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UK approves new Covid-19 jab, with rollout starting next week
The vaccine has been shown in studies to be 95% effective and works in all age groups.
A vial of coronavirus vaccine produced by BioNTech (BioNTech SE 2020/PA)
By Jane Kirby, PA Health Editor
Vaccination against Covid-19 will begin early next week after the UK became the first country in the world to approve a jab from Pfizer and BioNTech.
It is still unclear who will be the very first to receive the new jab, despite the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises ministers, saying care home residents and staff should be prioritised.
The JCVI said the elderly are most at risk and should come first, followed by those aged 80 and above and frontline health workers, then younger age groups and the clinically vulnerable.
However, the jabs are being delivered to NHS hospital hubs with reports suggesting NHS staff could get them first.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that delivery of the vaccine would be according to “clinical prioritisation and operational necessity because of the need to hold the vaccine at -70C, it makes this vaccine particularly challenging to deploy.”
Asked if care home residents would start to get the vaccine next week, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: “Yes, you have seen the prioritisation list with care home residents being right at the top of that list.”
Senior NHS officials claim the jab can only be transported once more after it arrives at a central hub, and has to be moved in batches of 1,000 – meaning vaccine will be wasted if it is sent to smaller care homes.
But Pfizer and BioNTech have said the jab can be sent to care homes, as long as the vaccine travels for no more than six hours after it leaves cold storage and is then put in a normal fridge at 2C to 8C.
Ben Osborn, Pfizer’s UK country manager, told reporters: “The point I really want to emphasise is, at the point of administration and deployment by the NHS, our vaccine can be stored under normal refrigerated temperatures at 2-8C for five days.
“And that gives us the flexibility to reach the target populations identified this morning by the JCVI over the months ahead.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the approval of the jab by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and said Covid-19 vaccines will allow Britons to “reclaim our lives”.
However, he said there were “logistical challenges to be overcome to get vulnerable people the access to the vaccine that they need”.
The UK has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, enough to vaccinate 20 million people with two doses, given 21 days apart.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said 800,000 doses of the jab will arrive next week, with millions more arriving in the coming weeks.
BioNTech’s Sean Marett said the UK was likely to receive at least five million doses of vaccine by the end of year.
The UK had initially expected 10 million by the end of December, but Mr Marett said the amount being shipped out was being scaled back for all orders.
“The 10 million doses were assuming a 100 million production of doses this year,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme.
“There are approximately up to 50 million doses that we will be producing this year and so I think it is reasonable to assume that there will be a scaling back of that 10 million for December, just like for every other country.”
In Wales, health and social care minister Vaughan Gething told a session of the Senedd’s plenary that the roll-out of the Pfizer vaccine to care homes in Wales presented logistical challenges.
“It means care home residents, who are right at the top of the vulnerability list, that we are not going to be able to deliver the vaccine to them,” Mr Gething said.
“They will get some protection with our ability to prioritise staff who work in those environments.
“I’m still optimistic this vaccine will make a real difference but the Oxford vaccine gives us a much greater ability to take it out to people because it is a vaccine that can essentially be stored in a fridge, so there are significantly less logistical challenges to deliver.”
Mr Gething said that it was not possible to transport the Pfizer vaccine to more than 1,000 care homes across Wales.
“We can’t be clear that it will still be effective for use in each of those homes and it is not something you can transfer in very small quantities,” he said.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said the MHRA had approved the jab after “months of rigorous clinical trials and a thorough analysis of the data by experts” from the regulator.
He said they have concluded that the vaccine has “met its strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness”.
Mr Hancock told Sky News the UK was the first country in the world to have a “clinically authorised vaccine” and it would be deployed as “quickly as it is manufactured”.
He added: “The MHRA, the fiercely independent regulator, has clinically authorised the vaccine for roll out.
“The NHS stands ready to make that happen.”
Mr Hancock said, until vaccines were rolled out, people needed to stick to the rules, saying: “We’ve got to get from here to there and we’ve got to keep people safe in the meantime.”
There would be “three modes of delivery” of the vaccine, with hospitals, mass vaccination centres and GPs and pharmacists offering the jab to those most in need, he added.
“Fifty hospitals across the country are already set up and waiting to receive the vaccine as soon as it’s approved, so that can now happen.”
Mr Hancock confirmed vaccinations will start with priority groups, although it is unclear if he means care home residents will be vaccinated above all others.
He told BBC Breakfast: “2020 has been just awful and 2021 is going to be better, and help is on its way with this vaccine.
“I’m confident now with the news today that from spring, from Easter onwards, things are going to be better and we’re going to have a summer next year that everybody can enjoy.”
In a Downing Street briefing, Professor Wei Shen Lim from the JCVI explained how care home residents were vulnerable to Covid-19, hence why they are top of the list.
But he added: “The JCVI’s advice is that every effort should be made to supply vaccines and offer vaccinations to care home residents, whether or not that is actually doable is dependent on deployment and implementation.”
The Department of Health later said every effort will be made to offer vaccinations to care home residents and the vaccine would be delivered “according to clinical prioritisation and operational necessity”.
Dr June Raine, head of the MHRA, said “no corners have been cut” in assessing the jab’s safety.
“The safety of the public will always come first,” she said,
“This recommendation has only been given by the MHRA following the most rigorous scientific assessment of every piece of data so that it meets the required strict standards of safety, of effectiveness and of quality.”
Information obtained by the PA news agency on the jab’s roll-out says, once the vaccine arrives in the UK from Pfizer’s plant in Belgium, batches will be checked at a central depot to ensure their quality.
Public Health England (PHE) will process orders placed by the NHS for next day delivery to hospital hubs around the UK.
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Beyond executive producer breaks down 'The Man in the Yellow Jacket'
Jan 8, 2019, 11:00 AM EST (Updated)
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Throughout the first three episodes of Beyond, Holden Matthews has been playing a game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic pursuer with a penchant for sunny colored dresswear, aka Yellow Jacket. In this week's episode, "The Man with the Yellow Jacket," Holden finally gets to face his tormentor as we get more of a look into the antagonist's life.
Fresh off the second season pick-up of the series, creator Adam Nussdorf talks to Syfy Wire about his assessment of the first season, what he wants to focus on in the second season and the origins of Yellow Jacket.
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With Season 1 complete, what are you most proud of accomplishing with the freshman year of Beyond?
Adam: I could not be happier with the cast. They are amazing. There are endless combinations you could mix and match, and every combination is more exciting than the next. At the end of Season 1, when we were all finished with everything, the thing I was most excited to jump into was writing more scenes for these actors.
Is there anything you will adjust about how you tell your stories in Season 2?
Because we are a first season show, we really put the pedal to the floor in terms of suspense. I don't think that will change as there will still be an action/suspense conceit that I want to keep intact. But finding room for more character interactions and letting the actors really sink their teeth into some meaty scenes is something I'm excited to write for, and hopefully people are excited to see.
(Spoilers below for "The Man with the Yellow Jacket" episode)
How did you come up with the character of Yellow Jacket?
He arose from a bunch of talented people doing what they do best, which includes our costume designer, Jori Woodman (The X-Files: I Want to Believe), who found the yellow jacket. It wasn't written in the script that he has a yellow jacket. I think it was just "Thug #2." I think I had the idea for the '80s style glasses, and then Jori found the jacket. Lee [Toland Krieger], who directed the pilot, and I both wanted a slightly off-beat quality to him. We talked about the antagonists in the Joe Wright movie, Hanna, or if you look at any Coen Brothers movie like Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) or Peter Stormare (Fargo). We wanted that certain unplaceable weirdness. We looked at a lot of people but Peter [Kelamis] came in and did that deadpan read, and that was the guy.
How was it seeing Peter fully done up as the character for the first time?
When he showed up on set it was amazing!
Did you know his back story from the start?
We really didn't know much about [the character], but over the course of writing, we got to play around and discover what interests us about this guy. I always knew I wanted him to have a family because it's an interesting dynamic and unexpected. I'm excited to pull back layers on Yellow Jacket.
It's only four hours into the series and you have Holden and Yellow Jacket face off in a crazy fight. Why so soon?
The episode came about by trying to avoid having a cat-and-mouse scenario, where it's like Road Runner and the Coyote, where Yellow Jacket is always one step behind Holden. We wanted to throw them together as soon as possible and have an explosive climax to that confrontation. After the explosion, we'd spend the rest of the season picking up those pieces, as opposed to dangling them getting together eventually.
Talk about how you framed their intial meeting?
We definitely want to do a low simmer, like the scene in Heat where De Niro and Pacino are across the table. We wanted that kind of suspense because both of our actors are so capable. We wanted to give them that moment, and we also wanted Holden to kick Yellow Jacket's ass. [Laughs]
Why was Holden's reaction right for the moment?
It felt like the correct course of action with Holden's mindset of not being able to control his powers and then hearing about the death of his best friend and blaming this guy. It's all of that adolescent angst and emotion that he can't quite control ratcheted up to 11. Holden takes it all out on this guy.
But Yellow Jacket doesn't fight back.
To me the most interesting line is when Holden asks Yellow Jacket, "Why aren't you fighting back?" and then Yellow Jacket says, "You're too important." That was Hillary Benefiel's line, who wrote the episode. That really set the table for the rest of the season where we know he's so important, but having it come from Yellow Jacket's mouth when he's incapacitated on the ground gives me goose bumps every time.
Beyond airs on Freeform on Monday nights at 9PM or you can binge all ten episodes now on Freeform's website or app.
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Budweiser to Rename itself “America”
Tap Trail2018-10-18T13:22:42-07:00
This is not The Onion folks. Budweiser has submitted paperwork in order to change its name from to “America.” To further increase the patriotic fervor they will also be changing:
“King of Beers” has been changed to “E Pluribus Unum,”
“The World Renowned” changed to “Land of the Free”
“Anheuser-Busch, Inc.” updated to read “Liberty & Justice For All.”
“Trademark” was changed to “Indivisible”
“Registered” changed to “Since 1776”
That last one is interesting to me. The beer wasn’t available until 100 years later in 1876.
Isn’t this just misleading consumers, or does the transformation to this level of Americana allow them to do that?
It will also include the words from Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters this land was made for you and me.
AB Budweiser will apply the new branding as a nod to the presidential race and it will run from May 23rd until election day, or for seven months, on its 12oz bottles and cans. The cans will be apart of a national campaign called “America is in your hands.” The branding also coincides with its sponsorship of this summer’s US Olympic athletes.
We are embarking on what should be the most patriotic summer that this generation has ever seen, with Copa America Centenario being held on U.S. soil for the first time, Team USA competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Budweiser has always strived to embody America in a bottle, and we’re honored to salute this great nation where our beer has been passionately brewed for the past 140 years.”-Ricardo Marques, vice president, Budweiser.
I mean, seriously, this is genius branding, regardless of what you think of Budweiser or AB InBev. It’s vulgar, deluded, in your face, unapologetic and tries to wrap itself in everything many in America identify with.
In summer Budweiser sees a huge increase in sales making the timing of the rebranding impeccable. The timing of the rebranding, coupled with this election season’s record setting patriotism I’m seeing this as a huge win for the brand.
We thought nothing was more iconic than Budweiser and nothing was more iconic than America,” Tosh Hall, creative director at the can’s branding firm JKR.
Apparently, AB InBev wants to align patriotism with its other well known traits like squashing competition by buying it and trying to control streams of distribution. Are these patriotic practices?
Old Can (l). Patriotism on steroids (r)
Budweiser is the most iconic beer brand in America, so combining this level of patriotism with our own country’s name – while seemingly vain, deluded and a bit scary – might not be that off-base. The problem I have is seeing our own country’s name branded like this. But hey, our country is branded everywhere, right? “America” is on t-shirts, doo-hickies, toys, an everything in between. Why not Budweiser?
Expect an onslaught of patriotism this summer, like you’ve never seen.
Will you be buying one of these to add to your collection? Kinda like that old can of Bud Dry that you have yet to open?
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Average U.S. Rate
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Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport (GPT), 14035 Airport Rd Ste L, Gulfport, Mississippi 39503, United States to Keesler Air Force Base, 301 Fisher St, Biloxi, Mississippi 39534, United States: $34.84
Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP), 6300 W Bay Pkwy, Panama City Beach, Florida 32413, United States to Grand Panama Beach Resort, 11807 Front Beach Rd, Panama City Beach, Florida 32407, United States: $43.20
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USA Softball Annual Meeting concludes as the organization moves into 2020 season with new leadership
Team USA Advances to Finals of Qualifier
USA Softball Shuts Out Colombia
USA Softball Beats Nicaragua
Bustos Paces the Way to Win Over Guatemala
USA off to a great start at Pan Am Qualifier
Olympians Selected for Hall of Fame
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Softball ousted from Olympics by one vote
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA---USA Softball learned today that the Olympic dreams of millions of young women around the world were crushed by just one vote during the IOC meeting last month in Singapore.
The 105 ballots were distributed in July and softball needed a simple majority of 53 to stay on the Olympic program. With an unidentified delegate abstaining, the 104 votes were evenly split, 52-52, ousting the sport.
The International Olympic Committee released the vote count to International Softball Federation officials, who had made a special plea to obtain it. No names were included.
"It's very disappointing to lose by one vote, especially when there's an abstention," softball federation President Don Porter said in a telephone interview. At the same time, he said, "I wonder who the 52 are who voted against us. That's my concern."
"This confirms what we had been told by many members of the International Olympic Committee, which is that the vote in Singapore was extremely close and there may have been confusion on the part of some voters, said USOC President Peter Ueberroth. “This also underscores our belief that the IOC, consistent with the spirit of fairness it has always shown, should reconsider this decision.
The United States Olympic Committee will continue to work to see that softball is reinstated to the Olympic Program. We cannot allow the Olympic dreams of women and girls worldwide to be put in jeopardy by a vote that was this close.
The International Olympic Committee is to be commended for the significant steps it has taken to increase opportunities for women and girls to participate in Olympic sport. However, the decision to remove softball from the Olympic Program stands in stark contrast to those important efforts, and we respectfully believe it should be reconsidered, Ueberroth added."
The next IOC general assembly will take place in February, just before the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Porter and several softball players are due to meet Oct. 4 with Rogge in Lausanne, Switzerland. A delegation that includes the third U.S. member of the IOC, Bob Ctvrtlik of Newport Beach, is due to lobby a number of IOC members meeting in the coming days at a 2007 Pan American Games planning meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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from IHS Technology Press Releases
Out of home video viewing on the rise
Via IHS Technology Press Releases
Study of internet users in US, UK, Brazil, Japan and Germany reveals out-of-home viewing patterns
More than half of internet users surveyed in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Germany watched video content out of their homes at least once a month, according to consumer surveys conducted in the first quarter of 2018 by business information provider IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO). Of those viewers, one out of six did so on a daily basis. Internet users between the ages of 17 and 24 over-indexed in out-of-home video in these countries - 80 percent viewed content outside their homes at least once a month, and nearly 25 percent of those who did, did so on a daily basis.
According to the “Connected Devices and Media Consumption Intelligence Service” from IHS Markit, Brazil had the highest incidence of out-of-home video viewing among the countries surveyed, with two-thirds of respondents viewing content at least once a week. Men were, on average, nearly twice as likely to watch video content out of the home on a daily basis than women, with the highest difference in the UK, where they were three times as likely.
As portable devices become an increasingly popular way to access videos, the ability to view content outside the home is also a key factor in the video services consumers choose. In fact, more than half of respondents claimed the ability to watch videos on their mobile devices was somewhat or very important, rising to three-quarters, among younger consumers — those aged 17 to 34. More than two thirds of 17- to 34-year-olds in homes with pay TV subscriptions used their multiscreen services on a smartphone or tablet at least once a month, compared to just half of those between the ages of 35 and 54.
Online video services are the go-to platforms for content
Netflix had the strongest crossover with pay TV across markets surveyed in Q1 2018. “In Brazil, Netflix overlap with pay TV is the highest, with three quarters of Claro TV and Sky Brazil customers taking Netflix alongside their pay TV subscription. Amazon overlap remains low in a market where Amazon Instant Video is only available on a standalone basis, with minimal localization of content and where local players Claro Video and Globo Play see higher uptake,” said Daniel Sutton, analyst for TV media at IHS Markit.
“Pay TV operators are responding to the growth in online video by expanding distribution of their multiscreen services across devices and bringing third-party apps onto their own set-top boxes.” said Fateha Begum, associate director for connected devices and media consumption at IHS Markit. “In the UK, Virgin Media customers are twice as likely to have a Netflix subscription than Sky TV customers, highlighting the benefits of content discovery integration”.
YouTube, Netflix and Amazon were the most popular video platforms in the five countries surveyed, when looking for something to watch, beating pay TV and broadcaster video-on-demand (VoD) services in most markets in the first quarter of 2018. However, the popularity of these platforms varied according to geography. For example, YouTube was the most popular service in Japan, with 84 percent reporting it as their first choice when looking for something to watch, while Sky TV in the UK was the only pay TV operator to maintain the top position in any country surveyed, with 30 percent of UK respondents claiming it is their first choice.
“The extensive reach of online video platforms, covering customers from across the various pay TV platforms and devices, threatens pay TV service viewership and value perceptions,” Begum said. “Bringing online video services to set-top boxes allows pay TV operators to maintain and control their customer relationships and experiences, while presenting their platforms as the best way to find and view the widest variety of content.
About the Connected Devices & Media Consumption Intelligence Service
IHS Markit brings together operator intelligence with consumer behavior analysis, to highlight the dynamics and addressable market of connected consumers and devices. This service comprises biannual consumer survey interplay and overlap between device ownership and media consumption with demographic breakdowns.
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from Intel Newsroom
Intel to power the 5G network future at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang
Via Intel Newsroom
Intel to Bring 5G Technologies to Life With Industry Leaders for World's Largest 5G Showcase at Winter Games
By Sandra Rivera
As mobility evolves beyond the smartphone, 5G is becoming one of the most impactful technology transformations we are likely to see in our lifetimes. It will bring seamless connectivity, massive computing capabilities and rapid access to the cloud together for the first time. In doing so, 5G will enable exciting new experiences and compelling new business use cases that will forever transform the way we live, work and play. One of the most exciting and globally accessible ways we can help the world begin to understand and better experience the 5G future is through our Worldwide Olympic Partner sponsorship.
Today in Seoul, South Korea, we celebrated the 100-day countdown to the games by announcing a collaboration with KT* Corporation, a South Korean communications service provider, to develop the world’s largest 5G showcase at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang 2018. During the games’ window, KT will deliver the first broad-scale 5G network paired with Intel 5G technologies that will enable a series of immersive on-site 5G-powered experiences.
The upcoming Olympic Winter Games will offer a preview of our 5G future. Our joint activations will give visitors a unique opportunity to experience 5G technologies. And they will highlight Intel’s unique 5G strengths across the network, client and cloud – the foundation for a massive new wave of connected devices and data. For 5G to become reality, all these elements need to come together into a powerful end-to-end 5G solution.
I like to think of Intel as the 5G technology standard-bearer, bringing visitors and businesses at the games groundbreaking access to wireless broadband at gigabit speeds, ultra-low latency video distribution and livestreamed immersive content. This 5G experience will be underpinned by powerful edge and core network computing capabilities powered by Intel high-performance processors.
At PyeongChang 2018, Intel, KT and our ecosystem collaborators will deliver a 5G showcase in Gangneung Olympic Park, and in Gwanghwamoon, Seoul and at other Olympic venues across Korea.
In addition, there will be 5G experiences made possible by the Intel® 5G Mobile Trial Platform and Intel 5G network technologies (including FlexRAN technology) that will be activated on the 5G network at a variety of Olympic locations.
For centuries, the Olympics has served as the premier forum for testing the limits of human performance. This year, Intel will add to the experience by flexing our technology and innovation muscle. I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of Intel and our goal to push the boundaries of technology through this groundbreaking industry collaboration and illustration of the transformational power of 5G.
Sandra Rivera is senior vice president and general manager of the Network Platforms Group at Intel Corporation.
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Home Music 2016 Grammys Add Justin Bieber, Chris Stapleton, Pitbull, Alice Cooper & More...
Music’s Biggest Night just got bigger with can’t-miss moments and more than 11 new performers just added to the star-studded lineup. Nominee Justin Bieber will join fellow nominees Diplo and Skrillex to perform their GRAMMY-nominated hit “Where Are Ü Now,” marking the duo known as Jack Ü’s first live television performance. Album Of The Year nominee Chris Stapleton will be joined by GRAMMY winners Gary Clark Jr. and Bonnie Raitt to pay tribute to legendary blues artist B.B. King. Nominee Pitbull will light the GRAMMY stage in collaboration with Travis Barker, Robin Thicke, and surprise special guests. Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Joe Perry promise an electric television debut with their rock supergroup The Hollywood Vampires.
Previously announced performers include Adele, James Bay, Andra Day, Ellie Goulding, the Broadway cast of “Hamilton,” Sam Hunt, Tori Kelly, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Little Big Town, Carrie Underwood, and The Weeknd.
Entertainment icon and two-time GRAMMY winner LL COOL J is set to host Music’s Biggest Night for the fifth consecutive year. Taking place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards® will be broadcast live in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Additional performers will be announced shortly.
Justin Bieber is currently nominated for Best Dance Recording for “Where Are Ü Now” with Diplo and Skrillex.
This will be the first performance on the GRAMMY Awards telecast for Diplo, who is nominated for three awards this year: Best Dance Recording for “Where Are Ü Now” with Justin Bieber and Skrillex; Best Dance/Electronic Album for Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü with Skrillex; and Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical.
Pitbull is nominated for Best Latin Rock, Urban Or Alternative Album for Dale.
This will be the first performance on the GRAMMY stage for six-time GRAMMY winner Skrillex. Skrillex is up for two awards this year: Best Dance Recording for “Where Are Ü Now” with Justin Bieber and Diplo; and Best Dance/Electronic Album for Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü with Diplo.
Chris Stapleton is up for four awards this year: Album Of The Year and Best Country Album for Traveller; and Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for “Traveller.”
A rock collective founded by heavy metal powerhouse Alice Cooper, The Hollywood Vampires are past GRAMMY-nominees Cooper and Johnny Depp, and GRAMMY-winner Joe Perry. Joining the Vampires will be GRAMMY-winner Matt Sorum on drums, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan on bass, Tommy Henriksen on guitar, and Bruce Witkin on piano and guitar. Artist proceeds from the Hollywood Vampires’ self-titled album will benefit The Recording Academy’s health and human services charity, MusiCares, which provides emergency financial assistance and addiction recovery resources for music people in need.
Legendary blues guitarist, 15-time GRAMMY winner, and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient B.B. King died at age 89 in May 2015. King’s discography totaled more than 50 albums, including 1965’s Live At The Regal, one of four King recordings to be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame®.
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The Irish Border Challenge: From Backstop to Border Poll
This project investigates the challenge of the Irish border in the UK's withdrawal from the European Union
The Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling the UK’s International Challenges 2019
The Irish border presents a formidable international challenge to securing UK parliamentary support for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union. Brexit has intensified the challenge for a border poll on both sides of the Irish border. The challenge is twofold. Firstly, why and at what point does the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland make the judgement to declare a border poll? Secondly, by agreeing to a border poll in the Good Friday Agreement (1998), the UK government acknowledges that the ‘Irish border’ is a dynamic, temporal phenomenon subject to the forces of political and demographic change. What steps therefore is the UK government taking to prepare for a border poll? This project explores levels of preparedness for these challenges at government and policy levels, and at social, cultural and human levels, with a particular focus on daily life and citizenship.
Principal Investigator: Professor Enda McCaffrey, Nottingham Trent University
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DLIFLC welcomes new commandant
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center will welcome its new commandant at Soldier Field during a ceremony at 4 p.m. today, weather permitting.
In the ceremony, Col. David K. Chapman will be installed as the new commandant by Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Chapman is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center with certifications in Russian, Serbian/Croatian and Greek languages.
Serving multiple tours in the infantry and special operations during his career, Chapman has served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Chapman holds a Bachelors degree in English from The Citadel, a Masters in International Relations from Troy State University, and a Masters in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University. He was a Senior Fellow at the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies where he focused on post-Soviet Union affairs.
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The Free Library > Science and Technology > Environmental issues > World Watch > November 1, 1999
The Free Library > Date > 1999 > November > 1 > World Watch
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Nongovernmental organizations around the world are proliferating at a phenomenal rate. Can these groups make up for government and corporate shortcomings?
For months, the city of Seattle, Washington has been bracing itself for the World Trade Organization. The WTO - one of the planet's most powerful and most controversial but least visible and least accountable organizations - is preparing to launch its latest round of free trade negotiations here on November 29, and officials have been racing to check security and procure accommodations for the more than 5,000 trade ministers, dignitaries, and delegates expected to pour in from more than 150 countries. But behind the scenes, several coalitions of activist groups have been preparing to greet those delegates with what maybe the largest protest against free trade the United States has ever seen.
These coalitions - bringing together environmentalists and AIDS activists, farmer advocates and labor unions - are organizing rallies, marches, press conferences, concerts, and teach-ins. Together with thousands of national and international groups, they have been intensely lobbying the world's governments to heed their concerns. Peace activists such as the War Resisters League protest that military spending has been exempt from WTO rules, leading to dangerous arms buildups in developing countries. Groups like Consumers International protest that the current trade rules allow multinational corporations to strong-arm governments into ignoring consumer protections. Labor organizations, from steel workers to longshoremen, worry about a loss of jobs and a weakening of workers' rights. And environmental groups warn that as things arc going, national environmental standards and international treaties, such as those protecting biodiversity and the ozone layer, could be outlawed. All of these groups and more - the Zapatista-originated Peoples' Global Action is bringing caravans of indigenous people from around the world - will be gathering in Seattle whether they were officially invited or not, to try to influence the WTO's agenda. (See "Challenging the WTO," page 22.)
If recent efforts are any indication, they may actually succeed, at least to some degree. Last year, 600 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world joined forces - using the Internet to rally international opposition - to shut down preliminary, closed-door negotiations among the world's richest 29 nations gathered in Paris to establish a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). The protesters, including many of the same groups that will be waiting in Seattle, were concerned that the MAI - aimed at eliminating barriers to the flow of investment money across international borders, just as the WTO wipes out barriers to free trade in goods - would spark a global "race to the bottom" in environmental and labor standards for investing.
"We honed our skills on MAI and, in the next round of WTO talks, we'll hone them further," said Charles Arden-Clarke of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. The WTO and other international institutions "are learning that they have to talk to us at the beginning. If they come up with an agreement without doing this, NGOs can swing votes back home."
Arden-Clarke's remark isn't just bluff. The past few years have seen a remarkable growth in the number and prominence of such groups and their ability to precipitate change. They have cajoled, forced, joined in with, or forged ahead of governments and corporations on an array of actions as disparate as the decommissioning of nuclear reactors, brokering cease-fires in civil wars, and publicizing the human rights abuses of repressive regimes. These not-for-profit organizations are now influencing decisions and helping to set agendas that were once the exclusive business of corporations, governments, or "intergovernmental" bodies like the United Nations or the World Bank. Johns Hopkins University's Lester Salamon, who has closely tracked the development of the nonprofit sector, believes that we are in the midst of a "revolution" of NGOs: "a massive upsurge of organized private voluntary activity in literally every corner of the world." Many NGOs have sprung up in response to inaction and oversights of both governments and corporations on pervasive issues such as environmental degradation, human rights abuses, poverty, and inequality.
It may seem naively utopian to expect groups of like-minded individuals working all over the world, without any centralized coordination, to be able to offer the solutions to these dilemmas. Compared to well-funded corporations and governments, NGOs - many of which operate on shoestring budgets - are at a distinct disadvantage. But corporate and government leaders often are more a part of the problem than the solution. "People don't expect politicians to do anything - I don't expect politicians to do anything," said Tim Wirth, a former U.S. Senator and Under-Secretary of State who is now head of the nonprofit UN Foundation. "That's why more and more people are moving toward grassroots activities." Through their international connections and networks, NGOs are giving local concerns global platforms - connecting the hundreds of millions of people who belong to grassroots, community organizations that are working in small but significant ways to change the status quo. This chaotic "third sector" is charting a new course deep into the waters long ruled by nations and corporations. And increasingly, its swelling numbers, size, complexity, and effectiveness are compelling the two traditional sectors to change.
On the night of October 2, 1968, thousands of students gathered in Mexico City's Tlatelolco Plaza to protest the army occupation of a local university and to demand protections against police abuse, the release of political prisoners, and the "right to associate" - to form activist groups without fear of repression. Within hours, army troops and police moved in and ordered the protestors to disband. A gun shot echoed through the square and a flare lit the sky, and seconds later the soldiers began shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. The massacre killed an estimated 300 to 500 young people and wounded 2,000 others.
Ten days later, the Olympic Games began in Mexico City - devoid of almost any international condemnation of the murders. Indeed, the Mexican government denied that any such attack had ever occurred. One reason this massacre did not provoke the kind of international outrage that would explode 21 years later after the very similar Tiananmen square crackdown in China was that, as Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink write in their book Activists Beyond Borders, "the international human rights network, and the human rights consciousness and practices that it created, did not exist in 1968. . . . Because there was no credible independent source, the Mexican government was able to control information about the event." To this day, the Mexican Defense Ministry's files on the killings - including five hours of 35-millimeter film shot at the square on the night of the massacre - remain locked away "for reasons of national security."
In the 30 years since that night in Mexico City, the role of NGOs across the globe has metamorphosed and amplified. These groups have developed wide-ranging, international networks, fundamentally shifted public opinion on such issues as human rights and the environment, and developed a growing level of independence from and influence over governments. The trend toward citizen action that was sparked by groups like the Red Cross in the nineteenth century has accelerated hugely in the last few decades of the twentieth. What we're seeing now is a web of networks and contacts that connect thousands of small, grassroots organizations with international coalitions. These coalitions, in turn, are increasingly included in negotiations over international treaties, and can bring pressure to bear on national governments and corporations alike.
The environmental movement is an important case in point. A hundred years ago, protecting nature was not a prominent political concern. If you had asked about the environment in a particular region, you would probably have been referred to a weather forecast in a farmers' almanac. There were almost no treaties, conferences, or international debates on the subject. The first international nature groups were just forming in the 1890s - the International Union of Forestry Research and the International Friends of Nature.
By 1990, however, rough estimates indicate that there were more than 100,000 NGOs working on various aspects of environmental protection - and most of those were started as recently as the 1980s, estimate researchers Thomas Princen and Matthias Finger in Environmental NGOs in World Politics. In addition, environmental groups - especially the international organizations - experienced a boom in memberships. For example, between 1985 and 1995, the number of members supporting the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) grew from 570,000 to 5.2 million.
More generally, in 1909 there were 176 international NGOs (groups with offices and constituencies in several countries), according to the Yearbook of International Organizations. As of the yearbook's 1996 count, that number had grown to more than 20,000. ([ILLUSTRATION OMITTED], page 16.) And the number of NGOs operating within countries has grown even more quickly. In 1960, the average country had citizens participating in about 122 NGOs; by 1988, that number had grown to 485. Half of all NGOs operating in Europe were founded in the last decade. And in the United States, where the number of NGOs is now estimated to be 2 million, seventy percent of the groups that filed tax returns last year are less than 30 years old.
This proliferation may be just as dramatic in parts of the developing world, though a lack of data and wide-ranging differences in how influence is wielded in different cultures (see "Fighting Pollution in Vietnam," page 28) make this more difficult to gauge. In India, which has a tradition of community voluntarism inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, more than a million independent groups now take part in grassroots development efforts alone. For example, organizations like India's Chipko movement, which originated as a spontaneous protest of mostly peasant women against logging abuses (the women would embrace trees, placing themselves in the path of axes and saws), now boast thousands of supporters, and have experienced important victories, such as regional bans on clear-cutting and recognized participation in the government's management of natural resources.
As a growing number of developing countries have shifted toward less-centralized governments and larger middle classes, NGOs have proliferated. Groups concerned with the environment, human rights, and women's issues played an important role in pro-democracy movements in Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines, and have since seen their ranks swell. Several high-profile cases of industrial pollution in the early 1990s in South Korea helped galvanize the pro-democracy sentiments by further eroding the ruling regime's legitimacy. Today, there are about 260 active environmental groups, according to Taehwa Lee of Green Korea United. Similarly, in Indonesia environmental groups played an important role in bringing about the fall of the dictator Soeharto. Their efforts helped spark political and economic reforms by documenting the corrupt practices that have caused extensive environmental destruction, such as the massive forest fires that have been allowed to ravage the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra to open up more land for government-connected plantation owners.
Similar inroads have been made in former Eastern bloc countries, where more than 100,000 nonprofit groups were set up between 1988 and 1995. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster sparked the birth of groups like the Czech Republic's Hnuti DUHA, now affiliated with the international coalition Friends of the Earth, which originally focused on pressing for democratic reforms and now works on forestry, mining, and energy issues, such as halting construction of the Temelin nuclear power plant.
Political theorists attribute the current rise of these groups in part to a shifting economic and political architecture worldwide - as most visibly manifested by the end of the Cold War, rapid economic globalization, the increasing power of international corporations, and the proliferation of cheap communication technologies. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the meaning of national security has begun to shift away from the military defense of borders. Indeed, international warfare has become increasingly rare (of the 101 conflicts that raged between 1989 and 1996, 95 were between factions within a single country). Instead, social and environmental perturbations like population growth, small arms proliferation, pollution, water scarcities, and persistent poverty - issues high on the agenda of many NGOs - loom as far more pervasive threats to security than that of military invasion. In addition, a significant number of once-repressive countries throughout the world have begun to shift toward more democratic forms of government, often giving activist groups greater prominence and access to decision makers. Countries once controlled by dictators or unbending military regimes, from The Philippines and Korea to Chile and Brazil, now provide NGOs new ground in which to flourish.
Another shift has been the growing power and influence of corporations. In 1970 there were about 7,000 transnational corporations. Today, there are at least 53,000 with more than 449,000 foreign subsidiaries. As international corporations have grown in size and number, "states have become less able and less willing to regulate them," according to a report' on NGO-business relationships by the London-based Control Risks Group. Governments interested in attracting international investment are sometimes hesitant to regulate industries, hoping to gain a competitive edge by accepting lower labor, environmental, and other standards. "The limitations on the power and influence of states and multilateral institutions" like the World Bank and the U.N., finds the report, "have enhanced the importance of NGOs, which argue that they are fulfilling a vital role when they call attention to commercial abuse or injustice which might otherwise be ignored."
And nonprofit groups themselves are now better connected, informed, funded, and able to mobilize support than ever before. While the groups can trace their roots to the kind of community action that was once almost solely a function of extended families, church groups, and community organizations, they now have the ability to participate in global networks and to transform local dilemmas into global issues. "The most powerful engine of change in the ... rise of nonstate actors is the computer and telecommunications revolution," says Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in her 1997 article in Foreign Affairs. "In every sphere of activity, instantaneous access to information and the ability to put it to use multiplies the number of players who matter and reduces the number who command great authority."
While it is clear that NGOs are proliferating at an explosive rate, what is more difficult to discern is what these groups are, exactly. Most broadly defined, they are private (not part of a national or international government body), not-for-profit (not a traditional business) organizations (self-governing institutions) with a voluntary component (participation in them is not mandatory and they attract some level of volunteers or contributions). By this commonly used definition, these groups are categorized largely by what they are not. Indeed, there is a pressing need for a more specific nomenclature to help delineate these groups by their funding sources, membership, and stated goals.
Number of International NGOs, 1956-96
Nevertheless, using this broad definition to get a general perspective of the third sector, the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civil Society Studies examined 22 industrial and developing nations and found that in 1995 the nonprofit sector spent in excess of $1.1 trillion (equal to the GDP of the United Kingdom), employed 19 million workers, and utilized 10 million volunteers. In most countries, the majority of NGOs provide education, health, and social services. Two-thirds of all nonprofit employment is devoted to efforts to facilitate such services as primary and secondary education, hospital and health care, income support and emergency aid and relief.
The vast majority of organizations in this sector are not high profile activist groups that tend to grab headlines, but are groups focused on more local, down to earth issues: neighborhood watch groups, religion-based charities, farmers' co-ops, health care organizations, athletic organizations, and so on. Still, a good number of these groups are part of the swelling citizen participation increasingly being referred to as "civil society." As the U.S. Agency for International Development's Thomas Fox puts it, "Civil society can be defined as the functioning of the NGO sector with the 'good of society' in mind." And groups working on the environment, human fights, civil fights, development, indigenous rights, etc. - so-called "social change organizations" - have found themselves at the forefront of this emerging civil society.
Pushing the right buttons
On July 30th, 1999, an exraordinary story ran on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. From a New York City apartment, the article reported, Greenpeace employee Charles Margulis had faxed a single-page questionnaire to the Gerber Corporation, one of the world's largest producers of baby foods. The one-page fax requested answers to a few questions, including: "What steps have you taken (if any) to ensure you are not using" genetically modified ingredients in your babyfood?
Bearing the Greenpeace letterhead, the fax quickly wound its way up the corporate chain of command to Daniel Vasella, CEO of Novartis, Gerber's parent company in Switzerland. The letter left Vasella with a dilemma: while U.S. consumers have been less vocal about concerns over the safety of bio-engineered foods than citizens in Europe, the company sensed that the public outrage dogging biotech companies pushing their products in Europe, such as Monsanto, might quickly spread to the United States. After two weeks of internal debate, the company decided that it would not fisk using altered foods - and the possible black eye that could be caused by growing U.S. consumer distress about them. Less than a month after Margulis fed his letter into his fax machine, the company was taking steps to ensure that its line of baby foods, which saw $1 billion in sales last year, contained no genetically modified products, announcing that it would drop any corn and soybean suppliers using genetically modified crops.
In the past two decades, activist groups like Greenpeace have experienced a succession of remarkable victories - remarkable given their limited role in governance and their limited resources with which to influence international decision making. "The resources of even the largest [international] NGOs, which number their members in the millions, pale in comparison to the capital, incomes, and personnel of other world actors, especially state and transnational corporations," writes John Boli in Constructing World Culture.
Despite this, many groups have proved more adept than both governments and businesses at responding to social and environmental problems threatening human security - including lacks of access to food, shelter, employment, education, and health services. In Bangladesh, for example, a child is more likely to learn to read with the assistance of one of the 5,000 NGOs working on literacy programs than through a state school or other organization. Meanwhile, NGOs have also been granted wider acceptance into international negotiations since the U.N.'s Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Rio was a watershed event in the democratization of global environmental governance - the conference drew together 20,000 activists, academics, and grass roots leaders, engendering a kind of participation in the international negotiations that continues to grow to this day.
These gains have not come easily, however. Because public-interest groups have limited constituencies and resources, they have needed to develop innovative strategies to prod governments and businesses into action - r have simply taken the lead on their own. In a 1998 article in the journal Foreign Policy, P.J. Simmons describes generally the tactics used by many organizations: "NGOs affect national governments, multilateral institutions, and national and multinational corporations in four ways: setting agendas, negotiating outcomes, conferring legitimacy, and implementing solutions."
Advocacy organizations from women's suffrage groups in the 1800s, to peace activists today have worked to set the agendas of businesses and governments by staging myriad protests, strikes, marches, consumer boycotts, acts of civil disobedience, letter-writing campaigns, and other pressure tactics. One of the most stunning successes in recent history has been the Nobel prize-winning campaign to enact a global treaty banning the manufacture, use, transfer, and stockpiling of antipersonnel landmines. Despite staunch opposition from the United States, China, and Russia, the ban went into effect in March 1999, seven short years after a coalition of 350 human rights, relief, veteran, and development groups joined together to push the issue onto the international agenda. With the political support of Canada, financial support from philanthropist George Soros and publicity from the likes of Great Britain's Princess Diana, the campaign gained a momentum rarely seen in international treaty negotiations.
The scientific expertise and innovative thinking of many NGOs has given them a strong hand in shaping and negotiating the outcomes of political or industrial decision making. Groups like the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the World Wide Fund for Nature were critical players in producing an international ban on trade in ivory, using their resources to document and monitor the drastic decline in African elephant populations, and to inform the public. Groups like Friends of the Earth, in addition to participating in negotiations on the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances, helped garner industry support - or capitulation - by threatening a boycott of products that continued to release such substances.
NGOs play an important role in conferring legitimacy on many government and business activities. There are, for example, the stamps of approval some groups offer to products and services that meet specified environmental criteria - such as those of SmartWood, Green Seal, or the California Certified Organic Farmers. By withholding or conferring public support, activist organizations have affected policies of the world's most powerful institutions. Environmental groups' criticisms of China's Three Gorges Dam, which will cause widespread ecological destruction and displace 1.3 million people, have convinced the World Bank and the U.S. government not to fund the project.
Many groups provide leadership by helping to implement solutions, from providing education and health services to monitoring trade in ozone-depleting chemicals and endangered species. Increasingly, governments are relying on the services of nonprofit groups to help tackle daunting problems. Development groups have been entrusted with a lion's share of foreign aid funds, and now disseminate more development assistance than the U.N. "Famines are perhaps the most clear example of how NGOs have been successful," says Michael Woolcock, a social scientist working for the World Bank. For example, Bengal's unrelenting drought in 1941 killed more people in one year than were killed in the holocaust. The government was paralyzed by the scale of the disaster, while the international community lacked information. Relief organizations were unable to rally an adequate response. Today's growing number of relief groups, the resources available to them, and their ability to communicate immediately through networks of similar groups, have managed to halt a repeat of such a massive famine, and to create a disaster safety net that countries can draw upon worldwide.
What these four categories of influence don't include, however, is all the innovative steps that public interest groups have taken independent of the business and government sectors. The Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank, for example, has simply bypassed traditional government responses to poverty alleviation by providing its own small-scale loans for those in need. This micro-lending approach has been so successful that it has impelled many major aid donors to rethink the model of massive-scale development projects. Pursuing another novel strategy, Virginia-based Ashoka offers small stipends to individuals around the world who are social innovators, in an effort to facilitate local responses to social and environmental problems.
International NGOs such as the Third World Network and Friends of the Earth have had great success in forging ahead of governments and corporations. A landmark case came about in 1991, when many prominent nations did an about face on plans to divide up Antarctica for mineral development. The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) of more than 200 NGOs had crafted a counter-proposal to set the continent aside as a world park, using information from Greenpeace's Antarctic monitoring station to track how easily development could destroy this fragile land. The mining negotiations had concluded in 1988, and countries needed only ratify the treaty. But the park proposal proved so compelling and had gained so much public support that the mineral treaty was abandoned and Antarctica was soon declared a world park. Without the innovative thinking of these nonprofit groups, however, negotiators would never even have considered a park, let alone made it a reality.
In addition to charting ahead of governments, many NGOs are relying on international coalitions - working simultaneously at the local and global levels - to make changes they could never have spurred alone in their own countries. Using the Internet, fax machines, or meeting in person, they have brought to bear large-scale international scrutiny and condemnation. For instance, after Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, pro-independence sentiment was violently suppressed, and local groups could not hope to campaign against Indonesian control. But by teaming up with international human rights networks, which kept their struggle alive in the international media and pressured the U.N. and foreign governments to scrutinize Indonesia's East Timor policies, this tiny territory secured the promise of a vote on independence. Despite Indonesia's brutal, loose-cannon reaction, the pro-independence vote and the message it carries constituted a striking victory for the region's long-suffering people, and the human-rights groups that waged a tireless, decades-long campaign on their behalf.
It is now commonplace to find grassroots organizations working together with global networks of similar organizations throughout the world - not because it is fashionable, but because NGOs tend to be most effective when they work on both local and global levels. Facing government or corporate inaction in their own countries, groups can call on international NGOs or foreign governments to bring additional pressure to bear - a process that has been called the boomerang effect.
Faced with concerns of the global commons - climate change, human rights abuses, biodiversity loss - NGOs are unwilling to wait for the action of governments awash in bureaucracy, and they are skeptical of industries beholden only to fat-cat boards, shareholders, and bottom lines. "The fact is, governments simply can't solve all these problems of population and poverty and human rights and the environment from the top down," says the World Federalist Movement's William Pace in Planet Champions. "Citizens are the ones out there delivering vital services in humanitarian emergencies and creating all kinds of successful projects."
Walking a Thin Line
Negotiations went poorly earlier this year for the coalition of environmental groups operating in Bolivia. A consortium of energy companies, led by U.S.-based Enron, were close to getting the funding they needed to push a pipeline through one of the most endangered forests in the world - so close, their crews had reportedly started cutting down trees along the route. Enron's natural-gas pipeline was slated to run straight through the heart of the Chiquitano forest, the world's last remaining "closed-canopy" tropical dryland forest. Aside from the disturbances caused by the construction, environmentalists feared that the pipeline would create a corridor funneling loggers, miners, homesteaders, and assorted fortune hunters into one of the most isolated areas left on Earth.
In its efforts to receive an investment from the U.S. government, Enron had found a loophole in U.S. president Bill Clinton's promise that government money would not fund destruction of old growth forests: a few, isolated parts of the forest had been contracted out to loggers decades earlier, and therefore, the company argued, didn't officially count as old growth. While very little logging had actually occurred, and forestry experts attested to the essentially pristine nature of the forest, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) - the U.S. government's pro-development funding mechanism - was easily swayed by Enron's argument that the forest had been somehow degraded by these logging contracts. On June 15, 1999 OPIC agreed to hand over $200 million in loans for the project. (See Environmental Intelligence, page 10.)
Meanwhile, international environmental NGOs were furiously working to simultaneously halt the deal and to secure funding to mitigate the pipeline's impacts if it were to move forward. The negotiations over the future of this pipeline were led by the South American affiliate of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). But when WWF closed a deal with Enron for $20 million in environmental compensation-to be paid regardless of whether the pipeline went forward - local NGOs and indigenous leaders cried foul. "At a time when we were uniting our forces of opposition against the original project plans," said the local indigenous coalition in a written statement, international environmental groups "undertook parallel negotiations, with the sponsors of the Project, in order to give their support in exchange for money, thereby manipulating our efforts to their advantage in their negotiations."
To be fair to WWF, the conservation settlement was made independent of the negotiations for the future of the pipeline, and the group continued to lobby against the project. But the damage was done - local groups perceived WWF as being bought off by the energy companies. Rather than forging a strong coalition of local, national, and international NGOs, the negotiations divided the stakeholders and worked in favor of the project.
"For all their much-vaunted flexibility, nonprofit organizations remain organizations," writes Lester Salamon in a 1994 article in Foreign Affairs. "They are vulnerable to all the limitations that afflict other bureaucratic institutions - unresponsiveness, cumbersomeness and routinization, lack of coordination." Groups with nonprofit status may be less prone to the bureaucratic pitfalls of government and the myopic shortsightedness of the corporate bottom line, but they are not immune to the tensions between funding and effectiveness, grassroots control and administrative accountability.
Aside from conflicting interests between NGOs and the careful balancing act that international coalitions demand, there is increasing concern about the potential for abuse. There are groups that are completely unaccountable or receive grants and disappear into the night. Even well-intentioned groups are not immune: in the recent Rwandan genocide, warring factions forced aid workers supplying and operating refugee camps to assist soldiers. There are no laws requiring groups to reveal their funding sources, and there are no guarantees that NGOs must have altruistic motivations: by some definitions the Mafia, neo-Nazi groups, and organizations like the National Rifle Association (which the U.N. tried strenuously to deny official status as an NGO), fit under the same rubric as Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth, and Planned Parenthood. And the long-term success of NGOs remains to be seen: despite the best efforts of dedicated people, species loss continues at a record pace, poverty and income disparities are growing, the human population continues to surge, climate change looms, and human rights abuses continue apace.
Some observers worry that the current enthusiasm surrounding the rise of the third sector is, in effect, "undermining the state," - allowing governments to shirk their social and ecological responsibilities by pawning off their duties to private groups and charities. This scenario has played out to an extreme in Africa, where many governments are being overwhelmed by foreign NGOs, which command a powerful position in their role of providing foreign aid supplies and services. In the typical African country, the nonprofit foreign aid industry is the second biggest employer (often surpassed only by the government), reports Nicholas van de Walle of the University of Michigan. In response, civil-society proponents like CIVICUS, the world alliance for citizen participation, argue that "For the nongovernmental sector to function properly ... not less, but more and better public initiative is needed in today's complex societies." It still remains to be seen whether civil society will stimulate a revitalization of tired governments or only hasten their demise.
In addition, a growing number of nonprofit organizations are funded and controlled by corporate interests. The Environmental Defense Fund was recently criticized for its ties to industry in a report that raised questions over appropriate NGO-corporate partnerships and cooperation. Industry is playing a larger role than ever in the third sector. Indeed, nonprofit industry and trade groups employ four times as many people as environmental groups do. Take the Global Climate Coalition as an example. Using the media this special-interest group - funded by mining, oil, coal industries - has used its multitude of resources to attempt to stifle legitimate debate on climate change. One of its most heavily funded campaigns, for example, has focused on falsely characterizing the hesitation of scientists to talk in absolutes as evidence of scientists' "uncertainty" about whether climate change is really a problem.
Having observed the effectiveness of grassroots groups, industries are setting up front groups that attempt to make use of these same channels of influence. (See editorial, page 2.) Greenwashing groups like the National Wetlands Coalition (which represents developers who would like to fill in more wetlands for building sites) and Consumer Alert (an industry front group that fights product safety regulations) hope to appropriate the reputation of public-interest groups by mimicking the good name of legitimate grassroots organizations.
NGOs walk a tenuous line. At their best, they represent the concerned public they are democratic representatives of communities acting as scientific and policy experts on behalf of "the public good." At their worst, they are unaccountable, opaque, and deliberately misleading in their pursuit of narrow goals, funded by hidden interests.
While the majority of NGOs have little public oversight, answering only to the individuals, boards, members, foundations, governments, or corporations that hand them checks, this independence is also central to the strength and diversity of these groups. Clearly, greater transparency is called for to keep these groups honest.(1) Ultimately, pigeon-holing these groups is not a simple matter, cautions Cornell University's Norman Uphoff: "We can't think of NGOs as good or bad, but as a broad spectrum of differing organizations that can change things over time."
In May 1999, when Alexei Yablokov, President Boris Yeltsin's former environmental advisor, tried to register his Moscow-based Advocacy Coalition for the Environment and Human Rights, the government refused to accept his registration. A year earlier the Russian parliament had passed a law requiring civil-society groups to register with the government by July 1999 - ostensibly to take a head count. But as NGOs began to apply for registration, several state governments refused to accept their applications, saying that the protection of human rights and the environment is the role of the government, not public organizations.
"The situation is absurd," Boris Pustintsev, chairman of the Russia-based human rights watchdog group Citizens' Watch, told the St. Petersburg Times. "Around the world, it is the state that most often violates the fundamental fights and political freedoms of its citizens." So far, reports Pustintsev, the government has shut down more than 3,000 NGOs throughout Russia.
While the Russian government's reaction is extreme, it is not alone in its confused attempt to figure out just how NGOs will interact in decision-making, governance, and in society in general. However, one thing seems certain: countries and businesses can expect to see a continuation of the growing demands for participation from NGOs and civil society.
While not without its troubles and weaknesses, the NGO milieu seems to have the potential of a thriving ecosystem, containing a broad yet intricate web of nongovernmental organisms in which some fail but many are flourishing. On the whole, they have developed the resiliency of a robust biological system. The strength of civil society lies in the innovation, flexibility, and ingenuity it affords and the sheer diversity of views it represents. Cumulatively, the success of this third sector has been in helping to counter what NGO researcher Julie Fisher calls the "narrow political monopolies" of governments and entrepreneurs. Compared to nonprofit groups, governments are rigid, limited by political monoculture, and are painfully slow to react (except militarily), change, and grow. While more innovative than government, businesses tend to favor mergers, mass production, and homogeneity fostering uniform consumer values, fashions, tastes, and intellectual thought. The surging number of rag-tag nonprofit groups stands to play an important role in the future, as they collectively push for changes and set the course - while retaining their all-important diversity.
As Cornell's Norman Uphoff warns, "It is really important not to deify civil society - it is the actions that are significant, not the existence of the sector." With this caveat in mind, NGOs are the most current embodiment of the kind of citizen action that has driven some of the most monumental peacetime changes in recent history - helping to abolish slavery, advance women's rights, overthrow colonialism, and so on. Arguably, the role they play in the next few years - pushing governments and industries to truly confront the realities of population explosion, widespread poverty, the surging spread of small arms, climate disruption, continued human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, and the many other colossal problems taxing humanity - will be even more momentous.
NGO Activists
1 Yul Choi, founder of South Korea's first environmental group, has organized against nuclear power and industrial pollution.
2 Evaristo Nugkuag has organized coalitions of Peruvian indigenous peoples to successfully fight for local and national land reform.
3 Cesar Chavez organized the United Farm Workers union in California to fight systemic injustices and dismal and dangerous working conditions in the fields.
4 Medha Patkar is a key organizer in efforts to halt the Sardar Sarovar dam in India, which will flood the homes of half a million villagers.
5 Ken Saro-Wiwa, the prominent Nigerian writer and activist, was executed for struggling against human rights abuses and environmental destruction caused by oil development.
6 Alexander Nikitin, a former Soviet naval captain, has been charged with treason for sharing information to help spur cleanup of abandoned nuclear vessels.
7 Wangari Maathai started Kenya's Greenbelt Movement, which has planted 20 million trees to halt soil loss and provide fuel wood.
8 JoAnn Tall founded the Native Resource Coalition to help Native American tribes fight proposed waste dumps and incinerators.
9 Chico Mendez, who was murdered by cattle ranchers, organized Brazil's rubber tappers to fight for land rights and against destruction of rubber-producing rainforests.
10 Samuel LaBudde played a key role in forcing U.S. companies to shift to dolphin-safe fishing practices - documenting massive dolphin slaughter by tuna fishers.
11 Sviatoslav Zabelin has helped create environmental awareness in Russia, working on nuclear waste cleanup and protecting endangered species.
12 Laila Iskandar Kamel has started several projects to help provide education and better pay for poor Egyptian communities that work recycling garbage.
13 Ralph Nader, the United States' leading consumer advocate, has reformed regulations from food laws to auto safety rules.
14 David Brower, the "Arch Druid" of the U.S. environmental movement, founded Friends of the Earth, League of Conservation Voters, and Earth Island Institute.
15 Luis Macas masterminded a nation-wide protest of indigenous people for land reform in Ecuador, gaining tribal ownership of more than 3 million acres.
For more information on some of these activists, see www.goldmanprize.org.
NGOs are making big changes across the planet. Here are some of the more effective groups, the changes they are making, and the impact they are having:
Land trusts: In the United States, grassroots land trusts have spurred remarkable growth in the protection of open spaces-buying land outright or setting up conservation or development easements that give landowners such as farmers incentives not to sell their property in the face of encroaching urban sprawl. The amount of land these nonprofit groups have helped set aside has more than doubled, from 2 million in 1988 to 4.7 million in 1998. In the same period, the number of trusts has grown from 743 to 1,213.
Green Belt Movement: In 1977, activist Wangari Maathai launched a grassroots tree planting organization in Kenya to combat deforestation and desertification. Made up largely of women, the Green Belt Movement aims to curb soil erosion, promote more sustainable use of fuel wood, and create income-generating activity for rural communities. Today there are more than 5,000 nurseries throughout Kenya and over 20 million trees have been planted.
Rainforest Action Network: For more than two years this San Francisco-based NGO has organized country-wide protests and pressure tactics in an effort to get the building supply giant Home Depot to stop selling products made from old growth timber. In August 1999 the company capitulated, announcing a complete phase-out of sales of such wood by 2002.
Grameen Bank: In 1976, as part of an experiment, economics professor Muhammad Yunus lent the equivalent of $27 to 42 impoverished stool makers and other workers in a village in Bangladesh, giving them the capital they needed to get on their feet. Yunus was repaid and the test was a complete success, giving birth to the micro-credit phenomenon. Yunus set up the Grameen Bank, which has loaned money to 2.3 million poor borrowers, 94 percent of them women. To date more than 2.4 billion dollars have been given out with an average loan size of $175, and a repayment rate of 97 percent. While the bank is not a nonprofit organization per say, it is a "social-consciousness driven enterprise" that is modeled after a credit union or a co-op, being owned by the people who borrow from it.
Rural Advancement Foundation International: With a staff of just a few dozen people, and some thrifty use of the internet, this international group has raised serious questions as to the viability of genetically modified crops around the world - and has led the way in debunking seed company claims about this new technology. RAFI helped derail the industry's plan to introduce a genetic technology that would prevent harvested seed from germinating, forcing farmers into a sort of "bio-serfdom" in which they would have to purchase new seeds each year rather than using part of their harvest to reseed. The group coined the phrase "terminator" to describe this new technology, creating a PR nightmare for the industry.
Grupo Ecologico Sierra Garda: Faced with the systemic poverty and ecological deterioration of the fragile yet spectacularly diverse Sierra Garda mountains in central Mexico, the group has rallied local communities to support the designation of the 400,000 hectare biosphere preserve. The group's 47 staff members and 23,000 community volunteers have planted 3 million trees, helped to promote the recovery of wildlife, and enabled impoverished women establish small-scale enterprises. Central to the group's efforts has been the education and participation of the 100,000 peasants living inside the boundaries of the preserve. With the help of high school students, the group now gives presentations on the preserve to about 16,000 preschool children each month.
Supporters of the international criminal court: As negotiations over the international court came to a head in 1998, hundreds of NGOs rallied behind the countries pushing for a strong mechanism to prosecute, across borders, perpetrators of genocide and war crimes. Despite strong opposition from the United States and China, the treaty passed by a vote of 120 to 7. The treaty will not come into force until 60 countries ratify it, but there have already been major changes in the international community's willingness to prosecute those who commit serious crimes against humanity - as seen in the arrest in London of Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet earlier this year. This changing mindset has given NGOs a powerful new tool in bringing those who commit human rights crimes to justice.
1 Worldwatch Institute lists all of its funders on the inside cover of this magazine. We receive about half of our funds from foundations and individual contributions, and about half from sales of our publications.
Curtis Runyan is assistant editor of WORD WATCH.
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Clay: There was one guy who applied to work here, and I remember I told him that he had to dress sharp if you want to be a business coach. He had super long hair, and if you want to be a musician or you want to be an artist, or there’s certain careers you want to do, certain hair doesn’t matter. Certain sports it doesn’t matter, but in our profession, we do a lot of PR and a lot of work with big companies. He had just had to get a hair cut.
Mickey: Sure.
Clay: Told him, “you have to have a suit.” This dude literally went to the store, bought a suit, cut his hair for the first time in a decade or whatever, comes back with short hair, and a new suit that he’s never worn before, for the interview for a business coach job.
Mickey: Oh, nice.
Clay: You could tell it was new, you could tell, but it’s just that sort of resourcefulness … and he was kind of in that point in his life where he didn’t have a lot of cushion there.
Mickey: Yeah.
Clay: I know we’ve all been there before, but it’s really dressing for the role you want.
Mickey: It’s, with so many people, an excuse I hear, “well, I’m not comfortable in a suit.” Well, let me tell you, I wasn’t comfortable either. I was a guy that was wearing basketball shorts and a jersey. That’s the last thing I wanted to be, was in a jacket, a button-down shirt, a tie. I remember in that interview trying to swallow going, “oh, this is so tight on my neck.
Clay: Yeah.
Mickey: Now, I enjoy it. I look forward to dressing up, because it makes me feel good. And I’m not even a business coach!
Clay: Now, if I’m watching this right now and I’m struggling with this final area here, if I’m struggling with my confidence … now confidence it’s hard to really describe it sometimes to people what it is, but it’s that look in your eye that says, “I can do it.” It’s that eagerness to raise your hand and say, “I would like to try.” It’s that belief that you can do something. A lot of people, in your situation, your mother attempted suicide, you grew up in a rough spot. Some people might have grown up worse, or …
Clay: if someone doesn’t have confidence, what is a step that they can take right now, to kind of get their confidence up? Is there a book you recommend or … what can I do?
Mickey: No. The first thing, it’s a mindset. You have to start thinking positive, all the time. Attitude is a choice. You have to start thinking positive, all the time. Attitude is a choice. It’s not something that someone else can dictate unless you allow them to dictate your attitude. Every business coach knows this.
Clay: Attitude is a choice.
Mickey: It’s an absolute choice. I choose to be happy. I choose to be sad. I choose to be mad. I choose to be frustrated. If you don’t choose to go down that path, it’s our choice. Don’t allow them to win.
Clay: Do you talk to yourself in the car when you have … say you have a big rejection. Do you ever say to yourself, “self, I’m on fire. I’m good.” Do you ever say, ” I got it. I’m good. I’m getting it together.” Do you ever talk to yourself?
Mickey: I do. “Let’s go, big boy. Let’s get this one. We’ve got to get this one today. This is the one we have to get. You’ve been waiting for this one, guy’s a big dog, you know he’s going to affect other people by the choices he makes. Let’s go get him.”
Clay: Do you call yourself big boy?
Mickey: Big dog.
Clay: Big dog.
Mickey: Let’s go big boy, big dog, let’s do it. Whatever you want to do, to hype your self up, because let’s face it, I don’t have the lights anymore. I don’t have the crowd behind me. I don’t have the coach saying, “go get him. Go knock him down, go set that screen, get that rebound.” The rah rah that I have is me. That’s the guy. It’s a choice for me to say …
Clay: You motivate yourself? Even without a business coach?
Mickey: Yes. Why not? Who else is going to do it? Some people may not be able to afford a business coach.
Clay: I feel like a lot of people wait for the cavalry to come, though.
Clay: We’re waiting for the horses and the backup troops and the paratroopers and the reinforcements and we want that to happen. You’re saying it’s not going to happen; you have to be your own …
Mickey: No. I think you can surround yourself by successful people that choose to live the right way and have a positive attitude, and they choose success. They choose positive. Don’t surround yourself with Negative Nancy all the time. Don’t let that person be around you saying, ‘yeah, it probably wasn’t good. Man, it’s going to rain later; can you believe that?” How about, you should be thankful. “Man, I tell you what, we need the water. I’m glad it’s going to rain a little bit, but I’ll tell you what, because it’s raining, now the docs aren’t going to want to go outside. They’re going to be inside, trying to get work done, ’cause nobody can go outside today.”
Clay: So you’re always looking for that positive spin.
Mickey: Yes.
Clay: A couple of things I want to clarify. As we’ve been shooting these Thrive videos and interviewing entrepreneurs from coast to coast, pro athletes and musicians and entrepreneurs, people who are the top of their game, the thing we constantly hear, over and over and over, and I’ve heard it every single time so far, and I’m hoping this tradition continues, every entrepreneur who’s successful talks to themselves. It’s bizarre because everybody who I know who is struggling to have success is like, “that’s weird. I wouldn’t never talk to myself. I would never do it.” Every entrepreneur I know dresses for success. Now, some are musicians and they dress the part for that. Some are athletes and they dress the part, but they all dress the part for success, and they’re really kind of going, if it’s going to be, it’s up to me. You start with yourself, you encourage yourself.
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Mickey: That’s right.
Clay: Now I want to ask this here, when you get your confidence rocked, I mean you can imagine the last time you got throttled, and … I remember just recently we were sharing the Thrive concept with about 400 venture capital firms, and we had some really big, big people come in recently who are really passionate about Thrive and get it and it’s taken off, but I remember I got off the phone with a huge firm, and if you’re watching and you’re that firm I hope that you get to see this one, buddy. He was just like, “not only is Thrive not a good idea, but the idea to make learning fun doesn’t even make sense. It’s not about fun, it’s about learning, and the institution of college will never be questioned,” and this whole thing. Then he gets kind of personal, and he’s like, “and I don’t appreciate you taking my time.” Just that extra little, “ooh.” It does that. It kind of gets into your soul and it kind of just twist the dagger a little bit.
Clay: I remember immediately going into my Hummer of Love, that’s my car, the Hummer, driving home at 8 miles a gallon in my car, thinking to myself, “I feel horrible.” I didn’t say it. I just remember thinking it, and then I’m like, “I feel great. I’m turning my thoughts of frustration into energy. The energy is what motivates me, and the motivation is what’s keeping me pumped, and I’m even more pumped, and I’m glad he rejected me.” I got myself to where I pulled into the driveway; I got to a point where I was almost excited again. It’s like you have to trick yourself. Don’t you?
Mickey: Yeah, yeah. I think you have to balance the highs and lows. I think that rollercoaster peaks really high and it dips really low, and constantly, when you dip low, you can either allow that to take over the situation and take over your environment, or you can instantly change your mindset, which changes your environment.
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Match Preview: Shots v Maidenhead United – Saturday 7 April 2018
Aldershot Town v Maidenhead United – Match Preview – Saturday 7 April 2018
Aldershot Town remain in a Play-Off position despite a winless Easter weekend, and with three of their remaining five matches at The EBB Stadium should be confident of at least maintaining that position. That run starts with the visit of mid-table Maidenhead United on Saturday.
Rob Worrall previews the action…
Shots Squad:
Recent weeks have been more about squad rotation, and team selection for manager Gary Waddock, than the injuries his playing squad have been dogged by for most of the season. Nick Arnold continues to build his way back to full fitness, following his long-term knee injury, and despite steady progress, it’s doubtful that he’ll be back in action this season. Jake Gallagher missed out against Eastleigh – Waddock taking no chances following the midfielder’s knock, picked up at Solihull Moors – although he could be back in contention for a place on Saturday. Otherwise, Waddock should have a full playing squad to pick from.
Opposition – Maidenhead United:
Nickname: The Magpies
Ground: York Road
Head Coach: Alan Devonshire
Brief History:
Formed in 1870, Maidenhead United are one of the oldest football clubs in the country, originally known simply as Maidenhead Football Club. They played their first match in December of that year against Windsor Home Park on a site close to the river Thames. They played their first game at their York Road ground in February 1871, coming up against Marlow. It is still their ground and holds the record of the oldest continuously used ground in senior football.
Maidenhead were one of the fifteen original clubs to compete in the FA Cup, when the competition began in the 1871-72 season, which Wanderers famously won for the first time. They have great history in the competition, reaching the semi-final in 1873 before losing to Oxford University.
Maidenhead were founder members of the Southern Premier League, facing the likes of Watford, Brentford and Fulham, but it proved too demanding and they dropped to the West Berkshire League. They moved across a number of divisions in non-league throughout their history, picking up three Corinthian and three Spartan league titles.
Last Season:
Undoubtedly the greatest season in Maidenhead United history, the 2016-2017 season will never be forgotten at York Road. An amazing tally of 98 points saw them fight off Ebbsfleet United for the National League South title on the final day of the season, where they beat Margate 3-0 away from home to avoid the lottery of the Play-Offs. Highlights of last season included a 5-1 win over Bath City, 6-1 battering of Oxford City, and 5-0 wins over Bishop’s Stortford and Hemel Hempstead. Striker Dave Tarpey won the National League South Player of the Year award for his 44 league goals.
The Gaffer:
Alan Devonshire is an experienced manager who is currently in his second spell at the Club. He began his playing career at non-league Southall, before he was picked up by West Ham United, for whom he made over 350 appearances in 14-years between 1976 and 1990. The final two years of his playing career came at Second Division Watford.
In 1996, he took charge of Maidenhead United and won promotion from the Isthmian League Division One in 2000. He also won the 1997 Isthmian Full Members Cup and four Berks & Bucks Senior Cups, and reached the 2000 Isthmian League Cup Final.
From 2003, he spent eight years with Hampton & Richmond Borough, where he reached the FA Cup First Round, and in 2009 finished runners-up in Conference South, only to lose in the Play-Offs. Previously, he won promotion from the Isthmian League Division One South and the Isthmian Premier Division (2007).
Devonshire took over as Braintree Town manager in May 2011 as they ventured into the National League for the first time. He spent four seasons with the Iron, remarkably taking his part-time side to the Conference Play-Off semi-final, prior to re-joining Maidenhead United in 2015.
The Squad:
Prolific striker Tarpey continued where he had left off, netting seven times before earning a move to the Football League with Barnet. It was a big loss for The Magpies, but Devonshire kept the nucleus of last season’s title winners (including winger Sam Barratt, who has had trials with Crystal Palace) and added shrewdly to it. Centre-backs Alan Massey (100+ games for Braintree Town) and former Shots loanee Jake Goodman give them solidity in defence, whilst in attack Harry Pritchard has fifteen goals in all competitions, with Adrian Clifton and Ryan Upward both weighing in with six apiece. The loan signing of Moses Emmanuel from Sutton United has also proved successful, with the forward scoring five times since joining the Magpies.
The Magpies, who currently sit 15th in the table, settled quickly into the National League with just one defeat in their opening six matches. Losing Tarpey to the EFL after just seven games could have hit them hard, but under Devonshire’s excellent guidance, they promptly went to early leaders Sutton United and won 2-0. More recently, they have won just three of their last thirteen matches and have not tasted victory in their last five National League games. They last won away from home on 13th February at Guiseley (3-1) and overall have scored 52 goals and conceded 58.
Head-to-Head:
The Magpies and The Shots have only met once at National League level – the thrilling 3-3 draw at York Road back in September. Inman, Clifton and Pritchard scored for United, with Town’s goals coming from Jim Kellermann (2) and Adam McDonnell.
Prior to that Autumn encounter, the two sides met previously six times in the Ryman Premier League, between 2000 and 2003, with The Shots winning on four occasions, drawing once and losing 3-0 at York Road in January 2001. In 2004, the teams met in the FA Cup at The Rec, with Town coming out 2-1 winners. Seven years later, The Shots and The Magpies met again, also in the FA Cup, with Aldershot Town needing a replay to progress following a 1-1 draw at York Road. Alex Rodman and Luke Guttridge scored the Shots goals as they won the replay 2-0.
Saturday’s ‘man in the middle’ is Richard Hulme, who has refereed 14 National League matches to date this season, showing 42 yellow cards and three red cards in those matches. He has not refereed Aldershot Town this season, but has officiated Maidenhead United on three occasions, resulting in one win, one draw and one defeat.
BBC Surrey Sport’s Rob Worrall and Shots defender Nick Arnold will be covering the game live on Saturday. Tune in to the BBC Sport website or BBC Sport App from 2.50pm for full match commentary. To interact with them, tweet @RobShot66 and/or @narnold10.
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Game of Death
Director: Robert Clouse
Stars: Bruce Lee, Colleen Camp, Dean Jagger, Gig Young, Hugh O'Brian, Kim Tai Chung, Yuen Biao, Robert Wall, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mel Novak, James Tien, Dan Inosanto, Roy Chiao, Russell Cawthorne, Sammo Hung, Chuck Norris
Genre: Thriller, Martial Arts, Trash
Review: Billy Lo (Bruce Lee and Kim Tai Chung) is a big movie star in Hong Kong and making his latest martial arts epic, but today when the director calls "cut" to end the filming, an arclight falls and nearly hits Billy. Accident? Or something more sinister? Billy thinks he knows when he enters his dressing room and Steiner (Hugh O'Brian), the right hand man of a top gangster, is waiting for him. Steiner is insistent that Billy carry out the wishes of the Syndicate and fight in a lucrative match, but the star is not so keen and recommends he leave. Then Billy visits his singer girlfriend Ann (Colleen Camp) in the studio, but she's concerned for his welfare, as well she might be as the Syndicate, led by the scheming Dr Land (Dean Jagger), are determined to make an example of him...
So you've got footage of one of the biggest screen stars of his time, but unfortunately he died over five years ago, what do you do with the footage that could potentially make you money? A good answer to that is Game of Death, well - perhaps "good" isn't quite the right word - where Bruce Lee had filmed a handful of fight scenes for his next martial arts endeavour, but had had to put it on hold to shoot Enter the Dragon. We all know that he never lived to finish his film, which might have been great, but on this evidence might not have been, yet that didn't stop the owners of those scenes shooting a whole new story around them.
The notion of editing in a dead star into your movie is not a new one, and perhaps the most notorious instance before this one was Edward D. Wood Jr's Plan 9 from Outer Space where home movies of Bela Lugosi created his final starring role with the help of a double. However, you can quite safely say director Robert Clouse and his associates really took this idea and ran with it, by cutting in the odd closeup of Lee from other features into film of a double wearing enormous sunglasses to obscure the fact that he's not Lee after all. And it works like a dream!
No, of course it doesn't, it's painfully obvious by the way the double is usually seen in shadow, or has to wear a false beard and moustache as disguise, or frequently has his back to the camera, that there's a strong element of fooling going on. The American cast members don't really help much, with O'Brian even set up as an opponent to Bruce for the climactic fight - not the best way to end your action movie - and Camp reduced to wailing and looking upset: in one scene all she has to do is sit in a car while the Lee stunt doubles go to work and cry "Bi-lleee!" This might be more palatable if Lee had filmed more of the original, but as it is he only came up with ten minutes that are used.
The whole idea behind that original footage was that Lee's character would move up various levels of a pagoda, fighting a tougher opponent on each level until, erm, he emerged the victor, I guess. And that's all you see of him, as it's obvious early on that, say, sticking a picture of Lee's face over a mirror and having the double sit very still to make it look as if it's his own face wasn't going to be especially effective. And that's the trouble, none of it's effective and there's not one point where the subterfuge isn't obvious, so you either throw up your hands in frustration or watch it as an example of cinematic hubris, a bad movie for bad movie buffs. In fact, it's not particularly exciting despite the involvement of stars like Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, as most of the production is the boring thriller plot, and the finale sees Lee struggling with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which looks odd, more than anything else. Music by John Barry.
Reviewer: Graeme Clark
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Robert Clouse (1928 - 1997)
American director who, after directing Darker Than Amber, settled into a string of martial arts thrillers starting with the Bruce Lee favourite Enter the Dragon. His other films include Golden Needles, Black Belt Jones, The Ultimate Warrior, Game of Death, The London Connection, The Big Brawl, camp classic Gymkata, China O'Brien and its first sequel.
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ – Could the Collector and Grandmaster Be Manipulating Everything?
The Collector’s brief appearance in “Infinity War” was probably more than just a meaningless cameo
Phil Hornshaw and Phil Owen | May 5, 2018 @ 1:00 PM Last Updated: May 5, 2018 @ 1:02 PM
(Obviously, there are a ton of spoilers ahead for the end of “Avengers: Infinity War.” Read on at your own risk, if you’re someone who has both not seen the movie yet still cares about spoilers.)
Everyone who saw the ending of “Avengers: Infinity War” is wondering where the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to go in “Avengers 4.”
The fateful cliffhanger found Thanos (Josh Brolin), the big bad guy that the MCU has teased for six years, finally making his way to Earth in search of the Infinity Stones. Just about all the heroes of Marvel’s universe turned up to oppose the Mad Titan’s plan: Gather the all-powerful stones into his weapon, the Infinity Gauntlet, and use them to near-instantly wipe out half of all life in the universe.
“Infinity War” ends with Thanos finally getting the final stone, the Mind Stone, and snapping his fingers — accomplishing his goal and causing half of everyone everywhere, including the MCU’s heroes, to turn to dust and disappear. Fans have been wondering just how the MCU will deal with that situation, and the still-alive Thanos, in “Avengers 4.” But like the coming of Thanos, it’s possible the MCU has been teasing a solution, and a larger look at its universe, all along. The last clue came in “Infinity War” itself, with the short appearance of one of Marvel’s weirdest characters: The Collector.
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In the MCU, the Collector (Benicio del Toro) is a strange man who does as his name suggests — he collects everything he can. In the Marvel comics, though, the Collector is a lot more fleshed out. He’s one of a small group of powerful, immortal and nearly invulnerable beings called the Elders of the Universe, each of which is the sole surviving member of the oldest civilizations in the universe.
Fans of the comics know the significance of the Collector, but so far, he’s only enjoyed small-scale appearances in the MCU movies — he was in the post-credits scene of “Thor: The Dark World,” when Thor (Chris Hemsworth) brought him the Reality Stone (AKA the Aether) for safekeeping. And he had a couple scenes in the middle of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” with the Guardians trying to sell him the Orb, which housed the Power Infinity Stone.
The Collector appears in “Infinity War” as well, although it’s not really him. When the Guardians reach Knowhere to try to get the Reality Stone from the Collector before Thanos, they find Thanos threatening him and beating him up and stuff. But it turns out the Collector isn’t really there — it’s all a ruse by Thanos, using the Reality Stone to capture Gamora (Zoe Saldana). The fate of the Collector is unknown, but we think it’s extremely likely that Marvel didn’t kill him off-screen after what amounts to a cameo appearance.
Also Read: Everything That Happened in 'Avengers: Infinity War' May Have Been Part of a Cosmic Test
Instead, it seems like the MCU is building up to something with the Elders. The Collector isn’t the only one to show up in the MCU so far — the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum), one of the antagonists in “Thor: Ragnarok,” is also one of the Elders. He runs a big gladiator arena on Sakaar in “Ragnarok,” and his deal is big, involved games. He’s also best friends with the Collector in the comics.
So there are two super-powerful, super-old Elders of the Universe hanging around as Thanos goes gathering his Infinity Stones, and one of them loves games. In the comics, the Grandmaster has created cosmic-scale games more than once that use the Avengers and other heroes as pawns. Once, the Grandmaster even used Earth heroes in a game against Death — to get Death to resurrect the Collector after his death.
There’s some evidence a game could be afoot in “Infinity War,” and it has to do with what Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) sees when he looks into the future on Titan. Strange makes sure to tell Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) that if things should come down to protecting the Time Stone or protecting the heroes, the Time Stone comes first. But when the moment comes, Strange trades the Time Stone to save Tony’s life, at odds with exactly what he said he’d do.
Also Read: 'Avengers: Infinity War' -- Here's What Happened Next in the Comic Book Version of the Story
We repeatedly see other heroes do the same thing: Gamora gives up the Soul Stone’s location to save Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) trades the Space Stone to save Thor. Add to that Vision (Paul Bettany) and Captain America (Chris Evans) repeatedly telling each other “we don’t trade lives,” and we get a clear ethos from the heroes: They won’t sacrifice people. That’s exactly at odds with Thanos, who sacrifices Gamora and, indirectly, all his lieutenants to get the stones.
Strange changed his plan once he looked into the future, specifically giving up the Time Stone after saying he wouldn’t. That would make sense — if Strange realized the fight with Thanos was actually part of a larger game and winning it required a long view and change in tactics. And it seems weird that “Infinity War” would just drop the Collector into the movie for what amounts to a quick cameo, unless there’s more to his story.
If that’s the case, then the ultimate conclusion of the Thanos battle could hinge on impressing the Collector (and maybe the Grandmaster) and winning the game, rather than beating Thanos. That would provide a way to undo Thanos’ universe-wrecking snap, and give the heroes a way of beating Thanos without actually having to fight the Mad Titan, since they’ve proven they might not be able to beat him while he has the Infinity Stones.
We’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks digging through the details to try to figure out what’s coming not just in “Avengers 4” but also “Captain Marvel” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” We have come up with a pretty solid guess about what is involved in the one future Doctor Strange saw in which the Avengers defeat Thanos. Click here for our deeper look into how “Captain Marvel” might impact that distressing plot twist. at the end of “Infinity War.” Click here for our look at what “Ant-Man and the Wasp” might have to do with all this. Click here for our discussion of the whole Vision situation and whether he’s really dead. Here’s our run-down on how the comic book version of these events played out. And here’s the evidence that suggests who else could be behind a cosmic test at the heart of “Infinity War.” Finally, while we’re talking about fan theories, here are a few of the most plausible — and a bunch of the wildest.
All 58 Theatrically Released Marvel Movies Ranked
As "The New Mutants" heads into theaters -- at least the ones that have managed to reopen due to the pandemic -- we look back at every movie based on Marvel Comics that has opened theatrically.
58. "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"
Just a nightmare. A total nightmare. There have been a number of bad superhero movies, but from the talking gas cloud the filmmakers cast as Galactus to Jessica Alba's dye job, this one transcends bad.
57. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
A totally chaotic stir fry of nonsense that tells the story of how Wolverine got his claws. Features an early version of Deadpool (also played by Ryan Reynolds) whose mouth is stapled shut, which should tell you all you need to know about it.
56. "Elektra"
That five minutes when they tried to turn Jennifer Garner into an action star went about as well as it should have.
55. "X-Men: The Last Stand"
Just a total mess, incoherent from the word "go." After losing director of the first two X-Men films Brian Singer to the first Superman reboot attempt, replacement Matthew Vaughn gave way to eventual director Brett Ratner, who might have killed off the superhero genre entirely were "Spider-Man" not blowing up the box office.
54. "Fantastic Four" (2015)
There could maybe have been a good movie in here somewhere -- the cast (Michael B Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara) certainly warranted one. But this Frankenstein of a film is a behind-the-scenes horror story, and you can see it in the totally disjointed final product.
53. "Daredevil"
This was basically "Early-2000s: The Movie," with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell and Michael Clark Duncan as the main players. The cherry on top of this turd sundae was that damn Evanescence song.
Tim Story's first "Fantastic Four" is just sort of there, challenging you to remember it exists. With Chris Evans, who played the Human Torch here, going on to embody Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that gets tougher every year.
51. "The Punisher" (2004)
This is the Punisher as a straight revenge thriller, and it's not bad. Thomas Jane performs admirably, but the whole thing is missing that extra something that would have elevated it beyond standard genre fare. Setting it in Tampa didn't help.
50. "Spider-Man 3"
Maybe the bad outweighs the good here, but Emo Peter Parker's dance number remains one of the greatest single moments in any comic book movie, sorry, haters.
49. "Howard the Duck"
A notorious flop at the box office and, yeah, it's not exactly "good." But now, 30 years removed from its premiere, "Howard the Duck" is pretty fun as a relic of the '80s.
Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. star in a low-rent '80s grunge C-level classic. This one's all novelty value.
47. "Ghost Rider"
For a movie starring Nic Cage about a dude who rides a Harley and turns into a flaming skeleton, this is a surprisingly mundane movie.
46. "The Amazing Spider-Man"
We may never figure out what went wrong with Marc Webb's Spider-Man duology, but his choice of Andrew Garfield to play Peter Parker is still brilliant. It just sucks that this movie doesn't really make any sense.
45. "X-Men"
The beginning of the current wave of theatrical superhero movies, "X-Men" was kind of a cheapie and it showed. Novel at the time, now it just comes off as unremarkable mid-budget action fare as Fox was merely sticking its toe in the superhero waters. Timid.
44. "The Incredible Hulk"
It's sometimes hard to remember that this one counts as part of the MCU, since it placed Ed Norton in the Dr. Banner role since inhabited by Mark Ruffalo in the "Avengers" films. It's also hard to remember because it's generally not memorable.
43. "Thor"
The fantasy Marvel movie is directed by Kenneth Branagh, who covers the whole movie in canted angle shots and theatrical stylings. It's pretty boring, also, but at least it looks cool.
42. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"
More of the same impossible-to-follow hack-n'-slash plotting from the previous movie, offset by Andrew Garfield continuing to be awesome and Jamie Foxx going way over the top as the big bad.
41. "Thor: The Dark World"
"The Dark World," in contrast to the first "Thor" movie, is certainly not boring. If anything, it suffers the opposite problem, going so hard and fast that it loses substance.
40. "Blade: Trinity"
Starring a pre-Deadpool Ryan Reynolds basically playing a vampire-slaying Deadpool, throwing out one-liners like his mama's life depended on it, this may not a "good" movie, but it sure is fun.
39. "X2: X-Men United"
A big step up from the first "X-Men" both in production values and quality, it still lacks much in the way of energy. Which is inexcusable when you've got Alan Cumming as the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler all over your movie.
38. "Spider-Man"
Sam Raimi truly assembled the prototypical superhero movie with this first entry in the "Spider-Man" franchise, in 2002. Like "X-Men" before it, "Spider-Man" is a bit underwhelming today, but unlike "X-Men" it was proud of its nerd roots.
37. "X-Men: Apocalypse"
Could have been a bizarre ironic summer classic if it were structured like a real movie and had any character development whatsoever. Instead it's just a shot of visual adrenaline that I'll probably want to revisit at some point -- but not when I'm sober
36. "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
"Ultron" is frustrating for what it lacks -- chiefly the feeling that it's advancing the overall story arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But as with the first "Avengers" movie its weaknesses are overcome by great character work.
35. "The Avengers"
The story is a total mess, relying heavily on moviegoers' memories of previous MCU films (if you didn't remember or know coming in what the Tesseract was, hoo boy). But the novelty of the Marvel's first big superhero team-up was irresistible, and director Joss Whedon balanced his ensemble expertly, giving everyone plenty to do so none of them ever fades into the background.
34. "Blade"
Pure B-movie trash, which is fine because that's precisely what it aims for: bloody, crass, awesome. Blade, by the way, remains the only black comic book character besides Shaquille O'Neal's "Steel" to get his/her own movie, though Marvel's "Black Panther" is slated for a 2018 release.
33. "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance"
For the sequel, they tapped the "Crank" director duo known as Neveldine/Taylor. It was an inspired choice, because "Spirit of Vengeance" was exactly as nutty as you'd hope a PG-13 comic book movie would be. Shame that it was apparently stressful enough to break up the tandem of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
32. "Captain America: The First Avenger"
A lot of folks like to complain that all superhero movies are the same. But this was actually a pretty good World War II movie, too.
31. "Guardians of the Galaxy"
Plot-wise, it never really adds up to anything, but the strength of the cast and the bizarre world they explore more than make up for it.
30. "Blade 2"
Beloved nerd Guillermo del Toro took over for this one and ramped everything up to 11. More vampires, more blood, more people getting sliced up -- and of course baddies whose jaws can split open and swallow a person's head whole.
29. "Big Hero 6"
Disney Animation Studios made a Marvel movie, and it's really sweet. Sure, it's the kiddie version of Marvel, but that doesn't prevent it from being a wholly satisfying experience.
28. "Captain Marvel"
It’s fine, but “Captain Marvel” feels like a movie from before Marvel Studios really hit its stride in Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Right now it’s a movie that seems very much out of place.
27. "Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2"
An improvement on the first film, and an absolute delight from moment to moment -- but it never quite coalesces into a coherent whole because so many subplots distract from the core story and rob it of its emotional impact. Would be a top 5 comic book movie if it had just reigned in the plot.
26. "Iron Man"
It was Robert Downey Jr.'s reemergence on the big screen, and he's flawless in this origin story that takes Tony Stark from billionaire playboy weapons manufacturer to billionaire playboy other-things manufacturer.
25. "Avengers: Endgame"
This movie is, frustratingly, far from perfect. In fact, it’s kind of a huge mess. But it’s also awesome and thrilling and hilarious and contains some individual moments that are perfect. I wish it was better, but with everything required of a movie that exists to wrap up 21 movies’ worth of story arcs, I’m glad it’s as good as it is.
24. "Hulk"
In 2003 the modern wave of superhero movies was still in its infancy, and Ang Lee -- still the best filmmaker to do a comic book movie -- got experimental with "Hulk." And what he made was an incredible melodrama with visual stylings meant to ape comic book panels. It didn't sit well with audiences, but "Hulk" remains one of the most compelling and interesting Marvel movies to date.
23. "The Wolverine"
This was, like, just a legitimately enjoyable melodramatic action movie. Sure, it turns into a video game boss battle by the end, but for most of its running time it's just an actual movie.
22. "Punisher: War Zone"
Whereas the previous "Punisher" movie was melodramatic and contemplative, this one is just murderous. And it's awesome.
21. "Venom"
How can anybody resist the pull of Tom Hardy doing comedy? This movie knows exactly what it's trying to be, and what it's trying to be is dumb and fun and nothing else. And it is extremely fun.
20. "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
Its time travel logic is a bit iffy, but "Days of Future Past" is still tremendously entertaining because, while epic, it's not overly serious. As "Back to the Future" taught us long ago, you can get away with a lot of logical leaps if you strike the right tone.
19. "Iron Man 2"
Swaps Terrence Howard for Don Cheadle, while Mickey Rourke breaks cars with laser whips. Who knows what was going on in this movie, but it was almost OK anyway.
18. "Deadpool"
In the angsty and angry times we live in, "Deadpool" is perfect. Aggressively violent and flippantly meanspirited, it's the exact emotional release we needed.
17. "X-Men: Dark Phoenix"
The main series "X-Men" movies have never achieved any sort of greatness, but at least "Dark Phoenix" ends the whole thing with one of the best efforts of the bunch. And that sequence on the train in the third act is easily the best action sequence of these movies.
16. "Spider-Man: Far From Home"
It’s frustrating that it doesn’t really deal with the immense fallout from “Avengers: Endgame,” but it’s still as visually creative as any movie in the MCU, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio is an all-timer of a villain. Dude goes all the way out in this.
15. "X-Men: First Class"
The first "X-Men" movie that could be described as "fun." It's basically two movies crammed into one, story-wise, but director Matthew Vaughn's touch is so breezy and enjoyable that it totally works anyway, thanks in large part to a brilliant cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy.
14. "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
Not quite the best "Spider-Man" movie, but still an absolute delight, with a cast full of scene stealers. Michael Keaton as the Vulture makes for one of the best Marvel villains ever.
13. "Deadpool 2"
While you may get whiplash from the "Deadpool" sequel's occasional very serious and emo scenes, the rest of the movie is thoroughly delightful, somehow managing to be even funnier -- and more hilariously violent -- than the original.
12. "Ant-Man"
"Ant-Man" represented a first for the MCU by being a straight-up comedy. And it's a very good one, with a cast that's perfectly suited for it. Aside from Paul Rudd who plays Ant-Man himself, Michael Pena is the true standout as Scott Lang's best friend and former cellmate.
11. "Ant-Man and the Wasp"
It's ever so slightly frustrating that this one doesn't fully integrate into the "Infinity War" situation, but even so it's thoroughly a delight. Evangeline Lilly is so good at the Wasp that I'm retroactively irritated that she didn't don the suit in the previous "Ant-Man" movie.
10. "Doctor Strange"
If it weren't hamstrung with all the requisite elements of an origin story, "Doctor Strange" might have been the best Marvel movie ever. That's the power of the astonishing visual imagination on display here. People love to talk about the nebulous concept of capturing some long lost childlike sense of wonder though the magic of cinema -- "Doctor Strange" is one of the only movies I've watched as an adult that really accomplishes that.
9. "Spider-Man 2"
This is a movie that fully understands its main character and taps into what made him such a captivating figure for so long. Yeah, Peter Parker's a superhero, but he's also a college kid working a minimum wage job to make rent while also taking university physics classes. Peter buckles under the pressure, something we can all relate to.
8. "Iron Man 3"
As far as I'm concerned this is the "Iron Man" movie. Somehow, Shane Black was able to infiltrate the MCU and make a legitimate Shane Black movie with all the wit and raw humanity you'd expect from him. It carries exactly the sort of authorial identity we should want all these movies to have.
7. "Thor: Ragnarok"
A thorough delight. This might be the most fun we had at the movies in all of 2017, and so we can't help but love it.
6. "Captain America: Civil War"
Multiply the two previous best Marvel movies by one another and you get "Civil War." It packs the sort of emotional payoff all the disconnected Marvel movies can't really provide. And as an action film it's easily the best of the superhero genre.
5. "Avengers: Infinity War"
You could certainly make the argument that "Infinity War" does not really hold up on as a complete movie on its own, because it kinda begins with the second act. But I don't care. The culmination of this ten-year shared universe experiment should stand on the shoulders of the movies that came before it. The fact that it packs such a profound emotional punch, however, is what really makes it work.
4. "Black Panther"
It's held back a little by being saddled with standard "origin movie" issues -- introducing audiences to the world of Wakanda isn't a quick and easy task, and it could use an extra 15-20 minutes to flesh out the supporting characters -- but still manages to be the most substantial superhero movie ever. It's kind of amazing that Disney let writer/director Ryan Coogler make this overt a political statement -- it's the most openly political mega-budget movie I've ever seen . Also, while I'm listing superlatives: Michael B Jordan delivers the best performance ever in a superhero movie. Good lord.
3. "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
The best superhero movies, and movies in general, are the ones that are truly most human. And "Spider-Verse," despite being animated, despite the wacky cast of Spider-People, despite the outlandish premise, is as real as movies get.
2. "Logan"
James Mangold's small-scale western is a game changer for the entire superhero genre, daring to defy pretty much standard by which you expect these movies to operate. It's just a great movie by any normal standard. Where "Civil War" elevated the genre, "Logan" opts instead to be something else entirely and we're all the better for it.
1. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
The Russo brothers, who made their entrance to the MCU directing "Winter Soldier" before taking the reigns on "Civil War" and, eventually, 2018's "Avengers: Infinity War," really impressed with "Winter Soldier." It's a classic spy thriller with a superhero twist. And Robert Redford as the bad guy is a really nice touch.
Decades of big-screen Marvel adaptations demand a long, ranked list. This is that list
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Top 10 Hottest Female DJ’s in the World
Of all the most exciting phenomena in the entertainment world, the rise and rise of female DJs has to be the highlight of the story. With a worldwide presence and huge fan-base, female DJs are slowly creeping up in the male dominated industry.
It helps if you are splendid at your job, it’s even better if you are super-hot and sexy. Once a female DJ steps up, the crowd will dance. Whatever the reason may be, there is no denying that female DJ’s are just as good as their male counterparts, some of them being even better. Talent notwithstanding, a strong social media presence, international recognition, and super sexy looks are the combinations that make females in the industry a force to reckon. Let’s check the list of the top 10 most beautiful and hottest female DJ’s in the world in 2020.
10. Lisa Kensington
9. Teri Miko
8. Gina Turner
7. Dana Jasmine
6. Gloria Ansell
5. Niki Belucci
4. DJ Sexation
3. Rhiannon
2. Mari Ferrari
1. Seherezade
Lisa Kensington does not mix business with pleasure when it comes to DJing. After going to production school to learn how to make her own music, she settled on jockeying in clubs. It did not take long before she went international. She has featured in multiple clubs around the world, having played in major music festivals. If you are intimately acquainted with Esquire Magazine’s ‘’women we love’’ features, you have probably listened to the experienced DJ perform.
Among her major gig locations include Miami, Ibiza and New York. Her sexy appearance and erogenous mixing style light up the DJ booth with fans from all over the world travelling far and wide to her shows. She specialises in electronic house music. She is also a fashion model, probably going on to improve her prominent DJ profile.
Probably one of the fastest rising stars, a diamond in the rough and one of the prettiest faces in DJing is Teri Miko, alias DJ Teri. She specialises in electro music and house music. The Ukrainian-born artist started off uploading remixes online until she took her jockeying skills professional. She has featured in high profile festivals and performances in multiple continents especially in European and Asian countries including France, Russia, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Her talent began to show when she won the Vestax DJ Battle back in Ukraine. Her social media activity is minimal but when she starts her playback, be sure to feel her presence.
DJ Gina Turner is a DJ veteran and one of the most experienced female DJs around. The former radio DJ rose up the ranks in the business specialising in house, electro and dance music. She would later host gigs in clubs before making her mainstream breakthrough after winning hearts of fans around the country. She is married to DJ Laidback Luke and together they run Turn It Records. Together with her husband, she is also part of the group Nouveau Torican, and the DJ duo Staccato. She is also a yoga inspiration to her fans and a fitness enthusiast, probably the reason why she has managed to stay young and sexy all the way up.
Ukraine is known for its beautiful women. With Dana Jasmine, they even go further to confirm that fact. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, she is one of the few Ukrainian females in the business promising to take over the music scene especially in the male dominated industry. Amongst her most notable achievement was her sold out headline show at the UEFA Euros in 2012 when she headlined in front of a 60,000 capacity stadium.
She also headlines the Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix. She has left a music mark in every country she has visited including Brazil, Dubai, Italy, Hong Kong, Germany, India, and Egypt. Her recording works include the hit single ‘’Rock That Sound’’. She is also a radio host with her own house music show.
Gloria Ansell is not just a DJ, she can play the Piano, guitar and drums; a rarity with DJs. Watching her perform is like watching an orchestra only this time it’s one hot and sexy instrumentalist doing all the work. She has earned the title ‘’enthralling performer’’ for her versatile, show-stopping performances.
Gloria started off playing residential DJ roles at clubs in Southern China. She partly owns the Pepper Club in China where she regularly performs. She would later move to Ibiza where she is a residency DJ at Club Bora Bora. Her scintillating performances won over millions of fans, adding to her already illustrious career.
Niki Belucci’s appearance on this list was imminent, as evidently, she has made quite a name for herself in her post-porn times. The adult film star turned DJ would go on to become a household name in Jockeying. At age 19 she had already featured in 30 films, and her fans followed her to the world of music. She would go on an ‘’Orgasmic Tour’’ in 2003 which was a huge success.
One of her most lucrative gigs includes being the resident DJ at Amnesia Night Club in Ibiza back in 2010. She was AVN Award’s choice for Best Female Performer of the Year in 2005. Although she no longer strips down for the camera, she has never shied away from her porn background. She plays all around the world and is a prominent feature in high profile publications.
If you have the guts to call yourself DJ Sexation, you’d better be exhilaratingly hot and sexy. Well, if you happen to be Olga Ryazanova, you can do that comfortably. Probably one of the hottest females in the industry, the Russian Jockey maestro hails from Russia’s capital Moscow.
She is known for her electrifying house music mixing skills. She has dared abroad, having played in almost every other city in Europe including Barcelona, Frankfurt, and Paris, Madrid and Asia including China and India. She might be little known on social media, but best believe her worldwide fans know a little more about her than her Twitter handle.
Rhiannon is Canada’s number one female mix master. She started off holding residential gigs in night clubs in and around the USA, Canada, and Mexico while stretching as far as Japan. She has a prolific social media following with over 18 thousand followers on Twitter, and over 130 thousand page likes on Facebook.
She is also an actress, director, script writer, and producer, with the short film ‘’All Girls Do It’’ to show for it. She also appeared in TV Series Smallville back in 2008. She has established herself as a brand, being an entertainer, recording artist, actress and producer. Rhiannon is widely regarded as Canada’s finest female DJs and her resume is extensive and very impressive.
Get ready for a jaw-dropping and eyebrow raising experience if you happen to experience Mari Ferrari on the decks. Armed with a strong social media following and an impressive resume, Mari’s career traces back to 2007 when she performed in Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.
She would later make her international presence felt in France, Italy Germany among other European countries. Her ever enthusiastic personality won the hearts of millions of fans worldwide, and her skills in mixing House music is well known. The super sexy diva has a strong Instagram and Twitter presence, and it is not that hard to see why she makes the list of the Top 10 hottest female DJs around.
Make no mistake, she might not have the most industry appropriate names, but when it comes to looks, she will sure turn more than a few heads around. Known for her prominent limelight lifestyle Seherezade hails from Budapest, Hungary and has made a name for herself mixing commercial house electro and progressive pop.
The reality star cum DJ has featured tremendously in both film and music, having starred in a Hungarian reality TV show Real Life. She also has a modeling background having features in magazines, most notably FHM. She is a close friend of Hugh Hefner’s wife Crystal and has featured in high profile Playboy events. With close affiliation to Playboy it is not hard to see why she is one of the hottest properties in the music industry.
Female DJ’s are taking over the industry, with their male counterparts having a hard time keeping up with these fast rising stars. The life of a DJ is similar to a performing artist’s. Female DJ’s are fast gaining traction in the industry, fast giving male DJs a deserved run for their money. Research has it that an event hosted by a female DJ attracts more male fans than a male DJ highlighted show, owing to the cliché that is male dominance in the industry.
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i hope we can work together in the future
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lisa June 27, 2017 at 4:17 am
Thank you so much. Much love Lisa!!!
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About That "Shadow Faction of Charter School Operators" Diane Douglas Talked About
Posted By David Safier on Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Among the many inflammatory statements in the press release Ed Supe Diane Douglas shot off after the Board of Education employees she tried to fire were reinstated by Ducey, was this line:
"Clearly [Ducey] has established a shadow faction of charter school operators . . ."
Sounds very conspiratorial, which fits with Douglas' Tea Party mindset. But here's the question. To paraphrase Hillary Clinton's assertion during the 90s: Is there a Vast Charter School Conspiracy in Arizona and around the country? Well, if hundreds of millions of private dollars spent creating astroturf groups pushing charter schools, more millions spent on election campaigns to buy candidates' loyalty and still more millions spent directly on financial support of charter schools to give them a financial edge over "government schools" amount to a conspiracy, the answer is yes. And if the troika who formed Ducey's education transition team is any indication — all very pro-charter, none of them a strong advocate for the school districts which educate 80 percent of our children — Ducey is deep in the bowels of the conspiracy.
Some charter schools are perfectly legit and are spending every dollar of their resources to educate their students the best way they know how, and doing a good job of it. But other people running charters are making a killing off the tax dollars they receive from the state to run their schools, and the moneyed and politically influential people who cheerlead for charter schools are aiding and abetting these profiteers by trying to hush up stories about the money machine and making sure the regulatory system is as weak and ineffectual as possible.
Here's one example which came to my attention through a long conversation thread I participated in on a Facebook post: Primavera Online High School (not to be confused with Primavera Foundation of Tucson. There's no connection between the two). Primavera Online High is one of those virtual schools without buildings, where students work on computers out of their homes. The student-teacher ratio is 40 to 50 students per teacher. Should online schools with half as many teachers as most other schools and no school buildings get more-or-less the same amount per student from the state as other charter schools or district schools? Well, they do, and that leaves them with a lot of money left over to play around with.
Let's take a look at how Primavera spends its money, based on its tax returns — since it's a nonprofit, you can find its 990 tax forms online — and the financial budget reports it submits to the state. My numbers are approximate, but the general financial trends are clear. A few folks, specifically three people, are making a bundle.
The school has in the neighborhood of 5,000 students and 115 teachers — about a 44-to-1 ratio. It spends something like $5 million on it teachers' salaries and benefits. Yet it gets over $32 million from the state. Where does the rest of the money go? The largest single chunk, $16 million, goes to pay for software licenses. Since Primavera Online relies on computer-based education, it makes sense it would have a significant software expense, but $16 million? That's half of its entire budget, three times what it spends on teachers. And it's for software licenses, not software. The school doesn't own the software. It rents it every year.
Primavera Online High, based in Chandler, buys its software from American Virtual Academy, also in Chandler. In fact, the two enterprises share a building, and that's not all they share. The co-founders of the school are Demian Creamer and Vanessa Baviera, who also co-founded the software company. At the nonprofit online school, Demian (CEO) made $97,592 in 2012 (the most recent tax form I could find online) and Vanessa (Vice President) made $95,702. The school's CFO, Brian Madsen, made $97,947. Brian is listed as Controller at American Virtual Academy.
On top of their nearly six-figure salaries, how much do the three of them share as profit at American Virtual Academy from the $16 million it gets when the school licenses its software? There's no way to find out. The school may be nonprofit, but American Virtual Academy is for-profit and privately held, which means its financial dealings are private. We have no idea how much of that $16 million in taxpayer money goes toward business expenses and how much goes into Demian, Vanessa and Brian's pockets.
A few other details about the school. It spends 18 percent of its budget on administrative expenses, significantly more than is spent by school districts. It budgets $2 million a year for advertising and promotion. To my admittedly untrained eye, the tax statements and budget reports indicate that every year the school spends significantly less than it gets from the state. How else could it have a $50 million cash balance in June, 2014?
And all of this is perfectly legit, because that's the way the charter rules and regulations are written. Charters can be nonprofit or for-profit in Arizona, and they can pass as much money as they wish up to a for-profit software provider — or textbook provider or accounting firm — or to one of the many Charter Management Organizations, some of which basically run the schools they manage. And once the money goes behind the for-profit fire wall, it disappears from public view. None of us have any idea how much of that money goes toward children's educations and how much fills the pockets of the business owners.
This Primavera Online High story isn't new. It was covered in 2012 by Pat Kossan and Anne Ryman in the Republic — Arizona non-profit schools' ties to for-profits raise flags — as part of a series about online education. And it's not unique to Arizona or an isolated instance. This kind of profiteering runs rampant in the charter school industry. It's part of business-as-usual — emphasis on the word "business" — at many charter schools around the country. Charter cheerleaders, members of that "Vast Charter School Conspiracy," have no interest in curbing these profit-making ventures which make money at the expense of taxpayers and students. For many of them, having profit as a primary motive for running a charter school isn't a bug, it's a feature.
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The awkward timing of Europe’s deal with China
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Last week, China appeared to secure an investment agreement with the European Union. The deal, which has been long in the works and still needs to be ratified by the European Parliament, comes at a curious moment. E.U. officials looked past the last-minute entreaty of a top aide to President-elect Joe Biden, who hoped Brussels would stall in order to first have consultations with a new U.S. administration that’s less than three weeks from taking office.
Instead, the agreement was pushed through in the final moments of 2020 as Germany’s term in the rotating seat of the E.U. presidency came to an end. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country’s automobile and industrial sectors are hungry for Chinese market access, was a driving force behind the agreement.
“The agreement, if it is ratified, would theoretically loosen restrictions on European companies in China’s tightly controlled market,” wrote my colleague Emily Rauhala. “European companies would no longer be required to operate joint ventures with Chinese partners, for instance, or be forced to share technology.”
Experts in China viewed the developments as a significant win for Beijing. “The deal will deepen the economic ties between China and the E.U., with negotiating a free-trade agreement being the expected next step,” Wu Xinbo, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, told the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based daily. “And it will also thwart the U.S. plan to join hands with Europe and isolate China from the future of globalization.”
European leaders contend that they are securing for their bloc similar terms to what the Trump administration negotiated with Beijing in its own “Phase 1” trade deal brokered at the beginning of last year. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said last week that tighter cooperation with Beijing would still allow Europe the ability to promote its “core values” and nudge China on political and economic reforms.
Critics say that position is woefully shortsighted, arguing “that Europe is knitting itself closer to an increasingly authoritarian China at a time when Beijing has shown little inclination to follow rules,” Rauhala added.
In the past year, China has squashed political freedoms in Hong Kong, rattled its saber at Taiwan, doubled down on its Orwellian program of repression in the far-western region of Xinjiang, battled India and bullied Australia and other countries on the world stage. Yet European officials gave Chinese government-run media outlets the opportunity to tout a major diplomatic victory, with the Global Times, an English-language state mouthpiece, hailing the pact as “a New Year gift from China and the E.U. to the whole world.”
That obscures the charged political atmosphere surrounding the West’s relations with Beijing. “The stories coming out of Xinjiang are pure horror. The story in Brussels is we’re ready to sign an investment treaty with China,” liberal European lawmaker Guy Verhofstadt tweeted Wednesday. “Under these circumstances any Chinese signature on human rights is not worth the paper it is written on.”
As far as E.U.-U.S. relations are concerned, the deal’s timing seems unfortunate. In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria aired Sunday, Jake Sullivan, Biden’s pick for White House national security adviser, stressed the incoming administration’s desire to meet with “like-minded” allies and move past the distrust sown during Trump’s bruising time in office.
“We are confident that we can develop a common agenda on issues where we share deep concerns on China,” Sullivan said.
The announced deal, though, is an indication of a different reality. Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have both separately emphasized the need for Europe to develop its “strategic autonomy,” weaning itself off more than half a century of sheltering under the umbrella of the Pax Americana. But, in this instance, critics note, Europe may be undermining what prospect there was of a meaningful united front on China.
“Countries mulling how far to stand up to China will draw their own conclusions: Europe talks about values but self-interest trumps solidarity,” wrote Edward Lucas in the Times of London. “The deal exemplifies the gap between the EU’s foreign policy aims and reality. The European Commission claims to be ‘geopolitical.’ In 2019 it deemed China a ‘strategic rival.’ Yet the mercantilist influence of big business, particularly in Germany, steamrollers ethical and security concerns.”
Noah Barkin, a senior visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund for the United States, argued Merkel has prioritized the business interests of her country’s flagship firms and is keen to show that productive dialogue with China on various fronts is both possible and necessary. She has made these overtures even when the majority of the German public holds distinctly negative views of Beijing.
“In an increasingly black-and-white world where liberal democracies face an existential challenge from authoritarians and populists, Merkel still sees gray — and not only with China,” Barkin wrote in Foreign Policy. “The bargain she brokered recently with democratic backsliders Hungary and Poland to avert a clash over the EU budget is another example. George Soros accused her of surrendering to extortion.”
Some analysts see Merkel’s pragmatism as naivete. They doubt that expanded business ties will do much to “discipline the behavior” — as an E.U. statement put it — of China’s state-owned companies. And they fear that the agreement will bend Europe more to China than the other way around.
“Even in the current geopolitical order, China has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to use its economic power as a strategic weapon,” wrote Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman. “By deepening their economic reliance on China — without co-ordinating their policy with fellow democracies — European nations are increasing their vulnerability to pressure from Beijing.”
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) - Kenneth Ortiz scored 21 points and Latif Rivers scored 10 of his 14 points during a second-half run as Wagner won its fifth straight game with a 71-66 victory over Mount St. Mary’s Saturday.
The victory kept Wagner (15-11, 9-4) tied for second with Bryant on a day when Robert Morris clinched the Northeast Conference title at 13-1.
With the game tied, Rivers started an 18-5 run with a dunk and assisted on its finish with a full-court pass to Orlando Parker for another dunk. That left Wagner up 58-45 with 7:34 left.
The Mountaineers (11-5, 7-6) made four consecutive 3-pointers to get within three with 1:40 left before Ortiz drove for a basket for a five-point cushion. From there, the Seahawks made five free throws in the final minute to avenge a January defeat at Mount St. Mary’s.
Rashad Whack led the Mountaineers with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
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Just tribute: Honoring the legacy of pioneering biologist Ernest Everett Just, PhD 1916
Written By Angela Wells O'Connor
Editor's note, Feb. 2019: The portrait of E.E. Just is now complete and hanging in Erman Hall on the UChicago campus
Ernest Everett Just, PhD, spent only three academic quarters on the University of Chicago campus. A professor at Howard University and a research assistant at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, he was pursuing his PhD in zoology in absentia and needed to fulfill the residency requirement.
Despite his brief physical presence on campus, the research he conducted for his dissertation on the fertilization of marine worms – including a key discovery about cell cleavage – made a lasting contribution to the body of knowledge in embryology.
More than 100 years later, a group of Biological Sciences Division (BSD) graduate students formed the E.E. Just Working Group to promote his achievements and legacy, including the challenges Just faced as an African American scientist in the early 20th century.
Their work builds upon two other BSD initiatives to honor Just’s legacy. The annual E.E. Just lecture, sponsored by the BSD graduate Diversity Committee (BDC) and the Office of Graduate Affairs, brings distinguished scientists from underrepresented groups to campus. This past year, through the efforts of the BDC, especially previous co-chair Carolyn Johnson, PhD, of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology; Victoria Prince, PhD, dean and director of the Office of Graduate Affairs; and Joy Bergelson, PhD, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution, a second-floor lecture room in the Erman Biology Center was renovated and dedicated to Just on April 18. Kenneth R. Manning, author of the definitive biography, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just (Oxford University Press, 1983), was the 2018 E.E. Just Lecturer.
The portrait of EE Just now hanging in Erman Hall
For their focus, the students sought a more visually impressive way to commemorate Just beyond the simple wall plaque planned for the E.E. Just Room. A similar room – on the second floor of the adjoining Zoology Building – features a dramatic portrait of Just’s mentor, Frank Lillie, PhD, the renowned director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the first dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago.
“We thought that a portrait would be an appropriate and necessary way to commemorate Just and his significant and lasting contributions to his field,” said Shane DuBay, a graduate student in evolutionary biology. “It would be a visual memorial for a prominent black scientist, when images like these are often lacking.”
Daniela Palmer, also pursuing a PhD in evolutionary biology, was instrumental in helping to secure initial funding for the portrait, which is being provided by the BSD Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Campus-Wide Inclusive Climate Initiative. Fund raising to support the portrait project and the annual EE Just lecture in future years is ongoing.
Palmer said it’s important to bring attention to Just’s story – both the achievements and the difficulties he faced in his career, including racism, lack of financial support for his research and disagreements with other prominent scientists. “The struggles that people face are part of the experience of being a scientist,” Palmer said. “The story is not always this perfect arc of a hero.”
Members of the E.E. Just Working Group include graduate students Sophia Carryl, left, Victoria Flores, Daniela Palmer, Shane DuBay and Unjin Lee.
Graduate student Victoria Flores, also in evolutionary biology, emphasized the personal relevance and power of including Just’s image among the historical portraits and photographs of prominent – and mostly white male – University scientists and scholars. “Just is one of those people who could provide that image,” added Sophia Carryl, a graduate student in evolutionary biology, “that figure where you can say, ‘look there’s someone like me, and if he could do it, I can do it as well.’”
The working group, in collaboration with the Multicultural Graduate Community, commissioned artist Stephen Flemister to create the portrait. Flemister recently served as artist-in-residence with the University’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and now teaches in the Department of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute, where he earned his master of fine arts degree. Flemister’s artwork has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, Columbia College Chicago, South Side Community Art Center and the University’s Arts Incubator, with public installations and performances throughout Chicago.
While he is known for incorporating multimedia and technology into his works, as well as for his innovative use of more traditional media, Flemister said he is taking a more conventional approach in his depiction of Just. In order to capture variations in postures and form for the portrait, he took a series of photographs of the model, Patric McCoy, a University of Chicago graduate, to use as he makes digital alterations, drawings and sketches to find parallels between the model and Just. For the final work, he will be producing an acrylic and oil painting in the likeness of Just.
The students said that they were impressed with Flemister’s signature use of color to convey depth and emotion in his portraits. Palmer also appreciated his academic interests in art, along with “his ideas about how to represent a person fully.”
“The portrait had to fit in but also stand out, and Steve’s work has this stand-out character that can bring the project to life,” she said.
Artist Stephen Flemister, left, works with model Patric McCoy, a retired environmental scientist. The South Side artist will use the photos of McCoy as he make sketches for his portrait of E.E. Just.
Flemister, whose master’s thesis addressed the “shared public image in memory and the problems of representation,” is exploring beyond the visual aspects of the project to unearth aspects of icons, memory and recognition within the subject. In addition to researching general portrait styles and postures from the National Portrait Gallery’s Regency collection, Flemister studied Just’s history and legacy. He read the Manning biography and also interviewed McCoy to gain a better appreciation for the experience of a contemporary African American scientist.
Like the students who commissioned him, Flemister hopes that the portrait will stimulate interest in Just’s story and operate as a tool of representation. He is documenting his work on the project through photographs and blog posts highlighting his research.
“I’m looking at how far we can push certain ideas past this figurative, realistic painting,” he said, “and ask, ‘Can we generate questions that introduce a new conversation?’”
About Angela Wells O'Connor
Angela Wells O'Connor is a senior communications specialist at UChicago Medicine.
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Norway rejects UN Human Rights Council blacklist
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Norway’s government procurement department has rejected arguments that it should refuse a tender from a subsidiary of a company included in the UN Human Rights Council’s “blacklist” of companies allegedly involved in activities related to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Tennfjorden Raftsundet Hinnøya, Norway bySimo Rasanen, Wiki Commons
Egencia provides travel booking services and is part of the Expedia group, one of the 112 companies blacklisted by the UN Human Rights Council. Employees at a number of institutions in Norway’s education sector are required to buy their trips from Egencia. These include colleges in Østfold and Volda, OsloMet, the University of Stavanger, the University of Southeast Norway and the Ministry of Education.
The Department Director at Norway’s Government Procurement Center, Kjetil Østgård, has now stated: “our procurement law assessment is that we have neither the right nor the duty to reject Egencia from the competition as a result of the conditions discussed”.
Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UKLFI commented: “Mr Østgård is undoubtedly right not to regard the UNHRC list as a justification to exclude a company from tendering. This list has no legal validity. Under EEA rules companies can only be excluded from tendering for public contracts where the procuring authority demonstrates grave professional conduct rendering the company’s integrity questionable so that it cannot be relied upon to carry out the contract.”
In December 2019 UKLFI helped leading Norwegian NGO, Med Israel for fred (MIFF), to counter BDS proposals by the ruling coalition of Oslo Council.
Oslo’s ruling coalition agreed a political platform expressing its intention to “investigate the scope of action contained in the procurement regulations to not acquire goods and services produced in an area occupied in violation of international law by companies operating under the permission of the occupying power” (page 22).
The proposal pretended to apply generally, but statements by the politicians involved have made it clear that Israeli businesses in areas administered by Israel beyond the 1949 armistice lines are the only target.
UKLFI assisted MIFF to write to Oslo’s Governing Mayor, Raymond Johansen, explaining why it would be illegal for Oslo Council to target goods and services produced by Israeli companies in East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) or the Golan Heights.
In October this year, Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that it has no money earmarked for donation to the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC) over the next five years. This information was provided in response to a letter written by UKLFI to Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 29 July this year.
The UAWC is an agricultural NGO in the Palestinian Territories which has been closely linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group (PFLP). Three of its top officials were arrested last year for terrorist offences and two of them are currently on trial for the murder of 17 year old Israeli Rina Shnerb in August 2019.
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Woman wins $100,000 on her first-ever Powerball ticket
A Louisiana woman who bought her first-ever Powerball ticket to celebrate her birthday ended up winning a $100,000 jackpot. Photo courtesy of the Louisiana Lottery
Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A Louisiana woman said her late husband's birthday earned her a $100,000 prize from the first Powerball ticket she ever purchased.
Betty Cooley of Lafayette told Louisiana Lottery officials she decided to buy her first-ever Powerball ticket from the Smoke Shop in Lake Charles to celebrate her birthday.
The ticket, which bore the date of her late husband's birthday, ended up winning her $100,000.
"I couldn't believe it!" Cooley said. "This was the first time I've ever played!"
She said she is making plans for her winnings.
"I'm going to buy my son a vehicle... He really needs one!" the winner said.
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Orange is the New Black Season 5 Could Release Early on Netflix
by Kasey Moore @kasey__moore on April 30, 2017, 9:16 am EST
A hacker has gotten his hands on Orange is the New Black which is scheduled for release on Netflix in the next few months. Lots of speculation is circling around suggesting that this will force Netflix’s hand on releasing it early. Here’s our view on it.
With a few exceptions, Orange is the New Black is probably Netflix’s most coveted shows being the breakout that the Netflix Original program needed a few years ago to place Netflix as a serious contender in the industry. It’s now into its fifth season and while it’s evolved from what it first set out to be, it’s still a staple in the Netflix Original lineup each and every year. Given this, it’s important for Netflix to handle the launches right given many will renew their subscription just for a new season.
What’s Happened?
News began circulating over the past few days that a hacker has been able to hack into the production companies servers and acquire the complete season 5. The show has been produced by Lionsgate TV since season 1.
The hacker going by the alias of “thedarkoverlord” took to message boards to talk about his endeavor saying: “We’re quite ashamed to breathe the same air as you. We figured a pragmatic business such as yourselves would see and understand the benefits of cooperating with a reasonable and merciful entity like ourselves.”
Netflix had this to say on the matter:
“We are aware of the situation. A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved.”
Could this bring forward the Orange is the New Black Release Date?
The first five episodes are being threatened to be released early by the hackers which could force Netflix’s hand. At this point in time, the series is still scheduled to release on June 9th but gives a whole month for the hacker to upload the complete set. Honestly, we think Netflix will stand fast and won’t bring the release date forward however set out in a legal effort to stop the show from releasing.
May is a busy month for Netflix Originals with plenty of debuts and returning series so it’s unlikely to fit especially since June is almost completely reliant on Orange is the New Black.
We’ll let you know if we hear anything else!
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Homeless seek shelter as numbers rise, options diminish
The Point in Time Count for 2020 recorded 143 people that were homeless in Island County.
by Kira Erickson
Friday, December 25, 2020 1:30pm
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Because of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, many people are facing homelesssness for the first time.
And Whidbey Island is not immune to this.
Whidbey Homeless Coalition Executive Director Jonathan Kline said that, throughout this year, the organization has helped a number of newly homeless people, including families.
“What we have noticed is a lot of people coming through our shelters and contacting us for assistance that we have never had any contact with before,” Kline said.
The Point in Time Count for 2020, done earlier this year, recorded that 143 homeless people were counted in Island County, although Kline said this number is usually an underestimate.
Of the 143 counted, 78 were completely unsheltered, and 65 were sheltered, meaning they were enrolled in a shelter program but not in a home of their own.
Kline said there have been more people than years past staying at the Haven, the night-to-night emergency shelter in Oak Harbor.
To date, no one staying at the Haven and Langley’s House of Hope has contracted the virus.
“We haven’t had a single one of our guests test positive for COVID,” Kline said, crediting the new safety protocols of the two shelters in helping to keep away the virus.
The coalition also began a new outreach program this year, with initial seed funding from the Whidbey Community Foundation, to help people at risk of becoming homeless. This can be as simple as providing support systems or talking with people to personally troubleshoot their situation so they can avoid homelessness, Kline explained.
So far the new program has helped 100 people, including 25 children. Kline said seven families were helped with rental assistance and 42 households were helped with food assistance.
But for others, the situation of being without a permanent place to call home can be more complex.
Kline acknowledged that within the past five to six months, there has been an increase in people looking for places to park an RV or motorhome where they may be living.
“There’s really not a whole lot of options for the folks in that situation,” he said.
On South Whidbey, the only place with electricity hook-ups is the Whidbey Island Fairgrounds, where some island residents are staying while trying to figure out their next steps.
Such is the case for Camren Procopio, a South Whidbey man severely impacted by mental illness.
A group of community members joined together to form a guardian team for him.
Hahna Luna, who connected with Procopio, has thrown her full support behind him. She is joined by others in the community who helped to secure him an RV where he now lives.
“Camren is amazing when his needs are met,” Luna said. “He’s like a poet, a philosopher, a genius.”
He speaks in poetry and metaphors, she added, which can be confusing to some people. He also loves to collect books out of respect for the people who wrote them.
Procopio’s guardian team includes Luna, his stepfather Brad Rice, Justin Hoops, who helped him obtain his RV, and Brian Holliston, who is also living at the fairgrounds in his RV and is battling a terminal illness. Several other community members have volunteered their help also.
“Anyone with mental illness is escalating right now,” Luna said. “People who don’t even know they have mental illness are wandering around in shock right now.”
Procopio, she said, is especially confused and frightened by people wearing masks and does not understand what is happening with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Procopio’s progress can be followed on the Facebook page, “Guardians of Camren Langley WA.”
Rice said he has known Procopio since he was about 7 or 8 years old.
“He’s quite resilient and he doesn’t really ask for much,” Rice said of his stepson, who has been homeless on and off for about the past six years.
Rice’s biggest hope for Procopio is that he will be able to find a place to stay where people know where he is and where he will have access to food and social services.
He doesn’t like staying in shelters and prefers to be on his own.
Procopio has been staying at the fairgrounds, although the current policy won’t allow him to do so much longer.
Port of South Whidbey Executive Director Stan Reeves said when the COVID crisis began last March, the port, which manages the fairgrounds, relaxed its enforcement of the two-week stay policy.
“Over the summer that became problematic because some of the people staying long-term in the campgrounds began abusing the campground rules — some folks even began planting permanent gardens — and we began receiving complaints from local residents about the long-term campers,” Reeves said.
The port decided to begin enforcing the two-week stay policy again in October. Two-week stays are allowed within a 30-day period.
Luna argued that this is not nearly enough time for the individuals who are living in their vehicles, especially those who are elderly, have disabilities or special needs. She has publicly called for social workers, civil leaders, nonprofits and churches to come together and acknowledge an emergency COVID crisis.
“We are all in the same storm, but we are not in the same boat,” she said.
“Some of us don’t even have a life preserver; some of us are floating out in the cold water.”
Rice said he sees the fairgrounds as an opportunity to provide more shelter to people who are in situations similar to his stepson’s.
“It’s underutilized,” he said. “There’s a lot of spaces and only two campers show up, and there are no events now. It seems like a natural place to have a shelter with water and bathrooms and electricity.”
Rice owns a boat-building business and has made Procopio a trailer to carry his belongings.
Rice suggested building a micro house village might be a solution for people in need of long-term housing.
“It seems like if everyone was in a sort of organized camp, it would be easier to make sure people are staying healthy and safe,” he said.
People who want to help Procopio can either contact the Facebook page or reach out to Rice directly by calling 206-784-5077.
Kline said that the Haven provides emergency shelter for people in need of its services.
The Whidbey Homeless Coalition is also looking to purchase a permanent facility near Coupeville.
The organization received a grant from the state Department of Commerce that will allow the members to explore options.
Currently, things are still in the planning and permitting phases, but Kline is hopeful the building could be the place to move the operations of Haven.
“We’re hoping that given the emergency situation — the state of Washington around homelessness and COVID-19 — that the county permitting and planning department will act fast and allow us to make this building purchase so we can provide more steady services to people during these weird times,” Kline said.
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Yasmine Shamsie
Associate Professor, Political Science
Research / Areas of Expertise
democracy promotion – Central America and Caribbean
Haiti – foreign intervention
Biography / Academic Background
I received my PhD in Political Science from York University and my MA from the University of Toronto. I also have a journalism degree from Carleton University.
Prior to joining Laurier, I worked as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Following that, during the early 1990s, I worked in Nicaragua as a researcher examining how structural adjustment policies affected women employed by the government, based in Managua.
Research Interests / Ongoing Projects
My research is on the democracy-building and economic development programs of international actors (governments and international organizations) in Central America and the Caribbean. During the last 10 years, I focused primarily on how outsiders have affected economic and political developments in Haiti.
My research on Haiti has become recognized and valued in Canada and internationally. I have published in Canadian, American and European academic journals. I am regularly invited to present my work in diverse fora and have been asked to write policy briefs for international organizations, the Canadian government and non-governmental organizations. Given that Haiti is a Canadian foreign policy priority, I have also been invited to provide comments to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Canada’s future development role in Haiti.
Student Opportunities / Supervising
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of Canadian foreign policy toward the global South, Latin American and Caribbean Politics, and democratic development.
Shamsie, Y. La construction d’un parc industriel dans l’arrière-pays rural d’Haïti. Quelques observations sur le partenariat État-société et les capacités de l’État, [Dropping an Industrial Park into Haiti’s Rural Hinterland: Some Observations on state-society partnering and state capacity] Les Cahiers des Amériques latines, 75;79-96, 2014.
Shamsie, Y. Haiti’s Post-Earthquake Transformation: What of Agriculture and Rural Development?. Latin American Politics and Society, 54:133-154, 2012.
Shamsie, Y. Applying the Security-Development Nexus in Haiti: What has been Obscured and Prioritized? Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Special Issue on Haiti, 6:32-44, 2012.
Shamsie, Y. Canadian Assistance to Haiti: Some Sobering Snags in a Fragile State Approach. Peter McKenna (ed.) Canada Looks South: In Search of an Americas Policy, University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 180-211.
Shamsie, Y. Quelle stratégie de développement pour Haïti? A. Martinez, P. Beaudet, and S. Baranyi (eds), Haiti aujourd’hui, Haiti demain, University of Ottawa Press, 2011, pp. 93-98.
Shamsie, Y., Grinspun, R., Missed Opportunities: Canada’s Approach to Latin America and the Caribbean. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 16:171-199, 2009.
Shamsie, Y. Export Processing Zones: The Purported Glimmer in Haiti’s Development Murk. Review of International Political Economy, 16:649-672, 2009.
E: yshamsie@wlu.ca
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Leslie Jamison: Writers on Writing
"No beautiful writing comes from an impossibly perfect world; it all comes from this one: cluttered, obligated, distracted."
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Leslie Jamison’s latest book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, published in April 2018, mixes journalistic reportage with memoir and literary criticism to explore the experiences of those who have recovered from addiction. Jamison is also the author of the novel The Gin Closet and the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times best-seller. She is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review, and her works have appeared in publications including Harper’s, Oxford American, The Believer, and elsewhere. Jamison is an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York City.
What’s the most important thing you’ve learned about writing?
I used to believe that the best writing had to emerge from a life that had been carefully sculpted to produce the perfect conditions for creativity: long stretches of uninterrupted time, days cleared of logistics and obligations, dentist appointments and school lunches and cardboard boxes waiting to be unpacked. But eventually I learned that no beautiful writing comes from an impossibly perfect world; it all comes from this one: cluttered, obligated, distracted.
How has this helped you as a writer?
After I came to accept that beauty comes from the imperfect mess of living, rather than the impossible ideal of an unencumbered life, it asked me to stop seeing life and writing as antagonists, locked in combat, and to start seeing the ways that even the logistics and obligations of life might ultimately feed into the compost heap of creativity, and certainly that the obligated, beholden life is the only one from which we work – that so much beauty has come from it.
—Gabriel Packard is the author of The Painted Ocean: A Novel published by Corsair, an imprint of Little, Brown.
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Who was Marsha P. Johnson? | The Unforgotten
By youngvicstaff 11 Sep 2020
(Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1945 – New York, 1992)
Marsha P. Johnson's remarkable life-story, her gay & trans liberation and AIDS activism, and drag performance career make her a defining figure in the LGBTQ+ rights movement of the 20th century – not only in the United States, but as an icon with an international appeal and impact.
Born in 1945, Johnson grew up in a religious household in post-war New Jersey, and left for New York penniless at the age of 17. In the gay scene of Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s, Johnson became a visible and popular presence. Johnson adopted her drag queen name with the middle initial 'P' standing for 'Pay it no mind' - her response when asked about gender.
In 1969, the Stonewall Riots broke out, a series of spontaneous demonstrations against police raids on gay bars and against anti-gay legislation of the time. Johnson was one of the first to participate in the heated fightback against police and subsequently joined the Gay Liberation Front. In her unique and often brightly coloured and flower-adorned outfits, Johnson became a recognizable presence at the burgeoning LGBTQ+ liberation marches of the early 1970s. Even more so when, banned from participating in one for fear of drag queens giving the demonstrations a negative image, Johnson defiantly marched in front of it.
With a fellow transgender rights activist, Johnson set up Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries or STAR, and established a shelter for gay and trans youth. Johnson continued her activism in the 1980s with ACT UP, a grassroots advocacy group for people living with AIDS.
Apart from her prolific activism, Johnson is best known for her involvement in New York's drag performance circuit and arts scene. She modelled for Andy Warhol, she sang with drag performance collective Hot Peaches, and later joined The Angels of Light, an avant-garde theatre group.
Johnson died in 1992 at the age of 46; her body was found in New York's Hudson river. With police reluctant to investigate anti-gay and anti-trans violence, Johnson's cause of death remains undetermined. To this day, her activism, her performances and her style intrigue and inspire. The subject of multiple documentaries and fictionalized dramas, Johnson is seen as a trailblazer in LGBTQ+ emancipation.
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Harvard team explains Hwang’s stem cell fraud
August 3, 2007 · by arcticpenguin · in daily doilies. ·
For the first time, a Harvard science team led by Korean scientists proved that Hwang’s NT-1 stem cell was achieved by parthenogenesis, not somatic stem cell transfer. Hwang has maintained that the stem cell was created through the latter procedure.
In the September issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, a team of scientists led by Kim Kitai of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, said that they developed a method of distinguishing whether or not embryonic stem cells were achieved by parthenogenesis or somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Parthenogenesis refers to the development of an embryo that has not been fertilized by a male. Although this occurs naturally in some species such as lower plants and invertebrates, it can also occur by artificially activating oocytes without fertilization. Somatic cell nuclear transfer refers to the growing of a cell by removing the nucleus from a regular, or somatic cell. The nucleus is then injected into an ovum, which does not then need to be fertilized.
According to the article, the scientists used DNA fingerprint analysis of nuclear donor cells and analysis of gene patterns among other things, to prove which stem cells were from parthenogenesis and which from somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Although there had been previous successes in somatic cell nuclear transfer, such as Dolly the sheep, Hwang made a sensation in 2004 when he said that he achieved the process with a human embryo. His research results were published in the journal Science, but were later retracted because of research misconduct and forged data that was used in the paper. Hwang was eventually fired from his position as professor at Seoul National University.
When prosecutors began Hwang’s case two years ago, they focused only on fund embezzlement and bioethics violations, saying it was up to the science community to figure out the “truth” behind the stem cells.
According to the September article in Cell Stem Cell, Hwang did create the first human stem cell line, but by parthenogenesis. This finding coincided with that of the Seoul National University Investigation Committee last year.
By Wohn Dong-hee
Staff Writer for JoongAng Daily
Tags: Hwang Woo-suk, stem cell
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Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and Yahoo, her main projects examine 1) content moderation, online harassment and the creation of safe spaces, 2) social exchange in digital economies, which include the transactions of emotional, informational, and financial support, and 3) news consumption via social media.
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Andy McMillin is a 5x Baja 1000 champion. Andy’s passion for desert racing began at the age of 2 when he started going to Baja to “pre-run” the race courses with his dad in a modified car seat. From the time he was 10 years old, his family would take weekend trips to the sand dunes in Imperial County where Andy’s father taught him to drive a clutch. Once Andy got the hang of it, he practiced and honed his driving skills all day and night pretending he was Ivan Stewart or Larry Ragland driving through Baja.
Andy’s racing career began at the age of 14 driving Class 1 Unlimited Buggies in the FUD series in Plaster City, CA. Andy drove his first SCORE Baja race in 2003, where he and his family were featured in the ‘Dust to Glory’ film. Andy progressed to the premier Trophy Truck class of desert racing in 2006 and became the youngest driver to win the Baja 1000 Overall title. He is also tied for most Baja 1000 Overall titles in a four-wheel vehicle in the history of the sport with five at the age of 29 (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015).
Andy is one of the few drivers in the sport who has won Baja’s coveted Triple Crown Overall title in a four-wheel vehicle: the San Felipe 250 (in his Class 1 car), the Baja 500 and the Baja 1000. He has also had success in the United States races, having won the Parker 425, Nevada 1000, Vegas to Reno twice and is one of few who has won the infamous Mint 400 Overall twice.
Andy has an unheard of winning percentage of 35% and a podium percentage of 54%, proving his place among one the greatest drivers the sport has ever seen.
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Morgan Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist and theatre creator who aims to use performance for social change. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Windsor during which time she also studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School and with the SITI company. She also has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, where she developed the autoethnographic, multimedia solo performance piece Imperceptible, which focused on Indigenous/Settler relations in Canada around issues of environmental and social injustice. Select past credits include: performer in Blood + Soil by Theatre Artaud; performer in There is No Word for Wilderness (a site-specific mask show); co-creator/performer for Terra Incognita (an immersive performance piece about consumer culture using mask theatre); title performer in Susannah Bird (Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals 2015); and creator/performer in the solo show High Tide: On the Life and Writings of Rachel Carson (Ottawa Fringe Festival 2014). Morgan is currently co-artistic leader of Animacy Theatre Collective, where she recently was co-creator/performer for Upstream Downtown (Toronto Festival of Clowns, Toronto Fringe, and with Evergreen Brickworks and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority), directed by Martha Ross. She has trained in Pochinko clown performance at the Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance with John Turner.
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Lieder und gedichte : manuscript, 1850
A manuscript volume of songs and poems by Charles Fischer written in New York in 1850. The tile is also given as Liedersammlung fur C(h)arles Fischer. Flyleaf inscribed Franziska Nordhoff. Some poems have been scratched out or otherwise emended,... more
A manuscript volume of songs and poems by Charles Fischer written in New York in 1850. The tile is also given as Liedersammlung fur C(h)arles Fischer. Flyleaf inscribed Franziska Nordhoff. Some poems have been scratched out or otherwise emended, presumably by the author. In German less
Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997
Ross Lee Finney collection : sound and video recordings, 1938-1986
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Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) was an American composer and teacher. Born in Wells, MN, he studied at the University of Minnesota with Donald Ferguson, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger,and at Harvard with Edward Burlingame Hill. He also studied with... more
Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) was an American composer and teacher. Born in Wells, MN, he studied at the University of Minnesota with Donald Ferguson, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger,and at Harvard with Edward Burlingame Hill. He also studied with Roger Sessions (1935), Alban Berg (1931-1932), and Gian Francesco Malipiero (1937). Finney taught at Smith College (1929-49) ; Mt. Holyoke College (1938-40) ; Hartt School of Music (1941-42), and Amherst College (1946-1947). He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1948-1949), and later became a professor there (1949-73). During his time at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Finney served as chairman of the composition department, and established an electronic music laboratory. less
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Tim Kaine statement on President Obama’s address, actions on ISIL
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs released the following statement in response to President Obama’s address on ISIL.
“Tonight President Obama made a strong case for the need to degrade and destroy ISIL. The President has worked to enlist partners, including key allies across the region, in this effort – a partnership that will be critical to its success.
“I support the President’s goal and believe he will receive broad support from the American people. I disagree with the President’s assertion that he has all necessary legal authority to wage an offensive war against ISIL without Congressional approval. But the President does acknowledge the need for Congressional approval of his plan to support the Syrian opposition and invites broader Congressional support of the multinational effort to defeat ISIL. I look forward to working with my colleagues to craft a narrow authorization for that mission. I believe Congress owes it to our servicemembers to do our collective job to reach a consensus in support of this military mission.”
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Israel's 'Little Napoleon' Under Siege
Ehud Barak could face one of the worst political defeats in country's history
by Peter Goodspeed
JERUSALEM - Ehud Barak looks pale and weary these days. There is a tinge of bitterness in his voice and an air of sad resignation to his public appearances.
Once Israel's most highly decorated soldier, an elite commando and the army's top general, the acting Prime Minister faces the distinct possibility of suffering one of the worst political defeats in Israel's history.
Isolated even in his own party, he is widely perceived to be arrogant, aloof, secretive, inconsistent and weak.
It's a dramatic transformation. Just 20 months ago he was elected Prime Minister with an unprecedented majority and 100,000 supporters danced and sang until dawn in Tel Aviv's main square to celebrate.
He came to power as a hard-nosed, security-conscious general, promising to forge a "peace of the brave" with a grand strategy that would usher in a new era in the Middle East. He vowed to withdraw Israeli troops from the unpopular 18-year war in Lebanon, to make peace with Syria, to recharge Israel's economy and to end a half-century of conflict with the Palestinians.
In the last election, Mr. Barak won two-thirds of the crucial swing votes cast by Russian immigrants, he swept 95% of the votes from Israel's Arab citizens and he led a new, reinvigorated centre-left coalition.
With the hopes of the nation behind him, he welded together a broad coalition with an overwhelming majority in the Knesset.
Now, public opinion polls show him running up to 20 percentage points behind Ariel Sharon, 72, the controversial Likud party leader, in the run-up to Tuesday's elections. The same polls suggest up to 15% of voters -- mostly Mr. Barak's supporters -- are so disillusioned they may not even bother to cast a ballot.
"We could run a broomstick in this election and still beat Barak," boasted Limor Lavant, a Likud leader and one of Mr. Sharon's top aides.
A failed Prime Minister who has alienated friends and foes alike, Mr. Barak has seen his coalition crumble and his majority wither to barely 30 of 120 seats in the Knesset. He has alienated Russian immigrants, infuriated ultra-orthodox Jews with an aborted proposal to launch a "secular revolution" and enraged Israeli Arabs with his government's attempts to crush a four-month-old Palestinian uprising.
This week, he even tangled with labour unions, the bedrock of his party's support, when civil service unions staged a brief national strike.
A lifelong soldier with an autocratic style that earned him the sobriquet "little Napoleon," Mr. Barak is used to giving orders and having them carried out. But as Prime Minister, he plunged into Israel's volatile and impatient politics without mastering the art of compromise.
He regularly struck out on his own, without building a consensus or sometimes even consulting Cabinet colleagues, and he was unable to delegate authority.
At one point, Mr. Barak held almost a dozen Cabinet portfolios. Today, he still serves as his own defence, education and agriculture ministers.
At the start of the election, a humbled Mr. Barak delivered a remarkable public apology on national television for his performance.
"The mission of my life, after 35 years in the army, is to bring peace and security to Israel," he said. "Eighteen months ago, I approached this challenge with a military man's approach. I did not devote enough time to speaking to you, to explaining where we were heading and what exactly is happening at every stage.
"I learned a few important things: that you need to build a strong team and to consult more.
"If you give me the chance, I will do better," he promised. "With a wider team, I will listen more and will do everything in my power to gain your trust."
It may be too late for that now.
Mr. Sharon's campaign has tapped deep into the vein of public disillusionment and is running television ads that declare simply, "Barak has promised. Barak has disappointed. He must leave."
The bitter core of voters' disappointment rests with a failed peace process and the violence that has swept the region for the past four months.
The election is taking place against a backdrop of sporadic violence, gun battles, roadside shootings and bombings. And still, the basic issues of the Oslo peace process remain unresolved.
As Prime Minister, Mr. Barak gambled and lost at trying to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement with the Palestinians. He placed the most complicated issues squarely on the negotiating table and offered concessions no Israeli leader had ever contemplated.
It may have showed courage. And it may make it easier for a future leader to discuss subjects that were once off limits. But he failed.
He enraged many voters by offering to divide Jerusalem. He toyed with modifying Israel's claim to the Temple Mount. He offered to relinquish control of the Jordan Valley and said he would give the Palestinians up to 95% of the West Bank.
But he never properly prepared the Israeli public for the painful concessions. And when the Palestinians rejected his proposals and launched their latest intifada, he was hung out to dry politically.
"The magician played with his handkerchief for months," wrote columnist Nahum Barnea in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. "He made knots in it, he folded it, he stretched it, he shrank it ... and then nothing happened. No pigeon, no wand, no flower and no bud. To be exact, even the handkerchief disappeared."
What was left was a deep and growing sense of fear and uncertainty.
"The intifada has lowered Israelis' readiness to comply with Palestinian demands," said Dr. Tamar Hermann, director of the Tami Steinmetz Centre for Peace Research in Tel Aviv. "Israeli Jews now consider the Palestinians more violent and less trustworthy."
As a result, Mr. Barak's election campaign has been reduced to presenting him as a peacemaker, while branding Mr. Sharon as a risk-taking warmonger. He has told voters they have to choose between permitting his government to complete its efforts for peace, which he insists is closer than at any point in the past, or going back to a dangerous standoff and risking a war.
But Israel is already feeling the heat of the intifada and is not prepared to be disillusioned again.
Mr. Sharon's overwhelming lead in the public opinion polls has "nothing to do with the blunders of Barak or with the sterling qualities of the favourite in the race," Gideon Samet wrote recently in the newspaper Haaretz.
"The fundamental ingredient in every dramatic Israeli election win achieved by the right since 1973 is a deep-seated anxiety of rightist, leftist and middle-of-the-road voters.
"Hovering like the sword of Damocles over election campaigns for three decades has been a basic fear for Israel's very survival."
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The 1828 Lavinius C. Heroy House - 262 West 11th Street
Hammond Street was named for Elijah Hammond who owned the owner of the 55-acre estate near the village of Greenwich. By the 1820's Hammond's once bucolic summer estate was seeing the incursion of houses and shops and Greenwich Village expanded. In 1828 Lavinius C. Heroy, a sashmaker, completed a handsome two-and-a-half story home for his family at No. 56 Hammond Street (later renumbered 262 West 11th Street). The 21-foot wide house sat on a 25-foot lot, allowing space for a narrow passageway, or horsewalk, to the rear yard. Faced in red Flemish bond brick, it sat upon a brownstone English basement. The width of the home and the additional money Heroy expended on architectural details like the lushly detailed entranceway, spoke of his comfortable financial status.
Heroy and his wife, the former Caroline Morey, had one son, James Henry. Following Lavinius's death around 1833, Caroline took in boarders. In 1834 George L. Mankin, an accountant, and attorney Roger Strong lived in the house. The following year Caroline moved to Wooster Street, while leasing the house to merchant Edbert Smith.
Caroline's tenant in 1838 advertised for boarders, as well. An advertisement in the Morning Herald on April 11 read:
Boarding--A small private family occupying a modern built two story brick house in Hammond st. is desirous of obtaining a gentleman and his wife as permanent boarders from the first of May next. The terms will be moderate.
The family of William Underdunk lived in the house in 1845. He ran a grocery business at 114 Broadway Street, while Henry Jr. was listed as "student."
By now John Henry Heroy was a partner in the plate glass business of Heroy, Struthers & Co. In 1846 he attempted to sell the family home, listing it as "A two story brick house and lot, No. 56 Hammond-st. between Fourth and Bleecker sts. in the vicinity of two or more stage routes, and in every respect a desirable residence." Heroy either had no takers, or he simply changed his mind, because by 1850 he was again living in his childhood home.
In 1853 Heroy was again leasing the house, this time to William P. Bensel, a cooper (or barrel-maker) whose business was on Washington Street. The Bensels had small children, as reflected in a help-wanted advertisement on October 11, 1853:
Girl Wanted--A neat, clean and tidy girl, to assist in taking care of children and to do plain sewing; a Protestant of any country preferred; none need apply without good recommendations.
Whoever was hired lasted for nearly three years. Then, on February 27, 1856 another ad appeared:
Girl Wanted--American, Scotch or English, to assist in taking care of children and to make herself generally useful; must be a good plain sewer, neat and tidy and of good disposition. One with the above qualifications will find a good home.
The Bensel family remained until 1859 when the house was offered for sale again. Listed at $7,500 (about $238,000 today), it offered "gas, hot and cold water, bath, &c; range and portable furnace. Everything in perfect order."
A succession of residents came and went, no doubt renting rooms, until 1867 when James Snodgrass and his family moved in. Snodgrass ran a lumber yard on Tenth Avenue at the corner of 15th Street. He and his wife, Annie, had a grown son, James, Jr. James lived with them and worked in his father's business.
It was most likely Snodgrass who enlarged the house to four stories, adding an up-to-date Italianate cornice and stoop ironwork, and floor-to-ceiling parlor windows in the same style. (The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the work to a 1920 renovation; however the Italianate style of the changes challenges that theory.)
Around 1872 Snodgrass retired and closed his lumber operation while continuing to invest in Greenwich Village property. That year James Jr. went into the bedding business. By now he was married and he and his bride, Annie, continued to live with his parents in the West 11th Street house.
On October 12, 1872 The Yonkers Gazette reported "Mr. and Mrs. James Snodgrass, jr., have left Yonkers, where they have been spending the summer, and taken up their residence in West 11th street, New York." In 1873 James Jr. changed professions again, partnering in the hay and feed firm of Gleason & Snodgrass.
The extended family went to Yonkers in the winter of 1879. On February 1 The Yonkers Gazette reported "James Snodgrass and family, of New York, have been visiting Yonkers relatives on Warburton avenue." It may have been James Sr.'s last trip to the country. In 1880 Eliza was listed as his widow.
James Jr. inherited the house and properties on Bleecker Street, Perry Street and Ninth Avenue. The combined properties were valued at $25,000, or in the neighborhood of $645,000 in today's money. He and his partner in the hay and feed business had parted ways two years earlier and he was now operating Gleason & Snodgrass on his own.
In 1891 neighbors realized that some of their mail was being stolen, almost all of which included cash or checks. Post Office inspectors devised a plan and recruited Annie Snodgrass as an accomplice. They mailed a "decoy letter...which contained four marked $1 bills," according to The Flagstaff, Arizona newspaper The Coconino Sun, to Annie. The letter carrier was caught with the envelope in his pocket. The article said he "was about to start on his vacation and had $202 in bills and $25 in a postal check on his person." His vacation was cancelled as he waited in jail for the grand jury's verdict.
At the time the Snodgrass family had more to worry about than missing mail. Gleason & Snodgrass was in serious financial trouble and in 1890 James had begun liquidating the property his father had left him. It was to no avail and on May 22, 1891 the business crumbled.
The West 11th Street house that had been the family's home for nearly a quarter of a century now became home to the Nicholas D. H. Clark family. Clark was a "superintendent of Post Office Station," with a salary in 1894 of $2,000--or just over $61,000 today. He was as well a sexton of the First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue.
Clark died in 1901. Afterward the West 11th Street house was operated as a high-end rooming or boarding house. Living here in 1906 were Lawrence University alumnus Gunluf Guthormsen, Assistant Municipal Civil Engineer Michael J. O'Neill, and author Matilda Shaw.
Matilda had come from France in 1905 with her husband, G. A. Shaw who was hired by The Herald. She had written several French books including La Frontiere and Illustres et Inconnus. According to the New-York Tribune, "They soon separated, according to Mrs. Shaw's landlady, and the husband went to live with a stepson, L. Victor Fleckles."
In 1908 Shaw died and Matilda learned that he had "fallen heir to about $100,000 by the death of Scotch relatives," according to a newspaper. The feisty author determined to go to Scotland in May 1909 to claim the money. But she would not get the chance.
Around mid-March Matilda fell ill with "the grip," the term for a form of influenza. It lingered for two weeks and then, on April 3, 1909, the New-York Tribune reported "Mrs. Matilda Shaw, a teacher of French and author of French books, and said to have been a cousin of Sarah Bernhardt, the actress, died alone yesterday in a locked room at No. 262 West 11th street, where she lived." When her landlady could get no response from her, she called Matilda's doctor, Faxton E. Gardner, who forced open the locked door. "He found that she had been dead several hours," said the New-York Tribune.
Inside the room were mementos from a well-lived life. There were "several photographs of Sarah Bernhardt, all autographed, and a letter from President Theodore Roosevelt. It read:
My Dear Madam--I shall read "La Frontiere" with very real interest. Pray present M. Claretie with my best regards and with many thanks, believe, me, sincerely yours,
Roosevelt made reference to Jules Claretie, the French Minister of Education and a close friend of Matilda.
In 1920 No. 262 received a considerable renovation to an apartment building with five units. It was at this time that the Federal style paneled lintels of the lower two floor were copied at the upper floors. The architect who was so careful to precisely match the Federal detailing would not have made the mistake of adding disparate Italianate ironwork and cornice.
Well-known Greenwich Village real estate operator Vincent Pepe purchased the renovated building on January 25, 1922. He placed it on the market four days later for $36,000, noting "occupied by 5 tenants; all modern improvements; rents $7,380 yearly.
The 1860's Italianate ironwork can be see in this photo from around 1941. via the NYC Dept of Records & Information Services
A subsequent renovation in 2004 resulted in three apartments. The Heroy house is beautifully maintained and several of the interior details from the 1860's update--some of the marble mantels, for instance--survive.
Posted by Tom Miller at 1:27 AM
Labels: Federal architecture, greenwich village, west 11th street
mamiefishes October 8, 2020 at 5:13 AM
Once again, the full length windows are sash windows designed to look like casement windows/ french doors.
Tom Miller October 8, 2020 at 5:59 AM
At least following the 1920 renovation, yes. We don't know what they looked like prior to that.
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Your Friendly, Neighborhood Super-Money: Could Cryptocurrencies Save the Main Street?
Home » Business » Your Friendly, Neighborhood Super-Money: Could Cryptocurrencies Save the Main Street?
Executive Brief
For decades now, Main Street has been suffering what has seemed to be terminal decline. Stores and shops throughout much of the developed world have been slowly going dark as prohibitive rent costs and relentless competition from online stores has driven many independent retailers out of business. While many would assume that cryptocurrency has little relevance to this complicated economic and social problem, there are others who believe that digital money may offer a much-needed solution to the woes of main street retailers.
By mitigating the costs of banking, third-party transaction management and providing cheap credit, while taking advantage of the tax advantages offered through the attempts of some governments to encourage digital currency business, cryptocurrencies may provide an opportunity to lower the costs associated with sales in a physical retail space – enabling stores to pass those savings on to consumers. With price remaining a dominant factor in consumer purchasing decisions, this may be the secret to reviving the fortunes of the small businesses which form the bedrock of most major economies.
Read the full story below.
When the Emperor Napoleon described Britain, with more than a little contempt, as a ‘nation of shopkeepers’, he thought it was a grievous insult. He was wrong. While shopkeepers in eighteenth-century France were typically viewed as a sedentary bourgeoisie underhandedly short-changing the masses, a more liberal British attitude recognized their proliferation of shops as the expression of an affluent middle class with disposable income and the freedom to establish, run and maintain a small business, enabling social mobility. This ideal rapidly spread to the rest of the world to such an extent that small businesses – cafes and restaurants, independent retailers, craft manufacturers and the like – have now become the bedrock of most developed economies. It is estimated that there are some 125 million registered Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) around the world, employing less than 250 people each.
But those numbers mask a real cause for concern related to Main Street businesses in the western world. For half a century now the developed world has seen greengrocers, fishmongers, butchers, and confectioners lose out to large chain supermarkets and convenience stores. But now even the seemingly immovable stalwarts of Main Street are beginning to lose their footing. Bookstores, boutique clothing retailers, travel agents, and others are quickly losing ground to their online counterparts. This lost custom, added to prohibitively high rents in major cities, has resulted in what would appear to be a terminal decline in the number of traditional brick and mortar retailers.
While it is clear that there is still a demand for the experience of physical shopping, it has become all but impossible to compete with the variety, convenience, and low costs found on the internet. This has given rise to a new breed of consumers: it is becoming increasingly common for shoppers to visit physical retail spaces to try out items – read a few pages of a book, sample make-up or perfumes, see if they can still fit into a size 12 – and to enjoy the physical ‘retail experience’, only to return home to actually buy the items at a lower price online. It is clear that, however enjoyable consumers find the experience of shopping on Main Street – and consumer surveys regularly confirm that shoppers lament the loss of physical retail spaces - the fact is that price is still the ultimate driver in consumer spending decisions.
It might be imagined that this issue cannot possibly be related to the cryptocurrency revolution, even less that digital money could be a solution to the rapidly deteriorating health of independent retailers. But the fact is that the cryptocurrencies have the potential to provide benefits that extend well beyond the online marketplace.
While online stores will always be cheaper to manage than physical retail spaces (after all, domain names cost substantially less than shop premises), many of the other advantages they enjoy over brick and mortar retailers can be negated. Major multinational online retailers like Amazon and eBay are not tied to any one location, and so can take advantage of advantageous tax regimes outside of the market in which they predominantly sell: the recent controversy over Amazon’s UK tax affairs, which see it pay only £11.9 million ($18 million) in tax on £5.3 billion (about $8 billion) of UK profit, by re-routing its profits through tax-havens like Luxembourg, demonstrates the advantage that can be gained. With some governments seeking to encourage cryptocurrencies through low taxation and regulation, it is possible for independent retailers to increase their profit margins by accepting cryptocurrencies rather than conventional money. In the UK, where cryptocurrency transactions are exempted from Value Added Tax (VAT), this may be worth up to 20% extra in profit per transaction.
The use of cryptocurrencies also allows independent retailers to dispense with the long-customary charges on credit and debit card transactions that third party banking services impose. In addition, retailers who opt to store value in cryptocurrencies can avoid the costs associated with the conventional banking processes. Digital money also appreciates in value much more rapidly than fiat currencies, allowing businesses to take advantage of a stable and secure investment that can help them incrementally increase the value of their profits.
The already accepted benefits of cryptocurrencies will also have a disproportionate effect on Small and Medium Enterprises. The relative security of digital money from inflation in fiat currencies can protect independent retailers from the exaggerated impact inflation usually has on them. Meanwhile, the prospects of cryptocurrencies for providing affordable credit to the underbanked may be mirrored in the provision of credit to small businesses, promoting expansion and diversification.
While concern for the future of Main Street will continue for the foreseeable future, the potential impact of the cryptocurrency revolution on Small and Medium Enterprises could be enormous. But shoring up such businesses against the uncertainties they suffer thanks to online retailers and continuing global economic woes will have a broader impact than just promoting wealth creation; studies frequently suggest that a healthy SME sector promotes economic growth and revitalizes local communities.
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Author: Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper is an economic historian and classicist, who specialises in money creation and the impact of politics on trade, and of trade on society. While currently working on projects on ancient trade at Britain’s prestigious University of Manchester, Chris is equally interested in the introduction of cryptocurrencies and their impact on modern society.
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Eight New CSJ Associates Make Commitment at St. Joseph's Provincial House
On June 10, 2012, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and CSJ Associates welcomed eight new associates during a Eucharistic Liturgy in the chapel of St. Joseph’s Provincial House, Latham, NY. The Commitment Liturgy followed a day in which Sisters and CSJ Associates reflected on the CSJ charism in a retreat day facilitatedby Sister Chris Partisano, CSJ.
Lorraine Allore, Antoinette Belmont, Margaret Booth, Barbara Cassella, Joseph Cassella, Mary Ellen Flanigan, Sharon La Goy and Patricia Ryan made their first commitment as CSJ Associates. Also, during the Liturgy, over 100 CSJ Associates renewed their commitment for another year after spending the weekend on retreat at the Provincial House.
With Rev. Geoff Burke as presider and CSJ Associate Janet Derby and Sister Ann Christi Brink, CSJ, giving the reflections, the associates joined in celebration with a chapel filled to overflowing with Sisters of St. Joseph, family and friends. Provincial Leadership Team Member Sister Ann Christi Brink expressed the gratitude of the congregation to these men and women who live and work as the Sisters do in uniting all persons and all creation with God and with one another in God.
The new CSJ Associates promised to live according to the ideals and values of the Sisters of St. Joseph, to bring those values to their home and workplace and to join with the Sisters in transforming the world, according to the Gospel and with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
The CSJ Associates are men and women who embrace the charism of unity and reconciliation and participate in the mission of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The CSJ Associate community lives out this call of the Spirit in their daily lives.
To enjoy a slideshow of the Commitment Weekend, click on the photo below, then scroll down to the bottom of the new page! See Sisters of St. Joseph and CSJ Associates as they share the dream of bringing God’s unifying and reconciling love to a world in need!
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European Commission and Europa Nostra announce Europe’s top heritage award winners 2020
The winners of the 2020 European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were celebrated on November 10th with a virtual gathering that connected heritage lovers, professionals, volunteers and supporters from across Europe and beyond.
The 2020 Grand Prix laureates are:
the exemplary restoration of the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio, L’Aquila (Italy), heavily damaged by the devastating earthquake of 2009;
the outstanding project Tramontana Network III (France, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain), dedicated to the research of the tangible and intangible heritage of Europe’s mountainous regions; and
the major exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away (Poland/Spain), marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp.
The Grand Prix laureates, chosen by an independent jury of experts and the Board of Europa Nostra, will receive €10,000 each.
“The 2020 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards represent what Europe stands for: creativity, resilience, innovation, solidarity, talent and dedication. This makes me proud – as European Commissioner and as a European citizen. I sincerely thank each one of them for demonstrating yet again that Europe’s shared cultural heritage is not only part of our past, but a valuable asset for tackling our present day challenges and for ensuring a better future for all. With their work, they illustrate the great potential of cultural heritage for Europe’s socioeconomic recovery in the aftermath of the pandemic,” said Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.
The Public Choice Award went to the education, training and awareness-raising project The Ambulance for Monuments (Romania), which has rescued hundreds of heritage-listed buildings in the country through a large network of active heritage organisations. This project received the largest number of votes, cast via an online poll with the participation of over 12,000 citizens from all over Europe.
During the online ceremony, representatives from the European Commission and the ILUCIDARE Consortium, including Europa Nostra, unveiled the two winners of the very first edition of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes: Archaeology for a young future (Italy/Syria), for excellence in heritage-led international relations; and TYPA - Estonian Print and Paper Museum, Tartu (Estonia), for excellence in heritage-led innovation (read related separate press release).
The winners of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes were selected by the ILUCIDARE partners from among the submitted applications to the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2020. ILUCIDARE is a project funded by Horizon 2020 with the aim of establishing an international network promoting heritage as a resource for innovation and international relations.
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Public opinion combines a streak of scepticism in regards to the European Union (seen by some as too socialist) with enthusiasm for the euro (which suits Slovakia’s small, open financial system). Voters disliked the first Greek bail-out as a result of it seemed unfair. And they appreciated seeing their government face down self-necessary big countries. During World War II, ethnic Germans had been resettled from areas occupied by Italy (Ljubljana, Gottschee) into the German-occupied zone. On the tip and after the warfare, the good majority of the remaining Germans were expropriated (AVNOJ-Decree), expulsed or murdered by jugoslav partisans.
A survey performed by the Public Affairs Institute found that almost 60 percent of respondents would oppose a Muslim household moving into their neighborhood, and that 17 p.c felt similarly in regards to the prospect of a Jewish household transferring in. Sociologists and representatives of the Jewish group have stated that they imagine anti-Semitic statements to be on the rise as of 2019, citing increases in anti-Semitic vandalism as well as the rising popularity of the L’SNS. This was requirement increased from a previous requirement of 20,000 in 2017. Of the 18 registered churches and religious teams in Slovakia, solely 5 meet the 50,000 member requirement; the remainder had been registered before the requirement was established.
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In the census of 2002, just 1628 individuals (0,1% of the population) declared German as their mom tongue. Almost everybody today born in Slovenia knows Slovene as a result of people learn obligatory Slovene in school, but many at house communicate other languages as nicely. German-speaking women round Maribor who’re citizens of Slovenia have organized within the association Kulturno društvo nemško govorečih žena »Mostovi« Maribor („Bridges“).
With the accession of Slovenia to the European Union on May 1, 2004, Slovene became an official language of the European Union, requiring that each one Acts and Directives be translated into Slovene. Additionally, Slovenian citizens may write to any EU establishment in Slovene and anticipate a response in the identical language. According to a 2019 research carried out by the European Commission, 13 p.c of Slovakians believe that discrimination based mostly on religion is widespread while 74 percent stated that it was rare. eighty four percent said that they might be snug with having a head of state that belonged to a faith other than the nation’s majority faith.
Some Croats settled round and in present-day Bratislava for related causes. Also, many Germans settled in the Kingdom of Hungary, particularly in the towns, as work-in search of colonists and mining experts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. Jews and Gypsies additionally fashioned important populations throughout the territory.
Most Slovenes at present reside throughout the borders of the unbiased Slovenia (2,007,711 est. 2008). In the Slovenian nationwide census of 2002, 1,631,363 people ethnically declared themselves as Slovenes, whereas 1,723,434 folks claimed Slovene as their native language.
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This significantly affected the nation and led to further radicalisation of the Slovene national motion. In the Nineties, the first Slovene political parties were established. All of them had been loyal to Austria, however they had been additionally espousing a typical South Slavic trigger.
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Hungary remained predominantly Catholic until the 16th century, when the Reformation happened and, as a result, first Lutheranism and then quickly afterwards Calvinism became the religion of virtually the complete inhabitants. Protestants composed some eighty five-90% of the complete population, more than a half of the Hungarian population being a part of the Calvinist confessing Reformed Church and a quarter of lutheran confessing Evangelical Church. The „old system“, as Slovaks name the Communist previous, corrupted the Roma, by forbidding them to wander and encouraging them to breed. The „new system“ (Slovakia’s market reforms have been harder than in almost any other Eastern European nation) sliced the payments in a single day.
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Lutheranism is the third major historical religion in Hungary. It was introduced by Saxon settlers in the early sixteenth century, however after its temporary efflorescence, the introduction of the Reformed Church and the Counter-Reformation made it almost non-existent amongst Hungarians as much as the late 17th century. Later it was re-introduced by way of inward migration by Saxons and Slovaks. Today, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary is a small minority in Hungary today.
During the interval, most of current-day Slovakia was part of Habsburg rule, but Ottoman dominated southern and southeasternmost parts of it. Great Moravia (833 – ?907) was a Slavic state in the 9th and early 10th centuries, whose creators have been the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. Its formation and rich cultural heritage have attracted somewhat more curiosity because the nineteenth century.
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Different, And Yet Alike
Published December 17, 2014 | By Caryn
For every girl named Amy, there comes a time when their name is butchered in one of the sweetest ways possible. It happens when a small child tries to say their name. I don’t quite understand why such a simple name is so hard for little ones to learn to say correctly. Nevertheless, the name Amy always seems to change to Mamie when said by a little one who is learning to talk. This has been something that my daughter, Amy Royce has had the pleasure of enjoying all her life. I suppose some people wouldn’t think it cute to have their name messed up in such a way, but we have always thought it to be really cute, and quite precious for our Amy to be called Mamie. It was always said by a child who dearly loved Amy, and that made the name quite endearing. And it was always fun to laugh about it, causing it to be a nickname that even the adults used with her sometimes.
Because of how much we loved the nickname, Mamie for our daughter, I found myself smiling when I heard what my cousin Raylynn Williams had named her daughter. The name was actually handed down from her husband’s grandmother, but nevertheless, there was now a Mayme whose name was not being mispronounced by the little children around her. As names go, it is a bit unusual, but then a lot of people prefer the unusual when it comes to naming their children, myself and my daughter Amy included.
I found myself taken back in time just over four years ago, when I heard what my cousin had named her precious little girl. The name would be one that would take me back every time I heard it…or even saw Mayme. How odd it seems, to have two children with names that, in reality, are not the same, but we can feel a sameness nevertheless. It isn’t always sameness that connects us, you see. Sometimes, it can be our differences that make us the same. While Amy and Mayme are totally different names, to hear a small child say them, would sound exactly the same. Who would expect that a shorter name that is totally different, would be pronounced the same when it comes to little kids. Mayme is a sweet little girl, with a beautiful smile, who is a little bit shy around people she doesn’t know well, But once she knows you are ok, based on being cleared by her parents, of course. Her face will light up with her smile. She is the answer to her parents prayers for a daughter, and the apple of their eyes. Her brothers are very protective of their little sister, as brothers tend to be…especially when the sister is the youngest, like Mayme is.
I can’t say that Amy and Mayme are alike in very many ways, in all reality, because Amy is a grown woman, and Mayme is a little girl. So much can change as each moves on in their life. Amy has always been a little shy, and I think Mayme is too, but that could change as she grows up…or it could stay the same. We will see. They may end up becoming completely different people, but one thing they will always have in common is their name…in a way anyway. Mayme will always be Mayme, even when her name is said by a little child, and Amy will always be Amy. But, Amy will also always be Mamie too, because there will always be little kids who will love Amy and will learn her name early, even if they do mispronounce it.
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There will be no posts in the immediate future, due to a family emergency. Heidi and I appreciate your prayers for the Geske and Genter families in the meantime. Thank you.
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Wasp Wednesday: Diapriids
Few insects, unfortunately, have common names in the English language. That creates an obstacle for the general public to realize just how diverse and amazing the animal kingdom truly is. Among these overlooked organisms are tiny wasps in the family Diapriidae. I was not even familiar with them myself until I ran across numerous specimens while sorting pitfall and emergence trap samples for the University of Massachusetts back in 2009.
Were I to name them, I would call them “shelf-faced wasps.” Well, it fits! The most prominent feature of these insects is a ledge-like extension of the face just above the clypeus (“upper lip,” if you will), from which the antennae originate. Not all diapriids have this feature, but most of our more than 300 North American species do.
Averaging only 2-4 millimeters in length (they range from one to eight millimeters), it helps to put them under a microscope to see the details of their external anatomy. Besides the face, note that there is minimal wing venation, if any at all. The abdomen is petiolate, and the body is generally smooth and polished.
Little is known about these parasitic wasps in part because they do not impact important agricultural pests. Instead, most known species have a life cycle involving parasitism of the larvae and/or pupae of various flies (order Diptera). Fungus gnats (families Mycetophilidae and Sciaridae) are among common hosts. The larva of the diapriid feeds internally on the maggot. While most are probably solitary parasites, at least a few species are gregarious, several larvae feeding inside one host.
Diapriids are most common in moist woodland habitats where they stalk their hosts around fungi, leaf litter, and damp soil. Some genera in occupy extreme habitats such as intertidal zones. There are at least two records from the Old World tropics suggesting that some specialized genera in the subfamily Diapriinae are parasitic on the larvae of certain ants.
The great majority of diapriid species are awaiting formal description by scientists. Worldwide, there are 2,300 described species in 150 genera. Entomologists estimate there are at least 4,500 species. There are few resources for identifying species outside of Europe.
I urge my fellow naturalists to try various trapping techniques to see what wonders they might find in their own yard, garden, or nearby park. Invest in a good microscope, too. You will be surprised at the animals you will find.
Sources: Goulet, Henri and John T. Huber (eds.). 1993. Hymenoptera of the World: An identification guide to families. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 668 pp.
The Diapriidae
Labels: animals, bugs, Diapriidae, Hymenoptera, insects, microscopic, nature, outdoors, Wasp Wednesday, wasps, wildlife
Spider Sunday: Giant Crab Spider
When one thinks of giant spiders in the southwest U.S., tarantulas come immediately to mind. There is one other spider, however, in an unrelated family, that rivals tarantulas in size. Olios giganteus is a member of the family Sparassidae, collectively known as “giant crab spiders,” or “huntsman” spiders. These are tropical and subtropical spiders, but some species occasionally turn up in temperate climates, imported with bananas or other tropical fruits.
Giant crab spiders, like spiders in the families Thomisidae, Philodromidae (see Ebo from last week’s “Spider Sunday”), and Selenopidae, have laterigrade legs. This means the legs are “twisted” at the base such that they are oriented in the horizontal plane, rather than the vertical axis. This allows these flat-bodied spiders to scuttle into very narrow cracks or crevices. Giant crab spiders take full advantage of this to slip underneath loose bark, or into an opening in the siding on your home. Indeed, you are most often apt to encounter these spiders on vertical surfaces.
Paired claws at the tip of each leg, with a tuft of special hairs between them, allow the spider to easily navigate surfaces with the least bit of texture, or scramble effortlessly over slender twigs in pursuit of prey. Hiding by day they emerge at night to hunt. I was surprised to find them on a night hike in Florida Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona, so accustomed had I become to seeing them on the exterior walls of buildings.
They do sometimes stray indoors, and apparently such incidents once inspired newspaper publicity for the “barking spider” in some small towns in west Texas (Gertsch, 1979).
There are five species in the genus Olios found in North America north of Mexico, collectively found from southern California to western Texas. O. giganteus is recorded from California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, extreme west Texas (Big Bend), and Sonora, Mexico. U.S. specimens formerly classified as O. fasciculatus, an African species, are now known to be O. giganteus.
Olios giganteus is just that: a giant. Mature males measure 11.3-29.4 mm (average 25), but females can be 14.6 to a whopping 48 millimeters (average 31.6) in body length. The eight sprawling legs make these arachnids look larger still. In reality, their legspan is “only” 50-64 millimeters.
Little is known about the life cycle of Olios huntsman spiders. Normally nomadic, females do settle down when it comes time to lay eggs. They weave a large bag-like retreat within which they spin an egg sac. They guard the precious pouch and the spiderlings that eventually emerge, not feeding themselves during the incubation period, about one month in mid-late summer (Jennings, 1981).
Sources: Rheims, Cristina A. 2010. “On the native Nearctic species of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae Bertkau (Araneae),” J. Arachnol. 38: 530-537
Lizotte, Rene. 2000. “Spiders” in Phillips, Steven J. and Patricia Wentworth Comus (eds.). A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. Tucson: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press. pp. 294-303.
Jennings, Daniel T. 1981. “Observations on Olios fasciculatus, a giant crab spider (Araneae: Sparassidae),” The Southwest Naturalist 26(4): 437-439.
Richman, David B., et al. 2008. The Spiders of the Arid Southwest. New Mexico State University.
Gertsch, Willis J. 1979. American Spiders (2nd ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc. 274 pp.
Labels: animals, arachnids, giant crab spiders, nature, North America, Olios giganteus, Sparassidae, USA, wildlife
Wasp Wednesday: Not Wasp VI
Many bees are easily mistaken for small wasps, especially the “masked bees” of the genus Hylaeus in the family Colletidae. There are not many characters that can be used to separate these bees from wasps that are easily visible in the field. Mostly it just takes a practiced eye to tell them apart.
Masked bees, also known as yellow-faced bees, are nearly hairless, accentuating their resemblance to wasps. While wasps have hairs, too, those hairs are simple and unbranched. The hairs of bees, in contrast, are plumose and almost feather-like. Unfortunately, this character requires a minimum magnification of sixty power to observe. Live bees and wasps don’t usually cooperate for microscopic examination.
Hylaeus are not parasitic on other bees, so a logical question would be how does a hairless bee transport pollen and nectar back to its nest? The answer is that the female bee ingests mostly nectar, and stores it in a special internal organ called the “crop.” Once the bee arrives back at the nest, she regurgitates her load and stores it in a cell. Several such loads will provide enough nourishment for the single larval offspring in each cell.
Masked bees are solitary, meaning each female makes her own nest. Without strong jaws, or a rake of spines on the front legs, Hylaeus bees are pretty much forced to use pre-existing burrows of other insects in the soil, cavities in the pith of twigs, or in abandoned galls. Indeed, most species of Hylaeus nest in hollow stems or twigs. Individual cells are lined with a natural plastic, a type of polymer secreted by glands in the female’s abdomen.
Male and female masked bees can be distinguished by their facial markings. Females generally have yellow, white, or ivory markings on the inner margin of each eye. Males have the entire face colored yellow or white.
Photo by Tom Murray via Bugguide.net
There are around 900 species of Hylaeus, collectively distributed worldwide, with about fifty in North America. The genus reaches its zenith of diversity in subtropical Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands. There are, or were, sixty species in Hawaii. Several of those are threatened or endangered, in part by invasive ant species that have been introduced from elsewhere and prey on the bee eggs, larvae, and pupae. Seven species of Hylaeus are considered “critically imperiled and possibly extinct,” according to the Xerces Society.
Because the female bees collect so little pollen, it has been problematic to determine which species are generalist pollinators, and which are specialists. Recording which flowers the females visit has only provided a little insight. Analysis of pollen grains in the larval feces of three species in Michigan revealed that pollen foraging skews toward members of the Rosaceae when those flowers are available, and Asteraceae otherwise (Scott, 1996). The western U.S. species H. bisinuatus apparently visits White Sweetclover, Melilotus alba exclusively, even when other flowers are available. The Australian species H. alcyoneus visits only Banksia flowers. Still, the vast majority of species are assumed to be generalist pollinators.
Masked bees will readily nest in artificial bee boxes, be they bundles of thin straws, sumac twigs, or blocks with small diameter holes drilled into them. Consider constructing one of these and hanging it on a south-facing exterior wall, tree trunk, or similar situation. Be sure to include a “roof” to protect the entrance holes from rain, and elevate it at least three feet from the ground. Many websites exist with further hints on how to build such nest boxes.
Lastly, don’t fret if you can’t always tell the difference between masked bees and wasps. There are records whereby species of Hyleaus were originally described as wasps by scientists.
Sources: Scott, Virginia, 1996. “Pollen Selection by Three Species of Hylaeus in Michigan,” J Kans Entomol Soc 69(4): 195-200.
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”Aculeata Agonistes: Yellow-faced Bees”
Labels: animals, bugs, Colletidae, Hylaeus, Hymenoptera, insects, masked bees, nature, solitary bees, Wasp Wednesday, wildlife, yellow-faced bees
Spider Sunday: Ebo Time
Sorry, in the wake of the popular mania over Tim Tebow, quarterback of the Denver Broncos NFL team, I could not resist the play on words. The spiders of the genus Ebo, members of the “running crab spider” family Philodromidae, are not known for their ability to score touchdowns or inspire a nation. That does not make them any less interesting as a topic of conversation, though.
Philodromids are identified rather easily by the fact that their second pair of legs is longest. The genus Ebo takes this to an extreme, as that second leg is at least twice as long as all the others. Their “wingspan” must be the greatest for their size of any spider in North America. Their body size is small, averaging between two and six millimeters depending on the species, and skewing towards the lower end of that spectrum.
There were 22 recognized species of Ebo found in North America, but some species have recently been reassigned to the genus Titanebo, leaving just seven North American species in Ebo sensu stricto. Their collective distribution is throughout the U.S. and extreme southern Canada. Other species occur in Mexico, Argentina, India, and Russia. They reach their greatest diversity in the southwest U.S., which is where I found the specimen shown in the images below. It was on the edge of the bathtub in my Tucson, Arizona apartment. I guess I cannot say for certain now whether this is an Ebo or Titanebo.
I originally posted these images on Bugguide.net, a bit reluctantly since they also showed a fair amount of lint on the bathtub. Fellow contributor Carol Davis put me immediately at ease with her own comment: “Cleanliness leads to buglessness and then what have you got? No photos!” Fair point, and I replied that I am not a messy housekeeper, I’m promoting biodiversity!
Like most running crab spiders, Ebo prowls for prey among grasses and foliage. At least two species frequent pecan groves in Texas, affording natural pest control to at least a minor degree (Calixto, et al. 2004).
What about the origin of the name, you ask? Well, the German arachnologist Eugen von Keyserling who created the genus gives no indication of its derivation. Ebo was apparently a common name in medieval Germany, a diminutive of “Ebur,” meaning “prince” or “lord.” Hm-m-m, seems that both Ebo and Tebow could qualify for that definition.
Do keep an eye out for these unique spiders, which should be easy to recognize. You could say that Ebo is all elbows.
Sources: Calixto, Alejandro, Allen Dean and Marvin Harris. 2004. Spiders in Pecans. College Station: Texas A & M University.
Kaston, B. J. 1978. How to Know the Spiders 3rd Edition. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers. 272 pp.
Platnick, Norman I. 2012. The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.5
Ubick, D., P. Paquin, P. E. Cushing, and V. Roth (eds.) 2005. Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society. 377 pp.
Labels: animals, arachnids, Ebo, nature, North America, Philodromidae, running crab spiders, spiders, USA, wildlife
Wasp Wednesday: Clitemnestra bipunctata
Most species of insects are smaller than you would imagine. This is also true of wasps. For every species you notice, there are dozens you don’t. One common species that is easily overlooked is Clitemnestra bipunctata in the family Crabronidae.
At about 5-6 millimeters in body length, this wasp usually escapes notice. I have found them most commonly around aphid colonies where they lap up the aphids’ liquid waste, known as “honeydew.” The species ranges across most of the United States and is also recorded from Cuba.
When not living the luxurious lifestyle sipping sugary liquids, the female wasps hunt a variety of planthoppers, leafhoppers, treehoppers, and psyllids. The long list of recorded hosts (424 prey records from Cuba alone) includes Coelidia olitoria, Colladonus clitellarius, Japananus hyalinus (pictured below), Macrosteles fascifrons, Orientus ishidae, Paraphlepsius irroratus, and Prescottia lobata from the leafhopper family Cicadellidae.
Also found in excavated nests were the spittlebugs Clastoptera obtusus, Philaenus leucophthalmus, and P. lineatus; the treehopper Cyrtolobus acutus; and various members of the families Cixiidae, Dictyopharidae, Flatidae, Tropiduchidae, and Psyllidae. The wasps generally select adult hoppers much more often than nymphs.
Nests are burrows usually dug in bare soil near the top of vertical banks, and to a depth of 9-20 centimeters. One to three cells usually branch from the main tunnel. Each cell measures about six by ten millimeters, and the wasp stores 6-18 paralyzed prey per cell.
The satellite flies Phrosinella aurifacies and Metopia argyrocephala are reported as parasites of nests. The adult female flies enter the burrows and deposit live larvae inside. The larvae feed on the paralyzed prey, but often destroy the wasp egg or larvae as well. Adults of Climnestra bipunctata are preyed on by adults of the robber fly Diogmites angustipennis, and probably other predatory insects as well.
Note that this species was formerly known as Ochleroptera bipunctata, but that genus was merged with Clitemnestra by Bohart in 2000.
Sources: Evans, Howard E. and Kevin M. O’Neill. 2007. The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 340 pp.
Evans, Howard E. 1968. The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 526 pp.
Bohart, R. M. and A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World. Berkeley: University of California Press. 695 pp.
Labels: animals, bugs, Clitemnestra bipunctata, Crabronidae, Hymenoptera, insects, nature, North America, outdoors, USA, Wasp Wednesday, wasps, wildlife
Spider Sunday: Gray Wall Jumper
Few arachnologists would argue that the most charismatic of spiders are the jumping spiders, family Salticidae. These agile hunters are about as “cute” as spiders can get. They have surprisingly acute vision, and will turn to look at you with one pair of enormous eyes when you approach them. Jumping spiders can also be very colorful. Few species are immediately recognizable, however, due to their great variability in color and pattern, and their generally small size. One species that is fairly identifiable is the Gray Wall Jumper, Menemerus bivittatus.
I was fortunate to encounter several pairs of this species living up to its common name on the exterior walls of the visitor center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park in Mission, Texas in June, 2010. The Gray Wall Jumper is not native to North America, however, having been introduced from the Old World tropics. Here in the U.S. it is generally confined to Florida, Texas, and southern California.
Jumping spiders, and hunting spiders in general, differ from web-building spiders in that both genders are nearly identical in size. Female Gray Wall Jumpers (image above) are 8-10 millimeters in body length at maturity, whereas males (images at top and below) are 8-9 millimeters. The striking differences are in their color pattern. The male has more or less a reverse color pattern from the female, at least on the abdomen. I initially thought I had taken images of two different species.
A flat, vertical surface seems an odd “habitat” for any organism, but Menemerus makes the most of it. The spiders actively stalk small flies that bask in such situations, or that are attracted to lights at night. They are strong enough to bring down fairly large crane flies, and subdue something the size of a house fly, too.
One can’t help but become enamored with these spiders, especially after seeing them in action. This video gives you just a glimpse of their behavior. See if you can identify the males and females in that clip.
The female spider constructs a lens-shaped egg sac to hold 25-40 eggs. She guards the sac inside a silken retreat that is about 1.5 centimeters in diameter. She’ll also protect the spiderlings after they emerge, for a total of roughly three weeks from egg-laying to dispersal of her offspring.
In places where their respective ranges overlap (Texas), the Gray Wall Jumper may be mistaken for the species Platycryptus undatus, shown below, or vice versa. Both are likely to be encountered on vertical surfaces such as outside walls, and they are very similar in size and markings. Platycryptus is native, however, and has a much more extensive range, extending far to the north into southern Canada.
Be sure to look for the Gray Wall Jumping Spider in your travels abroad, too. It is essentially cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world, including Japan, India, Thailand, Paraguay, and even the Galapagos Islands.
Sources: G. B. Edwards, Jr. 2002. Featured Creatures: Jumping Spiders, University of Florida (Gainesville).
Arachne.org.au
Labels: animals, arachnids, behavior, Gray Wall Jumper, jumping spiders, Menemerus bivittatus, nature, outdoors, Salticidae, Spider Sunday, spiders, wildlife
Wasp Wednesday: Recent Mentors
I suppose that “recent” is a relative term, but I am delighted to report that the following gentlemen are all still alive and continuing to make very valuable contributions to science. They inspire me and make me a better entomologist and writer.
Arnold Menke, Eric Grissell, myself, Justin Schmidt
I was privileged to have the opportunity to work on a private contract to help curate the national butterfly collection at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) in April and May of 1986, where I got to meet two fine scholars working there on behalf of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. Dr. Arnold Menke is a world authority on wasps, especially the thread-waisted wasps in the genus Ammophila. He currently has nearly all my specimens of that genus, in fact, as he is working on a much-needed revision of those caterpillar hunters. He retired to Bisbee, Arizona in the 1990s where he also enjoys railroad history and photography.
Dr. Edward Eric Grissell (he goes by “Eric,” too, which can cause confusion at Arnold’s annual hamburger roast) is an expert on tiny parasitic wasps in the suborder Chalcidoidea. Since many of those wasps are enemies of agricultural pests, Eric was a very busy man figuring out which species could help control food-destroying insects. Today, Eric is also “retired,” but writes full-time about insects and gardening. He has produced several outstanding popular books including Thyme on my Hands, Insects and Gardens: in Pursuit of a Garden Ecology, and Bees, Wasps, and Ants: The Indispensable Role of Hymenoptera in Gardens, all published by Timber Press.
Another remarkable individual is Justin Schmidt, known famously as the “King of Sting” for his exploits in assessing the effects of insect and arachnid venoms on willing human subjects, but mostly himself. He created the “Schmidt Sting Pain Index” to quantify and describe (in prose usually reserved for connoisseurs of wine) the type of pain inflicted by stinging insects. He worked for many years at the federal Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, before deciding to pursue his own projects full time. I greatly admire his endless curiosity, and ability to devise experiments to divine answers to his questions.
Matthias Buck
Last, but certainly not least, is Dr. Matthias Buck, currently the Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. I first met him online as I recall, since he freely shares his expertise on Bugguide.net. Eventually we met in person at a meeting of the Entomological Collections Network. His specialty is vespid wasps, which includes the yellowjackets, hornets, paper wasps, mason wasps and potter wasps. One of his most amazing projects is the co-creation of the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region, along with Stephen A. Marshall and David K. B. Cheung. Matthias has all my Polistes paper wasps, and has already found examples of an undescribed species among them.
I can honestly say that it is an honor to know these men both as scientists and human beings. I will be forever grateful to them for sharing their knowledge and encouraging me along the path that I have chosen.
Labels: Arnold Menke, entomologists, entomology, Eric Grissell, Hymenoptera, Justin Schmidt, Matthias Buck, mentors, scientists, Wasp Wednesday, wasps
Spider Sunday: Thieves and Hangers-on
Not all enemies of spiders kill them. Some will steal a meal. Others aren’t really enemies, but escape their own enemies by hiding out on spider webs.
While in Massachusetts, I was lucky enough to witness a common scorpionfly, Panorpa acuta, scavenging prey in the web of a sheetweb-weaver (family Linyphiidae). The spider tried to chase off the pesky mecopteran, as evidenced by the image below.
Common scorpionflies are in the family Panorpidae, order Mecoptera. They are named for the enlarged claspers of the male, part of his external genitalia. They are so large that the male must curl the end of his abdomen, giving him the appearance of a scorpion. The “long face,” terminating in chewing mandibles, also helps to identify these insects.
They go through complete metamorphosis, the larvae living in soil and leaf litter on the forest floor where they also scavenge on dead or dying, soft-bodied insects. They go through four instars (the intervals between molts), before pupating in an earthen chamber in the soil.
Another phenomenon I saw in Massachusetts was the use of spider webs as roosting places for a certain species of gall midge, family Cecidomyiidae. Gall midges are a type of fly. Whereas most flies become tangled in spider webs and eventually a meal for the spider, these tiny flies are able to select the non-sticky foundation threads of spider webs and safely suspend themselves from them. Predators of the flies, if they even managed to notice them, would risk becoming tangled in the spider web should they attempt to catch one of the diminutive midges.
This trapeze act is apparently a widespread phenomenon in the Cecidomyiidae, especially in the subfamilies Porricondylinae and Cecidomyiinae. The behavior was first reported (published) in 1853 by Johannes Winnertz.
Sources: Byers, George W. 2002. “Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Other Mecoptera,” Kansas School Naturalist. 48(1): 1-15.
Gagne, Raymond J. 1989. ”Family Cecidomyiidae” in Catalog of the Diptera of Australasia and Oceania, Neal L. Evenhuis, editor. Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum & E. J. Brill. 1155 pp..
Labels: animals, arachnids, behavior, Cecidomyiidae, Diptera, gall midges, Mecoptera, nature, outdoors, Panorpidae, scorpionflies, Spider Sunday, spiders, wildlife
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Blog Tour~ Women of Faith in Latter-Days: Volume 3
06 May, 2014 by Heather in Uncategorized 2 comments
I received this book for free from Deseret Book in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Women of Faith in Latter-Days: Volume 3
by Brittany Chapman, Jr., Richard Turley
Series: Women of Faith
Published by Deseret Book on 2014
Genres: Adult, Non- Fiction
Source: Deseret Book
This groundbreaking series tells the stories of women in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose lives of faith and dedication deserve emulation. Each chapter recounts a woman's trials, triumphs, and testimony, often in her own words.
Volume 3 features women born between 1846 and 1870 and includes well-known women and other publicly unknown. Their lifespans range from the era of the Mormon pioneers to the beginnings of the space age. Al these women knew pioneer life firsthand. Many also experienced the gradual transition to modern life and the expansion of the Church to far-flung parts of the globe.
Here you will encounter such diverse women as Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator in the United States; Tsune Ishida Nachie, and early Japanese convert and dedicated missionary; Ellis Reynolds Shipp, a medical doctor in early Utah; Mere Mete Whaanga, a leading Maori who migrated to Utah; general Relief Society presidents Sarah Louisa Yates Robison and Clarissa Smith Williams; and Cohn Shoshonitz Zundel, a Shoshone women who lived nearly fifty years as a widow.
The faith these women exhibited as they rejoiced in blessings and dealt with struggles provides a model for us in facing our own challenges as we strive to build lives of faith today.
Additional biographies of Latter-day Saint women of faith born between 1846 and 1870 are available in the eBook edition of this volume.
Wow! I had no idea Utah had such a rich early history of women holding political office, being doctors, and fulfilling prominent roles in society. This being the first volume I’ve read in the Women of Faith series, I jumped in at volume three, and at a time period I really love. Utah was just on the cusp of gaining statehood and the women activists were fighting for the right to vote and hold office. Women of religious conviction with large families and often with little ones at home who worked in their community post offices and stores, and traveled to the East to obtain higher education. For instance, did you know “in 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon ran as a Democrat” in Utah for one of the open Senate seats? One of her opponents was her Republican husband. Martha won and become the first female Senator in the United States of America. She served two terms in the Utah state legislature. Utah also had the first woman to serve as a Chaplain for the Senate, Maud Mary Babcock.
Between 1911-1913, five Utah women served on the first all-woman town council in Kanab with Mary Elizabeth Woolley Chamberlain as mayor. Women of Faith vol. 3 shares many stories like these, three of just how strong, determined and active LDS women were. I was fascinated by their desire to get their degrees, to serve in their homes an in their government. Other stories include, a sister in Japan who became like a mother to the missionaries in Tokyo, and a Maori sister who came to live in Utah from New Zealand. If you are looking for historical examples, journal entries, photos and testimony of hte early sister Saints, this is a book you will want to buy to have on your shelves. My testimony was bolstered, my faith encouraged and I came away wanting to pursue my dreams while maintaining roots at home. I highly recommend Women of Faith in the Latter Days volume 3, and I will be picking up the rest of the series!
RICHARD E. TURLEY, JR., Assistant Church Historian and Recorder for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the chairman of the editorial board for The Joseph Smith Papers series. He is the author or co-author of several books, including How We Got the Book of Mormon, with William W. Slaughter; Massacre at Mountain Meadows, with Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard; and Stories from the Life of Joseph Smith, with Lael Littke. In addition, he is the coeditor of the series Women of Faith in the Latter Days, with Brittany A. Chapman. He and his wife, Shirley, live in Taylorsville, Utah.
Brittany A. Chapman is a historian in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Learn more at Deseret Book.
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A ticket for me?
I have seen in the news that most European leaders and Royals will not attend the World Cup due to some alleged political case against Russia. While all these great and intelligent world leaders seem to be riling against one another, a small average guy like me is still hoping to get a ticket for the World Cup. I can take one of these leftover tickets. I will pay for it. I may not be a world leader, intelligent, nor even special in any way. But I just really want to go to a World Cup.
Labels: "no life", being a fan, football fan, football fanatic, no life, Russia 2018 tickets, ticket, World Cup tickets
The worst Argentina ever
Recently a friend said to me that Maradona had made a bad team World Champion, and that Messi could make this Argentina World Champion. I completely disagreed: Compare the Argentina of 1986 without Maradona with the Argentina of 2018 without Messi, and you will see that the 1986 side was far superior to the spoiled mediocrity that Argentina is today.
Argentina in 1986 did not have the world's greatest players, but they had a solid team, that Maradona made the best of all. Without Maradona Argentina had good and experienced players such as Jorge Valdano (who contrary to one guy named Higuain would not miss the chances he got), Oscar Ruggeri (who was to become a solid Real Madrid defender), Jose Luis Brown (who replaced the veteran Daniel Passarella), as well as a strong midfield with players such as Jorge Burruchaga, Ricardo Giusti, Sergio Batista and Julio Olarticoechea. Carlos Bilardo was a cynical but organised manager, who knew what he had and what he wanted.
Maradona, with his strong leadership and indisputable skills, brought this team to the pinnacle of world football amid a number of teams that were probably better.
Argentina today has a lot of overpaid and overrated players. And Messi is indeed the world's best player, who has made his name in the Champions League and in a Barcelona team where he has an outstanding team around him. Rather than Maradona, Messi is perhaps better compared to George Weah, who in the 1990s was also the best of the world, but never managed to lift his national team. And unlike Maradona (or Weah), Messi may be brilliant but is not a born leader. He can win for the team (like when he alone qualified them for the World Cup), but he cannot lift the rest of the team to perform. The other Argentine players are simply not good enough.
Finally, Argentina has a manager in Jorge Sampaoli who has no plan with the team beyond "pass it to Messi".
Today, the debacle that is waiting to happen got its first warning when Argentina (without Messi) was thoroughly destroyed 6-1 by Spain. The same Spain that normally has difficulty scoring goals had no problem outclassing an Argentine defense that is barely worthy of being called a defense. In the end this is Argentina's biggest problem compared to 1986: back then Bilardo's defense gave little if anything away. Today, the defense is an open door which I doubt Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria will be unable to not score against, no matter how hard they try not to (and why would they...?).
Labels: Argentina, Carlos Bilardo, Diego Maradona, football debate, football discussions, friendly matches, Jorge Sampaoli, Lionel Messi, Spain
UEFA Champions League quarterfinals draw
Exciting times in football! The quarterfinals following the draw today are as follows:
FC Barcelona-Roma: The Italians managed to squeeze past Shakhtar Donetsk and are facing mighty Messi, who defeated Chelsea in the previous round scoring his impressive goal number 100 in the CL. The Catalans are surely the favourites, and Roma can play almost without the pressure of expectations.
Sevilla-Bayern Munich: One could argue that this will be Sevilla's first real test after they defeated a very poor Manchester United in Old Trafford. United were so poor one can only be happy not to see them facing Bayern Munich, who took out Besiktas with ease, winning 5-0 and 1-3 respectively. The Germans are favourites, but one has to wonder if there is more in Sevilla, who after years of success in the Europa League, may now be looking for CL success.
Real Madrid-Juventus: A repeat of last year's final, when Real Madrid trounced Juventus. Real Madrid have only this title to play for this year, while Juventus are not looking as strong as they were last year. That said, this is an unpredictable match: while Real Madrid are favourites, Juventus showed with their comeback against Tottenham that they will always be a team to be reckoned with.
Liverpool-Manchester City: This should be a great match as it features two of the most attacking and entertaining teams of the moment. Add the local rivalry and the high profile managers of the clubs, and this is a must-see match with an unpredictable outcome. Both sides have been outstanding in the CL, easily getting past their last-16 opponents. In the Premier League, Manchester City is leading, and that may make them slight favourites, but they have already lost to Liverpool in the league.
We are eagerly awaiting for April to arrive!
Labels: AS Roma, Bayern Munich, Champions League 2017-2018, champions league semifinals, FC Barcelona, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Sevilla, UEFA Champions League
MLS-Liga MX semifinals
As expected, America defeated Tauro, and will be facing Toronto FC in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League. In the meantime, the other semifinal did not go well for the MLS side Seattle Sounders, who went out squarely to defend their 1-0 lead from the first match against Chivas Guadalajara. It was not nice to watch, but seemed to be working until five minutes into the second half when Oswaldo Alanis brought Chivas ahead. The US side had no response against their American counterparts who just continued attacking, and ended up winning a not too wide 3-0 victory. The 3-0 goal by the young Jose de Jesus Godinez muts be mentioned as an outstanding heal-goal.
Chivas will face New York Red Bulls, who are probably slight favourities, but should not lean back and defend as lazily as Seattle Sounders did. I have not been impressed about Seattle who, if they really intend to be a big side, should be able to do better against a Chivas side that is in deep crisis in the Mexican league.
The final of the CONCACAF Champions league could potentially be an MLS-Liga MX final or a purely MLS final. Or, perhaps most interestingly, would be a Superclasico final between America and Chivas!
Labels: 2018 CONCACAF Champions League, Chivas Guadalajara, Club America, CONCACAF Champions League, Juan de Jesus Godinez, Oswaldo Alanis, Seattle Sounders, semifinals, Toronto FC
MLS-Liga MX 2-0
The first of four Concacaf Champions League quarterfinals were decided today, and they were two matches between MLS sides New York Red Bulls and Toronto FC, and Liga MX sides Tijuana and Tigres UANL, respectively.
New York Red Bulls had a 0-2 away advantage after a hard-fought and lucky away win. Tijuana attacked from the start, and even went ahead 0-1, but the New Yorkers were unforgiving in the counter-attack and won 3-1, taking the first semifinal spot for MLS. Toronto were 2-1 ahead before going to "El Volcan" in Nueva Leon. Toronto defended their lead, but were strong in counter-attack as Tigres pushed more and more. In the end Tigres won 3-2, but this was not enough, and Toronto are in the semifinals, second MLS team.
Tomorrow Seattle Sounders, holding a 1-0 lead, are likely to become the third MLS team against a Chivas Guadalajara side that is playing awful. This will mean that there are three MLS sides in the semifinals, and one Mexican, as America are likely to progress from their 4-0 lead against Tauro, from Panama.
America are surely a strong side, but after having watched the MLS sides, I would put money on this being the first year that MLS shows that it is better than the Mexican League.
Labels: 2018 CONCACAF Champions League, CONCACAF Champions League, Mexican league, MLS, New York Red Bulls, Tigres UANL, Tijuana, Toronto FC
Trying to get a ticket for the World Cup
I did not get a ticket for Russia. I had applied for two matches, and it was a no. It is in fact more depressing than I thought it would be. This is my last chance to go to a World Cup, and it will not turn out. I am thinking of cancelling my summer vacations; vacations at all...
Labels: being a fan, being a football fan, buying a ticket, depression, no life, Russia 2018, Russia 2018 tickets, World Cup 2018
Juventus rises
After Juventus disappointing 2-2 at home to Tottenham in the first leg, most people were expecting Tottenham, who were undefeated in the CL, to put the last nail in the ageing Juvnetus side. And after first half it surely looked they were on the way to the quarterfinals as a splendid Son Heung Min brought them ahead 1-0. Tottenham were the best team in the first half, but the experience of Juventus players and the intelligence of Massimiliano Allegri proved too much for Tottenham.
Allegri introduced Kwadwo Asamoah and Stephan Lichtsteiner to give more power on the flanks, where Tottenham had shown some weakness. And this changed the match. Shortly after the players were introduced, Gonzalo Higuain first made it 1-1, and Paolo Dybala made it 1-2. Even though Tottenham attacked heroically, Juventus were just too experienced, with a splendid veteran Giorgio Chiellini taking everything in central defense.
Another example that in football experience and intelligence counts most.
This was the first match Tottenham lost in this seasons' CL, which must make it so much more bitter for the English side. Nevertheless, no neutral football fan can be disappointed that Juventus are in the quarterfinals.
Labels: Champions League, Champions League 2017-2018, Giorgio Chiellini, Gonzalo Higuain, Juventus, Massimiliano Allegri, Paolo Dybala, Tottenham Hotspurs, UEFA Champions League
Welcome to Tijuana
Club Tijuana hosted New York Red Bulls in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals. A good result for the home team was crucial, but the New Yorkers were welcomed in Tijuana and took everything back to the USA on their trip to the other side of the Rio Grande. NY Red Bulls were not that impressive, but efficient: Bradley Wright-Phillips scored both goals in what were almost the only chances they created, but most impressive of all was the NY goalkeeper Luis Robles, who, when Tijuana were attacking the most, came up with some incredible saves.
Tijuana supposedly has one of the best defenses in the Mexican League, but will need not just that, but also to score against Robles in New York. Expect NY Red Bulls in the semifinals, where they will face the winner of Chivas Guadalajara-Seattle Sounders.
Labels: 2018 CONCACAF Champions League, Bradley Wright-Phillips, CONCACAF Champions League, Luis Robles, New York Red Bulls, Tijuana
Wishing Neymar a speedy recovery
Neymar is injured, and will be missing Paris St. Germain's end of the season. While the Parisians seem to be heading to the French title anyway, Neymar will be sorely missed next week when the Paris sides takes on Real Madrid to try to come back from their 1-3 away defeat. I think a lot of people think that the task will be further uphill for PSG without the skills of Neymar. Me included.
While it does seem that Neymar will be ready for the World Cup, there seem to be some rumours that he will not make it. I have no doubt that they will make everything to get him ready, and I am certain we will see him. But the question is whether he, coming back from an injury, will be the "same" Neymar, expected to do great things.
If he is not, it will indeed be a loss for Brazil and for Football, in that order, so with that, I wish Neymar a speedy recovery!!!!
Labels: Brazil, Champions League 2017-2018, injury, Neymar, Paris St. Germain, Russia 2018, World Cup 2018
CONCACAF Champions League play-offs
The CONCACAF Champions League has reached the round of 16, and tonight the team from El Salvador, Santa Tecla, was hoping to make an upset against the MLS side Seattle Sounders after winning 2-1 in El Salvador. After a good first half, the Salvadoreans fell apart deep into the second half, and lost 4-0.
Very disappointing but at the same time it was a good show against an MLS side which, as all MLS sides, think they are much better than they are...
Seattle Sounders will face Chivas Guadalajara in the quarterfinals. Chivas are in a deep crisis in the Mexican League; they are unlikely to make the play-offs and in reality Champions League are their only hope for a title. While this could be the time for Sounders to be facing a Chivas side in crisis, one has to consider the absolute dominance by Mexican teams in the CONCACAF Champions League: of the four Mexican sides participating, all have made it to the quarterfinals. Since the tournament was introduced in 2008, it has been won by Mexican sides every single year. In fact, in all but two years (2010 and 2015) the final has been between Mexican sides. In 2016, all four semi-finalists were Mexican sides. This just illustrates that the Mexican League remains far superior to any league in the CONCACAF region, including the MLS, and when MLS sides compare themselves to other sides, they should look to smaller leagues than the Mexican, which is certainly the much stronger than the MLS.
The coming quarterfinals of the tournament will see the following clashes:
Club America-Tauro
Toronto FC-Tigres UANL
Tijuana-New York Red Bulls
Seattle Sounders-Guadalajara
I hope particularly Tigres UANL through, after the fantastic final I watched them play in December last year. I also hope Chivas destroy Seattle, avenging Santa Tecla, and saving their poor season.
Labels: 2018 CONCACAF Champions League, Chivas, Chivas Guadalajara, Concacaf, CONCACAF Champions League, CONCACAF Champions League Playoffs, Mexican league, MLS, Santa Tecla, Seattle Sounders
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A Look Back at Bradley Whitford’s Varied TV Career
September 26, 2019 by admin 0 Comments
Bradley Whitford has already had a hell of a career, and tonight he adds a new gig to his resume: choir director.
Whitford stars in NBC's Perfect Harmony as Arthur Cochran, a depressed former Harvard music professor who stumbles upon a small town choir in need of some musical direction, and while he's not new to comedies, the show is a big leap from Whitford's most recent role on The Handmaid's Tale.
“I really wanted to do a comedy,” Whitford said at the TV Critics Association summer press tour, explaining that it was creator Jason Winer who attracted him to this particular show, as well as the focus on music.
“I knew I wanted to work with Jason, and then I read Lesley [Wake]'s script, and I thought it was just about a personal, specific, genuine and about something that I think is helpful now, which is just how music can bring people who are very different together in a lovely way, and I say all that pretentious stuff knowing that all that really matters is that it's funny as hell,” he said.
During the panel, a reporter asked how Whitford had avoided typecasting throughout his career, which has often jumped between comedy and drama with a fair amount of ease.
“First of all, getting typecast is kind of a compliment, but a prison, because it means you did that one thing well, and unfortunately, in Hollywood if you do something well, that's all they want you to do because there's a lot of money at stake,” he said. “I don't know. You always get typecast by the last thing that you did. I sort of look at it I realize I just want to do different completely different kinds of acting to the point where I can't apply my approach from one of the projects to the other. That's the most exciting thing for me.”
With guest roles on TV's biggest dramas and comedies, Whitford has definitely proven he loves to switch it up.
Check out his biggest TV roles below!
ER (1995)
After guest roles on The Equalizer in 1985, Tales from the Darkside in 1988, and a 1994 ep of The X-Files as a seismologist infected by an evil organism, Whitford joined ER for two episodes, including the show's most famous episode ever, “Love's Labor Lost.”
The 1995 Emmy-winning episode featured Whitford as an expectant father whose wife comes in to see Dr. Greene and is mis-diagnosed with a bladder infection instead of pre-eclampsia. She later dies after childbirth, leaving Sean alone with the baby and all of us with some serious heartbreak.
The Secret Lives of Men (1998)
The description of this show, in which Whitford starred with Peter Gallagher and Mitch Rouse, tells you everything you need to know: “Three divorced men get thrown back into the bachelor life. With nothing left but each other, Michael, Phil, and Andy form an exclusive club and embark on a new phase of their existence. Someday, they might comprehend the mysteries of women, love and, golf. Until then, they'll continue carrying on The Secret Lives of Men.”
The West Wing (1999)
Just a little show you might not have heard of. Whitford played Josh Lyman, White House deputy chief of staff to President Bartlet, a role that won him three Emmys in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006)
Aaron Sorkin followed up The West Wing with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a show about a live comedy show sorta similar to Saturday Night Live. Whitford played Danny Tripp, former segment producer and new executive producer on the show who's BFFs with writer and fellow new EP Matt Albie, played by Matthew Perry. Studio 60 tragically(?) only lasted one season.
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Whitford starred opposite Colin Hanks in a show about the old-fashioned mustachioed detective (Whitford) working with a new, young, ambitious partner (Hanks). Fox canceled the show and that mustache after just one season.
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Shameless (2013)
After guest roles on The Mentalist, Go On, Law & Order: LA, and Parks and Recreation, Whitford guest starred in the Showtime series as Abraham, described ahead of time as “a powerful, well-dressed and sophisticated gay man who is a political activist.” We ended up meeting him when Frank (William H. Macy) inadvertently becomes the leader of a gay rights movement in season three.
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Trophy Wife (2013)
We genuinely still think about this one season gem on a regular basis. Whitford played new husband to Kate (Malin Akerman), and ex-husband to both Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) and Jackie (Michaela Watkins). The show was really about the women and their kids, so Whitford was just a perfectly nice but ever so slightly boring lawyer named Pete. And it was great.
This show came after guest roles on Drunk History and Law & Order: SVU.
Happyish (2015)
Whitford starred alongside Steve Coogan and Kathryn Hahn in this show about a man (Coogan) who struggles to be truly happy so he settles for “happyish.”
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Jake Peralta's (Andy Samberg) slightly no-good dad turned out to be none other than Whitford, who played Roger Peralta as a lovable goof despite also being somewhat of a conman and a womanizer. His last appearance was in 2017 so it feels like time for another visit from dad, huh?
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Whitford spent two episodes on Mom as Mitch, a guy who was pretty much a lot of bad news for Christy and Bonnie.
Transparent (2018)
Whitford won in 2015 and was nominated in 2016 at the Emmys for his guest role on the Amazon series. He's played two characters, including closet transvestite Marcy and “the Isaac Newton of sex,” Magnus Hirschfield, in season two flashbacks to 1930s Berlin.
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Valley of the Boom (2019)
Whitford stars alongside Steve Zahn, Lamore Morris, and John Karna in this Nat Geo miniseries about the dotcom boom in the '90s, with Whitford playing the CEO of Netscape.
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The Handmaid's Tale (2018)
This is the role that won Whitford his 2019 Emmy for outstanding guest actor. He plays Commander Lawrence, a powerful man in Gilead dealing with some guilt over what he's done. It's a bit of a jump over to choir director, but it's not as if Whitford hasn't done it before!
Perfect Harmony airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. on NBC.
E! and NBC are both part of the NBC Universal family.
This article was originally published by Eonline.com. Read the original article here.
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Feature: Jordan's Movie Quest
Jordan's Movie Quest: The Top Ten Movies of the 2000s
After a year spent reviewing the last decade in film, I have finally narrowed down my lists to create a list of my top ten movies of the last decade. It was a grueling process, and many times over the past few weeks I have wished I had decided upon making a top twenty of thirty movies list, yet I set out to determine my top ten movies of the decade, and it has been done. Many of my very favorite movies had to be hacked off of this list, which hovered around 20 for the last week, but below you will find my picks for the ten best movies of the last ten years, along with a blurb about each. If you're curious where I got the nominees for this list, feel free to take a look at each of my top ten movies of the year lists for the past ten years, which can be found at 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
And now, for the final list:
10. Adaptation (2002)"”Writer Charlier Kaufman strikes brilliance yet again in this tale of writer Charlie Kaufman (Oscar nominee Nicholas Cage) attempting to adapt the unadaptable book The Orchid Thief by elusive journalist Susan Orlean (Oscar nominee Meryl Streep). Kaufman is too caught up in his own insecurities, both creative and romantic, to actually make progress on the adaptation, and he begins to write himself into the screenplay. His brother Donald (also Nicholas Cage) is there to lend a helping hand, but his tastes are a tad too Hollywood for Charlie. As the Kaufmans look into Orlean's life and her relationship with the enigmatic and fascinating orchid poacher John Laroche (the Oscar winner Christ Cooper, never better than here) the narrative devolves as Kaufman struggles to complete his second screenplay and maintain his fraying life in the process. Also nominated for best adapted screenplay (as it is in fact based on The Orchid Thief by real life Susan Orlean) and directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich,Where the Wild Things Are) the film is without doubt the best treatise on writing ever created and also a great look at how difficult it can be to create art and to start your life again once you've made a wrong turn. By turns hilarious, haunting, and deeply affecting, Adaptation will change the way you look at movies, and at life itself.
9. The Dark Knight (2008)"”After solidly molding a Batman origin story in Batman Begins, Director Christopher Nolan (who also co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan) returns with the greatest super hero movie of all time. Months after the last film ended, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is still working the night-shift as Batman, and searching for a flesh and bones hero who can save the city by bringing it the hope and legitimacy that his vigilante alter ego never could. He finds his strongest candidate in the tough on crime new DA Harvey Dent (a phenomenal and underrated Aaron Eckhart), who along with the morally unimpeachable cop James Gordon (Gary Oldman) is waging a war against organized crime in the city. Their struggle is complicated by the arrival on the scene of the terrifyingly nihilistic "engine of chaos" that is the Joker (Heath Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar for his stellar performance), who believes that anarchy is the only way to live in a world without rules. The Joker sees life as one dark joke, and its punch line is the terror he inflicts and the death toll he racks up. The film also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, and combines some of the best action set pieces of the decade with the thematic scope of a great novel and more depth than any movie in its genre has ever tried. More than just a titanic battle between good and evil over the soul of a troubled city, The Dark Knight is an examination of existentialism versus nihilism, order versus chaos, and vigilantism versus the often failed attempts of a broken system to do good. The film may be a super-hero movie on its face, but beneath the surface lies an epic and a tragedy of greater proportions than most, making it one of the most resonant movies of the decade.
8. Lost in Translation (2003)"”Bob Harris (Oscar nominee Bill Murray, in easily his best performance) is most assuredly going through a mid-life crisis. His movie career is dead, his relationship with his wife is strained at best, and he has traveled to Tokyo to sell himself out as a celebrity spokesperson for whiskey. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is stuck in a rut in her mid-twenties, already disconnected from her husband, and drifting through life after graduating with a Philosophy degree and no real aspirations for a career. When both are hit with a bout of insomnia while staying in the same hotel, they bond over their lack of sleep and their general malaise. Director Sofia Coppola constructs a visually stunning look at Tokyo as well as a fascinating study of two people who can't seem to find their place in the world and can't manage to get over the depressive state that keeps dragging them down. With brilliant performances from Murray and Johansson, excellent cinematography and a thoughtful, melodic soundtrack, Lost in Translation is a moving meditation on unfulfilled longing, missed connections, and the mistakes that make up our lives.
7. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)"” Director Guillermo Del Toro is known for his inventive use of visuals and his penchant for puppetry over CGI, and these skills have never seen better use than in this fairy tale of a young girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) whose mother brings her to live with a her malicious new husband Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez) after the Spanish Civil War. As Ofelia struggles to escape her bleak surroundings, she is drawn into a quest to assume her thrown as Princess of the Underworld by completing three tasks with the help of a devilish faun (Doug Jones). As she braves the challenges set out before her, she must also avoid the machinations of her new step-father, who aims to root out some rebels hiding in the nearby woods. At once a gory, terrifying R-rated fairy tale and a look at the uses people have for fantasy and for history, Pan's Labyrinth balances its period setting with its grim fantasy, creating a journey that is arresting, inventive, thought-provoking and more than a little scary.
6. Almost Famous (Director's Cut) (2000)"”The story of high schooler William Miller (Patrick Fugit) who nabs an assignment for Rolling Stone magazine to follow rising band Stillwater around the country and document their tour. Packed with nostalgia for '70's rock and roll and the mysterious bonds that form on the road, director Cameron Crowe's masterpiece seemlessly ties together the coming of age of William Miller with the systematic destruction and potential fall of Stillwater as tensions rise between the lead singer Jeff (Jason Lee) and the more popular guitarist Russell (Billy Crudup). Along for the ride is the enigmatic groupie Penny Lane (Oscar nominee Kate Hudson, in what appears to be the only great role she'll ever play) who catches the affections of William while trying to maintain an affair with Russell. The Director's cut of the film runs 40 minutes longer, allowing Crowe to meander through his examination of the band in a more ambling way than the original version, and giving a chance to greatly deepen the characters of Russell and Penny, adding to the tragedy and the revelations at the heart of their relationship. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, nostalgic and knowing, the movie is the perfect document of life on the road, and of what it feels like to be a band on the fringe of fame.
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)"”The Tenenbaum children were all prodigies in their youth, but two decades of failure, betrayal, and disaster have stripped them of their former glory. Playwright Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is trapped in a loveless marriage with neurologist Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray) and an equally passionless affair with overwrought writer and long-time family friend Eli Cash (Owen Wilson). Chaz Tenenbaum (Ben Stiller, in his greatest performance) is experiencing a nervous breakdown in the wake of his wife's death, and is subsequently shielding his sons from the real world. Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) has retired from tennis and now travels the world aimlessly trying to deal with his love for Margot. Things start to come to a head for the Tenenbaum family when their mother Etheline (Anjelica Huston) becomes engaged to her long time friend Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), the children all move back into her home, and their long-estranged father Royal (an Oscar-worthy Gene Hackman) returns into their lives, claiming to be dying of stomach cancer. The Royal Tenenbaums tells the story of a family strangled by its own successes and restrained in its multitudes of failure. But more than that, Wes Anderson's gem of a film looks at the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families together, and what it takes to repair those relationships that have broken apart, and in doing so creates a film that is truly one of the most intelligent and hilarious of all time.
4. Children of Men (2006)"”In the near future, humanity has become inexplicably infertile. While the entire race awaits extinction, and has thus fallen prey to the worst aspects of human nature, Theo (Clive Owen) is recruited by his activist ex (Julianne Moore ) to transport a girl to the coast. Theo soon discovers his cargo (Clare Hope Ashitey) is miraculously pregnant, which makes her valuable to both terrorist cells, including one lead by Chiwitel Eijiofor, and to the government. Also starring Michael Caine, the film some how slipped through the critical cracks, rendering it easily one of the most underrated movies of the decade. Stark in its construction, bleak in its depictions of politics and the dark side of human nature, and yet endlessly hopeful in its depiction of one man's refusal to give up on his dream of a better life, the film tackles a subject that is often done heavy handedly with both subtlety and nuance. Children of Men is alternately pulse-pounding and peaceful, nihilistic and hopeful in its depiction of a society that has fallen apart after realizing it has nothing left to live for, and of one man who struggles to believe there may be a chance for something more.
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)"” From genius writer Charlie Kaufman and Director Michel Gondry comes a tale of romance gone wrong, and the convoluted path back to happiness. Joel Barrish (Jim Carrey in a rare serious turn) has just broken up with the love of his life, Clementine (Oscar Nominee Kate Winslet in a stunning performance). Desperate to win her back, he soon discovers that she has utilized new technology to have all memory of their relationship erased. Half out of anger and half out of depression, Joel goes to visit Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (the always excellent Tom Wilkinson) and decides to have Clementine erased from his memory. As the procedure is carried out by Stan (Mark Ruffalo) and Patrick (Elijah Wood), Joel must watch his relationship with Clementine play out in reverse. As he sees their bitterness and anger dissolve into intimacy and love, he realizes he may be better off with the memories intact. A meticulous study in a particular relationship, from its downfall to its romantic inception, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reminds us all the importance of love, even when it fails, and displays the necessity of even our worst memories toward making us who we are, and in doing so asserts itself as one of the smartest, most realistic, and most touching films of this or any decade.
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)"”It's the story of America that hard work and a bit of business savvy can make a man rich. Following that idea to its ugliest, most amoral endpoint is Paul Thomas Anderson's masterful story of Daniel Plainview (Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis in a towering and terrifying performance) and his endless quest for oil, and with it, riches. His ruthless business dealings put him into conflict with a charismatic preacher (Paul Dano, shockingly deprived of a richly deserved supporting Actor nomination) on the rise in the small community Plainview is about to rob of their oil supply. Anderson created one of the most fascinating, and profoundly terrifying characters in cinema history in Daniel Plainview, and placed him in an epic struggle against harsh terrain, harsher rivalries, and finally, the harshest enemy of all"”himself. There Will Be Blood is an unforgiving epic, made so by its scope and the intensity of its focus on a single man's spiritual death and tormented mental state, and by its larger implications for a country often strangled by capitalistic intentions and positively drowning in its need for oil.
1. No Country For Old Men (2007)"”As Sherriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) prepares to retire from a job he can no longer perform in a world that has grown too violent and evil for his old fashioned sensibility, a trail of bodies begins to pile up in the wake of Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) after he absconds with $2 million in drug money from the scene of a shootout. Hot on his tail is the bleakly moral and brutally efficient hired gun Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem, in an Oscar winning role). The Coen Brothers' film (which also won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) is nearly flawless, combining pulse-pounding action sequences with quiet meditations on fate, futility, old age, evil, and greed. This masterpiece races along like a rocket, providing some of the most intense scenes in cinematic history. But beneath its surface lie deep lasting questions about human nature, the unrelenting existence of evil, and the attractiveness of nihilism in a world where all roads lead to death. Suspenseful, thoughtful, and endlessly brilliant, No Country For Old Men is the best film of the decade, and one of the greatest movies ever made.
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My Year in Lists
Week Forty Seven
My Year in Lists chronicles one blogger's quest to understand why music matters to us and what makes it a lasting aspect of our existence. To facilitate this examination, three music fans have contributed a list of 52 essential albums. Each week this year, one album off of each list will be analyzed in an attempt to understand why some music sticks with us and what it means for our lives.
"I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band"”or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard."-Kurt Cobain, on the writing of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
If it feels a little bit like the legacy of Kurt Cobain has lingered over the back half of this feature, that's only because his cultural legacy has dominated the last two decades of music. I have said before that Nirvana was probably the most important band of the last twenty years, and I stand by that. But Nirvana didn't create the sound that would become grunge; they just popularized it. No one was more open about their influences than Kurt Cobain, and he probably gave no one more credit for his success than Pixies.
Pixies draw a lot of comparisons to The Velvet Underground, which is about the highest compliment you can pay an American rock band. The group released five albums over a period of four years, and while they never became famous, they were probably about as influential a group as The Velvet Underground. Last time we discussed them in Week Nineteen (where, in hindsight, I was probably just a little too mean to Fleetwood Mac), we looked at their seminal album Doolittle and I discussed my great love for "Here Comes Your Man," which, by typing this sentence, I have now assured I will listen to multiple times while writing the rest of this column. This time around, we're going to look at the rest of Pixies career (excepting their debut mini-LP, Come On, Pilgrim), taking a broader view of a band that produced multiple masterpieces over their very short lifetime. Tab's list actually included Doolittle, but to avoid redundancies (as I have done a few other times over the course of this year) I will only be looking at the group's first album, Surfer Rosa, and their third and fourth albums, Bossanova and their final outing, Trompe le Monde.
The group's full-length debut, Surfer Rosa, was released in 1988 and is widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time. Bold, dark, experimental, and widely influential to the grunge scene, Surfer Rosa has earned every bit of that reputation, standing out as a nearly flawless musical statement, a bold assertion of a brand new sound that is as assured as it is masterfully constructed. Produced by former Big Black front man (and future In Utero producer) Steve Albini, the album was recorded in 10 days using many of Albini's strange techniques to achieve a sound that was almost completely new. For example, the vocals on the album's only single, "Gigantic" were recorded in the studio's bathroom to give Kim Deal's vocals a more echo-y sound. The song is a voyeuristic slice of life about the singer watching an attractive African American man having sex with another woman. "Gigantic" has everything the best Pixies songs contain; it's catchy, clever, and has a dark edge lurking just beneath the surface.
"Where Is My Mind?" is probably the most well known song the band ever recorded. Used at the final moments of the film Fight Club, the song has a rousing central riff and an intriguing central question (Though, humorously, Black Francis has said the song is about him scuba diving in the Caribbean, when he was chased by a small fish, which confused him). Doubt me about the reach and influence of Surfer Rosa? Look no further than "Cactus," which has been covered by none other than David Bowie.
By the time the group released their third full length album, Bossanova, Black Francis was exercising near absolute control over the band, writing every song on the album. The group was experimenting with surf and space rock at the time, which comes through in both the sound and lyrical content of the album. Like most great rock bands, Pixies were always more appreciated in the UK than here at home, and they were invited to perform the song "Velouria" on Top of The Pops. Unfortunately, BBC had a rule that only songs with videos could be performed on the show, so the group filmed the cheapest video they could imagine. They filmed themselves running down into a quarry towards the camera. It took them 23 seconds to reach the camera, so they just slowed down the footage to last for the 3:42 runtime of the song. In spite of this incredibly clever (and fairly silly) scheme, the group never got to perform their song on the show.
"Allison" is probably the second best song with that female's name as it's title (the first, of course, being Elvis Costello's "Alison," which you know is #1 because its spelled with only one "˜l.' Logic, people). The song shared a video (in another clever scheme) with "Dig For Fire," which Black Francis wrote as a tribute to Talking Heads. On the whole, Bossanova is a strong sonic experiment, a slight difference from the band's earlier work that plays out famously.
After their dalliance with surf pop and space rock, the band went back to its sonic roots for what would prove to be their final album, Tromp le Monde. "Alec Eiffel," was written about the titular tower's architect Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, but also as a reference to the term "smart Alec," which Francis commented means the exact opposite thing in Australia as it means in America and Britain. "Head On" is a cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain song off their album Automatic, recorded as a tribute by Francis to one of his own influences.
"U-Mass" is a scathing putdown of the University of Massachusetts, where Black Francis and Joey Santiago first met (and where they both eventually dropped out), the main riff of which was composed while Francis was still matriculating.
Pixies broke up two years after the release of the album, after an uncomfortable tour opening for U2 and rising tensions among the group members. Each member went on to perform in other projects, with Kim Deal returning to The Breeders, Black Francis renaming himself Frank Black and releasing a string of solo albums. The group re-formed in 2004 to do a reunion tour, and has played together many times since, though Kim Deal has showed reluctance to record a new album. Pixies stand as one of the best, and most important, bands of the modern era. They can stand shoulder to shoulder with giants and not falter for the comparison. Rare is the band that can be mentioned in the same breath as Nirvana and The Velvet Underground in all seriousness. Pixies is one of the few, a band that is every bit as good as their reputation, and one that only gets better the more I listen to them.
I'm showing a lot of restraint this week. You guys should know that. The National is one of my favorite current bands, and Boxer one of my favorite albums. I could very easily be doing another one of my "track-by-track" analyses you all loved so much when I looked at The Velvet Underground & Nico, Arcade Fire's Funeral, and Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, but I promised long ago I would only do three of those over the course of this column, one for an album off of each contributor's list. So instead, I'll just say that if you haven't heard it, you should go listen to it right now. Then, you should listen to it several more times, to let it sink into your skin. Boxer is a grower, but trust me, it's worth it.
"Fake Empire," one of my favorite songs at the moment, is a study in near perfect simplicity, which manages to evolve with startling complexity and fluidity over its 3:25 runtime. The song, written in a "four over three" style fairly unique in rock music begins as a quiet, meditative, moving piano song and then gradually picks up in speed, power, and tempo, ending in a horn fanfare that manages to take the song to a more complex place without ever leaving behind its stark, gorgeous simplicity. In short, this is a great piece of music.
"Mistaken For Strangers" is a song that fits in nearly perfectly with the band's thematic aesthetic, telling a story about ironic detachment and its tendency to bleed gradually into actual detachment, leaving you alone even in a group of friends. If much of The National's work is about the perils of modernity (and I'm saying it is, so it must be, right?), "Mistaken For Strangers" must take a central role in that discussion. Another near-perfect song about a similar problem is "Slow Show" (which I seriously consider as a potential wedding song every time I hear it, even though I'd prefer not to have a line about "my dick" played at my wedding if at all possible). The song, which I obviously connect to on a very personal level, is, to my ears at least, about the experience of being at a party and feeling detached from your situation, wishing that instead of being forced to socialize with people you don't care about, you could just be at home with the person you love, having a good time and not worrying about all of the shit that can overwhelm even the best intentions in the real world. This is a song about letting the world melt away and just letting yourself be comfortable and honest, even though the idea of that is perhaps the scariest thing there is. Matt Berninger may lift the moving sonic coda "you know I dreamed about you for 29 years before I saw you, I missed you for 29 years" from a much less developed song on the group's self-titled debut, but it feels right at home at the end of a song about finally finding yourself in exactly the place you want to be, even if that prospect terrifies you.
"Apartment Story" continues this idea, acting as a spiritual sequel to "Slow Show." It's a song about two people locking themselves away from the world. "We'll stay inside "˜til somebody finds us," Berninger croons, and if you're anything like me, the idea is a very appealing one.
I could easily write about every track on this album. I could discuss at length how the album's title, Boxer adds to the "one man against the world" narrative and gives the whole album a sense of hopeless nostalgia that lingers over every track. I could tell you why each of these tracks is meaningful, why I love them all, and why I listen to this album on a regular basis nearly all of the time because of how deeply it affects me. I'm not going to do that though (at least not any more than I already have). Instead, I'll let you all discover its intricacies, its subtle beauties and moving moments on your own. I'll just leave you with "Gospel," the album's final track. A song with the title "Gospel" must mean something, must define what The National has been trying to communicate over the course of the album, at least to my mind. And we return, yet again, to the idea of finding someone who you can just relax with and letting that person help you face the world, of finding someone to stand behind you when you get in that ring to fight another losing battle with the outside world. The gospel of The National is one of personal connection overcoming the isolating effects of modern life. If there's a more romantic sentiment than, "Let me come over, I can waste your time, I'm bored," it doesn't come to me too easy. And so an album about isolation, detachment, and the flaws of modernity closes with that last, parting message: that letting someone into your life will make all of the things you hate a little easier to take, will keep the demons of the outside world at bay and will let you find some peace at the end of the day.
Massive Attack are a trip hop duo from Bristol who have the unfortunate distinction of being included in a week with such heavy hitters as Pixies and The National. Yet the duo, Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall manage to hold their own incredibly well considering the competition. Progenitors of the trip hop genre, they released their third album, and Ashley's pick this week, Mezzanine in 1998.
Part of this might be Massive Attack's excellent taste in samples. "Risingson," for example, samples The Velvet Underground's "I Found a Reason" (that group sure is getting a lot of play this week), in a way that is not grating like most sampling. As a rule, I find sampling supremely distracting. If a group samples a song I really like, I spend most of their song wishing I was listening to the other song I like. "Risingson," gets around that problem though, using the sample to accent a song that is fully developed and well realized even without the added touch. Like a great cover, the song distances itself from the sample by showing its ability to stand on its own two feet.
"Teardrop," which contains vocals by Elizabeth Frazer of Cocteau Twins, is likely most well known as the theme song of House. It was written by Massive Attack, with lyrics by Fraser (who wrote them after learning of the drowning of her friend, and Review to Be Named approved "Hallelujah" ccover artist Jeff Buckly). The song builds slowly and movingly, with Fraser's delicate, ethereal vocals matching perfectly with the song's melody.
"Man Next Door" is fascinating in that it is both a cover and a sample-heavy song, yet feels at its core like something entirely new. The song covers the John Holt penned song by The Paragons, also sampling "10:15 Saturday Night" by The Cure and "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin. The song is almost entirely unoriginal, if you consider the source material, yet that couldn't be a more inaccurate descriptive word. "Man Next Door" is imbued with new emotions, and a cool, dark electronic sound by Massive Attack that the original version lacked, and the samples again act as subtle accents more than grating distractions. It's no wonder that Massive Attack was at the center of the formation of trip hop. A band this unique, centered, and willing to experiment was bound to be the beginning of something.
This week gave us three great groups, each working at the top of their game and providing a thematic and sonic center to hang their excellent albums around. Pixies were instrumental to the creation of grunge as a genre, served as an inspiration to titans like Kurt Cobain and David Bowie, and managed to change the face of music without ever gaining mass success. The National created an album that asks deep questions, and offers up some answers along with its stellar musical constructions. And Massive Attack were there at the inception of trip hop, introducing a genre that was simultaneously influenced by the past and willing to let go of ties to move forward into the future. Each of these bands made their mark, and each of these albums has a well deserved legacy of excellence. As we enter the final five weeks of this, my year in lists, I'm doing my best not to take for granted all of the musical masterpieces I have come into contact with along the way. It can be easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer glut of music I have heard this year, but when albums as good as these come along, its hard not to take a moment, step back, and marvel at the music.
Read more My Year in Lists here
Next week on My Year in Lists:
We'll follow White Stains to The Somewhat Lost Horizon, let Elliott Smith show us affection with XO, and listen along with LCD Soundsystem to the Sound of Silver.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Contact: Kristin Werner (859) 224-2720
T.I.P. to offer Awards for Thoroughbred Polo Horses in conjunction with USPA
The Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) and United States Polo Association® (USPA) announced today that they will recognize Thoroughbreds that are excelling as polo horses through six awards that will be offered annually, starting this year. For a Thoroughbred to be eligible for these awards, it must have a T.I.P. number. There is no charge for a T.I.P. number.
“Polo is just one of many disciplines in which Thoroughbreds can succeed following their racing careers, and T.I.P. is pleased to partner with the USPA to honor the accomplishments of these horses at all levels of polo,” said Kristin Werner, senior counsel of The Jockey Club and coordinator of T.I.P.
Each award winner will receive an award sash and special logo prizes. The categories for each award are:
High Goal Horse: for a Thoroughbred that has played in at least one USPA High Goal (16 or higher) Outdoor Tournament in 2020.
Medium Goal Horse: for a Thoroughbred that has played in at least one USPA Medium Goal (eight-16) Outdoor Tournament in 2020.
Low Goal Horse: for a Thoroughbred that has played in at least one USPA Low Goal (below eight) Outdoor Tournament in 2020.
Arena Polo Horse: for a Thoroughbred that has played in at least one USPA Arena Tournament in 2020.
Lesson Horse: for a Thoroughbred used in a lesson program at a USPA club.
Intercollegiate/Interscholastic (I/I) Horse: for a Thoroughbred that has played in an I/I Regional or National Tournament in 2020.
“The USPA is excited to work with the Thoroughbred Incentive Program to highlight the Thoroughbred’s long history in the sport of polo,” said Justin Powers, executive director of the United States Polo Association Polo Development LLC.
Applications will open on the T.I.P. and USPA websites on November 1 and close November 30. The winners will be announced in January and selected based on the application and an essay. Applicants will be judged by a committee formed by the USPA and T.I.P.
Created and announced in October 2011, T.I.P. recognizes and rewards the versatility of the Thoroughbred through sponsorship of Thoroughbred classes and high point awards at sanctioned horse shows, year-end performance awards, a recreational riding program, and non-competition awards. Additional information about T.I.P. is available at tjctip.com and on the T.I.P. Facebook page at facebook.com/tjctip.
About the United States Polo Association®
The U.S. Polo Association was organized and exists for the purposes of promoting the game of polo, coordinating the activities of its Member Clubs and Registered Players, arranging and supervising polo tournaments, competitions and games, and providing rules, handicaps, and conditions for those tournaments, competitions, and games including the safety and welfare of participants and mounts. Founded in 1890, the United States Polo Association (USPA) is the national governing body for the sport of polo. USPA is currently comprised of almost 300 member clubs with thousands of individual members and oversees 40 national tournaments. For more information, please visit uspolo.org.
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Douglas Messerli | Something To Be Touched (on Banks' Lost Memory of Skin) by Douglas Messerli
something to be touched
Russell Banks Lost Memory of Skin (New York: HarperCollins, 2011)
In what I believe is his 17th work of fiction to date—two works of which, Relation of My Imprisonment and Family Life, I originally published—US novelist Russell Banks, has created a long humanist-based investigation into our society’s attitudes toward sexuality and its often hypocritical views of what we define or perceive as sexual predators. Yet the work extends into far more complex metaphysical issues concerning questions of what is truth and what is a person’s life story.
By focusing on a young man in his early 20s called simply The Kid, who loves animals (first an iguana, and then an old dog and an eccentric-speaking parrot), Banks is able to remove much of his audiences’ innate fear and detestation for child molesters, and consider the issue far more rationally than he might otherwise have been able to, particularly given American's almost rabid attitudes toward such offenders. For The Kid, strangely enough, is still a virgin and has technically “done” nothing; his crime is perhaps that he has also done nothing with his life. A lonely, almost abandoned child in his sexually-active mother’s home, The Kid, coming of age, does little but sit in front of the internet, obsessed with heterosexual porn sites. His entire understanding of the world comes creeping in from the edges of these sites and other maternal influences, none of which provides a true perspective on adult experience. Even serving in the military gives him little comprehension of the larger world; a loner even in communal military life, The Kid tries to gain popularity by buying up a large number of sex tapes of his favorite performer, Willow, handing them out to his fellow soldiers, an act which gets him kicked out of out of service.
Now even more confused and lonely, The Kid begins to participate in a chat room with a young girl going by the code name of brandi18, who admits she is 14, but sexually chats in a far seemingly more experienced and knowledgeable sexual language than The Kid, creating a kind of innate disbelief in her reality. Stupidly, The Kid arranges to visit her at her house, loading himself up with a bag of beer, dildos, and Vaseline for what may potentially be his first actual sexual encounter. What he encounters instead is the girl’s father who, having followed their chat-room conversations, confronts The Kid with the facts, turning him over to the police.
The inevitable occurs, with The Kid serving prison time and, throughout most of the novel, serving probation with numerous other sex offenders, forced to live under the Calusa Bay, Florida causeway since they cannot find places sufficiently distant from schools, libraries, and other locations in which children live or frequent.
These sorry and unforgiven individuals live in a kind of unspoken harmony as they attempt simply to survive the police attacks—a result of the locals complaints for their very existence— and the ravages of hurricanes. The men, although hardly speaking to one another and seldom discussing their crimes, still function as a kind of disociated social community that allows them to survive—at least until they are too tired and worn out to want to continue to exist.
Banks’ portrayal of these men alone is worth the read. And, although Banks does not condone or simplify the villainy of their actions, his portrayal of these men with nowhere else to go, weekly revving up their ankle bracelets so that they might continually be tracked by a society that no longer wants them, is sympathetic and moving.
Into this lower depths world comes a larger than life figure, The Professor, determined to check out the under-the-causeway society for his social and psychological studies. Coming upon the encampment at the very moment when most of the men have been temporarily dispersed, The Professor discovers The Kid, following him as he shifts location to a seedy outpost named Benbows and back again to the causeway, questioning, challenging, and even helping The Kid to financially survive in return for his answers.
This “Haystack” of a man, as The Kid dubs the large proportions of his body, is a genius with a wife and two children, but with a past that even he can’t explain. If The Kid’s past is all too familiar, The Professor’s past, we gradually discover, is a compartmentalized world of contradictions as the author reveals his involvement with leftist groups, and as an informant for various government and even international agencies. The Professor’s world is that of 1960s and 1970s politics, interminably complex and rationalized, like something—as The Kid says time and again—out of a novel or a movie. Indeed, at times, Banks’ imagination of this man’s past is so glib it almost seems that he has cribbed from The Man Who Came In from the Cold and other such fictions. But then one doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to know that such individuals did and, perhaps, still do exist.
Slowly, as the two, an odd couple—the boy a skinny outcast who attempts to dissociate himself from his body and the highly obese man whose life is clearly centered in his heft—develop a kind of relationship, playing out a kind of 2lst century version of Huckleberry Finn and Jim—wherein the scrappy, uneducated Kid weathers all kinds of adventures with the help the wiser slave to his own body and past.
As The Kid’s true self —if he has a “true” self—is gradually revealed, so does the balance between the two shift, The Professor ultimately insisting the boy interview him on camera, so that he can leave a testimony to his wife. Fearing that elements from his past have gradually come to haunt him, the Professor, with cold recognition, insists that some scandal from his past will be created and that, eventually, he will be found dead, apparently of suicide, after the accuser—individual, media, or police—will disappear, the case dropped. The CD that The Kid produces through the interview is to be given, after his death, to the Professor’s wife, so that she and his children can know “the truth” as opposed to the rumors and lies reported.
Indeed the Professor is found dead, in the very canal which he has pointed out as a likely place to The Kid. But “the truth” of what the Professor has “professed” comes under even greater scrutiny as he and a new accomplice—a kind of Hemingway-like stand-in for the author himself—enters the scene, The Kid, coincidentally, finding evidence through papers of one of his fellow sex-offenders, that the Professor, under the name Dr. Hoo, may have been deeply involved in child rapes.
Having been paid for his services with a substantial amount of money, The Kid now reveals a deeper aspect of his being, having to face the moral dilemmas of returning the money—wanting no gains from a man who might have participated in these horrendous acts—or to accept the $10,000 cash, allowing him to continue to feed his old dog and eccentric parrot and himself survive for an indefinite period of time. Finally, it depends on what The Kid wants to believe, whether he can make a leap of faith or will return to the cynicism of his self-protective past.
When The Kid finally discovers that the Dr. Hoo of the emails committed suicide by gunpoint years earlier, he accepts the Professor’s own depiction of reality, which, in turn, permits him finally to begin to perceive himself as a real human being with a third dimension, a moral conscience which has a reality and standing in the world. Returning to the Causeway, The Kid now perceives himself as “guilty,” as a man who has made wrong choices, and he is determined to create a different, more substantial self, while the authorial stand-in moves in with Bank's warmest character, the Professor's librarian wife, Gloria.
Banks’ issues are profound moral American dilemmas that have no easy answers. At times, for my taste, the author moves too closely to correct thinking, arguing simplistically for the psychological motivations of his figures relating to their lack of self-worth and other societal deficiencies. In his disapproval of the internet addiction of too many children and adults, Banks even goes so far as to suggest that our society, in its endless fascination with the internet and pornography, is being transformed into a world of two dimensional beings—to my thinking a kind clichéd vision, a presumption that “pornography” is necessarily at the center of an horrific cultural transformation. In truth, pornography, in one form or another, has been always there. The issues Banks brings forward, however, are important ones, worthy of being thought about with the greatest of subtlety without religious and moral prejudice. And overall, Banks has gone further in helping US readers than most writers to begin to recognize these important issues concerning what to do with people who sexually and socially “cross the line,” Banks suggesting that there may a way to bring them back into society instead of pretending to exterminate them by continued imprisonment or damning them to outcast, leper-like colonies. Despite his recognition of “guilt,” The Kid, is still more innocent at fiction's end than most of us, and is also one of us. Instead of being cast out of our midst should perhaps he should be carefully embraced, something that might have made him years earlier come to understand that he had a body, that his skin was something not only be pulled upon, but is to be warmly and lovingly touched.
St. College, Pennsylvania, April 2, 2012
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The Legion of Flame by Anthony Ryan
Book Name: The Legion of Flame
Author: Anthony Ryan
Publisher(s): Orbit Books (UK) Ace Books (US)
Formatt: Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook
Release Date: June 27, 2017 (US) July 6, 2017 (UK)
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for The Waking Fire, the first book in Anthony Ryan’s Draconis Memoria series.
There is a scene in the second chapter of Anthony Ryan’s second novel in the Draconis Memoria, The Legion of Flame, in which Lizanne Lethridge, spy for the Ironship Trading Syndicate, is called before the board to review her actions during the first book. But the woman more famously known as “Miss Blood” after defending the city from an invading force, surprises everyone by laughing at the men and women who run the powerful Syndicate. In a world run by private corporations concerned primarily about profits and shares, Lizanne’s decision to resign from the Syndicate seems to be an unprecedented decision.
As a woman who has been on the front lines, Lizanne recognizes what the board cannot – the world has irrevocably changed, and the awakening of the white dragon is more than just a threat to the company’s bottom line – it’s a threat to humanity’s survival. Even as she knows the board will never take her advice, she tells them the only thing she can – that the world has changed, and if they want to survive in this new landscape, they should forget about profiting through the production of dragon’s blood and forge new military alliances in the desperate hope of fending off this new threat.
It’s a stirring speech, and after the incredible worldbuilding and excitement of the series’ first book, The Waking Fire, it had me excited to dive once more into the action. But the problem with changing the game as thoroughly as Ryan did in the span of a single novel is that it takes time to rearrange the pieces for the next act, and it feels like that’s much of what The Legion of Flame is – a novel dedicated to resetting the board in time for the third book.
The Legion of Flame returns to each of its three main characters from The Waking Fire, where Ryan introduced readers to a fascinating world packed with dragons, pirates, machine guns, political machinations and an interesting magic system in which “blood-blessed” individuals can draw specific powers from the blood of different colored dragons.
This time Lizanne Lethridge is tasked with infiltrating Scorazin, a city that now functions as a prison for the Corvantine Empire, and finding the Mad Artisan to assist in the war against the white dragon. Of the three stories, this is the most compelling, as Lizanne finds herself in an entirely new environment complete with its own politics, relationships, and history. Watching how the various gangs live side by side, battling daily for a living in a city where everyone is a dangerous criminal, is fascinating, and Lizanne’s ability to navigate this world even without a ready supply of dragon blood to fuel her magic shows that even without such powers, she remains a force to be reckoned with.
Claydon Torcreek, the unregistered blood-burner who inadvertently awakened the white dragon in the opening book, returns alongside Captain Hilemore, determined to fulfill the future he glimpsed after drinking the white’s blood. Convinced that he and Hilemore must travel to the far south to combat the white dragon, they begin a journey to fulfill their destiny – whatever that may be.
After thoroughly enjoying Claydon’s story in the first book, this portion of the story was disappointing. Claydon remains a likeable character, but I was never totally sold on the wisdom of trying to make the vision he saw after drinking the white dragon’s blood come true, and while the discoveries Claydon makes during his quest may interest others, they fell completely flat for me. While I enjoyed reading the book, once it was over I found myself disappointed by how little the plot advanced.
Hilemore returns as a third point-of-view character, though he remains the third wheel behind Lizanne and Claydon. His scenes do, however, include some of the most interesting action scenes as he keeps his makeshift crew together and fends off dragon attacks.
Ryan introduces a new point-of-view character in Sirus, a wealthy youth whose city is overrun by dragons and their savage Spoiled warriors. He soon learns how the white dragon has gathered so many Spoiled so quickly, and provides readers a glimpse of the dragons’ preparations for war. Again, these scenes are entertaining, but by the end of the book, that story thread results in nothing more than chess pieces being moved into place for the third book.
Ultimately, this was a strange book that entertained me while reading it, but left me feeling somewhat hollow at its conclusion. If you enjoyed The Waking Fire, you will probably enjoy The Legion of Flame, and when it’s complete, you will want to read the forthcoming third book in the series. But this is definitely a book that suffers from “middle book in a series” issues. Here’s hoping that Ryan now has all the pieces in place, and can deliver on the incredible promise of The Waking Fire. With this series, he has the characters, worldbuilding, and magical system to deliver, and now, thanks to The Legion of Flame, he has all the characters positioned for a fiery conclusion.
The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan
Tags: Ace Books, Anthony Ryan, dragons, epic fantasy, Orbit Books, The Draconis Memoria, The Legion of Flame
Richard Bray Richard Bray has been an avid fantasy reader since the fifth grade, when his father gave him a Lord of the Rings boxed set for Christmas. After earning his journalism degree from Texas A&M University, he spent more than 10 years writing, shooting photos and editing in the newspaper industry before transitioning to media relations. He lives with his fiancé and two dogs inside walls cluttered with St. Louis Cardinals jerseys and enough swords to arm a small fellowship – including, of course, replicas of Sting and Anduril.
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What’s With All The Apologies?
Am I the only one who doesn’t think Reggie Jackson committed a terrible sin? Sure, he’s a hot dog and “stirs the drink,” but why isn’t he allowed to be honest in a Sports Illustrated article? I found his comments refreshingly unscripted, not inflammatory.
For anyone who hasn’t followed this semi-drama…
Reggie Jackson apologizes again
By Andrew Marchand | ESPNNewYork.com
NEW YORK — Continuing his quest to make amends for comments first published more than a week ago, New York Yankees senior advisor Reggie Jackson released a statement Thursday publicly stating his contrition.
“I have been proactively reaching out to make personal apologies to those within the Hall of Fame community that I offended, and to the Yankees’ organization for any disruption that I caused in the clubhouse,” said Jackson, a Hall of Famer, in part of his statements. “I continue to have a strong relationship with the club, and look forward to continuing in my role with the team. As always, I remain dedicated to the great game of baseball.”
A baseball official with knowledge of the team’s thinking told ESPNNewYork.com that Jackson won’t be with the team this upcoming homestand, but could join on the road in Oakland next Thursday.
Jackson made his comments in last week’s issue of Sports Illustrated. He said there was a “cloud” over the accomplishments of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez because of his admitted performance enhancing drug use.
Jackson also said he wasn’t sure if some current Hall of Famers belonged in Cooperstown, including the recently deceased Gary Carter.
“In trying to convey my feelings about a few issues that I am passionate about, I made the mistake of naming some specific players,” Jackson said in the statement Thursday. “This was inappropriate and unfair to those players, some of which are very close friends of mine. I think there are ways to speak from the heart without hurting people, and I’m disappointed that I didn’t take greater care in expressing my views.
The Yankees asked Jackson to stay away from Fenway Park for last weekend’s series so as not to cause a distraction.
Rodriguez answered questions about Jackson’s comments.
“With friends like that, who needs enemies,” Rodriguez said.
Last Friday, Rodriguez confirmed he spoke with Jackson after the comments, but wanted to keep what was said private. Sources told ESPNNewYork.com that Jackson had apologized to Rodriguez and other Yankee personnel.
“He is trying to rectify everything,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi told ESPNNewYork.com at that time.
Yes, I’m sure there were hurt feelings and egos as a result of his comments. And yes, he’s on the Yankees’ payroll and isn’t supposed to criticize other Yankees. And yes, he should have been more diplomatic about his opinions. But come on already. He didn’t say anything about A-Rod that the rest of us haven’t thought or said, did he?
Filed Under: Confessions of a She-Fan Tagged With: A-Rod, Hall of Fame, Reggie Jackson, Sports Illustrated, Yankees
What's With All The Apologies?
If Andre Agassi Were A Baseball Player, Would He Get Into The HOF?
I ask the question because Agassi IS getting into the Tennis Hall of Fame, according to Yahoo Sports. I’ve been watching the Australian Open lately, so tennis has been on my mind. When I heard about Agassi, I was happy for him but I started to think about the different sets of standards that sports have for their Halls of Fame. Agassi, you remember, admitted in his book that he used drugs and lied about it. Here’s the pertinent quote from the Yahoo article.
“Agassi revealed in his 2009 book “Open” that he was depressed in 1997, when he was using crystal meth and failed a drug test. The result was thrown out, he said, after he lied by saying he took the drug unwittingly.”
If Derek Jeter took crystal meth, failed a drug test and lied about it, would that disqualify him from – or, at the very least, hurt his chances of – getting into the Hall? I can’t imagine anything disqualifying him, but the baseball writers are pretty tough when it comes to drugs, aren’t they? Or do they just draw the line at steroids? All I know is that Agassi was such a fun player to watch and his matches against Sampras were great for the game. Talk about a rivalry.
Federer vs. Nadal is always exciting, but I thought Agassi and Sampras brought out the best in each other, given their completely opposite styles and personalities.
As for the women’s side, I miss Evert vs. Navratilova too. I mean do I really care about Wozniacki against Clijsters? At least the really noisy grunters are out of the tournament. I can’t even watch Sharapova anymore without muting the TV. Ugh.
Filed Under: Confessions of a She-Fan Tagged With: Andre Agassi, Australian Open, Caroline Wozniacki, Chris Evert, Derek Jeter, Hall of Fame, International Tennis Hall of Fame, Kim Clijsters, Maria Sharapova, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Yankees
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BlackRock replaces people with machines in revamp of stock unit
Boston, March 29 -- BlackRock Inc., after years of sluggish gains by its traditional stock pickers, is upping its bets on quants. The world's largest money manager is firing more than 30 people in its active-equities group, including five of its 53 fundamental portfolio managers, according to a person familiar with the matter. The revamp moves $6 billion of the $201 billion run by traditional stock pickers into cheaper funds where quants play a role, the person said. Chief executive officer Laurence D. Fink's shift to quantitative strategies follows similar moves by hedge funds seeking a high-tech fix to their investment woes. Fink, who has re-jiggered his stock picking unit several times in recent years, now sees computer models and data science as the future of active-equity management. His move is driven by clients who are flocking to cheaper index-tracking exchange-traded funds, which benefits BlackRock's ETF business while hurting its active managers. "There is fee compression in the US, which is being driven by technological advances and by the successful and continued growth of ETFs," Mark Wiseman, BlackRock's global head of active equities, said in an interview. "We are in a regulatory environment that is pushing hard on the traditional active-equity model. We want to play offence, not defence." ALSO READ: BlackRock, BofA warn traders March Federal Reserve meeting might turn live Pete Stournaras, who managed at least $6 billion mostly through large cap funds, is among the departing fund managers, the person said. Quants will now have a hand in at least six of his funds. Bart Geer, who oversees at least $4 billion on the basic value team, will step down from those funds and become a senior adviser. Thomas Callan, who helps manage at least $7 billion, will also become an adviser. Phone calls to the managers were not immediately returned. Fee cuts BlackRock, which manages $5.1 trillion, is shifting money from its stock-picking business into a new Advantage series run by the $74 billion quant group. Advantage is expected to include nine mutual funds for US investors that will produce returns with less risk, the company said. Fee reductions on $6 billion in assets range from about 19% to 56%. "We can more efficiently deliver alpha at a better cost with automated processes," Wiseman said. The New York-based firm is also moving assets from active-equity funds to an income series that produces higher dividend yields, with $2 billion impacted by fee cuts of as much as 21%, the person said. Two other groups of funds-one that will make higher risk, concentrated bets and another focusing on specific countries and sectors-round out the reorganization. ALSO READ: BlackRock's $1 trillion JPMorgan move shows cost strategy The layoffs in the active-equity unit, which has more than 400 employees, will contribute to a $25 million charge for the first quarter, the company said. The firm hired Doug Chow, a former portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments, to run an integration and data platform. He starts in April. Lackluster performance The company's active-equity funds have lagged behind rivals for years. The funds' annual average return is 4% and 7.3% over three and five years, according to data from Morningstar Inc. This compares with the industry average of 5.3% and 8.8%. In 2012, BlackRock set out on a five-year plan to boost performance by hiring top stock pickers and adding analysts and other support staff to investment teams. Fink said in 2014 that he'd spent "hundreds of millions of dollars rebooting" the business. The firm has also changed the leadership structure of the active business several times in the past four years. In September, BlackRock brought in Wiseman, the former head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, to run the quantitative and stock group, which were combined early last year. Wiseman arrived during a tough 2016 for the quant group, which contributed to BlackRock's first annual decline in revenue since 2009. Hiring researchers Four of BlackRock's quant hedge funds posted the worst annual returns in their history last year. BlackRock says its quant offerings on average have beaten 43% of their benchmarks or a peer-group median over the past year, and 91% in the past five years. BlackRock's active-equity funds saw $20 billion in net outflows last year, according to a regulatory filing. Meanwhile, the firm's ETF business has been booming, with record inflows last year. Wiseman said his group plans over the next 18 months to hire about the same number of employees who were laid off. BlackRock is looking for people with deep research capabilities, technological and data analytics skills, and will put more emphasis on hiring in the emerging markets, especially Asia.
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I am passionate in my belief that the greatest opportunity for betterment in a person’s life comes from the ability to learn a profession and acquire advanced skills. At times we can forget that education exists for the benefit of the student, not the institution. And challenging the status quo is an uphill battle where the steps forward can seem small. But I believe that every success we have in making education more accessible and degrees more attainable brings people, regardless of background, one step closer to an opportunity for a better future.
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Martha Snyder is an education policy specialist with high-level experience supporting federal and state policymakers. At HCM Strategists, she provides policy expertise and strategic counsel on a wide range of areas from finance to accountability to college readiness and affordability. Martha is a primary lead for Lumina Foundation’s Strategy Labs, where she provides non-partisan expertise and facilitation on affordability, outcomes-based funding and other finance policies to improve higher education attainment. She also serves as the key strategist on state postsecondary policy work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In addition to this work, Martha contributes to the postsecondary team on issues of aligning postsecondary financing to advance improved outcomes for underserved populations, transitioning between k-12 and postsecondary education and evaluating policies that support k-12 and postsecondary student transitions.
A believer in the link between higher education and economic success, Martha has worked both personally and professionally to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged students. While at Villanova University earning her bachelor’s degree, Martha tutored inner-city students and witnessed the education system challenges that allowed many students to fall through the cracks. Martha later graduated from Syracuse University with a master’s degree in public administration and, inspired by a graduate professor, pursued a career in education policy to help expand educational opportunities for students.
Before her tenure at HCM, Martha worked as a senior policy advisor at the United States Department of Education, focusing on K-12 accountability, high school reform and special education. She also served as an associate director for The White House Domestic Policy Council, developing budget priorities and providing analysis and counsel on all federal education issues. Her legislative branch experience includes a stint as a legislative assistant to Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania.
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MONDAY, June 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- New research is shining a light on a group particularly vulnerable to the new coronavirus: People with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), cared for either by family at home or in group homes.
People with these types of disabilities include those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other conditions, and the data shows they're significantly more likely to die after contracting COVID-19 than the general public.
According to the database used in the study, the virus claimed the lives of just under 3% of COVID-19 patients between the ages of 18 and 74 who did not have an IDD. But among COVID-19 patients who do have an IDD, that figure rose by half, to 4.5%.
IDD patients under the age of 18 are also more likely to die from COVID-19 than their young non-IDD peers, the study found.
Group homes may be especially hazardous, said one expert unconnected to the new study.
"People with IDD living in residential settings experienced what I would qualify as the 'perfect storm' for COVID-19," said Michelle Ballan. She's associate dean of research in the school of social welfare at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y.
"People with IDD frequently rely on hands-on assistance from other people with daily self-care tasks, making social distancing particularly challenging and further increasing risk of disease transmission," Ballan explained.
"Not only are people with IDD who do not live independently at risk," she added, "but their caregivers may also find themselves facing competing obligations: To stay home if they are feeling sick, and to help the individuals who rely on them for daily functioning."
Higher risk in young
The new study was led by Dr. Margaret Turk, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse, N.Y. Her team tracked the experience of more than 30,000 COVID-19 patients, including just under 500 who were characterized as having an IDD.
All were diagnosed with COVID-19 at some point between Jan. 20 and May 14, 2020.
"People with IDD have functional limitations in a variety of areas, such as learning, communication and language, and behavior," Turk explained. Those disabilities are typically diagnosed in early childhood, she noted, and are usually lifelong. Some live at home with family and varying degrees of in-home care, she said, while others live in group homes specifically configured to care for such clients.
To see how IDD might impact COVID-19 outcomes, Turk's group sifted through data provided by 42 health care organizations.
About one-third of the roughly 500 IDD patients in the study had an intellectual disability, about 56% had a pervasive and specific developmental disorder, while 18% had cerebral palsy and 21% had a chromosomal abnormality (including 5% with Down syndrome).
As a whole, COVID-19 patients with IDD were more likely to have nutritional, endocrine and metabolic disorders (such as diabetes) and/or circulatory/heart disease, compared with the non-IDD group.
Age seemed to make a difference. Among people aged 75 and up, there was little disparity in terms of COVID-19 fatalities: About one-fifth of both IDD and non-IDD COVID-19 patients died as a result of the virus.
But compared to people of similar age in the general population, viral death rates were notably higher among IDD patients between the ages of 18 to 75, the study found, and much higher among IDD patients under 18.
In fact, while almost no non-IDD patients under the age of 18 died from COVID-19, among IDD patients the death rated amounted to 1.6 out of every 100 infections, the research team found.
But more data is needed, Turk stressed. Right now, she said, it's just not known if IDD people are more likely to get infected in the first place, and there's no data on how many people in this group are currently infected because "there is no U.S. surveillance that identifies people with disability."
Support for paid caregivers crucial
Ballan believes more oversight is needed, however, to protect this vulnerable population.
"COVID-19, as it ravages its way across the United States, has already been noted to have a disparate impact on socially disadvantaged or otherwise marginalized populations," she said, and "among these are people with IDD."
One reason, said Ballan, is that IDD patients often lack access to high-quality health care despite battling a host of additional concerns, such as diabetes, asthma, obesity, lung disorders and heart disease. It's these conditions that have long been tied to higher odds for severe and even fatal COVID-19.
Higher rates of disability means a greater need for paid caregivers, but that presents dangers in the coronavirus era, as well.
"In many states, [people with IDDs] continued to attend day programs in large numbers," Ballan noted, and "when states required people with IDD to abide by stay-at-home orders, direct-support professionals were not initially provided with proper personal protective equipment and may have worked in multiple group homes."
Ballan believes that "these incredible 'essential employees' earning minimum wage risked their health and their family's health to ensure the safety of clients." Many had little choice but to work regardless of their own health status, because they "may lack the sick days, leave policy, and cross-coverage that would enable them to take time off and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the event of exposure or illness," she added.
And while there's no data yet to confirm it, that raises the possibility that paid caregivers "may have also infected multiple individuals with IDD, by working at multiple locations and being unable to socially distance when they help clients to eat, bathe and dress," Ballan said.
Turk's team published their findings May 24 in the Disability and Health Journal.
There are more resources for IDD patients battling COVID-19 at The Arc.
SOURCES: Margaret Turk, MD, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y.; Michelle Ballan, PhD, associate dean of research, school of social welfare and professor of family, population and preventive medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.; Disability and Health Journal, May 24, 2020, online
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Charles Herring Jr.
Chuck Herring is an Austin attorney and a partner in Herring & Panzer, L.L.P. For more than 20 years, his practice has emphasized the “law of lawyering” - cases and issues involving legal malpractice, legal ethics, attorney discipline, and licensure of attorneys. He has represented clients with claims and grievances against lawyers, and he has defended lawyers in litigation and administrative settings. Additionally, he has advised and taught many lawyers and law firms across the state to anticipate, avoid, and, when necessary, resolve ethical, disciplinary, and liability issues.
Since 1990, Chuck has authored and updated ten editions of his treatise, Texas Legal Malpractice & Lawyer Discipline. For several years, he has taught courses for the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. He also is coauthor with Professor Alex Albright of the West Practice volume Handbook on Texas Discovery Practice, which they update annually.
The Texas Supreme Court has repeatedly appointed Chuck to advise the Court on important issues. He served two terms on the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee. The Texas Supreme Court also appointed him to serve as Chair of the Statewide Task Force on Sanctions. In 2010, the Court appointed him to serve on its Grievance Oversight Committee, which reviews the operations of the Texas disciplinary system, including grievance panels, the Client-Attorney Assistance Program, the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, the Commission for Lawyer Discipline, and the Board of Disciplinary Appeals.
Chuck is ranked “AV” by Martindale Hubbell.
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The attractive county seat of rural Shropshire is a far cry from the grim industrial towns of the Midlands and Lancashire that spawned the growth of association football in late 19th century England but nevertheless, Shrewsbury is one of the cradles of the modern game. Boys attending the famous public school played a form of football in the 1860s and the modern club, founded in 1886, took its original blue and white colours from the school.
The club played at various venues and competed in the Shropshire & District Birmingham League and later the Midland League.
The first evidence of a club crest being worn comes from 1907, which is remarkably early, and consisted of the Shrewsbury coat of arms. This consisted of three leopard's head (known in heraldry as "loggerheads") above the Latin phrase, Floreat Salopia ("Let Shrewsbury Flourish").
In 1910 Shrewsbury moved into Gay Meadow, so called because of its previous use as a site for fair grounds. Adjacent to the River Severn, Gay Meadow was one of the most picturesque grounds in the League.
Situated on the Welsh border, Shrewsbury regularly competed in the Welsh Cup, winning the competition for the first time in 1891 and their reserve side had several spells in the Welsh League.
The crest reappeared in 1949 and was used off and on until 1953. Although it is hard to verify the details, it appears that this version may have combined the arms of Shrewsbury with those of Atcham Rural District Council, adding the Atcham bridge above the loggerheads.
In 1950 the Football League decided to expand the two regional Third Divisions with the addition of two clubs in each section. “The Shrews” were successful on the first of three ballots and took up a place in the northern section. At the end of the season they were transferred to Division Three (South) where they remained until 1958 when they were placed in Division Four after the regional divisions were scrapped.
In 1960 the club introduced their own crest, a rather uninspiring affair that would not have won any design awards. This was replaced a decade later by a more traditional design that incorporated the arms of the town within an enclosing shield with the name of the club embroidered in full.
Promoted at the end of their first season in the lowest division, Shrewsbury remained in the Third Division until 1979 apart from one season in the Fourth (1974-75). It was during this brief spell in the basement that Shrewsbury adopted amber and blue colours. Although it was widely believed that this was an innovation at the time, HFK has uncovered evidence that amber featured in the team's strip as far back as 1935.
In 1979 the club won the Third Division championship and promotion to Division Two for the first time in their history. A new crest was introduced to celebrate this achievement: the loggerheads remained but the design and shape of the surrounding embroidery were most unusual. The design was simplified in 1983 by which point the loggerheads more closely resembled lions.
In 1986 the board decided on a change of branding and introduced a radically new badge inspired by the club's nickname. This initially appeared on the team's amber and blue shirts but in 1987 a complete change of image was thought desirable and for the next four seasons, the team played in white shirts with the Shrew motif.
For ten years, the Shrews held their own but relegation in 1989 and again in 1992 saw them back in the Fourth Division (renamed Barclays Division Three with the advent of the Premier League). In an apparent attempt to halt this decline, the club dropped the white shirts in favour of yellow and blue stripes. The more traditional amber and blue was restored in 1992, albeit in one of the ugliest tops that the 90s inflicted on long-suffering supporters, along with the previous loggerheads crest, now placed on a shield.
In 1993 the crest was again revised, returning more or less full circle to the original worn in 1907 but with the addition of STFC.
In 1994 Shrewsbury were Third Division champions and were to the third tier but in 1997 they were relegated back to Nationwide Division Three.
After nine years of mid-table performances, Shrewsbury finished at the bottom of the League in 2003 some seven points adrift and went down to the Conference. They finished third the following season, 17 points behind second placed Hereford United to qualify for the play-offs. The Shrews reached the final after a penalty competition to decide their tie with Barnet. After extra time in the final against Aldershot Town the scores were 0-0 but the Shrewsbury players held their nerve to win another penalty shoot-out 3-0 and secure a return to the Football League.
For many years opinion in Shrewsbury was divided over whether the animals featured in the town's coat of arms were leopards or lions. In November 2008 the Shropshire Star reported that an expert called in to resolve the issue had found that the weight of tradition was in favour of them being leopards. This came a little too late for the football club who, earlier in the year, had commissioned a new crest with a lion as its centrepiece.
For their 125th anniversary in 2010-11, the club adopted a very simple kit in mid-blue and white along with a special crest, which appeared only on the home strip.
A campaign to ditch the lion crest and restore the loggerheads received overwhelming support in a poll held in 2014 and as a result the club announced that a new crest would be introduced for the 2015-16 season, which would be in League One after the team clinched an automatic promotion place. If this were not sufficient cause for fans to celebrate, the always popular amber and blue striped shirts were reintroduced.
(a) Club Colours (Bob Bickerton 1998)
(b) Aldershot Has It
(c) Gillingham FC - Images of Sport (Roger Triggs)
(d) Football Cards
(e) Football Focus
(f) empics
(g) Shrewsbury Town Official Website
(i) Welsh Football Database
(j) National Library of Wales
(j2) National Library of Wales
(k) The Official History of The Shrews - information provided by Greger Lindberg
(l) David King
(m) Football League Review
(n) jumpers4goalposts.com
(o) Alick Milne
(p) "pallissmith"
(q) matthewashtondotcom
(r) James King
(s) Ralph Pomeroy
(t) Greger Lindberg
(u) Keith Ellis (HFK Research Associate)
(v) Danny Davies
(w) Johan Adams
(x) Martin Williams
(y) Grandad's Football Blog
(z) Ian Davitt
(A) Theo Hamburger
(B) The National Football Collection submitted by Steven Thomas
(C) Shrewsbury Town Football Shirts
Photograph courtesy of Greger Lindberg. Crests are the property of Shrewsbury Town FC.
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Monday, May 29, 2017, 5:00-8:00pm
Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 10:00am
Rev. V. David Foradori, officiating
Pastor of St. Michael Roman Catholic Church
Greenville VFW #3374 will render military honors
at the conclusion of the service
Inurnment will be in St. Michael Cemetery
George A. Nicikowski, age 58, of Leech Rd., Hempfield Twp., passed away Tuesday morning, May 23, 2017 in his residence after a brief but courageous battle with cancer.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 15, 1958 to Frank and Jean (Taylor) Nicikowski. He was a graduate of Northwestern High School in Detroit, served in the U.S. Navy from 1977-1981 and for the past thirteen years, he had been employed in production at Jamestown Paint Company.
George also worked in sales on Saturday's at Scott Furniture in there Hermitage and Greenville stores. He had previously been employed as a Electrical Foreman at the former Trinity Industries. George enjoyed target shooting, trips to the casino, sitting on his porch with his wife after work drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, and most of all, attending and supporting his children's activities.
On June 8, 1987, he married the former Kathleen I. Recinella, she survives. Also surviving is a daughter, Angela M. Nicikowski, two sons, Joseph W. Nicikowski and Paul A. Nicikowski, all at home, a sister, Susie Martin of Tennessee and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Joseph and William Nicikowski.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's choice.
Tom and Linda Christy
Kathy, We are so sorry for your loss, our hearts go out to you at this sad time!
Dorothy McCright
I can’t begin to describe how sorry I am for all of you. Deepest sympathy to Kathy,ang,Paul and joe.
Jacki R.
Keeping you and your family in my prayers during this time of sorrow.
Very sorry for your loss!
Karen Brest
Dear Kathy & Family
Extending my sympathies for your loss & keeping you in my prayers!
Jan Smith
I worked with George for several years at Jamestown Coatings. He will be remembered as a smart problem solver and extremely hard worker. He was respected by his coworkers. We miss him. Keeping you in our prayers.
joan kusich
Kathy I’m so very sorry for your loss, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your lovely family
Christina Banks
Aunt Kathy,
We are so sorry for your loss. We wish we could be there for you in person. We are praying from afar.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 4:00-7:00pm
Mass of Christian Burial:
Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 10:30am
St. Michael Roman Catholic Church
85 N. High St., Greenville, PA
Rev. V. David Foradori, Pastor, as celebrant
Burial with committal prayers and military honors
rendered by Greenville VFW Post #3374 will be in
St. Michael Cemetery
Thomas E. Steiner, age 80, formerly of Glenn Ave., W. Salem Twp., passed away Thursday afternoon, March 23, 2017 in The Grove at Greenville.
Tom was born in Farrell, PA on May 23, 1936 to Michael and Regina (Welch) Steiner. He was a 1954 graduate of Farrell High School and had served in the U.S. Navy from 1955-1956. Tom was employed for forty-three years as the Head of Maintenance at the former R.D. Werner Co.
He was a member of St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, Greenville and was a 4th Degree Member of Knights of Columbus Fitzmartin Council #1446. He had been a past volunteer at the Good Shepherd Center and had been a coach in the Greenville Little League System. Tom enjoyed golfing and bowling and had belonged to the Knights of Columbus Leagues. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and loved spending time at camp in Tionesta, PA.
In February of 1958 he married the former Josephine Schillaci, she passed away in November of 1993. He then married Dorothy (Eddy) Oakes in June of 1997, she survives. Other survivors of Tom's include, two sons, Thomas C. Steiner and his wife Katherine of Carthage, NY and Robert P. Steiner of Greenville, two step-sons, Fred Oakes of Waukesha, WI and Ronald Oakes of Summit, SC, two brothers, Gary Steiner and William Steiner, both of Sharon and several grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, a son, Timothy M. Steiner, two sisters, Betty Kraft and Carolyn Sinopoli, a brother, Robert Steiner and an infant granddaughter, Sasha R. Steiner.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Michael Church, 85 N. High St., Greenville, PA 16125.
Patti Zelch Metelsky
My sympathy to the family members of My cousin Tommy Steiner. Especially to his brothers Bill and Gary and their families. Still working and unable to attend. My love and condolences to you and yours. To Tommy’s wife and sons that I probably never met, So sorry for your great loss. Tommy’s mom Jennie and my dad John Zelch were sister and brother for those unfamiliar. May He Rest with the Lord….
Michael Castiglione
My condolences to the family and especially to you, my good friend Bob.
Clark Williamson
Gary, Pat and family,
I’m so sorry for your loss. My condolences to the family.
Our condolences to the family, and our friend Bob so sorry ! Our thoughts are with you my friend!,
Nikki and Mike D’URSO
Sorry to hear of your loss, our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Nettie Marini and Mario Marini
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Homeless man builds his own car — out of junk
Filed Under: Education, Green and Eco, People
-With no mechanical training, he scrounges together the ‘shrimpmobile’!
This is Orismar de Souza, a homeless man in Brazil, who decided to build the car he couldn’t buy using junk, spare parts and a hammer and chisel. Four years later, the “shrimpmobile” has him back on his feet.
Souza, 35, had to panhandle in the Brazilian city of São José de Piranha and go hungry for four months in order to raise the initial $270 he needed for sheet metal, which he cut into shape using a borrowed hammer and chisel. He scrounged a 125cc motorcycle engine, and gathered other junked parts from all over the region.
While Souza had decorated and traded metal cans as a child in exchange for food and clothes, he had no other experience in working with metal, and almost gave up when the steelwork became too difficult.
“Nobody believed, everybody laughed at me,” Souza told Globo.com. “I was very humbled by this, but I won and I built my car alone with my own hands. ”
By December, Souza was able to replace the motorcycle engine’s kickstarter with a car ignition, and add in a gearbox with reverse. The mostly Fiat shrimpmobile can reach 50 mph on the highway, and Souza has been able to use it to find a home and a job in the local sugarcane fields.
Souza says his next goal will be to save enough money to have a garage for his creation. We wouldn’t bet against him.
See the story on msn.com
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[Norwich City 1-1 Arsenal] We conceded the first goal and at that point I thought we had pressed the self-destruct button, but we showed great character to get back into the game. In the second half we started a bit slow and invited Arsenal onto us, but as the half wore on I thought we were the better team. Getting the balance right for us was important. At the start of the season we played well but weren’t solid enough. Then we became more solid but didn’t have enough quality going forward. I thought we got a better balance today
[Preston held firm for 19 minutes, with Man City having put five past Watford in the Premier League by the same stage at the weekend] We didn’t disappoint. For the first 20 minutes we started brightly on the front foot. We went chasing the ball for the first goal. They are good-quality goals for them. The goals they scored were stuff we talked about. But when you play against that quality with their speed, it’s one thing to talk about stopping them. It’s another thing to do it. We can’t get too hard on ourselves. Man City were the better team. Their forward line is scary for any Premier League team. We need to take the positives of what we did well and take them onto Saturday
[Cardiff struck three times in the final 21 minutes to win their play-off battle with Preston 3-1 at a rain-lashed Deepdale] I don’t think there was a lot in the game. I think the biggest frustration was that we found ourselves in good areas but didn’t make the most of the opportunities. We were wasteful. They tended to score from their opportunities. Ours were more off-target.
Their second goal was really poor defending from our part. We should be tight, stop him playing, stop them playing that pass for Mendez-Laing to run through. Even then we should take a foul, bring him down and take a booking, stop the game. But we don’t.
[A stunning Wayne Rooney free-kick was enough to see Derby past play-off rivals Preston as they earned a 1-0 win at Deepdale on Wednesday evening] I think, for our second-half efforts, we deserved something. Derby had a couple of good chances in the game but the one Brad Potts cut back for Alan Browne was good for us, too
It’s damaging and I can’t get away from that. We’re all really disappointed with how the games have panned out. At this level, it’s fine margins and, at the moment, we’re finding ourselves on the wrong side of those margins
[Huddersfield and Preston played out a goalless draw that did little to enhance their positions at either end of the table] I don’t think there was a lot created in the game. I can’t remember a shot that they did anything with. We wanted to make sure we were hard to beat and we wanted a clean sheet
We had those two chances at the end there, but unfortunately we didn’t get ourselves set enough to hit the target. I’m not over the moon with the performance. We wanted that clean sheet, but we need to find a better balance and do more in the final third if we are to challenge higher up
[Preston rekindled their Championship play-off hopes with three late goals at Hillsborough to sink Sheffield Wednesday 3-1] It looked like it was going to be another frustrating night. First half we were fantastic, we could have been 4-0, 5-0 up, we had plenty of opportunities. On another night we could have been 4-0 up at half-time and in the second half we didn’t get up to tempo quick enough before their goal changed the game
We probably got that bit of luck, albeit that was a free-kick on Declan for their second (disallowed) goal. But we got that one and that’s swung the game in our favour and then the second two finishes were fantastic to finish the game off
[Jayden Stockley cancelled out a Lewis Grabban penalty as play-off chasers Preston and Nottingham Forest fought out a tense 1-1 draw in the Sky Bet Championship] I wouldn’t say we are pleased. They had one shot on target and that was the penalty. That shows how well we defended. Then it was about converting opportunities. It was a really silly penalty to give away. They get a lot of players behind the ball and are difficult to break down, so we made it hard for ourselves. But we got the goal back and pushed to get the next one. Unfortunately we couldn’t convert any of those opportunities. But we are still in the hunt. We have three big games left
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NULL: A Computer Language Breakthrough
John R. Andrews
Bell Laboratories has formally announced what it believes is the ultimate computer science language. Described by Iusi Nogoto, the foremost Japanese fourth generation language expert, as "the only truly elegant computer language ever devised." NULL, as it is known, was developed by the same department that originally invented the wrong number, the busy signal, and the phrase, "The number you have reached is not in service." NULL is the culmination of five years of work by a team of language designers and computer science mathematicians. The final breakthrough occurred when operating system expert Hugh Nicks suggested that if removing GO TO's was good then why not scrap IF statements as well, since they usually required typing too many characters anyway. This brilliant concept was extended through a series of complex mathematical theorems that form the basis of the NULL language. Put in layman's terms by Sally Kahn-Vallee, electrical engineer and PROM reader, "Like we first we tossed out the bath water, then the baby, and like finally the whole tub." The elegance and conciseness of NULL can thus be proven to be a direct consequence of the fact that the language as defined contains no statements at all. While at first glance this may seem a drawback, in fact, it is a major improvement over any other language. A few of the numerous reasons are:
Highly structured constructs.
Advanced data hiding techniques.
A NULL compiler can be written first in NULL with out ever needing to be written in a lower level language.
Since there are no statements to compile, in fact, no compiler need ever be written in the first place, saving time and money.
Since there will be no compilers, no new releases will ever be issued hence maintenance is reduced.
NULL programs are highly portable and totally machine independent.
NULL programs compile and execute rapidly. An important point to note is that with the addition of a small amount of language dependent code, e.g. PROC/END etc., all NULL programs can be compiled by any other language compiler.
Since there will never be new releases of NULL, all programs are upwardly and downwardly compatible.
NULL can be parsed top-down, bottom-up, left-right, right-left, inside-out, and over-easy.
NULL programs are both self-documenting for clarity and self-concealing for security.
NULL programmers are easy to find and once found can be fired since they are not needed.
If desired, specialized NULL hardware could be designed implementing the code in firmware. Of course, such hardware may require years of development. One suggestion from Bell's VLSI experts Nora and Andy Gates was to take an existing available chip and remove all the instructions except NOP. While this should work in theory, they acknowledged that it is probably not the most efficient implementation.
These are just a few of the many ways NULL is superior to all current computer languages. You can, no doubt, think of more. For further reading consult any of the numerous books and articles by Donald Knuth, David Parnas, and of course, the basis of all modern computer language theory, "The Emperor's New Clothes."
John R. Andrews, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Kay MacGrath is a television presenter and a well renowned journalist at Seven News in Brisbane in Australia. She is a co-presenter of Rod Young. She is known to confront many community issues. She is a campaigner for to opposition to stop the child abuse. She is the patron of the organization known as PACT which means Protect All Children Today. She was the ambassador for the Abused Child Trust. Together with everything she does, she served in the committee where she was the chair for the Child Protection Week Activities in the Queensland. She is a vice-patron for the Breast Cancer Association of the Queensland and she fights against breast cancer. Kay is a married woman; she is the responsible mother of two children. Her children are Nicholas and Joseph.
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Kay is the iconic television presenter and she is an award winning journalist. She appears as the co-anchor of the Seven News Brisbane in the Australia. Before she was the news caster for the TVQ-10 Brisbane and afterwards she became the part of the Seven News Team since 1989. Kay MacGrath covered much exceptional coverage which includes the on-site after the cyclone, Brisbane airport hijack, the Innisfail Fitzgerald inquiry and others. She has also covered Sunshine Coast for the Aftermath of the death of the Steve Irwin.
Kay MacGrath had appeared for the 7 news on 6pm each Friday with Saturday nights. She is a popular icon for the television arena and Kay is a well respected and recognized news presenter in the Brisbane. She is the sought after television personnel to watch in the Queensland. She is known to be a sincere newscaster and he has enough experience when it comes to present the news and the shows. She brought-forth too many interesting investigations on the screen and on the initial reports for the investigation and this included the Fitzgerald inquiry. The Fitzgerald was about dealing with the corruption in the telecommunication tapes and she also covered the Brisbane airport hijack. Because of her exceptional coverage, she got the Logie Awards. Kay uses extraordinary efforts and the hard work in the entire media which include radio station, television and newspaper. In addition of everything, Kay had served as the co-presenter of many documentaries which deal with the social issues.
According to the bio of Kay MacGrath, she was also in charge of the documentary reports and this included Behind Closed Doors: Child Abuse in Queensland. Besides becoming the journalist, Kay is the active participants and she is always involved into the participations and commitment in the breast cancer and she is remarkable and wonderful.
Kay MacGrath’s age is not known. While she was on the TVQ-0, she was presenting the national breakfast for finance and news shows known as the TVAM at the Seven Network in the year 1988 from the Sydney to the Kay in the Seven News Brisbane team. She has always distinguished herself in her reporting career. Talking about her co-presenter Rod Young, people say that they look like an old married couple when they are together. You can follow Kay MacGrath on her twitter account.
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A most proper authority on all things Regency
Welcome to my web page where I hope you will find helpful information that is also interesting. Please return from time to time to see what we have added. I have been collecting information on the Regency period for many years so it will take some time to get it all on line.
Ask Nancy a question or see old questions and answer.
About how long would it take to travel from London to Edinburgh in Regency England? And would it be an expensive journey?
Edinburgh is 380-395 miles from London depending on the route taken. The Great North road was the quickest route. One of the fastest stages left London at 6:30 AM and arrived in Edinburgh the 4th afternoon later at three.
The fare didn't include meals. If one traveled in private coaches or by post chaise the price would be higher. Horses had to be changed about every twenty miles and a fee had to be paid--they were leased to carriage owner for the next twenty miles and came with a postilion.
In a book I just read, it was stated that servants were not allowed to marry. I saw something similar in a Marion Chesney book. But it seems like more books do have married servants. Were servants allowed to marry in the 19th century? I find it hard to believe that could be true.
Upper servants such as a butler and a housekeeper were often married. Samuel and Sarah Adams who wrote a book about the Complete Servant were married. However, the woman was usually beyond the age of child bearing when both were employed.In their case, I think she stayed home and raised the children while he continued as a butler until the children were out on their own and then she went to work with him.
Though we like to read and write about long term servants, most only worked for long enough to get money to do something else. It was harder n the female servants and more of them ended up unmarried.
Employers didn't want pregnant servants nor crying babies, not their own, around to distract the servants.
A male servant could more often be married, even if he only got home a couple days a month. A good employer might give him more days off but most wanted the whole attention of a servant while he was on duty.
Outdoor servants were more often married.
Quite a few footmen left domestic service to go into business in inns or pubs or obtained positions in a hotel in a large urban area where their training as a footman came in handy. During the years he worked as a footman, a clever man could save his wages and the vails he received and use them to set himself up in business or to marry and find employment elsewhere.Quite often he married a woman who had been in service as a cook or maid.
There have always been a percentage of men and women who prefer not to marry.
I have read a good deal of novels dealing with entails and the phrase "cutting off the entail" occurs sometimes. I was reading about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's family and it seems the phrase means bringing it to an end, but it requires the agreement of the next in entail. On the other hand, Lady Mary's brother refused to do so, fearing his father would waste the property. How close am I to correct about the meaning of the term?
Barring the entail involved a legal fiction court case with which the current occupant of the property and his oldest son, who has to be over 21 years old, agree. A third person is the one who makes it happen.
If the adult son refuses, it can't be done.
It wasn't done very often. When successful, it did end the entail on the property.
Quite often, when done, the current holder would sell off part to pay bills or establish dowries for daughters and then buy more property and entail it. The oldest son often insisted on that.
In some cases the debts were such that all was lost or father and son were both so loose with money that the son inherits little beside the title.
Who are the highest in Rank Soliciters or Barristers and could some one from the Aristocracy become one. I mean a younger son or could an illegitimate son of a Duke or Marquis become one?
Barristers are higher is precedence and social levels than solicitors.
Judges were higher than both. The main judges were made peers and some of their sons went into law, as well.
By the time of the Regency, there was no bar to an illegitimate man entering the church or the law. Younger sons of peers could enter the law though not many did. It might have been the study required or some other cause but not many did choose the law. It was more traditional for younger sons to go into the church. It might be that a peer quite often had livings which he could give to a son.
If a widow with children re-married and then died, who has rights to/the responsibility of the children from her first marriage? Does the step-father have rights to them? Is he obligated to support them? Do they go to a different relative, if there are any?
Stepfathers had no responsibility under law to support the step-children The mother couldn't even name him a guardian. The first husband was responsible for supporting his own children.
Of course, in many cases the step-father would continue to act as a guardian and have the children live with him. Unless someone brings the case to the Court of Chancery, most people would just accept it.
If he didn't want to care for the children, he would have to find one of their relatives to take them. He could apply to the court of Chancery to be guardian. if the children were over 14 they would have a voice in the naming of a guardian.
Could a man annul a marriage by proxy where he was married to the wrong woman?
English law did not provide for marriages by proxy in England, so the question is moot. Now whether a man could annul a marriage in which he married the wrong woman is a different and more complex question. First of all, the court would want to know why he didn't know the face and the name of the person he was marrying. Why didn't he speak out when the name was wrong? If the bride used the name of the other woman- a matter of stolen identity-- , yes, the marriage could probably be annulled, but still questions would be asked why he didn't know the difference before the vows were said.
If he married by license and said his vows, the wrong name wouldn't matter as much as a wrong name would by banns.
Really, any man who paid so little attention to the woman he was marrying, deserves to be stuck with her.
Travel abroad: what sort of identification did a person need to travel abroad? Were to return to England? Did they have passports in the early nineteen hundreds?
They did have passports. All visitors to UK had to show a visa as they came off the ship. Then they had to visit the passport office after they had been in the country a period of time.
All those who visited France and stayed in a hotel had to be reported to the local authorities.
Most people had letters of credit and letters of introduction as well.
How long would a gentleman mourn his deceased wife? And when would he be allowed to remarry?
A man could mourn his deceased wife five minutes or five decades. Some remarried within six months and others only after a decade or so. There was no law saying how long he had to mourn or stay unmarried.
If a man had young children society rather approved of him marrying fairly quickly -- that is before the year was up or shortly after a year was up.
How soon after birth was a baby typically christened in the Church of England?
Church law suggested the child be baptized the Sunday after birth or the Sunday after that but many preferred to have it when the child was a month to six weeks old. However, I have seen a record where five children in one family aged 2 to 11 were baptized on the same day. I know that a duke's son was baptized five months after birth. As that baptism took place in an excessively cold January, they could not have delayed for better weather.
Sometimes they waited for the mother to recover from confinement, sometimes for better weather, and sometimes in order for the chosen godparents to be present.
A female child was supposed to have 2 female godparents and one male and a male child have 2 male god parents and one female.
The godparents had to have recently taken Communion. They were the ones to answer and make the promises for the child and not the parents. It wasn't necessary for the mother to be present when the child was baptized so soon after birth and she often wasn't.
She had to be churched before attending services again and that usually took place after a month.
It is difficult to know exactly how long after birth the baptism took place as birth dates are rarely included in the baptismal registry.
I'd like to know more about Barristers and how they are different than lawyers. How did a man become one, what did they do, did they work in London or could they work in the country?
Barristers are lawyers and were lawyers. One might call them trial lawyers. Barristers went to university and then to one of the inns of court. The inns of court were like law schools except that they didn't have a curriculum of required law classes.
The barristers to be had to "eat their dinners." That means they attended a certain number of dinner meetings where the already qualified might set up a lecture or a moot court. A man was also supposed to read law books and law cases. Some studied under a barrister who was willing to take them on as trainees.
After the men had eaten their dinners-- and the number of years they had to do this varied according to whether or not the men had degrees from university-- the senior men of their inn of court decided who could be called to the bar. The bar was a railing separating the lawyers from the others in the court room.
The barristers had to wait until some solicitor came and offered them a brief( a case). Barristers could not seek out clients themselves. They did not charge fees but the clerk of chambers told the solicitor how much gratuity to pay.
The solicitor was the one who dealt with the client.
Most barristers were in London because the high courts were there. They went out with the judges in the circuits for the assize.
When a man became well known as a barrister, he might be made a King's counsel ( KC or QC when a queen reigned) This meant he could wear a silk gown and could act as counsel for the king. About the only restriction was that he could not take any cases in opposition to the crown .
Judges of the important courts were usually named from the KCs.
The barristers were under the control and the rule of their inns of court. The inns decided who could practice and who must be disciplined.
What are the ramifications if a Regency gentleman begs off an engagement?
A man was not supposed to break an engagement because it often left the woman with a stain on her reputation. Also, it was considered a matter of honour because she had no recourse at law against him.
She could not, usually, sue for breach of promise until he married another. It would be best if he immediately married another. I hate to say it, but the ramifications would often depend on who she was and who he was. If he was the darling of the Ton and matrons had been wondering what he saw in her to make him propose, then a jilt would not count much against the man. If the young lady were a society favorite, he would be lucky to escape with intact skin.
He could expect to be left off some guest lists. Some real sticklers among men might turn a cold shoulder to him-- again depending on what the circumstances appeared to be. If he just dropped her and acted as though nothing was wrong, he could be attacked by her father or brother and shunned by men and women for callous treatment of a lady. Her father might try to make him marry her. Some mothers might put him on a list of those they want to stay away from their daughters, but others would be certain to blame the female, especially if he were good-looking, with wealth and a title.
A man of honour usually felt obligated to marry a woman to whom he once proposed, even if she turned him down at first. Others felt that a few months of being a social outcaste was not too much a price to pay to avoid a marriage a man knew he no longer wanted.
A good-looking or even passable man with a decent fortune could usually overcome such a scandal to marry well in the future. The poor female was likely to have people wondering what was wrong with her that made him back off.
I have often seen references to strawberry leaves. What significance did strawberry leaves have?
The coronets of earls, marquesses and dukes bear a likeness of a leaf that has come to be called a strawberry leaf. One who aspires to strawberry leaves wants to be an earl, marquess, or duke. Ladies could want to be countess, marchioness, or duchess. These coronets are worn only for coronations.
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I'm wondering what happens when widows remarry. If a widow has two daughters, one 20 and one 14 when she remarries, does either one take her new husband's surname? Or just the younger one?
Neither child takes the step-father's surname. That was not usually done.
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Tolga U. Esmer
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I am a social and cultural historian who teaches classes on Ottoman, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Balkan history as well as broader thematic fields such as comparative empire, the history of everyday life, gender/masculinity, the blurry lines between crime, corruption, and governance, the history of violence and state-building, social discontent and rebellion, Muslim-Christian relations, the history of emotions, as well as anthropological history. I have been teaching at CEU since the Fall of 2009, and beforehand, I taught classes on Islam and Islamic history at Northwestern and Pennsylvania State University in the US.
In terms of my research interests, I work on the imbrications of crime, corruption, and imperial governance and their broader implications on inter- and intra-confessional relations and nation-state formation in the Ottoman world and its successor states. I have a number of articles that came out in the last couple of years in journals such as Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Journal of Ottoman Studies and the European Journal of Turkish Studies.
I am currently completing a book entitled Economies of Violence: Tales of Banditry, Corruption, and Sovereignty in the Late Ottoman Empire (1790s-1820s). My book re-conceptualizes the phenomenon of banditry central to the narratives of disorder and disintegration that dominate the historiography of the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states by exploring how trans-regional networks of violence mediated social relations and by bringing vast groups of society together. The book approaches banditry and its attendant economies of violence as politicized sites of contestation in which socio-economic, moral, legal, and religious concerns of various groups in Ottoman society converged to highlight new tensions and define new relations at the eve of national revolutions. These are processes that the fields of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle Eastern history have studied separately yet were intimately connected and contingent.
Courses taught in the previous years:
Borderlands in Islamic and Ottoman History
Everyday Life History in Empire and Beyond (lecture)
Everyday Life History in Empire and Beyond (seminar)
Topical Survey II: Empires (with Floris Bernard)
South-East European History in Context: Problems and Debates
Doctoral supervision:
Confessional Relations in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Constantinople and Its Aftermath / Flora Ghazaryan (current)
Trans-Imperial Networks of Knowledge Production and Its Dissemination: Yirmisekiz-zâde Mehmed Said Paşa and his Network / Ahmet Bilaloglu (current) --co-supervision with Nadia Al-Bagdadi
The Social Practices of Property in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul / Eda Guclu (current)
Disputing religion, empire and modernity: Christian-Muslim polemics in the Ottoman print sphere, 1861-1915 / Scott Michael Rank (2015)
2000 - MA., University of Washington, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
2009 – Ph.D., University of Chicago, Department of History
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The Relative Hills of Britain
Milnthorpe, Cumbria
© Alan Dawson 1992
Chapter 8: Further Reading (1992 version)
There is a great wealth of available literature about hill walking in Britain, both in general and in specific areas of the country. The brief, selective bibliography below includes details of books referred to in the preceding text together with other recent publications that are particularly relevant to a large number of the relative hills of Britain.
Scottish Mountaineering Club.
Munro's Tables. Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1990.
Lists all the Munros, Munro Tops, Corbetts and Donalds, plus the names of all known Munroists (those known to have climbed all the Munros) and a brief Gaelic guide.
Bridge, G.
The Mountains of England and Wales. Gaston's Alpine Books and West Col Productions, 1973.
An old but much-used list of the 2000-foot tops in England and Wales. Now out of print and out of date, it is mainly of historical interest.
Buxton, C. & Lewis, G.
The Mountain Summits of England and Wales. Red Dial Publications, 1986.
A brief, inexpensive booklet which updates and enlarges on the list of summits in Bridge's book. Includes some very insignificant tops.
Yeaman, E. J.
Handbook of the Scottish Hills. Wafaida, 1989
Lists all the hills in Scotland over one hundred metres high, and includes meticulous codes and notes about many of them.
Hackenthorpe, R., Hackenthorpe, D., Hackenthorpe J. & Hackenthorpe L. V.
The Hackenthorpe Book of Lies. Slater-Methuen, 1973.
Mythical collection of miscellaneous misinformation. Contains over sixty million untrue facts and figures.
Bennet, D.(ed).
The Munros. Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1985.
Well-illustrated guide to the main ascent routes on every Munro, conveniently grouped into walks of reasonable length. Does not include the Munro Tops.
Butterfield, I.
The High Mountains of Britain and Ireland. Diadem Books, 1986.
Coffee-table guide to all the Munros, Munro Tops, deleted Munros, deleted Tops, and 3000-foot summits in England, Wales and Ireland. The mountains are divided into non-standard sections and some mammoth expeditions. Also available in a more portable edition without the photographs.
Johnstone, S., Brown, H. & Bennet, D.(ed)
The Corbetts and Other Scottish Hills. Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1990.
Companion guide to The Munros in the same format, covering the main ascent routes on a few selected Lesser Corbetts and even lower hills, as well as as the Corbetts.
Marsh, T. The Mountains of Wales. Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
The Lake Mountains One. Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
The Lake Mountains Two. Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
The Pennine Mountains. Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
Series of guides that together cover almost all the 600-metre summits of England and Wales. Several routes are described on the more popular hills.
Nuttall, J. & Nuttall, A. The Mountains of England and Wales. Volume 1: WALES. Cicerone Press, 1989.
The Mountains of England and Wales. Volume 2: ENGLAND. Cicerone Press, 1990.
A pair of guides intended specifically for walkers aiming to bag all the 2000-foot summits outside Scotland. Most of the suggested walks are designed to include as many tops as possible in a circuit of reasonable length.
Poucher, W.A.
The Scottish Peaks. Constable, 1988.
The Welsh Peaks. Constable, 1987.
The Lakeland Peaks. Constable, 1983.
The Peak and Pennines. Constable, 1983.
A relatively old series of guides that describe routes on the more popular summits in a country or area. The books were first published in the 1950's and 60's but have been regularly revised since. Each one contains a multitude of black-and-white photographs.
Wainwright, A.
The Eastern Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1955.
The Far Eastern Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1957.
The Central Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1958.
The Southern Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1960.
The Northern Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1962.
The North Western Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1964.
The Western Fells. Westmorland Gazette, 1966.
A set of hand-written and hand-drawn books, often considered to be the definitive guides to the hills of the Lake District. They have not been revised since first publication, so details of some routes have become out of date.
Brown, H.
Hamish's Mountain Walk. Paladin, 1980.
Climbing the Corbetts. Gollancz, 1988.
Enthusiastic accounts of the ascent of all the Munros (in one continuous journey) and all the Corbetts (over several years).
Moran, M.
The Munros in Winter. David & Charles, 1985.
Detailed account of the first continuous journey over all the Munros in winter.
Caldwell, C.
Climb Every Mountain. Macdonald, 1990.
Description of the first (and possibly the last) continuous self-propelled journey over all the Munros and all the Corbetts.
Symonds, H.
Running High. Lochar, 1991.
The book of the first run over and between all the 3000-foot summits in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.
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A traveler interested in exploring different cultures, history and art should visit this tiny country, the 82 percent of which is covered by mountains and that is situated between East and West and the name of which is Armenia!!!
Immodestly, the Armenians consider themselves direct descendants of Noah. According to the Book of Genesis, Noah’s Ark came to rest on “the mountains of Ararat” after the Great Flood. Ararat, located in the heart of Armenia Highland, was a Holy Mountain for the peoples of this ancient world. Many ancient scriptures have placed the Biblical Garden of Eden in the Land of Ararat.
In the History Museum of Armenia you can see exhibits dating back to 1 million years ago that have been found in the modern territory of Armenia.
Armenian people were adoring pagan gods and in favor of them pagan temples were built. Only after adopting Christianity in 301 the temples were destroyed and Christian churches were built in their places. Only the pagan temple of Garni still stands.
Armenia is the World's first country that adopted Christianity as a state religion. Though Armenians in fact built plenty of fortresses, Christian monuments are clearly the most distinctive feature of the Armenian landscape. Armenia is frequently called an open-air museum. The original beauty of Armenian churches and monasteries can be explained by the harmony with the landscape. In the modern territory of Armenia you can see churches and monasteries dating back to the 4th C up to 21st C. The Mother Cathedral and other churches of Etchmiadzin, archaeological site Zvartnots, Monastic Complexes of Haghpat, Sanahin and Geghard as well, were inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Khachkars (“cross-stones”) became one of the characteristic parts and the symbols of Armenian culture. The most common reason for erecting a khachkar was for votive reasons – for the salvation of the soul either a living or deceased person. They were also erected for other reasons, such as to commemorate a military victory, construction of a church or as a form of protection from natural disasters. Meanwhile the culture of the Armenian people is also expressed on khachkar. The Art of Armenian Cross Stones was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Another symbol of Armenia is duduk musical instrument. The roots of Armenian duduk music go back to the times of the Armenian king Tigran the Great (95-55 BC). It accompanies popular Armenian traditional songs and dances of the various regions and is played at events, such as weddings and funerals. Today, duduk craftsmen continue to create and experiment with different forms of duduks. Many Armenians consider the duduk as an instrument that most eloquently expresses warmth, joy and their history. Duduk and its music were inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Matenadaran is another object of Armenians’ pride – it is one of the richest book-depositories in the world. Its collection of about 17.000 manuscripts includes almost all the areas of ancient and medieval Armenian culture and sciences - history, geography, grammar, philosophy, law, medicine, mathematics-cosmography, theory of calendar, alchemy-chemistry, translations, literature, chronology, art history, miniature, music and theatre, as well as manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Greek, Syrian, Latin, Ethiopian, Indian, Japanese and others. In this center of cultural heritage many originals, lost in their mother languages and known only of their Armenian translations, have been saved from the loss. The history of the Matenadaran dates back to the creation of the Armenian alphabet in 405. This center of manuscripts has a history of centuries and that history continues till now as well. The Matenadaran was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Program.
Fruits and vegetables in Armenia are grown 1400-1800 meters above sea level in thin air and direct sunlight. Fertile land and exceptional spring waters give Armenian fruits and vegetables an unparalleled succulent taste. In addition, a range of microclimates and altitudes in the country allow for the production of unique and delicious fruits and berries. Fruit and vegetable processing is a well-developed industry, and canneries offer a large assortment of high quality tomato paste, pickles, compotes, natural fruit juices and nectars, preserves, jams, syrups and dried fruits.
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SSI Newsletters: 1994 January February
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08542
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THE HIGH FRONTIER® NEWSLETTER
VOLUME XX ISSUE 1 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1994
This issue of SSI Update includes the latest report from Dr. Seth Potter on SSI’s research project updating the design of a solar power satellite using a thin-film design. Dr. Potter is finalizing his report at this time, but reports to us that, based on his work so far, an overall reduction of mass of more than 60% is feasible. These exciting results are likely to bring SPS once again to the world’s attention as an energy alternative.
The second article, Clementine: An Experiment to Flight Qualify Lightweight Space Technologies, details the spacecraft and mission dedicated to Gerard K. O’Neill. Further updates and data on Clementine’s mission will be included in future issues of SSI Update.
On page 5 there is general information on the Institute as well as its membership programs. We hope you will share this information with a friend.
Independent Research Opportunities
SSI is pleased to announce the opportunity for independent research projects. We have begun compiling a list of important research projects that can be undertaken on a volunteer basis by researchers or graduate students. The current available areas of study include: asteroids, comet cores, space colony design, mass-drivers and propulsion. SSI will offer a project outline, objectives, direction, contacts (where possible), and a review process for qualified people to conduct short-term projects. Following the review process there will be opportunity for publication of the results.
If you are interested in receiving more information, please send your resume to us along with a letter describing your area of interest. We will also be making this opportunity available to those outside the SSI community on the internet computer network, but will give preference to all SSI Senior Associates and Members. This is an excellent opportunity for you to become directly involved in SSI’s research plan for 1994.
The SSI volunteer speakers’ bureau has handled many requests over the past two months and has received much press coverage. If you are interested in becoming an SSI spokesperson or would like to arrange for a presentation in your area, please contact the SSI office.
SSI Membership
The annual SSI Membership and Renewal drive is now underway. Please take a moment to renew your membership. Your support is critical to SSI’s success. We would also like to thank all of you who sent in recommendations for prospective members. The campaign has been very successful. If you have not yet sent in recommendations, please send the names and addresses to Barbara Faughnan. c/o SSI, P.O. Box 82, Princeton, NJ 08542. We will promptly send them membership information.
Because of the poor service we were receiving from our E-mail carrier, we are now in the process of switching companies. Unfortunately as we go to press, the new number is “in the mail.” By the time you get this newsletter, we should be up and running with our new number. Don’t hesitate to give our office a call to get the new number!
Included in the member renewal mailing is a new brochure for the SSI credit card with MBNA. This program has proved to be a very good source of extra research funds and is steadily growing. If you haven’t already done so, we urge you to help us out by signing up. SSI receives a small but well received bonus each time a member signs up, upgrades his card and/or makes a purchase using the card. The bonus to SSI is not based on a percentage of your bill, but on the number of purchases. (Make many small charges!) Senior Associates did not receive this brochure, but we’ll be happy to send you one if you let us know.
Thank you again for your support. With your help we intend to make 1994 SSI’s most successful year.
Bettie Greber
LOW MASS SOLAR POWER SATELLITES BUILT FROM TERRESTRIAL OR LUNAR MATERIALS
By Seth D. Potter
One of the major constraints on the eventual deployment of solar power satellites (SPS) is the cost of launching large amounts of material into space. Two research strategies have been pursued in order to circumvent this problem. One approach, supported by SSI for many years, is to build the SPS out of nonterrestrial (particularly lunar) material. The March/April 1993 issue of Update contained an excerpt from Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill’s book, Technology Edge: Opportunities for America in World Competition, in which he points out that launching a given amount of material from the Moon to high orbit takes less than a twentieth as much energy as launching the same amount of material from the Earth. When other factors, such as atmospheric resistance on the Earth, are accounted for, the savings in launch costs from the Moon versus the Earth may amount to a factor of fifty. In 1985, Space Research Associates completed an SSI-commissioned study, in which the NASA/ Department of Energy reference SPS was redesigned to take full advantage of lunar resources. It was shown that approximately 99% of an SPS can consist of lunar materials. The 8% increase in overall mass compared to an SPS built from terrestrial materials was considered to be a relatively small price to pay for this advantage.
The SPS designs mentioned above have masses of about 50,000 metric tons and generate 5 GW (gigawatts, or thousands of megawatts) of electricity. Recently, therefore, another strategy for reducing SPS launch costs has been considered. Work at the NASA Lewis Research Center has shown that it may be possible to use thin-film solar cells deposited on a lightweight substrate along with solid state microwave transmitters. Since the entire area of the substrate can be covered with microwave transmitters as well as solar cells, large effective transmitting antenna diameters become feasible. Due to the physics of power beaming, the larger the transmitting antenna, the less the microwave power beam will spread as it reaches the Earth. Since the rectifying antenna (rectenna) at the Earth’s surface can now be made correspondingly smaller, the SPS need not supply as much power as a conventional SPS in order to be economical. (Indeed, it ought not to supply as much power, or else the microwave beam will become too intense.With smaller SPS’s having a lower mass per kilowatt of power generated, the system becomes easier to build and finance.
Current research at New York University, supported by SSI, aims to achieve the best of both approaches to launch cost reduction by using thin films and lightweight substrates built from lunar materials. The first step in the study was to consider two lightweight SPS designs suggested by Geoffrey Landis and Ronald Cull of the NASA Lewis Research Center: the “bicycle wheel” and the “inflatable sphere.”
The bicycle wheel SPS would consist of a diskshaped solar cell/transmitter array stretched out over spokes, with a pole running through its center. Additional stiffness would be provided by guy wires running from the ends of the pole to the rim of the array. Since the array cannot directly face the Earth and the Sun simultaneously, there will typically be about a 30% loss in power. This can be made up for by using a mirror that orbits along with the SPS. The mirror would track the Sun and reflect light to the SPS, which would face the rectenna site on the Earth. Although this would increase the available power, and, perhaps more importantly, assure a more constant supply of power, the mirror would weigh about as much as the SPS, thereby increasing the total mass required to supply a given amount of power by about 40%. In the inflatable sphere concept, the solar cell/transmitter array would be a giant balloon supported by a low-pressure gas. The mass of this gas would be quite small compared to that of the array. However, some of this advantage may be lost due to the fact that the array itself has four times as much actual area as crosssectional area (due to the fact that the surface area of a sphere is four times its cross-sectional area). It would thus have four times the mass of the equivalent bicycle wheel array, not counting the support structure of the latter.
In order to design a lightweight SPS, it must be kept in mind that if the entire array area serves as both solar collector and a microwave transmitter, then as the array is increased in size, more power is being collected and squeezed into a tighter beam. Thus, a limit on beam intensity will set a limit on the size of the SPS. In this study, a peak beam intensity of 30 milliwatts per square centimeter was assumed (the intensity near the edge of the beam is, of course, much lower). This is the same as in the Space Research Associates study mentioned earlier, and is not significantly different from the NASA/DoE figure of 23 milliwatts per square centimeter. It is also only three times the US safety standard for human exposure to microwaves. Thus, as seen in other SPS studies, the microwave power beam is no death ray.
Another important parameter to consider is the frequency of the power beam. For a given transmitting antenna size, the higher the frequency, the narrower and more intense the beam. Thus, for high frequencies, the array must be kept small in order to avoid too concentrated a beam. For lower frequencies, a larger array is needed in order to keep the beam from spreading out too much as well as to supply enough power to make economical use of the land area at the rectenna site.
NASA researchers have investigated several different thin-film photovoltaic materials, such as cadmium sulfide (CdS), copper sulfide (Cu2S), copper indium diselenide (CuInSe2), and amorphous silicon (a-Si). The latter compares favorably with the other materials in terms of the efficiency at which it converts solar energy into electricity. All of these materials are radiation-tolerant, thereby eliminating the need for a protective cover glass. They are also low in mass, and therefore, inexpensive for the quantities that will be needed. Amorphous silicon is at a slight disadvantage in terms of light degradation (10 to 15% after two years, compared to, say, CulnSe2, which has none), but it is believed that this can be improved upon. Because of its favorable characteristics, and the fact that it is the only thin-film photovoltaic material available on the Moon, amorphous silicon served as the basis for this study for both the terrestrial and lunar SPS. An efficiency of 11.5% was used, based on NASA projections of achievable efficiencies for the 1990’s. The material considered for the substrate for an SPS built of terrestrial materials was Kapton polyimide. This is the same material used to make rectenna substrates. Steel foil was the substrate of choice for an SPS built of lunar materials. The thicknesses considered were based on NASA figures for advanced substrates, and were 7.5 microns for Kapton and 7.5 microns for steel foil.
A bicycle wheel SPS using thin-film technology will have a diameter of just over 4 kilometers for a power beam frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (this is the frequency of the NASA/DoE reference design). It will supply about 450 megawatts of power to consumers. The mass of the solar cell/transmitter array (including the substrate, but not the support structure) is just over 200 metric tons if Kapton is used for the substrate (terrestrial materials), and just under 800 tons if steel foil is used (lunar materials). The effect of increasing the frequency was also considered. A 10GHz power beam yields a bicycle wheel SPS that has half the diameter, and thus one-fourth of the array mass and power level as the 2.45 GHz design; i.e., roughly 2km, 50 tons (terrestrial) or 190 tons (lunar), and 110 MW. A bicycle wheel with a mirror, or an inflatable sphere will be 8.5% smaller in diameter and supply 19% more power than a conventional bicycle wheel, due to the elimination of the tracking loss. Higher frequencies will yield even smaller, more easily constructed SPS’s, but the amount of power for their size will be lower, since higher frequencies are subject to rain and air attenuation, and solid state microwave transmitters are less efficient at higher frequencies.
Preliminary research in the design of the support structures indicates that they can be built from lightweight materials available both on the Earth and on the Moon. A likely terrestrial material is a graphite organic matrix. A likely lunar material is a glass/glass laminate. Both materials are light in weight, with the graphite organic matrix being somewhat lighter. These two materials have opposite coefficients of thermal expansion. They can be combined to yield a material with zero coefficient of thermal expansion. Only a small amount of glass needs to be added to the graphite to achieve this, making this a feasible approach for a terrestrial SPS, but not for a lunar SPS, since graphite is not available on the Moon. Thus, a lunar SPS supported by a glass/glass laminate structure may have a problem with thermal expansion. However, the design of the support structure is presently in its early stage, so it is not yet known if this is a serious problem.
Dr. Peter Glaser, the originator of the SPS concept, has called for a “terraced” approach to SPS technology development. In this approach, smaller projects would pave the way toward a full-scale geostationary SPS. One possible small or mid-sized project would be an SPS in low Earth orbit beaming power to a rectenna near the equator for a small portion of each orbit. (One such project is the Japanese SPS 2000 program.) Using thin-film technology, an SPS in low Earth orbit may be light enough to be launched by a single Space Shuttle mission. For a bicycle wheel SPS orbiting at an altitude of 1200 kilometers, beaming power at a frequency of 10 GHz, the diameter would be 340 meters, the power available to consumers would be 3 MW, and the array mass would be an amazingly low 1430 kilograms (though the support structure would increase the mass). The full capacity of such an SPS can be exploited if a series of SPS’s and equatorial rectennas are spaced such as to enable a given rectenna to lock onto the next SPS after the previous one has disappeared from view. The previous SPS would then lock onto another rectenna, further east.
If support structures can be redesigned which weigh about as much as a photovoltaic array built from terrestrial materials, then overall specific power levels of about 800 to 1000 watts per kilogram may be possible for a terrestrial SPS. Since the NASA/DoE reference SPS had a specific power level of about 100 watts per kilogram, the potential improvement is considerable. In addition to the improvement in specific power, a thin-film SPS would be smaller in overall size than the NASA/DoE reference design; thus making each SPS a more easily financed step in the growth of a national or international power system. A thin-film SPS built from lunar materials would lose some (but not all) of the specific power advantage; however, the lowering of launch costs may make this worthwhile, if a lunar infrastructure can be constructed and operated economically.
To date, thin-film solar cells have been produced in relatively small moqules at maufacturing volumes far below that required for SPS construction. The substrates commonly used are not lightweight. Research in depositing thin film solar cells on lightweight substrates is only just beginning. However, the promise of thin-film technology, combined with future world energy needs, suggests that it worthwhile to develop manufacturing technologies which would allow thin-film solar cells to be deposited on lightweight substrates and produced in large quantities.
CLEMENTINE: AN EXPERIMENT TO FLIGHT QUALIFY
LIGHTWEIGHT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
By Col. Pedro L. Ruston, Mission Manager
The Clementine spacecraft which was dedicated to noted space pioneer, Gerard K. O’Neill, was launched January 25, 1994 aboard an Air Force Titan IIG rocket at 11:34 EST. Using a very lean management style, the program developed the spacecraft, built by the Naval Research Laboratory in less than two years. The spacecraft has a dry mass ofabout 235 kg, made possible by using very lightweight components. The sensor suite consists of two star tracker cameras, an ultravioletvisible camera, a short wave infrared camera, a long wave infrared camera, and a lidar, weighing less than 7kg and covering the wavelength range from 0.3 to 9.5 microns. Additional novel, lightweight technologies (inertial measurement units, reaction wheels, batteries, computers, and microelectronic solid-state recorders) have also been incorporated in the basic system design. The mission plan called for a solid rocket motor, configured as the third stage ofa Titan IIG booster, to propel the spacecraft from a low-Earth orbit to a Moon-Earth orbit. The vehicle will assume a polar orbit around the Moon on February 20, 1994. Following an approximately two month imaging period, the spacecraft will then execute a flyby of the near-Earth-asteroid 1620 Geographos. In the process, it will flight qualify many advanced lightweight technologies and enable the transfer of these technologies to the civilian scientific sector.
In September 1990, NASA Administrator Richard Truly inquired of Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Atwood as to the possibility of utilizing the advanced, lightweight technologies being developed for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (then known as the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization) in a joint space exploration mission. After a six-month study effort by NASA, DoD, and industry, it was concluded that a mission to a near-Earth-asteroid was desirable and feasible from both organizations’ standpoint. The mission was subsequently expanded by two months to include a mapping of the Moon to demonstrate sensor performance prior to the demanding asteroid flyby. On a humorous but practical note, the name Clementine was selected for the spacecraft because the old ballad “Clementine” describes the excavation of a mine and this mission would assist in determining the mineral content of the Moon and the asteroid. Additionally, as in the song, after the asteroid flyby, Clementine will be “lost and gone forever.”
Overall Space Characteristics
The total mass of the spacecraft in the launch configuration is 1690 kg, with most of the weight in the solid rocket motor required for lunar insertion. The Spacecraft dry mass is 235 kg and fuel is 223 kg (Figure 1). The spacecraft propulsion system consists of a monopropellant hydrazine system for attitude control and a bipropellant nitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine system for propulsive maneuvers. The bipropellant system has a total capability of about 1.8 km/s with about 550 m/s required for lunar insertion and 540 m/s for lunar departure. The remaining propellant is used for error correction, lunar orbit maintenance, and asteroid flyby. During initial deployment at low-Earth-orbit (LEO), the spacecraft is 3-axis stabilized. Then the spacecraft is spun up and the kick motor fired. After motor jettison, the spacecraft is 3-axis stabilized via reaction wheels providing a stabilization of 0.05°. The attitude control system includes two inertial measurement units based on a ring laser gyro and an interferometric fiber optic gyro.
Spacecraft data processing is performed by two computers. A 16-bit radiation hardened computer with a capacity of 1.7 million instructions per second is used for safemode, attitude control system, and houskeeping operations. A reduced instruction set computer (RISC) 32-bit processor with 18 million instructions per second is used for image processing and autonomous operations. During imaging operations, the data are stored in a 2 Gbit dynamic solid state recorder and later transferred to the gound stations using a 128 kb/s downlink. The spacecraft is commanded from the ground using a 1 kb/s uplink from the NASA Deep Space Network and the DoD stations. The power system consists of a gimbaled, single axis, GaAs/Ge solar array providing a total spacecraft power of 360 watts at 30Vdc. The solar array is used to charge a 15 A-h NiH2 common pressure vessel battery.
Spacecraft Orbits
The spacecraft was launched from the Air Force Western Test Range, Vandenberg AFB, into a 260 x 300 km parking orbit at a 67° inclination. After a few days in LEO, the solid rocket motor boosted the spacecraft into a phasing orbit transfer trajectory to the Moon. The spacecraft will be trapped in a 425 km x 2940 km, 5 hour orbit around the Moon for about 10 weeks. The mission timeline was designed to flyby the near-Earth-asteroid Geographos on 31 August 1994[1].
Advanced Lightweight Spacecraft Technologies
The Clementine spacecraft will flight qualify several of the most advanced lightweight technologies ever developed in a cost effective and stressing operation space test. The spacecraft design deviates from the normal practice of using military standard components and, instead, introduces commercial plastic parts which are not hermetically sealed. All commercial plastic parts were pre-screened and traced to ensure quality assurance. The spacecraft subsystems were designed to operate in the mission space environment for a full year. Several of the technologies incorporated into the lightweight sensor suite and into the major spacecraft subsystems are discussed below. As will be apparent, this is the first space test of such advanced systems.
Light Sensor Suite
Star Tracker Camera (STC). The Clementine STC weighs 370g and has an accuracy of 100 to 300 µrad. The camera performs a 3-axis attitude determination with only one starfield image. The wide field of view of the camera, 29° by 43°, is designed to minimize the star catalog by using the brightest stars. The focal plane array is a silicon charged couple device (CCD) operating between 0.4 and 1.1µm with a pixel format of 384 x 576 and a pixel size of 23 x 23µm. The present design has an aperture of 14.4 mm and a focal length of 17.7mm, operating at a very fast f/1.28. The STC electronics operates at a maximum frame rate of 10z with 8 bits in the analog/digital converter.
UV/Visible Camera (UVVC). The Clementine UVVC weighs 500g and is designed for inexpensive manufacture and calibration. The optics, filter wheel, and camera assembly are modular. The focal plane array consists of a phosphor overcoated silicon CCD for UV and visible response between .3 and 1.1µm. The pixel format is 384 x 288 and the pixel size is 23 x 23 µm. Expected resolution from lunar orbit is 100 m/pixel, and at Geographos, is 30 m/pixel. The optics consists of a catadioptric Si02 glass with an aperture of 46 mm and a speed of f/1.96. The imaging has a field of view of 4.2° x 5.6°. The UVVC electronics operate at a maximum frame rate of 30 Hz with 8 bits in the analog/digital converter. The NASA science team selected filter wavelengths for this camera to permit mineralogical mapping of the Moon and Geographos. For the UVVC, these filters are centered at 0.415, 0.75, 0.90, 0.95, and 1.0 µm.
Lidar High Resolution Camera. The 1250g high-resolution camera (HRC) consists of an intensified S20 photocathode silicon CCD which operates between 0.4 and 0.8 µm with a pixel format of 384 x 288 and a pixel size of 23 x 23 µm. Expected resolution from lunar orbit is 30 m, and at Geographos, is 5 m. The optics consists of a shared Cassegrain telescope with reimaging lens and beam splitter, an aperture of 13.1 cm, and a speed of only f/9.5. An imaging field of view of 0.4 x 0.3 degrees is used to obtain the high resolution in the camera design. The filter wavelengths selected by the science team were 0.415, 0.56, 0.65, and 0.75 µm. A fifth filter was selected as broadband over the wavelength range from 0.4 to 0.8 µm.
Lidar Laser Transmitter. With a mass of 1000g and a size of about 4 x 10 x 22 cm, the laser transmitter is a highly portable device with many applications in the commercial and military sector. The laser is a Nd:YAG diode pumped laser operated a 1.064 µm. The pulse energy is 180 millijoules with a 10 ns pulse length. This laser transmitter can be operated continuously at 1 Hz or in bursts at a higher repetition rate. With the present power design and thermal management, the laser can be operated for 400 pulses at 10 Hz. For Clementine, this instrument will provide ranging data from which topographical information on the lunar surface may be derived.
Short Wave Infrared Camera (SW/RC). The SWIRC is a compact imager designed to detect and track in the IR range. It has a mass of 1600 g. The focal plane array is a 256 x 256 photovoltaic InSb array. The optics are catadioptric with a 2 cm aperture and a speed of f/5. The SWIRC field of view is 5.6° x 5.6°. The filter wavelengths selected by the science team were 1.1, 1.25, 1.50, 2.0, 2.6, and 2.78 µm. The camera electronics operate at a frame rate of 10 Hz. An active sterling cycle cryocooler is integrated with the camera to maintain the focal plane array below 77° K.
Long Wave Infrared Camera (LWIRC). At 1650 g, the LWIRC camera is quite compact and is extremely valuable in investigating cold objects against a space background. The focal plane array is a 128 x 128 photovoltaic HgCdTe array with a pixel size of 50 x 50 microns. The optics type is a Cassegrain-Reig at an aperture of 150 mm and a speed of f/2.3. The array field of view is one degree by one degree and operates without filter wheel to image from 8 to 9.5 µm. The electronics operate at a repetition rate of 30 Hz. An active Sterling cycle cryocooler is built as part of the LWIRC to extract over 0.25 watts from the focal plane maintaining a temperature of 65° K.
Advanced Spacecraft Subsystems
Lightweight Spacecraft Subsystems. The electric power system, the attitude control system, and the computer processing system were also designed to incorporate advanced lightweight components. Most of these components were developed by the DoD to be used in ballistic missile defense applications where weight reduction is essential to system integration. Since the spacecraft weight is directly related to the launch cost, these technologies are of great value to the commercial and civil space sectors. The use of these technologies in the Clementine spacecraft should encourage their use in many commercial applications.
Electrical Power System (EPS). Two advanced technologies were introduced in the EPS, a common pressure vessel (CPV) nickel hydrogen battery and a 5.5 mil thick gallium arsenide on germanium solar cell. Even though nickel hydrogen batteries have been flown as an independent pressure vessel (IPV) since 1976[2], the more compact, higher energy per kilogram common pressure vessel nickel hydrogen battery has not been flown previously. The NiH2 CPV battery offers twice the power and one-half the mass of IPV batteries. The 9.5 kg, 15 Amp-hour, Clementine spacecraft battery design uses a unique containment and fin system to provide 47.1 watthour/kg, which is about 8% more than previously flown NiH2 IPV batteries[3]. Additionally, the incorporation of a 5.5 mil gallium arsenide on germanium with a 301 watt/m2 is the thinnest GaAs/Ge solar cell yet flown.
Attitude Control System (ACS). Two advanced lightweight technologies are also incorporated in the ACS. The Clementine spacecraft incorporates the two lightest inertial measurement units (IMU) developed by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, a 500 g ring laser gyro and a 650 g interferometric fiber optic gyro. These IMUs incorporate lightweight packaging and applications specific integrated circuits for a 2:1 weight reduction over existing IMUs. These units are radiation hardened to about 10 kRads (Si) and contain no devices subject to destructive latchup. Both units have a drift rate of about 1°/hr and operate at a power of 10 W. Four lightweight reaction wheels are also incorporated in the spacecraft ACS. The drive electronics of these reaction wheels are integrated with the wheel assembly to provide increased reliability and about 30% weight reduction. The Clementine reaction wheels have a mass of 2 kg, use about 10 W total, and are designed for a three year mission.
Computer Processing System (CPS). In addition to a radiation hardened 16-bit processor which is used for standard spacecraft housekeeping operations, Clementine uses a 32-bit RISC processor for the image data from the sensor suite. This is the first application of 32-bit RISC processor architecture in a spacecraft. The Clementine 32-bit processor is a R3081 RISC processor with 18 MIPS and 3.5 MFLOPS which is radiation hardened to near 20 kRads (Si) and has no latchup components. During standard mapping operations, the CPS stores the data in a solid state data recorder (SSDR) with a total storage of 2 Gbits. This SSDR is four times larger than any previously flight qualified solid state recorder. The SSDR has been designed for high reliability by using redundancy error detection and correction with active fault management and built-in-test. The SSDR has a data throughput greater than 20 Mb/s with a bit error rate less than one bit per 10 billion. The weight of the SSDR is 3.4 kg, uses a maximum of 15 W, and consists of commercially available 4 Mb dynamic random access memory systems. A compression chip developed for future space exploration missions would provide various image compression options.
The Clementine spacecraft will be the first time the DoD performs a deep space mission. The use of celestial bodies such as the Moon and a near-Earth-asteroid are ideal targets to flight qualify advanced lightweight technologies. The added cost of the mission by going to deep space is actually less than the cost of developing and deploying the targets that would be required to test the payload in LEO. Since Clementine is an engineering mission, extensive diagnostics have been used to test the advanced systems in the sensor suite and in the subsystems. By performing a joint mission with NASA and forming a NASA-selected science team to enhance the scientific value of the mission, it will also be possible to transfer these technologies for future space exploration, bringing true meaning to the term “dual use.”
But Clementine is more than a joint DoD/NASA program to flight qualify advanced technologies; the program also implements a lean management style to make space missions faster and cheaper than ever before. From the beginning of the Clementine program, there was a clear intent to avoid the huge infrastructure and managerial style that drives spacecraft costs to hundreds of millions of dollars and stretches program durations to many years. For example, the program cost and schedule were set at the beginning of the program and they were monitored monthly to ensure full compliance. The total program duration, from mission go-ahead to launch, was fixed at two years (the program was actually completed in 22 months!) and the total spacecraft cost (including launch vehicle) at 75 million dollars. It is hoped that the innovative technologies and the management techniques in the mission be considered in the future to significantly reduce costs and schedule without compromising the scientific and engineering yield.
The author wishes to thank Paul Regeon and his staff at the Naval Center for Space Technology in the Naval Research Laboratory for their outstanding performance integrating the Clementine spacecraft. The author is also indebted to Lyn Pleasance and his group at the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their superb effort designing and manufacturing all the sensors used in the Clementine spacecraft.
1. Nozette, S., and E. Shoemaker, “Back to the Moon, on to an Asteroid: The Clementine Mission,” The Planetary Report, pp. 10-15, Sept/Oct 1993.
2. Betz, Fred, “The NTS-2 Nickel Hydrogen Battery,” NASA Publication 2041, Paper Presented at the 1977 NASA Battery Workshop, June 23, 1977.
3. Baker, W.E., Garner, J.C., and D.J. Short, “The DSPSE Spacecraft Electrical Power System, “IEEEC Paper 93214, 28th IEEEC Proceedings, Atlanta GA, August, 8-13, 1993.
This article is an excerpt from an article printed by EOS.
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Mr. Isphanyar M. Bhandara started his family business, Murree Brewery Co. Ltd. Rawalpindi, one of the oldest public limited companies of the sub continent in 1997.
Joined Board of Directors of the company in 1998. Before this he has significant exposure to fields operation including production, project development, development planning, conceptual engineering and operation supports in the brewery and its other divisions.
In June, 2005 became Executive Director till 2008 and lately in June, 2008 was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Murree Brewery Group of Companies on the demise of his father.
The Company has also other divisions manufacturing food products, fruit juices, mineral water,non- alcoholic products and glass containers. The traditional activities of the Company are brewing and distilling of fine liquors and beers. With the passage of time the company has increased the product lines and capacity as well.
The first thing that no one mentions about a particular business is that we are aiding to the economy. we are among the highest tax payers in the country - Isphanyar M. Bhandara CEO, Murree Brewery
Holds a Master Degree in Business & Administration.
Ex-Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on seat reserved for Minorities (2013-2018).
Currently President of Rawalpindi Parsi Anjuman.
Representing and helping following Minority communities of Pakistan
Parsi, Sikhs, Baha’is, Buddhists, Kalash and doing other social and welfare activities.
Attended various LUMS workshops on business.
The Murree Brewery was established in 1860, it was among the first modern beer breweries established in Asia. It is a public limited company and one of the oldest company on the Kolkata stock exchange. What is your vision of the beverage landscape in Pakistan? And where is it heading to?
The beverage landscape in Pakistan is excellent! About 60% – 70% of our population of 220 million is under the age of 30. These youngsters are people who like to have their soft drinks, beer, water etc but the recent senseless “double taxation” is not welcomed by the industry. The Government and laws have to be business friendly and create a business type atmosphere
We are improving our technology, by buying machines from all over the world.
You doubled your alcohol-production capacity in 2016 and profits have risen by almost 100% since 2012, reaching a foamy $19.6m in 2017. What are your objectives for 2019?
There are no specific objectives. The idea is to grow sales, have more profitability for shareholders, and workers. Our company stocks are trading very good at the moment at $8 per share.
29% of Murree Brewery shareholders come through a Fund that is called Kings Way, it is UK based but with headquarters inLuxembourg.
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“India’s domestic structure five years behind Australia, England” – Harmanpreet Kaur
Fitness, fielding and finding two or three good fast bowlers are India’s focus areas looking ahead to next year’s 50-over Women’s World Cup in New Zealand. This is the assessment of Harmanpreet Kaur, who also insists T20I captaincy isn’t a burden despite her lean returns with the bat recently.
“Now the players are getting more aware about being fit and following the right daily routines,” Kaur told Mumbai Mirror. “The things we have grasped in last two-three years, England and Australia have been doing from long before.”
Kaur believes India’s domestic structure is “five-six years behind” Australia and England, but adds that increasing awareness and popularity of women’s cricket, central contracts and better facilities are starting to make a difference.
“Definitely we are five-six years behind them in these aspects,” she said. “But now girls have understood their responsibility towards being fit. Earlier there used to be huge difference between a domestic player and what is expected at international level. But now some 30 girls are given individual programme by the BCCI.
“The captaincy keeps me alert all the time. Earlier, I used to think about my performance alone. Captaincy has made me a better person”
“So when one of them is picked for India, she is not clueless of what is expected of her. As we keep improving our domestic level, the performances at international level will improve. That is why I said we are five-six years behind these teams because our domestic set-up is not as good as it should be.”
Kaur says India are at par with the top sides in terms of skills, and the increased focus on fitness has helped them beat sides like England and Australia, like at the T20 World Cup and the tri-series prior to that.
“Just the fitness. In these two countries fitness is part of their culture. Unfortunately, in India we start these things late,” Kaur told The Week. “For the last three years the girls have been working hard on fitness. It does not improve overnight, we need to work on it for longer durations. Earlier, we would come close to these teams and lose, but now we are winning matches against them. Skill-wise we are better batters and bowlers than these two countries.”
Harmanpreet Kaur addresses her team in the huddle ICC via Getty
Fitness and fielding aside, Kaur underlined the need to become less dependent on their spinners. She feels this can happen only if they find “two medium pacers, especially when there are two set batters.” At the T20 World Cup in a February-March, India banked on Shikha Pandey‘s swing, along with their plethora of spin options right through their run that ended in the final, even though conditions did not always favour slow bowlers.
“Cricket-wise definitely not,” she said when asked if that tactic made sense. “But we need to look at our strengths and weaknesses. At present, spin is our strength. Had we focused on grooming medium pacers a year or two back, we would not have had to depend so much on spin.
“We definitely need three medium pacers in the side. But we also need to see if they are good enough. We need to look more on the existing talent in the medium pace department. Hopefully in the next one or two years we will have them ready.”
Kaur’s improving captaincy graph has coincided with a lean patch with the bat. At the T20 World Cup, she finished with scores of 2, 8, 1, 15 and 4. Her previous fifty-plus score in T20Is came over 16 months ago. Her previous ODI half-century came over two years ago, in February 2018 against South Africa.
These have elicited murmurs of whether India will be better off with a change in captaincy in T20Is (the 50-over side is still captained by Mithali Raj). Kaur, however, remains confident and unfazed by the drop in batting numbers.
“From outside it may look like that, but personally I have never felt so,” she said, when asked about the pressures of captaincy. “I really enjoy this part. I feel more involved. The captaincy keeps me alert all the time. Earlier, I used to think about my performance alone. Captaincy has made me a better person. [ Now,] I cannot think only about myself, but [have to think] of other things, too.”
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Kate Garraway
The Biggest Loser UK
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (participant)
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Former ITV regional news anchor/reporter (for Meridian Tonight and the defunct Central News South) who is now best known for GMTV, having joined in 2000 after a two-year stint on Sky News' Sunrise breakfast show. It would seem she has a bit of a "following" among a certain portion of the male population (i.e. students).
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Olathe, Kansas Raises Minimum Tobacco Age
Olathe city leaders have voted to raise the age for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21.
The vote Tuesday evening was 6-1 to John Bacon casting the lone dissenting vote. Thirteen people spoke out in favor of raising the age limit, citing health, economic and lifestyle reasons.
When the new rules take effect Saturday, Olathe will become the first city in Johnson County to raise the purchasing age to 21. The age limit will also apply to vaping materials.
People who violate the new rules would get a $25 fine and could be ordered by a judge to attend a tobacco education course.
Kansas City, Missouri, Independence and Kansas City, Kansas, are among the areas that have already passed similar rules.
Johnson County tobacco and vaping shops said they’ve seen more business from those cities since the new age limits were passed.
“When it was passed in Kansas City, Missouri, we were definitely getting people from the Missouri side coming over state lines to kind of get past that rule,” said KC Vapes store manager Jake Hullinger.
He said he doesn’t expect the new rules in Olathe to have much of an impact on his Olathe store because most of his customers are 21 or older.
Sara Pool, 19, said she doesn’t like the new ordinance.
“You are a legal adult at the age of 18, so I don’t see why you couldn’t make an adult decision on that, especially in the town that you grew up in or that you lived in,” she said.
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Gabe Kwong Invited to Join Nation’s Brightest Young Engineers at 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
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Peng Qiu Wins CYTO 2017 Image Analysis Challenge
Peng Qiu, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, recently won the conference-wide image analysis challenge held during the 32nd Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry held in Boston.
From Point A to Problem Solved
Peer through the narrow window into Room 1232 Whitaker, and you’ll see what appears to be a typical college class: professor talking, students listening, whiteboards.
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Manu Platt Receives Diversity Award
Manu Platt, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, was selected to receive the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Diversity Award.
A New Way to Approach Alzheimer’s: From the Beginning
If you keep up with medical news, you’ve probably heard of beta amyloid. It plays the villain in plenty of stories about Alzheimer’s disease: One of the signature markers of Alzheimer’s patients is plaque buildup created by the protein.
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Jahizreal Aquart is finishing his Project ENGAGES experience with a flourish. The graduating senior from B.E.S.T. Academy in Atlanta took home a third place award in the 2017 edition of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, May 19, in Los Angeles.
Tech Study Stands Up for Flamingos' Unique Pose
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New Chair Named for Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
Susan Margulies, Ph.D., has been named the Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics. Her appointments are effective August 1.
ASME Launching Nerem Medal
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Lena Ting Receives Hidden Gem Award
Lena Ting, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, received a Hidden Gem Award from the Emory University School of Medicine.
BioE Day: A Community Celebrates Itself
BioEngineering (BioE) Day was greeted by threatening skies that eventually emptied themselves all over Atlanta, but the downpour couldn’t dampen the spirits of the bioengineering students, faculty, and staff who took part in the fourth annual event.
Jackson Hair is Nerem Travel Award winner
Jackson Hair, a graduate student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory (BME), is the 2017 Nerem International Travel Award winner.
BME Students Win Two Award Categories at Capstone Design Expo
Georgia Tech’s Spring 2017 Capstone Design expo concluded last night at McCamish Pavilion.
The event showcased the inventions of 242 teams from 11 schools and three colleges with 1,222 graduating seniors participating from multiple disciplines.
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West Campus Changing Around with STEM
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By Michael Dean Smith
A number of construction projects will begin this year in an effort to improve and update facilities. Major additions of laboratory, automotive, and first responder education facilities will be coupled with upgrades to existing facilities built in 1975.
The only current impacts of the ambitious upgrades are being felt by users of recreation facilities. Construction on the $34 million STEM Center, on the northeast corner of west campus, is affecting locker rooms for recreation facilities.
Athletic Director Mark Rodriguez said the STEM Center construction will result in the locker rooms being moved from the basement to ground level. “It will be an improvement, definitely,” Rodriguez said. Construction is slated to be complete by fall 2019.
The Automotive Technology Program will soon see additional course offerings ahead of new construction. Western Campus President Dr. Donna Imhoff said students in GM ASEP classes next August will learn alongside students in an incoming Ford ASSET program.
Construction bids on a 15,000-square-foot addition to the Advanced Automotive Technology Center, on the north end of campus, are planned for early this year. The Public Safety Training Center, on the northwest corner of west campus, will also see major upgrades. Imhoff said she met with Parma Heights officials in February to discuss the planned mock village that will aid in training first responders in various urban settings. Plans for the training village date back to the center’s beginning in 2014, according to news reports at the time.
Construction bids are currently being accepted for that project, according to school documents. Imhoff, in her second year with Cuyahoga Community College, said a major investment will be at least $15 million for existing facilities, including upgrades to bathrooms. “That is what I’ve received the most complaints about,” Imhoff said, referring to the aging accommodations across the sprawling 43-year-old campus.
All of the upgrades are being funded by a $227 million bond measure approved by Cuyahoga County voters in 2017. East, Metro, and Westshore campuses will also see expansion and upgrades as part of the measure.
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Heritage Centres
Killingholme
A strip of land adjoining the Admiralty Oil Depot at Immingham was authorised as one of several coastal air stations. Originally called RNAS (Royal Navy Air Service) Immingham, it was soon given the name RNAS Killingholme.
At the outbreak of WWI, at least four aircraft (including a German designed bi-plane) were based at Killingholme, tasked with defending the nearby oil depot.
In mid 1914, the first hangar was erected, a wood and canvas Bessonneau type. This was follow by the first of four 68 x 77 ft seaplane sheds which were completed in September 1914. In October the Bessonneau structure was dismantled and a seaplane slipway measuring 700 x 60 ft was constructed, allowing access to the River Humber. Landplanes continued to use the grass strip. A further hangar measuring 177 x 56 ft was added as the number of aircraft increased.
By the end of 1914, Killingholme’s complement of aircraft grew as several Sopwith Scouts arrived and were soon employed on anti-submarine duties. Seaplanes also started to make an appearance in response to the increasing U-boat menace.
The large size of the newer seaplanes coming into service dictated the need for an even larger hangar and during 1916 the largest one ever constructed in the county was completed, measuring an enormous 800 x 900 ft. Later that year, two further hangars measuring 200 x 100 ft were constructed as well as a further two slipways measuriung 850 ft long by 35 ft wide.
During the summer of 1917 it was decided that Killingholme would be transferred to the United States Navy, who would assist with North Sea Patrol work. The first American forces arrived in early 1918 and had worked up an operational strength by May of that year, undertaking coastal patrols in Short – manufactured seaplanes. The main body of US personnel arrived 1 June 1918 on the USS Jason, which also carried Curtis flying boats. The Americans stayed at Killingholme until January 1919, when the station was handed back to the RAF, albeit briefly,as the station closed in 1920.
A field trip to the site in 2012 revealed only the physical remains of RNAS Killingholm to be a decaying seaplane slipway and a few support piles of a second slip, normally hidden at high tide.
Link: Curtiss H-16 Patrol Seaplanes 1918 pic
Map: Killingholme
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Posted: September 1st, 2003, by Chris H
Excellent edition of Mixing It last night which you can stream from Radio 3 for the next week or so. It was about the music scenes in Glasgow and Edinburgh and illustrated quite nicely how much more there is going on at this side. Featured interviews with Mount Vernon Arts Lab, The Pastels, Future Pilot AKA and folk you mightn’t have heard of but should do. Good coverage of some of the music I’ve been most interested in here lately, the improv and electro things happening. Tantalising clips of tracks by Frog Pocket, Colditz and the mighty Scatter.
Some of the interviews took place at Tchai Ovna, officially The Nicest Place in Glasgow, who were telling me at the weekend about their upcoming Tea in the Shop festival on the 27th September. Lots of folk playing: Scatter, The Pendulums, and Future Pilot DJing confirmed so far. Tickets are £10 and the money goes to Spirit Aid for to restore a bombed-out and landmined flour mill in Afghanistan (remember Afghanistan? It was like Iraq but the bad guy had a beard instead of a moustache).
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Lee Stevens And Matt Thorne Sign For Ciren
Our former Academy player, Lee Stevens, who helped us out for one game last spring and scored at Yate, has signed on a permanent basis having just returned from America where, since he graduated from his American University, he was playing for Ventura County Fusion in the Premier Development League (PDL).
Lee is the elder brother of existing squad member Aaron who is still in The Academy. Since leaving The Academy, Lee has also played for Salisbury City, Swindon Supermarine and Fairford Town. He was also a prominent member of the AFC Totton squad that lost to Truro City in a very close FA Vase Final in the 2006-07 season.
Matt Thorne, from Bristol, played for Bristol Manor Farm in the Western League as well as appearing regularly for Bristol Rovers reserves. He has started at Bath University and has joined the Team Bath squad this season. As a contract player he has come to us on loan for a month
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Super Sunday: Knowing Swimmers
Sunday 14th February 2016 @ 4:00 AM
Knowing Swimmers
The natives of the Oceans of Planet Doiva call themselves “Knowing Swimmers” because, as far as they are concerned, they are the only thing swimming on their world that is intelligent. This aquatic species is three-sided, each side having an eye, gills and two of their total six limbs. They have only one brain and a mouth located at the centre of their mass of limbs. They may appear the same to us, but each side is actually devoted to a different purpose (intellectual pursuits, social interactions, and biological needs such as reproduction and eating), so it is usual for them to turn the relevant side to a task at hand. That said, each individual has a dominant side which they default to and that can determine their personality.
To Knowing Swimmers, what one does is the supreme indicator of who they are. Their occupations are so important that it becomes the name by which they are known, and as such they can have multiple names throughout their life. It also means that a lot of individuals can end up with the exact same name. This is somewhat mitigated by the small size of social groups on this world (Their names here are translated into English).
Food Grower is dominated by the intellectual side. For years this Food Grower was Youth Educator in one of the larger cave systems, but that life eventually became tiring. Youth Educator wanted some less stressful work, and found as a farmer in a smaller cave. Food Grower has not given up scholarly pursuits, though, and occasionally goes out of the way to seek out historical relics and study them as a hobby.
The Knowing Swimmers don’t experience sound the same way that humans do, so they haven’t got music like ours. They do, however, enjoy having sound vibrate through them. The job of Sound Finder is to look for new kinds of vibrations and bring them to the people. The invention of metal on this world was originally popular more for the vibrations it could facilitate than for what it could build. In other ways it is a lot like a musician on Earth, and this Sound Finder, being very successful, has become something of a celebrity whose name precludes others being given the same name. A Knowing Swimmer going into the same occupation now would more likely be called Sound Seeker or some other name.
While they call themselves the Knowing Swimmers, some of them know more than others. Most of the population don’t even understand that there is more to the Planet Doiva than its oceans, let alone that there are other worlds out there. But those in charge do know, and they don’t want the masses to be made aware. They employ agents such as Secret Keeper to prevent sensitive information from reaching the public. The existence of ones like Secret Keeper are not a secret, though. In general the Knowing Swimmers seem to be okay with the idea that there are things they are better off not knowing.
A Fact About Knowing Swimmers: The Knowing Swimmers lay eggs in batches of about a dozen at a time, but usually only one or two of those eggs will make it to life.
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COP21: Climate delegates agree draft deal text
Delegates at a UN climate conference in Paris have approved a draft text they hope will form the basis of an agreement to curb global carbon emissions.
The 48-page document will be discussed by ministers on Monday.
They will try to arrive at a comprehensive settlement by the end of next week.
The French climate ambassador warned that major political differences still needed to be resolved.
Delegates from 195 countries worked through the night at the conference centre in Le Bourget, conscious of a midday Saturday deadline imposed by the French presidency of this meeting.
The weighty document will now go forward to ministers who will have to take the many political decisions still required, if the text is to be turned into a long-term agreement.
“Nothing has been decided and nothing will be left behind,” said French climate ambassador Laurence Tubiana.
“This text marks the will of all to reach an agreement. We are not at the end of the route. Major political issues are yet to be resolved,” she warned.
Tricky decisions
Many delegates were relieved that they had at least reached this point, as it marks a critical point after four years of negotiations.
The document lays out a range of options for ministers on what the long-term goal of the deal should be, as well as the scale and the methods of raising climate finance for poorer nations.
Among the many tricky issues they will have to deal with is differentiation: many countries are reluctant to change the way that nations are divided into developed and developing, based on where they were in 1992, when the UN Convention was signed.
Many richer countries want this to change, and want a greater number of emerging economies to take on emissions reduction targets and become climate finance donors.
Continue reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35015765
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#Sunnyside365 May 7, 2016
May 7, 2016 / Ara
“This is totally an initiative driven by the kids. They came up with the idea. A lot of them experienced the floods in Sunnyside a few year back and wanted to know how they could help the people of Fort McMurray. They’re all too familiar with getting evacuated and losing their stuff. All the baked goods are by donation, no minimum. Everything is going into a donation pot and all of it goes to the Red Cross Fort McMurray relief fund. People have been really helping out with this.
Up till about two o’clock, we’ve raised over $3000. Some corporate supporters said they’d match everything donated, and then the provincial government said they’d match all Red Cross donations, the Feds said they’d match Red Cross donations–it’s just a really great thing. There’s so much great support for this.
It’s fantastic! We’ve had no lack of generosity. Somebody paid $20 for a cookie. It’s really amazing. People are just trying to find a way they can help.”
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FAC Welcomes New Voice Instructor
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Brittnee Siemon has accepted the Voice position at the school and joined the outstanding faculty of artist/teachers at The Fine Arts Center. She replaces Ms. Karen Parks, who has decided to pursue other professional opportunities. We all wish Ms. Parks the best in her new endeavors.
Dr. Siemon, a mezzo-soprano, is an avid performer of concert, recital and opera. Originally from Springfield, Ohio, she holds degrees in Voice Performance and Music Therapy. In fact, she is a board-certified Music Therapist and carries academic and performance distinction from Ohio University, the University of South Carolina and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. While studying in Boston she was awarded the prestigious Beneficent Society Scholarship, which lead to her award-winning European concert debut for a new composition on Mona Lisa radio in Amsterdam.
In the United States and abroad, she has been affiliated with well-known ensembles at Boston’s Old South Church, the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. As a concert soloist in the Southeast, Dr. Siemon has appeared with the South Carolina Philharmonic, The Augusta Symphony and Choral Society, the Columbia Choral Society and the St. Augustine Music Festival. She is also the principle vocalist and co-founder of the Columbia Baroque Soloists, South Carolina’s only Baroque ensemble performing with historic instruments and pitch. The ensemble debuted in 2007 and provides 8-10 concerts per season, master classes, workshops and outreach programs.
Her recital accomplishments include premiers of early and modern works, and a debut at Jordan Hall in Boston. She continues to collaborate and record regularly. In appearances with the Harvard Early Music Society, the Boston Globe hailed her Baroque operatic roles as, “poignantly sung…florid, yet substantial.” Her roles span from the interpretation of the Rameau and Monteverdi Orfeo to the title role in Vivaldi's Jepthe. Dr. Siemon has also given notable classical and contemporary operatic performances with the Spartanburg Repertory Company, Greenville Light Opera Works, Inspiration Point Fine Artist’s Colony and the Orlando Opera.
Dr. Siemon has served on the music faculties of Rollins College, Columbia College, Charleston Southern University and Jacksonville University. She is also the founder of Bryan Street Studio, a member of Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society and an active NATS contributor. She is an energetic master class clinician throughout the country and a proponent and practitioner of the Alexander Technique, a physical method that helps singers, dancers, actors and musicians overcome the stress and tension that can often lead to harmful and unhealthful performance practices.
FAC welcomes Dr. Siemon!
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Dressing Constitutionally
Hierarchy, Sexuality and Democracy . . . From Our Hairstyles to Our Shoes
Dallas Pride Parade Dress Code Enforcement Draws Debate
September 24, 2013 by Brett Dolin
Controversy ensued after organizers of the 30th Annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade (“Dallas Pride”) announced a new effort to enforce state and city public nudity and lewdness laws at the parade. As reported, Michael Doughman, executive director of the Dallas Tavern Guild, organizers of the parade, said, “Just because it’s a day of celebration for our community doesn’t mean we are exempt from the law.” Doughman also reportedly said, referring to Dallas police, “[T]hey’ve looked the other way for years and years and years, but public lewdness and nudity in public [are] not going to continue to be tolerated.”
Dallas police officer and parade security co-commander Jeremy Liebbe reportedly described the effort as a “preventative measure” to address a “trend” in recent years of ignoring laws that had already been in place, but were apparently not rigorously enforced. As Liebbe explained, officers would review and warn marchers in the staging area prior to the parade, and those who had not complied before reaching the parade itself would be “removed from the parade and individuals may be charged with class-B misdemeanor indecent exposure.” If such indecent exposure were to occur in front of a child during the parade route, individuals may have committed felony indecency with a child, a third degree felony. See sections 21.08 and 21.11(a)(2)(A) of the Texas Penal Code.
While parade organizers and police have presented the new enforcement protocol as “preventative,” critics have charged that, in the words of activist Daniel Cates, “[the] ‘queer’ is effectively being erased from our pride celebration in favor of the most polished, heteronormative representation of our community possible.” According to this view, “family values” and corporate sponsorship have co-opted the meaning of the pride parade, covering its roots in sexual liberation with marriage equality, military service, and dress code enforcement.
Controversy aside, Dallas Pride occurred with no reported dress code infringements and a large increase in attendance over the 2012 parade. Meanwhile, a man arrested at the 2011 San Diego pride parade has filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California against the City of San Diego, San Diego police officers, and San Diego Pride. He alleges, amongst other causes of action, violation of his 14th Amendment right to equal protection of the laws because of unequal and discriminatory enforcement. His issue? Walters was arrested for public nudity at the parade because of his outfit.
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The following sites have been selected to represent the different aspects of geology and landscape in the district. Not all sites have something to see; many are solely of historical interest as a record of an important or interesting discovery.
Some sites are not strictly geological but have a geological connection. Geological sites are therefore defined in their widest sense and include, for example, buildings, walls, wells, spas, springs, graves, boreholes, plaques, landslips and viewpoints.
This is not a complete list of geological sites in the district. Others will be added and descriptions expanded as further research is carried out.
Not all of the sites here described are accessible. Some sites are on private land and can only be viewed from footpaths that pass through or alongside the site. Inclusion of a site on this list does not, therefore, imply any right of access. Please remember not to trespass on private land.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)
GREAT LEIGHS. River Ter SSSI (TL 744 155 to TL 733 157)
The stretch of the River Ter in the vicinity of Lyons Hall has been notified as a geological SSSI because it is representative of a lowland stream with a distinctive flood regime. It illustrates well the relationship between river discharge and channel dimensions and has been used to test theories about why rivers adopt a meandering course. There are public footpaths alongside the river (including the Essex Way).
NEWNEY GREEN. Newney Green Pit SSSI (TL 648 065)
Kesgrave (Thames) Sands and Gravels are present at this site with a palaeosol (fossil soil horizon) of pre-Anglian age. This is overlain by boulder clay (till) which was deposited by the Anglian Ice Sheet. Occasional patches of glacial gravel are also found, and an (Anglian) arctic structure soil is superimposed on the pre-Anglian palaeosol marking a change from warm interglacial to intensely cold glacial conditions. This site is of prime importance for the correlation between Pleistocene sites in the Thames and East Anglian areas. A vital locality in working out the sequence of events in the evolution of the Thames. The pit has now been infilled except for the small area of the SSSI. The site is on private land.
Local Geological Sites (LoGS)
Chelmsford City Council – Report on Local Geological Sites & LoGS Citations – November 2018
Note: specific LoGS Citations for the sites below are contained in the downloadable document above
DANBURY. Buell Spring (TL 7839 0451)
Spring issuing clear water from a cast iron pipe. Remains of pumping station. Spring originates from the spring line that runs right around Danbury Hill (from between the Danbury Gravel and the London Clay). Historically important as the water supply for the area. Of particular interest is the accumulation of ‘bog-iron’ nearby – a cementing of the soil by the iron compounds leached out of the gravel. Land owned by the National Trust.
DANBURY. Danbury Common Gravel Pits (TL 784 047 and TL 781 045)
Deep and extensive disused and overgrown gravel pits on east and west sides of Danbury Common (two separate patches of gravel) which provide visible sections through the Danbury Gravels – gravel that accumulated on the ice margin, where its southward progress was prevented by the London Clay high ground. Owned by the National Trust. Eastern pits heavily used by mountain bikers. The higher parts of the western pits are very sandy and used by badgers.
GREAT BADDOW. Beehive Lane Sarsen Stone (TL 719 055)
A sarsen stone 90 x 70 x 60 cm sits in the car park of the Beehive Public House in Beehive Lane. It was obtained from the old ‘Beehive’ gravel quarry before 1906.
HIGHWOOD. Parsons Spring Pits (TL 623 028)
Parsons Spring (also known as Parsons Wood) has numerous shallow but steep-sided pits where sand and gravel was once exploited. This sand and gravel is referred to on geological maps as ‘Stanmore Gravel’ (formerly called ‘pebble gravel’). How it was formed has been debated by geologists since the 19th century. Its origin is still unclear today although one theory is that it was laid down by a river, probably over one million years ago, during the early part of the Ice Age. The pits are clearly visible as overgrown hollows either side of the public footpath that runs through the wood.
LITTLE WALTHAM. Channels Golf Club Boulders (TL 724 112)
At the entrance to Channels Golf Club is an upright erratic boulder of Hertfordshire puddingstone 90 cm long with a plaque attached commemorating the restoration of a nearby gravel pit. On the other side of the road is a large sarsen stone 1.8 metres long. Other boulders have been reported from the golf course and on verges and in hedges but these have not been located.
SANDON. Sandon Gravel Pit (TL 747 043)
The disused Sandon gravel pit has good exposures in Kesgrave Sands and Gravels. Much of the pit has not been restored and therefore the quarry slopes and edges are largely as they were when quarrying ceased. This makes the site important for geology as there are several small exposures of gravel, for example on the southern lake edge. The Kesgrave Sands and Gravels were laid down during the early Ice Age by the River Thames when it flowed through mid Essex and Suffolk. The gravel is mostly flint but also contains ‘exotic’ pebbles of rocks from far upstream. Sandon Pit is also a Local Wildlife Site.
SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS. River Crouch Foreshore (TQ 804 955)
River erosion at several places around the Essex coast has exposed evidence of human occupation dating from the Mesolithic Period. These settlements are now below high tide level and the most important of these is at Hullbridge/South Woodham Ferrers where a prehistoric land surface, possibly as much as 7,000 years old, is exposed on the foreshore of the River Crouch. The sites can only be examined at low tide.
STOCK. Stock Road Gravel Pits (TQ 6965 9962)
In woodland just west of the Stock Road, north of the village of Stock, are disused gravel pits. These pits are an important geological site because it was one of the very few places where the ‘Bagshot Pebble Bed’ was formerly exposed. The pits are now overgrown but with the permission of the landowner it would be relatively easy to re-expose the gravel for study.
BROOMFIELD. Broomfield Sarsen Stones (TL 705 104)
Two small but conspicuous sarsen stones by the church gate, the largest 60 cm long.
CHELMSFORD. Chelmsford Cathedral (TL 708 069)
Remarkable abundance of ‘bunter’ quartzite and Hertfordshire puddingstone from the Thames gravels in the extension to the chancel, built in 1923, and the vestry block, built three years later. Plus fine flint craftsmanship on the porch.
CHELMSFORD. Chelmsford Museum Puddingstone
Boulder of Hertfordshire puddingstone 70 x 60 x 30 cm by the front entrance to Chelmsford and Essex Museum in Oaklands Park.
CHELMSFORD. Church of Our Lady Immaculate (TL 7050 0625)
Built in 1846 the Church of Our Lady Immaculate in New London Road is a fine example of the use of knapped flint. The flint walls have limestone dressings and the building has a roof of Welsh slate.
CHELMSFORD. Former Moulsham Brickpits (TL 702 060)
Large areas of old Moulsham were formerly brick pits and several of these produced Ice Age fossils in the 19th Century. Particularly notable were the bones of elephant and hippopotamus, some of which are on display in Chelmsford Museum. The conspicuous areas of low-lying ground on the north side of New London Road are former pits. In the latter part of the Ice Age hippos are only recorded as being present in Britain once, during the Ipswichian Interglacial period. These fossils are therefore considered to be Ipswichian in age (about 120,000 years old).
LITTLE WALTHAM. Cliff of Glacial Till (TL 7216 1102)
In the southern part of the Phase 6 housing development area at Channels there is a vertical cliff of glacial till that remarkably has survived since quarrying ceased here several decades ago. Till is the deposit left by the glacier that covered Mid Essex 450.000 years ago, during the coldest part of the Ice Age. It forms the deposit on which much of the fertile soil of the area is formed. If it can be retained, this cliff would form the only accessible and visible exposure of glacial till in the whole of Essex.
PLESHEY. Pleshey boulders (TL 648 143)
On the traffic island at a road junction west of the village is a splendid erratic boulder of Carboniferous Limestone 1.1 metre long with fossil corals and a sarsen stone 0.7 metre long.
RETTENDON. All Saints Church (TL 770 960)
Typical church of Kentish Ragstone with a fine view. Splendid tomb of Italian marble.
RUNWELL. Running Well (TQ 7511 9657)
An ancient spring that gave its name to the village. Situated 300 metres south-east of Poplars Farm between Runwell and Rettendon, the well still exists and the water is said today to be of good quality. First recorded in Morant’s History and Antiquities of Essex in 1768. The water flows from the junction between the Bagshot Sand and the Claygate Beds.
SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS. Bushy Hill (TQ 813 986)
Bushy Hill to the north of the town is a prominent and locally important landscape feature. It is composed of London Clay capped by Claygate Beds with notable landslips on the southern and western slopes. There are fine views of the Crouch valley from the summit.
The Church of Our Lady Immaculate in London Road, Chelmsford. A fine example of architecture using knapped flints. Photo © G. Lucy
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7/15 - eOne slate reveals growing UK ambition
By becozy,
July 15, 2014 in Gods of Egypt
15 July, 2014 | By Andreas Wiseman
“We can compete with some of the studios,” says MD of eOne UK, which is aiming to release around 35 films per year.
eOne UK is aiming to release around 35 films per year going forward as it looks to cement its position as one of the top five distributors in the UK.
Upcoming films on the slate include The Rover (August 15), A Walk Amongst the Tombstones (September 19), The Homesman
(October), Mr Turner (October 31), Nativity 3: Dude Where’s My Donkey? (November), Foxcatcher (January 9) and The Water Diviner (January).
Also on the impressive roster are Steven Spielberg’s The BFG (July 22, 2016), J.A Bayona’s A Monster Calls, Denis Villeneuve’s A Story Of Your Life, Gus Van Sant’s Sea of Trees, Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky, Jay Roach’s Trumbo, Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt, John Hillcoat’s Triple Nine, Daniel Espinosa’s Child 44, court-room drama The Whole Truth and franchise sequel Insurgent.
eOne recorded its biggest box office haul to date in the UK last year, securing the territory’s fifth biggest market-share in the process:
“We feel like the preeminent UK indie distributor right now,” Alex Hamilton, managing director, eOne Films UK, explained to Screen. “We’ve been the leading indie in the UK in three of the last four years. We were fifth overall last year in terms of market share and we are fifth this year. We want to show we can compete with some of the studios. We want to have the marketplace presence of a studio but the nimbleness of an independent.”
The growth looks set to continue, according to Hamilton:
“This feels like a new era again after the Alliance acquisition,” he said. “I think 2016 will be our biggest ever year. We did £100m+ last year and we think we’ll do the same this year but 2016 will be a big year with the likes of The BFG, A Monster Calls, Gods of Egypt…”
The company’s slate combines box office clout with awards prestige. Last year 12 Years A Slave raked in more than £20m as well as a Best Picture Oscar. Which will be this year’s main awards contenders?
“It’s hard to say at this stage. There are a few on our slate. Something like Foxcatcher is dated January 9, which is a day before 12 Years last year. I’m personally very excited about The Water Diviner and we certainly see Mr Turner as an awards contender as well. That goes the same weekend we released An Education four years ago.”
Hamilton confirmed that the acquisition of Cannes buzz title Story of Your Life was “one of the bigger acquisitions” during his tenure at the company and said that the company was still keen on court-room drama The Whole Truth, on which Keanu Reeves recently replaced Daniel Craig who walked off the project soon before shoot.
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AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region v. Gilsum
Settled
tags: Cases New Hampshire HIV/AIDS
Update June, 2012: GLAD has reached a successful settlement on behalf of AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region (ASMR) that will enable ASMR to continue their group home, known as the Cleve Jones Wellness House, without fear of it being taken by tax deed by the Town.
Read the full press release on the settlement
Case Background
For the second time GLAD has filed a lawsuit against a New Hampshire town that is trying to shut down a group home for people living with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus.
GLAD filed the suit on behalf of AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region (ASMR) on July 5, 2011 in Cheshire Superior Court in Keene, New Hampshire. The lawsuit seeks to prevent the Town of Gilsum from taking the Cleve Jones Wellness House, operated by ASMR in Gilsum, New Hampshire, by tax deed on July 21. The Town’s action would render all of the residents of Cleve Jones Wellness House homeless.
The suit arises from the Town’s discriminatory treatment of ASMR with respect to the granting of property tax exemptions to nonprofit charitable organizations. ASMR was a few days late filing the required application for the exemption and the Town denied it on that basis. Documents requested from the Town, however, demonstrate that other nonprofits in Gilsum, such as the Congregational Church and the American Legion, never filed the required application, or filed it late, but were always granted a property tax exemption. Since ASMR, a small nonprofit, could not afford the hefty property taxes, the Town’s motive for the disparate treatment was clear: They don’t want people with HIV and Hepatitis C in the neighborhood.
After the Court scheduled a July 13 hearing on GLAD’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the Town agreed not to take the Cleve Jones Wellness House while the full lawsuit proceeds. The suit claims that the Town’s actions violated ASMR’s rights under the equal protection provisions of the state and federal constitutions, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the National Fair Housing Act. In 2008 GLAD successfully sued the Town after it placed illegal zoning restrictions on Wellness House.
ASMR is also represented by Stephen Bragdon of Bragdon, Dowd & Kossayda, P.C. in Keene and Elliott Berry of New Hampshire Legal Assistance.
Verified Petition, July 5, 2011
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The Prehistory of the Upper Thames
This talk was given to the Society by Andrew Sargent.
Mr Sargent began by telling us that the period he would cover spanned about 500,000 years. This was a time when Britain was attached to the European mainland, the climate was similar to the Mediterranean climate today , and the fauna and flora were very different from the present. The Thames followed a very different course then, taking a channel to the north of the present one.
The earliest remains of ancestors of modern man (hominids) in Britain were found in Boxgrove in Sussex, and have been dated to 500,000 years old. Similar (though later) finds were made in Swanscombe in Kent and Kents Cavern in Devon. Later evidence of hominids in Britain is rather slight for a long period, until the appearance of Neanderthal man some 60,000 years ago. Only a few Neanderthal remains have been found in the Thames Valley.
The first humans appeared on the scene about 40,000 years ago, although again there is very little evidence of their presence in this area. Then about 16,000 years ago the climate worsened and the Neanderthals disappeared. From now on there is more evidence of human activity. Flint axes and tools have been found in many places, including Burford and Goring, and this shows that groups were passing along the Thames, probably in pursuit of game.
Between 9,500 and 6,000 years ago, the Mesolithic (Middle Stone) Age, objects with a ritual significance were produced, and around 6,000 BC, at the beginning of the Neolithic Age, the first pottery and stone tools have been found, for example on the confluence of the Ock and the Thames, and in Tubney woods. Around this time was the start of mixed farming. The communities were still mobile, and there is only evidence of a little cereal farming. The main activity seems to have been the clearing of ground for grazing livestock. There have been many finds in Stanton Harcourt, and in Benson from this period.
Some of the most significant monuments in the Upper Thames area from the Neolithic period were Waylands Smithy on the Downs (a Long Barrow), the Devils Quoits at Stanton Harcourt, structures at Dorchester on Thames and Barrows in Barrow Hills in Radley. By the second millennium BC barrows were no longer used. With the onset of the Bronze Age we see the rise of a class of leaders, and evidence of conflict and the development of metal weapons. Trade, too, became more important, and there is evidence that Wallingford became an entrepôt for traders using the Thames to carry goods to the London area. Further down river, Runnymede became an even larger entrepôt.
At this time people were often buried with weapons and rich objects, and many swords were cast into the river, probably as a ritual action. In the Iron Age, between 800 BC and the Roman invasion, there is more evidence that a stable social order was developing. Small settlements
were developing on a permanent basis, with fields and permanent dwellings. In Stanton Harcourt, and nearby at Gravelly Guy there was evidence of about 30 round houses. Another example was Mingies Ditch, on the Windrush, a farmstead with rough grazing for livestock.
At about the same time, hill forts were developing, for example at Wittenham Clumps. Similar settlements were built in lowland areas too. Many of them survived the Roman invasion and have become known as Oppidums (Oppida). A good example of that is Silchester, in Hampshire.
Abingdon, too, may have been an Oppidum. It was occupied through the whole of the Iron Age, and it has claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited town in the country.
The main ‘Roman’ towns in this area were Abingdon, Cirencester, Dorchester, Oxford and Wallingford. The Roman occupation led to a more peaceful existence for the native people who often began to think of themselves as Romans, and villas appeared in many places. These were usually farmsteads, and not necessarily luxurious places, as they might have been in Italy. The
Romans themselves were rather dismissive of the natives, often referring to them as “Britunculi” (titchy Britons), but there is little evidence in this area of poor relations between occupiers and occupied.
This entry was posted in General interest, Local interest, Talks on January 16, 2018 by Bob Goodenough.
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Across The Board – “Sonic Boom” and “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard”
Award-winning Canadian rock band, Across The Board (ATB), releases their newest album “SONIC BOOM” – an eight track collection of infectious pop rock songs that chronicle the breaking of a rock band and the highs and lows along the journey to success. This is ATB’s second full length album, on the heels of their EP “AMENDS” and cross-Canada tour this past year. Produced and recorded in Toronto by MC2 Music Media, the album pays homage to the determination and drive...
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Cape May County Airport (KWWD) Welcomes FlightLevel Cape May, LLC; Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Press Conference Set for May 22, 2013 - Lower Township, New Jersey
By JSalmon on 05/20/2013
Lower Township, New Jersey
On May 22, 2013, Delaware River and Bay Authority Chairman James Hogan, Executive Director Scott Green and other Authority officials will be joined by Cape May County Freeholder Will Morey and other local governmental leaders, airport tenants, and local business representatives to welcome FlightLevel Cape May as the new Fixed-Based Operator (FBO) at Cape May Airport. An FBO provides aviation services, which include fueling, hangaring, tie-down and parking, aircraft maintenance, and other aviation-related support functions.
What: Authority officials, governmental leaders and business representatives will participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony and press conference to welcome the new FBO at the Cape May Airport.
When: Wednesday, May 22 at 10:30 am
Where: Cape May Airport, 375 Forrestal Road in the Erma section of Lower Township, NJ
Why: A quality FBO is a key and essential component of successful economic development at an airport and is the first and last impression that people who fly into an airport have about the community.
About the Delaware River and Bay Authority
The Delaware River and Bay Authority, a bi-state governmental agency created by Compact in 1962, owns and operates the Delaware Memorial Bridge, the Cape May- Lewes Ferry, and the Delaware City – Salem Ferry Crossing. The Authority also manages corporate and aviation properties through its economic development powers - two airports in New Jersey (Millville Airport and Cape May Airport) and three in Delaware (New Castle Airport, Civil Air Terminal and Delaware Airpark). All agency operating revenues are generated through the bridge, ferry and airport facilities.
Source: http://www.drba.net
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Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania: School at Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey Airport (KZER) gives prospective pilots a chance for local flight training
Students John Pothering, Deer Lake, left, and Ben Jones, Orwigsburg, talk near a hangar after their flight lesson Wednesday.
Photo Credit: Andy Matsko
MOUNT PLEASANT - While some U.S. airlines worry about a potential pilot shortage in the near future, the flight school at the Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey Airport has eager students looking to take to the skies.
Now in its fifth year of operation at the airport, Bright Sky LLC is a private company that provides flight training, air tours and aircraft rentals.
"That's what we do. We train people for those jobs," Greg Solga, an instructor and president at the school, said last week.
Solga, Orwigsburg, is also a captain for US Airways Express.
"It all starts at a little flight school like this," he said.
There are about 25 to 30 students at the school looking to acquire various levels of certifications, he said.
Bright Sky bought its fourth airplane about four weeks ago. The latest addition to the fleet, a Piper Arrow, is more complex than the others and has retractable wheels. Solga said the plane makes more certifications available at the airport.
"They can train here from start to finish," Solga said. "There is nothing we can't offer here that a big school in Florida can and at a fraction of the cost."
Solga said before the new plane, students had to finish their training at other airports, such as those in Reading and Allentown.
"It was unfortunate to see them go out of the county to finish their training," Solga said. "This is an exceptional flight school and students can complete all the necessary certifications to get a job in aviation."
It appears as though those jobs will be available.
According to a January article in USA Today, a wave of pilots will soon be reaching the federally mandated retirement age of 65. The jobs, however, are becoming available just as new rules go into effect in August requiring co-pilots to have 1,500 flight hours, the same as the captains. Co-pilots previously needed only 250 hours.
The change is the result of a demand for new safety requirements after an airplane crash that killed 50 people near Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 12, 2009.
Solga said the new requirements may intimidate those looking to enter the field, but not those at Bright Sky.
Brett Kozura, 23, of Minersville, received his flight instructor certificate in April and recently joined the school as an instructor.
"I always knew this was what I wanted to do," Kozura said. "I never wanted to be stuck behind a desk in an office. My office is a couple thousand feet in the air."
Kozura said both his parents are pilots and his first airplane ride was at the Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey Airport. He received his private pilot's license at age 19 and had all his training at the airport.
"You can't beat the opportunity here," Kozura said.
Kozura is in his third year studying business at Penn State Schuylkill.
Ben Jones, 20, of Orwigsburg, is also looking to start a career in aviation. He currently has his private, instrument and commercial certificates and is working on his flight instructor license. He said he is one credit from receiving a degree in aviation education from Beaver County Community College.
He said he first flew in a plane when he was 14.
"Once I did it, I was hooked," Jones said. "I wanted to be a commercial pilot ever since."
Jones said he would also like to become an instructor but his ultimate goal is to fly for an airline.
"It's just something that not everyone can do and once you get up there, it's just freedom," Jones said. "It's a confidence builder. You feel like a totally different person. You feel accomplished."
Bryce Gray, 23, of Catawissa, is looking at a different career in aviation.
Gray said he wants to be a "bush" pilot in Alaska. A bush pilot is someone who flies a small airplane to locations where larger aircrafts or other forms of transportation do not have access, such as wooded areas.
"I just really like to be out in the middle of nowhere," Gray said.
Gray is working on his private certification and said he already has all his required flight time and is just practicing to complete his test.
He also said he would like to do missionary work throughout the world.
"I'm a Christian and I feel like God is calling me to be a pilot to work with his ministry," Gray said.
Learning how to fly isn't just for the young, either.
John Pothering, 54, of Deer Lake, is working on his private license and completed his first solo flight April 26.
Pothering said that as a boy, he used to come to the airport with his father. He said his cousins were pilots and mechanics at the airport.
"I've been talking about it ever since then and I guess my wife got tired of hearing about it and she bought me an introduction book and told me to go for it," Pothering said.
Pothering said he wants to use his license for recreation.
"I like to be able to do things," he said. "I've been aspiring to do it my whole life. It's a bucket list thing. Where it leads, who knows? Maybe I just get in a plane and just take off to where I want. That's my goal."
Ralph Falls, 62, of Palo Alto, started working on his private license in February.
"It's been a lifelong dream since I was a little boy," Fall said. "I used to stare up at the sky and watch the planes with my brother. He used to tell me that I was too dumb to fly."
He said after retiring three years ago, he went to the airport to check out the school and his wife told him to go for it.
"I don't want to be at the mercy of commercial airliners. I want to be able to rent a plane and go on vacation wherever I want," he said. "I want to fly to Florida to show my dumb brother that I could do it and tell him, 'Let's go for a ride.'"
For the Rev. John Ashbaugh, 59, of the New Life Church of God in Mount Carmel, flying is a father and son activity.
"I was introduced to flying in 1989 in West Virginia and ever since then, I always wanted to get my license but I either didn't have the time or the money."
Ashbaugh, Mount Carmel, said he has family all over the country and would like to be able to visit them, especially his wife's father in West Virginia.
"I want to be able to visit him or bring him here," he said. "He's in his 80s and I want to be able to spend as much time with him as I can."
During one of his lessons in December, Ashbaugh said he took his 24-year-old son on a flight from the county airport to New Jersey. Once in New Jersey, Ashbaugh told him it was his turn.
"That was his first formal lesson," Ashbaugh said.
Ashbaugh said he likes the school because they are able to coordinate with his schedule.
"They work with what my goals are," he said.
Lou Ann Swinehart, 53, of Schuylkill Haven, is also working on her private license.
"It was just always something I wanted to do and it never happened. Then one day I decided what the heck, the kids are grown up and now it's mom's turn. It's one of those things where if you don't do it now, you might not get the chance."
Swinehart said she also wants to become an instructor and often accompanies other students on their flights to observe and learn.
"Once you get up there, it's just fabulous," she said. "It's just great and you can't get enough."
Swinehart said she recommends that anyone with a dream of flying to check out school.
"It's close, it's easy and everyone here is great. The students are like family," she said. "If this was something you always wanted to do, get out and do it."
For more information about Bright Sky LLC, visit www.brightskyaviation.com.
Story and Photos: http://republicanherald.com
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Blue macaw parrot that inspired “Rio” now extinct in wild
By christina capatides CBS News September 7, 2018, 3:34 PM Blue macaw parrot that inspired "Rio" is now officially extinct in the wild
In the animated film "Rio," a Spix's Macaw named Blu flies all the way from Minnesota to Rio de Janeiro because he's the last living male of his species and that's where Jewel, the last living female, lives. Blu and Jewel ultimately fall in love, have a baby and the movie ends happily – with the hope that the literal lovebirds can save their species. In the real world, however, Blu would've been too late.
Spix's macaws Felicitas (L) and Frieda at an association for the protection of endangered parrots in Schoeneiche, Germany, on Oct. 11, 2011. According to the association, the Spix's macaw is the rarest parrot species in the world. In the wild, the parrots are extinct since the year 2000, but they are conserved in breeding programs.
PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images
A new study by BirdLife International, a global partnership of conservation organizations that strive to conserve bird species around the world, reveals that in recent years several bird species have lost their fight for survival. And sadly, one of those species is the beautiful Spix's Macaw. The species is now considered extinct in the wild, although some of the birds survive in breeding programs.
While the vast majority of bird extinctions in recent centuries have occurred on isolated islands, five of the eight highlighted by this study occurred in South America – four in Brazil alone – a tragic statement on the impact of deforestation in that part of the world.
Today, in the face of human-caused climate change, the rampant expansion of urban areas, and increasingly extreme weather events, many of the world's animals are truly in an adapt or die situation.
This winter, CBSN Originals traveled to the Galápagos, where species like giant tortoises, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants and finches with finely-tuned beaks evolved in isolation for millions of years – long before humans walked the Earth. Now, however, they're fighting for their lives.
Evolutionary changes that once unfolded over hundreds of thousands of years are now happening much more rapidly, right in front of our eyes. And conservationists, like those at BirdLife International, are working tirelessly to protect the world's animals in the face of that.
While three other bird species named in the study— the Cryptic Treehunter, the Alagoas Foliage-gleaner and the Poo-uli, formerly of Hawaii —have now succumbed to that fight, there is still hope for a number of bird species that the report reclassifies as Critically Endangered.
And at the very least, in the case of the Spix's Macaw, children for generations to come will still be able to derive joy from their unique beauty – albeit in animated form.
Endangered Spix's Macaws Blu and Jewel falling in love in the 2011 animated film, "Rio."
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National Bank of Yemen Announces Successful Go-Live of ICS B...
National Bank of Yemen Announces Successful Go-Live of ICS BANKS Universal Banking Software from ICSFS
Aden, Yemen: National Bank of Yemen (NBY), one of the largest commercial banks and a prominent contributor to the economic and social development in Yemen; has gone live with ICS BANKS Universal Banking Software from ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions, to grow its operations domestically and internationally.
Managing Director of National Bank of Yemen; Dr Ahmed Ali Ben Sanker said:
“I am privileged to announce on behalf of our bank’s entire team, the successful rollout of ICS BANKS banking software which was carried out within our bank's development and modernisation project framework. ICS BANKS’ innovative and best-in-class technologies introduced – for the first time in NBY’s history – a major paradigm shift in our banking services. We have replaced our old legacy system with ICS BANKS comprehensive banking software solutions, which significantly saved time. We are astounded with the software’s integrated design and ease of data inclusion. It is without a doubt, ICS BANKS will allow us to provide excellent and distinguished banking services to our large customer segments.”
The National Bank of Yemen (NBY) provides banking services ranging from Retail to Trade Finance, Treasury and Project Finance to individuals, corporates, and governmental institutions. Over the past fifty years, NBY has spread its presence in remote areas as well as major cities and towns of Yemen. On Sunday 02nd February 2020, NBY announced the go-live and rollout of ICS BANKS Universal Banking Software from ICSFS.
Robert Hazboun, Managing Director of ICSFS said;
“NBY possesses a strong banking and financial position in Yemen, the bank was looking for banking software that will support them in maximising their profitability, whilst cutting operational costs. Our ICS BANKS software offers real financial clarity, with maximum financial efficiency, scalable features to support NBY’s growth and lead them through a successful lifetime business. We greet our new customers with open arms to innovation, highest quality and professionalism standards and deliver real value to their customers. Our journey with NBY has just started, we are looking forward to being their technology and business partner, driving a powerful and fruitful joint success.”
ICSFS invests in its software suites by utilising modern technology in launching new products, constructing a secured and agile integration, and keeping pace with new standards and regulations worldwide. ICS BANKS software suites future-proof banking activities by providing a broad range of features and capabilities with more agility and flexibility, to enrich customers' journey experience, hence improving the trust and confidentiality between the customer and the bank. ICS BANKS has always been a pioneer in utilising the latest technology to serve financial institutions. In addition to its embedded Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA), the system can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
About The National Bank of Yemen (NBY):
The National Bank of Yemen was established in 1969. It is reckoned to be one of the largest Commercial Banks and a prominent contributor to the economic and social development in Yemen. The Bank is fully state-owned under the supervision of the Minister of Finance. National Bank of Yemen possesses longstanding banking experience to render all kinds of banking services locally and globally throughout the Republic through 27 branches and a noteworthy range of extremely valued correspondents all over the world.www.nbyemen.com
About ICS Financial Systems Ltd. - (ICSFS):
A leading provider of modern banking and financial technology powered by a very solid, agile, and digital banking platform as part of its DNA, launching innovative products that are constructed on a secured and agile integration. Its ICS BANKS software is a fully integrated universal banking software with many suites servicing the financial industry that provide open products with international standards, real-time business processing and value-added capabilities of tailoring products, on-premises or in the cloud. ICS BANKS software suites future-proof banking activities by providing a broad range of features and capabilities with more agility and flexibility, to enrich customers' journey experience. www.icsfs.com
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Apr/10
Outfielder Carlos Beltran Still Not Close to a Return for New York Mets
by Jeff Spencer under MLB
At the end of Spring Training, Carlos Beltran said that he wanted to begin running exercises in Port St. Lucie, Florida on April 10 and rejoin the Mets by at least early May, but three weeks after Beltran’s self-imposed deadline, he is still not close to returning to the lineup.
According to the New York Daily News, Beltran was fitted for a custom knee brace last week, which he hoped would help accelerate his rehabilitation.
That occurred during an April 20 visit to the Steadman-Hawkins clinic in Vail, Colorado, where the center fielder underwent knee surgery in January.
The Vail visit was more significant for what Beltran did not get: his medical clearance to begin running. In fact, the Mets have said many times as of late they do not know when Beltran will take that important next step.
While April 10 was never a hard deadline, April 29 and counting is surely a disappointment for the team that seems to be having success without him.
Beltran’s stubborn agent, Scott Boras, has not responded to multiple requests for comment about the outfielder’s status. Boras negotiated a seven-year, $119 million contract for Beltran in January of 2005, and the deal expires after next season.
At this moment, any attempt to pinpoint a possible return for Beltran is based purely on speculation. Given the slow process of his rehab thus far, it is fair to consider a June return would be an optimistic guess.
It is not clear as of yet whether Beltran is considering further surgery that could threaten his season or career.
The Mets have been having great success so far by winning seven consecutive games and moving into first place in the NL East.
Doing so without Beltran is impressive, but I would bet that the Mets would rather have the expensive five-time All-Star in center field—yet it does not seem as though that wish will be fulfilled anytime soon.
Baseball, Breaking News, Carlos Beltran, New York, New York Mets, NL East
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The Lab :: Writing Classes with Matthew Clark Davison Reunites with Fourteen Hills for Friends and Family Reading
March 12th, 7-9pm.
Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review and The Lab have reunited and joined forces with Manny's (3092 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94103) to bring you The Friends and Family Reading.
The Lab's Winter-Into-Spring Cycle, featuring Lab alumni alongside short shots from the works-in-progress of this cycle's participants.
The Lab's Featured readers:
+Celeste Chan
+Natasha Dennerstein
+Terry Gamble
+Ryan Pittington
+Jessica Powell
Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review will pay homage to past and preview future issues with featured readers:
+Ai
+René Vaz
Featured Writers' Bios:
Ai is a Japanese-born immigrant writer and artist, who is currently an M.F.A. candidate and Creative Writing instructor at San Francisco State University. Her children's book Öykü Denizi (The Sea of Stories) was published by National Geographic, and her poems, translations, short stories, essays, and illustrations have appeared in New American Writing, Di-Vêrsé-City Anthology, Genre: Urban Arts, Breathe Free Press, among other publications. She is a winner of the Leonard Isaacson Award Browning Monologue Contest and The Austin International Poetry Festival 2017. Her plays have been seen in the San Francisco Bay Area
Celeste Chan is an artist, writer, educator, and organizer, schooled by DIY and immigrant parents from Malaysia and the Bronx. Currently, she writes, makes films, performs, teaches, and collaborates with the goal of amplifying voices within marginalized communities. From 2008-2018, she co-directed Queer Rebels, a queer and trans people of color arts project.
Celeste's writing can be found in several journals, including Ada, AWAY, Citron Review, cream city review’s genrequeer folio, Feminist Wire, Hyphen, Mixed Race/Queer and Feminist, and The Rumpus. She also has work in the anthologies, Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBT Voices, and Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from Heels on Wheels. Celeste is a contributing editor for Foglifter Journal, serves as a Teaching Artist for the Queer Ancestors Project, and coordinates QTPOC FREE School.
Natasha Dennerstein is an Australian-born writer, resident in Oakland. She is well known as a poet in The Bay Area and has recently completed a novel. She is a fellow of The Lambda Writer’s Retreat.
Her poetry collections have been published by Nomadic Press and by Norfolk Press.
Terry Gamble is a fiction writer and author of three novels: The Water Dancers; Good Family; and The Eulogist. She lives and works in San Francisco and Sonoma with her husband and an old cat.
Ryan Pittington studied fiction writing at UC Santa Cruz. He lives in San Francisco.
Jessica Powell is the author of The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story. The first novel ever published by Medium, The Big Disruption was described by The New York Times as "a zany satire [whose] diagnosis of Silicon Valley’s cultural stagnancy is so spot on that it’s barely contestable.”
Until recently, Jessica was Google's Vice President of Communications and served on the company's management team. She is the author of Literary Paris, and her fiction and non-fiction has been published in The Guardian, the New York Times, Time, WIRED, Medium. She is also the co-founder and CEO of an early-stage start-up that builds software for musicians.
René Vaz is a Bay Area Native and writer. He is a professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University and holds degrees in English and Creative Writing. He curates Voz Sin Tinta, a multilingual reading series in the Mission District. His book, The Planet of The Dead, is available from Nomadic Press. Follow him on twitter: @FKA_RENÉ
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Milan - the best places in Milan for hotels, hostels, apartments, b&b, and trade fairs at Fiera Milano. A tourist Travel Guide to visit Milan: maps, Milan metro, trams, airports, the most popular Tripadvisor restaurants, cafes, bars, the Duomo/Cathedral, the castle, Last Supper museum, sights and attractions. We've found the travel info on Milan, so you don't have to. All the resources and links to info - all in one place!
Milan red M1 Metro Line - What places can I go to? Where does it take me? - Milan's "Shopping Line"
Your Personal Guide to Milan's red M1 Metro Line:
The red M1 Metro line is Milan's "Shopping Line" - Milan's first ever Metro line; it links the largest industrial suburb in Italy, directly to Milan's centre at the Piazza del Duomo, home of Milan Cathedral, along which the masses can find a million ways to spend their money: running the length of Corso Buenos Aires (candidate for the world's longest shopping street), and past the popular shopping destinations of Porta Venezia, San Babila, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II by the side of Milan Cathedral at the Piazza del Duomo, as well as Corso Vercelli.
The red M1 Metro, the "Shopping Metro Line" that can take you to Milan's leading shopping destinations at Corso Buenos Aires (candidate for the world's longest shopping street), Porta Venezia, San Babila, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - Italy's grandest and oldest shopping mall at the Piazza del Duomo, as well as Corso Vercelli. SEE the special Milanfinally Google Map of Milan Shopping.
The red M1 Metro Line was Milan's first in 1964, and is still the second longest in the system.
The idea of Milan's first Metro line was to connect "one of the largest and most extensive concentrations of industry in Italy" - what was in effect its northern suburb of Sesto San Giovanni - to the centre of the city right at the Piazza del Duomo itself, home to Milan Cathedral; and then generally westwards to connect with Cadorna railway station terminus that serves regional and suburban destinations to the north of Milan (the first and only railway station to be connected with the MI Metro Line); and then to the trade fair grounds at a Metro station simply named "Fiera" (but now renamed Amendola which is the name of the piazza it is under, after the geographical focus for the trade fair company, Fiera Milano, moved north); after which the line immediately terminated at a Metro station under the large Piazzale Lotto.
Image Credit: Iltuocriciverba.com. See also Milan Metro in Wikipedia.
Sesto San Giovanni: Sesto Primo Maggio FS, Sesto Rondo, Sesto Marelli, then along Via Monza
The reputation of Sesto San Giovanni (so named being six miles north of Milan) can be seen in its nicknames as the "Stalingrad of Italy" and as "Little Manchester". It has always been important as it is on the path between Milan and its nearest other city: Monza, only about 9 miles or 15 km northeast of Milan. The second railway line in all of Italy, after one in Naples, was built to link Milan to Monza (1840), with a stop in Sesto San Giovanni; and again in 1876, Sesto San Giovanni was on Milan's first tramway, also between Milan and Monza.
Even today, as the M1 Metro Line moves southwards from Sesto San Giovanni towards one of Milan's busiest piazzas at Piazzale Loreto (just northeast of Milano Centrale), it does so along the road known as Via Monza.
Sesto San Giovanni has three M1 Metro stops: the original Sesto Marelli stop, and then the further northward extension in 1986 to Sesto Rondo and ultimately to Sesto Primo Maggio FS Metro Station (these last two stops require a higher fare). It is at Sesto Primo Maggio where the M1 line finally meets up with regional and suburban railway lines which have been running in the same general northerly direction but to the west of the M1 line. Interchange can be made with these northern regional and suburban lines (S7, S8, S9 and S11) even if the setting is already rather distant and suburban. A further northward two-station extension is expected to open in 2016: Sesto Restellone, and finally reaching the southern bounds of Monza itself at Monza Bettola.
Along Corso Buenos Aires, Loreto, Lima, Porta Venezia
When the red M1 Metro line reaches the busy Piazzale Loreto (also an important interchange with the green M2 Metro Line - SEE the Milanfinally.com article on Piazzale Loreto), it is at the northern end of Milan's candidate for the world's longest shopping street, the Corso Buenos Aires. The M1 line then follows under the Corso Buenos Aires for its entirety, to its southern end at another lively shopping and dining destination, Porta Venezia, with an intermediate stop halfway along Corso Buenos Aires at Lima Metro Station.
Along Corso Venezia, Palestro, San Babila and Quadrilatero della Moda famous for fashion
Once Corso Buenos Aires crosses the external ring road at Porta Venezia and continues southwest as Corso Venezia, the red M1 Metro line follows along this road as well, all the way until Corso Venezia ends at the historical Piazza San Babila (with an intermediate stop at Palestro). The San Babila area is yet another featured focus of shopping in Milan, as well as being one corner of Milan's famed haven of high fashion, the Quadrilatero della Moda, and is at one end of the Quadrilatero's most famous street, the Via Montenapoleon.
Duomo, Cordusio, Cairoli
One quick turn to the west after San Babila, and the M1 line reaches the heart of Milan at Duomo Metro Station, site of Milan Cathedral. There is plenty of attractive shopping around the Duomo area, not least of which is Italy's grandest and oldest shopping mall (1887), with the most exclusive brands - the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the crown of Italian shopping right in the central heart of Milan right next to the Piazza del Duomo - covered in elegant glass arches, a huge glass dome in the centre, and a massive triumphal arch at its entrance with the piazza.
Between Duomo Station and Cadorna Station are the busy hubs of Cordusio and Cairoli.
Cadorna interchange
Cadorna Railway Station is an important terminal station for regional and suburban S1 & S4 services to the north, including being one terminus for the direct airport Malpensa Express service. The Cadorna M1 Metro Station under the railway station also allows an interchange with the green M2 Metro Line where you can go to places in the south such as the Navigli area from the Porta Genova M2 Metro Station, or towards the northeast and such important Metro stations as Garibaldi and Centrale.
Conciliazone, Pagano, nearby is Corso Vercelli
After Cadorna Station, to the west, are the M1 Metro stops of Conciliazione (Da Vinci's Last Supper at Santa Maria della Grazie can be found between the stations of Cadorna and Conciliazione) and Pagano. Both the Metro stations of Conciliazione and Pagano may be use to access the increasingly fashionable shopping street of Corso Vercelli (which actually continues almost all the way to the next station at Wagner with the specialist shoe stores of Via Belfiore) that runs parallel to the M1 line just 200m away to the south.
West fork of the M1 Metro Line to Bisceglie terminus
It is at Pagano that the M1 line begins its fork towards westerly suburbs of Milan (first stop is the very lively Piazza Wagner that includes Milan's oldest and largest permanent community market). In 1966, two years after the start of M1 services, this was the very first extension to Milan's then single line Metro system. In 1975, this fork was extended in continuation to the Inganni M1 Metro Station; and only in 1992 was it extended for one more stop to its present terminus at Bisceglie.
Buonarotti, Amendola, Lotto (Fieramilanocity)
The original red M1 Metro Line turned northwest after Pagano, going to (after the intermediate stop of Buonarotti) what was then an important stop of the trade fair grounds at "Fiera" Metro Station (renamed just to the name of the piazza, "Amendola", after the geographical focus for Fiera Milano moved north); and then to the large Piazzale Lotto, which in 2015 became a host to an interchange with a new extension to the lilac M5 line that continues to its new western terminus at the football-famous San Siro Stadium nearby.
Northwestern extensions all the way to Rho Fiera, home of Expo Milano
Far-reaching northwest extensions to that fork of the red M1 line continued in stages throughout the '70s and '80s until the northwest fork reached Molino Dorino in 1986. The move of focus by Fiera Milano to its new northwest trade fair grounds in 2005 was matched with the opening of the last extension to this northwest fork to Pero and then the Rho Fiera M1 Metro Station that serves these Fieramilano facilities (these last two stops require a higher fare).
Click on the image to enlarge, or click the following link to go to the Wikipedia page on the Milan Metro, or go to the interactive Google Map with Milan Metro lines.
For further information, click to SEE the detailed articles:
- Shopping streets & areas all over Milan
- Milan's public transport system - Tickets; what to buy, how to buy, how to use on ATM's network of Metro trains, trams and buses
- Red M1 Metro Line - Milan's "Shopping Line" (this page)
- Green M2 Metro Line - the only Metro line for the Navigli area at Porta Genova
- Yellow M3 Metro Line - the only Metro line to Porta Romana
- Lilac M5 Metro Line - the newest and most convenient way to get to the San Siro Stadium
- Tram routes through central downtown - there are circular routes too
- Tram 16, the traditional way to reach San Siro Stadium
- Milano Centrale Station & transport connections
- Best restaurants to try and the worst to avoid, inside Milano Centrale
- Porta Garibaldi Station with famous Corso Como - transport connections to Milan's second most important train station and the most important one for suburban commuter traffic
- Milan's Outer West and the San Siro Stadium - Metro, trams and the four bus routes that connect to San Siro Stadium
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Milan's best & biggest shopping centres and shopping malls - some easily reached from the centre of Milan, the big malls outside Milan
Q: Where are the best and biggest shopping centres and shopping malls in Milan that I can get to for indoor shopping? The weather is cold and wet outside. I don't want to go walking outside on any of Milan's many famous shopping streets . If you want to avoid the rain and do a lot of indoor shopping, here are a few suggestions listed in rough order of distance from the centre of Milan (Refer the list below to a Metro map of Milan ): - Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II right at the Piazza del Duomo heart of the city; historic and beautiful with many expensive things. A few steps away is the large upscale department store, La Rinascente ; again lots of precious expensive things here. - Milano Centrale station is a mini shopping city in itself. - There is a small suburban shopping mall next to the Bonola Metro station on the red M1 line northwest of Milan, the Centro Commerciale Bonola . - The Centro Commerciale Piazza Portello is larger (but some of it could be conside
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Milan - tram routes through central downtown
In Milan's Metro system, the most number of lines that overlap and interchange at any one spot is just two - there is no point where many Metro lines converge. A large number of trams, on the other hand, all head towards the downtown area, aiming for the very heart of old Milan's Centro Storico . Tram passing Milan Cathedral at Piazza del Duomo. Image Credit: ATM.it While it is true that Milan Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo is the very heart of the city, and it is also certainly the case for the tram system of Milan; almost as many trams converge on Piazza Cordusio one stop away just a short distance to the northwest of the Cathedral - and what is more, probably the most important tram for tourists, appropriately denominated Tram 1 in Milan's system, goes through Piazza Cordusio and passes near Milan Cathedral without touching the Piazza del Duomo at all. But as a matter of fact, apart from Tram 1, all trams that pass through Piazza Cordusio, also continue on
City Transport System Network in Milan, and Buying Tickets for the Metro, Trams & Buses
Getting around Milan by public transport - everything you need to know: Bus, Tram and Metro Network of Milan run by ATM Milan's public transportation network is extensive, efficient, frequent and affordable - something which Milanese expect, demand and use in their daily lives. There is hardly any place within the city of Milan, that is not reachable for the tourist by public transport. Milan's Metro system, the trams and city buses are all managed by Milan's public municipal authority for transport, ATM (Azienda Trasporti Milanesi - Milan Transport Corporation) . If you arrive in Milan by bus or train , you will then be looking to use the ATM transport network to get to your hotel. As Malpensa Airport is far at over 40-50 km / 25-30 miles northwest of Milan, transport between that airport and Milan city is not managed by ATM ( see directions for coaches and trains at the official Milano Malpensa website ). Linate Airport is less than 7 km / 5 miles from the
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Tagged Greg Kinnear
3.0Behaves itself
Misbehaviour (UK / France / 12A / 106 mins) In short: Behaves itself Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. Starring Keira Knightley, Gubu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Greg...
MISBEHAVIOUR Featurette Features The Real Women’s Liberation Movement Members
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Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jessie Buckley Fight For Equality In MISBEHAVIOUR Trailer
Inspired by a true story, Philippa Lowthorpe’s comedy-drama follows the events of the 1970 Miss World competition, which saw the crowning of its first black competitor. Stars Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Keel...
Watch: Chris Evans & Michael K. Williams Star in THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT Trailer
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‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans has signed on for the spy thriller ‘Red Sea Diving,’ based on the true life events of the Israeli spy agency’s effort "to rescue and bring home Ethiopian Jews that were trappe...
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LITTLE MEN (USA | Greece/PG/85mins) Directed by Ira Sachs. Starring Greg Kinnear, Alfred Molina, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Barbieri, Theo Taplitz THE PLOT: Jake (Theo Taplitz) and Tony (Michael Barbieri) become fast friends when Jake’s parents inherit the bui...
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Slight earthquake jolts Kamai town
Sep 24,2020 |12:59 |
Kamai, 24 September
No immediate reports of damages or casualties were available following a slight earthquake which was recorded this afternoon, according to a source from the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH).
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 on the Richter scale, with its epicenter inside Myanmar jolted about 2 miles southeast of Kamai town, Kachin State. It was recorded at 2:49 a.m. on September 24 at a latitude of 25.49°N, and longitude of 96.69°E, with a depth of 30 kilometers and about 49 miles west of the Myitkyina seismological observatory, the DMH announced.
Translated by Kyaw Htike Soe
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Mike Nichols Praises Body Cameras for The New "Perspective" That They Provide
Michael J. (Mike) Nichols, who recently was named to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) task force on police body cameras, likes what he sees so far in "body cam" cases. Nichols says "it is truly helpful to have a closer perspective to what the officer saw or - in the case of horizontal gaze nystagmus (hgn) - did not see." Nichols recently viewed body camera footage from the arresting officer in a case in which the hgn test may be critical as it relates to both proper administration by the officer and whether the officer even saw nystagmus. HGN is a test that checks for the involuntary movement of the pupils as they track a stimulus that the officer moves in a specific, standardized way across the subjects face.
Further, legislation is pending in the Michigan House of Representatives regarding the public access to footage from a dashcam. Nichols was recently quoted by local TV station WILX on the issue. A link to the story can be found here:
http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/Bill-Would-Set-Body-Camera-Guidelines-299620831.html
Nichols accepted an appointment from NACDL President Theodore Simon to serve on the association's task force on body cameras in April, 2015. Nichols lives in Meridian Township and is a member of the Nichols Law Firm, PLLC based in East Lansing. He says "this will be a critical mission in this age especially in light of the recent events in South Carolina." Nichols indicates the committee already held one teleconference for organizational purposes.
For the attorneys who lead, are on the cutting edge NATIONALLY email Mike Nichols at mnichols@nicholslaw.net
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Tag Archives: Doctor Who: The Scripts
Older Doctor Who fans will instantly recognize Galaxy 4 as the title of a really ancient, dusty old Doctor Who story, which originally aired on the UK television channel BBC1, over a four-week period during the months of September-October 1965. The story itself no longer exists in the BBC archives, as it was wiped during the shamefully short-sighted BBC “space-saving” purge of old TV shows back in the early 1970’s, although a few bits and pieces did survive here and there.
The previously existing audio-visual material, including six minutes of footage from the first episode, “Four Hundred Dawns”, was initially included on a 1998 VHS video as part of the documentary The Missing Years, and subsequently re-released on the 2004 DVD release of Lost in Time. Episode Three, “Air Lock”, which was recovered back in early 2011, was released on the March 2013 DVD release of The Aztecs: Special Edition as an extra, along with reconstructions of the other 3 episodes, plus the other surviving clips and photographs, all of which had originally been intended for the DVD release of The Time Meddler.
The only way to enjoy the original story in its entirety is in book form, and the complete soundtrack also exists, released in 2002. Actually, there were TWO books, and I have really enjoyed both the Target Books novelization of Galaxy Four, by original writer William Emms, and the Doctor Who: The Scripts edition (Titan Books) of the William Emms Galaxy 4 script. The titles Galaxy Four and Galaxy 4 seem to be interchangeable, and vary from book to book, although Galaxy 4 seems to be considered the correct title. Either of these books will give you the full story, if you manage to get your hands on them. I’m uncertain if either book is still in print (if not, try Ebay or Amazon).
In this story, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed planet in the aforementioned Galaxy 4, a world which is only days away from exploding. The Doctor (the first Doctor – William Hartnell) and his companions Vicki and Steven encounter the Drahvins, a race of female clone warriors, who have crash-landed on the planet and are unable to take off again. Also on the planet is another crashed spaceship belonging to the frightening, alien Rills and their robot servants, the Chumblies (this rather silly name being given to them by Vicki). The Drahvins tell the Doctor that they were attacked by the Rills and both ships were damaged and had to crash-land.
The Drahvin ship is irreparable, but the Rill ship is almost fully repaired and will escape the death of this world. The Drahvins need to capture it, to get away. They are trying to enlist the Doctor’s help, but the Doctor realizes that it’s the Drahvins who are the aggressors and the Rills are peace-loving and civilized. The Doctor helps the Rills finish repairing their ship and escape, and one of the Chumblies stays behind and helps the Doctor, Vicki and Steven escape in the TARDIS, while it and the Drahvins perish when the planet explodes.
By all accounts, the televised story was a fair-to-middling mid-1960’s Doctor Who adventure, pretty decent, although nothing special, certainly not one of the greatest classics of the series. However Galaxy 4, like a few other old Doctor Who stories, seems to go a little bit further than other sci-fi television shows of that era, with a few more twists and a less predictable plot. Back in those days most TV sci-fi was very simplistic – you always knew who the bad guys were, because they were almost always the ugly, scary ones.
Most of the time, Doctor Who was as guilty as any other show in that respect – the series was, after all, dependent on the monsters and aliens for its kiddie “scare factor”. But in Galaxy 4, the writer, William Emms, turned all that completely on its head, making the repulsive, reptilian, warthog-like, ammonia-breathing Rills the intelligent, civilized “good guys”, and the beautiful, blonde amazonian Drahvins the villains of the story.
I’ve also always admired the bravery of the production crew on Doctor Who, for at least making the attempt to create “alien-looking” aliens on the show’s miniscule shoe-string budget, whilst US sci-fi series with much larger budgets (Star Trek, for example) have traditionally served up “aliens” who are, ninety-five percent of the time, obviously only humans wearing latex masks or with bumps glued onto their heads and markings painted on them. The effects and make-up on Doctor Who often looked tacky and cheap, but at least they had the guts to try and make the “aliens” look a bit “alien”.
To the younger viewers of the modern Chris Eccleston/David Tennant/Matt Smith incarnations of the Doctor, most of these old 1960’s Doctor Who stories must be virtually unwatchable. Compared to the modern, frenetically-paced, slick CGI series, these ancient shows creak along at an unbearably slow pace, with too much jibber-jabbering, not enough action, have rather simplistic stories (they were supposedly aimed at kids, after all, and seen from this perspective, they are pretty good), and terrible or non-existent special effects. But having said that, I wonder just how much of the current version will still look good in fifty years time. Modern sci-fi shows tend to depend far too much on SFX, which date very quickly, and less on strong storytelling, which endures pretty much forever.
Old farts like myself still love those ancient 1960’s television shows, and we remember them fondly from our childhood (although I have no memories of Galaxy 4, as I was only four years old at the time). Nostalgia is an incredibly addictive drug. It’s probably also stating the obvious to point out that we must take into account that, FOR ITS TIME, and compared to the rest of the 1960’s BBC output, Doctor Who was an innovative, exciting, frightening and controversial television show. There was nothing else like it on UK television at the time, and the series has influenced countless other sci-fi shows over the decades since then.
I’m hoping that it’ll still be around in another fifty years, long after I’m gone, entertaining yet another new generation of fans.
Posted in Doctor Who
Tagged Doctor Who: Chumblies, Doctor Who: Classic Series, Doctor Who: Drahvins, Doctor Who: Galaxy 4, Doctor Who: Lost in Time, Doctor Who: Rills, Doctor Who: Steven, Doctor Who: Target Books, Doctor Who: The Aztecs, Doctor Who: The Missing Years, Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon, Doctor Who: The Scripts, Doctor Who: The Time Meddler, Doctor Who: Titan Books, Doctor Who: Vicki, Doctor Who: William Emms, Doctor Who: William Hartnell
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