yards. For a while it even looked as if High Wood lay open, but delays in getting cavalry forward meant the moment was lost.
The Unit War Diary of the 1st East Yorkshires records their part in events. On 13 July they received orders that they were to be attached to the 110th Brigade and left Ville:
“….at 3.30pm marching to Carcaillot Farm in the E. border of Meulte arriving about 5pm where rested (tea was provided) until 9pm when we moved to Fricourt (Rose Cottage) arriving at 10.30pm. Hot tea was served to the Btn and tools and grenades were issued. At 12.25am Btn moved to position in reserve at the S.E. corner of Mametz wood arriving about 2.30am where they dug themselves in. Enemy shelled borders of wood and vicinity large numbers of lachrymatory shells being used. Only one casualty in march was incurred”.
The East Yorkshires remained in reserve until 9.30am of the morning of 14 July, when they received orders to urgently reinforce the 7th Leicesters on the north edge of Bazentin-le-Petit Wood. Two companies, A and B, were despatched. A further two, C and D, were sent to the wood reporting as reinforcements to Lt-Col Challenor of the 6th Leicesters. Both advances were made under heavy shell fire, with the enemy barrage in the south edge of the wood and the intervening space between it and Mametz Wood being particularly heavy. The companies in Bazentin-le-Petit Wood were scattered, but C Company’s advance to the north east was made with little resistance and a German counter attack repelled. The Diary reports at this time:
“……an unfortunate incident occurred, our own artillery shelling us from the rear at the same time as the enemy were barraging the N edge of the wood and many casualties occurred”.
It was on 14 July, his first foray into action and with a new unit, that William Hull sustained gunshot wounds (this covered shrapnel injuries as well as those sustained by bullets) to his shoulder and buttocks. Initially treated by the 64th West Lancashire Field Ambulance he was transferred via motor ambulance convoy to the 38th Casualty Clearing Station on 16 July where he died of his wounds that day. Their Unit War Diary records a phenomenal number of casualties each day. On 1 July they numbered 1,767. By 16 July they recorded the admission of 21 officers and 490 other ranks wounded; the evacuation of 23 wounded officers, 408 wounded and one sick from amongst the other ranks; three officers and 13 other ranks died; 12 wounded officers, 404 wounded other ranks and three sick remained. It also records:
“No 2278 Sergeant Gillbee RAMC placed under arrest for drunkenness”.
Gillbee was a pre-war regular, who in 1913 received his dispensing qualification. His Medal Index Card records a Field General Court Martial reduction to the ranks on 1 July 1917 as a result of drunkenness.
The 1st East Yorkshire Unit War Diary records total casualties for their operations between 13-17 July as: no officers killed and six wounded, but one of those only slightly so was able to return to duty; 36 other ranks killed, 186 wounded and 126 missing.
William served for 303 days, but only four of those with the 1st East Yorkshire Regiment before his wounds. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medal. His childless widow, Jessie, still living at 17 Northampton Road in 1919, received a pension of 10 shillings a week, with effect from 26 February 1917.
William’s younger brother Albert Edward was serving in the Ploegsteert Wood area of Belgium, as a Rifleman with “A” Company of the 21st Battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles) (KRRC) when his brother died.
Albert enlisted before his elder brother, at Kingsway Recruiting Office, Middlesex on 17 April 1915. At the time he worked as a warehouseman. He stood at 5’ 5” tall, with blue eyes, fair hair and a fresh complexion. For some reason he gave his father’s name as William Henry Hull, but CWGC information as well as other family and address details provided in surviving documentation confirms it was William George Hull.
Albert served initially with the 6th KRRC, the training unit based at Sheerness, before transferring to the 21st Battalion, setting off to France aboard the “SS Golden Eagle” on 31 May 1916. He joined his new Battalion in the field on 21 June 1916. At this time they were based in and around the Ploegsteert Wood area of Belgium, not moving down to France until late August 1916.
The 21st KRRC’s first significant action on the Somme occurred on 15 September when they participated in the opening stages of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, at the start of the third phase of the Battle of the Somme. The battle is particularly noteworthy as the new British weapon, tanks, were unleashed in battle for the first time. Despite a number of early successes, including at last the clearing of High Wood, the capture of Flers, Courcelette and Martinpuich, there was no decisive breakthrough and the battle ground to a virtual halt by the 17 September due to a combination of bad weather and German reinforcements, before finally ending on 22 September.
The 21st KRRC Unit War Diary records events on the 15 September.
“The Battalion took part in an attack on the enemy lines in front of Delville Wood. The 124th Brigade advanced on a line which passed between the villages of FLERS on the left and Guedecourt on the right. The Battalion was on the left of the first line with the 10th Queens on the right & the 26th & 32nd Royal Fusiliers in support. The 122nd Brigade was on the left & the 14th Division on the right”.
At 6.30am they commenced their attack, quickly taking without difficulty their first objective, the Switch Trench. They also took their second objective, the Flers Trench, capturing a few prisoners who showed little inclination to fight. They did incur casualties though, by getting too close to their own barrage. Lack of support on the flanks also halted their advance, so they focused on consolidating their gains. Lt Col Charles William Reginald Duncombe, the 2nd Earl of Feversham, of the 21st KRRC and Lt Col Richard Oakley of the 10th Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment gathered together some men to try to take the third and fourth objectives in front of Guedecourt village. They did manage to take their third objective and withstood a German counter attack, but the Earl of Feversham was killed. They were eventually forced to retreat and consolidated about 400 yards in front of the second objective, where the remnants of the Battalion remained until relieved at about 3am the following morning, 16 September.
The War Diary records the following casualties for the 15 September: 4 officers and 54 other ranks killed; 10 officers and 256 other ranks wounded and 74 other ranks missing. Interestingly the initials of the officer responsible for the diary from September 1916 are “RAE” – 2nd Lt (Robert) Anthony Eden, who was appointed Acting Adjutant on 19 September. He is better known as the Prime Minister between 1955-1957, in charge at the time of the Suez Crisis.
Albert Hull was amongst the wounded. His casualty form indicates 15/17 September, but from the diary it appears all casualties were incurred on the 15 September. He sustained gun shot wounds and fractures to the legs. He was transferred down the line, admitted to 1 General Hospital at Etretat, before evacuation to England on board the “Asturias” and transfer to the 5th Northern General Hospital in Leicester.
5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester from unpublished book by R Wallace Henry held at the University of Leicester, used in accordance with http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/ (edited, cropped)
This is now part of the University of Leicester. From 1837-1908 it operated as the Leicestershire Lunatic Asylum until the construction of a new Asylum in 1907. In 1911 the now empty building was earmarked as a potential military hospital. Once war broke out it became the base for the 5th Northern General Hospital. New buildings were constructed and as the war progressed it expanded to become a local network of hospitals at more than 60 locations. In total there were beds in Leicestershire for 111 officers and 2,487 other ranks, through which passed more than 95,000 casualties. 514 of these died.
One was Albert. His arrival in September coincided with the opening of the first 101 bed ward of a new five ward extension to the hospital. His final notes from Leicester make reference to the gun shot wound to his left leg, as well as a secondary haemorrhage in France and amputation. There is also a telegram dated 26 September 1916 from 5 Northern General Hospital to the 21st KRRC records office at Winchester stating:
“….R11808 Rifleman a Hull a Coy. 21 KRR died in this hospital of his wounds this morning and next of kin advised”.
Albert was buried on 30 September 1916 at Islington Cemetery in a public, shared grave.
Within weeks the family were burying another son in the same cemetery. This time their third child, 16-year-old Robert.
The cause of death was acute suppurative otitis media and septicaemia. In other words an ear infection. More common in children than adults, this particular infection has a number of causes, including upper respiratory infection, sinusitis, smoking (including passive), craniofacial abnormalities and allergies. Additionally, in children (usually between 3-7 years old) their developing ear structure can leave them prone to infection there when food is regurgitated. Poor sanitation, over-crowding and malnutrition are all risk factors too. Symptoms include pain, fever and earache. In Robert’s case, in this pre-antibiotic era, complications did ensue, resulting in hospitalisation and death. He succumbed to septicaemia on 18 November 1916 at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts), London. He was buried at Islington Cemetery on 25 November 1916.
Extract from GRO death register entry for Robert George Hull: Image © Crown Copyright and posted in compliance with General Register Office copyright guidance
Whilst coping with the aftermath of the death of three sons in quick succession, the family also faced an ongoing struggle with military authorities to retrieve the personal effects of Albert. The family enlisted the help of a Alice Maunder of 25, Chelsea Gardens, Sloane Square. On 19 January 1917 she wrote to the Rifles Office asking that Albert’s effects be sent to his mother without any more delay. She ended her missive with:
“Perhaps you would finally look into the matter and see that the things are sent as soon as possible”.
They were finally sent to the family on 21 March 1917. His were the few typical possessions of an ordinary soldier, providing memories of home, a nod to God’s protection, a little bit of cheer and an indication of his Regiment. They comprised of a linen bag, two gospels (Mark and John), a match box holder, a packet of cigarettes, a cap comforter (a knitted woollen tube pulled cap-like over the head, ideal for keeping warm or whilst on trench raids), shoulder title, cap badge (broken), letters and photographs.
Albert was awarded the British War and Victory Medals. His father did query this in June 1921, asking why his son did not receive a “Star” as he joined the Colours in April 1915. He was informed he was ineligible. Albert did not actually go overseas until May 1916. The 1914/15 Star was awarded to those who who served in a theatre of war before 31 December 1915 and had not qualified for the earlier 1914 Star.
So what became of the rest of the Hull family? William George died at the same hospital as his son Robert in 1925 and was buried at Islington Cemetery 27 August. The 1939 Register shows widowed Annie working as an office cleaner and living with her two unmarried children, Annie (a book binder’s assistant) and Charles (a school porter), still at 17 Northampton Road. Charles eventually married in 1941 and died on 3 January 1973, in Huntingdon. Daughter Annie never married. She died in 1974. I have not found a definitive death for Annie herself, but suspect it was 1960. I have not traced what became of Jessie, William’s widow.
Census: 1901 and 1911
1939 Register – FindMyPast
GRO Indexes
Death Certificate – Robert Hull
National Probate Calendar (death of Charles)
London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Peter, Saffron Hill, Register of marriages, P82/PET, Item 004 via Ancestry.co.uk
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Casualty & Cemetery details: http://www.cwgc.org/
Battle of Bazentin Ridge http://www.cwgc.org/the-somme/battle-of-the-somme/bazentin-ridge.aspx
Unit War Diary – 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (WO/95/2161/2)
Unit War Diary – 38th Casualty Clearing Station (WO95/416/2)
Unit War Diary – 64th Field Ambulance (WO95/2147/2)
Unit War Diary – 21st King’s Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles) (WO95/2643/4)
WO 363 First World War Service Records, “Burnt Documents” – William Hull and Albert Hull
Survey of London: Volume 47, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, ed. Philip Temple (London, 2008), pp. 1-21. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol47/pp1-21 [accessed 1 May 2017].
‘Introduction‘, in Survey of London: Volume 46, South and East Clerkenwell, ed. Philip Temple (London, 2008), pp. 3-27. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol46/pp3-27 [accessed 1 May 2017].
Exmouth Market area’, in Survey of London: Volume 47, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, ed. Philip Temple (London, 2008), pp. 52-83. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol47/pp52-83 [accessed 1 May 2017].
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Corps News, August 1913 http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/21/2/31.full.pdf
FirstWorldWar.com, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/flers.htm
Commonwealth War Graves Commussion, Flers-Courcelette http://www.cwgc.org/the-somme/battle-of-the-somme/flers-courcelette.aspx
History of War, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_flers_courcelette.html
University of Leicester, “The University as Military Hospital in the Great War” http://www2.le.ac.uk/institution/ww1/hospital
University of Leicester Special Collections “Fifth Northern General Hospital 1914-1919” R Wallace Henry (includes photo of 5th Northern General Hospital), photo used in accordance with http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/ – http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/p16445coll9/id/433
Deceased Online (burials of Albert, Robert and William (Snr) Hull): https://www.deceasedonline.com/
Acute Suppurative Otitis Media http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Acute_suppurative_otitis_media
Acute Suppurative Otitis Media in Adults https://patient.info/doctor/acute-otitis-media-in-adults
Acute Suppurative Otitis Media Complications: https://entsho.com/acute-otitis-media-comp/
5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester taken from an unpublished book “Fifth Northern General Hospital” by R Wallace Henry, held by the University of Leicester. Edited (cropped) and used in accordance with the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/
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Tagged Bazentin Ridge, Clerkenwell, East Yorkshire Regiment, Flers-Courcelette, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Royal British Legion, Somme, WW1
“Ley Lines” of the Somme: an amazing Somme 100 experience
Do you believe in fate? Of hidden forces drawing people together? I do after my latest Great War pilgrimage.
I recently went over to Belgium and France and timed the visit to coincide with two of my Hill family death anniversaries. Jesse Hill, who died on 19 September 1915 and is buried at Ypres Reservoir; and Percy Hill who died, according to soldiers’ effects records, at 2/1 South Midland Casualty Clearing Station on 30 September 1916. Percy is buried at Warloy-Baillon Community Cemetery Extension, just to the west of Albert.
Last year when visiting Jesse, on the centenary of his death, I narrowly missed meeting a relative for the first time. Two poppy crosses and the visitors book showed we’d paid our respects at Jesse’s grave within hours of each other. That was coincidence enough, but nothing in comparison to what happened this year.
Two Poppy Crosses by Jane Roberts
Chris (my husband) and I spent a few days in Ypres before driving to Avesnes Le Sec, near Cambrai, to stay with an “old” school friend for the weekend (sorry about the “old” Anne, but it applies to me too). We finished the final leg of our visit on the Somme, initially at the wonderful “No 56” b&b then at the “Royal Picardie” hotel in Albert for the last two nights. The only reason we transferred to Albert was because the b&b only had availability for three nights.
The early evening of 28 September we finished another long day of walking by stopping off at the beautiful Authuile Military Cemetery, in the village of Authuille (note the spelling difference).
I love this tranquil cemetery with its feeling of peace and calm, and its eye-pleasingly curving layout of headstones sloping down to the river Ancre. An odd thing to say, but it’s probably my favourite cemetery. It is also the final resting place of Pte Willie Barber of the 1/4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) one of the parishioners at Batley St Mary’s who I spent so much time researching.
Authuile Military Cemetery – by Jane Roberts
As we wandered down to the bottom slopes of the cemetery I noticed another visitor. This was unusual, as it was getting on and the cemetery isn’t one people normally beat a path to the door of. By the time we got to the top she had gone.
I sort of wondered if she was here to see Willie, one of those flights of fancy about impossible coincidences. I’m always a bit over-focussed on the St Mary’s men I researched. But there was nothing in the visitors book to indicate why she’d been there. That was the end of that, or so I thought. A chance to find out lost.
The following day we checked into our Albert hotel. Whilst in town sitting outside a café drinking coffee we saw the lady again. But again never spoke.
And then on 30 September, the anniversary of Percy’s death, we went down to our first breakfast in the hotel and she was there with her mum. This time we did speak. She was over for the centenary of her great grandfather’s death, that very day. The same day as Percy Hill. 30 September.
We talked a bit more, and amazingly discovered both Percy and her ancestor, Jonathan Pearson, were in the same battalion, 1/4th KOYLI. Both died of wounds and both received their injuries during the same period of duty in the trenches near Ulster Tower in mid-September. She had followed Jonathan’s footsteps for those few final frontline days and was on her way across to Boulogne to his grave on his death anniversary, before returning home to the south of England that evening.
She had photos of Jonathan. I had some of Percy, including group photos with some of his pals. And amazingly on one of these photos was a man who looked remarkably like Jonathan. Same colouring, same features including distinctive nose and cut of hair.
We couldn’t believe it. 100 years to the exact day of their deaths we were in a hotel in Albert staring at a picture of what appears to be both men together. It was is if some unseen force had been pulling us together for the past couple of days, starting at Authuile Military Cemetery where fellow 1/4th KOYLI soldier Willie Barber is buried, finally uniting us on the centenary of their death. An incredible, earth-stopping realisation. And if the b&b had been available for the final two days of my visit I wouldn’t have even been in the Albert hotel. A week later and I still can’t believe it.
We parted promising to pass on Jonathan and Percy’s regards at their respective final resting places, around some 90 miles apart.
And so onto Warloy-Baillon. We stopped at Ulster Tower en route and found the poppy cross Jonathan’s family had laid in the area of the KOYLI trenches of mid September 1916. We saw the Pope’s Nose, the German salient with a decaying relic of a observation post/gun emplacement, which was the focus of their trench raids in that period.
Poppy laid by Jonathan’s family – photo by Jane Roberts
The area of the Pope’s Nose, and the observation post with Ulster Tower in the background – photo by Jane Roberts
We were at Percy Hill’s grave for 1.15pm, the minute is death is recorded. And there, at around 2pm, we met with David Short and his wife Pauline, the relative I so narrowly missed meeting just over a year ago at Jesse Hill’s grave. And in a final piece of symmetry David is from the north east of England, not Yorkshire, the same area from which Jonathan hailed.
Percy Hill’s headstone – photo by Jane Roberts
David and I meet at last – photo by Chris Roberts
Posted in Ancestry, Battle of the Somme, CWGC, Family History, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, KOYLI
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“We Didn’t Realize How Soon It’s Going to Come”
Is there anything that can actually stop the impending disaster detailed in the scary new climate report?
By Isaac Chotiner
Oct 13, 20188:00 AM
Visitors walk past collapsing, melting ice at the foot of the Pasterze Glacier on Aug. 27, 2016, in Austria. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Coral Davenport, who covers energy and the environment for the New York Times. She recently wrote a story for the paper about a new report from the United Nations that says we face more dangers from climate change than even many pessimists had until recently assumed. Below is an edited excerpt from the show. In it, we discuss what the report means for the planet’s future, how other countries are trying to prevent climate change, and the ways in which global warming deniers have adapted their rhetoric in light of new evidence.
You can find links to every episode here; the entire audio interview is below. Please subscribe to I Have to Ask wherever you get your podcasts.
Isaac Chotiner: What’s your biggest takeaway from the report?
Coral Davenport: So the way the U.N. report works is, under the 2015 Paris Agreement, which was signed by nearly every country in the world and aimed at curbing global warming, there was a target. There was a goal that was understood by scientists and governments at the time, in 2015, to be the tipping point past which the world is going to go into the most severe, irreversible, damaging impacts of climate change. It was understood that if the world’s atmosphere warms up past 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, that was understood to be the tipping point that we want to avoid.
However, at the time of the signing of the Paris Agreement, a bunch of heads of small island nations—countries that are already seeing the impacts of rising sea levels, water loss, severe coastal inundation—said, “You know, we wonder if maybe some stuff might be happening before that.” And under the Paris Agreement, world leaders commissioned scientists to look at what happens earlier than 3.6 degrees: what happens at 2.7 degrees, which wasn’t really known. And that’s the result of this report.
And so it turns out, what they found out is a lot of the things that we thought were going to happen at 3.6 degrees, several decades out, are actually going to happen at 2.7 degrees and are going to hit pretty soon, by 2040: severe coastal inundation, major droughts, crop and food losses, severe wildfires, food shortages. It will be a lot worse at 3.6 degrees, but this is stuff that we didn’t realize how soon it’s going to come. This is the first report that looks at that level of warming, and is able to place, sort of pin, 2040 as the year it’s going to happen. We haven’t seen that precision. And this tells us stuff that we didn’t even know three years ago. It’s very, very new.
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The report talks about ways to keep this from happening but says there’s a lack of political will. If there was political will, what could really change the course we’re on in such a short amount of time?
The report found that it is technically possible to avert this outcome, this 2.7 degrees of warming by 2040. It said that governments would need to take action within the next year or two. The action would need to start immediately. We would need to see a sharp drop-off of emissions by 2030, so within the next 12 years. The No. 1 thing that would need to happen, the central policy, is a price or tax on carbon dioxide emissions. And we would need to see this implemented by all major economies.
Does the report break down the degree to which the things that you talk about are going to hit wealthy countries, like the United States, or countries in Northern Europe, versus other places? How bad will this be in countries that have more money, and tend to be the ones making the decisions?
The report finds specifically, and I’m reading a direct quotation, “The economic damages of climate change in the USA, as a result of the 2.7 degrees of warming, are expected to be large.” It finds that the U.S. would lose about 1.2 percent of GDP for every 1.8 degree of warming. And we’ve actually already experienced, it found, 1.8 degrees of warming since about the 1850s, but those degrees are going to start going up a lot faster.
It gave a list of nine countries that are home to about 50 million people who will be exposed to very economically damaging, and physically damaging, harmful impacts of coastal flooding by 2040. So those countries are the U.S., along with China, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam. So the U.S. gets grouped with some other developing countries, partly because it has a lot of coastline where people live and where there’s a lot of economic activity.
Your piece notes, “The report also finds that, in the likelihood that governments fail to avert 2.7 degrees of warming, another scenario is possible: The world could overshoot that target, heat up by more than 3.6 degrees, and then through a combination of lowering emissions and deploying carbon capture technology, bring the temperature back down below the 2.7-degree threshold. In that scenario, some damage would be irreversible, the report found. All coral reefs would die. However, the sea ice that would disappear in the hotter scenario would return once temperatures had cooled off.” What exactly does this mean?
So in order to avoid that 2.7 degrees of warming, the report finds that essentially the entire world economy would have to undergo a radical transition at a scale that has never been seen in human history. We would have to see radical changes of our energy systems, how we get electricity, transportation systems, agriculture, basic urban systems, and that all of this would have to be implemented within a year or two. Again, technically possible; politically, highly improbable.
The scientists, I think, decided to look at this other possibility. They said, “OK. Well, given the political reality on the ground, and the likelihood that we will not see the entire world economy turn around on a dime in the next two years, what are some other options, here?” And one is, we continue, sort of business as usual. We do shoot past that 2.7 degrees. We enter that post-2.7-degree world. We start to see some of these severe impacts.
“The report finds that essentially the entire world economy would have to undergo a radical transition at a scale that has never been seen in human history.” — Coral Davenport
They thought: That is more likely to be the time when governments would feel compelled, when politicians might feel compelled to take action. After it’s already hit, after we’re already living in a world of extreme droughts, and water shortages, and stronger storms, and more coastal inundations. What if that’s the thing that compels governments to take action?
And so if governments do take action then, you know, in 10 or 20 years, and move to aggressively start reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and move to implement technology that actually removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, carbon capture technology, then it would be possible to pull greenhouse gasses out of the air and lower the amount that are going in, so that in the following decades, the atmospheric temperature would actually go back down. And so the scientists looked at what that would look like. And they said in some cases, you go past a certain amount of temperature, and some things on the planet just get so scorched, they don’t come back. And one of them is coral reefs. If you move past, if you go past that temperature, they found that coral reefs, we would see mass mortality, probably all coral reefs dying. And once that happens, you lose them. They don’t come back.
But one thing that would come back is sea ice. In the scenario in which we move past 2.7 degrees, towards 3.6 degrees, we would start seeing such a mass melting of sea ice. We would probably have one summer every 10 years, with no sea ice at all. We would have, you know, major melting of polar ice sheets. But what the report found, what the scientists found is that as the atmosphere starts to cool off again, that ice would return. And it would build back up. That is something that you can heat up, and then go back down. You can actually bring back the sea ice. So it was interesting. And they put a lot of detail into that outcome, because I think that the scientists saw that as something that may be the most possible of the different outcomes.
This is one of the things about political will, that something bad is going to have to happen. I don’t say this as a defense of inaction, but worse things are going to have to happen for anyone to take action. And I suppose it’s good that the scientists are thinking about this stuff, since it is the most likely scenario. I mean, you don’t want to fall into fatalism, but it is where we are.
It is, it is. I don’t think that piece of the assignment was explicit. I think, you know, the world leaders said, “Just look at what it takes to do 2.7 degrees.” And I think the scientists were like, “Let’s look at this way of getting there,” because scientists also do live in, you know, they don’t live just in the world of the technically possible. They also live in a world of politics, and they understand that what they’re saying has to happen in the real world.
I read a bunch of stories about this report, and sprinkled throughout them are comments from places like the World Coal Association, some of the Koch brothers networks, places that are opposed to taking large action of the type that these scientists are recommending. But it felt like some of their statements were a little bit more muted than they were maybe five or 10 years ago, as if they know they’ve won the battle in some way, and so perhaps they don’t need to go after the science in the same way, just because the politics are already so impossible for their adversaries. Or am I reading too much into these statements?
I do see less attacks on the science. I don’t know if that comes from these organizations feeling like they’ve won, so much as it is, you know … This report comes from a group of scientists that have won a Nobel Prize, specifically for the rigor and clarity of their work. The scientific consensus on the basic, established way that global warming works is actually, there’s greater scientific consensus on that than there is on whether or not smoking is linked to lung cancer. The former president of the National Academy of Sciences told me that. It becomes harder and harder to attack the basic science the more that we see.
An organization like the World Coal Association represents companies that have to operate in the real world. They’re not a political organization. They can’t really say, “That’s not true.” So I think that’s kind of more of the reason that we don’t see … You know, the president of Americans for Prosperity has said, “You know, we don’t attack the science. We’re not questioning the science.”
On the other hand, it’s absolutely true, and these groups are correct in making the point that the policies called for by this group, you know, very high carbon taxes, implemented almost immediately, would be very economically disruptive. They would raise the price of gasoline. They would put coal miners out of work. There’s no question that the kind of policies called for, and the speed at which they would need to be implemented, would be disruptive and would have economic losers. And I think that the critics of these policies are right in pointing that out. It’s accurate. And so I think they can make a strong case by just saying, you know, pointing to the impact of the policies without attacking the science.
To what degree is the lack of political will about specific political issues going on in individual countries, and to what degree is it that countries just want to see other countries making firmer commitments and following through on them, before they are willing to follow through on them themselves?
Well, a lot of countries, a lot of the world’s major economies are applying these policies. China is moving forward with a national price on carbon. The entire EU has a carbon price.
Canada is moving forward with a carbon price. They’re certainly not at the level that the economists who contributed to this report called for. But, you know, the biggest policy that this report calls for is a price on carbon. And we are seeing many major economies moving forward with the first policy steps in implementing that.
I think in the U.S., the world’s largest economy and the place where the idea of a price on carbon was invented, it’s just considered to be politically toxic, even for Democrats, to embrace a price on carbon or a tax on carbon. I think it’s considered to be a one-way ticket to losing your job, if you’re a lawmaker. Whereas, I think, in a lot of other countries, there’s debate. The debate in other countries is, you know, how high should the price on carbon be?
Are there countries that have set a price on carbon that, if adopted as the universal standard, the scientists in this report think would prevent the things they’re talking about?
The EU has had a price on carbon for more than 10 years. It hasn’t worked very well, partly because the prices that they’ve set have been extremely low. So it hasn’t been particularly effective at lowering emissions. So I would say, I mean, right now, you know, China is just in the very early stages of their carbon pricing program. I think the question for China is how good is their carbon accounting? In order for a carbon pricing program to work, you have to be sure that all the tons of carbon that are being taxed are accounted for. And I think that there are a lot of questions about how well China counts and reports its emissions.
In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a national carbon price to take effect by the end of this year. We are seeing push-back from some of the Canadian provinces. The province of Ontario looks unlikely to implement its own carbon price. I think there’s going to be kind of a national fight there. So again, the difference is that in these other major economies, you’re seeing debate over, “How do we make this work? How does it work? How can we make it work well?” Again, as opposed to in the U.S., where there’s just kind of nothing to work with.
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Home Baseball News Twins enter offseason with pride after record year
Twins enter offseason with pride after record year
MINNEAPOLIS — While the New York Yankees doused themselves with cheap drinks down the hall in the Target Field basement, the Minnesota Twins were left to wonder how 101 wins, 307 homers and so much summer fun could lead to such an abrupt autumn exit.
Minnesota’s major league record streak of 16 straight postseason losses, with 13 of those defeats exacted by the Yankees, will gnaw at the franchise and the fan base for yet another year.
For the free agents to be, the 2019 regular season might well be the highlight of their time in Minnesota rather than the start of a dynastic run.
The players who return in 2020, even with their experience of October disappointment, will likely face the same questions next year about slaying the pinstriped dragon in the American League.
One bad weekend of baseball on the big stage, though, can’t erase the consistency, resiliency and success displayed by the Twins as they won the AL Central division for the first time since 2010.
“So many memories. There was something special that happened pretty much every day,” said catcher Mitch Garver, one of a record five players who topped 30 home runs. “We were crushing this league for a long time, and it just felt incredible.
“But that’s all due to what these guys come in and do every day. They come in and put in the work, and we all stayed dedicated to our craft. We dealt with a lot of adversity, a lot of injuries, a lot of guys missing time, and it just seemed every day we found a new way to battle back and another guy stepped up. That’s all you can ask of a team.”
So while the Twins became the first 100-win team to be swept in a division series, they also were just the second 100-win team in Twins history. The major league record for the most home runs ever hit during a regular season will stay in Minnesota for at least a year.
Breakout performances by players like Garver, right fielder Max Kepler, shortstop Jorge Polanco, second baseman Luis Arraez and relief pitcher Tyler Duffey will serve as a foundation for next season that the Twins will surely start among the leading AL contenders.
“I’m going to take a lot out of this and learn a lot from what we just experienced,” rookie manager Rocco Baldelli said. “I hope all of our players do, too. Hopefully, we’re in this position again next year and again after that.”
As quiet of an acquisition Nelson Cruz was at the time, the 39-year-old designated hitter gave the Twins one of the best bargains from last winter’s market, which was dominated by the major-money signings of Manny Machado ($300 million) and Bryce Harper ($330 million).
Cruz, who out-homered both Machado and Harper, played for $14 million this season. And his $12 million option for 2020 is a sure bet to be exercised by the Twins.
Despite two stints on the injured list, Cruz became the third slugger in team history to reach the 40-homer mark after Harmon Killebrew (seven times) and Brian Dozier (once).
The emergence of Arraez, who batted .334 in 92 games with just 29 strikeouts after being called up in mid-May, has given the Twins additional flexibility for their roster maneuvering this winter with his ability to play left field as well as his natural spot at second base, where Jonathan Schoop will be a free agent.
Garver’s success was well-timed, too, with fellow catcher Jason Castro on an expiring contract.
As for the rotation, the Twins can count on two-time All-Star Jose Berrios, who will enter his first year of salary arbitration eligibility, to lead the way. However, after that, they have holes to fill with Kyle Gibson, Jake Odorizzi and Michael Pineda about to become free agents.
The Twins have a $7.5 million option to bring back Martin Perez, but he was left off the postseason roster. Pineda’s suspension for a banned diuretic will continue well into 2020, putting his return in doubt. Gibson faltered down the stretch. Odorizzi made the All-Star team, but his price tag might not be of interest to the front office.
“If I’m back, that’d be great. I’ve really taken a liking to here,” Odorizzi said. “If not, I wish nothing but the best for everybody. These are great people top to bottom, so it’s tough to end the year.”
Relief pitching was a major question mark entering the season, and five members of the bullpen who appeared in more than 20 games this year were either left off the postseason roster or jettisoned much earlier.
Duffey stepped forward as a strikeout machine in the late innings, though, helping build a relatively sturdy bridge with Trevor May and trade-deadline acquisition Sergio Romo to closer Taylor Rogers.
The Twins’ bullpen had a 4.17 ERA, which ranked 10th in the majors.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency Changes in Flood Hazard Determinations, 40076-40080 [2018-17243]
Changes in Flood Hazard Determinations, 40076-40080 [2018-17243]
Download as PDF 40076 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 156 / Monday, August 13, 2018 / Notices Anyone wishing to employ this entity to conduct gauger services should request and receive written assurances from the entity that it is approved by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to conduct the specific gauger service requested. Alternatively, inquiries regarding the specific gauger service this entity is approved to perform may be directed to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection by calling (202) 344–1060. The inquiry may also be sent to cbp.labhq@dhs.gov. Please reference the website listed below for a complete listing of CBP approved gaugers and accredited laboratories. http:// www.cbp.gov/about/labs-scientific/ commercial-gaugers-and-laboratories. Dated: August 2, 2018. Dave Fluty, Executive Director, Laboratories and Scientific Services Directorate. [FR Doc. 2018–17241 Filed 8–10–18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9111–14–P DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Federal Emergency Management Agency [Docket ID FEMA–2018–0002; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA–B–1845] Changes in Flood Hazard Determinations Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: This notice lists communities where the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard determinations), as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and where applicable, in the supporting Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for each community, is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. The FIRM, and where applicable, portions of the FIS report, have been revised to reflect these flood hazard sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: State and county Alabama: Colbert ......... VerDate Sep<11>2014 Location and case No. City of Muscle Shoals (17– 04–1041P). 20:42 Aug 10, 2018 determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Federal Regulations. The LOMR will be used by insurance agents and others to calculate appropriate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings and the contents of those buildings. For rating purposes, the currently effective community number is shown in the table below and must be used for all new policies and renewals. DATES: These flood hazard determinations will be finalized on the dates listed in the table below and revise the FIRM panels and FIS report in effect prior to this determination for the listed communities. From the date of the second publication of notification of these changes in a newspaper of local circulation, any person has 90 days in which to request through the community that the Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation reconsider the changes. The flood hazard determination information may be changed during the 90-day period. ADDRESSES: The affected communities are listed in the table below. Revised flood hazard information for each community is available for inspection at both the online location and the respective community map repository address listed in the table below. Additionally, the current effective FIRM and FIS report for each community are accessible online through the FEMA Map Service Center at https:// msc.fema.gov for comparison. Submit comments and/or appeals to the Chief Executive Officer of the community as listed in the table below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Sacbibit, Chief, Engineering Services Branch, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, FEMA, 400 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–7659, or (email) patrick.sacbibit@fema.dhs.gov; or visit the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) online at https:// www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/fmx_ main.html. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The specific flood hazard determinations are not described for each community in Chief executive officer of community Community map repository The Honorable David H. Bradford, Mayor, City of Muscle Shoals, P.O. Box 2624, Muscle Shoals, AL 35662. Engineering Department, 2010 East Avalon Avenue, Muscle Shoals, AL 35662. Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 this notice. However, the online location and local community map repository address where the flood hazard determination information is available for inspection is provided. Any request for reconsideration of flood hazard determinations must be submitted to the Chief Executive Officer of the community as listed in the table below. The modifications are made pursuant to section 201 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, and are in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq., and with 44 CFR part 65. The FIRM and FIS report are the basis of the floodplain management measures that the community is required either to adopt or to show evidence of having in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). These flood hazard determinations, together with the floodplain management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that are required. They should not be construed to mean that the community must change any existing ordinances that are more stringent in their floodplain management requirements. The community may at any time enact stricter requirements of its own or pursuant to policies established by other Federal, State, or regional entities. The flood hazard determinations are in accordance with 44 CFR 65.4. The affected communities are listed in the following table. Flood hazard determination information for each community is available for inspection at both the online location and the respective community map repository address listed in the table below. Additionally, the current effective FIRM and FIS report for each community are accessible online through the FEMA Map Service Center at https:// msc.fema.gov for comparison. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) David I. Maurstad, Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Online location of letter of map revision https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1 Date of modification Sept. 24, 2018 ........ Community No. 010047 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 156 / Monday, August 13, 2018 / Notices State and county Location and case No. Chief executive officer of community Colbert ......... Unincorporated areas of Colbert County (17–04– 1041P). Shelby .......... City of Montevallo (18–04– 1231P). Shelby .......... Unincorporated areas of Shelby County (18–04– 1231P). Colorado: Boulder ........ Jefferson ...... Florida: Brevard ........ City of Boulder (18–08– 0256P). Unincorporated areas of Jefferson County (18–08– 0676X). City of Cape Canaveral (18– 04–3826P). Unincorporated areas of Charlotte County (18–04– 2509P). Charlotte ...... Unincorporated areas of Charlotte County (18–04– 3229P). Charlotte ...... Unincorporated areas of Charlotte County (18–04– 3470P). Duval ............ City of Atlantic Beach (17– 04–4155P). Duval ............ sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Charlotte ...... City of Jacksonville (17–04– 4155P). Lee ............... City of Sanibel (18–04– 3742P). Lee ............... City of Sanibel (18–04– 3819P). VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:42 Aug 10, 2018 The Honorable Ian T. Sanford, Mayor, City of Sheffield, P.O. Box 380, Sheffield, AL 35660. The Honorable Daroll Bendall, Chairman, Colbert County Board of Commissioners, 201 North Main Street, Tuscumbia, AL 35674. The Honorable Hollie Cost, Mayor, City of Montevallo, 541 Main Street, Montevallo, AL 35115. The Honorable Jon Parker, Chairman, Shelby County Board of Commissioners, 200 West College Street, Columbiana, AL 35051. Planning and Zoning Department, 600 North Montgomery Avenue, Sheffield, AL 35660. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Sept. 24, 2018 ........ 010048 Colbert County Courthouse, 201 North Main Street, Tuscumbia, AL 35674. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Sept. 24, 2018 ........ 010318 City Hall, 541 Main Street, Montevallo, AL 35115. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 25, 2018 .......... 010349 Shelby County Engineering Department, 506 Highway 70, Columbiana, AL 35051. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 25, 2018 .......... 010191 City Hall, 1777 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80302. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Nov. 2, 2018 ........... 080024 Jefferson County Department of Planning and Zoning, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80419. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 5, 2018 ............ 080087 The Honorable Bob Hoog, Mayor, City of Cape Canaveral, 100 Polk Avenue, Cape Canaveral, FL 32920. The Honorable Ken Doherty, Chairman, Charlotte County Board of Commissioners, 18500 Murdock Circle, Suite 536, Port Charlotte, FL 33948. The Honorable Ken Doherty, Chairman, Charlotte County Board of Commissioners, 18500 Murdock Circle, Suite 536, Port Charlotte, FL 33948. The Honorable Ken Doherty, Chairman, Charlotte County Board of Commissioners, 18500 Murdock Circle, Suite 536, Port Charlotte, FL 33948. The Honorable Ellen E. Glasser, Mayor, City of Atlantic Beach, 800 Seminole Road, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233. The Honorable Lenny Curry, Mayor, City of Jacksonville, 117 West Duval Street, Suite 400, Jacksonville, FL 32202. The Honorable Kevin Ruane, Mayor, City of Sanibel, 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel, FL 33957. The Honorable Kevin Ruane, Mayor, City of Sanibel, 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel, FL 33957. City of Sheffield (17–04– 1041P). Community map repository The Honorable Suzanne Jones, Mayor, City of Boulder, 1777 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80302. The Honorable Libby Szabo, Chair, Jefferson County Board of Commissioners, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80419. Colbert ......... Community Development Department, 100 Polk Avenue, Cape Canaveral, FL 32920. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 16, 2018 .......... 125094 Charlotte County Community Development Department, 18500 Murdock Circle, Port Charlotte, FL 33948. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 16, 2018 .......... 120061 Charlotte County Community Development Department, 18500 Murdock Circle, Port Charlotte, FL 33948. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 10, 2018 .......... 120061 Charlotte County Community Development Department, 18500 Murdock Circle, Port Charlotte, FL 33948. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 11, 2018 .......... 120061 City Hall, 800 Seminole Road, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Nov. 5, 2018 ........... 120075 City Hall, 214 North Hogan Street, Suite 2100, Jacksonville, FL 32202. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Nov. 5, 2018 ........... 120077 Planning Department, 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel, FL 33957. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 25, 2018 .......... 120402 Planning Department, 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel, FL 33957. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 26, 2018 .......... 120402 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Online location of letter of map revision E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1 Date of modification 40077 Community No. 40078 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 156 / Monday, August 13, 2018 / Notices Chief executive officer of community Community map repository The Honorable Tracey Gore, Mayor, Town of Fort Myers Beach, 2525 Estero Boulevard, Fort Myers Beach, FL 33931. The Honorable David Rice, Mayor, Monroe County Board of Commissioners, 1100 Simonton Street, Key West, FL 33040. The Honorable David Rice, Mayor, Monroe County Board of Commissioners, 1100 Simonton Street, Key West, FL 33040. The Honorable David Rice, Mayor, Monroe County Board of Commissioners, 1100 Simonton Street, Key West, FL 33040. The Honorable Chris Sante, Mayor, Village of Islamorada, 86800 Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL 33036. The Honorable Pat Edwards, Chairman, Nassau County Board of Commissioners, 96135 Nassau Place, Suite 1, Yulee, FL 32097. Community Development Department, 2525 Estero Boulevard, Fort Myers Beach, FL 33931. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 15, 2018 .......... 120673 Monroe County Building Department, 2798 Overseas Highway, Suite 300, Marathon, FL 33050. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 19, 2018 .......... 125129 Monroe County Building Department, 2798 Overseas Highway, Suite 300, Marathon, FL 33050. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 10, 2018 .......... 125129 Monroe County Building Department, 2798 Overseas Highway, Suite 300, Marathon, FL 33050. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 22, 2018 .......... 125129 Planning and Development Department, 86800 Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL 33036. Nassau County Building Department, 96161 Nassau Place, Yulee, FL 32097. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 26, 2018 .......... 120424 https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 11, 2018 .......... 120170 The Honorable Ernest James, Chairman, Town of Charlotte Board of Selectmen, P.O. Box 55, Pembroke, ME 04666. The Honorable Milan Jamieson, Chairman, Town of Pembroke, Board of Selectmen, P.O. Box 247, Pembroke, ME 04666. The Honorable Tom Moholland, Chairman, Town of Robbinston Board of Selectmen, 986 Ridge Road, Robbinston, ME 04671. The Honorable Rushern L. Baker, III, Prince George’s County Executive, 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772. Town Hall, 1098 Ayers Junction Road, Charlotte, ME 04666. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 11, 2018 .......... 230437 Town Hall, 48 Old County Road, Pembroke, ME 04666. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 11, 2018 .......... 230143 Town Hall, 904 U.S. Route 1, Robbinston, ME 04671. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 11, 2018 .......... 230321 Prince George’s County Department of Environment, 1801 McCormick Drive, Suite 500, Largo, MD 20774. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Nov. 2, 2018 ........... 245208 Town of Westport (18–01– 0550P). The Honorable Shana M. Shufelt, Chair, Town of Westport Board of Selectmen, 816 Main Road, Westport, MA 02790. Building Department, 856 Main Road, Westport, MA 02790. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 255224 Town of Exeter (18–01– 0144P). State and county Location and case No. The Honorable Julie Gilman, Chair, Town of Exeter Select Board, 10 Front Street, Exeter, NH 03833. Building Department, 10 Front Street, Exeter, NH 03833. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Nov. 5, 2018 ........... 330130 Unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County (18– 06–0450P). Ms. Julie Morgas Baca, Bernalillo County Manager, 1 Civic Plaza Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Bernalillo County Public Works Division, 2400 Broadway Boulevard Southeast, Albuquerque, NM 87102. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 5, 2018 ............ 350001 Lee ............... Town of Fort Myers Beach (18–04– 2108P). Monroe ......... Unincorporated areas of Monroe County (18–04– 3505P). Monroe ......... Unincorporated areas of Monroe County (18–04– 3566P). Monroe ......... Unincorporated areas of Monroe County (18–04– 3568P). Monroe ......... Village of Islamorada (18–04– 3795P). Nassau ......... Unincorporated areas of Nassau County (18–04– 3296P). Maine: Washington .. Town of Charlotte (18–01– 1031P). Washington .. Town of Pembroke (18–01– 1031P). Washington .. Town of Robbinston (18–01– 1031P). Maryland: Prince George’s. Unincorporated areas of Prince George’s County (18– 03–0330P). Massachusetts: Bristol ........... sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES New Hampshire: Rockingham New Mexico: Bernalillo ...... Online location of letter of map revision North Carolina: VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:42 Aug 10, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00098 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1 Date of modification Community No. Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 156 / Monday, August 13, 2018 / Notices Location and case No. Chief executive officer of community Community map repository Iredell ........... Unincorporated areas of Iredell County (18– 04–1249P). Iredell County Planning Department, 349 North Center Street, Statesville, NC 28687. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 17, 2018 .......... 370313 Watauga ...... Town of Boone (18–04– 0473P). Planning and Inspections Department, 680 West King Street, Boone, NC 28607. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 4, 2018 ............ 370253 Watauga ...... Unincorporated Areas of Watauga County (18– 04–0473P). The Honorable James Mallory, III, Chairman, Iredell County Board of Commissioners, P.O. Box 788, Statesville, NC 28687. The Honorable Rennie Brantz, Mayor, Town of Boone, 567 West King Street, Boone, NC 28607. The Honorable John Welch, Chairman, Watauga County Board of Commissioners, 814 West King Street, Suite 205, Boone, NC 28607. Watauga County Planning and Inspections Department, 331 Queen Street, Suite A, Boone, NC 28607. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 4, 2018 ............ 370251 The Honorable Hardy K. King, Mayor, Town of Irmo, 501 Doncaster Drive, Irmo, SC 29063. The Honorable Sarah Caron, Mayor, City of Watertown, 23 2nd Street Northeast, Watertown, SD 572018. Town Hall, 7300 Woodrow Street, Irmo, SC 29063. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 450133 Planning and Zoning Department, 23 2nd Street Northeast, Watertown, SD 572018. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Nov. 5, 2018 ........... 460016 The Honorable Harry LaRosiliere, Mayor, City of Plano, 1520 K Avenue, Plano, TX 75074. The Honorable Keith Self, Collin County Judge, 2300 Bloomdale Road, Suite 4192, McKinney, TX 75071. The Honorable Michael S. Rawlings, Mayor, City of Dallas, 1500 Marilla Street, Suite 5EN, Dallas, TX 752018. Mr. Tommy Gonzalez, Manager, City of El Paso, 300 North Campbell Street, El Paso, TX 79901. The Honorable Todd Kana, Mayor, City of Magnolia, 18111 Buddy Riley Boulevard, Magnolia, TX 77354. The Honorable Craig Doyal, Montgomery County Judge, 501 North Thompson Street, Suite 401, Conroe, TX 77301. The Honorable Betsy Price, Mayor, City of Fort Worth, 200 Texas Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. The Honorable Jim Pruitt, Mayor, City of Rockwall, 385 South Goliad Street, Rockwall, TX 75087. The Honorable Betsy Price, Mayor, City of Fort Worth, 200 Texas Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. The Honorable Brian Johnson, Mayor, City of Kennedale, 405 Municipal Drive, Kennedale, TX 76060. Engineering Department, 1520 K Avenue, Suite 250, Plano, TX 75074. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 480140 Collin County Emergency Management Department, 4690 Community Avenue, Suite 200, McKinney, TX 75071. Floodplain Management Department, 320 East Jefferson Boulevard, Room 307, Dallas, TX 75203. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 15, 2018 .......... 480130 https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 15, 2018 .......... 480171 City Hall, 801 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 15, 2018 .......... 480214 City Hall, 18111 Buddy Riley Boulevard, Magnolia, TX 77354. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 481261 Montgomery County Per- https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ mit Office, 501 North advanceSearch. Thompson Street, Suite 100, Conroe, TX 77301. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 480483 Transportation and Public Works Department, 200 Texas Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 22, 2018 .......... 480596 Engineering Department, 385 South Goliad Street, Rockwall, TX 75087. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 15, 2018 .......... 480547 Transportation and Public Works Department, 200 Texas Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 9, 2018 ............ 480596 Planning and Development Department, 405 Municipal Drive, Kennedale, TX 76060. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 15, 2018 .......... 480603 State and county South Carolina: Lexington ..... South Dakota: Codington. Town of Irmo (18–04– 3966P). City of Watertown (17–08– 0664P). Texas: Collin ............ City of Plano (18–06– 0609P). Unincorporated areas of Collin County (18– 06–0382P). Dallas ........... City of Dallas (18–06– 0377P). El Paso ........ City of El Paso (16–06– 3207P). Montgomery City of Magnolia (18–06– 1973P). Montgomery Unincorporated areas of Montgomery County (18–06– 1973P). Parker .......... City of Fort Worth (18–06– 1767P). Rockwall ...... sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Collin ............ City of Rockwall (18–06– 0382P). Tarrant ......... City of Fort Worth (18–06– 0617P). Tarrant ......... City of Kennedale (18–06– 0322P). VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:42 Aug 10, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00099 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Online location of letter of map revision E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1 Date of modification 40079 Community No. 40080 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 156 / Monday, August 13, 2018 / Notices Location and case No. Chief executive officer of community Tarrant ......... City of Mansfield (18–06– 0226P). Tarrant ......... City of Saginaw (18–06– 0328P). Tom Green .. City of San Angelo (18–06– 0816P). The Honorable David L. Cook, Mayor, City of Mansfield, 1200 East Broad Street, Mansfield, TX 76063. The Honorable Todd Flippo, Mayor, City of Saginaw, 333 West McLeroy Boulevard, Saginaw, TX 76179. The Honorable Brenda Gunter, Mayor, City of San Angelo, 72 West College Avenue, San Angelo, TX 76903. State and county Virginia: Fairfax .......... Prince William. Unincorporated areas of Fairfax County (18–03– 0171P). Unincorporated areas of Prince William County (18– 03–0171P). West Virginia: Preston ........ Unincorporated areas of Preston William County (18– 03–0988P). 480606 Public Works Department, 205 Brenda Lane, Saginaw, TX 76179. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 4, 2018 ............ 480610 City Hall, 301 West Beauregard Avenue, San Angelo, TX 76903. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 16, 2018 .......... 480623 The Honorable Sharon Fairfax County Bulova, Chair, Fairfax Stormwater Planning County Board of SuDivision, 12000 Govpervisors, 12000 Government Center Parkernment Center Parkway, Suite 449, Fairfax, way, Fairfax, VA 22035. VA 22035. Mr. Christopher E. Prince William County Martino, Prince William Department of Public County Executive, 1 Works, 5 County ComCounty Complex Court, plex Court, Prince WilPrince William, VA liam, VA 22192. 22192. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 515525 https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 12, 2018 .......... 510119 The Honorable T. Craig Jennings, President, Preston County Commission, 106 West Main Street, Suite 202, Kingwood, WV 26537. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. Oct. 9, 2018 ............ 540160 Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS–R4–ES–2018–N092; FXES11120400000–134–FF04EF2000] Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Availability of Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for Florida Scrub-Jay; Sarasota County, Florida Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comment/information. We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received an application for an incidental take permit (ITP) under the Endangered Species Act. Residential Development Corporation (applicant) is requesting a 2-year ITP for take of the Florida scrub-jay. We request public comment on the permit application, which includes a proposed habitat conservation plan (HCP), and our preliminary determination that the HCP qualifies as low effect under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). To make this determination, we used our environmental action SUMMARY: sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Community No. Oct. 11, 2018 .......... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 20:42 Aug 10, 2018 Date of modification https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ advanceSearch. BILLING CODE 9110–12–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 Online location of letter of map revision City Hall, 1200 East Broad Street, Mansfield, TX 76063. [FR Doc. 2018–17243 Filed 8–10–18; 8:45 am] AGENCY: Community map repository Jkt 244001 Preston County Office of Emergency Management, 300 Rich Wolfe Drive, Kingwood, WV 26537. statement and low-effect screening form, which are also available for review. DATES: We must receive written comments on or before September 12, 2018. ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents for Review: • U.S. mail: You may obtain a copy of the ITP application and HCP by writing to the South Florida Ecological Services Office, Attn: Permit number TE84046C–0, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1339 20th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960–3559. • In-Person Review: The ITP application and HCP are available for public inspection by appointment during normal business hours at the above address. Call the contact in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT to make an appointment. See Public Comments under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for information on how to submit your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Adam Knutson, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, South Florida Ecological Services Office (see ADDRESSES); telephone: 772–469–4252. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received an application for an ITP under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). Residential Development PO 00000 Frm 00100 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Corporation (applicant) is requesting a 2-year ITP for take of the federally listed Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) (scrub-jay). We request public comment on the permit application, which includes a proposed HCP, and our preliminary determination that the HCP qualifies as low effect under the NEPA. To make this determination, we used our environmental action statement and low-effect screening form, which are also available for review. Public Comments Submitting Comments If you wish to comment on the ITP application and HCP, you may submit comments by any one of the following methods: • Email: Adam_Knutson@fws.gov. Use Attn: Permit number ‘‘TE84046C– 0’’ as your message subject line. • Fax: Adam Knutson, 772–562– 4288, Attn.: Permit number ‘‘TE84046C– 0’’. • U.S. mail: Adam Knutson, South Florida Ecological Services Field Office, Attn: Permit number ‘‘TE84046C–0,’’ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1339 20th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960–3559. • In-person drop-off: You may drop off comments or request information during regular business hours at the above office address. E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 156 (Monday, August 13, 2018)]
[Docket ID FEMA-2018-0002; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1845]
Changes in Flood Hazard Determinations
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
SUMMARY: This notice lists communities where the addition or
modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths,
Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or
the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard
determinations), as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and
where applicable, in the supporting Flood Insurance Study (FIS)
reports, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for
each community, is appropriate because of new scientific or technical
data. The FIRM, and where applicable, portions of the FIS report, have
been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through
issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Federal
Regulations. The LOMR will be used by insurance agents and others to
calculate appropriate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings
and the contents of those buildings. For rating purposes, the currently
effective community number is shown in the table below and must be used
for all new policies and renewals.
DATES: These flood hazard determinations will be finalized on the dates
listed in the table below and revise the FIRM panels and FIS report in
effect prior to this determination for the listed communities.
From the date of the second publication of notification of these
changes in a newspaper of local circulation, any person has 90 days in
which to request through the community that the Deputy Associate
Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation reconsider the changes. The
flood hazard determination information may be changed during the 90-day
ADDRESSES: The affected communities are listed in the table below.
Revised flood hazard information for each community is available for
inspection at both the online location and the respective community map
repository address listed in the table below. Additionally, the current
effective FIRM and FIS report for each community are accessible online
through the FEMA Map Service Center at https://msc.fema.gov for
comparison.
Submit comments and/or appeals to the Chief Executive Officer of
the community as listed in the table below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Sacbibit, Chief, Engineering
Services Branch, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, FEMA,
400 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-7659, or (email)
[email protected]; or visit the FEMA Map Information
eXchange (FMIX) online at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/fmx_main.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The specific flood hazard determinations are
not described for each community in this notice. However, the online
location and local community map repository address where the flood
hazard determination information is available for inspection is
provided.
Any request for reconsideration of flood hazard determinations must
be submitted to the Chief Executive Officer of the community as listed
in the table below.
The modifications are made pursuant to section 201 of the Flood
Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, and are in accordance
with the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.,
and with 44 CFR part 65.
The FIRM and FIS report are the basis of the floodplain management
measures that the community is required either to adopt or to show
evidence of having in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified
for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
These flood hazard determinations, together with the floodplain
management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that are
required. They should not be construed to mean that the community must
change any existing ordinances that are more stringent in their
floodplain management requirements. The community may at any time enact
stricter requirements of its own or pursuant to policies established by
other Federal, State, or regional entities. The flood hazard
determinations are in accordance with 44 CFR 65.4.
The affected communities are listed in the following table. Flood
hazard determination information for each community is available for
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood
Insurance.'')
David I. Maurstad,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation, Department
of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Chief executive Online location of
State and county Location and case officer of Community map letter of map Date of modification Community
No. community repository revision No.
Alabama:
Colbert.................... City of Muscle The Honorable Engineering https://msc.fema.gov/ Sept. 24, 2018......... 010047
Shoals (17-04- David H. Department, 2010 portal/advanceSearch.
1041P). Bradford, Mayor, East Avalon
City of Muscle Avenue, Muscle
Shoals, P.O. Box Shoals, AL 35662.
2624, Muscle
Shoals, AL 35662.
Colbert.................... City of Sheffield The Honorable Ian Planning and https://msc.fema.gov/ Sept. 24, 2018......... 010048
(17-04-1041P). T. Sanford, Zoning portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Department, 600
Sheffield, P.O. North Montgomery
Box 380, Avenue,
Sheffield, AL Sheffield, AL
35660. 35660.
Colbert.................... Unincorporated The Honorable Colbert County https://msc.fema.gov/ Sept. 24, 2018......... 010318
areas of Colbert Daroll Bendall, Courthouse, 201 portal/advanceSearch.
County (17-04- Chairman, Colbert North Main
1041P). County Board of Street,
Commissioners, Tuscumbia, AL
201 North Main 35674.
Tuscumbia, AL
Shelby..................... City of Montevallo The Honorable City Hall, 541 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 25, 2018.......... 010349
(18-04-1231P). Hollie Cost, Main Street, portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Montevallo, AL
Montevallo, 541 35115.
Shelby..................... Unincorporated The Honorable Jon Shelby County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 25, 2018.......... 010191
areas of Shelby Parker, Chairman, Engineering portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-04- Shelby County Department, 506
1231P). Board of Highway 70,
Commissioners, Columbiana, AL
200 West College 35051.
Columbiana, AL
Boulder.................... City of Boulder The Honorable City Hall, 1777 https://msc.fema.gov/ Nov. 2, 2018........... 080024
(18-08-0256P). Suzanne Jones, Broadway Street, portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Boulder, CO 80302.
Boulder, 1777
Broadway Street,
Boulder, CO 80302.
Jefferson.................. Unincorporated The Honorable Jefferson County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 5, 2018........... 080087
areas of Libby Szabo, Department of portal/advanceSearch.
Jefferson County Chair, Jefferson Planning and
(18-08-0676X). County Board of Zoning, 100
Commissioners, Jefferson County
100 Jefferson Parkway, Golden,
County Parkway, CO 80419.
Golden, CO 80419.
Brevard.................... City of Cape The Honorable Bob Community https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 16, 2018.......... 125094
Canaveral (18-04- Hoog, Mayor, City Development portal/advanceSearch.
3826P). of Cape Department, 100
Canaveral, 100 Polk Avenue, Cape
Polk Avenue, Cape Canaveral, FL
Canaveral, FL 32920.
Charlotte.................. Unincorporated The Honorable Ken Charlotte County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 16, 2018.......... 120061
areas of Doherty, Community portal/advanceSearch.
Charlotte County Chairman, Development
(18-04-2509P). Charlotte County Department, 18500
Board of Murdock Circle,
Commissioners, Port Charlotte,
18500 Murdock FL 33948.
Circle, Suite
536, Port
Charlotte, FL
Duval...................... City of Atlantic The Honorable City Hall, 800 https://msc.fema.gov/ Nov. 5, 2018........... 120075
Beach (17-04- Ellen E. Glasser, Seminole Road, portal/advanceSearch.
4155P). Mayor, City of Atlantic Beach,
Atlantic Beach, FL 32233.
800 Seminole
Road, Atlantic
Beach, FL 32233.
Duval...................... City of The Honorable City Hall, 214 https://msc.fema.gov/ Nov. 5, 2018........... 120077
Jacksonville (17- Lenny Curry, North Hogan portal/advanceSearch.
04-4155P). Mayor, City of Street, Suite
Jacksonville, 117 2100,
West Duval Jacksonville, FL
Street, Suite 32202.
Lee........................ City of Sanibel The Honorable Planning https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 25, 2018.......... 120402
(18-04-3742P). Kevin Ruane, Department, 800 portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Dunlop Road,
Sanibel, 800 Sanibel, FL 33957.
Dunlop Road,
Sanibel, FL 33957.
Lee........................ Town of Fort Myers The Honorable Community https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 15, 2018.......... 120673
Beach (18-04- Tracey Gore, Development portal/advanceSearch.
2108P). Mayor, Town of Department, 2525
Fort Myers Beach, Estero Boulevard,
2525 Estero Fort Myers Beach,
Boulevard, Fort FL 33931.
Myers Beach, FL
Monroe..................... Unincorporated The Honorable Monroe County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 19, 2018.......... 125129
areas of Monroe David Rice, Building portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-04- Mayor, Monroe Department, 2798
3505P). County Board of Overseas Highway,
Commissioners, Suite 300,
1100 Simonton Marathon, FL
Street, Key West, 33050.
FL 33040.
Monroe..................... Village of The Honorable Planning and https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 26, 2018.......... 120424
Islamorada (18-04- Chris Sante, Development portal/advanceSearch.
3795P). Mayor, Village of Department, 86800
Islamorada, 86800 Overseas Highway,
Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL
Islamorada, FL 33036.
Nassau..................... Unincorporated The Honorable Pat Nassau County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 11, 2018.......... 120170
areas of Nassau Edwards, Building portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-04- Chairman, Nassau Department, 96161
3296P). County Board of Nassau Place,
Commissioners, Yulee, FL 32097.
96135 Nassau
Place, Suite 1,
Yulee, FL 32097.
Washington................. Town of Charlotte The Honorable Town Hall, 1098 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 11, 2018.......... 230437
(18-01-1031P). Ernest James, Ayers Junction portal/advanceSearch.
Chairman, Town of Road, Charlotte,
Charlotte Board ME 04666.
of Selectmen,
P.O. Box 55,
Pembroke, ME
Washington................. Town of Pembroke The Honorable Town Hall, 48 Old https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 11, 2018.......... 230143
(18-01-1031P). Milan Jamieson, County Road, portal/advanceSearch.
Chairman, Town of Pembroke, ME
Pembroke, Board 04666.
Washington................. Town of Robbinston The Honorable Tom Town Hall, 904 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 11, 2018.......... 230321
(18-01-1031P). Moholland, U.S. Route 1, portal/advanceSearch.
Chairman, Town of Robbinston, ME
Robbinston Board 04671.
of Selectmen, 986
Ridge Road,
Robbinston, ME
Maryland: Prince George's...... Unincorporated The Honorable Prince George's https://msc.fema.gov/ Nov. 2, 2018........... 245208
areas of Prince Rushern L. Baker, County Department portal/advanceSearch.
George's County III, Prince of Environment,
(18-03-0330P). George's County 1801 McCormick
Executive, 14741 Drive, Suite 500,
Governor Oden Largo, MD 20774.
Bowie Drive,
Upper Marlboro,
MD 20772.
Bristol.................... Town of Westport The Honorable Building https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 255224
(18-01-0550P). Shana M. Shufelt, Department, 856 portal/advanceSearch.
Chair, Town of Main Road,
Westport Board of Westport, MA
Selectmen, 816 02790.
Westport, MA
Rockingham................. Town of Exeter (18- The Honorable Building https://msc.fema.gov/ Nov. 5, 2018........... 330130
01-0144P). Julie Gilman, Department, 10 portal/advanceSearch.
Chair, Town of Front Street,
Exeter Select Exeter, NH 03833.
Board, 10 Front
Street, Exeter,
NH 03833.
Bernalillo................. Unincorporated Ms. Julie Morgas Bernalillo County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 5, 2018........... 350001
areas of Baca, Bernalillo Public Works portal/advanceSearch.
Bernalillo County County Manager, 1 Division, 2400
(18-06-0450P). Civic Plaza Broadway
Northwest, Boulevard
Albuquerque, NM Southeast,
87102. Albuquerque, NM
Iredell.................... Unincorporated The Honorable Iredell County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 17, 2018.......... 370313
areas of Iredell James Mallory, Planning portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-04- III, Chairman, Department, 349
1249P). Iredell County North Center
Board of Street,
Commissioners, Statesville, NC
P.O. Box 788, 28687.
Watauga.................... Town of Boone (18- The Honorable Planning and https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 4, 2018........... 370253
04-0473P). Rennie Brantz, Inspections portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, Town of Department, 680
Boone, 567 West West King Street,
King Street, Boone, NC 28607.
Boone, NC 28607.
Watauga.................... Unincorporated The Honorable John Watauga County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 4, 2018........... 370251
Areas of Watauga Welch, Chairman, Planning and portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-04- Watauga County Inspections
0473P). Board of Department, 331
Commissioners, Queen Street,
814 West King Suite A, Boone,
Street, Suite NC 28607.
205, Boone, NC
Lexington.................. Town of Irmo (18- The Honorable Town Hall, 7300 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 450133
04-3966P). Hardy K. King, Woodrow Street, portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, Town of Irmo, SC 29063.
Irmo, 501
Doncaster Drive,
Irmo, SC 29063.
South Dakota: Codington........ City of Watertown The Honorable Planning and https://msc.fema.gov/ Nov. 5, 2018........... 460016
(17-08-0664P). Sarah Caron, Zoning portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Department, 23
Watertown, 23 2nd 2nd Street
Street Northeast, Northeast,
Watertown, SD Watertown, SD
572018. 572018.
Collin..................... City of Plano (18- The Honorable Engineering https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 480140
06-0609P). Harry Department, 1520 portal/advanceSearch.
LaRosiliere, K Avenue, Suite
Mayor, City of 250, Plano, TX
Plano, 1520 K 75074.
Avenue, Plano, TX
Collin..................... Unincorporated The Honorable Collin County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 15, 2018.......... 480130
areas of Collin Keith Self, Emergency portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-06- Collin County Management
0382P). Judge, 2300 Department, 4690
Bloomdale Road, Community Avenue,
Suite 4192, Suite 200,
McKinney, TX McKinney, TX
Dallas..................... City of Dallas (18- The Honorable Floodplain https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 15, 2018.......... 480171
06-0377P). Michael S. Management portal/advanceSearch.
Rawlings, Mayor, Department, 320
City of Dallas, East Jefferson
1500 Marilla Boulevard, Room
Street, Suite 307, Dallas, TX
5EN, Dallas, TX 75203.
El Paso.................... City of El Paso Mr. Tommy City Hall, 801 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 15, 2018.......... 480214
(16-06-3207P). Gonzalez, Texas Avenue, El portal/advanceSearch.
Manager, City of Paso, TX 79901.
El Paso, 300
North Campbell
Street, El Paso,
TX 79901.
Montgomery................. City of Magnolia The Honorable Todd City Hall, 18111 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 481261
(18-06-1973P). Kana, Mayor, City Buddy Riley portal/advanceSearch.
of Magnolia, Boulevard,
18111 Buddy Riley Magnolia, TX
Boulevard, 77354.
Montgomery................. Unincorporated The Honorable Montgomery County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 480483
areas of Craig Doyal, Permit Office, portal/advanceSearch.
Montgomery County Montgomery County 501 North
(18-06-1973P). Judge, 501 North Thompson Street,
Thompson Street, Suite 100,
Suite 401, Conroe, TX 77301.
Conroe, TX 77301.
Parker..................... City of Fort Worth The Honorable Transportation and https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 22, 2018.......... 480596
(18-06-1767P). Betsy Price, Public Works portal/advanceSearch.
Fort Worth, 200 Texas Street,
Texas Street, Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Rockwall................... City of Rockwall The Honorable Jim Engineering https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 15, 2018.......... 480547
(18-06-0382P). Pruitt, Mayor, Department, 385 portal/advanceSearch.
City of Rockwall, South Goliad
385 South Goliad Street, Rockwall,
Street, Rockwall, TX 75087.
Tarrant.................... City of Fort Worth The Honorable Transportation and https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 9, 2018........... 480596
Tarrant.................... City of Kennedale The Honorable Planning and https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 15, 2018.......... 480603
(18-06-0322P). Brian Johnson, Development portal/advanceSearch.
Kennedale, 405 Municipal Drive,
Municipal Drive, Kennedale, TX
Kennedale, TX 76060.
Tarrant.................... City of Mansfield The Honorable City Hall, 1200 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 11, 2018.......... 480606
(18-06-0226P). David L. Cook, East Broad portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Street,
Mansfield, 1200 Mansfield, TX
East Broad 76063.
Tarrant.................... City of Saginaw The Honorable Todd Public Works https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 4, 2018........... 480610
(18-06-0328P). Flippo, Mayor, Department, 205 portal/advanceSearch.
City of Saginaw, Brenda Lane,
333 West McLeroy Saginaw, TX 76179.
Saginaw, TX 76179.
Tom Green.................. City of San Angelo The Honorable City Hall, 301 https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 16, 2018.......... 480623
(18-06-0816P). Brenda Gunter, West Beauregard portal/advanceSearch.
Mayor, City of Avenue, San
San Angelo, 72 Angelo, TX 76903.
West College
Avenue, San
Angelo, TX 76903.
Fairfax.................... Unincorporated The Honorable Fairfax County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 515525
areas of Fairfax Sharon Bulova, Stormwater portal/advanceSearch.
County (18-03- Chair, Fairfax Planning
0171P). County Board of Division, 12000
Supervisors, Government Center
12000 Government Parkway, Suite
Center Parkway, 449, Fairfax, VA
Fairfax, VA 22035. 22035.
Prince William............. Unincorporated Mr. Christopher E. Prince William https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 12, 2018.......... 510119
areas of Prince Martino, Prince County Department portal/advanceSearch.
William County William County of Public Works,
(18-03-0171P). Executive, 1 5 County Complex
County Complex Court, Prince
Court, Prince William, VA 22192.
William, VA 22192.
West Virginia:
Preston.................... Unincorporated The Honorable T. Preston County https://msc.fema.gov/ Oct. 9, 2018........... 540160
areas of Preston Craig Jennings, Office of portal/advanceSearch.
William County President, Emergency
(18-03-0988P). Preston County Management, 300
Commission, 106 Rich Wolfe Drive,
West Main Street, Kingwood, WV
Suite 202, 26537.
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Opening Up About My Mental Health
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I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the Dallas Cowboys lately. Specifically, I’ve been thinking the most about Dak Prescott.
This began long before his season ending injury a few weeks back.
Before the start of the NFL season, Dak opened up about his mental health struggles during the pandemic. He told Graham Bensinger in an interview that during lockdown he felt emotions he’d never experienced before.
Anxiety was one of those emotions. And because of that anxiety he developed intense episodes of insomnia. On top of that, he started to feel what he could only describe as depression.
Then, on April 24th, Dak received the gut-wrenching news that his youngest brother, Jace, was found dead from an alleged suicide attempt; Dak confirmed this was the cause of death in his interview with Graham.
Fellow athletes and commentators applauded Dak for opening up about his struggles. But there were some who made public, eye-rolling comments in an attempt to shrug off Dak’s troubles.
”You don’t have it ‘THAT’ bad Mr. Multimillion Dollar Star Athlete.”
Skip Bayless’s comments about Dak’s struggles garnered the most news coverage. Here’s what Skip said:
“If you reveal publicly any little weakness it can affect your team’s ability to believe you in the toughest spot.”
My first reaction to Skip’s comments was utter disbelief. I know many men and women who suffer from depression. Some are highly successful entrepreneurs. Others are physically as strong as an NFL player. Closer to home, I’ve witnessed my mom’s struggles with mental health for more than two decades.
As I thought about Skip’s comments on Dak’s confession, part of me wanted to Tweet out a super pissed-off message to ole Skip.
Yo Skip, open a history book. History’s filled with great men and women who have battled with depression — Lincoln, Georgia O’Keeffe, Winston Churchill, and staying within the NFL, four-time Super Bowl champion and Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw also battles with it.
How many of those people would you, Skip, applaud for their achievements? Are you going to tell Terry he’s weak for getting help? The dude has 5 Super Bowl rings.
It’s often said that people suffer in silence. And that breaking that silence, destigmatizing the perceived or implied negativity around mental health, is the first step to healing.
Having athletes like Dak speak out about their troubles helps others find the strength to speak up about their own, leading some to possibly seek the help they may need.
But Skip’s comments made me think of another silent group of sufferers: the people who feel like they don’t have it “that” bad.
Isn’t that what Skip is implying?
“Oh you’re a highly paid athlete with loads of money and fame. Your suffering isn’t ‘that’ bad.”
There are likely others who think that, somehow, loads of money and fame create a wall against the slings and arrows of life. We’ve all heard some version of the phrase, “it’s hard to be that sad if you’re waking up in a mansion.”
But what does implying that someone’s suffering isn’t “that bad” say to those who want to open up and talk about their struggles, but aren’t sure they’re bad enough?
What does that say to someone who feels alone (maybe not all the time but sometimes)?
What does that say to someone who feels that how or what they feel isn’t a big deal and probably isn’t important anyways?
What do you say to someone who when contemplating asking for help immediately feels ashamed because they know people “worse off than them?”
Do you have to feel like you’re drowning to reach out for help? Like you can’t do it any sooner because you’d be taking away those resources from someone who might have it worse than you?
I’ve thought about all of this since September because I’m one of those people.
I don’t talk about my struggles with mental health because my struggles have never felt “that bad.” I know men and women who have thought about or attempted suicide. I know people who when the black dog of depression falls upon them can barely get out of bed. I’ve read their stories and witnessed their struggles first hand.
Those struggles are scary, hard, and oftentimes all-encompassing.
As a teenager, when my mom was diagnosed and put on antidepressants, I remember living in fear that I’d get it too — that it was a genetic guarantee and that I would be the next victim for this disease.
I found a way to deal with that dread as a teen. But how I dealt with that fear didn’t click until I was thinking about Dak. Dealing with that fear was easy for me: I’d circumvent how I really felt and do everything I could to ignore those feelings and/or find the more “logical way” to view them.
It was easier to tell myself that, “oh, it’s not ‘that’ bad; others have it worse than you; you’re fine, ignore it or just listen to some more whiny emo bands as loud as possible so you can drown out those thoughts, that again, aren’t ‘that’ bad.”
Even now as I type this I keep going back to Instagram because I feel like a schmuck writing about this. I feel like I shouldn’t be writing about this. And that voice comes back again, whispering:
“You know people who’ve tried to kill themselves. You know people who have REAL depression, who have REAL mental health struggles. You’re just having a bad day. Seriously, you don’t have it ‘that’ bad.”
But how many other men out there think like me? How many other men are there that feel ashamed for even considering reaching out for help because their problems don’t feel “that big”?
How many other men feel guilty that they’re taking away help from people who may need it more?
As I thought about this over the last couple of months, I realized that number is probably pretty high. The stats around the mental health of men are already pretty damn stark.
It’s estimated that globally, on average, one man dies by suicide every hour of every day. Worldwide, that’s nearly 22,000 deaths a year. In the US alone 3 out of 4 suicides are committed by men.
75% of all suicides being men is a pretty shocking statistic. But here’s another for you.
Even after adjusting for age, the suicide rate in the US increased more than 24% between 1999 and 2016 — that’s the highest rate recorded in 30 years. And those increases were so drastic, that for the first time since 1915-1918, life expectancy in the United States decreased for three consecutive years.
According to the CDC, in late June of 2020, 40% of US adults reported dealing with mental health or substance abuse during Covid. And within that same survey, the CDC asked if respondants had seriously considered suicide in the 30 days prior to completing the survey.
Those numbers were high. Specifically among those aged 18–24 years (25.5%), minority racial/ethnic groups (Hispanic respondents [18.6%], non-Hispanic Black [15.1%]), self-reported unpaid caregivers for adults (30.7%), and essential workers (21.7%).
The pandemic isn’t over either. The fact is, we will continue to deal with the ramifications from this pandemic for years. The Thanos snap that was Covid and the aftermath it caused isn’t going away overnight. In “Endgame” the world was still trying to piece itself back together five years later. And it’s likely that we’ll see the numbers around suicide and mental health issues continue to rise over the next few years.
So it’s imperative that we not only have athletes like Dak Prescott open up and talk about mental health, but we need more than those in the public eye to speak up and speak out.
We need the voices of everyone who struggles, no matter the level of intensity, to speak up.
Advocating for yourself may be the toughest act any adult ever attempts to do. It’s not something we’re taught in school. It may even be something we feel we can’t do in the safety of our own homes as children.
I never wanted to shut up as a kid. I had questions that needed to be answered. I had thoughts that needed to be expressed. And I remember tons of times being referred to as “motormouth.”
Handcuffed to those memories are countless others where I was encouraged to be quiet, or flat out told that what I thought or felt wasn’t important or a big deal.
And that stuff doesn’t disappear when you become an adult. It sticks around. It will change its shape and morph into something completely different. But those feelings, those demons, will find a way to seep into your everyday life, affecting you in ways you never imagined.
When we’re kids we’re taught a handful of four letter words that we should never say. Words like damn, shit, fuck, cunt, piss, dick, twat, slut, or suck. There’s a ton of stigma attached to those 4-lettered words, and many of us may have had our mouth’s washed out with soap for using them.
But there’s another four letter word that we as a society need to remove the stigma for using: help.
For years I struggled to ask for help. In nearly every class throughout grade school I sat in silence when I didn’t understand things because I was too afraid to ask for help.
Actually, come to think of it, I wasn’t afraid to ask for help so much as I was too afraid to look like I needed help.
Smart kids in advanced math classes don’t need help. No. You sit in silence and you figure it out. You’ve figured it out before, you can do it again. But don’t ask for help. If you do that someone might think you’re dumb. Do you want others thinking you’re dumb? Is that what you want people to think? That you’re dumb?
Even now that fear is returning, telling me that by speaking up about my struggles I’ll somehow redefine who I am and how people see me.
“Is this how you want people to see you?”
We applaud and idolize athletes like Dak Prescott who use their talents to overcome the odds and awe us with their god-given talent. Athletes like Dak become heroes. And humans love a good hero.
Heroes inspire us with their stories of triumph, empowering us to overcome the odds in our own lives. There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about Luke Skywalker, Captain America, Bruce Wayne, or the myriad of the other superheroes I’ve idolized since my youth.
It’s from their stories that I pull strength and find inspiration for overcoming obstacles. And when I think about these heroes, I realize there’s something they all have in common: over the years, all of them have asked for (or recruited) help to overcome their darkest foes.
Are athletes like Dak Prescott, Micahel Phelps, Simone Biles, Abby Wambach, or Kevin Love, who many consider heroes, really any different?
These athletes are surrounded by teams of scouts, coaches, and doctors who help them prepare for the next game. Add to that their personal trainers and nutritionists, and you see that no athlete succeeds without help.
Getting help from an expert who has tools available to help you get better or stronger so you can be your best (or live your best life) should never be considered an act of weakness.
Dak, or anyone for that matter, should feel as much shame for consulting a mental health professional as he does hiring a trainer.
In other words: He shouldn’t feel any shame at all.
Here’s something I do know. One of the best ways to encourage people to reach out for help is to reduce the stigma around depression, anxiety, and mental health. And one of the best ways to do that is to talk about it.
Stuffing it inside, telling myself that “my struggles aren’t that bad,” isn’t good for me; but it’s also not good for someone else who may feel the same.
Dak opening up and revealing his struggles could be the catalyst that encourages someone out there to take the steps necessary to stand up and say, “I need help.”
And if I’m going to encourage people to take their mental health seriously, I realized I should probably do the same.
One of the scary things about reaching out for help is the amount of money it can cost. Until last September, I had no health insurance for four years. And there was absolutely no way I could pay out of pocket for help with mental health.
I’m grateful that during those years I’ve had some amazing people to surround myself with who I could talk to when I needed it. Without that community I would’ve felt infinitely more alone and would have struggled in my silence.
While writing this I had a conversation with a friend of mine about these issues. Specifically the issues centering around resources. She told me when she reached out for help that it felt like no therapist could take her on as a client.
Everyone she called wasn’t taking new clients. Hotlines she called kept her on hold for 20-30 minutes or outright told her they couldn’t help.
Reaching your hand up and asking for help but getting no response to those cries only makes those suffering feel more alone and helpless. It only makes that darkness seem more infinite and inescapable.
And as she said that to me, I heard that voice in my mind murmuring again.
“Your darkness Robbie isn’t that dark; you’re just being a whiny emo kid; others have it worse than you. There are those who actually need the help who aren’t getting it, who the hell do you think you are to take away that help from them?”
That feedback loop continues playing no matter how I feel. And though I feel like I’ve gotten better at recognizing and managing that loop, I still get caught up in it.
But I also know that dealing with that loop will be a lifelong battle. You neve truly conquer your demons. As The Ancient One told Mordo in “Dr. Strange:”
“We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them.”
Now that I do have insurance, I’ve started looking for someone that I can talk to about my mental health. But there are still those who feel they can’t get above their demons. Those who cannot afford to speak to a therapist either because they live paycheck-to-paycheck or because they don’t have health insurance. So how do we help those people?
There are two things we can do.
By publishing this today I’m doing what I can to talk about these issues. Dak Prescott used his voice to talk about his struggles a couple of months ago. And there are other high profile athletes, actors, authors, and all manner of humans talking more today about mental health and their struggles with it than ever before.
Speaking up (and out) helps to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. My friend John Romaniello has been doing this for years. His openness about his struggles in his writing has prompted others to reach out to him, thanking him for speaking up and doing what he can to reduce the stigma around depression and mental health.
Besides being “the” reason I even got into fitness and subsequent writing about it, John’s writing (not to mention his friendship and mentoring) about his struggles has helped me feel less alone.
So the first steps we can take to improving mental health is to talk about it. And though it’s taken me a long time to open up about my struggles, here I am writing this today doing just that.
Outside of speaking up about mental health, we need to increase financial support for those who can’t afford or get the resources for mental health that they need.
The pandemic is going to make it much harder for governments to help in this regard.
So when it comes to increasing financial resources to help those in need, it’s going to fall to all of us to take action.
There are a dozen different charities that you can find online that provide resources for mental health. But there’s one that’s super close to my heart. It’s a foundation dedicated to men’s health, and has a goal of reducing worldwide male suicide by 25% by 2030.
In 2005, two friends in Australia, as a joke, decided to grow out moustaches for the month of November. They recruited more than a dozen men to do this with them. That first November was a smashing success.
So they decided to do it again the next year. But this time they decided to use those stellar staches to raise money and bring awareness to men’s health issues, most specifically at the time, testicular cancer.
And thus Movember was born.
Since that time this “Mo”vement has exploded and become a yearly worldwide endeavor. Every year men around the world grow their moustaches to not only raise awareness about testicular and prostate cancer, but to raise money to support men’s mental health.
In 2018, with the help of more than 320,000 “Mo Bros & Mo Sisters” from across 20 countries, Movember raised $74.2 million dollars worldwide. In the US, more than $18 million dollars was raised to support men’s health issues.
Some of those projects include:
The Ironman Registry – an international collective that helps men with advanced prostate cancer
The ManVan – a UK based men’s health initiative partnered with Rugby League Cares. They travel around to rugby league fields across the north of England in what they call “the Man Van,” a 38ft American-style motorhome that was converted into a men’s health and wellbeing hub designed to engage men to take charge of their health.
Breaking the Ice – a Canadian initiative that encourages young hockey players to talk about their mental health
Farmstrong – a collaboration between the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand and leading rural insurer FMG to help farmers in NZ with their mental health
The Young Hunters Program – a program that takes at-risk youth in the Inuit Nunangat region of Northern Canada — where suicide rates range from 5-25 times the national average — and pairs them with experienced hunters from their community who teaches traditional Inuit skills and knowledge to live off the land, helping to strengthen the ties to their cultural heritage and community.
Last year I had a goal of raising $2,000 for Movember. When it was all said and done, I raised $1,762 for Movember. And I accomplished that because I had friends, family, and clients who donated directly to Movember; the largest chunk of what I raised came from donating every dollar I made from my monthly workout subscription service, “The Workout Pass.”
But I want to do more this year. So I’m bumping my goal up and attempting to bring in $4,000 for Movember.
Like last year, I’m going to donate every dollar I make off The Workout Pass to Movember. And I don’t want this to sound pitchy because pitching you isn’t the point. Instead, rather than asking you to simply donate your money. I want to give you something on my behalf. That’s how much this means to me.
So, if you want to get 30 days of awesome workouts and donate to a great cause, come grab your Workout Pass.
Of course, you can also donate directly to Movember here. Anything you can give, even five bucks, is appreciated. So far I’ve raised $470 towards my goal, which means I have a lot more to raise over the next 20 days. But I’m confident I’ll hit my end goal.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering about where your donation goes, Movember is transparent about where your money goes. 72.9% of all money raised goes towards the projects they fund, many of those I listed above, and they report where those funds are invested on their website.
Listen, 2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year. So allow me to end this on a high note.
I don’t know how many other men or women may be out there who feel like their struggles aren’t “that bad.” But being silent about it isn’t something we can afford to do.
Movember has a goal to decrease male suicide worldwide 25% by the year 2030. To accomplish that we first need to remove the veneer of shame around the word help.
That can be accomplished by being open and honest and talking about mental health in a helpful way — not by telling people that doing so is some form of weakness.
Dak Prescott opening up about his struggles may be the catalyst that encourages someone out there to get the help they need.
And to be honest, that’s part of what I’m hoping this post can accomplish today. If I’m going to support and push for increased awareness about mental health, I too need to speak up about my struggles. If one person reads this and feels less alone or simply reaches out for help, then some good has been done.
Yes, asking for help is hard. Doing it takes a lot of strength. And we can make it a little easier by encouraging people to stop seeing help as a “bad” four letter word. We can make it easier for people to speak up or reach out for help by letting them know that asking for help, much less speaking up about their struggles, isn’t a weakness.
And then we need to make sure we have the resources in place to help those who’re suffering and need it most.
As I bring this to a close, I realize I’m asking those of you who have read all of this for help. Not for me. But for those who don’t have insurance or who can’t pay for the mental health care they need.
Success isn’t accomplished alone. It’s a team effort. Dak Prescott has teams of people dedicated to helping him be his best week in and week out. And when it comes to improving the lives of those suffering from mental health issues, it will take more than one person.
As an organization Movember is doing all that they can. I will do what I can to help them improve men’s mental health worldwide by donating money every month.
If you have $5, $10, $20 or whatever to spare this month, please consider donating to Movember and helping provide mental health access for men worldwide.
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Selected Families and Individuals
Richard PATTEN 1 was born 1402 in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England. He married Margery de BRERETON on 1427 in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England.
Margery de BRERETON [Parents] 1 was born 1407 in Brereton, Cheshire, England. She married Richard PATTEN on 1427 in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England.
Sir Jenkin de DAVENPORT Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1320 in Wheltrough, Cheshire, England. He died 6 Nov 1390 in Henbury, Cheshire, England. Jenkin married Margaret DONE on 1366 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
LEGH, Elizabeth
Margaret DONE [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 was born 1335 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England. She died 30 Mar 1417 in Woodford, Cheshire, England. Margaret married Sir Jenkin de DAVENPORT Knight on 1366 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
BRERETON, William de Knight
TRUSSELL, Gilbert
M i Nicholas de DAVENPORT 1, 2, 3 was born 1367 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
M ii Griffin de DAVENPORT 1, 2, 3 was born 1369 in Henbury, Cheshire, England. He died 1427 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
F iii Agnes de DAVENPORT was born 1371.
F iv Ellen DAVENPORT 1 was born 1373 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
F v Elizabeth de DAVENPORT 1, 2 was born 1375 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
Gilbert TRUSSELL 1, 2 was born 1330 in Woodford, Cheshire, England. He married Margaret DONE on 1391 in Woodford, Cheshire, England.
Margaret DONE [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 was born 1335 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England. She died 30 Mar 1417 in Woodford, Cheshire, England. Margaret married Gilbert TRUSSELL on 1391 in Woodford, Cheshire, England.
DAVENPORT, Jenkin de Knight
Richard DONE [Parents] 1 was born 1301 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England. He died 1370 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England. Richard married Margery de CLOTTON on 1331 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England.
, Katherine
Margery de CLOTTON [Parents] 1 was born 1313 in Clotton, Cheshire, England. She died 1355 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England. Margery married Richard DONE on 1331 in Utkinton, Cheshire, England.
M i Richard DONE was born 1332 and died after 22 Jun 1397.
F ii Margaret DONE was born 1335 and died 30 Mar 1417.
John GERARD [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1365 in Bryn, Lancashire, England. He died 6 1435 in Ince, Lancashire, England. John married 7 Helen de INCE on 1399 in Ince, Lancashire, England.
Helen de INCE [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 1383 in Ince, Lancashire, England. She married 5 John GERARD on 1399 in Ince, Lancashire, England.
M i Sir William GERARD Knight was born 1405.
M ii Robert GERARD 1 was born 1407 in Ince, Lancashire, England.
M iii John GERARD 1 was born 1409 in Ince, Lancashire, England.
M iv Hugh GERARD 1 was born 1411 in Ince, Lancashire, England.
M v Richard GERARD 1 was born 1414 in Ince, Lancashire, England.
Sir Randle de BRERETON Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1363 in Brereton, Cheshire, England. He married Alice IPSTONES on 1408 in Malpas, Cheshire, England.
Alice IPSTONES [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1392 in Blymhill, Staffordshire, England. She married Sir Randle de BRERETON Knight on 1408 in Malpas, Cheshire, England.
M i Randle BRERETON was born 1409.
M ii William BRERETON was born 1413.
William de CHOLMONDELEY 1, 2 was born 1350 in Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. He died 1375 in Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. William married Elizabeth de BRERETON on 1373 in Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England.
Elizabeth de BRERETON [Parents] 1, 2 was born 1355 in Brereton, Cheshire, England. She married William de CHOLMONDELEY on 1373 in Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England.
Sir Henry de DELVES Knight [Parents] 1, 2 was born 1320 in Delves Hall, Staffordshire, England. He died 3 31 Jul 1396 in Delves Hall, Staffordshire, England. Henry married Margaret de BRERETON on 1355 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.
ARDERNE, Katherine d'
Margaret de BRERETON [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 1335 in Brereton, Cheshire, England. She married Sir Henry de DELVES Knight on 1355 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.
Sir Robert de LEGH Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born Mar 1363 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. He died 1408 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. Robert married Isabel de BELGRAVE on 1383 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.
, Margery
Isabel de BELGRAVE [Parents] 1, 2 was born 1365 in Belgrave, Cheshire, England. She died 1400 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. Isabel married Sir Robert de LEGH Knight on 1383 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.
F i Joan LEGH was born 1384.
M ii Robert LEGH Esquire was born 1387 and died 26 Sep 1415.
M iii Robert LEGH 1 was born 1390 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. He died after 1419.
F iv Ellen LEGH 1 was born 1392 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.
M v James LEGH 1 was born 1395 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.
M vi Reynold LEGH 1 was born 1398 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. He died 1482 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England.
Sir Robert de LEGH Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born Mar 1363 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. He died 1408 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. Robert married Margery on 1401 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.
BELGRAVE, Isabel de
Margery 1 was born 1380 in Adlington, Cheshire, England. She married Sir Robert de LEGH Knight on 1401 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.
F i Margery LEGH was born 1402.
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Skyline Commercial REIT Buys 9 Cold-Storage Facilities from Congebec
Skyline Commercial REIT is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 9-property national portfolio of temperature-controlled warehouses through a sale/leaseback transaction with Congebec Inc. This $190M transaction closed on December 13th and represents a material, accretive transaction for the fund.
The acquisition totals 1,318,752 rentable square feet across five markets- Calgary (1), Saskatoon (1), Winnipeg (1), Montreal (GMA); (3) and Quebec City (3). The breakdown of properties is provided in the table below. This transaction also Skyline Commercial REIT’s first acquisition in the Province of Manitoba.
Address Rentable Area (sq. ft.)
5500 72nd Ave SE, Calgary, AB 200,122
810 60th Street E, Saskatoon, SK 84,365
1555 Chevrier Blvd, Winnipeg, MB 319,481
130 Rue J.A Bombardier, Boucherville, QC 129,043
2050 Rue Bombardier, Sainte-Julie, QC 203,641
7801 Blvd Henri-Bourassa Est, Montreal, QC 116,166
370 Metivier Street, Quebec City, QC 99,029
810 Godin Avenue, Quebec City, QC 98,386
800 Fernand Dufour Street, Quebec City, QC 53,787
“Congebec has been investing heavily over the past 5 years to support its aggressive growth plan,” commented Nicholas P. Pedneault, President & CEO at Congebec. “Partnering with Skyline to reconfigure our capital and stabilize our cost structure for the next 20 years was the best decision to continue with our growth. We got to know the people at Skyline very well over this past year and there is a clear cultural fit and we are excited to create a successful partnership between the two companies.”
This acquisition follows Skyline’s core strategy of securing functionally modern industrial buildings offering long-term stable income for unitholders from tenancies with proven operating histories. Congebec will continue to lease 8 of the 9 properties on long-term leases and the ninth property at 370 Rue Metivier in Quebec City is leased by the food and pharmaceutical company Metro Richelieu Inc.
“The frozen food industry continues to enjoy double-digit annual growth in North America and Congebec’s leadership position in the logistics side of this virtually recession proof sector bodes well for their continued growth and success” shares Michael Mackenzie, President of Skyline Commercial REIT. “We have come to know the management team at Congebec through the course of discussion this past year and believe we will work extremely well together to the benefit of both our businesses.”
The acquisition’s weighted average lease term (WALT) is over 18 years and increases the entire Skyline Commercial REIT portfolio’s WALT to over 9 years. Mackenzie adds, “the deal is expected to increase the portfolio’s asset value by over 25% and on a funds from operations per Unit basis will be strongly accretive to the fund.”
Post-acquisition, the Skyline Commercial REIT has 98 properties in 34 cities across ON, QC, SK, MB, and AB, with more than 6 million square feet of commercial space.
About the Skyline Commercial REIT
Skyline Commercial REIT is one of five private investment products under the Skyline Group of Companies, a national real estate investment, and property management organization. Skyline Commercial REIT is committed to providing the best in class commercial spaces to its tenants with the focus on delivering stable returns to its investors.
The Skyline Group of Companies currently manages approximately $4 billion in multi-residential and commercial real estate combined and has almost 1,000 employees across the country.
To learn more about the Skyline Group of Companies and Skyline Commercial REIT, please visit www.skylineonline.ca.
About Congebec
Congebec is a Canadian based supplier of multi-temperature storage, value added & distribution services supporting the food, retail and CPG industry. Committed to food safety, Congebec is a leader in the Canadian marketplace and is ranked 10th in North America and 15th in the world. With more than 400 employees and 45 years of experience, the company operates 13 modern facilities totaling more then 50 Million cubic feet. These facilities are strategically located in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta.
To learn more about Congebec, please visit http://www.congebec.com/
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The Boy Who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye
Reviewed by Trevor R. Getz
Review Source: Africa Access
Book Author: Manu Herbstein
Manu Herbstein’s The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye is a masterwork of historical fiction, with the emphasis on historical. The story is set in the events leading up to the creation of the British Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate in 1874, and its main theme is a boy’s – and a nation’s — struggle to retain dignity in the midst of their loss of independence. Subtly, then, this is an anti-colonial story.
The story is fictional, of course… Nevertheless, the story as he tells it is superbly supported by evidence that the events through which he moves in the book were very real. Melton Prior’s genuine images, published in the Illustrated London News, form a centerpiece of many chapters. Other episodes are taken directly from primary sources, published accounts, and recent debates by very senior scholars. The book is, in fact, in many ways a superb bit of historical analysis. It’s also written in such a way that an individual youth reader unfamiliar with Ghanaian history could understand it without help. Continue reading.
The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye by Manu Herbstein
Published by Pronoun on May 25th 2016
Genres: Africa, War, World History
Reading Level: High School
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Publisher's synopsis: Sargrenti is the name by which Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, KCMG (1833 – 1913) is still known in the West African state of Ghana.
Kofi Gyan, the 15-year old boy who spits in Sargrenti’s eye, is the nephew of the chief of Elmina, a town on the Atlantic coast of Ghana. On Christmas Day, 1871, Kofi’s godfather gives him a diary as a Christmas present and charges him with the task of keeping a personal record of the momentous events through which they are living. This novel is a transcription of Kofi’s diary.
Elmina town has a long-standing relationship with the Castelo de São Jorge da Mina, known today as Elmina Castle, built by the Portuguese in 1482 and captured from them by the Dutch in 1637. In April, 1872, the Dutch hand over the unprofitable castle to the British. The people of Elmina have not been consulted and resist the change. On June 13, 1873 British forces punish them by bombarding the town and destroying it. (It has never been rebuilt. The flat open ground where it once stood serves as a constant reminder of the savage power of Imperial Britain.)
After the destruction of Elmina, Kofi moves to his mother’s family home in nearby Cape Coast, seat of the British colonial government, where Sargrenti is preparing to march inland and attack the independent Asante state. There, Melton Prior, war artist of the London weekly news magazine, The Illustrated London News, offers Kofi a job as his assistant. This gives the lad an opportunity to observe at close quarters not only Prior but also the other war correspondents, Henry Morton Stanley and G. A. Henty. Kofi witnesses and experiences the trauma of a brutal war, a run-up to the formal colonialism which would be realized ten years later at the 1885 Berlin conference, where European powers drew lines on the map of Africa, dividing the territory up amongst themselves.
On February 6, 1874, Sargrenti’s troops loot the palace of the Asante king, Kofi Karikari, and then blow up the stone building and set the city of Kumase on fire, razing it to the ground.
Kofi’s story culminates in his angry response to the British auction of their loot in Cape Coast Castle. The loot includes the solid gold mask shown on the front cover of the novel. That mask continues to reside in the Wallace Collection in London.
The invasion of Asante met with the enthusiastic approval of the British public, which elevated Wolseley to the status of a national hero. All the war correspondents and several military officers hastened to cash in on public sentiment by publishing books telling the story of their victory. In all of these, without exception, the coastal Fante feature as feckless and cowardly and the Asante as ruthless savages.
The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye tells the story of these momentous events for the first time from an African point of view. It is told with irony and with occasional flashes of humor. The novel is illustrated with scans of seventy engravings first published in The Illustrated London News.
This book won a Burt Award for African Literature which included the donation by the Ghana Book Trust of 3000 copies to school libraries in Ghana. In 2016, at the annual conference of the African Literature Association held in Atlanta, GA, it received the ALA’s Creative Book of the Year Award.
Prof. Stephanie Newell, Yale University, writes, “Manu Herbstein has done what the best cultural historians of Africa should do: that is, read between the lines of the colonial archives to imagine what it was like to be an African alive at that time, witnessing and interpreting events.”
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The 101 Greatest Plays from Antiquity to the Present, by Michael Billington
Reviewed by Harriet
As the longest-serving British theatre critic, a biographer, and a teacher and lecturer at several world-class universities, Michael Billington has some claim to being able to select the 101 greatest plays ever written. Or has he? He writes in his introduction that he has seen about 9000 plays in his lifetime, but he’s very willing to admit that his title sounds ‘a bit arrogant’. Certainly he’s come in for some criticism for his choices – many people have been outraged that he’s omitted King Lear, and Waiting for Godot, for example. Here’s what he has to say about it all:
As I drew up my initial list of plays, I had one basic idea in my mind: that the very best plays are rooted in their historical moment and yet have a sustainable afterlife …. I realised I was instinctively drawn to plays which display moral ambivalence, are rooted in close observation, blend the tragic and the comic and exude the life and energy that Baudelaire thought were the preconditions of any work of art.
Fair enough. I can’t help agreeing, though quite how you arrive at a satisfactory explanation of exactly how one play exudes that life and energy and another one doesn’t might be hard to pin down. But there’s no point in wasting time on debating the wisdom or otherwise of his decisions. 101 plays is plenty to be going on with, and anyone who reads this book from cover to cover will certainly come away with a pretty good idea of the sweep and development of Western drama as well as as sense of Billington himself.
For this is a very personal book. Each short chapter includes an account of when Billington saw the play and what his response to it was in addition to an assessment of its qualities and strengths. So we find him on the Brecon Beacons watching a production of Aeschylus’ The Persians, as a ‘slightly unhappy, self-absorbed twenty-two-year-old’ seeing Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at Chichester Festival Theatre, in a ‘dingly dell’ at Stratford on Avon watching Marlowe’s Edward II, enjoying a German operatic version of Dürrenmat’s The Visit at Glyndebourne. But of course the great majority of what he writes about are plays seen in production at the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court and elsewhere. And having seen many landmark productions, he is able to illustrate his essays with comments on the presentation, the directing, and the acting.
There are far too many plays here for me to cover them all in a short review. But to give you an idea of Billington’s judgments, here’s a fairly random selection. He chooses two plays by Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost and Henry IV Parts One and Two (which is actually two plays, but we’ll let him off that one). Love’s Labours Lost is admired for the fact that:
it’s palpably the product of a Warwickshire countryman who realises that sophisticated wordplay and academic fame are subject to the implacable rhythm of the seasons and the stark fact of death.
As for Henry IV, he admires ‘its narrative pulse, its cognitive power, its political resonance, its novelistic characterisation, its melifluous verse’. Are we sorry, after all this, that he hasn’t included the much better known and conventionally admired King Lear? I wasn’t.
Moving through the centuries, he admires Aphra Behn for her ‘imaginative capacity to embrace a multiplicity of viewpoints’, and sees Congreve’s satirical observation as ‘not just an aesthetic pleasure but also a moral instrument’. Strindberg’s The Father is preferred to the more popular Miss Julie for its greater ‘shattering dramatic power’, and Pirandello’s late play Henry IV because it expresses its author’s realisation ‘ that we are all sentenced to solitude inside our own skins’.
As you can see, Billington’s choices are rarely the expected ones, though he admits to a preference for the naturalistic rather than the experimental. He prefers Osborne’s The Entertainer to his perhaps more famous Look Back in Anger (‘it’s both a better play and offers a more resonant metaphor’), and Edward Bond’s Bingo over his more frequently revived Saved. There are however a handful of more conventional choices, including The Importance of Being Earnest and Caryl Churchill’s classic Top Girls, written in 1982 but, he argues, still valid today for its suggestion that ‘true feminism is impossible without socialism and a restructuring of society’ as well as for her experimentation and inventiveness. He chooses to end the book with Mike Bartlett’s recent King Charles III, a ‘richly intriguing play’ raising important questions about Britain and its future.
Choosing contemporary plays is always going to be more challenging than picking ones from the past. Will we be able to look back and say that great plays were written in the early 21st century? Billington’s conclusion argues:
that great plays are still within our compass and that the art of drama is still alive and well…..the solo-authored play now has to contend with democratically devised work, the rising power of the director, an anti-verbal culture, not to mention the multiple choices and escalating distractions afforded by a hi-tech society. Yet, happily, people persist in writing plays and audiences still crave the excitement of encountering a strongly subjective, vivacously expressed vision of the world. Only a defeatist would argue that the bright day is done and we are for the dark.
I’m genuinely delighted to have had a chance to read and review this book. You might quibble with some of Billington’s selections, and I wasn’t particularly keen on his occasional use of a discussion between himself and a ‘fictional’ young woman critic on the merits of a some of the plays. But it’s a highly readable, highly intelligent and, I’d hope, enduringly important book.
Harriet is one of the editors of Shiny New Books and a long time ago used to read plays for a living.
Michael Billington, The 101 Greatest Plays fron Antiquity to the Present (Guardian Books and Faber & Faber: London, 2015). 9781783350308, 464pp., hardback.
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Friday of Transfiguration
Morning Psalm · Ps. 87
First Reading · Zech. 8:1-23
Evening Psalm · Ps. 8
Second Reading · 2 Tim. 1:1-18
O God, in the glorious Transfiguration of Your beloved Son You confirmed the mysteries of the faith by the testimony of Moses and Elijah, and in the voice that came from the bright cloud You wonderfully foreshowed our adoption by grace. Mercifully make us co-heirs with the King of His glory and bring us to the fullness of our inheritance in heaven; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Glorious Things of You Are Spoken
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.
87 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God. Selah
4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush[a]—
“This one was born there,” they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in her”;
for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The Lord records as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah
7 Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”
Psalm 87:4 Probably Nubia
Psalm 87:1 : Ps. 42, title
Psalm 87:1 : See Ps. 48:1
Psalm 87:1 : Isa. 28:16
Psalm 87:2 : Ps. 78:67, 68
Psalm 87:3 : [Isa. 60:1]; See Isa. 54:1-3
Psalm 87:3 : Ps. 46:4
Psalm 87:4 : Ps. 36:10; [John 10:14]
Psalm 87:4 : See Job 9:13; See Isa. 19:22-25
Psalm 87:4 : See Ps. 68:31
Psalm 87:7 : Ps. 68:25
Psalm 87:7 : 2 Sam. 6:14
Psalm 87:7 : Ps. 36:9; Isa. 12:3; Rev. 21:6
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.
The Coming Peace and Prosperity of Zion
8 And the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying, 2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. 3 Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. 4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. 6 Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the Lord of hosts? 7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country, 8 and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”
9 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. 10 For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor. 11 But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the Lord of hosts. 12 For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. 13 And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”
14 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the Lord of hosts, 15 so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not. 16 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; 17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”
18 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 19 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.
20 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities. 21 The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’ 22 Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord. 23 Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
Zechariah 8:2 : ch. 1:14
Zechariah 8:3 : See ch. 2:10
Zechariah 8:3 : [Isa. 1:26]
Zechariah 8:3 : See Isa. 2:3
Zechariah 8:4 : [Ps. 128:6; Prov. 10:27]
Zechariah 8:6 : [Ps. 118:23]
Zechariah 8:6 : See Gen. 18:14
Zechariah 8:7 : ch. 10:6
Zechariah 8:7 : Ps. 107:3; Isa. 43:5; [Isa. 49:12; Ezek. 37:21]
Zechariah 8:8 : ch. 13:9; See Jer. 31:33
Zechariah 8:8 : Jer. 4:2
Zechariah 8:9 : 2 Sam. 16:21; [Hag. 2:4]
Zechariah 8:9 : ch. 7:3; Ezra 5:1, 2
Zechariah 8:9 : Hag. 2:18
Zechariah 8:10 : [Hag. 1:6]
Zechariah 8:12 : Hos. 2:21, 22; Hag. 2:19
Zechariah 8:12 : [Hag. 1:10]
Zechariah 8:12 : See Jer. 3:18
Zechariah 8:13 : [Isa. 43:28; 65:15]
Zechariah 8:13 : ch. 10:6
Zechariah 8:13 : See Gen. 12:2, 3
Zechariah 8:13 : Hag. 2:5
Zechariah 8:13 : [See ver. 9 above]; 2 Sam. 16:21; [Hag. 2:4]
Zechariah 8:14 : [Jer. 31:28; 32:42]
Zechariah 8:15 : [See ver. 13 above]; Hag. 2:5
Zechariah 8:16 : Cited Eph. 4:25; See Ps. 15:2
Zechariah 8:16 : See ch. 7:9
Zechariah 8:16 : ver. 19
Zechariah 8:17 : ch. 7:10
Zechariah 8:19 : [Jer. 39:2]
Zechariah 8:19 : ch. 7:3
Zechariah 8:19 : 2 Kgs. 25:1
Zechariah 8:19 : Isa. 35:10
Zechariah 8:21 : [ch. 2:11; 14:16; Isa. 2:3]
Zechariah 8:22 : [See ver. 21 above]; [ch. 2:11; 14:16; Isa. 2:3]
Zechariah 8:22 : [See ver. 21 above]; See ch. 7:2
Zechariah 8:23 : See Gen. 31:7
Zechariah 8:23 : [Isa. 66:18; Rev. 5:9]
Zechariah 8:23 : [1 Cor. 14:25]
How Majestic Is Your Name
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of David.
8 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[b]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
Psalm 8:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels
Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 81, title; 84, title
Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 148:13; Isa. 12:4; [Ex. 34:5]
Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 113:4
Psalm 8:2 : Cited Matt. 21:16; [Matt. 11:25; 1 Cor. 1:27]
Psalm 8:2 : Jer. 16:19
Psalm 8:2 : Ps. 44:16
Psalm 8:3 : [Ps. 111:2]
Psalm 8:3 : Ex. 8:19; 31:18
Psalm 8:3 : Gen. 1:16
Psalm 8:4 : Cited Heb. 2:6-8; [Ps. 144:3; Job 7:17; 25:6]
Psalm 8:4 : [Gen. 8:1]
Psalm 8:4 : Ps. 65:9; Gen. 21:1; 50:24
Psalm 8:5 : [Gen. 1:26]
Psalm 8:5 : Ps. 21:5
Psalm 8:6 : Gen. 1:26, 28
Psalm 8:6 : Cited 1 Cor. 15:27; [Matt. 28:18]
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy, my beloved child:
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You
3 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. 4 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. 6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, 7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 9 who saved us and called us to[a] a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,[b] 10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.[c] 13 Follow the pattern of the sound[d] words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains, 17 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me— 18 may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
2 Timothy 1:9 Or with
2 Timothy 1:9 Greek before times eternal
2 Timothy 1:12 Or what I have entrusted to him; Greek my deposit
2 Timothy 1:13 Or healthy
2 Timothy 1:1 : See 2 Cor. 1:1
2 Timothy 1:1 : Titus 1:2; Heb. 9:15
2 Timothy 1:2 : 1 Cor. 4:17; [ch. 2:1]; See 3 John 4
2 Timothy 1:2 : See 1 Tim. 1:2
2 Timothy 1:3 : See Rom. 1:8
2 Timothy 1:3 : See Acts 22:3; 24:14
2 Timothy 1:3 : 1 Tim. 3:9; See Acts 23:1
2 Timothy 1:3 : Rom. 1:9
2 Timothy 1:4 : [Acts 20:37]
2 Timothy 1:4 : Phil. 1:8; [ch. 4:9, 21]
2 Timothy 1:5 : Rom. 12:9; 1 Tim. 1:5
2 Timothy 1:5 : Acts 16:1; [ch. 3:15; Ps. 86:16; 116:16]
2 Timothy 1:6 : 1 Tim. 4:14; [1 Thess. 5:19]
2 Timothy 1:7 : Rom. 8:15; [John 14:27; Rev. 21:8]
2 Timothy 1:7 : Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8
2 Timothy 1:8 : See Mark 8:38
2 Timothy 1:8 : [ver. 16]; See Eph. 3:1
2 Timothy 1:8 : ch. 2:3, 9; 4:5
2 Timothy 1:9 : 1 Tim. 1:1; Titus 3:4
2 Timothy 1:9 : [Heb. 3:1]; See Rom. 8:28
2 Timothy 1:9 : Titus 3:5; See Rom. 3:27
2 Timothy 1:9 : Titus 1:2; [Rom. 16:25]; See Eph. 1:4
2 Timothy 1:10 : See Rom. 16:26
2 Timothy 1:10 : See 2 Thess. 2:8
2 Timothy 1:10 : 1 Cor. 15:26; [1 Cor. 15:54, 55; Heb. 2:14, 15]
2 Timothy 1:10 : [Job 33:30]
2 Timothy 1:10 : Rom. 2:7
2 Timothy 1:11 : See 1 Tim. 2:7
2 Timothy 1:12 : ch. 2:9
2 Timothy 1:12 : ver. 8
2 Timothy 1:12 : [Ps. 10:14; 1 Pet. 4:19]
2 Timothy 1:12 : ver. 18; ch. 4:8; See 1 Cor. 3:13
2 Timothy 1:12 : 1 Tim. 6:20
2 Timothy 1:13 : [ch. 3:14; Titus 1:9; Rev. 3:3]
2 Timothy 1:13 : [Rom. 2:20; 6:17]
2 Timothy 1:13 : See 1 Tim. 1:10
2 Timothy 1:14 : See Rom. 8:9
2 Timothy 1:14 : [See ver. 12 above]; 1 Tim. 6:20
2 Timothy 1:15 : Acts 19:10; [ch. 4:10, 11, 16]
2 Timothy 1:16 : ch. 4:19
2 Timothy 1:16 : Philem. 7, 20
2 Timothy 1:16 : [ver. 8]; See Acts 28:20
2 Timothy 1:17 : Matt. 25:36-40
2 Timothy 1:18 : ver. 12
2 Timothy 1:18 : Heb. 6:10
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2021 stock market outlook
From record high share prices in February to the spectacular crash in March, the stock market experienced its fair share of ups and downs in 2020. But with the market almost recovered to where it was pre-COVID, what can investors expect as we head into a new year? We turned to DANIEL CHIEW, investment manager at boutique investment advisory firm Alto Capital, to find out.
Where is the market lying now compared to the record highs of Feb 2020?
We're still a little bit below where we were in February, or pre-COVID, but we're working our way back towards that record high. Based on how the market is currently tracking, I think we could probably get back there in early 2021.
So it’s fair to say you’re optimistic about the year ahead?
Yeah, I'm pretty optimistic to be honest. I think there are a lot of upside catalysts ahead in 2021, so there’s plenty to look forward to. We've rebounded very strongly, and I think with the same accommodative monetary and fiscal stance, the economic data continuing to rebound and the potential for a COVID-19 vaccine to be widely available, we should see the same momentum heading into next year.
What are the catalysts that will support the market?
A key catalyst we will be watching in 2021 is the COVID-19 vaccine and the ability to make an effective vaccine widely available throughout the coming year. There is a lot of hope hinging on herd immunity by the second half of next year so this is one we will be tracking closely.
It is clear that Joe Biden will be the next US President and the result has been well received by the market. We expect this will be a net positive result for markets moving forward and paves the way for a deal on further stimulus and potentially healthier international trade relations, particularly with China.
We are also expecting that the global fiscal and monetary stance will remain accommodative which should support equity markets.
What do you think the growth sectors will be in 2021? What's going to boom?
I think we're going to see a lot more of the same sectors performing well as we are right now. I think gold is still going to remain strong. Interest rates are going to remain low, and that's typically supportive for gold, and I also think the defensive assets are going to remain strong too.
The valuations on a lot of the healthcare plays and consumer staples look reasonable and in the current environment are still going to look good next year.
And with the recent coronavirus vaccine developments that has triggered the rotation out of growth into value, I think cyclical stocks and COVID recovery stocks (those hit worst by COVID-19), like travel and retail for example, should continue to rebound strongly into the coming year.
What would you be advising your clients to steer clear of right now?
Anything with a stretched balance sheet I would steer clear of, and any stock that has had management issues in the past, I’d also be looking to steer clear of.
What is investor appetite like as we head into the new year and beyond?
I believe it's going to remain strong. At the moment we're seeing a little bit of liquidity being taken out of the small caps, but that's just a general draw down of liquidity as we head into December. This should probably return to normal when we head into late January/February 2021.
What do you predict for the IPO market next year?
I think it's quite exhausted at the moment – there are a lot of companies that have been raising money in the back end of 2020, trying to rush it in before the end of the year. From our perspective, we get the feeling that there’s been a draw down in liquidity because of this, however we expect the liquidity to return once everyone is back for 2021, especially with the current risk-on behavior of investors.
What are the big risks facing investors in the short to medium-term?
There are two primary risks to the market in the short to medium-term. Firstly, the failure to roll out a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. As mentioned, the market is pricing in a successful roll out of a vaccine next year with herd immunity expect to be achieved in 12 to 18 months’ time. Anything less is a downside risk to the market.
Secondly, the economic recovery has been backed by a significant amount of fiscal support. If governments pull this support too early, this could have negative implications on the path of recovery and consequently the equity market.
From an industry perspective, what are you looking forward to most next year?
There's a lot of upside risks with the global economy returning to normal. There's a lot of money about, and the global economy is just coming out of recession, so I think there's a lot to look forward to, and I think the money is going to stay in the stock market.
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Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess
A milestone in the history of physics textbooks and more
Ronald Calinger, Katya Denisova, Elena N. Polyakhova
Book Information: Description About Editors Table of Contents Bibliographic Reviews
Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess: A milestone in the history of physics textbooks and more examines the life and work of Euler and his legacy as the foremost mathematician, theoretical physicist and theoretical astronomer during the 18th-century Enlightenment. It also analyzes the leading textbooks used in physics education in the latter 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe and British America. The text investigates the search to identify two German princesses taking physics lessons by mail from Euler. Over two years, from 1760 to 1762, Euler wrote 234 letters to the princesses on different topics including astronomy, music, optics, magnetism, electricity, motion and navigation, with less on theology and philosophy, especially logic. The first two volumes of the letters were published in French in 1768 by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its third volume appeared there in 1772. Today, 250 years later, we study this work of Euler's as a foundation for the history of physics teaching, and analyze the letters from a historical and pedagogical point of view. This book includes selected full and abbreviated letters and a summary of the physics content.
As a whole, the book makes for an illuminating read, and gives a great insight into how physics, and its study, has progressed into what it is today. A scientific background is definitely essential to get to grips with the material; once that is established, however, this book is very accessible, with minimal use of formulae and an easy writing style.
Annie McQuoid (2020) British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Taylor & Francis
Ronald S Calinger received his doctorate in the history of science from The University of Chicago in 1971. He is a professor of history emeritus at The Catholic University of America and has written more than 70 research articles and reviews.
Ekaterina (Katya) Denisova is a physics educator and teacher professional developer at Baltimore City Public Schools, Maryland. She has earned a master's degree in science education from the University of Northern Iowa and a PhD in physics education from Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
Elena N Polyakhova graduated from the Mathematics and Mechanics Department (Astronomy Division) of the Leningrad University in 1957 and has been teaching celestial mechanics at the St Petersburg University Astronomy Department since then.
Introduction: Overview of the Letters
Prologue: Physics Pedagogy
Chapter 1: Physics Textbooks before 1650, Principal Natural Philosophies and Physics Textbooks of the Enlightenment
Chapter 2: The Two Princesses and the Letters
Chapter 3: Euler: Life, Research, Teaching, and Impact
Chapter 4: Euler's Letters to a German Princess: Volume 1 (30 – 35 pp.)
Letter 3 Of Sound and its Velocity
Letter 5 Of Unison and Octaves
Letter 15 Changes produced in the Atmosphere by Heat and Cold
Letter 17 Of Light, and the Systems of Descartes and Newton
Letter 20 Of the Propagation of Light
Letter 28 Nature of Colors in Particular
Letter 31 Refraction of Rays of different Colors
Letter 43 Farther Continuation. Difference between the Eye of an Animal, and the artificial Eye, or camera obscura
Letter 45 Of Gravity, Considered a general Property of Body
Letter 51 Gravity of the Moon
Letter 52 Discovery of Universal Gravitation by Newton
Letter 53 Continuation. Of the Mutual Attraction of the Heavenly Bodies
Letter 64 Explanation of the Flux and Reflux, from the Attractive Power of the Moon
Chapter 5: Euler's Letters to a German Princess: Volume 2 and Volume 3 (15 – 20 pp.)
76 System of Monads of Wolff
125 Of Monads
83 Examination of the System of pre-established Harmony. An objection to it.
85 Of the Liberty of spirits; and a Reply to Objection against Liberty
91 The Liberty of intelligent Beings in Harmony with the Doctrines of the Christian Religion
97 Refutation of the Idealists
114 Of true Happiness. Conversion of Sinners.
115 The true Foundation of Human Knowledge. Sources of Truth, and Classes of Information derived from it.
Letter 160 Method of Determining the Latitude, or the Elevation of the Pole
Letter 167 The Motion of Moon a fifth Method
Letter 168 Advantages of this Last Method: its Degree of Precision
Letter 139 The True Principle of Nature on which are founded all the Phenomena of Electricity (from Volume 2)
Letter 176 True Magnetic Direction; subtle Matter which produces the Magnetic Power
Letter 177 Nature of Magnetic Matter, and its rapid Current. Magnetic Canals
DOI: 10.1088/2053-2571/aae6d2
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Regional synthesis report
Tax designation countries
Countries without tax designation
Research commissioned by ERSTE Foundation to assess the impact of the percentage tax designation on civil society based on experience from Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Romania.
Assessment of the impact of the percentage tax designation concept and systems with recommendations for future policies
The percentage tax designation concept (sometimes referred to as tax assignation or percentage tax giving) emerged in the policy debate in the late 1990s and materialised first in Hungary (1996), later in Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania and Poland, as an innovative mechanism that channeled public funds in a decentralized way to public benefit purposes. Today, in each country it has a slightly different form, but the core principle is the same: it grants a right to a taxpayer to designate 1% or 2% of paid income tax to a non-profit, non-governmental organization or other type of public benefit entity or to a church.
Today, almost twenty years after the introduction of the mechanism in Hungary and 10 years after the latest and only comparative work, a need emerges on evaluating the mechanism towards its original ambition: to critically assess its value and its impact i.e. to evaluate the role of the mechanism in the support the civil society and in the development of philanthropic culture from a more longer-term perspective.
The lessons to be learnt from such effort could be instrumental and useful to policy makers, donors and civil society actors not only in the countries that currently use the mechanism, but also in other countries that look for innovative ways of public funding towards civil society or otherwise strengthening the civil society.
The project will produce a regional synthesis report on the percentage tax designation experience in the CEE region and offer its findings to interested public and research and policy community in early 2016.
The main focus of the research will be based on the findings from countries that have already multiple years of experience with the mechanism – Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. It will also tap into the experience of countries that considered the percentage tax designation mechanism but did not embrace it (e.g. Czech Republic, Estonia, Ukraine). The project will interact with policy experts from countries that show interest in implementing the system.
The Project will work with a local pool of experts utilizing the in-country knowledge to be applied to a cohesive work of a synthesized research report. A second phase of the project is under planning for an empirical research (funding dependent) and a third phase where policy development assistanse could be provided for interested countries (interest and funding dependent).
Commissioned by ERSTE Foundation, the Project is implemented by an international team of researchers under the coordination of Dr. Marianna Török and Mr. Boris Strečanský from the Center for Philanthropy in Bratislava.
The project is 12 months long (starting March 2015). Local project partners were identified by the end of March 2015 and asked to contribute to the work with their local expertise in the design and completion of the project.
The result of the work will be country reports in English and an assessment report in English with its summary translated into several languages. Dissemination of project results is planned to take place on the website of the project and presented as an open source material.
In addition, articles, public presentations and conference participation are also planned.
Marianna Török
Boris Strečanský,
percentagephilanthropy@gmail.com
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International Conference: Percentage Tax Designations: Past, Present, Future, 8. – 9. 9. 2016, Bratislava + PRESENTATIONS
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ASTM A148/A148M
Standard Specification for Steel Castings, High Strength, for Structural Purposes
Organization: ASTM
ICS Code (Iron and steel castings): 77.140.80
This specification covers carbon steel, alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A27/A27M.
Several grades of steel castings are covered, having the chemical composition and mechanical properties prescribed in Tables 1 and 2.
The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately as standard. The values stated in each system may not be exact equivalents; therefore, each system shall be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in nonconformance with the standard.
Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets.
This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
*A Summary of Changes section appears at the end of this standard
This specification covers carbon steel, alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A27/A27M....
This specification covers carbon steel and alloy steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A 27. Several grades (Note 1) of steel...
This specification covers carbon steel, alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A 27/A 27M....
(Footnote *) This specification covers carbon steel, alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification...
This specification covers carbon steel, alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification 27/A 27M....
1. Scope 1.1 This specification covers carbon steel and alloy steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A 27/A 27M. 1.2 Several grades...
This specification covers carbon steel and alloy steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A 27/ A 27M. Several grades of steel...
This specification covers carbon steel and alloy steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in Specification A 271 A 27M. Several grades (Note 1) of...
Standard Specification for HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL CASTINGS FOR STRUCTURAL PURPOSES
These specifications cover carbon-steel and alloy-steel castings that are to be subjected to higher mechanical stresses than those covered in the Specifications for Mild- to Medium-Strength...
ASTM A781/A781M - Standard Specification for Castings, Steel and Alloy, Common Requirements, for General Industrial Use
Published by ASTM on November 1, 2020
This specification covers a group of requirements that are mandatory requirements of the following steel casting specifications issued by ASTM. If the product specification specifies different...
ASTM A957/A957M - Standard Specification for Investment Castings, Steel and Alloy, Common Requirements, for General Industrial Use
Published by ASTM on July 1, 2020
This specification covers a group of requirements that are mandatory for castings produced by the investment casting process to meet the metallurgical requirements of the following steel casting...
ASTM A1067/A1067M - Standard Specification for Test Coupons for Steel Castings
This specification defines the geometries of several separately cast and integrally cast test coupons for use as specified in the applicable casting product or common requirements standard. This...
ASTM A27/A27M - Standard Specification for Steel Castings, Carbon, for General Application
Published by ASTM on May 1, 2020
This specification covers carbon steel castings for general applications that require up to 70 ksi (485 MPa) minimum tensile strength. NOTE 1—The grades covered by this specification represent...
ASTM A370 - Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
Published by ASTM on August 1, 2020
These test methods2 cover procedures and definitions for the mechanical testing of steels, stainless steels, and related alloys. The various mechanical tests herein described are used to determine...
CSA S37 - Antennas, towers, and antennasupporting structures
Published by CSA on January 1, 2018
General This Standard applies to structural antennas, towers, antenna-supporting structures, and roof- and wallmounted structures, including their components, such as guys and foundations. It covers...
ASME B31.3 - Process Piping
Published by ASME on January 1, 2018
Rules for the Process Piping Code Section B31.31 have been developed considering piping typically found in petroleum refineries; onshore and offshore petroleum and natural gas production facilities;...
UFGS-35 01 41.00 10 - ELECTROMECHANICAL OPERATING MACHINERY FOR LOCKS AND DAMS
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Sales Jobs will be the last to be replaced by AI/robots with ANDREW SILLITOE
by Stefan Aarnio | Mar 2, 2019
http://traffic.libsyn.com/respectthegrind/Andrew_Sillitoe.mp3
#89 Sales Jobs will be the last to be replaced by AI/robots with ANDREW SILLITOE.
Blending 20 years’ experience as an elite international sportsman and coach along with three published books and an acclaimed TED talk, Andrew’s innovative and straight-talking views on leadership, teamwork, and strategy has resulted in his advice and guidance being sought after by key figures at several FTSE 100 companies.
After competing in 11 Inline Hockey World Championships for Team GB, in 2010 he was offered the perfect platform on which to try out his innovative strategies – as Head Coach of Team GB. With Andrew at the helm, they won Gold and promotion into Pool A for the first time at the IIHF World Championships 9 months later.
These days, Andrew speaks to aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders all around the world, while Pfizer, Ericsson, Nationwide, Virgin Media and the BBC are among the global corporations who’ve turned to Andrew to empower its leaders to take full responsibility in their business, body, relationships and mindset. He does this with a plain English approach that molds together a range of techniques from his background in professional sport, business psychology and well being.
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Articles | Arts Picks: Visions From The Forests, The Art Of Liberia And Sierra Leone
Arts Picks: Visions From The Forests, The Art Of Liberia And Sierra Leone
At the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
By Tad Simons
Minneapolis native William Siegmann was the curator of African art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and a passionate collector himself. When he died in 2011, he donated a portion of his vast collection to the MIA, which has put together a show featuring 75 pieces from more than a dozen different ethnic groups, spanning 500 years of African history. Sept. 20-Feb. 8, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 612-642-2787, artsmia.org
See all stories by this author >
Tad Simons
Is Home Where the Office Is?
Will Covid-19 Kill Tipping?
Networked: July 2020
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Law | Best Buy Ordered to Pay $27M in Trade Secrets Case
Best Buy Ordered to Pay $27M in Trade Secrets Case
TechForward accused Best Buy of stealing its concept for a buy-back program; Best Buy said it “completely disagrees” with the size of the award in the case and plans to “vigorously challenge this verdict.”
California start-up TechForward, Inc., said Wednesday that it has been awarded $27 million in a trade secret case against Best Buy Company, Inc.
TechForward sued Best Buy in early 2011, accusing the Richfield-based electronics retailer of stealing its concept for a buy-back program and of backing out of a planned partnership.
TechForward claimed that it had developed a buy-back program called Guaranteed Buyback Plan, which was implemented at several companies, including Dell, RadioShack, and CompUSA. In 2008, it entered into a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement with Best Buy to develop a program to sell its Guaranteed Buyback Plan in select Best Buy stores, the company said.
TechForward said that Best Buy used its trade secrets to launch its own buyback program without TechForward. The company filed its lawsuit shortly after Best Buy launched the program, which allows customers to sell back electronic devices for Best Buy gift cards. (Best Buy announced the launch of the program with a Super Bowl commercial featuring Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne, TechForward said.)
Court documents filed last month indicate that a jury awarded TechForward $22 million in damages in the case. Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Otis Wright, II, signed an order awarding TechForward an additional $5 million in “exemplary damages,” stating that the jury found Best Buy’s actions to be “willful and malicious.”
“We completely disagree with the size of the award, given the facts of this case, and intend to vigorously challenge this verdict through all appropriate and available means,” Best Buy said in an emailed statement provided to Twin Cities Business.
Meanwhile, TechForward co-founders Jade Van Doren and Marc Lebovitz said in a statement that they “are extremely pleased that the jury recognized Best Buy’s misconduct, and we hope this verdict puts large companies on notice that there are real consequences to illegally exploiting startup businesses like ours.”
Earlier this year, TechForward sold its assets to SquareTrade, Inc., an independent warranty company.
Best Buy is Minnesota’s third-largest public company based on revenue, which totaled $50.7 billion for the fiscal year that ended in March. For the quarter that ended November 3, the company reported a net loss of $13 million, or 4 cents per share, from continuing operations, on revenue of $10.8 billion.
Fredrikson & Byron Leases 178,000 Square Feet at 60 South Sixth
Local Hotels Get Creative During a Holiday Season Without Travel
Great Northern Offers New Inspiration to Embrace Winter
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The White House To Hold Oil Spill Q&A On YouTube Tonight
Jason Kincaid @jasonkincaid / 11 years
Tonight at 8PM EST, President Obama will be holding a special press conference to discuss the ongoing Gulf oil spill crisis. The event will be broadcast on all major TV networks and live streamed on YouTube’s White House Channel, and will be followed by a special twist: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will be taking to YouTube to answer questions that have been submitted by the nation.
The White House has just embedded a Google Moderator form into its YouTube Channel, inviting users to submit their questions about the oil crisis. Through Moderator, you can vote up the best questions, and Gibbs will respond to them fifteen minutes after President Obama’s speech tonight ends.
This isn’t the first time the White House has turned to YouTube to more directly respond to the nation’s questions — in February it held a special interview with President Obama, where he was asked questions submitted by the YouTube audience.
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Original Cast Revived for First Left 4 Dead 2 Dlc
December 16th, 2009 by Alisha K.
The thing about zombies is that they’re kind of hard to get rid of, and it seems like the same is true of zombie-fighting survivors. The first DLC pack is already scheduled for Left 4 Dead 2, and the cast of the original – Bill, Louis, Zoey, and the everything-hating Francis – are set to make an appearance in the new campaign.
The new campaign, fittingly named “The Passing,” is described as the most important in all the games, as it’s the culmination of everyone’s struggle for survival. “The Passing will become the most important campaign in the Left 4 Dead story, as all the Survivors are being called together in one campaign,” said Valve’s Doug Lombardi. “It will also be a huge offering of new gameplay content, with something new for every game mode plus a new uncommon common and weaponry.”
Let’s hope the new guys are a little less creepy than the Mudmen. As for the new game modes, the most interesting addition is referred to as a new type of co-op challenge – survivors vs. survivors in a race to the safe room? Sign me up. Too bad you can’t mix and match. I’d take Coach and Francis any day, for hilarity’s sake.
“The Passing” is set for sometime in early 2010.
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I have to go write now.
The Baked Potato, Part 2: The Gulf Cartel
Posted on September 8, 2016 September 15, 2016 by shredbobted
The morning after Miguel told Cristina about Carlos and the heroina he woke up in their bed to find her staring at him in the dark. The baby lay quiet in his grandmother’s bassinet in the corner of the bedroom. It was early, with only a hint of the sunrise beginning to glow through the crack in the old counterpane (also his grandmother’s) which Cristina had cut into two parts and stitched into curtains to cover their bedroom window.
“Where did he get it?” Cristina asked in a soft voice, so as not to wake the baby. “Who gave it to him?” Miguel stiffened on his side of the bed. Cristina was wide awake. She had been awake for a long time. This was not going to be one of the mornings when she would giggle and tickle him until he took her in his arms. His wife was making plans.
“I don’t know,” Migueal answered. “I didn’t ask. He wouldn’t tell me anyway.”
“It doesn’t matter,” Cristina sighed. “They won’t let him go.”
“I know,” Miguel agreed. He stared hard at the ceiling.
“I think we should leave here,” Cristina told him.
Miguel felt his heart hammer in his chest. “What do you mean, leave here?” They had always lived in Matamoros. He had grown up in Matamoros, met Cristina in Matamoros, married her in the back yard of his grandmother’s house. His parents lived down the street. Her parents lived three blocks away.
“They won’t let us go, either,” Cristina told him.
“You don’t know that,” Miguel replied. Cristina did not answer him. She wrapped her hand around the gold cross hanging on her neck, and rolled over in the bed, so that she faced the bassinet standing on its folding legs in the corner.
Miguel asked, “Where would we go?” He knew that there was nowhere to hide from them in Tamaulipas, maybe nowhere to hide in all of Mexico.
“I am thinking of Gregorio,” Cristina answered.
Miguel bit his lip. “Gregorio? Your brother Gregorio, the one who lives in Reno, Nevada?”
“He will help us,” Cristina told her husband. She rolled back to face him, and he felt her put her arms around him. He hugged her back, and they lay together, holding on to one another, waiting for the rest of the morning to come through the crack in the curtain and wake the baby.
Together they decided that they would not pay for the services of a pollero. It was too dangerous. Instead Miguel suggested they contact a coyote, not as a guide, but to help expedite the process and tell them the steps they would need to take to cross forever from Tamaulipas to Texas. Cristina, who was wiser than he, and whose sole overriding purpose was the safety of her children, refused his plan. Her reasons were simple. The coyotes worked hand in hand with the cartels, and Cristina wanted, above all, to stay out of their grasp. Instead, she told Miguel that he must go to the immigration office and collect the necessary paperwork. They would take their time, as much as necessary. They would keep their plans to themselves, not telling their friends, not even telling their parents. They would save their money, and when they moved, they would cross the border legally, in their own vehicle, with no handlers to betray them.
So began a long year, in which Cristina’s nightly question to Miguel, once the children were asleep in their own bedroom, was “What have you done today to continue the plan?” The baby outgrew the bassinet and Miguel had to spend some of their savings to purchase a crib they would be unable to take with them.
One day they received a letter in the mail from Gregorio. It was a thick manila envelope. Inside was a short note wishing them good luck, and then “to help with your trip.” Miguel poured the envelope out on the table.
“Cristina, come look at this,” Miguel called. Inside the envelope were all sorts of plastic gift cards. Some were for gasoline. Some were for groceries. One was even for a restaurant. It said $100 on its plastic front.
“Do you see?” Cristina was laughing. “I told you Gregorio would help us. You must remember to call and activate all of these cards. Before we leave, not now. Make sure they all are bueno. Oh, Miguel, it’s going to happen! We’re going to escape, to start a new life!”
“Shh,” Miguel told her. “The children will hear you.”
Carlos visited often. Cristina did not welcome him, and did not let him hold the baby, but Miguel convinced her that shutting his brother out of their lives would only arouse the suspicions of those around them, and by association the suspicions of the other drug dealers. On his visits Laura and Raul were fascinated by Carlos’ new gold watch, and by his fancy stitched leather wallet. One evening he arrived wearing a beautiful pair of white ostrich-leather boots. After Carlos finished their meal of posole with pork and corn tortillas and left to go out for the evening, Laura, who wanted a new dress for school, asked her father, “Why does Uncle Carlos have so much money to buy nice things, when we have so little?”
Miguel felt his heart wrench. He couldn’t tell her about United States Customs and Immigration Services Form I-130 Petition for Alien Relative that Gregorio had to file through the Dallas Lockbox to try to get Cristina citizenship under F4-1 status, and that cost $420. He couldn’t tell her about USCIS Form I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker that Gregorio’s employer had to file, that cost $585, plus another $345 for EB-3 status that might within six to nine years grant Miguel a path to lawful permanent resident status as an “other worker” with no special skills but a willingness to do a job at a wage that no other US Citizen would be willing to accept. He couldn’t tell her about USCIS Form I-131 Application for Travel that they had to have to cross the border legally and drive in the United States, that cost $135 to file, or USCIS Form I-765 Application for Employment Authorization that cost $380. He couldn’t tell her about the pitiful few US dollars and the ZapTel prepaid telephone cards that he had stashed in the tequila box behind her mother’s wedding dress in the closet with the gift cards Gregorio had sent. He couldn’t tell her why he refused the cash that Carlos offered them every time his brother came for supper. He wanted to tell her how proud he was that he had just finished payment for her mother’s passport, and that when he had asked her for one of her school pictures it was for her own passport photo, not to keep in his threadbare wallet.
It was even harder to keep the secret as the time to leave approached, and they began to sell the possessions they could not take with them. When Miguel told Laura that a man was coming to take her bed and that she and Raul would have to sleep on the floor until they could buy another one, Laura finally exploded.
“Why can’t you get a good job like Uncle Carlos?” she yelled. “You always say that he is the foolish one, but I think it’s you who’s the foolish one. What am I supposed to tell my friends when they come over? It’s bad enough that I have to share a room with my brother. What am I supposed to say to them when they see that I sleep on a pallet on the floor? Why can’t you get a better job?” Laura burst into tears.
There was nothing Miguel could say. All he could do was stare down at the food on his plate.
“Laura,” Cristina snapped. “Come here right now.” She took Laura back to their bedroom while Raul sat stunned at the supper table, which was already sold and would be taken away the next day. When Laura came back she still had tear stains on her cheeks, but she was no longer angry with her father. Instead she threw her arms around him and hugged him as hard as she could, and whispered “Me’m siento papi” in his ear. Miguel patted her on the head and thought that maybe, just maybe it would be okay.
The next day it was not okay. The next day Carlos disappeared. The word came first from Miguel’s mother, calling him from home to see if he knew where his brother was.
Miguel asked, “Why would I know where he is?”
“He said that he had an important meeting yesterday. He seemed frightened,” Miguel’s mother told him. Miguel knew that she had her suspicions about what her other son was doing to earn money. It was hard not to have suspicions, with all the fancy clothes and the new car Carlos had purchased, a bright yellow Camaro.
“Don’t worry, Mama,” Miguel told her. “I’ll try to find him. I’m sure nothing has happened.” Miguel hung up the telephone, praying that the cartel would leave his parents alone. He called Cristina. “It’s time for us to have the garage sale,” he told her. “We must pack up the van.”
Cristina’s fingers flew to her mouth. “What’s happened?”
“Carlos is missing,” Miguel told her.
That day they pulled the children out of school. Cristina put their remaining possessions out on the lawn for the neighbors to poke through. Because it was a weekday there were few shoppers. “Get whatever you can,” Miguel told her. “We can’t take any of it with us.” He was busy packing the minivan, collecting their paperwork, calling to activate the gift cards. As they ate their hurried supper that night, Laura pointed with a shaking finger at the small left-behind television on the kitchen counter. It was showing the news. A news truck near General Servando Canales Airport panned its cameras across a freeway overpass. Miguel jumped across the table to switch off the television, but it was too late. They all saw the headless bodies dangling from the bridge. Most of them were barefoot, but one wore a single bloodied white ostrich leather boot.
“Get into the Windstar,” Miguel ordered. As he was fastening the baby into the carseat, he saw a figure running up the street towards their house, a tall, skinny man wearing embroidered jeans, a red silk snap-button shirt and a cowboy hat. Miguel backed out of the driveway so fast that the left rear bumper of the Windstar struck the bricked-in mailbox. He had to pull foward and adjust the wheel. Then they were off, driving towards the New Bridge in the dark.
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Schloss Neuschwanstein: Reliving The Dreams of Mad King Ludwig
Last weekend I made a trip of a lifetime – I visited the famous Schloss Neuschwanstein in Bavaria. If you’re even slightly interested in travel and have a Pinterest account, then you’ve probably seen it before – a gorgeous castle in the midst of the Alps, built for absolutely no strategic reason by Ludwig II – the penultimate king of Bavaria, a man with a soul of a poet, the Mad King who spent all the money he had on living a fairy-tale…
Unlike the common belief, Ludwig wasn’t the originator of the fantasy castles. His father was. Long before Ludwig started developing his obsession, Maximilian II built the Hohenschwangau Castle< in a tiny village of Hohenschwangau, near Füssen, located in southwestern Bavaria. There, in that huge castle, grew Ludwig, completely alone (if you don’t count his strict tutors and his younger brother Otto) and completely abandoned by his parents, who were so formal and cold with him that they often ignored or avoided their son, not knowing what to say to him. Ludwig’s childhood was indeed a tough one – he was constantly undernourished and never got any pocket money. Supposedly, that way he should have learned how to live his life in moderation. Ironically, however, by the end of his life he became super fat and spent all the money he had on architectural projects of ridiculous grandiosity. When Ludwig became king at the young age of 18, he was extremely anti-social. He hated crowds and he hated his royal duties that included lots of public speaking and lots of waving. He also hated Munich and he tried to avoid the city at all costs, preferring to spend all of his time in Hohenschwangau. And when you look at the place, you understand why.
Undoubtedly, the Bavarian countryside has some of the most stunning views you can ever imagine. The king loved travelling there and enjoyed chitchats with the local farmers, who absolutely adored him. Even now he is still remembered in Bavaria as “Unser Kini”, which means “our cherished king” in the Bavarian dialect. However, avoiding the royal duties didn’t earn him a solid reputation in the political arena, of course – the ministers were openly unsatisfied with Ludwig’s performance as a king and were terrified to see all the money disappearing on some stupid castles.
So when the ministers finally got fed up with all of this, they rebelled against Ludwig and announced him insane. But of course, Ludwig wasn’t mad, really – he was just an eccentric. It was, however, enough for the conspirators to create an official Medical Report, where they would describe how Ludwig liked walking under the rain (ludicrous!) or eating outside when it’s chilly (absurd!) – based on these things, the government announced Ludwig unable to rule.
So on June 12, 1886, the king was captivated and sent to the Berg Castle on Lake Starnberg, located in the south of Munich. There, on June 13, Ludwig was found dead in the shallow waters of the lake. That’s it. Nobody really knows anything about his death behind the fact that it happened in a very mysterious way. Even though it was officially stated that Ludwig had drowned himself, there was no water found in his lungs during the autopsy. So how exactly it happened still remains the secret up until these days.
Ludwig loved to repeat, “I wish to remain an eternal enigma to myself and to others”, and, as he lived his whole life in the world of fantasies, where the architectural magnificence, the royal glory and the purity of the country life somehow united in one, it’s certain to say that his dream is one of the few ones that actually came true.
Do you like castles and palaces, like me? Then you might like this:
Windsor Castle: On The Trail Of The British Monarchy
Charlottenburg Palace: A Day Break From Berlin… in Berlin
10 Cutest Small Towns In Germany
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Ratos de Porão (Portuguese for "Basement Rats") is a Brazilian crossover thrash band from São Paulo. They were formed in 1981, toured South America, North America, Asia and Europe and still continue to play today. Their core lineup of João Gordo on vocals and Jão on drums and later guitars has remained since virtually the band's beginning.
Lead singer João Benedan (better known as João Gordo) is a former well-known VJ on MTV Brasil and later worked at Rede Record in a comedy TV show called: "Legendários" (Portuguese for "Legendaries"). He now has a YouTube channel where he hosts a talk show and cooks vegan food, called Panelaço.
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LGBTQ+ In the City: Let Your Flag Fly
by Falynn Shaw
First off I would like to thank everyone who read the introduction to LGBTQ + In the City. Thank you to those of you who shared the online article as well, I’m very happy to say that I had really good feedback from the community!
For this article I wanted to do a profile piece. My goal is to bring awareness and to provide a brief look into the lives and stories of some of the different LGBTQ+ community in Niagara.
I spent the month of October interviewing some pretty amazing people in the community. I was fortunate enough to hear their stories and to have them share their experiences of being LGBTQ+
*The names have been changed as to keep it anonymous.
Raven, Gay Woman Age 37:
Raven didn’t realize she was a lesbian until she was high in school, approximately 10th or 11th grade. She admitted to the fact that she had been bullying a girl at her school who was out of the closet. She admitted to not understanding gay people and she had only heard negative things. As the bullying continued, she was soon sent a letter from the girl that she had been bullying. The letter stated that the girl believed that Raven didn’t have animosity towards her, but maybe a crush. Low and behold, she was right! The two girls corresponded back and forth and soon after that they started a relationship.
This was a positive thing, because it helped Raven realize who she was and feel very comfortable coming out as a lesbian. She was definitely one of the lucky ones as far as being accepted by her peers and family. Her father had a little trouble with it at first, she blames traditionalism and a lack of education for that situation. She was also fortunate to have an older brother and sister to help soften the blow to her family.
Overall, Raven was accepted, and there were times that people would comment on the fact that she was gay but that was the extent of it.
She has enjoyed life in Niagara and is building a life in the region with her soon-to-be wife!
Winston, Gay Man Age 28:
It wasn’t until 12th grade that he began dating guys, and he again felt the sting of both racism and homophobia. “So many misconceptions about black, gay men,” he remarked.
He had no male role model growing up, much less a gay black role model, which he claims made life a lot tougher.
However, by his mid-twenties he had discovered a place where he fit in; an LGBTQ+ community that was accepting of him regardless of his race. It was so different than anything he had ever experienced, a warm acceptance of all races, age-groups, genders and on top of that, an exciting drag queen culture! “The youth today only have social media and online dating, which does not allow for a genuine experience,” he says, “We need change!”
Victoria, Trans Woman Age 55:
Victoria started realizing at the age or 10 that she preferred playing with the toys for girls, and by age 13 she started developing more urges to be feminine. She would hide and wear women’s clothes sometimes, and she would even wear women’s clothes under her regular clothing. She always had lots of friends that were girls, rather enjoyed the activities that were usually the “girl” things to do. She grew up in a time where that was abnormal and unacceptable. She was dogged by the old adage “Girls played with girls and the boys stuck to the boys!”
By the time she was 19 she had married a woman and had a son, and comments “I have always and only been attracted to women.”
After several failed attempts to make the marriage work, they ended it.
She continued living as a man and hiding herself and her femininity. After a number of failed relationships, she finally had enough strength to start her transition to become who she felt she truly was!
Victoria continued to live as a man at first, and then came out to family, friends and coworkers about a year-and-a-half ago. She was supported by her friends and co-workers for the most part.
Sadly, there was some negative feedback. Some of her family here in Niagara Falls have been supportive as well, but other family not as much. This does not deter her from saying to others “Be true to yourself and be who you are!”
Gaige, Trans Man Age 37:
Gaige figured out his identity pretty early, and has known his whole life he was in the wrong body. It was about five years ago when he started talking to other transmen online. Apps like Instagram made that possible. It was easy for him to realize who he was and who he needed to become.
He started his journey with testerone injections in 2016 followed by Top surgery in October 2017. He has officially been living as a man for two years now, and is happier than he’s ever been.
Gaige says living in Niagara Falls as a trans person has been scary at times, and mainly he was afraid of the rejection and didn’t want to lose any friends. While transitioning, he was bullied and called names like “freak,” and people would tell him to “shave his face.” Also, they would comment on the fact that he still had breasts at that point.
I am happy to announce though that he does not suffer through the same hatred and bullying now that he is fully transitioned! That change occurred post- surgery, and he believes now that he looks like a man, people accept him more openly and they are actually curious to learn about the whole transition and journey.
Gaige’s message to readers is. “Don’t hide who you are, reach out for help and don’t be afraid to open up!
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Santana, Pansexual Age 24:
Santana’s mother always told her to accept and to love anyone no matter what the gender! Her Earth Mother also known as “godmother,” was the same way; she was gay and had a partner. From birth Santana was introduced to everything in a very positive way. She first realized in daycare that she liked girls, there was a pretty redhead with freckles. Santana would always give her cookies to her little crush, even at a young age she knew she liked this girl more than the others.
It wasn’t until she seen a movie called RoboCop 2 where she fell in love with the little gangster boy in the movie. “I had tingles!” she claims.
Around that time she had feelings for both girls and boys. At 12 she started dating a girl and the next year she dated a boy when she was 13. She also had a relationship with a female to male pre-transition trans boy, as well as a gay man.
She opened up and told me that she found that the women she dated left more of an emotional stain on her heart and dating men was a lot simpler.
She finds it difficult in Niagara trying to find like-minded individuals who are looking for a monogamous relationship. She finds many people she has tried to date are not up for anything serious they don’t want to work on things or put in the effort. She quotes a famous author to deliver her message: “In the end we are all just humans… Drunk on the idea that love, only love can heal our brokenness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eva, Bi-sexual woman Age 34:
Eva was born in Germany, but she is also Native and has been living in Canada for a long time now. By the time she was about 8 or 9 she had definitely realized she was attracted to girls, but when she started dating she mostly dated men at first. Her first relationship with a woman in 2003 the two became very serious, and she also had a two-year-old son at the time. She has always felt that she feels a stronger connection with women, they are more understanding and empathetic. Men had difficulty understanding things that she had been through in her past. Eva still finds both relationships equal but they are both different in their own ways!
When she was young she was bullied for noticing and commenting on women and she explained that her family knew before her and it was never an issue, thankfully.
She has had more serious relationships with women but could always change because at the moment she’s currently dating an amazing man. “The world is my oyster!””I love either gender!”
Being able to tell the stories of these individuals and to give everyone else some insight into our local lgbtq + community, it’s something I’m very thankful I get to do!
I really hope this article starts some conversations and open some minds.
Until next time readers, be kind to yourself!
LGBTQ+ Niagara St. Catharines
Falynn Shaw November 24, 2018
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Wow just wow Falynn! It is great to be able to read and compare stories as everyone has at least one thing in common which is at some point or another they have felt different and not what society wants you to be and now we can use those stories to educate and bring LGBTQ+ out of the darkness and into the light. I was raised straight and groomed to be with Disney movies and stories about princesses in crisis and the only way for them to live happily ever after was to meet a handsome prince and then everything would fall into its perfect place. Don’t miss out on true love because of the fear of being different. True love can be self-love. I am inspired keep up the good work, this is only the beginning and also thank you to those who have shared their stories and those who will continue to do so. xx My flag is flying.
Jane Dane says:
Absolutely awful article. Sounds like it is written by someone who isn’t quite in touch with reality.
Hey Jane Dane. What’s so awful about this article? And what is the reality that should have been discussed in this piece?
The writer says:
I’m very in touch with reality! ❤️ ❤️
Leslie Fink says:
The grammar and overall flow of the article are what makes this article damaging.
Have read better articles on the LGBTQ+ community by allies. It’s hard to believe that a memeber of this community could write such an awful article and label it as inspiring.
We are working on all of that! Thanks for your feedback! Happy new year I hope you keep. Ready to see us improve!
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Composer, Producer and Guitarist Spencer Rabin Announces “Apollo II” Album
Young musician delivers a vibrant musical experience of hip hop, r&b and pop
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 17, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Chicago native Spencer Rabin has announced the debut of his new album “Apollo II.” The 9-track album is the emerging musician’s sophomore release and consists of multiple genres including hip hop, r&b and pop. An harmonious and lyrical assortment of music.
The follow up to his 2016 album titled “Apollo” – a rock infused project birthed by his then creative journey, Rabin’s new effort highlights his effortless emergence into a new set of genres, solidifying his all-around ability to create and produce with different sounds. “Apollo II” is now available on Spotify.
“I wanted to do something different – I wanted to get out of my comfort zone,” says Rabin. “I felt that doing so would help me grow creatively and musically.”
Arranged and composed by Rabin, “Apollo II” features a superb collective of popular artists and vocalists including Hi-Rez, Emilio Rojas, Jj Evans, Rexx Life Raj, City Fidelia & Merty Shango, Joey Diggs, Jr., Thomas Daniel and Quincey White. Influenced by musicians such as Joe Bonamassa, Zakk Wylde and Jimi Hendrix, Rabin’s musical talents shine throughout the album from start to finish. Evol Alexander, former emcee of the 90’s group “The B.U.M.S.” and vocalist on the album’s flagship song “Work!” inspired Rabin to step out of his comfort zone.
Playing his first major gig at the House of Blues in Chicago at the age of eight, the young musician found his calling. At age twelve he wrote, recorded, and released his debut single, “Hazy.” Despite his young age, he was able to achieve these impressive accolades through his impeccable work ethic and his unstoppable desire to do what he loved; make music.
About Spencer Rabin
Spencer Rabin is a composer/producer/guitarist from Chicago Illinois. A lifelong student of music, Spencer started playing the guitar at the age of four. At age eight, Spencer played his first major gig at the House of Blues in Chicago. His first single, “Hazy” was released when he was twelve. In 2016, at the age of seventeen, Spencer released his album, “Apollo” featuring his unique, lightning fast, melodic, Rock/Blues sound. His current album, “Apollo II” highlights Spencer’s musical versatility as he veers into pop and hip hop.
Official Website: www.spencerrabinmusic.com
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Home / Collections / Decorative objects / Ardmore flamingo with frog bowl
Ardmore Ceramic Art
Ardmore flamingo with frog bowl
A highly decorative flamingo and frog bowl with a small frogs on the lid. Hand crafted and painted by one of the collective artists at Ardmore in South Africa.
Height 22 cm x Width 22 cm x Depth 23 cm
Because of the value and fragility of this set we ask that prospective buyers contact The Wunderkammer via info@thewunderkammer.eu to discuss freighting or collection.
About Ardmore:
Ardmore Ceramic Art was established by Fée Halsted on Ardmore Farm in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal, where she lived after obtaining her BA (Fine Arts) Honours degree and lecturing at Natal Technikon. Here she met Bonnie Ntshalintshali, daughter of their housekeeper, whose polio meant that she was unable to work in the fields. Fée and Bonnie quickly developed a synergy and under Fée's mentorship, Bonnie's natural skills as an artist blossomed. Five years later, in 1990, Fée and Bonnie were jointly awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award, the first such artistic partnership to be recognised. With this success came the demands of creating ceramics for their exhibition, so Fée offered other local women the opportunity to train at Ardmore, producing pieces to generate income for the fledgling studio.
In 1996, Fée and her family moved to Springvale Farm in Rosetta in the KZN Midlands, allowing the artists at the Berg Studio in the Champagne Valley to explore their independence. At Springvale she established a smaller studio and gallery, and in 2003, the Bonnie Ntshalintshali Museum was created to honour Fée's co-artist and friend after her tragic death from HIV/AIDS in 1999.
Ardmore's 25th anniversary in 2010 saw the launch of Ardmore Design Collection, which translated Ardmore's distinctive imagery and styling into functional, superb quality ceramic and non-ceramic products including dinnerware, tapestries, furniture, fabrics for soft furnishings, and more.
The artists from the Ardmore studio are given training, direction, materials, a studio and a guaranteed market for their work, supported by a skilled marketing and administrative team. Over the years, Ardmore's artists have won numerous awards and exhibited widely in South Africa and around the world. Ardmore artworks feature in leading galleries and collections, including the Museum of Art & Design in New York, the Museum of Cultures in Basel, Switzerland, and the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The acclaimed auction house Christie's has acknowledged Ardmore artworks as "modern day collectibles".
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An ongoing research project of the Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch
The York Report
1851 Map of Toronto
Why is Dundas Street so crooked?
Park Lots 1 & 2
Park Lot 3
The Horticultural Gardens
Park Lots 9 & 10
The Macaulay Family of York
Macaulaytown Residents
Park Lot 11
King’s College University
Park Lots 14, 15 & 16
Surgeon David Burns
The Chewetts and the Rossin House Hotel
Township Lots 33 & 34
Joseph Dainty
Township Lot 35
Township Lots 39, 40 & 41
by Jane E. MacNamara
Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe about 1796 (McCord Museum M966.136)
The story of Toronto’s Park Lots—and Simcoe’s Gentry—begins in 1793, when the area along the Lake Ontario shoreline, just west of the Don River, was surveyed as the Town of York—the new capital of Upper Canada. However advantageous this new location may have looked to military strategists—with its defensible natural harbour protected by a peninsula—to the government officials expected to move there, it looked like another frontier.
Many of these officials were settled—rather comfortably, considering the conditions—in communities like Newark or Kingston, where they had been since as early as 1791 when Quebec had been divided into Upper and Lower Canada. Those who had been evacuated from the United States after the American Revolutionary War—whether as disbanded British troops or as Loyalists—had perhaps resettled first in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. If they had become involved in government, they may have moved on to Quebec. Once resettled, again, in Upper Canada, many were understandably reluctant to move on to York.
So John Graves Simcoe, the newly-appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, provided an incentive that was an ingenious blend of old and new worlds. He used a commodity plentiful in the new world—land. But he had a portion of that land surveyed into “parks”—modest estates suitable for a gentleman’s elegant home, advantageously situated with a view of the harbour—a very “old world” concept.
A typical Park Lot—ten times as deep as it was wide to allow every Park Lot owner to have frontage on Lot Street and proximity to the Town of York and Lake Ontario
These 100-acre “Park Lots” were located just north of the town. They had narrow frontages (660 feet) on Lot Street (today’s Queen Street), to allow all owners access to the town and harbour. The lots were ten times as deep (6,600 feet) as they were wide and extended north to today’s Bloor Street. There were 32 Park Lots running from the Don River, west to about today’s Lansdowne Avenue. From there, west to the Humber River, the land was divided into nine “Township” lots, following the pattern of the Park Lots, but double the width. They were 200 acres each, more or less, as the contours of Lake Ontario and the Humber River would allow. The Park Lots closest to the Town of York were the most desirable, and the status of the persons to whom they were granted reflected this.
Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe had a mandate to encourage the development of a class of citizenry that was sufficiently educated—and well bred—to help govern the province. With the Park Lots, Simcoe attempted to create this new gentry. First he gave them titles, a little power—and then prestigious estates.
A Park Lot was just a small part of the land acquired by these hand-picked settlers. Most of the Park Lot grantees were also given a lot in the Town of York—“front” lots, those closest to the lake were the most valued. And virtually all of the Park Lot owners were granted much more Crown land—hundreds, if not thousands of acres, commensurate with their positions and previous military or civil service.
But Toronto’s Park Lots were very exclusive. An explanation of the way most land in Upper Canada was distributed during this period will demonstrate how different the Park Lots were.
A person desiring land requested a grant from the representative of the Crown—the Lieutenant-Governor, or the Executive Council—by sending a “petition”. The petition stated the reasons why the petitioner felt he was worthy of a grant, and may have specified a desired acreage and/or location. The Executive Council would hear and rule on a number of petitions at each of its sessions. As the demand for land—and the work load—grew, the Council set up a Land Board to examine the petitions and make recommendations for the Executive Council’s approval. Once a grant was approved by an “Order-in-Council”, a “warrant” was issued for a specific amount of land, sometimes stating a township or even a particular piece of property. The warrant was presented to the Surveyor-General or his representative, who assigned a property, if not specified in the warrant. The Surveyor-General’s office collected any survey fees due, and issued a “location ticket”. The grantee then had to get to his land and perform “settlement duties” within a certain number of years. Settlement duties, which varied through time, included the clearing of land, the construction of a house of a certain size and maintaining part of a common roadway. Once these duties had been performed and inspected, a “Patent”, giving title to the land, could be issued.
In contrast to the “standard” procedure described above, the Park Lot grantees may have skipped a few steps. Twenty-four of the Park Lots were assigned by the Executive Council on September 4, 1793, in response to petitions, many of which had been written the same day or just a few days before. It seems likely that they were told to request the land. Most of the grantees didn’t move to York until compelled to in 1796—which would have made it difficult to undertake standard settlement duties. And when they finally did take possession of their land—without paying survey fees—most received Patents within a few months.
The Land Board’s “York Report” commissioned by Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe in 1796 shows the state of York’s development to that date. Most of the Park Lots had already been granted—but Park Lot 9 was allocated to a Church of England “Incumbent”, Park Lot 12 to a “Judge not yet appointed”, and Park Lot 26 to a “Solicitor General”.
The York Report addressed Simcoe’s concerns that a viable town develop at York—not merely a governmental outpost where speculators held most of the land. He wanted real settlers on Yonge Street, and required that houses of a certain size be built on the town lots. The right of the grantee to his property could, and occasionally was, revoked for failure to comply with the regulations.
The York Report also revealed and rectified some of the problems that had cropped up in a land-granting system that the government had been re-inventing as it went along. This is particularly evident in a careful analysis of the Park Lots. The York Report recommended that Park Lots 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 20, 23 and 26 be allocated to different owners. (They had probably already been traded amongst the grantees.) The grantees for Park Lots 5, 11, 12 and 23 were not yet resident, and the grantees for Park Lots 27 and Township lot 33 had died.
The pages of this web site will demonstrate how each of the early owners of the Park Lots responded to the challenge of building the new community. But there were, and still are, some long-lasting effects of the Park Lot scheme itself.
Each of the Park Lot owners was free to lay out streets and sell lots in any configuration. Their east-west streets did not have to line up with the next owner’s east-west streets—and frequently did not. Even today, there are few east-west streets that run more than a few blocks through the Park Lots, and those that do—College, Carlton, Gerrard and Dundas—are far from straight. Today’s Dundas Street, the longest east-west thoroughfare, was cobbled together in about 1920 from no less than six streets that had known at least 10 different names.[1]
When they subdivided their properties, many Park Lot owners held a portion of their lot in reserve, usually to the north. These sizeable acreages, were then available for public buildings when the city expanded. For example the north halves of Park Lots 9 and 10, controlled by the Elmsley family, became home to St. Basil’s Roman Catholic Church, St. Joseph’s Convent, and St. Michael’s College. Most notably, the north halves of Park Lots 11, 12 and 13, were set aside as “Queen’s Park” and today are the sites of the Legislature of Ontario and much of the University of Toronto.
And finally, Toronto owes some of its remarkable north-south avenues to the Park Lot layout and the early owners—particularly Parliament, Sherbourne and Jarvis streets, University Avenue, Queen’s Park Circle, Spadina Avenue, and Bathurst Street.
[1] MacNamara, Jane. “Why is Dundas Street so crooked?” in Toronto Tree, vol. 28, issue 3. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, 1997. p 28.
Above: This detail of the patent plan of York Township shows the narrow 100-acre Park Lots stretching between today's Queen Street and Bloor Street. A patent plan was an important working document in the surveyor's office showing the land ownership. Perhaps as early as 1796, this plan certainly dates from prior to 1834 when the Town of York changed to the City of Toronto. (Patent Plans, “York Township”, [178?]-[ca. 1978], Archives of Ontario, RG 1-100)
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Why America Should Recall the Vietnam War When Choosing its Next President
Rachel Marsden
PARIS -- Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have opposed the Vietnam War in her youth, but her background should give serious pause to voters seeking to avoid another Vietnam.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wants America out of the Middle East for essentially the same reason that John F. Kennedy wanted America out of Vietnam: In the long run, military intervention is a lost cause.
According to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's memoir, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam," Kennedy had decided on Oct. 2, 1963, the month before he was assassinated, to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. Kennedy's exit strategy was effectively buried with him.
"I don't think that unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support that the war can be won out there," Kennedy told newsman Walter Cronkite on Sept. 2, 1963. "In the final analysis, it is (Vietnam's) war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it."
In Syria these days, there aren't many willing fighters left to take on the Islamic State. Most of them have flooded into Europe, thanks to the sort of lax immigration policies favored by Clinton and the world leader she claims to admire most, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Persian Gulf regimes -- Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait -- that funded the rebels who ultimately formed the Islamic State have also managed to spare millions of dollars for the Clinton Foundation. These generous donors want Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime to fall.
Would Kennedy have been so keen to get troops out of Vietnam if he had a family foundation that was receiving donations from South Korea, Laos, Thailand and other Asian countries that were supporting South Vietnam?
Donald Trump pinned responsibility for the Islamic State on Clinton during their final presidential debate on Sunday.
"She gave us ISIS because her and Obama created this small vacuum," Trump said. "She gave us ISIS as sure as you are sitting there. And what happened is now ISIS is in 32 countries. And now I listen how she is going to get rid of ISIS. She is going to get rid of nobody."
Is Clinton is a war hawk? It's an interesting question. Was Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, a war hawk? Well, he wasn't widely considered one, yet the Vietnam War still raged when he left the White House in 1969. The false flag incident in the Gulf of Tonkin took place under LBJ's watch, and it was used to sell an escalation of the war to Congress.
In early August of 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox reportedly exchanged fire with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in two separate incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin. Johnson announced the attack in a nationally televised speech and requested authority to launch a counterattack. In 2005, the declassification of National Security Agency documents revealed that intelligence reports about the incident had been distorted. McNamara has said that the second incident never took place.
Clinton is effectively beating the war drums by blaming Russia (the key power backing the Assad regime in Syria) for a series of embarrassing email leaks.
During Sunday's debate, Clinton bristled in response to a question from moderator Chris Wallace about a WikiLeaks revelation that in a speech to a Brazilian bank, she said her "dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders."
"But you are very clearly quoting from WikiLeaks," Clinton said, "and what's really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions, then they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the internet."
It took more than 40 years to confirm that at least part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident was fabricated. Are you willing to wait 40 years to find out whether things said during a Clinton presidency were meant to rally public support for prolonged military intervention?
It was only after Republican Richard Nixon entered the Oval Office that the Vietnam War ended with the Communists capturing Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and reuniting the country. The Communist Party of Vietnam still rules, but the world has left Vietnam with no other choice but to participate in a global capitalist market, because the Soviet Union no longer exists and Russia isn't communist. Vietnam has become a hub for outsourced consumer technology manufacturing, with the U.S. and China its largest import and export partners, respectively. Vietnam has been brought into the fold through global economics and regional free trade agreements.
This is the sort of result we might see more of with a dealmaker businessman such as Trump handling U.S. foreign policy, rather than someone who has an incentive to prolong an expensive and unnecessary conflict.
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The American Art of Renewal
Jobs and Economy
"Make America Great Again" is the oft-caricatured slogan of the Donald Trump presidency. When Trump was elected, he boasted of jump-starting the economy to achieve an annual economic growth rate of 4 percent.
Experts laughed him off as a naif who did not understand that structural changes in demography and technology made such growth impossible. Many economists predicted that Trump would crash the stock and job markets.
Yet less than two years into Trump's presidency, the economy achieved 4 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018. Unemployment rates are at near-record lows. The stock market and oil and gas production are reaching unprecedented heights.
Such radical turnarounds have been common in U.S. history. As the ancient Athenian historian Thucydides noted, large democracies are by nature volatile, they can mobilize quickly, and they can change on a dime -- sometimes in the right direction.
In late 1983, Ronald Reagan was being written off as a practitioner of voodoo economics. The country was still mired in a recession caused by Reagan's efforts to break runaway inflation.
In the 1982 midterm elections, Republicans lost 27 seats in the House and one in the Senate. The man likely to be Reagan's Democratic rival two years later, Walter Mondale, was considered a good bet to win the presidency, given his youthful vigor, his prior service as vice president and his incorruptibility.
Yet in the 12 months from November 1983 to the 1984 election, the economy grew at an astonishing quarterly rate of better than 7 percent. Unemployment dropped. Almost every economic indicator showed an unprecedented boom.
Mondale went down to defeat in one of the largest Electoral College landslides in U.S. history, largely because the economy had been reinvented almost overnight from a bust to a boom.
In 1940, Depression-era America was recovering from yet another downturn. The New Deal had not restored prosperity after the 1929 crash. Europe was largely under the control of Nazi Germany. Only the United Kingdom was left of the European democracies that had fought Hitler. The Soviet Union was aiding Hitler. Imperial Japan was preparing to gobble up most of the Pacific, especially orphaned European colonies rich in oil, rubber, agriculture and precious metals.
The United Sates was torn apart politically between isolationists and interventionists. Fights broke out in Congress over whether the country could afford to rearm. The U.S. Army was smaller than Portugal's. In almost every area of armament, America was far behind the armed forces of the Axis powers.
Then the world again flipped upside down. After Pearl Harbor, the United States engineered the greatest economic expansion in history. Within four years, the U.S. economy was greater than that of all its enemies and allies put together.
The U.S. Navy had become larger than all the navies of the world combined by 1944. A once virtually unarmed America now had more military aircraft than Germany, Italy and Japan combined.
A war that in early 1942 looked like it might either go on for years or end in an Axis victory was over less than four years after the U.S. entered the conflict. The Axis powers were not so much defeated as ruined.
World War II was not the first instance of a rapid American turnaround in wartime. In the summer of 1864, pessimists warned that the North could not win the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln faced opposition for the Republican Party nomination, and even if he earned it, he was considered likely to lose the November election to Union General George McClellan.
General Grant's Army of the Potomac was being bled white in Virginia in vain attempts to dislodge Robert E. Lee's defenders from their entrenchments around the Confederate capital of Richmond. Gruesome encounters such as the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Battle of the Wilderness had given the depressed Northern public nightmares.
Then, suddenly, fantasy became reality. The maverick Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman unexpectedly took Atlanta on Sept. 2, 1864. Euphoria swept the North. McClellan's sure-thing candidacy crashed.
The mercurial Sherman then headed off with his huge army on the famous "March to the Sea" through Georgia. He next plowed through the Carolinas to the rear of Lee's army in Virginia.
In less than nine months the entire Confederate cause collapsed. The supposedly endless Civil War ended with a sudden and absolute Union victory that no one had foreseen.
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Home Comedians The 20 Richest Comedians in the World 2020
The 20 Richest Comedians in the World 2020
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20. Beam Romano
19. Rowan Atkinson
18. Sacha Baron Cohen
17. Dan Aykroyd
16. Steve Harvey
15. Bill Murray
14. Kevin Hart
13. Jim Carrey
12. Drew Carey
11. Seth MacFarlane
10. Jay Leno
9. David Letterman
8. Byron Allen
7. Bill Cosby
6. Larry David
5. Ellen DeGeneres
4. Matt Stone
3. Three pointer Parker
2. Matt Groening
1. Jerry Seinfeld
Who are the most extravagant joke artists in the world?
Regarding the satire business, the most well-known joke artists are worth the more significant part a billion dollars! We’ve chosen to incorporate the elite of the 20 most extravagant entertainers worldwide, alongside their present net worth and a short bio.
Before you keep pursuing this article, would you be able to think about who will show up on the list?
The Top 20 Richest Comedians in the World
The following are the 20 most extravagant entertainers ever, starting in 2020. We’ve utilized figures from Celebrity Net Worth, Forbes, and The Richest to make this list.
Net Worth: $130 Million
Beam Romano is an American actor and humorist that we generally know from the TV program ‘Everyone Loves Raymond’. He has likewise set the voice as one of the fundamental characters for the ‘Ice Age’ establishment.
Romano is known as one of the best humorists globally, and starting in 2020, Ray Romano’s net Worth is generally $130 Million.
Rowan Atkinson is a British actor and entertainer that put his name on the map when he was featured in ‘Mr. Bean’ and ‘Johnny English.’ His exhibition in the movies caused his fortune to be gigantic with a pay of over $618 million in the cinematic world.
Today, Rowan Atkinson’s net Worth is $130 million, which positions him on the list in the nineteenth.
Sacha Baron Cohen is a British author, actor, and jokester. The most outstanding jobs that he has featured are Ali G, Borat, Bruno, and General Aladeen. These jobs he composed without anyone else.
Starting in 2020, Sacha Baron Cohen’s net Worth is assessed to be $130 million, positioned as No. 18 on this most extravagant comics list.
Dan Aykroyd has consistently been famous for his various aptitudes as a humorist and as an honor winning actor all through his vocation. We generally know him from his work on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ He has likewise been celebrated for his functions in the film ‘Apparition Busters’ and ‘My Girl.’
Today, Dan Aykroyd’s net Worth is generally $135 million, making him probably the most extravagant joke artist ever.
Steve Harvey is an American creator, actor, and joke artist. Harvey is viewed as one of the most compelling characters in the film. He is generally famous for his acting profession, where he featured in a TV parody arrangement ‘The Steve Harvey Show.’
Steve Harvey has developed an inconceivable net worth assessed to be $140 Million from that point forward. He is positioned at sixteenth on the list.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by BabiradPicture/REX/Shutterstock (7430062a) Bill Murray GQ Men of the Year Awards, Berlin, Germany – 10 Nov 2016
Bill Murray is a fruitful entertainer and actor from Wilmette, Illinois. Murray came into the spotlight through NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live.’ From that point forward, we additionally know him from movies, for example, ‘Apparition Busters,’ ‘Groundhog Day,’ and ‘Caddyshack.’
Today, Bill Murray is positioned as number 15 on the list of the most extravagant humorists globally. Starting in 2020, Bill Murray’s net Worth is around $140 million.
Kevin Hart is the 21’s century “Parody King.” This actor and humorist made his fortune from his practical parody vocation. Hart is generally known for his appearances in ‘I’m a Grown Little Man’ and ‘Genuinely Funny.’
Today Hart is the fourteenth most extravagant humorist in the world. Starting in 2020, Kevin Hart’s net Worth is assessed to be generally $150 Million.
“The day you quit doing the little things is the day you believe you’re above every other person.” – Kevin Hart.
Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comic, and maker. Carrey has gotten numerous honors and designations all through his fruitful vocation as an actor and jokester. He has featured motion pictures, for example, ‘Pro Ventura’ and ‘The Mask.’
Today he is portrayed as perhaps the most outstanding star in Hollywood. Starting in 2020, Jim Carrey’s net Worth is roughly $150 million.
Drew Carey is an American actor, humorist, and TV host known for his show ‘The Drew Carey Show.’ Carey is at present the host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ He has fabricated a staggering net Worth all through his vocation.
Today Drew Carey’s net worth is $165 million, making him the twelfth most extravagant entertainer in the world.
Seth MacFarlane is an American voice actor, humorist, and illustrator.
MacFarlane is known for the fruitful animated show ‘The Family Guy’ that has broadcasted on TV from 1999 to 2003 and from 2005 to the present. His work on Family Guy has given him a few honors all through his vocation.
Today Seth MacFarlane has a net worth of $250 million, making him the eleventh most extravagant comic on the most extravagant list.
JAY LENO’S GARAGE — Season 5 — Pictured: Jay Leno — (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/CNBC)
Jay Leno is a notable TV host and comic that has worked with a portion of the world’s well-known stars. He is generally well known for his work from ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ on NBC that has pulled in a group of people over 4 million individuals. That made Leno one of America’s most mainstream TV-has.
Today Jay Leno’s net Worth is generally $350 Million, making him the tenth most extravagant humorist in the world.
David Letterman is an American TV host, comic, author, and maker. Letterman facilitated different late-night TV syndicated programs all through a long 33-year profession.
Today, David Letterman is worth an incredible $400 million, making him probably the most extravagant comic in the world.
Byron Allen is an American jokester, TV maker, and the author, proprietor, and CEO of the TV creation organization Entertainment Studios, situated in the United States.
Allen is worth $400 million, making him the eighth most extravagant jokester in the world.
Bill Cosby is an American creator, humorist, and actor. Cosby is generally known for his work ‘Cosby Kids,’ ‘The Cosby Show’ and ‘The Bill Cosby Show.’ He has won a few honors for his staggering exhibition in films and network shows.
Starting in 2020, Bill Cosby’s net Worth is $400 million.
Larry David is an American author, actor, maker, and comic from Brooklyn, New York. He is the second most extravagant joke artist in the world. David’s most famous work is as the head essayist and chief maker of ‘Seinfeld,’ which he co-made close to the primary character Jerry Seinfeld.
Today Larry David’s net Worth is assessed to be generally $400 million.
Ellen DeGeneres is an American jokester, TV host, entertainer, and essayist. Ellen is the host of The Ellen Show and has had significant accomplishments as a jokester.
Starting in 2020, Ellen Degeneres’ net Worth is $450 million.
“Now and again you can’t see yourself unmistakably until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” – Ellen DeGeneres.
Matt Stone is an American illustrator, voice craftsman, and joke artist known for co-making the questionable and humorous animation ‘South Park.’ The show immediately got one of Comedy Central’s most well-known plays.
Today Stone is positioned as number 4 as perhaps the most extravagant entertainer in the world. Matt Stone’s net Worth is around $500 million.
Three-pointers Parker is an American comic, voice craftsman, chief, and maker. He is most famous as the co-maker of ‘South Park’ close to his closest companion Matt Stone. Parker has won four Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award for his work.
Today Trey Parker’s net Worth is roughly $500 Million.
Matt Groening is an American comic and illustrator who made the well-known worldwide arrangement ‘The Simpsons.’ His incredible achievement had prompted him to be the second most extravagant joke artist in the world.
Starting in 2020, Matt Groening’s net Worth is $500 million.
Jerry Seinfeld is viewed as the “Lord of Comedy”. Seinfeld co-made along with Larry David the TV arrangement ‘Seinfeld,’ which has increased a colossal accomplishment since it was previously broadcasted on TV. He has featured in a few shows from that point forward, including ‘Frankie on Benson’ and ‘The Tonight Show.’
Notwithstanding, today, he’s become the most extravagant jokester in the world. What’s more, at age 64, Jerry Seinfeld’s net Worth is assessed to be $950 million.
Here’s a quick recap of the best 20 most extravagant entertainers in the world:
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Larry David
Drew Carey
Beam Romano
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Out of the gutter they returned.
October 1, 2017 ~ Koyote the Blind
I liked going to the patio of our house in Zacamil, in San Salvador. It was a small square open patio with a pile of water for washing clothes and dishes. In the center of the patio, there was a rain water drain. This was a time when puberty was announcing itself. I liked going back there to burn things. Fascinated by fire, I liked burning paper, wood, and plastic. I liked seeing the fire and how it changed everything into its essential components, ashes, smoke, heat, and colors. I burned things over the water drain, because it was safe there; but also because the burning material would drip into the gutter and make the hissing noise. One day, I got into burning plastic things, because the plastic would drip slowly, announcing it’s descent with a particular petroleum smell and fall as a fire bundle into the rain water of the gutter, and the colors it emited as it fell transformed itself into the most peculiar hissing sound. The plastic would then take unpredictable shapes with strange colors as it cooled down and became hard and ashy black.
One day, I was telling a friend about this, and wondered aloud where these remnants of my fire went. He told me he knew. Braulio told me that just a couple of kilometers from where we were, walking towards the right of the volcano’s skirt, the Boquerón, was a secret entrance to a tunnel. He claimed that this tunnel went on for a very long time, but eventually was united with other tunnels and all the water drains of the city eventually came to this underground labyrinth.
I asked him to take me there, and he did. Behind the rocks under a hill there was an unattended and unkept square stone, which easily removed revealed the rusty hand rails and the stairs leading down to a dark and damp tunnel. We descended, and walked for a little while, just enough for the light of day to still offer a little visibility. After the first turn, however, some shuffling of feet—rodent perhaps, startled us. It could have been the dripping of water, too. No matter. The fact is that in our minds the sound were the steps of boots. Before we could question whether the steps were vermin or human, natural or otherworldly, we were already running back up to the light of day, and ran more to the safety of asphalt and brick.
Thirteen years later, in 1989, shortly before the first light of the sun fell on the rooftops of the poor barrios of Zacamil and Mexicanos, the greatest number of guerrillas to ever invade the capital city of El Salvador were crawling out of the gutters in the patios of the houses of sympathizers and activists. All over the low income areas of the city of San Salvador, the muchachos, the term given to those fighting for the revolution, initiated the last attempt of an insurrection. The experts in Washington were convinced that the guerrilla was decimated, weak, and in its final throes after twelve years of pouring resources, training, and logistical support to the tune of one million dollars a day in military aid to the repressive and cruel government of El Salvador to suppress the revolution.
Some guerrilla units took position in various points of the lower class areas, while other units took over mansions, hotels, and buildings of the Escalon, the area where the rich live and work. Quite predictably, the guerrillas entrenched in the rich areas were able to hold their positions for days, since the army had to proceed with caution lest a stray bullet caused harm to someone with a well known last name or the property of a powerful family. The poor, however, saw tanks and military aircraft bombing the areas infested with guerrillas and poor people without rich names or influence. They dropped bombs in aleatory fashion all over them, destroying many houses. Most families hid under furniture and rubble, forts of mattresses, refrigerators and debris; waiting for the sound of bombs and bullets to end, for respite or death. I spoke to as many friends and family as I could, impotent and with no light sense of guilt I heard their accounts of terror under the bombing, the uncertainty, the resignation to prayer and the “let it be what God wills” of the gentle unarmed.
Others were ready to fight, and taking up arms joined the guerrillas in a last hope for change. Tania, my dear Tania, was among the units fighting. She had gone to the jungle, to join the revolutionary army just a few month before the insurrection. Maybe she was part of the small units that marched under the earth, through tunnels built over the years that led to the rain gutters all over the city; an underground interconnected series of tunnels that took the muchachos from the hill of Guazapa where the guerrillas had one of the strongest strongholds. They marched at night and emerged from everywhere, silent and hidden like the unexpected and recondite workers of change, like the fluttering of the wings of a butterfly whose ripples unite with other insignificant and hidden ripples to cause a hurricane on the other side of the world.
Out of the gutter came back the fire I had sent away 13 years before, bringing back the colors and smells, the heat and the fervor now grown from fleeting impressions into full dreams of a new and glorious new world.
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fireoso says:
We are those of the underground. The seed, made fertile by the blood of the people. The resistance that has lived through this long night of 500 years. We are here. Awake. Armed with the Teachings. Unstoppable.
Koyote the Blind says:
Yes! That we are.
Aho!
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The Truth About Gentrification: The Panel
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz
The crowd gathered featured a diverse group of Milwaukee residents. (Photo by Ana Martinez-Ortiz)
What does gentrification really mean? This was the first question posed to a group of panelists during the discussion, The Truth About Gentrification, on Wednesday, Oct. 23.
A quick Google search defines gentrification as the following, “the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste.” While that may be the definition, gentrification can be interpreted many ways, and as the panelists pointed out it has both negative and positive connotations.
The panel discussion, which was put on by the Haywood Group and moderated by Kalan Haywood Sr., featured the following individuals: Rocky Marcoux, department of city development commissioner, Steven Miner, assessor’s office commissioner, Ray Hill, regional manager of Commonbond Communities and Keith Stanley, director of Near West Side Partners.
Haywood, who has been a long-time developer in Milwaukee, said that when people hear the term gentrification, they often associate it with displacement. The Haywood Group often receives phone calls or emails from people worried about being displaced.
“The fear of gentrification is real no matter who you are,” Haywood said. “No matter what you say, people are concerned about displacement.”
Kalan Haywood Sr. (far left) moderated the panel on the Truth About Gentrification.
(Photo by Ana Martinez-Ortiz)
Hill said that for many, gentrification automatically equates to displacement, especially for low-income individuals. Really, the term should be closer associated with revitalization, she said.
Hill noted that only seven percent of African Americans own their home in Milwaukee. So, when gentrification occurs in their neighborhoods and increases the value of their properties, many find themselves displaced due to the increased rent prices.
When it comes to assessing the property value of a house, Miner said there’s certain rules in the state of Wisconsin that assessors can’t bend or break. For example, Wisconsin doesn’t have exemptions. That is to say, in certain states the property taxes for an elderly or disabled person have a maximum tax limit.
The policy could be changed, Miner said, but it’s important to understand that those taxes won’t go away, instead they’ll be moved somewhere else.
Marcoux who said that gentrification is not a bad thing, but it becomes bad when it leads to displacement, added that the City of Milwaukee is working on a type of anti-tax fund.
The idea, which is based off Atlanta’s model, is to ask those in the private sector to put money towards a fund to cover increased property taxes. So, if a person is accustomed to paying $500 a year, and the next year they’re expected to pay $600 a year, the fund would cover the difference and pay the $100 extra dollars.
For that to function, Marcoux said that it would take about $3 million. He added that suppressing the values wouldn’t work because then there’s limited room to accumulate wealth.
While that’s one solution, Haywood asked the group what else could be done to generate a better understanding of gentrification and its benefits. The panelists all agreed that more affordable housing and more homeownership would be helpful.
Stanley said that more people need to get involved, especially leaders and individuals in communities of color.
“I’m bothered by the narrative that the African American is a helpless group,” he said.
People shouldn’t wait to get involved, Stanley said.
If they have an idea or a problem, they should say something, “don’t wait,” he said. He said so often people have a vision, but they don’t believe in it, it’s an issue that needs to change.
For example, if an individual thinks a community needs a coffee shop, then build one. Don’t just talk about it, be a hustler.
Hill also emphasized the importance of being an advocate and connecting with other who share the same vision.
Although the panel touched on several topics, Haywood said the conversation is far from over. He hopes to have more panels on the topic in the year to come. In the final question, he asked the panelists to leave the group with some advice.
Hill said to be an advocate. Miner said that communication is key. Stanley said transparency and connecting with elected officials. And Marcoux said to be intentional.
“If you really want change, you have to work for it,” Marcoux said.
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Men’s basketball gets a win on senior night
Kedar Dutt
Marissa Marshall,
The Cal State East Bay men’s basketball team honored their three seniors, guards Jelani Mitchell and Drew Bender and center Kyle Frakes, on Saturday prior to the last home game of the 2017-18 season.
“My senior season was a dream,” Bender said. “Obviously it didn’t finish the way I had hoped, but it was still one crazy ride and I’ll never forget it.”
Despite recent struggles, East Bay managed to beat the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters (4-21 overall, 3-18 CCAA) for the second time this season and finished senior night on a high note with an 88-69 win.
The Pioneers started the game strong and were able to maintain control of the contest throughout the entire game.
Last year they were 13-15 overall, and 16-14 in California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) play. The year before that, in the 2015-16 season, they were 9-18 overall and 5-15 in the CCAA.
They are currently 10-17 overall and 5-15 in conference play and will not be able to make the postseason. It’s an ongoing cycle for the Pioneers, as they have yet to make to the postseason since joining the CCAA in 2010.
If they played like they did on senior night consistently, the CCAA tournament could be the reward, sooner than later.
“This year taught us to just keep pushing,” Bender said. “We had a couple stretches this year where we could have gave in, but we didn’t and I am so proud of our guys for that.”
In the first half, the Pioneers led by as much as 10 points against the Otters.
Mitchell performed well and was hot during his senior game. He scored 13 points in the half going 5-for-8 from the field. Frakes added 7 and Bender 6.
In the second half, East Bay kept up the efficiency, this time leading by as much as 26 points with just under eight minutes left on the clock. Sophomore guard Druce Asah hit a three pointer to put the Pioneers up 74-48.
Shortly after, Frakes managed to throw down a dunk with six minutes left.
Mitchell was quiet in the second half, only scoring 3 points, but Frakes was able to put up 8 points and Bender 7.
Druce Asah had a great second half to help lead the team to the win as he had 13 points in the half on 4-for-5 on shooting including 3-for-4 from behind the three point line.
“All of my best moments at East Bay involve my teammates,” Frakes said. “I had the privilege to be around some great people and I’m forever going to be thankful for that.”
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Hickey & Boggs (1972, directed by Robert Culp)
Posted on December 24, 2020 by Jedadiah Leland
Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) and Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) are two private investigators who are constantly in danger of losing their licenses and going out of business. Hickey is the responsible one. Boggs is the seedy alcoholic. When Hickey and Boggs are hired to track down a missing woman, their investigation lands them in the middle of a war between the mob and a group of political activists who are fighting over who is going to get the loot from a recent robbery. Hickey and Boggs are targeted by the mob and soon, everyone is dying around them.
With its cynical themes and downbeat ending, Hickey & Boggs is very much a 70s film. The script was written by future director Walter Hill and when it was eventually offered to Bill Cosby, Cosby agreed to star on the condition that his I Spy co-star, Robert Culp, be hired to direct. Producer John Calley hired Culp but after Calley refused to provide the budget that Culp requested, Culp bought the script and raised the money himself.
There are a few problems with Hickey & Boggs, the main one being that the plot is next to impossible to follow. As a director, Robert Culp apparently didn’t believe in either filming coverage or providing establishment shots so, especially early on, it is often impossible to tell how one scene is connected to another or even how much time has passed between scenes. I don’t know if this was an intentional aesthetic decision or if the production just ran out of money before everything could be shot but it makes it difficult to get into the film’s already complicated story. On a positive note, Culp did have a flair for staging action scenes. The film ends with a shoot out on the beach that’s is handled with such skill that it almost makes up for what came before it. Also, like many actors-turned-director, Culp proved himself capable of spotting talent. Along with giving early roles to Vincent Gardenia, James Woods and Michael Moriarty, Culp also took the chance of casting sitcom mainstay Robert Mandan as a villain. It was a risk but it worked as Mandan convincingly portrays the banality of evil.
Of course, the biggest problem with Hickey & Boggs is that it stars Bill Cosby as a straight-laced hero and that’s no longer a role that anyone’s willing to believe him in. Cosby actually does give a convincing dramatic performance in Hickey & Boggs. Just look at the final scene on the beach where Hickey has his “what have we done” moment and shows the type of regret that Cosby has never shown in real life. The problem is that to really appreciate Cosby’s performance, you have to find a way to overlook the fact that he’s Bill Cosby and that something that I found impossible to do while watching Hickey & Boggs. When you should be getting into the movie, you’re thinking about how many decades Bill Cosby was able to get away with drugging and assaulting women. If not for a comment from Hannibal Buress that led to a social media uproar, Cosby would probably still be getting away with it. If Buress’s anti-Cosby comments hadn’t been recorded and hadn’t gone viral, Bill Cosby would still be free and the media would probably still be holding him up as some sort of role model.
At the time Hickey & Boggs was made, both Bill Cosby and Robert Culp were at a career crossroads. Cosby was hoping to transform himself into a film star. Culp was hoping to become a director. Hickey & Boggs, however, was disliked by critics and flopped at the box office. Culp never directed another film and we all know what happened with Bill Cosby. (Of course, it wasn’t just the box office failure of Hickey & Boggs that kept Cosby from becoming a movie star. Say what you will about Robert Culp as a director, he had nothing to do with Leonard Part 6.) Hickey & Boggs is too disjointed to really work but Robert Culp and Bill Cosby were convincing action stars and the film’s downbeat style and cynical worldview is sometimes interesting.
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EAM S. Jaishankar visits President Bidya Devi Bhandari in Kathmandu
Nepal’s Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi, Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri and Nepal’s Ambassador to India Neelambar Acharya were also present on the occasion. Earlier Dr. Jaishankar and his Nepalese counterpart Pradeep Kumar Gyawali co-chaired 5th meeting of India-Nepal Joint Commission on Wednesday. In a tweet Dr. Jaishankar said discussions were productive. He said Joint Commission comprehensively reviewed bilateral relations and identified areas for cooperation. According to a press release issued by Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the main focus was on connectivity and economic partnership; trade and transit; power and water resources and culture and education.
The commission also expressed happiness over momentum generated in overall aspects of Nepal-India relations following the exchange of high-level visits in last two years. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Food Safety and Standards between Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) of Nepal was signed. On this occasion cheques amounting to 3.74 Billion Nepali rupees were handed over towards India’s support for reconstruction of 50,000 houses in Nuwakot and Gorkha districts and Terai Roads Project.
Earlier, soon after arriving Kathmandu, Dr. Jaishankar paid courtesy call on Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli. He also attended a banquet hosted by Nepal’s Minister for Foreign Affairs in his honour. Dr. Jaishankar is scheduled to depart for New Delhi in the evening.
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