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Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on January 21, 2021
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on January 21.
In light of measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and WHO recommendations on holding public events via teleconferencing, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
Accreditation is open until 3 pm on January 20.
Questions on accreditation procedure please address to the press centre (tel.: +7 (499) 244-20-87, email: pc.mid@yandex.ru).
Please send questions for the briefing no later than 9 am on January 20.
Coordinator: Smurova Maria (tel.: +7 (499) 244-16-17, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
The Foreign Ministry will broadcast the briefing online in the Video section of its website (http://media.mid.ru/video/video_list.html) and on the MFA’s social media accounts: Periscope (https://www.periscope.tv/MID_RF), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia) and VKontakte (https://vk.com/mid).
Distribution: Ruptly video news agency. Contact: Indira Zharova (mob.: +7 (916) 669-07-71; email: izharova@ruptly.tv).
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold an online news conference on the 2020 results of Russian diplomacy on January 18.
Representatives of Russian and foreign media are invited.
The news conference will begin at 11 am (Moscow time).
The Foreign Ministry will broadcast the briefing online in the Video section of its website (https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video) and on the MFA’s social media accounts: Periscope (https://www.periscope.tv/MID_RF), Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/MID_RF), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia) and VKontakte (https://vk.com/mid).
For inquiries please call: +7 (499) 244-20-87 or +7 (499) 244-41-60 (Russian Foreign Ministry’s press centre).
E-mail: pc.mid@yandex.ru
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 10 am MSK (approximately) on January 15.
Please send questions for the briefing no later than 6 pm on January 13.
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on December 24, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on December 24.
Accreditation is open until 3 pm on December 23.
Please send questions for the briefing no later than 3 pm on December 23.
Please send questions for the briefing no later than 12 am on December 14.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 2:30 pm MSK (approximately) on December 10.
Accreditation is open until 3 pm on December 9.
Please send questions for the briefing no later than 6 pm on December 8.
Coordinator: Darya Smirnova (tel.: +7 (499) 244-16-17, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on December 3, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on December 3.
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on November 27, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 11 am MSK (approximately) on November 27.
Accreditation is open until 3 pm on November 26.
Please send questions for the briefing no later than 6 pm on November 25.
Coordinator: Sofya Shaposhnikova (tel.: +7 (499) 244-16-17, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
Coordinator: Sergey Kinshak (tel.: +7 (499) 244-49-32, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
Coordinator: Maria Smurova (tel.: +7 (499) 244-16-17, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Russian and foreign media
At 12:30 pm on November 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will answer questions about current issues on the international agenda from a group of Russian and foreign media.
The Foreign Ministry will broadcast the interview online starting at 12:30 pm in the Video section of its website (http://media.mid.ru/video/video_list.html) and on the MFA’s social media accounts: Periscope (https://www.periscope.tv/MID_RF), Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/MID_RF), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia) and VKontakte (https://vk.com/mid).
No accreditation is required.
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on November 5, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on November 5.
Accreditation is open until 3 pm on November 3.
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on October 29, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on October 29.
Accreditation is open until 4 pm on October 28.
Coordinator: Sofya Shaposhnikova (tel.: +7 (499) 244-16-17, +7 (926) 871-81-91, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
Coordinator: Iosif Kokoev (tel.: +7 (499) 244-16-17, +7 (926) 871-81-91, email: midbriefing@yandex.ru).
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on October 8, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on October 8.
Accreditation is open until 4 pm on October 7.
Accreditation is open until 4 pm on September 30.
Press release on a briefing by the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on September 23, 2020
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on September 23.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 10 am MSK (approximately) on September 11.
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Former Monsanto Chairman Will Testify in Upcoming Roundup Cancer Trial
The State of Missouri will host the trial, the same state as the chairman's residence
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - The fourth and most recent case against Monsanto claiming that Roundup Herbicide caused the plaintiff's cancer is scheduled to begin in early January 2020, and the former chairman of Monsanto is being required to testify. EcoWatch has reported that "Former Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant will have to testify in person at a St. Louis-area trial set for January." Plaintiff Charlean Gordon suffers from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare and often fatal cancer of the lymph nodes that she claims was caused by using Roundup weedkiller for 25 years on her garden, lawn, and around her home in South Pekin, Illinois. Three other trials have all been decided against Monsanto and jury awards have been in the billions of dollars, however, the awards were significantly reduced on appeal. There are currently close to 45,000 cases pending against German Life Sciences conglomerate Bayer Inc. that acquired Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion. The company has been reported to be actively seeking a settlement which legal and financial experts believe could approach $50 billion. In addition to the losses from a drop in Bayer's stock price and legal costs, the company fears that adverse scientific publicity is causing countries around the world to ban glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weed killer, a move which could devastate Monsanto's bread and butter seed business and render the company virtually worthless. Bayer chairman Werner Baumann has told the news that the company has committed another $5 billion for research and development into non-glyphosate based weed control alternatives. Monsanto crops are genetically modified to be resistant to Roundup Herbicide which kills every plant except the genetically modified ones. Without Roundup there is no need for the Monsanto seeds.
Former Monsanto chairman Grant is compelled to testify because Monsanto was domiciled in the same state, Missouri, as the trial and that Grant is a resident of. The other three cases were brought in California. While the defense rightfully has objected to the subpoena forcing the chairman to appear in court because he is not a scientific expert, the judge disagreed and agreed with plaintiff attorneys that point out that Grant has actively defended Roundup and its active ingredient glyphosate in the media as being "as safe as table salt." According to EcoWatch, "Mr. Grant appeared for interviews on public radio representing that Roundup is not a carcinogen; in earnings calls for investors Mr. Grant personally responded that the classification of glyphosate as a probable carcinogen was 'junk science;' in 2016 Mr. Grant personally lobbied the EPA Administrator and the Agricultural Committee Chair of the topic of glyphosate," the special master's order states." Defense attorneys also argued that Grant would be unable to testify as he was scheduled to be out of the country in January 2020 but the judge confirmed his original decision for Grant to be present.
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Plaintiffs Claim Glyphosate Destroyed Their Beneficial Gut Bacteria
Monsanto's faulty logic that glyphosate affects only plant life is being challenged in court
Monday, February 18, 2019 - Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is being attacked in court from a new angle. Previous lawsuits alleged that glyphosate was carcinogenic and responsible for contributing to the plaintiffs' Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a rare and deadly form of cancer. Others including DeWayne Johnson, a California state school maintenance worker, was awarded an adjusted $78 million for his NHL caused by coming into direct contact with Roundup on his skin. Johnson used the product to control weeds around school properties and playgrounds for several years on a regular basis and from time to time would come home "covered in the stuff" as per his court testimony. Monsanto Roundup herbicide attorneys can help families and people affected by roundup herbicide and provide a free no obligation consultation.
Monsanto is now being sued by non-agricultural users of Roundup claiming that glyphosate has a detrimental effect on their gut bacteria. Specifically, the suit focuses on Monsanto's allegedly false claim that the weedkiller, "assured consumers that they target an enzyme not found "in people or pets," according to Bloomberg. The three plaintiffs suing Monsanto are being represented by attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and if successful could open a new line of litigation from those suffering from diseases such as Alzheimer's, autism, and obesity.
Glyphosate's effect on human gut bacteria comes as no surprise to Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a Ph.D. research scientist at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) who studies glyphosate's adverse effects on human gut bacteria. Dr. Seneff has drawn a parallel between the geometric increases in cases on autism and obesity in recent years and the geometric growth of the use of Monsanto's herbicides on global food production. Dr. Senett has warned the public that by 2015, half of the children in the world will have autism. Dr. Seneff argues the case of glyphosate's toxicity to human gut bacteria by outlining that Monsanto claims that glyphosate is harmless because humans do not have the "Shikimate Pathway" that glyphosate blocks in plants, however, "human gut bacteria do have this pathway." Seneff notes that our bodies depend on this chain of amino acids and that glyphosate "allows pathogens to flourish by killing the beneficial gut bacteria, interferes with the function of the cytochrome P450 enzymes, chelates important minerals such as iron, cobalt, and magnesium," and contributes to many other adverse consequences related to how humans metabolize what they eat. It should be noted that experts in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) think that "full formula (Roundup) herbicide may be up to 1,000 times more toxic than glyphosate alone."
In addition to Seneff's research it should be noted that Monsanto applied for, and was granted a patent for glyphosate as an antibiotic. "In 2003, Monsanto filed for a third patent on glyphosate as a parasitic control type antimicrobial, or antibiotic (United States Patent 7,771,736). This patent was granted in 2010. It is proposed that glyphosate be used as a treatment for microbial infections and parasitic control of various diseases such as malaria. The microbiota of humans and animals, however, plays an important role in their immune systems (Purchiaroni 2013). Glyphosate-based herbicides may act as an antibiotic, harming beneficial animal gut bacteria (Ackermann 2014, Shehata 2013, Schrodl 2014)," according to GMO-Free.
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615 Music goes 5.1 as it continues to evolve
By NewscastStudio
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615 Music continues to lead the way in news music production, unveiling many new packages and sounds over the past year.
As 615 Music moves into its third decade in business, its roots and history come in focus. In 23 short years, 615 Music has composed many of today’s most popular news music packages, including the first ever in 5.1 surround sound.
“We hope that what we’re doing in the news music area is continuing to be interesting to TV stations around the world,” said Randy Wachtler, 615 Music president. “I believe our quality is unsurpassed in the industry.”
Over the past 20 years, 615 Music has evolved from packages such as Decade 90, with rocking synthesized tunes, all the way to the newly updated orchestral Newsforce package. This evolution has brought about many news music hits, including the popular Impact and Tower series.
The Impact series started off with a simple sound and quickly evolved into a full orchestral masterpiece. Since its inception in 1996, Impact has been played on over 100 stations nationwide. The Impact series also features a wide variety of signatures, including FOX, NBC and ABC. All of these elements combine to make Impact one of 615’s best selling packages.
The latest Impact installment has a since of urgency and helps setup the days events, but it still contains the signature orchestral cues. Impact v5 also includes new modern elements to help fit a younger audience.
In-Sink has also reached more than 50 stations across America since debuting in 1995. In-Sink, and its latest installment In-Sink v4, includes a modern take on a news theme, featuring high-energy orchestration and rhythms.
615 Music’s latest package has broken new ground, ushering in an era of 5.1 surround sound to match new HD TV’s. Always Worth Your Time, 615’s updated Battery package, features over 20 themes and is now in 5.1 surround sound. AWYT is the first package to be produced in 5.1, adding more to the news music experience than ever before.
While staying committed to the past and old favorites, 615 Music also likes to try new themes. When approaching a new package, 615 Music likes to have a listen. “We try to listen to different music styles and songs daily. There’s a lot of new music out there, much of it good and it helps get our creative juices flowing!”
That listening has paid off for 615 Music, as over the past year they have launched Chicago’s Very Own for WGN in Chicago, Propulsion for the BELO Group, and many new updates to various packages.
When creating these new packages, a true orchestra sound was a must. “We’ve written and produced large live orchestras for movie trailers and news packages. If given the budget I would always choose a live orchestra.”
On the custom front, 615 Music has continued to create new original songs for The Today Show, NBC News, and other various clients. “Our original music is helping to make it the number one morning show.”
The past 23 years have allowed 615 Music to express their creative instinct to stations around the world. Watch as 615 Music continues to develop new ideas and themes over the next year, and watch soon for a new package debuting on WFOR-TV in Miami.
For demos to all their packages, visit: 615 Music.
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Home Latest News Kushner Suggests Palestinians Not Ready to Govern Themselves
Kushner Suggests Palestinians Not Ready to Govern Themselves
Nicholas Kamm—AFP
U.S. president’s son-in-law says he hopes Palestinians can, over time, become capable of governance without Israeli interference
U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has suggested in an interview that the Palestinians are not ready to govern themselves ahead of the expected release of his peace plan.
Speaking to U.S. news site Axios, Kushner also said he was not concerned over whether the Palestinians do not trust him since they will base their decisions on whether the plan will improve their lives. “The hope is, is that over time, they can become capable of governing,” Kushner said when asked if he believes the Palestinians can govern themselves without Israeli interference.
According to excerpts from the interview published late Sunday on the Axios website, Kushner said the Palestinians “need to have a fair judicial system… freedom of press, freedom of expression, tolerance for all religions” before the Palestinian territories can become “investable.”
Kushner told Axios that the Palestinians “should have self-determination,” without saying whether that would mean an independent state or some lesser form of autonomy. He has previously hinted that the plan will not endorse creating a Palestinian state.
In the Axios interview, Kushner said “I think that it’s a high bar” when asked if the Palestinians could expect freedom from any Israeli governmental or military interference. “If you don’t have a proper government structure and proper security when people are living in fear of terror, that hurts Palestinians,” he said.
The Palestinian leadership has already dismissed the upcoming peace plan, saying Trump’s actions so far have shown him to be blatantly biased in favor of Israel.
Those actions include declaring the disputed city of Jerusalem Israel’s capital, cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in Palestinian aid and closing the Palestinians’ de facto embassy in Washington. “I’m not here to be trusted,” Kushner told Axios, adding he differentiates between the Palestinians and their leaders. He said he believes the Palestinian people will look at “the facts and then make a determination: Do they think this will allow them to have a pathway to a better life or not?”
The interview was recorded before Kushner’s visit to Jerusalem last week, a trip that also included stops in Morocco and Jordan.
The peace plan was previously delayed over Israel’s April 9 general elections and could now face further postponements related to Israeli politics. Israel will go to the polls again on Sept. 17 after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition, and such a plan is considered too sensitive by many analysts to introduce during an electoral campaign.
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Home Culture Mercy Killing
Mercy Killing
by AFP January 24, 2017
Bangladeshi father’s plea for sons, grandson sparks debate on euthanasia.
Desperate to end their suffering, an impoverished Bangladeshi father has begged permission to kill three terminally ill members of his family, sparking a rare debate about euthanasia in a deeply conservative society.
“I have taken care of them for years. I took them to hospitals in Bangladesh and India, I sold my shop to pay for their treatment but now I’m broke,” said Tofazzal Hossain as he describes his years-long struggle to cope with the costs of looking after his two sons and grandson. “The government should decide what it wants to do with them. They are suffering and have no hope of recovery. I can’t bear it any longer.”
Hossain, a fruit vendor from the rural west of the country, wrote to his local district administration pleading for them to either help care for his loved ones—who suffer from an incurable form of muscular dystrophy—or “allow them to be put to death with medicine,” he told AFP.
One of Asia’s poorest countries, Bangladesh lacks any kind of free health care and medical treatment is often beyond the reach of the tens of millions of inhabitants who live below the poverty line. An estimated 600,000 Bangladeshis suffer from incurable diseases, yet the country has just one palliative care center and no hospice services.
This leaves few treatment options for Hossain’s sons, aged 24 and 13, and eight-year-old grandson, who are afflicted with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This rare genetic disorder is characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and patients rarely live beyond 30 years of age.
Hossain said his sons were aware of their condition but could do little for themselves, unable to move and confined to their beds. The grandson can still go to the washroom, but his condition is worsening. “I told them about the letter. I told them [about seeking permission for their deaths]. They did not take it seriously. Perhaps they did not understand the severity of the situation,” he said.
His eldest son, 24-year-old Mohammad Abdus Sabur, said he spent his days watching television and talking with their father. “I tell father not to worry too much,” he told AFP.
An AFP correspondent’s attempt to ask the son about his father’s desperate appeal was met with stern rebuke from Hossain, who said it would hurt them.
Mahbubul Alam, a doctor who has treated the Hossain family, said there was no cure for their condition and they lived in extreme pain. “It’s a humanitarian case. Everyone should come forward [and help].”
A government official who visited the family after Hossain’s appeal grabbed national headlines said the request was “the plea of a helpless father.”
“He asked for their medical assistance, or permission to kill them. But who will give the permission to kill?” he told AFP.
Authorities were trying to find ways to help Hossain bear the cost of their care, the official added. Their plight has sparked a rarely seen debate about euthanasia in Bangladesh, where even attempted suicide can land one in prison.
So-called “mercy killing” is forbidden both under the secular law of the land, and by religious code adhered to by the Muslim-majority population. “Euthanasia is completely illegal in Islam. It is the government’s duty to take responsibility for every citizen,” top Islamic cleric and scholar Fariduddin Masoud told AFP.
The overwhelming majority of Bangladeshis not only disapprove of mercy killings but would oppose the mere discussion of it, said Nur Khan Liton, head of local rights group Ain O Salish Kendra. “They consider it an act of murder. It’s the duty of the government and society to look after these victims,” he told AFP.
But sympathy for Hossain’s family has run deep on social media, where many have offered thoughts and prayers amid calls for the government to improve its paltry health services.
Nezamuddin Ahmed, the head of Bangladesh’s sole palliative care center in the capital Dhaka, said it was time for an “honest discussion” about the issue and improving care for those suffering from incurable diseases. “I think this will lead to healthy debate about assisted death,” he said. “But before launching into this, the government should strengthen palliative care services here. There has to be something we can all do to ease the suffering of these helpless people.”
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Birthright Citizenship As Law and As Policy
By Jeremy L. Neufeld, Ricky Schneider
Read our new brief on birthright citizenship here.
When Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate, law professor John Eastman, writing for Newsweek, claimed that Harris was ineligible, not only for the vice presidency, but also for her senate seat as well. She was not a citizen at all, he argued, despite being born in the United States.
The claim that birthright citizenship is not a constitutional guarantee is not new. Trump administration officials and congressional allies have claimed that the practice can be ended without amending the constitution, by a simple act of congress or even an executive order. As we explain in our latest policy essay, this argument contradicts the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, long-standing precedent, and the vast consensus among legal scholars, including originalists.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution established birthright citizenship in the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. The amendment’s Citizenship Clause states that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” And the clause finds its statutory expression in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which echoes the amendment, providing that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” shall be a national and citizen of the United States at birth.
Opponents of birthright citizenship claim that children born in the United States are not necessarily “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” if their parents are not citizens. Hence, the Citizenship Clause does not entail birthright citizenship.
The plain reading of “subject to the jurisdiction” would include such children, since nearly anybody present in the United States is subject to U.S. law (exceptions are limited to diplomats with diplomatic immunity, members of sovereign Indian nations, and occupying enemy armies).
But, birthright citizenship skeptics would have the phrase refer narrowly to political jurisdiction. However, the phrase was never understood to refer only to political jurisdiction. When the Citizenship Clause was added to the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, opponents dissented because it would confer birthright citizenship, while proponents explained that birthright citizenship was desirable. Nobody disputed the fact that the proposed language would, in fact, grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants.
When, in 1898, the Supreme Court took up the case of Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants and excluded from reentering the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act, it ruled decidedly in favor of Wong Kim Ark’s rights as a citizen and firmly establishing that the Citizenship Clause applies to children born in the United States to aliens. “Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here,” the opinion reads, “is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.”
Birthright citizenship skeptics think that Wong Kim Ark was wrongly decided and should be overturned. Instead, they point to purported precedents in the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) and Elk. v. Wilkins (1884). But neither goes to the heart of the Citizenship Clause. In Slaughterhouse, skeptics point to one ambiguous sentence in dicta—an incidental opinion not essential to the decision—and is therefore not binding as precedent. Further, the reference contradicts another sentence in the same opinion, which states that “it is only necessary that [a person] should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.”
In any case, in Wong Kim Ark, the opinion by the Supreme Court dismissed the reference. It noted that the imprecise language of the sentence at issue detracted from any weight that should be placed on it and added that “it was unsupported by any argument, or by any reference to authorities.”
Skeptics also point to Elk as demonstrative of the Supreme Court denying citizenship to John Elk, even though he was born in the United States. But Elk was born on an Indian reservation, and not subject to U.S. jurisdiction, but rather to that of the tribal government. Of course, tribal jurisdiction has nothing to do with the status of the children of immigrants.
Birthright citizenship has been the law of the land since at least 1868. Any attempt to end it would require a constitutional amendment, but substantive policy reasons should halt any discussion of doing so. Birthright citizenship generates economic benefits for the children of immigrants born in the U.S., as well as those born to natives, while also encouraging assimilation by integrating new populations into the social and political life of the country. And claims that the practice attracts “birth tourism” are unfounded, as the latest data show that the scale of birth tourism is statistically indistinguishable from zero.
Birthright citizenship has come under threat by legal challenges, proposed legislation, and proposed executive orders to define birthright citizenship out of the Citizenship Clause. These efforts will almost certainly fail on legal grounds. But widespread perceived illegitimacy of birthright citizenship is a threat of its own, which can be averted only by understanding its history and its benefits.
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US Navy’s CVW-1 conducts flight tests with French Naval Aviation
4 July 2018 (Last Updated July 4th, 2018 11:28)
Aircraft from the US Navy's Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1) have begun carrying out integrated flight operations with French Naval Aviation aircraft.
Aircraft from the US Navy’s Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1) have begun carrying out integrated flight operations with French Naval Aviation aircraft.
The exercise is being conducted to improve the navies’ readiness and demonstrate their ability to operate collaboratively by practising air warfare and strike techniques, including air combat training activities.
CVW-1 assets involved in the exercise include the F/A-18 Hornet multirole combat jets and E-2D Hawkeye carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning aircraft.
The participating aircraft have embarked on-board the US Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75).
"The opportunity to integrate with French Naval Aviation helps us enhance our interoperability as we work to achieve common objectives."
The US jets are slated to work together with France’s Dassault Rafale M fighter aircraft during the flight operations.
Carrier Strike Group 8 commander rear admiral Gene Black said: “France is our oldest Ally and a vital partner in ensuring security and stability in the region, and across the globe.
“The opportunity to integrate with French Naval Aviation helps us enhance our interoperability as we work to achieve common objectives.”
The integrated flight operations are slated to be carried out over France, as well as French territorial and international waters in the Bay of Biscay.
Black added: “When we operate together we’re stronger than just the sum of our parts, and this training continues our investment in that cooperation.”
USS Harry S Truman offers a wide range of flexible mission capabilities, including maritime security, expeditionary power projection, forward naval presence, crisis response, sea control, deterrence and counter-terrorism.
It is also able to provide assistance during information operations and security cooperation activities.
The aircraft carrier is currently deployed in the US 6th Fleet area of operations, where it is supporting maritime security operations to promote the US’s national security interests.
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Jennifer Aniston Feels 'Incredible' At 50, But There's One Part Of Aging She's Not Down For
Jennifer Aniston is getting real about life at 50. Nearly seven months into her milestone year, "The Morning Show" actress is feeling and looking better than ever – but she's noticed a difference in the way people talk about her appearance. "I feel physically incredible. So it's weird that it's all of a sudden getting telegraphed in a way that's like, 'You look amazing for your age,'" she told InStyle. Jennifer also opened up about the one aspect of aging that she'll never embrace: gray hair.
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Call for Applications: NCFR Research and Policy Brief Editor
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Guest Blog by Neil Crowther, independent consultant
We are pleased to introduce a guest blog by Neil Crowther who is an independent consultant focusing on the implementation of equality and human rights in the UK and internationally, with a particular interest in the rights of disabled people.
We will only close institutions by opening up the world
‘We demand voice, choice and FREEDOM!!’ roared over a hundred people with learning disabilities who gathered from all corners of the UK to call for an end to institutionalisation at an event organised by CHANGE and Lumos in June.
As story after story has revealed, institutions are not places of safety but of extreme vulnerability. Even in the absence of violence and abuse, institutions rob people of their dignity, their identity, their autonomy, confidence and self-esteem. They damage physical and mental health. And when their power combines with their neglect they sometimes allow people – young people like 18 year old Connor Sparrowhawk – to die. It is without doubt that such institutions present a profound risk to human rights, utterly at odds with the UK’s commitment to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
It’s deeply depressing that, fifteen years into the 21st Century, the demand for the closure of institutions in the UK should still be necessary at all. That it should be prompted by the abject failure of the government to deliver on its post-Winterbourne promise to have affected a ‘dramatic reduction in hospital placements for this group of people and the closure of large hospitals’ by June 2014 makes it evenmore so. The fact that the numbers in ‘hospital-style institutions’ has actually risen above 2011 figures in recent months should be a national scandal.
So why does this systematic abuse of human rights largely go unchallenged? Sadly it is I believe a consequence of deep-rooted prejudices regarding the value andcapabilities of disabled people – and people with a learning disability in particular – that prevail in our society. As the academic Luke Clements has argued, disabled people are still often not considered ‘ripe for freedom’ in the same way that women, serfs and southern blacks once weren’t.
Complacency is also born of (mis)conceptions of what an institution is (or is not).To this end we should thank Baroness Hale for her insight when handing down judgement in the Cheshire West case that ‘a gilded cage is still a cage.’ Roses around the front door – or even residents expressing a sense of security or happiness – should not blind us to restrictive and coercive regimes of ‘care’ incongregate living arrangements.There are at least 35,000 adults with learning disabilities in various forms of local authority funded residential care, at a cost of over £3 billion per year.
But those of us who do seek an end to this situation also stand accused of complacency if we fail to recognise that the hallmarks of institutionalisation are frequently to be found outside the gates of institutions. Isolation, segregation and lack of control blight the lives of many people with a learning disability, who continue to be overwhelmingly absent from our workplaces, classrooms or neighbourhoods, depriving both them and the wider community of interaction. Such unfamiliarity breeds contempt. Hostility is a common experience. Discrimination is rife. Many rely entirely on immediate family for support (including a growing number of parents in old age) rather than the wider community. Where people receive statutory support a custodian model of care continues to prevail over a facilitative model of independent living. These are the conditions in which the case for plenary guardianship and institutionalisation – such as that made by the Daily Mail journalist Rosa Monckton (whose adult daughter Dominica has Down’s Syndrome) - thrives.
This is why I believe we must recognise and frame the challenge in front of us not simply one of closing down institutions. It is critically about taking steps to open up the world (what Steve Eidelman has called ‘second order de-institutionalisation).
So how can we meet this challenge? Here are 5 steps I believe could make a difference:
Stop spending money now on expensive institutional provision. Chris Hatton set out an excellent plan in his blog post ‘the Winterbourne of our discontent’: close such services to new admissions, cease to register them and take money away from those commissioners that persist in funding people to be in such places.
To help make this happen and to plan alternatives, people with a learning disability that use services and support should be centrally involved in commissioning, employed as staff within local authorities and the NHS. The co-worker model employed by the human rights organisation CHANGE provides a model of how this can be done.
Money saved by closing down these astronomically expensive institutions should be invested in developing the supports people require to assume control over their own lives such as assisted decision making, peer support, advocacy and brokerage. A national network of local access to living centres, led by and involving people requiring support could perform these roles.
In addition to supporting individuals, a key function of access to living centres should be to help build social connectedness, to marshal informal supports and to promote the receptiveness of the wider community – including employers – to the inclusion of people with a learning disability. We should draw on thinking from other fields such as the work of Miles Hewstone regarding ‘social contact’ as the means to overcome prejudice and to build acceptance.
Finally, we must ask whether this ‘redistribution’ of resources from institutions to community supports is sufficient to secure deep and lasting change. Michael Bach, Chief Executive of the Canadian Association for Community Living, has argued that ‘the institutionalized patterns of social and legal misrecognition of people with intellectual disabilities run so deep that we need some ways of restructuring widespread perception in the face of such historic and systemic abuse of power’. Bach has suggested that a ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission would allow Canada to move forward. I think this is an idea that merits active consideration here in the UK.
A tall order maybe, but as the world’s most famous freedom fighter Nelson Mandela once said ‘it always seems impossible until it’s done’.
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Six PMs To Attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit: Centre
HomeAll IndiaSix PMs To Attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit: Centre
India is hosting the summit for the first time after it gained full membership of the influential grouping in 2017. The summit will take place in the virtual format.
All IndiaPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: November 28, 2020 11:13 pm IST
The MEA said Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will chair the 19th meeting of the SCO Council (File)
The prime ministers of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will attend the summit of the heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Monday while Pakistan will be represented by its parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said.
The MEA said Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will chair the 19th meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government which is held annually with a focus on trade and economic agenda of the organisation.
"The prime ministers from the SCO member states of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will attend the SCO meeting on November 30. Pakistan will be represented by the parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs," the MEA said in a statement.
Apart from the SCO member states, the four observer states of the SCO -- Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia -- will also participate in the summit.
The MEA said the president of Afghanistan, the first vice president of Iran, the prime minister of Belarus and the deputy prime minister of Mongolia will represent their countries.
Turkmenistan has been invited as a special guest of the host and will be represented by its deputy chairman of the cabinet of ministers.
The SCO secretary general and the executive director of the SCO Regional Anti Terrorist Structure (RATS) are also scheduled to participate in the virtual summit.
India assumed the chair of the SCO Council of Heads of Government on November 2 last year as per rotation from the previous chair - Uzbekistan - and will complete its year-long tenure on November 30 by hosting the summit.
"It will be the first time that a summit-level meeting will be held under India''s chairmanship, since it gained full membership of the organisation in 2017," the MEA said.
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Napa Valley Burger Company
Brings a Taste of the Napa Valley to Sausalito
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From the wine country decor and red brick walls to the gourmet burgers and fine wines, the Napa Valley Burger Company® experience is both appetizing and inviting. Bring your family and friends – there is something for everyone!
Sit back and take in the scenery, as the Napa Valley Burger Company® is in the oldest brick building in Sausalito! Built in 1885 by Fred Fiedler it was known as “Fiedlers General Store.” During the 1940’s it became the “Glen Five and Ten.” In 1981 it opened as “Winships Restaurant” as a soda fountain and sweet shop, which later changed into a breakfast, lunch, and dinner house with a nautical theme. A larger kitchen was built in the back of the original single floor brick building along with a second floor clapboard addition. Thirty years later, in 2012 it was transformed into the “Napa Valley Burger Company®”.
Located in the heart of downtown, the Napa Valley Burger Company® brings a taste of the Napa Valley to historic Sausalito by the Bay. Come in, relax and enjoy our fine wines and gourmet burgers while reliving a part of history. We pledge to carry on the legacy of our past with a focus on good food and friendly service.
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The Battle of Imjin River began on 22 April 1951. The first contact between British and Chinese forces was made at 09:45 and, throughout the day, small parties of Chinese advanced to the UN and ROK front line. By late evening, battle had been fully joined. British forces managed to fend off early attempts to cross the Imjin. By 23:30, however - and despite heavy fire from the Glosters' "A" Company whose Vickers guns grew so hot with firing belt after belt of ammunition that they started to seize up - Chinese forces were moving across the river en masse.
By 03:00 on 23 April, it was plain that the Chinese forces had successfully penetrated UN and ROK lines. The situation had calmed slightly by that afternoon, however, and it seemed that the first wave of attacks had been completed. Then, at 17:00, the Glosters were once again attacked. At around the same time, the Belgian Volunteer Battalion managed to fight its way out eastwards across the Imjin River and was withdrawn through the American 3rd Infantry Division.
Account of the Battle of Imjin River - with transcript
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Gloster Hill
After a lull in the fighting, during which the Chinese 187th Division reorganised, the action against the Glosters in particular became more concentrated. In the early hours of 24 April, in the face of heavy fire, the Glosters and C Troop, 170th Independent Mortar Battery had to withdraw from their position and re-form on Hill 235 (which became known as Gloster Hill) above the hamlet of Solma-ri.
The Glosters were now completely surrounded and low on water, ammunition and battery power. An attempt to break through to them failed. The Glosters managed to fight off Chinese forces for over 24 hours. By early morning on 25 April, however, it was thought that Chinese movement southward threatened to cut off the whole of the 29th Independent Brigade and the Brigade was ordered to withdraw. At 10:30, the Glosters attempted to break out of their besieged position and reach UN and ROK lines. Only 39 succeeded and many were taken prisoner. The battle had been lost, but the Glosters' holding action had enabled the left flank of 1st Corps to withdraw safely.
For more on the Battle of Imjin River from the Glosters' point of view, link to the Military History Webring .
About 25% of the 29th Independent Brigade as a whole had been killed over three days of fighting; the Chinese 63rd Army had lost about 40% of its men.
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Convair F-102A Delta Dagger
DAYTON, Ohio -- Convair F-102A Delta Dagger at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)
DAYTON, Ohio (05/11/2020) -- Museum restoration crews move the Convair F-102A Delta Dagger on display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)
DAYTON, Ohio (05/11/2020) -- Museum restoration crews move the Convair F-102A Delta Dagger on display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)
Convair F-102A Delta Dagger in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (U.S. Air Force photo)
DAYTON, Ohio -- Convair F-102A Delta Dagger in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (U.S. Air Force photo by Ben Strasser)
DAYTON, Ohio -- Convair F-102A Delta Dagger in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (U.S. Air Force photo)
DAYTON, Ohio -- Convair F-102A cockpit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (Photo courtesy of John Rossino, Lockheed Martin Code One)
DAYTON, Ohio -- Convair F-102A Delta Dagger in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)
The primary mission of the F-102 was to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft. It was the world's first supersonic all-weather jet interceptor and the USAF's first operational delta-wing aircraft. The F-102 made its initial flight on Oct. 24, 1953, and became operational with the Air Defense Command in 1956. At the peak of deployment in the late 1950s, F-102s equipped more than 25 ADC squadrons. Convair built 1,000 F-102s, 889 of which were F-102As. The USAF also bought 111 TF-102As as combat trainers with side-by-side seating.
In a wartime situation, after electronic equipment on board the F-102 had located the enemy aircraft, the F-102's radar would guide it into position for attack. At the proper moment, the electronic fire control system would automatically fire the F-102's air-to-air rockets and missiles.
The F-102A on display served the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron in Iceland. On various occasions, it encountered Soviet aircraft flying reconnaissance missions over the arctic (see photo). It was flown to the museum in 1971.
Armament: 24 unguided 2.75-in. rockets and six guided missiles
Engine: One Pratt & Whitney J57 of 16,000 lbs. thrust with afterburner
Span: 38 ft. 1 in.
Length: 68 ft. 4 in. (including boom)
Weight: 31,559 lbs. maximum
Serial number: 56-1416
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Berkeley Didn’t Birth ‘Free Speech,’ but It Seems Intent to Bury It
Aftermath of protests against Milo Yiannopoulos at Berkeley in February. (Reuters photo: Stephen Lam)
Anyone not loyal to a certain ideology must be resisted, rejected, and renounced.
Demosthenes, the Athenian rhetorician and champion of liberty, pointed out around 355 B.C. that residents of Athens were free to praise Sparta’s regime, but Spartans were banned from praising Athens.
In 1689, the British passed a law guaranteeing freedom of speech in Parliament. A century later, French revolutionaries incorporated into law the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which established free speech as a universal right. Two years later, the Americans ratified the First Amendment, which guarantees that the state shall not infringe on the right to free speech. Roughly a century and half later, in 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. . . . ”
I mention all of this because every time I read or hear about the pathetic state of affairs at the University of California, Berkeley — where conservative speakers and rabble-rousers alike are banned from speaking lest they be assaulted by a mob — journalists and other commentators insist on pointing out the irony that this is all happening “where the Free Speech Movement was born.”
Yes, I know there was a thing called the Free Speech Movement. And, yes, its members and leaders talked a good deal about free speech.
But the movement for free speech is thousands of years old and runs like a deep river across the landscape of Western Civilization.
Indeed, I can’t help but get the impression that a lot of people don’t realize that the Free Speech Movement in this context is a brand name. I can tell you that the “mockumentary” band Spinal Tap was born in a 1979 TV skit for ABC. But that is not the same thing as saying the medical procedure – a.k.a. the lumbar puncture — was born in the same skit.
Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, was committed to free speech. But so was Berkeley at the time. In the years before Savio’s movement, Berkeley had hosted speeches by communists, Nazis (invited by leftists to cause a stir), and political and literary speakers of every stripe.
Whatever perfunctory regulations of free speech existed, then-Berkeley professor Nathan Glazer explained in his 1965 Commentary essay “What Happened at Berkeley,” went “back to a time when no political activity of any kind was allowed on campus.” Even presidential candidates were barred from politicking because, “as a state university it was not supposed to be involved in politics.” But by 1964, these rules had already been loosened a great deal.
The rioters and goons — along with their pusillanimous enablers in the administration — are carrying on this tradition.
As for Savio, his mission was broader than merely wanting to allow vigorous debate. He wanted students to be able to participate as much as possible with the civil-rights movement, which, obviously, was a very political movement. He was on the right side of that argument.
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But Savio was also a passionate leftist. (When he got married to his fellow FSMer Suzanne Goldberg, the Daily Worker’s Mike Gold asked him what they wanted for a wedding present. “All that we really want is for President Johnson to withdraw all our troops from Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. Very little would make us happier.”)
Savio had a romantic hatred — in the tradition of Rousseau — for liberal democratic capitalism. His most famous statement came in his speech at Sproul Hall in 1964:
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels . . . upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
Whatever legacy Savio has for the cause of free speech is dead, but this mindset lives on. The rioters and goons — along with their pusillanimous enablers in the administration — are carrying on this tradition. It is a tradition that says this is our sacred place and anyone not loyal to our faith must be resisted, rejected, and renounced. All the talk of “hate speech” is clever marketing — like the label the “Free Speech Movement” itself.
What these petty, secular theocrats despise is heresy speech. And they will throw their bodies into the gears to silence it.
— Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. You can write to him by e-mail at goldbergcolumn@gmail.com or via Twitter @JonahNRO. Copyright © 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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Makeshift memorial appears in spot where soldier's body was found in Byram
Kyle Morel
New Jersey Herald
What was the motive behind the killing of a 20-year-old Fort Drum soldier? Why was he buried 300 miles away under snow in a secluded wooded area in Sussex County? What led authorities to charge another soldier from the same New York military base with first-degree murder? Who is the 16-year-old also charged with the murder?
All these questions and more remain unanswered as the numerous agencies overseeing the case are still "piecing it together," Sussex County First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller told the New Jersey Herald.
The investigation is focusing on a motive for the Dec. 19 killing of Army Cpl. Hayden Harris as well as how the suspects and the victim ended up in Byram. Was it just a random exit off Route 80 to Route 206 and eventually to secluded Ross Road, or was there a reason the area was chosen?
Late Monday afternoon, the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office announced first-degree murder charges against Pvt. Jamaal Mellish, 23, and a 16-year-old boy, whose name has not been made public, in the killing of Harris.
In addition to murder and kidnapping charges, Mellish and the juvenile were charged with second-degree possession of a weapon without a permit and second-degree possession of weapons for unlawful purposes. Mellish was also charged with third-degree suppression of evidence.
First responders discovered Harris' body with a gunshot wound to his head at the end of Ross Road in Byram Dec. 19. The victim had been reported missing from Fort Drum the previous day.
The cul-de-sac where Harris' body was found was quiet and nondescript Thursday morning, except for a makeshift memorial to the soldier created by visitors to the site.
The memorial featured an American flag and a U.S. Army flag, flowers, wreaths and a cross. An unsigned note attached to a bunch of flowers was addressed to Harris' family and reads: "From one Army mom to another: May your son rest in peace."
Harris — known as "Opie" in his rural hometown of Guys, Tennessee, due to his red hair — had an infectious smile and one passion in life: to join the U.S. Army, said family friend Claire Hallissy. That dream came to a mysterious end earlier this month in Byram, 1,000 miles from Guys and 300 from Fort Drum, where he had been stationed since July 2019.
Byram Police found Harris' body, nearly buried under snow, approximately 200 feet into the woods off the Ross Road cul-de-sac. Firefighters called police to the scene after they found blood and several scattered items while on their annual Santa ride through the township.
According to authorities, Mellish and Harris met to exchange vehicles in Watertown, New York, about 10 miles southwest of Fort Drum, shortly before Harris was reported missing. A dispute may have been what led to Mellish abducting Harris and driving to his hometown of Brooklyn before continuing to Byram, where investigators believe Harris was killed.
Authorities have not released any more information on the teen charged, including his hometown or relationship to the soldiers.
Harris, who joined the army in March 2019, was promoted to corporal following his death.
Mellish is being held in military custody in Oneida County, New York. The 16-year-old is lodged in a juvenile detention facility, the prosecutor's office said.
The arrest of the two suspects involved a collaborative effort by the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office; the Byram Police Department; New Jersey State Police; the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate of the U.S. Army Fort Drum & 10th Mountain Division; the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command at Fort Drum; the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office; the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department; and the NYPD Department of Investigations Squad.
Previous reporting by Lori Comstock is included in this report.
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Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception (Hardcover)
By Matt Hart
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"After years of rumors and speculation, Matt Hart sets out to peel back the layers of secrecy that protected the most powerful coach in running. What he finds will leave you indignant—and wondering whether anything in the high-stakes world of Olympic sport has truly changed." —Alex Hutchinson, New York Times bestselling author of Endure
Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program—the Nike Oregon Project.
In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single file—a 4.7-megabyte PDF named “Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . .” He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year earlier by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for the Texas Medical Board, part of an investigation into legendary running coach Alberto Salazar, a Houston-based endocrinologist named Dr. Jeffrey Brown, and cheating by Nike-sponsored runners, including some of the world’s best athletes. The information Hart received was part of an unfolding story of deception which began when Steve Magness, an assistant to Salazar, broke the omertà—the Mafia-like code of silence about performance-enhancing drugs among those involved—and alerted USADA. He was soon followed by Olympians Adam and Kara Goucher who risked their careers to become whistleblowers on their former Nike running family in Beaverton, Oregon.
Combining sports drama and business exposé, Win at All Costs tells the full story of Nike’s running program, uncovering a corporate win-at-all-costs culture.
Matt Hart is a freelance journalist whose writing covers sports science, human-powered adventure and exploration, performance-enhancing drugs, nutrition, and evolution. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Men’s Journal magazine, among others. His reporting on the investigations into Salazar appeared on the front page, above the fold, of The New York Times in May 2017. In addition to his access to the Gouchers, other sources for the book include former Nike employees, athletes, and coaches; famed sports-scientist and Oregon Project whistleblower Steve Magness; and Olympic marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter, among many others.
"After years of rumors and speculation, Matt Hart sets out to peel back the layers of secrecy that protected the most powerful coach in running. What he finds will leave you indignant—and wondering whether anything in the high-stakes world of Olympic sport has truly changed."
— Alex Hutchinson, New York Times bestselling author of Endure
"Win At All Costs will make you question why on earth losing integrity is ever worth winning a race. There are important considerations here: can a cheater tell the truth, and does every athlete have his or her own line to draw when it comes to what is acceptable to boost performance? Win At All Costs will answer these questions and send you on a never-ending quest for truth and justice."
— Deena Kastor, Olympic Medalist and American Record Holder and New York Times bestselling author of Let Your Mind Run
“Matt Hart’s meticulous reporting documents the toxic culture cultivated by the running world’s most powerful coach and one of the sport’s most influential brands. Win At All Costs illuminates the devastating consequences the Nike Oregon Project’s poisonous atmosphere and illicit practices had for athletes, and the tremendous personal cost borne by whistleblowers like Kara and Adam Goucher and Steve Magness, who chose to follow their moral compass.”
— Christie Aschwanden, award-winning science journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Good to Go
"Beautifully-crafted and richly-reported, Matt Hart's Win at All Costs reads like a James Bond thriller, plumbing the sad depths of professional running's underworld. Like Lance Armstrong and the 2017 Houston Astros, it turns out that champion runner/trainer Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project were also too good to be true."
— Dan Shaughnessy, New York Times bestselling author of Francona and The Curse of the Bambino
"Matt Hart digs into the story of the Nike Oregon Project and the infrastructure that supported it with a degree of depth, insight, and accuracy you won't find anywhere else. It's as captivating as it is unsettling and, at times, almost unbelievable. I couldn't put it down."
— Mario Fraioli, writer and host of the morning shakeout newsletter and podcast
“Win At All Costs is essential reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of the systemic rot within the richest, most powerful company in running. It’s an important reminder that Alberto Salazar is not so much a rogue actor, as a cog in a much larger machine. At its heart, this book is nothing less than an indictment of American sports capitalism.”
— Martin Fritz Huber, "In Stride" columnist for Outside magazine
Publisher: Dey Street Books
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This Day in History July 4: U.S. Declares Independence
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first volleys of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would eventually encourage France's intervention on behalf of the Patriots. (1:00)
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Why Human Rights Matter
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2016 politics in one word — sad
Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the New Year’s Eve in Hong Kong, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017.
By Carl Cannon | Orange County Register
January 1, 2017 at 12:00 a.m.
In politics, this sorry year was true to itself, right up until the very end. It was a year epitomized by boasting, lies, smears, back-stabbing, insults, threats and whining — and I’m only counting America’s top politicians, and what they’ve done since Nov. 8. The phrase “political leaders”? It was an oxymoron in 2016.
Too young to sound like a curmudgeon and too old to want to hear any more of their self-serving talk, I find myself hoping we’ve seen the last of the baby boomer presidential candidates, a cohort that includes Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump at one end of the spectrum — born in the mid- and late-1940s — and Barack Obama, a child of the early ’60s, at the other.
A simple question poses itself: Can anybody in this crowd just shut up? Oh, yes, one guy, George W. Bush. He knows how to keep it classy. You don’t hear much from him, and I miss that man more each day.
Am I engaging in “false equivalency” here? That’s the favorite dodge of my disaffected liberal pals these days. To them, Trump trumps all. Trump’s tweetsüber alles, and all that. OK, I get it. Government-by-Twitter is appalling. But The Donald is new to government. Ms. Hillary has been in public life for nearly half a century, so what’s her deal? And what possible excuse do two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have for acting like seventh-graders?
Where should we begin?
Let’s start at the White House, with the current incumbent, because once again he’s given us such maddening misdirection. Remember when it became apparent that the Obama administration was going to be succeeded by the Trump administration? What a bitter pill that must have been inside the White House, especially since Trump ran against the president as much as he did against the Clintons.
Obamacare? Toast. The Iran nuclear deal? History. Don’t get me started on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Yet, there he was, this cool customer we’d admired since 2008, keeping it real, saying the right things in the aftermath of Election Day. He even reminded us — well, to be honest, he’d never really talked about it much before — how great Dubya and his peeps had been during the 2008-09 transition. The O-man had perfect pitch.
Come to think of it, Hillary Clinton’s concession speech wasn’t bad, either. It took her 12 hours to give it, but given how shocked she was by the result, that’s understandable. “Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country,” she said. “I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans.”
In those halcyon hours, Donald Trump rose to the occasion, too. He promised to be a president “for all Americans” in a victory speech that New York magazine, not exactly a pro-Trump outlet, pronounced “shockingly gracious.”
So where did things go off the rails?
It probably started when Hillary Clinton began handicapping her loss. Asked how she managed to let the likes of Donald Trump defeat her, she was only too happy to point fingers: the Russians, she said. And FBI Director James Comey. Besides, I won the popular vote — and did sobigly. This became a mantra for Clinton and her surrogates. Russian hacking, FBI incompetence, the stupid Electoral College.
This rap didn’t go down well with The Donald, who isn’t known for having a thick skin anyway. Regarding the tension between the popular vote results and the Electoral College, Trump suggested that if he’d campaigned in California and New York — two states he wrote off — he might have won the popular vote. That’s doubtful, but it’s a legitimate rejoinder to disingenuous Democrats pretending that state-by-state voting is some strange new wrinkle they only heard of on Nov. 9.
Trump didn’t leave it there, though. He also took two others tacks: First, he said he won the Electoral College in a historic “landslide.” Then he added, “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Those statements were obvious whoppers and they incensed the media. But by then the Democrats were off and running in crazy different directions of their own.
First, Team Clinton associated itself with a Green Party recount effort in some of the close swing states. Meanwhile, grassroots leftists and Hillary’s Hollywood pals began a campaign to bully, beg or beseech Electoral College voters to violate their own oaths, state party law, and the will of the people in their states — and become “faithless” electors.
Remember Las Vegas? When Trump refused in his final debate with Clinton to tell moderator Chris Wallace that he’d abide by the results of the election? “That’s horrifying,” Hillary said. Turns out, she didn’t mean that. She suddenly got very coy on this whole “faithless” electors scheme — as did President Obama.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton got in on the act, too. He repeated the mantra to reporters — Jim Comey-Russian hackers-Hillary won the popular vote — before adding that Trump “doesn’t know much.” But one thing Trump does know, Bill added, “is how to get angry white men to vote for him.”
This might have been more persuasive analysis coming from a more disinterested party, not to mention someone who didn’t sound like an angry white man himself, but whatever. By now you know, dear reader, that Trump just couldn’t let it go.
“Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election. Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations),” Trump tweeted. “He ‘doesn’t know much’ … especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states (and more). They focused on wrong states.”
Meanwhile, the only adult in the room decided the unruly kids were having more fun than the teacher. Yes, Obama started opining on the 2016 election, too, saying he was “confident” that if he’d have been allowed to run for a third term he’d have defeated Trump. This statement was a work of art, really, a nasty little bank shot that simultaneously took out Hillary, her campaign advisers (presumably including Bill), and Trump.
Trump responded, natch. “President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me,” he tweeted. “He should say that but I say NO WAY! — jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc.”
As it turns out, the president and his secretary of state were working on leaving an actual, as opposed to rhetorical, lump of coal in The Donald’s Christmas stocking. Without bothering to tell leaders of their own party, let alone the president-elect, John Kerry and Obama apparently conspired quietly with — dare I say it, Russia and other U.N. Security Council members — to condemn Israel’s settlement program on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem.
Trump tweeted about that, too, but this is a whole different deal. A lame duck president changes U.S. foreign policy in a way that hurts an ally and doesn’t reflect the views of a majority of Americans or even his own party? That’s actually worth getting angry about, and shows why Trump needs to pick his spots.
Who cares whether Obama could have beaten Trump. That’s the fantasy world. Israel’s safety is a real-world concern. Happy New Year, everyone.
Carl M. Cannon is executive editor and Washington Bureau chief of RealClearPolitics.
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Still No Uniform Oceanic Measurements for Greenhouse Gases
Little known but very important for climate change: the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and methane. For these substances, derived in large part from the ocean, there are still no uniform oceanic measurements worldwide.
To change this and to build a global network of time series measurements in the ocean, an international working group has formed around GEOMAR scientist Prof. Hermann Bange as part of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
“Ozone killer of the 21st Century”- this is how nitrous oxide, also colloquially known as “laughing gas”, was recently dubbed. This gas with the chemical formula N2O is not only of significant importance for the ozone layer, it is also one of the dangerous greenhouse gases that is emitted from the ocean to the atmosphere. Methane (CH4) also plays an increasingly important role in terms of global emissions from the ocean. The previous estimates of oceanic emissions of nitrous oxide and methane, however, have a very high degree of uncertainty. To counteract this, an international working group has formed around Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. “Working Group WG143” is funded by the international program SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research), an organization of the International Council for Science.
The goal of the group is to provide the scientific and technical framework for a global network of long-term measurements of nitrous oxide and methane in the ocean. “It also includes a series of comparative studies, involving more than ten institutions in the world,” explains Prof. Bange, a chemical oceanographer. “These studies, as well as the time series measurements themselves, are very important in order to render the results comparable worldwide,” he explains. Regular long-term observations of nitrous oxide and methane in oceanic areas, such as those carried out by GEOMAR at the time series station at Boknis Eck in Eckernförder Bay since 2005, are rather rare worldwide. In addition, these measurements have been made mostly independent of each other, some using very different scientific and technical foundations. “We want to establish uniform standards for the measurement of these gases so that we can link these time series measurements,” says Professor Bange. If possible, all relevant oceanic areas will be covered – a vital prerequisite for achieving better estimates of global emissions and for improving the prediction of the future emissions of nitrous oxide and methane in the face of global change.
Together with his colleague Dr. Sam Wilson of the University of Hawaii, the Kiel scientist has submitted a proposal for the project. “There was major competition, only two out of eleven proposals were funded by SCOR,” says Hermann Bange. Start of the project was on January 1st of this year. For a period of four years, the Working Group receives a budget of around $ 15,000 annually, which is intended primarily for academic exchange. “For me personally, this is a great success story, and I hope we can advance a coordinated, long-term and global measurement program along the way with this project,” says Professor Bange.
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Grandparenting goes digital
Older adults find ways to stay in touch while staying home
Lindsay Whitehurst Associated Press
Published 3:06 am CDT, Sunday, April 5, 2020
Seen through their kitchen window, Allan and Debbie Cameron of Chandler, Arizona, contact their grandchildren March 25 via the internet. Debbie, 68, has asthma, which makes her one of the people most at risk from the new coronavirus. The Camerons now see their children and grandchildren from the other side of a window or a phone.
Seen through their kitchen window, Allan and Debbie Cameron of Chandler, Arizona, contact their grandchildren March 25 via the internet. Debbie, 68, has asthma, which makes her one of the people most at risk
Photo: Matt York | Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — A few weeks ago, Debbie Cameron saw her grandsons most days, playing the piano, making after-school snacks or singing nursery rhymes with the baby in her Chandler, Arizona, home.
Then the cornavirus crisis hit and the boys were suddenly gone. Cameron is 68 and has asthma, making her one of the people most at risk of getting seriously ill or dying. Now she sees her grandchildren from behind the glass of a window or a phone screen.
“Looking at them through the window and not being able to hug them, it’s just a dang killer,” she said.
For grandparents all over the world, being protected from the pandemic has meant a piercing distancing from their loved ones. While children don’t seem to be getting seriously ill as often, they can be infected and spread the virus. It’s been a jolting change for many.
Cameron and her husband, both retired teachers, usually watch their older grandchildren, ages 8 and 11, after school and their 7-month-old baby grandson four times a week. One of their three daughters is due to have another child in July.
But as the effects of coronavirus spread, the family decided that caring for the boys was too risky. While most people who catch the disease suffer from symptoms like fever and cough and recover in a few weeks, some get severely ill with things like pneumonia. COVID-19 can be fatal, and older people who have underlying conditions — as Cameron does — are the most vulnerable.
So instead of chasing after little boys, she’s doing puzzles, listening to old radio shows or watching the Hallmark channel, trying to fill the hours in her much-quieter house.
“I just go day by day, and when the dark thoughts come in I try and do something to take them away,” she said. “I cry. Sometimes I cry.”
Still, she feels lucky she doesn’t have to leave the house to work, and that she has close family ties. Sometimes she re-reads a letter her mother wrote her father while he was deployed to the Philippines during World War II, laying out her raw emotions about how much she missed him as she cared for their first child without him.
“My mother is a really strong woman, and in this one she was struggling,” she said. “If my mom did that, I can do this.”
The sudden change has been challenging for kids’ parents too, many of whom are trying to work from home and balance childcare. Cameron’s daughter Julie Bufkin is at home with her 7-month-old son, Calvin, working from home as a project coordinator at Arizona State University while her husband goes into the office as an analytical chemist for Intel.
She’s been taking webcam calls and answering emails while breastfeeding the baby and trying to keep him entertained, even after coming down with a fever and headache, symptoms similar to the new coronavirus. In line with the advice of public-health officials, she stayed at home to recover and wasn’t tested for the virus, since she’s young and healthy and didn’t become seriously ill. She’s now on the mend, but it only deepened her mother’s feelings of helplessness.
“Imagine if your child is sick you can’t go help them,” Cameron said. “That’s the hardest part.”
For her daughter, it further confirmed that staying physically separate for now is the right decision.
“We want my mom to survive this,” Bufkin said.
And the grandparents still can step in remotely — Bufkin sets up a phone or a tablet in Calvin’s playpen, where they can sing songs, show him around the yard, look at the cat or play piano over FaceTime.
“Anything we can, even five to 10 minutes to give her a little rest. That makes my day,” Cameron said.
They’re only 5 miles away in suburban Phoenix, and for a time Bufkin was dropping off food weekly, then touching hands or exchanging kisses through the window. More often, they’re sharing their lives through a phone or tablet screen.
The baby watches his grandparents on the screen, looking up from his own games to smile and laugh at his grandpa or focus on his grandmother playing the saxophone.
Other grandparents also are looking for moments of brightness. They’re replacing chats on the porch with friends with Facebook conversations, or connecting with church congregations through video-messaging apps like Marco Polo.
Others are turning the technological clock back. Margret Boes-Ingraham, 72, used to drive her 14-year-old granddaughter to choir practice a few times a week near Salt Lake City, then stay to listen to her sing. Without those rides spent listening to show tunes, she’s encouraging her granddaughter to keep a journal.
“I asked her if I could read, and she said no!” Boes-Ingraham said with a laugh.
For grandparents who live alone, hunkering down during the crisis can increase their isolation. Terry Catucci, 69, is a retired social worker and recovering alcoholic of 30 years in Maryland. She has seven grandchildren nearby in the Washington, D.C., area including a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old for whom she sometimes helps care. She tries not to think about the little changes she’s missing during the years when children seem to grow every day.
“When you’re in a time of crisis, you want to be with people you love, and we can’t,” she said. “I’ve run the whole gamut of the five stages of grief at any given day.”
But she’s getting by, talking with her family and checking in daily with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor. Every night, neighbors in her retirement community set up lawn chairs at the end of driveways to chat with friends walking by at a safe distance.
“We’re all learning how to survive in this time,” she said, “to live a little bit the best we can.”
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COMPARED TO
If you lived in Ecuador instead of American Samoa, you would:
live 2.7 years longer
In American Samoa, the average life expectancy is 75 years (72 years for men, 78 years for women) as of 2020. In Ecuador, that number is 78 years (74 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2020.
be 84.6% less likely to be unemployed
In American Samoa, 29.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2005. In Ecuador, that number is 4.6% as of 2017.
be 51.5% more likely to die during infancy
In American Samoa, approximately 9.9 children die before they reach the age of one as of 2020. In Ecuador, on the other hand, 15.0 children do as of 2020.
be 69.3% more likely to have access to electricity
In American Samoa, approximately 59% of people have electricity access (60% in urban areas, and 45% in rural areas) as of 2012. In Ecuador, that number is 100% of people on average (100% in urban areas, and 100% in rural areas) as of 2016.
be 83.0% more likely to have internet access
In American Samoa, approximately 31.3% of the population has internet access as of 2016. In Ecuador, about 57.3% do as of 2018.
see 19.3 times more coastline
American Samoa has a total of 116 km of coastline. In Ecuador, that number is 2,237 km.
Ecuador: At a glance
Ecuador is a sovereign country in South America, with a total land area of approximately 276,841 sq km. What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533. Quito became a seat of Spanish colonial government in 1563 and part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717. The territories of the Viceroyalty - New Granada (Colombia), Venezuela, and Quito - gained their independence between 1819 and 1822 and formed a federation known as Gran Colombia. When Quito withdrew in 1830, the traditional name was changed in favor of the "Republic of the Equator." Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A border war with Peru that flared in 1995 was resolved in 1999. Although Ecuador marked 30 years of civilian governance in 2004, the period was marred by political instability. Protests in Quito contributed to the mid-term ouster of three of Ecuador's last four democratically elected presidents. In late 2008, voters approved a new constitution, Ecuador's 20th since gaining independence. General elections were held in February 2013, and voters re-elected President Rafael CORREA.
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St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
Find out how St Patrick's Catholic Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in Havering with our school ratings
Here St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Lowshoe Lane, Collier Row, Romford, RM5 2AP, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
Lowshoe Lane, Collier Row, Romford, RM5 2AP
The open date and status above indicate when St Patrick's Catholic Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
What type of school is St Patrick's Catholic Primary School?
Overall Score 61.8 56.8 44.3 45.7
England Rank 1,660 3,034 8,107 8,539
Local Rank 10 21 43 36
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How St Patrick's Catholic Primary School scores on each indicator.
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School has been rated as Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection.
How does St Patrick's Catholic Primary School perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.
In 2019, 82% of pupils at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
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How does the % of boys and girls at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average?
What is the pupil:teacher ratio at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School and how does it compare to the national average?
At St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2019 that was 1.5 compared to the national average of 0.
At St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2019 that was 2 compared to the national average of 0.
At St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2019 that was -0.6 compared to the national average of 0.
In 2017/18, the most recent full school year, 3.7% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions.
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OUSA Releases Policy Statement: A Response to Sexual Violence within Post-Secondary Education
Written by Danielle Pierre on April 14, 2016
Statistics describing sexual violence are jaw dropping. As we have discussed in the past, the Canadian Women’s Foundation reports that only one third of Canadians understand what sexual consent means. Sixty-six percent of female victims of sexual assault are under age 24 and less than 10 percent of sexual assaults are reported to police.
A culture of silence is especially detrimental to Ontario’s youth and cannot continue.
We’ve already written about the need for standalone sexual harassment and assault policies on universities campuses in this a previous blog, which does a better job than I ever could at discussing their importance. Experiences of sexual violence on university campuses are highly complex; the microcosm that is a campus involves heightened (in the sense that they may attend class, live, and work together) and potentially more frequent interactions between survivors and perpetrators. There are also university codes of conduct and additional rules that supplement Canadian law. Effective procedures must be rooted in corresponding policies, so policy itself is a necessary first step in ensuring that survivors are treated with compassion and respect and ultimately moving towards a solution.
I bring up these previous posts to honour the work of those who have come before me and begin to build a supportive organizational narrative. We’re not trying to be the first on the scene, we’re simply trying to live by our principles and live up to higher expectations. It’s easy to get bogged down by the weight of the issue that is sexual violence, but that does not make it acceptable to shy away or disengage. An optimistic approach is needed to overcome these feelings; sometimes we need to stand up and say, “we can do this.”
In this vein, I would like to recognize the tremendous work that is currently being done in the sector. To name a few recent initiatives--and this barely scratches the surface--Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton Area (SACHA) trained student leaders on fallacious rape myths in anticipation of McMaster’s Welcome Week; Wilfrid Laurier University started their “Hawk Pact” workshop designed to get students talking about consent and sexual misconduct; and Westerns’ Sexual Violence and Prevention Education Committee hosted the “Consent & Compassion Forum” intended to encourage the university community to share their ideas and strategies for ending sexual violence. The great thing about these initiatives is the community co-operation required to pull them off: in all three examples we see student unions engaged in a productive partnership with their university administrations.
Student unions play a crucial role in developing campus culture and setting social expectations. They are at the forefront of advocacy and programming related to sexual harassment and assault, offering training on sexual violence, gender-based violence, sex-based harassment, bystander intervention, and health and protective services. They also offer peer-to-peer and survivor support services, recognizing the benefits of empathizing with friends and colleagues. Not only are student unions key resources in the fight to end sexual violence, but they tackle the issue head on every day.
This level of engagement must continue. The sector must recognize the value of student leaders in developing remedies that help survivors today by balancing proactive and preventative measures with robust and transparent responses.
At our last General Assembly, OUSA passed a policy statement that attempts to do just that, calling for a coordinated response from the province, universities, and students. We ask the provincial government to stand as a leader and ensure consistent, survivor-centric responses to sexual violence on post-secondary campuses. Students ask for better training, not just on policies and protocols, but also on bystander intervention, and gender-based and sexual violence across their institutions. Our students want more experts on their campuses: sexual violence educators and coordinators, external community partners, and skilled peer supporters.
When interacting with on-campus supports, survivors should be at the centre of these services. Their needs and choices should come before those of the university, regardless of their decision to pursue formal charges. However, universities must be forthright with their legal obligations--namely their duties to report and commitments to the safety of the campus community--and be transparent about the outcomes and procedures associated with their protocols. Students recognize that universities are also obligated to uphold the rights of those accused of perpetrating sexual violence, but believe that the safety concerns of the survivor should be given greater weight when determining accommodations for each party. Nonetheless, both parties should have access to a trained response team who will handle any appeals of institutional rulings. Above all else, all campuses must be safe places, free from sexual violence, for all students.
Administrators and staff who have worked in this area for decades say that the zeitgeist is different this time. There’s a new energy. A new sense of commitment. OUSA, and our student members, are committed to ending sexual violence and will stay the course. In the coming year, based on the statement we are releasing today, we will be writing a full fledged policy paper. We will also be working closely with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to design a campus climate survey for Ontario’s universities and colleges. Lastly, we will be advising the government on the public and ministerial reporting requirements of the Sexual Violence Action Plan Act.
OUSA’s policy statement, A Response to Sexual Violence within Post-secondary Education, is a crucial foundation for our future advocacy work. You can read it in our research centre, here.
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Culture of images and visuality that creates meaning in our world today. This includes media forms such as photography, film, television, and digital media; art media such as painting, drawing, prints, and installations; architecture and design; comic books and graphic novels; fashion design, and other visual forms including the look of urban life itself. It also encompasses such social realms as art, news, popular culture, advertising and consumerism, politics, law, religion, and science and medicine. The term visual culture also refers to the interdisciplinary academic field of study that aims to study and understand the role that images and visuality play in our society; how images, gazes, and looks make meaning socially, culturally, and politically; how images are integrated with other media; and how visuality shapes power, meaning, and identity in contemporary global culture.
The emergence of the concept of visual culture as a means to think about the role of images in culture and as an academic field of study is a relatively recent phenomenon, emerging in the late 1980s and becoming established by the late 1990s. There were numerous factors that contributed to the idea that images should be understood and analysed across social arenas rather than as separate categories, including the impact of digital media on the circulation of images across social realms, the modern use of images from other social arenas (such as news and advertising) in art, and the cross-referencing of cultural forms displayed in popular culture and art. It was also influenced by the increasingly visible role played by images in political conflict and a general trend toward interdisciplinarity in academia....
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Hosts Drive-Thru Food Distribution Event
Free Food Packages Provided to Those in Need
VALLEJO, Calif. — May 28, 2020 — Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, the Thrill Capital of Northern California, was the site for a food distribution event earlier today.
In collaboration with the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano, along with the City of Vallejo Police Department, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom converted its guest parking lot into a temporary drive-up food distribution location. As vehicles lined up, volunteers consisting of Six Flags employees and the food bank placed a package of food into their trunk, keeping the process as contactless as possible.
“Six Flags remains committed to assisting our local communities during these challenging times,” said Park President Don McCoy, “This event was a great way to utilize our available resources to assist families who need extra support right now.”
In total, 1,500 packages of food were provided serving up to 6,000 individuals.
About Six Flags Entertainment Corporation
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company and the largest operator of waterparks in North America, with 26 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada. For 58 years, Six Flags has entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed rides, thrilling waterparks and unique attractions. For more information, visit www.sixflags.com.
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CARES Act Benefits Explained: Key Provisions for Businesses and Nonprofit Organizations
The newly enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (commonly known as the “CARES Act”) offers a wide range of benefits and incentives to help businesses weather the economic downturn caused by COVID-19. This alert covers five of the key programs offered to businesses and nonprofit organizations: the Paycheck Protection Program, the U.S. Treasury’s Direct Lending Program, Economic Injury Disaster Loans, tax relief, and enhanced deductibility benefits for charitable giving.
Late on April 2, 2020, the Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) issued an interim final rule (the “Interim Final Rule”) that provides additional guidance for implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program and requirements for loan forgiveness, some of which will require further consideration as additional guidance is released. The Interim Final Rule becomes effective on the date it is published in the Federal Register.
We caution that the Government has issued contradictory and/or imprecise guidance concerning the CARES Act, and new guidance may continue to be issued. Furthermore, the CARES Act itself lacks clarity and precision in some respects. It will be important for all persons attempting to avail themselves of benefits under the CARES Act to remain abreast of new developments and interpretations of these complex rules and to obtain professional advice with regard to the specific facts of each situation, based on the rules as they may evolve. This alert is dated April 3, 2020, its release date, and should be referenced with this caveat in mind.
To continue reading our alert on this topic, please click here.
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Alexander Stille (Introducer)
Lara Gochin Raffaelli (Translator)
The great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction, published in a new English translation - the first since the Victorian era - that puts the sex back in Pleasure.
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea's pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of lust and deceit.
Gabriele D'Annunzio was born in Italy in 1863. He published poetry and short stories from a young age, quickly gaining a reputation for his frank treatment of erotic subjects. He married in 1883 and had three children, but separated from his wife and began an infamous affair with the actress Elonora Duse. After stints as a journalist and politician, he enlisted as a fighter pilot in World War I, subsequently losing an eye in a flying accident. He became increasingly nationalistic and politically active after the war, and his views had a strong influence on Mussolini. In 1922 he survived a murder attempt, when an unknown assailant defenestrated him. He died in 1938.
Lara Gochin Raffaelli is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Alexander Stille is a frequent contributor on Italy to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The New Yorker and the author of several books, including The Sack of Rome. He lives in New York.
Gabriele D'Annunzio was born in Italy in 1863. He published poetry and short stories from a young age, quickly gaining a reputation for his frank treatment of erotic subjects. He married in 1883 and had three children, but separated from his wife and began an infamous affair with the actress Elonora Duse. After stints as a journalist and politician, he enlisted as a fighter pilot in World War I, subsequently losing an eye in a flying accident. He became increasingly nationalistic and politically active after the war, and his views had a strong influence on Mussolini. In 1922 he survived a murder attempt, when an unknown assailant defenestrated him. He died in 1938. Lara Gochin Raffaelli is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Alexander Stille is a frequent contributor on Italy to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The New Yorker and the author of several books, including The Sack of Rome. He lives in New York.
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Birthright NPR coverage of Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World by Stephen R. Kellert. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
People and Nature in the Modern World
by Stephen R. Kellert
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Stephen Kellert asserts that man's ability to think, feel, communicate, create and find meaning is inextricably linked to his relationship with nature, and that modern challenges are directly related to today's disconnect from the natural world.
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Connecting With Nature To Reclaim Our Natural 'Birthright'
January 20, 2013 • Modern society has become adversarial in its relationship to nature, Yale scholar Stephen Kellert argues, having greatly undervalued the natural world beyond its narrow utilty. In his new book Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World, he tells stories of the environment's effect on us, and ours on it.
Note: Book excerpts are provided by the publisher and may contain language some find offensive.
Excerpt: Birthright
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INTRODUCTION: BIOPHILIA
Humanity is the product of its evolved relationship to nature, countless yesterdays of ongoing interaction and experience of the natural world. Our senses, our emotions, our intellect, and even our culture developed in close association with, and in adaptive response to, the nonhuman world. Moreover, our physical and mental health, productivity, and well-being continue to rely on our connections to nature, even as our world becomes increasingly fabricated and constructed.
This contention defies what many have come to believe is the foundation of human progress and the hallmark of contemporary civilization: the conquest and transformation of nature and our seeming triumph over our biology as just another animal species. Many people today view society, far from depending on nature, as having overcome reliance on the natural world through the wonders of science, engineering, and mass production. They marvel at our ability to communicate in seconds, gather vast amounts of information, defeat diseases that once ravaged millions, and obtain goods and services that even the most privileged could not have imagined a few centuries ago. They wonder, do we< really need nature for anything but raw materials that can be adapted to better uses, and perhaps for an occasional outdoor experience, which might be nice but certainly is not necessary?
Contemporary society is justifiably proud of its standard of living, physical health, and all the material comforts it has achieved. Still, to be successful and sustainable, not just materially but also psychologically and spiritually, these achievements must rest on a bedrock of positive and nurturing relationship to the natural world. This dependence is not just a matter of raw materials, clean water, productive soils, and an array of ecosystem services. More fundamentally, it is related to our capacity to feel, to think, to communicate, to create, to solve problems, to mature, to form a secure and meaningful identity, and to find meaning and purpose in our lives. As in the past and for the conceivable future, the core of our humanity will reflect the quality of our connections to the natural world. We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved. Much of what we value and cherish as distinctively human — our capacity to care, reason, love, create, find beauty, and know happiness — continues to be contingent on our diverse ties to nature.
This reliance on nature reflects our biological origins as a species. We evolved in a natural world, not an artificial or human-created one. For more than ninety-nine percent of our history, our fitness and survival depended on adaptively responding to the ongoing demands of the natural environment, which drove the development of our senses, emotions, intellect, and spirit. For a tiny fraction of our history as a species, we have lived seemingly apart from nature, assuming these relatively recent practices to be normal: the domestication of plants and animals, which goes back just ten thousand years; the harnessing of energy beyond the human body, beginning five thousand years in the past; the invention of the city, some four thousand years old; the mass production of goods and services during the past five hundred years; the defeat of major diseases, only a few centuries old; or the currently evolving products of modern electronics and engineering.
Rather than being vestigial or irrelevant, our inherent inclination to affiliate with nature remains crucial to our physical and mental health and well-being. This dependence on nature has shaped and continues to shape our capacities to feel, reason, think, master complexity, discover, create, heal, and be healthy. Whether we choose to be farmers or financiers, foresters or professors, to labor with our minds or toil with our bodies, our safety, security, and survival remain contingent on the quality of our connections to the natural world.
From Birthright by Stephen Kellert. Copyright 2012 by Stephen Kellert. Excerpted by permission of Yale University Press.
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Chip Seal Project to Occur on North and South Rims of Grand Canyon National Park this Summer
Contact: Maureen Oltrogge, 928-638-7779
Contact: Shannan Marcak, 928-638-7958
Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Chip seal projects are scheduled to begin at Grand Canyon National Park on both the South and North Rims. The project is being managed by, and funded through the Federal Lands Highway Program using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The primary purpose of the project is to provide pavement preservation for most paved surfaces within the park and is expected to be completed sometime between late August and early October 2010 - depending on summer monsoonal patterns and temperatures which will dictate when crews apply chip sealing.
Not only will this project greatly improve the condition of Grand Canyon's roadways and other paved areas, it will create additional jobs in the southwest.
South Rim
A contract for approximately $4.5 million has been awarded to Fann Contracting from Prescott, Arizona for work on the South Rim that includes micro (sealing process that extends the life of a road) and chip seal on main roadways, campgrounds, residential areas, parking lots (excluding newly constructed parking lots at Grand Canyon Visitor Center), and other adjacent paved areas.
The South Rim project will begin Thursday, June 17 with the patching of roadways and parking areas between Hermits Rest and Desert View. Patching will be followed with crack seal work that should begin around June 28 and last about two weeks. Once that work is completed the contractor will then micro seal roadways and parking areas, then finish up with chip seal and striping.
Construction will primarily occur Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.
Work in heavy traffic areas will be completed during the night once shuttle bus operations cease for the evening. Nighttime construction is expected to occur between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. The contractor will make every effort to reduce noise around hotels and residential areas during early morning and nighttime operations.
Some sweeping activities may occur on Saturdays; but no work will occur from noon on Friday, July 2nd through 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6th to mitigate impacts to visitors during the holiday weekend.
Signs will be posted in construction areas notifying visitors and residents of any short-term or pending closures. Flaggers and pilot cars will also be used in areas where work is underway to direct or move vehicles through project areas. Maximum delays of 15 minutes on South Rim roadways can be expected.
Those with plans for extended backcountry stays are encouraged to check the park's construction Web site at www.nps.gov/grca/parkmgmt/const.htm for project scheduling and any short-term parking closures and delays. Park staff at the Backcountry Information Center, visitor centers and contact stations will also be available to offer advice and recommendations for longer-term parking options.
Visitors to the South Rim Village area are encouraged to park in Tusayan and ride the free shuttle bus into and around the park. Entrance passes can be purchased at many of the businesses in Tusayan and will be needed prior to boarding a bus. Other park passes, including Golden Age Passports, Golden Eagle Passports, America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreation Lands Pass, etc., as always, will also be accepted.
Visitors that prefer to drive into the park are encouraged to park their cars at the Visitor Center and take advantage of the free shuttle system. Those that park in other parking areas throughout the park, including lodging areas, should look for, and follow signs that will be posted in areas that are currently undergoing construction work. Visitors might also enjoy riding a bicycle on one of the Greenway Trail's where bikes are allowed, or by enjoying the nice summer temperatures and walking from place to place. For bike rentals - look for Bright Angel Bicycles near the park's primary visitor center.
Community members are encouraged to walk, bike or utilize the free shuttle bus system in getting through the park this summer.
A contract for approximately $1.5 million was also awarded to Intermountain Slurry Seal from Salt Lake City, Utah for work on the North Rim that includes micro/chip seal on main roadways, parking lots, campground, residential areas and other adjacent paved areas.
This project will begin on Monday, June 21, with the patching of roadways and parking areas, followed by crack seal work, micro sealing, chip sealing and striping.
As on the South Rim, signs will be posted in construction areas on the North Rim notifying visitors and residents of any short-term or pending closures. Additionally, flaggers and pilot cars will be used in areas where work is underway to direct or move vehicles through project areas. Maximum delays on North Rim roadways of 15 minutes can be expected.
Project work will primarily occur between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Sweeping activities may take place on Saturdays, but no work will take place between noon on Friday, July 2nd through 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 6.
North Rim visitors are encouraged to follow instructions provided by flaggers and those in pilot cars and to look for signing about temporary, short-term parking lot closures. North Rim residents are encouraged to walk and bike to work whenever possible.
Park staff in the North Rim Backcountry Information Center and visitor center will also be available to provide information about construction areas, delays and short-term parking lot closures. Visitors to the North Rim are also encouraged to check project scheduling on the above link for construction updates.
The National Park Service, Federal Highway Administration, contractors and subcontractors are all committed to reducing impacts to visitors and community members. We apologize for any inconvenience this project may have on our visitors and community members. We will make every effort to post updates on the park's Web site at www.nps.gov/grca/parkmgmt/const.htm and to schedule work to best accommodate traffic flow, maintain a quality visit for all visitors to the North and South Rims of Grand Canyon, and to reduce wait times to a minimum for all users.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year gave $3 billion to the Department of the Interior (Interior). Of that amount, the NPS received $750 million - approximately 10 million of which was directed to Grand Canyon National Park.
These ARRA funds are part of a stimulus package that is an important component of the President's plan to jumpstart the economy and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so the country can thrive in the 21st century. Under ARRA, Interior is making an investment in conserving American's timeless treasures - our stunning natural landscapes, our monuments to liberty, the icons of our culture and heritage - while helping American families and their communities prosper again. Interior is also focusing on renewable energy projects, the needs of American Indians, employing youth and promoting community service.
"With its investments of Recovery Act funds, the Department of the Interior and its bureaus are putting people to work today to make improvements that will benefit the environment and the nation for many years to come," Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said.
Secretary Salazar has pledged unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability in the implementation of Interior's economic recovery projects. The public will be able to follow the progress of each project on www.recovery.gov and on www.interior.gov/recovery. Grand Canyon projects can also be followed on www.nps.gov/grca/parkmgmt/arra.htm. Chris Henderson, Senior Advisor for Economic Recovery, continues to work closely with Interior's Inspector General to ensure the recovery program is meeting the high standards for accountability, responsibility, and transparency set by President Obama.
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Developers Glance Into Crystal Ball
SCOTTSDALE--Taking a break from worrying about today's rocky business climate, a small group of owners and developers gathered at ICSC's REvent, to talk about the future of the shopping center industry. Much of the discussion focused on how to extend the industry's initial forays into Green building and create projects that make even greater use of sustainable building techniques.
“Design is the first signal of human intention, we are moving from the rights of humans to the rights of nature,” William McDonough, founding principal of William McDonough + Partners in Charlottesville, Va. told the 75 attendees gathered for the two-day event, formerly called The Leading Edge.
McDonough talked of shifting the design paradigm for buildings from one of cradle-to-grave to what he calls "cradle-to-cradle." The idea is that when designing a structure, an architect should not just have in mind one intended use, but also what might come after the initial tenant has left. One example is a Nike office complex that is designed in a way that it could be easily converted into a multi-family property if Nike vacates the structure.
Also, McDonugh talked of technologies that enable buildings to engage seamlessly with the surrounding environment. For example, a Ford Motor plant in Dearborn, Mich., includes a green habitat on its roof that doubles as a sanctuary for killdeer birds. A Gap Inc. office building in San Bruno, Calif., features a grass roof.
“Wouldn’t it be great if we could produce retail projects that encompass these elements?” McDonough asked. He pointed to the increasing numbers of developers seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council as evidence that a shift is already taking place.
Still, executives at the show were hesitant to endorse the practices McDonough advocated. “This is an economically driven business, you’ve got to get your return on investment,” said John Hart, chairman, Hart Realty Advisors in Simsbury, Conn.
A fellow panelist on sustainability, Quay Hays, managing partner for Kings County Ventures LLC pointed to the company's $10 billion master-planned community Quay Valley, with two million square feet of retail. He said that project will incorporate green elements at no cost to builders and homeowners. “There is no reason it cannot be done profitably," he said. The 12,500-acre mixed-use development in the San Joaquin Valley in Calif., will be 100 percent solar powered. The project is set to break ground later this year and developers are aiming to get the project LEED certified Silver or higher.
Not all the talk centered on Green design, however. Los Angeles-based retail consultant Janine Sabin said the retail real estate industry's continued success will come from individual properties' abilities to connect with customers. The core fundamentals for retail real estate remain the same: location, profitability, tenants and convenience. However, satisfying those needs has become more complex, said Yaromir Steiner, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based Steiner + Associates , Inc. After developing single-use properties for more than 40 years, the industry needs to re-learn how to build less specialized formats. “If I can say I’m going to some cool place that is much more than shopping, it makes it relevant,” Steiner said.
“It seems like we have come full circle,” agreed Gar Herring, president and CEO of the MG Herring Group in Dallas. "We’ve been through lifestyle and now we’re into mixed-use.”
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Verizon Wireless Still Strong in North Texas
By now, you have likely heard that Verizon Wireless’ parent company Verizon Communications has agreed to sell its landline, FiOS TV and FiOS Internet operations in California, Florida and Texas.
In fact, Verizon Wireless is celebrating its 15th anniversary this very month and remains an active member of the North Texas community.
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Group rejects 'unfounded' global warming claims
1 May, 2006 01:28 AM 3 minutes to read
A group of leading climate scientists has announced the formation of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, aimed at refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about man-made global warming.
"We believe this is a significant development in opening up the debate about the real effects of climate change and the justification for the costs and other measures prescribed in the Kyoto protocols," said the coalition's secretary, Terry Dunleavy.
He said members of the coalition had had enough of "over-exaggerated" claims about the effects of man-made global warming and aimed to provide a balance to "what is being fed to the people of New Zealand".
The coalition includes such well-known climate scientists as:
* Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most recently a visiting scholar at the Beijing Climate Centre in China.
* Dr Gerrit J van der Lingen, of Christchurch, geologist/paleoclimatologist, climate change consultant, former director GRAINZ (Geoscience Research and Investigations New Zealand).
* Prof August H. (Augie) Auer, of Auckland, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand.
* Professor Bob Carter, a New Zealander, now at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.
* Warwick Hughes, a New Zealand earth scientist living in Perth, who conducts a comprehensive website: www.warwickhughes.com
* Roger Dewhurst, of Katikati, consulting environmental geologist and hydrogeologist.
* Owen McShane, of Kaiwaka, director of the Centre for Resource Management Studies, who is convenor of the establishment committee, said many scientists and economists were concerned that the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had an effective monopoly on public announcements on global warming.
"Its statements go largely unchallenged -- or go largely unchallenged in a format that will carry weight with governments, the media or the general public," said Mr McShane.
"Hence, a new 'sceptical consensus' has developed that, before the next IPCC report is published in February next year, there should be a panel, or panels, of experts who have established themselves as 'auditors' of the IPCC, both here in New Zealand and abroad.
"Those of us involved in forming this coalition believe that now is the time for individual countries like New Zealand to assemble their own national expert panels, so that these panels can form larger groupings with like minded-panels from other countries so as to be ready to deal with the reports to be published by the IPCC next year.
"Their aim should not be to repeat, or parallel, the work of the IPCC, but to audit its reports, and to let the members of the IPCC know that such auditors are waiting in the wings," said Mr McShane.
He said that the coalition's three main roles would be:
* To publish and distribute papers and commentaries produced by members of the coalition;
* To audit statements by other organisations, both in New Zealand and overseas, which are published in New Zealand, or are expected to influence New Zealand public policy and public opinion;
* To audit the forthcoming United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
The coalition has registered a website domain name, www.climatescience.org.nz, which it expects to have running within a day or two.
- NZPA
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Education of Muslim women is limited by economic conditions, not religion
By Conrad Hackett and Dalia Fahmy
Yemeni students attend class in 2014. (Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Muslim societies have sometimes faced criticism for failing to adequately educate women. Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai have contributed to this perception, raising the question of whether Islam itself hampers women’s education. But a new analysis of Pew Research Center data on educational attainment and religion suggests that economics, not religion, is the key factor limiting the education of Muslim women.
It’s true that, historically, Muslim women have received less schooling than females of other major religions (except Hindus); they also have lagged behind Muslim men in educational attainment, according to previous analysis by Pew Research Center. More recently, however, Muslim women have been catching up – not only with Muslim men but also with other women around the world.
As Muslim women move up the educational ladder, the role of religion as a predictor of academic attainment is diminishing, according to the new study, which analyzes the Center’s education data and appears in the journal Population and Development Review. The findings challenge claims that there’s a culture clash between Muslim and Western societies over gender equality in education. (The study was authored by David McClendon, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski and Vegard Skirbekk. Hackett is a senior demographer and associate director of research at Pew Research Center. McClendon is a former research associate at the Center.)
The analysis shows that a country’s wealth – not its laws or culture – is the most important factor in determining a woman’s educational fate, with women in oil-rich Gulf countries, especially, making some of the biggest educational leaps in recent decades.
For example, young Muslim women (born between 1976 and 1985) in Saudi Arabia, which calls itself an Islamic state and enforces conservative gender laws, have an average of 11.5 years of schooling, compared with 11.8 years for the country’s young men and just two years of education for older Muslim women (those born between 1935 and 1955). These numbers indicate that Saudi Arabia has increased access to schooling for women and has come closer to closing the education gender gap. (The study measured only the education of Saudi citizens and not trends among the large population of noncitizen migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.) By comparison, the average duration of schooling for young U.S. men and women – across religious groups – is around 13 years.
By contrast, in Mali – also a predominantly Muslim country, but one that is economically poor – young Muslim women have an average of only 1.4 years of schooling, compared with 2.7 years for the country’s young men. And older Muslim women in Mali (those born between 1935 and 1955) average half a year of schooling. These figures show that Mali has seen only modest gains in the education of Muslim women. The same pattern has unfolded in sub-Saharan Africa overall, where young Muslim women average 2.5 years of school, up from 0.8 years of school among the older generation.
To test the extent to which Islam itself influences a woman’s educational attainment, the researchers examined factors in Muslim communities that might play a role, such as the degree of gender discrimination in a country’s family laws, the percentage of its population that is Muslim and the share of Muslims who reported religion is very important to them. The study finds that none of these elements had a significant impact on the results.
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The Quest for 33%
Plus: Remembering two legendary LPGA players.
Lindsay Gibbs
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Power Plays, where we serve sports takes without a trace of toxic masculinity. It can be done!
In case you missed it, on Tuesday I made a big announcement: I am finally going to start Power Plays subscriptions. I’m excited, terrified, and overwhelmed — in a great way — by all the support I am receiving so far.
There are so many exciting things in the works, and I’ll be able to make a couple of those announcements in tomorrow’s newsletter.
But today, I’m going to take you through some new #CoveringtheCoverage initiatives, and announce The Quest For 33%.
Then, in the archives, we’re going to look back at the careers of two legendary golfers — Mickey Wright, who just passed away this week, and Althea Gibson, a tennis legend who also became the first black golfer in the LPGA.
Remember, please spread the word if you can. Every single sign-up, every single tweet, every single in-person conversion is invaluable to me, especially right now. It’s a pivotal time for Power Plays.
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#CoveringtheCoverage: The Magnificent Seven
Last week I officially unveiled our #CoveringtheCoverage initiative by focusing in on how mainstream media was covering WNBA Free Agency. I am going to continue to monitor newspapers and television and the internet to analyze the coverage of important moments in women’s sports; I think we can learn so much by doing that.
But we also need a baseline.
So, for at least the next six months — through the Tokyo Olympics — I’m going to monitor seven print newspapers for their coverage of women’s sports. Every day, I’m going to tally the women’s sports stories in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times.
(Yes, I’m sorry, this subhed actually had nothing to do with the true Magnificent Seven, that’s just me pulling out the tricks.)
Why those seven? Well, the WSJ, NYT, and USA Today are, by most calculations, the most widely-circulated print newspapers in the country. And WaPo, DMN, LAT, and the Tribune are all popular newspapers in their own right, and even more importantly for this exercise, are located in four big markets that have prominent women’s sports teams nearby, in college and in the pros.
If I had unlimited time, there are about 20 other newspapers I would like to monitor on a daily basis. But I’m one human being, and this is a start.
My week in the sports pages
Here’s a snapshot of what I’m doing. From February 13 to February 19 I looked at the sports pages of 45 newspapers. (USA Today and the WSJ both only have five print editions per week.)
These sports pages varied widely in length and content. The WSJ only has one or two sports stories per day in their one-page sports section, and the NYT and USA Today both averaged about seven stories per day. On the other end of the spectrum, WaPo averaged 20 sports stories per day during this week, and the LAT, Tribune, and DMN were all in the 18-20 per day range. You can read my methodology if you scroll down to the next section, but before I totally bore you, I figure we should see some numbers.
Here’s how these seven papers fared in their coverage of women’s sports over the last week:
Dallas Morning News: 13.95% (18 of 129)
Washington Post: 12.85% (18 of 140)
New York Times: 9.78% (4.5 of 46)
Los Angeles Times: 8.27% (11.5 of 139)
USA Today: 4.28%* (1.5 of 35)
Chicago Tribune: 3.17% (4 of 126)
Wall Street Journal: 0% (0 of 9)
NOT GREAT!!
One of the rare women’s sports stories to crack the front page was an article about Kim Clijsters’ return to tennis, which was in the New York Times on February 18.
My methodology
Looking at the numbers above, you might see some decimal points and be close to giving up on me entirely. But I promise there is a reasonable explanation!
Many newspapers have sections that are simply round-ups of stories, with a bunch of nuggets that are like 100 words or less. For the sake of counting the total number of stories in each sports section, I would count an entire round-up as one story. If even just one of the stories in the round-up was about women’s sports, I gave the paper 1/2 of a point. (If all the stories were about women’s sports, of course, I would give full credit.) It’s not an exact science, but this seemed like the fairest way to do it.
I also kept separate track of how many women’s sports stories were featured on the front page of sports sections. If a paper just teased a women’s sports story on the cover — put a headline, then directed readers to the page to read the story — I gave that 1/2 a point.
This past week, there were four women’s sports stories that made it to the front page of our newspapers. Of course, Sabrina and the Oregon Ducks were one of the cover stars.
I want to note that I was generous with my counting. One story I counted from the NYT was about the female choreographer of JLo’s ridiculously amazing Super Bowl halftime show, because I maintain that JLo’s performance was an athletic feat. And, there was a story about the West Virginia governor calling a girls basketball team “thugs.” That counted too, unfortunately.
While the highest any paper got over the week-long period was 13.95%, there were individual days where papers fared much better.
On February 18, the Washington Post hit 28.13%, with four stand-alone articles on women, including Emma Meesseman re-signing with the Washington Mystics, UConn women’s basketball falling to No. 6 in the AP Top 25 poll, girls high school basketball, and the USWNT roster for the She Believes Cup.
(WaPo also featured a story about the Maryland women destroying Iowa to take control of the Big 10 on its front page on February 14.)
On February 15, 23.53% of the Dallas Morning News’ coverage was about women’s sports, including stand-alone articles about a high-school swimmer, Kim Mulkey and Tamika Catchings making it to the women’s basketball Hall of Fame, and Katie Lou Samuelson getting traded to the Dallas Wings. The Morning News also did well on February 18, when 21.88% of its stories had women
The New York Times hit 20% on February 18, when one out of its five sports stories was a feature on Clijsters’ return to tennis.
This brings me to The Quest for 33%.
I’ve said before that I’m not asking for equality for women’s sports coverage overnight; considering there are so many more male pro sports teams than women’s pro sports teams today, it isn’t a practical ask at this time.
Right now, I’d like to see the coverage of women’s sports reach 33%. Everywhere. Sports talk shows, internet sports sites, newspapers, the radio. Everywhere. Yes, for some, this is a stretch goal. After all, its said that women’s sports only get about 4% of all mainstream coverage right now. But I also firmly believe that within the next four years, 33% is a completely attainable goal, especially if the Powers That Be start now.
If you host a sports radio show, challenge yourself this week to add one topic about women’s sports to the rotation every day. If you produce a show such as Around The Horn — which has made great strides, and is one of my favorites — start by making sure that two topics each day are about women’s sports.
If you are an editor for a newspaper, see if you can switch out one of the five stories you are running about the MLB scandal for a story about your local college women’s team. Just start with one!
The Washington Post was just one story away from hitting 33% last week! It can be done.
I need your help
I can’t monitor everything, obviously. If you’re interested in helping out with #coveringthecoverage or any other women’s-sports related research projects, please email me, lindsay@powerplays.news. (And if you’ve emailed me about it before, I’m sorry, please reach out again.)
Keep an eye on your local papers, on the radio shows you listen to, on the home pages you visit. Take tallies. See if anyone hits the 33% threshold. And share the successes and failures with me, either at coverage@powerplays.news, or by using the hashtag #coveringthecoverage on Instagram.
There is so much power in accountability. Let’s harness it.
From the archives: Remembering some LPGA legends
This week, Mickey Wright, one of the best female golfers in history, died at the age of 85. You can read more about her in this great NYT obituary, but I wanted to use the archives to take a look back at her career.
Here’s an article from when she was named the AP Female Athlete of the Year in 1963.
And here’s another article from the NYT on February 16, 1969 — almost 51 years, to the day, before she passed away — about one of her comebacks to the LPGA.
Since it’s Black History Month, I’d be remiss not to take this time to remember another LPGA pioneer, Althea Gibson, who competed against Wright. Most know Gibson for her trailblazing tennis career, but she also became the first black LPGA player. Here’s a story about her drive to play in the LPGA, written in 1962.
That’s all for today. I’ll be back tomorrow with a story that I actually think will make you quite hopeful for a change. Can’t wait to share!
Thanks for your continued support.
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Introduction to the Kathāmṛta – Part 17 – The place of Kathā-sarit-sāgara in literature
This article is part 17 of 20 in the series Introduction to the Kathāmṛta
The place of Kathā-sarit-sāgara in literature
Earlier, I had discussed a little about the poetic qualities of Kathā-sarit-sāgara. Here, I will write a few words about its plot. The main story in Kathā-sarit-sāgara is that of Vatsarāja and his son Naravāhanadatta. However, like the adage, “the nose ring is heavier than the nose itself”, the sub-stories surpass the main story both qualitatively and quantitatively. It is impossible to enumerate the stories and the stories within stories in Kathā-sarit-sāgara. While some span only a couple of lines, some run into pages. Story within story - like vessels stacked one within another - is the running theme. The elderly may have seen little girls reciting “ಸೀತೇ ಕಾಲಲ್ಲಿ ಪದ್ಮರೇಖೆ ನೋಡೇ; ಪದ್ಮಾ ರೇಖೆಯೊಳಗೆ …” [“Look at the lotus whorls (padmā-rekhā) in Seeta’s foot; within lotus whorls …”] while playing. One wonders how huge Seeta’s foot might have been! According to this age-old poem, there is nothing which cannot be found in Sītā’s foot. Vatsarāja’s story is like that foot of Sītā; there is no story which isn’t trailed by another. Like the Ganga which flows from his matted locks, the story told by Shiva too flows across all the three worlds. Guṇāḍhya is the grandson of Vāsuki, the king of serpents; Vidyādharas are beings who roam the skies and live in the Himalayas; in their stories, Brahma and other deities, as well as Nārada and other divine sages commingle. Through the grace of Shiva, Naravāhanadatta is born and goes on to become the emperor of Vidyādharas. Apart from Jambūdvīpa, we see the tales of many other lands and islands like Śvetadvīpa, Karpuradvīpa, Haṃsadvīpa, Suvarṇadvīpa, Kaṭāhadvīpa and of the many adventurers and traders who journey back and forth.
It is commonly held that storytelling is the right and duty of grandmothers. In Kathā-sarit-sāgara though, apart from grandmothers, grandfathers, teachers and elders, even kings, queens, ministers, servants, assistants, animals, birds - pretty much everyone narrates stories. There is always a ready story for every occasion - A story to pass time; a story for someone who is unable to sleep; a story in support of something said, and a different one to oppose it as well! Whenever something happens, there is a corroborating story of an earlier birth narrated by someone who is gifted with memory across births, or has acquired power through penances or has miraculous or occult abilities. Even during battle, on the nights when a commander is unable to sleep and desires to hear a story, his assistants turn storytellers.
A few of these are about a millennium old and many have come crossing thousands of kilometres. The story of Ghaṭakarpara is a retelling of Herodotus’s Rhampsinitus. The story took its birth in Egypt. It is said that the story is about 2300 years old. Though the work contains several such stories, they neither come with foreign names for places or people nor do they have references to the cultural aspects of a foreign civilization. Except for the short story connected with Tājika [Tājika is a word of Persian origin. It refers to the Arabs, apparently. We don’t know when and for what reason they came to Kashmir – it is hard to even guess the relationship between this particular story and their coming to Kashmir], the characters that come as a part of the rest of the stories behave just like Indians. Greater India is a treasure-trove of stories. The Persians borrowed stories and ideas from India, which they passed on to the Arabs. This further went to Italy and the French and the English also picked up tales which are native to India. Among these, the Pañcatantra is a very popular collection of such stories. This is found in over fifty languages and is present in two hundred different forms. As the stories travelled away from India, their structure changed and so did some of the details. However, the original form of the stories can only be found in Greater India. In fact, the Kathā-sarit-sāgara – and its original source, the Bṛhatkathā – are truly the largest and oldest collection of stories in the world. These Indian works, thus, have the foremost position in the world.
The Vedas in general and the Brāhmaṇas in particular contain Upākhyānas (sub-stories) of Vṛtra, Hariścandra and Pururavas. These stories have, however, found the best expression in the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. Bhīṣma and Viśvāmitra narrate thousands of stories! The Vanaparva of the Mahābhārata is filled with stories that different sages narrate to console the Pāṇḍavas. The stories are interesting, entertaining, educative, and profound. Stories such as those of Nala and Damayantī are not just found in the Mahābhārata but have had their influence on the Jaina and Bauddha literature too. The Bṛhatkathā contains several stories of this genre. (It is quite a surprising fact that the Bṛhatkathā does not contain Sāvitrī’s story!) The nature and structure of the same story that occurs in different works differ from each other to some extent. The famous Upākhyānas of the Mahābhārata are found in the Bṛhatkathā too, but with a change of flavour. For instance, stories of Kuntī, Ahalyā, Dharmavyādha are found in the epics as well as in the Bṛhatkathā. The story of Rāmāyaṇa is also found in a nutshell here and the story of the Uttarakāṇḍa is also present in Bṛhatkathā. The Uttarakāṇḍa is supposed to be a ‘prakshipta’ (extrapolation) segment of the Rāmāyaṇa. It is quite possible that the story of the Uttarakāṇḍa as it occurs in the Bṛhatkathā was popular in a certain province and it later got appended to the Rāmayana. The story of Bhadraghaṭa is one such example – it is found in the Christian and Buddhist sources as well, but with quite some variations in the story. (History of Indian Literature II, see Pages 369-70). The story of the akṣaya-pātra that occurs in the Mahābhārata seems to be another form of the same tale. The story of Arjuna getting cursed by Ūrvaśī seems to have its origin in the Bṛhatkathā.
As we proceed further, there is a growth in the Jaina and the Bauddha stories and they take predominance in the story-telling tradition. It is in the nature of the stories from these traditions to exaggerate whatever they say – whether it is related to the world, to the devaloka or it is something to do with the amazing or the disgusting – everything is blown out of proportion. Moreover, the authors belonging to these traditions seem to come up with some kind of peculiarity and add a special feature of their own. At times, novelty only makes the original narrative lose its charm and discolours the story. Stories connected with Rundapuruṣa and his prostitute, Śaśi and his wife, the story of Tārāvalokana who sacrifices his wife and children – are stories that fall into this category. The love story that comes as a part of Yaśodharacarita is just like the story of Śaśi and Rundapuruṣa. Whatever may be the poetic beauty in the tale, the story itself is unbearable and quite a disgusting one. The story of Tārāvalokana tries to educate us about the importance of dāna; however, is dāna the only goal of a gṛhastha (householder, married man)? Isn’t it adharma to abandon his wife and children who have harboured great faith in him? The story of Devasena and his adherence to dharma is something worth praising today – when the commander-in-chief comes to the king to offer his wife for the latter’s pleasure, the king admonishes him and threatens to punish the commander-in-chief, who later even gives up his life out of repentance. Stories such as these take us through a labyrinth of tales and finally land at a meaningful point. At several instances in the work, the main story-line merely acts as a pretext to a series of anecdotes that emerge from it. The primary narration goes to the backdrop and the peripheral ones come to the forefront. These need not necessarily educate the reader in aspects of dharma and karma – it is sufficient if the stories entertain the connoisseur.
Udayana is supposedly the great-grand son of Janamejaya. The Bṛhatkathā is a work that was composed after the Mahābhārata. There is quite a lot of time difference between the two. While the Mahābhārata is a story that was narrated during the yajna of sages, the Bṛhatkathā was narrated by Śiva to his beloved wife, Pārvatī intimately and privately – it was meant as a pastime for her. It was retold by a person belonging to the Śiva-gaṇa – though the story has sages coming in, it is not mean as a preaching of dharma. Their stories are not like those who reside in the forests. While the Mahābhārata has dharma and mokṣa as its twofold aims, here, in the Bṛhatkathā, the world of artha and kāma comes to the foray. The Mahābhārata is a story, largely of the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas and the Bṛhatkathā is a lore of the vaiśyas and the śūdras.
This is an English translation of Prof. A R Krishna Shastri’s Kannada classic Kathāmṛta by Raghavendra G S, Arjun Bharadwaj, Srishan Thirumalai, and Hari Ravikumar.
The original Kannada version of Kathāmṛta is available for free online reading here. To read other works of Prof. Krishna Shastri, click here.
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37th President of the United States: 1969 ‐ 1974
Address to the Nation on Progress Toward Peace in Vietnam.
Good evening, my fellow Americans:
I have requested this television and radio time tonight to give you a progress report on our plan to bring a just peace to Vietnam.
When I first outlined our program last June, I stated that the rate of American withdrawals from Vietnam would depend on three criteria: progress in the training of the South Vietnamese, progress in the Paris negotiations, and the level of enemy activity.
Tonight I am pleased to report that progress in training and equipping South Vietnamese forces has substantially exceeded our original expectations last June.
Very significant advances have also been made in pacification.
Although we recognize that problems remain, these are encouraging trends.
However, I must report with regret that no progress has taken place on the negotiating front. The enemy still demands that we unilaterally and unconditionally withdraw all American forces, that in the process we overthrow the elected Government of South Vietnam, and that the United States accept a political settlement that would have the practical consequence of the forcible imposition of a Communist government upon the people of South Vietnam.
That would mean humiliation and defeat for the United States. This we cannot and will not accept.
Let me now turn to the third criteria for troop withdrawals--the level of enemy activity. In several areas since December, that level has substantially increased.
In recent months Hanoi has sent thousands more of their soldiers to launch new offensives in neutral Laos in violation of the Geneva Accords of 1969 to which they were signatories.
South of Laos, almost 40,000 Communist troops are now conducting overt aggression against Cambodia, a small neutralist country that the Communists have used for years as a base for attack upon South Vietnam in violation of the Geneva Accords of 1954 to which they were also signatories.
This follows the consistent pattern of North Vietnamese aggression in Indochina. During the past 8 years they have sent tens of thousands of troops into all three countries of the peninsula and across every single common border.
Men and supplies continue to pour down the Ho Chi Minh Trail; and in the past 2 weeks, the Communists have stepped up their attacks upon allied forces in South Vietnam.
However, despite this new enemy activity, there has been an overall decline in enemy force levels in South Vietnam since December.
As the enemy force levels have declined and as the South Vietnamese have assumed more of the burden of battle, American casualties have declined.
I am glad to be able to report tonight that in the first 3 months of 1970, the number of Americans killed in action dropped to the lowest first quarter level in 5 years.
In June, a year ago, when we began troop withdrawals, we did so on a "cut and try" basis--with no certainty that the program would be successful. In June we announced withdrawal of 25,000 American troops; in September another 35,000 and then in December 50,000 more. These withdrawals have now been completed and as of April 15, a total of 115,500 men have returned home from Vietnam.
We have now reached a point where we can confidently move from a period of "cut and try" to a longer-range program for the replacement of Americans by South Vietnamese troops.
I am, therefore, tonight announcing plans for the withdrawal of an additional 150,000 American troops to be completed during the spring of next year. This will bring a total reduction of 265,500 men in our Armed Forces in Vietnam below the level that existed when we took office 15 months ago.
The timing and pace of these new withdrawals within the overall schedule will be determined by our best judgment of the current military and diplomatic situation.
This far-reaching decision was made after consultation with our commanders in the field, and it has the approval of the Government of South Vietnam.
Now, viewed against the enemy's escalation in Laos and Cambodia, and in view of the stepped-up attacks this month in South Vietnam, this decision clearly involves risks.
But I again remind the leaders of North Vietnam that while we are taking these risks for peace, they will be taking grave risks should they attempt to use the occasion to jeopardize the security of our remaining forces in Vietnam by increased military action in Vietnam, in Cambodia, or in Laos.
I repeat what I said November 3d and December 15th. If I conclude that increased enemy action jeopardizes our remaining forces in Vietnam, I shall not hesitate to take strong and effective measures to deal with that situation.
My responsibility as Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces is for the safety of our men, and I shall meet that responsibility. The decision I have announced tonight to withdraw 150,000 more men over the next year is based entirely on the progress of our Vietnamization program.
There is a better, shorter path to peace--through negotiations. We shall withdraw more than 150,000 over the next year if we make progress at the negotiating front.
Had the other side responded positively at Paris to our offer of May 14 last year, most American and foreign troops would have left South Vietnam by now.
A political settlement is the heart of the matter. That is what the fighting in Indochina has been about over the past 30 years.
Now, we have noted with interest the recent statement by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Malik concerning a possible new Geneva conference on Indochina.
We do not yet know the full implications of this statement. It is in the spirit of the letters I wrote on April 7, to signatories of the 1962 Geneva Accords urging consultations and observance of the Accords. We have consistently said we were willing to explore any reasonable path to peace. We are in the process of exploring this one.
But whatever the fate of this particular move we are ready for a settlement fair to everyone.
Let me briefly review for you the principles that govern our view of a just political settlement.
First, our overriding objective is a political solution that reflects the will of the South Vietnamese people and allows them to determine their future without outside interference.
I again reaffirm this Government's acceptance of eventual, total withdrawal of American troops. In turn, we must see the permanent withdrawal of all North Vietnamese troops and be given reasonable assurances that they will not return.
Second, a fair political solution should reflect the existing relationship of political forces within South Vietnam. We recognize the complexity of shaping machinery that would fairly apportion political power in South Vietnam. We are flexible; we have offered nothing on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
And third, we will abide by the outcome of the political process agreed upon. President Thieu and I have repeatedly stated our willingness to accept the free decision of the South Vietnamese people. But we will not agree to the arrogant demand that the elected leaders of the Government of Vietnam be overthrown before real negotiations begin.
Let me briefly review the record of our efforts to end the war in Vietnam through negotiations.
We were told repeatedly in the past that our adversaries would negotiate seriously
--if only we stopped the bombing of North Vietnam;
--if only we began withdrawing our forces from South Vietnam;
--if only we dealt with the National Liberation Front as one of the parties to the negotiations;
--if only we would agree in principle to removal of all of our forces from Vietnam.
We have taken all these steps.
The United States, over a year and a half ago, stopped all bombing of North Vietnam. Long ago we agreed to negotiate with the National Liberation Front as one of the parties. We have already withdrawn 115,500 American troops. Tonight I have announced a decision to reduce American force levels by a quarter of a million men from what they were
15 months ago. We have offered repeatedly to withdraw all of our troops if the North Vietnamese would withdraw theirs. We have taken risks for peace that every fair and objective man can readily recognize.
And still there is no progress at the negotiating table.
It is Hanoi and Hanoi alone that stands today blocking the path to a just peace for all the peoples of Southeast Asia.
When our astronauts returned safely to earth last Friday, the whole world rejoiced with us. We could have had no more eloquent demonstration of a profound truth--that the greatest force working for peace in the world today is the fact that men and women everywhere, regardless of differences in race, religion, nationality, or political philosophy, value the life of a human being. We were as one as we thought of those brave men, their wives, their children, their parents.
The death of a single man in war, whether he is an American, a South Vietnamese, a Vietcong, or a North Vietnamese, is a human tragedy. That is why we want to end this war and achieve a just peace. We call upon our adversaries to join us in working at the conference table toward that goal.
No Presidential statement on Vietnam would be complete without an expression of our concern for the fate of the American prisoners of war.
The callous exploitation of the anxieties and anguish of the parents, the wives, the children of these brave men, as negotiating pawns, is an unforgivable breach of the elementary rules of conduct between civilized peoples. We shall continue to make every possible effort to get Hanoi to provide information on the whereabouts of all prisoners, to allow them to communicate with their families, to permit inspection of prisoners-of-war camps, and to provide for the early release of at least the sick and the wounded.
My fellow Americans, 5 years ago American combat troops were first sent to Vietnam. The war since that time has been the longest and one of the most costly and difficult conflicts in our history.
The decision I have announced tonight means that we finally have in sight the just peace we are seeking. We can now say with confidence that pacification is succeeding. We can now say with confidence that the South Vietnamese can develop the capability for their own defense. And we can say with confidence that all American combat forces can and will be withdrawn.
I could not make these statements tonight had it not been for the dedication, the bravery, the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of young men who have served in Vietnam. Nor could I have made it had it not been for the perseverance of millions of Americans at home.
When men write the history of this Nation, they will record that no people in the annals of time made greater sacrifices in a more selfless cause than the American people sacrificed for the right of 18 million people in a faraway land to avoid the imposition of Communist rule against their will and for the right of those people to determine their own future free of outside interference.
The enemy has failed to win the war in Vietnam because of three basic errors in their strategy.
They thought they could win a military victory. They have failed to do so.
They thought they could win politically in South Vietnam. They have failed to do so.
They thought they could win politically in the United States. This proved to be their most fatal miscalculation.
In this great free country of ours, we debate--we disagree, sometimes violently, but the mistake the totalitarians make over and over again is to conclude that debate in a free country is proof of weakness. We are not a weak people. We are a strong people. America has never been defeated in the proud 190-year history of this country, and we shall not be defeated in Vietnam.
Tonight I want to thank the American people for the support you have given so generously to the cause of a just peace in Vietnam.
It is your steadiness and your stamina that the leaders of North Vietnam are watching tonight. It is these qualities, as much as any proposals, that will bring them to negotiate.
It is America's resolve, as well as America's reasonableness, that will achieve our goal of a just peace in Vietnam and strengthen the foundations of a just and lasting peace in the Pacific and throughout the world.
Thank you and good night.
Note: The President spoke at 6 p.m. in his office at the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif. The address was broadcast live on radio and television.
On the same day, the White House Press Office released an advance text of the address.
Richard Nixon, Address to the Nation on Progress Toward Peace in Vietnam. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/241144
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BoG governor backs shift to broader deficit measure
Dr. Ernest Addison
The governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, says the Finance Ministry’s treatment of the cost of the financial sector clean-up and energy sector payments as exceptional expenditure—hence their exclusion from the computation of the fiscal deficit—should be reconsidered from now on.
Dr. Addison, speaking at Monday’s Monetary Policy Committee press briefing in Accra, suggested that the practice, introduced two years ago under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, has outlived its usefulness.
“In 2018, when we were under an IMF programme, in order to be able to monitor the budget performance, it was important that we computed the deficit to exclude the energy and financial sectors, as those were legacy problems that we had inherited.
Now that we have finished the programme, given the developments in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, this is the time to relook at that area—the broader fiscal deficit which includes the energy and the financial sector issues.
Over the medium term, we need to redefine the broader fiscal deficit, which gives you a better sense of the burden on the budget,” the governor explained.
In October, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said the financial sector bailout has cost the government GH¢21.6bn since 2018, an amount which is expected to go up given the release of fresh funds to pay investors of failed fund management companies.
Although the 2020 fiscal deficit is officially projected at 11.4 percent of GDP, the inclusion of additional financial sector expenses incurred during the year is likely to increase the gap to more than 13 percent of GDP.
Nevertheless, the central bank governor said he expects the Finance Ministry to cut the deficit to 5 percent of GDP by 2024, in compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
“The type of shock that we had in 2020 is not something that will easily be corrected. We think that we probably will revert to the fiscal rule in three years. We expect that in 2021, the budget deficit should be around 8.8 percent [of GDP]; [in] 2022, we see a further decline. It’s a gradual adjustment to where we want to be.”
Unchanged rate
The MPC, in what was its last meeting for the year, kept the policy rate unchanged at 14.5 percent. The governor explained that the pandemic has increased the financing needs of government, and a rate reduction will be a disincentive for investors seeking to buy government bonds.
Dr. Addison, who chairs the MPC, noted that the expansionary fiscal stance to address the COVID-19 pandemic has led to deviation from the path of fiscal consolidation.
“Looking ahead to 2021, a decisive fiscal correction plan would be needed to contain fiscal risks in the medium term,” the governor said.
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Creative Crowdfunding
Billboard & Guerrilla
Ran Cory
Learning from the Master: An Interview with Ran Cory
Ran Cory - CEO & VP Creative at Cory Group
You might not have heard of him per se, but if you’re serious about this crowdfunding thing, then you’ve probably come across his work. Ran Cory is the creative mastermind behind more than a few successful crowdfunders. His strategies, videos and advertising have catapulted the likes of MagicStick and Angel to international stardom, and have seen them featured in major media publications including Forbes and The Telegraph.
With an impressive collection of international advertising awards to his name, and over a decade working as a creative director on a number of high profile accounts, it is little wonder that Cory has established himself as crowdfunding’s answer to Simon Cowell. More selective than the music mogul, his well-deserved reputation means Ran gets the pick of the crowdfunding crop. Boring, run-of-the-mill ideas don’t interest him; but approach him with something that’s truly innovative, and you’ll have one of the biggest guns in crowdfunding at your disposal. So exactly what does it take to turn a crowdfunding campaign into a celebrated brand? We caught up with Ran in the hopes of discovering just that.
It’s difficult to spend only 10 minutes on Ran’s website. Peppered with videos from some of his most successful campaigns, it’s the type of site you can lose an hour to without even trying. Every video is completely different to the last, and each grabs your attention with the force of a raging bull — once you’ve clicked play, it’s impossible to look away. Which brings us to his first point; campaign videos matter.
“You have to intrigue your audience.” Ran reveals, “It doesn’t matter whether you have limitless resources or a tiny budget, the content of your video is important. Very few people read the content on your campaign page, 90% will watch the video. It must grab their attention within the first 15 seconds or they won’t buy.”
If you want to know what makes a good crowdfunding video, campaigns like MagicStick are a great place to start. “MagicStick was a very simple campaign,” Says Ran. “We shot a low budget video but it was interesting, well prepared and — most importantly — the product was good. If you want a successful campaign, you need a good product and a good video. And you need to know your audience.”
‘Know your audience’ is the kind of generic crowdfunding advice trotted out in every half assed how-to article out there. But Ran is keen to point out that there’s more to it than that, “The best advertising speaks to the audience on either an emotional or a rational level. If I’m selling MagicStick to gamers, jokes won’t work, they need facts and logical arguments. If I’m selling for parents, then I can afford to be emotional.” He explains, before emphasizing, “What doesn’t work is combining the two approaches. You can advertise emotionally or rationally, you can’t do both.”
That’s the kind of insight that makes it obvious the guy in the chair opposite really is the Godfather of advertising. So it was perhaps ill-advised to ask him for his best crowdfunding tricks. “I don’t believe in tricks.” He answers quickly, softening slightly as he adds, “You have to make a campaign relevant to people. If you want someone to remember your product, you have to create an emotional attachment. The things that work in advertising are children, dogs and old people. But when it comes to crowdfunding, it’s much, much harder to create a good campaign than a good commercial. A commercial is location specific, you can use national humor and in-jokes. Crowdfunding is international, your campaign has to be universal, it has to make people laugh, cry and feel something no matter what country they’re in. Like Seinfeld,” He adds with a smile, “That’s funny in any country, because everyone can relate to it.”
With his experience in the advertising world, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that this creative thinker is dead against rules, tips and tricks. “The best formula is no formula.” He emphasizes, “The biggest problem for campaigners is that they copy other campaigners. Just because a video worked for a campaign like yours, doesn’t mean it’ll work for you. People get bored fast — so replicating someone else’s campaign isn’t the best solution. You have to think creatively and you have to be original.”
You also have to have a very good product. “Crowdfunding today is completely different to how it was two years ago,” Cory explains. “There’s more competition and more crowdfunding platforms, you have to stand out in an oversaturated market. Getting journalists to write about you is harder now, too. They stuck their necks out for the Coolest Cooler campaign and it failed to deliver, so if you want media coverage, you need to prepare a genuine prototype that works and have everything in place to deliver to your backers.”
We won’t ask him for any more tricks, but maybe he has some advice he’d like to share with all you would-be crowdfunders out there? “People like to see a successful campaign, so it’s important to prepare before you launch. You need to build enough momentum to have at least 30% of your goal funded on the first day. MagicStick raised more money in the last week of their campaign purely because they’d already beaten their target. People want to be a part of a successful project. They want to back it and they want to write about it.” He pauses, before adding, “And hey, if anyone reading this has got a great product, they can always approach me about marketing it.” He smiles before adding, “Only the good ones though.”
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Rare is many. Rare is strong. Rare is proud
Rare Disease Day 2020 is on Saturday 29 February - a very rare day as it is a leap year. This year our message is that ‘Rare is many, rare is strong and rare is proud!’
Rare Disease Day is entering a new phase, focusing on advocating for increased equity for the rare disease community.
The campaign message reframes perceptions of what it means to be ‘rare’ so that no one is left behind in achieving greater equity.
We must re-double our efforts to show that rare isn't scarce, rare isn't infrequent, rare isn't remote.
In fact, there are more than 300 million patients, each supported by family, friends and a team of carers, that make up the rare disease community worldwide. Over 6,000 different diseases.
Collectively, they make up the third largest country in the world.
The likely truth is that you know one of the 1 in 20 people affected by a rare disease.
We need society to understand that millions of people living with a rare disease around the world face inequitable access to diagnosis, treatment and care.
It's time to show your support for people living with a rare disease to show that rare is many, rare is strong and rare is proud!
Rare is many. Rare is over 300 million people around the globe.
Rare is strong. The rare disease community joins together across borders and diseases to raise awareness and advocate for equity.
Rare is proud. Show your support for the rare disease community with pride!
Now's the time to start planning your Rare Disease Day activities!
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How restaurants can make the most of social media
This is part of Restaurant Hospitality's special coverage of the 2013 Food & Wine Classic held in Aspen, Colo., June 14-16. Follow all of our coverage >>
Bret Thorn | Jun 19, 2013
From left: Grant Achatz, Mike Church, Richard Blais and Geoffrey Zakarian
Social media tools are a great way for restaurant brands to engage with customers, but navigating all of the options available requires focus and commitment, according to participants in the American Express Restaurant Trade Program at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.
The program featured both a panel and a workshop in which participants including high-end chef Grant Achatz, Darden Restaurants executive Mike Church and TV star Andrew Zimmern, shared strategies for engaging their audiences and turning bad experiences into good ones.
“At the moment, I’m obsessed with Vine,” said Atlanta-based chef, restaurateur and TV personality Richard Blais of the short-form video application from Twitter.
Blais has more than 240,000 Twitter followers, and he said he likes using Vine’s stop-motion picture, which allows him to get up to 100 frames so he can show how dishes are plated.
Celebrity chef Chris Cosentino, owner of Incanto in San Francisco, showed attendees examples of that same thing in a workshop on social media. He said he particularly likes posting Vine videos of daily specials. “We sold out in 45 minutes,” he said of one dish.
Blais also has a YouTube show called Burger Lab. He puts the featured burger on his menu, encouraging customers to visit and try it.
Blais said he shoots three episodes of the show in one nine-hour session.
Similarly, Grant Achatz — chef-owner of Alinea, Next, The Aviary and The Office in Chicago — works with his staff to shoot a video for YouTube highlighting the upcoming incarnation of Next, a restaurant that reinvents itself every three months.
“It’s no different from a commercial,” Achatz said, adding that it allows him “to directly control the PR.”
Moderator Steve Dolinsky, food correspondent for ABC-7 in Chicago, showed a clip of the video promoting the latest version of the restaurant in which Next’s staff is shown stealing produce from other Chicago restaurants.
Keeping it personal
As vice president of “interactive ecosystem” for Darden Restaurants, Mike Church must focus on much bigger tasks than shooting videos. He’s working on integrating the social media of the more than 2,000 restaurants owned and operated by the Orlando, Fla.-based company, as well as figuring out how brands like Red Lobster and Olive Garden should interact compare with higher-end restaurants such as Capital Grille and Seasons 52.
Church said he wants the company’s customers to feel more connected with the individual restaurants they’re visiting. At the end of the day you’re in your neighborhood eating a meal with your family,” he said.
Darden has started to give employees guidelines on how to engage in personal and relevant ways online. He added that he is currently thinking about how to encourage customers to check in electronically at restaurants — something everyone does in person when they arrive. He’s also looking into how to integrate information about those consumers with their point-of-sale systems to record their favorite food and drinks, allergies and other special needs, and possibly to give extra perks to regulars.
Blais said some of his customers complain electronically — via Twitter, for example — while they’re in his restaurants. He said he has his chefs electronically connected, even in the kitchen, so they can address complaints in the moment. “Your guests will love you for that,” he said.
In the workshop, Cosentino said that he also liked to follow Twitter in the kitchen and provide special treats to guests who share their excitement about eating in his restaurants. “It’s random VIP treatment to people who have the courtesy to tell us they’re excited to be there,” he said.
That workshop also featured Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, who also stressed the importance of managing your own social media. He noted that he writes 75 percent to 80 percent of his own tweets. The rest — promotional information about his personal or television appearances — are pre-programmed.
He said he gets up to three million impressions per day on his seven social media outlets and websites, so he always has someone in his office monitoring activity.
“For me, the real pleasure, and why I’m so active in social media, is it’s how I get a lot of my information and keep up with my friends,” he said, adding that before he visits an exotic locale, he asks via social media for advice about places to visit.
He also follows the #bizarrefoods hash tag when his show is airing and participates in the conversations as his fans tweet about the show.
“It freaks them out. It’s like I’m sitting on the couch with them,” he said.
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Latham joins casualty list from New Zealand's worst tour
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Tom Latham became the latest casualty from New Zealand’s poor cricket tour of Australia after X-rays confirmed the opening batsman broke a finger in the third test in Sydney, the team said on Wednesday.
FILE PHOTO: Cricket - New Zealand v England - Second Test - Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand - November 29, 2019 New Zealand's Tom Latham in action REUTERS/Ross Setford
The 27-year-old, who led the team in the absence of the ill Kane Williamson in the 279-run loss that completed a 3-0 series whitewash by the Australians, is expected to be out of action for four weeks.
New Zealand host India later this month in a Twenty20 series, but Latham was unlikely to make that squad anyway having not played a T20 international since 2017.
The team said in a statement they expected he would be fit for the three-match one-day series that starts in early February.
Latham was just one of three players to have broken bones on the tour, with opening bowler Trent Boult sustaining a fracture in his right hand during the second test in Melbourne.
Matt Henry, Boult’s replacement for the third game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, then broke his left thumb while fielding early on the first day.
Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson also broke down after bowling 11 overs with a calf strain in the first test in Perth and was ruled out of the remainder of the tour.
Williamson, middle-order batsman Henry Nicholls and all-rounder Mitch Santner all also missed the third test after suffering from influenza.
New Zealand coach Gary Stead said all of the injured or ill players were still recuperating but likely to be in contention to face India next month.
“Lockie Ferguson has returned to running and performing bowling drills,” Stead said in the statement, adding that he expected the fast bowler to play domestic cricket next month.
“Trent Boult has been resting his broken right-hand and will return to bowling later this week. He’ll be touch-and-go to be available for the Indian T20 series later this month.
“Matt Henry has had his broken left-thumb splinted and will require around a month for it to fully heal.”
The loss was New Zealand’s first whitewash in a three-match series in Australia and the team, riding high after a superb run over the last two years, have been heavily criticised on both sides of the Tasman Sea.
The team were described as “gutless” by Stuff Media columnist Mark Reason, while Australia’s Fox Sports’ Tom Morris hoped New Zealand did not return “until they can offer more of a contest”.
Reporting by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Richard Pullin
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Dogs in Space
Carlton Scene
CHCMC
Little Bands
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND IS BEING UPDATED...PLEASE COME BACK SOON
DOGS IN SPACE:
The film 'Dogs in Space' centres on a group of young music fans sharing a house in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond. Sam (Michael Hutchence) and Tim (Nique Needles) are the key members of a band called Dogs in Space, and share a house with a variety of social misfits, including Sam's girlfriend Anna (Saskia Post), a university student called Luchio (Tony Helou) and a transient and apparently nameless teenager known only as The Girl (Deanna Bond).
The film's minimal plot traces the day-to-day existence of the characters, particularly the relationship between Sam and Anna, and is largely made up of a sequence of party scenes involving live music and drug use. In between, there are trips to Ballarat (at the time, the closest town to Melbourne with a 24-hour convenience store) and humorous encounters with an aggressive neighbour (Joe Camilleri) and one character's fast-talking, chainsaw-wielding uncle (Chris Haywood), who simply turns up one afternoon with his family (the baby in this scene is Lowenstein's niece Robyn). There is also a minor incident in which the characters burn some rubbish in a plan to claim it as a piece of Skylab for a local radio station. In the end, the group's dysfunctional and hedonistic lifestyle claims a victim when Anna dies from a heroin overdose. Footage of Sputnik 2 is intercut with the narrative, focused largely on Laika (the first dog in space), and can also be seen on television in the background of several scenes.
For full cast and crew credits click HERE
SOUNDTRACK:
The soundtrack album was released on Chase Records in February 1987 (CLPX14), featuring several tracks from reformed "little bands" and other contemporary tracks of the time.
The album came in two versions: a censored version in a white sleeve with the band name "Thrush & the Cunts" bowdlerised to "Thrush and the C**ts" and possibly-offensive song vocal tracks removed, and an "R"-rated version in a black sleeve with all band names in full, movie dialogue between the songs and all vocal tracks in full. The album's liner notes were written by Clinton Walker.
Chase Records went out of business soon after and, despite much effort, the record has never been reissued and has remained unavailable since. It is now a collector's item, commanding high prices. It was only available on LP and cassette and was issued on CD - at least the censored version appeared on discount bins in shopping malls in Lisbon, Portugal, somewhere around 1996-1997.
The Hutchence tracks were his second official solo recordings, after releasing a single in 1982 titled "Speed Kills" from the soundtrack to the film "Freedom," and his first with Ollie Olsen. They would later collaborate on the Max Q recordings.
Side One:
"Dog Food" (Iggy Pop)
"Dogs In Space" (Michael Hutchence)
"Win/Lose" (Ollie Olsen)
"Anthrax" (Gang of Four)
"Skysaw" (Brian Eno)
"True Love" (Marching Girls)
"Shivers" (Boys Next Door)
Side Two:
"Diseases" (Thrush & the Cunts)
"Pumping Ugly Muscle" (The Primitive Calculators)
"Golf Course" (Michael Hutchence)
"The Green Dragon" (Michael Hutchence)
"Shivers" (Marie Hoy and friends)
"Endless Sea" (Iggy Pop)
"Rooms For The Memory" (Michael Hutchence)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_Space
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092904/fullcredits/
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Dogs-In-Space-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/393066
http://michaelhutchence.org/dogs-in-space-interview/
http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/resurrection-of-dogs-in-space.html
http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/miff-premiere-fund-post-punk-dossier/dogs-in-space/
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/at-the-scene-of-the-grime-20090726-dx7s.html
https://illwearanycoloraslongasitsblack.wordpress.com/2010/12/
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Research Centre: Creating 010
Open Day – 6 February 2021
Interior Architecture: Research + Design
Experimental Publishing
Lens-Based
Education in Arts
Application / Funding
Piet Zwart Institute > Renée Turner
Master Fine Art
Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design
Master Media Design And Communication
Master Education In Arts
Lens-Based Media
Master Design
Renée Turner
Renée Turner is an artist and writer who received her MFA from the University of Arizona and an MA (Hons) in Creative Writing and New Media from De Montfort University. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan, the Rijksakademie, and Jan van Eyck Academy. From 1996 to 2012, she collaborated under the name De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research. Parallel to her practice as an artist, she has taught art, theory and design at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, and St. Joost Academy. She was the former director of the Piet Zwart Institute, and is currently a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy. She is also a Ph.D. supervisor for the PhDArts programmme at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Recently, she was awarded a Start-up Grant from the Creative Industry Funds, and a two-year grant for established talent from the Mondriaan Foundation to work as an artist in residence at the Castrum Peregrini Foundation..
At the Master Education in Arts Renée Turner is graduation supervisor. Her fields of expertise are: higher art and design education; digital cultures & education; feminist/queer/critical pedagogies; political art and design practices; artistic research and community based practices.
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Novelist, Film Director/Producer & Physicist
Robert H. Lieberman
"Angkor Awakens"
Angkor Awaken Press Kit:
News Coverage of "Angkor Awakens"
http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/film/1175229/rousing-history-from-its-slumber
https://opendemocracy.net/billy-sawyers/angkor-awakens
Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/angkor-awakens-puts-spotlight-nations-youth
Cambodian Daily
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sweeping-film-views-cambodia-high-122157/
Ithaca Times
http://www.ithaca.com/entertainment/film/two-films-drive-to-the-heart-of-complex-issues/article_7347aace-a11f-11e6-af8d-1f8d7d4d41fa.html
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/new-documentary-digs-deep-cambodian-psyche-finds-hope
Phnom Penh Post (Hun Sen Interview)
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/getting-cambodias-heads
Cornell Daily Sun
http://cornellsun.com/2016/10/05/a-story-of-selective-remembrance-angkor-awakens-at-cornell-cinema/
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/09/angkor-awakens-explores-cambodias-hope-traumatic-past
Ithaca Journal
http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2016/09/27/local-documentary-explores-effects-cambodias-past/90728296/
http://cornellsun.com/2016/09/20/professor-creates-portrait-of-cambodia-in-film/
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/they-call-it-myanmar-meeting-maker
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16145/film-interview-high-on-pm---s-un-visit/
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19985/robert-lieberman---s----breaking-baksabat---/
Selected Review for “Angkor Awakens— A Portrait of Cambodia”
Rousing history from its slumber:
How a Westerner fitted Cambodia's history inside one 90-minute documentary
“Angkor Awakens” pulls a rabbit out of the hat with its extensive interview with strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose reflections on the state of his country as well as his memory of the Khmer Rouge era become a center piece of the story.
“Angkor Awakens” director Robert H. Lieberman condenses the past and present of Cambodia into 90 minutes. From the ruins of Angkor Wat to the Khmer Rouge horror and present-day testimonies, the film highlights the key episodes in the country's cultural and political development.
Angkor Awakens is a probing, psychological account of Cambodia, an arresting new film that tackles Cambodia’s entangled past unreservedly.
It offers a profound insight into a Cambodian psyche fraught with trauma and trepidation (and) tells this tragic story in full, and finds plenty of cause for hope at the end.
In one of the film’s most harrowing sections, we are shown footage of land disputes, acid attacks and brutal violence on the streets between ordinary citizens.
In the film’s most striking scene, Hun Sen becomes incensed when questioned about this state-sanctioned violence. “In America when a person is shot by the police … is it Obama doing the shooting?” he asks Lieberman provocatively, moving to the edge of his seat and pointing at the director. “You say people are doing it under my orders. So how many people has Obama killed like that?”
Breathtaking glimpses of Cambodia’s rolling rice fields, forests, shorelines, temples and palaces fill the opening sequence of the documentary “Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia”—an attempt to encapsulate the country’s vast scenery in one short sweep. In a similar way, the film tries to wrap the entirety of Cambodia’s complex history into 125 minutes.
Mr. Lieberman’s use of Khmer shadow puppets to illustrate the country’s history brings a unique color to the documentary without trivializing the gravity of the story.
—Cambodia Daily
"The director of "Ankgor Awaken” Robert H. Lieberman, digs into the generational effects of genocide and depicts the future Cambodia with his unique perspective as a child of the Holocaust. I am very honored to be the first Chinese reviewer of the film. As the only Chinese TV correspondent ever based in Cambodia to do an in-depth report on the trial of Khmer Rouge, I have heard over the years so many sad and horrific stories…however, the stories filmed by Robert Lieberman still touched me deeply. "
—Susie Deng, Editor-in-Chief, Sina TV News, China
Angkor Awakens peels back the modern westernized rhetoric… and does an amazing job in piecing together an often ignored narrative from the many voices and accounts of the Cambodian people who experienced, currently experience and will continue to experience the effects of the 20th century’s chaos. What’s incredible, as the film shows, is how Cambodia is slowly managing to recover from the complete overturning of its culture—that despite the violence, people are able to hope for a better future even through the worst of times.
Four years in the making… is an ambitious study of Cambodian politics as it operates within the collective psyche, spread across generations._
The film takes on the saga of Cambodia’s history for those beyond its borders.
For all its exploration of the darkness, Angkor Awakens is not a tragic film.
‑Phnom Penh Post
In just under 90 minutes, Lieberman’s film covers a great deal of complex history and background on Cambodia, taking in the Vietnam War, Kent State and Nixon and Kissinger…. it’s brave of the film to include Bernie Sanders in debate calling Kissinger on the carpet for war crimes.)
The film confronts the anger that drives the new generation, as well as the lack of information and education about the past.
—The Ithaca Times
A psychological analysis of the people…. A usually reluctant subject, Hun Sen agreed to an interview, threw out his prepared answers and had a free-ranging conversation with Lieberman
The new film follows the international success of Lieberman’s documentary, “They Call It Myanmar,” a 2012 New York Times Critics’ Pick. His current project is an animated feature adapting his 2015 novel “The Nazis, My Father and Me,” being made in Paris with “The Triplets of Belleville” producer Didier Brunner.
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State ferry system and economy need new ferries | Guest column
Sun Feb 24th, 2019 1:30am
Submitted by Rick Hughes
San Juan County Council
Washington State Ferries’ new Long Range Plan, released in January, was the result of nearly two years of input, experience and expertise of a wide range of stakeholders who know what it takes to ensure the viability of the largest ferry system in the United States.
Advisory committees from all the state’s ferry communities; businesses; transportation advocates; local governments; elected officials; and tribal governments were among those who had a say in the plan.
It’s no coincidence that the most pressing recommendations involved service reliability and building five new 144-car Olympic-class ferries as soon as possible.
The ferry system is aging, overburdened, and having difficulty meeting the needs of riders in its current form. But things will get worse if the Legislature doesn’t act. Thirteen of the fleet’s 23 vessels are due for retirement over the next 20 years. During that same period, state ferry ridership is expected to grow by over 30 percent — from 24.5 million riders to 32 million. For many residents and visitors that live and visit ferry-served communities, Washington State Ferries is the State Highway System and our farm-to-market route. WSF does not just serve ferry communities but provides access to goods and services from around the state and for many, reliable routes to health care and veterans services.
The time is now for new ferries. New vessels need to be constructed quickly and added to the fleet in order to relieve boats desperately needing maintenance and to replace boats overdue for retirement. If we don’t get started now, it’ll be years before a new boat can be added to the system.
According to WSF, the Olympic-class vessels are the right size and design to begin strengthening the WSF fleet for the long-term. They are large enough to serve nearly every route in the system, and building more of them will allow the ferry system to standardize its fleet under a common hull design, leading to cost efficiencies in training and spare parts, and interchangeability of labor.
The Long Range Plan also states the existing Olympic-class design can also be reworked for hybrid electric-diesel propulsion, allowing WSF to meet its emission reduction targets and support our state’s environmental goals and provide assistance to helping the survival of Chinook salmon and the Southern resident orca population.
These new boats are needed to ensure the viability of the state ferry system. The system is at a crossroads, where service reliability is beginning to deteriorate despite WSF’s efforts to prioritize service over other competing needs.
Here in the San Juan Islands, ferry ridership continues to grow, and the demand for reliable ferry service is increasing. The ferry system also acts as a gateway for tourism, commerce and medical transport, which provides support for our local economy. But the Tillikum turns 60 years old this year and has reached the end of its service life. Four out of the five ferries serving in San Juan County have gold stripes on their smokestacks, which in the nautical world is a great honor, 50 years of service, but with this service comes ever-increasing maintenance costs and potential breakdowns. In the coming years, these four ferries are all set to be retired. We simply can’t wait. Investing in new ferries is critical for the long-term health of our economy and mobility of our residents.
State lawmakers should approve funding for new ferries as soon as possible. The state’s ferry communities need new vessels and a reliable ferry system.
Rick Hughes is the San Juan County council member from District 2, Orcas and a member of the SJC Ferry Advisory Committee.
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Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy
Edited by Fiona Leigh
The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in some cases, to both. Susanne Bobzien argues that Frege plagiarised the Stoics in respect of logic, Gail Fine compares uses of doxa and epistêmê in the Phaedo to contemporary notions of belief and knowledge, David Sedley offers a novel interpretation of ‘safe’ causal explanation in the Phaedo, and Gábor Betegh understands the ingredients of the soul in the Timaeus as structuring thought and speech...
The Afterlife of Apuleius
Edited by F. Bistagne, C. Boidin, and R. Mouren
Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.
The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High...
The Afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides
Edited by John North and Peter Mack
Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides the Athenian were the two most famous and earliest (fifth century bce) of the Greek historians whose work survives; their subject was the wars between the Greek cities and the Persian Empire and later those between the Greek cities themselves. Their names are frequently linked and their work compared and contrasted: Herodotus’ history ranged adventurously both in space and time; Thucydides limited himself to the events of his own day. Herodotus’ work is certainly more fun to read; Thucydides approaches more closely to the modern conception of ‘scientific’ history-writing.
This book seeks to explore the reception of their writings from the Byzantine era until...
Unweaving 'The Odyssey': Barbara Köhler’s 'Niemands Frau'
Rebecca May Johnson
How has classical literature shaped culture, knowledge, the thinkable? What happens when a canonical text is translated from his gaze into her, and their, gaze(s)? These are some of the questions Barbara Köhler pursues in her modern epic poem, Niemands Frau (2007), her response to The Odyssey. Translated and re-imagined over the centuries, Homer’s tale found critical resonance in intellectual traditions from Christianity through to Post-Colonialism. Odysseus has been viewed as an ideal, reputedly using reason rather than force to dominate, but in Niemands Frau Köhler takes inspiration from Penelope to weave a text that challenges the rationalist and patriarchal...
Greek large-scale bronze statuary: the late archaic and classical periods
Kosmas Dafas
This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification, and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features and casting techniques. It contains over 170 plates of photographs and drawings to illustrate its discussion.
It also places the development of the casting techniques in connection with the stylistic evolution in Greek free-standing sculpture. During the Classical period, artists preferred bronze to marble when creating their contrapposto figures. Indisputably, bronze gave particular freedom to artists in creating...
The Afterlife of Plutarch
Plutarch’s writings have had a varied reception history from when he was writing in the second century BCE down to today. This volume starts from what may be a translation into the Syriac dialect of a lost Plutarch essay; continues with a tribute from a leading scholar of the later Byzantine period; and follows the centuries of sustained enthusiasm from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. This period started once a translation into Latin had become available, and ended when scholars in the nineteenth century lowered Plutarch’s reputation as historian, biographer, philosopher, and stylist. By the end of the century, he came to symbolize in the eyes of Tolstoy precisely what history should not be. Both the...
The Mycenaean Seminar 2015-16
Edited by Greg Woolf
The Afterlife of Virgil
Edited by P Mack and John North
Virgil has always been copied, studied, imitated, and revered as perhaps the greatest poet of the Latin language. He has been centrally important to the transmission of the classical tradition, and has played a unique role in European education. In recognition of the richness of his reception the fourth conferences in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.
This volume focuses on the reception of the Eclogues and the Aeneid in three main areas: Italian Renaissance poetry, scholarship and visual art; English responses to Virgil’s poetry; and emerging literatures in Eastern Europe in the seventeenth and...
The Afterlife of Cicero
Edited by G Manuwald
Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis for the study of Cicero’s reception, by examining in detail new aspects of its variety. The conference was held in May 2015, and was jointly organized by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Warburg Institute, and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London.
The book presents twelve case studies on the reception of ‘Cicero the writer’ and ‘Cicero the man’, ranging from thirteenth-century...
Space in Greek Tragedy (BICS Supplement 131)
Edited by Vassiliki Kampourelli
This book presents a critical application of semiotic models to Greek tragic space. It thus reappraises certain aspects of the tragic texts themselves by illuminating the semantics of space, that is, the ways in which space may contribute to the creation of meaning. After the formulation of a working model appropriate to the examination of space in Greek tragedy, an analysis of the proposed categories of tragic space follows. The architectural space of tragedy is then examined with particular reference to the ways in which it finds expression in the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens. Drawing widely on the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes, the focus turns to the interactions between the proposed categories of tragic space.
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The Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM – Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática) was founded in 1969, during the 7th Brazilian Mathematical Colloquium at Poços de Caldas. Its aims are to congregate mathematicians and Mathematics teachers, to promote the development and dissemination of Mathematics, in all its aspects, across the country and to foster international collaboration.
The SBM’s actions are achieved by various means, such as:
Production and publication of books and periodicals, which go from popular science to current mathematical research subjects;
Organization of academic events, in various levels and in all Brazil’s regions, related both to research and improvement of the Mathematics teaching;
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The SBM has signed bilateral reciprocity agreements with a number of mathematical societies. Click here for a list. Under these agreements, members of one of the partner societies are entitled to (usually 50%) discounts in the annual membership fee of the other society, while having the status and advantages of full membership.
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SBM Offshore awarded contracts for ExxonMobil FPSO Prosperity
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has confirmed the award of contracts for the next phase of the Payara development project located in the Stabroek block in Guyana. Under these contracts, SBM Offshore will construct, install and then lease and operate the Prosperity FPSO for a period of up to two years, after which the FPSO ownership and operation will transfer to EEPGL. The award follows completion of front-end engineering and design studies, completion of the multi-purpose hull, receipt of requisite government approvals and the final investment decision on the project by ExxonMobil and block co-venturers.
The Payara development is the third development within the Stabroek block, circa 200 kilometers offshore Guyana. EEPGL is the operator and holds a 45 percent interest in the Stabroek block, Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. holds a 30 percent interest and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited holds a 25 percent interest.
The Prosperity FPSO will utilize a design that largely replicates the design of the Liza Unity FPSO. As such, the design is based on SBM Offshore’s industry leading Fast4Ward® program that incorporates the Company’s new build, multi-purpose hull combined with several standardized topsides modules. The FPSO will be designed to produce 220,000 barrels of oil per day, will have associated gas treatment capacity of 400 million cubic feet per day and water injection capacity of 250,000 barrels per day. The FPSO will be spread moored in water depth of about 1,900 meters and will be able to store around 2 million barrels of crude oil.
As a result of the award from EEPGL, SBM Offshore also anticipates the award of contracts to Guyanese companies for work to be performed in Guyana. For example, the Company is looking at executing scope for fabrication and coating of a portion of the light structural steel for the FPSO in Guyana, which would be a first for SBM Offshore in country. Additionally, SBM Offshore is preparing to recruit and employ Guyanese engineers into the Payara project team. Both activities are focused on development of Guyanese capacity, building on efforts to date for the Liza Destiny and Liza Unity FPSOs.
Bruno Chabas, CEO of SBM Offshore, commented:
“We are pleased to announce that ExxonMobil has awarded SBM Offshore the contracts for the third FPSO in Guyana, signed under the existing long term FPSO supply agreement with ExxonMobil. This award demonstrates the competitiveness of world class deep water reservoirs and the added value that SBM Offshore’s Fast4Ward® program brings to these large-scale developments. The SBM Offshore team is proud that the constructive collaboration with the ExxonMobil team continues, while contributing to the development of the offshore energy industry in Guyana.”
The Company’s main activities are the design, supply, installation, operation and the life extension of floating production solutions for the offshore energy industry over the full lifecycle. The Company is market leading in leased floating production systems, with multiple units currently in operation.
As of December 31, 2019, the Company employed approximately 4,450 people worldwide spread over offices in our key markets, operational shore bases and the offshore fleet of vessels.
SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies.
Where references are made to SBM Offshore N.V. and /or its subsidiaries in general, or where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular company or companies “SBM Offshore” or “the Company” are sometimes used for convenience.
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Scandit Raises $5.5M to Lead Transformation of Mobile Barcode Scanning and Data Capture Industry
Press release from PRWeb.
Scandit (https://www.scandit.com), developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning and data capture platform for smartphones, tablets and wearable computing devices, today announced that it has raised $5.5m to strengthen its market leading position and transform the face of the automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) industry.
The investment has been made by a small group of high net worth technology entrepreneurs —all experienced in the development of successful enterprise software companies. The funding round was led by Ariel Luedi, CEO at hybris, the leading e-commerce vendor, which last year was acquired by SAP. Luedi has joined the Scandit Board of Directors.
Scandit was founded in 2009 and has established itself as the leader in the emerging BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) scanning market for employees and consumers while also providing a more cost-effective alternative to traditional, dedicated hardware device scanners. In the last 18 months the company has multiplied its licensee base by a factor of 30. Scandit now serves more than 12,000 licensees in 80 countries and processes hundreds of millions of scans per year.
Customers of Scandit’s enterprise-grade mobile scanning and cloud services platform include major retailers, manufacturers, logistics companies and other enterprises, such as Ahold, Bayer, Capital One, Coop, Homeplus (Tesco), NASA and Saks Fifth Avenue. Benefits range from increasing customer engagement and satisfaction (e.g., mobile shopping, self scanning) to improving customer service for merchants (e.g., clienteling, mobile point-of-sale) and streamlining back-office processes (e.g., inventory management, asset tracking). Scandit’s cloud services deliver user and license management, analytics, scan performance analysis, and more.
“There is a huge opportunity to transform the barcode scanning and data capture industry and expand the market through software-based solutions running on consumers’ and employees’ smart mobile devices,” said Samuel Mueller, CEO at Scandit. “The funding allows us to further expand our business internationally, invest heavily in R&D of disruptive data capture technologies and cloud services, and better serve enterprise customers, primarily in Europe and North America.”
“Scandit is in the process of disrupting the older, more conservative hardware-focused market while simultaneously creating new opportunities, both in the consumer and enterprise markets,” said Ariel Luedi. “We were surprised how many use cases rely on the capabilities Scandit can offer today. We have never seen an enterprise software company serving so many world-class brands at this early stage, and we are excited to join the Scandit team on their path to success.”
The ubiquity of smartphones and tablets in the consumer market and the benefits of mobile apps have spilled over into the enterprise sector. Scandit is accelerating this trend by delivering enterprise-grade AIDC functionality, not just on smartphones and tablets but also for wearable devices. The company turns the traditional model for barcode scanning on its head by utilizing sophisticated software running on commodity mobile hardware and camera modules as opposed to building more expensive and less flexible dedicated hardware for particular applications. By allowing employees and consumers alike to participate in critical business processes through software-based scan technology, such as self-scanning or mobile ordering, Scandit removes operational inefficiencies and creates new revenue opportunities for its customers.
About Scandit
Scandit enables retail, manufacturing and logistics businesses to maximize operational performance and drive new revenue streams via enterprise-grade barcode scanning, OCR and data capture software for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices. With more than 12,000 licensees in 80 countries, Scandit processes hundreds of millions of scans per year. Its mobile scan technology and associated cloud services combine to deliver the platform of choice for many of the world’s most prestigious brands, including Ahold, Bayer, Coop, Homeplus (Tesco), NASA and Saks Fifth Avenue. Founded in 2009 by a group of researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich and IBM Research, today Scandit and its network of global integration and technology partners are pushing the boundaries of mobile AIDC (automatic identification and data capture), delivering ground-breaking identification and data capture applications to customers. Scandit is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and has just opened a new office in San Francisco. For more information visit https://www.scandit.com.
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The Life and Legacy of Ross Perot
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Obituary of Ross Perot Honoring a Life of Service
Henry Ross Perot, loving husband, brother, father and grandfather, died July 9, 2019, at his home in Dallas. He was 89 years old. With his death, the world has lost a true American patriot and a man of rare vision, integrity and deep compassion.
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He is survived by his wife, Margot; his sister, Bette Perot; son Ross Jr. and his wife Sarah Perot; daughter Nancy and her husband Rod Jones; daughter Suzanne and her husband, Patrick McGee; daughter Carolyn and her husband Karl Rathjen; daughter Katherine and her husband Eric Reeves; grandchildren Hill, Hunter, Sarah Catherine (and her husband Reed Ruschhaupt) and Meredith Perot; Ross (and his wife Tori), Price, Ben and Clayton Mulford; Patrick, William, Margot and Cameron McGee; Henry and Bette Rathjen; Kate Flanagan and Stuart Reeves; and three step-grandchildren Elizabeth Reeves and Caroline and Will Jones.
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Obituary of Ross Perot
Ross was born June 27, 1930, in Texarkana, Texas, to Gabriel Ross and Lulu May Perot. Ross often said that although he was born during the Great Depression, he was abundantly blessed in all the ways that mattered most because of the love and example of his wonderful parents.
He gave them credit for laying the foundation for all of his later successes. This foundation was, at its core, a deep faith in God. His parents emphasized the importance of honesty and generosity, hard work and the central value of family.
The Boy Scouts shaped his life immeasurably. As a member of Texarkana’s Troop 18, Ross became an Eagle Scout at the age of 13. He credited the Scouts with teaching him to be a morally upright and responsible citizen, with a commitment to better the lives of his fellow man, his community and his country.
After two years at Texarkana College, Ross received an appointment in 1949 to the United States Naval Academy, which had been his longtime dream. As he often said, “I had never seen the ocean, and I had never seen a ship – but I knew that I wanted to go to the Naval Academy.” His leadership ability became evident as he served as a battalion commander and president of his class. He also chaired the Honor Committee, which developed the Naval Academy’s Honor Code.
While at the Naval Academy, he met the love of his life, Margot Birmingham, then a student at Goucher College in Baltimore. They were married Sept. 15, 1956, at the First Presbyterian Church in Margot’s hometown of Greensburg, Penn.
After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1953, Ross was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy, when the country was in the last stages of the Korean War. He was assigned to the USS Sigourney, a destroyer on which he served until a truce was signed ending the war. He later served as assistant navigator on the USS Leyte, an aircraft carrier, until he resigned from the Navy. As he was preparing to leave, he was offered a job with IBM in Dallas.
Sales was a skill he learned early; he often shared that he had his business school experience in the streets of Texarkana. He started his entrepreneurial journey working at his father’s side selling saddles, later progressing to selling the horses. In his words, he was the “day trader" of his time. He would buy a horse in the morning and sell it that afternoon to make a small profit.
Ross applied those same skills to selling newspapers, first by horse and later by bike. He also worked after school at his father’s cotton brokerage as well as training horses. With this early training, he developed an instinct for sales. At IBM, he excelled to the point that in January of 1962, he met his sales quota for the entire year.
With characteristic modesty, Ross often remarked that he did well at IBM because of high demand. It was thought then that every large company needed a computer, so it was, as he said, “like selling umbrellas when it was raining.” In truth, he was determined in his efforts to sell what were then million-dollar machines. He was thorough with his research and attentive to the customers’ needs, and because of that, he began to notice that few of his customers knew how to operate their computer systems.
In addition to hardware, Ross believed that IBM should begin offering a full suite of data processing services, customized to each client. Seeing an unmet need and an opportunity, he tried to persuade IBM to enter the computer support services business. When the company declined, Ross struck out on his own. On June 27, 1962, with $1,000 saved from his work and Margot’s teaching salary, he founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
“Our business is the intelligent use of computers” was the EDS tagline. In reality, the business was the start a new industry: information technology services. Eventually, he would take EDS public, create a second company, Perot Systems, and take that public, too. Ross had a keen instinct for spotting great talent and the EDS and Perot Systems teams were full of the best and brightest. Together, those two companies created tens of thousands of jobs in the United States and internationally. They not only created an industry, but also laid the foundation for the future technological era.
In business and in life, Ross was a man of integrity and action. He valued what Teddy Roosevelt called “the man in the arena,” the one who strives valiantly, with great courage, not standing on the sidelines. Like his father, Ross had a sunny optimism, believing that with effort and skill, almost any problem could be solved. When he saw a problem, he stepped up and tried to fix it. His actions revealed his philosophy: “If not me, who? And if not now, when?”
Ross was a loyal son of Texas and a deeply patriotic citizen, and over the years, he served at the request of governors and presidents on various committees and task forces. In 1979, he was appointed by Gov. Bill Clements to lead the Texas War on Drugs to toughen drugs laws in the state and increase public awareness. In 1984, at the behest of Gov. Mark White, he led a statewide education reform initiative that recommended pay increases for teachers, preschool programs and more state aid to property-poor school districts.
His willingness to serve his country was most public in his two presidential campaigns, in 1992 and 1996. Both times he ran as a third-party candidate with a platform centered on campaign reform, protecting American workers from outsourcing and cutting the national debt. His 1992 run was particularly historic. In that election, he won 19.7 million votes, almost 20% of the total. It was more than any third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912.
Ross received 19 honorary doctorates from universities and prestigious awards for his humanitarianism and business achievements. Notable among the awards were the Winston Churchill Award, presented by Prince Charles and Nancy Reagan; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for his commitment to national security; the Distinguished Graduate Award from the U.S. Naval Academy; and the National Patriot Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. He also received the Horatio Alger Award for his contributions to the free enterprise system. One of his most meaningful honors was in 2017 when Gen. Robert B. Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, came to Dallas and named Ross an Honorary Marine, United States Marine Corps, for his unyielding support and devotion to corps and community.
Ross was particularly dedicated to the men and women who fight for our freedom. As a veteran, he knew the sacrifices made by the armed forces and he supported them in every way he could. Some of his efforts were very public: During the Vietnam War, he joined forces with the wives of the U.S. POWs to raise awareness for those men who were either missing in action or being held captive. He organized mission trips to improve the conditions of POWs and worked tirelessly to secure their freedom.
After the first Gulf War, Ross funded the research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to understand the neurotoxic brain damage many of the soldiers were experiencing after returning home. The ailment was later recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs as Gulf War Syndrome. This led to federally funded treatment of those suffering its debilitating symptoms. However, most of his efforts on behalf of service members were private and individual. Each interaction left him more in awe of these courageous and patriotic Americans and he was honored to be to be called upon.
As a child in the Depression, he witnessed his mother feeding strangers who would knock on their door. She told him, “these people are just like us but they are down on their luck.” With that inspiration, he and Margot established the Perot Foundation in 1969 with the goal of helping fund projects that would improve people’s lives. Since then, the Foundation has supported education programs, health care research, cultural and arts institutions, veterans’ causes and programs to meet immediate human needs and reduce suffering.
Ross was also deeply devoted to his employees. In 1979, during the Iranian Revolution, two EDS employees were held hostage in Tehran. Ross organized and financed a mission to free them. The rescue was memorialized in the best-selling book by Ken Follett, “On Wings of Eagles.”
As Ross’ health declined over the last decade, those he cared for so deeply were able to return the devotion. He found comfort in familiar routines and went to the office each morning where he relished time with longtime friends and employees. He was beautifully cared for by a team of talented people who always went above and beyond with great tenderness. In addition to family, they were some of his closest friends. For this, his family will be eternally grateful.
Above all else, Ross was devoted to his family. He always said his father was his best friend. When he died in 1955, it was a tremendous blow. He remained close to his mother, whom he sought out for both company and counsel, until her death in 1979. Likewise, his adored sister Bette was a close confidant, both at the Perot Foundation, where she served as director for many years, and in life. Ross and Bette visited every day until his death.
He was married to the love of his life for 62 years and for each day he felt lucky she had agreed to be his wife. Margot was his partner in their many endeavors and a perfect complement in every way. If there was a dance floor, Ross and Margot could be found on it. They delighted in each other’s company and Ross was dazzled by Margot until the end. He raved about her beauty, her compassion, her warmth and her “world-class mothering skills.” They had five children, whom he always said were “too good to be true.”
Despite his many commitments, Ross was a steady, reliable, and loving presence in the lives of his family. He was home each day at 6:30 for dinner, coming through the door with a whistle, sitting down at the table, and asking them about their day.
Ross and Margot provided their children with amazing experiences, travel and outdoor family adventures. When they purchased their home in 1970, Ross was able to have stable that was filled with horses and ponies for the whole family. Over the years, a menagerie of dogs, cats, a goat, a circus dog, a bear, an eagle and a camel made their home a magical place to grow up.
Ross learned to ski in his 40s and enjoyed almost 40 years of family trips to Vail, where he loved the exhilaration of skiing as fast as possible in his inimitable style with family members streaming behind and attempting to keep up with his pace.
His passion for boats and the open water engendered in the Navy was evidenced by weekends at Lake Texoma and summers in Bermuda. He enjoyed the pristine beauty of the island he and Margot first visited in 1957. He was happiest piloting his boat on afternoon cruises around the island, blaring John Phillip Sousa marches and being surrounded by his grandchildren.
Ross was a devoted grandfather to 16 grandchildren and three step-grandchildren. He enriched their lives, broadened their horizons and set an example of integrity, courage and living one’s life with the highest of principles. As with his children, “Papa” was more proud of their accomplishments than of his own.
Ross was a man who did more in his long and, by his own assessment, “lucky” life than seems humanly possible. Yet through it all, he said his family was the brightest light of his life. Not only was he warm and affectionate, but also he was great fun to be with and made everyone laugh with his famous sense of humor and legendary pranks. He will be deeply missed by all who loved him. He lived a long and honorable life.
Ross is preceded in death by his mother Lulu May Perot; his father Gabriel Ross Perot Sr.; and his brother Gabriel Ross Perot Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Margot; his sister, Bette Perot; his son, Ross Jr. and his wife Sarah Perot; his daughter Nancy and her husband Rod Jones; his daughter Suzanne and her husband, Patrick McGee; his daughter Carolyn and her husband Karl Rathjen; his daughter Katherine and her husband Eric Reeves; his grandchildren Hill, Hunter, Sarah Catherine (and her husband Reed Ruschhaupt) and Meredith Perot; Ross (and his wife Tori), Price, Ben and Clayton Mulford; Patrick, William, Margot and Cameron McGee; Henry and Bette Rathjen; Kate Flanagan and Stuart Reeves; and three step-grandchildren Elizabeth Reeves and Caroline and Will Jones.
Ross is also survived by the many lives he touched.
In place of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions be made to one of Ross’ favorite charities: the Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the Salvation Army DFW, the North Texas Food Bank, the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas and Teach for America. An act of kindness to a friend, neighbor or stranger in your community will further honor his memory and celebrate the influence of a remarkable life.
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Distinguished guests....Thank you for being with us today.
We are honored by your presence.
And have been moved by the outpouring of love and support we have received over the past few days.
On behalf of our entire family, we thank you.
My father was always prepared and loved to plan...He was a man who paid attention to the details.
The one thing he did not plan, however, was his own funeral.
But I can assure you...Looking across this sanctuary today and who is here...Dad would have loved every minute of this. This is an extraodinarily special event for him.
I remember in 1992, a reporter looked at me and said:
"It must be tough to be the son of Ross Perot."
I looked at him and thought – "define tough."
Because if you were a part of our family...You were in for an amazing adventure...One filled with unconditional love and lots of action with Papa.
In our family, he was our hero.
Ross Perot had a strong set of values and those values guided his actions.
He was born to Gabriel and Lulu May Perotin 1930 in Texarkana, Texas. Dad always said his first big break in life was being born to two loving parents.
They taught him and his sister Bette the value of faith and family. In his youth, the Boy Scouts instilled in him a sense of duty.
He earned his Eagle Scout rank at the age of 13 and lived his life by the Scout Oath:
"On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty, to God and my country –and to help other people at all times..."
Dad’s next big break was his acceptance to the Naval Academy where he learned the value of leadership.
He was President of his junior and senior class,and the brigade commander....The Academy also taught him the value of honor.
He chaired the Committee that wrote the first Naval Academy’s honor code that’s still in use today.
These core values –faith, family, duty, leadership, and honor --formed the foundation of his life that would impact millions of people around the world.
But the person who had the greatest impacted on him was our mother, Margot Birmingham.
They met on a blind date...And married on September 15, 1956. A banker’s daughter from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and the son of a cotton broker from Texas....It was the beginning of a beautiful love affair.
After finishing his service in the Navy, my parents drove to Dallas with all their possessions in the trunk of their car to pursue the American dream.
Dad worked at IBM. Mom was a teacher at Greenhill School.
They lived in an apartment only a few minutes from this church.
My first memories of those early days are of Mom and Dad coming into the room I shared with my sister Nancy....We would say our prayers together each night.
I remember Dad would give us a big hug and say:
"BUDDIES TO THE END."
In those early days, my father became the top salesman for IBM...His focus and work ethic were extraordinary.
He was a born salesman, starting at age 6 selling flower seeds, Christmas cards, and newspapers.
He sold so much at IBM, they put a cap on his quota.
I assure you at all Perot Companies, there is no limit on our sales teams!! And my father would make that clear to them on a regular basis. And he would use a phrase from my grandfather. He would say "sell it, you can’t eat it!"
At age 32, with a wife and two children and 1,000 dollars, he started his own company – EDS. His vision was a technology service business and a new industry was launched.
At EDS, the recruiting motto was "EAGLES DON’T FLOCK. You find them one at a time."
He built his teams by recruiting directly from the military because that’s where he knew he could find proven leaders. And he liked combat veterans.
Dad always credited that early leadership team as being the foundation of his success. As EDS started to grow, Mom and Dad’s family started to grow too -- Suzanne, Carolyn and Katherine were born.
As children, we watched what one man could do. Ross Perot would not sit on the sidelines. He entered the fight—full speed.We watched him IN THE ARENA as he came to theaid of the Prisoners of War in Vietnam.
He focused the world’s attention on the plight of the POWs...and the North Vietnamese were forced to improve the conditions for our men.
I remember a few years ago, former POW and Congressman Sam Johnson. Sam,thank you for beingwith us, today. Sam toured Dad’s museum...When he saw the photos honoring POWs, he looked at Dad and said:
"Without your efforts, I would not be alive today."
In the 70s, as EDS was expanding around the world, Dad still prioritized being home for dinner with his family....Sometimes he even brought the world home to us.
I remember having incredible guests around the dinner table: astronauts, fighter pilots, business leaders and political figures, including Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Lord Mountbatten.
Our lives were changed again in 1979 when two EDS employees were taken hostage in Iran.
Again, Dad was in the arena.
Winston Churchill had a famous quote "ACTION THIS DAY" but even that was not fast enough for our father. As Pete talked about "Ross time." Dad wanted "ACTION NOW."
So he risked his own life to visit the two men imprisoned in Tehran.
He also assembled a team of EDS volunteers and under the leadership of Colonel Bull Simons, the men were freed and brought back home.
It became the largest jailbreak in history, a legendary act. The story is told in the book "ON WINGS OF EAGLES" by Ken Follett. And Ken, thank you for being with us today.
His life of service took a surprising turn in 1992, when he entered the arena yet again....This time running for President of the United States.
He knew we could do better as a country and he felt compelled to serve. Our family followed on yet another amazing adventure. After the 1992 and 1996 campaigns, he focused on getting his company, Perot Systems, into "ship-shape." It would become the second company he took public — a very rare feat.
Just like all things he tackled in life, Dad focused on every little detail.
When Dad met clients, he would give them his direct telephone number...He would tell them: "Call me day or night if you have any problems."
I can tell you this, our team made sure, Dad never received that call.
Our father always taught us that financial success is a gift, and a resource to help others.
His generosity supported individuals and organizations in our community, nation, and around the world, including:
The Boy Scouts of America
The Perot Museum
UT Southwestern Medical School
Gulf War Syndrome Research, and
Teach for America to name a few.
In honor of their mother who fed those in need during the Great Depression, my father and his sister Bette, were founders of the North Texas Food Bank and donors.
To honor our incredible mother, his lifelong partner, my father also funded the Margot Perot Women’s and Children’s Hospital at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
In the past few days, we have been overwhelmed by all of the NEW stories we are hearing about what he did for others over the years.
Many of which we never knew.
These were also the quiet acts, or quiet investments my Dad made in everyday people – some were veterans, others just needed help or a compassionate hand.
These quiet acts were the most valuable and the most important investments my Dad made.
Because through these efforts, our father improved the lives of thousands.
My father was focused, he worked hard, and he had a lot of fun along the way.
He never missed a chance to dance...Mom and Dad were always the last to leave the dance floor
He had a love for horses, a love for Texas, and a love for all things fast.
His practical jokes were also legendary
And, of course, my father loved to celebrate. You couldn’t attend a celebratory event – no matter who was involved or what was being celebrated – without having him call for three cheers....Hip,Hip,Hurray.
Some of my happiest memories in life were spent on the water boating with my Dad. As soon as my Dad could afford it, he bought our first lake house. I also remember going to the boat dealer to buy our first boat – it was used OF COURSE!....Dad loved a good deal, he loved to trade and he only paid cash.
Every Saturday on the way to Lake Grapevine, we stopped at the Howard Johnson's for hot dogs and peppermint ice cream....Those were the makings of a perfect Saturday together for our family.
The Navy gave Dad his love for the water. And as the years went by, his own fleet started to grow.
The boats got faster and louder...When the boats outgrew Lake Grapevine. We moved to Lake Texoma. Then on to Bermuda...He could not outgrowthe Atlantic Ocean.
Nothing made him happier than jumping the waves in his speedboat or pulling his grandchildren on a banana boat.
The Need for Speed was year 'round. We had decades of wonderful memories skiing as a family in Colorado.
Our father was always the first one up on the mountain every morning and the fastest skier down on every run and Pete what you didn’t realize, he was racing you. And in his mind, he was always winning.
Whether it was boating, or skiing, or business, he loved to win and hated to lose. As he once said in a speech...
"There’s no ribbon for second place."
Dad never wanted to slow down. But in February of this year, our family knew we only had months to go.
The Lord gave us another 5 months with Dad.
During that time, he was still going to the office on the weekdays and the lake each weekend.
He was surrounded by his family, friends, and wonderful caregivers.
Mom and Dad would spend their nights holding hands and watching classic movies...And Dad still wanted to dance with Mom.
Our last trip to the lake was three Saturdays ago..
I arrived 5 minutes late...And I still got the look...
On the way out, Dad insisted he stop and give Mom a kiss. At the lake, we sat together holding hands looking at the water.
We did not say much....we did not need to ...
We had said all we could to each other.
He sat in his father’s rocking chair....We looked at photos of his mother and his father.
My father passed away in peace...
Surrounded by his family, holding my mother’s hand.
Condolences have come from around the world, as my father touched the lives of millions.
From Zimbabwe, a family friend wrote,
"THE TOM-TOMS WILL BEAT IN OUR VALLEY --FOR THE LEGEND THIS WEEKEND."
My father had courage, character, and integrity – legendary qualities. A true patriot.
My father will be missed, but never forgotten. Ross Perot did his duty to God, his country, his family, his friends.
He helped other people at all times.
His legacy will live through all he touched.
THANK YOU, GOD, FOR THIS WONDERFUL MAN.
BUDDIES TO THE END.
Ross Perot Eulogy
Brigadier General Peter M. Dawkins, U.S. Army (Ret’d)
We gather here today to remember, and pay tribute to a remarkable human being.
A man who was simple and direct... and yet embodied so many of the qualities that define greatness.
He was a source of seemingly limitless energy. He was a practical, "can do" man-of-action and – at the same time – a tireless dreamer. He was Bill Gates, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Rambo, all wrapped into one!
He was tough, creative, and determined: a vibrant, thunderous dynamo. Sometimes he actually seemed to be a kind of thunderbolt!
And he was wise – wise in a sometimes unconventional way – but was always moving forward.
You know, for a long time I thought I had lived an interesting life. Then I met Ross Perot! Wow.
To truly understand Ross, you have to begin at the beginning. Let me offer a brief review:
At the age of 7, Ross began his first job: delivering newspapers on horseback.
He would go on to graduate from the Naval Academy: A 144-pound, 5 foot 6 inch package of enthusiasm, commitment, and inspiration!
After serving in the Navy, and having had a very successful run at IBM, Ross founded EDS – with a $1,000 loan from the "love of his life", Margot. It turned out to be such a stunning success that he sold it, and founded Perot Systems. And two decades after that, he sold Perot Systems for nearly $4 billion dollars.
In 1992, Ross announced on CNN’s "Larry King Live" that he was going to enter the race for the Presidency. In a way that reflected what he was, and who he had become, Ross kicked off that campaign with a promise: "I won’t run as a Democrat or a Republican..." he said. "Because I refuse to sell out to anybody but the American people."
Ross’s run for the Oval Office was historic. He harnessed the rapidly expanding power of Cable TV, and took his vision and message directly into living rooms across the country.
You didn’t have to know Ross personally to know he meant every word he said. People from all corners of the land saw an authenticity they embraced and, in truth, an authenticity they had been searching for.
They found a man who spoke as much from his heart, as from his gut. Someone who had a special skill at boiling down the problems we faced in honest, understandable terms. And he punctuated his solutions to those problems with his trademark honesty by telling them: "It’s just that simple."
In Ross, Americans found the wholesome, hometown values of Norman Rockwell, combined with the power of Teddy Roosevelt’s "Big Stick".
Somehow, by that special "brew" of character, determination,and spirit, he showed us the best our country has to offer.
Over the years of my friendship with Ross, I came to know and admire him. And it was an honor to be able to call him "my friend".
During our times together I learned a lot about Ross. Two important things stand out:
First, he loved to ski.
Second, he definitely was not a Bode Miller – or a Jean Claude Killy!
He never took lessons, or worked on technique, but he truly loved the joy – the thrill! – of being on the mountain in Vail, Colorado.
Though the years, I had the good fortune of skiing together with Margot and Ross, as well as with whatever "band" of family-and-friends happened to assemble on the slopes with them.
The routine with Ross always seemed to be, more or less, the same. At the top of the lift, we would all gather 'round, and begin to plan what Run we would take next.
In the middle of that process – and before a decision had been made – Ross would announce, "I’m off"! And — indeed — "off" he would go.
We'd chase after him, as he zigged and zagged from one Run to another. And almost without exception he would "out-run" our pursuit, and be gone.
It took a while, but I came to realize it wasn’t that Ross didn’t want to ski with us. It was simply that we were operating at normal human speed... while he was always moving at "Ross Speed".
You know... now that I’ve had the opportunity to look back on his life, I’ve come to realize something very key:
That it was living at "Ross Speed" that made it possible for him to accomplish so much!
His unique, accelerated "way of life" gave him the time to create 2 different billion dollar companies... to champion broad education reform throughout the state of Texas... to run for the highest office in the land... And so much more, besides!
During the Vietnam war, Ross pressed forward with unrelenting effort and determination to ease the suffering of American Prisoners of War. It was "pure Perot" from the very beginning and, as we know, it became his lifelong passion and commitment.
Despite all his success,and all his personal attributes that contributed to it, his defining characteristic – the one that gave him the most power, and drive, and purpose – didn’t reside within him. It surrounded him, or rather, he surrounded himself with it.
And that was his family.
Ross Jr and his wife Sarah
Katherine, Carolyn, Suzanne, Nancy, and their husbands.
They were his pride and joy, and supporting them became a kind of personal creed. No degree of focus or intensity was excessive. No extreme of effort was unwarranted. His loyalty was supreme and absolute. His love unqualified, and profound.
So, as we send off a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a very special friend... it’s a farewell, not a goodbye. Ross Perot will remain a permanent fixture in our hearts, and our memories.
His legacy will continue to inspire those who yearn for more, and who can’t digest the word "impossible"!
His life will continue to speak to the hearts of those of us who cherish the values and hard work that is America.
And while the shadow he cast upon this earth may gradually fade, his spirit will remain a steadfast "torch"... One that will continue to light up the consciousness of this great country, that he loved so much. As Ross himself would say:
"It’s just that simple."
God bless you, good and generous friend. God bless.
Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot
This is the place to be honest: how I wish this day never came.
Ross Perot's business success speaks for itself - He was a visionary. He saw limits of corporate power: He told General Motors they'd regret spending all that money twenty-five years before they went bankrupt. When he founded EDS he created the cloud, or what is now called the cloud.
But there was never anything or anybody close to being as important to Ross as his family. I never saw a man so committed to their family. Margot, his lovely wife of almost sixty-three years. Ross, Nancy, Suzanne, Carolyn, Katherine. Their spouses, his sister, his mother, his grandchildren, his father. He was truly, truly dedicated.
Family was always first, but not far behind was faith, country and friends. He was devoted to his friends, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
This past Sunday morning, one of the readings at Mass was the Good Samaritan. The priest’s homily was about the Good Samaritan and all of a sudden, it hit me - that's Ross, that's Ross Perot.
He was remembered and he will be remembered for the big, bold moves he made, but I'm always going to remember him for the depths of his consideration and kindness, down to the smallest things possible for the other person.
Right after we started working on the papers for the underwriting of EDS, we were in his office one day and we were both talking about how grateful we were to be Americans and how grateful we were that we lived in this great country and all this country did for us. I said, "You know Ross, I'm kind of embarrassed - I should fly the biggest flag on the biggest flagpole in front of my home in gratitude for what this great country did for me."
Two weeks later, I'm coming home from work and I drive into the driveway.
Yes, you guessed it - there's this enormous flagpole with the American flag and an eagle with its wings spread at the very top and at the base was a plaque: "To three fine, young Americans: Ken Jr., Stephen and Bruce Langone From their father’s friend, Ross Perot."
That was Ross Perot.
Christmas Eve, 1968: EDS is now public for three months. Mitch Hart, Ross, Tom Marquez and I were traveling all over America introducing investment institutions to EDS.
Christmas Eve - there's a knock on the door. It's Tom Marquez with a little box and he said, "Ross would like Elaine to have this for Christmas." Christmas morning, Elaine opened up the package and here was this beautiful pin with a note: "Elaine – thank you for sharing Ken with us these past three months. Merry Christmas, Ross Perot"
Elaine has that pin on today, by the way.
He gets involved with the Prisoner of War effort, calls me up and he said, "We got to get this done." I said, "Well, Ross - what would you like me to do?" He said, "Well we need Lomotil, because these kids all have dysentery. We need blankets and we need candy in tin cans." I call him back, "We've got the Lomotil, we’ve got the blankets, I got the candy and cellophane bags." He said, "No, no, no - it's got to be in tin cans." I said, "Well, it'll pack easier in cellophane bags." He said, "No, it's not about the candy," he said, "It's about the cans. The kids will catch the rainwater and they'll drink that, and they won't re-infect themselves again with the dysentery." That was Ross Perot.
The only time he ever missed Christmas with his family, he had led a group of wives and children whose husbands were prisoners of war in Vietnam to Paris and he called me up three days before Christmas.
They're rolling, they're all in Paris. They're in front of the North Vietnamese embassy demonstrating and want to know information about how their loved ones were or where they were or whatever information they could get, and he led this. He called me up and he said, "You know these people are coming home Christmas night and we got to figure a way out for them to have a Christmas."
This was the genius of Ross Perot – He got you to do things you never thought you could do. It was amazing, amazing, the inspiration that this man gave to all of us.
Anyway, sure enough we had a Christmas. We had a Santa Claus waiting for the kids at the Intercontinental Hotel at Kennedy Airport and we had a truckload of toys for these kids and they had their Christmas. That was Ross Perot - he was great with bold moves, but kindness to individuals meant everything.
His company was staffed not with people from the Harvard Business School or NYU or Stanford – there were kids from all over small-town America like he was and he said, "You come with me and I want to give you an opportunity, and everything that happens is going to happen for one reason and one reason alone: merit."
That was all that mattered. The guy who did the best job or the gal who did the best job, they got the job. For example, fifty years ago his CFO was a woman - he was committed to equality and diversity in his business long before it was politically correct and so was I fifty-one years ago.
He was a born leader, but he was a born leader with a great sense of humor.
I brought a team of white shoe, stiff lawyers down from New York to work on the underwriting of EDS and we’re sitting in his office and he says, "Fellas," he said, "we're going down to Johnny Cumming’s barbeque pit for lunch today. I've ordered Johnny to make the specialty of the house which is barbecued armadillo. It's the thing I like the most, and that's what we're going to have for lunch."
So, we go downstairs, and here's all these properly bred, well-trained New York lawyers with their trays and they go to the counter and get this barbecued armadillo and we all sit down and everybody's pushing the meat around the plate doing everything with it but eating it. After twenty minutes this twinkle - he always had this twinkle in his eyes he had that was it was truly a God-given gift – "Fellas," he said, "I hope you enjoyed that." He said, "That's Texas barbecued beef, brisket."
I looked at him and I said, "I owe you one, Tex."
Three months later, the day of the underwriting - I said, "We're going to have a special lunch today. I've got it arranged at a very exclusive club in New York called the Umbrella Club. I've got limousines down at the garage of the building. We're going to go down, get in the limousines, then go to the club."
He was a legend. He was a business visionary. He was a presidential candidate. He was a national figure. But, he was the most down-to-earth, decent, caring man I ever met. Above all else, that's what he was and he was special in every respect.
I think often of what you say about somebody like this, and I think the best thing that says it all is at the end of the day, his family was the bedrock foundation of all he was.
To his family: you are his legacy, you are his treasure. He’s right now in peace and I know he’s being embraced by our Lord, Jesus Christ. He kept the faith and he was the Good Samaritan.
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In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions be made to one of Mr. Perot’s favorite charities: the Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the Salvation Army DFW, the North Texas Food Bank, the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas and Teach for America.
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Hansons-Brooks signs two former elite Michigan high school runners
by RunMichigan Staff, Aug. 9, 2014
By Steven Marcinkowski, RunMichigan.com
Homecoming for two national-class collegiate xc and track runners
Two former cross-town high school rivals are now teammates. Cally Macumber (Rochester-Adams '09) and Megan Goethals (Rochester '10) have recently been signed by the Rochester Hills based Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project.
Macumber, who recently completed her final season at the University of Kentucky, joins the team having run impressive times in the middle distance and distance events. With personal records of 4:37 in the mile and 16:04 in the 5K, Macumber looks to expand on her current success on the track and on the road. Macumber is a two-time Cross Country All-America performer, finishing in the top six at the 2012 NCAA XC Championships and holds three Kentucky school records in the Mile, 3K and DMR.
Goethals joins the team having equally as impressive accolades. As a red-shirt Sophomore, Goethals placed 2nd in the 5,000 at the NCAA Division One Outdoor National Championships in 16:11.37, missing the title by .03 seconds. Goethals is a nine-time All-America performer with four first team, four second team in track and one in cross country and holds Washington school records in the Indoor 5000 and Outdoor 5000 and 10,000.
Click here for additional information on the Hansons-Brooks team, including current team members and race schedule.
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Sangeeta Tiwari Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences,
Border Biomedical Research Center
University of Texas at El Paso,
TX-79968, USA
Dr. Sangeeta
Tiwari, Ph.D.
I am an Infectious disease Scientist. My passion lies in the understanding of the mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)pathogenesis. I want to apply these findings for Drug Discovery and develop new potential Vaccine Candidates against Mtb. Further, I want to extend this knowledge to understand TB-HIV coinfections and develop Cancer vaccines and Immunotherapies.
MS (Mol Bio and Biocmemistrty)-1998-Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
Ph.D. (Microbiology and Biochemistry)-2005-Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR, Chandigarh, India
I joined Yale University, School of Medicine, New haven as a Postdoctoral fellow and performed research on host-directed therapy against Mtb. Later at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY), I have worked on the identification of potential drug targets or vaccine candidates. Now I am Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso joined in 2020.
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Doorstop interview, Port Adelaide Lighthouse – Carbon tax
Doorstop interview, Port Adelaide Lighthouse…
MATHIAS CORMANN: Simon Birmingham and I… we are meeting with South Australian families and businesses today to talk with them about the impact of the carbon tax on them. The carbon tax, of course, will push up the cost of everything, it will make Australia less competitive internationally, it will cost jobs, it’ll hurt small business and of course all of that without doing anything to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
We’ve just met with the management of Adelaide Brighton and, of course, Adelaide Brighton is one of those businesses here in South Australia which will be seriously hit by the carbon tax. Julia Gillard has to explain why it is good for the environment to make polluters in China, producing cement in China, more competitive than Adelaide Brighton here in South Australia. Why is it in the best interest of the environment to shift emissions to China, to shift jobs to China, to lose jobs here out of Adelaide when this is not going to do anything to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions?
The Labor-Green carbon tax is not effective action on climate change. It is an irresponsible act of economic self-harm and of course I do also have a message for Labor Members and Senators here across South Australia today. They supported Julia Gillard’s promise before the last election that there would be no carbon tax under the Government she leads. If the carbon tax is such a good idea, why did Julia Gillard not tell us about it before the last election? And if Julia Gillard and Labor Members and Senators across South Australia are so convinced that the carbon tax is such a good idea now, why are they so scared to take it to the Australian people at an election? Of course, the reason they’re so scared is because they know it won’t withstand scrutiny and, of course, there is a better plan. The Coalition has got a better plan which would help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and which is fully costed, which is responsible and, of course, which wouldn’t have such a devastating impact on the budget as Labor’s carbon tax will do.
A few comments from Simon.
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks, Mathias. It’s great to have Mathias in town today and the opportunity to visit some of the South Australian businesses who will be most harshly affected by this carbon tax. Thousands of South Australian jobs will be on the line at businesses like Adelaide Brighton Cement and Penrice Soda and many, many others as a result of the carbon tax.
These are businesses that have already done their bit to try to reduce their emissions but by their very nature they are emissions-intensive processes. We need cement, though. Nobody’s suggesting that Australia will operate without cement and if it doesn’t get made across the river here in Port Adelaide it will be imported, and so we won’t see any reduction in global emissions, we will just see less jobs in South Australia, less industry in South Australia, less opportunity in South Australia. This is the flaw of the Government’s carbon tax it drives emissions and jobs offshore, all at the expense of course of opportunities here in Australia.
I understand later this week the Premier will be meeting with the Climate Change Minister. The challenge to him is to get a guarantee for theses jobs, to make sure that South Australian jobs are protected, Mr Rann, because right now they certainly won’t be. The challenge for him, as well, is to make sure that it’s clear all the companies who are paying this tax should be made public to the Australian people. That detail should be there and, particularly in South Australia, the list they say it’s 25 should be made clear… the businesses, the sites, tell us who they are, who will be paying the tax.
Of course, it’s not just the direct emitters, though. We will see every small business in Australia face ten per cent increases in electricity costs, nine per cent increases in gas costs. These will flow through to the cost of everything. That’s why this afternoon we’ll be meeting with hundreds of concerned South Australians about the carbon tax at a community forum and tomorrow we’ll be travelling to Mount Gambier to hear from regional SA, and especially transport businesses, about their concerns with this tax.
JOURNALIST: You say the carbon tax will cost thousands of jobs at industries like ABC across the river here. Was that the impression impressed on you by Adelaide Brighton themselves and, if so, why aren’t they here to back up your assertion?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, Adelaide Brighton issued their stock exchange notice on Monday indicating there would be an immediate $5 million hit to profits and that they would have to consider import substitution in place of domestic production, so they’re making it very clear there is an impact, they’ve publicly told the stock exchange, it’s there for all to see and it’s these types of jobs that are simply on the line. We can’t, as an economy, function without products like cement, but the jobs will simply be shifted offshore.
MATHIAS CORMANN: If I might just make a point here too, Julia Gillard calls businesses like Adelaide Brighton the ‘big polluters’. Now, businesses like Adelaide Brighton are the big employers and they’re the big employers across Australia who have made significant efforts over the last 20 years to become as energy efficient, as environmentally efficient, as possible. Now, by making a more polluting business in China more competitive, by helping a more polluting business in China to take market share away from a business like Adelaide Brighton, of course that’s going to have an impact on jobs in Australia and all of that without doing anything to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s really the point. The people across Australia are being asked to make a sacrifice that is not going to make any difference whatsoever because all it will do is shift emissions from Australia overseas and arguably it will increase global emissions because, of course, for the same process that is done very environmentally efficiently here in South Australia there will be more emissions in China, not less.
JOURNALIST: But Adelaide Brighton and Penrice, they will get concessions, though, won’t they, to offset the impact of the tax?
MATHIAS CORMANN: Well, they won’t get enough concessions to offset the whole impact of the tax and this is the whole point. A lot of the businesses that we’ve been talking to, and Adelaide Brighton today is the same, a lot of their production already now is on the edge when it comes to international competitiveness and any additional cost which is not faced by competitors in countries like China could well put them over the edge and for what purpose? For no purpose whatsoever! This is a business here in South Australia which has made significant efforts over the last 20 years to clean up its act, to become as energy efficient and as environmentally efficient as possible and yet this Government, by imposing a carbon tax on them a tax which is not faced by cement producers in China will shift emissions, shift jobs and, of course, shift business to China.
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: There’s a key point when it comes to cement production in Australia that we learnt meeting with Adelaide Brighton Labor loves to hold up the European Union’s emissions trading scheme as a standard. Well, even the EU doesn’t tax cement in the way the Labor Government is planning to tax cement in Australia, so that is a direct impact that will see Australian cement manufacturing not just less efficient than that in China but less efficient than that in the EU where they have an ETS.
JOURNALIST: What’s the imperative for naming these 25 companies in South Australia or, indeed, the rest of them nationally? Do you think the companies themselves would want to be on the top polluters list?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Many of these companies, of course, are self identifying, as we have with Adelaide Brighton, Penrice, Qantas who had to make a stock exchange announcement the other day but it is important for this debate to have transparency around it and the Government is hiding at present behind certain restrictions about whether they can release the data. Well, let’s get the approval of the companies, get it out there so we can have a transparent debate.
MATHIAS CORMANN: Let’s just be very clear on this as well. I mean, the Government whenever it gets a bit tricky, and whenever they try to hide the impact of their carbon tax on the Australian economy, they try to hide behind some sort of obscure process but earlier this year they released the detail on all of the top emitters across Australia. It’s actually on the Climate Change Department’s website and many newspapers and media outlets across Australia reported on it at the time. There was a list of the top 50 so called emitters and of course they published earlier this year that whole information. There’s absolutely no reason why they can’t publish it now and it’s just another trick because this is a Government that has clearly got something to hide when it comes about the impact of their carbon tax.
JOURNALIST: Senator Birmingham, you’re the Opposition’s Environment spokesman and you’re standing in Port Adelaide in front of a bunch of smoke stacks. It’s well documented that the Port has a lot of problems with pollution because of the industries behind us. Are you defending the indefensible?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: These industries have been here, in the case of Adelaide Brighton Cement, for more than a hundred years producing in Port Adelaide. I’m not hearing anybody suggest that we can have a modern economy in South Australia without cement. We need it for the most basic things; we need it to make our homes, to build businesses, to actually ensure we have a properly functioning economy but if the industries…
JOURNALIST: But can we make cement with less pollution to the Port Adelaide district? Would that not be an advantage?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, they have done a lot to make sure they reduce local pollution, local impact and of course they want to reduce emissions as much as possible. Using electricity costs money. They actually want to make themselves as cost effective as possible and that’s why they have done many things to reduce their emissions footprint already. They are at the margins, though, in competing with imports overseas and we can choose, as a country, to either make things in Australia or to import them from overseas. The carbon tax will see us import more from overseas.
JOURNALIST: Do you agree with your colleague Mitch Williams’s comments over nuclear energy?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Look, I think we need, as a country, to have a real, fair dinkum debate about our energy security in the future and it is about making sure that we treat all energy sources in an equitable manner but the Coalition has made it clear we are happy to have a discussion about nuclear energy when the Labor Party is happy to come to the table. That is, of course, a debate that is pointless to have at present when you’ve got one side of politics who will provide no investment certainty for an industry if they even wish to look at setting up here so it is a bit of a moot debate.
JOURNALIST: What would your personal contribution be to that debate when it happens?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, look, if it happens we obviously need to make sure that anything is environmentally sound and economically stacks up as well. Right now the pressure, though, is of course on electricity prices that are already forecast to go up, because of the carbon tax, by ten per cent in the first year. Ten per cent rise in electricity prices is something that all businesses will face pressure from, whether they’re a big business like Adelaide Brighton Cement or the corner store.
Category: Interview Transcripts 28 July, 2011
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Viral Humans Of New York Post Shows Why Every Kid Needs To Learn About Consent
by Ashley Austrew July 25, 2016
Image via Facebook/HONY
Humans Of New York post shows the importance of teaching kids consent
Humans of New York (HONY) shares photographs with “slice of life” anecdotes from all around New York City. Sometimes they’re poignant, other times they’re funny, and often the important issues they highlight stop you in your tracks.
Recently, HONY shared a photo of a young woman, along with a caption about one of her first sexual experiences, and the sad story she shared highlights just how much we’re failing at teaching young people about consent.
“It was the summer between 8th and 9th grade,” the photo’s caption begins. “We were make-out buddies. Sometimes he’d talk to me during the day. Other times he wouldn’t.”
She said they were drinking in his basement one night, and he kept pressuring her to have sex. “My heart was racing and I was terrified,” she said. “I kept saying: ‘maybe,’ ‘maybe,’ ‘maybe.’ Then he said: ‘No more maybes. Let’s flip a coin.’ My stomach sank.”
You can probably guess who won the coin toss.
“After we finished, he said: ‘I think I heard my dad upstairs. You need to leave,'” she recalled. “I went home and filled up a whole page in my journal. I wrote in purple sharpie, over and over: ‘It didn’t happen.’ For the longest time I felt like it was my fault for feeling hurt. Like I was being overly sensitive. It took five years for me to realize that consent is not a coin flip.”
The post is heartbreaking, because it sounds like sexual experiences so many of us have had or have heard about from friends — blurred lines, coercion, discomfort, a feeling that you’re not ready for what’s happening but you have to go along with it. I grew up learning about sex education and consent from reading my mother’s Cosmopolitan magazines, and I can recall several times when I did things I didn’t feel comfortable with because I wanted someone to like me and I didn’t understand that it was okay to say no — and my partner didn’t understand that true consent required my enthusiastic “yes.”
About a month ago, Fusion released the results of a small study they did on consent. They asked 48 men, ages 18-49, how they first learned about consent. Disturbingly, 75 percent of them said that, until college, they’d never even heard the term “consent,” and had never had anyone explain to them what it means or how to ask for it. It’s a small sample size, but it’s indicative of a larger problem we have with young people: they don’t understand that the absence of “no” doesn’t automatically mean “yes.”
No parent likes to think about their kids having sexual experiences, but when they do finally reach the age where they’re ready for that sort of thing, we want those experiences to be healthy, we want them to be safe, and we absolutely want them to be consensual. That means both parties need to be aware of their right to say yes or no, and they need to understand that consensual sex requires an explicit “yes” from both parties.
Too many people — myself included — have stories from their pasts that closely mirror this one shared by HONY. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. We’re raising the next generation of young people, and it’s up to us to teach both girls and boys that sexual consent is 100 percent yes or nothing at all, every single time.
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81st Annual EdTA High School Play Survey
By EdTA News posted 08-01-2019 08:00
According to the annual high school play survey conducted by EdTA, The Addams Family; Almost, Maine; and Check Please received top billing for the most produced musical, full-length play, and short play, respectively, during the 2018-19 school year.
Conducted every year since 1938, EdTA’s annual survey of the plays and musicals most frequently produced in America’s high schools provides a showcase and a snapshot of what resonates with teens, their teachers, families, and communities.
Gregory Bossler, EdTA’s director of publications said, “Over time, this survey reveals both enduring patterns and new developments. Patterns for frequently produced shows include those with large casts and youthful perspectives, and a newer development is having more shows with familiar, fantasy storylines. The availability of licensing is a major factor in what gets produced as well.”
After being ranked second last year, The Addams Family reclaimed its number one slot for most-produced musical, followed by Mamma Mia!, making its first appearance in the survey as the rights to it became available this year. Newsies, the rights for which became available in spring 2018 made its top 10 debut at number six.
Almost, Maine boasts its fifth straight year as the most-produced full-length play, followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which has placed in the top 10 for 30 years. While Our Town remains a perennial favorite since the dawn of this survey, this year’s notable top 10 newcomers include She Kills Monsters and Clue, also newly available for licensing.
Finally, playwright Don Zolidis and Jonathan Rand dominated the top 10 short plays. While Rand’s Check Please consistently tops the list, his Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit made an appearance at number eight, and three works by Zolidis earned top spots, including second (10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse), third (The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon), and fifth (The Audition).
Communities partake of high school theatre on a regular basis. Last year, EdTA expanded its exclusive play survey, now in its 81st consecutive year, to include not only data on which plays were produced in America’s high schools but also on how many people came to see them. This year, more than 3,000 schools responded to the survey and reported presenting an average of 10 performances each last year, with a total average audience of 1,800. Extrapolating these averages to all schools with a theatre program yields a potential audience of 48.1 million for high school theatre across America.
Since 2015, National Public Radio has kept an interactive database incorporating all the EdTA Play Survey results which can be found at npr.org.
While this is the 81st year of the Play Survey, 2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the International Thespian Society (ITS), the honor organization for middle and high school drama students, which has recognized 2.4 million students since its founding in 1929.
FULL-LENGTH MUSICALS
The Addams Family (Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice), TRW
Mamma Mia! (Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Catherine Johnson), MTI
The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Glenn Slater, Doug Wright), MTI
Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Linda Woolverton), MTI
Mary Poppins (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Julian Fellowes), MTI
Newsies (Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, Harvey Fierstein), MTI
Little Shop of Horrors (Howard Ashman, Alan Menken), MTI
Seussical (Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Eric Idle), MTI
Into the Woods (Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine), MTI
10 (tie). Shrek (Jeanine Tesori, David Lindsay-Abaire), MTI
10 (tie). The Wizard of Oz (various)
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
Almost, Maine (John Cariani), Dramatists Play Service
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare), public domain
Peter and the Starcatcher (Wayne Barker, Rick Elice), MTI
Our Town (Thornton Wilder), Samuel French
Alice in Wonderland (various)
Clue (Jonathan Lynn, Hunter Foster, Eric Price, Sandy Rustin), Playscripts
She Kills Monsters (Qui Nguyen), Samuel French
Radium Girls (D.W. Gregory), Dramatic Publishing
9 (tie). The Crucible (Arthur Miller), Dramatists Play Service
9 (tie). 12 Angry Jurors (Reginald Rose), Dramatic Publishing
Check Please (Jonathan Rand), Playscripts
10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (Don Zolidis), Playscripts
The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (Don Zolidis), Playscripts
This Is a Test (Stephen Gregg), Dramatic Publishing
The Audition (Don Zolidis), Playscripts
6 (tie). Bad Auditions by Bad Actors (Ian McWethy), Playscripts
6 (tie). Lockdown (Douglas Craven), Playscripts
Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit (Jonathan Rand), Playscripts
30 Reasons Not to Be in a Play (Alan Haehnel), Playscripts
Tracks (Peter Tarsi), Dramatic Publishing
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You are here: Entrada History Divine Providence Hospital Origins and Facilities
Origins of the Divine Providence Hospital and its facilities over the years
The last decade of the 18th century was characterized, in Portugal, for a series of bad crop years, bread shortage and rising prices, which had direct consequences on the impoverishment of large sectors of the population. The increase in the number of sick vagabonds in Vila Real, abandoned in "the streets and other public places”, together with the concerns of the local government regarding this situation, was crucial for the establishment of the Misericórdia’s Hospital.
Moreover, in the latter part of the 18th century, there was a higher concern by both the society and the State towards public health and hygiene, in an attempt to combat the epidemics that occurred cyclically in Portugal, but also to control and mitigate pauperism, as well as begging and vagrancy. Hospital assistance began to assume a more operative feature, mobilizing public powers and alerting Misericórdias for this aim.
Moreover, under the Marquis of Pombal’s restrictive laws regarding pious obligations, a sign of secularization that was spreading in Portuguese society, the legacies left to the Misericórdias began to consider especially the sick, the poor, the elderly, and the young and abandoned, that is, new forms of assistance that that favoured the body over the soul. This explains why, in the second half of the 18th century, many Misericórdias extended or improved their medical facilities or created new hospitals.
The Misericórdia of Vila Real could not, therefore, ignore this new setting, which favoured the creation of a hospital. Its Board understood that the Institution would only have the popular support from the moment it was able to ensure hospital care for the population. And so, in the context of the restructuring carried out in late 18th century, the Misericórdia of Vila Real created the Divine Providence Hospital, a name chosen since the administration of the House in 1795-1796, according to the Hospital Chronicle, written in 1828, had nothing more than "the good wishes and confidence in the Divine Providence".
A final reason for the founding of the Hospital was the fact that the Misericórdia, after a "fierce quarrel", obtained the payment of a debt owed by the bishop of Braganza, António Luís Veiga Cabral, thanks to the determination of the provedor Joaquim José da Silva Barbosa e Sousa (1794-1796), which has helped to strengthen the intention of the Board to build a hospital, "as they saw the poor dying under the arches and streets of this town".
In short, in the late 18th century the Misericórdia of Vila Real was facing the problem of its own extinction or a continuity that could not be founded on the pillars from the past. Indeed, the functions carried out by the Institution in the past, which granted it the reputation and sustainability needed to live in the 16th century, were gradually absorbed by other orders and brotherhoods in the meantime established in Vila Real.
Given this reality, limited in the number of brothers, financially exhausted, lacking in capital and donations, the Misericórdia of Vila Real could not continue to restrict its mission to the celebration of masses in perpetuity, the religious cult, the ceremonies of the liturgical calendar and the service burials, all of them being performed more efficiently by other brotherhoods, including those existing in the parish churches of St. Denis and St. Peter.
It had to find an innovative field of assistance, which did not suffer competition from the other brotherhoods, adequate to the changing times and with a social impact, allowing an affective reconciliation of the Misericórdia with the population of Vila Real. This was the merit of those who, in the last decade of the 18th century, were responsible for the fate of the Misericórdia, particularly Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca, daring to establish a hospital from scratch, an action immediately supported by the inhabitants of the old town.
The Divine Providence Hospital began to function on March 13, 1796, as we have mentioned above, in a street near its headquarters, but later that year, it was transferred to a set of houses acquired by the Misericórdia in the same street, for 500 000 réis.
The commitment of the Misericórdia of Vila Real in the maintenance of the Hospital was, since then, very strong, so that the Board at its meeting on May 20, 1797, decided to present a series of proposals to all brothers in order to solve the "lack of charity and love towards God" that some brothers revealed in relation to the Hospital, especially concerning the collection of alms on Sundays.
Considering that hospitals were "one of the main objects of the Misericórdias of this Kingdom, recommended in their bylaws”, the Board proposed the voting of a new regulation regarding the obligations of collecting alms, to be added to its own Bylaws, also serving as the basis on the request to be sent to the king, in order for him to "take the Hospital under his royal protection".
As years went by, the Misericórdia, given the increasing number of patients and the new demands of medical science, considered necessary to build a new hospital space. Thanks to the commitment of successive Boards, to the public collections throughout the province of Trás-os-Montes, and to the support obtained by its benefactors, the new Divine Providence Hospital, which included a chapel and a private cemetery, began to function on October 19, 1823.
Evidently, over years, these facilities were progressively improved. In the second half of the 19th century, new spaces were built, namely, a “decent” medical wing for the Brothers of the Misericórdia, separate medical wings for men and women, bathrooms for each infirmary and private rooms for the pensioners and patients with financial resources. Besides, the Hospital staff also increased, and the post of chief steward was eliminated, as the clinical practice became directly responsible of dealing with the Board, a fact that demonstrates the principle that a medic should be in charge for the patients of a hospital.
The Divine Providence Hospital remained in these facilities until 1915, when it received an expropriation threat by the city council presided by Augusto Rua, who was simultaneously the provedor of the Misericórdia. Hence, the Hospital was transferred to the building where the former College of Our Lady of the Rosary once functioned, and the Hospital’s previous building began to accommodate the Municipal Council of Vila Real.
The new facilities had to be adapted to the functioning of the Hospital, and throughout the 20th century they were improved, following the expansions of the rendered services. The capacity of the Hospital was gradually increased, up to a total of 150 beds, in the mid-20th century, plus 50 beds in the maternity ward.
The Divine Providence Hospital remained in this building until 1991, although no longer depending on the Misericórdia since 1975, due to its nationalization following the revolution of 25 April 1974, assuming the designation of Vila Real District Hospital.
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Jets take a chance on LB Maybin
By | Sports Network
Florham Park, NJ – The New York Jets and linebacker Aaron Maybin have apparently agreed to terms.
Jets head coach Rex Ryan said Wednesday that Maybin was at the team's headquarters to take a physical.
Maybin, selected with the 11th overall pick of the 2009 draft by Buffalo, was released by the Bills on Monday. He posted just 24 tackles in 27 NFL games.
"We will give him [an] opportunity and see what he can do," Ryan said at a press conference. "I thought he had ability to rush the passer [with Buffalo]. We'll see how he does. We think he has some talent. If he sticks on our team, he'll be a pass rusher for us. We don't need him to be a starter."
Ryan said Maybin would also likely play on special teams.
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David Frankel Might Direct Will Smith in ‘Collateral Beauty’
Posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 by Jack Giroux
Collateral Beauty must be a really good script, because it keeps attracting some major talent. The studio drama was originally going to star Hugh Jackman (Pan) and Rooney Mara (also Pan), before they had to drop out. It was rumored Johnny Depp was circling the lead, but ultimately the role went to Will Smith. Then New Line Cinema lost its exciting director, but a replacement has now been found. Director David Frankel may take over the project.
Learn more about Collateral Beauty director after the jump.
Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara Set For ‘Collateral Beauty’ From Director Of ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 by Germain Lussier
In about a month, audiences are going to fall in love with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Simultaneously, they’re going to get very curious about Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the film’s director who takes difficult subject matter and turns it into something incredible. Gomez-Rejon is already capitalizing on that buzz and has picked his next project. It’s called Collateral Beauty and will star Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara, who’ll soon be seen together in Pan. Read more about the film below. Read More »
Miles Teller in Talks to Star in Marc Webb’s ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’
Posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 by Russ Fischer
Miles Teller is doing a movie with Marc Webb. The Amazing Spider-Man director has balanced a commitment to Fox Searchlight and the desire to do other indies with his work for Sony. Now he’s prepping a return to the indie scene with The Only Living Boy in New York, about a young man who gets involved with the same woman his father is having an affair with. The Whiplash star is going to rock the lead role. Read More »
‘Rock of Ages’ Scribe Teams With ‘Frozen’ Composers for Disney’s ‘Bob the Musical’
Posted on Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 by Angie Han
Disney’s Bob the Musical has been in the works for a full decade at this point, but it’s been slow going. One of the last updates we got on it was that 21 Jump Street‘s Phil Lord and Chris Miller were negotiating to direct, but even that ultimately amounted to nothing as they’ve since moved on. However, it finally seems to be gaining some fresh momentum as Rock of Ages scribe Allan Loeb has been tapped to write the musical comedy.
As for what’s inspired this sudden uptick in activity, well, we’re not privy to the conversations that took place. But if we had to guess, we’d say that Frozen‘s lasting success probably had a little something to do with it — Bob the Musical has long had Frozen composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez to write the tunes. Hit the jump for the latest on this long-gestating project.
Former ‘Lost’ Showrunner Carlton Cuse to Rewrite ‘San Andreas: 3D’
Posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2012 by Angie Han
Damon Lindelof’s spent the years since Lost racking up high-profile movie credits like Cowboys & Aliens, Prometheus, and Star Trek 2, but the other Lost showrunner, Carlton Cuse, has kept a pretty low profile for the most part. That could be about to change, however, as he has a few different things brewing at the moment.
Among the projects Cuse has been working on are a movie set up at Fox with Shawn Levy and Hugh Jackman attached and a Psycho-inspired TV series for A&E. Now we can add to that list San Andreas: 3D, the earthquake epic developing over at New Line. More details after the jump.
‘Rock of Ages’ Trailer: Like Watching a Megabudget Celebrity Rock Band Party
Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2012 by Russ Fischer
Let me say one thing first: this is the sort of role I think Tom Cruise does well. A variation on the arrogant, overbearing personality with a core of self-doubt has served him well in a few films here and there. So I hoped that playing big-time rock star Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman‘s ’80s cock rock jukebox musical Rock of Ages might work, too. But based on this new full-length trailer, I don’t think anything really works in Rock of Ages. I know there will be people who dig this, and given that it took time and effort to create I hope someone digs it. Go forth and have a great time, please. But I can’t lie: this one made me cringe more than I would have expected to.
Check out the trailer below. Read More »
‘Rock of Ages’ Trailer: Hairpieces, Histrionics and Hysteria
Posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
For me, the best part of the trailer for Adam Shankman‘s Rock of Ages is the prominent display of the Motorhead logo in the first few seconds. After that it’s all downhill. The film adapts the stage ‘jukebox musical’ with Diego Boneta and Julianne Hough playing wide-eyed kids caught up in the mid-’80s LA rock scene. Well, they’re caught up in a vision of that scene, at least, as filtered through comedy, nostalgia and the parameters of the movie musical. Check out the trailer below, which holds the reveal of Tom Cruise‘s rocker Stacee Jaxx until the very end. Read More »
New Line Developing Earthquake Movie ‘San Andreas: 3D’ From ‘Rock of Ages’ Screenwriter Allan Loeb
Posted on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 by Angie Han
Considering what a big part of life earthquakes are in sunny Southern California, what big moneymakers disaster films can be, and how obsessed Hollywood is with 3D spectacle at the moment, I’m a little surprised San Andreas: 3D isn’t a thing that already exists. But no, New Line has just announced the new project, which as the title suggests revolves around a huge earthquake that hits the famed California fault line and causes widespread destruction in three action-packed dimensions.
Allan Loeb, whose previous works include Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and 21, has written the script, with Beau Flynn (Journey to the Center of the Earth) on board to produce. More details after the jump.
Robert Downey Jr To Possibly Star in Neil Strauss’s ‘Emergency!’
Posted on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Columbia Pictures have announced that they have optioned the rights to Neil Strauss‘s non-fiction book Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life. Strauss is probably best known for his bestselling pickup book The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pickup Artists, which has also been in development for the past couple years (with Ari Sandel now working to bring it to the big screen, with Due Date scribe Adam Sztykiel is rewriting Dan Weiss‘ script). Robert Downey Jr is producing the project as a possible starring vehicle with Allan Loeb (Wall Street 2, Dilemma) writing the screenplay.
The Crazies Helmer Breck Eisner Directing Escape From New York Remake
Posted on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman, who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn’t excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman’s production design background made him the better choice of the two. This is a time right after 300 made huge bank at the box office, resulting in the casting of Gerard Butler as the new Plissken. The project thankfully fell into the wayside, never to be heard from again… until now.
Breck Eisner, director of The Crazies, has signed on to direct the remake of Escape from New York, set up with producer Neal H. Moritz‘s Original Films. HeatVision says they will be sticking with Allan Loeb‘s draft, which “tries to mix an origin story for anti-hero Snake Plissken and merge it with the story of the 1981 original.”
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Now Stream This: More of The Best Movies to Stream For the Halloween Season
Posted on Friday, October 20th, 2017 by Chris Evangelista
(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.)
Holy Great Pumpkin, folks, Halloween just a little bit over a week away! Time is running out, so if you haven’t pieced together your costume for the year or carved several season gourds yet, you better get cracking! All Halloween-related activities are best paired with either a spooky mix tape featuring songs about monsters mashing, or a bunch of scary movies. I’ve got you covered on the latter!
Yes, I’ve compiled yet another Halloween-themed edition of Now Stream This, with some fine fright flicks you can stream this festive season. It’s a bit of an eclectic list, with straight-up horror, horror comedy, classics, slow burns, new stuff, and more. I’ve plumbed the depths of the Halloween streaming pit and come back with these morsels of candy corn. It’s time for The Best Movies Streaming Right Now! So let’s get streaming.
1. Bride of Frankenstein
Now Streaming on Shudder
Shudder, the good eggs that they are, went ahead and put a whole plethora of classic Universal monster movies on their service this week. Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, they’re all there, and more! Sadly, Tom Cruise’s Mummy movie doesn’t make an appearance, so if you’re hoping for something like that, might I advise sticking your face into a bag of garbage? While the majority of the Universal classics Shudder has made available are all worth watching, the best of the bunch is James Whale’s 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein. Whale’s sequel to his own Frankenstein is funnier, better made, and way ahead of its time, full of not-so-hidden “subversive” elements that would make the movie censors of 1935 drop their monocles into champagne flutes had they caught them all. Boris Karloff’s Monster is back, and he wants a mate, which he gets in the form of Elsa Lanchester’s glamorous, tall-haired hissing bride.
For fans of: Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, Gods and Monsters, the Frankenstein Monster smoking a cigar.
2. Cronos
Now Streaming on FilmStruck
Guillermo del Toro‘s feature debut is this wicked twist on the vampire story. An elderly antiques dealer (Federico Luppi) discovers a scared-shaped golden trinket that has the power to grant immortality, as long as you’re willing to shed a little blood. Cronos is unlike any other vampire film you’ve ever seen, and it’s an early indication of how great del Toro would go on to become. The filmmaker balances both humor and horror, crafting a haunting, memorable take on the woes of eternal life. Added bonus: Ron Perlman having the time of his life as a complete jerk who wants to get his hands on that gold scarab, consequences be damned.
For fans of: Blade II, Hellboy: The Golden Army, Near Dark, licking blood off the floor.
3. The Witch
Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
Robert Eggers’ The Witch caused quite a stir when it was released in 2016, for two particular reasons: one, it was great and people went crazy for it; and two, some people hated it and protested that it was not a horror movie. First thing’s first: this is absolutely a horror movie, and if you disagree, I’m not sure what strange concept of “horror” you have, but…it’s wrong. That said, I can see why some people wouldn’t care for The Witch – it is a very slow-burn horror film, and some folks have no time for that. That’s fine. The rest of us, however, can bask in the creepy brilliance that is this film, which is sort of like a Puritan remake of The Shining. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the real star of the film: Black Phillip, the most charismatic goat to ever grace the silver screen. This chilly, autumnal horror flick is perfect for late-night Halloween watching, so turn it on and live deliciously.
For fans of: The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, Mark of the Devil, the taste of butter and a pretty dress.
Streaming on Netflix 10/20
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a bit of a Stephen King adaptation renaissance going on right now. Film and TV versions of the prolific horror writer’s works are popping up everywhere, and in the wake of the box office smash that was It, expect to see even more of that. In the meantime, Netflix – who recently released another King adaptation, Gerald’s Game – also has 1922. Adapted from a novella by the same name, 1922 is sort of like Edgar Allan Poe meets John Steinbeck. A poor farmer (Thomas Jane) decides to murder his wife with the help of his son in order to inherit the land she owns. Father and son get away with the crime, but man, guilt can be a killer. Enter ghosts and copious amounts of rats. 1922 may not be the most nuanced of King adaptations, but it’s plenty creepy.
For fans of: The Green Mile, The Grudge, The Woman in Black, Tom Jane always talkin’ through his teeth.
5. Penny Dreadful
Now Streaming on Netflix
“A TV show? But I thought this was a movie list!” you might be saying right about now. Listen, friendo, this is my streaming column and I’ll do what I want with it. Besides, Penny Dreadful, which ran for three seasons on Showtime, deserves all the love it can get. This show was criminally under-watched when it aired, which is a damn shame, because it’s one of the best horror shows to ever flicker across the small screen. This is the type of horror show that deserves a devoted following, not junk like American Horror Story. Alas, it was not to be. This gothic delight takes characters from literature, like Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, Dorian Gray, and more, and combines them all into a lush, beautiful show about monsters and people who are worse than monsters. At the center of it all is the amazing Eva Green, who practically glides through every scene as if she were floating on air, and looking incredible doing it. Creepy, sexy, sad and masterfully directed, Penny Dreadful deserves to be rediscovered again and again. You can probably binge through it all in one weekend, and you won’t regret it.
For fans of: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (the comic, not the movie, ugh), Crimson Peak, Eva Green being goth as hell.
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Fortescue triumphs against ASIC in High Court ruling
Myriam Robin
In a decision handed down today, the High Court ruled that Fortescue Metals Group did not engage in misleading and deceptive conduct, and by extension, did not breach its continuous disclosure obligations, when it announced three deals with Chinese state-owned companies that did not eventuate.
A negative ruling could have led to Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, Fortescue’s founder, current chair and former CEO, being banned from being a company director for up to eight years. Forrest’s retirement from the CEO role and move to the board in June last year has been seen as a precautionary move against this possibility.
Today’s decision is a huge loss for ASIC, which was ordered to pay Fortescue’s legal costs, adding to a bill likely to run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the case.
Continuous disclosure is a tricky area for directors, and many would have been eagerly watching the Fortescue case. But experts caution the ruling should not be interpreted as giving guidance on directors’ continuous disclosure obligations.
In early 2004, Fortescue issued two announcements to the ASX. The announcements contained details of agreements with several Chinese state-owned companies about building a mine, a port, and a railway in the Pilbara.
The four-page Fortescue releases used the phrase “binding agreement”, but the Chinese companies later told the press the agreements weren’t binding. The deals eventually fell apart, leading ASIC to commence legal action against Fortescue in 2006, alleging the company had misled investors.
A trial judge dismissed ASIC’s claims in 2009, but a full bench of the Federal Court in 2011 ruled in favour of ASIC, finding that because the agreements were not enforceable under Australian law, Fortescue misled investors by describing them as “binding” contracts. On the continuous disclosure point, misleading or deceptive conduct was ruled to automatically mean directors had breached their continuous disclosure obligations.
Fortescue appealed to the High Court, which noted in its ruling today that at the time of making the releases, both the Chinese companies and Fortescue intended the deals to go ahead.
But this was not central to the decision. Crucially, the High Court ruled that the releases would not have been understood to mean the deals were legally binding by their audience. As Fortescue was ruled to not have engaged in deceptive conduct, the High Court did not examine whether such conduct was a breach of continuous disclosure obligations.
For this reason, Anil Hargovan, an associate professor at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, cautions against reading broadly into the decision.
“This ruling is so specific and narrowly-based on the particular facts of this case. One has to be careful to extract a broad message from it,” he tells LeadingCompany. “This much, however, is clear: whether a claim is misleading or deceptive or not, ultimately, depends on identifying the intended audience and the message conveyed to that audience.”
“In assessing whether or not Fortescue had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, the High Court took Fortescue’s target audience, investors and wider sections of the commercial community into account, deeming them to be a sophisticated audience who would not have understood Fortescue’s releases to mean the agreements were binding in a legal sense.”
The High Court also took a dim view of the manner in which ASIC litigated this case, Hargovan adds. “The High Court found it objectionable that ASIC relied on too many alternative allegations, giving rise to confusion and incoherence in the statement of claims against the defendants.”
“The High Court has put ASIC on notice to ensure that claims made are sufficiently clear to allow defendants a proper chance to defend proceedings.”
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Why the Turnbull government will need to master the art of negotiation to deal with the new Senate crossbench
One Nation's Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts. Source: AAP Image/Dan Peled
By Zareh Ghazarian, Monash University
The 2016 federal election has finally come to an end, with the Australian Electoral Commission declaring who will sit in the next Senate. The results suggest the Turnbull government will have to master the art of negotiation if it is to implement its policies.
New system, new Senate
As this was a double-dissolution election, the quota for election was halved, making it easier for candidates to win Senate seats.
The Senate is made up of 76 seats (12 from each state and two from each territory). The government must gain the support of at least 39 senators to pass its legislation.
The Coalition has 30 seats; Labor holds 26; there will be nine Greens. There are now 11 other crossbench senators from six different parties. The Turnbull government will therefore need the support of at least nine non-Green votes from the crossbench if Labor and the Greens oppose its legislation.
The 2016 election used a new system of voting for the Senate. The group voting ticket (GVT) was abolished, and voters were able to more directly send their preferences to their favoured candidates. This had a significant impact on the re-emergence of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
In 1998, when the then-nascent party enjoyed relatively high levels of support, the major parties preferenced One Nation last. But, as the Senate had changed its voting system, One Nation in 2016 was no longer dependent on preference deals to the same extent and now returns to the federal parliament.
So, who’s who on the new Senate crossbench? And what role will they play in the 45th parliament?
The Greens
The Greens lost one seat but continue to hold the largest bloc on the crossbench, with nine seats. The government may pass its legislation if it can get the Greens’ support.
This will be a challenge, however. The Greens will continue to advance a policy agenda that covers broad conservation and socially progressive aims.
While such views appear to be shared to some extent with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, there may be flashpoints on social policy in particular. This may depend on how much influence the Coalition’s conservative element has on proposed legislation.
The Greens may be a very important ally to the government, but they will not be supporting legislation that conflicts with their agenda.
Then again, the Greens will face some challenges of their own. Losing one seat and associated parliamentary resources means the party will be focusing on preparing to consolidate and expand in the Senate at the next election.
The Nick Xenophon Team
A big winner of this election is Nick Xenophon and his new political party, which claimed three Senate seats.
The Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) has a mix of protectionist economic and socially progressive policies. Part of its appeal has been its focus on enhancing government accountability and promoting manufacturing in Australia.
While Xenophon himself has been vocal on these topics, as well as his long-term concern about predatory gambling, the challenge will now be to make a legislative impact in these areas. If voters get a sense that his party has been unable to fulfil its promises, they may choose to give their votes to someone else next time.
The Jacqui Lambie Network
Jacqui Lambie, who was elected in 2013 as a Palmer United Party candidate in Tasmania, also created a new party and will be returning to the Senate.
Presenting herself as a strong advocate for her state, Lambie built a high public profile by positioning herself as an anti-establishment figure.
Concerns about protecting jobs and the provision of government services dominated her campaign, as did her opposition to sharia law supposedly being imposed in Australia.
Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party
Derryn Hinch will be in the Senate representing Victoria. He has a high public profile as a controversial journalist and will advocate for reforms to a suite of law-and-order issues.
Hinch has for many years called for a public register of convicted sex offenders. His party also seeks to reform matters concerning sentencing and parole, as well as domestic violence.
The party is also in favour of voluntary euthanasia. This spread of policies will allow Hinch to transcend any sense of rigid party politics in the Senate.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
Like the proverbial phoenix, One Nation has risen again in Australian politics.
Pauline Hanson, who became a prominent figure when she was first elected to the lower house in 1996, will lead her reinvigorated party back into the Senate after winning the third-highest primary vote in Queensland after the Liberal National Party and the Labor Party.
Presenting herself as an anti-establishment figure, Hanson won support from some sections of the electorate for her concerns about race and migration. She also promotes a broadly protectionist suite of economic policies.
The One Nation party of 2016 has also expressed greater concern about religion and climate change than it did in the 1990s.
The party famously imploded when it had just one senator from 1998 to 2004. Hanson’s challenge will be to keep a cohesive group together and avoid recreating past disunity.
Hanson has already flagged that her party’s senators are free to vote against the party when they see fit, making negotiations for the government even more complicated. It will not be able to count on the party to vote as a bloc.
The returnees
Bob Day will return to the Senate representing Family First. His party advances socially conservative policies, including a desire to ensure same-sex marriage does not become a reality in Australia.
Maintaining the idea that a nuclear family is best, as well as opposing liberal social policies, will be at the core of Family First’s focus.
Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm will return to pursue policies that limit government power. As a libertarian, Leyonhjelm will oscillate from being friend and foe for the government. His reported opposition to some government services may be in line with the Coalition’s. But his support for legalising same-sex marriage will be troublesome for some in the government.
The Turnbull government and the new Senate
The double-dissolution election has injected into the Senate a wider range of parties and policy demands than before. The government will need to have strong working relationships with the crossbench to have any chance of getting their support.
Policy that is seen to be ideologically driven will have little prospect of passing. Major reforms will need much careful negotiation and an acceptance that compromise will be inevitable.
The composition of the Senate means the government’s team, especially Senate leader George Brandis, will have to work extremely hard to negotiate their way through the disparate policy demands.
Turnbull, vaunted as a great communicator, will also have to be a consistent top performer if his government’s policies are to get through the Senate.
Zareh Ghazarian is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.
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Oporto ad slammed by watchdog for suggesting torturous acts
Broede Carmody
Oporto’s ‘Carne Cartel’ advertisement has been found to be unnecessarily violent by the Advertising Standards Board due to its depiction of a man being held captive.
The advertisement depicts a chef who is tied up and hooded while being terrorised by a Latin-American Cartel member for using low-quality meat. He is threatened with a meat cleaver, and at one point there is a scream and a splash of sauce – which the advertising watchdog says alludes to blood.
A sample complaint, published in the Board’s case report, accuses Oporto of parodying Latin-American culture and promoting violent behaviour.
“I feel this ad is absolutely disgusting,” the complaint read. “There is enough violence in this world today without watching it in advertisements. Surely the product can be advertised in a much more appropriate way.”
In response, Oporto said it did not portray or depict material which discriminates or vilifies a person or section of the community on the grounds of race, ethnicity or nationality. It also rejected the claims that it portrayed unnecessary violence.
“No harm comes to anyone in the advertisement and no violence is actually portrayed,” the company said in the Board’s case report. “We believe consumers will know and understand that Oporto in no way endorses violence of any kind, but has taken creative license to demonstrate that Oporto now has quality steak products.”
The watchdog found the advertisement did not vilify South Americans because “it is not clear that the characters are part of any particular group or that they are from any particular country or nation”.
However, the Board did find the ad presented violence in an unacceptable manner and therefore breached section 2.3 of the Advertiser Code of Ethics. Section 2.3 states that advertisements and marketing communications “shall not present or portray violence unless it is justifiable in the context of the product or service advertised”.
Mumbrella reports the Oporto ad was created by advertising company Publicis Mojo. SmartCompany contacted Oporto for comment but they did not respond prior to publication.
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Growth, Sales & Marketing
Success on a shoestring
Michelle Hammond
Australian software company Atlassian is frequently held up as a success story for the local tech start-up sector, partly because its founders were barely out of uni when they started the business.
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar were 22-year-old university graduates when they started the company in 2002 with US$10,000 on a credit card.
However, the company was profitable from the outset, with its flagship product generating sales of around US$1.3 million in 2003. With growth rates above 30% in 2010, Atlassian is on track to exceed sales of US$100 million in 2010-2011.
Atlassian makes software collaboration and development tools to help teams deliver products faster and cleaner.
With offices in Sydney, San Francisco and Amsterdam, Atlassian now has more than 273 employees, along with an impressive product lineup of seven collaboration and development software tools.
Although Atlassian has been profitable from day one, that’s not to say the company hasn’t learnt any lessons. In the early days, Farquhar says a lack of mentorship proved to be a major hurdle for the business.
“In the early days, everybody giving advice focused on the pricing model and the business model. We said, ‘No, that’s never going to work’,” he says.
“So you just begin to ignore them… I guess we were so burned by people saying we couldn’t do it or that we had to do it the traditonal way.”
The founders’ lack of experience meant they had only a slim chance of raising venture capital, which proved to be a blessing in disguise.
“Sometimes being able to raise venture money too early is a dangerous thing… I saw a lot of good venture money go into really spurious investments that quickly evaporated,” Cannon-Brookes says.
“I was jaded about the value of venture money at that time. Also, we were lucky enough not to have a snowball’s chance in hell of attracting venture money.”
“We were two 21- to 22-year-olds who would have pitched to VCs and said, ‘Look, we think we can figure this out along the way.”
Farquhar says Atlassian couldn’t afford to spend too long honing its offering, which meant it went to the market with a relatively simple product, which resonated with consumers.
“We weren’t venture-backed, so we couldn’t spend two years developing the software. We had to sell something quickly. We produced a simple-to-use product when there was nothing simple to use,” he says.
That’s not to say it was an easy road. For the first three years, Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes pumped all their earnings into the business, surviving off their university scholarship money of about $300 a week.
According to Farquhar, surviving on a shoestring budget – with no major overheads – can often prove to be an ideal way to start-up.
“The biggest thing preventing people from starting their own thing is, ‘I need to get some more money behind me, or I need to flesh out my idea more’,” he says.
“No, no, no. Just go and do it, because when I was at university, the biggest downside risk for me was I’d have to go back and live with my parents for a few months. The downside risk is so much lower when you’re young.”
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Oliver Peoples was founded in 1987 with the opening of its first boutique and subsequent launch of the original collection. From the beginning, Oliver Peoples had a passion for superior product, a distinctive culture rooted in California, and an obsession with service. These core values have remained at the foundation of the brand and endure today. Through an authentic and consistent voice, Oliver Peoples has never relied on a logo but instead on fostering relationships with likeminded consumers who appreciate and respect the brand’s approach.
Each Oliver Peoples frame is hand crafted with careful attention to detail, sculpting and perfecting the materials to achieve a balanced and refined final product. The technically intricate process involves both state of the art machinery and the human touch, such as the individual hand-insertion of the genuine pins and plaques. Each frame is tumbled and polished, and finally hand adjusted, carefully referring back to the original drawing created in the design studio in West Hollywood.
The unique culture of Los Angeles – elements of fashion, film, art, music, and the Southern California lifestyle - remains at the core of the brand’s DNA. This lifestyle inspires what we do and continues to have a global appeal.
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The Truth: Kye Petersen
On going pro at 13, Chamonix, and his father’s legacy.
August 31, 2009 Scott Gornall
When Kye Petersen was just six years old, his father—renowned ski mountaineer Trevor Petersen—died in an avalanche in the Exit Couloir in Chamonix, France. Kye, now 19, became a pro skier himself after getting recognized in his home terrain park at Whistler. This fall, he stars in The Edge of Never, a documentary based on the book about his 2005 trip to Chamonix, where he skied the line that killed his father.
I was pretty young when I picked up my first sponsors. I was probably 12 or 13. Oakley and Rossi started hooking me up with gear.
By the time I was 16, I started filming with some American companies and began making a name for myself. And from then till now, it’s been “Take it as it comes,” which almost always works.
Sometimes I wanted to forget about being a pro and live a regular life, you know, go skate with friends. But I’m always doing things that are a getaway. Skiing and all the sports are an escape from the real world.
I think everybody is feeling the recession right now, especially in the ski industry. But you just have to push on through. Usually things like this make the sport cooler in the future. It has to be shitty at one point to get better.
I’ve always looked up to my dad. I tried to follow in my dad’s footsteps growing up. He’s always there looking over me. It’s good to have that.
I’m pretty lucky that my dad made friends all over the world. I got to learn more about him from them. It’s cool to hear those stories and have all those people around.
I still see [my dad’s skiing partner] Eric Pehota quite often and run into his kids around the valley. We go jet-boating in the summers.
I was pretty stoked to go to Chamonix for The Edge of Never. I didn’t know what to expect. I’d never dealt with any Hollywood film crews and thought it would be a bit of a junk show because of how many people were going.
The first time in Chamonix, everything was new to me as far as ski mountaineering goes. Growing up in Whistler, I had skied lots of steeps, but this was quite different.
We were only in Chamonix for five days. One of our guides fell into a crevasse and broke his neck. The whole production crew freaked out. It wasn’t something that should’ve shut down the trip, but the Hollywood crew didn’t know what to do.
Skiing the Exit Couloir wasn’t originally part of the plan. If you live in Chamonix, you don’t plan anything. That’s how people get killed. You have to go when it’s good. The conditions were right, so we skied it.
I wasn’t getting too emotional in the middle of the Exit Couloir. You don’t really have a chance. But it was spiritually the closest I’ve ever felt to my dad.
Chamonix is such a magical place—the Aiguille du Midi, the Mont Blanc Massif. That day in the Exit Couloir changed my life. It opened my eyes to the real skiing. I’ve been back to Chamonix every season since.
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Randy Albert, is the owner and CEO of Shale Advisory Group, a consulting firm focused on the emerging shale plays in the Appalachian Basin and around the world. Mr. Albert retired from CONSOL Energy in January 2014 after a 34-year career, serving the last several years as the Chief Operating Officer-Gas. Mr. Albert began at CONSOL as a mining engineer in 1979 and served in various roles on the coal side of the business until he was tapped to lead the Coalbed Methane Business in CONSOL Energy's Southern Appalachia Region. In 1990 Mr. Albert led the formation of Pocahontas Gas Partnership, a joint venture with Conoco which ultimately drilled and stimulated over 4000 wells in southwestern Virginia and became one of the largest CBM plays in the world. In 2005, Mr. Albert took on operational leadership roles and successfully developed the CONSOL Energy Gas business in Northern Appalachia. In 2010, he was named the Chief Operating Officer-Gas and given operational responsibility for CONSOL Energy's entire gas business. During his tenure, Mr. Albert led the rapid development of CONSOL Energy Marcellus Shale program as well as the emerging Utica Shale program.
Randy Albert
Mr. Albert was also instrumental in leading the $3.5 billion acquisition of Dominion Resources E&P; business in 2010. Mr. Albert is a past Chairman of the Marcellus Shale Coalition and a Member of the Board of Eclipse Resources Corporation, Vanguard Natural Resources and Wellsite Rentals and Fishing Tools. He serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of Black Bay Energy Capital, a New Orleans based Private Equity fund, and the Advisory Board of Gas Field Services, a Rosedale VA based OFS provider. He holds a BS in Mining Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he is a Mining and Minerals Engineering Distinguished Alumnus and serves on the Mining Engineering Department’s Advisory Board. In April of 2016 Mr. Albert was inducted into the Academy of Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech, the highest honor bestowed upon the College of Engineering graduates, an honor bestowed upon only 141 of its 65000 graduates. Mr. Albert is a Registered Professional Engineer in WV and VA.
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Shareef's Grill & House of Wraps is a community-based carry out established in 2008. The owner, Shareef, came up with the idea after a decision to follow his passion in the culinary industry. He started out selling Halal hotdogs, Halal burgers & Italian Ice on the corner of Division & Islamic Way at Masjid Ul Haqq. Two years later, Shareef founded his first brick and mortar location at the corner of Franklin and Carey St.
In May of 2012, Shareef's East was established at 628 N. Chester St. In August of 2013, Shareef added a mobile truck to reach customers within the Maryland metropolitan area. In 2015 Shareef’s East was moved from Chester Street to 3320 Belair Road. Since then Shareef’s House of Wraps has been providing a healthy alternative to carry-out foods. In 2018 Shareef’s Juice Bar was established as a branch of Shareef’s Belair location. Our commitment to delivering healthy, delicious options to city residents has kept us in business for over nine years and counting.
Shareef is a Baltimore native who has strong ties to the Islamic community and the city of Baltimore. Shareef’s Grill is committed to always using the best ingredients, proudly serving 100% Halal meats and products. Shareef’s Juicebar uses 100% natural and organic produces to provide fresh smoothies, juices, and açaí bowls. Shareef’s Grill has created a strong brand identity within Baltimore City, sponsoring many local events and community initiatives.
Stop by today, we promise you’ll love it!
"Shareef's Grill is not your typical halal spot. I recommend trying the wraps and platters...so delicious! The sauce that's topped on the rice and choice of meat is the secret ingredient."
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USCIS Restricts Third-Party Placement of STEM OPT Students
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Editor's Note: DHS clarified August 17 that STEM OPT participants may engage in a training experience that takes place at a site other than the employer’s principal place of business as long as all of the training obligations are met, including that the employer has and maintains a bona fide employer/employee relationship with the student. DHS will review on a case-by-case basis whether the student will be a bona fide employee of the employer signing the Training Plan, and verify that the employer that signs the Training Plan is the same entity that employs the student and provides the practical training experience.
Employers of students with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees approved for optional practical training (OPT) are mostly prohibited from assigning student workers to third-party client sites, according to a recent change on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website.
According to the 2016 STEM OPT regulations, the student worker's training plan must be signed by the entity that has a bona fide employment relationship with the student, and the bona fide employer must be in a position to train the student and oversee the implementation of the training plan, explained Otieno B. Ombok, an attorney in the White Plains, N.Y., office of Jackson Lewis.
OPT allows foreign nationals to maintain their student visas while working in the U.S. after graduating from U.S. colleges and universities and many employers use the program in order to hire foreign nationals straight out of school without having to wait for a decision on an H-1B petition. The STEM OPT extension allows foreign graduates of U.S. colleges and universities with STEM degrees to work for up to three years post-graduation if they meet certain training requirements and their employers use the E-Verify electronic employment verification system.
It was noted in 2016 that STEM OPT may not be "apt for certain types of arrangements" such as various outsourcing labor-for-hire employment scenarios, but the regulations did not specify whether the training and supervision could be conducted in situations when students worked offsite.
USCIS is now stating that the STEM OPT training "must take place onsite at the employer's place of business or worksite(s) to which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has authority to conduct site visits to ensure the employer is meeting program requirements."
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The justification for the change is that ICE would lack the authority to visit third-party client workplaces, so student workers cannot be contracted out to their employer's clients or customers.
But some, including Justin Storch, manager of agency liaison at the Council for Global Immigration, a Washington, D.C.-area advocacy organization supporting employment-based immigration, question whether ICE does in fact lack the authority to investigate third-party worksites.
"Third-party placement has gotten a lot of scrutiny with regard to H-1Bs, and now it's clear that scrutiny is moving into the OPT space," he said. "It's unclear how this change came about, and we believe more clarification is needed as to the scope of permissible work on OPT."
USCIS also said that instructing students to make periodic visits to the employer's place of business while the student is actually working at a third-party site, or having them make periodic telephone calls or send periodic e-mails while working at the client site will not be sufficient to fulfill the employer's training obligation to the student.
Students may still receive STEM-related training while working for staffing and other outsourcing firms in certain situations, such as when they work in the employer's information technology department, the agency said.
"These clarifications do not mean that it would not be possible to have a STEM employee working at a third-party worksite," Ombok said. "There might be situations where a bona fide employer/employee relationship could still be established if, for instance, a supervisor is co-located at the client site and actively supervising the STEM employee."
Storch said that there are many unanswered questions about the website change that need clarification. It is unclear whether the change of language has the force of a change in regulation, for instance. "It is also unclear how this affects employees who had approved OPT before this change," Storch said.
Andrew Greenfield, managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office of immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, is one who does not believe that the language reflects a policy change.
“ICE and the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, not USCIS, has authority over policymaking and enforcement. Until we hear otherwise from them, it is business as usual,” he said.
"What seems clear is that this is another step taken by USCIS to comply with President Donald Trump's Buy American, Hire American executive order focused on protecting U.S. workers," Ombok said.
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The Dori Slosberg Foundation Works to Save Lives in Florida
By Stabinski & Funt, P.A.
The Dori Slosberg Foundation is a champion of roadway and driver safety throughout the state of Florida. Established in 2004, the foundation is a non-profit, public service organization committed to educating the public on traffic safety. Our firm is thrilled that such an organization exists and proudly supports all that is promoted and accomplished by those involved.
Programs Dedicated to Roadway Safety
Dori Slosberg, the daughter of State Representative Irving “Irv” Slosberg, was tragically killed in a car accident in which she was not wearing a seatbelt. This accident prompted family members and others in the community to establish the foundation in memory of Dori’s life.
Numerous programs are hosted each year by The Dori Slosberg Foundation, with each one focusing on a different aspect of traffic safety. One of the first, referred to as ‘Staying Alive on 95, 75 & Florida’s Roadways,’ is held each June. Safety issues regarding I-95 are discussed and numerous individuals address factors that could make Florida’s highways safer.
The DUI 0 Tolerance program also takes place each year as a way to acknowledge the DUI law enforcement officers who continually enforce safety on the roads. DUI survivors and victims are also encouraged to share their stories to promote a zero-tolerance policy for drunk drivers.
Other programs, including the Driver’s Education & Safe Teen Driving programs and the Safe Senior Transportation program, are intended to help these specific age groups traverse safely throughout Florida.
Proudly Supporting Such an Honorable Cause
As a personal injury firm in Miami, Stabinski Law is always in support of anything that will make Florida’s roadways a safer place for drivers and pedestrians. We’ve represented hundreds of individuals victimized by negligent and inattentive drivers and could not be happier that The Dori Slosberg Foundation is working to reduce these incidents.
We anticipate much success from this organization in the coming years. Our Fort Lauderdale car accident lawyers believe that positive change can turn Florida into a much safer and educated state.
To learn more about The Dori Slosberg Foundation, please visit their website: www.dorislosberg.org.
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Stage 32 Next Level Classes
Navigating the Industry & Your Career With Oscar-Nominated Producer Chris Moore
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Moore was born in Easton, Maryland, where he grew up. He went to Harvard University where he studied American history. He worked as a production assistant at USA Network for two summers and found an opportunity to work as an intern for USA Network's comedy TV series Up All Night. When Moore graduated from Harvard, he moved to Los Angeles with friends and began working in the mailroom at an agency. He eventually got promoted to literary agent and sold several scripts; some became films: The Stoned Age, PCU, Airheads, Last Action Hero, and My Girl. When Moore's agency was acquired by ICM, he left and strove to become a film producer. With friends, he raised money to produce the film Glory Daze. He knew Matt Damon from Harvard in passing, and he approached Damon to star in the film. Damon turned down the opportunity in favor of paid work but introduced Moore to his friend Ben Affleck, who ultimately starred in Glory Daze. Afterward, Damon and Affleck wrote the screenplay for what would be Good Will Hunting, and they involved Moore as co-producer in its production. Moore became involved as producer for the 1999 film American Pie, which was a breakout hit. Moore subsequently produced its sequels. In June 2002, Moore co-founded the multimedia company LivePlanet with Damon, Affleck, and screenwriter/producer Sean Bailey. Moore became CEO of LivePlanet, and the company produced the TV series Project Greenlight as well as several films. In 2016, he produced Manchester by the Sea through his production company, The Media Farm, in which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Full Bio »
Taught by 25+ year producer (GOOD WILL HUNTING, AMERICAN PIE, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA), director (KILL THEORY, THE PEOPLE SPEAK) and Project Greenlight Co-Founder, Chris Moore. Want to see a free Q&A with Chris & Stage 32 Founder & CEO Richard Botto? Click here.
"I chose to teach at Stage 32 over Masterclass because I believe in their mission. Their education isn't storytelling hour or dated material, it's exclusively about offering practical, actionable, and motivational information on what's happening in the industry right now. This is going to be a fun, but honest 2-part class that will help you navigate the business today."
- Chris Moore
With so many variables in today’s entertainment industry how do you know the steps to not only give yourself the best chance of breaking in, but also the guidelines on how to sustain a high profile and highly successful career? What if you were able to have a legendary industry veteran look at your current trajectory and give you advice?
Stage 32 is going to give you just that.
Chris Moore has asked and answered these questions over a remarkable and diverse 25+ year career in entertainment. As an award winning director and producer of over 30 projects such as Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, American Pie and Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea Chris has seen and experienced just about everything. And as the co-creator of the wildly successful Project Greenlight, Live Planet (both with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Sean Bailey) and The Chair, Chris has made mentoring and teaching creatives serious about a life in entertainment his mission.
Chris is here exclusively on Stage 32 to shed a light on the big picture questions that you should be focusing on including:
How to manage a career over time
What truly matters from a professional and personal standpoint
How to take the long view in your approach
How to cut out the noise and listen to the “right” voices
How to navigate the industry today!
How to Learn from Your Successes and Failures & Stay Focused on the Career you Desire
- Chris will walk through tangible, actionable advice you can walk away with and apply to your own projects and/or jobs. He will provide an overview of the different paths and the resources that can help you reach your goals.
***In this on demand class, Chris will no longer be reviewing loglines and synopsis from students.
Evaluating & Learning Why and How You Choose the Next Move to Make
- Chris will go over a select number of submissions that students have submitted from the first session. He’ll go over, in detail, an analysis of the situation and provide real-time, actionable information to help you better understand how to navigate your next steps. We’ll do our best to chose examples that apply to multiple levels in the industry so you can apply it to your own career.
Moore was born in Easton, Maryland, where he grew up. He went to Harvard University where he studied American history. He worked as a production assistant at USA Network for two summers and found an opportunity to work as an intern for USA Network's comedy TV series Up All Night. When Moore graduated from Harvard, he moved to Los Angeles with friends and began working in the mailroom at an agency. He eventually got promoted to literary agent and sold several scripts; some became films: The Stoned Age, PCU, Airheads, Last Action Hero, and My Girl. When Moore's agency was acquired by ICM, he left and strove to become a film producer. With friends, he raised money to produce the film Glory Daze. He knew Matt Damon from Harvard in passing, and he approached Damon to star in the film. Damon turned down the opportunity in favor of paid work but introduced Moore to his friend Ben Affleck, who ultimately starred in Glory Daze. Afterward, Damon and Affleck wrote the screenplay for what would be Good Will Hunting, and they involved Moore as co-producer in its production.
Moore became involved as producer for the 1999 film American Pie, which was a breakout hit. Moore subsequently produced its sequels. In June 2002, Moore co-founded the multimedia company LivePlanet with Damon, Affleck, and screenwriter/producer Sean Bailey. Moore became CEO of LivePlanet, and the company produced the TV series Project Greenlight as well as several films.
In 2016, he produced Manchester by the Sea through his production company, The Media Farm, in which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
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A: Yes! After the purchase of a live or On-Demand class, you will have on-demand access to the audio recording, which you can view as many times as you'd like for a whole year!
Such blunt and unfiltered analysis of how things are in Hollywood was enormously helpful, insightful, and vindicating. Absolutely the best deliverance of information I have seen to date. - Jim H.
Loved hearing his personal experience, and his take on Hollywood today. As well, his predictions for the future. - Robin G.
I liked that he is no nonsense and gave it to us straight. - Alisha M.
I liked Chris' frank analysis and the simplicity with which he laid things out. - Steve R.
Chris was honest and it's clear that he cares about helping others succeed. - Ericka B.
Loved the honest, straight, no bullshit information. - Remo P.
This is the kind of information we need! Specific, concrete things we can do coupled with the truth about what is happening for the majority of people and projects - not the outliers. - Cate C.
I liked hearing about all the different ways to build up your audience. I would love to hear even more about that especially in regards to building it up on social media if you don't really have a background in doing that. - Courtney F.
Great honest truth. Something we all know of deep down but hard to discuss in reality until one takes the chance to make that step. A sense of truth in a tough business. - Victor C.
Chris is very direct but that's what you need to hear. -Mark C.
Love the honest, pragmatic and respectful way that Chris deals with the topics. - Susan S.
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How to Secure a Long and Successful Career in Today's Entertainment Industry
Chris Moore has done and seen it all. During a career spanning over 30 years, Chris has produced films that have had multiple Oscar nominations and wins such as Good Will Hunting and Manchester by the Sea, to studio blockbusters like American Pie and The Adjustment Bureau, to independent darlings such as Waiting, to creating and starring in the critically acclaimed industry television shows Project Greenlight alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and The Chair. One of the secrets of Chris' longevity in the business is a full understanding of the business. He's as plugged in as they come and he knows how to adjust quickly, swiftly, and successfully as the landscape changes - which seems to happen on a daily basis these days. Most importantly, Chris is known in the industry as a take-no-prisoners, no bullshit guy. He tells it like it is and pulls no punches, which, in this business, is welcome and refreshing. And now he's here exclusively for Stage 32 to teach you how to build a lasting career in today's entertainment industry. With the evolution of the industry causing dramatic shifts in the way you create and consume content (film, television, digital) and more content being created, bought, sold, screened, broadcast and streamed than ever before, there are more and more opportunities are being presented for a creative career. But you have to know where to look, how to position yourself, how to best present yourself and show that you have a complete understanding of where the industry is headed and how you can add significant value. Chris will discuss the current state and the shifts in the market to help you make educated decisions on the path you should take with your career in the industry to not only assure success, but satisfy the lifestyle you desire. He will also discuss where he believes the future is headed so you can be ahead of the curve in making the right decisions for you and your career. Then, Chris will make the proceedings interactive, workshopping with select attendees and discussing primary and alternative paths for their wants and goals. Some examples: For filmmakers having trouble gaining traction, Chris will go over alternative ways you can break in and gain your footing. For screenwriters who have been at it a long time and haven’t gotten their break, Chris will discuss alternatives and lifestyle choices for the current industry. For cinematographers (or other creatives) looking to move from digital shorts to streaming TV, Chris will present a path and strategies to make it happen? This is a no nonsense, detailed filled, strategy packed session designed to help ALL creatives and professionals! "Undoubtably, my favorite Stage 32 webinar yet, and that's saying something. Wow, was this a welcome kick in the ass. I love Chris' style, passion, and energy. Obviously, his experience and success speaks for itself, but as a teacher, he's a master. This was a huge land for Stage 32. I hope you bring him back again!" - Ronnie W. "I like the way Chris organized all the changes in entertainment so it was easy to understand. It's overwhelming trying to figure it out and I appreciated Chris taking the time to explain it. I also appreciated the workshopping advice. Thank you Chris." - Marisa S. "The brutal truth how Hollywood operates was eye opening, but it's best that I'm aware as I try to find my place." - Wolf O. "Chris Moore is a hero. He saved me from my doubts." - Julia C.
What You Need to Know to Get Your Film on Amazon
The entertainment industry is constantly shifting and adapting, but perhaps no aspect of Hollywood is more volatile than that of film distribution. Over the past twenty years, the methods and processes of releasing films have changed drastically and continue to be difficult to pin down or predict. From theatrical to video and DVD, television to VOD, the industry continues to not only adjust but wholly reinvent itself. Now, of course, one of the bigger, if not the biggest, avenues of distribution has become online streaming platforms. Massive players like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu and newcomers like HBO Max, Disney+, and Apple TV+ have been making and picking up a very large number of films, and the viewership numbers for these titles can be staggering. There might not be a better place for your film to find a home than a streamer, but that’s easier said than done. There is perhaps no company with more reach globally than Amazon, and their streaming platform, already a juggernaut, is only growing in size and subscription base. Now with a global audience of around 150 million people, it’s one of the biggest platforms in the world to host films. Getting your film into Amazon’s content library can be a boon like no other. Yet Amazon is a tough one to understand. As a model, it differs greatly from its competitors like Netflix and Hulu since it’s just one piece of Amazon’s overall corporate puzzle. For many reasons, Amazon is playing a different game than other streaming platforms, which means you’ll need to play a different game as well if you want your film to be part of their library. This is why it’s critical you gain a deeper understanding of how Amazon works, what they’re looking for, and how you can break through the noise. Steff Monsalve Reed is the Director of Content and Distribution at Quiver Distribution, where she discovers and releases titles from emerging voices and helps independent filmmakers get their projects on platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Redbox, DirecTV, and more. Recently, Steff has distributed films such as THE LOST HUSBAND, starring Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb, BECKY, starring Kevin James and Joel McHale, and THE SUNLIT NIGHT with Zach Galifianiakis, Jenny Slate, and Gillian Anderson. She will be distributing CHICK FIGHT, starring Malin Akermin and Alec Baldwin, a feature film which was incubated through Stage 32. Before Quiver, Steff worked as a distribution consultant for AMBI Distribution and Raven Capital Management, and served as the Manager of Acquisitions and Exhibitor relations for Entertainment One, a major independent distribution company releasing films in North America as well as several major territories around the world. Through her extensive distribution background, Steff has become very familiar with what it takes to get a film on various platforms. Steff will walk you through how Amazon finds and picks up films and what content creators can do to better get their own projects on Amazon’s radar. Steff will begin by going through a primer of what film distribution for streamers looks like, including the basic life cycle of a film and important terms to know. Then she will give a rundown of Amazon as a whole. She’ll explain how it works and how you should categorize it. She’ll also go over who Amazon’s competitors are and what Amazon’s subscription base looks like. Then she’ll outline the three distinct services Amazon provides—Transactional, SVOD, and IMDB.tv—and explain how you should think about each. Next Steff will go over what kind of content Amazon goes for. She’ll go over genres, styles and more aspects that are most successful on the platform and will delve into the film titles that have performed best in the past, as well as presently. Steff will talk about how to pitch your film to Amazon. She’ll teach you who is able to pitch to Amazon in the first place, what makes a pitch there successful, and how to make your content stand out to peak their executives’ interests. She’ll even offer a case study of a real pitch deck that she used to get them to pick up a film. After this, Steff will talk about how to best prepare and maximize deliverables to fit Amazon’s requirements. She’ll give you a rundown of what exactly Amazon requires and talk about the steps you should be taking well in advance to ensure you have what you need for Amazon if they pick up your film. She’ll also provide strategies to make your marketing materials stand out and for your film to perform better. Then Steff will talk about revenue expectations with Amazon. She’ll explain how Amazon’s payment structure works and will give a general sense of how much you can expect to make from an Amazon distribution deal. She’ll also talk about how to create a budget with this in mind for a realistic return on investment. Next she’ll explain what she believes might be next for Amazon, what the current trends are pointing to and how the “streaming war” might affect things moving forward. Finally, she’ll leave with closing thoughts for filmmakers to consider, including additional challenges to prepare for and unique opportunities at Amazon you can take advantage of. Expect to leave with a much clearer understanding of how Amazon works and how you can better position your film for success at this streaming platform. Praise for Steff's Previous Stage 32 Webinar "One of the best presentations I have seen." -John S. "Great info. Great presentation. Really explained the topic well. " -Martin R. 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Using Self-Publishing to Enhance Your Screenwriting Career
The new wave of indie publishing has taken the book industry by storm. Previously unknown and/or unpublished authors are making a living—sometimes a prosperous living--by writing. Traditionally published authors are also developing hybrid careers, where they write for their publishers as well as self-publish. Some successful indie authors are also catching the attention of traditional publishers, who are acquiring their books. Screenwriters may struggle to find recognition for their work and make a living with their writing. Often screenwriters must have a “day” job in order to survive, which can leave little time and energy to pursue their dreams of success. Adapting screenplays into a books may produce extra income and recognition, as well as provide other benefits to a screenwriting career. In this Stage 32 Webinar, Debra Holland will discuss her journey from an unpublished author to a NY Times Bestselling author. In her six years of indie publishing, Debra has sold more than a million books and has made a six-figure income for the last five. She’ll introduce you to self-publishing, provide some tips for adapting your screenplays into books, cover basics to get you started in indie publishing, and help you consider whether self-publishing your screenplays as books might be conducive to your career as a screenwriter.
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During this Executive Hour Webcast, we speak with with Literary Manager Scott Schulman of Schulman Management! Scott was at More/Medavoy Management for four years, representing both talent and literary clients. Prior to More/Medavoy, Schulman worked at A3 Artist Agency as a junior packaging agent. He started his career at Fremantle in business affairs in both scripted and non-scripted television.Scott recently staffed one of his clients on Season 2 of "FBI: MOST WANTED" for CBS. He also manages two upper-level producers on the smash hit "THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY" series for Netflix. During the webcast, Scott discusses how he came to be a literary manager, what writers can be doing to get their material into the market, how to overcome a pass on your material and a lot more!
Your Definitive Legal Guide to Shopping, Option and Attachment Agreements - With an In Depth 32-Page Resource Sheet
This webinar has a 100% satisfaction rating! Acquiring the rights to a literary property with an eye towards turning it into a movie or television series is one of your primary responsibilities as a filmmaker or producer. Or, if you’re a writer with a screenplay or someone who owns IP that can be made into a film or TV series, how do you know you’re signing the right contract with a producer? Whether you are looking to acquire a screenplay, article, book, graphic novel or comic book series you need an option/purchase agreement — or is it shopping agreement? Or is it an attachment agreement? Trying to understand which agreement is right for you can make your head spin. But, it’s important to make sure you come to the table with the right agreement to protect yourself upfront and secure all the necessary rights to the amazing property you’re after. At a glance, it seems that there is overlap between the holy trinity of rights agreements: shopping, option/purchase and attachment. Unfortunately, many people confuse the terms and as a result people often end up coming to the bargaining table with very different ideas on what kind of agreement they are — resulting in the creation of Frankensteined-together versions of these three types of contracts. The wrong drafting can leave the writer stripped of their copyrights or producers and filmmakers unable to secure financing because they don’t have the rights they thought they paid for. There are key distinctions between these three agreements and any producer or filmmaker(or on the flipside, writer)must know the difference between them. Experienced entertainment attorney Thomas A. Crowell, Esq. is here to help. Thomas A. Crowell, Esq. counsels clients on a wide range of entertainment law and intellectual property rights issues, including clients who have had deals with TLC, Elsevier Publishing, Starz, Discovery Communications, Focal Press, the Smithsonian Network, WE: The Women's Entertainment Network, The Science Technology Network, IDW Publishing, and Sony Entertainment. His clients' work is seen in the pages of Marvel and DC comics and on movie, TV, computer, and mobile screens across the world. A former television producer and director of development for STN, Thomas has spent the better part of the last two decades creating ways to make difficult legal concepts accessible to creatives. Thomas will give you a solid foundation of the legal issues involved in the acquisition of film rights, as well as a rubric for understanding, negotiating, and drafting key provisions in the option/purchase, shopping agreement, and attachment deals. He will walk you through the basics of copyright law and the legal steps necessary in transferring rights. Next he will discuss common pitfalls writers and producers make when it comes to breaks in the chain of title, joint authorship, and work for hire. Critically, Thomas will spell out the differences between shopping, option/purchase, and attachment agreements and will give invaluable tips on how to negotiate and draft these agreements to ensure you’re getting what you need and not being taken advantage of. You will have the tools you'll need to navigate the murky waters of copyright law and to land the rights to your dream literary property. Plus! Thomas provides you with a 32 page detailed resource guide to help you navigate the nuances of various agreements Praise for Thomas' Stage 32 Webinar “I would wholeheartedly recommend this webinar not only to producers and writers, but to anyone in the business, even if you think you know what you're doing. It's mandatory viewing if you call yourself a professional." - Anna H. "Very informative. Liked how he emphasized applying for copyright. I still thought registering with WGA was enough. Liked how organized his lecture was. I'll watch it again." - Joanne E. "The best I've heard this explained." - Patricia C. "The best webinar I have taken here so far. Great visuals, clear explanations, relevant topic." - Maritere Y. "Thomas was excellent. Articulate, helpful diagrams, and I liked his delivery and vast experience as a producer and lawyer." - Virginia K
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News, analysis, reporting and insight on the latest in politics and policy affecting the solar energy industry.
SEIA Unveils a Policy Agenda for New Administration, Congress
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is releasing a suite of policies and executive actions that it is asking President-elect Biden and the newly elected Congress to act on during their first 100 days in office. The Solar...
A Renewable Energy Call to Action
The American Solar Energy Society held its first virtual conference last month, raising the following questions: The world has changed, and we must change with it, but our ultimate goal – a world run on clean, renewable energy – remains...
Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Winners
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge recognized and awarded two Grand Winners – one from the residential division and one from the
Study: Solar Tariffs Cause Devastating Harm to U.S. Market, Economy and Jobs
Tariffs on imported solar cells and modules have led to the loss of more than 62,000 U.S. jobs and $19 billion in new private sector investment, according to a market impact analysis released today by...
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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is releasing a suite of policies and executive actions that it is asking President-elect Biden and the newly elected Congress to act on during their first 100 days...
The American Solar Energy Society held its first virtual conference last month, raising the following questions: The world has changed, and we must change with it, but our ultimate goal – a world run on clean, renewable...
Tariffs on imported solar cells and modules have led to the loss of more than 62,000 U.S. jobs and $19 billion in new private sector investment, according to a market impact...
House Clean Energy Tax Package Includes 5-Year Extension of Solar ITC, Storage Incentives
The United States House Ways and Means Committee released a comprehensive clean energy tax package that includes a five-year extension of the 30% solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and new incentives for...
Announcing the Solar Decathlon 2020 Design Challenge Teams
Eighty-two teams from 55 collegiate institutions are participating in the next U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge. These teams are vying to be selected as one of the finalist teams that will...
$128 Million in New Projects to Advance Solar Technologies
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for $128 million in new projects to advance solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies...
What the ITC Ruling Means to the Solar Industry
On Friday September 22, the International Trade Commission (ITC) in a unanimous decision found injury to the domestic crystalline silicon solar cell industry based on a petition brought by Suniva and SolarWorld. The verdict came as no...
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Biscuits and Jam Podcast
Willie Nelson on Staying Positive and Living His Best Life
The legendary musician joins us on our new podcast Biscuits & Jam.
By Sid Evans
Credit: Pamela Springsteen
About Biscuits & Jam: In the South, talking about food is personal. It’s a way of sharing your history, your family, your culture, and yourself. Each week Sid Evans, Editor in Chief of Southern Living, will sit down with celebrity musicians to hear stories of how they grew up, what inspired them, and how they’ve been shaped by Southern culture. Sid will take us back to some of their most cherished memories and traditions, the family meals they still think about, and their favorite places to eat on the road.
Episode 6: July 7, 2020
Download and listen to Willie Nelson on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or everywhere podcasts are available
Willie Nelson is about to release his 70th album, a beautifully spare collection of originals, covers, and classics called First Rose of Spring, which is even more remarkable because it’s so good. Like the best of Willie’s albums, it’s full of heartbreak, humor, gorgeous melodies, and of course that unmistakable voice.
Willie is 87 now, but that hasn’t slowed him down much. Just before COVID-19 shut down his most recent tour, he was performing to crowds as big as 80,000 people (at the Houston Livestock Show), and he had plans to release a new gospel album. When we caught up with him for a new episode of our Biscuits & Jam podcast, he was sitting in his pickup truck at his ranch in Luck, Texas, looking at his horses (he has over 70 of them). There are worse places to be quarantined, but Willie was ready to get back on the road again. When asked if he missed being on his bus, the Honeysuckle Rose, he laughed. “Well, I miss it a lot,” he said. “It’s parked right down at the bottom of the hill, and I go down there and sit on it a while and pretend I'm going somewhere.”
Until that happens, tune in to our podcast to hear him talk about growing up in Abbott, Texas, meeting Patsy Cline for the first time, performing with his kids, and staying positive through tough times. Here are a few highlights:
On Gospel Music
“The first music I learned to play was gospel music and Amazing Grace. It was one of the first songs I learned to sing, and this kind of music has kind of carried me through the years.”
On His Military Service
“I was at Keesler Air Force Base for a while, and…the top Sergeant in there…liked music, so we would play little concerts for him, and he loved it.”
On Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville
“Tootsie was a great friend of mine, and she had a hatpin, and if you gave her any trouble she'd run you out of there with that hatpin. So you had to stay halfway straight.”
On Performing with His Kids
“There's nothing like having your kids on stage with you, especially when they're good.”
On Staying Positive
“[There’s] nothing I can do about yesterday, there ain't nothing I can do about tomorrow. But right now I'm pretty much in control. So this is the day that I'm living. And it's the only one that really matters right now.”
On Healthcare Workers
“These folks are heroes. These are the ones that…are on the front lines battling one of the biggest wars, I guess, that this country has ever had to face because there is no visible enemy.”
Visit our Podcast Primer for information on how to download and listen to a podcast.
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Russian contractor starts work at power plant south of Iran
December 13, 2019 - 14:11
TEHRAN- Iranian officials say a Russian contractor is taking over at a major power plant south of the country which is expected to be built through finances provided by Moscow.
A local official in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan said on Wednesday that construction works for the Sirik Power Plant had effectively started after banks opened a letter of credit for transfer of funds for the project.
Hossein Salimi, who heads the local energy department at Hormozgan, said temporary shelters and offices had been erected at the site of the project in Sirik for operations to start by the Russian contractor.
Salimi said the manager of the Russian company in charge of the project would be in Tehran within the next days to order the start of the construction work.
Russia is expected to invest up to €1.2 billion in the construction of Sirik, a 1,200-megawatts power plant that would significantly boost Iran’s electricity generation capacity in areas near the Persian Gulf.
Once fully operational, the Sirik project would add some 12 terawatt hours (TWh) of power to Iran’s current production of more than 300 TWh.
The project has been described as a symbol of Russia’s growing inclination to invest in Iran at a time the United States is piling massive economic pressure on the country.
Russia has committed itself to other infrastructure projects in Iran worth nearly $5 billion.
Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Wednesday that the projects, which include a key railway southeast of the country, would start next year after clearing administrative barriers for transfer of funds and other issues.
(Source: Press TV)
Photo: The photo taken in February 2017 shows Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak (R) speaking at a gathering to mark the start of cooperation between Iran and Russia for building a major power plant in Sirik, in southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.
Russia to begin working on Iranian power plant soon
Iran-Russia economic ties
Russia's $5 billion loan to Iran
Sirik power plant
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iTunes < 9.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5573
The remote host contains an application that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.
Versions of iTunes older than 9.2 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :
- A heap buffer overflow in the handling of images with an embedded ColorSync profile may lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2009-1726)
- Multiple integer overflows in ImageIO's handling of TIFF files may lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2010-1411)
- Multiple vulnerabilities in WebKit may have a variety of effects, including arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2010-0544, CVE-2010-1119, CVE-2010-1387, CVE-2010-1390, CVE-2010-1392, CVE-2010-1393, CVE-2010-1395, CVE-2010-1396, CVE-2010-1397, CVE-2010-1398, CVE-2010-1399, CVE-2010-1400, CVE-2010-1401, CVE-2010-1402, CVE-2010-1403, CVE-2010-1404, CVE-2010-1405, CVE-2010-1408, CVE-2010-1409, CVE-2010-1410, CVE-2010-1412, CVE-2010-1414, CVE-2010-1415, CVE-2010-1416, CVE-2010-1417, CVE-2010-1418, CVE-2010-1419, CVE-2010-1421, CVE-2010-1422, CVE-2010-1749, CVE-2010-1758, CVE-2010-1759, CVE-2010-1761, CVE-2010-1763, CVE-2010-1769, CVE-2010-1770, CVE-2010-1771, CVE-2010-1774)
Upgrade to iTune 9.2 or later.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/jun/msg00002.html
Family: Web Clients
Dependencies: 1735, 8314
Nessus ID: 47037, 47038
Risk Factor: Medium
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
Temporal Score: 4.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:apple:itunes
Patch Publication Date: 2010/06/16
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2010/06/16
CVE: CVE-2009-1726, CVE-2010-0544, CVE-2010-1119, CVE-2010-1387, CVE-2010-1390, CVE-2010-1392, CVE-2010-1393, CVE-2010-1395, CVE-2010-1396, CVE-2010-1397, CVE-2010-1398, CVE-2010-1399, CVE-2010-1400, CVE-2010-1401, CVE-2010-1402, CVE-2010-1403, CVE-2010-1404, CVE-2010-1405, CVE-2010-1408, CVE-2010-1409, CVE-2010-1410, CVE-2010-1411, CVE-2010-1412, CVE-2010-1414, CVE-2010-1415, CVE-2010-1416, CVE-2010-1417, CVE-2010-1418, CVE-2010-1419, CVE-2010-1421, CVE-2010-1422, CVE-2010-1749, CVE-2010-1758, CVE-2010-1759, CVE-2010-1761, CVE-2010-1763, CVE-2010-1769, CVE-2010-1770, CVE-2010-1771, CVE-2010-1774
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Future of Communication (Media Studies, PR & Advertising) and Journalism Degrees in the Age of Digitization, Social Media & Citizen Journalists
Posted on May 16, 2020 May 20, 2020 By Baishali Mukherjee
Posted in Career Guidance, College Admission Guidance, MBA, Parents Must Read, Under GraduateTagged Communication, Digital Transformation, digitization, Journalism Degree, Media Studies, PR & Advertising
After plus two, the most critical decision for students (and parents) is deciding on the right career path and a promising undergrad program. Some join totally aware of their future career trajectory, while others struggle to zero down on a course or a major till the last moment. Typically though, area of interests and wished-for career paths factor into students’ choice courses. However, with the cost of education continuing to rise exponentially, it is very important for students to think about the job market and opt for a course that greater career prospects.
Future of Mass Communication and Journalism in the Age of Digital Media
A recent survey by CareerBuilder revealed that over 50 percent of 2014 graduates—now five years into the workforce—have student debt they are working to pay off. When asked whether the rising price of education will contribute to a decline in certain majors, Michelle Armer, Chief People Officer at CareerBuilder, explained, “If people are considering a few different majors, they may be more likely to choose the path with a higher future earning potential, and we could potentially see a decline in majors that don’t set students up for clear earnings paths.” (Source- https://www.theladders.com)
Moreover, pay packages depend significantly on college majors. According to study and reports, some liberal arts majors earn better than certain engineering majors in spite of the fact that engineers do better in earning salaries, on the whole. That said, differences to occur according to companies and job locations, and also according to schools and study programs.
According to recent media reports by Kiplinger, The Ladders, Forbes, MBA Crystal Ball, et al, Communication (Media Studies, PR & Advertising) and Journalism Degrees are not considered to be very promising ones as the majors in these degrees are found to struggle in finding careers and also account for high unemployment rates. The graduates have started feeling the heat as the sector has apparently become over-saturated. While a doctoral degree can be of help, most lack the tenacity to pursue a PhD in this field. Media grads are more enthusiastic towards gaining work experience (which is not bad at all) rather than opting for graduate studies/research (M.Phil, D.Litt., Ph.D.).
Exacerbating the already tricky situation is the fact that today, anyone with digital skills can become a blogger or journalist. This often leaves the core media and communication graduates with meager salaries (or freelancing rates) and/or unemployment.
A report by Kiplinger says in Advertising, the starting salary is $43,700 (Median for all majors: $45,400), mid-career salary is $86,400 (Median for all majors: $78,300) and annual online job postings are 9,188 (Median for all majors: 103,151). On the other hand, the report continues to say that majoring in public relations is an easier sell as the median pay for graduates of this field is lower, at $42,000 for starters and $75,400 for mid-career….. The number of job postings seeking people with degrees in public relations is much higher at 477,708. The difference between advertising and public relations (PR) lies in the fact that advertising deals with selling a cautiously designed image while PR works on creating an image through news and publicity.
In another article by MBA Crystal Ball named – ‘Some of the Worst MS degrees with low RoI and Declining Job Prospects’ an MS degree in Communications, Mass Media and Journalism, appears at the top of the list, with Median Salary (Age 25-29 years) at $67,000, employment change % from 2014 to 2024 at -8.5% and % Change in Salary from Bachelor’s at 24%.
In a report named 2020 Media and Entertainment Industry Outlook by Deloitte, Kevin Westcott, Deloitte’s US leader of telecommunications, media, and entertainment, explored the biggest media trends for 2020—from content re-aggregation and ad-supported video to e-sports and 5G.
Here are the predictions made in the report –
In the coming year, we expect to see the emergence of AR/VR in a wide range of enterprise apps—particularly in situations where users don’t have access to the processing power of a PC.
Another category expected to continue its rapid growth is e-sports. By 2020, the global e-sports market is expected to generate $1.5 billion in annual revenues, primarily from sponsorships and advertising to an estimated global audience of 600 million fans. Marketers bestowed more than 600 brand sponsorships on e-sport titles and events in 2017 alone.
Legalized sports betting represent an entirely new growth opportunity for telecoms and companies in the media and entertainment industry. The United States Supreme Court lifted the federal ban on sports betting in May 2018. 5G is already being deployed in sports stadiums, sports bars, and other venues where such betting might take place. Media and entertainment companies like Fox announced the introduction of “Fox Bet,” an online betting app. And, mobile sports app the Score is planning to launch its own mobile sportsbook. Many TV networks are developing TV programming for sports-betting fans or placing betting content on streaming services.
In the coming year, it’s never been more important for media and entertainment companies to make data privacy and security a top priority. With the large-scale rollout of 5G, coupled with the launch of many over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, 2020 promises to be a seminal year for the media and entertainment industry. Opportunities abound for those who can capitalize on the trends we’ve highlighted while keeping a close eye on the ever-changing regulatory landscape.
Another report by Deloitte, COVID-19 outlook for the US media and entertainment industry May 2020, will greatly help job seekers in understanding the media and entertainment industry scene post Covid19.
What should Mass Communication & Journalism Students or Graduates Do to Stay Relevant in the Modern Job Market?
Now let’s take a look at the Indian perspective. According to Dr. Sunayan Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department (HoD), Department of Journalism, School of Media, Communication & Fashion (SMCF), Adamas University (AU), Kolkata, while the Indian GDP grew at an abysmal rate of 4.2 per cent in 2019, the rate of growth of the Media and Entertainment (M&E) sector stood at a considerable 9 per cent and the total value of the sector reached 1.82 trillion. This figure should be enough to indicate that a degree in Communication and Journalism puts an aspirant at a distinct advantage over others. Contrary to popular perceptions, there are innumerable opportunities in the M&E sector and more particularly in the digital domain, which is growing at an even faster rate.
Dr. Bhattacharjee agrees that the world post the Covid-19 crisis will not be the same again. He feels that physical interactions among citizens would considerably decrease and this would result in higher consumption of M&E products and consequently, there would be a quantum jump in manpower requirement in the sector, significantly increasing the number of jobs.
“In very simple terms, the M&E sector would witness increased digitization and automation in the post-Covid-19 world. Technology is set to rule the roost. Social media and digital media would soon replace traditional media. Thus, communication and journalism graduates should equip themselves with strong technological knowledge to stay relevant,” advocates Bhattacharjee.
With media pundits predicting that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are going to replace the traditional roles in the M&E sector, Bhattacharjee believes, there would be two different roles – on one hand, new technology-based jobs would spring up in a big way, on the other, being creative would constitute the other key to survival.
“To put it simply, technical skills, creativity and problem-solving abilities would determine the eventual success of communication professionals,” opines the HoD of Journalism, Adamas University.
According to Dr. Lakshmi Mohan Director ITM Business School, Navi Mumbai, education landscape post -COVID is going to be very different. “Digital learning would dominate and students will be compelled to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge to align to the dynamic change in the business world, thus going beyond their graduation. The Gen Z are tech savvy and enjoy instant gratification. Small modules, skill based learning and customized knowledge development will matter most. Creativity, innovation, critical thinking, technological expertise and communication will be corporate demands and students will have to ace up to match them. Students will have to look at short capsules that can enhance their employment capabilities. Technology today is like the garment we wear, a very essential part of us and ironically technology is fast changing like we change garments! Students have to be aware of the changing technologies, make utmost use of them for their learning and progress. Every sector demands students to be hands on with technology. Not everything would be covered in their graduation, but they can always pick up courses from EdX, Coursera, Udemy and several digital learning platforms. The universe leaves a plethora of learning opportunities, the best time for all of us to leverage,” elaborated Dr. Mohan.
Masuma Siddique, Account Manager, Adfactors PR, India’s largest PR agency believes that communication is the business-critical need now. “I would expect brands to have additional support requirements this year making PR more relevant than ever before. For the media sector, coronavirus creates both opportunities and challenges. The lockdown has led to a spike in at-home media consumption, and growing numbers are turning to news providers for timely and trusted information on the crisis. At the same time, some of the most valuable broadcast content—such as live sports (IPL) are being postponed or even cancelled, leading to a downward curve, as revenues in the media and entertainment sector depend largely on advertising spends from other industries,” she shares.
Siddique further adds that amidst coronavirus crisis new age technology has created many opportunities for teachers to provide innovative learning experiences for students. “A greater benefit is that these learning experiences can take place regardless of our current situation, time and place, and offer students more personalized opportunities for interacting with their peers and the content. I am confident that with adequate, state-of-the-art technology, school and university systems will operate more efficiently, effectively and safely despite the Covid – 19 crisis,” she concludes.
Mala Dasgupta, Founder, Grey Matter PR, feels PR activities are based on communication – and PR itself is about building a legacy of trust and capturing the mind space of the audience to eventually build a lasting impact, which makes people come back to the brand time and again.
“The novel coronavirus has brought in various kinds of disruption. Most people are harboring fears and anxieties about job losses and pay cuts, and it is expected that the new world or the “new normal” would remodel and redefine the old ways of working. All this is unavoidable, but what won’t change is how we look at basic communication. Communication as a front-line solution will readapt itself to new tools and techniques. A good PR executive will wisely decide on a new strategy, the current modes of a platform that are in popular usage and easy reach, and ideate on how to lead the communication process in the new scenario,” envisions Dasgupta.
Dasgupta wants graduates who are pursuing this field, to first identify their own strengths and weakness and understand their own reasons for choosing this as a career option. “Next, they have to come out of the old mold of learning on the job and start their self-learning journey while they are still in the student stage by rigorously reading news and updates from print, digital media, web portals, LinkedIn, Twitter, Whatsapp groups, and from blogs. Blogs are a great way to express ideas and build up a reader base, besides also creating confidence. They need to be self-starters and independent from the very beginning. The bottom line is, Covid-19 might have brought in changes but the basic requirement of communication as a front-end tool will never become obsolete – it will just adapt itself to the changing needs and patterns of society,” states the PR old-hand.
Mohammed Zeeshan, Co-founder & CEO, MyCaptain, shares some deep insights for Journalism & Media graduates on the future of the industry.
Let’s have a look –
In this age of digital media, you can see an unprecedented change in the Journalism & Media fields. It has not only changed the way people consume news but has also seen a constant rise of citizen journalism across the globe. Here is how digitization impacted the Journalism & Media Industry.
Increased Access to Content :
With social media platforms, journalists & reporters have unlimited access to their audience, which allowed them to constantly share content and stories about things happening around the world. People no longer have to wait for prime time news to know the reality of what’s happening all around us. They not only consume content there, but easily share it across with their friends and family.
Lifespans of a News Story :
While digital media has made the accessibility of news content it has also affected the lifespan of a news story. They are much shorter than they used to be, and it is now the responsibility of the reporters to share important (& relevant) news far and wide to ensure it stays in the news cycle.
The “fake news” :
It is also easier to spread fake news, as people are constantly consuming content without taking out the time to cross-check the facts. So it becomes even more crucial for journalists and reporters to post about stories that they actually have credible sources for.
The academic degrees in these fields haven’t seen much of a change; there are very selective colleges and universities, who are providing students with insights on how they can leverage digitization to actually build their careers. While going to a college is important, we must also learn from people with on-field experience who can be our mentors. A mentor will not just impart the knowledge of how to use modern technology to build a career in Journalism, but would also share their experiences of how they converted the traditional methods and incorporated them in the digital world.
The bottom line then remains that if your love of the field is strong and energetic, nothing should deter you from studying a subject you’re passionate about, but it is always good to follow your dreams with eyes wide open.
Recommended Reading: What should Journalism Students and Graduates Do to Stay Relevant in the Digital Age?
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Author: Baishali Mukherjee
Profile- An independent writer and journalist for last nine years; presently working with Education World, Entrepreneur India, Scrabbl.com and Stoodnt.com. Worked as the content head for four books and have articles and features published in leading print and digital media spaces.
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Shamima Begum: “I was an ISIS bride who fled the UK for Syria. This is my story”
Written by Chloe Govan
Shamima Begum, an ISIS bride who left the UK to join the Islamic State group when she was just 15 years old, has lost the first stage of her appeal against being stripped of her British citizenship. But what makes young women turn to life as a terror convert in the first place? Stylist speaks to a reformed terror recruit to explore the mindset of a jihadi bride.
The average besotted teenager might have posters of Justin Bieber and The 1975 stuck on their bedroom walls, but for a tiny majority of young people, idolising the image of a Syrian heartthrob brandishing an AK47 is just as normal.
Indeed, in the eyes of most so-called “terror brides”, ISIS members are not violent extremists, but heroic and honourable freedom fighters seeking justice for marginalised minorities.
That certainly seemed to be the belief of jihadi bride Shamima Begum. Begum left her home in Bethnal Green to travel to Syria with two of her school friends back in 2015, when she was just 15 years old. She went on to marry a Dutch ISIS fighter. In February, she was discovered in a Syrian refugee camp, close to the warzone, and said she wanted to return home, but she was stripped of her British citizenship by Home Secretary Sajid Javid.
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A few weeks after being discovered she gave birth to a baby boy, named Jarrah, who died of pneumonia in the camp less than three weeks later. In April 2019 she was granted legal aid to fight the decision to strip her of her British citizenship, with the aim of returning back to the UK. However, she has now lost her first appeal against this decision.
Of course, we can only speculate about the reasons behind Begum’s original decision to leave for Syria. But what factors could motivate a teenager to leave the UK in favour of a potentially deadly battlefield, and a life as a jihadi bride?
While Begum remains in a refugee camp in northern Syria, a former Jihadi bride invites us inside her mind to discover what made her vulnerable to radicalisation - and why she has since defected.
Shamima Begum: Begum’s sister Sahima Begum (centre) attends an evidence session at Parliaments Home Affairs Select Committee in 2015.
Thirty-year-old Fatima’s desire to take revenge on Britain began in childhood. Growing up in a “ruthless” environment in inner-city London, this hatred was her answer to racist insults and Islamophobia.
She recalls one incident in particular, in which she was assaulted by a gang of several girls when she was 11. “They backed me into a corner, pulled my headscarf off and grabbed my hair so hard that a whole handful ripped out,” she tells Stylist. “The whole time, they were screaming that I was a Paki bitch. Then they refused to give my headscarf back to me so that I had to walk home with my hair uncovered, [which is] against my religion. When I got back home, my mum was furious, and blamed me for allowing it to happen.”
Fatima’s pent-up rage at that injustice sensitised her to other slights. “Girls who pretended to be my friend one minute would make jokes about my religious father dropping a petrol bomb through their letterbox the next,” she continues. “They were portraying my family as ‘mad Muslim’ cartoon characters to belittle me.”
“More than 4,000 anti-Muslim religious hate crimes were documented in 2017/18 – a rise of 40% on the previous year”
She tried desperately to stop the bullying by conforming to Western fashion ideals, donning a pair of branded trainers alongside her traditional clothing in the hope that the assaults on her identity would stop.
They didn’t – and as she entered her teenage years, they intensified. “Men would come up behind me, groping me, threatening to pull off my headscarf and jeering that I would be a slut without it,” she recalls. “I have also been punched and kicked. I never felt safe. Then when I got a part time job in a supermarket to support my studies, the other workers would shout, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ at me sarcastically when they walked past – sometimes even in front of customers.”
Fatima felt her faith in British culture was finally eradicated when one of her closest friends – a fellow Muslim – was subjected to a violent assault during pregnancy. “My friend was pushed to the ground and kicked in the head while heavily pregnant,” she remembers. “This gang of girls called her a failed abortion and then threatened to kick her unborn child to death in her stomach to eliminate Muslim babies.”
Shamima Begum: Renu Begum, Shamima Begum’s oldest sister, holds her photo.
Fortunately the baby survived, but Fatima’s experiences are not isolated ones. According to the Home Office, more than 4,000 anti-Muslim religious hate crimes were documented in 2017/18 – a rise of 40% on the previous year – while Scotland Yard has suggested that the scale of the problem is “hugely under-reported”, indicating that the true figures may be much higher. One high profile example is the recent attack of a 15-year-old Syrian refugee who was assaulted in the grounds of a British school. Video footage revealed the teenager being thrown to the ground, choked, force-fed from a bottle and threatened with drowning. Labour MP David Lammy has since spoken of the “hostile environment” that is driving some Muslims in Britain to “overdoses and suicide attempts”.
Yet what happens when that resentment and fear is no longer turned inwards, but instead finds expression externally? This was exactly the process that Fatima went through when, at the most vulnerable point in her life, she was radicalised and groomed to join a terror group.
According to psychoanalysis, when faced with trauma, it is common to disassociate from reality and retreat to a fantasy world as a defence mechanism against pain. Perhaps this is why Fatima began to romanticise the “freedom fighters” of ISIS, viewing them as protectors of her cultural identity. After a chance meeting with a man who attended the same local mosque as her, she was pointed in the direction of online articles about “Islamic justice” – and additional searches gradually revealed more and more about extremist networks. Throughout her childhood, she had also taken comfort in fairytales, and increasingly she was finding a link between them and her real life.
“Fatima’s real life ‘prince’ was an ISIS recruit and fellow Londoner that she met online”
The archetypal fairytale imagery of an underdog rising up against oppression and achieving triumph against the odds is a popular one across all cultures. For instance, Cinderella breaks free of the “ugly sisters” who had forced her into household drudgery to finally liberate herself and marry her prince. Similarly, to Fatima – who had faced prejudice while growing up in a white majority world – the ISIS fighter seemed, symbolically, like the prince who would rescue her from the torture. Just as young girls might harbour Rapunzel-style daydreams about being trapped in a tower while waiting to be rescued by a tall and handsome stranger, for Fatima the fetishized war hero became that fantasy figure.
When someone is being relentlessly bullied and tormented on a daily basis, then the ideology of a strong and protective freedom fighter who understands and identifies with her culture – the very culture she feels persecuted for representing – may become less of a dangerous threat and more of a reassuring presence. For that reason, Fatima was undeterred when she encountered her real life “prince” – an ISIS recruit and fellow Londoner that she met online. After a short courtship, they were married within months, all with the approval of her unsuspecting friends and family. They had no idea that he expressed such a strong interest in avenging attacks on Muslims. But in 2014, when he urged Fatima to secretly join him in leaving the UK for Syria, she agreed.
Fatima admired her husband as much as she believed British women admired Prince Harry in his career as an army pilot – a time during which he admitted to killing Taliban troops from the air. “Prince Harry was a warring hero for the British people,” Fatima states, “so I felt: why can’t we have our own heroes that protect us?”
Prince Harry on patrol in Afghanistan, 2008.
ISIS is infamous for its brutal torture methods, including the beheading and mutilation of its foes – but at the time, Fatima was filled with so much resentment that she overlooked the facts. “You hear about attacks on British people on the news, but then compare that to the women who threatened to kick an innocent baby to death just for being a Muslim and suddenly you don’t feel so sorry for them anymore,” she explains.
While Fatima received little empathy at home for the bullying she suffered and witnessed, her new husband showered her with respect and affection. “I wanted to be with people who were kind to me, and not the British enemies who had not been, or my family who didn’t understand,” she says. “So I agreed to travel to Syria.”
By 2015, a 26-year-old Fatima had finally arrived to support the “liberation army”. She and her husband lived in cramped conditions shared by several other couples. There were few Brits around her but she had a strong knowledge of Arabic, which helped her to integrate.
“Fatima fended off any reminders of powerlessness by identifying with ISIS”
The reality of her new life, however, was darker than she could ever have imagined. On arrival, she and her husband were handed books which justified the murder of children, the imprisonment of “sex slaves”, human organ trade, beheadings and mutilations and even the use of pregnant women in warfare. Anything that culled the enemy or raised funds for further terrorism seemed “fair game”.
At first Fatima had justified the attacks on Westerners as “retaliation for the many parallel attacks on the Islamic state”. For the government, airstrikes against Syria were part of a logical, strategic decision to protect Britain against the threat of lethal chemical weapons. To Fatima, on the other hand, they symbolised terrifying flashbacks to moments when her culture was being assassinated and she lacked the ability to fight back. She fended off these reminders of powerlessness by identifying with ISIS.
However she then had a similar experience to Shamima Begum, who – according to newspaper reports – found a decapitated head in a dustbin. Once an enthusiastic supporter of ISIS, Fatima subsequently saw something so terrifying that she will not reveal what it was – but it was a wake-up call that changed her mind for good.
“Fatima knows nothing of her husband’s whereabouts – just that he was deeply ‘disappointed’ by her defection”
Realising that “the solution for violence is never more violence”, in early 2017, a fearful Fatima returned to the UK – and has not been reunited with her husband since. Her family welcomed her back, on the condition that she cut all ties with the extremists. As a result, she knows nothing of her husband’s whereabouts – just that he was deeply “disappointed” by her defection. She has since moved to a new area, in calmer suburbs, and rejects violence, aiming to “learn to make peace with the country where I was born”.
Fatima is adamant that she was not brainwashed into supporting ISIS. However, in her opinion, it’s “possible” that Shamima Begum has been threatened with consequences “if she dares to be publicly disloyal to the Islamic State”. She adds that she may be frightened to openly renounce her support for the group – even if it means securing safe passage to the UK and medical attention for her child.
“Once you’re too far in,” she concedes, “for some, it can be difficult to get out.”
Shamima Begum: Fatima returned to the UK in early 2017 and has not seen her husband since.
Of course, Begum was 11 years younger than Fatima when she arrived in Syria in 2015, and could have had an entirely different experience in the country. Not all Jihadi brides will share the same mindset, and it is impossible to judge what Begum herself is thinking at this time.
Fatima blames widespread Islamophobia and stereotypes that depict some members of the Muslim community as “dangerous terrorists” for creating an environment where female terror recruits can thrive. “When someone ties you to a stereotype for years, eventually you get tired of trying to prove people wrong, and out of anger, you start living up to that stereotype,” she relates. “People thought we were bad anyway – in my mind at the time, we might as well just match their expectations.”
There are statistics in support of her stereotyping theory - for instance, in the week following the 2017 Manchester Arena bombings, a 700% spike was reported in street attacks on Muslims. One of the abused was a surgeon on his way to treat patients at a hospital. These figures indicate that some innocent and law-abiding citizens are being racially profiled and automatically branded criminals based on the actions of a few. Even now, the vicious circle of retaliation persists against Muslims and Islamophobes alike.
“While Fatima successfully extricated herself from the ISIS network and is now on the road to reform, others will not be so lucky”
Might repeated exposure to violence desensitise a victim of Islamophobia, or other prejudice, to the effects of inflicting it themselves? Psychoanalyst Sue Gerhardt theorises that “young people who are treated harshly may not develop empathy”. She argues: “Other people’s feelings do not seem real to them because theirs have not been [treated as] real. If they have only known cruelty, then they do not recognise humanity in others.”
She also states that severe trauma can potentially inhibit left-brain abilities, leaving victims unable to regulate their emotions by combining them with logical thought. This could reduce a person’s brain to a child-like state which is devoid of reasoning, where vengeance need not be logical or fair.
While Fatima successfully extricated herself from the ISIS network and is now on the road to reform, others will not be so lucky. A small number of those with fractured families or who have been the victims of race or religion-based violence in the past, may always be drawn towards supporting what are ultimately dangerous, demonstrative ways of overturning oppression. A tiny number of people in some minority groups may feel that terrorist organisations offer a way to gain social dominance against those they feel have persecuted them.
Shamima Begum: While Fatima successfully extricated herself from the ISIS network, others will not be so lucky.
However, although psychologists have been studying the mindsets of those in terrorism groups for decades, they are yet to single out specific personality traits that are common to all members, both terrorists and terror converts alike. Crucially, they have never found any significant link between terrorism and mental disorders. This implies that a desire to be involved in groups such as ISIS is not innate, but a learnt pattern that is potentially reversible.
Fatima’s experience paints a picture of a naïve, idealistic and severely traumatised young woman looking for the traditional fairytale ending of finding a prince to protect her. While we will always struggle to eradicate genuine evil, it is not impossible that some women, like Fatima, hate so hard simply because they were hurt by those they had originally wanted to love.
This piece was originally published in April 2019
Images: Getty, Unsplash
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The deadline for Congress to pass a federal budget before money stops flowing and the government shuts down is tomorrow. While Democrats and Republicans have come to within $10 billion of each other (that's of a nearly $4 trillion total budget), neither side wants to be the one that gives in. As the New York Times points out, this is a big deal, personally, for both Obama and Boehner, both of whom face challenges inside their parties.
The outcome will help determine whether Mr. Boehner is leading his party or following the demands of the Tea Party movement. For Mr. Obama, it is the biggest test yet of whether he can reposition himself as a pragmatic leader who can recapture the political center and keep liberals sufficiently energized to help him win re-election.
But the standoff is making neither look good, as many have pointed out. Jon Stewart on Tuesday vocalized what a lot of people think about the wearisome conflict: "So Democrats want $30 billion in cuts and republicans want $60 billion. Hmm, what can we do? Well, rather than both sides going, 'how about 45?' we're going to shut the government down."
By Wednesday night the gap between how much each side wants to cut had shrunk to $7 billion ($33 billion for the Democrats and $40 billion for the republicans), according to the Times. So will we see a compromise today?
Politico says yes, on the grounds that while neither Boehner, Obama nor Reed wants to budge on the budget, being seen as the guy who forced the shut down would be even more damaging, politically. "They can’t be absolutely, positively certain the other guy will get the blame if it happens. And that simple political fact might be the one thing left that can head off a prolonged shutdown."
Slate says yes, but barely, pointing out that it does no side any good to budge too early.
There's no point in compromising before the very last second. President Obama has to promise not to sign a one-week funding measure, because he can't look like he's caving—liberals had their fill of that when he signed the tax cut deal last December. House Speaker John Boehner has to repeat, again and again, and again, that he's trying to get the "biggest cuts" he can, and will accept no deal that lacks the support of 218 Republicans.
Michele Bachman says yes, but only if Democrats give ground.
"I firmly believe that by Friday this deal will be made and that there won't be a shutdown," she said during an interview on MSNBC. "I actually do think we will reach an agreement and move on [to 2012]."
But the potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate also said she "can't vote for the current compromise we're looking at."
Nobody wants to be the one to say that the two sides won't make a deal, but even if the shutdown doesn't happen, some damage has been done. Robert Gates broke the news to troops in Iraq that they may not get paid for a while, which is not the kind of thing that makes people want to lay down their lives for you.
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Top 10 Oddest Facts Related to Jill Kelley, Axis of David Petraeus's Love Pentagon
Brian Resnick and National Journal
Jill Kelley's involvement in the David Petraeus and John Allen scandals gets stranger by the day. Here are the top 10 oddest facts, relevant or not, dug up by the national media about this socialite-turned-whistle-blower.
10. Kelley once crashed a Republican fundraiser, and had her picture taken with Sen. Marco Rubio.
9. Kelley went skydiving with paracommandos at MacDill Air Force Base in 2010.
8. Charlie Crist, former governor of Florida, publicly denied that he once dated Kelley's twin sister.
7. The FBI agent whom Kelley tipped about Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell's threatening e-mails once sent her a shirtless photo of himself.
6. Last year, Kelley attended an FBI "citizens' academy." According to the FBI's website, the academy is for people who want to "find out firsthand how the FBI works," and "hear how the bureau tracks down spies and terrorists."
5. Kelley once hosted a party to celebrate "Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Fest." Twenty-eight police officers escorted Petraeus to the party.
4. Kelley and her husband ran a cancer charity that spent most of its money on parties, entertainment, and travel, and relatively little cash on actual research.
3. Kelley is an honorary diplomat to South Korea, and has the license plates to prove it. Citing her position, she once asked Adam Victor, a New York CEO, for $80 million to broker a business deal in the South Korea. According to Victor, Kelley told him she was able to get access to senior levels of the Korean government.
2. Kelley invoked her quasi-diplomatic status in a call to 911, after she spotted a paparazzi on her lawn. "You know, I don't know if by any chance, because I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability, so they should not be able to cross my property," she told the 911 operator. "I don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well."
1. E-mail communications with this one woman have figured in scandals surrounding two of the top officials in the U.S. national-security apparatus.
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Authorities arrest 2 more suspects on arson charges as West Coast fires rage on
So much destruction
JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images
As devastating fires rage across the West Coast, authorities have arrested at least two more people suspected of arson.
Washington troopers arrested Jeffrey Acord, 36, who allegedly attempted to set a fire along SR-167 in Puyallup last Wednesday. An off-duty police sergeant was traveling north on the road when he spotted a Chevrolet pickup truck parked on the shoulder of Route 167. The truck, reportedly driven by Acord, merged back onto the highway as Fife Police Sgt. Kevin approached in his vehicle.
"I soon noticed that there was a small fire starting to grow in the dry grass directly next to the location where the pickup truck had been stopped," Sgt. Kevin said.
Kevin reported the fire and pulled over the truck. When he confronted Acord, the suspect began livestreaming his arrest on Facebook.
"The guy was live streaming (on Facebook) like he found the fire," Trooper Ryan Burke said. "He was trying to make it look like he didn't do it."
The video has since been taken down. Acord was charged with second-degree arson and booked into Puyallup City Jail. He posted bail early the next morning.
Less than two hours after he posted bail, police responded to a break-in at a convenience store three blocks from the police station. Police say they recognized Acord on surveillance video and arrested him again on charges of second-degree burglary for allegedly kicking in a window covered with plywood and stealing drinks and snacks.
In Oregon, deputies arrested 44-year-old Jonathan Maas on suspicion of arson in the first degree. He is accused of attempting to start a fire in the woods near a disc golf course at Dexter State Recreation Area last week.
"The fire was in a wooded area and was approximately 5 feet in diameter before it was extinguished by two people playing frisbee golf in the area," police said. "A man in a minivan was seen leaving the area shortly before the fire was discovered."
The Lane County Sheriff's Office investigated, and Maas was arrested last Thursday.
"While this fire was discovered and extinguished before it grew in size, the potential for the fire to have spread quickly was there," the sheriff's office said. "We are thankful for the community members who spotted and extinguished the fire before it was able to hurt anyone or cause any structure damage."
Last week, authorities arrested four other individuals suspected of starting fires in California, Oregon, and Washington. One suspect, Domingo Lopez Jr., was arrested a second time after allegedly starting six more fires after his initial arrest.
The death toll from dozens of fires burning across the West Coast has reached 35, with fires burning approximately 5 million acres and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
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American Icon Annie Leibovitz: Here’s What You Need to Know
Annie Leibovitz has photographed some of the world’s most famous celebrities. Her career spans more than 50 years and she’s one of the most highly regarded American photographers in history.
By John Sewell
Details from Brooklyn, New York, 2017 by Annie Leibovitz, via the United Nations of Photography; Serena Williams cover for the August edition of Vanity Fair by Annie Leibovitz, 2017; and Album cover for Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A. by Andrea Klein and Annie Leibovitz, 1984
Annie Leibovitz is one of the most well-known contemporary American photographers. Having started out as a young, inexperienced amateur who managed to land a job at a prestigious global magazine, she managed to quickly establish herself as an artist who could capture the essence of her subjects like few others.
Her career has not been without its controversies. However, her enduring talent and insatiable desire to keep on working have led her to an almost peerless status within the world of photographic portraiture.
Annie Leibovitz: Photographer of John Lennon’s Last Shoot
Rolling Stone Cover from January 22nd, 1981 featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Annie Leibovitz, via Rolling Stone
At the age of just 21, Annie Leibovitz landed a job as a photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine – which was, at the time, one of the largest selling magazines in the world. She went right in at the deep end, and her first cover shoot was for a man whose fame was befitting of the scale of the magazine – John Lennon. After all, he had just a few years before argued that he and his Beatles buddies were more famous than Jesus.
However, it was not until a decade later that the American photographer would take a portrait of Lennon which went on to become one of her most iconic. It was also a photograph that became important in the life story of Lennon, as it was one of the final images to be captured of him before he was shot and killed just a few hours after the photograph was taken.
The tragic events that followed Leibovitz’s portrait bring added poignancy to the tenderness expressed in the image. Lennon, naked, clings for warmth to Yoko Ono. He even expressed to Leibovitz when he saw the first polaroid version of the shot that he believed she had perfectly captured their relationship in that single snapshot.
Leibovitz and Sontag: A Very Private Relationship
Susan Sontag Portrait by Peter Hujar, 1975, via New Yorker
Annie Leibovitz’s own romantic relationships were for many years shrouded in mystery. Many speculated about the relationship between Leibovitz and writer Susan Sontag, who sadly died at the age of 71 in 2004. However, the two had never publicly disclosed any information about their relationship. It was clear they were close friends, and they lived within such a short distance that they could see each other’s apartments – but the two never moved in together permanently.
However, after Sontag’s death, Leibovitz gradually became more publicly candid about the relationship which the two had shared. She made it clear that the two had been in love, saying “Call us ‘lovers’. I like ‘lovers.’ You know, ‘lovers’ sounds romantic.”
Sontag had always been relatively open about her sexuality, stating that she had known that she was bisexual from the age of 16 when she had her first encounter with a woman. She said that she had been ‘in love’ nine times in her life, four times with men and five with women.
However, her position as an important figure in the LGBTQ community was overlooked at the time of her death because (as the newspapers claimed) they couldn’t find independently verified evidence that she had shared relationships with Leibovitz or anyone else.
Springsteen Album Cover
Album cover for Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A. by Andrea Klein and Annie Leibovitz, 1984, via MoMA, New York
The next most iconic photograph that Annie Leibovitz took is one that may not instantly recognizable as a piece of her work, however, it is one of the most well-known album covers in the history of music. It’s the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 album, Born in the USA; both the cover and song itself have gone on to become global symbols for the American dream.
Leibovitz took the famous photograph of the denim-wearing, hyper-masculine behind and the strength of the artwork no doubt played a role in the astronomic success which the album received. It sold more than 30 million copies between its release and 2012, and ultimately spring propelled Springsteen’s career into the Godly status which is now afforded to him.
An American Photographer with Global Roots
A collection of Leibovitz’s 1975 Rolling Stones photos as seen in her 2019 retrospective photographed by Michael Juliano, via Timeout
Annie Leibovitz herself was born in the USA and is a third-generation American citizen. However, her family are of Romanian and Estonian Jewish origins. Her father served as a US Airforce pilot, while her mother was a dancer.
Her father’s involvement in the armed forced meant that Leibovitz traveled the world as a child and it was during her father’s time in the Philippines that she began to take her first photographs.
In fact, it was while the family were stationed in the Far East that Leibovitz applied to be a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Here she initially set out to become a painter, following on from her mother’s love of the medium. However, after attending extra night classes on photography she soon realized that this was where her passion lay.
Taking The Queen’s Portrait
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II wearing Garter Robes, Buckingham Palace by Annie Leibovitz, 2007, via the Royal Collection Trust, London
Night classes in San Francisco to taking portraits of the Queen may seem like the stuff of fantasy, but Annie Leibovitz made this her reality. In 2007, the American photographer was commissioned to take the Queen’s photograph as part of her state visit to the USA.
The photographs capture the Queen in her finest regalia. She looks regal and powerful, yet Leibovitz still managed to capture something of her more human side too.
However, the shoot wasn’t exactly Leibovitz’s most straight forward. The Queen ended up being half an hour late, owing to the fact it took a lot of time to get her fully kitted out in her rather extreme get-up.
Then, during the already time-constrained session, Leibovitz asked the Queen to remove her tiara because it looked too ‘dressy.’ Unfortunately, The Queen didn’t take too kindly to this having already had to go through the process of getting it on and having her hair done accordingly. The footage of the encounter was broadcast by the BBC and considered quite the scandal.
However, the shoot was ultimately a success. Later, Leibovitz was invited back to the palace in 2016 to shoot the Queen with her grandchildren, so Her Majesty can’t have felt too bitter about the earlier encounter.
Getting Recognition
Leibovitz speaking at the launch of her show, ‘Women,’ 2016, via Vogue
Annie Leibovitz’s successes haven’t only come in the caliber of celebrity that she has been asked to photograph. She has also seen wide recognition for her work from critics and peers alike.
Not only has the Library of Congress declared the American photographer a Living Legend, but she’s also received an honorary doctorate, The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal, the Paez Medal of Art and a Lucie Award.
She was also the first woman to have a solo show at the National Portrait Gallery in 2005. The show, ‘A Photographer’s Life’ was a retrospective of her career to that point and was well-received by fans and critics alike.
Miley’s infamous cover photograph for the October edition of Vanity Fair by Annie Leibovitz, 2008, via Vanity Fair
That said, while her career has been filled with successes, the controversial shoots don’t just end with that of the Queen. In 2008, Annie Leibovitz took a portrait of a 15-year-old Miley Cyrus which was not well received by a large number of critics.
Miley had, at this time, been seeing huge success on the back of her leading role in the popular Hannah Montana TV series on the Disney Channel. The photograph was for the cover image for the October issue of Vanity Fair and it showed Miley turned towards the camera, topless and covered only by a sheet.
Controversy Never Far
Annie Leibovitz at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago photographed by Antonio Perez, 2018, via the Chicago Tribune
However, never far from controversy, Annie Leibovitz had managed to land herself in trouble through the apparent sexualization of the young singer. Many claimed that it wasn’t appropriate for the American photographer to put Cyrus in this position, let alone photograph it and broadcast it to the world.
When the article was published, questions were asked about the image. Although Miley defended it by saying, “No, I mean I had a big blanket on. And I thought, ‘This looks pretty, and really natural. I think it’s really artsy.’”
However, soon the outrage at the image spiraled out of control, and Miley herself was forced to apologize for her involvement in the shoot. She tweeted, “I took part in a photoshoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.” – no doubt at the request of her publicist.
However, in 2018 she rescinded her apology with a strongly worded tweet alongside an image of the front page of the New York Post, which had labeled the shoot, “Miley’s Shame.”
Serena’s Pregnant Portrait
Serena Williams cover for the August edition of Vanity Fair by Annie Leibovitz, 2017, via Vanity Fair
All that said, Annie Leibovitz’s provocative nature often generates much more positive outcomes than that experience might suggest. In 2017, she photographed the famous tennis player Serena Williams, during her pregnancy.
The photographs, in which Williams stands proudly in front of the camera, certainly give the impression that she is nude and not naked. Her powerful legs and defiant posture tell the story of a woman who is able to dominate her sporting field and bring new life into the world.
Annie Leibovitz Raising Her Own Kids
Leibovitz with her daughters, Susan, Samuelle and Sarah, 2015, via InStyle
Annie Leibovitz herself has three children. Her first was born when Leibovitz was 52 years old, and her twin girls were born to a surrogate mother in 2005.
Her eldest, Sarah, was present at the infamous shoot with the Queen; she offered Her Majesty a bouquet of flowers as Leibovitz introduced her daughter and the rest of the team.
Meanwhile, her twins are named Susan and Samuelle, with Susan no doubt a tribute to her late friend, lover and confidant – Susan Sontag – who had died just a year before her birth.
John Sewell
John holds both a BA and an MA in Art History from the University of Birmingham, UK. His academic research focussed on nineteenth and early-twentieth century depictions of narcotics use, addiction and race-relations. However, his interests extend far beyond this; and his work covers an array of topics from many different periods and locations around the world. Alongside writing, he is also the founder of Eazyl - an online art marketplace for emerging artists which charges no commission fees.
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New details in Phil Murphy's plan to make New Jersey's community colleges tuition-free
Dustin Racioppi
Trenton Bureau
Tuition-free community college is rolling out across campuses in New Jersey in January. On Thursday, Gov. Phil Murphy gave an update on his multi-year plan at Union County College in Cranford.
The highlights:
13 community colleges will get a share of $20 million to cover eligible students' tuition and fees
All 19 of New Jersey's community colleges will get $250,000 each for "student outreach, recruitment and support, and to build capacity for future expansion of the program," according to Murphy's office.
After the spring semester, Murphy will assess how to move forward. He said it is too early to tell how the program will take shape, but he is leaning toward adding more funding and expanding the student eligibility.
Offering free community college is one of Murphy's campaign promises toward a broader plan to invest heavily in education to boost the state economy. He had initially budgeted $50 million for the first year of what was expected to be a three-year phase-in, but that figure got cut to $25 million in budget negotiations with fellow Democrats.
"Our goal is to set New Jersey on a new economic trajectory, one that creates good jobs and good pay, which will strengthen our middle class and is based on innovation and forward-leaning companies. These companies will need a skilled workforce, a workforce being built at our county colleges," Murphy said.
Past coverage:Heading to community college in NJ? It will be free for some students come spring
More:Phil Murphy campaign promise tracker: On minimum wage, PARCC testing, NJ Transit and more
About 13,000 students are expected to take advantage of the tuition program, Murphy said. Eligible students must have a household income below $45,000 and be enrolled at least half-time and in good academic standing. The tuition aid will cover any remaining costs not covered by other grants and aid.
"If you’ve got three quarters of the way there, we’re taking you on the last quarter home today," Murphy said.
Whether Murphy can get support in the next budget to increase funding is unclear. Democrats, while generally supportive of increased education funding, are hesitant to raise spending through more taxes.
Republican Sen. Tom Kean Jr. said he'd be willing to work with Murphy on controlling college costs but suggested that his tuition-free plan is deceptive.
“Free community college sounds great, but nothing is free. Governor Murphy’s plan merely shifts the expense of tuition to New Jersey taxpayers at an estimated cost of $200 million to $400 million when the program is fully implemented," he said in a statement.
The 13 colleges receiving state aid for tuition are: Atlantic Cape Community College; Bergen Community College; Camden County College; Cumberland County College; Hudson County Community College; Mercer County Community College; Middlesex County College; Ocean County College; Passaic County Community College; Rowan College at Gloucester County; Salem Community College; Union County College; and Warren County Community College.
More:Heading to community college in NJ? It will be free for some students come spring
More:Editorial: The dreams and reality of ‘free’ community college tuition
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Tyrone Davis: Can I Change My Mind
I've been feeling a little "Soulful" lately and thinking about the great records during the Soul Music period of the 60s and 70s. One of the most beloved Soul Artists was named TYRONE DAVIS (born Tyron D. Fettson) who sang about love and was the toast of Chicago.
Tyrone was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1938 and moved to Saginaw, Michigan when his father headed north looking for a job. Eventually he landed in Chi-Town, where Tyrone found a job as a valet/driver for the great Freddie King and started singing in clubs on the weekends where he was discovered and signed by writer/producer Carl Davis (from whom he borrowed his last name) and released a tune called "A Woman Needs To Be Loved" that wasn't happening, but when radio discovered the 'B'side,"Can I Change My Mind," he had a Smashola.
The turning point was when he changed his singing style into a softer more needy plea that drove the ladies crazy, and drove his first hit to #1 on the R&B Chart and #5 Top 40, selling over a million discs. He would go on to have two more #1's, "Turn Back The Hands Of Time" (1970), and "Turning Point" (1975).
Tyrone's career spanned more than 20 years of recording and touring and he was called: "King of romantic Chicago soul" by MTV and the women who followed him from gig to gig. Then in 2004 he had a stroke, and eventually died in 2005 at age 66. Scott has sent me several more videos of Legendary Soul Singers and I think I'll make this the start of a series, if you folks in TDR Land agree, just comment or Like the Facebook post let me know.
So here he is, Tyrone Davis singing Live in a theater his first hit, "Can I Change My Mind," in Lush Color and with Pure Sound. @therealdonrocks
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Birthday: February 12, 1996
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, U.S.
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About Aquaria
Professional drag queen and reality star, Aquaria (born Giovanni Palandrani) gained worldwide acclaim as a contestant on the tenth season of the popular reality show “RuPaul's Drag Race”. In 2018 she featured in an episode each of the reality shows titled “Real Housewives of New York City” and “RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked”. She is also a popular Instagram personality known for her drag photos on her ageofaquaria page on Instagram.
She was born to Gina Palandrani and David Palandrani. She has a sister called Francesca.
She won season 10 of “RuPaul's Drag Race”. In 2019 she was nominated in the category for Best Red Carpet Looks at the ‘WOWIE Awards’. She received the Best in Fashion award at the 2020 ‘Shorty Awards’. Her Instagram account had 1.6 million followers by mid-August 2020.
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Kevin McCloud’s views on a ‘Golden Years’ home for mum & dad
We caught up with Kevin McCloud to get his thoughts on ‘golden years’ homes for elderly people.
Architect Garry Thomas caught up with Kevin McCloud’s views on a ‘Golden Years’ home for mum & dad. This is what he had to say:
“We should be building communities for all ages and not segregating the old in retirement villages,” says Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4’s property programme Grand Designs. “It’s very important that we build lifetime homes which you can adapt for wheelchair use, have stairs that would fit a stair lift and even an area to put in a proper lift, but we shouldn’t ghettoise a particular group of people.”
At Thomas Studio following our success in securing planning permission for a home designed with future care needs in mind, we understand that it is very important to make homes adaptable and build communities for people of all ages. It is a great way to rejuvenate older people and revitalise neighbourhoods. It’s also a great way to invest in adult social care – as this type of adaptable home as a property asset can remain in family ownership long after mum and dad have passed on. Rather than the alternative which is to sell their home and use the money to spend on adult social care – a bill that the nation can ill afford.
Kevin McCloud, 55, who lives with his wife and four children in a 15th century farmhouse in Somerset, has built several integrated property schemes with his company HAB Housing.
“We have a scheme in Stroud on an old hospital site,” he explains. “It’s a mixed community. An old lady of 92 who used to work at the hospital has come back to live in one of the apartments. There are lots of social things going on and plenty of shared space and she loves it.”
“We have to accept that the population grows old together and gets geriatric together. But we should preserve the traditional roles of older people as being guardians and peace keepers. They have more time to look after the young, so the young can learn from them and they can learn from the young.” Says McCloud.
“Safety and security is about having a good community of neighbours rather than cameras, bars, gates and locks” Kevin argues.
Kevin trained and worked in theatre design before moving into the world of self-build and becoming presenter of Grand Designs.
Golden Years Self-build Homes
Building an adaptable home as a ‘golden years’ home to care for mum and dad is the new way forward avoiding astronomical care bills and maintainint wealth within the family. This is what Kevin had to say about self-build for the elderly:
“Some 40 per cent of people would like to build their own home and 400,000 are looking for a plot. But they don’t want to feel isolated. I would rather live somewhere I felt secure in the company of people I liked with people of all ages which I would find more rejuvenating than being surrounded by people of my own age who just wanted to play golf.”
For more information on the benefits of investing in a ‘Golden Years’ home for mum & Dad and getting planning permission contact the office for a free 15 minute consultation with Architect Garry Thomas.
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The history of Rock and Roll Music praises him for transfixing the world of pop music for more than 20 years, his charismatic performances and brilliant music has earned him universal admiration from the musicians; the artist of eighties, Prince, does not need any further introduction. His exceptional music covers a broad spectrum of styles ranging from new wave to funk and to R&B. He has the honor of being placed among the legends Madonna, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen , three rock stars who ruled the era of eighties, soon after he joined in the music industry.
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With his father having a jazz band of his own, Prince had music in his blood. Taking it up professionally was his father’s dream and having all the potential, he decided to live up to it. Mimicking television themes on his father’s piano was a start for the artist. During his teenage, he moved to live with his friend and practiced playing music. Keyboard wasn’t just the only instrument he was adept at playing. Through a process of self learning his area of expertise expanded and he learned to play a number of instruments including bass guitar, drums, saxophone and harmonica. By the age of 18 he had recorded a number of demos and just a year later he signed an amazing deal with Warner Bros Company for releasing three albums along with the ownership of publishing rights. The deal did not only promise to support his album launches but also gave him the freedom as a songwriter, producer as well as a composer. His incredible efforts and hard work made him the youngest successful producer in Warner’s history.
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James Mattis: ‘In Union there is Strength’
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PUBLISHED: June 3, 2020 at 4:33 p.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2020 at 2:27 p.m.
Editor’s note: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released the following statement today:
I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand — one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values — our values as people and our values as a nation.
When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.
We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict — a false conflict — between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.
James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.
Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis — confident that we are better than our politics.
Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.
We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.
Only by adopting a new path — which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals — will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.
James Mattis, retired United States Marine Corps general, served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from January 2017 through January 2019.
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Budget delivers creeping change for investors
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The budget had a number of creeping tax changes that are “going after perceived loopholes,” said John Waters, head of tax and estate planning at BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.
Josh O’Kane
Published March 22, 2013 Updated March 22, 2013
For individual investors, the federal budget Thursday doesn't initially appear to deliver much change. A closer look, though, shows there are enough noticeable differences to make investors pay attention.
Largely, investors in Canadian public companies are off the hook. The budget had "a lot of very targeted measures going after perceived loopholes," said John Waters, head of tax and estate planning at BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. It's a lot of little things, he added in an interview, but "these are big things to a lot of people."
When the budget is approved by Parliament, owners and shareholders of private small businesses and investors hoping to diversify their portfolio from a single security will run into some small, but noticeable, changes. Investors with large foreign holdings or who hold investment funds with certain financial arrangements will notice differences, too.
People who dispose of their shares of qualified small businesses – or farm and fishing property – will see their lifetime capital gains income tax exemption from those dispositions rise to $800,000 from $750,000 for dispositions on or after Jan. 1 of next year.
If you've hit the limit before, you're in luck.
"In a situation where a small business owner has already realized the $750,000 capital gains exemption in the past, starting in 2014, they will be eligible for an additional capital gains exemption of $50,000," said Bobby Hinduja, a financial advisory consultant with Royal Bank of Canada's Wealth Management division, on a conference call to the bank's investment advisers.
The broadest impact of the capital gains exemption changes, though, is that it will be indexed to inflation as of the beginning of next year. This is good news for business owners planning to exit their business down the road.
"Under the current rules, if a business owner plans to sell his business in 20 years, he could be eligible for a capital gains exemption of $750,000," Mr. Hindja said. "But under the proposed changes, if we assume an annual inflation rate of 2 per cent, the capital gains exemption will be worth approximately $1.2-million when the owner sells the business."
It's not all good news for small business owners, though. Shareholders of private companies that are taxed at the small-business rate who receive dividends from owning the business will find those dividends – for tax purposes, classified as "non-eligible" dividends – subject to higher tax.
Those dividends will now be taxed at 21.22 per cent, up about 1.5 percentage points from before.
"This change could have impact on the decisions owner-managers make surrounding compensation from their companies," Mr. Hinduja said. These owner-managers should consult their tax advisers about the changes to see if their compensation mix of salary and dividends is still right for them. (The total impact, Mr. Hinduja noted, won't be clear until provinces also release their budgets this year.)
Older shareholders and small business owners should pay attention to how these changes affect their taxable income and whether government benefits such as Old Age Security payments change as a result. The "gross-up" factor, by which the federal government modifies the amount for which they are taxed, has actually lessened.
Mr. Hinduja points out that $55,000 under the previous "gross-up" rate of 25 per cent would make $55,000 in taxable dividends about $70,000, whereas the new rate of 18 per cent means a taxable amount of $65,000, which changes the amount of OAS clawback a person would have.
Investors in funds that use "character conversion transactions" will see some changes, too. These funds, which Mr. Waters of BMO likens to "a sort of magic box," convert income from interest and dividends into capital gains, which are taxed more efficiently than in their original form. The budget takes measures to prohibit many of these kinds of income conversion.
And people who own a large amount of a single company's shares and wish to diversify or liquidate – such as from selling a company or through stock options – may face more fees. "Some investors [who] have a portfolio whose value concentrated in a single equity security are really asset rich and cash poor," said Allison Marshall, RBC Wealth Management's head of high-net-worth planning services.
Selling all of these shares can be a huge tax liability, Ms. Marshall said on the conference call, and an equity monetization arrangement has historically been used to ease that burden. Here, investors agree to sell their shares at an arranged value, then borrow funds to diversify their portfolio. When that loan matures, so does the contract for selling the shares.
Doing this to avoid a tax burden won't be so easy any more, though. "What the budget is seeking to do is ensure that if you have disposed of securities for economic purposes, but the legal ownership of the property is retained by the investor, they want to ensure that you are not able to defer the capital gains tax on the economic disposition of that property," Ms. Marshall said.
Investors will be directly affected by several other changes, including changed reporting requirements for Canadians with more than $100,000 in foreign property, beginning next year. Everyone will be affected differently by these changes, of course, so it's best to contact your personal tax expert and financial adviser to see how the budget affects your own portfolio or business.
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Razed stakes
John Madin, whose iconic architecture helped reshape postwar Birmingham, tells Steve Sampson of his distress at seeing his creations bulldozed
Tue 9 Aug 2005 20.02 EDT
How does it feel for an internationally acclaimed architect to see some of his most famous buildings razed to the ground? John Madin, 81, the architect responsible for Birmingham's postwar development, should know.
In June, his Birmingham Post and Mail building - which was described by Nikolaus Pevsner in his "bible" of British postwar architecture as "the finest commercial building of its time" - was flattened, soon to be followed by the BBC's landmark Pebble Mill studios, while the iconic central library and chamber of commerce are both threatened with demolition as part of the regeneration of England's second city.
"No other city in the world would allow so many award-winning buildings just to be wiped out," Madin says of the changing face of his home town.
"Of course, it is very personally distressing to see my buildings demolished after all the work one puts into creating them. When you see buildings, recognised by the Civic Society, the Civic Trust and Royal Institute of British Architects as being important buildings of their time, being demolished for no other reason than profit, then it's very distressing."
Madin built his first house in Birmingham when he returned from the second world war, during which he had honed his design and architectural skills on the banks of the Suez Canal in the Royal Engineers.
He was commissioned over the next 30 years by the city for a number of projects, the largest of which was to design the civic centre. The central library, which was completed in the 1970s, was the linchpin of his plan. "It was a time of great excitement for the city and for the architects of the day," Madin recalls. "It was a wonderful time. Following on from the destruction of the second world war, there was a complete revolution in architecture. We were using new methods of construction. There wasn't a single crane in Birmingham in 1955, but by the 1960s there were buildings being built to completely different design standards from those before the war."
He refuses to be drawn on the merits of his work, which arouses strong passions among supporters and detractors alike, but instead directs them to pick up Pevsner. "Madin's firm - John HD Madin & Partners from 1962 and John Madin Design Group from 1968 - consistently produced the city's best architecture for the next 36 years," the guide states. It describes the central library as "the finest example of the postwar public buildings in Birmingham" and claims it would be a "tragedy" if it were demolished.
When it was completed in 1974, the building received worldwide media coverage as the largest non-national library in Europe and was hailed by Harold Wilson, the former Labour prime minister and at the time leader of the opposition, as "a great leap forward" for the city.
In an ironic twist, the day the latest edition of Pevsner's guide was published, the bulldozers moved in on the Birmingham Post and Mail building.
Madin's deep personal affection for his buildings - such as the chamber of commerce, which he designed some 48 years ago and still hopes to save - is evident when he talks of the minutiae of his work.
"I didn't just design the building structure," he points out. "I was involved in everything, including carpets and curtains. I know every detail of each building. I remember I wanted a mural by John Piper, but the chamber of commerce was concerned about the cost, so I said I'd pay for it myself. Finally the chamber of commerce agreed to pay for the mural, which is embedded in the structure and could be destroyed if the building is demolished." Now planners have approved the proposal to replace the existing building with three linked office blocks up to 13 storeys high.
News last month that the central library is also to be razed to make way for further development in the city centre strikes a double blow for Madin. It is a decision that he refuses to accept, claiming that structural complications will scupper plans for a high-rise skyscraper mooted by developers to replace it."I don't believe it will go," Madin says. "But the fact that there have been attempts to destroy it and replace it with a commercial building is not only sad but stupid.
"Birmingham has lost a valuable opportunity to develop a civic and cultural centre. It has sold off, for financial gain, land and buildings that were the inheritance of the people of Birmingham. It is not that my buildings no longer serve a purpose. Arbitrary decisions have been made by successive city administrations outside the context of a comprehensive plan for the centre."
Eva Ling, of the Twentieth Century Society, which has been campaigning for the past decade to save Madin's work, says: "His work was in many ways ahead of its time, and is only just becoming appreciated. It seems very short-term and shortsighted, but Birmingham has never been sentimental about buildings."
Glynn Pitchford, vice-chairman of Birmingham Civic Society, warns that a decision to list the building would have a disastrous impact on the city centre regeneration now under way, which includes the award-winning Selfridges building.
"Anyone who thinks the central library is of architectural or historical merit needs their head examined," Pitchford says. "This city needs that building to be listed like it needs a hole in the head."
Not surprisingly, his sentiments are shared by the Prince of Wales, who has likened the library to a "place where books are incinerated, not kept".
Architect Glenn Howles, who is involved in redeveloping one of Birmingham's most famous buildings, the Rotunda, holds dear childhood memories of visiting the ill-fated library. However, even he believes that it has had its day.
"It's not so much a question of it being good or bad," he says. "It stands in the way of development that is geared towards pedestrians, not motorists. Birmingham reinvents itself. That's what makes it such an exciting city for architects - it is constantly evolving."
Madin is keen to stress that most of the hundreds of buildings he designed across the city are still standing, along with hotels, housing, offices and entire towns in Britain, continental Europe and the Middle East, including Telford in Shropshire and Nile City in Cairo.
But he warns that the demolition in Birmingham serves as a lesson to the architects of the future, who have no guarantee of leaving a lasting impression on the skylines of our regional cities.
As he says: "Basically, there is no assurance of the life of a building."
The CV
Status Married, three children.
Lives Hampshire.
Education Stanley House School; School of Architecture, Birmingham University; officer cadet training, Royal Engineers, during the second world war.
Career 1950: set up the architectural practice, John Madin; 1958: John Madin & Partners; 1968: John Madin Design Group; 1975: John Madin Design Group International, based in Switzerland and the US; 1976: retired from the design group but continues to work as John Madin Chartered Architect.
Public Life Council member, Solent Protection Society.
Interests "Architecture is my main hobby", sailing, conservation.
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