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Leela Subramaniam
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Leela Subramaniam Soprano
Praised by Opera News as a “gleaming, pitch perfect soprano” and the Wall Street journal as “piercingly lovely” for her portrayal of the title role in Thais, soprano Leela Subramaniam is turning heads with her rapid ascent to opera stardom. After winning the prestigious Opera Foundation Björn Eklung Scholarship, Ms. Subramaniam was invited to join […]
Praised by Opera News as a “gleaming, pitch perfect soprano” and the Wall Street journal as “piercingly lovely” for her portrayal of the title role in Thais, soprano Leela Subramaniam is turning heads with her rapid ascent to opera stardom. After winning the prestigious Opera Foundation Björn Eklung Scholarship, Ms. Subramaniam was invited to join the Bayerische Staatsoper Opera Studio for the 2015-2016 season, where she appeared as Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel, Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, die Fünfzehrjahrige in Lulu, and die Hoher Schatten in the Opernfestspiele premiere of Hauke Berheide’s Mauerschau. In addition, she went on tour performing in many concerts with the Opera Studio, which featured excerpts from Mozart’s Lucio Silla, Idomeneo, and Verdi’s La Traviata.
Ms. Subramaniam made her Carnegie Hall debut performing Niece 1 in Peter Grimes with the St. Louis Symphony (which was named one of the top 10 performances of the year by The New York Times) and was featured on PBS in a concert in St. Louis featuring excerpts from Ricky Ian Gordon’s world premiere Twenty-Seven. She attended the Chautauqua Institution Voice Program, where she was seen as Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, and was a Gerdine Young Artist for two years at the Opera Theater of St. Louis where her assignments included Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Sadie in Terrence Blanchard’s Champion.
Previous credits include the title role in Thais, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Angelica in Orlando Paladino at the Manhattan School of Music, in addition to performing Nero in Handel’s Agrippina and Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites at University of California-Los Angeles, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. This season Ms. Subramaniam makes her Münchner Gärtnerplatz Theater debut in Purcell’s King Arthur and her debut with LA Opera performing Thumbprint with Beth Morrison Projects.
Leela Subramaniam as Thais
Leela Subramaniam as Gianetta in Elixir
Leela Subramaniam in Gärtnerplatztheater München's "King Arthur" Photo © FJSmedia/EWA BLAUTH
Leela Subramaniam in concert
Leela Subramaniam as Lucia di Lammermoor
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Rising to the Call — The Life of President Clark G. Gilbert
The call to serve as BYU-Pathway's first president reflects a pattern of dedicated service for Clark G. Gilbert and his family
BY: BYU-Pathway Communications
In the middle of a very challenging academic season of his graduate studies, Clark G. Gilbert received an assignment that would change his life. Local leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invited him to serve the inner-city youth of the Boston area in a multi-congregation stake Young Men presidency. Having never served in that position before, Clark first thought the assignment would basically entail planning a few youth activities each year. But he soon learned the Lord had much more in mind.
In fact, Clark would come to realize that the Lord was looking for someone who could invest personally in the lives of the young men in Boston — young men who were new in the gospel and who needed to know the Lord’s love in a personal and direct way. Once he understood what the Lord expected, he realized that the call would mean much more than planning an occasional youth activity.
It would eventually mean driving around Boston every Sunday, attending meetings, teaching, and getting to know each young man in the area. It would mean participating in weeknight activities in inner-city branches where there were not always local youth leaders available. It would mean inviting youth into his family’s home and into their lives.
Clark and Christine with some of the youth they knew from Boston
Clark grew to love these young men as if they were part of his own family. He prayed for them. He saw them in a way he felt the Lord saw them, and he knelt in prayer each night asking how best to reach each of them. The Lord put great power into Clark because he was on His errand. It was not the first time Clark had risen to the call, and it wouldn’t be the last. And yet he would soon learn that sometimes a call in one stage of life is preparation for another.
Born in Oakland, California, in 1970, to Paul and Susan Gilbert, Clark grew up in Arizona. Upon his return from serving in the Japan Kobe Mission, he continued his studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and moved into an apartment complex across from where his sister lived. The proximity would prove advantageous when he began dating his sister’s roommate, Christine Calder.
Clark quickly discovered he could leave his apartment at just the right time and, by chance, he and Christine could walk to campus together. Clark and Christine were married on February 4, 1994, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Clark and Christine on their wedding day at the Salt Lake City Temple.
Over the years, the couple would become the parents of eight children. Their oldest son, James, recently returned from serving in the Taiwan Taichung Mission and now attends BYU. Their daughter Paige is 17 years old and is now the eldest child at home. John is 15 and is coping with being the only boy at home with six sisters. The other Gilbert daughters include Emma, who is 12; Mary and Grace, the 10-year-old twins; Lucy, who is 9; and the youngest daughter, Claire, who just turned 4.
The years since their wedding have seen Clark and Christine live in a number of communities as work and school took them to Northern and Southern California, Massachusetts, Utah, and Idaho.
Clark and Christine with their eight children.
Clark earned a bachelor’s degree from BYU in international relations. The Gilberts then moved to California, where he pursued a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Stanford University. Clark later graduated with a doctorate in business administration from the Harvard Business School. He subsequently joined the faculty at Harvard as a professor of entrepreneurial management. Through his research and publications, Clark became recognized as a rising scholar in organizational innovation and change. But all of that scholarship could not have prepared him for the life change that was about to happen.
In 2006, Kim B. Clark, former dean of the Harvard Business School and then-president of Brigham Young University-Idaho, encouraged Dr. Gilbert to pray about coming to Rexburg, Idaho, and experiencing the campus. It only took one visit before the Gilberts knew it was the right place for their family. Clark later served as associate academic vice president, overseeing online learning and the eventual creation of the Pathway program (now called PathwayConnect). The Gilbert family stayed in Rexburg for three years — an experience that changed their lives in ways they never could have imagined. Then, as it often does, another call came.
President Gilbert leading a discussion at the Mexico City Tepalcapa site
In 2009, Clark was asked to become president and CEO of the newly formed Deseret Digital Media (DDM), a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation. DDM was created to help transform the Church’s traditional media companies into a rapidly emerging online future. This assignment was followed by an appointment as president of Deseret News in May 2010. To guide the paper’s content, Clark instituted a set of editorial priorities, which included the family, faith in the community, care for the poor, excellence in education, values in the media, and financial responsibility. Deseret News grew in national prominence even as the digital organization expanded rapidly. Clark was named “Innovator of the Year” by multiple industry associations for his work in transforming these media companies.
The Gilberts’ pattern of rising to the call would once again lead them back to Rexburg. In January 2015, Clark was announced as the president of BYU-Idaho. In his new role he felt repeated promptings to re-emphasize the school’s student-focused mission, a direction that had been originally outlined by President Gordon B. Hinckley at the time BYU-Idaho was first announced in 2000. A focus on “everyday students” became a hallmark of President Gilbert’s tenure. The Gilberts also felt deeply about teaching the importance of the family. Clark and Christine involved their family and tried to emphasize “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” as they taught the students of BYU-Idaho.
President Russell M. Nelson introduces Clark G. Gilbert as the new BYU-Idaho President, along with his family. Photo by Tyler Rickenbach.
While serving as the president of BYU-Idaho, the number of PathwayConnect and online-degree students continued to grow, eventually exceeding the number of students on campus. The question became whether a new and dedicated organization would better meet the needs of a worldwide Church and students who would never come to the campus. Even before the call came to leave the university, Clark shared his feelings with Christine that they would once again be asked to move their family and assume a new responsibility. Surprised, Christine declared, “We’ve only just begun here. Do you really think they’d ask us to move so soon?”
On February 7, 2017, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the creation of BYU-Pathway Worldwide, to be located in Salt Lake City, with the responsibility to serve PathwayConnect and BYU-Idaho online-degree students across the Church. The Gilberts and dozens of other faithful employees and their families would leave their beloved Rexburg and follow the call to serve.
Feb. 7, 2017 – President Uchtdorf announces the creation a new Church organization for higher education, BYU-Pathway Worldwide.
While the visibility and expectations of this most recent call were unique, the Gilberts soon realized that the pattern of this appointment was the same as so many other calls they had received throughout their lives. President Clark and Christine Gilbert have learned and continue to realize that when they rise to the calls the Lord presents, He blesses them in ways that are powerful and permanent.
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Stranded Virgin passengers offered complimentary flights
August 20th, 2013 by elisa
An emergency landing left Virgin passengers stranded overnight in a small airport as the airline said all hotel rooms were fully booked.
The plane was travelling from Heathrow to New York on Saturday when it was forced to make an emergency landing at Gander Airport after a “technical fault”. More than 250 passengers were left at the small Canadian airport in Newfoundland overnight until the relief flight to New York John F. Kennedy departed at 16:55 local time on Sunday.
A message on the airline’s Twitter account said: “Unfortunately, hotels in the local area are full – and despite our best efforts we’ve been unable to get any for customers or staff. Apologies for this.”
A Virgin spokeswoman said: “All passengers and crew remained at Gander overnight on 17th August and a replacement aircraft took them to their destination the following day (18th August).
“The airline would like to thank passengers for their patience and apologise for the inconvenience caused. Due to the exceptional circumstances, as a gesture of goodwill we are offering all passengers a complimentary return flight with Virgin Atlantic for use at a later date.”
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Yearly Breakdowns
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[Total: 12 Average: 1.4]
Genre(s): Comedy | Action
Directed By: Greg Mottola
Written By: Michael LeSieur
Domestic Distributor: Fox 2000 (FOX)
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot
Box Office Info:
Budget: $40 million
Financed by: FOX; TSG Entertainment
Domestic Gross: $14,904,426 Overseas Gross: $15,014,319
In 2012, the production company Parkes+MacDonald landed a $10 million fund backed by Image Nation Abu Dhabi to develop and package projects and they set this sitcom quality picture up at Fox 2000. The budget for Keeping Up With The Joneses was $40 million and FOX financed and received some capital from TSG Entertainment — which invests into FOX’s slate of films between a quarter of the costs and half of the costs, depending on the project.
Director Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland) did his big screen career no favors from helming this hack work, which was originally dated for an April 1st release, but the picture was order back for reshoots and pushed back. Keeping Up With The Joneses was later rescheduled for October 21st — only three weeks after the long delayed Zach Galifianakis starrer Masterminds would open. FOX gave this stinker a strong marketing push and invested $17.56M into national TV ads (as per iSpotTV) and millions more into other traditional means of marketing, with a domestic P&A spend in the $30 million range. In the week up to its release, Keeping Up With The Joneses was tracking for an opening near $12 million, but as atrocious reviews began to pour in, estimates lowered to $6 – $8 million.
This disposable studio comedy opened over the crowded weekend against Boo! A Madea Halloween, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and Ouija: Origin of Evil and was dead on arrival with $5,461,475 — placing #7 for the weekend led by Boo!. Keeping Up With The Joneses also posted the 8th worst opening for a movie booked into over 3,000 theaters. There was a modest 37.9% second weekend decline to $3,390,107 but then it sank 67.8% in its third frame to $1,092,302 and promptly lost most of its theater count. The domestic run closed with just $14,904,426.
Keeping Up With The Joneses was clearly a comedy designed for the domestic market and predictably pulled in soft numbers overseas. The offshore cume was only $15 million. The worldwide gross was $29.9M and FOX would see returned about $16.4M after theaters take their percentage of the receipts — which would leave much of the global P&A expenses in the red and the budget at a loss.
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The Pivot South Translation and Publishing Program Application Guidelines
Oct 15, 2018 / By Books from Taiwan
* Period of Application: 15th October~15th November 2018
* How to apply: The online system used in 2017 has expired. Please send your application forms and documents to books@moc.gov.tw.
* The Pivot South Translation and Publishing Program Application Guidelines: https://goo.gl/PifbEW
* 南向翻譯及出版交流補助作業要點: https://goo.gl/1gPrgX
* For general inquiries, please contact books@moc.gov.tw.
The Ministry of Culture (hereinafter referred to as “the Ministry”) has formulated these guidelines to encourage the publication of translations of Taiwan’s literature, in the territories of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia (hereinafter referred to as the Pivot South nations), as well as to fund exchange trips for publishers and the publication of original titles that deal with the cultures of Taiwan and the Pivot South nations, as well as the topic of cultural exchange between them.
* South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia will be taken to mean: Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Australia and New Zealand.
* The program is split into three different strands, which are:
1. Translation and Publication Grant Program
a. The translation, publication and marketing of Taiwanese literature (including fiction, non-fiction, illustrated titles and anthologies) in the Pivot South nations.
b. The translation into Chinese (Complex characters), publication and marketing of literature from the Pivot South nations (including fiction, non-fiction, illustrated titles and anthologies) in Taiwan.
2. Publisher Exchange Program
Fund exchanges and cooperation activities between publishers in Taiwan and the aforementioned Pivot South nations.
3. Original Book Program
Fund the publication of original titles yet to be published on the topics of Taiwan, the cultures of the Pivot South nations or cultural exchanges. Material deemed unsuitable for minors will not be accepted.
* Applicant Eligibility:
1. Citizens of the Republic of China (Taiwan) or civic organizations and legal persons registered in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
2. Citizens of the aforementioned Pivot South nations or civic organizations and legal persons registered in accordance with the laws and regulations of their respected country.
* Conditions:
1. Translation and Publishing Grant Program
a. Works translated shall be original works by Taiwanese writers (R.O.C. nationality) in written in any of the languages native to Taiwan, or else be by writers from the Pivot South nations written in their local language.
b. All Chinese content must be in Complex characters.
c. All translations must be done directly between the relevant Taiwanese and Pivot South languages, no relay translations will be accepted.
d. Priority is given to works to be translated and published for the first time in Taiwan or the relevant Pivot South nation.
e. Projects receiving funding shall have already obtained authorization for translation, and be published within two years from the signature of a letter of agreement.
a. Citizens of the Republic of China (R.O.C) selected to take part in an exchange abroad must have completed their military service in accordance with laws of the Republic of China and must not have any restrictions upon their travel abroad.
b. Citizens of the Pivot South nations must be citizens of said territories and have completed any military service according to the laws of their country of citizenship where applicable and have no travel restrictions in place.
c. Applications must be received according to these guidelines before the published deadline and show clear evidence of professional experience in the field of publishing.
d. “Exchange and cooperation” refers to events related to translation, editing, rights selling and other publishing related activities such as book fairs, author seminars and forum etc.
e. The period for staying abroad or coming to Taiwan shall not exceed six months.
a. The subsidy will fund original projects that are yet to be published, with priority given to titles on the subjects of Taiwan, the cultures of the Pivot South nations or else cultural exchanges.
b. Projects receiving funding shall be published in one of the Pivot South nations within two years from the signature of a letter of agreement.
* Funding Items and Amount
a. The maximum funding available for any given project is NT$ 500,000 (including income tax and remittance charges).
b. The funding can cover: a licensing fee for the rights holder of the original work, a translation fee, funds to cover production and marketing and promotion costs (not including salary or equipment purchase costs).
b. The funding can cover: transportation, living and accommodation expenses, insurance and marketing and promotion costs. (not including salary or equipment purchase costs).
a. The maximum funding available for any given work is NT$ 500,000 (including income tax and remittance charges). For a series, the funding will be multiplied by the number of books in the series, but total funding in that case will be limited to NT$ 2,000,000 (including income tax and remittance charges).
b. The funding can cover: Production costs, translation and marketing and promotion costs (not including salary or equipment purchase costs).
* Special projects: For projects of particular significance and scope that involve exceptional creativity, deep-level cooperation and concrete outcomes, and provided that they help promote the work of the department, the Ministry will enter into a special agreement. In such cases, the actors involved, the nature of the project and the application period will not be bound by articles four to six, nor articles eight and nine.
* Principles:
1. Applicants are not limited to submitting only one project for funding in each application year; however, the same applicant can only receive funding for up to three projects in any given round of applications.
2. For those applying under article III section 1, the maximum number of projects that will be accepted to the Translation Grant Program and the Pivot South Publishing Program shall be limited to three.
3. Those applying under article III section 2 for a second year running will be prohibited from applying the next year and for three years in total.
Taipei Rights Workshop, Summer 2017 Edition
Jul 24, 2017 / by Books from Taiwan
During the last week of June, we welcomed a group of friends from Thailand and Vietnam along with the steaming hot summer air. In cooperation with Books from Taiwan, Taiwanese publishers grasped this rare chance to impress our guests with interesting stories and beautifully made books.
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Members of Trudeau’s youth council urge cancellation of Kinder Morgan buyout
July 16, 2018 9:54 AM The Canadian Press0 Comments
OTTAWA – Members of Justin Trudeau’s youth council are urging the prime minister to withdraw his decision to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
Sixteen past and present members of the youth council are releasing a letter to Trudeau expressing their “disappointment” in the Liberal government’s move to buy the pipeline project for $4.5 billion.
The letter, signed primarily by Indigenous members, says young people supported Trudeau during the 2015 federal election because of promises he made on reconciliation and climate leadership.
It says when Trudeau appointed himself the minister for youth, he indicated he would listen and honour the concerns of young people.
The signatories say they’re questioning Trudeau’s commitments because they weren’t consulted about the pipeline decision and they are the ones who will be affected by the consequences of climate change.
The letter also says the pipeline project violates Indigenous rights and poses the threat of “irreversible damage” to British Columbia’s coast.
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline
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England make fine start in Sri Lanka as first Test gets under way
Will Macpherson
(Sri Lanka Cricket)
Stuart Broad gave England the perfect start to their Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle with a double strike on the first morning.
Sri Lanka endured a poor morning, starting with the news that their captain Dimuth Karunaratne was ruled out with a thumb injury. Dinesh Chandimal stepped up and won the toss, unsurprisingly opting to bat first.
England selected Broad over James Anderson and Mark Wood ahead of Olly Stone and gave a debut to Dan Lawrence, the Essex batsman.
Sri Lanka made it through the first six overs, before an inspired bit of captaincy and bowling saw England earn a double breakthrough.
For Broad, Joe Root placed the recalled Jonny Bairstow in the leg-gully region, where the ball had regularly flown early on. Lahiru Thirimanne, who kept his place because of Karunaratne’s injury, duly sent the ball straight to Bairstow, who took a smart catch.
Two balls later, Broad bowled a neat legcutter to the groping Kusal Mendis, who was caught behind. After a second innings duck in Centurion and a pair at the Wanderers, Mendis had recorded nought in his last four innings – an Audi.
Kusal Perera had scored 20 of Sri Lanka’s first 25 runs and was in a customarily attacking mood. That cost him, though, when Dom Bess entered the attack and Perera gloved a reverse sweep straight to Root at slip. At 25 for three, England could barely believe the generosity.
That brought Sri Lanka’s best batsmen, Angelo Mathews and Chandimal, together, and they survived until lunch (when Sri Lanka were 65 for three), but not without a scare. Lawrence dropped at Chandimal at cover on 22 off Jack Leach. It was a simple chance that should have been taken.
A promising start in Galle.
Scorecard: https://t.co/RfqfT5QobQ pic.twitter.com/XbR1xjKKT8
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) January 14, 2021
Despite no-one but the teams being at the ground, the over-rate was painfully slow but for once the fielding side were not at fault. The sightscreen at one end malfunctioned, then Mathews called for a chest guard, with Wood touching 93mph. Just three overs were bowled in the first 25 minutes, and drinks were taken after 55 balls. Despite two spinner bowling 12 between them, just 24 overs were bowled in the morning session.
England wore black armbands in memory of three former players who have died since they last played, John Edrich, Robin Jackman and Don Smith.
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CannaVerde Pharma Signs Letter of Intent with Leading Colombian Pharmacy Medical Precision Care
Coaches understand before they sign employment contracts that they are hired to be fired, something that’s particularly true in the NFL where the only measure of success is a playoff slot at the end of the season. Lynn’s team went 7-9 this season and some of his head-scratching decisions late in games caused fans to lose their hair. The news Thursday that Philadelphia plans to hire Indianapolis offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni as the new head coach of the Eagles is the latest reminder of that.
In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971 as symbol of international friendship. Biden on Wednesday ordered a “pause” on all wall construction within a week, one of 17 executive orders issued on his first day in office, including six dealing with immigration. The order leaves projects throughout the border unfinished — but still under contract — after Trump worked feverishly last year to build 450 miles (720 kilometers), a goal he said he achieved eight days before leaving office.
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 21, 2021) - CannaVerde Pharma Inc. ("CannaVerde" or the "Company"), a privately held Canadian medical cannabis company with operations in Colombia, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding letter of intent (the "LOI") to purchase 50% of the issued and outstanding shares of Medical Precision Care S.A.S. ("Medical Precision"), a master pharmacy exclusively focused on the research and development of cannabis-based pharmaceutical products ...
Toronto Mayor John Tory urges Pfizer improve COVID-19 vaccine production
Toronto Mayor John Tory has joined a chorus of Canadian politicians in urging Pfizer-Biotech to produce more COVID-19 vaccine. Tory followed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, among others, in speaking directly to executives from the pharmaceutical multinational. Tory said he wanted to make a constructive case after the company said it would not be able to fulfil next week's order to the federal government. "The best way to go about these kinds of conversations is to make your case as a Canadian, which I did, and as the mayor of the largest city in the country, and to try to make Canada's case," Tory said. Trudeau has said he spoke to Pfizer on Tuesday and Ford said he was in contact with the pharmaceutical manufacturer on Wednesday. Tory said he knows members of Pfizer's management team from his previous career as a business executive, and that he reached out to them in concert with the federal government. "I'm trying to help the country's efforts to try to see if we can't get more supply," the mayor said. "I can't tell you what results my intervention, or anybody else's, will have." Toronto has had to shut down its two vaccination programs until the federal government provides more doses to the city's public health unit. An immunization clinic at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre closed after two days of inoculating front-line health care workers. The city also paused a pilot in shelters for people experiencing homelessness. Dr. Eileen De Villa, Toronto's chief medical officer, said everyone's frustrated with the shipping delay, because the vaccine offers people hope. "Having it slowed down and having the change in course is not what we wanted," De Villa said. "But we expect there will be eventually vaccine coming available and we'll do our very best." De Villa said there were 986 new cases of COVID-19 in Toronto on Thursday and 10 more deaths linked to the virus. The update included 102 cases from earlier in the week that had previously gone unreported because of a technical error. Councillor Joe Cressy, chairman of the Toronto Board of Health, joined Tory and De Villa at the Thursday afternoon news conference. All three detailed the city's ongoing efforts to support racialized communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Toronto, Ontario Health, hospitals, and community health providers have been working to improve access to testing in those neighbourhoods. Toronto reports nearly 271 testing clinics have been booked in more than 20 different city-owned facilities, with 89 more dates to come in January at 12 different sites. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2021. John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press
Long-term care residents told commission prolonged isolation is 'inhumane'
TORONTO — Residents of Ontario long-term care homes described the devastating impact of the prolonged isolation brought on by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as they testified before an independent commission earlier this month. A group of residents spoke to the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission through video conference on Jan. 13, laying out the intense loneliness and deteriorating mental health experienced by them and their peers. Some characterized the conditions, which they said have kept them with minimal human contact for weeks or months at a time, as "inhumane." One resident identified as Maria S. said the home she lives in had no COVID-19 cases until November, but then the virus "spread like wildfire." The facility is separated into eight sections, each housing 25 people, and two of those sections had no cases at all, she said. Still, the entire facility was closed off and everyone had to isolate for at least eight weeks, she said. "You weren't able to talk to anybody, to see anyone... Through Christmas and New Year's, we sat in our rooms," with only one essential worker allowed, she told the commission. "It is inhumane to leave people in their rooms without any contact with anyone for that long a period of time," she said. "So it has been a long haul of loneliness and no interaction except with your staff, and again, that is limited interaction." Another resident, identified as Ann D., said she feels like she is "in jail," and has noticed a change in her fellow residents as well. "You can see the life is just draining out of their faces," she said. "Every day it is getting worse and worse... and they are just not the same person they were two weeks ago, and they are not the same as they were two months ago." Others described the cumulative harm of the pandemic over the last year, comparing themselves to animals locked up in cages. A resident identified as Robert K. said he lost 20 pounds after the "mental and physical isolation" robbed him of his appetite. Unable to see his wife due to "draconian" rules, and no longer able to read or write due to an eye condition, Robert said he is "very limited in recreational activities," particularly when volunteers aren't allowed in homes. "I feel like my brain is in a straight jacket," he said. "I feel like I want to break out, and I don't know how." Their testimony came after another group of residents appeared before the commission in the fall, urging the government to address the issue of isolation before the second wave of the pandemic took hold. The COVID-19 pandemic has carved a deadly path through Ontario's long-term care system, killing more than 3,250 residents and 10 staff members since the start of the global health crisis. The commission, led by Superior Court Associate Chief Justice Frank Marrocco, was convened to investigate how the virus spread in the system, and issue recommendations aimed at preventing similar outcomes in the future. It has heard that shortages in staff and personal protective equipment, as well as other factors, contributed to the outbreaks. Currently, 251 of the province's 626 long-term care homes are reporting an outbreak of COVID-19. Last year, the province loosened visitation rules a few months into the pandemic, but the commission has heard many homes continued with a lockdown. Additional restrictions were later imposed on homes in hot spot regions, limiting visitors to staff, essential visitors and caregivers. A directive issued earlier this month states that long-term care homes in regions designated as green or yellow under the province's pandemic management plan can allow caregivers and support workers who have had a negative PCR COVID-19 test in the past two weeks and attest to not testing positive later, or who have a negative antigen test the day of their visit. Homes in those regions can also admit visitors provided they meet the same criteria. Caregivers can visit facilities in regions deemed orange, red or grey zones if they have had a negative PCR test in the previous week, or a negative antigen test that day. But no visitors are otherwise allowed in homes in those regions. The province has rolled out vaccinations in long-term care homes, vowing to administer a first dose in all facilities by mid-February. The commission's hearings aren't open to the public but transcripts are posted online, typically in the days that follow. It is expected to submit its final report to the provincial government on April 30. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2020. Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the White House briefing room. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, was tasked by President Joe Biden to give an update on the coronavirus pandemic after largely being sidelined in recent months by former president Donald Trump. Fauci said the new administration would “be completely open and honest” in dealing with the pandemic and, in an implicit rebuke to the Trump administration, said everything now would be “based on science and evidence.” He also said in the Biden administration, the rule would be “if you don’t know the answer, don’t guess.” Fauci, who repeatedly attacked by Trump for breaking with his rosy view of the pandemic, provided an update on the new, more contagious strains of the virus, which has now claimed the lives of more than 400,000 Americans. ___ THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: President Joe Biden signs burst of coronavirus orders, requires masks for travel. US Chamber of Commerce supports Biden’s virus plan. Dr. Anthony Fauci vows full US engagement with WHO. Angela Merkel sees signs of coronavirus decline in Germany, but extends restrictions until Feb. 14. India sends 2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh. __Follow all of AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic, https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak ___ HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING: COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine announced Ohio will use $50 million in federal pandemic aid dollars to buy two million at-home rapid coronavirus tests to help local health departments respond faster to testing needs. The Republican governor also said the state’s 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. pandemic curfew, due to expire in a couple days, will be extended, though he didn’t provide details. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov Jon Husted said the state is wrestling with huge numbers of fraudulent unemployment claims being filed for federal pandemic aid. Husted said 1.4 million of those claims, nearly 800,000 have been flagged as fraudulent, including a claim someone made in Husted’s name. The at-home test kit deal involves a partnership between the state, Miami-based digital health company eMed and Chicago-based medical device company Abbott Laboratories. Users can administer the BinaxNow at-home rapid antigen tests with results available in about 15 minutes. A company spokesperson said users will receive online guidance to take the tests, and the results will be recorded with the Ohio Department of Health. Devine said local health departments have been asking for this type of rapid testing. ___ TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas is shifting into the second phase of coronavirus immunizations as the Republican-led state House approved a bill that would extend the state’s pandemic emergency declaration. The 119-3 vote sends the bill to Gov. Laura Kelly, who has until Jan. 26 to act before the declaration expires. It expands the use of telemedicine and adds flexibility in health care licensing through March 31. But it also limits Kelly’s ability to close businesses and allows counties to opt out of mask mandates and other health orders she issues. The move comes as Kelly said communities can move beyond immunizing health care workers and long-term care residents. She urged patience in a news release, noting that the next phase includes about 1 million Kansans, including those ages 65 and older, prisoners and essential workers such as teachers and law enforcement officers. However, the next weekly shipment of vaccine from the federal government contains only about 45,000 new first doses. Kelly said local health departments, will decide how their limited supply of the doses will be allocated by population groups. ___ WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is signing 10 executive orders aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic, including one broadening the use of the Defence Production Act to expand vaccine production. Biden also signed an order Thursday mandating masks for travel, including in airports and planes, ships, trains, buses and public transportation, as well as one directing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse states for some costs related to their COVID-19 response and to provide funds to help reopen schools. Biden is ordering FEMA to begin setting up vaccination centres and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin a program to make vaccines available through local pharmacies starting next month. And he’s mobilizing the Public Health Service to deploy to assist localities in vaccinations. The administration is trying to provide 100 million vaccine injections during the first 100 days of Biden’s presidency, an initial step toward getting the country inoculated from the disease so that schools and businesses can fully reopen. ___ TORONTO — The leader of Canada’s most populous province says he isn’t buying the excuse from Pfizer about why Pfizer deferred all its COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to Canada next week. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says it unacceptable that other countries are getting the doses and Canada is not. Pfizer announced a temporary reduction in deliveries last Friday so it could upscale its Puurs, Belgium plant, which supplies all shots delivered outside the United States. Ford says that’s “crap” and says Pfizer is messing up. Governments in Europe also say the delay is costing critical time during the early stages of the rollout to care homes and hospital personnel. ___ MADRID — Spain posted a new daily record of 44,357 coronavirus infections. The Health Ministry reported 404 deaths on Thursday, increasing the confirmed total to 55,041 deaths and 2.5 million cases. The country’s 14-day average case rate rose to 796 per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 736 on Wednesday. Despite the numbers, government coronavirus expert Fernando Simón says the country could be reaching a plateau. But he says a decrease in new “hospitalizations and admissions to ICUs won’t be noticed for at least another week.” ICU bed occupancy by COVID-19 patients is at 36% nationally. Two regions, La Rioja and Valencia, have occupancy rates above 50%. ___ PARIS — France will require people wear higher quality face masks in public, a measure likely to render many home-made cloth masks obsolete. Government officials say the new rule will be published Friday to help slow the spread of a possibly more contagious variant of the coronavirus. The rule will require face masks worn in public approach the standard of surgical masks in their ability to filter out most tiny particles. Officials say most washable masks sold in French stores already meet the required standard. However, lower-quality homemade cloth masks are unlikely to make the grade. ___ BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine President Alberto Fernández was given the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for the coronavirus after local health authorities recommended its use for those 60 and older. The 64-year-old president was given a shot by a nurse at the Hospital Posadas in Buenos Aires, the capital. Fernández assured Argentines that the vaccine, which has been distributed to the public since Dec. 29, is safe. Argentine officials on Wednesday expanded their recommendation to cover vaccinating those 60 and older after receiving data from Russia indicating it was safe and effective for that group. Fernández will get a second dose after 21 days. ___ VILLA EL SALVADOR, Peru — The Peruvian government announced new oxygen-production equipment it says will assist hospitals across the country. Oxygen has become a scarce commodity in this city of more than 508,000 during a second wave of coronavirus infections. Most of the hospitals in Peru lack the equipment necessary to produce oxygen. The desperation has led some businesses to triple its price, forcing many to plunder their savings or sell belongings to afford it. While some are price gauging, others are stepping in to help. In Villa El Salvador, a group of 13 friends, among them engineers, economists and lawyers, pooled their savings to recently open an oxygen plant and offer lower prices. Peru has recorded more than 1 million confirmed cases and more than 39,000 deaths during the pandemic. ___ WASHINGTON — The largest business lobbying group in the U.S. is supporting President Joe Biden’s early moves to confront the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief policy officer Neil Bradley says Biden is correct in his assessment that controlling the coronavirus is the key to fully reopening the economy. “America must return to health before we can restore economic growth and get the 10 million Americans who lost their jobs in the last year back to work,” Bradley said. “We support the new administration’s focus on removing roadblocks to vaccinations and reopening schools, both of which are important steps to accelerating a broad-based economic recovery for all Americans.” Biden’s predecessor had put pressure on states to quickly reopen. The U.S. is facing its most deadly wave of the pandemic, with joblessness on the rise again. The U.S. Chamber is particularly influential with Republican Congressional lawmakers, who hold sway over Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus package. ___ JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s president says Jackson Mthembu has died from the coronavirus, becoming the first cabinet minister to succumb to the disease. The 62-year-old Mthembu in recent months had been a central figure in communicating to the public the South African government’s response to COVID-19. In announcing the death Thursday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called Mthembu “an exemplary leader.” He tested positive on Jan. 11. Mthembu’s death comes as South Africa battles a second wave of the coronavirus that may be driven in part by a new variant of the coronavirus. ___ CHICAGO — Health researchers say young children need to be careful with alcohol-based hand sanitizer, especially dispensers at eye level. The researchers say they’ve seen more cases of children who got the substance in their eyes. Studies published Thursday in JAMA Ophthalmology detail cases in France and India, some resulting in eye pain and cornea ulcers that ultimately healed. But a few youngsters required eye surgery and researchers say risks include blindness. Many cases involved dispensers in public places. U.S. poison control centres also have had an increase in calls about kids exposed to hand sanitizers. While most resulted in little or no harm, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes the products should the kept out of young children’s reach. If a child does get sanitizer in their eyes, doctors advise washing the eyes with warm water and having the youngster get an eye exam to make sure there is no damage. ___ MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is extending a statewide order requiring face masks in public to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Ivey announced the decision at the state capitol on Thursday. The new order means the rule will remain in place through March 5. Medical officials had urged Ivey to extend the order amid the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations, which have been hindered by a limited national supply. The state of nearly 5 million people has had 446,000 vaccine doses delivered and administered 184,000 doses. There’s been about 430,000 confirmed cases and more than 62,000 deaths from the coronavirus in Alabama. ___ PHOENIX — Arizona, the state with the worst coronavirus diagnosis rate in the country, reported nearly 9,400 confirmed cases on Thursday. The Department of Health Services reported 9,398 cases and 244 confirmed deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 699,942 cases and 11,772 deaths. According to the state’s coronavirus dashboard, there were 4,580 hospitalized COVID-19 patients occupying inpatient beds on Wednesday, down from the Jan. 11 record of 5,082. One in 147 Arizona residents was diagnosed with the coronavirus from Jan. 13 to Wednesday. South Carolina was close behind at one in 148. Arizona’s seven-day rolling average of daily new cases declined from 8,884 on Jan. 6 to 6,973 on Wednesday. The rolling average of daily deaths rose from 103 to 142 during the same period. That’s according to data from Johns Hopkins University and The COVID Tracking Project. ___ BEIRUT — Lebanon has extended a nationwide lockdown to Feb. 8 amid a rise in coronavirus infections and deaths that has overwhelmed the health care system. The lockdown had been scheduled to end Feb. 1. Hospitals in Lebanon have registered a 91% occupancy of ICU beds. Deaths have surpassed 2,000, with between 40 to 60 daily deaths this week. The national health committee had recommended a two-week extension. But the government decided to keep the lockdown, in place since Jan. 14, until Feb. 8. ___ The Associated Press
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Rod Brind'Amour lamented Carolina's season coming to a screeching halt despite doing “a great job” adhering to pandemic protocols. For Peter Laviolette, his Washington Capitals will keep playing for the next week without four prominent players who broke the rules. Each team is getting punished in a different way after being affected by the virus. The Hurricanes had games postponed through at least Saturday and won't get to practice in person with a handful of players on the COVID-19 list. There's no indication the Capitals are being shut down, though they will have to play the next four games without captain Alex Ovechkin, No. 1 centre Evgeny Kuznetsov, top-four defenceman Dmitry Orlov and starting goaltender Ilya Samsonov. “We totally understand why the rules are in place, and there’s no arguing with that,” said Laviolette, who's in his first season as Washington's coach. “We knew the rules. We’re not sitting here saying that we were uninformed or we weren’t aware. We need to do a better job.” The NHL fined the Capitals $100,000 for breaking protocol by having those four players in a hotel room together with none of them wearing a mask. Laviolette said there was a positive test result, which led to contact tracing, and Washington will be forced to ice a patchwork lineup for its home opener Friday night against Buffalo. There's no hard and fast timeframe for how long a player who tests positive or has potential exposure must be out. The NHL defers to local authorities, and the minimum four games for the Capitals players relates to the District of Columbia's quarantine regulations. After Ovechkin expressed regret for the mistake that will cost him and his fellow Russians two games against the Sabres and two against the New York Islanders, teammates said Thursday the protocols were spelled out for them before the season. “It’s not a situation we want to be in, but here we are,” centre Nicklas Backstrom said. “We’re a tight group. Every time we’re on the road, we see a chance to really connect as a group, but obviously it’s a violation.” Carolina has been off since Tuesday, when Teuvo Teraivanen, Jaccob Slavin, Jordan Martinook and Warren Foegele joined captain Jordan Staal on the COVID-19 unavailable list. The Hurricanes have so far had three games postponed because of their outbreak and won't play for at least a week. “We'vw done all the protocols — we’ve tried,” Brind’Amour said. “Obviously it didn’t matter, it got into our room.” Carolina, Dallas, Florida, Nashville and defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay have all had at least one game postponed because of COVID-19 concerns. The NHL said 17 Stars players tested positive, and their first four games were rescheduled. “We’re in a position that we have catch-up to do: catch up in the standings, catch up in games played,” said Dallas coach Rick Bowness, whose team finally plays its first game Friday at Nashville. “The other teams are playing 56 games in 118 days, I think we’re playing them in 108, so our schedule just got a lot more condensed and there’s going to be times with this schedule because of the cancellation of those games it’s going to really hurt us.” Each team is required to carry a “taxi squad” of four to six players who travel with the team and can be called up if necessary as a way to prevent postponements. The Capitals had to dig three deep into theirs to make up for some big losses. Because of the taxi squads, the NHL doesn't have an official number of players unavailable that would postpone a game. Commissioner Gary Bettman said before the season those decisions would be made on a case-by-case basis. Brind'Amour and Carolina general manager Don Waddell didn't seem to question any player's judgement amid the team's pause. Some players are stuck in Nashville while the rest of the Hurricanes are home because of NHL protocols spelling out what to do when positive test results happen on the road; everyone's limited to virtual practices and meetings with the practice facility closed. “I think we all understood there was a chance that something like this was going to happen," Brind'Amour said. “It’s not really about was it going to happen, it’s how do you deal with it. I think that’s really what we’re going to find out.” ___ AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard and Stephen Hawkins contributed. ___ More AP NHL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL Stephen Whyno, The Associated Press
B.C. Lions sign wide receiver Shaq Johnson to contract extension
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions have signed Canadian wide receiver Shaq Johnson to a contract extension. The six-foot, 185-pound native of Brampton, Ont., recorded career highs in receptions (39) and yards (597) in 2019 while also scoring a pair of touchdowns. Johnson has appeared in 54 games for the Lions over the past four seasons, making 97 catches for 1,454 yards and seven touchdowns. In his first full season as a pro in 2017, Johnson was the Lions' nominee for the CFL's most outstanding Canadian. Johnson was selected in the fourth round, 32nd overall, of the 2017 CFL draft. TICATS SIGN EIGHT FROM DRAFT CLASS HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed eight of their nine 2020 draft picks, including first-round selections Coulter Woodmansey and Mason Bennett. Woodmansey, Hamilton's fifth overall pick, played in 32 games, including 28 starts at guard, over four seasons at the University of Guelph (2016-19). The six-foot-five, 325-pound native of Toronto was named an OUA first-team all-star and a second-team all-Canadian in 2019. Bennett, taken ninth overall, played 43 games over four seasons at the University of North Dakota (2016-19). The six-foot-four, 235-pound Winnipeg native posted 128 total tackles, 20 sacks, three pass breakups, one forced fumble and two fumble recoveries. Hamilton also signed linebacker Bailey Feltmate (second round, Acadia University), receiver Tyler Ternowski (third round, University of Waterloo), defensive back Stavros Katsantonis (fourth round, University of British Columbia), offensive lineman Joseph Bencze, (fifth round, McMaster University) defensive back Jean Ventose (sixth round, University of British Columbia) and defensive lineman Tom Schnitzler (eighth round, University of British Columbia). The Tiger-Cats’ seventh-round selection, kicker JJ Molson, is currently on the practice roster of the NFL's Green Bay Packers. STAMPS INK DRAFT PICKS CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have signed six of their 2020 draft picks — defensive back Michael Asibuo, kicker/punter Keiran Burnham, linebacker Kurtis Gray, receiver Tyson Middlemost, defensive lineman Andrew Seinet-Spaulding and offensive lineman Jon Zamora. Zamora was the highest pick of the six, going in the third round (26th overall). He was a three-time Atlantic University Sport all-star at St. Francis Xavier. Asibuo played for Concordia the past four seasons, registering 51 tackles, five interceptions, 11 pass breakups and one forced fumble. Burnham was a second-team all-Canadian at punter in 2019 at St. FX. Gray was a first-team all-Canadian on special teams in 2019 at Waterloo. Middlemost had 83 receptions for 1,032 yards and seven touchdowns in 26 games over four seasons at McMaster. Seinet-Spaulding won the J.P. Metras Trophy as U Sports' most outstanding lineman in 2019 at McGill. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2021. The Canadian Press
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TORONTO — Experts at a leading children's hospital say schools need to ramp up COVID-19 testing and masking in order to have all kids return safely to the classroom as soon as possible. The guidance comes a day after Ontario said it would allow just seven public health units in southern Ontario to resume in-person learning Monday, while students in hot-spot regions will continue with online learning until at least Feb. 10. Northern regions returned to the class last week, but areas including Toronto and Peel were deemed too-high risk. Thursday's guidelines, led by experts at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, urge COVID-19 tests for all staff and students exposed to a case, and that indoor masking be made mandatory for all those Grade 1 and up. Report co-author and SickKids president Dr. Ronald Cohn said current protocols only require tests for those with symptoms, and that's not good enough. "We need much more rigorous systematic testing in place for everybody who had a contact," said Cohn. "That's missing right now and that's key information that we need (in order) to identify areas where we need to improve health and safety measures, but also to collect this data that we just don't have in Ontario." Cohn acknowledged this could further burden provincial labs but said there was capacity to increase tests. Cohn also noted the preferred method of COVID-19 testing – in which a nasopharyngeal swab is inserted deep into the nose – may be especially tough to get from wriggling children and so less invasive samples such as saliva could be considered to encourage co-operation. Ontario's associate chief medical officer Barbara Yaffe suggested plans were already afoot to consider such a move, and that the government has experimented with expanded testing. She said a pilot exercise back in November offered tests to entire cohorts sent home because of a case, as well as family members of the students. The positivity rate was around two per cent, "which is very low," she said. "We're looking at maybe continuing to do that when we open schools," said Yaffe, adding the deployment of rapid tests was also being considered. Cohn urged a slew of "bundled" infection control measures to limit school disruption he said has taken a toll on the physical and mental health of many young people, as well as exacerbated social inequities. The experts urged kindergartners be allowed to play and interact with their peers without the same distancing requirements of older children, as long as they were cohorted to limit contacts. Masks should also be encouraged in this group, if possible. However, Cohn said masks should not be an option for older children – not just middle and high school students but also elementary students. He noted that extending mask mandates to elementary children was a point of contention among the group. "We have 39 experts who have contributed to our document and probably the most controversial question around getting consensus was around masking," said Cohn. He said school safety will depend on a mix of suppression tactics. "If everybody is going to wear a mask but we don't consider other aspects like cohorting, screening, hand-washing, ventilation, then the mask itself is not going to make a huge difference either," said Cohn. The experts said targeted one-time surveillance tests to find pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic children could be useful if the chance of infection is high, but otherwise was not recommended. They also discouraged the use of rapid tests using molecular or antigen tests because of their lower sensitivity and less effectiveness with asymptomatic cases. Yaffe agreed that kids in school should be a priority, but said positivity rates spiked among children after the holidays and that transmission was so high a lockdown was deemed safest. "We do have a lot of layers of protection in the schools but if the community infection rate is high, that's where it comes into the schools," said Yaffe. "It's not a simple situation. We're continuing to monitor very carefully and put in more measures as appropriate." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2021. Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press
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"I really think time caught up with it and has liberated the story."
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"...there's not one single interview where I didn't have multiple surprises."
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Hu Jintao’s Conservative Balance-Oriented Leadership of China
Jiang Zemin left behind a China of contradictions in many respects. On the one hand, a nation that had experienced impressive economic growth but on the other hand, the frequently unsustainable nature of that economic growth came with its own set of problems, from externalities such as pollution to ideological inconsistencies (with many members of the Communist Part of China finding the increasing gap between the rich and the poor unacceptable, considering that China had gotten dangerously close to capitalism) and even to human-nature related issues such as groups of interest controlling various sectors of the Chinese economy (corruption, in other words).
Furthermore, unlike Hu Jintao who received praise for handing over his power to Xi Jinping in a proper and timely fashion, Jiang Zemin wasn’t as eager to let Hu Jintao take over and as such, his “shadow” remained problematic to an extend which made quite a few players wonder who was actually in charge for a decent amount of time.
Still, Hu Jintao eventually managed to set things back on a let’s say more conservative course. This meant, among other things, that control of the state over more aspects pertaining to the Chinese economy was once again introduced, that tolerance when it came to opposing political views was minimal and that measures to curb corruption were implemented.
However, contrary to what the previous paragraph might make you believe, Hu Jintao was not the type of leader who rules with an iron fist. He tried to be a more consensus-oriented figure and even tried to initially grant more decision-making power to the lower echelon of the Communist Party of China. When it comes to the previously-mentioned lower echelon, the measures ended up representing little more than rhetoric. But as far as the upper echelons and especially the Politburo Standing Committee were concerned, the “nine dragons taming the water” as its members were called had a lot of decision-making power.
All things considered, Hu Jintao is widely regarded as a rational, pragmatic leader who managed to increase stability after his ascension to power at the very beginning of the 21st century. Despite the fact that the Global Financial Crisis which took place during his rule was anything but kind to emerging markets and despite challenges such as the SARS crisis, China managed to navigate turbulent waters reasonably well and maintained robust economic growth which involved 10%+ YOY growth rates being the status quo up until 2010.
Geopolitically speaking, China was becoming more and more assertive as a soft power and gradually increased its regional as well as worldwide influence. To such a degree, in fact, that key trading partners such as Japan and India were growing increasingly uneasy with this new geopolitical status quo. From increasing its influence in Africa through massive infrastructure pending and providing capital to making progress when it comes to its relationship with Taiwan and even the organization of massive events such as the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and the 2008 Olympics, China took action on pretty much all geopolitical fronts so as to make it clear that its influence is poised to increase.
As far as ideology is concerned, his “Harmonious Socialist Society” managed to establish itself in a more robust manner than the “Three Represents” of his predecessor and internally, a lot of his measures (many of which would be considered populist in the West) to that effect have been very well-received by the population, measures such as the abolition of agriculture taxes, imposing a minimum wage in cities as well as implementing policies which protect the many workers who migrated from rural to urban regions and promoting affordable housing-related projects.
As a conclusion, the 6th President of the People’s Republic of China and the first who had no revolutionary background whatsoever is widely-regarded as a balanced figure who proved to be a solid administrator, despite issues such as corruption still being perceived as problematic. While not as emblematic as Deng Xiaoping, his term is perceived as representing a step in the right direction compared to that of Jiang Zemin, with the smooth transition to power when Xi Jinping took over painting a relevant picture to that effect.
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WILL FERRELL IS A MEDIOCRE AMERICAN MAN
This weekend was the junket for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay’s follow-up to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. First of all, the movie is hilarious; while it’s less absurd and more story driven than Anchorman, it still packs in an astonishing number of insane moments and great lines.
At the junket McKay and Ferrell said they see the new movie as the second in their “Mediocre American Man” trilogy (aka “The Colon Trilogy”), which means that there’s still another one to come. Ferrell explained the “Mediocre American Man” concept: “That’s a term that kind of happened. It’s endlessly fascinating to us, and it’s really funny – people who think they’re great who are not. Who are far from it. There’s something really humorous about unearned confidence that makes us laugh. That feels like something we’ll always go back to.”
“Will playing prideful, mediocre guys is a joke we never get tired of,” said McKay. “Will plays unearned hubris better than anyone.”
McKay wasn’t willing to spill the beans on the third film just yet. “We have two ideas. The first idea we had was him as a CEO, but that seems to be fading. We had CEO, we had him as an astronaut and now we have a third one, which is the one we’re kind of leaning towards but I won’t say it. We haven’t sold the pitch yet, so if I say it, it could let the air out.”
Personally I love the idea of Will Ferrell as an astronaut. Whatever the concept is, this film will be an R. “We’re tired of threading [the PG-13] needle,” sighed McKay.
The third Mediocre American Man movie will have to wait a little while, though, because the next Ferrell/McKay collaboration will be something that reteams him with Ricky Bobby’s best friend, John C Reilly. “We so fell in love with John C Reilly in this that we want to do another film with Will and John C Reilly,” McKay said at the junket. Later, in an exclusive interview with yours truly, McKay expanded on that – as much as he was willing to.
McKay: We’re going to go out and sell the pitch in a couple of weeks, so I probably shouldn’t say yet. What I can tell you is that, in reaction to this NASCAR one this is more of a Meet the Parents type of idea, where it will be in a house on a street, with like no car crashes. It’s more of a domestic comedy. And it’ll be rated R. No more of this PG-13 stuff.
Q: Domestic comedy… are they getting married?
McKay: We’ll see… we’ll see… you’re not too far off!
The interviews from this junket will run closer to the film’s release. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby opens August 4th.
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On-Campus Assistants / Floaters
Dexter Southfield
Brookline, Massachusetts
Part- and Full-Time: January-May 2021
About Dexter Southfield
Dexter Southfield is an independent school where boys and girls in Pre-K through Class 12 develop their individual talents and build an ethical foundation for life. Through a classical education and innovative programming, students learn to lead with confidence and serve with compassion. Our 36-acre campus is located on the Brookline-Boston line, just miles from the city’s best museums, libraries, hospitals, colleges, and universities—all of which serve as an extension of our classrooms. At Dexter Southfield, we approach everything we do with enthusiasm and commitment, living by our School’s motto: “Our Best Today, Better Tomorrow.”
Our faculty is made up of talented and dedicated team members who demonstrate exceptional commitment to instructing and engaging students in all subject areas. We encourage students to apply their knowledge and skills to achieve their post-secondary education goals and remain lifelong learners. In order to ensure the continuity of learning during this current public health crisis, we are expanding our talent team with on-campus assistants. Per diem assignments are available Monday through Friday for both part- and full-time roles.
You seek to share your love of learning with others. Being a highly energetic and flexible self-starter, you have excellent organizational and relationship building skills and are adept at guiding students in their classroom and extracurricular pursuits. You enjoy the rhythm and energy of an independent day school and demonstrate integrity, sound judgment, flexibility, and humor in everything you do, even during a global pandemic.
To be successful in this role, you must be able to:
Promote an inclusive learning environment that develops an awareness and appreciation for exploration for academics, arts, and athletics
Provide back-up faculty support, classroom coverage, hallway and dining room assistance
Prepare and deliver lessons that align with the school curriculum and mission
Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions
Collaborate with colleagues to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment
Other duties as assigned, including opportunities to coach extracurricular sports
Bachelor's degree our completed coursework in education or related subject area preferred
Ability to communicate effectively (orally and in writing) to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and parents
Understanding of the academic, social, and behavioral characteristics of student development
Experience supporting a motivating and engaging learning environment, in person and online
Ability to be flexible, effectively manage stress, and adapt to changing work priorities and assignments
At Dexter Southfield, we promote a culture of excellence that extends beyond academics, athletics, and the arts. We offer a community in which employees feel valued, respected, and a sense of belonging.
Interested candidates are encouraged to send a cover letter, resume, and a completed employment application to Carmen Aliber, Director of Human Resources, at caliber@dextersouthfield.org.
Connections working at Dexter Southfield
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As world moves forward on marijuana legalization, Iowa is stuck
Last week was a big one for marijuana reform across the world.
The United Nations narcotics commission voted to remove cannabis from its list of most restricted drugs, with backing from the United States and the World Health Organization.
The Mexican legislature advanced a full marijuana legalization bill, which is expected to earn final passage this month.
And for the first time ever, the U.S. House approved a bill to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level. It adds an exclamation point to last month’s U.S. elections, when four states voted to legalize marijuana for adult use.
None of that has any tangible effect on Iowa, which is one of the worst states for pot enforcement. But it sends a clear message that the times are quickly changing and Iowa is on the wrong side of history.
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act — the MORE Act — was approved with mostly Democratic votes in the U.S. House. Iowa’s three Democratic representatives voted in favor, and one Iowa Republican abstained from the vote.
The bill is not expected to clear the Republican-controlled Senate, but it’s a historic step nonetheless and offers a starting point to potential bipartisan negotiations in the next Congress. [Read more at The Gazette]
Weed-Infused Salmon Recipe
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So, What Do Millennials Really Want From Work? with Alec Levenson
According to USC's 'Center for Effective Organisations' Alec R. Levenson, 'Millennials' have been burdened with a reputation as spoiled, lazy, and entitled, but the reality behind the stereotype is far richer and more complex. But who are Millennials and what do they really want?
In this interview for KGNU's 'It's The Economy' Claudia Cragg speaks with Levenson who explains who Millennials really are, and offers practical advice to help those who manage, lead, and work with them to improve teamwork, increase productivity, strengthen organizational culture, and build a robust talent pipeline.
'What Millennials Want From Work', co-written and researched with Jennifer J. Deal, is based on fieldwork and survey data from global research on more than 25,000 Millennials and 29,000 older workers in 22 countries, this book paints a comprehensive, scientifically accurate picture of what really motivates Millennials around the world.
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Surface air temperature for August 2019
In Europe, the average temperature this August was above the 1981-2010 average over most of the continent, with the exception of western Portugal and the northeast stretching into Russia. The June-August average temperature for Europe was close to 1.1ºC above the 1981-2010 norm, making it the fourth warmest summer since at least 1979. Globally, August 2019 was the second warmest August on record, being 0.53°C warmer than the 1981-2010 August average.
Boreal summer (June-August) 2019
The last 12 months - September 2018 to August 2019
Surface air temperature anomaly for August 2019 relative to the August average for the period 1981-2010. Data source: ERA5. (Credit: ECMWF, Copernicus Climate Change Service)
The average temperature over Europe was above the 1981-2010 average over most of the continent, with the exception of western Portugal and the northeast stretching into Russia. The largest warm differences compared to normal were recorded over eastern and south eastern Europe.
Elsewhere, temperatures were markedly above average over large parts of northern Siberia, over north eastern Canada, Baffin Island and northern Greenland. Other regions with temperatures substantially above normal include much of the southern USA and Mexico, the Central Asian Republics, northern Chile, southern Africa and west of the Antarctic peninsula.
Temperatures were notably below average over central USA and large parts of Canada, over south eastern Russia, large parts of Australia and central Antarctica. The Sahel zone in northern Africa also saw below average temperatures, linked to above average rainfall in the area.
Although some regions of below-average temperature occurred over all major oceans, marine air temperatures were predominantly higher than average.
Monthly global-mean and European-mean surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1981-2010, from January 1979 to August 2019. The darker coloured bars denote the August values. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.
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The global temperature was substantially above average in August 2019, it was:
0.53°C warmer than the average August from 1981-2010, making it the second warmest August in this data record;
about 0.04°C colder than August 2016, the warmest August in this data record.
The largest anomalies in European-average temperatures occur in wintertime, when values can vary substantially from month to month. August 2019 was warmer than average, by close to 0.9ºC.
Surface air temperature anomaly for boreal summer (June to August) 2019 relative to the average for 1981-2010. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.
Boreal summer saw above average temperatures over most continents. The regions that saw much above average temperatures included large parts of Europe, western Alaska, the northernmost parts of east Canada and northern Greenland, northern central Siberia, southern Africa, and a large region of Antarctica to the west of the Antarctic peninsula. Regions with below average temperature included north-eastern Scandinavia and western Russia, large parts of central Canada, as well as parts of Antarctica.
Europe saw its warmest June on record by a large margin, followed by a close-to-average July and an above average August. The June-August average temperature for Europe was close to 1.1ºC above the 1981-2010 norm, making it the fourth warmest summer since at least 1979.
Summer (June-August) averages of European-mean surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1981-2010 from 1979 to 2019. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.
Surface air temperature anomaly for September 2018 to August 2019 relative to the average for 1981-2010. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.
Temperatures averaged over the twelve-month period from September 2018 to August 2019 were:
much above the 1981-2010 average over most of the Arctic, peaking over and near Alaska and over the central parts of northern Siberia;
above average over almost all of Europe;
above average over other areas of land and ocean, especially so over north-eastern China, the Middle East, south-east Asia, Australia, southern Africa and some parts of the Antarctic;
below average over several land and oceanic areas, including much of Canada and central USA, parts of the North Atlantic and South Pacific, over parts of the Himalayan range and central China, and to the south-west of Australia.
Running twelve-month averages of global-mean and European-mean surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1981-2010, based on monthly values from January 1979 to August 2019. The darker coloured bars are the averages for each of the calendar years from 1979 to 2018. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.
Averaging over twelve-month periods smooths out the shorter-term variations. Globally, the twelve-month period from September 2018 to August 2019 was 0.54°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average. The warmest twelve-month period was from October 2015 to September 2016, with a temperature 0.66°C above average. 2016 is the warmest calendar year on record, with a global temperature 0.63°C above that for 1981-2010. The second warmest calendar year, 2017, had a temperature 0.54°C above average, while the third warmest year, 2018, was 0.46°C above the 1981-2010 average.
0.63°C should be added to these values to relate recent global temperatures to the pre-industrial level defined in the IPCC Special Report on “Global Warming of 1.5°C”. Monthly temperatures over the past twelve months have been mostly in the range from 1.0 to 1.1°C above this pre-industrial level. The temperature for August 2019 is close to 1.2°C above this level.
The spread in the global averages from various temperature datasets has been unusually large over the past two or more years. During this period the twelve-month average values presented here are higher than those from several independent datasets, by between 0.05°C and 0.15°C for the twelve months for which spread is largest. This is due partly to differences in the extent to which datasets represent the relatively warm conditions that have predominated over the Arctic and the seas around Antarctica. Differences in estimates both of sea-surface temperature elsewhere and of temperatures over land outside the Arctic have been further factors. There is nevertheless general agreement between datasets regarding:
the exceptional warmth of 2016, and the warmth also of 2015, 2017 and 2018;
There is more variability in average European temperatures, but values are less uncertain because observational coverage of the continent is relatively dense. Twelve-month averages for Europe were at a high level from 2014 to 2016. They then fell, but remained 0.5°C or more above the 1981-2010 average. Twelve-month averages have risen since then. The latest average, for the period from September 2018 to August 2019, is close to 1.2°C above the the 1981-2010 norm. The warmest such period, from April 2018 to March 2019, was 1.5°C above average.
The average surface air temperature analysis homepage explains more about the production and reliability of the values presented here.
SEA-ICE COVER FOR AUGUST 2019
HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES FOR AUGUST 2019
Note on multi-month averages
During November 2019, it was discovered that the software used to produce the multi-month averaged anomaly for time series in the monthly bulletin had a software bug. The software has been rectified, with graphs and data-files updated in all October summaries. This bug has no implications on previous statements. Click for more details.
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Auction Results: A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks, December 14, 2020 @Sotheby’s
By Loring Knoblauch / In Auctions / December 16, 2020
If forced to choose just one photographer who can be called a reliable secondary market performer, Ansel Adams would be a solid selection. Even though Adams was prolific, his prints consistently sell well in all kinds of auctions, especially his mural sized prints, which routinely reach into six figures. In the past decade, single artist sales of his work have performed well (at Christie’s in 2014, results here, and at Christie’s in 2019 and 2020, results here and here), even when much of the material was later prints.
So it isn’t a surprise that this single collector sale at Sotheby’s offering a range of Adams’ work did so well. All our usual metrics pointed in the right direction – a small Buy-In rate (just 6.50% overall), lots of positive surprises at various price points, and one lot which reached up to near $1M, a new record for an Adams print. When the dust settled, the Total Sale Proceeds came in above $6.4M, above the high end of the aggregate pre-sale estimate range.
Total Lots Bought In 8
Buy In % 6.50%
Here is the breakdown (using our typical Low, Mid, and High definitions):
Total Low Lots Bought In 2
Low Buy In % 5.88%
Mid Total Lots 65
Total Mid Lots Sold 61
Total Mid Lots Bought In 4
Mid Buy In % 6.15%
Total High Lots Bought In 2
High Buy In % 8.33%
The top lot by High estimate was lot 29, Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, estimated at $700000-1000000; it sold at $685500. The top outcome of the sale was lot 53, Ansel Adams, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942/1960s, estimated at $400000-600000, sold at $988000 (image above, via Sotheby’s.)
79.13% of the lots that sold had proceeds in or above the estimate range and there were a total of 18 positive surprises in the sale (defined as having proceeds of at least double the high estimate) (images above via Sotheby’s):
Lot 3, Ansel Adams, Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley, California, 1945/1975, estimated at $7000-10000, sold at $30240
Lot 20, Ansel Adams, Sunrise, Mt. Whitney, Moon, Sierra Nevada, CA, 1927/later, estimated at $3000-5000, sold at $16380
Lot 30, Ansel Adams, Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948/later, estimated at $7000-10000, sold at $37800
Lot 38, Ansel Adams, Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley, 1938/1970, estimated at $200000-300000, sold at $685500
Lot 39, Ansel Adams, Merced Peak From Red Peak, Yosemite, c1920, estimated at $5000-7000, sold at $27720
Lot 54, George Fiske, Snow Fall, 1880/1930, estimated at $3000-5000, sold at $13860
Lot 58, Ansel Adams, Dogwood Blossoms, Yosemite, c1938/later, estimated at $6000-9000, sold at $20160
Lot 60, Ansel Adams, Pinecone- Eucalyptus Leaves, San Francisco, Calif., 1932/1950-1962, estimated at $6000-9000, sold at $31500
Lot 61, Ansel Adams, Boulder and Trees, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, 1936, estimated at $8000-12000, sold at $31500
Lot 68, Ansel Adams, Cedar Tree, Winter, Yosemite Valley, c1935/1944, estimated at $7000-10000, sold at $23940
Lot 82, Ansel Adams, Oak Tree, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, CA, c1935, estimated at $10000-15000, sold at $30240
Lot 85, Ansel Adams, ‘Trees And Cliffs of Eagle Peak, Winter’ (horizontal), 1935/1973-1977, estimated at $6000-9000, sold at $18900
Lot 94, Ansel Adams, Juniper Tree Detail, Sequoia National Park, 1927/1930s, estimated at $15000-25000, sold at $60480
Lot 105, Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Joshua Tree, The Nat’l. Mo., CA, 1948/1963-1970, estimated at $5000-7000, sold at $18900
Lot 113, Ansel Adams, Tenaya Lake, Mount Conness, Yosemite National Park, California, c1946/later, estimated at $6000-8000, sold at $18900
Lot 115, Ansel Adams, Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California, 19372/1981, estimated at $15000-25000, sold at $60480
Lot 118, Ansel Adams, Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1937/1970s, estimated at $5000-7000, sold at $15120
Lot 123, Ansel Adams, Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958/1971, estimated at $10000-15000, sold at $32760
The complete lot by lot results can be found here.
Read more about: Ansel Adams, Sotheby's
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A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks December 14, 2020
Ansel Adams estate site
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Daily Content Archive as of Saturday, June 10, 2017
(as of Saturday, June 10, 2017)
extralegal
Definition: (adjective) Not permitted or governed by law.
Synonyms: nonlegal
Usage: The vigilantes believed they were simply dispensing an extralegal form of frontier justice.
Compound Sentences
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The Sabines
The Sabines were members of a tribe that lived in ancient Italy before the founding of Rome. According to legend, Romulus and a group of mostly male followers abducted Sabine women to populate the newly built town of Rome, an incident known as "The Rape of the Sabine Women"—in this context "rape" simply means "kidnapping." This story has been a common theme of art throughout history. How did the Sabine women supposedly end the conflict between the armies of their fathers and their husbands? More...
James Earl Ray Escapes from Prison Again (1977)
In 1967, Ray, who was serving time for armed robbery, escaped from prison by hiding in a bread truck. He remained at large until 1968, when he was captured in London following an international manhunt sparked by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray pled guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. In 1977, he once again escaped, but this time he was recaptured within days. In 1969, Ray recanted his confession and claimed that who was responsible for King's death? More...
Tara Lipinski (1982)
Lipinski is an American figure skater who, at the age of 14, won both the US and World Championships, becoming the youngest person ever to win either title. In 1998, she also became the youngest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympic history. Shortly thereafter, she launched her professional skating career, a move that was sharply criticized by some. The next year, she became the youngest person to win the World Professional Figure Skating Championships. Why did she stop skating in 2002? More...
It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
a head-scratcher
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Portugal National Day (2020)
Also known as Camões Memorial Day and Portugal Day, this national holiday observes the death anniversary of Luís Vas de Camões (1524-1580), Portugal's national poet. His epic work, The Lusiads (1572), was based on the voyage to India of Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama. This national holiday is observed with patriotic speeches, games, and costumed citizens in the capital city of Lisbon. More...
Today's topic: pancake
blin - As in blini and blintze, it is Russian for "pancake." More...
blintz, blintze - Blintz(e) is from Russian blinets, "little pancake." More...
cake - A Viking contribution, from Old Norse kaka, it is related to "cook"; cake first meant small, flat bread roll baked on both sides by being turned—as in pancake or potato cake. More...
omelet, omelette - Omelet has also been written omelette, amulet, and aumelet; omelet's root sense is "thin layer" or "crepe," and it was first described in English as a "pancake of eggs." More...
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Ohio’s Hip Hop Awards – D1’s Political Love Story
by Del Perry
"They can't throw you a bone so you only catch feelings. Until the throne was overthrown, you felt it was appealing. It had you focused in the zone, so consumed with killing. Now you're calling this place home even though there ain't no ceiling. Just a dog on his leash...a monster, a beast. You fought for the peace but all you got was a speech. Tuck your tail between your legs and howl the night away. Still repping the flag as the fox lives to kill another day." “Fox and Hound” by D1 Columbus’ own rapper/singer Chris Dickerson won the 2013 Most Improved Artist award at this year’s Ohio Hip Hop Awards Show (OHHA). Dickerson used to be known as Distinct 1 when he was a rapper, but people started calling him D1 and it stuck. The 29-year-old won the award “…for most improved all around - music, image, marketing, live performances, etc. The nomination process is partially chosen by fans and the Ohio Hip Hop Award panel, but the actual voting process is all done by the fans,” D1 told the Free Press. “It feels good to win,” he said, “I’ve been doing music for 14 years, tried rapping for 12 years, switched to singing two years ago and got an award, which was a bit surprising!” D1 lives in north Columbus and attended Dublin Scioto High School. He supports himself with production and mixing work for other musicians. He excels in progressive soul and alternative music, but his production involves hip hop-style drums plus sampling production sounds to make his projects feel like a huge movie score. His songwriting is rooted in hip hop and he enjoys word play and cleverness when it comes to the independent music scene. "The Fox and Hound" is one of those songs. “On the surface, the song is about being controlled by a higher power – being held captive by someone, but you remain loyal to them because you think it's for the greater good,” D1 explained, “The song is one big metaphor for the war in Iraq. George Bush is ‘the fox’ and the soldiers are ‘the hounds’ – trained to fight but tricked into a war we shouldn't have been in.” Some highlight lyrics from the song are: "They call you a dog, so you bark at them. But you can't bite the hand that feeds you, so you dart past them. Aiming for your target, but you can't start to fathom...how sharp your teeth really are until you start attackin’." Raised listening to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, D1now gets his musical inspiration “anywhere I can find it – relationships, movies, television and art, even from other peoples music. I feel it is important to have music built on real life experiences because it connects to the audience on an entirely different level.” The OHHA was hosted in Cleveland at the end of September this year. The awards show began in 2007 and honors “…our state’s rappers, DJs, break dancers, graffiti artists, promoters, managers, singers, record labels and media outlets for their contributions to our growing music scene,” according to their website http://ohiohiphopawards.com. The Ohio Hip Hop Awards & Music Conference showcase was held in Columbus in 2012. To be considered for an OHHA award, an artist is nominated by their fans on the OHHA website between May 1 and July 1. Artists submit a press kit and are evaluated on their “…retail sales, radio spins, performances/touring, mixtape placements, online presence and overall artist visibility.” Each year in June, the Ohio Hip Hop Awards & Music Conference hosts a talent showcase in Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Sandusky and Youngstown. The top five winners from across the state win a performance slot at the main event of the Ohio Hip Hop Awards & Music Conference. Fans and supporters vote online for their favorite artists in a large number of categories to determine the winners. Past OHHA awards winners include world-renowned hip hop producer J Rawls, 2011 winner of the OHHA Best Rap Album and 2012 winner of the OHHA Lifetime Achievement Award. J Rawls is a native of Columbus’s southeast side who got his big break as the producer of Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s hit Brown Skin Lady and Yo Yeah from the Black Star Album. He has also worked with the Beastie Boys. In addition, Bad Boy Record's Machine Gun Kelly of Cleveland participated in the 2009 Ohio Hip Hop Awards Summer Showcase Tour, and said it was the key to taking his career to the next level. D1’s current projects are Soul Blue and Political Love Story. Two years ago, he moved to New York for a year to finish working on his Soul Blue album. He had known Elite from middle school and linked up with him there. Elite brought D1 into Cole's circle and introduced him around, particularly to Voli, Omen and his current guitar player Jorge Gavidia. D1 co-produced Copyright’s Beetle Project titled: “Carbon Copy’s Phony Art Pub Scam” (a play on “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”), MHz, Demari Faust, and he has engineered many albums for other local artists. D1’s manager, Denise Walls, owner/founder of The Deepest Entertainment in Columbus, (https://www.facebook.com/thedeepestent) said of her client, “We can expect more music – his very first music video for ‘Greyhound Love’ will be shot at the end of this month.” D1 headlined at Skully’s in Columbus this summer. He described the show: “Copywrite and Catalyst opened for me. We had Dommy Styles [Power 107.5] DJ all night. There were contests that the crowd participated in for money, CD's and posters. We actually had special lighting planned out for my set...basically a lot of things that you don't see at typical local shows. I think that makes it more special for the fans.” D1’s Soul Blue album will be on iTunes as a re-release deluxe edition with clothing and other merchandise in the near future. He is collaborating with another local hot talent from Columbus, Young Wise from Cocky Club Entertainment on an album entitled Chasing Karma which should be out by the end of the year. Their first single is available on D1’s website called “Dreamers.” ---------------------------------- Del P is a singer/songwriter /performer/manager/producer at his own label “Six 1 FO Records & Publishing.”
Columbus Band Ace & Boris Announce Post-Pandemic Tour of the Midwest for February 2021
2020: The year-end review by Wes Flexner
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Bio:Paolo is a researcher in Digital Economy and a Lecturer in Digital Entrepreneurship at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. His PhD focuses on the interplay between multiple actors in the ICT ecosystem, with a focus on superfast broadband in rural areas. His work has been published in Telecommunications Policy and presented at international conferences, both in the EU and the US. Prior to join Northumbria University, Paolo worked in the Italian telecommunications industry as a regulatory analyst for a broadband provider and an economic advisor for AGCOM, the Italian national authority for media and telecommunications.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2019 08:30–09:45 PTC Young Scholar 1: Achieving Broadband's Benefits: Evaluation of Network Deployments in Local and National Markets South Pacific 4 PTC19PROG YS_1
Title:Community Broadband Networks and Rural Digital Divide: A UK Case Study
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Community broadband networks have recently emerged as an alternative to both public and private players in the delivery of superfast broadband in rural areas. The impact of these initiatives upon the rural digital divide is, however, largely unknown. Focusing on Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN), a community FTTH network in the UK, this paper explores how a community-led initiative can contribute to bridging the access, adoption and outcome divides in rural areas. Following a bottom-up and demand-driven model, B4RN has managed to expand the supply and demand of superfast broadband in remote areas previously ignored by commercial and subsidised deployments. Its overall impact upon the rural digital divide has been constrained by the small scale of the project as well as its reliance on private contributions. Although it may not be replicable on a national scale and suitable for large organisations, the approach developed by B4RN confirms that involving local communities in the design and execution of broadband projects help minimising both access and adoption divides in rural communities.
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Jasvinder Khaira is a senior managing director in the Tactical Opportunities Group. Prior to joining Tactical Opportunities, Mr. Khaira was a member of Blackstone’s Private Equity Group and GSO Capital Partners. He has been involved in the execution of Blackstone’s investments across the digital infrastructure sector, including Global Tower Partners, Phoenix Tower International, Phoenix Tower do Brasil, Wireless Capital Partners, Ascenty, 21Vianet Group, Sipartech, and various spectrum investments. Mr. Khaira has been involved in a variety of strategic Blackstone business investments and special projects, including, the firm’s initial public offering and acquisition of GSO Capital in 2008.
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The Cerebral Palsy Research Network (CPRN) was founded on the principles of patient-centered outcomes research. Not only was CPRN founded by the parent of a child with CP, the organization’s mission, vision and strategic objectives all place people with CP at the center of our work. Toward that end, CPRN has a community engagement leader, Michele Shusterman, who works to make sure that a representative CP community voice is included in our studies and our priorities.
CPRN has created a Community Advisory Committee (CAC) to have members of the community engaged in our plans and directions and be willing to join members of our Investigator Committee to plan and conduct studies. Members of the CAC are given opportunities to participate in study panels and steering committees to help make sure our research is patient-centric with outcomes that matter to people with CP and their caregivers.
The CAC is be involved in the work of CPRN at several levels including advising on the strategic direction of CPRN, help prioritize its research and participate at every level of study development including design, recruitment, analysis, and dissemination. Patient involvement not only empowers the community, but also increases the relevance of study results.*
Community Advisory Committee Members – Adult Panel
John Borland
John Borland: I’m in my sixties and I was never told specifically what type of cerebral palsy I have, but I suspect that I have spastic diplegia that is more severe on the left side. When I was younger I didn’t rely on any equipment or mobility devices but now I regularly use a cane, and a walker for longer distances. Read more…
Jill Chambers
Jill Chambers: Jill Chambers is the mother of Sean, a young man with significant Cerebral Palsy and other health conditions. He requires 24 hour a day care and has difficulty clearly articulating his speech, but is active and a strong self advocate. He lives near his family and receives supported living services which allows him to live in a home of his own in which he chooses and directs his personalized care. Read more…
Dartania Emery
Dartania Emery: Hey! My name is Dartania. I was born on time on April 6th, 1987, in Poughkeepsie, NY. I’m 29 now. I have had a shunt since I was 2 days old due to being diagnosed with hydrocephalus. My CP was due to lack of oxygen because my head was filled with CSF. I was diagnosed with both hydrocephalus and then CP on the same day that I was born. I was never told what type of CP I have but, at 14, during my hospital stay for my CP surgeries, I looked in my charts and it said spastic diplegic cp. Read more…
Ramona Harvey, MPA: I have a BA in Psychology and a Master of Public Administration. I have worked both in and outside of the disability arena in various capacities. I am a disability advocate and consultant with a transition specialist and IL background. I am an adult with Cerebral Palsy and use a wheelchair or crutches for mobility. I am the author of Unclipped Wings and an Independent Sales Representative for the Obi robotic dinning device.
Karen Irick
Karen Irick: I am Karen Irick, mother of an adult daughter with cerebral palsy. Twenty-nine years ago I left the banking industry on Wall Street in New York and moved back home to South Carolina. In 1992, I began my work at the South Carolina University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), Center for Disability Resources, as an information and referral specialist. Read more…
June Kailes
June Kailes: I repeatedly, and sadly unsuccessfully, advocated with others with CP
to have UCP and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation devote time and
resources to the issue. After devoting many frustrating years to this issue I moved on to focusing on disability-related health care issues. Read more…
Karen Pleasant: I was born about 10 weeks premature, weighing barely over 4 lbs. As a child, I was always told that CP wasn’t progressive so I went on with life, graduating high school & attending college. After two years, due to financial constraints, I returned home, landed a full-time job & registered in night classes. Since this was the pre-online era, class was immediately after work at least twice a week. Enduring this schedule once was not enough; the second time resulted in an MBA. Read more…
Corbett Ryan: Corbett Ryan is an adult with CP who has dedicated his life to pioneering for individuals with differences. His “Can Do” attitude has been an inspiration to many and has made him a positive force for change in our society. Corbett represented the United States at the United Nations delegation for persons with disabilities in Vienna, Austria. Corbett has used his knowledge of inclusion in the classroom and workplace to speak publicly on these issues. Corbett was a participant in the first National Council on Disability First Youth with Disabilities in Washington, D.C. Read more…
Carol Schrader
Carol Shrader: Carol is mother to young adult triplets, two of whom have Cerebral Palsy, and she also has a pre-teen daughter. In 2008, her then 11-year-old son created a blog — The Blessing Counter — and encouraged her to write. His willingness to have his story told so that even just one family could find hope in the journey of raising children with Cerebral Palsy inspires her still. Read more…
Peter Turner
Peter Turner: I was born with Cerebral Palsy after experiencing a brain injury during birth. I became lodged during the process of birth, due to broad shoulders. Oxygen was cut off for a short time. Doctors used medical equipment to get me dislodged and on my way into the world. I was unresponsive for the first fifteen minutes of life. No doubt, this was an uncertain time for my parents. I experienced one seizure not long after birth, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly thereafter.” Read more…
Nancy L. Yagodich
Nancy L. Yagodich: Nancy is a retired special education teacher with a M.Ed. from the Pennsylvania State University – University Park. Her teaching career has spanned over 15 years and has included periods of volunteering as a reading tutor and a parent advocate for parents whose children demonstrated a need for special education services. Read More… As she finished her original purpose of teaching the three Rs – reading, writing, and arithmetic, she has started her new purpose of promoting awareness in the equally important yet separate areas of the two Ds – death and disability. Nancy is a board member for the Center for Independent Living in Altoona, PA. She is also a published author. When she isn’t reading or attempting to clean and organize her apartment, she is busy teaching a friend’s cat “dog tricks” such as sit, shake, and paw high five. Nancy has been relatively successful in this endeavor considering she’s working with Holly, the cat. She is currently co-authoring a book about grief resulting from the death of a friend. She can be contacted at Yugs824@aol.com.
Community Advisory Committee Members – Pediatric Panel
Melanie Brittingham
Melanie Brittingham is a parent of a 4-yr old boy, Austin, who has cerebral palsy because of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Shortly after her son’s birth she began coordinating fundraising initiatives to further research that could improve the quality of life of people with cerebral palsy She also serves as a board member of the CP NOW non-profit group, and parent representative to the University of Virginia’s Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC) driving efforts to provide the highest quality services to the children and families served in the University’s new children’s hospital. (Read more…)
Jennifer Degillo
Jennifer Degillo — I am a married mother of three boys. My middle son is five years old and has cerebral palsy. He is an amazing kid that lights up my world with his smile. I have an MSW and have always been searching for the specific clientele I wanted to help. Since having a child with multiple disabilities, I’ve found my calling. I want to help other families in the trenches who are experiencing a disability and advocate for those with disabilities. (Read more…)
Lisa Diller with her son Alexander
Lisa Diller’s 13-year-old son Alexander is an active middle school student who also enjoys participating in many school, church, recreational, and family activities in our community, and is not defined by his spastic diplegia. Many individuals have and continue to support Alexander’s journey in shaping the confident, caring, friendly, and articulate young man he is becoming. (Read more…)
Lizette Dunay
Lizette Dunay is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Cure CP a national non-profit that funds medical research for CP. Previously to Cure CP, Lizette worked in the medical and biologics field in sales and business development for 15 years with a strong emphasis and focus on regenerative medicine. Most recently she was awarded the prestigious “2015 World Stem Cell Action Inspiration Award” by the Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) for her work as an impactful advocacy organization and inspiring advocate for CP Patients. Lizette is also serves as a member of the Governors council for Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, American Academy for CP and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) community council member, and a member of The CP Collaborative. (Read more…)
Cathryn Gray, Community Advisor
Cathryn Gray — I am 16 years old and will be sophomore in high school in 2017-2018. I live in Georgia.
I think the voices of teens living with Cerebral Palsy should be heard and taken into account. I’ve been an active participant in my care, surgeries, therapy and other interventions and would like to share my opinions with a broader audience. (Read more…)
Chantal Holt
Chantal Holt is a stay at home mom of four, including a daughter, Sarah, who has cerebral palsy. She is a dedicated advocate working to ensure that her daughter will be able to enjoy a life without limits and desires to help others to do the same.
Kaysee Hyatt and family
Kaysee Hyatt — I live in Washington state with my husband and two children. My youngest, Addison was born in 2012 and survived a perinatal ischemic stroke. As a result of her stroke, Addison was diagnosed at the age of one with Hemiplegia Cerebral Palsy. Addison has been a part of extensive ongoing PT/OT/SP therapy since she was an infant. Through this journey with my daughter and as a family, I have come to know the importance for growth in education and support among the Pediatric Stroke and CP community.
In 2015, I co-founded Pediatric Stroke Warriors to bring further visibility and support to the awareness of pediatric stroke and its impact in children of all ages. It’s estimated that roughly 60% of children who have strokes will have permanent neurological deficits, most commonly hemiparesis or hemiplegia Cerebral Palsy, just as my own daughter does. Through this personal impact, I have become a passionate advocate and voice for families amidst medical and general communities. I have accepted regular speaking engagements at various local hospitals, conferences and community events to build a voice in awareness and education for stroke and its impact among children. (Read more…)
Marquise Lane
Marquise Lane — I am a young adult with CP living in South Georgia. I am participating because I believe that young adults with CP can be instrumental in learning more about CP and helping spark conversation as well as provide hope for younger children with CP and their parents/Caregivers. I enjoy football, hanging with friends and family and good music. I hope that by participating in this panel, I can share my experience as a young adult with CP who strives to live a full life with others who may benefit from those experiences.
Michelle Parello— I am the mother of two girls ages six and nine. My 9-year-old daughter was born prematurely at 28 weeks and has been diagnosed with triplegic cerebral palsy. Throughout her life I have learned to advocate for her as well as other special needs children and families. I have been working in various settings of special education with a wide array of differently-abled students for many years. I have learned a great deal which I apply to our family function, and am continuing to learn everyday. (Read more…)
Wendy Sullivan
Wendy Sullivan’s daughter, Kelsey, suffered a stroke the week before she was born which resulted in left hemiparesis, a form of cerebral palsy. After attending a Reaching for the Stars educational symposium in Atlanta in 2006, Wendy began to volunteer with RFTS. Wendy has been an Executive Board Member for Reaching for the Stars since 2011. Since then, she has made several advocacy trips to Washington DC requesting funding for research for Cerebral Palsy and has worked with the NIH and CDC to improve outcomes for patients. One of her major accomplishments has been in helping to secure report language in the 2015 and 2016 LHHS Appropriations Bill urging the NIH and CDC to build a specific surveillance program, 5-year strategic plan, and emphasis on research. She is excited to see the NIH will be presenting their 5-year strategic plan for CP to committee in Feb. 2017. (Read more…)
Liza and Timothy Weathersby with their son
Liza and Timothy Weathersby — We are parents to Ptolemy (PJ), who was born at almost 27 weeks and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, is now celebrating his sixth birthday. Tim is currently a stay-at-home dad, who previously worked as an Investment Advisor, and Liza, MD, is a Family Practitioner.
Our most important vocation is the raising and training of our son PJ, and one of our top priorities is to advocate on his behalf. Admittedly, we haven’t climbed many mountains yet, but we have been over more than our share of molehills. (Read more…)
Christina Youngblood
Christina Youngblood is Mom to Devin who was born prematurely and diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 11 months old, due to a grade II brain bleed at time of birth. He was diagnosed with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy and has a history of absent seizures. Today, Devin is an active boy who is a straight ‘A’ student, loves music, video games and anything with wheels that goes fast.
Christina is an active advocate in the CP community, volunteering with CP NOW, founded by Michele Shusterman, on The Cerebral Palsy Tool-Kit: From Diagnosis to Understanding. She hopes to make an impact changing the way CP is diagnosed, treated and how CP is thought of by the general public.
*Frank L, Basch E, Selby JV, For the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The PCORI Perspective on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. JAMA.2014;312(15):1513-1514. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.11100.
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Donald Trump’s Threat to Yank Broadcast Television Licenses is Stupid, Counterproductive, and, Oh Yes, Unconstitutional
I was 10 years old and at home with my family in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington DC, just after dinner one night when we got a call from the White House. It was President John F. Kennedy calling for my dad, Newton Minow, then then 35-year-old Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency that licenses the broadcast networks and regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. President Kennedy wanted to complain about something he saw on the news and he wanted my dad to do something about it.
I thought of that call when I read that the Trump campaign is threatening the licenses of television stations over an ad attacking President Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 virus. What the President said and what my father did are below. But first, here is what is happening this week:
The Trump campaign has written to television stations in five states telling them to stop running an ad from a Biden-supporting PAC called Priorities USA. “Failure to remove the ad “could put your station’s license in jeopardy” before the Federal Communications Commission, the letter said. “Your station has an obligation to cease and desist from airing it immediately to comply with FCC licensing requirements.”
In the midst of all of the chaos and concern about the virus, it is still impossible to ignore how inappropriate and downright foolish this letter is.
First of all, it is stupid and counterproductive because any effort to stifle speech just draws more attention to the very details the subject is trying to suppress. There’s even a name for it, the Streisand Effect, stemming from an incident where the EGOT-awarded superstar sued to prevent a photograph of her home from being circulated on the internet. Of course that led to news reports that included the photograph, which went viral, creating exponentially more interest in the image than there would have been if she had just left it alone.
Want to see how that works? I’m writing about the ad, so I will let you see it for yourself, and let you look at what fact-checker Polifact had to say about it.
As someone once said, never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. News media is especially sensitive about and thus eager to cover any story about someone, especially a politician, trying to tell them they can’t write something. And it is impossible in the age of the internet to stop every source of information. Trying to suppress it is just pouring gasoline on a dumpster fire.
Second, it is unsavory at best and illegal at worst. Despite the use of the passive voice in the letter, it is a clear threat. It is wrong for a political campaign to threaten retribution by any government agency, especially an independent commission, where the commissioners are bipartisan and serve for set terms, not at the pleasure (or displeasure) of the President. This letter perpetuates the notion that President Trump has little understanding of the role of the Executive Branch and the restrictions of his legal authority. The FCC licenses FM radio and full power TV stations as either commercial or noncommercial educational. It does not license networks or cable and under no circumstances are licenses based on politics. The campaign and by implication the man it is advocating for appear to be completely ignorant of the basic jurisdiction of the commission it is threatening the stations with.
Third, it is unconstitutional. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and of the press. The Supreme Court has affirmed, over and over, that the broadest protection is accorded to speech in the context of politics and elections, recognizing that the greatest possible range of information and advocacy is essential to the democratic process. As Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote, “But, above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.” The First Amendment “ ‘has its fullest and most urgent application’ to speech uttered during a campaign for political office.” (Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic Central Comm., 489 U. S. 214, 223 (1989))
Again, this just makes the campaign and the man they are trying to re-elect look ignorant of fundamental Constitutional principles or willing to defy them, which is even worse.
President Kennedy called my dad at home because he was furious about a story on the nightly news. As my father wrote in the Chicago Tribune:
Executives in the steel industry announced a price increase, which the president believed was a violation of an agreement he had negotiated to avoid a strike. He asked if I had seen NBC's newscast in which the steel companies' execs bitterly attacked the president. I had. The president bellowed: "Did you see how those guys lied about me? Outrageous! Do something about it!"
His response?
After careful reflection, I decided the best course was to do nothing.
The next morning, I called the president and reached his assistant, Kenneth “Kenny” O’Donnell. Kenny said, “I know why you are calling because I was with the president when he called you last night.”
I said I would be happy to talk to the president, or O’Donnell could give him this message: “He was lucky to have a friend at the FCC who knew not to pay attention to the president when the president was angry.”
A week went by and I heard nothing. Then, at a diplomatic reception, the president beckoned to me with his finger from across the room. He put his arm around me and whispered “Thank you!”
My dad, who helped get the first telecommunications satellite launched, create PBS, and put Presidential debates on television and still serves as vice-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, knew that politicians will always think the media is unfair, which is why we have the Constitutions and the laws enacted by Congress to make sure that we hear from all sides, trusting the American electorate, not elected officials, to decide what is important, what is true, and who to vote for.
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The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2003/12/05/cornell-classic-hits-newman-court/)
Cornell Classic Hits Newman Court
By wpengine | December 5, 2003
Looking for its first win of the season, the women’s basketball team welcomes Bucknell, James Madison, and Winthrop to Newman Arena for the Cornell Classic, beginning tonight. The Red (0-4, 0-0 Ivy) will take on Bucknell (1-3) at 7 p.m., while James Madison (1-3) squares off against Winthrop (1-1) at 5 p.m. The consolation and championship games will be held tomorrow at 5 and 7 p.m. respectively.
The Red looks to continue its strong play from Tuesday’s night game against Colgate. Cornell went on a 13-2 run in the second half, but could not close the gap, and the Raiders won 77-63.
“I think we played a lot better on Tuesday night, and I think it was a good stepping stone, and I really expect us to come out playing the same way, playing with the same level of intensity,” said head coach Dayna Smith. “Bucknell is a good team, but I think if we come out and do the little things and play aggressive, we have a good chance of getting our first win game.”
Four of the Red’s five starters reached double figures, with senior Tanya Karcic leading all scorers with 19 points. Senior tri-captain Karen Force had her best game so far this season, racking up 16 points on 5-of-6 shooting, went 2-for-2 from beyond the arc, and made each of her four free throws. Senior tri-captains Lauren Kilduff and Katie Romey scored 11 and 12 points, respectively. This was the first game that the Red had four players in double figures.
“Those four seniors need to do that on a consistent basis, and we need one or two other players to round it out for us. Our point production is increasing but it needs to go up even higher,” said Smith. “We need a couple of people to come off the bench and make some easy shots, we need to finish some lay-ups, and we need to make our free throws. I think if everyone can do their little part, then things are going to come together.”
Senior Dani Aretino dominated the glass, as she led all players with 12 rebounds. Force, who was hindered in the team’s previous games by injury, shined on Tuesday night, and was a major presence for Cornell on the floor.
“It was what our team needed. She played a little bit like her old self, and it was huge. It gave us an emotional boost, and points-wise we need her production. She was just a good point guard on Tuesday night, and I think if she can duplicate that, then we’re going to do pretty well,” said Smith.
Bucknell comes into the Cornell Classic after dropping its last game to Bowling Green on Wednesday. The Bison handily defeated the Red in the teams’ last meeting 2001 in Lewisburg, Penn. The Red notched its second win against Bucknell in the teams’ 12 meetings in the 2000 Cornell Classic final.
The Red will need to key in on Bucknell co-captain Desire Almind, who racked up a career-high 33 points against Bowling Green, while shooting 88 percent from the floor. An All-Patriot Team selection last season, Almind is averaging a double-double with 20 points and 13.2 rebounds a game. Freshman guard Lindsey Hollobaugh is second on the team in scoring and rebounds, and was named Patriot League Freshman of the Week for her performances in the team’s first two games.
“I think we have to respect Bucknell’s go-to players, but we need to set the tone. I thought our preparation for the Colgate game was very good, we were focused. We had three very good practices prior to that game, so when we prepare for Bucknell, we need to come in ready to compete, be focused, and take that into the game,” said Smith.
Winthrop and James Madison will meet for the first time since 1976. Both teams have a lot of youth, with Winthrop starting four freshman, and James Madison starting three. James Madison has never faced Cornell, while Winthrop dropped its only meeting with the Red during the 2000-01 season.
After being on the road for the first four games of the season, the Red is looking forward to its first home contests.
“Just being here this week, not having to travel, and sleeping in our own beds, it’s been a huge advantage for us, and our players are very, very excited to have our home court advantage back in play,” said Smith.
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String of Break-ins Plague Cascadilla
By wpengine December 15, 2003
A series of break-ins has upset life in Cascadilla Hall, where three female students’ rooms were broken into over Thanksgiving break, sparking anger and fear among residents. According to an e-mail sent to the Cascadilla community by Scott Helfrich, the residence hall director, there is no evidence that the rooms were forcibly entered, and very little was taken from the rooms. In a subsequent e-mail sent to Cascadilla residents and obtained by The Sun, Helfrich reported that one of the women whose room was entered, Marsha Lien ’04, requested that certain information about her case be shared. The e-mail explained that although “almost nothing was taken from the room,” Lien “found that her bed and pillow had been urinated on and the comforter pulled back over the mattress to conceal this situation.” According to Lien, she first noticed that something was wrong as she came back to her room Sunday night after break. Lien said that she saw that the door was crooked, and when she entered her room she found that the door had been unlocked and the lights turned on. When she asked her resident advisor if anyone had been in her room, her R.A. — who had heard of two similar cases — asked her to check her bed. Lien lifted her comforter to find a “huge stain.” “First I did not know what the hell it was,” Lien said, explaining that the previous cases had included instances where the perpetrator had ejaculated in the room. Because the Cornell University Police Department is conducting an investigation into the break-ins, information is limited. Helfrich warned in his e-mail that “some information will remain confidential and not be inclusive of the full situation.” Linda Grace-Kobas, interim vice president for communications and media relations, did say however that “it doesn’t appear that robbery was the prime motive.” Adam Brown ’04, whose friend lived in one of the invaded rooms, said that residents in Cascadilla continue to remain frightened by the break-ins. He said that one of his friends, an R.A., moved out for about one and a half weeks and only recently moved back in. “Once R.A.s start moving out of dorms, it’s a really bad sign,” Brown said. Brown reported that his friend whose room had been entered went home because of the incident. His friend, whom he said was “pretty shaken up about it,” asked not to be contacted. Brown and Lien both expressed extreme disappointment with the authorities’ response to the incidents. “I’m not very happy with [the response],” Lien said. “They’re very hush-hush.” She also said that the CUPD in particular were very unclear to her in regards to the other incidents. “I think that everyone should know,” she said. “Many of my friends that live there are worried that the police are doing little to protect them and to protect the evidence, and many feel they are not safe staying there,” Brown wrote in an e-mail to The Sun. The CUPD continue to conduct an investigation and “have asked that people keep their eyes open” for suspicious behavior, according to Grace-Kobas. She added that authorities are working with Campus Life, but both she and Helfrich said they cannot comment on the investigation because it is ongoing. Helfrich wrote in one of his e-mails that authorities were not yet sure how the perpetrator entered the rooms, but that “no master keys for the community have been reported missing to the knowledge of Cornell University Police or Community Development.” Helfrich said that although residents in Cascadilla are more cautious of letting strangers into the hall, he felt that the general atmosphere “is not that different from last year at this time.” Lien, however, said that she and many of her friends are “scared shitless” and will not sleep in their rooms over the weekends. She said that her floor is especially cautious both because it is the first floor — a high traffic area — and also because most of the residents there are female. Lien expressed frustration that Campus Life would not let her or other residents install deadbolts in their rooms, but said that she plans on installing one anyway. She also said that many of her friends push furniture against their doors at night as an added precaution and that she has taken to going to sleep with a knife. According to Grace-Kobas, the CUPD have not yet identified any suspects. She also could not predict what punishments the perpetrator would eventually face if caught, as that would largely depend on charges brought. Grace-Kobas further explained that because new evidence and information from questioning often arises once a criminal has been apprehended, it is too soon to know yet what the charges will be. Helfrich and Kobas have asked anyone with information about the break-ins to contact the CUPD at 255-1111.Archived article by Yuval Shavit
Schwab Named Dean of Law School
Last Friday, President Jeffrey S. Lehman ’77 announced that Prof. Stewart J. Schwab, law, has been named the new Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School. Schwab, replacing Lee Teitelbaum who resigned last winter after serving since 1999, inherits an “extraordinarily healthy” institution, according to Kevin Clermont, the James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law and a member of the committee that recommended three candidates to Lehman. The committee was formed last spring and has met weekly this semester, looking for a candidate who had administrative experience, ambition, character, scholarship and commitment to teaching and students, Provost Biddy (Carolyn A.) Martin told The Sun earlier this summer. A list of five finalists was released in early October, and that list was then whittled down to three recommendations from which Lehman chose from. Before that final list, however, each finalist took part in a two-day interview process, allowing two non-University based candidates get a feel for the campus and Cornell in general. “I was honored to have been chosen as a finalist,” Schwab said, the last of the five to be interviewed. Schwab is now responsible for 45 full-time faculty members and about 600 students in the school’s J.D. degree program and another 60 additional students in the masters of laws degree program. “I am confident that, with his strong leadership, the Law School will make ever greater contributions to our understanding of the law and legal institutions and will continue to prepare our students for lives of accomplished service within a rapidly changing profession,” Lehman said. Schwab’s credentials indicate a range of experience and knowledge suitable for the position. He earned an M.A. in labor economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, after which he clerked for the Hon. J. Dickson Phillips of the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor before joining the law school faculty in 1983. At Cornell, Schwab has taught courses on subjects ranging from comparative labor, contracts in a global society and corporations to empirical studies of the legal system, torts and law and economics. He’s also moonlighted at various other positions, serving as distinguished visiting professor at the University of Nebraska Law School this spring and a Fullbright senior scholar at the Australian National University’s Centre for Law and Economics in 1998. He’s also been a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and has served in various other positions at Victoria University, University of Virginia Law School, Duke University and the University of Michigan. Schwab has also written widely, authoring with Samuel Estreicher Foundations of Labor and Employment Law and also writing Employment Law: Cases and Materials alongside such legal luminaries as Steven L. Willborn and John F. Burton, Jr. His writings have been featured in the law journals of Yale University, University of Chicago, New York University, William and Mary, University of Michigan and Cornell. He currently is the co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank on reform of labor and employment laws throughout the former Soviet Union and has been called upon for consultation for ERISA, ESOP and Title VII litigation. “Stewart brings to the position 20 years of teaching and scholarship in areas that have enormous significance and breadth. He is one of our most productive and distinguished legal scholars and is widely respected by his colleagues. I look forward to working with him,” Martin said. The members of the search committee were Martin; Walter Cohen, vice provost; Stephen Crane, chair, Law School Advisory Council; Prof. Theodore Eisenberg, the H. A. Mark Professor of Law; Prof. Stephen Garvey, law; Prof. Barbara Holden-Smith, law; Prof. Sheri Lynn Johnson, law; Prof. Annelise Riles, law; Prof. Faust Rossi, the S. S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Technology and Prof. Carol Grumbach, senior lecturer and director, Lawyering Program. Archived article by Michael Morisy
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Program: Irish Immigration Center, Boston, MA
Contact(s): Lena Deevy, Executive Director: (617) 783-9122
Purpose: To educate recent immigrants on ways to combat racism and to build collaborative partnerships between different ethnic groups
The Irish Immigration Center (IIC), in Boston, Mass., has developed both its Cultural Awareness Program and the Anti-Racism Immigrant Outreach Program (ARIOP) because it saw that issues facing recent Irish immigrants were shared by immigrants of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. Developed by IIC Executive Director Leena Deevy in 1994, the cross-cultural programs counter racism, advocate for immigrant rights and combat discrimination of all types. This is done by helping immigrants learn about themselves and others, and by promoting multicultural partnerships.
The IIC works with the Irish immigrant community, including those people of Irish ancestry. The organization and its programs are volunteer run and supported by a multiethnic staff. Its cross-cultural programs identify issues that affect immigrants of all races and ethnicities to give each group a common goal. During Black History Month, the organization has sought to develop better understanding between the Irish-American and black communities in Boston with its annual Black and Green Day. Black and Green Day brings together the two cultures to share music, food, song and dance. It has also been a forum to explore the similarities between the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and the United States. The ARIOP program combats racism at a systemic level by working with other ethnic and racial groups. ARIOP brings together people of different racial and ethnic groups to examine their histories and daily lives as members of the same community. The IIC hosts an ongoing Inter-generational Dialog on Racism bringing together veteran activists involved in anti-racism work in the Boston area who mentor younger activists, and an ongoing Anti-Racism Training that works with Haitian and black communities in Boston.
The IIC has been honored by the city of Boston during Black History Month for its support of better race relations. Over the last four years, the Black and Green Day has grown to include more than 200 participants. The Inter-generational Dialog on Racism has 30 members of its organization attending on a regular basis, and the Anti-Racism Training is currently training 30 people from its organization and representatives of the black communities in Boston. Both of these programs use the participants to promote the goal of multiculturalism in different organizations throughout Boston, and to recruit new members. In March 1998, the IIC coordinated an observation of International Women's Day that had approximately 250 participants. The event hosted a black youth group, the Uprising Dance Theater Group and the South Boston Neighborhood House, another Irish-American organization, to celebrate both women and multiculturalism. Some of the groups the ARIOP has worked with recently include: Community Change, Immigrant Solidarity and Action Alliance, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Alliance, and the Brazilian Immigrant Center.
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Tag: abominable remakes
Posted on August 16, 1998 September 16, 2018
This big-budget version of the well-liked 1960s TV series (which I’ve never seen) smells like something cooked up by a talent agency that still thinks a film is just the sum of its thespian parts. Stars Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery may seem well-positioned to breathe life into a tongue-in-cheek action pic derived from these most stylish, rough-and-tumble icons of British urbanity, but who thought that director Jeremiah Chechik (1996’s atrocious Diabolique) and screenwriter Don MacPherson (Absolute Beginners) were the ones to pull it off?
We get an abundance of semi-clever bons mots, gleaming cinematography by ace lensman Roger Pratt, and production design that exhumes the corpse of dear René Magritte in a dubious quest for that surrealist touch. Worse, director Chechik seems to have graduated from the Joel Schumacher School of Action Choreography. Every fight sequence is made up of a quick series of closeups of limbs and bodies flailing about, cut together in a rhythm that’s meant to suggest physical contact. Then, when the camera gives us another wide shot, we have a couple of seconds to try and figure out what the hell just happened before the next series of closeups. Even the special effects seem like ungainly afterthoughts, cobbled together on the cheap. (The giant teddy bears are easily the best thing in the film.)
As for the performances, who could tell there was a director present on the set at all? Fiennes and Thurman deliver their lines like they’re reading the script for the first time around the coffee table in some Los Angeles hotel. Fiennes is lost in this material, like a smiling passenger who’s trapped in the wreckage after a car crash. Thurman once again proves that she’s one of the screen’s most beautiful women, and that she can’t act her way out of a shopping bag, much less a black leather catsuit. Connery is appropriately blustery as meteorological madman August De Wynter, but Connery could bluster in his sleep. Given that cast, this movie should have enough raw charisma to balance the most daunting shortcomings.
What it can’t overcome is a lack of story, character, or even any idea of what it means to move a narrative along from plot point to plot point. The Avengers lurches like a movie that was edited to the bone, and maybe it would make a little more sense in a longer version. What’s on the screen, however, comes as close as any movie I’ve seen lately to utter ineptitude. There’s no rhythm, no style, and precious little that could be construed as fun.
Directed by Jeremiah Chechik
Written by Don MacPherson
Cinematography by Roger Pratt
Edited by Mick Audsley
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery
Theatrical aspect ratio: 1.85:1
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Mistakes of m.k gandhi
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1. Mishandling Khilafat movement
2. Mishandling Mopla riots where thousands of Hindu women were raped and double number of men were killed.
3. Mishandling Swami Shraddananda's murder by a muslim fanatic. (He called that muslim killer a patriot).
4. Forcibly removing Netaji from his post as congress president.
5. Ushering in socialist (sucker) Nehru instead of Patel for the leadership.
6. Calling Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj, Maharana Pratap, Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots.
7. Mishandling the Bhagat Singh case.
8. Calling Sardar Udham Singh, who shot that General O'Dwyer, as an insane person.
9. Mishandling 1946 Noakhali riots where tens of thousands of Hindus were looted raped and killed. Gandhi came immediately on spot to save the muslims from retaliation. He even called Suhrawardy who led these riots as Shaheed.
10. Greatest blunders during partition - always rushing and fasting to save muslims from Hindu retaliation but forgetting to save Hindus when they were first attacked.
11.Thousands of Hindu refugees had come to Delhi after being looted of all their property, raped or watching their beloved ones getting raped, injured or watching thier beloved ones getting killed. RSS evacuated the mosques in Delhi for these refugees to stay. The dirty dog gandhi fasted to make these people come out to the streets to let the muslims back in.
12. Granting 55 crores to pakistan
13. mishandling non-cooperaion movement : for the first time ever the people of india had become involved in such numbers for a national cause. Just because of a stray incident in a little town, he withdrew the movement from the entire country. Just imagine how those millions who had given sacrifices for "swaraj" would have felt. And to rub salt into their wounds, this @#%$ said that "indians were not yet ready for independence." would you believe that @#%$ ? if even if he believed it to be a horrible deed, how could he generalize the actions of a few (that too on provocation) to the entire 30 crore indians ???
14. mishandling civil disobdience movement : this time the demand was of "poorna swaraj" (total independence) again people took to the occasion in great numbers but they were again deceived when the movement was called off in return for petty concessions called the "gandhi irvin pact". WHAT HAPPENNED TO THE DEMAND FOR POORNA SWARAJ ?
Under mounting opposition, the movement was relaunched a few months later. the british promptly put him in jail. When in jail, this "mahatma" becomes obsessed with upliftment of his harijan brothers and suspends the movement for a few weeks. After several suspensions, the movement dies out.
15. poorly executed quit india movement : again he called people for action but didnt bother himself with proper planning, logistics and execution of a nation-wide movement. Once he and other major congress leaders were put in jail, there was no one to lead the people. the movement went astray and was crushed in months. Anyway it became violent but this time this gandu didnt have the guts to call it off or say something like "people not ready for freedom" huh !
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Mahatma Gandhi is often praised as the man who defeated British imperialism with non-violent agitation. It is still a delicate and unfashionable thing to discuss his mistakes and failures, a criticism hitherto mostly confined to Communist and Hindutva publications. But at this distance in time, we shouldn't be inhibited by a taboo on criticizing official India's patron saint.
Gandhiji's mistakes
Without attempting to approach completeness, we may sum up as Gandhi's biggest political failures the following events:
(1) Recruiting Indian soldiers for the British war effort in 1914-18 without setting any conditions, in the vain hope that this unilateral gift to Britain would bring about sufficient goodwill in London for conceding to India the status of a self-ruling dominion within the British Empire, on a par with Canada or Australia. While it was already off line for a pacifist to cooperate in such a wasteful war (as contrasted with World War 2, to both sides a kind of holy war where fundamental principles were at stake), Gandhiji's stance was also a glaring failure of political skill, since he neglected to extract any tangible gains for India in return for the thousands of Indian lives which he sacrificed to British imperial interests.
(2) Committing the mobilisation potential of the freedom movement to the Khilâfat agitation in 1920-22, again a non-negotiated unilateral gift. The Khilafat movement was a tragicomical mistake, aiming at the restoration of the Ottoman Caliphate against which the Arabs had risen in revolt and which the Turks were dissolving, a process completed with the final abolition of the institution of the Caliphate in 1924. It was a purely retrograde and reactionary movement, and more importantly for Indian nationalism, it was an intrinsically anti-nationalist movement pitting specifically Islamic interests against secular and non-Muslim interests. Gandhi made the mistake of hubris by thinking he could reconcile Khilafatism and Indian nationalism, and he also offended his Muslim allies (who didn't share his commitment to non-violence) by calling off the agitation when it turned violent. The result was even more violence, with massive Hindu-Muslim riots replacing the limited instances of anti-British attacks, just as many level-headed freedom fighters had predicted. Gandhiji failed to take the Khilafat movement seriously whether at the level of principle or of practical politics, and substituted his own imagined and idealized reading of the Khilafat doctrine for reality.
(3) His autocratic decision to call off the mass agitation for complete independence in 1931, imposed upon his mass following and his close lieutenants against their wishes and better judgment, in exchange for a few puny British concessions falling far short of the movement's demands. His reputation abroad didn't suffer, but to informed observers, he had thrown away his aura as an idealist leader standing above petty politics; the Pact between Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin amounted to the sacrifice of a high national goal in favour of a petty rise in status for the Congress. Also, every delay in the declaration of Independence gave the emerging separatist forces the time to organize and to strengthen their position.
(4) Taking a confused and wavering position vis-à-vis India's involvement in World War 2. His initial refusal to commit India to the war effort could have been justified on grounds of pacifist principle as well as national pride (the Viceroy had committed India without consulting the native leadership), but it was a failure because his followers weren't following. Indian recruits and business suppliers of the Army eagerly joined hands with the British rulers, thus sidelining Gandhi into political irrelevance. By contrast, the Muslim League greatly improved its bargaining positions by joining the war effort, an effect not counterbalanced by the small Hindu Mahasabha's similar strategy. The pro-Partition case which the Muslim League advocated was bolstered while Gandhi's opposition to the imminent Partition was badly weakened. Gandhi was humiliated by his impotence before the degeneration of his "Quit India" agitation into violence and by ultimately having to come around to a collaborationist position himself.
(5) Taking a confused and wavering position vis-à-vis the Partition plan, including false promises to the Hindus of the designated Pakistani areas to prevent Partition or at least to prevent their violent expulsion. He chose not to use his weapon of a fast unto death to force Mohammed Ali Jinnah into backing down from Partition, a move which cast doubt on the much-touted bravery of all his other fasts "unto death" performed to pressurize more malleable opponents. If acquiescing in the Partition could still be justified as a matter of inevitability, there was no excuse for his insistence on half measures, viz. his rejecting plans for an organized exchange of population, certainly a lesser evil when compared to the bloody religious cleansing that actually took place. Gentle surgeons make stinking wounds.
(6) Refusing to acknowledge that Pakistan had become an enemy state after its invasion of Kashmir, by undertaking a fast unto death in order to force the Indian government to pay Pakistan 55 crore rupees from the British-Indian treasury. Pakistan was entitled to this money, but given its aggression, it would have been normal to set the termination of its aggression, including the withdrawal of its invading troops, as a condition for the payment. Indeed, that would have been a sterling contribution to the cause of enduring peace, saving the lives of the many thousands who fell in subsequent decades because of the festering wound which Kashmir has remained under partial Pakistani occupation. Coming on top of Gandhi's abandonment of the Hindus trapped in Pakistan in August 1947, it was this pro-Pakistani demand, as well as his use of his choice moral weapon (left unused to save India's unity or the persecuted Hindus in Pakistan) in the service of an enemy state's treasury, that angered a few Hindu activists to the point of plotting his murder.
Problems with pacifism
The common denominator in all these costly mistakes was a lack of realism. Gandhi refused to see the realities of human nature; of Islamic doctrine with its ambition of domination; of the modern mentality with its resentment of autocratic impositions; of people's daily needs making them willing to collaborate with the rulers in exchange for career and business opportunities; of the nationalism of the Hindus who would oppose the partition of their Motherland tooth and nail; of the nature of the Pakistani state as intrinsically anti-India and anti-Hindu.
In most of these cases, Gandhi's mistake was not his pacifism per se. In the case of his recruiting efforts for World War 1, there wasn't even any pacifism involved, but loyalty to the Empire whether in peace or in war. The Khilafat pogroms revealed one of the real problems with his pacifism: all while riding a high horse and imposing strict conformity with the pacifist principle, he indirectly provoked far more violence than was in his power to control. Other leaders of the freedom movement, such as Annie Besant and Lala Lajpat Rai, had warned him that he was playing with fire, but he preferred to obey his suprarational "inner voice".
The fundamental problem with Gandhi's pacifism, not in the initial stages but when he had become the world-famous leader of India's freedom movement (1920-47), was his increasing extremism. All sense of proportion had vanished when he advocated non-violence not as a technique of moral pressure by a weaker on a stronger party, but as a form of masochistic surrender. Elsewhere (Elst: Gandhi and Godse, Voice of India, Delhi 2001, p.120-121) I have cited four instances of his advice to the victims of communal violence which is simply breathtaking for its callousness in the face of human suffering. Two more instances follow.
During his prayer meeting on 1 May 1947, he prepared the Hindus and Sikhs for the anticipated massacres of their kind in the upcoming state of Pakistan with these words: "I would tell the Hindus to face death cheerfully if the Muslims are out to kill them. I would be a real sinner if after being stabbed I wished in my last moment that my son should seek revenge. I must die without rancour. (*) You may turn round and ask whether all Hindus and all Sikhs should die. Yes, I would say. Such martyrdom will not be in vain." (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol.LXXXVII, p.394-5) It is left unexplained what purpose would be served by this senseless and avoidable surrender to murder.
Even when the killing had started, Gandhi refused to take pity on the Hindu victims, much less to point fingers at the Pakistani aggressors. More importantly for the principle of non-violence, he failed to offer them a non-violent technique of countering and dissuading the murderers. Instead, he told the Hindu refugees from Pakistan to go back and die. On 6 August 1947, Gandhiji commented to Congress workers on the incipient communal conflagration in Lahore thus: "I am grieved to learn that people are running away from the West Punjab and I am told that Lahore is being evacuated by the non-Muslims. I must say that this is what it should not be. If you think Lahore is dead or is dying, do not run away from it, but die with what you think is the dying Lahore. (*) When you suffer from fear you die before death comes to you. That is not glorious. I will not feel sorry if I hear that people in the Punjab have died not as cowards but as brave men. (*) I cannot be forced to salute any flag. If in that act I am murdered I would bear no ill will against anyone and would rather pray for better sense for the person or persons who murder me." (Hindustan Times, 8-8-1947, CWoMG, vol. LXXXIX, p.11).
So, he was dismissing as cowards those who saved their lives fleeing the massacre by a vastly stronger enemy, viz. the Pakistani population and security forces. But is it cowardice to flee a no-win situation, so as to live and perhaps to fight another day? There can be a come-back from exile, not from death. Is it not better to continue life as a non-Lahorite than to cling to one's location in Lahore even if it has to be as a corpse? Why should staying in a mere location be so superior to staying alive? To be sure, it would have been even better if Hindus could have continued to live with honour in Lahore, but Gandhi himself had refused to use his power in that cause, viz. averting Partition. He probably would have found that, like the butchered or fleeing Hindus, he was no match for the determination of the Muslim League, but at least he could have tried. In the advice he now gave, the whole idea of non-violent struggle got perverted.
Originally, in Gandhi's struggle for the Indians' rights in South Africa, non-violent agitation was tried out as a weapon of the weak who wouldn't stand a chance in an armed confrontation. It was a method to achieve a political goal, and a method which could boast of some successes. In the hands of a capable agitator, it could be victorious. It was designed to snatch victory from the jaws of powerlessness and surrender. By contrast, the "non-violent" surrender to the enemy and to butchery which Gandhi advocated in 1947 had nothing victorious or successful about it.
During the anti-colonial struggle, Gandhi had often said that oppression was only possible with a certain cooperation or complicity from the oppressed people. The genius of the non-violent technique, not applicable in all situations but proven successful in some, was to create a third way between violent confrontation between the oppressed and the oppressor, fatally ending in the defeat of the weak, and the passive resignation of the oppressed in their state of oppression. Rather than surrendering to the superior power of the oppressor, the oppressed were given a method to exercise slow pressure on their oppressor, to wrest concessions from him and to work on his conscience. No such third way was left to the minorities in Pakistan: Gandhi's only advice to them was to surrender, to become accomplices in their extermination by meekly offering their necks to the executioner's sword.
My point is not that Gandhi could and should have given them a third way, a non-violent technique that would defeat the perpetrators of Partition and religious cleansing. More realistically, he should have accepted that this was the kind of situation where no such third option was available. Once the sacrifice of a large part of India's territory to a Muslim state had been conceded, and given previous experiences with Muslim violence against non-Muslims during the time of Gandhi's own leadership, he should have realized that an exchange of population was the only remaining bloodless solution. The Partition crisis was simply beyond the capacity of Gandhian non-violence to control. If he had had the modesty to face his powerlessness and accept that alternatives to his own preferred solution would have to be tried, many lives could have been saved.
Robust pacifism
It cannot be denied that Gandhian non-violence has a few successes to its credit. But these were achieved under particularly favourable circumstances: the stakes weren't very high and the opponents weren't too foreign to Gandhi's ethical standards. In South Africa, he had to deal with liberal British authorities who weren't affected too seriously in their power and authority by conceding Gandhi's demands. Upgrading the status of the small Indian minority from equality with the Blacks to an in-between status approaching that of the Whites made no real difference to the ruling class, so Gandhi's agitation was rewarded with some concessions. Even in India, the stakes were never really high. Gandhi's Salt March made the British rescind the Salt Tax, a limited financial price to pay for restoring native acquiescence in British paramountcy, but he never made them concede Independence or even Home Rule with a non-violent agitation. The one time he had started such an agitation, viz. in 1930-31, he himself stopped it in exchange for a few small concessions.
It is simply not true that India's Independence was the fruit of Gandhian non-violent agitation. He was close to the British in terms of culture and shared ethical values, which is why sometimes he could successfully bargain with them, but even they stood firm against his pressure when their vital interests were at stake. It is only Britain's bankruptcy due to World War 2 and the emergence of the anti-colonial United States and Soviet Union as the dominant world powers that forced Clement Attlee's government into decolonising India. Even then, the trigger events in 1945-47 that demonstrated how the Indian people would not tolerate British rule for much longer, had to do with armed struggle rather than with non-violence: the naval mutiny of Indian troops and the ostentatious nationwide support for the officers of Subhas Bose's Axis-collaborationist Indian National Army when they stood trial for treason in the Red Fort.
So, non-violence need not be written off as a Quixotic experiment, for it can be an appropriate and successful technique in particular circumstances; but it has its limitations. In many serious confrontations, it is simply better, and on balance more just as well as more bloodless, to observe an "economy of violence": using a small amount of armed force, or even only the threat of armed force, in order to avoid a larger and bloodier armed confrontation. This is the principle of "peace through strength" followed by most modern governments with standing armies. It was applied, for example, in the containment of Communism: though relatively minor wars between Communist and anti-Communist forces were fought in several Third World countries, both the feared Communist world conquest and the equally feared World War 3 with its anticipated nuclear holocaust were averted.
The ethical framework limiting the use of force to a minimum is known as "just war theory", developed by European thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Hugo Grotius between the 13th and 18th century, but in essence already present in the Mahabharata as well. Thus, waging war can be a just enterprise when it is done in self-defence, when all non-violent means of achieving the just objective have been tried, when non-combatants are respected as such, when the means used are in proportion to the objective aimed for, etc.
One of the less well-known criteria for just warfare which deserves to be mentioned here in the light of Gandhi's advice to the Hindus in Pakistan is that there should be a reasonable chance of success. No matter how just your cause, it is wrong to commit your community to a course of action that only promises to be suicidal. Of course, once a group of soldiers is trapped in a situation from which the only exit is an honourable death, fighting on may be the best course remaining, but whenever possible, such suicide should be avoided. This criterion is just as valid in non-armed as in armed struggle: it was wrong to make the Hindus stay among their Pakistani persecutors when this course of action had no chance of saving lives nor even of achieving certain political objectives.
As the Buddha, Aristotle, Confucius and other ethical guides already taught, virtue is a middle term between two extremes. In this case, we have to sail between the two extremes of blindness to human fellow-feeling and blindness to strategic ground realities. It is wrong to say that might makes right and that anything goes when it comes to achieving victory, no matter what amount of suffering is inflicted on the enemy, on bystanders or even on one's own camp. It is equally wrong to strike a high moral posture which haughtily disregards, and hence refuses to contain or subdue, the potential for violence in human confrontations and the real pain it causes. In between these two extremes, the mature and virtuous attitude is one which desires and maintains peace but is able and prepared to fight the aggressor.
Limiting the use of force to a minimum is generally agreed to be the correct position. In this case, disagreeing with Gandhi is not an instance of Communist or Hindu-chauvinist extremism, but of the accumulated wisdom of civilized humanity. Excluding the use of force entirely, by contrast, may simply whet the aggressor's appetite and provoke far more violence than the achievable minimum. This is a mistake which an overenthusiastic and inexperienced beginner can forgivably make, but in an experienced leader like Mahatma Gandhi during his time at the head of the freedom movement, it was a serious failure of judgment. The silver lining in the massacres which his mistakes provoked, is that they have reminded us of the eternal wisdom of "the golden mean", the need for a balanced policy vis-à-vis the ever-present challenge of violence and aggression. It has been known all along, and it is crystal-clear once more, that we should avoid both extremes, Jinnah's self-righteousness and Gandhi's sentimentalism.
Learning from Mahatma Gandhi's mistakes
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It is very common of some Fanatics to infame Gandhi, surprisingly Hindu and Muslims both type of fanatics are involved in it. Soldiers of Islam can provide equal number of instances where Gandhi helped the Hindus. It is difficult after sixty years to judge the allegations as those who claim such things are not beyond doubts.
sabir said:
what your point ? he made msitakes and people should know that and because our very own congress has made him over rated not knowing what flaws he had
I am not saying he didnt make mistakes. Bacause act of one person might not be proved right when they are analysed later with different mindset. Nobody is actually beyond mistakes. But can you give valid proofs while claiming his biasness towards Muslims. Muslims fundamentalists very often claim otherwise. I just interested to know their credentials who claim such things.Our nations has been scurred several times by Hindu-Muslim riots. It's funny to see those who were directly or indirectly took sides in such situations (Hindu-Muslim alike) later pointing finger to him who spoke for Peace.
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And you know his flaws? Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. It is easy for you or anyone else to criticize Gandhiji, as it has become some sort of a fashion for people to point out the mistakes of our founding fathers. I wonder if you or the author could have endured even the slightest bit of what Gandhiji endured, or made even a millionth of the sacrifices that he made for his country.
We have to realise that we are discussing the people who fought to free a country-their achievements outweigh by far any mistakes they might have made during the process. It is because of them and their legacy that you are afforded the freedoms that you have, and that India did not turn out to be a basketcase unlike countries that were liberated during that period, like Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Myanmar, or a dictatorship like China.
Do realize that you are living in the only country that has managed to remain democratic and afford its citizens the maximum freedoms and protections possible inspite of being a developing country in an arc stretching from Arabia to East Asia. This itself is a gargantuan achievement on the part of Nehru (described by you as "sucker"), Gandhi, Ambedkar, Patel and other founders of the modern India, and we should be eternally grateful for them for that. The few mistakes that they might have made are insignificant in comparison.
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ok do you subcribe to his weakling theory of non vilonce and all that Crap ??
F-14 said:
So theory of non-violence seems craps to you?
yes it does mate why simply to get your butt kicked when you can stand up and fight and die for your country
The theory is meant for both- who kicks and who get kicked. Unfortunately nobody today is ready for subscribing Ahimsa. What he said will happen. Eye for an eye will really make whole world blind oneday. Today we are scanning him to find mistakes. Tomorrow, when we will play with stones and sticks again after losing everything we have, we will think what mistakes we did. Yes-both of us- who kicks and who gets kicked. Men on earth are still immature to understand why practice of Ahimsa necessary.
Great men make great mistakes.
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[mod] AJ SINGH, you are being served with an Infraction for posting a defamatory article, openly abusing our beloved Gandiji. I am not banning you as of now, but I would if you continue to post such lame articles from lame sources [/mod]
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US moves nearer to shutdown amid coronavirus fears
Associated Press|March 16, 2020
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A Caltrans freeway sign reads: “Wash your hands, Stay healthy, Avoid COVID-19” in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for all bars, wineries, nightclubs and brewpubs to close in the nation’s most populous state. Also Sunday, he urged seniors and people with chronic health conditions to isolate themselves at home in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Officials across the country curtailed many elements of American life to fight the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, with health officials recommending that groups of 50 or more don’t get together and a government expert saying a 14-day national shutdown may be needed.
Governors and mayors closed restaurants, bars, and schools as the nation sank deeper into chaos. Travelers returning home from abroad were stuck in line for hours at major airports for screenings, crammed into just the kind of crowded spaces that public health officials have urged people to avoid.
In a sign of impending economic gloom, the Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate to near zero. President Donald Trump sought to calm a jittery nation by declaring the government has “tremendous control” over the situation and urging people to stop the panic buying of grocery staples that has depleted store shelves nationwide. Gun stores started seeing a similar run on weapons and ammunition as the panic intensified.
As Americans struggled with changing their daily habits, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a dramatic recommendation: Because large events can fuel the spread of the disease, it said gatherings of 50 people or more should be canceled or postponed throughout the country for the next eight weeks. It added that, at any event, people should take proper precautions, including handwashing and keeping one’s distance.
But in a sign of the difficulty of striking the right balance, the CDC statement also said the recommendation does not apply to “the day to day operation of organizations such as schools, institutes of higher learning, or businesses.”
Even before the warning, parts of the country already look like ghost towns, and others are about to follow as theme parks closed, beaches shooed away spring breakers and states and large cities ordered bars and restaurants shuttered.
“The time for persuasion and public appeals is over,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. “This is not a joke. No one is immune to this.”
New York City said eateries could only accept takeout and delivery orders. Mayor Bill de Blasio also ordered nightclubs, movie theaters and other entertainment venues closed.
“These places are part of the heart and soul of our city. They are part of what it means to be a New Yorker,” he said in a statement Sunday night. “But our city is facing an unprecedented threat, and we must respond with a wartime mentality.”
His decision came after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, said he would like to see a 14-day national shutdown imposed to prevent the virus’s spread.
“I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing,” said Fauci, a member of the White House task force on combating the spread of coronavirus. He heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
There is no indication Trump is considering such a move.
The worldwide outbreak has sickened nearly 170,000 people and left more than 6,500 dead, with thousands of new cases confirmed each day. The death toll in the United States climbed to 64, while infections passed 3,700.
Meanwhile, state and local officials rained harsh criticism on Trump and his administration over long lines of returning international passengers at some U.S. airports.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lambasted the administration for allowing about 3,000 Americans returning from Europe to be stuck for hours inside the customs area at O’Hare International Airport on Saturday, violating “social distancing” recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The passengers, many of them rushing home over fears they would be stuck in Europe, were screened for coronavirus symptoms before they were allowed to leave the airport.
Long lines also formed Saturday in Boston, Dallas and others of the 13 airports accepting return flights from Europe.
“People were forced into conditions that are against CDC guidance and are totally unacceptable,” Lightfoot said.
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“They wanted 50 people at a time. So the first 50 people got off, and they asked us to keep a large distance between ourselves,” she said.
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Iain Banks: The Final Interview
On June 15, 2013 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Writing2 Comments
Over at The Guardian today. Includes what I’m sure will go down as one of his most famous quotes:
“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being able to accept that you’re just this collection of cells, intelligent to whatever degree, capable of feeling emotion to whatever degree, for a limited amount of time and so on, on this tiny little rock orbiting this not particularly important sun in one of just 400m galaxies, and whatever other levels of reality there might be via something like brane-theory [of multiple dimensions] … really, it’s not about you. It’s what religion does with this drive for acknowledgement of self-importance that really gets up my nose. ‘Yeah, yeah, your individual consciousness is so important to the universe that it must be preserved at all costs’ – oh, please. Do try to get a grip of something other than your self-obsession. How Californian. The idea that at all costs, no matter what, it always has to be all about you. Well, I think not.”
Perfect. ‘How Californian’ indeed. There’s also a great quote that’ll get the more militant indie author/publishers’ backs up:
“I think my poetry’s great but then I would, wouldn’t I? But whether any respectable publisher will think so, that’s another matter. I’ll self-publish if I have to; sometimes I have no shame.”
Ha ha. And finally:
“…it wasn’t that Iain was still Iain, despite an illness that was as unexpected as it was tragic. It’s that in his last days he was more witty, more impassioned, more imaginative, more kindly, more caustic and even cleverer, as if concentrating and distilling the best of himself into the small time he had left. It was humbling to have been there.”
(Thanks to Steve Hall for the link.)
’11 Rules of Good Writing That Iain M. Banks Left as His Legacy’ at io9
On June 10, 2013 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, WritingLeave a comment
I expect to see many wonderful tributes to Banks over the coming days, and it makes me happy that one of the first focuses on how truly innovative he was as a writer of SF.
1. There are no good guys
In Iain M. Banks‘ science fiction series about the Culture, there are no heroes who aren’t tarnished by morally ambiguous deeds. Even the good-intentioned people of Special Circumstances, whose goal is to export social democracy everywhere, are basically assassins… Having heroes whose intentions are mixed, rather than motivated by pure good, makes them more realistic as people. It also reminds the reader that one person’s “good” is another person’s “end of the world.”
Full list here.
Goodbye, Iain Banks
On June 9, 2013 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and Fantasy4 Comments
Iain Banks died today, just two months after announcing that he had terminal gall bladder cancer. The Guardian has a detailed obituary, but I prefer Neil Gaiman’s more personal post.
Les meilleures ventes en Space Operas
On April 10, 2013 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Self-Publishing, WritingLeave a comment
Ascension Point has stormed into the top ten of the Amazon.fr English-language Space Opera bestsellers’ list, and is rubbing shoulders with Iain M. Banks’ Hydrogen Sonata and Orson Scott Card’s Enders’ Game!
(And a novel called WARPAINT, which I’ve not heard of before, but find oddly compelling for some reason.)
And what glut of sales do I have to thank for this new-found popularity, I hear you ask? Well, I’ll tell you.
I sold one copy.
In five months.
So… I guess they’re not reading a lot of English space opera in France.
Terrible News: Iain M. Banks Diagnosed with Cancer
On April 4, 2013 April 4, 2013 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Writing4 Comments
It was announced yesterday that Iain M. Banks–or just Iain Banks to readers of his non-SF works–has been diagnosed with gall bladder cancer. The prognosis is bad, and gives him less than a year to live.
He released a public statement that’s as blunt, honest and wry as I expected, being familiar with his writing; “I’ve asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow” is exactly the sort of dark humour that runs through all of his books.
I don’t know Banks personally, of course. The sadness this news has triggered is purely the selfish kind–that his upcoming novel, The Quarry, will be his last, and particularly that all of the Culture novels there will ever be have already been written.
(I want to write something bigger and deeper about the Culture some time soon, but I need to gather my thoughts first. And possibly re-read Use of Weapons in another probably vain attempt to get that story straight in my head.)
Banks is also one of the few writers to whom I feel a deep gratitude, for the way their books have inspired me: to start writing, to keep writing, and to strive to get even close to being as good as they are. (China Miéville, Steven Erikson, and Neil Gaiman are the others, for the record.)
It’s strange to feel a connection to a person whom you’ve never met, and who doesn’t know you exist, but there it is. We should appreciate him while he’s here. And I’ll miss him when he’s gone.
What Makes the Culture So Great?
On November 28, 2012 November 29, 2012 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and FantasyLeave a comment
Just a quick one: SF Signal asked a group of sci-fi heavyweights what’s great about Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels. (Apart from the obvious answer, ‘everything’.)
Well worth a read, here.
UPDATE: It must have been Culture week on SF Signal, because here is their editor John DeNardo on Kirkus Reviews with a nice newbie’s guide to the Culture universe.
‘Our Human’ by Adam-Troy Castro
On May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and FantasyLeave a comment
There’s a wonderful short story on Tor.com – Our Human, by Adam-Troy Castro.
I’d not heard of Castro before now, but I definitely want to read more of his work; apparently there are a couple of novels set in the same universe.
This novella is slightly reminiscent of the dark side of Banks’ Culture novels: ugly, flawed, populated by creatures and races with very different moral codes to our own, but all of the same worst characteristics.
Great sci-fi.
Memorable Characters in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
On May 28, 2012 May 28, 2012 By Dan HarrisIn Reading, Sci-Fi and Fantasy5 Comments
One of the reasons I love sci-fi and fantasy is the scope to create larger-than-life characters who really strike a chord with the reader (or viewer, depending on the medium). The success of The Avengers proves the public’s love affair with these super, heroic characters is still going strong.
But I also think the movie representations of such characters are always going to be shallow compared to what can be done in literature. It’s just a consequence of the shorter form – there’s only so much characterisation you can do in 120 minutes. Here are a couple of examples of some of my favourite, iconic SF/F characters, who could never be done justice on the big screen.
My New Obsession – Cover Art
On May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012 By Dan HarrisIn Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Self-Publishing, Writing3 Comments
My new inclination toward self-publishing has brought with it an unhealthy obsession with book covers. I must have spent over an hour today just flicking through designer’s websites listed on the Writers Café Yellow Pages. There’s also a great cover art category on A Dribble of Ink, which has inspired me.
My novel is (at the moment, at least) called ASCENSION POINT. It’s far-future space opera, fitting neatly alongside Iain M. Banks, Neil Asher, Alastair Reynolds, and the like. As such, when it comes time to publish I’m going to want a proper, space opera cover that fits the genre. Something like these…
Downton Galactica? Battlestar Abbey? It’s all Culture and Character, Folks
On May 2, 2012 May 3, 2012 By Dan HarrisIn Sci-Fi and Fantasy, WritingLeave a comment
Great article on Tor.com here.
This piece reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice for science fiction or fantasy writers that I’ve ever read. My sieve-like memory for detail doesn’t allow me to quote or even paraphrase the source, but the essence of it was that in the best SF/F the science or the fantasy isn’t the centre of the story. They’re the framework, the setting, and probably certain plot drivers, which surround the actual heart – the people and civilisations interacting, the personality and culture clashes which resonate with the reader because of their familiarity.
Iain M. Banks is the master at this, in my opinion. His Culture novels – the name itself flagging up the key theme – are anthropological masterpieces, often based around one civilisation (the Culture) being far more technologically advanced than the other that they’re interacting with, and dealing with the political and sociological fallout of even the most benevolent interventions. We can all recognise the parallels in that, I think.
“This has all happened before, it will all happen again” indeed.
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· Points out that test data and trade secrets submitted to a government for marketing authorization are protected from unfair commercial use for a period of five years for drugs and agrochemicals for a period of five years. It fills in the potential loopholes in these provisions. · The agreement is fully in line with the working objectives set by Congress in TPA. Work commitments are part of the basic text of the trade agreement. It was not until early 2001, after the election of George W. Bush in the United States and with John Howard in power in Australia, that he became an Australia-USA. The ATF has finally taken shape. In April 2001, President Bush expressed interest in a free trade agreement with Australia, provided that “everything is on the table.” In 2004, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade commissioned a private consulting firm – the Centre for International Economics (CIE) – to model the economic impact of such an agreement. Negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement began in March 2003 and, after six rounds of negotiations in Canberra, Hawaii and Washington, D.C, the text was finally adopted in February 2004 and signed in May 2004 in Washington by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.
The agreement requires the legal application of digital rights management systems, but an Australian legislative commission has issued a report indicating that this part of the treaty has a “serious error”: although the agreement provides for authorized exceptions allowing the use of devices to circumvent copyright, it also prohibits access to tools used to circumvent this type of copyright. The report speaks of an “unfortunate and inexcusable error”, a “monstrous error” and even a “mistake that borders on absurdity”. The Committee firmly believes that the government must find a solution to the error before implementing this part of the treaty. [4] The agreement contains, among other things, rules for the settlement of disputes between members of the telecommunications industry in one country with members of the other country. The United States and Australia held the sixth meeting of the Joint Free Trade Committee between the United States and Australia on December 6, 2017 to verify the implementation of the agreement, including specific issues related to trade in goods and services and issues related to intellectual property and investment rights. Economic theory suggests that bilateral agreements such as the free trade agreement lead to the creation of trade between the parties directly concerned, but also to divert trade out of third countries and offset all the benefits. Bilateral agreements can also undermine multilateral agreements related to the World Trade Organization. Partly because of these factors, the estimates of benefits produced by the ICE and used by the government have been challenged by most economists who have engaged in Senate committees that have looked at the issue, some of whom have concluded that the agreement would reduce Australia`s economic well-being. Concern over the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme has led to speculation that the U.S.
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Money-laundering and Merkel and Hobbit rings, oh my!
Money-Laundering Fears Fuel an RBC Retreat (WSJ)
Canada’s largest bank, Royal Bank of Canada , is exiting from once-promising businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean after being swept up in the net of global money-laundering probes. Over the past 18 months, RBC has moved to close many, if not all, of its wealth-management offices across Latin America, prompted by scrutiny of potential money-laundering activities in its accounts in at least three countries, according to people familiar with the matter. The bank also is shutting wealth-management offices in the Caribbean.
Greek Finance Minister Wants Bridge Agreement on Debt (WSJ)
Greece’s new premier Alexis Tsipras and Mr. Varoufakis are in the midst of a tour of European capitals in an effort to convince fellow European leaders to reverse the stringent terms of Greece’s €240 billion ($272 billion) bailout. Mr. Varoufakis said that “what is needed is a bridge agreement that gives us some time—for example a month or six weeks starting from late February—to find an agreement that we would then put in place starting from June 1.”
Merkel Expects Greek Funding Talks to Drag On for Months (Bloomberg)
Greece would not immediately go bankrupt at the end of February because it has resources to last beyond that point and Germany is ready to hold off until there is a more urgent need to strengthen its bargaining position, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing internal talks. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is still assessing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s motives, is taking a tough approach with the new premier and wants to avoid being drawn into a duel with him, another official said. No one from the chancellery has met with him yet.
Dunkin' Donuts 2015 drink expansion includes frozen Dunkaccinos (Reuters)
Dunkin' Donuts is expanding its U.S. menu with cold blended drinks, including a milkshake-like frozen Dunkaccino, as it and other fast-food chains seek to boost sales in a competitive market, an executive told Reuters on Tuesday...Tests of the new frozen beverages suggest that they will be popular in the afternoon and evening, when coffee chains work to lure customers.
Texas boy suspended for 'Hobbit' ring threat (UPI)
Jason Steward, of Kermit, Texas, said it's "unbelievable" that his 9-year-old son was suspended from school for threatening to make another student disappear. Steward's son, Aiden, recently brought a ring to Kermit Elementary School after seeing The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, in which Bilbo Baggins carries a magic invisibility ring. Jason told the Odessa American that the school suspended Aiden when he said he could make a classmate invisible with the ring. "I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," Jason told the school in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back."
Inflation at Five-Year Lows in Developed Economies (WSJ)
Inflation rates across the world’s developed economies have fallen to their lowest levels since the recession that followed the global financial crisis, likely prompting further cuts in benchmark interest rates or other easing measures by central banks around the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Tuesday said the annual rate of inflation in its 34 members fell to 1.1% in December from 1.5% in November, the lowest level since October 2009.
BP Chief: No Hope of $100 Oil for a ‘Long Time’ (Bloomberg)
“The fundamental supply and demand does remind me of 1986 a bit, where we could go into a period in this decade of lower oil prices,” Dudley said a Bloomberg TV interview, adding prices may stay in a range below $60 for as long as three years. “It will be a long time before we see $100 again.”
MBAs Are Shunning Industries That Create Jobs (Bloomberg)
...business schools, a breeding ground for the next crop of chief executives, are churning out a minuscule number of graduates who want to make their money in manufacturing. Just 4 percent of all MBAs who graduated last year took jobs in the industry, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek survey of close to 10,000 students conducted as a part of the 2014 ranking of business schools. Compare that to consulting, which drew almost 25 percent of those who got an MBA in 2014, or banking, where 19 percent of graduates landed.
Buy LinkedIn Before Earnings: Goldman (CNBC)
LinkedIn, the social network often overshadowed by Twitter and Facebook stealing headlines, is a "buy" before earnings later this week as new products take hold and mobile advertising improves, according to Goldman Sachs. The firm, which has correctly called the run in the stock over the last two years, sees an additional 25 percent upside from here.
Gunmen Thwarted By Karate (Reuters)
Three Albanian gunmen met their match when they held up three Chinese contractors only to be outwitted and overpowered by the karate skills of their would-be victims. The Chinese contractors re-enacted for Albania's News24 TV on Monday what they said had happened on a mountain road in northern Albania on Sunday after they were held up at gunpoint. "They were masked and armed and stopped us, putting the gun below the chin of our friend. They wanted our mobile phones, money and the sacks with our goods," said one of the Chinese men, whom News24 did not name. Speaking in Chinese, the three agreed to fight their attackers, he said. The man's demonstration of his techniques for the camera included powerful hand blows and frontal and back kicks. Having overpowered the gunmen, the Chinese men called the police and had them arrested.
Opening Bell: 2.19.16
China's top securities will step down; NYSE joins the 21st century; Credit Suisse faces money laundering probe; Drunk Motorist Was Driving Bar On Wheels; and more.
JPMorgan CIO Risk Chief Said To Have Trading-Loss History (Bloomberg) Irvin Goldman, who oversaw risks in the JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) unit that suffered more than $2 billion in trading losses, was fired by another Wall Street firm in 2007 for money-losing bets that prompted a regulatory sanction at the firm, Cantor Fitzgerald LP, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. JPMorgan appointed Goldman in February as the top risk official in its chief investment office while the unit was managing trades that later spiraled into what Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon called “egregious,” self-inflicted mistakes. The bank knew when it picked Goldman that his earlier work at Cantor led regulators to penalize that company, according to a person briefed on the situation. Risk Manager's Past Scrutinized (WSJ) Mr. Goldman joined J.P. Morgan's CIO in January 2008 as a trader. The bank placed him on leave in September 2008 after it learned that NYSE Arca had opened a regulatory inquiry tied to his trading activities at Cantor Fitzgerald, people familiar with the matter said. After J.P. Morgan placed him on leave, Mr. Goldman founded a consulting firm based in New York called IJG Advisors LLC. He rejoined J.P. Morgan in September 2010 in the Chief Investment Office, this time focusing on strategy. Current J.P. Morgan Chase Chief Risk Officer John Hogan chose Mr. Goldman to serve as CRO of the office, a position that had been filled by Peter Weiland, who remains with J.P. Morgan's CIO. Mr. Hogan wasn't aware of the Cantor Fitzgerald incident or the earlier trading losses at J.P. Morgan Chase, said a person close to the bank. Eurobonds To Be Discussed At EU Summit (Reuters) Merkel has said she is not opposed to jointly underwritten euro area bonds per se, but believes it can only be discussed once the conditions are right, including much closer economic integration and coordination across the euro zone, including on fiscal matters. That remains a long way off. Will Greece Be Able to Print Drachma in a Rush? (Reuters) If or when policymakers finally decide Greece should leave the euro, the exit could happen so quickly that "new drachma" currency notes might not be printed in time. "It would be chaos," says Marios Efthymiopoulos, a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced International Studies and president of Thessaloniki-based think tank Global Strategy. "The banks would collapse and you would have to nationalize them. You wouldn't be able to pay anyone except in coupons. There is only one (currency) printing press in Greece. It is in the museum in Athens and it doesn't work any more." Ryanair CEO: ‘No’ Campaigners in Irish Vote Are Crazy (CNBC) “I think Ireland will vote yes in the referendum and Ireland should vote yes. We have no alternative. People who are borrowing $15 billion a year to keep the lights turned on don’t have the wherewithal to vote no to the people that are lending them the money. There is no argument for voting no,” Michael O'Leary, CEO of budget airline Ryanair said. He described “no” campaigners as a “bunch of idiots and lunatics.” Barclays To Sell Entire BlackRock Stake (WSJ) Barclays said BlackRock agreed to repurchase $1 billion worth of the 19.6% stake that the bank holds in the asset-management company. The remainder of the stake will then be listed on a stock exchange. The decision to sell comes as the bank faces pressure from investors to boost its return on equity and prepares to mitigate the effects of regulation that will force the lender to hold a bigger capital buffer. Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married (AP) The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years, a guest who insisted on anonymity said. The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard before fewer than 100 guests, including Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The guests all thought they were coming to celebrate Chan's graduation but were told after they arrived that the event was in fact a wedding. "Everybody was shocked," the guest said. The two had been planning the marriage for months but were waiting until Chan had graduated from medical school to hold the wedding. The timing wasn't tied to the IPO, since the date the company planned to go public was a "moving target," the guest said. Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby." Hedge Funds Rebuild Euro Bear Bets On Greek Exit Banks Weigh (Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other large speculators, which pared trades that would profit from a drop in the euro to the lowest levels since November, rebuilt them to a record high last week, figures released May 18 by the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed. The premium for options that grant the right to sell the euro has more than doubled since March. Nasdaq CEO Blames Software Design For Delayed Facebook Trading (Bloomberg) Nasdaq OMX Group, under scrutiny after shares of Facebook Inc. were plagued by delays and mishandled orders on its first day of trading, blamed “poor design” in the software it uses for driving auctions in initial public offerings. Fed Proves More Bullish Than Wall Street Forecasting U.S. Growth (Bloomberg) Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities LLC, has derided the Federal Reserve for downplaying improvement in the U.S. economy. Yet his 2.6 percent forecast for growth this year is below the midpoint in the central bank’s projection of 2.4 percent to 2.9 percent...“I’ve been banging my head against the wall,” said Stanley in Stamford, Connecticut, a former researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, who had predicted an interest- rate increase as early as last year and now says the Fed probably will tighten in the middle of next year. “They’re willing to let things run for longer and let inflation accelerate more than historically.” Judge mulls suit vs. woman sending messages to driving boyfriend (NYP) In a case believed to be the first of its kind in the country, a New Jersey college student could be held liable this week for texting her boyfriend — knowing he was behind the wheel — and allegedly causing him to crash into a couple riding a motorcycle. “She texts. Instantly, he texts back, and, bang, the accident occurs,” said Skippy Weinstein, attorney for motorcycle enthusiasts David and Linda Kubert, both 59, who lost their left legs in the horrific 2009 accident in Mine Hill. It’s now up to a Superior Court judge in Morristown, NJ, to decide whether Shannon Colonna can be added to the suit against driver Kyle Best.
Barclays loses; Valeant under investigation; Mystery Malaysian high roller at center of global money-laundering probe; Canadian banned from owning turtles after smuggling 38 in pants; and more.
Nasdaq CEO Lost Touch Amid Facebook Chaos (WSJ) At the end of Facebook's disastrous first day of trading May 18, the phone in Robert Greifeld's New York office rang. It was Mary Schapiro, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, wanting an explanation from the chief executive of Nasdaq OMX Group for the epidemic of glitches and delays in one of the most anticipated initial public offerings ever. Mr. Greifeld couldn't talk. Having monitored the rocky process from Silicon Valley, where he had gone to join Facebook executives in remotely ringing the market's opening bell, he concluded the worst problems were fixed and caught a noon flight back to the East Coast. So, marooned for almost five hours in business class with a phone he says didn't work, he didn't realize that continuing breakdowns at his exchange had left countless investors not knowing how many Facebook shares they had bought or sold and at what price, nor did he know the SEC chief wanted to reach him. Three weeks later, Mr. Greifeld still isn't sure why technology systems failed during the crucial IPO. Nasdaq's failure to see the problem coming is something its engineers are still dissecting. "You wake up, you turn around, and there's a black or dull spot," Mr. Greifeld said in an interview, sucking on Life Savers candy at a conference table in his office. "You can't get away from it." Spain’s Bailout Gives Rajoy Best Chance To Fix Banks (Bloomberg) Spain’s request for as much as 100 billion euros ($125 billion) of European bailout funds may provide the country with enough money to shore up its banking system after three failed attempts in as many years. “Now that they have this money, it will hopefully finally be possible to recognize all the hidden losses and clean up the system,” Luis Garicano, a professor at the London School of Economics, said in a phone interview. The amount sought is about 2.7 times the funds deemed necessary for Spanish banks by the International Monetary Fund in a report released June 8 and five times the total requested by the Bankia group, the country’s third-biggest lender, to cleanse its balance sheet. Spain's economic misery will get worse this year despite bailout request, prime minister says (NYP) A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. IPOs Dry Up Post Facebook (WSJ) In the aftermath of Facebook's botched trading debut, the IPO market has gone three weeks without an offering, the longest drought in five months. It is the slowest stretch in initial public offerings since a four-week span at the end of 2011 and the beginning of this year, according to data from Ipreo. Greece Threatens Wall Street Jobs In Third Trading Plunge (Bloomberg) For a third consecutive year, revenue from investment banking and trading at U.S. firms may fall at least 30 percent from the first quarter, Richard Ramsden, a Goldman Sachs analyst, said in a note last week. Greece, which gave English the word “cycle,” has been the main reason each year that the second quarter soured after a promising first three months. Nickelback Review Goes Viral (Poynter) Music critic Josh Gross has written hundreds of stories about bands, but none has brought him as much attention as the brief he wrote this week about Nickelback’s upcoming appearance in Idaho, where Gross writes for the Boise Weekly. He summarizes the response: "In the past day, I have been told that I am a genius, a king amongst men and a hack that could be easily outdone by a one-armed cat. I should alternately win the Pulitzer and forcibly insert 45 pickles into my bum. There has been little middle ground. Why? Because I had the audacity to point out that seeing Canadian “rock” band Nickelback at the Idaho Center may not be the best use of one’s $45." Gross wrote of the Nickelback: "You can spend $5 to go see Nickelback this week. Or you could buy 45 hammers from the dollar store, hang them from the ceiling at eye level and spend an evening banging the demons out of your dome...$45 is also enough to see Men In Black III five times, buy a dozen Big Macs, do 10 loads of laundry or so many other experiences as banal and meaningless as seeing Nickelback but come without actually having to hear Nickelback. But if you must, the band is playing The Idaho Center on Wednesday, June 13, at 6PM tickets start at $45." Dimon Faces Washington Grilling Over Trading Debacle (Reuters) The Senate Banking Committee has asked Dimon to come prepared Wednesday to provide "a thorough accounting of the trading losses," a committee aide said. Senators will also ask what he knew about the risks involved in the trading strategy. Fed Colleague Backs Dimon (WSJ) "I do not think he should step down," Lee Bollinger said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He said Mr. Dimon appears to have done nothing wrong, that critics attacking the Fed have a "false understanding" of how it works, and that it is "foolish" to say Mr. Dimon's presence on the New York Fed board creates an appearance of a conflict when the law requires bankers to serve on such boards. Private lunch with investor Warren Buffett sells for $3.5 million (WaPo) The previous four winning bids have all exceeded $2 million with records set every year. Last year’s winner, hedge fund manager Ted Weschler, paid $2,626,411. India Could Be First BRIC to Lose Investment Grade: S&P (Reuters) Standard & Poor's said on Monday that India could become the first of the so-called BRIC economies to lose its investment grade status, sending the rupee and stocks lower, less than two months after cutting its rating outlook for the country. "Slowing GDP growth and political roadblocks to economic policymaking are just some of the factors pushing up the risk that India could lose its investment-grade rating," the ratings agency said in a statement issued Monday on a report dated June 8. Town Considers Fines For Cursing (WSJ) Mimi Duphily was hanging baskets of pink geraniums on antique street lamps downtown for the Middleborough Beautification and Activities Group when she noticed something else that needed cleaning up—citizens' mouths. "The cursing has gotten very, very bad. I find it appalling and I won't tolerate it," said Ms. Duphily, a civic leader in the otherwise quiet New England community, which calls itself the Cranberry Capital of the World. "No person should be allowed to talk in that manner." Soon, Middleborough residents who do could risk a $20 fine. Ms. Duphily, 63 years old, tried scolding the cursers—whom she describes as young people shouting the "F word" back and forth—with a stern, "Hey kids, that's enough!" Then she conferred with the Beautification and Activities Group, which informed the Middleborough Business Coalition, which then called a summit with Middleborough Police Chief Bruce Gates, who now, in his sworn role, is trying to stomp out swears.
Hedge Funds Belt Few Home Runs (WSJ) They are the few. The proud. The hedge-fund managers making a killing this year. David Tepper's firm was up about 25% through Friday, partly from a bet Europe will avoid a meltdown. Steve Mandel's firm gained nearly as much from soaring consumer and technology stocks. Pine River Capital Management rose 30% thanks in part to subprime mortgages, as did Josh Birnbaum's Tilden Park. And the Barnegat Fund has climbed over 39% with a debt strategy that the manager concedes isn't for the faint of heart. The big gains, as reported by fund investors and people familiar with the firms, come as most hedge funds struggle for the fourth year a row, the longest period of underperformance since 1995 to 1998. Hedge funds on average gained 4.7% through September, according to industry tracker HFR, while stock-trading funds were up on average 5.5%. By comparison, the Standard & Poor's 500 index scored gains of 14%, including dividends, through Friday. Bond Investors Put Faith In A More Stable Africa (WSJ) Last month, Zambia raised $750 million with a 10-year global bond in an auction that drew offers worth more than 15 times that amount. Nigeria in September sold 30 million naira ($192,000) in five-year bonds, to demand twice as high. Spurred by the heavy interest, Rwanda wants to issue a global bond by June and Kenya is planning one as early as next year. Investors' willingness to step up to buy African bonds is another sign of their thirst for yield. Efforts by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to push down interest rates and buy developed-market bonds have driven investors further and further afield. Africa, a continent of more than 50 countries, is considered one of the last investing frontiers—many of its nations have been isolated from international markets, in part due to a history of default by some countries. Sir Mervyn King: no recovery until banks recapitalise (Telegraph) Raising the prospect of rights issues or even another taxpayer bail-out for the state-backed lenders Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, Sir Mervyn King said UK banks have “insufficient capital” to protect against undeclared losses on their books. FDIC Gets Windfall In Bank-Failure Settlement (WSJ) International Paper Co has agreed to pay the FDIC to settle a year-old lawsuit stemming from the 2009 collapse of Guaranty Financial Group, an Austin, Texas, company that ranks as the fifth-biggest U.S. bank failure. As part of the agreement, the failed bank's creditors will get an added $38 million, bringing the total settlement to $80 million. Although International Paper, Memphis, Tenn., didn't have any direct connection until this year to the banking industry or to the failed Texas bank, its involvement in the case demonstrates the long tentacles of the financial crisis. International Paper was pulled into the case in February when it bought packaging firm Temple-Inland Inc., which had owned Guaranty for nearly two decades before spinning it off into an independent company in 2007. Guaranty failed less than two years later, weighed down by toxic securities that were backed by adjustable-rate mortgages. It had 162 branches and $13.5 billion in assets. The bank's deteriorating securities portfolio was the subject of a page-one article in The Wall Street Journal just before it failed. The failure cost the FDIC's deposit-insurance fund $1.29 billion, according to an estimate published on the agency's website. RBS Settles Over Loans In Nevada (NYT) The Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to pay $42.5 million late Tuesday in a settlement with the Nevada attorney general that ends an 18-month investigation into the deep ties between the bank and two mortgage lenders during the housing boom. Most of the money paid by R.B.S. — $36 million — will be used to help distressed borrowers throughout Nevada. In addition, R.B.S. agreed to finance or purchase subprime loans in the future only if they comply with state laws and are not deceptive. The settlement between the bank and Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada’s attorney general, relates to conduct at Greenwich Capital, the R.B.S. unit that bundled mortgages into securities and sold them to investors. Nevada found that R.B.S. worked closely with Countrywide Financial and Option One, two of the most aggressive lenders during the boom. Aurora Bird Hoarder: ‘I Was Obsessed’ (CBS) Outside of his west suburban Aurora townhome Monday, Dave Skeberdis admitted right away: “I am a hoarder.” “I did let the birds multiply. I admit, I was obsessed,” he said. “But I’m a regular person.” Skeberdis, 57, estimated that there are 200 birds of varying species inside his townhome in the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane. He returned to the home Monday to feed the birds. “It’s condemned, but they can’t stop me from going into the house,” he said. “I don’t really want to lose them, but this is too many birds.” On Monday, Skeberdis, who is employed in the information technology field, said he can now understand that his bird collecting is out of control. He said he is from a family of hoarders. “I think it’s time for a change in my life,” Skeberdis said...Skeberdis, who is not married, acquired his first bird seven years ago, he said, on April 15, 2005. While working in computer support at United Airlines, he “rescued” a parakeet, and later named the bird “Doc.” “I saved his life, and he saved mine,” Skeberdis said. Over time, he bought and adopted more birds. Those birds include a Chinese Quail named “Demon,” blind bird “Longstreet” and scalped bird “Liz Cojack,” and a white baby parakeet he hand-fed and once carried to work with him in a briefcase. Appeal In Insider Trading Case Centers On Wiretaps (Dealbook) In March 2008, the Justice Department made an extraordinary request: It asked a judge for permission to record secretly the phone conversations of Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire hedge fund manager. The request, which was granted, was the first time the government had asked for a wiretap to investigate insider trading. Federal agents eavesdropped on Mr. Rajaratnam for nine months, leading to his indictment — along with charges against 22 others — and the biggest insider trading case in a generation. On Thursday, lawyers for Mr. Rajaratnam, who is serving an 11-year prison term after being found guilty at trial, will ask a federal appeals court to reverse his conviction. They contend that the government improperly obtained a wiretap in violation of Mr. Rajaratnam’s constitutional privacy rights and federal laws governing electronic surveillance...Such a ruling is considered a long shot, but a reversal would have broad implications. Not only would it upend Mr. Rajaratnam’s conviction but also affect the prosecution of Rajat K. Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs director who was convicted of leaking boardroom secrets to Mr. Rajaratnam...A decision curbing the use of wiretaps would also affect the government’s ability to police Wall Street trading floors, as insider trading cases and other securities fraud crimes are notoriously difficult to build without direct evidence like incriminating telephone conversations. Ex-Goldman Director Gupta Awaits Sentence In Insider Trading Case (Reuters) Gupta's lawyers have requested that he be spared prison, citing his work with groups such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on fighting disease in developing countries. Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp's co-founder, and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan are among the luminaries who have urged Rakoff to be lenient. As one alternative to prison, the defense proposed "a less orthodox" plan in which Gupta would live and work with Rwandan government officials to help fight HIV/AIDS and malaria in rural districts, court papers said. Federal prosecutors, however, argue that Gupta should serve eight to 10 years in prison. Companies Are Sitting On More Cash Than Ever Before (CNBC) Amid a lackluster earning season that has featured many companies missing sales expectations, cash balances have swelled 14 percent and are on track toward $1.5 trillion for the Standard & Poor's 500, according to JPMorgan. Both levels would be historic highs. Denny's heads to Middle-earth with 'Hobbit'-inspired menu (LA Times) It’s Bilbo Baggins time down at Denny’s, which is rolling out a menu and marketing campaign based on the upcoming film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” The 11 new menu items are enough to satisfy the diminutive creatures’ six-meal-a-day habit, with options such as Shire Sausage, Bilbo’s Berry Smoothies, Build Your Own Hobbit Slam and Radagast’s Red Velvet Pancake Puppies. The film, based on the novel by “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien, opens Dec. 14. The limited Denny’s offer will run from Nov. 6 through January, according to the chain.
JP Morgan tops estimates; Five big banks' living wills rejected; Mr. Met loves the Mets, despite being denied National League Championship ring; and more.
Probe May Hit UK Bank's Clean Image (WSJ) Last week, Standard Chartered PLC Chief Executive Peter Sands told analysts that "our culture and values are our first and last line of defense." On Tuesday, allegations by a New York financial regulator that Standard Chartered hid illegal Iranian transactions seemed to breach that line, sending the lender's shares down and wiping £7.65 billion ($11.9 billion) off its market value. In the U.K., Mr. Sands has long been heralded as a voice of reason in the country's turbulent banking sector. The former consultant, who was named Standard Chartered CEO in 2006, regularly espoused the importance of sound governance and sensible investment. While several of its British peers were being bailed out by taxpayers, Mr. Sands was guiding the Asia-focused bank to record profits boosted by growing trade between emerging nations. The executive stressed the fact that Standard Chartered doesn't have an investment bank and didn't need European Central Bank cheap loans to keep its business ticking over. Italian's Job: Premier Talks Tough in Bid to Save Euro (WSJ) During an all-night European summit in June, Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel an unexpected ultimatum: He would block all deals until she agreed to take action against Italy's and Spain's rising borrowing costs. Ms. Merkel, who has held most of the euro's cards for the past two years, wasn't used to being put on the defensive. "This is not helpful, Mario," Ms. Merkel warned, according to people present. Europe's leaders were gathered on the fifth floor of the European Union's boxy glass headquarters in Brussels, about to break for dinner. "I know," Italy's premier replied. Bill Gross: Stay Away From Europe (CNBC) “Investors get distracted by the hundreds of billions of euros in sovereign policy checks, promises that make for media headlines but forget it’s their trillions that are the real objective,” Gross wrote. “Even Mr Hollande in left-leaning France recognizes that the private sector is critical for future growth in the EU. He knows that, without its partnership, a one-sided funding via state-controlled banks and central banks will inevitably lead to high debt-to-GDP ratios and a downhill vicious cycle of recession.” “Psst…investors: Stay dry my friends!” Gross said. Richest Family Offices Seeing Fastest Growth As Firms Oust Banks (Bloomberg Markets) They call it “money camp.” Twice a week, 6- to 11-year-old scions of wealthy families take classes on being rich. They compete to corner commodities markets in Pit, the raucous Parker Brothers card game, and take part in a workshop called “business in a box,” examining products that aren’t obvious gold mines, such as the packaging on Apple Inc.’s iPhone rather than the phone itself. It’s all part of managing money for the wealthiest families, says Katherine Lintz, founder of Clayton, Missouri- based Financial Management Partners, which runs the camp for the children of clients. Supplying the families with good stock picks and a wily tax strategy isn’t enough anymore. These days, it’s about applying the human touch, she says. Lintz, 58, is on to something. Her 22-year-old firm was No. 2 among the fastest-growing multifamily offices in the second annual Bloomberg Markets ranking of companies that manage affairs for dynastic clans, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its September issue. The assets that FMP supervises grew 30 percent to $2.6 billion as of Dec. 31, just behind Signature, a Norfolk, Virginia-based family office that expanded 36 percent in 2011 to $3.6 billion. MS Takes Trading Hit (NYP) Morgan Stanley, which had the largest trading-revenue drop among major US banks last quarter, lost money in that business on 15 days in the period, up from eight days a year earlier. Morgan Stanley traders generated more than $100 million on three days in the period, compared with seven days in the second quarter of 2011, the company said in a regulatory filing yesterday. None of the daily losses exceeded the firm’s value-at-risk, a measure of how much the bank estimates it could lose on 95 percent of days. Morgan Stanley had a 48 percent year-over-year decrease in trading revenue, excluding accounting gains, led by a 60 percent drop in fixed-income revenue. Former Lloyds Digital Security Chief Admits $3.76 Million Fraud (Bloomberg) Lloyds Banking Group's former head of digital banking fraud and security pleaded guilty to submitting false invoices totaling more than 2.4 million pounds ($3.76 million)...Jessica Harper admitted to submitting fake invoices between 2007 and 2011 and then laundering the proceeds, the CPS said. She will be sentenced on Sept. 21, and faces as long as 24 years in prison for the two charges, a CPS spokesman said, although she will get credit for the guilty plea. Ex Lehman Exec Requests Rehab To Avoid Jail Time (NYP) Former Lehman Brothers Co-Chief Operating Officer Bradley H. Jack, arrested twice in less than a year on charges of prescription forgery, said he is willing to undergo a program for drug and alcohol treatment to avoid prosecution. Jack applied for the program at a hearing yesterday in Connecticut Superior Court in Norwalk. Judge Bruce Hudock ordered a doctor’s report to determine if he is eligible for the new program, which the judge said would be “a rare event.” Fed Official Calls For Bond Buying (WSJ) Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, called on the Fed to launch an aggressive, open-ended bond buying program that the central bank would continue until economic growth picks up and unemployment starts falling again. His call came in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the first since the central bank signaled last week that it was leaning strongly toward taking new measures to support economic growth. Mr. Rosengren isn't currently among the regional Fed bank presidents with a vote on monetary policy. Although all 12 presidents participate in Fed deliberations, only five join the seven Fed governors in Washington in the formal committee vote. Tokyo Exchange Glitch Halts Derivatives Trading (WSJ) The Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday temporarily suspended all derivatives trading soon after the morning open due to an unidentified system problem, the second significant trading glitch on the exchange this year. Amazon Exec Swindled By Tom Petty Con Artist (NYDN) Brian Valentine simply wanted to give his wife the wedding present of a lifetime - a performance by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The senior vice president of Amazon, instead, fell victim to fraud, losing a whopping $165,000 to a Las Vegas man who pretended to be a concert booking agent, the Smoking Gun reported. FBI agents arrested the fraudulent agent, Chad Christopher Lund, on Aug. 2 in Illinois, after a private investigator Valentine had hired found that Lund had skipped town. But the ordeal began almost ten months before in late 2011, a year after Valentine, 52, popped the question to fellow Amazon employee, Gianna Puerini, 39, according to a wire fraud complaint unsealed by the U.S. District Court. Valentine decided that he wanted the "Won't Back Down" singer to perform a set at the couple's wedding reception since he proposed to Puerini at a Petty concert in Seattle. He turned to the Internet, where he found the website of Lund's firm, lundlive.com, boasting to have booked acts like Petty, Run-DMC and Ludacris. Lundlive.com no longer exists. Valentine connected with Lund over email and by October 2011, Lund told the Amazon exec that he had negotiated with Petty's representatives "down to a price of $330,000 for the performance." Later in the month, Lund sent Valentine a contract with the forged signature of Petty's manager, Tony Dimitraides. Valentine sent Lund a $165,000 down payment in return. Valentine finally uncovered the fraud in early April 2012, when the wedding was just three months away. He contacted Petty's management to discuss the performance only to find out that they had no idea about the planned appearance. "We have never heard of Chris Lund or his agency," Dimitraides wrote in an email to Valentine. "We are not aware of any deal for Tom Petty to play Seattle in July and I have never signed a contract for any such." "It looks like you have been defrauded."
Merkel’s First Greek Crisis Visit Seen Sending Signal to Critics (Bloomberg) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Athens for the first time since Europe’s financial crisis broke out there three years ago, a sign she’s seeking to silence the debate on pushing Greece out of the euro. Merkel’s visit to the Greek capital Oct. 9 to meet with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras underscores the shift in her stance since she held out the prospect last year of Greece exiting the 17-nation currency region. “The meeting could mark the turning point to the Greek crisis,” said Constantinos Zouzoulas, an analyst at Axia Ventures Group, a brokerage in Athens. “This is a very significant development for Greece ahead of crucial decisions by the euro zone for the country.” Spain Finance Minister’s ‘No Bailout’ Remark Sparks Laughter (CNBC) “Spain doesn’t need a bailout at all,” finance minister Luis de Guindos said, straight faced and somber, as mirth spread throughout the audience (even de Guindos’ assistant interpreter couldn’t mask a smile). US Probes Credit Suisse Over Mortgages (Reuters) U.S. federal and state authorities are investigating Credit Suisse over mortgage-backed securities packaged and sold by the bank, people familiar with the probe said on Thursday. The Justice Department and the New York Attorney General are among those probing Credit Suisse's actions, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. New Shuffle At JPMorgan (WSJ) Barry Zubrow, a trusted lieutenant of J.P. Morgan Chase Chief Executive James Dimon, is expected to give up his job as regulatory affairs chief in what would be the latest reshuffling to follow a multibillion-dollar trading blunder. The change is expected before year-end, said people close to the bank. It is possible the 59-year-old executive will remain with the company in an advisory role, these people added. More executive shifts also are possible. The chairman of the corporate and investment banking unit, Jes Staley, was recently in the running to become chief executive of British banking giant Barclays PLC, according to people close to Mr. Staley, but didn't get the job. He gave up day-to-day oversight of J.P. Morgan's investment bank in a July reorganization. J.P. Morgan declined to comment about Mr. Staley, and he couldn't be reached. Investors Back Away From 'Junk' Bonds (WSJ) The massive "junk"-bond boom is raising alarm bells among some large money managers, who warn the market is showing signs of overheating. So much money has flooded into the junk-bond market from yield-hungry investors that weaker and weaker companies are able to sell bonds, they say. Credit ratings of many borrowers are lower and debt levels are higher, making defaults more likely. And with yields near record lows, they add, investors aren't being compensated for that risk. India’s NSE Says 59 Erroneous Orders Caused Stock Plunge (Bloomberg) “India has joined the big league with this trading disaster,” A.S. Thiyaga Rajan, a senior managing director at Aquarius Investment Advisors Pte., which manages about $400 million, said by phone from Singapore. “It’s very surprising so many erroneous orders went through. Exchanges and regulators must be one step ahead as systems and technologies upgrade.” Halloween Horror Story: Case Of The Missing Pumpkin Lattes (WSJ) For Asher Anidjar, the arrival of fall isn't marked by turning leaves or a chilly breeze, but a steaming seasonal drink. Recently, though, when he headed to his local Starbucks for a Pumpkin Spice Latte, he left with a bitter taste in his mouth. They were out of the special sauce that gives the treat its distinctive autumnal flavor. "I just left, depressed," said Mr. Anidjar, a 26-year-old commercial real-estate analyst who lives in Manhattan. The drink crops up on the Starbucks menu annually for a limited time, and this year there has been an unusual run on the pumpkin batch. Thanks in part to a frothy dose of buzz brewed up by the Seattle-based coffee giant before the beverage's Sept. 4 debut, the craze has drained supplies at stores across the country. Baristas are hitting the street, searching for stashes of the flavored sauce at other stores. Customers denied their fix—which costs about $4 for a small cup, or "tall" in Starbucks speak—are tweeting about their dismay. "My world almost ended this morning when the local Starbucks told me they were out of Pumpkin Spice Latte," tweeted Jason Sizemore, 38 years old, of Lexington, Ky. Fed Seeks To Clarify Plans (WSJ) Since August 2011, the Fed has been saying it will keep short-term interest rates near zero until a particular date. Right now that date is mid-2015. The hope has been that these assurances would help hold down longer-term interest rates, as well as short-term ones, and thus boost spending and investment. But the Fed isn't happy with this approach. While central-bank officials believe the assurances have helped hold down long-term interest rates, they find the fixed date to be confusing, and they are looking at a new approach. The idea under consideration is to keep offering assurances of low rates, but tie those assurances to what is happening in the economy rather than a point on the calendar. Dave And Buster's IPO Plan A Bust (Bloomberg) Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, operator of 59 company-owned dining and gaming stores, withdrew its plans for a US initial public offering, citing market conditions. The company had sought to raise as much as $107.7 million. Black Swans In The Red Until Turmoil Hits (NYP) The Apocalypse has not arrived — but that hasn’t stopped some of the country’s wealthiest investors from betting on it. The investors, mostly pensions funds, hedge funds of funds and deep-pocketed individuals that were burned during the financial meltdown in 2008, are jumping into these so-called Black Swan investments that carry promised returns of up to 1,000 percent — if another financial Armageddon strikes. The Cassandras of the hedge-fund world that are offering these funds — also called tail risk funds and often with a geographic focus — would suffer terribly in the absence of disaster...The hot sector has attracted such well-known names as Saba Capital’s Boaz Weinstein, Hayman Capital’s Kyle Bass, Corriente Advisors’ Mark Hart, and Universa’s Mark Spitznagel...When markets are buoyant, of course the funds lose money. Through August, Saba Tail Hedge was down 16 percent, Pine River Tail Hedge had fallen 23 percent and Corriente Europe Divergence is down 24 percent, according to investors. Bass’s Japan short fund, which he launched two years ago, is down more than 60 percent since inception. By design, it will lose all of its investors’ money in three years if Japanese bonds don’t go into a tailspin. Bridezilla’s demanding email to potential bridesmaids: If you can’t commit, ‘you’re going to the wrong wedding’ (NYDN) One woman’s over-the-top email of demands to potential bridesmaids has gone viral since it was posted on Gawker.com. “You all have a big roll [sic] in this wedding, so before we continue I’m going to be setting some ground rules and it’s very important you read and think everything through before you accept this honor to be a bridesmaid,” the unnamed bride-to-be begins. If recipients don’t answer emails when outside the country, can’t attend every wedding-related event, or don’t have the cash for several flights and a bridesmaid’s dress, they might not make the cut. “If money is tight and you can’t afford to contribute to the bachelorette party or won’t be able to afford a dress, then [I] don’t have time to deal with that, I’m sorry,” the woman wrote. Of course, she’ll aim for what’s affordable, but, “If you think it’s going to be a $25 Forever 21 dress then you’re going to the wrong wedding.” The lucky bridesmaids must also be available — at any moment — between February and August. “If you don’t think you’ll be able to attend one party but can make the rest of them, I’m sorry, but I’ll have to take you out as a bridesmaid and put you as a guest,” the woman wrote. And please, don’t ignore phone calls. “I don’t have time to wait around for responses, everyone has their phone on them,” she wrote. “It shouldn’t take you more than a day to get back to me. Really think about everything I've said. This is really going to be the most epic wedding ever so I hope you girls can share this special day with us!"
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Switzerland. Canton Bern. Muri. Thubten Purang stands on the sidewalk in front of his home where he has hanged a tibetan flag. A cyclist rides on the concrete road. The swiss tibetan man is an Aeschimann's child who arrived 50 years ago in Switzerland to receive custody on a private initiative by an influential Swiss industrialist, Charles Aeschimann. In 1962, Charles Aeschimann agreed with the Dalai Lama to take 200 children and place them in Swiss foster homes and give them a chance for a...
Switzerland. Canton Bern. Muri. Thubten Purang stands on the sidewalk in front of his home where he has hanged a tibetan flag. A cyclist rides on the concrete road. The swiss tibetan man is an Aeschimann's child who arrived 50 years ago in Switzerland to receive custody on a private initiative by an influential Swiss industrialist, Charles Aeschimann. In 1962, Charles Aeschimann agreed with the Dalai Lama to take 200 children and place them in Swiss foster homes and give them a chance for a better life and a good education. Most of the children still had parents in exile or in Tibet, just a few were orphans. The Tibetan flag, also known as the "snow lion flag" and the 'Free Tibet flag', was a flag of the military of Tibet, introduced by the 13th Dalai Lama in 1912 and used for the same capacity until 1959. Designed with the help of a Japanese priest, it reflects the design motif of the Japanese military's Rising Sun Flag. Since the 1960s, it is used a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement. 24.02.2015 © 2015 Didier Ruef
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Tucker Carlson Should Go Back To The Bowtie
Poor Tucker Carlson, even after he had a makeover it still didn't help his nonsensical arguments. His knickers are in a bunch over Jon Stewart's ske
Poor Tucker Carlson, even after he had a makeover it still didn't help his nonsensical arguments. His knickers are in a bunch over Jon Stewart's skewering of CNBC's Jim Cramer. He's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. That evil Jon Stewart needs to be stopped, I say! So Tucker took his complaints to The Daily Beast.
Before Cramer could defend himself, Stewart moved on to a new charge: Cramer and his colleagues at CNBC had known that the financial sector was in imminent danger of collapse, but had pretended otherwise—a ruse that Stewart described as “disingenuous at best and criminal at worst.”
Cramer was sure ready to pounce on the very mean Stewart until he blindsided him with a clever ruse. But a little later Carlson says this:
No matter. Cramer was almost incoherent by this point, cringing and apologetic. Stewart was becoming furious. “I understand you want to make finance interesting,” he said, “but it’s not a fucking game. And I, I, I—when I watch that, I can’t tell you how angry that makes me.”
Are you telling me that the brillant Jim Cramer was incoherent from a diversionary tactic Jon used to trip him up? Hmmm, maybe it was because Jim had no defense and was guilty as charged.
If you didn’t actually see the show, you wouldn’t know any of this, since there is a virtual ban on critical stories about Jon Stewart in the press. Nobody in memory has received a longer free ride. (CNBC stands in such awe of Stewart, the network hasn’t even tried to defend itself, even against his claim that its programming might be criminal.)
The entire cable news media was silent about the Cramer segment. It was like there was a virtual ban (except for CNN's Reliable Sources where Carlson called Stewart a "partisan Hack." Now that was comedy gold.) on this critical story of CNBC and the business world. Yes, the press is way too easy on him. Damn comedian gets away with telling the truth about the Cross Fire's of the TV world. He needs to get the full Gary Condit treatment. Send him to Gitmo and have Cheney waterboard him.
This was even more farther-fetched. A ratings-hungry TV network had the scoop of the decade but decided to sit on it? Why? In order to curry favor with soon-to-be-disgraced corporate executives? It didn’t make sense.
Sure, Stewart is out of his mind because he put together a montage of outrageous behavior of CNBC talking heads after Rick Santelli of CNBC screamed at President Obama not to help the "losers" who would get assistance to try and save their homes: 'Screw them, it's their fault that the housing crisis had happened anyway, so why should we rich and smart people, the winners of our society, chip in?' Blaming homeowners who couldn't pay their mortgages for the housing crisis. And CNBC happens to represent the Wall Street media to most Americans. They cheered him to the high heavens like a Messiah that had come from the Gods.
CNBC simply didn't practice real journalism during the entire sub-prime mortgage crisis and traded in their journalistic integrity because profits were good and the ideology of most on the shows and reporters was geared towards free market capitalism that should never be regulated. There were a few appearances by guests who tried to warn the Kudlow's of the impending doom, but they were practically laughed off the set on opinion shows which featured the infamous: Decagon.
The Daily Show has about 23 minutes or so and uses usually the last third of the show for interviews. Carlson complains that he gave a puff interview with Obama, but he doesn't mention that John McCain was one of his most frequent guests and most of the time he played very nice with him too. But that doesn't count. He has Bill Kristol on every few months and they make him appear a lot of the time look like a normal person with sound ideas, but that doesn't count. No, Jon Stewart is a partisan hack.
I could go on and on taking his rubbish apart, but since he tells you a behind-the-scenes story about Stewart -- after he ripped Crossfire a new one -- I'll tell you a similar little story about Tucker. I met him in the green room of Bill Maher's Real Time on October 21, 2005. I went with Arianna Huffington during the Valerie Plame scandal and he was one of the guest panelists. We met and talked for about 15 minutes about trivial things. The way you do with people you meet for the first time.
He knew my blog when I told him what I did and he complimented me on it. As he talked about California, I was stunned that he was acting like a nice, normal guy too. A charming man who was not a Republican, but simply an ideologue with principles, and he was very friendly. Then it was time for the show to start and he went onstage and acted like a jerk for the entire show. He came back into the green room and said, "That was fun." I was like, "What did you turn into, dude?" He left stage right.
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Larry Kudlow Apologizes For Expressing Relief That The Human Toll In Japan Will Be Worse Than The Economic One
Larry Kudlow, the great business shill for CNBC, voiced an opinion that really is indicative of how conservatives think about the value of humans and corporations, and how they should be respectively treated. Vanity Fair: In these tough
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Published On: Tue, Apr 22nd, 2014
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Caribbean and Central American countries team up for catastrophe risk coverage
WASHINGTON, USA - When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility’s (CCRIF) was the first institution able to mobilize emergency funds within the first two weeks of the disaster to respond to the immediate needs of the government.
Since its creation seven years ago, CCRIF has made eight payouts amounting to US$32 million to help countries manage budget volatility in the aftermath of recent natural hazards. This mechanism has successfully leveraged capital and insurance market capacity to strengthen climate resilience in these countries.
As individuals, we are used to paying relatively small premiums to protect our families in case our houses were threatened by natural events. Small island states in the Caribbean have been applying a similar model to protect themselves against far more likely and more devastating risks caused by tropical storms and earthquakes.
Nine countries in Central America and the Caribbean experienced a disaster which had an economic impact above 50 percent of their annual GDP since 1980. The impact of Haiti’s earthquake was estimated at 120 percent of GDP. The same year, tropical cyclone Agatha, in Guatemala, had devastating consequences and poverty rates increased by 5.5 percent. One year after the shock, food expenditures were 10 to 13 percent lower and school enrollment fell by 4 percent amongst children age 7 to 11 in rural areas.
For the first time, ministers of finance of the Caribbean and Central American countries met during the World Bank Group and IMF Spring Meetings to draw lessons from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and see how this mechanism could be leveraged and opened up to Central American countries to cover tropical storms, earthquakes and other risks, including excess rainfall.
Nicaragua and Honduras were the first countries from Central America to announce they will be joining the facility. Other Central American countries including Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador also have expressed strong interest in becoming members of the CCRIF.
During the meeting, the US Treasury and Mexico announced that they would support the initiative and provide US$10 million each, in addition to the approximately US$15 million contribution already provided by Canada.
Leonard Martinez-Diaz, deputy assistant secretary, environment and energy, US Department of Treasury, called on other donors present during the meeting to contribute.
“We need to introduce a culture of insurance,” he said. “As a donor, it is very exciting to see a useful application in the area of climate adaptation that is really sustainable”.
Why is it important to introduce a culture of insurance?
CCRIF is designed to offer insurance at affordable rates. Because of its large membership, it has been able to diversify its portfolio and purchase insurance coverage at more favourable terms, resulting in an average of 50 percent savings, in comparison to countries who bought insurance individually from international markets.
This first meeting looked at the benefits of expanding the facility to a larger pool of countries, which would not only provide savings on the operating costs, but also significantly reduce the premiums to existing members.
Hasan Tuluy, World Bank vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean, who was chairing the meeting, highlighted that the CCRIF is a true example of both a regional public good where collective action has clear financial benefits as well as a private-public partnership that can help countries address the adverse impacts of a changing climate.
Tuluy concluded the discussion by announcing a pledging conference for donors to contribute to this initiative in October at the margins of the World Bank’s annual meetings.
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Haroon Rashid elected as President of OICCI
By Kazim Raza Rizvi | 01-Jul-2020 - 10:02 pm | 01-Jul-2020 Top Stories
Karachi: Mr. Haroon Rashid, CEO Shell Pakistan Limited, has been elected as the President of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry (OICCI) with effect from July 1, 2020.
His appointment came following a successful tenure of Mr Shazad Dada, who resigned as the President of OICCI after resigning from Standard Chartered Bank and taking over as President of United Bank Limited.
Mr. Irfan Siddiqui has been elected as the Vice President of the OICCI from July 1, 2020. Irfan is the founding President/CEO of Meezan Bank Limited. He initiated the formation of Al-Meezan Investment Bank in 1997, which was converted into a full-fledged scheduled Islamic Commercial Bank in May 2002 – the first ever Islamic Commercial banking license given in Pakistan.
Commenting on his appointment as the President of OICCI, Haroon Rashid was very upbeat and said, “It is really an honor to have been elected as the President of a prestigious organization like the OICCI, which is the largest chamber in the country in terms of economic contribution, contributing over one third of all government levies and is also the largest foreign investor in the country”.
Haroon was appreciative of the “proactive role of the Government of Pakistan in managing the enormous challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic”.
OICCI President added “OICCI members are fully cognizant of the need to ensure that the wheels of economy keep moving, business activities continue, with full safety guidelines enforced and all stakeholders are well looked after”. Haroon concluded that “OICCI believes in the economic and investment potential of Pakistan which, with forward looking policies, and their robust implementation will put Pakistan back as one of the most promising country for foreign and local investors” .
Haroon Rashid is the Chief Executive & Managing Director of Shell Pakistan Limited, where he has been a Director on the Board since 2011. He joined Shell in 1995 after graduating from The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Haroon has had a diverse experience across Shell in Pakistan, United Kingdom and Singapore and has held various senior leadership roles in Sales, Marketing, Downstream Strategy Consultancy, Trading & Supply and Aviation.
After working in Retail in Sales, Non-Fuels Retailing and Network Planning from 1995 to 2000, he took time off in 2001 to complete an MBA from INSEAD, after which he rejoined Shell as a Consultant in Downstream Management Consultancy in London.
In 2005 he became the Downstream Competitor Intelligence Manager in London, before moving to Singapore in 2008 as the Global Marketing Manager for Aviation.
In 2011, Haroon returned to Pakistan as the General Manager Supply & Distribution for the Middle East South Asia Region. In 2016 he became General Manager Lubricants. Haroon has been on the boards of a number of leading industry associations and social cause organizations.
In his free time, Haroon spends time with his family, play squash and support social welfare causes.
Established in 1860, Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI), is the largest Chamber of Commerce in Pakistan based on economic contribution in the form of taxes and investment by its members and is the collective voice of over top 200 foreign investors in Pakistan, including over 50 Fortune 500 companies, who contribute about one third of the total tax collection in the country and a significant portion of the GDP. Coming from 35 countries and working in 14 key sectors of the economy, OICCI members are leaders not only in economic activities and investment but are also thought leaders in transfer of technology and in CSR activities.
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Friends of the World War II Tower Present ‘Inside the Cold War’ June 18
Photo by Roland Arhelger. Berlin Wall, 1988.
CAPE MAY – Join the Friends of the World War II Lookout Tower on Saturday, June 18 at 1 p.m. at the Cape May Lutheran Church, 509 Pittsburgh Ave., for “Inside the Cold War,” an afternoon program that will focus on intelligence and espionage during the Cold War years: 1945 to 1991.
Guests will learn about the major events of the Cold War in a Power Point presentation, then listen to a panel of former Cold Warriors who will discuss their experiences and insights into the intelligence and espionage aspects of the decades-long conflict against Communism – and why America eventually prevailed in that effort. Panelists will include Ralph Serena, Pastor Jeffrey Elliott. Dr. Robert Heinly and formal Naval Intelligence officer Sam Hayes. .
The Friends will also be honoring area World War II veterans including those who volunteer in schools and senior centers for the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC) plus memorializing area World War II vets who have died in the past year. These events were originally scheduled for the Armed Forces Day Ceremony at the World War II Tower, which was cancelled due to weather.
Light refreshments will be served.
Admission is free for Friends of the World War II Tower, MAC members and staff, and veterans. Admission for the general public is $5.
For tickets or further information, call Bob Heinly at (609) 884-5404 ext. 134. Inquire about joining the Friends group and get discounted admission on future Friends events.
Adults are asked to bring a young person with them so the group can advance one of its primary goals, which is developing in the younger generation an understanding and appreciation of not only Cape May’s important role in World War II, but of the traits of patriotism, loyalty, and self-sacrifice so characteristic of the people of these war years.
The World War II Lookout Tower (Fire Control Tower No. 23), located on Sunset Boulevard, was used for spotting enemy ships during World War II and aiming guns for nearby coastal artillery fortifications. MAC restored the tower in 2008-09 and opened it to the public in April, 2009. Family members can honor loved ones through memorial plaques mounted permanently at the site. An All Veterans Memorial was dedicated at the Tower on May 19, 2012 and is open throughout the year for quiet contemplation. Armed Services Day is celebrated annually at the Tower in May. The next celebration will be on Saturday, May 20, 2017.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the World War II Tower, an affinity group of the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC). MAC is a multifaceted not-for-profit organization committed to promoting the preservation, interpretation, and cultural enrichment of the Cape May region for its residents and visitors. MAC membership is open to all. For information about MAC’s year-round schedule of tours, festivals, and special events call (609) 884-5404 or (800) 275-4278, or visit MAC’s website at www.capemaymac.org.
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Tom Brady was born on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo, an affluent California city of more than 90,000 residents located 30 minutes south of San Francisco. His parents, Tom Sr. and Galynn, were big sports fans. They raised their four children to share their passion. Tom’s three older sisters—Maureen, Julie, and Nancy—were all athletic. He followed in their footsteps. Tom was crazy about the 49ers. During his childhodd, his parents took him to plenty of game at Candlestick Park. One of his earliest childhood memories was the 1981 NFC Championship Game between the Niners and Dallas Cowboys. The three-year-old cried for the entire first half because his mom and dad refused to buy him an oversized foam “#1” hand.
Any Tom Brady fans out there? Some interesting information about Tom Brady has been mention of the best quarterbacks of all time. Oh Yes, we carry Tom’s shoe size in a 12, we go to a 17 in length and 15 in women’s length as well, and if Tom needs wider width – we have up to 14 E widths in our line of shoes, and that is for women as well.
Tom Brady was born on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo, an affluent California city of more than 90,000 residents located 30 minutes south of San Francisco. His parents, Tom Sr. and Galynn, were big sports fans. They raised their four children to share their passion. Tom’s three older sisters—Maureen, Julie, and Nancy—were all athletic. He followed in their footsteps.
Tom was crazy about the 49ers. During his childhodd, his parents took him to plenty of game at Candlestick Park. One of his earliest childhood memories was the 1981 NFC Championship Game between the Niners and Dallas Cowboys. The three-year-old cried for the entire first half because his mom and dad refused to buy him an oversized foam “#1” hand.
In the second half, as the drama increased and the energy began to build, Tom began paying attention to the action on the field. He did not understand everything that was happening, but he knew his favorite player, Joe Montana, was up to something special. When Montana found Dwight Clark in the back of the end zone to pull off an incredible comeback, the stadium exploded. That play sent San Francisco to its first Super Bowl—and permanently shifted the balance of power in pro football. It also got Tom thinking it would be pretty cool to be a pro quarterback some day.
.Tom’s blend of intelligence and a never-say-die attitude served him well in youth sports. He flourished at positions where those qualities mattered most, most notably as a baseball catcher. He could hit, run, throw, and handle pitchers as well as anyone around. Though a football career still occupied his thoughts, he did not play in an organized league until his freshman year at Junipero Serra High School, an all-boys Catholic school in San Mateo that had produced its fair share of superstar athletes, including Lynn Swann and Barry Bonds.
Tom made the JV as a backup quarterback for the Padres, and then ascended to the first-string role after an injury felled the starter. By his junior year, he was starring on the varsity for Serra in two sports, football and baseball. Known for his incredible work ethic, Tom was a coach’s dream. Dissatisfied with the football squad ’s training regimen, he devised his own. Included was a jump rope routine that quickly became a regular part of team workouts. Over the summers, only the most dedicated teammates joined Tom in his torturous training program.
By his senior season, Tom was seeing the fruits of his hard work. He gained national attention in 1994 as a quarterback, including All-America recognition by both Blue Chip Illustrated and Prep Football Report. He ended his prep career with 3,702 yards passing and 31 touchdowns. Tom was also honored as an All-State and All-Far West performer.
He was no slouch on the baseball diamond, either. In the 1995 draft, the Montreal Expos picked him in the 18th round.
By that time, Tom had decided his future lay in football. It was a smart choice. Two of the players drafted ahead of him by the Expos—Michael Barrett and Brian Schneider—would eventually become the team’s catching tandem.
Tom was a sought-after football prospect who had his choice of schools from coast to coast. Though many colleges closer to home were interested in him, he accepted a scholarship from the University of Michigan.
Tom arrived on campus in Ann Arbor in 1995. He had no real shot at playing time. The program was under extreme pressure to produce a conference champion. It had been two years since the Wolverines last went to the Rose Bowl, and coach Gary Moeller was fired before the season following a drunken incident. His replacement, defensive coordinator Lloyd Carr, faced high expectations and a murderous schedule.
Carr red-shirted Tom and went with the combination of freshman Scott Dreisbach and sophomore Brian Griese at quarterback. Though Michigan finished the regular season at 9-3, the teamnever developed much of a rhythm. The year ended with a 22-20 loss to Texas A&M in the Alamo Bowl.
Tom spent the 1996 season as the Wolverines’ number-three quarterback. He saw mop-up duty in just a couple of games but made great strides in other ways. He developed a firm grasp of the team’s playbook and got to practice with the first-stringers, which helped his timing and bolstered his confidence. Michigan, meanwhile, began to reassert itself as a Big Ten powerhouse. Its defense, led by linebacker Jared Irons and cornerback Charles Woodson, did solid work. The Wolverine offense was piloted by Dreisbach, who beat out Griese for the starting job in the preseason.
Disappointing losses to Northwestern and Penn State cast a shadow over an otherwise good season and made many Michigan fans wonder whether Dreisbach was the right man to lead the team. When Carr played Griese against Auburn in the Outback Bowl—and the Wolverines won 41-14—the quarterback job was once again up for grabs.
Tom played third fiddle once again in 1997. He pouted when Griese won the starting job in camp and briefly considered transferring to Cal, where he’d have a better chance to play. But with Michigan dominating its opponents, Tom got snaps in three of the first four games. Though he yearned for a bigger role on the team, Tom grew to view Ann Arbor as an okay place to be. The campus was in the throes of a national title run, and he realized that there were worse things than being a backup on a championship-caliber team. He also heeded advice from Carr, who told him to concentrate on improving his game.
Unfortunately, Tom’s year ended early when he underwent an emergency appendectomy in October. During his recovery, he made up his mind to stop brooding and become the starting QB at Michigan. Tom watched from the sidelines as Griese led the Wolverines to a share of the national title with a 21-16 win over Washington State in the Rose Bowl. He hoped to bring the team back to the big game himself one day.
With Griese graduated, Tom was among the candidates for the starting quarterback job for the 1998 campaign. His main competition was Dreisbach and freshman Drew Henson. After a strong camp, Tom was anointed the starter by Carr.
That was the good news. But things quickly went badly for the Wolverines and Tom. They lost a road game to Notre Dame, and then were beaten by Syracuse at home. Unwilling to heap all the blame on his quarterback, Carr decided to stick with Tom. Finally the season started to turn around. Tom’s teammates gained confidence in his playmaking ability, the offensive line gelled, and running back Anthony Thomas started to rack up big yards. The improved rushing attack opened up the field for Tom, who picked apart Indiana and Penn State to even Michigan’s record at 2-2.
Tom saved his best for the Wolverines’ biggest rival. Against Ohio State, he completed 31 of 56 attempts for 375 yards and a touchdown, and set school records for completions, attempts, and yardage. It wasn’t enough, however, as Michigan fell 31-16.
The loss to the the Buckeyes proved to be Michigan’s only defeat in its last 11 games. In the Citrus Bowl, Tom lifted the Wolverines to a 45-31 come-from-behind wion over Arkansas. An Academic All-Big Ten selection, he finished the year with 2,636 yards and 15 touchdowns. Only Jim Harbaugh had thrown for more yardage in a season for Michigan.
Even after his solid campaign—and the fact he was voted one of Michigan’s team captains—Tom was not a lock to start in 1999. The reason was Henson. The sophomore was considered to be a once-in-a-lifetime talent. Among those who agreed were the New York Yankees, who drafted him as a third baseman in June of 1998. Henson played a few minor-league games that year before heading off to Ann Arbor. In 1999, he flourished in Single-A, slugging 13 homers in 69 games. He returned to Michigan in August, eager to supplant Tom as the Wolverines’ first-string passer.
The quarterback battle intensified as the opener against Notre Dame approached. Carr, unable to make up his mind, announced that both Tom and Henson would see significant time under center. Tom wasn’t happy about splitting time, his coach’s indecisiveness, or being snubbed, but he kept his mouth shut and trusted things to work out. He had learned in 1997 that the smartest way to handle disappointment was to keep his head clear and be ready to make plays when called upon.
In the first quarter of the Notre Dame game, Tom spearheaded a pair of drives that resulted in Michigan field goals. In the second quarter, Henson led the team to a third field goal. The Fighting Irish, however, were scoring touchdowns against the Wolverine defense. At halftime, it was clear to Carr that he had to pick a quarterback and go with him the rest of the way. He chose Tom, who erased a 14-point deficit and led the team to a stirring 26-22 win. He finished the day hitting on 17 of 24 passes for 197 yards.
Though he was still sharing the job with Henson, Tom continued to establish himself as the team’s true starter. He threw for 250 yards and two touchdowns against Purdue, then lit up Michigan State with 285 yards and two more scores. Against Illinois, he piled up 307 yards in another two-touchdown performance. That finally convinced Carr to end his rotating quarterback system. With Tom at the helm, Michigan closed out the regular season with four straight wins to secure an Orange Bowl bid.
Tom ended his Michigan career with a flourish in Miami. He torched Alabama in a 35-34 overtime victory, completing 34 of 46 attempts for 369 yards and four touchdowns. His final pass as a collegian, a 25-yarder to Shawn Thompson, won the game for the Wolverines. The final numbers on Tom’s senior year—2,586 yards passing, 20 touchdowns, and just six interceptions—highlighted his ability to read defenses and hit receivers in stride.
Opinions on the pro prospects for Tom were mixed. Scouts didn’t question his attitude. He was fearless, hard-working, and willing to learn. They also gave him high marks for the accuracy of his arm. The big concern was Tom’s durability. Though he stood 6-4, he weighed only 205 pounds. In addition, Tom didn’t run well and couldn’t throw deep with much effectiveness. Most pegged him as a career backup—someone who could fulfill a support role, but certainly not a player worthy of a high pick.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick was one of the few who saw a little more upside when he looked at the Michigan quarterback. With Drew Bledsoe ensconced at starter, and veteran John Friesz slated for back-up duty, Tom seemed worth a gamble. He would join former Kansas State star Michael Bishop on the bench, and Belichick hoped that one of the two would step into the second-string job by 2001. The Pats selected Tom with their sixth-round pick.
Tom was grateful that someone had taken him. When the draft started, he had envisioned himself going in the first few rounds. As team after team passed him over, he grew increasingly frustrated. According to his parents, he grabbed a baseball bat, stomped out of their home, and did a little backyard “landscaping” to let off some steam.
By the time Tom arrived at training camp with the Pats, he had worked things out and was ready to start his pro career. His new teammates teased him when they saw his spindly frame, but they respected how serious he was about learning his position. Over the course of the season, he committed the playbook to memory, added 15 pounds of muscle, and slowly but surely improved his arm strength.
At night, Tom would practice his footwork in his apartment. Hardly a moment went by that he was not preparing in some way for the day he would get to play. Although the league viewed him as a fringe type, he was sure he could get the job done in a starting role. His mission was to make believers out of everyone in pro football.
On the field, the Patriots were awful in 2000. Tom watched all but one game from the bench. His lone appearance came in a 34-9 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Lions, one of 11 losses for New England. He completed one pass for six yards.
As training camp broke in 2001, there was little enthusiasm in New England. Despite a lot of new faces—including corner Terrell Buckley, linebackers Mike Vrabel and Roman Phifer, halfback Antowain Smith and wideout David Patten—it promised to be another gruesome year. The Pats needed impact players, and none of these veterans qualified. A pair of rookie linemen—defensive tackle Richard Seymour and guard Matt Light—added depth in the trenches, but only Seymour seemed to have the potential to be a major contributor. As had been the case in years past, the team would go as far as Bledsoe could take them.
Although no headlines were roaring his name, Tom was one of the team’s lone bright spots during the preseason. He was beefier and faster than in his rookie season—enough so that Belichick decided to release Bishop and go with Tom as the backup.
The season opened against the hapless Cincinnati Bengals, but it was the Patriots who took the loss, 23-17. The following week, New York Jets linebacker Mo Lewis put a ferocious hit on Bledsoe and knocked him out of the game. Belichick was forced to turn to Tom. With time ticking away and a chance to tie the game, he brought the Pats to the 29-yard-line, but the drive stalled and New England dropped to 0-2.
Far worse than the team’s winless start was the news that Bledsoe had sheared a blood vessel in his chest. Not only was he badly injured, he could have died. For better or worse, Tom was now the starter, until Bledsoe was cleared to play again.
In Week 3, the defense came through against Peyton Manning and the Colts, causing several key turnovers and holding Indianapolis to a single touchdown. Tom played a solid game, and New England got the win, 23-13. The following week, however, he could not move the ball against the Dolphins and the Patriots fell in Miami, 30-10.
With the team mired in the cellar at 1-3 and Bledsoe’s recovery going more slowly than anticipated, New England fans were ready to write off the season. Safety Lawyer Milloy was not. After the Miami game, he told Tom that he needed to be a more dynamic leader. Tom had done it in college—now it was time to do it here.
The following week, Tom brought the Pats back from a 10-point deficit late in the fourth quarter against the San Diego Chargers. Two scoring drives sent the game into overtime, and kicker Adam Vinatieri split the uprights for a 29-26 victory. Feeling more confident, Tom then beat the Colts again. He threw for three touchdowns, including a 91-yarder to Patten—the longest play from scrimmage in franchise history.
Them everybody knows his story from this point on.
“Being that Tom Brady is a 12 in shoe sizes, and we carry five lengths past his size, we carry up to a 17 in length for men and for women we carry up to 15 in length. I don’t know Tom’s width but if he needs a wider width, “Extra Wide Shoes’ or “Wide Wide Shoes” then we have that for him as well being that we carry up to 14E width, and that is women’s as well.
I need to talk to the men out there. Is your 6E hurting your feet? I have received three calls this week stating that problem. This is why our 9E program has been an unbelievable success!!!! Oh, a note: all 3 of those men love their new 9E width shoes!!
All so what is so important about those FREE 3 sets of inserts. First, we are the only site on the internet that offers 3 sets FREE!!! Second, if your feet hurt on the bottom, it is because the lack of support and this is what these heat moldable customized inserts do for your feet. More foundation and they mold to the plantar(bottom) of your foot and creates that maximum support, balance, and comfort.
WE NOW HAVE 80 NEW STYLES FOR MEN’S, AND WOMEN’S IN FASHION FOOTWEAR added to our website. Also, we have a whole new division of 9E widths for men. We are the only internet site, on the web, to offer FREE 3 sets of inserts for every purchase of a pair of shoes for men and women. These inserts created an added support, balance, customization and added circulation to the foot! The reason for three sets, FREE, is that the material on the upper will compress down over time, and the material loses its effect of creating heat for added circulation benefits. So every four months you replace them, and you have a whole supply for One Year.
The question I get is “what does this have to do with the working environment?” Besides this being an interesting story and you as a read to understand the need of proper length and width for your feet to be 100 percent comfortable. The fewer distractions and the better health, in your life, the more output and outlook you’ll have towards life and especially towards work. Meaning that, you gain better status in your working environment, and your total daily production is not at risk. If your shoe is too large, too tight, too heavy (in weight), no support, wow what a comfort problem!! A SIGNIFICANT FACT, IF YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE THAT IS MISFIT IN A PAIR OF SHOES (TO SMALL OR WHATEVER) then you have a miserable employee, and production is the guarantee to be at a lower rate!
Women’s and Men’s Wide Shoes” then we have that for her as well-being that we carry up to 14E width, and that is men’s as well.
Health is the number one priority for any person but especially a person who is diabetic or has foot conditions. We also want to create the appropriate health for your feet, and this will occur by proper footwear and the correct inserts. This following information, you’ll be reading, is what is needed to obtain this perfect health for your feet.
Now, if we can get you in the proper footwear and hopefully you’ll allow these two items to be part of your lifestyle. These things will be working towards this success in keeping the disease out of your feet. We, at dtfootwear.com, can show you the proper footwear and the need to have the proper inserts to maintain this diabetes out of your feet. Footwear as to have fashion (that we have) but the shoe is to control upper support and off-load any problems that you have at the top of your foot. Now, if you have problems, on the bottom of your feet, then it is the job of the properly removable insert to correct these issues. Everybody feels that it is the shoe that solves all the problems for a diabetic or a person who has major foot problems and that are not true. It takes two majors elements to off-loading, corrections, significant added support and develops combined circulation, which needs to keep this disease out of your feet. All diabetic shoes need not have inside seams to create irritation.
Number one item: Proper shoes need to be a Therapeutic/Comfort (please!), not Comfort shoes (that many diabetic supplier furnishes in this business today).
Number two is Customized Heat Moldable Plastazote Insert. Beside excellent support, added off-loading advantages, develops a better balance for walking or running and the added two percent that raise the temperature of the bottom of your feet and produces combined circulation to keep the disease out of your feet. What added pleasures and advantages in just one item. Oh, yes these inserts are provided, by us, FREE when you purchase a pair of shoes – unbelievable!!!!
Please take this blog very serious because if you could spend a day with us – you would not believe the different types of a complication of not having the proper footwear and inserts and not taking care of your feet.
So, how you see the importance of a Diet and the proper footwear make your feet healthy at all times.
We have the best athletic, casual, elegant designs, walking styles of men’s and women’s in the Therapeutic/Comfort line of shoes in the country. We have the length and the widths and where proud of our designs and construction in the world of “Women’s Wide Shoes.” Any person that needs correct width needs to know that the shoes need an extension on the sole of the shoe to adequately house their foot with no hangover with their feet to the shoe. Meaning that every width, with us (in a good percentage of our shoes), have two widths wider at the outsole of the shoe? So if you need a 6E width, we’ll have an 8E bottom for the base of that width. So again no hangover for your feet and a perfect base for your feet to have all the support and balance that is needed.
A Comfort shoe is usually not a Therapeutic shoe, and a Comfort shoe usually has little midsection support. The lack of the Mid-Section support allows your feet to be moving forward and lateral at the same time. These two movements add a great deal more wear and tear on your feet. If you need a view of all our styles, please go to our site dtfootwear.com
We, at DTF, have grave concern for diabetics and their need for properly fitted footwear. We can provide “wide widths” – 2E to 14E – in both men’s and women’s footwear, and we can help those who have difficulty finding “over sizes” – 11 to 17 in length. We, also, can provide footwear in “under sizes” – 4 to 6 in length. In addition to being capable of providing these full widths in fashionable styles of Therapeutic/Comfort footwear; we are offering a gift to you! With every pair of shoes purchased, we will include up to (3) sets of Customized Heat Moldable Inserts that will provide even more support, added balance and stability every time you wear your shoes. Again, ALL FOR FREE!!
I hope that this blog has provided you with enough information to help you understand how we can help you. In conclusion, if you are having problems with your feet, please do not hesitate to call me on my cell phone 909-215-1622. I am often on the phone or in a meeting, so please leave a message and I will return your call at my earliest opportunity!
We have a saying, in our company, “try us, and you’ll have the experience of walking on a pillow, all day long, with more added support and more room and balance that you have ever had in any of your shoes before.” Guaranteed
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Resolution of Issues Regarding Cuba-U.S. Lease of Guantanamo Bay
Since the December 17, 2014, announcement of rapprochement, Cuba has voiced at least three demands or issues regarding its lease of Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. The most serious one is ending the lease and returning this territory to complete Cuban control. The second is the U.S.’ paying for use of the territory since the Cuban Revolution’s takeover of the island in 1959. The third is Cuba’s objection to the U.S.’ establishing and maintaining a prison for detainees after 9/11 and to the U.S.’ alleged mistreatment and torture of those detainees.
Understanding these issues requires an examination of (a) the Cuban war for independence, 1895-1898, and the Spanish-American War of 1898; (b) the terms of seven documents relating to the lease, all of which predate the Cuban Revolution; and (c) the position of the Revolutionary government toward these documents and the lease. [1] In conclusion, this post will discuss methods for resolving these issues.
Before all of that, here are maps and photographs of Guantanamo Bay.
The Cuban War for Independence and the Spanish-American War [2]
In 1895 Cubans started a revolt or war of independence from Spain, which responded with ferocity, launching its “reconcentrado” campaign that herded 300,000 Cubans into re-concentration camps. Spain’s tactics infuriated many Americans, who began to raise money and even fight on the side of the Cuban nationalists while American businesses with economic interests on the island were worried about the safety of their investments. U.S. President William McKinley wanted an end to the Cuban-Spanish conflict, but demanded that Spain act responsibly and humanely and that any settlement be acceptable to Cuban nationals.
In November 1897, an amicable resolution appeared possible when the Spanish granted the Cubans limited autonomy and closed the re-concentration camps. But after pro-Spanish demonstrators rioted in Havana in January 1898 to protest Spain’s more conciliatory policies, McKinley ordered the U.S. battleship Maine to Havana to protect American citizens and property and to demonstrate that the U.S. still valued Spain’s friendship.
With the Maine safely moored in Spanish waters, the Spanish-American relationship was jolted by the publication in a New York newspaper of a letter by the Spanish minister to the U.S. describing McKinley as “weak and a bidder for the admirations of the crowd” and revealing that the Spanish were not negotiating in good faith with the U.S. Americans saw the letter as an attack on both McKinley’s and the nation’s honor. The American public’s anger only intensified following an explosion on the Maine and its sinking on February 15, 1898, in Havana Harbor, killing 266 crew members. The Navy, on March 21, reported that an external explosion, presumably from a Spanish mine, had destroyed the ship.
With diplomatic initiatives exhausted and the American public wanting an end to the Cuban crisis, McKinley, in mid-April 1898, asked Congress for authority to intervene in Cuba, which it granted. Spain soon broke relations with the U.S., and the U.S. blockaded Cuba’s ports. On April 23, Spain declared war on the U.S. Two days later the U.S. did likewise with the Teller amendment committing the U.S. to the independence of Cuba once the war had ended, disclaiming “any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof.”
What became known as the Spanish-American War lasted only a little over three months with U.S. victories in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines ending in a cease fire on August 12, 1898. Under the Paris Peace Treaty of December 10, 1898, the U.S. obtained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands while Spain renounced its claim to Cuba, which remained under U.S. military occupation until 1902.
Thereafter, Cuba would be a de facto U.S. protectorate until 1934.
The Lease of Guantanamo Bay
The first five of the seven documents relating to the Guantanamo lease were created during the period that Cuba was a de facto protectorate of the U.S.
Act of Congress (March 2, 1901). On this date, President McKinley signed an Act of Congress that included what was called “the Platt Amendment,” which authorized the U.S. President “to leave the government and control of the island of Cuba to its people so soon as a government shall have been established in said island under a constitution which, either as a part thereof or in an ordinance appended thereto, shall define the future relations of the United States with Cuba, [and shall include the following: provisions]:
“I. That the government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgement in or control over any portion of said island.”
“III. That the government of Cuba consents that the [U.S.] may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the [U.S.], now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.”
“”VII. That to enable the [U.S.] to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the [U.S.] lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.”
Constitution of Cuba (May 20, 1902). On this date, the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba was promulgated, and Article VII of its Appendix provided: “To enable the [U.S.] to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the Cuban Government will sell or lease to the [U.S.] the lands necessary for coaling or naval stations, at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.”
U.S.-Cuba Agreement (February 23, 1903). Pursuant to the just mentioned Cuban constitutional provision, on February 23, 1903, the U.S. and Cuba entered into the “Agreement . . . for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations.” Its Article I stated that Cuba “hereby leases to the United States, for the time required for the purposes of coaling and naval stations, the following described areas of land and water [Guantanamo Bay and Bahia Honda] [3] situated in the Island of Cuba”
This Agreement’s Article II stated, “The grant of the foregoing Article shall include the right to use and occupy the waters adjacent to said areas of land and water, and to improve and deepen the entrances thereto and the anchorages therein, and generally to do any and all things necessary to fit the premises for use as coaling or naval stations only, and for no other purpose.” (Emphasis added.)
This Agreement concluded in Article III, whereby the U.S. “recognizes the continuance of the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of Cuba over the above described areas of land and water, on the other hand the Republic of Cuba consents that during the period of the occupation by the [U.S.] of said areas under the terms of this agreement the [U.S.] shall exercise complete jurisdiction and control over and within said areas.”
Unlike most leases, this agreement did not set forth a set period of time for the lease or the compensation or rent to be paid.
Treaty between the United States of America and Cuba (May 22, 1903). This treaty in Article I states, “The Government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes, or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.”
Article III provides, “The Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba.”
Article VII adds, “To enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the Government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations, at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.”
Lease of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval or Coaling Stations in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda (July 2, 1903). This instrument details additional terms of the lease in seven articles. Its Article I specified the compensation that the U.S. would pay to Cuba for the leased territories: “the annual sum of two thousand dollars, in gold coin of the United States, as long as the former shall occupy and use said areas of land by virtue of said agreement.” Under Article II, the U.S. agreed “that no person, partnership, or corporation shall be permitted to establish or maintain a commercial, industrial or other enterprise within said areas.”
There still was no set period of time for the lease of the territory.
On November 12, 1903, Guantánamo Bay Outer Harbor passed into U.S. hands “without any formality” and was “effected in a quiet manner.”
Treaty between United States of America and Cuba (May 29, 1934). By 1934 there had been changes in the overall relationship between the two countries. The U.S., pursuing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “good neighbor” policy, proposed to nullify the previously mentioned May 22, 1903, U.S.-Cuba Treaty. Cuba had become increasingly upset with the earlier treaty’s Platt Amendment granting the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba, and Cuba welcomed the idea of nullifying the 1903 treaty. Negotiations to that end proceeded quickly; and a new Cuban-American Treaty of Relations was signed on May 29, 1934, and after rapid ratifications by both states it entered into force on June 9, 1934. This effectively ended the U.S. de facto protectorate of Cuba.
The 1934 treaty in Article II also stated: “All the acts effected in Cuba by the [U.S.] during its military occupation of the island, up to May 20,1902, the date on which the Republic of Cuba was established, have been ratified and held as valid; and all the rights legally acquired by virtue of those acts shall be maintained and protected.”
Article III added the following language with respect to the naval station at Guantánamo Bay: “The supplementary agreement in regard to naval or coaling station signed between the two Governments on July 2, 1903, also shall continue in effect in the same form and on the same conditions with respect to the naval station at Guantánamo. So long as the United States of America shall not abandon the said naval station of Guantánamo or the two Governments shall not agree to a modification of its present limits, the station shall continue to have the territory it now has, with the limits that it has on the date of the signature of the present Treaty.”
The implication of Article III is that the U.S. at any time can walk away from the lease at Guantánamo (abandon the base), but the Cubans can never revoke the lease.
Change in Amount of Rent (1938). Although the source document has not been located, secondary sources say the annual rent for Guantanamo was changed in 1938 to $4,085 (U.S. Dollars), which was the 1938 equivalent of $2,000 in U.S. gold coins. That term has never been changed. Indeed, the U.S. documents transmitting the annual rent checks in that amount for 2011, 2012 and 2013 merely refer to the July 2, 1903, Lease while stating the amount of $4,085 was “computed in the manner of which the government of Cuba has been advised in connection with previous rental payments.” [4]
Cuba’s Revolutionary Government’s Positions Regarding the Lease
Soon after the Cuban Revolution took over the government in January 1959, it started calling for the U.S. to get out of Guantanamo. Over time Cuba set out four different, and sometimes contradictory, legal arguments for invalidating the lease. Even though some international law experts thought Cuba had a good argument for such invalidation: rebus sic stantibus (fundamental change of circumstances), [5] Cuba never instituted legal proceedings to that end. In addition, while the U.S.S.R. still existed and was a major Cuban ally, the Soviets argued that the lease was an “unequal treaty,” but that legal theory was not embraced by the U.S. and most Western nations.
In addition, Cuba has refused to cash the annual U.S. checks for $4,085 made out to the “Treasurer General of the Republic” (a position that ceased to exist after the Revolution). One such check, however, was cashed in the early days of the Revolution, Cuba says, due to confusion. (Many years ago during a televised interview, Fidel Castro opened a desk drawer in his office to show the collection of uncashed checks.)
At least by 2004, Cuba accepted the lease as valid while asserting that control over Guantanamo “will eventually revert to Cuba because of the nature of the arrangement, ad defined by its domestic law, which prohibits perpetual leases. For example, in 2004, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry stated the arrangement “does not grant a perpetual right but a temporary one over that part of our territory, by which, in due course, as a just right of our people, the illegally occupied territory of Guantanamo should be returned by peaceful means to Cuba.” In short, said Cuba, the lease is valid, but U.S. occupation of the territory is illegal. This argument is ridiculous, in the opinion of this blogger, a retired U.S. lawyer.
There have been at least two U.S. responses to these Cuban arguments of invalidity of the lease. First, under the international legal principle of pacta sunt servanda (the contract is the law between the parties), the lease remained a valid agreement between the two states and Cuba has a legal obligation to adhere to agreements previously entered into despite a change in governments. [6] Second, the revolutionary government’s acceptance of at least one of the annual rent checks was an admission of the lease’s validity or a waiver of Cuba’s objections thereto.
As a retired U.S. lawyer, without doing any legal research, I see potential issues of lease invalidity due to (a) possible undue influence or coercion by the U.S. in establishing the terms of the original lease in 1903 and the modifications in 1934 and 1938; [7] and (b) the U.S. use of Guantanamo possibly exceeding the uses permitted by the lease. Any such claim, however, would be potentially subject, at least in a domestic legal dispute, to the affirmative defenses of waiver, estoppel, ratification, laches and statute of limitations. [8]
The argument for invalidity based on the U.S. use of Guantanamo has been rejected by Professor Strauss. He notes that the lease permits the use of Guantanamo as a “naval station,” which is a term created by the U.S. to allow its Navy to determine the range of activities that could occur at such a “station” and which has been used for fewer functions than a full naval base and more recently as a full naval base. As a result, says Strauss, the limitation on use is “largely meaningless in a practical sense.”
In any event, if Cuba now were to assert a right to terminate the lease, over U.S. objection, then I suggest that such a claim should be submitted to a panel of three arbitrators at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague under its existing Arbitration Rules. Presumably the U.S. in addition to resisting the claim would have a contingent counterclaim (in the event of an arbitration award of termination) for reimbursement for the value of U.S. improvements to the territory.
Such an arbitration proceeding should also include any Cuban claim for compensation for the U.S. use of Guantanamo for 66 years (1960-2015). If, however, such a claims is only for the $4,085 annual rent established in 1938 for a total of $269,610 (without interest), then the claim should be resolved quickly by the U.S. paying the amount of the claim. If, however, the claim is for a higher amount based upon some theory to void the $4,085 figure and instead use a larger amount of alleged fair market value, then presumably such a claim would be contested by the U.S. and a proper claim for arbitration.
Of course, at any time the two parties could negotiate a new lease of Guantanamo, presumably for a specific term of years, with a right of renewal, at a higher and annually adjustable rent. Such a new lease could also impose limits on U.S. use of the territory such as prohibition of the operation of a prison or detention facility.
[1] An excellent overall discussion of the U.S. lease of Guantanamo is contained in Strauss, Cuba and State Responsibility for Human Rights at Guantanamo, 37 So. Ill. Univ. L.J. 533, 533-36 (2013). See also Notes on Guantanamo Bay; Wikipedia, Guantanamo Bay Navy Base.
[2] This brief summary of the two wars is based on American President: William McKinley: Foreign Affairs, Miller Center, Univ. Virginia.
[3] Bahia Honda was never used by the U.S. and reverted to Cuban control.
[4] Boadle, Castro: Cuba not cashing US Guantanamo rent checks, Reuters (Aug. 17, 2007); Shiffer, Annual rent for Girmo Naval Base: $4,085, payable to Cuba, StarTribune (Oct. 10, 2014) (contains U.S. transmittal advices for rental checks for 2011, 2012 and 2013).
[5] The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties that entered into force on January 20, 1980, sets forth “the codification and progressive development of the law of treaties,” which are “international agreement[s] concluded between States in written form and governed by international law.” (Preamble & Art. 2(1)(a).) Its Article 62 recognizes a “fundamental change of circumstances” as a ground for “terminating or withdrawing from” a treaty and defines the conditions for such a ground. Cuba is a party to the treaty, and although the U.S. is not, the State Department has said that this Convention “is already generally recognized as the authoritative guide to current treaty law and practice.” (David Weissbrodt, Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Joan Fitzpatrick, Frank Newman, International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process at 127-28 (4th ed. LexisNexis 2009).)
[6] The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties notes that “the principles of free consent and of good faith and pacta sunt servanda are universally recognized” and its Article 26 under the heading “Pacta sunt servanda” states, “Every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith.”
[7] The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Article 52 provides, “A treaty is void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations.”
[8] The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides in Article 45 that a “State may no longer invoke [breach by the other party or fundamental change of circumstances] if, after becoming aware of the facts: (a) it shall have expressly agreed that the treaty is valid or remains in force or continues in operation . . .; or (b) it must by reason of its conduct be considered as having acquiesced in the validity of the treaty or its maintenance in force or in operation . . . .”
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So many people I know think they don’t like opera. They have little experience of it and perhaps are intimidated by the foreign languages, the length of the performances, and the use of music for all the dialogue. Whatever the reason, they avoid anything which smacks of opera.
The 2020 New Year’s Eve Gala concert from the Metropolitan Opera of New York on Thursday should be an exception. Filmed in Augsburg, Germany, live from the neo-Baroque Parktheater (“a marvel of glass and cast-iron” which opened in 1886), it is a delightful concert appealing to opera experts and novices alike. It premiered on New Year’s Eve and is available to view by streaming until January 13th.
The setting is stunning. When most other opera houses around the world are shuttered, this performance comes from an opera house which is small, intimate, and with what appear to be windows which let in natural light. Lighting for the concert used the windows to wonderful effect. All the seats on the floor of the hall were removed, replaced by a small round stage where the performers sang, accompanied by a pianist for some songs and a small string ensemble for others. The production was conducted according to German COVID-19 requirements, shot with numerous cameras, linked to the control room in New York, and directed by Gary Halvorson, the director of the Met’s Live in HD theatre transmissions.
The Gala program includes arias, duets, and ensembles from Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment, Puccini’s La Boheme and La Rondine, Verdi’s Il Trovatore and La Traviata, and others, as well as operetta excerpts and Neapolitan songs. These are some of the most popular pieces in classical music and will be familiar to many who think they know nothing about opera. Excerpts from the concert are available on YouTube.
The performers are sopranos Angel Blue and Pretty Yende and tenors Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani. Blue starred as Bess in the Met’s production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which opened the 2019–20 season. She is founder of the non-profit Sylvia’s Kids Foundation, which offers scholarships to high school graduates. Yende comes from South Africa, made her debut in Latvia and has sung with most major opera companies around the world. Mexican tenor Camarena is “one of opera’s most celebrated bel canto singers.” He made his Met debut in 2011 as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. American tenor Polenzani made his debut at the Met in 1997 as Boyar Khrushchov in Boris Godunov and has sung nearly 400 performances of 40 roles at the Met since.
The women wear lavish dresses, the men tuxedos. Needless to say, their singing is superb. It was wonderful to see them perform live in such a setting, and to know that people were watching together from all over the world.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased on the Met’s website at metopera.org. Once you have a ticket, you can watch the concert as often as you wish. The concert can be seen on a computer, mobile device, or a home entertainment system (via Chromecast or AirPlay).
The Gala Concert has been marketed as part of the Met’s fundraising campaign “to support the company and protect its future.”
To put it into context, you may be interested to know that the New Year’s Eve Gala has contributed to labour conflicts at the Met. The newsletter, Ludwig Van Toronto, on January 1, 2021, published an article by Anya Wassenberg entitled “THE SCOOP | Frictions Grow Between Met Opera, Met Orchestra And Staff After New Year’s Gala.”
The Met is the largest classical music organization in the US with about 1000 employees including musicians, stagehands, and members of the chorus. It is said that the Met has lost $154 million in revenues since the pandemic began. On Thursday, Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians complained that the Gala continued the Met strategy of outsourcing its musicians which was “artistic malpractice and unacceptable.” In December, the stagehands were locked out. The unions are concerned that employees of the Met have not been paid or supported during the pandemic, and that future contract negotiations will be affected. I had assumed that the “fundraising campaign,” which was the purpose of the MetStars series and the Gala, would have supported as many Met employees as possible. Apparently, it did not extend to the musicians, stagehands, and chorus.
Comments about the New Year’s Gala reflect the situation. Most agree that it was a splendid concert with great music and fabulous production values. Some chose to boycott the concert because of the labour issues. I have no informed opinion about the situation. The only thing I will say is that the Metropolitan Opera has led the world in making opera accessible to the masses. If making opera more popular is one of the objectives of the MetStars series, including the Gala, then it will contribute to the future of the art. That is a good thing.
As for the concert, it is absolutely exhilarating. The choice of music is diverse, demanding, delightful, and upbeat. The words reflect common operatic themes, the vagaries of human experience, and are translated in the subtitles. The performers are super-energetic and totally engaging. That they touch each other, hold hands, and hug is novel and good to see after ten months of rigid physical distancing. By the time they end the concert, singing Auld Lang Syne, they clearly are having great fun. It’s a concert which will leave you smiling as you enter the new year.
(By the way, Ludwig Van Toronto, and Ludwig Van Montreal, are websites dedicated to lovers of classical music. Their email newsletter notes that while the mainstream media is cutting back on classical music coverage, Ludwig Van is investing in it. Its motto is “If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You’re Dead Wrong!” You can choose to receive the email newsletter daily, weekly, or monthly. I had no idea that it existed and am delighted to plug into what it has to offer. Check out their website.)
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Christmas 2020 has been the most wonderful opportunity to access music. It’s as if multiple choral groups and musicians decided to share their talent and creativity with the world in a common desire to rise above COVID-19 and give a gift of hope. The result has been memorable in the best possible way.
The most sublime of the music emerging this season has been Messiah/Complex from Against the Grain Theatre. Billed as “A daring reimagining of Handel’s classic featuring voices from across Canada,” it is a breath-taking rendition of the classic music in Arabic, Dene, English, French, Inuktitut, and Southern Tutchone.
Produced in cooperation with the Toronto Symphony and the Banff Centre for the Arts, the production was co-directed by Joel Ivany of Against the Grain and Reneltta Arluk, Director of Indigenous Arts at the Banff Centre. The twelve soloists and four choirs come from every province and territory. They sing in their own languages and with visuals of the entire country… amidst northern snows, by ocean waters, in the woods, on the prairies, in the heart of our largest urban cities, at work or school, beside campfires. The language has been updated and the photography is contemporary. All of the artists contributed from apart, on video. But they worked together to give Canadians and the world a seasonal gift that would lift spirits and provide hope in this difficult time. The production is a musical and visual tour de force which shows the talent, creativity, and diversity of Canadian people and the breathtaking beauty of our country.
It is a profoundly moving experience. In the few weeks since it launched, there have been 55,000 views. Viewers are wild with praise: “so beautiful and so terribly long overdue,” from New York, another writes, I am “sobbing thru the beauty of this Messiah… and saluting CANADA for leading and showing the rest of us what true Diversity and shared Joy and Beauty and Hope look and sound like and unite us across all different races, religions, cultures into what makes us most extraordinarily HUMAN.” From Nashville: “absolutely extraordinary! Leave it to Canada to bring us a performance of such unusual brilliance at the tail end of such a miserable year.” “Life-enhancing,” “transformative… I will never hear Messiah the same way again,” “not enough superlatives.” “Possibly the most uplifting thing I have seen during this whole wretched COVID time.” “Astonishingly good musically and challenging, eye opening and… beautiful.” “Like no other Messiah I’ve ever heard or seen. Stunning visuals, beautiful voices, and whole new meaning for some of the words.” You get the idea. Whatever your normal response to the usual Messiah, this is a truly memorable experience which you should not miss.
This production went public on December 13th. Streaming has now been extended to January 31st. The history of how the production came about and profiles of the soloists are readily available on YouTube. Accessing the production itself seemed slightly more difficult. The performance is free of charge and can be streamed as often as you wish. To access the performance, you register on the ticket portal of Against the Grain’s website. Select a ticket beginning ASAP; only one ticket is necessary. Once done, you can access the ticket in your account. When you open your account window, you will see the name of the production, Messiah/Complex, in red. Click that and another window will open, with the words “view livestream.” That opens the YouTube stream of the live performance. It took me a while to figure it out, but it is well worth it.
I now see that Margaret Atwood posted a Tweet with a direct link to the video on You Tube. If she can do that, I can too.
Enjoy and Happy New Year.
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Feeling constrained? Without inspiration? As if the pandemic is going to go on forever? To help lift any malaise, check out the “Met Stars Live in Concert” series from the New York Metropolitan Opera. It will feature twelve live concerts performed by Met stars from around the world, singing in striking venues close to where they live. If the first concert is any indication, this series will live up its promise of “the intimacy of an at home concert with the production values of the Met’s HD video series.”
The first concert was last Saturday with tenor Jonas Kaufmann from the Polling Abbey near Munich in Bavaria. Accompanied by pianist Helmut Deutsch, he sang twelve of what are said to be the most difficult and significant tenor arias from the Italian and French opera repertoire. Selections included “Nessun dorma” from Turandot, “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca, “Ah! lève-toi, soleil” from Roméo et Juliette, and “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée” from Carmen, and others.
Critics have called the concert “splendid,” “mesmerizing,” “a jewel of a program” with “high production values,” “video as good as a movie theatre, sound… probably better.” Between sets, the concert featured video excerpts of his operatic roles with the Met over several years and also with the Salzburg Easter Festival.
A concert ticket at $20.00 buys digital access to the original concert and access to the video of the concert to stream at leisure for twelve days thereafter. I loved the concert and seeing the abbey, and have enjoyed re-listening to the concert this week.
The concerts are scheduled every second week from July 18th to December l9th. Stars will appear from Vienna, Malta, Switzerland, France, Berlin, Wales, Oslo, Barcelona, and the United States. You can find the schedule of stars in recital at Met Stars Live in Concert, where tickets are available for purchase. Once you have your ticket, you will be sent a link to the original concert which you can then use for repeat streaming.
The next concert on August 1st is American soprano Renée Fleming singing from the music salon at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC. Her program will include: “Endless pleasure, endless love” from Handel’s Semele, “Baïlèro” by Joseph Canteloube, “Ah! Je ris de me voir” from Gounod’s Faust, “Da geht er hin” from R. Stauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and other arias by Korngold, Cilea, Puccini and Harold Arlen. She has appeared with leading opera companies and orchestras around the world, and is the recipient of numerous national and international honours. Since winning the l988 Met’s National Council Audition, she has given more than 250 performances in 22 roles with the company. She made her Broadway debut in 2015 and, in 2018, was nominated for a Tony Award for her role of Nettie Fowler in Carousel. Her concert promises to be sublime.
Don’t forget that the Metropolitan Opera is still streaming their repertoire of HD opera videos, free of charge, every day. The list of operas released each week is published on their webpage the previous Friday. Each opera video is released at 7:30 p.m. EDT and available for viewing until 6:30 EDT the next day. Last weekend was Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Puccini’s La Bohème.
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When We Hear Music…
We hear music in our souls, and our spirits soar up like seagulls (I haven’t seen any eagles recently). Keeping cozy at home, which apparently is a national trait of Danes (which I claim as part of my ancestry through my maternal grandfather), I have a chance to listen to and learn about music. So I am discovering.
It is embarrassing to admit that only recently have I come to know the vast resources available on YouTube. How could I have missed it? My grandson has used YouTube for years. I gather that now there is even a YouTubeKids for music, videos, games, and all sorts of learning activities specially curated for children and youth.
Lori asks, “Why sleep, when there is so much to listen to on YouTube?” Where have I been all this time? There is even YouTubePremium, which is free for thirty days and gives ad-free performances even when your computer is off-line. And AppleMusic. And all those other streaming services which I am just beginning to appreciate. Wedded as I was (note the tense) to compact discs and the music I have downloaded to iTunes, I have never before taken the time to explore more modern means to access music. That was then; this is now.
The pandemic seems to have stimulated a cornucopia of creative activity waiting for us to share. I have already mentioned free access to the New York Metropolitan Opera videos which I gather can be converted into a subscription at a modest cost.
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ode to Joy, “From Us to You,” performed March 20, 2020 on YouTube was among the first. To date, over 2.6 million people have heard their rendition. A couple of days later, musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performed Appalachian Spring using the same “playing together although apart” modern technology. If you have not yet heard these, check them out.
I have since discovered that Canada’s 125-year-old Mendelssohn Choir has fifteen of its concerts since 2014 available as webcasts on its Vimeo/Livestream webpage. You can also visit their history blog.
Even Toronto Consort, Toronto’s outstanding early music ensemble which I have written about before, has preview tracks of its most recent compact disk “The Way of the Pilgrim: Medieval Songs of Travel,” on its webpage. You can purchase their CDs from Marquis Music, Amazon.ca and iTunes.
I am gearing up for the “One World: Together at Home” concert tomorrow (Saturday) evening April 18, 2020. It bills itself as the largest ever “broadcast and digital performance in support of frontline healthcare workers and the WHO.” Organized in cooperation with Lady Gaga, it will feature over one hundred artists including Canada’s Céline Dion and Justin Bieber. Check out your local schedules to see it on CBC, CTV, and a host of other channels, or catch it on your computer, beginning at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Enjoy.
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An Extraordinary Easter
What an extraordinary Easter it was this year.
Apart physically, as never before, we seemed together more than ever. On Saturday, our family enjoyed a get-together by Zoom: some at home two hours north of Ottawa, others in the eastern GTA, Bill and I in Vancouver. Sunday morning, Bathurst United Church which for decades has met in the chapel at Bloor Street and Walmer Avenue in Toronto, conducted their Easter service by Zoom. Thirty-one members (a good number for this very small congregation) participated, including many old-timers like me who haven’t attended in person for years.
My brother and sister-in-law, who are Roman Catholic, attended four masses over the Easter weekend, all virtual. They could choose mass from their home church or from a dozen other Catholic churches around the city, or cathedrals around the world. My sister and her friend welcomed Easter Sunday morning by tolling the bell at the Gothic yellow wood St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Dawson City, Yukon (built in 1902).
Most sublime was to see and hear global musical icon Andrea Bocelli singing Music for Hope live on Easter Sunday in the empty Duomo di Milano. He sang at the invitation of the Cathedral and the City of Milan, accompanied only by the magnificent Cathedral organist.
His repertoire? Five of the most-beloved pieces of music in the Christian tradition: César Franck’s Panis Angelicus, Charles-François Gounod’s Ave Maria, Sancta Maria (from Cavalleria Rusticana) by Pietro Mascagni, Domine Deus by Gioachino Antonio Rossini, and John Newton’s Amazing Grace. I wept.
Streamed live on Sunday, April 12, 2020, his concert is now trending #1 on the YouTube charts, heard by over 33 million listeners in less than 48 hours. You can still hear it on YouTube. A grand thank you to Andrea Bocelli and the Italians for this incredible gift to the world. A magnificent assertion of hope and renewal in a troubled world.
You may be interested to know that the Andrea Bocelli Foundation (ABF) has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for respirators, medical beds and other necessary medical equipment for several hard-hit northern Italian hospitals. As of today’s date, they have raised €237,638, with more coming in since the concert.
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A Singable Saturday with the Vancouver Bach Choir
In the past, I have written about Tafelmusik’s Sing-along Messiah. Last Saturday, I shared a sing-along experience with a great choir which was totally different, but equally uplifting. On Sunday, February 23rd, the Bach Choir will perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in concert at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. This weekend, they invited other choirs and the public at large to join their rehearsal in a sing-along run-through. It was an utterly delightful experience.
German composer Carl Orff wrote Carmina Burana in 1935-36. It is a cantata based on 24 poems from a medieval collection which covered a range of topics described in Wikipedia as “the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling and lust.” Written in secular Latin, Middle High German, and Old French, it is one of the favourites of the classical music repertoire. You can hear it on YouTube. Normally sung with full orchestration, for the sing-along, Stephen Smith, rehearsal accompanist for the choir, played the piano.
Cathrie Yuen, Assistant Conductor of the choir, led the singing. She started with a series of exercises, to get the body in shape and the voice ready for the demanding music which followed. Then down to the serious business of singing “Oh Fortuna” and the twenty-four other movements that make up the cantata. After most major movements, Cathrie had suggestions for improvements and the group repeated the singing as she wanted it done. Needless to say, most people knew the music well.
My friend and I chose to sing alto and had never seen the score before. Of course, we had never sung it before. We felt good if we were able to find in the score where the rest were actually singing. It was great fun. And, sitting in the choir, the music was wonderful.
The Vancouver Bach Choir is in its 89th season and is one of the largest symphonic choirs in Canada. Under the direction of Leslie Dala, it performs traditional and new choral works, for a local, national and international audience. Since 1984, it has also built a multi-tiered children’s program that provides choral training to over 350 singers from kindergarten to post-secondary school. More recently, the Sarabande Chamber Choir has emerged for graduates of the youth program, current Vancouver Bach Youth Choir members, and outside applicants.
Donations from the Singable Saturday event were given to the Vancouver Adapted Music Society. Sam Sullivan and Dave Symington, two Vancouver musicians who became disabled as a result of sports injuries, co-founded that organization in 1988. The Society has specialized adaptive equipment which allows people of all levels of disability to learn to play the guitar, bass, keyboards, and to study singing. It also has a fully-accessible studio, which enables disabled musicians to learn studio techniques, record their music, and perform at Vancouver-area gigs. A worthy recipient of a most inspiring event.
Written by Marion Lane Leave a comment Posted in City Life, Leisure Activities, Music, Posts, The Arts Tagged with Cathrie Yuen, Marion Lane, Stephen Smith, The Effervescent Bubble, Vancouver Adapted Music Society, Vancouver Bach Choir
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The sad fate of Lehman Brothers is a cautionary tale of what's gone wrong with Wall Street. Lehman ended up on the financial scrapheap because it played - and ultimately lost - a dangerous game involving high-stakes bets and huge borrowings. The firm's reported profits grew nicely through last year. But to keep its profits growing, Lehman was taking on more and more risk.
Lehman (LEH, Fortune 500) borrowed too much money, put too much of it into deals of dubious quality, and then insisted for months that all was well when it was apparent that all wasn't well. Monday's bankruptcy filing is a sad end for a firm once regarded as prudent and well managed.
The saddest thing of all is that decades ago Dick Fuld, now Lehman's CEO, bitterly opposed having the firm do big, aggressive deals with its own capital. But as we said in July, during one of Lehman's recurring crises, Fuld's decision to do the risky things that he opposed in the 1980s hurt Lehman badly.
Back then, Fuld's trading faction from the old Lehman Brothers was struggling against the firm's banker faction, led by Steve Schwarzman and Pete Peterson. The bankers wanted the firm to use its own capital to do deals. The traders opposed it. The trader-banker war so weakened Lehman that it sold out to American Express (AXP, Fortune 500) in 1984. Fuld, a Lehman lifer, stayed on, while Schwarzman and Peterson went off to found the Blackstone Group (BX) and become billionaires.
In 1994, AmEx, giving up its "financial supermarket" strategy, spun off a small, undercapitalized firm called Lehman Brothers, with Fuld as CEO. (That's why, despite what you read, Lehman wasn't a 158-year-old firm; it was a 14-year-old firm with a 158-year-old name.) Lehman's leverage - borrowings relative to capital - grew and grew, even as other firms were cutting back as the credit crunch worsened.
For example, last October, with the real estate collapse well underway, Lehman (in partnership with the Tishman Speyer real estate firm) paid a whopping $22.2 billion to do a leveraged buyout of a big apartment developer, Archstone. Losses on the deal began to surface almost immediately. Alas, we can't give you Fuld's take on all this; he's declined to talk with us for months. Lehman looked as if it would be able to survive more or less intact after the Federal Reserve Board announced in March that it would make huge loans available to eligible investment banks. This came shortly after the Fed and the Treasury forced a fire sale of Bear Stearns, and let it be known that the timing was no coincidence.
But Lehman never fully regained the market's confidence, Fed and Treasury support notwithstanding.
That leads us to a second Wall Street lesson from Lehman: that the Fed and Treasury can no longer control events as they once could.
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In “Where the Dead Sit Talking,” a Native American Teen Searches for Home
Brandon Hobson discusses indigenous identity and the foster care system
Melissa Michal
Where the Dead Sit Talking is a dark, twisting, emotional novel about a teenage Cherokee boy dislocated in the foster care system. Sequoyah has moved around to many homes, sometimes living in shelters while waiting in the in-between, not ever fitting in where he is placed. And then he is placed with the Troutts who have two other foster children, Rosemary and George. Like him, Rosemary is yet another American Indian child in the foster care system, trying to connect to a home.
The novel holds a difficult dialogue on intergenerational trauma, the effects of separating children from their Nations, and the perilous outcomes if we do not make urgent changes to the systems forcing American Indians to assimilate and disconnect. This may be set in the past, but the same cycles exist today, showing that we have not yet learned the necessary lessons to interrupt the trauma.
Melissa Michal: What was the origin of the novel?
Brandon Hobson: It started with thinking about my previous work experience in social work. I worked for about seven years with delinquent and deprived kids and saw a common theme of a struggle with identity and a tendency toward obsession that I found really fascinating. At the same time, I also knew I wanted to write something from my Native culture. So I knew, having worked with Native kids in both delinquent and deprived environments, that that was an avenue that I wanted to explore, specifically with my tribe which is the Cherokee nation. So I wanted to focus thinking about Indigenous youth in the foster care system. So that’s kind of where it all started. And the idea of “What is home?” is the important question I wanted to begin with.
So many of these kids struggle with that question of not knowing where their home is, because so many of these kids are shuffled around from shelter to shelter from foster placement to foster placement. So they don’t know where they’re going to be that next night and so forth. So that question also goes back to the historical significance of the Trail of Tears which is one of the worst events in US history which when people were removed from Georgia and North Carolina, people were faced with that very question, “What is home?”
MM: Describe for me your writing process getting into that kind of mindset, going to the places that those foster children have gone mentally. Sequoyah is very disconnected in this way.
BH: I heard his voice. Sequoyah’s voice is really strong in my head. It may have been a culmination of a lot of the youth that I have worked with, I think. Which at times it can sound very dangerous. It can also sound, I hope, very wounded. There may be a fine line between what sounds dangerous and what sounds wounded.
MM: Was Sequoyah always the main character? Did Rosemary change over the course of writing the novel?
BH: I knew early on that I wanted to have him look back at this short time that he was with the foster family and talk about her influence on him. And that’s where I think the novel gets a little bit obsessive or where the novel talks about his obsessive behavior and why is Sequoyah telling this story. A large part of that has to do with Rosemary dying in front of him. I’m not so much interested in the idea of writing about her death as much as I was interested in his fascination with her. Because of them being the only Indigenous foster kids in that home.
I worked for about seven years with delinquent and deprived kids and saw a common theme of a struggle with identity and a tendency toward obsession.
He’s also exploring identity issues with his gender and with his overall appearance. In 1989 not many boys wear eyeliner to school. I certainly think it’s way more accepted now then in 1989. Sequoyah is a little more androgynous which I wanted him to be. So I think early on I didn’t want to focus so much on her death as her impact on him. Both internally and externally. Not only the way she looked but the way she dressed and the way she talked. He felt very much, as did she, that they were connected on some other level that he could communicate with her on some other level, through the mind. There was some higher level of connection between them.
MM: Sequoyah’s focus on death becomes an obsession after meeting Rosemary. Where do you think this comes from for him?
BH: I don’t know if it’s just death. I think it just some otherworldliness, is what it feels like to me. Not so much death as other consciousness. I feel like he can communicate with her. Maybe not so much just what we think about death, but the idea of some other worlds, some other consciousness that exists out there that maybe works in terms of communication. He felt very strongly. And she does too when she first meets him. She says “I knew you were supposed to come here.” In a way I think she was expecting him. And all of that exists on some other alternate universe. Or at least that’s how they both feel. I’m more interested in the emotional than the logical.
MM: Why set the novel in a past time period versus a more contemporary time period?
BH: A lot of that was just because it was my memories of being young and being a teenager in the ’80s. I wanted it to be pre-cell phone. For example, Rosemary she goes missing for a while. Before cell phones a lot of times people would just be, “Where are they?” I remember a couple of times my mom would just get out and drive and look for me before the cellphone when I was a teenager. That’s when the missing becomes harder to find. With iPhones now you can find pretty much find anyone quickly.
A lot of the music and pop culture that are mentioned in the book are the ’80s like the movie Rain Man is about an autistic man and George is autistic. That was out at that same time and part of that was filmed in Oklahoma. I remember when that was filmed here. And so there was a connection between that in the movie, the brotherly relationship, you know, George and Sequoyah struggling through that. So there were a lot of things that mirrored what was happening in terms of the ’80s. And band names as well. George memorizes lyrics and band names at a time when maybe people paid more attention to liner notes, the idea of the mixed tape and writing down lyrics. So it’s a pre-cell phone, pre-internet time. George is writing his novel, but he’s writing it on a main hard drive.
MM: What other writers/artists influenced your techniques in this novel?
BH: James Welch was a big influence. Diane Glancy. Those are two Native influences on me. Don DeLillo stylistically has always been an influence on me. More currently Ottessa Moshfegh and Laura van den Berg. Those are two young women writing right now who are amazing and two of my favorite writers that are currently writing. N. Scott Momaday has always been a huge influence as well.
MM: Is there any question or something about the novel that you have wanted to talk about, but no one has asked you?
BH: Ultimately it’s a story of home. A lot of people don’t ask about the identity issues. A lot of people aren’t asking enough about Sequoyah’s identity, exploring his gender issues and trying to decide you know I think that’s a big question that teenagers ask, “Who am I? What is my identity?” So while he’s exploring his Native identity he’s also a little bit androgynous. I just don’t know if that’s being written about very much, the question of androgyny especially in Native youth. We want to break through the stereotypes of how non-Indigenous people see Indigenous boys or girls as well. I basically didn’t want it to be just a stock Native character that falls into stereotype.
We want to break through the stereotypes of how non-Indigenous people see Indigenous boys or girls as well.
MM: I wonder if that’s why people aren’t asking you, though. You do avoid those pitfalls. And so those kinds of stereotypes and pitfalls can then lead themselves to those questions of identity more so.
BH: There’s been a lot of talk about identity. But most people just ask how disturbed he is and how dangerous. They tend to think he’s a bad, bad person and that’s he’s a super psychopath and that sort of confuses me as to why people would just automatically assume that.
MM: I think I got where the book was coming from. I also understand it at a different place because I have felt it as a Native woman. There’s a certain amount of rage and grief that you go through as a Native person that they haven’t gone through.
BH: It makes him a cross of all of that teenage rage and angst that may come across as more than I intended. Maybe I could have made him more empathetic. I don’t know. I mean, again, it comes out of a place of a lot of my experience dealing with delinquent and deprived youth.
MM: I wonder if that gets stereotyped a lot, too. And this is a rounded character that has emotions and feelings and experiences that arise out of being in the foster care system, being Cherokee, being androgynous, and kind of exploring his identity in those kinds of ways. That’s a lot of intersections in the ’80s to manage.
BH: I hope that I pulled it off. It is a lot.
MM: I think that this last part of our interview is important to include. To be honest, I didn’t assume him dangerous. I saw him as broken and traumatized.
BH: Yes.
MM: And there were energies that were interacting with him and he was picking up on negative energies that just were keeping him from a positive place.
BH: Yeah. That’s how I want him to be taken.
Melissa Michal is of Seneca decent. Her creative work explores historical trauma and Her criticism focuses on trauma and representation of Indigenous histories and literatures in educational curricula. She is a fiction writer, essayist, scholar, and a professor. She is the author of the short story collection Living On the Borderlines, the novel Along the Hills, and the non-fiction collection Broken Blood.
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Millie Niss
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Millie Niss is a web artist who has had interactive web installations published online in the United States, Brazil, the UK, and Scandinavia. She is based in New York City and in North Tonawanda, NY. Much of her work was done in collaboration with Martha Deed. This site, Sporkworld, began as Millie's personal portfolio web site. In addition to the work on Sporkworld, Millie has many online publications. A selection of her videos (some in collaboration with Martha Deed), were shown at the Scope NY Art Fair in 2006. Her visual art (in both hardcopy and computer formats) has been shown in several gallery shows and her non-digital poetry and nonfiction has been widely published on and offline. By both avocation and vocation, Millie occasionally does computer consulting and web design for nonprofit and small commercial clients. Millie graduated from Columbia College in New York City with a BA in Mathematics, magna cum laude in 1993. She took computer science courses while at college for four semesters. After graduating, she attended a math Ph.D. program at Brown University for two years before deciding to change fields and to pursue her writing and art. While at Brown, she served as Departmental Computer Coordinator, a job which involved Unix systems administration and maintaining a network of HP workstations and Macintosh computers. This was when the World Wide Web was first coming into prominence, and Millie installed the Brown University Math Department's first http server. Millie also completed one half (the good half :-) of an MFA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College in Boston. (Source: www.sporkworld.org)
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Aura mission tracks global nitrogen dioxide trends
By: Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, San Francisco
Omi’s view of nitrogen dioxide in 2014. Red denotes stronger emissions; the blues signify lower emissions
The success of clean air legislation in western developed countries is evident in the results from a 10-year study by a US space agency satellite.
The Aura mission has been tracking trends in emissions of nitrogen dioxide since its launch in 2004.
It has seen big falls in the pollutant in the US and Europe, while at the same time recording significant increases in some developing nations, such as China.
Nitrogen dioxide is produced in large part as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.
Key sources include the tailpipes of vehicles and the exhaust stacks of coal-fired power stations.
The yellow-brown gas will, in the right weather conditions, promote the production of ground-level ozone, which is a severe respiratory irritant.
Scientists working on the OMI instrument on Aura have analysed the whole period from 2005 to 2014, and have presented their findings here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union – the world’s largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
In the US and Europe, which remain big emitters of nitrogen dioxide, they find there has been nonetheless considerable success in constraining the problem.
Levels have fallen 20-50% across North America over the study period, and in Europe by as much as 50%.
Environmental legislation is undoubtedly behind the declines, say the researchers, together with technology improvements that have helped scrub emissions.
The trend for Europe 2005-2014: Blues show reductions over the period; reds are places where emissions have gone up
In a series of trend maps produced by the OMI team, the reductions are seen in blue.
The reds, on the other hand, denote increases in nitrogen dioxide emissions. These are most obvious in developing nations.
A good example is China and its northern plain, which has become a major global manufacturing hub during the OMI time series.
“Nitrogen dioxide levels here have increased by 20-50% over the last decade. And the reason for this is that China’s economic growth is being fuelled by its cheap and abundant coal,” explained Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist with Nasa.
Dig a little deeper into the data, however, and anomalies become apparent.
In China, some of the major cities have actually witnessed improved conditions. In Beijing and Shanghai, and in some of the cities of the Pearl River Delta, including Hong Kong, levels are down by up to 40%.
“This is local and regional governments working together to reduce their pollution,” said Dr Duncan, “and a new affluent middle class demanding cleaner air.”
The trend map for East Asia showing strong increases in nitrogen dioxide concentrations from 2005 to 2014
Something similar is seen in southern Africa, where the Johannesburg-Pretoria metro area’s emissions have bucked the rising trend of more industrial locations on the Highveld, the country’s inland plateau.
And in the US, the general trend of success is contradicted in regions such as Texas and western North Dakota, where oil and natural gas exploitation has seen nitrogen dioxide emissions rise.
“What’s causing that increase? One is simply the heavy machinery – the trucks and all sorts of vehicles that are used in oil and natural gas extraction,” said Anne Thompson, another Nasa atmospheric scientist.
“The other thing that happens is that not everything that is extracted is wanted and in a region like western North Dakota it [is] maybe the methane that comes up with the petroleum, and if they don’t want it – they flare.”
The scientists displayed pictures from another satellite, Suomi, which captures night-time lights. It easily picks out from space this practice of burning off unwanted gas.
The Middle East is an interesting case. Post 2005, nitrogen dioxide increases are recorded in countries like Iraq, presumably because of economic growth picking up after the war years.
Nitrogen dioxide concentrations go up in western North Dakota from 2005 to 2014
Turmoil in Syria is associated with lowering emissions in the country itself but rises in its neighbours
Conversely, declines have been seen in Syria of late. Researchers put this down to the collapse of economic activity and mass emigration as a result of the country’s great upheaval. Corresponding spikes are seen in neighbouring nations, such as Lebanon and Turkey, where many of the displaced people have gone.
Omi is actually a Dutch and Finnish contribution to Aura.
European scientists are already working on its successor – an instrument called Tropomi, or “Super-Omi”, which will fly on the EU’s forthcoming Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite.
Pieternel Levelt from the Dutch Met Office told BBC News: “This new instrument will go to much higher resolution. That means 7-by-7km, so it’s six times better. And it will also be more sensitive. This will allow us to see smaller sources.”
Thanks to: Paul Baynham (AirQuality Ltd) for bringing this to our attention
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UN Imposes New Sanctions On North Korea
Members of the UN Security Council vote 15-0 to impose new sanctions on North Korea during a Security Council meeting over North Korea on December 22 at UN Headquarters in New York City.
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea in response to last month's launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says is capable of reaching anywhere on the U.S. mainland.
The new sanctions approved in the council resolution on December 22 include sharply cutting limits on North Korea's imports of refined oil and orders the repatriation of all North Korean nationals working abroad by the end of 2019.
To prevent North Korea from circumventing sanctions, all countries were authorized to seize, inspect, freeze, and impound ships suspected of carrying illegal cargo to and from North Korea.
"[The resolution] sends the unambiguous message to Pyongyang that further defiance will invite further punishments and isolation," Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said following the vote.
"This resolution bites," French Ambassador Francois Delattre said, adding that it increased pressure on Pyongyang.
"Maximum firmness today is our best antidote to the risk of war," he said.
The United States last month warned North Korea's leadership that it would be "utterly destroyed" if war were to break out.
But North Korean leader Kim John Un was no less feisty that usual on December 21, asserting in a speech that his country had "rapidly emerged as a strategic state capable of posing a substantial nuclear threat to the U.S.," North Korea's official KCNA news agency said.
Based on reporting by AP and AFP
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December 02, 2016 Updated 10:52 GMT
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Mosul victory would be a propaganda victory for Obama
Villages were rapidly overrun, but capturing the city of Mosul will present new challenges [Getty]
Date of publication: 1 December, 2016
Comment: Victory over IS in Mosul may be on the horizon, but could come at a price that is tantamount to defeat, writes James Snell
Mosul, Iraq, US, sectarianism, Obama, PMF, Iran
The battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group continues to rage. The group, skilled in guerrilla and asymmetric warfare, will fight hard, not so much to retain the city, but to cause as much damage as possible to the forces of the global coalition.
It has prepared traps and ambushes, designed both to slow oncoming forces down and to inflict maximum casualties upon Iraqi government, Kurdish and other forces.
The battle for Mosul will be more protracted than some predicted, and involve a great deal of difficulty. After the dramatic successes at the beginning of the operation, expectations were high: villages were rapidly overrun; IS fighters were killed in their droves by airstrikes; the Iraqi government was confident enough of success to take the unusual step of allowing the operation to be broadcast live on Facebook.
That early optimism has not been borne out by subsequent events. Capturing a major city is different; it is not like advancing rapidly through villages and other settlements. There are new challenges, new obstacles, and IS has certainly had enough time to prepare for a protracted fight for the city, building walls and barricades, as well as digging ditches and networks of tunnels.
This was always going to be a hard fight, but it has been rendered harder by the policies of the United States government. Indeed, the battle for Mosul, though it is progressing, could have been conducted better. And this represents something deeper about the legacy of Barack Obama's term as president of the United States.
The attempt to recapture Mosul from IS encapsulates many unfortunate aspects of the Obama foreign policy: namely, an attempt to reconcile enemies, foster unworkable alliances and talk instead of acting.
Though Mosul will eventually be recaptured, the continued presence of Iranian-sponsored Shia militias remains concerning. There are Shia elements within the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) which have been levied to assist the Iraqi army. This is well known. What is also understood – both by those Sunnis living under IS rule and worldwide – is that these forces have been committing sectarian crimes in the course of their military operations.
The use of sectarian slogans by these militias cannot help but set an unproductive tone in the operation to recapture Mosul
Shia militiamen have committed war crimes, including murder, ethnic cleansing, and torture of Sunni civilians, including children. The use of sectarian slogans by these militias, while not as grave as the preceding, cannot help but set an unproductive tone in the operation to recapture Mosul.
Without adequate assurances that they will not be killed, persecuted or demonised, Mosul's residents, especially Sunnis, have little reason to welcome their would-be liberators.
The news which arrives from the front can hardly allay these fears. With reports of people such as Abu Azrael, something of a sectarian symbol who is alleged to have mutilated corpses, arriving to assist them fight IS, even those most decidedly opposed to the Islamic State cannot but worry about what the future holds. This blatant promotion of sectarian figures and sectional interests can only enflame tensions in the course of an attempt to recapture a majority Sunni city.
The unwillingness of successive US administrations to combat increasing Iranian influence in Iraq, culminating in Obama's outstretched olive branch, has no doubt assisted the rise of this sectarianism.
Obama is so committed to his image as a man of peace that he is unwilling to acknowledge a war when it appears, and prefers to fight it through proxies
At the same time, the Kurdish Peshmerga, though they are effective fighters and have had some success in their part of the campaign, remain unpopular in Mosul. Sunni Arabs worry about being pushed out by Kurdish settlers; they worry about being rendered second-class citizens. Even if these fears are overblown, it would be foolish to dismiss the effect they can have. Much like in the heavily trailed Raqqa offensive, perceived indulgence of Kurdish expansionism could prove an aid to IS recruitment.
It is in a different country, but it is not an entirely separate issue: the almost fanciful suggestions of a swift conquest of Raqqa, which is forever prophesied, but never delivered, represent a symptom of the same policy.
Read more: Atrocities from Iraq to Syria will herald IS 2.0
What the battle for Mosul represents, then, is not a coherent, cohesive campaign, but rather a collection of different actors, each with different objectives, paying lip service to a shared goal. Such things stoke anxieties among the civilian population; and these concerns are hardly immaterial in attempting to liberate a city with a population of over a million.
This can be seen, in sum, as the result of an Obama administration policy to lead from behind and obfuscate at every turn.
Despite the fact that the United States has deployed hundreds of troops in varying roles in the Mosul offensive, there has been no acceptance that this means America has "boots on the ground". The phrase is avoided; for a president committed to ending wars, to acknowledge a serious role in this conflict would seem an admission of failure.
This is not the way to defeat IS and it poses serious problems both in the short and long term
This may seem a matter of semantics, but it is important, and emblematic: the president is so committed to his image as a man of peace that he is unwilling to acknowledge a war when it appears, and prefers to fight it through proxies - proxies the United States denies.
Perhaps Mosul will fall before Obama leaves office; that would represent a propaganda victory for him, and it may create a false impression that the system he has created to retake IS-occupied territory is working. But at the same time it could represent something different for Iraq: a pyrrhic victory; inflicting such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.
If the battle is hard, and Mosul is destroyed as Ramadi was destroyed - most of Ramadi was levelled in the battle to liberate it from IS control - and sectarian violence is allowed to take place, all while IS withdraws into the deserts and consolidates its strength, this will not represent a victory at all. It will not represent a victory worthy of the name.
The fact remains, however, that President Obama is almost uninterested in victory, so far as he can delegate the business of fighting to other people. This is not the way to defeat IS and it poses serious problems both in the short and long term. But the president will be out of office by then, ready to pass responsibility for these issues off onto his unwanted and unprepared successor.
James Snell is a writer and blogger whose work has appeared in National Review, Prospect, CapX, NOW News, Middle East Eye, History Today and Left Foot Forward - among others.
Follow him on Twitter: @James_P_Snell
Opinions expressed in this article remain those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The New Arab, its editorial board or staff.
Foreign fighters for statelets: From Kurdistan to the 'Caliphate'
Comment: The steady stream of recruits from the West to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), are just as ideologically driven as those flocking to join IS, writes James Snell
Tallha Abdulrazaq
Atrocities from Iraq to Syria will herald IS 2.0
Comment: As atrocities and war crimes committed against civilians in the name of fighting terrorism continue, international inaction risks a new generation of further radicalised extremists, writes Tallha Abdulrazaq.
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Natalia Vodianova Fed Up With Being Her Husband's Bread Winner?
Society » Showbiz
Speculations about the divorce of the Russian beauty and model Natalia Vodianova and Lord Justin Portman surfaced in February. But then, in an exclusive interview with Komsomolskyaya Pravda (KP), Justin Portman assured us that the divorce will not happen, and it is just a rumor. Then Natalia and Justin appeared in the charity auction held by the supermodel. They thought that this will help to mitigate the rumors at least temporarily. But alas, it was the last appearance of the couple in public.
Recently Natalia is seen alone everywhere, and increasingly more in Moscow. As told by KP earlier, Natalia’s friend from Nizhny Novgorod saod that there was a new love in Vodianova’s life, which, in fact, put an end to her ten-year marriage with Portman. And even the presence of three lovely children did not save this seemingly perfect marriage from a divorce. A month ago there were rumors that Natasha had already hired a lawyer to help with the divorce process with the assistance of her new lover.
“Natasha knows Andrei for several years. He is a renowned producer, a very handsome man,” Vodianova’s girlfriend from Nizhny Novgorod told KP. “At first they were just friends, but later, when the relationship with Justin completely fell apart, Andrei supported her, and now she lives between the two countries. Almost every two weeks she comes to Russia.
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Recently a well-known TV host Andrei Malakhov in the editorial column of his magazine happily reported that producer Andrei invited Malakhov to the wedding in October, asking him to mark the date. Could it be that Natalia Vodianova is ready to go to the altar with the TV-boss? Especially, when her divorce is planned for October .
“Why is Vodianova hiding her divorce? We called her relatives, and they know nothing about her family problems,” the newspaper asked her girlfriends.
“Her family knows everything, but they are not entitled to say anything to the press, or Natasha will be left without her children.”
The fact is that according to the prenuptial agreement with Justin Portman, in the event of her adultery, the children will live with the Lord and his family. Natasha is a wonderful mother, and she is afraid of losing her kids.
The Price of divorce
The news that Natalia Vodianova finally decided to part with Lord Portman is actively discussed by the Western media.
“As far as I know, the divorce of Vodianova and Portman will be held in October,” told us British journalist Niki Six. “Only to obtain the freedom and children, Natalia will have to pay $10 million to Justin Portman, so he does not disclose the fact of her infidelity. The model’s career is brief. Vodianova will stay in fashion for two more years at the most, and then her career will decline. So she decided to pursue a career in Russia. After the divorce she will likely live in Moscow. She wants to work on television and act in movies.
Many of Vodianova and Portman’s fans are surprised: why such a beautiful couple broke up? Love is love, but her husband is a Lord, what else does she want?
But the problems in Vodianova’s family began long before she met the Russian producer Andrei.
They say that the couple’s relationship soured after their third child was born. Natalia's friends say that rumors of prominent wealth of Lord Portman do not match the reality. They say that this old English family has nothing but the title, and Natasha is the bread winner. They also said that the Lord started having issues with alcohol and even at social events he is always tipsy. He is also an avid gambler, and loses half of Natasha’s earnings in the casino. That's probably why she snapped, although she tried to save her family until the end.
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Riley Reiff Agrees to Restructure Contract to Stay with the Minnesota Vikings
Following the trade for Yannick Ngakoue, the Minnesota Vikings needed to find a solution to get under the salary cap. Riley Reiff became the solution.
Yesterday (August 31), reports surfaced that Reiff and the Vikings were in discussions about a possible contract restructure, or the Vikings would part ways with the Parkston native. Most reports, including one from Pro Football Talk, were leaning towards Reiff saying goodbye to the team and trying his luck on the free-agent market.
Well, not so fast. That isn't the case anymore.
ESPN NFL Insider Field Yates, and confirmed by ESPN's Adam Schefter, that Reiff and the Vikings have agreed on a restructured contract that would get the Vikings under the salary cap. The move will keep Reiff with the team for the 2020 season.
For Reiff, this is probably the best move he can make as of now. Being that the regular season is under two weeks away, Reiff would have to go into free agency, find a new home, pass COVID-19 testing, learn a new playbook, and get up to speed by Week 1 if he would have been cut now. In a normal, non-pandemic, year, Reiff may have been better suited going into free agency and seeing if a team would pay him closer to what he would want. At least for 2020, this keeps some consistency with the coaching staff and team along with keeping things situated as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
Reiff was set to earn $10.9 million for 2020. The terms of the restructured deal have not been released at this time.
The 31-year-old was drafted 23rd overall in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. After five years with Detroit, Reiff signed with the Minnesota Vikings. In total, Reiff has appeared in 120 games and started 112 of them.
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UK: Brexit deal still possible in September
Britain still believes a deal with the European Union can be reached in September, prime minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Monday, speaking ahead of the latest round of negotiations, Reuters reports. "Our assessment is that a deal can still be reached in September," the spokesman said.
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My Gavin DeGraw Confession
by Dana Krook
Time for a confession. When I heard Gavin DeGraw was coming to Toronto, I had a minor freakout.
You see, I spent most of my university spare time huddled up with a good friend and a great episode of One Tree Hill—the TV show featuring Gavin DeGraw’s single “I Don’t Want To Be” as the theme song (Gavin also made several guest appearances back in the day).
When my BFF and I were having our hearts raked across the coals, we’d watch OTH. When we needed a break from writing an all-nighter for an essay due the next day, we’d watch OTH. When we wanted to stare at Chad Michael Murray, (surprise!) we’d creep the net. And watch OTH. (FUN FACT: did you know that CMM is the step-brother of PLL star Troian Bellisario, aka Spencer Hastings? It’s small Hollywood world after all…)
While I resisted going all fangirl, it was still an unbelievable pleasure to sit down with the guy who wrote the soundtrack to my adolescence and continues to produce music that connects with people everywhere. His latest album, Make A Move, is currently rising in the charts.
Here’s a sample of our chat:
When we interviewed you over the phone back in the fall, you told us about how seeing Billy Joel in concert, at 15, inspired you to become a musician. Now you’ve had the opportunity to tour with him. Does he know he had such a huge effect on you?
He does now. [At one show] I was telling my story about seeing him when I was 15 in a place called Knickerbacker Arena in Albany, NY. Then we did our set. When he went on stage, he played a couple of songs. Then he says, “I’d like to thank Gavin DeGraw for coming out.” I was standing back stage, stage right so I could watch. He was facing me.
He says, “You know, I remember that show.” He makes a comment about Woodstock. He’s addressing me from the stage, talking about how he had gone to Woodstock to see Jimi Hendrix. Here’s what made it special: he was a kid going to see his idol. I was a kid going to see my idol. Jimmy Hendricks had an idol. We all have one, or someone who inspires us. Particularly, during those earlier years, where you have a really good idea instinctually of who you are, you’re just looking for direction.
What is your reaction when other people respond to you in a similar way, saying that you’re their idol?
When someone comes up to me after a show and says, “You are my Billy Joel.” To me, that’s so heavy. Because it shaped my whole life path, based on my love of music. It’s not a job. I don’t have a job. I have a passion that became a career. It’s not just a job that you clock in and clock out. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s something that I think about all the time. Not my quote-unquote career, but I’m thinking about music all the time.
I’ve heard you talk about all of the other jobs you had before you broke into music, like bartending…
I was a terrible bartender. I did that for like a day. I waited tables for many more than one day. I was a terrible waiter. I also walked dogs. And I was a lifeguard for years—probably the job I had the longest.
Did you find your identity as a musician because you did all of these things and they were NOT a good fit?
I knew I loved music right away. I danced in my crib. I sang in my crib. Initially I thought, as a teen, that music was selfish. That is was just something for your own enjoyment. It was too personal for it to be a job.
When I saw that concert, when I saw Billy Joel, it’s the first time that I thought, “Wow, music is medicine. Look at what it does to these people. They are absolutely being affected in a way that’s making them feel great. They feel healthier right now.” It’s absolutely medicinal. But that was the first time I regarding it that way. I thought then that it wasn’t selfish and that I could do it. And not only will I be happy, but it helps people too.
And my grandmother always told me, “Sometimes, honey, you have to find out what you don’t want first.” So having those other jobs only fueled my desire to do what I loved that much more.
Gavin DeGraw and lucky Faze girl Dana Krook at our interview
If you ever have the opportunity to see Gavin live, do it. He’s an incredible performer who brings his music to life, sounding even better in person than any studio recording could capture. He also interacts with the crowd. And has adorable dance moves (yes, that is some fangirl drool happening).
In the meantime, I leave you with my countdown of the 6 best Gavin DeGraw singles of all time.
6. We Belong Together
5. Best I Ever Had
4. Follow Through
3. Make A Move
2. Not Over You
1. I Don’t Want To Be
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Prison officer faces bribery allegations involving prison inmate
A prison officer is on trial for allegedly attempting to obtain bribes from an inmate in exchange for facilitating the man’s request to transfer out of an area named Cluster A1 in Changi Prison.
Senior chief warder Kobi Krishna Ayavoo, who has been suspended from work since July 2017, is accused of trying to obtain cash totalling $11,000 and $70,000 in loans from Chong Keng Chye, 48.
At the opening of his trial yesterday, a district court heard that he faces eight graft charges and two charges under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act.
Kobi is said to have instigated two of his then colleagues to gain unauthorised access to their workplace computer platform, known as the Prisons Operations and Rehabilitation System (Ports), in July 2017.
One of them, Mr Firoz Khan Shaik Fazaluddin, 43, who was a staff sergeant with the Singapore Prison Service, took the stand yesterday.
He told District Judge John Ng that Kobi called him at his workplace repeatedly over several days from July 17 that year, asking for help. He said he initially “brushed him off”.
Kobi finally revealed he wanted an inmate’s prison number which could be obtained through Ports.
“I didn’t know who the inmate was,” Mr Firoz, who is now working as a senior storekeeper, said in reply to Deputy Public Prosecutor Magdalene Huang.
He also said that after Kobi gave him the inmate’s NRIC number, he accessed Ports without authority and gave him the inmate’s prison number despite knowing it was wrong to do so. “It’s an offence. It’s a confidential thing. At that point in time, I was not myself due to overwork,” he added.
The court heard that the inmate was Chong but it was not mentioned why Kobi needed his prison number and what he wanted to do with it.
Chong is behind bars for one of the worst child abuse cases in Singapore. He had battered his girlfriend’s seven-year-old son over a period of more than seven months until the child died in 1999. He also abused the boy’s two sisters.
In 2005, he was given 20 years of preventive detention, with nine strokes of the cane. Preventive detention is for repeat offenders, who will serve the full jail term with no reduction for good behaviour.
When cross-examined by defence lawyer Rakesh Vasu, Mr Firoz said Kobi did not urge, persuade or instigate him. For agreeing to help Kobi by accessing the computer system without authorisation, he was fined $4,000 on March 1, 2018.
Yesterday, Mr Firoz testified that he started working in Cluster A1 in 1997 before he resigned in 2017.
Kobi was a friend and colleague whom he had known since he was a teenager, he added.
Kobi is out on bail of $10,000 and the trial resumes today.
If convicted of corruption, he can be jailed for up to five years and be fined a maximum of $100,000 on each charge. For each charge under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act, first-time offenders can be jailed for up to two years and be fined a maximum of $5,000.
Original article on www.straitstimes.com
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Lilly Hiatt
Written during a winter of deep stillness and self-reflection, Lilly Hiatt’s striking new album, Walking Proof, artfully balances the songwriter’s rough, rock and roll exterior with her tender, country roots, exuding a bold vulnerability as she takes a long, hard look in the mirror and deconstructs her relationship with herself and the world around her. Produced by former Cage the Elephant guitarist Lincoln Parish and featuring guest appearances from Amanda Shires, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and legendary songwriter John Hiatt (who appears on record with his daughter here for the very first time), the collection is fueled by longing and gratitude in equal measure, effortlessly shifting from gentle intimacy to brawny grit and back over the course of its eleven insightful tracks.
Despite all the weighty themes, Walking Proof still manages to emerge as a work of hope and optimism, offering both a newfound maturity and an abiding sense of calm in the face of chaos as Hiatt learns to make peace with just how much of life lies beyond her control. “It’s crucial to live and let live, to be able to accept things for what they are,” says Hiatt. “Coming to terms with those sorts of boundaries has inspired a lot of growth in me lately, and I’ve realized that it leads to better outcomes both in relationships and in art. Things seem to bloom if you can just get out of your own way for long enough.”
Things have been blooming for Hiatt in a big way lately. In 2017, she released her acclaimed third album, Trinity Lane, a commercial and critical breakout that helped establish her as one of the leading voices to emerge East Nashville’s embarrassment of musical riches. Produced by Shovel & Rope’s Michael Trent, the record earned Hiatt dates with the likes of John Prine, Margo Price, Drive-By Truckers, and Hiss Golden Messenger among others, and helped her secure festival slots everywhere from Pilgrimage and High Water to Luck Reunion and Wildwood Revival. NPR called the album “courageous and affecting,” while The Independent raved that it showcased Hiatt’s “gift for unpicking knotty lyrical themes in a personalised blend of countrified rock music,” and Rolling Stone hailed it as “the most cohesive and declarative statement of the young songwriter’s career.”
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The Swift-Boating of America
Iran-Contra: the Mother of All Scandals
Photo: AP/Wide World Photos
An illegal war, torture rooms, warrantless wiretapping, manipulated intelligence, secret prisons, disinformation planted in the press, graft, and billions of reconstruction dollars gone missing: just when it seemed that the Bush administration had reached its corruption quota comes a new scandal. This one is a bribery case involving defense contractors, Republican congressmen, prostitutes, secret Hawaiian getaways, Scottish castles, and — wait for it — the Watergate Hotel. At its center is the just ex-Executive Director of the CIA, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, whose sole qualification for being appointed to that post by just ex-Director Porter Goss seems to have been his ability, while head of the Agency’s Frankfurt post, to hand out bottled-water contracts to friends and show junketing politicians a good time.
Don’t fret though if you are having trouble separating this particular crime from other Republican offenses. There’s a good reason — they’re all one scandal, part of the same wave of militarism, fraud, and ideology that has swamped American politics of late. While this wave of scandal seems now to be heading for tsunami proportions, its first swells date back decades. Just take a look at Dusty’s résumé.
After his zealotry got him booted from Sears’ security and the San Diego police department, Foggo drew on his collegiate Young Republican connections to land a job in the early 1980s with the CIA. His first mission was in Honduras, then the staging ground for Ronald Reagan’s secret paramilitary war against Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government. In addition to his official duties, Foggo helped his old college buddy Brent Wilkes — the defense contractor now implicated in the ongoing bribery case involving former Republican Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham — bring conservative cadres down to Central America. There, he introduced them to anti-Sandinista rebels, better known as Contras. It seems that, even then, a lot more than anti-Communist solidarity was on the agenda. Three of Wilkes’ former friends now claim that these trips included partying with prostitutes.
A New Right Mecca
Dusty, of course, is not the only veteran of Reagan’s Central American policy who has resurfaced to help fight George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror.” The list includes John Negroponte, Elliot Abrams, Otto Reich, John Poindexter, John Bolton, Oliver North, Robert Kagan, and Michael Ledeen. They can also be found in the highest levels of the White House: Dick Cheney cut his political teeth in Congress in the 1980s plumping for Reagan’s Nicaragua policy, thundering that any attempt to prohibit Contra aid was a legislative “abuse of power.” And on the frontlines, James Steele, who led the Special Forces mission in El Salvador and worked with North to run weapons and supplies to the Contras, was sent to Iraq to help train a ruthless counterinsurgency force made up of ex-Baathist thugs. (Steele is batting two for two: As in El Salvador, such training has produced not security but widespread death-squad atrocities.)
Just as progressives from the United States traveled to Nicaragua in the 1980s to support the Sandinistas, militants of the ascendant Reagan Revolution flocked to Honduras as well as El Salvador and Guatemala, where staunchly anti-Communist regimes were waging ruthless counterinsurgencies that resulted in the murder of over 260,000 people. Dig a bit into the past of any of the thousands of religious or secular movement conservatives who came up in those years and odds are, as with Dusty, you’ll find they played some role in Central America.
Central America became a New Right mecca because it was the one place where conservatives could match words to deeds. Reagan swept into office promising to restore America’s pride and purpose in the post-Vietnam world. But the complexities of the Cold War often forced a more equivocating diplomacy on him than he had promised his followers. There was unexpected conciliation (he befriended Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev) and deep humiliation (the withdrawal of American troops from Lebanon after a devastating car bombing). By midpoint in his second term, the Right had had enough of what they considered Reagan’s timidity, condemning their President as an appeaser and a “useful idiot” for his evident willingness to negotiate nuclear-arms reductions with Moscow.
But on Central America, of little geopolitical importance in itself, there would be no conciliation or humiliation. Based on policies designed and executed by the hardest of hardliners in his administration, Reagan’s unwavering patronage of death-squad states in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and his backing of anti-Communist “freedom fighters” in Nicaragua gathered the disparate passions of the conservative movement — of all those obscure Dusty Foggos — into a single mission. It also turned Central America into a sinkhole of fanaticism and murder.
Enter Ollie North
Many of those who traveled down to Central America were Young Turk Republicans who would preside over the right-wing radicalization and corruption of the House of Representatives under Reagan in the 1980s and during the Gingrich insurgency of the 1990s. San Diego Representative Bill Lowery, for example, first elected to the House in 1980 at the tender age of thirty-three, traveled in the Foggo and Wilkes Honduran road show, part of a Republican task force organized to help sell Reagan’s Contra war against the Sandinistas to a skeptical Congress and public. After leaving office, Lowery, who has floated around the edges of every Republican scandal from the Savings and Loan collapse of the 1980s to the recent Jack Abramoff lobbying case, and is now reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department, went on to become a top lobbyist, skilled in the art of “earmarking.”
The corruption represented by Foggo, Wilkes, and Duke Cunningham is an integral part of what President Dwight Eisenhower termed the “military-industrial complex.” And it goes hand-in-hand with war-making. If we didn’t have an enemy to fight, how could we justify spending all that money on defense, not to mention on the hookers and poker that went with the lobbying parties?
But in the wake of Vietnam, just as Foggo’s generation of conservatives was beginning to taste power, the Democratic Congress, along with the State Department and even much of the Pentagon, was not in a fighting mood. Congress had enacted a slew of laws, set up oversight committees, and designed prohibitions to limit the White House’s ability to wage war and execute covert actions. Congress now claimed the power to regulate presidential decisions related to military aid, arms sales, and the sending of troops abroad; it also demanded that the CIA inform up to eight committees of its activities. Banned were peacetime assassinations of foreign leaders, as were covert operations against American citizens at home. Worse yet, the USSR, the “evil empire,” was proving to be an uncooperative opponent — or rather, it was being too cooperative, willing to negotiate on a range of security issues. In order to implement a policy of “rollback,” as the neocons and militarists wanted to do, one needed an enemy to rollback.
Enter Colonel Ollie North, then an aide to the National Security Council — and the rest of the Iran-Contra gang. It was twenty years ago this November that a story broke in the press revealing a secret sale, brokered by North, of thousands of high-tech missiles to Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran at a greatly inflated price, with the profits laundered through a rogue’s gallery of unsavory middlemen ? Iranian expatriates, Israeli-arms dealers, right-wing mercenaries, anti-Communist client states like Saudi Arabia, Moonies, and drug runners — to bypass a congressional prohibition on military aid to the Contras.
What became known as “Iran-Contra,” however, was much more than an illegal arms deal. It was the New Right’s first concerted campaign to restore to the executive branch the power to wage unaccountable war, to override congressional scrutiny, and go on the ideological and military offensive in a place where, unlike in Vietnam, there was no major power to get in the way.
Democratic and public opposition to the Contras, which was strong, proved to be a blessing in disguise for the conservative movement. It forced the White House to rely on its social base to execute its “off-the-books” Nicaraguan war, thus thickening the connections between diverse New Right groups. It created a dense network of intellectuals, action groups, and social movements, uniting mainstream conservatives with militants from the carnivalesque Right. Urbane sophisticates like Ambassador to the UN Jeanne Kirkpatrick and businessmen like Rite-Aid heir Lewis Lehrman (today a member of the infamous neocon Project for the New American Century) made common cause with Soldier of Fortune wet-op lunatics, Sunbelt evangelical capitalists like Pat Robertson, and end-timers like Tim LaHaye (who, long before he hit the best-seller lists with his Left Behind series, was hawking Reagan’s Central American crusade to the evangelical rank-and-file).
In Washington, the first generation of neoconservatives, in alliance with politicized Vietnam vets like North who took second-tier positions in the Reagan administration, created an inter-agency war party that allowed them to move forward with support for the Contras despite congressional opposition. The shadowy infrastructure of Iran-Contra, designed to override more cautious area experts in the State Department and the CIA, who opposed Contra funding, foreshadowed Douglas Feith’s scheming Office of Special Plans, which cooked the intelligence and helped manipulate the media to make the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In fact, a key Feith advisor, neocon intellectual Michael Ledeen, who in the 1980s worked the Israeli angle of the Iran-Contra affair, has recently helped to rehabilitate his old buddy and fellow Iran-Contra luminary, the habitual liar Manucher Ghorbanifar, as a credible proponent of “regime change” in Iran. (There are even reports that the Pentagon, with Dick Cheney’s backing, has just put Ghorbanifar on the U.S. payroll.)
It was over Central America that New Right ideologues first began to junk multilateralism. When the International Court of Justice ordered that the United States pay Nicaragua billions of dollars in reparations for mining the country’s principle port and for conducting an illegal war of aggression, Washington balked and withdrew from the Court’s jurisdiction. It was a “watershed moment,” according to legal scholar Eric Posner, in the U.S. relationship with the international community, one that Bush’s Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has cited as evidence for why the U.S. should not support the new International Criminal Court.
In the field, Reagan’s Central American wars provided a way to reactivate CIA and Pentagon counterinsurgency operatives, desk-bound since the U.S. was kicked out of Southeast Asia, coordinating their work with private mercenaries, conservative (often evangelical) financiers, and a rising Christian fundamentalist movement.
So even as the military high command was taking steps to prevent another Vietnam from happening by attempting to limit the use of American troops to clearly defined objectives with clearly defined exit strategies, civilian ideologues and militarists in Central America were pushing in the opposite direction. In El Salvador, they were funding the largest nation-building counterinsurgency since Vietnam; while in Nicaragua — where they were hailing rapists, torturers, and murderers as “the moral equivalents of our founding fathers” — they were advancing a vision of military power used not for specific ends but to launch what they today call a “democratic global revolution.”
Watch Out, John Murtha
As does today’s “War on Terror,” Iran-Contra had a domestic front, which helped to normalize the kind of media manipulation, political harassment, and domestic surveillance that has since become commonplace in Bush’s America.
Staffed with psych warfare operatives from the CIA and the Army’s Fourth Psychological Operations Group, the Office of Public Diplomacy, set up in 1983 and headed by Otto Reich, carried out a massive campaign of media deception. Working with polls conducted by Madison-Avenue PR firms, the office provided emotive talking points to government officials, pundits, and scholars, linking the Sandinistas to any number of world evils: terrorism, Soviet nuclear submarines, religious and ethnic persecution, Cuba’s Castro, East Germans, Bulgarians, PLO leader Arafat, Libyan dictator Qadhafi, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, even Germany’s Baader-Meinhof Gang — claims as false as, yet no less effective than, those now famous sixteen words in Bush’s State of the Union Address of 2003 that pinned the yellowcake tail on the Iraqi donkey.
It was through Reich’s Office of Public Diplomacy that the White House mobilized grassroots conservative organizations not just to supply anti-Communist rebels with arms, bibles, medicine, and food, but to go after congressional and media critics. Here began the “swift boating” of American politics — distinct from 1950s McCarthyism in that it was actually orchestrated and funded by the executive branch.
For instance, New Right militants, advised by PR experts under government contract, focused much of their work on unseating the congressional anti-militarists elected in the wake of the Vietnam disaster, particularly those who opposed Reagan’s Central American policy. If you “cross” Reagan, said a Republican aide, “they’re going to carve you up publicly.” That’s what happened to Maryland Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes during a failed Senatorial bid. He fell victim to a smear campaign organized by International Business Communication, a Republican PR firm that worked closely with Public Diplomacy and the independent Anti-Terrorism American Committee. “Destroy Barnes,” said the notes of one of the Committee’s operatives. Watch out, John Murtha.
It was also in defense of Reagan’s Central American policies that the various branches of the country’s intelligence agencies joined forces to intimidate domestic dissenters, anticipating many of the practices — FBI and CIA file-sharing, for instance — that would be institutionalized by the Patriot Act and the creation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (filled by John Negroponte, who presided over the Contra war as ambassador to Honduras, where he reportedly covered-up death-squad murders). And the logic that today justifies Gitmo contains more than a whiff of Oliver North’s plan to suspend the Constitution and place domestic opponents of the Contra War in concentration camps.
The Swamp of Militarism and Corruption
Like the Watergate scandal, Iran-Contra started out as a small, back-page newspaper story only to explode into a major constitutional crisis. Yet unlike Watergate, which yielded a broad consensus regarding the dangers of unchecked executive power, Iran-Contra produced no closure. The Tower Commission, appointed by Reagan, focused on procedural issues related to presidential control over the NSA; Congress’s investigation turned out to be a mess; and the Special Prosecutor’s inquiry dragged on for years, stonewalled by the Department of Justice, with none other than John Bolton taking the lead in playing defense.
One reason neither the public, nor the press, nor the political system ever successfully came to terms with Iran-Contra was the tendency of reporters and government investigators to get lost in a thicket of conspiracy, to waste their energy tracing the tangle of branches that they always hoped would provide a clear map of the crime. Aspects of Iran-Contra were certainly criminal — illegal arms sales to an enemy nation to fund an illegal war; the use of drug traffickers to run supplies to the Contras; money laundering; the deployment of CIA operatives to influence domestic opinion.
Yet, in a sense, the investigators were all barking up the wrong tree. It wasn’t a conspiracy at all, but part of a larger storm of ideological passion, entwining economic interests and political ambition, that delivered the American system to the New Right. Iran-Contra — and Reagan’s Central American policy more broadly — broke down the tottering levees of a foreign policy already discredited from failure in Vietnam, creating the swamp in which militarism and corruption thrive. Until it is recognized as such, it will continue to suck us down, even as odd pieces of flotsam like Foggo, Wilkes, and Cunningham continue to rise to the surface.
Greg Grandin teaches Latin American history at New York University and is the author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and The Rise of the New Imperialism.
Copyright 2006 Greg Grandin
This piece appeared first, with a short introduction by Tom Engelhardt, at Tomdispatch.com.
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Time Consuming Questions
ericj_williams
Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:17 am | Post #1
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:17 am #83205
In the text/on the video, it talks about avoiding time-consuming questions.
Is there some sort of list available that would help me spot them quicker, similar to logical indicator words like "thus" and "since"?
An example to me is the third question from the fruit stand game, which asks me what cannot be a complete and accurate list, which is in effect seeming to ask me to find 4 could be complete lists. But the game is moving so this could be a very time-consuming question, especially for occurring relatively early in the game.
Jeremy Press
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Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:30 pm | Post #2
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:30 pm #83362
It's a very good question, and I'm going to give what's going to seem like an evasive answer, but I hope it shows you the kinds of things you should think about when it comes to timing.
We can't create a list like the one you're asking for, because what's time-consuming to you and what's time-consuming to another student are often very different things. I've had students who found all Assumption questions in Logical Reasoning very time-consuming, whereas they're my favorite kind of question and they often take me very little time at all. On the other hand, I will often find myself getting sucked into (and spending too much time on) a Strengthen or Weaken question in LR (usually late in the section) that other students might zip right through and finish in a very timely way. So if I tell you to mark Assumption questions as time-consuming, that's going to be misleading and unhelpful, because you might not have a problem with them at all. Same goes for Conditional Reasoning questions, which some people think take forever (because of the diagramming involved) and others think go fairly quickly (ironically, for the very same reason!).
You need to go through enough timed sections that you develop a sense for which kinds of questions are going to suck you down a rabbit hole. Use the online analytics, if you have access to them, to determine which questions take you longest to complete. Learn to anticipate those questions, and to flag them to come back to once you've finished everything else in the section.
But also remember that sometimes even though a question seems like it might take forever (like the question you referenced from the fruit stand game), there might be a simple way to "prephrase" your way to the correct answer. Even if you don't see that in the moment, you should look at that question during your review process and think about if there was a simple way to prephrase and get immediately to the correct answer. In that fruit stand game, the third question asks what cannot be true. We know from our rule list that it can never be true that K and P appear in a group together. Check the answer list. See if there's an answer where they try to force those two variables together. There is (answer choice E)! You didn't have to test answer to "see through" to the right answer. Remember that lesson for future games, etc.
Let me know if this triggers further questions for you, and keep up the good work!
Jeremy Press wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:30 pm Hi Eric,
That's a very fair response.
I suppose, simply, I will need to do a better job of determining the types of questions that give me trouble and either avoid them on the test or work to getting them closer to a strength.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
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Study: Guys Who Play Sports Are More Likely to Pressure Girls Into Sex
Jun 7, 2016 @ 3:00 pm By Keely Quinlan
Listen, we don’t make up the stats, we just report them. And a new study shows that one of the worst stereotypes about jocks — that they’re rape-ier than the average guy — might just have some truth to it.
A new study published in online Violence Against Women journal shows that guys who play sports in college are more likely to pressure women into sex acts than those who don’t play sports.
The study reports that more than half of guys who play either recreational or intercollegiate sports have admitted to coercing a partner into sex as compared to 38% of guys who don’t play sports in college, according to the Washington Post.
Those numbers are crazy, and while they might be limiting because the surveys were taken from just one Division I college campus in the southeast, sadly, this might just be one stereotype that exists for a reason.
The one silver lining: some of the people in power who allow recently, Baylor University fell into the spotlight for its own sexual assault scandal because the school admittedly covered up reports of sexual assault on campus, according to the Washington Post.
The survey that was taken by the students at the university listed out several situations in which they might have coerced a parter, including the response “I used threats to make my partner have oral or anal sex,” which if you didn’t know is basically the legal definition of rape.
This report is released at a very poignant time for the campus sexual assault movement, following the Brock Turner rape trial that concluded last week. Brock, who was an athlete at Stanford, was found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman which strengthens the argument for athlete rape culture.
More fun news: Violence Against Women also reported that those admitting to using coercive measures to have sex tended to hold one (or both) of these beliefs about the culture. The first being the myth that “if a woman doesn’t fight back, it isn’t rape,” and the second reinstating traditional gender roles like, “women should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers.”
These misogynistic attitudes, which appear to reinforced through sport culture and acceptance of the rape myth, might partially explain the difference between athletes and non-athletes.
“[The idea of] comparing recreational and intercollegiate athletes — that’s filling a gap. That’s really important,” Kristy McCray, an assistant professor of health and sport sciences at Otterbein University, told the Washington Post. “This idea of engaging in athletic behavior, even if you’re not on an [intercollegiate] team — just being in a sports culture — is really interesting.”
“Sports are a hypermasculine endeavor, and there’s a lot that connects hypermasculinity to violence,” McCray went on to tell the Post.
Ah yes, hypermasculinity strikes again. Can’t wait to see what science uncovers next.
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Updates » Updates » Record unemployment in Gaza
Record unemployment in Gaza
Bank in Gaza. Photo by Gisha
August 20, 2018. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, during the second quarter of 2018, even before the Kerem Shalom crossing was shut down, Gaza’s unemployment rate reached 53.7% – an increase of nearly 10% compared to the same quarter last year.
The number of individuals employed in the Gaza Strip dropped by about 20,000 total during this quarter, with the highest losses recorded in the construction sector where 2,038 jobs were lost; the farming and fishing sector, where 4,000 jobs were lost, and the services sector, the largest employer, where 19,000 jobs were lost over the quarter. Some gains were made in other sectors, such that the total was around 20,000.
Unemployment is particularly acute among women, at 78.3% this quarter, compared to 44.5 among men. A decade-long trend of increasing female participation in the workforce seems to have ground to a halt since 2016. The increase in the rate of unemployment is partly the result of more people (mostly men) entering the workforce. Unemployment among young people aged 15-29 reached 71.1% this quarter – an increase of 6.3% compared to the previous quarter.
At this rate, the annual average may well be unprecedented. For the sake of comparison, in the third quarter of 2014, a quarter that saw fifty days of hostilities during the last major military operation in the Strip, during which the economy all but shut down, unemployment was 47.4%. The gap between unemployment rates in the Gaza Strip and West Bank remains significant, with 19.1% unemployment in the West Bank in the second quarter.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire and with economic activity stalled, residents are overcome by exhaustion and hopelessness. From July 10 – August 14, Israel blocked all exit of goods as well as entrance of essential items, including raw materials needed for industry and fuel for certain periods.
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Join now to contact Pruitt Taylor Vince and you'll get instant, unlimited access to our exclusive online database of contact information for over 58,409 celebrities, 16,073 representatives (agents, managers, publicists & attorneys) & 8,007 entertainment companies. Vincent (Pruitt Taylor Vince), in domestic setting. Did You Know Marvel Made a Freddy Kreuger Comic in 1989? "Gotti," in theaters June 15, 2018, is rated R. He also appeared in Jacob's Ladder (1990), Nobody's Fool (1994), Heavy (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), The Legend of 1900 (1998), Identity (2003), Constantine (2005), Gotti (2018), and Bird Box (2018). Vince and Chase note that you’ve stopped looking like you’re praying for death when you run. The lawsuit was settled out of court in 2013 for an unspecified sum, and the role, after many production delays, eventually went to Pruitt Taylor Vince. Pruitt has received acclaim as an actor who has a very special gift for showing conflicting emotions. 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Nestled among the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, the town of Springville is a gateway to a vast wilderness area that contains some of America’s greatest natural treasures. Within a two hours’ drive of Springville are Sequoia National Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument, Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, and Success Lake. For those planning a camping trip to the area, four campgrounds are within a 25-mile radius of Springville.
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Success Lake, 8 miles southwest of Springville, is a manmade lake that covers 2,450 acres and serves the dual purposes of flood control and irrigation. The lake, created by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam on the Tule River, is popular with anglers and boaters. Tule Recreation Area, which borders the lake, offers hiking trails, hunting, fishing ponds, picnic areas, a softball field, playgrounds and a campground. Open year-round, Tule Campground has 103 campsites, several with electric hookups. Each site has a parking spur, picnic table, fire pit and barbecue grill. Campers have access to conveniently located flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. The recreation area has an amphitheater where campfire programs are held every Saturday night from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.
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Roughly 15 miles northeast of Springville is Wishon Campground, a U.S. Forest Service campground in the Western Divide Ranger District of Sequoia National Forest. Open year-round, weather permitting, the campground has 27 sites, all without utilities. Also available is a rental cabin, located beside the entrance to the campground. Facilities available to campers include picnic tables, vault toilets and fire rings. Among the area’s recreational activities are hiking and fishing in the Tule River and a creek that runs through the campground. The national forest is home to more than 30 groves of giant sequoia, the world’s largest tree. Within hiking distance of the campground are six such groves: Burro, Maggie Mountain, Middle and Upper Tule, Silver Creek and Wishon.
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Coy Flat Campground sits at an elevation of 5,000 feet in Giant Sequoia National Monument 17 miles east of Springville. The campground, open from late May until late October, has 19 single campsites and one group site that can accommodate up to 12 campers. Because of limited turnaround space, Coy Flat cannot accommodate RVs longer than 26 feet. Campground facilities are limited but do include picnic tables, fire rings, vault toilets and a water spigot. Adjacent to the campground is Bear Creek Trail, which climbs through diverse terrain to an elevation of 9,000 feet. Also nearby is Belknap Grove, a 4,666-acre preserve with hundreds of old-growth sequoia trees. Hiking trails crisscross the grove.
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Also located in Giant Sequoia National Monument is Quaking Aspen Campground, roughly 25 miles east of Springville. Typically open from late May until mid-October, the campground sits at an elevation of 7,000 feet and has 33 campsites: 26 standard sites and seven group sites. The latter vary in size and can accommodate groups from 12 to 50 in number. RVs longer than 26 feet are prohibited. Campers can access vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings and potable water. Popular day trips within a short drive of the campground include Dome Rock, Needles and Trail of 100 Giants.
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7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids
New research on Wharton grads highlights a challenge the country as a whole must tackle.
Stewart D. Friedman
We are in the midst of a revolution in gender roles, both at work and at home. And when it comes to having children, the outlook is very different for those embarking on adulthood’s journey now than it was for the men and women who graduated a generation ago.
I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project, comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. One of the more surprising findings is that the rate of Wharton graduates who plan to have children has dropped by about half over the past 20 years.
It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. The reality today is that Millennial men and women are opting out of parenthood in equal proportions.
This change in Wharton students’ plans for parenting is part of a larger trend; a nation-wide baby bust. In 1992, the average U.S. woman gave birth to 2.05 children over the course of her life. By 2007, this number had crept up slightly, to 2.12. But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average number of births per woman declined during each of the four years following 2007, dropping to 1.89 (preliminary estimate) — below replacement rate of 2.10 — in 2011. The decline we observed in the Wharton study was more pronounced. While the average 1992 graduate expected to have 2.5 children in his or her lifetime — well above the U.S. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.
These numbers are a bit deceiving, however, in one important way: Among those respondents in both 1992 and 2012 who planned to become parents, the number of expected children remained stable at 2.6. What caused the average of the expected number of children to plummet was the sharp decline in the portion of people who planned to have any children, through birth or adoption.
We know, of course, that not everyone wants to be a parent, but the majority still do. The percentage of people who said that being a parent is important in judging the success of one’s life declined only slightly over these two decades, from 84% to 80%.
My research, and that of others, increasingly points to the fact that the thwarting of young people’s aspirations is the result of external pressures that make having both a successful career and a child seem impossible.
Our current capacity to meet this challenge is cause for very serious concern. But there is no one solution; partial answers must come from various quarters. Here are seven ideas for action in social and educational policy, based on my own research — described in Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family — and what others have learned:
1. Provide World-Class Child Care. Children require care, yet the U.S. ranks among the lowest in the developed world in the early childhood care we provide. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in a study conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the majority of American day care providers ranked fair or poor and only 10% were deemed of high quality. Yet Americans spend more on child care than other developed countries, and many of those countries are able to provide excellent child care. In addition, the cost of care has doubled since the 1980s, according to the Census Bureau.
Just as bad, if not worse, the K-12 education we offer falls far short of our aspirations and of global norms, and the results are distressing.
A massive overhaul could start with labor market compensation practices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, child care workers earn even less than home health care workers. A smarter approach would be to treat those who care for children as professionals and to invest in the training and licensing requirements that would be needed to justify much higher rates of pay for those who care for our youngest citizens. High-quality child care not only helps children but enables their parents — mothers and fathers — to engage fully in the workforce without unnecessary distraction and worry.
Our 2012 respondents were attuned to the fact that children require a caring person tending to their developmental needs. This was true for men as well as women. If Millennials want children – and realize wisely that children need to be cared for and that often both parents work outside the home – then we need to step up, as other countries have done, and invest in nurturing our young.
2. Make Family Leave Universally Available. Family leave, including paternity leave, is essential for giving parents the support they need to care for their children. Right now, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics only 11 percent of U.S. employees receive paid family leave from employers. The one public policy that covers time off to care for new children, the Family and Medical Leave Act, laudable though it is, still excludes 40 percent of the workforce. And millions who are eligible and need leave don’t take it, mainly because it’s unpaid, but also because of the stigma and real-world negative consequences.
We need to expand who’s eligible for FMLA and make it affordable; the more people who use it, the less there will be stigma, and a virtuous circle will be created to replace the vicious cycle we have now, wherein parents opt out of work and young workers opt out of parenting. Now, FMLA applies to all public agencies, all public and private elementary and secondary schools, and companies with 50 or more employees. But the rest of American workers are not eligible for the 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave. In other developed countries, family leave is available and it is paid.
The Millennials in our study, including young men, wanted to be engaged, loving, and present parents, but they could not see how they could make this work economically. FMLA is a resource that can provide them with the support they need.
3. Revise the Education Calendar. The standard school day is based on an outdated schedule. Other countries have children in schools for longer days and for a greater part of the calendar year, providing support for working parents and enrichment for children. Friedman’s The Measure of a Nation indicates a correlation of nearly 90% between the number of school days and the results on a world-wide measure of reading, math and science. Revising the school calendar would be a benefit to children, to working parents, and to organizations that would, in the long run, have a better prepared workforce. Having children in school longer hours and for a greater part of the year is yet another way we as a society can help support young dual-career families so that they can envision a way of having their family and work lives in harmony rather than in perpetual discord.
4. Support Portable Health Care. In our study, the anticipated financial costs of childrearing negatively affected Millennials’ plans for becoming parents. Given the rising costs of health care, working parents benefit greatly from health care policies that don’t punish them for taking time off or moving. The Affordable Care Act is a step in this direction. It helps families obtain care while avoiding crippling debt as both parents might now have to navigate careers in which they move from job to job. And preventive care reduces the need for time off due to health problems that afflict workers and their children. This is yet another way that we can ease the burden for those young couples who want to have children and two careers.
5. Relieve Students of Burdensome Debt. Many young people simply can’t envision a future in which they can afford to support children because they are carrying high levels of student debt. Skyrocketing interest rates on student loans and the increasing cost of higher education result in debt burdens that are too onerous. Chris Christopher, senior economist at IHS Global Insight, calls student debt “a real monkey wrench in the works of our families and economy,” adding that if college costs and student debt continue to rise, the nation’s low birthrate may become the “new normal.”
Nobel-laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz concurs. “Those with huge debts are likely to be cautious before undertaking the additional burdens of a family,” Stiglitz writes. What’s true nationally is also true of the Wharton men we surveyed in 2012. Those men who told us that they had financed their undergraduate educations through employment during school, private loans, government loans, and scholarships and grants were significantly less likely to plan to have children.
6. Display a Variety of Role Models and Career Paths. In our sample, we found that career paths have narrowed because students believe that they must earn money quickly and that only a few options offer this. One man from the Class of 2012 said, “Career paths today seem to be pushed upon students too quickly, or students find themselves in paths they don’t feel are expressing their true selves but are ‘stuck’ due to financial reasons.”
The more that young people hear stories about the wide range of noble, and economically viable, roles they can play in society, the easier it will be for them to choose the roles that match their talents and interests. Young adults would benefit from exploring as wide an array of career alternatives as possible, including and especially those that allow them to have the kind of autonomy and flexibility required to be engaged in both their careers and in their roles as parents.
7. Require Public Service. Our study found that young people today, especially women, want to do work that helps others, despite their expectation that they will not be well compensated for it. And young women who expected their jobs 10 years in the future to provide the chance to serve others were significantly less likely to plan to become mothers.
Young people are yearning to do work that benefits others. Our society could channel that enthusiasm and idealism by requiring a year of public service for postsecondary school youth, which would not only improve our workforce but would help all of us recalibrate what’s really important. And it might help those young women who, as we observed, now foresee a tradeoff between social impact via one’s career and motherhood, to envision instead a life in which they can serve both the family of humanity and a family with children of their own in the scope of their lifetimes.
Of course, there are a lot of unknowns about what our current birthrate means for business. Some argue that in our neo-capitalist society, based as it is on information and finance, there is need for a smaller but more productive labor force. Families no longer need their children for farmhands and so society, and our increasingly automated manufacturing sector, no longer has the same demand for labor. On the other hand, an aging population with fewer workers could mean trouble sustaining social-security programs, projecting military power, and maintaining a high degree of innovation.
But what we do know is that families centered on a single-earner father are no longer the norm. And yet our current institutions are still based on this outdated model. We, as a nation, need to focus on what children in our society require — nurturing. How can they get it if we do not provide the essential social and educational support that working parents need?
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Stewart D. Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School. He is the co-author of Parents Who Lead. For more, visit www.totalleadership.org, find him on Twitter @StewFriedman, or on LinkedIn.
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Sam Greenwood completes his move to Leeds United
Jay Puducheri | August 28, 2020 | Arsenal News | No Comments
Sam Greenwood has completed his move to Leeds United. Arsenal will reportedly receive an initial fee of £1.5 million which could rise to £3 million based on bonuses.
The player posted a message on Instagram bidding farewell to Arsenal. He said:
“I want to say a big thank [you to] Arsenal and the supporters for the last 2 years of my career. Been an honour to play for the club while meeting some special people and making even better memories.”
The 18 year old joined the Gunners from Sunderland’s academy in the summer of 2018. He was hugely impressive during his time in North London. He scored 21 goals and provided 12 assists in 54 appearances for the Under 18s. He is a striker but is also capable of playing out wide and in the number 10 position. He has made three appearances for England at the Under 18 level and has scored one goal.
The former Sunderland academy player seemed to be making the transition to Arsenal’s Under 23 side last season. He scored one goal in five games for Steve Bould’s team and looked all set to become a regular fixture for the Under 23s.
Leeds are focussing a part of their transfer strategy on attracting players who are playing at an Under 23 level but are capable of breaking into the first team. It is likely that the newly promoted Premier League team offered Greenwood a pathway to the first team that was superior to the plan on offer at Arsenal.
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UCLA joined regional and state leaders at the LACI 100% Renewable Energy Policy Forum
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Leadership Council hosted a renewable energy policy forum on Friday, February 9, 2018 at their downtown La Kretz Innovation campus. Statewide energy experts discussed the critical challenges of achieving 100-percent renewable energy for California and focused on Senate Bill 100 (SB 100). L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council member and Senate President pro Tempore Kevin De León opened the forum with confidence that SB 100 will pass this spring. A bill authored by De León, SB 100 would accelerate the state’s current Renewable Portfolio Standard requirement from 50 percent to 60 percent by 2030 and set a statewide policy to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. He emphasized that the bill will catalyze investment, innovation, and transformation towards electrified transportation. “100 percent renewable energy is possible and the world is watching [us],” said De León. Further, he addressed components of the bill including provisions that ensure disadvantaged communities are part of the transition.
Following the keynote, two panels examined key barriers in implementing renewables and the economic impact on communities. The first panel featured Sustainable LA Grand Challenge partners, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and Southern California Edison along with other experts. They discussed the technical and regulatory barriers of achieving 100-percent renewable energy and how to fully integrate renewables into the energy grid. Topics covered included: barriers in local government that slow the spread of distributed solar, the importance of expanding large-scale solar generation and increasing storage, as well as the need for a large-scale push to electrify the transportation sector. The energy among leaders at the forum demonstrated clear motivation towards building momentum for an energy revolution.
Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability and leader of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, joined other experts to highlight how clean energy will contribute to the economic well-being for Californians. “Meeting the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge goal of a decarbonized future will lead to innovation, job creation, and environmental health equity throughout the megacity of Los Angeles,” said Gold. The statewide focus sparked by De León bolsters the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s goal to fully transition L.A. towards renewable energy by 2050. “It is so heartening to see the leadership from Senator De León and the leaders at this forum push for 100-percent renewable energy generation by 2045,” said Gold.
This post was written by Conor Cusack. He is a geography/ environmental studies major in his senior year, an outdoor enthusiast and a writer for Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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DiSalvo to Leave in 2019, Search for His Successor is Already Underway
Nick Fulchino on October 12, 2018
President Steven R. DiSalvo at Saint Anselm College’s 124th commencement on May 20, 2017. (Photo from Saint Anselm College)
After five years on the Hilltop, Steven DiSalvo announced that he would be stepping down as the President of Saint Anselm College.
When DiSalvo became president in 2013, he was the first president of the College to come from outside of the monastery. Instead, DiSalvo had a long history in higher education. Before coming to Saint Anselm, DiSalvo was the President of Marian University in Wisconsin, a school of 1,680 undergraduates and 500 graduates.
The president announced his decision to the school community in an email Friday. In his letter, DiSalvo thanked the Anselmian community for welcoming him and acknowledged the strides he made as president, writing, “As I make this announcement, I am filled with pride in the progress that we at Saint Anselm have made, and deep gratitude for the privilege of leading this unique college.”
The College website casts DiSalvo’s tenure in a positive light. “[DiSalvo] has advanced the college’s national reputation through scholarship, athletics and via the prestigious New Hampshire Institute of Politics operated by the college,” it says.
The New Hampshire Institute of Politics growth and development has been a high-point under the DiSalvo Administration. The chaotic 2016 campaign was handled with great care on campus and the school was again chosen to host debates during the Democratic and Republican primaries, though it is not clear how much of the credit DiSalvo deserves for this.
Madison Mangels ‘19, a Politics major, said, “I’m not entirely aware of anything specific he has done for the NHIOP. When I think of work done on NHIOP, I think of Neil Levesque and the rest of the NHIOP staff as well as the professors.”
In a press release posted on the College’s webpage, the Chair of the Board of Trustees published a list of DiSalvo’s accomplishments, including an increase in the College’s endowment and retention rate, the completion of $48 million in capital improvement projects, such as the Roger and Francine Jean Student Center Complex, and the hiring of a Chief Diversity Officer.
Abbot Mark Cooper, O.S.B. ’71 praised Disalvo, saying, “Much has been accomplished during Dr. DiSalvo’s years as president, and all of us are most grateful for our current strong enrollment, our ever-increasing endowment, and especially for the recent news of our making the list of the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the United States.”
His administration has not always been positively received, however. In the fall of 2015, some student-athletes and alumni protested DiSalvo when he announced plans to transfer Saint Anselm to a Division III school. Despite persistent exploration of the possibility throughout the 2015-2016 school year, Saint Anselm decided to remain a Division II school.
More recently, DiSalvo came under fire this summer after 13 Saint Anselm College employees were abruptly laid off over the summer. No official acknowledgment of the layoffs was ever made to the student body. He did address Saint Anselm staff after the layoffs and was escorted out of the premises by security officers. Rumors of his firing or resignation have surfaced ever since.
Shortly after the layoffs were announced, the College announced that Chief Financial Officer Eric Norman was leaving his position. The job is now occupied, at least temporarily, by Bill Furlong.
Student reaction to DiSalvo’s departure has been mixed. Jackson Peck ’22, an SGA senator, said he was “sad” to see Dr. DiSalvo leave. “I have not been at this college long enough to determine DiSalvo to be [an] effective or ineffective leader; however, I can see with certainty that it is important for every organization or institution to have a strong leader at its helm.” He continued, “At times where the president’s leadership ability is brought into question it undermines the ability of students to establish meaningful relationships with the administration.”
One Saint Anselm graduate shared the college’s press release on her Facebook page with the caption, “About time👌.”
The unofficial results of a Twitter poll being conducted by The Hilltopper show that 50% of respondents said they were pleased with Dr. DiSalvo’s decision to step down as Saint Anselm College president while 17% said they were not. Of those who took the survey, 33% said they were unsure or had no opinion on his departure.
Professor Gary Bouchard, Fr. Jerome Day, and Dr. Joe Horton ’77 are all on a rumored shortlist to replace Dr. Steven DiSalvo as he leaves the college.
In his letter, DiSalvo confirmed that there was a search committee underway to find a successor. Speculation is already underway about who may be the college’s next president. A rumored shortlist that was passed on to The Hilltopper by a reliable source includes Dr. Joe Horton ‘77, who was one of the 13 employees let go over the summer, Fr. Jonathan DeFelice, who served as President of the College before DiSalvo, Fr. Jerome Day of the monastery, and professor Gary Bouchard, who now oversees the recently-established Humanities Institute. A fifth candidate, a woman, is rumored to be undergoing the vetting process as well, but The Hilltopper did not learn of her name.
The Hilltopper reached out to Fr. Jonathan, Fr. Jerome, and Professor Bouchard for comment. Fr. Jonathan said he was “quite certain” that he was not under consideration. Neither Fr. Jerome nor Professor Bouchard was immediately available for a statement upon request.
The nature of the list signals a clear interest in choosing a new college president who has deep ties to the Saint Anselm community, which may be intentional in the wake of DiSalvo’s tenure.
While The Hilltopper received no official confirmation of the shortlist above, it deemed its source credible enough to reach out to the candidates whose names appear on the list. We maintain our commitment to transparent reporting and will update our readers as we continue to assess the accuracy of the list.
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Pat Farrell October 12, 2018 at 8:39 pm
Thank you so much for keeping on top of what has been happening at the college since May. I was so happy to hear the news from the Hilltop today? After having such a black cloud over the campus since May 25, justice has been served. Saint Anselm College will again rise as a true Benedictine Community
Brian Flaherty October 12, 2018 at 9:49 pm
My top choice is Fr. Jerome but if it’s not him there would be no greater justice than to have Dr. Horton replace the man who unjustly fired him.
Dick Butke October 14, 2018 at 8:09 am
The problem is and will continue to be the President reports to two people , the Abbot and Chair of the Board . This is stupid and ineffective
The College has to decide to go back to the future with an advisory Board or move forward with the Board governing the College( like BC , Holy Cross, Georgetown etc) there is no door # 3 that works . If The new president is a monk he should report to the board and not the Abbot
As to the layoffs , they were caused by the reinstatement of athletic scholarships which increased the discount rate and were not included in the budget
You want to know who caused the layoffs,find out who was the prime administrator that advocated for The scholarships
It was not Disalvo
Did he miss it , yes but he person who pushed for them ( not AD) knew
The financial effect and said nothing !
Classified October 14, 2018 at 9:55 pm
With the search committee barely even formed is it really fair to act like you know the replacement already? Especially where Bouchard has stated previously that he would not want the job. Maybe do some legitimate searching or at least name sources.
It is also legitimate to quote your own reporters? Try some more professional journalism.
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THOMAS, Craig Lyle
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Representative, Senator
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101st (1989–1991), 102nd (1991–1993), 103rd (1993–1995), 104th (1995–1997), 105th (1997–1999), 106th (1999–2001), 107th (2001–2003), 108th (2003–2005), 109th (2005–2007), 110th (2007–2009)
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THOMAS, Craig Lyle, a Representative and a Senator from Wyoming; born in Cody, Park County, Wyo., February 17, 1933; attended public schools; B.A., University of Wyoming 1955; LLB LaSalle Extension University 1968; entered the United States Marine Corps as a private 1955, released as a captain 1959; executive vice president, Wyoming Farm Bureau 1966-1975; natural resource director, American Farm Bureau 1971-1975; general manager, Wyoming Rural Electric Association 1975-1989; independent small businessman; state representative, Wyoming 1984-1989; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred First Congress, by special election, April 25, 1989, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard B. Cheney; reelected to the One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses and served from April 26, 1989, to January 3, 1995; was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1994, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1994; reelected in 2000, and again in 2006 for the term ending January 3, 2013; died of leukemia at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on June 4, 2007; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Cody, Wyoming.
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Papers: 1963-2007 (bulk 1989-2007). 264.25 cubic feet. Political papers documenting his career as a U.S. Representative (1989-1995) and as a U.S. Senator (1995-2007). The bulk of the collection consists of Senator’s legislative files. Issues covered more extensively include agriculture, public lands and national parks, healthcare, and energy. Other documents included in the collection are media files, speeches, photographs, radio and television appearances, journals, appointment books and calendars, committee records, legislative and office correspondence, campaign records, and office administrative records. Finding aid available online.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “THOMAS, Craig Lyle,” https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/T/THOMAS,-Craig-Lyle-(T000162)/ (January 21, 2021)
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Mary Lincoln
Guest Post: The First Lady and the Queen by Susan Higginbotham
Today it is a pleasure to welcome Author Susan Higginbotham to History … the Interesting Bits with a wonderful article about the correspondence between Mary Lincoln and Queen Victoria.
The First Lady and the Queen
Mary Lincoln in widow’s weeds
Of the black-draped widows of the nineteenth century, surely two of the best known are Queen Victoria, who gave her name to the age, and Mary Lincoln, wife to the martyred American President. Bereaved just a few years apart, they would spend the rest of their lives in mourning.
Queen Victoria’s consort, Albert, died on December 14, 1861, at Windsor Palace. In due time, a formal letter of condolence arrived from the United States, signed by Abraham Lincoln, assuring the queen, “The American People . . . deplore his death and sympathize in Your Majesty’s irreparable bereavement with an unaffected sorrow. This condolence may not be altogether ineffectual, since we are sure it emanates from only virtuous motives and natural affection. I do not dwell upon it, however, because I know that the Divine hand that has wounded, is the only one that can heal.”
Mary Lincoln acknowledged the royal loss in her own way. On February 5, 1862, the Lincolns, at Mary’s suggestion, held a magnificent reception at the White House. The New York Herald reported the next day, “Mrs. Lincoln received the company with gracious courtesy. She was dressed in a magnificent white satin robe, with a black flounce half a yard wide, looped with black and white bows, a low corsage trimmed with black lace, and a bouquet of crepe myrtle on her bosom. Her head-dress was a wreath of black and white flowers, with a bunch of crepe myrtle on the right side. The only ornaments were a necklace, earrings, brooch and bracelets, of pearl. The dress was simple and elegant. The half mourning style was assumed in respect to Queen Victoria . . . whose representative was one of the most distinguished among the guests on this occasion.”
Not all of the press shared the Herald‘s enthusiasm. The country had settled into what would prove to be years of civil war, and the extravagant reception struck some as being in poor taste. The Pittsburgh Gazette of February 8, 1862, titling its short piece “Our Court Gone Into Mourning!” quoted the excerpt above, and then commented succinctly, “Don’t larf.”
Sadly, Mary would soon be wearing full mourning, and not as a courtesy for a distant queen. Her son Willie had fallen ill, and Mary had spent much of the reception going to and from his bedside. Though the prognosis initially appeared hopeful, Willie’s condition soon deteriorated, and he died on February 20, 1862. Mary could not bear to attend his funeral.
Unlike Queen Victoria, who put her entire court into mourning for Albert, Mary had only herself to attend to. (Unlike women, who when grieving for their closest relatives were expected to muffle themselves in deep, lusterless black if their means permitted it, men could get by simply with a black band around a sleeve or a hat–or with no mourning apparel at all.) Still, there was a fashion aspect to mourning, to which entire establishments catered, and Mary did not permit her terrible grief to prevent her from giving precise instructions to Ruth Harris, the hapless milliner who had the task of putting together a bonnet. “I want a very very fine black straw for myself–trimmed with folds of jet fine blk crape,” she instructed on May 17, 1862. Alas, the bonnet did not quite suit, so later that month, Mary explained, “I wished a much finer blk straw bonnet for mourning–without the gloss.”
By April 1865, however, Mary was wearing garments in an array of colors and looking forward to a brighter future. The war was all but won, and although President Lincoln had just begun his second term of office, he was looking forward to doing some traveling once he returned to private life. He hoped to visit Europe, as did Mary.
Abraham Lincoln, of course, never realized this dream, but was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, and died the next morning.
First page of the letter from Queen Victoria to Mary Lincoln
Several weeks later, Mary, who remained at the White House for over a month after her husband’s death, received the following black-bordered letter:
Osborne.
Though a stranger to you I cannot remain silent when so terrible a calamity has fallen upon you & your country, & must personally express my deep & heartfelt sympathy with you under the shocking circumstances of your present dreadful misfortune.
No one can better appreciate than I can, who am myself utterly broken-hearted by the loss of my own beloved Husband, who was the Light of my Life, — my Stay — my All, — what your own sufferings must be; and I earnestly pray that you may be supported by Him to whom alone the sorely stricken can look for comfort, in this hour of heavy affliction.
With the renewed expression of true sympathy,
I remain,
Your sincere friend
Mary responded with her own black-bordered letter:
Mary Lincoln’s letter to Queen Victoria
Madam:
I have received the letter, which Your Majesty has had the kindness to write, & am deeply grateful for its expressions of tender sympathy, coming as they do, from a heart which from its own sorrow, can appreciate the intense grief I now endure. Accept, Madam, the assurances of my heartfelt thanks &believe me in the deepest sorrow, Your Majesty’s sincere and grateful friend.
On May 23, 1865, Mary Lincoln left the White House, and Washington, at last. Unable to stomach the idea of returning to Springfield, Illinois, where she had met her husband and spent most of her married life, she moved to Chicago, but found little comfort there. Finally, in October 1868, she and her youngest son, Thomas “Tad” Lincoln, sailed for Europe. Although she based herself in Frankfurt, she made an excursion to France. There, at Nice, Mary, traveling incognito, ran across Victoria and Albert’s eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, Crown Princess of Prussia. As Mary reported to Eliza Slataper on February 17, 1869, “She had alighted from her carriage and was selecting some gorgeous tablecovers–our eyes met & we looked earnestly at each other, yet until she left the store, I did not know, who she was. Of course she will always remain in ignorance, regarding me.”
That summer, Mary visited Scotland. “Beautiful glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other Country!” she reported to Eliza on August 21, 1869. Her Scottish tour included a stop at Balmoral Castle. Although Victoria was absent, Mary told her friend Rhoda White in a letter dated August 30, 1869, “I have every assurance, that as sisters in grief a warm welcome would be give me–wherever she is–yet I prefer quiet.”
CDV of Victoria in mourning
Sadly, the sisters in grief were never to meet, although by the fall of 1870 Mary was staying in England, the climate of which disagreed with her and Tad, who was homesick as well. Mother and son returned to the United States in May 1871. Cornered by a “lady reporter” for the New York World, and asked to give her impression of the English people, Mary replied, as reported on May 16, 1871, “We were . . . very pleasantly received there, and enjoyed our stay exceedingly.”
As it turned out, Tad’s indisposition could not be cured by leaving behind London’s fog, and the youth died of a lung ailment in July 1871, just weeks after his return to America. His death launched Mary into a downward spiral, culminating in her son Robert’s decision to commit her to a private insane asylum in 1875. This at least invigorated Mary, who soon engineered her release. Declared “restored to reason,” Mary returned alone to Europe in 1876. but she seems to have avoided England, and even her beloved Scotland, entirely. In failing health, Mary returned to Springfield and died there on July 15, 1882.
Queen Victoria, however, had many more years to live, and seven years after Mary’s death would greet Abraham and Mary’s only surviving son, Robert, who was appointed minister to the Court of St. James in 1889. On May 25, Robert Lincoln presented his credentials to the queen at Windsor. The Chicago Tribune of May 26, 1889, reported, “Lincoln congratulated the Queen on her 70th birthday, and the Queen said some pleasant words to Mr. Lincoln about his father.”
Mary Lincoln would have been quite pleased.
It is always a pleasure to have Susan visit the blog, and I owe her a huge thanks for such an interesting article. I would like to take this opportunity to wish Susan every success with her latest novel, The First Lady and the Rebel. If you’ve never read one of Susan’s books, I highly recommend you take the plunge!
Susan Higginbotham is the author of seven historical novels, including Hanging Mary, The Stolen Crown, and The Queen of Last Hopes. The Traitor’s Wife, her first novel, was the winner of ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Silver Award for historical fiction and was a Gold Medalist, Historical/Military Fiction, 2008 Independent Publisher Book wards. She writes her own historical fiction blog, History Refreshed. Susan has worked as an editor and an attorney, and lives in Maryland with her family.
From the celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes the incredible story of Lincoln’s First Lady
A Union’s First Lady
As the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for a swift Northern victory. But as the body count rises, Mary can’t help but fear each bloody gain. Because her beloved sister Emily is across party lines, fighting for the South, and Mary is at risk of losing both her country and her family in the tides of a brutal war.
A Confederate Rebel’s Wife
Emily Todd Helm has married the love of her life. But when her husband’s southern ties pull them into a war neither want to join, she must make a choice. Abandon the family she has built in the South or fight against the sister she has always loved best.
With a country’s legacy at stake, how will two sisters shape history?
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Film Review: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
The Black Saint 07/05/2015 Film Reviews
This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus. Too bad we literally better not pout, or cry, or shout. Because this year Santa really is coming to town & he ain’t bringing any bags filed with toys. You better watch out indeed…..
It seems like The Black Saint has seen about 50 movies this week alone. I haven’t of course but it’s only Tuesday but who knows what my final tally for the week will be? I’ll tell you this though, the best movie I’ve seen this month and one of my favorites for the year is “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale”. A really strange & completely bizarre movie from Finland that takes the Santa Claus mythos & turns it on it’s ear in a really unexpected but wonderfully twisted way.
The film opens in Finland with an excavation crew looking for something buried deep inside Mount Korvatunturri. One of the workers discovers, strangely enough. some sawdust. When he reports & shows his find to his superior he immediately tells his employee that sawdust was used to keep frozen things insulated hundreds of years ago & that they are close to what he is looking for. He immediately produces some new cards for distribution to all of the other workers & instructs them to follow them to the tee. Among the new rules on the cards: No smoking, no cursing, no fighting, etc..etc. Of course, the employee curses & lights up a cigarette in response. The cigarette is promptly pulled out of his mouth & he is warned to watch his language. Seriously. The boss then instructs all of the workers to keep digging into the mountain proclaiming: “We have a grave to rob”!
Cut to a young boy named Pietari & his father Rauno who live not too far from the foot of the mountain. Pietari & his friend Juuso have cut a hole in the fence surrounding the excavation site & overheard the workers grumbling about what they’re looking for & the new rules. He doesn’t want to tell his father because he believes in Santa Claus & doesn’t want to be labeled as a bad boy. He has a book chronicling the REAL Santa Claus & is scared because according to this book when Santa is upset with you he doesn’t just leave coal in your stocking. He tortures you mercilessly & then kills you in most unpleasant ways. This really scares young Pietari so he makes sure his house is well lit & he is prepared for Santa’s imminent arrival so he can defend himself against him because he’s cut a hole into the fence & he thinks Santa will look at him as a bad child.
Meanwhile Pietari’s father & his friends notice some very strange things happening around town as the days get closer to Christmas. The movie begins on the first day of December & continues to Christmas day. Young Pietari has one of those 25 days of Christmas calendars on his wall. The kind that has little windows representing each day of the month until Christmas day. Pietari is so afraid of the day arriving that he tapes & then staples the little window representing the 25th shut. He’s afraid of Santa, really afraid. Meanwhile, someone has killed off all of the Reindeer that were in the pen outside of his home save for two of them that got away & when the men of the town (actually only 4 of them) go to the excavation site to investigate & hopefully find out what happened to their Reindeer they find the site devoid of life & a very large hole in the mountain. It’s obvious that something was dug up from very deep inside the mountain. Something evil..something like….SANTA CLAUS!
“Rare Exports” is a very rare type of film indeed. It combines elements of “John Carpenter’s The Thing” & “Night Of The Living Dead” & any number of legitimate Christmas movies & weaves them into a funny & scary little parable about what the holiday means to children. It’s even a sort of coming of age story as well because our hero, young Pietari begins the film as a very innocent little waif who carries around his teddy bear & ends the film as the one person who figures out what is going on & also devises a way to stop Santa & his army of (very strange) Elves from wreaking havoc worldwide.
Director/writer Jalmari Helander has done something really special with this movie. He’s made what should be a perennial Christmas classic for horror fans that should appeal to non horror fans as well. His script is deadly serious even though the subject matter really can’t be taken seriously. It’s very forboding at times, but it’s also very funny as well. All of the actors take the materail very seriously also. I can’t imagine how they were able to keep such straight faces on during some (purposely) ridiculous scenes.
When Pietari’s father catches something in a bear trap & goes to investigate it, he finds a spindly old man who looks a lot like an emaciated Santa Claus. The man is wounded from falling into the trap & is pulled up & taken to a barn where Rauno & his friends are about to dismember(!) him to get rid of the evidence when they realize he’s still breathing despite his seemingly fatal wounds. It’s here where the film kicks into overdrive as the adults decide that they can ransom their victim for $85,000 (+ 22% tax) to the people who were looking for him anyway. You see, they think they have Santa but they don’t, they have one of his elves. And not only is he pissed off but his brother elves (who are all spindly, naked old men) are coming to rescue him & help Santa escape with the help of all of the radiators & hair dryers in the town. It sounds bizarre but it fits perfectly into the context of the film. You’ll just have to take my word on this acolytes…have I ever steered you wrong?
But where is Santa Claus? Oh he’s around & he ain’t the Santa we all know & love that’s for sure but you’ll have to see the movie to find out where he is. And see it you should because I have honestly never seen a film this bizarre yet entertaining in all my years of movie watching & I’ve seen thousands of movies. “Rare Exports” starts as a straight up horror film, turns into a whodunnit type of film & then turns into a sort of farcical comedy where everybody is just hilariously stupid (well, the adults anyway) & then goes back into a horror film before it becomes a coming of age story with young Pietari saving the day. Then it goes back into what I can only describe as….bizarre. The ending is reminiscent of “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” in a sense. But all of these pieces fit perfectly in the story. There’s not a false note spoken in the script at all and in the end it all makes sense in a ridiculous sort of way. It’s really hard to describe the film any more than I have without ruining it for those who haven’t seen it yet. But it is like no Christmas movie you’ve ever seen before, believe me.
There is a bit of violence in the movie, mostly off screen but there are scenes of animals being gutted for food, eviscerated reindeer & one poor soul gets an axe to his head but while these scenes aren’t too graphic, young children might get a bit unnerved by them.
All of the actors in the film are cast perfectly (there are no women in the cast). At first I thought young Pietari (Onni Tommila) was going to be a whiny little annoyance but he’s the glue that keeps the film from spinning wildly out of control. This is because he’s the only voice of reason in the film & eventually the adults turn to him for guidance. And he surprises himself when he takes charge as well because it’s something he didn’t know he had in him. He proudly tells an adult “Tell my father I did this”! as he’s about to do something totally ridiculous. But he wants his father to know that if he dies, he’s gonna die a heroes death. Remember he begins the film holding on to his teddy bear, he even talks to him. The adults start the film exactly the opposite of the children. They are the voices of reason & they are to be listened to without hesitation. Slowly the script has the adults & Pietari change places, almost imperceptibly at first but at about 3/4 of the film it’s all about Pietari & his very risky plan to take care of business.
And what about the other kids in town? Well there are a few but besides Pietari’s friend Juuso we don’t see any of them. Actually we do see them in a odd but effective sort of way. Apparently Santa isn’t too happy with these kids either. Pietari has to save them as well.
“Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” opens in limited release on Friday here in NY & gets a wider release next week as it will travel across the country during the month of December so all of you should get a chance to see it eventually. And see it you should. It’s got scares, tension, action & strangely enough lots of (intentional) laughs. The film really shouldn’t work but it does. A good script + a strong director + a cast willing to go balls out to sell the story to the audience = a very good movie indeed. I’m giving “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” 4 shrouds. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen this year & it’s definetely the strangest one I’ve seen this year for sure. But sometimes strange is good, it sure is in this case. Go see it when it comes to your nabe. You won’t be disappointed. Fuck, bring the kids! I’ll bet they get a kick out of it as well. Just remember, Santa Claus might be coming to your town & dropping down your chimney & if he’s anything like the Santa that’s portayed in this movie, You damn well better watch out….Cause he’s gonna find out who’s naughty & who’s nice.
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Nice review. I think I’m definitely going to have to see this. The uniqueness of this movie has really captured my attention. I’m hearing good things about it too, so I’ll have to check it out. It would be a nice change of pace to the typical Christmas movies (though of course I’ll still have to rewatch ‘National Lampoons Christmas Vacation’, ‘A Christmas Story’, ‘Its a Wonderful Life’, etc).
It’s definitely interesting how it twists and combines the genres so to speak. And you’re right, doesn’t seem like it should work. Sounds so campy and cheesy, but at the same time feels like it could be brilliant on some level. I’ll have to give it a shot.
Glad you liked the review. You’re gonna love the movie!
Si Barnes
RE is definitely a contender for best Christmas film! We have to watch it every year.
I found this movie to be totally overrated with some
exceptions to the acting of the kids.
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Cyprus Orthodox Church backs Ukrainian Church's independence
AP-EU--Cyprus-Church-Ukraine
Petros Karadjias, ASSOCIATED PRESS
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Cypriot Orthodox Church’s top decision-making body on Wednesday backed the Archbishop’s move to effectively recognize the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s independence, overturning an earlier position of neutrality on the thorny issue.
Of the Holy Synod’s 17 bishops, 10 voted not to contest last month’s decision by Archbishop Chrysostomos II to extend blessings to the leader of the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphanius I during a liturgical service.
The Archbishop’s reference to Epiphanius as head of the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church during a service was seen as de facto recognition of its independence.
Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who is considered first among equals in the Orthodox patriarchy, last year granted independence to Ukraine’s new Orthodox Church, severing its centuries-long ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Bartholomew’s move angered the Russian Orthodox Church, which cut ties with the Patriarchate. The Patriarch’s decision also divided the Orthodox world, with some churches expressing support and others criticizing it.
Dissenting Cypriot Bishop Nikiforos said that the Holy Synod’s decision wasn’t binding on those who disagreed because it was a matter of “faith and holy canon.” Nikiforos said the Holy Synod also rejected his compromise proposal not to go against the Archbishop’s move, but not to be in full communion with Epiphanius either.
Another dissenter, Bishop Isaias, wrote that his opposition rests on the premise that Epiphanius wasn’t properly enthroned as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader in line with church rules.
But Holy Synod spokesman Bishop Georgios said the body’s decisions are binding according to its constitution whether they’re made unanimously or by majority.
He said the Synod also called on all Orthodox churches to work “in order to overcome the present crisis that threatens the Church of Christ with a schism.”
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From Iceland — Prime Minister Awake After Seven Years Hypnotized
Prime Minister Awake After Seven Years Hypnotized
York Underwood
Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has been involved in multiple scandals and debates, with the most recent debates about health care and his wife’s offshore accounts in the British Virgin Islands topping the list. Citizens have been surprised with his ruthless and reckless behaviour, but no one is more surprised than Sigmundur Davíð himself.
“I’m the Prime Minister?,” a bewildered Sigmundur Davíð asked a throng of reporters gathered around his home. “That doesn’t make any sense. Who would have voted for me? I’m not joking. The last thing I remember was going to a Sailesh show in Kópavogur. The code word to snap me out of the hypnotic spell was ‘tortola.'”
Apparently this isn’t the first time this has happened. Sailesh, the magnificent hypnotist, declined an interview, but sources near him say they’ve met people years later who hadn’t been snapped out.
“This is a serious problem,” said Davíð Davíðsson, a professor in Folk Hypnotism at the University of Iceland. “I’m guessing there are hundreds, if not thousands of people in Iceland still trapped in the ‘Hypno-World.’ The problem is choosing obscure safe words.
“When in Sigmundur Davíð’s life would anyone say ‘Tortola’ to him? His wife? It’s a well established fact that they keep their work lives completely separate from each other.”
The Progressive Party’s response to the news of Sigmundur Davíð’s escape from “Hypo-World” has been uncharacteristically silent.
“There are huge gaps in my life I can’t account for,” said Sigmundur Davið. “I’m almost scared to read about what I’ve done. How could people let me run a country in that condition? Wasn’t it obvious I was a mindless drone? I wish I would have chosen ‘cake’ as my safe-word. Iceland would have been better off.”
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Pakistan’s Fawad Khan on the hunt for new talent
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Actor has launched a new initiative called The Next Big Story
Published: December 16, 2019 09:53 Usman Ghafoor, Special to tabloid!
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What could be more tempting for an aspiring screenwriter than the prospect of signing on a Fawad Khan production, with the possibility of the heart-throb starring in it? Recently, the ‘Khoobsurat’ star launched an initiative, called The Next Big Story, with the mission to hunt out and incentivise talented writers by offering them to work for his company, Alter Idom Films.
At its inaugural session, held at Ali Auditorium in Lahore, Khan spoke of the initiative as a platform that would “bridge the gap between writers, directors and producers.”
“For years we’ve been hearing about problems film professionals encounter in finding the right stories ... At the same time, scriptwriters don’t know where to go and who to contact to present their work. That is why we bring to you The Next Big Story,” he said.
Wearing a long coat over a sweatshirt and blue jeans, Khan seemed to have slipped into yet another of his glamorous acting avatars, especially in the way he moved about on stage in measured steps as he talked to a live audience in carefully crafted sentences and, sometimes, half-muted tones.
Easily one of Pakistan’s most popular crossover stars, Khan hasn’t featured in a movie since Bollywood’s ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ (2016) — that is, if you discount his many special appearances in Pakistani films lately. His mega-hyped blockbuster ‘The Legend of Maula Jutt’ is tipped to rewrite film history, but only if it sees the light of the day. The wait has been too long, and there’s no official word on its release date. In the meantime, Khan has famously begun work on another film, titled ‘Money Back Guarantee’, where he teams up with former skipper Waseem Akram, among others.
There are rumours of a collaboration with his ‘Humsafar’ co-star Mahira Khan for a movie to be produced under his home banner. But there’s no confirmation on that project. Where Khan has been most consistent is in his association with the beverage brand Pepsi. This year, he was on the panel of star judges for the music reality show, ‘Pepsi Battle of the Bands’, for its third consecutive season. And it was here that he revived some tracks from his former alternative metal back Entity Paradigm. The Next Big Story launch event was also sponsored by the same brand.
The event attracted a number of TV and film celebrities including Mahira Khan, Humayun Saeed, Ahmad Ali Butt, Vasay Chaudhry, Asim Raza and Navid Shahzad. While Mahira and Butt shared their respective methods in “script selection,” Saeed and Raza explained what constitutes a good script. Chaudhry and senior actor and academic Shahzad shed light on the different aspects of screenwriting.
Earlier, explaining the entry process for The Next Big Story, Khan said that it involved a couple of stages, beginning with a scriptwriting competition. The writers will need to electronically send in synopses of their original stories — one person can submit one script only — in the Urdu language, and also pay a submission fee.
Adaptations are not allowed, unless the writer owns the copyrights of a work, or the said work is freely available to the public. There’s also a minimum age requirement of 18 years for the writer. The winners of the competition will be invited to write up full screenplays in the next stage. Finally, Alter Idom Films will buy the rights to produce the screenplay adjudged the best by a jury.
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NBA's All-Time Leading Scorer with 38,387 points, New York Times Best Selling Author, U.S. Cultural Ambassador, and Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient.
NBA’s All-Time Leading Scorer with 38,387 Points
6x NBA Champion
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2020 Emmy Nominee: Outstanding Narrator
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points, a 6x NBA champion and the only 6x MVP. He is one of the most influential and respected men in America and has a national platform as a regular contributing columnist for leading newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter. He uses this platform to shares his thoughts on some of the most socially relevant and politically controversial topics facing our nation today. After 50 years as an athlete and activist, he also offers his perspectives as a nationally recognized speaker regularly appearing on the lecture circuit. He is the recipient of 4 Columnist of the Year Awards in (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) by the Southern California Journalism Awards. Kareem is also a sought after television personality and actor. His IMDb page lists his over 250 credits.
His Emmy Award-winning HBO Sports documentary, Kareem: Minority of One, debuted as HBO’s most-watched and highest-rated sports documentary of all time. Currently, he is in the writers' room working on Veronica Mars for Hulu, and in development on his first original T.V. series for Warner Brothers.
Before leaving office President Barack Obama awarded Abdul-Jabbar The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Currently, Mr. Abdul-Jabbar serves as the chairman of his non-profit, The Skyhook Foundation whose mission is to “Give Kids a Shot That Can’t be Blocked” by bringing educational STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) opportunities to underserved communities with an innovative outdoor learning curriculum. A New York Times Best-Selling Author, he has written 15 books, including two recent memoirs: “Becoming Kareem” for young readers, and “Coach Wooden and Me” about his lifelong friendship with famed UCLA coach John Wooden. His 2nd installment of the Mycroft Holmes series, entitled “Mycroft & Sherlock” was released in October of 2018. The 3rd book in the series“Mycroft & Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage” was released in September 2019.
Finding Your Inner All-Star
From the streets of Harlem to six NBA championships to bestselling author to award-winning film producer and U.S. Cultural Ambassador, the 19-time NBA all-star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been an all-star at everything he’s attempted. With riveting and humorous detail, Abdul-Jabbar recounts his exciting evolution from street ball player to successful athlete, author, producer, and community activist. Kareem also discusses how he triumphed over CML Leukemia cancer to become healthy and cancer-free. Abdul-Jabbar’s approach to life can provide an inspirational strategy for others and provide insight into key leadership skills for success.
From Locker Room to Conference Room: Building Successful Teams
Every team Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has played on from high school to the NBA has been a winning team. Using what he’s learned during his 20 years in the pros—from his own experiences as well as from great coaches such as John Wooden—Abdul-Jabbar will cite personal examples and experiences and show how these same principles can be used to build corporate winning teams.
From Kareem to Kaepernick: A History of Political Activism in Sports
In 1968, rising star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar risked career backlash when he publicly boycotted joining the U.S. Olympic basketball team to protest the rampant racial injustice of the time. Almost fifty years later, he wrote with eloquence and conviction about Colin Kaepernik and #TakeAKnee. “I have never been prouder to be part of the athletic community,” Jabbar stated, emphasizing the important role that athletes as activists can play in political resistance to the “Trump administration’s assault on American values and constitutional civil liberties.” In this inspiring presentation, Jabbar celebrates the impact of athlete activism: Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the Vietnam War, the famous Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the 30 University of Missouri football players who threatened to boycott the season because of unaddressed racial issues on campus, #TakeAKnee, and others. Noting that too many of the issues that he protested in 1968 are still with us, Jabbar, a leading member of the Anti-Defamation League’s new Sports Leadership Council, inspires athletes and non-athletes alike to stand up against injustice.
Battling Cancer with Positivity
In 2008, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was diagnosed with early-stage chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). “I thought leukemia as something exotic that happened to other people,” he said. “And then, all of a sudden, it happened to me.” He immediately made his diagnosis public. After learning that the high cost of treatment sometimes means that patients do not always take their medicines, he led an awareness campaign. This was not Kareem’s first encounter with cancer. “My grandfather died from colorectal cancer, my uncle died from colorectal cancer and my father almost died from colorectal cancer,” he said. This led him, as a carrier of the gene, to get involved in a colorectal cancer awareness campaign in the African-American community. He has also traveled to Capitol Hill to encourage the government to spend more money on cancer research. Possessing the high level of knowledge, awareness, and empathy that comes from being a cancer survivor, Abdul-Jabbar’s talks engage and inspire while imparting valuable information on research, prevention, the quest for a cure, and the healing power of the human spirit.
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black & White
The Washington Post has called Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “a vital, dynamic and unorthodox cultural voice.” In this thought-provoking keynote, Kareem takes on the issues that are deeply dividing America: racism, economic inequality, social injustice, the power of the media and more. Speaking from the heart and calling upon his personal experiences as an African-American and Muslim, he focuses on the solutions that could unite us and inspires younger generations to continue the path towards change. “They need a road map of what’s possible—and how to get there,” he has said. In this inspiring presentation, Kareem provides a blueprint for positive action.
All-Star Leadership
From the streets of Harlem to six NBA championships to best-selling author and U.S. Cultural Ambassador, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has cultivated a reputation as a strong leader, both on and off the court. He now leverages these skills to lead a productive dialog on inequality in America, advocate for STEM education and champion those fighting cancer. In this motivational speech, he shares that for every success story, there was a challenge to overcome through discipline, perseverance, patience and sometimes, harsh introspection. He also cites the influence of great coaches, such as John Wooden, in shaping his concept of leadership. Bringing unforgettable stories and inspiring examples, Abdul-Jabbar connects with audiences from all walks of life.
Friendship & Mentorship: Creating Bonds for Success
Based on his memoir, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history, sharing lessons that will translate to any business. The two icons first met when Wooden coached Kareem as a young player at UCLA. They reconnected years later when Kareem returned to Southern California to play for the Lakers, and they continued to grow closer until Wooden’s death in 2010 at age 99. Kareem told the Chicago Tribune, "our relationship evolved from being a mentor and father figure to being a friend, a co-traveler in life." In this keynote, Kareem discusses how their relationship explored the complex issues of race, wins, losses and pressure to succeed, as well as what everyone can learn from their remarkable friendship.
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Gauger: Is It Easy to Get A New Protein?
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On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, Ann Gauger discusses a central argument used by evolutionary biologists to say it’s simple to get new proteins. Listen in to learn more about nylonase, and whether it shows that purely natural processes can produce biological information.
In this podcast, Dr. Gauger talks about a frameshift mutation. Here is an example of what a frameshift mutation would look like in language:
Dr. Ann Gauger is Director of Science Communication and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture, and Senior Research Scientist at the Biologic Institute in Seattle, Washington. She received her Bachelor's degree from MIT and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington Department of Zoology. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, where her work was on the molecular motor kinesin.
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Living liver donor Damian Delaney and recipient Breana Shaw meet each other for the first time. (Photo/Ricardo Carrasco III)
Extraordinary gift links two strangers for life, after anonymous living donor transplant
He gave her a portion of his liver. They prepared for surgery in the same ward and started their recoveries in the same wing, but they didn’t see each other or know each other’s names. On Dec. 12, Yuri Genyk, MD, professor of clinical surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and chief of the division of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and abdominal organ transplantation at Keck Medicine of USC, and Navpreet Kaur, MD, assistant professor of clinical surgery at the Keck School, performed a successful liver transplant. On March 5, the donor and the recipient finally got to meet each other.
“I don’t know much about her. Just that she’s 29. She could have a long life after this,” said Damian Delaney, a high school teacher who stepped up to become an anonymous liver donor. “I’ve thought about her and prayed for her so many times.”
Breana Shaw, the recipient, had spent her recovery wondering too. She had been on the transplant list for three years and given up hope when she got the call.
“I just thought I would be sick for the rest of my life, and I would just have to make the best of it,” she explained. “I was shocked that someone I didn’t even know would be willing to give a part of themselves so I could have a transplant. It’s the most beautiful thing.”
Shaw walked in and all nervousness was gone. The two immediately hugged and kept hugging.
“I’ve waited for this day for so long!” Shaw exclaimed.
And then they sat down to talk, two strangers with one incredible thing in common. They bonded over the challenges of recovering from major surgery: Delaney, an ultramarathon runner, slowly working his way back to five-mile runs, and Shaw going on longer and longer walks with her dachshund.
“I feel like ‘Thank you’ is not enough,” Shaw said to Delaney. “I’m eternally grateful. I promise not to waste this chance.”
“I’m just so happy you’re doing so well,” Delaney replied. “Meeting you has made everything worth it.”
Interested living donor candidates can contact Transplant Coordinator Ana Lily Padilla, RN, BSN, at (323) 442-7403, for more information, or visit www.usclivingdonor.org to fill out an application.
— Lex Davis
What would you say to someone who’s thinking about being a living donor?
Delaney: When you do a loving act, the act itself is its own reward. Anything worthwhile in life is difficult. So no, it’s not an easy thing to step forward and donate, but the level of satisfaction you get is life-changing. It’s something I’m going to remember for the rest of my life. To know that you can do something that’s going to benefit someone else … What greater gift is there? So if you feel compelled to do it, don’t be afraid. Reach out and take steps.
Shaw: I think everyone should be an organ donor. You can’t take anything with you, and you could help somebody out. As for being a living donor, I think it does take a really special person. I always thought of living donation as being for a relative or a friend. It really shocked me that a complete stranger would do that for someone.
I think that if you have any interest in it, or feel that in your heart, you should find out more information. Or even becoming aware of it — so many people have no idea that living donation is even possible for the liver.
I’m really grateful.
Melissa Masatani 2019-09-16T15:09:07-07:00 April 15th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet, Press Page|
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USC announces winners of inaugural Regenerative Medicine Initiative Awards
By Cristy Lytal
Three newly assembled research teams within USC Stem Cell, the regenerative medicine initiative at USC, will take steps that could lead to future stem-cell based therapies for certain forms of deafness, bone defects and pediatric leukemia.
The teams are the winners of USC’s Regenerative Medicine Initiative (RMI), a University-wide program kick-started by $1.2 million in funding from the office of Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Each RMI Award provides up to $200,000 per year for two years to multi-investigator research collaborations that harness the full potential of USC-affiliated faculty members.
“We hope these are the first of many awards as we continue to develop new strategies to enable and empower regenerative medicine researchers across USC,” explained Andrew McMahon, PhD, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, who is spearheading USC Stem Cell and the RMI Awards.
The three winning teams were selected from 26 proposals, involving 80 faculty members from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA); the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the House Ear Institute; the USC School of Pharmacy; the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC; and the Keck School of Medicine.
For the first team, Neil Segil, PhD, and Takahiro Ohyama, PhD — both from the House Ear Institute — will work with Justin Ichida, PhD, assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, on curing deafness by using cellular reprograming to create inner ear cells, including sensory hair cells. The death of these cells, which humans and other mammals cannot regenerate, is the most common cause of deafness.
Gage Crump, Jay R. Lieberman and Francesca Mariani comprise one of the winning RMI teams who will be performing multi-investigator collaborations as part of USC’s regenerative medicine initiative. By studying mice and zebrafish, their team will focus on ways to repair human bones through the use of osteoblasts. (Photo/Cristy Lytal)
The second team will focus on ways to repair human bones through lessons learned from mice and zebrafish. When mouse ribs or zebrafish jaws are damaged, special cartilage cells transform into bone-producing cells called osteoblasts. The team hopes to show that osteoblasts can effectively heal severe bone damage.
The project brings together Jay R. Lieberman, MD, a clinical orthopaedic surgeon and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; and assistant professors of cell and neurobiology Gage Crump, PhD, and Francesca Mariani, PhD.
The third team will develop therapy for B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BPL), the most common form of cancer in children and adolescents. Some children with BPL have a genetic defect that results in the production of an abnormal form of the protein CD22E12, which causes their cancer stem cells to proliferate and resist chemotherapy. The team will use insights gained from studying CD22E12 to design new and more effective treatment strategies.
Fatih Uckun, MD, PhD, professor of research pediatrics who heads the translational research in leukemia lymphoma at the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases of CHLA, and Gregor Adams, PhD, assistant professor of cell and neurobiology, are co-principal investigators on the project. They will collaborate with Frank Alber, associate professor of biological sciences at USC Dornsife, and colleagues across multiple campuses.
“I view this as an opportunity to work together with my colleagues,” said Uckun. “Only by working as a team can we accomplish the goal of helping children who are in urgent need of a new treatment.”
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Tribute to Pauline Oliveros in Kingston
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On November 24, 2016, the world lost one of Kingston’s most widely respected artists: electronic music pioneer, composer and “deep listening” theorist Pauline Oliveros. It was largely Oliveros who persuaded former mayor Shayne Gallo to create the Kingston Arts Commission, and her last public appearance was this past October during the launch party for the Kingston Midtown Arts District (MAD). According to the composer’s wife and longtime creative partner Ione, “Pauline was deeply moved by the event.”
The City of Kingston owes a lot to this musical innovator, and it’s tough to imagine its current arts-driven renaissance having happened without her inspiration. So it’s entirely appropriate that the Arts Commission is sponsoring “A Celebration Tribute for Pauline Oliveros: An Afternoon of Presentations, Performances and Deep Listening” this Sunday, March 19 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Kingston City Hall. Many of Oliveros’ friends, students and collaborators, as well as representatives from the City of Kingston and Ulster County, will pay homage to her memory at the event. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m.
For those inspired by Oliveros or curious to learn more about her life and work, the commemoration will provide an opportunity to learn, reflect and listen. Contributors will include mayor Steve Noble, Ione, Peter Wetzler, Susie Ibarra, Richard Teitelbaum, Linda Montano, Deep Listening certificate-holders and members of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as many of Oliveros’ longest musical collaborators.
The celebration and tribute are free and open to the public. Seating is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVP at https://oliverostribute.eventbrite.com. City Hall is located at 420 Broadway in Kingston. For more information about the life and work of Pauline Oliveros, visit http://paulineoliveros.us.
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by Jenna Mahale
Here’s everything we know about the new Sally Rooney novel
‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’, AKA SR3, looks to be just as horny and Irish as its predecessors.
While there are those that have argued that the very name Sally Rooney is really just PR shorthand at this point, the truth universally acknowledged is that it’s a damn effective one. Not one member of the tote bag generation emerged unscathed from the dual emotional onslaught that was her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, followed by 2018’s award-winning Normal People.
That year, she told the Irish Independent, “I have no idea if I’ll write another book.” The patron saint of anxious twenty-somethings had our expectations placed beneath the Earth’s crust. “Maybe I am one of those people who writes two novels in their 20s then never writes anything else again.” Maybe.
What fools we all were. On September 7th, Faber plans to release the latest installation in the SRCU (Sally Rooney Cinematic Universe), entitled Beautiful World, Where Are You.
The novel is part of a two-book deal (!!!) that, in the millennial tradition, will play out mostly online. Alice, a novelist, and her best friend, Eileen, “exchange emails about art, friendship, the world around them and the complicated love affairs unfolding in their own lives.” When Alice meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, she asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her, a move containing huge CMBYN energy. In Dublin, Eileen is recovering from a break-up and falling into old habits with Simon, who she’s known since childhood. “Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is catching up with them,” reads Faber’s description of the book on its dedicated website. “They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in.” Just classic Rooney.
Alex Bowler, the publisher at Faber who acquired the novel, calls it “a book of friendship and sex, art and faith, power and love. It absorbs you once again in the inner lives of characters with brilliant minds and aching hearts, while marking the next creative leap from a singular writer. The book scintillates with intelligence, empathy and, yes, beauty.” We fully believe it.
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Solar Panel Installation Underway at St. Joseph Solar Farm
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. – Construction of Indiana Michigan Power’s St. Joseph Solar Farm, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame, is visually advancing. Crews are installing more than 20 megawatts (MW) of advanced thin film solar panels made by U.S.-based First Solar, Inc., allowing the facility to generate clean energy at the highest level for customers and the community.
White Construction employees, with the support of I&M employees, are installing 57,720 of First Solar’s Series 6 panels at the St. Joseph Solar Farm. The industry-leading solar panels will track the sun from east to west during the day and feature an anti-reflective coating, which will allow the plant to optimize energy generation. The panels are also able to withstand even the most severe weather elements, including hail.
Installation is expected to be finished at the end of November, weather permitting.
The St. Joseph Solar Farm, located in the area of Bittersweet and Cleveland Roads in St. Joseph County, will be operational in Spring 2021. It will be I&M’s fifth and largest solar facility – generating 20 MW of energy, enough to power 2,700 homes annually.
I&M will work in partnership with the University of Notre Dame on the St. Joseph Solar Farm. Notre Dame is committing to support 40 percent of the renewable attributes of the facility to uphold its sustainability goals. I&M and Notre Dame will collaborate to capitalize on educational opportunities and research benefits.
The facility serves as a flagship for sought-after green technology and growth in the Michiana area providing a long-term sustainable future for our customers and businesses.
I&M customers can voluntarily put solar and wind power to work in their home or business at a reduced cost with the IM Green program. With newly lowered costs, customers in both Indiana and Michigan can support green energy for less than 1 cent per kilowatt hour per month.
Typical residential customers in either state can attribute a portion of their energy use to wind and solar power generated in Indiana and Michigan for less than $1 a month, or attribute 100% of the energy used in their homes for less than $10.
I&M encourages businesses and communities to contact us to find solutions to customize green energy projects that suit your needs.
To learn more or participate, please visit IndianaMichiganPower.com/IMGreen
For more information on construction of the St. Joseph Solar Farm please visit IndianaMichiganPower.com/StJosephSolar.
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) is headquartered in Fort Wayne, and its approximately 2,100 employees serve more than 599,000 customers. More than two-thirds of its energy delivered in 2019 was emission-free. I&M has at its availability various sources of generation including 2,278 MW of nuclear generation in Michigan, 450 MW of purchased wind generation from Indiana, more than 22 MW of hydro generation in both states and approximately 15 MW of large-scale solar generation in both states. The company’s generation portfolio also includes 2,620 MW of coal-fueled generation in Indiana.
American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is focused on building a smarter energy infrastructure and delivering new technologies and custom energy solutions to our customers. AEP’s more than 17,000 employees operate and maintain the nation’s largest electricity transmission system and more than 219,000 miles of distribution lines to efficiently deliver safe, reliable power to nearly 5.4 million regulated customers in 11 states. AEP also is one of the nation’s largest electricity producers with approximately 32,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including 4,300 megawatts of renewable energy. AEP’s family of companies includes utilities AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP also owns AEP Energy, AEP Energy Partners, AEP OnSite Partners and AEP Renewables, which provide innovative competitive energy solutions nationwide.
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I&M Continues to Diversify Power Generation with Clean, Affordable, Reliable Resources
I&M is seeking proposals for approximately 450 megawatts (MW) of additional generation from solar and wind resources, potentially combined with battery storage technology resources, as the company continues to diversify its generation fleet with more renewable energy.
St. Joseph Solar Farm Construction Update
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) along with White Construction will begin prep work for the solar panels at the St. Joseph Solar Farm. Drive posts, which will hold the solar panels, will be installed beginning on August 3.
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The Witcher TV Series Coming to Netflix
You’ll soon be able to experience CD Projekt Red’s masterpiece in a whole new way.
May 17, 2017 10:24 AM by Morgan Shaver
If you’re a fan of CD Projekt Red’s expansive Witcher franchise, you may know that the games were actually based around a book series by Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski.
Due to its popularity and engaging story, it isn’t surprising to hear that Netflix will be adapting the Witcher into a television series. Although, it is extremely exciting!
If you’re worried about the poor track record video game adaptations have—both in film and television—you’ll be relieved to hear that Netflix has enlisted the help of creator Sapkowski himself, who will serve as a creative consultant.
In a recent press release, Sapkowski stated he was “thrilled that Netflix will be doing an adaptation of my stories, [and will be] staying true to the source material and the themes that I’ve spent over thirty years writing.”
As for who will occupy the director’s seat, Tomas Baginski (who directed the intro videos for all three Witcher titles, as well as the Cyberpunk 2077 teaser) will direct at least one episode per season.
The synopsis of the television series has yet to be revealed, although executive producers Jason Brown and Sean Daniel gave fans a small hint by stating:
“The Witcher stories follow an unconventional family that comes together to fight for truth in a dangerous world. The characters are original, funny, and constantly surprising, and we can’t wait to bring them to life at Netflix, the perfect home for innovative storytelling.”
This leads us to believe the Netflix show may follow a similar path as one of the original novels in Sapkowski's Witcher series, The Last Wish.
Essentially, The Last Wish is comprised of several short stories all set within the Witcher universe that follow the adventures of Geralt of Rivia. If you're looking for a good book, we definitely recommend grabbing a copy and giving it a read!
No matter which direction the Netflix adaptation chooses to take, though, we’re just excited for the chance at another look into the fascinating realm of The Witcher.
What do you think of the news that The Witcher is being adapted into a Netflix original series? Let us know in the comments below!
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Former Bears Super Bowl champion Michael Richardson arrested for murder
According to police sources, the former Chicago Bears all-professional cornerback has been arrested in Phoenix on charges of murder.
Several police sources told KNXV that Michael Richardson, 59, who won the Super Bowl with the Bears in 1985, was suspected of being involved in the shooting of 47-year-old Ronald Rick on Tuesday. ) Arrested for murder on Tuesday.
Lake, who was found by the police at the crossroads, was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds in critical condition and later died. The Republic of Arizona reported that the Phoenix Police investigated the murder in the shooting.
According to court documents cited by KNXV, Richardson, who lives in a gated community in East Mesa, also received a felony arrest warrant for his arrest.
Prison records in Maricopa County show that Richardson was not detained for murder, possession of weapons and possession of dangerous drugs for sale. Records show that he was originally scheduled to appear in court on January 6.
It is not clear whether Richardson has hired a lawyer who can comment on the allegations he faces.
Richardson is a native of Compton, California. He became the starting cornerback for the Bruins̵
7; bragging defender in 1985 and was named the second team All-Pro in 1986. He also appeared in the report in the team’s iconic “Super Bowl Shuffle” video KNXV.
“I’m Los Angeles Mike, I played cool because I’m not stupid and they won’t sneak away,” Richardson rhymed in the song.
Before being drafted by the Bears in 1983, Richardson was an outstanding American at Arizona State University.
Wednesday’s arrest is the latest in a series of legal disputes by Richardson. According to KNXV reports, he was previously arrested by Phoenix police twice this year on suspicion of possession of drugs, and was arrested in Maricopa County in 2018 for theft and possession of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin.
In 2010, ESPN reported that Richardson was released. After the California Court of Appeals ruled that he did not violate the 2008 probation clause for a drug-selling conviction, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison and reduced by more than 10 years.
According to ESPN, the incident resulted in the conviction of Richardson on 21 counts of drug-related charges and his fifth felony in 16 years.
Richardson (ESPN) reported that Richardson’s legal troubles began three years after his last football game in San Francisco in 1989, when he was convicted of two felonies and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
According to court records, Richardson’s public defender stated that Richardson’s “deep dependence” on drugs began when he was only 13 years old.
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Facing My Lai
Series: Modern War Studies
Moving Beyond the Massacre
Edited by David L. Anderson
The My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968 and the court martial of Lt. William Calley a year and a half later are among the bleakest episodes in American history and continue to provide a volatile focus for debates about the Vietnam War. Other books have exposed the facts surrounding the incident; Facing My Lai now examines its haunting legacy through a unique exchange of contemporary viewpoints.
This powerful book emerges from a stellar gathering of historians, military professionals, writers, mental health experts, and Vietnamese and American war veterans convened to memorialize the tragedy. The cast of prominent speakers included journalists Seymour Hersh and David Halberstam, novelist Tim O'Brien, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, military prosecutor William Eckhardt, and veterans Hugh Thompson and Ron Ridenhour—the two true heroes in the My Lai story. David Anderson's reflective recasting of their presentations creates an impassioned chorus of voices that demonstrates why this tragedy remains one of the key emblems of the American experience in Vietnam.
“An all-encompassing, multidimensional examination of the massacre by a distinguished group of historians, military journalists, poets, and novelists.”
“What is impressive about this excellent book is that all sides of the arguments are presented. Readers will find it hard to put down.”
“An important and timely book. However ghastly, however tragic, My Lai certainly bears remembering as a cautionary story from Vietnam, both in what caused this atrocity to happen and what the U.S. Army has done to prevent future My Lais from happening.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“A crucial book filled with much passion and insight.”
“This book makes it less possible for Americans to forget and thus to repeat the mistakes that led to the tragedy in Vietnam.”
—Journal of Military History
“The contributors have sincerely wrestled with the enormity of My Lai and respect the views of those who have reached conclusions different from their own. The result is a book that encourages a similar thoughtfulness on the part of the reader. If I were to suggest only one book to give officers and noncommissioned officers interested in studying the lessons of the My Lai massacre, this would be it.”
—Marine Corps Gazette
“However ghastly, however tragic, My Lai certainly bears remembering as a cautionary story from Vietnam, both in what caused this atrocity to happen and what the U.S. Army has done to prevent future My Lais from happening.”
“A profound memorial to a dark, forgotten history. A book of utmost importance.”
“A coherent volume of passionate reflections on the painful subject of the My Lai massacre.”
—Marilyn B. Young, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990
“I read this book with great interest and deep emotion. I expect it will have a deeply cathartic effect on its readers. The recollections of those who had a hand in uncovering My Lai’s horrible truth are gripping, and the discussion of post-traumatic stress disorder adds a whole new dimension to the story.”
—Robert D. Schulzinger, author of A Time for War
These authors address many of the troubling questions that still persist about My Lai. Why had it been identified as a Viet Cong stronghold? What orders were the troops actually given? Why didn't someone stop the slaughter? But these questions are asked again in the hope that they might lead to a better understanding of what My Lai means for us now.
As these authors show, our nation is still trying to come to grips with the bitter legacies of the Vietnam War. A grim window into the darker side of American history (like the massacre at Wounded Knee), My Lai reminds us of humanity's baffling capacity for atrocity within the crucible of war. Facing My Lai does not allow us to forget or hide from such horrors, but it also seeks to heal the deep wounds inflicted by the war. Its unflinching look at the past ultimately leads us away from darkness and towards a more enlightened understanding of a war that in many ways is not over yet.
David L. Anderson served in Vietnam as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and is now professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at the University of Indianapolis. His book Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-1961 was a co-winner of the 1992 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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#RichPaulRule: An Examination of the Racial Undertones in Sports & Entertainment
Rich Paul, the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) paradigm-shifting agent and LeBron James’ partner, has had the summer — no, the past twosummers — of his professional life. Starting in the summer of 2018 when he was able to negotiate LeBron’s (second) exit from Cleveland Cavaliers or the Los Angeles Lakers. This was a year removed from helping the Cavaliers win their first NBA championship and the city’s first in 53 years. Many sports observers agreed on two things: 1. The move was a sign of LeBron transitioning his professional priorities of championship-based, NBA-only pursuits to a more post-NBA, multi-faceted entrepreneurially-focused career trajectory; and, 2. This momentous move would be a mere ripple in the larger ocean of the NBA’s, and sports overall’s, player free agency process and the agency (read: autonomy) of the players in advocating for their rights, privileges, and preferences.
We’ve seen both prognostications ring true as LeBron got hurt and focused on recovery for the upcoming season as the Lakers imploded, and that many of the most prominent players in the NBA — Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Paul George, Russell Westbrook, Kyrie Irving, & Kemba Walker to name a few — all left or were dealt due to player preferences and leveraging a favorable collective bargaining agreement (CBA) as opposed to reasons of rebuilding or persistent losing like in the past. In addition, other players like Draymond Green & Ben Simmons signed massive contract extensions. Many of these players, at the top and lower tiers, are represented by Rich Paul and his Klutch Sports Group. Under ordinary circumstances, Rich Paul would lauded as an innovative and successful agent who is a media darling making appearances on ESPN, FOX Sports, NBA TV, and other media outlets similar to his contemporaries in other sports like Scott Boras (MLB) and Drew Rosenhaus (NFL).
Unfortunately, however, Rich Paul is being made into a poster boy (I say scapegoat) by the NCAA through a new rule focused on college basketball athletes that prohibits NBA Draft- declared players from signing with agents in an advisory role who do not have at least a bachelor’s degree and still retain their NCAA eligibility. On the surface, the general public (read: white people) would look at this and that it’s a mere HR qualifications formality considering that most agents have an advanced degree(s). However, I, as a sports enthusiast and black man, look at it completely differently from the NCAA — to me, I see it as a lose-lose for NCAA college basketball athletes (who are primarily low-income and black), for diversity in a very white male-dominated sector, and for Rich Paul (a black man who should be an exemplar of utilizing his circumstance — or freedom of — college to become a global influencer in sports & entertainment. And, lost in all of the commentary and punditry on sports television is the blatantly racial undertones of sports & entertainment, amateurism, and what success or the “American Dream” looks like.
It may be too late to add this disclaimer, but I am: 1. Born and raised in Cleveland like Rich Paul; 2. I feel a personal connection to this issue because I spent my undergraduate and graduate school years tutoring English & History to student-athletes at The Ohio State University and Northwestern University, respectively; and, 3. I have a weird sense of fraternity with Rich Paul who graduated from the same high school (Benedictine) as I did almost a decade before me and we (black) Men of Benedictine have a psychic form of camaraderie, like the universal black man head nod.
Moreover, the “Rich Paul Rule,” as it has been dubbed, has significant racial components that society and the media have ignored or…nope, just ignored or pretended it doesn’t exist. At first glance, I immediately thought of Jim Crow-era poll tax laws such as grandfather clauses and literacy tests, which prohibited and intimidated blacks from exercising their right to enfranchisement. These poll taxes intimidated, not just blacks but, Native Americans and other minority groups throughout American history as well, and they were executed across the country, not just in the South either.
Similarly, I thought of restrictive covenants and zoning implemented in 1950s & 1960s-era American federal, state, and local housing policies. Due to the passage of Civil Right reforms, integration across numerous sectors of American life was paramount; but, housing policy was and remains one of the most insidious and effective forms of segregation in America. Many governmental agencies like the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) zoned or redlined targeted areas of metro cities as unappealing or made for disinvestment due to large volumes of black residents. These agencies and brokers steered whites away from those areas and pushed them out to new developed communities and lands, or suburbs, which culminated in “white flight” and suburbanization. They also pushed blacks into these urban, economically-distressed areas and exacerbated generations of disproportional disadvantage and mobility. In addition, at the state and local level, many of these new white suburbs used home rule laws to further restrict zoning and required residents to implement restrictive covenants which were land deeds that detailed the specific exclusion of black and other minorities outright or via unrealistic criteria like the Jim Crow-era poll taxes.
Lastly, the Rich Paul Rule harkens back to the initial struggles of free agency in sports, how it is rooted in and runs parallel to black struggles for liberty in America, and how white power structures have fought it tooth-and-nail as a proxy war of liberation for black athletes. I think of the 1972 MLB case of Flood vs. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 where the U.S. Supreme Court decided 5–3 thin favor of the MLB’s case against the St. Louis Cardinals’ Curt Flood’s (black man) petition that the league’s reserve clause was used in an similar manner to intestate slavery.[1]In the NFL, R.C. Owens (black man) left the San Francisco 49ers in 1962 to play for the Baltimore Colts; and, almost immediately, Commissioner Pete Rozelle created the “Rozelle Rule” which provided compensation to team owners (problematic language for another time) in the form of money or draft picks from the other team, should a player leave via free agency at the Commissioner’s discretion.[2]In 197, John Mackey (black man) sued the NFL and won striking down the “Rozelle Rule” in Mackey vs. NFL, 407 F. Supp. 1000 (1975). As a result, the NFL created “Plan B” free agency which allowed team owners to protect 37 players with first right of refusal which later transformed into the current forms of the franchise tag and restricted free agency. Ultimately, unrestricted free agency came in 1992 after Reggie White (black man) sued the NFL and won against “Plan B” free agency in White vs. NFL, 836 F. Supp.1458 (1993). [3]The NBA, prior to 1988, had a similar model as the NFL’s “Plan B” free agency. But, in 1988 CBA negotiations led to a legal battle which ended with a new CBA that allowed players with seven seasons or more and going into their third contract unrestricted free agency.[4]Many players, including Moses Malone (black man) and Sidney Moncrief (black man), were among the first to enter into unrestricted free agency. These events, when taken altogether, weave a long and tedious journey for athletic liberation being led by black professional against white institutions through legal adjudication. Again, this reprises Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of the “arc of justice” bending long towards freedom. For blacks, in general, this began with Joseph Cinqué’s 1841 case United States vs. The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 to 1856’s Dred Scott vs. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 to 1896’s Plessy vs. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 to 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483.[5]Furthermore, just as we’ve seen racism and systemic oppression persist and have a resurgence in America, the NCAA’s new rule against Rich Paul (and the NBA’s silent complicity) has shown the persistent racism and systemic oppression of black athletes and agents like Rich Paul.
Consequently, these issues will only be addressed if we go beyond the passive “outreach” of social media, like LeBron’s justified tweetin defense of Rich Paul, and delve deep into true political lobbying and grassroots advocacy by agents, players, critics, and fans to fight these rules and speak truth to power. Organizations like the NCAA, NBA, NFL, & MLB lean on their financial, political, and social capital to disproportionately influence organizations, individuals, and structures. It is time that a multicultural, cross-sector coalition, that is led by black and minority leaders, attack these issues of equity, diversity, & inclusion within sports and entertainment at all levels. And, this does not need another study to prove the case because the data and anecdotal evidence exist and align already. I encourage my fellow Man of Benedictine, Rich Paul, to continue to do his thing and continue being a role model and entrepreneur because the Rich Paul Rule is here — but, hopefully, not for long as we have yet more rivers to cross.
[1]https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/407/258/
[2]https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/1561856-how-free-agency-changed-the-nfl-forever.amp.html
[3]https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1281&context=elr
[4]https://amp.si.com/nba/2019/07/05/basketball-free-agency-tom-chambers
[5]https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/40/518/
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/60/393/
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/plessy.html
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/347/483/
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Sinéad O’Connor – ‘Theology’ – A Review
After recently giving birth to Yeshua in December, the iconic Irish artist Sinéad O’Connor is about to release her new album. Recorded in London and Dublin, and due out 22 June, ‘Theology’ is a 2 CD collection of deeply moving reflections based on the Hebrew Scriptures – Samuel, Song of Songs, Job, Isaiah, Jeremiah and numerous Psalms (33, 91, 130, 137) – songs which give voice to the passion, love, spirituality, rage and grace of these ancient prophets and address them to a new situation: Today. She says of the album, ‘I wanted to create a place of peace in a time of strife and conflict. ”Theology” is my own personal response to the times we find ourselves living in’. She also covers Curtis Mayfield’s brooding ‘We People Who Are Darker Than Blue’, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s & Tim Rice’s ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’, and the traditional ‘Rivers Of Babylon’ (with some new lyrics).
In a music-making career spanning over twenty-five years, beginning with fronting Dublin band In Tua Nua at the age of 14, O’Connor went on in 1987 to record her debut solo album ‘The Lion And The Cobra’, an album that raised the eyebrow of no lesser magazine than Rolling Stone who referred to it as ‘easily one of the most distinctive debut albums of the year’.
1990 saw the release of her second album, ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’, with its haunting rendition of Prince song, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ – the song for which she is perhaps best known. It was also the year in which she won a Grammy for ‘Best Alternative Music Performance’. In an industry littered with boring and repetitious clones, and ignoring the marketing expectations of the international music industry, O’Connor continued, as she always has, to pave her own path. The result of the paving: her orchestral album ‘Am I Not Your Girl?’ which included a memorable rendering of the classic, ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’.
Since then, she has in protest torn up a picture of Pope John Paul II on NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live (in 1992), and released a number of albums of increasing maturity: ‘Universal Mother’ (1995), ‘Gospel Oak’ (1997), ‘Faith And Courage’ (1997), ‘Sean Nos Nua’ (2002), ‘She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty’ (2003) and ‘Throw Down Your Arms’ (2005).
Her eighth, latest (and best yet) full-length album, ‘Theology’, is a double. Produced by Rubyworks, Disc 1, the ‘Dublin Sessions’, offers stripped down acoustic versions of the songs, while Disc 2, the ‘London Sessions’, offers mostly the same songs with full band. The acoustic disc was produced (with Sinéad) by noted trad guitarist Steve Cooney (known for his work with The Chieftains), Disc 2 by London-based producer Ron Tom.
It’s the kind of album you can listen to all week. Honest, challenging, thoughtful, mature, wonderfully timely … it is, quite simply, one of the best albums I’ve heard in years.
Posted in Music, Sinéad O’Connor on 28 April, 2007 by Jason Goroncy. 2 Comments
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5 July, 2007 at 11:25 am
just found a good website devoted to Theology album: Here
Many thanks Jeremy.
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Counter-Regulatory Balance: Atopic Dermatitis in Patients Undergoing Infliximab Infuson Therapy
May 2004 | Volume 3 | Issue 3 | Case Reports | 315 | Copyright © May 2004
Joanna L. Chan, AB; Linda Davis-Reed, MD and Alexa Boer Kimball, MD, MPH
Atopic dermatitis has been characterized as an autoimmune or auto-allergic phenomenon in which environmental allergens resembling human proteins activate auto-reactive T-cells to release pro-inflammatory cytokines of the T-helper 2 (Th2) cytokine profile (IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, and IL-13)1-3. Infliximab is a chimeric IgG1 monoclonal antibody that blocks the effects of the inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-?. Infliximab has been shown to benefit greatly patients suffering from diseases associated with a Th1 profile (IL-1, TNF-?, and IFN-?), such as psoriasis, Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis4-8. Some researchers have suggested that disrupting the Th1-Th2 balance by downregulating Th1 cytokines may result in manifestations of Th2 disease. Consistent with this hypothesis, we present the cases of three patients who exhibited vivid manifestations of atopic dermatitis after the inception of infliximab induction therapy.
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Koloa ZiplineOur Playground
Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii seems like a mouth full - And it should be.
It is a small plantation town, butted up against Kauai’s south shore jungle, on the furthest northwesterly island in the Hawaiian island chain. It is our home, our history, our teacher, our friend, and our playground. Basking in the sun and shadow of the Hoary Head Mountain Range and majestic Mt. Haupu, we couldn’t have asked for a better location to celebrate our love of adventure.
The Aloha we receive and deliver each day to visitors and locals alike is a direct reflection of the history, culture, beauty, and mana of Koloa town, the Waita Reservoir, of Mt. Haupu, and the island of Kauai itself.
Come play with us.
The Waita Reservoir is situated next to the Black Mountain Range and Mt. Haupu in Koloa, Kauai HI. Constructed in 1906, the Waita Reservoir was used as the primary water source for the Koloa Sugar Plantation. Expanded in 1931 to include 525 acres, it holds 23 billion gallons of water. The Waita reservoir is fed from the Waiahi-Kuia Aqueduct system and is home to a host of wildlife such as Muscovy ducks, Hawaiian Coots, Hawaiian Gallinule, Stilts, Pheasant, Hawaiian boar, and jungle fowl (chickens). The reservoir also hosts largemouth bass, small mouth bass, Peacock bass, Tilapia, and Koi. The koi found in the Waita reservoir are what remain from the Japanese camp gardens that existed in that region during the plantation years. The reservoir now sits on private Grove Farm property and can be viewed only by reserving a space on a tour with Koloa Bass Fishing, Kauai ATV or Koloa Zipline.
These places have a very good effect on men's health, of course we do not have confirmed research for Viagra, but many of our guests tell us about sexual health.
Old Koloa Sugar Mill
The Koloa Sugar Mill stands as a testimony to Hawaii’s booming sugar industry. From 1912-1996 The Koloa Mill was the highest producing sugar mill in the state of Hawaii. After the closure in 1996, the mill became a popular tourist attraction popping up in countless vacation photos and home movies. Closed to the general public, it is still a favored site for Hollywood movies.
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My started late, stop-start writing “career”
December 10, 2017 December 13, 2017 Josephine Corcoran
I’ve enjoyed these tweets from different writers who’ve shared their stories of not being straight out of the cradle when their writing received recognition. Here are a few of them:
Did an MA in Creative Writing at 52, first competition win at 54, novel out at 55, second out at 57 next year and sooooooooo not finished! https://t.co/5ZVR1s9sjH
— Kit de Waal (@KitdeWaal) December 8, 2017
I started emerging aged 52. Had my first comp win at 54. First book out at 56 with @saltpublishing . Novel out at age 59 with the lovely @BloomsburyBooks, and it became a novel of the year for the FT. In 2018, tenth book's due out. Not finished yet – 🙂 https://t.co/UQENoYdFFb
— Vanessa Gebbie (@VanessaGebbie) December 8, 2017
I was 44 when I published my first full collection of poems, preceded by 1 pamphlet a couple of years prior. Was never a young emerging writer. I support young (& older) poets as a mentor but ageism in publishing needs addressing. https://t.co/ExbtscGSIr
— Pascale Petit FRSL🌳🐅 (@pascalepoet) December 10, 2017
The writer Joanna Walsh (@badaude on Twitter) has written this article on The Guardian books blog, arguing that “all awards for young writers amount to discrimination” and pointing out that “authors under 40 get disproportionate support and their valorisation tends to push women and minorities to the margins.”
Other people on Twitter have pointed out that it would be better to think about “new writers” or “early career” writers rather than “young writers” since writers “emerge” at all ages!
good to see this great opportunity for 'early career' short story writers, defined by publication status (no full collection published yet) rather than arbitrary age limits https://t.co/h15uZLSnbx
— Joanna Walsh (@badaude) December 8, 2017
Age restrictions often exclude people who are disadvantaged or who have been disadvantaged in their youth. Increasingly, it seems ridiculous to include age restrictions at all.
Lots of people have mentioned that The Turner Prize has just scrapped its age limit, with exciting results.
The Turner prize is a good example of what can happen when you eradicate ageism in prizes. This year’s winner is one of the most deserving – Lubaina Himid, aged 63, with over 3 decades of amazing work behind her. 👌🏼
— The Curved House (@curvedhouse) December 10, 2017
I thought I’d write something about my own writing journey which, again, is proof that it’s never too late to put pen to paper. It’s also more evidence that people who start off from a less than privileged beginning don’t always have the opportunities to develop their talent when they are young. In addition, people with caring responsibilities (often women) need time, and help, to reach their potential.
I come from a low-income family which fell apart a bit when I was twelve and my mother died. I left school when I was sixteen with very few qualifications and worked in many different jobs until I was able to return to full-time study at the age of 30 in 1992. I would never have been able to return to study if I’d left it any later. In 1998, tuition fees were introduced in the UK and I know that I wouldn’t have considered being a student if I’d had to take out student loans.
As it was, my tuition fees were paid and I received a maintenance grant from my Local Authority. I first signed up for a degree in Film and TV Scriptwriting at Bournemouth University and then transferred, after a year, to an English degree at West Sussex Institute of Higher Education (now Chichester University). Amazingly, I was allowed to change courses without forfeiting my fees or grant.
Although I’d always written or “tried to write” from a very young age – I still have some of the notebooks to prove it – I’d never completed a piece of writing or seriously applied myself to writing anything in a committed and organised way. Now, as a student, I had to finish pieces of writing – poems, scripts and short stories – for various Creative Writing assessments which formed part of my degree! For the first time in my life, I received feedback and advice about my work in progress, from my tutors and from other people in my writing workshops on my course. I was massively encouraged by brilliant, kind, supportive and resourceful tutors at Chichester (wonderful Alison MacLeod, John Saunders, Hugh Dunkerley, Vicki Feaver, Hugo Donnelly, and others).
During my second or third year at Chichester, I began to submit stories to competitions and for publication. I was lucky enough to win First Prize in the Ian St James Awards in 1996 (and won £2000 which was a lot of money back then – a lot of money now, in fact) and I had a story broadcast on BBC R4.
I knew I wanted to continue writing, so I was encouraged by my tutors to apply to study for an MA in Creative Writing. With their help, I applied for and was awarded a Studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. With this grant, I was able to take up my place at UEA where I completed my MA.
I had a stage play, Jocasta, produced at The Chelsea Theatre in London in 1997, and my radio play, The Songs that Houses Sing, was broadcast on BBC R4 in 2000. By then, I’d married Andrew (in 1997, at the age of 35, always late for everything) and by 2001 we were parents to two children. I wrote another radio play, sent it to the BBC and was called in for a few meetings at Bush House, but I didn’t get another commission. Another couple of stage plays were shortlisted in calls for new work but didn’t get any further. I really wanted to keep writing but I lost my momentum.
I was full-time carer for the children and trying to find part-time paying jobs that fitted in with their schedule. I worked as a Teaching Assistant in a local comprehensive school for three years, and taught Creative Writing in the local Adult Education College. It was while I was a TA, and working with students studying for their GCSE in English Literature, that I began to read and write more poetry. In 2010, a whole ten years since I’d last had any kind of writing success, I sent my poem ‘Honeymoon’ to the Bridport Prize and it was a Runner Up, winning £50 and published in the anthology. I’ve been writing every day (more or less) ever since.
My first poetry pamphlet was published when I was just a few weeks short of 53, in November 2014, and I will be 56 and a half when my first full collection is published by Nine Arches Press next June. I feel that I’m only now really getting going with my writing. My children are 16 and 18, so much more independent, and my financial situation is reasonably secure. I am aware that I am now in a privileged position, in terms of household income and security, and this has helped me enormously.
This proves nothing, of course. Every situation is different. But I’ve been heartened by the many stories of late success. Do share your thoughts and experiences if you’d like to.
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reubenwoolley says:
I started writing poetry when I was 16 in 1968 and wrote, with ever longer interruptions till 1985. For various reasons I stopped completely till 2013 when a student of mine and also a good friend both read some of my earlier work and told me that I should start again. I found tremendous support and resources on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet and since 2014 I’ve had three collections and one chapbook published and been runner-up in two competitions. I’m not going to stop this time!
This is good to hear, Reuben!
Hooray — what a tale! I started writing poetry really late. I was 58, and only got seriously into it at 63. Some successes with magazines and competitions, and an urgent need to get a pamphlet out asap! Will a publisher accept a manuscript from a geriatric emerger? Will I live to publish a collection? It can be dispiriting to see the slant towards youngsters, but hey ho. At least now I’ve retired — juggling with work or kids necessary. I’m looking forward to your collection 🙂
It’s been uplifting to see so many people sharing their stories of late blooming on Twitter and there is a growing call to end age restrictions of any kind! Good writing is what counts and is what we should be aiming for, I reckon. xx
Mark Fiddes says:
Hi Josephine, like you, I was encouraged by this outbreak of honesty on age and writing. I did Philosophy rather than English at college because the Professor of Poetry told me to forget all thoughts of studying literature if I wanted to write it. Since then, I’ve gone from journalism and speechwriting in the US to copywriting and creative direction in Europe. It’s all been very satisfying professionally but there was always something missing.
So I returned to poetry around 7 years ago before turning 50. It was like meeting an old friend after a long journey. Since then I’ve published a pamphlet, a full collection and won a fair few prizes. What’s most surprised me has been the number of kindred spirits and new friends I have found through poetry, particularly through media like this one where we can share insights and ideas. Thank you. You’re right. There’s so much more to write.
It’s brilliant to hear your writing story, Mark. I’m so pleased that you found poetry again. xx
jaynestanton says:
Heartening to hear your writing journey Josephine. It’s a pity that ‘young writer’ awards aren’t fully age-inclusive.
I’m so looking forward to reading your forthcoming collection 🙂 x
I’m grateful to Joanna Walsh and others for raising the issue on social media. Thanks for your kind words! x
MarinaSofia says:
Thank you for sharing your story – it is so encouraging to all of us. I wrote poetry and fiction in secondary school, and always thought I’d get back to it eventually, after finishing my studies. But then life got in the way – and I had to write lots of corporate stuff, which drained any creativity I had in me. So I only came back to poetry by accident (because I couldn’t get into a prose class) at the age of 44 – and this time I am not going to let it go! Incidentally, I just read this interview with one of the women who inspired me to start writing again:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/expats-in-switzerland_-i-am-american–i-write-from-my-american-soul-/43739582
Lovely to hear your story, Marina! Thanks for sharing xx
Brilliant piece Josephine. Needs saying. Great story, so encouraging. As ever, Anthony
Thanks for saying so, Anthony. I’ve felt encouraged by others sharing their stories. xxx
My pleasure Josephine. All power to you, esp for next year. As ever, A
Really enjoyed the story….and the sign-off. ‘This proves nothing at all’. I like the relativity or ‘late-coming’ that your respondents turn up. What they all did was make me see that you write when you really need to, which I guess is when you’re ready to. I did an MA in Creative Writing in my late 50s. Waste of time. What I was really trying to do was fill the void of unemployment. I went regularly to The Poetry Business Writing Days for several years. I liked the company. I wrote maybe a dozen poems a year. None good. I tried an Arvon course in 2012. It was a waste of time. In 2013 I turned 70. Something shifted in my life. Stopping drinking was part of it. Maybe the greatest part. Since then I’ve written between 80 and 100 poems a year. Dam broke, I suppose. Four pamphlets and two collections. But what it came down to was getting validation from folk I respect. That includes winning prizes. Which relies on chance and luck and the gods smiling. I wonder sometimes what would have happened if they hadn’t. Like you say, it proves nothing at all…..except that if you write a lot, you need to need to say something, and have something to say. I’m very grateful for a lot of things. Including your blog xxx
What a lovely, kind and generous comment, John! It’s brilliant to hear of how much you’ve achieved since turning 70. You say the MA and the Arvon were a waste of time – but perhaps they sunk in and you needed time to process something you’d learned. I still use stuff I learned on my first course at Bournemouth even though I abandoned it after a year because it didn’t feel like the right fit for me. You’re right about validation. All kinds of encouragement have helped me to keep going, even a simple “I like that” in a workshop. Thanks for this contribution and for all of the times you’ve called in here! I hope to see you at a Writing Day in Sheffield again one day, or some other place. Love, Josephine x
vanessagee says:
I was quietly astounded at the response to a bit of age-honesty on Twitter. It was wonderful, and I’ve met a lot of people in the last few days. Been thinking about this a lot – and I do think there is an implicit encouragement to look as ‘unold’ as possible (especially for women, it has to be said) on author photos. The logical result will be someone posing in nappies after a Booker win… Thank you for your own terrific story, and the blog post.
Thanks so much, Vanessa. Yes, I think I’ve been too scared to say my age until I saw all the age-honesty! Good writing is good writing at whatever age it appears. Thanks for helping to kick it all off! x
emmalee1 says:
Good post. I’ve long argued that awards, etc shouldn’t be based on a writer’s age but on the stage they are at in their writing. Sometimes life has to be lived before you can write. Amy Clampitt was 63 when she made the transition from magazine poet to poet with collection. Mary Wesley’s first novel was published when she was 70. Although I started getting published young, I didn’t benefit from any of the awards aimed at emerging writers who happen to be young and it wasn’t an easy transition from getting poems in magazines to getting a first collection published.
It would make more sense if awards were given on merit, I don’t understand the arguments against this. Thanks for sharing your story, Emma! x
Jean Atkin says:
Yes, all good overdue stuff, this! I also am a late starter, in my forties (years of teaching and family responsibilities). I’ve been lucky enough to publish a first collection (with Oversteps), and several pamphlets – second collection on the way. It’s lovely there’s such support for young poets and writers – but I am conscious that my age (58 now!) isn’t an advantage! Well it doesn’t feel like one. Would be good if there was more recognition of later starters! Thanks Josephine.
I think Joanna Walsh makes a strong case for age restrictions in prizes and development schemes discriminating against women and minorities. It’s hard to argue otherwise. I was lucky enough to be selected for the Aldeburgh Eight Scheme and our group was the most diverse in terms of age – from 24 to 68! We all got on really well and still support each other. More schemes like this would be welcomed. Thanks for commenting, Jean! Good to hear of your next book. X
Sean Wright says:
I’d also like to see age restrictions lifted for mentorship programs(and moved toward a career stage model). I started seriously writing poetry (with the intention of getting published) four years ago in my late 30’s. My difficulty has always been in finding good poetry education for myself – I graduated with a teaching degree before University became really expensive in Aus and sadly before creative writing degrees were a thing.
You’re not alone in wanting this, Sean. The Poetry School offer a really exciting range of face-to-face and online courses although they can be expensive. Ditto Arvon (they offer some funding). The Poetry Trust (now closed down) and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival used to offer a brilliant development scheme. The Poetry Business offer a ‘Poetry School’ – something like a Masters degree in Poetry spread over 18 months but you need to be resident in the UK and it’s competitive. Primers, a scheme run by The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press offers mentorship and publication but, again, is for UK residents and is highly competitive. Sometimes you have to find mentorship where you can, via workshops and online courses, and on top of that, obviously, continue with extended reading. Re CW degrees, they can be great, but so many talented writers studied something else, it’s worth remembering. Thanks for commenting and I wish you good writing in 2018! 🙂
eric evans says:
Ms Corcoran, I just had to ask….
When I was a little kid my parents got me “The Tall Book of Make-Believe.” That was the early 60’s. The book is long gone, of course, but I never forgot it. I few years ago I bought the book online. The name ‘Josephine Corcoran’ is signed inside the cover. So I googled the name and came up with you. Was this your book?
What a great story! No, the book was never mine, as far as I know. One thing I’ve discovered since the advent of the internet is the surprisingly large number of people who share the same name. Best wishes, Josephine
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10/30 Bob Dylan, ‘More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14′: Album Review
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Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series pretty much gave up on the casual fan about five years ago, when it explored, in depth and on two CDs, his mostly maligned 1969-71 period that yielded Self Portrait, the album that proved the voice of a generation was fallible.
Since then, the series has gone deep with six discs of The Basement Tapes, 18 CDs of the celebrated 1965-66 period and a nine-disc look at the born-again years that comes close to Self Portrait for its hatred among Dylanphiles. (All of these sets are also available in abridged, and less-expensive, editions.)
For its 14th volume, The Bootleg Series returns to more commercial territory with one of Dylan's all-time greatest albums: 1975's Blood on the Tracks. The six discs are probably still too many for listeners who know only the record's legend and maybe "Tangled Up in Blue," but there's widespread appeal to the set for anyone interested in rock history.
Dylan has insisted for years that Blood on the Tracks wasn't an autobiographical work, but it's hard not to read some of his personal turmoil in the songs, particularly the marriage problems he was having at the time. The sad regret of "Simple Twist of Fate" and the savage "Idiot Wind' are just too intimate, and are sung too passionately, to be dismissed as mere fiction.
Whatever the case, the album hit No. 1 and has become one of Dylan's most popular and celebrated LPs in the four decades since its release. Its history has always been part of its appeal: Dylan recorded the album in New York City in September 1974, and it was all ready for release that December when he scrapped some of the recordings, returned to Minneapolis, the state he was born in, and rushed through new takes of the same songs with a band put together by his brother. The 10-track album -- split right down the middle with five songs recorded in New York and five from Minneapolis -- finally came out in mid-January 1975.
More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 collects every surviving song recorded at the sessions and, like The Cutting Edge: 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, offers an inside peek into the working habits of one of contemporary music's greatest figures as he pieces together one of his greatest albums.
The sessions are pretty much differentiated by the somber, stripped-down takes recorded over four days in September (with basically a bassist and organist accompanying Dylan) compared to two days in December with a more traditional band playing mostly revved-up and spontaneous versions. Throughout these 87 tracks, Dylan plays around with arrangements, lyrics and moods as he tries to wrangle some of his most personal songs.
The results are often as tedious as they are revealing. The official version of Blood on the Tracks can't really be perfected, so what More Blood, More Tracks does is show you how Dylan got to that point -- whether it's an early version of "Shelter From the Storm" used on the LP or a version of "You're a Big Girl Now" from the second batch of sessions. Some songs work better in the relatively acoustic settings; some need the electric intensity to thrive.
Compare the different versions of the sprawling "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts," or the various ways he tests out "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" before settling on the take that made the album. These progressions -- from the first stab at "If You See Her, Say Hello," which starts More Blood, More Tracks and the New York sessions, to the very same song, which ended the Minneapolis sessions three months later -- reveal just how committed Dylan was to this specific set of songs.
Earlier Bootleg Series volumes already uncovered this set's biggest surprises -- an acoustic "Idiot Wind," "Tangled Up in Blue" with different lyrics, the handful of outtakes. But this glimpse behind the curtain at one of Dylan's most timeless albums is occasionally fascinating, especially given the record's troubled recording history with the original backing musicians fired after just one session and their replacements, in turn, replaced by yet another group. The constant here is Dylan, staging one of music's greatest comebacks on his own stubborn terms. Again.
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Investiture de Joe Biden : des symboles forts et un contexte inédit
The Weekly Recap – November 3rd to November 9th
11 novembre 2014 23 décembre 2014 Romain GRIMAL Aucun commentaire
80% of Catalans wish for independence, according to the latest vote.
Dear readers, here are some of the main stories that unfolded last week and that are worth knowing about.
The Spanish region of Cataluña held a highly symbolic vote on Sunday 9, 2014 whereby 80% of those who voted said they would favour independence over staying in Spain under the guidance of Madrid. Although the feud between rich and prosperous Barcelona and capital city Madrid has been going on for years, this is the latest step of highly defiant actions put together by the very pro-independence regional government of Cataluña led by Artur Mas. Since he was elected in December 2010, Mas has multiplied statements that he would like to see Cataluña independent from the rest of Spain. While this sounds like the Scots wanting to secede from the United Kingdom, there is a higher risk of Cataluña becoming independent should an actual referendum take place. Even though many boycotted the vote, the result that 80% of voters would say yes to a secession cannot be evaded and should worry not only Madrid, but also the remaining EU Member States since Spain is the 5th biggest economy in Europe for which Cataluña is a big contributor.
Amid celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall being torn down after months a peaceful demonstrations in Eastern Germany, thereby also putting an end to the Cold War, tensions rose again in Eastern Ukraine. Indeed, reports hint at Russian heavy weapons being deployed alongside the border with Eastern Ukraine while Western countries do not back down from their economic sanctions against Russia, which sees capital flowing rapidly out of the countries, thus driving down the Ruble against other major currencies. This had Mikhail Gorbachev despairing over the return of a Cold War he put an end to some 25 years ago.
The Democrats in the US lost dearly to Republicans during the Mid-Term elections that saw Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky become the new Senate Majority Leader since Republicans now possess 52 seats in the current Upper House. Given that they already controlled the House of Representatives, it remains to be seen what President Barack Obama can achieve in his remaining two years of office. Some Republicans like Ted Cruz still want to put a fight to repeal the Affordable Care Act while others deem that the ensuing legal battle will inevitably be lost. However, major bills that have yet to surface include hot topics such as energy, trade, taxes and foreign policy. It remains unclear whether Republicans, or pres. Obama and the White House held by Democrats, will be willing to reach compromise on these burning issues after years of partisanship. The real question is whether pres. Obama will have any real choice in the matter.
After having caught up with the US and become the first economy in the world (if you disregard the EU as one economy), China is set to become a net exporter of capital for the first time in 2014. It means that outbound investment will overtake inbound investment, thereby signifying that China has reached a new stage of Capitalism. Indeed, China now seems ready to become a net financer of the rest of the world, just like the US did with the Marshall Plan after World War II. There are also signs that show China is poised to become a more open economy as its growth rates is likely to fall below its 1990 levels for the first time as well. Therefore, Chinese capitalists, just like any other in the world, seek more profitable investment opportunities elsewhere. While this would definitely serve the Party’s interest in increasing its influence in the Pacific region, it could also mean that China is actively starting to contribute to neighbouring countries’ industrialization, hopefully leading to outright development.
Clashes in Jerusalem last week led to renewed tensions between the Arab and Jewish communities of the city. After two men randomly attacked pedestrians in some sort of van rampage, effectively killing one police officer, street fights between young Arabs and police officers followed. At the same time, although unrelated, holy sites of both the Jewish and Arab communities were closed down after activists from both sides confronted the police. This is the latest bout of violence to take place in Jerusalem and already, both parties are naming these skirmishes declarations of war, which does not bode well for the very near future, let alone for the peace process (if that is still a term that has any meaning in the area). Meanwhile, Federica Mogherini, the newly appointed EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy upon visiting the Gaza strip called for the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem being its capital. Timing could not have been better!
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SER101: Introduction to Social Welfare (Martin): APA
Developed by the American Psychological Association, this style is widely used in the sciences and social sciences.
Each citation consists of two parts: the in text citation, which provides brief identifying information within the text, and the reference list (list of sources used) which provides full bibliographic information. APA Style gives prominence to the date of a publication. In-text citations use the author's last name and the date, separated by a comma, as a brief reference in the text of the article to refer the reader to complete information in the reference list.
For help with this or any other writing questions, please visit your local campus Writing Center.
Formatting In Text Citations
(Austin, 1998)
If the author's name is mentioned in the narrative, then only the date need be given:
Austin (1998) compared institutional support
Two authors. Always use both names every time they are referred to in the text. Use the ampersand (&) to connect the names in the parentheses, but spell out "and" in the running text.
(Parker & Mokhesi-Parker, 1998)
Parker and Mokhesi-Parker (1998) in examining institutional design and function …
Three to five authors. Cite all the authors in text the first time a reference occurs; in subsequent citations, include only the surname of the first author followed by et al.
First reference:
(Parker, Mokhesi-Parker, AuthorC, AuthorD & AuthorE, 1998)
Subsequent references:
(Parker et al.)
Six or more authors. Cite in text only the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year for the first and subsequent citations.
(Parker et al., 1998)
Group or corporate authors. Use the name of the body in the citation:
(World Bank, 1998)
Unknown author. Use the first few words of the title as the reference in the text:
("Structuring lawmaking", 2002)
Author is listed as "Anonymous". Use it as if it were the author's name.
(Anonymous, 2003)
When paraphrasing, APA style does not require page numbers in the in-text citation. However, authors are encouraged to include page numbers if it will help the reader locate the relevant information in longer texts. Consult with your professor regarding the need for page numbers for paraphrased information.
If the reference is to an exact quotation, the author, year and page number must be included. The page number can be given in parentheses at the end of the exact quotation or incorporated into the in-text citation.
Newman (1994) concluded "sibling conflict is so common that its occurence is taken for granted" (p. 123).
Such findings have prompted one researcher to conclude, “Sibling conflict is so common that its occurrence is taken for granted” (Newman, 1994, p. 123).
For exact quotations from sources without page numbers, use paragraph numbers, if available. If the paragraphs are not numbered, but there are headings, use the heading name and count the number of paragraphs after the heading to the paragraph containing the quotation. In some cases page numbers, paragraphs, and headings do not exist. In this case, omit the location of the reference altogether. (Publication Manual, sec. 3.39, p. 120)
(Smith, 2003, para. 1) or (Smith, 2003, ¶ 1)
(Greene, 2003, Discussion, ¶ 4)
For citations taken from secondary sources, include the secondary source in the reference list and mention the original work in the text.
Text citation:
Goldman and Goldman's study (as cited in Linebarger, 2001) found ....
Linebarger, D. L. (2001). Learning to read from television: The effects of using captions and narration. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(2), 288-298.
Formatting a Reference List
Note: With all citations, regardless of format, the first line is flush to the left margin and all subsequent lines are indented one half inch (approximately 5 spaces).
Basic Format
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
Single author
Austin, J. H. (1998). Zen and the brain: Toward an understanding of meditation
and consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Multiple authors
Parker, P., & Mokhesi-Parker, J. (1998). In the shadow of Sharpeville: Apartheid
and criminal justice. New York: New York University Press.
Ickes, W. (Ed.). (1998). Empathic accuracy. New York: Guilford Press.
Group or corporate author
World Bank. (1998). Slovak Republic: A strategy for growth and European
integration.Washington, D.C.: Author.
Note: when the author and publisher are the same, use the word "Author" as the publisher.
Chapter or essay in book
Herrmann, R. K. (2002). Linking theory to evidence in international relations. In
W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse, & B. A. Simmons (Eds.), Handbook of
International Relations (pp. 119-136). London: SAGE.
Article from a reference book
Campbell, H. (2002). Pan-Africanism. In Krieger, J. (Ed.), The Oxford companion
to politics of the world (pp. 631-633). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Note: if there is no author, place the title in the author position.
OWL at Purdue states:
"When referencing a print article obtained from an online database (such as a database in the library), provide appropriate print citation information (formatted just like a "normal" print citation would be for that type of work). By providing this information, you allow people to retrieve the print version if they do not have access to the database from which you retrieved the article. You can also include the item number or accession number or database URL at the end, but the APA manual says that this is not required.
If you are citing an article from a database that is available in other places, such as a journal or magazine, include the homepage's URL. You may have to do a web search of the article's title, author, etc. to find the URL." (Article From a Database)
Article in a journal (one author)
Blass, E. M. (1997). Interactions between contact and chemosensory mechanisms in pain
modulation in 10-day-old rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 111, 147-154.
Article in a journal (multiple authors)
Gagne, P., Tewksbury, R., & McGaughey, D. (1997). Coming out and crossing over:
Identity formation and proclamation in a transgender community. Gender and Society,
11, 478-508.
Article in a popular magazine
Henry, W. A., III (1990, April 9) Beyond the melting pot. Time, 135, 28-31.
Article in a newspaper
Young, J. (2003, February 14). Prozac campus: more students seek counseling and take
psychiatric medication. The Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. A37-38.
Article from a full-text database
Hicks, J. E., Jones, J. F. Renner, J. H., & Schmaling, K. (1995). Chronic fatigue
syndrome: strategies that work. Patient Care, 29(10), 55.
Article from an e-journal collection
Hamilton, C. (1992). A way of seeing: culture as political expression in the works of
C.L.R. James. Journal of Black Studies, 22 (3), 429-443.
Article from a free web e-journal
Yu, D. L., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2002, May 8). Preventing Depressive symptoms in
Chinese children. Prevention & Treatment, 5, Article 9.
Retrieved from http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/ pre0050009a.html
Music Score No example given in APA Publication Manual for music score.
Writer, A. (Date of Copyright). Title of song [Recorded by artist if different from writer]. On
Title of album [medium of recording: CD, record, cassette, etc], Location: Label.
(Recording date if different from copyright date)
Bevan, T., Fellner, E., Cavendish, J. (Producers), & Dryburgh, S. (Director). (2001). Bridget
Jones's diary [Motion Picture]. United States: Miramax Home Entertainment.
Producer, A. (Executive Producer). (Year, date of broadcast). Title of broadcast [Television
broadcast]. Place: Broadcasting Service.
Web/Online
Note: Different web browsers break the text in different places of a URL. The URL should begin on the same line as the rest of the citation information, with a break inserted after a slash, if needed.
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (2002, December 4). What the
world thinks in 2002. Retrieved February 26, 2003, from http://people-press.org/reports/
display.php3?ReportID=165.
Yu, D. L., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2002, May 8). Preventing Depressive symptoms in Chinese
children. Prevention & Treatment, 5, Article 9. Retrieved May 6, 2003, from
http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/ pre0050009a.html
Hicks, J. E., Jones, J. F. Renner, J. H., & Schmaling, K. (1995). Chronic fatigue syndrome:
strategies that work. Patient Care, 29(10), 55. Retrieved March 17, 2002, from InfoTrac
Web Expanded Academic ASAP database.
Hamilton, C. (1992). A way of seeing: culture as political expression in the works of C.L.R.
James. Journal of Black Studies, 22 (3), 429-443. Retrieved February 26, 2003 from
JSTOR database.
See Citing Government Documents [automated fill-in form from Arizona State University Library]
APA Style Manual
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association Staff
The official style manual from the American Psychological Association.
Rules for Writers with Writing about Literature (Tabbed Version) by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
Offers valuable information for citing sources in APA and MLA style formats.
DOI vs. URL ??????
APA citation format calls for providing a web site URL (uniform resource locator) in order for the reader to easily and consistently locate web content cited.
Journal articles provide a different kind of "locator," called a digital object identifier (DOI); a permanent address, so to speak. The American Psychological Association describes a digital object identifier as "a unique string of letters, numbers, and symbols assigned to a published work to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.
The DOI is typically located on the first page of an electronic document near the copyright notice and on the database landing page for the document. When DOIs are available, include them in the reference information. Specifically, place the DOI at the end of the reference, and don’t add a period at the end of it." Here’s an example:
Author, A. (year). Title of article. Journal Title, X, xxx–xxx. doi:xxxxxx
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Eclipse, foaled in 1764, was an ancestor of 95 per cent of thoroughbreds racing today
A business of dreams
The buying, selling and training of the thoroughbred racehorse is a multibillion-pound global concern that tends to be 18 months ahead of the general economy. Boom or bust, the bloodstock industry is always there first. It happened in the 1970s and onwards into 2008, and it’s happening today. At one sale alone last year, Newmarket-based bloodstock auctioneer Tattersalls sold a record £80 million’s worth of untried horseflesh — and they’re hoping to do better this year when the same three-day sale kicks off on 6 October. There are more than 500 lots to go under the hammer with a minimum bid of 5,000 guineas (all racehorses are sold in guineas, one guinea being 21 old shillings or £1.05).
Tattersalls sells dreams — of owning the sort of horse that might win the Epsom Derby or one of the four other ‘Classic’ races; the 1,000 Guineas and the 2,000 Guineas, both run at Newmarket; the Oaks at Epsom and the St Leger at Doncaster. But it’s an industry that brings true happiness or heartache to a few, financial pain to most participants and financial pleasure to a select group whose only special quality as racehorse owners appears to me to be sheer luck.
Owning a racehorse is an expensive business. The late property mogul Raymond Mould likened it to the cost of sending a child to Eton: around £35,000 a year to school your unruly equine. Celebrated Newmarket trainer Sir Mark Prescott once warned me, when I was thinking of putting a syndicate together to have a horse with him, to assemble an arsenal of at least £50,000 just to pay the training fees and the add-ons. His point was that, if the horse was useless, I’d have a very difficult job extracting training fees from other syndicate members.
And all of that comes on top of shelling out goodness knows what to purchase the horse in the first place. I should warn that in all likelihood your horse will indeed turn out to be useless, temperamental and too slow. But there again if it’s fast, enjoys racing and learns quickly, you’ll have a great deal of fun and you may even hit the financial jackpot.
For many, the art of pitting horses against each other is a never-ending fascination, and that is what oils the vast industry that is horseracing. In the UK alone there are more than 14,500 registered owners and 600 trainers. The allure of owning a winner is magnetic and there are many entry points, from having a ‘leg’ in a point-to-pointer to joining a syndicate or investing hundreds of millions in a world-class racing and breeding operation, as the Qatari royal family have done recently.
Ruby Walsh wins on Faugheen, owned by Mrs S. Ricci, in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle on Ladies’ Day at Cheltenham last year
But be warned: this is an industry with its fair share of sharp operators. You should be particularly careful in your choice of trainers and bloodstock agents. A small minority behave as if they have come straight from the pages of a Dick Francis thriller. As well as going by personal recommendations, it’s a good idea to join the Racehorse Owners Association (ROA) which not only gives invaluable advice but also lobbies on behalf of owners with the government and the racing authorities.
Tattersalls, I should add, has a high reputation as well as an enviable record: since 2000, seven Derby winners have passed through its auction ring. Tattersalls director Jimmy George says, ‘This sale represents the best chance of buying a Classic winner that you’ll ever have.’
Perhaps the most famous was a horse called Sir Percy, knocked down for 16,000 guineas in 2004, who went on to win the Derby and more than £1 million in prize money. He now lives out his retirement happily impregnating upward of 100 mares a year at £7,000 a pop, and his fortunate owners receive the largesse — not a bad return on their original investment.
Rachel Hood, president of the ROA and an owner herself, is in the enviable position of being married to John Gosden, the champion trainer who this year won the Derby with a horse called Golden Horn. This future star had gone unsold at 190,000 guineas at Tattersalls two years ago. He was kept instead by his extraordinarily lucky breeder, Sir Anthony Oppenheimer. Having gone on to win again and again, he has been entered in this October’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Irrespective of the outcome, Golden Horn will be worth anything up to £50 million as a sire.
Unsurprisingly Hood says, ‘If you want to purchase a horse, go to a trainer or a bloodstock agent. You’d be ill-advised to buy a horse on your own. You should recognise that people who have been doing it for years tend to be rather better at it than those of us who recognise a pretty horse. It is science as well as art.’
But there have been disasters too. The Irish tycoon John Magnier may be the shrewdest judge of horseflesh in the world; his Coolmore stud operation based in Ireland, the US and Australia is the most successful stallion farm ever seen. Yet it was Magnier who bid a record-breaking $16 million for an unraced yearling in America, later named The Green Monkey. Great things were expected — but didn’t materialise. The horse was completely hopeless and was retired after failing to get in the frame in all of his three races. As is so often said: win some, lose some.
Setting aside such extremes as the success of Golden Horn, and previously the great Frankel — and the colossal disaster that was The Green Monkey — there’s a middle ground of more modest wins and losses. You may not profit from your purchase but it will buy all the enjoyment of horseracing from an insider’s point of view, some great days out and the high that is hope over expectation.
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Ode To Joy: Martin Freeman shines in heartwarming rom-com
Edinburgh Film Festival, Film Festivals, Films, Must Watch, Reviews
Ode To Joy: Martin Freeman shines in heartwarming rom-com (Review)
by Serena Seghedoni
Martin Freeman and Morena Baccarin in Ode to Joy (Courtesy of Edinburgh Film Festival)
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Jason Winer’s clever drama about a man who can’t experience happiness is a funny, uplifting, insightful story that surprises us with hilarious sequences and witty dialogues and features impressive performances by Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin and Melissa Rauch.
What if experiencing strong emotions made your body shut down for hours? And what if the feeling that triggered you the most was the most important emotion of all? The protagonist of Jason Winer’s Ode to Joy (played to perfection by Martin Freeman) is a man who suffers from cataplexy, a symptom of narcolepsy that does just that: every time he feels an emotion to an extent he can’t control with “unhappy thoughts”, he collapses on the floor. And, though feelings such as anger, surprise and fear definitely affect him, the one that triggers him the most is the very same emotion that makes one’s life worth living: happiness.
Martin Freeman and Jake Lacy in Ode to Joy (Mosaic)
I’m not just talking about that kind of happiness caused by one in a lifetime experiences. Charlie’s neurological disease can be triggered by seeing a mother holding her child, or by noticing a particularly cute animal while walking down the street. In fact, it can even be provoked by thinking about the feeling. And so, while major events are definitely risky, so are stories with a happy ending, cheerful music and unsolicited comments from strangers. If we stop to consider how many times we happen to think of something that makes us smile, it’s not hard to understand that, when we first meet Charlie, his life is not exactly the definition of easy.
With this premise, Ode to Joy could have easily turned out to be one of those mushy, predictable stories we’ve already seen a hundred times before, one that would focus on the illness and try to make us cry as much as is humanly possible. Instead, Jason Winer’s thoroughly enjoyable drama is an uplifting, endearing, genuinely hilarious and wildly entertaining romantic comedy with likeable characters, delightfully absurd sequences, unpredictable turns of events and more than one lesson to teach.
Jake Lacy, Martin Freeman, Adam Shapiro and Jackie Seiden in Ode to Joy (Courtesy of Edinburgh Film Festival)
We first meet Charlie (Martin Freeman) at a wedding, the perfect occasion to get familiar not only with our protagonist’s “adorable quirk”, as his brother Cooper (Jake Lacy) would later describe it, but also with his special brand of humour, that will keep us company throughout the film. Charlie’s coping mechanism consists in thinking “unhappy thoughts” whenever his cataplexy is about to overcome him. He has gotten used to avoiding happy situations and seeing the negative side of everything, and his daily routine is an endless source of perfectly timed and extremely funny sequences that keep us company for the entire duration of the film. And, while most of the credit is due to the excellently written screenplay, it needs to be said that Martin Freeman is absolutely perfect for the role.
Although we don’t always agree with the choices he makes, Charlie’s dry humour and expressive glances make him so relatable that he connects with us instantly, as a victim of circumstance whose absurdly comic endeavours can’t help but make us burst into laughter every time he says or does something out of the ordinary. And, just when you think you know where the film is headed, here comes an unexpected character or event that changes everything and makes you fall in love with Ode to Joy all over again.
Martin Freeman and Morena Baccarin in Ode to Joy (Mosaic)
The first surprising character is Charlie’s love interest, Francesca (Morena Baccarin). If our unhappy hero is the pessimistic but likeable protagonist Ode to Joy needed, Francesca is his perfect match and the one person who is able to balance out his sarcastic comments with her warmth and spontaneity. When we first meet her, she has just been publicly (and hilariously) dumped by an ex-boyfriend who couldn’t even begin to understand her, and who intentionally picked a public library to tell her the news, so as to prevent her from making a scene. Needless to say, Francesca does make a scene, and that is when Charlie, who happens to work at that very same library, intervenes. Which leads to a series of events that put to the test all the defence mechanisms he has put into place to keep all kinds of pleasant emotions out of his life.
There are so many reasons why it simply shouldn’t work between Charlie and Francesca, and yet they end up presenting us with a love story that is not only the source of many hilarious scenes, but also very real. The chemistry between the two leading characters (and the two leading actors) is undeniable, but there’s more than that. Ode to Joy enfolds in a completely unexpected way that keeps us guessing until the end, which is a very rare thing to find in a romantic comedy these days. It’s also what makes Winer’s gem of a film so compelling and so very watchable.
If Charlie and Francesca are the two protagonists of this story, they are not the only characters worth mentioning. Charlie’s little brother Cooper (Jake Lacy) is an excellent wingman: not only he provides much of the comic relief in the film, but his character is absolutely essential in this movie. Cooper helps move the narrative in unexpected directions, as he is much more impulsive and less empathic than his restrained brother, and Lacy’s performance brings his character to life in a very believable way.
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Jane Curtin also makes an appearance as Sylvia, Francesca’s closest relative and source of infinite wisdom. Aunt Sylvia is yet another brilliantly written character who approaches a serious subject in an unconventional, unexpected way, acting as a guide for Francesca and helping us understand her motives and actions. It’s thanks to Aunt Sylvia that Ode to Joy can remain the funny comedy it is, while also approaching complex themes such as fear and loss in an immensely moving way.
Jane Curtin in Ode to Joy (Courtesy of Edinburgh Film Festival)
But Ode to Joy‘s surprises aren’t over, as its most impressive character only shows up halfway through the movie. Played by The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch, Bethany is Francesca’s hilariously boring co-worker and, therefore, perfect “girlfriend material” for Charlie – at least, according to Cooper. From the moment she unexpectedly makes an appearance, Rauch absolutely owns every single scene she’s in. We don’t even care if it takes our attention away from Charlie and Francesca: we can’t get enough of seeing her in (slow) action. And it’s not just her fascination with the most tedious subjects and her long, improbable speeches that make us laugh: Bethany is also responsible for the film’s funniest moment by far, a meme-worthy scene you wish you could rewind over and over again.
Ode to Joy is an unconventional, poignant, hugely enjoyable drama that combines the right amount of dry humour with a series of witty, well-timed and surprisingly meaningful turns of events. It presents us with a series of believable, well-rounded characters, it keeps us entertained with clever dialogues and twists, it touches upon serious issues with extreme delicacy and it ultimately sends across a thought-provoking, heartwarming, beautiful message.
Martin Freeman in Ode to Joy (Mosaic)
Ode to Joy had its European premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival on 22nd June, 2019 and it was so well-received that it was chosen to be part of the Festival’s “Best of the Fest” Strand: another screening has been planned for 30th June, and tickets are on sale at this link.
genre: comedy genre: drama genre: romance Martin Freeman Melissa Rauch Morena Baccarin Ode To Joy
Serena Seghedoni June 28, 2019
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Diet, Exercise Better Than Vitamins in Promoting Health
Diet, Exercise Better Than Vitamins in Promoting Health. Exercise and a well-balanced diet far outweigh any health advantage from vitamin supplements. Writing in the November issue of the Harvard University Men’s Health Watch, Harvard Professor Harvey Simon argues against taking pills or powders to promote better health.
There have been careful studies done of many of these supplements, particularly of the antioxidant vitamins and B vitamins, which have shown no benefit. While it was once hoped that supplements of folic acid could help reduce colon cancer, new research has shown that taking more than the minimum daily requirement would be harmful. Other studies underscore that downside to dietary supplements, which are unregulated in the United Sates. The most striking example is beta carotene, which we used to be very hopeful about, but actually increases the risk of lung cancer in smokers. Vitamins E increased the risk of second head-neck cancers in people who have been successfully treated for a first malignancy.
Simon says that in the quest for a shortcut to better health, the natural function of the body is too often overlooked. Regular exercise can reduce the incidence of breast cancer by 20-to-30 percent and colon cancer in women by 30-to-40 percent. Simon notes that the risk of heart disease also dramatically declines with exercise.
There are hundreds of studies that show that people who exercise regularly reduce their risk of coronary artery disease by about forty percent, also reduce the risk of stroke, hypertension and diabetes, so are we to stop taking vitamins altogether?
The answer is…Yes, with one exception: And, that’s Vitamin D. Simon explains that the body makes it own vitamin D when exposed to the sun. But he says too much sun exposure can be dangerous because of the risk of potentially deadly skin cancers.
Listen to audio file for more details.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Pennsylvania › Middle District of Pennsylvania › 2001 › HEALTHAMERICA PENN. v. Susquehanna Health System
HEALTHAMERICA PENN. v. Susquehanna Health System, 143 F. Supp. 2d 496 (M.D. Pa. 2001)
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania - 143 F. Supp. 2d 496 (M.D. Pa. 2001)
143 F. Supp. 2d 496 (2001)
HEALTHAMERICA PENNSYLVANIA, INC., Coventry Health and Life Insurance Company, and Coventry Heatlhcare Management Corporation, Plaintiffs
SUSQUEHANNA HEALTH SYSTEM, The Williamsport Hospital & Medical Center, Divine Providence Hospital, Muncy Valley Hospital, And Susquehanna Physician Services, Defendants
No. 3:00CV1525.
United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.
*497 William G. Kopit, Tanya B. Vanderbilt, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, DC, for HealthAmerica Pennsylvania, Inc., Coventry Health and Life Ins. Co., Coventry Healthcare Management Corp.
J. David Smith, McCormick Reeder Nichols Sarno Bahl & Knecht, Williamsport, PA, Mark L. Mattioli, Post & Schell, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Brian M. Peters, Philadelphia, PA, Jonathan B. Sprague, Post & Schell, Philadelphia, PA, John J. Miles, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Washington, DC, for Susquehanna Health System, Williamsport Hosp. & Medical Center, Divine Providence Hosp., Muncy Valley Hosp., Susquehanna Physicians Services.
MUNLEY, District Judge.
Before the court for disposition is the defendants' motion to dismiss count III of the amended complaint. The plaintiffs are: Health America Pennsylvania, Inc., a managed health care plan that offers health maintenance organization (HMO) product in Northcentral Pennsylvania; Coventry Health and Life Insurance Company, an insurance company that offers a point of service product and a preferred provider organization product in Northcentral Pennsylvania; and Coventry Healthcare Management Corporation, a third-party administrator that administers self-insured health insurance products in *498 Northcentral Pennsylvania. The first named defendant is Susquehanna Health System, (hereinafter "SHS") a health care system offering hospital, physician and other health care services in Northcentral Pennsylvania. Susquehanna Health System includes the following three hospitals that are also named as defendants: The William sport Hospital and Medical Center; Divine Providence Hospital; and Muncy Valley Hospital. The final defendant is Susquehanna Physician Services, (hereinafter "SPS"), the largest physician group in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It employs over 40 percent of the primary care physicians practicing in that county and is wholly owned and controlled by SHS. For the reasons that follow the defendants' motion to dismiss will be denied.
As alleged in plaintiffs' complaint,[1] the facts are as follows: In 1994, the two dominant hospital systems in Northcentral Pennsylvania region (Providence Health System and North Central Pennsylvania Health System) merged to create Defendant Susquehanna Health System (hereinafter "SHS"). The result of the merger was a single entity with overwhelming market power in the markets for inpatient and outpatient hospital services.
Prior to the 1994 merger, two health systems were present in the Lycoming County/Northcentral, Pennsylvania area. They were Providence Health System, Inc., which included Divine Providence Hospital and Muncy Valley Hospital, and the North Central Pennsylvania Health System, which was comprised of only one hospital, the Williamsport Hospital and Medical Center. All three of these hospitals are located in Lycoming County. Two of them (Divine Providence Hospital and William sport Hospital and Medical Center) are located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and the third, Muncy Valley Hospital, is found approximately fifteen miles away in Muncy, Pennsylvania. Because of the merger, all of these hospitals are now part of SHS. The closest hospital that is not part of SHS is at least thirty miles away, and thus, too far away to be a reasonable alternative to patients living in the area.
The merger was allowed by the Attorney General of Pennsylvania in exchange for the merging parties' agreement to enter into a consent decree. The decree, required, inter alia, that the merged entity achieve certain savings from increased efficiency and pass those savings on to consumers in the form of lower prices in each of the five years following the merger. The five-year period expired in July 1999. Subsequent to July 1999, SHS has successfully demanded significant price increases from the plaintiffs for hospital services and indicated that they intend to extract similar increases from all other payors in the market as their contracts are negotiated for renewal.
The physician services and hospital services contracts that the plaintiffs previously had contained different renewal dates. Therefore, the plaintiffs did not anticipate renegotiating the contracts at the same time. However, at the time for renewal of the physician services contract, SHS terminated the contract for hospital services and informed the plaintiffs that they would be required to renegotiate the physician and hospital contracts jointly.
SHS was able to renegotiate its most recent contract with plaintiffs and obtain a 21 percent increase in hospital rates. The *499 resultant rates are much higher than the rates paid by the plaintiffs to hospitals in comparable communities with hospital competition. Further, the current contract with SPS requires Plaintiff HealthAmerica to pay higher rates for SPS physicians than it pays for comparable non-SPS physicians in the same community.
Accordingly, plaintiffs have filed a complaint alleging that the defendants engaged in an illegal hospital merger and a series of illegal physician practice acquisitions that have reduced competition and increased the prices that the local community must pay for health care services. Plaintiffs' complaint is comprised of three counts. The first count alleges an illegal hospital merger in violation of the Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18, and Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The second count involves allegations of illegal physician acquisitions in violation of the same statutory sections. Illegal restraint of trade in violation of the Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 is averred in the complaint's third count. Along with damages, the plaintiffs seek an injunction to force the defendants to price their services at competitive levels and prohibit them from tying the sale of hospital services to physician services.
Defendants have filed a motion to dismiss Count III of the plaintiffs' complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b) (6). The motion has been fully briefed and argued, bringing the matter to its present posture. For the reasons that follow, the motion to dismiss will be denied.
When a 12(b) (6) motion is filed, the sufficiency of a complaint's allegations are tested. The issue is whether the facts alleged in the complaint, if true, support a claim upon which relief can be granted. In deciding a 12(b) (6) motion, the court must accept as true all factual allegations in the complaint and give the pleader the benefit of all reasonable inferences that can fairly be drawn therefrom, and view them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Morse v. Lower Merion School District, 132 F.3d 902, 906 (3d Cir. 1997).
In the instant case, the defendants claim that Count III of the plaintiff's complaint fails to state a cause of action upon which relief can be granted. Defendants present several different arguments to support their motion. First, they claim that the plaintiffs have not adequately alleged a "tying arrangement." Second, the defendants contend that even if a tying arrangement has been pled, relief on Count III is nonetheless improper because other allegations of the complaint are inconsistent with a tying scheme. Lastly, the defendants aver that the complaint fails to allege any damages due to the tying scheme. We shall address these issues seriatim.
A. Is a tying arrangement alleged?
Defendants' first argument is that plaintiffs have not alleged a proper tying arrangement. A "tying arrangement" is where a seller agrees to sell one product (the tying product), but only on the condition that the buyer also purchase a different (or tied) product. Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc., 504 U.S. 451, 461, 112 S. Ct. 2072, 119 L. Ed. 2d 265 (1992). "[T]he essential characteristic of an invalid tying arrangement lies in the seller's exploitation of its control over the tying product to force the buyer into the purchase of a tied product that the buyer either did not want at all, or might have preferred to purchase elsewhere on different terms." Jefferson Parish Hospital District v. Hyde, 466 U.S. 2, 12, 104 S. Ct. 1551, 80 L. Ed. 2d 2 (1984). A tying *500 arrangement violates section 1 of the Sherman Act where the seller has "appreciable economic power" in the tying product market and if a substantial volume of commerce in the tied market is affected by the arrangement. Eastman Kodak, 504 U.S. at 462, 112 S. Ct. 2072.
Count III of the plaintiffs' complaint reads as follows: "Susquehanna Health System refused to negotiate a hospital contract with the plaintiffs unless the plaintiffs agreed to renegotiate their contract for physician services with Susquehanna Physician Services. This conduct constitutes an illegal tying arrangement or other unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act." Compl. ¶¶ 51-53.
Initially, the defendants claim that the plaintiffs merely assert that in order to negotiate a hospital contract with SHS, the plaintiffs also had to renegotiate their contract for physician services with SPS at the same time. Defendants contend that this scenario is not an antitrust violation but merely a request to conduct joint negotiations.
Plaintiffs do not refute defendants' contention that it is not an antitrust violation to request or conduct joint negotiations. Rather, they contend that the defendant's position is irrelevant to the case. Plaintiffs aver that the tying arrangement alleged in their complaint does not deal merely with negotiation of contracts but that the defendants refused to sign a contract to sell hospital services unless the plaintiffs agreed to sign a contract to purchase physician services from the defendants at the supra-competitive prices that the defendants demanded. Accordingly, in order to buy the "tying product" of hospital services, plaintiffs were forced to buy the "tied product" of physician services at a supra-competitive price. A review of the complaint reveals that plaintiffs have in fact alleged such a tying arrangement, although it could have been written more clearly.
According to the plaintiffs' complaint: "[T]he defendants' refusal to contract for hospital services unless the plaintiffs renegotiated their contract for physician services constitutes an illegal tying arrangement ... in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act....[this violation has] resulted in higher prices for hospital and physician services. These higher prices have harmed the plaintiffs and, if not stopped, will continue to harm the plaintiffs and will also harm employers, which pay a substantial amount of the cost of health care benefits for their employees." Compl. ¶¶ 28 and 30. We find that it can be inferred from this section of the complaint that the plaintiffs are alleging that in order to buy the "tying product" of hospital services, plaintiffs were forced to buy the "tied product" of physician services at a supra-competitive price.[2] Accordingly, we find that these allegations along with the allegations regarding SHS's power in the hospital services market (See Compl. ¶¶ 31-36) are sufficient to overcome the defendants' first argument.
B. Are the plaintiffs' allegations of a tying arrangement invalid because the complaint alleges that it is SPS's market power that forces plaintiffs to purchase physician services from SPS?
Additionally, the defendants claim that the Amended Complaint actually alleges that it is the "illegal physician acquisitions" and SPS's resultant market power, not a tying arrangement, that forces Plaintiff *501 HealthAmerica to purchase physician services from SPS. Thus, defendants read the complaint as alleging that Plaintiff HealthAmerica would have purchased physician services from SPS regardless of its purchase of hospital services from SHS. Plaintiff HealthAmerica was forced to deal with SPS because of the number of SPS physicians in the alleged relevant market, not because of any tying arrangement. Accordingly, plaintiffs argue that the complaint contains two inconsistent causes of action. Count II of the complaint asserts that the plaintiffs have to deal with SPS and pay higher prices due to SPS's market power, and Count III contends that this result is due to the tying arrangement. Defendants find these two theories of recovery to be inconsistent with each other and assert that plaintiffs have pled themselves out of court on the tying arrangement claim by asserting the market power claim.
We find the defendants' argument to be wholly without merit. Even if we were to accept their argument that the complaint contains two inconsistent causes of action, such a situation is allowed under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 8 allows for the pleading of alternative or inconsistent causes of action. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(e) (2). The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has acknowledged that this rule allows inconsistency in both legal and factual allegations. Independent Enterprises Inc. v. Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, 103 F.3d 1165, 1175 (3d Cir.1997). Moreover, because of the rule, a court may not construe one of plaintiff's claims as an admission against another alternative or inconsistent claim. Id. Accordingly, the allegation that Counts II and III of the plaintiffs' complaint are inconsistent is not cause for dismissal of either count.
Moreover, the two causes of action are not necessarily in conflict with each other. If a seller engaged in a tying arrangement has a monopoly over the tied product, it merely enhances its ability to maximize its profits regarding the tying arrangement. Therefore, prices can potentially be higher. Ergo, the two theories of tying arrangement and market control are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
In Eastman Kodak, supra, the Supreme Court discussed a tying arrangement where it was alleged that Kodak tied the sale of service for its machines to sale of parts. It was also claimed that Kodak's control over the parts market "excluded service competition, boosted service prices, and forced unwilling consumption of Kodak service." Eastman Kodak, 504 U.S. at 465, 112 S. Ct. 2072. The Court allowed both the claim of a tying arrangement and the claim that Kodak exercised excessive amount of market power to proceed.
Likewise, in the instant case, it is alleged first that the SHS has tied the use of its hospital services to purchasing physician services. The plaintiffs further claim that SPS, (a wholly owned subsidiary of SHS) has a great amount of market power which forces higher prices. As opposed to being two separate and distinct theories, it can be argued that the tying arrangement has augmented the defendants' market power. Hence, they can require plaintiffs and others to buy physician services at prices that are higher then they would be in the absence of the tying arrangement. This situation is similar to the Eastman Kodak case and we find no inconsistency and no reason to dismiss either count.
Defendants cite several cases in support of their position, but we find them to be distinguishable. First, Queen City Pizza, Inc. v. Domino's Pizza, Inc., 124 F.3d 430 (3d Cir.1997) is cited. In this case, the plaintiffs alleged that Domino's Pizza had *502 used its power in the purported market for Domino's-approved dough to force the plaintiffs to buy unwanted ingredients and supplies from them. Id. at 443. However, the court concluded that Domino's was not forcing the plaintiffs to purchase the alleged tying product out of market control, but out of a contractual agreement they had made with the plaintiffs. Accordingly, no tying arrangement was found. Id. In the instant case, the plaintiffs do not have a contractual obligation with SHS to purchase physician services. It is alleged that they must purchase the physician services because of the market power the defendants possess. This element was lacking in Queen City Pizza, supra. Accordingly, that case is distinguishable and not controlling in the instant case.
Defendants also cite Allen-Myland, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., 33 F.3d 194 (3d Cir.1994) in support of its claim. This case is inapplicable to the instant case. In Allen-Myland, the court first examined the facts to determine what the two relevant markets were, the tying product market and the tied product market. Id. at 200. In that case, the tying product market was large-scale main frame computers, and the court found that leasing of such computers and used parts upgrades were not part of this tying product market. Id. at 203-04. The Allen-Myland opinion, therefore, merely made a fact specific definition of the relevant market in a tying scheme. The opinion is little help to our decision in this instant case as the relevant markets are rather clearly defined as the hospital services market and the physician services market. Accordingly, nothing in Allen-Myland causes us to find for the defendants, and pursuant to Rule 8 and Eastman Kodak, the defendants' motion to dismiss on this ground will be denied.
C. Did the plaintiffs allege antitrust damages?
Lastly, the defendants claim that the plaintiffs did not allege any injury caused by the tying arrangement and only seek damages based upon the higher prices that SHS/SPS were able to demand because of the market power created by the allegedly illegal mergers. We do not find the defendants' argument to be cogent. In order to bring a private antitrust action, a plaintiff must demonstrate "fact of damage," which is defined as some harm flowing from the antitrust violation. Allen-Myland, 33 F.3d at 201. As we have set forth above, the plaintiffs have sufficiently pled both a tying arrangement and claims of illegal mergers. The plaintiffs contend that both the tying arrangement and the illegal mergers caused damages. See Compl. ¶ 30. Accordingly, we cannot grant the defendants' motion to dismiss based on a failure to allege damages.
In conclusion, we find that the plaintiffs have sufficiently pled a tying arrangement where in order to buy the "tying product" of hospital services, plaintiffs were forced to buy the "tied product" of physician services at a supra-competitive price. In addition, the tying claim is not inconsistent with and not precluded by the claims regarding the defendants' market power in the physician services market. Lastly, the plaintiffs have properly alleged damages with regard to the tying arrangement and the illegal merger claims. Accordingly, the defendants' motion to dismiss Count III of the plaintiffs' amended complaint will be denied. An appropriate order follows.
AND NOW, to wit, this 17th day of April 2001, the defendants' motion to dismiss *503 count III of the amended complaint [14-1] is hereby DENIED.
[1] By the term "plaintiffs' complaint," we are referring to the amended complaint filed by the plaintiffs on October 6, 2000.
[2] The defendants apparently concede in their reply brief that plaintiffs' brief sufficiently clarified their tying arrangement claim. (See Defendants Reply Brief, Doc. 18, at 2.)
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LEGAL ANALYSIS: Don Jr. Might be Able to Claim Attorney-Client Privilege Over Convos With His Dad
Rachel StockmanDec 6th, 2017, 9:48 pm
On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr claimed attorney-client privilege in order to avoid answering questions about conversations he had with his father, President Donald Trump. Don Jr was testifying before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed door session. The questions specifically surrounded what he talked about after news broke publically that he had met with a Russian attorney at Trump Tower in an attempt to gather “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr. told lawmakers that he had the right to invoke attorney-client privilege because even though neither he nor the president are attorneys, there was an attorney present in the room.
Can he claim privilege in this situation? Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat said that he did not believe someone could “shield communications between individuals merely by having an attorney present.”
However, before you brush off his claim completely, there are some circumstances where Don Jr. might actually be correct here.
Generally speaking, the privilege works to protect communications between a client and his/her attorney, and is ordinarily invoked by the attorney in response to some sort of legal demand.
As for this particular situation, we turned to well-known legal ethics expert Stephen Gillers, who is a law professor at NYU.
A lawyer in the room is insufficient to privilege the conversation between the Trumps unless the lawyer was there representing BOTH of them on the subject of the conversation. If the lawyer is representing only one of them, there is no privilege because the presence of the unrepresented person means the conversation is not confidential.
There is one exception to this. If the other person in the room is also represented by a lawyer who, as it happens, is not there, AND if the parties have a common interest agreement, the conversation between the two clients and the lawyer for one of them on the subject of common interest agreement is privileged. But there must be a common interest agreement in effect at the time of the conversation.
It is the burden of the person claiming the privilege to show that it exists. Simply saying “there was a lawyer in the room” does not carry that burden. However, the only way the House can defeat the claim of privilege is to hold Trump Jr. in contempt and hash it out in court.
At this point, we don’t know who the attorney was in the room, and if he/she represented both Trump and his son. We need more information to determine whether there was privilege.
Overall, some legal experts aren’t buying it and are having a field day with this one.
To: My students studying for the Professional Responsibility final exam.
From: Professor Kerr
Message: Don’t try to learn the attorney-client privilege from @DonaldJTrumpJr. https://t.co/gQgQTS6eCn pic.twitter.com/kQLYOkbdM0
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) December 7, 2017
There is also an entirely different question of whether Don Jr could even cite this kind of privilege during congressional testimony.
“The privilege is a product of statute — the federal rules of evidence — and is available only in court. However, Congress has allowed claims of privilege while making it clear over the years that this is discretionary, not a right,” Gillers explained.
This article was updated to reflect the possibility that Don Jr could invoke privilege under certain circumstances.
Rachel Stockman - President / On Air Host
Rachel Stockman is President of Law&Crime which includes Law&Crime Productions, Law&Crime Network and LawAndCrime.com. Under her watch, the company has grown from just a handful of people to a robust production company and network producing dozens of true crime shows a year in partnership with major networks. She also currently serves as Executive Producer of Court Cam, a hit show on A&E, and I Survived a Crime, a new crime show premiering on A&E this fall. She also oversees production of a new daily syndicated show Law&Crime Daily, which is produced in conjunction with Litton Entertainment. In addition to these shows, her network and production company produce programs for Facebook Watch, Cineflix and others. She has spent years covering courts and legal issues, and was named Atlanta Press Club's 'Rising Star' in 2014. Rachel graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and Yale Law School.
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Luke Casaletto
The Toronto Marlies are helping shape the present and future
The formula of sustainability in today’s NHL isn’t as strenuous as it’s made out to be. The league’s best teams almost always find ways to plug its holes by filling them with prospects or established players from within the AHL. They’re production is often overlooked mainly due to responsibility and playing time.
When a player is recalled from the AHL, it’s usually to take on a small role — typically in the bottom six. Sometimes, one will take off and stay in the lineup a lot longer than expected. Others are relegated to the press box, looking down on teammates (a stark contrast to playing almost every game in the AHL).
Of the league’s elite, the Tampa Bay Lightning have had ample success in this area. Few could have predicted Jonathan Marchessault’s rise from AHL regular to a first-line talent. But it’s unquestionably impressive how the Lightning have been able to keep its terrific core intact while subsequently surrounding those players with cheap, two-way depth.
Alex Killorn, Ondrej Palat, and Yanni Gourde are the headliners here. The trio were developed at a slow pace, graduated to the NHL, and have since been rewarded for their play with long-term contracts. On a different scale, the Lightning have received contributions from draft selections Mathieu Joseph, Anthony Cirelli, and Adam Erne — three players that have thrived in lesser roles. Together, in a variety of situations, this group has combined to a game score of 3.76; an awfully good mark for bottom-six regulars.
On top of drafting well, the front office has done a hell of a job locking down its core of Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman, with breakout star Brayden Point as the next one due for a significant raise. The Toronto Maple Leafs are nearing some tough decision making of its own, with general manager Kyle Dubas confidently pronouncing these words earlier in the season when he was asked if the organization will be able to keep all of William Nylander, Auston Matthews, and Mitch Marner together for the long run.
“We can, and we will,” Dubas now famously uttered.
As of now it’s three down and one to go with Marner as the last member of the big three due for a contract.
Much like the Lightning, the Maple Leafs are attempting to ease the transition from entry-level based salaries to restricted free agency by filling out the rest of its roster with cheap talent. Behind the scenes, the Toronto Marlies are playing a key role. Up until Brendan Shanahan’s arrival, the Maple Leafs struggled to help out its parent club by developing players and preparing them for the NHL. It wasn’t until a proper rebuild took place that the Marlies were utilized properly. And that is where we are at now.
With good players in place, the Marlies and head coach Sheldon Keefe have thrived. Backed by current Maple Leafs forwards Andreas Johnsson, Frederik Gauthier, and Justin Holl, to name a few, the Marlies rumbled its way to its first-ever championship in 2017–18. Johnsson, who has flashed considerable upside in his first full season with the Maple Leafs, won Calder Cup playoff MVP. His rise from 7th round draft pick to one of the league’s best rookies is proof the importance of an AHL team should never be overlooked.
Last season I wrote about Kasperi Kapanen and Johnsson’s imminent arrival to the NHL as the pair were lauded for their play with the Marlies. At the time, the Maple Leafs were rostering James Van Riemsdyk — who eventually earned a considerable raise with Philadelphia— and Leo Komarov as pending free agents. The point of that piece was to shine a light on something similar to this one, in that the organization has the depth to let players like Van Riemsdyk and Komarov walk in favor of younger, cheaper options in Johnsson and Kapanen.
There comes a time when the “cheap” label dries out and that clock is ticking in Toronto. Similar to Marner, both Johnsson and Kapanen are restricted free agents for this first time this summer. Whether the Maple Leafs trade one or keep both remains to be seen, but it’s almost a guarantee that the front office will aim to sign Kapanen and or Johnsson to contracts with an AAV less than $3 million per season. Both players have been good this season, with Kapanen thriving early on when Nylander wasn’t around and Johnsson — who’s been the team’s best left winger — producing despite a puzzling amount of limited ice time. Dubas has already tried to get ahead of the cap crunch and it’s come in the form of two minor contract extensions to Marlies regulars Calle Rosen ($750K ) and Trevor Moore ($775K — both until 2021). Though less flashy, Moore and Rosen are lower-tier options that the organization will look to for production in the bottom-six and on defence.
The Maple Leafs are expected to lose three defencemen to free agency with Jake Gardiner, Ron Hainsey, and Martin Marincin and there’s no guarantee that Igor Ozhiganov (RFA) returns, either. There’s going to be a lot more work to be done here but Rosen’s extension indicates, at least early on, that he should be in the mix for next season, joining Morgan Rielly, Jake Muzzin, Travis Dermott, Nikita Zaitsev, and Holl.
Rosen had his usual ups and downs in 2017/18; his first full stint in North America. He adapted and took off in the playoffs, scoring 11 points (five goals) in 16 games en route to the title. This season, Rosen has been that much better. In 41 games he’s already surpassed last year’s regular-season point totals (36) and has established himself as Keefe’s best defender, at least in terms of offense.
Rosen should be able to slot in as an adequate bottom-pairing defenceman and operate as a complementary piece. It’s also reasonable to assume other teams will show interest on the trade front.
Moore is a little bit more interesting. The 23-year-old went undrafted out of the University of Denver and was later signed to an entry-level contract by the buds in July 2016. His ability to drive play was put on display immediately and after two-and-a-half seasons of productive hockey under Keefe, he was rewarded with a two-year contract extension. That should pave way for Moore to get an extended look in the Maple Leafs bottom six; a spot in which he’s thrived at the NHL level. In seven games, Moore’s Corsi For is 55.7 percent and his Game Score per 60 minutes of 3.59 is only second behind Tavares. That’s impressive for a player thrust into NHL action, especially if you factor in ice time (8:43 minutes per game).
Here’s to hoping Moore’s fate won’t be the same as Josh Leivo, who was unfairly strapped to the press box for almost his entire tenure with the team (unsurprisingly, Leivo has been good in Vancouver. He scored his 11th goal of the season on Saturday). As things stand, the Maple Leafs benefit more with Moore in the lineup, particularly in place of Par Lindholm (whose current usage is baffling) and Connor Brown who, despite his best efforts, is replaceable.
These two moves don’t move the needle too much but are necessary for building a competitive team from the bottom up, especially with franchise-altering decisions being made, and another on the horizon with Marner. If you’re a Dubas believer, the Maple Leafs should be able to sign Marner this summer without sacrificing too much in the long run. It’s likely to come at the cost of Gardiner, and it’s possible that one of Kapanen and Johnsson could be traded, but even if it plays out that way, the Maple Leafs will be in a good spot.
The good coming from the system doesn’t necessarily stop there. While the Maple Leafs prospect cupboard is a bit thinner now, the club appears to have some other low-tier assets developing at a fast pace. Jeremy Bracco is leaps and bounds better than he was a year ago. His playmaking ability is front and centre with the winger leading the team with 30 assists in 39 games. That skillset alone could be what gets him to the highest level, perhaps as early as next season. Rasmus Sandin, last year’s first round draft pick, has also flashed some considerable upside with the Marlies and despite an early-season injury, 2017 first round selection Timothy Lilijgren continues to make strides, as well.
There continues to be some debate over the Maple Leafs success at the draft table over the years but despite a fairly low amount of high upside players in the system, the Marlies are doing its job. That’s about all you can ask of your AHL team and Keefe, as well as this year’s group, deserve credit for helping shape the present, and future.
Journalist/Reporter. Current: @680News | Published work: @thescore, @CDNbaseball | Contact: lukecasaletto@gmail.com
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Radio Al Mirbad: A Platform for the People
We are on a knife edge now - If we have no funding by next spring we will have to stop operations. But I’d rather shut down than accept tainted money from partisan sources."
“When I walk down the street, I hold my head high because I know I’m not in anyone’s pocket,” says Nihad Al-Jaberi, senior editor at Radio Al Mirbad in Basra, Southern Iraq.
“I know who I am serving: we decide what to cover based on how relevant and important it is to our society.”
Nihad and her colleagues at Radio Al Mirbad have been able to maintain editorial independence in the highly partisan and politicised environment of Southern Iraq because of external funding from government donors.
The station was initiated in 2005 by BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity, which works in media development. It was supported by several international donors as part of Iraq’s post-war reconstruction effort. Over the past 15 years, it has grown huge audiences across its radio output, YouTube, and social media channels, with almost half (48%) of Basra’s residents tuning in to its content via radio or online at least once a week.
The station has become popular across Iraq for its satirical comedy shows as much as for its investigations and public information campaigns. Its YouTube comedy channel has 8 million subscribers and the videos have been watched more than two billion times on that platform alone.
Research from BBC Media Action shows that among those who watch this channel regularly, 89 per cent agree that it addresses issues that Iraqi citizens face wherever they are and 82 per cent agree that its comedy contributes to changing bad practices in society.
Nihad describes the radio station’s role in promoting constructive dialogue between citizens and the authorities, holding those in power to account by bringing the microphones and the cameras to them wherever they are.
“We help resolve issues that will otherwise remain neglected. There is so much corruption and lack of oversight. For example, we set up our pop-up podium on a major highway that was so badly maintained, claiming many lives and causing disruption in a major route for the essential oil sector transport. People came and spoke out. We gave them a voice,” she says.
After recording the programme, the team took it to the Governor of Basra and followed up for more than a year. Work is now underway on the road and in a recent press conference, the Governor asked Al Mirbad to go back and ask people what they think of the road now. “He was a bit grumpy, but it’s the best indication that he understands that he has to be personally accountable,” Nihad says.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Iraq in spring 2020, Radio Al Mirbad was forced to scale back its general programmes and divert their attention to the new challenges.
“Iraqis struggle with the notion of being quarantined at home when there isn’t a war,” says Nihad, who lost her own mother to the virus. “Helping people to understand the need for quarantine was the task we took on.”
A ministry of health spokesperson said that without the station’s output, they would have had no means of reaching people with critical public health information. Al Mirbad’s well-known comedy stars teamed up with ambulance, police, and hospital staff to produce videos that explained how to deal with emergencies and avoid infection.
Unfortunately, Radio Al Mirbad has also suffered further funding cuts because of COVID-19. The pandemic has also had an impact on international donors, on whom Al Mirbad has also relied for funding. What little revenue they gained from advertising (never more than 20% of its US$1m annual running costs at the best of times) has dried up.
“We are on a knife edge now - If we have no funding by next spring we will have to stop operations,” says Nihad. “But I’d rather shut down than accept tainted money from partisan sources.
“Donors should take note that cutting that lifeline off means cutting down or ending this incredibly positive role that the media can have, especially in a context that is so fragile and transitional as Iraq.”
Iraq’s economy is not sufficiently developed to offer sufficient sources of commercial funding. The tradition of public subsidies without editorial interference from government does not exist.
“Independent funding guarantees Al Mirbad’s ability to operate impartially and serve the public’s right to information,” says Nihad. “Without it there is no independence.”
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San Andreas and Family
Unlike the spectacle and indiscriminate destruction of early disaster films, modern disaster films take a more personal and internalized look at disaster. Films from the golden age of disaster, like Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno, set the standards for the extravagance of disaster films, as a group of individuals try their best to escape the flaming tower unscathed. As the genre progressed, focus of the films shifted. While the spectacle of the disaster was still vital to the plot, it became more of an instigator for another, more important plot point. As Matthew Sorrento mentions, Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours is an excellent example of this trend of “character-disaster” (Sorrento) in disaster films. While the disaster itself (the boulder falling, and trapping Franco) is the instigator of the plot, the climax and focus of the film is Franco cutting off his own arm. Though a less drastic topic, the same can be said for Brad Peyton’s San Andreas and the importance of family.
San Andreas was released in the summer of 2015. The film tells the tale of Ray Gaines, a member of the Los Angeles Fire Department Air Rescue, and his broken family. His wife, Emma has filed for divorce, and is planning to move in with her new architect boyfriend, Daniel. Ray’s daughter, Blake, is in the process of moving to university with the help of Daniel when the San Andreas Fault line becomes active, and a series of natural disasters occur. It is during and following these events that characters reveal themselves through their survival instincts. Through this, the film is able to express a positive message regarding family values and the strength of familial love. Additionally, the framing of this film allows it to fall into Sorrento’s genre of “character-disaster”. Despite the large-scale events of the film, the integral disaster of the film is a family that has fallen apart. While Ray’s relentless love for his family is eventually able to save them (and from the perspective of the film, save the day), Daniel is ultimately depicted as a villain as his instincts and motivators focus solely on his own survival. The importance of family is established early on in San Andreas, prior to any disasters occurring. This is done through the introduction of one of the main conflicts of the film: Ray and Emma’s impending divorce. The divorce is introduced to the film in a very short scene. Ray is on the phone with his daughter, Blake, and suggests they and Emma go out to celebrate Blake moving to university. Blake informs her father they have plans with Emma’s new boyfriend and the conversation ends shortly after, the camera focusing and zooming in on a stack of divorce papers, emotional music playing in the background. This introduction of the divorce indicates to the audience Ray’s feelings towards it: he is against leaving his wife, and hopeful in rekindling their relationship. This is the initial establishment of Ray’s family driven values. He is not eager or willing to sign the divorce papers as he hopes to repair their relationship.
In addition to casting Ray in a family-centric light, the divorce also presents itself as a conflict point rather than a cemented moment of character history. It is clear that the divorce is meant to be seen as a problem, not something viewers are intended to accept and move on from. Ray and Emma’s impending divorce is one of the overarching conflicts within the film that is solved over a variety of interactions between Ray and Emma during the earthquake, and through it does not hold as obvious a role as reuniting with Blake or the earthquake itself, it is vital to the message of the film. When the film ends, Ray and Emma are shown embracing each other in a loving and affectionate manner. By concluding the film in a way that implies Ray and Emma are going to remain married, the audience is reminded of the power of love and familial bonds and suggests its vitality in order to survive disasters. Much like the falling boulder in 127 Hours results in Franco’s character cutting off his own are, the activation of the San Andreas Fault line caused Ray and Emma to look at and improve their failing relationship, therefore contributing to and advancing the storyline.
Even aside from his conflict involving his potential divorce, Ray holds strong family values throughout the entirety of the film and that is seen most clearly through his relationship with Blake. The movie establishes a strong and important relationship between the two characters upon Blake’s introduction as the two plan for their trip to Blake’s university. When their plans fall through due to Ray’s job, the significance of their relationship is further established by Daniel who remarks that he will “never try to change [their relationship]”, reinforcing the idea that there is strong bond between Ray and Blake. Ray is able to prove his strong, family oriented values, as well as the importance of his and Blake’s relationship when he ventures into dangerous situations to rescue her. Ray, and recently retrieved Emma, move towards the disaster in hopes of saving their daughter from peril despite the dangers that lay ahead for themselves. Repeatedly Ray is depicted rushing into dangerous situations to save young women, all visual placeholders for saving his daughter. When Ray is finally met with the potential death of his daughter, he is able to use newfound strength brought forth by love to save her. Ray is willing to risk his own life for the security of his family, allowing him to be the hero of the film. The progress of rescuing Blake is also symbolism for the current state of Ray’s family. When he is furthest from her, Ray’s relationship with his family is more distant. As he and Emma get closer to rescuing Blake, they become closer connected, concluding, as previously addressed, with the assumption that they will remain married. This again acknowledges and enforces the importance of strong family relationships as the closer Emma and Ray became co-related to the rescue of their daughter.
To create a contrast involving the importance of family values, the film uses Daniel, Emma’s new boyfriend, as the antagonist. While initially his villainous role is solely based on his role in keeping Ray and Emma apart, as the film progresses into the disaster he is seen taking a survivalist role which causes him to make some questionable decisions. Daniel being portrayed this way is important because unlike the other characters within the film, Daniel is not family-oriented. During their flight to San Francisco, Blake questions Daniel’s decisions to not have children. Daniel replies that he has “never had any kids cause [he] was too busy raising [buildings]”. This is the first indication that Daniel is not a family-oriented person but instead focuses on his own career success. This is an important distinction between Ray and Daniel; while Ray acts more selflessly as the film progresses, Daniels actions become more self-serving. When Daniel and Blake’s driver crashes their car during the earthquake, Blake’s legs become pinned and she is unable to get out. Daniel leaves Blake to get help, reports the incident to a security guard, witnesses his first casualty of the disaster, and leaves the scene for his own safety, leaving Blake in an incredibly dangerous situation. It is this incident that indicates to the audience that Daniel does not possess familial instincts and is instead much more self-serving. This perception of Daniel is only further enforced later in the film as Daniel physically removes a man from safety in order to take his place and witness the man die. These actions and their great contrast from Ray’s enforce Daniel’s role as a villain. While Ray is willing to rush towards danger to protect a life, Daniel is willing to risk a life to protect his own, furthering the idea that Daniel’s selfish instincts during a disaster are a result of his absent family values. San Andreas is a character-disaster revolving around a broken family that uses the occurrence of a natural disaster to reconcile their relationship. While the earthquake is a very present occurrence within the film, it is used to put Ray and his family is a situation where close allies are needed, and emphasizes that the best allies are family.
As the film progresses Ray is able to bring his family back together due to the events of the earthquake. It is also through the earthquake that characters are able to reveal their true selves with Ray becoming more in touch with his emotions and Daniel placing his own worth above everyone else. Though San Andreas takes place during an earthquake, the focus and intended lesson of the film is the importance of familial values.
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Save as Many as You Ruin
Say What You Will
Scenes From a Marriage
Schindlers List
Schopenhauer Essays and Aphorisms
Sea of Poppies
Seabiscuit An American Legend
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The Great Gatsby 1974 Film
Adaptation and Transformation in Clayton’s “Gatsby”
In his film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, director Jack Clayton develops F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comments on the society presented in the novel. Clayton’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby successfully articulates to a large extent the novel’s theme that the class structure of 1920s America is unjustly prejudiced toward immoral individuals and against honorable figures to criticize the corruption of wealth in upper-class society. To convey just this theme, Clayton departs from the Fitzgerald text in a few significant ways, but perhaps is more notable for his emphasis on the properties of the film medium in re-envisioning a literary work.
Through color, Clayton develops the upper-class obsession with wealth and power. The film opens with a shot of gold items on Gatsby’s dresser, items which correspond to the “toilet set” of “pure dull gold” (Fitzgerald 91) in the novel. The color gold, a traditional symbol of wealth, indicates Gatsby’s upper-class status and desire to display his wealth. While the gold objects appear toward the middle of the novel, the film immediately introduces them, effectively establishing Gatsby’s wealth from the beginning. The color gold in the shot is significant because it appears on Gatsby’s hair brushes and mirror, objects typically employed to enhance one’s appearance. The status and wealth that these gold items embody contribute to Gatsby’s projected image of class and money that will attract Daisy. Furthermore, the low key lighting in the shot masks the colors of other objects in the frame, exposing only the gold, and emphasizing the prominence of money in Gatsby’s character. In the same shot, a fly crawling on the dresser is the primary source of movement, drawing attention to it. Carrying an unpleasant connotation implying filth and contamination, the fly exemplifies the corruption that plagues wealth. Despite its small size and apparent insignificance, the fly’s ability to stand out among items of luxury illustrates the power of corruption to permeate the upper class. With this shot, Clayton exposes the unavoidable presence of corruption among the wealthy to express Fitzgerald’s criticism of the evils of elite society. The film’s ability to convey this commentary in its opening scene demonstrates Clayton’s success in communicating Fitzgerald’s theme.
After Gatsby and Daisy meet, the color gold reappears as a symbol of wealth in a shot with the camera following Daisy’s hand touching a series of gold figures before touching Gatsby’s hand. The shot demonstrates Daisy’s obsession with wealth, as she caresses each item, and develops her materialism, which allures her to the gold objects. The focus on Daisy’s hand demonstrates the physical connection she has to money and to Gatsby, as both her character and her love lack depth. By revealing Gatsby’s hand at the end of the succession of gold figures, Clayton compares the material objects to Gatsby, while also displaying Gatsby’s lack of awareness toward Daisy’s insincerity. Touching Gatsby’s hand the same way she touches the gold figures, Daisy proves that she is attracted to him as much as she is interested in his displays of wealth. Daisy’s love stems purely from her obsession with wealth and the power it brings her, so she perceives Gatsby as a means to achieve those aspirations. This proves the illegitimacy of Daisy’s love, in turn condemning the shallowness of the upper class that is concerned with only materialistic matters, thus exposing the extent of corruption in the society that permits this behavior. Later, when Gatsby asks Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him, the camera first focuses on Gatsby’s white cuffs before tilting up to reveal his black vest. This sequence in which the camera introduces the colors mirrors Gatsby’s evolving understanding of his relationship with Daisy. Initially, Gatsby adamantly believes in the possibility of an uncomplicated relationship. In this moment, Gatsby’s mindset is a reflection of the color white, which represents innocence, purity, and simplicity. He ignorantly assumes that Daisy will abandon Tom, but after Daisy’s realization of Tom’s more respectable “old money” status and her hesitation to comply, Gatsby recognizes the improbability of his dream for a future with Daisy. This awareness induces Gatsby’s distraught state, which mirrors his vest’s black color that has associations with death and evil. Entering the scene confident in his idealistic fantasy, the corrupt forces of society compel Gatsby to acknowledge the role of money in his dream, a mentality that aligns to the sequence of colors that appear in the frame. Through color symbolism, Clayton successfully illustrates Fitzgerald’s comments on the upper class’s fixation on wealth and power to echo the novel’s theme that elite society inherently favors wealthy characters despite their corruption.
Through mise en scene, Clayton highlights the upper class’s tendency to exploit wealth. In preparation for tea with Daisy, a silver tea set is placed on a table in front of Gatsby, the focus of the frame, obstructing Gatsby’s body. The placement of the tea set, a physical representation of Gatsby’s wealth, and the substantial space it takes up in the frame suggests that Gatsby, in his desperation to win Daisy’s love, is hiding behind his wealth and materialistic exterior to assume a new persona and appear to Daisy exactly as she wishes to see him. Similar to changing his name and shedding the “James Gatz” figure, Gatsby conceals his past, penniless self to present a new rich version in a way that will ensure Daisy’s love. The composition of this shot demonstrates Gatsby’s willingness to transform his character to please Daisy. While Gatsby is concerning himself over charming Daisy, Daisy herself is absent from the shot. This indicates her influence over Gatsby, as she can dictate Gatsby’s actions from outside the frame, exposing the corruption of the upper class for exploiting wealth. The mise en scene of this shot successfully conveys the theme that society wrongfully punishes sympathetic characters and allows corrupt characters to thrive. Fitzgerald’s criticism of the careless upper class is evident in this shot, as Daisy, who is shallow and materialistic, easily and unknowingly manipulates Gatsby in her favor. The corruption of wealth in the upper class also appears during Wilson and Myrtle’s argument, when Wilson is crying and Myrtle faces away from him. By filling up most of the frame with Wilson’s face and positioning Myrtle with her back to the camera, Clayton portrays Wilson as sympathetic and Myrtle as antagonistic due to her infatuation with wealth and status. The shot captures the pained expression on Wilson’s face while revealing none of Myrtle’s feelings, which creates a contrast between the tremendous effect their argument has on Wilson and the lack of emotion Myrtle experiences. Since Myrtle has a direct connection to the upper class while Wilson is the complete opposite of wealthy people, their opposing characters display society’s corruption. Myrtle suffers when she attempts to pursue wealth and status, and after her death, Wilson kills himself from grief. This effect of chasing wealth illustrates the corrupt nature of society that punishes those like Wilson who come from unfavorable circumstances, without regard to their morality. This helps the film demonstrate the theme that the 1920s social structure unfairly favors immorality.
While Clayton successfully illustrates the cruel nature of elite society that rewards wealth, he also alters particular details in Fitzgerald’s novel. When Nick meets Gatsby, Clayton sets the conversation in a different location. Instead of talking to Nick at the party before introducing himself, Gatsby orders his servant to accompany Nick to a secluded room, then immediately states, “I’m Gatsby.” This weakens the communication of the novel’s theme regarding the society’s corruption. The novel characterizes Gatsby as an ordinary man, since Nick limits his description to a “man of about my age” (47), without association to the extravagant exhibition of wealth at the party. The film also loses the element of surprise, which in the novel identifies him with additional similarities to the common person. Whereas Fitzgerald’s Gatsby appears as simply another guest, establishing his humble character, Clayton’s exploits his wealth by sending a servant to escort Nick to him, taking advantage of his money to achieve his wishes. In this way, Gatsby loses his sense of humility, appearing more snobbish. Additionally, Gatsby meets Nick in the novel while standing at the same level as the other guests, but in the film, he makes Nick ride up an elevator to meet him. This elevated height suggests superiority and self-entitlement, furthering the comparison to the spoiled upper class.
Although the secluded room indicates Gatsby’s isolation from the shallow party guests, distinguishing him from the materialistic upper class, other aspects of the meeting counteract this, ultimately portraying Gatsby in a way that opposes the book’s characterization. Therefore, Clayton’s adaptation does not always highlight the contrast between sympathetic characters and corrupt characters, and it does not entirely articulate the novel’s theme that society’s class structure harbors a fundamental inclination toward wealthy people who lack moral goodness. Clayton’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby thus conveys the novel’s theme that elite society unfairly favors the wealthy. The film reveals the characters’ obsession with and exploitation of wealth to express Fitzgerald’s disapproval of the unfair nature of society that inherently allows and even commends superficiality and immorality among its citizens.
Using Film to Expand Upon The Great Gatsby
February 25, 2019 by Essay Writer
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the whirlwind lives of the 1920s New York upper class. In the novel, Fitzgerald criticizes the unattainability of the American Dream as well as the shallow nature of the upper class. From this novel, several movie adaptations have stemmed, including movies directed by Clayton (1974) and Luhrmann (2013), each interpreting the novel differently. While Clayton presents a literal, superficial interpretation of the work, Luhrmann expands on the existing work while staying true to the heart of the novel, ultimately making it the more effective adaptation.
The choices in soundtrack and audio editing impact the reception of both movies. Clayton chose to have time-period accurate pieces, choosing to have the parties be very traditional in tone and mood. While this sets the proper time period for the work, it limits the interpretations of the scenes by taking such a surface level analysis. The parties, while containing the debauchery so prominent through Fitzgerald’s book, is limited by this literal interpretation and the scenes come across as acoustically underwhelming despite the intense or desperate actions of Gatsby. However, Luhrmann chose to use modern music to overlay the establishing shots, scenes, and Gatsby’s parties. This choice provides another layer to the film itself. By having modern music, the sense of corruption and stark depravity is heightened through the contemporary lyrics and creates images of a growing city and age. With modern music, the significance of the time period is better communicated as well as the mood of the parties. The parties come across as much more raucous and intense. This brings a modern spin to the movie, with the soundtrack choice expanding on the ideas of growth and change in the New York landscape at the time. Despite the differences in sound track, the audio editing is similar. Both directors use periods of silence to call attention to emotions and reactions during the hot summer scene when Tom discovers the affair. This technique to call attention to character’s reactions is effective in both films. Through this use of sound, more emphasis can be provided to particular instances that the book did not necessarily apply. With this addition of sound, or lack thereof, the movies can further expand upon ideas in the book. However as far as the use of music and soundtrack, Luhrmann’s 2013 version of the novel proved to be more effective as it expands upon the text.
The symbols of the novel are heightened further in the Luhrmann version of the movie, bringing a new layers to the novel. In Clayton’s version, the green light is depicted in the start of the movie as Gatsby is introduced, but not elaborated on. In the novel, the green light represents Gatsby’s unattainable dream of winning Daisy’s heart. The light is seen in scenes involving Gatsby’s longing, such as when Gatsby questions if the past can be attained. Through this, the symbol is seen and understood, but it is not built upon and is instead only explored at a superficial level. The symbol is present to the same extent as the novel and carries the same meaning, but it is just observed by the director and not particularly emphasized. However, in Luhrmann’s version, a noise is associated with this symbol. Starting from the very beginning, when Gatsby was first introduced on the pier, a low tone plays each time the light flashes at the end of Daisy’s dock. This tone continues to play each time Gatsby looks out onto Daisy’s house, and even once he seemingly wins her heart. During their affair, there is a scene in which Gatsby holds Daisy, but even with her in his arms, the ominous tone plays again. Luhrmann managed to take this symbol of unattainable dreams and extend it further by applying it to a scene that in the book was not included and did not reference the green light. By applying this symbol even during the relationship, Luhrman highlights this central idea of the novel, the unattainability and hopelessness of the dream. By taking advantage of the media, Luhrmann expands on the preexisting symbols and meaning of the text to create an effective adaptation and interpretation.
Both Clayton and Luhrmann further promote the heart of the novel, that the dream is often unattainable and the chase futile, through additional scenes depicting Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship. Clayton includes scenes of Daisy and Gatsby’s courtship, including them picnicking and swimming at Gatsby’s mansion. In the novel itself, the courtship is largely vague, with just references to some events along the way such as the firing of servants. However, Clayton expands on the courtship in his adaptation with these additional scenes. This inclusion of additional scenes elaborates on Gatsby’s attempts to achieve his dream, the scenes themselves are ideal dates, imaginary romances. Gatsby attempts to recreate this perfect future and relationship, and Clayton shows these attempts in greater depth than the novel did. This addition provides further insight into the heart of the novel, by enhancing this attempt at creating an ideal relationship, Gatsby’s failure to achieve this dream is also enhanced. Luhrmann creates a similar effect through the use of repeated phrases. Throughout the 2013 movie, Daisy repeatedly says “I wish it could always be this way” (Luhrmann), to which Gatsby says that it can be. This interaction happens on their dates, when they are dancing, and culminates to Gatsby telling Nick he doesn’t understand why they can’t just go back. Through the repetition of Gatsby’s holding on to the dream, the idea of the unachievable dream is accentuated. Daisy is shown to understand that it’s too late to go back, but Gatsby holds on to the past and the delusion. While both movies make an effort to accentuate Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship and the unattainability of Gatsby’s dream for the relationship, Luhrmann’s technique proves to be more effective. It provides more dialogue and by having the conflict reoccur, it heightens the core of the novel.
The visual choices in each movie, such as color and mise en scene, serve to intensify the on-screen drama and scenes to emulate the novel. One of the greatest differences between the two adaptations was the style, with Clayton going with a classic style and Luhrman taking a modern and dramatic approach. The colors and editing style in Clayton’s adaptation are reminiscent of lazy summer days. The muted colors in scenes such as the tea at the Buchanan’s house at the start of the movie are all in whites and creams, with even the foliage not being particularly lively. The cuts are smooth and but altogether underwhelming. Even in the party scenes, the colors are muted and the camera work smooth. Clayton’s adaptation effectively shows the setting, the summer in New York, and creates a smooth finished product. Nonetheless, the adaptation is limited by the very literal reworking of the setting and does not serve to show the underlying tones of desperate relationships and high strung emotions, especially with Gatsby. Luhrmann’s adaptation however takes a colorful, crisp and vibrant approach. The composition of the scenes themselves are amazingly busy and filled with primary colors. The party scenes especially are reminiscent of Fitzgerald’s descriptions of “yellow cocktail music” (Fitzgerald, 40) and “gaudy with primary colors” (40). As a result, the parties’ magnitude and fervor is more accurately mirrored. Additionally, the camera work is crisp and modern, the cuts between faces in scenes such as when Gatsby waits for tea with Daisy are blunt. This very different approach highlights the intensity many of the characters are experiencing and serves to highlight the fraught nature of many of Gatsby’s actions. Both of the films heavily use proxemic patterns and territorial space to highlight character’s emotions. When Daisy and Tom talk about the affair and decide to move on, they are at an intimate distance, showing their emotional draw in Clayton’s adaptation. Luhrmann uses the shots of the characters to establish emotional distance, such as by having Gatsby’s back to the camera in the hotel scene. Luhrmann and Clayton both introduce Gatsby initially from behind, establishing emotional distance early on. While both Luhrmann and Clayton establish characters visually, but Luhrmann uses color and extremely intense shots to establish more energy and passion, sticking to the undertones of the novel better.
The Great Gatsby conveys the ideas of dissatisfaction, disappointment, and desire. Through adaptations such as the 1974 Clayton film and the 2013 Luhrmann adaptation, these ideas can be elaborated on and the work itself can develop. Luhrmann’s film is ultimately more effective due to its extensive exploration of the central ideas of the novel. Rather than just taking the work as it is and retelling it, Luhrmann expanded and considered the work as a whole in a wholly new way. By adapting the novel, more implications are revealed and the work can be seen differently. It is through the adaptation and interpretation of works that more connections and implications are shaped and a work is made greater.
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The Guns of August
The Hairy Ape
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World and Other Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Hate Race
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Meet Mac
Work With Mac
The Children’s Fire
by Mac Macartney
The Children’s Fire is a story, a symbol, a fragment of ancient wisdom, a longing, and a way of thinking and perceiving. It was cast aside a long time ago and the consequences of this careless dereliction of duty have cost us dearly. It also has the vision and power to create waves and inspire action.
I was introduced to the Children’s Fire one wintry night in the coastal mountains of northern California as I sat by a blazing fire in a forest glade. I was tense, alert, and mindful that every word, gesture, and glance was pregnant with significance. Even though I had no way of knowing the extent to which this brief encounter would influence my life, I experienced it as a tryst to which all roads had been leading even before I had learned how to walk. Since that time the Children’s Fire has become the cornerstone of my thinking about leadership.
A few hundred years ago, wise women and men, elders of a people who over a few short decades would see their former way of life disappear forever, enquired deeply into questions concerning life, living, dying, relationship and meaning.
Tongues of flame, burnt red, liquid gold and orange leapt at the lowering sky, the only sound the crackling of branches as they blistered and shook, shaking free the ancient sunlight so long held and disguised as dead wood. The elders would sit together in council and many questions important to the wellbeing of the people were discussed. A recurring question that concerned the nature of leadership and the wielding of power was this.
“How shall we govern our people?”
One of the great challenges which the elders considered was the complex relationship between the short and long term. It was understood that actions which yield short-term benefits may not always serve the tribe’s best interests over a longer-term. As with all their animal relatives they understood that children were their most important investment, the tribe’s future. This naturally led them to understand the necessity of ensuring that their leaders always sought to secure a safe and prosperous future by testing every major decision against the future wellbeing of the children. In the indigenous culture from which the Children’s Fire emerged everything physical was an expression of the invisible spiritual life force flowing within it.
Inhabiting a world of living symbols, each one a clue to the spiritual power that charged it, the chiefs ordered that a small fire be kindled in the centre of their council circle. This small fire was called the Children’s Fire. It served to remind the chiefs of the first law:
No law, no decision, no action, nothing of any kind will be permitted to go out from this council of chiefs that will harm the children.
Each chief pledged themselves to the Children’s Fire. It was on this condition that they took their seat as a chief on the council. Similar insights emerged from many indigenous peoples, one of the most famous being the Haudenosaunee confederacy from which came the Great Law of Peace, and within this the Seventh Generation principle. The law of Seven Generations advises on the wisdom of considering the impact of any decision on those born seven generations hence. The Children’s Fire and the Seventh Generation principle are expressions of the same powerful insight into human behaviour. Well known by many and heeded by few.
The Children’s Fire is a pledge to the welfare of unborn future children (human and non-human alike) but more profoundly it’s a pledge to life, a commitment to the responsibility carried by each successive generation to safeguard the vitality and regenerative capacity of the earth. It insists on a circular economy and it views any action that compromises the wellspring of creativity from which our species has emerged as sacrilege, an act of betrayal, evidence hinting at insanity.
The Children’s Fire is a regenerative principle, a lodestar guiding the deliberations of leaders who are charged with the responsibility of governance and the long-term welfare of their people; the same meaning we ascribe to the concept of sustainability. It is a mindset, a design principle that I hope will one day find a home in our hearts, a location deep within the DNA of politics, religion, art, business, education, health, banking, cities. Everything in fact.
The Children’s Fire speaks to us about leadership and the tendency for leaders (chiefs) to forget their obligations and responsibilities to those whom they serve, and use the opportunity to feather their own nest. John Dalberg-Acton’s famous phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men’ comes to mind. It is an attempt to protect against this gross human failing.
The Children’s Fire burning at the centre of the circle of council chiefs also represents our relationship to the sun. Like the planets orbiting around the great fire, the sun, we acknowledge the star whose heat still pulses beneath our feet, in the heat of our bodies, in the fire of our imagination. Since for the native peoples of North America fire was the physical embodiment of spirit, the Children’s Fire represented sacredness at the centre of all that there is. Sacredness was understood to exist in everything that we might be tempted to consider as ordinary – stone, soil, shit, water, bird, plant, cloud, child, me, you….. Everything becomes seen and understood as it actually is; extraordinary. The Children’s Fire implies living in an animate world where everything is alive and everything has significance. An immanent world where gratitude and reverence become integral to everyday living.
The Children’s Fire is part of a spiritual wisdom tradition that did not rely on the concept of belief. In fact ancient Lakota dialects had no word for the concept of belief. The Children’s Fire simply mirrored back to the chiefs a spiritual truth that needed to be followed if the people were to be resilient and flourish over the long term. In this way the Children’s Fire doesn’t ask people to believe in anything, rather to simply acknowledge the insight and wisdom that it speaks of, and then apply the principle in action. It is very pragmatic.
The Children’s Fire invites us to be the best we can be. It is an invitation to a lifetime journey of deepening alignment with life. It sets us a challenge. It invites us to walk in beauty, participate generously, appreciate the inner journey as much as the outer, and it defines value in terms of what we give, not what we pretend to own.
The Children’s Fire is just common sense really.
The all new Children’s Fire programme will run at Findhorn 21-27 April 2018. Book your place here.
This article is featured in the forthcoming management and leadership book Not Doing by D’Souza & Renner (LID Press, 2018)
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CD: GRAHAM BONNET - Graham Bonnet + No Bad Habits (2CD) (Российский релиз)
CD1: 'Graham Bonnet'
01. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 4:16
02. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? 3:52
03. Tired Of Being Alone 4:01
04. Wino Song 4:15
05. It Ain't Easy 3:14
06. Goodnight And Goodmorning 5:31
07. Danny 3:18
08. Sunday 16 4:20
09. Rock Island Line 2:02
10. Soul Seeker 3:30
11. Heroes On My Picture Wall (Single B-Side, 1977) 3:32
12. Goodnight And Goodmorning (Single Edit) 3:14
13. I Who Am I (Previously Unreleased) 3:51
14. The Loving Touch (Graham Bonnet & Victy Silva, 1976) (Previously Unreleased) 3:31
15. Do What You Gotta Do (Demo) (Previously Unreleased) 2:48
16. It Ain't Easy (Demo) (Previously Unreleased) 3:18
17. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Demo) (Previously Unreleased) 4:26
CD2: 'No Bad Habits'
01. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 3:05
02. Won't You Join Me 3:39
03. Warm Ride 3:22]
04. Is There A Way To Sing The Blues 4:36
05. Can't Complain 2:31
06. Givin' Up My Worryin' 4:09
07. Pyramid 3:59
08. Only You Can Lift Me 4:35
09. Stand Still Stella 2:37
10. High School Angel 3:52
11. Cold Lady 3:42
12. 10/12 Observation (Single B-Side of 'Warm Ride') 3:04
13. Only You Can Lift Me (Single Edit) (Previously Unreleased) 3:38
14. Such A Shame (Single B-Side) 3:42
15. Warm Ride (12" Long Disco Version) (Previously Unreleased) 6:13
16. Warm Ride (12" Long Version) (Previously Unreleased) 6:30
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