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President Barack Obama addresses reporters during his year-end news conference Friday.
Obama addresses successes, shortcomings for 2013
Correction: We hate to admit it, but in the heat of live-blogging President Barack Obama’s year-end news conference, we misquoted him as saying he “screwed the duck” with the Obamacare rollout. What he actually said was: “We screwed it up.” And in this case, so did we. We regret the error, and we thank our audience for the feedback.
[Updated at 3:16 p.m. ET] Obama hailed what he said was the first rollback in Iran's nuclear capabilities in a decade. Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons has long posed a challenge to U.S. national security, and the U.S. now has a structure under which Iran can "get right with the international community in a verifiable fashion" and prove that any peaceful nuclear program will not be weaponized and that it won't threaten the U.S. and its allies in the region, including Israel.
If Iran reverts to its old ways, Obama said he would put more pressure on Iran, but that isn't necessary right now. Existing sanctions remain in place, costing Iran billions of dollars each month in oil sales, along with banking sanctions, he said. There is no need to leave a club hanging over Iran's head, Obama said, because there's no doubt among Iranians that Congress will pass more sanctions if necessary.
[Updated at 3:10 p.m. ET] Asked about the implications of nominating Sen. Max Baucus as ambassador to China when Baucus offered the best hope of overturning the tax code, Obama called for "swift confirmation" of Baucus as ambassador and said that if Democrats and Republicans are "serious about tax reform, then it's not going to depend on one guy."
[Updated at 3:04 p.m. ET] Despite the negative publicity surrounding his health care initiative, 2 million people or more have signed up, Obama said, saying the program is "working."
"The demand is there, and as I've said before, the product is good," he said.
[Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET] Obama declined to comment specifically about Edward Snowden, saying he would let the courts and attorney general comment on his case, but he said that Snowden's leaks have "done unnecessary damage to U.S. intelligence capabilities and U.S. diplomacy."
He further said the United States is a country that "abides by the rule of law, that cares deeply about privacy, that cares about civil liberties, that cares about our Constitution," where countries with less concern for civil liberties have been able to sit on the sideline and cast aspersions as a result of the leaks.
However, he called the debate that was sparked by the Snowden incident an "important" one.
[Updated at 2:55 p.m. ET] Asked what his New Year's resolution would be, Obama responded, "To be nicer to the White House press corps," earning some laughter and light applause.
[Updated at 2:54 p.m. ET] Obama cites "comprehensive immigration reform" as an example where there's largely bipartisan support on an issue. He expressed hope that despite a "few disagreements," Congress could pass reform that would boost the economy and allow the country to attract more high-skilled workers.
[Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET] Asked to name his worst mistake of the year, Obama said, "since I'm in charge, obviously we screwed it up" on the health care roll-out. Despite meeting every three weeks with officials to ensure that consumers had a pleasant experience with the roll-out, "the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, in the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable."
[Updated at 2:46 p.m. ET] While insisting that the NSA has committed no abuses in performing its surveillance duties, "there may be another way of skinning the cat" to alleviate Americans' concerns, Obama says.
[Updated at 2:42 p.m. ET] "This is only going to work if the American people have confidence and trust," Obama says of the NSA surveillance program, while conceding that American trust in the process has "diminished."
[Updated at 2:36 p.m. ET] Obama says there is a review of NSA surveillance under way to determine if current programs balance the need to keep the country secure while "taking seriously the rule of law and our concerns about privacy and civil liberties."
As for the controversial collection of metadata, Obama says there have been no alleged instances of the NSA acting inappropriately in the use of the data. The president says he has confidence that the NSA is "not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around."
[Updated at 2:31 p.m. ET] Asked if 2013 was the worst year of his presidency, Obama chuckled and said that despite Congress failing to act on his legislative initiatives, there have been many successes. Among those are an increase in wireless capacities in classrooms, a manufacturing hub in Youngstown, Ohio, that will "build on the renaissance we're seeing in manufacturing" and the fact that the U.S. is "producing more oil and natural gas in this country than we're importing."
[Updated at 2:26 p.m. ET] Obama says providing more opportunities for the middle-class and those hoping to join the middle class will be a top priority for 2014, and he'd like to see the country add more jobs, especially those with "wages and benefits that allow families to build a little bit of financial security."
"I think 2014 needs to be a year of action," he says
[Updated at 2:24 p.m. ET] As businesses are positioned to add new jobs amid more growth, Obama predicts 2014 will be "a breakthrough year for America," but much remains to be done, Obama says.
[Updated at 2:21 p.m. ET] So far in 2013, the United States added 2 million jobs as unemployment has fallen to the lowest point in five years, Obama says.
[Updated at 2:19 p.m. ET] Obama's year-end news conference has begun.
[Original story posted at 1:57 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama's year-end news conference is expected to begin at 2 p.m. ET.
Post by: CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin
Filed under: Barack Obama • Politics • U.S.
I believe him. It is the press that is against him and favoring the right wing nuts. They are oppressing him because he is muslim and just trying to make the country more muslim and LGBT friendly. Everyone has jobs and people are nicer to each other than during the last presidents' terms.
Everyone is a hater of leaders and the press should re-embrace him. After all, he worked so hard for the Noble Peace prize and gave the funds he received to charity.
He is a family man who still spends time with his family and his kids are thrifty.
I read about his grassroots programs to overcome the right-wing gun nuts, so we can finally abolish the 2nd ammendment. After that, we can soften the freedom of speech, so we can hear only what the good guys say.
I know the president and the unions are working together on health care too, so that everyone will not be exempt from the Affordable care act. President, union workers, and politicians will all have the same health care as you and I. Equally funded and not incurring any debt to our already military-driven debt ceiling. I also believe in the tooth fairy and think we should all hold hands with the Chinese to show our love for them and their products. I know the Iranians and North Koreans would like to give us group hugs too.
Yes, we can! Change! Open government! It's the GUNS that are evil! A softer, gentler military will make the world respect us! More welfare and less real jobs for everyone.... I get a dollar from the Easter Bunny when I lose a tooth. I always vote Democrat too. Peace out!
They all lie. Let's not act like this is something new. Presidents lie about wars, selling weapons, and some lie about their affairs.
Robbie Goodbar
I believe that the idea that his healthcare line was a lie of the year in terms of saying that people can keep their plan is false. I believe that the president understands that large change always creates unease in the public. The president is very perceptive as to the feelings and concerns of the american public which is probably why he said that people could keep their health plan. This is an unintended consequence of him trying to reduce the publics concern about health care change as a whole and not a lie. I believe it reflects the presidents desire to influence and control more than he is realistically able to as businesses ultimately made those decisions that the president had no control over. The statement reflected the presidents good intent, but the outcome reflected his sense that he can do more than he actually can.
if he cares about the American people why did he make it legal to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial?
There was no good intent. His advisors knew very well that this law would cause loss of jobs due to the hours limit. They are not stupid and have many minds behind these actions. There was no consideration for if someone on unemployment could afford to buy insurance on a minimal wage that doesn't even cover living expenses. You obviously have never lost your job because you are clueless.
I used to be an Obama supporter but the appearance of lies and/or ignorance has made me wish even more that Hillary had won the Dem primaries.
Case in point from widely reported news in August 2013, which counters today's claims:
"In the wake of revelations last week that NSA had violated privacy rules on nearly 3,000 occasions in a one-year period, NSA Chief Compliance Officer John DeLong emphasized in a conference call with reporters last week that those errors were unintentional. He did say that there have been “a couple” of willful violations in the past decade. He said he didn’t have the exact figures at the moment."
And for Obama to suggest that more wireless access in classrooms is something that wouldn't have happened regardless of political office holders (such as himself) is freaking ludicrous. More people have cell phones now too. I'm surprised he isn't claiming that as an accomplishment.
I would tell Obama, "Denial is not a river in Egypt." Many Obama supporters have abandoned him over his failures on the environment and foreign military adventures that he promised to end, but has not. The NSA stuff only makes him look more like a Republican and anything else. The only reason I voted for him in 2012 was because the GOP gave us absolutely no other choice with the dunces they had on their ticket. I would have gladly voted for Jon Huntsman, but he was not loony enough for the GOP. They needed a guy from the planet Kolob who wears "magic underwear."
Rooster Cogburn
His biggest mistake was running the USA aground...
Obama arrogantly dismisses the fact that polls show he is among the most unpopular Presidents in US history, according to CNN.
Do you think it's occurred to him that disdain for the people might in part be WHY he is among the most unpopular Presidents in US history?
Dr. Man
The most horrendous fraud ever perpetrated on the American people, was the nomination of this complete idiot for the office.
We now know Mr. Obama is nothing but a sanctimonious, self-righteous, inept Affirmative Action poster child, meant to pander to a gullible voting public.
Garrett from Texas
"If Iran reverts to its old ways, Obama said he would put more pressure on Iran, but that isn't necessary right now. Existing sanctions remain in place, costing Iran billions of dollars each month in oil sales, along with banking sanctions, he said. There is no need to leave a club hanging over Iran's head, Obama said, because there's no doubt among Iranians that Congress will pass more sanctions if necessary." – From the Article
No, they're already passing sanctions because they don't trust you to do your job. This includes several of your fellow democrats.
herb666
The charm starts to wear thin when the charmer looks you straight in the eye and boldface lies to you. Obama hasn't come anywhere near "fixing" that one yet!
Wow! what a complete lack of leadership from the whitehouse and BO.
shameful.
The US was being ran in to the ground long before Obama took office. Of corse he just throwing more dirt on it!
JJR526
2,000,000 jobs but only 600,000 above minimum wage.
CNN – While insisting that the NSA has committed no abuses in performing its surveillance duties, "there may be another way of skinning the cat" to alleviate Americans' concerns, Obama says.
Hmm...a Federal Court ruled last week that their meta-data collection was a violation of the Constitutional rights of all US Citizens...wouldn't most people think THAT is an abuse?
There is no WE Mr. Obama it was you, Harry and Nancy that did the failures. This was a nice end of the year speech, to bad it's not your final speech forever, but that day will come. Now you go enjoy your vacation while people are unable to find jobs and that thanks to the ACA will be even harder for them to find a full time job. I hope you and your family have a good meal, while many have nothing to put on the table for they lost their job.
SorryAl
Sorry, Al. The current economy is entirely YOUR fault. You see, Bush took the budget surplus and record growth handed to him by Clinton (you know, the democrat) and completely screwed everything up in less than two years. He LIED to the world about WMD in Iraq, and sent thousands of our fighting men and women to their DEATH so he and Cheney could reap the rewards of record oil prices. He cut taxes while starting two illegal wars and sent the deficit to record levels. Since you and your ilk voted for Bush not once, but twice, we have no one to else to blame. The deaths of every single soldier, every single Iraqi, and every single Afghani lie solely on YOUR shoulders. Thanks for that. Do not ever vote again. You don't deserve the right.
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Progress in Fighting Wheat Rust
Posted by | August 20, 2013
Scientists have been hard at work in recent years combating a significant disease of wheat. Stem rust is caused by a group of nasty fungal organisms that can infect wheat plants and devastate yields. In some cases up to 100% of the crop can be lost. That’s a disaster for farmers, obviously, but it’s also potentially an enormous problem for those of us who eat bread, hotcakes and muffins, and who want to keep such foodstuffs in our diet.
The battle between stem rust and agricultural researchers isn’t new. Sometimes the tide runs in one direction, sometimes in another. At the end of the last century the advantage went to the fungus side. In Ethiopia and Uganda in 1998 and 1999, a new type of stem rust appeared. It’s known for short as “Ug99” for Uganda, 1999. The new rust is able to grow on most strains of wheat raised the world around. Because wheat is so important to the human diet, Ug99 has been seen as an enormous threat to the world’s food supply.
Luckily, Ug99 is apparently still limited in its occurrence to east Africa and possibly Iran. So far it’s not spread to places like Pakistan where it could devastate a food supply on which many millions of people depend. But time is ticking away, and the threat of Ug99 is very real.
Farmers in the developed world can combat stem rusts by spraying their crops with fungicides. But in the developing world, small farmers simply don’t have the economic resources to buy and apply fungicides. They are at the mercy of stem rust and can lose their crops to its many fungal strains.
To help farmers everywhere, ag researchers have been trying to give wheat genetically-based resistance to stem rusts, including Ug99. If the plant itself could resist infection, the problem of Ug99 infection would be solved without the expense of sprays.
I live surrounded by farmland and I like to hope I appreciate all farmers do. But it’s also worth remembering that agricultural researchers are an important part of the picture that gives us an abundant food supply even in the face of constantly evolving disease threats. So let’s hear it for the pointy-headed researchers in labs, greenhouses and test plots everywhere.
One ag researcher at Washington State University is Prof. Tim Murray. Murray is a plant pathologist, in other words someone who works on combating diseases in plants. Murray was kind enough recently to talk to me about two articles published this summer in the journal Science about Ug99 and resistance to the disease conferred by two genes.
Some 10,000 years ago ancient farmers started to bring about what ultimately became modern bread wheat. Such wheat emerged from the cross-breeding of several wild grasses. The first big step was taken with the crossing of two genomes or species of plants. Then another cross-pollination combining three genomes led to basic bread wheat as we know it today.
“One of the techniques we have as researchers is to go back to wild relatives looking for useful genes,” Murray said.
Two such useful genes have now been identified, Sr33 and Sr35 (the Sr stands for “stem rust”). And those genes have been put into varieties of bread wheat via traditional crossing (not GMO). I’ve written in the past about the value of research that’s done by making collecting trips around the globe in search of varieties of wild plants that are kin to our crop plants. Such trips and the seed banks that house the resulting collections can be used to create give researchers materials for crosses when they need it.
The Sr33 gene gives wheat a relatively broad range of stem rust resistance but not excellent resistance to Ug99. Sr35 confers effective resistance for Ug99 but is vulnerable to other stem rusts.
“The next step is for researchers to combine Sr33 and Sr35 in one plant,” Murray said. “That’s not an uncommon strategy, combining multiple resistance genes into one variety of wheat.”
Murray explained to me more work must be done and Ug99 remains a serious threat. But the two recent articles mark real progress. And in such an important arena as the world’s wheat supply, it’s worth celebrating the victories that researchers are starting to make over major threats like Ug99.
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Climate change is in Atlanta's air
By Carol Clark | eScienceCommons | May 12, 2017
"We're all partly responsible for our local air quality," says Emory graduating senior Emily Li. "Even if we don't hold ourselves accountable, our health will." Emory Photo/Video
Science, Research, Emory College, Humanities, Commencement
Emory 2017 graduate Emily Li is leaving Atlanta this summer, but her student research will continue to have a presence here. For her undergraduate thesis, Li investigated the effects of shifting weather patterns on the air quality of Atlanta and the region — and how that relates to human health. She’s compiled her findings into a web site, Climate Change is in the Air, as a resource for local residents.
“The web site explains some of the science involved, but it’s not just statistics,” Li says. “It also tells stories of real people. I wanted to put faces on these complex, scientific processes and explain how individuals are being directly affected by climate change, right now.”
In addition to science and stories from real people, the site offers solutions — what communities and individuals can do to address the issue.
Li, who majored in Environmental Sciences and English, sampled classes from a range of disciplines during college. No matter what the course, however, climate change kept coming up. “I think that it’s the most important issue that we face today, and I want to be part of the solution,” she says.
As a junior, Li took a course called Environmental Journalism, taught by Sheila Tefft, and realized that she could combine her two passions: Science and communication.
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75 years later, why did Germans follow the Nazis into Holocaust?
Aug 26, 2014 9:00 am by Craig Chamberlain | Social Sciences EditorExpert ViewpointsSocial Sciences
Peter Fritzsche, a historian of modern Germany, has written several books based in part on the letters and diaries of average Germans, from before and through Nazi rule and the war.
Photo courtesy of Peter Fritzche
Sept. 1 marks 75 years since Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II, and historians still debate what caused the German people to follow the Nazis into conquest and the Holocaust. Peter Fritzsche, a historian of modern Germany, has written several books based in part on the letters and diaries of average Germans, from before and through Nazi rule and the war. Perhaps the most valuable collection of letters came from four generations of a single German family, separated by politics and the German-Dutch border. Those letters were recently published in the book "Between Two Homelands," for which Fritzsche did translation and wrote the preface. He spoke with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain.
We've recently passed the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, and a common refrain is that the end of that war and its treaty demands led directly to the Nazis and World War II. Was the connection that simple?
There is a connection, especially since Germans - Nazis and non-Nazis - genuinely believed that Germany was fighting for its freedom, even for its very existence - astonishing as that may sound to us today.
But Hitler was very clear: World War II was not about former German territory assigned to Poland or about the national self-determination of Germans living outside Germany. The war was about creating a new racial order in which there were German superiors and Slav inferiors and in which Jews had no place. It was about creating an exploitative empire in which might determined right. The Nazis were not traditional German nationalists but radical revolutionaries in terms of foreign policy and morality.
To what extent do you believe Germans were seduced by Hitler and the Nazis? Or did they make more of a conscious choice?
Germans after World War I were highly politicized. That is why we think of the Weimar Republic as a time of political turbulence and unrest. The active descriptions of politics before 1933, the year Hitler came to power, undermine notions of seduction or brainwashing in the years after. It is not possible to explain the demise of all sorts of political institutions before Hitler in one way, and to explain the power of the Nazis after that in another way.
Germans constantly deliberated questions of race, authority and loyalty. Only a minority became full-fledged Nazis, but most accepted the basic premises of the regime, including the isolation of German Jews. While most Germans had at least a vague idea of the Holocaust, they almost certainly did not endorse mass murder, which is not to say they were not complicit in the persecution of their neighbors along the way to the "final solution."
You call the collection of letters in the "Homelands" book "an indispensible source for understanding the Nazis." What are the key insights you find there?
Historians have access to lots of propaganda tracts and to the most extreme statements made by leading Nazis, but we don't have many transcripts of more-ordinary Germans explaining their choices. In this case, family members lived both in Holland and Germany and were divided politically between enthusiastic pro-Nazism and skeptical anti-Nazism, a situation that forced correspondents to explain themselves, to argue matters out.
The letters also reveal the holes or seams in Nazi appeal. The son, for example, broke with friends over his loyalty to the Nazis, but also fell in love with a woman with a Jewish grandparent, something that complicated his assumptions.
What the letters and diaries reveal is the qualified, not always easy, but nonetheless unmistakable desire to be part of the National Socialist movement. We see people as actors, not as victims; we see them deliberating, rather than being seduced. This collection offers extraordinary insights into why Germans became Nazis, and how a Nazi mother in Germany came to disagree with her beloved anti-Nazi daughter in Holland.
In the end, the letters indicate just how self-absorbed Germans were by their sense of having been victimized, which means that the question of World War I remains relevant to World War II, even if the Nazi leaders themselves wanted something far more than a victory in a rerun of World War I.
Can we ever fully explain the Nazi phenomenon? And what should we learn from it?
What makes the problem of explaining the Nazis so vexing is the inadequacy of interpretations that rely on factors such as downward mobility, national humiliation or economic privation. The same goes for those factors the Nazis and their supporters cited, such as the solidarity of the national community, the centrality of race, and the requirement to revise universal moral practices in order to insure the survival of Germany.
Scholars constantly shuttle back and forth between explanations that work from the outside in and those that work from the inside out; they analyze political, social, and economic variables, but they also listen to how the Nazis made sense of themselves. In this way, there is no final resolution.
What we can learn is the following: we need to be careful how we interpret human behavior. If it is extreme, is it because people are seduced or brainwashed? Or is it more complicated? Are people naturally decent, except in difficult situations? We wonder why we were not more astonished in the 1930s, as the Nazis came to power.
Are there other issues today that we neglect but which our grandchildren will think more problematic - perhaps the fact that illegal immigrants test our empathy, that our prison population does not attract our attention? These are not issues that compare in any way to the persecution of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, but they are issues that may be examples of our blindness today. We should be alert precisely because German letters from this period justify and gloss over such persecution. In the end, we should stand with the poet Emily Dickenson, who urged us not to lose our sense of alarm, of dismay, of shock.
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Man vs machine: comparing artificial and biological neural networks
Corporate•artificial intelligence•deep learning•machine learning
By comparing and contrasting biological learning to artificial intelligence, we can build a more secure infrastructure
By madelineschiappa
Written by Sophos data scientists Madeline Schiappa and Ethan Rudd.
The ability to learn is considered one hallmark of intelligent life. Machine learning now has the ability to learn and extrapolate from data sets to accomplish sophisticated tasks like classifying previously unknown phenomena.
There are both surprising similarities and important differences in how machines learn vs. humans. By comparing and contrasting biological learning to artificial intelligence, we can build a more secure infrastructure.
Fun with neurons
Using biological neural networks, learning emerges from the interconnections between myriad neurons in the brain. The interconnections of these neurons change configuration as the brain is exposed to new stimuli. These changes include new connections, strengthening of existing connections and removal of unused connections. For example, the more one repeats a given task, the stronger the neurological connection is made, until that task is considered learned.
Neurons can process new stimuli by using pre-established representations from memory and perceptions based on the activation of a small set of neurons. For each stimulus, a different subset from a large pool of available neurons is activated during cognition.
This amazing design from biology has inspired data scientists when designing artificial intelligence models.
Artificial neural networks (ANN) aims to mimic this behavior in an abstract sense, but on a much smaller and simpler scale.
What is an Artificial Neural Network?
An ANN consists of layers made up of interconnected neurons that receive a set of inputs and a set of weights. It then does some mathematical manipulation and outputs the results as a set of “activations” that are similar to synapses in biological neurons. While ANNs typically consist of hundreds to maybe thousands of neurons, the biological neural network of the human brain consists of billions.
At the high level, a neural network consists of four components:
neurons, of course
topology – the connectivity path between neurons
weights, and
a learning algorithm.
Each of these components differ substantially between the biological neural networks of the human brain and the artificial neural networks expressed in software.
In the image below, we see a visualization of a biological neuron. The axon is responsible for output connections from the nucleus to other neurons. The dendritic tree receives input to the nucleus from other neurons. Electrochemical signals from neurons (synapses) are aggregated in the nucleus. If the aggregation surpasses a synaptic threshold, an electrochemical spike (synapse) propagates down the axon to dendrites of other neurons.
Image credit: Wikipedia
Anatomy of a biological neural network
Biological neurons, depicted in schematic form in Figure 1, consist of a cell nucleus, which receives input from other neurons through a web of input terminals, or branches, called dendrites. The combination of dendrites is often referred to as a “dendritic tree”, which receives excitatory or inhibitory signals from other neurons via an electrochemical exchange of neurotransmitters.
The magnitude of the input signals, that reach the cell nucleus depends both on the amplitude of the action potentials propagating from the previous neuron and on the conductivity of the ion channels feeding into the dendrites. The ion channels are responsible for the flow of electrical signals passing through the neuron’s membrane.
More frequent or larger magnitude input signals generally result in better conductivity ion channels, or easier signal propagation. Depending on this signal aggregated from all synapses from the dendritic tree, the neuron is either “activated” or “inhibited”, or in other words, switched “on” or switched “off”, after a process called neural summation. The neuron has an electrochemical threshold, analogous to an activation function in artificial neural networks, which governs whether the accumulated information is enough to “activate” the neuron.
The final result is then fed into other neurons and the process begins again.
Below we see a simplified schematic illustration of plausible neuronal topologies in the human brain. Note the enormous potential for loops and neurons feeding back into one another.
Image credit: Quanta Magazine
Learning in Biological Networks
In biological neural networks like the human brain, learning is achieved by making small tweaks to an existing representation – its configuration contains significant information before any learning is conducted. The strengths of connections between neurons, or weights, do not start as random, nor does the structure of the connections, i.e., the network topology. This initial state is, in part, genetically derived, and is the byproduct of evolution.
Over time, the network learns how to perform new functions by adjusting both topology and weights. The fact that there is an initial representation that works well for many tasks is supported by research, which suggests that as young as one month old newborns are able to recognize faces demonstrated by their learning to differentiate between strangers and their parents.n other words, the concept of a human face has largely been passed down genetically from parent to child.
As babies develop and progress through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and even retirement years, they will see and meet new people every day and must learn what they look like. This is achieved by making minor alterations to the neural networks residing in their brains.
The same phenomenon applies to other tasks as well – both passive sensory tasks, from recognizing generic objects to processing sound as speech patterns, to active tasks like movement and speech. These skills are learned gradually, and progressively smaller tweaks are used to refine them. The precise topologies are a function of the types of stimuli upon which these biological neural networks are trained. A prominent example is the monocular deprivation studies led by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. The study involved forcing an animal’s eye shut for two months during development and observing the changes to their primary visual cortex.
The results showed that cells that are normally responsive to input from both eyes, were no longer receptive at all. Both the cells in their brain and in their eye had changed as a result. This phenomenon extends to humans. For example, psychometric tests on visual perception indicates that people who have spent much of their lifetimes in cities tend to be more sensitive to parallel lines and sharp gradients than people from rural environments, who are more sensitive to smooth texture gradients, likely the result of an over-abundance of parallel structures of roads, skyscrapers, and windows.
Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
Unlike Biological Neural Networks, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), are commonly trained from scratch, using a fixed topology chosen for the problem at hand. At present, their topologies do not change over time and weights are randomly initialized and adjusted via an optimization algorithm to map aggregations of input stimuli to a desired output function. However, ANNs can also learn based on a pre-existing representation. This process is called fine-tuning and consists of adjusting the weights from a pre-trained network topology at a relatively slow learning rate to perform well on newly supplied input training data.
We can also effortlessly replicate ANNs, but we have a while to go before we can do that for a human brain.
Whether training from scratch or fine-tuning, the weight update process begins by passing data through the neural network, measuring the outcome, and modifying the weights accordingly. This overall process is how an artificial neural network “learns”. Weights are gradually pushed in the directions that most increase performance of the desired task, e.g., maximizing recognition accuracy, on the input samples. This notion of learning can be likened to a child trying to learn how to recognize everyday objects. After failed attempts and feedback on the accuracy of the answer, the child tries again in a different direction to achieve the correct response. An ANN performs the same task when learning. It is fed stimuli that have known responses and a learning regime adjusts weights so as to maximize the number of accurate responses that result from feeding the ANN new stimuli.
Once this learning process is complete, both the child and the ANN can use their previous representations of the problems to craft responses to new stimuli that they have not previously been exposed to in the learning process. The child learns best via exposure to as many similar problems as possible. The more problems the child practices, the quicker he or she becomes at tackling new problems, because relevant neuronal connections in the child’s brain become more defined. An ANN is similar in that with more exposure to the wide distribution of possible stimuli for the task in question, the better the ANN can learn to respond to new stimuli from the same distribution that it was not previously exposed to.
Broad Exposure is Good
We have long known in humans that the more children are exposed to the world the better they learn, even if this learning is sometimes painful. In fact,when learning is painful the pain serves as a sharp feedback mechanism. Similarly, exposing ANNs to a wide variety of stimuli in a particular domain is extremely important to train or fine-tune a neural network, of any kind, and can ensure you are not over-fitting a model to one kind of stimulus.
With additional representations of a particular class of stimuli, the better a network can classify new stimuli, or generalize a concept. This holds for both biological neural networks and artificial neural networks, although biological neural networks do a much better job of generalizing. This is true in part because they are exposed to vastly more types and modalities of data in part because of more advanced biological topologies and learning algorithms, and in great part because of Darwinism.
An example of this is rooted in the Black Swan Theory developed by Nassim Taleb. The terminology comes from a common expression in 16th century London stating that all swans are white because there has been no documented occurrence of any other colored swan. Therefore, to them a swan must be white to be classified as a swan. Later on however, a Dutch explorer by the name of Willem de Vlamingh later witnessed black swans in Western Australia changing that strict classification.
The idea here is that if one has grown up seeing only white swans, i.e., one’s neural network was trained only on a distribution where all swans were white, and is then presented with a “black swan”, one may not classify it as a swan because one has never seen otherwise. If one had grown up seeing swans of both colors, then one would be more apt at classifying all swan types, due to a biological neural network “trained” on a larger distribution of swan types with more knowledge about the many possible attributes a swan can and cannot have.
Generalization, or the ability to abstract knowledge from what one has previously learned, is an extremely useful capability that allows problem solving across different domains quickly via minor weight adjustment – a process called fine tuning – which is a neural network’s solution to transfer learning and domain adaptation problems. The fact that not so many neuronal connections require re-wiring is one reason why, on average, avid skiers are far-quicker to pick up snowboarding than first-time snowboarders, or why an artificial neural network that is trained for object detection then fine-tuned for face recognition will often arrive at a better solution than one trained strictly, from scratch, on the same face recognition dataset.
Man vs Machine
It should be clear that today’s artificial neural networks are still in their infancy. While analogous in structure, with respect to notions of weights, neurons (functional units), topology, and learning algorithms, they are not yet capable of mimicking the human brain for many classes of complex tasks. Their topologies are far simpler, they are orders of magnitude smaller, and learning algorithms are comparatively naive. Moreover, they cannot yet be trained to work well for many heterogeneous tasks simultaneously.
As we continue to build ANNs to solve hard problems,such as detecting previously unknown types of malware, we continue to also learn more about how the human brain accomplishes tasks.or certain classes of tasks, ANNs can actually outperform human analysts, both in terms of accuracy and in terms of speed. Action potentials in the brain propagate in thousandths of seconds; while ANNs can classify data orders of magnitudes faster.
For other tasks, the strengths of ANNs supplement and augment the capabilities of even the best human minds automating large workflows.
In the near future, ANNs will begin to perform additional classes of tasks at near-human and even superhuman levels, perhaps becoming mathematically and structurally more similar to biological neural networks.
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A fast-moving wildfire forced evacuation orders for 60,000 people in Southern California on Monday as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent utility equipment from sparking new blaze
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Melania Trump was reportedly "emotionally checked out" long before boarding Air Force One to leave D.C. on Wednesday, going as far as to outsource writing her "thank you" notes to the White House residence staff, The New York Times and CNN report.Traditionally, the first family of the United States will write short cards to their household staff, thanking them for taking care of them over the past four to eight years. The cards tend to be intimate and "much of the correspondence includes personal anecdotes and the letters become 'cherished keepsakes' for the residence staff," such as the butlers, cooks, and housekeepers, who do not tend to turn-over between administrations, CNN writes.Melania Trump, however, reportedly did not personally write the cards for the approximately 80 staff members charged with caring for her, her husband, and her teenage son, Barron, while they lived in the White House. Instead, she is said to have instructed a "lower-level East Wing staffer" to write the type-written notes "in her voice," and then signed her name."I think she was a reluctant first lady and she did it for her husband," society publicist R. Couri Hay, who knows Trump from New York, told The New York Times. He added that after she departs Washington, "I think that you will find that she will be even less visible, and less available."More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders steals the inauguration with his grumpy chic outfit Amazon offers Biden help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution Only a sprinkling of Trump supporters showed up at state capitols to protest Biden's inauguration
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Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020)
Bill and Ted might be one of the most inexplicable franchises in Hollywood. It began as a riff on 80s high school movies by writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, taking the California surfer/stoner goofball supporting character staple and saying, “What if people deeply uninformed about history traveled through time?” 1989’s Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure movie was a comic delight, and Bill and Ted became unexpected icons, action figures, and even a Saturday morning cartoon. The 1991 sequel could have easily repackaged another escapade through time but instead it went a completely different, darker, and weirder direction. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey followed its characters through death, hell, heaven, and back again. It’s been almost thirty years since Bill and Ted left the pop-culture spotlight behind. What more challenges could you present? Bill and Ted Face the Music is a sweet sequel that explores the, dare I even utter the word, legacy of these cheery doofuses, and while it’s not at the same level as its clever predecessors, I was more than happy to take one last trip with these gents. Most excellent.
It’s been decades since Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) hit the big time with their band Wyld Stallyns but life hasn’t quite worked out how they imagined. They had been told their music would bring peace to the world, but they’re in their 50s now, fame now behind them, and they have yet to live up to those heavy expectations. Bill and Ted are struggling to still write that perfect, magical song, the one they were destined for, but both men have growing doubts over whether or not they can make it happen. Their adult daughters (Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine) want to help and take the ole phone booth time machine for a spin, collecting famous great musicians throughout time to help collaborate with their dear old dude dads before all of reality unravels if that fabled song cannot be written.
Just as Bogus Journey rejected being a lazy reprise, Face the Music inclines to chart its own path as a sequel rather than replicating the hits of old while also staying reverent to why people loved the originals. This is more a time travel movie, and the daughters even go on their own Excellent Adventure rounding up famous musicians through history as a B-story, but the main story is squarely on Bill and Ted facing off against themselves and their collective insecurities. When challenged, the Bill and Ted of present-day figure that they can skip ahead to the future and simply take the world-saving song from their future selves, who obviously would have written it by then. It’s a move the franchise has used before, relying upon future actions to take care of present problems, so it’s fitting for the characters but this is the first film to explore this as a negative. Bill and Ted are desperate and looking for an easy solution and skipping to the end will do that. However, their future selves are pathetic has-beens who have yet to write the ultimate song, and they resent their past selves for setting them up for failure. There are many face-to-face meetings between present and further future versions of Bill and Ted and their interactions become an adversarial tit-for-tat. I looked forward to each new pit stop with future Bill and Ted to see how their lives were and if they were still trying to set up the past Bill and Ted for a long-simmering retribution. The fact that this storyline has a genuinely sweet and even poignant reconciliation is a joyous addition.
Thankfully, Bill and Ted are still the same lovable, affable, and relentlessly positive dudes we’ve known and loved since the 1980s. I appreciate over three movies how much these guys legitimately appreciate and love each other. That’s one reason why it’s so enjoyable to hang out with these guys regardless of what their adventures entail. It would be easy for Bill and Ted to have become jaded in their old age, cynical from not fulfilling their hallowed destiny. They could have some animosity between the two of them that need to be buried in order to work together, rekindle that old magic, and save the world. But the screenwriters know who these characters are. Even when things aren’t going their way, they stay who they are, hopeful and supportive. I also appreciated how this translates to their relationships with their daughters, who clearly love their fathers and want to follow in their footsteps. They even refer to them as “dads” rather than “dad.” The conclusion rests on the daughters and fathers working together, and the positivity that radiates through their relationships allows the ending to reach a surprisingly emotional high for a family of good-natured goofballs.
Face the Music is a bit overstuffed with subplots and characters, and I do wish there could have been some careful pruning to allow more room for the daughters. Bill and Ted’s wives, the princesses from Medieval England, have been recast again (Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mayes), and once again they are barely featured. There is an early conflict between the wives and husbands, and the prospect of losing them motivates Bill and Ted to save their marriages, but this conflict is entirely sidelined after the “end of the world” dilemma overtakes the plot. The wives are in their own subplot and also traveling through time or to parallel dimensions, though we never spend any time with them. There must be entirely cut scenes with them. Their perspectives could have been a whole other movie but they’re only an afterthought, as these characters have always been. Kristen Schaal (My Spy) appears as the daughter to Rufus (the late George Carlin), and we’re introduced to her mother, a deadly robot (Barry’s Anthony Carrigan) set to kill Bill and Ted for questionable reasons, the return of the Grim Reaper (William Sadler), plus all the assembled historical figures with the daughters. Also, just about every supporting family character makes an appearance too. It feels like too much, like the movie is constantly racing forward, juggling people and stories, when we didn’t need it all.
The daughters are more reflections of their fathers than independent characters. Each character, Thea and Billie, is a younger impression of their father and little else. They like the same music their dads like. They have the same goals their dads have. They have the same personalities their dads have. Both actresses are fun and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Netflix’s Atypical) does a wicked impression of a young Reeves, including adopting his sway-heavy gait, but I wish they had more to chew over. It seems cliché to make the central conflict of a third Bill and Ted movie an inter-generational one, where the fathers cannot relate to their daughters, and the four of them go on a fantastic journey that helps to bridge their differences and allow each side to better understand and relate. It might sound cliché but it could also have been compelling as well, and it would have elevated the daughters and their relationship into a primal position, rather than using the relationship with the near non-existent wives as the throwaway motivation for their call to action.
It’s been quite a while since Winter and Reeves have played these parts, and while they both have clear affection for their characters, it’s not quite a seamless relaunch. Reeves (John Wick) has been playing hardass action heroes for so long that it feels like he can’t easily recapture goofball energy. His line deliveries can feel far more stilted and low-energy. Winter hasn’t acted onscreen since 2013 and has transitioned into being a documentary director. He delivers a more spirited performance and hits the comedy notes more effortlessly than Reeves, but the time apart from acting shows. Watching both men imitate their younger selves and going through the same shtick can have a different impact on the viewer. Hearing the same catch-phrases but with deeper, gravely voices isn’t quite the same thing and serves as a warning of the enterprise living in its own shadow. My pal Ben Bailey found an old Bill and Ted to be rather sad. I think that’s part of what Face the Music leans into (including its knowing title). They haven’t succeeded like they wanted. That weighs on them. Neither character is about to contemplate suicide but there is a sense of disappointment about how their careers turned out that they’re barely staying ahead of, which adds a melancholy dimension to these characters still falling back on what they know because it’s all that they know how to do. It’s not overpowering but it’s an acknowledgement of the loss of time.
Bill and Ted Face the Music is a charming, likable, and sweet-natured sequel that wraps up the franchise well, reminding fans why the Bill and Ted characters were so enjoyable from the start. In our COVID times, I’m finding it easier to shrug away some of the movie’s flaws, like its low-budget being noticeable, chintzy CGI special effects, and too many supporting characters on top of not integrating the daughters into the main action in a more significant fashion. It’s 90 minutes of laid back, light-hearted fun with actors and filmmakers who clearly love this franchise, and the screenwriters could have merely coasted and did no such thing. We didn’t need a third Bill and Ted big screen adventure but I’m happy that it still feels, even thirty years later, remarkably like Bill and Ted.
Nate’s Grade: B
Posted on August 31, 2020, in 2020 Movies and tagged comedy, dean parisot, fatherhood, jayma mays, keanu reeves, kristen schaal, robots, samara weaving, sci-fi, sequel, supernatural, time travel. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Jasodhara Batabyal | September 5, 2020 at 8:54 am
Awesome write-up. I am a travel blogger from India. Please give my blog a read as well.
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Kagame’s 20years as president of Rwanda
Paul Kagame is the 6th and current President of Rwanda, having taken office in 2000 when his predecessor, Pasteur Bizimungu, was dismissed and arrested.
Paul Kagame, a brutal dictator with a widely-known different color of the developmental strides. Since 2000 when he took over power as President, Kagame, a Tutsi from Southern Rwanda, has held a Janus face to a world peeping into the dangerously hilly but beautiful country of Rwanda.
Kagame started as commander of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, an Uganda-based rebel force that was the core of the blood spillage in the infamous Rwandan genocide that held from April 7 and July 15, 1994, where Hutu extremists killed in cold blood about one million people within a hundred days.
Even when he served as Vice President and Minister of Defence between 1994 and 2000, Kagame was known to be the de facto president of Rwanda and a strongman, dreaded for his brutal and uncompromising attitude to the opposition. He is held high in the assassination of exiled Rwandan political opponents.
Kagame has since held forte for 20 years as President of Rwanda. As he does, a world which, like a famished hyena, hungrily proclaims “democracy,” has been looking the other way as the baboon is daily bathed with blood in Kigali. In 2017 when he sought re-election, Kagame went down in the Guinness Book of Record as about the first president in the world who would be elected by his people with 99% votes.
Not only is he known to be, development-wise, running one of the most impressive governments in Africa, human rights-wise, he is also one of the most repressive African rulers. He rules Rwanda with iron fist like the Iron Curtains and is infamously known as sitting on a river of blood. Rwanda is perceived to be one huge field where killings, human rights violations, and silencing of dissenting voices are perpetrated by the government as effortlessly as you spread mayonnaise on your bread.
In terms of development, Kagame ranks high on the continent and even beyond. He has prioritized the development of Rwanda and lifted it up as a middle-income country of note. Rwanda is high on key indicators of growth and her fare in the areas of annual growth, education, health and economy is impressive. This writer has visited and driven through the roads of Rwanda, even outside Kigali and can testify that Kagame would make any African visitor to this Central African country proud of their heritage.
Indeed, the Rwandan economy has tremendously appreciated under Kagame, with a per-capita gross domestic product of $1,592. This was a leap from $567 as at 2000 when he took over. The country’s annual growth averaged 8% between the periods of 2004 to 2010, with a refreshing economic policy that centers on liberalization, privatization of state-owned companies and transformation of Rwanda from an agricultural to knowledge-based economy.
Only recently, Kagame entered into a partnership with some cell phone manufacturers for the production of the same in Rwanda. His target is to pattern the Rwandan economy after Singapore. For doing these, he has been praised by global leaders like Bill Clinton and Starbucks chairman, Howard Schultz for the transformation of Rwanda.
He is however held with awe and disdain by the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), alleged to be profiting his Rwanda from illegal pilfering of DRC’s mineral resources, the latter being a shouting distance from Rwanda and separated by River Ruzizi, a river of about 117 kilometres and which flows from Lake Kivu in DRC to Lake Tanganyika, also in Central Africa.
However, as said earlier, Rwanda holds prominent life membership of countries with human rights ignominy, with earned medallion festooned with blood.
As Kagame paddles his lanky frame across the globe with thumbs-up for developing war-torn Rwanda, the medallion of blood swivels menacingly on his neck, telling the whole wide world that Kagame’s developmental strides were achieved at the cost of rivers of blood of Rwandese.
Excerpt from CNN Report and the Bloody Road To Rwanda, By Festus Adedayo(an Ibadan-based journalist)
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Alexandru Crisan romania
Photo © Alexandru Crisan
title Hide and Seek
The series “Hide and Seek” images, from “Asylum” project, is oriented towards Psychoanalysis following a deep line in understanding human anxieties, hopes or desires. Somewhere beyond the formal representation the character hides a fantastic world of inner beauty, playing a handy game, revealing the beauty of childish memories through an extremely sensitive approach, trying somehow to turn back time. That was the main game… but, totally unexpected, we have a spontaneous model reaction, beyond the main theme. The result is presented in this series of images titled as follows: "Hide and seek", "Touch", "Birdie", "Go fuck yourself", "Succubus".
Alexandru Crisan (b. Bucharest, Romania 1978) is a visual artist specialized in fine art photography. He received his first film camera when he was 12 years old, and, a quarter of a century later, still has a soft spot for the black and white prints. An architect by formal education, his professional career in photography began in 2011 and since then, he has focused on completing and promoting his eclectic art projects. More details on: https://alexandru-crisan.com/
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Sounds of the Past
by Karl Hagstrom Miller
Interested in popular music and the music industry in the early twentieth century? The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara has built perhaps the most useful archive on the planet for you.
Their website features a growing mountain of streaming and downloadable songs that were originally released on fragile cylinder recordings. To publicize the site and demonstrate its richness for both scholarship and teaching, this is the first in a series of posts that will feature cylinders I find particularly interesting or noteworthy.
First up is an early recording of one of the important ancestors of hillbilly music and humor.
LISTEN: Len Spencer, “The Arkansas Traveler,” Edison Ambersol 181 [1909]
“The Arkansas Traveler” was a fiddle tune and comedy skit that has been traced back to the 1840s. The tune itself long ago entered the traditional fiddle repertoire. It is one of the standards that beginners learn, virtuosi use to impress the judges at fiddle contests, and many kids know through its modern lyrics about smashing up a baby bumblebee. What is less well known is that the tune was part of an elaborate and ubiquitous comedy routine that addressed tensions between city and country.
The skit portrayed a traveler (usually from the city or the East) coming across a squatter in rural Arkansas. As the squatter repeatedly saws the first strain of the tune on his fiddle, the two engage in pun-riddled banter. “Where does this road go?” the traveler asks. “It don’t go nowhere. Stays right where it is,” comes the reply. Tension grows as the traveler’s questions become more antagonistic and the squatter continues to dissemble. It is finally eased when the traveler grabs the fiddle and finishes the tune that the squatter had started. Laughter ensues, and the squatter welcomes the traveler to stay the night.
The humor of “The Arkansas Traveler” cut two ways. The rural fiddler’s apparent inability to comprehend the traveler’s questions pegged him as comically unsophisticated, reinforcing urban fantasies about the rural South. Yet it is easy to see the squatter’s naiveté as an act. He feigns ignorance in order to deflect the city’s slicker’s condescension, deflate his pretensions, and get him to leave. The traveler looks down on the backwoods primitive without realizing that the joke is on him.
Yet ultimately, “The Arkansas Traveler” tells a story of commonality rather than difference. In the skit, the tensions between the urban and rural characters dissolved as the two discover that they know the same music. The white hayseed and city slicker were not so different after all. White rural listeners thus could imagine holding their own in cities populated by the likes of the gullible yet ultimately endearing traveler, and their urban counterparts could identify with the fiddler, who may have expressed shared contempt for urban pretensions and represented the simplicity and straight-talk of their own real or imagined rural heritage.
“The Arkansas Traveler” provided the template for hillbilly humor from Fiddlin’ John Carson in the 1920s through the popular 1960s television show “Hee Haw” and Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck if…” bit in the 21st century. It also demonstrated the market value of simultaneously promoting poor, white, rural southerners as both unprepared for participation in civilized society and the smartest ones in the room.
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Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record, ca. 1904 Released under the GNU Free documentation License
“The Turn of the Tune,” by John Cameron, Currier and Ives, c1870, CC ATribution Share-Alike 3.0
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Biographies of public officials of El Salvador, 1886.
BANC MSS M-M 518; BANC MSS M-M 514-527 FILM
Biographies of public officials of El Salvador, 1886
Delgado, Manuel, 1853-
Estupinian, Baltazar.
Menéndez, Francisco, 1830-1890
Prepared for H.H. Bancroft: 1. Manuel Delgado, b. 1853 in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. Studied law and became a lawyer of the Supreme Court. Held various offices, visited California and returned to become vice-president of Salvador's Assembly. In 1886 he became Minister of Foreign Relations and later Minister from Salvador to the United States. 6 p.
(con't) 2. Baltazar Estupinian, b. in Chinameca, El Salvador. He finished college in 1871 and studied law. Started several periodicals of a political nature and opposed President Raphael Zaldívar, for which he was forced to leave the country. Estupinian went to Quezaltenango, Guatemala, founded a liberal newspaper, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1878. At the close of the Guatemalan revolution, he returned to Salvador where he supported General Francisco Menéndez and became "Ministro del Interior, Gobernación, Fomento, Beneficencia y Instrucción Pública" in 1886. 5 p.; Francisco Menédez, b. 1830 in Ahuachapán, El Salvador. Distinguished himself in military service and became general of the revolutionist army, served as president from 1885 until his death in 1890. 13 p.
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Courts -- El Salvador
Also available on microfilm.
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partial microfilm reel (17 exposures) : negative (Rich. 416:3) and positive.
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Love is the Motive
Part of the Civil Conversations Project
How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his life. He’s brought the language of mercy and redemption into American culture in recent years, growing out of his work as a lawyer to people unfairly on death row, people who are mentally ill and incarcerated, and children tried as adults. Krista draws out his spirit and his moral imagination.
Play Unedited Bryan Stevenson
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Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama and Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice at New York University School of Law. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
Krista Tippett, host: How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his life. He’s brought the language of mercy and redemption into American culture in recent years, growing out of his work as a lawyer. It’s a pleasure to draw out his spirit and his moral imagination as we feel our need for healing to become a whole society.
[music: “Seven League Boots” by Zoë Keating]
Bryan Stevenson: I am persuaded that hopelessness is the enemy of justice; that if we allow ourselves to become hopeless, we become part of the problem. I think you’re either hopeful, or you’re the problem. There’s no neutral place. We’ve been dealing with injustice in so many places for so long. And if you try to dissect why is this still here, it’s because people haven’t had enough hope and confidence to believe that we can do something better. I think hope is our superpower. Hope is the thing that gets you to stand up, when others say, “Sit down.” It’s the thing that gets you to speak, when others say, “Be quiet.”
Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.
Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy has been a bestseller for years, and was made into a movie. The Equal Justice Initiative that he founded in 1989 has won major legal challenges — including before the Supreme Court — for people unfairly on death row, people who are mentally ill and incarcerated, and children being tried as adults. And in recent years, the Equal Justice Initiative has again broken new ground by creating the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in their city of Montgomery, Alabama.
Tippett: I was very intrigued, when I went back to Just Mercy, getting ready to speak with you, that I had forgotten that you quote Reinhold Niebuhr at the beginning of the book, the public theologian of the last century, saying, “Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.” And I feel like that’s something you didn’t learn at law school, [laughs] but that came from your life.
Stevenson: Well, in many ways I think it’s the background of my family and a larger segment of the Black community, the Black experience. And I appreciate you asking about that quote, because I think I’ve increasingly recognized that we have to be intentional and explicit in our affirmation of the power of love. I don’t think it often comes up when we talk about these dynamics that are so critical …
Tippett: Serious things.
Stevenson: … but in recent years, I really have been talking about it more and more and more.
And what’s interesting is that when I grew up, I never really talked much about my family. I didn’t talk much about background or anything. You’re in the middle of trying to navigate all these challenges — as I’ve said before, I started my education in a colored school. And we were just trying to navigate the challenges of integration. But for me, it really begins with this larger family narrative. My great-grandfather was enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia, and learned to read while enslaved. And I never really thought about that, until later. But I just started thinking about the kind of hope, the kind of vision it took, to believe that one day you’re going to be free, even when nothing around you indicates that freedom is likely for enslaved Black people in Virginia in the 1850s.
Tippett: We don’t think about that, do we, that they couldn’t see the beyond of it.
Stevenson: Exactly. And yet, he had that hope, and he learned to read, and he loved it so much that he wanted to share it with others. So my grandmother would talk about how, after Emancipation, other formerly enslaved people would come to their home, and he would stand up and read the newspaper each night. And she would sit next to him, because she loved the power he had to engage people, to make people feel calmer or more informed. And she would use that word, “love.” And it has absolutely shaped my work more and more.
Tippett: You quote your grandmother a lot. She’s very quotable. She’s clearly a very formidable woman.
Stevenson: She had a very long view. I think she understood the power of an eternal witness. That’s the thing I appreciate about my grandmother. She actually interacted with us in this way that was meant to be eternal And I think she was brilliant at achieving that, in both the things she said, but also in the things she did. And I meet a lot of older Black people, in particular, that seem to have that instinct for creating these memories that just shape you for the rest of your life.
Tippett: So you speak occasionally, and I think very much, these days, about that long arc of the moral universe, that sense of time and that sense of the work ahead of us, generationally, in this country — in our world, too, but in this country. And I do feel like that is in relief now. And so what I really want to do, as we keep speaking here for this hour or so, is really draw out your perspective on that, through the particular place that you have inhabited in your work and in our society — where you’ve been proximate, to use your language.
Tippett: And then pushing closer and closer to what are the root causes, what’s behind this, and this relentless moving towards the heart of the matter and wanting to address this, because could you ever have imagined, when you started the Equal Justice Initiative, which was about being a lawyer and working with people on death row, that then today, somebody would go to your website and there’s a memorial, and there’s a museum? [laughs] So I’m curious, if you reflect at this remove on that evolution, what’s that been about, at heart?
Stevenson: It’s such a terrific question, because you’re absolutely right, this has definitely been a journey of discovery. Had we succeeded with just providing legal services to people and achieving the things that we thought needed to be achieved, we wouldn’t have kept looking. But of course, that wasn’t sufficient. And so you keep digging. And I would not have imagined that today, I’d be working on a museum, a memorial, and these reports.
But it really was about a decade ago, I guess, or maybe twelve years ago, that I began to question whether the law was enough. And it was largely triggered by this awakening that, even though I’m a product of Brown v. Board of Education, about twelve years ago I realized that I don’t think we could win Brown v. Board of Education today.
Tippett: Gosh.
Stevenson: I don’t think our court would do anything that disruptive on behalf of disfavored people, on behalf of marginalized people. And that terrified me. But it also energized me to recognize that we were gonna have to get outside the court and create a different consciousness. The question for me is, why wouldn’t we win? And it’s because we haven’t really reckoned with these larger issues of what it means to be a country dealing with our history of racial inequality.
Tippett: Right. And I think that language you used, about — even you, because you are a product of this culture, as well, when you thought about people in prison, you didn’t think about their humanity. You thought about what they’d done. And even how you use — you speak a lot about the “narrative” — even how we use the language of, it’s not somebody who stole something, it’s a thief. It’s a murderer.
And also, somewhere you said you started to see that slavery doesn’t end, it evolves. And you go back to lynching, and there’s this presumptive criminality just by virtue of being Black, that then turns up in who is in our prisons and who’s on death row. And what you uncover is this callousness — extreme callousness and coarseness and dehumanization that is so at odds with who we want to think of ourselves and want to be, I believe, as a country.
Stevenson: And I think a lot of it has to do with how we’re governed, how we’re acculturated. I think in the 1970s, part of what happened is that our political leaders began relying on the politics of fear and anger as a way of shaping policy. And so we declare this misguided war on drugs: we say that people who are drug dependent and drug addicted are criminals, and we’re gonna use the criminal justice system to respond to that problem. Now, we could have said and should have said that people suffering from addiction and dependency have a health problem and we need a health care response. But that’s not gonna generate the kind of energy that demonizing people for addiction will.
That’s how we got to the point where we were putting people in prison forever, life without parole, for writing a bad check. I’ve represented people who were serving life without parole for simple possession of marijuana. Taking away the minimum age, or trying children as adults. When you step back and you think about it, it makes no sense. And there are 13 states today that have no minimum age for trying a child as an adult. And you can’t really rationalize that unless you are distracted by these narratives of fear and anger.
And I think that is part of the condition that gives rise to the brutality and the cruelty that I’ve seen in my work; and of course, when you are governed by fear and anger, when you’re shaped by fear and anger, you tolerate things you would never otherwise tolerate. You accept things you would never otherwise accept.
And I think, for me, getting at that, pushing people to step back from fear and anger, getting people to think more critically about this larger legacy of racial inequality, is the priority now. And that’s what led me into the racial justice work that we’ve been doing, and this effort at trying to pull apart American history in a new way, in a different way than the way we have tended to hear it.
Tippett: As something we have to reckon with, must reckon with on our way to reckoning with all of that, all of these, what in fact are consequences.
Stevenson: And so the reckoning that has to happen in this country has to be rooted in a moral awareness, a moral awakening, a consciousness that evolves in a way that we begin to do the things that we must do, if we’re going to not only save the country, but save ourselves.
And this is where, for me, faith traditions become so important, because in the faith tradition I grew up in, you can’t come into the church and say, “Oh, I want salvation and redemption and all the good stuff, but I don’t want to admit to anything bad. I don’t want to have to talk about anything bad that I’ve done.” The preachers will tell you, it doesn’t work like that. You’ve got to first repent, and you’ve got to confess. And they try to make you understand that the repentance and confession isn’t something you should fear, but something you should embrace, because what it does is open up the possibility of redemption and salvation. And we have a very religious society, where we talk about these concepts on Sundays, on Saturdays, whatever, but we haven’t embraced them. We haven’t employed them in our collective lives. And I think that has to change.
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Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Today, with lawyer Bryan Stevenson.
Tippett: I see you having played a role, having a voice that is so important — and I’m not sure that people point this out to you — bringing a word like “mercy,” using the language of “redemption.” This is significant. You went to law school because — you and I are about the same age — that’s how you were gonna change the world, right? Changing legal structures.
Here’s something you wrote — and I’m pretty sure this is from Just Mercy — which gets at the life-giving possibility in us picking this up. You said, “We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy. And we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.” You end this by saying, “We all need justice,” you said, “the closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment.” But I think, in wider and wider circles, we see this. “It’s necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and — perhaps — we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
Stevenson: I really believe that. I really do. And I think, for me, it makes it easier when I have to challenge people, when I have to go into places where there’s a lot of hostility, where there’s a lot of resistance, where people look at you as if you’re evil. It makes it easier, because I’ve never thought what I do, I do just for my clients, or I’m doing just for the people who I represent or the people who know I care about them. I’ve always felt like my work, our work, is for everybody. That is, we’re trying to save everyone from the corruption, from the agony, of living lives where there is no mercy, where there is no grace, where there is no justice — where we are indifferent to suffering. Those kinds of lives ultimately lead to violence and animosity and bigotry. And I don’t want that for anybody.
And I do talk a lot, obviously, about my clients; those are the people I have to advocate for, and when I say that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done, I am thinking specifically about them, but I’m also thinking about everybody else. I believe that for every human being. I think if someone tells a lie, they’re not just a liar; that if someone takes something, they’re not just a thief. If you kill someone, you’re not just a killer. But it’s also true, a nation that committed genocide against Indigenous people, a nation that enslaved Black people for two and a half centuries, a nation that tolerated mob lynchings for nearly a century, a nation that created apartheid and segregation laws throughout most of the twentieth century, can also be more than that racist history suggests.
Tippett: That worst thing we did. You always say that none of us is defined by the worst thing tha …
Stevenson: Exactly. And that’s the reason why we ought to find the courage to acknowledge the wrongfulness of those things so that we can then embrace what’s right, what’s corrective, what’s redemptive, what’s restorative. And I do want that for everyone.
Tippett: So you gave the commencement address at Harvard Law School, your alma mater, which I think you said you’d never turned up to graduation when you actually graduated from there.
Stevenson: [laughs] That’s true.
Tippett: You were off pursuing your found vocation.
Stevenson: Yes, exactly.
Tippett: I feel like you offered some — this is America, I bet you get in conversations like this all the time, too: people say, “What do I do? Give me a tip,” or, “What’s the first step?” [laughs] But you did actually lay out a four point program, which I think is helpful, understanding that this is not a four point program for what you do this week, but stepping onto that long arc of the moral universe. And the first part is about “staying proximate.” Your grandmother, again, said to you, “You can’t understand the most important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close.”
Stevenson: And for me, it is an important idea. It’s interesting, because in science and in research, proximity is baked into the very heart of the discipline. If we create a vaccine for COVID, if we create a cure for this virus, it’s because the researchers and scientists understand the details of this virus with such precision and clarity that they’ve been able to create an answer. Innovation comes, in science, by the people who are able to pull something apart with such insight and knowledge that they can then innovate, and they can create new — it’s how we make progress. And I think the same is true in the justice sector: that we cannot make progress in creating a more just society, healthier communities, if we allow ourselves to be disconnected from the people who are most vulnerable: from the poor, the neglected, the incarcerated, the condemned. If you’re trying to make policies in the criminal justice space but have never met someone who’s in a jail or prison, you haven’t been to a jail or prison, you’re going to fail.
I think sometimes when you’re trying to do justice work, when you’re trying to make a difference, when you’re trying to change the world, the thing you need to do is get close enough to people who are falling down, get close enough to people who are suffering, close enough to people who are in pain, who’ve been discarded and disfavored — to get close enough to wrap your arms around them and affirm their humanity and their dignity. And that’s why, whether you graduate from Harvard Law School, you graduate from college, whether you’re a social worker or a teacher, you should not underestimate the power you have to affirm the humanity and dignity of the people who are around you. And when you do that, they will teach you something about what you need to learn about human dignity, but also what you can do to be a change agent.
Tippett: They will show you.
Stevenson: They will absolutely show you.
Tippett: Proximity will reveal the — yeah. And another of your pieces of counsel is: Be willing to do inconvenient and uncomfortable things, which may also entail getting what feels like unsafe. And we are so segregated in so many ways in this society, so thrust together with people who are like us, that I feel like getting proximate in this culture may often mean getting uncomfortable …
Stevenson: Absolutely.
Tippett: …and inconvenienced.
Stevenson: I think it requires a kind of intentionality. I mean, human beings are biologically programmed to do what’s comfortable. We do what’s convenient. It’s just how we get through.
Tippett: What feels safe.
Stevenson: Which means that to do something uncomfortable or inconvenient, we’re gonna have to make a choice. We’re gonna have to make a decision to do what everything around us is telling us we shouldn’t do.
But it is that process that yields progress. Athletes understand this. Every great performer understands that the path to greatness requires an uncomfortable commitment, sometimes even a preoccupation, with the skills necessary to deliver the artistry that you want to deliver. And I just think the same is true when we’re trying to increase the health quotient, increase the justice quotient, in the communities where we live.
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Tippett: After a short break, more with Bryan Stevenson. You can always listen again, and hear the unedited version of every show we do on the On Being podcast feed — wherever podcasts are found.
Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Today, exploring Bryan Stevenson’s spirit and his moral imagination. He’s brought the language of mercy and redemption into American culture in recent years — through his book Just Mercy and his tireless work as a lawyer for people who, as he says, have been defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done: people unfairly on death row, people who are mentally ill and incarcerated, and children being tried as adults. The Equal Justice Initiative that he founded in Montgomery has also created the groundbreaking National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum.
Tippett: I’m so relieved that the election is over. Just setting aside the actual details of the election, [laughs] which are significant, but also because I just feel like 2020 — March, April, May, just those months alone — it laid out so much for us to just dig into.
Stevenson: That’s right, because that’s the other thing I talk about is, you have to be hopeful. And I do think that’s important in this moment, as well, because there’s so much that we see that is dispiriting.
We do these web articles at EJI. We post stuff, and we do a daily calendar thing. And I was just working on one today, about some of these comments by law enforcement officers over the last couple of weeks, and I just find it heartbreaking. We had a police officer in Alabama say, “Join me. I’m going to Washington. I’m gonna shoot Democrats. I’m gonna kill these socialists, and we’re not gonna leave any survivors.” And some of this rhetoric — it was a police officer in Wilmington, North Carolina, that welcomed a war, and he couldn’t wait to kill Black people. And you read some of this stuff, and it’s so disheartening to imagine that we have people who carry those kinds of sentiments in positions like that.
But I do think it’s important that we stay hopeful about our capacity to overcome that bigotry. And I am persuaded that hopelessness is the enemy of justice; that if we allow ourselves to become hopeless, we become part of the problem. I think you’re either hopeful, or you’re the problem. There’s no neutral place. Injustice prevails where hopelessness persists. And if I’ve inherited anything from the generation who came before me, I have inherited their wisdom about the necessity of hope.
Tippett: I think you meant “justice prevails where hopefulness persists.” Is that what you …
Stevenson: Injustice persists —
Tippett: Injustice prevails where hopelessness persists, yes, OK.
Stevenson: [laughs] It’s a lawyerly way of saying something that should be said a lot — but I say it that way only because we’ve been dealing with injustice in so many places for so long. And if you try to dissect why is this still here, it’s because people haven’t had enough hope and confidence to believe that we can do something better. I think hope is our superpower. Hope is the thing that gets you to stand up, when others say, “Sit down.” It’s the thing that gets you to speak, when others say, “Be quiet.” I never met a lawyer until I got to Harvard Law School. I had the hope I could be something I’d actually never seen anybody like me be. We built this museum and memorial — I didn’t know anything about museums and memorials, but I had this kind of idea that we could create a space that might be a truth-telling space, that might help people reckon with this past. And because we had this hope — even starting an organization like this in a place like this, it didn’t make sense, if there wasn’t a hope dynamic pushing you.
And I think we have to have that. I get worried when I meet hopeless teachers or hopeless lawyers or hopeless politicians or hopeless advocates. Those are people who are not going to help us advance justice in the world.
Tippett: The other thing to say about that, or one other thing to say about — the example you gave of the people who are the most hateful and the most consumed by that fear and anger so that they have become it, they’re the ones who get quoted in the newspaper. They represent an extreme. So for me, one of the humbling things, one of the many humbling things about this year is really, really knowing myself to be white and interrogating what that means. And I insist on using the language of “we,” thinking about that long arc, because our descendants are going to see a “we,” an “us.”
But — but — the white “we” has a lot of work to do in this country, right? And it’s easy for people who feel, I don’t know, a little bit more enlightened — it’s easy for white people to start pointing at the bad white people, like that person you just mentioned. And that doesn’t get us anywhere …
Stevenson: It does not.
Tippett: …because we all have work to do. And so I’m curious about how you apply what you learned on death row [laughs] or working with people who are criminals or being treated as criminals by our justice system, that none of us is defined by our worst actions. I feel like that is such an important equation for our common life right now.
Stevenson: Well, I think you’re absolutely right. And I am more interested in what the “we” does, what the collective “we” does, than what the outliers do. And I think one of the challenges of this era of social media is that everybody has a platform, and we do tend to highlight and emphasize the extreme voices and perspectives. I think media does that, I think the larger culture runs to that, but I do think it’s important to push back against that, even as we think about how to repair much of the damage that has been done.
During the 1950s and ’60s, you had all of these people engaging in horrific criminal acts — the white men who killed Emmett Till, who killed the civil rights workers in Selma, who blew up the church. And twenty, thirty years later, we thought that the response to that should be: We should go prosecute those people. And then we had these prosecutions of older white men in ‘80s and ‘90s, who were Klan members, and we thought that if we convicted them that we could exonerate the society. And I’m not opposed to those convictions or to those prosecutions, but I think it’s a mistake to think that they acted in a setting where only they were culpable. It was the politicians who gave permission to people to talk and think and believe these thoughts. It’s the larger we who created an environment where we were saying, “Segregation forever.”
And just as then, we are now. When we give in to rhetoric and we start talking about using violence to silence those whose positions and opinions we disagree with, when we engage in rhetoric that tries to legitimate the conduct of people who are advancing ideologies that are destructive and violent and bigoted, we become complicit. And we have to understand that.
And it’s not just the people have power, the elected officials — it’s everybody else, because we give those people the power that they have. And in our museum, we really thought about this, because when I started talking about enslavement, the first thing you’d say is, “Well, my people never owned slaves,” as if somehow that exonerates them.
The political consequences of driving six million Black people out of the Deep South, into the margins of communities in the North and West, are evident in the political contours of our society today. The legacy of segregation. And we try to run from it: “I didn’t do that.” I can’t do that. I have to own that.
Tippett: And you especially can’t do it if the goal is not just the punitive, or just the getting justice in a narrow sense; if the goal is repair and repentance and redemption.
Stevenson: That’s exactly right. That’s exactly right. And in fact, what you ought to be doing is thinking about, OK, in what ways am I contributing to this? We have a project that we’re starting — it’s called the Truth and Justice Project. And we’re actually gonna be working with institutions, asking them to focus on their institution — to step back, put aside all the global stuff. And it began, really, in 2018 when we were opening the memorial. The local newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, was kind of complaining a little bit. They said, oh, we know you’re gonna talk to The New York Times and The Washington Post and all of these other — but you won’t talk to us. [laughs] And I said, well, let’s have a conversation about that.
And we showed them their coverage, their media, their coverage of lynchings that took place in this area, early in the twentieth century. And you read it, and it breaks your heart. They were absolutely encouraging this violence. And I said, “If you ask me why don’t I trust you, it’s rooted in my knowledge of this history.”
And we started a dialogue, and the editor didn’t know about any of that stuff, but when we confronted him, he says, “You know what? We have to apologize.” I said, “I think that would be really powerful.” And on the opening, they did this massive headline, massive frontpage, a whole edition dedicated to apologizing for their role in contributing to racial terror, lynchings, in this community. And it was really powerful. And I thought, well, after the Montgomery Advertiser did this, lots of newspapers are going to do that. And the truth is, nobody else did it. And that’s because that instinct to not tell the truth if you don’t have to, to not confront these problems, is so powerful.
But this project that we’re doing is a project that is going to encourage these institutions to do exactly what the Advertiser did in that setting. We have banks that denied mortgages and loans to Black veterans after World War II and created the wealth gap that we still see today. And I think they need to own that. We have institutions in this country that refused to provide coverage on insurance plans when Black people were forced off their lands as a result of racial violence. And I think we need to own that. We’ve got railroads —
Tippett: I think of Marilyn Nelson. Do you know her? The poet? She’s been working with a church in Connecticut, a church in Connecticut that’s going back to their original documents and how many slaves the pastor owned.
But I love this. I think this is a move — we did something just a couple weeks ago with John Biewen, just talking about — and he grew up in Minnesota — talking about being white, and just interrogating the history of your town. And in fact, the history of his town is where the greatest massacre [Editor’s note: Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen’s hometown, was the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history.] in American history came, of Indian tribal peoples, signed by, set forth by Abraham Lincoln in the middle of the Civil War. But just uncovering that, just as we would in a family, if we wanted to heal our family, we would start to tell the truth about what really happened.
Stevenson: Absolutely. And it’s the way we get better. Twelve-step programs are built on this idea that first, you have to acknowledge the problem.
Tippett: Confession.
Stevenson: Confession: “I am an alcoholic.” If you’re unwilling to say that, AA can’t help you. And we are a society that has been racially unjust. And we have to be willing —
Tippett: We haven’t even said it out loud.
Stevenson: We haven’t said it out loud. Part of the idea for the museum was, I went to the Holocaust Museum. You get to the end of that — it’s a narrative museum. We don’t have many cultural spaces in this country that I defined as narrative spaces. The Holocaust Museum is an exception, and when you get to the end of the Holocaust Museum, you’re motivated to say, “Never again,” regardless of what your background is.
Tippett: I’ve heard so many people who speak about coming to your museum, to the lynching — do you call it The Lynching Museum?
Stevenson: It’s actually two institutions —
Tippett: There’s a memorial, right?
Stevenson: So The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the institution that honors victims of lynching. The Legacy Museum is actually the institution that tells the stories —
Tippett: Enslavement to mass incarceration.
Tippett: But people speak about that the way they speak about making a pilgrimage.
Stevenson: And for me, that’s really important. I think the journey is important. Going to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, were transformative experiences for me. And I think this country needs that kind of transformation, that kind of reckoning. And unfortunately, we’ve made it harder than it needs to be, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t do it. And that’s certainly what we’re trying to achieve in our spaces.
Tippett: So one of the weird things about the world right now is that I’m in my basement, and I don’t have a clock right here, which I would have in the studio. So can you tell me what time it is?
Stevenson: [laughs] I think we are ten after the hour.
Tippett: 3:10, OK. So can we keep going for fifteen minutes or so?
Stevenson: Sure.
Tippett: There’s a story you tell that I love, about when Rosa Parks used to come to town from Detroit, and she had some friends there. And you knew these women, and one of them was Johnnie Carr, I guess the driving force behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And they would invite you — not necessarily to take part, but to listen — [laughs] and that Rosa Parks asked you, at some point, to tell her about the Equal Justice Initiative. And what did she say?
Stevenson: Well, I was really privileged to be nurtured by this community of mostly women, who had been so staunch and resolute to achieve justice. And yes, Miss Carr invited me to go over to a woman named Virginia Durr. Virginia Durr was a white woman whose husband, Clifford Durr, had represented Dr. King. And she lived in a part of Montgomery called Cloverdale. And Miss Carr told me Miss Parks was coming to town, and she said, “Do you want to come over and just listen?” And I said, of course. And then every now and then, she would do this: she’d say, “Bryan, what does the word ‘listen’ mean?” And then [laughs] I’d have to explain that I knew I wasn’t supposed to say anything.
And I remember that day so clearly. I sat out on Ms. Durr’s porch with Rosa Parks and Miss Carr, and they just talked and talked and talked. And the unbelievable thing about their conversation was that none of them were talking about all the extraordinary things they had done in the ‘50s and ‘60s and ‘70s. When Miss Parks left Montgomery, she went on to work with John Conyers — she went on to do a lot of work in the social justice movement. She was involved with Malcolm X; she was involved with a lot of people, trying to advance racial equality, after Montgomery. But they weren’t talking about any of those things. They were all talking about the things they still wanted to do. And there was this hopefulness in their conversation, and it was so powerful. And I just sat there, [laughs] soaking it in.
And so when she turned to me and said, “OK, Bryan, now tell me about the Equal Justice Initiative. Tell me what you’re trying to do,” the first thing I had to do was to look at Miss Carr to see if I had permission to speak. And she nodded, [laughs] and then it just came tumbling out of me. I started giving Miss Parks my rap. I said, “Well, we’re trying to end the death penalty. We’re trying to help people on death row. We’re trying to challenge conditions of confinement. We’re trying to help the mentally ill. We’re trying to help children. We’re trying to help the poor.” I’m just throwing all of these things out. [laughs] And when I finished giving her my rap, she looked at me and she just said, “Mm-mm-mm. That’s gonna make you tired, tired, tired.” [laughs] And Miss Carr leaned forward and she said, “That’s why you’ve got to be brave, brave, brave.”
And I’ll never forget it, because I do think, in many ways, what these women taught me was the necessity of courage if you’re going to advance justice, if you’re going to be even a complete human being. Sometimes it takes courage to love — to just be who you should be to the people you care about.
Tippett: I guess you’re legendarily hardworking, dedicated, devoted to your vocation, which is what I want to call it. How do you stay brave? How do you nurture that in yourself? Because I know — there’s a moment, and you speak about this, about realizing — you were, I think, at the execution of someone — Jimmy Dill, is that right? Am I remembering that right?
Stevenson: That’s right, yep. That’s right. That’s right.
Tippett: Thinking and dwelling on, reasonably, the brokenness all around you — in the system, in the people — and then understanding that that brokenness was in you, and that in some way that doesn’t make a lot of rational sense, that that realization was part of what kept you connected and kept you going.
Stevenson: I do think what sustains me is this knowledge I have that it’s really the broken among us that can contribute a lot to our quest for full, equal justice. When you’re broken, you actually — you know something about what it means to be human. You know something about grace. You learned something about mercy. You learned something about forgiveness. It’s the broken among us that can teach us some things. And knowing that you don’t have to be perfect and complete gives you a way of moving through challenge that would be hard if you think that that’s not something that’s possible.
And so I tell my young staff, you can’t do this work, you can’t be in some of the painful places we’re in, you can’t hold children who’ve been abused, and not be impacted by that. You’re going to shed some tears. You are. And you’re gonna be overwhelmed, you’re going to get tired, you’re gonna get pushed down — all of those things are going to happen, and it doesn’t mean you’re weak. It doesn’t mean that you’re not up to the task. It doesn’t mean you’re incompetent or incapable. It just means you’re a human being. And that’s what I want: I want human beings.
And so what sustains me is, in part, this knowledge that I can’t always feel confident and sure and clear; that there are gonna be times when it’s uncertain what’s going to happen. And I’ve tried to appreciate that.
And I do feel, at times, lifted up by the spirit of people who have endured way more. I talked to John Lewis just before he passed away, and it was such an honor knowing him. And I was just saying to him, “I feel so privileged, as a result of what you did.” And I told him, “I’ve had hard days; I get death threats and all that kind of stuff. But I’ve never had to say, ‘My head is bloodied but not bowed,’ like you did.” And when you realize that those injuries created spaces that some of us could occupy, that were a little less violent, you begin to appreciate what you can do and why you shouldn’t feel overwhelmed and why you shouldn’t feel knocked down.
When we opened the memorial in 2018 — I’ve been talking about this a little bit more. It was just such a surreal experience to have 25,000 people come to Montgomery to see these spaces that we had created. And I wanted everything to be perfect; we had all of these great thinkers and civil rights activists, and musicians were coming to perform. And on the morning of the dedication at the memorial, it looked like it was going to rain. And I’d been just terrified at the idea that it would rain and mess up this experience. I was so worried about it and the clouds were just getting darker and darker.
And just as I was getting ready to stand up to speak, I mean, the clouds just opened up, and all of a sudden, it was a downpour. And this thing I had been dreading, all of a sudden became something completely different. And I was listening to these raindrops hit the top of this memorial, and looking up at all of these monuments, which are dedicated to lynching victims. And all of a sudden, I had this awareness that this wasn’t something I should fear, that this wasn’t something I should dread. In that moment, it didn’t sound like rain hitting the top of the memorial. It sounded like tears being shed by the thousands of Black people whose lives have never been honored, whose names have never been mentioned, and it sounded like they were shedding tears of joy that there was this moment of reckoning.
And that’s the gift I think I’ve been given by this legacy, by this ancestry that celebrates struggling for justice, that honors struggling for justice, and I hold onto that. I do. And it sustains me in times when I need it, and absolutely compels me to keep doing as much as I can.
Tippett: I do have to say, you use the word “beauty” a lot. I also have this sense, you see the beauty that comes from what happens to people when they come to the memorial, the beauty that comes from truth-telling. And I just sense, delving into you, that that also sustains you, whether you’re even conscious of that or not.
Stevenson: Oh, it absolutely does. I feel like that’s the great joy of my work, is that I find beauty in places where people think beauty can’t exist. I’ve found it on death row. I’ve found it in the lives of people who’ve been told that they’re so beyond hope and redemption and purpose that they should be killed. I’ve found it in places of extreme poverty. I’ve found it in places that have gone through incredible challenges as a result of injustice and bigotry. And yet, there it is.
Tippett: So here’s my last question. I think a lot about what are the callings for this time — callings, being alive at this time? And I think there are so many of them. And I hear one in your phrase, “we have to be stone catchers.” [laughs] I wonder if you would just reflect on what you mean when you say that, and if there’s a way you would want to expand on “callings,” for this time.
Stevenson: Well, I do think we’re at a time when it’s just become so easy to judge people in these really harsh and extreme ways. And even people of faith have been pulled into this habit, this instinct for condemning the others who don’t share their beliefs and views; for reducing people to their worst act. And I’ve always been struck by that parable, that Scripture, that story where Jesus encounters the woman who has been caught in adultery. And what’s powerful about it is, no one says, “Oh, she didn’t do it.” It’s not an innocence story. That’s not part of it. And those who are there to judge her say that the law says we should stone her to death. And the scripture reveals that Jesus says, well, let he of you that is without sin cast the first stone. And they’re convicted by that, because they know that none of them is sinless, and they one by one put their stones down and they walk away. And then Jesus says to the woman, go, and sin no more. And it’s a powerful story about mercy and redemption and grace, and what I’ve realized is that in this era, I don’t think our righteous would put their stones down. I think that we have too many people who would, despite that exhortation, would still cast the stones. They feel insulated from the hypocrisy and judgment that that implies.
And so I think it’s incumbent on some of us to intervene, to catch the stones. It doesn’t mean that those vulnerable should be condemned; it just means that some of us are going to have to be stone catchers. And that’s the idea that I’ve come to embrace, is that just because people won’t recognize what the right and just thing is to do, that it’s not right and just to cast those stones, doesn’t mean that that’s the end of the struggle. We have to stand up. We have to stand in front of those who are vulnerable and we have to catch those stones.
And I think that is one of the callings for this moment, and I think the other calling, for me, is that we have to begin this process of truth-telling, that we have to recognize that we can’t get well if we don’t identify, if we don’t diagnose the disease. We have this instinct for quick-fix and quick-cure. And if you don’t know what’s wrong with you, you’re not going to know whether the cure that you’ve been prescribed is sufficient. And I think this process of diagnosing the many ways that we are not healthy is not something we should fear but something we should embrace, because once we’ve done that, I think we have the capacity, the genius, the strength, the ingenuity, the wherewithal, to begin to address these maladies, this illness, and emerge as a healthier society, a healthier nation, a healthier place in the world, for everyone. And that’s what animates the work we’re trying to do now.
[music: “Gbfisysih” by Blue Dot Sessions]
Tippett: Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama. Find out about everything they do at EJI.org. He’s also Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice at New York University School of Law. His book is Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
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The LG has finally released the world’s first rollable TV
November 24, 2020 Offerwage0
LG has succeeded in the seemingly impossible for years, the company has finally unveiled the world’s first perishable TV, LG unveiled its TVs at CES 2019 this week, and LG has given us a sneak peek at foldable TVs. I got it for the first time at CES last year.
LG SIGNATURE OLED TV R (model 65R9) is now the talk of town and all about the format it uses LG’s advanced OLED technology to make the screen look clear and bright. However, people don’t seem to care about display requirements and more about TV’s practicality.
The TV is not much different from the prototype revealed last year, but LG has tweaked the base and added 100-watt Dolby Atmos speakers for clear and powerful built-in sound.
People have been mesmerized by this TV for a year. Everyone is curious to see if LG can do the seemingly impossible task of making foldable TVs. It looks like they can pull the rabbit out of the hat.
LG has created a TV screen based on the revolutionary flexible screen technology that allows users to view the screen up and down with just one click. The letter R in the model name symbolizes many things, not just “rollable”.
According to LG, R stands for “revolutionizing home entertainment and redefining space with the ability to lift and roll at the touch of a button.” It definitely looks revolutionary and will redefine the way you watch TV. (Literally!)
For example, you don’t have to worry anymore about not having a permanent area for the flat screen. With just one click, users will be able to create their own entertainment space as they like. LG states that the TV has three modes: Full View, Line View, and Zero View.
Full View provides a large screen viewing experience, allowing users to view the screen in full screen. This option is the same for LG OLED TV’s “normal” viewing, resulting in high contrast, deep blacks, and lifelike images.
Line View allows the TV to be partially folded so that users can perform tasks that do not require the full width of the TV.
On Zero View, the 65 ”screen is hidden from view and attached to the base. Consumers will still be able to use their TVs to listen to music through Dolby Atmos 100W speakers, even if they are kept away.
LG understands that not everyone needs large, rectangular items with thick frames to decorate their home or use a larger living space. People are starting to pay more attention to beauty, simplicity and elegance when it comes to television.
People want their TVs to blend in well decorated living areas, not other areas. LG was clearly the first company to fully recognize this trend. But there was a great risk in developing such a revolutionary idea.
When it comes to perishable TVs, LG has to admit that people don’t always want their devices to be the centerpiece of their lives, and the company has to rebuild the TV wheel, so to speak, 4K rotatable TV builds on the simple idea that when it’s not In use, the TV should not be visible.
Users have to press a button to turn on the TV on the base station. This will give their living space more open and “breathing” space.
We expect the TV to hit the market around March. But it will not be correct
LG’s backlit OLED TVs start at $ 8,000, and if that’s any indication, the new model should cost more than $ 8,000.
Samsung has released gorgeous and elegant TVs like The Frame and Serif, but without the “it” factor.
Who knew a smart device would one day be as flexible as rubber? Giant LG TVs with similar flexibility to paper will go on sale next year.
Ever wondered what you could do with this beautiful wall if you had the option to fold the LCD when not looking? The problem for the rich today, technology appears to be synonymous with luxury.
So, LG 65 ” rollable LCD TV at this year’s CES will be available next year, which will be of interest to everyone. An anonymous source told Bloomberg that the television will respond very well.
If you can really hear an LCD screen making noise as it rotates in your head, it should be separate, as LG uses light-emitting diodes / OLEDs, which will provide flexibility that conventional or liquid LCDs cannot provide. Owns
Foldable phones have been getting everyone’s attention for a while now. Samsung’s foldable phone (rumored to be the Galaxy X) will be the most expensive phone in the world. The phone was officially featured at the Samsung Developer Conference and to be honest, it couldn’t impress me.
When the rumors of the company’s January launch of the foldable phone that the foldable TV grabbed everyone’s attention were postponed, LG has not responded to the rumors.
However, what we’re sure is that the company is preparing to launch its first 5G phone at next year’s Mobile World Congress, and it has partnered with US telecoms company Sprint on the project.
LG’s foldable TV has 4K resolution and the TV steps up from a tall support panel. It can be returned with the help of the remote control, of course. Another interesting feature is the ability to shrink the screen to 1/4 so that you can enjoy your music without using large text.
The screen is very thin (of course, how do you think you took it off?), As well as the thick monitor screen around the top edge, so is this TV. In fact, this foldable wonderland can easily be converted into a projector. By offering high quality video quality, this TV is ruining the office with its projector ownership tradition. So you can expect the next big event to hit the office next year.
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Seder at the home of Hugo Brill, Herzebrock, 1934.
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 6:30 PM
Members: $5
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Co-presented with Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, with an introduction by David Adelson, Dean of the HUC-JIR New York Campus.
The Pew Research Center’s study on Jewish Americans in 2013 alarmed some observers by showing rising intermarriage, falling birthrates, and dwindling religious affiliation among the non-Orthodox. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany’s increasingly prosperous Jewish minority confronted similar questions about the nature of Jewish identity and the viability of Jewish communal life in a secularizing society. Samuel Norich, president and former publisher of the Forward, will moderate a discussion with Steven Cohen (Hebrew Union College) and Robin Judd (Ohio State University) about the parallels and contrasts between the situations of German Jews a century ago and American Jews today.
Samuel Norich is the president of the Forward and has served as executive director of the Forward Association since 2000. He was the publisher of the English and Yiddish Forward for 19 years until 2016. He was born in Germany in 1947 and immigrated to the United States in 1957. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a graduate student. Norich served as executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1980 until 1992, and as vice president of the World Jewish Congress from 1975 to 1981. Norich is the author of What Will Bind Us Now?: A Report on the Institutional Ties Between Israel and American Jewry (1994).
Steven M. Cohen is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University. He has written hundreds of scholarly articles and policy-related reports, as well as a dozen books including The Jew Within (with Arnold Eisen, 2000) and Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experience (with Charles Liebman, 1990). He was the lead researcher on the Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 and a consultant to the Pew study of American Jews published in 2013.
Robin Judd is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her book Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933, was published by Cornell University Press (2007). She is currently completing her newest book project, Love, Liberation, and Loss: Jewish Brides, Soldier Husbands, and Communal Reconstruction after the Holocaust. Judd currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of Leo Baeck Institute.
This event is part of LBI’s fall 2017 series exploring the contemporary relevance of German-Jewish history.
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Interactive Fun with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend is a new interactive game/adventure. If you know the Kimmy Schmidt franchise and like the characters, you’ll probably have fun fooling around with this.
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Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 Categories Streaming, TV seriesTags Carol Kane, Claire Scanlon, Daniel Radcliffe, Ellie Kemper, Interactive, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend, Women DirectorsLeave a comment on Interactive Fun with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend
Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Personal Shopper, and Black Lightning
How about some short thoughts on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt , Personal Shopper , and Black Lightning? Let’s go there.
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Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on February 6, 2019 February 6, 2019 Categories Movies, Streaming, TV seriesTags Black Lightning, Carol Kane, China Anne McClain, Christine Adams, Cress Williams, Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Kristen Stewart, Nafessa Williams, Personal Shopper, Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt2 Comments on Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Personal Shopper, and Black Lightning
Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type
In this brain dump I’m disgorging tidbits about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt , Set it Up , and The Bold Type . One’s to binge watch, one’s a movie, and one’s a series on Freeform. Continue reading “Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type”
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on June 21, 2018 Categories Movies, Streaming, TV seriesTags Aisha Dee, Carol Kane, Claire Scanlon, Ellie Kemper, Glen Powell, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Katie Silberman, Katie Stevens, Lucy Liu, Meghann Fahy, Melora Hardin, Set it Up, Taye Diggs, The Bold Type, Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Women Directors, Zoey DeutchLeave a comment on Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type
Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is back with season 3. It’s as funny as ever. Kimmy is no longer the wide-eyed child all new to the world after 15 years locked underground. She’s developed a certain mature wisdom – not always reliable, but she’s finding her way. This is a review of season 3 only and contains minor spoilers. Continue reading “Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3”
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on May 25, 2017 May 25, 2017 Categories Streaming, TV seriesTags Adrienne C. Moore, Amy Sedaris, Andrea Martin, Beyoncé, Billy Magnussen, Carol Kane, Daveed Diggs, David Cross, Dylan Gelula, elders rock, Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Laura Dern, Lauren Adams, Lemonade, Matt Oberg, Maya Rudolph, Mike Carlsen, Orange is the New Black, Peter Riegert, Phyllis Somerville, Rachel Dratch, Ray Liotta, Robert Carlock, Sara Chase, season 3, Sol Miranda, Tina Fey, Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Women DirectorsLeave a comment on Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 2 has 13 short episodes of the same madcap buffoonery we saw in season 1. It does move the story along and show character growth and some hidden depths. You must dig through the comedy to find the message, however.
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Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on April 26, 2016 April 26, 2016 Categories Streaming, TV seriesTags Amy Sedaris, Anna Camp, Carol Kane, David Cross, Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Hamm, Josh Charles, Ki Hong Lee, Lisa Kudrow, Mike Carlsen, Robert Carlock, season 2, Suzan Perry, Tina Fey, Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy SchmidtLeave a comment on Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 2
Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt caught my eye because it was created by Robert Carlock and Tina Fey. The Netflix-only series stars Ellie Kemper as the title character.
The set-up is that 4 women have been held in an underground bunker for 15 years by a crazy reverend (Jon Hamm) who told them there was an apocalypse above them and nothing was left. Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) survived her 15 years by being determinedly happy and cheerful. She was unbreakable. Now that she’s out in the world, Kimmy’s brand of sunny cheerfulness influences everyone she meets.
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Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on March 11, 2015 April 20, 2016 Categories Streaming, TV seriesTags Carol Kane, Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Martin Short, Richard Kind, Robert Carlock, season 1, Tina Fey, Tituss Burgess, trailers, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt2 Comments on Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Review: Thanks for Sharing
Thanks for Sharing boasts a great cast in a fair story about people in a 12-step group for sex addiction. The film gives superficial treatment to 4 sex addicts’ story lines. Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Alecia Moore (Pink) are the sex addicts; all are in the same support group.
Tim Robbins and Mark Ruffalo have been in the group and “sober” for a while. Newcomers Josh Gad and Pink join the group as the film starts.
Tim Robbins is in a stable relationship with a very underused Joely Richardson. He is estranged from his son, played by Patrick Fugit. A good part of his recovery efforts in the film deal with healing his relationship with his son.
Mark Ruffalo meets Gweneth Paltrow’s character as the film starts and wants to have a normal relationship with her after going for 5 years without being with anyone. She’s not without her own hangups, but his hangups definitely trump hers. He’s terrible at having a normal relationship.
Josh Gad probably has never had real sex in his life and has a creepy mother wonderfully played by Carol Kane. Inexplicably, he and Pink become good buddies and help each other with their recovery.
Finally there is Pink, whose problems are given the most cursory treatment. <sarcasm> Obviously, the men’s stories are more important than a woman’s. </sarcasm>
Here’s the trailer for this 2013 film.
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on September 9, 2014 July 25, 2019 Categories MoviesTags Alecia Moore, Carol Kane, Gweneth Paltrow, Joely Richardson, Josh Gad, Mark Ruffalo, Patrick Fugit, Pink, Thanks for Sharing, Tim Robbins, trailersLeave a comment on Review: Thanks for Sharing
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Bullets Over Broadway Musical Will Launch National Tour
April 1st, 2015 | By Ryan Gilbert
Gee, baby, ain’t they good to us? The national tour of the musical comedy Bullets Over Broadway, written by Woody Allen and based on the screenplay by Allen and Douglas McGrath, will launch in Cleveland, OH on October 6, 2015. The tour plans to visit over 25 cities in North America. Casting and official dates will be announced shortly.
Bullets Over Broadway tells the story of an aspiring playwright in 1920s New York who is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend in his new show in order to have it produced on the Great White Way. The tuner features existing hits from the 1920s, including “Let’s Misbehave,” “Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do” and “There’s a New Day Comin’!”
Following his work on the Broadway production of Bullets Over Broadway, originally directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, the tour is helmed by director Jeff Whiting. The creative team also includes scenic design by Jason Ardizzone-West, lighting design by Carolyn Wong and sound design by Shannon Slaton. The tour features six-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long's original Broadway costumes.
The original production of Bullets Over Broadway premiered on the Great White Way last season at the St. James Theatre with performances beginning on March 11, 2014 and an official opening on April 10, 2014. The production received six Tony-Award nominations, including Best Book of a Musical and Best Choreography.
Can’t wait for Bullets Over Broadway to visit your city? Click below to see highlights from the Broadway production!
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The Polis Commission: Did Polis have appointment power? Who was left off?
October 6, 2014 By Complete Colorado
The governor’s Oil and Gas Task Force has only met once, but if it helps reelect Gov. John Hickenlooper and other Democrats, it’s already accomplished its mission.
That’s the take from some analysts and critics, who point to the panel’s lopsided, Democrat-heavy membership and lack of key stakeholders as evidence that the governor is more concerned with keeping Democrats in power than with resolving the pitched debate over hydraulic fracturing and local control.
“This commission exists solely for political purposes. It’s a sham,” said state Sen. Greg Brophy (R-Wray). “This is, ‘We’ve got to buy time. Get me past my election and I’ll have more flexibility.’”
Missing from the 19-member panel are those representing mineral-rights owners or the Colorado Farm Bureau, even though most oil and gas development takes place in rural, agricultural communities. The task force includes a handful of pro-Democrat environmentalists, but no leaders of the state’s anti-fracking movement.
Even so, Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli says the panel achieves two critical goals for Hickenlooper: It reinforces his brand as a centrist who can deliver the tough compromise, and it eliminates a fractious election-year battle over hydraulic fracturing that had threatened to divide Democrats and hobble his candidacy, as well as the bids of other top Democrats like Sen. Mark Udall.
“This has to do with helping the Democratic governor and the Democratic Party because they’re the people who have a very, very divided constituency over this,” Ciruli said. “They’re hoping a combination of kicking it down the road and coming up with another package that essentially adds a little bit of local control with some judicial and other restraints will keep everybody on board and make a ban unacceptable. But there’s a lot of ‘ifs’ in there.”
Among those irked by the task force’s membership is state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling), who reluctantly agreed as part of the compromise to withdraw his own industry-backed ballot initiative, which would have withheld severance revenues from communities that ban oil and gas development.
He did so as part of an Aug. 4 bargain between Hickenlooper, several oil-and-gas companies, and Democratic Rep. Jared Polis, in which Polis agreed to drop his two anti-fracking ballot measures in exchange for the formation of a task force and the elimination of two pro-industry initiatives, one of which was Sonnenberg’s.
Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg
Sonnenberg said he submitted about 15 names to the governor’s office for consideration, but the only agriculture representatives chosen for the panel were those with strong Democratic Party ties: Jim Fitzgerald, a rancher and activist affiliated with the EarthWorks Oil & Gas Accountability Project who has given to Democratic candidates, and Kent Peppler, another Democratic donor who heads the left-of-center Rocky Mountain Farmers Union.
An open-records request found that the Colorado Farm Bureau, Club 20, the Western Landowners Alliance, and the National Association of Royalty Owners also offered panel recommendations, but none were accepted.
“I’m disappointed agriculture didn’t have more [representation], frankly, and that the governor didn’t take hardly any of my ag recommendations,” Sonnenberg said. “With Polis giving his recommendations, I went ahead and submitted a number of names, actually names that served a dual purpose, both local government and agriculture [representatives] that understand oil and gas and also understand local control, and he didn’t take any of those.”
Which panelists were recommended by Polis? A records request found no communication on the task force membership between Polis and the governor’s office, but Sonnenberg said he was told by Hickenlooper that several members were Polis’s picks.
“From my conversation with the governor, yes, Polis got several people on the commission,” Sonnenberg said. “His [Hickenlooper’s] office had called me before the release just to give me a heads-up on what the makeup was going to look like, and I expressed my disappointment to the office, and so he [Hickenlooper] called me following up on that, just trying to justify why they made the choices they did.”
“Considering most of the oil and gas production is on ag land, I thought ag producers should have a huge role on this commission, but it appears that was–how do I say this politely? It appears that was ignored,” Sonnenberg said.
On the other hand, the task force has no shortage of Democrat partisans. The 19-member task force includes 13 panelists who have donated to Democratic candidates, including eight members who contributed to Hickenlooper’s 2010 or 2014 gubernatorial campaigns. There’s a sprinkling of Republicans: former state House Speaker Russ George and Weld County Clerk Steve Moreno, as well as former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Kourlis, who’s the daughter of a former GOP governor.
Hickenlooper spokeswoman Kathy Green told the Coloradoan that party affiliation wasn’t a factor in choosing the task force members.
“Composition of this group was one of the most critical parts of the process,” Green said, “so the governor looked for a bipartisan and balanced group that represents a wide range of interests, areas and beliefs. Political support and/or donations to any party did not play a factor in this decision.
The governor’s staff sifted through nearly 300 applicants before deciding last month on the task force members. The idea was to have one third of the panelists from local government and environmental groups; one third from the oil-and-gas industry, and one third civic leaders.
The task force’s charge is to propose recommendations to the state legislature on minimizing land-use conflicts between communities and the oil-and-gas industry. The recommendations are due March 2015, and Polis has hinted that another ballot battle could be in the offing if the legislature fails to act.
Polis’s two anti-fracking ballot initiatives—one that would have quadrupled setbacks to 2,000 feet, the other to give localities more control over drilling operations—came after hotly contested campaigns over fracking in six Front Range towns: Boulder, Broomfield, Fort Collins, Lafayette, Longmont and Loveland.
Five of those six communities have approved either moratoriums or local-control measures in the last two years. Gary Wockner, state director of Clean Water Watch, was involved in some if not all of those campaigns, but his application to serve on the task force was also rejected.
“What I would call the fractivist base is not at all represented on that commission,” Wockner told Westword. “The entire issue got to the governor’s attention because of the elections, but none of those people ended up on this panel.”
The only panelist connected to a local-control group, Sara Barwinski of Weld Air and Water, lives in Greeley and wasn’t involved in those campaigns.
Ciruli said the governor’s goal isn’t to reach an accord with the fractivist movement, but to isolate it by coming up with recommendations backed by industry and Democrat-friendly environmental groups that will satisfy Polis–and stop him from funding another anti-fracking ballot campaign in 2016.
“The governor’s strategy here, obviously along with the public relations from this entire effort, is that in the short term, he’s mostly concerned about Nov. 4,” Ciruli said. “The long-term benefit from that strategy is that he will isolate these [anti-fracking] individuals and Polis will not go with them.”
Separating Polis from the anti-fracking movement is important for Democrats because he’s a multi-millionaire with the resources to wage a successful statewide campaign. The risk for Hickenlooper is that a wealthy out-of-state group with no loyalty to the Democratic Party could decide to step in and fund the cause on behalf of the Colorado’s rag-tag fractivists.
Already Littleton fractivist Phillip Doe has submitted paperwork for an anti-fracking initiative on the November 2016 ballot. Cliff Willmeng, who led the successful Lafayette local-control campaign, has vowed to do the same with a Colorado Community Rights Amendment.
“There are some other multi-millionaires and billionaires that could come in and play the Polis role,” Ciruli said.
If that happens, supporters of the oil-and-gas industry may wish they’d taken their chances with Polis. The 2014 mid-term election is trending Republican, which would have presumably worked against the Polis initiatives, but the presidential race will undoubtedly boost turnout in 2016 among younger voters, who are more likely to take up the anti-fracking cause.
“I think we could have won it [in November], and quite frankly I was making the argument that Polis was going to pull his anyway because it is a political liability,” Sonnenberg said. “He was getting pressure from Washington, D.C., he was getting pressure from Mark Udall, and he was getting pressure from our governor here because of the political impacts on the upcoming election.”
Sonnenberg said the polling done by his group showed that Polis’s measures would have lost if they’d qualified for the ballot, while his pro-industry initiative would have won.
“I don’t believe that the anti-fracking threat will ever go away, quite frankly, until we find a way to battle them at the ballot box,” Sonnenberg said. “They’re already talking about 2016 initiatives on oil and gas or anti-fracking, so I don’t think this goes away, and that was one of my frustrations with the agreement. They didn’t get Polis to agree not to run a ballot initiative in 2016.”
Of course, Sonnenberg didn’t make any promises, either. “I assure you if Polis runs his initiatives in 2016,” he said, “mine will be back.”
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Weld County will not downgrade Safer at Home status, remains ‘open for business.’ Polis, CDPHE praise county for progress
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Weld commissioners pull out of C-PACE program citing risk of default; some claim political payback
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Kathrine Herzer
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Kathrine Herzer is one of the coolest people working in television. Want to know how we know? Because we ruined “Game of Thrones” for her and she did not hang up on us. In fact, after our uncomfortable awkwardness subsided, the conversation went smoother than an Arya Stark execution as Herzer shared amazing insight into her career and her work on the hit television series “Madam Secretary.”
Seriously. We completely screwed the White Walker pooch on this one. (So be warned… SPOILER ALERTS AHEAD!)
We recently sat down with Herzer to apologize profusely, to discuss how she learned so much from her talented costars, and to discover why you’d have to proceed to fisticuffs in order to keep her from working towards positive change.
TrunkSpace: We saw on your Twitter page that you are a “Game of Thrones” fan. Thoughts on a White Walker dragon?
Herzer: Oh my god! I’m not caught up!
TrunkSpace: Oh no! We are so sorry! Nooooo!
Herzer: (Laughter) Oh my god! Spoiler alert! (Laughter)
TrunkSpace: We take it all back. That never happened. Totally rewinding this conversation.
Herzer: (Laughter) Oh my god! It’s already burned from my brain.
TrunkSpace: Seriously… so sorry!
Herzer: It’s okay. I already don’t even know what you said. I don’t even remember.
TrunkSpace: We’ve actually never seen “Game of Thrones,” so we don’t even know what we’re talking about.
Herzer: You had a dream last night and that’s what came to you.
TrunkSpace: That’s right. All a dream!
Herzer: (Laughter)
TrunkSpace: Soooooo… moving on to the non-GoT portion of this conversation, you’re still at such an early stage in your career and yet you’ve already experienced playing the same character for over 60 episodes. What has that experience been like for you, essentially growing as two people in front of an audience of millions?
Herzer: It’s so cool to see how someone develops over that amount of time. Three or four years with someone, they change so much, especially at this point in my life and this point in Alison’s life. I’ve really loved the moments where our lives have crossed paths, like when I’m struggling and I’m feeling down and it just so happens that episode is written the same way and I get to bring so much of my own life to it.
At the same time, Alison and I are completely, completely different people. Sometimes she makes me slow down in my real life and say, “Maybe this isn’t as black and white. Maybe it’s not as simple.” Because she looks at things from a not-as-jaded perspective. She’s really willing to look at things and learn about things and it’s a really nice contrast to me as a person. I love to learn too, but I’m a little bit more stubborn. (Laughter)
TrunkSpace: You mentioned bringing yourself into the character on those days when you’re feeling down, but does it ever work the other way around? Does something that Alison is going through ever carry over into your life?
Herzer: Definitely. It’s hard because when you have such a fun set, and I love all the people that we work with… the camera guys are like my best friends as are the wardrobe people… we’re all so close that we joke around so much, so sometimes when I have to come down and get into a more calm state or a sad state it can take a minute for me, but they’re also really supportive and everyone’s really respectful.
Most of the time we’re laughing and we’re having fun and that’s usually easier because the environment is so great. Even when I’m having a hard day I go to work and I love it. I see people that care about me and I care about them so much. People always say, “Sets are like families” and I just can’t imagine that anyone’s family feels like mine, but I guess everyone feels that way.
TrunkSpace: The great thing about your set is that it’s filled with all of these iconic actors and industry veterans. There must be a sense of, “This is not just a job, but also an education?”
Herzer: Oh my god, absolutely. My greatest education comes from Téa and Tim and just seeing how they work and seeing how they deal with material and people. That was the great part about the first year. I got to watch and learn and see different styles, and then the older I get I get to incorporate it more and become my own person and see how it fits with me and learning how to take on all of these different things I’ve learned from all these incredible people.
Like Bebe Neuwirth. She’s just such a legend. She was one of those people when I got on the show that I was just like, “Ahhhh! I can’t believe that I’m going to get to work with her because she’s just such a talent.” And she was one of the first people that just made me feel so good about my work and so proud of myself. I’m so sad she’s not coming back this season.
TrunkSpace: And the series also always has such great guest stars and directors.
Herzer: Morgan Freeman! I worked a lot with him in the episode he directed for season 4 and the first episode. That was the most time we had spent together. He’s just so full of wisdom and just being around him, being in his presence, you feel it. He enters a room and the hairs on your arm stick up. I don’t know how else to describe it, but he really is this presence and you know it. Téa’s is the same way. She walks into a room and she commands this force. I don’t even know how to describe it.
We have a powerful group of people that care about the world around them, so I’m getting to hear all of these really interesting conversations because of what’s going on politically and how that’s reflected through our show. Barbara (Hall) does such a beautiful job of feeling the pulse of what’s going on in the world and figuring out, “How can we make this digestible?” We have so, so much going on today in politics and I love that our show is giving people just a glimpse of hope.
TrunkSpace: And that’s the amazing thing about the world right now. You’re on a fictional drama about politics, but it’s probably grounded more in reality than the actual reality we’re living right now.
Herzer: Exactly! We talk a lot about “fake news” and I can’t wait for our audience to see that because it is so hard. It is so hard to figure out what’s real and what’s not in this political arena and it feels like such a game. I hate watching the news at this point. I am so sick of all of the bullshit that’s being thrown at me that I can’t even do it anymore, so I can’t imagine someone that maybe doesn’t enjoy it as much as I do or isn’t as focused on it as I am.
TrunkSpace: And therein lies the current draw of scripted television. Escapism. We can get away from everything that is terrifyingly real.
Herzer: Totally, and our show perfectly works with that because you’re not totally out of it and you really get to learn something. You have a full toolbox after watching our show to figure out the world that is the real world.
TrunkSpace: Obviously the buzzy place for viewers to land is cable and streaming platforms, but “Madam Secretary” is proof that networks can put out content of equal quality and draw a committed audience.
Herzer: Yeah, it really is an honor for us and especially because our show really gets better and better every season. We gel so much and it just becomes more and more every year. The writing gets better. We dive into the characters more, so it’s a shame to see all of these other shows that are getting cut so early because maybe if they had the same time that we got, things would have been different.
I love hearing how many young people are watching our show now. All of the time I get stopped and girls my age, guys my age, they say, “I love your show. It’s so fun.” There’s so many different elements, so it’s important not to brush-off network TV. I think network TV is still really the heart of television. Yeah, we love “Game of Thrones,” but we love it so much and that it…
TrunkSpace: We don’t even know what you’re talking about. What’s “Game of Thrones?”
Herzer: (Laughter) You’ve never heard of it.
But at the end of the day, we’re hitting a lot of people. A lot of people are watching our show and it’s very cool, especially now with the reach of Netflix. We’re getting the best of both worlds.
TrunkSpace: Has being seen by all of these people via the series altered your social life in anyway? Has it made things difficult, particularly when you hit college?
Herzer: It’s funny because I never put that upfront. I’m never like, “I’m on a TV show,” so it’s afforded me a lot of freedom. I get to experience a really normal college life for the most part because people don’t expect to see anyone. It’s a big campus. It’s a lot of people. I’ll be a parties and it’ll be like, “I was just watching TV and then all of a sudden I saw your face.” I feel very grounded and in a very normal world. I don’t feel like anyone’s watching me or anyone knows who I am or looks at me differently. I’m very lucky for that.
TrunkSpace: You star in a show about politics. You’ve previously interned for Al Gore. You’re involved in community programs. Is there a future for you in politics? Do you anticipate being drawn to trying to spearhead change?
Herzer: I think you’re going to have to fight me away from not trying to help and bring some sort of change. I’ve always been a really hands-on person. It’s so funny because I feel like a lot of people shy away from the word “activist,” but that’s such a shame. I think it’s the same sort of stigma that goes with calling yourself an “actor” or calling yourself an “artist.” Even if you paint, no one wants to say, “I’m an artist,” but everyone calls themselves, “a golfer.” That’s something we talk about a lot with the Creative Coalition that I work with.
I am absolutely going to do whatever I can, and I hate the news right now, but I’m not going to stop watching. I’m never going to stop watching and I’m never going to stop talking about what I feel like is injustice and what I feel like I can do to help.
Season 4 of “Madam Secretary” kicks off October 8 on CBS.
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Racism is a public health issue
Michelle Williams is dean of the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an epidemiologist, public health scientist, educator and academic leader.
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Racism is still pernicious, pervasive and cutting short the lives of black Americans to this day.
US society’s acknowledgement of its legacy of slavery—what could be called the country’s original sin—is long overdue. Racism is still pernicious, pervasive and cutting short the lives of black Americans to this day.
This fact is inescapable in the midst of a pandemic which is killing black Americans at nearly three times the rate of white Americans. This disparity is not because of innate susceptibility to the disease; it is because of a wide range of inequalities that have plagued the black community since long before this health crisis began.
There are the striking differences in access to covid-19 testing and treatment. There are the inequities that make black Americans less likely to be able to work remotely and more likely to take public transport, both of which put them at greater risk of exposure to the virus. And then there are the disparities in underlying chronic health conditions (such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, to name just two) —perpetuated by four centuries of discrimination—that make this coronavirus more severe or even deadly for black Americans.
The racial caste system of slavery that operated until the 1960s (known as Jim Crow) and 401 years of systemic racism and structural societal inequality still live on in every aspect of our daily lives. Nowhere is this more apparent than in health outcomes. It has taken a global pandemic—coupled with the visceral, horrifying deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery—for many Americans to acknowledge the truth: racism is deadly.
As millions of people in the US and globally take to the streets, social media and online forums to declare that “Black Lives Matter” and demand real change there has never been a more urgent time to address the inequities that rarely make the headlines but nonetheless claim lives every single day.
First, it’s time for US cities, health authorities, medical communities and wider society to demand nothing less than radical, large-scale investment in public health—something the US has never done. Currently, the vast majority of US healthcare funding goes toward treatment rather than prevention because that’s where the most tangible return on investment is found. But a growing body of research supports the notion that 80 to 90% of a person’s overall health is determined by factors outside of clinical medical care: social conditions play a decisive role. Everything from the air people breathe to the places they live and the work they do contributes to their health.
Economic stability is one of the greatest factors. Black families earn less compared with white families, but this disparity in income pales in comparison with the disparity in generational wealth. They hold far more student debt than white Americans and are more likely to default on their loans. They’re also less likely to own a home, to have savings or a retirement nest egg—which means the cycle of inequality builds with each generation.
But economic investment alone is not enough. US society must also invest in efforts to dismantle racism itself. After all, racism is negatively correlated with factors such as employment, housing, education, income and access to healthcare. And it is shown to have a direct impact on health through the mental and physical “wear and tear” caused by the stress of experiencing discrimination day after day.
There are a number of ways the public health community can embrace anti-racism efforts, including building more public health prevention into standard healthcare delivery and raising awareness of racial inequities. But this work cannot be executed in a vacuum. Public health authorities must create partnerships beyond their sector to make large-scale, tangible steps towards improving health outcomes for communities that have long been neglected by US systems.
Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative once said that truth and reconciliation are sequential, not simultaneous. In other words, we cannot change what we do not first recognise and accept to be true. And the hard truth is that in America black lives haven’t mattered. It’s time we reconcile with that sin—and make changes that will save countless lives.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited (EIU) or any other member of The Economist Group. The Economist Group (including the EIU) cannot accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by any person on this article or any of the information, opinions or conclusions set out in the article.
Value-based healthcare in Sweden: Reaching the next level
The need to get better value from healthcare investment has never been more important as ageing populations and increasing numbers of people with multiple chronic conditions force governments to make limited financial resources go further.
These pressures, along with a greater focus on patient-centred care, have raised the profile of VBHC, especially in European healthcare systems. Sweden, with its highly comprehensive and egalitarian healthcare system, has been a leader in implementing VBHC from the beginning, a fact that was underscored in a 2016 global assessment of VBHC published by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
This paper looks at the ways in which Sweden has implemented VBHC, the areas in which it has faced obstacles and the lessons that it can teach other countries and health systems looking to improve the value of their own healthcare investments.
Breast cancer patients and survivors in the Asia-Pacific workforce
With more older women also working, how will the rising trend of breast cancer survivorship manifest in workplace policies, practices and culture? What challenges do breast cancer survivors face when trying to reintegrate into the workforce, or to continue working during treatment? How can governments, companies and society at large play a constructive role?
This series of reports looks at the situation for breast cancer survivors in Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. It finds that while progress has been made, more needs to be done, particularly in South Korea, where public stigma around cancer remains high.
The Cost of Silence
Cardiovascular diseases levy a substantial financial toll on individuals, their households and the public finances. These include the costs of hospital treatment, long-term disease management and recurring incidence of heart attacks and stroke. They also include the costs of functional impairment and knock-on costs as families may lose breadwinners or have to withdraw other family members from the workforce to care for a CVD patient. Governments also lose tax revenue due to early retirement and mortality, and can be forced to reallocate public finances from other budgets to maintain an accessible healthcare system in the face of rising costs.
As such, there is a need for more awareness of the ways in which people should actively work to reduce their CVD risk. There is also a need for more primary and secondary preventative support from health agencies, policymakers and nongovernmental groups.
To inform the decisions and strategies of these stakeholders, The Economist Intelligence Unit and EIU Healthcare, its healthcare subsidiary, have conducted a study of the prevalence and costs of the top four modifiable risk factors that contribute to CVDs across the Asian markets of China, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
Download the report to learn more.
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Phillip M. Schneider, M.B.A.
Phillip M. Schneider joined our board in connection with Pfenex’s initial public offering in July 2014. Most recently, Mr. Schneider held various positions with IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, from 1987 to 2003, including: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 2003; and Director of Finance and Administration from 1992 to 1997. Prior to that, Mr. Schneider held various management positions at Syntex Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, from 1985 to 1987 and KPMG LLP, an audit and tax advisory firm, from 1982 to 1984, where he attained his CPA license. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Arena Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, which he joined in 2008, and Auspex Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company, which he joined in 2014. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of Gen-Probe, Inc., a biotechnology company, from 2002 to 2012. Mr. Schneider holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
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Preparing for Street Fighter V tournaments - PWN THEM ALL S03E04
Now that you have all this knowledge and practice with Street Fighter V, find out how you can prepare yourself before a tournament from professional SFV player Brandon Chia from Sin Esports.
The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that Didem Nisanci will serve as Janet Yellen's chief of staff once Yellen is confirmed by the Senate. Nisanci, who most recently served as global head of public policy at Bloomberg L.P., was previously the chief of staff for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Obama-Biden administration. Jason Leibenluft will serve as counselor to the Treasury secretary after having been a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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POOP READING
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The Republican-controlled Congress has finally released their oft-discussed replacement for the Affordable Care Act, titled the American Health Care Act. But the proposal has not been well-received, with objections raised by AARP, the American Medical Association, and the Congressional Budget Office, whose analysis estimated that 24 million people would lose insurance coverage by 2026 under the new law. And those are just the initial reactions–wait 'til everyone gets a closer look at the fine print...
Lesser-Known Provisions of the American Health Care Act
—Coupon for 10% off a minibar purchase of $25 or more at any Trump hotel. (Jameson)
—If symptoms persist for more than two weeks, you don't have to help build the wall. (Mike)
—If you rack up $10,000 in medical bills, Trump will personally visit you to say "You're fired!" before terminating your coverage. (Brandon)
—$3 billion provision earmarked to combat March Madness. (Joe)
—Americans between 22 and 26 years old no longer covered under their parents' plans; Americans between 42 and 46 no longer allowed to attend Star Wars movies on opening night. (Jameson)
—Once you hit 75, the law requires that you be hunted for sport. (Brandon)
—If you lose coverage because of its changes, Paul Ryan is allowed to come to your house and make a smug face at you. (Jameson)
—Taint waxing for female Eastern European immigrants now heavily subsidized. (Joe)
—Doctors now required to shoot any patient with a broken ankle. (Jameson)
—90% of Americans' coverage will consist of a card that simply says, "Walk it off!" (Brandon)
—If you make more than $50 million a year, your doctor is now this guy. (Jameson)
—"He who smelt it, dealt it" now legally binding. (Joe)
—Out: abortions, IUDs, and prenatal care. In: Viagra, jowl cream, and totally undetectable toupees. (Jameson)
Baron von Contributors: Brandon Kruse, Joe Mulder, Jameson Simmons, Mike Wagner
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Watch: Ute Lemper To Stream Dietrich Homage with 'Rendezvous with Marlene'
Ute Lemper (Source:www.utelemper.com)
When Marlene Dietrich phoned a young singer out of the blue, the icon stayed on the line for an unforgettable three hours. Thirty years later, Broadway and West End star Ute Lemper reveals all in her 5-star critically acclaimed show "Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene," a magical fusion of theatre and cinema, gorgeous music that will take you on an intense journey.
Following sold-out performances around the world, "Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene" will be now be streamed online after being filmed at Club Cumming in New York. Alan Cumming and Ute Lemper are producers.
"Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene" will be streamed online on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, at 8:00 pm (EST) and Saturday, December 5, 2020, at 2:00 pm (EST). Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at this link.
Awarded the Moliére Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" in Paris, Ute Lemper decided to write a postcard to legendary Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich, who was also living in the French capital, to apologize for all the media attention that had hailed Ute as a new star and compared the youngster to the legendary icon.
It was 1988 and Ute was just at the beginning of her career while Marlene, then aged 89, looked back on a long, fulfilled life of movies, music, incredible collaborations, love stories and global stardom. Somehow Marlene managed to track her down and called her out of the blue.
For 35 years, Ute has been compared to Marlene and "Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene" is her personal homage to the legend. The show is a dialogue between Ute and Marlene, exploring Marlene's career and personal life from the beginning, in a timeline that eventually meets Ute's own with a continuation of their parallel stories. Ute sings Marlene's most beautiful songs and tells some captivating secrets of her life.
Six days before Ute's opening night playing the part of Lola in the 1992 'Blue Angel' production in Berlin — the role that had made Marlene a star in 1928 — Marlene Dietrich passed away in Paris. After her glamorous funeral in La Madeleine, Marlene finally came back to Berlin to be put to rest. Ute tells us Marlene's story, along with singing her fabulous songs from all the chapters of her life, from the Berlin cabaret years to her fabulous Burt Bacharach collaborations.
"'Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene' means a lot to me," says Ms. Lemper. "It is my personal homage to that great lady. There are many portraits of Marlene out there, but this one is coming from my heart. Audiences are in for an incredible story; history, fate, courage, style, politics, glamour and sex, talent and a huge career."
For more on Ute Lemper, visit her website.
As well as her social media accounts on Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram.
And watch videos on her YouTube site.
"Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene" will be stream online on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, at 8:00 pm (EST) and Saturday, December 5, 2020, at 2:00 pm (EST). Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at this link.
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NOW HEAR THIS: I AM NOT A TERRORIST. Today Eric Lipton of The New York Times reports on the Bush administration's latest effort to leave no stone unturned in its quest to terrorize the American people:
A proposal by Homeland Security Secretary MichaelChertoff would allow the United States government not only to look for known terrorists on watch lists, but also to search broadly through the passenger itinerary data to identify people who may be linked to terrorists, he said in a recent interview.
No big deal, you say? Well, it could be for someone like me -- or maybe even you.In 1998, I traveled to Pakistan and India on a Ford Foundation-funded research project for a NGO. I spent a week on the Pak-Afghan border in Peshawar, then home to Osama bin Laden, where I entered an Afghan refugee camp in what is known as an "extralegal" manner, through an old-school mujahadeen contact. It was two months after bin Laden had issued his death-to-Americans fatwah.I traveled home through Delhi, but almost didn't make it out of India. It was the day that India began its nuclear bake-off with Pakistan via a bomb test in the desert. I had a Pakistani visa in my passport, and had to convince airport authorities that I was not a spy. Four months later, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed.Thanks to the creativity of my Tatar grandfather (at least that's what we think he was; his parents were born in Poland), my "Americanized" last name is the Turkic-language suffix for "homeland." Presumably because of his exotic ancestry, the family coat of arms features a sword flanked on either side by crescent moons. Although mine is spelled in the French, feminine manner, my first name is also bestowed upon Arab boys. Hmmm...I'm even looking like a terrorist to me at this point. (Never mind the French guy whom I had a fling with in Peshawar, who may or may not have been a mercenary.)And that's not all. A year later, I traveled to London, where I met the friend who would become my Washington, D.C., housemate -- until he took a post with an NGO in Kazakhstan.At the end of this week, I'm scheduled to fly to New Orleans through D.C.'s National Airport. If you don't hear back from me, please send a posse to Gitmo.
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How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship
Medically reviewed by Scientific Advisory Board — Written by Margarita Tartakovsky, MS on May 17, 2016
Conflict gets a bad rap. We automatically assume that conflict will collapse a relationship. Some of us avoid conflict like the plague, thinking that if we close our eyes to a potential clash, it doesn’t exist.
“Engaging in conflict isn’t going to end the relationship, it’s avoiding the conflict [that might],” according to Michael Batshaw, LCSW, a New York City-based psychologist who specializes in couples and author of 51 Things You Should Know Before Getting Engaged.
He said that, “No problem is too small to acknowledge in a relationship.” Michigan relationship expert Terri Orbuch, Ph.D, agreed, and said, “sweat the small stuff.” Her almost 24-year research study with the same couples found that if you don’t address the small issues in your relationship, they just evolve into a bigger problem that’s then “really hard to unpack.”
But how do you make sure that conflict doesn’t ruin your relationship and instead helps it grow? The good news is that “most fighting comes from skill deficits,” according to Susan Heitler, Ph.D, a Denver clinical psychologist and author of the book The Power of Two: Secrets of a Strong & Loving Marriage.
So you can learn to approach conflict in a constructive and effective way. Below are tips to help you do just that.
But just remember that these are general guidelines. “Couples relationships —as all human relationships—are complex and operate at multiple levels with potentially dozens of choice points at any given moment in time,” noted Robert Solley, Ph.D, a San Francisco clinical psychologist specializing in couples therapy.
Work on your listening skills. Communication is key to resolving conflict. The bedrock of good communication? Fully listening to your partner without building a case in your head of how your partner is wrong, said Batshaw, also author of the forthcoming Things You Need to Know Before Getting Married: The Essential Guide to a Successful Marriage.
Couples who are stuck in conflict are unable to empathize with their partner, he said. For tips, see our article on active listening and effective speaking.
Participate in shared problem solving. Consider the concerns behind your perspective. Heitler helps her clients lay out their concerns, so they can then brainstorm solutions together, instead of each partner arguing his or her point.
For instance, one couple kept fighting about parking: He didn’t want his wife to park in the parking garage when running her errands downtown; she thought this was ridiculous because a parking garage was sometimes her only option to find a space. So they looked deeper into their concerns, said Heitler, who co-created an online program called Power of Two, which helps couples build successful relationships and problem-solve effectively.
What really concerned him were the narrow spaces, which resulted in the car getting scratched or dented by other car doors. The final straw was her backing the car into a pole. Ultimately, his concern was paying for the expensive damages. What concerned her was finding a parking spot to run errands and get to important engagements like doctors’ appointments. Sometimes, there were no spots outside.
During their brainstorming session, he suggested buying a wide rear-view mirror for her car so she’s less likely to bang poles, and offered to drive her into town, which is easier now that he’s working from home. She said that she’d be more selective about finding a space in the parking garage and drive up to the upper levels, where the cars aren’t so crowded. She’d park in the middle of the space to prevent other car doors from banging into hers. She also decided to park on the outskirts of town and walk, because she wanted to get more physical activity into her day.
“The assumption is every concern of yours is a concern of mine,” Heitler said. Plus, “You can get a win-win solution by finding an action plan that’s responsive to all the concerns.” This means that couples don’t feel like one is surrendering to the other. Both partners win because their concerns are answered.
“By listening to each other’s concerns and each trying to be responsive, they came up with a whole new set of solutions,” Heitler said. (She noted that you can only go through shared problem solving when you’re both in a “relaxed and positive emotional state.”)
Most importantly, she said, in a tug of war, this couple would be against each other and reacting with negative feelings, such as frustration. Instead, they had a fun time brainstorming together, and ended up “being more loving, intimate and connected than ever.”
Address specific behaviors. Orbuch, also the author of 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great, suggested addressing specific behaviors rather than personality traits. She said that this is easier to hear for the other person and he or she has a good idea of what to work on.
Talk when you’re calm. “The atmosphere has to stay emotionally safe enough so that both people can put out each of their ideas/feelings/experience about the conflict and then they can have a respectful conversation about it without attachment to who is right or who is wrong,” according to Solley.
Don’t start a conversation “if you feel overwhelmed by emotion because it clouds your thinking and distorts things,” Batshaw said. He added that “You also don’t want to be overly detached.” It’s important to think about what you want to say in a thoughtful way.
If emotions run high, take a break. Again, it’s vital to be calm while you’re talking about the conflict, but realistically someone is bound to become upset, frustrated or irritated. If you find yourself getting emotional, take a break to calm down. If you can’t calm down, “table the discussion for another day,” Batshaw said.
Create boundaries. “Have some boundaries about what is acceptable behavior and what isn’t, [such as] no cursing, no physical interaction, no yelling or screaming,” Batshaw said. “Just like on a soccer field, as soon as people go out of bounds, the play stops,” Heitler added.
Start with side-to-side conversations. In her research, Orbuch found that “men are much more likely to be able to communicate more clearly, easily and effectively, when talking about a difficult topic” when they’re doing an activity such as walking, biking or hiking.” Side-to-side conversations may be a good way to start.
Apologize. Orbuch said that an apology can go a long way. “We all make mistakes and we need to acknowledge that we had a part in an argument that [gets] out of hand,” she said. You don’t have to say, “I’m sorry I said that,” but it can be as simple as “I’m sorry, we’re fighting.”
Seek counseling. If you’re stuck on a specific conflict or one of you doesn’t want to talk about it, even when pressed, consider seeing a couples therapist, Batshaw said. “The sooner you get [help], the easier, more cost effective, and the longer you can enjoy a happier relationship together!” Solley said.
In general, you want to avoid steamrolling and resentful surrender, he said. “These are both efforts to ease short-term pain, but they result in chronic damage to the relationship that builds up to misery and animosity in the long-term.”
They key also is not to be afraid of conflict, Batshaw said. As mentioned above, he explained that avoiding conflict actually gets couples into trouble.
Also, Solley added that “John Gottman’s research shows that about two-thirds of a couple’s problems actually never go away. In successful couples the difference is that they learn to talk about the problems in a flexible and considerate way, with perspective and without blaming each other for their differences.”
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Last medically reviewed on May 17, 2016
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The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market
NBER Working Paper No. w3321
43 Pages Posted: 7 Aug 2007 Last revised: 9 Aug 2010
See all articles by John M. Abowd
John M. Abowd
U.S. Census Bureau; Cornell University Department of Economics; Labor Dynamics Institute; School of Industrial and Labor Relations; NBER (on leave); CREST; IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Studies; Harvard University; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Date Written: April 1990
During the 1970s and 1980s immigration, trade, and foreign investment became increasingly important in the U.S. labor market. The number of legal and illegal immigrants to the country increased, altering the size and composition of the work force and substantially raising the immigrant share of labor in gateway cities. The national origins of immigrants changed from primarily European to Mexican, Latin American, and Asian. Foreign trade rose relative to gross national product, and a massive trade deficit developed in the 1980s. Foreign investment in the U.S. grew rapidly, with foreign direct investment increasing until three percent of American workers were employed in foreign-owned firms. Whereas once labor market analysts could look upon the U.S. as a largely closed economy, the changes of the 1970s and 1980s brought about the internationalization of the U.S. labor market. In this paper we show that the first order effects of immigration on the labor market arise primarily from the geographic variation in immigrant shares of the local labor force. The first order effects of goods flows on the labor market arise from industrial variation in the openness of the product market. Direct foreign investments, though significant, do not give rise to businesses substantially different from existing American-owned businesses. The paper also summarizes the findings of the NBER research volume Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets.
Abowd, John Maron and Freeman, Richard B., The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market (April 1990). NBER Working Paper No. w3321, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=468831
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Fears for Charities’ Future Demise
Welfare expert and Brotherhood of St Laurence Executive Director Tony Nicholson has delivered a hard-hitting speech on the future of the community welfare sector warning of the demise of small charities in favour of super-sized welfare businesses.
Staff Reporter | 28 May 2014 at 12:28 pm
Nicholson, who is the former head of the Gillard Government's Council on Homelessness, delivered a rallying cry to a packed audience of sector leaders, government representatives, service delivery workers, philanthropic trusts and volunteers at the Brotherhood’s head office in Fitzroy.
He warned that in the next year or two decisions will be made about the sector’s future that in all likelihood will be irrevocable.
Pointing to the Victorian Government’s sector reform platform, Nicholson said he feared that if the wrong decisions were taken they would inevitably lead to the erosion of what voluntary organisations have stood for for more than a century.
He said the idea that the sector could continue to meet society’s current and emerging needs by contracting to government, expanding and aggregating organisations, driving for greater efficiency, and further professionalising, regulating and circumscribing care was fundamentally flawed.
He said that if an amalgamation of organisations was allowed to continue he foresaw “a welfare arms race in which the lion's share of government funding will go to super-sized welfare businesses”.
“… last year the Victorian Government initiated what it called a 'sector reform' process. Its stated aim was to improve how the government and the community sector work together in order to produce a more effective and sustainable community services system,” he said.
“Peter Shergold, the former head of the Commonwealth Public Service, was contracted by the Government to oversight a process that ended in a report said to be a 'road map for reform'.
“Governance, funding and contractual arrangements, localism, partnerships, outcomes instead of inputs and outputs, even citizen participation have all been muted as part of this reform.
“In fact the list of recommendations reads like an aggregated wish list from all the framework documents written across the health and welfare sectors over the last 20 years.
“Frankly, they were so motherhood and high level in nature as to be practically meaningless.
“To my mind, Shergold’s exercise amounted to rounding up all the old hobby horses from within government and the sector, giving them another gallop around the paddock, closing the gate and saying, now you need to form a committee.
“If the trajectory of agglomeration and amalgam of organisations is allowed to run its course over the next two decades, I fear we will see a welfare arms race in which the lion's share of government funding will go to super-sized welfare businesses, some of which will be 'for-profit' in nature, and the smaller, community-based and faith-based organisations will be marginalised or left completely undone.
“This is a world in which these large Not for Profit organisations, for all intents and purposes, function and look little different from similar-sized 'for-profit' organisations.
“I consider the attempts at so called 'sector reform' we see in Victoria are misplaced and doomed,” he said.
“This is not an argument for abandoning the professionalised community welfare sector. Rather it is a plea to establish a sector that re-imagines its place within, and its connection to, the broader community. Where organisations re-discover and re-invigorate their mission as vehicles for harnessing the altruism of their local communities, rather than simply as contractors to government.
“We need to begin, right now, to shape a new community development model for service delivery that can rally local communities, local people, local businesses to invest in creating solutions for vulnerable and disadvantaged people. We need to discover how, in this complex modern world, we can mobilise people – from all walks of life – to enhance our basic service offerings.
“Rather than being expert at the delivery of narrowly conceived services as specified by government funders, our sector needs to build expertise in helping ordinary citizens to support their vulnerable neighbours and strengthen community life.
“We need to develop, or perhaps rediscover, the skills to assist ordinary citizens to give direction to, and exercise governance over, local efforts to provide services and to strengthen community life,” he said.
He said there was an urgent need for the sector to re-imagine its contribution to harnessing community altruism in building community strength and well-being in the decades ahead.
Read the full speech HERE.
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“Realism, Nominalism and Pessimism about Intuitions” Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., April 2009 (invited), 2009 Annual Meeting of the Australian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, July 2009.
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“Twins, Swampmen and our Interpretive Practice” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 2004.
“Wittgenstein, James’s and Pragmatism” Special conference in Honor of Richard Gale, university of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA April 2003.
“Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness” presented at the 2002 Mountain Plains Philosophy Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2002; the 2002 meeting of the Ontario Philosophical Association, Waterloo, ON, November 2002, the 2003 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2003, and the 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2003.
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“What is Material Inference? Brandom on Sharing Concepts” 2002 Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2002.
“Charity and Self-Interpretation” 2001 Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2001.
“James, Royce, Representation and the Will to Believe”, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 2001.
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“Belief Ascriptions, Prototypes and Ambiguity”, APA Central Division Meeting, April 2000.
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“James, Intentionality and Analysis”, 2000 Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2000.
“Ordinary Language, Conventionalism, and A Priori Knowledge” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 2000.
"Pragmatism, meaning and objectivity", International conference on Pragmatism and Semantics, Prague, June 2000
“Truth, Rationality, and Humanity”, 2000 Meeting of the Ontario Philosophical Society, October 2000.
“What is Internal Realism?” Martin Faber Conference in honor of Peter Hare, Buffalo, Oct. 2000.
“Content and Context” University of Toledo Geography Colloquium, March 1999. (Invited)
“Deference and Self-Knowledge” 1999 Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, November 1999.
“Epistemic Value Monism” APA Central Division Meeting, May 1999.
“Holism, Meaning and Context” 1999 Meeting of the Ohio Philosophical Association, April 1999.
“James’ Naturalistic Account of Concepts and his ‘Rejection of Logic’” 1999 Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, February 1999.
“Skepticism and the First Person” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, March 1999.
“Virtual Realities and Functional Kinds” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, March 1999.
“Your Web Page as a Teaching Tool”, University of Toledo Center for Teaching Excellence, April 1999. (Invited)
“Belief, Rationality, and Psycho-physical Laws” World Congress of Philosophy, August 1998.
“Davidson, Skepticism and the Pragmatics of Justification” Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion, APA Central Division Meeting, May 1998.
“Individualism, Internalism, and the Background” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 1998.
“Moderate Holism and the Instability Assumption” APA Central Division Meeting, May 1998.
“Prudential Arguments, Naturalized Epistemology, and the Will to Believe” 1998 Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 1998.
“First-Person Authority” University of Toledo Psychology Colloquium, December 1997. (Invited)
“Individualism and Interpretation” 1997 Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, October 1997.
“Interpretation Theory and Rule-Following Skepticism.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 1997.
“James on Prudential Arguments and the Will to Believe” 1997 Meeting of the Ohio Philosophical Association, April 1997.
“James’ Pragmatic Account of Intentionality and Truth” 1997 Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 1997.
“Reliabilism and Foundationalism” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 1997.
“Externalism and Skepticism.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 1996.
“Perception and Foundationalism” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February 1996.
“Pragmatic Reasoning and the Will to Believe” APA Central Division Meeting, May 1996.
“Self-Knowledge and Self-Interpretation” Harvard/MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 1996.
“Truth, Rationality and the Metaphysical Question” Martin Faber Conference on “Can Epistemology be Unified?”, Buffalo, Sept. 1996.
“Convention and Language.” APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 1994.
“On the Reality of Reference.” APA Central Division Meeting, March 1994.
“Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution.” Pitt graduate colloquium, February 1994. (Invited)
“Prejudice, Humor and Alief” Southwest Philosophy Review, (vol 28, no. 2, 2012)
“Transparency, Responsibility and Self-Knowledge”, Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol 25, n. 1
"Incompatibility Arguments and Semantic Self-Knowledge", Southwest Philosophy Review, v. 23, n. 1, Jan 2007.
"Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness". Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 6: Epistemology. Ankara, November 2007. (Note: this paper is a shorter version of the one that appeared in the 2004 issue of Philosophical Studies)
“Belief, Rationality and Psychophysical Laws," in the Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philosophy of Mind. Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000; pp. 47-54.
“Deference and Self-Knowledge” Southwest Philosophy Review, V.16, n. 1, Jan 2000: pp. 171-180.
“Holism, Meaning, and Context”, Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, 1999: pp. 140-151.
“Individualism and Interpretation” Southwest Philosophy Review, V.14, n. 1, Jan 1998, pp. 31-38.
“James on Prudential Arguments and the Will to Believe”, Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, 1997, pp. 97-108.
“Interpretivism and ‘canonical’ ascriptions”, Studia Philosophica Estonia (forthcoming).
“The Pragmatic Method” to appear in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (10,000 words)
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TAYLOR SWIFT ON “betty.”
Taylor Swift just released her new song, “betty,” to country radio. The tune, featured on her new folklore album, goes for adds on Monday, August 17th.
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Audio / Taylor Swift talks about her new song, "betty."
Taylor Swift (betty) OC: …you like it. :40
“So, the song ‘betty’ is about a 17-year-old named James learning to apologize, because James has lost the love of his life basically and doesn’t understand how to get it back. I think we all have these situations in our lives where we learn to really, really give a heartfelt apology for the first time. Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody really messes up sometimes, and this is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy. And I always loved that in music you can kind of slip into different identities and you can sing from other people’s perspectives. So, that’s what I did with this one. I named all the characters in this story after my friends’ kids, and I hope you like it.”
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Children Of Bodom / Halo Of Blood
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 release, the eighth studio album from the Finnish Melodic Death Metal band. The album was recorded at Danger Johnny Studios in Helsinki. For the recording of the LP, the band teamed up with recording engineer Mikko Karmila, who worked with the band on their fan-favorite albums Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper and Hate Crew Death roll, as well as Swedish producer Peter Tägtgren who oversaw production of both vocals and keyboards on the record. The album was mixed at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki. The cover art was created by Sami Saramäki, who was responsible for the artwork on previous Children of Bodom albums Follow the Reaper, Are You Dead Yet? and Hate Crew Death roll.
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Today anniversaries
Tom Baker quotes
Birthdate: 20. January 1934
Thomas Stewart Baker is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor, and for the narration of the comedy series Little Britain. Baker's voice, which has been described as "sonorous", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK.At the age of 15, Baker began study as a religious brother. He gradually lost his vocation and at 21 he left religious life and undertook National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. On leaving the army, he joined the Merchant Navy and became an actor, joining the Royal National Theatre Company under Laurence Olivier.Baker was in his thirties when his professional acting career began, and his first major film role was as Grigori Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra in 1971, when he was 37. He went on to play the villainous Prince Koura in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in 1973, which led to his casting in Doctor Who. During his period as its star, the series was distinguished by high viewing figures and many stories which became regarded as classics. He remains one of the most instantly recognisable incarnations of the character. He continued to win regular roles in TV later in his career, most notably in the series Medics and Monarch of the Glen. In addition to performing acting roles, Baker has narrated commercials, video games, audiobooks, radio plays and television series.
Married three times, the second to Doctor Who co-star Lalla Ward, Baker has two sons from his first marriage.
Quotes Tom Baker
Life ( 7 )
Love ( 3 )
Family ( 3 )
Way ( 3 )
Idea ( 3 )
„Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction.“
— Tom Baker
„The theatre couldn't match what was going on in a court of law or at football grounds. The theatre has never been able to match what goes on anywhere, that's why so few people go.“
Football, Law, People
„It is part of my duty as a decent member of my local hamlet to mow the grass in front of the church. It's a pleasant little task and mowing is a favorite activity of mine; it gives me a lot of pleasure to make the churchyard look tidy. I sometimes pause at the grave of someone or other and speculate what he might have been like when he was alive, but gravestones don't tell much.“
Parting, Grass, Pleasure
„It was no problem for me to say I came from another world and could go back and forth in time in my emphysemic old Tardis which was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. Problem? For me who believed in Guardian Angels and was convinced that pigs were possessed by devils after their New Testament encounter with God's son? It was easy and I loved it.“
Time, Problem, Angels, World
„About ten days later, it being the time of year when the National collected down and outs to walk on and understudy I arrived at the head office of the National Theatre in Aquinas Street in Waterloo.“
„I am used to being mistaken for Miriam Margolyes; Private Eye noticed that, and once I was even taken for Gertrude Stein. But that was at Chelsea Flower Show where uncertainty of identity is in the air.“
„Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.“
Reading, Home, Way, People
„Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.“
„We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didn't like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks.“
„She smiled at me, arsenically.“
„All my life I have felt myself to be on the edge of things. All my life I have suffered from bad dreams. All my life I have had difficulty in knowing whether I am awake or in a nightmare.“
Suffering, Dreams, Life
„All my life I have entirely missed the point; and the turning, as I also have no sense of direction. This long period of uncertainty in the twilight land of the fuddled (it is now more than sixty years) has taken its toll.“
Sense, Life
„Waiting for a 136 bus from Highgate station to Muswell Hill Broadway on a misty evening in February is a bit like lurking outside the gates of purgatory.“
„Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.“
Change, People, Death, Life
„I didn't care as an ex-ballet dancer wrote and told me she had seen the production and fallen in love with my legs. She said that in other circumstances she could have lived happily with my legs but that she only had a small flat in Holland Park.“
„I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.“
Forgetting, Flying, Bird, Dogs
„When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that he'd had a stroke. "I can't have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "I've got 93,000 pounds in my current account."“
„I've been pretty wary of street sweepers since, though it is true that since we left the European Exchange Rate Mechanism some sweepers are really quite dashing to glance at.“
„But we can't escape into the future like we can escape into the past. So those of us who are not certain of things, and there are an awful lot of us, often rush back to the past. And each one has a particular past he prefers to the present. Sometimes I feel that any past is preferable to the present.“
Future, Past, Feeling
„These days when I see a child in Waitrose and smile and say, "Hello, are you going to visit your Mum in her sheltered accommodation when you grow up?" it provokes glistening eyes and hollow laughter. And if you pursue it with, "Or are you going to be a drug dealer?"“
it may result in a snub.
Laughter, Smile
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Recommendation of a classification system and occupational exposure limits for chemical carcinogens
Blake_S_2015.pdf (1.109Mb)
Blake, Samantha
Introduction: An increased number of occupational cancers reported annually can be attributed to workers being exposed to hazardous chemical substances (HCSs) in their workplace. Carcinogen classification systems such as the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Toxicology Programme (NTP) and the European Union (EU) help to identify the carcinogenic risk associated with certain HCSs with the help of data collected from scientific research programmes. Incorporation of such a system into South African legislation may reduce the number of occupational cancers developed by the South African workforce. Aim and objectives: The Aims and objectives are as follows: (1) to evaluate existing carcinogen classification systems of developed countries in order to establish which system or combination of systems is the best option to use for establishing a carcinogen classification system to be recommended for incorporation into South African occupational health legislation; (2) To identify hazardous chemical substances (HCSs) listed in the carcinogen classification systems of developed countries and to compare them with the HCSs listed in the Regulations for Hazardous Chemical Substances (RHCS) and the Mine Health and Safety Regulations (MHSR) that should be classified as carcinogenic; and (3) to compare the occupational exposure limits (OELs) of above mentioned carcinogens as listed by developed countries or organisations with the OELs listed in the RHCS and the MHSR. Methods: A carcinogen classification system was identified by making use of set criteria points. Thereafter, the HCSs that were considered human carcinogens were identified in the RHCS and the MHSR using the selected carcinogen classification’s notations. The OELs listed in the RHCS and MHSR for these HCSs were then compared to the OELs listed for the same HCS’s OELs within ten developed countries/jurisdictions with the help of the geometric means method. In addition the interval method was used for the comparison of the number of MHSR OELs that are similar, lower or higher than that of the RHCS. Results: The carcinogen classification system with the highest score was the IARC. Therefore, this study used the HCSs classified as human carcinogens by the IARC. The RHCS contains two tables that list OELs for HCSs namely Table I and Table II. The total number of HCSs listed in the RHCS (Table I = 22 HCS and Table II = 55 HCS) was 77. It was found that the country/jurisdiction with the lowest geometric mean when Tables I and II were combined was Finland with a geometric mean of 0.300. It was found that there is no statistical significant difference (p = 0.138) between the geometric means of the RHCS’s Table I and II. The database for the MHSR only contained 76 substances listed as carcinogenic by the IARC. Finland also had the lowest geometric mean with a value of 0.475. Since the geometric mean for Finland in both the analysis for the RHCS and MHSR was far below 1, it indicated that the OELs contained in this list was the lowest of all the developed countries included in this study. When the interval method was used to determine the number of MHSR OELs for carcinogens that are similar, lower or higher than the RHCS OELs it was found that 64.5% of the RHCS OELs are similar to the MHSR and 34.2% of the MHSR OELs were lower than the RHCS OELs. Conclusion: The carcinogen classification reasonably practicable for use within South African occupational health legislation is the IARC’s carcinogen classification, which classified a total of 481 substances of which the RHCS contained 77 substances and the MHSR contained 76 substances classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1, Group 2A and Group 2B). It was found that South African OELs are at a higher level than the OELs listed by some developed countries. The geometric mean values calculated for most developed countries were below 1 with the exception of OSHA in the RHCS. In the MHSR it was found that OSHA, Australia and the United Kingdom had a geometric mean >1. When the RHCS’s OELs were compared to the MHSR a geometric mean of 0.651 was calculated that confirmed the overall level at which OELs of the MHSR are set were at a lower level. Using the lowest available OEL from all countries/jurisdictions will provide protection to the workforce in South Africa against the development of occupational cancer.
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Title X Family Planning
Publication Document Type
America Must Continue Its Commitment to Reproductive Health
Family planning clinics are vital to the provision of reproductive health care and often serve as an entry point into the health-care system for young women and low-income people in this country. They offer contraceptive services and education that prevent unintended pregnancy, testing and treatment for sexually transmissible infections (STIs), and other primary reproductive health care.
The U.S. government’s Title X (Ten) program funds low-cost, confidential family planning services that would otherwise be out of reach for many women. Title X not only benefits millions of Americans each year, but also serves important public health goals. Unless the program is adequately funded, however, many Americans will be unable to obtain these important services.
The Title X Program
The Title X program provides public funding for family planning and preventive health screening services. Established by Congress in 1970, the aim of the program is "to assist in making comprehensive voluntary family planning services readily available to all persons desiring such services."1 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services administers the Title X program through its Office of Family Planning. Approximately 4,600 public and private entities, including non-profit family planning clinics, hospitals and public health departments, receive Title X funds each year.2
Services at Title X facilities are provided on a sliding scale based on income, people at or below the federal poverty level receive services at no cost. No one is refused services because of inability to pay.
The Title X program has always provided family planning services to adolescents. In 1978, Congress amended Title X to place "a special emphasis on preventing unwanted pregnancies among sexually active adolescents," adding services specifically for teenagers. 3
Title X Funds a Range of Reproductive Health Services
Family planning services provided through Title X include contraception, treatment of STIs, preventive services, such as screening for breast and cervical cancer, pregnancy tests and counseling, and educational programs. Title X funding does not cover pregnancy care, such as obstetric or prenatal care.
Title X funds cannot be used to provide abortions.4 However, Title X projects must offer pregnant women neutral and factual information, non-directive counseling and referrals upon request for all of their pregnancy options. This includes prenatal care and delivery, infant care, foster care or adoption, and abortion.5
Title X Guarantees Confidentiality
Title X requires that all participants, including adolescents, receive confidential care. Regulations governing the program mandate that health care providers maintain the patient-physician confidentiality that is crucial for providing timely, appropriate services.6 In 1981, Congress amended Title X to require grantees "to the extent practical" to "encourage family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services," thus encouraging, but not mandating, parental involvement. 7
Title X Facilities Serve Millions of Americans
Each year approximately 4.5 million people receive health-care services at Title X-funded clinics. The vast majority of those using Title X clinics are women, and 60% are less than 25 years of age. Nearly two-thirds of Title X clients come from households with incomes below the poverty level.8
Additional Funding for Title X Programs Is Vital
Title X family planning clinics have served an important need in communities throughout the United States for more than thirty years. The services provided have reduced the number of unintended pregnancies and improved the health of the population.
Unfortunately, the Title X program does not receive enough funding to meet the goal of "making comprehensive voluntary family planning services readily available."9 Nearly half of the pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended, and approximately half of those pregnancies are terminated by abortion.10 If Title X funding had been increased at the rate of inflation from its FY 1980 funding level of $162 million, it would have been funded at over $590 million in FY 2002. Yet the Bush Administration proposed level funding for the program at a mere $265 million for the 2003 and 2004 budgets, and Congress appropriated $275 million in 2003.11 At the same time, the rising costs of contraceptives and diagnostic tests are straining the limited financial resources of Title X providers. 12
By under-funding the Title X program, Congress is denying men and women the basic reproductive health services that help to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and prevent the spread of STIs . The Center for Reproductive Rights urges Congress to show its commitment to the reproductive health of all Americans by funding the Title X program at a level that, at a minimum, reflects inflation and rising costs. This would ensure that Title X can continue to provide services at their current level.
Attempts to Undermine the Success of Title X Should Be Rejected
The effectiveness of the Title X program is also threatened by proposals that would reduce access and deter potential clients. One such restriction, the Parent’s Right to Know Act (H.R. 2444), would require minors to either notify or obtain the consent of a parent, or approval from a judge, before obtaining contraceptives from a Title X provider. Denying minors confidential care at Title X clinics would drastically reduce the ability of those facilities to serve them. Studies demonstrate that minors will forgo or delay seeking reproductive health care--but not sexual activity--if their parents must be notified.13 This proposal undermines the goals of Title X, and in particular the emphasis that Congress has previously placed on reducing unintended pregnancies among adolescents.
A second restriction, previously proposed by Representative David Vitter (R-LA), would disqualify any private grantee that provides abortions with non-Title X funds from receiving Title X funds for contraceptive or other preventive health-care services. If adopted, this restriction would deny funding to an estimated six hundred Title X clinics, which serve nearly one million low-income women. This misguided proposal would increase the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions.
For more than thirty years the Title X program has made it possible for millions of Americans to obtain reproductive health care. For the program to remain effective, Congress must increase its funding and reject attempts to restrict or limit access to Title X services. The Center for Reproductive Rights urges strong support for Title X.
1. Family Planning Services & Population Research Act of 1970, Pub. L. No. 91-572, 84 Stat. 1504 (1970) (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. §§ 300 et seq. (1991 & Supp. 2000)).
2. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning. http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp.html.
3. S. Rep. No. 95-822, at 24 (1978).
4. Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 108-7 (2003) ("[A]mounts provided to said [Title X] projects under such title shall not be expended for abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amounts shall not be expended for any activity (including the publication or distribution of literature) that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal or candidate for public office"). See also, 42 C.F.R. § 59.5 (Title X projects must "[n]ot provide abortion as a method of family planning").
5. 42 C.F.R. § 59.5. In 1988, a restriction known as the "Gag Rule" was imposed on Title X services, which prohibited counseling about, or referrals for, abortions and required physical and financial separation of abortion-related activities from Title X funded services. In 1991 the Supreme Court held that the Gag Rule did not violate the First Amendment. Rust v. Sullivan, 500 U.S. 173 (1991). Despite this ruling, the Gag Rule remained extremely controversial and was never implemented nationwide. In 1993, President Clinton ordered the Secretary of Health and Human Services to suspend the Gag Rule and promulgate new rules. Title X regulations issued in 2000 officially revoked the Gag Rule and clarified that the provision of information about abortion services does not "promote or encourage" abortion and is therefore permissible. "Provision of Abortion-Related Services in Family Planning Services Projects," 65 Fed. Reg. 41281 (2000).
6. 42 C.F.R. § 59.11.
7. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Pub. L. No. 97-35, § 931(b)(1), 95 Stat. 570 (1981) (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 300(a) (1991)).
8. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning, http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp.html.
10. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Facts In Brief, Induced Abortion (2003).
11. National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, "Title X--America's Federal Family Planning Program," Aug. 8, 2003. See http://www.nfprha.org.
12. Issues In Brief, Nowhere But Up: Rising Costs for Title X Clinics," The Alan Guttmacher Institute (2003).
13. Reddy, D., et al., Effect of Mandatory Parental Notification on Adolescent Girls’ Use of Sexual Health Care Services, JAMA, Vol. 288, No. 6 (Aug. 14, 2002).
Forced Parental Involvement Defeats the Goals of the Title X Program
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Green River Formation, Wyoming: A Playa-Lake Complex
RONALD C. SURDAM;
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Department of Geology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071
CLAUDIA A. WOLFBAUER
Present address: U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Chemical Resources, Denver, Colorado 80225.
GSA Bulletin (1975) 86 (3): 335–345.
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RONALD C. SURDAM, CLAUDIA A. WOLFBAUER; Green River Formation, Wyoming: A Playa-Lake Complex. GSA Bulletin ; 86 (3): 335–345. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1975)86<335:GRFWAP>2.0.CO;2
Recent observations in the Green River Formation suggest that ancient “Lake Gosiute” was a playa-lake complex (Eugster and Surdam, 1973). In this paper, the new playa-lake model is tested in a basin-wide study of surface and subsurface observations. The rocks deposited in and around “Lake Gosiute” can be divided into three distinct facies: (1) marginal silt and sand, (2) carbonate mud flat, and (3) lacustrine. Each lithologic facies has a characteristic carbonate mineral assemblage. The marginal facies is characterized by calcite concretions and calcareous cements. The mud-flat facies is characterized by calcite and (or) dolomite. The lacustrine facies is characterized either by trona (sodium carbonate) or by oil shale (either calcitic or dolomitic). The regional distribution pattern of lithologic facies and mineral zones in the Green River Formation of Wyoming is identical with that of modern playa-lake complexes. Moreover, in the Tipton Shale Member, once supposed to have been deposited in a large, deep, open, fresh-water lake (Bradley, 1963), there is strong evidence demonstrating large fluctuations in the position of the shoreline and progressive increases in salinity and alkalinity of the lake water. By mapping the regional distribution and types of lateral changes characterizing individual stromatolite units, the fluctuations in shoreline position can be quantified. The vertical distribution of fossils and ooliths in the Green River Formation allows an evaluation of water chemistry. In addition, the assemblage of sedimentary structures in the Tipton Shale Member is compatible only with a sedimentologic model characterized by shallow-water deposition and frequent subaerial exposure.
Thus, the deep-water stratified-lake model is untenable not only for the Wilkins Peak Member but also for the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation. In contrast, the playa-lake model is consistent with the physical, chemical, and paleontologic aspects of the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
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“Tovarisch” AMLO Is the Election Frontrunner
Posted on February 8, 2018 January 3, 2019 by Ricardo CastilloIn Mexico, Opinion
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Photo: Wikipedia Commons
By RICARDO CASTILLO
The first of three periods dictated by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) will come to an end on Sunday, Feb. 11. This period was to denote both political alliances and carry out what in the United States would be considered primaries to select officials running for office.
Over the next five months, the INE has programmed two more periods. The first will be from Feb. 12 through March 30, during which the three now-defined political alliances formed by the nine different parties – three parties apiece – will register their definitive candidates to run for the over 2,300 offices in contention. The third period will be from April 1 through June 26, during which all the candidates will run their races. There will be a five-day lull before the July 1 election.
The first “round,” indeed true to boxing fight tradition, has been one of reconnaissance and a lot of shadowboxing without any of the contenders – given the INE specifications – throwing any real direct punches. In short, there is no such thing as a first-round knockout, even if it looked like one.
Most definitely during this past period called “pre-campaigning” there was no question in anyone’s mind that National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) came out way ahead of the pack in terms of the presidential election, which is, of course, the cherry on Mexico’s political cake.
In fact, last week, daily newspaper El Financiero-Bloomberg ran a poll putting AMLO way ahead his closest competitor, Ricardo Anaya, by a difference of 11 percent, as AMLO received 38 percent while Anaya got only 27 percent. Way back in third place is Jose Antonio Meade Kuribreña, with 22 percent of the vote. Meade is the cherry-picked candidate of President Enrique Peña Nieto. Also lagging behind are also so-called “independent” candidates with former First Lady Margarita Zavala in fourth place, with 7 percent, Nuevo León Gov. Jaime “El Bronco” Rodríguez, also with 7 percent, and, tailing at the very end, Guerrero Senator Armando “The Jaguar” Ríos, with 3 percent.
The poll, carried out across the nation’s 32 states, pretty much denotes how the first electoral period is coming to an end and clearly shows that the final election will be among six different candidates, namely the abovementioned contenders.
Even if there are six candidates, however, the final stretch will be galloped by the three leading horses, namely AMLO, Anaya and Meade.
Everyone seems to recognize that AMLO is running an excellent race. His savvy of Mexican politics is staggering compared with that of his two key opponents as this is the third time he is running for president, and having lost the two previous campaigns, this election is crucial ,not just to his political life but also to the survival of the political party, Morena, which he founded in 2014 and has now joined with minority Labor and Social Encounter parties.
This time around, AMLO – unlike the crabby fellow he used to be in past elections – seems to be having fun dealing both with contenders and the entire political establishment operating against him.
Just as an example, his detractors recently claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind him and that there is a complot in all his campaign to side with the Russians, who – much like Donald Trump denies – are hacking the Mexican election.
As an old style leftist, instead of getting angry this time, AMLO displayed a sharp sense of humor, saying that there was nothing wrong with the Russians and that people could call him “Manuelovich,” echoing the old word “tovarisch” (comrade) that was used to denote the communist Russians of the Cold War. In short, he’s laughing at his many detractors.
Anaya of the three-way coalition National Action Party (PAN), Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) party has come out second not only in the abovementioned poll, but in most of them.
He has run his pre-candidacy on constant attacks against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s “very corrupt” administration and promises to “change” while the administration, through PRI President Enrique Ochoa Reza has presented “proof” (whatever that means out of a court of law) that Anaya is “a two-faced crook” who claims to be an honest businessman but has “amassed” a huge emporium of real estate in his native city of Querétaro.
Incidentally, one more plus AMLO has over his opponents – and it shows – is that he’s the most experienced stomper, while neither Anaya or Meade is on their first races as candidates. In both cases, AMLO outpaces them the way a seasoned marathon runner speeds past greenhorn runners.
Another shortcoming of PRI candidate Meade that is detracting from his campaign is the fact that he was appointed by Peña Nieto to be PRI candidate without ever having been a PRI militant. This was a move that was highly resented by many a PRI grassroots member.
In fact, over the past week, Meade has met with two people who wanted to be the PRI candidate, namely Manlio Fabio Beltrones and Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, both of whom have served as governors, in the states of Sonora and Hidalgo, respectively, and as Interior secretary. Both boast not merely the credentials PRI faithful demand out from a candidate, but also have the trust of the party faithful that – if elected – would not turn against the PRI, the way former President Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000) stands accused of doing.
Regardless of opinion polls – remember Hillary – there are still five months to go until the election, and, indeed ,anything could happen between now and then. Remember that we are just easing pass the “pre-electoral” campaign and there are still two more stages to go, with the open campaign officially kicking off on April 1.
But for the meantime, the six persons named above will be the ones making the headlines in the presidential race.
For most analysts — especially for President Peña Nieto’s PRI – the proof of the pudding will be in the senator and representative elections, all of which will be taking place simultaneously.
One thing is for certain: This race will just keep getting better as time goes by.
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According to the National Audit Office (NAO) the DWP’s sanctions regime costs taxpayers more than double the money than the DWP save.
The NAO report revealed that the administrative costs of the benefit sanctions system dwarves the income removed from those on lowest incomes whilst also causing severe hardship to families up and down the country. The costs of administering the system is £285 million a year, and is on the back of the £132 million removed from JSA and ESA payments.
The report also reiterates the point that there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that sanctions work and their imposition varies wildly across the UK.
The Scottish Government has been taking effective action to build a social security system based on dignity and respect, and just last week it was confirmed that the Scottish Government would not take part in sanctions for the employability support programmes to be devolved – a major step forward in our attempts to move away from the cruel Westminster system.
By any measure, the current approach to welfare is failing – and is putting insufferable strain on families up and down the country.
I’ll be out and about visiting local businesses across Glasgow Kelvin as part of the Small Business Saturday. Statistics from the Scottish Government show there are 16,905 small enterprises across Glasgow City – contributing almost £7 million to the local economy.
The SNP in government has always made efforts to support small businesses from introducing and extending the small business bonus to launching a growth fund worth £500m to deal with the new challenges created by Brexit.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of Scotland’s economy, supporting jobs and growth in our communities, as well as providing an invaluable service and with Christmas just weeks away this is the perfect opportunity to show your support and shop local.
Purple Poncho Players
Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) approached me to sponsor a performance from their Purple Poncho Players (PPP) group in the Scottish Parliament this week and I am delighted to say that it was a huge success.
PPP were borne out of a shared experience during a rally in 2011 – GDA provided purple poncho’s to protect participants from the rain and the group was founded!
From that GDA members came together with the idea of using creative methods to share messages about real life experiences of disabled people – in short their aim is to persuade those in power to do things differently, to listen to disabled people’s voices and in turn improve policies and services.
With the social security consultation now ended the PPP and GDA wanted to mark the occasion performing their poetry, music and sketches depicting real life experiences of disabled people by disabled people and the devastating effects of the draconian welfare reforms imposed by the UK Government.
The SNP Government is committed to taking the new system in a very different direction from what I see as the archaic and punitive structure that the Tory Government has put in place. The SNP will deliver a system that will treat people with dignity and respect. I welcome that commitment. A timetable is in place for the safe and secure transfer of powers. It is the responsibility of the Social Security Committee, which I convene, to ensure that the social security bill is thoroughly scrutinised.
Byres Road Shortlisted
A photograph taken in Byre’s Road was this week chosen by acclaimed photographer and Glasgow born Harry Benson as being among the best entries of the Parliament’s #SeeingScotland photography competition.
The competition, which was run on Instagram, received almost 5,000 entries from people across Scotland. People can vote for their favourite image simply by liking it on the Scottish Parliament’s Facebook and Instagram pages until noon on the 2nd of December. The photograph with the most likes will be crowned the winner.
The free exhibition of some of Harry’s most iconic images are currently on display at the Scottish Parliament until 3 December. Harry Benson: Seeing America captures significant moments in America’s social, political and cultural history over the last 50 years.
Proposed Football Strict Liability Bill
My colleague James Dornan MSP has launched a consultation on his Private Members Bill Football Strict Liability this week.
The Bill would make Scottish professional football clubs strictly liable for their supporters’ behaviour.
To view the consultation document please visit https://youtu.be/fmiy3HxM0ic.
You can also find information in The Scottish Parliament’s business bulletin https://bb.parliament.scot/#20161130
If you wish to submit your views on James’s proposal please visit www.parliament.scot/proposed-football-strict-liability-bill
Transforming gender stereotypes is key to tackling violence against women and girls, according to a report published this week.
The Young People’s Attitudes to Violence Against Women report, which surveyed 11 -18 year-olds, found that those who held stereotypical gender views were less likely to view sexual harassment or controlling behaviour as seriously wrong. Boys were more likely than girls to hold discriminatory attitudes when it came to gender.
The report, published during the international campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence, also reveals a heightened awareness among young people about newer forms of violence against women and girls, including revenge porn, and the need for this to be tackled.
You can read the report here http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/10/3285
New Teaching Routes
Innovative new ways of developing teachers of the future are to be created, backed by over £1 million from the Scottish Government Attainment Scotland Fund.
The proposals include:
Moves to get new teachers into the classroom more quickly for priority Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects
Targeted help for former teachers looking to return
The development of teachers able to work in both primary and secondary
Fast track routes combining post-graduate education with the probation year
Offering more joint degrees in teaching and specialist subjects such as chemistry
The plans, which will bring more than 200 new teachers into the profession, have been put forward by the Scottish Council of Deans of Education and are aimed at helping tackle teacher recruitment challenges being experienced in some subjects in certain parts of the country.
FOI Social Landlords
The Scottish Government is launching a consultation on proposals to extend FOI legislation to Registered Social Landlords.
The Scottish Government is committed to promoting openness and transparency and seeks to extend coverage of the legislation to organisations delivering key public services. Freedom of Information has previously been extended to bodies undertaking leisure, sporting, cultural, security, care and educational functions.
You can access the consultation here: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/freedom-of-information/foi-social-landlords/
Firearms Drop
The number of recorded crimes involving firearms has fallen by nearly three-quarters in ten years.Firearms were used in 332 recorded crimes in 2015/16, according to new figures released this week.
The number of crimes where a person was killed or injured by a firearm fell by over a quarter, from 48 in 2014/15 to 35 the following year.
Robberies saw the largest drop in crimes where firearms were involved, with 40% fewer in 2015/16 compared with the year before.
An air weapon was the main firearm in nearly half (48%) of all offences involving a firearm in 2015/16.
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By hoboshar On May 2, 2020
You cast the line and just as the lure slaps the water’s surface, something snaps at the bait. Soon you’ve landed a female fish, ripe with eggs. Voila! Break out the toast triangles: You’ve got caviar, the A-list appetizer.
Not so fast. Yes, the unfertilized eggs of nearly any female fish can be separated from their egg sacs, washed, salted and eaten. But true caviar fresh, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rulings, comes from sturgeon only. And, as connoisseurs the world over will attest, the delicacy is a sought-after, often expensive and frequently controversial commodity seasoned with mystique — making sturgeon eggs more than the mere sum of their parts
Given that caviar is, at its most basic, simply the eggs of a fish, it’s somewhat surprising this roe has risen to royalty status. In some parts of the world, caviar is currency. In others, it is a status symbol revered for its texture and taste. Globally, the legal caviar trade prompts an estimated $100 million to change hands annually; illegal trade increases that number tenfold [source: CITES]. Today, the United States consumes the lion’s share — about 60 percent — of beluga caviar, the priciest variety produced by a prehistoric-looking fish headed for extinction [source: Pew Trusts]
However beloved by gourmands, the subtle variances of caviar are often misunderstood. The size and flavor of caviar is as distinct as the fish from which it is harvested, and as diverse as the methods used to preserve and store the fragile orbs. Saying “I like caviar” is like saying “I like every flavor of jelly beans.”
On the next page, we’ll investigate how global demand for the eggs of a fish has spawned a population crisi
What Kinds of Fish Make Caviar?
The sturgeon is a lumbering, toothless fish with a decidedly prehistoric appearance whose eggs are harvested for caviar
The sturgeon is sometimes called a “living fossil” because of its few adaptations through the millennia. The Acipenser family tree includes 27 sturgeon, although genetic markers have scientists disputing the exact number of distinct species. Some sturgeon, like the beluga, live a century or more and continue to grow — in fact, one beluga reached a record 4,500 pounds and 28 feet long, which is about the size of a motorhome
The eggs of each species of sturgeon, except the largely poisonous green sturgeon, can be used for caviar. However, only three sturgeon species — the beluga, osetra and sevruga — supply most of the world’s caviar. These species live in the Caspian Sea, which is bordered by five nations including Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia. Other bodies of water producing significant amounts of caviar include the Black Sea and Sea of Azov
Sturgeon are anadromous, which means they can live in both salt and freshwater. They prefer, however, to keep one fin in both worlds. Most live in tidal estuaries where salt and fresh waters collide, then swim in rivers to spawn. Sturgeon annually return to the same place to lay their eggs, and their predictable swim makes them easy targets. When caught, most sturgeon won’t fight; they’re simply resigned to their fate
Caviar’s premium price, coupled with demand, makes the sturgeon attractive to legal fisheries and poachers alike. Decades of overfishing mean fewer mature fish and scant opportunities to reproduce. This cycle is evident in the Caspian Sea’s dwindling beluga population, which has dropped more than 90 percent [source: Science Daily]
Within the last 10 years, a number of efforts have attempted to assuage the sturgeon’s collapse. Imported beluga caviar was banned in the United States, the beluga sturgeon was placed on the nation’s endangered species list, and international coalitions pushed for stringently reduced fishing quotas. Few measures, however, held up to the continued demand for caviar
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With winter quickly approaching, we would like to share our inclement weather plan with you. Our goal is to provide the safest possible learning opportunities for our students and staff. Throughout the winter the district administration closely monitors weather and road conditions in our district and strives to inform families of changes in a timely manner. Typically, we try to notify families the night before of a weather closure, but there are times when the weather changes overnight and requires an early morning change in school plans. Please review the attached letter for specifics for this school year.
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Zorro Rides Again (1937) is a 12-chapter Republic Pictures film serial. It was the eighth of the sixty-six Republic serials, the third with a western theme (a third of Republic's serials were westerns) and the last produced in 1937. The serial was directed by William Witney & John English in their first collaboration. The serial starred John Carroll who also sang the title song as a modern descendant of the original Zorro with Carroll stunt doubled by Yakima Canutt. The plot is a fairly standard western storyline about a villain attempting to illicitly take valuable land (in this case a new railroad). The setting is a hybrid of modern (1930s) and western elements that was used occasionally in B-Westerns (such as the western feature films also produced by Republic).
In contemporary (for the 1937 production) California, villain J. A. Marsden aims to take over the California-Yucatan Railroad with the aid of his henchman El Lobo. The rightful owners, Joyce and Phillip Andrews, naturally object. Their parter, Don Manuel Vega summons his nephew, James Vega, to help them as he is the great grandson of the original Zorro, Don Diego de la Vega. He is disappointed, however, to find that his nephew is a useless fop (presumably Don Manuel had not paid too much attention to his family history).
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Rides Again may refer to:
James Gang Rides Again, a 1970 album by the James Gang
Rides Again (David Allen Coe album), 1977
Rides Again, a 1985 album by Lazy Lester
Rides Again (band), a Canadian rock band
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Rides Again is an album released by country musician David Allan Coe. It was released in 1977 on Columbia.
All songs written by David Allan Coe and Deborah L. Coe except where noted.
"Willie, Waylon and Me" – 3:14
"The House We've Been Calling Home" – 2:53
"Young Dallas Cowboy" – 2:29
"A Sense of Humor" – 1:39
"The Punkin Center Barn Dance" (Coe, Lonnie Dearman) – 2:28
"Willie, Waylon and Me (Reprise)" – 1:10
"Lately I've Been Thinking Too Much Lately" – 3:20
"Laid Back and Wasted" (Donnie Murphy) – 2:33
"Under Rachel's Wings" (Coe, Fred Spears, Stephen Loggans) – 3:08
"Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On)" (Coe) – 3:35
"If That Ain't Country" (Coe, Deborah L. Coe, Fred Spears) – 4:50
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Zorro (Spanish for "fox") is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley. He is a Californio nobleman of Spanish and Native Californian descent, living in Los Angeles during the era of Mexican rule (between 1821 and 1846), although some movie adaptations of Zorro's story have placed him during the earlier Spanish rule.
The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the commoners and indigenous peoples of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he also delights in publicly humiliating them.
The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and Joaquin Murrieta are cited as inspirations for Zorro.
Zorro debuted in McCulley's 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano, serialized in five parts in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. At the denouement, Zorro's true identity is revealed to all.
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Zorro is a 1975 Italian/French film based on the character created by Johnston McCulley. Directed by Duccio Tessari, it stars French actor Alain Delon as Zorro. Filmed in Spain, this Italian movie has many spaghetti western elements to it.
On the eve of his return to Spain from the New World, Diego de la Vega (Alain Delon) meets his old friend Miguel de la Serna (Marino Masé), who is about to take up the governorship of Nueva Aragón - after his uncle Don Fernando died of “malaria” in a malaria-free region.
Diego vainly warns the idealistic Miguel that Nueva Aragón is ruled by greed and hatred; later that very evening Miguel is assassinated by Colonel Huerta's hirelings. Diego vows to avenge Miguel by taking his place, but not before a dying Miguel makes Diego swear "the new governor will never kill."
As Colonel Huerta (Stanley Baker) asks the local council to appoint him both military and civil governor of Nueva Aragón, Diego walks in, disguised as de la Serna. While lulling Colonel Huerta's fears by pretending to be a useless fop, Diego learns that Huerta is a cruel despot as well as a dangerous swordsman.
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Zorro is a 1985 video game created by Datasoft, Inc.. The game is as a puzzle platformer, where Zorro has to use items to solve puzzles while battling enemies using his sword, all to save the imprisoned senorita.
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Waking up past noon again
Figured out I have no friends
Sit around in dirty clothes
Sanity, it comes and goes
Can a doctor fix my brain?
Noone even knows my name
Checking all my vital signs
Let me know I'm still alive
I promised myself I would change
I will change
I wonder, wonder why
Every day we live our lives, the same
We give up before we try, to change
Work a job from 9 'til 5
Settle for a trophy wife
Rent a house and buy a car
Growin' up is way too hard
I never wanna be
Mr. Prosperity
Some rules were meant to break
I'll do things my own way
I am getting better
Nothing is forever
And I wonder, wonder why
Why can't we change?
Oh oh why can't we change?
Oh, why can't we change?
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Military Spending Is Killing Us
Posted: February 23, 2018 in Farros, military, Politics, Royal
Tags: farros, military, Politics, Rand Paul, royal, Royal Farros
I’ve often said that running a company with too little money is easier than running it with too much money.
I know that may sound counter-intuitive. But not having money sharply clarifies what is important and forces you to focus on just the critical priorities.
In contrast, when you have too much money, the world is your oyster (so to speak)… so everything is possible… so most of the time you end up trying to do everything… regardless of how important — or unimportant — it is to the mission.
I believe that’s the problem with our military spending. We have too much money. We already can bury every other country in the world with thousands of nukes… yet we feel like we need to spend more… because… we can…
… because all we have to do is just rack up some more deficit spending.
What does this mean in terms of dollars and cents? Way over half of our government’s discretionary spending goes to the military!
If that number was way smaller, I guarantee you that we’d get a lot more done simply by being forced to focus on our top priorities.
Whether you like him or hate him, Senator Rand Paul (KY) recently wrote an interesting piece that touches on this, entitled, “Is Our Military Budget Too Small, Or Is Our Mission Too Large?“ It’s short and well worth the read (underlining is my emphasis):
Is our military budget too small, or is our mission too large? Since 2001, the U.S. military budget has more than doubled in nominal terms and grown over 37% accounting for inflation. The U.S. spends more than the next eight countries combined.
It’s really hard to argue that our military is underfunded, so perhaps our mission has grown too large. That mission includes being currently involved in combat operations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Niger, Libya, and Yemen. We have troops in over 50 of 54 African countries. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost over a trillion dollars and lasted for over 15 years.
Unfortunately, none of these wars have been authorized by Congress, and Afghanistan and Iraq have gone far beyond their original authorizations. And when all combined, these wars are draining our treasury. A country can only remain strong as long as it remains solvent.
In Afghanistan, we spend about $50 billion each year. Where does the money go? For troops and weapons, of course, but billions have also been spent on roads, bridges, and schools for Afghanistan. Seems a shame that bridges, roads, and schools crumble here while we persist in nation-building abroad. Maybe it’s time to do some nation-building at home.
Don’t get me wrong. I supported going after the jihadists who attacked us on 9/11. But that mission is long past over. We killed the plotters and their supporters. The question we need to ask is, “When will the Afghanis be able to defend themselves?”
Most conservatives believe welfare should be temporary, and that ultimately the able-bodied must stand on their own. Foreign assistance is no different. If the U.S. coddles and comforts and does all the fighting, the Afghanis will never become self-sufficient. People argue that the Taliban will take over Afghanistan. Not if the Afghanis stand and fight. We’ve given them 15 years of training and billions of dollars of the most sophisticated weapons known to man. Surely, the time for them to step up and fight is now.
Is it worth one more American life to try to build a nation for people unwilling to fight for their own country?
The recent 21% increase in the military budget will buy a lot of weapons, but it won’t win the war in Afghanistan. President Obama already tried that. Obama increased our troops to around 100,000, and, sure enough, the Taliban ran and bided their time for the inevitable troop withdrawals.
The Taliban now controls a sizeable area of Afghanistan. I just can’t, in good conscience, ask our soldiers to go back to Afghanistan to take back the same villages they’ve taken twice, first in 2002 and then again in 2010.
Candidate Trump wisely ran on a platform that the Iraq War was a mistake. But President Trump is surrounded by Generals who’ve never seen a war that they believe cannot be won. And so the wars continue.
My hope is that President Trump will remember Candidate Trump and tell the Generals who surround him: “Enough is enough. I’m bringing the boys home.”
And, I would add, “… so we can stop spending so much money on non-prioritized military stuff… so we have a hope of balancing our OUT-OF-CONTROL deficits!”
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b. Accurately guides the institution’s operations,
c. Periodically reviewed and updated,
d. Approved by the governing board,
e. Communicated to the institution’s constituencies, and
f. Accurately reflective of its Biblical Foundations Statement
2.1. a. Compliance: Current and Comprehensive,
The current Purpose Statement is posted on the website www.sfwbc.edu at the “About” tab under “Our Purpose,” Catalog, Faculty Handbook, Student Handbook, and Board Manual.
Southeastern is a college that resides in Wendell, NC. It is a faith-based institution that supports the following mission:
“The purpose of Southeastern Free Will Baptist Bible College is to train students for church-related ministries.”
The Mission Statement of Southeastern Free Will Baptist College is the foundational guide for the institution. The intent of the policies, procedures, and practices of the College are to fulfill the Mission Statement.
Exhibit: Board of Directors Minutes 2010-05-03: M/S/C – “That we reaffirm our Mission and Bylaws.”
Exhibit: Board of Directors Minutes 2015-11-05: M/S/C – “That we reaffirm our Mission: ‘The purpose of Southeastern Free Will Baptist Bible College is to train students for church-related ministries.’ ”
Appendix B: Catalog 2016-2017, p. 5
Appendix D: Faculty Handbook 2016-2017, p. 5
Appendix E: Board Manual 2016, p. 4
2.1.b. Compliance: Accurately guides the institution’s operations,
The mission was included as the primary focus of the Accreditation Committee acting as the Strategic Long Range Planning Committee. The Strategic Long Range Plan was reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors. The Mission is published in handbooks and catalogs.
Exhibit: Accreditation Committee Minutes 2015-11-02
Exhibit: Board of Directors Minutes 2016-04-14: M/S/C – “To approve the Strategic Long Range Plan.”
2.1.c. Compliance: Periodically reviewed and updated,
The most recent review of the Mission was conducted in conjunction with the application to TRACS.
Exhibit: Board of Directors Minutes 2016-04-14: M/S/C – “To apply to the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) and approve the application and supporting documents.”
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The Mission is approved periodically reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors, as evidenced in the minutes from those meetings.
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The nature of the Mission is consistent with the Biblical perspective of the Institution. The integration of all these elements is reflected in the current practice of the institution. This is evidenced in the handbooks and Catalog of the Institution.
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Go For PSP Game Rentals If You Are Cost Conscious
Posted by askie guo as Hobbies, Recreation-Leisure
The PSP (Playstation Portable) is a game that many people own, and many wish to own today. With the PSP, children and adults are provided access to not only the gaming world, but can also use the PSP to watch movies. However, owning a PSP is insufficient to experience its benefits. You have to have games and movies to use it. As games cost quite a sum, PSP owners now opt for PSP game rentals to enjoy the PSP.
All PSP owners wish to stay on top of other gamers by owning the latest system models and games. The best way to stay on top of other gamers is by visiting the internet and checking out on the numerous PS websites found on the internet. You are sure to find the latest of game systems, game releases and other products that can be used with the PS. These sites also offer tips on playing games, the best games available today and means of winning some PS items. However, it is not always possible for all gamers to buy all the latest PS games that come to the market. This is why the best thing to do is to opt for PSP game rentals.
Of course, these game rentals can be accessed either through the internet, or by visiting the many gaming stores there are on the internet. Today, there are quite a few stores that carry games for renting. The reason for the concept of game rentals is so that more fans will be able to enjoy the PSP and reap maximum benefits from it through these game rentals. Moreover, with these game rentals, it is possible for gamers to buy these used games at these stores, at a reduced rate.
In addition to PSP game rentals, the stores offering these services also provide for the trading in of older games for some valuable store credit which can be used for other purposes. Of course, when renting these games, it will be necessary for the gamer to spend some money as rental money. PSP game rentals are usually offered at a rental fee, for seven days. Some companies permit the gamer to keep the game for an extra day or two without charging any late fee charges. Of course, there are some companies that do charge for that extra day or two; so make it a point to clarify on this point before renting the game.
There are some sites and companies that issue PSP game rentals not on a weekly basis, but through the convenience of unlimited rentals of a game for a single monthly fee. This means that you can keep a game with yourself, play with it for a month paying a monthly fee, and then return it and take another game if needed.
Of course, it is possible to download games from the internet, but in the long run, you are sure to run out of disc space to download the games. Moreover, after prolonged used, the games may start becoming boring. So the better alternative would be to opt for PSP game rentals. Moreover, with PSP game rentals, you are sure that there are no viruses that will damage your PSP as the games are available from reputed companies.
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Much Ado at CalShakes
Posted on 27 September 2010 by dsmarley
Dave and I saw Much Ado About Nothing at CalShakes on Friday evening. I wasn’t all that enthusiastic about going, frankly — not only have I seen Much Ado in more productions than any other Shakespeare play, but I’ve written not one but two librettos based on it, one of them for a musical comedy called All’s Fair and the other one an entirely new libretto (not just a translation of the existing libretto) for Berlioz’s opera Béatrice et Bénédict. So, as much as I love the play, I know it too well for my own good. Money is very tight for us and we’ve had to limit our playgoing drastically (which depresses me more deeply than I can convey), so I don’t know whether we’d have gone when there are so many other things we also want to see right now. However, we have a friend at CalShakes who got us a pair of comps to the Friday night preview (thank you!), and, well, if I’d known it was this good, there wouldn’t have been any doubt in my mind about it. This is a one-for-the-life-list Much Ado, probably the best production I’ve ever seen. (Not counting the productions of my own adaptations, of course. I reserve the right to be unreasonably prejudiced about those.)
The performances are fantastic all the way down to the small roles. Andy Murray may be the best Benedick I’ve ever seen, and as I’ve seen Kevin Kline in the role I wouldn’t have thought that I’d ever be saying that of anyone else in this lifetime. Domenique Lozano is wonderful as Beatrice. The two are enormously funny, with lots of the proper commedia dell’arte spirit in their performances, yet always human and often very moving.
Dan Hiatt doubles the parts of Leonato and George Seacole (a member of Dogberry’s watch). He’s terrific in both, and I’ve never seen him look so damn hot as he does in his pirate-y getup for the latter role. Woof! I’ve always found Mr. Hiatt endearingly attractive, but after this production it may have flowered into a full-blown crush. Danny Scheie doubles the parts of Don John and Dogberry, which is a terrific idea that I’d never seen done before; I’m usually not a big fan of Mr. Scheie’s, who is usually too campy a clown for my taste, but I thought he was spot on as Dogberry, hilariously silly and foolish without taking it over the top into camp. On the other hand, he did sometimes take Don John there, which seemed unnecessary to me considering that he was already getting big laughs on his first appearances doing nothing but glowering, before he’d even had anything much to say or do.
The only other thing I remember thinking was less good than it could have been was Claudio’s scene at Hero’s “tomb”. All his youthful arrogance and rashness is understandable enough to me, but in order to feel forgiveness toward him by the time we get to the happy ending, I want to believe that he has learned a painful truth about himself (and about the true nature of humanity), something that is going to change him for the better, and forever. I yearn to feel at the end of the play that the Claudio who ends the play is not the Claudio who began it, that all his flattering illusions about himself have been shattered, that the searing heat of self-examination without the protective masking of illusion has melted his soul and flesh and reforged it into something that is stronger now for having gone through the fire. Okay, okay, this may well be an unreasonable expectation, and based as much on the choices I myself made about Claudio’s emotional through-line in my own two adaptations as it is on hard evidence from the play itself as to what Claudio is going through; but for better or for worse, that’s how I feel about Claudio. Nick Childress as Claudio (who is otherwise very good indeed) felt to me like he never got to that level, that his grief was sincere, but not searing enough to be reshaping his very soul and redeeming him. And without believing that, I end up feeling a bit wry rather than teary-eyed about his reunion with Hero.
No such feeling about Benedick and Beatrice, though — those two had clearly been on a journey of the soul that had reshaped them for all time.
Even the smaller roles are strikingly performed — Catherine Castellanos has a remarkable doubling as Ursula and Verges, and Thomas Gorrebeeck makes a dangerously handsome Borachio. Emily Kitchens makes Hero a much fuller and more believable character than Shakespeare deserves, having given her so few lines. Delia Macdougall as Margaret and Nicholas Palczar as Don Pedro likewise flesh out their relatively small roles in memorable ways. Andrew Hurteau is a hoot as Friar Francis. (Though even he couldn’t avoid getting a laugh from the audience with the very awkward line in which he tells Leonato that if Hero is really guilty after all, she can be sent to live in a convent. It’s a bad laugh there, the kind where the audience is laughing uncomfortably, not at the characters and the situation, but at the heartlessness of the Elizabethan attitude toward women. The only way I’ve ever found not to get a laugh there is to say that line in anger to Leonato, as if to say, “Even though it completely disgusts me, if I have to add this appalling condition to the bargain I’m making with you, in order to get you to accept it, then I will; but I think you are being loathsome in requiring it before you’re swayed”. If you say the line as it appears on its surface, as though it were one more logical argument in favor of the scheme the friar is proposing, it comes off as horribly lame and heartless.)
And the attention to detail in all the acting and staging — wow. Director Jonathan Moscone has done an astonishing job. I wasn’t expecting to find so much fresh delight and pleasure in a play I’m so overly familiar with.
Okay, geek time now: It annoyed me, as it always does, to hear Borachio pronounce covertly as co-VERT-ly. I’m just old enough to remember how this pronunciation became common among television newscasters reporting on espionage during the Vietnam War, and I find it disconcerting to hear a Shakespearean character pronounce it in a way that became commonplace only within my own living memory. It should have the stress on the first syllable, CUH-vert-ly, as though you were saying coveredly, in a covered manner, which is what the word means.
I know there’s nothing to be done about it. Few hear it as I do, and I’m sure that we get fewer every year. Both Borachios in the two productions I’ve had of my Berlioz adaptation were very agreeable about it, but it was clear neither of them heard the same connotations in the pronunciation that I do, and were probably thinking Well, you know how writers are, I suppose I’d better just humor him on the small stuff like this. So I have no expectations that things will or should be different on this point just to suit me. But this is my blog so I get to say it bugs me.
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March 29 2017, 2:00 PM
Interview: Albert Serra Talks THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and His Beautiful Method
Dustin Chang
Featured Critic; Brooklyn, New York (@floatingartist)
I saw Albert Serra's new film The Death of Louis XIV at New York Film Festival last year. French New Wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the title chracter, which is unusual for Serra, who mostly has worked with non-actors in his previous films. As part of FSLC's 20-film Léaud retrospective: From Antoine Doinel to Louis XIV (which runs from March 29 to April 6), the film opens this Friday, March 31.
Serra is batshit crazy. Once he starts talking, there is no stopping him. As an admirer of his singular artistry, it was a pleasure talking to him at length, even though he did most of the talking. Fair warning: he might sound a tad bit arrogant or nonsensical in this interview. Bear in mind that English is not his first language. But he is a true artist and very passionate about his goal to create something that is truly different and original. He is a searcher and explorer of the cinematic realm. And I respect that.
Screen Anarchy: I’ve been enjoying your work over the years. BIRD SONG was about the story of Magi, HISTORY OF MY DEATH was about Casanova and Dracula, and now you have THE DEATH OF LOUIS IV. You take inspirations from literary and historical figures both imagined and real. I’ve read about your filmmaking approach where you said ‘Living the present through the past,’ What does that mean?
Albert Serra: That’s a beautiful quote.
Well, that’s your quote.
It's beautiful. This is true in The Death of Louis IV. You start by asking questions - how the Thirty Years’ War was, what happened or I don’t know, the problems of the state… all these things are like information or clichés. The point is that these meanings are created in front of you when you are shooting the film - OK, you have obviously have to dress an actor like Louis XIV.
But then who was really Louis XIV? How did real Louis XIV move? How did he look at people? I don’t know. This has to be created within… I don’t have any idea about that. So the idea that the past can be lived with the same kind of mystery as if it were in present times without any kind of information about the future. So now we are living the past but as we know the future of the past is our present so we can use this.
But to come back and try to live this past in present time with all the innocence and all the mystery of living in the present… this was the point.
So in this sense Jean-Pierre was very good to do that in the film because he keeps the mystery alive. It doesn’t matter how much information you have on Louis XIV. You have the real Louis XIV. Because you never had a moving image of Louis XIV.
The only true Louis XIV in cinema is he. Not anything we have in our minds. It was also because of my methodology of using 3 cameras because he (Jean-Pierre) has a really deep relationship with the camera. Since the very beginning we didn’t talk about the subject of the film or even about his character. We didn’t do any rehearsal. It was him realizing facts on set- three cameras, very long takes- chaotic because cameras are moving independently during the shots.
So he really couldn’t establish relationship with the camera. As an actor, with one camera you establish relationship and you know what the camera is doing. You want to offer something to it. You want to give something. With all the experiences you have as an actor, you might want to fall back on that relationship you had before because you want to give something concrete. Then it’s quite easy to you fall into cliché to something you already know.
Jean-Pierre was so used to shoot with one camera set up, and suddenly he discovered that there were three cameras- he didn’t know which camera we were rolling, the cameras had freedom to move for the best positions because it’s impossible to move the position with one camera because of the lighting.
So it’s very dark and sometimes I don’t say anything- it was like a performance in some sense. Because there was no previous meaning that he could think about. There was no meaning he can build something around with.
So those two things: Not being able to establish relationship with the camera and not being able to give something made him introspective. Yet all the connections, his link to Louis XIV physically and spiritually was there within him. I imagine he was obsessed playing that role and he gave us all these peripheral, off the frame content that was not cliché, more interesting. He created new gesture for anything. Everything was new. And it’s not even linked with his persona as an actor.
Just one single time or two I allow him to give some of his traces, but in general he was living and breathing the past in present time.
Was Jean-Pierre you only choice for this role?
I am wondering how the project came about, because I heard that it was an ongoing process for four to five years.
Yes because it was a commissioned by the Pompidou museum to do it as a performance with Jean-Pierre as Louis XIV dying live in front of the visitors of the museum and we were there shooting also. In a crystal cage with the bed blah blah blah.
But then it was canceled five years ago and we forgot it a little bit and then a producer said two years ago, 'OK why don’t we do it in cinema?' But the idea was a live performance. You know, death and life live. So the film was by chance. It was done in 15 days. So it was more like performance. I mean it wasn’t shot chronologically obviously because of practical reasons but also I prefer not to shoot chronologically.
I don’t know it was really ambitious spirit of a performance. To look at the history as it was, I don’t know, opaque, no? All the information regarding the death of Louis XIV was opaque. There was nothing really relevant on the subject. Only relevant thing there was was in front of us: Jean-Pierre himself, his body, the decor… there was no meaning, just some three or four facts but without meaning, to have something to do, to shoot--
Medical facts?
Medical facts, you know it’s quite historical. But… So, okay, we will fulfill all this traces of history not as transparent offering as meanings but we will create. We will put volume on it in a very spontaneous way.
It’s a historical film. A brilliant film but it’s much more interesting than typical historical dramas. People, not cultivated people who are not specially cinephile are there and really, really into it. I don’t know, It’s the mystery of the performance itself. What is the meaning of everything - the movement, the gesture, every sentence, everything. He gradually moves less and less into total immobility.
What I take away from the film is that everyone dies at the end. Even the king of France who rule the kingdom for more than 70 years dies a horrible death that could have been prevented with modern medicine.
This film is very different from your other films. Your two films I’ve seen, BIRD SONG and THE HISTORY OF MY DEATH both take place mostly outdoors. This one is very confined.
The nature is another character isn’t it? I think as my methodology evolved and matured, I thought I could do different things. It’s the same chaos and same craziness if you think about it. The nature helped in previous films. And there was some kind of spiritual approach.
But as my methodology evolved and became more sophisticated, I felt confident that I can do the same kind of things here. Maybe it feels different because it’s a little bit more controlled because the subject demands you more control. If it was Casanova, it doesn’t matter what you do, you can always apply ‘Casanova’ to him- he can do almost everything and get away with it.
You can’t do that with Louis XIV. For French people, that would be a sacrilege. Not because it’s not historically accurate, but it’s not…
[I started to laugh.]
You can’t show Louis XIV using toilet.
No, no.
I could’ve done something a little crazy and unexpected way, like my other films, more ironical and more physical, more lyrical to break the narrative. But it seemed too risky on this project to do that. Without that, film has some unity of space-time and action. So this is more coherent and calm and sensitive.
It is more coherent.
But it’s wild. [Laughs.] Shooting with Jean-Pierre was wild. The edit was very well done and it’s very smooth. All the crazy things and the irony are on the side of the doctors.
Irony. Yes.
But I love what was said about the film. The originality of the film is in the clinical approach to death, but the death of very important and dramatic historical figure. It’s quite uncommon to apply clinical approach to human. I like what the New York Film Festival’s catalog said about the movie - there was a beautiful sentence that said it’s a film about the banality of the court and the final moment of the king, but also a film about the banality of death itself.
It’s not something that is applied to Louis XIV.
Tell me about Vicenç Ataio. He is not only hilarious in this but he was great as Casanova in HISTORY OF MY DEATH. I hear he’s not an actor. He is a scholar, poet and the director of a museum. How did you get him to act in your films?
Well, because of the physical likeness: I saw some drawings of Casanova. Physically with his face and his nose and everything, he looks a little bit like Casanova. I do like working with non-professional actors because their lack of knowledge of methodology in cinema. It was important to use actors who don’t know how the film was done.
I do have a good intuition for that I think. I never make big mistakes in casting: maybe with secondary actors but never with the leading roles. It’s more challenging. The problem working with professional actors is that they always put some images they already have in their minds between you and them.
With unprofessional actors, that doesn’t exist. It’s very beautiful. You work with them without and barriers in a very artificial environment, so you have to be very precise but the end result is very, how to say, it’s more. These characters are born in front of your eyes. It’s really something.
He is really fantastic.
Yeah, yeah. He is the best Casanova ever and probably the best libertine ever in the history of cinema. First or second best. But the best Casanova for sure. This is because of speed. I’ve read Memoirs of Casanova. He is always doing four things at the same time - I’m thinking about this - moving and controlling some women and eating, telling anecdotes and filling categories and going back to anecdotes all at the same time. Living this bright sensation of the moment, mixing great ideas and transforming everything...and this is gorgeous stuff.
You can have this only with actors who have no preconceived ideas, then you can deal with his body and his mind directly.
Was it a lot different directing such an iconic movie legend, Jean-Pierre Léaud?
There was a lot of respect. Even though I didn’t have a lot of authority but to Jean-Pierre, a director is like myth, a god. Because he was born in the era auteur cinema, of the New Wave. For him, the director really creates style of the film. So for him, director is god. But even with that, out of respect I have for him, I couldn’t push him as much as I wanted to. With other professional actors and such, he wasn’t there just because of me. Me but also for himself- because of his career. I mean he worked with the greatest filmmakers in cinema history.
If there were some mistakes in the film, if there was, it was not because I didn’t push him hard enough. It’s just because, I don’t know, chance or something else. And with this methodology I told you- shooting with three cameras, long takes, not telling him exactly what we are shooting, never repeating the same shot again, always mixing the content of different scenes and making variations. It was a fluid atmosphere. Blurring psychologically, blurring narrative, blurring movement, no?
The force of this methodology is so messy. But even an actor with previous experience and knowledge can’t go against that. You can stand up but can’t go against it or you fall down. It’s just a matter of time. He resists. And his resistance becomes the form of the film. He tries something different, yet he doesn’t know what.
In my point of view this film is very deep, very mysterious and very original. He was opposed to that. He couldn’t be in the same exact direction with me. But I hate when they go on same direction as me in the film. It’s a lot more interesting when people go against me. Growls. They give you much more interesting, subtle performances when that happens. But it’s not possible to win for the actors with me.
Are you going to use the same methodology in your next film? I don’t know what you are planning…
Every time it will be evolved, more sophisticated. That is my goal to create something new that’s never been seen before. There are several scenes like that in History of My Death: atmosphere was known because you have seen some of that same atmosphere in other films. Subject wise it shares with other films too. It’s beautiful and well done but it’s not completely new. There are scenes in that film that is completely new, that is not tethered to anything- the acting, the atmosphere, everything.
I really love that film.
I would say six or seven scenes in that film. In Louis XIV maybe two or three.
It’s called I Am an Artist. It’s about a young artist in present day. It’s the portrait of the contemporary art world.
Wow, OK.
It deals with important subjects - what’s the role of art in our society. Sometimes it’s grotesque but sometime we have frankness of true artist? So I don’t know. It’s tricky.
The Death of Louis XIV opens on Friday, March 31 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center concurrent with Léaud Retrospective.
Dustin Chang is a freelance writer. His musings and opinions on everything cinema and beyond can be found at www.dustinchang.com
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Random Acts of Initiative
As a young first-year student at the Stanford MBA program (most of the other 300 students had wasted a few years working at a bank, but he came straight from undergrad) Chip Conley picked out four other students–strangers to him and to each other–and invited them to a weekly brainstorming session. He explained to us that once a week we’d meet for four hours and brainstorm business plans and entrepreneurial ventures.
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The extraordinary thing about Chip’s little bit of initiative in setting up the group is how rare it is. Successful people have this in common. It’s not the giant breakthroughs, it’s the willingness to take little chances.
Chip has gone on to be the most successful of our team, running one the largest independent hotel chains in California. We had a deal… I agreed not to open hotels, he agreed not to write books. Well, once again, he broke his end of the bargain.
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James Bond Title Themes Ranked from Worst to Best
The new James Bond film Spectre, is released in UK cinemas a week today! To celebrate, here is the first of two special Bond blogs!
As well as the fast cars, gadgets and girls, the Bond films are also known for their theme songs. So here is my ranking of all the Bond themes so far*.
“Die Another Day” – Madonna (Die Another Day, 2002)
Whoever allowed Madonna to besmirch the good name of James Bond by churning out this utter bullsh*t, which fails in every single aspect in it’s attempts to masquerade as an acceptable excuse for a Bond theme, needs a serious talking to. I absolutely hate it in case that wasn’t obvious already! It is hard to decide what is worse, the film or the theme. Can we just pretend this song and film don’t exist and never speak of them again?
“Writing’s on the Wall” – Sam Smith (Spectre, 2015)
The Daniel Craig era themes have been more up and down than a rollercoaster, and this latest offering is definitely a trough rather than a peak. I’m not a big fan of Smith’s falsetto vocals at the best of times, and they lack the punch needed for a memorable Bond theme. That being said I do like the track without his vocals, but it is not enough to save this otherwise dire theme.
“Another Way to Die” – Jack White & Alicia Keys (Quantum of Solace, 2008)
With the talent behind it, this should have been a lot better than what it actually is. The voices don’t go together at all, and it barely even sounds like a Bond theme. Skip it.
“The Man with the Golden Gun” – Lulu (The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974)
Possibly one of the worst Bond films, with an equally terrible theme to match. Lulu doesn’t have the greatest of voices, and the lyrics are so terrible!
“All Time High” – Rita Coolidge (Octopussy, 1983)
Continuing the theme of terrible Bond films having terrible themes, there is this woeful Roger Moore era theme. So unbelievably cheesy, nothing “Bond-like” about it whatsoever, and sappy romantic power ballads just do not work as Bond themes.
“For Your Eyes Only” – Sheena Easton (For Your Eyes Only, 1981)
Boring. Bland. Bleh. Moore era themes were as patchy as the films themselves, and this one is easily one of the weakest. Again cheesy 80s power ballads and Bond themes are not a good mix.
“Tomorrow Never Dies” – Sheryl Crow (Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997)
Brosnan era Bond films were pretty patchy as well, and the same goes for the themes. I for the life of me could not remember how this theme went until I relistened to it again. Then I did and remembered it was rubbish and will never listen to it again. Next!
“Licence to Kill” – Gladys Knight (License to Kill, 1989)
Do not be lured in by that classic Bond sounding intro. It’s a cheap knock-off of Goldfinger with sub-par vocals, but it is one of the better 80s Bond themes; although this was not a very competitive era for excellent Bond theme songs!
“Moonraker” – Shirley Bassey (Moonraker, 1979)
Shirley strikes again with easily my least favourite of the ones she sung. It is so forgettable in fact, that my Mum was once dead convinced she knew how the tune went, but instead sang the Goldfinger theme but replaced the words with “Moonraker” and I had to remind myself that that wasn’t actually how it went! Try it yourselves. It works surprisingly well.
“Goldeneye” – Tina Turner (Goldeneye, 1995)
I love this film, and I don’t hate this song, but I am not a fan of Turner’s voice at the best of times. However, it is a lot better than some of the other ones so it deserves its place in the middle of this list.
“Nobody Does it Better” – Carly Simon (The Spy who Loved Me, 1977)
Altogether now, “nobodyyyyyy does it better”! I feel like I should hate this song but I don’t, and also it reminds me of Alan Partridge** which is only a good thing.
“From Russia With Love” – Matt Monro (From Russia With Love, 1963)
In the 1960s heyday of Bond films, there is some pretty stiff competition amongst the themes. Arguably one of the best Bond films, From Russia With Love has a pretty average theme song that most people probably don’t remember, but give it a listen again and you’ll agree there may be better, but there are many more that are worse!
“The Living Daylights” – Aha (The Living Daylights, 1987)
I had to give this three listens before I decided where I would put it in this list, and it changed position at least twice. Contrary to everything I have said about terrible 1980s Bond themes, this one is so 1980s that it borders on the terrible, but weirdly I like it. One of the few that works as a standalone song regardless of it being attached to a Bond film or not.
“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” – The John Barry Orchestra (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1969)
An instrumental seemed like a slightly odd choice for this film (which a lot of people dislike), but it is so good. Instantly recognisable and so catchy!
“You Only Live Twice” – Nancy Sinatra (You Only Live Twice, 1967)
You’ll instantly recognise the hook in this one, even if you have to jog your memory with how the rest of it goes. A lot softer than some other Bond themes, but a good song, albeit one of the slightly weaker ones out of the Connery era. Ranks highly on this list due to its memorability.
“The World is Not Enough” – Garbage (The World is Not Enough, 1999)
The verses aren’t spectacular but the chorus is so great it makes up for it. Love that classic score in the background as well; easily makes the top 10 and unquestionably the best of the Brosnan era.
“You Know My Name” – Chris Cornell (Casino Royale, 2006)
Casino Royale is a great film and added some much needed life back into the franchise. This is a great rock track with a powerful voice, and a modern take on the classic Bond theme sound. Easily one of the best recent themes.
“Thunderball” – Tom Jones (Thunderball, 1965)
Again, has that classic James Bond sound, with brassy background trumpets, but that voice! Tom Jones famously passed out after singing the final booming and lingering note. Disclaimer: unless you are Tom Jones, don’t try singing that note at home.
“Diamonds are Forever” – Shirley Bassey (Diamonds are Forever, 1971)
In total, Bassey sung 3 Bond themes; they clearly knew they were onto a winner with that amazing voice. One of the most recognisable Bond themes and one of the best.
“Skyfall” – Adele (Skyfall, 2012)
I have so much love for this song that I in fact did a last minute switch with “Diamonds are Forever” after listening to it again. Adele’s beautiful voice was made for a Bond theme, and this sounds like it could have been one of the themes from the classic Bond films of the 60s, yet it doesn’t sound out of date at all. A modern classic!
“Live and Let Die” – Paul McCartney & Wings (Live and Let Die, 1973)
I mean having one of The Beatles doing a Bond theme was always going to be great right? Regardless of whether this is a Bond theme or not, it is such a great song! I love the way it builds, and it is also ridiculously catchy.
“Goldfinger” – Shirley Bassey (Goldfinger, 1964)
The definitive classic Bond theme, and I reckon for a lot of people it would be number one; however for me it just misses out on the top spot. It is utterly iconic and set the bar for all themes which would follow. Show of hands how many people have walked around singing this song just like this?
“A View to a Kill” – Duran Duran (A View to a Kill, 1985)
Despite all my slandering of 80s Bond themes, it is in fact one from this era which I think deserves the prestigious number 1 spot in this list! Strange that the best song should precede probably the worst Bond film but there we go! It incorporates some classic Bond theme traits, but is also an excellent standalone song which is kind of what you want, and it fits the era perfectly!
Agree with everything I’ve said, or am I a terribly misguided idiot who has got it all wrong? Please let me know in the comments, and don’t forget to share as well. I promise I won’t react like this if you disagree with me…
*the eagle-eyed among you would notice that Dr No is missing from this list. It doesn’t have it’s own theme song per se as it uses the classic Bond music that we all know and love. This gives it an unfair advantage I believe, so it is not included.
**if you watch any video in this blog, make it this one. Partridge + Bond = MAGIC.
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Eric and Wendy Schmidt Announce New $1 Billion Philanthropic Commitment to Identify, Develop and Support Global Talent Working in Service of Others
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MENLO PARK, Calif.— Eric and Wendy Schmidt announced today a $1 billion philanthropic commitment to identify and support talent across disciplines and around the world to serve others and help address the world’s most pressing problems.
Building on the last 13 years of their family’s philanthropy, led by Wendy Schmidt, the couple has steadily increased their philanthropic giving—more than $1 billion to date through The Schmidt Family Foundation, The 11th Hour Project, Schmidt Ocean Institute, 11th Hour Racing, and Schmidt Marine Technology Partners. In 2017, Eric and Wendy Schmidt also created Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative and venture facility for public benefit that focuses on finding exceptional people and helping them do more for others. Today, the couple is deepening their philanthropic work with a new, $1 billion talent commitment to these initiatives. They also announced the flagship program for Schmidt Futures and anchor to this new commitment—Rise, a partnership with the Rhodes Trust.
“We believe that when we harness the human power of great ideas and support them with resources, tools and a network to leverage that raw talent and potential, only then will we solve the environmental, societal and health problems that threaten our very existence,” said Wendy Schmidt. “We’ve learned so much over these past years, and across all initiatives and every issue, we know that people are the critical foundation for success. We’re excited to increase our philanthropic commitment to have an even greater impact on our communities and world.”
“My life’s work has been to build tools that empower people at scale,” said Eric Schmidt. “This $1 billion for talent serving others, including the work of Schmidt Futures and our flagship program Rise, is part of our ongoing commitment to help lift people up who can change the world at scale in their lifetimes.”
Rise, an initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, will find and connect exceptional people around the world who could do more to serve others in their communities throughout their lives if they had more opportunity. The program, which will seek young people between the ages of 15 and 17, will be designed to encourage a lifetime of service and learning by providing support that could include scholarships, career services, and funding opportunities to help these leaders serve others for decades to come. The first annual competition for Rise in 2020 will build a global community of students, teachers and others—including finalists and ultimately at least 100 extraordinary young people who could have a unique impact on their communities with more connection and support.
More information about Rise is available here. To hear an interview with Eric and Wendy Schmidt about their new talent commitment, click here.
Over the past 13 years, Eric and Wendy Schmidt have established a number of philanthropic organizations and initiatives, and people have been the central drivers of their work and areas of focus.
They created The Schmidt Family Foundation in 2006 to address the global crisis of climate change through grants and impact investments in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, human rights and marine technology. The grant-making arm of the foundation, The 11th Hour Project, focuses on supporting local organizations and solutions that protect human rights and build resilient food and energy systems. Among The 11th Hour Project’s most notable work is the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the organization has supported local park officials in protecting one of the world’s largest natural parks and the communities living in and around the park from illegal fossil fuel extraction. Grant support has helped develop micro-hydropower that has for the first time brought electricity to more than 1 million residents and sparked the creation of a local economy through new businesses like a rice mill and factories that produce chia seed, chocolate and soap.
Additionally, Schmidt Marine Technology Partners, another program of The Schmidt Family Foundation started in 2015, supports the development of innovative technologies that solve complex ocean health problems and have strong commercialization potential. To date, 42 funded projects from five countries have worked to combat illegal fishing and plastic pollution and have advanced habitat health and ocean research. Among the successful technologies developed is Saildrone, a global fleet of unmanned wind- and solar-powered ocean drones that monitors climate and sea conditions, among other things, in real-time.
The Schmidt Ocean Institute was established in 2009 to advance oceanographic research through the development of innovative technologies, open sharing of information, and broad communication about ocean health. The institute operates the research vessel Falkor and the 4500m remotely operated underwater robotic vehicle, SuBastain, and is made available to the international science community at no cost. To date, more than 850 scientists have worked on the ship conducting research on 63 expeditions. As a result, more than 400 underwater robotic dives have taken place and more than 1 million square miles of the ocean floor have been mapped, leading to the discovery of dozens of new species and expanded protection of marine protected areas.
11th Hour Racing, founded in 2010, works with the sailing community and maritime industry to advance solutions and practices that protect and restore the health of the oceans. The organization leverages grants, sponsorships and its sailing ambassador program to reach and engage as many people as possible in promoting collaborative, systemic change benefitting ocean health. It has awarded grants in more than 25 countries through its programs. With its partners and sailing teams, 11th Hour Racing has sailed more than 45,000 miles around the world, rounded Cape Horn, detected micro-plastics in the most remote parts of the ocean, contributing to critical scientific research, and removed more than 60 tons of debris from the sea.
ReMain Nantucket and ReMain Ventures are the charitable and entrepreneurial organizations that support the economic, social and environmental vitality of the island of Nantucket. In addition to providing grants and sponsorships to support sustainable and cultural initiatives across the island, the organizations have revitalized the downtown district year-round through the preservation of historic buildings that are home to a mix of nonprofit and commercial businesses. They include a transportation center for a fleet of clean-fuel buses, culinary center and sustainable coffee shop, bakery, independent bookstore, community school for continuing adult education and community music center.
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt in 2017 to find exceptional people and help them do more for others together. Schmidt Futures knits talent into networks, bets on the most promising ideas through diverse forms of competition and support, and equips people to scale through partners and modern tools. To realize this vision, Schmidt Futures uses a broad set of tools—including gifts, grants, investments and startup activity—for charitable, educational and commercial efforts with a public purpose. One of Schmidt Futures’ major programs, the Schmidt Science Fellows, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, aims to create a new generation of scientific leaders by giving the world’s best aspiring scientific minds a broader perspective, exposure to interdisciplinary approaches, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on society. The year-long postdoctoral research fellowship immediately after the fellows’ completion of their PhD in the natural sciences, computing, engineering or mathematics places them with global scientific leaders and internationally renowned labs in a scientific discipline different than their core area of study. The third cohort of fellows will be announced in 2020.
“Philanthropy’s biggest challenge is time,” said Wendy Schmidt. “What we’ve learned over the last dozen years is it takes time to get results. You have to allow time for failure and recalibration so you can adjust your approach, apply what you’ve learned and deepen and refine your work.”
Added Eric Schmidt, “Just imagine the possibilities as we bring talent together into networks, bet on their most promising ideas to help others, and equip them to scale through partners and thoughtful application of modern science and technology. This $1 billion commitment is only a starting point for the many ways we look to help others in the coming years.”
Wendy Schmidt is president of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Eric Schmidt is technical advisor and former chairman of Alphabet Inc. and the former CEO of Google. # # # # #
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Peace Among the Pines
A Zen monastery offers a taste of tranquility
By Kate Morgan
If you’re not looking carefully, it’s easy to drive right past the entrance to Pine Wind Zen Center. Off a back road in Shamong, at the end of a winding, tree-lined dirt lane, the red roof of the Jizo-An Monastery comes into view, and the outside world seems to fade away. Colorful prayer flags drift lazily in the breeze, and somewhere, water is babbling.
The property belongs to Stephen Reichenbach, a Cinnaminson native better known in his community as Seijaku Roshi – Japanese for “tranquil teaching master.” The monastery, which opened in 2000, hosts Zen meditation training, weekly talks and programs on Zen-Buddhist teachings. It all happens under the leadership of Roshi, a soft-spoken monk in his early 60s who values silence above most things.
Seijaku Roshi
“My mother will tell you I came out of the womb this way, and she’s probably right,” Roshi says. “I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t drawn to the contemplative life. I’ve always been drawn to the practice of silence. For me, silence is a prayer, a way of life and my refuge. I’ve had two heart attacks over the past five years, and the silence has kept me alive.”
Roshi has been practicing Zen Buddhism for 40 years. He met his first monk while serving in combat in Vietnam – a part of his life he calls “deeply personal,” and declines to talk about.
“When I was 21 years old, I entered my first temple and never left,” he says. “It’s been a way of life that I love. I’m very passionate about it, and it’s been a powerful tool for me to make a difference in the world, which is what we all want to do, and I think where we find our greatest happiness.”
For Roshi, making a difference means helping others. He worked for many years with the Mount Holly-based Francis House of Prayer, helping single mothers in abusive relationships. In 1989, he bought a house in Cinnaminson that became his first Zen center.
“In 2000 I decided I needed to be out in the country,” Roshi says of the monastery’s move to Shamong. “The tradition is for a monastery to be in nature, whether it’s in the woods or the mountains. So I went looking, and when I walked onto this property I turned to the realtor and said, ‘Tell me what you want for it; I’m going to buy it.’”
Roshi had never seen a building quite like the structure that would become his monastery and residence – largely because there are very few buildings like it.
Malcolm Wells, a well-known architect from SJ, who some considered the “father of modern earth-sheltered architecture,” constructed it in 1974. Most of the structure is underground, so the building is naturally cool in summer and warm in winter. The roof is partially lined with solar panels, and windows at ground-level flood the rooms below with sunlight.
Roshi adapted the existing structure to his needs, transforming a concrete garage space into a warm, inviting zendo, or meditation hall. Neatly aligned meditation cushions cover the zendo’s dark hardwood floors, and a Buddha statue overlooks the room.
The real beauty of the Pine Wind Zen Center, though, is outside the monastery, on the meandering paths Roshi has cut through the thick Pinelands brush.
“We own five acres, but the property is surrounded by more than 50 acres of Pinelands Preserve. That contributes to the privacy and the quiet back here,” he says. “When people say, ‘How have you done this?’ I tell them we haven’t done anything. We just moved in. I felt the serene presence as soon as I walked in the door; I don’t know of anyone who comes here and doesn’t have that same reaction.”
The monastery and grounds serve as Roshi’s private residence, but there is a large community of monks, students and lay people who consider the monastery home.
“We have several monks who live off-campus with their families, who have other careers as well,” Roshi says. “Then we have a group of students who are in a regular training program. The third part of our membership is people who participate in our programs and support the monastery through donations. Everything we make pays for electricity and programming – we receive no compensation.”
Roshi says people come to Pine Wind for many different reasons, but nearly all first-time visitors are surprised at what they find.
“I think it’s a combination of people who’ve had some tragic event happen in their lives that’s led them here, others who have felt dissatisfied for a long time and want a change, and a group for whom it’s just the novelty. They’re the ones who heard there’s a Zen master in Shamong. I try to break that myth right away – usually I’m in jeans and a T-shirt.”
Though Roshi will don a traditional monk’s robe for ceremonies and special programs, often the only thing that makes him stand out is his closely shaved head.
Seijaku Roshi and one of his monks meditating in the Zendo
“When one becomes a monk, the shaved head is both a metaphor and a personal reminder that you’re detached from the world,” Roshi explains. “In the days of the Buddha, a person’s hair was a big part of their culture. So cutting the hair represented leaving the ways of that world.”
The members of the Pine Wind Zen Community come from all walks of life, and Roshi says membership is on the rise.
“We have doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, truck drivers and retirees,” Roshi says. “Right now we have about 100 people coming through here monthly, and we’re seeing an increase in interest in what we have to offer here.”
Roshi thinks that growing popularity may be the result of a push to educate people about Buddhism. Once people realize they’re not being asked to convert to a new religion, he says, they’re more open to the idea of meditation.
“I was born and raised Catholic, and most of the people who come here are Catholic or Jewish,” Roshi says. “When you’re here, it’s not about if you believe in God or not – that’s up to you. Buddhism is not a religion in the conventional sense. The difference in Buddhism is that it is more accurately defined as a way of life. People of all different faiths are doing this work. They’re looking to deepen their own spiritual path and their own religious life. When you come to the monastery, your religious background doesn’t matter.”
In addition to the spiritual component, Roshi says Zen teachings and meditation help practitioners to live happier lives.
“We’re born into the world perfect and complete, and somewhere along the line we forget who we are,” he says. “It begins the day someone convinces you you’re not good enough. We’ve all heard our parents say, ‘If you want people to like you, you should…’ It creates a lacking self-image, and from that moment on we go in search of fixing that. This means our lives are all about pursuing happiness.”
Roshi says the heart of Zen Buddhism is about self-discovery and learning to recognize the parts of life that are truly important, rather than focusing on the mundane.
“What we’re trying to do here is tell people there’s an alternative to the rat race,” Roshi says. “You have to stop looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Why are we so dissatisfied when we live in a world of natural abundance? The solutions to our stress, fear and anxiety, our personal and global issues, have to do with the way we live our lives. Meditation is training your mind, the same way you go to the gym to train your body. It’s training your mind to quiet down and detach from the habitual behavior that keeps you stressed out all the time. In Buddhism, you are the solution to your problems; so listen up and get with the program.”
The Pine Wind Zen Center is open to the public three weeks out of every month. Though the monastery has specific hours, the public is always invited to show up and stroll around the grounds, where mossy paths lead to hidden shrines, sun-dappled clearings and quiet prayer areas.
“We have hopes of growing,” Roshi says. “We want people to know this is a place of refuge. They can step out, even if it’s just for a couple of hours, and find time to be quiet. The programs we hold are meant to support people in their daily lives, where they are. This is the first time in many years that we are taking the time to welcome and invite people here, the first time we’re really letting the world know we’re back here. Some people say we’re the best-kept secret in South Jersey, but we don’t want to be a secret anymore.”
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HELEN AUMANN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 387-68-4579 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 25 February 1995. Research in ZIP Code 53549. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN BRESSETTE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 016-14-4492 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died September 1983. Research in ZIP Code 01247. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN BRINKER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 274-16-7199 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died May 1975. Research in ZIP Code 43431. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN ELLIS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 264-24-6188 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died February 1987. Research in ZIP Code 33880. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN GRAMLICH was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 565-32-7439 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died August 1977. Research in ZIP Code 92702. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN HAVENS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 317-48-4812 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died November 1981. Research in ZIP Code 47240. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN HOELZEL was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 516-26-3598 (indicating Montana) and, Death Master File says, died July 1970. Research in ZIP Code 59401. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN JESSUP was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 040-38-2533 (indicating Connecticut) and, Death Master File says, died January 1972. Research in ZIP Code 06720. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN JOHNSON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 007-05-2126 (indicating Maine) and, Death Master File says, died August 1974. Research in ZIP Code 32324. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN KASPER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 029-20-2864 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died September 1982. Research in ZIP Code 01085. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN MERRICK was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 215-38-4417 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died March 1975. Research in ZIP Code 20870. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN MIRANDI was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 060-18-1713 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died September 1983. Research in ZIP Code 12203. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN NAGY was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 143-38-2339 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died March 1974. Research in ZIP Code 08865. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN ONEILL was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 388-26-8447 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died May 1983. Research in ZIP Code 53705. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN PARDOE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 578-62-1771 (indicating District of Columbia) and, Death Master File says, died 26 December 1989. Research in ZIP Code 20815. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN QUINN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 011-38-4073 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 22 November 1998. Research in ZIP Code 01545. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN RICHMOND was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 047-10-2400 (indicating Connecticut) and, Death Master File says, died September 1984. Research in ZIP Code 06040. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN SEYMOUR was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 107-32-2004 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died July 1986. Research in ZIP Code 13069. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN SULLIVAN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 380-42-2389 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died May 1979. Research in ZIP Codes 95123 and 95103. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN WESSA was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 272-24-1390 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died May 1981. Research in ZIP Codes 45211 and 45238. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN WILDE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 551-09-7964 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died December 1973. Research in ZIP Code 92262. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN YECKLE was born 27 August 1895, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States of America to JOHN L YECKLE (father) and MARY YECKLE, according to Volume VOL 1 Page 197Y.
HELEN C ADAMS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 022-09-1804 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died December 1993. Research in ZIP Code 01460. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELENE GREFE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 043-58-4796 (indicating Connecticut) and, Death Master File says, died October 1980. Research in ZIP Code 18018. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN E KRUG was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 391-05-1650 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 22 April 1995. Research in ZIP Code 54935. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
Helen E. Pope, wife of Easton Pope, was born 27 August 1895, died 20 April 1967, and was buried in Section K, Site 77 in Ft. Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
HELEN F SUMPTER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 540-24-6406 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died 04 April 1989. Research in ZIP Code 97212. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN M LAWRENCE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 034-34-5944 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died July 1989. Research in ZIP Code 01915. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN M MURPHY was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 192-24-7827 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 01 July 1991. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN S LINDGREN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 135-20-1230 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 04 November 1998. Research in ZIP Code 60471. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELEN S OPPEGARD was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 502-50-1424 (indicating North Dakota) and, Death Master File says, died 20 July 1991. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HELLMUTH LINDNER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 132-12-9689 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died July 1968. Research in ZIP Code 11740. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRIETTA HOFFMAN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 276-62-8432 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died December 1982. Research in ZIP Code 43613. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRIETTA HUGHES was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 546-22-5512 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died December 1974. Research in ZIP Code 90042. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRIETTA WASHINGTON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 218-22-8623 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died May 1980. Research in ZIP Code 21216. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY BOEDEKER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 310-38-0243 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died July 1985. Research in ZIP Code 47660. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY BOOKOUT was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 491-42-5251 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died August 1972. Research in ZIP Code 65652. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY BOURRY was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 567-10-6781 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died October 1971. Research in ZIP Code 95472. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY FERCH was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 397-01-0052 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died August 1976. Research in ZIP Codes 91344 and 90024. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY GRAVES was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 077-03-9382 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died September 1970. Research in ZIP Code 12801. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY GULLEY was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 453-18-4384 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died April 1976. Research in ZIP Code XX953. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY LEENAERTS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 081-09-3894 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died November 1974. Research in ZIP Code 07030. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY LUNDA was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 517-10-5547 (indicating Montana) and, Death Master File says, died January 1966. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY MCMAHAN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 573-10-2809 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died October 1964. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY PETERS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 068-14-4108 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died August 1969. Research in ZIP Code 11754. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY REED was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 449-05-5327 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died December 1971. Research in ZIP Code 78704. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY ROMO was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 553-24-8975 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died December 1981. Research in ZIP Code 92373. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY SPIER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 475-05-2669 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died August 1963. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY VAUGHN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 417-58-7031 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died June 1979. Research in ZIP Code 35630. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY WALLSMITH was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 425-14-9246 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died April 1966. Research in ZIP Code 39577. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY WALTERS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 293-01-3468 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died June 1963. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HENRY ZEMOLA was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 351-03-0683 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died April 1968. Research in ZIP Code 60614. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
Henry Leslie Peters, Rank: BM/2C, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR I, was born 27 August 1895, died 10 August 1969, and was buried in Section 2R, Site 2883 in Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York, United States of America.
HERB RIDDLE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 499-10-7174 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died January 1959. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT BENNETT was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 505-10-5773 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died December 1969. Research in ZIP Code 68061. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT HAAG was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 213-07-1567 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died February 1972. Research in ZIP Code 21219. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT LIMROTH was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 454-03-7628 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died September 1972. Research in ZIP Code 85706. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT MCMULLEN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 562-07-7768 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died March 1975. Research in ZIP Code 91040. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT MORGAN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 185-10-0535 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died June 1981. Research in ZIP Code 32804. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT PRICE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 550-26-2383 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died July 1976. Research in ZIP Code 92675. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT WALTON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 273-01-9272 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died May 1971. Research in ZIP Code 11735. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT C FOX was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 289-14-4668 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 23 March 1991. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT L BAKER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 070-32-9810 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 30 June 1986. Research in ZIP Codes 12603 and 12601. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERBERT P HALL was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 237-48-4306 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 01 February 1992. Research in ZIP Code 28777. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMAN BERMAN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 292-03-4999 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died January 1969. Research in ZIP Code 48182. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMAN HARRIMAN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 005-36-3071 (indicating Maine) and, Death Master File says, died March 1963. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMAN HOUSTON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 456-07-2369 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died December 1976. Research in ZIP Code 79761. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMAN MOORE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 417-10-0963 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died August 1970. Research in ZIP Code 35901. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMAN SCHRAMM was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 120-14-2232 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died November 1966. Research in ZIP Code 11418. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMAN TEUTEBERG was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 395-09-8577 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died October 1968. Research in ZIP Code 53072. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
Herman H. Buschelman, Rank: PVT, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR I, was born 27 August 1895, died 12 June 1980, and was buried in Section 19, Site 2230 in Dayton National Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, United States of America.
HERMAN H KRUEGER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 387-16-0658 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 23 October 1990. Research in ZIP Code 54452. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMINA MIREIDER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 118-30-3005 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died October 1978. Research in ZIP Code 11743. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERMINIA RIVERA was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 581-04-6680 (indicating Puerto Rico) and, Death Master File says, died November 1982. Research in ZIP Code 00632. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERSHEL PHILLIPS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 426-32-7140 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died August 1965. Research in ZIP Code 95820. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERTHA ARNDT was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 469-42-5757 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died March 1979. Research in ZIP Code 55372. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HERVEY P GAGNE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 005-03-2477 (indicating Maine) and, Death Master File says, died 15 June 1995. Research in ZIP Code 04073. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HILDA BUDD was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 261-07-9046 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died November 1976. Research in ZIP Code 32748. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HILDA OLSEN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 329-30-5558 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died November 1979. Research in ZIP Code 60187. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HILDA SALOMON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 192-24-2280 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died October 1983. Research in ZIP Code 33567. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HILDEGARD STREY was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 458-76-2245 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died July 1979. Research in ZIP Code 77030. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HISA NAKAGAWA was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 572-36-8330 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died May 1973. Research in ZIP Code XX733. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
H M GAMMONS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 413-12-0727 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 09 January 1990. Research in ZIP Code 37076. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOBART SHULTS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 513-10-2126 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died November 1962. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOBART STIVERS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 040-05-0390 (indicating Connecticut) and, Death Master File says, died October 1973. Research in ZIP Code 06606. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
Hobart M. Shults, Rank: PVT, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR I, was born 27 August 1895, died 7 November 1962, and was buried in Section 31, Row 2, Site 4 in Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States of America.
HOMER BLACKBURN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 400-50-3884 (indicating Kentucky) and, Death Master File says, died November 1968. Research in ZIP Code 42720. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOMER MOORE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 172-32-5870 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died January 1972. Research in ZIP Code 15071. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOMER RICHARDSON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 464-05-6774 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died October 1966. Research in ZIP Code 77501. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HONTENSE WILSON was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 085-20-0115 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died September 1982. Research in ZIP Code 33710. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HORACE COOMBE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 571-01-1568 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died March 1968. Research in ZIP Code 98221. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HORACE W GRAY was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 299-05-7391 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 29 August 1988. Research in ZIP Code 49085. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOSIE STOKES was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 430-40-8574 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died June 1972. Research in ZIP Code 72042. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD BRECHTEL was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 540-44-8249 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died May 1972. Research in ZIP Code 97436. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD DUVALL was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 171-18-8813 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died June 1963. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD EVANS was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 132-10-3033 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died September 1969. Research in ZIP Code 18504. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD MADSEN was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 333-07-8092 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died July 1966. Research in ZIP Code 60901. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD MCCARTER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 374-22-2161 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died October 1972. Research in ZIP Code 48116. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD SANNE was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 137-09-8338 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died November 1966. Research in ZIP Code 07657. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
HOWARD D MILLER was born 27 August 1895, received Social Security number 205-30-1338 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 15 January 1990. Source: Social Security Death Master File (public domain).
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Early Quranic Manuscripts
Hijazi manuscripts
Sana’a manuscript
Codex Parisino-petropolitanus
BnF Arabe 328(c) and Birmingham fragment
Tübingen fragment
Kufic manuscripts
Topkapi manuscript
Samarkand Kufic Quran
Gotthelf Bergsträßer Archive
Other Manuscripts
The Ma’il Quran
The Blue Quran
In Muslim tradition, the text of the Quran is traditionally said to have been united into its extant form during the reign of the third caliph Uthman (r. 644–656). According to Corpus Coranicum, a research organisation funded by the Government of Germany, more than 60 fragments including more than 2000 folios (4000 pages) are so far known as the textual witnesses (manuscripts) of the Qur’an before 800CE (within 168 years after the death of Prophet Muhammad)[1]. Selected manuscripts from the first four centuries after the death of Prophet Muhammad (632-1032CE) are listed below.
Folio from a Qur’an Manuscript
This small-scale Qur’an was used as an intimate personal object, probably worn or carried as an amulet during travel. Despite its diminutive size, it shares many features with other early Qur’ans, which were often much larger and used as memory guides for public recitations. Here, densely packed writing in kufic script is lengthened horizontally, and red dots mark short vowels.
Hijazi script (خَطّ حِجَازِيّ ḫaṭṭ ḥijāzīy), also Hejazi, literally “relating to Hejaz”, is the collective name for a number of early Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz region of the Arabian Peninsula, which includes the cities of Mecca and Medina. This type of script was already in use at the time of the emergence of Islam. It was one of the earliest scripts, along with Mashqand Kufic.
The script is notably angular in comparison with other Arabic scripts and tends to slope to the right. The script does not yet contain any dots or diacritical marks to indicate vowel sounds: but does differentiate consonants by the intermittent use of dashes above the graphic letter forms.
Main article: Sana’a manuscript
The Sana’a manuscript, is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence. It was found, along with many other Quranic and non-Quranic fragments, in Yemen in 1972 during restoration of the Great Mosque of Sana’a. The manuscript is written on parchment, and comprises two layers of text (see palimpsest). The upper text conforms to the standard ‘Uthmanic Quran, whereas the lower text contains many variants to the standard text. An edition of the lower text was published in 2012.[2] A radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment containing the lower text to before 671 AD with a 99% accuracy.[3]
Main article: Codex Parisino-petropolitanus
The so-called Codex Parisino-petropolitanus formerly conserved portions of two of the oldest extant Quranic manuscripts. Most surviving leaves represent a Quran that is preserved in various fragments, the largest part of which are kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as BNF Arabe 328(ab). 46 leaves are held at the National Library of Russia, and one each in the Vatican Library, and in the Khalili Collection.
Main article: Birmingham Quran manuscript
BnF Arabe 328(c), formerly bound with BnF Arabe 328(ab), has 16 leaves,[4] with two additional leaves discovered in Birmingham in 2015 (Mingana 1572a, bound with an unrelated Quranic manuscript).[5] [6]
This manuscript may date to the mid-7th century: The parchment of the Birmingham fragment has been carbon-dated to between 568 and 645 with a confidence of 97.2%, indicating the animal from which the parchment was made lived during that time.
BnF Arabe 328(c) was part of the lot of pages from the store of Quranic manuscripts at the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Fustat bought by French Orientalist Jean-Louis Asselin de Cherville (1772–1822) when he served as vice-consul in Cairo during 1806–1816.
The 16 folia in Paris contain the text of sura 10:35 to 11:95 and of 20:99 to 23:11. The Birmingham folia cover part of the lacuna in the Paris portion, with parts of the text of suras 18, 19 and 20. The text is laid out in the format that was to become standard for complete Quran texts, with chapter divisions indicated by linear decoration, and verse endings by intertextual clustered dots.
In November 2014, the University of Tübingen in Germany announced that a partial Quran manuscript in their possession (Ms M a VI 165), had been carbon dated (with a confidence of 95%), to between 649 and 675.[7][8][9][10] The manuscript is now recognised as being written in hijazi script, although in the 1930 catalogue of the collection it is classified as “Kufic”, and consists of the Quranic verses 17:36, to 36:57 (and part of verse 17:35). [11]
This manuscript was acquired by University of Cambridge from Edward H. Palmer (1840-1882) and EE Tyrwhitt Drake.[12] It was created before 800CE according to Corpus Coranicum.[13]
Further information: Kufic script
For a long time, the Topkapi manuscript and the Samarkand Kufic Quran were considered the oldest Quran copies in existence. Both codices are more or less complete. They are written in the Kufic script. It “can generally be dated from the late eighth century depending on the extent of development in the character of the script in each case.”[14]
Main article: Topkapi manuscript
The Topkapi manuscript is an early manuscript of the Quran dated to the early 8th century. This manuscript is kept in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. It was wrongly attributed to Uthman Ibn Affan (d. 656), but judging from its illumination, the Topkapi manuscript does not date from the period (mid 7th century) when the copies of the Caliph Uthman were written.[15][16]
Main article: Samarkand Kufic Quran
The Samarkand Kufic Quran, preserved at Tashkent, is a Kufic manuscript, in Uzbek tradition identified as one of Uthman’s manuscripts, but dated to the 8th or 9th century by both paleographic studies and carbon-dating of the parchment.[17][18] Radio-carbon dating showed a 95.4% probability of a date between 795 and 855.[18]
Gilchrist’s dating of any Kufic manuscript to the later 8th century has been criticized by other scholars, who have cited many earlier instances of early Kufic and pre-Kufic inscriptions. The most important of these are the Quranic inscriptions in Kufic script from the founding of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (692).[19] Inscriptions on rock Hijaaze and early Kufic script may date as early as 646. The debate between the scholars has moved from one over the date origin of the script to one over the state of development of the Kufic script in the early manuscripts and in datable 7th-century inscriptions.
This almost complete Quranic manuscript was photographed by Otto Pretzl in 1934 in Morocco. In recent years, a few folios from the manuscripts have been sold by private companies and were dated to the 9th century or earlier by Christie’s.[20][21]
The Ma’il Quran is a 8th century Quran (between 700 to 799) originated from Saudi Arabia. It contains two-thirds of the Qur’ān text and is one of the oldest Qur’āns in the world. [22] It is now kept in The British Library.
Further information: Blue Qur’an
The Blue Qur’an (Arabic: المصحف الأزرق al-Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq) is a late 9th to early 10th-century Fatimid Tunisian Qur’an manuscript in Kufic calligraphy, probably created in North Africa for the Great Mosque of Kairouan.[23] It is among the most famous works of Islamic calligraphy,[23] and has been called “one of the most extraordinary luxury manuscripts ever created.”[24]
Its official website says : “Mehr als 60 Fragmente mit insgesamt mehr als 2000 Blättern (4000 Seiten) sind als Textzeugen für den Koran vor 800 bisher bekannt.” https://corpuscoranicum.de/
Sadeghi, Behnam; Goudarzi, Mohsen (2012). “Ṣan’ā’ 1 and the Origins of the Qur’ān”. Der Islam. 87 (1–2): 1–129. doi:10.1515/islam-2011-0025.
Sadeghi, Behnam; Bergmann, Uwe (2010). “The Codex of a Companion of the Prophet and the Qurʾān of the Prophet”. Arabica. 57 (4): 343–436. doi:10.1163/157005810X504518.
“Coran” – via gallica.bnf.fr.
“Birmingham Qur’an manuscript dated among the oldest in the world”. University of Birmingham. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
“‘The Qur’anic Manuscripts of the Mingana Collection and their Electronic Edition‘“. Quranic Studies Association Blog. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
“Tübingen University fragment written 20-40 years after the death of the Prophet, analysis shows”. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. February 15, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
Sensational Fragment of Very Early Qur’an Identified
“M a VI 165 – A Qur’anic Manuscript From The 1st Century Hijra At The Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Germany”. www.islamic-awareness.org.
“World’s oldest Qur’an found in Germany”. Iran Daily. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
“Kufisches Koranfragment”. Universität Tübingen. Retrieved January 3,2017.
https://corpuscoranicum.de/handschriften/index/sure/8/vers/10/handschrift/282
John Gilchrist, Jam’ al-Qur’an: The codification of the Qur’an text (1989), p. 146.
“The “Qur’ān Of ʿUthmān” At The Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, From 1st / 2nd Century Hijra”. Islamic Awareness. 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
“Corpus Coranicum”. corpuscoranicum.de.
“The “Qur’ān Of ʿUthmān” At Tashkent (Samarqand), Uzbekistan, From 2nd Century Hijra”. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
E. A. Rezvan,“On The Dating Of An “’Uthmanic Qur’an” From St. Petersburg”, Manuscripta Orientalia, 2000, Volume 6, No. 3, pp. 19-22.
The Arabic Islamic Inscriptions On The Dome Of The Rock In Jerusalem, islamic-awareness.org; also Hillenbrand, op. cit.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/a-kufic-quran-folio-near-east-or-5421825-details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=5421825&sid=a6032625-c485-4814-9f77-b1aaa8b0fbc6&page=1&lid=1
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/a-kufic-quran-folio-near-east-or-5826190-details.aspx?pos=1&intObjectID=5826190&sid=&page=14&lid=1
https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/04/the-british-librarys-oldest-quran-manuscript-now-online.html
“Folio from the Blue Qur’an (Probably North Africa (Tunisia)) (2004.88)”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. September 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
“Folio From the Blue Qur’an”. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
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School of Education > Centers & Partnerships > Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL) > About > Staff
Magaly Lavadenz, Ph.D., Executive Director
Magaly Lavadenz, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor and founding Executive Director of the Center for Equity for English Learners in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Her research addresses the intersections and impact of policies and practices for culturally and linguistically diverse students, their teachers and school leaders.
She has held various leadership positions as President of Californians Together, California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), the California Association for Bilingual Teacher Education and the California Council on Teacher Education. Her work is published in numerous articles, chapters and books, including Questioning our Practices: Bilingual Teacher-Researchers and Transformative Inquiry and Latino Civil Rights in Education: La Lucha Sigue, co-edited with Anaida Colón Muñiz. Dr. Lavadenz completed a Ph.D. in Education, specializing in Language, Literacy and Learning from the University of Southern California. Her K-12 teaching career includes serving as a bilingual paraprofessional, elementary bilingual educator, and as a K-12 English as a Second Language Teacher Specialist.
Elvira G. Armas, Ed.D., Director of Programs and Partnerships
Elvira G. Armas is the Director of Programs and Partnerships for the Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL) and Affiliated Faculty in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Throughout her career, she has been actively engaged in collaborating with TK–12th-grade educators in the areas of leadership, curriculum, integrated standards-based instruction, assessment, and family/community engagement in culturally and linguistically diverse settings. Over the past 32 years she has served as a bilingual classroom teacher, mentor, district advisor, staff developer, grant writer, project director, and curriculum materials developer. She has also co-authored several articles, policy briefs, and book chapters about issues related to teaching, learning, parent/community engagement, and assessment. She has also taught reading, writing, and second language methods as well as foundational courses at several universities. Dr. Armas holds a Teaching Credential, with Bilingual Authorization in Spanish as well as an administrative credential. She earned an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in Language, Literacy and Learning.
Sylvia Jáuregui Hodge, M.Ed., Doctoral Fellow and Assistant Director
Sylvia J. Hodge has worked in diverse education organizations, including a state educational agency and national advocacy group, and in public and charter school organizations. As an educator, she has worked at highly diverse, multilingual, Title I schools in California and Texas. In 2014, she was awarded a fellowship from the National Head Start Association (NHSA) in Washington, D.C. During her time at NHSA, she co-authored Two Generations Together: Case Studies from Head Start, a report on successful two-generational approaches used by Head Start and Early Head Start programs. Sylvia is the recipient of the Center’s EdD Fellowship, supporting research that focuses on state- and district-level accountability for English Learners. She has co-authored reports, and peer-reviewed articles focused on how California's school funding and accountability policies affect educational opportunities for English Learners. Serving as Assistant Director, Sylvia supports CEEL’s Project ROYAL (Rigorous Opportunities for Young-children to Accelerate Language): Effects of the Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) Model, funded by U.S. Department of Education in 2016. Project ROYAL focuses on the creation and implementation of a coherent and comprehensive professional development program for pre-service and in-service teachers in classroom strategies to advance outcomes for English Learners. She received her M.Ed. in Educational Policy and Planning from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently completing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice at Loyola Marymount University.
Grecya López, Research Associate
Grecya López is CEEL’s Research Associate. She assists the CEEL Leadership Team and staff with research tool development, data collection, analysis, writing, and dissemination of research findings. Grecya joined CEEL in February 2020 with 20 consecutive years of experience conducting program evaluation and research in the field of education. Prior to joining CEEL, Grecya was a Research and Evaluation Supervisor with Child360—a non-profit dedicated to increasing the quality of preschool education for children and families. Grecya also served the Los Angeles Unified School District in many research and evaluation capacities within its Program Evaluation and Research Branch, Office of Data and Accountability, School Information Branch, and Independent Analysis Unit. Grecya’s area of expertise is in culturally relevant and responsive educational programs for children and professional development for teachers. She utilizes qualitative and mixed methods to evaluation and is also proficient in social network analysis. Grecya earned a master’s degree in Educational Policy Planning and Administration from the USC Rossier School of Education, a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the UC Santa Cruz, and a GIS certificate from the UC San Diego Extension.
Verónica Torres McLane, Assistant Director for Professional Learning
Verónica Torres McLane is Assistant Director for Professional Learning for the Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL) at Loyola Marymount University where she supports the management of CEEL projects in the areas of Professional learning and leadership, teacher development, biliteracy curriculum design and implementation, and policy initiatives.
Over the past 24 years, she has served as a bilingual classroom teacher, mentor, instructional coach of mathematics, and instructor. For 10 years, she was part of Dual Language Immersion programs, serving as a Spanish teacher, Lead Teacher, and Instructional Leader. She collaborated with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Dual Language and Bilingual Programs Office in the development of the Tesoros/Treasures Instructional guide, and the Biliteracy Instructional Guide for Benchmark Adelante/Advance. She also served as a trainer and presenter for the Dual Language Institute and Introduction to the Dual Language Program.
Verónica earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Spanish Literature and Culture from Occidental College. She holds a Teaching Credential, with Bilingual Authorization in Spanish from California State University Dominguez Hills. Throughout her career, she has been actively engaged in collaborating with colleagues, administrators and parents to advocate for multilingual learners in bilingual programs.
Gisela O'Brien, Ph.D., Biliteracy & EL Education Specialist
Gisela O'Brien supports the Center's efforts in research, curriculum and professional development focusing on the education of English Learners. She provides technical assistance to implement effective bilingual and dual immersion programs in districts across the state. A life-long educator, she has worked as a bilingual teacher, staff developer, curriculum/materials designer and curriculum specialist in the areas of literacy, ELD and SDAIE. Dr. O'Brien has served as advisor at the state and national level in the areas of Language Arts and Second Language instruction and has published articles and book chapters on bilingual education and models for staff development. Dr. O'Brien received her Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis on Language, Literacy and Learning from the University of Southern California and her M.S. degree in Educational Leadership from California State University, Los Angeles. An Affiliated Faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership at LMU, she teaches courses reading, writing and second language learning methods across the School of Education
Annette Quintero, Program Coordinator
Annette Quintero is the Center for Equity for English Learners’ Program Coordinator. She manages the Center’s day-to-day operations, assists with strategic planning, coordinates special events, provides management and oversight, coordinates internal and external communications, and oversees graduate assistants. Prior to joining CEEL, Annette worked as a high school social studies teacher in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Her work history also includes social justice advocacy through community organizing. Her work with the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition led to the passage of Long Beach’s first language access policy and a local resolution in support of the DREAM Act (one of the first in the nation). Additionally, her work as a founding steering committee member for the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community contributed to passage of a living wage ordinance for hotel workers, and a labor-peace agreement for the Long Beach Airport and Convention Center. Annette has an M.A. in Geography and a B.A. in Sociology from Cal State Long Beach.
Tony Plana, Affiliated Faculty
Tony Plana recently starred as Ignacio Suarez, the widowed father to America Ferrera's Ugly Betty, in ABC's landmark, groundbreaking hit series for which he received the 2006 Golden Satellite Award from the International Press Academy, an Imagen Award, and an Alma Award. Ugly Betty received the highest ratings and the most critical acclaim of any Latino-based show in the history of television, most notably 11 Emmy nominations and a Golden Glove Award for best comedy. Previously, he also starred in Showtime's original series, Resurrection Boulevard, and was nominated for two Alma Awards for best actor. Resurrection Boulevard was the first series to be produced, written, directed and starring Latinos and awarded an Alma Award for the best television series of 2002. Besides recurring roles on Alpha House, Madam Secretary, Jane the Virgin, Elementary, The Fosters, The Blacklist, Colony, One Day at a Time with Rita Moreno and Super Store with America Ferrera, his latest television projects include principal roles in the newly released series Lethal Weapon with Damon Wayans for Fox, Start Up with Martin Freeman for Sony's Crackle, The Punisher with Jon Bernthal for Netflix, Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope with Jude Law and Diane Keaton for HBO and the soon to be released Mayans MC for the FX Channel.
As an actor Plana has starred in more than 70 feature films, including JFK, Nixon, Salvador, An Officer and a Gentleman, Lone Star, Three Amigos, Born in East L.A., El Norte, 187, Primal Fear, Romero, One Good Cop, Havana, The Rookie, Silver Strand and Picking Up the Pieces with Woody Allen. He has also appeared in the action thriller Half Past Dead with Steven Segal; The Lost City, with Andy Garcia, Bill Murray, and Dustin Hoffman; and Disney's highly acclaimed GOAL, The Dream Begins! Recently released feature films include America with Edward James Olmos, Pain & Gain with Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg directed by Michael Bay and Roman J. Israel, Esquire with Denzel Washington directed by Dan Gilroy.
In 2005 he was honored as Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University's Department of Education. In 2008 he was awarded Loyola High School's Cahalan Award as a distinguished alumnus and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Imagen Foundation. In 2009 the HOLA organization honored him with the Raul Julia HOLA Founders Award for excellence. In 2010, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa selected him as worthy of one of the highest honors bestowed by the City of Los Angeles, The Dream of Los Angeles Award for his contributions to the media arts and education. He is the proud recipient of the 2013 ALMA Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of La Raza and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016.
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UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 25, 2012 (IPS)
Think of Rio+20 as the hothouse to grow the green ideas and values humanity needs to thrive in the 21st century.
No one is expecting, or even wants, a big new international treaty on sustainable development said Manish Bapna, interim president of the World Resources Institute, a global environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C.
“The important action will be on the sidelines of the formal negotiations,” Bapna told IPS in an interview.
Blocs of countries, civil society organisations and representatives of business will meet, create coalitions and make commitments on specific issues and on regional concerns.
“There could be some exciting specific commitments coming out of Rio,” Bapna said.
Perhaps the most important outcome from Rio+20 would be to put to rest the erroneous belief that protecting the environment comes at the cost of economic growth when it is in fact the opposite. Without a healthy, functioning environment, humanity loses the benefits of the environment’s “free products”: air, water, soil to grow food, stable climate and so on.
“One of the big hurdles to a sustainable future is that officials in many countries think they can’t afford to move onto a more sustainable pathway,” he said.
Bapna hopes Rio+20 will generate a “new narrative” – a wider understanding that there is no viable alternative to the transition to low-carbon, resource-efficient economies that alleviate poverty and create more jobs.
As many as 50,000 people are expected to participate in hundreds of events at the Rio+20 Earth Summit spanning two weeks in mid-June in Rio de Janeiro. More than 130 world leaders will attend, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin as well as the prime ministers of India, Manmohan Singh, and China, Wen Jiabao.
U.S. President Obama has not confirmed his attendance at the 20th anniversary of world’s first Earth Summit that gave birth to three major environmental treaties on climate change, biodiversity, and land degradation and desertification.
In just about every environmental category things have only become worse since 1992. However, a few countries like Germany understand the environmental and economic necessity of shifting onto a more sustainable path, Bapna said.
“Germany is making the single-most important effort in the world to fight climate change by de-carbonising their economy,” he noted.
Germany is committed to double its energy and resource productivity by 2020, which will generate news jobs and enhance its competitiveness in a world with fewer and more expensive resources.
Consumption of fresh water, oil, copper and gold are on pace to triple by 2050, according to a 2001 U.N. report. Except there simply aren’t enough resources left on the planet to manage that.
About 22 percent of Germany’s energy comes from renewable sources and its goal is to reach 35 percent by 2020, and grow to 80 percent by 2050. Major efforts in improving energy efficiency have been the key in making this shift.
Rio+20 needs to engage people on the sidelines with a new “story” about the imperative to live sustainably with examples of how new markets and green jobs are being created, Bapna said.
The official Rio+20 negotiations are going so badly that an extra week of talks will be held next week. Those negotiations involve what’s called the “zero draft”. It is intended to be the roadmap for sustainable growth, often called the green economy, and will likely include a set of sustainable development goals.
However, like all U.N. agreements, every word requires unanimous approval by all nations, which is extremely challenging.
“We recognise that we can not continue to burn and consume our way to prosperity. Yet we have not embraced the obvious solution – the only possible solution, now as it was 20 years ago: sustainable development,” said United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon in a statement Thursday.
Ban acknowledged the negotiations were “painfully slow” and personally pushed for the extra week of talks urging countries to look beyond their national interests.
“Rio offers a generational opportunity to hit the reset button: to set a new course toward a future that balances the economic, social and environmental dimensions of prosperity and human well-being,” he said.
With less than 30 days left to the high-level segment, there is still “no agreed definition of what the green economy is,” said Craig Hanson, director of the People and Ecosystems Program at World Resources Institute.
There is growing consensus about the need for green growth and development but people are uncertain what a green economy actually looks like. Germany offers an example with its clean energy efforts that have created 370,000 jobs, Hanson told IPS.
Niger’s success in reversing desertification in the Sahel is another, he said.
Negotiations on how to get to greener economies have been a struggle with some countries putting their national interests ahead of what might be best for the planet and future generations he acknowledges.
Phasing out the hundreds of billions of dollars governments dole out in fossil fuel subsidies annually would be best for future generations but it is unclear what countries are prepared to do, said Bapna. “Will they reaffirm previous promises or make firm commitments at Rio? We just don’t know.”
The U.N.’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative has serious momentum and a bloc of countries could make firm financial commitments to help bring clean energy to world’s poorest people, he added.
About 1.4 billion people have no access to electricity and 2.5 billion use traditional biomass for cooking, which has many health and environmental impacts. Bringing electricity to those without out would cost 30 to 40 billion dollars a year – a fraction of the amount spent on current fossil fuel subsidies.
The world has changed since 1992. Things are a lot less predictable. There is no overarching green vision uniting all countries.
“What we do know is this is the critical decade. The world needs short-term commitments to act,” said Bapna. “Rio will be a pretty remarkable event…. We need confidence and hope to come out of Rio.”
First published as Will Rio+20 Spark a Green Revolution? – IPS ipsnews.net.
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Nick Hickman Releases "Let Em Speak" and Discusses His Vulnerable Side
Shannon Henry
Shannon is a passionate country fan who enjoys getting to know the artists and their music. She also loves spreading joy through interviews.
A lot of musicians head to Nashville with big dreams only to find disappointment and heartbreak instead. However, Nick Hickman is not one of those artists. He may have the same big dreams many musicians have, but unlike them, he does not expect to be among the richest or the most famous. Oddly enough, though, that might be the very thing that helps him find his success.
You see, Nick's ultimate career goal is to sell out arenas so that he stands in front of 20,000 fans singing his songs along with him. Of course, he wouldn't turn away any other special moments that may come is way, say a Grammy or two. And it's entirely possible he will earn such an award because his songs are catchy. They invite the listener to come back for more time and time again. But the music is what he lives for and filling up areas means he is reaching people with that music no matter how famous he may become.
Nick's latest EP Let Em Speak, featuring songs like "Tipsy" and "Bottle Away," is releasing soon. He describes this project as 100% authentically him. This sophomore country release allowed the singer to show a more vulnerable side. He also shared some of that vulnerability in an interview discussing the release of his EP and latest single. Read on to discover Nick Hickman and his music for yourself.
Tell Us About Yourself Please
I've been in Nashville for two years doing the country thing. I was a worship pastor when I first started music many, many years ago. And then it led me down this road. This will be my second country EP. It's not out yet; it comes out in April. But I'm super excited about it. I think it shows a lot of growth. It's been really good for me to be more vulnerable in my writing. It seems like this EP is happening a lot faster than the last one. Things seem to be going better.
Nick Hickman - Tipsy
There Is a Picture on Your Website, but the Tattoo on Your Arm Is Not Completely Visible. What Does It Say?
The one on the upper arm says "faith" and the word "faith" is coming out of the roots of the tree. It's supposed to be symbolic. My faith is rooted in the tree.
What Is the Story Behind Your Latest Single "Tipsy"?
Well, it's just about a tough situation. I had an ex that I couldn't seem to shake, just couldn't get over. She kept calling me up at 2:30 am. So, yeah, everything in that song really happened to me in my life. So people get a chance to see this is what really happened. This is what went down.
What Made You Switch to the Country Genre?
It just felt right. Once the Christian band disassembled, this is just where I found myself. I'm from a small town where country music has always been predominate. You know, when you're playing music, you just want to play music. So after the band disbanded, I sat down and thought about what I wanted to be doing and where I should go, it was a pretty easy transition to country. It's what I know. It's what I'm good at.
You're Definitely Good at It, and Your Songs Are Catchy. Do You Have a Particular Writing Process?
Thank you. That's what I go for. I want songs that are catchy, hooky. I want songs that last. I'm a huge fan of not writing filler songs or using filler songs. Although, I didn't write "Deuces." But that song is super catchy and super good. I love it.
Nine times out of 10, I have a melody ready to use, or I have a hook idea before I start writing. I could write down a story as if I were writing a book or a poem, but once you have a catchy melody, you have to find a way to make the words fit. For instance, let's say I want to say, 'I like going to the beach.' Well, the wording may not fit fluently within the chord progression or the melody that I have. And I have to find a way to say that so that it fits into the song. So, you know, coming up with a melody is probably the easiest for me. Just because I can write a story, but I have to figure out how. I can say, 'I like going to the beach' so that it works within the song. There may be ten other ways to say that sentence that work better with the song so that it flows in that pocket. I have to find the right one.
Who or What Inspires You?
Boy, that's gonna be a long list. Justin Timberlake is for sure number one. Travis Tritt, The Fray, Boys Like Girls, U2, Baby Face. The list goes on.
I Don't Hear Any Country Artists. . .
Well, Travis Tritt, but that's the thing. That list is long. Garth [Brooks], Allen [Jackson], George [Strait]. The artists I grew up on. Randy Travis. That stuff is predominate. Travis Tritt is the forerunner in country music, though, besides now. Like I love Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Brett Eldredge. I love them all. I can't really pinpoint one, but those are the ones that really stick out to me. Like, I had Travis Tritt's first three records, and they were on repeat day after day after day. I think that the list of artists that I don't like you can probably fit on two hands and two feet. I just respect talent and appreciate music and ability.
Who Inspires You Personally?
Well, I don't necessarily want to get too religious and say Jesus, but he is definitely a forerunner. My grandmother; she's pretty bad ass. Actually, my grandmother and my grandfather are both pretty bad ass. They're 84, but they pretty much raised me. So now she still asks things like, "Have you been to church? Or been drinking that alcohol?" But I love them.
Do You Have a Favorite Concert Memory? Is It Country?
No! No, no, no. The best concert I've ever seen was Coldplay. It was incredible. I've never seen anything like it. There was so much showmanship and theatrics. It was incredible.
Do You Aim for Something Like That With Your Own Concerts?
Yeah. I try to keep as much energy as possible. I feel like the more energy you have, the more energy the crowd will have. The crowd feeds off of you. Sometimes people will say that the crowd isn't into it and I think, "Well, probably because you don't seem that into what you're doing and they're feeding off of you." So I try to keep as much energy as possible for the shows.
What's It like on a Concert Tour With Your Band?
Fun. We play pranks on tour all the time, but we're mostly just having fun. I've never been on tour with a big artist and experienced those end of tour pranks they pull on each other. But I have some great ideas, and I can't wait until I am involved in one of those.
Is There Anything Else That You Would like Your Fans to Know That I Haven't Asked?
I'm pretty good at golf. No, really, what you see is what you get. I don’t have a filter sometimes, and I say stupid things, but I don't want to edit myself. I want people to see me for me, and I want to be real. I want people to know that if Nick Hickman said this, it's probably for real. If that makes sense. I am pretty good at golf, though. Most people don't associate golf with artistry, but I've been known to play a good game or two.
Nick has been kind enough to say that if you send him a message on Facebook or through his website, you may score a link to some of his music. Check it out; you'll be glad ou did. And to read more about what Nick had to say during this interview, head on over to the Country Music Notes website. The links are below!
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Nick Hickman. 4,287 likes · 55 talking about this. His energetic live performances, insightful songwriting, and strong vocals prove that everything he...
Shannon Henry (author) from Texas on March 30, 2017:
Thank you, Larry. I hope you take a listen!
Larry Rankin from Oklahoma on March 30, 2017:
Great report!
Paula, I don't know what you're going to do with me either. Take me or leave me, I guess. Other than that. . ..I shrug. LOL. I wasn't really serious, you know, about taking that as some kind of insult. It's true that I'm not as talkative as you may think I am most of the time. I am when I need to be and I get along well with most people. But I'm not as outgoing as people think I sound. Hahahaha. That said, your comment reminded me of when I was younger and I used to get in trouble in elementary school for talking. My parents and my best friend's mom had to request that we stay separated from each other. In fact, I think one year we were purposely placed in different classrooms. And I vaguely recall annoying a bus driver in kindergarten by singing jingle bells in the springtime over and over again with a friend just to annoy him. I was a bad kid. LOL. But then by the time I reached high school I was much more quiet and reserved and rarely spoke out about anything. Now, well, it just depends. But, anyway, trust me, I'm not offended by what you said nor was I ever. I was in my own world, I guess. haha
Bill, when someone figures out the mysterious ways of HP I hope they let everyone else know! Sometimes I don't even get a notification when someone comments. Now I wonder if I don't get all the new hub notifications I'm supposed to. . .Hmmmmmm? Not that I can possibly keep up with it all anyway. I've been crazy busy and I'm so far behind everything! And I do mean everything!
BUT---- so glad you did stop by and glad you're going to go check out Nick's music. I think you'll like it, especially if you like country music.
Suzie from Carson City on March 30, 2017:
Shannon Marie....I haven't decided what I'm going to do with you yet, but beware, I see you're ready for a crash course in my famous tutorials. Why on earth would my comment be anything BUT a compliment? More importantly, no matter how or from what angle U read it, it can't possibly read as anything less than positive reinforcement. Just read the words, Ms Henry....don't dissect & diagram the sentences...There is not a single reason why you would need to "defend" the fact that you love to talk. Communication is a GOOD thing. Enough said.
Bill Holland from Olympia, WA on March 30, 2017:
For some reason I wasn't getting notifications of your hubs. Hmmm! HP at play again. Well I'm here now. I've never heard of Nick Hickman, so thanks for the review. I'm heading in his direction as we speak.
Hi, MsDora. Yes, a very fun personality. I really enjoyed that interview. :)
Dora Weithers from The Caribbean on March 29, 2017:
Good job! Quite an interesting personality. Thanks for presenting him.
Thanks, Ruby! I like Keith Urban too. "Raining On Sunday" is one of my favorite songs by him. Glad you like Nick's music, too. Request him on your local radio station and you'll likely hear more of him soon.
Ruby Jean Richert from Southern Illinois on March 29, 2017:
I like the way you showcase new artists. I think Nick Hickman will go far in the country music business. He mentioned some of my favorite artists. My new favorite is Urban Keith. ( I love every song he's ever recorded, especially, ' Blue Ain't Your Color ' I listened to his video, Tipsy and he's got a real counter voice. Good Luck Nick!!!
I think we will be hearing a lot more from him, Paula. That "Tipsy" song stays in my head awhile after I hear it. Those are the kinds if songs that keep people on the radio.
As for the rest of what you said, I hope that's a compliment. Because I choose to take it that way. LOL. It's not the talking I enjoy. I actually don't talk that much to most people and sometimes govthrough phases with those that I do speak with often. It's connecting with people that I like.
Shannon Marie....Another superb interview. You're becoming quite the professional! This young man must have been interesting to interview. Seems to me we'll be hearing a lot about him in the near future.
This is what I call a girl's "dream job." You love Country music......you love to talk! and you have excellent writing skills. Can't think of anything better for you. It's even good for your readers!!! LOL....Peace, Paula
What can I say, Eric, I love my country! LOL. But his songs are catchy. Glad you like his music.
Eric Dierker from Spring Valley, CA. U.S.A. on March 28, 2017:
Thanks for bringing a new artist to my attention.
A bit different genre but he reminds me of my son.
Thanks to God for Artists.
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The Lakers’ LeBron Era Begins
Filed Under:LeBron James, Lonzo Ball, Los Angeles Lakers, Rajon Rondo
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/AP) — It isn’t often Hollywood gets star-struck but the Los Angeles Lakers’ big offseason move to acquire LeBron James had Tinseltown in a tizzy. James is sure to grab the spotlight as he begins his quest for another NBA championship in a purple and gold jersey.
When LeBron James chose the Los Angeles Lakers, the burgeoning entertainment mogul realized many people would think he joined a mediocre team with a five-year playoff drought because he wanted to be in Hollywood.
James simply scoffs at the notion he’s thinking about anything but his day job as he begins the next chapter in one of the greatest careers in NBA history.
“My decision was based solely on my family and the Lakers,” James explained before his first full practice in purple and gold. “I’m a basketball player. I play ball. That’s what I do. When I do it at the level I do, everything else will take care of itself. As far as my business, those things have been taking care of themselves way before I even came out here.”
LeBron James (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
After winning three championship rings while leading — and sometimes carrying — his last eight consecutive teams in Miami and Cleveland to the NBA Finals, the 33-year-old James’ new business is restoring a fraction of the Lakers’ traditional glory following the longest postseason absence in franchise history.
Two years after Kobe Bryant’s retirement tour mercifully ended, the Lakers are relevant again. The court-side celebrities and worldwide fans whose interest waned during this dour half-decade are back in force to see what LeBron can do in this unusual, intriguing situation.
The four-time league MVP brought along a contingent of NBA veterans: Rajon Rondo, JaVale McGee, Lance Stephenson and Michael Beasley. They’re joining a young Lakers core with undeniable talent — Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart and rookie Moe Wagner — but zero NBA success.
James’ teammates and coaches say he has arrived with the gravity of a champion, but with none of the imperious attitude that could accompany a player of his accomplishments. He accepts his role as a leader, but he’s focused on making sure the Lakers feel like a team, not a bunch of players in orbit around him.
Rajon Rondo and LeBron James (Photo Credit: Harry How/Getty Images)
James also realizes this particular Hollywood project is even bigger than him: The Lakers have made no secret of their plan to entice a second superstar, likely younger than James, to join them in free agency or by other means. The upcoming season is a showcase of this team’s long-term potential with the right addition next summer.
“Winning makes it more fun, but we haven’t won anything yet,” coach Luke Walton said. “We come into practice and it isn’t loosey-goosey because we’re expecting to win games. We’re coming into practice knowing that if we want to win games, we have to do things a certain way. Hopefully when we get to games, that leads to us winning, and that would be fun. But we’re not there yet.”
More things to watch during an eventful season in LA:
RONDO AND LONZO
Rondo is eager to be a mentor to Ball, the Lakers’ gifted second-year point guard. They’re watching film and studying together as Rondo attempts to share the roots of his tenacity and the fruit of his experience. Ball hasn’t participated much in camp while he recovers from knee surgery, but once the youngster is fully healthy, their partnership will be fascinating to watch.
Lonzo Ball (Photo Credit: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
BALL HANDLES
Speaking of point guard skills, the Lakers have a wealth of ball-handlers at nearly every position. After James was often forced to do it all on offense in Cleveland, almost anybody on the floor for these Lakers could bring the ball up, run the break or create offense off the dribble. Walton envisions an up-tempo, free-flowing offense mixing concepts from Golden State and Boston. At the very least, James should be spared some of the heavy work after 15 mostly lengthy NBA seasons.
WORK HARD PLAY HARD
The Lakers’ transition from a full-scale rebuilding project to a potential playoff contender has changed the tone of the franchise, particularly in practice. Walton still spends ample time educating his younger players on the fundamental aspects of his scheme, but the Lakers’ veteran leadership is accelerating the youngsters’ growth, Walton said. “(The young players) are a big part of our future here, so it’s important that we still develop them,” Walton said. “It’s just a different style of developing now. It’s not letting them play 35 minutes and letting them learn from their mistakes, play through situations. Now it’s, ‘Look, this is what we’re doing,’ and if we’re not doing it right, we’ve got a lot of guys on this team where you can come out and watch other people do it. We’re getting to the same point, just teaching it with different lessons.”
CURTAIN RAISER
After the Lakers open the season in Portland on Oct. 18, James will make his Lakers home debut against the mighty Rockets on Saturday, Oct. 20. Staples Center court-side tickets are going for five-figure markups on secondary reselling sites, and no seat in the building is available for under $200. The Lakers’ vast popularity in LA waned only slightly during their recent struggles, and the Lakers are once again the hottest sports ticket in LA, even with the Dodgers in the playoffs and the NFL’s Rams rolling through a perfect start to the season.
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Associate or Full Professor | Princeton University - Military Veterans
at HERC - New Jersey/Eastern PA/Delaware
Princeton University The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at Princeton University invites applications for a faculty position at the senior level (tenured Associate or Full Professor rank) in the broadly defined field of robotics and cyber-physical systems. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in engineering or a related subject, and have a demonstrated record of excellence and leadership in research. We seek faculty members who will create a climate that embraces excellence and diversity, with a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring. Princeton SEAS has a long history of leadership in its core disciplines of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical and Biological Engineering. A major effort is underway to establish a collaborative, cross-disciplinary community in robotics and cyber-physical systems, which will lead to new academic opportunities and future robotic systems that interact with the human-occupied world with safety and sophistication for the benefit of society. We seek candidates with the background, expertise, creativity, and passion to build upon and complement existing strengths in order to lead Princeton in its efforts to establish inspiring research and teaching in the rapidly growing field of robotics and cyber-physical systems. To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by December 1, 2017. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, a summary of research accomplishments and future plans, a teaching statement, and contact information for at least three references online at https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/3442. Personal statements that summarize leadership experience and contributions to diversity are encouraged. This position is subject to the University's background check policy. PI127646263
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Sunglass Hut - Sales Associate - Military Veterans
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The Sales Associate is vital to the success of Sunglass Hut and is an ambassador of The Sunglass Hut Experience. The Sales Associate spends time on the sales floor performing all functions relating to The Sunglass Hut Experience and store operations.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Utilizes The Sunglass Hut Experience tools to consistently deliver sales plan and company objectives.
Achieves/exceeds individual sales plan by creating an EMOTIONAL CONNECTION with customers.
Leverages reporting tools to track individual results and identify areas of opportunity.
Partners with Store/Center Manager to maximize sales potential.
People work for people – uses this philosophy to grow careers, encourage teamwork and retain talent through a development-focused environment.
Creates an inspirational and motivating work environment that reflects the integrity of the brand.
Collaborates with fellow Associates to foster teamwork.
Seeks out opportunities for self-development as defined in an individual development plan.
Creates an EMOTIONAL CONNECTION within the store team that translates into sales and ensures that every Associate consistently delivers The Sunglass Hut Experience.
Spends 100% of the time on the sales floor.
Ensures every aspect of The Sunglass Hut Experience is impeccably executed throughout the store.
Makes simple and fast decisions in the best interest of our customers.
Acts as an ambassador for the Sunglass Hut brand.
Builds the Sunglass Hut brand by consistently executing the brand standards.
Stays adept at knowing the product and staying current on new merchandise and fashion trends.
Builds and develops expertise in delivery of The Sunglass Hut Experience.
Consistently executes all visual standards, store merchandising practices and inventory control activities.
Impeccably executes all operational policies and procedures and maintains brand standards.
Properly executes all promotions, contests and incentives
Demonstrated expertise in every aspect of store operations
Customer service and/or retail experience
To accommodate our diverse customer base, preference may be given to bilingual candidates depending upon the needs of the location.
Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Luxottica will provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities who need assistance in the application and hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please call the Luxottica Ethics Compliance Hotline at 1-888-887-3348 or e-mail HRCompliance@luxotticaretail.com (be sure to provide your name and contact information for either option so that we may follow up in a timely manner).
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, social origin, social condition, being perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual aggression or stalking, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, ancestry, veteran or military status, marital status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected pregnancy or maternity leave), genetic information or any other characteristics protected by law. Native Americans receive preference in accordance with Tribal Law.
Luxottica produces and distributes sun and prescription eyewear of high technical and stylistic quality to improve the well-being and satisfaction of its customers and at the same time create value for employees and the communities in which the Group operates. Every collection, every pair of glasses, is the result of an ongoing process of research and development whose aim is to anticipate and interpret the needs, desires and aspirations of consumers all over the world.
Founded in 1961 by Leonardo Del Vecchio, always involved in protecting eyes and optimising the look of men and women everywhere, the Luxottica Group is now a vertically integrated organization, producing and distributing prescription frames and sunglasses of high technical quality and style.
The constant attention paid to research and development, technological innovation, the adaptation to market evolutions in respect of people and the environment, have led Luxottica through worldwide expansion.
Product design, development and manufacturing take place in Luxottica’s six production facilities in Italy, three factories in China, one in Brazil and one sport sunglasses production facility in the United States. Luxottica also has a small plant in India serving the local market.
The design and quality of Luxottica’s products and strong and well-balanced brand portfolio are known around the world. Proprietary brands include Ray-Ban, one of the world’s best known brands for eyewear, Oakley, Vogue Eyewear, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Alain Mikli and Arnette. Licensed brands include Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Bvlgari, Chanel, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, DKNY, Michael Kors, Paul Smith, Ralph Lauren, Prada, Starck Eyes, Tiffany, Tory Burch and Versace .
The Group’s wholesale distribution network covers more than 130 countries across five continents and has nearly 50 commercial subsidiaries providing direct operations in key markets.
Direct wholesale operations are complemented by an extensive retail network comprising over 7,000 stores worldwide as of December 31, 2014.
Luxottica is a leader in the prescription business in North America with its LensCrafters and Pearle Vision retail brands, in Asia-Pacific with the OPSM and Laubman & Pank brands, in China with the LensCrafters brand and in South America with the GMO brand. In North America, Luxottica operates points of sale for its retail licensed brands under the Sears Optical and Target Optical brands.
Additionally, Luxottica operates one of the largest managed vision care networks in the United States through EyeMed and the second largest lens finishing network, with three central laboratories, over 900 on-site labs at LensCrafters stores, a fully dedicated Oakley lab and an additional facility based in China dedicated to North American optical retail.
Luxottica has a global retail organization to support its sun and luxury retail brands including Sunglass Hut, ILORI and The Optical Shop of Aspen. The Sunglass Hut brand, in particular, has a global presence with stores in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, South Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Website: http://www.luxottica.com/en/company/careers/why-luxottica
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Getting to know Daniel Yi Xu
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Daniel Yi Xu
Professor, Department of Economics
Director, Triangle Research Data Center
We recently welcomed Professor Yi (Daniel) Xu to the SSRI team where he oversees the Triangle Research Data Center (TRDC). The TRDC consists of one secure computer laboratory, located at Gross Hall, where researchers can perform statistical analysis on non-public microdata from the Census Bureau's economic and demographic censuses and surveys.
Can you tell us a little about your background?
I am currently a Professor of Economics at Duke University and also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. This is my 10th academic year at Duke. My research expertise is the analysis of firm and industry performance using large-scale micro-level data. In particular, I contributed to the understanding of the key determinants of firm dynamics and innovation as well as their implication for aggregate economic development and growth. My work is highly empirical and often involves the use of novel data sources from a broad range of countries in addition to the U.S.
Why economics? Why Duke?
I believe Economics is fundamentally a subject about “people”. I like Economics because it provides a quite systematic framework for us to think about various important social phenomena, such as how we engage in the production process, how individuals interact in the marketplace, and how we organize ourselves into different forms of governance. To that extent, Economics is rigorous but also highly versatile.
Duke is obviously an excellent academic institution on multiple fronts. But for me, the most attractive part is a highly collegial Economics department, where we encourage works that break the boundaries of narrow disciplines and make fundamental contributions to push the frontier.
What interests you about data?
As my work is very much empirical, data is often one of the most important piece of my research. But more generally, I believe high quality data is the necessary condition for any scientific inquiries. On the other hand, the data does not speak for itself. One of the more interesting parts of our work as social science researchers is to interpret the data through the lens of our own narratives.
As an economist, what excites you about interdisciplinary research?
(People don’t always think of economics research as social science or interdisciplinary)
In contrast to this custom wisdom, I believe Economics has the potential to be highly interdisciplinary. One of the exciting aspects of Economics is that we model and investigate individual behaviors. (Even firms are no more than just a technology that organize people collectively.) Economics has been evolving in terms of its methodology over the past decades, often borrowing heavily from scientific fields like math, stats, and engineering. But I believe at the core it shares the most fundamental topics with other social science disciplines for queries of technology, people, and our society.
How is the TRDC an important resource for Duke faculty, researchers, and students?
Great question. Part of the reason that I agreed to direct the TRDC is exactly its potential of engaging a broad range of Duke faculty, researchers, and students. The TRDC houses the confidential U.S. Census micro data, which are the building blocks for most of the public social and economic indicators. A potentially less known fact is that TRDC also hosts projects using non-public data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. These all substantially broaden the potential user base and purpose of the projects that can be conducted within the center. While these data all provide exciting research opportunities, they often require a somewhat cumbersome application process. One of our primary task here is to promote the utilization of this unique resource and help our Duke community to smooth out the access process as much as possible.
Our more ambitious long-run goal is to leverage on the unique position of TRDC and provide a platform for our faculty, researchers, and students to exchange ideas and build up collaborative projects. The fact that our data spans across a broad range of subjects like demography, firms, and health also would make these collaborations potentially interdisciplinary by definition.
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25 Greatest Warriors History Has Ever Seen
by Theodoros II June 24, 2019, 4:48 pm
There have been many great individuals in various fields of human endeavor throughout history from science to the arts, philosophy to politics, business to technology, but none of these greats has spilled more blood than the greatest warriors in history.
So take a deep breath and get ready to discover 25 of the deadliest, most vicious, and bloodthirsty warriors who ever lived.
Alaric the Visigoth
Alaric was a Visigoth king who has the distinction of being the one who sacked Rome. That upgraded him to an honorary Roman civilian and magister militum, “master of soldiers,” making him a valued member of the Roman Empire. Following the sack of Rome, Alaric led his troops south to Campania, taking Nola and Capua along the way.
Alaric headed toward the Roman province of Africa where he intended to provision his army with Rome’s personal breadbasket, but a storm wrecked his ships, temporarily blocking his crossing. Only Mother Nature could defeat Alaric the Barbarian.
Count Roland
Roland was a great French warrior and a medieval folk hero who was immortalized in the poem Chanson de Roland, which was written sometime during the eleventh and twelve centuries.
Historically Count Roland was Charlemagne’s commander on the Breton border and his very best warrior. According to legend, he was killed in a pass in the Pyrenees when Basques cut off the rear guard of the Frankish army returning from its invasion of Spain in 778.
Horatius Cocles
Horatius Cocles was a legendary Roman hero who defended the bridge across the Tiber when the city was attacked by the Etruscans. We could write pages inspired by his achievements on the battlefield.
However, to make a long story short, just keep in mind that Horatius lost his eye in a battle thanks to an arrow that he removed (with his eye still on it) and continued fighting like a beast, hence the name “Cocles,” which means “one eyed.” I don’t think this man’s heroism can be questioned, do you?
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Despite Prince Rupert looking like a softy and coming from a ridiculously rich family the man was really ambitious. By age fourteen the German prince had already joined the military and went on to have a very diverse, colorful career though he is most known for commanding the royalist cavalry during the English Civil War.
Even though Prince Rupert was also an inventor, an artist, a businessman, and a few other things, it was his fighting skills and ruthless warrior spirit that made him stand out. For the record, he was that good of a warrior that his enemies believed at some point that he had supernatural powers and couldn’t be killed.
Vercingetorix
Revered in France as its first national hero, Vercingetorix managed to unite several sovereign Celtic tribes to do battle against the aggressive Romans.
He battled valiantly and ferociously to keep the Roman army from overrunning Gaul, as France was then called. His troops were eventually defeated at Alesia, and Vercingetorix was forced to surrender after battling the powerful Roman army with all he had.
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Jeff Searcy to lead Tac Wear™ USA
Tac Wear™, a worldwide provider of the ultimate performance gear and apparel for military/law enforcement agencies and units, first responders, professional athletes and those who want the best in performance base layer, outerwear, and tactical gear on the market, has chosen the vibrant and thriving Atlanta suburb of Marietta, GA, as its U.S. base of operations in order to better serve its current and growing list American customers and partners. Joining Tac Wear™ Founder, Robert Taylor, as Director of Tac Wear™ USA, is his long-time friend and business associate, Jeff Searcy. Mr. Searcy has over 25 years of executive, management, and organization/business development experience. He is a entrepreneur, speaker, visionary, strategist, and consultant who has worked with organizations and businesses across the country. Searcy, a former United States Marine, is also a member of the original founders and former Executive Vice President of the Wounded Warrior Project®, serving from 2005 to 2009 as its first Chief Development and Marketing Officer and head of WWP’s educational and career advancement programs worldwide. “Our commitment to the military, veteran, and first responder communities has never and will never waver,” Searcy said. “Our purpose at Tac Wear™ is to serve those in uniform, which includes the first responders, and provide them the best in performance apparel and gear. The best for the best.” For more information about Tac Wear™ and the best performance products on the market, visit http://www.tacwear.com. Tac Wear™ – The Ultimate Performance Gear™. All rights reserved. Tac Wear™, Inc. and Tac Wear™ USA, LLC. 2018.
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How Much Lower are Canada’s Business Taxes?
William McBride
Burger King’s announcement that it will move its headquarters to Canada has put the spotlight on Canada’s tax system. Just what are the tax benefits of doing business in Canada versus the U.S.?
First, Canada has a much lower corporate tax rate: 15 percent at the federal level plus another 11 percent on average from provincial corporate taxes. Compare that to the U.S. federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent plus an average state corporate tax rate of about 4 percent.
Second, Canada has a territorial tax system, meaning there is no additional repatriation tax on foreign profits. The U.S. has a worldwide tax system, which applies a repatriation tax to foreign profits when those profits are brought back to the U.S. The repatriation tax is basically the difference between the foreign corporate tax rate and the U.S. corporate tax rate, which is typically more than 10 percent. The average foreign corporate tax rate in the developed world is 25 percent.
Third, the U.S. is not particularly competitive in terms of taxing shareholders. Canada integrates its corporate tax with shareholder taxes to avoid double-taxation. In the U.S. it just piles up, so the integrated corporate tax rate on equity financed investment is over 50 percent.
Perhaps less important to Burger King are sales taxes and property taxes, but they still matter to some extent. Canada has a superior sales tax system that largely exempts business inputs. Most U.S. states apply their sales taxes to capital goods.
Canada has a superior property tax system that largely exempts business inputs. In contrast, state and local U.S. property taxes often apply to machinery and equipment and in some states to inventory. Some states also have capital taxes.
Putting the domestic tax factors together, Jack Mintz and Duanjie Chen of the University of Calgary found that the U.S. Marginal Effective Tax Rate (METR) on Capital Investment is the highest in the developed world, at 35.3 percent. In contrast, Canada’s METR is about half that, at 18.6 percent. By this measure, Canada has the lowest business tax burden in the G7.
In short, in terms of doing business, the U.S. has the least attractive tax regime of any developed country. That is what is causing the corporate inversions. The solution is tax reform, particularly corporate tax reform.
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International Leasing’s Tk285 crore assets turn into Tk2,773 crore liabilities
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The International Leasing and Financial Services Ltd's net asset has suddenly turned into huge liabilities, with the company posting a big loss in its history that has become a bad example in the non-banking financial institution sector.
Although the company posted Tk285 crore as its net asset value at the end of the first three quarters ending on 30 September last year, the amount turned into liabilities of Tk2,773 crore at the end of 2019.
Besides, the company suddenly incurred a huge loss of Tk2,802 crore in 2019. Its net profit was Tk11.22 crore just the previous year.
That is why the company did not recommend any dividend to its shareholders for the first time since it was listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE).
After the news came out on 5 November, the company's share price came down by 20% to Tk5.70 each in two days at the DSE.
The company said in its financial statement that it had slipped into such a situation while following the instructions of the Bangladesh Bank.
But a senior official of the company said they had faced several major debt scandals last year and Prashanta Kumar (PK) Halder's debt scandal was especially responsible for the plight.
The allegation of embezzlement against PK Halder, former director of the company, surfaced after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had launched an inquiry into the wealth of illegal casino owners last year.
Halder and his accomplices misappropriated around Tk3,500 crore from International Leasing. The ACC is investigating the allegations against him.
He was the deputy managing director of Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IIDFC) in 2008. With 10 years of banking experience, he joined Reliance Finance as the managing director in 2009. He became the managing director of the NRB Global Bank in July 2015.
Halder got the loans without any mortgage. As a result, the ACC said, there was almost no chance that the loans would be repaid.
In a bid to save the dying financial institution, the court appointed the former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, Khandaker Ibrahim Khalid, as the chairman, but he later resigned. After that, the central bank appointed former secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan as the company's chairman.
On 8 January this year, the ACC filed a case against Halder for amassing properties worth around Tk274.91 crore from unknown sources.
Later, on 21 January, in response to a petition filed by several investors over siphoning off Tk3,500 crore, the High Court ordered the authorities concerned to freeze bank accounts and seize passports of 19 accused, including Halder.
However, Halder fled to Canada in October last year.
In September this year, Halder said he would come back to the country to return the money and settle the transactions and liabilities with the company if he got proper security for his life.
International Leasing lawyers then filed a petition with the High Court, seeking assurance that he would not be arrested or harassed after his return.
After the hearing, the court passed its order, instructing the authorities concerned to arrest him immediately upon his return.
His lawyer told the High Court he was not returning due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the end of September last year, International Leasing's total borrowing and deposits from various banks, financial institutions and individuals stood at Tk3,847 crore. Also, the company disbursed Tk3,915 crore in loan, advance and lease as of then.
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Zachry Construction prevails in decade-long legal battle with Port of Houston
by Carol Sims | Sep 18, 2017
by Carol Sims | Sep 18, 2017 | Amicus, Cases, Construction Law, Lawsuits, Legal, Op-Ed
Earlier this month the Texas Supreme Court denied review of a 14th District Court of Appeals [Houston] decision awarding Zachry Construction Company $23 million against the Port of Houston authority for breach of contract. See Port of Houston Auth. of Harris Cty. v. Zachry Constr. Corp., 377 S.W.3d 841, 844 (Tex.App.–Houston [14th Dist.] 2012), rev’d, Zachry Constr. Corp. v. Port of Houston Auth of Harris Cty., 449 S.W.3d 98, 101 (Tex. 2014) Initially filed in 2006, the lawsuit arose from Zachry’s construction of a wharf at the Bayport Ship Channel. Zachry proposed an innovative approach to construction “in the dry,” using chilled brine to freeze earthen retaining walls to seal off the site from the waters of Galveston Bay. This technology saved time and mitigated the environmental impact of the project. When the Port discovered that it needed a longer berths to service the container ships it expected to use the facility, it executed a change order extending the work. When Zachry, in compliance with the change order, began using the same “in the dry” approach for the new section of the wharf, the Port objected and refused to sanction the work. Zachry thus abandoned the approach and constructed the new section in the conventional, but more expensive, “in the wet” approach. Zachry managed to complete the project in time, but incurred significantly higher construction costs. Zachry claimed that the Port’s refusal to allow Zachry to proceed under the change order constituted a breach because the contract gave Zachry complete control over the “manners and methods” of its work. Since Zachry operated as an independent contractor under the terms of the contract, the Port would not be liable for defects in Zachry’s work.
After a jury trial, the trial court awarded Zachry approximately $23.4 million in damages, liquidated damages, pre-judgment interest, and post-judgment interest. The Port appealed to the 14th District Court of Appeals, which reversed the trial court’s judgment and rendered judgment for the Port. Zachry appealed to the Texas Supreme Court and asked TCJL to file an amicus brief on its behalf. TCJL’s brief urged the Court to accept review on the basis that the court of appeals’ interpretation of the “no damages for delay” clause in the contract excused the Port’s misconduct in interfering with the manners and methods of Zachry’s work in violation of the contract. SCOTX accepted review and, among other things, held that the “no damages for delay” clause was void and unenforceable as a matter of public policy because of the Port’s arbitrary and capricious conduct, active interference, bad faith, or fraud. The Court reversed and remanded the case to the 14th Court to consider the Port’s remaining issues. In December of last year, the court of appeals issued a second decision, affirming the trial court’s judgment. SCOTX denied the Port’s petition for review of this second decision, bringing the litigation to a close.
From TCJL’s point of view, the Zachry case possesses significant importance for the Texas business community. It reaffirms that parties to contracts must respect the bargains they have made and not expect the courts to intervene if one party decides it doesn’t like the deal. The case also brings certainty to the interpretation of “no damages for delay” clauses in construction contracts and makes it clear that a contract provision granting a partial release of liens does not constitute a general release of all claims for payment under a contract.
The case exemplifies TCJL’s approach to amicus participation. Though it presents as a contract dispute between the parties, Zachry involves much broader issues of contract interpretation and enforcement that affect all TCJL members. Indeed, the fact that the case took more than a decade to resolve indicates both its complexity and the critical nature of its points of contention. Had SCOTX not taken the case and clarified the law, we would have faced an adverse court of appeals decision applicable to the state’s largest industrial county, possibly putting hundreds of millions of dollars in ongoing construction projects at risk. Fortunately, that did not happen here.
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The Treehouse Show
VR Best Practices, Child Acting, and Mixed Reality with Nick Pettit
9:38 with Nick Pettit
In this episode, we talk to the purveyor of puns, the one and only, the very first Treehouse teacher, Nick Pettit, live from our our office in Orlando Florida.
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So and it was through that lens that I saw computers. 1:24
I saw them as an instrument for expression. 1:30
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art and sort of seeing computer as a tool for that, 1:39
I became interested in creating websites and you know, 1:45
I always kind of wanting to make video games but that was like too hard for me. 1:50
And so, I don't know. 1:55
I guess to answer your question, there was never really a definitive 1:57
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Like, this is my hobby, and that's what I'm gonna do, and 2:06
that's what I'm gonna do for a career. 2:09
It just kind of happened. 2:10
It was the environment I was in, I guess. 2:13
>> Cool, that's awesome man. 2:16
Wait, what do you teach here at Treehouse? 2:17
>> So at Treehouse, I teach VR development. 2:19
So we teach how to make virtual reality games and applications. 2:23
For my first five years here, I taught websites and web development. 2:27
And that is where I got my start in technology. 2:34
I found that the combination of art and technology was most present, 2:38
for me, in the instant gratification of web development. 2:46
And it was just really easy to make make websites, and there's a lot of fun. 2:50
And I liked because it was interactive, which is kind of a different 2:56
quality than something like film or books have. 3:01
There's this added dimension. 3:06
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the dimensions of expression, I guess. 3:13
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And it plays over time and so that's three. 3:21
And maybe you could add in sound, right. 3:24
But, websites and software in general, 3:27
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There's things that the user can do when you 3:34
can take that feedback into account and your corresponding expression. 3:37
So did that for a while and I like web development because 3:42
it was kind of the wild west, that were know best practices and 3:47
you could just kind of make it up as you want it long. 3:50
And now, virtual reality has taken my interest for the exact same reasons. 3:54
>> It's [INAUDIBLE] in the same place there, right? 3:57
>> Yeah. 3:59
Because there's no best practices and 4:00
really I'm just kind of making it up as I go, and 4:04
trying to follow the trends and predict where things are going to go. 4:09
So, yeah, I teach VR. 4:15
[LAUGH] >> That's a short answer. 4:16
[LAUGH] >> Awesome, well I like that progression, 4:17
that's really cool, man. 4:21
And what's more interactive than VR, right? 4:22
I do have an important question, what is something about you 4:26
that the students won't learn from one of your courses? 4:30
>> One interesting fact to it is, growing up, 4:33
I was a child actor from ages- >> Whoa. 4:36
[LAUGH] >> 2 to 18. 4:39
>> Okay. 4:41
[LAUGH] >> But for me, in my mind, 4:42
that sorta falls into the same realm of artistic expression, right? 4:44
So at the time, in the 90's, a lot of the work for 4:49
an actor was just doing commercials and that sort of thing. 4:52
>> So, basically anything that wasn't like a Hollywood Movie, 4:58
was shot in another market, Florida being one of them at the time. 5:05
And I mean that's still true today, but Florida was starting you become 5:10
this fab for producing television, 5:15
I mean that was age of like Universal Studios,Nickelodeon and all that. 5:18
And a lot of commercials and music videos and things were shot. 5:23
In Florida specifically Orlando. 5:28
So, yeah as a child actor and I guess I don't know, it wasn't something 5:32
that was like super important to me which is why like I don't really do it anymore. 5:39
But, these skills are certainly useful when teaching Treehouse courses and 5:43
being on camera. 5:49
>> Yeah, for sure. 5:50
Do you have maybe some we could have from that? 5:52
[LAUGH] >> Probably not. 5:55
[LAUGH] >> Come on. 5:57
>> I'm actually curious if any of that still exists somewhere. 6:00
I'm sure it's probably on a VHS tape at my parents' house somewhere. 6:08
>> But, no, don't have anything in handy. 6:14
>> Okay, cool, hey man I've been hearing that the Orlando office has 6:17
a pretty awesome VR playground, so what if you could show us that. 6:22
>> Sure thing, so basically we have a what we called a mixed reality set up, 6:27
a mixed reality studio, I guess you could say. 6:33
So when you demonstrate VR to other people, 6:38
it's kind of difficult to get a sense of the space, because 6:42
typically VR is shown in the same way that you view it in VR headsets. 6:47
So, In third person, you're kinda looking at this crazy 6:53
HMD View, or Head-Mounted Display View, where you're looking all over the place. 7:00
And there's really not any particular focus. 7:04
And it's very shaky because, in real life, our heads are very shaky. 7:07
And in VR, this feels very natural to the person that has a headset on. 7:11
But for other people, It's really kind of a weird thing to look at. 7:15
It's weird to look through somebody else's vision, so 7:21
what we've done is we are using this technique cock mixed with reality, 7:25
which uses a green screen and combination with some modified field software So 7:29
we can shoot someone in VR, against the green screen. 7:35
And then we key that out, and 7:40
we're able to get a third person perspective on the action. 7:42
And the way we do that, is by tracking our physical camera in VR. 7:46
So that we have a virtual camera that matches one-to-one. 7:52
So the virtual camera moves with the physical camera and the movements match, 7:56
and that's how you get a good key or 8:00
a good match between the two pieces of footage. 8:03
So it's cool but it's also a really great way to 8:07
demonstrate VR to other people that aren't wearing the VR headset. 8:12
That is awesome, let's see a demo. 8:18
>> Now we can pick up the ball and 8:22
throw it and then using the grip buttons on the side of the controller, 8:26
we can return it to it's original position. 8:31
We can also use the touchpad button to start the clock. 8:34
And then, if we're lucky, we can make some baskets and increase the score counter. 8:38
So let's put some time on the clock. 8:43
[SOUND] And let's try to make some baskets. 8:44
So close. 8:51
Almost. 8:55
There's one. 9:02
See, if I can make one more, nope. 9:07
All right, didn't make the buzzer shot. 9:14
[SOUND] And that's it. 9:15
>> Well thanks for taking the time today, Nick. 9:18
I know you gotta get back to making those courses, playing those games. 9:20
>> Sure thing. 9:24
Thanks for having me. 9:24
>> Thanks for watching the Treehouse show. 9:31
To get in touch with the show, reach out to me on Twitter. 9:33
Or get us up on the Treehouse community. 9:36
See you next time. 9:37
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The CEO of Cambridge Analytica plans a book on its methods, and the US election
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher / 3 years
Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica (CA) plans to publish a book on his firm’s approach to online campaigning, and its role in the U.S. election. In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch he says the book will “talk about our methodology and our approach to communications” in technical terms, and go into how the firm is using psychographics in its campaigns online.
The book, with the working title “Mad Men To Maths Men,” (in reference to the hit TV drama) will be coming out in Germany first, and later internationally.
In an extensive interview with TechCrunch, published here, Nix goes into depth about his company’s position on data, the U.S. election, its ties with the Trump campaign and addresses its alleged ties with Russia.
He says that “old school” traditional creative-led agencies “have got it coming” and that they will be swept away by a data-led approach, replaced by “highly targeted, very personalized advertising, and that has to be data-driven. That’s not instead of creativity, that’s using data to augment creativity. Data first then creativity, it’s linear,” he says.
He says that ahead of the U.S. election CA had “hundreds of thousands” of Americans fill out a survey and merged that with as many publicly available data points on 230 million Americans. And that “everyday we have teams looking for new data sets.”
He admits CA used psychographic targeting of Americans “all through the 2014 midterms” and all through the Cruz and Carson primaries. “But when we got to Trump’s campaign… we just didn’t have the time to roll out that survey.” He says the Trump campaign, when CA joined it, was just too small and had no infrastructure.
However, he did admit that “there’s psychographic data that’s baked-in to legacy models that we built before because we’re not reinventing the wheel.” And there was no “long form quantitive psychographics survey” done for the Trump campaign.
Nix does not address claims that the company harvested Facebook data before its terms of service started to be shrunk, but that their data was built on surveys of 100,000 people or more.
He also repeats the claim that they helped raise a “small dollar” funding for Trump amounting to $27 million. Of this, he says “I think it was extremely pivotal [to the campaign] because when Trump won the nomination he had very, very little money.”
He says CA was hired by Trump’s campaign because no other usual suppliers to Republican candidates would touch the controversial candidate, and that CA saw a big business opportunity in his campaign. The thinking was that even if Trump had lost, they would have made a name for themselves in the U.S., and if they helped win the campaign they’d be famous. It was a risk worth taking.
It also meant that CA ended up taking over every aspect of the Trump campaign from data analytics, research, digital, TV and handling donations. “Overnight [the contract] went from being originally just data, to end to end,” says Nix.
“It was an easy bet to make. It was a win-win. I couldn’t see the downside. I thought even if Trump didn’t prevail, if he didn’t win the election… We’re a British firm that was trying to break into the most competitive political market in the world.”
He says criticisms of them and their methods have tended to come from jealous competitors.
“You see three quotes… they’re all from people whose business you’ve stolen. They’re saying things like we came across “Cambridge Analytica. It’s All snake oil” [and it’s from] our biggest rival.”
He dismissed characterization of CA’s campaigns as being ‘dark advertising’: “I’m very proud of that we’re doing which are innovative. And there are some things which is ‘best practice’ digital advertising, best practice communications which we’re taking from the commercial world and are bringing into politics.”
He says attacks on CA are mostly by “the liberal press” supporting Hilary Clinton: “Hilary simply cannot come to terms with it. She’s a woman in denial. The liberal press [characterized Cambridge Analytica] as witchcraft, “they cheat, it is voodoo!” and now it’s Russia’s fault! They just cannot accept the fact that Hillary was such an unpopular, such a divisive candidate. She failed to mobilize her base and people didn’t fundamentally trust her. Rather than looking in the mirror, they much prefer to beat up Cambridge [Analytica] beat up Trump, beat up anyone else. Anything but accept the fact that their candidate wasn’t what the people wanted to vote for.”
Nix plans to publish a book on Cambridge Analytica’s approach to online campaigning, and its role in the U.S. election.
He says the book will “talk about our methodology and our approach to communications.” It will also talk in “quite technical terms” about how communication is changing, what how technology is impacting that. It will feature case studies “with a lot of real examples of artwork and targeting and psychographics and so forth to illustrate them.”
The book will be coming out in Germany first, with a German publisher, after which it will be published in the U.K. and internationally. The working title is “Mad men to maths men”.
On Brexit, he categorically denies CA had any involvement. CA “did not work on Brexit,” he says. Claims in the media to the contrary were wrong and based on the ‘liberal media’s’ denial that the UK wanted to leave the EU. He says the rumour has come about because they were approached by “by a number of different campaigns, pro and against, to discuss whether there might be a role for us on Brexit… We had a number of discussions. Obviously, these discussions made their way into the public forum but we meet with hundreds of companies every year and talk about business opportunities. That doesn’t mean you engage with them doesn’t mean you contract with them and it certainly doesn’t mean that you work for them.”
He says stories by The Guardian that CA worked on pro-Brexit campaigns were based on “one or two data points” that they “then created an entire narrative around that that was pure fiction.”
He says CA has worked on political campaigns in African countries but does not comment on “live campaigns.”
He says the firm “worked in Kenya in 2013 on the last election for Kenyatta, but would not comment if CA has worked for Kenyatta in this year’s controversial election.
However, he does say that “I think that the court’s decision [to re-run the election] was a dreadful decision. I think that it is going to result in dreadful bloodshed, horrific violence. If Kenyatta for any reason doesn’t win this election then his supporters are going to feel robbed. And if Odinga’s people don’t, they’re going to feel that he’s cheated again because that’s the perception that Odinga is put out into the public domain. I can’t see this ending well. I think just for the sake of Kenya, for peace in the region, I think it’s a dreadful decision.”
He says “we’ve never been asked directly” if they had worked on a campaign for the Russian government or via third-party actors connected to them, such as for the Trump campaign or any other.
He says: “No one of authority has leveled any direct criticisms to us and, certainly, no one has suggested that we’d been or alleged that we’d been involved as far as I’m aware. We’re not under investigation by anyone. We are helping wherever we can with the understandings of the campaign, like everyone else in the campaign, but there’s no investigation into Cambridge.”
“We never worked in Russia. We never worked for Russia. I want to be careful, but I don’t think we have any Russian employees in our company whatsoever. We just don’t have business in Russia. We have no involvement with Russia, never have done.”
He declines to talk about reports that CA is bankrolled by shadowy hedge-fund owner Robert Mercer, who has been accused of pulling the strings on many aspects of the campaigns against Hilary Clinton and against other Trump opponents.
“I’m not going to speak about any of our investors or board members at all because we don’t.” He denies that the company’s “political ideology [is] influenced by other people in the company’ at whatever level. “We leave our personal ideologies at the door… We only work for mainstream political parties.”
He says CA works on campaigns for both left and right-wing parties internationally.
He accuses the tech community of being overly Left-leaning, which, he says, effectively became a business opportunity for firms servicing the Right wing of politics. “Because of the dearth of talent, the Republicans were getting murdered in the tech arms race. That was the commercial opportunity, that was the one we sought to address… Had it been the other way around it might have been a different story.”
Deflecting a question about whether they worked for the Pentagon he says “we’ve worked for global militaries all over the world.”
He predicted that IoT is going to “totally radicalize” the data market: “As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.” He also thinks “people are going to start taking control of their data much more. There is going to be more reciprocity in the way that people share their data with companies like my own and other marketing agencies.”
And that much of it will be “self-regulated through the blockchain… millennials… understand what’s going on,” he says.
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Microsoft Mobile and Apps Reviews
REVIEW: Nokia Lumia 900
By Terence Huynh on July 4, 2012
Just more than a year since the pact was signed, Nokia’s Lumia 900 is the latest phone running Windows Phone 7. Revealed at this year’s CES, it has managed to capture America when it was released in April. But while it looks like the Lumia 800, it does have some differences, such as a bigger screen. However, does that make it a better phone than the 800?
But the all important question is – is it worth getting? Terence Huynh answers.
The body is brilliant; Windows Phone’s interface looks great and runs smoothly; good battery life
The camera, while alright, is a letdown; ecosystem still needs a bit of work; no expandable memory
An alright device that pales in comparison with the Lumia 800
The Lumia 900 pretty much follows the Lumia 800 and the Nokia N9 in having the same polycarbonate unibody. And with that, I still love its simplicity and minimalistic design. However, this time the phone features a larger AMOLED screen – measuring at 4.3-inches – and it doesn’t have the bright body colours as the Nokia N9 and Lumia 800 had. You only get a choice between black and white. I would love to see a blue-coloured Nokia Lumia 900, but that’s mainly because of that I’m getting sick of seeing black and grey-coloured phones (see my Galaxy Nexus review on my small rant).
The screen, despite the fact the resolution is 800×480, isn’t a problem. Reproduction of colour is excellent, and the smaller resolution on the 4.3-inch display doesn’t show any rendering glitches. It’s probably one of the best things about Metro is that it is adaptable to any screen resolution. The screen can be a bit too sensitive, so little touches can activate a square, and like many 4-inches-or-more screens, it will initially feel uncomfortable to type. For me, it took me a couple of days for me to get used to it.
The body also has some slight alterations – all the ports are exposed, as opposed to being hidden behind small doors at the top; and the microSIM card slot requires you to use a small key (included with the phone) to eject it out.
I still love its simplicity and minimalistic design
The phone features an 8-megapixel rear camera (with the usual Carl Zeiss optics) and a 1-megapixel front-facing camera. Inside the Lumia 900 you’ll find a 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. I should also note that this model, unlike the Lumia 900 in the United States, does not have 4G support.
It pretty much is similar to the Lumia 800 – just with a bigger screen and a front-facing camera. It doesn’t really set it apart from it, but that is mainly due to the hardware restrictions imposed by Microsoft on the platform. And while it does have its uses – by limiting fragmentation – it does have some downsides, such as lack of innovation and (recently) that you cannot upgrade to Windows Phone 8. You will be getting Windows Phone 7.8 – but what’s included in it isn’t finalised (you do get the new start screen).
Image: Terence Huynh/techgeek.com.au
The Lumia 900’s camera, in terms of hardware, is pretty much standard Nokia – an 8-megapixel lens produced by Carl Zeiss. And you would expect quality shots from the camera, but this camera does disappoint.
The photo quality is alright when you are close to a subject, but then you move away and the images a bit grainy – though you do have to look hard to find them in many cases. They are decent nonetheless, though a tad washed-out in colour.
The interface is still the stock-standard Windows Phone interface, and it was pretty simple enough. I do love it for having a dedicated Camera button (while also giving you the option to use the touchscreen), because it makes it easier to take photos because you can hold it like it was a camera.
Performance & WP7
Nokia has made sure that this phone simply works without jitters
The phone runs smoothly – despite that it doesn’t have a dual-core or quad-core processor and 1GHz of RAM like the newer Android phones. Of course, the hardware restrictions are predominantly due to Microsoft’s own restrictions, but regardless Nokia has made sure that this phone simply works without jitters and major bugs. There are minor bugs here and there – mostly with applications from third parties.
The phone’s user interface – with Windows Phone 7 – is pretty spectacular. Of course it is, everyone has constantly praised it. Though, that does not excuse the small app ecosystem. However, that said, much of the apps I need – Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare and Melbourne transportation apps are present (There’s also Spotify – though, if you follow Chris, it is very feature-limited in comparison to iOS and Android). How they run, however, depends – though the apps I need work beautifully on the Lumia 900.
Of course, Nokia loads this with their own apps. And with their special relationship with Microsoft, they work fine. People are complaining how Nokia is pretty much screwed with the Windows Phone 8 announcement. However, that Microsoft is using Nokia’s own mapping technology – which is already on these phones via Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive – pretty much means Microsoft is trying to stack up its own mapping service to compete against Google Maps and Apple’s own service.
Battery life is pretty impressive – the phone was around 20-30 percent capacity when we heavily used data for about nearly an entire day (I basically kept going online, going on Twitter, Facebook and FourSquare constantly while I was walking around Melbourne – so if you were getting FourSquare checkins on train stations, that was the reason). On less-data intense use, it pretty much survived around two days for me before needing a recharge.
The Lumia 900 came out at the end of March, and in Australia last month. And since then, Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 8 is coming out and this phone – and every other Windows Phone 7 device – will not get the upcoming major version. It is, however, getting the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade.
There’s not much – except for the larger screen – for me to say you should get this phone and not the Lumia 800
But, should that stop you getting Windows Phone 7 because Windows Phone 8 is coming out? Nokia has shown that it can deliver even with hardware limits. I still think it has a place – however, more of a stepping stone for people to the world of smartphones. The user interface is easy to get around and easy to teach those who are unfamiliar with it.
However, is this a phone that would be recommended? It’s a great phone that simply works. However, for me, it’s just a small upgrade to the Lumia 800 and the Nokia N9. There’s not much – except for the larger screen – for me to say that you should get this phone and not the Lumia 800.
So, if you want to get a brilliant Windows Phone, then get the Lumia 800.
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NECA TMNT Super Shredder
“The last vial of ooze!”
“He must have drank all of it!”
“It’s a Super Shredder!!!”
It’s a simple, obvious, and corny introduction for a character, but as a 7-year old it felt rather impactful. The introduction of Super Shredder in the waning moments of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze answered a question I had always asked myself as a young TMNT fan: what would happen if Shredder exposed himself to mutagen?
Super Shredder appeared in the film for less than two minutes, but he left a big impression on me. Despite the fact that his appearance was anti-climactic, and the whole sequence is frustratingly bad. A large, imposing, Shredder confronts the turtles beneath a dock. Since this is the sequel film and the goal was to reduce the violence on screen, the turtles try to reason with their foe in an attempt to avoid direct conflict by literally pleading with him to “listen to reason.” Super Shredder is apparently a thoughtless baffoon though, and rather than have the turtles do battle with this ultimate version of their foe, they make some dumb jokes before Leonardo reminds them that they’re turtles and they retreat to the nearby water while Shredder continues mauling the supports of the dock they’re under until it collapses on him, killing him. Basically anyone in the turtles’ position could have felled Super Shredder as being turtles wasn’t a requisite for using water, it would have been for anyone who could swim.
For the better part of 30 years, Super Shredder has largely been forced to hide in the shadows.
Despite the incompetence of Super Shredder, I still found the character fascinating. That was in part due to me missing out on TMNT II. For whatever reason, likely just a lack of desire to see the film, my parents never took me to see the sequel in theaters like they had the original. It’s not that surprising as we probably attended one or two movies a year as a family and I doubt my parents were looking forward to seeing that one. We were more of a rental family. As a result, I had to hear about Super Shredder secondhand for nearly a year and wonder what he even looked like. When Playmates released an action figure of Super Shredder, I heard about it from my cousin, who claimed his friend had one. He also claimed his friend got it at Bradlees in Woburn, Massachusetts. Bradlees was a department store not exactly known for toys, but they carried some. My cousin and I begged our mothers to take us, but they had no interest in doing so. When I told my friends at school about the existence of a Super Shredder toy, they didn’t believe me! Then one day while recess is wrapping up, a kid walks by us and drops a Super Shredder action figure on the ground. I can remember just pointing and shouting “Super Shredder!” while my friends looked on with their mouths agape in shock and surprise. The kid was a little freaked out, he was a grade or two below us, scooped up his toy and ran off.
Eventually I would see The Secret of the Ooze and even get my own version of Super Shredder, both things happening Christmas of 1991. And while I found Super Shredder’s big reveal and quick death a bit disappointing, I never once thought the character didn’t look cool. He was impressive, and any article written about the character is required to include the trivia that it was professional wrestler Kevin Nash under the helmet. Nash was billed as being six feet and ten inches tall. I don’t know how accurate that is to reality considering wrestling is never shy about boosting such numbers, but he’s a pretty big guy. And the film makes him look as big as possible in how it films him with the camera often being at a low angle or behind him. He’s never really in a full frame, and the only time another character is in frame with him it’s Leonardo and they film his feet kicking furiously above Shredder’s shins as he’s held up. He’s then shot face-to-face with his head above Shredder’s, but most of their bodies are out of frame so we don’t know where his feet were in that shot. It could be just some clever editing and positioning to make the character appear even larger, or maybe he really was just that much bigger than Leonardo.
Either way, it’s one reason why the brand new NECA action figure of Super Shredder is so much larger than what has come before. He is essentially the first deluxe figure from one of the films joining Metalhead from the cartoon line. He stands at about 9″ tall with the middle point of his crested helmet touching the 9″ mark on my tape measure. This is a far cry from the only other Super Shredder action figure based on his appearance in TMNT II, the Playmates one, which stood at a mere 5″ at his tallest part, basically making him the same size as the movie turtles from Playmates. Scale was never the strong point of the vintage line, and despite the inaccuracies I truly loved that figure as he replaced my main Shredder for me when I played. Even after I broke his left hand off, I simply replaced it with a brass hook and never looked back.
Now, I’m on record as not being much of a fan of the second TMNT movie. It’s a corn-fest full of bad jokes, limited fight choreography, and a rather uninteresting plot. However, it does contain some pretty gnarly costume designs and Super Shredder certainly qualifies. For awhile, NECA resisted calls to even look at this film since most of the folks who work there seem to share a similar opinion to mine. The line is selling too well though and there are only so many figures one can mine from that first film. Super Shredder was inevitable, but I’m happy to say NECA nailed this one.
For this release, Super Shredder comes in a package similar to NECA’s Ultimates line. The cover art is also a bit bold in that it doesn’t even feature the figure beneath. It’s the theatrical poster for the film which has the turtles looking down on a canister of ooze with the silhouettes of Tokka and Rahzar in the background. It does say “Super Shredder” at the bottom, but it is surprising to see. Though this is also in-line with most Ultimates from NECA from film as many are either a poster or VHS artwork. Plus, few people are impulse buying Super Shredder since they won’t hang out on Walmart shelves, where he’s presently exclusive to, long enough for that to happen. The sides and back do feature photography of the figure, and it’s the standard five-panel setup as the front panel is a flap and flipping it over reveals a nice, full body, shot of the figure on the left and the actual figure on the right.
Super Shredder is a behemoth, but he comes packed with a lot of the articulation one would expect of a NECA release. He features ball-joints at the head, shoulders, abdomen, waist, and thighs. He has good side-to-side motion at the head with limited up and down, but there is a joint in the neck that provides for better up and down. This is an important detail since a figure this size is probably going to have to look down a lot. There is no classic bicep swivel on Shredder, but he does have an interesting double-ball setup for his elbows. It reminds me of the cartoon April as the top joint basically serves the same purpose as a bicep swivel with the second ball placed at the top of the forearm in front of the gauntlet. This gives him double-jointed elbow range and allows his bicep to be cut-free. The knees are similar in that you get double-jointed motion without the traditional double-jointed look. The top knee joint is peg-less and swivels, replacing a more traditional boot-cut. NECA likely didn’t want the shin guards to overlap any of the joints thus why the swivel is above the knee. His hands and feet are on ball joints and can rotate, move up and down, and the feet can rock side-to-side quite a bit. His armor does hinder his articulation, but not as much as you may have expected. The shoulder pads sit nice and high so he has good rotation at the shoulders and the abdominal joint allows for a range of upper body motion I wasn’t necessarily expecting. There’s no articulation really missing, though if I have one complaint about the figure it’s that the waist joint is pretty loose. It doesn’t interfere with posing, but he will flop around a bit in your hands and you’ll have to take care when posing that everything is lined up the way you want it in regards to his chest and abs.
The sculpt-work is the real star of the show with this guy. The shape of the head looks perfect and the fact that we now have a screen accurate Super Shredder in action figure form makes it a lot easier to really take in all of the details since his lone scene in the film was so dark. He has this crazed look in his eyes which makes it seem like the ooze not only gave him a surge in strength, but also a rush of adrenaline. There’s a vented portion on his mask that I never even noticed until now as I mostly watched that film on VHS, only recently viewing it in HD. The vents are just grooves in the mask with a paint wash so you can’t see his mouth behind the visor. There’s some silver-gray accents on the helmet which really bring out the details and definitely remind me of the old toy. On his torso, there’s a lot of linework to bring out the muscles which is also in-line with the film. It looks like the costume in the film had muscles air-brushed on which is honestly a little silly, but it also works since it just makes me think of comic book heroes and villains. The purple of the costume is just the right shade and NECA added some white here and there which, again, I think is present on the film costume. It’s hard to tell because that scene is just so dark. He comes with his cape as well, something the Playmates figure omitted back in the day, and it looks nice. It’s a standard cape, like the first film figure, so if you were hoping for a wired cape you might be disappointed. Super Shredder never got the chance to have a dramatic cape in the film, so I think what we have here is perfectly fine and I prefer soft goods for capes to plastic.
“Ooze, it does a body good!”
“Then so be it!”
Those spikes though, man are they intense! It’s Super Shredder’s defining feature and they look great. I always thought it was goofy how the ooze mutated his armor, but I never once argued with the results. The spikes on the shoulders resemble serrated knives and they’re pretty “pokey.” They do have plenty of give, but definitely don’t step on this guy with bare feet or you’ll be wishing you stepped on a Lego. The spikes on the forearms and calves also look great and are basically the same design, just a little shorter. The various blades are so fearsome that he really doesn’t need actual weapons, but NECA still saw fit to throw old Shell-head a bone.
The spear is actually a tad bit taller than Shredder himself – it’s big!
Super Shredder in the movie is only around long enough to punch stuff, but NECA’s version does come packaged with a spear. True to the character, it’s a more intense version of pre-mutated Shredder’s spear from the first film. One end is pointed while the other has what almost looks like an axe head. The blade coming out of the center is wavy, similar to the axe from the first film, and the design has a familiar look to it. I don’t know if that’s just a credit to NECA coming up with a weapon that fits in with the style of the films, or if this was something present in the background of a scene, perhaps. It’s his signature accessory though and if you want your Super Shredder armed it definitely works.
Still has a ways to go to catch the 1/4 scale boys.
He’s a big boy.
Super Shredder comes packaged with fist hands, but he has five additional hands as well. Two are open palms while the other two are for gripping his spear. There’s also a looser gripping hand and that it’s intended to grip the canister of ooze. The canister isn’t just a re-release of what the turtles came with as this one is modeled after the TGRI canisters featured in TMNT II. It’s mostly steel and glass construction in the film so viewers could clearly see the green ooze inside of it. This all plastic one looks the same, though the top is non-removable this time around. It looks really nice though and it’s actually something I didn’t know I wanted until I had it. The hands themselves are interesting in that they have this really weathered look on account of a dark wash. They’re nice and pliable so there’s no difficulty in getting the spear or canister into his hands for posing. They’re tight enough too that he can hang onto everything just fine. The entire figure really moves well with no stuck joints or anything to speak of.
Pictured with the ultra rare Pirate Captain Super Shredder.
The Super Shredder action figure from NECA is an impressive piece of plastic and a great addition to the movie TMNT line. He’s an attention-grabber as part of any display and I’m happy these outlandish designs from the second TMNT film are receiving the action figure treatment. The sculpting, paint, and quality control are all pretty impeccable and I expect this to be on the short list for action figure of the year. And Super Shredder will only have to feel alone for a few months as NECA is set to release the Tokka and Rahzar two-pack this November for those who pre-ordered in August through the company’s online store. Tokka and Rahzar will be the first true made-to-order release for the company and if the promotional shots are any indication we’re in for something special. And if you prefer your Shredder un-super, a standard Secret of the Ooze iteration is confirmed for 2021, though the company has yet to unveil any promotional shots for him. I suspect he’ll be a re-paint of the existing movie Shredder with a new helmet. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the only Secret of the Ooze release for 2021, the film’s 30th anniversary year, as you can probably bank on updated turtles and possibly Keno. Considering this year’s convention exclusive was a Coming Out of Their Shells themed release, would it shock anyone if next year’s was also musical? Point being, Super Shredder is another release in the movie line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but he’s far from the last.
If you really want him to look bigger than the turtles…
Super Shredder is currently being sold exclusively at Walmart stores. I got my figure from NECA directly as some were made available to order in early August. The company also recently closed a week-long window where fans could pre-order a Super Shredder to be produced and delivered at a later date. For international collectors, there are still a bunch of shops based in Canada and the UK accepting pre-orders, though NECA has recently clamped down on international retailers shipping TMNT product to US-based consumers. If you missed out on the pre-order window, your best bet now is to stalk your local Walmart in hopes he shows up. You can also keep an eye on NECA as I doubt very much that the factory order will be one-to-one for pre-orders. The company might sell some stock direct to consumers when they come in, or they’ll be sent out to Walmart and international retailers. Good luck!
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Cayman Islands jails US college student in coronavirus case
Published Thu Dec 17 2020 20:12:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
An attorney for a U.S. college student and her boyfriend who have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures says he plans to appeal the recent ruling. Jonathon Hughes says Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday. He says he will argue for a less severe sentence next week and says the two have never been in trouble with police. Mack is accused of breaking a mandatory two-week quarantine.
by By DÁNICA COTO
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
“They’re two young people who have never been in trouble before,” he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “This is the first time they’ve had interaction with police, the courts, prison.”
Mack, who is enrolled as a pre-med student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, arrived in the Cayman Islands on Nov. 27 and was supposed to undergo a two-week quarantine as mandated by the government, which electronically tracks anyone who arrives in the British Caribbean territory. However, she broke quarantine on Nov. 29 when her boyfriend picked her up to attend a water sports event, Hughes said.
After their arrest, a judge ruled the couple had to provide 40 hours of community service and pay a $4,400 fine. In addition, Ramgeet was ordered to a two-month curfew that would start at 7 p.m. But the prosecution appealed, arguing the punishment was unduly lenient and would not deter other possible violators. A higher court decided in favor of prosecutors, ruling on Dec. 15 that the couple be imprisoned immediately.
The Cayman Compass newspaper reported that Judge Roger Chapple said during Tuesday's sentencing that the decision to violate safety measures was born of “selfishness and arrogance," adding in its report that Mack spent seven hours out in public without a face mask or social distancing.
“This was entirely deliberate and planned, as evidenced by her desire to switch her wristband the day before to a looser one that she was then able to remove,” he was quoted as saying, referring to the electronic tracking device.
Hughes said the sentence is the first of its kind, adding that Mack’s family is concerned: “They’re worried for her because she’s in prison in a foreign country on her own. While this is something she brought on herself, it’s very distressing for her.”
The couple have been together for seven months. Hughes said he doesn't know how they met. He noted that Ramgeet is a competitive jet skier like Mack's father.
The girl's grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the AP that she reached out to U.S. President Donald Trump and received an email from a staffer saying the White House would look into the matter.
In her phone calls from prison, “the minute she starts talking, she starts crying,” she said. “She’s afraid that once she makes it back to the States, everyone will hate her."
Mack, who lives outside of Atlanta, said her granddaughter decided she wanted to be a doctor at age 10 and asked for a suture kit at her birthday a couple of years later.
The couple are the first to be sentenced under an amended law targeting COVID-19 violators. The original law called for a $2,400 fine and up to six months in prison, while the recently amended law calls for a $12,000 fine and up to two years in prison.
Under the original law, a Canadian couple found guilty of violating coronavirus measures were ordered to pay a $1,200 fine each.
The Cayman Islands, a territory of nearly 62,000 people, has reported more than 300 coronavirus cases and two deaths.
AP reporter Jeff Martin in Atlanta contributed to this story.
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Home TRUCK SERIES Camden Murphy Returns to Truck Series with NEMCO Motorsports at Bristol
Camden Murphy Returns to Truck Series with NEMCO Motorsports at Bristol
Camden Murphy heads to the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway with NEMCO Motorsports for a race at the short track that guarantees beating, banging, and temper tantrums. The NEMCO Motorsports No. 8 Chevrolet Silverado will carry the Advanced Collision Inc., branding as the primary partner in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series (NGROTS) UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics at the Bristol Motor Speedway on Thursday, September 17 with Murphy at the wheel.
This weekend marks the 24-year old’s sixth event with NEMCO Motorsports, and his first at The Last Great Colosseum in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. The Itasca, Ill.,-native is no stranger to the family-owned and operated team. Murphy started turning wrenches with NEMCO Motorsports in May 2019.
“I am incredibly excited to be able to drive for NEMCO Motorsports,” Murphy said. “NEMCO Motorsports has been an institution for the Nemechek family. To be able to drive for the family is an absolute honor. The No. 8 has so much history behind it, and for Mr. Nemechek to give me this opportunity is truly a dream come true.
“I have a history behind-the-wheel with NEMCO Motorsports but not at this capacity. Having worked on the trucks as well, I know how much dedication and hard work goes into these fast trucks. I am excited to have Advanced Collision and the Southern Appalachian Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc., on-board for this weekend at the Bristol Motor Speedway, as it is their first event on-track. I am so thankful to NEMCO Motorsports for giving me this opportunity, and I look forward to making them and my sponsors proud.”
Nestled between the rolling hills and mountains of Northeast Tennessee, Bristol Motor Speedway is the home track for primary partner Advanced Collision Inc., a locally owned and operated auto collision repair specialist company serving Chattanooga and the surrounding areas.
“Camden has been a huge part of the Advanced Collision family and the motorsports arm of our business since the beginning,” Curt Swearingin, chief executive officer for Advanced Collision Inc., said. “We are very excited about the opportunity to support Cam as he continues on his extraordinary growth and trajectory in the sport.”
The driver of the No. 8 Advanced Collision Inc., Chevrolet Silverado for NEMCO Motorsports has one start in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) at the .533-mile high-banked bullring, with a 26th-place finish in 2016.
As an ambassador of the Ronald McDonald House Charities for eight years, Murphy will continue his mission of supporting local chapters with placement on the No. 8 Chevrolet Silverado. He has travel extensively with Monster Jam, an adrenaline-charged family entertainment featuring the most famous trucks in the world, visiting chapters throughout the United States. At the Northeast Tennessee’s “Thunder Valley,” Murphy will showcase the Southern Appalachian Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc., this weekend.
The UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics will be broadcast live on FS1 on Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m. (ET). It will also broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network (MRN) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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CGHH Presentation
The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House ProjectThe Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
A STORY OF HOPE, HISTORY and HUMANITY
The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit community enrichment project in Beaumont, Texas. This beautiful Texas Historic Landmark will soon celebrate its 120th birthday! Kicking off with its Restoration Ribbon Cutting in the summer of 2020, Hinchee House is proud to offer a multifaceted directive offering students and veterans opportunities for education via hands-on and digital classes, internships, rehabilitation through collaborative learning and work opportunities.
Hinchee House also looks forward to hosting weddings, photo shoots, luncheons and lectures as one of Southeast Texas’ most unique and compelling event venues.
Flower gardens in the front and vegetable gardens in the back will transform the grounds, and play host to community-supported agriculture. This facet of Hinchee House focuses on area childrens’ groups as an educational enrichment tool.
Hinchee House has changed hands over the years, weathered a few storms, and has always captured the attention and awe of all whom passed by or went inside. One of the CGHH board members even threw papers there as a child. The house and grounds will go from relic to reinvigorated with the help of the many who love and are passionate about its history and its potential. Project Management handles the restoration as well as helping with public relations for the Hinchee House, updated information will be posted as it becomes available. Donations, sponsorships and volunteers are the heart of Hinchee House and are encouraged to get in touch. Please send a message to HincheeHouseExeDir@gmail.com, or call CGHH Administration - (409) 489-3987.
Thank you for visiting and please check back often!
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LLC, Directors
Ed Touchet
Bruce Hamilton
Kate Beaver
Founder, President and Board Member, The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
Ed Touchet, a native of Beaumont, graduated from Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School in Beaumont, TX, in 1975. Ed was on the Beaumont Y Swim Team from 1965 to 1970. He was a member of the Boy Scouts from 1968-75, attaining the rank of Eagle Scout. Ed is
Ed Touchet, a native of Beaumont, graduated from Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School in Beaumont, TX, in 1975. Ed was on the Beaumont Y Swim Team from 1965 to 1970. He was a member of the Boy Scouts from 1968-75, attaining the rank of Eagle Scout. Ed is retired from the US Army and TX Army National Guard after 32 years of military service, enlisting in 1982 and promoting to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before his retirement in 2014. He retired from Texas Department of Public Safety in 2010, where he was a State Trooper assigned to the State Capitol. Since 2010, Ed has been the owner of Austin Architecture and Planning Associates in Austin, and in 2013, he became the founder and CEO of Austin International Shooting Club. In June 2019, he became the Commander of VFW Post 4443 in Austin. Ed founded The Beaumont Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Restoration, Maintenance and Management Project as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in March 2018. The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House was the last house on Ed’s Beaumont Journal newspaper route when he was growing up in Beaumont. The memories and emotions that swelled up when he saw photos of the house slated for demolition are the source of his inspiration to save it from destruction. Ed has training in urban planning and a vision for how the Hinchee House could benefit Beaumont. He believes “The trick is to start a movement to stop the destruction.” Ed’s hope is that saving the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House and using it for the betterment of the community will be the beginning of this movement.
Administrative Director and Board Member, The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
Kate Beaver was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Eastern Vocational Technical High School, Class of 1977, also in Baltimore. After graduation, she joined the U. S. Army. She attended Basic Training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, then was
Kate Beaver was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Eastern Vocational Technical High School, Class of 1977, also in Baltimore. After graduation, she joined the U. S. Army. She attended Basic Training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, then was stationed at Fort Sam in San Antonio. She became a medic and transferred to Aschaffenburg, Germany. Kate attained SP4 while serving in Company D, 3rd Medical Battalion, Marne Division. After leaving the Army, Kate moved to Dallas, while there, she worked at a dental office beginning as hygienist’s assistant, and eventually became office manager and payroll clerk. Kate worked as a secretary for C. R. Guy Insurance Co. from April 2004-November 2010.
While in South Dakota in 1986, Kate saw a town named Frazee, Minnesota. Frazee was her maiden name, so this piqued her curiosity and led to her lifetime project of researching her family history. Having started her genealogy work before the days of computers in everyone’s home, she spent a lot of time in courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries, plus lots of time writing letters and making phone calls. Kate is an artist, writer and photographer with a passion for genealogy which led to her interest in history. Her over 30 years of genealogy experience, along with her interest in history, naturally led Kate to researching the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House, and the families that have lived in the house over the years. Her office and leadership skills have well-prepared her for her work as Administrative Director of the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Restoration Project.
Executive Director and Board Member, The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
Bruce Hamilton graduated high school in Beaumont, TX, class of 1973, Forest Park High School. He served in the US Army from 1974-1978 where he attained the rank of Sergeant. During his service he was stationed in Camp Casey in Korea, as well as Fort Sill,
Bruce Hamilton graduated high school in Beaumont, TX, class of 1973, Forest Park High School. He served in the US Army from 1974-1978 where he attained the rank of Sergeant. During his service he was stationed in Camp Casey in Korea, as well as Fort Sill, OK. Bruce attended Cameron University in Lawton, OK, as well as Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. After his military service, he became a chemical process operator at Goodyear Tire and Rubber, where he was employed from 1978 until 2005.
Bruce’s family has roots in Beaumont going back five generations and has since added two. Some of his family were business owners – Hamilton Nursing Home and Hamilton Lumber Company. He has been owner of Papertiques of Texas since 1982 which is a business centered on memorabilia and antiques. Bruce has an extensive collection of Beaumont memorabilia as a result of his long-standing interest in history, particularly Beaumont’s history. He is a member of the Jefferson County Historical Commission, having served many years in the past as Chairman. Bruce was installed as Commander of VFW Post,#1806 here in Beaumont in 2019. Bruce’s love of history and Beaumont led to his work with the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Restoration Project.
501c3 Board Members
Dr. Steven Lewis
Janelle Smith Templeton
Board Member – The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
Dr. Steven Lewis graduated high school as Co-Valedictorian of his class at Vidor High School, Vidor, TX, in 1967. He attained a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Lamar State College of Technology in 1971, and a Masters in Biology from Lamar University in 1974. He wen
Dr. Steven Lewis graduated high school as Co-Valedictorian of his class at Vidor High School, Vidor, TX, in 1967. He attained a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Lamar State College of Technology in 1971, and a Masters in Biology from Lamar University in 1974. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Zoology at Texas A&M University in 1989. Steven has extensive teaching experience from public school to university level, where he held various positions including lecturer, teaching assistant, research assistant, and teaching fellow.
In addition to his many presentations given concerning environmental science, he has also given talks on history to various groups including the Tyrrell Historical Library Association, volunteers at the McFaddin-Ward House, and the Oaks Historic District. His professional associations include Sigma Xi, Jefferson County Historical Commission, Tyrrell Historical Library Association, Inc. (President), Beaumont Heritage Society, Texas Gulf Historical Society, Beaumont Main Street, and Beaumont Camera Club. Steven has combined his interests in history and photography with an emphasis on comparing “then-and-now”, with plans to publish a book on photos of Beaumont, as well as a book on Beaumont postcards. His interest in history and the older buildings in Beaumont naturally led to Steven Lewis’ involvement in the restoration of the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House. Steven
Board Member, The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
Janelle Templeton, whose family roots go back over 100 years in East Texas, graduated from Jasper High School in 1982. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting, from University of Texas in Austin, in 1986. Janelle worked in accounting for several years, holdin
Janelle Templeton, whose family roots go back over 100 years in East Texas, graduated from Jasper High School in 1982. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting, from University of Texas in Austin, in 1986. Janelle worked in accounting for several years, holding positions in auditing, internal reports, and contract controller and consulting, for three different companies. Since 2009, she has been working with Family Office & Private Equity Accounting as a Controller. Janelle is a supervisor, and also prepares investment summaries and reconciliations, as well as prepares taxes for over 80 businesses. She is an experienced accountant for many types of entities.
Janelle loves old homes, and it was a special privilege to help restore the David Glenn Homestead, a family home, which dates to around 1858, and is located in East Texas. She enjoys the outdoors whether she’s at the beach, in the woods, or working in her flower garden.
Her experience restoring the David Glenn Homestead, and also, in accounting, along with an appreciation of history, abundantly equip her for service as a member of the board.
David Vann deCordova
Board Member- The Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Project
David Vann De Cordova, a Beaumont native, obtained Bachelor degrees from Lamar University in Business Administration in 1982, and General Finance in 1985. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Juris Doctor Degree in 1990, from South Texas College of Law, and he has been practicing la
David Vann De Cordova, a Beaumont native, obtained Bachelor degrees from Lamar University in Business Administration in 1982, and General Finance in 1985. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Juris Doctor Degree in 1990, from South Texas College of Law, and he has been practicing law in Beaumont, TX, since 2010.
During his career, “Vann” has been admitted to Hawaii District Court in 2006, as well as Texas Fifth Court of Appeals, Texas Eastern District Court in 1990.
His Practice Areas include Administrative and Public, Business, Creditor-Debtor, Family, Government/Administrative, Labor-Employment; Litigation: Commercial, Real Estate, Wills-Trusts-Probate, Construction; Appellate: Civil.
Because “Vann” is a distant relative of Caroline Gilbert’s, he is uniquely interested in serving on the Board, and lending his assistance in restoring her home to its original beauty.
Frank Inzer
Frank Inzer graduated from Forest Park High School in 1972. He has many interests including nature (he once raised a couple of bats), hunting, and playing guitar. Over the years he has worked with Boy Scouts and done set construction for local plays. He has spent years in real est
Frank Inzer graduated from Forest Park High School in 1972. He has many interests including nature (he once raised a couple of bats), hunting, and playing guitar. Over the years he has worked with Boy Scouts and done set construction for local plays. He has spent years in real estate and construction, owning and managing several businesses. As a general contractor and owner of Frank B. Inzer Construction (located in Vidor, TX), he is experienced in all aspects of construction, remodeling, and renovation of homes. Frank also does historical restoration, making him a valuable member of the board.
Meghan Cobb
Meghan Cobb graduated from Little Cypress Mauriceville High School in 1999. She attended Lamar University from 1999-2001, majoring in Graphic Design - a field in which she's been a professional for over 20 years. Her design & marketing skill set includes logo and web design, newsp
Meghan Cobb graduated from Little Cypress Mauriceville High School in 1999. She attended Lamar University from 1999-2001, majoring in Graphic Design - a field in which she's been a professional for over 20 years. Her design & marketing skill set includes logo and web design, newspaper pagination, painting and portraiture, print and digital marketing materials, copywriting and promotion.
Meghan joined the construction industry in 2007 as a surveyor in the SETX refineries, and later as a land surveyor. As founding partner of Cobb Creek Construction LLC, she is adept in construction trades including tile, interior/exterior/landscape design, flooring installation, carpentry, team leadership, and project and resource management. She recently completed the American Home Inspection Training course and is slated to complete her state (TREC) and national tests in the fall to obtain certification.
Meghan is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (guardian ad litem) in Jefferson County, and is a registered Daughter of the American Revolution.
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.375 H&H Magnum: Ultimate Guide To What You Need To Know in 2021
The .375 Holland & Holland Magnum was once one of the best all-around big game hunting cartridges in the world, but should you still be hunting with the .375 H&H?
Even if they’re not intimately familiar with the history and capabilities of the cartridge, I think most North American hunters have at least heard of the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum cartridge. However, misunderstandings and misconceptions abound regarding the performance of the .375 H&H in the hunting community at large.
On one hand, many hunters try to pigeonhole the .375 H&H as a dangerous game cartridge. While it’s is certainly an excellent choice for use on game like cape buffalo, the .375 Holland & Holland is far more versatile than many people think.
On the other hand, some hunters look down their noses at the old cartridge and its relatively sedate ballistics on paper in favor of more modern calibers like the .378 Weatherby Magnum or .375 Remington Ultra Magnum that seem to offer superior performance.
So what’s the deal with the .375 H&H? Why is it still so popular among hunters all over the world over a century after it first hit shelves? What else is it good for hunting besides thick-skinned dangerous game in Africa?
In this article, I’m going to do a detailed analysis of the .375 H&H Magnum, explain why it became such a popular rifle cartridge for hunting big game all over the world, and help you decide whether or not you should consider hunting with it.
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.375 H&H History
The introduction of the 9.3x62mm Mauser cartridge in 1905 caught the major British gun makers flat-footed. The 9.3x62mm Mauser was designed for use in the revolutionary Mauser bolt-action rifle, which was cheaper, more reliable, had a larger magazine, and was easier to manufacture than previous magazine rifles or double rifles of the day.
Additionally, the cartridge used smokeless powder, which could propel bullets at a significantly higher velocity than black powder. Not surprisingly, the Mauser cartridge quickly took the hunting community by storm and hunters in Europe and Africa quickly armed themselves with the new cartridge.
Fearful of losing their market share to a German cartridge, British gun makers scrambled to develop cartridges that took advantage of the same advances in firearm technology and could compete with the 9.3x62mm Mauser.
It was against this backdrop that gun makers at Holland & Holland introduced the .375 Belted Rimless Nitro Express cartridge (better known as the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum or the .375 H&H) in 1912.
However, those people likely had no idea that they had just designed what would eventually become one of the most successful big game hunting cartridges of all-time. Indeed, though many other outstanding big game hunting cartridges have been developed over the century that has elapsed since the .375 H&H first entered the hunting scene, none have a track record of success quite as impressive as the .375 H&H.
Like the 9.3x62mm Mauser, the .375 H&H cartridge originally used a smokeless propellent (cordite to be specific), used a rimless case, and was built for use in bolt action rifles. Since cordite was much more efficient than black powder, the cartridge could push bullets at significantly higher velocities than was previously possible.
This in turn allowed hunters to use bullets with smaller diameters and higher sectional densities that penetrated much better than the bullets used in the previous generation of the old big bore rifles. Additionally, hunter equipped with a good quality bolt-action rifle could fire 3-5 shots before emptying the magazine (compared to only one or two with earlier rifles).
Obviously, these capabilities were a significant improvement in performance over the other popular hunting cartridges of the day and explains the rapid explosion in popularity of these new cartridges.
The gun makers at Holland & Holland also specifically designed the cartridge with optimum reliability under hot conditions in mind. Cordite is very temperature sensitive and higher ambient temperatures will produce higher pressures with a given load.
At the time, the British had extensive colonial interests in Africa and India where hot weather was very common. For this reason, the designers at Holland & Holland used a relatively low pressure load and built the cartridge with a gently tapering case to aid in chambering and extraction under a variety of environmental conditions.
The designers of the .375 H&H were very successful in their goal of building a reliable cartridge ideal for use in hot conditions.
As a matter of fact, even though modern smokeless propellants are much more temperature stable than cordite, the gently tapering case of the .375 H&H still is still very useful today and the cartridge has a stellar reputation for reliable feeding and extracting in the field. When the chips are down and you NEED that next cartridge to smoothly chamber in order to stop a charging buffalo, it’s really nice to have gently tapered case that effortlessly slithers into the chamber.
However, since the cartridge lacked both a sharp shoulder and a rim, the designers of the .375 H&H incorporated a revolutionary belt near the base of the cartridge to ensure correct headspace.
Unfortunately, a gently tapering case is also relatively inefficient in terms of powder capacity. For this reason, the .375 H&H Magnum has a relatively long, 72.39mm case. This is over 10mm longer than the 9.3x62mm Mauser case and nearly 7mm longer than the .375 Ruger case.
For that reason, the .375 Ruger and the 9.3x62mm Mauser both fit in a standard length rifle action while the longer .375 H&H Magnum is restricted to use in rifles with a longer magnum length action.
375 H&H, 416 Rigby, .458 Lott
Rifles with magnum length actions are typically larger, heavier, and more expensive than rifles with standard length actions, but that did not dramatically impact the popularity of the cartridge after it was introduced.
The 9.3x62mm Mauser remained popular among hunters for many years, but eventually faded after World War II. The German armaments industry suffered incredible damage during the war, which obviously made 9.3x62mm ammunition difficult to obtain.
The .375 H&H Magnum did not suffer from this problem and hunters in Africa started to replace their Mausers with the .375. The popularity of the cartridge got a further boost when Winchester started building a version of the legendary Model 70 rifle chambered in .375 H&H.
As American hunters armed with the Model 70 flocked to the Dark Continent during the post-war period, the already common .375 H&H surged in popularity to become one of the most popular big game hunting cartridges in Africa and never looked back.
.375 H&H Ballistics
The original .375 H&H loads introduced by Holland & Holland in 1912 used cordite as a propellent and used three primary bullet weights: a 235gr bullet at about 2,800 fps, a 270gr bullet at about 2,650 fps, and a 300 gr bullet at 2,500fps (about 4,100-4,200 foot pounds of energy).
Those loads featuring a 300 grain bullet are incredibly effective for use on dangerous game and offer an excellent balance of reliable deep penetration and plenty of authority on one hand, but a manageable amount of recoil on the other.
For one thing, it’s because the .375 H&H can use bullets with a relatively high sectional density.
A 300 grain .375″ bullet has a sectional density of .305, which is above the generally accepted medium acceptable sectional density of .300 for thick skinned dangerous game.
Sectional density (SD) is a measure of the ratio of the diameter of a projectile to its mass. All other things equal, a heavier projectile of a given caliber will be longer and therefore have a higher sectional density and consequently penetrate deeper than projectiles with a lower mass and sectional density.
Since bullet penetration is so important when hunting thick-skinned dangerous game, that advantage in sectional density is one factor that has very likely contributed to the reputation the cartridge has for being effective on cape buffalo.
Furthermore, since most loadings produce over 4,100 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle, the .375 H&H meets the minimum legal requirements to hunt members of the African Big 5 in every country in Africa and it’s one of the most popular cartridges for hunting dangerous game like lion, Cape Buffalo, and hippopotamus.
At the same time, though it wouldn’t be my first choice as a deer hunting cartridge, the lighter 235gr, 250gr, and 260gr bullets are great for taking longer range shots on game like pronghorn, whitetail deer, mule deer, red stag, feral hogs, and caribou.
The heavier 270gr and 300gr bullets are well suited for black bear, kudu, eland, elk, grizzly/brown bear, Cape Buffalo, and moose hunting.
Super heavy 350 grain bullets by Woodleigh are known for especially impressive penetration and are good choices for backing or raking shots on really large game like buffalo or elephant.
The .375 H&H has a relatively flat trajectory, making it suitable for shots out to 400 yards or so (perhaps further) in the right hands. Additionally, while it does kick a bit harder than the 9.3x62mm Mauser, most .375 H&H loads only have a moderate amount of recoil.
Especially when shot from a standing position in a rifle that fits the shooter well, the .375 H&H Magnum actually kicks much less than you’d think a cartridge that powerful would. Indeed, most hunters can handle the recoil of the .375 H&H without too much trouble.
Since it’s so versatile, many hunters choose the .375 H&H when they want a “one gun safari.” By simply changing the bullets used, a hunter can use the cartridge for just about any species of game in the world regardless of whether that person is pursuing cape buffalo in Africa or on a New Zealand hunting safari for red stag.
For instance, the hunter in the video below made a great shot on a Cape Buffalo with a 300gr .375 H&H bullet that hit the heart and both lungs. The buffalo was dead on his feet at that point and ran around 100 yards before expiring. All things considered, you can’t expect much better performance than that when dealing with incredibly tough animals like buffalo. There’s a reason why the .375 H&H is such a popular cartridge for hunting Cape Buffalo.
At the same time, those same heavier bullets in the 270-300gr range that are ideal for really big and tough species of game like Cape Buffalo and Water Buffalo are also quite effective on smaller species of game. Controlled expansion bullets will quickly take down medium and large species like eland, wildebeest, and impala without causing significant damage to their hides or destroying a bunch of meat.
The same goes for the small species of antelope like dik-dik, duiker, and klipspringer when using non-expanding solids or full metal jacket bullets.
For example, I was hunting eland in South Africa several years ago when we came across a herd of impala with a nice ram in it. I was carrying a CZ-550 chambered in .375 H&H and loaded with 300gr controlled expansion bullets well suited for hunting for large species of game like buffalo and eland. As you can see, it did a number on that impala without ruining an excessive amount of meat or destroying the hide.
.375 H&H Ammo
Modern .375 H&H ammo produces similar ballistics to the original .375 H&H loads, but hunters these days have access to extremely high quality bullets that are well suited to hunting a variety of creatures.
For instance, Hornady loads their 300gr DGX/DGS bullets to an advertised velocity of 2,530fps, which is a great combination for hunting cape buffalo.
Federal’s load of 250gr Trophy Bonded Bear Claws at 2,670fps is a flat-shooting and hard hitting load for plains game, moose, or the biggest Alaskan bear.
Due to the incredible popularity of the cartridge, just about every major manufacturer produces factory loaded .375 H&H Magnum ammunition. For instance, Armscor, Barnes, Buffalo Bore, Corbon, Federal, Hornady, Norma, Nosler, Prvi Partizan, Remington and Swift all make at least one .375 H&H load.
Though 270gr and 300gr bullets are the most popular, it’s also possible to find 235gr, 250gr, 260gr, and 350gr bullets for the cartridge.
Buy some really good .375 hunting ammo here.
For a more detailed discussion on .375 H&H hunting ammunition, read this article:
Best .375 H&H Ammo For Hunting Cape Buffalo, Bear, & Other Big Game
Handloaders also have a ton of choices and, with the notable exception of the Barnes Banded Solid, just about every premium bullet currently on the market (like the Barnes Triple Shock, Nosler Partition, and the Hornady DGS/DGX) is available in .375 caliber.
.375 H&H, .458 Lott, .416 Rigby
.375 H&H Rifles
Just like with ammo, there are plenty of options for hunters who want a rifle in .375 H&H these days.
There are some very high quality bolt action rifles chambered in the cartridge that are designed for use under demanding conditions on an African or Alaskan hunting adventure. Among others, Browning, CZ, the Montana Rifle Company, Sako, Weatherby, and Winchester all produce good .375 H&H rifles.
Buy a nice .375 hunting rifle here.
.375 H&H Final Thoughts
While the .375 H&H Magnum is a great cartridge, it’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a little on the light side for hunting elephant or for use as a buffalo “stopping” cartridge, but it will do in a pinch for either task.
It also has a whole lot more recoil than cartridges like the 6.5 Creedmoor or .30-06 Springfield. All things considered though, the .375 is still a really solid performing cartridge for a wide range of tasks.
Few other cartridges have a resume as impressive as the .375 H&H Magnum. If you’re looking for a good quality cartridge capable of taking the widest possible variety of game with a moderate amount of recoil, you could do a whole lot worse than the .375 H&H.
There is a reason why the cartridge is so popular among hunters and outfitters in Africa: because it works.
Do you have a rifle chambered in .375 H&H that you want to take on a hunt?
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To learn more about the 7mm Remington Magnum, the .300 Winchester Magnum, and the .338 Winchester Magnum all of which use a modified .375 H&H case, read the articles below:
7mm Rem Mag vs 300 Win Mag: What You Know May Be Wrong
300 Win Mag vs 338 Lapua vs 338 Win Mag: Picking The Right Heavy Hitter
The Lyman 50th Edition (p323-324) and Hornady 10th Edition (p710-712) reloading manuals as well as Africa’s Most Dangerous by Kevin Robertson (2nd Edition, p 100-105) and Why the .375 H&H Magnum Is the King of Cartridges by Phil Massaro in Gun Digest were used as references for this article.
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11 thoughts on “.375 H&H Magnum: Ultimate Guide To What You Need To Know in 2021”
Zach Wayda
I think the .375 H&H Magnum is a perfect cartridge because it can take down any size of game. However, I was not fond of fellow hunters using it for deer hunting. We always said it “shoots and guts the deer all in one shot.”
While the .375 H&H would not be my first choice for hunting deer, it will certainly do the job. However, it sounds like the guys you know were shooting 235gr or 250gr bullets, which will do basically what you described to a deer. While it may seem counterintuitive, the 270gr or 300gr controlled expansion bullets that are designed for buffalo are actually great choices for thin-skinned game like deer as well. Since they are much tougher bullets fired at lower velocities, they won’t do anywhere near the damage to the meat and hide that those light, high velocity bullets will.
Gary Fretwell
Awesome clip, John! I’d love to hunt over in South Africa.
I’d love to take my .375 on safari. But I can probably never afford it. I do want to go fishing in Alaska so it may get some use as a defensive weapon against bears. Love my big bores.
Bassinman
A .375 H&H Mag was recently bestowed upon me by my sister due to the passing of her husband – one of two remaining rifles in a formerly rather large collection, along with a 30-06 Win model 70. I have been researching the round (cartridge) and rifle to find that even though it is basically a safari caliber it is, with the proper load and bullet, capable of taking large North American game without excessive damage, and near instantaneous death. I have my own mod 70 in 30-06 which I find the best round to be Remington Core Lock 165g round nose soft point (in brush) and 150g spitzer point in open field. I anticipate a few month’s shooting with experimental rounds of reloads to find the ‘perfect’ Whitetail round for this rifle, but once discovered, I believe I will use it on my next deer hunt jist to be able to say that I shot a Whitetail with a .375 and didn’t make deerburger on site. I believe it will eventually be as good of a deer hunter as my 30-06 with proper loads. My woodworking buddy built a new walnut stock, inletted it, and bedded the action for me, nice guy. Oh yeah, like the article very much, glad I found it.
Roger d powell
I have taken many white tail deer with my 375 and I hardly have any meat damage and it has never failed me in Alaska or any other hunt
What bullets do you like to use in your .375 for hunting deer and other species of game?
I have used the speer 270 grain boat tail with good results on deer. Exit wound slightly smaller than a baseball.
Stephenwilkerson Wilkerson
I used my 375 h&h on whitetail deer this year shot a doe at 225 yards very little meat damage preformed flawless Less meat damage than high velocity rounds I have used in the past used 300 grn.cape shock partition. Do not second guess this round it is the true king of cartridges world wide.
A wonderful reload for whitetail deer is 225 gr Hornady Spire Point (designed for thin skin game) behind 40 grains of IMR 4759 with magnum 215 primer. Travels 2200 feet per second. Similar to 30-30 velocity giving bullet plenty of time to expand at close range. I have taken many deer 30-150 yards with this load in Connecticut.
Thanks for your comment George. That does indeed sound like a GREAT whitetail load. I’ll bet it’s easy on the shoulder and doesn’t destroy too much meat.
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Venues / Churches & Cathedrals / San Lucas Chapel and the Plaza San Lucas
San Lucas Chapel and the Plaza San Lucas
By Editor Tuesday January 12th, 2021
Parks & Public Plazas
Photo: Patricia Alzuarte Díaz on Wikimedia Commons.
The San Lucas Chapel was founded as the “Indian Chapel” for an existing ancient neighborhood. It was later re-founded in the middle of the 17th century in what was by then the slaughterhouse district. In fact, Saint Luke the Evangelist is the patron saint of artists and butchers, among others, which is why his Gospel is often iconographically associated with a bull. This is because Saint Luke himself deals with the sacrificial aspects of the Christian story.
San Lucas Cuezcontitlan de los Carniceros
In 1690, the church was made a parish and ordered rebuilt in 1698. That work was completed in 1701 using money from the local butchers. They were likely not welcome in the nearby San Miguel Archangel Church, just to the north. The earliest references to the area in colonial times refer to San Lucas Cuezcontitlan de los Carniceros. Though in truth, the Náhuatl name then still in use, Cuezcontitlan, also refers to the agricultural role of the ancient neighborhood. It can be translated as “Place of the Barns.”
During the 18th century, the church was remodeled several times. The façade dates from this period. In the 19th century, the church was used to house military personnel with contagious diseases. But it’s important to remember that the entire María Magdalena complex, then occupying much of the area, was also converted for use as a military hospital. The end of the Agustinian Colegio and the San Pablo el Viejo Chapel also began with the United States invasion in 1847. That was the beginning of the nearby Hospital Juárez Centro.
Today, the interior of the San Lucas Chapel holds several prominent colonial-era sculptures. A wooden Neo-classical confessional is also worth a look. The church, even today, maintains a reputation for helping and supporting the most needy in the neighborhood. The same 2017 excavations that unearthed the likely calpulli remains in the Metro Pino Suárez station here revealed a great quantity of animal remains. These resulted from the mid-colonial period and the neighborhood’s occupation.
The surrounding Plaza of San Lucas is often confused as though it’s part of the Pino Suárez Plaza Comercial or even the Metro. In fact, the much older plaza has been renovated numerous times. It’s even been overrun by the much more grandiose projects. The most memorable of these was the five-tower Conjunto Urbano Pino Suárez. This was severely damaged during, and entirely demolished, during the 1985 earthquakes.
Plaza San Lucas 14, La Merced, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 CDMX
Tuesday January 12th, 2021
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Top Discoveries And Collections By Peggy Guggenheim
Alexander Calder Sculpture | © Solipsis/WikiCommons
Nicole Olmos
Voracious and eccentric, Peggy Guggenheim was a famous art dealer best known for her tasteful collection, bohemian lifestyle, and controversial love affairs. Born into a wealthy family, she inherited a keen business mind as well as an irresistibly sensual charm, and made Guggenheim one of the world’s most iconic household family names. Take a look at some of the most unforgettable discoveries and collections of her life.
Peggy Guggenheim was a patron, friend, and lover to some of the greatest minds of the 20th century. She was a force of her time, occupying a position rare for a woman during the eve of cataclysmic events, such as the Second World War. It is important to add that Peggy herself helped many artists, such as Max Ernst, to flee Europe during this time, essentially saving their lives. She shipped hundreds of works of art back to America, where they would have otherwise been persecuted and destroyed according to the Nazi ban on what they called “degenerate” art. This ban unimaginably included works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse.
At the opening of one of her exhibitions, Peggy Guggenheim said “I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one of my Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist art and Abstract art.” It was both sets of earrings, made as gifts especially for Peggy, that were in themselves works of art, as well as many others. Yves Tanguy, a Surrealist painter, created exquisite miniature oil painting earrings in his style for Peggy, knowing her fascination for jewellery as well as her famously exotic attire. Calder’s earrings, however, were abstract copper structures, much like his other work, which focused on balance and form. In the winter of 1946, at a later commission from Peggy, Alexander Calder also made a unique silver headboard for her bed at home, the likes of which were unusual for Calder and a very personal gift. Portraying aquatic aspects of nature, this gift was also to become a renowned work of art in itself, that was eventually hung suspended and seemingly floating against a white wall.
Another Bronze Sculpture by Marino Marini | © Rufus46/WikiCommons
It is no accident that Marini’s bronze sculpture The Angel of the City (1948), depicting a naked man with an erect phallus riding an elongated poised horse, is placed at the entrance to the Guggenheim collection in Venice. One of Guggenheim’s most beloved pieces, as much for its resplendent sense of joie de vivre, as for its amusing nature, it is also an iconic piece of work by the artist representing the ecstasy of youth, life and manhood. It was said that the phallus was detachable, and that Peggy would often attach or detach it at the wrong time, causing a shock to the unprepared passer-by. Marino Marini was one of the most famous Italian sculptors of the 20th Century and his angel continues to guard the entrance to Peggy Guggenheim’s collection, safeguarding not only her most valuable works of art, but also preserving her sense of the absurd and girlish humour.
Constantin Brancusi | © Telrúnya/WikiCommons
Constantin Brancusi
Exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of the Century gallery in New York, which ran from 1942 to 1947, was Constantin Brancusi’s marble sculpture Bird in Space (1923). Brancusi was fascinated throughout this era with the subject of the bird in flight, and in this case his sculpture portrays a stretched oblong bird, made recognisable by its streamlined figure and pointed end to represent a beak. An intimate friend of Brancusi’s and a great admirer of his work, Peggy purchased the sculpture, along with various others from his works. It was said that Constantin Brancusi began to weep when he parted with this particular piece of his and that Peggy could not tell if his reaction was from having to part with his artwork or herself, as it marked the end of their relationship. It is a wonderful, romantic moment filled with humour, but also an example of Peggy Guggenheim’s business shrewdness.
Jackson Pollock at work | © Louis-garden/WikiCommons
In no other case was Peggy Guggenheim as single-handedly responsible for exposing the world to an unknown artist than with Jackson Pollock — one of the most influential and well-known abstract impressionist painters of all time. Although a heavy drinker, discovered working for the Guggenheim Museum as a carpenter, Peggy quickly recognised Pollock as a talented artist and commissioned a large wall-sized piece titled Mural (1943), measuring 8ft tall by 20ft long, for the hallway of her new town-house. Jackson Pollock‘s technique of dripping paint onto the canvas revolutionised painting as a medium, moving it further into the modernist era and it was Peggy’s constant support, as a friend and financier, which allowed him the materials, time and lifestyle with which to create his paintings.
Photograph of Lucien Freud | © Tyrenious/WikiCommons
After successfully setting up the Gallery Guggenheim Jeune, Peggy Guggenheim organised an exhibition showcasing children’s artwork, which included her own daughter Pegeen’s drawings. Also a part of this art collective was the young Lucien Freud, grandchild of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, which astoundingly meant that Peggy was the first person to ever exhibit Freud’s work. She had a knack throughout her life for being the right woman in the right place, at the right time, as well as having the ability to consistently recognise talent, even that of young emerging artists. Lucien Freud went on to become a highly acclaimed British painter; his bold, fleshy, textured work remains an example of some of the most outstanding interpretations of the human body and technically talented depictions of nudes in oil paint.
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Kasey Kahne Will Not Be Back at Hendrick in 2018
By: Toby Christie – Follow on Twitter @toby_christie
After six years of driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, Kasey Kahne will have to search for a new ride in 2018, the race team announced in a press release.
"Kasey has worked extremely hard," said Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports. "He's a tremendous teammate and person, and he has been totally dedicated to our program since day one. I've always believed that he's a special talent, and I know he will thrive in the right situation. We will do everything we can to finish the season as strong as we can."
Kahne, 37, is locked into the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs by virtue of winning the Brickyard 400 a few races ago, and he was under contract with the race team for 2018. However, in recent months all of Kahne's sponsors began to announce that they weren't returning for next season. HMS, as a result, terminated Kahne's contract a year early.
In all, the Enumclaw, Washington native has racked up six victories with the organization since moving there in 2012. Kahne is an 18-time winner in the Cup Series, and now he becomes the latest big name driver in the 2018 NASCAR free agent pool.
“I’d like to thank Rick and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports for their hard work and dedication, along with providing me a great opportunity and success over the last six years,” said Kahne, who most recently won July 23 at Indianapolis. “We won six races together and I'm coming off of one of the biggest wins of my career at the Brickyard, which has given the (No.) 5 team a lot of momentum heading into the playoffs. We still have a lot of racing left in 2017 and finishing strong is our top priority. I look forward to what the next chapter in my career holds.”
The team release stated that plans for Hendrick Motorsports' four-car team in 2018 will be announced at a later date.
Photo: Matt Sullivan/Getty Images
Toby Christie
Toby is the Founder, Editor and go-to man for TobyChristie.com. He is the co-host of The Final Lap Weekly Podcast. Additionally, Toby is a NMPA (National Motorsports Press Association) award winning writer, and has followed the sport as a fan since 1993.
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How Much Oil Remains In The Gulf?
US - Two reports with conflicting claims regarding the amount of oil remaining in the Gulf have been released.
A recent report by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center (a collaboration between the federal government and BP) claims that only 25 per cent of spilled oil remains in the Gulf.
However, this has been refuted by researchers with the Georgia Sea Grant and University of Georgia, who released a report earlier this week concluding that in fact nearly 80 percent of the oil remains in the Gulf. The report says that the federal government should have taken a more cautious and responsible approach to testing marine life before opening the Gulf for fishing.
Food and Water Watch says that the latest report affirms what many have thought: that the oil could not have realistically vanished like ‘sugar dissolves into water’ — a ludicrous statement the federal officials used to describe what happened to the millions of gallons spilled into the Gulf.
"This independent analysis of the regulators’ claims raises some important questions about the Joint Information Center’s report. Is BP’s influence at play in presenting the findings in a more positive light? Was the report an attempt at crisis communications that simply backfired?
“The FDA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are the two regulatory agencies charged with protecting consumer health after the spill. NOAA is one of the many federal agencies involved in BP’s Joint Information Center. Unfortunately, these agencies have been anything but forthcoming and transparent in notifying consumers and the Gulf fishing communities about safety concerns resulting from the spill.
“Every day that the Gulf is closed to fishermen, is a day BP must pay out additional claims to them. Is this why regulators opened the Gulf for commercial fishing, despite warnings from fishermen and documented cases of oil in marine life? Unfortunately, this hasty decision is currently jeopardizing not only consumers but the future reputation of the Gulf fishing industry.
“Prematurely opening the Gulf is not the only incidence of poor decision making. Rather than employ careful microbiological testing of seafood, the federal agencies continue to predominantly use sniff tests to determine the presence of oil. And instead of immediately testing seafood for contamination by Corexit, the controversial dispersant banned in Europe but used widely in the Gulf by BP, they feed the media a vague date for future testing.
“At this point, it appears that FDA and NOAA oversight is as lacking as the Minerals Management Service’s ’oversight’ that led to the initial Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.
“Ultimately, it is this regulatory negligence that would be responsible for any widespread consumer illness resulting from the unprecedented effects of oil and dispersant on the Gulf and its marine life – effects that would go undetected due to poor testing regimes.
“In order to restore the public’s trust, NOAA and the FDA must perform more comprehensive and timely tests and present us with reliable and unbiased findings rather than continue in their attempt to sweep millions of barrels of oil and controversial dispersants under the proverbial rug. The Gulf should not have been opened for fishing until this occurred.”
The increase in shrimp farming around Chilika Lake in India’s Odisha state has not only been destroying the area’s ecology but also affecting the livelihoods of several thousand fishermen.
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From Donard to the Drakensberg
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When I received a text message one morning last September which began, “I have an interesting proposition for you…” I was immediately interested; especially as it was from Ryan Simpson (a UK Mountain Photographer of the Year winner). By the time I’d finished reading the second part of his message, which continued “…depending on how adventurous you’re feeling” I was pretty much already hooked.
Although I’d known Ryan for several years through social media, commenting on each other’s photographs of the Mourne Mountains, I’d only actually spoken to him on two previous occasions when we had accidentally and very briefly crossed paths (literally) when walking in the Mournes. So I was naturally intrigued to find out what this proposal was.
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Ryan revealed that he had been invited by Alex Nail, a professional landscape photographer and adventurer from England, to join a group he was leading to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. Alex (a winner in the International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition) had also asked Ryan if he knew of any other ‘competent hiker/camper/photographer’ who might be interested in joining the group.
I have to admit, I was rather flattered when Ryan said that my name automatically sprung to his mind. He revealed that it would be a ten day trip, a couple of days longer than Alex’s usual trips. It would also cost slightly less than one of his usual trips because as the group was to be made up of experienced hikers they would be expected to carry most of their own kit, reducing the need for as many porters; and as it would also be made up of competent photographers, there would be no workshop-style tuition provided. Ryan sent me a link to Alex’s website that included further details of the trip which indicated the group would trek along the top of the Drakensberg escarpment for eight days at altitudes of over 3000 metres.
After thanking Ryan for suggesting me for the trip, I said I would give it some thought over the next few days, and told him I’d let him know. I told my wife about it, and she said I should go. I told my sons about it, and they said I should go. And then I spent the next couple of months coming up with every conceivable reason why I shouldn’t go. It was too much money to spend on a trip just for myself. The dates were too close to an extremely busy period at work. I might do a bit of hiking and camping in the Mourne Mountains, but there was no way I’d be able to cope with sleeping for eight nights in a tent. I couldn’t carry a rucksack that would weigh over 25kgs, for eight days, at altitudes of over 3000m, while trekking up to 16kms per day. I wouldn’t be able to cope with the heat of the sun during the day or with the plummeting temperatures during the night. I’d struggle to keep up with younger, and more experienced hikers. I’d feel like a complete novice beside these other very competent photographers. My anxieties, real and/or imagined, were enough to make Woody Allen look like the eternal optimist.
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Even though the idea of being involved in such an adventure excited me on the occasions when I still gave it some thought, by November my sense of self-doubt had won the day, and I’d convinced myself that it wasn’t for me. In addition, I hadn’t been in touch with Ryan again, and I was sure the places had long since been filled.
Then at the beginning of December I stumbled upon a social media post from Alex where he explained that he had a place left on the trip, and invited any “strong hikers and independent photographers” who were interested to get in touch with him. I don’t know what was different about that morning, but suddenly I’d put myself in that ‘strong and independent’ bracket (I can just imagine the look on my wife’s face if she ever reads this bit). Before I knew it, I had contacted Ryan to confirm if this was the same trip he had mentioned and if he was still going on it; and then I contacted Alex. Within days I had booked my place, paid the deposit, and organised flights to Johannesburg. From that point there was definitely no turning back. On this occasion at least, my procrastination hadn’t resulted in another missed opportunity to regret on my deathbed!
Alex sent a summary of the trip’s proposed itinerary. I began looking up images of the places it mentioned to see what they looked like. To be honest, I’d barely heard of the Drakensberg Mountains, let alone ever considered visiting them. I went to Alex’s website and watched his inspirational time-lapse sequences of the Drakensberg. Now I was getting excited. Suddenly there was something different to look forward to; something to temporarily end that nagging sense of endless routine. Just as suddenly, there also seemed to be so much to do, and so little time left to do it.
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While I was reasonably confident that I could manage the hiking demands of the trip due to my frequent hikes in the Mournes, I knew I needed to lose some weight. There was no point carrying extra kilos around my middle when I’d have to carry upwards of twenty-five on my back. If I was going to do anything about it, I knew I’d better start immediately. I began to diet (a bit), and started to accompany my wife (sometimes) on her regular long walks in the evenings in order to improve my overall level of fitness. I even took up football again (briefly), until my Achilles screamed for me to stop after only a few weeks.
Over the next few months there was a lot of Googling. Alex sent a very helpful guide to everything that would be required for the trip. While I had clothing, camping gear and equipment which were adequate for my brief, but frequent forays into the Mournes, I wasn’t sure if they would suffice for an eight day trek in the Drakensberg Mountains. The result – I’ve never done so much on-line shopping in my life.
Two camera batteries wouldn’t last too long on an eight day photographic trip, so I bought another five. I had a 16-35mm wide angle lens, and a fairly heavy 24-70mm lens, both of which would have been perfectly sufficient. However, after weighing up the options I decided to buy a new 70-300mm lens giving me a much longer focal range, and opted to leave at home my 24-70mm lens which weighted nearly twice as much. Every ounce was going to count when it meant carrying them around all day.
As everybody knows, size matters too. I already had a seventy litre rucksack that I’d bought thirty years previously when backpacking around Australia. While it was still structurally sound, ergonomics had evolved somewhat since then. So I splashed out on a new Osprey seventy litre rucksack to carry my sleeping bag, mattress, camera gear, tripod, and enough food, clothing and accessories for eight days.
Ryan and I also arranged to meet up to go walking together in the Mournes in a bid to get used to carrying such heavy packs over long distances, compare notes on our preparations for the trip, discuss vaccinations and dehydrated meal options, and (without actually having a conversation about it) work out if we could survive sharing a small two man tent with each other for a week at the other end of the world. We jumped straight in. For our first hike we started at sea level in Newcastle and hiked up Northern Ireland’s two highest peaks, Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh. Our next route saw us take on Slieve Muck, Carn, Slieveloughshannagh, Slieve Meelbeg, Slieve Meelbeg, and Slieve Bearnagh.
After several hikes in the Mournes, all of which seemed to be on some of the wettest, windiest days during the first few months of the year, we reckoned we were physically ready for just about anything the Drakensberg could throw at us. And other than the difference in our age, and Ryan’s questionable taste in football teams, we also seemed like we were compatible enough to cope with each other too.
Back in December when I first booked my flights, the trip seemed a very long way off. I had planned to do so much preparation in the intervening months by way of taking more photographs with my new zoom lens, hiking more often and over longer distances in the Mournes, and perhaps even arranging the odd night or two camping. As it turned out, I probably took fewer photos during those months and visited the Mournes less often than I had in the previous couple of years. Time just seemed to speed up.
Before I knew it there was only a matter of days to go. My focus switched from gathering stuff for the trip to working out how to stuff it all into my rucksack. Much easier said than done! A few luxury items were deemed surplus to requirements and missed the cut. Everything else was rolled, folded or squashed to within an inch of its life until eventually each remaining item found just enough space for the journey.
Finally, the only things left to do were to choose my seat on the plane, print off my boarding pass, and catch a bus to Dublin airport to meet up with Ryan, where we would await the flight that would take us on the adventure of a lifetime.
On our first morning we were treated to a dramatic cloud inversion whcih came right up to the edge of the escarpment.
Standing on the edge of the escarpment, overlooking the Mnweni Pinnacles and the Mnweni Needles, after a day hiking.
Just after sunrise above the Madonna and her Worshippers.
Bright sunshine and blue sky accompanied us for the majority of our trip, so a mid-afternoon thunder and lightning storm proved a memorable highlight.
We were very fortunate that the distinctive peaks and ridges of the Drakensberg Mountains were illuminated at sunrise on each morning of our trek, if even for only a few moments.
Late evening light combined with the unique rock formations of the Drakensberg to help create an other-worldly feeling in this scene
The sky catches fire above the Drakensberg Mountains as the sun rises over the horizon
The drama of an evening thunderstorm unfolds before our eyes.
Our last morning was just as dramatic as each that had gone before with a stunning display of colour at sunrise.
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Paige Net Worth 2021
by Ultimate Topics October 8, 2020 November 2, 2020
written by Ultimate Topics October 8, 2020 November 2, 2020 49 views
Saraya Jade Bevis, Aka Paige, was one of the greatest WWE Superstars. She was Born on 17th August 1992 in Norwich, England. She was fond of wrestling from an early age and made her debut at the ripe age of 13.
She started her career from the World Association of Wrestling in 2005 with the name of ‘Britani knight,’ completed supported by her family. Her parents and older brothers are also wrestlers. She was scared of fighting and the concept of it but eventually ended up in there.
There’s a lot more you may want to know about her, from her Personal life to her professional careers, and you will get everything in here. Just keep reading!
Saraya was Born in 1992, which makes her 28 years old. Julia Bevis and Ian Bevis are her parents. And has two older brothers. Her family is full of wrestlers from her parents to her brothers.
In her childhood, she was scared of wrestling due to her family’s injuries and couldn’t understand the concept of fighting for survival. Her family runs a fighting association known as the World Association of Wrestling. She competed in it at the age of 13 to promote her family’s work.
She intended to become a zoologist but, at the age of 13, made her debut as a wrestler. She worked as a bouncer at her parents’ pub in 2007. She went to The Hewett School in Norwich and graduated in 2008.
Physical Statistics
Hair Color: Brown ( Brunette )
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Paige is currently single but has dated:
Bradley Walden in 2014
Kevin Skaff in 2016
Alberto Del Rio in 2017
Ronnie Radke in 2018
Her professional Careers are as under:
European independent circuit (2005–2011)
She played and won a lot of titles with her partner. She took on a lot on a lot of fights and defeated many. She started her career in 2005 and fought in the independent circuit until 2011.
Shimmer Women Athletes (2011)
She competed in Shimmer Women Athletes but consecutively lost and, after a significant fight, left it.
Florida Championship Wrestling (2011–2012)
Saraya tried his luck in 2010 but got rejected by she didn’t lose hope and got signed by WWE in 2011. She made her debut in 2012 in there are since then remained in WWE for a long time.
NXT Women’s Champion (2012–2014)
She then joined NXT in 2012 and had a victorious streak over many huge names. She got assaulted in 2013 by summer are before a match but still defeated her in a one-on-one game.
Paige remained the NXT Women’s champion for 274 days but then suddenly had to leave her title.
Divas Champion (2014–2015)
She then made an exceptional appearance in Divas Championship and won the title of Diva Champion from AJ Lee and become the youngest and the first most youthful Diva to hold both the titles; Diva and NXT Champion.
Absolution and retirement (2017–2018)
She was doing well until 2018 when she suddenly had to leave wrestling due to major spinal injuries. She was made the General Manager of Smackdown after retirement.
Non-wrestling roles (2018–present)
She has been working in many movies along with her wrestling career. Now she works Backstage at WWE. And she is currently running an online store and a makeup collection.
She has worked in a lot of movies, some of which are listed below:
Santa’s Little Helper in 2015
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon in 2016
Surf’s Up 2: WaveMania in 2017
Total Divas from 2015 – 2018
What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage in 2019
WWE Backstage from 2019 – Present
Saraya started a couple of Businesses that she is also currently running.
The Dark Gypsy, a coffee shop co-launched with Blackcraft in 2015
Her online store, thesarayastore, in 2017
A makeup collection, co-partnered with Hot topic in 20119
Championships and Accomplishments
Saraya accomplished a lot of titles and championships at an early age. A detail of all the achievements is stated below:
German Stampede Wrestling
GSW Ladies Championship (1 time)
Herts & Essex Wrestling
HEW Women’s Championship (2 times)
Premier Wrestling Federation
PWF Ladies Tag Team Championship (1 time)
Pro-Wrestling: EVE
Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship (1 time)
Real Deal Wrestling
RDW Women’s Championship (1 time)
Real Quality Wrestling
RQW Women’s Championship (1 time)
Diva of the Year (2014)
Swiss Championship Wrestling
SCW Ladies Championship (1 time)
World Association of Women’s Wrestling
WAWW British Ladies Championship (1 time)
WAWW British Tag Team Championship (1 time)
WAWW Ladies Hardcore Championship (1 time)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Worst Feud of the Year (2015)
NXT Women’s Championship (1 time)
WWE Divas Championship (2 times)
NXT Women’s Championship Tournament (2013)
WWE Year-End Awards (1 time)
General Manager of the Year (2018)
Paige Net Worth
As discussed above, the net worth of Paige is $3 Million. She earns around 100,000$ annually from all her businesses. Let us discuss how she has achieved this net worth at such a young age.
Online Clothing Store
Paige started her Online clothing store in 2018 with her name, thesarayastore.com.
She has been running that store for a couple of years and is generating significant revenue for her every year and is her primary income source.
Makeup Collection
Saraya started a makeup collection in 2019, co-partnered with Hot Topic. It is also a big source of income for her and plays a vital role in making her net worth.
She started a coffee shop in 2017 but unfortunately couldn’t run it properly and earned just a small amount of revenue and closed it, and started getting into other business ventures.
Paige stared in a lot of films and Tv shows. She did her first tv show back in 2012 that was a documentary on her life. She then did Total Divas for three years from 2015 – 2018 And is currently a contributor at WWE backstage.
Paige Earns a Quarter of a Million Dollars from WWE Annually. She worked as a wrestler before but then was offered the seat of General Manager after retirement. But currently, she is working backstage at WWE.
Facts about Saraya Paige
Paige is currently working as a Backstage Reporter at WWE. Her fans know a lot about her, but there are some facts that only a few people might know. All of them are discussed below:
She started her career as a wrestler at the age of 13 as a last-minute decision.
Her first recorded match was in 2006; A tag team matches her mother at their wrestling association.
At 16, she traveled around the world and dropped her resumes as a wrestler.
She defeated AJ Lee on her first Roaster night to be the Diva’s Champion.
She changed her ring name to Paige from Saraya when she was first launched in 2012.
She started a Coffee company by the name “The Dark Gypsy” in 2015.
She launched an online clothing brand in 2017, with her real name, thesarayastore(dot)com.
She retired from in-ring competition in April 2018 due to injury.
She was made the New General Manager of Smack-down Live after retirement.
She started a Makeup Collection in 2019, partnered with Hot Topic
Paige’s net worth is $3 Million and has won more than 15 titles, which shows that if your work hard, you can achieve anything you want at a young age. She has been earning all this through her wrestling career and movies that she has been doing. Paige has a big fan following at such a young age and is expected to rise in the upcoming years.
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A Circle Formed
September 9, 2020 Cycle Touringbelfast, belleek, carlingford, cycle touring, cycling, ferry, ireland, lough, monahan, northern ireland, rain, republic, scotland, strangford, UKTim Snaith
Until yesterday (Tuesday), I’d ridden most of the way around three of the UK’s constituent parts, but not all the way around anything. But as I rolled off a segregated bike path into the centre of Belfast, I realised that I was about to meet the Big Fish again, and complete the circuit in Northern Ireland (‘NI’).
I’d spent the previous days in border country. On both sides of the border, in fact, as it’s pretty much impossible to avoid crossing over a few times. At the moment, it makes little difference; it’s all largely rural, there are vehicles from the UK mainland, NI and the Republic on the roads, and the rain showers pursued me regardless of which country I was in.
If you ever need the info for a quiz question, the westernmost settlement in the UK is called Belleek, and is a pretty little town between the western end of Lough Erne and the Atlantic. If you have a swift half in the last pub in the UK, and then turn the corner, you’re faced with the border (pic above).
As you can probably see, there really isn’t one. A British cycle route sign points you straight across the international border into Ireland. And 150 metres later, you hit a junction with the main road, and are back in the UK again. Who knows how all this would work if the Brexit negotiations go wrong?
I cut across a somewhat larger chunk of Ireland later that day. County Monaghan pushes the border way to the north, which would have made an awfully long diversion. So I cut across it. Despite some incredibly black clouds floating about close to where I was, I managed to navigate this excursion into ‘abroad’ without too many issues, and popped back into Northern Ireland on the ferry across Carlingford Lough on Monday morning.
Sadly, although I wasn’t getting all that wet, the proximity of rain was definitely affecting the views as I rumbled up the eastern coast of NI. The Mourne Mountains were mostly hidden under clouds, and, although they look quite atmospheric in the gloom (above), it would have been nice to see their full magnificence.
The flip-side of the south-westerly wind that was pushing all the rain my way was a decent tailwind, so I made good progress back towards Belfast. Even the extra wait to cross Strangford Lough (due to the school ferry taking priority for some reason) didn’t hold me up too much.
And so, yesterday morning (Tuesday), I finally located the awfully-signposted Greenway into central Belfast. This is a lovely piece of infrastructure, with a wide ribbon of nearly-new tarmac whisking you through the suburbs before suddenly dropping you off in central Belfast. It needs much better signs, as it took me nearly half an hour in the small town of Comber to find the far end of it, but once again, it’s good to see decent cycling facilities being put into various UK towns and cities.
Once I’d met the Big Fish again, thereby completing the circle of NI, it was just a case of retracing my earlier wheel tracks to the ferry port, and on to the Tuesday afternoon sailing back to Scotland, pursued this time not by rain, but by seagulls and competing ferries.
Although I’d have preferred some sort of open-jaw excursion to Ireland, without arriving back exactly where I started, it does at least mean that I get a few more days in Scotland before heading further south, back to England and then Wales.
But with new Covid spikes all over the place at the moment, it’s feeling less likely that I’ll make it back unmolested by local lockdowns or other restrictions. We’ll have to wait and see…
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Adam Ef says:
We’re all still following your progress at Bool’s. Steve is keeping us reminded of you daily, eating your favourite chilli chicken skewers for his lunch! 🙂 It’s almost like you’re still here with us… for half an hour and then the “parfum” fades.
Looking forward to your return. Thinking of possibly getting out to meet you somewhere when you’re near being back.
Tim Snaith says:
Cheers, Adam. Looking forward to those skewers! See you all at Bool’s in a few weeks, hopefully.
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Bruce Willis reportedly asked to leave Rite Aid for not wearing a mask, acknowledges 'error in judgment'
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It sounds like Bruce Willis' commitment to wearing a face mask during a global pandemic isn't exactly unbreakable.
The Die Hard star is acknowledging he made a mistake after Page Six reported he was asked to leave a Rite Aid this week for not wearing a mask.
"It was an error in judgment," Willis said in a statement to People.
The original Page Six report said Willis allegedly "refused to wear a mask" at the Rite Aid in Los Angeles, even as the city has been experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, and he was reportedly asked to leave as "people inside the store became upset." The report also included a photo of the actor at the store with a bandanna around his neck but nothing covering his face.
Willis in his statement to People encouraged others not to do as he did, saying, "Be safe out there everyone and let's continue to mask up." He can only hope Tom Cruise doesn't find out about this lapse. Brendan Morrow
As Talorico explained in a subsequent article, "Delaware is a tiny state." She described how back in 2002, when she was struggling with an assignment from her editor, Beau Biden approached her to ask if she was okay while she sat alone on a bench at an elementary school in Wilmington. "He wasn't in office at the time," she wrote. "He was just being kind. It wasn't a grand gesture, just a small one, but somehow, it made a difference that day. I never forgot that act of kindness."
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Taylor Swift and Guys Writing About Music: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
James Greer
TAYLOR SWIFT, a 22-year-old young woman from Reading, Pennsylvania, released a new album last month. It’s called Red. According to Billboard, it sold 1.21 million copies in its first week of release, which is an extremely impressive number of records (or CDs, or downloads, or even cassettes) to sell, but particularly so in an era when, as any musician will tell you, and any number of non-musicians will then scold any musician for telling you, it is very, very difficult to get anyone to buy music.
I’m not going to argue the merits of Swift’s album, having been given a dishonorable discharge from the noble profession of record-reviewing for laziness and incompetence. Except to say that I think it’s a very fine record, and you’re free to disagree, and I don’t care. What I do want to talk about is the flurry of concern raised in certain quarters by Ms. Swift’s ascendancy, which in any case is not exactly news, as her previous album, Speak Now, also opened to first-week sales of over a million, and the one before that, Fearless, sold close to a googolplex over the course of its run.
Writing last week in Salon, Mark Guarino posed the epically dumb question “Is Taylor Swift being taken too seriously?” and proceeded, unfortunately, to answer it. (Turns out he was using a rhetorical device known as aporia.) He argued that the largely positive critical reaction to Red results from diminished expectations on the part of reviewers, whose critical senses have been dulled by the slurry of calorie-free sonic confectionery served up by the music biz for the past ten years (which sad condition is all George W. Bush’s fault, somehow). Here’s the weird thing: all the examples Guarino cites to underline his point are women. “The last decade produced enough pop trash to fill a landfill,” he writes, apparently without the benefit of an editor averse to clichéd constructions (speaking as someone who’s never met a cliché he didn’t want to marry and have, like, a million babies with): “Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Ashley [sic] Simpson, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, Kelly Osbourne, Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff and even back benchers t.A.T.u, M2M, Hoku, Skye Sweetnam, Brooke Allison, Willa Ford and many others.” Italics mine. First of all, Hoku’s record was freaking great (go listen to this. Do it. I’ll wait. I know, right?), and second of all, Britney and Xtina were so 90s, dude, and third of all, WTF?
You couldn’t think of a single example of boy-based pop trash to bolster your argument? How about this, just off the top of my not-well-versed-in-this-stuff head: For every Britney, there was a Justin, for every Avril, a Sum 41, for every Ashley [sic], a That Guy From That One Awful Band, and while I’m not here to debate the relative merits of boy vs. girl pop, I’m more likely to plump for the distaff version of what Guarino wants to throw in the dumpster in each of the false equivalences I just set up. But that’s both me and irrelevant. Miss/dissing an entire sex while dismissing an entire genre is more frankly and inexplicably skewed than the straight white rockism of Joe Carducci, for example.
The takeaway here as summarized by Guarino is that the critical praise for Swift “reflects how tight our comfort zone has shrunk — just like our wallets — these last few years. Instead of singers who might leave our scars exposed, we cling to the ones who are CoverGirl-ready and know how to touch them up.” Though he neglects to cite examples of scarifying pop stars, one presumes he did not have in mind Justin Bieber. Or Bon Iver, for that matter.
In his eagerness to tie Swift’s popularity, somehow, to post-recessionary restraint, Guarino posits a world where authenticity is not a construct. This world does not exist. Kurt Cobain, to pick an example completely at random, manipulated and contrived his own image just like Taylor Swift does, just like every single artist in the history of music has always done. The difference is only ever one of degree (and skill). It has always been this way. Socio-cultural trends, while not irrelevant, are rarely prescriptive with respect to any given artist or style of music’s relative popularity at any given moment. Music is not better or worse right now than it has ever been. There’s as much great stuff right now, everywhere, as ever. It was not better in the 60s, it was not better in the 90s, it was not better anywhere else or at any other time. It’s just different. And not even that different.
Salon itself seems to have recognized that Guarino’s piece required a response, which Lizzy Goodman provided with “In Defense of Taylor Swift” two days later. She starts off by admitting that “though Guarino’s opinion is manifestly unpopular (the piece inspired a round of vitriol on Twitter, spearheaded by New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones), I suspect it’s more widely held than the euphoric press on Swift would suggest,” and then proceeds to unpack the ways in which she believes Guarino to be wrong about Swift’s merits as a songwriter and performer. She adds in passing that “Frere-Jones found an inherent sexism in Guarino’s argument,” but declines to engage with that charge, asserting only that “I think Swift would be neither as ridiculed nor as successful if she were a dude.”
Goodman makes a number of incisive points about the nature of Swift’s musical gifts, but I don’t think that throway line is one of them. While it’s true that many of the artists currently shifting major units in what remains of the music industry are female, not all of them are – for example, UK folk-poppies Mumford and Sons sold 600,000 copies of their new album Babel in its first week, best week of the year for a debut until Red arrived, followed by Justin Bieber’s Believe in third. I’m not sure that either the Mumfords or the Bieber would have sold more records if they were women, and I think I can make a pretty good argument that Bieber faces his share of critical scorn, even ridicule; more than a few reviewers dislike Mumford and Sons, too.
The larger issue is that from an aesthetic standpoint, Taylor Swift needs no defense, from me or Lizzy Goodman or Sasha Frere-Jones or anyone else. She’s hugely talented and hard-working and seems to be handling the fruits of her labors with uncommon grace. Bully for her. But Frere-Jones was certainly not the only one who noticed the blithely sexist slant of Guarino’s Swift-boating. Though it was likely unintentional, it was nevertheless real, and at least to me the more problematic aspect of his piece. As quondam Village Voice music editor Maura Johnston, who is so much better qualified than I am to deal with this subject matter that I’m wincing at my glossy MacBook Pro screen as I type, asks Gaurino in a concise takedown on Tumblr:
1. Why are you only holding up female pop stars as the examples of “trash”?
2. What does “trash” mean here? It’s unclear. Do you mean that the songs are enjoyable for their own sake and didn’t have Deep Meaning behind them? What songs that were popular during this period weren’t trash? Were any of them performed by women?
Fighting aporia with aporia. One of my favorite rhetorical gambits. I wonder if it will stop male music writers, who really ought to know better by now, from making silly sexist mistakes ever again?
About James Greer
James Greer is the author of the novels Artificial Light(LHotB/Akashic 2006) and The Failure (Akashic 2010), and the non-fiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History, a biography of a band for which he played bass guitar. He’s written or co-written movies for Lindsay Lohan, Jackie Chan, and Steven Soderbergh, among others. He is a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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6 Responses to Taylor Swift and Guys Writing About Music: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
The Ever-Popular Tortured Mr. Joseph Effect says:
1.21 what? Thousand? Million? Puppies?
James Greer says:
Oops. Puppies, obviously. (Thanks for pointing it out, I’ll fix it.)
kaniya says:
Interesting. Sincerely, I mean that. It doesn’t change the fact that I think Swift is vapid and as three dimensional as a cardboard cut out of a Revlon ad and that her music, while perhaps technically proficient (or whatever), is boring and inane. But I definitely think accusing her of being the product of another Bush conspiracy (or whatever) is stupid and that, as you point out, there have always been great or not-so-great artists throughout all of time, amen. (and, really, it’s all subjective.)
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Sutherland Springs, Texas: Saratoga on the Cibolo
McCaslin, Richard B.
Hardcover Price: $24.95
Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781574416732
Physical Description: 6x9. 320 pp. 50 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.
Series: Texas Local | Volume: 2
In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate developers, initially more interested in oil, brought Sutherland Springs to its peak as a resort in the early twentieth century, but failed to transform the farming settlement into a resort town. The decline in water tables during the late twentieth century reduced the mineral water flows, and the town faded. Sutherland Springs’s history thus provides great insights into the importance of water in shaping settlement.
Beyond the story of resort spa aspirations lies a history of the community and its people itself. McCaslin provides a complete history of Sutherland Springs from early settlement through Civil War and into the twentieth century, its agricultural and oil-drilling exploits alongside its mineral water appeal, as well as a complete community history of the various settlers and owners of the springs/hotel.
RICHARD B. McCASLIN, TSHA Endowed Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas, is the author of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862; Lee in the Shadow of Washington; and Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford in Texas.
History - Texas
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Richard Douglas’s Farm Becomes Prey to Flames
by Bernie Monaghan | Last updated May 4, 2019 | Family Collections, Stories | 0 comments
During the summer of 1914, there was a long, hot, dry spell of weather. In early July, the streams, wells and springs were low and some were almost dry. The earth was like a tinderbox. At this particular time in early July, the farmers had begun harvesting their hay. One evening , Lawrence Corrigan had just emerged from his barn after unloading some hay, when he noticed smoke billowing from the barn of his immediate neighbor, Richard Douglas. (These people lived in the upper end of the Fifth Concession).
The alarm was soon spread and the neighbors rushed to the spot where the barn was engulfed in flames. The barn was situated on the east side of the main road, close to the Corrigan line and the house on the opposite side. Fortunately the wind was blowing from the west and all the efforts of the volunteers were concentrated on saving the house. While water was scarce, there were still some pools in a small stream close by and water was carried in buckets and pails and dashed against the house, which by their efforts they succeeded in saving. Michael Corrigan, who was seven at the time, well remembers Benny Cartwright, a youngster at the time, doing his share along with the men.
Cinders were borne by the wind for a considerable distance and started a fire on the roof of Pat Corrigan’s barn. This fire was immediately extinguished with a pail of milk. As stated earlier, water was scarce.
Mr. Douglas was able to store the hay he harvested that summer in an out-barn belonging to Lawrence Corrigan. He had to drive through a field of potatoes in order to reach it, but Mr. Corrigan was glad to accommodate despite this inconvenience.
In those days, few, if any residents of the community carried fire insurance on their buildings and Mr. Douglas was no exception. So the first steps towards reconstruction were undertaken by Lawrence Corrigan and Ned Cullen, who took up a collection from the rural people who contributed as generously as they could. It being summer time and difficult to acquire wood from the forest for the new barn, there is no one living at this writing to tell us where the lumber was cut or who donated it. At any rate it had to be hauled on wagons to a mill at Val Belair, as Fred Lepire’s mill in the Settlement had burned down that summer, and the Hayes Mill in Riviere-aux-Pins was inoperable due to lack of water.
When harvesting was done, the neighbors all pitched in to build a new barn. The effort led by Mr. Charles Kack, a relative of Mrs. Douglas (whose maiden name was Sarah Kack). The new barn was ready to shelter the cattle before winter set in.
A possible answer to the origin of the fire was put forth. Mr. Douglas had been in Quebec the day before and a friend of his, Mr. Willie Oliver, came to Valcartier with him that day. (The Oliver’s used to spend their summer vacation at Mrs. Brennan’s nearby.) They may have been smoking along the way and possibly dropped a live match on the floor of the vehicle. (Safety matches were unknown at the time.) The express was housed on the threshing floor of the barn and the children were playing in it that evening, A sulphur match, as was common at that time, if struck, would ignite with a burst of flame that could easily cause a small child to panic and thus cause a conflagration.
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Sydney’s First Major Cancer Research & Treatment Centre to Open Today
Posted on August 28, 2012 by svmhsweb Posted in News
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will today open The Kinghorn Cancer Centre on the St Vincent’s Campus. The Centre is a joint venture between Garvan Institute of Medical Research and St Vincent’s Hospital and will bring together cutting-edge research at the Garvan and the clinical expertise at St Vincent’s.
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre will see cancer specialists and researchers work together to find personalised solutions to each person’s cancer, by fundamentally understanding each individual’s needs at the molecular level. Research knowledge – principally based on individual ‘biomarkers’ – will enable doctors to sub-stratify patients in a more effective way, with the potential to identify targeted therapeutics to match their individual genetic profile to better determine how each individual’s cancer will progress and specify which treatments will work most effectively.
“The Centre’s approach to personalised medicine places the patient at the centre of all decisions, maximising the rapid translation of research findings to new approaches to cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention. This will spare individuals from side-effects of treatment from which they won’t actually benefit, and more expeditiously get them the therapies that will be specifically effective for them and in the process save the health system money,” said Professor Rob Sutherland, Director of The Kinghorn Cancer Centre.
For one former St Vincent’s cancer patient, today’s opening will have particular significance; Delta Goodrem is in Sydney today to perform on this very special occasion. As Patron of The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, she has long been a champion of the importance of personalised medicine, “What is striking about the Centre is that everything about the building is designed around the patient, around the individuality of each patient, be it addressing their unique DNA or their individual psycho-social care needs,” said Delta.
Bringing together 250 researchers and clinicians from across the St Vincent’s campus onto a single site, the Centre will allow clinical challenges to directly drive laboratory research and enable research findings to be rapidly translated into clinical application for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.
The $128 million Kinghorn Cancer Centre has been funded through a $70 million Federal Government grant from the Health and Hospital Fund as well as major philanthropic support. The Centre incorporates several sophisticated technological and design-firsts that will transform both care delivery as well as the research undertaken. A central feature is the gigantic atrium that links all the floors so that the patients and clinicians have a physical connection with the researchers in the upper floors and visa versa.
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre research endeavours will focus on breakthroughs into novel diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment options for several key National Health Priority cancers including: breast, prostate, GI (pancreas and colorectal cancers) and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The Centre will not necessarily be aimed at high throughput treatments but rather will build on its unique strengths to deliver targeted, cost effective, personalised therapies suitable for integration into larger nationwide cancer treatment services.
In terms of its clinical endeavours, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre will focus on providing a holistic approach to cancer care throughout the entire patient journey, from diagnosis to full recovery (where cure is possible) and will incorporate world-class educational and training programs to develop researchers and clinicians to optimise translational outcomes. Key patient services including multidisciplinary clinics, outpatient chemotherapy services and the Wellness Centre – which will provide complementary therapies such as acupuncture as part of the cancer treatment.
“Cancer is going to strike 1 in 2 men, and 1 in 3 women, and the survival and quality of life for patients with cancer can be optimised. With the growth in our knowledge of the genetic information around cancer coupled with the increasing prevalence of cancer – The Kinghorn Cancer Centre will seamlessly link molecular information and treatment responses to better inform treatment decisions to make major inroads in cancer treatment for patients from local, regional and rural areas,” said Professor Allan Spigelman, Director of Cancer Services at St Vincent’s.
The Centre will provide treatment to patients from metropolitan Sydney as well as rural and regional patients. A major focal point will involve harnessing tele-health technology to provide remote outreach and diagnostic links with patients in rural or remote areas.
“We’ll be able to build on the already well-developed St Vincent’s outreach clinics operating across NSW, and enable health professionals in remote areas to take part in multidisciplinary team meetings, research discussions and clinical presentations. The ability to provide such access will go some way to addressing the inequalities in patient services between regional and metropolitan centres and reduce the need for duplication of some facilities in areas where the cost of developing substantial infrastructure and providing specialist cancer services may be prohibitive,” said Professor Spigelman.
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre will be a flagship development of the St Vincent’s Research Precinct, which also comprises the St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, the Kirby Institute and other leading research bodies. As the largest medical research precinct in NSW, it will house over 1000 researchers. The Centre will act as a hub for researchers, clinicians, and patients who are simultaneously engaging in journeys of discovery.
About Garvan: The Garvan Institute of Medical Research was founded in 1963. Initially a research department of St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, it is now one of Australia’s largest medical research institutions with over 600 scientists, students and support staff. Garvan’s main research programs are: Cancer, Diabetes & Obesity, Immunology and Inflammation, Osteoporosis and Bone Biology and Neuroscience. Garvan’s mission is to make significant contributions to medical science that will change the directions of science and medicine and have major impacts on human health. The outcome of Garvan’s discoveries is the development of better methods of diagnosis, treatment, and ultimately, prevention of disease.
About St Vincent’s: St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is Australia’s second oldest hospital and forms the centre of one of the country’s largest research and biotechnology precincts on which several prominent research institutes are located. A major public teaching hospital, St Vincent’s has a long-standing reputation for both its research focus and treating high acuity and complex patients, attracting referrals on a state-wide and national basis.
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TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Kirk Pederson, Kokua Hospitality; Brent LeBlanc, Peachtree Hotel Group; Bill Linehan, RLH Corporation; and Mike Cahill, HREC BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Scott Andrews, Wells Fargo; Imesh Vaidya, Premier Hospitality; Andrew Hibbard, Vision Hospitality Group; Mike Hines, HP Hotels; Aik Hong Tan, Greenwood Hospitality Group; Roger Bloss, RLH Corporation
Should I break up with my property?
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Calling it quits can often be a good solution
SALT LAKE CITY—We’re all familiar with the song “Breakin’ Up is Hard To Do,” but sometimes, though difficult, it is necessary. Yes, there are times when it’s best to call it quits to avoid additional loss (whether it be emotional or financial). Knowing when and how to break up can help streamline the rather lengthy (and sometimes agonizing) process. As for how this all applies to real estate, the tale’s often similar.
Held at Hotel RL by Red Lion Salt Lake City, a 394-room property situated in downtown Salt Lake City—right down the road from the city’s Trolley Square—the Hotel Business Executive Roundtable welcomed industry leaders from across the country to discuss the following topics: red flags to consider before continuing to move forward with a property or brand, headwinds impacting both legacy and new brands, and situations where saving a property would be in the parties’ best interest. Real estate risk management firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. R.E sponsored the roundtable, which consisted of 10 panelists in total.
To kick off the morning’s two-hour discussion, moderator Stefani C. O’Connor, managing editor of roundtables at Hotel Business, posed the opening question to all: “If you have a brand that you want to move on from or you have a property that may or may not be doing so well, what are some of the flags that make you start to shift your thinking about your hotel or your property or what you’re operating?”
Kirk Pederson, Kokua Hospitality (left), listens to HREC’s Mike Cahill.
Fifteen-year lodging veteran Kirk Pederson, president of Kokua Hospitality, a San Francisco-based hospitality management company, answered O’Connor’s inquiry bluntly: “If you’re paying attention, the guest is definitely the lead indicator. If you’re paying attention, the guest is telling you. They’re not stupid. You can only hide it for so long, right? I think what we find a lot of times with an aging product [is]the consumer will stay with you for a while because they’re loyal, but you can only hide that for so long. Ultimately, they’re going to make that decision and go somewhere else.”
On the same page, 25-year hospitality industry veteran Bill Linehan, EVP and CMO at Denver-based RLH Corporation, pointed out how all the indicators are transparent; nothing’s hidden from view anymore. “When you look at reputation scores and semantic content, we all see it,” he said. “We no longer need the 50-question surveys for a consumer to tell us their intent to return.” RLH Corporation uses this strategic thinking in practice; there’s a single question on its feedback survey. “Based off of that, we’re getting a lot more feedback from consumers,” he said.
Bill Linehan, RLH Corporation, the host company of
When asked about what makes a guest frown (the survey asks the guest to choose between a smiley face and a sad face), Linehan redirected the conversation—and not in a way to sidestep the question. “Surprisingly, I think it sounds like we’re talking about product, but really it’s about service,” he said. “It’s first and foremost when you fail to meet their service expectations, and then it goes into some of the basics of hotels, and it’s really about cleanliness. Then, finally, it’s facilities.”
If the decision has been made to keep the property, changes more often than not follow, but as far as what needs fixing first, priorities aren’t the same for everybody. “It depends on who you’re asking,” said 25-year industry veteran Mike Hines, chairman and founder of HP Hotels, a Birmingham, AL-based hospitality management company. For instance, if a management company goes to an ownership company for capital, the former learns quickly what’s important to the latter. The outcome is evident when money is being followed.
Brand proliferation has hit the hospitality industry hard; it seems there’s a new brand at every turn. While some executives believe this shows a maturing industry (more options will become available as a result), others feel it’s confusing the industry as well as guests. Andrew Hibbard, VP of finance and investments at Vision Hospitality Group, a Chattanooga, TN-based hotel management and development company, addressed his concerns to his fellow panelists: “How many brands can you put out there for guests to choose from? You can name a handful of brands to just any Tom, Dick or Harry on the street, and are they going to be able to identify those brands? Are they going to know those brands? That’s one thing that gives me some pause.” The segmentation of soft brands also adds complexities.
“How much marketing effort can you put behind any given brand to raise it above the noise? It’s a tough proposition,” he said. “I think that’s one of the things facing us in the industry right now we need to be mindful of.”
What some in the industry tend to forget: Consumers hold the power. They’re the ones who decide whether a brand lives or dies. “We try to look at it from the consumer’s perspective and try to come up with all the different segmentations but, ultimately, whether a brand succeeds or not is whether it resonates with the consumer,” said Greenwood Hospitality Group Principal Aik Hong Tan, who currently engages in the financial and investment disciplines, and growth strategies of the Greenwood Village, CO-based acquisition and management company. “What does the consumer say about that particular brand or whatever the product may be? It’s not what the franchisor or the developer or owner thinks, it’s really from the consumer perspective.” When it comes to developing new brands, all angles and considerations should always be viewed from the consumer’s eyes.
“When you talk about the shiny ball syndrome, who’s chasing the ball?” Hibbard pointed out to the panel. “Is it us, or is it the guest?”
From an investor’s point of view, Michael Cahill, founder and CEO at HREC, a Denver-based investment banking and consulting services, believes “the world is changing in terms of the power of the brand, and what they’re able to do.” For him, technology is changing so fast the brands can’t keep up. Younger generations, millennials specifically, have been approaching travel differently. They no longer look to necessarily be associated with a brand.
“It comes back to when I started doing business in the early ’80s,” he said. “The reason you had brands is you didn’t have access to information, and the brands would provide security in terms of you having confidence in knowing what you’re going to get. I just think the world’s changing.”
Most importantly, these new brands need financing. Where are they to go for funding in this part of the cycle? “I think it’s an interesting time to launch all these new brands because it’s clearly toward the end of the cycle versus the beginning of the cycle,” said commercial real estate lending veteran Scott Andrews, who’s been in his role as managing director of hotel franchise finance at Wells Fargo for three months, in response to the conversation at hand. “A lot of lenders aren’t even offering construction financing. All of these new brands are coming out, but at the end of the day, you have to get them financed. You have to get them built to even prove the concepts.”
As far as financing, he’d prefer funding a property with an established brand. It’s about being able to prove out how a brand’s done in the past. “It’s not to say we won’t try one of the new ones, but it’s going to be a much lower leverage point than we would for a mature brand, a proven brand,” he said.
With regard to a property saving a brand, letting a brand go or moving on to another segment, branding helps itself. “I think a lot of people look for that in any teasers that go out,” Cahill said. Brokers will then ask about the license agreement, renewal probability and the PIP, which he joked about how horrible they can be, admitting his company’s been blindsided by them. “The PIPs are becoming significant in almost every sale,” he pointed out.
For many, the PIPs have become burdensome. “That’s one of the reasons why we’re taking a different approach to it,” Linehan said in response to Cahill’s remarks, noting hospitality groups have become standard happy. According to Linehan, there are two things to ask when it comes to creating a standard: First, does the standard change the evaluation of the hotel? Second, does the particular standard change the guest perception?
“The other issue with the PIP—if you’ve got a list of developers waiting to develop that same preferred brand in that market at a much higher cost, then the existing hotel will have a much higher PIP,” added Imesh Vaidya, CEO of Premier Hospitality, a New Mexico-based hospitality company.
RLH Corporation’s Roger Bloss addresses the panelists.
Brands haven’t necessarily been lowering their standards, but they’ve been rethinking them. “For instance, we’re going to be introducing a brand, Country Hearth, that the only standard requirement is ‘x’ score on TripAdvisor, so it doesn’t call for ceilings or carpet or whatever,” said 40-year hospitality veteran Roger Bloss, who joined RLH Corporation as president of global development last year when the company acquired Vantage Hospitality Group. “It’s solely based on what the guest says.”
To bring someone with an investor’s perspective into the conversation, Hines asked Andrews if brand standards matter to investors. “Why would you prefer a core, mature brand?” Hines asked. “Is it because they have those standards in place and have developed a reputation?”
In response, Andrews acknowledged the importance of performance; investors can calculate the average RevPAR, penetration index, etc. “We can underwrite to that,” he said. “The soft brands it’s harder to underwrite to, but a lot of them are doing very well. I think lenders are also learning that, too, as more and more of these soft brands come out. They do very well in the CBDs.” The probability of success is greater in high-density markets.
There are times when a property’s kept because of location, despite the location’s red tape. “The local governments have been extremely difficult to work with,” said Vaidya, speaking on a particular property. “Their requirements on the look, the color, the parking spaces—I have to have a bicycle storage built at this hotel. They can dictate, so between the brand standards, the local standards, it adds costs, [and]it adds time, but these are markets that are basically high-cost barrier markets or space-limitation markets, so we will have to put up with it.” Others have had similar issues.
“We tried to get into a market, and if this table said Home2 or Homewood Suites, what would be the first things to come to mind, everybody?” Hines said. “Good brands, good clientele… The city government looked at [the brands]and said that’s extended-stay; they bring in a wrong type of clientele. It could be any extended-stay product, and all of a sudden these municipalities think that it’s a bad thing.”
Municipalities can pick and choose, however, because, currently, times are good. “They all want full-service,” said Pederson. “They’re not in the business; they don’t see what it costs and what their returns are in the market and everything else, so they’re going to block every one of those select-service or extended-stay products you’re trying to bring into the market.” When times are tough, municipalities will change their minds.
Another issue with municipalities is they look at hotels as a low-paying jobs generator. “Another stereotype we face as an industry is that hotels bring low-paying jobs,” said Vaidya. “It’s a stereotype that we’re always fighting.” Finding these jobs aren’t easy, thereby putting pressures on properties.
“It’s not a sexy business anymore,” Hines said. “I started out waiting tables, so now I own a hotel company. That mentality’s not out there. We’ve got kids coming out of school that have a degree, and they want to make as much as somebody who’s been in the industry for 30 years, and they only want to work five days a week, and we’re a [24/7] business. It’s getting more and more difficult to convince certain people to get in.”
Vaidya responded, “Unfortunately, we’re introducing new brands targeted to these people who are not loyal at all,” which was met with laughter from the panelists. “We can’t get them to work for more than a year and a half, and we expect them to return to the same brand over and over.”
Brent LeBlanc, Peachtree Hotel Group, joined the discussion about when to call it quits.
Newer brands, though, can also push the limits of legacy brands, indirectly assisting with the latter’s overall growth. “Maybe all the new brands are forcing the older brands to reinvent themselves, and the branding will be better in the long run,” said Brent LeBlanc, SVP, Peachtree Hotel Group, an Atlanta-based hospitality group. For instance, when LeBlanc and Linehan were at Starwood, the two executives were tasked with putting Alofts near Marriott Courtyards and Residence Inns.
“I think it forced Marriott to go back and rethink what Courtyard was because you had the new, shiny Aloft coming right behind it,” LeBlanc pointed out to the panel. “I hope that the Marriotts of the world, now that they have the Alofts, don’t take their eye off the ball of the Courtyards of the world because they’ve got mass scale. They’ve got an institutional buyer at the end or an exit from the property.”
Legacy brands also run into consistency issues. The more properties out there, the more likely there’s a discrepancy—unlike with newer brands. “I think, as a result, [hospitality groups]think about this, and then they say, ‘Let’s launch the next new one,’ a subsegment of that segment,” Tan said. Brands, especially newer brands, spend so much money on marketing to consumers, even though guests aren’t searching for brands when booking.
“Have we asked ourselves, ‘How are consumers finding hotels?’” Tan said. “If they’re not loyal to a particular brand, they’re not going to brand.com. They’re going to TripAdvisor; they’re going to Google. They have the marketing power. They’re capturing them, and here we are spending all this money on the brand, while they’re coming to us through those channels.”
As always, with any industry discussion, home-sharing rentals made an appearance. “One of our biggest segment competitors is Airbnb because there’s a different experience every time you go somewhere,” Hines said. Not every Airbnb experience will be positive, but Airbnb will at least provide uniqueness. “It’s kind of like the same thing with all these brands, some of them are okay, and some of them will be off the charts,” he explained.
Will these consumers shift to newer brands as they age and become seasoned business travelers? “Is there a new brand that’s going to step up and take the place of the Courtyard, where we all grew up traveling and staying at properties like that, or is it going to be something different?” Andrews said. That’s something hospitality groups will need to eventually figure out.
Another possibility when determining what to do with a property is flag jumping. “It used to be, back in the olden days, you had a full-service hotel box, whatever it was, and then after it reaches a 20-year license agreement, then it moved down in class to the next one, and then it finally moved down to the bottom—until finally it was an independent and condemned going into it,” said Hines, who air charted the chain. “Now, you do the same thing, but you just stay within the same franchise company without jumping out of it.”
In response, Linehan, said, “Well, it’s interesting. We’ve seen several instances and have even compiled case studies where a hotel that was formerly part of a larger system and one of multiple properties in the same market tract as others with the same brand was required to complete a PIP without any opportunity for rate lift because of preconceptions in the marketplace. Alternatively, we offered the opportunity to change their brand and remove the rate ceiling that previously limited their RevPAR. We’ve seen a number of those instances, so where there is brand saturation or inventory saturation off the system and there’s PIP pressure, that indicates an opportunity to look at other brands and options, providing there is a window within their terms as well.”
The host and sponsor of the roundtable, left to right: Roger Bloss, Bill Linehan and Jon Ketover, RLH Corporation; and Jackie Collins and Bob Donoghue, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
More often than not, there’s an exit strategy from the beginning; it’s not an afterthought. “Most of the time, every deal you go into you have an investment objective in mind,” Tan said. There may not be a day-to-day timeline for the asset per se, but there’s typically an overall goal (e.g., holding on to an asset for a set amount of years, or maybe even a year range).
“Exit is pretty critical because when you have a hotel investment, it’s not only an exit for the current owner but it’s the exit for the buyer,” Cahill said.
He continued: “One of the most difficult properties to sell is something that’s 15 years into its initial 20-year license, looking to do a PIP to get a 10-year extension because that buyer’s then thinking, ‘What’s my exit?’ What happens is then they’re always worried about who’s the guy that’s going to take that value hit when that hotel finally goes down the branding scale and takes that hit on value, and that’s what everyone wants to avoid.”
Sophisticated exit strategies are making their way down to family-owned companies, which is why they, in particular, need more brands. “We’re going to let some of the older assets go, and now we have to put that income somewhere, so now we need another brand,” Vaidya pointed out. When it comes to disposing of properties, the PIP can ultimately be a deciding factor.
“Most of the times the PIP is extensive enough to where it’s cheaper to build a new-build, a new flag, the latest prototype rather than to put lipstick on an old pig,” he said.
As far as which major factor comes into play when deciding whether to save a property—even if that particular property’s surrounded by competition and is situated in a declining market—the overwhelming majority of the panelists agreed with Bloss’ response: “It’s always location.” HB
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Scientology, already convicted in France of organised fraud, is in trouble with the courts here again.
The Paris Court of Appeal is resurrecting a case dating back to 1998 in which a private school allegedly sneaked Scientology material onto its curriculum.
Lawyer Olivier Morice, a longstanding opponent of the movement in the French courts who is acting for some of the plaintiffs in this case, broke the news on Monday.
The Paris court will place three Scientologists and three organisations linked to Scientology under formal investigation over the affair, Morice said. The alleged offences range from fraud, deceptive commercial practices and the abuse of public funds.
With the case having dragged on for more than a decade already under at least eight different investigating magistrates, it was beginning to look as if it might never come to trial — nor does this latest development guarantee that it will.
But the Paris appeal court decided to take over the case because it was not satisfied with the way the local courts had handled it, Morice added.
Among the allegations are that unqualified teachers taught Scientology precepts to around 50 pupils at the school.
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Parents raised the alarm after learning that students were being made to do cleaning duties at the school and that one teacher was using “touch assists,” a kind of laying-on-of-hands practised by Scientologists to help overcome pain.
Back in 2011, the prosecutor’s office in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, near Paris, filed charges against four people, including at least two Scientologists.
But it chose not to prosecute any of the Scientology organisations implicated, arguing in its indictment that so much time had already passed that this was no longer feasible.
A year later, the courts dismissed a large part of the case.
Morice appealed, and after conducting its own investigation the Paris Appeal Court appears to feel there could, after all, be a case to answer — not just against individuals but against Scientology organisations.
This time around, the Paris appeal court has put three Scientology organisations under the spotlight, breathing new life into what had appeared to be a moribund case.
Responding to the news, lawyer for Scientology Louis Pamponnet pointed out that this latest development did not necessarily mean there would be a trial.
But one of the groups being investigated is the Paris Celebrity Centre, one of the two Scientology organisations convicted back in 2009 for organised fraud.
That conviction was confirmed by France’s top court only last year, although Scientology is trying to bring the case before the European Court of Human Rights, arguing it did not get a fair trial.
If the Centre is put on trial again and convicted, it could be shut down under French law — and Morice has argued that a second such conviction could even spell the end of Scientology in France.
The Institut Aubert, which was based in Vincennes, just outside Paris, has long since closed.
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Four Arrested after Yanomami Activist Beaten to Death by Venezuelan Police
Four policemen have been arrested for the murder of a 27 year-old Yanomami health activist on Saturday.
27-year old Maita Camico was beaten to death by police on Saturday afternoon. (La Tabla/ Facebook)
Santa Elena, May 4th, 2015. (venezuelanalysis.com)- 27 year-old Maita Camico, a Yanomami of Venezuela’s Amazonas state, was beaten to death on Saturday afternoon after being taken into police custody for “disturbing public order,” according to official reports. The Public Prosecutor's office has indicted four policemen for their part in the murder.
The accused officials were apprehended by criminal and forensic investigators (CICPC) after Camico’s lifeless body was delivered to a hospital in Puerto Ayacucho, the state capital. The police record showed Camico was arrested on a major avenue hours beforehand.
According to photos and updates from his Facebook profile, Camico was a health activist for Yanomami communities in the Venezuelan Amazon. The young man provided logistical information for medical personnel and paramedics working in the region.
Camico was also a student of the government program Yanomami Health Plan, which offers specialized instruction aimed at supplementing traditional and shamanic medicine in their communities.
Over 16,000 Yanomami were estimated to live in Venezuela’s Southeastern Amazon region in 2009. The communities vary from relative to total isolation, while a few interact frequently with nearby cities.
Camico’s body was submitted for autopsy by fellow Yanomami, who demanded to know the exact cause of death. The examination showed damage to vital organs resulting from a beating that began at the time of arrest and escalated at the police station. According to local media, this is the first autopsy ever to have been carried out on a member of the Yanomami nation.
Adriana Gonzalez, the mayor of Puerto Ayacucho, has made no formal statement to date. Gonzalez belongs to the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) coalition and held office during the neoliberal administrations preceding President Hugo Chavez.
A news site called La Tabla was the first to call national attention to the murder on May 3rd. An editor’s note details the difficulty their writers encountered in investigating the crime. Many residents and local reporters claimed Camico was hit by a car, while others attempted to defame Camico’s person by alluding to drug use and indecent dress.
Venezuela's Public Prosecutor emitted a press release this morning including the autopsy results and the names of the four accused.
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SANTA FE SPEEDWAY – HISTORY
By Stan Kalwasinski
Perhaps the most well-known short track in the Chicago area during its run, Santa Fe Speedway operated between 1953 and 1995.
Located just southwest of the corner of 91st Street and Wolf Road in the Willow Springs area, the speedway featured a quarter-mile and a “short” half-mile clay oval. Howard Tiedt built and operated the speedway on the property where his father, Frederick, had built the original Santa Fe Park, a picnic grove/race track complex, in 1896 in the area that became known as Tiedtville. The early track saw horses, bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles raced there until a tornado in the late 1920’s destroyed the grandstands, bringing a halt to the racing activity at the site located adjacent to the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, thus the name.
Carved from the hilly area by teams of horses drawing wheel scrapers, the original track was a quarter-mile in length and featured two grandstands. Early attendees came via the Santa Fe Railroad to view the racing. Other entertainment was offered in the form of a dance hall, beer garden, a bowling alley and other refreshments stands. Frederick Tiedt passed away in 1946 with his son, Howard, taking over the facility. Prior to the 1953 racing season, Tiedt established Santa Fe Park Enterprises, Inc. and as president of the group he began an overall construction program of the race track and grounds—the beginning of the modern-day Santa Fe Speedway.
With a few rainouts to dampen the scheduled opening day, the first race program at the new speedway was finally held in May with Kenny Boyer of Highland, Ind., winning the first stock car feature race on Sunday afternoon, May 31, 1953 ahead of Bill Van Allen of Chicago on the quarter-mile track.
With 87th Street Speedway’s Eddie Anderson helping with the promotion, a number of 87th Street regulars, including Van Allen and Hammond, Indiana’s Red Duvall, were visitors to Santa Fe’s clay tracks. Boyer was the track’s first stock car champion. A number of races were televised live by WGN TV with popular baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse handling the microphone.
Three 200-lap long distance events highlighted the inaugural season at Santa Fe with Bill Clemans, Bill Moore and Fred Kasten picking up wins. Hailing from Mishawka, Ind., Clemans, who eventually would move over to the supermodified circuits of Indiana and Ohio, was a dominate force in Chicagoland racing, giving area regulars fits with his little 1940 Ford No. 79.
At the conclusion of the inaugural season, Tiedt and company had provided a wide variety of racing in addition to the weekly stock car shows. “New Car” late model races were featured, along with an IMCA sprint car event (won by Deb Snyder) and a Central States Racing Association “big car” show (won by Tom Cherry), United Auto Racing Association (UARA) midget races and American Motorcycle Association (AMA) contests. Weekly motorcycle racing and annual AMA Grand National Championship events will be part of the Santa Fe schedule for years to come.
A bunch of drivers won feature races at Santa Fe in 1954, including Clemans, “Happy Dan” Walters, Bob Button, Gene Crowe, Legs Whitcomb, Erik Johnson, Bill Brown, Bob Kirkpatrick, Tony Bigelow, Johnny Slowiak, Roy Martinelli, Bob Wissman, Bob McKeiver, Paul Burrow, Dick Raiza and Van Allen. Walters, the Griffith, Ind. speedster, was reported to have won 17 consecutive feature races. Van Allen won the 300-lap/150-mile Season Championship race in Mike Gbur’s Nash No. 6, capping off his title-winning season. Van Allen and Gbur’s Victory Towing-sponsored cars would also win Santa Fe championships in 1955 and 1956. The ’56 season saw United States Auto Club (USAC) stock cars compete with ’56 Indianapolis 500 winner Pat Flaherty and Les Snow grabbing victories.
On July 10, 1954, the first-ever NASCAR Grand National stock car race in the Chicago area took place at Santa Fe with Dick Rathmann winning the 200-lap race and a reported $1,000 for his efforts. Rahtmann, a California native, guided his Pure Oil-sponsored 1954 Hudson to the win over Herb Thomas, Hershel McGriff, Lee Petty, Buck Baker and Jim Reed, all NASCAR regulars. Over 6,000 fans were said to have witnessed the event, which saw Baker, the fastest qualifier, lead the first 46 laps until Rathmann took over. A number of local drivers participated including Hal Ruyle, Art Doogan, Frank Ropp, Robert “Legs” Whitcomb, Bill Brown, Bay Darnell and Bill Moore, who turned in the best performance by a “local” with his 10th place finish in his 1950 Plymouth among a field of 23.
Whitcomb started 13th and came home in 21st place after completing 97 laps in a 1950 Ford.
“We built a Ford especially for late model racing,” remembered Whitcomb years later. “I couldn’t keep up with the Hudsons. I remember that.”
“Santa Fe was way out in the country back then,” added Whitcomb. “I was running out there and at 87th Street Speedway (in Chicago). “The area was called Tiedtville and all that was out there was (promoter Howard) Tiedt’s big house, the track and a tavern and general store.”
Darnell, who would go on to a successful career in both modified and USAC stock car competition, started 17th and finished in 23rd in a 1950 Ford.
“It seemed Lee Petty lapped me every four laps or so,” said Darnell in 2001. “I remember I had a lot of trouble. It was a long race. I just started racing back then. I had an old Ford with a flat head engine.”
With the “tough to beat” Van Allen leaving Santa Fe for other racing endeavors, Boyer repeated as Santa Fe’s stock car titlist in 1957 with Don Waldvogel grabbing top honors in 1958. 1959 saw a unique tie come about for the championship honors with Ken Finley and Rich Clement being named co-champions. A sportsman stock car division was added to the weekly racing in 1959 with Wayne Etzel being crowned the first “sportsman” champion.
Dick Nelson won his first of seven Santa Fe championships in 1960. Nelson scored 13 features in 1960 on his way to the title. He would win again in 1961, 1966, 1967 (another Santa Fe tie with Larry Jackson), 1970, 1971 and his last—1972. Nelson had a variety of winning mounts, all painted yellow and lettered with his familiar number—11.
Van Allen came back to Santa Fe in 1962, pretty much dominating the action and winning three straight driving crowns—1962 through 1964. Track records show that Van Allen won a total of 51 feature races during those three years. Relocating to Wautoma, Wis., Van Allen continued to race at Santa Fe, running his final season in 1972. Suffering from cancer, Van Allen passed away at the age of 46 on January 26, 1973.
Teaming up with car owner/mechanic and former driver Bob Pohlman, Ken Finley notched another Santa Fe title in 1965. Finley won a total of 13 features on his way to the championship compared to Van Allen’s 14.
Leading the standings and looking to be on his way to his second straight championship, Finley died at the wheel of Pohlman’s ’66 Ford No. 777 after winning a 25-lap feature race in early June of 1966. After winning the race, Finley took a victory lap around the track with the checkered flag and then slumped over the wheel. His car, traveling at a slow speed, ran into the pit area, where it struck several other cars before stopping. At 38 years old, Finley had suffered a fatal heart attack.
Bob Kelly was the late model track champion in 1968 with Waldvogel claming his second title in 1969. Winning his first of three Santa Fe crowns, Jim O’Connor captured late model laurels in 1973, repeating in ’74 and again in 1976. Larry Jackson interrupted O’Connor’s winning spree in 1975.
The 1977 racing season saw Tony Izzo claim the first of his nine Santa Fe track championships. Izzo would win four straight from 1977 through 1980 and then would put a string of an incredible five consecutive titles together between 1984 and 1988. Al Johnson, winning in 1981 and again in 1983, along ’82 titlist John Provenzano busted up Izzo’s possible 12-year domination.
“When I got started, we were just having fun, riding around and bouncing off the fences,” Izzo once said. “But later, when we got caught up in the championship hype and all the prestige that went with it, we got serious.”
And getting serious he did with Izzo seemingly being the guy to beat year after year. If there was something new in racing, chance are that Izzo would be among the first to experiment with it.
“All these things I do make up tenths of a second,” he once explained. “You gain enough tenths and you’ve got a full second. It’s like trying to save $100. All at once it’s hard, but if you save a dollar a hundred ways, it’s easy.”
Hailing from Bridgeview, Izzo began racing the Santa Fe’s sportsman ranks in his No. 99 entry. Flipping over on his roof one night, Izzo thought maybe that number 66 looked better and that became his trademark number during his career.
A big player in the battle with the Illinois Pollution Control Board regarding noise pollution and race tracks, Howard Tiedt would pass away in 1990 with his daughter, Mary Lou and her husband, John Moskal, pretty much running the track during its final years. Prior to his death, Tiedt saw Santa Fe become part of NASCAR’s weekly Winston Racing Series in 1987.
Another graduate of Santa Fe’s sportsman division, Frank Reaber added his name to the champions list in 1989 and would again win titles at the ‘Fe in 1992, 1994 and 1995, which would be the last season of racing at the famed speed venue. Bob Pohlman Jr. was the track champion in 1990 with Larry Jackson involved in yet anther “tie” for the championship in 1991, this time with Bill Knippenberg. Dennis Erb Sr. grabbed title honors in 1993.
Announcers like Stew Reamer and Bobby Baugh and later Jan Gabriel, who handled the Santa Fe microphone for some 14 years, would add color to the racing events. A number of official starters would wave the flags at the ‘Fe including Pete Passantino, John Zebrowski, Jack Minster and Al Chodora. Photographer Vince Mayer and his wife, Dorothy, were mainstays at the speedway. Lucky the Clown provided the comical antics at the track.
Over the years, USAC midget and sprint cars, along with World of Outlaws (WoO) sprinters competed at Santa Fe. Records show that USAC sanctioned a total of 66 races between 1964 and 1995. Bob Tattersall of Streator, Ill. won the first midget race on July 10, 1964 with Tony Stewart winning the last sprint car race in July of 1995. A total of 38 different drivers were victorious in the USAC competition in those 66 races with Ron “Sleepy” Tripp’s six wins heading the list.
The winged WoO sprint cars began racing at Santa Fe in 1979. The “King of the World of Outlaws”—Steve Kinser and Sammy Swindell each won four times.
With the ’95 season completed, participants looked forward to another season of racing the following year, but drivers and fans were shocked when track management announced through a letter to competitors that they did not plan on opening the speedway in 1996.
The letter to drivers, dated January 15, 1996, was signed by Santa Fe president May Lou Tiedt.
“Increasingly, and more so in recent years, operation of a racing facility has been more involved with issues unconnected to racing,” the letter stated. “Particularly, our society has become more litigious, drawing our managerial and other resources away from the focus of providing quality racing programs.
“In the present situation, Santa Fe Speedway has decided to curtail, and perhaps even suspend completely, the 1996 racing schedule,” the letter continued. “If racing is to be held in 1996 or thereafter, you will be notified of the schedule.”
That was the end of Santa Fe Speedway. The facility sat idle in 1996, 1997 and 1998 and fell to the wrecking ball in March of 1999, making way for a $70 million upscale housing development.
How did that radio jingle go? “There’s only one speedway, it’s the track of clay. You ain’t seen nothing till who’ve been to Santa Fe. Racing on a track of clay.”
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“Moonrise Kingdom” – Review by Delon Villanueva
Contributor Post June 22, 2012
Moonrise Kingdom Review
by Delon Villanueva
Summer of 2012 has been defined at as the biggest superhero movie season yet, while also having plenty of other 3D sequels and reboots, but as usual, the independent films are being overlooked. Although this is usually the case, this summer seems to have many potential indie classics. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is already a sleeper hit domestically, Safety Not Guaranteed has been progressively picking up buzz, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, one of the most lauded films at Cannes this year, has yet to be theatrically released this summer. Though one of the most talked about indie films of the summer – or in fact, the year, is the directorial return of Wes Anderson in Moonrise Kingdom. Anderson’s last movie was Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated stop-motion film based off the children’s book by Roald Dahl, back in 2009, and as great as that movie was, fans were still waiting on his next live-action feature. When the trailer was released for Moonrise Kingdom, film geeks were ecstatic about Anderson being back again, with even more than they bargained for. The trailer showed that Anderson has kept his iconic style, while revealing some interesting casting, including Bruce Willis and Edward Norton. It’s been five years since his last live-action film, so seeing all this was very promising. Did the final product live up to those promises? Yes, and more. Moonrise Kingdom is easily one of the best movies of the year.
Moonrise Kingdom is, in simplest terms, a story about a young boy and girl who fall in love. Taking place in New England, 1965, the boy, Sam Shakusky, played by Jared Gilman, is a “Khaki Scout” who runs away from his summer camp to meet with a girl. This girl is Suzy Bishop, played by Kara Hayward, who also runs away from home, where her relationship with her parents is not on good terms. Sam’s scout master (Edward Norton) and the local police officer (Bruce Willis) go off on a wild goose chase to find these two kids, and also joining them are Suzy’s parents, played by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand. That’s all I will say about the story, as I want to go right into how fantastic this cast is. Who would have thought John McClane and the Hulk could fit perfectly in a Wes Anderson movie? Norton is very funny as the awkward scout master and Willis plays up subtlety in his aggressiveness very well as Captain Sharp. Anderson regular Bill Murray and Frances McDormand are also great as the frightened parents of Suzy, but they can’t outshine the movie’s two protagonists. Although it’s clear at many times in this movie that these two are new to acting, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward have a lot of sincerity in their performances. Their relationship actually feels genuine rather than dolled-up in Hollywood fashion. Even under the quietness of Wes Anderson’s direction, you can sense the powerful emotion. Sometimes the line delivery is stilted, but it adds to their youthful charm. Also in this movie are some brief but enjoyable performances by Tilda Swinton as a Social Services officer, and Jason Schwartzman as Cousin Ben, another camp counselor. From the big names to all the “Khaki Scout” kid actors, this movie has formed a great cast.
I’m surprised I haven’t mentioned how beautiful this movie is yet. Yes, being a Wes Anderson movie, you would expect it to be a pretty picture, but saying it’s just pretty is an understatement. The vintage and grainy look is amazing here, and it doesn’t feel like it’s style over story. By doing this, Wes Anderson is able to portray the whimsy and innocence of young love. There’s something about your first crush in how it’s not nearly as obnoxious or overdramatic as an adult relationship. Anderson contrasts the bonding of Sam and Suzy to the restlessness of the adults in this film. In fact, they make it clear that these kids are more mature than the adults. It’s a coming-of-age story with a hipster twist to it, yet it does the genre better than most movies today. It really is a huge result of the writing (also co-written by Roman Coppola) and directing of Wes Anderson. Anderson never feels like he needs to dumb it down for the audience in his movies, and Moonrise Kingdom is no exception. His famous one-take transition shots are still seen often throughout this movie, and the dialogue is quirky as ever. Even though he reuses film techniques, the storytelling feels unique and refreshing, as every directing decision in this movie is a bold move.
The only problems I really had are some of the main kids’ line readings, as I mentioned earlier, and a few silent moments that never build up to anything, but other than that, this movie comes with an immensely high recommendation. Now be warned: this movie is still one that alienates itself from mainstream audiences, unfortunately. If you don’t like Wes Anderson’s style for some reason, then why bother? Though I think even the biggest Transformers or Twilight fan can find something to love about this movie with some patience. Unlike those two movies I just mentioned, there is a real story to tell here that invests you in their characters instantly, if you are willing and not so stubborn about it. It’s still a very strange movie, as are the rest of Wes Anderson’s films, but at its core, it’s more realistic than most movies that have come out this year so far. So, for those looking for a break from all the summer movie explosions, Moonrise Kingdom is the perfect choice. Expect it to be on my top ten best list of the year.
RATING: 9.5/10.
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CASABLANCA, RABAT, Morocco (WOMENSENEWS)–Sookaina Boudraa had been waiting for three hours at the Alwaha health clinic in Sidi Moumen, an area in northeastern Casablanca known for its slums.
Seven months pregnant, she sat patiently, wearing a brown djellaba, a long robe with a hood, embroidered in orange and a matching orange hijab to cover her hair. About 10 other women sat alongside Boudraa in the blue and white waiting area outside the nurse’s examination room. She was expecting the birth of her first child.
Across the street from the clinic lies one of the area’s many slums, where Boudraa lives. That afternoon kids played in a dirt field in front of the shanty town’s entrance, strewn with garbage and rocks, kicking more dirt into the already dusty air. Cows ate out of a dumpster, while donkeys and roosters roamed the field. Makeshift homes, connected with zigzagging clothes lines, were in the background. Satellite dishes protruded from many of the tin roofs.
Boudraa was at the clinic to get a vaccine, although she couldn’t say for what. All she knew was that it was supposed to keep her healthy for her pregnancy, during which time she’d regularly visited a doctor. She hoped a nurse would see her in 30 minutes.
Seventeen-year-old Boudraa is among the fortunate women benefiting from her nation’s commitment to lowering the number of women who die in childbirth.
By 2010 Morocco had decreased its maternal mortality ratio by over 60 percent since 1990, according to the Ministry of Health, with much of that drop in recent years. And between 1990 and 2008 it achieved an annualized decline of 6.3 percent, the fastest in the region with the exception for Iran’s 8.9 percent, according to a 2011 report by the Ministry of Health and the United Nations Population Fund.
This progress means Morocco might meet U.N. Millennium Development Goal No. 5, which calls on nations to reduce maternal mortality by three-fourths between 1990 and 2015. With three years left to go, Morocco is one of a small group on track, a September 2011 study found. Other hopefuls are countries such as China, Egypt and Turkey, the study published in The Lancet reported.
Lagging Progress
For all its progress, however, the country is still far behind industrialized nations. In Morocco, 112 women die per 100,000 live births, according to the 2009-2010 national population survey. The U.S. maternal mortality rate is 24 per 100,000 live births. Ireland has one of the lowest, at 3 deaths per 100,000 live births.
As she waited for the nurse, Boudraa shyly said she’d heard from those in the neighborhood that women could die if a pregnancy goes wrong at home. So even though she was born at home, along with three of her four siblings, Boudraa was making a different choice. She planned to give birth in a hospital, about a 15-minute taxi ride away.
Fatima Moukaby, one of the four nurses at the 5-year-old Alwaha clinic, has been working in the field for 21 years and said she’s seen a big shift in line with Boudraa’s decisions.
“When I started my job we received few pregnant women because women were giving birth at home, but now we receive too many pregnant women,” said Moukaby. The clinic’s three doctors each see at least 80 patients a day, she added.
Jean-Benoît Manhes, UNICEF’s deputy representative in Rabat, gives much of the credit for this shift to the government. Public health professionals here insisted that reducing the maternal death rate further remains a priority, despite the region’s political turmoil and even with the new government that took power late last year.
“There’s a general will to improve maternal health from the government which does not exist in other countries I’ve worked in,” said Manhes. “It’s an issue of public health and pride.”
The effort has included about $157 million (1.4 billion dirham) in government spending for 2008-2012 on a three-prong strategy of improved access to care, improving the quality of care and program governance. That has encompassed disseminating and publicizing pregnancy-related care information, training midwives and other health workers and expanding and improving health care facilities and vehicles.
“The most important [thing] is making [obstetric care] free, including transfusions, C-sections, transportation, all the tests, the delivery, etc., as it has allowed women to come into the hospital, especially the poor,” said Dr. Abdelghani Drhimeur, head of communications at the Ministry of Health in Rabat.
Peace Corps Contributions
The country’s campaign has also benefited from the longstanding presence of Peace Corps volunteers, who have been supporting maternal-related health care here since 1992, said Mostafa Lamqaddam, the Corps’ health program manager in Rabat.
Volunteers organize trainings for traditional birth attendants and educate local women about such things as vaccinations, family planning and healthy pregnancies. They target understaffed, underequipped and hard to access parts of the country.
The Peace Corps recently shifted its focus in Morocco to youth development, however, so the health program, which is the organization’s largest, is expected to phase out in May 2013. The group’s number of health care volunteers dropped in May from around 70 to 40.
“Definitely volunteers feel it will leave a void,” said Lamqaddam. “Some associations and Moroccan nongovernmental organizations have started work in this area, but it’s not the exact same thing. Nobody is doing this work at the grassroots level. But the need is still out there.”
The government has also trained and deployed health workers. The proportion of births attended by skilled personnel rose to 83 percent in 2009 from 61 percent in 2004, according to the Ministry of Health/U.N. report.
Menana Boukalouch is a midwife of 30 years who heads the nursing department at Maternité Des Orangers, a university hospital in Rabat that performs around 7,000 deliveries a year. She said more midwives are crucial.
“Midwives do 80 percent of the deliveries. Doctors don’t get involved in normal deliveries, unless there are complications,” she said. “There are doctors, but they don’t go into the rural areas. Midwives can go to rural areas or cities. It’s better to have a big number [of midwives] as they take better care of women from the beginning to end.”
Smaller Families Desired
Down the hall from Boukalouch’s office, Naima Abit sat calmly on a hospital bed waiting for her turn in the delivery room. The 29-year-old wore a brown and yellow housedress and solid red henna adorned her hands and feet; it was for good luck with her delivery, she said. Her water had broken, but she didn’t yet feel any labor pains. Across the room another expectant mother, Hayat, walked around and winced regularly with contractions.
Abit said none of her friends or family had given birth at home. Many gave birth in private hospitals, which often have a better reputation than public facilities, just to be safe. This was her first baby, a boy. She wanted two or three children at most; most of her friends had one or two.
Her desire for smaller families reflects a trend in many parts of Morocco, a country now at the forefront of Arab countries’ transition to lower fertility rates, which contributes to better maternal health. In 2009 the average number of births per woman was 2.2, according to the Ministry of Health/U.N. report, down from 4 in 1992. The urban fertility rate here is now at a historic low of 1.84.
“Morocco is one of the countries that adopted family planning and family size decreased rapidly,” said Lamqaddam. He added that strong vaccination programs and later marriage have also contributed to smaller families.
To continue to encourage safe motherhood, Ministry of Health spokesperson Drhimeur said, the government is creating new maternal health programs. And while Morocco’s 2012-2016 health plan is not yet released, he added that the government hopes to achieve a maternal mortality ratio of 50 deaths per 100,000 births for 2016, even lower than what’s needed to meet the U.N. goal
“The Moroccan experience is unique; what we’ve done in three years regarding maternal health efforts was not done in the 30 years before. It’s a big effort, a revolution. But a lot has to be done still,” Drhimeur said.
Juhie Bhatia reported from Morocco on a fellowship from the International Reporting Project (IRP), an independent journalism program based in Washington, D.C. She’s the managing editor at Women’s eNews.
About Juhie Bhatia
Juhie Bhatia is the managing editor of Women's eNews. She has covered health, science and women's issues for over 10 years as a reporter and editor. Previously the public health editor of Global Voices Online, she's also helped launch EverydayHealth.com, one of the leading health websites in the U.S., and worked for the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Nutrition Action Healthletter. She's written for Reuters Health, Nature Medicine, Planned Parenthood's teenwire.com, Bust magazine, HealthDay, Bulletin for the World Health Organization and MSNBC, among others. She's a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and also has a bachelor's degree from the University of Guelph, Canada, in nutritional sciences.
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1969 Isle Wight Festival Music
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1969 festival #30
The first Isle of Wight Festival of Music was in 1968. It was a relatively small one. Its poster also referred to it as “The great south coast bankholiday pop festivity.” The festival featured the Jefferson Airplane and several other British bands.
Six international
All but six of the 1969 festivals I’ve written about happened in the United States.
The first non-US event was the Toronto Pop on June 21 – 22; then the Bath Festival of Blues on June 28. Wonderland in London Canada was on August 12. Vancouver preceded the Isle and the Isle of Wight. The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival would follow.
Dylan 1969
Woodstock Ventures, organizers of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, had hoped and nearly assumed that they could book the still reclusive Bob Dylan. The biggest rumor that august weekend in Bethel was that he’d be there.
Dylan had stopped touring after his 1966 motorcycle accident, an event still shrouded in mystery as to how serious the accident was and how long he actually needed to recuperate. Some conspiracy theorists conjecture that there was no accident, but Dylan simply wanted out for awhile.
Whatever the case, brothers Ron and Ray Foulk formed Fiery Creations Limited to put on the show and they hit gold by booking Bob Dylan. To say he headlined is an understatement. Despite the Beatles continued success and influence, even they tipped their hats to Dylan. [Ray Foulk’s story from a 2015 Independent article]
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Note the acts who returned to or came to the UK from Woodstock for this festival: The Band, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, and the Who.
A “what-goes-round-comes-round” story is that on the flight that the Who were on, a passenger by the name of Howard Mills and his family were also on board. Howard had long-promised his family a trip abroad and they and he had recently had a difficult spring and summer. It was his property in Wallkill, NY that Woodstock Ventures had initially contracted to hold their festival on before the Wallkill government forced them out. The Who got a kick out of that story.
150,000 people sailed to the island for the concert including all the Beatles themselves except Paul McCartney. A number far less than Woodstock two weeks earlier, but still impacting the rural island significantly.
The 1970 event had over 600,000 attendees. Over 50 acts performed including Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Doors, The Who, Lighthouse, Ten Years After,Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Melanie, Donovan, Gilberto Gil, Free, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, Taste and Tiny Tim.
Those “excessive” numbers led Parliament to pass the “Isle of Wight Act” in 1971 which prevented gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special licence.
The New York State legislature passed a similar act for the same reasons.
It was not until 2004 that a resurrected festival happened and has occurred, albeit on a much smaller scale that ’69 and ’70, annually since. [2018 Guardian article].
Unlike Bethel, NY attitude, which continues to severely restrict the number of attendees that the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is permitted, the current residents of Wight welcome the festival that ” brings £10m into the local community because people generally stay longer than the festival. It creates tourism.” [current Isle of Wight Festival site]
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Hell's Gate National Park, Kenya
Ninara from Helsinki, Finland [CC BY 2.0]
Kenya is a country of stunning natural beauty, with 22 National Parks and 28 National Reserves. There are loads of unusual things to try in each one of them, but if you're in Nairobi, Hell's Gate is the place to go.
Hell’s Gate National Park is within easy driving distance of the city and an ideal spot to take a day trip. To sweeten the deal even further, the route to Naivasha from Nairobi has a stunning view of the Great Rift Valley.
The canyon of Hell’s Gate National Park has inspired Hollywood films like "The Lion King" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
Hell's Gate is a rather small park, covering an area of 68.25 square kilometers, located near Naivasha town in Nakuru County. It was established in 1984 and named after a narrow break in the cliffs. It is a unique place containing natural landscapes, towering cliffs, camping sites, Hell’s Gate Gorge, and geothermal springs. It also offers an unusual game drive inside the park.
View Point in Hell's Gate
Things to Do in Hell's Gate National Park
It's easy to plan a day trip to Hell’s Gate National Park, but if you have the time, I recommend planning a weekend trip and camping overnight inside the park. There is just so much to see and do!
Appreciate the Local Fauna
This is one of the few parks where visitors can bike or walk inside the park to watch the animals. Visitors can spot giraffe, zebra, buffalo, Thomson's gazelle, and other antelopes. This park is a also good site for birdwatchers.
This park does not have dangerous animals other than African buffalo, but it’s still wise to take care while moving inside the park.
Cycle Through the Park
Visitors can go cycling around the park and pass by the zebras and giraffes on the way. The cost of taking a bicycle inside is KSH 200, while the cost of renting a bike is around KSH 1,000 to KSH 1,500. One can rent a bike at the junction before the entrance. They may ask for more money, but one can usually negotiate a bit to get it down to a fair price.
Cycling Inside Hell's Gate National Park
See Animals While Cycling
Visit the Gorges
One does not need a guide to walk or cycle around the park, but a guide is must if you plan on going into the water-gouged gorges. This is one of the most exciting activities in the park, but it is risky too. If one wishes to go there, they must be careful and hire a guide. Maasai people serve as guides to lead visitors through the gorges.
Hike, Climb, or Walk the Canyons
This park may have fewer animals to watch than some of Kenya's other parks, but it makes up for it with activities like mountain climbing, camping, hiking, and canyon walking.
Visitors can do a bit of hiking while walking around the canyon. In some places, sandy rock walls stand 30 meters tall. As you can imagine, the views of the gorge from these high vantage points are wondrous, but hiking there is tricky and risky. The descents are slippery and steep, and hikers require an expert guide.
There are some good places for mountain climbing. Fischer’s Tower is a great site for the mountain climber. It is not too difficult to climb, but one needs to be fit and experienced enough to take on the challenge. Climber with moderate skills will love climbing this cliff. They will, of course, require proper equipment and guidance.
The Canyon at Hell's Gate
Visit the Hot Springs
Visitors can swim in hot springs and see a small waterfall in the gorge. What a unique and refreshing experience!
Camp Overnight
It is a great idea to go camping in the park, and many visitors do so. Visitors must bring all their own camping gear and firewood, though, so keep that in mind if you decide to camp there.
One of the Hot Springs in Hell's Gate
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Hell's Gate Park Risks and Precautions
It is amazing to explore the canyon, but there is a risk of flash floods. In some cases, both visitors and their guides have been washed away and lost their lives. If you don't want to take the risk, you can opt to see the canyon from outside instead.
If you still want to walk the canyons, for a safer visit, consider the precautions below.
Going there in the rainy season is a big "NO." The risk of flash floods is very high at that period.
Unless you only plan on walking and cycling, going there without a trained guide is not at all a safe option. The ascents and descents for hikers and climbers are acute and slippery, and only guides know how to navigate those areas safely.
There are few emergency exits which a guide can locate quickly. One needs to be fit enough to climb there.
Park Hours and Entry Fees
Hell's Gate is open to the public between 9 AM and 6 PM, seven days a week. One needs to produce a valid ID at the entrance and pay a moderate fee.
Hell's Gate National Park Entry Fees (as of September 2019)
Resident Type
Non-Resident
Hell’s Gate National Park lies around 90 km away from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The nearest airport to the park is JKIA Nairobi. The following options are available to get there from the city.
Purchase a day-trip package from any travel operator from Nairobi. With a bit of negotiation, you should be able to settle your trip costs for around $60 to $80 for a couple, including a visit to Naivasha Lake.
Rent a car. (The entry fee is KSH 350 for cars with less than six seats.)
Take public transportation from Nairobi to Naivasha town.
Fly from Nairobi to Naivasha and connect to Hell's Gate from there.
I urge you to take the ground transport route by car. There are a few stunning viewpoints on the way where you can take in the scenic beauty of Great Rift Valley.
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Activism. A common sight near Seattle, happening so much in our everyday lives that we hardly give it a second thought. However, in the eyes of Kira Augustamar, activism is one of the key parts of her personality due to her current and previous background in protests and marches. She wholeheartedly supports Intersectional Feminism, Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQ+ Rights. On the topic of BLM, she said, “I care about my community and the people around me who suffer and have to be shot for the color of their skin. Which doesn’t make a lot of sense [to me].” Augustamar also mentions that the LGBTQ+ rights movement is very important to her, as many of her friends are part of the LGBTQ+ community. When questioned about it she stated, “The next thing I’m passionate about is the rights of LGBTQ+ people…it’s important to love who you love…you should be able to identify as anything, no questions asked.” Finally, Augustamar voiced her opinion on the women’s rights movement that is spreading like wildfire through the country at the moment. “Women’s rights! I really care about women’s rights and reproductive rights…it’s your body, your choice” Augustamar also says that she’s been to several protests and marches, as well as marching in the Women’s March which took place this last January.
Kira then discussed her bold fashion sense and style from her chameleon hair to her rainbow of outfits. When asked about her inspiration for her style she stated, “My inspiration from my style…it comes from what I’m feeling.” Recently, her hair was further accentuated by new silver-grey tips which made her style even bolder. To this, she commented, “… I don’t really like to express myself with colors. I like shades because they go good with anything. So like my hair, I did grey because it goes good with anything. I could wear any color and it’d be fine.” Even though it seems as if all of Augustamar’s style is very original and never seen it before, she says that it’s more of a combination of a lot of different styles from a lot of inspiring, powerful women. She mentioned that she is inspired by “Diana Ross, maybe Aaliyah, anyone from TLC…Beyonce, *laughs* yeah! And just…fashion models, I guess plus-sized fashion models especially. I think they’re very inspiring so I get a lot of my style from them.” She is very body positive and not only believes that everyone should have a choice over their own body but also shouldn’t have to conform to society’s views of what they should be wearing. Augustamar also mentioned that a lot of her fashion inspiration comes from powerful, black women. Her inspirations for style choice further her activism in the BLM movement and also the women’s rights movement.
Unlike many students in high school, Augustamar knows exactly what she would like to be when she graduates; the first female African-American President of the United States. She revealed that if she goes on to achieve her dream, she would change quite a few issues with our country, “Well, since I’m a liberal person, definitely the rights of gay marriage and LGBTQ+ rights, definitely something to do with police brutality. Fuel, like coal…less of that because of keeping the world clean…global warming especially. Keeping our community supportive and diverse and [with] no discrimination is definitely something I would want to work on…” Kira’s main inspiration is her dad. “My dad is an immigrant from Haiti and he rose from basically nothing into a great person. He’s very inspirational and he has taught me to be humble and to look at the world in a different view….I often think about…that I should be more grateful…he went through a lot and I’m very passionate about having that figure in my life because [of] a stereotype that black kids don’t have dads…he has always told me is that he never wants that stereotype to be true for me. He wants to be the father figure [to me] because he never had one.” Powerful women inspire Augustamar as she really encourages all girls to speak their minds and try to achieve their dreams. This was apparent when she revealed that one of her biggest inspirations is Michelle Obama. “…she’s a black woman who graduated from a really prestigious college and then with her being the first lady, she’s not just known for being the first lady. She’s known for being such a successful person and I think that’s cool how she stands as her own…” said Augustamar.
Overall, Augustamar says that one of the most important aspects to her personality and her personal beliefs is that no injustice goes unnoticed. She expressed this by saying, “Something important about me is that…when…I see the world hurting, I don’t stand for it. I make my voice heard, and even when people disagree, I’m open to their opinions but I also express mine…there’s something inside me that tells me that everyone’s important, everyone has a purpose and to care for everyone.” Kira would like everyone to know that they are important and that no matter their gender, skin color or sexual orientation, they should know they’re cared for. To end her interview she stated, “I’m not afraid to stand for something that I believe in. I think that’s something really important about me. I like to be bold. I don’t want to be the norm. I don’t want to be basic. I like to go outside the box. I wanna be someone else. Not a cookie cutter. That’s what I like to say, don’t be a cookie cutter shape.”
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COVID-19 Child Care Crisis: Disproportionately Affects Working Women
With the fall season upon us, the pandemic in full swing, and the school year underway, most working mothers are experiencing a sense of dread. For the mothers whose children are learning virtually, this school year brings the issue of juggling work and homeschooling again. And for the mothers who are able to send their children to school in person, a sense of fear and anxiety about safety looms. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, most schools shifted to some form of remote learning, leaving many working mothers with little choice but to sacrifice career demands in order to care for and teach their children.
This scenario is becoming progressively more common. Research indicates that working mothers are increasingly withdrawing from the U.S. workforce as the pandemic leaves parents with few child care options as well as the additional responsibility of navigating distance learning. This departure could have disparate and long-term effects on the careers of numerous women across the country.
The lack of child care is at the core of this issue – it just isn’t as available as it was before the pandemic. Data provided by the job search website Indeed.com shows that thousands of daycare facilities have shut down, either by decree or because demand has decreased significantly, with a small percentage remaining open for essential workers only. Child care services have been much slower to hire again than other areas of the economy, with at least half of the country’s child care providers currently closed, many for good. This means the responsibilities that caretakers were once able to manage now fall onto parents, during their work hours.
Even before the pandemic, daycare centers operated on very thin margins, and now, without revenue, the industry is on the verge of collapsing. Many day care facilities cannot survive if enrollment drops below 85 percent. Any loss of capacity will put pressure on working parents who rely on child care to remain in the workforce. Attempting to combat this crisis, a coalition of business and early-childhood-education groups is asking Congress for targeted stimulus designed to ensure that daycare centers remain available and sustainable. As the nation slowly recovers from this economic crisis, parents are beginning to return to work. This means that child care providers will be expected to reopen, while operating on financial losses for months to come due to social distancing requirements and continued low enrollment. Providers will also face increased operating expenses to meet new and important health and safety standards.
Studies have shown that women already assume much of the burden of caring for and educating their children at home; now, they’re also more likely than men to have lost their jobs due to the pandemic. In 2015, the Pew Research Center asked parents about how they divide family responsibilities when both work full time. 1 For every task, more respondents reported that the mother took on a larger amount of the load than those who said the father did, including tasks such as managing children’s schedules, caring for children when they’re sick, and handling household chores. The August 2020 federal jobs reports showed that women ages 25-54 were exiting the work force at a higher rate than other age groups, with the overall drop translating into 1.3 million women exiting the labor force since February.
The COVID-19 crisis will push many women out of the labor force permanently, as the breakdown of the child care infrastructure, depended upon by so many parents, amplifies these problems. In the short-term, this trend jeopardizes the financial stability of families. In the long-term, the crisis could delay, if not undo, decades of hard-fought advances by working women, who still have a long way to go to achieve labor force parity with men.
“We’re in danger of erasing the limited gains we’ve made for women over the past few decades, and especially women of color,” said Melissa Boteach, Vice President for Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning at the National Women’s Law Center. “Despite the leaps over the past decades, working women still entered the pandemic at a disadvantage. They are typically paid 82 cents for every dollar men earn, according to research by the National Women’s Law Center.”
“Among working mothers and fathers, the wage gap is even higher at 70 cents. The median household earnings for mothers in the U.S. is $42,000, compared to $60,000 for fathers. When left with no choice but to give up one income as child care options collapse, that wage gap incentivizes fathers to stay in the workforce and mothers to leave, or at least scale back.” 2
Liana Christin Landivar, author of the book “Mothers at Work: Who Opts Out?” and a sociologist at the Maryland Population Research Center, said: “We already knew there was a large gender inequality in the labor force, and the pandemic just makes this worse.”
Betsey Stevenson, the former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, recently stated: “The impact of the child care crisis on women’s outcomes is going to be felt over the next decade.”
In the U.S., 80% of private sector workers do not have access to paid family leave, which is not mandated by federal law. This especially affects mothers, who account for the majority of the country’s teachers, nurses and child care workers.
Data has shown that when a woman leaves the work force, even if only for a short time, there are ripple effects that can follow her for the rest of her life, even depressing her earnings in retirement. Women who take time off from work to be with their children are often stereotyped as being less serious about their careers, thus making the reentry to the work force after a hiatus extremely challenging. A 2007 study revealed that working mothers were viewed as less competent than working fathers and that their recommended salaries were also lower.
As the pandemic wears on, many schools remain closed and child care operators struggle to remain open. This may result in even more women deciding that their only choice is to reduce their hours or temporarily halt their careers, all of which will result in potentially devastating consequences.
While the impact of the child care crisis on women’s outcomes is going to be felt over the next decade, there are actions that can be taken to mitigate the crisis. Federal policymakers can invest in the child care industry and provide workers with access to paid leave to support working families and maternal employment. “For example, a significant stabilization fund would prevent the United States from permanently losing as many as 4.5 million licensed child care slots over the next several months. Working parents also need access to paid sick days and paid family and medical leave so that they are able to take time off work to care for a child, care for a sick loved one, or recover their own health without losing a paycheck or their job.” 3
Note that this sample included male/female married couples only.
Olson, Alexandra and Bussewitz, Cathy. “Child Care Crisis Pushes US Mothers out of the Labor Force during Coronavirus.” Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Sun-Times, 5 Sept. 2020, chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/9/5/21424455/child-care-crisis-pushes-us-mothers-out-of-the-labor-force-during-coronavirus.
Morrissey, Taryn and Malik, Rasheed. “The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Forcing Millennial Mothers Out of the Workforce.” Center for American Progress, 12 Aug. 2020, www.americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/news/2020/08/12/489178/covid-19-pandemic-forcing-millennial-mothers-workforce.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/05/the-choices-working-mothers-make.html
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf
Tracey L. Schroeder is an attorney and marketing and communications professional. She is an experienced writer and newsletter contributor and is a member of the WBAI. Tracey previously served on the WBAI Judicial Reception committee and currently serves on the WBAI Newsletter committee.
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