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The Latest: China tests millions amid new virus flare-ups
BEIJING — Chinese authorities are testing millions of people, imposing lockdowns and shutting down schools after multiple locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered in three cities across the country last week.
As temperatures drop, large-scale measures are being enacted in the cities of Tianjin, Shanghai and Manzhouli, despite the low number of new cases compared to the United States and other countries that are seeing new waves of infections.
Many experts and government officials have warned that the chance of the virus spreading will be greater during the cold weather. Recent flare-ups have shown that there is still a risk of the virus returning, despite being largely controlled within China.
On Monday, the National Health Commission reported two new locally transmitted cases in Shanghai over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to seven since Friday. China has recorded 86,442 total cases and 4,634 deaths since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
In Tianjin, health workers have collected more than 2.2 million samples for testing from residents in the Binhai new district, after five locally transmitted cases were discovered there last week.
In Manzhouli, a city of more than 200,000 people, local health authorities are testing all residents after two cases were reported on Saturday. They also shut down all schools and public venues and banned public gatherings such as banquets.
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
— Cut off: School closings leave rural students isolated
— Jury duty? No thanks, say many, forcing trials to be delayed
— Inequality ‘baked into’ virus testing access as cases surge
— New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern offers virus know-how to Joe Biden
HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his family are quarantining after three of his children were exposed to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus.
Newsom, his wife and four children, ages 4 to 11, all tested negative for the virus on Sunday, spokesperson Jesse Melgar said in an emailed statement.
The governor was notified Friday evening that a California Highway Patrol member who had contact with three of his children later tested positive for the virus. The California Highway Patrol provides security for Newsom and his family.
The family is quarantining at their home in Sacramento County. They will be tested regularly, Melgar said.
The governor’s quarantine comes as California experiences a rise in virus cases and as he’s imposed a fresh round of restrictions on people and businesses. Los Angeles County on Sunday announced that bars and restaurants would be restricted to takeout starting Wednesday.
A 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew took effect over the weekend and officials are warning people about getting together with family and friends for Thanksgiving. Newsom, meanwhile, has faced criticism for attending a dinner party with a dozen people on Nov. 6 as he was warning people to limit gatherings.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka has reopened some of the thousands of schools that have been closed for more than a month due to a second wave of the coronavirus.
The Education Ministry said that 5,100 of 10,165 state-run schools were reopened Monday.
The government did not reopen schools in the capital, Colombo, and its suburbs, where cases are still surging. Schools in some areas that are still under lockdown also were not reopened. Schools were reopened only for students in grades 6 to 13.
Sri Lanka closed schools last month when two new clusters — one centered at a garment factory and the other at a fish market — emerged in the Colombo area.
There have been 16,639 confirmed cases from the two clusters. Overall, Sri Lanka has had 20,170 cases, including 87 deaths.
SEATTLE — Health officials in Washington state said the number of people who were hospitalized to receive treatment for the coronavirus has reached a record high.
KOMO-TV reports there were 762 people receiving hospital care for the virus in Washington as of Saturday.
At the Swedish First Hill campus of Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center, 10 coronavirus patients were admitted within a span of five hours Wednesday.
Leaders from hospitals statewide met last week to consider strategies to ensure they have room to care for COVID-19 patients as the hospitalization rate climbs.
Washington State Hospital Association CEO Cassie Sauer says the cancellations of elective procedures under consideration to make room for coronavirus patients include joint and heart valve replacements and some cancer surgeries.
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Gov. Steve Sisolak announced plans Sunday to tighten restrictions on casinos, restaurants and private gatherings such as Thanksgiving dinner in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The new restrictions, which are scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday, come amid an unprecedented surge that has broken records in the state in terms of cases, deaths and infection rates throughout November.
The virus has surged throughout the United States and prompted governors to issue a patchwork of area-specific restrictions. California has curfew order in effect in the majority of its counties and, earlier Sunday, Los Angeles County moved to only allow outdoor dining.
Sisolak, who has avoided tightening mandates throughout the fall due to the havoc they could wreak on Nevada’s tourism-based economy, said the trends led to an “inescapable conclusion.”
“We are on a rapid trajectory that threatens to overwhelm our health care system, our frontline health workers, and your access to care. So it’s time to act,” said Sisolak, who recently contracted COVID-19.
The new restrictions reduce the capacity limits for high-risk areas including restaurants, bars, gyms, places of worship and casinos.
They will also be applied to public and private gatherings, which case investigators have identified as a major source of spread in Nevada. That includes on Thanksgiving, when home celebrations will be limited to no more than 10 people, from no more than two households.
PORTLAND, Ore. — New confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 have reached a record high for the third straight day in Oregon.
The Oregon Health Authority reported 1,517 new infections Sunday, bringing the state total to 65,170.
The state reported one additional death from COVID-19 on Sunday, a 65-year-old man in Multnomah County who tested positive Nov. 15 and died the same day. That brings the state’s death toll to 820.
The director of the state health department urged residents to cancel indoor Thanksgiving plans and those that involve large groups of family and friends.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County officials have announced new coronavirus-related restrictions that will prohibit in-person dining for at least three weeks as cases rise throughout the holiday season.
The new rules will take effect Wednesday at 10 p.m.
Restaurants, breweries, wineries and bars will only be able to offer take-out, drive-through and delivery services.
Officials had warned that these restrictions could come into play if the county’s five-day average of new cases was above 4,000. Sunday’s five-day average was 4,097 cases.
Most of California, including Los Angeles County, has been under a curfew since Saturday night at 10 p.m.
The Latest: Panasonic works on special vaccine storage boxes
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Pope Signs Off on Mother Teresa's 2nd Miracle
She'll become a saint in 2016
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
Posted Dec 18, 2015 2:15 AM CST
In this 1978 file photo, Mother Teresa, head of the Missionaries of Charity order, cradles an armless baby girl at her order's orphanage in what was then known as Calcutta, India. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)
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(Newser) – Mother Teresa is set to finish 2016 as one of the Catholic Church's newest saints after a big decision from Pope Francis. The missionary, who spent most of her life working with the poor in India, was beatified in 2003, and the AP reports that Pope Francis has now attributed a second miracle to her, clearing the final barrier to sainthood. The Vatican says Francis signed off on the miracle Thursday during a meeting with the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which serves as the Vatican's office in charge of saint-making.
The decision was first reported in Italian newspaper Avvenire, which Reuters notes has been "well informed about similar stories in the past." The miracle that Francis signed off on involved a 35-year-old man in Brazil who was near death from a brain infection in 2008 and made an incredible recovery after relatives, including his new bride, prayed to Mother Teresa, according to Avvenire. The Vatican hasn't announced a date for Teresa's canonization, but it's expected to be in early September, to coincide with the date of the nun's death in 1997 at the age of 87, reports the AP. (A Rhode Island bishop tried to get Mother Teresa elected as governor.)
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Conservation News ~ May 30 2019
SD Zoo receives first certificate of appreciation from China for Panda recovery: https://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/8-news/18476-san-diego-zoo-receives-conservation-award-from-china.html
Scientists left feeling helpless as French Polynesia’s reefs bleach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5nMg9ArXeA
NSF awards Montana $20 million to advance research and education in water quality: https://www.internet2.edu/news/detail/17166/
New species of wasp identified in Goa: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/new-species-of-wasp-identified-in-goa/article27297766.ece
Golden-cheeked warbler to remain endangered: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2019/golden-cheeked-warbler-02-07-2019.php
Extinct woolly mammoth up for listing: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060424735
Critically endangered Spring Pygmy Sunfish gains 1330 acres, six stream miles of protected habitat: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/critically-endangered-spring-pygmy-sunfish-gains-1330-acres-and-six-stream-miles-protected-habitat-2019-05-29/
California Assembly passes legislation defending birds from federal rollbacks: http://ca.audubon.org/press-release/california-assembly-passes-legislation-defending-state%E2%80%99s-birds-federal-rollbacks
Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/altered-forests-threaten-sustainability-of-subsistence-hunting/
Otter cafes and cute pet craze fuel illegal trafficking in Japan and Indonesia: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/otter-cafes-and-cute-pets-craze-fuel-illegal-trafficking-in-japan-and-indonesia/
Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/norway-oil-drilling-arctic-ban-labor-party-unions-a8861171.html
240-acre open space transfer to connect Santa Cruz forests to the coast: http://www.ktvu.com/news/240-acre-open-space-transfer-to-connect-santa-cruz-forests-to-the-coast
After a new law, students in Philippines need to plant 10 trees to graduate: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/05/29/new-filipino-law-requires-every-student-to-plant-10-trees-if-they-want-to-graduate/
More fishing vessels chasing fewer fish: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190527152737.htm
Clemson earns prestigious rating for sustainability achievements: https://newsstand.clemson.edu/clemson-earns-prestigious-rating-for-sustainability-achievements/
Last ‘gorilla in the mist’ is presumed dead: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/africa/gorillas-in-the-mist-death-intl-scli/index.html
Africa’s elephant poaching is in decline: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-africa-elephant-poaching-decline-iconic.html
New snake species in Europe named after a long-forgotten Iron Age kingdom: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190528120339.htm
Ireland becomes 2nd country to declare a climate emergency: https://www.ecowatch.com/ireland-declares-climate-emergency-2636765627.html
Virginia Beach trashed with 10 tons of garbage over Memorial Day: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/28/virginia-beach-event-floatopia-leaves-10-tons-trash-memorial-day/1256984001/
Fed file appeal to delist Yellowstone-area Grizzlies: https://www.mtpr.org/post/feds-file-appeal-delist-yellowstone-area-grizzlies
Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/earths-hidden-tree-microbe-network-mapped-for-the-first-time-ever/
Two Mumbai researchers discover new damselfly species: https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/two-mumbai-researchers-discover-new-damselfly-species-in-konkan/story-si6ElzLLUwkup9vui2eoGL.html
Last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia dies: https://www.livescience.com/65576-ast-male-sumatran-rhino-dies.html
Endangered Mexican wolves blamed for more livestock deaths: https://www.apnews.com/334f756ddcba4682a3e7391242decdeb
Four new species of fish discovered in Philippine waters: http://www.interaksyon.com/hobbies-interests/2019/05/27/149564/four-new-species-of-fish-discovered-in-philippine-waters/
Colombian breeds rare frogs to undermine animal traffickers: https://borneobulletin.com.bn/colombian-breeds-rare-frogs-to-undermine-animal-traffickers/
Costa Rica has doubled its forest cover in the last 30 years: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/costa-rica-has-doubled-its-forest-cover-last-30-years
New vine snake discovered in Odisha biosphere reserve: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/new-vine-snake-discovered-in-odisha-biosphere-reserve/article27249009.ece
40 new species in Bukit Timah, Singapore: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/40-potentially-new-species-in-bukit-timah
Environment activists block entrance to Norwegian central bank: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-norway-bank/environment-activists-block-entrance-to-norwegian-central-bank-idUSKCN1SU1HH
Decision on Monarch Butterfly’s endangered species protection extended to 2020: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/decision-on-monarch-butterfly-endangered-species-protection-extended-2019-05-24/
Laser drones protect Scottish forests: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48380213
National Park visits contribute $40 billion to US economy: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/national-park-visitor-spending-contributed-40-billion-us-economy
Baby anacondas born at New England Aquarium without any make snakes involved: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2019/05/23/baby-anacondas-born-at-new-england-aquarium-without-any-male-snakes-involved
Ecologists find bush dog, native of South America, in remote central Costa Rica: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-ecologists-bush-dog-native-south.html
Mesa faculty member discovers new species of salamander in Arizona: https://ktar.com/story/2583664/mesa-faculty-member-discovers-new-species-of-salamander-in-arizona/
Nembi Guasu: Huge new conservation area in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/nembi-guasu-huge-new-conservation-area-in-bolivias-gran-chaco/
A new gecko species emerges from Sri Lanka’s Nilgala savanna forest: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/a-new-gecko-emerges-from-sri-lankas-nilgala-savanna-forest/
CBD lawsuit aims to force White House to protect Endangered Species nationwide: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-aims-to-force-trump-to-protect-endangered-species-nationwide-2019-05-23/
New method to predict the vulnerability of ecosystems: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190520115640.htm
Australian and New Zealand Students walk out in global climate strike: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/world/global-climate-strike-school-students-protest-climate-change-intl/index.html
Malaysia slaps highest ever poaching fine on two Vietnamese men: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/malaysia-slaps-highest-ever-poaching-fine-on-two-vietnamese-men-3924634.html
US to strafe crucial nesting area for 3m birds with poison to eradicate mice: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/24/midway-atoll-birds-albatross-terns-mice
Geologists discover largest underwater volcano: https://www.livescience.com/65545-largest-underwater-volcano-seismic-hum.html
Kroger, nation’s largest grocery chain, eliminates plastic bags: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kroger-aims-to-end-all-plastic-bag-use/
Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/africa/botswana-elephant-intl/index.html
Kansas taking ecotourism approach to lesser prairie chicken conservation efforts: https://www.cjonline.com/news/20190511/kansas-taking-ecotourism-approach-to-lesser-prairie-chicken-conservation-efforts
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia call for end to raw ivory sales ban: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/21/raw-ivory-sales-zimbabwe-botswana-and-namibia-call-for-end-to-ban
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Photography Coaster Set
Mark Fairhurst is a world-famous cycling artist who has built a near-fanatical following for his work, inspired by the likes of Pierre-Felix Masseau, Cassandre, and the monumental effect of the Art Deco period. Avidly following the Tour de France, his style captures the joy and freedom of cyclists - even amongst the most competitive of racers. He has illustrated the best selling book, "P is for Peloton", now in three languages, Tour de France champion Chris Froome's autobiography, "The Climb", and has had his work used by Eurosport and Sky TV.
Material: Hardboard Wood with corked back.
Size: 9 x 9cm
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Just missed: NFL players outside the top 25 under 25
Aug 10, 2018; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold (14) points as center Jonotthan Harrison (78) prepares to snap during the first half at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
By Mark Chichester
Yesterday, we published our top 25 players under 25 years of age — our way of highlighting both the NFL's bright future and the individuals who will carry us into a new era of football. The list was based on the cumulative body of work of each player to date, factoring in grades, signature stats and team impact. In some situations, players with multiple seasons of “good” play were viewed favorably as opposed to players with a mixed bag or just one great season under their belt. This, unfortunately, left some notable players on the outside, looking in.
Here is a list of 10 players who just missed PFF's list of the top 25 NFL players under 25 years of age.
QB Sam Darnold, New York Jets
Age at kickoff: 22 years, 3 months, 1 day
Darnold had his fair share of ups and downs last year, but his performances down the stretch should give the New York Jets’ fanbase hope for the future. From Week 14 on, Darnold produced eight big-time throws and just two turnover-worthy passes, and perhaps more impressively, he recorded a 118.5 passer rating from a clean pocket — the second-best mark among all quarterbacks in that span.
RB Ezekiel Elliott, Dallas Cowboys
Age at kickoff: 24 years, 1 month, 15 days
There's no doubt that Ezekiel Elliott is one of the top players at his position, but it's hard to overlook the fact that his production is, in large part, thanks to the offense that Dallas has built around him. Over the last three years, Elliott ranks first in rushing attempts (868), rushing yards (4048), rushing yards after contact (2567) and first down conversions (219). However, his three-year rushing grade of 80.2 ranks ninth among the 36 backs with at least 300 attempts in that span, while his 0.119 missed tackles forced per attempt ranks tied for 27th among the same group.
WR Chris Godwin, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Age at kickoff: 23 years, 6 months, 10 days
The second-year pass-catcher has quietly made his mark as a part of a Tampa Bay receiving corps that has also included big-name players like Mike Evans, DeSean Jackson and O.J. Howard. Godwin has made his looks in the passing count over the last two years; he's earned a two-year overall grade of 84.5 that ranks 15th among the 186 qualifying players in that time, while his two-year contested-catch rate of 54.5% ranks ninth among those with at least 100 targets.
DI Da'Shawn Hand, Detroit Lions
As a fourth-round rookie out of Alabama, interior defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand made an instant impact on Matt Patricia’s defense, and he figures to do so for years to come. He ended the 2018 regular season with an overall grade of 87.4 that ranked 16th among all qualifying interior defensive linemen, while his pass-rush win rate of 11.1% ranked second among all first-year players at the position.
Edge Carl Lawson, Cincinnati Bengals
Age at kickoff: 24 years, 2 months, 8 days
A torn ACL in Week 8 of the 2018 season deprived us of what looked like another great season for the former Auburn edge defender, but we've already seen enough to know just how dominant Lawson can be when he's healthy and on the field. Over the last two seasons, Lawson has produced 84 total pressures, and his pass-rush win rate 20.1% ranks fifth among all edge defenders with at least 100 pass-rush snaps in that two-year span.
Edge T.J. Watt, Pittsburgh Steelers
Age at kickoff: 24 years, 10 months, 26 days
Watt 3.0 started the 2018 season with a bang. He racked up 10 sacks, eight hits and 15 hurries from his 289 pass-rushing snaps, but as PFF's Austin Gayle wrote in December, those numbers were largely thanks to the scheme in which he played as opposed to him repeatedly beating the man in front of him. However, from Week 13 on, it was a different story, and he displayed all the traits that make him a fascinating player to watch moving forward. His 85.8 pass-rush grade from Week 13 on tied for fifth among all edge defenders, while his pass-rush win rate of 26.6% over that span paced the league.
Edge Bradley Chubb, Denver Broncos
From a box score standpoint, Bradley Chubb couldn’t have done much more for the Broncos in his first year in the league. He racked up 13 sacks, eight hits and 37 quarterback hurries across his 456 pass-rushing snaps on the year, and his 58 total pressures not only ranked first among rookie edge defenders, but they were the 19th-most among all players at the position.
LB Myles Jack, Jacksonville Jaguars
Age at kickoff: 24 years, 3 days
The former UCLA standout has put the pre-draft injury concerns far behind him over his last three years in the league. Jack has played 2,486 defensive snaps since 2016, and he's earned both a run-defense grade and coverage grade above 70.0. His three-year coverage grade of 82.3 ranks tied for eighth among the 54 linebackers with at least 100 targets in that time.
CB Desmond King II, Los Angeles Chargers
King has developed into arguably the league's best slot specialist over the last two years. He's the only defensive player with at least 300 slot coverage snaps over the last two years who has earned an elite slot-coverage grade (91.3), and he leads all cornerbacks in slot-coverage stops over that span (41).
S Keanu Neal, Atlanta Falcons
Along with the loss of linebacker Deion Jones, the injury to safety Keanu Neal was another major factor in the Falcons' playoff-less season. Up until his injury, Neal had proved to be an impact player in every facet of the game. Since 2016, Neal earned a grade above 70.0 as a run defender (74.9), a coverage defender (78.1) and as a pass-rusher (73.2), making him one of only 15 safeties to achieve that feat over that span.
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Poffy The Cucumber January 19, 2017
Beverly D’Angelo fails to find any balls on Chevy Chase. Now it all makes sense.
Tidings of no comfort, no joy.
I’ll tell you why I hate Chevy Chase. As much as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx and Jerry Lewis worked on honing their comedic craft, the talent-less drogue Chevy Chase has done exactly the opposite.
Chase can be compared to his equally talent-less contemporary, singer Ozzy Osbourne; both Chevy and Ozzy ride the coat-tails of all those talented people around them into superstardom. Chevy had Belushi, Murray, Aykroyd, Radner; Ozzy had Iommi, Butler, Rhoads, Daisley…
Becoming widely recognized from his stint on SNL beginning in 1975, Chase somehow parlayed that recognition into film roles. Lacking any dramatic ability, he erroneously thought to pursue comedy. Maybe someone told him he was funny when they were beating the shit out of him in a bar. I hate to break it to you, Chevy, but they were being sarcastic: “Oh, you’re a funny asshole! Who’s laughing now?!”
Chevy Chase has now coasted for decades on a false reputation of being a “comedian” when he is so patently, empirically devoid of humor of any stripe. His acting is atrocious, at the level of first-year students who “indicate” their way through performances (“I’m feeling crazy now, so I’ll widen my eyes and grimace” “I’m feeling sad now, so I’ll droop my shoulders and pout”); his timing is so appalling, it would be considered laughable – if there was the remotest possibility of laughing at anything Chevy Chase does; his posture, his facial expressions, his delivery, his insertion into the very scene itself is so coarsely amateurish, so devoid of the joke-craft and aptitude exhibited by actual comedians, it is an embarrassment to mention those exceptionally skilled comedy giants above in the same article. And I apologize to them, their families and their estates.
“Here’s to another film devoid of any redeeming qualities.”
Which brings us to NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION.
Written by John Hughes in a meth amphetamine daze and directed ineptly by Jeremiah Chechik, the third VACATION film finds Clark Griswold (useless asshat Chevy Chase) and his wife Ellen (the glowing Beverly D’Angelo) spending Christmas at home, with their new kids (somehow, the Griswold teen kids keep transmogrifying into different people for every film – this time it’s Juliette Lewis in one of her first feature films and Johnny Galecki, long before THE BIG BANG THEORY); hosting both their sets of parents (John Randolph, Diane Ladd, E.G. Marshall and Doris Roberts), and redneck Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) and his wife and kids. William Hickey (Corrado Prizzi himself!) joins in as an old relative with a bad wig and a daft wife.
Clark Griswold’s neighbors (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and husband), say it best when they see Clark outside on a ladder: “I hope he falls and breaks his neck.” “Oh, I’m sure he’ll fall. But I don’t think we’re lucky enough for him to break his neck.”
And through Clark mounting Christmas lights, buying a tree, sledding downhill, being stuck in the attic, perving on a woman’s cleavage, shouting at or hugging his relatives, chasing a squirrel and carving the turkey, nothing funny happens.
Even Ozzy Osbourne is funnier.
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (Dec 1989) PG-13
Director: Jeremiah Chechik.
Writers: John Hughes.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn, William Hickey, Mae Questel, Sam McMurray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Nicholas Guest, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Rep. Capps endorses Obama
By BEN SMITH
A California congresswoman with long ties to both Clintons will announce her endorsement of Barack Obama today, a campaign source said.
Rep. Lois Capps, who represents a district on California’s central coast, is the third member of Congress to announce an endorsement of Senator Obama Wednesday, the day after he responded sharply to one of the deepest crises of his campaign, a confrontational and, he said, “appalling” set of remarks by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The campaign is using the flurry of endorsements to shore up political support and demonstrate the frontrunner’s continuing strength.
“Barack Obama is the better choice because of something larger and perhaps more important. Simply put, he has made a call to the better angels of our nature. He is challenging us to lift ourselves out of the ugliness that increasingly consumes Washington, where the heat of your argument counts for more than the light it should bring,” Capps said in a statement. “He is asking us to stand together as Americans and transcend the traditional lines that have so often divided us by party affiliation, economic status, gender, or race.”
In her statement, Capps praised Clinton, but also suggested she’d been pushed to Obama by negative aspects of the campaign.
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“I came to Washington 10 years ago after winning the seat my husband Walter held. In office for a mere 10 months before he died, he had lost none of the idealism and faith in American democracy that propelled his life. Quite frankly, I don’t believe he ever would have and I know that I have tried to keep that fire burning. But I’ll admit it’s hard, when so much of what’s going on around you is less about meeting our country’s challenges and more about demonizing your political opponents,” she said in the statement.
“Walter once said that ‘we are strongest as people when we are directed by that which unites us, rather than giving into the fears, suspicions, innuendos and paranoias that divide.’ For years I have been waiting for a President that speaks to that vision. I believe Barack Obama may very well be that rare leader.”
Capps has long been close to both Clintons, who supported and raised money for her late husband, Rep. Walter Capps, and then for her in a campaign for what was then a contested seat.
Bill Clinton also spoke at the memorial service for her late husband, Rep. Walter Capps, whom the then-president described as “entirely too nice to be in Congress."
Capps’ daughter, Laura Burton Capps, also worked in the Clinton White House starting in 1995, first as an assistant to Clinton advisor George Stephanopolous and then as a speechwriter.
Capps also has an Obama tie, however: Burton Capps, now Senior Vice President for communications and outreach at the Ocean Conservancy is married to Bill Burton, Obama’s national press secretary.
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Paris metro line 14 extension inaugurated
This week, the extension of line 14 to Mairie de Saint-Ouen Town Hall – Ile-de-France Region in the Paris metro was inaugurated. The main objective of the extension is to take the weight off line 13 by around 25 per cent to improve the quality of transport for the 650,000 daily users. The distance of the extension will be 5.8 kilometres funded by the State and several local authorities of the Paris Region.
The two main contracting authorities are Île-de-France Mobilities and the RATP (Public transport company in Paris). Line 14, which is also part of the Grand Paris Express project, will be the backbone of the Ile-de-France metro network. Additionally, there will be the construction of 4 new stations, a maintenance site and storage, new rolling stock, a new command post for the line and a new automatic piloting system. Line 14 will be considered the backbone of the Ile-de-France metro network and possibly the busiest.
Line 14 extension
Line 14 was first inaugurated in 1998 and is considered the first line of the automated metro system in the Parisian network. The first extension was in 2003 from Madeleine to Saint Lazare followed by the second extension in 2007 from Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand at Olympiades. Currently, it is being extended to the Town Hall of Saint-Ouen – Île-de-France region with plans of the future extension to the south and north which is planned in 2024.
The current extension allows for a minimum interval of 85 seconds between each train, which allows the transportation of 35,000 passengers per hour. The trains will consist of 8-cars 120 metres long ( compared to the current 6) which increases capacity, service and comfort. The line 14 extension will be an important factor for the current territories its been servicing as it will improve the quality of life for the 96,000 inhabitants of the north-west of Ile-de-France. Furthermore, it will strengthen the economy of the areas the line crosses.
Four new stations have been built for the extension which allows it to now cross through rapidly developing districts. The stations are Pont Cardinet, Porte de Clichy, Saint-Ouen and Mairie de Saint-Ouen – Île-de-France region. Pont Cardinet will be the station to hold lasting artistic installations, while Saint-Quen station will be serving the new business district. Porte De Clichy station, the largest of the four, will open to the public in January due to the pandemic. The Mairie de Saint-Quen-Île-de-France regional station will be the terminal station connecting to the future line 15.
Line 14 Extension to Mairie de Saint-Ouen Town Hall – Ile-de-France Region
14km future extension
By 2024, there will be an additional extension of 14 kilometres going south which allows connecting to Orly Airport, serving ten more cities, hospitals centres and Île-de-France economic zones. Combining the current north extension with the 1.6-kilometre extension to Saint-Denis Pleyel station and the future extension to Orly will make line 14 the longest line connecting future metro lines 15, 16, 17 and 18.
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Egypt’s first-ever high-speed rail line to be completed in 2023
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Loan size increased to £200 million under large business interruption scheme
The government is extending the maximum loan size available through the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) from £50 million to £200 million.
The loans will be made available to large businesses affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) from 26 May.
However, companies borrowing more than £50 million through the CLBILS will be subject to restrictions on dividend payments, senior pay and share buy-backs during the period of the loan. This will include a ban on dividend payments and cash bonuses, except where they were previously agreed.
Similar restrictions will also apply to firms accessing the Bank of England's Coronavirus Corporate Financing Fund.
Commenting on the extension, Suren Thiru, Head of Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: 'It is good to see the government continue to listen to business concerns and make improvements to existing schemes.
'These important changes could make a real difference to larger firms in particular, and alongside the other lending support schemes will help ensure that more businesses of all sizes get access to the finance they need to help weather this unprecedented economic storm.'
Further guidance is available here.
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Private sector off-payroll reforms given go ahead for April 2021
The introduction of off-payroll rules to the private sector will go ahead as planned next April after an attempt to delay them again failed in the House of Commons.
The reforms of the off-payroll rules to the private sector, which are known as IR35 and have applied to the public sector since 2017, were reviewed earlier this year.
They will shift the responsibility for assessing employment status to the organisations employing individuals. The rules would have applied to contractors working for medium and large organisations in the private sector and were due to come into effect on 6 April this year.
Due to the disruption caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the decision was taken in March to delay the introduction until 6 April 2021.
An amendment to the Finance Bill brought by a cross-party group of MPs was designed to delay the introduction of the IR35 changes until 2023, but was defeated by 317 votes to 254.
The move to introduce new IR35 rules to the private sector has proved highly controversial, with many claiming that the regulations are too complex and that HMRC's online tool Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) used to determine whether they apply is flawed.
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Japanese Operators Exceed 100 Million 3G Subscribers
May 13, 2009SAN DIEGO and TOKYO
Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today congratulated Japan's mobile operators on exceeding 100 million 3G CDMA subscribers as of April 2009, as announced by the Telecommunications Carriers Association in Japan on May 12.
“Achieving 100 million 3G CDMA subscribers marks a significant milestone for the Japanese wireless industry,” said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and chief executive officer of Qualcomm. “Japan's mobile operators and OEMs are known around the world for embracing cutting-edge technologies and services. This strategy has made Japan one of world's leading markets for wireless data services, demonstrating the power of 3G CDMA to change the way people live. Qualcomm celebrates this great achievement, and we will continue to provide the Japanese market with innovative technologies that enable future market growth.”
“On behalf of Qualcomm, I would like to express our appreciation to our operator, device manufacturer and application/content provider partners for reaching this 100 million 3G subscribers milestone,” said Jun Yamada, chairman and president of Qualcomm Japan. “Qualcomm is very proud of its regional collaborations and its role in helping to expand 3G CDMA in Japan. We look forward to working even more closely with our partners to reach the next industry milestone.”
3G CDMA service in Japan started with the launch of the world's first WCDMA commercial service by NTT DOCOMO, INC. in October 2001, followed by the CDMA2000® 1X launch by KDDI CORPORATION in April 2002, the WCDMA launch by SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. in December 2002, and the HSDPA launch by EMOBILE Ltd. in March 2007.
Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in the S&P 100 Index, the S&P 500 Index and is a 2009 FORTUNE 500® company. For more information, please visit www.qualcomm.com.
Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. CDMA2000 is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA USA). All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Short guide
Trans+
Short Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans+ and Inter+ (LGBTI) Refugees in Germany
1. Protection for LGBTI Refugees in Germany
1.1 When are LGBTI refugees granted asylum in Germany?
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+, or inter+ (LGBTI) persons who are being persecuted are entitled to asylum in Germany. Persecution means that they are being threatened with extreme violence, death, imprisonment or other types of inhumane treatment in their country of origin due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Being LGBTI is not a taboo in Germany. You can and you should speak about it openly during the asylum procedure.
1.2 When does state persecution constitute grounds for asylum?
The nature or frequency of the acts of persecution or discrimination must be so extreme that they constitute a serious violation of human rights. The fact that homosexual activity is punishable by law does not in itself constitute an act of persecution. Only the actual imposition of such a punishment is considered an act of persecution.
1.3 When does persecution by the family (non-state persecution) constitute grounds for asylum?
If the persecutor is a non-state entity (militia, family etc.) rather than a state entity (police, judiciary etc.), the persecution only constitutes grounds for asylum if evidence is provided that the state is not able or willing to offer protection. This means that violence and threats of violence from family members only entitle the victim to asylum if it is evident that he/she would not be protected by the police or by moving to another part of the country.
1.4 Where will I live during the asylum procedure?
After applying for asylum, the asylum seeker is assigned to a federal state. During the asylum procedure, asylum seekers are initially housed in collective accommodation. LGBTI refugees can mention their special needs and problems to the camp staff. As a rule, asylum seekers have to wait until they are granted asylum before they can be assigned to a municipality, move into a private apartment, participate in an integration course and start work.
2. The asylum procedure
2.1 How does the asylum procedure work?
Applications for asylum can only be made on German ground. The asylum procedure usually includes two hearings by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). The first hearing mainly aims to clarify which Dublin state is responsible for your case. The Dublin states are all the EU member states and currently also Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The reasons for seeking asylum are not addressed until the second hearing. By law, all BAMF staff are bound to professional discretion.
2.2 What should I do before the hearings?
When preparing for the hearings, it is advisable to get support from asylum counsellors and contact organizations for LGBTI refugees. It is a good idea to write down all acts of persecution in chronological order, collect evidence, and practice talking about what you have experienced. It is also advisable to send an e-mail as soon as possible requesting an interviewer familiar with LGBTI issues, and to notify the authority in case you will be accompanied.
2.3 What happens during the first hearing? (Dublin system)
The first hearing mainly consists of questions about the asylum seeker himself/herself, where the family is staying, and the escape route taken. In general, the asylum procedure is the responsibility of the Dublin state that issued the entry visa. If an asylum seeker enters the country without a visa, as a rule, the procedure is the responsibility of the country that the asylum seeker entered first. In such cases, the asylum seeker is usually sent back to this country.
2.4 What happens during the second hearing? (reasons for seeking asylum)
The second hearing focuses on the reasons why the asylum seeker fled the country. These must be described clearly and in specific detail, without omissions or contradictions. Lies told during the hearing are usually recognized by the BAMF and will lead to the application being rejected. Afterwards, the transcript is back-translated and becomes confirmed when signed. The asylum seeker should therefore insist on all problems during the hearing being noted in the transcript.
3. Types of protection and the right to appeal
3.1 What kinds of international protection exist?
Classic asylum (initially for a period of 3 years) is primarily granted to victims of political persecution who entered Germany on direct flights. In contrast, victims of persecution who enter Germany via another EU state are eligible only for refugee status (also for 3 years). People fleeing civil war are usually granted subsidiary protection (initially for 1 year). The status is extended if the grounds for asylum persist.
3.2 What should LGBTI refugees from countries torn by civil war consider?
LGBTI individuals fleeing civil war in their own countries should also describe the discrimination and acts of persecution that they have experienced due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. If they do so, they may be granted protected status for three years, independent of the civil war. It is more difficult to add these grounds later on.
3.3 What can I do if my application is rejected?
A negative decision does not inevitably mean deportation. Asylum seekers are entitled to appeal against negative decisions though a lawyer. Even if the appeal is unsuccessful, there are a number of reasons why this often does not mean deportation. In many cases, it is therefore a good idea to find out whether there are obstacles to deportation even though the application for asylum has been rejected.
3.4 What are accelerated procedures?
Accelerated procedures are implemented with refugees from so-called safe countries of origin (all EU states and currently all Balkan states, Ghana, and Senegal). Refugees who misled the authorities about their identity or who have destroyed their documents are also put through the accelerated procedure. In these procedures, it is initially assumed that there are no grounds for asylum and most applications are being rejected for being “obviously unfounded”.
4. Aspects specific to LGBTI
4.1 What information do I have to provide about my identity and sexuality?
It is essential that LGBTI refugees reveal their sexual orientation and/or gender identity during the asylum procedure. As part of this, they must also answer questions about their private life, their self-discovery and their previous relationships. However, questions about their sexual practices are forbidden. Photos and videos with sexual content are not accepted as evidence.
4.2 What can I do if I didn’t “come out” during the asylum procedure?
If the result of the asylum application is negative, there is usually no opportunity for another hearing to provide additional reasons for leaving the country of origin. This is why it is important to specify your sexual orientation and/or gender identity right from the start as a reason for fleeing the country. LGBTI persons who did not do this due to fear or shame and whose application is rejected can try to lodge a follow-up application. They can ask LGBTI organizations for support.
4.3 Will I be granted asylum if I did not live openly as an LGBTI person in my country of origin?
LGBTI refugees who did not live openly as such in their country of origin and therefore left without being persecuted will only be granted asylum if they did so for fear of persecution. If they concealed their sexuality and/or gender identity to save face or protect their family’s honour, this generally does not constitute grounds for asylum. In such cases, it is often assumed that they can continue living this way and that persecution is unlikely. Married homosexuals should explain, why they are married.
4.4 Does discrimination against LGBTI constitute grounds for asylum?
Insults, abstract threats, and homophobic or transphobic attitudes held by the majority of society are not in themselves grounds for asylum. However, if discrimination in the refugee’s home country is so extreme that it seriously violates human rights, this does constitute grounds for asylum. LGBTI refugees should mention all acts of discrimination and violence they experienced in their home countries.
detailed juridical guide in German language
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Wonder Woman 2 May Feature Surprising Cameo of A Famous Actor
Wonder Woman, Directed by Patty Jenkins, the first woman to direct a DC film with a screenplay written by Allan Heinberg, story by Heinberg, Snyder, and Fuchs. It explores the origins of Wonder Woman, from being Diana on the island of Themyscira to saving American pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) who crashed his plane offshore, ultimately leading her to end World War I. The film has not just smashed box-office records but also a glass ceiling for women. Wonder Woman broke the record of biggest opening weekend collections for a female directed live-action movie.
At the worldwide box-office, Wonder Woman is poised to hit the Billion dollar mark as it has already crossed $660 million while playing in just 40 countries in 4 week time. The sequel to Wonder Woman has been greenlit by Warner Bros. and both Patty Jenkins (the director) and Gal Gadot would be returning. There is a possibility of a cameo by Lynda Carter in the sequel and talks are underway to make it happen. Carter is all praise for Petty Jenkins, she said:
“We were trying to get me in the first one and we couldn’t make it work with our timing… It really is up to Patty, and if it works in an organic way it’ll be great fun and it’ll be wonderful to do. Am I open to it? Absolutely. I ADORE Patty Jenkins, and it’ll be wonderful to do. But we’ll just see how it goes.”
“I was so taken with the both of them, and taken with Patty from the beginning when she very first got this film, and we talked on the phone. I just said that she knows who this character is. Because Wonder Woman, it’s the idea of her. It’s not about superpowers, it’s about her intellect and compassion. It’s so much more than some comic book character, because we identify with it.”
Hope to see another inspiring Wonder Woman movie in future. CHEERS!
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If the Shoe Fits is out Today!
My 12th book, If the Shoe Fits, is out today! This is the first book in my new Almost Royal series, which centers around three best friends who win a contest to live in a real-life castle (I was inspired by those HGTV Dream Home giveaways, but bigger - ha!) If the Shoe Fits is a modern-day Cinderella story, with a sexy, pseudo-royal hero. It's also a fun return to small town contemporary for me, and it's chock full of adorable rescue pets.
Buy your copy now:
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NOT ALL FAIRYTALES END AT MIDNIGHT
Elle Davenport is no princess—she just dresses up as one for her job at a local theme park. But when she gets the call that she’s won a contest to live and work at a real-life castle in Virginia, she finally feels like she’s found her calling. If she’s successful, her venture could become permanent, and that sounds like Elle’s idea of the perfect modern-day fairytale. There’s only one problem: the castle’s grumpy—and sexy—new owner wants her gone as soon as possible.
Theo Langdon never imagined he’d inherit the title of Earl of Highcastle so young. With his grandfather’s recent death, he needs to sell Rosemont Castle so he can return to London. If only he wasn’t butting heads with the vivacious new property manager at every corner. Although he’s got a life waiting for him in London, Rosemont Castle suddenly feels a lot like home, thanks to Elle. As the clock winds down on her time at the castle, he’ll have to reconcile his obligations in London with the American woman who’s stolen his heart.
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There is No Risk to see what we can do for you
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Finally, Turkeys Will Not Be Permitted on Airplanes. But Say Goodbye to Emotional Support Dogs, Too.
In 2018, a woman in Newark, N.J., tried to get her peacock, Dexter, onboard a United Airlines flight. A woman and her emotional support squirrel were booted off a flight out of Orlando, Fla., later that year. The Department of Transportation came close to permitting miniature horses and Capuchin monkeys that are legitimate service animals on airplanes, but ultimately decided against it. In December of 2020 the Department of...
Fact or Fiction: Rap Lyrics Are Admissible Evidence of Guilt in a Murder Case
In a judicial opinion filed in 2019, the State of Maryland’s highest court ruled that rap lyrics may be admitted in court as evidence of a defendant’s guilt. The Maryland court stated: “Petitioner’s rap lyrics had a close nexus to details of an alleged murder because the lyrics had a close factual nexus to the details of the murder, had a close temporal nexus to...
Fact or Fiction: Alleged Rape Victims Must Arbitrate Claims within the Church of Scientology
Believe it or not, this is a fact! In August of 2019 four women filed a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. The women allege they were stalked and intimidated by Church of Scientology agents after reporting to police sexual assault allegations against actor Danny Masterson, best known for his role on “That ’70s Show”. The women all claim that Masterson raped or sexually assaulted...
Tags: arbitration, Danny Masterson, religious arbitration, Scientology, sharia
New California Laws Coming In 2021
Perhaps the California legislature passed fewer laws this past year due to the pandemic or the general election, but here are the major new laws coming to the Golden State in 2021. More Employees Will Have Guaranteed 12 Weeks of Unpaid Family Leave. Currently, the California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”) requires companies with 50 or more employees to offer 12 weeks of unpaid family leave....
Tags: California, new law
Can Grandparents Sue for Unpaid Wages for Childcare? Kobe Bryant’s Mother-In-Law Just Did.
The late Kobe Bryant’s mother-in-law, Sofia Laine, has sued her own daughter – Vanessa Bryant. Vanessa Bryant inherited control of an estate valued at about $600 million after Kobe’s sudden death in a helicopter accident earlier this year. In September 2020, Sofia appeared on a Spanish-language television show and told the host that Vanessa had evicted her and left her homeless. “She told me, ‘I...
Tags: false promise, grandmother, grandparent, Kobe Bryant, oral contract, Vanessa Bryant
Fact or Fiction: Most Lawsuits Against Insurers for Failing to Cover Pandemic Losses Have Been Thrown Out of Court
Believe it or not, this is a fact! Along with thousands of smaller mom-and-pop businesses, insurers have been sued by larger companies such as: Century 21, the 60-year-old real estate brokerage, announced it would be closing for good and blamed its insurer. Retailer Ralph Lauren sued its insurance company, Factory Mutual, which was one of the few insurers that offered policies that explicitly provided some...
Tags: baseball, coverage, insurance, MLB, pandemic
Want Your Job Back? Can Employers Require Employees to Take the Covid-19 Vaccine?
On December 8, the Food and Drug Administration released papers appearing to say that Pfizer’s vaccine showed “a favorable safety profile, with no specific safety concerns.” So far, however, neither the EEOC nor the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have provided guidance to employers on COVID-19 vaccine requirements. In the past, employers have been allowed to require safety measures such as vaccines, with exceptions for...
Tags: Covid-19, employee, employer, mandatory, vaccine
Fact or Fiction: Federal Judges Have No Protection for Their Personal Information
This is a fact! Multiple federal judges and even their families have been targeted for murder. Fifteen years ago, the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan Lefkow were murdered at her home by an aggrieved former plaintiff. Four federal judges have been killed since 1979, and the number of threats is skyrocketing, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. In July 2020 federal Judge Esther...
Tags: courts, federal judge, U.S. Marshal
Will Centuries Old Laws Limit Cruise Line Liability in Covid-19 Lawsuits?
It may depend where the victim died! The Death on the High Seas Act Drastically Limits Recovery for Victims and Their Families The Death on the High Seas Act (“DOHSA”), applies “when the death of an individual is caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond three nautical miles from shore of the United States”. 46 U.S.C. §30302. If DOHSA...
Tags: Covid, cruise lines, cruise passenger, emotional distress, high seas, maritime law
Prop 22 Blows a Hole in California’s Independent Contractor Law
It’s official. California voters have voted “overwhelmingly,” (winning by almost 59% of the vote) to allow “gig economy” companies like Uber and Lyft to continue treating drivers as independent contractors. Gig economy companies like Uber funded the ballot measure after a 2018 California Supreme Court ruling, later codified in a 2019 state law called “AB 5” mandated that workers who performed tasks within a company’s...
Tags: delivery driver, gig economy, Lyft, Prop 22, ride sharing, Uber
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McShane Pleased To Mark Debut With Victory
Paul McShane was pleased to mark his Rochdale debut with a victory over Accrington Stanley.
The Republic of Ireland international joined on a short-term contract last week, and says he was made to feel welcome at the Club straight away.
“I’m very happy,” said McShane.
“It’s always nice to start off with a win. We dug in at stages in the game. They’re a decent side and they caused us a few problems, but the lads really dug in.
“Sometimes you’ve got to be scrappy and win games, and that’s also a good sign. At times, we played some good football, but I think it’s just nice to get that monkey off my back of my first game and it was nice that it was a win.
“The warm-up was tough, to be honest - I haven’t done a warm-up in ages! I was trying to preserve energy at times and feel my way in. In the first-half I felt fine, but towards the last 15-20 minutes, I could feel it a little bit in the legs.
“That was my first 90 minutes since last August, so over a year. I was just glad to get my first game in and get started with a win.
“It’s just about coming in and getting to know the lads. I could feel straight away that the lads were a good, honest bunch, and that they’d make me feel welcome, and they did that.
“I just wanted to get involved in the pattern of plays that Brian does and get as much information as I could in two days, but also to know that I’ve played football before and not to get too bogged down by everything. I needed to get out there and play, and I’m just glad it’s out of the way now.
“I was with Calvin Andrew for a few months at Crystal Palace and I’ve played against Aaron Wilbraham a few times – he’s given me a few stitches!
“I knew of the Irish lads, because you always keep an eye out for the Irish lads that are over in England.
“I was saying to Doney that if he had a ‘U’ in his name he would be ‘Dunne’, so it was nearly a complete back four of Irish today!”
Watch the full interview with McShane on iFollow Dale HERE.
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Volume XVII - Issue #24
US House Committee Introduces Threat Information Sharing Bill
NJ School District Recovers From Ransomware Attack
Federal Reserve Bank of NY Creates Dedicated Cyber Security Threat Team
Insurers Doing Business in NY State Notified of New Cyber Security Requirements
Hotel Wi-Fi Router Firmware Vulnerability
UCSS Cyber Quests Registration Open
Malvertising Campaign
Neverquest/Vawtrak Trojan Used in Attacks on Canadian Banks
California Privacy Bill Moves Out of Committee
Rewards Offered for Two Indicted in Carding Scheme
Android Flaw Allows Attackers to Modify or Replace Apps
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TRAINING UPDATE
-SANS 2015 | Orlando, FL | April 11-April 18, 2015 45 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Understanding the Offense to Build a Better Defense; and The Law of Offensive Countermeasures, Active Defense, or Whatever You Wanna Call It plus a major Expo
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-SANS Secure Canberra 2015 | Canberra, Australia | March 16 - 28, 2015 5 courses.
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-Security Operations Center (SOC) Summit | Washington, DC | April 24 - May 1, 2015 | Join chairmen Dr. Eric Cole and Jim Goddard as well as others who have faced similar challenges in increasing their enterprise's situational awareness and monitoring as well as responding to threats. 4 courses including the NEW SEC511 Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations course
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-SANS Secure Europe 2015 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | May 5-May 25, 2015 10 courses.
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-SANS Security West 2015 | San Diego, CA | May 11-May 12, 2015 29 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Emerging Trends in DFIR: Lightning Talks; and Enterprise PowerShell for Remote Security Assessment.
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NJ School District Recovers From Ransomware Attack (March 25, 2015)
A New Jersey school district's network was held hostage by ransomware. Those behind the attack demanded 500 Bitcoins ($126,400) for full restoration. While students, teachers, and staff were inconvenienced by not being able to access their files for several days, eventually most files were restored from the network's backup system, and servers are being put back online after being scrubbed of malware. Student data were unaffected as they are stored elsewhere. The New Jersey State Police and the FBI are investigating.
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/25/school_ransomware/
-http://www.scmagazine.com/swedesboro-woolwich-school-district-network-infected-b
y-ransomware/article/405434/
[Editor's Note (Murray): Backup works; it is the security measure of last resort. However, if it is visible to the file system, it is also visible to the "ransomware."
(Honan): A nice example of how basic security tasks, in this case good backups, can help remediate from a security incident. I bet the school management is happy the investment in its backup just saved it $126,400 ]
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Federal Reserve Bank of NY Creates Dedicated Cyber Security Threat Team (March 24, 25 & 26, 2015)
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has established a team dedicated to "strengthening and improving
[the organization's ]
overall supervisory approach to cyber security." In a speech at the OpRisk North America Annual Conference, the New York Fed's head of supervision Sarah Dahlgren said the team will "establish a risk-based cybersecurity assessment framework, based on best practices in the field, as well as exploring additional standards." Dahlgren also noted that "cybersecurity should be on everyone's list
[of things that keep them awake at night and that it ]
is not ... just for the Information Technology staff or the CIO to address."
-http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/new-york-fed-forms-team-focuse
d-on-cybersecurity-threats
-http://www.bis.org/review/r150325b.htm
[Editor's Note (Murray): Let us hope that someone will tell Ms. Dahlgren about the Center for Internet Security's 20 Critical Security Controls. ]
Insurers Doing Business in NY State Notified of New Cyber Security Requirements (March 26, 2015)
The superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services has notified insurers doing business in that state that they have until April 27 to inform regulators of their efforts to protect data from cyber attacks. In the letter, Benjamin Lawsky writes. "The department intends to schedule IT/cybersecurity examinations after conducting a comprehensive risk assessment of each institution." The new requirements affect approximately 160 insurers.
-http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-26/new-york-to-investigate-insure
rs-cybersecurity-work-after-hacks
Hotel Wi-Fi Router Firmware Vulnerability (March 26, 2015)
The routers used by many hotel chains for their Wi-Fi networks have a vulnerability that put guests at risk of malware infection and data theft. The flaw in the authentication firmware of InnGate routers from Singapore-based ANTlabs allows intruders to gain access to the router's root file system. The flaw could be exploited to load malware onto guests' computers, monitor and harvest data sent over the network, and allow access to the hotel's card key system.
-http://www.wired.com/2015/03/big-vulnerability-hotel-wi-fi-router-puts-guests-ri
sk/
[Editor's Note (Murray): One assumes that our readers understand that wireless LANs, in general, and hotel LANs in particular, are to be treated as hostile and that that VPNs are indicated. Unfortunately, some hotels either resist VPNs or charge a premium for allowing them. ]
UCSS Cyber Quests Registration Open (March 25, 2015)
Registration for the US Cyber Challenge (USCC) Cyber Quests competition is now open. Cyber Quests is the qualifying round for USCC Cyber Camps, which take place in the summer. Cyber Quests in an online competition that will run between April 8 and April 23.
-http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2015/mar/cyber-quests-032515.html
Cyber Quests registration site:
-http://uscc.cyberquests.org
Malvertising Campaign (March 25, 2015)
Researchers at Malwarebytes say that a malvertising campaign affecting the websites of New York Daily News and other organizations redirected users to the Hanjuan Exploit Kit. Users did not have to take any action aside from visiting the targeted websites to be redirected to the exploit kit.
-http://www.scmagazine.com/hanjuan-exploit-kit-leveraged-in-malvertising-campaign
/article/405455/
Neverquest/Vawtrak Trojan Used in Attacks on Canadian Banks (March 25, 2015)
A Trojan known as Neverquest or Vawtrak has been used in attacks against at least 15 financial institutions in Canada. The malware has the ability to capture videos and screenshots and to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks against people conducting online banking transactions. The malware spreads in several ways, including drive-by downloads and malvertising. The Trojan's command-and-control server appears to be in Russia.
-http://www.scmagazine.com/fraudsters-use-neverquest-trojan-to-target-canadian-ba
nks/article/405415/
-http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/vawtrak-is-back-and-stronger-than/
California Privacy Bill Moves Out of Committee (March 25, 2015)
A bill in the California state legislature that would require warrants to access all digital data has moved out of committee. The California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) aims to protect citizens' privacy. Earlier versions of the bill have twice been vetoed by the governor.
-http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/california-bill-requires-warrant-for-
stingray-use/
[Editor's Note (Northcutt): The ACLU has an incomplete, but interesting map of the states where law enforcement uses cellular site simulators:
-https://www.aclu.org/maps/stingray-tracking-devices-whos-got-them]
Rewards Offered for Two Indicted in Carding Scheme (March 26, 2015)
The US government is offering a significant reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of two people who have been indicted for their alleged roles in a carding scheme. The State Department is offering a reward of up to US $2 million in Roman Olegovitch Zolotarev's case, and up to US $1 million in Konstantin Lopatin's.
-http://www.computerworld.com/article/2902759/us-offers-rewards-for-fugitive-russ
ian-hackers.html
[Editor's Note (Honan): A nice example of how old world techniques, reward money, can be used to tackle online threat actors.
(Northcutt): The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website says the Carder.su organization did harm in excess of 50 million dollars:
-https://www.ice.gov/most-wanted/zolotarev-roman-olegovich
Here is the State Department post with the reward offer:
-http://www.state.gov/j/inl/tocrewards/c66447.htm
According to Wired magazine, Russia is telling cyber criminals not to leave the country else they may get kidnapped:
-http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/04/stay-in-russia]
Android Flaw Allows Attackers to Modify or Replace Apps (March 24 & 25, 2015)
A security flaw in the Android operating system could be exploited to remotely take over vulnerable devices. Attackers could take advantage of the flaw to replace or modify known and trusted apps so that they are malicious. The attack works only at third-party app stores, not the Google Play store.
-http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/236836-android-flaw-could-expose-half-of
-all-users
-http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/android-hijacking-bug-may-allow-attacler
s-to-install-password-stealers/
-http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/03/android-installer-hijacking-v
ulnerability-could-expose-android-users-to-malware/#
ANTLabs InnGate Unauthenticated rsync server
-http://blog.cylance.com//spear-team-cve-2015-0932
Samsung Going to Offer Iris Scanning in Future Mobile Devices
-http://www.sri.com/newsroom/press-releases/sri-international-offer-iris-biometri
c-embedded-products-mobile-b2b
Multiple Cisco Advisories
-http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20
150325-ani
AFNetworking Library SSL Vulnerability
-http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2015/03/ssl-mitm-attack-in-afnetworking-251-do.ht
Certificate Pinning
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Pinup+on+your+Smartphone/19513/
Elastichoney
-http://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2015/03/23/introducing-elastichoney-an-elast
icsearch-honeypot/
British Telecom Users Affected by VoIP Fraud
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/25/bt_home_hub_fraud_sip_voip_calls/
Repurposing Logs
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Repurposing+Logs/19503/
Old Vulnerable Flash Applets Still Deployed And Need to be Recompiled
-http://blog.nibblesec.org/2015/03/the-old-is-new-again-cve-2011-2461-is.html
Wind Turbine Web Admin Vulnerability
-https://www.auscert.org.au/22297
Google Finds Fake Google/Gmail SSL Certificates
-http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.de/2015/03/maintaining-digital-certificate-
security.html
Shawn Henry recently retired as FBI Executive Assistant Director responsible for all criminal and cyber programs and investigations worldwide, as well as international operations and the FBI's critical incident response. He is now president of CrowdStrike Services.
Mark Weatherford is a Principal at The Chertoff Group and the former Deputy Under Secretary of Cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security.
Sean McBride is Director of Analysis and co-founder of Critical Intelligence, and, while at Idaho National Laboratory, he initiated the situational awareness effort that became the ICS-CERT.
Tom Liston is the Principal Information Security Architect for Warner Brothers Entertainment, a handler for the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, and co-author of the book Counter Hack Reloaded.
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Analyst Upgrades: Apple, Canadian Solar, Bank of America
Analysts upwardly revised their ratings on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:CSIQ), and Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC)
Karee Venema
CSIQ
Analysts upwardly revised their ratings on Apple Inc. (AAPL), Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ), and Bank of America Corp (BAC)
Analysts are weighing in on iPhone purveyor Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), alternative energy concern Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:CSIQ), and financial firm Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC). Here's a quick roundup of today's bullish brokerage notes on AAPL, CSIQ, and BAC.
Monday's whipsaw price action for AAPL resolved with the stock down 2.5% at $103.12. The equity is poised to erase these losses today, after Wells Fargo upped its outlook to "outperform" from "hold." Specifically, the brokerage firm said the security's recent sell-off has "over-corrected" AAPL, and presents a "more attractive risk/reward." Additionally, Wells Fargo said CEO Tim Cook's comments regarding China have provided the brokerage firm with a more supportive outlook for the September quarter. Since topping out at a record high of $134.54 in late April, AAPL has shed 23.4% -- a move that's been well-documented. Option traders, meanwhile, have been growing increasingly antsy, and at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), Apple Inc.'s 10-day put/call volume ratio of 0.66 sits just 4 percentage points from a 52-week peak.
CSIQ tracked the volatile path of its sector peers yesterday -- hitting a nearly two-year low of $14.16 along the way -- eventually settling down 6.4% at $16.28. Year-to-date, the shares are now staring at a 33% deficit, thanks in no small part to last week's steep earnings-related sell-off. Nevertheless, Cowen and Company started coverage on the stock with an "outperform" rating and a $28.50 price target -- sending Canadian Solar Inc. up 11% in electronic trading. The brokerage firm's upbeat outlook echoes the general consensus seen around the Street, with all four analysts that cover the shares maintaining a "strong buy" rating. What's more, the average 12-month price target of $41.79 stands in territory not charted since March 2014.
BAC is set to recover from yesterday's 5% plunge -- which had the stock panning new annual lows of $14.60, before closing at $15.29. At last check, the shares were up 6% ahead of the bell, following a big central bank move out of China and a round of bullish brokerage notes. In fact, Baird and Bernstein echoed the outlook given by KBW yesterday, and boosted their ratings to "outperform." Macquarie, meanwhile, upgraded the stock to "neutral" from "underperform," citing a positive risk/reward ratio. Longer term, shares of Bank of America Corp are down 14.5% year-to-date. In the options pits, short-term speculators have rarely been as call-skewed as they are now. In fact, BAC's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) of 0.53 rests lower than 98% of all similar readings taken in the past year.
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Gai Laing Jones
Term: 7/1/2019 - 6/30/2021
Theatre educator, author | Ojai, CA
Jones is a longtime theatre educator having served for 34 years as theatre and troupe director at El Dorado High School, in addition to instructing at several California colleges, theatres, workshops, and festivals as a teaching artist. She is the founder of CA Youth in Theatre and esteemed author of Raising the Curtain, Activities for the Theatre Arts Classroom and Break a Leg, Tips for the Theatre Educator. She has also served EdTA as California chapter director and EdTA board director.
School Counselor | Columbus, OH
Wilson is a school counselor in the Columbus City School District where he was formerly a theatre, speech and English teacher. He has served on the board of Ohio Thespians for 18 years including four years as the Chapter Director. He has served EdTA as an ITO advisor and also as a member of the Advocacy Leadership Network. Wilson also served on the writing team for the National Core Arts Standards for Theatre.
Laurie Baskin
Term: 3/30/2017 - 6/30/2021
Theatre Communications Group |
Baskin is the director of research, policy and collective action for TCG where she oversees
education programs and surveys, and is integral in the development of theatre education assessment models. She also serves as TCG's liaison to the Performing Arts Alliance, directing federal advocacy efforts on behalf of the professional, not-for-profit American theatre field.
Theatre practitioner |
Erin Carr (she/her) works as a theatre practitioner, physical theatre coordinator, and body language consultant. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Carr holds a BFA in theatre and is currently working on her MBA. She has been an EdTA professional member, working as a teaching artist around the U.S., since 2012 and is a Thespian alum of Troupe 5433.
Mark Drum
Theatre educator | NY, NY
A proud Junior Thespian (Troupe 88331) and Thespian (Troupe 6513) alumnus from Farmington Hills, Michigan, Drum is also a University of Northern Colorado theatre graduate, a former Michigan Thespians Student Thespian Officer, International Thespian Officer, and past New York Thespians board member. He is a Filipino immigrant, teaching artist, and theatre arts advocate currently serving as an appointed trustee for the Educational Theatre Foundation and is a 2017 recipient of the Daron Hawkins Award.
Helen Duranleau-Brennan
Literacy and arts consultant | Davenport, IA
Duranleau-Brennan is the literacy and arts consultant with Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency. She was formerly the theatre and speech director at Davenport North and Davenport Assumption High School, and is a former Iowa Thespians board member and chapter director.
Marti Fowler
Retired theatre educator |
Fowler has served as a Missouri Thespians board member for six years, served as the chapter Thespian conference chair for two events, and has been the director of Thespian Troupe 1220 for 22 years. Fowler co-developed and produced 10 educational videos about technical theatre, and funds two Future Theatre Educator scholarships through EdTA.
Carolina Garcia
Netflix | Los Angeles, CA
Garcia is director of original series at Netflix, where she focuses on young adult and family content, which includes series such as The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Stranger Things, Fuller House, Raising Dion, Atypical, and others. She began her career in entertainment at 20th Century Fox Television as a creative executive on the original programming team. In November 2019, Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Top 35 Executives Under 35 in its annual list of young execs leading “a seismic change” and poised to take the industry into the future. She has a degree in business administration and political science from the University of San Diego. Born in Argentina, she was raised in California and is an alum of International Thespian Troupe 2129 at Claremont High School.
David Tate Hastings
Theatre educator | Olathe, KS
Hastings has been the director of Troupe #5006 at Olathe South High School since 2002. He is a former chapter director of Kansas Thespians, and has served as a chapter board member since 2005. He was the founding Junior Thespian troupe director at Southwest Junior High School in 1999.
Theatre educator | Milwaukie, OR
Walker has been the director of the Milwaukie High School theatre program since 1992 and is the founding teacher at the Milwaukie Academy of Arts. He is also director of Thespian Troupe 75, and the former chapter director and board member of the Oregon Thespians.
Jeff Whiting
Director and choreographer | NY, NY
Whiting is a director and choreographer with credits on Broadway (Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, Scottsboro Boy), Television (Disney’s Magical Moments Parade), special events (James Taylor Live, Stro! Gala Honoring Susan Stroman), opera (We Open In Paris), and concerts around the world. Whiting is the creator and founder of Stage Write Software and the founding artistic director of the music theatre training program, The Open Jar Institute.
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Mark Walsh Courtroom
Posted Mon, June 3rd, 2019 5:29 pm
Justice Thomas says he has “no stress”’ and is “doing fine”
Posted Mon, June 3rd, 2019 5:29 pm by Mark Walsh
Justice Clarence Thomas told an audience at the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon that he doesn’t know where rumors of his potential retirement at the end of this term originated.
“My wife gets alerts,” Thomas said, apparently referring to news or web alerts that his spouse, Virginia Thomas, receives. When she showed one such alert to him earlier this term, his response was, “Wow. I didn’t know that.”
“I have no idea where that stuff comes from,” Thomas added during an hourlong conversation with the financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein in the courtroom, before an audience of several hundred members of the Supreme Court Historical Society. “People can say things about you and for you that have nothing to do with you.”
Rubenstein, a trustee of the Historical Society who frequently interviews the mighty and powerful on his show on Bloomberg Television and elsewhere, didn’t specifically ask Thomas to repeat the firm denial of any impending retirement that the justice offered earlier this spring.
Asked about potential retirement at an event at Pepperdine University law school, Thomas said, “I’m not retiring,” and that he had no plans to retire in 20 years or 30 years.
Thomas turns 71 on June 23.
With the court entering the final month of its term, Rubenstein asked Thomas how he relaxes during the term.
“I really don’t have a lot of stress. I cause stress,” Thomas said with a laugh. He goes to Roman Catholic mass, reads and follows the sports exploits of his adopted favorite college, the University of Nebraska. (His wife and mother-in-law attended there.)
Thomas, perhaps paradoxically, said he wished people knew more about the Supreme Court and did not have to rely on “what’s written about it.” But he is not in favor of allowing cameras in the courtroom because cameras tend to change the nature of any proceeding where they are introduced.
“I don’t see how the cameras will enhance how we do our jobs,” Thomas said.
The justice discussed his preference for frequently choosing law clerks from outside the Ivy League and other top-tier law schools.
“I have a preference for kids from modest backgrounds,” he said.
He did not seem bothered by the growing dominance of the specialty Supreme Court bar in recent years, and although advocacy by lawyers from the states and their subdivisions has improved, he understands why many parties before the court choose to “go with the .400 hitter.”
Rubenstein asked Thomas if he has ever considered what he might be doing if he had not become a judge. “Have you ever thought about what you might have done the last 25 or 30 years if you had not been in the judicial world?” Rubenstein suggested the “higher calling of private equity’’ — his own field.
“Is that a job offer?” Thomas said to laughter.
When Rubenstein asked Thomas what the current compensation for a Supreme Court justice is, Thomas said, “Oh, I think it’s plenty. It’s not quite where you are.”
Thomas said he was not disturbed by the fact that many law clerks leave the court and immediately receive salaries and bonuses that far exceed the pay of the justices.
“I think I am so blessed to be here, to have the opportunity to live up to my oath, to be a part of this country and the system in this country,” he said. “So, this is fine. My wife and I are doing fine.”
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Recommended Citation: Mark Walsh, Justice Thomas says he has “no stress”’ and is “doing fine”, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 3, 2019, 5:29 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/justice-thomas-says-he-has-no-stress-and-is-doing-fine/
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Home » News » Podcast » Ep 30: Religious freedom in China
Ep 30: Religious freedom in China
On paper, the Chinese constitution permits 'normal religious activities'. In reality, if you try to practise your religion in China independently of the state, you risk prison and worse.
In this episode, Dr Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch, speaks to Emma Park about freedom of religion and belief in China – or the lack of it.
They discuss the Chinese authorities' persecution of the Uighurs, the Turkic Muslim minority in the north-west, and the deliberate strategies that are being used to wipe out their culture. In Tibet, Sophie reveals how followers of the Dalai Lama are sentenced to years in prison, and how the Chinese authorities even keep spies in the monasteries. There are similar stories of the suppression of Christians and Falun Gong practitioners elsewhere in China.
The speakers also consider the feebleness of the international community's response to these human rights violations –– and the grim outlook for basic freedoms in the People's Republic.
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China's religious persecution is a secularist issue
China and Tibet – Human Rights Watch
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I'm listening to the latest episode of the NSS podcast. Emma Park is joined by @SophieHRW to discuss freedom of belief in China, the state's regulation of religion and the plight of the Uighurs.
Tags: China, Human Rights, International
Pandemic harming freedom from religion in many countries, says report
The Covid-19 pandemic has undermined the rights of people who reject religious norms in many countries, a report has found.
NSS urges Foreign Office to take up case of anti-veiling protester
The NSS has urged the government to take up the case of an Iranian activist who faces a long jail term for protesting against mandatory veiling....
Posted: Wed, 22 Jul 2020
Parliament set to debate China’s persecution of Uighur Muslims
Parliament is expected to debate China's persecution of Uighur Muslims after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding action....
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Mandatory declaration of religion breaches human rights, says NSS
The NSS has challenged a requirement that parents in Greece must declare their religion on children's birth certificates.
Amid widespread interest in the pope's views on same-sex civil unions, Megan Manson says states shouldn't allow themselves to be used to further the Catholic Church's agendas.
Human rights should not be at the mercy of the pope’s pontifications
Tags: Abortion, Catholic Church, Human rights, LGBT Rights, Reproductive Rights
Posted: Wed, 28 Oct 2020
Keith Porteous Wood reflects on the achievements of Lord Lester, who died earlier this month, and the enduring relevance of his work.
Anthony Lester’s legacy for human rights and secularism
Tags: Human rights, Secularism
Posted: Thu, 27 Aug 2020
China may be the most godless country in the world, but it is far from being a secular one. Stephen Evans says the intensifying religious persecution in the repressive state must be condemned.
China is...
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Record Numbers for Moscow, by Alfons Juck, Ich bin Bostonian, by Larry Eder
By Larry Eder on April 19, 2013 10:20 PM | 0 Comments
Luzhikhi Stadium,Moscow,Russia, photo courtesy of IAAF
It is nearly five am in London, England, on Saturday morning. My son, Adam, sent me a video from the Boston Red Sox game where it was announced, that justice had been served. The crowd erupted in huge applause, and I sat in my room, with tears in my eyes.
adidas has introduced a t-shirt about helping Boston. Now sold in the US, the response has been so high, it will soon be sold in Europe. But, in truth, until that little girl who lost one of her legs forgets about her brother, who was robbed from her, the adidas Boston shirt should be sold around the world to remind everyone that evil never sleeps.
I understand people's needs to have independence. I also understand that my countries' independence was hard fought, and was an ugly, brutal war, soldier by soldier, house by house, until the new country called the US was independent. In my history, it is hard to process an eight year old's death, the maiming of his sister, and the horrific wounding of their mother, minutes after hugging their father at the iconic Boston marathon finish line. The image of a baseball hat-wearing evil doer, in pictures in newspapers across the world, makes the moment even more horrifically surreal.
I am certain that the bombings in Boston will bring attention to the civil war in Chechnya within our country. The two brothers' desire to affect the U.S. may have come to fruition, but not in the way that they hoped. By bombing runners in the iconic city of Boston, these young men were foolish, to say the least. Americans first, Bostonians second, may seem polarizing in many cases, but we are all Bostonians now, we are all Americans now, and running is now an act of defiance against people who despise our way of life.
One more thing, fundamentalism is out of season. Get that right. No matter the color, or the accent, we are Americans. We are Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, agnostics, pagans and yes, atheists. Our founding fathers established a country that allowed us freedom from religion, not freedom of religion. Our founding fathers believed that religion and government were separate entities. It is difficult to fathom sometimes, but it is part of a society that has created great thought, great science, great technology.
The man who convinced me to triple major in college was a man born in Pakistan, who first taught me about Islam, a religion founded in the same place as Judaism and Christianity. Most Muslims who have come to this country, from Eritrea, Russia, and other parts of the world, love America as much as we all do. The majority of them have no interest in harming our country and see the bombings in Boston with as much heartache as we do as a nation.
These two brothers who lived in this country for a decade or more, are, as their grandfather described them, "losers". My heartfelt prayer is that the nineteen-year old who was caught lives on to a ripe old age in one of our accomdating federal prisons. Only then, will he understand how wrong he was to bomb one of our finest sporting establishments.
People who do bad things to our country complete their evil actions in deceptive ways. 9/11 perpetrators hid their faith, and disliked, no, change that, hated, our open, secular society, that allows people of all faiths, or no faiths, who live in our country, as long as they respect others, to live their dreams.
Today, and in the near future, we are all Bostonians. We are all Americans. We are all runners.
Ich bin Bostonian.
EME NEWS (APR 18, 2013) UPDATE
RECORD NUMBERS FOR MOSCOW
MONACO (MON): Record numbers of athletes and nations are expected to compete at the IAAF World Championships this year, which will be held in Moscow between 10 to 18 August. Preliminary entries received by the IAAF for the 14th edition of the Championships indicate that 205 of the 212 National Member Federations intend to participate in the Russian capital. The previous record was 202 countries in 1999 in Seville. Initial entries of 1409 men and 1107 women are of course more than ever but the real numbers at the end are always less. But hopes for the best participation are very realistic. The records for participation at previous Championships are: 1173 for men, 856 for women and 1894 in total.
AF VS VCB IN KINGSTON AT 100 M
MONACO (MON): US sprinter Allyson Felix and her Jamaican counterpart Veronica Campbell-Brown are expected to be among the stars of this year's IAAF Diamond League and with three weeks to go before the opening meeting of 2013, on Friday 10 May in Doha, the pair spoke to journalists on Thursday, writes the IAAF. Felix is scheduled to run relays at MtSAC and Penn Relays, Campbell-Brown said about relays: „As of now, I don't have any 4x100 races in my schedule with the Jamaican ladies. Over the years, we normally practice our baton exchanges at the camp (the pre-championship training camp) and so I'm expecting that will be the same this year." Both will be opening their international season at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Kingston on 4 May in the 100 m. „For that race, it'll be my first individual race and it'll be the first time I've come to Jamaica since the World Juniors in 2002. I'm just excited to open my season and see where I am. I had a long year last year so I've only gradually been getting back to where I need to be this year. I'll be racing to get sharpness. I need to be in shape for the US nationals, so for that race (in Jamaica) it'll be opening up and seeing where things are at," said Felix. „For me, that race will be my first 100m so I'll be trying to see where I am at as well. It's always a pleasure and it's always so much fun and exciting to compete at home so I'm looking forward to entertaining all the fans that are coming out to support us," added Campbell-Brown.
BOSTON (USA): Adidas, Official Sponsor of the Boston Athletic Association and the Boston Marathon, announced the launch of a limited edition „Boston stands as one" t-shirt. The t-shirt is available atadidas.com with 100% of the proceeds going to The One Fund Boston, Inc. in order to help the people most affected by the tragic events. The One Fund Boston, Inc. was announced to support those affected by the tragic events that occurred in Boston on Monday.
LONDON (GBR): Olympic marathon winner Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia came to New York last November for the ING New York City Marathon as the newly crowned Olympic Marathon champion and record holder, and she was ready to race. Under her coach, Getaneh Tessema, she had successfully restarted her training after her Olympic victory in August and was ready to run her third marathon of the year, the final stop for the 2011/2012 World Marathon Majors series. „I was well prepared for New York," she told reporters here today. „Unfortunately, because of the weather it was canceled." Prior to the race in New York, Gelana's management team at Global Sports Communications had already secured her a place in Sunday's Virgin London Marathon. Tessema knew that trying to put her into a „replacement" marathon would be a mistake, and that it was best for her to run a shorter before starting her dedicated build-up for London. Informs Race Results Weekly. And training has been good, but athlete and coach said. Two other women who will run here, Atsede Baysa (2:22:03 PB) and Meselech Melkamu (2:21:01) trained with Gelana, so she had an excellent group surrounding her.
LONDON (GBR): Double olympic winner Mo Farah faced perhaps the largest pre-race assembly of reporters to attend a Virgin London Marathon press conference since Paula Radcliffe's heyday, and said his decision to run only half the race here Sunday was an easy one. „It's a no-brainer, really," said Farah, who had more than a dozen television cameras recording his every word. Surely, his is the most expensive marathon appearance fee to be paid to an athlete who has committed--to both the organizers and his coach, Alberto Salazar--that he will not finish the race. While experts dismiss the estimate given by the Daily Mail in a published report last month at USD 1.1 million as improbable, it is certain that it is comfortably in the six figures, something organizers have steadfastly refused to confirm. Writes Race Results Weekly. „I definitely want to test myself on the marathon," Farah told reporters. „I'm not ready this year, but my aim is to learn from this year. So, next year I'm ready to go." He added: „I want to run, I want to get the feel of it. That's the honest truth."
LONDON (GBR): The Virgin London Marathon has announced that it will donate 2 GBP for every finisher in Sunday's race to The One Fund Boston set up to raise money for victims of the explosions there earlier this week. The race organisers estimate that around 35,500 people will cross the line on Sunday meaning at least 70 000 GBP - more than 100 000 USD - is likely to be raised for the fund. Organizers are informing.
THESSALONIKI (GRE): The Organizing Committee of Thessaloniki Marathon decided that all participants will run with black wristbands (titled Thessaloniki to Boston) and also everyone will have a sticker which will read Why?.
SOCHI (RUS): An important guest attended the final day of the AIPS congress, Dimitry Kozak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. He officially handed over the AIPS congress flag to Chingiz Huseyn-Zade, Vice-President of the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan. Huseyn-Zade stated: "It is a great pleasure for us to take the responsibility for the next AIPS congress in Baku." He added that it is going to be a very special meeting as 2014 is the 90th anniversary of the International Sports Press Association which was founded in 1924.
GEORGETOWN (CAY): Olympic silver medalist Luguelin Santos is another top name from the world of athletics who will be visiting Cayman next month to compete in the second annual Cayman Invitational track and field meet, taking place on 8th May at Truman Bodden Sports Complex. He will run his special event, the 400 m.
INDIANAPOLIS (USA): The storied Penn Relays will play host to the 14th edition of USA vs. The World on Saturday, April 27 to kick off the 2013 Outdoor USATF Championship Series. The relays are the perfect start to the USATF Championship Series that also includes the adidas Grand Prix (May 25), Nike Prefontaine Classic (June 1) and the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (June 19-23). In women 4x100 m the US world record breaking and olympic golden team will run together (Bartoletta, Felix, Knight and Jeter). In the men 4x400 m special team USA member will be Manteo Mitchell. Team USA will have to put up a tough fight with a list of international all-stars and Olympic medalists descending on Franklin Field. World and Olympic Champion Kirani James will headline the Caribbean All-Stars 4x400m alongside two-time Olympic Champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic. On the women's side, two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will lead the Jamaican contingent in the fierce USA vs. Jamaica rivalry.
COLORADO SPRINGS (USA): USADA announced that sprinter Shawn Crawford has received a two-year suspension for committing an anti-doping rule violation in which he failed to file his whereabouts information. Crawford's two-year period of ineligibility, began on April 17, 2013, the date he received the sanction. He is 2004 Olympic winner in the 200 m and silver holder from 2008. At 2009 Worlds was fourth in the 200 m final, his best is 19.79 from 2004.
TUSCALOOSA (USA): Olympic and World Champion at 400 m Kirani James is not going to compete at Beijing World Challenge meet as informed by Chinese media. His agent Renaldo Nehemiah confirmed he plans to return after Shanghai Diamond League. The schedule of the current world leader after 44.72 in Nassau is after Penn Relays and Shanghai to run at Prefontaine Classic in Eugene and then Golden Spike Ostrava meets.
LOS ANGELES (USA): Due to the full closure and evacuation of the Cal State L.A. campus at noon on Thursday for precautionary measures, the Cal State L.A. Twilight Open has been canceled. The school website informs.
BAMBOUS (MRI, Apr 18): Belgium's junior Nafissatou Thiam had a very good start in the heptathlon on day one of the African Combined Event Championships with 3703 points score. She registered three personal bests in four events and is clearly on her way to achieve way over 6000 points. Her results were: 14.53 +3.3 100 m hurdles, 190 PB in high jump, 14.01 PB shot put and 24.89 +1.8 PB at the 200 m.
BAMBOUS (MRI, Apr 18): In the accompanying International meet Lesotho sprinter Mosito Lehata clocked impressive national record in the 200 m 20.49 (0.0) what was also new meet record. He also won the 100 m in 10.36 (+1.7). South African Offentse Mogawane topped the 400 m in 45.93 (and was second in the 200 m 20.95). Kenyan Vincent Kibet posted another meet record with 3:39.09 in the 1500 m. French 2011 European Junior Champion Quentin Bigot improved his season best to 74.29 in the hammer. On the women side fastest Namibian Globina Mayova won both sprints 11.73 (+0.6) and 23.63 (+0.4). Her country colleague Tjipekapora Herunga achieved meet record in women 400 m 52.34. South African Mapaseka Makhanya won the 800 m in 2:03.93, another meet record.
KASARANI (KEN, Apr 18): To add from Kenyan Schools Championships Festus Kiprono clocked 7:57.7 to win boys 3000 m race ahead of Alexander Mutiso 7:59.8 and Elvis Kemboi 8:01.3.
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Strong Performances highlight Day 1 for Team USA at World Youth
Provided by USATF
DONETSK, UKRAINE - Team USA had a strong showing on the first day of competition, with many athletes securing personal records as they advanced to the next round of competition at the IAAF World Youth Championships.
In the first finals of the championships, Team USA had two athletes record top-10 finishes in the throws. First it was Amir Ali Patterson (Encino, Calif.) who took to the shot put ring, where he duplicated his mark of 19.69m/64-7.25 from this morning’s qualification. Then it was Lloydricia Cameron (Miami, Fla.) in the women’s discus who also placed eighth with her throw of 45.48m/149-2.
Kenturah Orji (Budd Lake, N.J.) landed a hop, skip and jump of 13.43m/44-0.75 to advance automatically to the finals of the women’s triple jump. Orji improved her personal best by 3.5 inches and moved up to No. 5 on the all-time high school list.
Bailey Roth (Colorado Springs, Colo.) recorded the No. 2 all-time high school performance in the men’s 2,000m steeplechase in 5:45.20. Roth was overtaken at the finish line by Filip Sasinek of the Czech Republic for the final auto qualifying spot. Roth will have another chance at the high school record as he advanced to the final as the sixth fastest man of the day.
In the 400m hurdles, all three athletes advanced with ease. Samantha Gonzales (Carrollton, Texas) ran a personal best of 59.66 to win the fourth heat and clock the third-fastest time of the day. On the men’s side, Marlon Humphrey (Hoover, Ala.) and Kenny Selmon (Marbleton, Ga.) both won their heats to advance automatically to the semifinals. Humphrey crossed the line in the third fastest time of the day in 52.00, with Selmon one spot behind in 52.03.
The 100m women rolled straight through to the semifinals as Ariana Washington (Signal Hill, Calif.) and Ky Westbrook (Chandler, Ariz.) both won their heats to advance automatically. Washington cruised to the line in 11.52, with Westbrook in 11.59.
After four events in the men’s octathlon, Gabe Moore (Freeport, Fla.) sits in 6th place with 1,589 points. Moore is 189 points down from the leader Karsten Warholm of Norway, and only 16 points out of a podium finish. Moore was third overall in the men’s 100m in a personal best time of 11.28. Earlier in the day, Moore recorded another PR in the long jump with a mark of 6.90m/22-7.75. Jack Lint (Westerville, Ohio) is in 21st place with 1,454 points.
Robert Ford (San Antonio, Texas) ran in second through the first lap of the men’s 800m; however, he was unable to hold his position on the final straightaway and took 7th in 1:58.77
Competing in the IAAF’s youngest age group, the 16 and 17-year-old athletes were selected to represent Team USA after competing in the World Youth Track & Field Trials in Edwardsville, Ill., on June 25-26.
For complete results and schedule of events of the 2013 IAAF World Championships, visit www.IAAF.org. Competition resumes Thursday at 9:15 am local time.
Samantha Gonzales, women’s 400m hurdles, round 1
“It went really well. It gives me a lot of confidence going into the next round, it gives me a good boost.”
Marlon Humphrey, men’s 400m hurdles, round 1
“It felt pretty good. It is kind of like a dream come true coming out here and having all of these people watching me. I feel relieved, getting this first round done felt pretty good.”
Kenny Selmon, men’s 400m hurdles, round 1
“It was fun. When I walked out of the tunnel I was looking around and I was like ‘oh my gosh, there are so many people here.’ But it’s fun to do this in front of a big crowd. It is definitely good for the team to have No. 1 and 2 as Americans, so it is good in that aspect. But it also means my competition is on my team. But we’re all having fun.”
Ariana Washington, women’s 100m, round 1
“I felt relaxed and in control of my race from start to finish. I took control of the race right when the gun went off, so that is a really big thing for me. It was a lot of fun, it is a new experience, but it is a learning experience.”
Ky Westbrook, women’s 100m, round 1
“I think it was a good start. My start didn’t feel how I wanted it to be, but that is great, because now I can improve. I think I can definitely go out stronger, and like I said, it was a good start.”
Bailey Roth, men’s 3,000m steeplechase, round 1
“My goal was definitely to make the final. You can’t come in here with too many expectations. You can have goals for the final, but unless you make it there, you can’t accomplish them. So coming in, my main priority was to make the final. We can adjust and go over tactics later, now that this is done.”
Lloydricia Cameron, women’s discus,final
“I felt good. Coming to a big track meet like this and having a new experience, it makes me feel good that I placed. It wasn’t the best day, but it was a good day, and I thank God for allowing me to come here and compete.”
Robert Ford, men’s 800m, round 1
“I was more than proud to run for the USA. It’s an honor to be on this team and have the flag on my chest. Not many people get this opportunity, so I’m just happy to have run here. I came away with a lot of experience, and there was a lot to take in, I’ve never run at this level before.”
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Savage Humans and Stray Dogs
A study in Aggression
Hiranmay Karlekar - Consultant Editor, The Pioneer
Aggression & Violence
September 2008 | 296 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
The mass slaughter of stray dogs at Bangalore and elsewhere in Karnataka in 2007 outraged animal lovers throughout India. While the killing of two children, attributed to such animals, was profoundly tragic, the authorities` response was both cruel and counter-productive in terms of a strategy for controlling stray dog populations.
Savage Humans and Stray Dogs: A Study in Aggression explores the entire gory train of events in detail and argues that there might have been more to it than met the eye. The book looks at human aggression and the entire range of relations between human and non-human living beings, and contends that the onslaught had its cultural/psychological roots in a mindset that has evolved in a universe of morality that humans have created and which excludes animals. This universe reflects the defining influence of the Judaeo-Christian and Renaissance-Humanist tradition on the evolution of modernity in the West. In contrast, the major ancient Indian texts embody a very different tradition in which all creation, animate and inanimate, is seen to be a manifestation of the Universal Consciousness and, hence, deserving of justice and respect.
The author explores the psychological roots of violence, showing that in some cases, demand for slaughter of animals reflects the transference of the genocidal impulse to it.
This book is a stimulating read for people interested in the study of behavioural psychology, aggression, violence, human-animal relations and the environment. It would also be an invaluable resource for animal rights activists.
The Killing Fields of Karnataka
The Games People Play
A Divide That Isn't
The Moral Universe of the Soul
The Wages of Exclusion
Eradicating the Roots of Aggression
Savage Human and Stray Dogs is important as the first piece of documented research into the most blatant violation of India’s animal protection laws in recent history, committed ironically by lawmakers themselves….The book ends with a call to include animals in our moral universe which I wholeheartedly endorse.
The Little Magazine
What puts this book in a class by itself is Karlekar’s discussion of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita and Brahma Sutra and other Vedantic / Hindu texts to find out what they have to say about the human / animal divide…. It is hoped that this powerful and important book will be a wake-up call to the people of India, Asia and beyond and that the issues it raises will be widely discussed.
Hiranmay Karlekar’s book is not merely human aggression against stray dogs…It also exposes the ugly side of man, who indulges in senseless killing, intrigue, greed, jealousy—attributes not found in animals….His book is strongly recommended for those who wish to call themselves human beings in the true sense of the word.
Writing about human aggression towards animals, veteran journalist Karlekar uses as his starting point the mass slaughter of stray dogs in Karnataka last year, sparked together by two cases of the mauling to death of small children in Bangalore….Karlekar’s study goes beyond anecdotes to discuss the roles of different players in the conflict, and to describe the most humane and practical method of managing the stray dog population: ABC or animal birth control.
Is MORAL concern something owed by humans only to humans? For 2,500 years this has seemed to be the case, not by logic or argument but simply because it was taken for granted….Savage Humans and Stray Dogs which investigates the 2007 mass slaughter of dogs in Bangalore represents India’s first documented research into a specific instance of animal cruelty….Anyone who is involved in street dog management should read Karlekar’s book. Savage Humans and Stray Dogs is an invaluable record, reminder and warning against wanton human aggression towards other animals.
The book rouses the conscious of the entire society and propagates care for stray dogs.
Savage Humans and Stray Dogs: A Study in Aggression…starts off with the mass killing of stray dogs in Bangalore and elsewhere in Karnataka in 2007….Karlekar shows how much of the mass slaughter went against the directives of the World Health Organization….He examines the grounds for assuming the superiority of human beings over animals. Citing instances from ancient and modern literature, he shows how the divide between the two species is one “that isn’t”. He also analyzes the psychological dimensions of the human tendency to find cruelty “funny” or to damn the Other by demonizing it. Karlekar comes to the conclusion that the line between Nazis exterminating Jews and men murdering dogs is thin. This is an intense and sincere work, evidently inspired by Karlekar’s deep love for dogs and the resultant indignation at their slaughter.
Savage Humans and Stray Dogs …looks at human aggression and the entire range of relations between human and other creatures….The book is a stimulating read for people interested in the study of behavioural psychology, aggression, violence, human-animal relations and the environment. It would also be an invaluable resource for animal-rights activists.
Karlekar’s book is a great one for references, ferreting out instances of what happened in Bangalore and why they happened in the first place. But Savage Humans and Stray Dogs is also a grim reminder of how hopelessly our country continues to disrespect its four-legged citizens. Didn’t Gandhi say that the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated? Read this book and you’ll see for yourself how weak our nation is today.
It is time to remember that when we destroy and demonise the guardians, we lay ourselves open to attack. Karlekar’s book is one such spark of sanity. Try and identify the shadow.
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Inside the new high-tech lock-downs
Prison gadgetry promises to save money and reduce overcrowding -- but at what cost?
By Jim Rendon
August 30, 1998 11:00PM (UTC)
In a small, dim room where riot gear is chained to the wall and a computer monitor is perched on the counter, three jail guards sit comfortably behind tall tinted windows, keeping order on the cell block below them without lifting a boot. The recreation room, jail cells and showers arc in a neat semicircle around the control booth. Cell doors are open since it is recreation time, and the inmates, wearing Los Angeles County's gold and royal blue uniforms, play checkers and talk in the day room, an open area near the cells. Instead of bars, shatter-proof glass walls confine the inmates -- leaving guards and prisoners to eye each other mutely all day long, like fish in neighboring tanks on a pet store shelf.
"Lock down, possible miss out in the facility," a voice crackles over the booth's intercom. Somewhere in the building an inmate is missing. No one moves except officer Johnson. He casually flips a switch on the control panel, and a loud siren begins to wail. Then he bends the microphone toward his mouth. "All inmates in 151, all inmates in 151, lock down, lock down," he chants in a cheerful singsong voice. "Start closing all cell doors, we're locking down, gentlemen," he finishes, easing back from the microphone.
The trio of guards look on from their perch as the 192 inmates on this floor break up their conversations and amble toward the two-tiered wall of cells on their own. There is no need for the guards to leave the booth. If anything looks suspicious, the officers can flip a switch to eavesdrop on any of the 96 cells, or talk privately with an inmate from the comfort of their post. Although a video camera points toward the day room, ready to document any trouble that might arise, nothing transpires -- the inmates seem more resigned than defiant. Once in their cells, the prisoners close the solid doors and wait to hear the bolt slide into place, as the guards in the control booth move lever after lever.
When each door is secured, lights on the booth's console flicker from red to green, indicating who is locked in. Only after all doors are sealed will the guards leave their posts to peer through the small glass windows in each cell door, visually identifying and counting inmates.
This is life in the Twin Towers, Los Angeles County's high-tech lock up. The sleek new building is the first of what is being hailed as a new generation of jails -- facilities that combine technology and innovative design to help contain the cost of jailing people while further isolating and controlling them. Fueled by decades of anti-crime rhetoric, inmate populations have boomed in recent years -- from 500,000 in 1980 to 1.8 million in 1997 -- and pushed prison capacity to the breaking point. Today, with the help of high-tech solutions, prisons are now locking up more prisoners using fewer guards -- and at the same time furthering the trend toward less rehabilitation and more punishment.
In the early 1980s, California pioneered the effort to funnel new technology into prisons. Last year, the state became the first to use a new inmate monitoring system that, according to its creator, revolutionizes the way prisons are run.
Jim Ricketts, president and founder of Technology Systems International, is part of a new generation of entrepreneurs seeking fortunes in corrections technology. He left a successful career at the Colorado Department of Corrections to found his own company in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ricketts thought he could use his lifetime of experience to cash in on the high-tech rush. He took an idea to Motorola and left with PRISM, the Prison Inmate and Safety Management System. PRISM is designed to reduce the amount of time guards spend counting prisoners -- a face-to-face visual identification process that has changed little in the last 100 years.
In a PRISM prison, each inmate wears a wrist band that looks like an oversized digital watch. Guards wear devices that look like beepers. Both gadgets emit a radio signal every two seconds that is received by nodes located throughout the prison and yard, enabling the system to continuously tally inmates. The signal carries identifying characteristics that allow PRISM to recognize individuals. By recording the location of the node and the time difference between signal receptions, the system allows each prisoner's location to be noted and monitored all day, every day. This information is digitally archived and stored for up to a week. If violence breaks out, guards can find out who was in the area and use that information in court. A schedule for every inmate can also be entered in the system so PRISM, like an omnipresent truant officer, can ensure that everyone is in the right place at the right time. If an inmate blocks the signal or takes the band off, PRISM will make sure that someone comes looking.
Ricketts is proud of his system but aware that such persistent monitoring can have a dark side as well. "A system like this can be tightened down so much that it can drive the inmates crazy," he admits. "Normally we recommend allowing inmates some latitude."
At Salinas Valley State Prison, a huge, low complex that almost disappears into the flat, brown agricultural landscape an hour south of San Jose, a computer-monitored lethal electric fence encircles the prison's perimeter. In place at more than 20 California prisons, this gulag-style inmate catcher has become a statewide favorite. The 5,100-volt current that courses through the wires is more than double the jolt given by Florida's infamous electric chair, Old Sparky. Gus Meza, the plant supervisor for the prison, says the fence is so effective that 11 of 13 guard towers can be
left unoccupied, saving Salinas Valley $1 million a year in staffing costs.
At first glance a lethal fence seems extreme, a harking back to some of the darker pages in modern history. But given the intrusive nature of the microphones, video cameras and stagelike showers that grace many new prisons and jails, the fence strikes a strangely benign note. Sandwiched between two chain-link fences that are topped with loops of razor wire, the 15 electrified wires hang no more than a foot apart. Any movement of the wire, or variation in the current, will trigger an alarm -- and a lethal jolt. Guards in the command center watch a graphic representation of the fenced perimeter that instantly pinpoints any change in current; the same system also sends a message to the watch commander's beeper in the event of an incident. So far, the fence has worked -- no one has yet escaped over or under it.
Technology like this is increasingly seen as the answer to America's prison crisis. While inmate populations have ballooned at every level of the justice system, spending, though growing as well, has not kept pace. Governments are scrambling to meet the needs of money-hungry corrections departments. Since staffing costs will eventually balloon beyond a prison's original price tag, and employees account for 65 percent of a prison's operating budget, jobs are an obvious target for cuts. "You fight for operating budgets year after year, which is why staff is often cut back," explains Steve Carter, president of Carter Goble Associates, a prison consulting firm. "You only have to negotiate for your capital budget once." That makes it easier to invest in technology over people -- even if it does come at the cost of angering California's politically potent prison guard lobby.
Not everyone thinks that prison is the place for high-tech supervision. "Technology is working against what jails should be doing," says Dr. Richard Wener, an environmental psychologist with the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y. Wener, who has studied prisons for 20 years and regularly consults on new corrections designs, is frustrated by the Twin Towers approach. "High-tech supervision," he says, "is not the most effective way to run a jail; it is not safer, not less stressful, not a better opportunity for rehabilitation or education." Wener wants to tear down the control booth and put guards back on the floor where they can get to know inmates. He advocates direct supervision -- the jailhouse equivalent of community policing. "When you are on the floor, you can stop a fight before it starts," he says. "When you are observing from a distance, all you can do is break up the fight after it has begun."
But rehabilitation is rarely a concern anymore, says Jennie Gainsborough, a spokeswoman for the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Popular attitudes toward imprisonment have become more punitive. And as politicians get further into the business of dictating how inmates will be managed, prison environments have become increasingly restrictive, often with the help of new technology. Carter is also well aware of the problems. "In some instances, technology is being used to ensure that inmates live in total isolation," he says. Corrections officials bug cells, talk to inmates over speakers and beam what classes are available to TVs placed outside cells; even family members' visits are now channeled through a TV screen, thanks to the magic of teleconferencing. "What effect do you think this would have on you?" Gainsborough asks. "Would it contribute to mental health, or increase social problems?"
Her question, like Wener's solution, has been largely ignored during the recent prison-construction boom. While direct supervision was the hot new trend 15 years ago, today, high-tech circular designs dominate the punitive cutting edge. Chief Barry King, who runs Twin Towers, is convinced that the round design of the jail, coupled with its reliance on technology, is the only thing that makes the 4,000-bed, maximum security jail affordable to operate. "In an old jail, everything was designed in blocks -- you needed more people to walk the rows of cells. Over here, you can have one guard watch the whole area," he says, gesturing at the stylish new jail that rises outside his window.
To develop efficient plans for people like King, designers have looked all the way back to Jeremy Bentham, the 18th century British utilitarian philosopher and grandfather of the hottest trend in prison design today. Bentham, a social reformer, drew up plans for his ideal prison, the panopticon -- a circular cell-house with a central guard station where a few officers could watch over hundreds of inmates stacked many stories high. Prison administrators following Bentham believed that the specter of constant surveillance would make prisoners more apt to follow rules and help them integrate into society when they were released. Bentham's plan also required fewer guards -- a fact that has not been lost on today's prison designers.
Charles Oraftik runs the criminal justice division of Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum, the San Francisco architectural firm that designed the Twin Towers. He points to the circular prison plan in front of him, noting the ease with which inmates can be viewed by a single, centrally placed guard. Because staffing costs can far outstrip a prison's original price tag, designers are now under intense pressure to dream up buildings that allow fewer staff to control ever larger numbers of inmates. "The most important thing is to be secure and efficient. If your building is not efficient, it can cost you," Oraftik says. Improving sight lines from the control booth to the prison floor and into every cell is the key to keeping guard-to-inmate ratios low.
In the 1960s, the guard-to-prisoner ratio was 1-to-30. Now, 1-to-60 is common. Some prisons, like one Oraftik is working on in a remote part of Oregon, have a ratio of 1-to-100. "We can make the architecture so
efficient that the limits fade," he says with pride. "We are not limited by architecture, but by human capability. Eventually the staff burns out. You can allow them to see even more than they can process."
Along with changing their designs, prisons administrators are using technology to help them isolate what they consider problem inmates from the general population, creating prisons within the prison system. This is not a particularly new development -- the trend began as far back as the 1930s, at Alcatraz, the desolate island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz's first warden, James Johnson, created a prison far ahead of its time. He directed everything from the use of pastel colors -- which he thought would calm inmates long before studies proved it so -- to elaborate safety precautions and procedures.
At Alcatraz, guns and keys were kept in elevated caged walkways that lined the walls at the north and south ends of the main cellblock. Armed guards watched over the entire floor from these perches, rather than walking the floor where inmates could grab weapons. Keys were lowered on a string only when needed. Alcatraz added electrically operated remote control doors to the isolation units in 1940, and early metal detectors, which inmates called snitch boxes, scanned prisoners twice a day. At every point as they were shuffled from work to meals and back to their cells, inmates were tallied, watched and searched.
After Alcatraz closed in the 1960s, the government dumped troublesome federal inmates into the general prison population. Twenty years of this proved enough for the feds, and in the 1980s they once again began to sequester problem inmates -- this time at Marion prison in Illinois. Administrators dreamed up a whole new kind of prison, a place where inmates were confined to their cells up to 22 and a half hours a day as part of their regular routine.
Marion, and prisons like it that have sprung up around the country, rely on surveillance and remote-control technology to monitor and supervise inmates while isolating them. Using even basic technology, it is possible to move an inmate from his cell to the yard and back again without ever coming in contact with him. Plummeting prices and the increased sophistication of surveillance and computer technology have made it possible to replicate "supermax" prisons like Marion elsewhere, for less cost.
As surveillance has became more accepted, state and even local governments have gotten into the game, says Stephen Ingley, director of the American Jail Association. "The technology is everywhere. It has become easier to find and cheaper to buy," he says. In 1980 there were no supermax prisons in the United States; the phrase had yet to be coined. Now there are 50 supermax prisons, and more on the way. California's three units house 2,700 of its 154,000 inmates. "Supermax is the flavor of the decade," says Carter.
But the prison of choice in the 1990s has not been without its problems. In 1995, the California Department of Corrections lost a major class-action suit over the nightmarish conditions at the Pelican Bay State Prison's supermax facility, known as the Secure Housing Unit (SHU).
Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay has been a long-running scandal for the Department of Corrections. Prisoners are not relegated to the SHU because of the crimes they committed on the outside, but because of the rules they broke on the inside. And placement in the SHU is often for the duration of a prisoner's sentence. The 8-by-10-foot cells have no windows. The walls are white, and all that can be seen through the perforations in each cell's metal door is another white wall. Many inmates do not have televisions or radios. And, as at Marion, they are kept in their cells 22 and a half hours a day. Guards perched in control booths can open and close doors and communicate with inmates without ever leaving their seats. Human contact is minimal.
"It's like a space capsule where one is shot into space and left in isolation," said one inmate who testified in the suit. Significant numbers of inmates had mental problems that were exacerbated by the high-tech isolation inside the SHU. They experienced audio or visual distortions and outright hallucinations, aggressive fantasies, paranoia or problems controlling their impulses. Suicide attempts and violent outbursts were regular occurrences. Guard-on-inmate violence skyrocketed.
Despite its problems, Pelican Bay has become a model for dozens of supermax prisons popping up around the country. Louisiana now has three supermax prisons; Pennsylvania has two; Washington state, three. And now, the Twin Towers has become the first facility to bring the supermax concept all the way down to the county jail level -- where most inmates have yet to be convicted of anything and are still awaiting trial.
Though the Twin Towers houses only maximum security inmates, a few of the jail's floors have been set aside for what King calls "high-power" inmates -- people deemed to be so dangerous that they must spend even their recreation time locked in a cage. On most floors in the jail, the recreation yards are open spaces with basketball hoops and pay phones; but on the isolation floors, no one is going to shoot hoops. The space is occupied by four 8-by-10-foot cages, each equipped with a jail phone. The cages are staggered diagonally across the floor so one guard can watch all the inmates. Sgt. Andres Ramirez explains that high-power inmates are required by law to have time in the yard. But because of their classification, they must also be separated from other prisoners at all times. "This," Ramirez says, his hand resting on the cage, "qualifies as exposure to outside recreation." His voice is clear, without a hint of irony.
On the second floor of the Twin Towers, a crowd of employees has gathered at a window that looks into the building's command center. The passage to freedom is adjacent to this bustling nerve center so guards can visually identify people moving in and out of the secure area. Inside, guards dash frantically about, bumping shoulders in the tight space, answering phone calls and responding to requests to open doors, move elevators or change ventilation patterns. They flash a quick look at a video monitor or bark into a microphone to ensure that they are not letting the wrong person pass through a door or an elevator. Occasionally a guard glances at the growing crowd waiting at the door, but amid the insistent buzzing they can do little more than shrug apologetically. It will be a while.
When the door finally opens, I walk down a long hallway past row after row of gun lockers, heading steadily toward the exit sign. At the end of the hall a door leads to a metal staircase painted in tasteful teal. I soon find myself on an empty, glass-enclosed landing. The only door leads outside. I suddenly begin to wonder if the door will open, if I will be allowed to get out -- after all, it is a jail. I reach out to push the latch, expecting to find it locked. But the instant before I make contact, I hear a heavy metallic clang; the mechanism is unlocked and the door swings wide.
Outside, I take a deep breath. I want to walk quickly to my car and flee this corner of Los Angeles, but I can't resist one last look. As the door slowly shuts, I catch a glimpse of a small window facing me in the wall about 10 feet up. Behind the glass, I can make out the sleepless eye of a video camera.
Jim Rendon
Jim Rendon is a staff writer for Metro, Silicon Valley's alternative weekly newspaper. He has also written for Wired.
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Borat has last laugh after lawsuit fails
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January 21, 2008 — 11.00am
He was a strange TV reporter from a country no one had heard of, and they were unsuspecting Americans who helped him to learn the ways of the West.
Having mercilessly lampooned his interviewees in the film Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, spoof newsman Borat Sagdiyev is having the last laugh over those who missed the joke.
A US court has thrown out a lawsuit against Borat's creator, the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, brought by one of his victims. The claim was filed by Kathie Martin, an etiquette tutor from Birmingham, Alabama, who tried to teach the apparently sexist and bigoted Kazakh some modern American manners.
As the film showed, the task of turning Borat into a Southern gentleman was doomed to failure: he proudly showed her a Polaroid of his "son" in the nude, then headed to a dinner party where he defecated into a plastic bag and politely asked another guest whether he was a "retard".
But while the scene proved a highlight of the movie, which grossed at least $US200 million ($228 million) at the box office, it infuriated the plaintiff, who claimed she was "tricked into being part of a childish prank".
She launched the suit against both Baron Cohen and the film company, 20th Century Fox, last April, but now the Supreme Court in Alabama has turned it down - thanks partly to the carefully worded release form which the film's producers made each of Borat's interviewees sign.
Written in dense legalese, and typically thrust in front of the subject just before they were about to go on camera, the form granted the filmmakers indemnity for any "breaches of alleged moral behaviour", and also stipulated that cases could only be brought through courts in New York state. However, Alabama justice Mike Bolin hinted that he sympathised with the complaint.
Declining to discuss Borat's manners, he said: "It is sufficient to say an eventful meal ensued, during which the alleged reporter engaged in behaviour that would generally be considered boorish and offensive."
The lawsuit was not the only attempt to win legal redress against the movie, in which Borat travelled across the US, where his bumbling manner, hammed-up accent and constant refrain of "very nice!" caught most interviewees off-guard, tempting many into saying and doing things they later regretted.
In November 2006, two male college students from South Carolina who had picked up Borat as he was hitchhiking sued after being shown making racist remarks and schooling their passenger in lewd, frat-house humour. Their bid to get compensation and the scene cut from the film failed.
Others included a state prosecutor in Germany, who complained about jokes about Jews and Gypsies, and the entire population of a run-down Romanian village, who were depicted as inbred peasants in scenes purporting to show Borat's home village.
Last month, Baron Cohen revealed he was killing off both Borat and Ali G, the fictional rapper, because the characters had become too well-known to dupe anybody.
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Uniting Uniforms at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl
Brian Yancelson
American pride and pageantry was on full display Saturday as 101 of the nation’s premier high school football players faced off in the 16th annual U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas.
The West defeated the East, 37-9. But the game goes beyond the field it’s played on and the final score.
The players involved in the All-American Bowl are the country’s best. Yet being selected to play in the bowl takes more than just talent. Scouts working with All-American Games visited more than 600 high schools around the country and picked athletes with traits similar to those of an Army soldier.
“It’s not just athletic capability, it’s scholastic capability, communityship, citizenship, all those things,” said Army General David G. Perkins. “Once you are selected, you have a responsibility of representing that, which means that the way you conduct yourself reflects not just on you but it reflects on your school, your team, and the United States Army.”
Supporting the Army, Supporting Football
Among the announced attendance of 39,121 were hundreds of Army soldiers, who filled four entire sections in the lower bowl of the stadium. With so many uniformed men and women in the stands and on the sidelines, you couldn’t help but feel patriotic.
“What better in America than mixing the American people with American football and the American Army,” said Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey. “I’m proud of these kids out here. They are great examples of what we want our youth to be in America today.”
Just as the soldiers appreciate the talents of these star athletes, the athletes understand the true honor of being in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, too.
“It’s really special” to play in the bowl, said East team linebacker Caleb Kelly. “This is a game where we represent our families, our city, and our army, the people who fight for us, who save lives, and who let us play football.”
Throughout the week, players participated in community engaging events, such as visiting a local children’s hospital. Many of the players mentioned how important this game is in allowing them to be role models in more ways than what they do on the gridiron.
“My dad is in the military, so to come here and represent the military and my dad means a lot,” said East team quarterback Feleipe Franks. “I hope to use football as a platform to inspire people.”
An All-American Bowl for a Military City
The inaugural All-American Bowl was held in Dallas in 2001. But the next year, the game was moved to San Antonio and has been hosted in the Alamo City ever since. The covered Alamodome ensures the game is always played in perfect weather, and the city shows great support. Attendance has been less than 30,000 only twice in the game’s history at the Alamodome.
“San Antonio really is Military City, USA,” said Brigadier General Donna W. Martin. “We have such a wonderful partnership here with this city and the mayor, and it’s just a great place for us to host the game.”
With all the festivities and meaning surrounding the game, it’s easy to forget that the players are elite four- and five-star athletes with an extremely bright future. Many NFL stars were once a part of this game, including Andrew Luck,LeSean McCoy, Jamaal Charles, and Odell Beckham Jr.
A few players committed to universities during the game, while others many already announced where they’ll play next. Offensive lineman Ben Cleveland, for example, is headed to the University of Georgia.
“There are only 101 kids here, so it’s a huge honor,” said Cleveland. “We’re all here and we’re playing against each other, but in reality we’re all just one team.”
“One team” is a fitting way to describe the atmosphere of the U.S Army All-American Bowl. Two seemingly different, yet very similar uniforms unite in one place to provide one meaningful game of football.
Photos: Darren Abate/AP
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Arsenal preparing £25m offer for Manchester United target and Chelsea defender David Luiz
Date: 19th December 2017 at 4:49pm
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Arsenal are reportedly mulling over a £25m offer for Brazil international star David Luiz next month, according to The Sun.
The Premier League side, who take on West Ham United in the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup tonight (19:45), have been linked with a move for the Chelsea defender during the upcoming January transfer window.
The 30-year-old, who has 56 international caps for his country, has scored two goals in 13 appearances in all competitions for the defending league champions so far this season.
Luiz, who re-joined Chelsea from Paris-Saint Germain back in August 2016 in a deal worth around £30m, has netted 15 goals in almost 200 outings overall for the club during two spells at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea’s David Luiz.
However, the Brazilian was dropped from Conte’s first-team back in late-October after confronting his boss following their thoroughly disappointing 3-0 defeat to AS Roma in the UEFA Champions League, and has appeared just once for Chelsea since, though he is currently sidelined with a knee injury.
Premier League rivals Manchester United, as well as Serie A champions Juventus, have already been linked with the centre-half’s services in the New Year, but the report suggests Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is ready to kick start any potential bidding war with an offer of £25m.
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World Cup Predictions: So, How Screwed Is the U.S.?
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The world’s biggest sporting event is upon us, which can mean only one thing: a planet-wide spree of braying, drunk-in-broad-daylight, chest-thumping nationalistic mania and a staggering decline in worldwide productivity.
You know, the World Cup.
World Cup Preview: Young Gods and Groups of Death
So prepare your face paint and start concocting reasons to have meetings wrap up just in time for the afternoon kickoff. But before you shell out the dough for a team USA jersey, know that you’ll probably only have three chances to wear it this summer. Sad but true. Why? Because …
The U.S. Is Screwed. Really Screwed.
Shall we move on? No? Okay. Let’s carve out a conceivable scenario in which Sam’s Army can escape the “Group of Death” and squeak past Germany or Portugal into the knockout round.
It’s not a nice thing to wish injuries on anyone, but the U.S.’s chances have been helped somewhat by the fact that German midfielder Marco Reus has been taken out by an ankle injury (okay, not really; Germany could field two threatening teams with the depth of talent they have). Also, as of this writing, World’s Best Player™ Cristiano Ronaldo is suffering from a knee injury – you can thank a Ghanaian witch doctor for that – and is hobbling around the training ground in such a way as to render him only about 200-percent more gifted than, say, American hero Landon Donovan, who has scored more World Cup goals than anyone in U.S. history and, oh, that’s right, wasn’t selected for the team.
That isn’t to say the U.S. doesn’t have some very good players. They do. Clint Dempsey. Michael Bradley. Jozy Altidore (assuming he continues his form from last week, and not last year). Tim Howard. They’re all solid. But the U.S. doesn’t have a squad of great players, and great players playing great soccer is what it’s going to take to get out of the group.
The U.S.’s first match, on June 16, is its most vital: bag three points against Ghana and you can keep hope alive. Anything less is an early ticket home. Ghana’s a young squad with some veteran talent, and, yes, they eliminated the States from the previous two World Cups. Both sides know this is their best chance to rack up points, so it should be a battle from the first whistle to the last. It’ll probably also be a draw, but for the purposes of our best-case-scenario, let’s say the U.S. wins it. Three points, thank you very much.
The U.S. then faces the horror of playing in Manaus, the East St. Louis of the Amazon. Manaus is a 1,670-mile flight from Sao Paulo (site of the U.S.’s training facility), nauseatingly hot and humid, and also reported to be something of a bloody narco murder hole. Three workers have died building the brand-new stadium where the U.S. will play Portugal on June 22 — and the cement will just be drying as the tournament kicks off.
So maybe the witch doctor’s been working overtime and Ronaldo’s still not up to par when the teams meet on a cruddy sandlot pitch. It’s not inconceivable that the U.S. could escape with a draw. That’s four points going into the match with Germany, which means the U.S. closes out the group stage with, at best, four points. Germany coasts through the group undefeated. Ghana has zero points, and is out. Portugal: did they beat Ghana by a bigger margin than the U.S. did? No! The States go through on goal difference.
Yeah, never mind. The U.S. is screwed.
Okay, So Who’s Going To Win This Thing?
The easy money is on Brazil. Great team, buckets of talent, playing at home, etc. But none of the probable roads to the final are easy for any nation, and once you fiddle with the bracket a bit and throw back a couple caipirinhas, you start thinking, well, what if …
Germany is a perennial favorite, but the likeliest road has Germany facing Brazil in the semi-final. Anything is possible, and you could also argue that it’s Brazil, in fact, who will have to get past Germany, but it’s tough to imagine Brazil choking that close to bringing home the trophy.
Spain has a legitimate chance at being the first country to win back-to-back World Cups since Brazil did it in 1958 and 1962. They can hold the ball for eons, have a rigid defense and a swarm of assassins on attack. The problem here is that Spain’s system is anything but a secret, and while it’s one thing to think of a way to counter it, and quite another to actually go out and do it, Brazil did just that in last year’s Confederations Cup. The blueprint is out there.
Which is why I think Argentina’s going to take it. They have a roster of perversely talented players, seemingly few banana peels to slip on, and the other World’s Best Player™, Lionel Messi, who is overdue for a big showing in the national colors. What better time to deliver than in the World Cup final against great rivals Brazil, on enemy territory, moments before the riots begin?
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About Taryn
Taryn Southern is an award-winning artist and storyteller whose work explores the intersection of emerging technology and storytelling.
Originally from Kansas, Taryn’s first foray into entertainment began at 17-years old when she competed in the semifinals of American Idol. In 2007, after obtaining degrees in journalism and anthropology, Taryn uploaded her first video onto YouTube. Ten years and 750 million views later, this pioneering YouTuber had produced more than 1500 internet videos, sold series to networks like MTV, DirecTV and Maker Studios, acted in sitcoms on FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Comedy Central, hosted shows for Discovery Channel, Vh1, G4, Facebook, and Yahoo, and produced digital campaigns for companies like Marriott, Today Show, Snapchat, and ATTN (see below for more details.)
In 2016, Taryn began leveraging her skillsets and interests as an early content creator, influencer, and strategist to help high-growth, emerging tech companies tell better stories. With her unique blend of experience across digital and traditional media, she's since crafted dozens of compelling, headline-worthy experiments, films and social campaigns in areas like artificial intelligence, VR neurotech, biotech, and longevity.
Some of these projects include:
- Taryn’s directorial debut I AM HUMAN, a sci-fi documentary following three of the first real-world “cyborgs,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019.
- The world’s first solo pop album composed with artificial intelligence, I AM AI, which hit the Top 100 US radio charts (Mediabase) and ignited a global conversation around the possibilities of human/AI creative collaboration.
- An award-winning Google VR series, which was nominated for Best Interactive at the Streamy Awards and featured in Ayzenberg’s XR Gallery.
- The world’s first Ethereum-enabled song token, enabling artists to share royalties with hundreds or thousands of fans on the back of blockchain technology
- Social campaigns and videos for companies in the following areas: consumer VR (Oculus, HTC VIVE), neurotechnology (Kernel), egg freezing (Extend Fertility), personalized genomics (Invitae), and AI (Amper, AIVA.)
From biotech to blockchain, Taryn’s work has been featured in publications like Vanity Fair, Fast Company, Wired, and Forbes and she has been a guest contributor for Business Insider and TechCrunch. In addition, she regularly speaks at companies (Deloitte, YouTube and Google) and conferences (VidCon, Google’s AI Summit, The NY Times AI Conference, Web Summit, The Next Web, and Near Future Festival)
Named one of the Top 20 Women in VR, Taryn is a three-time Streamy Award nominee, an AT&T Film Award Winner, featured in Ford’s national “She’s Got Drive” campaign and Best Female Influencer nominee for The Crypto Awards. She currently sits on the board of the National Academy of Medicine’s Longevity Challenge, which aims to award breakthroughs in longevity science, and serves as an active investor/advisor in emerging tech companies like Cue (consumer biotech) and Tubular (data insights.)
Based in Los Angeles, Taryn is currently developing two unscripted series based NY Times best-selling books and hosting a podcast exploring the apex of human potential. She signed a development deal with National Geographic in 2020.
entertainment background
As a child, Taryn always had an interest in technology and music. She composed her first piece of music with computer software when she was ten years old. Soon thereafter, she starred in the pre-broadway musical Jane Eyre as Young Jane, and released her first LP "Hello World" in high school, recorded in a friend's basement.
In 2007, Taryn uploaded her first comedic music video to YouTube. The song went viral, and Taryn continued making videos - writing, producing, and/or starring in more than 1500 videos over the course of a decade.
Over that time, she also guest starred on more than a dozen TV shows (New Girl, Rules of Engagement, The League), and hosted series and specials such as the The American Music Awards Live, The Grammy’s Red Carpet Live, The X Factor Pre-Show, Discovery Channel's Shark After Dark, and her own weekend summer countdown show for Sirius XM's "The Pulse."
As a producer/host, Taryn's first breakout multimedia endeavor was Project MyWorld, a 2007 television series where she traveled the globe to meet her 50,000+ MySpace friends. Soon after, she established herself as an early content creator YouTube, accumulating more than 750 million views across her online content and 500,000 subscribers. Since that time, Taryn has been a host/correspondent for numerous networks including Discovery Channel, NBC, MTV, G4, Vh1, Conde Naste and The Today Show to educate the public around new and emerging ideas.
As a writer, she sold her first scripted comedy pilot, Private High Musical, to MTV. In 2013, her song “Crush” on the Mediabase Top 200 radio charts and featured as a new and noteworthy artist by Billboard. Her second album, Flashback Friday, an ode to her favorite 80's songs, earned more than two million streams on YouTube.
In 2013, she founded digital production + consulting company Happy Cat Media, which advised dozens of companies on digital media strategies, production and influencer campaigns for companies like Snapchat, Marriott, Maker Studios, Focus Features, ATTN, and more.
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Local company making base for a World Trade Center beam
By Andrea Chaffin
Artifact will be placed at a memorial site in Beavercreek.
SPRINGFIELD — The mangled piece of steel resting in the Springfield business looks out of place against the stacks of perfectly angled beams, but at one time it used to look that flawless — before it was warped by the heat on Sept. 11, 2001.
The beam, taken from the second World Trade Center tower between the 101st and 105th floor, is being readied for its final resting place, and a Springfield business is lending a hand.
American Steel Fabricators, at 2748 Columbus Ave., has been asked to create a base for the beam, so that it may be erected vertically at a memorial site in Beavercreek. The company, who has been working on the piece for the last two weeks, is expecting to tractor trailer the beam back to Beavercreek on Monday.
The 23-foot long, 71/2 foot wide structure weighs in at 7,000 pounds, and is expected to weigh 10,000 pounds once the base is attached.
Emil Toriello, co-owner the of company, said the business is planning to donate most, if not all of the labor costs. They will only charge for the material if they are charged for it, he continued, adding that being involved gave him a sense of pride.
“The people who called us knew we’d do the best we can,” he said. “We feel honored just to be selected.”
The beam was obtained by the Beavercreek last summer, and will be put on display at a memorial site near their downtown, said Sandra Pereira, associate city planner. The site is set to open on Sept. 11, in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.
“I look at it every morning and count my blessings,” Toriello said.
Gregory Rydel, a welder on the project, said he felt good, but nervous when asked to participate.
“It’s our own piece of history in the shop.”
Contact this reporter at achaffin@coxohio.com
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Lavery signs new deal
Sheffield Wednesday striker Caolan Lavery has signed a new contract at Hillsborough.
The exciting frontman graduated through the Owls’ ranks to become a big success on the first team stage and has now committed to Wednesday for the long term.
After impressing for the club’s Development Squad on a regular basis this term and enjoying a prolific loan spell with League Two side Plymouth, Lavery was thrust into action by head coach Stuart Gray and has repaid that faith with a string of eye-catching performances.
The 21-year-old bagged a brace in Wednesday’s 6-0 demolition of local rivals Leeds earlier this season before repeating the feat against Birmingham.
Speaking exclusively to swfc.co.uk, Lavery said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to have committed my future to Sheffield Wednesday. It's a massive, historic football club with a brilliant fan base.
“A big part of my decision to sign a new deal was down to Stuart Gray for the faith he has shown in me and the environment he has created in recent times.
“I believe I will gain more experience and become a better player by working with Stuart and his coaching staff.
“I take immense pride every time I wear the shirt and I'm excited to be part of this great club's future.”
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Yemen: the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
According to monitoring group ACAPS the world’s worst humanitarian crisis today is in Yemen. It’s a truly shocking statistic and an even worse crisis. And yet it has not had a great deal of coverage in the mainstream media.
By Andrew Horton | 07 Dec 2016
According to data from monitoring group ACAPS the world’s worst humanitarian crisis today is in Yemen. It’s a truly shocking statistic and an even worse crisis. And yet it has not had a great deal of coverage in the mainstream media. To find out why this is and more on what can be done, I spoke with Tearfund’s Humanitarian Support Officer, Clare Third:
What’s happening in Yemen, who's fighting who, and how long has it been going on?
The conflict in Yemen is intensely complicated. In 2011, protests against President Saleh as part of the Arab Spring led to a peace agreement brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council. There was a transfer of power from Saleh to his deputy, the now President Hadi. However, this didn’t bring about the social change that was hoped for, and in 2014 Houthi rebels from the north, loyal to Salah, staged another uprising.
In March 2015 the crisis escalated. President Hadi requested international support, which led to a Saudi Coalition (made up of Saudi Arabia and ten other countries in the region) starting to bomb Houthi-held areas. The fighting between the Saudi-supported government forces and the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels is the main reason why we’re seeing the humanitarian crisis we have today.
Airstrikes launched by the Saudi Coalition have been reported to have hit civilian communities, hospitals and schools, and both sides of the conflict have been accused of causing civilian injuries and deaths.
On top of this, instability in Yemen has caused a growing presence of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS, who have seized parts of the country.
You mentioned the humanitarian crisis. What form is that taking?
It’s taking almost every form you can think of – a food crisis, water crisis, health crisis. There are 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance of some form.
The need has been exacerbated because the environment of Yemen is very unforgiving to agriculture – it's a very dry climate. Yemen historically imported about 90 per cent of its core food types, and some of the infrastructure hit by airstrikes were ports that were critically important for food imports. One port which imported 70 per cent of this food was destroyed by the bombing. This very real crisis has brought the country to the edge of famine.
With 19.7 million people without access to safe water and sanitation facilities, good hygiene practices are also really low. This isn’t helped by the fact that Yemen has very sporadic rainfall, which has made successful agriculture even more difficult. Some leading academics have estimated that in two generations, due to environmental and conflict factors, the majority of Yemen will be completely uninhabitable.
Hospitals have been bombed, killing doctors and nurses and devastating the health infrastructure. Added to all this, an outbreak of cholera across the country is becoming very serious.
What needs to happen to resolve this crisis?
Overwhelmingly, there needs to be a political solution. Progress has to be made on the peace agreements. The lack of funding for this crisis makes it very difficult for humanitarian organisations to make a real impact, and the scale of the crisis means that in some ways much of the work we can do is just treading water. We really need a political solution so that humanitarian aid can continue to be effective, and so that rebuilding of Yemen can begin. At the moment, Yemen is collapsing in on itself.
What’s Tearfund’s involvement in Yemen?
Tearfund is still a small player in Yemen, partly because there is very little international funding for the country as it's such a hidden crisis. We have been trying to get supporter donations.
We've established some partnerships on the ground with some amazing organisations who are doing some really incredible work. We are focusing on water and sanitation, because with our relatively small budget it will have a more lasting impact.
We've distributed hygiene packs to families to help reduce the risk of and spread of disease. And we're about to fund a project which creates rainwater catchment rooftop systems, which basically sit on flat roofs and capture water and give families access to safe water for between 4-6 months. We're also looking to partner with other organisations to help them with any expertise they may need in their projects.
What could we do with more funding?
Tearfund has a lot of expertise to offer, particularly in the field of cash programming, and in water and sanitation. We would be able to fund more projects with our partners, and they could absorb a lot more funding than we currently have. To do this we are keen to mobilise our supporters, and mobilise people who could give and pray and advocate for this hidden crisis. We have the capacity to do a lot more. We've also got a strong voice in the humanitarian community with organisations like the DEC, and have been involved with influential groups within Parliament.
How important is it to get wide coverage in the media?
Very important. Funding for humanitarian crises often comes through media attention, and there are other crises which had more media attention in the past few months. There is a very stark contrast in terms of donations that Tearfund received for each.
What would your message be to Tearfund supporters today?
Give, pray, write, talk, shout from the rooftops!
There's a real temptation with such great need to feel quite overwhelmed and to feel that anything we pray for or give or do would be slightly tokenistic. But actually, what we believe is that God is so much bigger than all of these situations and that he really can have an impact in this situation.
I would certainly encourage every one of our supporters to take this issue to their church and ask their church to actively pray into this situation, because I just think that can make a huge difference.
Any closing thoughts?
What really strikes me is the sheer lack of choice that people have in this conflict. This is a totally man-made conflict.
In the midst of that, innocent people have been caught and robbed of their personal autonomy and capacity to control their own lives. Parents can't move their children out of areas that are being bombed, and parents don't have the choice to feed their children. A lot of families are living on just a diet of flour and that's it. That's all they have to eat: flour.
It’s just utterly broken my heart that the majority of the international community is so blind and have turned away from Yemen.
Please give now for people suffering in Yemen.
In the unlikely event that we raise more than is needed to support our partners, your gift will be spent where the need is greatest.
Photo credit: Ibrahem Qasim
Written by Andrew Horton
Andrew is Online News and Film Editor for Tearfund. This involves finding and writing up inspiring articles for the website, and capturing compelling stories on video.
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Machine learning identifies cryptocurrency scams before they happen
Pump-and-dump schemes have become increasingly common in cryptocurrency markets. Now security researchers have learned how to spot them in advance.
Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page
The emergence of cryptocurrencies in the last few years has been a roller coaster ride. During 2017, Bitcoin rose in value from $900 to almost $20,000 before collapsing dramatically. Today, at the beginning of December 2018, a single bitcoin is worth just under $4,000.
All this has encouraged the rapid development of other cryptocurrencies—well over 1,000 of them by most estimates. The dream is that these could reproduce Bitcoin’s success. But the reality is that few are traded in large volume or are worth anything at all.
The spectacular rise and fall of cryptocurrencies, along with the supposed anonymity they offer, has unsurprisingly attracted criminals. The story of cryptocurrencies is littered with thefts, Ponzi schemes, and other unlawful activities.
But in recent months, one type of fraud has come to the fore: pump-and-dump schemes. In February, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a specific warning to consumers about these scams, and regulators have begun to actively pursue the ringleaders.
Yet little is known about these schemes, how they are run, and how they work in detail.
Today that changes thanks to the work of Jiahua Xu and Benjamin Livshits at Imperial College London. These guys have studied pump-and-dump schemes in cryptocurrency markets and now publish the first detailed account of how they work. The researchers even developed an algorithm that can predict when they are about to occur, which offers a promising way to subvert or prevent them.
First some background. Pump-and-dump schemes are a well-known ruse in conventional commodity trading markets but have only recently become common in cryptocurrencies. The organizer begins by selecting an obscure cryptocurrency and quietly accumulating it.
The organizer then announces that a pump operation is about to begin and that a randomly chosen cryptocurrency will be announced at a specific time. These announcements take place over anonymous channels, such as Telegram, that interested parties can subscribe to.
At the specified time, the organizer reveals the chosen cryptocurrency, which happens to be the one they have accumulated. This is the cue for interested parties to begin buying. The sudden activity then triggers a sharp increase in the price of the currency.
When the price reaches its peak, a sell-off begins as participants attempt to make a quick profit at the expense of anybody unlucky enough to have joined the fun unwittingly or too slowly. All this activity takes place in just a few minutes.
Of course, the organizer is in a clear position to make the greatest profit. But a significant number of others take part in the hope of cashing out early enough to make a profit. Indeed, part of the ruse is that the “pump” is entirely automated and random, so that nobody can take advantage of insider information and that only quick reactions and judgment determine who wins.
Enough people have been fooled by this ruse to make pump-and-dump schemes increasingly common. Xu and Livshits say that on average there are two pump-and-dump scams every day and that these generate about $7 million worth of trading volume a month. So somebody is making a significant amount.
To study the details, the researchers focused on a single pump-and-dump scam that took place on November 14, 2018, at exactly 19:30 GMT. They gleaned the details by recording announcements over several Telegram channels, the largest being Official McAfee Pump Signals, which has over 12,000 members. They then recorded the price changes and trading volumes of the selected currency
At 19:30:04, Official McAfee Pump Signals revealed the chosen coin, a little-known cryptocurrency called BVB, which had been created in 2016 by supporters of the German soccer team Borussia Dortmund. However, the coin had been dormant for over a year, with little trading activity and a value of about 35 sat (1 sat = 10-8 bitcoin).
Then things started happening quickly. “We notice that the first buy order was placed and completed within 1 second after the first coin announcement,” say Xu and Livshits. “After a mere 18 seconds of a manic buying wave, the coin price already skyrocketed to its peak.” That was when it reached 115 sat.
Not all the Telegram channels reacted so quickly. Anybody following Bomba bitcoin “cryptopia” was at a significant disadvantage, since this channel announced the pump at 19:30:23. “Note that Bomba bitcoin ‘cryptopia’” only announced the coin at the time when the coin price was already at its peak, making it impossible for investors who solely relied on their announcement to make any money,” say Xu and Livshits.
Then, as participants took their profits, the price plummeted. “Three and half minutes after the start of the pump-and-dump, the coin price had dropped below its open price,” say the researchers. After that, the trading volume dropped significantly.
Xu and Livshits’s analysis reveals some interesting details about the event. First, anybody who joined the activity more than 18 seconds after it started had little hope of making a profit.
And second, participants bought about twice as much BVB coin as they sold. That suggests many participants are sitting on unsold coins. “Those coin holders can only expect to reverse the position in the next pump, which might never come,” say the researchers.
Xu and Livshits studied 236 other pump-and-dump events that took place between July 21 and November 18. They say that many of them were preceded by unusual buying activity in the target currency. This would be consistent with insiders’ accumulating the currency ahead of the pump. “The study reveals that pump-and-dump organizers can easily use their insider information to take extra gain at the sacrifice of fellow pumpers,” say Xu and Livshits.
But the study also suggests a way to spot target currencies before they are revealed: simply look for unexpected trades in obscure coins. To find out whether this works, Xu and Livshits used the historical data from known pump-and-dump schemes to train a machine-learning algorithm to spot the telltale signs that a scam is about to occur.
They then let it lose on live data, where it found this activity on six occasions between October 30 and November 6. Five of these alerts turned out to herald real pump-and-dump schemes.
This work suggests a path to undermining or preventing the scams, but it is likely to be just one move in the traditional cat-and-mouse game that security experts employ against malicious actors. Presumably, the organizers of these scams will quickly change their activities to make them harder for this kind of machine learning algorithm to spot. And so on.
Cryptocurrency scams are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. But this kind of detailed understanding of how they work can only be of important value in preventing them from spreading more widely.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1811.10109 : The Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Scheme
Emerging Technology from the arXiv
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In total there are 35 hectares of vines that include fifteen different varieties. Their elevation is just under 200 metres and they tend to be on gentle to moderate slopes. The oldest vines we have were planted in 1955, with intensive plantings in the early 1970s and steady re-developments in the mid 1980s through to 2008. With such a diverse collection of vine ages, varieties, parcels and training systems, uniform management is out of the question! Each parcel's characteristics have to be considered when deciding on how best to manage the vines
Officially, Terre des 2 Sources covers a variety of appellations: AOP Terrasses du Larzac, AOP Languedoc, Indication géographique protégée (IGP) and IGP Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. Functionally, our soils tend to be clay-based with limestone origins, but with varying amounts of medium to small stones. These factors, in combination with a multitude of slopes and aspects, create a broad palette of environments that will be the basis of fundamental vine growth and fruit development. The overall climate is moderated by the higher elevations, which lead to cooler night-time temperatures, higher acidity in the grapes, and more elegant and age-worthy wines. Another benefit are the ever present winds, which help dry the canopy and reduce the risk of fungal diseases taking hold.
Managing the vines at Terre des2 Sources is all about balance - finding the right one between soil, rainfall, temperatures, vine growth and grape production. When the balance is right, all is in harmony, resulting in healthy soils, happy vines, and quality wines of distinction.
Rather than reactive management of the vines, at Terre des 2 Sources we take a proactive approach that relies on planning and observing the vines closely and carefully for pests and diseases. Some of the work is done by machine, a necessity when there are 35 hectares of vineyards, but for our premium parcels there is more attention paid to the vines all through the year.
Our approach to pesticides is to minimise their use through proactive management, extensive scouting and using softer chemicals when they are available.
For more details about our practices, please refer to some of our blog entries.
Our estate has a wide range of varieties across its vineyards. Some may see this as a disadvantage, but we see it as an opportunity: with all the different parcels of vines, we have a wide palette of fruit qualities to work with when creating our blends!
Planted in 2020! An unusual variety for the Languedoc, Chenin blanc is best known as a principal grape of the Loire Valley, where it can be made into a steely dry sparkling or a still wine through to an unctuous dessert wine. We love the acid backbone that the fruit contributes and think it will be a cherished component of our blended white wines
Planted in 2020! This variety's origins are not too far from us: north eastern Spain. It is well suited to our Mediterranean climate, producing wines that have ripe fruity notes with added herbaceous/floral components that add complexity and interest. We think it will be that special something that helps make wine a pleasure to drink.
More commonly associated with the northern Rhône, our small blocks of Marsanne provide a piece of the puzzles that are our blended white wines. Outside of a blend, the wines can have characteristics of citrus, quince and stone fruit, and if picked at the right time, a pleasing acidity.
Similar to Marsanne, Roussanne is found in the Rhône, but is a more significant part of the blends. We find this to be the case as well, where it has the structure and flavour profile to form a sturdy base for a blended white wine. Our slightly cooler climate means the wine has less overt fruit and more floral characteristics, lending an elegance to the package.
With Kirsten and Glen's New Zealand background, our tiny parcel of 0.3 hectares has a special place in their hearts. While the climate means we cannot replicate the New Zealand style of the wine, it does possess unique flavour profiles that are used to add that special something to our blended white wines.
Also known as Trebbiano in Italy (where it's used to make wine and Basalmic vinegar) and in the Cognac and Armagnac areas of France, St. Émilion (where it is an important component of those famous brandies), this white grape is borne on large clusters (800g each or more!). On its own it can make a fresh, fruity wine with good acidity, but at Td2S it is an important component adding a bit of 'zing' to our blended whites.
Originally from Italy, this variety (also commonly known as Rolle in the Languedoc) is also widely grown in Corsica and the South of France. It can be highly aromatic consisting of citrus blossom, fresh pear and herbs.
Pronounced "vee-own-nyee-ay", Viognier is a mainstay of the Rhône. At one point, in the 1960s it has been said that less than four hectares of these vines were left in France, but a surge in popularity after the 1980s has seen the area grow immensely and in many different winemaking countries. It's no wonder why, either, as it can produce fantastic wines on its own, or it can lend a bit of brightness and elegance to a blend. It's been described as having apricot, white peach, honeysuckle and even spice aromas (think nutmeg or clove), usually accompanied by higher alcohol, lending body and weight to the palate.
Aramon was a mainstay of the Southern France wine industry from the late 1800s into the 1960s due to its ability to produce fruit, and lots of it! Our vines are old and no longer capable of high yields, leading to red wines that are fruity and light in style - good for adding a bit of lightness to a red wine or as a component of rosé. Along with Viognier, Aramon is usually the first of our grapevines to start growing in the Spring.
Aubun is now a rare variety (there are only about 700 ha left in France) that was planted in the southern Rhône. It has big berries with thick skins that resist disease, which makes it an excellent component of rosé wines.
The workhorse of Bordeaux, it's a bit unusual to find Cabernet Sauvignon in the Languedoc. We find that it makes an intensely coloured and flavoured wine, with a nose expressing dark fruit, coffee grounds and chocolate. A bit too much on its own, we use it to add depth and structure to a blend.
Our most planted variety at 6.5 hectares, Carignan is capable of producing stunning, long lived, single-variety wines, or it can contributing structure and power to a blend. It's the last variety we pick, with the long ripening period and small berries contributing to dense colour and intense flavours. Carignan is one of the primary varieties of a Terrasses du Larzac wine.
Our third-most-planted variety, Cinsault (also spelled Cinsaut) has large clusters of large berries, leading it to lose favour in red wine circles. However, it can be an important part of a blend, contributing floral and strawberry notes, or used to make really nice rosé. Cinsault is an accessory variety for Terrasses du Larzac wines, meaning it can make up only a small portion of the blend.
One of the world's most planted grapes, Grenache (or Garnacha in it's home country of Spain) is one of the backbones of many regions' best red wines. In our little valley, it provides excellent bright fruit characteristics with a bit of spice-cake and added herbal notes. Grenache is another primary variety for Terrasses du Larzac wines. For a photo, see the large image at the top of this page.
Another unusual grape for the Languedoc, Merlot is more typically found in Bordeaux and pretty much everywhere else in the world. Our Merlot is picked earlier rather than later to produce a more elegant style of easy-drinking wine.
Syrah is the last of our primary Terrasses du Larzac grape varieties and it provides an elegant base for a number of our blended reds, as well as being used in several of our rosés. Typically, it contributes tannic structure and length along with it's dark, ripe red fruit and chocolatey notes. It's our estate's second-most planted variety, and we plan on planting more.
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“Every Lie Will Be Revealed – They’re Going to be Shocked at Level of P*dophilia – Satanic Worship” – Lin Wood Does Not Hold Back in EXPLOSIVE “Thrive Time” Interview (VIDEO)
Published November 21, 2020 at 5:00pm
Attorney L. Lin Wood held an interview this morning with “The Thrive Time” Show hosts Clay Clark and Dr. Robert Zoellner and boy did he NOT hold back!
This was JUST WILD!
The Lin Wood tweet is still up but probably not for long.
Lin Wood dropped this line that will make your jaw drop!
Attorney Lin Wood: So the Supreme Court is being aligned. They Department of Defense was recently realigned by the president. Take a look at how he put in place, a cyberterrorism and terrorism expert. As I said look at what he did in 2018 with the executive order to deal with foreign interference in our national elections. Look, I’d like to see in a perfect world, John Durham’s report come out and people go to jail. I’d like to see Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and a lot of people go to jail. I’d like to see what’s on Hunter Biden’s laptop. I’d like to see those people go to jail. I’d like to see what’s on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. I’d like to see a lot of people go to jail. And then when we get to the final phase of the election fraud I’d like to see people go to jail. The one thing I’ll say is there’ll be an intermingling. There will be people going to jail I believe who are involved in all of those or some of those same investigations. So there is potentially a great awakening. The truth has to come out. I believe it will. I do not think that you can hide the truth. I do say it and I believe it, every lie will be revealed. This country’s going to be shocked when the find the truth about who’s been occupying the Oval Office for some periods of years. They’re going to be shocked at the level of pedoph*lia. They are going to be shocked at what I believe is going to be a revelation in terms of people who are engaged in satanic worship.
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Here is the full interview with the “The Thrive Time.”
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Martin Sexton performs in Norwalk virtual cabaret benefit
Mullett kicks off Norwalk ‘Drive-In Concert Series’
‘Marine & Coastal Art’ exhibit at Rowayton Arts Center
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum hosting virtual Starlit Gala
Norwalk’s Lockwood-Mathews museum flea market going virtual
Norwalk’s Lockwood-Mathews reopening for tours
Rowayton Arts Center hosts ‘Painting en Plein Air’ workshop Aug. 1
Art centers host online art classes, clay parties for kids
Rowayton Arts Center’s online ‘Spring Juried Show’ winners named
Duplicating Picasso’s print techniques in Norwalk exhibit
Dec. 13, 2010 Updated: June 17, 2016 4:11 p.m.
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2010. There are 16 days left in the year.
On Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect following ratification by Virginia.
In 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D. during a confrontation with Indian police.
In 1893, Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World," was rehearsed before the public at New York's Carnegie Hall (the official world premiere was held the next day).
In 1938, groundbreaking for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C. with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in the ceremony.
In 1939, the motion picture "Gone With the Wind" had its world premiere in Atlanta.
In 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris. American forces invaded Mindoro Island in the Philippines.
In 1960, Teflon-coated skillets first went on sale, at Macy's flagship store in New York City.
In 1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court.
In 1964, Canada's House of Commons approved dropping the "Red Ensign" flag in favor of a new design.
In 1965, two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each other while in orbit.
In 1979, the deposed Shah of Iran left the United States for Panama, the same day the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a provisional order for Iran to release all its American hostages.
Ten years ago: The long-troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was closed for good.
Federal regulators ordered an overhaul of California's electricity market in a push to control skyrocketing prices and curtail supply shortages.
First lady and Sen.-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to an $8 million book deal with Simon and Schuster for her White House memoirs. ("Living History" was released in 2003.)
Five years ago: Millions of Iraqis turned out to choose a parliament in a mostly peaceful election.
Former Sen. William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat who'd fought government waste with his "Golden Fleece" awards, died in Sykesville, Md. at age 90.
One year ago: World leaders began arriving in Copenhagen, kicking U.N. climate talks into high gear in a quest to deliver a deal to curb emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
The Washington, D.C. City Council voted to legalize same-sex marriage.
Boeing's new 787 jetliner went on its long-delayed first test flight, lifting off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash.
Evangelist Oral Roberts died in Newport Beach, Calif. at age 91.
Today's Birthdays: Actor-comedian Tim Conway is 77. Singer Cindy Birdsong (The Supremes) is 71. Rock musician Dave Clark (The Dave Clark Five) is 68. Rock musician Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge) is 64. Actor Don Johnson is 61. Actress Melanie Chartoff is 60. Movie director Julie Taymor is 58. Movie director Alex Cox is 56. Actor Justin Ross is 56. Rock musician Paul Simonon (The Clash) is 55. Political strategist Donna Brazile is 51. Country singer Doug Phelps (Brother Phelps; Kentucky Headhunters) is 50. Movie producer-director Reginald Hudlin is 49. Actress Helen Slater is 47. Actress Molly Price is 45. Actor Michael Shanks is 40. Actor Stuart Townsend is 38. Figure skater Surya Bonaly is 37. "Crowd-hyper" Kito Trawick (Ghostown DJs) is 33. Actor Adam Brody is 31. Actor George O. Gore II is 28. Actress Stefania Owen (TV: "Running Wilde") is 13.
Thought for Today: "Silence is more musical than any song."
-- Christina Rossetti, British poet
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The Knowledge Group > Webcasts > New Tax Rules for Tax Exempt Hospitals and Accountable Care
New Tax Rules for Tax Exempt Hospitals and Accountable Care
Broadcast Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET)
The nonprofit healthcare landscape was changed significantly by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which imposes new requirements on nonprofit hospitals that must be followed in order to keep 501(c)(3) status. These requirements are already in effect now and must be implemented even though the IRS has not yet issued regulations. The new rules also mandate tax-exempt hospitals to administer community health needs assessments and to clarify and make known their financial assistance policies. Failure to do so may result to costly penalties which can be as high as $50,000. Also, the PPACA creates a new concept called Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). IRS is in the process of issuing guidance in both of these areas. This comes at the heels of increased scrutiny by IRS and state taxing authorities, which are now sharing information about tax exempt organizations.
In this Knowledge Group LIVE webcast, a panel of distinguished professionals will help you understand the most critical issues which will include:
Continuing Congressional and IRS scrutiny of hospitals
Key provisions of the healthcare reform legislation – IRS section 501(r)
IRS Notice on Community Health Needs Assessments
Written financial assistance policies, patient charges and emergency care
Calculation of charges to patients qualifying for financial assistance
IRS Notices, Regulations, Schedule H
IRS and state audits of tax exempt organizations
Click the “Register” button below to enroll in this course today. Advanced registration is required as space is limited. Significant discounts are offered to early registrants.
Written financial assistance policies, patient charges and emergency care; Calculation of charges to patients qualifying for financial assistance; Debt collection practices
Allegeant overview of ACOs
Tax Issues of ACOs
Health Industries Leader
CFOs
Milton Cerny Counsel McGuireWoods LLP
Mr. Cerny represents a broad range of nonprofit organizations including hospitals, private foundations, universities, public charities, health providers, and trade associations, including U.S. affiliates of foreign charities. In this capacity, he provides advice on tax planning and legal representation on large case and team audits regarding tax controversies before the IRS, and compliance with federal requirements on governance and private foundation rules. He has extensive experience in the application of the federal tax code to nonprofit organizations. He served at the National Office of the IRS in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for issuing private letter rulings and advising field offices on tax controversies. He served as the technical advisor to the Assistant Commissioner on Employee Benefits and Tax Exempt Organizations on major issues referred to Washington. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, he was a partner with Caplin and Drysdale in Washington, D.C., where his practice dealt with major private foundations and public charities. He is a well-known lecturer on the nonprofit sector, has authored a number of articles, and has taught tax law at major law schools.
Mr. Cerny represents a broad range of nonprofit organizations including hospitals, private foundations, universities, public charities, health providers, and trade …
Jonathan W. Anders Managing Partner, Administration Allegeant
Jonathan Anders has more than 20 years experience in the insurance and benefits consulting marketplace. Beginning in 1995, Jonathan joined a small benefits company, acquired it in 2004 and grew the firm into a regional leader in the benefits field. His vision helped assemble the talent of several industry veterans bringing more than 75+ years of combined benefits management expertise to its daily operation. Jonathan relinquished his duties as CEO of the firm in late 2009 and joined 2 industry veterans to create Allegeant – Accountable Care Solutions. Allegeant is as its core, a risk management firm with a focus on Wellness and Data integration. By combining information with action and accountability by all parties, Allegeant is helping large employers aggressively and transparently control their health benefits plans. The fundamental belief is that controlling healthcare costs will be addressed by delivery system enhancements and by increasing consumer knowledge and personal responsibility. Allegeant will be a vital part in shaping that system transformation.
In addition, Jonathan is the Chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee for both (MAHU) and (NAIFA). Working diligently to improve the healthcare landscape in the State, Jonathan contributes considerable time to advocating and addressing legislation for the industry. He is also serving as Co-Chair for the Operating Model and Insurance Rules Advisory Committee for the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.
Jonathan Anders has more than 20 years experience in the insurance and benefits consulting marketplace. Beginning in 1995, Jonathan joined …
Laura Kalick Director, Non-Profit Tax Consulting BDO
Laura Kalick is the National Nonprofit Tax Consulting Director for BDO’s Institute for Nonprofit Excellence. Laura has over 35 years of experience in both private and government practice including the IRS National Office, the US Senate, large accounting firms and practicing law. She has advised a diverse group of complex exempt organizations including colleges and universities, trade associations, charities, hospitals, foundations and social welfare organizations.
Laura’s expertise covers transactions and contracts between exempt organizations and taxable entities, private inurement, private benefit and intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income and allocation of expenses, taxable subsidiaries, private use of tax-exempt bonds, charitable contributions, joint ventures, royalty, affinity and sponsorship agreements, debt-financed income, lobbying and political activity, private foundation excise taxes and compensation arrangements. Laura also works with nonprofit clients on ASC 740-10(FIN 48) documentation, IRS audits and Form 990.
Laura Kalick is the National Nonprofit Tax Consulting Director for BDO’s Institute for Nonprofit Excellence. Laura has over 35 years …
Douglas M. Mancino Partner Hunton & Williams LLP
Doug’s practice focuses on health care and taxexempt organizations. He serves as co-head of the firm’s health care practice.
Doug is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Hunton and Williams LLP. For more than 35 years he has represented all types of health care and nonprofit organizations on tax, business, and financial matters. He has extensive experience in audit, appeals and tax controversy issues. He has served as counsel to health care clients in a number of cases that have defined the limits of tax-exempt organizations participating in health care joint ventures.
Doug has authored more than 85 articles and book chapters concerning taxexempt organizations and health care issues. He is a former president of the American Health Lawyers Association and is vice chair-publications of the ABA’s Tax Section. Doug is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of California and the Supreme Court of Ohio. He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Ninth Circuit and the Tenth Circuits; the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; and the United States Tax Court. Doug is a frequent lecturer/speaker on many legal, tax and health care subjects. Doug enjoys a national reputation as one of the country’s top health care and taxexempt organization lawyers.
Doug is active in many civic and charitable activities. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Children’s Burn Foundation, and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Irvine Health Foundation, the Center for Civic Mediation, the Media & Policy Center, The Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy and Health Net of California, Inc. He is also a member of the Executive Board and an executive vice president of the Fraternity of Friends of the Los Angeles Music Center. He has previously served on the boards of the Opera League of Los Angeles, the International Myeloma Foundation, the Kent State University Foundation, and the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. Doug is also a Gold Circle Founder and a member of the Fraternity of Friends of the Music Center of Los Angeles, and a member of the Corporate Circle of Center Theatre Group.
▷ Served as lead tax counsel in 15 audits conducted by the IRS as part of its Coordinated and Team Examination programs for large tax-exempt organizations
▷ Litigated several tax cases in the U.S. Tax Court and in the U.S. Court of Appeals
▷ Handled several HMO conversions from nonprofit to for-profit status
▷ Structured numerous hospital-physician joint ventures Hunton & Williams LLP
▷ American Bar Association (Tax Section: Vice Chair-publications and Editor-in-Chief of The Tax Lawyer),
▷ Member, Advisory Board of the Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy, University of
Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development, 2005-present
▷ Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
▷ Ohio State Bar Association
▷ Member, Board of Advisors of The Exempt Organization Tax Review
▷ Member, Board of Advisors of Taxation of Exempts
▷ Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Decisions in Imaging Economics
▷ Member, National Club Association; Board of Directors, 1998-2001
▷ Member, Advisory Board of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law,1998-2000, and
2007-2010; Chair, 2009-2011
▷ Council Director, ABA’s Section of Taxation, 1999-2001
▷ California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
▷ Chair, Tax and Accounting Interest Group of the ABA’s Health Law Section,1998-2001
▷ Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1980-2001
▷ Chair, Exempt Organizations Committee of the ABA’s Tax Section, 1995-1997
▷ American Health Lawyers Association – past President, July 1992 – June 1994; Member,
Board of Directors, 1988-1995; Fellow
▷ Member, Editorial Advisory Boards of Taxation of Exempts
▷ Currently working on new book tentatively titled: A Comprehensive Guide to
the Intermediate Sanctions Rules in Section 4958 of the Internal Revenue
Code for Public Charities, Social Welfare Organizations and CO-OP Health Insurance Companies, late 2011
▷ Co-author, A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules – A Guidebook to Stark II, 2011
▷ Co-author, Taxation of Exempt Organizations, 2002
▷ Original author, Taxation of Hospitals and Health Care Organizations, 2000
▷ Co-author, Joint Ventures Between Hospitals and Physicians, 1987
▷ Named in The Best Lawyers in America®, 1991-2011
▷ Lawyer of the Year 2011, Health Care, Los Angeles, Best Lawyers
▷ Best Lawyers, Health Care and Nonprofit Law, 1991-2011
▷ Listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Health Care, 2006- 2011
▷ Recognized by Los Angeles Magazine as one of its Super Lawyers, 2004- 2011
▷ Received Legacy of Philanthropy Award presented by Association of Professional Fundraisers, 2010
▷ Profiled by California Law Business as among California’s most prominent practitioners in the tax exempt organizations and health care fields
▷ Recognized by The National Law Journal as one of the nation’s leading managed care lawyers
▷ Recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of Southern
Hunton & Williams LLP
California’s top 100 health care executives
▷ Received Giving New Hope award presented by the Children’s Burn
Foundation, 2005
Doug’s practice focuses on health care and taxexempt organizations. He serves as co-head of the firm’s health care practice. Doug …
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The 2014 Billboard Music Awards finalists were announced recently with Imagine Dragons and Lorde leading all artists followed by Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The awards will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 18.
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Power Home Remodeling ‘the real deal,’ workers say
Kirk Ladendorf,
The American-Statesman
Five years ago when he was working as a physical therapist in New York, Kirk Chapman figured he would get a new job to buy a better car and then go back to graduate school.
On the advice of a friend, he took a job at Power Home Remodeling -- and his life changed. Now Chapman works as a team mentor in the company's expanding Austin office and he has his eyes set on his next promotion.
"I saw the company's growth and how the business was being run," Chapman recalled recently. "I thought I could plant my flag here and have an impact. I think this company is the real deal and I can go far with it. Joining it was one of the best decisions of my life."
Power says its task is to make sure its employees are not just happy, but fulfilled. "Power is a dream realization company," the company said in describing its mission. "We believe its purpose is to create positive change in everything the company touches -- from customers' homes to employees' lives to the communities that they live and work in."
Power Home Remodeling ranks No. 3 among small employers in the Austin American-Statesman's 2020 Top Workplaces of Greater Austin project.
The company says its "secret weapon" is its strong culture that focuses on teamwork, mentoring, hard work and personal growth among its workers.
Mentoring is a key part of how the company runs. Employees are given advice and encouragement to succeed in the jobs they are doing now and the ones they may grow into in the future. The mentoring starts with a team of about six employees and a leader, but it continues up to the top executive level.
The company is known for its frequent employee events and for its tradition of taking all employees to Mexico for an annual event of celebration and training.
The company's positive, collaborative culture means co-workers quickly become good friends.
"Before the pandemic we had constant outings and dinners to get to know each other," said Royce Duncan, who joined the company when he moved to Austin two years ago.
"We moved down here with no friends," he said. "Now every one of my friends are people who I work with. I have lasting friendships with them."
Then came the pandemic, and the company responded by furloughing most of its workforce, while it came up with a plan to do business while taking care of employee and customer safety in the new era of social distancing.
The old plan called for company workers to meet with homeowners face to face and come up with cost estimates on work to make the house more energy efficient.
The new plan incorporates much more social distancing and safety precautions when employees discuss potential work projects with customers.
Company leadership came up with the new plan, while keeping in touch with its furloughed workers.
"They formulated the right plan. I trusted the company to make the right decision," Duncan said.
Babie Spain, another remodeling mentor in Austin, said she was impressed with how the company kept informing and entertaining its furloughed workers while it was coming up with the new way of doing business.
"They were keeping people engaged and having a sense of community," she said.
Spain joined the company about two years ago after interviewing a range of companies about job openings.
Power impressed her for its warm, friendly vibe from her first job interview. She has worked in a few different jobs in her time with the company and gained a perspective on how the business runs.
"I was looking for growth in the job I would take and the company I would work for," she said. "At Power, if you put in the work, the opportunities are endless."
The company's thoughtful, transparent process of adjusting to the coronavirus outbreak impressed her.
"They knew it would put us in a position to succeed down the road. Power looks at things for the long haul. They were thinking about their people and the homeowners and putting us all in a good position to get back to work."
Chapman said work at the company is both rewarding and fun.
"The culture is infectious," he said. "Everyone around you enjoys what they do and the people who they work with. You enjoy coming into work. People work hard and they are working with their friends."
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Armenia Makes New Strides in Anti-Trafficking Plans
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:20 AM
On 4 November, Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and Arsen Hambardzumyan, Minister of Labour and Social Issues in Armenia, signed an agreement (in Armenian: HTML, 1 page) to establish the Anti-Trafficking Support and Resource Unit. The unit will facilitate coordination between the Armenian government and NGOs to foster an effective strategy to protect trafficking victims. It will also collect and manage national trafficking data. Several groups will oversee the unit, including the two signatory parties, the Working Group of Armenia’s Commission on Trafficking Issues, and two NGOs. The French, Swedish and German governments fund OSCE-Yerevan.
This agreement comes seven years after OSCE-Yerevan began working with the Armenian government to combat trafficking, and less than a year after Armenia ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. OSCE-Yerevan’s prior anti-trafficking work in the area included strengthening criminal laws and training other organizations interested in combating trafficking.
Compiled from: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Press release: OSCE Office Helps Establish Anti-trafficking Support and Resource Unit in Armenia (4 November 2008).
Please see the Trafficking in Women section and Armenia country page on this site.
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Nice Ice, Baby
Patricia McConnico
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/nice-ice-baby/
From the July 2004 Issue Subscribe
Forget sorbetto, gelato, and ice cream. Our new favorite summer cool-me-down is the paleta, Mexico’s answer to the Popsicle. It’s frosty and fruity and comes in dozens of flavors both familiar and exotic. Little known north of the border until fairly recently, the paleta was invented—according to legend—sometime in the forties when two men from the community of Tocumbo, in the state of Michoacán, developed an exceptional frozen fruit bar. They began selling their product in a small shop in Mexico City, and soon entire families from the village were peddling them far and wide. By the seventies, paletas were known across the country. Luckily, Texans don’t have to travel south of the border to get their hands on these chilly treats, because Victoria-based La Paletera has opened some twenty stores in Texas. Just like real Mexican paletas, the company’s are made from all-natural ingredients. In fact, its production line, in San Antonio, receives around twenty tons of fresh fruit a month, including pineapple, banana, coconut, watermelon, strawberry, cantaloupe, orange, and lime. Our favorites of its fruit-based flavors are mango and kiwi, and the leche quemada (caramel) is phenomenal. La Paletera shops are open in Houston, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi, plus several smaller cities, and are coming soon to Austin and Dallas. Go to lapaletera.com for addresses.
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Don was brought onto the Cheatcoders team after starting his own podcast in Singapore. Initially bringing him on as a guest, he refused to leave.
He built a creative career as a singer and musician. In the early 2000s, he co-founded "Soul Good" which was built to showcase the music of local artists and musicians.
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Raf Flores
Raf Flores has a decade experience in producing videos from planning, production to editing. Understanding the importance of the connection between the art and it’s audience, Raf aims to carefully work with his clients to ensure the best process and style necessary is executed to produce the best content to showcase towards the target audience.
Expanding his skills, Raf began podcasting with The Cheatcoders Podcast, allowing him to further understand the community of creatives in his local area and use his research and conversations to improve his business and art. With years of podcast experience under his name, Raf aims to help others start their own podcast journey and tell their stories.
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Natz started the Cheatcoders with Raf in late 2017 as a means to improve his communication skills and fear of public speaking. Natz was immediately drawn to the podcast medium which sparked a new creative outlet after years of feeling stuck in a rut, predominantly in his time as a recording artist and the leader of Hip-hop collective 'Round Circle', a group of vocalists, DJ's and producers based in Sydney Australia. Natz's true passion has always been around business, notably taken from his mother who has built multiple ventures in her time and even up until this day. Often labelled as 'the wildcard' due to his impulsive nature, an interest-based nervous system and a Ferrari engine brain paired with bicycle breaks, Natz has managed to barely navigate through life but also has it credited to much of his success. In the last (but not final) whim of impulsivity, Natz moved to London only a couple of months after starting the Podcast, where Raf and 'soon to join' Don all agreed to continue as a means to stay connected and be inspired.
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Poisoned Love: Everything We Know
Varun Patel
‘Posioned Love: The Stacey Castor Story’ is a Lifetime movie that steps away from the usual candy-coated premise of Valentine’s Day-themed films. Lifetime and Hallmark are two channels that seasonally delight viewers with holiday-themed movies around the time of major festivals.
While Hallmark is kicking off its sleuth of Valentine films with a conventional rom-com, Lifetime will be spicing things up. ‘Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story’ is about murders, and not love. To be more precise, it is about speculated murders which are thought to be crimes of passion. Hence, the Lifetime film is thematically well-placed with the Valentine’s Day mood of passionate romance and also quite far away from its sunny, slice-of-life atmosphere.
Well, to be fair, ‘Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor’ is not officially a part of the network’s Valentine themed movies. It is a part of Lifetime’s ‘Ripped From the Headlines’ slate of television movies. These movies intrigue viewers with riveting stories based on true events. Although not meant to be Valentine’s themed, the festival’s appeal would have surely been a factor of consideration for the movie’s premise.
Is Poisoned Love Based on a True Story?
‘Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story’ is based on the true story of Stacey “The Black Widow” Castor. The Weedsport woman had to suffer the brunt of losing her husband but was able to find love once again when she started seeing her boss, David. However, things got extremely complicated for Castor when David was found to be dead by what was assumed to be suicide. However, the police soon suspected something sinister when Castor’s fingerprints were found on the glass of anti-freeze that David had reportedly self-administered to commit suicide. Moreover, the death of David and Castor’s first husband share some striking similarities, leading to the suspicion of some foul play.
But that is not all: the body of Stacey’s daughter was later discovered. Apparently, she felt guilty for having murdered both David and Castor’s first husband and tried to commit suicide. Luckily, her life was saved in the nick of time. Naturally, Castor was suspected of being responsible again. Is this a case of an innocent person being troubled by false accusations? Or did Castor actually murder two of her husbands and attempt to kill her own daughter?
Poisoned Love Cast: Who Plays Whom?
Academy Award nominee, Nia Vardalos essays the role of the titular protagonist who gets accused of murdering two of her husbands and daughter. Also a writer, Vardalos is most prominent for having starred in the 2002 film, ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’
Mike Dopud plays the character of Stacey’s boss and husband, David. A former footballer, Dopud came to be known for his commanding presence on screen after switching careers. He is known for his recurring appearances on ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Smallville.’
Other than that, Chanelle Peloso essays the role of Stacey’s daughter, Ashley who reportedly attempted to commit suicide. Genea Charpentier plays the role of Bree, Ashley’s sister and Stacey’s other daughter. Eunice Kang, Cameron Grierson and J. Douglas Stewart are also a part of the movie’s cast.
Poisoned Love Filming Location
Many of you might be wondering where ‘Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story’ was filmed. The story is mainly set in the state of New York as this is where Stacey Castor lived and where she was eventually tried for attempted murder. However, if you wish to know where the movie might have been actually shot, here’s what we know.
Information regarding the filming locations of ‘Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story’ is scarce. There are no confirmed reports about where the movie’s filming took place and hence, we cannot convey that information with utmost assurance. However, we can certainly speculate where the film MIGHT have been shot at based on other Lifetime movies. Most Lifetime movies are either filmed in Canada or Los Angeles.
The decision to film Lifetime movies in Canada is mostly a financial one. The Canadian government provides generous tax credits for producers to film in Canada. Since Canada resembles the United States of America visually, it is not tough to shoot movies set in the USA at Canada.
However, we speculate that ‘Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story’ has been filmed in Los Angeles and not Canada. This is because the movie mostly takes place indoors with interior shots taking up a large chunk of the film. Lifetime movies whose stories take place indoors are generally filmed in L.A. since production costs aren’t too high (since filming can be done inside a makeshift house or a studio) and it is more logistically convenient.
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Will There be a The Nest Season 2?
Tamal Kundu
Directed by Andy De Emmony, ‘The Nest’ tells the story of the affluent Scottish couple Emily and Dan Docherty, who are struggling to become parents. The apparent solution comes in the form of 18-year-old Kaya, who tells them that she will be their surrogate. The dark and tangled themes explored in the series have garnered it widespread positive reviews from the critics, which in turn, has fanned the rumors of a possible second season. Read on to find out if there is any truth to them.
The Nest Season 2 Release Date: When Will It Premiere?
‘The Nest’ season 1 released on March 22, 2020, on BBC One, and aired its finale on April 13, 2020. It was subsequently streamed on Acorn TV on July 13, 2020.
Despite the considerable attention that the first season has received, the producers are yet to make an official statement on whether there ever will be a second season. According to the series writer Nicole Taylor (BAFTA winner for ‘Wild Rose’ in 2018), ‘The Nest‘ is a story that she wanted to tell all her life. During a BBC Writersroom Q&A, she addressed the possibility of a second season by saying, “There’s definitely more story there, but the audience is pleased and I think people are satisfied.”
It seems like she is reluctantly bidding farewell to her favorite creations. You can never know what the future may hold. One fine day, she might decide to revisit the characters. If the cast and crew do choose to go for a second round, ‘The Nest’ season 2 might release sometime in 2022.
The Nest Cast: Who Is in It?
The plot of ‘The Nest’ revolves around three main characters, Emily (Sophie Rundle), Dan (Martin Compston), and Kaya (Mirren Mack). If and when the next season materializes, all three actors have to return for it to work. Actress Shirley Henderson plays Kaya’s mother Siobhan. Although she is introduced late in the series, she causes nearly irreparable damage to the lives of all three protagonists. She also has to come back. James Harkness’s character James has been arrested, bringing a probable closure to that section of the plot. He may not get to reprise his role.
The Nest Plot: What Is It about?
The Dochertys desperately want to have children but can’t on their own. Dan’s sister, Hilary (Fiona Bell), agrees to be their surrogate but ends up having a miscarriage. It is then that Emily meets Kaya who offers the distraught couple to be the surrogate for their last stored embryo. While Dan is still skeptical, he agrees to the arrangement for Emily’s sake. In the course of the series, they come to realize with growing uneasiness that there is more to Kaya than meets the eye. As viewers, we can’t figure out who is using whom. In the end, we are given a happy ending, when Kaya gives her child to the Dochertys and leaves for college. As she briefly considered not giving up the child, it leaves some possibilities open for exploration in the future seasons. Dan’s criminal past also needs to be fleshed out.
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Alabama’s Segregated Sororities
WHITE TIDE
The University of Alabama’s Greek system has been accused of shutting out black pledges—and now students are demanding an end to the discrimination.
Caroline Linton
Updated Aug. 04, 2017 7:53PM ET / Published Sep. 19, 2013 12:00AM ET
Dusty Compton/The Tuscaloosa News via AP
Around 400 students and faculty filled the steps outside the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. They marched to the Rose Administration Building, holding a sign that read “The Final Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.”
This was not 1963, when Gov. George Wallace stood defiantly at an auditorium at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from attending school. Rather this protest was held some 50 years later, on Wednesday, September 18, as the University of Alabama was forced into the national spotlight for ugly segregation once more.
This time, it’s the school’s treasured Greek system that's in the hot seat for allegedly refusing to integrate. According to the Crimson White, the school’s newspaper, the first and last time a black student was admitted to one of the school’s lily-white sororities was in 2003. Sigma Delta Tau, the school’s traditionally Jewish sorority, does not participate in formal recruitment and reportedly has admitted black students, according to the Crimson White.
Yardena Wolf, who is white and hails from Oregon, had pledged in Alpha Omicron Pi in her freshman year, but said she had “no idea this was an issue” until halfway through the process. Since then, she has come forward and joined with groups on campus who have called for the sororities to be desegregated. She remains in the sorority but has moved out of its house.
“This is bigger than me, this is bigger than my sorority,” Wolf told The Daily Beast. “The reason I’m doing this is because all of these girls are so much better than this.”
Wolf, 19, a sophomore studying political science, spoke at Wednesday’s rally along with Khortlan Patterson, 19, a black sophomore who is also part of the protest group. Patterson, who is not involved in any Greek organization, said at the rally that the “institutional racism” at the university “came as a shock.”
The crowd at the rally included university president Dr. Judy Bonner—who greeted students at the steps—faculty members (Wolf said she ran into her English professor, which was lucky because she had to miss the class to attend), and students wearing blue shirts bearing the name Mallet Assembly, the name of an organization famous at the institution for organizing change.
Wednesday’s protest was just the latest in a series of events that have rocked the campus since the Crimson White report came out last week. The national media picked up on the report, causing Gov. Robert Bentley, an alum of the University of Alabama himself, to speak up within two days, saying that fraternal organizations should be choosing their members based on qualifications, not race. Jesse Jackson Jr. arrived on campus Saturday, calling any segregation “abhorrent” and saying white-only sororities will only end up hurting the sisters themselves—since “when they leave here, they’re not going to be in an all-white world,” AL.com reported.
Despite the shock from the outside community, students at school say they had long been wary of the power of the Greek organizations on campus. The University of Alabama has 56 fraternities and sororities on campus and was named by College Magazine as being the second-best university in the country for Greek life. Last year, allegations of hazing caused the school to cancel pledge week. And earlier this month, a member of the Tuscaloosa Board of Education filed a lawsuit alleging that at least one fraternity and one sorority had offered incentives for their members to vote for her opponent, tipping the election. Vans, limousines, and at least one bus were seen ferrying students at Alabama’s sorority row on Election Day.
Meanwhile, District Judge John Jr., a member of the Board of Trustees and one of the first African-Americans admitted to the University of Alabama School of Law, confirmed on Friday that his own stepgranddaughter had been one of the two students rejected by the white sororities.
The sororities, for their part, have remained tight-lipped. For one, Pi Beta Phi placed a statement on its Facebook page insisting it is “taking this matter very seriously” and looking into the allegations, but most of the other chapters’ pages were silent since the September 11 article came out in the Crimson White.
Repeated attempts to contact the sororities were not successful. They canceled the weekend’s planned “swaps,” or mixers, over the weekend, and there are unconfirmed rumors that pledging has been canceled again. The university announced on Wednesday that block seating will be banned at the upcoming football game against the University of Colorado to encourage students to “come together,” according to University of Alabama SGA president Jimmy Taylor.
On Sunday night, the university’s board of trustees held a mandatory emergency meeting with Bonner, the university's president, and the sorority advisers behind closed doors. On Monday, Bonner admitted that “our Greek systems remain segregated.” Bonner insisted the sororities would have to conduct an “open bidding process” so that every student is considered equally.
But Bonner’s exact plan remains hazy. In a video statement, she admitted the university “will not tell any group who they must pledge,” but she insisted “the chapter members are ready to move forward.” Cathy Andreen, the director of media relations at the university, said the administration is still working with the sororities to end any and all membership barriers. But Andreen did not offer any specifics to the plan. She said in an email that Alabama’s Office of Greek Affairs has already planned a number of diversity education programs for the 2013–14 school year, including a program called “sustained dialogue training,” which is meant to encourage discussions on issues such as race, class, and gender. However, most, if not all, of these activities were planned before this week.
Despite the swift reaction from the university, students at school said this was not enough. A small group of students began to discuss how to effectively speak to the administration.
Archie Creech, a senior and another organizer of Wednesday’s rally, said that while students “appreciate the response” from the university, he feels students know “there’s so much more that needs to be done.”
“There’s been a huge swell—huge support,” Creech said. “We feel now is the best time for this to happen.”
Ross Green, a senior who was one of the organizers behind Wednesday’s rally, said that “this is not the time to pat ourselves on the back” after Bonner’s announcement. Adding that he felt “what goes on with the Greeks affects us all,” Green said there is a culture of segregation on campus that goes beyond the sororities.
“We’re trying to uproot our entire culture,” said Green, who said he hails from a “long line of Alabama alumni” who have worked to end segregation at the university.
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World Youth Skills Day marked
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(Manama) – The Bahrain Society of Engineers hosted a ceremony to honour autistic and Down Syndrome people.
The United Nations (UN) Media Office for the GCC states organising the event marking the World Youth Skills Day (WYSD), which falls on July 15. The UN global event is being held this year under the slogan #SkillsForAll.
Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan patronised the ceremony, in the presence of MPs, head of societies and clubs in charge of people with disabilities, and rehabilitation centres as well as families.
The ceremony featured a sort film showcasing the skills of autistic and Down Syndrome people who took part in the competition.
The winners and the sponsors were also honoured during the event, which was held under the theme “We Are Excellence”.
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A long time Strider, Mick Slonaker combined service to the club and community with an outstanding running career. Among the many “hats” he wore, were those of: President of the Striders for three years; Vice President for five years; Race Director of Clyde’s for five years; coach of the Next Step 5K and Next Step Marathon programs for three years each; and Eastern Director of the RRCA. He was selected Strider Volunteer of the Year, and has worked many races, including high school cross country and track meets. On the running side, Mick has been the Striders’ Annual Award Winner as: Most Improved Runner; Master Runner (twice); and Grandmaster Runner (five times). The Washington Running Report has ranked Mick in the top three in his age group consistently throughout his 50s, and once he was tops in his age group. He has also won age group awards at major national races like the Annapolis 10 Mile, Peachtree, Bolder Boulder, Cherry Blossom, Broad Street Run, etc. His PRs include 16:48 for 5K; 29:10 for 8K; 35:33 for 10K (at 55 yrs); 1:18:51 for the half marathon (at 51 yrs); and 2:49 :00 for the marathon (at 50 yrs) and 2:55:30 (at 55 yrs).
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Former WHL head coach Dave Lowry joins Paul Maurice's staff in Winnipeg
Canada's head coach Dave Lowry during practice at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday, December 30, 2015. The Winnipeg Jets have hired Lowry as an assistant coach. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have hired Dave Lowry as an assistant coach.
The 55-year-old from Sudbury, Ont., joins the Jets after spending the 2019-20 season as head coach of the Western Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings.
He led the club to a 35-22-6 record and the Wheat Kings had clinched a playoff berth before the season ended March 18 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lowry most recently worked in the NHL as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Kings from 2017-19. Previously, we was an assistant coach in Calgary from 2009-12.
Lowry has also been a head coach of Calgary and Victoria in the WHL.
Lowry's son Adam is a forward with the Jets, whose 2019-20 season came to an end after a 3-1 loss to Calgary in a playoff qualifying series in Edmonton.
Dave Lowry won a gold medal as an assistant coach for Canada at the 2015 world junior championship before serving as head coach for in 2016, when the Canadians lost to Finland in the quarterfinals.
He also served as an assistant coach for the WHL all-stars in the CHL Canada/Russia Series in 2012-13 and the head coach for their entries in 2014-15 and 2015-16.
As a player, Lowry was drafted by the Canucks in the sixth round (110th overall) in the 1983 NHL draft and went on to play 19 seasons for Vancouver, St. Louis, Florida, San Jose, and Calgary. He recorded 351 points (164 goals, 187 assists) and 1,191 penalty minutes over 1,084 career regular-season games.
"Dave brings a tremendous amount of experience to our coaching staff in a variety of different areas," Jets head coach Paul Maurice said in a release. "His success working with young players in their development can't be denied as he had an excellent season last year in Brandon and has coached the country's top junior players. He has worked in all aspects of special teams during his time as an NHL assistant coach.
"We're very excited to bring Dave on board and join our staff."
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The Dumbest Mistakes That Got Killers Caught
By Ian Fortey on October 18, 2020 Crime
Pop culture has done a lot of work convincing us that serial killers are fiendishly clever and remarkably intelligent. Hannibal Lecter is like every college professor you ever met rolled into one with a charming little cannibal center. In real life, however, things don’t necessarily work like they do in the movies. For instance, a number of very prolific killers ended up getting caught because of some remarkably stupid mistakes.
10. The Trunk Mistake
It was back in 2008 when 22-year-old Jamie Fraley went missing. Police were interested in speaking to a man named Ricky Simonds Sr. about her disappearance. Jamie’s mother believed that Simonds knew what happened to her daughter, as the 49-year-old man was the last person to see her alive, as far as anyone knows. He was a person of interest and very likely would have been questioned by the police regarding Fraley’s disappearance. However, Simonds threw a wrench into the works.
Before Simonds could be questioned regarding the disappearance, he was found dead in the trunk of a car. Worded like that it sounds like perhaps somebody had killed him to cover up a bigger crime, but that’s not actually what seems to have happened. The trunk Simonds was found in belonged to his ex-girlfriend. She was the one who discovered him there and was as surprised as anyone. As far as the police were able to figure out, Simonds had actually hidden in the trunk with the intention of killing his ex-girlfriend. However, he got locked inside and died from the heat.
In an extra bit of weirdness, it turns out that Simonds was also the father of Fraley’s fiance. The younger Simonds also believes his father had a hand in the disappearance of his fiance, but it’s possible this mystery will never be solved.
9. Eric Edgar Cooke’s Weapon of Choice
They called Eric Edgar Cooke the Night Caller. He was an Australian serial killer active in the late ’50s and early ’60s. His method of killing puzzled the police because it was so inconsistent. He used a knife to kill once, he strangled one victim, he shot another, and even committed a hit and run. There was no connection between any of his victims, either. In total he committed eight murders that they’re aware of, as well as a host of other violent crimes.
Because some of his victims were killed at home, some were stabbed with scissors or knives, some were robbed, and some weren’t, it seemed like there was no real connection to the crimes. However, when a murder weapon was found it proved to be Cooke’s undoing.
It was 1963 when police found a rifle that had been hidden in a bush. Ballistics matched it to one of the victims and instead of just taking it as evidence the police set up an extremely Bugs Bunny-like trap. They created a fake duplicate of the gun, returned it to the bush and tied fishing line to it. Then they waited until somebody took the bait. Cooke ended up showing up 17 days later, grabbed the rifle, pulled the line and alerted police hiding nearby, who popped out and arrested him.
8. The Floppy Foul Up
One of the most infamous serial killers in American history was the BTK Killer. He terrorized the Wichita, Kansas area for several decades starting in 1974. That first killing saw a family of four tortured and ultimately murdered. Over the next 20 years, six more people fell victim and then in 1991 everything seemed to stop. And it would have ended there if not for the killer’s ego.
As it happens, a man named Dennis Rader was the BTK Killer. In 2004 the Wichita Eagle newspaper wrote an article about how the killer was likely dead or in prison since he hadn’t been heard from him so long. Rader read this and became annoyed. He wrote a letter to the paper taking credit for a 1986 murder and then continued to send a number of letters, as well as puzzles and other things, to media.
Rader got caught up in his own smug desire to take credit. In 2005 he sent a message to the local TV channel referencing a package that he left at a nearby Home Depot. Inside the package were plans for murders and a question. Rader wanted to know if a floppy disk that he sent to the police could be traced. He then asked them to answer him by placing an ad in the classified section of the local paper. An honest answer. So, the police placed an ad saying that using a floppy disk would be fine because they are untraceable, and Rader saved a file to a floppy disk and put it where the police could find it, confident that they would be unable to trace him. They then, of course, used it to trace him, discovering that Rader had actually used his own name to create the files and had printed them out from his church’s computer. He’s currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences.
7. Rifkin Got Sloppy
Serial killer Joel Rifkin was apprehended in 1993 and it is believed he committed as many as 17 murders. Rifkin was only convicted of nine murders, but he did get 203 years in prison for it. Rifkin had any particular MO that saw him picking up prostitutes, usually having sex with them and then killing them during or after the act. He would often put the bodies in barrels or buckets and hide them in rivers or around the New York-New Jersey area. Some of his victims were dismembered, and some have never been identified.
It was in June 1993, after Rifkin had killed his final victim, that the police finally caught up with him. However, it wasn’t for the reasons you might think. State troopers saw Rifkin’s truck drive by and noticed that it didn’t have a license plate. They were going to pull him over to give him a ticket but he ignored the lights and kept driving. Even with the sirens on Rifkin refused to pull over. In an attempt to elude them, he drove right into a light pole.
The police, who were right behind him, immediately handcuffed him as he got out of his truck and noticed right away the smell of a dead body. His final victim, Tiffany Bresciani, had been killed three days earlier and was in the back of his truck. He confessed to the murder right away, and soon confessed to many more. If not for a missing license plate, he may have continued for many years.
6. The Tell-Tale Clog
Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen was convicted of six counts of murder back in 1983. It’s believed he killed 15 young men over the course of five years between 1978 and 1983. He was sentenced to life in prison with a recommendation that he serve at least 25 years. He ended up dying there when he was 72-years-old in 2018.
Nilsen was especially gruesome with his murders. He would strangle or drown his victims and then keep the bodies in his house for weeks or even months before dismembering them. The internal organs would be removed and he committed some especially unspeakable acts with the bodies. Many of the body parts were disposed of near his house but some of the smaller parts he flushed down the toilet. It was this that ended up leading to his capture.
A plumber responded to calls from Nelson’s neighbor and even Nilsen himself in early 1983 because of issues with the local plumbing. After opening the drain, the plumber discovered it was jam-packed with human flesh and small bones. Police came to Nilsen’s house, which smelled of rotting flesh, and he confessed fairly quickly, pointing out a body that was still in his home at the time.
5. The Grim Sleeper’s Pizza
Lonnie Franklin Jr. killed at least 10 victims between 1985 and 2007. The media was calling him the Grim Sleeper, in reference to the pause in his killing spree that took place from 1988 until 2002. His reign of terror finally came to an end thanks to a slice of pizza and a napkin.
Over the course of Franklin’s crimes he committed numerous sexual assaults as well as the murders. DNA was left at the scene, but nothing in the database matched the samples they had because Franklin was not in the system. However, they did end up expanding their search in 2010 and got a familial DNA match. The DNA was linked to Christopher Franklin, the son of Lonnie Franklin. Christopher was much too young to have committed the early murders and the DNA suggested it was a close family match so they started looking for his father.
In order to get their man, a police officer went undercover as a waiter at a restaurant where Franklin was known to eat. After his meal, the police collected the napkin and pizza crust from his plate and used it to match DNA to the victims. Franklin was convicted and sentenced to death. He was executed in March 2020.
4. The Salmon Thief
During the 1970s and 1980s Charles Ng and his partner Leonard Lake committed between 11 and 25 murders. Lake and Ng were known for raping and torturing their victims, as well. After Lake was caught, Ng fled to Canada, where he lived undetected for some time in Fish Creek Provincial Park near Calgary, Alberta. It was Ng’s penchant for stealing things that got the duo caught in California in the first place, and his tendency to take things that didn’t belong to him is what ultimately led to his demise.
Even though he was already wanted for multiple murders he still, for reasons unknown, shoplifted a can of salmon from a department store in Calgary. While attempting to resist arrest he shot the security guard in the hand, which led to him being charged and convicted. He was then later extradited to California, where he was given the death penalty and died by lethal injection in 1999.
3. Son of Sam’s Parking Tickets
David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam, terrorized New York in the late 1970s. The high profile serial killings were heavily featured in the media and the killer continued his spree despite the police’s best efforts for months. Berkowitz managed to elude capture despite being the subject of what was the largest manhunt in New York City Police history. He killed six people and wounded many others and even sent letters to the police taunting them for their inability to catch him.
That Berkowitz couldn’t stop harassing people is what ended up getting him caught. He would send his neighbours anonymous letters that were unsettling and threatening. Police eventually began to find a pattern and identified Berkowitz as a suspect. Once they did so they were able to discover that Berkowitz had been using his own car as a getaway vehicle after each murder. When they cross reference parking tickets on the night of the last murder, Berkowitz’s car was there and had been ticketed. If not for his need to harass people and his laziness when it came to parking his own car that was registered to his name, he might have continued his murders for an indefinite amount of time.
2. The Watermark and Albert Fish
Be thankful that Albert Fish likely existed before your time because he was one of the most terrifying serial killers in history. Also known as the Werewolf of Wysteria and the Brooklyn Vampire, Fish claimed that he had upwards of 100 victims. Only three victims were ever confirmed and he was convicted in just one killing that got him sent to the electric chair in 1936.
Fish was more than just a serial killer, he was a serial rapist and cannibal and most of his victims were children. He apparently took some perverse pleasure in terrorizing the families of his victims as well, which led to his downfall. He sent a letter to the mother of his final victim explaining in gruesome detail what he did to the young girl. But the envelope he used was stationary that he found in the boarding home where he lived. And even though he removed the return address, he didn’t notice that the envelope itself was stamped with a watermark from The New York Private Chauffeurs Benevolent Association.
Police were able to trace the envelope to where it had come from originally, and finally to the boarding house where Fish had found it and mailed it. His defense tried to claim that he must have clearly been insane. The jury didn’t buy it, and sentenced Fish to death. Years later he would be, in part, the inspiration for Hannibal Lecter.
1. The ID Dropper
You’d be hard-pressed to think of a more foolish thing to do at the scene of a crime that you just committed than leave your ID behind. Aside from just staying there and waiting for the police to show up, this is about the worst thing you could conceivably do if you actually wanted to get away with your crime. Bafflingly, this is exactly what Peter Goebbels did.
Goebbels was a serial killer and rapist in Germany in the mid-1980s.Police were building a case and had already linked together four separate crimes when Goebbels left the scene of his most recent crime dropping his ID card behind him. Despite claiming that he was sick in the head, he ended up getting sentenced to life in prison.
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Watch (Direct TV) KIDY Fox 6 News San Angelo, TX local breaking news update Channel Live stream Online. You can also find a radar weather forecast which presents the Girls Team. KIDY Channel 6 FOX News live streaming online is a FOX-affiliated television station that works in San Angelo, Texas, areas of the United States. It telecast its transmission on virtual 36 (VHF digital 17). It is owned by the ( Tegna LSB Broadcasting, LLC) Broadcasting media network group and works under the supervision of a shared services agreement (SSA). KIDY has two shared production studios located on South Chadbourne Street in San Angelo. KIDY transmission house is located in rural northwestern Tom Green County (east of Grape Creek). The station began telecasting on May 12, 1984, with the theme of (We Know What Matters).
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Ian Mitchell, Bay City Rollers Bassist, Dead At 62
Mitchell’s tenure with the Scottish pop sensations was brief, but he played on their ‘Dedication’ and cover of Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Only Want To Be With You’.
Tim Peacock
Ian Mitchell (far right) with the Bay City Rollers in 1976. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Ian Mitchell, former bassist for the Bay City Rollers, has died at the age of 62. At the time of writing, the cause of the musician’s death is yet to be announced.
The 1970s Scottish pop sensations – known for hits including “Saturday Night”, “Shang-a-Lang” and “Bye Bye Baby” and for selling almost 300 million records globally – confirmed Mitchell’s passing via a statement posted on their official Facebook page.
A statement read: “We are deeply saddened by the news of Ian Mitchell’s death. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Wendy, their family and friends. Rest In Peace, Ian.”
Tributes also came from the band’s guitarist, Stuart ‘Woody’ Wood.
“Very sad, sad news about Ian Mitchell,” Wood wrote. ”We’d like to send our love and condolences to Wendy and all Ian’s family and friends…you are in our hearts.
“I have many fond memories of Ian not only in the BCR days but also when we played together in the 80’s with The Passengers…great guys and great days! You will be sorely missed Ian…”
Mitchell replaced bassist Alan Longmuir in 1976 when he was just 17, and became the first non-Scottish member of the group, hailing from Northern Ireland rather than the band’s native Edinburgh.
With Mitchell on bass, the group released their album Dedication and reached No 12 in the US charts with their cover of Dusty Springfield’s “I Only Want To Be With You”. Mitchell was later replaced by Pat McGlynn, before Longmuir, who died in 2018, made his eventual return in 1978.
He went on to form the band Rosetta Stone but quit in 1979. The group continued without him before parting ways in 1984. He launched the Ian Mitchell Band in May 1979. In later years, he continued working on solo projects as well as joining in reunions for both the Bay City Rollers and Rosetta Stone.
The Bay City Rollers’ current line-up features Ian Thomson on lead vocals and guitar, Marcus Cordock on bass guitar, Jamie McGrory on drums and Wood on guitar.
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The Prelude by KaSonndra Leigh
Review by Willow
Sometimes life offers a second chance. Seize it. Own it... Do not be afraid to walk outside the line.
I actually don't know how many stars I want to give this book. I didn't feel it was amazing, but it wasn't a bad book either. I thought the cover was different and that's what drew me in.
The Prelude is the start of a song that pulls you in, hypnotising you with beauty......
The story is about Erin Angelo, an American who has left her life behind after tragedy and moved to Milan. Erin is quiet and steers clear of close relationships because everyone she has ever loved has left her. Her father and Sister, Jada, were killed in a car accident and something has happened to her mother though we don't know what at first. After finishing Design School, Erin now works as a Clothes Designer in a small boutique with two bothers called Black Butterfly. Black Butterfly has been commissioned to design the costumes for a famous Maestro's show.
Alek Dostov is a 23 year old famous Maestro. He is from a wealthy Russian family, although he, his mother, sister and best friend have fled Russia and now live in Milan. He is a known playboy, and his mother has a hand in that, setting him up with daughters from other Rich families, but Alek isn't interested in these relationships, he doesn't want to be attached emotionally, he only wants a bit of fun, which is never a problem, most women fall for his charms, fall at his feet even, but not the lady responsible for designing his costumes.
Erin doesn't date bosses and that's who Alek is, but Alek doesn't give up easily and is ruthless when it comes to the pursuit of all things pleasurable, he just has to find the right tactic to win Erin over.
I loved the fact that Alek had to pursue Erin and that they didn't get together straight away, in fact you get about 50% in before anything happens that you could actually class them as together.
It starts as a bit of fun, but there is something about Erin, she's different, yet familiar and Alek realises he's in deep. Did I mention that they both had trouble pasts? Alek's catches up to him. It could put Erin in danger, he has to tell her:
"I want you to understand who I truly am, Where I come from. Where I want to be"
Erin is not so forthcoming about her demons, but when Alek discovers what's in her past, he realises that their lives are tangled in a way that they never saw coming. If that was not enough to deal with, Alek's mother does not like Erin and will do anything she can to keep them separated, even sharing with Erin Alek's realisation which could tear them apart. Can these two scarred, commitment-phobe people move beyond that and find happiness together?
This book isn't perfect, there were bits I didn't like, but with it set in Milan, with a musical theme and the Russian family connections, it was definitely different. The book is told in alternative POV, which I loved and I loved the cheekiness of Alek's character. The writing style was easy to get into, but there were certain scenes I would have liked fleshed out a bit, including the Epilogue. It wasn't a book that I couldn't put down, but I equally I wasn't in a huge rush to finish it.
3.5 stars doesn't seem enough, but I think of some of the books I've rated 4 Stars and I'm not sure its quite there either. It is definitely worth a read, but i'm not sure how far up your TBR piles it should go.
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Colorado River basin states to meet at deadline on drought plan
Ken Ritter
LAS VEGAS (AP) — With drought entering a second decade and reservoirs continuing to shrink, seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the overtaxed Colorado River for crop irrigation and drinking water had been expected to ink a crucial share-the-pain contingency plan by the end of 2018.
They're not going to make it — at least not in time for upcoming meetings in Las Vegas involving representatives from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and the U.S. government, officials say.
Arizona has been the holdout, with farmers, cities, Indian tribes and lawmakers in the state set to be first to feel the pinch still negotiating how to deal with water cutbacks when a shortage is declared, probably in 2020.
"There will be cuts. We all know the clock is ticking. That's what a lot of the difficult negotiations have been around," said Kim Mitchell, Western Resource Advocates water policy adviser and a delegate to ongoing meetings involving the Arizona Department of Water Resources, Central Arizona Project, agricultural, industrial and business interests, the governor, state lawmakers and cities including Tucson and Phoenix.
In Arizona, unlike other states, a final drought contingency plan will have to pass the state Legislature when it convenes in January.
Federal water managers wanted a deal to sign at the annual Colorado River Water Users Association conference beginning Wednesday in Las Vegas, and threatened earlier this year to impose unspecified measures from Washington if a voluntary drought contingency plan wasn't reached.
However, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman is signaling that the agency that controls the levers on the river is willing to wait. She is scheduled to talk to the conference on Thursday.
"Reclamation remains cautiously optimistic that the parties will find a path forward," the bureau said in a statement on Friday, "because finding a consensus deal recognizing the risks of continuing drought and the benefits of a drought contingency plan is in each state's best interest."
Colorado River water supports about 40 million people and millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. and Mexico.
After 19 years of drought and increasing demand, federal water managers project a 52 percent chance that the river's biggest reservoir, Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam, will fall low enough to trigger cutbacks under agreements governing the system.
The seven states saw this coming years ago and used Colorado River Water Users Association meetings in December 2007 to sign a 20-year "guidelines" plan to share the burden of a shortage.
Contingency agreements would update that pact, running through 2026. They call for voluntarily using less to keep more water in the system's two main reservoirs, lakes Powell and Mead.
Lake Powell upstream from the Grand Canyon is currently at 43 percent capacity; Lake Mead, downstream, is at 38 percent.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, the river's Upper Basin states, aim to keep the surface of Lake Powell above a target level to continue water deliveries to irrigation districts and cities and also keep hydroelectric turbines humming at Glen Canyon Dam.
The Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada aim to keep Lake Mead above a shortage declaration trigger point by using less water than they're legally entitled to.
If Lake Mead falls below that level, Arizona will face a 9 percent reduction in water supply, Nevada a 3 percent cut and California up to 8 percent. Mexico's share of river water would also be reduced.
Water officials in most states — from the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas to the Colorado River Water Conservation District in Glenwood Springs, Colorado — have signed off on plans in recent weeks.
In Arizona, the board governing the Central Arizona Project irrigation system approved the Lower Basin plan on Thursday.
In California, the sprawling Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which serves some 19 million people, is set to approve it Tuesday.
Board members there were reminded the agreements are only a short-term fix.
According to a board briefing, the Bureau of Reclamation, seven basin states and water contractors will begin negotiating again beginning no later than 2020.
"That process is expected to result in new rules for management and operation of the Colorado River after 2026," the board briefing said.
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Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Dalton Thompson, Zully Montero
Review: Max Cady (Robert De Niro) has been released from prison on a sexual battery conviction that has taken nearly fifteen years of his life away, and it's safe to say he's not best pleased. He doesn't blame himself for being incarcerated, he blames his lawyer, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who could have mentioned in the defence that the woman he raped had a history of promiscuity, and the fact that Bowden got the charge down to a lesser one of battery holds no forgiveness for Cady. He has spent his time inside building up his body and reading - and now he's ready.
This Cape Fear was the source of some very divisive reactions, as it was a surprise from a director like Martin Scorsese that he would make an all out horror flick, and many of his highbrow fans were left feeling let down. Not that this would have bothered him too much as it went on to be the biggest hit of his career to that date, and freed him to helm more personal projects now he had proved himself capable of commercial success and not simply a much respected, or even cult, director. But although the public flocked to see De Niro play the bad guy to the hilt, there were still grumblings, and not because of Scorsese's perceived selling out.
Those less convinced that this was an improvement on J. Lee Thompson's original thriller did have a point, no matter that the director tried to placate those with good memories of it by casting its stars Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck in small roles (Martin Balsam was in there as well). If you knew the first version, then you'd be aware that the lawyer's family victimised by Cady's stalker techniques which escalate into something far more serious were pretty much blameless, to amp up the tension of bad things happening to decent people, yet on Scorsese's insistence in the remake they were subjected to all sorts of reasons to make out that they deserved their treatment by the bad guy.
All of this was apparently to bring the director's religious preoccupations to bear on the plot, so the no one is innocent theme was intended to add to the suspense, yet if you looked at what the Bowdens were supposed to have done - Sam, for example, thinks about but crucially does not have an affair with co-worker Illeana Douglas - they were completely out of proportion to the fate they suffered at the hands of their tormentor, revealing an unpleasantly puritanical streak to Scorsese's worldview if he really did believe all that stuff about Catholic guilt. Not helping was that the whole style of the piece was so exaggerated that everyone was on the verge of hysteria from minute one: it's little wonder this made such a memorable spoof on The Simpsons when the source was so cartoonish and preposterous.
Mystifyingly, the acting was praised to the extent of Oscar nominations for the two worst thespian offenders here. The scene where Cady attempts to seduce Sam's teenage daughter Danielle (Juliette Lewis) is interminable, indulging the performers' worst quirks at deadening length, yet was singled out as one of the highlights of the movie. It's probably best to regard this Cape Fear as a product of the nineties horror genre - De Niro even treated us to his Freddy Krueger in the last act - so that its farcical qualities were less likely to stick in the craw, but doing that demanded a huge suspension of disbelief. That one character's assault would not be pursued legally due to her lack of faith in the justice system is borderline insulting, and the rain soaked finale on the river dragged on tediously, piling on the moralising as if Cady was the representative of avenging angels everywhere, only illustrating that this film's sense of right and wrong was seriously off-kilter. In horror movies, that really is unforgivable. Bernard Herrmann's original score was reworked by Elmer Bernstein.
Martin Scorsese (1941 - )
American writer and director who emerged as one of the brightest and most vital of the generation of filmmakers who came to prominence during the 1970s with his heartfelt, vivid and at times lurid works. After deciding against joining the priesthood, he turned to his other passion - movies - and started with short efforts at film school until Roger Corman hired him to direct Boxcar Bertha.
However, it was New York drama Mean Streets that really made Scorsese's name as a talent to watch, and his succeeding films, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (which won Ellen Burstyn an Oscar and is the only Scorsese movie to be made into a sitcom) and the cult classic Taxi Driver (starring Robert De Niro, forever associated with the director's work) only confirmed this.
Unfortunately, his tribute to the musical New York, New York was a flop, and he retreated into releasing concert movie The Last Waltz before bouncing back with boxing biopic Raging Bull, which many consider his greatest achievement. The rest of the eighties were not as stellar for him, but The King of Comedy and After Hours were cult hits, The Color of Money a well-received sequel to The Hustler and The Last Temptation of Christ kept his name in the headlines.
In the nineties, Scorsese began with the searing gangster saga Goodfellas, and continued with the over-the-top remake of Cape Fear before a change of pace with quietly emotional period piece The Age of Innocence. Casino saw a return to gangsters, and Kundun was a visually ravishing story of the Dalai Lama. Bringing Out the Dead returned to New York for a medical tale of redemption, and Gangs of New York was a muddled historical epic.
Still the Best Director Oscar eluded him, but the 2000s gave what many saw as his best chance at winning. Slick Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator didn't make it, but remake of Infernal Affairs The Departed finally won him the prize. Outlandish thriller Shutter Island then provided him with the biggest hit of his career after which he surprised everyone by making family film Hugo - another huge hit.
This was followed by an even bigger success with extreme broker takedown The Wolf of Wall Street, and a return to his religious origins with the austere, redemption through torture drama Silence. Despite being an advocate of the theatrical experience, he joined forces with Netflix for The Irishman, reuniting him with De Niro for one last gangster epic. He also directed Michael Jackson's Bad music video.
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Top 10 Greatest Pop Stars of All Time
1 Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, dancer, and songwriter born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana and passed away on June 25, 2009. He donated (at least) a remarkable 500,000,000 dollars to charity. Michael is also known as The King of Pop (a title given to him by Elizabeth Taylor) or under ...read more.
Michael Jackson is the best because he sings, dances, writes songs, composes and is a qualified actor. He also took all of the false rumors and ignored them (the rumors were he turned white on purpose, he hate children etc) also he can actually SING unlike the little twit below who doesn't deserve to be here, the only other artist that can make a song that's good to listen to and not just some guy wailing through the microphone is Justin timberlake.
He was the best because he was the complete package: he was not only a supernaturally talented singer and dancer who gave incredibly explosive and powerful on stage performances. He also had incredible charisma, style, and mystique. One also needs to include the fact that he was a devoted humanitarian who championed the plight of those so much less fortunate, and in fact gave tens of millions of his own money to charities. He was a gentle person who had a sensitive and fragile nature and was someone who the media made out to be a monster, and for that, the world should feel ashamed. Although we will always have his music, I will always miss his presence in the world.
Simply the best. Influenced ever pop star that came after him, even though none of them have been as original or as inventive as Michael has. Easily one of the best voices ever heard in the world, his range is incredible and can nail notes that no other singers can not even come close to. Incredible dancer that no one has still been able to emulate. His lyrics were precise as well. He was truly the total package in a world superstar. He spoke across race and class lines, and continues to be heard throughout the world even today. His music and legacy will never die, and his mark in music has been engraved forever.
Michael Jackson is the only person who brings the whole world with different races together untie as one. Its really sad that he was been innocently accused for 2 time child sexual abuse. Know Michael well before judging him. People are using him to make money. He died as if he is homeless. No one saw him cry. No one knew how he felt all the time. Is really sad that he died at the age of 50. But is a heart touching thing to find people all around the world pass on his legacy and name. Tributes from all around the world, had deeply touched my heart. Rest In Peace King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, no one will ever take over your place! King Of Pop lives on!
2 Katy Perry Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, professionally known by her stage name Katy Perry, was born on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. She is a singer, songwriter, actress and an ambassador on one of the most popular companies of now, UNICEF. ...read more.
Whenever I think of her, a light shines in my heart. She's my biggest inspiration ever. You know, she had a rough childhood and she was banned from listening to pop music by her parents, but nothing could stop her from getting what she had always dreamt of. And now, when she's already the number 1 star in the world, she continues to inspire others, and also do a great job as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. I think she is one of the great women of all time.
Five number 1 hits from single album, three diamond singles certified by RIAA, need anything more? Put her on number 2 already cause we know Michael Jackson is the king so.
I CAN'T believe that katy perry is 22nd place! Katy is way better than everybody whos ahead of her! I mean like shes got a powerful and enchanting voice... She sings like an angel! I think fireworks is her best song, it's so inspiratonal. I love wide awake too, the videos so cool. Come on she has a movie made on her... Katy should be in 1st place. I love her songs and I wish she was in the top ten at least... Katy perry is my favourite singer!
Katy should be #1, she is the goddess.. I love her personality.. She is very down to earth and has good sense of humor... Her songs are unique and very catchy.. She is one of the stars who has improved as the years roll by.. And she is the reigning pop queen,.. I adore her.. Prism gonna slay.. She is the best...
3 Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. ...read more.
Lady Gaga is by far the biggest pop icon of this century and has been releasing top class singles for over half a decade now. No other Artist has had such enormous success in a relatively short space of time with smash hits which will go down in history produced by her such as Just Dance, Poker Face, Paparazzi, Bad Romance, Telephone, Alejandro, Judas, Born This Way, Edge Of Glory and Applause. It is hard to believe how she could have produce such a large magnitude of great songs in such a small space of time. I don't think that there will be anyone as good as her in the future and there surely hasn't already been anyone as good as her in the past! How is she not number 1!
Lady gaga has got the most talent and more than any other pop star right now. People call a lot of singers the best because they have good lyrics, most of these singers don't even write there music and let's face your most of them are rubbish at singing where as lady gaga is not only a fashion icon but an truly amazing singer and songwriter, her dancing is amazing an everything she does in her career she puts 110% into it, lady gaga has the most amazing creativity and to a true artists eye her outfits are all works of art and a lot have been made and designed by her, lady gaga is the, a lady gaga show is one of the best shows next to "Honey B", LADY GAGA IS THE QUEEN OF POP!
She hasn't only had hit after hit after hit within the past decade, but she creates all of her own music. She sings and performs all of her own music. She's classically trained, smart, and has some serious pipes. She has created this huge legacy for herself purely with hard work, passion, and dedication. She truly expresses herself through her music, her outfits, and her performances. Gaga is a true artist. She is also a huge influence especially to her younger fans. She promotes self-empowerment, confidence, and equal rights for all. Lady Gaga deserves to be at the top of this list with everything she has accomplished.
Who doesn't love Gaga? I mean she is strikingly gorgeous and beautiful in her own way, no matter what. Everybody loves her personality, her music, her crazy outfits, her performances. She's different and that's how she explains herself as an iconic pop star. Do not talk about sales or awards she has gained, but talk about talents and abilities. If you still say Gaga is not talented or stuf, you better put Gaga and other artists on one stage and let them do what they can do. Gaga's career has started since she was 18 and she has learned playing piano since she was 3 years old and began writing her own music in 11 years old. How could someone say she's not talented?
4 Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. ...read more.
Better sound with Taylor Swift, even though Michael is a stage maniac. It is simply more of a Christmas kind of albums that one might get so would vote Swift on in first place. Skills can sometimes not be the feelings to admire, there is also authenticity and brand new present to find as the nicer deal. Hope to sway the agree with only Jackson to the feminine lead of Taylor Swift instead with that idol as the best this far in sound and musical talent perhaps taste more than snaps of character alone would give. Plus it is right for first to those understanding it most, and the rest have a high lead but at least not the first place of Taylor Swift. The music industry has never been more enlightening to fans and admirers alike thanks to the modern times breakthroughs with much care at that too that the new artists demonstrate. Good!
Taylor swift is a beautiful person in her songs she lets us feel her emotions and her feelings and that's a beautiful thing. She donates her money to hospitals and shelters and connects with her fans! All of her songs have a message that we can all relate to. She works very hard and it's not always easy at all! Taylor Allison swift is a great example for
young girls! Taylor Allison swift I love you so much and you are the reason why I don't let anyone tell me my dreams are to big someday when I'm successful and I've gotten where I want to go I know that I worked hard and that is the only thing that matters!
Not only does her music bring lyrics with such meaning but she pours her heart into her music. You can feel the emotion. That is very rare in artist nowadays. It's not just her music either, it's the way she invites fan to after-concert clubs. It's sending a fan thousands of dollars to kick cancers butt. It's visiting hospitals and sending her fans Christmas gifts. It's those kinds of things people will always remember about her. That's why she's a role model, legacy, and 'popstar'.
I'm middle class girl from India and yr voice is really pleasant. I wrote many songs when I was inspired by you and JB. For hours I practice your songs but that's all useless cause I never got chance to perform even in school. Never I performed English songs on any occasion because sometimes financial problem comes in between my path. Two albums I had written. I beg you to help me to compose that and to give me chance to become a singer like you. Thank you for inspiration,for giving me hope through yr songs.
5 Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone, known professionally as Madonna, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She influenced a lot of singers such as: Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Beyonce Knowles and Britney Spears. She is known as Queen of Pop and at modern pop culture specifically ...read more.
Madonna is the Queen of pop and the best pop female artist ever, she can't be compared to those wannabees like katy perry, lady gaga, taylor swift, Britney etc... Madonna has proved to be a true artist by giving us great albums. This site is stupid to have Madonna in number 8, she should be second because the first place is Michael Jackson and even though he is number one, he has not accomplished what Madonna has. Because his last albums were not as successful as Madonna's. Againsm is real, The media trash Madonna's work just because now she is in her 50s and continue singing. Stop the hate, it is the only way to live with tolerance in this world, stop promoting hate to young people.
She is legend! Even if you're a hater just stop and think. She is the highest selling physical singles artist of the 2000s and she was announced as the highest ranking solo artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists", a higher rank than Whitney, Mariah or even MJ, as well as having more number-one singles in the United Kingdom than any other female artist. She is the best on Billboard dance charts with 43 number one singles. Even MJ's highest single from his album which was released in 2001 peaked at number 10 in US. But in 2000 Madonna made the world come together with her single "Music" which peaked at #1 in many charts. She made whole the world "Vogue" and she is absolutely the most influential female pop artist ever!
She was made to be famous.. She is a legend of POP she has been the most succesful woman with more than 300 millions copies.. She is the queen of reinvention SHE HAS CREATED all the other superstars who appeared after her.. Lady gaga is great because it's the logical and modern continuation of the madonna idea, it's obvious that lady gaga is the current queen of pop, why people try to deny it? She is really more succesful than madonna nowdays..
I don't know if the problem is the age of Madonna (which affects more than people think) or its latest reinvention.. She was the queen of pop.. Now people no longer sees her as the queen, and so she has ceased being it.. But she has been the queen for thirty years (until today) she began to build the road that she no longer walks... Only the following greatest artist may succeed her on the throne she created.. And yes, lady gaga is slowly taking it.
Madonna isn't just a pop star, she's an artist in the truest sense. She uses culture as a canvas and has given the world sounds and visions which will only really be appreciated when she's gone. Despite misogynistic criticism, she's one of the least artifical creators in all of pop; the very symbol of being yourself and the best you can be without pandering to sentimentality or peer pressure. Icon.
6 Justin Bieber Justin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He currently resides in Ontario, Canada and is Christian. He is the son of author Pattie Mallette. ...read more.
So overall a great artist I am beyond surprised how he is this low in the rankings..? if you look at his past year his net worth has increased about 80 million dollars by the end of 2016 so that's making 80 million dollars in one year half of the celebrities up here have nothing even close to his money potential talent and career he came up so quick so fast that took artist years and years and years to make it actually really make it... Justin Bieber is an amazing artist singer songwriter musician overall he is just great and I believe his ranking should be top 3. And with his age he still has a fabulous career in front of him... I only see positives no negatives I Believe by the end of his career he will be there either most famous pop star or second most famous
Justin Bieber is overall a great artist I am beyond surprised Hotwire he is this low in the rankings if you look at his past year his net worth has increased about 80 million dollars by the end of 2016 so that's making 80 million dollars in one year half of the celebrities up here have nothing even close to his money potential talent and career he came up so quick so fast that took artist years and years and years to make it actually really make it... Justin Bieber is an amazing artist singer songwriter musician overall he is just great and I believe his ranking should be top 5. And with his age he still has a fabulous career in front of him... I only see positives and negatives I Believe by the end of his career he will be there either most famous pop star or second most famous
Justin Bieber is a great artist as well as a the strongest person I have ever seen beside so many hates he still manages to put effort into his songs and top them in the charts he is so talented like he could play a bunch of musical instruments has amazing vocals and dances good so no one can deny he is the biggest popstar in this world right now
He is very very cute and he just makes me believe and he inspires me I just love him I'm a belieber and he has the best music in the world I love you justin bieber! 1justin bieber follow me at @jespowel on twitter you make anything happen even when I cry you turn my cry into a laugh and you have the dance moves your pitch is also beautiful you always have kind words to say about other people you make my life complete you have the most best voice in the whole world you are my idol justin I want you to know I love you to death
7 Beyonce Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, is an American singer and actress, who started out in the popular pop/r&b girl group Destiny's Child. They had multiple top 5 hits such as "No, No, No", "Say My Name", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Survivor", "Independent Women", "Bootylicious", and "Jumpin', Jumpin" from ...read more.
Beyonce is without a doubt one of the most talented women on Earth. She has a tremendously powerful voice, with a huge range. She is an excellent dancer and can really connect with an audience. She can put emotions into her voice and her songs that can bring you to tears. She is capable of writing and composing amazing music and for the most part, she does. She is also an excellent actress. Not to mention the fact that she is incredibly beautiful! Put all these qualities in one and you have an AMAZING performer. She has the best live performances of all and I love her with all my heart. GO BEYONCE!
Hold it, hold it. What is Beyonce doing at number 8, 2 spots below Justin? Justin is what gives pop a bad representation. Beyonce is talented, buetafull, independent, inspiring, and Justin is a little girl. She writes her songs and doesn't use auto tune and anyone who doesn't like her must be crazy.
She is simply the best and she is an amazingly talented beautiful singer whom everyone loves and her music is nice to listen to and dance to she is just amazing love her voice and her great taste in fashion.
Shes awesome and she puts a lot of work to each song I like it. And she a good dancer have you seen the music video run the world. She does crazy moves while she is on it. She has these dangroues wolfs or dogs but j z he's awesome
8 Britney Spears Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and actress who was born in McComb, Mississippi, and grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana. She performed acting roles in stage productions and television shows like "The Mickey Mouse Club" as a child before signing with Jive Records in 1997 ...read more.
An incredible pop phenom, she has broke countless records ( fastest selling female artist, only act to debut 4 albums with 500k in opening week, best selling teenager in the game ever, the 1st artist to have her debut single and album reach number 1 on the billboard, female artist with the most mtv ema awards... The list goes on), on stage she's a fearless diva but in person she's the most humble kindest soul. Through all her challenges she's faced she's still managed to come out on top. She's a true inspiration and force to be reckon with. Never underestimate the power of Britney effing Spears
I have done my research and here are just a few quick notes.
Britney has 2 Diamond albums. She has over 100 million Albums sold worldwide by 2010. Over 100 million videos Worldwide by 2012 or 2013 all RIAA certified, this is all in the midst of the download era.
Britney also holds 6 Guiness world Records.
1) Best-selling album by a teenage solo artist
2) Best-selling teenage artist of all time
3) Fastest most no. 1 in UK chart
4) 5th Best Selling Female Artist In Music History
5) Most Searched Person (2008)
6) Youngest Female Artist To Have Six Of Her Albums Reach #1 On The Music Charts (2011)
So if any other female music artist can make that claim, be my guest.
Also, some people want to make Britney the Queen of POP, however, it would be nice, I think Madonna, MJ, and Janet have had a great influence on Britney to make her who and what she is today. So Madonna will always be the undisputed Queen, (even Britney ...more
Hands down Britney should be at the top, along with MJ, Madonna, Janet, and Whitney. Britney, however, stands out among her peers and contemporaries. Currently she is more relevant than more veteran pop stars. She also is one of the only pop artists to have #1 hits over 3 decades (90s, 00s, 10s). Many records broken, and still relevant. So far she has proven she can adapt with the changing music industry and her style of music has changed. As a performer, she's beyond her contemporaries and arguably one of the best female performers of all time.
Up until now no one can perform as passionate as Britney Spears. She had a big big influence in music industry specially in POP. Its not just how she sung or how she dance, its how she perform that really matter to me..She bring the crowd every time she perform on stage. at her age now, she still perform the way she perform when she was little younger."BIGAY TODO", she gives everything to make her audience satisfied and go home with a smile after her show. That's why for me BRITNEY SPEARS is the BEST POP EVER
9 Rihanna Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian-American pop singer. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, she first entered the music industry by recording demo tapes under the direction of record producer Evan Rogers in 2003. She ultimately signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning ...read more.
The only girl in the world deserves to be #1. Gosh I mean dis is someone who has broken records set by Madonna, mariah carey and the sweet whitney houston. She has 12 #1's making her the fastest solo artist to achieve that feat, billboard named her the number 1 pop artist of all time fending off her mates and even the legendary Madonna owing to her consistent place on the charts and having the records for the most #1's, most entries & most top 10's on the pop songs chart. Come on people, Rihanna has proven beyond reasonable doubt that she has come to #STAY, make good music and entertain.
There is no doubt that Rihanna is on top. Why she is not Number 1 according to Social media or whatever makes no sense to me. Watch one interview, video, or concert clip and it is easy to see why she is so loved and Successful. I fell in love with her person and instantly seen her emotional intelligence in the Oprah special interview with Rihanna. In that short time, I got to know Robyn. She is real, honest, smart, and her work ethic and love for her fans is what has helped her break records. In addition to all of that, this chic has STyle! Taylor can talk about never going out of style and sing about it all day, but Rihanna walks the walk and walks it RIGHT. She is inspiring and I love how a lot of what she wears is drawn from inspiration she receives from whatever is around her in the moment and catches her eye. This girl is a super star. To call her smart was an understatement. She really is a very special individual. Music is what matters to her. Not titles. She is literally in ...more
She is amazing! She is iconic! Any song she makes turns into a hit! She has a amazing sense of fashion and her music is amazing and she is quite a versatile artist. She never forgot her Barbadian roots even after leaving to America. She as a person is very sweet kind savage and humble. She donates a lot of money to many charity works and did many great things. I love umbrella sos pin de replay etc. Such amazing songs! Love you riri #rihannanavyordie
She is the most influential artist out there... Everywhere you go or turn one of her hits are playing and not to mention her trend setting persona. She manages to get the girl from next door to other famous pop stars, to shave off half their head and not to mention her exotic videos. She embodies pop and deserves to take that number 2n spot!
10 Bruno Mars Peter Gene Hernandez, professionally known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and choreographer. ...read more.
I love the beautiful melodies of all the songs you write and sing, especially "Never Close Our Eyes". I'm extremely grateful that you gave this beautiful song to the vocal god Adam Lambert, who can spice it up to make it a fabulous collab. You are the best songwriter and singer in the world of this generation of artists, along with Adam Lambert. I hate those people who keep saying that Justin Bieber is better than you. Bruno Mars and Adam Lambert forever!
I love Michael Jackson a lot and when he died (sad fully) I thought that no more talent will ever corn into the world but then Bruno Mars came up and I was like... Now that's talent. By the way my fave is Uptown Funk
If there is a single guy who has talent after MJ, it is Bruno Mars he is a total package, songwriter, vocalist..Damn vocals man.., multi instrumentalist, performer and dancer. He is the best artist of 21st century.
Bruno is best... In my eyes he is the next MJ. I can see so many people who use auto tune up in this list. Bruno is a genuine man and his voice is genuine... I like to see him on top.
11 Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 ...read more.
I love Gaga. I love Brit. But Michael should be one, Madonna two, and WHITNEY three. Gaga fourth. Sheesh. You young kids have no respect for history!
She range as pop diva in the 80
She has a beautiful voice!
Her music inspires me
12 Pink Alecia Beth Moore known professionally as P!NK, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress.
Most underrated musician! She deserves so much more! She's a true artist from the way she takes the crowd away to the way she sings better than her recorded song! P! Nk will forever be my favorite artist!
Legend needs no description. She's smart, honest, and so deeply involved with the audience heart that she will live forever without any doubt.
To everyone: Try. Never give up. It's what I tell myself, and it's the reason I'm so confident. You're beautiful. Remember that.
One of the best live artists in the world. She's sexy, rebellious and boaderline rock star. Has a rough and sexy voice, always gauranteed to entertain.
13 Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer. She is best known for songs like "Come & Get It", "Good For You", "Same Old Love", and "It Ain't Me". Selena Gomez's voice is mezzo-soprano but she usually sings in alto. She is best known for her role as Alex Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place.
I am the biggest fan of Selena Gomez, my biggest dream is just to see her but I wish I couls meet her. She is my biggest role model.Thank you selena gomez for britining my world. You inspired my life with the song who says. Everyone told me that you are never going to be an actress but because of the song I did not listen to them I only listened to me. So I just want to thank you. A lot of people don't like you but just listen to your self. Trust me that really works. Thank you selena gomez/I love you the most of all people.
Stop with the hate, this lady is more successful than a lot of people. Selena is a total queen, she takes on all this hate whilst struggling with lupus and yet, she battles on regardless. Her music is catchy and does well. She can definitely sing, maybe not as capable of higher notes such as Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato etc. I adore and look up to Selena. #Selenators
She used be very nice girl. I really liked her but now I really hate this skinny, ugly untalented girl. She get nude exactly like Miley. That was so trashy and gross. I also dislike Miley but I think Miley is way little better cause she don't even look so gross.
Selena I'm sorry you and Justin never get along and he's holding it against you but I think you are brave and smart enough to forget but here's my advice don't let him win and you might not no what ned means but take it from here. never give up, encourridge other, do your best!
14 Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, known professionally as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.
I don't know why he, s at no.7... He, s the best pop singer... He's beater than any one on this list besides Michael Jackson... I mean seriously Bieber! Its not about money you make. Its about how good can you sing and Justin Bieber is nothing in front of him...
Hmm... Don't have any word to say. Ha... He is my role model... I think I have lisened each song of him for some lakh or crores of times... I am just crazy about his songs... Songs makes me to lead a peaceful time... To get immediate relaxation... And every thing...
Most underrated musician! He deserves so much more! His a true artist from the way she takes the crowd away to the way she sings better than her recorded song! Enrique forever be my favorite artist!
Enrique Iglesias - The word itself says that the person is awesome
He is a king of music, I love his every single song, even if its English or Spanish
I really don't have words to describe about him
He should be in at least top 5
15 Alicia Keys Alicia Augello Cook, known by the pseudonym Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress.
Well of course, Alicia is just like Adele with the most powerful voice in history according to one of her best songs this girl is on fire!
Leesh, get out here on the stage 'fore I snatch the tax letter and coffee from your hand and put you out there! This Girl Is On Fire!
Alica keys has a very powerful voice she sings wonderful too I like the song this girl is on fire! But who dosn't. She is also very beuatiful I love you Alicia keys!
Alicia Keys is a wonderful singer and I just love all her songs!
16 Adele Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is an English singer and songwriter. Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. She is best known with her international hit singles ...read more.
I have already told that she must have been in 4th or 3rd place but you jerks don't understand. You are fake just put her up wait don't do I don't mind because in my opinion she is the best I don't care what you jerks say.
Adele your music is SO good and it is very interesting I like how it has a steady beat and it just somehow goes all together. Very Nice Adele
"Hello from the other side"
Unlike most of the singers in this list, Adele can sing many different genres of music and she's always so creative with her albums and her song choices.
Hello is amazing but it's played on the radio every 5 minutes
17 Kesha Kesha Rose Sebert (formerly known as Ke$ha) was born on March 1st, 1987 in Los Angeles, United States. She is best known for her hits like Timber, Tik Tok, and We R Who We R. ...read more.
She is amazing, inspiring and makes her own songs! She is one of few artists that are generic an makes her own songs. I love her album, Warrior, it has Die Young, Crazy Kids, Supernatural and many great future hits! I also love her show Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life on MTV because she is not afraid to show her true self to people. I am her Number 1 fan!
Really inspiring amazing artist. (down to earth unlike some of the others even though her music is 100 times better) Such a nice person and one of my biggest idols, as she really doesn't give a sugar lump what other people think of her. We R Who We R, Your animals love you ke$ha and will always be there for you!
She is the best besides selena gomez she my favorite.!
Everything kesha does is pop which makes her awesome
18 Shakira Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian-Spanish singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer, and model.
First of all she is really good and I think she is nearly better than Michael Jackson she is really good at pop singer also she has enchanted singing voice that is full of power and range so I think she should be one of the top ten chart wow!
My gawd! Shakira, you have been on my phone Whenever, Wherever! Girl, keep climbing up the STOOPID social ladder and beat the others! Who on earth put Unjustified Bieber up there, because they need to get a doctor and a life!
Shakira is equal to the legend Michael Jackson. She has such soulful voice & her music spreads happiness. She is EPIC & perfect Queen of pop for Michael Jackson. Love you Shakira
She is very much talented and her voice is exceptional and too strong. she is worth being respected in the world of pop music and her dance moves are really awesome!
19 Justin Timberlake Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child.
His live performances (From the 20/20 experience) are amazing. It's all live music and he has pretty much a full band playing. Amazing recorded AND live vocals. Many pop stars will just sing over recordings. Justin is a true musician.
NEEDS to be number 2 to Michael Jackson. He doesn't use autotune just like every other person in this list besides Michael Jackson.
He is one of the best male pop artist of all time. He is a triple threat and his iconic songs like SexyBack, Cry Me a River and Mirrors are unforgetable. Long live the legend.
One of the few Male Pop stars on the list. Has a very unique voice and a perfect Male pop star image, has had great success since Nsync.
20 Usher Usher Terry Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, but raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee was where he lived until moving to Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 12 where his mother put him in local singing competitions all over the city.
He's alright I mean the sobg u got it bad was pretty good
Got me like oh my gosh
21 Prince Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 - April 21st, 2016) was an American musician, best known for being one of the most popular and influential artists from the 80s, with songs such as "Purple Rain", "Little Red Corvette", "1999", and "When Doves Cry" .
My top three would be Prince, MJ and Elvis. Well ELvis and MJ are on the list, but only MJ got a deserved spot. WHere the hell is prince? He plays all the instruments, composes all the music, dances, choreographs, produces, etc.) He has been rocking massive crowds crowds since before most people on this list were born, and he's still going today) It's a sad state of affairs that he is not even on this list. Without Prince, this list is meaningless!
It is disturbing to see this legend on #98, below people like Pitbull and Zayn Malik.
The best brilliant talented no one can touch him.
Why are Kesha Justin bieber higher than prince?
22 Demi Lovato Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American singer, songwriter and actress. After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends as a child, she received her breakthrough role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel television film Camp Rock and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. ...read more.
I love her songs like Give your heart a break, Made in the usa, Neon lights, Cool for the summer, Really don't care, Heart attack, and This is me. She should be the first in this list! She has an amazing voice and almost all her songs are Hollywood records. Love her so much!
Demi lovato is so amazing and I like her songs when she was acting in camp rock also I like all of her songs she is really good at singing and acting finally I like her rock and pop songs so she should one of the the best singers wow!
I can not believe she is number 14 she should be number 2 at least. Her songs r the best and I think she looks better with long hair but she is who she is and she gets to make her own decisions!
Demi Lovato is not a person that makes dumb decisions. Have you ever seen her go butt-naked on stage like Miley Cyrus? Demi is a hard worker! Demi Lovato for President!
23 Miley Cyrus Miley Ray Hemsworth (born Destiny Hope Cyrus), known as Miley Cyrus, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was born on November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, to Tish Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus. Her voice type is Mezzo-Soprano and has 4 octaves. She became a teen idol starring as the ...read more.
Miley she is the queen of music Disney pop legned nobody in Disney will never to her she sold so much I mean nobody will touch her in Disney she one of Disney icon and she in the Disney hall of fame Miley is a living legned love you Disney queen aka miley
I thought she looked better with brown hair. But I've excepted it. If that's who she wants to be, I'm not stooping her. She is who she is. Just like I am who I am.
Miley Cyrus is super good. We all know that her clothes suck but I love her songs. I really love Wreaking Ball, Party In The U.S.A, and tons more. Why is she 16th? She deserves at least 1 of the top 10s. But her clothes REALLY suck. So she deserves #10 at least. Like if u agree.
I love this singer she maid the all time favorite party in the use and she's a double pop star because she is also Hanna Montana ps so cool love her
24 Ashley Tisdale Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress, singer, and producer. During her childhood, she appeared in more than 100 TV advertisements and had roles in theatre and television shows.
Great singer and great actor on suite life of Zack and Cody.
My cousin got. Sharpeys under study in a play in high school musical
I love you you're the best ever woo!
I really like her
25 Katharine McPhee Katharine Hope McPhee is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. In May 2006, she was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol. Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 381,000 copies.
I'm not such a big fan of pop music, but I just love Katharine McPhee and the amazing job she has done in the music industry.
She's Beautiful and talented. She is one of those rare triple threat kind of people because she can do all 3 very well
Her name is Katherine like me
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‘Mad About You': Anne Ramsay and Jerry Adler to Reprise Their Roles on Spectrum Revival
Adler guest stars in the premiere, Ramsay will appear throughout series
Tim Baysinger | September 6, 2019 @ 10:22 AM Last Updated: September 6, 2019 @ 12:59 PM
Two more “Mad About You” original castmembers are joining Spectrum Originals’ upcoming revival of the Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt-led sitcom.
Anne Ramsay will return as Lisa Stemple, the sister and neighbor of Hunt’s Jamie Stemple-Buchman, while Adler will guest star as apartment building superintendent Mr. Wicker in the first episode.
The revival of the 1990s-era NBC sitcom will debut its first six episodes ad-free on Nov. 20, with the later six dropping on Dec. 18. All episodes are only available to Spectrum (owned by TV and internet provider Charter) customers.
Also Read: 'Mad About You' Revival: Abby Quinn to Play Paul and Jamie's Grown-Up Daughter Mabel
Charter’s Spectrum ordered the limited series back in March. According to Spectrum, the series will explore the fertile ground of modern marriage through the eyes of the Buchmans as newly minted empty-nesters after dropping their unpredictable, hard-to-control daughter Mabel (Abby Quinn) off at college.
Peter Tolan will serve as showrunner as well as executive producer and writer for the series and Hunt will direct the first episode. Danny Jacobson, who co-created the show with Reiser serving as an executive consultant.
“Mad About You” is the second notable series picked up by Charter’s Spectrum, alongside the “Bad Boys” spinoff, “L.A.’s Finest.”
Sony, the studio behind the former NBC sitcom, had been working on a revival for a while, closing deals with Reiser, Hunt and Jacobson nearly a year ago. “Mad About You” originally ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1992 to 1999, winning 12 Primetime Emmys (including four in a row for Hunt for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy).
“Mad About You” is produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with Comedy Dynamics. Hunt and Reiser executive produce alongside Brian Volk-Weiss, Michael Pelmont, and Matthew Ochacher for Comedy Dynamics.
21 TV Reboots That Should Have Been Booted, From 'The Twilight Zone' to 'Charmed' (Photos)
From "The Twilight Zone" to "Charmed," TheWrap is taking a look at reboots of classic TV shows that should've gotten the boot from the start.
No reboot of this classic sci-fi series has ever managed to live up to Rod Serling's groundbreaking original series, which ran from 1959 to 1964. The first revival, which debuted in 1984, fell flat of its expectations -- something it has in common with Jordan Peele's 2019 reboot. Though Peele is credited as a creator and serves serves as the host, he did not write or direct any episodes, which critics complained were too on-the-nose, melodramatic, and, well, a lot meaner things than that.
"Charmed"
Despite the name, this CW reboot was cursed from the start. Side-stepping the original witches -- Alyssa Milano, Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs, and later Rose McGowan -- in favor of newer, younger ones didn't sit well with fans, or with the original ladies themselves. Milano told US Weekly she felt the reboot was "disrespectful" for not including her and her fellow OG cast members. And though it was touted as a "feminist" reboot, Combs tweeted, "I will never understand what is fierce, funny, or feminist in creating a show that basically says the original actresses are too old to do a job they did 12 years ago."
"Magnum P.I."
This CBS reboot fell short of its potential for a few reasons -- one being that Tom Selleck was not involved (nor was his mustache). Though set in picturesque Hawaii, critics were quick to tire of the the new Magnum (Jay Hernandez)'s voiceover, calling the reboot average at best, and lacking in panache.
"Charlie's Angels" perfectly captured the goofiness of the '70s, but it felt painfully out of date in 2011. Critics and audiences agreed: It was canceled after three episodes.
Blair Underwood has done some memorable TV work, starting with his career-making role on "L.A. Law." But his 2013 take on the Raymond Burr crime drama was yanked from NBC's air even faster than you can say "LAX" or "The Event."
"The Bionic Woman"
A 2007 take on the "Six Million Dollar Man" spinoff, this NBC show's original sin was casting "Battlestar Galactica" ass-kicker Katee Sackhoff as the recurring villain rather than the lead.
"Knight Rider"
Like so much '80s television, the original "Knight Rider" is over-celebrated. But NBC's 2008 version lacked even the original's dumb charms — and David Hasselhoff.
"The Returned"
SundanceTV had an international hit on its hands with the French-language moody zombie thriller. An English adaptation was of course inevitable, but Damon Lindelof's A&E remake never quite found its audience, despite gaining the support of critics. Luckily, the original French series is still ongoing.
"Melrose Place"
The classic nighttime soap got a CW makeover in 2009, but the brand wasn't enough to keep an audience interested, especially on a network that was doing rich young people drama better on shows like "Gossip Girl" and even "90210."
"Prime Suspect"
Helen Mirren broke out big time as a rare female detective fighting crime and the sexism of her fellow cops in a hit series first introduced in 1991. But NBC's 2011 version, starring Maria Bello, struggled to find its voice and lasted just 13 episodes.
"Gracepoint"
"Broadchurch" captivated U.K. audiences with its tense murder mystery format, but when the U.S. tried to replicate its magic - with original star David Tennant in tow - it just never quite managed. Needless to say, "Broadchurch" is producing a third season, and "Gracepoint" was canceled after just one.
"Mockingbird Lane"
Bryan Fuller tried to put his stamp on a reboot of "The Munsters," and it's still a bit of a cult classic among his fervent fans, but NBC never ordered the show to series. At least we will always have the pilot, which aired in 2012, which is more than you can say for most pilots that don't get picked up to series.
"The IT Crowd"
This hilarious British series that helped launch Chris O'Dowd's career ran for four seasons. It's American counterpart -- not so much. The across-the-pond adaptation with Joel McHale was ordered to pilot but failed to get picked up at NBC.
Jack Webb and Ben Alexander starred in the original 1950's police procedural that became a major hit. Unfortunately, the Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry reboot in 2003 failed to find similar success. It was cancelled after two seasons.
"Kojak"
Another police procedural bound to be rebooted, Telly Savalas starred as the chrome-domed detective in the 1970's series. Ving Rhames took the reins in 2005, but only made it to nine episodes.
"The Muppets"
ABC's reboot of "The Muppets" was one of the most highly anticipated new shows of the 2015-16 TV season, but the inside look at the adult lives of Kermit and company failed to resonate with fans.
"Heroes Reborn"
Beyond "Chuck" star Zachary Levi, NBC's bland "event series" reboot of 2006's "Heroes" brought nothing new or interesting to the table.
"24: Legacy"
Corey Hawkins starred in this Kiefer Sutherland-less "24" reboot that maintained the show's real-time structure and some of the original show's flaws, but also managed to be cancelled in real time. "24: Legacy" had a big debut following the Super Bowl in 2017 but dropped off sharply afterward and was done after just one season. At the time of the cancellation Fox was still considering continuing the "24" franchise.
"MacGyver"
Like the hero that shares the show's name, the reboot of "MacGyver," with Lucas Till in the Richard Dean Anderson role, cobbled together a bunch of unusual parts to make yet another procedural that's somehow still kicking, despite constant lampooning from "The Simpsons" and "SNL's" "MacGruber" sketches.
"The Odd Couple"
Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon were no Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, or Tony Randall and Jack Klugman for that matter. The reboot lasted three seasons, but the canned, laugh track sitcom felt very old fashioned and led to some miserable ratings. Matthew Perry even tweeted out one month ahead of schedule that the show was cancelled when he saw his face painted over on his stage door.
"Dynasty"
The CW rebooted the classic '80s primetime soap in 2017, but despite the buzz for Peruvian-born Nathalie Kelley as Cristal, the show drew critical pans and weak ratings -- still scoring a second season thanks to a lucrative Netflix deal.
TheWrap looks at TV remakes that never should’ve happened
‘Mad About You’ Revival Gets Premiere Date From Spectrum Originals – Watch a Teaser (Video)
By Tim Baysinger | September 5, 2019 @ 10:19 AM
‘Mad About You’ Starring Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt to Return as Event Series on Charter’s Spectrum
By Tim Baysinger | March 6, 2019 @ 11:30 AM
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Aktuelles > Aktuelles > VINCI and Hochtief sign first A-Modell contract in Germany (17. 10. 2007)
VINCI and Hochtief sign first A-Modell contract in Germany
17. 10. 2007 - Neuaufträge - Deutschland
The Via Solutions Thuringia consortium, comprising VINCI Concessions and Hochtief PPP Solutions (50/50), has signed the A-Modell contract for the A4 Horselberg motorway in Germany between Gotha and Eisenach in Thuringia. The contract calls for the financing, design, construction and/or refurbishment of a 45 km section of motorway, followed by its operation under a public-private partnership (PPP) for 30 years. The contract, worth €300 million, will help to ease congestion on one of the most important east-west corridors in Germany.
The refurbishment (road widening) and construction work will take four years to complete by a consortium comprising Eurovia, project leader (1/3), Hochtief Construction (1/3) and several German SME (1/3).
The findings of the Federal Government’s initial project feasibility study suggested public sector funding of close to 50% of the cost of the project. This was reduced significantly in the final contract as a result of the financing proposed by the consortium. The project's funding is covered by the combination of a European Investment Bank (EIB) structured finance facility and a senior syndicated loan facility underwritten by Dexia Credit Commercial ("Dexia") and Halifax Bank of Scotland ("HBoS"). The banks have also provided an equity bridge.
The VINCI–Hochtief consortium is also competing for other A-Modell projects in respect of the A1 (Breem–Hamburg) and A5 (Rastatt–Offenburg) motorways.
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2015 GBR Triathlon National Championships
Results: 2015 GBR Triathlon National Championships | Elite Men
London, Great Britain • 09 Aug, 2015
Elite Men Elite Women
1 Liam Lloyd 1994 GBR 01:48:54 00:19:26 00:02:13 00:56:05 00:01:24 00:29:48
2 David Bishop 1991 GBR 01:49:20 00:19:14 00:02:10 00:56:25 00:01:28 00:30:05
3 Iestyn Harrett 1993 GBR 01:49:43 00:19:10 00:02:11 00:56:27 00:01:26 00:30:30
4 Douglas Roberts 1991 GBR 01:50:12 00:19:15 00:02:11 00:56:20 00:01:28 00:31:00
5 Rory Atkins 1994 GBR 01:50:53 00:19:04 00:02:16 00:56:28 00:01:30 00:31:37
6 David Bartlett 1984 GBR 01:51:20 00:19:09 00:02:12 00:56:31 00:01:29 00:32:01
7 Philip Wolfe 1988 GBR 01:51:27 00:19:02 00:02:23 00:56:26 00:01:34 00:32:04
8 Morgan Davies 1994 GBR 01:51:34 00:19:11 00:02:21 00:57:54 00:01:29 00:30:40
9 Luke Pollard 1991 GBR 01:51:38 00:20:20 00:02:13 00:56:53 00:01:33 00:30:41
10 Harry Wiltshire 1983 GBR 01:51:48 00:18:59 00:02:14 00:56:35 00:01:31 00:32:32
11 Calum Johnson 1994 GBR 01:52:11 00:19:07 00:02:24 00:57:56 00:01:31 00:31:15
12 Beau Smith 1993 GBR 01:52:33 00:19:30 00:02:04 00:56:12 00:01:28 00:33:22
13 Anthony Haynes 1995 GBR 01:52:57 00:19:15 00:02:23 00:57:49 00:01:28 00:32:04
14 Elliot Wilkes 1995 GBR 01:53:04 00:19:18 00:02:18 00:57:46 00:01:32 00:32:10
15 Jack Hall 1994 GBR 01:53:06 00:19:10 00:02:22 00:56:18 00:01:27 00:33:51
16 Neil Eddy 1986 GBR 01:53:23 00:19:18 00:02:16 00:57:53 00:01:30 00:32:27
17 Elliot Smales 1994 GBR 01:53:29 00:19:03 00:02:19 00:56:26 00:01:37 00:34:06
18 Alastair Rogers 1995 IRL 01:53:49 00:19:01 00:02:18 00:56:26 00:01:37 00:34:29
19 Alastair Weymouth GBR 01:54:05 00:19:24 00:02:16 00:57:52 00:01:37 00:32:58
20 Fergus Roberts 1994 GBR 01:54:37 00:19:55 00:02:23 00:57:06 00:01:33 00:33:41
21 Thomas Davis 1995 GBR 01:54:44 00:19:09 00:02:26 00:57:55 00:01:35 00:33:42
22 Chris Whitcombe 1983 GBR 01:54:58 00:19:41 00:02:32 00:57:21 00:01:49 00:33:37
23 Richard Horton 1993 GBR 01:55:04 00:21:52 00:02:18 00:57:58 00:01:30 00:31:27
24 Luke Penney 1995 GBR 01:55:05 00:19:08 00:02:12 00:56:29 00:01:27 00:35:51
25 Ewan Brown 1987 GBR 01:55:56 00:20:25 00:02:22 00:59:23 00:01:28 00:32:19
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UnitedGosus.com Officially Launched!
On March 21, 2012 by Kyle Schrader
Halifax, March 21, 2012 – United Gosus (UG) is ecstatic to announce the launch of our official website: http://www.unitedgosus.com.
A website increases the credibility of any firm, regardless if it is major corporation, small business, or an organization known for their accomplishments in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. The website displays a sleek, smooth, and professional looking design that reflects the prestige of the UG.
UnitedGosus.com will serve as our main media outlet, with our Youtube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/UnitedGosus) and our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/UnitedGosus) branching off of it. We have also reserved a twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/UnitedGosus), but at this time, there are no plans to launch it.
The website features:
Information about our history and where it is looking to go in the feature,
Member profiles as well as some alumni profiles
Videos from our Youtube channel
UG press releases
Quick resource guide of links/software for competitive players.
Content for the website, in regards to decklists, videos, articles, and press releases, have only been archived for 2012. This may be unfortunate for those whom wish to dive more thoroughly into our history, but it just adds to the mystique.
The UG forum hosted on InvisionFree.com will be permanently taken offline once all pending applications have been responded to.
ABOUT UNITED GOSUS
United Gosus is an international organization, founded and initially focused in Germany, which competes in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. We are committed to becoming a world leader in our industry, with a roster dedicated to being the best they can be, in a game state, where players places a premium on knowledge, innovation, competition, and skill. To learn more about us, please visit www.unitedgosus.com.
Kyle Schrader
President, United Gosus
kyle.schrader@unitedgosus.com
Claudio Kirchamiar
Vice-President, Internal and Acting Vice-President, External
claudio.kirchmair@unitedgosus.com
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Birds Eye captures mealtime moments with Martin Parr.
Renowned food brand and British institute Birds Eye have an exciting competition that gives entrants the opportunity to win the chance to be part of British Food History.
Being all about food, and good food at that with their new slogan being ‘the food of life, it is no surprise that this Birds Eye competition features food. Teaming up with world famous photographer Martin Parr, Birds Eye are on a quest to uncover and capture the eating habits and behaviour of the nation.
The initiative to capture the nation’s eating habits through the lens follows the Big Mealtime Audit, a study by Birds Eye to reveal the way real people eat and interact at meal times.
According to the research, there are four different types of eater in Britain today: the Rep-eat-erts, the Social-eats, the All Day Grazers and the Free Rangers. The research found that as recently as a generation ago British families sat together for a meal nearly everyday but today a quarter of us don’t even have a dining table.
Professor Peter Jackson who contributed to the study said: “Brits have moved on from the traditional three meals a day to a much less consistent pattern of infrequent meals. While there is a ‘moral panic’ around the decline of families eating together, in reality this is exaggerated as many Brits still share meals with family members on a regular basis”.
Martin Parr comments: "Whether you choose to eat with others or on your own, in an environment that is comfortable to you, each moment can tell a story and unravel a fascinating insight into people's lives, which was one of the reasons why I wanted to be involved in this Birds Eye project. My aim is to bring this to life and understand how the nation now eats, encouraging others to appreciate our different and wonderful ways of living."
Margaret Jobling, Birds Eye Marketing Director comments: "Mealtimes are still clearly the glue that holds families and friends together, even though the nation's eating and consumption habits have changed and we might not be sitting down for the traditional three square meals a day. The research, combined with the Martin Parr study will help us to understand and celebrate this as we're passionate about creating food that can be enjoyed every day by everyone."
For the last 22 years Martin has been showcasing a critical look at aspects of modern life through his photography and now working closely with Birds Eye he will be capturing the nation’s eating habits and mealtimes in photographs. Martin will be visiting households up and down the UK to produce a unique snapshot of the nation’s eating habits, as the captures through the lens real people who portray the typical eating habits of modern Britain.
As part of their quest to document the nations eating habits and mealtimes Birds Eye are offering members of the public a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be photographed by world renowned photographer, Martin Parr and be part of the unique snapshot of the nation’s eating habits. For the chance to be photographed by Martin members of the public can submit their mealtime moments photographs to the Birds Eye View website (closing date 23.59 GMT on the 28th May 2014).
From the entries on the Birds Eye View website, Martin along with a judging panel for the competition will be selecting three entrants who will win the completion and have their photograph taken by Martin.
The lucky winners will also feature in Martin Parr’s ‘A Birds Eye View’ photography exhibition which will be showcased in London in September as a culmination of The Big Mealtime Audit where Martin’s photographs highlighting the nation’s eating habits will be on display.
Not only will the lucky winners feature in the ‘A Birds Eye View’ photography exhibition they will also receive V.I.P. tickets to the exhibition and a meal for them and their family/friends in London prior to the exhibition.
All you need to do is take a photograph mealtime moment with your family or friends, it can be as fun or creative as you want, then submit it on the Birds Eye View website along with a short description about why you think your photograph represents a modern mealtime moment.
Go on….get eating and snapping away on your cameras to capture your mealtime moment for the chance to be photographed by the brilliant Martin Parr and be part of British Food History thanks to collaborative Birds Eye and Martin Parr ‘A Birds Eye View’ mealtime moments campaign.
* As a #BirdsEyeBlogger I have received some vouchers to purchase Birds Eye products to enjoy with my family during out mealtime moments *
Labels: Birds Eye, Competition, Family, Food, Martin Parr, Mealtimes, Photography
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The Houston Business Journal
Appoints Carol Wenom to Who's who in Energy 2014 for Third Consecutive Year
The Houston Business Journal Appoints Carol Wenom to Who’s who in Energy 2014 for Third Consecutive Year
Houston, TX – October 2014 – Carol Wenom, Vice President of The Whitaker Companies, has been selected as one of the most influential Houston business leaders in the energy industry for three consecutive years.
The Houston Business Journal editorial staff carefully selected the 2014 list of Who’s Who in Energy recognizing Houston-based key players in the energy industry.
“Ms. Wenom has once again distinguished herself as a top participant, a “hall-of-famer”, in the professional staffing business,” said Bruce Whitaker, President of The Whitaker Companies. “We here at Whitaker are all proud to work with Carol Wenom.”
A special Who’s Who supplement will be published in November along with being announced on HoustonBusinessJoumal.com. For more information about Who’s Who in Energy, please visit www.bizjournals.com/houston/.
In business since 1983, The Whitaker Companies provides industry leading staffing services on a temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire basis for a wide variety of enterprises and organizations nationwide in three areas of disciplinary focus: information technology, accounting & finance, and engineering/technical professions.
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Act 636 update: dude, where's my voter registration card?
Many people have registered to vote since Louisiana expanded voting rights eligibility on March 1, restoring the vote to anyone who is on probation (but hasn’t been to prison under that sentence), and about 3,000 people who have been on parole for at least 5 years. Some of those people will be allowed to vote on March 30th, while some won’t. Why the difference?
Consider Louisiana’s two largest parishes: In Baton Rouge, the local registrar’s office has a computer station. In New Orleans, it does not.
Anyone who registers to vote via computer (“online registration”) is eligible if they register 21 days prior to election day (which is one week prior to the early voting period). For people with a criminal record, online registration is tricky business because they must personally show up to the Probation & Parole Office and retrieve a form proving their eligibility, then personally hand that form to the local registrar’s office.
People who fill out the form while at the registrar’s office and hand it to them can’t vote for 30 days. If they can get to a computer instead, they can’t vote for 21 days. This is the election code’s difference between the in-person deadline and the online deadline. If someone is already standing at the counter in the registrar’s office, it makes little sense to then go to the public library, or an organization, or home and try to register online to gain those 9 days of eligibility.
In Louisiana, these election windows create donut holes for the electorate, especially as there are so many election. This year alone, there will be five, not including run-offs. Every day, the voting rights of hundreds of people sentenced to probation are suspended, yet those people also become eligible for restoration immediately following suspension. It is still unknown, however, how long it would take for the DOC and Secretary of State to process a suspension and ensuing restoration. Not only does this create more administrative work, but actively blocks the person on probation’s right to vote.
Further, there are even more administrative barriers even after the above process is complete. The local registrar won’t process any new voter applications until after they get out of the election window, meaning that most of us who registered on March 1 are not yet registered voters. In fact, our paperwork won’t be processed until March 31st. In other words, the structural oppression of currently and formerly incarcerated people continues.
A slightly more hopeful fact is that local registrars now have until April 13th to get a computer in every office. When that happens, then people can follow the lead of Baton Rouge by going online and registered right there where the public officials can be on hand to help.
Are you eligible to vote under this new law? Contact us TODAY at vote@vote-nola.org and we'll help you get registered.
creative corner: another dilemma by sede baker
This is the second contribution to our new, bi-weekly blog post featuring creative content made by currently or formerly incarcerated people! Today, we're sharing a persuasive essay written by Sede Baker, who is currently incarcerated at Angola State Penitentiary.
What happens when the state slashes funding to educational programs? What happens to the students that depend on that funding to attain higher education? And what happens to upcoming generations when their parents come from an era where the government they had faith in denied them education?
Government funding allows colleges to expand their educational programs to further their students’ ability to attain enlightenment. When there are major budget cuts, it prevents one class of people from elevating to a higher social class with a higher pay grade that would advance their means of living. In what is termed "the land of the free,” the cuts prevent this class from establishing wealth through free market principles and passing it on to their progeny to continue generational wealth-building.This creates no escape from oppressive bosses who utilize their position to control and manipulate. Instead, it creates high level of unemployment, and the stresses from such can cause one to become irrational. This leads to a variety of burdens, including crime.
All humans have one thing in common, which is that we are born with innate capabilities to survive. In a mode of self-preservation, this is where robberies, selling/using drugs, and killing come into the equation. These are violations of the laws that lead to long prison terms, and they are also all acts of survival that ultimately stem from funding cuts for educational programs. This lack of academic opportunity keeps knowledge-seekers from the understanding needed to make better decisions.
Worse, one group may suffer from these cuts, yet upcoming generations still inherit this hardships. This perpetuation of government-inflicted problems keeps many out of the realm of higher learning, and this is what I call a "boom in illiteracy". It transpires when the value system changes and the principles passed on are not of knowledge-seeking but of doing what must be done as a mean to put clothes on your back, food in your stomach, and pay the bills.
It is easy to say in a harsh tone that crime is rampant and laws need to be passed. Being “tough on crime” with stiff laws doesn't eliminate the crime factor, and it deters attention from the government’s greedy move of cutting the education budget.
It is a known fact that where education is high, crime is low, and where education is low, the level of crime is high. The government conveys that they seek to solve the crime issue, yet they don't realize that stripping schools of funding is a catalyst to the rise in crime, as it, in turn, strips people of chances to educate themselves. This affects every generation after the first group of people that was deprived of their education. Is it a problem? That’s a question our representatives must answer to.
If you or someone you know is a currently or formerly incarcerated person with creative content to offer, please submit your materials to admin@vote-nola.org and we'll be in touch! We'll share the content on social media and always give credit to the artist(s) involved. Any type of submission--whether stories, poems, illustrations, music, videos or something else--are welcome!
celebrating Sade dumas for international women's day: the formidable leader behind opprc
Sade Dumas is the Executive Director of the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC), a diverse, grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations from across New Orleans who have come together to shrink the size of the jail and improve the conditions of confinement for those held in detention in Orleans Parish. VOTE help found OPPRC in 2004, and today the coalition’s members include formerly incarcerated people and their family members, community activists, organizers, lawyers and service providers.
In honor of International Women’s Day, VOTE sat down with Sade and got the story about how she is able to bring formidable leadership to local criminal justice reform work.
VOTE: What are you bringing to the table right now? How you feeling?
Sade Dumas (SD): Today I’m feeling hopeful. Although this city at times seems divided, and there are so many issues to fight, I see so many people activated like they’ve never been before, and all of those fights--all of those issues--are interconnected.
VOTE: And how is your heart?
SD: My heart is overwhelmed but in a good way. There’s so much being done but there is so much more to do. I also feel a lot of gratitude for those working on these fights with us, and for divine timing and alignment, because even when it looks like we’ve lost something--or on the verge of losing something--everything always aligns itself perfectly when people are working together.
VOTE: Can you share how you got started with OPPRC?
SD: My journey with OPPRC started before I knew it even existed. I’m a native New Orleanian from the Lower 9th Ward, which means seeing someone involved in the criminal justice system was normal, a way of life. I know many people like my brother, cousin and ex-husband who have been in OPPRC and suffered from being in there.
When I was younger, however, I thought they ended up there because of genuine mistakes they had made. It wasn’t until I went to Tulane University that I realized it’s not normal--other people don’t go through this. The way the system is set up is not by mistake, but by design. I learned about ALEC and other groups lobbying for the continued oppression of people. Seeing the oppression of people of color, of women, of any and all minorities compelled me to get involved.
After graduating college, I became involved with VOTE, WWAV, and LPEC. I worked on the micro level, running a tutoring program for formerly incarcerated women. Although there was joy in working with directly impacted people, I wasn’t pleased because I felt like I was working on something after the damage was done. Instead, I wanted to focus on preventing people from getting in the cycle and going down the hole.
I had also been working at Tulane’s medical school because I thought I wanted to be a psychologist. Once I realized that all families I was working with were impacted by the criminal justice system, I got really sad about being the one putting on a bandaid, so that also helped me switch to macro level, too.
VOTE: And how did you make that switch?
SD: I started traveling across Louisiana with Robert Goodman, who was VOTE’s Statewide Organizer at the time. We spoke with people about the challenges they face when they are released from prison. I also learned how to encourage local policymakers to divest from funds that build prison infrastructure to programs that truly keep communities safe. When I went to OPPRC’s steering committee meetings as a representative for VOTE, I realized they were doing the same thing--policy reform work that was truly changing the system.
VOTE: Who are your (s)heroes?
SD: There are a lot of women I respect for their contributions, but wouldn’t necessarily call them (s)heroes because I do think it’s important to look to other people for inspiration, advice, mentorship, but we all have to be our own heroes. For too long women, whether told by society or themselves, are made responsible for taking care of themselves and everyone else around them.
VOTE: How does moving away from that false sense of responsibility help movement work?
SD: You can’t save other people, but you can empower them to save themselves. You can give them the tools, but you can’t fight their fight alone, and you shouldn’t expect to. It also changes the people you’re working with from victims to people empowered to do the work. And we don’t need any more victims, we need fighters.
VOTE: Absolutely, we need those directly impacted to lead the fight. How do you make your work accessible to those most affected?
SD: It’s about making it meaningful to each person and working with their capacities. Sometimes that means not coming to a meeting but doing the work of reading an email, passing out a flyer, or talking to someone about different campaigns we have. Informing people in the community is a big part of the movement, whether you’re sitting at the meeting table or not. You have to build the systems and structures so directly impacted people can all be at the table eventually, even if that day is not today, but we can’t stop the movement until then. For example, my sister worked in the sheriff’s office hoping make a change, but only lasted a year because the culture was that bad. Will she come to every OPPRC meeting and share? No, because she’s a single mother and has a lot going on, but she’ll come out to an event. So accessibility has a lot to do with the format of the organization and the way that people can carry and share that info. We’re not asking people to join OPPRC, we’re asking people to join a movement.
VOTE: Yes, that’s why coalitions are so important! What would you say has been your most defining moment as an organizer so far?
SD: I have many defining moments each day, but those that matter the most to me are when other young women of color write me little notes telling me how I’m inspiring them or serving as a mentor to them, because I don’t think of myself that way. Knowing people feel that way is the best thing. The best thing we can do is create more fighters, and that’s been one of the most enjoyable moments thus far.
VOTE: So sweet and inspiring! As a leader who clearly does so much, how do you practice self-care?
SD: I just started yoga. I’ve always been into alternative routes of self-care that are not mainstream, so I enjoy making tinctures, blending oils, and now yoga. It’s been great for me because in doing movement work I often have trouble finding balance, and now I’m literally finding it. I’m constantly reminded that things I’m doing on the mat transcend into other parts of my life, like taking care of myself and my body.
VOTE: That’s so important. Ok, last question, what would a world of total liberation feel like, look like, taste like, smell like and sound like to you?
SD: We are so far from liberation that I can’t fully imagine what that would be like. But to me it’s clean air, clean food, clean water. It’s a life where everyone has equal access, where everyone’s future is determined by their will to do more as opposed to what identity they were born into. It feels like you don’t have to fight harder or compete with others just because you’re expected to be at the bottom of the chain. It feels like confidence because you don’t have to worry about being judged because of real or perceived identities that you carry. Liberation feels like health because the fear of all the burdens that I and many other women of color carry would not exist.
This coming Wednesday, March 13, from 5:30 to 7:30pm, OPPRC is hosting a teach-in about how to help stop the jail expansion in New Orleans. RSVP here. Then, on the 25th, they’ll be hosting a town hall with local elected leaders about. Follow them on Facebook to learn more and get involved!
introducing the 'creative corner': a bi-weekly series of creative content by currently and formerly incarcerated people!: 'my hour' by Jeremy richard
We're excited to announce the launch of Creative Corner, a bi-weekly blog post featuring creative content made by currently or formerly incarcerated people! For our inaugural post, we're sharing a short story written by Jeremy Richard, who is currently incarcerated at Angola State Penitentiary.
It’s a cold winter day, the prisons steel bars icy to the touch. I exhale a foggy cloud of breath with a sigh and slump my shoulders at the thought of spending yet another lost day in this empty cell. The television has become boring, and with it, so have I. The only “getting lost” I’m doing these days is in my thoughts, memories. Hours spent dreaming about freedom. It seems as though I can recall every single day of my past life. My life before prison.
My stomach growls angrily as I count down the minutes until chow (prison slang for breakfast, lunch and dinner.) It makes me feel like a dog, one awaiting its negligent owner to feed it. And I pace, back and forth--a yellow plastic spoon in hand--from one end of my cell to the next. Even though it’s only nine feet to and fro, it’s still sort of soothing, calming.
Though I hate behaving like this, like an animal. It’s becoming something I can’t control as easily as I once did. A result of being caged in a box twenty-three hours a day for the past five years.
I find it simply fascinating that I have walked more miles in this cell than I ever did out of it. They say you never fully appreciate the value of something until that thing is gone. I find this to be true. For me, it’s walking ten feet without hitting a brick wall. You could say, I’m in a tight spot. If it wasn’t for my good humor, I would have lost a few screws long ago.
Breakfast arrives and with it, so does my favorite drink. This is a booze free facility, so I’ve had to substitute my drinking problem. I still have one but now, if I drink too much coffee, at least I won’t be found the next morning sleeping it off on my neighbor’s lawn.
The pancakes are dry and the oatmeal’s soggy but it’s all going to end up in my belly so who cares? I empty six packs of sugar on top of my oatmeal, whip it up, then add six more on top of that. I like my oats super sweet, my coffee bitter. Not using this many packs would be like breaking the law because I’ve been using this exact amount of sugar in my oatmeal for about three years now. I wasn’t like this before prison, but this place has either given me OCD, or gone into my treasure chest of hidden disorders to fish it out.
Now that my breakfast is finished, it’s time to wait on my owner, the correction staff, to bring the chains to take me and any other inmates who wish to go on a walk to the yard. We get a one hour yard three times a week.
Sgt. Loyd approaches my cell with a set of shackles and I greet him with a respectful and positive attitude just like I would were I in his shoes and he in mine.
“Good morning, Mr. Loyd,” I say, unconsciously tilting my hands in an attempt to make his job easier.
“Keep getting smart, boy, and I’m gonna show you a good morning,” he replies with a look I’m glad can’t kill me. Sometimes I think this place screws them up more than it does the inmates.
The lady in the control booth opens my cell door at his command, and I wonder as I trudge down the tier if she laughs at my pacing while watching me via the camera in my cell. I assure myself it doesn’t matter and continue on, down the familiar path that leads the way out of this building. A building that, give or take nineteen, maybe twenty, is home to over eighty other inmates who have been sentences to the grim reality of death, of which I’m not one.
I’m glad that yard-call has started in the front of the tier today. I’m in cell number 1. This means I get dibs on the yard pens, to pick the best basketball and goal. Some of them are in pretty bad shape. It’s sad this has become my life, but yard eighteen’s got the goods, so that’s where I’m headed.
On the outside, I may seem happy and content, but deep inside there is a bulging box of hurt and shame that weighs me down. If you pay close enough attention, you’ll notice the lazy drag of my feet across the concrete walkway and how my head hangs low. Behind my bright, engaging smile, a storm system silently brews. Not one with violent intentions, but one in search of relief. Like a bloated cloud heavy with the need to rain.
After the yard, Sgt. removes my shackles. I let out a joyful burst of barks. This receives a few questioning looks from the staff and my fellow inmates alike. The ones that don’t know me probably think I’m losing it, but those who do, know that this is just me making light of my situation. If you can’t do that, then your time will do you.
My first five shots are nothing-but-net, but there isn’t anyone watching so they don’t count. I miss the next ten before finally making another, and I notice I’ve been talking to myself the entire time. I should be embarrassed but most of the others are doing it too. So I say, the hell with it, and take another jumper. “Swish.” I had a few fans for that one. Let me tell you, a huge ego boost.
And for a moment, the razor wire and concrete is replaced by a wooden floor that’s been polished to a high sheen, with all the makings of a pro-court. There is only one lonely second left on the game clock and coach knows I’ve got the best long distance shot.
“Make me proud, Richard.” With the coach’s plea, my teammates know to get me the ball as soon as possible.
We’re down by two points but there’s not enough time to tie it up. It’s on me to win this thing. I take my position at the half court mark and shake out the tension from my hands. This is going to take my all.
Our team’s center, Jack, a seven-foot giant, shoots a bullet at me and I catch it, fighting back the pain from the sting of ball connecting with hand. I take two steps towards the goal and let it fly. A beautiful arc.
Time slows to a snail’s crawl. The only audible sound in the stadium is the pounding of my racing heart. The slow rotation of the ball in mid-air reminds me of the earth spinning on its axis. And I watch it, falling back...slow, slow, heading for the goal. Almost there, dipping towards the lip of the rim as the clock ticks its last second. Almost...Almost…
“Richard, if you keep blacking out, I’m gonna put you on mental health watch!” The yard sarge yells, loud enough to hurt my ears. He’s standing at the gate, waiting with a set of shackles in his hand.
I blink my eyes and take one last look at the threadbare ball as it gently rolls away.
My hour is up.
Prison Conditions
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Fancy dinners, far-flung speeches: Calendars detail EPA chief’s close ties to industry
Brady Dennis and
Brady Dennis
Reporter focusing on environmental policy and public health issues
Juliet Eilperin
Reporter covering domestic policy and national affairs
Oct. 3, 2017 at 6:41 p.m. UTC
During his seven months in office, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has filled his days meeting with executives from many of the companies he regulates, while all but sidestepping environmental and public health groups. But the face time with industry representatives has extended well beyond his Washington office.
On April 26, for example, Pruitt had lunch with executives from Southern, one of the nation’s biggest coal-burning utilities. They dined at Equinox, a restaurant near the White House, where the baby-carrot-and-red-beet salad with shrimp runs $28. Later that day, Pruitt met with senior leaders at Alliance Resource Partners, a major coal-mining operation, for a dinner at BLT Prime, a steakhouse in the Trump International Hotel, just across from EPA headquarters.
On other occasions, Pruitt traveled to a Ritz-Carlton golf resort in Naples, Fla., for a National Mining Association meeting; to another golf resort in Arizona to speak at a board meeting for the National Association of Manufacturers; and to a resort in Colorado to speak at an event organized by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
The meals with company executives and other evidence of Pruitt’s close ties to industries his agency regulates were laid out in a detailed copy of Pruitt’s calendar obtained by the liberal nonprofit group American Oversight. The New York Times on Tuesday reported details from American Oversight’s Freedom of Information Act request.
The insights into Pruitt’s previously undisclosed meetings add to an already familiar story of how he has spent his time since becoming administrator in February. While EPA leaders traditionally talk with a broad array of stakeholders, Pruitt has overwhelmingly leaned toward meetings with corporate executives in industries regulated by the EPA, and in multiple cases he has quickly ruled in their favor on a range of issues. A more limited version of Pruitt’s schedule from April to September, obtained and reported last month by The Washington Post, showed that he often met with executives from the automobile, mining and fossil fuel industries while only rarely making time for environmental or public health groups.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 25 in Oxon Hill, Md.
On the morning of May 1, for example, Pruitt met at EPA headquarters with the Pebble Limited Partnership. In 2014, citing concerns over the risk of contamination to a valuable sockeye-salmon run, the agency had blocked the Canadian company from building a massive gold, copper and molybdenum mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed.
Hours after that first meeting, Pruitt met with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who had opposed the Obama administration’s decision. Less than two weeks later, the EPA struck a legal settlement with the partnership that cleared the way for it to apply for federal permits for the operation.
In June, Pruitt met at EPA headquarters with representatives from Fitzgerald Truck Sales, the nation’s largest manufacturer of commercial truck “gliders” — truck bodies without an engine or transmission. Later in the summer, he announced that he would revisit an October 2016 decision to apply greenhouse-gas emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks to trailers and gliders. The decision was because of “the significant issues” raised by those in the industry, he said.
The latest calendars show other meetings with industry executives, many of whom have regulatory issues, involving large sums of money in potential costs, before the agency. They include representatives from Shell and chemical maker Chemours and lobbyists from the chemical industry, the egg-producers lobby and the farm bureau.
In an email Tuesday, EPA strategic-communications adviser Jahan Wilcox detailed a long list of “environmental, consumer protection and public health groups that the EPA has met with,” though it appears that most of the meetings involved officials other than Pruitt. The broader list provided by the EPA included the Nature Conservancy, the Audubon Society, the American Lung Association and the National Environmental Health Association.
“The truth is: EPA has met with over 25 consumer protection, public health and environmental groups,” Wilcox said in the email. “Additionally, Administrator Pruitt has been praised by the Galveston Bay Foundation and Texas Health and Environment Alliance for his work on cleaning-up toxic Superfund sites.”
During his first six months in office, according to public schedules, Pruitt himself met with representatives from three environmental and public health organizations: the American Academy of Pediatrics, Trout Unlimited and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.
Agency officials noted that Pruitt’s predecessor, Gina McCarthy, said in January that she regretted that she and her deputies hadn’t convinced rural Americans that the agency was on their side. The officials also said that McCarthy met with a disproportionate number of Democratic officials and environmental activists as the Obama administration was crafting regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and combating climate change.
EPA calendars show that McCarthy spent a large chunk of her time meeting with such groups, particularly throughout 2014. But she also met with a number of industry-backed interest groups, such as the American Gas Association, the Edison Electric Institute and the National Pork Producers Council.
In some cases, the just-released Pruitt calendar records provide new information on events that were vaguely worded in the previous public schedule. On May 11, according to the version released last month, Pruitt attended a “speaking engagement” in Colorado Springs. The new document shows that he spoke at the “Resource Bank” meeting of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. It also shows that since Pruitt was “invited to speak and present information on behalf of the agency,” his “acceptance of free attendance and any meals” at the event did not warrant financial disclosure.
Travel vouchers obtained by the Climate Investigations Center, an environmental advocacy group, said that that Heritage “will be paying for the Administrator’s lodging” at that conference.
Even the revised schedule, however, does not provide the full details of Pruitt’s activities. For example, the calendar shows that Pruitt attended “Earth Day Events” in Dallas on April 22 and that afterward he flew to Tulsa. But EPA travel vouchers show that Pruitt’s travel registry for that day indicate that he was to be in “Tulsa to conduct meetings in the state and to serve as a keynote speaker for ALEC event.” ALEC refers to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a state-based conservative group funded by a range of corporations and conservative activists.
“The EPA has tried very hard to keep Pruitt’s actual work quiet,” Climate Investigations Center Director Kert Davies said in an email. “It took a court order to get the details we learned today. . . . For Pruitt, it’s the same as it ever was, a lack of transparency and far too cozy connections with the industries he is supposed to be regulating.”
Read more at Energy & Environment:
EPA spending almost $25,000 to install a secure phone booth for Scott Pruitt
At EPA, guarding the chief pulls agents from pursuing environmental crimes
One of the most bizarre ideas about climate change just found more evidence in its favor
Rick Perry just proposed sweeping new steps to help struggling coal and nuclear plants
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Facing concerns over racism, NYC marathon exec steps down
FILE – In this Oct. 28, 2015 file photo, New York Road Runners CEO Michael Capiraso poses for photos during a news conference in New York. Capiraso is stepping down and new leadership will be sought out amid concerns over racism and other biases in the organization, the club announced Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. The New York Road Runners is the non-profit that organizes the New York City Marathon. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The chief executive officer of the New York Road Runners, the group that organizes the New York City Marathon, is stepping down and new leadership will be sought out amid concerns over racism and other biases in the organization.
Michael Capiraso, who has been at the helm for five years,will step down on Dec. 31, the club said in a statement issued Monday.
“In order to achieve our mission to help and inspire people through running, we will recruit new leadership to the organization,” George Hirsch, chair of the board, said.
The statement said the board had “listened to the concerns raised and recommendations offered by the community NYRR serves, including its employees and members of the broader running community.”
Earlier this year, a group that said it was made up of former and current NYRR employees had started an online petition, saying: “For years, we have been experiencing racism, bias, and bullying that goes unchecked.”
The petition called for Capiraso’s resignation, among other steps, including an audit to take a look at pay equity gaps.
Capiraso said he was “grateful” for the opportunity to have led the organization in the NYRR statement, which thanked him for his years of service.
“I understand what the board is saying, that they are making a decision after having listened to people,” Capiraso said in an interview with The New York Times.
The move was “unexpected great news,” Steve Mura told the newspaper.
“This is one of the first major things that they have done to prove that they are listening,” the organization’s manager of running, training and education said.
Kerin Hempel will take over as interim CEO while the search for a permanent leader is undertaken.
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News Brief: Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Probe Concludes
By Rachel Martin
Since the beginning of his administration, President Trump has been resolute when it comes to one particular phrase - no collusion. It was special counsel Robert Mueller's job in part to find that out.
Now the special counsel's investigation is over. Trump and his White House now believe they have finally been exonerated, even though, on the point of obstruction of justice, the report says exactly the opposite. On Sunday, though, the attorney general, William Barr, sent his summary of Mueller's findings to Congress, two days after receiving it himself. And the same day, the president had this to say in Florida before boarding Air Force One.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It was just announced; there was no collusion with Russia - the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. There was no collusion with Russia. There was no obstruction, and none whatsoever.
MARTIN: The president there highlighting William Barr, the attorney general's, conclusion that the special counsel found no evidence that the presidential campaign had conspired with Russia to influence the election.
GREENE: But the issue of obstruction of justice is more complicated. In his four-page letter to Congress, the attorney general stated that Mueller did not draw a conclusion one way or the other on whether President Trump or anyone in his White House interfered during the investigation. And Democratic leaders in the House are not satisfied; they want the full Mueller report to be made public. So what does all this mean for the president, for Congress, for the Department of Justice, for the country? A lot of big questions to tackle, and we have a whole team to do it with us - NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson; we have Ayesha Rascoe, who covers the White House for NPR; and we have congressional correspondent Susan Davis. Hello to all of you. What a busy time.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Yeah, hi there.
SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE: Good morning.
AYESHA RASCOE, BYLINE: Good morning.
GREENE: Carrie, let me start with you. I mean, you spent much of the weekend getting ready for and then looking over this letter from the attorney general. I mean, two years - the slogan from the White House - no collusion; is that essentially what this investigation has found?
JOHNSON: Important to point out, David - we still do not have the full report from the special counsel Robert Mueller.
GREENE: Right.
JOHNSON: Instead we have some very brief written conclusions written by the Attorney General Bill Barr. But Barr does include a partial quote from Mueller; the investigation did not establish members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities. In other words, Russia interfered, but no American tied to the Trump campaign knowingly coordinated with the Russian government, even though Russians had dozens of contacts with people in the Trump orbit in 2016.
GREENE: OK, well, take me then through this obstruction of justice question because it seemed like Mueller left that question open when it comes to President Trump. But then the attorney general is now saying that even though the question was open from the special counsel, he's not going to charge the president. So explain the reasoning here.
JOHNSON: This is the most intriguing part of this story to me; the attorney general says the special counsel didn't make a call one way or another about whether the president should be charged for obstructing justice. The special counsel report does say - and this is a quote - "while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." Instead, for reasons I still don't fully understand, the attorney general stepped in and answered this question; he said no to charging the president.
And here's why - the AG says he considered the fact the president was not involved in any underlying crime - the conspiracy over Russian interference - and the attorney general also points out a lot of what President Trump did, like firing the FBI director Jim Comey, a lot of that was done in public, out in the open.
But I've been talking with lawyers all night long - former Justice Department officials, Democrats and Republicans - and they say this looks a little strange. You can still be guilty of obstruction if there was no underlying crime. Doing things out in the open like Trump did doesn't matter for many legal purposes. And they don't understand why Mueller has decided not to answer that question. There's an open issue of whether he wanted Congress to answer that question, and the attorney general and DOJ stepped in anyway.
GREENE: A lot more to dig into, it sounds like.
JOHNSON: Right, absolutely.
MARTIN: So Ayesha, let's bring you into this conversation. Clearly, the White House is celebrating, dare we say crowing a bit. What's the president and his team saying? What are the president and his team saying this morning?
RASCOE: Well, they are saying that this is a complete exoneration for the president. Now, obviously, as Carrie was just mentioning, there are still questions out there, especially when it comes to obstruction. But this is a huge win for the president. It's been a cloud over his presidency. If this probe had went another way, it really would have raised some existential questions about his administration. So this is a big deal. But even though he feels - President Trump feels like he's been exonerated, he's still attacking the validity of the probe. Here's what he said after Barr's report was released.
TRUMP: This was an illegal takedown that failed.
MARTIN: Wow.
RASCOE: Yes (laughter).
MARTIN: So not just celebrating the fact that the conclusions bend in his favor, now he's suggesting that this was an illegal investigation to begin with?
RASCOE: From the beginning. And he's saying that the, quote, "other side" should be looked at; that will likely mean Democrats and, you know, kind of his opponents. And so this is something where he is taking a victory lap, but he's not exactly, you know, kind of now saying that Mueller is a great guy (laughter).
MARTIN: Right. It was a witch hunt then, and he's come up with a way to continue to criticize it, even though the overarching conclusions say that - you know, what the White House was looking for - that there was no collusion with Russia.
RASCOE: Yeah.
GREENE: Sue Davis, let me bring you in here. The so-called victory lap, the president coming out and saying total exonerations - are Republicans fully behind that message and that strategy with this president going forward, do you think?
DAVIS: Oh, absolutely. I think Republicans on Capitol Hill characterize this as a vindication of the president, echoing his no collusion, no obstruction lines. The top Republicans on the House Judiciary - House and Senate Judiciary Committees - Doug Collins of Georgia in the House, Lindsey Graham in the Senate - essentially called on Democrats to rethink their investigations into this administration, to move on to other issues. Graham said in a statement that the cloud has been lifted over this presidency.
Now, I mean, again, to be clear, the letter said that the president was not legally exonerated, but in the political orbit, I think a lot of Republicans see this as a political exoneration and very much rallying behind the president.
GREENE: So what do you do if you're Democrats now? I mean, Democrats, they've just took over the house. They've just started, you know, leading these committees and saying it's time to investigate. It's time to hold this president accountable. Now you have this report come out. You have Republicans saying, like, hey, the cloud's been lifted. Let's move on to more important topics. What kind of position are Democrats in right now?
DAVIS: Well, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in a joint statement, made clear again that the principal findings alone are not enough. They want to see the full report. Although, I will say that a lot of Republicans and many in the House have echoed that call. There's not a big pushback from Republicans, especially now that they've seen the principal findings, that they would be happy to see a more full release of the report.
Jerry Nadler, the head of the judiciary committee, still wants Barr to testify. The chairman made clear yesterday they're going to continue these lines of investigation. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff did allude to one of the big fights coming on TV yesterday.
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ADAM SCHIFF: This report is going to have to be made public, and of equal importance, the underlying evidence is going to have to be shared with Congress because that evidence not only goes to the issue of criminality, but it also goes to the issue of compromise.
DAVIS: The fight over the underlying documents. Democrats want to see every piece of evidence that Robert Mueller looked at to draw his conclusions. They're probably not going to get all of that because some of it is not subjected to release. And there's other - going to be other fights. Clearly, they're going to keep going. I do think Democrats have to be very aware of the fact that the president has just been given, you know, a very clear win in a lot of ways, and if they continue to pursue this path, they do run the risk of looking like they are on a political fishing expedition.
GREENE: Well, Carrie Johnson, let me bring you in here. Is - I mean, the whole question of whether the entire report will be released, whether the attorney general might be called to testify before Congress - what is likely to happen?
JOHNSON: Well, the attorney general says he's going to be reviewing - along with special counsel Bob Mueller, the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - this underlying report. They need to scrub the report for any grand jury material, any material that would implicate several ongoing investigations and also for classification issues, sources and methods. But AG Bill Barr seems to suggest he's planning to release something longer. It may take awhile, given that process. And the other thing we should point out is that Barr is very likely to have to testify. It's unclear at this point whether the special counsel, who's winding down his responsibilities, will also be called to Capitol Hill as well.
GREENE: Well, there was a lot of mention in this letter to an important question about whether to release this to the public, being whether a lot of what is in Mueller's report has bearing on other legal investigations happening. What else is out there still right now?
JOHNSON: There is a lot, David. The Southern District of New York, federal prosecutors in Manhattan have had this ongoing campaign finance investigation involving the president's former fixer, Michael Cohen, and payments to women who allege they had affairs with Trump and trying to cover that up, allegedly, during the 2016 campaign. There are investigations in Brooklyn, N.Y., in Washington, D.C., in Alexandria, Va., and elsewhere.
And then, David, there are also state officials on the trail of The Trump Organization and some people in Trump's orbit, like his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. State officials in New York in particular are hot and heavy on those investigations; no sign they're going to be ending anytime soon.
MARTIN: I want to close by picking up on something that Sue mentioned; that this may not be a legal exoneration but perhaps a political one for the president, which is important because 2020 is very close. So I guess I would ask Sue and Ayesha, I mean, what are the political ramifications for the election? I mean, first, Ayesha, just what does this mean for the president going forward? What does that mean for his base? How does he parlay this into a re-election?
RASCOE: Trump is going to use this to fuel his base, and he's going to use this as further evidence that the media and the Democrats - you know, this idea that they were all out to get him, that he's being treated unfairly. And when you talk about other investigations, what he's going to do is say that look at what happened with this one. Look at what happened with this investigation; all these other investigations are the same and that they're false. So this is what he's going to kind of hammer on. I think we're going to hear a lot about how he was cleared, and there was no collusion, and he always said that.
MARTIN: Yeah. Sue?
DAVIS: I think that the Democratic field was competitive before the letter. I think it still is. I think Democrats do not run on Russia as much as the president says they do. And there will be changes, but it's still a very competitive presidential election.
MARTIN: All right, NPR's Susan Davis. We had Ayesha Rascoe with us as well and NPR's Carrie Johnson. All three of you, thank you so much for your work and for sharing your reporting this morning. We appreciate it.
DAVIS: You're welcome.
JOHNSON: Happy to do it.
RASCOE: Thank you.
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N.J. Woman Pleads Guilty In Homeless GoFundMe Hoax, Faces 4 Years In State Prison
By Amy Held
Published April 16, 2019 at 10:08 AM EDT
Katelyn McClure pleaded guilty Monday in state court to theft by deception in connection with a fraudulent GoFundMe story about a homeless man buying her gas. The plea comes with a four-year term in New Jersey state prison, prosecutors say.
A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty Monday to theft by deception for perpetrating what began as a story of redemption that was revealed to be a ruse.
Katelyn McClure appeared in New Jersey Superior Court, admitting to her role in duping thousands of people out of $400,000 through a fictionalized GoFundMe page purporting to benefit a homeless veteran said to have bought her gas.
McClure, 29, will serve a four-year-term in a New Jersey state prison under the plea, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. Sentencing is set for June 3.
In March, McClure pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Federal sentencing is scheduled for June 19.
The homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt, 36, also pleaded guilty in both federal and state courts to charges related to the hoax. He has been admitted into a state drug treatment program, which could help him avoid some prison time. He has not been sentenced at the federal level.
"However," the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement, "if Bobbitt fails to adhere to the tightly-structured regimen of treatment and recovery services, which includes frequent testing for drug use, he could be sentenced to five years in state prison."
A third person, Mark D'Amico, McClure's then-boyfriend, is also charged with theft by deception. His case is set to be presented next month to a Burlington County grand jury for possible indictment.
McClure's lawyer has said D'Amico was the driving force behind the scheme, and prosecutors say that McClure and Bobbitt have agreed to testify against him.
In November 2017, McClure and D'Amico created a GoFundMe Page titled "Paying It Forward." It said that McClure was driving home from Philadelphia on Interstate 95 when she ran out of gas and that Bobbitt, a homeless veteran, came to her rescue, spending his last $20 to buy her gas. With a photo of the duo standing by the road, the page solicited donations to help get Bobbitt off the street, with the goal of raising $10,000.
The money came pouring in after the media picked up on the story. Fourteen thousand people donated $400,000 in less than three weeks, according to prosecutors, none the wiser to the fact that McClure had never run out of gas and Bobbitt never spent $20 to help her.
D'Amico and McClure were quick to spend the money on themselves, prosecutors say, blowing through the bulk of the $400,000 on gambling, a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon, a BMW, clothing and Louis Vuitton handbags.
But the cover soon began to fall apart.
In December of 2017, the then-couple deposited $25,000 in a bank account they set up for Bobbitt, according to authorities. When Bobbitt realized most of the money had been squandered, he sued them.
Authorities said they found text messages from McClure admitting to the hoax, as NPR's Vanessa Romo reported in November:
"After scouring more than 67,000 texts on the couple's phones, officials discovered a text exchange between McClure and a friend written less than an hour after the GoFundMe page went live that appears to confirm it was all a hoax.
" 'Ok, so wait. The gas part is completely made up but the guy isn't,' McClure allegedly texted. 'I had to make something up to make people feel bad. So shush about the made up stuff.' "
Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said that McClure and Bobbitt had known each other for at least a month before setting up the fundraising page. Coffina noted that Bobbitt had previously posted a tale of a stranded woman with an empty gas tank to whom he gave the last of his money in 2012. "I don't think that's a coincidence," he said.
But federal prosecutors allege it was McClure and D'Amico who concocted the story and only informed Bobbitt about it after donations started pouring in.
In December, GoFundMe announced it was refunding donors who had contributed to the campaign.
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‘Dancing Through Harlem:’ A Conversation With The Dancers Behind The Video
Published October 19, 2020 at 5:30 PM EDT
Members of the Dance Theatre of Harlem perform onstage at the Apollo Theater in New York City.
With theaters and venues remaining largely closed, the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the performing arts and live events industry. It’s forced some venues to close permanently, while others struggle to make ends meet. Some have turned to virtual performances or legislation that would support their businesses. And dance companies are no different.
But in Harlem, Black ballet dancers have taken to the streets of New York to showcase a performance that has captivated viewers from home. It’s a show of artistry that has showcased the resilience of the performing arts amidst the pandemic. Of the video, The New York Times wrote “dance has never looked more alive.”
Still, gatekeepers have long kept ballet mostly rich and white. From making brown pointe shoes accessible to issues of hiring and investing in more dancers of color, some in the performing arts say it’s time for racial equity.
We talk with some of Dance Theater of Harlem’s dancers about their careers and what they think needs to change in the industry.
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Manchin Only Democratic Senator Not to Endorse LGBT Bill
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Published March 16, 2019 at 4:08 PM EDT
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Updated on March 18, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is the only Democratic senator who did not co-sponsor an LGBT anti-discrimination bill.
The Register-Herald reports 44 Democratic U.S. senators and the two independent senators that caucus with them have signed onto Senate bill 788. The bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon would add LGBT protections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Manchin did not sponsor a similar proposal in 2017. A spokeswoman for his office declined to comment to the newspaper.
West Virginia’s other U.S. senator is Republican Shelley Moore Capito. She also did not co-sponsor the bill.
West Virginia ACLU Executive Director Joseph Cohen said he was “sorely disappointed” that neither of the state’s U.S. Senators endorsed the proposal.
Manchin later released a statement Monday afternoon on the Equality Act:
"I strongly support equality for all people and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. No one should be afraid of losing their job or losing their housing because of their sexual orientation. After speaking with local education officials in West Virginia, I am not convinced that the Equality Act as written provides sufficient guidance to the local officials who will be responsible for implementing it, particularly with respect to students transitioning between genders in public schools. I will continue working with the sponsors of the bill to build broad bipartisan support and find a viable path forward for these critical protections so that I can vote in support of this bill.”
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Bill Creating W.Va. Intermediate Court of Appeals Dies in the House of Delegates
West Virginia Public Broadcasting | By Dave Mistich
Published March 6, 2020 at 2:32 PM EST
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A bill that would have created an intermediate court of appeals in West Virginia was rejected Friday in the House of Delegates. Lawmakers also rejected a motion to reconsider the vote on the bill, which effectively kills the measure for the remainder of session.
The proposal found in Senate Bill 275 has been one of the marquee agenda items for the Republican-led Senate in recent years. The majority party argued that the court would guarantee litigants a right to an appeal, create a wider body of precedent for civil decisions and allow for a more business-friendly environment.
Ahead of Friday’s vote, the House of Delegates had significantly altered the bill by pushing back the start date to January 2023 and widening the jurisdiction of the proposed intermediate appellate court. The House Judiciary Committee added criminal cases and lawmakers also adopted amendments on the floor, including one that would have added child welfare cases to the intermediate court.
Lawmakers focused Friday’s debate on the necessity and cost of the proposed intermediate court system.
“We're basing the facts of the Finance Committee off of a study from 2009 and then again from 1999 — from 10 and 20 years ago,” Del. Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, said. “And you're right, we probably did warrant an intermediate court in 2009. Our court system was a lot different than it is now.”
House Judiciary Vice Chair Moore Capito, R-Kanawha, called on delegates who supported amendments that widened the scope of the proposed court to also vote in support of the full measure.
“Let's be consistent. Every person in here that I've talked to — and that I've heard speak about a concern for the increase in skyrocketing costs of this court — voted yesterday to exponentially increase costs,” Capito said. “That's inconsistent.”
Del. Scott Cadle, R-Mason, hinted that there were attempts to persuade his vote on Senate Bill 275 with promises of running other bills he saw as a priority.
“I said, ‘Well I might vote for it, let me think about it,’" Cadle said. "After I thought about it. You know what I said? ‘I'm Scott Cadle and I don't take no crap from nobody, I don't back down from nobody, and I don't care if I don't get anything passed’ — which I know I won't. I can go home and tell my people, ‘At least I stood there for you. I work for the small guy.’
After an hour and a half of debate, the House of Delegates ultimately voted 44-56 to reject the measure.
But the discussion and voting on the bill did not end there.
Delegates wound up working their way through a series of procedural votes that killed the measure off for the remainder of the session, which ends Saturday night at midnight.
Following the rejection of Senate Bill 275, House Minority Leader Tim Miley, D-Harrison moved to reconsider the vote.
“It's odd that you make a motion to reconsider and then ask the body to vote red. But, I'm doing that so that the vote we just made can end the discussion on this bill this year,” Miley said. “It ends the browbeating, it ends the lobbying, it ends the threatening. It is a symbolic message of what our priorities are.”
But Miley’s effort was stalled by another parliamentary hurdle when Del. Geoff Foster, R-Putnam, moved to table Miley’s motion to reconsider the vote.
Foster’s motion to table Miley’s motion failed 43-57.
Having returned to Miley’s motion to reconsider, House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, clarified that a rejection would kill the bill for the remainder of session.
Miley’s motion to reconsider was defeated on a 42-58 vote, killing the bill for the remainder of the session.
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Otte, Hans / Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klange), The
Album: Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klange), The Collection: General
Artist: Otte, Hans Added: 01/2019
Label: Beacon Sound
Add Date: 2019-01-28 Pull Date: 2019-04-01 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: 17 Mar 10 Mar 3 Mar 24 Feb 17 Feb 10 Feb 3 Feb
Airplays: 1 1 1 3 1 3 2
Part 6 4. Feb 20, 2019: Brownian Motion
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3. Feb 27, 2019: Brownian Motion
Part 2 6. Feb 18, 2019: Wild Kingdom
Re-release of 1982 masterwork, masterpiece: minimalist ambient new music (classical) based solo piano work by Otte (1926-2007). No effects or studio tricks, recorded live in the spirit of classical music. These works are “characterized by very minimal means but are nevertheless quite subtle and sophisticated in their architecture and expression… Otte drew significantly on European and Asian spirituality, integrating various prayers into the fabric of the music”. The effect is that of atmospheric balms that we might otherwise be accustomed to hearing today using layered tape loops, studio trickery. Heavily based in looping arpeggios and dissonant chords, his use of lilting rhythms and minimalist expression are more like a Chopin record skipping than an Eno tape loop, though the latter comes to mind (as does Frippertronics). Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. Stuff.
Aside: This is one of my all-time favorite records - it completely changed how I perceived and heard music when I first heard it in 1984 on the syndicated radio “New Age” music show Music From the Hearts of Space (I wore my cassette recording of the broadcast bare).
1)** (8:41) starts quiet slow then goes into hypno lilting arpeggios 2)** (7:57) looping arpeggios lilt and create tension and peaceful melody simultaneously 3) (5:54) slower pensive darker feel, chords on the downbeat 4) (4:29) pensive dissonant chords crash against light peaceful minimalism 5)* (8:28) darker feel hypno loops, chordal. 6) (3:18) almost an interlude: single high notes are like raindrops on the sill on a lovely grey morning, warm cup of coffee or tea in hand 7) (8:44) somber hypno arpeggios 8) (4:33) somber quiet chords start but loud crashing ones interject 9) (3:44) quiet minimal chord arpeggios, simply lovely 10)* (5:57) epic hypno arpeggios, melodic masterful 11) (4:59) song like, this has a defined rhythm and semblance of melody 12) (4:35) major chords on quarter note, I always felt this was such an interesting way to end this album, masterpiece.
Additional notes from Forced Exposure:
eacon Sound present a reissue of Hans Otte's The Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klänge) originally released in 1984. Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a multifaceted artist, poet, pianist, composer, and promoter who synthesized the strands of minimalism, Eastern spirituality, and radical art into his own unique and protean vision. In his younger years he studied under the composer Paul Hindemith and the pianist Walter Gieseking. From 1959 to 1984 he was the director of Radio Bremen and was instrumental in introducing artists such as John Cage, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich to European audiences. Although the compositions and recordings that Otte made over the course of his long career are wideranging, The Book Of Sounds is considered to be his masterwork. A solo piano piece, it was written between 1979 and 1982 after a major survey of his previous artistic output and should be viewed through the prism of his own self-development: both as a return to his roots and as a new beginning. It is a cyclical collection of 12 "chapters" that are inspired partly by John Cage's desire to get to the root of sound itself, to liberate it from the weight of expectation and tradition and to view all sound as a manifestation of nature. In a 1979 interview, Otte answered a question about whether his work had a "common core" by saying, "I would say that behind my artistic work, as an aim or hope, is the need to find myself. In other words: despite all the separating structures, the division of all the work, the ideologies, fixed ideas, systems, despite the state and everything that ceaselessly tries to separate and divide us, I fundamentally want to be complete." It might be tempting to assign The Book Of Sounds to the aesthetic of minimalism; however, it is a deceptively sophisticated collection of pieces that unfolds slowly over repeated listens with shifting harmonics and unusual structural touches that keep it firmly on the side of "avant-garde". Includes booklet with contemporary liner note contributions by Terry Riley, Inga Ahmels, and Dustin O'Halloran as well as a reprint of a 1982 Village Voice live review by Tom Johnson and photos taken by his daughter Silvia. First edition of 500.
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Can't You See It?
by Alan Averso
For all of his experiences and hard times and joyous times and successful times, nothing was more comforting and reassuring than those words, but, strangely, in a flash, in an involuntary response to his recent trauma, Charles’ mind replayed a lifetime of events that he had either taught himself to ignore or had used to propel himself forward. The flash of memories began as he recalled the earliest times in his life when he was happy, and in his mind he was six years old and he was running through a snowy field dragging a sled behind him, and then he was speeding down a snow-covered hill, laughing and trying to figure out how to steer the crazy thing, finally colliding into a tree trunk and laughing, and then he was eleven and he was taking a fantastic cross-country vacation with a close friend – a great friend – an older man, a father of sorts, a kind and funny man who he later modeled himself after, but at twelve he became awkward and unsure about the new feelings he was experiencing with regard to some of the girls in his class who were no longer just other kids on the playground but who were all of a sudden pretty and sweet, and at thirteen he had his first heart break by one of the girls who, probably through her own awkwardness and shyness, had rejected his invitation to an end-of-year class dance, said that she had a dental appointment, and ultimately moved with her family to California during that summer. He didn’t have any guidance from his family about which feelings to accept and which ones to reject. Through all of these times he felt a conflict between the forces that were driving him to be himself and the expectations and prejudgments of the other people that were preventing it from happening: too much to bear for a young boy. The passing of the father, the mother’s stroke, and the dominating grandparents left his teenage years empty of compassion, love or direction, so like a weed, he grew without much care or feeding, but, like a weed, determined to not only endure but to prevail, he continued to push onward, and without changing the thing inside him that drove him toward excellence he continued to achieve great things even as, and in opposition to, the resistance and disdain that he received from others who didn’t understand him. The smothering experience of his first marriage was tucked away and labeled as a long and grueling ordeal marked as a life experience and a character builder, and when he thought about those years of solitude and isolation he remembered feeling the burning flame to succeed, and he remembered all of the times when he looked into the faces and eyes of the people he encountered, and when he came to that particular point in the memory he glanced up and saw the eyes of the one he had longed for, and beyond the eyes he saw her spirit, her beautiful spirit, and as soon as those memories came to him they vanished, and he was closing doors in his mind to chapters of books that he no longer needed to carry. Here was his life and here was his dream and here was his future – he was wanted as he was and for what he was and for who he was.
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Charles Pendleton and Simone duPont seek, but don’t always see. Simone seeks love; Charles seeks a way to feel settled and be satisfied. Neither can see that their love and security is right before them until it is taken away. New things become visible in the dark moments of deception and greed-driven ambition; things that were once overlooked; things that were better left unseen. Out of the darkness, like a new sunrise, like a second chance to refocus, Pendleton and duPont change their perspectives and see, feel, believe, and experience things for what they are. This inspirational, dramatic, adventurous love story blends elements of career, life, loss, and recovery, and shares a clear and insightful message through the eyes of a man, woman, their friends and their families and a year of life opportunities in France, Italy, England and North America.
Alan Averso was born in Connecticut and grew up on Florida's Gulf Coast. After serving in the Air Force in England he spent many years in the aerospace industry as an industrial engineer. Alan lives in North Carolina with his wife and three cats, sings tenor and plays keyboard in his praise band, enjoys traveling, home repair projects, many forms of music, and being around friends and family.
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At Tufts, Sanford Biggers' 'BAM' Series Takes Aim At Police Shootings
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Firing guns can pop, bang and ping. A machine gun can rat-a-tat-tat. A rifle report can crack.
And we sometimes hear one violently definitive word to describe the sound of a whizzing bullet when it finally hits its oh-so vulnerable target, a person who may be running, begging for mercy, or sometimes saying nothing at all. BAM.
Sanford Biggers, "Pink Seated Warrior," 2017. (Courtesy the artist; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen; and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong)
“BAM” is the title of a series of powerful works created by New York-based artist Sanford Biggers, on view at Tufts Aidekman Arts Center beginning Oct. 8. Well-known for a robust art practice confronting cultural and political narratives, Biggers finds an entirely new way to talk about the steady drumbeat of police shootings of unarmed African Americans in this small show of just 10 pieces. This series is at once evocative, visceral, poetic and oddly optimistic, given the circumstances, hinting at a potential ability, now or at some future date, to transcend flagrant injustices. (The Washington Post has kept a running tally of police shootings since Ferguson, and as of the writing of this piece, at least 143 African Americans have been shot and killed by law enforcement in 2019 alone.)
When Biggers decided to embark on the project, he says, “I was doing a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. I would wake up and check my news feed to check what was going on in the States, and repeatedly, I started seeing footage of black people being killed by the police… One morning, I just got so frustrated and so upset and so distraught over it all that I decided to embark on this project.”
Biggers had long collected African figures, masks and sculptures, which he used as models for his work. But, he says, “something about the violence and the shock and the injustice of it all made me feel that the only way to really communicate that was to start using the pieces I'd been collecting.”
He dipped the wooden figures in wax to remove their unique features and took his beloved sculptures to a shooting range where he “sculpted them ballistically” using different firearms of different calibers. (For the record, Biggers didn’t pull the trigger himself. He asked an assistant to do it.) The first two pieces to come out of the process were dedicated to specific shooting victims in the news at the time. Later, as shootings continued at a steady clip, the pieces became more generally symbolic of police violence against blacks.
By using spiritual or religious figures originally sculpted to commemorate an important event or as a talisman to ward off disease or bring a good harvest, Biggers symbolically performs a ritual magic of his own. He resuscitates the spirits of those black victims who have perished at the wrong end of a police officer’s pistol, allowing the pieces to transmute into a kind of avatar for the deceased. In some sense, the broken figures have been recharged and empowered by their disfigurement.
After his “ballistic sculpting,” he casts the figures riddled with holes and missing limbs into bronze, which works on two levels. Not only does it allow the objects to assume a place alongside the bronze statues that traditionally memorialize important people and events, but it also symbolically suggests that the damaged figures, made initially out of more pliable wood, have, in the end, become stronger for their suffering and Biggers’ artistic alchemy.
Sanford Biggers, "BAM (for Terence)," 2016. (Courtesy the artist; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen; and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong)
There is “BAM (for Michael)” and “BAM (for Terence),” both made in 2016, memorializing Michael Brown, killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in 2014, and Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man shot and killed by a police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2016. There is also “BAM (for Jordan)” and “BAM (for Sandra),” honoring Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old shot and killed by Texas police in 2017 when he attempted to drive away, and Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman who was found hanged in a Texas jail in 2015 after being arrested for failing to signal a lane change.
While some pieces refer to specific victims, others stand in as a more general tribute. “Seated Warrior” is a bronze piece of a damaged Senufo sculpture once used for divination in the Côte d’Ivoire. The figure sits as a symbol of power for those who have died, as well as those who feel under threat every time a police car pulls them over.
“It alludes to the idea of these being warriors,” says Biggers.
In addition to the statues, the exhibit includes three antique quilts. Two bear the images of “Seated Warrior,” only in this rendition, the figure is presented in floral or pink sequins. Biggers says he chose quilts as a canvas because of a legend that quilts functioned as a coded signal for escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. Perhaps these quilts signal a safe passage ahead? Or are they a warning?
There is also video in the show. “Infinite Tabernacle” consists of five monitors propped on their sides, lying gently on a throw rug, like an impromptu home shrine. The image playing on the screens shows the shooting of the African sculptures but with one difference from real life. In the video, we witness the figures being riddled with bullets, but we also see the bullet reverse course. The figure comes back together again and all is made whole.
“This notion of transcending the physical corporeal existence to a higher spiritual plane is also somehow in those objects,” says Biggers. “So yes, they're wounded, they're shot, they’re damaged but they’re not dead. They're sort of resurrected, in a sense, and fortified.”
Sanford Biggers, "Infinite Tabernacle," 2017. (Courtesy the artist; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen; and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong)
The idea of transcendence and a deeper cosmic thread coursing through all life has long interwoven itself through Biggers’ work. Biggers, who in the past has taught art at Harvard and Columbia University, lived in Japan for three years and was deeply influenced by Buddhist ideas and philosophies. Some of his pieces reflect this interest, including a series that he began in 2000 of traditional sand-drawn Buddhist and Hindu mandalas reimagined as a hip-hop dance floor, as well as another older work, “Lotus,” which appears to be a beautiful round white lotus blossom etched on a circular pane of glass until you get close enough to see that the petals are actually the hull of slave ships packed with human cargo. In one simple image, Biggers juxtaposes the horrors of slavery with a Buddhist symbol of purity of body, speech and mind. Typical of Biggers’ work, it is multi-layered, spiritual and otherworldly while rooted in the black experience.
“That's something that's always been in my work,” he says. “Everything was really deeply about ritual, meditation, healing, transcendence, and perspective of how humans exist within the larger cosmological context.”
And to this end, the BAM series fits neatly within Biggers’ oeuvre.
“The BAM series, I think, are really beautiful but really horrific,” he says. “And that is the sort of tension that I like my work to have, something very compelling and seductive but at the same time something very hard and almost disturbing…If you as a viewer are willing to go through that experience, there is a resolve and there is a sense of transcendence that I'm aiming for.”
“Sanford Biggers” is on view at Tufts Aidekman Arts Center Oct. 8 through Dec. 15. An artist talk and reception will be held Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.
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In A 1st, Doctors In U.S. Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder06:30
Rob Stein
Gray was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was an infant. She was considering a bone marrow transplant when she heard about the CRISPR study and jumped at the chance to volunteer. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder.
"It is just amazing how far things have come," says Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss. "It is wonderful," she told NPR in an exclusive interview after undergoing the landmark treatment for sickle cell disease.
Gray is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study testing the use of CRISPR for a genetic disease.
"I always had hoped that something will come along," she says from a hospital bed at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tenn., where she received an infusion of billions of genetically modified cells. "It's a good time to get healed."
But it probably will take months, if not years, of careful monitoring of Gray and other patients before doctors know whether the treatment is safe and how well it might be helping patients.
Sickle cell affects millions of people around the world. About 100,000 are in the U.S., and most of them, like Gray, are African American. A genetic defect causes bone marrow to produce a defective protein that makes blood cells that are sickle-shaped, hard and sticky. The deformed cells get stuck inside blood vessels and don't carry oxygen normally, causing a host of debilitating and, often, eventually life-shortening complications.
"It's horrible," Gray says. "When you can't walk or lift up a spoon to feed yourself, it gets real hard."
For the study, doctors are using cells taken from patients' own bone marrow that have been genetically modified with CRISPR to make them produce a protein that is usually only made by fetuses and by babies for a short time following birth.
The hope is this protein will compensate for the defective protein that causes sickle cell disease and will enable patients to live normally for the rest of their lives.
"It's exciting to see that we might be on the cusp of a highly effective therapy for patients with sickle cell," says Dr. David Altshuler, executive vice president, global research and chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston. Vertex is conducting the study with CRISPR Therapeutics of Cambridge, Mass.
CRISPR Therapeutics announced the treatment of the first volunteer on Monday but did not name the patient. However, NPR got exclusive access to Gray.
"People with sickle cell disease have been waiting a long time for therapies that just let them live a normal life," Altshuler says.
"This is a very big deal," agrees Dr. Haydar Frangoul, medical director of pediatric hematology/oncology at the institute where Gray volunteered. "This could benefit many patients."
Frangoul's center, Sarah Cannon, is conducting the study at HCA Healthcare's TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, which is one of eight sites recruiting patients for the research in the United States, Canada and Europe. Up to 45 patients ages 18 to 35 will eventually be enrolled.
Other doctors, scientists and bioethicists are also encouraged.
"This is an exciting moment in medicine. CRISPR promises the capacity to alter the human genome and to begin to directly address genetic diseases," says Laurie Zoloth, a bioethicist at the University of Chicago.
But Zoloth is also cautious. She worries that this and other studies starting up using CRISPR haven't gone through an extra layer of scrutiny by a panel of outside experts assembled by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Haydar Frangoul is medical director of pediatric hematology/oncology at HCA Healthcare's Sarah Cannon Research Institute and TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, where Gray has volunteered for a study using CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
"This a brand-new technology," Zoloth says. "It seems to work really well in animals and really well in culture dishes. It's completely unknown how it works in actual human beings. So there are a lot of unknowns. It might make you sicker."
Frangoul acknowledges there are always risks with experimental treatments. But he says the research will go very slowly and carefully with close review by the Food and Drug Administration and other advisory panels.
"We are very cautious about how we do this trial in a very systematic way to monitor the patients carefully for any complications related to the therapy," he says.
For her part, Gray says she understands there are risks. She also says that she knows the study is a first step and that other patients might only see benefits years from now.
"This gives me hope if it gives me nothing else," Gray says.
It will probably take several months before doctors detect the first signs of whether the genetically edited cells are producing helpful levels of the protein and even longer to know whether the cells are improving patients' health. And it will likely take many years to know whether the benefits last a lifetime, as hoped.
Gray, who is married and has four children, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was an infant and started crying during a bath. One major symptom is agonizing, debilitating pain.
Like many sickle cell patients, her symptoms have prevented her from living a full life. She couldn't play like other children, was afraid to travel and had to give up her dreams of becoming a doctor or a nurse.
HCA Healthcare's TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville is one of eight sites in the United States, Canada and Europe that are recruiting patients for the CRISPR study. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
"Sometimes it feels like lightning strikes in my chest and real sharp pains all over," Gray says. "Sometimes, I will be just balled up and crying, not able to do anything for myself."
The defective blood cells also increase the risk for infections and damage to vital organs such as the heart. They also can cause life-threatening strokes. Many people with sickle cell disease don't live past their 40s. Gray's heart has already suffered damage. And that is taking an additional psychological toll.
"It's scary," she says, describing how her disease has affected her oldest son, 12-year-old Jamarius.
"He's older, so he understands. So he started acting out in school. And his teacher told me, 'I believe Jamarius is acting out because he really believes you're going to die,' " Gray says, choking back tears.
Some patients can get bone marrow transplants, but those procedures are grueling and can be dangerous if the immune system cells produced by the transplanted bone marrow attack their bodies. And most sickle cell patients either don't have or don't find a suitable donor.
"It's real hard," Gray says. "It was just my religion that just kept me going."
When she was considering a bone marrow transplant, she heard about the CRISPR trial and jumped at the chance to volunteer.
"I always knew something had to come along and that God had something important in store for me," Gray says. "It felt like this was meant to be. It was kinda fate. That was an amazing feeling."
CRISPR enables scientists to make very precise changes in DNA, raising hopes it will lead to new ways to prevent and treat many diseases.
"CRISPR technology has a lot of potential use in the future, not only in blood disorders," Frangoul says.
Doctors have already started using it to try treat cancer, mostly in China. At least two patients in the U.S. have been treated for cancer, in a study at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Later this year, doctors in Boston are planning to use CRISPR to edit cells in patients' retinas, in hopes of restoring vision in patients with an inherited form of blindness.
The companies sponsoring the sickle cell study announced earlier this year that they had used CRISPR to treat the first patient with a similar blood disorder, beta thalassemia, in Germany.
On Monday, CRISPR Therapeutics also revealed the first hint that the approach might be working for beta thalassemia. The beta thalassemia patient's edited cells have started functioning in the bone marrow, according to the company's press release.
Moreover, that patient has not required a blood transfusion for more than four months, the company says. Beta thalassemia patients normally require regular transfusions to treat their condition.
Beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease are both caused by genetic defects that cause problems with a protein called hemoglobin. Healthy red blood cells use hemoglobin to carry oxygen throughout the body.
Sickle cell patients' red blood cells carry defective hemoglobin that deform the cells and don't transport enough oxygen. The hope is that another form of hemoglobin, known as fetal hemoglobin, will compensate for the defective protein.
Fetal hemoglobin is produced by fetuses in the womb to provide oxygen. In most people, fetal hemoglobin production stops shortly after birth.
"Once a baby is born, a switch will flip on," Frangoul says. "It's a gene that tells the red blood cell — the bone marrow cells that produce red cells — to stop making fetal hemoglobin."
This CRISPR treatment starts with doctors extracting bone marrow cells from patients' blood. Company scientists then use CRISPR to edit a gene in the cells to make the cells produce fetal hemoglobin.
"That will help the cells make more fetal hemoglobin and make them happier and healthier," Frangoul says.
Gray says she understands the risks involved in the treatment but can't help but be hopeful that it will work. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
The patients then undergo the same kind of grueling chemotherapy administered as part of a standard bone marrow transplant. That wipes out the existing cells that are carrying the genetic defect. But instead of receiving new cells from a donor, the patients get billions of their own cells that have been edited with CRISPR.
The hope is that it will provide a treatment option for all patients, including those who can't find a matched donor. The approach hopefully will be safer because the cells come from patients' own bone marrow. So they shouldn't attack patients' bodies, Frangoul says.
"This opens the door for many patients to potentially be treated and to have their disease modified to be mild" and to avoid the "horrible, horrible long-term side effects of sickle cell disease," he says.
For Gray, the process was sometimes long and demanding. It required repeated trips from her home to Nashville for some lengthy stays in the hospital. The chemotherapy was especially rough, leaving her with mouth and throat sores that made it difficult to eat or drink.
"It was really hard and painful for me," she says.
And Gray was surprised by the discomfort she felt at the moment earlier this month when Frangoul pushed the plunger on a large syringe to infuse more than 2 billion of the edited cells into her body.
"There was a little scary, tough moment for me," she says. "But after that, I cried. But it was happy tears."
She was thrilled to finally have what she calls her "supercells" inside her body.
"That's what all of this is about — the edited cells. It's the supercells that's what's going to make the difference between me having the sickle cell pain crises and not having them," Gray says.
She hopes it works and imagines a life without sickle cell:
"Being able to wake up and not be in pain. And to just be tired because I've done something — and not just tired for no reason. And just to be outside, and jump on the trampoline with my kids.
"And go to graduations and weddings. And see them grow up. That means the world to me."
Copyright NPR 2021.
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NOPD find man dead after double stabbing in Algiers
Two men stabbed multiple times near Flanders and Socrates
Updated: 5:22 PM CDT Sep 30, 2014
Casey Ferrand
New Orleans police are investigating a homicide in Algiers. It happened in the 1300 block of Flanders Street near General Meyers Avenue.
New Orleans police are investigating a homicide in Algiers.It happened in the 1300 block of Flanders Street near General Meyers Avenue.Police were called to an apartment complex at the corner of Flanders and Socrates Streets around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday.Investigators say there are two male victims, both had been stabbed. A 40-year-old man who was stabbed multiple times was pronounced dead on the scene.Paramedics transported the second man, a 45-year-old, with multiple stab wounds to the hospital.NOPD have not released the names of the victims and have not said whether there are any suspects in the homicide.
New Orleans police are investigating a homicide in Algiers.
It happened in the 1300 block of Flanders Street near General Meyers Avenue.
Police were called to an apartment complex at the corner of Flanders and Socrates Streets around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday.
Investigators say there are two male victims, both had been stabbed. A 40-year-old man who was stabbed multiple times was pronounced dead on the scene.
Paramedics transported the second man, a 45-year-old, with multiple stab wounds to the hospital.
NOPD have not released the names of the victims and have not said whether there are any suspects in the homicide.
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“Doug’s done a great job,” O’Connor told the Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com in November. “I thought [Bill] Belichick to the Patriots in 2000 was a bad idea, so he’s in really good company.”
No word from Cowherd: Still no word from FS1 host Colin Cowherd, who called Philadelphia the “dumbest sports city in America” and Eagles fans “dopey” because of his claim that they ran Reid out of town after the Eagles’ 4-12 finish in 2012. It’s important to remember Cowherd also thought Eagles fans weren’t “cerebral” enough to appreciate Kelly, who was fired after just shy of three seasons as head coach.
Both Reid and Kelly will no doubt be tuned in Sunday as Pederson and the Eagles take on the Minnesota Vikings at Lincoln Financial Field.
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Lowry (thumb) withdraws from USA Basketball’s World Cup team
by: TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press
Kyle Lowry of the NBA champion Toronto Raptors has withdrawn from the pool of candidates USA Basketball is considering to take to the FIBA World Cup later this month.
Lowry said his surgically repaired thumb isn’t ready to allow him to participate in on-court workouts. He had surgery last month to repair a torn tendon that dogged him during the NBA playoffs, and was hopeful of being on the floor as early as Tuesday when the Americans resume practice in El Segundo, California.
But after meeting with his surgeon on Monday, Lowry apparently realized he wasn’t going to be able to play.
“I was hoping to be available in time to help my country in their quest for gold in this upcoming tournament,” Lowry wrote on Instagram. “I love playing for USAB but I have to sit this one out and support the team from home.”
Lowry’s decision means 15 players are still in the running for 12 spots — and one of those 15, Boston guard Marcus Smart, missed much of last week’s camp in Las Vegas with a calf injury. It is possible that USA Basketball could add to the player pool before making any final decisions on the World Cup roster, though the Americans were also prepared if Lowry was not cleared to play.
“We have guys who can play different positions, guys with character, versatility and athleticism,” USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo said last week in Las Vegas, when the Americans started paring down the roster. “And we think it’s a hungry group.”
Lowry has about six weeks now to get ready for Raptors camp. He said he expects the Americans to win the World Cup for an unprecedented third consecutive time.
“At the end of the day I believe the men that are playing will be great and will win the gold for our country,” Lowry wrote.
ROSTER UPDATE
The U.S. will take 12 players to China. The 15 remaining candidates are:
Guards — De’Aaron Fox, Sacramento; Joe Harris, Brooklyn; Donovan Mitchell, Utah; Marcus Smart, Boston; Kemba Walker, Boston; Derrick White, San Antonio.
Forwards — Harrison Barnes, Sacramento; Jaylen Brown, Boston; Kyle Kuzma, L.A. Lakers; Khris Middleton, Milwaukee; Jayson Tatum, Boston; P.J. Tucker, Houston.
Centers — Brook Lopez, Milwaukee; Mason Plumlee, Denver; Myles Turner, Indiana.
The U.S. will practice Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Lakers’ training facility. The Americans face Spain in an exhibition game on Friday in Anaheim, California, and leave for more training and exhibitions in Australia on Saturday.
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NHL offseason moves influenced by coronavirus’ impact on cap
by: JOHN WAWROW, Associated Press
Posted: Jan 12, 2021 / 12:36 AM MST / Updated: Jan 12, 2021 / 12:36 AM MST
FILE – Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara (33) congratulates Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) after the Capitals’ 2-1 overtime win in Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series, in Boston, in this Wednesday, April 25, 2012, file photo. Alex Ovechkin goes into the final year of his contract with the Washington Capitals looking to win the Stanley Cup for the second time. He’ll have 43-year-old past champion Zdeno Chara with him but not Henrik Lundqvist chasing his first title, after tests showed the veteran goaltender couldn’t keep playing because of a heart condition. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Jeff Skinner was enjoying an afternoon in his parents’ backyard, when suddenly the Buffalo Sabres’ forward thought his father was pulling an April Fool’s joke on him in mid-September.
“My dad came out and told me that Eric Staal is on our team,” Skinner said upon learning Buffalo had acquired his former Carolina Hurricanes teammate in a trade with Minnesota. “I thought he was joking with me at first.”
He wasn’t.
The Sabres’ addition of Staal was completed before the Stanley Cup was even awarded, and wasn’t the most high-profile move made over the past four months.
But it was among the first of many trades and free-agent signings involving some of the league’s more notable players changing teams during a most unique of offseasons. The draft was held in October, training camps opened in late December and the league is preparing to embark on a 56-game shortened season with four realigned divisions — all a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Don’t adjust your TV sets, which is where most fans will have to watch the action with most arenas closed to the public. It may take a few weeks to get accustomed to some of the NHL’s more familiar faces playing in different places with the regular season opening Wednesday.
Zdeno Chara is no longer in Boston after the Bruins captain signed with Washington. Capitals’ goalie Braden Holtby is now in Vancouver. Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo has left St. Louis — where he was replaced by veteran Bruins defenseman Torey Krug — to hit the jackpot in Vegas.
Eric Staal wasn’t the only member of the family on the move, with younger brother Marc traded from the Rangers to Detroit. And the Sabres made an even bigger splash in free agency by landing 2018 NHL MVP Taylor Hall in October.
On the west coast, Patrick Marleau is back in San Jose for a third stint in four years, while the Sharks’ lineup will for the first time in 15 years be without Joe Thornton, who is now in Toronto.
“Just soak it all in,” said the 41-year-old Thornton, who grew up a 90-minute drive from Toronto. “I feel like I’m young again.”
Though NHL stars switch teams every offseason, the moves this year were, in part, precipitated by the affects of COVID-19, which has frozen the salary cap at $81.5 million for at least this season and likely the next. That placed teams anticipating the cap to increase in a bind.
The affects were evident before free agency opened with teams not retaining the rights to some of their restricted free agents in fear of what the players might be awarded in salary arbitration hearings. That was the case in Buffalo, where the Sabres cut loose Dominik Kahun after the forward showed promise in playing six games after being acquired in a trade with Pittsburgh.
And while several players earned lucrative paydays in free agency, such as Pietrangelo, who signed a seven-year, $61.6 million contract, his deal proved to be an exception when it came to length.
Hall, for example, signed a one-year, $8 million deal with Buffalo by realizing the free-agent market was going to be tight.
“I came into it thinking that it was either going to be a six- or seven-year deal or a one-year deal, and see where the marketplace went to potentially next summer,” Hall said. “I don’t know if I’ll get there.”
In Tampa Bay, the defending champion Lightning had to get creative with their roster.
They lost defensemen Kevin Shattenkirk and Zach Bogosian to free agency and traded center Cedric Paquette and defenseman Braydon Coburn to Ottawa. The team acquired right wing Marian Gaborik and goalie Anders Nilsson from the Senators, but both will be placed on long-term injury reserve.
Oilers general manager Ken Holland chalked it up to the new economic realities facing the NHL.
“It’s salary-cap related, which is related to the pandemic, which has given us a hard, flat cap for the foreseeable future,” Holland said. “The possibility of a flat cap for the next few years has a factor in all those factors.”
That left teams having to manage their caps by deciding whether it’s better to keep a high-priced veteran, or fill the payroll slot with two lower-priced youngsters.
It’s a reason why several established players were left to wait until training camps opened before being signed to professional tryout contracts, which don’t count against the cap. They included defenseman Travis Hamonic (Vancouver), defenseman Michael Del Zotto (Columbus) and former Florida forward Mike Hoffman, who went on to sign a one-year, $4 million contract with St. Louis.
In Washington, defensemen John Carlson found it “definitely weird” not to see Holtby open camp between the pipes, by saying, “I do miss him.”
And Krug was having difficulty envisioning the Bruins without Chara, while becoming familiar to his new surroundings in St. Louis after spending his first nine seasons in Boston.
“It’s a different challenge,” Krug said. “From a personal standpoint, I pretty much could’ve done training camp in Boston blindfolded.”
AP Hockey Writers Stephen Whyno and Larry Lage contributed.
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL
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Kac, Victor G.; Peterson, Dale H.
Infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, theta functions and modular forms. (English) Zbl 0584.17007
Adv. Math. 53, 125-264 (1984).
The authors give a full account of important results announced some years earlier [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 3, 1057–1061 (1980; Zbl 0457.17007)]. Several appendices discuss further implications of the theory presented and announce further results. The paper is written with recognition of the broad audience its content will interest. It includes background on affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras, irreducible highest weight representations, and classical theta functions and modular forms, as well as an account of recently discovered connections among those areas. In broad terms, the paper’s principal results fall into two main categories.
First, a theta-function interpretation of the Macdonald identities due to E. Looijenga [Invent. Math. 38, 17–32 (1976; Zbl 0358.17016)] is exploited through an observation of the first author [Adv. Math. 35, 264–273 (1980; Zbl 0431.17009)] that most generating functions for multiplicities appearing in the representation theory of affine Lie algebras become q-series of modular forms when multiplied by a suitable power of q. The character of a highest weight representation of an affine Lie algebra is rewritten in terms of theta functions of the modular forms. Then the authors use classical functional equations for theta functions to deduce transformation properties of the modular forms. The “very strange” formula [see the first author’s paper in Adv. Math. 30, 85–136 (1978; Zbl 0391.17010)] is then used to estimate the order of the poles at the cusps.
In short, the modular form theory makes it possible to compute with the forms, and a Tauberian theorem of Ingham is used to obtain the asymptotics of the multiplicities in question. If \(L\) is the affine algebra and \(\Lambda\) is the highest weight, then the key step in this part of the paper is establishing that \(mult_{\Lambda}(\lambda -n\delta)\) is an increasing function of \(n\). Here \(\lambda\) is in the dual space of the Cartan subalgebra \(H\) of the affine algebra \(L\) and \(\delta\) is the unique element of that space that annihilates \(\bar H \) (the Cartan subalgebra of the underlying classical simple finite dimensional algebra \(L)\) and \(c\) (where \(H=H+Cc+Cd\), \(d\) the derivation that acts on \(C[t,t^{- 1}]\otimes_ C \bar L\) as \(t(d/dt)\) and annihilates \(c)\) and maps \(d\) to 1. The approach taken by the authors involves use of a Heisenberg algebra. The results in this direction make it possible to explicitly determine the string functions in many cases. The multiplicities do not appear to be given by any simple combinatorial functions such as the classical partition function, but rather to depend on the fact that \(q^{1/24}(q,q)\) is a modular form.
The second main theme of the paper is the use of the second author’s explicit formulas for Kostant’s partition function. These make it possible to derive explicit formulas for generalized Kostant partition functions for certain affine algebras. That in turn affords a way of computing multiplicities directly for the algebra of type \(A_ 1^{(1)}\). The corresponding generating series are closely related to Hecke modular forms associated to real quadratic fields [see Math. Werke E. Hecke, 418–427 (1959; Zbl 0092.001)].
While the complexity of the formulas and identities obtained in the paper makes it impractical to be more specific here, it is to be noted that at the end of the paper, a collection of new (and old) identities for modular forms and elliptic theta functions is given. These formulas, which are natural consequences of the representation theory and its connections to modular forms in the simplest case \((A_ 1^{(1)})\), can be read independently of the rest of the paper.
Reviewer: James F. Hurley (Storrs)
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E. J. Bowe, first Principal of Mastic Point Primary School, recognized by Ministry of Education
The Ministry of Education honoured Earnest J. Bowe for his contributions to the development of The Bahamas during a renaming ceremony for the Mastic Point Primary School, now the Rozelda M. Woodside Primary School in Mastic Point, North Andros. Mr. Bowe is the first principal of Mastic Point Primary School, the first school built in Mastic Point. He has served in various capacities in the public service. The Hon. Jeffrey Lloyd, Minister of Education described Mr. Bowe as an affable, personable, humble man, an educator at heart with a gregarious spirit. “He led, back in the 60s, a group of parents in this community who insisted that unless the school was built they were not having any school and forced the government of the day to construct a Mastic Point Primary School,” said Mr. Lloyd. “Mr. Bowe led a three-month protest and the school began in earnest in the new building in September 1965. “He has been all over the public service giving exemplary contribution to this country and today we recognize him for that great moment 55 years ago when he made a signature decision to establish for this community a landmark in the Mastic Point Primary School,” Minister Lloyd added. Mr. Bowe received a plaque for his outstanding service.
The Ministry of Education honoured Earnest J. Bowe for his contributions to the development of The Bahamas during a renaming ceremony for the Mastic Point Primary School, now the Rozelda M. Woodside Primary School in Mastic Point, North Andros. Mr. Bowe is the first principal of Mastic Point Primary School, the first school built in Mastic Point. He has served in various capacities in the public service.
The Hon. Jeffrey Lloyd, Minister of Education described Mr. Bowe as an affable, personable, humble man, an educator at heart with a gregarious spirit. “He led, back in the 60s, a group of parents in this community who insisted that unless the school was built they were not having any school and forced the government of the day to construct a Mastic Point Primary School,” said Mr. Lloyd. “Mr. Bowe led a three-month protest and the school began in earnest in the new building in September 1965.
“He has been all over the public service giving exemplary contribution to this country and today we recognize him for that great moment 55 years ago when he made a signature decision to establish for this community a landmark in the Mastic Point Primary School,” Minister Lloyd added. Mr. Bowe received a plaque for his outstanding service.
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The Transvaginal Mesh Devices Saga: Corporate Greed and Callousness Hit by Big Verdicts
By Wilson Law
It was supposed to make the lives of women suffering from pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) easier, but ended up causing untold amounts of grief to thousands of women and their families all over America.
The manufacturers of faulty transvaginal mesh devices continue to be punished, with the latest being the Ethicon Inc. unit of Johnson & Johnson, which was slapped with a verdict of $3.25 million in West Virginia on Sept. 5.
The legal tussle between the makers of the faulty transvaginal mesh products and victims who have taken them to court over it continues. It is estimated that over 50,000 women have filed lawsuits related to these devices. Johnson & Johnson alone faces 33,000 lawsuits.
The transvaginal mesh is a medical device implanted in women with weakened pelvic floor muscles that result in organs like the bladder and the uterus dropping into the vagina. The sling-like mesh is surgically implanted by being inserted through the vagina, or abdominally, to provide support to the pelvic muscles and prevent them from falling through the vaginal walls.
It seemed like an effective solution to an age-old problem when it was first introduced to treat POP in 1996, but this device has led to a number of complications in many women who have undergone this implant, and in extreme cases has even caused the death of the patients. Some of the most common post-implant complaints include:
• Vaginal erosion
• Organ perforation
• Vaginal bleeding
• Painful intercourse
• Infection
• Chronic constipation
• Mesh protruding into the surrounding soft tissue
• Relapse of POP and SUI
Since the mesh is implanted in the body as a permanent solution, tissue and blood vessels grow around it over time. This makes the removal of the mesh a complicated process, requiring a number of revision surgeries. Needless to say this results in a lot of pain for the patient, both physical and emotional.
Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits
Transvaginal mesh devices have been made by a number of companies, and complainants allege they were deliberately misled by the manufacturers about the efficacy of their products. American Medical Systems, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, Coloplast, and Ethicon are some of the makers against whom lawsuits were filed and are pending in the state and federal courts across the US.
The verdict returned by a West Virgina jury against Ethicon this past Friday is not the first of its kind. The timeline of verdicts and settlements on this matter includes the following:
• $5.5 million verdict against C.R. Bard (July, 2012)
• $54.4 million settlement by AMS (June, 2013)
• $11 million verdict against Ethicon (February, 2013)
• $2 million verdict against C.R. Bard (July, 2013)
• $16 million settlement by Coloplast (March, 2014)
• $830 million settlement by AMS (May, 2014)
• $3.27 million verdict against Ethicon (September, 2014)
The FDA’s Stand on the Issue
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has changed its tune many times on the transvaginal mesh devices. For the majority of its existence the transvaginal mesh was declared and deemed safe to use but as complaints started pouring in in big numbers, especially over the period between 2005-2007, the FDA advised medical practitioners to exercise caution when using this device. In 2008 it said this device could cause complications, though rarely. In 2011, it finally issued that health complications arising from the implant of this device are not rare. It also stated “it is not clear that transvaginal POP repair with mesh is more effective than traditional non-mesh repair in all patients with POP and it may expose patients to greater risk.”
A year later the FDA announced that Johnson & Johnson had been selling its transvaginal mesh devices without proper regulatory approval, following which the company filed a request with the FDA to stop the sale of its surgical mesh products.
The blame for the malfunctioning transvaginal mesh devices lies at multiple levels. The makers did not carry out adequate testing prior to releasing their devices into the market, and it seems like the FDA reacted a bit too late. And thousands of American women paid a heavy price, as a result. It’s a gruesome tale of apathy and greed for profits. As more cases go to trial, we can expect a bigger number of verdicts and settlements to make the news. Does this mean each and every woman affected by a faulty transvaginal implant will receive justice? We sure hope so, though the compensation will differ from case to case. If you or someone you know is being troubled by their surgical mesh implant, get in touch with us to learn of the legal options available to you in this regard.
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The term “solicitor” has several different meanings, depending on the context and where in the world one is. In some parts of the world, a solicitor is a member of the legal profession, with job roles which may vary, depending on regional laws. In other areas, people use the term to refer to someone who solicits services, donations, and other things from people and organizations. This explains the “no solicitors” signs sometimes posted on doors and gates: people aren't trying to keep out lawyers, they are warning advertisers that their presence is unwelcome.
In the United States, a solicitor general represents the government in proceedings before the Supreme Court.
In the legal sense, a solicitor is someone who has undergone legal training and been admitted to the practice of law. In some countries, the legal profession is split into two separate categories: solicitors and barristers. Solicitors handle legal matters outside of court, providing legal advice to clients, preparing legal arguments, and so forth. They are also sometimes admitted to practice in the lower courts. Barristers, on the other hand, actively participate in court, arguing cases before a judge.
In the legal sense, a solicitor is someone who has undergone legal training and been admitted to the practice of law.
In countries where there is a clear division of labor, solicitors are allowed to solicit clients directly, but barristers are not. This means that a solicitor works with a barrister, referring cases to the barrister if it becomes apparent that the case is going to court. People who retain legal counsel usually retain a solicitor, relying on the solicitor's judgment if a barrister is required.
Some regions of the world decided that the divided system did not work, and they streamlined the two professions into one, which explains why people may refer to a legal professional as a “solicitor and barrister.” In other areas, the divided legal system never existed, and legal professionals known as attorneys or lawyers may practice in court as well as out of court.
Countries with a unified legal system in which people can work both in and out of court may reserve the term “solicitor” for the chief legal officer of a regional government. For example, the United States has a Solicitor General who argues on behalf of the Government in the Supreme Court. Other local and regional governments may also retain a chief legal officer who is referred to as the solicitor. A regional solicitor may also be called a state's or town's attorney, a prosecutor, or a district attorney.
As a general rule, the type of solicitor under discussion is usually obvious from the context. People living in nations with unfamiliar legal systems, however, may want to be careful about how they use the term, to ensure that their meaning is understood.
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I appreciate it when businesses post the “no solicitors” sign on the door. I hate going into a store and being bombarded by someone in my face trying to sell me something.
These people take me off guard, because they approach me as soon as I enter with a request to buy something or donate money to some cause. I feel guilty if I don't donate, and if they are selling a product, they are very persistent and don't easily take “no” for an answer.
If I see the “no solicitors” sign, I know that I can feel safe in that store. I've also seen this sign on fast food restaurant doors. I find it strange that anyone would consider setting up shop inside a food joint where everyone is in a hurry.
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The human nervous system is a highly complex one, much of which operates without our conscious intervention. The part of the nervous system that functions automatically is called the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is a sub-section of this part, and is responsible for governing functions such as the fight-or-flight response to stress, as well as other forms of energy generation. Its functions are balanced in a complementary way by the parasympathetic nervous system, which controls relaxation after a stressful event.
The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for one's sensitivities to hot and cold temperatures.
Other than preparing the body to cope with emergencies, the sympathetic nervous system serves other vital purposes. For example, standing up after being in a sitting position for a long time must be accompanied with increased blood pressure, or a person can go unconscious. Most people have either experienced or observed lightheadedness when standing suddenly. Without the proper functioning of the sympathetic nervous system, effects like these would be greatly magnified. This system also prepares the body for waking and action after a sleep cycle, as well as increasing heart rate and perspiration during exercise.
The sympathetic nervous system is a sub-section of the automatically functioning autonomic nervous system.
The parasympathetic nervous system can be seen as performing many of the same functions, but in reverse when that is what is most appropriate. Thus it is that these two systems are not in opposition to one another, but rather work to modulate the ways in which the other vital systems of the body perform. In effect, they observe moment-to-moment changes in environment and mindset, and work to keep the body in a constant and stable condition, which is referred to as homeostasis.
The sympathetic nervous system plays an important role in the response to stress.
The nerves and other structures which make up the sympathetic nervous system originate in the thoracic vertebrae of the spine. From this beginning point in the spinal cord, neurons gradually branch out to all the major systems and organs of the body. Disorders of this system are rare, but many are characterized by overactivity of the system.
The nerves and other structures that make up the sympathetic nervous system originate in the thoracic vertebrae of the spine and branch out to all major systems and organs of the body through neurons.
One such disease, known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS), typically causes intense regional pain and burning sensations in the body, especially in the extremities. Other symptoms mimic what would otherwise be the natural operations of the sympathetic nervous system, such as limbs being warm to the touch, sweating excessively, and heightened sensitivity to heat and cold. Due in part to its rarity, the causes of RSDS are not fully understood, although it has been associated with some forms of nerve injury.
The sympathetic nervous system plays a role in a person's sleep cycle.
The sympathetic nervous system prepares the body after a sleep cycle.
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome typically causes intense regional pain and burning sensations in the body.
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I think that the sympathetic nervous system is one example of how strong the human intuition and instinct can be. While things like instinct are scientifically not exactly related to the sympathetic nervous system, I think that they are connected, and they are all ways in which the human subconscious can tell us things,and I think people have become less able to use these things.
Fight or flight response is so fascinating. I find it really amazing that your sympathetic nervous system receptors, and thus your whole body, can know that you are in danger almost before you do.
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Investigator | Disgraced judge leaves prison, hired by CLE City Hall
Author: Phil Trexler
Published: 5:23 PM EDT October 31, 2017
Updated: 9:22 PM EDT November 1, 2017
Lance Mason, a former Cuyahoga County judge who was removed from the bench and sent to prison for a violent attack on his wife, has taken a job in Cleveland City Hall.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson signed off on the hiring of Mason in late August as the city’s director of minority business administrator.
Mason was one of 13 candidates for the position, but was handpicked by Jackson for the position.
Mason served nine months in prison for viciously assaulting his wife in 2014. It happened as the couple drove in a car with their two children on Van Aiken Boulevard.
Police say Mason punched his wife 20 times and slammed her head against the dashboard five times. His wife’s injuries required reconstructive surgery.
Sources tell Channel 3 News Investigator Tom Meyer that Mason has close ties to Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Cleveland, who endorsed Jackson’s re-election next month.
A spokeswoman for Fudge did not respond to a request for comment.
Jackson also refused to comment on the hiring.
In fact, a Jackson spokesman became irate when Meyer showed up at City Hall on Tuesday to ask Mason for an interview.
“Turn it off,” city spokesman Dan Williams demanded as a Channel 3 News camera recorded his conversation with Meyer.
Meyer then tried to explain the purpose of his investigation.
“Dan, I’m just trying to explain to you. I’d like to know the circumstances of [Mason’s] hiring,” Meyer said.
“I don’t know him. I don’t know the circumstances,” Williams said, adding that Jackson believes in giving people second chances.
That’s not the case for the body that oversees attorneys in Ohio.
Earlier this month, the Ohio Supreme Court's Board of Professional Conduct joined with the Ohio State Bar Association seeking to have Mason’s license permanently revoked. His license is currently suspended.
Justices on the state Supreme Court have the final say. They have yet to rule.
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Beers criteria updates: New guidance for geriatric medicatio...
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Beers criteria updates: New guidance for geriatric medication safety
It’s that time again.
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria® were updated recently, as they are every three years, by an interdisciplinary panel of geriatric experts.
The Beers Criteria are a unique set of evidence-based recommendations tailored specifically for older adults (65 years and older) in all care settings, except hospice or palliative care. This list of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) provides guidance on how to optimize medication selection in older adults, and it can help meet a variety of healthcare needs:
Clinicians: The criteria are an excellent tool to refer to before starting, increasing, or switching medications, or when simply performing a comprehensive medication review for geriatric patients
Health systems: The criteria can be a tool in creating clinical decision support systems
Patients: The criteria can be an educational tool to engage patients who want to learn more about the potential risks and benefits of their medications
Focusing primarily on that first group – clinicians – it is important to review key changes and updates to recommendations in the latest publication of the Beers Criteria to help ensure those treating geriatric patients are aware of the most current best practices for medication efficacy and safety.
Why we need beers
Older adults respond differently than younger adults to medications due to changes in medication absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination that occur over time. Older adults can also have more or less sensitivity to medications. These unpredictable age-related changes often increase risk for adverse effects and drug interactions.
To help navigate these challenges, the Beers Criteria panel evaluates controlled clinical trials, observational studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses with a special emphasis on adverse drug events or reactions to update its recommendations.
In addition to metabolic and physical age-related challenges, the criteria also help clinicians address other obstacles associated with treating geriatric populations:
Polypharmacy: One study estimates that approximately 50% of ambulatory older adults take 5 or more medications. A higher medication burden is often accompanied with a higher risk of adverse effects and drug interactions and potentially a problematic prescribing cascade
Fewer efficacy and safety data: Because older adults are often underrepresented in clinical trials, there are fewer safety data and treatment guidelines available
Notable beers updates in 2019
While it is worthwhile for those treating geriatric patients to review the complete Beers Criteria, these updates stood out as notable changes that might impact prescribers’ and pharmacists’ routine decision making at the point of care.
Dementia and H2 blockers
In 2015, proton-pump inhibitors were added to the Beers Criteria PIM list to generally avoid for long-term use in older adults (unless a patient is high-risk). Because H2-receptor antagonists were also on the PIM list to avoid in patients with dementia or cognitive impairment due to potential adverse cognitive effects, some prescribers felt they had to choose between the lesser of two evils when treating patients with gastroesophageal reflux, or choose a less effective treatment option. Due to weak evidence, the H2-receptor antagonists were removed from the PIM list to avoid in patients with dementia or cognitive impairment, but they are still PIMs to avoid in patients with or at high-risk of delirium.
Drug-drug interactions
Notable new guidelines on drug-drug interactions include:
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole should be used with caution when combined with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers in patients with decreased creatinine clearance due to an increased risk of hyperkalemia
Avoid prescribing warfarin with antibiotics ciprofloxacin, macrolides (except azithromycin) or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole whenever possible due to an increased bleeding risk. International normalized ratio (INR) should be monitored closely if warfarin is used concurrently with any of these antibiotics
Two clinically important opioid interactions were added to the criteria, which are particularly relevant as opioid-related deaths in older adults have increased over the years:
The combination of opioids and benzodiazepines should generally be avoided due to an increased risk of overdose. The recommendation is very clinically relevant, as a 2015 study found that benzodiazepine use in the United States tends to increase with age, particularly in women
The combination of opioids and gabapentinoids (e.g., gabapentin and pregabalin) should generally be avoided due to an increased risk of sedation, respiratory depression, and potentially death. This recommendation excludes when switching from an opioid to a gabapentinoid
Direct oral anticoagulants
Rivaroxaban joined dabigatran as a direct oral anticoagulant that should be used with caution for atrial fibrillation or venous thromboembolism treatment in adults 75 years and older. This recommendation is due to an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding compared with warfarin and other direct oral anticoagulants.
Fall and fracture avoidance
Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) were added as PIMs to avoid in older adults with a history of falls or fractures, unless alternatives are unavailable. This recommendation is due to an increased risk of unsteadiness, syncope, and additional falls, and it also applies to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and tricyclic antidepressants. This recommendation helps emphasize the importance of using a “start low and go slow” approach, particularly if one of these antidepressants is indicated in older adults with a history of falls.
Monitoring for SIADH
Tramadol was added to the list of PIMs to use with caution in older adults due to an increased risk of hyponatremia or syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). Sodium levels should be monitored with medication initiation and adjustments, especially if combined with other medications with the same risk, including diuretics, SNRIs, and SSRIs.
Aspirin for primary prevention
The criteria previously recommended exercising caution when using aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people 80 years or older. The cautionary age now includes people 70 years or older after a 2016 systematic review showed an increased risk of bleeding in this age group, with a potentially higher risk with older age and in men. Recent studies also showed no significant difference in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease or in disability-free survival, but an increased risk of bleeding in older adults when compared with placebo.
You might notice…
In an effort to tailor the Beers Criteria specifically for older adults, some universal medication recommendations were removed from this latest edition. One example is removal of PIMs to avoid in older adults with chronic seizures. Although these PIMs are still relevant, the recommendations are not unique to older adults.
One of many tools
The AGS notes that the Beers Criteria should be thought of as a “warning light” to help identify potentially inappropriate medications, and medication decisions should be individualized and based on shared decision making between the healthcare team, patients, and caregivers.
In this world of polypharmacy, the Beers Criteria are one of the essential tools that can be used to help guide safer medication use in older adults. Other helpful tools include the STOPP-START criteria, deprescribing guidelines and algorithms, and AGS action steps to help guide patient-centered care for older adults with multimorbidity.
Christine Holman, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS, is a clinical pharmacy specialist in geriatrics with a decade of experience providing specialized care to veterans in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System. She received her PharmD from the University of Utah College of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at the VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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