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Documentaries about Japan
(photo: Tanya Braganti)
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival kicked off last week in Park City, Utah. I was there for a few days this weekend and, while I got to see a bunch of good movies (Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea, Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, and Antonio Campos's Christine being my highlights), one film of particular interest to BV readers is the new documentary We Are X, which premiered at the fest and is about the incredibly successful Japanese metal band .
The movie, by director Stephen Kijak, is an extremely entertaining glimpse at a band that many Westerners aren't familiar with but are as huge in their native country and should be appealing to fans of classic-sounding metal with a glam-rock/hair metal bent. Kijak is a rock doc veteran, having made films about Rolling Stones, Backstreet Boys, and Scott Walker already, and he does a great job capturing the energy of X Japan. The movie centers on charismatic drummer, composer, and pianist Yoshiki, who has been the driving force behind the band from the early '80s as they've weathered a seemingly disproportionate amount of tragedy and bizarre twists. (Their lead singer left for 10 years because he was in a cult, for instance). Early footage of the band makes them seem something like Metallica as fronted by Steve Perry with the flamboyant, theatrical ambitions of KISS. Gene Simmons, interviewed in the film, claims that if they were born in the West they would have been the biggest band in the world.
The film is heavy on Yoshiki's somewhat cliched rock-star-with-a-death-wish angle (although there is almost none of the sex 'n' drugs angle that tends to pervade these types of documentaries), but it's engaging and fun and made me want to check out X Japan's catalogue, which is about all you can ask for. The film doesn't yet have U.S. distribution yet but keep an eye out. Also keep an eye out for X Japan's first new album in 20 years, due out this fall.
Watch a short clip from We Are X, as well as old and new live footage of X Japan and their deeply insane 1993 30-minute song "Art of Life, " below.
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Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: FOX Tops Demos with "Last Man Standing" Return
Here are the highlights of the 16 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks last night (1/2/20):
FOX (4.919 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.8, #1) was the demo champ on Thursday thanks to the return of "Last Man Standing" (5.234 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T1), a second "Last Man Standing" (5.145 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T1) and the debut of "Deputy" (4.648 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.7, #4).
A close second was ABC (4.966 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 0.7, #2) with its special "What is Jeopardy!? Alex Trebek and America's Most Popular Quiz Show" (7.809 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T1) followed by the season finale of "The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition" (3.545 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.6, #5).
Next up was CBS (3.387 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.4, #3) and its repeat lineup of "Young Sheldon" (4.579 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T6), another "Young Sheldon" (4.579 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T6), "Mom" (4.182 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T6), "Carol's Second Act" (3.299 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T9) and "Evil" (1.842 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.2, #14).
Meanwhile, NBC (1.855 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.3, #4) had its mix of a repeat "Superstore" (2.008 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T9), a second "Superstore" (1.396 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T11), the special "The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU" (1.680 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T11) plus a repeat "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2.182 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T11).
And finally, The CW (0.553 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.1, #5) rounded out the night with second runs of "Supernatural" (0.629 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T15) and "Legacies" (0.477 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T15).
+20.00% - The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition
+38.46% - What is Jeopardy!? Alex Trebek and America's Most Popular Quiz Show (vs. The Conners (Repeats))
+28.57% - Last Man Standing - 8:00 (vs. Gotham)
+16.67% - Deputy (vs. The Orville)
-14.29% - The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition (vs. The Last Days of JFK Jr.)
-83.33% - The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU (vs. The Titan Games)
Here are the highlights of the 15 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks one year ago (1/3/19):
NBC (5.732 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.5, #1) was the demo champ on Thursday thanks to the premiere of "The Titan Games" (6.516 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.7, #3), a second hour of "The Titan Games" (6.487 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.8, #2) and the return of "The Blacklist" (4.192 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T6).
CBS (8.119 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.3, #2) then took home the silver with originals from "The Big Bang Theory" (12.554 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 2.2, #1) and "Young Sheldon" (10.888 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.7, #4); repeats from "The Big Bang Theory" (7.276 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.1, #5) and "Young Sheldon" (6.093 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T6); and a new "SWAT" (5.953 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T6).
Next up was ABC (4.841 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.7, #3) with repeats of "The Conners" (3.766 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T9), a second "The Conners" (3.505 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T12) and the new two-hour special "The Last Days of JFK Jr." (5.444 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T9).
Meanwhile, FOX (2.699 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.6, #4) served up the return of "Gotham" (2.575 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T9) and a new "The Orville" (2.822 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T12).
And finally, The CW (0.687 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.2, #5) closed out the night with repeats from "Supernatural" (0.762 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T14) and "Legacies" (0.613 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T14).
+28.57% - SWAT (vs. 12/6/18)
+6.25% - Young Sheldon (vs. 12/6/18)
+4.76% - The Big Bang Theory (vs. 12/6/18)
-53.85% - The Orville (vs. 12/30/18)
+80.00% - The Titan Games - 9:00 (vs. Will & Grace/Great News)
+61.90% - The Titan Games - 8:00 (vs. Superstore/The Good Place)
-18.18% - SWAT
-18.18% - The Blacklist (vs. Chicago Fire)
-29.03% - The Big Bang Theory
-34.62% - Young Sheldon
-36.36% - The Last Days of JFK Jr. (vs. Truth and Lies: Waco)
-36.36% - Gotham (vs. The Four: Battle for Stardom)
-50.00% - The Orville (vs. The Four: Battle for Stardom)
In late-night metered market ratings (via NBC's press release):
· In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 1.5/4 with an encore telecast; "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," 1.9/5 with an encore; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.8/5 with an encore.
· In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 0.5/3 with an encore; "Late Show," 0.4/2 with an encore; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.4/2 with an encore.
· From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET, ABC's "Nightline" averaged a 1.1/4 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
· From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, ratings were: "Late Night with Seth Meyers," 0.8/3 in metered-market households with an encore; CBS's "Late Late Show," 1.0/3 with an encore. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, averages were: "Late Night," 0.3/2 in 18-49 with an encore; "Late Late Show," 0.2/2 with an encore.
· At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.5/2 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.2/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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This is one of the journal’s occasional pieces where we ask authors of papers in the journal to describe how and why they came to write the paper in question.
In Mason Inman’s case it stemmed from his browsing in a small bookshop in Karachi and coming across a copy of David Strahan’s The Last Oil Shock. This led to an interest in peak oil, a notion which with a bachelor’s degree in physics he says “made perfect sense”. In turn this led to Inman reading about Hubbert, whom he describes as a “a big-picture thinker who tried to put modern industrial civilization in a long-term perspective.” A post on The Oil Drum website titled “Hubbert: King of the Technocrats,” also told of Hubbert’s role in co-founding the Technocracy movement in the early 1930s.
Inman then writes: “I looked around for a biography of Hubbert, and but no one seemed to have written one … [so] I decided to try do it myself. I found that there was a lot of material to draw on … [but] writing the story of Hubbert’s life was harder than I imagined. …”
Inman, M. How I came to write The Oracle of Oil. The Oil Age 2 (2) 9-12
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Pope Picket ’99
Web Supplement
The Annual American Atheists Awards & Members Banquet began at 8 p.m. This event is a tradition at the National Conventions; we acknowledge the dedication, hard work and achievements of Atheists throughout the nation who have contributed in an extraordinary way to the growth of American Atheists and the separation of church and state. The banquet also includes recognition of the American Atheist of the Year. Other awards cite distinguished service, as well as recognition for the defense of the wall of separation and the First Amendment.
Ellen Johnson, President of the American Atheists, opened the post-dinner program by thanking the many people who had worked so hard to make this 25th National Convention such a success. Kudos to Ed Gauci, Wayne Aiken, Joe Zamecki, Dick Hogan, Frank and Ann Zindler, Ron Barrier, Charles Terrano, Dodie Gervais, Gil Amancio and Henry Morgan.
Ms. Johnson then began the long series of award presentations.
* Gil Lawrence Amancio, Northeast Regional Director, was presented with an award for his successful efforts in challenging a nativity display in his home town of Somerset, Mass. Mr. Lawrence was presented with the 1999 Wall of Separation Award.
* Neal Cary, the National Outreach Director for American Atheists was called to the dais, to present the State Director of the Year Award. This was the first year for this citation. Carletta Sims of Tennessee was awarded this recognition as State Director of the Year; among the many efforts she has made in the past year was protesting a released-time program in local public schools, and the display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings in her local community.
* Abortion rights activist Bill Baird was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for 1999 from American Atheists.
* Caroline Gilman was presented with a Life Time of Service Award for her many, many years of work on behalf of American Atheists.
* Ed Gauci, webmaster for American Atheists, was cited for his constant work “behind the scenes” in bringing the organization into cyberspace He received the American Atheists Outreach Award for 1999.
* Chris Prokop was presented with an American Atheist Certificate of Appreciation, especially for his work in helping to organize last year’s demonstration in Washington, D.C. in support of feminist-Atheist writer Taslima Nasrin. He received a Certificate of Appreciation for 1999.
* The American Atheist Civil Rights Award for 1999 was presented to Liz Burcin, State Director for Pennsylvania.
* David Silverman, State Director for New Jersey was presented with the American Atheists Activist of the Year Award for 1999. Dave was instrumental in helping to defeat the N.J. Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
* A Certificate of Appreciation was presented to Maryland State Director John Obst, especially for his participation in the Nasrin demonstration, and in working against the Md. Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
* Neal Cary, National Outreach Director for American Atheists was cited for his work in helping to organize and “grow” the State Director network. He received a Distinguished Service Award for 1999.
* Dick Hogan was presented with the 1999 Atheist of the Year Award.
* Randall Gorman, Texas State Director, was presented with the 1999 Volunteer of the Year Award.
* Carl Silverman received the 1999 Defending the Wall Award.
* Maryland State Director John Obst received a Certificate of Appreciation for his work in helping to stop that state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
* Charles Terrano, National Youth Outreach Director, received recognition for his work in helping to make the 25th National Convention such a success.
* Dave Silverman, New Jersey State Director, received the 1999 American Atheists Activist of the Year Award.
* Liz Burcin, Pennsylvania State Director, received the 1999 Civil Rights Award.
Finally, Ellen Johnson was presented with a plaque for her role in helping to guide the organization for the past four years, and helping to re-establish the American Atheists Center .
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St. Boniface for Kids - June 5
The Loyola Kids' Book of Saints
Over 40 saints' lives,written at a middle-school reading level.
I. Saints are People Who Love Children St. Nicholas,St. John Bosco, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla
Saints Are People Who Love Their Families St. Monica,St. Cyril and St. Methodius, St. Therese of Lisieux,Blessed Frederic Ozanam,
Saints Are People Who Surprise OthersSt. Simeon Stylites,St. Celestine V,St. Joan of Arc,St. Catherine of Siena
Saints Are People Who Create St. Hildegard of Bingen,Blessed Fra Angelico,St. John of the Cross,Blessed Miguel Pro
Saints Are People Who Teach Us New Ways to Pray St. Benedict,St. Dominic de Guzman,St. Teresa of Avila,St. Louis de Monfort
Saints Are People Who See Beyond the Everyday St. Juan Diego, St. Frances of Rome, St. Bernadette Soubirous, Blessed Padre Pio
Saints Are People Who Travel From Home St. Boniface, St. Peter Claver, St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis Solano, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini
Saints Are People Who Are Strong Leaders St. Helena, St. Leo the Great, St. Wenceslaus, St. John Neumann
Saints Are People Who Tell The Truth St. Polycarp, St. Thomas Becket, St. Thomas More, Blessed Titus Brandsma
Saints Are People Who Help Us Understand God St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Jerome, St. Patrick, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Edith Stein
Saints Are People Who Change Their Lives for God St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Camillus de Lellis, St. Katharine Drexel
Saints Are People Who Are Brave St. Perpetua and St. Felicity, St. George, St. Margaret Clitherow, St. Isaac Jogues, The Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, St. Maximilian Kolbe
Saints Are People Who Help the Poor and Sick St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Martin de Porres, Blessed Joseph de Veuster
Saints Are People Who Help In Ordinary Ways St. Christopher, St. Blaise, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Bernard of Montjoux
Saints Are People Who Come From All Over the World Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, St. Paul Miki, Blessed Peter To Rot, Blessed Maria Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta
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First priority when on holiday is to Relax….. But after a few hours of that …. then what ?
Local walks.
Until the mid 20th century all heavy and bulky things in this area were moved by boat. Roads were very poor and most people would have traveled between communities by boat or on foot. This has left us with a network of access foot paths and pony tracks. Ardnamurchan is blessed with some wonderful walking routes.
A guide to some more popular local trails is available in local shops. This provides O.S.map co-ordinates and outlines both short and long routes. Some are mere strolls along forestry paths; others include more testing scrambles to more remote peaks and glens.
Local History.
Evidence of some of the earliest habitation in Scotland is to be found along this coast. The remains of Iron Age forts, Viking farms and field systems, early Christian churches and medieval Castles are dotted across the region. Recently Ardnamurchan made international news when the site of a Viking boat burial was excavated on north coast of the peninsular. Unique treasures and historically important artifacts were recovered. More information on archeology sites on the Ardnamurchan peninsular can be found on the website of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project.
Local Ecology.
The hillsides around Loch Sunart are a unique habitat. Ancient Oak woodlands clad the slopes. Exploited for charcoal during the 17th and 18th centuries – used for iron smelting further south – more recently full SSSI protection of these woodlands has been managed by the Sunart Oak Woodlands project. The preservation of this unique habitat, while carefully managing access and any commercial exploitation, will ensure the conservation of native fauna and flora. Many walking trails have been set up, and weekly guided woodland walks with the local rangers are available. More information can be found on the Sunart Oakwoods website.
The Forestry Commission has also created access for the public to many remoter areas. Through some forests, trails for those with Mountain bikes have been established. For a list of cycle routes, click here.
Bird Watching.
Ardnamurchan is on the annual migration routes for many species. The tranquil lochs and hillsides are home to some of the more unusual British coastal, inland and sea bird colonies. The RSPB has established its own reserve and woodland walk near Glenborrodale.
Geopark.
Lochaber was designated as a Geopark, but due to recent cutbacks no longer receives funding as one. Some of the world’s most ancient rocks are to be found on the surface in this area. Recent satellite imaging has confirmed what the earlier map-makers and geologists had already determined. The west end of the peninsular is composed of massive volcanic remains. The much eroded caldera of an immense prehistoric Volcano lies to the north of Kilchoan. Other peaks in the immediate area …the Coulin on Skye, the peaks on Rum, and on Mull, are relics of similar igneous activity.
Geocaching.
The worldwide online exchange of GPS ‘geocache’ co-ordinates has definitely reached the west highlands! People with a GPS receiver can explore far and near in the hope of reaching the secret locations of geocaches that others have created around this area.
Whale watch, Dolphin watch.
The seas around Ardnamurchan are frequently host to the larger marine mammals. Seal colonies can be found in the entrances to sea lochs. Porpoise and Dolphin are regular visitors. Minkie whales, and occasionally Killer whales, have also been spotted. Basking sharks are starting to return in numbers to local waters after many decades of persecution. Those who take a boat trip should always keep their eyes open. Regular day trips to the Islands of Rum, Eigg and Muck can be joined from Arisaig. Scheduled ferries around the small isles and to Skye run from Mallaig. Organised whale watching trips run from Tobermory in season. More information can be found here.
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Tim brings over 30 years of experience in architecture and construction of design focused project delivery to the firm. Prior to starting his own consulting practice in 2012 in New York, NY, Tim was Project Director and Project Architect for Richard Meier and Partners LLC on the recently completed New $350 million San Diego Federal Courthouse - completed ahead of schedule and on budget, a first for GSA projects of this magnitude. In Tim’s twenty years at Richard Meier and Partners, he led teams on the new San Jose City Hall and LA’s landmark, The Getty Center. All of these very complex projects have achieved design, construction and project management awards. His belief in team building and consensus among his team of consultants along with the building contractor and owner, has been instrumental in these achievements. Tim’s career also includes roles as operations manager and technical director for AECOM (formerly DMJM Rottet), Gensler and as a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering on new theme parks coordinating out sourced design consultants for more than $1 Billion dollars in value. Over the course of his career Tim has been directly involved in over $3 Billion dollars value of construction in multiple building typologies. His career also includes over 10 years as an instructor at UCLA graduate school and has served as a Public Commission Member for his Southern California city of residence for over twenty years. Tim is a member of the AIA and a licensed architect in the states of California, New York, Colorado and Connecticut. He holds a Masters of Architecture from University of Colorado, 1985 and B.A. Environmental Design & Planning from New York State University at Buffalo, 1980.
Lori Guidry, DBIA
President, Los Angeles, CA
Lori Guidry brings to Development Industries Inc. over 25 years of experience in the commercial construction industry. Lori's professional experience includes extensive work in both pre-construction and operations, as well as owner's representation in construction management. Lori has held leadership roles on large scale public and private-sector projects such as the award-winning Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Community College District Bond AA Capital Improvements Program, and the Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles. Prior to joining Development Industries, Inc. Lori has worked with other industry-leading firms, including the Clark Construction Group, Jacobs Engineering, and Webcor Builders. Lori is also actively involved in the community with the ACE Mentor Program, providing mentoring and scholarships to local high school students interested in Architecture, Construction and Engineering. Being one of ACE’s first members and since its inception in Los Angeles in 2002, ACE-LA has awarded over $1,000,000 in scholarships. Lori now serves as Board Chairman of ACE Los Angeles and was recently recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as the 2014 Philanthropist of the Year. Lori is a proud 'Gator' and received her Bachelor's Degree in Building Construction, with Honors from University of Florida, 1990.
Vic Adamo
Vice President, Los Angeles, CA
Vic Adamo brings more than 20 years of experience in the design and construction industry. His current and most recent award-winning projects include serving as owner Project Quality Manager on The New Long Beach Civic Center, being developed through a public-private partnership (P3) and the new Delta Airlines Terminal at LAX, part of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) $1.86 billion plan to modernize, upgrade and connect Terminals 2, 3, and the Tom Bradley International. Prior to starting his own consulting practice in 2008 in California, Vic has previously worked in the Washington DC areas in the design and development industry. He has worked on such notable projects as the LAC-USC Medical Center and the RAND Corporation Headquarters in Santa Monica. Mr. Adamo has worked with industry leaders such as Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: WRE), and global award-winning Architecture & Engineering firms Gensler, in Washington DC, AECOM, and HOK in Los Angeles, California. Vic holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University, Ottawa, School of Architecture, 1994.
Bill Lavine, AIA, LEED AP
Vice President, San Diego, CA
Bill brings over 30 years of experience in the design and construction of technically complex buildings. Bill is a Licensed and LEED Accredited Architect who also has CDT credentials from CSI. Having previously worked in the Washington DC areas in the design and development industry prior to relocating to California in 2006, Bill has worked on such notable and prize-winning projects as the NOAA Satellite Operations Center in Suitland, Maryland, designed by Pritzker Prize award-winning architect, Thom Mayne of Morphosis, and on multiple projects with the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. Since the 1990's, Bill was a Principal in the Government Studio of the award-winning Architecture & Engineering firm of EYP/ AE in Washington DC, and joined Harley Ellis Devereaux in both their Los Angeles and San Diego offices when he relocated to California in 2005. His architecture and project management experience covers a broad range of project types, including commercial, institutional and government, with a focus on federal projects specializing in facilities involving a very high degree of security.
Jay H Higgins, P.E., F.ASCE
Vice President, Las Vegas, NV
Jay brings over 40 years of civil engineering experience in the design and construction management on large construction developments in the private, public, and federal sectors. An infrastructure industry leader in transportation, airport, highway, wastewater treatment and power plant projects, Mr. Higgins extensive career has included leading a team overseeing a long term Contract Administration at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport Development Program and most recently as a Director and Senior Project Manager with URS Corporation in the Construction Services Division. Mr. Higgins has been member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) throughout his career and is currently serving as Vice-Chair of the Region 9 Board of Governors. He has received several ASCE awards including the 2013 President’s Award /Los Angeles Section and the 2014 Robert W. Bein Lifetime Achievement Award/Life Member Forum/Los Angeles Section. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and Professional Civil Engineer in California. Jay holds an MBA, University of Chicago, 1983, Master’s Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, 1975 and a Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, 1972.
Steve Deyer, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, Los Angeles, CA
Steve brings more than 20 years of experience in the design and construction industry and is currently collaborating on the Quality Management Program on the Los Angeles Federal Court Building. As a licensed architect, Steve has previously worked on several notable projects such as the award-winning New Long Beach Courthouse, Diamond Valley Lakes Museum in Hemet, California (First LEED Platinum museum in the country), Prior to having his own practice, Steve has worked with award-winning architecture firms Steinberg Architects and Michael Lehrer Architects in Los Angeles, California. Steve is a proud 'Gator' and received his Bachelor of Design, with Honors from the University of Florida, College of Architecture, 1994.
Philip Koss, AIA, LEED AP
Philip brings over 20 years of experience in the design and construction industry. As a licensed architect, Philip has previously worked on such notable projects as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Getty Center, the San Diego Federal Courthouse, and UCLA's Eli and Edyth Broad Art Center. Prior to joining Development Industries, Philip has worked with global award-winning Architecture firms and industry leaders, Frank Gehry Partners and Richard Meier & Partners, in Los Angeles. Philip is a proud 'Trojan' and received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Southern California, 1997
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Disappeared News
News you may not find in the local media. Learn why it was disappeared.
Time to reform Hawaii’s commissions, boards and councils?
by Larry Geller
Hawaii may not be getting its value from state-appointed boards or self-appointed non-profits, as illustrated by the current flap over the conduct of the State Ethics Commission. There are steps that could be taken to better prepare these bodies to carry out their intended functions.
Recognizing that there is no training, oversight or accountability is the first step
It may be time for Hawaii to review how its boards, commissions and councils are managed. Throw in the handful of federal- or state-funded non-profits that run on taxpayer money but have never been audited and work with no visible state oversight, and the picture that emerges is of a quasi-governmental public service sector that may be serving the state poorly in some cases.
The tortured process by which the State Ethics Commission handled the dismissal of its long-serving executive director Dan Mollway is but the latest indication of what may be a more widespread governance problem. In December, Hawaii’s Chief Elections Officer resigned amid a flurry of lawsuits and other troubling controversies and, after a 94% cut in the office budget, no plan for carrying out the 2010 elections.
The Ethics Commission might be faulted for a lack of experience in human resource matters, but no requirements are in place that would have given them the necessary training or direction. Similarly, members of the Elections Commission need not have expertise on matters related to voting or elections.
And it’s not uncommon for these state appointees to be ignorant of the requirements of the open meetings and open records laws. The Ethics Commission, for example, routinely adjourned before going into executive session. Trouble is, having adjourned, the executive session was therefore illegal. There are other “details” they failed to observe, including the need to have a recorded vote on a motion to go into executive session. Is it ethical for an ethics commission to operate contrary to law?
Hawaii encourages citizen participation in government thorough appointment to boards, commissions and councils. The statewide Board of Education is elected. Anyone can run in the election. The State Ethics Commission is appointed by the Governor from a panel of persons nominated by the Judicial Council of the Hawaii Supreme Court. Most other boards are appointed by the Governor from among individuals who have indicated a willingness to serve. Some have federal requirements for who may or must constitute the board.
When appointed, the Ethics Commission is charged with enforcing, among other things, the State Ethics Code (HRS chapter 84, the State Lobbyists Law (HRS chapter 97), and the financial disclosure law. Yet expertise in these matters, along with understanding of laws that govern any state board, such as the open meetings or open records laws, is not required, nor is training in these matters generally provided as a requirement to serve.
OIP records indicate that compliance with the open meetings law is spotty. Sometimes we learn about violations by chance. In October 2006, the Procurement Policy Board held a meeting but could not figure out until the end that it did not have a quorum.
In 2009 the Hawaii County Council held a series of serial discussions among themselves prior to their June meeting that violated the Sunshine Law.
Also in 2009, the Hawaii Historic Places Review Board was having problems making it through their open meeting, so they kicked out the public while they tried to figure out “how to get through the entire agenda in a timely fashion before they lost quorum.”
It’s not unusual for boards or councils to hang around after meetings and continue to discuss matters that should have been part of the open meeting. Usually the public has already departed and so no one is there to rat on them. In 2009, the Kauai County Council was nailed when someone asked what was going on inside the locked room, and someone actually told them.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse but is common enough
The State Board of Education can be described as unfamiliar with the details of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and other laws related to civil rights of students. Indeed, knowledge of the laws they are charged with enforcing is not a requirement to be elected, and the press never questions candidates on their background knowledge of state and federal laws.
I testified to the BOE one day that the federal law itself required that boards of education be educated in disabilities laws. How else can they make decisions concerning the rights of the students? Yet these decisions are routinely made. Though confronted with the need to educate themselves, the BOE ignored the requirement. Now, ignorance can be cured, but they had no intention to do so.
Violations of the open meetings law are common. I have somewhere an old video of a county council actually appearing to debate whether they will follow the law or not.
State boards vary, usually depending on whether the particular chair has undertaken to study the requirements.
Not all boards are run this way. The State Rehabilitation Council provides members with a half-day training on the open meetings and open records laws, on ethics, and requires that the state and federal regulations be read and understood. Meetings are held and conducted properly. If there is a question, OIP is consulted on the correct procedure. I have served two terms on the Council and have been impressed with their governance.
The only oversight may be administrative interference in board communications
Sadly, when the activities of a board are reviewed, it may be because the Governor is unhappy with their activities. A special law was passed in 2008 over the Governor’s veto that guaranteed the independence of boards and commissions and their ability to communicate with the Legislature without administration censorship (Act 60).
Non-profits on their own, fueled by endless state or federal funding
Moving down on the accountability scale, Hawaii is served by a network of non-profit organizations with self-appointed boards, whose members are often cherry-picked and under the thumb of the executive director. A number of them have never, to my knowledge, been audited, and there is no oversight of their activities. Yet they may receive hundreds of thousands of dollars annually of state or federal funds. Some have been on their own recognizance for a decade to 15 years or so, without a state management or fiscal audit.
In 2008 a controversy arose that produced illustrative legislative testimony. See here and here for the first two hits in a Google search around the question of a management audit of the Hawaii Centers for Independent Living. That organization is only one of a cluster that operates without much state attention (until, of course, a problem arises).
Any proven lack of professionalism on the part of either the boards or the non-profits affects the public interest. We are paying for something we may not be receiving. In the case of the non-profits, we’re talking big bucks.
The solution is not rocket science
Clearly, the Legislature could, without much difficulty, require that all appointees to boards, commissions or councils be given a basic course in Hawaii’s open meetings, open records, and ethics laws. With a little more effort, they could be provided with reference material on hiring and supervising executive directors and other staff. The state could have a basic employment handbook that could be given to each appointee, along with a form that must be signed indicating that the material has been read and is understood.
The Board of Education should be required to undertake whatever training is currently required by the feds or useful in carrying out their duties, and perhaps additional classes in school governance and basic pedagogy. Yes, send ‘em to class. It would still be a citizen board, but once in office it would receive training. And maybe a few pop quizzes to be sure the material is understood.
It would be great to have some organization professionals review how Hawaii does its board governance and come up with recommendations for improvement. The feds, for good motive or otherwise, are moving towards better fiscal accountability for tax-exempt non-profits. We could no doubt get better results from our boards with just a few tweaks and some legislation, and without discouraging people from volunteering to serve.
A similar study could put an end to non-profit executive profiteering at state expense. Particularly in these difficult economic times it seems reasonable to know whether the money going to each agency is simply supporting its director and staff or if we are receiving the intended benefit. If not, why not pull the plug and put the function out to bid. Is 10-15 years of a non-bid contract a good way for the state to operate? I suggest not.
The Legislature could set requirements for periodic management and fiscal audits and set procedures for assigning contracts, including the requirement that contracts be put out to bid where appropriate. It should not be automatic that an agency that has received nearly a half-million dollars each year for more than a decade be given the same next year without transparency or oversight.
Finally, sloppy governance can lead to litigation. In these difficult economic times we shouldn’t expend legal fees and pay high settlement costs over avoidable situations. The Ethics Commission appears to have exposed some private information about the dismissal of their executive director that could result in litigation. If that should happen, the cost to the state (that is, to taxpayers) could certainly be far above the nominal cost of providing the Commission with education, guidance and resources in its human resources responsibilities.
By requiring education, oversight and accountability, Hawaii can both get better service from its boards and non-profits, and spend our tax dollars in a way to produce the best returns.
For more on the Ethics Commission flap, See:
Ethics agency harmed by Mollway dismissal (Star-Advertiser, 6/19/2010)
We question Hawaii State Ethics Commission termination of its Executive Director (Disappeared News, 6/16/2010)
Ethics Commission chastised in public testimony for its handling of action against Dan Mollway (Disappeared News, 6/9/2010)
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Permalink posted by Larry @ 6/19/2010 03:30:00 PM
"Is it ethical for an ethics commission to operate contrary to law?"
"so they kicked out the public while they tried to figure out “how to get through the entire agenda in a timely fashion before they lost quorum.”
THAT KIND OF SUMS IT ALL UP. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
Surely Hawaii can do better than what has been offered.
Lingle has no little education it is disgusting.
But yes, Commission and Board reforms are overdue. The collective intellect of Kauaiʻs Planning commissioners and councilmembers is downright scary. Even the wet-behind-the-ears wannabe county attorneys.
# posted by Anonymous : June 20, 2010 at 7:55:00 AM HST
Kudos Larry. Why this isn't on the front burner of mainstream local media? - well we may never know. The accountability is zero. The ignorance level can be exploited if someone is clever enough. A serious politician can have someone "prod" commissioners to do "dirty work" that others would get roasted for.
# posted by Anonymous : June 22, 2010 at 10:49:00 AM HST
On "dirty work," you've said it well. And if we don't have confidence in why the Commission dismissed the ED, we can't know that there has not been pressure on them to do so. It doesn't take a "conspiracy theory" to have a conspiracy, only a watchdog individual or agency that becomes a target because of what it does.
# posted by Larry : June 22, 2010 at 12:05:00 PM HST
Requiring those Captcha codes at least temporarily, in the hopes that it quells the flood of comment spam I've been receiving.
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The New Queer Eye Reboot and the 5 Hosts You Should Be Following
Netflix just released a modernized reboot of the Bravo show, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, which originally aired between 2003 and 2007. The original show followed five gay men who specialized in interior design, fashion, grooming, food & wine, and culture, who came to the rescue of clueless straight men who desperately needed a life makeover.
The Netflix reboot of the show, Queer Eye, is based on the same premise and has an exceptional cast. Here are the five guys you’ll want to look out for and follow on social media:
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Bobby plays a design specialist on Queer Eye who happens to be just as brilliant in real life. This former Texan started the Bobby Berk Home brand where he creates minimalist urban luxury designs worth drooling over. But don’t take our word for it; check out his website to see for yourself.
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Kamaro is an American television host, reality TV personality, and activist. He currently hosts MTV’s Are You The One: Second Chances. On Queer Eye, he plays the culture expert, which is fitting for this Jamaican-American who seems to have done a lot throughout his life so far.
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Tan is an England-born fashion expert who plays the role of fashion consultant in the show. Interestingly, he was discovered from his social media presence and recruited to be in the show. Initially he was camera shy even when it came to getting his photo taken, but clearly he’s come a long since joining the cast!
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Media Monday: Superheroes
The books: Reformed: Supervillain Rehabilitation Project #1 by HL Burke and The Superhero Publicist by Janeen Ippolito
The song: “Holding out for a Hero” by Jennifer Saunders and Frou Frou and Bonnie Tyler
I’m not a big superhero person. I like Batman but haven’t seen any of the new Superman or Batman or Wonder Woman (why is that two words but Superman isn’t??) movies or any of the Marvel universe ones. That said, I still enjoyed these superhero stories.
The first one, Reformed: Supervillain Rehabilitation Project #1 by HL Burke, is set in a world that reminds me of The Incredibles. Superpowers are common enough, and the heroes work with the government to thwart the villains. It’s a bit too black-and-white – there aren’t many sables, as they’re called, who reject either side – but it still works. The MC, Prism, reboots a government program aimed at reforming villains, and she sets her sights on the worst of the worst: Fade, who is accused of betraying her father’s trust when he ran the program before, and of killing a bunch of people. There’s some romance thrown in, of course, as Prism tries to convince Fade he really is a good person inside. As someone who has no qualms about straddling the line between chaotic good and chaotic neutral, I don’t necessarily agree with this – why can’t people just be evil because they want to be evil? – but otherwise, it’s a nice story and a quick read. The characters are similar to those in other books by the author, but that’s not a bad thing either.
The second book, The Superhero Publicist by Janeen Ippolito, is a short about, as the title aptly describes, a publicist for superheroes. She’s working with a new client, a reformed villain now trying to be on the right side of the law for a very specific reason that twists the story around. Definitely worth reading as well.
The song is one of my favorites. When I was 5 or 6, my parents, for whatever reason, got me the Footloose soundtrack for Christmas (and The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat, also for reasons beyond me because both had already been out for many years and my parents didn’t even really listen to this kind of music but whatever). I listened to it a TON and still have a soft spot for most of the songs. This is one of my favorites, and so of course I was thrilled when it showed up at the end of the best Shrek movie, Shrek II. Frou Frou, a band I love, also threw in a version for the end credits.
I’m not sure I’d hold out for a hero from either of these two books, but it’s still fitting.
Which version of the song do you like best? What are your thoughts on superheros, heroes vs villains, and superpowers in general? Tell me in the comments below!
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World War I Monsters Reported by Military
The UB-85 German U-Boat from World War I claimed they were under attack by a sea monster in one of the most unusual modern day cases of unexplained sinkings.
In 1918, the German sub's crew were taken by the British and they reported that their submarine had been attacked by a sea monster that wrapped itself around and pulled the ship down. It was described as having deep-set small eyes and horns. No one believed the story of the crew, but in recent times the Scots found it on the sea bed when laying cable.
Where the ship lays, no one has an interest in pursuing it, and so the mystery will continue.
Sea monsters reported by war ships are not unusual.
In fact, during that same World War I, era a British steamer called "Iberian" was chugging along the coast of Ireland. The German U-28 pursued and fired at them. The Iberian was hit and the bow went up and the stern went under.
In 1933, the German captain of the U-28 reported about the incident that the blast brought up a sea monster. (LINK) “The animal was about 20 meters [65 ft] long and crocodile-like in shape, with pairs of strong front and hind legs adapted for swimming, and a long head that tapered towards the nose.” According to the Baron, the creature was visible for about “10 to 15 seconds at a distance of about 150 to 100 meters (500–300 ft) in bright sunshine.”
Sticking with World War I again, we go to the story of 1914 and a Captain Yeskes of the London Fusiliers. He supposedly took four soldiers to no man's land to patrol. They didn't return, so their unit went out to find them. Their bodies were found with teeth marks on their throats. The soldiers heard howling and stories passed around quickly that there was a killing beast out there in the wilds. Then, quite suddenly, the howling stopped and whatever it was seemed to move on.
(LINK) The mystery was only resolved when a German scientist named Gottlieb Hochmuller was killed in a Berlin riot at the end of the war. Apparently, Hochmuller’s papers revealed a dastardly plot to transfer a madman’s brain into a giant Siberian wolfhound, which was subsequently released into no-man’s-land. This was part of a series of experiments which Hochmuller hoped would “end the war in Germany’s favor.” How even a very crazy dog was supposed to resolve a world war remains unclear.
World War I provided an unusual approach by sea including submarines. This certainly stirred up the fear of the water, not knowing from where a torpedo might strike. But, it also seemed to spawn a lot of monster scenarios. It rather reminds me of the Godzilla fascination post-Hiroshima.
Movies with the theme of military versus monster -
Them!
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The Thing From Another World (1951).
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Global Priorities: Home
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From left: Dennis Frado, Lutheran Office for World Community; Martin Rendon, U.S. Fund for UNICEF;
Sullivan Robinson, Trinity Development Corporation and former executive director, Congress of National Black Churches, and Arnold Kohen, international coordinator, Global Priorities Campaign.
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Global Priorities: An International Inter-religious Campaign to Change Budget Priorities is working to combat poverty by mobilizing religious as well as secular communities to alter national and global budget priorities. It is vital to find effective ways to change direction. With global military expenditures exceeding $1 trillion annually, reducing unproductive military spending, over and above legitimate self-defense, in poor countries as well as rich ones, can and must be a central component of the battle to eradicate poverty: The equivalent of UNICEF’s annual budget is spent on military purposes roughly every 15 hours, even as one billion children live in almost unimaginable conditions of deprivation. At a time when the world faces the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the ongoing struggle against violent extremism and crises in the Middle East and many other places, nations need a road map to human security that reaches beyond military might.
The current focus of Global Priorities is reducing nuclear weapons stockpiles while devoting a portion of the resulting savings to activities to address nuclear nonproliferation, promote child survival, the alleviation of hunger and improve health and education around the world. Global Priorities is facilitating a series of international dialogues leading to a process that builds on elements of a bipartisan resolution, first introduced in the U.S. Congress 2008 by Rep. Jim McGovern (Democrat of Massachusetts) and Rep. Dan Lungren (Republican of California).
The Congressional resolution called for reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals that will lead to savings of billions of dollars annually, while directing some of the savings toward increased nuclear security efforts (including new funds to expand and accelerate the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program). The resolution also advocated additional funding to enhance child health and nutrition and improvement of opportunities of children and youth in the world’s poorest countries. Furthermore, the resolution encouraged other nuclear and non-nuclear nations to commit funding for programs that help poor children and youth.
The world is at a crossroads, both in terms of the need to reduce nuclear arsenals and nuclear threats and ensure a better future for its children and people everywhere. Will we seize the opportunity?
Efforts growing out of the Congressional resolution and measures to follow on at the international level can establish a concrete formula for the reduction of nuclear arsenals, thereby playing a significant role in defining our common future. We must bridge the political divisions that exist today to achieve these goals.
A fundamental principle of the Global Priorities Campaign is that human security can be achieved through determined initiatives to eradicate extreme poverty and to realize economic, social and cultural rights. Majority opinion ultimately can be swayed by articulating values whose roots are in every oral and scriptural tradition of the world’s great religious communities: concern for our children, our elders, those living with disabilities, and all the vulnerable members of our societies.
The momentum for the Global Priorities Campaign is growing: the chance to effectively address nuclear dangers at the same time that we generate benefits for children and all others throughout the world must be strongly pursued.
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FedDev Ontario Invests in Healthcare Innovation
21 juil. 2016 10h45 HE | Source : Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
NEWMARKET, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 21, 2016) - Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario)
Canadians will soon benefit from improved health-care options to support the management of chronic disease as a result of a $15 million investment to York University and its partners, Southlake Regional Health Centre and the University Health Network.
This investment by the Government of Canada was announced today by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), along with. Kyle Peterson, Member of Parliament for Newmarket-Aurora.
The Government's Innovation Agenda aims to make Canada a global centre for innovation – one that creates jobs, drives growth across all industries and improves the lives of all Canadians. This investment is a prime example of that vision in action.
An estimated three out of five Canadians over the age of 20 years old are diagnosed with at least one chronic disease. And the rates of chronic disease diagnosis are rising steadily every year. The treatment of chronic disease is estimated to cost Canadians $39 billion annually.
The investment, through the Investing in Commercialization Partnerships initiative, will be used to develop and commercialize clinical applications as well as medical devices. These technologies make use of the vast amounts of clinical data available to create health solutions that are tailored to the needs of individual patients. Such innovations have the potential to improve outcomes for patients, reduce costs for health-care providers and create nearly 130 highly skilled, well-paying jobs for Canadians working in this emerging field.
The project brings together university- and hospital-based researchers with the business community. The investment will be matched by $19.5 million from 36 partners, resulting in a total budget of $34.5 million, which will help position southern Ontario as a leader in health technology, while providing Canadians with better, more precise ways to manage chronic disease.
"Our Government is committed to positioning Canada as a global centre for innovation - one that creates well-paying jobs for Canadians working in this emerging field while also helping to foster a thriving middle class, drives growth across all industries and improves the lives of all Canadians. Today's announcement is a prime example of that policy in action. The most innovative solutions often happen when people from different fields collaborate. That's why it's important for universities, healthcare providers, the business community and government to work together. That's how we will come up with health-care solutions that improve the quality of life for Canadians."
- The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
"This investment will lead to the creation of important resources and services for patients in Canada living with chronic disease. Companies and individuals will benefit from the strategic partnerships, collaborations and new technologies that will develop as a result of this project."
- Kyle Peterson, Member of Parliament for Newmarket-Aurora
"This important investment by the Government of Canada recognizes the critical role of innovation and knowledge mobilization in both health promotion and health care. It will enable York to build on the success of our Connected Health and Wellness Project (CHWP), which demonstrated the power of providing individuals with the technology and tools they need to manage their health. York has collaborated with Southlake for many years, and we anticipate an even closer working relationship as we look forward to our new campus opening in Markham Centre."
- Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor,York University
"The federal government's investment will help Southlake to be a model hospital of the future. Fostering the commercialization of healthcare technology is a catalyst to a more sustainable healthcare system, improved quality, and the highest level of patient safety. By working collaboratively with startups and small to medium-sized enterprises, Southlake, through its incubator CreateIT Now, is playing a critical role in fostering the adoption of the healthcare technology to best benefit our patients and the healthcare sector as a whole. In addition to benefits these new technologies will have for our patients, we are also creating opportunities for Canadian companies to attract investment, create jobs, and reduce the innovation gap in Canada."
- Dr. Dave Williams, President & CEO, Southlake Regional Health Centre
"We are excited to be able to continue creating new technologies for patients struggling with the burden of illness. This strong support from the federal government is recognition that there is exquisite talent in our research hospitals and universities. By working together, transformational change is possible in our health system through the creation and use of novel health technologies for patient self-care. We look forward to working with lead partners, York University and Southlake Regional Centre; this collaboration will make life better for all of our patients."
- Dr. Peter Pisters, President and CEO, , University Health Network
FedDev Ontario's non-repayable contribution is expected to create 128 full-time equivalent jobs and result in the commercialization of 37 technologies and 72 new collaborations with businesses and research and healthcare institutions.
This funding will support the commercialization of: 11 health apps, five medical devices, 15 technologies that will be used to address clinical problems, and six big data platforms.
The funding will go towards total project costs of up to $34.5 million and will leverage up to $19.5 million from 36 organizations, including Cisco Systems, Janssen, TELUS Health, MD Primer, ChipCare Corporation, NexJ Health, University of Toronto and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Today's investment builds on a previous FedDev Ontario non-repayable contribution of $15.5 million to York University to support the successful delivery of the Connected Health and Wellness Project, which resulted in the development of 40 new products, 122 jobs and 27 collaborations.
Backgrounder - FedDev Ontario Invests in Innovative Healthcare support
Investing in Commercialization Partnerships Initiative
York University, Faculty of Health
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FedDev Ontario Invests in Health Innovations to Support Canadians Living with Chronic Disease
The Government of Canada supports the development of new health technologies to address the rising rates of chronic disease. As part of this program, York University, Southlake Regional Healthcare Centre and the University Health Network will receive an investment of up to $15 million.
This non-repayable contribution, through FedDev Ontario's Investing in Commercialization Partnerships (ICP), will bring together university- and hospital-based researchers as well as front-line health-service providers to develop and commercialize new technologies. These technologies will have the potential to manage chronic disease and provide Canadians with better, more precise health services delivered at a lower cost.
This project will create 128 full-time equivalent jobs, while supporting 72 collaborations in health technology, resulting in the commercialization of 37 new technologies. These technologies will include health apps, medical devices and secure, big-data platforms. Together, such new technologies will drive the development of personalized medicine, which aims to provide services tailored to the individual needs of patients.
For example, FedDev Ontario funding will contribute to:
NexJ Connected Wellness – A cloud-based platform that delivers tools to help patients and their caregivers manage chronic disease.
Artemis – A big-data analytics platform to support advanced clinical decision making for newborns with sepsis.
Ned – A personalized app for survivors of prostate cancer. It promotes self-care by providing patients with their lab and health results and supports providers with timely information about their patients' health.
In 2011, FedDev Ontario provided York University with a $15.5-million investment to support the development and delivery of the Connected Health and Wellness Project. This project included collaborative partnerships among small- and medium- sized businesses and major health-care institutions. The funding resulted in the development of 40 new products. It also created 122 jobs and supported 27 collaborations.
About York University
York University is Canada's third largest university. It houses one of the largest health faculties in Canada. York is a leading educator and research institution in personalized health coaching as a method of affecting behavioural change in patients. It is the only university to deliver a certificate in personalized health coaching. In 2011, York University partnered with academic, health-care and industry players to support the delivery of the Connected Health and Wellness Project.
About the Southlake Regional Healthcare Centre
The Southlake Regional Health Centre (SRHC) is a full-service hospital with a regional, clinically advanced focus. The hospital is a past recipient of the Innovation in the Adoption of Health Informatics Award. Southlake Regional Health Centre was a part of the Connected Health and Wellness Project funded in 2011.
About the University Health Network
The University Health Network (UHN) is Canada's leading research and academic institution and was ranked the top research hospital in Canada in 2014. The Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at UHN supports the commercialization of healthcare applications and medical devices addressing chronic diseases. UHN was a part of the Connected Health and Wellness Project funded in 2011.
FedDev Ontario's Investing in Commercialization Partnerships
Investing in Commercialization Partnerships supports business-led partnerships with a focus on developing globally-competitive products and services, or innovation platforms that can demonstrate commercial value.
Publicly funded universities and colleges as well as incorporated not-for-profit organizations, research institutions, and industry associations located in southern Ontario are eligible to apply under this initiative for projects that are business-led and focused on new technologies with demonstrated commercial value.
For more information, visit Investing in Commercialization Partnerships.
News release: FedDev Ontario Invests in Healthcare Innovation
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Black Horror 101: A Brief History of African Americans in Horror Cinema
Blacula - October 29, 2020
Black Is Boo-Tiful When Jordan Peeele’s Get Out became a breakout success in 2017, earning him the first Original Screenplay Oscar awarded to an African-American, "black horror movies" suddenly became the new hot property in Hollywood, with many people seeming to believe that this was an entirely new subset of...
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Angel Heart (1987)
Remember when the most controversial thing about the cast of The Cosby Show was Lisa Bonet's sex scene in Angel Heart? Ah, the good ol' days. The year was 1987, and the Huxtables were America's family, but their facade of upper-middle-class sitcom perfection took a hit when word came that...
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VooDoo (2018)
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Voodoo Dolls (1991)
The Canadian production Voodoo Dolls feels like a relic -- even more so than the nearly three-decades-old film already is. Its images of a shirtless black man clad in tribal paint and beaded necklaces, drumming in a trance-like state and menacing the white female protagonist seem like they're straight...
I'm no expert on UK culture, but it seems that for the first decade or so of the 21st century, there was a (real or perceived) increase in adolescent crime attributed to youths dressed in hoodies who seemingly adopted what they saw as the dangerous elements of hip-hop culture,...
Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)
Boo! A Madea Halloween is a movie that shouldn't exist. It was conceived as a joke by Chris Rock for his movie Top Five, and Tyler Perry, apparently unfamiliar with the concept of parody, took it as a challenge. Thus, less than two years after Top Five opened, Tyler...
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Interview: Michael Feldman on "A New Angle." Exploring Uncharted Territory With an Age-Old Tool
Michael Feldman (left) and Ryan Plunkett.
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In their new book "A New Angle," Michael Feldman and Ryan Plunkett introduce a series of new takes on an old tool, The Stripper Deck. The book takes the deck deeply into a realm of previously unexplored ideas. For example it outlines a new principle that allows for a series of surreal effects in which the condition of the deck visually transforms as it is being handled. The book also shows how the deck can add dimension to classic effects like Triumph and the Color Changing Deck, and includes many other intriguing tricks and tips. Michael Feldman, who now lives in San Francisco was a regular performer at Monday Night Magic and at Feinstein's while he was part of the magic scene in New York at different times from 2007 to 2012. One night while we were hanging out at a local magic club meeting, Michael mentioned his in-progress book and pulled out a deck.
A New Angle, is published by Magic, Inc., photographed by James Murphy, designed by Heather Wood, edited by Susan Palmer Marshall and Pedro Nieves-Bosque, with a foreword by Lance Pierce, It features additional contributions by Harapan Ong, Edward Boswell, Nathan Colwell, Frank Fogg, and Brian O'Neill.
I guess why I was so interested in this book is that I remember that you performed some of this material for us quite a while back at one of the Magnets meetings, and I always liked the Stripper Deck anyway, but I thought ‘here’s a different, fresh approach to using it, which isn’t just locating a card.’ I guess I would start from a basic point of view and ask what got you to start looking at the Stripper Deck in a new vein? What was your impression of it before starting to work on this, and what led you to start working on these new approaches?
My approach to the Stripper Deck before this project was the same as most people’s approach to the Stripper Deck, which is that it stayed in the back of my magic drawer for many years as a tool I had no interest in pursuing anymore because it was the kind of thing that you leave aside when you graduate to sleight-of-hand and more interesting and deceptive methods. What changed my mind was meeting Ryan. At the first Pebblepalooza magic convention I met Ryan Plunkett and he fried me with a magic trick. I didn’t know how it was done and I didn’t want to know how it was done, and I thought about it the whole year. I went back the next year to the same convention, saw him at the same place, and he showed me the same trick and he still fooled me, and I asked him to show me how it was done. And the answer was a tapered deck, a Stripper Deck. That year he had come up with some more material and we started talking about what you could do with it and what he was doing with it, and what really convinced me was Ryan’s material that not only used a Stripper Deck but combined it with other principles like stacks or sleight-of-hand or all the various other principles that are available to you in magic. He used that combination to create some really deceptive, really compelling new effects that aren’t possible any other way.
Making tapers with the Stripper Jig.
What was the trick that he showed you, and is it in the book?
Yes, the trick is in the book. It is called Shuffleupagus. The book is mostly Ryan’s material. There are a couple of tricks and ideas from me and then there are one-offs from a variety of other people who have contributed other ideas. But the division of labor on the book was that most of the material is Ryan’s with a couple of things from me, and then I wrote most of the book (and Ryan helped with some of that as well). I got to name a bunch of the tricks because we were batting around ideas and I like coming up with ideas for naming tricks. Eventually, I think by being stubborn, I convinced Ryan to call this trick, Shuffleupagus. I’m pretty sure he hated the name at first, but I wouldn’t stop calling it that and so it ended up being the name in the book, so victory for me. The basic effect is that a deck unshuffles itself, but the thing I love about it is that you show a shuffled deck and by shuffling it more, the cards become more ordered. So, you show a shuffled deck, you give the cards a shuffle and all of a sudden they’re —not quite separated red and black—but close. Then you hand the deck out for other people, to two other people to shuffle it, and you combine their two halves, and when you do, it’s in new deck order. The idea of shuffling things back into order, and having a spectator do it, was a phenomenal plot, to my mind. I loved seeing it. It fooled me, and the rest is history, I guess.
Let’s go back a second. The Stripper Deck, you said, was in the back of your drawer. I went through a period where I felt ‘oh, the Stripper Deck, that’s for beginners.’ But then I started to feel like it got a bad rap, even before I came across your material. I thought, this is a tool that one way or another can make things more magical. So somehow I think it got a bad rap along the way.
I think that’s right. I think there’s two reasons that it gets a bad rap. One, which is the thing you can’t really do anything about, is that a lot of people know what it is. Non-magicians, laymen know the Stripper Deck. They maybe don’t know it by that name, they don’t know it’s called the Stripper Deck, the Tapered Deck, or the shaved deck or whatever it’s going to be called, but they do know that it exists, that there is a deck of cards that’s thinner on one end and bigger on another end and some people will even check for it when they ask to borrow your deck of cards. It’s a little bit of a bad rap because people know what it is.
But the other reason it gets a bad rap that is totally solvable is that people tend to pick one or the other of sleight-of-hand or gimmicks. Either they do a trick with a gimmick and no sleight-of-hand or they say this is a sleight-of-hand trick and they use sleight-of-hand and no gimmick. But it turns out combining them is much more powerful than either of them because people are looking for a gimmick or sleight-of-hand. Even non-magicians. Even people who aren’t familiar with methodology generally look for one method. They look for either the sleight-of-hand or the gimmick and if you combine both, such that your trick cannot be explained by either, then you have a much stronger trick. I think that the reason the deck gets a bad rap is because people assume if you’re going to use the gimmick, all you can do with that trick is use the gimmick, but if you combine it with other things, you can make it much more powerful, and that’s what the book tries to do.
Right. So, did you know Ryan before you got together with him at that convention?
I didn’t know Ryan before the first Pebblepalooza. I met him there, I’m pretty sure. And we didn’t decide to write the book until the second year. I think the second year we started deciding we were going to write the book and then from there it was an evolution - coming up with material and cutting material, videotaping it, describing it, revising it, shopping the book around, doing the pictures, getting it all set.
As you worked on the book, were you in separate cities? Can you describe the process of working on it?
Yeah, we were in separate cities. We wrote it mostly on Google Docs. One of us would come up with a trick or we would find one of our friends who had a trick that we wanted to include and generally speaking what would happen is someone would film it. And they would film the explanation and send it to me in Dropbox. I would write up the explanation and then we’d take that and we put it into Google Docs and then we’d send it around and do an edit and we’d have people work through it to make sure it made sense and make sure that people could understand it, that I hadn’t missed a step or written ‘right’ where I meant ‘left’ or something like that and moved on from there.
Once we had a bunch of tricks combined we started to create the order of the book and we started to cut material that we didn’t want, explain material that was better and proof read it and all of that. But the whole time I’ve been living in San Francisco and Ryan was first in school and then he moved to Chicago, so we met in Dallas for the convention, which was really the only time we were in the same city, except for a couple of times when I went out to Chicago. Other than that we met up at magic conventions, especially Magic Pebble. But we were able to write via the Internet and Skype. We’d talk via Skype about what we wanted the book to become and he was very good about texting me incessantly to make sure we were progressing on the writing and I tried to make sure that we were moving the book forward as well, but certainly Ryan deserves the bulk of the credit for pushing the project forward.
You said that you started working on it as a book after you met up the second time. So from then until now, how long has it been?
Five years. Certainly a book project doesn’t need to take five years, but this one did. I have a full time job. I’m a lawyer and that takes a lot of time. And this is a side project that is not going to be a living for either me or Ryan. It’s a passion project. It’s something that we care deeply about not a primary source of income. It was something that we wanted to get right, something that we wanted to do well, but that we really only had our spare time to do. It did take quite a long time.
And you decided to write the book before you had a publisher, right?
Yeah. So in this I’ve taken a page out of Louis C. K.’s book or George Lucas’s book, both of whom have this mentality that in order to create the project that they want to create without meddling from other people, they do their entire project and then shop it around. I worked for Lucasfilm as a legal intern for a little while and heard a couple of good stories about how George Lucas would do this. He would not only shoot a pilot episode of a TV show but he would shoot, or film, or animate an entire series, an entire first season and then shop it around and say, ‘look, you can have this like this and you can put it on the air or you can so no, and I’ll move on to someone else,' and that was our plan as well. Ryan and I are very particular about what we wanted this project to be, what we wanted it to look like, what we wanted it to feel like, what we wanted to be in it. Because we feel that strongly, we didn’t want to have the project directed by someone else such that it would be their project or their vision. We really wanted it to be our vision.
We wrote the whole thing. We had the entire thing put together. We started taking the pictures even before we had a publisher and then we finished taking the pictures after we had the publisher, but everything was written and we had placeholder pictures before we shopped it to anyone. We had done a couple of drafts that we had people read, and edit, and comment on before we even shopped it to a publisher. Then we took it to a couple of people and one publisher just wanted to do an e-book, and that really wasn't what we wanted. We wanted to have a physical, nice book. We took it to someone else who said yes, but eventually didn’t see the project going in the direction we wanted to go. And then we took it to Magic, Inc. and Magic, Inc. was very supportive and great and took it to even greater heights than we otherwise would have. We had the content there, but Magic, Inc. really designed the book itself, designed the cover, put it together. Ryan picked out the paper and worked on the size of the book and the formatting and the layout, but Magic, Inc. did a fantastic job bringing to life a project that Ryan and I had been trying to make happen for quite a long time.
I have to say, it is a lovely publication. The design is simple, but it’s very elegant. It’s kind of got an old school feel to it, which is nice.
Ryan and I are both book fans. We both have extensive magic book collections. It is both useful as a source of information but also a nice connection to the past and a connection to magicians that we really enjoyed or been inspired by. Ryan especially really likes the old material. He likes to shop in used book stores for magic books that you can’t find anywhere else, or to rekindle old gems, which is sort of what he’s done here, taking something that most people have dismissed and bringing it back to life. He wanted the book - we both wanted this, but it was especially his idea — to look like one of those old cloth cover magic books that was published by Eddie Fechter and Marlo back in the day before you got those slicker, shinier production values of today.
Did you ever think about putting this material out in a video format or would you still think of putting some of it out in a video format?
No, we didn’t. Again, for us this is a passion project. This is something we wanted to see in the world. It’s not a means to an end. This is the end in itself. We wanted to create this book. Obviously this is not the be all and end all of either of our magic, but the project that we wanted to see happen. From the very beginning Ryan and I said ‘we should write a book.’ We never said ‘we should make a DVD,’ we never said ‘we should make some downloads,’ and in fact with various folks we spoke to about putting the book out there was some talk about ‘we could do a companion video,’ and we never really wanted to do that. I don’t see a problem in the future releasing some of it on video as well, but that’s not the reason that we did this. It’s not the reason Ryan and I got together to do this project. We got together because we had some really amazing material that we thought should be in the magic world and because we wanted to have a book, because it is a connection to a piece of magic that is very important to both me and to Ryan.
I guess I’m saying people learn various ways. Some people learn better from videos. So it’s more ‘what’s the more efficient way of putting the material out there?’ But I see you guys are passionate about putting out a book.
To be clear while I think we were both very proud of the material in the book, the goal of creating a book is not necessarily to widely disseminate the content as much as possible. And that’s sort of by the nature of the work. This is not beginner magic, this is not entry-level stuff. It is a bit of a niche. You need some background knowledge in magic and some of these techniques to do the material. These are effects and this is a project that requires some investment on the part of whoever picks it up. So a book is a higher level of investment in terms of time and effort to learn material than a video is, but that's sort of what we were going for anyway. We want the material to be picked up by people who are really going to put the time in to learn the techniques or to think about this and take it to a new place. And the book is pretty specific about that as well.
In addition to the effects themselves, there are quite a number of stand-alone effects. There are also throughout the book a number of what we call “Shavings,” which are not full effects but ideas about ways that you can use the tapered deck that people haven’t thought of before, that people haven’t published before and that are interesting in that they can be added to other effects or they can inspire other effects. Certainly there is a lot of material in there that is like a traditional magic book, ready to be performed out of the box, but there also is quite a bit of material in there that is designed to inspire people and take it to a new place and to come up with new material and hopefully to come back some day and fool me and Ryan with it.
Maybe you could describe one or two other effects from the book that you like and think are good examples of what you were going for in terms of the material. And if relevant, describe the process by which the effect came together.
Sure. There are two that come to mind immediately, one of them is Ryan’s and one of them is mine. Ryan’s is called "Hallucinogenic Triumph." It is a version of "Triumph," although you can do a couple of things with it that aren’t just "Triumph". There is a very interesting, very bizarre moment, where you take a deck of cards and you are doing tabled riffle shuffles, and everything looks normal, it’s a normal tabled riffle shuffle, but without any false moves, without doing anything other than the motions of a standard riffle shuffle, cards start to turn face up. First everything is face down, then one or two cards are face up, then two or three cards are face up, then seven cards are face up then 10 cards are face up, then twenty cards are face up and you spread the deck and about half the cards are face up and half the cards are face down while you’re shuffling in a totally normal cadence. Then you have someone take a card, you close the deck back up, continue shuffling, then all the cards go back the same way, except for the one, which is the "Triumph" part. Actually, in the way that Ryan performs it, he cuts to the selected card, turns it over, shows that it is the selected card, and then spreads the rest of the deck to show that they are all facing the same way. It’s wonderful because it uses the tapered deck not in the traditional way you might think to use it, which is to separate cards, although there also is a piece of the effect that does that. You use it almost as a Svengali Deck to hide different cards when you want to, and because it’s a tapered deck and not just the Svengali, you can work with the taper to control the level of variation of which cards you’re hiding in a way you can’t do any other way.
That is a trick that was born out of a jam session between me and Ryan at our probably third or fourth Pebblepalooza, where we were sitting with tapered decks, working on material, and I came up with this idea of shuffling the cards and showing that they were all face down but then being able to spread and showing that they are all mixed, or vice-versa. The convention ended on Saturday and then everyone went to sleep at 3 a.m., 4 a.m. Sunday morning, and I think either 4 a.m. Sunday morning or 9 a.m. Sunday morning, when we were about to go to the airport, that’s the moment that Ryan and I were jamming with the tapered deck and found this principle, and over the next year we both worked on it. “Hallucinogenic Triumph” is the thing Ryan came up with, and I came up with an effect, called “The Law of Conservation of Bullshit” and in my effect it’s more like a pass the mess style of effect. I hand half the cards to the spectator and I take half the cards for myself and one of us shuffles face up into face down and the other shuffles face down into face down but when I give my packet to the spectator and the spectator gives their packet to me nothing changes. The cards that were all face down in my hand stay all face down in my hand and the cards that were face up and face down in the spectator’s hand stay face up and face down and no matter how many times you switch the packets back and forth the messy state stays with the person and doesn’t stay with the packet. There are a number of other phases that expand on that. There’s an all backs moment and a couple of other weird things. I have a tendency to create plots and presentations that are quite meta and that poke fun at traditional magic tropes so I go through a couple of traditional magic tropes and make fun at them using that effect. That’s the basic idea of that one.
The other thing that I will bring up that is really my favorite piece in the book is what I call “The Complete Faro Control.” Ryan is a Chicago based magician and as a result is around quite a large number of Marlo aficionados and Ryan has that sensibility. He loves algorithmic work, he loves stacks, he loves Faro work, things like that. While I find some of that very interesting, I find some of it very artificial. This idea, “The Complete Faro Control,” was designed to fix another trick in the book that uses Marlo’s “Incomplete Faro Control.” If you don’t know, “The Incomplete Faro Control” is one where you Faro the cards and you don’t square them up. You leave them in sort of an extended state where the cards are Faro interweaved but they’re not square. Then you have a spectator pick a card from the deck while the cards are weaved but not squared and you do some shuffles and some cuts and that gives you some algorithmic control over where the card is and what you do with it. I’ve always thought that “The Incomplete Faro Control” was bizarre because there is no reason to have the deck in that very odd state, and no explanation for it has ever rung true to me. I personally think that any spectator watching any trick with the “Incomplete Faro Control” knows that the only reason to do that has to be method. Even if they don’t know what the method is, they can point to something that has to have been part of the method. For me that’s enough to not do the effect. But I found, very happily, that with the Tapered Deck you can do “The Incomplete Faro Control” without having to have the deck in that bizarre state. You can do the “Incomplete Faro Control” with the deck entirely square. So you can replace “The Incomplete Faro Control” in any trick that uses it with “The Complete Faro Control,” which is a piece in the book. And for me that was great because I’ve loved a lot of the effects that use that technique, but I’ve always hated the technique. And to find a solution that applied to so many different tricks that I would love to use or that I would love to practice or work on was a great moment for me and one that I very much enjoy sharing with other people both in person and in the book.
Shifting gears just slightly, I wanted to ask, in the book you itemize the different sources for tapered decks and ultimately you come to the conclusion that it is really best for people to make them themselves. Did I interpret that correctly?
I think that’s probably right. It is not cheap to find a method to create your own stripper decks. You can buy a factory-made tapered deck for cheap, say $20 at a magic store and those are fine if you go to a good magic store or you find a good quality factory-made tapered deck, they’re fine. But to really get into The Tapered Deck in a meaningful way, that will allow you to unlock a lot of the possibilities that are there, you really want to learn to make your own or find someone nearby who is good at making them, for a couple of reasons. One is that you have more control over the deck itself. There are many different ways of cutting a tapered deck. The cut can be shallow, the cut can be deep, the cut can be on the end, the cut can be on the side. The cut can be on the index side or the non index side. Or you can have a cut in both places. All those different combinations allow you to do different things. Factory-made you can really only get one kind of those decks. So if you want to play with the others, you need to learn to cut them yourself. Like I said, it’s not necessarily cheap, but it’s no longer quite as expensive as it used to be. There was a time when in order to make your own tapered deck that would pass scrutiny with any spectator you would need to buy a $4,000 cutter, from either Joe Porper or from some magic shop that happened to have a passed down cutter from a long time ago that you can somehow purchase. They were hard to find, and they were very expensive. There are a number of cheaper options now. Ryan and I both now have what’s called The Stripper Jig, by a guy named, Eoin O’Hare, out of Ireland. That’s a wonderful piece that’s much cheaper than the traditional cutters, although it’s still not cheap. It’s about $500 to get the Stripper Jig. But then there’s there also options of using a paper cutter. We describe in the book a method of making a tapered deck with a paper cutter. There are a couple of people who sell them for $100. That’s cheap for some people and expensive for other people, but it’s certainly less expensive and more accessible to people generally than the old thousands of dollar cutters. So, there are a number of options now for learning to make your own and if it’s possible to do that then, what we came to in the book is, that it really does help to make your own.
It’s very interesting to go back to a magic tool that a lot of people had looked at as a beginner’s trick, and then refresh it, reinvent it. What about looking at other similar magic items. Are you going to go to the Svengali deck next, or maybe the Hot Rod?
I don’t think so. It wasn’t reviving an old technique that really roused the creativity in me and Ryan. It wasn’t about reviving something old that made us happy. It was finding a source of creativity or a source for new magic that we could play with and develop. It’s more about finding a new well of magic potential than it is about reviving something that’s old. There are lots of things that are old that are worth reviving and there are lots of things that are old that are not worth reviving. Just as there are things that are new that are worth doing and things that are new that are not worth doing. It’s really more about finding something to explore than it is anything else. I certainly have moved to exploring a couple other techniques that I’ve been working on. I know that Ryan is doing the same thing. I know that we’re both working on our own projects to explore different areas as well. Ryan and I still jam all the time on the various things we’re coming up with, so it’s totally possible that we’ll work on another project together and explore some new topic, but I’m not sure what that will be yet.
Joking aside, I think your book could inspire other people to look at the tools that they have around them and don’t use and find fresh approaches to use them.
I hope that happens. Absolutely.
I think that’s what’s great about it. I really love things that cause you to look at something familiar in a new, unexpected way.
The other reason that the tapered deck is particularly wonderful on that front is that you can bring it back into your repertoire without changing much of your repertoire. Most magic tricks that people do, you can do with a tapered deck, without using the tapered deck itself. You can do “Triumph, you can do “Ambitious Card,” insert name of trick you care about here, with a tapered deck —-without using The Tapered Deck itself. So you can walk around, perform for your friends, perform at your gigs, with a tapered deck in hand, doing whatever your existing repertoire is and then when you want to bust out something that does involve a tapered deck, it’s already in your hand. That’s one of the real differences between The Tapered Deck and other gimmicks. You can’t do that with a Svengali deck. With a Svengali deck, you can’t do your normal repertoire. That would have a much more profound effect on what you can do than a tapered deck does. I think that’s one of the greatest benefits of this book is that people can pick it up, people can learn tricks, and people can just hold onto a tapered deck and not use it they don’t want and experiment with it when they do.
Is there anything else you’d like to talk about in terms of other things you’re doing now in magic.
All of the other projects I’m working on right now are a little bit too far away to be teasing them yet. But I’ve definitely got a bunch of irons in the fire. I’m going to be doing a new show here in San Francisco sometime soon that I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve done a version of the show a couple of years ago and I’m going to be revamping it and doing it here. I’ve got another book in the works. Ryan and I are doing a lecture together later this year, and I’m putting together some lecture notes, because there are many more effects in this book than would actually be in a set of normal lecture notes. And I’ve got a DVD project in the works as well with a bunch of different friends that hopefully will see the light of day sometime soon. Because these are passion projects, they only happen in the time we have to spare.
The lecture you’re doing with Ryan is it based on this material or is it broader than that?
It will be both. Ryan and I both also have other material out as well. I’ve got a DVD called Trade Secrets that we put out originally with Blue Crown. Ryan has another book called Some Assembly Required which is all things you can build or make, so at the lecture later this year, we’re going to talk about the tapered deck, for sure, we’re going to talk about A New Angle and some of the things you can do with it but also a little bit of the work that we have been doing separately on various ideas and various techniques that we use in our magic all the time.
The show that you have planned for San Francisco, is there a venue for that or a time frame?
It will probably be in October, maybe November, but probably October. I usually do it at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco which is a great space and hosts quite a few magic shows. The people who run it are very friendly to magicians. We all like that space quite a lot and I’ll probably do it there again.
Does the show have a title?
Yeah, it’s called 52 Minutes, 52 Cards, No Survivors. It is a show in which I rip up all the cards over the course of the show. And it is 52 minutes long and it involves only 52 cards and none of the cards survive the show.
Sounds great. I hope I get to see it soon. Thanks for chatting with me Michael. I'm looking forward to working on the material in "A New Angle."
And I'll look forward to seeing it!
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Events > Web Seminars > 2013 Spring: Best Practices for Technology Applications in Health Professions Education
Using Multimedia and Education Technology to Enhance Teaching
Presented by David Roberts on March 21, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Identify theoretical basis for multimedia and e-learning to enhance teaching
Provide framework for development, presentation, dissemination and organization of novel classroom content
Demonstrate practical application of commonly available education technologies
Review impact of technology on current generation of medical trainees
Successful classroom teaching is based on excellent content, not on the latest, fastest, fanciest or shiniest new technology. Multimedia and education technology are simply tools in the toolbox of today’s medical educators which when utilized appropriately can improve both the delivery of content and enhancement of learning. Our current generation of learners is more apt to be familiar with technology, assume its presence and demand its use by faculty.
Medical educators can utilize education technology in many ways, including the development of novel content, creation of new modes of presentation, design of interaction and evaluation strategies, and the dissemination of content far beyond the walls of any given classroom. There are also tools to assist educators with organization and efficiency in the work of these teaching domains.
This session is designed to provide a framework and rationale for harnessing the power of modern education technology and to provide examples of representative technologies.
References and additional reading
Ruiz JG, et al. The impact of e-learning in medical education. Academic Medicine 2006; 81:207-12.
Cook DA, et al. What do we mean by web-based learning? Medical Education 2010:44;765-774.
Issa N, et al. Applying multimedia design principles enhances learning in medical education. Medical Education 2011;45:818-26.
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David H. Roberts, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Associate Director of the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Director of the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, and Director of the BIDMC Academy of Medical Educators. Dr. Roberts is also the Associate Director of the Academy at HMS.
Dr. Roberts teaches medical students across the four years of HMS training and is course director for the 3rd year longitudinal Principal Clinical Experience (PCE) at BIDMC. Dr. Roberts also teaches residents, fellows and other physicians in practice, and he is a graduate of the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education and Harvard-Macy Program for Educators in Health Professions.
Dr. Roberts’ education research interests include studying learner’s curiosity and critical thinking skills. Dr. Roberts serves on the National Education Committees for the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians. He also co-directs the annual Harvard CME course “Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing your Teaching Skills.”
Dr. Roberts has won many teaching awards including “Teacher of the Year” (2005) in the Combined Harvard Program in Pulmonary Medicine, HMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2006), the S. Robert Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching at Harvard Medical School and BIDMC (2007) and the HMS Best Clinical Instructor at BIDMC (2010).
Dr. Roberts is the Director of Faculty Development for the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at BIDMC, and his clinical practice is focused on patients with dyspnea and pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Roberts co-authored the patient education website, www.knowyourph.org, and free downloadable iBook “Pulmonary Hypertension” which utilizes interactive animations to teach patients about pulmonary hypertension.
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Ep 552: Kenneth Branagh
[12 mins. 30 secs.] Sir Kenneth Branagh makes his first appearance on the podcast. He has directed many films in the past including "Henry V", "A Midwinter's Tale", "Hamlet" and "As You Like It" but now in his latest film "All is True" Branagh portrays the Bard himself. The year is 1613, and William Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father. The film also stars Dame Judith Dench as wife Anne Hathaway and Ian McKellen as the Earl of South Hampton. It opens on Friday at the Angelika Cinema and The Paris Theater in New York City and in Los Angeles, the wide in the coming weeks.
[35 mins. 50 secs.] Actor and theater owner Paul Lazar returns for his third visit to the podcast (he was on Episode 23 and Episode 370) to discuss his latest production, "Cage Shuffle" which he has been performing around the world. The Big Dance Theater which he runs with wife Annie-B Parson continues to create new works. Check out the website for their calendar of upcoming events. Lazar continues to act in various film roles as well.
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18 March 1938: Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor, was born
Shashi Kapoor, an actor from the Indian film industry’s famous Kapoor family who was equally adept at doing commercial and artistic roles, was born Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
Since he was a small child, he started acting in plays made by his father, Prithviraj Kapoor, as part of the Prithvi Theatres. He later appeared as a child actor in films such as ‘Aag’ (1948), ‘Sangram’ (1950), ‘Awaara’ (1951) and ‘Dana Paani’ (1953). His role in ‘Awaara’ as the younger Raj (whose adult avatar was played by his brother Raj Kapoor) was particularly striking.
He worked as an assistant director in some films as well. He met the British actress Jennifer Kendal, who was part of a travelling theatre group, in Calcutta. They married in 1958.
Shashi Kapoor’s first film in a lead role was the Yash Chopra-directed ‘Dharmputra’, in which he played the role of a Hindu fundamentalist. He, uniquely among popular Hindi film actors, acted in several English films in his career.
Among these was ‘The Householder’, a Merchant Ivory film. A simple domestic drama, the film has Shashi Kapoor playing the role of Prem Sagar, a teacher who has to adjust to a newly-married life with Indu, played by Leela Naidu. ‘Shakespeare Wallah’, another Merchant Ivory production, is a story of a British theatre actress who falls in love with an Indian man, played by Shashi Kapoor.
Describing his choice of films, the film critic Dinesh Raheja wrote on rediff.com: “[Shashi] Kapoor believed in pushing the envelope, while remaining rooted in commercial cinema. Right from the 1960s, Shashi did pivotal roles in some much-discussed English films like [Ismail] Merchant-[James] Ivory’s ‘Bombay Talkies’ and ‘Heat And Dust’, as well as Conrad Rooks’ ‘Siddhartha’, becoming one of the most recognisable Indian actors in the West. Rooks’ ‘Siddhartha’ was esoteric and a little opaque, but fuelled by its bold scenes, it became a cultural landmark.”
In Hindi cinema Shashi Kapoor acted alongside many heroines, among them notably Nanda. Their films together included commercially successful ones like ‘Mohabbat Isko Kahete Hain’ (1965), ‘Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare’ (1966), and ‘Rootha Na Karo’ (1970). He acted with Raakhee in films such as ‘Kabhi Kabhie’, ‘Pighalta Aasman’ and ‘Trishna’. With Sharmila Tagore he acted in films such as ‘Aamne Samne’, ‘Aa Gale Lag Jaa’ and ‘New Delhi Times’. He also worked with Zeenat Aman (‘Deewaangee’, ‘Roti Kapda Aur Makan’, ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’, etc) and Hema Malini.
The 1986 Hindi film ‘New Delhi Times’, directed by Romesh Sharma and based on corruption in the media, fetched Shashi Kapoor a National Film Award for Best Actor.
One of Shashi Kapoor’s most remembered role was in the 1975 blockbuster ‘Deewar’, directed by Yash Chopra. Here Shashi Kapoor played the role of a committed cop pitted against his brother (played by Amitabh Bachchan) who is part of the underworld.
Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor went on to act together in films such as ‘Trishul’ and ‘Namak Halal’. Asked about his equation with Bachchan in an interview to The Hindu in 2003, Shashi Kapoor said: “We both are disciplined actors. Even as human beings, we knew how to maintain professional ethics that did not exist at that time. We respected each other’s talent and wouldn't step on each other's toes. We didn't have egos then.”
Shashi Kapoor, who also tried his hand at production and direction, stopped acting in films after the 1990s, partly on account of his poor health. His image in the popular imagination continues to be of a charming, suave and unconventional actor.
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Puerto Rico Supreme Court Rules that a Foreclosure Judgment could be Null and Void if the Case was Not Mediated First
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In Banco Santander de Puerto Rico v. Brenda Correa Garcia, 2016 TSPR 201, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court interpreted the mediation provisions created by Act 184-2012, the “Law for Compulsory Mediation and Preservation of your Home in Foreclosure Proceedings involving a Principal Residence.” The Act imposes a jurisdictional requirement that foreclosure cases involving the debtor’s principal residence be referred to compulsory mediation before the trial courts may enter judgment or order the sale of the property at public auction. Nevertheless, certain contradictory terms within the Act seemingly allowed trial court judges to refer the cases for mediation only when they deemed it necessary or useful.
The Supreme Court interpreted these provisions and held that once the defendant has filed an answer to the complaint, the act of referring the case to mediation is a jurisdictional requirement which must be met when the creditor seeks to foreclose the debtor’s principal residence. The only two exceptions to this rule are (1) cases where default has been entered against the debtor, or (2) cases where the debtor’s pleadings have been stricken from the record. If the court does not comply with this requirement, it will lack jurisdiction to enter judgment or sell the property at public auction.
After the case is referred to mediation, the court may continue with the judicial proceedings when: (1) the creditor appeared at the mediation but the debtor did not; (2) both parties appeared at the mediation but no agreement was reached; or (3) the debtor did not comply with the agreements reached during the mediation.
This rule is applicable to all cases filed after the date of the opinion (September 16, 2016); to cases pending before the courts of first instance in which no judgment has been entered; and to judgments issued by the courts of first instance after July 1, 2013 (the date when Act 184-2012 became effective) which have not become final and unappealable.
The Court also held that the provisions of Act 184-2012 are applicable to any mortgage creditor, including individuals, and are not limited to banking or financing institutions.
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Vince Neil, lead singer of iconic heavy metal band MÖTLEY CRÜE, is taking to the skies this week as he takes the first steps towards earning his pilot’s license, along with help from “The Aviators” television show and Sennheiser‘s “Live Your Dream” program.
The training event will span approximately two weeks and be captured in its entirety by “The Aviators” for its season three programming, premiering this fall on PBS.
Neil is breaking the mold of a no-holds-barred rock star by submitting himself to the very disciplined and rigorous process involved in flight training. Sennheiser‘s “Live Your Dream” campaign is designed to motivate and assist people with a passion for flying to overcome the barriers and begin flight training. Sennheiser is a global audio company and manufacturer of innovative aviation headsets.
“The Aviators” production team is on hand to capture video footage as Neil takes the first steps towards becoming a pilot, demonstrating the “Live Your Dream” spirit and thereby motivating other would-be aviators to do the same. Flight training is being conducted over a two-week period.
Neil‘s pilot training will be accessible for the 10 million weekly viewers of the PBS TV series “The Aviators” when season 3 premiers this fall. The show, which is also available on iTunes and Hulu around the world, showcases all things aviation and appeals to pilots and aviation fans alike.
“The Aviators” production team will film behind-the-scene footage and make it available for selected media’s use on Neil’s training and his final flight test.
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How to Write a Song About Love
How to Write a Song About Love: 6 Step by Step Guide
Songwriting is an art. Just like any other form of art, it takes passion, creativity and desire. A song is the deepest way of communication known to humanity. A song can be written by one individual today, just for it to speak out to millions of people a century ahead. What makes the song so powerful is not just the words but rather, the theme, the emotions and the artistic display. When writing a song, you need to piece together scattered words into information that speaks to peoples personal lives. There is a way in which the top songwriters work around the process. The time investment into the art of songwriting varies from one individual to another depending on their level of creativity. However, the bottom line remains that every written song has the basics. This step by step guide, will not only help you write your first song, but also communicate your deepest thoughts.
Step 1: Choose The Theme Of Your Song
This is the wider scope of your topic. What are the main issues you want to talk about in your song? Most songwriters are known to choose themes that draw from their childhood. People choose to talk about things that surround them, a situation they are passing through, or things that they have already passed through. The importance of choosing a topic that you can relate to is that it adds the required passion into the song. The expression of a experience is much more intense than that of a fictional story. When choosing your theme, you should try and relate it to the song genre. There are various topics that go hand in hand with given song genres. For example, a song that is anchored on love would be better expressed in blues than as a rock music. Not to say that rock music cannot talk about love, but they are not the best platform to express that feeling. Some of the themes you could choose include, politics, parenting, racism, social classes, religion, and the most common, love.
Step 2: Narrow Down Your Theme to a topic
Now that you have decided you want to sing about love, you need to decide what specifically are you going to talk about. Finding the lyrics for your song is not easy unless you are specific. You can choose to write a song about the love of your life, the love of your dreams, the love that you lost, someone that loved you, someone that lost a loved one and so one. You can even start creating characters at this stage. You can give the love of your life a name, for example, Jane, or James. This will make a starting point for your lyrics. Although, it is not necessary to have character names in a song. Most people prefer referring to the other parties in the first, second and third pronouns. For example, I, she, he, they or we. A good line can be something like "I remember when we were together"
Step 3: Write Down What You Feel About The Topic Displaying The Theme
At the end of the day, a song is about expressing emotions. for you to get your lyrics, just start writing down everything you feel about the topic. If it is a love that deserted your life, you can start writing about the good things you had together first. Get your listeners intrigued. Once you start by praising your lover's beauty and character, most people will be interested in listening to the song until the end. After writing everything down, the good and the bad, you need to start analyzing them. From the notes, you will choose what to use in your song based on what message you want to pass out "theme". Select the words that best express what you want to say and set them as your lyrics.
Step 4: Write Down The Lyrics
What you have are words. Out of these words, we need to first get the chorus. Your song chorus should carry the weight of your message. You can choose four sentences that best represent your best thoughts on the topic. for example: "- Love comes and goes before we know it, -when we are so blind in love we never see it coming, -Enjoying every moment, never thinking about betrayal, -when it finally happens then we are left crying." It is also important to note that it is at this stage that you start formulating the rhymes for your song.
Although it is not a must, you can start creating similarly ending words within your lyrics and chorus. You then arrange your song into the main sections, the verse, the chorus and the bridge. Most songs start with the verse, then the chorus, another verse, the bridge then the chorus. This is not a strict pattern, you can write a song even without a bridge. What you must have are a chorus and a verse.
Step 5: Translate your Lyrics Into A Song By Creating A Rhythm
Creating the rhythm to your lyrics gives them life. You can come up with a rhythm in many ways. Some of the most common include listening to several songs in your preferred genre. If you want your song to be in a Jazz format, listen to jazz songs and try creating rhythm ideas from several songs. Another way is just picking your guitar or piano and playing some random rhythms in your preferred genre. When you are thinking of the rhythm, it is better to try and fit your song chorus in most of the rhythms that come to your mind. Once you settle on the one you want to use, you can then fit in the verses. When singing your lyrics in a rhythm, you have the chance to change words and edit sentences to incorporate aspects of poetry. You can use synonyms, allusions, juxtapositions and rhymes just to add flavor to your lyrics.
Step 6: Sing and Record a Temporary File Of Your Song
Once you are done with streamlining the lyrics to fit into your song rhythm, it is time to record everything. Write the final copy of your lyrics and sing the song from the beginning to the end. Record your voice on a phone or a tape. You can now start making small changes to your song until you are sure it is the perfect piece you want before you go to the studio.
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Regional plans and programs related to public safety include the State Seismic Hazards Mapping Act, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Law and Guidelines, California Noise Insulation Standards (Title 24), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Program. Other plans and programs are important to consider to ensure that the city has strong, comprehensive, and compatible tools to guide development decisions. Also, pursuant to state law, the city has developed a comprehensive emergency response plan.
Standardized Emergency Management System
Monterey Park participates in the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) that provides a framework for coordinating multi-agency emergency responses. The city's SEMS incorporates mutual aid agreements, establishes lines of communication during emergencies, and standardizes incident command structures.
Seismic Hazards Mapping Act
California's Seismic Hazards Mapping Act of 1990 requires the state geologist to compile maps identifying and describing seismic hazards zones throughout California. Guidelines prepared by the state Mining and Geology Board identify the responsibilities of state and local agencies in the review of development within seismic hazard zones. Development on a site that has been designated as a seismic hazard zone requires a geotechnical report and local agency consideration of the policies and criteria established by the Mining and Geology Board. Over the years, the program has expanded to include mapping of seismic-related hazards such as landslide-prone areas.
The state legislature adopted California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in 1970 to ensure that environmental protection received due consideration in the planning and development process. CEQA requires a thorough analysis of potential environmental consequences which could result from a development project or plan that guides future development. CEQA provides a means by which city officials and the public can identify the potential impacts a project will have on a community, and to allow for mitigation or avoidance of such impacts.
California Noise Insulation Standards
In 1974, the California Commission on Housing and Community Development adopted noise insulation standards for residential buildings (Title 24, Part 2, California Code of Regulations). Title 24 establishes standards for interior room noise (attributable to outside noise sources). The regulations also specify that acoustical studies must be prepared whenever a residential building or structure is proposed to be located near an existing or adopted freeway route, expressway, parkway, major street, thoroughfare, rail line, rapid transit line, or industrial noise source, and where such noise source or sources create an exterior CNEL (or Ldn) of 60 dB or grater. Such acoustical analysis must demonstrate that the residence has been designed to limit intruding noise to an interior CNEL (or Ldn) of at least 45 dB.
FEMA Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Act includes provisions for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Participating jurisdictions must exercise land use controls and purchase flood insurance as a prerequisite for receiving funds to purchase or build a structure in a flood hazard area. The NFIP provides federal flood insurance subsidies and federally financed loans for eligible property owners in flood-prone areas.
Monterey Park is identified on the National Flood Insurance Program's Flood Insurance Rate Maps as being within Zone X. Zone X is defined as an area subject to minimal flooding. Thus, stormwater flood hazards are not a concern in the city.
Environmental Protection Agency Superfund
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with the authority of identifying the nation's most polluted properties and developing strategies to clean up the sites. Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or "Superfund", to direct the EPA's efforts. In Monterey Park, the Operating Industries, Inc. landfill has been designated a Superfund site.
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High-Quality Offsets
Avoiding Low-Quality Offsets
Low-Quality Offsets
Common Criticisms of Carbon Offsets
Concerns About How Offset Credits Are Used
Concerns About Carbon Offset Quality
Download the Carbon Offset Guide
Examples of criticisms:
“Carbon offset credits do not represent valid GHG mitigation; if they are used as a substitute for real climate action, they only make climate change worse.”
“Carbon offset projects have adverse impacts on local communities and may make other environmental problems worse.”
These criticisms are probably the most immediate concern for most offset credit buyers. Carbon offset credits are of little use in mitigating climate change if they are not a valid substitute for an organization’s own internal GHG reductions. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of carbon offset programs, a number of independent studies have identified serious problems with some carbon offset credits. For example, studies of the world’s two largest offset programs – the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI), both administered by the United Nations under the Kyoto Protocol – suggest that up to 60-70% of their offset credits may not represent valid GHG reductions.[1] Other critiques have highlighted instances of carbon offset projects that harmed local communities or resulted in broader environmental damage.[2] An official report commissioned by the United Nations in 2012 cataloged many of the CDM’s shortcomings and identified areas of potential improvement.[3]
These critiques are troubling and should give pause to prospective buyers of offset credits. Major carbon offset programs, however, have responded to at least some of the concerns raised by these studies.[4] These responses include amending quantification methodologies to prevent over-estimation of GHG reductions,[5] as well as reconsidering the eligibility of certain project types.[6] Nevertheless, it is still wise to approach the carbon offset market with healthy skepticism.
Buyers can employ a number of strategies to improve their likelihood of acquiring higher-quality offset credits. In the next section, we explain the essential elements of a “high-quality” carbon offset credit and indicate some basic questions buyers can use to vet potential purchases. In Strategies for Avoiding Lower Quality Offset Credits, we provide some general strategies for avoiding “low-quality” offset credits.
[1] The primary concern is that a large number of offset credits come from energy sector projects that have significant sources of other revenue besides offset credits, suggesting that they would have happened anyway and do not represent additional mitigation. Other identified issues include concerns about over-estimation of emission reductions, e.g., for industrial gas destruction and other project types (Alexeew et al. 2010; Cames et al. 2016; Gillenwater and Seres 2011; Haya and Parekh 2011; Kollmuss et al. 2015; Kollmuss and Lazarus 2010; Lazarus et al. 2012; Ruthner et al. 2011; Schneider 2009; Schneider et al. 2010; Spalding-Fecher et al. 2012).
[2] See, for example, Dufrasne (2018) as well as here.
[3] See Spalding-Fecher et al. (2012).
[4] Although most critical studies of carbon offsets have focused on the CDM and JI because of their high profile, many of the same issues are likely to arise in other programs as well. For some programs – like Verra (i.e., VCS) and the Gold Standard – this is because they incorporate CDM methodologies by reference, so there is substantial overlap in the kinds of projects they certify. In other cases, programs have used CDM methodologies as a starting point in developing their own standards. Although a number of programs have followed approaches that differ from the CDM, no program should be considered categorically free of all concerns about offset quality.
[5] The CDM Executive Board, for example, adopted amendments and clarifications to its methodology for destruction of HFC-23 emissions to address demonstrated concerns about over-production of this gas purely for the purpose of producing more offset credits. Such projects are now disallowed. However, similar concerns for other project types – e.g., N2O abatement at adipic acid plants – have not been fully addressed.
[6] Verra and the Gold Standard, for example, have solicited public input on whether to exclude from eligibility clean energy projects in wealthy and middle-income countries, on the grounds that these projects have a low likelihood of being additional.
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A Disappearance in Damascus. A story of friendship and survival in the shadow of war, by Deborah Campbell
Post Date: December 28, 2016 by josiemounsey
“We talk about them, make policies to deal with them, even make war on them, while knowing almost nothing of who they are or what consequences our actions might have.” The words of immersive journalist, Deborah Campbell, in her award-winning book based on her time in Damascus in 2007, living among displaced Iraqi refugees. Researching an article on the refugee crisis for Harper’s, Campbell worked under the radar. She reached out to Ahlam, a ‘fixer’ – an interpreter and guide who makes journalism possible in places where outsiders cannot go alone. What started as a professional relationship between the two women, developed into a deep friendship, as Campbell spent more and more time at Ahlam’s apartment, hearing first-hand the stories and hardships faced by displaced people.
Ahlam, herself a refugee who fled her home country after being kidnapped in Baghdad while running a humanitarian centre, buries her grief for the loss of her elder son by helping solve the problems of others. In her apartment in Sayeda Zainab – Damascus’s Little Baghdad – she set up a school initially for girls but later extended to include boys, not only allowing them to learn, but addressing their sense of isolation. As the conflict in Iraq moved deeper into Syria, conditions for displaced persons deteriorated and suspicion was rife.
But, in the midst of the maelstrom, brief moments of normality shone through. On a particularly bad day, for a rare treat in a restaurant, the two friends ” … ate Syrian food, which the world knows as Lebanese: little platters of mezze drenched in olive oil set on a white tablecloth. Sunlight was pouring in the window from the street.” p.179.
Some days later, in front of Campbell, Ahlam is taken away by agents of the Syrian secret police. “Her [Ahlam’s] expression was flat as a becalmed lake. This vacancy, this flatness in someone always so animated, someone whose face I knew as a stage on which every sort of emotion played, was far more menacing than the presence of the stranger.” Chilling.
Part of this stage of the story is told in Ahlam’s words, chronicling her incarceration initially in an isolation cell, the daily beatings and interrogation in an attempt to turn her into an informant, and her worry about the safety of her two surviving children. Although the reader knows where Ahlam is, Campbell is caught in a web of fear and suspicion, desperately trying to find her friend, who she believes has been arrested because of their association.
In addition to telling the stories of displaced persons through the relationship between two friends, the book gives an insight into the history of Iraq and the Iraqi people, and brought home to me (a political scientist) the effects of international incursions into foreign lands. The invasion of Iraq by the United States and its ill-thought-out actions on the ground, gave no thought to religious groups and splintered the country into a multitude of militias, creating conditions for organized crime in which the innocent fled for their lives. Campbell quotes the words of a European aid worker in Damascus: “Iraq is an atomic explosion … a chain reaction that hasn’t ended yet.”. The recent tragedy of Aleppo bears out the truth of these words.
Campbell, and other immersive journalists like her, risk their lives to bridge the gap between the readers of publications for which they write and people in war-torn places who readers would otherwise not meet. In this book, does she succeed in this aim? A resounding “Yes” from me. Will the world learn from such stories? I doubt it.
Later, in her adopted home in another country, watching her children forge their future, Ahlam longs for the peaceful world of her childhood in the big house on the banks of the Tigris in Iraq. She will always be an exile, and like the many millions like her, will always have the fear that this new life will suddenly shatter and disappear.
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Breast cancer test identifies patients who really benefit from chemo
Janet Fricker
Data presented at the International Breast Cancer Conference at St Gallen, Switzerland has shown that gene expression testing for early-stage breast cancer is working well in getting patients onto more appropriate treatment in Europe.
The Oncotype DX breast cancer test, developed by Genomic Health, provides a snapshot of tumour activity at the molecular level by measuring the expression of 21 genes (composed of 16 breast cancer genes and five reference genes). Readouts are fed into mathematical equations, giving a numerical figure to the likelihood of benefitting from chemotherapy and experiencing a metastasis over the next ten years on scales between 0 and 100.
"In the past, we've used a one-size-fits-all approach where all women with early-stage breast cancer get offered chemotherapy," said Steven Shak, chief medical officer at Genomic Health. "But in reality only four out of 100 women actually benefit, with the remainder experiencing unnecessary toxicity."
The Oncotype DX test is widely used in the USA where it was launched in 2004 and is now routinely offered to women with stage I or II node negative and oestrogen receptor positive disease. What has been less clear is whether the test would be valuable in UK health care settings that traditionally use less chemotherapy. Simon Holt, a surgical oncologist at the Prince Philip Hospital (Llanelli, Wales) presented a prospective analysis of 107 patients who had undergone testing with the South West Wales Breast Cancer Network. In the study he analysed how many women initially evaluated with the Nottingham Prognostic Index (the current evaluation tool) had treatment decisions changed following evaluation with the Oncotype DX technology.
Results showed that overall, 33% of patients in the study had their treatment decisions changed. This was composed of 23.6% who changed from receiving both chemotherapy and hormone therapy to just receiving hormone therapy and 9.4% who switched from just receiving hormone therapy to receiving hormone therapy plus chemotherapy. "From the clinical perspective, it's probably more important to identify those patients who'll benefit from chemotherapy," said Holt, adding patients were quite happy to undergo treatment once they appreciated its significance.
Genomic Health already has an assay in colon cancer, launched in 2010, and another in development in prostate. "Future assays may even be able to show whether anthracyclines or taxanes would be more effective in individual patients," said Shak.
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Unnecessary hospital admissions soaring due to NHS funding, says study
Perverse incentives in NHS funding structures have greatly increased the number of unnecessary admissions to hospitals in England over the last 10 years, by failing to encourage GPs and consultants to work together in the best interests of the patient, says new research from The Policy Exchange.
Hospital admissions have increased by 2.79 million since 2005, largely due to the fragmented nature of the NHS, the think tank reports, and it calls for radical reforms to the way GPs and consultants are incentivised, with the primary focus being on reducing admissions.
GPs are currently being paid "thousands of pounds" on top of their basic salaries to carry out basic administrative tasks such as arranging blood tests and updating diseases registers, while NHS funding arrangements encourage acute hospitals to admit patients to hospital to service high fixed costs for staff and property rather than trying to treat patients at a community level or in the home, says the study.
It also finds that, by international standards, patients in England with chronic diseases are more likely to be admitted to hospital - and to stay there much longer once they are admitted.
Over the last 20 years, successive governments have divided the NHS in England into ever-smaller and more divided parts, and this has led to a multi-tiered system of separate organisations, each setting their own legal identity, culture and bonus schemes. The lack of coordination between Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), GP practices and acute hospitals has led to unnecessary and costly admissions to hospital for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) such as diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, who should be treated at a community level or in the comfort of their own homes, it says.
The report finds that a common theme from successful integrated care organisations around the world is the alignment of doctors' incentives which encourage GPs and consultants to work together. Therefore, it calls for the NHS pay and performance system to move away from considering each professional group as an isolated case.
Both the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and the Clinical Excellence Awards scheme should be overhauled to include indicators which incentivise GPs and consultants to work together in multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated care for patients, it says. Also, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) should develop a set of indicators which focus on cooperation and integration - for example, reducing admissions to hospital for a range of chronic diseases which can easily be controlled by modern, preventative medicine.
The report also recommends:
- the establishment of a pilot scheme for 10 fully-integrated care organisations covering 250,000 people that brings together primary, community and acute NHS services into one organisation. These would sit alongside the newly-formed Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), and the pilot schemes’ chief executives would be directly accountable to Parliament through the regulator Monitor;
- the Department of Health should commission research to calculate the current healthcare-related costs of the most common LTCs, including asthma, diabetes, coronary heart disease (CHD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including adding services such as diagnostics and treatment to NHS Tariffs. This should be accompanied by a framework to enable financial pooling arrangements between purchasers and providers to begin delivering care for patients in a virtual model of integrated care: and
MPs slam DH over NHS trust bankruptcies
Monitor urges NHS foundation trusts over hospital costs
NHS dementia, obesity treatments "will no longer be free by 2020",
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theoretical approaches
Researching the topic of health in Afghanistan and the health of Afghans in the diaspora is a complicated enterprise, as is anything on the topic of Afghanistan. It becomes especially complicated due to the (at least) two dimensions which, in a certain sense, are in a relationship of tension: The dimension of the “objectively measurable” epidemiology and social epidemiology on the one hand, and the dimension of resources of the lifeworld, resiliencies, and health-related competences on the other hand.
With regard to the dimension of physical, objectively measurable signs, the strong relationship, dependence and influence between the health of the population and Afghanistan’s geography (e.g., the distance to the nearest hospital), agriculture (e.g., available resources of nutrition), economy (e.g., money for the offer and consumption of services regarding supply and health), and level of education (e.g., as the officially decisive determinant for health literacy) becomes especially obvious in Afghanistan. Furthermore, the ongoing civil war (since 1979!) and the concomitant armed conflicts are an especially decisive dimension of the population’s health. Many sources state that the number of death victims is currently at 1 million, but the data situation is convoluted.
There is better documentation of the time right after the drawback of the Soviet troops. Thomas Ruttig calculates a total of 200 316 victims. In other words: extensively independently from the health supply structure, it is hardly possible to detach an analysis of the topic of health from the military conflicts and invasions. Due to the current political situation and the decade long military conflicts including the secondary effects of forced migration, flight, return, as well as the topography of Afghanistan, the common health indicators of the World Health Organization and of the United Nations Developmental Program (cf. HDR 2018; retrieved on 1.2.2019) turn out quite bad.
According to the Human Development Report, the average life expectancy, which has officially increased continually since 2006, is at the age of 64 in 2018 (even in the contiguous Pakistan it is 2 years above, and in Iran, it is more than 10 years above). The rates of infant and child mortality have been among the five highest of the world for years (e.g., in 2015, the infant mortality was at an estimated 54,9 per 1000, as opposed to an estimated 8 per 1000 in Europe (WHO: Global Health Observatory; retrieved on 02.02.2019). Further, there are regional differences with regard to the situation of the provision of health care: Especially in the rural regions, the accessibility of health institutions as well as the availability of medical staff is heavily limited. Especially female doctors, female nurses, and female midwives are missing. Furthermore, the majority of healthcare services (78,38%) are paid by the population itself (and 54% of the Afghans live below the poverty line) or are co-financed by international sponsors through the large-scale projects BPHS and EPHS. Thus, it is majorly influenced by international geopolitical developments.
In summary, Afghanistan is regarded a clear problem case with regard to healthcare. However, the situation is a bit more complicated at second glance: First, substantial effort has been made in order to improve the health situation in all regions in Afghanistan, which has led to a substantial increase in medical staff and health institutions in the cities (by public as well as private providers). Second, the data published in the relevant reports are extremely vague. For instance, there is currently no saved data as to how many Afghans live in Afghanistan and it is hardly possible to estimate it in a reliable and sustainable way due to the high flight mobility. Thus, when data about the average life expectancy or sickness rates are presented, their validity is highly limited. Here, a medium-term set-up of regional or communal health statistics which are closer to the actual relations than data collections usually controlled and managed from Kabul would be reasonable.
And third, the picture of Afghanistan as a health problem case is at least incomplete because the familial or neighborly health care, the traditional healing procedures, and the present health competences are either ignored or devalued as deficient from the start through the lens of the Western healthcare. We do not wish to deny the real problems, but a picture of Afghanistan which makes do with a deficit-based inventory of Western criteria is anything but helpful. In this sense, we believe that the focus should be to pay more attention to the health competences (despite the illiteracy!) and the health-related everyday actions of Afghan families. In our view, this is crucial because most of the decisions and behavior patterns relevant for health are not made in the clinic or in the hospital, but in everyday life.
With our research, we would like to contribute to a broader understanding of behaviors, conceptions, attitudes and decision-making processes relevant for health. In short: to a theoretically and empirically comprehensive understanding of the health situation in Afghanistan. In addition to our interest in health in Afghanistan, we would also like to contribute to the (health) situation of people with Afghan origin who immigrated to Germany, which is hardly researched thus far. We would like to approach this topic by way of various research plans which are conducted within the scope of health literacy research financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
In Germany, our research interest does not focus exclusively on the long established and mostly well-integrated group of those Afghans who immigrated to Germany many years or decades ago, but it also considers the most recently immigrated people. In a three-year research plan, we accompanied young Afghans in their everyday life and conducted research on their resources, competences, behavior relevant for health (cf. the elaborations on the ELMi-project). In the following project, we considered the Afghans in their language courses and how these educational settings touched upon their resources, competences, etc. and how this contributes to the strengthening of health (you can find details on the SCURA-project here).
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Rich Robbins- "Play Me" Ft/ Saba
Written by: PJ Gordon
“Me saying I’m hood is like me saying I’m Asian.”
Rich Robbins is a guy that’s moved around. After moving from Philly to Oak Park in high school, he picked up the mic and began making music with his friends.
Today, Rich is still making music as a recipient of a four-year full tuition for hip-hop to the University of Wisconsin. Although technically a “Chicago rapper,” he wears his suburban roots proudly like a flag, never trying to bury where he came from or put on an act that’s not him.
That authenticity is paying off as he prepares to drop his debut LP, Nimbus, pairing with Saba and producer CMR for the newest single.
“Play Me” is less of a love song, and more of a relationship song. Rich explains the ups and downs of leaving yourself so vulnerable to another person, as it gets hard at times. Despite this pain, he keeps right on coming back. People are real funny that way. Saba takes an opposite and darker approach to the subject, speaking on his inability to stay around with a girl, no matter how happy he might’ve been with her. The pair nicely capture the experience of being with someone, whether it ends happily ever after, or less favorable. Although this could’ve been another “I love her/I’m a dog” song, Rich and Saba’s subtlety make it a lot more introspective, while sending some of us through our memories. In other words, we’ll be eagerly waiting on Rich’s debut.
Be on the lookout for Nimbus, dropping on us soon.
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The Insanely Viral Pan That Replaces 8 Common Kitchen Tools Comes In A Limited-Edition Color
Delish 1/13/2021 Alexis Morillo
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It seems like every day a new cooking hack is going viral across all platforms, but it's not as common for a kitchen tool to get that same internet hype. The Always Pan by Our Place is a piece of cookware that has a well-deserved cult following as it's designed to replace eight traditional pieces of cookware that you likely have cluttering your cabinets. The iconic item is now available in a limited-edition color that is guaranteed to make you hop on the bandwagon if you haven't already.
Each Always Pan is multi-functional and can help you do pretty much anything you've ever had to do on a stove top. It can be used for frying, sautéing, steaming, boiling, searing, and more, and features a non-stick surface, spatula, and built-in spoon rest. It retails for $145 and comes with the pan itself, lid, stainless steel steamer basket, and wood spatula. The price tag might seem a little steep, but when you're eliminating the need for so many other pots and pans you're actually saving money—and cabinet space.
© fromourplace.com Always Pan
The pans are typically available in muted tones of orange, pink, blue, black, beige, green, and purple, but the new limited-edition hue is a vibrant red shade. Appropriately called "Red Hot," the color was originally debuted last year as part of the brand's Lunar New Year collection and it goes for $175 since it's a limited-time offer. According to Food & Wine, the collection was made with guidance from Chinese-Americans so the values of the Chinese New Year were best embodied; the shade of red was chosen to represent good luck.
Last year, the Lunar New Year collection sold out through preorders in a week, so it's likely this year it will be a hot ticket item as well. I'd suggest you act fast and put in your order so you can add a pop of color to your kitchen and get rid of those beat up pots and pans you're probably hoarding.
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Able Trust
Organization Profile: The Florida Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation operates under the name of The Able Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public/private partnership established by the Florida Legislature in 1990. The Able Trust receives its funding from a perpetual endowment, grants, gifts and support from the public and corporate sectors. The Able Trust’s mission is to be a key leader in providing Floridians with disabilities successful opportunities for employment. The Able Trust accomplishes its mission through grant programs, public education, public awareness, and policy recommendations. Since its establishment, The Able Trust has awarded nearly $30 million in grants throughout Florida, enabling approximately 2,000 Florida citizens with disabilities to enter the workforce each year. The Able Trust’s High School/High Tech (HS/HT) and other youth programs provide career development and transition services to about 2,000 students with disabilities each year, helping to reduce the dropout rate and prepare young adults for life beyond high school.
Program Summary: The Able Trust operates the statewide Florida High School/High Tech (HS/HT) initiative, part of a national program model designed to help youth with disabilities transition from secondary school to postsecondary opportunities, including education options and entrance into the workforce. The goals of the Florida HS/HT Program are to reduce the high school dropout rate for youth with disabilities, increase their enrollment in postsecondary education, and increase their participation in employment-related activities that lead to technology-related careers, as well as other career paths. HS/HT helps youth with disabilities understand, explore, and prepare for technology-related career pathways—including science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)—through hands-on, career-focused, applied, and contextualized learning. All of the activities implemented by Florida HS/HT sites are based on the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth’s (NCWD/Youth) transition framework, outlined in the Guideposts for Success.
The Able Trust organizes Florida HS/HT sites by county. Local organizations (including centers for independent living and other nonprofit organizations, school districts, workforce boards, and others) implement the HS/HT program in 37 counties (of Florida’s 67 counties). Annually, more than 1,500 students in over 100 high schools statewide are linked to a broad range of academic resources, career development opportunities, and on-the-job experiences that will enable them to meet the demands of the 21st century workforce.
HS/HT began in Florida in 1995 when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Kennedy Space Center provided funding for three years, later extended to five years, to establish a local program at the Space Coast Center for Independent Living in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Four years later, in 1999, The Able Trust recognized the value of the program, and hired a HS/HT state coordinator to support the development of a statewide HS/HT program.
Shortly after HS/HT began to expand in Florida, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provided significant funding to support the growth and success of the HS/HT program model, including HS/HT sites in Florida. In 2003, ODEP awarded one-year implementation grants to five states, including Florida, with the potential of up to four years of additional funding. ODEP granted these funds to help state-level coordinating organizations to work in partnership with their state workforce investment boards to implement the HS/HT model statewide. ODEP funding, along with addition funding from The Able Trust, assisted in the creation of additional local programs in Florida. By the third year of the ODEP grant, over 850 students were enrolled in HS/HT in the state of Florida.
States of Operation: FL
INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
Career Preparation and Work-Based Learning Experiences: Florida HS/HT provides career preparation and work-based experiences through activities in school, after school, on weekends, and during the summer to fully maximize opportunities for HS/HT students. These include internships with such high-profile organizations as the University of Florida Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and the Kennedy Space Center. As a result of a The Able Trust’s partnership with Workforce Florida (the state’s Workforce Investment entity), HS/HT sites are able to use federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) dollars to pay for internships for many HS/HT participants. Further, five local HS/HT programs are administered directly through local Workforce Investment Boards.
Employers across the state are very active participants in HS/HT activities. Some support HS/HT financially through grants and internship stipends, while others support efforts with training and collaboration in the schools and through workforce centers. Nearly 1,000 employers serve as host sites for Disability Mentoring Day job shadow activities, serve as mentors, attend career fairs, and attend HS/HT events as guest speakers.
Youth Development and Leadership:
Service Learning: Through HS/HT service learning activities, students have the opportunity to explore careers, develop job skills, engage with mentors, learn about national service opportunities as a postsecondary option, connect to local resources, access paid summer internships, and create change in the local community. In 2004, The Able Trust’s Florida HS/HT program created the Project Impact initiative with Volunteer Florida, Inc. Project Impact engages high school and college students with disabilities in learning about their community by applying a service learning philosophy to hands-on volunteer experiences. Each spring during Project Impact, students at several HS/HT sites learn how to develop service learning projects. These projects culminate in the observance of Global Youth Service Day. Project Impact partners include AmeriCorps (state and national), SeniorCorps, Florida Learn and Serve, and several Florida colleges and universities.
Personal Leadership Development: Each year, several HS/HT students attend leadership development events sponsored by the local site, or state level organizations. The Florida Youth Leadership Forum (YLF), another youth program of The Able Trust, is well-attended by HS/HT student leaders. (HS/HT students represent about half of the delegate and junior staff.)The YLF is an annual career and leadership training program that is both educational and motivational, bringing together rising high school juniors and seniors each summer to spend a long weekend in Tallahassee to learn about community and academic resources, disability history, career options and personal leadership. They also take part in social activities which enable them to network, learn from each other and build friendships that will last a lifetime.
Mentoring: In 2010, The Able Trust was a recipient of funding from the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) for expansion of mentoring services benefiting two organizations operating nine local HS/HT programs. This national model, known as the Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program was initially funded for up to three years by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. RAMP is a STEM-based, career-focused mentoring program for youth with disabilities. RAMP provides one-on-one, small group, and peer mentoring opportunities, as well as chances to work together in small groups on high tech, community service, and leadership projects. Like HS/HT, RAMP is based on the NCWD/Youth transition framework, outlined in the Guideposts for Success.
Connecting Activities: As the coordinating agency of HS/HT in Florida, The Able Trust collaborates with state agencies and private organizations on several councils and task forces, helps coordinate fundraising, facilitates the formation of partnerships to foster community engagement, identifies career mentors for HS/HT students, and connects with HS/HT programs outside of Florida to gather and share innovative strategies.
In order to form an enhanced statewide support system for local HS/HT sites and their students, Florida HS/HT works in close collaboration with the Florida Department of Education’s (DOE) Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR), Workforce Florida, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Children’s Medical Services, Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged, Volunteer Florida, recreation organizations (including Florida State Parks and the Florida Disabled Outdoors Association), secondary and postsecondary institutions, civic and corporate partners, and other state agencies who serve and advocate for the inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Florida HS/HT encourages each local HS/HT site to connect with their local Workforce Investment Board and their local DVR provider. State level staff provide ongoing technical assistance and opportunities for introductions between agencies in order for sites to connect with additional program resources. The Able Trust accomplishes this through the development and dissemination of literature and resources, a frequently updated password-protected coordinator resource website, and arranging opportunities for sites to network with other agencies at an annual training, statewide career fairs, and other workshop venues offered by partner organizations.
EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS (INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS)
Systems Change: The Able Trust uses a competitive process to establish local HS/HT sites throughout the state. Organizations such as Centers for Independent Living, Goodwill Industries affiliates, local Workforce Investment Boards, school foundations, and other community-based organizations respond to a Request for Proposals. The first year, The Able Trust awards organizations with $40,000. Once established, the sites receive step-down funding of $20,000 per year. As a result, local sites work in collaboration with The Able Trust HS/HT staff to find alternative funding. For example, when WIA Youth Activities funds in Gainesville were designated for teen pregnancy prevention programs, one of the Gainesville area HS/HT sites submitted a proposal that incorporated a pregnancy prevention component into the HS/HT curriculum. The proposal was approved and provided the additional funding needed to sustain this HS/HT site.
The Able Trust secures funding from a variety of sources to support the continuation and expansion of HS/HT, including a collaborative effort between Florida HS/HT, the Florida DOE, and Florida DVR. As a result of these efforts, the state legislature established a line item in the state budget to provide $500,000 of state-appropriated funds in fiscal year (FY) 2006 to support the expansion of HS/HT to 10 additional sites. The legislature approved reduced appropriations in FY 2007, FY 2008, FY 2009, and FY 2010. In addition, DVR provided $120,000 of its FY 2008 funding to support the 13 local HS/HT sites administered by six centers for independent living throughout the state.
Florida HS/HT, in collaboration with the NCWD/Youth, provides technical assistance to other states working with or interested in implementing the HS/HT model. For example, Florida HS/HT has worked closely with South Carolina’s Vocational Rehabilitation Department to implement HS/HT throughout the state. Workforce South Carolina, the state workforce investment board, provided $200,000 as seed money to start five local HS/HT sites in the state. South Carolina now has 10 local HS/HT sites and has served over 340 students.
Florida HS/HT was one of three state-level HS/HT programs involved in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Shared Youth Vision Initiative. In 2006, ETA issued guidance to One-Stop Centers, emphasizing their responsibilities in serving youth, including youth with disabilities. ETA and its federal partners created a process to help states convene interagency groups to create a youth vision for the state and develop a strategy to move that vision forward. In 2007, ETA awarded grants to several state workforce investment boards, including Workforce Florida, to target specific geographic areas within the state and specific populations of youth. Florida HS/HT actively participated on the state team, called the Strengthening Youth Partnership. As a result of additional funding through Workforce Florida, two additional HS/HT programs were created in 2009 specifically to serve incarcerated youth with disabilities and youth with disabilities in the foster care system in Okaloosa, Walton, and Miami-Dade Counties, representing the first pilot program in the nation using the HS/HT model to address the transition needs of youth with disabilities in the foster care system.
Data: On average, 86% of the Florida HS/HT program’s graduating seniors continue their education or enter employment each year. Of the 492 HS/HT high school graduates in 2010, 29% entered community college, 12% entered employment, 10% entered a four-year university, 12% chose to attend a technical school, two percent entered the military, 17% entered a postsecondary work experience, nine percent continued high school as fifth-year seniors, five percent were “undecided,” and four percent chose “other options.”
Organization Name: The Able Trust
Organization Director: Susanne Homant, President/CEO
Program Name: Florida High School/High Tech
Street Address: 3320 Thomasville Road, Suite 200
City: Tallahassee
Phone Extension: 227
Website: http://www.abletrust.org/youth-programs/florida-high-school-high-tech
Contact Person: Allison Chase
Contact Title: Vice President of Youth Programs
Contact E-mail: allison@abletrust.org
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Holmgrem To Only Take A Year Off
May 12, 2009 by Brian Harrington
Former Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren intends to remain out of football this coming season, but told Seattle’s KJR-AM radio’s Dave “Softy” Mahler on Tuesday that he plans to return to the NFL in 2010. Holmgren said he doesn’t know if he wants to continue in coaching or take a front-office job, but made it clear that he’s not ready for retirement. Mike Holmgren says he wants to return to the NFL in 2010. “I think I want to work again. Yeah, absolutely,” Holmgren told Mahler. “We’re going to take the year off, then after next season we’ll see. I plan to go back to work. Now where and in what capacity, that is pretty vague. But I know this. I want to do something. That’s pretty much a given.
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Categories Individual Training Pack Bessel A. van der Kolk's 23rd Annual International Trauma Conference - 10 DVDs - 15 CPD Hours
Psychological Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment and Therapeutic Interventions
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The study of psychological trauma has been accompanied by an explosion of knowledge about how experience shapes the central nervous system and the formation of the self. Developments in the neurosciences, developmental psychopathology, and information processing have contributed to our understanding of how brain function is shaped by experience, and the understanding that life itself can continually transform perception and biology.
Within the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology, the study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in developing a deeper understanding of the relationships among the emotional, cognitive, social, and biological forces that shape human development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming experiences in childhood, this endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can "set" psychological expectations and biological selectivity.
We have learned that most experience is automatically processed on a subcortical level, i.e., by "unconscious" interpretations that take place outside of awareness. Insight and understanding have only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes. When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on understanding and cognition.
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Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he directs the Trauma Research Center within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders including autism, anxiety, depression, ADD, PTSD, and schizophrenia. His research has led to the development of innovative interventions designed to stabilize behavioral and psychological states and to stimulate spontaneous social behavior that are being applied to autism and other clinical diagnoses.
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This two-column news report is published in The Irish Times today [7 August 2019], p 6:
US president Donald Trump’s “passive encouragement of violence is insidious and is eating away at the fabric of decency throughout the world,” the annual Hiroshima Day commemoration in Dublin was told yesterday.
“What is the likelihood of Trump initiating a nuclear strike? He has withdrawn from a key bilateral nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, he has pulled out of the Iranian nuclear deal, he has announced he will increase the US nuclear arsenal.
“Yet more Americans have been killed this weekend than have been injured or jailed in Iran all this year… for many years,” said Canon Patrick Comerford, President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
The Dublin commemoration marks the 74th anniversary of the dropping of the world’s first atomic bomb by the US on Japan’s Hiroshima on August 6th 1945.
Pictured at the commemoration were anti-war protesters Tarak Kauffm retired from the US army and (right)Ken Mayers, a retired US marine. Other attendees were Kenichiro Sasame, deputy head of mission at the Japanese Embassy and Lord Mayor of Dublin Paul McAuliffe.
There is a fuller report and an additional photograph on The Irish Times website:
Hiroshima Day: Trump’s boosting of nuclear arsenal condemned
Dublin commemoration hears criticism of US president’s ‘passive encouragement of violence’
Pictured at the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual Hiroshima Day commemoration at Merrion Square, Dublin were anti-war protesters and retired US servicemen Tarak Kauff and Ken Mayers. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/ The Irish Times
US President Donald Trump’s “passive encouragement of violence is insidious and is eating away at the fabric of decency throughout the world,” the annual Hiroshima Day commemoration in Dublin was told on Tuesday afternoon.
There had been 246 mass shootings in the US so far this year, he said. “More weapons of mass destruction have been used in America this year than ever provided the excuses for the war in Iraq. And still Trump laughs and jokes at a rally when someone suggests shooting immigrants,” he said.
Pictured at the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual Hiroshima Day commemoration at Merrion Square, Dublin were Kenichiro Sasame, deputy head of mission at the Japanese Embassy, Ireland; Canon Patrick Comerford, president, Irish CND and Lord Mayor of Dublin Paul McAuliffe. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, designed to prevent the spread of nuclear arms, “seems to be in meltdown. The preparatory meeting in May for the treaty review conference next year [2020] failed to produce any concrete outcomes,” Canon Comerford said.
“As long as there are nuclear weapons in the world, and as long as world leaders threaten to use them, we must continue to remember the victims of Hiroshima, for they are a reminder of the consequences we all face if we fail not only to control nuclear weapons, but to abolish them completely.
“We cannot trust the people who are in charge of the world’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Consider the on-again, off-again nuclear talks between president Trump and chairman Kim (of North Korea),” he said, while “the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are all in possession of nuclear stockpiles: the US, Russia, China, Britain and France”.
He said that” having let Trump know that he was not welcome in Ireland a few months ago, we must now organise to make sure Pence knows he is not welcome either.”
The US vice president Mike Pence is to visit Ireland next month. “Trump and Pence must know that they have no friends here, that they can expect no passive acceptance.”
Last year, Mr Trump said the US would outspend any other country in building up its nuclear arsenal in what was perceived as a direct challenge to Russia and China.
“We have more money than anybody else, by far. We’ll build it up,” Mr Trump said after being asked late on Monday if he was prepared to build up the US’s nuclear arsenal.
Other attendees at the commemoration were Kenichiro Sasame, deputy head of mission at the Japanese Embassy and Lord Mayor of Dublin Paul McAuliffe.
Posted by Patrick Comerford at 18:30
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Resiliency, Resilience, Resilient: A Paradigm Shift?
Joe Napoli, MD
“The common resiliency of the mind from one extreme to another" Samuel Johnson, 1751
Resiliency Resilience Resilient – Three little words that might be leading a revolution in how the field of Medicine views human function and understands the capacity to be healthy. In the lay press, these words have become ubiquitous and are used to denote a long list of things ranging from the financial stability of the stock market to the ability of individuals or organizations to recover from . . .
disasters. The number of hits for a “resiliency” Google search has almost doubled to over four million in about a year. Turning to Medicine, a PubMed literature search reveals that in the decade of 1997-2006 there was a huge increase in the number of articles with “resiliency” (384%) or “resilience” (527%) in their titles compared to 1987-1996. Research articles range from the biochemical – “Resilience of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Cytochrome bc1 to heme c1 ligation changes” (Zhang et al, 2006) – to the behavioral – “Continuity of individual adaptation from infancy to kindergarten: a predictive study of ego-resiliency and curiosity in preschoolers” (Arend, Gove, and Sroufe, 1979). Resiliency is the topic for an increasing number of continuing medical education (CME) activities including New Jersey Psychiatric Association’s 2007 Annual Spring Meeting – Resiliency: Accentuating the Positive. Does this growing emphasis on resiliency represent a paradigm shift? Is the field of Medicine, and thus, Psychiatry, moving away from pathology? Is Medicine changing its frame-of-reference from what is wrong with people to how they remain healthy? from sickness to health? from the negative to the positive?
There are three possible answers. The phenomena that we are witnessing is either a Monty Pythonesque “now, for something completely different,” “same old, same old,” or an evolution of a concept that is not new but is being more widely recognized and integrated into the existing medical paradigm. I think the third answer is correct. First, what is resiliency, etc.? Second, what is the evidence that the concept of resiliency has been around for a long time and the scientific community is progressively embracing it?
Resiliency, resilience, and resilient derive from the Latin verb – resilire – “to jump back.” These three words are also related to the verb resile – to draw back from something with aversion, from a course of action, or from an agreement. Ironically, the three 3 R words which have a positive connotation are related to a verb that has a negative connotation. Furthermore, one of the meanings of resilience first cited in 1882 is “repugnance” or “antagonism.”
Some people think that ‘resiliency’ is a recently coined, pretentious substitute for ‘resilience.’ However, in 1668, Henry More, in his Divine Dialogues, wrote about the “strong and peremptory Resiliency from this sordid Region of Misery and Sin.” In 1857, Robert Tomes, MD, writing about the human power of recovery from a natural disaster in his book The Americans in Japan, stated “Notwithstanding the calamities caused by the earthquake, there was shown a resiliency in the Japanese character which spoke well for their energy.” Hence, his observation introduced the idea that resiliency can be a human response to disaster and presently raises the question of whether there are different cultural manifestations of resiliency.
Another misunderstanding is that ‘resiliency’ and ‘resilience’ were terms borrowed from the field of physics and applied to a human quality. Although Francis Bacon mentioned the possible resilience of echoes in his study on sound in 1626, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known usage for the recoil of material things or the elasticity of objects is 1676 for ‘resiliency’ (of quicksilver), the early 1700s for ‘resile’ (particles and fibers) and 1824 for ‘resilience’ (“the power of a material to resist an impulsive force”). However, ‘resilience’ refers to a human action as early as 1656 (going back on one’s word); ‘resiliency’ in 1668 (Henry More’s usage). ‘Resile’ relates to human behavior even earlier in 1529.
You say resilience; I say resiliency. Unlike the title of the Cole Porter song, we are not about to “call the whole thing off.” Instead, these words refer to an old concept that is gaining a new and greater acceptance and is here to stay. But why are there two nouns with apparently the same meaning? Both words refer to the human ability to rebound from adversity. Although there is a nuance of difference with ‘resiliency’ being the “capacity” or “tendency” to rebound and ‘resilience’ being the “act” of rebounding, these works can be used interchangeably. In modern usage, ‘resilience’ is more likely used to describe the property of objects to spring back to their original shape. Either noun is used to refer to the human ability to rebound. Hence, how does one choose which noun to use when speaking about the human element? I suggest choosing the one that sounds better in a particular context.
More recently, the fields of psychology and education have been in the forefront of studying resilience in children and adolescents and applying what they have learned to enhancing resilience through education. In 1955, Werner and Smith began their longitudinal study that determined variables associated with resilient children. Descriptive studies have been done on various populations including children raised in poverty, war veterans, and Mercury 7 astronauts. There is much literature on comprehending how adolescents are resilient within a culture of substance use and addiction. Most recently, traumatic stress has become a model for studying resilience.
There is the pioneering work on resilience by Frederic Flach, MD for Psychiatry and Al Seibert, PhD for Psychology. In 1980, Dr. Flach authored an article “Psychobiologic Resilience, Psychotherapy, and the Creative Process.” His 1997 book Resilience: Discovering a New Strength at Times of Stress has been revised. I mourn the recent death of Dr. Flach, a prophet for the crucial role of resilience in human adaptation and fellow alumnus of St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey. Dr. Seibert has devoted his 30-year career to the study of resiliency. He has authored numerous articles and several books including The Resiliency Advantage, which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Self Help Book Award.
Building upon earlier studies, researchers are continuously learning about the qualities of resiliency and the characteristics of resilient individuals. Numerous studies, the results of many of which have been replicated, have demonstrated factors that comprise resiliency. Characteristics of resiliency include inquisitiveness, optimal optimism, active coping and problem-solving, effectiveness despite being fearful, emotional self-regulation, bonding for a common mission, positive self-concept, internal control, desire to improve oneself, altruism, social support, the ability to turn traumatic helplessness into learned helpfulness, humor, and meaning. The discipline of positive psychology is even going beyond the concept of resiliency and is studying happiness and coaching individuals in the pursuit of happiness.
The role of humor in resiliency is fascinating. Humor has been demonstrated to reduce stress. “Getting high on humor” helps us cope with adversity. We might even have a brain laughter center. During brain imaging while an individual reads a rib-tickling cartoon, the nucleus accumbens of the brain’s reward/motivation system lights up just like when a person is using cocaine. According to a recent study, a hearty laugh has a positive effect on our cardiovascular “plumbing.” But we still have to be mindful of primum non nocere because studies have shown that laughter can trigger asthma.
So what is new? First, resiliency is not the flip side of risk factors. For example, in regard to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), having experienced a previous trauma places one at risk for developing PTSD after being exposed to recent trauma. However, the lack of past trauma exposure does not protect an individual from developing PTSD if confronted by a traumatic event. To the contrary, experiencing some degree of adversity in childhood might help to build resiliency and prevent an individual from developing psychiatric symptoms as a young adult.
Second, psychiatrists and neuroscientists are beginning to research and learn about the psychobiology of resilience. For example, Dr. Morgan and his colleagues, including Steven Southwick, M.D., discovered that neuropeptide Y is elevated in Special Ops troops who endure survival training. Furthermore, neuropeptide Y levels are lower in individuals who have PTSD. Is neuropeptide Y a biological correlate of resilience? Is the lower level of this neuropeptide in a person with PTSD an effect of the traumatic exposure, a result of having PTSD, or a pre-existing vulnerability for developing PTSD? Could it be a biological marker that might predict who would be resilient in the face of trauma?
Third, I think a new meaning is evolving for resiliency and resilience. In some contexts the words are being used to mean the strength to resist being impacted by an adverse event rather than either the “capacity to rebound” or “act of rebounding” from adversity. Therefore, resiliency and resilience appear to be assuming the meaning of fortitude, that is, “the strength or firmness of mind that enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage or to bear pain or adversity without despondency” as defined in the Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. If so, we are coming full circle with science accepting a religious moral virtue – fortitude – as written in the Bible’s Book of Wisdom.
Although I believe that the field of Medicine, and thus, Psychiatry, is not undergoing a paradigm shift, I think that there is a growing realization that resiliency is key to our survival. In the words of Henry I. Miller, MD, speaking about the potential for pandemic flu, “We need to be aggressive, innovative, and, above all, resilient. In society, as in biology, resilience means survival.”
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Standardized Mess: Students Know It's Easy to Cheat on the SATs
Amid the publicity surrounding the start of Larry Adler’s sentence on perjury charges — he’ll finish his reduced 10-day jail term this week — it is easy to forget how close the former Winston Churchill High School student came to successfully cheating on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
Adler was not foiled by a test administrator noticing that the person taking the test was not the person pictured on Adler’s driver’s license. Nor was he done in by the Educational Testing Service’s analysis of his test scores for irregularities. Instead, Adler was thwarted by the one factor he should have had …
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Students, researchers and other professionals have long had no-cost access to the global computer network called the Internet. But for everyone else, getting in meant getting out the wallet.
Now a growing number of "community" or "civic" computer networks are springing up around the country to tie local people together and hook them into the Internet for free.
Last week, Maryland’s planned state-wide "Sailor" system, which makes the Internet’s so-called gopher services available at no cost, began limited operation in the Baltimore area. Officials hope to start making it available in Washington’s Maryland suburbs in September.
Sailor also will offer subsidized rates — …
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To reach Jim Cashel on the Internet, just drop him a line at his e-mail address "cashel@esquire.com."
You can’t call him at Esquire magazine, though. He doesn’t work there and never has, according to the company. Try some of his other 17 e-mail addresses, including "hertz.com" and "trump.com," and you’ll get the same result. He doesn’t work for those companies either, spokesmen said.
But Cashel does own the words they might want to use in their cyberspace addresses.
Cashel — a Kalorama resident who works at the government-funded Eurasia Foundation here — declined to be interviewed for this article. He is among a …
Bombarded by the U.S. Navy; It's a Job and an Adventure To Keep Up With Their Junk Mail
THE NAVY COMMANDERS sent the letter to my mother, but they had really been after me.
In the fall of my junior year in high school, I took the standardized Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), which most colleges use to identify potential applicants. Check the box that authorizes the testing service to release your name and the colleges hit you with a flurry of brochures, videos, applications and scholarship offers.
What I didn’t know was that the Defense Department would seize upon the scores, too. Much like their academic counterparts, the armed services pore over those scores for potential recruits. And, for …
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I was disappointed that you would print a piece as disingenuous as Stewart Ugelow’s tale of his recruitment by the U.S. Navy ["Bombarded by the U.S. Navy," Outlook, Aug. 27]. While Ugelow professes that his story is told out of some benevolent concern over wasted tax dollars, it appears that he is doing nothing more than relating an elitist joke.
Many high school and college students are flooded with recruitment mail from various branches of the armed forces. I am a senior at Swarthmore College (certainly as unlikely a launching pad for a career in the military as Yale) and despite …
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Second Reading: Saint Hippolytus ( - 235)
Hippolytus was a priest and a learned man, the most important writer of the Church at Rome in the early third century. He strongly attacked the popes of the time, and was set up as a rival Pope to St Callistus. Some time later, in Maximin’s persecution, he was sent to labour in the quarries of Sardinia. There he met the then Pope, Pontian, and was reconciled with him. (Pontian was made Pope in 231, and was sent to the quarries in 235, where he resigned the papacy and died; Hippolytus must have died at about the same time).
Pontian’s successor, Fabian, had both bodies brought back to Rome for burial, and Pontian and Hippolytus were already being venerated by the Roman Church by the start of the fourth century. Hippolytus was the most important theologian and the most prolific religious writer of the Roman Church in the pre-Constantinian era. Unfortunately most of his works have been lost or are known only through scattered fragments, while much has survived only in old translations into Oriental and Slavonic languages, tangled up with the writings of other authors. The fact that Hippolytus wrote in Greek means that later, when that language was no longer understood in Rome, the Romans lost interest in his writings, while in the East they were read long after, and made the author famous.
The “Discourse on the Theophany” [or Epiphany] was probably wrongly attributed to Hippolytus, which makes it hard to get a sense of him as a preacher; but it is of a similar period and outlook.
Deuteronomy 4:7 ©
What great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?
Sing of the Lord, for he has done marvellous things, let them be made known to the whole world. Cry out for joy and gladness, you dwellers in Zion, for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel.
(Tobit 14:6-8) ©
And all the people of the whole earth will be converted and will fear God with all sincerity and renounce their false gods. They will bless the God of the ages by upright conduct. All the Israelites spared in those days will remember God in sincerity of heart and will come and gather in Jerusalem. And those who sincerely love God will rejoice.
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Posted on September 29, 2014 by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Hello, Hello, from the other side of the wedding chaos – and chaos is a great way to describe it. It was a fantastic three day event, with a family dinner on Friday where we met Winston’s family, and welcomed them to ours, and then the wedding day itself, and then a family brunch yesterday to wind things up. Today we’re looking at pictures, resting, laughing and remembering, because it really was a wonderful day. The weather was spectacular – completely out of character for the end of September in Toronto. Warm and sunny, hot even – and it was the perfect makings for a wedding by the lake. So many parts of the day were wonderful, but three parts stand out for me. First- Erin’s shawl was as perfect with her dress as I’d hoped- pictures are forthcoming – for reasons that will be clear in a minute, I didn’t have time to take them myself on Saturday. Then there was Hank, walking his mother down the aisle in a suit and looking like the wonderful young man he is, and then finally, there was my gift to them.
I don’t know if you remember, but two summers ago, when Kate and Carlos married, I pulled together a musical surprise for them. It was awesome – and at the time, Erin said to me that if she ever got married, she wanted a wedding flashmob too. I agreed, because frankly – I didn’t think it was going to come up. There was nobody on the horizon, and I felt pretty safe. Enter Winston, and suddenly here we are, and I realize that she’s actually going to marry him, and I’m actually going to need to come up with something and I started planning. I decided on one of Erin’s favourite songs, I hacked her invite list, I made contact with her planner, and I set the wheels in motion. An email went out to everyone attending the wedding, asking anyone who knew how to play an instrument to step up, and pretty soon the replies were flooding my inbox. This person could play the guitar, that person could play the piccolo (really) and so on, and so forth and with some work, I had a plan.
We held a secret rehearsal on Thursday night – and to get Hank out of the house, Joe and I pretended to take him sailing. I asked him if he would have trouble lying to his mum, and he said it was “no issue”. (I am a nice aunt, so I didn’t ask how much practice he’s had, but after the fact I did let Erin know he was pretty smooth, for a 14 year old, and she might want to keep any eye on him.) We picked him up, drove him across town to the marina, whacked a lifejacket on the kid, motored out of our berth, took 89 pictures of him, texted them to Erin, and then parked the boat and drove back across town in time for the rehearsal at Ken’s.
We had it down by the end of the rehearsal, but I was still nervous. Only about 20 people made it to practice, and there was more than 100 people coming to the wedding, and that’s a lot of wild cards. Would it come together? I had no idea – and I was worrying that someone would tell Erin – when this many people are in on a surprise it’s hard to keep quiet. By this time I was lying to Erin about every 15 seconds about why I was busy, I’d developed an intimate relationship with half of Winston’s family by way of email, we had an unreasonable number of Kazoos and Joe was spending all his time practising on the guitar.
I sent out reassuring emails to everyone involved assuring them that it was all going to be okay – that this thing would be more about enthusiasm than skill, that we weren’t trying to do the song perfectly, and that it was about how it would make Erin feel, not how we sounded. “Stay chill” I told people. “Relax into it.” Then I would quietly, and by myself, have another stroke.
The day of the wedding arrived, and we began to execute our plan. I went to my mum’s to be with Erin while she got ready, then split so I got to the wedding early (thus missing my opportunity to photograph the shawl, but I think the photographer got some.) There I met up with incredibly sneaky wedding planner, and we started hiding instruments with the musicians. The plan was this:
Erin and Winston would have a beautiful ceremony, as it ended, their recessional music would start, then stop suddenly.
As they grew more confused, Sam’s boyfriend Matt would pull out his ukulele and start to play. My girls (Erin’s nieces) and a few helpers would start to sing. Then Hank and Winston’s kids Edi and Zoe would start to sing. A few bars later the family would join in, then everyone, with musicians coming on board as they were able to grab their gear.
Here’s what actually happened.
(You have to click to watch.)
It isn’t perfect, I know, but it was totally perfect for Erin, and she sobbed ecstatically through the entire thing. (As one of her friends said, we know she was surprised because she was ugly crying.) You can hear her losing it through almost the entire video. I know for a fact they loved it (which is always a gamble- once you start screwing with wedding plans) not because it was musically profound, but because it was what we all wanted for them – a chance to show them we love them, and we want only their happiness.
Their whole community came together to hijack their wedding and make it a special, special day. Not a dry eye in the place.
Special thanks to the musicians for doing what they could with over a hundred rookies, and great big thanks to Hank, Edi and Zoe. They really stepped up to show their parents that they love them.
Congratulations Erin and Winston.
PS. I totally earned myself the sister-of-the-year award. You might think that would be an simple thing to nail, considering that I’m Erin’s only sister, but truthfully, she likes to mostly bestow that upon herself, and she’s pretty awesome, so the competition is tough.
178 thoughts on “Another one bites the dust”
Austin Val on September 29, 2014 at 3:11 pm said:
Not a dry eye in this office, either. If I ever get married, I will email you the guest list EARLY so you won’t have a stroke preparing for my flashmob.
Nice shawl, by the way.
Jodi on September 29, 2014 at 3:14 pm said:
To top it all off, you look smashing in your fancy dress!
Pinkskatinggirl on September 29, 2014 at 3:16 pm said:
Such a great sing along! And great smiles everywhere. Nice shawl, too!
Booa on September 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm said:
Gorgeousity! Love it, love the cleverness with Hank on the boat, for hacking the email and organizing the wedding flashmob, just so terrific! And everyone looks beautiful and happy, and really, what could be better?
Best wishes to the happy couple and way to go, Best Sister!
Tine on September 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm said:
Your family certainly knows how to celebrate. The wedding sound wonderful. And now we know why you were so stressed the week before the wedding. Its awesomeness is your reward.
sharon on September 29, 2014 at 3:20 pm said:
what a wonderful sister you are….wish I had one like you
Knitlass on September 29, 2014 at 3:24 pm said:
Jeez – that’s awesome (again) and just like last time I got some dust or sonething in my eye when I was watching.
I don’t have a sister. Are you available for hire? I can pay in yarn…
Sara on September 29, 2014 at 3:24 pm said:
Oh so beautiful, I’ve got tears in my eyes and a stupid soppy grin all over my face and I’m a total stranger. Erin looked stunned but in a very, very good way. You and your entire family are amazing.
Mallory on September 29, 2014 at 3:25 pm said:
Oh my gosh! Hank’s so grown up!
Angela on September 29, 2014 at 3:26 pm said:
I’m crying and I haven’t even watched the video. That was so thoughtful of you to organize. I’m sure she’ll never forget it!
Sonya on September 29, 2014 at 3:27 pm said:
Beautiful! We all sang Rainbow Connection for the procession at my sister’s wedding and none of us will ever forget it.
Betsy on September 29, 2014 at 3:27 pm said:
No dry eyes left here either!!! What a sweet and thoughtful sister you are! Congrats and blessings Erin and Winston – you have an amazing bunch of family and friends rooting for you!!!
Barbara on September 29, 2014 at 3:27 pm said:
totally absolutely awsome!….shawl looks great too!
Martha Bilski on September 29, 2014 at 3:28 pm said:
so cool. what a wunnerful surprise.
Elizabeth L on September 29, 2014 at 3:32 pm said:
That is just fantastic!! Well done, you, and kudos – or kazoos – to the rest of the gang for pulling it together!. Honestly, Hank singing to his mom… that was my lose-it moment. Love it!!
Kylie on September 29, 2014 at 3:34 pm said:
What a beautiful gift to your sister! Totally made me cry too. Also the shawl is beautiful. You really outdid yourself as sister of the year! (My sister and I have that game too: “you’re my favorite sister!” “I’m your only sister!” “Doesn’t matter!”)
Mazeltov to the happy couple.
newjerseylaura on September 29, 2014 at 3:34 pm said:
marjorie on September 29, 2014 at 3:38 pm said:
The shawl looks perfect with her dress. And your dress looks lovely too. How were the shoes? I seem to remember a quote from somewhere in my past, which went something like “how we must suffer to be beautiful…” I hope that was not the case for you! I love that your family can get together and pull off musical numbers. My family is also noted for rowdy singing at family reunions, usually a familiar tune with words written by one of my aunts. We’re musical and poetic. And most of us knit too.
Jody on September 29, 2014 at 3:39 pm said:
That was fantastic! {{{sniff}}} I cried happy tears through the whole video! And your shawl was not only beautiful, it was perfect!
Gail on September 29, 2014 at 3:40 pm said:
Awesome! Absolutely, stunningly and adorably AWESOME! And that picture of the two of you is beautiful — and the shawl too, of course!
Congrats and best wishes to the lovely couple! And congrats to the family for pulling off your stellar WeddingMob!
Violet on September 29, 2014 at 3:40 pm said:
Weeping happy, sentimental tears over here. And when did Hank grow up into such a handsome young man??!!
Ann (WG) on September 29, 2014 at 3:47 pm said:
That is such a gorgeous and wonderful surprise! Sister of the Year, indeed!
flossie on September 29, 2014 at 3:51 pm said:
so much cutting of onions over here, let me tell you
Jenn on September 29, 2014 at 3:55 pm said:
Thank you for sharing the happiness and the special moment with us. And tell your sister congrats on our behalf! Im sure she found a good one! 😉
She looked lovely and the shawl was as perfect as the moment.
Karen on September 29, 2014 at 3:59 pm said:
Luckily my staff is totally used to me crying at my desk (not in a bad way–in a good way).
Kay on September 29, 2014 at 4:11 pm said:
Day, bride and groom, family and gift – all equally beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
Oh, and nice lipstick :o)
Lauren on September 29, 2014 at 4:12 pm said:
I don’t know any of you but the video made me cry. What a beautiful celebration of their love and yours for them. Thank you for sharing with us.
Susan in Katonah on September 30, 2014 at 8:57 am said:
What she said …
Jane on September 29, 2014 at 4:13 pm said:
Just totally wonderful and the last photo is The Best….
Bonnie R. Gordon on September 29, 2014 at 4:17 pm said:
Brilliant!! I can’t believe Hank is 14. In my mind’s eye he is always between 8 and 12and baking cookies in a hand knit sweater. What a wonderful family you have.
Cindy on September 29, 2014 at 4:19 pm said:
So beautiful! I cried when your sister sobbed on her tall, handsome groom. ; )
Margo on September 29, 2014 at 4:21 pm said:
What a wonderful story, sounds like a fantastic day! Your dress is great, and your family is beautiful!
Cynthia on September 29, 2014 at 4:24 pm said:
you totally rock.
She is so lucky to have a sister like you … the shawl was gorgeous, but that you remembered her request probably made the best gift of all.
Biskymom on September 29, 2014 at 4:32 pm said:
OK you are making a lot of people cry (happy tears) today. So sweet—even better that the movie because this is really life!!!
Sue H on September 29, 2014 at 4:39 pm said:
Not that was WONDERFUL!!!! What a grand idea! And congratulations on pulling it off so splendidly! (Loved the last picture best! Sister Love! and the shawl looked great!)
Linda on September 29, 2014 at 4:43 pm said:
That is some kinda’ wonderful. Love IS all you need. Love and a few kazoos. Well done!
That was all kinds of awesome!. Thanks for sharing!
Mary on September 29, 2014 at 4:52 pm said:
You are truly amazing to have pulled that off in the midst of your busy schedule! It was wonderful! And what I could see of the shawl was gorgeous!
SarahJS on September 29, 2014 at 5:02 pm said:
Best wishes to the Erin & Winston!
Way to rock the family & friends flashmob.
And while the shawl is gorgeous, the sweetness of the sister smooch (okay, and the newlywed smooch) photo is transcendent.
Melissa (Ajax) on September 29, 2014 at 5:10 pm said:
That picture of you and your sister? The best. Get that one framed.
Beth on September 29, 2014 at 5:11 pm said:
Piccolo, ftw!
Laurie on September 29, 2014 at 5:19 pm said:
The piccolo surprisingly rocked! That was awesome.
I cannot get my head around Hank. Yesterday, he was an adorable little kid whose biggest thrill was the skein winder. Now he is a handsome young man. When did that happen?
rams on September 29, 2014 at 5:21 pm said:
And your dress is great (I can see why the underwear would matter, but it looks effortlessly perfect.) How’d those shoes work out?
Kathy C. on September 29, 2014 at 5:23 pm said:
I have tears just from reading your post. Such love.
Cecilia on September 29, 2014 at 5:24 pm said:
That was beautiful. You are beautiful people, and I wish I was related to you so you could that for me if I ever get married.
capsize on September 29, 2014 at 5:26 pm said:
Freakin’ awesome.
Dang it, Stephanie! I was crying even before I played the video! That was so beautiful. Great job and congratulations on winning the sister-of-the-year award.
Jen on September 29, 2014 at 5:29 pm said:
Happy sigh. Sniff.
Chris on September 29, 2014 at 5:34 pm said:
What a beautiful wedding! Your family sure is awesome, such lovely lovely people. You look great in your dress! And the shawl is beautiful. Can’t get over Hank, I remember when you knit him those cute crocodile or dinosaur mitts. Your girls are all grown up too! Best wishes to the newlyweds!!
Sally at Rivendale Farms on September 29, 2014 at 5:35 pm said:
Soooo freakin’ wonderful. It may also be the first flash mob with a piccolo, which rocked. The amount of love in your family is a thing to behold.
Wait! What?? Hank is 14? When did that happen? Wasn’t it just a winter or two ago that he was a heartbroken little guy who’d lost one of his mousie mittens?
Mary Lou on September 29, 2014 at 5:38 pm said:
The shawl is lovely (I just finished my second one of that pattern) and you look fabulous in your dress and lipstick! Beautiful wedding and fantastic flash mob! Well done, all.
Jules on September 29, 2014 at 5:38 pm said:
Feeling a little verklemt here. Just beautiful.
Judi on September 29, 2014 at 5:40 pm said:
Seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I was reading about Hank being entertained by endlessly rewinding the same hank of yarn on the ball winder. He has turned into a fine young man.
Perfect wedding. Wonderful sisters – both of you.
LauraRose on September 30, 2014 at 4:43 pm said:
I too am shocked by this. I remember him as about 7 in a cute little red cardigan I think. What fun to HEAR all of these people we have SEEN for so many years. Very generous of them to share. Congratulations to the new family!
Monique on September 29, 2014 at 5:42 pm said:
Kudos for earning the sneakiest sister award!! It was a lovely wedding.
Andrea on September 29, 2014 at 5:43 pm said:
Just what I needed today! Love to all.
Kate on September 29, 2014 at 5:43 pm said:
Ugh, sobbing. That was great. It always makes me smile to see how much love shines through in your family.
Risa on September 29, 2014 at 5:44 pm said:
Did you steal that idea from my favorite movie, “Love Actually”? Anyway it was beautiful and perfect and made me cry. Mazel tov to Erin and Winston.
Lisa on September 29, 2014 at 5:45 pm said:
Great shoes!!!
Allison on September 29, 2014 at 5:47 pm said:
So sweet! Wishing Erin much happiness 🙂
HelenSF on September 29, 2014 at 5:56 pm said:
Can I be adopted by your family? What a generous, fun, loving bunch of folks. You should be proud. (and Erin looks stunning and stunned!)
Diane on September 29, 2014 at 6:21 pm said:
Nope. Not a dry eye at my desk either. Can’t trust myself to watch the video until I get home. We are told we must maintain a Professional Demeanor, and I doubt I could pull that off.
Congratulations to everyone!
Lindsey (in London) on September 29, 2014 at 6:23 pm said:
Brilliant!! Loved the video, fabulous to see your legendary family moving, singing, being happy in the (virtual) flesh. You didn’t make me cry — you gave me a great happy boost, which is just what I need, having returned from hospital where my mum has just been readmitted … it really did me good. And you look absolutely gorgeous in that dress, and the shawl looks perfect, and you’ve just rescued an abysmal day. Thank you!
Rita on September 29, 2014 at 6:23 pm said:
Two things: 1. We are laughing and crying right along with you. Thanks for sharing your life with us. 2. When did Hank get to be 14?!! He’s so big now!
KatyaR on September 29, 2014 at 6:39 pm said:
What a wonderful surprise! I would have cried my eyes out, too–those are the best kind of gifts.
And how the heck is Hank 14 years old? Seriously, did you put him in a time warp or something? I swear he was just 5 a minute ago….
Congratulations on a lovely day.
Jo-Anne on September 29, 2014 at 6:43 pm said:
What a lovely tribute, and thanks for sharing it. What wonderful memories (and what a beautiful shawl). Congratulations to Erin and Winston!
Nicky Gray on September 29, 2014 at 6:54 pm said:
Beautiful shawl
Cool wedding surprise
Judith on September 29, 2014 at 6:56 pm said:
Happy tears here too.What a super wedding,super shawl,super everything.
Uptownknitting on September 29, 2014 at 6:58 pm said:
Beautiful, just beautiful – the song, the bride, the shawl, the mother of the bride, the sister of the bride, the dress, the shoes, the appropriate and completely invisible underwear… Thank you for sharing your beautiful, talented, loving family with us!
GeekKnitter on September 29, 2014 at 6:59 pm said:
sniffle…
Susan on September 29, 2014 at 7:02 pm said:
I laughed and cried…so wonderful. But wait, Hank is 14??? He’s supposed to still be a little boy with the winding yarn or baking cookies or going Christmas shopping with you. Oh my…I’ve been claiming your family as an extension of mine for a very long time..but obviously not paying attention to calendars.
Cara on September 29, 2014 at 7:04 pm said:
You guys definitely rank among the coolest families (and extended families) out there. I love it. I particularly love the glimpses of you, Harlot, squinting in to the sun to make sure the bride is happy crying. Awesome job!!
Petra on September 29, 2014 at 7:05 pm said:
Agree-thank you for sharing this with us, and OMG is that HANK!!??! I’m guessing his fascinated-with-ball-winding days are over 🙁
Melissa on September 29, 2014 at 7:19 pm said:
Amazing. What a fabulous gift to your sister! And bully for all participating! The love was evident and near about visible in that video. Congratulations for pulling it off! The shawl is beautiful and you look terrific! Happiness and love to all!
Brilliant! Beautiful! Perfect for your sister’s wedding – the flash mob — and the shawl.
Michelle on September 29, 2014 at 7:29 pm said:
How beautiful and wonderful, every bit of it! And what a beautiful picture of you and your sister!!
Sheila on September 29, 2014 at 7:31 pm said:
Barbara Hoddy on September 29, 2014 at 7:42 pm said:
You are the greatest sister, EVER! How very wonderful!
Thank you for making me smile. I love seeing families celebrating with so much joy.
Robin on September 29, 2014 at 7:45 pm said:
Awesome. And you look smokin’ hot YH.
Lani on September 29, 2014 at 7:48 pm said:
That was the most meaningful present a sister could ever give!! It was certainly a testimony to the love that you feel for Erin.
Wonderful that your mum got really into it!
Darlene on September 29, 2014 at 7:50 pm said:
Wonderful wedding! Wonderful flash mob. I would love to have you for a sister. You are amazing!
The bride and groom looked so happy.
vicki on September 29, 2014 at 7:52 pm said:
Kinda hard to read the end of your post … Must have gotten something in both eyes …
trudy on September 29, 2014 at 8:14 pm said:
LOVE the shawl……sweet story.
trudy <
Holly on September 29, 2014 at 8:18 pm said:
Absolutely perfect. Thank you for sharing your awesome family with us.
janna on September 29, 2014 at 8:18 pm said:
So great! And as someone who played the flute and piccolo in the marching band, I love the piccolo part! 😉
Hank is pretty amazing for a 14 year old boy. Much courage to sing alone!! Great surprise.
Diana Cripe on September 29, 2014 at 8:51 pm said:
Erin has THE BEST family and friends EVER!!!
Marti Johnson on September 29, 2014 at 8:51 pm said:
What a lovely idea … and I’ll bet you earned that award big time! I especially love the last picture of you and Erin, and what I can see of it, the beautiful shawl!
JL on September 29, 2014 at 8:52 pm said:
Julia on September 29, 2014 at 8:52 pm said:
What a fantastic family photo! Delightful wedding story.
Jodifer on September 29, 2014 at 9:17 pm said:
Yeah, I cried. And smiled the entire time. Thanks for sharing the joy.
When did Hank get to be 14? I feel like I’ve lost years somewhere…
Mary-Anne on September 29, 2014 at 9:44 pm said:
Wow. Organizing flash mobs……is there anything you can’t do? My hero (ine).
Lisa H. on September 29, 2014 at 9:51 pm said:
I’ve got tears in my eyes. You are really diverse – flash mob organizer, wedding shawl creator, author, bicycling warrior… the list goes on and on. Thanks for sharing such a sweet and joyful time.
Patricia Walters on September 29, 2014 at 9:59 pm said:
Not a dry eye in any of our houses either. You really are pretty amazing.
Geness on September 29, 2014 at 10:12 pm said:
Re: the “All you’ve got is love” video: your mom stole the show!
Ashley on September 29, 2014 at 10:23 pm said:
That was Incredible!!!!! Made me tear up, and it’s not even for me. The imperfections made it more perfect if that makes sense. What a fabulous surprise for your sister. Thinking that sister of the year award might just go to you this year.
Cathryn on September 29, 2014 at 10:26 pm said:
Erin makes a lovely bride, Winston makes a handsome group, they make a wonderful, happy couple, and you look lovely in the dress, Stephanie. Loved this whole post!
Melinda on September 29, 2014 at 10:34 pm said:
“We had an unreasonable number of kazoos” – what a line!
It sounds like the most wonderful wedding day. Congratulations to all involved and well done on a wonderful surprise music event – a perfect memory in a day no doubt filled with memories.
Amanda Page on September 29, 2014 at 10:39 pm said:
Ah, how lovely! I have a wee something in my eye just now. And look at that happy Steph at the end, well done all of you.
Anonymous, too on September 29, 2014 at 10:54 pm said:
Congratulations to the bride and groom. May their marriage be a long and happy one.
Hank is shooting up and becoming more handsome every day. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of his classmates are already drooling after him!
The idea and the choice of song worked perfectly together. It seems these type of things always work better when everyone knows the music or song — and who doesn’t know the Beatles?? I think I’m going to e-mail a link to the video to my brother, the high school band director, to (maybe) inspire him when our nephews and nieces start getting married!
Lissa on September 29, 2014 at 11:08 pm said:
Whether or not everyone was all on the same musical measure throughout, your hearts were all in the right place at the right time. 🙂
Lovely moment, lovely wedding, lovely shawl, lovely pictures, and lovely dresses (all around). Mazeltov!
stardancer on September 29, 2014 at 11:18 pm said:
That’s adorable. I especially like the part where you can see Sam laughing because there’s two versions happening at once! Truly a wonderful gift.
Juti on September 29, 2014 at 11:22 pm said:
It doesn’t get any sweeter than that. Thanks for sharing it with us.
ps. Gorgeous dress, perfect shoes. You looked downright comfortable in them, too.
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tree D on September 30, 2014 at 12:02 am said:
Thank you so much for including ‘the blog’ in your family celebration! I feel weirdly connected to you all at this moment (sniff-sniff). Congratulations are due all around – to the beautiful bride & handsome groom, their charming children, the fabulous shawl, and to you and your lovely family. Blessings all around!
Lisa on September 30, 2014 at 12:44 am said:
Crying. Beautiful.
Janelle on September 30, 2014 at 1:01 am said:
Oh my goodness that was sweet! Made me cry! The shawl is gorgeous, can’t wait to see more pics of it. What a beautiful couple your sister and her hubby are.
Robinstephanie on September 30, 2014 at 1:31 am said:
Dear Stephanie–
I’ve never commented before, but I gotta say, when the video cut to Erin crying, I started crying too. Super, super way to go, and blessings on your head for stirring it up. And Winston, hey, look at the way he’s lookin’ at your sister. Man *loves* her. So lovely to see, and thank you for sharing it with us. Right on with the right on’s,
Robinsteph
Laura on September 30, 2014 at 4:32 am said:
I’ve just completely trashed my makeup here at work but sooooo worth it!!! What a wonderful gift for your sis! And a STUNNING shawl! xxx
Kathleen on September 30, 2014 at 6:34 am said:
Flipping my male co-worker out by crying at my desk – had to explain that they were happy-based tears!
Congratulations to the newlyweds and a hearty “Huzzah!” to all the performers!
Steph on September 30, 2014 at 7:02 am said:
I am quite surprised that I was ugly crying at 6:30 this morning. That was just beautiful, your shawl as well. Thank you for sharing that wonderful moment with the rest of us.
Allison on September 30, 2014 at 7:20 am said:
awesome post, weeping and happy for all of you.
Phyllis Shand on September 30, 2014 at 7:27 am said:
That was wonderful.
Lara on September 30, 2014 at 7:54 am said:
That is the most perfectly endearing thing I have seen in a while. Congratulations to your sister on her wedding; she looked stunning. And Hank (good lord, is that little Hank?) looks like he’s grown up to be a fine young man. I wish your sister all the happiness in the world, and it looks like you guys gave her a good start.
Benita on September 30, 2014 at 8:04 am said:
Gee, that made me cry – and I’m several hundred miles away!
Hank is 14?!? When did that happen?
Karen on September 30, 2014 at 8:19 am said:
That is so awesome! I totally love it!
Ellen in Indy on September 30, 2014 at 8:23 am said:
That is now my second-favorite. Flash. Mob. Ever. Second only to the one at Sock Summit Ii in Portland OR in ’11, honoring our own dear Harlot.
What a wonderful family and fantastic event. (Beautiful shawl, too!) But how will you top that when your daughters marry, Steph?
Lori Hawkins on September 30, 2014 at 8:42 am said:
Lovely gifts, the shawl and song. I was ugly crying while watching the video, and I’ve never even met you people! What a perfect send off to a new marriage.
Laura Ricketts on September 30, 2014 at 8:59 am said:
That is SO SWEET! Everything was beautiful — hank is so handsome, and to see everyone together. Perfect!
Nicole on September 30, 2014 at 9:20 am said:
Made. My. Day. You done good Steph! :o)
Pamela on September 30, 2014 at 9:29 am said:
Well done Stephanie 🙂
Alison on September 30, 2014 at 9:58 am said:
It may be cold medication but I totally teared up and got happy weepy over the video. Ok…it wasn’t the medication. I’m a big cry baby. it was beautiful and happy and awkward and wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Kathi on September 30, 2014 at 10:13 am said:
Well played Stephanie! what a beautiful way to show love and end a wedding ceremony!
Donna on September 30, 2014 at 10:30 am said:
Thank you Steph and Erin for bringing a happy joyous tear to my eye this morning, and for letting us all be part of a beautiful outpouring of celebration and love!
Sheryl Highsmith on September 30, 2014 at 10:39 am said:
Love your dress, Erin’s dress, Erin’s shawl, Hank’s suit, the cool video, and the socks that the guy on the couch with the green guitar is wearing.
Faith on September 30, 2014 at 10:50 am said:
I’m surprised no one has commented on the great socks in the second picture. Are those your creation Stephanie?
Carrie on September 30, 2014 at 10:52 am said:
The picture of her kissing you at the end of your blog is PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laura on September 30, 2014 at 11:26 am said:
So perfect. I clapped at the end of the video.
Kelly on September 30, 2014 at 11:34 am said:
That was so beautiful!! And I love, love, love the last picture of you and Erin.
Lara on September 30, 2014 at 12:35 pm said:
GAH! I totally teared up. Watching BOTH videos! What a fantastic family! That is the best kind of wedding gift. So SO beautiful. (you clean up nicely, Stephanie! You and your mom and girls (AND SISTER!) all looked so lovely! Also? Hank has the most fabulous shoes!)
microbe29 on September 30, 2014 at 12:44 pm said:
Stephanie, thank you SO MUCH for posting the link to the video! I felt as if you’d given us invitations to your family wedding. I’m afraid I’m echoing what’s already been said: your sister looked gorgeous; her shawl was perfect (kudos, Steph!), Hank is so TALL (taller than you now!), your dress and shoes both looked great, your daughters looked wonderful. And this was the first chance I’ve gotten to see your wonderful mom in action! She looked wonderful, and totally into helping that song along, bless her!
Beautiful shawl? Carefully planned flashmob to start the new couple off right? You totally rocked as Bestest Sister of the Year!
Leslie on September 30, 2014 at 12:47 pm said:
With all due respect to Erin, Winston is a dish.
Knitsiam on September 30, 2014 at 1:14 pm said:
Congratulations to Erin, Winston and their new family – happiness always. Loved the video, loved the shawl (perfect), great dress and shoes BTW – your picture with Erin – priceless!
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CathyCake on September 30, 2014 at 1:16 pm said:
Oh, my goodness, that last picture — that’s one for a frame. Lovely.
Cindy B on September 30, 2014 at 1:27 pm said:
Lovely, lovely!
But really, Hank is 14 !? Where does the time go?
Caroline aka FiberTribe on September 30, 2014 at 1:45 pm said:
so VERY wonderful! Love and family and love. And omigod. HANK. All grown up. In shock here. congratulations to all! and gorgeous shawl…
Tanglophile on September 30, 2014 at 1:50 pm said:
I totally cried at the end. Awesome. I think my husband might have even teared up a bit.
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Snelda on September 30, 2014 at 3:19 pm said:
Love you, love your family. And the musicians sounded particularly great (including the kazoos). Fun!
Lesley Goldberg on September 30, 2014 at 3:51 pm said:
I hope Hank doesn’t think he is too old now to bake Christmas cookies with you.
I don’t care if I am redundant. Thank you for allowing us a view on so much love.
Donna on September 30, 2014 at 4:08 pm said:
I needed some happy in my day. That totally did it!! Congratulations to all. May they have a long and wonderful life together.
Summer Crosson on September 30, 2014 at 4:30 pm said:
you had me in tears! beautiful!
Kelly on September 30, 2014 at 4:38 pm said:
I can’t get All You Need is Love sung to the sound of kazoos out of my head!
Lizy Tish on September 30, 2014 at 6:00 pm said:
You are an awesome sister. What a lovely, lovely, loving thing.
Isabella on September 30, 2014 at 6:01 pm said:
Brillant, goregous shawl, wonderful song.
Linda Watson on September 30, 2014 at 8:06 pm said:
Oh, crying. That has got to be the absolutely best wedding ever.
Beverly (Knutty Knitter from MS) King on September 30, 2014 at 9:23 pm said:
You are awesome! What a unique idea, but then again, you are “The Yarn Harlot” of all trades!
Cathy B in Toronto on September 30, 2014 at 9:38 pm said:
That was just wonderful.
Pamela on September 30, 2014 at 9:46 pm said:
So perfect – just like Love Actually. It is a perfect song for a wedding. And it’s so unfair that Erin looks beautiful even when she is ‘ugly crying’. Amazing event.
Ruth on October 1, 2014 at 2:57 am said:
TimWarp on October 1, 2014 at 8:49 am said:
1) Love your dress – gorgeous color and sexy cut!
2) When did Hank go from a boy to a young man? It’s magical, isn’t it, what happens between 12 and 14. Went through that with my daughter and still can’t get over it.
3) The shawl is amazing.
4) {sniff}
Suzie on October 1, 2014 at 10:27 am said:
It’s amazing how much Sam looks like your sister.
Congrats on the wedding. And the shawl is beautiful.
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Meig on October 1, 2014 at 1:43 pm said:
One of my favorite movies is Love Actually and this is so reminiscent of it and I love it!! Amazing work!!
Klarie on October 1, 2014 at 3:30 pm said:
I so so so so love it!!! not a dry eye here too, my boyfriend thinks I’m crazy.. 😉
you have the best family!
Mollee on October 1, 2014 at 3:46 pm said:
Damn it was dusty in here when I watched that video. Wedding shawl and a surprise flash mob? You are the world’s best sister.
Vicky on October 1, 2014 at 8:06 pm said:
Great job all around, Stephanie! 🙂
Torre on October 1, 2014 at 9:04 pm said:
What a sweet flash mob – you all are awesome! And best wishes to Erin and her husband!
Kimberly on October 1, 2014 at 9:56 pm said:
I’m in tears! That was fabulous 🙂
Margaret B on October 1, 2014 at 11:10 pm said:
What a great story- I’m sobbing myself. AND you looked great in your dress!
Joan on October 2, 2014 at 12:43 am said:
So fabulous ! Gorgeous shawl, wonderful music and love !
Jamie on October 2, 2014 at 8:45 am said:
That was one of the sweetest, most touching things I’ve ever seen.
Kathode Ray Tube on October 2, 2014 at 9:53 am said:
What a wonderful thing to do. Congrats to your sister and brother in law! Your nephew is so sweet.
Holly on October 2, 2014 at 12:30 pm said:
Not a dry eye here as well. You are an awesome sister
River on October 2, 2014 at 12:52 pm said:
Technically, there’s no such thing as “an unreasonable amount of kazoos.” Particularly for an occasion such as this.
GREAT job pulling it off. Made me cry (a nice cry).
Samina on October 2, 2014 at 1:26 pm said:
Wait a minute – Hank was 4 years old only yesterday! What happened? When did that kid grow up? Boy, time flies!
Also, please clarify for me. Erin is your sister, right? And Kate is Joe’s? Just trying to keep all you Pearls & McPhees straight is an effort!
Cheryl Brake on October 2, 2014 at 6:55 pm said:
Oh shoot, I think I cried too, just watching it. How incredibly sweet!!
Karen on October 3, 2014 at 9:38 pm said:
I was at a family wedding myself at around the same time. It was lovely in Cleveland too. No flash mob at this one.
I could have loaned you the “tower of power” brass we had when we sang this song in church a few years back. But the piccolo was particularly marvelous.
And so is the shawl.
Mary on October 4, 2014 at 9:03 am said:
Finally got out to watch the video. Glad I’m alone. Here I am-weeping into my oatmeal. Your family rocks!
Rebecca on October 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm said:
And all I can think about is… I remember when you were blogging about Hank and he was like, 2. Now my child is almost 2. Don’t tell me it goes by that fast. I refuse to listen.
Idiosyncratic Eye on October 15, 2014 at 2:05 pm said:
Awwww! 🙂
KnitterPam on October 23, 2014 at 2:54 pm said:
Holy cow, i’m sobbing like a child right now. but in a smiley way. super cute and what a fabulous accompaniment! great job, steph. i know your sis was so pleased.
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Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter on the Wildly Confusing Origins of 'The Thing'
The director has paid his respects to the late composer — even though they never saw eye-to-eye on their famed collaboration
Following the death of soundtrack legend Ennio Morricone, famed collaborator John Carpenter has paid tribute to the fallen maestro, calling him "one of the great composers." That said, the pair's working relationship was anything but smooth, with their individual accounts of The Thing varying wildly over the years. So much so, in fact, the story behind the soundtrack to The Thing has become a thing of legend.
Like so many others, Carpenter paid his respects to Morricone in the wake of the news that the Italian composer had died Monday (July 6) at the age of 91, recounting their working relationship fondly.
"He has done so many different kinds of scores," Carpenter said of Morricone in an interview with IndieWire. "He was a traditional composer but with a layer on top that is difficult to describe. He had the knack. The music would go deeper into whatever the movie was, it would bring out something in depth, a theme, a feeling. He was like an X-ray composer. He brought out a part of the theme of the movie that hadn't been thought of before."
The pair famously crossed paths while Carpenter was working on his 1982 film The Thing. While Carpenter was known for scoring his own work, the decision was made to bring in Morricone to soundtrack the now-classic sci-fi flick. The team-up, however, was infamously plagued with communication problems — often blamed on the fact Morricone spoke no English and was forced to use a translator. The director, however, now has positive memories of their one and only collaboration.
"Morricone came from experimental music, a strange place," said Carpenter. "The studio had no interest in me scoring The Thing. Stuart Cohen, the associate producer, suggested, 'Why don't we get Maestro Morricone to do it?' So we hired him."
Morricone flew from Rome to Los Angeles to record his score, which he did with the help of a full orchestra.
"He recorded the score in sections for us: 'use it wherever you wish,'" recalled Carpenter. "He came later to record. I watched him conduct his orchestra sessions at Universal. It was fabulous. He added something to it, that I didn't realize, didn't ask for. He brought it: this deep, tragic sense that this is the end of things, of everything. Oh my god, it really worked. I was delighted with it."
But while Carpenter was exceptionally positive in the interview about the encounter, Morricone himself had more confusing memories of working on The Thing. In the 2019 interview book Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, the composer recounted his time working with Carpenter.
Of their first meeting, Morricone told interviewer Alessandro De Rosa the following:
It was a very curious happening. When he came to Rome, we watched the film together in the hotel where he was staying. As soon as the screening was over, he took the VHS with him and went away, leaving me alone in the room. Was it a sign of respect, modesty, or what? After all, he had insisted so much on us meeting (he had even confessed to me that he used my music from Once Upon a Time in the West at his wedding).
In the book, Morricone then explained that there was some serious confusion over the final score to The Thing.
Morricone explained the following:
I went back home [after our first meeting]. With the notes I had taken, I composed several different options covering as many different genres as possible — dissonant, consonant, and in some cases I reprised the idea of "multiple" scores which I had already employed with [Dario] Argento and in other TV productions. I devised two versions of a quite long piece — in Rome I prepared a version for synthesizers only, while in Los Angeles I recorded an instrumental version of the same together with the other cues.
The recordings went perfectly, all the tracks were ready and things were going smoothly, to the point that I received enthusiastic compliments at the end of our sessions. "Ah, thanks goodness!" I whispered to myself in a sigh of relief. They were supposed to take care of the mix, so I left for Rome happy and satisfied.
Then, however, this happened:
I waited for the film premiere; I was curious to assess the final outcome. Only at that point, with my enormous surprise, did I realize the "misdeed"; there was no trace of the L.A. recording! Carpenter had used the version with the synthesizers throughout the film.... I was astonished, if not upset. What could I do at that point? I had to live with it
As a result, confusion has always surrounded the music of The Thing, which has been presented in various forms over the years. As Morricone explained, the music of the film version and that of his official soundtrack release different greatly. In fact, Carpenter even included his own synthesizer compositions during the onscreen version — and he then infamously lost the cues, meaning they were never actually released on record (though he did re-record them for a recent release).
Then, to add an extra layer of confusion, John Carpenter's musical companion Alan Howarth made another version of The Thing soundtrack containing re-recordings of both Carpenter's work and Morricone's — again through re-recorded means, however. Then, there are a pile of "expanded" bootlegs just to make it all just that much more unclear.
Despite all this, The Thing has stood as one of Morricone's most beloved works, and the soundtrack — as Morricone had intended it, at least — just recently was reissued via Quartet Records, who gave the soundtrack a stunning new remaster.
You can learn much more about the works of the late maestro in Exclaim!'s Essential Guide to Ennio Morricone, which indeed includes The Thing.
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10 Groups Which Had To Wait The Longest Lengths Of Time Ever For Their First Win
These groups had to wait years for their first win.
Some groups don’t have to wait long for their first win. ITZY, for example, earned their first win just nine days after their debut. Others are left waiting quite a while, these are groups that had to wait the longest lengths of time in history for their first win.
1. Oh My Girl
Oh My Girl had to wait for 1,008 days before their first win. They earned it for “Secret Garden” on The Show in late 2018.
2. EXID
EXID weren’t always the powerhouse group they are now. Until their hit song “Up & Down” was released, they were a struggling girl group that were failing to get momentum. Speaking of “Up & Down”, EXID earned their first win for that song on M! Countdown 1,057 days after their debut.
3. DIA
DIA was a group that was rumoured to be disbanding before the success of their single “WooWoo”. Thankfully for DIA and their fans, it looks like the group will continue for the foreseeable future. After 1,065 days, DIA won The Show with “WooWoo” to earn their first win.
4. ASTRO
ASTRO just recently earned their first win on The Show much to the delight of their fans. This took place 1,071 days after debut and they earned it with the song “All Night”.
5. Girl’s Day
Girl’s Day were another girl group who was not an instant success. It took them several concept changes and 1,094 days before they earned their first win. It was for “Female President” and it happened on a cancelled episode of SBS Inkigayo. Thankfully, they were able to earn another win for the song that was televised.
6. Boyfriend
Boyfriend is a veteran group in 2019 as they have been active for 9 years. They didn’t earn their first win until 2014, 1,264 days after their debut when they won The Show with their song “Witch”.
7. BTOB
BTOB‘s beautiful ballads and meaningful lyrics went unappreciated for a long time but eventually, they managed to get their first win on Show Champion for “Way Back Home”. It took them 1,309 days.
8. CLC
CLC is another Cube group that semi-struggled for years before their first win. CLC has just earned their first win for “No” on The Show 1,426 days after their debut. With this comeback, it looks like CLC is finally picking up some steam and hopefully they can carry this momentum into their next comeback.
NU’EST W earned NU’EST’s first a staggering 2,044 days after their debut. Their hit song “Where You At” spurred NU’EST W to victory on M! Countdown. The members were so shocked by their win that they were at a loss for words.
10. U-KISS
The record for the longest ever time between debut and first win goes to U-KISS who had to wait over five years (2,164 days) to win a music show. U-KISS won a special “China Choice” episode of The Show.
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BTS Made Oricon History Setting A Record For Highest First-Week Album Sales By A Foreign Male Artist
BTS is making history again!
From the moment BTS released their 4th full-length Japanese album on July 15, they’ve been creating even more history. On the first day alone according to Japan’s Oricon chart, MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~THE JOURNEY~ sold 447,869 copes which not only set a new record for foreign artists but it also set a record as the most sold album out of all artists in Japan for the year.
Now, with the album’s first-week sales revealed, BTS has made history once more!
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On July 21, Oricon reported MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~THE JOURNEY~ had sold 564,000 copies in the first week. In doing so, BTS set a new record for the highest first-week sales ever achieved by male foreign artists. Previously, the record was set by TVXQ‘s Best Selection 2010 album with 413,000 copies sold.
Of course, this also added onto their record for having the most albums sold out of all artists in Japan this year too!
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In addition to the new record, BTS’s MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~THE JOURNEY~ also debuted in the top spot on Oricon’s weekly album rankings, becoming their sixth album to do so. Furthermore, BTS has also topped Oricon’s daily album chart for 6 consecutive days and counting.
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Congratulations BTS!
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BTS To Release An Acoustic Version Of “Make It Right”
Watch out for it!
BTS will release an acoustic version of “Make It Right” featuring American singer and songwriter, Lauv on November 8, 2019 at 6PM KST.
The song is said to feature a lyric guitar melody and an acoustic sound by minimizing the use of electric instruments. The song is described to create a light and sweet feel using an acoustic guitar, a bass, and a keyboard.
It will capture the ears of the listeners with its very alluring acoustic melody.
“Make It Right” is a song from BTS’s album, Map of the Soul: PERSONA, which was released in April of 2019. Global singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran participated in writing the song.
“Make It Right” ranked 95th on the Billboard “Hot 100” chart when it was first released together with the album.
BTS collaborated with Lauv and released another version of the song which also made it in the Billboard “Hot 100” chart, ranking at the 76th spot.
BTS has been releasing various versions of “Make It Right” recently. Aside from the song’s feature with Lauv, they have also released an EDM version of the song. The acoustic version of “Make It Right” will surely capture more hearts with its sweet and soft sound.
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CL voted 2nd most influential person in the world after Vladimir Putin on TIME 100 Reader’s Poll
The official poll results are in for the 2015 TIME 100 Reader’s Poll!
The poll for the TIME 100 Reader’s Poll officially closed at April 10th at 11:59PM EST, and ended up in a tie of 6.9% between 2NE1 member CL and Russia’s president and politician Vladimir Putin, who quickly rose to the top of the poll.
Finally, TIME revealed the official poll results on April 13th local time, revealing that Vladimir Putin had been voted 1st in this year’s TIME 100 of most influential people in the world by readers, leaving CL in second place. What is most amazing is that only .05% separated the first top two placers.
Artists Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Taylor Swift followed behind in third through fifth place with 2.6%, 1.9%, and 1.8% respectively.
According to TIME, more than half the votes, or 57.38%, for this year’s Reader’s Poll were cast within the United States, with 5.54% and 4.55% cast in Canada and the United Kingdoms respectively.
The official TIME 100 results, which is specifically chosen by the publication’s editors, will be revealed on April 16th.
Source: TIME
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The Director Who Made Beyoncé‘s music video made BoA’s upcoming MV
More updates about BoA’s new music video have been revealed following news of her single release.
SM Entertainment recently revealed the teaser video for their new SM Station single “Spring Rain” featuring BoA. As soon as it was released, fans discovered that Shomi Patwary, a renowned video director, filmed the music video.
Shomi Patwary is known for producing cinematic quality music videos and has worked with international stars such as Beyonce, A$AP Rocky, Diplo and more.
A long list of Shomi Patwary’s stellar works
The new song “Spring Rain” will be released on various music sites on the April 28th, 6:00 PM KST. The track was composed by hitmaker Kenzie and followed a theme of love and hate in its lyrics.
Check out the teaser video below.
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Krystal lives up to her name in this special Crystal photoshoot
Krystal‘s new photoshoot lives up to her name. See for yourself.
Krystal’s most recent Instagram update featured a beautiful and unique photo shoot with her dressed in a sparkling outfit on a bright silver, glistening background. Surrounded by shining light, she looked like a goddess of crystals. Behold the beauty.
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Krystal’s crystal photo shoot was met with adoration and amazement from fans. Isn’t it just stunning?
The F(x) member has been very busy in the last year, albeit through her acting rather than in music, she made a cameo in the drama The Legend of the Blue Sea earlier this year, hinting at a return to the screen.
She will play the leading role in the Chinese drama series Graduating Season, as well as taking the leading role in the joint Chinese-South Korean film Unexpected Love, both are expected to release sometime this year.
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Health / Pregnancy
5 Things You Should Do to Prepare for Baby’s Arrival
Make welcoming a child into the world a little bit easier with these preparations.
Written by Laura Hensley
Becoming a mom is a major life event, so it’s normal to feel overwhelmed when preparing for your baby’s arrival. Not only does pregnancy affect everything from your body, mood, eating habits, energy levels, and exercise routine, but it can also cause stress—both good and bad, says Aaptiv Trainer Jaime McFaden.
“Prepping for a baby can cause major anxiety,” McFaden says. “It’s okay to feel so many things. It’s the most exciting change of your life.”
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So, how can you help minimize that stress and best prepare for your new family member? Here, experts share their tips on what expecting women should do before giving birth.
Make a post-birth plan
It’s an understatement to say that life changes the moment that you have a kid. Having a post-birth plan helps make the first few days and weeks of parenthood that much easier.
Before the sleep deprivation hits, figure out if you need help once you’re home from the hospital, and who can step in. If your mom or mother-in-law is available, organize their stay and prepare their room. That way, once the baby is born, you’ll have in-house support on-hand.
Also, take time to prep your baby’s nursery, pre-wash their baby clothes, and get rid of any hazardous items in the home. Also, have a pediatrician lined up, as it’s incredibly important that newborns receive proper healthcare.
And lastly, when your due date is near, have your hospital bag packed and ready to go.
Continue a regular exercise routine
Exercising (to your comfort and ability) is just as important during pregnancy as it is during other times in your life. While women in the past were told to sit down and stay off their feet during pregnancy, Certified Personal Trainer Jessica Sennet says that health experts now know it’s safe—and good—for pregnant women to work out.
Sennet, who specializes in prenatal and postnatal exercise, says that some women still have hesitations, and worry that working out may harm their baby. “I think the most common concern is that pregnant women want to exercise, but they have no idea how to do it in a safe way,” Sennet says. “There are certain modifications, but being active can be a little bit more difficult.”
Because the body changes so much during pregnancy, Sennet says exercise may look different day-to-day. Still, pregnant women should maintain a regular exercise routine so that their body—and the body growing inside them—is as healthy as possible. (Here’s what to know about working out in your first trimester, second trimester, and third trimester.)
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Sennet says that the benefits of exercise during pregnancy are profound. “Your energy will be better, your mood will be better, you’ll have less aches and pains, and there’s less risk of complications in your pregnancy,” she says. She also says that working out helps prepare you for giving birth, which is a physically demanding event.
“You always feel better after you exercise, and the benefits of being regularly active outweigh not doing it,” Sennet adds. McFaden agrees, and says that pregnant women should exercise—as long as the activity is first cleared by their doctor. “It is so important because your body is going through so many changes, and you want to keep your body healthy for the baby.”
Get life insurance
Moms-to-be want to protect their baby before and after they’re born, and life insurance helps with that. While it may be the last thing on your mind, having adequate life insurance means that your partner and child are covered, should anything happen.
According to insurance provider Haven Life, it’s often better to apply sooner rather than later for life insurance, as any post-birth health conditions may impact your premium.
Too often, new parents forget about the financial aspect of family planning, or think they don’t need certain coverage. Even if one parent plans to stay at home to care for their child, they should have a policy in place, too, as life insurance can help with the costs of paying for daycare—should a family suddenly need it. Talk to an insurance provider to determine how much coverage is best for you.
Registered Dietitian Olivia Cupido says that typical nutritional rules still apply for pregnant women, like eating a balanced diet, but those expecting need to be a bit more mindful of certain nutrient needs, like iron.
During pregnancy, a woman’s body supplies blood and oxygen to the growing fetus, increasing the demand for iron. While there’s plenty of iron-rich foods—like spinach, tofu, beans, and lentils—that you can eat, an iron supplement may also be necessary. If you’re not sure, it’s best to talk to your doctor about your diet.
Another important part of a pregnancy diet? Folate, which can be found in leafy green vegetables. “It’s really important in developing the [baby’s] brain, spinal cord, and neural system,” Cupido says. “A combination of a supplement and [folate] found naturally from diet allows you to make sure [that] you are getting enough.”
Lasty, it’s important for expectant women to get enough Omega-3 fatty acids. Cupido says that while it’s a good idea to stay away from high-mercury fish, you can still get Omega-3s from a variety of sources, including: sardines, salmon, and nuts.
To make sure that you’re checking all your nutritional boxes, Cupido says that pregnant women should also take prenatal vitamins. (It’s important to note that there are also foods that moms-to-be should steer clear from, including: raw or undercooked meat, high-mercury fish, raw or runny egg, and soft cheeses.)
Talk to other moms
Whether you want to chat morning sickness remedies or the best baby strollers, connecting with other moms offers support. McFaden says that seeking out a solid group of positive moms can help ease your worries and fears, while also offering first-hand parenting advice.
Cupido echoes this, and says that connecting with people who are going through similar things in life can help new moms feel less alone. She suggests connecting with friends who are parents, or going online and joining a parenting group on social media. “It’s really important to see what strategies work for other people and to know that they’re going through the same things, too,” Cupido adds.
At the end of the day, no matter how much you prepare, there’s going to be unexpected ups and downs in pregnancy. McFaden says that while bringing life into the world can be scary, it’s also incredibly rewarding. “Breathe, and remember how many women before you have done it,” she says. “You can, too!”
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Achievement prizes awards (use 914); Gifts or grants to individuals (use 561); Financial support of (094) Other cultural or historical activities (119) Publishing activities (120) Radio or television broadcasting (121) Producing films (122) Discussion groups, forums, panels lectures, etc. (123) Study and research (non scientific) (124) Giving information or opinion (see also Advocacy) (125) Apprentice training; Travel tours (use 299) (126) Other instruction and training (149) Hospital (150) Hospital auxiliary (151) Nursing or convalescent home (152) Care and housing for the aged (see also 382) (153) Health clinic (154) Rural medical facility (155) Blood bank (156) Cooperative hospital service organization (157) Rescue and emergency service (158) Nurses register or bureau (159) Aid to the handicapped (see also 031) (160) Scientific research (diseases) (161) Other medical research (162) Health insurance (medical, dental, optical, etc.) (163) Prepared group health plan (164) Community health planning (165) Mental health care (166) Group medical practice association (167) In faculty group practice association (168) Hospital pharmacy, parking facility, food services, etc. (169) Other health services (179) Contact or sponsored scientific research for industry (180) Scientific research for government; Scientific research (diseases)(use 161) (181) Other scientific research activities (199) Business promotion (chamber of commerce, business league, etc. (200) Real estate association (201) Board of trade (202) Regulating business (203) Promotion of fair business practices (204) Professional association (205) Professional association auxiliary (206) Industry trade shows (207) Convention displays; Testing products of public safety (use 905) (208) Research, development and testing (209) Professional athletic league; Attracting new industry (use 403); Publishing activities (use 120); Insurance or other benefits (210) Underwriting municipal insurance (211) Assigned risk insurance activities (212) Tourist bureau (213) Other business or professional group (229) Farming (230) Farm bureau (231) Agricultural group (232) Horticultural group (233) Farmers cooperative marketing or purchasing (234) Farmers cooperative marketing or purchasing; FFA, FHA, 4 H club, etc (use 322); Fair (use 065) (235) Dairy herd improvement association (236) Breeders association (237) Other farming and related activities (249) Mutual ditch, irrigation, telephone, electric company or like organization (250) Credit union (251) Reserve funds or insurance for domestic building and loan association, cooperative bank, or mutual savings bank (252) Mutual insurance company (253) Corporation organized under an Act of Congress (see also use (904); Farmers cooperative marketing or purchasing (use 234); Co (254) Other mutual organization (259) Fraternal Beneficiary society, order, or association (260) Improvement of conditions of workers (261) Association of municipal employees (262) Association of employees (263) Employee or member welfare association (264) Sick, accident, death, or similar benefits (265) Strike benefits (266) Unemployment benefits (267) Pension or retirement benefits (268) Vacation benefits (269) Other services or benefits to members or employees (279) Country club (280) Hobby club (281) Dinner club (282) Variety club (283) Dog club (284) Community service organization (408) Other inner city or community benefit activities (429) Defense of human and civil rights (430) Elimination of prejudice and discrimination (race, religion, sex, national origin, etc) (431) Lessen neighborhood tensions (432) Other civil rights activities (449) Public interest litigation activities (460) Other litigation or support of litigation (461) Legal aid to indigents (462) Providing bail (463) Plan under IRC section 120 (465) Propose, support, or oppose legislation (480) Voter information on issues or candidates (481) Voter education (mechanics of registering, voting etc.) (482) Support, oppose, or rate political candidates (483) Provide facilities or services for political campaign activities (484) Other legislative and political activities (509) Firearms control (510) Selective Service System (511) National defense policy (512) Weapons systems (513) Government spending (514) Taxes or tax exemption (515) Separation of church and state (516) Government aid to parochial schools (517) U.S. foreign policy (518) U.S. military involvement (519) Pacifism and peace (520) Economic political system of U.S. (521) Anti communism (522) Right to work (523) Zoning or rezoning (524) Location of highway or transportation system (525) Rights of criminal defendants (526) Capital punishment (527) Stricter law enforcement (528) Ecology or conservation (529) Protection of consumer interests (530) Medical care service (531) Welfare systems (532) Urban renewal (533) Busing student to achieve racial balance (534) Racial integration (535) Use of intoxicating beverage (536) Use of drugs or narcotics (537) Use of tobacco (538) Prohibition of erotica (539) Sex education in public schools (540) Population control (541) Birth control methods (542) Legalized abortion (543) Other matters (559) Supplying money, goods or services to the poor (560) Gifts or grants to individuals (other than scholarships); Scholarships for children of employees (use 039); Scholarships (oth (561) Other loans to individuals (562) Marriage counseling (563) Family planning (564) Credit counseling an assistance (565) Job training, counseling, or assistance (566) Draft counseling (567) Vocational counseling (568) Referral service (social agencies) (569) Rehabilitating convicts or ex convicts (572) Rehabilitating alcoholics, drug abusers, compulsive gamblers, etc. (573) Day care center (574) Services for the aged (see also 153 and 382); Training for aid to the handicapped (see 031 and 160) (575) Community Chest, United Way, etc. (600) Booster club (601) Gifts, grants, or loans to other organizations (602) Non financial services of facilities to other organizations (603) Cemetery or burial activities (900) Perpetual (care fund (cemetery, columbarium, etc) (901) Emergency or disaster aid fund (902) Community trust or component (903) Government instrumentality or agency (see also 254) (904) Testing products for public safety (905) Consumer interest group (906) Veterans activities (907) Patriotic activities (908) Non-exempt charitable trust described in section 4947(a)(1) of the Code (909) Domestic organization with activities outside U.S. (910) Foreign organization (911) Title holding corporation (912) Prevention of cruelty to animals (913) Achievement pries of awards (914) Erection or maintenance of public building or works (915) Cafeteria, restaurant, snack bar, food services, etc. (916) Thrift ship, retail outlet, etc. (917) Book, gift or supply store (918) Advertising (919) Association of employees (920) Loans or credit reporting (921) Endowment fund or financial services (922) Indians (tribes, cultures, etc.) (923) Traffic or tariff bureau (924) Section 501(c)(1) with 50% deductibility (925) Government instrumentality other than section 501(c) (926) Fundraising (927) 4947(a)(2) trust (928) Prepaid legal services pan exempt under IRC section 501(c)(20) (930) Withdrawal liability payment fund (931) Section 501(k) child care organization (990) Described in section 170(b)1)(a)(vi) of the Code (994) Described in section 509(a)(2) of the Code (995) Unspecified (998) =
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Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (A01) Management & Technical Assistance (A02) Professional Societies, Associations (A03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (A05) Opera (A6A) Singing, Choral (A6B) Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles (A6C) Performing Arts Schools (A6E) Single Organization Support (A11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (A12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.* (A19) Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose (A20) Cultural, Ethnic Awareness (A23) Arts Education (A25) Arts Council/Agency (A26) Media, Communications Organizations (A30) Film, Video (A31) Television (A32) Printing, Publishing (A33) Radio (A34) Visual Arts Organizations (A40) Museum, Museum Activities (A50) Art Museums (A51) Children's Museums (A52) History Museums (A54) Natural History, Natural Science Museums (A56) Science and Technology Museums (A57) Performing Arts Organizations (A60) Performing Arts Centers (A61) Dance (A62) Ballet (A63) Theater (A65) Music (A68) Symphony Orchestras (A69) Humanities Organizations (A70) Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities (A80) Commemorative Events (A84) Arts Service Organizations and Activities (A90) Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C. (A99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (B01) Management & Technical Assistance (B02) Professional Societies, Associations (B03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (B05) Single Organization Support (B11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (B12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (B19) Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12 (B20) Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions (B21) Primary, Elementary Schools (B24) Secondary, High School (B25) Specialized Education Institutions (B28) Vocational, Technical Schools (B30) Higher Education Institutions (B40) Community or Junior Colleges (B41) Undergraduate College (4-year) (B42) University or Technological Institute (B43) Graduate, Professional Schools (Separate Entities) (B50) Adult, Continuing Education (B60) Libraries (B70) Student Services, Organizations of Students (B80) Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards (B82) Student Sororities, Fraternities (B83) Alumni Associations (B84) Educational Services and Schools - Other (B90) Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement (B92) Parent/Teacher Group (B94) Education N.E.C. (B99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (C01) Management & Technical Assistance (C02) Professional Societies, Associations (C03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (C05) Single Organization Support (C11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (C12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (C19) Pollution Abatement and Control Services (C20) Recycling Programs (C27) Natural Resources Conservation and Protection (C30) Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management (C32) Land Resources Conservation (C34) Energy Resources Conservation and Development (C35) Forest Conservation (C36) Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services (C40) Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Botanical Organizations (C41) Garden Club, Horticultural Program (C42) Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics (C50) Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs (C60) Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C. (C99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (D01) Management & Technical Assistance (D02) Professional Societies, Associations (D03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (D05) Single Organization Support (D11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (D12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (D19) Animal Protection and Welfare (D20) Wildlife Preservation, Protection (D30) Protection of Endangered Species (D31) Bird Sanctuary, Preserve (D32) Fisheries Resources (D33) Wildlife Sanctuary, Refuge (D34) Veterinary Services (D40) Zoo, Zoological Society (D50) Other Services - Specialty Animals (D60) Animal Training, Behavior (D61) Animal-Related N.E.C. (D99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (E01) Management & Technical Assistance (E02) Professional Societies, Associations (E03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (E05) Single Organization Support (E11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (E12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (E19) Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities (E20) Community Health Systems (E21) Hospital, General (E22) Hospital, Specialty (E24) Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient (E30) Group Health Practice (Health Maintenance Organizations) (E31) Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic (E32) Reproductive Health Care Facilities and Allied Services (E40) Family Planning Centers (E42) Rehabilitative Medical Services (E50) Health Support Services (E60) Blood Supply Related (E61) Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services (E62) Organ and Tissue Banks (E65) Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services) (E70) Health, General and Financing (E80) Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation (E86) Nursing Services (General) (E90) Nursing, Convalescent Facilities (E91) Home Health Care (E92) Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C. (E99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (F01) Management & Technical Assistance (F02) Professional Societies, Associations (F03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (F05) Single Organization Support (F11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (F12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (F19) Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment (F20) Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only (F21) Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only (F22) Mental Health Treatment - Multipurpose and N.E.C. (F30) Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital (F31) Community Mental Health Center (F32) Group Home, Residential Treatment Facility - Mental Health Related (F33) Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services (F40) Rape Victim Services (F42) Addictive Disorders N.E.C. (F50) Smoking Addiction (F52) Eating Disorder, Addiction (F53) Gambling Addiction (F54) Counseling, Support Groups (F60) Mental Health Disorders (F70) Mental Health Association, Multipurpose (F80) Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C. (F99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (G01) Management & Technical Assistance (G02) Professional Societies, Associations (G03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (G05) Surgery (G9B) Single Organization Support (G11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (G12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (G19) Birth Defects and Genetic Diseases (G20) Down Syndrome (G25) Cancer (G30) Diseases of Specific Organs (G40) Eye Diseases, Blindness and Vision Impairments (G41) Ear and Throat Diseases (G42) Heart and Circulatory System Diseases, Disorders (G43) Kidney Disease (G44) Lung Disease (G45) Brain Disorders (G48) Nerve, Muscle and Bone Diseases (G50) Arthritis (G51) Epilepsy (G54) Allergy Related Diseases (G60) Asthma (G61) Digestive Diseases, Disorders (G70) Specifically Named Diseases (G80) AIDS (G81) Alzheimer's Disease (G83) Autism (G84) Medical Disciplines (G90) Biomedicine, Bioengineering (G92) Geriatrics (G94) Neurology, Neuroscience (G96) Pediatrics (G98) Diseases, Disorders, Medical Disciplines N.E.C. (G99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (H01) Management & Technical Assistance (H02) Professional Societies, Associations (H03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (H05) Surgery Research (H9B) Single Organization Support (H11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (H12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (H19) Birth Defects, Genetic Diseases Research (H20) Down Syndrome Research (H25) Cancer Research (H30) Specific Organ Research (H40) Eye Research (H41) Ear and Throat Research (H42) Heart, Circulatory Research (H43) Kidney Research (H44) Lung Research (H45) Brain Disorders Research (H48) Nerve, Muscle, Bone Research (H50) Arthritis Research (H51) Epilepsy Research (H54) Allergy Related Disease Research (H60) Asthma Research (H61) Digestive Disease, Disorder Research (H70) Specifically Named Diseases Research (H80) AIDS Research (H81) Alzheimer's Disease Research (H83) Autism Research (H84) Medical Specialty Research (H90) Biomedicine, Bioengineering Research (H92) Geriatrics Research (H94) Neurology, Neuroscience Research (H96) Pediatrics Research (H98) Medical Research N.E.C. (H99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (I01) Management & Technical Assistance (I02) Professional Societies, Associations (I03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (I05) Single Organization Support (I11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (I12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (I19) Crime Prevention N.E.C. (I20) Delinquency Prevention (I21) Drunk Driving Related (I23) Correctional Facilities N.E.C. (I30) Transitional Care, Half-Way House for Offenders, Ex-Offenders (I31) Rehabilitation Services for Offenders (I40) Services to Prisoners and Families - Multipurpose (I43) Prison Alternatives (I44) Administration of Justice, Courts (I50) Dispute Resolution, Mediation Services (I51) Law Enforcement Agencies (Police Departments) (I60) Protection Against, Prevention of Neglect, Abuse, Exploitation (I70) Spouse Abuse, Prevention of (I71) Child Abuse, Prevention of (I72) Sexual Abuse, Prevention of (I73) Legal Services (I80) Public Interest Law, Litigation (I83) Crime, Legal Related N.E.C. (I99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (J01) Management & Technical Assistance (J02) Professional Societies, Associations (J03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (J05) Single Organization Support (J11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (J12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (J19) Employment Procurement Assistance, Job Training (J20) Vocational Counseling, Guidance and Testing (J21) Vocational Training (J22) Vocational Rehabilitation (J30) Goodwill Industries (J32) Sheltered Remunerative Employment, Work Activity Center N.E.C. (J33) Labor Unions, Organizations (J40) Employment, Job Related N.E.C. (J99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (K01) Management & Technical Assistance (K02) Professional Societies, Associations (K03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (K05) Single Organization Support (K11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (K12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (K19) Agricultural Programs (K20) Farmland Preservation (K25) Livestock Breeding, Development, Management (K26) Farm Bureau, Grange (K28) Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs (K30) Food Banks, Food Pantries (K31) Congregate Meals (K34) Eatery, Agency, Organization Sponsored (K35) Meals on Wheels (K36) Nutrition Programs (K40) Home Economics (K50) Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C. (K99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (L01) Management & Technical Assistance (L02) Professional Societies, Associations (L03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (L05) Single Organization Support (L11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (L12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (L19) Housing Development, Construction, Management (L20) Public Housing Facilities (L21) Senior Citizens' Housing/Retirement Communities (L22) Housing Rehabilitation (L25) Housing Search Assistance (L30) Low-Cost Temporary Housing (L40) Homeless, Temporary Shelter For (L41) Housing Owners, Renters Organizations (L50) Housing Support Services -- Other (L80) Home Improvement and Repairs (L81) Housing Expense Reduction Support (L82) Housing, Shelter N.E.C. (L99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (M01) Management & Technical Assistance (M02) Professional Societies, Associations (M03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (M05) Single Organization Support (M11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (M12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (M19) Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services (M20) Search and Rescue Squads, Services (M23) Fire Prevention, Protection, Control (M24) Safety Education (M40) First Aid Training, Services (M41) Automotive Safety (M42) Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness, and Relief N.E.C. (M99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (N01) Management & Technical Assistance (N02) Professional Societies, Associations (N03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (N05) Golf (N6A) Single Organization Support (N11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (N12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (N19) Recreational and Sporting Camps (N20) Physical Fitness and Community Recreational Facilities (N30) Community Recreational Centers (N31) Parks and Playgrounds (N32) Sports Training Facilities, Agencies (N40) Recreational, Pleasure, or Social Club (N50) Fairs, County and Other (N52) Amateur Sports Clubs, Leagues, N.E.C. (N60) Fishing, Hunting Clubs (N61) Basketball (N62) Baseball, Softball (N63) Soccer Clubs, Leagues (N64) Football Clubs, Leagues (N65) Tennis, Racquet Sports Clubs, Leagues (N66) Swimming, Water Recreation (N67) Winter Sports (Snow and Ice) (N68) Equestrian, Riding (N69) Amateur Sports Competitions (N70) Olympics Committees and Related International Competitions (N71) Special Olympics (N72) Professional Athletic Leagues (N80) Recreation, Sports, Leisure, Athletics N.E.C. (N99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (O01) Management & Technical Assistance (O02) Professional Societies, Associations (O03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (O05) Single Organization Support (O11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (O12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (O19) Youth Centers, Clubs, Multipurpose (O20) Boys Clubs (O21) Girls Clubs (O22) Boys and Girls Clubs (Combined) (O23) Adult, Child Matching Programs (O30) Big Brothers, Big Sisters (O31) Scouting Organizations (O40) Boy Scouts of America (O41) Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. (O42) Camp Fire (O43) Youth Development Programs, Other (O50) Youth Community Service Clubs (O51) Youth Development - Agricultural (O52) Youth Development - Business (O53) Youth Development - Citizenship Programs (O54) Youth Development - Religious Leadership (O55) Youth Development N.E.C. (O99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (P01) Management & Technical Assistance (P02) Professional Societies, Associations (P03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (P05) Single Organization Support (P11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (P12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (P19) Human Service Organizations - Multipurpose (P20) American Red Cross (P21) Urban League (P22) Salvation Army (P24) Volunteers of America (P26) Young Men's or Women's Associations (YMCA, YWCA, YWHA, YMHA) (P27) Neighborhood Centers, Settlement Houses (P28) Thrift Shops (P29) Children's, Youth Services (P30) Adoption (P31) Foster Care (P32) Child Day Care (P33) Family Services (P40) Single Parent Agencies, Services (P42) Family Violence Shelters, Services (P43) Homemaker, Home Health Aide (P44) Family Services, Adolescent Parents (P45) Family Counseling (P46) Personal Social Services (P50) Financial Counseling, Money Management (P51) Transportation, Free or Subsidized (P52) Gift Distribution (P58) Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash) (P60) Travelers' Aid (P61) Victims' Services (P62) Residential, Custodial Care (P70) Half-Way House (Short-Term Residential Care) (P72) Group Home (Long Term) (P73) Hospice (P74) Senior Continuing Care Communities (P75) Services to Promote the Independence of Specific Populations (P80) Senior Centers, Services (P81) Developmentally Disabled Centers, Services (P82) Ethnic, Immigrant Centers, Services (P84) Homeless Persons Centers, Services (P85) Blind/Visually Impaired Centers, Services (P86) Deaf/Hearing Impaired Centers, Services (P87) Human Services - Multipurpose and Other N.E.C. (P99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (Q01) Management & Technical Assistance (Q02) Professional Societies, Associations (Q03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (Q05) Single Organization Support (Q11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (Q12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (Q19) Promotion of International Understanding (Q20) International Cultural Exchange (Q21) International Student Exchange and Aid (Q22) International Exchanges, N.E.C. (Q23) International Development, Relief Services (Q30) International Agricultural Development (Q31) International Economic Development (Q32) International Relief (Q33) International Peace and Security (Q40) Arms Control, Peace Organizations (Q41) United Nations Association (Q42) National Security, Domestic (Q43) International Human Rights (Q70) International Migration, Refugee Issues (Q71) International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security N.E.C. (Q99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (R01) Management & Technical Assistance (R02) Professional Societies, Associations (R03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (R05) Single Organization Support (R11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (R12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (R19) Civil Rights, Advocacy for Specific Groups (R20) Minority Rights (R22) Disabled Persons' Rights (R23) Women's Rights (R24) Seniors' Rights (R25) Lesbian, Gay Rights (R26) Intergroup, Race Relations (R30) Voter Education, Registration (R40) Civil Liberties Advocacy (R60) Reproductive Rights (R61) Right to Life (R62) Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Press Issues (R63) Right to Die, Euthanasia Issues (R67) Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C. (R99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (S01) Management & Technical Assistance (S02) Professional Societies, Associations (S03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (S05) Single Organization Support (S11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (S12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (S19) Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (General) (S20) Community Coalitions (S21) Neighborhood, Block Associations (S22) Economic Development (S30) Urban, Community Economic Development (S31) Rural Development (S32) Business and Industry (S40) Promotion of Business (S41) Management Services for Small Business, Entrepreneurs (S43) Boards of Trade (S46) Real Estate Organizations (S47) Nonprofit Management (S50) Community Service Clubs (S80) Women's Service Clubs (S81) Men's Service Clubs (S82) Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C. (S99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (T01) Management & Technical Assistance (T02) Professional Societies, Associations (T03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (T05) Single Organization Support (T11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (T12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (T19) Private Grantmaking Foundations (T20) Corporate Foundations (T21) Private Independent Foundations (T22) Private Operating Foundations (T23) Public Foundations (T30) Community Foundations (T31) Voluntarism Promotion (T40) Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion, General (T50) Fund Raising Organizations That Cross Categories (T70) Named Trusts/Foundations N.E.C. (T90) Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C. (T99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (U01) Management & Technical Assistance (U02) Professional Societies, Associations (U03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (U05) Single Organization Support (U11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (U12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (U19) Science, General (U20) Marine Science and Oceanography (U21) Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences Research and Promotion (U30) Astronomy (U31) Chemistry, Chemical Engineering (U33) Mathematics (U34) Geology (U36) Engineering and Technology Research, Services (U40) Computer Science (U41) Engineering (U42) Biological, Life Science Research (U50) Science and Technology Research Institutes, Services N.E.C. (U99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (V01) Management & Technical Assistance (V02) Professional Societies, Associations (V03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (V05) Single Organization Support (V11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (V12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. (V19) Social Science Institutes, Services (V20) Anthropology, Sociology (V21) Economics (as a social science) (V22) Behavioral Science (V23) Political Science (V24) Population Studies (V25) Law, International Law, Jurisprudence (V26) Interdisciplinary Research (V30) Black Studies (V31) Women's Studies (V32) Ethnic Studies (V33) Urban Studies (V34) International Studies (V35) Gerontology (as a social science) (V36) Labor Studies (V37) Social Science Research Institutes, Services N.E.C. (V99) Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (W01) Management & Technical Assistance (W02) Professional Societies, Associations (W03) Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (W05) Single Organization Support (W11) Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (W12) Nonmonetary Support N.E.C. 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Nigeria Receives Over 600 Years Old Ife Terracotta Head, Others From Netherlands
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and others attend the presentation of the Ife terracotta head and other artifacts from the Kingdom of Netherlands in Abuja on November 26, 2020. Photo: Channels TV/ Sodiq Adelakun.
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1 Read the full text of the Minister of Information at the event below:
The Nigerian government has received the repatriated Ife terracotta head and other artifacts from the Kingdom of Netherlands.
Mr Lai Mohammed, who is the Minister of Information and Culture, took delivery of the artifacts on Thursday at an event in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Harry Van Dijk, presented the valuable pieces of art to the minister on behalf of the government of the European country.
The terracotta head from Ile-Ife in Osun State, a unique and rare artifact, was intercepted by Dutch Customs at the Schiphol Airport in 2018.
The event was also attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, as well as Professor Abba Tijani.
Professor Tijani, who is the Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, stated that the Ife terracotta head was said to be at least 600 years old.
Highlights of the event are captured in the pictures below:
Read the full text of the Minister of Information at the event below:
SPEECH BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE, ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED, WHILE RECEIVING AN IFE TERRACOTTA ANTIQUITY RETURNED FROM THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS….IN ABUJA ON THURSDAY, 26 NOV. 2020
It gives me profound joy to receive this very important antiquity, an Ife Terracotta, which is dated to be at least 600 years old.
I am even more delighted that our efforts at pursuing the return of Nigerian antiquities, which we launched last November, have started yielding fruits.
You will recall that at the World Press Conference held for that purpose in Lagos on November 28, 2019, I asserted that Nigeria will work towards the return and restitution of her cultural property wherever they may be in the world.
That assertion was not a fluke, as we have seen today.
Our resolve to seek the repatriation of our timeless and priceless artifacts was strengthened by Mr President’s marching order for Nigeria to tap into tourism and other fields, where Nigeria has comparative advantages, in order to generate income for the nation and secure jobs for our youths.
One way of generating income for the country is if our cultural properties are exhibited around the world to a fee-paying audience, on the basis of proper agreement that acknowledges us as owners and confers the right benefits on us.
But this is not possible for as long as most of them adorn the museums and private collections of others, who describe them as their properties.
Today’s event marks a new beginning. Our antiquities must work for our progress. Apart from the pecuniary benefits, these priceless objects wrought by our forebears are unifying factors.
It is heart-warming to note that the leadership of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments is showing renewed efforts at repatriation.
Regarding the antiquity that is being handed over to us today, the smuggler had obtained forged documents purported to be from a former Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
The smuggler ultimately passed through the airport in Ghana before getting to Europe in 2019.
The Dutch Customs at Schiphol Airport suspected that the object might be illicitly imported and alerted the antiquity protection office known as the Inspectie, which is the Information and Heritage Inspectorate of the Netherlands, to give an opinion.
The Inspectie invited Nigeria to prove her case against the suspected smuggler. The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) acted swiftly by dispatching its lawyer, Mr Babatunde Adebiyi, who is with us here today, to present evidence and argue for the return of the object.
Nigeria was successful in this and the claim was determined in favour of Nigeria.
After all internal procedures, including the right of appeal, were exhausted, the Government of the Netherlands – at a very elaborate event – handed over the object to the Nigerian Embassy in the Hague on November 2, 2020.
The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, made all possible arrangements to ensure the return of the antiquity to Nigeria.
He directed the Charge d’Affaires of our Embassy in the Netherlands, Mr Kabiru Musa, to bring back the antiquity, which we are receiving today.
We want to most sincerely thank the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs and his staff, both at home and in the Netherlands.
We also thank His Excellency Harry van Dijk, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Nigeria.
Our gratitude also goes to the Director and officials of the Information and Heritage Inspectorate of the Netherlands, officials of the Customs of the Netherlands as well as the National Museum of the Netherlands for rendering preservation and conservation assistance while the adjudication of the claim lasted.
The Inspectie, that is the Information and Heritage Inspectorate of the Netherlands, and the National Commission for Museums and
Monuments of Nigeria have agreed to make a joint presentation of this issue to the UNESCO Secretariat in Paris, so that other nations may
take a cue from this in finding rapprochement and common ground concerning the issue of return of antiquities
Let me state here that Nigeria believes in joint international efforts to put a stop to illicit export and import of cultural goods.
The issue of cultural property should not be a ground of rancour and discord among nations. That is if nations choose to tow the path which the Kingdom of The Netherlands has chosen by insisting on justice, fairness and amity.
I thank you all for your kind attention.
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Pope Francis to Parents: Take the Smartphones off the Dinner Table
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El Papa Francisco
Diane Montagna - published on 11/11/15
It can save your family life and your children’s ability to relate
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has advised parents not to allow smartphones at the dinner table, to help restore a sense of family togetherness and to teach their children about the importance of relationships.
In his weekly catechesis in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said that family togetherness is “a sure thermometer for measuring the health of relationships.”
“If something isn’t going well in a family, or if there’s some hidden wound, it immediately becomes clear at the dinner table. A family that almost never eats together or that, rather than talking at table, watches television or looks at the smartphone, is not much of a family. When the children are attached to the computer and the telephone at the table, and don’t listen to one another, this isn’t family, it’s a hostel!”
While the pope acknowledged that today’s world poses many obstacles to family togetherness, he said that “we have to find a way to recover it.” And one place to start is the dinner table.
“At the table we talk, at the table we listen,” he said. “No more silence, that silence that isn’t the silence of nuns but the silence of selfishness, where everyone does his own thing, or is on the television or computer … and they don’t talk. No, no silence. We need to recover family togetherness while adapting it to the times.”
During his general audience catechesis, Pope Francis also spoke about the importance of Catholic families attending Holy Mass together; he called on mothers and fathers to care for and protect all children, not just their own; and he took to task Western advertisers that promote an obsession with snacks and sweets while so many people in the world are starving, in body and soul.
The pope highlighted the Eucharist, which he said becomes a “school of human inclusion” and reminds us that our bread is meant to be shared with all.
He concluded that “no division can withstand” the Eucharistic banquet. He added that by cooperating with the grace of the Eucharist, “ever new communion” can be created through the power of the Sacrament that “includes and saves.”
Here below we publish a full English translation of the pope’s catechesis.
Good morning. Today we reflect on a characteristic of family life that we learn from the first years of life: togetherness (i.e., the attitude of sharing the goods of life and being happy to do so). Sharing and being able to share is a precious virtue. Its symbol, its “icon,” is the family gathered around the dinner table. The sharing of a meal—and beyond the food, sharing affections, stories and events—is a fundamental experience. When there is a celebration, a birthday, an anniversary, we meet around the table. In some cultures it is customary to do so for a death, to be close to those in sorrow over the loss of a family member.
“This isn’t a family, it’s a hostel!”
Togetherness is a sure thermometer for measuring the health of relationships: if something isn’t going well in a family, or if there’s some hidden wound, it’s immediately clear at the table. A family that almost never eats together, or that, rather than talking at table watches television or looks at the smartphone, is “not much of a family.” When the children are attached to the computer and the telephone at the table, and don’t listen to one another, this isn’t family, it’s a hostel!
“Universal togetherness”
Christianity has a special vocation to togetherness, as everyone knows. The Lord Jesus gladly taught at table, and sometimes represents the kingdom of God as a festive banquet. Jesus also chose a meal to hand on his spiritual testament to his disciples—he did it at supper—summed up in the memorial act of his sacrifice: the gift of his Body and his Blood as the food and drink of salvation which nourishes true and lasting love.
In this perspective we can rightly say that the family is “like one of the family” at Mass, because it brings to the Eucharist it’s own experience of togetherness, and opens it to the grace of universal togetherness, of God’s love for the world. In participating at the Eucharistic celebration, the family is purified from the temptation to turn in on itself, fortified in love and fidelity, and extends the reach of its fraternity according to the heart of Christ.
In our own times, marked by so much closure and too many walls, togetherness created by the family and expanded by the Eucharist, becomes a crucial opportunity. The Eucharist and families nourished by it can overcome closing in and build bridges of welcome and charity. Yes, the Eucharistic celebration in a Church of families that are capable of restoring to the community the active leaven of togetherness and mutual hospitality, is a school of human inclusion second to none. There is no little one or orphaned, weak, defenseless, wounded and disappointed, desperate and abandoned ones who the Eucharistic togetherness of families cannot nourish, refresh, protect and welcome.
Dads: “Protect children”
The memory of the family virtues helps us to understand. We ourselves have known and still know what miracles can happen when a mother looks after and pays attention, nurtures and cares for other people’s children, as well as her own. Until recently, one mother was enough for all the children in the backyard. And again: we know well what strength a people gains when fathers are ready to protect everyone’s children, because they consider their children an undivided good that they are happy and proud to protect.
Today, many social contexts pose obstacles to family togetherness. It’s true, today it’s not easy. We must find a way to recover it. At the table we talk, at the table we listen. No more silence, that silence that isn’t the silence of nuns, but the silence of selfishness, where everyone does his own thing, or is on the television or computer … and they don’t talk. No, no silence. We need to recover family togetherness while adapting it to the times.
Obsessed with snacks
Togetherness seems to have become something that is bought and sold, but in this way it’s something else. And food isn’t always the symbol of a just sharing of goods capable of reaching those who have neither food nor affection. In wealthy countries, we are led to wantonly spend on food, and then we are led to do so to remedy the excess. And this senseless “business affair” diverts our attention from the real hunger of body and soul. When there’s no togetherness, there is selfishness; everyone thinks about himself. Especially as advertising has reduced it to a peckishness for snacks and a desire for sweets, while so many—too many brothers and sisters —are without food. It’s somewhat shameful.
Signs of togetherness
Let us look to the mystery of the Eucharistic banquet. The Lord breaks his body and sheds his blood for all. Truly there is no division that can withstand this sacrifice of communion; only an attitude of falsehood, of complicity with evil can exclude one from it. Any other distance cannot withstand the defenseless power of this broken bread and this wine outpoured, the Sacrament of the one Body of the Lord. The living and vital covenant of Christian families which precedes, supports and embraces, in the dynamism of their hospitality, the hardships and joys of daily life, cooperates with the grace of the Eucharist, which is able to create ever new communion through its power that includes and saves.
The Christian family will thus manifest the breadth of its true horizon, which is the horizon of Church as a Mother of all men, of all the abandoned and excluded, among all peoples. Let us pray that this family togetherness may grow and mature in the time of grace of the next Jubilee of Mercy.
Diane Montagnais Rome correspondent for Aleteia’s English edition.
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Independent journalist, author and film-maker
The silent horrors of Sri Lanka still resonate
Posted on September 17, 2011 July 3, 2019
My following book review appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald:
An insider reveals the tortuous history of Sri Lanka’s conflict.
The United Nations recently released a report into war crimes committed in Sri Lanka in the final stages of that country’s brutal civil war between the Tamil Tigers and the Colombo regime that ended in May 2009. The results were devastating and detailed tens of thousands of Tamil civilians targeted by a rampaging government army and human shields held by Tiger rebels.
It was one of the worst massacres of the 21st century but remained largely a secret war, with journalists, human-rights workers and independent observers refused entry to the conflict zone.
The UN Human Rights Council issued only one resolution on Sri Lanka but a dozen against Israel’s war in Gaza a few months before.
The decline of American power and rise of an assertive China allowed Colombo far greater leeway to prosecute its own ”war on terror”. This is a victory that is today celebrated and taught by the island’s leaders to other countries looking to liquidate an enemy within; brutality and illegal methods are not impediments to the lessons.
A former UN spokesman in Colombo, Gordon Weiss, told ABC TV’s Lateline in April that the UN was undeniably partly responsible for not speaking out more forcefully against the violence during the conflict. He left the position ”because I felt that the government had successfully captured the narrative of what happened in this war and that what was missing was an alternative narrative; and I set about writing this book”.
The resultant work is a compelling examination of the island’s tortuous history and deeply ingrained racial discrimination. Weiss writes as an involved insider but holds no brief for either side of the decades-long war. He writes with passion and a depth of knowledge that does not shy away from describing the ”government death squads and ‘disappearances’ [that] had become a feature of public life”.
He sympathetically explains why a separate Tamil homeland was an almost necessary feature of life for a minority who were routinely discriminated against, could not use their own language in professional life and suffered the indignities of a Colombo-led occupation of their land. Although Weiss is not overcritical in the book of his former employer, he encourages a deeper understanding of humanitarian assistance in the modern age.
He likens the UN to a ”fractious parent/teacher meeting” and a body ”hamstrung by the interests of some of its most powerful members”. He quotes others to condemn the UN – head of the International Crisis Group Louise Arbour said in 2010 that the UN’s soft response ”verged on complicity” and the UN itself has subsequently acknowledged a muted position due to threats from the Sri Lankan authorities.
WikiLeaks cables confirm the US government was aware of the intensity of the fighting in the final months of the war but there was no push by the UN Security Council to warn Sri Lanka. It was a classic case of realpolitik; Sri Lanka holds only strategic importance and no major natural resources. NATO would not target Libya if lettuce was the country’s major export.
Weiss’s conclusion is a grim prognosis for Sri Lanka, a nation increasingly divided along ethnic lines. He sees the country ”sliding into tyranny”. Many Western nations, including Australia, have remained shamefully silent in the face of ongoing gross abuses, all in the name of favourable trade deals and withholding refugees before they can come to our shores.
The Cage is a courageous document that holds to account the brutality of a rogue state that is all too often simply seen as a beautiful tourist destination.
Gordon Weiss
Picador, 352pp, $34.99
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Democratic Coalition Politics
While this blog normally tries to avoid national politics, it is something I spent a fair amount of time thinking about, and as we draw closer to November, it’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room. I confess I check 538 polling averages daily now. But, rather than wallow in poll numbers, I figured I might as well try to offer somewhat original commentary now and then. Here is my first take in that vein.
This past weekend, I stumbled upon an article in Jacobin on the successes and failures of Bernie Sanders’ run for the presidency that took me back to my undergraduate days of writing theses about coalition politics. True to its name, Jacobin rather gleefully lobs bombs at people who do not share its ideology, as author Matt Karp calls wealthier newcomers to the Democratic Party “Halliburton Democrats,” among other such indecorous ordnance. His thesis, in brief, is that these so-called Halliburton Democrats joined the party in droves from 2016 to 2020 as they fled the Republican Party, and therefore played a decisive role in Sanders’ defeat in this spring’s primary. Joe Biden won, Karp claims, because he enjoyed the support of well-off people, many of them in areas that were right-leaning until very recently.
The Democratic Divide, Applied
I could raise any number of quibbles with the analysis, but I was curious to see how well it applied to my hometown of Duluth, especially since Karp twice mentions my city as an exemplar of Bernie Sanders’ wave of the future. Sanders did indeed win Duluth in the 2020 Minnesota primary election, though it was hardly an overwhelming margin; he edged out Biden by 289 votes, or 1.7 percent. So, here is a map that shows who won each precinct in the city (plus some surrounding areas). I included only the four major candidates who were still in the race at this point in the analysis, throwing out votes for drop-outs like Amy Klobuchar and hangers-on like Tulsi Gabbard.
The answer, it seems, is pretty obvious. Income is a straightforward, clear predictor of who won each precinct. Biden largely cruised up in the relatively well-off areas on the east side and over the hill, while Sanders dominated the Hillsides, Downtown, and Lincoln Park. Few of those areas were closely contested, and those precincts that were straddle neighborhood lines; see, for example, precincts 9 and 13, which encompass parts of both high-income Congdon and low-income Endion. The more working-class west side, which mostly falls between the central and eastern and hilltop parts of the city on the income scale, was, on the other hand, pretty closely contested. The tables below show the results by different areas of the city, and I did it twice to show how flipping two pro-Sanders precincts on the border between the east and the center of the city affected things.
The University of Minnesota-Duluth campus is also an obvious outlier. Sanders won there by over 400 votes; throw out that precinct, and it’s more than enough to swing the overall result in the city. Presumably the somewhat close vote totals in Kenwood and Hunters Park, which are otherwise relatively affluent Biden territories, are also attributable to college student voters. Duluth’s status as a college town, at the end of the day, is probably the main reason why it got a positive mention in a leftist magazine. Duluth’s relative lack of Black voters may also tip it more toward the Sanders column than might otherwise be obvious, though this could be offset by Sanders’ strong margins among Hispanics, who are also few and far between in the Zenith City.
Duluth Gets Bluer
While I’m amused by the notion of Lakeside bungalow-dwellers as “Halliburton Democrats,” it does seem Karp is on to something. (More so than Rolling Stone was, anyway.) Duluth has been a Democratic stronghold since the demise of the Hoover administration, but one doesn’t have to go too far back in history to find a much more heterodox local political scene. As several people have noted to me, it wasn’t that long ago that east side council districts would elect relative conservatives like Todd Fedora to the city council. Now, that prospect seems remote. Perhaps equally as significant a shift is the leftward drift in places like Duluth Heights and Piedmont. While these quasi-suburban areas are still the most conservative parts of Duluth, a city council district that was electing straight-up conservatives like Garry Krause a decade ago now has a labor-endorsed Native American woman, Renee Van Nett, as its council representative. The data is a bit scattershot—sadly, Minnesota used a caucus system until this most recent election cycle, making apples-to-apples primary comparisons impossible—but it seems consistent.
Relatively well-off urbanites are more and more firmly in the column in the Democratic Party, and while Bernie Sanders and his ilk may not be their first choice, they will generally follow the party lead. There’s little reason to suspect there will be much of any defection from a dyed-in-the-wool progressive like Jen McEwen when she goes up against Republican Donna Bergstrom in the Senate District 7 race this fall. Her primary election destruction of incumbent Erik Simonson, a man in the mold of many previous Duluth DFL elected officials, makes that abundantly clear.
That said, the national picture is obviously not all roses for the Democrats, and wins among higher-income people have been somewhat offset elsewhere. The sorts of people the Democratic Party has lost—rural white people—are almost by definition a small demographic in Duluth, which is why Duluth’s politics now seem more firmly left of center than they did twenty or thirty years ago, when Gary Doty (recently visible on a stage with Mike Pence) was winning mayoral elections. I included Duluth’s relatively well-off exurban surroundings in the map as well to show that this trend extends beyond the core city, too. Lands further afield, such as the Iron Range, are a rather different story.
A National Trend
In some ways this is hardly a radical change. It’s been true for decades now that central cities are the furthest left, while rural areas (with some, increasingly rare) exceptions were the furthest right. The suburbs used to be the middle ground, but the line of contestation has now pushed further out into the metropolitan periphery; these Democratic suburban gains have been offset somewhat by rural losses. This shift among well-off urbanites reflects their comfort with the party that now favors merit-driven expertise and wonky policy solutions, plus the surge of a college-educated class seeking to spread its more cosmopolitan cultural values.
Nor has their arrival dramatically changed the ideological composition of the party. Despite what Karp says, Biden is no less progressive than every other recent Democratic nominee, and in some ways is more so. This comes as little comfort to the leftward wing of the party, which of course wants more immediate change and someone who isn’t tied into the party’s establishment over the past 50 years, but it wouldn’t be right to suggest Biden primary voters have somehow stolen the party away from its roots. The loss of rural, somewhat more populist centrists has been offset by suburban, more technocratic centrists. Or, perhaps more than offset: given the Democratic Party’s performance nationally in the 70s and 80s and the simple reality of demographic trends, this seems like a trade-off with more pluses than minuses if one’s only goal is to win more elections.
I’m doing my best not to make any normative assumptions here and just describe things as they are. It’s not nearly as clean as this narrative would suggest, as 2016 showed; reactions can be swift and powerful, and it’s not hard to call out hubris or naivete in the so-called coalition of the ascendant. Thinking only in terms of voting blocs can be narrow-minded, and there are real consequences to leaving behind any sort of rhetoric appealing to a group that had previously been part of the coalition. (In Minnesota, just ask the Iron Range.) For now, we’ll settle for the conclusion that there are indeed at least two pretty distinct types of Democrat, one which does well in higher-income areas and one that does well in lower-income areas. The interplay between these camps will continue to define the Democratic Party even as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders fade away.
The Realities of Coalition Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has observed that, in a European country, she and Joe Biden would be in different parties. She’s probably right, and while they too have their drawbacks, I would generally endorse proportional and parliamentary systems as more effective than the lumbering hulk the U.S. uses. But that’s not the system we have. We have a two-party, winner-take-all system that features some additional, bizarre, anti-democratic bugs like the Electoral College that privilege the votes of people in a handful of vital demographics in swing states. This system creates odd zombie coalitions in our two zombie parties. For a long time, segregationist southerners aligned with working-class northerners and a few intellectual backers to create a Democratic majority; later, the religious right fused with chamber of commerce-minded fiscal conservatives to create an era of Republican dominance. So long as it maintains its current institutional form, American politics will create some very strange bedfellows. Hence we have the coalition of comfortable suburbanites with an expansive version of their American Dream and a generally diverse and younger bloc that considers American capitalism fundamentally alienating, and it doesn’t even seem that unnatural, as they are united in negative partisanship against Donald Trump.
And so, though faced with serious institutional roadblocks such as the Electoral College and over-concentration in urban congressional districts, the Democrats seem to have a passably stable majority. No matter what happens in the Electoral College, Biden will almost certainly be the seventh Democratic candidate in the past eight presidential elections to win the popular vote, and the generic congressional ballot seems similarly aligned. The new Democratic fusion won’t be a permanent or tension-free alignment, but these groups have enough in common right now that they vote together regularly. Their opposition has, at least temporarily, become a vehicle for a single person’s whims, the traditional fiscal conservatism thrown out the door and the morals of the religious right mortgaged in a bargain for a few judges.
The power of a single personality can certainly win an election or two and define a brief era in politics. But winning with any consistency in a democracy requires large, often unwieldy coalitions. Even if the U.S. had a parliamentary system and Ocasio-Cortez and Biden were in different parties, they would still probably end up in a coalition government together, unless Biden’s party were to instead form a coalition government with a center-right party, which I doubt AOC and friends would find an optimal outcome. Alternatively, we have seen a few European attempts at far right and far left coalition governments that leave out the supposedly discredited and decadent center, but that’s nearly impossible to imagine in the United States given the racial dynamics at play.
Karp is confident that, given Sanders’ strong support among younger voters, it’s only a matter of time before his camp takes over the Democratic Party. I don’t doubt that this group has reason to feel optimistic about its future in the party, and another four years of Donald Trump could well be the accelerant that prompts a revolution sooner rather than later. (An old JFK line, written of Third World nations, comes to mind in an increasingly stratified society: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”) But coalitions can be fickle things, and groups can realign in strange ways: just ask any current Republican who, eight years ago, thought his or her party was a bastion of fiscal conservatism or free trade or an interventionist foreign policy. The U.S. election system is also designed to revert to a mean, with no permanent majority lasting forever. But for the time being, Biden Democrats and Sanders Democrats are wedded to one another, and have to find ways to coexist if they would like to win anything.
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commongunsense September 12, 2020 at 4:32 pm #
Great analysis. Thanks for writing this.
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The Zen of Hitler Jugend
Brian Victoria
Volume 14 | Issue 2 | Number 2
Article ID 4848
Signing of Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact linking Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan was signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940. Less than two months after the pact was signed, a six-member delegation of Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) arrived in Japan. This was actually the second Hitler Jugend delegation to visit Japan, a much larger delegation having first visited in the fall of 1938. In honor of the first delegation's visit, a song was composed entitled Banzai Hitorā Jūgento (Long Live Hitler Youth!). A recording of this song together with photographs highlighting the activities of both the first and second delegations in Japan is embedded below.
The video can be downloaded here.
Eihiji temple complex
Zen Master Dōgen
Members of the second delegation traveled to Daihonzan Eiheiji for an overnight stay on November 19, 1940. Eiheiji, located in the mountains of Fukui Prefecture, was established by Zen Master Dōgen, the founder of the Sōtō sect, in 1244 and is now one of the two head monasteries of the Sōtō sect, Japan's largest Zen sect. The accompanying photograph shows the Hitler Jugend seated in the front row surrounded by Eiheiji's senior monastic officials, including the head of the monastery seated in the center. It was taken shortly before the delegation departed the monastery on the morning of November 20, 1940.
Hitler Jugend visiting Daihonzan Eiheiji
The August 1942 issue of the Eiheiji periodical Sansho included an article describing the instructions Hitler had personally given the delegation prior to departure:
When you are in Japan, there is no need for you to be concerned about Japanese culture. There is no need for you to research Japanese politics. There is no need to investigate Japan's economy. The only thing you need do is thoroughly experience the great spirit of the Japanese people that has arisen in their national polity.1
To understand why Hitler so strongly emphasized the need for German youth to understand "the great spirit of the Japanese people," we should recall that as early as his 1925 work Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote: "All force which does not spring from a firm spiritual foundation will be hesitating and uncertain."2 Hesitating and uncertain force was the last thing Hitler needed in his future soldiers.
As far as Eiheiji's leaders were concerned, there was no better place to learn the great spirit of the Japanese people than their monastery. In the same August 1942 article, Eiheiji's head monk trainer, Zen Master Ashiwa Untei, described Eiheiji's importance and its relationship to the young Nazis' visit:
Someone has said that Asia as a whole can be described as a training center for the human spirit. Europe, on the other hand, can be described as a learning center for the cultivation of knowledge. A characteristic of Asian spiritual culture is the training of the human spirit through the practice of zazen [seated meditation] and sitting quietly. It is for this reason that the latent energy of spiritual power grew out of Asia acting as a training center for disciplining the human spirit. . . .
The foundation of a nation's destiny, like the development of a person, depends on the power of the human spirit. The training of the human spirit, the importance of vigorous spiritual power is something the citizens of Japan are now selflessly demonstrating to the world. In the late autumn of the year before last, Hitler Jugend visited Eiheiji and stayed overnight. They were profoundly impressed by the existence of the training center for the human spirit they encountered here in the deep mountains.3
An even earlier article in the December 1940 issue of Sansho gave a detailed description of the delegation's visit. Appropriately, the article was entitled Hittorā Jūgento (Hitler Jugend). Inasmuch as it reveals important features of the values and religious outlook of both Nazi youth and Japan's wartime Zen leaders, a complete translation follows. Note, however, that the following article presents a necessarily shallow understanding of the spiritual orientation of Nazi youth on the Japanese side inasmuch as it was gained from only one relatively short encounter, not to mention the need for interpretation.
This article also leads one to ask how members of the Hitler Jugend delegation viewed their visit to Eiheiji? What did members write or say about their visit upon return to Germany? Inasmuch as this question is beyond the author's competence, knowledgeable readers are sincerely invited to present this side of the story.
Hittorā Jūgento
(Blue Eyes Spend One Night as Zen Guests)
by Fueoka Togetsu
Bearing the brilliant future of our youthful ally Germany, a six-member delegation of Hitler Jugend, arrived at our monastery on the 19th of last month [November 1940]. Headed by [Heinrich] Jürgens, the delegation was part of a Japanese-German youth exchange program. Following their arrival in Japan, the delegation first met with people from every field in the Imperial capital [Tokyo]. Having completed this mission, they next headed southwest from Tokyo to the Hokuriku rail line, getting off the train at Kanazawa station on November 19th. Their goal was the Zen training center of Eiheiji where they spent a quiet night, the only temple at which the delegation stayed overnight during their visit to Japan. It is for this reason that the night they spent at our monastery meant so much to them.
On the day of their arrival, this writer had the good fortune to accompany the delegation on the last segment of their train ride to Eiheiji station. Young and old stood along the tracks to welcome the delegation, enthusiastically waving German flags to welcome the visitors from afar. In response, the members of the delegation stuck their long bodies out of the train windows, rapidly raising their right arms in a return salute.
The delegation arrived at Eiheiji station at 4:20 pm. Among others, pupils from the Shihidani Elementary School were waiting on the station platform to greet the delegation, waving German flags embossed with swastikas on a red background. In response, the six-member delegation lined up in a row perfectly abreast of one another and raised their right arms in a return salute. The precision of the members' movements made a deep impression on everyone present.
Marching with large Japanese and German flags intertwined, the delegation then made its way from Eiheiji's main entrance gate to the entrance of the guest quarters. At that point newspaper reporters and cameramen besieged them. Thereafter the delegation walked down a long hallway at the foot of Eiheiji's towering monastic complex until they arrived at the reception area. Here they met, for the first time, Zen Masters Katō and Takada, the monastery's head administrative officer and his assistant, together with other senior monastic officials.
The six members of the delegation were:
Heinrich Jürgens, delegation head, 37 years old
Wilhelm Daniel, delegation member, 27 years old
Heinz Rothermund, 21 years old
Daoruku Teiru (phonetic spelling), 21 years old
Rudolf Minsch, 19 years old
Heinz Schumi, 17 years old
In addition, the delegation was accompanied by Miyamoto Kinshichi, an official of the Social Education Bureau of the Ministry of Education; Hiraiwa Tatsuo from Mitsubishi Trading Co., the delegation's interpreter; and a number of representatives from the Fukui Prefectural government, including Mr. Ueda, head of the Prefectural Social Education Section.
While Eiheiji has welcomed a few foreigners in the past for an overnight stay, this is the first time our monastery formally welcomed blue-eyes [Westerners] on a mission like theirs. Thus, the monastery made careful preparations for their visit. First, all of the senior monastic officials came to the reception area at 6 pm to greet the guests of honor who had come from faraway. This was followed by a welcome banquet in order to become better acquainted with our guests.
After the monastic officials arrived at their assigned places in the banquet room, the visiting delegation bowed to them and then sat down as a group. The youngest member of the delegation, a handsome lad by the name of Schumi, made himself look attractive by wearing a formal kimono purchased in Tokyo complete with family crest and obi (narrow sash) tied in a simple knot. It was somewhat surprising to find nearly all members of the delegation sitting on bended knees for an extended period.
When everyone had been seated, Zen Master Katō, head administrative officer, welcomed the delegation on Eiheiji's behalf with Mr. Hiraiwa acting as interpreter. Delegation head Jürgens then expressed the delegation's gratitude for the invitation, noting that up until then they had only been able to read about Zen in books. Now, however, they had a wonderful opportunity to directly experience the spirit of Zen by staying overnight at this training center.
Example of a temple vegetarian meal
All of the food on the banquet tray was, of course, vegetarian. Delegation members were quite skilled in their use of chopsticks, making short work of dish after dish. It appeared they were truly enjoying all of the food. We recently had a delegation of more than ten Chinese monks stay overnight with us and had a similar banquet for them. However, in this writer's opinion the way these blue eyes ate Japanese food was far more skillful than the Chinese monks.
By chance the conversation turned to food. Delegation head Jürgens stuck his chopsticks into a dish full of radishes and explained that at the time of the [First] World War the people of Germany had nothing to eat but radishes. Thus, he confessed that anytime he eats radishes he recalls that war. His words provided us with a glimpse of just what one would expect of a delegation head.
Jürgens went on to say that there were many vegetarians in Germany though not for religious reasons. While the vegetarianism of the Führer Adolf Hitler was well known, Jürgens explained that he personally leaned in that direction inasmuch as he normally ate only fruit for breakfast. Hearing this, Zen Master Katō asked, "Does that mean that Führer Hitler is a Zen priest?" With that, everyone burst out laughing.
The conversation continued for a while after the banquet finished. Jürgens spoke about the religious orientation of the Hitler Jugend. What he said can be summarized as follows:
The people of present-day Germany are no longer satisfied with the religion they have had up to now. However, a new religion that can fully satisfy the German people has yet to be born. Therefore, until a new national religion appears, they have, albeit reluctantly, to depend on the religion they've had up to now. The Hitler Jugend take the same position.
It doesn't make any difference what religion the members of the Hitler Jugend believe in. However, only belief in Judaism is strictly forbidden. For example, even though some members are Protestants and others are Roman Catholic, there is absolutely no conflict between them. Nevertheless, among today's members there are an extremely large number who have freed themselves from their former religion. This is because, as I have said, the religion we have had up to now doesn't meet our present needs.
However, even though members have left their former religions doesn't mean they have become atheists or turned their backs on God. In fact, they continue to have a very strong religious spirit, identifying themselves as "people who believe in God." They dislike describing themselves any further than this. At present we are all eagerly awaiting the emergence of a mighty religion with great religious leaders.
When this writer heard these words from delegation head Jürgens, he could not help thinking that Jürgens was also speaking about the outcome for the Buddhist world, not just the religious world in Germany. This was truly a case of thinking that Jürgens had put his finger on a sore spot.
The scene underneath the banquet room's gorgeously painted ceiling and brilliantly illuminated electric lights was something that hadn't been seen since the founding of the monastery. On the one side were the monastery's senior officials with their shaved heads and wearing Buddhist robes. Sitting opposite them was Jürgens and his delegation of blue eyes with their red armbands.
Following the banquet the delegation took a short rest in their quarters. Thereafter they reassembled to hear a lecture given by assistant administrative head Takada, assisted by Hiraiwa as his interpreter. The lecture began with a basic introduction to Buddhism and then went on to include both Zen and Japanese culture, ending with a detailed explanation of the teaching of Zen Master Dōgen. The delegation profited from this immensely.
Monks meditating in zazen
Morning service at Eiheiji
The next morning the delegation got up early at 3:30 a.m., first going to the Monks Hall (Sōdō) to observe the practice of zazen (meditation) before going to the Founders Hall to see the offering of tea [before the image of Zen Master Dōgen] and a sutra recitation service. Thereafter they went to the Dharma Hall where they took part in a solemn morning service. In this way they were able to experience the life of a training center.
The delegation's breakfast was exactly the same as the monks, consisting of pure rice gruel. It was surprising to see how the members eagerly consumed the gruel and repeatedly ask for more. Just what might be expected from the youth of Nazi Germany who have exerted themselves to the utmost for many years.
Eiheiji, Imperial Messenger Gate
At 9:30 am the delegation gathered at the foot of the stairs leading to the Imperial Messenger Gate (Chokushi-mon) to take a commemorative photograph together with Eiheiji's monastic officials. After that the delegation headed for the monastery entrance gate where they expressed their gratitude to the assembled monks who were gathered there to give them a warm send-off. On their way to the entrance gate the rays of the late autumn sun shone down on them through the ancient Japanese cedar trees lining the pathway. On leaving the monastery, they headed for Eiheiji train station.
Readers familiar with the earlier series of three articles concerning D.T. Suzuki's relationship to the Nazi movement both in Japan and Germany will recognize similar themes in all of the articles. Readers unfamiliar with these articles will find them here.
1) D.T. Suzuki, Zen and the Nazis
2) http://japanfocus.org/-Karl-Baier/4041;
3) A Zen Nazi in Wartime Japan: Count Dürckheim and his Sources-D.T. Suzuki, Yasutani Haku'un and Eugen Herrigel
One of the articles' striking features is the degree to which the German side admits to an ongoing struggle to create a new and authentically Germanic faith, i.e., a faith, in the first instance, cleansed of its Judaic roots.
There were, nevertheless, differences of opinion among Nazi ranks concerning the new religion being created. Many Nazi party leaders, both military and civilian, sought to create a dramatically altered Christianity that emphasized, almost to the point of exclusivity, its Germanic origins in the form of German Christian leaders like 13th century Meister Eckhart on the Roman Catholic side, or Martin Luther on the Protestant side. Atheism was unacceptable since that would signify a Nazi embrace of the same stance as the hated and despised Bolsheviks.
On the other hand, at least some Nazi leaders wanted to break completely free from Christianity. In particular, SS leader Heinrich Himmler sought to recreate a faith rooted in Germany's pre-Christian, Aryan past. However, he was unsuccessful in searching for a coherent, indigenous pre-Christian faith within Germany itself. This led him and other SS leaders to look further afield to the Aryan religions of India, both Buddhism and Hinduism. In particular, the historical founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni Buddha, was considered a worthy role model for SS members in that not only was he a great Aryan religious leader but also a member of the warrior caste (Skt. kshatriya). This in turn facilitated Hitler's transformation into a worthy descendant of the historical Buddha.4
By comparison, the Japanese side cleared believed they already possessed an unshakable and powerful spiritual foundation, one eminently suited to mobilizing the Japanese people in the war effort. Although not directly discussed in this article, this widespread belief in the strength of its spiritual foundation, including a divine emperor rooted in Shinto, allowed Japan to entertain the idea the country could prevail over the West, despite the recognized material superiority of the latter. As Zen Master Ashiwa asserted, unlike Japan, European culture was built solely on "the cultivation of knowledge."
The belief in Japan's spiritual strength was given further expression in a second related article in the December 1940 issue of Sansho. In an article entitled, "The Power to Lead the Nation's Citizens," a senior Eiheiji official, Sekiryū Buntō, once again discussed the admission by the head of the Hitler Jugend delegation that "Christianity had already lost its power to guide their spirit," etc. Sekiryū continued:
We were truly surprised when we heard these things said directly to us. That said, we were overjoyed by the fact that, to the contrary, we ourselves have experienced the true path shown to us by Zen Master Dōgen. This makes it possible for us to guide the nation's citizens, thoroughly constructing the spiritual foundation of today's citizens of Japan . . .5
As demonstrated above, wartime Zen leaders like Ashiwa and Sekiryū envisioned themselves playing a leading role in enhancing the people's commitment to the war effort, effectively acting as the 'spiritual custodians' and 'trainers' of what was then popularly known as "the spirit of Japan" (Yamato-damashii). This was not, it must be emphasized, a new role for Zen masters inasmuch as their predecessors in Japan's medieval period had provided the "mindless" and "selfless" metaphysical foundation for the absolute and unquestioning loyalty required of a samurai warrior combined with fearlessness in the face of death. Now, however, the same selfless loyalty was redirected toward the Imperial state and its divine emperor.
The connection between the role of Zen in Japan's medieval era and during the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45) was well understood by scholar-priests like Nakane Kandō, wartime president of Sōtō Zen-affiliated Komazawa University. In March 1940 Nakane wrote:
The spirit of the soldier is that of Bushidō. . . . Thus, if we were to sum up Zen in a word, it would be that it is training for death. When you become one with death and are selfless, you are in the realm of enlightenment. If you are enlightened then it makes no difference whether you are in a hot hell or a cold hell, you can, with the greatest sincerity, fearlessly repay the debt of gratitude you owe your country by serving it with the utmost loyalty, for the sake of justice, for the sake of the monarchy.6
Sentiments like these were repeated over and over again by wartime Zen masters. Thus, they, like their medieval predecessors, bear significant responsibility for the ensuing carnage, first within the country during the medieval era, and then abroad in the modern era. Should there be any remaining doubt about the goals of Japan's wartime Zen masters, we need look no further than the words of Sōtō Zen Master Sawaki Kōdō. In his book Kannon-kyo Teisho (Lectures on the Kannon Sutra), published in November 1944, Sawaki stated:
This is truly a war to spread the Imperial Way throughout the world. The Imperial Way is the Buddha Way and must be spread. In accordance with the Imperial Way, we must destroy democracy, liberalism, and [Sun Yat-sen's] Three Principles of the People. This is what it means to be citizens of Japan.7
Although he died in 1965, Sawaki remains revered to this day as one of Japan's greatest Zen masters of the twentieth century, not only in Japan but also in the West thanks to his disciples and their hagiographical writings. As documented in Zen at War, Sawaki's wartime words are typical of those of his contemporaries in both the Sōtō and Rinzai Zen sects. Thus, like the German Christian sycophants of the Nazis, of whom there were many, the Zen school in Japan has an undeniable 'heritage' of war complicity that, despite a few attempts to address it in the postwar period, has yet to be seriously reflected on. In asserting this, however, it is equally true that Zen is far from the only religious tradition, Buddhist or otherwise, to suffer from the same malady.
Recommended citation: Brian Victoria, "The Zen of Hitler Jugend", The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 2, No. 2, January 18, 2016.
Brian Daizen Victoria holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Sōtō Zen sect-affiliated Komazawa University in Tokyo, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies at Temple University. In addition to a 2nd, enlarged edition of Zen At War (Rowman & Littlefield), major writings include Zen War Stories (RoutledgeCurzon); an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest); Zen Master Dōgen, coauthored with Prof. Yokoi Yūhō of Aichi-gakuin University (Weatherhill); and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji (Weatherhill). He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto.
Quoted in Daihonzan Eiheiji: Sansho, August 5, 1941, p. 279.
Adolf Hitler, Chapter Five, Mein Kampf. English translation (accessed 28 November 2015).
For further information on the alleged relationship between Hitler and the historical Buddha, see Victoria, "Japanese Buddhism in the Third Reich," Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, Vol. 7. Available on the Web (by subscription only).
Sekiryū Buntō. 国民指導力 (The Power to Lead the Nation's Citizens). Daihonzan Eiheiji: Sansho, December 9, 1940, p. 862.
Quoted in Niino Kazunobu, Kodo Bukkyo to Tairiku Fukyo. Tokyo: Shakai Hyoron-sha, 2014, pp. 110-111.
The Three Principles of the People consist of: 1) nationalism, 2) democracy, and 3) socialism. Sawaki's words are contained in: Sawaki Kodo. Kannon-kyo Teisho (Lectures on the Kannon Sutra). Tokyo, Toko-sha, November 1944, pp. 153-54. Original Japanese text reads: 誠にこの度の戦争は皇道を世界中に拡げる事である。皇道すなわち仏道を、弘めねばならない。皇道によって、三民主義・民主主義・自由主義を破らねばならぬ。これが我々日本国民なのである。
Brian Victoria, Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. Brian Daizen Victoria holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Sōtō Zen sect-affiliated Komazawa University in Tokyo, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies at Temple University. In addition to a 2nd, enlarged edition of Zen At War (Rowman & Littlefield), major writings include Zen War Stories (RoutledgeCurzon); an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest); Zen Master Dōgen, coauthored with Prof. Yokoi Yūhō of Aichi-gakuin University (Weatherhill); and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji (Weatherhill). He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (aka Nichibunken) in Kyoto.
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Canada Clamps Down on Investor Visas; Ottawa Ends Its Immigrant Investor Program Popular Among Wealthy Chinese
Canada Clamps Down on Investor Visas
Ottawa Ends Its Immigrant Investor Program Popular Among Wealthy Chinese
JASON CHOW in Hong Kong and ALISTAIR MACDONALD in Toronto
Updated Feb. 12, 2014 8:28 p.m. ET
Canada’s cancellation of an immigration program popular with wealthy Chinese is adding to concerns that a country once welcoming of China’s investment and immigrants is now closing the door on both.
Canada this week scrapped the Immigrant Investor Program, which allowed individuals to effectively buy permanent residency. While the program isn’t targeting Chinese citizens and will be replaced by regulations that bring Canada more in line with what other countries are doing, the change is challenging the perception in China of Canada as one of the West’s most friendly jurisdictions.
In late 2012, Canada moved to prevent state-owned enterprises from buying up Canadian oil-sands assets, except in rare circumstances—a move some Canadian businesses and bankers say has put a chill on Chinese investment in Canadian assets.
Canada’s moves on immigration and foreign ownership could benefit other countries looking to attract money from the world’s second-largest economy.
On Wednesday, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said it was “absolutely wrong” to suggest Chinese immigrants were any less favored in Canada and that the country had become less welcoming of investment from China.
“The facts proves otherwise, China will have been the top source country [for immigrants] in 2013,” he said in an interview.
The canceled visa program granted permanent residency to those who committed 800,000 Canadian dollars (US$726,700) to a five-year zero-interest loan to one of the country’s provinces, and was particularly popular with Chinese citizens. The government said it would replace the program with a new Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Fund, which will require immigrants to invest money, rather than just loan it.
But the new program hasn’t assuaged concerns among emigrant hopefuls. Larry Wang, the chairman of a Beijing-based immigration consultancy firm, said he has been dealing with a stream of worried clients since the change was announced Tuesday in Canada. “They can’t believe it,” he said. “The clients are getting the message: Canada doesn’t want them. They now will have to look for other opportunities,” he said.
Canada lets in more new immigrants per capita than any of the Group of Seven advanced economies, and has ranked as a top choice for Chinese investor-immigrants because of its relaxed immigration policies and generous publicly funded health and education systems. While Chinese immigration has tailed off since its peak in 2005, it still made up around 11.5% of all immigrants to Canada in 2011, according to the government.
The vocal community of lawyers and real-estate agents whose clients used Canada’s investor immigration program said other countries that have rapidly rolled out their own plans would benefit from Canada’s move to change its policies.
Jean-François Harvey, an immigration lawyer based in Hong Kong, had 4,000 clients waiting for approval for the Immigrant Investor Program, with some waiting for over five years. He said three-quarters have sought residency in other countries, including the U.K. and U.S.
“I tell my clients, ‘Let’s go to a country where you’ll be welcome because Canada is not friendly right now,’ ” he said.
Australia unveiled a visa program in 2012 to allow immigrants a residency visa if they invested five million Australian dollars (US$4.5 million) into a local business or approved managed funds. So far, the program has attracted 601 applicants, of which 91% were Chinese nationals. In recent years, cash-strapped southern European economies, including Portugal, Spain, Greece and Cyprus, have allowed investors a residency permit for buying as little as €250,000 ($340,950) of real estate.
The Canadian immigration program that is being scrapped “significantly undervalued Canadian” permanent residency, the government said, because immigrants who used the program paid less tax and earned less in wages in Canada than those who enter the country in other ways.
Mr. Alexander said the program was also open to fraud, with applicants achieving residency but staying in their own country.
“It just wasn’t working,” he said.
Politicians from the opposition New Democratic Party have accused Prime MinisterStephen Harper
‘s Conservative Party of tilting policy back to benefit European nationalities such as the British and French, whose immigrants once predominated. The government has scoffed at the suggestion, saying Asians and Middle Easterners still make up the majority of newcomers.
Concern over China’s waning interest in Canadian investment has been building since 2012, when the government said it was stopping state-owned acquisitions of oil-sands assets following Chinese oil giant’s Cnooc Ltd. 0883.HK -2.16% US$15.1 billion for Nexen Inc. and a bid by a Malaysian state-owned oil for another Canadian energy asset.
Last year, Chinese buyers spent just US$439 million in Canada, barely 2% of their investment in 2012, according to Dealogic. Chinese investment in the U.S., meanwhile, almost doubled to US$12.2 billion over the period, and increased by 13% to US$10.2 billion in Australia. Chinese executives say that concerns over State Owned Enterprises are based on a misinterpretation of their motives and organization.
Canada has long relied on foreign investment to help it develop its mineral and oil reserves and the government says it needs some 650 billion Canadian dollars ($657.5 billion) over a 10-year period to develop its energy resources.
“There is a feeling in China that Canada needs a better understanding for SOEs,” said Jerry Xie, executive vice president of China Gold International Resources Ltd., the Canadian-based unit of state-owned China National Gold.
Mr. Alexander said that the investment numbers were lower in 2013 because of the large size of the Chinese and Malaysian deals and because resource deals fell off in general.
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Posted inBusiness, Midcoast, News
Camden native returns home to renovate 1950s motel
by Abigail Curtis October 12, 2015
LINCOLNVILLE, Maine — Two and a half years ago, Alice Amory was using tweezers and gold leaf to plate food at a fancy New York City restaurant, the kind of molecular gastronomy eatery that imported boxes of pine needles from Maine to help with the presentation.
After nearly two decades working in the city, the Camden native decided that she was ready to come home.
“It was a different world,” Amory, now 36, reflected recently from the common room of her newly opened business, the Lincolnville Motel. “It just dawned on me that New York wasn’t really making me that happy anymore.”
So the trained chef returned to midcoast Maine, where she worked at a local restaurant and did private catering, and began noticing Abbington’s Seaview Motel and Cottages, an old 1950s-era motel on Route 1 that had been on the market for awhile.
“I’d drive by and look at it, because the cottages are just so darned cute,” she said.
After crunching the numbers and considering her future plans, Amory decided that she wanted to go for it, and closed on the property on April 3. Though she didn’t want to divulge the sale price, a 2010 property listing shows the asking price for the six-room motel and eight adjacent cottages at $399,000.
In the long term, Amory wants to build a commercial kitchen and eventually open something that hasn’t yet caught on in Maine: a sauna club, complete with cold pools, hot saunas and relaxation rooms. But in the short term, she just wanted to quickly renovate and reopen the motel, placing her own stamp on the property while still hopefully participating in the 2015 tourism season.
The race was on, so Amory and her family and friends got to work.
“It was nonstop constantly every day for a while,” she said.
They pulled out 14 dumpsters worth of fake wood paneling and thick, mustard-colored carpeting. She became a regular at the paint store, purchasing nearly 120 gallons of plain white paint. And when all that demolition and repainting was through, she had the kind of motel that she would want to stay at herself. She definitely knew she wanted to avoid antiques, floral prints and nautical knick-knacks, style choices commonly found on the coast of Maine.
“I wanted to keep it very simple and about the things I think are wonderful about summer vacations,” she said. “I want to help encourage other younger people to come to the area. That was the goal with the rooms and other spaces.”
To that end, she decorated the four newly painted motel rooms and six cottages with record players, giant photographs and illuminated globes — but no televisions. She purchased new, comfortable beds and invested in really nice bedding. She and her crew of workers carved out new common spaces in the motel building where guests can congregate, reading books by the gas fire on rainy days and exchanging their records in the lending library.
The simple decor makes a style statement, and also was helpful for the motel’s bottom line.
“This is just the beginning of it,” she said, referring to her longtime plans. “I didn’t want to pour tons of money that I don’t have into the renovation.”
The snow, which was piled in high drifts around the cottages when she started working on it this spring, eventually melted. And finally, after many last-minute runs to Reny’s in Camden for fans, shower hooks and soap dispensers, the Lincolnville Motel opened for business in late July, with rooms renting from between $100 and $200 per night.
“We just slowly rolled into being,” Amory said. “But August was really good, and the most exciting thing is the feedback has been really positive.”
She did much of her marketing by word of mouth or on the website Airbnb.com, which she said has been “amazing” in terms of connecting her motel to potential customers. Although Airbnb perhaps is better known as the online venue where homeowners rent out space in their own homes to paying guests, it has become a way that some motels and hotels get the word out about their own rooms, and it seems that the younger demographic is quite comfortable finding a place to stay this way, she said.
On the site, the Lincolnville Motel’s reviews are largely of the five-star, glowing variety. One engineer from Somerville, Massachusetts, gushed about the decor.
“I was very surprised and very happy to learn that each room had its own record player and when I found my favorite Beatles album, ‘Rubber Soul,’ in my room, I knew my friends and I were in the right place,” he wrote.
Amory said that she will close her motel down for the season sometime in October.
“I hope next year will be solidly busy,” she said. “It’s been a great adventure … it’s a reflection of my personal style. A little bit of Scandinavian influence. And with less stuff, you can appreciate the details of things.”
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Pentagon Study Says NATO Messed Up
An internal Defense Department study reveals that NATO had a role in the death of twenty-four Pakistani soldiers.
Daniel DePetris December 30, 2011 July 2, 2020
Three weeks ago, 24 Pakistani soldiers dug in trenches along the Afghan-Pakistani border were accidentally killed by NATO aircraft during one of the many counterinsurgency missions that American and Afghan troops have undertaken over the past year. Except on this particular nighttime raid, the precision and professionalism that have become hallmarks of the coalition’s military campaign in Afghanistan were lost, tragically ending the lives of over two dozen men.
The Pakistani military and government, which have had a frosty relationship with the United States for most of the year, responded angrily. The Pakistani embassy in Washington went so far as to tell reporters that the NATO operation was a deliberate act aimed at loosening the morale of the Muslim nation — a viewpoint that, while conspiratorial, may be acceptable given Islamabad’s roller coasty partnership with the Americans.
Sensing that another fallout in American-Pakistan relations would hurt the NATO war effort in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense called their Pakistani counterparts and told them that a transparent and factually based investigation would be implemented. That Pentagon study is now out and to the consternation of Western military officials, it looks like the Pakistanis may not have been wrong in all of their assertions.
Although the final report has not been made public, the Defense Department released a press statement briefly touching upon its most important findings. In sum, the investigation concluded that NATO was perfectly within its right to return fire in self-defense but the coordinates that were given to Pakistani soldiers in the area turned out to be wrong.
The investigating officer found that American forces, given what information they had available to them at the time, acted in self-defense and with appropriate force after being fired upon. Nevertheless, inadequate coordination by American and Pakistani military officers operating through the border coordination center — including our reliance on incorrect mapping information shared with the Pakistani liaison officer — resulted in a misunderstanding about the true location of Pakistani military units.
The study is not a perfect inquiry. Out of protest, the Pakistani military refused to cooperate with the Pentagon’s investigation, which lead investigator Brigadier General Stephen Clark acknowledged was a significant setback in uncovering all of the facts.
The findings are certain to draw condemnation from the Pakistanis who continue to feel insulted by what they view as Washington’s lack of appreciation for the thousands of military and civilian casualties that they have suffered in the fight against terrorism since 2001. General Athar Abbas, the chief Pakistani military spokesman, quickly indicated that his colleagues rejected the report’s conclusions.
The completion of the inquiry leaves the Obama Administration with a difficult decision to make. Does the president “swallow American pride” and formally apologize for NATO’s part of the responsibility or will he continue to express regret over the incident without offering that apology?
At least for the time being, the White House and the State Department have not budged from their original position. A State Department spokesman attempted to take responsibility for NATO’s infractions at a press briefing after the report’s release, all the while punting questions on apologizing.
Now that US/NATO forces are indeed held liable for at least part of the border incident, the administration should in fact reverse its previous stance, privately and publicly making it clear that anyone on the American side who was part of the problem will be dealt with accordingly.
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been on the phone for weeks with Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and the Pakistani foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, trying to rebuild a tattered relationship. Kayani has reestablished contacts with NATO commander General John R. Allen, a good start to making sure that a deadly accident like the one that occurred on November 24 does not happen again. But neglecting to say “I’m sorry,” even as the Pentagon investigation details that NATO did in fact make mistakes, will give the Pakistanis a greater reason to doubt the United States as committed partners in the region.
The reality is that as long as the United States are engaged with tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan, Washington needs Pakistan’s help — whether or not Pakistan has been truly forthcoming in battling militancy on its own soil. Absent cordial relations between the two countries, NATO commanders can expect Islamabad to continue closing down supply routes that go into Afghanistan — forcing the coalition to either spent millions more airlifting supplies or putting them increasingly into the pockets of Central Asia’s autocratic regimes.
Pakistan may be a double faced partner right now but imagine how much worse NATO’s experience in Afghanistan would be without a measurable level of Pakistani complicity. Sometimes in war, a nation does not get to choose its allies. Pakistan is one such nation — a pain to deal with but necessary for a smooth NATO conclusion to the war across the border.
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International Women’s Day on 8th of March
March 8th, 2010 March 8th, 2010 1 Comment
International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked on the 8th of March every year. It is a major day of global celebration of women. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements.
The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. Among other relevant historic events, it came to commemorate the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The idea of having an international women’s day was first put forward at the turn of the 20th century amid rapid world industrialization and economic expansion that led to protests over working conditions.
In 1910 the first international women’s conference was held in Copenhagen (in the labour-movement building located at Jagtvej 69, which until recently housed Ungdomshuset) by the Second International and an ‘International Women’s Day’ was established, which was submitted by the important German Socialist Clara Zetkin, although no date was specified. The following year, 1911, IWD was marked by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, on March 19. However, soon thereafter, on March 25, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed over 140 garment workers.
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2010 International Women’s Day
On occasion of 2010 International Women’s Day the International Committee of the Red Cross is drawing attention to the hardship displaced women endure. The displacement of populations is one of the gravest consequences of today’s armed conflicts. It affects women in a host of ways.
Nation observing 100th International Women’s Day
The nation is celebrating the 100th International Women’s Day today.
President Pratibha Patil will confer the Stree Shakti Awards at a function here. The ‘Stree Shakti Puraskars‘ are given to women for their outstanding and exceptional work in field of women empowerment.
The Rajasthan Government has decided to allow women to travel free in all categories of State Roadways buses today.
In her message, President Patil said:
“Every year, we celebrate International Women’s Day to recognize the dedication and achievements of women. This year is even more special, as this is the 100th year of its observation.”
“Indian women as part of this epoch making movement have played an exemplary role and will continue to be a major determinant of our future progress and inclusive growth,” she added.
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Always be the LIGHT and GUIDING Star to all your near and dear ones.
GOD BLESS!!
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MEMBERSHIP PRINCIPLES
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As prescribed in The Australian Ballet’s Constitution and as determined by the Board, four categories of Membership currently exist.
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From time to time The Australian Ballet will announce new Members and seek applications for Membership from people who are committed to the company, its wellbeing and ongoing success.
In doing so, it will consider the following Guiding Principles.
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Textbook of Palliative Care (Print + E-Book)
MacLeod, R. — Van den Block, L.
Mayo / 2019
1825 pags
Approach and Nature of Palliative Care.- Quality of Life.- Global Aspects of Palliative Care.- Challenges and Future Directions of Palliative Care.- Organization of Palliative Care in Different Parts of the World.- Policies on Palliative Care in Different Parts of the World.- Palliative Care, Towards a New Definition.- Physical, Psychological/Psychiatric, Social and Spiritual Problems and Symptoms.- Pain and Pain Management.- Palliative Management of Breathlessness.- Fatigue.- Edema and Lymphedema.- Gastrointestinal Symptoms: Constipation, Diarrhea, and Intestinal Obstruction.- Gastrointestinal Symptoms: Nausea and Vomiting.- Cachexia/Anorexia and Feeding Difficulties.- Mouth.- Skin Symptoms.- Swallowing Difficulties.- Sleep Difficulties.- Psychological Symptoms.- Delirium and Palliative Care.- Neurological Symptoms.- Genitourinary Symptoms.- End-of-life Symptoms.- Gastroparesis and Cancer-Related Gastroparesis.- Advance Care Planning in Palliative Care.- Prognostication in Palliative Care.- Spirituality in Palliative Care.- Access to Palliative Care.- Integrated Palliative Care: Clinical, Organizational, and Health System Perspectives.- Family Focused Care Span.- Grief and Bereavement.- Rehabilitation in Palliative Care.- Dietetics and Nutrition in Palliative Care.- Mouth Care.- Creative Art Making in Palliative Care.- Music Engagement and Therapeutic Music.- Sexuality and Intimacy.- Interprofessional Practice in Palliative Care.- Generalists and Specialist Palliative Care.- Nursing and Palliative Care.- Self-Care and Palliative Care.- End of Life Care.- Self-management in Palliative Care.- Education and Palliative Care, Overview.- Palliative Care in Rural Settings.- Home Care, Primary Care.- Palliative Care in Residential Settings.- Hospital Care.- Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).- Volunteers in Palliative Care.- Palliative Care and Cancer.- Palliative Care and Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Palliative Care and Stroke.- Palliative Care in Heart Failure.- Palliative care of Respiratory Disease in Primary Care.- Palliative Care and Liver Diseases.- Palliative Care in Kidney Disease.- Palliative Care and Endocrine Diseases.- Palliative Care in Chronic Illness and Multimorbidity.- Palliative care in dementia.- Dealing with a Wound in Palliative Care.- Pressure Area Management in Palliative care.- End of Life Health Care Experiences of Indigenous People and Ethnic Minorities; the example of Canada.- Palliative Care, Frailty and Older People.- Palliative Care of Pediatric Populations.- Palliative Care and Intellectual Disability.- Palliative Care of Indigenous Peoples and Peoples of Different Ethnicity.- Hypercalcemia of Malignancy.- Thromboembolism and bleeding.- Spinal Cord Compression.- Superior Vena Cava Obstruction.- Acute Cancer Pain Syndromes in Palliative Care Emergencies.- Acute Dyspnoea.- Neutropenic Sepsis.- Seizures.- Tumor Lysis Syndrome.- Suicide and Attempted Suicide.- Transfer to a Preferred Place of Death.- Challenging Family Dynamics.- Delirium as a Palliative Care Emergency.- Distinguishing and Managing Severe Psychological and Psychiatric Distress.- End-Of-Life Decisions.- Sedation and Terminal Sedation.- Nutrition and Hydration in Palliative Care.- Ethics of home-coming.- Request for Assisted Suicide.- Public Health and Epidemiological Research in Palliative Care.- Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions in Palliative Care.- Mixed Method Research in Palliative Care.- Ethics in Palliative Care Research.- Evidence based Practice in Palliative Care.- New Public Health Approaches to End of Life Care.- A public health approach to integrate palliative care into a country's health care system: guidance as provided by the WHO.- Measuring Cost-Effectiveness in Palliative Care.- Financial Aspects of Inpatient Palliative Care.- Financial Aspects of Outpatient Palliative Care.- Serious Illness and Out-of-Pocket Spending.
Textbook of Palliative Care is a comprehensive, clinically relevant and state-of-the art book, aimed at advancing palliative care as a science, a clinical practice and as an art.
Palliative care has been part of healthcare for over fifty years but we still find ourselves having to explain its nature and practice to colleagues and to the public in general. Healthcare education and training has been slow to recognize the vital importance of ensuring that all practitioners have a good understanding of what is involved in the care of people with serious or advanced illnesses and their families. However, the science of palliative care is advancing and our understanding concerning many aspects of palliative care is developing rapidly.
The book is divided into separate sections for ease of use. Over 100 chapters written by experts in their given fields provide up-to-date information on a wide range of topics of relevance to those providing care towards the end of life no matter what the disease may be. We present a global perspective on contemporary and classic issues in palliative care with authors from a wide range of disciplines involved in this essential aspect of care. The Textbook includes sections addressing aspects such as symptom management and care provision, organization of care in different settings, care in specific disease groups, palliative care emergencies, ethics, public health approaches and research in palliative care.
This Textbook will be of value to practitioners in all disciplines and professions where the care of people approaching death is important, specialists as well as non-specialists, in any setting where people with serious advanced illnesses are residing. It is also an important resource for researchers, policy-and decision-makers at national or regional levels. Neither the science nor the art of palliative care will stand still so we aim to keep this Textbook updated as the authors find new evidence and approaches to care.
Roderick MacLeod is the holder of several degrees and Fellowships including MB, ChB, MMedEd, PhD, FRCGP, FAChPM. He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2015. He is currently Consultant in Palliative Care at HammondCare in Sydney and Honorary Professor in the University of Sydney School of Medicine, Australia and Honorary Clinical Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Professor MacLeod has been involved in palliative care for over 30 years and has practiced in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles on aspects of palliative care and has written many books and book chapters on Palliative Care. He has been on the editorial board of a number of international journals and is a reviewer for many palliative care and health-related journals.
Lieve Van den Block is Professor of Ageing and Palliative Care at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and chair of the Ageing and Palliative Care Research Programme at the End-of-Life Care Research Group of the VUB and Ghent University in Belgium. She holds a PhD in Medical Social Sciences and a Clinical Psychology Master. Professor Van den Block has been involved in palliative care research for over 15 years, focusing on national and international public health and interventional research aimed at monitoring and improving palliative and end-of-life care. She has received several scientific awards for her work including the 2014 Early Researcher Award of the European Association for Palliative Care. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on palliative care and is editor and author of several books and chapters. Her work has been supported by grants from the European Commission, national fundamental and applied research foundations, and leading medical and health charities.
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3. Jul
‘String Quartet No. 13, D 804 ‘Rosamunde’: I. Allegro ma non troppo’ – The Schumann Quartet plays Schubert
As a preview of the EP "Fragment - Schubert: Rosamunde" the Schumann Quartet interprets the first movement from the "String Quartet No. 13, D 804 "Rosamunde": I. Allegro ma non troppo".
Apart from the unfinished string quartet, which was written in 1820, Schubert did not write string quartets again until 1824 after his life crisis. At the same time he distanced himself from his first steps in this genre. In a letter to his brother Ferdinand, he wrote: “But it will be better, if you keep to other Quartets than mine, for there is nothing to them.” Schubert had formed a new plan: to approach the symphony by way of chamber music. Accordingly, he abandoned the restraint of his juvenile works and wrote large-scale string quartets of symphonic dimensions, staples of today’s chamber repertoire: “Death and the Maiden” and the Quartet No. 13 in A minor, the “Rosamunde”, D 804.
The EP "Fragment - Schubert: Rosamunde" by the Schumann Quartet will be available from 17.07.2020! Before that, you can listen to the first single "String Quartet No. 13, D 804 "Rosamunde": I. Allegro ma non troppo" into the first movement of this exciting work, which is now available for download or stream.
Schumann Quartett Rosamunde – Fragment Pt. 1
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14. The most comprehensive Holocaust research center in Ukraine and perhaps in all of the post-Soviet states is Tkumah, the Dnipropetrovsk-based Ukrainian Holocaust Research, Education, and Memorial Center. Directed by Dr. Igor Schupak, Tkumah is currently housed at the local hesed (welfare center sponsored by the Joint Distribution Committee), Hesed Menachem, in the center of Dnipropetrovsk. Dr. Schupak and his colleagues are eagerly awaiting the day when they are able to move into the Menorah Center, a facility that will accommodate their research needs, library, classrooms, and the Museum of Jewish History and Culture in Ukraine.[22] Museum premises will include a large hall of multimedia displays, a memorial space, and a center designed specifically for children and families.
Overall, the objectives of Tkumah are to: (1) conduct scholarly research about the Holocaust through interviews of survivors, examination of pertinent documents, and expeditions to relevant sites; (2) educate contemporary Ukrainians about the Holocaust through publications, development of school curricula, teacher training, and seminars and conferences; (3) encourage dialogue between Jews and other Ukrainian ethnic groups through seminars and conferences for youth, adults, and historians; and (4) arrange museum displays and related programming about the Holocaust.
Creation of the new museum and education institute in the Menorah Center was proving to be a “gigantic” project, said Dr. Schupak. The museum, he continued, would be a gallery of life, destruction, and rebirth, that is, of Jewish life and civilization before the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, the destruction during the Soviet period and the Holocaust, and rebirth of Jewish life after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Only in Dnipropetrovsk, which Dr. Schupak considers the strongest Jewish community in the post-Soviet states, could such a museum be developed. Among all the rabbis in the region, Dr. Schupak continued, only Rabbi Kaminezki could bring together the financial support for this project.
Notwithstanding the enormous amount of effort required to establish the museum, said Dr. Schupak, Tkumah continues with its conventional work. These tasks include research on the Holocaust; work with schools, teachers, and students; conferences; publications; collaboration with Yad Vashem and other Holocaust-related institutions abroad; monitoring antisemitism; and special events. Regarding the last-named, Dr. Schupak said that both the Ukrainian national government and Dnipropetrovsk oblast authorities are very eager to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Under the direction of Tkumah, such commemoration will include a scholarly conference with numerous specialists from foreign countries (including Israel, Germany, and Poland) to be held in Kyiv, roundtable discussions and other events in various Ukrainian cities, tributes to World War II veterans, and participation by high school students in certain creative work related to World War II and the Holocaust.
Dr. Igor Schupak is a frequent speaker at Holocaust-related events, including a 2011 conference in Lviv at which the photo at right was taken.
Photo: Chabad of Dnipropetrovsk.
In addition to his responsibilities at Tkumah, Dr. Schupak also is volunteer director of programming for Limmud in Ukraine. He was preparing for “Limmud Tkumah”, which will take place in Vinnytsia in June. Vinnytsia was chosen as the site, said Dr. Schupak, because a location just north of the city was selected by Hitler for Führerhauptquartier Wehrwolf, one of his eastern front military headquarters, in 1942-1943.[23] Ruins remain of the small complex of buildings and bunkers constructed there, which were destroyed by the Nazis as they retreated from the area. The site is now part of a recreation zone.
Pictured at right are the remnants of a bunker at Führerhauptquartier Wehrwolf one of the easternmost military headquarters used by German forces during World War II. The small complex at the headquarters site included a main house, officers’ quarters, barracks, bunkers, and observation points in trees. A Luftwaffe air base was located nearby.
Photo: http://www.darrelllehman.com/ukraine/ukraine15/pages/ P4170077. html. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
In response to a question, Dr. Schupak said that antisemitism is increasing in Ukraine. He attributed its growth to several factors. First, he said, is the influence of several rightwing politicians, particularly Oleh Tyahnibok of the nationalist All-Ukrainian Union Freedom Party. Through inflammatory rhetoric, Mr. Tyahnibok arouses “radical tendencies” just below the surface in many Ukrainians, stated Dr. Schupak. Second, continued Dr. Schupak, soccer hooliganism and similar mob action often includes antisemitic rhetoric. Third, he declared, the ease of using the Internet has provided a new vehicle for expression of anti-Jewish bigotry in general; in particular, he said, news stories about the financial successes of certain Jewish oligarchs spawn antisemitic commentary not only about the specific oligarch, but also about the Jewish people and about Israel. Another medium for the expression of antisemitism, commented Dr. Schupak, is vandalism in Jewish cemeteries; headstones may be toppled or defaced with swastikas.
15. Hesed Menachem, the JDC-sponsored welfare center, is centrally located in a large building constructed originally as a preschool. In the absence of Hesed Director Anatoliy Pleskachevsky, who was in Israel during the writer’s visit, several other hesed professionals were consulted.[24] Some anxiety among staff was palpable as the hesed faces declining financial resources from year to year. JDC has terminated or sharply reduced some services to Jewish elderly, usually by tightening eligibility requirements so that fewer seniors qualify for specific benefits. In the meantime, the current building continues to deteriorate as the hesed is among the community institutions slated to move to the new Menorah Center as soon as it is completed.[25] Obviously, it makes little sense to renovate a building that soon will be abandoned.
The hesed maintains limited support services (such as issuing discount grocery cards) to about 7,000 elderly clients in Dnipropetrovsk and is a base for services to about 1,000 additional Jewish aged who live in nearby cities, such as Pavlograd and Dniprodzerzhinsk. Additionally, about 500 Jewish families receive welfare and other assistance to deal with poverty, psychological issues, vocational needs, legal problems, and childcare skills. About 120 special needs children rotate through the hesed in disability-related groups for recreational and socializing purposes.[26]
A distribution center at the hesed continues to loan medical equipment, such as wheelchairs and walkers, free of charge to those who need it. However, said staff members, a local factory that manufactures many such items recently declared bankruptcy and has closed. Replacing this local source of supply with another manufacturer inevitably will entail additional costs to cover transportation. They also noted that some items, such as therapeutic mattresses, can be used only by one person – for hygienic reasons – and are increasingly expensive to buy.
Hesed Menachem continues to operate an adult day center, hosting groups of about 30 seniors who participate in a full day of activities twice each month. Participants are transported from and to their homes in private vans. They receive hairdressing services at the hesed, participate in various cultural activities, socialize with others, and eat breakfast and a warm noon meal. Some also consult with physicians and receive referrals to specialists, but staff noted that such medical consultations are less common than previously.
Hesed senior adult day care participants engage in chess, a favorite Russian pastime. On the wall behind them is the handicraft of current and past hesed clients.
Photo: the writer.
Concern was expressed about new tax legislation that closes loopholes in previous taxes imposed upon welfare payments and services. Recipients are liable if their yearly assistance equals 1200 Ukrainian hryvnia (approximately $263) annually in hesed services. Almost all clients receive more than this amount in a combination of discount food and medicine cards, hesed-based programs (such as the day care center), and/or patronage (homecare) ser-vice. Technically, the client should pay the taxes; however, fearing that many elderly will be unable to understand the regulations and/or afford the pay-ments, the hesed will submit payments for all clients. The new tariffs impose a heavy financial burden upon JDC, both in paying the taxes and in main-taining the infrastructure necessary to oversee the process.
[22] See page 7.
[23] The name is derived from Werwolf (German for werewolf), but Hitler ordered it spelled Wehr, meaning defense (as in Wehrmacht).
[24] See pages 45-47 for an interview with Esther Katz, JDC director for the region.
[25] Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki believes that all local Jews, including the infirm and elderly, should be comfortable in the new Menorah Center and has insisted that the hesed be located there.
[26] The approach of the Special Needs Educational Resource Center at Beit Chana is geared more toward education than toward recreation.
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The Relationship Between Constitutionalism and Democratic Governance
The Relationship Between Constitutionalism and Democratic Governance Essay Sample
The study of constitutionalism occupies a significant place in the sphere of comparative politics and it is universally accepted to be a necessity for any given society as it limits arbitrariness inherent in government and ensures that its powers contained in the constitution are to be used for the good of society. It is the constitution that directly or indirectly affects the exercise of the sovereign power of the existence of a constitution in a state. However this essay is going to discuss the relationship between constitutionalism and democratic governance. First and foremost in order to enhance a common understanding, we must first understand the key terms in the question and that is Constitutionalism and Democratic Governance. To begin with, Constitutionalism is defined as a government conducted in accordance with and within the limits set by the fundamental law of the Constitution. The Constitution, as a body of written or unwritten basic law, is superior to and takes precedence over all ordinary acts of the legislature and over all decisions and actions of the executive branch of the government.
Under the Constitution, restrictions on the discretionary authority of public officers and institutions are clearly recognized and regularly enforced. In short, the Constitution effectively limits the power of government. In addition to this, Johari states that constitutionalism stands for “the existence of a constitution in a state, which is the instrument of government, or the fundamental law of the land.” It is the complex of ideas, attitudes and patterns of behavior elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from and is limited by a body of fundamental law pointed out. It also refers to government conduct with and the limits set by fundamental law of the land. Constitutionalism is a modern concept that desires a political order governed by laws and regulations. It means that the government rules under the laws of a constitution, that is, it gets its power from the people it governs and is limited by those powers. Constitutionalism stands for the supremacy of law and not of the individuals. Constitutionalism is a charter of government deriving its whole authority from the governed.
It is sets out the form of the government and specifies the purpose of the government, the power of each department of the government, the state-society relationship, the relationship between various governmental institutions and the limits of the government. Furthermore, the constitution binds not only the government, but also the people, though the constitution, the people collectively commit to certain institutional procedure for managing public affairs and resolve social conflicts. The constitution not only limits the arbitrary power of government, it also prevents public administration from being poison by people’s short-term temper and passions. Constitutionalism is an institutional realization of liberalism. By constraining and regulating the government’s power through a supreme constitution, and by preserving the sovereignty of people, constitutionalism ensures that the government is limited. Further, constitutionalism does not recognize the sovereignty of the legislature. Instead, it only recognizes the sovereignty of people. Constitutionalism is about the supremacy of the constitution.
This implies that the constitution cannot be altered unless by the procedures so stipulated in the constitution, since the constitution reflects the sovereign wills of the people in a state and hence need to be safeguarded. All other laws in a country have to be in time with the constitution. If a law is not consistent with the constitution is considered null and void. This helps leaders not to because the constitution tells them to do so. Once this safeguard violation against the latter and hence the spirit of the constitution is upheld. Having stated what constitutionalism is, it is also imperative to understand what a Democratic Governance is. Democratic Governance can be understood as the capacity of a society to define and establish policies and resolve their conflicts peacefully within the existing legal order . This is a necessary condition for the rule of law along with the separation of powers and a legal system that ensures the enjoyment of individual freedoms and rights -civil, social, political and cultural.
This requires institutions based on the principles of equity, freedom, participation in decision making, accountability, and promoting the inclusion of the most vulnerable sectors of society. The culture of a democratic governance moves beyond the mere procedures of democracy and the establishment of democratic institutions. It involves promoting the sustainability of democracy which includes an enduring capacity for: the separation of powers and independence of the branches of government; the exercise of power in accordance with the rule of law; the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; and, the transparency and accountability of a responsible civil service, functioning at both the national and local levels. A state which identifies with the culture of democratic governance is one which welcomes a wide scope of political participation embracing a pluralistic system of political parties, a vibrant civil society and media .
Further, strong democratic institutions promote and integrate women and minorities in all levels of the Government and society as a whole. Also, a state which embodies the culture of democratic governance is one which protects the rights and dignity of children. Therefore, the promotion of the culture of democratic governance involves an integrated approach to sustainable governance for and by all the people. Going back to the matter at hand, the relationship between constitutionalism and Democratic governance to begin with is that countries with a written constitutions does not necessarily practice constitutionalism nor do they practice democratic governance. A constitutional government is a limited government, whereas most socialist constitutions, although written, do not place limits on what the government can do.
As a result of this, Democratic governance which has been said at various times to encompass the full respect of human rights, the rule of law, effective participation, multi-actor partnerships, political pluralism, transparent and accountable processes and institutions, an efficient and effective public sector, legitimacy, access to knowledge, information and education, political empowerment of people, equity, sustainability, and attitudes and values that foster responsibility, solidarity and tolerance is sometimes also not respected. However, a country without written constitution, on the other hand, may actually operate under constitutionalism and good governance. For example, the United Kingdom does not have a written document called the, but no doubt that the British government is a constitution government. Although Britain does not have a single written constitution, it has a number of documents that have constitutional force. Therefore, the entire system of government in a constitutional state is created by the constitution. The constitution defines, allows and regulates government power.
In a constitutional state, there are frequent free and fair elections in order to preserve popular sovereignty in which everyone is free to participate regardless of their political affiliation. Moreover, observance of the rule of law is also another important element to look at in a constitutional state and in Democratic governance. In this light, the rule of law is said to be the deepest tradition of any constitutional government or state that practice constitutionalism. It means that is the law of the land that rules the country and not the arbitrary will of any individual. None can claim exception or immunity from it. According to dicey in Waldron, “the rule of law embraces three distinct kindred conceptions”, this means that no man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer until proven guilty by the court of law.
Secondly, no man is above the law but that every man, whatever his rank or condition is subject to the ordinary law of the land. Thirdly, the rule of law determines the judicial decisions over the rights of individuals in particular cases brought before the court for example, some cases attract a lot of corruption or favoritism, where the victim is concerned thus the rule of law must be upheld. This ensures that there is protection of the citizen’s right. The consequence is that the rule of law is a fair, predictable and stable legal framework is essential so that businesses and individuals may assess economic opportunities and act on them without fear of arbitrary interference or expropriation in a democratic governance. However, this requires that the rules be known in advance, that they be actually in force and applied consistently and fairly, that conflicts be resolvable by an independent judicial system, and that procedures for amending and repealing the rules exist and are publicly known.
The other relationship of constitutionalism and Democratic Governance is the observance of human rights. Human rights in a constitutional state are provided for in the constitution. These Human rights principles provide a set of values to guide the work of governments and other political and social actors . They also provide a set of performance standards against which these actors can be held accountable. Moreover, human rights principles inform the content of good governance efforts: they may inform the development of legislative frameworks, policies, programs, budgetary allocations and other measures. On the other hand, without Democratic governance and constitutionalism, human rights cannot be respected and protected in a sustainable manner. The implementation of human rights relies on a conducive and an enabling environment. This includes appropriate legal frameworks and institutions as well as political, managerial and administrative processes responsible for responding to the rights and needs of the population.
Furthermore, separation of powers is the relationship that exists between constitutionalism and Democratic governance. In a constitutional government, there also exist separation powers among the three organs of government, that is, the executive, legislature and the judiciary . The powers and functions should be separate from each other. In Zambia for example, the executive should not interfere in the functions of the judiciary. The president being the head of the executive does not play any role in the cases being handed by the judiciary, were he even determines the outcomes of the court decisions. In this way the liberty of the individual is to be saved from the crushing authority of the state. This ensures that there is Effectiveness and efficiency in Democratic governance in that these organs of government only perform the duties that they have been assigned to do without any interference from other organs consequently producing results that meet needs while making the best use of resources, human technology, finance, nature and environment at its disposal.
In addition, the system of checks and balances supplement the system of separation of separation of powers. The system of Checks and balances rule out the abuse of power in constitutionalism and Democratic governance. Each organ acts as a check upon the other organs. Thus, the theory of checks and balances ensures that departments should share in powers of the others or exercise a certain control over their actions . For example, in Zambia, the executive authority is with the president, but it is checked by the legislature. His appointment and his decrees can be declared null and void by the judiciary on the ground of being unconstitutional. Democratic governance where Accountability is imperative in the running of government affairs, checks and balances ensures that Public officials are answerable for government behavior and responsive to the entity from which they derive authority.
The accountability of public sector institutions is facilitated by evaluation of their economic performance. The suggested specific areas of action would be in the building of government capacity through, for example, public-sector management, public-enterprise management and reform, public financial management and civil-service reform. Besides that, in a constitutionalism and democratic governance, democratic principle such as freedom of the press, speech and association are upheld. This is contained in the bill of rights enshrined in the constitution. The main aim of the bill of rights is to strengthen the right and protection functions of the constitution. In Democratic governance, the freedom of the press, speech and association are upheld by ensuring that there is equal Participation of everyone in the country. Democratic governance requires that civil societies, the press and both men and women, either directly or through legitimate representatives all have an opportunity to participate during the formulation of development strategies and that directly affected communities and groups should be able to participate in the design and implementation of programs and projects .
Even where projects have a secondary impact on particular localities or population groups, there should be a consultation process that takes their views into account. This aspect of governance is an essential element in securing commitment and support for projects and enhancing the quality of their implementation. Participation by, is key cornerstone of good governance. Participation needs to be informed and organized; including freedom of expression and speech is of best interest of the organization and society in general. In addition, constitutionalism is found in countries which either has a written constitution where, a single constitutional document, titled “the Constitution,” serves as the basic law of the political society and as the legal foundation of its government.
The entire body of fundamental law for the society is contained in a single document, as amended. Or in unwritten constitutions where no single constitutional document that contains the entire body of fundamental law governing the operation of the government. The constitutional rules which shape and determine the formal-legal nature and functioning of government in the united kingdom for example are contained in a centuries-old collection of historic documents, acts of Parliament, Common Law, constitutional customs and traditions, and long-standing political usages, or practices. Some parts of the British Constitution are written, but many more are not. This ensures there is predictability in Democratic governance as people know where they can find the Laws and policies.
These laws and polices exist to regulate society and that are applied fairly and consistently. Predictability requires the state and its subsidiary agencies to be bound by and answerable to the legal system in the same way as private enterprises and individuals. The specific area of action could be the development of predictable legal frameworks for private-sector development . In conclusion, Constitutionalism is a modern concept that desires a political order governed by laws and regulations. It means that the government rules under the laws of a constitution, that is, it gets its power from the people it governs and is limited by those powers. Constitutionalism stands for the supremacy of law and not of the individuals. It stands for the existence of the constitution in a state.
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Building a more welcoming and inclusive Burnaby for all.
BIPT Strategic Plan
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Burnaby Demographics
In 2015 35.6% of the recent
immigration population age 15 and over were in the low income bracket, down from 41.8% in 2010.
Source: 2016 Census
10% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants
were unemployed in 2015, significantly higher than their Canadian born counterparts (6.5%).
39.8% of Burnaby’s total population
spoke English only as their mother tongue, notably lower (14%) than Metro Vancouver’s regional level of 54.0%.
In 2016 Immigrants represented
50% of Burnaby's total population - that's 115,145 people.
26.2% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants
worked in the retail trade, and the accommodation and food services sectors in 2015.
54% of Burnaby's labour force
are immigrants.
62.4% of Burnaby's 16,065 recent immigrants
arrived under the economic class, similar to Metro Vancouver’s regional levels (63%).
63.6% Burnaby’s residents
self-identified as visible minorities.
were between the ages of 15 and 44 when arriving Canada.
In 2016 56.4% of recent immigrants
aged 25 to 64 had a bachelor's degree or higher, up from 54.9% in 2011.
Burnaby was home to the fourth-largest
immigrant population (115,145) in the Metro Vancouver Region, representing 11.6% of Metro Vancouver’s immigrant population.
232,080 residents
lived in Burnaby in 2015.
44.4% Of Burnaby's recent
immigration population came from China and the Philippines.
8.7% of Burnaby's recent immigrants
are refugees.
66.6% of Burnaby's recent immigrants
spoke non-official languages most often at home in 2016, notably more than 62.1% of Metro Vancouver’s recent immigrants.
spoke Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese n.o.s. combined) most often at home.
spoke non-official languages at work.
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Manitoba is ‘open for business’ for immigrant investors
By Donna Carreiro, CBC News |
Attention immigrant investors: Manitoba’s putting out the “open for business” sign again. Only this time around, the province expects you to stick around.
“Their biggest challenge is how are you going to retain the people?” said immigration lawyer Reis Pagtakhan. “The question is, ‘Why are they doing that?'”
Part of the problem was through the provincial nominee program for business. Here’s how it was supposed to work: immigrants interested in getting into business here could put down a $75,000 deposit, move here, and have up to two years to invest up to $150,000 into a business.
Instead, hundreds of nominees got here, packed up and moved to greener pastures, forfeiting the $75,000 and summing it up as the price of admission to Canada.
“Every $75,000 the government kept was a failure in terms of, ‘Manitoba is not the place to do business for this immigrant,'” Pagtakhan said.
As a result, the program was halted in 2013, revamped and revised.
This time, however, the deposit will be increased to $100,000. Investors will also have to pay a non-refundable processing fee and once here, they’ll be more closely monitored to determine what effort they’re putting into the business.
But while Pagtakhan said it’s a good start, he’s not convinced the risk of forfeiting an extra $25,000 in deposit fees will act as a deterrent.
“On the business side of things, I am still concerned about their model,” he said.
“As to whether this is simply, ‘I’m going to pay $100,000 for my visa to Canada, as opposed to $75,000,’ it remains to be seen whether that will solve the problem.”
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Military Milestones from Golden Hill to Desert Storm
Posted at 3:01 am on January 19, 2010 by tmithjr
This Week in American Military History:
Jan. 17, 1991: Two-hundred-ten years to the day after the Battle of Cowpens (see last week); American, British, and French forces — this time all three on the same team — kick off what Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein predicted would be “the Mother of all Battles” with a series of blistering air attacks aimed at destroying the Iraqi Air Force, Iraq’s air-defense forces and overall command and control. It is day one of Operation Desert Storm.
Jan. 18, 1911: Flying over San Francisco Bay in his Curtiss Pusher Model “D” aircraft, pioneer aviator Eugene B. Ely approaches the anchored cruiser USS Pennsylvania and manages to land onto a special platform fitted with a makeshift tailhook system aboard the ship. Upon landing, he purportedly says, “It was easy enough. I think the trick could be successfully turned nine times out of ten.”
Ely’s landing is the first-ever airplane landing aboard a ship. Ely already had become the first man to take off from a ship in November. In July, he will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the California National Guard. In October, he will be killed in a crash during an aerobatic demonstration in Macon, Georgia.
Jan. 19-20, 1770: The little-known but historically significant Battle of Golden Hill erupts in New York City between a group of angry Manhattan patriots and a contingent of British soldiers.
The clash begins when members of the patriot organization “Sons of Liberty” snatch a few of the King’s men, who are cutting down wooden “liberty poles” (symbols of resistance against British rule) which had been erected by the “Sons.” The redcoats also were reportedly posting bills condemning the Sons of Liberty as “the real enemies of society.” A struggle ensues. Redcoats from the nearby barracks respond, and a bayonet charge is ordered. Several are wounded on both sides, and one civilian is killed.
Less than seven weeks before the Boston Massacre, the Battle of Golden Hill is considered by some historians as the first armed clash of the American Revolution.
Jan. 20, 1914: Nearly three years to the day after Eugene Ely lands his airplane on USS Pennsylvania, “the cradle of Naval aviation” is born at Pensacola, Florida.
According to the American Naval Historical Center: “The aviation unit from Annapolis [Maryland], consisting of nine officers, 23 men, seven aircraft, portable hangars, and other gear, under Lieutenant J. H. Towers” arrives at Pensacola aboard the battleship USS Mississippi and the bulk-cargo ship USS Orion “to set up a flying school.”
Jan. 21, 1903: The Militia Act of 1903 — also known as the "Dick Act" (Congressman and Maj. Gen. Charles Dick authored much of the legislation) — is passed, establishing federal standards and greater federal control over state militias, essentially creating the modern National Guard.
Jan. 21, 1954: First Lady Mamie Eisenhower breaks a bottle of champagne across the bow of USS Nautilus in Groton, Connecticut, launching the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. The following year, Nautilus gets underway, begins breaking numerous sea-travel records, and becomes the first “ship” to cross the North Pole.
Nautilus is the U.S. Navy’s sixth vessel bearing the name. The first Nautilus, a schooner built in 1799, saw action against the Barbary pirates and in the War of 1812.
Jan. 22, 1944: Allied forces, including the U.S. VI Corps under the command of Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas (of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army), begin a series of landings along a stretch of western Italian coastline in the Anzio-Nettuno area. Codenamed Operation Shingle, the Allies achieve complete surprise against — and encounter little initial resistance from — the Germans. But the landings kick off what will become one of the most grueling campaigns of World War II.
It is during the subsequent fighting (which continues for several months) that a dead German officer’s diary is found, a portion of which reads:
“American parachutists — devils in baggy pants — are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can’t sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere.”
Let’s increase awareness of American military tradition and honor America’s greatest heroes by supporting the Medal of Honor Society’s 2010 Convention to be held in Charleston, S.C., Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 2010 (for more information, click here).
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Consideration of Works Past: The Fittest
Posted on October 19, 2014 by Steven Popkes
(Picture from here.)
I’d pretty much given up on this one. It was one of those stories where you remember bits and pieces but can’t recall the title or author. I’d put up phrases I remembered and got nothing.
Then I was reading an article on “cozy catastrophes” (see here. for the article and here for the wiki.) The phrase is attributed to Brian Aldiss. It means different things to different people. To some, it’s a catastrophe that ends with a whimper rather than a bang. The result may or may not be horrific but it leaves behind people who are trying to live in the resulting world and the result isn’t all that bad– for them.
One of the premiere examples– Oh, wait a minute. Forgot to introduce the novel. The book is The Fittest, by J. T. McIntosh.
Back to cozy catastrophes.
The example often used in SF is Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. The cause of the catastrophe is a stunning light show high above the atmosphere that draws people out by the millions. The next day they are blind. This opens the way for the triffids, a walking plant thing that has been raised for its oil, to try to take over the world. The few sighted people left quickly settle into a few camps, some clearly evil, some misguided and some who are actually better suited to the new environment than the old.
It’s this latter category that can give people heartburn. It’s analogous to the problems I talked about in Farnham’s Freehold. In FF, the main character before the catastrophe is a misanthropic abusive asshat But once the catastrophe is over and the piece picking begins, those people who are preserved or thrive in the aftermath do well precisely because of those asshat qualities that either emerge or were there beforehand.
We’ve seen this before in a lot of post-apocalypse films. Usually violence. Selfishness. That sort of thing. Heck, The Admirable Crichton, is a play about exactly that, substituting a shipwreck for a global catastrophe. But where the cozy catastrophes can go off the rails is when these qualities turn out to be sqishy. Where people of race or profession or gender are “naturally” disadvantaged in the new world.
Now we get to The Fittest.
In this case, the catastrophe is the endowment of certain animals with human like intelligence: cats, rats, mice and dogs. (There were horses but it didn’t work out.) They escaped and the world fell apart. The animals early on figure out that though they were enemies of each other, they didn’t like human beings, either. So they did their best to bring down human civilization– not with that in mind. They weren’t that smart. But they were above to figure out that humans valued wires. So the rats and mice chewed on that. They figured out how to eat what humans sowed. Civilization falls.
This is the kernel I remembered: what happens when animals we either intimidated or dominated were suddenly smart enough to figure out the trick?
There’s an old trope in SF where the humans are shrunk down to the size of mice and often have to contend with the household cat or dog. The cat thinks of them as mice with the inevitable conflict. The dog smells them and realizes they are his master and helps. Or some variation thereof. The whole mice or rat with human intelligence has been done a million times in film. Not to mention various indigenous people’s tales and Greek stories.
This put a different stripe on it that I liked. It was sort of cool that we could have intelligent animals. What I remembered was the idea and the ending where two of the intelligent dogs take up as partners with the humans. What I had forgotten was the rest of the book.
The Fittest is not a very good book. The main character is the son of the same Paget that invented the animals. Once the danger of the pagets (the popular name for the animals) is realized, his family is persecuted and escapes to France. But the animals take down the world and now it’s survival of the fittest. (Hence the title. Get it? Get it?) He ends up with a community in Britain that has successfully repelled paget invasions. There are other surrounding communities that are filled with losers. One community is rapacious, preying on the weak in the evil Mad Max villain manner. Another serves up tribute to them. But only Paget’s community has the character to withstand the strife of the new order. Ultimately, they are attacked by the predators, both paget and human, and hold fast. Those that were ill suited to the new life (the weak women, non-whites, and disloyal) are killed.
The roughness is not the problem. Heck, I liked Mad Max. All of them. Rapacious post-apocalyptic psychopaths are my cup of tea. The problem is the choice of survivors, both human and animal.
I can see how intelligent mice and rats, and maybe even cats, could turn on us. Not in the Emperor Palpatine, moustache twirling way that is in this book. Certainly, intelligent mice and rats would give us a terrible time– hell, we have a problem with them now. Go watch this video and then imagine they’re smart. And I think that the relationship we have with cats isn’t always based in love. I’m a little dubious about dogs. Not completely. I had a friend who bred Canaan Dogs and they’re smart enough to realized they don’t have to obey if nothing’s in it for them.
But while our relationships with cats and dogs may not be the sweetness and light we want it to be, it’s not so antagonistic, either. Smart dogs and cats could make use of us just as we’ve made use of them. In The Fittest they take a perverse (and often self-destructive) turn towards tormenting humans just for the fun of it. That part I didn’t buy. And, at the end, when a couple of dogs actually throw their lot in with the humans it comes to the characters as a surprise.
Hm. Nobody thought to negotiate with the dogs? Or the cats? At least to the extent of making a deal with them against the mice? I guess intelligence is not favored in this brave new world.
I think McIntosh was too enamored of the horrific aspects of the world he was creating. That sort of took over. Still, there’s a lot of problems with women characters in this book. They range from the silly and the weak (but beautiful) to the rough yet vulnerable. And they’re all scared of mice. Not smart mice. Ordinary mice.
(Where did that idea even come from? I’ve never met a woman intrinsically afraid of mice. I mean no one wants to get bit in a dark basement. But that woman standing on that chair over there on the movie screen, snatching up her skirts and screaming? Never met her.)
So: a sad end to a long search.
There’s another catastrophe book I want to re-read. It’s a story involving the politics of nuclear war, incurable plague, Australian politics on the world stage and killer rabbits. It may be Not with a Bang by Chapman Pincher. But we’ll see see how that turns out.
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Consideration of Works Past: The Fittest — 3 Comments
Madeleine E. Robins on October 19, 2014 at 10:55 am said:
I think the women-with-skirts-and-mice cliché may have come from a time when women wore skirts that swept the floor, and an enterprising mouse could climb up the infrastructure of a hoop and infringe one’s personal privacy. As it were. I may be wrong on this. It’s a stupid cliché, anyway.
steve popkes on October 20, 2014 at 3:23 pm said:
It is dumb. And made worse by 1) it’s SF, which should know better and 2) it’s in 1956, which should know better.
Lord knows how SF has had its terrible portrayal of women. But this one was way worse than most. Almost made me want to read one of the bad Heinlein novels to wash the taste out.
That said, it was a good idea and I understand his other work was better. We will see.
Nancy Jane Moore on October 23, 2014 at 10:05 am said:
I was just discussing movies with Sherwood, but what I was thinking applies to books, too. I think the 50s were a terrible era for women both as people and as fictional characters. Things were better in the 40s, I suspect.
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OPINION: Brett Kavanaugh, Conservative or Constitutionalist?
How his appointment to the Supreme Court could make a difference, according to BU School of Law expert Gary Lawson
Jul 12, 2018·10 min read
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Over the next few months, during the confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, you are going to hear a lot of stories, on all sides, about how “he voted in favor of these people” or “he ruled against this party.” Tune all of that out. It is worthless. To evaluate a judicial decision, you need to know, at a minimum, (1) the applicable law, (2) the facts based on admissible evidence that formed the record in the case, and (3) the specific arguments advanced by the lawyers. Knowing which party won or lost a case is meaningless without that context. To the extent that news outlets talk about more abstract matters of judicial philosophy, they are likely to focus on front-burner issues, such as abortion, gay marriage, and religion in the public square. But such cases are a tiny fraction of the Supreme Court’s workload (and influence). There are broader currents in the law that potentially affect far more cases than do the headline-grabbing issues that dominate political discourse. Here are some of them that might fly under the radar in the coming weeks.
1. Music to a constitutionalist’s ears?
Among jurists on the right, the big divide concerns the methodology that courts should use to decide constitutional cases. On the one hand, legal conservatives favor a minimalist, or restrained, role for the undemocratic judiciary, often through granting considerable judicial deference to legislative or executive judgments. On the other hand, constitutionalists focus on correctly ascertaining the objective original meaning of the Constitution’s text, which sometimes will and sometimes will not lead to judicial restraint, depending upon what the Constitution’s original meaning prescribes in each case. Almost no one adheres purely to one camp or the other, although Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch are mainly constitutionalists, while Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito tend to lean conservative on this scale. Justice Anthony Kennedy, to the extent that he had an identifiable methodology, was more often than not in the conservative camp.
Judge Kavanaugh, I predict, will align predominantly, but not consistently with the constitutionalist wing on the Court — a mixed conclusion that matches the mixed evidence. In a dissenting opinion on the court of appeals in 2008, which was eventually vindicated in the Supreme Court, Judge Kavanaugh wrote that analysis must “begin with the constitutional text and the original understanding, which are essential to proper interpretation of our enduring Constitution.” Music to a constitutionalist’s ears. On the other hand, when his appeals court heard a constitutional challenge to Obamacare, Judge Kavanaugh during the oral argument famously said, “We’re courts of judicial restraint. It’s a delicate act to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional” — and then concluded that the relevant statutes simply did not give his court any power to decide the case before it. A legal conservative symphony. Why might this clash of orientations matter? Here are some specific ways in which a conservative vs. constitutionalist alignment could make a big difference.
2. Gundy v. United States will tell you a lot about his general approach
Many laws enacted by Congress are vague, to the point of being almost meaningless. Executive agencies and courts then fill in the laws with regulations and adjudicated cases to give them actual effect, which in practice allows the agencies and courts to determine the content of those laws with only minimal legislative direction. The Constitution has long been understood to forbid Congress from delegating its legislative power to other actors, but the Supreme Court, with full support from both the liberal and conservative wings, has not enforced this principle since 1936. Judicial conservatives strongly resist applying this “nondelegation doctrine” because it involves an activist role for courts in policing legislative choices; it is very hard to articulate precisely when laws are too vague, so applying this doctrine requires courts to second-guess legislatures about how clearly laws need to be written.
Justice Antonin Scalia exemplified this view almost 30 years ago in Mistretta v. United States: “while the doctrine of unconstitutional delegation is unquestionably a fundamental element of our constitutional system, it is not an element readily enforceable by courts.” Justice Harry Blackmun expressed widespread liberal doubts about the nondelegation doctrine while writing for the full Court in Mistretta: “our jurisprudence [on nondelegation] has been driven by a practical understanding that in our increasingly complex society, replete with ever changing and more technical problems, Congress simply cannot do its job absent an ability to delegate power under broad general directives.” Constitutionalists, by contrast, consider the nondelegation principle one of the most basic, obvious, and unjustly neglected of all constitutional principles, and Justices Thomas and Gorsuch have expressed interest in reviving this doctrine.
If Judge Kavanaugh is more a constitutionalist than a conservative, that would make a bloc of three. Three is fewer than five, but if a few other justices can be swung at some margins, the results could remake the structure of modern government. That is not an entirely fanciful prospect: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case next year (Gundy v. United States) involving the nondelegation doctrine, and because four justices must vote to hear a case, at least two members of the Court other than Justices Thomas and Gorsuch must think that the issue is at least worthy of consideration. As a result of delegation of legislative power, administrative officials — and ultimately, through the control and direction of administrative officials, the president — today exercise, by any measure, far more actual power over people’s lives, fortunes, and sacred honors (as the Founders would say) than does Congress. An even modest revival of the nondelegation doctrine could significantly change that balance, which would make congressional elections more important and presidential elections less important than they are now. If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, pay very close attention to what he does and says next year in Gundy v. United States. It will tell you a lot about his general approach to judging.
3. Good news for criminal defendants and bad news for prosecutors?
Many of the most commonly litigated constitutional provisions deal with the procedures in criminal trials. More than 10 million arrests are made each year in the United States, so the rules for criminal procedure potentially impact literally millions of people. Some of those criminal rules are the subject of major controversies that a new justice could help resolve. For example, the Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.” Suppose that the government in a drug trial uses a laboratory report analyzing a substance that was seized from the defendant. Does the lab analyst who wrote the report have to be “confronted” — meaning cross-examined under oath? The question is hugely important for the administration of criminal justice and the rights of criminal defendants, especially in a world in which crime labs do not always resemble those in CSI and sometimes get caught fabricating evidence on a massive scale.
The last time there was a major case on this question, in 2012, the Supreme Court split 4–1–4, and it was not the kind of left-right split that one might expect. For decades, the Court allowed the government to convict people on the basis of statements that were never exposed to in-court confrontation as long as the Court deemed the statements “reliable.” Then in 2004, an opinion by Justice Scalia invoked the original 1791 meaning of the Sixth Amendment to make the government produce for cross-examination all of the people who make statements that they expect to be used in court against criminal defendants. This was quite possibly the most consequential case in this millennium about the administration of criminal justice.
In recent years, a perhaps surprising coalition of four justices — Scalia, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor — have mostly held to that 2004 opinion. Four other justices — Roberts, Alito, Stephen Breyer, and Kennedy — have openly called for a return to the old “let the unconfronted evidence come in as long as we think it is reliable” approach, because requiring the government to produce all of these witnesses makes prosecutions more costly and possibly less accurate (since it might push the government to use less reliable evidence instead of lab reports). Justice Thomas, idiosyncratically even among constitutionalists, agrees with Justice Scalia’s approach in principle, but in practice has a much narrower view of the original meaning of the Sixth Amendment that sometimes aligns him — as it did in the case in 2012 — with those seeking to let the government use unconfronted statements in criminal trials.
If both Justice Gorsuch and Judge Kavanaugh adopt Justice Scalia’s reading of the Sixth Amendment, as one would expect from original-meaning constitutionalists who will not be swayed by arguments about a minimalist judicial role or what would be good or bad policy, it will create a solid majority in favor of that view, so that Justice Thomas will no longer be the swing vote. That would be good news for criminal defendants and bad news for prosecutors. If Judge Kavanaugh instead leans conservative and takes Justice Kennedy’s position in this melee, the split may continue.
4. A substantial rollback in executive administrative power?
The methodology for deciding cases drives decisions in statutory as well as constitutional cases. A huge portion of the Supreme Court’s workload involves the interpretation of federal statutes rather than interpretation of the federal Constitution. There are several ongoing disputes on the Court about how to decide those numerous statutory cases, for which the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh could be crucial. One concerns the extent to which courts interpreting statutes should rely on legislative history — the reports and debates in Congress that led up to the passage of laws — in addition to (and sometimes rather than) the actual texts of the laws that Congress enacts. Three justices — Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch — flatly said last year that courts should not look at legislative history, and Justice Kagan is often skeptical as well of the value of such extratextual resources. Judge Kavanaugh, in a 2016 article in the Harvard Law Review, strongly echoed these doubts about the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation, so it is a fair bet that he will join this textualist bloc, with potentially sweeping effects on a very broad range of cases across all subjects.
A second dispute, which has hugely important implications for how power is distributed among administrative agencies, Congress, and the courts, concerns whether courts should give significant, and often decisive, weight to the views of administrative agencies about the meaning of laws that those agencies enforce. For the past three decades, the answer has largely been “yes.” If you hear a reference to the “Chevron doctrine,” that is what it is about. A coalition has possibly been building on the Court to change this doctrine of judicial deference to executive agencies. Justices Thomas and Gorsuch have openly criticized the idea that courts should defer to executive views on legal meaning, Justice Breyer has been a vigorous critic of the doctrine in the past, and Justices Roberts and Kennedy on occasion have suggested that the doctrine be significantly limited.
Judge Kavanaugh, in his 2016 Harvard Law Review article, described the Chevron doctrine as “[i]n many ways…nothing more than a judicially orchestrated shift of power from Congress to the Executive Branch,” although he said that the doctrine might make sense “in certain circumstances” when statutory cases really involve policy (which he does not think is the business of the courts) rather than law. Even if he does not align with Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, a substantial rollback of this Chevron deference doctrine is quite possible, with a resultant substantial rollback in executive administrative power.
5. Potential impact on abortion, gay marriage, and other front-burner issues
This brings us to abortion, gay marriage, religion in the public square, and other front-burner issues that are widely thought to hang in the balance because Justice Kennedy was the swing vote. Whatever their personal moral or social views may be, anyone who is either a legal conservative or an original-meaning constitutionalist probably thinks, as a legal matter, that Roe v. Wade (abortion), Obergefell v. Hodges (gay marriage), and Lemon v. Kurtzman (public religious expression) were all mistaken interpretations of the actual meaning of the Constitution. (Keep in mind that the legal issue in all of these cases concerns the extent to which the federal Constitution dictates answers in such cases, not which answers would be morally or socially best.) That does not mean, however, that any or all of those decisions are likely to be overruled if Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed. Indeed, Judge Kavanaugh might well decide — as have legal conservative Supreme Court appointees for decades — that concern for precedent requires retaining those decisions even if they are mistaken interpretations.
I said earlier that Judge Kavanaugh has written that constitutional analysis must “begin with the constitutional text and the original understanding.” That does not mean that it must end there; precedent is always a force, and although one cannot precisely gauge its force with anyone on the Supreme Court in advance, it is telling that Judge Kavanaugh is one of the authors of the leading scholarly treatise on the law of precedent. Precedent is obviously something that he takes very seriously. And entirely apart from Judge Kavanaugh’s take on precedent, there might well be existing members of the Court who, while agreeing that those front-burner cases were mistaken when they were decided, will think it institutionally inappropriate for the Court to undo settled decisions on such sensitive matters, even if those settlements have little basis in the actual meaning of the Constitution. In other words, meet your potential new swing vote: Chief Justice John Roberts.
Gary Lawson, the School of Law Philip S. Beck Professor of Law, can be reached at glawson@bu.edu. He is a founding member, and on the board of directors, of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and is also on the editorial board of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a reference tool for legal scholars. He clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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1. Include Proper Notices Of Ownership and Registration of Trademarks. If your mark is not registered, but you have a good faith belief that you own a mark exclusively, you should use “TM” with your mark. This symbol tells the world that you believe yourself to be the rightful mark owner.
Once registered, you should use one of the following forms of notice in connection with each use of the registered trademark, which relates to the types of goods or services described in the Certificate of Registration: ®, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off., or Registered in … Keep reading
Expanding Your Trademark Portfolio Overseas: Filing Strategies to ConsiderNovember 24, 2020
Trademark rights are jurisdictional, meaning a trademark registration issued in the U.S. may be all but worthless in trying to stop infringement in say, Australia. If you do business outside of the U.S., pursuing trademark registrations in other countries may be valuable. U.S. trademark owners have several options with respect to pursuing international trademark rights and the best choice for your company depends on a few factors, including your goals and budget. As a very general rule we often tell clients that, subject to any budgetary constraints, it makes sense to try to obtain trademark protection in those countries where your company currently trades AND where you intend to trade (meaning generate sales/shipments) in the next 18-36 months.
The main paths to pursuing trademark registration in other countries are:
to file separate national/regional (where available) applications directly with each local intellectual property office in the country or region of interest; or
where feasible, file a single application via the World Intellectual Property Office (“WIPO”), designating the individual countries and regions of interest.
The One Size Fits All Approach – Filing Through WIPO using the “Madrid System”
Can be Less Expensive, But Rights Will be Narrower and Vulnerable
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The Crime Severity Index (CSI) measures changes in the level of severity of crime from year to year. The CSI measures the overall seriousness of crime from one year to the next by tracking both the prevalence of crime within a community, and the seriousness of the crimes committed. This provides a better understanding of the impact that crime has on individual community members, their families, and the community as a whole.
Research shows that higher levels of crime severity substantially reduce personal and community quality of life. As such, having a low CSI score is an indicator of community vitality.
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In the index, all crimes are assigned a weight based on their seriousness. The level of seriousness is based on actual sentences handed down by the courts in all provinces and territories.
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11. Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically.
However, many challenges exist to maintaining cities in a way that continues to create jobs and prosperity while not straining land and resources. Common urban challenges include congestion, lack of funds to provide basic services, a shortage of adequate housing and declining infrastructure.
The challenges cities face can be overcome in ways that allow them to continue to thrive and grow, while improving resource use and reducing pollution and poverty. The future we want includes cities of opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.
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16. Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals is dedicated to the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, the provision of access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels.
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Tom Hanks hosts 'Celebrating America' in honour of Biden, Harris inauguration
Justin Timberlake, the Foo Fighters and Bruce Springsteen perform at the event
Pakistan PM angry over reports TV anchor knew about strike
FCC rejects request by U.S. agencies to halt Ligado network approval
The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday voted 3-2 to reject a bid by U.S. government agencies to freeze its decision to allow Ligado Networks to deploy a nationwide mobile broadband network. In May, the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration filed a request with the FCC on behalf of executive branch agencies, including the Defense and Transportation departments, arguing the commission's approval would cause "irreparable harms to federal government users" of global positioning systems (GPS). The FCC said Ligado's deployment plans are not finalized and it is in talks with U.S. agencies about the network's potential impact on government GPS systems.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Months-old embers from a deadly California fire were blown back to life Tuesday by powerful winds that raked the state and prompted safety blackouts to tens of thousands of people. Firefighters chased wind-driven blazes up and down the state, trees and trucks were toppled, Yosemite National Park was forced to close and two coronavirus vaccination centres were shut down. South of San Francisco, the state’s firefighting agency said it responded to 13 vegetation fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties in 12 hours, and isolated evacuations were ordered for a total of 120 homes near two of them. The fires were small, with the largest no more than a couple dozen acres, and by nightfall were “creeping" rather than racing, according to state fire website descriptions. Two were within the area burned by last year's CZU Lightning Complex inferno. “Fires within the CZU Lightning Complex burn area were regenerated by high winds,” the local unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection tweeted. The complex started Aug. 16, 2020, during a barrage of lightning strikes. Separate fires merged, torching 1,500 buildings across 135 square miles (350 square kilometres) in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. One person died. The Santa Cruz Mountains have a thick layer of “duff,” dead vegetation under heavy timber in which deep smouldering embers can be revived by the wind, said Cecile Juliette, a Cal Fire spokeswoman. Cal Fire received nonstop reports of toppled trees and branches during the windstorm, Juliette said. Small fires blazed throughout the state, though most were quickly stopped from spreading and posed no serious threat to homes. The largest, near Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley, burned about 1 square mile (2.77 square kilometres) but was mostly surrounded. In both the north and south, residents were blacked out by utilities to prevent downed or damaged power lines from sparking blazes. Southern California Edison shut off power to more than 78,000 homes and businesses in seven counties and was considering blacking out well over a quarter-million more. Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to more than 5,000 customers. Most of California is experiencing drought conditions and the remainder is considered abnormally dry. Winter snowfall and rain have largely been woeful. Gusts howled at speeds up to 95 mph (152.8 kph) in the Mayacamas Mountains to the north of San Francisco Bay, and winds raised clouds of ash and dust from wildfire burn scars across Monterey County, the regional National Weather Service office said. High wind warnings were posted in the Sierra Nevada and adjacent foothills. “People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around trees and branches,” the Hanford weather office wrote. “If possible, remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if you must drive.” Yosemite National Park closed for the day, citing the winds and downed trees that smashed trucks and at least one building. In Southern California, the region’s notorious Santa Ana winds were ramping up, making travel hazardous for big rigs. Some were blown over. One gust hit 86 mph (138.4 kph) in northern Los Angeles County, the National Weather Service said. The wind forced closure of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Hansen Dam in the San Fernando Valley. Another site at a Disneyland parking lot was closed in advance of the gusts. The city of Los Angeles instituted its program of restricting parking in hilly neighbourhoods where narrow, winding streets can be difficult for fire engines to manoeuvr. Downtown Los Angeles has had only 1.95 inches (4.95 centimetres) of rain since the Oct. 1 start of the “water year,” nearly 4 inches (10.16 centimetres) below normal. The Associated Press
Moe addresses vaccine number changes and Pfizer vaccine problems
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said vaccination numbers for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are improving after a holiday slowdown. Pfizer recently announced that doses would be slowed due to a situation at a factory and Moe reiterated a point made by Ontario Premier Doug Ford in a press conference earlier in the day. “I think Premier Ford made some comments about what he would urge the Prime Minister to do and that was to find someone if not the CEO of Pfizer and maybe light a firecracker up his yin-yang I believe was the words that I heard. He did say that … if the Prime Minister was able to do that there would be a lineup of premiers behind and I would bring a lighter,” Moe said. Moe gave credit to healthcare workers for and policy changes for the improvement in vaccination numbers. “In the past week we have administered vaccines in long term care facilities in a number of communities throughout the province and to many other people aged 70 and over in those very same communities. As a result we were able to deliver about 15,000 vaccination shots this past week,” Moe said. He explained that Saskatchewan is currently second on a per capita basis to Prince Edward Island on delivery of vaccinations. “In fact, if Saskatchewan were a country our pace of vaccines delivered would now be in the top ten among all countries worldwide. So that is very good news. And we will continue to deliver vaccines as safely and as quickly and as efficiently as possible just as soon as we are able to receive them from the federal government.” The provincial NDP took issue with the way vaccines have been rolled out. During a press conference Tuesday, they cited a situation at a Regina assisted living resident where leftover vaccines were divvied up by drawing names from a hat. NDP deputy leader Nicole Sarauer said it’s a sign of a wider problem of a confusing and disorganized vaccine roll-out. Administrator of the Qu’Aappelle House in Regina, Bev Desautels, doesn’t see it that way. She told the Regina Leader-Post she requested enough doses to vaccinate all 75 residents and staff at the facility on Tuesday. But public health alerted her that morning they wouldn’t be vaccinating 15 assisted-living residents. The vaccine was only for those in long-term care, a higher level of care. Yet there was enough vaccine left in vials already opened to make up six doses. Public health nurses didn’t want to waste the precious fluid, so they asked Desautels to pick six assisted-living residents to get the shot, she recalls. She’d have to leave nine unvaccinated and still at risk. “They asked me to choose, and I said, no, I’m not going to choose,” she recalls. “So I put the names in a hat and the nurses pulled out names.” The SHA said that the incident will be reviewed, but applauded staff for their ingenuity. The slowdown of Pfizer shipments will mean only 2,925 more doses of the vaccine are delivered next week. “Those doses will be delivered to Regina to Fort Qu’Appelle and to North Battleford. Where they will be administered to residents and staff in long term care as well as personal care homes. At the pace we are going and with the slowdown in deliveries from Pfizer we expect that Saskatchewan will run out of vaccines over the course of the next few days,” Moe said. For the next month, the province will be receiving 17.5 thousand doses from Pfizer which is over half of what was expected. “We did almost that many shots this past week alone. And just this morning Major General Fortin said that Canada is expecting more deliveries from Pfizer next week. So we are in the process of seeking clarification if that will further impact Saskatchewan’s total supply of vaccines over the course of the next four weeks,” Moe said. According to Moe, the province will have to revise their vaccine rollout plan and needs the federal government to pick up the pace on deliveries as well as negotiations with Pfizer. Moe expects life to return to normal after a significant portion of the province has received both doses of any of the vaccines available. “I would encourage everyone to sign up to get vaccinated as soon as it is your turn and to continue in the meantime to follow all of the public health orders and the guidelines that are in place. We will get through this as we get more of our population vaccinated yes, but until then I am asking everyone to keep following all of these public health orders that are in place. Keep yourselves safe and keep those around you safe and keep your family safe,” Moe said. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince Albert Daily Herald
Lockdown lifted at Columbian Centre in Prince Albert
The Columbian Centre seniors living complex in Prince Albert has been taken out of lockdown. The senior’s living complex was put under lockdown after public health detected five COVID-19 cases among residents on Dec. 23. After further testing was completed on Jan. 2, no further cases were detected and the lockdown was lifted just two days later. “The rest of us all tested negative so they lifted our lockdown on Monday, Jan. 4,” facility manager Rob Fahlman said. “Everybody in here was patient they persevered and they also recognized that the regulations during COVID have to be followed and it was Public Health and we had to do our part to curb the COVID,” The news came as a great relief to residents. “We were all very happy to hear that and very thankful. And we just attribute it to of course the Public Health looking after us and the tenants themselves being obedient” he explained. “A lot of our tenants are praying too, oh yes they were praying hard and they told me so and I believe them. Through Public Health’s assistance we were able to nip it in the bud.” According to Fahlman, after an initial positive test was confirmed on Dec. 23, public health informed Columbian Centre that seniors were not allowed to leave their rooms and visitors were not permitted. All residents were tested on Christmas Eve and the other four positive results were returned in late December. The province, in the official listings on the province’s online dashboard, listed the outbreak as declared on Dec. 27. An outbreak is declared when there are at least two active cases in a location. Things have returned to relative normalcy in the building since the lockdown was lifted. “For two weeks now people have been going about their business. They missed some time with their families of course over Christmas and New Year’s but I think most of them made up for it after within the confines of the COVID restrictions. They have reunited with their families in some way,” Fahlman said. “My hat is off to these people because they have been through a lot already. And in this time of their life family is huge for them. It was quite a sacrifice for them.” Last Friday, public health offered vaccinations to residents. Fifty took part. Still, the building isn’t taking any chances. “I tell them that from my understanding this vaccination isn’t going to kick in for another couple of weeks so there is no letting down on the masks and sanitizing that we do in the building. There is no letting down in anything so we just keep on doing what we have been doing,” Fahlman said. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince Albert Daily Herald
Would naming workplaces with COVID-19 outbreaks help curb the spread?
Specific details about workplace outbreaks of COVID-19 are not made public in most of Canada. Toronto is starting to make the information available, arguing that transparency increases accountability, but others wonder whether ‘naming and shaming’ does more harm than good.
Enough is Enough says Moe
“Enough is enough,” Premier Moe said during Tuesday’s provincial COVID-19 update, referring to a video taken over the weekend at a pub in Regina. In the video some patrons without masks dance and defy the Public Health orders. However, the government plans to stay the course with the current measures despite the continuing high seven-day average of new cases. Today’s average rebounded to 300 and remains the highest in the country. The current measures which were introduced in mid-December have been extended to January 29, 2021. The Premier said he does not want to roll out more restrictive measures, but did hint that venues which allow for the contravention of the public health orders may be facing more serious consequences. “I’ve asked public health to look at if there is [sic] other opportunities, in addition to fines, including closing these bad actors indefinitely.” Dr. Shahab asserted that the current measures would work if there was 100% compliance across the board, but obviously that isn’t happening. The province is “stuck”, Shahab said, in that 300 new cases per day range and obviously he would prefer that number to be trending downward instead. With baseline transmission so high, it continues to feed the growth of the virus and hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths slowly but steadily are creeping up and increasing the stress on our healthcare system. Shahab has said that while the health system is not at the breaking point yet, when it gets there, the “hammer” needs to come down. “We may not be there yet, but that hammer is a very blunt instrument. It causes many unintended consequences, It’s not the preferred instrument but when the health-care system is on the brink of collapse, then unfortunately those desperate measures have to be taken as well.” The question that begs asking is do we really want to push the health system to that brink? Lang McGilp, Research Director of Insightrix Research Inc. says that surveys taken over the past couple of months show the longer the pandemic goes on the less people are inclined to follow the restrictions and that mental health is playing a part in that. Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Wakaw Recorder
Man, 59, dies in hospital after his car crashes into 2 others in Etobicoke
A 59-year-old man has died in hospital after the vehicle he was driving collided with two others in Etobicoke on Tuesday afternoon, Toronto police say. The crash happened in the intersection of Kipling Avenue and Belfield Road. Emergency crews were called to the area for reports of a crash at about 1:35 p.m. According to police, the man was driving a blue 2019 Volkswagen Jetta westbound on Highway 409 and was exiting onto the Kipling off-ramp when he struck a 2015 Toyota RAV-4 northbound on Kipling Avenue. Police said the man then struck a 2017 cargo van southbound on Kipling Avenue. The man suffered life-threatening injuries. Toronto paramedics took him to hospital, where he was pronounced dead later in the day. A 64-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the Volkswagen Jetta, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The drivers of the two other vehicles suffered minor injuries and remained at the scene. Police said they are urging residents, businesses and drivers, who may have security or dashboard camera footage of the area or crash, or saw the vehicle before the collision, to come forward.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 reported Tuesday
Six deaths related to COVID-19 reported Tuesday There were five deaths reported in the 80-years-old and over age group with two in Regina and the South East and one in the Saskatoon zone. One reported death in the Central West zone was in the 60 to 69 age group. The number of deaths in the province has grown to 225. There were 309 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the province on Tuesday. The North Central zone, which includes Prince Albert, reported 30 new cases. North Central 2, which is Prince Albert, has 283 active cases. North Central 1, which includes communities such as Christopher Lake, Candle Lake and Meath Park, has 141 active cases and North Central 3 has 140 active cases. There were also four cases with pending information added to the North Central zone. The current seven-day average is 300, or 26.4 cases per 100,000 population. The recovered number now sits at 16,490 after 412 more were reported. On Jan. 18 there were 1,957 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered, bringing the total number of vaccinations to 25,475. There were 36 doses administered in North Central yesterday. None were administered in the adjacent North East zone. There were 2,929 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Jan 18. COVID-19 recovered numbers to change over next few days According to a release, theMinistry of Health and Saskatchewan Health Authority continue to ensure that public reporting of COVID-19 cases reflects current, active case counts including those who require hospital care. They explained that currently the reporting database is being updated to reconcile a significant backlog in the number of recoveries and these will be reflected in the daily case statistics over the coming days. Reporting procedures will be amended to ensure such reconciliations are not required going forward. The data reconciliation includes updates to active cases in the following areas: 21 days past their test positive date or date when their symptoms first appeared - approximately 588 cases, 15-20 days past their test positive date or date when their symptoms first appeared - approximately 567 cases and 11-14 days past their test positive date or date when their symptoms first appeared - approximately 882 cases. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince Albert Daily Herald
Trump blocks Venezuelans' deportation in last political gift
CARACAS, Venezuela — With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President Donald Trump shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation Tuesday night, rewarding Venezuelan exiles who have been among his most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration. Trump signed an executive order deferring for 18 months the removal of more than 145,000 Venezuelans who were at risk of being sent back to their crisis-wracked homeland. He cited the “deteriorative condition” within Venezuela that constitutes a national security threat as the basis for his decision. “America remains a beacon of hope and freedom for many, and now eligible Venezuelan nationals in the U.S. will receive much-needed temporary immigration relief,” Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican of Florida, said in a statement praising the decision. The last-minute reprieve — in sharp contrast to Trump’s hardline immigration policies the past four years — capped a busy final day in office that also saw Trump issue a sweeping new round of financial sanctions targeting the alleged front man of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and tighten controls to keep spying technology out of the hands of the Venezuelan military. But ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday, far greater attention was focused on the president-elect’s choice to be secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who during his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing in Washington showed continued support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Blinken, in his first comments on Venezuela, said he would continue recognizing Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president and indicated he has no illusions of an eventual dialogue with Maduro, who he called a “brutal dictator.” Still, the veteran diplomat expressed frustration with the results of current U.S. approach, which hasn’t shaken Maduro’s grip on power or led to free and fair elections. He said there is room for fine tuning sanctions and better co-ordination with allied nations to restore democracy to the crisis-stricken South American nation. “The hard part is that for all these efforts, which I support, we obviously have not gotten the results that we need,” Blinken said. The Trump administration was the first of now more than 50 countries in the world to recognize Guaidó as Venezuela’s president shortly after the young lawmaker rose up to challenge Maduro’s rule two years ago. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo spoke Monday by phone with Guaidó, expressing his “personal respect and appreciation” to the opposition leader for his “commitment to the cause of freedom,” the State Department said in a statement. Venezuela, a once wealthy oil-producing nation, has fallen into economic and political crisis in recent years that has seen a flood of more than 5 million residents flee a breakdown in public services and shortages including a lack of running water, electricity and gasoline. Most have migrated to other parts of Latin America. But an estimated 350,000 are believed to reside in the U.S., and about 146,000 of them have no legal status, according to the Center for Migration Studies in New York. More than 700 Venezuelans have been removed from the U.S. since 2018, while 11,000 more are under deportation proceedings, according to the TRAC immigration data base of Syracuse University. For years, Venezuelans, with bipartisan support, have been clamouring for so-called temporary protected status to no effect as Trump has tried to end the program for migrants from six other countries, including Haiti, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Trump’s order provides similar protections, including protection from deportation and the right to work, but was still met by resistance by some Democrats who want Biden to introduce legislation providing additional safeguards. “Our community will not be fooled and used for political games anymore,” said Leopoldo Martinez, the first Venezuela-born member of the Democratic National Committee. In the latest round of sanctions trying to pressure Maduro out, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on three individuals, 14 businesses and six ships. All are accused of helping the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA evade earlier U.S. sanctions designed to stop the president from profiting from crude sales. The sanctions target people and businesses linked to Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman who U.S. officials say is the front man for Maduro responsible for everything from the importation of food to the export of the nation's crude. Saab was arrested on a U.S. warrant last year in the African nation of Cape Verde on what Maduro says was an official mission to Iran to purchase supplies. He is now fighting extradition to Miami, where he faces corruption charges. Maduro’s government blasted the sanctions as another act of “imperialist aggression” aimed at destroying Venezuela’s ability to meet its own needs through oil sales after four years of attacks from the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Commerce also announced measures Tuesday to block U.S. technology from being used by military intelligence in nations including China, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela. Such stiff measures have become an almost routine feature of the outgoing administration's hardline approach to Venezuela, which has proven popular with exile Latino voters in Florida. ___ Associated Press writer Scott Smith reported this story in Caracas and AP writer Joshua Goodman reported from Miami. AP writers Adriana Gomez Licon and Gisela Salomon in Miami contributed to this report. Scott Smith And Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press
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Grey’s Anatomy season 13 episode 17 review: Maggie’s revelation
Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy season 13 review March 24, 2017
Within this Grey’s Anatomy season 13 episode 17 review, we’re going to have a lot of conversation about Maggie. Specifically, we’re speaking here in terms about some of the terrible, heart-wrenching news that came out in regards to her mother.
Going into the episode, what she knew was that her mother was getting surgery. However, she thought it was for plastic surgery and not breast cancer. After she tried to balk at confessing the truth, eventually Jackson convinced her mom that she needed to tell Maggie the truth; otherwise, he was not going to be altogether interested in operating on her.
With that, she finally came clean. Everything started to come out, and Maggie struggled with the reveal. She didn’t know what to say to her mother, but eventually, she determined that she wanted to be there for every aspect of her care, including her surgery. Her coming to grips with that was a tough process, and it also produced one of the most cringe-worthy moments of the hour as DeLuca decided that this was the right time to tell her that he was in love with Jo.
Side note: Where in the world is Karev these days? He’s back within the world of the Grey Sloan, but the man’s practically a ghost.
The latest on Owen and Amelia
Tremendous performances from Caterina Scorsone and Kevin McKidd as we saw the two work to navigate the Amelia – Owen relationship, which remains stuffed full of flaws. Their biggest one may just be empathy. They both have a clear picture of what their life should be, but not what the other person may want that said life to be. They have to start to see each other’s side. They haven’t done that so far, and it’s proving to be incredibly damaging.
There were two signs that a thawing of the ice could be coming. It seemed to be Amelia telling Owen that their life could be imperfect even with a child that got the idea into his head. Meanwhile, for Amelia it seemed to be the devotion that an elderly couple (including a renowned doctor) had for each other that made her question if getting away with from the situation was the right move.
Happier romantic news
Are Meredith and Riggs closer to being together? We are starting to see things get to that point after Meredith finally told Nathan to ask her for dinner. This isn’t a guarantee of anything, but a step in the right direction for sure.
This was certainly a heartbreaking episode for Maggie, but we do think that the journey was worth it. This was another powerful, well-written episode, and we’re beyond excited to see where the show goes from here. (Granted, we are very worried for Maggie’s mom.) Grade: B+.
Next time on Grey’s Anatomy season 13
If you head over here, you can take a look at a new preview for everything that is coming up next! Ellen Pompeo will be directing the new installment of the show, and that’s something that you can go ahead and be excited about.
What is your personal Grey’s Anatomy season 13 episode 17 review? Share now in the comments! (Photo: ABC.)
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Interview: Jason Hardy
Posted by Runeslinger on November 5, 2016 · Leave a Comment
I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity a few weeks ago to conduct a brief Q&A with Catalyst Game Labs’ Jason Hardy. Considering his many roles as writer, editor, and Shadowrun line developer, our interview covered a lot of ground. Most of the Q&A – as well as quite a few other interesting interviews and information – are available for download here, in the Aethercon V Convention Program. I thought, however, that people might enjoy getting to read the interview in its entirety, and so here it is:
Q: Now well into SR5’s run, with the classic core rule book areas complete (Grimoire, Chrome, Gear, Matrix, Riggers, Critters), and the release of an alternate setting (Court of Shadows) this year, what are your top priorities for the coming year for both the core line and Anarchy?
Jason Hardy: It’s all still about giving toys to players. With the core books, the focus is on how to give more options and resources to players, and that focus remains the same; we are just looking at different ways to do it. Anarchy is a good example, since it offers a new way to play Shadowrun. We have the Sixth World Tarot coming out soon, and we will be working on a book to examine different ways to use that deck in your game, integrating it in ways that help the fantastic visuals add to the fun of a game. We also have a book called Cutting Aces, which will help players learn how to do con jobs, and provide tools to work that angle of the shadows. And one project I’m especially eager to get working on is The Complete Trog, a book full of guides and tools to playing troll and ork characters. It’s an idea I’ve been wrestling with for a while, trying to figure out the best ways to make it useful, and I think we have developed some interesting angles to make this a book that will be fun to read but also useful in people’s games.
Q: You have expressed an interest in the past in releasing compact, digital-only releases for SR5, such as the Touring the Stars books for Battletech, how has the interest taken/been taking shape?
JH: The ebook line has been a great place for us to try weird things and experiment, and some books like The Way of the Adept and Gun H(e)aven have been really successful. It’s been a slow year for ebooks due to other commitments, but they’re about to start up again, and one thing I’m anxious to see is a series of books exploring Morocco in the Sixth World, because we’ve never fleshed that part of the world out before. I love seeing how these experiments come together, and I’m anxious to put it in the hands of our players.
Q: A large-scale errata project is in the works for Shadowrun, which at the time of this interview has already produced an update to the core rules with a master index. Looking back over the line as it stands now, what are you proudest of in this edition? Have there been any surprises for you in the way things have come together, or appear in hindsight?
JH: I’m proudest of the way we made parts of the rules smoother, faster, and more integrated while still keeping the depth of Shadowrun rules. SR5 is a big rulebook, but that’s what we set out to do—make a game that gives you a detailed universe of options and a way to simulate them. I think the game is deep, but also more approachable than previous versions and, in its core mechanic, easy to learn. I like that combination.
I think the biggest surprise to me is how many directions we can take things. In some way the core rulebook sets a strong pattern for how things like weapon and vehicles will be going forward, but in other ways it takes preliminary steps into parts of the world that can be later taken in directions I didn’t expect. Things like the life modules character creation system in Run Faster and the design of the foundations of the Matrix in Data Trails were not things I expected, but they were the results of creative writers taking the ball and running with it in ways I had not thought of.
Q: In many collaborative endeavors, compromise is necessary in order to complete a project. Looking back at your time with Catalyst, what have been some of the more challenging but ultimately worthwhile collaborations?
JH: The first one I think of was the action point initiative system we were working on for SR5. It had some really good advantages—it flattened the curve a little between really fast and slower players, and it also didn’t make slower characters sit and do nothing while other players took three or four actions. On top of that, it allowed for the introduction of interrupt actions, things players could do to change their course as combat went along, opting for defense possibilities if things seemed difficult. I liked a lot of things about it.
But then we playtested it, and it was slow. So sloooow. And the very last thing Shadowrun combat needs is something that slowed it down. I liked it, but I knew it had to go. The freelancers and I brainstormed, and we developed something that worked smoother and faster while keeping some of the advantages of the action point system. To get to that better thing, I had to let go of the action point idea that I liked.
That sort of thing happens with almost every book. Anarchy is full of ideas from me and the listed writers and designers. Sometimes my arguments won out, sometimes others’ arguments did, sometimes we found middle ground. There are too many good ideas out there for one person to get their way all the time.
Q: For Catalyst, how do releases go from suggestion through to completion? What are the steps and time frames involved in getting a print release onto gaming tables around the world? In your opinion, what works best about this process, and what would you like to experiment with in the future?
JH: The first step is conceiving of a book an adding it to the schedule. I come up with ideas, or I get ideas from our writer pool, and I run them by management, they’ll offer their thoughts, and if we’re all still jazzed by the concept, it goes on the schedule.
Next I draw up a project spec, which summarizes and outlines the project. It has a broad vision of what the book should be, along with a chapter outline and some other elements. Once that document is approved, it goes out to freelance writers, who pitch for the parts they want to write. Pitches come to me, and I select who will write what.
I also write up art notes for the book and send them to our art director, who applies his expertise to making them work better, then sends them out to selected artists.
I usually write some portions of the books, and I offer feedback and thoughts to writers as they move ahead. They also collaborate and communicate on the information going into the books. Then they turn the writing into me, editors, playtesters, and I review it, and it gets sent to layout. Art, likewise, is reviewed as it comes in, then sent to layout when completed.
Laid-out chapters are sent to proofers, and changes are applied. We review again once or twice, then at that point, we have a book! It’s sent to print and electronic bookstores, and we’re done!
Ideally this process takes place over a half a year or so, and multiple books are in different phases of the process at the same time. Building more lead time into the schedule is something we keep wanting to do more of, but it’s not easy—projects have ways of running into difficulties, which makes it tough to keep everything moving and get things ahead of schedule.
As a virtual company, with employees and freelancers scattered everywhere, we’re always looking at different tools to make collaboration work better. InCopy has been great for entering proofing comments, Basecamp helps collaborate on projects, but we are on the alert for other tools that can help communication and collaboration go smoother.
Q: In your own gaming, what have been able to play of late? How much time do you have for the hobby as a participant, and what is your group like?
JH: I’m lucky in that the core of my group is my family—me, my wife, and teenage son. We have a few different sets of friends we play with at different times. Much of the summer was given to Anarchy playtesting, but we also have been playing various flavors of D&D with different friends. I also love board games, and we have a large collection I play with family and a whole rotating group of friends, SR freelancers, demo agents, and anyone else we can find who wants to play.
Q: Online Conventions, such as AetherCon and BrigadeCon, are growing in number, sophistication, and size. How do you see Catalyst’s involvement in these events changing in the future?
JH: Tough to say—organizing cons is not my specialty, and I know even less about online cons. My main goal in any activity like this is to find some ways I can make things interesting for gamers. So if being on panels is useful, I’ll be in panels. If running games is desired, I’ll run games. I’m flexible!
Q: If you were to launch a new SR campaign with a group of newcomers to both it and the hobby, how would you approach it?
JH: I’d do it with Shadowrun: Anarchy. I think the ease of learning it, combined with the chance of every player to contribute to the story, plus the flexibility in keeping the story moving instead of worrying about applying the rules with exact precision, is great for newcomers. Plus, when I’ve played it before, players did things like sliding under a charging gigantic bear, then attacking it from behind, and filling elevators with helium so everyone had to talk in a high-pitched voice for a round. It gets weird, is what I’m saying, but in a fun way.
Q: What do you think is the most overlooked element of the game line from your perspective?
JH: That’s tough to say, as our fans do a great job of picking out just about every detail we put into things. But there are some clues and hints of things going on and moving forward that sometimes don’t fully sink in. For example, I think there was some attention given to the mentions we gave to the Sixth World Tarot before we came out with a tarot deck, but I think a lot of the references flew under the radar—which is kind of how we wanted it. Also, to be both really vague and self-promoting at the same time, I think there were some events at the end of my most recent novel, Undershadows, that will interest longtime fans, but we need to get the book in more hands so they can see what happened and how it relates to one of our ongoing plot lines.
I hope that you have enjoyed this brief glimpse into how Jason does what he does, and the hints of future developments that he has dropped for us. My thanks go out to the organizers of Aethercon for arranging the interview, and I wish them all the best for their extensive online convention which runs from November 11 -13th.
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NorthWestern Corp. (NASD:NWE) Seasonal Chart
NWE Relative to the S&P 500
NWE Relative to the Sector
Analysis of the NorthWestern Corp. (NASD:NWE) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of November 15 and a Sell Date of March 13 has resulted in a geometric average return of 2.73% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 16 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 12 of those periods. This is a good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 16 years by an average of 3.34% per year.
The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Utilities sector, which runs from July 23 to October 3. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Utilities Sector Seasonal Chart.
NorthWestern Corp provides electricity and natural gas services in the Upper Midwest and Northwest of the U.S. in the states of Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The primary segments of the company include Electric operations, which operates only in Montana and South Dakota, and Natural Gas operations, which operates in all three states. The company uses thermal, wind, hydro, or renewable energy in varying quantities, depending on the location of the facilities, in order to generate power. The company derives the majority of retail electric utility revenue from commercial and residential sales.
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No toxicity observed in a short-term study (OECD 202) with Daphnia magna at loadings up to 1000 mg/L.
In this study the test substance was stirred in water in the usual way (1000 rpm) prior to exposure to the daphnids.
EC50/LC50 for freshwater invertebrates:
1 000 mg/L
The test substance is covered by the category approach of methylenediphenyl diisocyanates (MDI). Hence, data of the category substances can be used to cover this endpoint. Although 3 aquatic invertebrate studies are available, two of them are considered unreliable. These unreliable tests (Rhone-Poulenc, 1977) were done with 4,4'-MDI, as they mainly tested the hydrolysis product, 4,4'-MDA. In both studies acute toxicity values were found to be greater than 500 mg/L for Daphnia magna and Limnea stagnalis, respectively.
The study of Caspers et al (1986) was performed with polymeric MDI and contained two different experiments, following the OECD 202 protocol. In one experiment, PMDI was dispersed into water by high speed shearing (24,000 rpm) instead of the usual stirring (magnetic, 1000 rpm). This gave a 24h-EC50 of 129.7 mg/L, which was almost certainly due to the significantly increased production of 4,4'-methylenedianiline (MDA), a substance which is known to be relatively toxic to daphnids. It may be considered that the 24h-EC50 of 129.7 mg/L is irrelevant because the dispersing method used in this one experiment does not reflect a situation that might occur in the real environment. The second experiment used the normal stirring (1000 rpm) and gave a 24h-EC50 > 1000 mg/L. The result of the short-term toxicity test (24h-EC50 >1000 mg/L) (Caspers et al, 1986) was corroborated with the long-term mecocosm studies (Heimbach, 1993), where no effects were seen on zooplankton at loadings up to 10,000 mg/L. Although only a 24h value for aquatic invertebrates is available, this value is considered to be conclusive enough for this endpoint. Due to the rapid reaction with water (hydrolysis T1/2 = 20 days), any attempt to determine the aquatic toxicity, will be influenced by the toxicity of the hydrolysis products.
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Morphy: Move By Move - Zenon Franco
Morphy: Move By Move by Zenon Franco
Paul Morphy is a chess legend and without doubt one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His understanding of the game was years ahead of his time and in his era he was easily the best player in the world. His chess career was brief but brilliant and he influenced all the great champions who came after him. His legacy includes a treasure trove of wonderful strategic and attacking games which are highly instructive for all aspiring chess players. In this book, Grandmaster Zenón Franco examines in detail Morphy’s chess style, selects and studies his favourite Morphy games, and demonstrates how we can all improve our chess by learning from Morphy’s masterpieces.
Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.
Learn from the games of a chess legend
Important ideas absorbed by continued practice
Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study
Zenón Franco is a Grandmaster from Paraguay, now living in Spain. He represented Paraguay, on top board, in seven Chess Olympiads, and won individual gold medals at Lucerne 1982 and Novi Sad 1990. He’s an experienced trainer and has written numerous books on chess.
ISBN: 9781781943618, Everyman Chess
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D'Eriq King is the key to Miami's hopes for success in 2020
By TIM REYNOLDS - Sep. 01, 2020 11:59 AM EDT
FILE - Miami defensive lineman Gregory Rousseau (15) celebrates with head coach Manny Diaz in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Pittsburgh, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in Pittsburgh. Miami won 16-12. The Hurricanes open the season Sept. 10 at home against UAB, with Miami looking for much better play from the offense in 2020. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Miami coach Manny Diaz waited until about a week before the start of training camp before he announced that D’Eriq King would be the team’s starting quarterback.
It was a formality.
From the moment King announced that he was transferring to Miami last winter, it has been certain that he was taking over the starting job. And if there’s a primary reason why the Hurricanes have hope for more points this season, it’s the dual-threat former Houston quarterback who is expected to breathe new life into an offense that ranked 98th out of 130 teams nationally in yards per game in 2019.
“He’s electric. He’s dynamic,” Miami offensive line coach Garin Justice said. “It seems like the guys have a lot of confidence when he’s behind center taking those snaps. I know that anytime you feel confidence and belief in a quarterback, for some reason you play better.”
King left Houston after four games last fall, taking advantage of the rule that allows players to appear in that many contests and still redshirt to preserve eligibility. He announced his plan to transfer in January and Miami rolled out the welcome mat right away.
He has done something no other quarterback in the top level of college football has ever accomplished, throwing for at least one touchdown and running for at least one touchdown in each of his last 15 games — breaking a record held by Florida great Tim Tebow.
To put that in context, Miami has had a player throw and run for a score in the same game 15 times in the last 10 years.
“A lot of times guys look at a quarterback like myself just as a runner,” said the 5-foot-11, 195-pound King. “I love playing teams that want me to throw the ball because I know I can do that, and I know I can do it pretty well.”
He comes to Miami at a turbulent time in so many ways.
On the field, the Hurricanes are coming off a 6-7 season and were the only team to be shut out in a bowl game. More importantly, of course, King’s arrival coincides with the world trying to cope with a coronavirus pandemic and at a time of social unrest in America largely because of the outcry over police brutality and racial injustice -- topics he has spoken out about.
“My dad used to always tell me you have to prove you can play the position being a Black quarterback,” King said. “There’s a lot of stigmas out there that guys like me like to run all the time, can’t throw the ball. I just play football. I don’t worry about that. ... I’m big on racial injustice. I’m a young Black man in America.”
A look at Miami’s 2020 season:
OFFENSE TROUBLES
Put simply, the Hurricanes have to be much better with the ball. They were 90th in scoring and 120th in rushing offense last season, but the most damning stat was ranking 129th nationally — out of 130 teams — in third down conversions.
DEFENSE STRENGTH
Even without projected first-round pick Gregory Rousseau, who opted out of the season and signed with an agent to prepare for the 2021 draft, Miami has playmakers on the defensive side of the ball. Temple transfer defensive end Quincy Roche joins a stout defensive line, Zach McCloud returns for a fifth year to lead the linebackers and there is depth in the secondary.
King was a huge get, and so was transfer kicker Jose Borregales — who played a big role in FIU’s stunning upset win over Miami last season. The Hurricanes used three kickers last season, lost at least three games in large part because of kicking miscues and missed eight field goals from 40 yards or closer. Borregales made 19 of his final 23 field-goal tries in 2019.
The Hurricanes will not permit students at their first two home games — including the Sept. 26 annual rivalry game with Florida State — because of virus concerns, and losing Rousseau is a big blow. Plans for those first two games at Hard Rock Stadium call for crowds to be limited to 13,000 fans. But for the most part Miami has gotten through camp as planned, in part because university president Dr. Julio Frenk has experience dealing with pandemics and outbreaks. “We are very fortunate to have him,” athletic director Blake James said.
SCHEDULE SCRAMBLE
Miami was supposed to open at home against Temple (the school Diaz left without coaching a game to take over the Hurricanes when Mark Richt retired) and visit Michigan State. Those games were called off by the pandemic, as was a matchup with Wagner. The only nonconference game that lasted was the one with UAB, which is now Miami’s opener on Sept. 10.
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Peace, love and “Soul Train”
By Trevor Ballanger
The stage is dark as anxious dancers stand before a series of crackling light bulbs. The music starts, the cameras begin to roll, and it’s time for “Soul Train.”
That scene was repeated many times since Oct. 2, 1970, when “Soul Train” first burned through TV screens in a flurry of neon pastels, afros and bellbottom jeans. Disco music pulsed on the stage, infecting viewers with a groove that would set a standard for pop culture history.
At the heart of each episode was its creator, the late Don Cornelius, who hosted the show from its premiere in 1970 until 1993. Because of its growing success, the show’s headquarters were relocated to its eventual home in Los Angeles by 1971. At the time, “American Bandstand” was the primary rival against any African-American TV show, something that made “Soul Train” important to many people. It exemplified an era where the importance of self-expression tore down barriers of exclusion. Through outrageous apparel, eccentric dance moves and most notably the music, “Soul Train” was a symbol of change.
“It took off,” said former “Soul Train” dancer Diana Hicks. “It always had its popularity. Before its time, it was very unique because there was nothing else that really competed with that show.”
According to Derek Fleming, another former dancer, it was overwhelming to see a show come out that was directed toward African-American youth. It was important to him because it was one of the few times he got to see black people on TV. He grew up in a predominantly white area of Orange County, Calif., but the show became accepted by all races.
“To me, it was cultural as much as it was a dance show,” Fleming said. “When we saw ‘Soul Train,’ everyone was excited about it. It was exotic. At that time, you didn’t see that.”
Having musical TV like MTV and BET today probably wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for “Soul Train,” said Monica Hirston O’Connell, executive director of the Center for Black Music Research. “Soul Train” provided a platform for monumental artists who otherwise wouldn’t have been accepted on another series. It was an unlikely stepping-stone for artists to receive a broader audience and acclaim.
“There were the big ones that might have gotten the gigs on ‘American Bandstand’ like Michael Jackson,” O’Connell said. “But there were all these black artists that were really not going to bet the opportunity to perform on these mainstream venues.”
One weekend of filming would cover four episodes worth of shows that were scheduled to air every weekend. Fleming said Cornelius would step outside and handpick each dancer, primarily women. Hopefuls would show up in large groups outside of the studio, dressed for attention in an effort to be selected as part of that weekend’s crew. Meanwhile, dancing regulars, or “stars,” were able to walk in without needing identification.
The spirit of the show was brought to life by its star dancers. Tamechi Toney Briggs, dancer and costume designer of “Soul Train,” said the musicians were friendly with the dancers, and they shared a mutual respect and love for one another’s talents. Artists like Smokey Robinson and Rick James would embrace the dancers as if they knew them. Dancing regulars were celebrities in their own right and were approached many times by fans of the show in social situations. At times, they would get together outside of work, mostly at private parties or discos.
Club Paradise and The Highway Man were popular LA clubs that the “Soul Train” group would attend with legendary celebrity guests like Diana Ross and Elton John. Hicks said the entertainers of that era were much more down-to-earth and approachable than those today. She said being on set in March 1984 to film a tribute episode with Marvin Gaye stands out in her mind. The experience of working with Gaye was significant to “Soul Train,” she said, because he died soon after filming, affecting the lighthearted nature of the show.
“Everybody was so sad about that,” Hicks said. “It was just the experience of us doing that whole tribute to him, then you look at it and realize how significant that is because that would be his last one.”
Dancing for “Soul Train” created what some would come to call a family. The working conditions were long—more than 10 hours per day—but being tired didn’t stop the dancers from enjoying themselves. Fleming said their breaks were similar to those of the movie “Fame.” Together, they would dance through the streets and on top of cars outside the studio like a real-life musical number. He said it was during these periods they were able to bond and grow comfortable with each other.
Juliette Hagerman, a featured “Soul Train” dancer in the late ‘80s, said there was very little animosity between dancers but jealousies would sometimes arise for a prominent spot on stage. As a featured dancer, she was entitled to one of those spots. Hagerman said one dancer confronted her after being asked to move so Hagerman could take her regular spot on stage, but they later resolved the situation and became the best of friends.
The costumes for the show were just as culturally significant to the time as the influential dance and musical sequences. Hagerman moved to LA from Chicago at 20 years old to dance on the show. She said the fashions were unlike anything she’d seen in Illinois. It was empowering to see people who looked like her wearing clothes that were both “wild” and “different.”
Briggs also began as a dancer but later found a passion in designing the show’s outfits. While the studio approved the designs, it was the dancers who paid for their own costumes. During his time on the show, he designed thousands of pieces for “Soul Train,” but one article in particular would set the bar on uniqueness.
MC Hammer took an interest in a pair of pants that Briggs designed, which would later become his signature look. However, the parachute pants almost went undiscovered because of one small detail—they were a mistake. As a first attempt by Briggs to create a regular pair of drawstring pants, they were sewn by hand and almost discarded until he tried them on. The baggy design became a favorite among “Soul Train” dancers and fans alike.
“I had no idea that the clothes would take a run in the way that they did,” Briggs said. “My goal was to make sure that you got a fantasy when you saw the fashions. That’s what I did for the show.”
Style was something “Soul Train” never lacked, but as the music of the era began to evolve, so did its stars. Music shifted into hip-hop and rap during the ‘90s, and dance moves changed along with the fashions. Briggs said he wishes it would have retained its originality, which is partially why he left. Hicks said it was never a matter of anyone getting fired, as much as it was a coming-of-age decision. Years later, many of the dancers attributed their success to Cornelius, who died Feb. 1 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
O’Connell said Cornelius was able to create a show exactly the way he envisioned it. His work opened doors for black music culture, and she said it’s easy to see the influence of that in creating new genres of culture.
Cornelius had a reputation for being very driven during the filming of the shows. Hagerman said he was very powerful but very much a father figure who assisted in furthering her career as an entertainer. According to Fleming, Cornelius was a quiet businessman, but he remembers seeing him at his happiest and most vulnerable. During filming he was very serious, but elsewhere was warm and inviting. Hicks said he was a completely different person outside of the studio, sometimes inviting people out to dinner.
By 2006, viewer ratings had dropped substantially. The show was being aired in undesirable Saturday afternoon and midnight timeslots and was cancelled later that year. Briggs said he was literally in tears after hearing the news and canceled his cable service. The only thing he said gave him comfort was that so much pop culture history had been documented on the program. Honoring the tradition of the show, BET began hosting the Soul Train Awards in 2009 to celebrate artists from past to present.
Through the years, the “Soul Train” family has remained in contact, meeting occasionally for reunions. Hicks said there is nothing she would change about her time on “Soul Train” and would relive the experience if she could.
“That’s the funny thing about fun,” Hicks said. “Sometimes when you’re having it, you don’t realize how much of it you’re having. At the end of the day, where else could I have gotten that?”
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Emaar Properties denies plans to sell observation deck of Burj Khalifa
Filing by Emaar says it plans to raise financing against cashflows of the tourist attraction
Earlier report by Reuters said that Standard Chartered had been hired to advise on the sale
Emaar Properties has denied reports that it is looking to sell the observation deck of the world’s tallest skyscraper – Burj Khalifa, according to a filing by the company to the Dubai Financial Market, where its shares trade.
Emaar said in the statement: “The company is currently considering a structured transaction wherein financing is being raised against the cashflows of the At the Top business. This financing is being raised in the normal course of business. Once the transaction is finalised and confirmed, the appropriate disclosures will be made.”
Earlier, a report by Reuters which quoted unnamed sources, said the developer was planning to sell At the Top and had appointed Standard Chartered to advise it on the sale of the tourist attraction.
The report had said that At the Top generates around AED 600-700 million a year and the sale could raise up to AED 3.67 billion for Emaar.
Earlier this year Emaar hired Standard Chartered for the sale of its district cooling business, and in 2018 for the sale of five hospitality assets, which were bought by Abu Dhabi National Hotels.
Cavendish Maxwell is the MENA region’s leading firm of property consultants and chartered surveyors. If you are looking for professional real estate consultation or advice on property related matters, please view our services.
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State union pushing for teacher raises during upcoming session
by: Gabby Gonzalez
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - As lawmakers prepare to return to the Statehouse, there is a focus on what will be done to keep strong teachers in Indiana classrooms.
While the state teachers union is pushing for raises in 2019, it is unclear whether the governor will support action on this right away.
Governor Eric Holcomb outlined his legislative priorities last week. His list includes increasing K-12 funding, but there is no specific mention of teacher compensation. On Monday morning, the Indiana State Teachers Association president shared what their group will be aiming for in the upcoming session.
"We need to pay competitive wages to not only attract quality teachers but to keep them," said Teresa Meredith, ISTA president and teacher. "Right now, that’s not happening."
Meredith said teachers are leaving for neighboring states where salaries are better.
"This issue can't wait," Meredith said. "We expect action in 2019."
Gov. Holcomb share similar concerns during his press event last week but stopped short of calling for immediate change.
"We look to over the next two biennium, 2019 and 2021, get the state of Indiana in a place where we can provide a significant increase to our teacher salaries," Holcomb said. "We want to do it right and it’s a big number. We have some ground to make up here."
But, Meredith emphasized educators feel a sense of urgency with this.
"Elected leaders must do more to declare teacher compensation a priority," Meredith said.
According to the National Education Association, Indiana teachers had an average salary of $54,308 in 2017. Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois all have higher average salaries. Indiana is ahead of Kentucky when it comes to teacher pay.
But, the request for teachers raises from ISTA comes at a time when the state is also hoping to address the finances of the struggling Department of Child Services.
"We do know there will be serious pull in addressing those needs in DCS," Holcomb said. "We can’t look the other way."
The ISTA president said they will take the lead from their members when it comes to any demonstrations like walkouts, depending on how things develop at the Statehouse.
Just before 7 p.m., police were called to the 6700 block of East 32nd Street. When they arrived, they entered PNC Industries where they found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was later pronounced dead.
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Be Careful About Whose Interpretations You Accept As Truth.
Where do you go to ground your assessments about what will happen in the future when you plan for your business? Who do you listen to…whose interpretations of the future do you accept, and commit to think and act from?
Recently, at the NALP CEO Forum, the enterprise value specialists at Ceibass had a chance to listen to Brian Beaulieu –one of the most accurate forecasters of the economic outlook in the USA.
Brian Beaulieu has been making economic predictions for the Institute for Trend Research (ITR) for over thirty years and is its executive director. He takes the best and most accurate business cycle trend analysis and applies it to practical real-world solutions with extraordinary effect.
Mr. Beaulieu’s opinions have been sought by all of the most prestigious news outlets in North America and around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Barron’s, USA Today, CNBC TV, FOX Business TV, Knight Ridder News Services, Reuters, CBS Radio, Kera TV, Canadian TV and many others. He regularly contributes columns and opinions to national trade publications.
“Brian is very engaging for an economist. Of the 15+/- trends that ITR tracks, in 2018 their lowest success rate was 97.4%. They cover national, global and in this instance Colorado economic trends,” said Tom Fochtman, Ceibass CEO. “Their insights are both factual and forward thinking. For example, they love Colorado in large part due to our 12.4% population growth. When you have strong growth like that, the population needs goods and services offered to them. Brian talked about the upcoming decade…very, very bullish. He insists that you must be in debt and investing in your companies & real estate because of the historic low interest rates that we have. Leverage yourself in a smart way.”
As a speaker and a consultant, Brian has provided valuable and practical advice to companies in need of domestic and global perspectives to increase profits. “Wisdom is knowing what interpretations of reality you are going to accept as truth,” added Tom Fochtman. “At Ceibass, we accept Brian’s valuable and practical advice to companies in need of domestic and global perspectives to increase profits through business cycle trend analysis, forecasting, and effective planning.”
For more information on Brian Beaulieu and Institute for Trend Reseach click here.
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Henry Thomas Net Worth of 1.5 Million Dollars
Henry Thomas is an American musician and actor with a net worth of 1.5 million. To have risen to prominence presumably as an actor, he's appeared in more than forty motion pictures. Born Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. on September nine, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas, he begun to act occasionally while joining the East Central High in San Antonio. As for the real beginning of his of the craft, he made it in the 1980s as a graduate of Blin College in Brenham. It was in 1982 he landed his best known role to date, playing Elliot Taylor for "E.T., the Extraterrestrial", a film by Steven Spielberg. Then, he proceeded to star in additional prominent films as Dagger and Cloak (1984), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) and Gangs of New York (2002). In addition to the above, he also came out in the 1994 film "Legends of the Fall", providing his best visible adult performance ever. In the mid to late 1990s, Thomas withdrew from acting to end up being musician, composer, and a singer to a band named "The Blue Heelers", a San Antonio, Texas band. The band dissolved in 1998, when Thomas moved to Los Angeles. But, Thomas continued writing songs that had been later soundtracks on some movies, including "Honey Baby" that featured 4 songs written by him. As for the personal life of his, Thomas married and divorced Kelly Hill and is currently hitched to Marie Zielcke. He's one kid.
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Henry Thomas Astrological Sign is Virgo
He Was Born in: Pig Year
Net Worth: $1.5 Million
Date of Birth: Sep 9, 1971
Height: 6 ft (1.85 m)
Profession: Actor, Musician
Zodiac Animal: Pig (Yin Wood)
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Brad Stevens' Boston Celtics will go without a captain for the 2017-18 season
It’s been three seasons since the Boston Celtics have had a captain and that streak will continue. At the Celtics’ open practice Sunday evening, Brad Stevens said that the captain “C” will not grace any Celtics jersey this year.
“We won’t name a captain,” Stevens said. “We’ll have leaders. They’ll all come to the front. We want all 15 guys to take ownership in being authentic leaders.”
This isn’t abnormal for Stevens, who has not named a captain since Rajon Rondo was traded during the 2014-15 season. Despite Isaiah Thomas’ heroics last year, there was no official captain on the squad.
“As I’ve said before, I think the biggest thing is that sometimes when you name a captain or name a few captains, you can disempower others as much as you empower captains,” Stevens said. “And I think the most important thing is that we all embrace what we do best and add to the team. And we all have a voice in that.”
It’s a smart move politically. Marcus Smart is the longest tenured player, but he is still on his rookie contract and not even a starter. Al Horford would be the natural choice, but that could complicate things with Kyrie Irving. Yet giving the role to Irving could have the converse consequence with regard to players like Horford. There is no easy choice like there was with Paul Pierce in the past, so going without a captain and putting the accountability of leadership on every player is a sensible move.
“I want the guys that are 20 years old to have ownership, to be able to put their signature on this thing, just as much as some of the older guys,” Stevens said. “Clearly the older guys are who we’ll lean on from an experience standpoint, but it’s important that everybody feels ownership in this.”
For the only player left with tenure, Smart said in a panel for the fans, “Being the longest tenured Celtics is an achievement in itself and I thank [the crowd] for that.”
Although he also then said, “It’s cold as crap in here,” in front of hundreds of children, so maybe Stevens has the right idea here.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Complete Edition is Nintendo Switch-Bound
The fantastic, monster-hunting action RPG will soon be able to come with you wherever you go.
June 11, 2019, 7:25 PM EDT
Geralt of Rivia is about to get a bit more portable. No, we aren't talking about Roach getting an upgrade, but rather that The Witcher is finally on its way to a Nintendo console! During the company’s E3 2019 showcase, fans received the news that the complete edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to Nintendo Switch. Such a release has been speculated about for some time, but on top of this confirmation, we also received a look at the game in action on the console, which you can see for yourself in the trailer above.
It’s no secret that the Switch doesn’t quite have as much horsepower as the other consoles, but this port is certainly looking respectable nonetheless. Plus, playing such an epic and memorable game in handheld mode certainly has its appeal as well. All things considered, this re-release should prove to be a very popular purchase given the critically-acclaimed nature of the title.
This complete edition will include all the content that was released throughout the game’s lifecycle. This includes two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, as well as smaller DLC additions such as new contracts, armor sets, and appearances. For those who haven’t played this monumental game by now, we can’t recommend it enough and this upcoming Switch release could be just the right time to finally give it a try if you showed up late to the party.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition will release sometime this year, although no specific date is listed at this time. Be sure to follow Dead Entertainment for all the latest news and updates on this release as well as The Witcher franchise in general, including the upcoming Netflix series.
Chris Morse
Programmer by day, writer by night. Having grown up surrounded by plenty of horror movies and video games, it only made sense for Chris to combine all of these passions into one place: Dead Entertainment. Whether he's working on designs, tinkering with the platform, or just writing up the latest horror news, he's sure to be hard at work keeping the wheels turning on this website no matter what time of day it is. When not coding or gaming, you can find him donning a Cheesehead and heading to the Midwest to cheer on his favorite NFL team, the Green Bay Packers. #GoPackGo
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Home • News • Google knows what we do online and may soon know everything else about us, too
Google knows what we do online and may soon know everything else about us, too
by Sam Harnet, KQED California Report
Google just wrapped up its yearly developers conference in Mountain View, and the company’s recent investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning were on full display. The biggest news of the conference revolved around the demonstration of Duplex, the AI behind the voice of Google Assistant.
Google played two conversations at the conference. In the first conversation, the Google Assistant booked a haircut appointment for its “client.” There were audible gasps from attendees of the conference — it was nearly impossible to tell that the Google Assistant was a robot and not a human. After showcasing its newest developments in AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said it will be a while before this product is available to the general public. The company will need to evaluate how it signifies to the humans on the other side of the conversation that they are indeed talking to a robot. Ethical implications and concerns abound.
The business opportunity of this AI is clear, though. Improvements in the artificial intelligence behind Google Assistant would make robots even more capable of completing tasks, which could be appealing to customers and boost sales. This would be a boon for Google, which is trying to position itself to be a major player in the next iteration of the online world: the Internet of Things.
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Comic-Con Wrap-Up: Digital
Foxtrot by Bill Amend notes the limitations of the iPad (originally published 3/21/2010)
Digital comics are gaining momentum as more people enjoy the convenience of downloading comics onto their tablet device and/or phone, and/or read them on their browser while they’re already at their computer. July has already seen a lot of announcements and Comic-Con, as expected, had a ton more. Here are the highlights:
Digital comics sales have doubled for the first six months of 2011, according to industry white papers presented by ICv2 Publisher and CEO Milton Griepp. Digital sales were estimated at less than one million in 2009, somewhere between $6 and $8 million in 2010, and will likely double that amount by the end of 2011. Despite fears of losing print readers to digital, the report states there’s little evidence to suggest a significant level of overlap between buyers in the two markets. Much of the growth is led by the strength of the iPad, with a lot of potential still expected from the Android and e-readers like the Kindle and Nook. Digital sales on PSP have mostly collapsed, likely due to a massive hacking incident on the Sony PlayStation network in April that resulted in the service being shut down for nearly a month and the compromise of millions of their users’ personal data. New additions to the PSP Digital Comics Store were discontinued earlier this month, although the program may get relaunched when Sony releases the PlayStation Vita, expected toward the end of the year. (ICv2)
Marvel Comics will begin transitioning to simultaneous print and digital releases (instead of waiting months to release the digital versions of their print comics) starting with this week’s Amazing Spider-Man #666, which kicks off the “Spider-Island” summer event, and the current X-Men event Schism. The Spider-Man family of titles will be released the same day and date in comic book stores and through web and mobile devices. Uncanny X-Men #1 and Wolverine & the X-Men #1 will follow in October and November. Marvel, the comics industry’s number one publisher, will look for more opportunities as titles hit good jumping-on points. (ICv2)
VizManga.com has launched from the largest US publisher of Manga, Viz Media. The site syncs with their iOS and Android apps, so manga bought at one can be read on the others. There is a 40% sale going until July 31 and the first chapter of each manga is available for free. There are currently over 40 series and over 300 volumes available, with more added each week. (Robot 6)
A collection of 39 Japanese publishers will launch JManga, a web portal to read manga online and interact with creators and fans, in August. Popular manga like One Piece and Naruto are expected to be part of the line-up, as well as more obscure titles that have never been licensed for US release. The cooperative initiative is intended to reverse shrinking sales that publishers feel are due to importing lag time, piracy, and the closing of Borders. (Anime News Network)
Top Shelf entered the digital space by launching over 70 graphic novels on the Comics+ app by iVerse Media. According to this interview with Robot 6, they want to have everything in their library that they can release digitally to be available by the end of the summer. They will also be launching on other digital distributors soon and will have their own apps, one for Top Shelf’s entire line and a Kids Club app for their all-ages material. They also have some books on the Kindle, Nook, iBooks, and Google eBookstore. (Top Shelf)
Panelfly will be relaunching their app as Panelfly Prime and Panelfly Plus beginning in early August. The two apps will enhance the now-standard comics reader experience with videos, news and social media integration within the comic, an experience they’re pitching as SuperMedia. Their recently released Burn Notice digital comic is a template for what they’re building. (Comic Book Resources)
Graphicly is adding bonus features and other enhancements to digital comics. Similar to DVD bonus features, the first batch includes audio commentary tracks by creators and trailers, with more to come. (The Couch)
LucasFilm OK’ed the digital release of Star Wars comics, so the Dark Horse Digital Store now has tons of Star Wars comics, with more to be added every week. Dark Horse Comics has been publishing Star Wars comics for 20 years now. Part of the release includes Marvel Comics’ 1977 adaptation of the original movie Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. (Dark Horse)
Manga publisher Square Enix is running a special sale on their online reader site. If you “like” their Facebook page or got a special URL at Comic-Con, you can get the first volume of any of their 15 series (including Fullmetal Alchemist) for free. Books are usually priced at $5.99. The deal is good until August 10. (Robot 6)
Posted in Bloggy-blogging, Dig Comics and tagged Amazing Spider-Man, Burn Notice, comics, Dark Horse, digital comics, Episode IV: A New Hope, Fullmetal Alchemist, Google eBooks, Graphicly, iBooks, ICv2, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iVerse, JManga, Kids Club, Kindle, LucasFilm, manga, Marvel Comics, Milton Griepp, Naruto, Nook, One Piece, Panelfly, Panelfly Plus, Panelfly Prime, PlayStation, PSP, Sony, Spider-Island, Square Enix, Star Wars, SuperMedia, Top Shelf, Uncanny X-Men, Viz, VizManga.com, Wolverine & the X-Men on July 25, 2011 by Corey Blake. Leave a comment
Digital Comics Update: Dark Horse launches Digital, NBM goes interactive, Nook gets Graphicly app, Archie translates digital to Spanish
Comic books continue their evolution into digital comics, where the sequential art form is available on mobile devices like the iPad and Android, game systems like the PSP, and web browsers. Expanding in distribution, getting more competitive with prices, and experimenting with interactivity – these are all good signs that digital comics might be growing from infant to toddler.
After some delays, Dark Horse Comics will launch their anticipated Dark Horse Digital program later today. The system was built in-house and uses a web-based system supplemented by apps for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The comics will be priced starting at $1.49 $0.99 (versus competing apps that have comics starting at $1.99), and will be available in bundles as though you’re buying a full graphic novel collection. The app will be free and come loaded with the first issue of Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction by Mike Mignola and John Byrne. There will also be five free comics available: the first issues of Criminal Macabre by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, Joss Whedon‘s Fray, Mike Mignola’s Abe Sapien: The Drowning, Gerard Way‘s Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, and Mass Effect: Redemption. The app will have hundreds of other comics for download, including issues of Conan, Joss Whedon’s Serenity, Eric Powell‘s The Goon and more. An Android app will follow.
Meanwhile on the Nook Color, Barnes & Noble has launched a new app store which includes three graphic novel apps from Graphic.ly: Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen, Mark Millar and JG Jones‘ Wanted, and Mark Waid‘s Irredeemable. All of the apps have been specially optimized for the Nook Color e-reader, which uses Google’s Android platform. Graphicly also has digital comics from major comics publishers available on the iPad, iPhone/iPad Touch and Android, on the web, Adobe Air, and Google’s Chrome browser app.
Dinosaurs Across America (iPad screenshot)
NBM Publishing and their all-ages Papercutz imprint has teamed up with TWP Interactive to produce what they are billing as the first interactive graphic novel, Dinosaurs Across America by Phil Yeh. (It’s not the first, but it’s still cool.) Dinosaurs Across America was first published as a traditional graphic novel in print in 2007. It was named one of the best 25 graphic novels of the year by School Library Journal and has won acclaim for its ability to teach geography to children. The new interactive edition allows the reader to zoom in on individual states, learn fun facts and play with puzzles. The interactive version is now available for $9.99 as an app for iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), and for $4.99 as an e-book on Koobits.
And finally, Archie Comics continues its aggressive pursuit of digital, launching Spanish language versions of some of their digital comics Monday. The comics are available on Archie Digital, as well as their iOS app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch provided by iVerse, and the Sony PSP. An Android app is coming soon. Further translations into French and Hindi are planned as well.
Posted in Bloggy-blogging, Dig Comics and tagged Abe Sapien, Android, Android Air, Apple, Archaia Comics, Archie Comics, Archie Digital, Barnes & Noble, Ben Templesmith, Boom! Studios, Brett Matthews, Chrome, Conan, Conan the Barbarian, Criminal Macabre, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Digital, David Petersen, digital comics, Dinosaurs Across America, e-reader, Eric Powell, Fray, Gabriel Ba, Gerard Way, Google, Graphic.ly, Hellboy, interactive graphic novel, iOS, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Irredeemable, iVerse, JG Jones, John Byrne, Josh Whedon, Karl Moline, Koobitz, Mark Millar, Mark Waid, Mass Effect, Mike Mignola, Mouse Guard, NBM Publishing, Nook, Nook Color, Papercutz, Peter Krause, Phil Yeh, Playstation Comics, PSP, Serenity, Steve Niles, The Goon, Top Cow, TWP Interactive, Umbrella Academy, Wanted, Will Conrad on April 27, 2011 by Corey Blake. Leave a comment
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Five Myanmar journalists freed from prison as part of mass amnesty
Bangkok, July 31, 2015–Five journalists jailed on anti-state charges in Myanmar were released on Thursday in a presidential amnesty of nearly 7,000 prisoners, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the journalists’ release but calls on Myanmar authorities to release all other journalists imprisoned in the country.
Journalist detained over Facebook post in Myanmar
March 2, 2015 9:06 AM EST
Bangkok, March 2, 2015–A journalist in Myanmar was detained by police on Friday in connection with a satirical image he posted on Facebook about renewed hostilities between government forces and an ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeastern Shan State, according to news reports. Aung Nay Myo was released today without charge, the reports said.
Obama: Burma must improve its media environment
Dear President Obama: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express its deep concern about the recent killing, jailing, and harassment of journalists in Burma. During your upcoming visit to the country on November 11-12, we urge you to impress upon Burmese President Thein Sein that future U.S. engagement will be predicated on a renewed and genuine commitment to press freedom.
Burma’s Irrawaddy threatened, hit by cyberattacks
October 3, 2014 11:57 AM EDT
Bangkok, October 3, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns recent threats and cyberattacks against The Irrawaddy, an independent media group dedicated to Burma news and analysis.
In a growing clampdown, three editors detained in Burma
July 23, 2014 12:49 PM EDT
Bangkok, July 23, 2014–Burmese authorities should drop national security-related charges brought against journalists and staff members of the Bi Mon Te Nay (Bi-Midday Sun) news journal, and release them from pre-trial detention immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Burma takes another step toward repressing its media
July 10, 2014 2:02 PM EDT
New York, July 10, 2014–Donor countries should bring diplomatic pressure on Burma’s government and reconsider their economic support for the country following Thursday’s sentencing of four journalists of a magazine and the publication’s chief executive to 10 years of hard labor in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Burma deports Australian reporter covering protests
New York, May 8, 2014–An Australian journalist covering protests in Burma was deported by authorities today, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the move.
Amid rising repression, Burmese journalist given jail term
Bangkok, April 7, 2014–A Burmese journalist was sentenced to one year in prison today on charges of “trespassing” and “disturbing an on-duty civil servant” while reporting a news story, according to local reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the verdict to be overturned on appeal.
Passage of Burma media bill would reverse free press gains
March 17, 2014 4:15 PM EDT
Dear President Thein Sein: We are writing to express our concern about shrinking press freedom in Burma and urge you to veto media legislation that was passed this month by your country’s parliament. The bill, which awaits your signature, maintains a censorship role for state authorities and threatens to reverse several of the gains achieved to date under your democratic reform program.
Burma clampdown gathers pace as legislation passed
In a clear step backwards for press freedom in Burma, new legislation will give the government censorship powers and the sole authority to issue and revoke news publication licenses. While the legislation enshrines into law broad press freedom guarantees, specific provisions will give the Ministry of Information ultimate power over what news is permissible for…
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U of T one of only eight universities globally to place in top 50 in all subject rankings: Times Higher Education
(photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)
The University of Toronto ranks highest in Canada in nine different subjects, and is one of only eight universities in the world to place in the top 50 across 11 subjects, according to new rankings by the prestigious Times Higher Education.
The 2019 World University Rankings by Subject ranked U of T among the top ten public universities globally in education, law and clinical, pre-clinical and health.
As well, Times Higher Education recognized U of T as the leader in Canada, with the university earning the top spot nationally for nine out of 11 subjects in a variety of disciplines, including arts and humanities, life sciences and engineering and technology.
“These results highlight the University of Toronto’s excellence across a wide range of subjects – this strength in individual disciplines positions us well to be a leader in multidisciplinary research and teaching,” said Vivek Goel, U of T’s vice-president of research and innovation.
U of T rose in four subject areas in this year’s rankings: computer science (to 18 from 22), social sciences (to 25 from 27), physical sciences (to 26 from 29), and clinical, pre-clinical and health (to 13 from 19).
Times Higher Education, a weekly magazine based in London, U.K., uses 13 indicators to rank the world’s universities. In its influential rankings of the world’s best universities, released in September, U of T rose one spot to 21st place – retaining its position as Canada’s top university and one of the top 10 publicly funded institutions in the world.
The publication’s subject rankings use the same indicators as the world university rankings, but the methodology is modified for each subject. Those indicators include teaching, research, citations and international outlook.
U of T continues to be the highest ranked Canadian university and one of the world’s top-ranked public universities in the five principal international rankings: Times Higher Education, QS World Rankings, Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, U.S. News Best Global Universities and National Taiwan University.
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‘We want our children in a Catholic school’
by Bob De Witt
Through changes and challenges, Lauren Little’s commitment to quality Catholic education has never wavered.
In 2017, when St. Mary of the Assumption School in Glenshaw merged with two other parish schools to form Blessed Trinity Academy, “it was a positive experience for us,” she recalled. “The whole family made friends. We can’t imagine our lives today without them.”
When the coronavirus pandemic struck last March, requiring students to learn online from home, Little said the teachers were “phenomenal.” Their dedication and creativity helped her daughter, Allison, and sons Connor and Collin, continue to grow in knowledge and faith.
“We would rather be in the classroom, but the kids didn’t miss a beat,” she said. “I was so impressed with our teachers.”
Little’s lifelong love of Catholic schools began with her days at Sacred Heart Elementary School in Pittsburgh, continuing at Oakland Catholic High School and then at St. Vincent College. She returned later to teach kindergarten at Sacred Heart, and last year served as a preschool aide at Blessed Trinity Academy.
“I couldn’t do my job without the strong support of parents like Lauren,” said principal Moira Regan Edmiston. “She says, ‘I’m with you, what can I do to help?’ It’s priceless.”
Edmiston sees the value of Catholic education in the kindness and caring that teachers and students show for others. “It’s at the core of our faith, to love one another,” she said. “I see it every day.”
Allison Little, who is about to enter seventh grade at Blessed Trinity Academy, loves the enrichment classes, especially cooking and learning how to make videos. Connor, entering fourth grade, enjoys art class and science experiments. Their brother Collin, who will be a first grader, likes reading and attending Mass with his 8th grade “Bulldog Buddy” mentor.
As the family gets ready for the upcoming school year, Lauren remains dedicated to Catholic education regardless of the teaching methods.
Above: The Little family, (front) Collin & Connor, (back) Allison, Lauren and Matthew
Right: Collin Little in 2019, getting ready for kindergarten at Blessed Trinity Academy
“Now more than ever, we want our children in a Catholic school,” she said. “We are with families who share the same beliefs and core values, and our faith continues to grow.”
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Mercedes-Benz Rastatt Plant to Invest 1 Billion Euros for Production of Next Generation Compact Cars
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The Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant will also produce the next generation of Mercedes-Benz compact cars. Between now and 2020, Daimler will invest around one billion euros in the further technological development and expansion of production at the location. At the same time, within the framework of the “Transformation Plan” for the Rastatt plant, the company and Works Council have agreed a package of measures that will lead to significant improvements in the location’s competitive position and ensure stable employment for the next years. This includes more flexible working time arrangements and overall cost savings in the triple-digit million euro range. In addition, the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant will create 250 new permanent jobs. The agreement will run until the end of 2024.
“With our transformation plan for the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant we have laid the foundation for the successful production of the next generation of our compact cars. We will achieve significant gains in flexibility and efficiency. At the same time, we will strengthen the role of the location as the lead plant for compact cars within our global production network”, said Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain Management.
Capacity utilization at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant, which has a workforce of around 6,500 employees, is running at a high level. In 2014, the plant posted a new production record of 292,784 vehicles and thus contributed significantly to the growth seen in the successful compact car segment: In 2014 unit sales grew by 24.7 percent to 463,152 vehicles of the A-Class, the B-Class, the CLA and the GLA. Mercedes-Benz has never before delivered so many compact cars in a single year. In addition, a new sales record was achieved in the first five months of 2015, with 215,148 vehicles sold. The success story of the Mercedes-Benz compact cars began in 1997 with the market launch of the A-Class. Since then, over four million customers have opted for an A-Class, B-Class, a CLA, or a GLA.
In line with the Mercedes-Benz 2020 growth strategy, the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant will significantly increase its production in the coming years. “The transformation plan for the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant has been pivotal for us as we could secure the production for our next generation compact cars. Our growth course will lead to significant improvements in economic efficiency and will secure employment at the location for the long term. The investment of around one billion euros provides is a clear proof, that we trust in the motivation and professional competence of the workforce at this location, which delivers top quality on a daily basis”, said Stefan Abraham, Site Manager of the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant.
Furthermore, the Rastatt plant will maintain the number of vocational training positions over several years and will offer trainees the opportunity for a permanent job after the successful completion of their programs. At present, the location trains 70 apprentices and dual university students each year. The agreement also includes extensive measures for improving ergonomic working conditions, including 250,000 euros per year that will be reserved from the investment total for ergonomic measures which can be implemented on short notice. Other measures include a health center, which is currently in the planning stage and will require further investments.
Ullrich Zinnert, Chairman of the Works Council of the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant: “With the significant investments, the permanent hires, and the conservation of our previous number of vocational training positions, the Rastatt location has been placed on a secured foundation for the future. We are glad, that we were able to push and agree upon these items. This is a very positive signal for the workforce. One particularly important issue for us are the investments to improve ergonomics and address the demographic change.”
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Current: U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $5.4 Million in CARES Act Funding to Capitalize Revolving Loan Fund to Help Small Businesses in Pennsylvania Respond to Coronavirus
U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $5.4 Million in CARES Act Funding to Capitalize Revolving Loan Fund to Help Small Businesses in Pennsylvania Respond to Coronavirus
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $5.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning & Development Commission, Oil City, Pennsylvania, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
“President Trump is working diligently every day to support our nation’s economy following the impacts of COVID-19 through the CARES Act,” said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “This investment will provide small businesses in Pennsylvania with the necessary capital to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic and, in turn, create a stronger and more resilient regional economy for the future.”
“This investment comes at a crucial time to help Pennsylvania’s and our nation’s economy come roaring back and provide hard-working Americans with new opportunities,” said Dana Gartzke, Performing the Delegated Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development. “Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities and EDA is pleased to invest these CARES Act funds in the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning & Development Commission’s Revolving Loan Fund, which will make critical resources available to businesses working to recover from the coronavirus pandemic in Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, and Warren counties.”
Last week, the Commission was awarded a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The Commission will use these funds specifically to develop and implement regional strategies, hire additional staff to assist communities as they respond to the impacts of the pandemic, and expand broadband to serve the healthcare and education sectors. This was the first EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance investment made in EDA’s Philadelphia region.
Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning & Development Commission, a current EDA Economic Development District (EDD) and RLF grantee, is one of the more than 850 existing, high-performing EDA EDD, University Center, Tribal, and RLF grant recipients invited to apply for supplemental funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
The CARES Act, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump, provides EDA with $1.5 billion for economic development assistance programs to help communities prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
On May 7, Secretary Ross announced that EDA is accepting applications for CARES Act Recovery Assistance funding opportunities.
EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance, which is being administered under the authority of the bureau’s flexible Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) (PDF) program, provides a wide-range of financial assistance to eligible communities and regions as they respond to and recover from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. For complete information, please visit our recently updated EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance page.
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Only local organization conducting exit-poll in parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan announces action plan
Politics 28 September 2010 18:14 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 28 /Trend, M. Aliyev/
ELS Independent Research Center has announced its action plan for conducting an exit-poll in upcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
"ELS will hold an exit-poll in all constituencies of the country, except the constituencies in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. According to international methodology, which has been tested in practically all countries in the world, about 10 polling stations are selected to conduct the exit-poll in each district," the director of ELS Irada Yagubova told Trend.
She said in each of the 1,180 polling stations in Azerbaijan, two interviewers will poll voters, and one supervisor has been determined for each three or four stations.
The parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are scheduled for November 7, 2010. Previous parliamentary elections were held in November 2005. Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are held by the majority system in 125 constituencies.
Yagubova said ELS is currently preparing documents that will be used during the exit-poll, as well as information about the interviewers and supervisors for accreditation. These documents will be prepared by the end of the week.
She said interviewers and supervisors are currently being recruited throughout Azerbaijan.
"From Sept. 29, ELS will begin training for trainers who will then train the interviewers to work on election day. Training of interviewers in Baku and Sumgait will begin from Oct. 2, and in the regions from Oct. 7," she said.
ELS has been conducting exit-polls in all elections in Azerbaijan since 2006.
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